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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN the Weather WASHINGTON. Dec. 2S. Forecast WATCH THE LABEL for North Carolina: Fair Tuetdiiy: Wednesday cloudy, probably local raini In Interior; mild temperature. On yeur paper. It will tall yeu when your eubeerlptlon esolree. Renew five aya before eaptratlon, and you went mlee an laaue. DEDICATED TO THE UP-BU1LDING OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA" " A.SHEVILLEt N. C.TUESPAVMORNlNGrDCCEMBERTeT922.' ESTABLISHED 1868. PRICE HVE CENTS I i ENSUS BUREAU ILL DETERMINE '5 WEALTH Tl .Work to Require Virtual ly Six Months to Com plete, bay umciais. DATA COLLECTION TO BE HARD TASK Much Interest Attaches to Census of Public Debts in America. WASHINGTON. Ic SR. The decennial determination by the onsua bureau of tho wealth of the people of the United States, what taxes tliey pay nnd the.-fcmount of ihelr public debts state, county and city, and other sub-divisions permitted to issuo securities will lip started January 1. Oflicliils stated today their plans 'Lre virtually complete for the iJSrk which it i expected will bo rtccompllshod in about six weeks. .Much Interest attaches' to the census of. tho public debts because the move for a constitutional nendmenfr prohibiting the fur- .r issuo of .tax exempt nouns Kar hcause it Is not now known 3iA length of .which the ealo omx t . .n,,,iti.. huvi irnne. . Treasury ofllcials have said re ittatedly that the continued issue 1 LM-taX exempt securities has forc JWaA a much higher Federal tax rate V heoau'se of tho tendency of large Y7Z7...... lnmt in that form (.HA. - 1 " t-w of securities. Efforts will bo made, once the amount of tax exempt securities la officially computed, to estab"h oho cost to tho American people a whole of tho continued issue J tax free bonds. The census of, ten years ago gives no criterion i for estimating the present out-1 standing; amount of such bonds. It was said, by onicinis who pumiwu EXPECT ARRESTS TO BE SEOUEL TO LAKE TRAGEDIES New Chapter to Be Writ ten in Morehouse Probe Is Belief. SAY FEDERAL MEN KNOW MOB LEADERS Townsfolk Bring Troops Good Edibles and Wish Them Greetings. P.ASTHOP. La.. Dec. 25. The probability that the next chapter In the Morehouse kidnapping in vestigations would be written soon In Mer Rougf loomed -strongl here tnoight. Attorney - General Coco's an nounced in Markvllle, La., where h is spending Christmas, that the State expected to Jnil at least six or seven more on charges, of mur der in connection with the death of Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich ards, is expected to be fulfilled in the Mer Rouge community. It is believed that many of the men the State eusflects as ring leaders of the August mob will be served with warrants before Jan uary 5. the date set for the open hearing; here. Developments at the hearing may bring about the arrest , of others. Federal agents have declared they have tho names of 20 members of the mob. An order ,was issued today deny ing visitors permission to com municate with Burnett except In the presence of an officer of the military detail. Burnett's friends, who aid many, are rallying to hi support. " The troopstatloned here and at Mer Rouge rested on their arms as the townsfolk brought them good things to eat and helped them to bo merry. The officials comaoslns- the le- out that the war time and post gal machinery of the State scatter war Issues of securities of politl- cd to spend the holiday with their ral sub-divlslons had tresnendous- families. ly Increased the total. Governor Parker was at his desk t, n.w Issues, it was asserted, at Baton Rouge, summarising the had come at a. time wnen ins r eo- "-i'""'i or mo pasi wecx, ; AND THK DAY AFTER f )fl fORf ByW"E I RFPARATIflMR IS - 4lV-l URGED Bf BORAH. ! -"innn i THALUCf, . . , -- - - .' . i i DEATH C L A A. C. S REDWOOD MS AT BROTHER ROME sral government was increasing Its own debt ana taxes at " unequalled in the naUon's history. The Federal government, conse quently. It was said, had been forced to pay higher Interest rates and raisje its taxes to unprece dented figures Because ot tn u of money Into, the bonds which no taxes either on principal or inter- " Collection of the data by the census bureau is regarded by Its offlclais as one or its naraesi i.. uconn uiitjn -u - . iFVopulatiorv A7 ix cotrvniY vleasiso ZsVninvtnant situation is encouras- -tn and nrosDScts ars bright for the remainder of the winter, ac- i ordlng to a survey Just comjuei cii by the employment service or the Department of Uioor. rtyy all states reported a condition much better than at this time iast year, and the situation was de scribed es fait to good in most sec tions. , States affected by seasonal sus pension of logging operations or farm work and those where trans portation is nampejod by strikes and car shortages, wer the only ones reporting unfavorably, .ati.d in all of them improvement was ex pected soon after the first ot the ! "Building operations throughout the country wer reported holding a pace almost unprecedented, otlly a few states in the North show'" a slowing up because of th weather. , , , . The manufacturing states, al most without exception, reported rtages of sKllieu m;i - ttlrt mills were ruuim-a :t needed labor. The au- VTT,,.kii inrtiwtVv also was run ning 100 per cent but the labor supply about equalled the demand. Tho steel industry showed aen eral expansion, with a demand for all kinds of labor and the call for metal workers generally exceed ing the supply. , . ... Employment conditions In tne Southeast were shown to be gen erally favorable and were expect ed to remain so for the remainder of the season. Only two states. Tennessee and Virginia, reported deollnes. The situation was only fair In Tennessee, where a general slackening ot ",... 'ealed but prospects were oiu vw it good Jo tne .unguium 1 " year. Car enoro vu onslderable unemployment In the ToNa I whfl iin lnes of Virginia, where the f trades also siumpcu, i i vm not aufScient to ab sorb the surplus from other Indus tries, anj immediate imii.v.. n.. m rn ltidlcatedv . Tu rOTiinA reDorted .vui til ; j shortage ol common labor and farm help and ,heal"l i'1?!. for skilled labor of all kinds, while the texUle mills were running ful bast. .- ' ' von Tkeueving sititation Tnr WfcTJt. Tr. 2l5. OttO IL Kahn. biraker. m a letter to Sens R,ed amoot.'of Utah, member Vf the debt refunding commission, made put- lie today by the committee of Arner ii.n hnslness men. has outlined a plan whereby he believes America can ' consletently aid toward relieving the European situation and at the same time meet the sentiment of the coun ter, which seems opposed to the can cellation of the altfed indebtedness to the Unjfed Sfates. . . Mr. Kahn expressed imsel a be ing strongly in favor of the policy or cancelling at least a portion of the indebtedness of the allied natione. "I am convinced that lw would be i to our ulUmate advantage to do so, -ha write. "I feel sure that such ac tion would turn out a good invest oient." . ; ; , !-fiIKTEE8 OP WllSON - j "SjjP FOUNDATION TO MEET XEW YORK. Dec IB Trustees of Wcodrow Wilson Foundation will . ?st at a luncheon here next Wed- xiwilay tit celebrate rke auoeeaa or me lundatTOn'-ffoTts to obtain an n downment whiah. It la ejrpected, will reach Il.00l.oo0 on Mr. Wilson's birth day next Thursday. . A delegation will go to Washington Thursday to extend greetings to the former President and advise him of the completion of the Foundation's endowment. The Governor dispensed with the traditional Christmas dinner with his aged mother and relatives at New Orleans. A conference of those conduct ing the Inquiry was announced to day for Thursday at New Orleans. At that time plans for the hearing will be outlined and the findings of the coroner's Jury which held tho inquest over the bodies of Daniels and Richards will be dis cussed. The bodies, lying lu cool water at the bottom of the lake- four months before being shot to the surface by unidentified midnight dynamiters, were said to have been well preserved. ...-. The pathologists disclosed that 'Vldmce indlcawathe men were ds vm ana meir bones broken Tie fore they died; v; Iepartment 'of ..Justice men are seeking to locate Dr. Ft: M. Mr. Koin, former mayor of Mer Rouge, wanted for interrogation. The mayor quit Mer Rouge after an at tempt Was mad A In . HaaMin.!. him. He went to Monroe and then to New Orleans and uon depart ing from here declared h route for Johns Hopkins Univer sity at Baltimore ror a post-graduate course. Efforts to locate him there have failed ami hi. where. abouta ia unknown to officials. testimony of a sensational na. ture implicating many substantial citizens of Mississippi and Arkan sas as well as Louisiana is expect ed to be developed by the State at tne open nearlng. The hearing, as the t.wm . indi cates, Will be open to thn nnhllr and for the purpose of developing the facts in the murder of the two men. Affidavits Will he mad a anln.t all persons pointed to by the evi dence as probably implicated. Mrs. McCoin. wife ot the physi cian, tonight Informed newspaper men her husband was at Johns Hopkins. BALTIMORE. Dec. 25-Offl- ICmtame m fit Tut HOLIDAY MESSAGE TO DISABLED MEN HMDE-BT HARDING Says People Stand Ready io uo juverytmng pos sible' for Them. WASHINGTON, Dec. 85. Presi dent Harming in a Christmas mes sage to disabled veterans made public tonight, declared they were "entitled to the utmost assurance that a grateful people stands will ing and anxious to do, and will continue to do, everything possible for them.' J The greeting of the President, which the disabled American vet erans through its national offices here sent out to its members, fol lows: "It Is deemed especially fltjlng that at the Christmas season the gratitude-of the nation should be extended to the sick, disabled and maimed men of the country's mili tary service.iThese men are beyond all others the most sorely tried victims of the armed service in which they and their comrades up held the national security and vin dicated the national honor. " - "Our obligation has prompted the nation to , a very considerate dealing with them, which it -is hoped has been in some measure at least, commensurate with the debt owing to them. For such misfor tunes as havr-come to thousands of them there can be no compensa te, no adequate requital; but they are entitled to the utmost assur ance that a grateful people stands willing and anxious to do and will continue to do, everything possible forhem. , That the coming year may bring them in fullest measure a restored fortune, health and prosperity Is the earnest wish of, the entire na- Aged Artist and Writer Passes Away Funeral Services Today, Funeral services for Allen Chris tian Redwood, aged artist and writen of Port Conway. Va., who died Sunday night at the residence of his brother, Henry Redwood, will be held at. 3 0"clock today at No. 90 Cumberland Avenue, the Rev. Francis M. Osborne officiat ing. Burial will take place at Riverside Cemetery. The following will act as pall bearers: . Active Dr. Philip R. Moale. C. 'Marshall Cravatt. and the four nephews of the deceased. Major John C. Kairfax, U. S. A. I William M., Henry W. and Robert Ui'-JFtedwood, Honorary, pallbearers W. -Vance Brown, Haywood Par ker, Harmon A. Miller, J. II. Law, Dr. W. P. Herbert and Dr. M. C. Milllnger. Col. J. J. Mackey and Ad Instant A H. Felmet will repre sent the Zeb Vance Camp, U. C. V., in token of the esteem in which they held a veteran of the War Between the States whose record was one of unusual merit. While friends of the family are ask to the house, the burial follow ing will be private, it has been an nounced. .The deceased was the son of William Holman Redwood, of New Kent County, Va., and of Cather ine Carter Chawning, Lancaster County Va., and was born on the plantation of his grandfather. James Chowning. in Lancaster County, June 19. 1844. He was educated at several well known academies at Baltimore and at the Polytechnic Institute, at Brooklyn, in which city his father lived in 1860 and 1861, until tne certainty of the war carried him back to his Virginia people. At Urbanna, Va,, soon after his seventeenth birthday Allen Red wood enlisted in Company C 55th Virginia Infantry, Field's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps. He was a faithful soldier, seeing bard service in action. At Me- chanicsvllle. June 26, 1863, he re ceived a slight contusion from a fragment of spent shell. He was In the fights of Cedar Mountain and Fredericksburg, but his regi ment was not actively engaged. Although captured at Second Man assas, he was exchanged in a fort- night. At Chanceliorsvlle, May 2, 1&6S. his regiment lost fearfully and he was stunned by the ex plosion of a shell within a few minutes of the time his illustrious captain, Stonewall Jackson, re ceived his mortal wound. At Gettysburg he was in hot fighting July 1. 1863, and on July t. In what is commonly called "Pickett's Charge." a bad wound from a Minnie ball disabled his right arm. In January, 1864, he obtained a transfer to the 1st Maryland Cavalry, Company C, Maryland Line, Oeneral Bradley T. Johnspn command, and partici pated In a number of fights, hav ing his horse shot from under him at Pollard's Farm, near Richmond, tho last, of May, 1864. While scouting near Suffolk, Va., April 7, 1865, he was captured and spent several months in prison at Newport News. Va.. from which he was tbe last man to take the oath of allegiance and leave In Jaly of that year. As a yeuth he had studied art as a diversion and after the war he opened a studio in Baltimore and later at New Tork. Bayonne. N. J., and. Port Conway, working In- colors, and water colors, also in black and white, for Century. Harpers, and other magazines, illustrating his own articles and those of other authors. Since he suffered a serious at tack of heart- trouble last May, he had been tn poor physical health but up until December 23 with but little evident Impairment of his faculties. He was unmarried. Sarah Bernhardt' s Condition Shows Wonderful Change PARIS, Dee. 25. It seemed today almost es though that miracle which the medical men said yesterday was necessary t i save the life of the "Divine Sarah" had happened. Maurice Bernhardt, her son, said this evening that the Improvement was so marked that the doctors had permitted several intimate friends to viait the patient. Reports that Madame Bern hardt was dying spread through out th3 city yesterday, following her relapse in the early morning hours, when she sufTered a fainting spell similar to that with which she was first etricken last Sunday during the final rehearsal of the new Guitry play in which she was to have appeared the following evening. What she now needs Is com plete rest for many weeks. h r 4octers say, but to the eef" getic star the ideas of inactivity is most repulsive. "Rest? I can't rest. If I did I would die," she is reporte 1 to have told her advisers. SE FOR ELECT S PRECEDENT CELEBRATION New Yorkers in All Quar ters Join in Observance of Christmas. TWOTHXLDRKV SCFFOCATE DT CHRISTMAS FIRE BATTTJB OKFTTK. Mloti., Pec . Two children. Willleon. 10, and Bar bara, 8. suffocated In their home here early today shortly after the parents. Waynard Watts and Mrs. Watts, had finished decora ting their Christmas tree. A fh-e broke out In the base ment and spread- rapidly through the flret floor rooms. Firemen found the bodies at tbe cMMram la the sals) NEW TORK, Dec. 25 -Tradition has It that there Is only one Santa Claus, but tradition was given the lie direct In 'New Tork today when nearly everyonefrom Governo Elect Smith down to the humblest citizen donned red coat and whiskers In public or in private. It was a city of Santas. The new Governor was tbe first to set the fashion. Returning from midnight mass to his apartment In the Hotel Baltimore, he mounted a step ladder and began stringing glistening ornaments on a sturdy Christmas tree. When plain "Father Al Smith" he seated himself on a low stool beneath the tree and began distributing the family's gift Meanwhile other Santas were harnessing their theoretical rein deer for a knowless Journey around town. Not even prison ban could shut out the Christmas cheer. In the Tombs Santa strode the stone flagged corridors. A real Christ mas dinner, with mince pie and fixln's was spread before 350 men and 26 women. On Ellis Island, that famous gateway of the Immigrant, 1,500 future Americans ate their first Christmas dinner In America un der the very shadow of Lady Lib erty. In the hospitals where grown folk and youngster lay on their beds in pain, marched the red-clad figure with his toys and sweets. At his entry eyes that a moment before had been dull and emptf iigntea up. Among the most generous of the Santas were the stage folk from Broadway. Into hospitals, into slums, into the homes of the hope less they penetrated. Side by side with Salvation Army lassies, they labored, spreading Joy among those who could not boy their amusement at the' box office. Tongues were not long enough to carry the cry of "Merry Christ mas." During the day the radio took up the greeting until the very heavens were full of good cheer. But the note of tragedy Inevit able as fate was introduced Into at least one home. Mrs. Rita, Diss, a young Porte Rioan, bad Joined with her hus band in a Christen aa Eva "party." A tree, muuo dancing and the guests had petted tbe bias's seven-mopth-old baby. A tiny white sock was bung for baby's presents. Then husband and wife quar reled. In the night the wife arose. I passed the stocking Santa had ifltnire' m rt Tmt 'BOND ISSUE FDR iGRACE DISTRICT GAININ1FAV0R Special Committee Makes Report and Recommends Large Structure. Committee appointed a few days ago to investigate , certain legal aspects of the proposed, bond issue for the erection of a large and modern high school building at Grace, recomnvends that a struc ture providing a gymnasium, 'an auditorium. 19 additional class rooms, principal's office, library and teachers' rest room be con structed. The committee, with W. W. Hannaman ac-tjng as chairman in the absence, f J,. Swain, also recotrimendsaV-aeiat 0ie bond Issue should be to the amount. of l"a. 000 to cover the costs of construc tion and 'equipment IP addition to the present builulng and equip ment, the amount being based on architcctsa' plans. The committee further reported ; that the law Is sunn that a por tion of the diatrkt could not be required to pay a double-tax, should it bo annexed to the city; nor could another portion be left with a plant larger than it would be capable 1 of maintaining after the withdrawal of the Income from the property taken into the city. Furthermore, the commit tee pointed out the fact that, ac cording to the law, should the city j limits be extended so as to take lu the school plant, I lie pupils of the district left outside of the city would go to .the school, after It hpcomem a ritv srhnnl. with free l tuition, the district paying Its' had been a "more pronounce ire- school tax to the city as the same never In our traditional policies it paid berore the annexation. The committees report was adopted without a dissenting vote, and the presiding officer, C. L. Fnl met, appointed W. W. Hannaman to communicate the decisions of the meeting to the superintendent of the County schools, the board of education and to the Buncombe County Commissioners, to the end that all legal steps be taken for the calling, of an election as soon as possible. in me course ot m jiicctins , , .,... kinds on rec- there was a full and free discus- i a.'. :,,'" nollce .taUon oru tu iw i The'dead are: William Morton. to, of Lithla Springs, who died st a local hospital tonight from gun shot wounds said by the authori ties to have been inflicted by John Clay, a negro tenant, after a quar rel between the two in Douglas County, and George Morrison Dun can, Jr., age 6, of Atlanta, who was accidentally shot while play ing with a gun while on a visit to his grandparents in Jackson. The injured were victims of Christmas tree fires, accidental discharges of guns, automobile smash ups and bicycle crashes. None of the injuries were consid ered serious. TELEPHONE OPERATOR SAVES OS FROM FTJMES OF OAS Says Arms Conference to Prove Failure Unless Problem Solved. IDAHO SENATOR IN FORMAL STATEMENT Expresses His Opinion of Various War Debts of Europe. WASHINGTON. I)e. . -.'J. i:-J i pressing "iildi-nce that "morel mature refl, , Hon" would sene in uiiiiiiiii.fi oposii ion i, jtia Mo pupal tlinl i!ip President eall :i conference of world powers tor disi-UHHlon of criiHoiuli- question,, .ind further reduction of land and k"h. nrmamcntH. Senator ltorah. Republican, Idaho. In a formal statement tonight ' declared that "we have reached a point where we are to lose all advantage gained" al ihe Washington arms conference, "unless a solution of the reparations problem is found.'' The Idaho senator made no di rect reference to the statement, is sued by Senator Johnson. Ucpuh lican,' California, another "irrecon cilable" In which the Moiah amend ment to the pending naval appro priations hill wss assailed ss a proposal which would "dump Into America's lap the economic ills of Kurope and the reparations mud dle." Senator Borah did mention how ever, opposition lo I lie suggest Inn, which he said, was along tho lines of that to the arms conference when It first was proposed Timidity and opposition, In that esse shifted, he said, "td very general support," as the proposal was studied. Discussing Europe's war debt to the JJnited States, Senator Borah said, "some people seem to be ex ercised over the cancelation of this debt." adding "I am far more eserelsed over Kurope's Insbllltv to pay. I haven t any fear about the open cancella tion ef this debt. But no child now lirlng will see its payment If the subject or reparations i pcnuiiini o go from bad to worse unti an other war takes place. "We are Interested In the rep arations question therefore, be cause we are Interested in the pay ment of what Europe owes us. W are also Interested In it because we want European markets opened to our farm product Millions are hungering and dylnf in Europe lor the products which are rotting on our . farms. Shall we say that these matters do not concern is?- Nothing concerns us more.''" ' ' --f - " ' Ajser'hs? -st; he- reparation taale- WitiTH!yWmmadltely.-ii tally coneerned the United. States, Senator Borah declared: i "It Involves mlUloilft to our peo nle and it may involve another conflict. It am pot over fond or conferences, but there are times when they are helpful. This seems to be one ot the times." 1 There are many precedents ror the conference he proposed, the Senator said, adding that the United States had participated ofllcially in such conferences and with .Kuropean nations more than once, and had never hesitated to confer with reference to economic financial and commercial matters. 'Such conference," the state ment continued, "have never been regarded by the most jiealous ad vocates of our traditional policies as in contravention to them." ror.irtn that no public man Plea For Armenian National Home To Be Heard At Lausanne American Relief, Ships Give Cheer In the Bosphorus CONSTANTlNOri.i:, Dec. 25. The American cruder Pllts hurRli, 11 American destroyers and two mother ships, lying in the Bosporus, K.ivn Christmas cheer to several thousand ref ill.''' orphans, hundreds of whom were picked up In the streets of Constantinople by American relief workers headed ti- Mrs. Klsle White, of Grinnell, lows. The warships were Kally deco rated. Turkey dinners were served and there were Klfta for every one from the Christmas tree. Tens of thousands gath ered at the water front st nightfall to watch the illumina tion of the fleet. (iwmw President Roosevelt, the Idaho Senator declared that Mr. Roosevelt "specifically en dorsed this kind of a conference and regarded such conference irs means of preserving the policies of Washington and Mottsoe. TWO DEAD, NIXE HURT Vi ATLANTA CKiUSTJLS ATLANTA, Oa, Dee. 25.--Tifo dead and nine hurt was the toll ot Christmas hoiwiay snoouuss slon of all' phases of the question and all were in favor of going for ward with the plans that will give a high class building, modern In every respect and above criticism even from the most exacting. All were agreed that It should be em phasized that the building must be planned in such a way that when It Is completed there shall be "a new building and not an old build ing added to." This does not mean that the present building should be discarded, but that the sentiment Is that architects, expert on school buildings, are to be consulted and every precaution taken to the end that the present building shall in no way be detrimental to the new. It was the feeling of the chair man, C. L. Felmet. and seemingly of all present, that it would be well to have a certain number to act as an advisory committee in matters of plans and building. In answer to reports that large sums had been expended on the present buldlng with unsatisfac tory results, it was stated that tho books show that only 313.750 has teen paid out up to tne time mi the present contract was wi. During the discussion of the needs of the school, it was said that the total enrollment Is about 37o with 12'teachecrs. There are In the building only 12 rooms. In cluded in these Is one small room used as a llbraiy and recitation room combined. The school should have for Its present use 14 class rooms. :Wlth the growth that must bs accounted for with any amount of conservatism, it is evi dent' that t the building recom mended will be completely filled quite soon."; It was also declared that in the State Rules snd Regu lattons for"" school buildings" is found the following statement: "A complpete plant for a consolidatej school, t besides the regular class rooms, should contain an audi torium, a gymnasium (tha two may be combined), a room for science, ; a room for domestic science, a- shop work room, a library room, a teachers' rest room and a principal's office." It was also stronelv emphasised, that the dist.-lot does not have to pay DIRECT-LINE TO COAL FIELDS IS STATES, ILLE AIM Civic Organizations Be hind Movement and Will Hold Mass Meeting. 8TATE8VILLE. Dec. 25. A Joint meeting of the Kiwanls and Rotary Clubs and the Mercnants; Association of Statesvllle will be held early In January for the pur jioso of discussing a more direct rallroadonnection for Statesvllle with the coal fields of Virginia. Tennessee end Kentucky. These organizations are behind the move ment to request the State at the approaching session ot the Oeneral Assembly to build 15 miles of road from Wllkeaboro to meet the Rocky Face extension from Hld denlte. thus giving Statesvllle a connection with the road projected to Butler, Tenn., from WUkeaboro, Twenty-si miles of the latter road has already been constructed, and this is offered the State at tO, 000 per mil will all equipment. It extends from Wllkesboro tto Derby, r Wilkes- County. The In tention is. . 4 from . Tarby te Boone, -itailgB' fc'ounjrf,"-; dis tance of 26 miles; then from Bunne to BUtlar, Tenn., a distance of 23 miles, connecting) there with a road to Johnson City, Tenn., an outlet to the East. An outlet North, connecting with the Nor folk and Western, at Abingdon, .Vu.,jcould be obtained by building from the Wilkesboso-Darby road to Hopkins, Ashe County, a dis tance' of seven miles, striking at that point the railhead ol the Virginia-Carolina Railroad. A Southern connection from Wllkesboro, to be constructed from Grandln, the rail-head of the ex tension of the Yadkin Valley from Winston-Salem to Lenoir, a dis tance of 15 miles, would give ac cess to the CarollnAs and North western to Hickory and Charlotte. This route would require about 89 miles of grading and construction, opening us the so-called "Ixjst Provinces" of Avery, Watauga. Ashe and Alleghany Counties to the rest of North Carolina by rail road. With the 15 miles from Rocky Face to Wllkesboro, it is estimated that the total mileage to be con structed is 84. It is figured that it could be built at (30,000 per mile, and that the total expendi ture would be approximately 13, - 00.00. "The chief virtue of the pro ject," stated Preseley E. Brown, of Wllkesboro, who was here yester day. "Is that it comes nearer ful filling the desires and meeting the Interests of all sections concerned than any other plan yet advanced. We have no Intention of advancing one section to the detriment of an other. Besides opening up moun tain counties, long without rail road facilities, It would reduce the cost of coal to consumers all over the State $25 on the car at a min imum. It would bring timber to our furniture manufacturers far more cheaply. It costs them at present as much to get timber from this section as It does a Phil adelphia manufacturer." INTERSTATE XM3nSKIOXIiRS WILL ELECT CHAIRMAN NEW TORK. Dec 33 Ammonia fumes escaping from a large tank that exploded today In the basement of the Italian Hospital. East Eighty third Street, endangered 63 patients, who were saved from harm by the presence of mind of Miss Marie de Saovis. the telephone switchboard nn,n tor. The young woman remained at her post, although affected by the fumes, and succeeded In telephoning the head nurse In each ward to close all hail doors snd open the windows. She then gave the alarm for Are and police and fell from her chair in a swoon. . The fire department rescue squad, equipped with g masks, arrived quickly and succeeded in stopping the leak in the tank. fTliLY OAPTVRKD NEAR SOUTH BOSTON', VA. ORBENSBORO, N. C. De. 25. Carl Tally, wanted In Greensboro In connection with the murder of. Po liceman W. T. McCulston. of the local force, here May 4, 1921, was captured yesterday afternoon near South Bob ton. Vs., according to Information re eived here from the mayor of South Boston. Ta)leya arrest was brought about when he waa taken te a hospital In Soottaburg, Va., ror medical attention following a pistol duel with his cqusin. Twiley was wounded In the neck, but his condition will not prevent officer from bringing him to Greensboro to morrow. Talley has admitted nsi Identity and will waive requisition. ascordlng to the South Boston mayor. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Inter state Commerce Commissioners will hold their annual election this week to elect a new dhaliman to serve dur ing the year 19:13. The choice is ex pected to fall on Commlaskoner B. H. Meyer, one of the older members of the boy In point of service, who has previously served a one-year term in the chairmanship. According to the commission's cubtom. Chairman Cho. C. MoCliord. having served one year, will retire from the post, but retains , n. ipl.'-j. nf f regular duties as a commissioner. . A WO- X niTuS 01 lllCOlSe TURKS PLANNING NOT TO ATTEND SESSIONS TODAY Noradunghian Pasha to Submit Proposal to Conference. ANY IX)CAUTY IS SUITABLEHE SAYS Desire Dominion Form of Government for Stricken People. LAUSANNE. Dec. 25. (Bv Tha Associated press.) The Armenian plea for the establishment of an Armenian national home In Turkev ,,, , pirnriiiRn lo ine . isear Esc conference tomorrow by president Neradunghlan Pasha, of the Ar menian national delegation. He waa once minister of foreign af fairs In the Turkish cabinet snd has been invited to sppear before the sub-commission on minorities to explain the desires of the Ar menian people. The Turks have announced their decision not to attend this meet ing. For one thing, they say. they have made up their minds definite ly not to set aside any part of Turkey for the Armenians: for. in. other, they assert that as the Ar menians are Turkish subjects they should plead their cause before the Turks, not before the confer ence as a whole. Noradunghlan says that his peo ple will accept any locality In Tur key which tha conference decides upon and also a dominion form of government under tha Turks similar to that enjoyed by Canada and Ireland under the English. If the territorial limits ot the re public of lirivan are to be extend-: ed and Erivan proclaimed the real home qf the Armenians then,) ha thinks. -Russia should ba asked to ; fuarantee the Importance of Bri an, which now threatens to' be-' come a Russian, bolshevik pro vince. . The Rev. George W. Montgom ery of New York and Connecticut, director of the Armenia-America Society, who Is in Lausanne, lab- Usinr far A h m MttM nf the lrmul. goarot ail the. friends of Aimsjnla was to procure a national home un der, conditions which would pro vide some inspiration for the Ar mnniAnM In thfl fnriir, hi taA haI abandoned hope that some terri tory would be set aside for the pur. pose. ,. . In close touch with the leaders of all the delegations and personally favors allocating a section of southeastern Cilicla to the Armen ians, making it an autonomous state, perhaps under the supervis- . ion ot the League of Nations. He estimated that a million Ar menians reside in Erivan and 400.000 In the Trans-Caucasus: there are 102,000 In Greece and the Aegean Islands; 90,000 In Syria, and about 40,000 refugees In Con stantinople. The exodus has te- duced the Armenians in Asia-Minor to 70.000. He thought that about 250.000' would be Immediately available for the proposed national home and concluded: "And let us not forget there are 50.000 Armenian orphans we must take care of somehow." CONFERENCE HAS WOUNDS TO HEAL LAUSANNE. Deo. K5 (By The Associated Press.) The Near East conference will resume to morrow, with a good many wounds to Msal. The English are plainly annoyed over the Turkish answer concerning Mosul. The Turks, Insisting vigorously that Mosul belongs to Turkey allege that the English without proper authority occupied that territory after the armistice at Mudros. They say that two districts of Irak have already elected to Join Tur key, and Mosul, whose population is more sympathetic with the Turks than the Arabs, will un doubtedly do llkewiss If a plebi scite is held. The English delegates said to day they would continue to con- OMMH M f I'M J CHINESE FINN E MINISTER TELLS OF INDEBTEDNESS CREATE AN'NF VL PRIZE FOR NAVAL ACADEMY ! WASHINGTON. Dec hope of stimulating . In tu qualities and positive eltaracter vlopmentof military spirit and ally" in (he naval school. Spent for Police and Military Purposes. ii..intn,ni ; PEKING, Dec. 26. CorresDond. among the midshipmen at Annapolis ! onr of The Associated Press.) or quBlltiet o: leadership, members or"wiB 10 ine rerusal of tbe m!U the '97 class at the academy have ! tary directors o various provinces contributed a trust fund from which : to turn in their revenue less thsn an annual prise is tot be given i to Mat one-third of the J9.000.000 Mexi midshipman deemed bv the svpenn- ..... rr,.ir,j mimfhi., " .... .t. tendent of the academy to have "con- ! .? M P'y th" tributed the most by hie officer-like P" of the Chinese govern- hit-Hi .ttaiiauie accoraing o a report Issued by Lo Wn-Kan, the minister of fln;nce. Minister Lo. estimated that two-thirds of the revenues of the central govern ment is expended for police and military purposes. His estimate does not account for raa; mil lions apportioned by tha Tuchona for their personal use China's total debt. - foreign and domestic, is given by Minister I as SI. 720, 000.000 Mexiui. Of the foreign debts of 11.011. 000.000 he says S24t.000.000 are unsecured. The total domestio ar rears for unpaid salaries and ad ministrative expenses are placed at S 108, 00, o. WILL PINISH POLICE IXR INSUBORDINATION NEW BKJTTAIN, Conn., Dec. 25. Fourteen policemen who refused to attend regular drill last Friday night because of a rumor that Joseph Hcrgstronr, physical director of the Y. M. C A., who has been in charge of the drill, had attended a Ku Klux KIsji meeting, are to he punished for Insubordination, according to a state ment issued today by city official. Hergstrom denied he attended the k'jin. Action ! expected when the commissioners meet next Mndey Bight
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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