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THE ASHEHLLE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS " BRING RESULTS , THE WEATHER: , Increasing clondlnea Friday follow 4 by rata at night and Saturday. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAtUiORNING, JANUARY 11, 1918. vol. xxxiv, no: 79. PRICE FIVE CENTS o L F DIRECTOR STATES Asistant in Charge of Trans portation Says Situation is Improved. LOCAL SHORTAGES STILL INEVITABLE Government Control of Ex press Companies is Now Being Considered. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. The rail road situation has Improved under government operation sufficiently to guarantee that there will be no further coal famine In any part of the coun try this winter, Director-General Mc Adoo was Informed today by A. H. Smith, assistant tn charge of trans portation on eastern lines. Local shortages will be Inevitable under existing abnormal conditions, Mr. Smith said, but Indications are that no important Industries will be forced to shut down because of lack of fuel, and householders will be supplied reasonably well. . He added that this applied to New York and New England, where the coal shortage nas oeen most marked in the east. Express Companies. Whether operation of express com panics shall be assumed by the gov ernment was discussed with the rail road administration today by heads of tne lour principal express companies, and It wassaid Director-General Mc- Adoo's advisory board In a few days would recommend that government control d extended to them. The ex press company executives were repre sented today as not opposing such a move. Inasmuch as their earnings this year have fallen rapidly, and the gov ernment guarantee would provide more than their probable Income, even If the Interstate commerce com mission should grant the pending re quest for ten per cent increase in rates. The director-general expects to name tomorrow the board of four men to investigate the wage demands of the railway brotherhoods. The labor representatives have submitted a list of about fifteen names of men acceptable to them, It was said to night, and two will be chosen .from the list. Mr. McAdoo has been summoned to appear before the senate interstate commerce committee tomorrow to ex plain the administration railroad bill. i Ai, Kiiiom general counsel for tn .r ranwy i executives- ? advisory com mlttee, has been granted permission to maae a legal argument on the bill be fore the committee early next week. Would Limit Control. Frank Trumbull, chairman of the railway executives' advisory com mittee, testifying before the com mittee today, urged that the railroad bill be amended so as to definitely limit the duration of government con- (Continued on Page Two.) SPEECHES OTSS THE WILL OF THE WORKERS OF BAITH AMERICA So Declares Gompers, Prais ing President and Pre mier Lloyd-George. SENDS MESSAGE. WASHINGTON. Jain. -0. In a mes sage of greeting cabled to W. A Appfleton, secretary of the British Federation of Trades unions, and other English laboring men who soon ane to visit the United States, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of labor, declared, today that the recent utterances of Presi dent Wilson- and Premier. Lloyd George regarding thie war aims of the United Stales and the allies have ex pressed the "will and purpose of the workers of Great Britain and Amer ica." The 'message follows: "Am gratified that you and a num ber of other representative British loibor mien are coming to the United States. You .and they will find hearty greoMnigs and co-operation. "The declaration of the December British labor conferences at West minster is in essential principles Iden tified with the declarations of the November convention of the American Federation of lAbor at Buffalo. The Lloyd-George declarations last week to the man power conference and those of President Wilson yesterday to the American congress are 4n accord upon the vital issues and aims in this war. Thu-s the official representatives of our governments and of the laoor movements of our respective' coun tritij hav.e expressed the will and par pope or the people, the governments and the workers of Great Britain and America. "If any call should be issued for an interactional conference of workers of all countries of the world, the American Federation of Laoor will not participate. The people of Ger many must establish democracy with in thriir own domain and make .op portunity for Internationa) ' relations tnai life will be secure ami that peo ple of all countries may live their own lives and work out their own salva tion; and unless) this has been ac complished by the . German people themselves the alHed democracies in tilts struggle must crush militarism and autocracy and brine; a new free krm to the whole world, the people of Germany Included. Untfl these essen tials are ocompMehed an Internation al labor conference with the represen tatives at the wmkeis 01 all countries, Oct 'many Included, la prejudicial to a oeatrabt aod lesttog peace." if U THE COR AMINE RAILROAD TROTZKY INSISTS THAT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BE REMOVED Reported that Germans Want Sweden to Act as Intermediary to AlliesAmeri can Army Forming try Activity on Any . LONDON, Jan. 10. Unofficial reports received here concerning the first session of the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk. which was resumed Tuesday with Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, at the head of .e --. . - . ill rm ii 1 tne Kussian delegates, says mat xroizicy in a speecn in sisted on a removal of the conference to Stockholm. Trotzky declared the Russians came to Brest-Litovsk not as the representatives of a conquered country and did not intend to ask for nitv. but would continue to act as true revolutionists. He is reported to have told the German and Austrian delegates that if they did not accede to his request they would feel the weight of the voice of the de mocracies of the central powers and the weight of arms of the Russian democracy. Did Not Decline. The Evening Post asserts that the Germans replied that thev did not decline to carry on the peace negotia tions, but that they failed to specify where. The German delegation in Petrograd is reported to have expressed the desire to the Swedish legation that Sweden act as the go-between with Great Britain, France and Italy. The Russian delegation at Brest-Litovsk includes, in addition to Trotzky, who is serving as its president, one woman, Madame Bithenko, a former exile, and M. Joffe, M. Kameneff, M. Pokrovsky and three counsellors. Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier, has gone to a Finland sanitarium for several days' rest. AMERICAN ARMY GROWING. The American army which is to be sent into the battle J tq make the world safe for democracy is rapidly being fi rmed. In the nine months since the United States de clared that a state of war existed with Germany the army has risen from 212,034 officers anU men to 1,539,506 offi cers and men. This statement has been made by Secretary of "Vfar Baker, who declared that no other army in the history of Uie world had ever been raise'd, equipped, or trained... gfl fqlilgfclrirSts oi Americans already was m France and nt tor active ser vice and that full equipment is on hand for every man who will be sent to Europe during 1918. Infantry Inactive. On the fighting fronts the infantry is inactive, except for small raiding operations, but the artillery duels con tinue intense on various sectors. In northern Italy snow has fallen to a depth of from three to five feet, bringing the operations to a halt. The movement of supplies to tne en emy armies in. the hills is being greatly impeded and the indications at present are that will be impossible while the Unofficial dispatches dealing with the deliberations between the Bolsheviki and Litovsk indicate that for the discussed, but that the proposition of the Bolsheviki to change the scene of negotiations to Stockholm is the para mount issue. Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, is (CONTINUE!) SELECTIVE SERVICE Want Skilled Farm Labor ers Defined Different ly by Boards. PASS RESOLUTIONS. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10. Resolu tions adopted at a meeting here late today of the Association of State Presidents of Farmers' unions approv, ed the general plan of the selective service questionnaire, but asked that exemption boards define a skilled farm laborer as "any man who understands and knows how to do farm work," rather than as a graduate of an'agrl cultural school. Ths government also was asked to apply the same exemp tion rules to town and city young men who will work on farms as to those who will work In shipyards. Another resolution called upon all cotton farmers to continue diversified farming and increase food and feed crops, even though It should be neces sary to decrease cotton acreage. In an 'address to the public" the association alleged that "the demand for fixing prices on cotton originates with .those Interested In low prices." ""We protest against any interference with the price of cotton; said the ad dress, "because In 1014 when cotton was as low as live cents and the farm ers asked for hslp they wers told that the law of supply and demand must regulate ths prices. Now we ask that the same law be allowed to rule la HI 8. . A committee was appointed to re main at Washington during the pres ent session ef congress and look after the Interests of ths cotton farmsra John A. Simpson, - of Weattaerford, Ok la-, was elected president and H. A. Morgan, of Aires, La-, secretary. TO STOCKHOLM Rapidly No Inian Main Front. "substantial" force fighting of great intensity snow lies on tne ground. the Teutonic allies at Brest present peace is not being ON PAGE TWO.) II AMENDMENT ADOPTED BY THE VIRGINIA SENATE House of Delegates : is Ex . pected to Vote on Ques tion Today. MAY GO TO PEOPLE. RICHMOND, Va.. Jan. 10. The na tlonal prohibition amendment was to night adopted by the Virginia sen ate by a vote of thirty to eight after a practically all-day debate between senators advocating submission of the question to popular vote and those de siring immediate adoption. ' A reso lution to submit the amendment to the people was defeated, twenty-eight to tea.. It is expected that the house of delegates will vote on the question to morrow. A strong sentiment exists in the low er branch of the generaiOtssembly against ths Immediate endorsement of the amendment. Rven soms of the most ardent of the absolute prohibi tionists favor its submission to ths voters before adopption. The recent ly formed States Rights club is work ing hard to defeat the measure and it 1 expected a hard fight will result. Anti-Saloon league leaders, champions of the amendment In this state, how ever, predict Its. adoption by a large majority. Alexander Forward, private secre tary to Henry C. Stuart,, retiring gov ernor, was today named a member of the Virginia corporation commission for a term of six years. No opposi tion is expected to his confirmation. A bill introduced today by J. Davis Reed, of Portsmouth, provides for the creation of the office of state tax com missioner, ths office to pay a salary of ,. Another bill by him pro vides for the further segregation of taxes so as u allow a higher rate upon land than upon buildings. ; At It Again WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WINS IN THE HOUSE BY EXACT NUMBER OF VOTES REQUIRED BWMsWBMslBHnBBWHBMaiHMstM v - By Vote of 27 to 136, House Adopts Resolution Providing for Submission to the Stales of the Sc-Called Susan B. Anthony Amendment For National SuffrageCongressman ( Weaver Only Nor.h Carolinian Supporting Measure. WASHINGTON Jan. 10. Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment won in the house tonight with exactly the required number of affirmative votes. While member In their seats and throngs In tha. galleries waited with eager interest, the house adopted by a vote of 274 to J86 a resolution pro viding for submission to the states of the so-called . Susan B. Anthony amendment for. national enfranchise ment of women,- . But for the promise of Speaker, Clark to cast his: vote from the chair for the resolution 'f It was needed, the change- aiftgWweterto the-opposi-tion would have" meant defeat.' Re publican Leader. Matin,-, who came from a Baltimore hospital where he has been under treatment ever since congress convened, and Representative Sims of Tennessee, Just out of a sick bed and hardly able to walk to his seat, brought the votes that settled the issue. Start Fight In Senate. The house hardly had adjourned before the suffrage champions began their fight for favorable action on the senate side of the capitol. Recent polls there have indicated that the necessary two-thirds could not be mustered, but encouraged by the house victory and counting upon the influence of President Wilson, who came to their support last night, the suffragists hope to swing the senate into line so as to have the amend ment before the state legislatures during the coming year. They feel sure, at least, of forcing a vote In the senate before the present session ends.. Advocates of the amendment had been supremely confident of the re- 'S Asheville Man's Reappoint ment as U. S. Marshal Had Unanimous Support. (By S. R. Winters.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. The nomination of Charles A. Webb, of Aehevitle by President Wilson to serve four years .moire as) United States Marshall for the western district of North Caroline, whidh was confirmed by the senate Tuesday, was not op posed from any quarte, according to a statement made today by Senator Lee 8. Overman. Recent reports to thie effect that confirmation would be opposed were without foundation, said the senator. Neither was the nomina tion of William T. IVwtch to be mar shal In the eastern district opposed. In the vote on the woman suffrage amendimcnt 1n the house of represen tatives tonight Congressman Zebulon W-eaver was the only North Carolina congTCisman to vote for the women: Congressman Weaver recently an nounced his Intension to vote for the amendment, stating titat he thought that the right of women to vote could not be disputed. WILL be hospital. HAMPTON. Va., Jan. 10. The southern branch of the Natloned Sol d ire's home here, will be taken over by the war department as an army base hospital. The many buildings will be remodelled and addition tmHC Negotiations are said to be in progrea for additional lands. The present In mates, about 8,000 wBI foe transferred to other stations. Three buildings and ail Improvements wHl revert to the board of managers at the dose of the war. SAILORS LOSE LIVES. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Jan. 1$. Reports reaching here tonight said that a boatload of sailors from a Unit ed States battleship lost tbelr lives a few night ago while attempting to make their way through a field of Ice from the ship to ths shore. Detail and official confirmation of (be accident cannot be obtained aero. suit In the house after President Wil son advised the members who called upon him last night to support It They were so confident that the clone vote was received with amazement, and some of the opponents were al most as much surprised. When the first roll call was finished unofficial counts put the result In doubt, and before the speaker could make an "an nouncement there was a demand for a recapitulation. Then the name of each member and the way he was re corded was read. Announcement of the vote was greeted with wild applause and cheer ing.. Women JO. the galleries literally fell upon each other s necks, kissing and embraoing, an shouting "glory, glory hallelujah." ' The Resolution. The resolution as adopted follows: "Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States extending the right of suffrage to women. Resolved by the senate and house, etc., two-thirds of each house concurring therein, that the following article be proposed to the- legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States which when ratified by three-fourths of said legis latures shall be valid as part of said constitution, namely: "Article , Section One. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section Two. Congress-shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article." Every attempt made to amend this language was beaten. Representative COAL DEALERS TESTIFY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE Declare Disregard of Regu lar Channels Responsible for Shortage. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. -New Tork wholesale coal dealers testifying before the senate Investigating com mittee today attributed much of the coal shortage in New Tork and other places to disregard of regular chan nels of distribution by the fuel admin istration In Its efforts to get fuel to certain communities. W. A. Marshal was on the stand moat of the day. His diagnosis was concurred in by C. C. Harris. Both discussed ths situation generally and touched only lightly upon the acute shortage in their own territory. Mr. Marshall spoks of the labor problem as a factor tn ths production shortage and predicted a scarcity of coal for several years. He praised the work of J. J. Starrow, New England fuel administrator, saying Starrow had "raised ths devil" for others bul had made good for New England. Prices fixed by the government for coal at the mines was too low in many instances, the - witness thought, and had resulted In reduced production notwithstanding statistics showing an Increase this year. MORE LAND BOUGHT. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Jan. 10. Ths Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company today purchased 200 acres of land Just outside the northerly city limit and too houses will Immediately be erected with an appropriation of 11,200,000 set aside by the shipping board for this purpose, according to Homer L. Ferguson, president and general manager of the yard. The house will ear for 1,000 work men which number will be added to the 1,000 now employed by the yard as soon as the building are completed. Mr. Ferguson says hs would put on 1.000 additional workmen tn the next six months If bousing facilities could b provided. ' Oard, of Ohio, tried unsuccessfully to put on It the same limitation nAi-Hii by the resolution for the prohibition v.,,.niiiuiiuimi amendment, mat it must be ratified by the states within jjeven venra mm th riot. i- ...u1 seven years mm ih. Ho.- .. ...ke mission. Representatlvs Moores, of Indiana, sought to have a referendum or special convention In each state required. The Gard amendment was rejected 169 to 248 and tha Monro. amendment 181 to 272. When the final vote mm nn .ir resolution Representative Austin, of Tennessee, challenged the vote of Rep-, resentatlv r$iuliUck of South Caro-1 unit, wno appeared late In the roll call and said he had not heard his name called. Domlnlck told the speaker he was in the hall and listen ing and did not hear his name called. His vote was then recorded. The speaker watched the vote and prepared to cast his own Into the breach If necessary. "One more nega tive vntf.." tin AVnlulnAl he chuckled over the victory, "would Co vuuiigou mo Biiuuiiun ua ins amendment would have been lost. In which event I would 'have directed the clerk to call my name and that would have been Just sufficient to carry it. Of the total membership of 436, there 410 members who voted. Their line-up follows: The Line-Up. For the resolution Democrats, 104; republicans, 166; miscellaneous, 6. Total, 274. Agalnst the resolution Democrats, 102; republicans, S3; progressive, 1. Total, 13$. Urgent orders had been given by (Continued on Page Two.) GERMANS IS UPHELD Were Found Guilty of Send ing Supplies to German Cruisers. NEW YORK, Jam. 10. Conviction of four offlcdals of the Haanburg Amertcevn Kim, including Karl Buens, managing director, on charge of viol ating tne custom laws, by sending supplitos to German cruisers early Ira the war, was affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeal here today. The crecielon also upheld the conviction of the Hamburg-Amer-team Line, which had been sentenced to pay a fi ne of $1. Besides Buens, who ts more than seventy years old, and Who 1 a f qtmer Gertmfcun consul general In th4a city, the defendants were Adolph Hach m:eter purchasing agent of the Hamburg-American line, who died after hi co rev let ion tn district court; George K otter, eufpeiintencrlng engineer, and Joseph Poppenihouse, a second officer. Buene, Hoohaneister end K otter had been sentenced to eighteen month eaoh in the federal prison at Atlanta, Oa., and Poppenihouee to a year and a day In fhs same Institution, CLIP THIS FOR "Culinary Echoes From Dixie", By KATE BREW VAUGHN. Bow to Get it Clip this coupon and present mt Th Cltteea Office with) 78 cent. Add cent for postage if oat of town. Mrs. Vaughn' book contains 270 page of War Time Recipe and other valuable Information for housekeepers. Thia offer end on Saturday, January 12. or sooner if the stock i exhausted before that time.- . -, - THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN ARMY'S TOTAL PAY DURING DECEMBER IS LARETAMDUFiT i Figures Show Cost of Nearly Billion a Year for Fighting Men. DOES NOT INCLUDE FAMILY ALLOWANCE Service Pay and Extras Raises Total by Large Sum. WASHINGTON. Jan: 10. The total pay of the United States army in De cember was approximately $78,880, 000, the committee on public informs tlon announced today In the second of its series of statements on the pay of the army and navy and the operation of the war risk insurance bureau. This Is at the rate of nearly $1,000, 000,000 a year. The total does not Include family allowances or compensation for dis ability of soldiers provided for in the Insurance act and paid through the war risk bureau. Base Pay. Ths base pay of enlisted men range from the $30 a month received by a private on entering the service to the $81 per month received by senior grade quartermaster sergeants of the quartermaster corps, band leaders, master electricians, master engineer of the senior grade and master hos pital sergeant. . Service pay for enlisted men. In cluding non-commissioned ' Officers, ranging from $3-to $24 a month, is allowed for continued re-enlistments and in the coast artillery extra, pay ranging ' from $2 a month to $9 a month 1 allowed men when on special assignments. . Enlisted men ; in the signal corps, while on duty which re quires them to participate regularly In airplane flights, If they have the rutins of aviation mechanics, receive fifty per eent increase in their monthly ' P"- Enlisted Men. .. . . ,, Bnllstea men, serving in loreign country, receive twenty per cent In- QrfSM III y7 UH1IUMU VII tl.V .-- pay and service pay prevailing prior to June 1, 1917, when an act of con (Contlnued n Face Two.) ICIL OF ABOUT 575,000,000 Hundred Million DoUar War Fund is Being Put to Use. COLLECTIONS GOOD. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Appro priations aggregating approximately $76,000,000 had been ' authorised by the Red Cross war council sine It creation May 10, last, up to December 22, the council reported tonight in a statement giving the condition of it flnanoe a of th latter date, Of this um, $30,000,000 actually ha been ex- r ended, while collections from th 100,000,000 war fund subscription have amounted to about 17,000,000. Officials estimate that at least an other 16,000,000 will be collected from war fund subscription and some $2, 000,000 of this fund retained by cer tain chapters on account of th twenty nv per cent wnicn eacn enapier wa to receive for local war relief work will bring the total of th fund to about flOO.000,000. From thia sum must b deducted about 113,000.000 for local chapter war relief fund In addition to th 1 3, 000,000 already retained and an esti mated sum of 21. 800,000 to be paid to ch-iptera out of th fund yst to be collected: This would leave available for expenditure out of th war fund about 188,000,000. Th total amount appropriated for Red Cross work in Franc la about 137,000,000. Aftsr certain deduction are mad from appropriation already author iced, there will be available for fur. tine appropriations an .estimated sum of about 323,000,000. The estimated balance. Including collections yet to bs mads is $50,000,000, subject to out standing authorisation for expendi ture. The Red Cross' membership ha In ' creased from less than 800,000 last May to an estimated total, of 22,000. 000,000 today, while In the earn pe riod th number of chapters has In . creased from some (68 to about 18.000. Iu addition to these chapters, tne nea Cross 1 working through operating commissions in France, England. Italy, Serbia, Russia and Koumania. . COUPON t
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