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THE ASHEV1LLE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS THE WEATHER CLOUDY. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. NO. 151. ASHEVLLLE, N. OERIDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1917. X1 ANOTHER AMERICAN SHIP ADDED TO TOLL TAfiEN BY THE KAISER'S SUBMARINES American Steamer Healdton Torpedoed Without Warning, and Estimates Place the Loss of Lite at a Score Steamer Was in the So-called "Safe Zone" When Sent to the Bottom by U-Boat, Which Steamed Away Now to Reduce the Cost of Living SURVIVORS ARE TAKEN TO NORTH OF HOLLAND GREAT PATRIOTIC Adds Another Grave Chapter to the War fare ot German Submarines Against American Merchantmen Will Be Laid Before Congress. LONDON, March 22. The American steamer Heald ton has been torpedoed, according to an Amsterdam dis patch to the Central News. A boat containing seven of the Healdton 's crew has reached Terschelling (North sea), the dispatch adds. The sinking of the American steamer Healdton is confirmed by a Renter dispatch from, Thjj Hague. ,, . Thirteen members of the American steamer Heald ton 's crew have arrived at Ymuiden, Holland. They say the steamer was sunk without warning in the so-called l L ft 1 V 1 ft 1 1 1 "sate zone ana express tne Deiier tnat nineteen men aboard the vessel were drowned. This information is con tained in a Renter dispatch from Ymuiden, which follows: "The steam trawler Java' has arrived here with thirteen members of the Healdton 's crew. They say the Healdton, unwarned, was shot into flames by a German submarine in the so-called 'safe zone.'. i Nineteen Drowned. "Of the crew of forty-one, probably nineteen men were drowned owing to a sloop capsizing. Twp others who jumped also were drowned. "The Healdton was bound for Rotterdam by way of Bergen with six thousand tons of petroleum." CONSUL'S REPORT. WASHINGTON, March 22. American Consul (Mahin, at Amsterdam, cabled the state department to night that the American steamer Healdton, sunk by a sub marine yesterday off Terschelling, Holland, was torpedoed without warning and that twenty of the crew were drowned. The consul's dispatch follows: "Standard Oil ship Healdton, from Philadelphia for Kotterdam, cargo oil, torpedoed without warmng 8:15 evening of 21st, twenty-five miles north of Terschelling, Holland. Twenty of crew drowned. One died of injuries. Others (taken) to north of Holland. Submarine seen after torpedoing. More details to follow." Another Grave Chapter. The sinking of the Healdton adds another grave chap ter to the story of war waged against American shipping by Germany to be laid befos congress by President Wil son at the special session he has called for April 2. It can cause no immediate change in the situation. Since the de struction of three American ships last Saturday and Sun day administration officials have considered that a state of war existed, and it is to meet this situation that con gress has been summoned to take steps beyond arming of merchantmen. ( The Healdton was unarmed, having left port before the president authorized the navy to furnish guns and gunners to merchantmen. Her fate serves to heighten the profound interest with which the government and the public awaits the time when an American vessel prepared and ready to send a shell into a hostile submarine on sight will enter tne war zone. CELEB RATION IS HELD ATNEW YORK Madison Square Garden is Filled With Crowd That Favors War. ROOT DECLARES FOR PRESIDENT WILSON President Hibben, of Prince ton, Says That War is ' Price of Peace. NEW YORK. March 212. Led by more than forty patriotic and civic organizations and college clubs, a crowd that filled Madison Square Garden tonight enthusiastically pledged Itself to the support of Presi dent Wilson and urged that there be no more delay on the nart of h United States in entering the Euro pean war against Germany. Among the 'speakers were Ellhu Root, who presided; Dr. John Orler Hibben, president of Princeton uni versity; Charles S. Falrchild, who was secretary of the treasury under Presi dent Cleveland, and Mayor Mitchel. Wave Flairs. When Mr. Hoot, opening the meet ing, declared the time had come for the country to act. Irrespective of parties or partisanship, the great crowa arose, cheering and waving small American flags. This demon stration was repeated time and again, and it was with difficulty that Mr. Root and the other speakers made tnemselves heard. Mr. Root said in part: "We come not to find fault or to criticise. We come to turn our faces toward tne government of our choice. tne government, the president and tne congress, on whom weigh the ter rible burdens of decision and action in the issue of peace or war and In the terrible pursuit of that freedom wnrcn can De maintained, 'it seeios now, only by war. In this government ww GERMAN E MBASSY N SHED MONEY REPORTED OFFERS TO MEDIATE BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND GERMANY WILL GET ScWtT CONSIDERATION AT WASHINGTON FOR BOMB FACTO Alleged Admission to This Effect Read at Trial of -Six Germans. DESTROYED SHIPS FAR OUT ON OCEAN i : How Police Trapped Plot ters is Graphically De scribed by Detective. Reports That Two Ci Uutral Country Is Planning , to Otter Mediation to Prevent Actual War Between Possible, and Embarrass the United States. r' (Continued on Page Two.) GERMAN RAIDEH MOEWE RETURNS TO NOME POUT ACCORDl TO BERLIN Has Been on Cruise in At lantic Ocean For Sev eral Months. VESSELS CAPTURED. THIRTEEN AMERICANS. PHILADELPHIA, Pa March 23. The crew of the tanker Healdton included thirteen Americans,: according x. .Li i v it.- vj i 10 we personnel as given uut uj me snipping commis- 6i oners here early today. , ' The Americans are: 7 ' CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, captain. I. WILERUP, chief mate, New York. AY. CHANDLER, second mate. , . g CONTINUED ON PAOB TWO) BERLIN. March 22. (Via Say ville.) The German auxiliary cruiser Moewe has returned into a home port of the navy from a second cruise In the Atlantic ocean. It was announe ed today by the Oerman admiralty. The statement follows: "The German auxiliary cruiser Moewe has returned into a home port of the navy from a second cruise In the Atlantic ocean where she stayed for several months under command of Burgrave and Count von Dohna Schlodlen. "The ship captured tsfenty-two steamers and five sailing vessels with a gross tonnage of 111.100. They In cluded twenty-one hostile steamers, of which eight were armed and Ave In the service of the British ad miralty, as well as four hostile eall lnr ships. "Among the vessels captured by the Moewe were the Voltaire, an English steamer of S.I IT tons gross. In ballast, carrying a twelve centimetre gun; the Norwegian steamer Hallbjeerg of 1.S17 tone- gross and the Mount Temple." The foreign statement Is the first definite declaration as to the Identity of the vessel which sank eight British and two French merchant vessels and captured two other steamships la the outliers. Atlantic last January. WASHINGTON. March 21. Word that a neutral -European nation might offer mediation, to prevent open war between the United States and Ger manv. has come to the admlnlstra. tion without ofcuslng surprise or In any way affecting the government's nlans for meetlns- the situation fore ed by submarine ruthlessness. Such a proposal is regarded here as noth ing more than 'another scheme foster ed by Germany, with the hope of con fusing the issue, and possibly divid ing sentiment' In this country while the destruction of American lives and ships on the high seas continue. Officials Mlent- At. the stato department today offi cials would neither deny nor confirm that the government already had been approached on thts subject although It was admitted informally that some such move was not unexpected. It was very emphatically stated that no suggestion of mediation or discussion would ba considered unless It was accompanied by abandonment of Illegal assaults upon American shipping, a course which there Is no reason for believing the Imperial gov ernment is giving a thought. The feeling In all quarters here is that the United States has with Infinite patience and forbearance done every, thine posslblo with honor to avoid the virtual state of vrtar now existing through German aggression. So long as this aggression continues, officials say there la nothing to do but adopt measures of defense, and no basis exists for discussion. Pnwldrnt in Touch, During the ten days that must elapse before congress assembles in response to his call. President Wilson will give close personal attention to the preparations going forward through the -war and navy depart ments. He sow no callers today but was in touch with both of the depart ments. One of the duties he perform ed was the signing of a formal pro clamation impending the eight-hour law as applied to plants engaged on naval work, a 'step, .authorised by congress us a part of the general plans for speeding up construction. ' Secretary Baker, as chairman of the council of national defense, today called the council and Its advisory committee of heads of great Indus trial concerns to meet here Saturday to discuss how much more work Is necessary to put the country in a state of adequate preparedness for defense. The Council already has ac complished wonderful results toward the mobilisation of all the nation's resources, and these will be surveyed at Saturday's meeting. Samuel Gompers, as chairman of the coun cil's committee on labor, issued Invi tations to a large number of work men, employers and scientists to ac cept membership on the committee and attend Its first meeting April 1. Stimulate Recruiting. Additional efforts to stimulate re cruiting for the navy were launched during the day. The response to the recruiting ervlce during the last, few months has been the best on record, but Secretary Daniels is determined to fill up promptly to the full author, ized strength of 74,600 men. Word was received that every ship building nlant capable of butldin destroyers would be represented the department Saturday when a great numlber of building orders will be placed. The department plans to build to the full capacity of the yards, and the number of destroyers to be ordered can be determined only when that capacity Is known. A standard type boat, the thirty-five knot vessel designed lan year, will be ordered to hasten construction. The newly created compensation board of the navy will discuss details of the destroyer orders with tne builders and determine the steps to be taken. The board also will hold Its first conference on Saturday with the builders recently awarded con- "a? tracts for battle cruisers. The department is receiving an en couraglng number of communication! from former sailors saying they will present themselves for service In the event of war. The only army order given out to day was the recall - of the Twenty- second infantry from tne) border. assigned to Governors Island. New Tork. WASHINGTON. March St. Meas ures to speed up the construction of airplanes were discussed here today at a meeting of leading manufacturers with the executive committee of the national advisory committee for aeronautics. The conference named four - members of the national- ad visory committee and three repre sentatives or the Aircraft Manu facturers' association to consult further on hurrying construction and standardising types. The probable needs of the army and navy for the next two pr three years were gone over carefully, together witn tne question of ' apportioning orders to those factories best equipped for quantity" production, and of mobilizing the material necessary in aircraft construction. FRKJfCH INTERESTED. PARIS, March 31. The news of the call of president Wilson for a special session of congress and mili tary and naval preparations that are being made In that country occunv a dominant place in the public mind to- aay. tpvery Frenchman, who has an American - acquaintance, asks him when the United states Is coming into tne war. Tne Temps in a sober re view of the recent Injuries the Ameri cans have suffered at the hands of the Germans, says: "Thus goes on In perfect calm the thoughtful evolution that has led the (Continued on Page Two) E TUFT ST Former President Speaks in Interest of League to En force Peace. GREENSBORO. N. C. March 22. Former President William H. Taft. speaking to an Immense Greensboro audience tonight In the Interest of the League to Enforce reace. mue -A t-m mm tin annul to the nation "to take from the world storm its ab normal supply of hay." T Mr. Taft the picturesque term of the western farmer was symbolic of national Interests unprotected from the spreading storms of the other world. Mr. Taft declared that this nation should ge in and do Its part on the side of the allies In the Interest of humanity. He said he did not be lieve the world Is ready for pro fessional pad Asm. "but as for me I think more of the pacifist than the bawling jingo," the speaker con- eJmled- The former president was intro-j duced to hie Greensboro auarace vj President W. L. Potest of Wake Forest college, while Bishop Rond- thaler of the Moravian church of FOR ANOTHER HEARING Charged With Causing the Death of Mrs. Elsie Lee Hilair. NEW TORK, March 22. Benjamin Sternberg was remanded to the Tombs prison for twenty-four hours lnte today by Coroner Rlordan, to await further examination upon the charge of having caused the death of Mrs. Elsie Lee Hilair, who wo found dead In a room In the Martinique hotel the morning of Fri day. March 1. He will be arraigned again tomorrow morning. The affidavit charging Sternberg with, the murder of Mrs. Hilair al leges that witnesses had been found who saw Sternberg leave a 'subway train at the Grand Central station on March II with a woman answering her description; that clothing similar to that worn by the woman seen with the accused man had been found In the hotel room occupied - by Mrs. Hilair: that Sternberg had admitted be met her by appointment on March If and rode with her from Brooklyn, and that the police possessed other ATTACKS ON WAGNER ARE NEW YORK, March 21. An al leged admission that money, for the establishment ot a bomb factory In Hoboken, N. J., was furnished' direct from officials of the German embassy at Washington, was read, today when the trials were begun here ot six men charged with having "attempted to create a reign of terror on the high, seas by destroying vessels sailing from? American porta with cargoes for the entente allies. ' , ": The Defendants. .: The defendants are Captain Charles von Klelst, a chemist, who Is accused of having been engaged In the making vi ui iniuiwi nsr ouiuiiiut, lormeny chief engineer of the steamship Frlederlch, Der Grosse: Ernest Becker. electrician, and Frederick Karbade,' George Praedel and Wllhelm Parades, assistant engineers of the same vessel. wow the police trapped the alleged plotters, after bomb explosions In It 15 had destroyed vessels and cargoes -worth upward of 14,000,000, was re olted to the Jury today by . Henryi Barth, a detective, who gained ' the confidence of von Klelst, by represent- (n. Vlmuir -a van .l.nijklf mm. ' IftAj said: -tohava -been" head 'of the " German spy system In this country. Von Igel was an attach of the Ger- man embassy and returned to Ger many with Count von Bernstorff, for ' mar German) ambassador. - , - Telephone von Klelst, v The detective said ha telephoned to von Klelst last April and told him that he had been informed that von' Klelst had written to Wolf von Igel. "I told him ha could only see von Igel through me," declared Barth. "I later met Elm by appointment and ha told me that ha and Dr. Walter E., Schools, also a chemist, were part ners in the manufacture of fire bomb and dealt also In fertiliser as a blind. - 'cheele. von Klelst . told ma, had received 110,000 from Captain von Papen. of .the Oerman embassy, to (Continued on Page Two) REVOLUTION GREATEST SERVICE RUSSIA HAS RENDERED THE ALLIES So Declares Lloyd-George in Telegram to the Rus sian Premier. DOOMS AUTOCRACY. Governor Whitman Refers to Statements Made by Mayor MitcheL Winston -Salem vlC prayer. opened the . moating evidence which . could not be di- ALBANT. N. T.. March 12. Re ferring to attacks made todav oenaior nooen i Wagner, demo c ratio leader of the state senate, by mayor miicnei. or jvew Tork, Gov ernor whitman, in a statement to night described as "absurd" the al legations that Senator Wagner was working 'In the Interests of Germany ramer man in tne interests of the United States." Senator Wagner. In a statement, declared that tomorrow he would ask that Mayor Mitchel be summoned be fore the bar of the senate to explain the charges. Since the Federal government first asked for land at Rockaway Point for fortification purposes .there have been several legislative conflicts over the proposition. The first hllL cham pioned by Mayor Mitchel. was killed by Its Introducer. Senator Mills, whea Senator 'Wagner denounced K as a -grab." ' Legislation authorising the state te seise the land was passed, but this action was prevented today by the 1s- uasce of an Injunction. LONDON, March It. Premie David Lloyd-George today telegraph ed to the Russian premier, saying he believed the revolution In Russia was the greatest service the Russians had yet rendered to the allied cause, and that It was a surs promise that the Prussian military autocracy, the only barrier to peace, would soon be over thrown. The telegram follows: "It Is with sentiments of the most profound satisfaction that the people of Great Britain and the British dominions have learned that their great ally, Russia, now stands with the nations, which base their institu tion upon responsible government' "Much as we appreciate the loyal and steadfast co-operation which we have received from the late emperor and the armies of Russia during the -past two an.l one-half years, yet I believe that the revolution whereby the Russians have based their destinies on a sure foundation of freedom is the greatest service which they have vet made to the cause for which the allied peoples have been fighting since August 114. It reveals the fundamental truth that this war Is at the bottom a struggle for pop ular government and for liberty. It shows that through war, the principle of liberty, which is the only sure safe-, guard to peace In the world, has al ready won one resounding victory. It is a sure promise that the Prussian T II it. ... milniw Wht)l bMin 1tm . whUh stilt I Ka mil. wr Mill " " ' barrier to peace will Itself before long be overthrown. "Freedom is a condition of peace and I do not doybt that as the result of the establishment ot a stable con- , stltutlonal government within their borders the Russian people will he strengthened in their resolve te prosecute mis war onui tne last stronghold ot tyranny on the conti nent of Europe la destroyed and free " peoples In all lands can unite to se cure for taemseivee ana iseir enii--dren the blessings at fraternity and a
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