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THE WEATHER:
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ASHEVILLE, N. 0., THURSDAY; MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1917.
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VOK. XXXIII, NO. 359.
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THE AS
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10 KILLED AND
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Spartanburg Scene of Col
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WRECK
lision Between Electric
Q ' Train and Freight.
FREIGHT ENGINEER
IS UNDER ARREST
Electric Train Was Filled
With Soldiers and
Skilled Laborers.
SPARTANBURG, S. C. Oct. 17
In a wreck here early tonight on the
Piedmont and Northern, an electric
interurban line, two persons are
known to have been killed and sixteen
i known to be injured.
The dead are:
Corporal Arthur C. Wright, Battery
B. Third field artillery, Buffalo, N. Y.
and W. Jesse Edwards, Cavlns, S. C.
a skilled laborer employed at Camp
Wadsworth.
Known Injured.
The known injured are:
Privates R. p. Williams, Company
C, 107th Infantry; Joseph FiUpatrick,
Battery F, Second field artillery;
Courtney Stone, Company L, 107th in
fantry; Charles Miller, Battery F,
neia artillery; Harry L. Btribbe, am
bulance corps; Harry Triantafllan
Company H, 107th infantry; Frank
Johnson, ambulance corps; Private
r'lsher, Battery D, Second field artil
lory, abdominal injuries; Private
Kare, Battery C, Second field artillery,
cut about the head; Private H. K.
Laukenau, First field artillery, frac
tured leg: Private O'Grady, Battery B.
secona neia artillery, lelt side hurt
Private Ladue, Eighth company, anv
munition train, fractured thigh; Pri
vate Brlggs, Battery D, First field ar
tillery, bruised about right leg and
body.
Civilians Samuel F. Pearson, civil
engineer;, O. W. Mclntyre, carpenter
at tne camp.
It is reported that still another body
is In the wreckage and it is possible
others have been injured and not re
ported. The Injured were taken to
three hospitals In the city and others
tfJthe base hospital at Camp Wads
.worth. The wreck was a rear-end
olUsion, a freight engine and four
rs crashing Into the rear end of an
electric; urala currying laborers rand
soldiers from Camp Wadsworth to
Spartanburg.
Knglneer Arrested.
It was hours before the freight en
gine was removed from the coach
through which it plowed. The en
gineer of the freight train, H. B. Line
berger, has been put under arrest by
the military police and is being held
tonight. It is said the electric train
left the camp fifteen minutes before
the freight "and was proceeding slowly,
giving the conductor time 'to collect
his fares. It is said the electric train
waM1 running without rear lights. It
is reported that fully fifteen injured
laborers are being cared for in houses
near the scene of the wreck.
Engineer H. B. IAnerfberger, in
charge of the freight engine said there
were no light on the rear of the pas
senger train. ,
At the camp base hospital where
there are seven 'soldiers injured and
at the two local hospitals where oth
ers are being treated, it, was said to
night that they regarded none of them
as fatally Injured.
Two civilians, Samuel F. Pearson
and O. W. Mclntyre are the most seri
ously injured. Pearson may not re
cover. It Is said.
KEEP UP SUBSCRIPTIONS
Gain of Over $50,000 Is
Shown Over Night at
the Camp. '
HAVE SET GOAL.
GROroLLB. a C. Oct. 17. The
seventh day of the Liberty loan cam
paign at Camp Sevier was ushered in
yesterday with a gain overnight of
fifty-odd thousand dollars. With
$816,000 already subscribed, the goal
f a million and a hair, which the
hlrtieth division has set lor Itself,
begins to appear as a very reasonable
possiDiiiiy. i
The organizations which dis
tinguished themselves , most during
. the preceding twenty-four hours were
the 105th engineers, whose returns
howed a net increase of $16,000, the
11 Stir field artillery, with a net gain
of $9,800. and the 117th and 118th in
fantry, with - gains of $8,760 and $6,
610, respectively. ,
, The 117th Infantry is still leading
the division "with a wide margin, Its
total subscriptions amounting to
$110,860. The 120th Infantry still
holds second place with $106,000 to
Its credit.
. General Town si ey has Issued a gen
eral order setting Thursday aside as
a holiday to be spent In ' futherance
of the subscription work on the
Idberty loan and" In carrying out
"featriotio exercises. .....
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THE WEATHER,
WASHINGTON, Oct 17. Forecast
for North Carolina: : Fair Thursday;
Friday probably rain. y . , . -
MRS. RYAN DIES. , '
B17FFERN, N. Y.. Oct. IT. Mrs.
Thomas F. Ryan, wrfe of the finan
cier, died at her home here tonight
after a brief illness.
KAISER'S MINIONS IN THE
UNITED STATES TRYING TO
DEFEAT THE UBER1Y LOAN
Colonel Herbert M. Lord, of the WarDe
partment, Voices Aw Official Recogni
tion of Efforts of Pro-German Element
to Hinder Loan Some Methods
Employed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Pro-German agents in the
United States,, according to reports to the treasury de
partment, have directed their energies toward defeating
the Liberty loan. Their organized propaganda has borne
fruit, from Minnesota to Texas, it is asserted, in scattered
localities where weak efforts have been made, not openly,
but by indhfcct methods to discourage subscriptions.
The work of the pro-German agents, officials assert,
has been carried on for more than two weeks. Some of
the workers have had the temerity, the reports indicate,
to conduct' their operations here in the national capital.
Official Recognition.
Official recognition of
loan was voiced today by Colonel Herbert M. Lord, repre
senting the war department at the war risk insurance con
ference at which the details
insurance law are bfting explained to officers and en
listed men from the various cantonments.
"There has been an organized effort," said Colonel
Lord, who was chairman
courage the liberty loan."
This effort, he added,
to misrepresent the patnotism of the new national army"
an official account of the proceedings or the conference,
which was behind closed doors, issued tonight by the
treasury department reads
"In convincing refutation
the effect that the men of the
the war, Colonel Lord announced that subscriptions from
the army for the loan already aggregated $26,000,000 and
that some of the subscriptions were written in foreign
languages.
"The announcement caused great enthusiasm among
the delegates from the army
coast guard, (attending the
swarmed up to the platform
signed war insurance iQplications, all of which, except
forty, were for the maximum
Assembled from various
ers against the loan appear
four main channels:
'Attempts to discourage
bonds.
The publication, in
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MISS JEANNETTE RANKIN
CAPTIVATES BIG CROWD
IT THE N. C. STATE
Speaks at Dedication
of
Woman's Building at
Fair Grounds.
APPEALS FOR WOMEN.
RALEIGH. N. C, Oct. 17. Miss
Jeanette Rankin of Montana, Amerl
ca's only woman congressman, com
pletely captivated the great crowd at
the state fair today in a magnincent ad
dress In connection with the dedica
tion of the woman's building, erected
and presented to the women of the
state this year by the state fair as
sociation. A speaker of remarkable force and
finish, she delivered a speech that was
exceptionally logical ana compre
hensive, democracy and government
being her theme. Incidentally she re
cited a thrilling story of the develop
ment and peculiarities of her native
state of Montana and in rounding out
her argument for enfranchisement of
women she expressed confidence that
the men. of North Carolina will not
long delay giving their womanhood
deserved recognition. If they per
sisted in not doing so, she told the
women that Montana has an "ab
sentee voting" law and that the North
Carolina women can come over to
Montana and register and then come
back , to North Carolina, If they will,
and vote just the same. She told the
men that ere long if they persisted in
not letting the women of North Caro
lina have a hand In their government
the women of her western country
would govern them, anyway, through
their ballot and they had better
hasten to enfranchise their own
women. ' ' ' . .
Judge R. W. Winston presided for
the exercises dedicating the new
building and the Invocation was by
Mrs. R. E. Cotton, founder of the
Woman's club movement In this state.
The presentation of the building on
the part of the fair association to the
women's organisations was by Presi
dent K. O. Everett and was a beautiful
tribute to the splendid and. moat es
sential service of the women In the
making of the state fairs from year
to year. Mrs. Jane McKinnon, state
director Of the home economics de
partment, accepted on the behalf of
the women. Indicating their boundless
aspirations, for successful service in
the development of woman's part In
life of the state and the nation. Mrs.
Clarence Johnson, president of the
North Carolina Federation of Wo
men' clubs, pronounced the benedio-tloa.
the Dropaeranda against the
of the sailors' and soldiers'
of today's meeting, "to dis
had been made by "seeking
as follows:
of the slander, which was to
new national army opposed
and navy, marine .corps and
conference), 500 of whom
following the address and
of $10,000."
sources, the efforts of work
to have been directed along
prospective buyers of Liberty
certain newspapers and other
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BE PREPARED TO SHARE
All Supplies for Germany to
Be Cut Off by
Blockade.
THE NEW FORMULA.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Neutral
nations and particularly those in
Europe, must be prepared to share
even greater deprivations and bur
dens made necessary by the war un
der the decision of the recent allied
conference at London.
Detail of the conference are begin
ning to reach Washington through of
ficial .channels. They show that the
allies are determined to support their
armies In the field by cutting oft
as far as possible all supplies for the
German army from neutral sources
through a tightening of the - block
ade. Attention was called at the confer
ence to the necessity of preventing
Sweden from supplying GsrmanyLwlth
metals and the opinion prevailed that
hereafter the neutrals should be com
pelled to furnish the allies with goods
of their own production which they
cannot consume, in exchange for sup
plies from the allies. Further they
will be required to use their own
ships for this trade. - -
"Such is the new blockade formula
which must be strictly applied, and
which will make it impossible for
Germany to continue . the struggle,"
said one declaration of the confer
ence. The extent to which the United
States will be influenced by the deci
sions of the London conference has
not been- revealed, but that this cor
eminent .Is in accord with them is evi
denced by the rigid restrictions placed
upon exports to the European neu
trals from this country.
STRIKE NOT SETTLED.
WASHINGTON; Oct 17, As a re
sult of a mlrlnterpretatlon of mes
sages from the federal wage adjust
ment board. Chairman Hurley, of the
shipping board, announced today that
the shipyard strikes naa neon settled
at Portland as well as at Seattle
Washington. The adjustment board
is now engaged In an effort to com
pose the dlfferenees between 'employ
ers and. workers at Portland, and Mr.
Hurley explained tonight that a mes
sage from there relating to the settle-
man at Seattle led. to his errei'
american destroyer torpedoed by
subMarine but manages to make way
wport in spite of severe damages
One Man Kitted and Five Wounded When Torpedo Hits Destroyer, the First American Warship
Inland in U-Boat Campaign Germans In Possession of Oesel and Russians Are
Preparing tor Counter-AttackMuch Bombing la West.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 17.
An American destroyer on patrol duty
in the war rone was torpedoed by an
enemy submarine yesterday and bad
one man killed and five wounded. She
managed to makejport In spite of se
vere damage. . '
Vice-Admiral Sims cabled a brief
report of the incident to the navy de
partment late today. .Be gave few
details, bnt tt is. assumed there was
no fight and that (the U-boat made
good her escape afree 4anctUng a 'tor
pedo without showing fherself.
THJ .WIS H.lLAjJLU.
Gunner's Mate Osmon Kelly In
ram was . the . man killed. . He was
town overboard by the explosion and
his body was not recovered. In
gram's mother, Mrs. Betty Ingram,
lives at Pratt City, Ala.
In aooordanoe with the poncy oi
wscrery concerning American naval
operations, the department did not
divulge the name of the destroyer or
the exact place of the encounter.
None of the wounded was seriously
hurt. They are Herman H. Fank
rats, runner's mate. St. Louis; Wll
Ham K- Merritt, seaman, New York
city; Frank W. Kruse, fireman, To
ledo; .Patrick Jtiiueuire, oner, now
York city, and William Selmer, fire
man, JU minus, Minn.
FINALLY DAMAGES ONE.
Although American torpedo-boat
destroyers have covered nearly a mil
lion miles since the United States en
tered the war, crossing the ocean, con
voying vessels and chasing subma
rines, only recently has a uerman sud
marlne succeeded in damaging one of
them.
The attack occurred somewhere
within the war zone last Tuesday,
but, though the destroyer was badly
damaged, she wail able to make port.
One man, a gunner's mate, was killed,
being blown into the sea by the force
of the explosion of the torpedo. Five
other men were wounded.
Germans Hold Oesel.
The Germans are entirely In pos
session of the Island of Oesel, at the
head of the Gulf of Riga and the
Russian forces still there are out off
from communication with Petrograd.
Small naval engagements continue in
adjacent waters. Pernau, an import
ant gulf port north of Riga and due
east of Oesel Island, has been bombed
by German naval airships.
The Berlin war omce announces
that large quantities of booty were
captured on Oesel and that more than
1,100 prisoner were taaen Dy me Her
mans Wednesday.
On the mainland to the soutn or
TO FACILITATE WORK,
. C. C. IS
Commerce Commission Is
Divided Into Three Sec
tions to Dispose of Docket
WASHINGTON, Oct IT. Under
authority recently granted by con
gress the interstate commerce com
mission today divided itself Into three
sections to facilitate the work of dis
posing of Its-evergrowing docket
V The first division, consisting of
Commissioners McChord, Meyer an I
Aitchlson, will be charged with the
conduct of the work of the bureau of
valuation, "other than considering and
deciding proceedings relating to the
valuation of carriers' property."
Division No. i, consisting of Com
missioners Clark, Daniels and Wool
sey. Is charged! with action upon cer
tain rate applications and requests for
suspension, the transportation of ex
plosives and dangerous articles and
tariffs carrying released rates.
Commissioners Harlan. Hall and
Anderson, constituting the third divi
sion, are charged with disposition of
all board of review cases which have
been submitted "and those not here
after orally argued before the com
mission or any division tnereor."
All three divisions will alternate in
hearing cases set for argument, each
division bearing
month.
arguments for one
. ' :
The Spirit of 1917.
Riga there has been considerable ac
tivity on the part of the Germans,
who at one point endeavored to throw
pontoon bridges over the Dvina river.
The Russian artillery, however, frus
trated the plana.
Naval Demonstration Probable.
A report which if true, probably in
dicates that the Germans are pre
paring for a big naval demonstration
against the Russians from the Baltic,
comes from Malmo, in southern Swed
en. It say a large number of Ger
man war oraft were observed Monday
and Tuesday and that the belief pre
vails that they . ware reinforoemeni
for the German Baltic fleet.
The expected renewal of the great
offensive by the British and French
troops in Belgium has not eventuated.
Heavy bombardments and reconnolt
erlng encounters still prevail.
There have been only bombard
ments oh the southern front in France
and in the Austro-Itallan theatre. j
There has been a noticeable return
of bombing operations by the British
airmen in Belgium and across the line
in' Germany and by the Germans
against French positions. British
aviators have dropped tons of bombs
on Bruges and also have loosed ex
plosives on a factory near Saarbruck
en, Germany, while the Germans have
bombed Nancy and Dunkirk, at the
former place killing ten persons and
wounding forty.
British Ship Sunk.
German submarines or mines of last
week were responsible for the sinking
of eighteen British merchantmen, as
compared with sixteen the previous
week.
- The Italian parliament ha just
convened and. probably will discuss in
secret session rioting which oocurred
in Turin in August as a result of food
shortage and political discontent and
also the general food crisis through
out Italy. In the Turin riots, news
of which has been received for the
first time, large numbers of persons
are said to have been killed, machine
guns and bombs dropped from air
planes being used to put down the dis
order.
POSITION MQRE FAVORABLE.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 17. Regarding
the situation In and around the Gulf
of Riga, the semi-official news agency
today issued the following summary
of conditions there as coming from a
competent naval authority.
"While our fleet in the sone of op
eration is being pressed by German
forces four times Its strength our
army And itself in a more favorable
position, the strength of the German
troop landed being insignificant.
Tagga.Bay, the only place where re
inforcements can be aisemoarKea, is
LIEUTENANT GRAHAM IS
E
Believed to Be First Ameri
can Wounded While on
Firing Line.
WASHINGTON. October 17. First
Lieutenant A. Graham, medical offi
cers' reserve corps, attached to th
British forces, has been severly
wounded In th thigh by gunshot,
General Pershing so advised the war
department today without giving de
tails. Lieutenant Graham's next ot
kin was Mrs. William 3. Graham, 15$
Park avenue, Peterson, N, J." ,
If Lieutenant Graham was : shot
while serving at the front, as Is as
sumed, he was th first American of
the expeditionary force to be wound
ed on the firing Hne. One American
officer was killed andeveral enlisted
men of the medical department
wounded in the recent bombing of a
hospital behind the front- - They also
were attached to the British forces.
- General Pershing also advised the
department today that Private Joseph
A. Zlemkowskl, of Michigan, of the
infantry, died October II from natural
causes. ..
exposed to the northerly gales which
have been blowing for two days. The
transport of our reinforcements to th
Island of Oesel, however, does not de
pend upon weather oondltlons.
"This explains the persistent effort
of German destroyers to penetrate as
far as Moon Sound, thereby threaten
ing our communications and the ene
my's desperate attack against ths
troops defending these communica
tions. The matter should be settled
before long, a we are hastening th
dispatch of reinforcements for a
counter-attack , which la imminent
GERMANY'S OPINION.
AMSTERDAM, , October 1 7. The
Weser Zeltung (Bremen) publishes an
article by Major Hoffe, of the German
general staff, on the effect th en
trance of th United States will have
on the war. After reviewing the dif
ficulties of the United States in train
ing and transporting troops to Eu
rope, he declares that the American
military possibilities may safely be
ignored by Germany.
"Before the declaration of war" he
says, "the military resource of the
United States consisted of an Insuffi
ciently trained regular army of only
100,000 and a national guard of 12,
000, hardly trained at all. .The vari
ous measures taken to Increase the
army will result In the formation by
spring of an army of about 1,400,000
which has only received- minimum
training.
"No considerable part of this army
can reach Europe before summer,
while. In any case, a large number
must be, retained at home; no that no
more than 400,000 6r 600.000 men can
be sent to Europe. The transport dif
ficulties will be enormous. Two and
a half million tons of shipping will be
necessary to transport and supply six
teen divisions and the total American
shipping even allowing for confiscated
ships and new construction will by
spring be only 4,000,000 of which th
navy requires 2,500,000.
"An extensive transport of Ameri
can troops would cause serious diffi
culties in supplies to England and
Franc. It must also be remembered
that the U-boats are sinking more
and more ships daily.
"Finally the fighting value of the
American troops is not great, probably
about equal to that of the Rouman
lans and there certainly will be fewer
or them than or Roumanians. So,
Germany wll have an easy task.' In
fact it is doubtful whether the Amer
icana will risk the venture of sending
an army to Europe at all.
"The only American help to be
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NETS ONLY SMALL SUM
Robbers Enjoy But Little of
Ill-Gotten Gains Before
Being Arrested.
NEWARK, Ohio, Oct 17. All but
$34 of the 15,800 stolen this morning
from the Granville bank at Granville,
a village near here, was recovered
this afternoon with th capture of
two men in soldiers' uniforms by C.
O. Burke, a former Newark police
man. The robbers wore civilian at
ttre when they entered the bank.
"The men gave their names, as Earl
Davis, twenty-two, and H. F. Shults,
twenty-five. Their- residence is .. un
known. . -
Assistant Cashier Harry Pearce and
the bank stenographer, Miss Addle
Slack, were backed into the bank
vault at the point of pistols by the
robbers,- who escaped with all th
bank s currency not .locked up.
A sheriff's posse waa quickly or
ganized and the surrounding country
searched. Several hours later Burke
overtook the two men walking along
country road. - He offered tnem a
ride In his automobile, which they ac
cepted. They were taken - to the
Hebron jalL where later they were
Identified by the bank cashier. The
money - was found concealed about
heir clothing.
PLANNED TO MAKE
SELECTIVE DRAFT
IE SELECTIVE
New Plan Would Take Men
Best Able to Leave
Home Duties.
CIVILIANS HIGHLY
ENDORSE NEW PLAN
Various Grades ofDepen
dency and Industrial
Value to Be Established.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. A com
prehenslve new plan for applying th -army
selective draft which would take
first only men without dependents and
of no particular value to war indus
tries, and establish various grades of
dependency and industrial value from
which future draft would be made :
strictly on the selective basis has
been worked out tentatively by the
provost marshal renerale office and
discussed with th president
The plain, It was learned today, was
submitted recently to a conference of
civilians who dlrotd . exemption .
board activities In a number of states. -and
received endorsement of most of
them, who are now discussing the pro
posed ian with their state governors, -Formulate
Table.
It Is proposed to formulate in each
local draft list a table of reglsterants,
placing each in a column denoting his
dependents and industrial value in th '
war's prosecution. -T " ,
For Instance, horizontal columns' or
classifications would be based on de
pendency. Men with no dependents ';
would be ' placed In the first class. '
those with dependent distant relatives
In the second class, those -with wives
In the third class, those with a wife
and one child inthe fourth, and so on.
Similarly the vertical ' column
might represent certain industries ar- -ranged
according to their respective
merits as war necessities. Industrial
classes under consideration in this "
connection are farmers, shipyard em
ployers, munition workers, j railway
and transportation employes, miner,
steel plant and motor industry work- -men,
and certain other -. individual
plants or industry branches to be des- '
Ignated from time to time by the
president or the war department
as temporarily . essential. Th latter
classification might include plunts '
making military -clothing, harntom. -first
aid materials, or - professional
such a chemists and other scientific
men more needed .for war research
than to carry arms, , -.(
, . Place For Keach Man. "'
Thus the table with horiiontal de
pendency classification , and vertical
Industrial classifications would hold a
place for each registrant la accord
ance with his dependency or Indus- ,
trial value claims. In selecting men
for examination, boards would .. first
take all men physically fit, having
neither dependents or value in essea- '
tial war industries. When this class,
was exhausted, draft Authorities would '
draw on the classes haying th slight '
est dependency claims and the least
value In essential Industries. Theo-
retlcally, the draft would work down
through the table, to th classes with
most dependents and highest Indus-
trial value.
No class would b exempted a
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T.
FOOD SENT BTRED CROSS
e. .i
Such Is Story Brought by
American Who Escaped
From Germany.
DAILY FOOD RATION.
WASHINGTON, Oct' 17. Minister
Morris, at Stockholm, cabled the state
department today news of the arrival
of Wtllot Charles Smith of Norwalk,
Conn., who escaped from a German in
ternment camp at Kiel and brought
word that American prisoners in Ger
many would starve but for food sent
them by the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A.
Smith was a horseman on the
British steamer Esmeralda, captured
by the German raider Moewe, and
was carried into Germany Just before
the United States broke diplomatic re
lations. No details concerning his
escape were given by the minister.
"Smith stated," said a state depart
ment statement announcing the es-
cape, "that without the food packages '
sent by the x. M. c. A. and the teed
Cross, prisoners would not be able to
live, as the daily food ration consists -of
a slice of black, sour bread, and a
drink of cold coffee for breakfast and -
for dinner and supper about a pint and
a half of warm soup apparently con
sisting of water and turnipa"J ,
THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN
Circulation Yesterday ;
Gty ....... 4 4.243
Suburban . 4,637
Countrjr a. 1.826
, Net paid -'! 0,706
Service . . , 206
Unpaid ; 133
Total , . ...." I f,045
Bay Liberty Bond.
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