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THE ASHEILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER TnUNDERSnOWERS CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXIIL NO. 234. ASUEVILLE, N. ft, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS D BY mi Ft LQMDOM AE GERMAN AIRPLANES TAKE HE A VY TOLL OF LIFE IN DEADLY RAID ON LONDON Many Children Among Ihe Ninety-Seven Killed andtoT Wound ed During Attack by Fliers Almost at the Lunch Hour Trail of Devastation Among Small Homes Left by Raiders. BRITISH AIRMEN RISE TO MEET THE INVADERS Germans Fly Too High and Too Swiftly and Anti-Aircraft Guns Fail to Make Any Impression Only One German Plane Brought Down. LONDON, June 13. In a swift and deadly raid on the city of London today, German airplanes took a heavy toll in killed and wounded. Other places vere attacked, but so far as is known at present by far the heaviest losses occurred in London itself. At a late hour tonight the casualties as officially an nounced number 534, including ninety-seven killed and 437 wounded. Fifty-five men met death and 223 men were wounded. Sixteen women and twenty-six children were killed and 122 women and ninety-four children were wounded. Fifteen Machines. The German squadron consisted of about fifteen ma- 1 ' 3 J.l J. J.1 -J T J XT. ytr - cxnnes, ana me aowniown secuon oi jjonuun was meir chief objective. Many bombs fell in the east end, where ORGAN ZED L SQUARELY BEHIND F T 1 I ' ML "WjoeveT looked &o "brtcfjofc , SSgffig ' nL5?5sV VPl T)OW 3Gem& as if fls le-aml sS?235 ft ig. vVf-th .some stnn inner l! hyi P. " rr Jfi though each -thread, ofwfrila nirM,, "fcr ft TacH fllamntr of blue,, j ff U Were epun of rpiH-bvrt flr l ' Leaders Convinced Food Administration Will Lower Prices. MIDDLEMAN MAKES TOO GREAT PROFIT rt tfc ' skies iwnever looked &o "brttfjofc Tpyy now H jeerrvo" as if Via $ Avf-th jome stnne inner tnourfn each -thread, of , wni TacH fllamentr of blue, 'ere rp vn oi rpinwu ni The. flam of iiai, fine high desire, "Which thrill fh nation through. The flaa? on nigh ti greety the eye yTnL dnjyr our harts tfonwhow, I Though It ha passed, through trtf$l vt, It3 provxi-b hour is now I ' jNow 'tis unfuHed to jhow th world That. wiJlirg7y w Hive, t . Our livs , our all -to LJtoerty; That After we have er4 -to "be , The -flagjthe l&g Jny live. flSHEVILLE NEARLY 9100,000 OF LIBERTY B0PJDS IN DAY S CAMPAIGN Added to Bonds Taken by. Banks Makes Splendid. Record for City. WASHINGTON, June It. Con vinced that creation of a food ad ministration will bring prices In the United States down fully thirty per cent organized labor will get squarely behind the food control bills pending In congress and urge their Unatedl. m -,,J ... i i, . t ' I At a confer scores oi persons ieu. vicums to me explosions, xn Lever Bill Will Block Food Speculator, Gompers Declares. one instance alone, ten children were killed in a school, and fifty were injured. British airplanes ascended immediately the signal was given that hostile machines were coming, but tne tier mans remained at a great height and flew swiftly, and evidently the British faghters had difficulty in the pursuit, for the loss of only one trerman macnine nas been recorded, Others are reported to have been brought down, but there is no oniciai connrmation or tnis. xne anxi-aircrait guns of London seemingly were unable to reach the Germans While a great many small business houses and homes of the poor in the crowded districts suffered great damage, Field Marshal Viscount French, commander of the home defenses, announces that no damage of a military or naval nature was done. Terrible Scenes. Terrible scenes were witnessed at a railway station where two bombs were dropped. Luckily they missed the busy portion of the station but struck a train at the far end of the platform, fairly full of passengers waiting to start. The two foremost carriages were destroyed. One bomb hit the train squarely and one carriage caught fire. Several passengers were killed and others, badly injured and unable to escape, were incinerated. It is believed twenty-four persons were killed or injured in this train. Another coach 'standing on an adjoining line was in the service of a traveling medical board. This also burst into flames and soon became a charred mass. , Some of the bodies were so burned as to make identification diffi cult, The details of the pursuit of the raiders by British machines were not known up to a late hour tonight, and Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, was only able to tell the house of commons before adjourn- ment that one enemy mac&fne was Known to nave oeen brought down. , The bombing of a school house furnished one of the most pitiablev scenes in the raid. The bomb struck the roof squarely, passing through . two class rooms, one above the other, killing some children, but sparing the ma jority. It finally exploded with terrific force in a room on the ground iioorttwnere tnere were sixty-iour mue (.'hildren from five to seven years of age, ten of whom were killed outright and all the others more or less injured. iftmillllll t!im)tiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitmmt; DAMAGE DONE BY RAIDERS IS COMPARATIVELY SLIGHT Btlllll'l Himinm;ninin conference tonight with la bor leader and representatives of the labor group In congress, Herbert C Hoover promised that the food ad ministration, when organised, would: force prices to a level at which the small wage earner can exist. Labor representatives told Mr. Hoover that unless costs fall, the earner of mode rate wages must get a n increase in pay or go. hungry. Thousands of Letters. Tomorrow officials of the American Federation of Labor and heads of the big unions will send thousands of let ters to local unions throughout the country directing members of trades unions to urge on their congressmen passage of the food bills before July 1. -jm "The. liever food control W1f must be passed quickly," Samuel Gompers nlcious activities of food spiulators ana pirates may be checked, and con sumers may ' pay reasonable Duces, Labor organizations of the United states will get behind this bill and push it through." Some of the labor loaders expressed WITH TWO MORE DAYS TO GO, LIBERTY LOAN IS APPARENTLY FAR SHORT OF FULL SUBSCRIPTION OF TWO BILLIONS New York State His Gout Over Its Mixlmum Allotment But Is the Only State la the Union That . - HarMtiFsud Rsibmy Banks anT tH ' Reported to the Federal Reserve Bank In Their Districts. CHECKERS ARE BUSY UNTIL MIDNIGHT Many Subscriptions From $50 Up to $2,000 Arc Received. (Continued on Page Two) FRENCH SOIL TO TAKE IS Is Given Great Ovation at Boulogne and Starts for Paris. THOUSANDS GATHER. The - Associated Press correspo- dent, who visited one of the- bom barded areas of today'! air raid, found that the damage done was comparatively slight and that a ma jority of the casualties occurred ' among a group gathering for the noonday meal. - The bomb' fell upon the rpof of the eating house, shat tering it and causing the wreckage to take lira. The leg of one matt In this group was shattered below the knees, an. other arm wa blown off as he was raising a cup of coffee to hi lip. The cloUUns of soma of tin wounds! was torn In shreds and the face of nearly all were, purple-hued from the effect of the explosives. : Ambulances Busy. " For nearly an. hour" after the ex plosion at this place, the. ambulances were busy carrying away the wound ed while great crowd gathered. on bomb which failed to explode dropped in a church yard, digging a hole three feet deep. Another droi ped upon a bankinr house. - Four clerks in the place were Injured, win- tQoBtlnu4 .n ag Xwo BOUTOGXE, France, June Major-General John J. Persuing, ac companied by his stafftoday put his foot on French soil as commander of the American military expedition. French, British.' Belgian and Indian officers and soldiers saluted their new allied comrades, the American na tional anthem was played by a mill tary band and a guard of honor stood at present arms as the ship bearing tne, American general to tne scene of the war, came into dock. General Pershing stood on the quarter deck surrounded by forty-six American stair omcers, with nrty-nine military clerks and sixty-even Amer ican enlisted men forming the back ground. On the quay was a brilliant assem blage of French officers and officials. Standing or clinging to vantage points everywhere about the maritime sta tion and on the landing stage were thousands of soldiers, most of them English, either going on leave toward ngland, or returning to the trenches. As the gangplank was let down on the quay, "The Star-Spangled Ban ner" was changed into the stirring Marseillaise and Rene Besnard, Under-Secretary of war, and General Dumas, commander of tne Northern district of France, went aboard to ex tend official greetings. Only a few words were exchanged. General Du mas said: W know yon have come to see the war right through, and wa welcome you In the name of civilization and i "WASHINGTON, June II. Treas K y officials announced today that the liberty . loan apparently was short $842,000,000 of full subscription Tues day night, two and one-half days be for the closing of the books. . Announcement was based on actual return forwarded by bank and trust companies to the twelve reserve bank, accompanied, by the two per cent of subscriptions required. Thou, sand of bank and trust companies have not been heard from sine the loan wa first offered, except for state ments that they were .working to make the big Issue a success. Eleventh Hour Drive. A tremendous eleventh hour drive throughout the nation, officials hop, will bring the final count of dollar well beyond the 12,000,000,000 mark. The only tangible evidence on which to base an estimate are the returns from the reserve banks at the close of business last night. These show total actual subscriptions of $1,668,000,000 distributed among the reserve dis tricts as follows: -New York, 1768,000,000: Boston, $1(1,000,000; Philadelphia, $88,000, 000; Richmond, $55,000,000; Atlanta, $28,000,000; Chicago, $184,000,000; Cleveland, $153,000,000; fit. Louis, $47,000,000; Minneapolis, $50,000,. 000; Kansas City, $58,000,000; Dallas, $$8,000,000 and Ban Francisco, $52,- 000,000. New York is the only district which has returned subscriptions higher than its minimum allotment. Not only has new York exceeded the minimum, It has topped the maximum Of $760,000,000 by $8,000,000. - Her 1 the apparent shortage In each reserve district, based upon the latest returns and the minimum allot ments: Boston. $78,000,000, or IS per cent; Philadelphia, $57,000,000, or more than 40 per cent; Richmond, $25, 000,000, or more than 80 per cent; Atlanta, $82,000,000, or more than 53 per cent; .Chicago, $79,000,000, or more than 2$ per cent; ; Cleveland, $27,000,000, or 15 per cent; St. Louis, $83,000,000, or more than 40 per cent; Minneapolis, 30,000,000, or 37 per cent; Kansas City, $43,000,000 or 42 per cent; Dallas, $11,000,000, or more than 27 per cent; Ban Francisco, $88,. 000,000 or nearly sixty-three per cent. Analysis of these figures discloses that outside of New Tork the country had apparently failed, up to last night by exactly $500,000,000 to take Its minimum allotment of $1,400,000,000 of the bonds -the other $600,000,000 minimum being alloted. to New Tork. Thus while the New Tork district hai over-subscribed its minimum allot ment by approvlmately 36 per cent. the rest of the country as a whole, ap parently has fallen $6 per cent under Its minimum. In the ease of return from Minne apolis ' and Cleveland, v it was an nounced at the treasury, the figures given today are the sam as those published June 10. .Including subscrln Hons , In transmission to the federal reserve banks and not yet In due form. "Large numbers of bank and trust companies," the statement says, "have not yet transmitted the subscriptions received by them to their federal re erv bank." Closing Hour Set. The closing hour of noon Friday I not to be extended, notwithstanding widespread rumors to the .-contrary, The closing hour will be the standard time of the section of the country In which each reserve bank Is located and will apply to all banks In that reserve district. Secretary McAdoo, home after hi second speaking tour for the liberty loan and just before leaving for Bal tlmor to make hi laat speech for the loan. Issued a statement in which he aid: "A tremendous Interest has been aroused In the liberty loan through out the country, on my recent trip I . found everywhere a spirit of en thualasm and patriotic co-operation among classes of the people, which mean that America aroused is In domlatable and invincible. The liberty loan will be a success If the work I maintained at the present " high pitch of Interest and efficiency until June 15. Should the final returns on June 15, disclose that the liberty loan (Continued on Pag TwoT . THREE BILLION DOLLAR Gets Over Final Obstacle in Congress and Goes to President. WASHINGTON, June 1$. The three billion dollar war budget final ly got over the last obstacle In con. gress . today, and went to President Wilson for his signature which will make it law. It appropriates the greatest sum ever voted at one time by any legis lative body. Its amount Is greater than the total cost of the civil war. ' The budget provide principally for army and navy expenditures. Aside from that feature, its most im portant single provision is an ap propriation of $760,000,000 tor an American merchant marine, , to be constructsd by the shipping) board under the direction of Major General Goethals. At the last moment there was a question in the senate over whether :he language which placed General - Goethals in charge of the work had been sufficiently definite so he could not be lorced.out of office without consulting congress. It was explained that although the house had changed the senate's language in that regard. It as satisfactory to General Goethals. ... SIX KILLED. ' BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Jun 18. Six men were killed and four injured by j socket eras explosion at Banner jnie, shortly after noon today NO DECISION GIVEN IN THE STATE BOND CASE Members of Supreme Court Want More Time to Con sider Case. RALEIGH, N. C June IS. The Supreme court adjourned for the term today without delivering an opinion in the case testing the con stitutionality of the Clark act author icing state bonds for funds to loan counties and townships for road building- Judge Allen for the court made this significant statement as to this appeal for a decision In which the court had held over for two weeks. "Important ' and serious constitu tional questions have arisen In the consideration of ' this appeal as to which this court wishes to be further advised and it is furthermore order ed that the further consideration of this appeal be continued . until the next term of the court, and In the meantime the state treasurer will not Issue the bonds of the state or take further action under chapter 6, pub lic law of 1917" the Clark act. It is understood that members of the court have reached a - question that was not Involved In the appeal on. which the judges wish further light. This is whether the act violates the clause of the constitution that prohibits ths sttte from lending Its credit to "persons, firm or corpora tions." If the sysiem of loans In the Clark act la a lending of suci credit, the court would hold that the act could not ba valid until it ta ratified ;vt the foliM by ; too peonl. . . .( !T QUEST! STILL UNDETERMINED Income Tfrx, Excess Profits and Publishers' Tax Still Unsettled. WASHINGTON, June IS. Import ant questions regarding taxation of incomes and excess profits and the publishers' tax still were undeter mined tonight, after the senate finance committee had spent another day completing revision of the house war tax bill. The committee has gone through the entire measure and little time will be required to put It Into shape once the few big troublesome questions are disposed of. ' . The exceoa profits section upon the new taxation basis fixed by the com mittee was completed today, except for fixing the rate and determination of whether the tax shall be extended to Individuals a well a corporation and partnerships. Under the new plan of making an average 'of profits during three year before the war. the basis of computing profits. It is esti mated that In lieu of the present $200,000,000 tax upon exceee profits. about $625,000,000 at least will be raised If the house tax of sixteen per cent. Is retained. The house es timate was $400,000,000. THE WEATHER, Stock in America' gigantic Liberty' loan in Ashevllle took a decided up ward trend yesterday When almost' $100,000 wa subscribed . In the city and nearby towns. ' Of this amount, $50,700 wa raised by twenty-two committees of real estate salesmen, insurance agent, , boy scouts, . repr. sentatives of the Merchant', assocla-, tion and board of trad. who raked the city for subscriptions. ' The remaining $48,000 went through the. several local -.banks.. Added together, the ' two amount make a grand toUl for the day 'of This amount doe not Include an estimated $800,000 that was taken in by the local bank prior to Liberty loan day, yaeterdajr., . 'W-ja . n Tftm final. - ..;, , The goat had been et a JWO.dOO.V The combined effort ef man from' almost every business represented In Ashevllle resulted 4n a total that fell only eight hundred dollars short of the fixed goal. r - ;';.. Jv' It wa j generally conceded- that Ashevllle surely 4id her bit ' y - It wa almoct midnight before the checkers in the board of trade rooms completed their task. Since the mid. ' die, of 'the afternoon they ,had been brought In by the twenty-two com mittees that worked like Trojans dur ing tn muriwiif ftuu eriy afternoon in order that Ashevllle' contribution toward a victory . for. Uncle Sam, might not fall below thon of other North Carolina cities. It Is believed, that the money raised yesterday, add ed to that already taken In through the banks, will make Ashevllle's reo- (ConUnusd on Page To., . PASSAGE OE SHIPPING : BILL ARE SMOOTHED OUT .'' SaBBBjBBBBJ ' - f', W ' f If X Agreement Made to Change Certain Portions of the ' Measure. . SOME CHANGES. WASHINGTON. June 13. Differ ences delaying passage of the admin, lstrations priority shinment bill. were smoothed out by senate leader in conference late today, and anl agreement was tentatively reached to' change the measure so l to empower the president only to direct shipment of military forces and suDnlles with' authority to the Interstate commerce' commission to determine preference t for foodstuff and othsr shiomenta. It also was agreed to eliminate the clause providing for compensation of carriers for Injury or damages In curred in carrying out priority ship ment orders. The measure originally ' drawn: would have given the president food regulatory authority over all neces sity shipments with authorization tof issue orders direct or through such person or persons as he may design nate for the purpose." Elimination of the .clause provide Ing compensation for the roads wa decided on after many senators had expressed the opinion that if such consideration were given, the ship pers also should be recompensed for losses due to the war. WASHINGTON. June 13. Forecast for -North Carolina: Local , thunder shower Thursday: Friday fair and .aomewhM lower, temperature. T THE ASBEYILLE CITIZEN Circulation Yesterday City . . , . 4,527 Suburban . . . .4,703 T Country : . 1,730- Net paid . . .10,960 Service ; . . . , ' ?194 Unpaid 87 a Total ; ! ; . .11,241
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