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eh SUMBAY CITIZEN THE WEATHER: FAIR. VOL. XXXIV, NO. 25. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS nn . ITALIANS REPULSE FUR us TT OFTEUTON 1 S Austro-Germans Are Anni hilated at One Point and Repulsed at Other. SITUATION STILL CONSIDERED GRAVE Operations in Other Thea tres of War Small Scale on ITALIAN HKADQUAUTERS, Nov. 17. (By the Associated Press.) The Austro-Germans today made furious attempts to break the Italian line and crossed the Piave river at two points, but were annihilated at one point and driven back at the other. The Italian lilies are holding, but the situation is considered to be grave. NINETEEN MEN LOST WHEN THE AMERICAN STEAMSHIP ROCHESTER WENT DOWN Latest Reports From Vice-Admiral Sims State that Casualties Will Reach this Number One Boat With Twelve Aboard Given Up For Lost. HEROIC STAND. Italy s armies are making a heroic and so far successful stand against the Austro-German masses thrown against them in desperate attacks along the line of the Piave river and in the mountainous region from the Piave westward to the edge, of the Trentino district. The river line has not been breached at any point, while the thrust of the Austrians southward from the hills In an attempt to drive a wedge through to the plains behind ine .Piave line Is making slow prog ress. It Is now more than a week since the Italians, retreating from the Tasr- llamento crossed to the west bank of the Piave and took up their defen sive positions behind it. The Ger man command lost no time In at tempting to force a passage of the stream and the enemy efforts were pressed on a scale of increasing In tensity during the week. Growing Stronger. The Italian resistance, however, leems to be growing stronger rather than otherwise. The latest Austro German attempts to gain a permanent hold on the westerly side of the Piave were not only brilliantly frustrated, but the enemy columns were badly cut up and nearly 1,000 Teutons were taken prisoner. These attacks on the river line were "plivered Just above the Zenson loop fVjhere the invaders first effected a grossing and were hemmed In from, ttr start. ' They are steadily being driven here into an increasingly re stricted zone, the Rome war office now announces. Near the Adriatic the wa ter barrier to any Austro-German ad vance toward Venice, raised by the opening of the flood gates into the swampy region is being reinforced by the work of the army artillery and the guns of Italian warships on the Adriatic. The Italian line has yielded slightly in the hills eajrt of the Brenta, where the capture of Monte Prassolan' by Austro-Hungarlan troops is announced by Berlin. No further advances for the attacking forces In the mountain region northeast of Asiago are claimed. Small Operations. Military operation in -the other war theatres were on a comparatively small scale. The most important move ws made in Flanders by the British, who pushed further north on the Goe bergspur, northwest of Passchendaele capturing a strongly fortified redou'bt known as Vocation farm and so Im proving their positions In this sector as to make the present line across Passchendaele ridge easier to hold. In Palestine, the British forces (Continued on Pae Eight.) AMERICAN FEDERATION WILL HOLD CHEN DDK JUNE NEXT YEAH WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Nineteen men, including six members of the naval armed guard, probably lost their lives when the American steamship Rochester was tor pedoed in the war zone November 2. Early reports to the navy department told only of two members of the crew being killed by the explosion, but today Vice-Admiral Sims cabled that four men died of exposure in an open boat, that another boat with the second officer and eleven other men had been given up as ost and that one member of the crew was drowned. Given up for Lost. Twelve men, including five members. of. the naval guard, who left in the second officer's boat when the American steamer Rochester was torpedoed in the war zone November 2, have been given up for lost by the navy department. Vice-Admiral Sims cabled today that no trace of the boat had been found. He also advised the department that Ernest H. Gragg, seaman, and member of the guard Mid three members of the Rochester's crew died from ex posure in another boat. One Lost Overboard. One member of the crew was lost overboard, making the total casualties nineteen, including Second Engineer Sondau and an oiler named Anderson, previously reported killed by the explosion of the torpedo. Members of the armed guard in the second officer's boat and believed to have been lost were: Bernard Joseph Donovan, seaman, (aunt) Katie Lynch, Fhilipsburg, N. J. Marshal Underwood Uorun, seaman, (motner) Annie Comn, Lexington, Ky. Mearl Ralph Cox, seaman, (fattier) Abner u. Uox, Kansas City, Mo. Georere Franklin Wheeler, Jr., seaman, (father) George Franklin Wheeler, Waterbury, Conn. James Crowley, seaman, motnerh--uatnenna-'row- ley, New York. Gragg s body was landed in Ireland ana was Dunea there. He enlisted at Houston, Texas, .February UU, wis ear, and his mother, Mrs. Cora Gragg, lives at Corpus Chnsti, Texas. Five Picked up. Five of the naval guard were in a boat picked up by a British patrol and m all seven ot the navy men are Known to have been saved. Tney are : William Frederick Eishenhardt, seaman, (father) John Edward Eisenhardt, New Orleans, La. Thaddeus Hyatt Fellows, seaman, (father) Harry E. Fellows, New York. , William Foulis, gunner's mate, (mother) Sarah The HunJng Season Is On tO) 1 yWL vou'oen7t iabcl TMe Mv.uwVh-i Jsm ui rb II IRE BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS OF BORNEO SCHOOL Identification of Dead Brings Death Toll of Fire up to Seven. BOY DIED TRYING TO SAVE HIS SISTER Two Reported Missing Are Found and Injured Will Recover. ACTUAL WORK OF THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA M. E. CONFERENCE IS ALMOST f COMPLETED AND WILL BE ENDED MONDAY Reading of Assignments Will Bring to a Close Remarkably Satisfactory Session of the Confer- it-. enceSIx Clerical Delegates to the General Conference Are Named and Conference Endorses Action of Minister In Becoming Officer. (CONTINUED ON" PAGE TWO.)' Change in Date Causes Com ment on Floor of Convention. POLITICAL ISSUE? 3 BUFFALO, N. T.. Nov. 17. After holding conventions for thtrtjr-flve rears In November, the American Fed e ration of Labor hereafter will meet In June. This was decided upon at loday's session of the thirty-seventh nmial convention after a lengthy de- 'ate on the resolution authorizing the change during which remarks as to possible political significance In the move were made by some of the dele gates. The talk of politics prompted President Samuel Uompers. both dup lng the session and after adjournment to state emphatically that the federa tion s policy of non-partlclpatlon in partisan politics had not, and would not, be changed by the adoption of the resolution. "We will continue to fight for our friends and try to defeat our enemies, no matter what their policies or creed," he said. The motion to sub stitute June for November was carried by a vote of 255 to 11. A motion to make the resolution effective in 191 Instead of next year, was lost. Delegate Fisher, of Montana, de clared that a political kerne had been Injected into the discussion of the re port and resolution. Delegate Berry declared that If the purpose of the resolution was "to line up for the next congressional election" that fact should be made known. It was in response to Fisher and Berry that President Compere made hie statement "The American labor movement baa Influenced the political activities of our government both national, state and municipal more than any group of people In the United States," Mr. Oooaptra added. . ...- BRITISH LIGHT FORCES ENGAGE GERMAN LIGHT FORGES OFF HELGOLAND German Cruisers Flee With British Boats in Close Pursuit. CANNONADING HEARD. LONDON, Not. IT British light forces today enraged German light cruisers off Helgoland, the British ad' mlralty announced today. The Oer man warships retired and the British forces are now chasing them. The announcement follows: "British light forqps operating In Helgoland Bight have been engaged with German light forces thla morn lng. The only information we have received thus far la that our vessels have engaged enemy light cruisers, that the latter have retired at high speed and that our vessels are In pur- Mlt " It la not likely, that any details of the naval engagement win oo receivea until the British shine return to port as It Is not customary for them to send wireless reports of their movements and actions while close to the enemy bases. On the few occasions when Rrttlnh cruisers, which constantly are sweeping the North sea have been able to encounter uerman war vessels me enemy's tactics have been or the bit and run character. They hurry to ward home with the purpose of try ing to bring the British Into their mine fields, ana u possioie, unuer nre oi the large land guns. The bare facts embodied in this morning's official bulletin from the Brutsn admiralty in dicate that in this engagement the Germane followed their usual tactics. CA1TOOWAIMCTO HEARD. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 17. Advices from the Island of Mano aay that a most violent cannonading was heard from the North sea between 1:10 o'clock and IV o'clock thla morning. At Intervale during the firing there were great explosions. Several war bip were observed oa the h orison. . KERENSKV'S STAFF HAS BEEN ARRESTED REPORTS FROM PETROGRAD STATE Maximalist Troops Have Occupied Gatchina, Re port Declares. (By Rev. W. A. Newell.) The actual work of the conference is almost complete. It is probable that the bishop and his cabinet have about finished the assignments for the coming conference year. Of course this Is subject to ohange at any time until the final adjournment. It has been the most harmonious meeting of the conference In a decade. Bishop James Atkins was formerly a mem ber of this conference and came to it from the Holeioiths8flarU of the two conferences few merged!" into' thiev Not many men of that time remain in active service, so It may be said that Bishop Atkins grew, up In tnis conierence. his long service in the chair has given him a wide ex- 1 thing In childhood snaps that day. Get ready for the little fellow who must move and be tender with him In his wayward outlook upon things as they are for his heart Is still back yonder. Old Place Dear. And the older boys and girls of the parsonage. Every one of them must leave some one in the old place that la dearer than life. How infinitely tender are the lovos of our youth. How fragrant their memory through all the day a Come on, my boy! Your lips are blue and your eyes are red and your feet do not falter because of the stone-bruiaa on your heel. There la a -hurt deeper than all the fathom ing line or knowledge and you shall not come this way again. Tell her good-bye. my boy, for you shall meet her no more until And the girl who holds in sweetest brThertf 'V.A'.M,VfS. belong, to the parsonage. If romance " T , X... h...t . has died In your heart go stand bare- "am," Ah.e.L,ye,.?.Lhl.h1trifl0W! headed In that awful sanctuary of the out In tender solicitude for them. He Lno.v!' L11 -0mn a?d fil'the sacred treasures, each jit wio lieu Buuagco w ii'J ai a siwnuiui KERENSKY FLEES. the decision of the cabinet and his eyes grow moist as he speaks of these unnamed heroes and heroines of the cross. They too must move when the call comes and they are swallowed up In the necessary changes and swept from their moorings. Preacher's Work. The preacher's work Is in the con ference and has a character that calls for little pity on this score. He loves his work and would choose no other. But the preacher's wife waits in the parsonage which has become her home and has been beautified by her hands and sanctified by life's Joys and sorrows and knows not what shall be. She does not know where she is going but she Is on the way. You Methodist women in your comrortaoie nomes surrounded by a circle of friends and interests, give your thoughts to her for a little while today. God help you to be true friends and to widen that circle In which you move for her who has nothing ahead but a long pll- sTlmaK-e with a lonely grave away from the loved ones of youthful days. And the little children must move along with the family. Did you ever watch the face of a child when the household goods have been loaded on the moving van and the start is made for unfamiliar surroundings? It la one ot life's great tragedies. Some- soul and watch her hands as they lift of which marks an epoch In the dawning or a woman's life. It Is over. That is the hard part of it for the preacher for his heart Is rich In love and he knows the ways ot his own household. Conference Opens. The morning session was begun with prayer by Rev. U Berge Abernethy. After the reading of the minutes, the result of the second ballot for clerical delegates to the general conference was announced and Dr. C. W. Byrd and Kev. E. N. Melarty were declared elected. The report of the Joint board of finance was read by Rev. W. O. Goode. In this report the appointment to the superannuates and the widows or orphans of deceased preachers. The report asks for assessment of $18,000.00 for the care ot the super annuates next year. There was a deficit on this assess ment last year and the bishop called the attention of the conference to this fact He declared: "It is a shame for men who are active and efficient to forget their brothers who have found th'.-melve at the end of the Journey without means of support. The people of our church have plenty of money and many of them have more than Is good for them. If the preacher will present this cause in any charge the money will be forthcoming. Even a "skinflint" will shell out for this cause. . Thanks of Conference. The blah op voiced the thanks of the conference to Mr. J. A. Odell, of Greensboro, who Is treasurer of the board and has been a member of the board since the organization of the conference and for seven years pre ceding the organization he was member of the same board In the old North Carolina conference. He was a delegate to the general conference of 181IO, was elected to the general book committee for twelve years. - - J. A. Bell, of Charlotte, read the re port of the committee on superan nuate endowment fund. The report as adopted provides for the creation of a fund of 1100,000.00, the income of which will be used to supplement superannuate collection of the con ference. Mr: Bell le the moving spirit to the creation of this fund and It le safe to say that the fund will be secured this year and that it will be a Joy for pros perous laymen to Increase Its) slse as the years go by. By the way, J. A Bell would make a great preacher. E. A. Cola said that he had a com mission from the Charlotte district conference and that his district had already paid $400.00 on the expense of this commission. i . ,, In speaking of this report the bishop said "some preachers are afraid of the man who has money. He gets confused as to where the power Is sometimes the power Is In the money and not In the man." Rev. O. W. Pickene read the report of committee on Washington Repre sentative church. The report provides for an assessment of f 1,000.00 tor two years to pay the amount assessed by this conference. Rev. W. c. Lamtth read the report of the Sunday school board. The board announced that Rev. W. R. Shelton, formerly flnst secretary of the board, had volunteered and is now a lieuten ant in the United States army. This led the bishop to ask the senti ment of the conference in regard to an appointment for Mr. Bhelton. No moro spirited debate has been heard on the conference floor. Dr. C. W. Byrd president of the 'board declared that he Is on the waiting list and ready for service at the front. The patriotism of the body is at Yesterday's more complete report of the Cathollo Hill school disaster moderated slightly the horror of the catastrophe, when statements of the discovery of one of those supposed to have been burned in the conflagration were confirmed, and the exhaustive setti-ch of the still smoldering rulna revealed but two little bodies of miss ing children. The Identifications of , the dead, together with the names of the two children, who have turned up since the afternoon of the Are, tally exactly with tha original list of miss-. . lng. and clear the elate of any further question. The final record of the Are shows a list of seven children killed , and seven injured. Others Identified. At a late hour Friday night only three of the dead had been identified by relatives, the charred bodies ot Henry and Elsie Thomson and of " Mary Jamison having been recognised by their families. Yesterday the two remaining bodies at the morgue were also Identified as those of Ines Davis and Hannah Slmolton. During the day the searchers among the rulna ' found two more bodies, which were i being identified as those of Daisy Dob bins and Hasel Harris, the latter be- . lng the little girl who is reported to have made her escape and then td have run baok into the burning build ing to rescue her new coat from the cloak room. It has been stated also that the little Thompson boy, Henry Thompson, aged ten years, made hi escape from the school successfully, and then climbed up the fire escape and entered the doomed building ta ' And his small sister, Elsie, only to perish with her there. , One Girl Ixcate4. . Addle Logan, one of the mtsstna ' who had-tnren Wotlmed as dead, and for whom the searcher had been dig ging, was discovered tat Friday ninhl at the home of friends) while another small boy whose father had mourned him . as ' dead, had not been at tha ' school all day, having gone out with bis mother. . There have been no further dsveloo. ments to add to the story of the Are, (Continued on Page Two.) EFFORTS AGAINST. THE All Vindictivenesa and Hatred Transferred to Ameri can Troops. CENTRALIZE FIRE. (Continued en Page Two.) YELLIN CONVICTED OF SENDINGFORD LETTER Fined $1,000 and Sentenced to Serve Five Years at Leavenworth. LONDON. Nov. 1T-A Renter's Limited dispatch from Petrograd, dat ed November 16, gives the following detail ooncernlng the Russian In ternal situation: "Maximalist troop have occupied Gatchina and Premier Kerenskys staff ha been arrested. Kerensky fled from arrest, but orders have been Is sued by wireless for his apprehension. "The Maximalist council of commis sioners ha proclaimed the right of the different peoples of Russia to the elf determination of their form of gov- of independent state. The Maxtmal-I DETROIT, Mich.. Nov. 17. Jacob WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Reports ists insist on the inclusion of Nikolai jYellin, a Detroit youth, wae convicted that the Germans Interned in camp at Lenine and Leon Trotzky In any com- ,'by a federal court Jury here late today. . Hot Springs, N. C. eat Ave meals a poelte socialist government and that of sending a threatening letter de- ! day and enjoy many extravagance of their na.rtv shall hiv m.wif nf mindlni ransom to Edsel Ford, son aiet, are aenouncea oy me aeparimeni the portfolios includlnr the fnrnin of the automobile manufacturer. Yel interior and labor ministries. WILD REPORTS ABOUT HOT Officials Say Prisoners Are Given Only Substantial Food. REPORTS CONTRADICTORY. LONDON, Nov. 17.- A dispatch from Petrograd today to Reuter's Limited says: "New from Moscow is so contradic tory that it is Impossible to sav whether the casualties. there are hun dreds or thousands in number. The Petrograd Maximalists have announc ed the sending of detachments of sailors, soldier and the red guard to Moscow to hasten victory for the Moscow proletariat and the garrison.' "A lull now Is reported in Moscow after fighting that lasted a week and involved most of the city. There was a constant bombardment' by rannon and machine gun of th Kremlin and the town hall which are the chief tronghoM of the military cadet and other aanerems or the provisional government. Many shells burst In private house and started fire. The latest report aay that three-quarters f Moscow are la th hand of th Maximalist" . . T STOP 'COMBINATION SALES" Leads to Wasteful Buying, Food Administration Of ficials Declare. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Retail dealers were ordered by the food ad ministration today to stop the widely prevalent practice of making "ocm bination sales" requiring custotmers to make other purchases in order to obtain a certain commodity. One ex- nortfolios includlnr the fnrAi-n of the automobile manufacturer. Yel-i or lanor wnicn nas mem in cnarge. Illn was sentencea to nve years in rood Administrator noover nas 'lMvnirnrih nriuin and also was flned ! ronmmnrlAd that tha nrlsnnera ha II AAA Inn. An mwmv tr navtf riMnnfl Th. The'letter which Ford received, de- i labor- department says ths prisoners cPm is mads on all sale of sugar manded $10,000 as the price for the 'are receiving an ordinary wholesome the dealer may require the customer safety of his baby son, Henry Ford II. diet In the Interest of showing Oer-jto buy twice the weight of corn meal. The writer specified that the money . many that her prisoners here are well . The practice of "combination sales" be sent by mail to the local general i treated and with the hope of indue- . the administration holds, is likely to lng her to treat American captives ' ieaa to wasterui ouying. rne excep dellverv department. When a messen ger call at the window for the pack age, he was given a dummy parcel and then was trailed by detectives. The messenger met Yellln several block from the postofflce and ths latter was arrested as he took the parcel. Yellin asserted his innocence. Testi mony was offered at th trial by a typewriter expert to the effect that the ransom note was written on the same typewriter that Yellin had used to writ a not to a friend. -THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. Forecast tor North Carolina: Fair Sunday and th sams way. A statement issued at the depart ment said: "It should be pointed out In the first place that the alien detained at this particular station ars not prison ers of war. They comprise officers and crews from a number of German vessels that were Interned In United Bute port and subsequently were taken over by the government upon the declaration of hostilities. "The statement that the men in terned at Hot Spring eat fiv meals a day I branded as ridiculous by ths officer aeoomlnted with the fact. Three meals of substantial but plain Monday, somewhat cooler Monday in far prepared by their own cook is vest portion. . i . ..,iki dally tt X man tion In regard to corn meal is made as a wheat conservation measure, to en courage greater uss ot corn products bu dealers are not required to make the exception unless they so desire. Its orders to retailers Is possessed by the food administration through its licensing of wholesalers. LONDON, Nov. IT More detail of the Germans special effort to trap American soldiers in the front line trenches on the American front, No vember 8, on the occasion of th In vaders' first raid on the American trencnes and which resulted In num- , erous casualties to the defender, have been brought to London, by the party of American congressmen, now visit lng France and England. Congress man Taylor, of Colorado, said: "Our man were detailed to a post- , tlon on th front Una for observation ' at t o'clock in th morning. There ' had been a lull during the night, but signs of activity of th enemy during the early hour of th morning had been followed by this stationing of our men In advantageous position for ob- -ssrvatlon. "The German attack followed the enemy's sweeping of the positions us ual with illuminating rockets, by mean of which It 1 presumed th German located the American force. Their artillery Are appeared to be concentrated on that point, and they accepted their hurriedly conceived ob ject in smashing our little squad of observers who were out there to gain experience. "The attack seem to confirm re orts that the German commander ave inculcated a spirit of rivalry among their troops for th taking ot tne nrst American prisoner and to make a showing In American casual ties. It is commonly reported on all the fronts that the Germans have transferred their vlndictivenes and ' hatred of the English to our men.". PUBLISHER'S DAUGHTER WEDS. NEW YORK, Nov, 17. Miss Iphl geoe Bertha Och, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph S. Oehs, and Lieuten ant Arthur Hays Sulzberger, stationed at Camp Wads worth, were married this afternoon at the home of th bride's parent in this citv. Miaa Ocha father I publisher of Th New THE ASHEVILLE CULZEN Circulation Yesterday GtrV . . . , 4.570 Suburban 4.561 Country ..... 2,017 Net paid . , .11.148 Service . . . , . 200 Unpaid , . .... "206 Total , , . . .11.554
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