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THE WEATHER PAGES Two Sections 1 Fair Sunday and Monday. 20 t mmtfi Asheville's Li VOL. XXII NO. 257. BRITISH MISSEDGOALSET Enthusiasm of Day Brought Campaign Within 'Shout ing Distance' of Mark MUST SUBSCRIBE $500,000,000 A DAY Officials Believe People Will Accomplish Stupendous Task Ahead of Them Washington, Oct. 'JO. America to night found itself $27,000,000 short of he two billion dollar marf with $3. 027, 00(1. own ; to raise in the six final days of the Liberty loun campaign. Allied airplanes "paper-bombed" the country -into, the spurt which .brought tonight's total within shout ing distance :o.f the two billion dollar goal. At the same time other allied 'airplane driven by members of the LaFayet.te escadrlllo "bombed" the. : kaiser's trenches with posters brag ging about the success. ot the big loan drive. . .' '. To make good the boast, govern ment officials . were - agreed tonight, America must get back to bedrock this week and smash it through to success; That means $5011.000, 000'- a ; day. . Which in turn means $100,000,- i'uu looeu uiu oi uiei n ans trousers pockets every banking hour. Thanks to the waking up they got from the sinking of the Antilles and I 'enthusiasm r roused - by the flyers.' America enters the final week of the , Liberty loan drive with a mighty mo mentum and with superb grit, otlieials' said tonight. Although the task of the coming six days is stupent ns, ! there is mm hope that the maximum 1 quota of .'55,11(10,0011,000 . will be' reached.- A solemn warning that in j many parts of the country an attack' or -optimism- is causing a slump in sales was made by officials tonight. The President's Message. Fifty-five 'army aviators today rained down on the principal cities of i the country -a Liberty loan message from President 'Wilson. The message,; which Was a strictly guarded secret until picked up in the "bombs" fired from the aeroplanes, read: "My dear Mr. Mayor: This letter comes to you in an unusual way. and in unusual circumstances, f write it not because I have the least doubt) that your fellow citizens will respond with patriotic devotion to the call for subscriptions for the Liberty loan, but because t want to send them, a personal message. The message is this: "This war ia the supreme test of the principles and energy of the peo ple of the United States. The whole world looks to us to omit nothing that will bring about the complete triumph of those principles and the complete vindication of the honor and sov ereignty of our government which nave been so grossly violated and in raded. The response ought to be such as will put America lit the front f all civilized peoples, "r ineerely yours, Woodrow Wilson." fosters Among llneiny Troops. While 23 American cities were hrllled by these aerial "attacks," American flyers iii Franco soared over .he llindenburg line and showered thousands. of Liberty loan posters on the German troops, the LaFuyetto es cadrllle leading in the assault from the skies. Half holidays In many districts and a snow storm in the northwest retard ed sales today. A hurricane speeding up of all . Liberty loan activities is pledged by the entire nation," as the last lap of the race begins. Detroit Parses Quota. Detroit tonight claims (he honor of being the first big league city to pass Its maximum quota. The auto mobile center has subscribed more than $43,000,000. Richmond, Va., and Tuczon, Ariz., have also over subscribed their allotments. Grave concern is felt by the treasury depart ment because of "utter apathy" -In niany rural communities. The poor est showing ao far has been ms,de in agricultural parts of the Atlanta, Dal- las and St. Louis districts. Special ef forts to "wafco up" lagging farmers are scheduled for the final spurt of the campaign. Secretary McAdoo will devote the last week of his Lib erty loan tour to the south. An army of' 300,000 Hoy Scouts took the field today for the Liberty loan. They will conduct a house-to-house campaign for subscriptions. "Stunts" for Ijist Week. Spectacular "stunts" will feature the closing week of the campaign. FOR LIBERTY LOAN BY S27,DD0,000i (Continued on Puta 1 vest Newspaper DESTROYERS ANOTHER BRITISH E EXPECTED Activity of Artillery Prob ably Presages Big Offen sive in West Many Bombs Dropped London, Oct. 20. British artillery reported roaring a tremendous bom bardment against the Germans by Field Marshal Haig tonight and he may be .preparing for another British smash. Haig's communication tonight stated "West of Lens -German raiders were repulsed. This morning northeast of Ypres there was mutual artillerying. We carried out a number of destruc tive bombardments. In the dense mist yesterday 50 bombs were dropped on various targets and yesterday a few bombs were dropped on a hostile rail way station." The German official statement was more explicit in reporting the British bombardment. Berlin said. "Northeast of Soissons there was intense artillerying continuing since midday. All over Flanders there was firing of varying intensity." The day statement declared: "North of Soissons there was extreme concen tration of artillery fire." On Aisuo Front. Paris. Oct. 20.. -Very violent .mutual artillerying along the whole Aisne sec tor was reported in tonight's official statement. "Suutheast of COrbeny, In the region 'of Boureuiiles," the war office state ment said, . "enemy . surprises attacks were repulsed." LIBERTY BONDS Select Men in 16 Canton ments Have Subscribed to $10,100,000 of Bonds Figures for Camps Given Washington, Oct. 20. America's draft soldiers now in camp are fight ing the kaiser with their dollars even while they're learning to fight him with their guns hud bayonets. This developed tonight when Col. TI. M. Lord, of the quartermaster's corps in charge of the army Liberty loan campaign, announced that the men In the sixteen National army can tonments have subscribed thus far $10,40ij.ono of the second Liberty loan. The army an a whole, including the clerical force at the war department, has bought more than $:!.r.000,000 worth of bonds. These figures are incomplete. The total to date Is ex pected to far exceed this amount. The grand total at the close of the cam paign is expected to far exceed that. War department officials look upon the draft men's bond purchases as evi dence that they are heart and soul in the fight and not resentful as being drafted. The 16 National' guard camps struck slightly higher totals, according to present figures', having bought $12. 250,000 worth of bonds thus far. The balance of the $35,000,000 worth were taken by men In the service in every part of the civilized world. The war department clerical force has subscribed in excess of $750,000. Subscriptions from the fire leading camps in each branch of the service thus far ore: National armv camps: Grant, $1,400,000; Kuuston, $1,094, 550; Custer, $1,37,050; Travis, $955, 300; Lee. $1137. 350. National guard camps: Sheridan, $1,283,000; Shelby. II, 203,050; Sevier, $960,100; Greene, $949,050; Bowie, $824,750. The $35,000,000 total makes an average subscription of $32 for each man in the 31 training camps in the country. STRIKE OF COAL MINERS PROBABLE Kansas City, Oct. 20. The strike of nearly 40,000 miners In Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas oil fields still loomed up as a probability tonight after an all day conference between miners' representatives and owners. They adjourticd tonight with out an agreement. The miners declare they will not agree to the operaiors'"system of pen alizing miners for infractions of rules. Indlctctl As "Mucker." Madison, Wis., Oct. 20. Byron Net son, son of Congressman John M. Nel son, was Indicted as a "slacker" late today toy the federal trua jurv. mi m noc R V c (UULUILIIU UUIIilU T o d a y s New s T o d a y N o ASIIEVILLE, N. America and England Are! Aroused By Sinking J of Transport MUST DESTROY U-BOAT MENACE Few Details Yet Received Regarding Submarining of American Transport Washington. Oct. 20. Germany's manifest effort to choke off American troops and supplies for the fighting line may force the United States and Kngland into an offensive rather than a defensive naval policy soon. Ag gressive rather than protective retail lation is under consideration. Naal experts pointed this out to night as a result of the torpedoing of the American troop transport An tilles -and the evident effort -of -Ger many to "get" all such vessels she can .'-.' .'.-.'' Men in favor of the more aggressive policy found ground for argument anew in the fact that the Huns have extended their zone of operations to the transport lanes, and are now mak ing every effort to sink United States transports. In winter it is more or less advis able, hut naval officials are strongly in favor of undertaking it next spring or summer in conjunction with con tinuance of the army drive to throt tle the F-bnal bases. Naval authori ties pointed out that just so long as the U-boat is allowed to roam - the ocean instead of being suppressed at the source, just so long will the men ace to the American transport system exist. While they believe luck played an important pin t in the sinking of the Antilles, they declare that even with efficient convoys there can be no assurance against a repetition. And this repetition, they fear, will be a ghastly affair the sinking of a load ed transport instead of an empty one such as the Antilles was; England apparently stands In the way of a navul offensive policy for the time being. But she may be swayed to it if the U-boats' deprecations in crease, and particularly if the view of many American naval experts be comes the view of President Wilson and Secretary Daniels. The sole added news today anent the sinking of the Antilles was that .1. C. -McKlnney, Newark, N. J., sea man second class, perished instead of S. K. L. Kinsey, Wafer Valley, Miss., as originally reported. Incidentally. Secretary Uaniels admitted that per haps his delay in releasing the story of the Antilles Friday night was a mistake. lie indicated that, after conferring with Secretary Baker, they may in the future make public the mere fact of the disaster at once In stead of its being held up Until rela tives of victims are notllled, the old custom. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY Charlotte. N. C, Oct. 20. Joseph Oiovannonl, eight year old son of Lieu tenant .1. A Oiovannonl, of Washing ton, 1). C, was run over and killed to night by an automobile owned by H. C. Little of Charlotte. The mother of the dead boy arrived in Charlotte this week with the little son to he with Lieutenant Oiovannonl, who is station ed at Camp Oreene. The hoy's re mains will be taken to Washington for burial. Died at 103 Years of Age. New London, Conn., Oct. 20. Born before the battle of Waterloo, Mrs. Frances Kppg, aged 103, died here to day. During her life time two would be world conquerors Napoleon and Wilhelin threw the nations Into tur moil. She was born while war was raging on two .continents, In Kurope and In the United States where British nd Americans were fighting. Fit jslminoim Fighting Death. Chicago, Oct. 20. Former boxing champion Hub Fitzslmtnons was still fighting his battle with death at 10 o'clock tonight. It was stated at the hospital that his condition was very low. OFFENSIVE NAVAL I POLICY AGIST I GERMANY LIKELY: C, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1917 Standing of Districts, The standing of the Federal re serve districts in the Liberty loan bond campaign follows: (Figures indicate pcre.'ntage of maxi mum auota subserltK'd ) Chicago, 52. St. Louis. 50. . Richmond, 47. New York, 44. Boston, 35. Kansas City, 32. Minneapolis. 31. Cleveland, 30, San Francisco, 2S. Philadelphia, 26. ' Atlanta,' IS. ;., ' - Dallas, 14. ss SWEEPING ORDER Stops Sale of Sugar to Con fectioners and Luxury Manufacturers Five -Cent Loaf Wasteful Washington, . Oct. 20. Five cent bakers' hlead at present would bo "wasteful," Herbert Hoover stated to night, blasting hopes of a nickel war loaf. This was preceded by an edict on sugar directing, refiners and. distributors to "stop sales to confec tioners, syrup and luxury manufac turers, until Cuban and western beet sugar are available." But Hoover in cluded in these announcements the glad tidings that bread prices really are dropping-, and at his ollice it was indicated that eggs soaring luxury bids fair to come within reach of all. The sugar order is one of the most sweeping steps yet taken by the food administration. "By this means," said Hoover, "the consumpti t 1 in the area of plentiful sugar south of Savannah and west of Pittsburgh should be greatly reduced and thus expedite the arrival of bed sugar into the sparse eastern area." Hoover scored the "hoarding consumers", who are storm ing retail grocery stores and trying to buy -up all the sugar possible. He com plimented "many retailers who are doing their best to effect lust distribu tion and hold down prices." -Many eastern cities are virtually on sugar rations at. the stores and in not a. few places sugar is unobtainable today. "The purchase.' of more sugar by households than is needed from week to week only adds difficulties to th distributing agencies," Hoover said. His stand on bread pi-ices was inter preted as a knockout lor a consumers' committee in his own organization that was trying to estahlish the feasi bility of a five cent loaf. "The reports of the food adminis trations investigators demonstrates that the baking of a standard single loaf of a size which may be sold for live cents, at the present price of flour, is wasteful of both flour and labor," said Hoover. "The investigators have also devel oped the fact that the great majority demand is for large sized loaves, and that even weie t loaf put on the mar ket at live cents, the demand, es pecially among working families, would be for double and triple units. "The price of retail bread in the country was as follows, at various times and places, calculated on full one pounds weight: "Sept. 20, 1 1.6 cents. "Oct. fith, lo.S cents. "Oct. 1 3, 1 o.s cents. "The prices in the southern states range around 10 cents and those in the northeast a little over one cent high er." Presumably this verdict against the nickel loaf was taken with full knowl edge of the result of Hoover's experi ments in Philadelphia with new and cheaper bread formulas. The best the public can now hope for is a ten cents, 20 ounce loaf or one of Hi ounces for eight cents. As for eggs, the storage barons are panicky, it was reported nt the food ad- ! ministration. Prices will drop, olllcials forecasted. Next week some of the storage men with high priced eggs on their hands will plead that the hen fruit be included In an army rations to maintain demand and thus uphold weakening prices.- London, Oct. 20. Loss of the Amer ican steamer Jessie K. Brighter by at tack of an enemy submarine Tuesday off the northwestern coast of Spain whs announced by the adtninralty to night. Nine of her crew were lund ed at Malta this morning. HOOVER UE t To m o r r o w NEW SYSTEM FOR CALLING OUT MEN SUBJECTTO DRAFT The 9,000,000 Registered Men Will Be Divided Into Five Classes ECONOMIC GROUNDS TO BE CONSIDERED Questionnaire to Fix In dustrial Status and De pendency of Relatives Washington, Oct. 20. Nine mil lion .men, still subject to army draft, will be divided Into live classes, and called according to class. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced this today, pointing out that eco nomic considerations will govern the new system of selection, and that those least available, either for In dustrial or dependency reasons, will be the last called. The new system based on recom mendation of draft boards the coun try over .will simplify their tasks ami make the drawings hereafter .even .more equitable than in the past.'. The system is designed to get the best military- ina-tedal first, and to allow the man himself to establish his own economic position. Kn oh man will be allowed seven days to answer a questonnaire as to his industrial status and the dependency of any re. latives. ' The exact time of sending out this questionnaire or Just what questions it will include are still under discus sion. : The Five Classes. The classes in general will be di vided about thus: . Class One Haebelors without de pendents: men with self-supporting wives: any others with no claims of dependency. Class Two Highly skilled farm la borers, men with wives who could work; and others of (inly slight de pendency. Class Three Men with aged moth ers:", highly skilled operators , In war industries. Class Four Men with largo fam ilies dependent upon them -say with a Wife and three or four children. Class Five Legless men, paralytics and others of Hie military unlit. Class One would be called first: class second next needed, and so on Knob class the men would be .sub ject -In call in the turn which the original drawing gave them. .-Appeals from the classifications can tie taken. Onlv 20 forms will be needed in handling the clerical work under the new svstom as against IS? under the old. "Number 1.000" wii! be Hie form number for the ques tionnaire. ' . Crowder's Statement. ! General Crowder's announcement j follows: ! "With the completion of the draft j of the first army of. 7,ooo. a new svstom will be Installed for the crea tion of succeeding armies, which will greatlv lessen the labor of the local and district boards. So f ir has this been accompli, bed that It is believed that, under the new svsteni 10 per cent of the work will be eliminated while the forms to he used will not exceed 20 in number as compared with approximately 12 forms which the present svsteni requires. "Along with the reduction of labor there will be provided a svsteni which will classify each one of the 9.000.000 men who have not yet been Inducted Into military service, and each man will have been given his placp In the national scheme -of defense. "To do this it has been determined to obtain from each man complete Information of a character which will definitely fix his economic worth as compared with his fellow regis trants, ami from the Informaton thus obtained, to place hfr4 In one of five classes, each to be called in turn as the need arises. "The method of obtaining this in formation is through n 'nuestinn airo.' a series of retort inns .calculated In produce the Infortration re quired. This document wil bo nnlled to every registrant not yet In service, on a date to be fixed, seven days be ing chen to each registrant to com plete and return the same. Fverv opportunity will he offered to each man to complete his questionnaire fullv and without error. "The local board will then examine each questionnaire and assign ea.h registrant to one of five classes. "The clnsses will be based upon every condition, from the famllv or (Continued on Pas I) E v e r y Da y i E Official Statement Says Evacuation Was Perfect ed Under Difficult Con ditions Mines in Gulf Petrograd, . Oct. . 20. Pressure of overwhelming German naval and land-, ing forces has forced Russia's relin quishment of Moon island to the enemy, the War office: formally an nounced today. The evacuation of the Russian defenders from the. island was accomplished only under the greatest hazards and while the small Russian squardon in the Gulf of Riga bravely sought to force back the giant Ger man fleet. . "Owing to superior pressure which deprived us of the possibility of de fending Moon island, it was decided that no useful purpose-' -was served in attempting to hold it." the official statement declared. "The evacuation of our forces were under difficult con ditions. We were subjected to a cross lire from the enemy's ships. Our de stroyers and auxiliaries engaged this enemy fleet." The war office also announced that the Hermans had sown mine fields with the object of closing the Gulf of Riga through Moon sound and bot tling the Russian fleet therein. "The mine fields," the statement said, "show an unmistakable desire to destroy .; our naval, 'defenders ''-at 'all costs:" :" l Official Announcement. Berlin, I via London), Oct. 20. -Landing of troops on Pago island, where naval detachments had previ ously gained a footing,, was formally announced tonight. In the Dago island : offensive was reported in a supplementary statement from the war office tonight. 1H GIL PRICES Fuel Administrators Ex pected to Supply Small Consumers With Coal at Reasonable Prices Washington. Oct. 20, The , real drive against high retail coal prices will start this week when the various state and city find administrators re turn home after conferences with Fuel Administrator Garfield. Despite shortages, householders and small consumer throughout the coun try should be able to obtain suffici ent coal with the aid of the local ad ministrator, fuel officials assert. In the state and city, administrators are invested the power to curb ex horhitr.r.t prices and regu-late d'stri butibn. Dr. Garfield has explained in detail to the admhiNirators the extent of their authority and impressed upon them the importance of serving the small consumer From sections where the public is not yet fully acquainted with the du ties of local fuel administrates re quests come to Washington for aid. This Is futile. .11 is the function of local administrators to know how much is available and the prospect of distributing it. These persons should apply for coal to local administrators who will in vestigate all cases and furnish coal where It is needed SAYS BULGERS WILL NOT FIGHT AMERICANS Washington; Oct. 20. Bulgarians will not fight American soldiers In Ku rope, Stephen I'anaretoff, Bulgarian minister, stated to the United Press today, "There Is not the slightest change that the Bulgers will ever consent to shed American blood on the' battle field In this war," he said. The minister cited the attitude of the Bulgarian nationalist party which cabled the statement today: "We do not wish America to take our side but we desire that America should create In the Balkans a situa tion which will be in harmony with the principles of national unification, international justice and true democ racy." Bulgarian people welcomed Amer ica's entrance into the war, according to Tanaretoff, "because they feel that regardless of what comes they will now receive a 'square deal.' " RUSSIANS Gil! UP MOQN ISLAND DRIVE AGAIMST n t he Year" PRICE FIVE CENTS TOOK BIG TOLL II NORTH SEA BATTLE Sunk Two British Destroy ers and Eight Un armed Merchantmen BRITISH PUT UP HEROIC FIGHT Destroyers Were Convoying Norwegian and Swedish Ships to England London, Oct. 20 Two British de stroyers and eight unarmed merchant men was the toll which two extraordi narily, swift and heavily armed Ger man raiders took Wednesday in a. North sea battle announced tonight by the British admiralty. The traditions of the British navy were fully sustained by the two Brit ish hornets of the seas the 'Mary Rose and the Strongbow. Out-ranged by the raiders' guns, and 'out-speeded, they nevertheless went eagerly into battle and fought to a finish with their formidable. antagonists; two Tommies against giants. . Kighty-eight officers and men pershed on the . Mary Roso . and 47 on the Strongbow. : The two German ships of prey slid out of their harbor on one of the re- . cent long ' dark nights. They sped . north, scouring the seas for mer chantmen bringing supplies to F.ng land. Somewhere between the Shet-.i, land islands and the Norwegian coast far to the northern boundary of the North sea they came suddenly upon a fleet of Norwegian and Swedish -merchantmen, convoyed by two Brit ish destroyers. - The battle was fast and furious. The courageous attack of the British ships, however, enabled three of the neutral merchantment to escape. When the British destroyers were sunk the Germans promptly proceed ed to their assault on the unprotect ed and unarmed merchantmen. Five Norwegian and three Swedish ships were sunk at once without examina tion of their papers, without warning, .' and without any regard for the lives of passengers and crews aboard them. Then the two marauders, fearing ar rival of British patrol boats, turned tail and fled hack home. Nbt an ef- , fort was made to rescue survivors ; who struggled in the water. Another dark night apparently enabled them to make good their return'. British vessels attracted by the sound of the gun tire later picked up :)0 Norwegians and others. A Chris tiana dispatch tonight e.dded that the admiral commandant of the Swedish navy had reported the rescue of 37 persons "from Norwegian and Swed ish ships" presumably survivors of the German sea victims. The admiralty statement, issued late today, revealed all these details and aroused Kngland to a fever of fighting bitterness. Not since the de stroyer Brooke fought her heroic fight against would-be German cruiser raiders last spring has Kngland been so thrilled by the heroism of her men afloat as by the never-flinching cour age which the admiralty told of the of tiecrs and crews of the Mary Rose and the Strougbow. A supplementary admiralty report, issued later, had this to say in addi tion to the details of the first already '' reported: "The German official statement of the North sea fight says the attack occurred In the territorial waters of I the Shetland islands and that all es I cort vessels, including the destroyers, juere sunk, with the exception of one j escorting fisher boat. Both statements I are untrue. The enemy raiders evad ;ed watching squadrons during the re i cent long dark nights. They hurriedly isped outward and back home again." Survivors Talk. Christiania, Oct. 20. Twelve mer chantment and two British destroyers were sunk in the North sea fight Wed nesday, according to the version which reached here tonight, obtained from survivors who arrived at Bergen. Two large German warships, they said, attacked tYle convoy, starting their fire from a long ra,.ge, and quickly sinking the destroyers which were completely overwhelmed by the attackers' heavier guns. After having disposed of the British warships, the Germans successfully sunk all of the merchantuient. Home managed to launch life boats but the sea was run ning very heavily, and several filled' and sank. Their work completed, the German warships quickly disappeared. It was reported here tonight that 17 addi tional survivors to those reported In British admiralty statements, having been lundei at Utevor by a British de 8ii'uytii Of the 251 persons on the convoy. (Continued on Fax 2) GERMAN RAIDERS
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