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THE A SHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER: PARTLY CLOUDY. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXIV; NO. 38. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS E ALLIED MISSIONS REACH PARIS FOR CONFERENCE ON Can They Make Him Dance ? it DrTJMpniin line NT OF NORWAY GERMAN OFFICERS INTO WORLD nl I LIIIUOIIHU MIL llDIINUEfJIlJE Leader of Bolsheviki Shows True Colors as Vassal PROSECUTION OF THE WAR FEARED BY RULERS i OF V-Jonference of Rulers and Ministers Caused by This Fear. GERMANS THREATEN TO OCCUPY DENMARK Considerable Flurry Caused by Attitude of the Norwegians. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 27. Behind the meeting: of the Scandinavian monarcha and minister at ChriBtianta this week, lies the fear, unfounded though It may be, of Norway's entry into the war and of the German menace that, in this case, she should feel called upon to occupy Denmark is a counter measure. The Associated Press learns from a responsible source that the conference, which was arranged In connection with an intimation from Germany that the growth of anti-German senti ment in Norway, particularly after the - sinking of the convoy tn the North sea by German cruisers is being fol lowed with concern by Germany that It is feared that Norway might be Im pelled, either by excited public opin ion or pressure from the allied side to enter the struggle at least to the folnt of granting a naval base to Eng and and the United States, In which event Germany would feel called upon to seize a corresponding base In Den mark. Sent to Berlin. ' Upon tho receipt of this informa tion at Copenhagen, word was hur riedly sent to King Oustave of Swe den, and Denmark's most prominent citizen, President Andersen, of the Punish East Asiatic company, who is liisrh In the confidence of Berlin, as w ell as London, was dispatched to Ber lin to verify the report and, If possible 0-to change the Herman attitude.. Mr. Vnderscn conferred with -' Dr. von etgCuehlniaim, secretary for foreign af fairs, at Berlin and he confirmed the i report, addlim-.tlial iu. -uoanequc of Jhe Italian and Russian developments Mhe military and Pan-German ele ments were again In the saddle in Germany and exerting Influence b gal net 'which the foreign office, with Russian Situation, Daily Growing More Serious, Will Occupy Some Attention- Stronger Joint Action Against Central Powers Planned. (Continued on Page Two.) FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FACULTY Recent Speech at Sweet Briar Causes Action by Faculty. The representatives of the chief nations at war with the Teutonic allies are assembling in Paris for the inter allied conference at which are to be discussed momentous questions for more unified action on the prosecution of the war. The Americans, British and Italian missions already have reached the French capital. The v are led respectively by Colonel E. M. House, David-Lloyd .George, the British prime minister, and Vittorio Orlando, the Italian premier. To Discuss Russia. In addition to determining a basis for a stronger joint action against the enemy countries, the conferees doubt less also will discuss at length the anomalous situation in Russia, where the Bolsheviki factions are in control and where German staff officers are" reported to be acting as military advisers to the Lenine government. Possibly a most pertinent point in the discussion will be the future attitude of the allied countries toward Russia whether the situation as it now stands does not place the Bolsheviki government and its followers in the category of the cen tral powers. Grows More Serious. Inside Russia the unsettled condition of affairs daily seems to be growing more serious. All communication now has been severed between North and South Russia, even the foreign embassies m Petrograd being unable to get in touch with Odessa and other points to the south. Unofficial advices are to the effect that the Russian north ern army is in dire straits for food, having had no bread for several days. t Hard After Germans. Around the vicinity of Bourlon and Bourlon Wood and about Fontaine Notre Dame in the region of Cambrai, the British troops are keeping hard after the Germans. In both sectors General Byng's forces again have made considerable progress especially at Fontaine, where, hav TWELVE MEN WHO WILL DECIDE THE FATE OF GASTON B. MEANS, CHARGED WITH MURDER OF MRS. KING, SELECTED . i. ' Jury Consists of Nine Farmers and Three Cotton Mill Workers, and Presentation of Evidence By the State Will Begin Today Court Is Held Later Than Usual to Secure Final Juror Foreman Has Not Been Selected. povrnnn. u. ft. Nov. 27. The Jury to try Gaston B. Means, charged number of years. with the murdea of his employer, Mrs. Maude A. King, was completed early tonight, and the state announced that on convening of court tomorrow the first evidence In th case will be pre sented, Either L. A. Woddington, a undertaker. - who accompanied his boyhood home at Conoord for a one or tnem, now ever, Is related by marriage to Means, it was brought out by the statement that Joseph Goodman, second cousin of Juror Goodman, had married Miss Pauline Means, a sister of the de fendant. The state did not arbitrarily local ' "trlke Mr. Goodman's hams off the .v.'list. however, although that would nave oeen punmin, n iim uuiiqiih tain w h wVVm Mains' frleid ' not exhausted. The relationship tain w. s. Bingham, Means- mena R . b th , ins been evicted bv the Germans after the initial drive of ! ttJE?EHW-r the statute - ; win, D tna mst-wnnwiss is hso.. nmm.. t-i m.i. w announcement was- made tonight by I special term of court and after It was Solicitor Clement.- There will be no 'agreed to summon a specie yen ire w last-week, they again ha v obtained a footing in the town and have advanced almost to the main street. A heavy concentration on enemy machine guns in the Folie "Wood did not succeed in stopping the British advance. The southern portion of Bourlon tillage also was entered by the British after a hot fight, but after having rescued some of their troops who had been isolated there for some time the British withdrew to their original positions. Supreme Endeavor. Possibly in a supreme endeavor to break the Italian line before the British and French reinforcements enter the fray, the Austro-Germans, comprising an entire (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) WARMLY DENOUNCED. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 27. -Leonidas ft. Whipple, adjunct pro fessor of Journalism at the Univer sity of Virginia, today wa' dismissed from the facility by unanimous vote of the board of visitors for "unpatriotic and disloyal if not seditious utter ances" made in an address at Sweet Briar college last week. Action by the board was taken at a special meet ing to consider charges of disloyalty made by the alumni and persons prominent in Virginia affairs. President Edward Alderman, of the university, in asking the board to dismiss Whipple declared it was Whipple's deliberate purpose to con duct a far-reaching campaign for the promulgation of sentiments similar to those expressed in his address. Whipple was quoted as saying democ racy was not safe in America and that he subscribed to the campaign fund of Morris Hlllqult, socialist' candidate for mayor of New York, rather than buy Liberty bonds. The board found Whipple guilty of "unpatriotic and disloyal if not se ditious utterances at a time when the United States is defending its people n the most devastating war of all his- onr. His offense was held to be ag gravated by his sending advance copies of hie address to tne newspaper ana by the fact that his "utterances re ceived special significance because they emanated from one ot the faculty fPaul, national chairman of the worn TWENTY-TWO MILITANTS, ON HUNGER STRIKE, ARE HELEASEDFROM JAIL No Explanation Given Save That Sentences Had Been Commuted. OTHERS ARE HELD. WASHINGTON, Not. 7. -Twenty-two hunger-striking militants of the woman's party were turned out of the District of Columbia Jail today with the explanation that their sentences of from fifteen days to seven months had been commuted to expire at once. No official statement as to cause was to be had, but the women were' jubi lant in the belief that they had suc ceeded Ire- demonstrating that the Jail was not big enough for both them and their keepers. . Nine other militants still are Im prisoned. They have not been hunger striking and the authorities were not In such a hurry to te ria oi tnem. There were intimations tonight, how ever, that they,-too, win oe released tomorrow. Among those freed were Miss Alice IS DISCUSSED AT LENGTH AT MEETING Believe Pooling Plan Should Be Given Thorough Try-out CONGESTION CAUSES. opening statement by the prosecution as North Carolina law noes not pro. vide for an outline of the case In ad vance of the evidence. All Married. The Jury which will try Means In Cabarrus county court is composed of nine farmers and three cotton mill workers, and all are married with' the exceptton of one, J. Frank Goodman, farmer and member of the board of county commissioners, who is a widower. Nearly every man on the Jury is in his early thirties. The jury, which was selected In one day's session after 134 veniremen had been examined, la as follows: C. B. CULP, farmer. R. B. BUCHANAN, mill worker. M. M. LIPE. farmer. R. N. HONEYCUTT, farmer. JAMES E. WRIGHT, mill worker. J. C. WILLIAMS, farmer. J. FRANK GOODMAN, farmer. J. G. WHITE, farmer. O. T. WALKER, farmer. WILLIAM J. IRVIN, farmer. R. P. HILL, mill worker. J. H. READER, farmer. No Foreman Selected. The Jury does not select a foreman until after all evidence is presented and they retire to deliberate. The jurors generally said on examination that they did not know Gaeton Means personally, as he had been away from ISO. adjournment was taken until to day. Once the selection of a jury got under way it went forward more rapidly than had been anticipated. Mrs. King, widow of the late James C. King, of Chicago, from whom she lnhsfited more than $1,000,000, had oome from her New York home last Ajigust to visit relatives of Means, her business agent, and with Means and a nartv of friends had taken an auto mobile ride late on the afternoon of her death. The party was going tar get shooting, it was testified at the coroner's lnauest and Means and Mrs. King were alone for a short time at a lonely spring In the woods when she was shot through the back of the head. Accidental death was the verdict of the coroner's Jury here and not until after the body reached Chicago was the investigation begun which result ed in Means' indictment. "Expert" Testimony. Though pathologists and pistol ex perts from Chicago and New York state expect to show that the woman could not have Inflicted such a wound, and prospective Jurors today were asked If they "would give due and proper consideration to expert testi mony." and If they had any prejudice against witnesses from other states. All the veniremen whose examination reached that stage expressed belief in "expert" testimony and none said they harbored prejudice .gainst out sme witnesses. The question of circumstantial evi dence also was taken up in Jury exam ination and nearly a score were barred under the law because they said they would not convict a defendant with out an eye-witness to the. crime. An other question the state asked was: "Have you formed an opinion ae to wnetner or not Airs. King Killed tier- self either accidentally or intention- ally?" The defense also went Into the ues tok-rf optniom - & rcr- the " manner of the woman's) death, asking many veniremen - '' "Have yon formed any opinion as to whether or not Mrs. Xing could have snot herself?" Alleged Second Will. The state, while not required under law, to show motive, has . brought a number of witnesses from New York and Chicago in an effort to prove the existence or an alleged second will which New York omolals said was ready to be offered for probate, and by which it was claimed Mrs. King's estate would have received !Z,ooo,000 more than the first will gave her. The defense has not outlined what It proposes to introduce to save Means from electrocution and little was indl rated by questions asked veniremen. Alleged prejudice against the defen dant because of widespread publicity given the case both through newspa pers and local discussion was gone into at length by counsel for Means. Veniremen also were asked if they thought the woman could not nave shot herself, and those who held this opinion were excused by Presiding kludge cilne. The defense contended mat it a juror neuevea Mrs. King did not shoot herself and If nothing In the evidence showed the presence of any one except Means at the tims. that It would follow that the Juror woutd vote to convict Means. The state entered no formal objection to this. of the university." The board asserted that although It was committed to the theory and practice of freedom of thought and expression. It regarded Whipple's utterances as a "gross abuse of the freedom of speech." ' -4. WASHINGTON. Nov. IT.Two American soldiers) were killed and five were severely wounded in the artillery combat with the Germans) November 10, General 4- Perishing reported today. Those 4- killed were: . . 4- Private Harry L. Miller, Held 4- artlHery. Baker, Ore. . 4 Private .Chariea RhwjejnUkar, V- field artillery. Reading, Pa, The severely wounded are Ser- ' 4 geant Julian M. Peek. Hartwell, 4 4- Ga.: Oeiesant Andrew En ggtroaa.,4 4- Ft. Bill. Okla.; Private C. Wat- 4-4- kins. North Bend. Ore.: Private Oscar F. Jones, Lucas. Ohio: 4- Private Joseph. Lowltt M4. Holly, 4 N. J. . f All are arttlieryanea. ; - J 4. 4, 4 4. if 4: S er-etrlk an's party, sentenced five weeks ago to seven montns imprisonment tor so- called picketing of the white house academio and Miss Lucy Burns, vice-chairman. who began serving a six months' sen tence two weeks ago. Both of them and most of their companions had been forcibly fed from time to time and they had harrowing stories to tell of their treatment. Homecoming to the woman's party headquarters was the occasion for celebrating and feast ing. Some of the party had to be put to bed, but even those who were weakest managed to enjoy the deli cacies brought out to make them for get jail fare and feeding tabes. - Speculation as to why the prisoners were released covers a wide field. Most of the women believe that Judge MuUowny. the police Judge who sen tenced them and commuted their sentences, received orders from "higher up" and that the administra tion has directed that the policy of sending them to jail be abandoned. In some quarters, however. It Js sug gested that the authorities may be playing the English "cat and mouse" game, intending to lock up the mili tants as onen as iney appear win WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. The rail road problem was discussed at length at today's cabinet meeting. Afterward it was said that government opera tion of railroads during the war wjll be attempted only il it becomes cer tain the roads themselves are unable to deal with difficulties that confront them. The belief among administration of ficials is that the pooling plan should be given a thorough try-out and that if it falls the government then should take a hand. There Is no conceal ment, however, of some - doubt that any pooling plan will work as well as it might so long as each road Is com pelled to concern Itself with Its Indi vidual profits. ' . Since railroad congestion and coal distribution are linked so closely of-' ficlsls are watching a movement to wards the pooling of coal shipments in the middle west If the plan works well It will be extended with govern ment encouragement to other districts. Government requisitioning of coal and a general government coal pool are considered likely next year. At pres ent there is a disposition to let con tracts run out before a government pool is formed. The committee of railroad heads named yesterday by- the railroad war board to direct operation of the rail road pool will hold its first meeting tomorrow In Pittsburgh. Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the war board, today blamed much of the freight congestion In the east to rou tine priority orders Issued by govern ment departments, "This condition is not due to pri ority orders Issued by the government priority director, . he said, "but to routine preference orders issued by many renreeentatlvee of government, i The number of these orders has be come so large that on soms of the eastern roads they are being applied to the greater part of the freight. The attempt to give expedited movement j to an excessive amount of freight has j their banners at tho white house and Increased eongestloa In yards by caue- tnrn them loose as soon as they Qua- tng a large Increase la switching HIS BEEN IMPLICATED IN TWENff-ME MURDERS This Is Confession of Ralph Danielle, According to District Attorney. NEW YORK, Nov. J7. A confes sion that he had been Implicated in twenty-three murders committed by "gangs" of which he was a member was made today by Ralph Danielle, also known as Ralph the Barber, ac cording to District Attorney Swann. Danielle's statement, the district at torney said,, covered homicides com mitted In New York, Yonkers and Philadelphia. The prisoner said the victims were killed because they had Incurred the enmity of "gangsters" calling themselves the Sicilians anl the Neapolitans. Mr. Swann said the murder of Gutselio Gallucl, known as the Harlem gambling king, two years ago, wss mentioned by Danielle. Detectives were sent out to arrest men mentioned by Danielle and later Ciro and Vincent Morelll, brothers. and Nicholas Arra, said to bo nephews of "Lupo the Wolf," now serving forty veara for counterfeiting, were brought. Into court and held In bonds of Ila.OOO each. T HERE WILLBE DRAFTED Head of British Recruiting Service Issues Warning to Them. to the danger poln SDuTement-" SIX MORE DIE. j MACON. Oe.. Nov. t1. 8lx addl ional deaths from pneumonia among soMlera attached to the Thirty-first national guard division during the last twenty-four hours were announc ed tonight at Ckmp Wheeler head quarters. Exclusive or the oeains mMnmeea tonight there have bees nfty-eeven victim of pneumonia - at the local cams during the loot fifteen days, ac cording to base hospital record. THE WEATHER. " WASHINGTON, Nov. X 7. Forecast for North Carolina: Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday, probably local rains In Interior; Thursday elovdy. - - NEW YORK, Nov. 27. A warning to British and Canadian residents in the United States that they cannot escape doing their duty while their fellow citissens In Great Britain and Canada are being drafted for service and their neighbors In the United States, who ars citizens, are being drafted here, was issued tonight by Brigadier General White, head of the British-Canadian recruiting mission In this country. "The mission has established re cruiting depots through the country." General White said in a statement, to give Britishers and Canadians an opportunity to volunteer for service through these depots. Some thirteen thousand men have been enlisted and sent forward to the . British and Canadian armies. Pending the completion of the con ventions wnicn it is expected secre tary Lansing will submit to congress," he added, "a very active campaign is to be carried on all over the United States through the British and Canadian recruiting mission. This will give all Britons and Canadians opportunity to volunteer for service instead of waiting to be drafted." ANOTHER 60MB SUSPECT IS ACQUITTTD BY JURY Jitrney Driver Charged With Complicity in Bomb Plot Not Guilty. TURKEY COMES HIGHER. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. The na tion's Thankoglving turkey this year will cost mere than It did a year ago. Reports to the department of agricul ture, made public today, show that pouHrymen were receiving an aver age of -one-fourth cent per pound more for turkeye and I.J cents more for chickens November It than they received on the same date last year. Turkey prices averaged 1 cents, S.4 cents) higher than the November If average for the past four years, and ,mickene averaged seventeen cent an advance of . eeftta over the ioor year a re rage. S!AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27, Israel Weinberg, a jitney bus driver was ac quitted today by a Jury of a murder charge which grew out of the pre paredness parade bomb explosion which killed ten persona here last year. The trial began October t. The jury was out twenty-two minutes. Weinberg, fourth of the bomb mur. dtr defendants to faoe a Jury wa brought to trial October . The state atti-mmed to prove fnat Weinberg dr.o thies of the tx de fendant to tae stece of the etil-3'jn In his Jitney bus, where a tarn suitcase, alleged oy the state to have contained the bomb, was placed on the side walk where the blast occurred. Wit nesses for the defense testified that Weinberg was driving bis machine in another sotion of the city when the explosion took place. Warren K. Billing. Thomae J. Mooney and Mrs. Rena Moensy. wife of Mooney, were the first defendant tried in the order named. - Billings and Mooney were convicted and sen tenced to life Imprisonment and death respectively. Mrs. Mooney was ac quitted of one of nine indictments) for murder. Bdward D. Nolan, another of the coma defendants. Is at liberty on bWl and Alexander Berkanen. Indicted as the sixth of the alleged consplrsvtors, is fighting extradition from New York. . . . . . - - - XOTHING OFFICIAL. UNITED STATES IS EXPECTED TO ACT Will Cut off All Supplies and Allies Will With draw Diplomats. LENINE SHOWS COLORS. LONDON. Nov. 7. Inform- tlon was received hero today from Petrograd that a aamber of German staff officers have ar- rived and are acting in an ad- vlsory capacity to NlkohU t- Lenlne. the Bolsheviki oremler. 4.4 4 4 4 v X PROMPT ACTION EXPECTED. -" WASHINGTON. Nov. . J7.0fflcUit - confirmation of the news) from Lon don that German staff officers ar In Petrograd acting as military advlsera of the Lenlne faction, probably wilt followed promptly by action on the part of the United , States and the allies deflnitsly to place the Bolahe. vlkl regime in the list of Germany allien. , ' , . " , If the Germans are there alt doubt as to the purpose of tho Bolsheviki ts removed, and the diplomat win oe obliged to withdraw - to a neutral capital, probably Stockholm, to await hist ructions from their governments. Such a development ' undoubtedly would be followed by Immediate can cellation of all orders now In proceea of execution for military and other-'' supplies for Russia tooth in the United States? and Japan. Several cargoes from the United States ar now on tho way to Vladivostok, but tinea can bo diverted by wireless orders, and It has been understood that: their' delivery would b contingent upon evidence that they would not ' fall Into , un friendly hand. . , May aw uermany. With German openly - advising; Lenin and hie followers, it I aasum- , ed- that ffortaUl-be. made, to scarry Russia Into the position of an active ally or the central power. This might produce a most serious situation by making available to Germany the ast stores of food, oil and cotton of Rue-: la and even' though - the - Teuton found t imposwtble to convert the dis- (Continued on Page Two.) IS Twenty-One Survivors Crew of Fifty-eight Beach Port. ; EE- of OTHERS MISSING, , LONDON, Nov, L -The. American steamship ActaeOn was torpedoed Sunday, a dispatch from Corunn.x. Spain, reports. - Twenty-ono sur vivors have arried at Port Cams rtnas. Three boats with the re, mainder ot the crew are mimiinj. " NEW YORK. Nov. 17. Fifty-eight men. including thirty-one Americans. - comprised the crew of the American steamer Actaeon, reported sunk ofC the European coast. A dispatch xrom London today say ing twenty-one survivors had reached Port Camartnas, Spain., and , that tha other member of the crew Were - missing made no mention of the United - States naval gunners aboard, - Names of none appear in the record or the federal shipping commissioners . here, but it is assumed some were ore board inasmuch as the vessel wa controlled by the chipping board. - Formerly) tne uerman steamsnin. : Adamsturm.. of 1,600 ton gross, tho : Actaeon left New Tork early in Oc tober, carrying government supplies for Bordeaux, it is believed that en was on the return voyage when mink. - She was commanded by W. J. John ston. The vessel was built tn Ger many in 180 and wa seised by tills --' government after the war with Qer- . many regan. ' The American eltbtfns on board In- eluded U. B. Crada, ooal passer. Bell Haven, N. C . The Actaeon is the first of the ; seised German steamships to be sunk . while In American trade. Camarlnaa 1 a small Spanish town -forty-three miles southeast of Co runna. In northwestern Spain, on tha Atlantic. . . -V-. LONDON. Nov. T. A wireless re port received here from Petrograd says no official communication from the war fronts was Issued, today. TEE AS&EVULE QIlZLt Grcolatioa Yesterday Gty - . . . . Suburban . Country '. . . Net paid . Service . . . Unpaid ' . . '. , y . Total i , . . .4.40! -4.551 . 1.849 I 0.801 . 210 108 ,11.119
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