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HE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER FAIR. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS an- .VOL. XXXTTT, NO. 278. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS T D Or if &NEWREVEWUESOF SEVEN BILLIONS BE Cost of War for Coming Year Estimated Over Ten . Billions. CONGRESS IN FAVOR OF BIG BOND ISSUES MUST RAISED 10 :Not Believed JThat Over Two Billions Will Be Raised by Taxation. WASHINGTON, July .27. Est! mating the cost of the war for the tomlng; year at $10,735,807,000, exclu sive of loans to the allies, the admin ts. tratlon Informed congress today that new revenues totalling $7,000,000,000 must tie raised from taxation or lssu ance of securities. If advancement of credit to the al lies Is continued at the present rate the year's total of war expenditures will pass $16,000,000,000 and the amount of additional revenue required will Increase accordingly. Means Not Determined. How congress will meet the enormous new revenue requirement remains to be determined, but there is ft distinct sentiment in favor of. off setting most of the expenditures by bond Issues. Many leaders on both sides of the capitol predicted tonight that V not more than $2,000,000,000 of the $7,000,000,000 asked would to raised by taxation, and that the remainder might be met partially by bond sales and partially by Issuance of treasury certificates of indebtedness. Equipment and store for the na tional army, particularly artlller, will require the lion's chare ot appropria tions under the administration' esti mates. Of the year's total of $10, 735,807,000, the war feta-tment a'one expects to spend $7,:.64,240, 000, or $5,. 319,000,000 more than las foeea ap propriated thus fir tor Its expenses durlnj the year: . The naxy expects to spend $1,200, flaO.ftJktJrWoh428v4, remains to be appropriated. The shipping board, whose shipbuilding project place It third on the Hst, expects to spend $7$9,00,000 of which $S'60, 000,000 remains to be appropriated. These figures cover the cost of the war frftm July 1 last year to June SO next They do not include the money epent prior to the first of this month. Estimated Receipts. Estimated receipts for the year were placed by Secretary McAdoo, in trans mitting the estimates to the house ways and- means and senate finance committee, at $1,833,500,000. This estimate of receipts did not include revenues to be raised under the pend ing war tax bill, estimated by adamlnis tratlon leaders In congress at $1,670, 607,000. Revision of the bill will be gin Immediately. WITH STRIKE SEND OUT Nineteen Roads Are Threat ened by Strike of Switch men This Morning. ASK PROTECTION. CHICAGO, July 27. The nineteen Chicago railroads who have been threatened with a strike tomorrow morning of 2,500 switchmen belong ing to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen tonight .began sending out notices of an embargo on livestock and perishable freight to and through Chicago. This announcement was made by .Frank Hasler, of the com mittee of railroad general managers. Mr. Hasler said the embefrgo no tices would be sent as soon as pos sible. The embargo, he said, would be for the duration of the strike, end ing automatically as soon as a peace agreement was signed. The railroads also appealed to Mayor Thompson, the sheriff and po lice for protection. George F. Hanover, chairman of the roads' conference committee, sent the following notices to the city of ficials: "The conference committee of man agers of the roads are threatened by the Brotherhood . of Railroad Train men with a strike of the yard men employed in their Chicago terminals. If they do not make concessions which would establish the closed shop In favor of members of their organiza tion and deprive the managements of the power to select yard masters and their assistants. 'The railroads are also threatened with a strike of the members of the swltchmens' union employed in their Chicago terminals, if they do not yield to the demands of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, because this would close the door of employment against many members of the swltch mens' union. ' "The conference committee has proposed mediation by the federal mediation and conciliation - board which has been declined by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. "A strike vote has 'been taken and Mr. Murdock, vice-president of the trainmen, as notified' us that the members of his organization In the (Chicago district will be withdraws from service air I t, nw Saturday. July : - .... RAILROADS THREATENED EXEMPTION BOARD CALLS 323 ASHEVILLE MEN OUT FOR DRAFT Board Makes Public trants Who Are Service In New National ArmyCity to Furnish 159 Men Names of 323 Asheville in the gigantic war lottery made public yesterday afternoon by the city exemption board, as the nrst quota or ville into the service of the Each of the 323 will be morrow to appear berore the quarters on the third floor of the Federal building on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. At that time they will be examined that they may rue exemption Ten Days After giving the board notice that he will file such a claim, each young man will be given ten days in which to (get up his proof and file that with the board. Each man desiring exemption must present facts and proofs to show that the claim on which the request for exemption is made is just. Eighty-one of the 323 will be ordered to present themselves to the exemption board at 9 o'clock on the morning of next Thursday. The next day will find 121 on hand for exarnination. The same jiumber will appear on Saturday, the third and final day. Need Out of the 323 men it is number expected from Asheville for the army of 1,000,000 men to be raised by the government. However, should the exemption claims allowed prove to be too many, it may be that other men will have to be ordered before the board for examination. If this is cient for the board to pick George S. Powell, chairman of the city board, said last night that the 323 men, connection with this story, drawn in Washington last Friday. The list will be kept on file at board headquarters, whereby more-ffteirare needed; the board memberrTror ire- gin with number 324 and draw as far-down the list as is necessary The story can be told m nartment expects a total of that number can be secured from the first 323 men, all well and good. No more will be drawn at present. But as brought out previously, should there be so many exemp tions in the first quota that 159 men eligible for army duty are not left, then a sufficient additional number must be ordered before the board, to make up the required num ber. Dr. Millender in Charge. Dr. M. C. Millinder will be in charge of the physical examinations which are to begin at board headquarters Thursday morning. He will be assisted during the three days by a corps of competent physicians, who will ex- (CONTINUED ON ERNOR F TEXAS IS INDICTED BY TRAVIS UNO JURY Nine Counts Are Returned Against Chief Executive of Lone Star State. OTHER INDICTMENTS. AUSTIN, Texas, July SI. Governor Ferguson was Indicted by the Travis county grand Jury this -afternoon, on nine counts, seven charging misappli cation of public funds, ne diversion of public funds and one charge of em bezzlement. The Indictments were returned at 3:30 o'clock, but were not made pub lie until nearly 6 o'clock when Sheriff George S. Matthews notified the gov. ernor. Seven of the indictments charging misapplication of funds, C. funds, one diversion of public funds and one embezzlement. Churchill J. (Bartlett, secretary of state, was Indicted on six counts, charariinr misanitllcatlon of funds. C. O. Austin, commissioner of Insurance and banking, on four counts, same charge and C. L- Stowe, state superin tendent of buildings and grounds on one count, charging misapplication. Other Indictments were returned but have not been announced. Last Monday the speaker of the Texas house Of representatives .called a spe cial session for August 1 to consider whether articles of Impeachment should be presented against the gov ernor. In his call the speaker said that the most important matter to consider was the governor's veto of appropria tions for the University of Texas, and alleged misrepresentations in the awarding of the West T A. and M. college to lAbilene. r A previous' attempt was. mad to Impeach Governor Ferguson In March, when a special house commit tee investigated mansion expenditures and the affaire of the Temple State bank, of which the governor formerly was president, EXAMINATION the Names of Regis To Be Examined For young men who were drawn in Washington last week, were men to be drawn from Ashe United States government. notified by mail today or to exemption board at its head physically and given notice claims. for Proof. 159 Men. hoped to get a total of 159, the the case, only a number suffi 159 men will be called. whose names are printed in are the nrst 323 on the list as and should the occasion arise a paragraph. The war de- 159 men from Asheville. If PAGE THREE.) ANOTHER HITCH IN THE BIC CHARLOTTE CAMP Army Officer Suddenly Ad vises That Work Stop on Water Mains. MANY RUMORS. CHARLOTTE, N. C. July J7, Charlotte citizens tonight do not know whether they are to get the army cantonment or not, despite the fact that twenty-five hundred work men are still erecting buildings, and despite the fact that the entire site has been cleared and ready for oc cupancy. Colonel W. N. Ladue, TJ. S. A., officer in charge from General Wood's staff, walked into the office ot Mayor McNinch this morning at nine thirty ana recommenaea mat ne order the work on the water main to stop so as to save the expenditure of money, stating that he had met almost . In surmountable obstacles which he would report to General Wood and which would probably result In a change of location for the camp. ' Charlotte has been filled with rumors all day. The contractors have not stopped their work; the city did not stop laying the water main nor did national guard officers and the other civil engineers stop their work at camp. Several Important telegrams to Col. Ladue have been received, and It is reported that General Wood will himself come here during the night or tomorrow to look over the situation. High railway officials have been notified to report here tonight for a conference. Contractors announce that one thousand car loads of ma teria! are on the road, en route to Charlotte. - Officers would not state whether the lumber will be re-routed to other points or continue on here. , THE WEATHER. . WASHINGTON. July J7. -Forecast for North Carolina; Generally fair 0mutrr and Sunday, FULL STORY OF CRUGER MURDER GIVEN PRESS BY ITALIAN AUTHORITIES, WHO GIVE OUT Coechl Says He Shuck the Girl That the Police Helped Him In Any Particular-'Had No Accomplices and Told No One In America of Crime Except Priest BOLOGNA. July 27. An official transcript of the interrogation in the Alfredo Coechl murder case, has just been made publioi Coechl swears he was not helped by New York police and says he confessed solely to Father Morretto, manager of the Saint ha fael society for - Italian immigrants, New York. He declares he killed Ruth Cruger with a stick because she refused, to cease caJUng for help. He did not assault thergirl before or af ter he struck Iter. The slayer says he would not have killed the girl had she promised not to tell of the attack. He denies charges of his association with policemen for unlawful purposes or that he had an accomplice in the murder. Cocchi further denies Amer ican citizenship. His replies were made to pressing questioning by Judge Zucconi, taken down by the judge's clerk. The transcript contains a long detailed history of the crime and subsequent events. The text of the statements made by Cocchi during various Interrogations of the prisoner by Judgta Zucconi was received by Cocchi's counsel, Attorney Venturinl. today. There wer eight of these interrogations between June 15 and July 20, and the record of them covers nine typewritten pages. Denied Guilt. On the first day. the record shows, Cocchi denied the crime, claiming that the reason he left New York was be cause of his wife's Jealousy and the auarrels that resulted, although he admitted he had sharpened a pair of skates for Ruth Cruger. On the second day, Cocchi began" by declaring that the airl -me to his shop In company with two Italians who were not known to him ana oraerea mm to leave, he doing so, and they re maining in the room. Under cross- questioning by Judge Zucconi, Cocchi began to weep and. holding his head in hlB hands, declared: "It is true, I killed her. For a week I had been constantly quarreling with my wife. This day, the 14th., when 1 ate my midday meal at home, I drank five glasses of California wine to make me forget my family troubles. "In a nervous condition, I went to my shop about 1:20 o'clock, when there, immediately entered the girl who before noon had left her skates FOOD CONTROL BILL IS NEAR TOJNAEREENIENT Substantial Progress Made on Measure by Conferees of Two Houses. WASHINGTON. July 27. Senate and house conferees .on the food control bill made such substantial progress today that a complete agree ment seemed probable by tomorrow. The conferees virtually agreed to strike out the plan for a congressional joint committee on war expenditures, opposed by President Wilson and to accept the senate amendment author ising the president to fix the price of coal and coke, and to take over mines. There was also a virtual agreement on the senate amendment to regulate the making of contracts for the gov ernment by the defense council's ad visor. : ' . Sentiment regarding the . liquor amendments seemed to be that con gress should be satisnea to put tne ban : on wn(sker to authorise th commandeering of distilled spirits in bond so far as necessary ror govern ment purposes, and to authorise the nresldent to prohibit making of beer and light wines if he chose. What the decision would ne between the senate provision for a food board of three and the house authorization j forgone food administrator, remained uncertain, . Almost Reached The Limit TRANSCRIPT OF CONFESSION After She Had Refused to Cease tailing For Help, and Denies for sharpening. She was very beau tiful and I lost my head. Fought For Life. "When she went to the rear of the shop to get her skates without seeing me, I barred the street door with a block of wood so that no one would be able to open it from the outside. Then I started to embrace the girl, but she was very strong and threw me backwards. I tried again and succeed' ed despite her resistance. "I picked her up and dropped her into lh.-rpir room-la the -cellar below through a square hole, feet first, holding her by the head and shoulders. -AH the while she was screaming 'police, police!' "She fell about twelve feet below, striking a motorcycle side car on her side, but was not hurt. I Jumped after her, she being again on her feet, fighting and resisting with all her power. I remember that before drop ping her below I said to her 'Please say nothing, as I have two boys,' but she continued shrieking for the po lice, .although I do not believe any one heard her. - "When I Joined her in the lower room my head was gone. I tried again to embrace and kiss her, but again did not succeed, she was so strong. I remember she was of dark com plexion and stout of body, also that her hat fell off when I first attempt ed to embrace her. Struck Her With Club. "Finally, exasperated by her re sistance I grabbed In my left hand a stick of heavy wood a yard long and struck her twice or thrice across the back of the neck, holding her with my right hand. She groaned and sank down, her head bathed in blood. "Horribly frightened and sorry, I would have killed myself had I had a revolver. Expecting to be discov ered at any moment, I took the' yet warm body and dragged it into a box in the left hand corner of the room, putting the head in first and then the body. ' This day I left it so, plac ing ffie tool chest across the open ing to a lower room. I finished by 4 o'clock, but remained in the shop until 6 o'clock cleaning with benzine the black gloves I had used in hand ling the body. "On the night of the 13th I neither ate nor slept. On the morning of the 14th I hurried to the shop at o'clock, covered the box containing the body with coal and pieces or old iron and old clothing. I read the newspapers telling of the lost girl, j RACE RIOTS ARE RENEWED IN PENNSYLVANIA CITY Despite Presence of Guards, Rioting Breaks Out Afresh at Chester. CHESTER, Pa., July J7. Although a force of nearly two hundred armed guards including local and state po lice and volunteer deputies were pa trolling, the city, a mob of several thousand men and boys renewed raco rioting here tonight.. Shortly after dark the rioters got beyond control and beat a negro badly before he could be rescued by the police. Scores were arrested. The authorities believed the situation was under control and were taken by surprise when the rioters appeared In large numbers in the cen tral section of the city. All negroes had been ordered to remain Indoor and the crowd of whites were kept moving. Rioting broke out on a large scale for the fourth time thls wek. Waron loads of guards held ready for trouble were rushed to the scene of the dis order and the mob was driven back at the point of revolvers and rifles. After a scene of confusion street were cleared but not before dozens of white men had been knocked uncon scious wih riot sticks. Frank Meadows, a negro who was shot .at noon today, was reported to be near -death In the .city hospital. Tm rth.tr nee-roes fired en at the same time are also la a serlow eon. itlon,, '.. -.' N Then came the parents of the girl and a policeman unknown to me. Goes to Confession. "After a troubled day and a sleep less night I went on the 16th. about 3:30 o'clock, and confessed the crime to Father Morretto, who had married me. I then decided to return to Italy. "Leaving my house at 9 o'clock I took the Hoboken ferry and slept that night in Weehawken. I went to Philadelphia on the leth. spent the day looking for a chance to work my passage on a 'snrp ana sieprnf tne house of an Italian named Homano. On the 17 th, a young American who slept in the same place snowed me a shipping agency on South Second street where, under the name of Louis Leroil shipped as a sailor on the munition ship Manchester and reached' Havre on the 28th. I shlpoed as an Italian subject. Nobody asked me for a passport. Had No Accomplice. "What I have related is the truth. Now I ask merely to be allowed to go into the army, where I hope I shall be killed. I swear before God and man that I did not carnal violence to the girl. If she had pardoned my first offensive act and listened to my prayers to tell nobody I would have let her go without touching a hair on her head. I was beside myself, fear ing the severity of the American law. "Nobody helped me in the crime nor knew about it, save Father Mor retto. The policeman who first In vestigated the case was unknown to me. My police acquaintance was with the motorcycle squad, who were cus tomers. Never before had I com, mitted such a crime. No policeman knew of the Cruger crime or helped me to escape." KILLED BY LIGHTNING. , CHARLESTON, S. C. July 27. H. K. Drew, vice-president and general manager of the Santee Cotton mills, of Orangeburg, S. C, was Instantly killed by lightning late today while in the bathroom of his home. CAPTURE U-BOAT CREW. PARIS, July 27. The war office communication issued this evening says: ' "A Belgnn detachment has captured the crew of a German submarine that stranded on the shore." War Risk Insurance Bureau Announces the New Rate of Insurance. WASHINGTON. July 27. Another Increase of one and one-half per cent In government insurance rates for vea-n sels and cargoes sailing from Ameri can ports fof Europe and for African ports on the Mediterranean was an. nounced today by the war risk in surance bureau. It will be effective August -15. The present rate is five per cent. The new rate of six and one-half per cent will apply also to American bound vessels from the foreign ports mentioned. It is the first Increase sine the United States entered the war and was made necessary, said the bureau's announcement, because "the five per rent rate Is not adequate for the risks undertaken .through the so-called war rone, as the bureau has sustained a numbe; Of heavy losses." reau's policies for insuring masters, officers and seamen, providing for pay. ment In monthly installments, or In a lump sum. at the option of the bureau, but without Interest. Previously the policies provided for payments in a lump sum only. The general plan will be to make the payment la Install jnent whenever feasible, . . . Biuni DIED YESTERDAY II Former Widow of Henry M, Flagler Succumbs to a Heart Attack. WAS MARRIED ON NOV. 15 LAST YEAR Had Been 111 for Several Weeks Her Death Was Wholly Unexpected. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 21. Mrs. ' Robert Worth Bingham, who until her marriage to Judge Robert "W. Bingham, of Louisville, November IS, last, was the widow of the lata Henry M. Flagler, Florida multi-millionaire. 1 died at her country home, "LtncllnW this afternoon at 8:10 o'clock. She had been In failing health, but her condition was not regarded as serious until late last night, when she suf fered from a heart attack. Oxygen ' was resorted to at midnight by three physicians who attended . htr. and while she rallied for a brief space her . condition again changed for the worse and she weakened gradually until' the end came. ,tf-- She was 40 years old. At the bed side with Judge Bingham, was Mrs. Bingnam s sister, Mrs. Bessie Wise, of Wilmington. N. C. Welbora Kenan. cousin of Mrs. Bingham, of Buffalo, N. Y.. Is expected her tomorrow morning. Other survivors are Wil NEAR nil liam Kenan, a brother, of Lockport N. T., and. Mrs. Graham 'Kenan, of , Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Bingham was -the third wife of Henry M. Flagler, i and she was Judge Bingham's second wife. They were quietly married at the residence of Pembroke Jones,' S East Slxty-Arst street. New York, a, short time after their engagement was announced. Mews ot tne approach ing marriage came as a distinct sur-i prise to eastern and local society and all. . - .v-. Judge Bingham, and Mrs. YUgler (then Mary Lily Kenan), were class-, mates at college.: Their acquaintance was renewed at Asnevtue in ii. The (Continued on .Fag Two.), T BE ONLY TO LOCAL BOARDS Flood of Inquiries Reaches Office of the Provost " .---'s .;;..; 'V' ' Marshal - ; VARIED APPEALS. WASHINGTON. July 2T.-A de!ug of personal inquiries concerning future steps in the army draft and of pleat from Industrial concerns for exemption of their expert workers, drew from the provost marshal's office today a state ment that questions must be addressed to local boards and that claims for in dustrial exemption must go later to the district boards. .7 v No general class of workmen wilt be exempted. Provost Marshal-General Crowder told the coal production com mittee, which sought information whether miners would be left at their work. Appeals to the provost mar-, shal's office from employes on behalf of their workmen can accomplish nothing. It was explained, as regula tions promulgated by President Wil son govern all exemptions. The question of whether a man M mora useful to his country In a peace ful pursuant, than In military service. Is a matter to be taken up with the district board," said an announcement, "and for that board to determine in the llgh of , the circumstance sur rounding each individual case, h ' "Procedure In case of claim for dis-' charge on the ground of Industry or agriculture is explicitly outlined in the regulations. Only the upper or dis- -trlct board has Jurisdiction over an in dustrial or agricultural claim for dis charge. Before a man has a standing before the district board he must first be certified to it by the local or lower board as physically qualified for aer vice, and must have had any discharge claim made before the lower board de- elded adversely to him. "He has Ave days after he Is certi fied, to the upper board In which to file claims for discharge and five day more in which to file proof. All claims ; for exemption or discharge, except ' claims for discharge on industrial of agricultural grounds are decided origi nally by the local or lower board. THE ASHEVILLE CI11ZEK Circulation Yesterday City .-......... ... . 4,853 Suburban , .y , 4,889, Country ... .. ... .. 1,609 Net paid .. .;. 11,351 Service . , . 212 Unpaid . . . .. 77. Total . .. . .11,640
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