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IDvOL. XXXV, NO. 23.
ASEEVILLE. N. (X, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
J
PRESIDENT ISSUES
HisPiCLimiou:
FOR THJSGIiG
Says This Year American
People Hare ; Special
Cause for Gratitude
FIVE HILLED AND SEVERAL
INJURED AS MOB STORMS
JAIL AT WINSTON-SALEM
STEADILY TQ THE
SOIL OF
Troops Are Called from Greensboro and
Charlotte Following Attempt of Rioters
To Lynch Negro Accused of Assault
At 5:30 Pershing's Men Re
1
rvh tha Word to Gk
Vtei
AMERICANS MDV
GERMAN
-r--r r j , p " -jjsjp I
ALL WERE READY;
ANXIOUS TO 00
Looting and Souvenir Hunt
lug Has Been Strictly For
; bidden by Pershing
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
- . m - Tw
rnANVK, 0V. K, i:sv m. iuj
The Associated Prea) General
Perahlnc's force moved forward
earl today in territory Just abandon-
Yvlj d by the German troope. Ori the old
fLU Jlne between Mouson and Thiacourt.
ivmi rrom tne resion oi obubu
the eouth of Mets. the troope had been
stationed to await order for the ad
vance and at S:0 o'clock this morn
ing Uie patrols marched out, not in
line of battle, but in column along
the high roade which are only alight
ly impaired.
The first steps of the Americans into
regions so lately controlled by Ger
many, were not spectacular. -The men
wore keyed up and keen for the new
adventure, but like, they were on the
day of the signing or tne armistice.
' jl a tnere were cuinparaurmj ....
1VTL stratlve manifestations of their en-
In New Uniforms.
Manv of the men had been newly
uniformed and all of them were "Pol
Ished" a though for inspection, ine
men appeared eager for the -word to
go forward.
The relatively small units that are
moving ' forward as advance guards
were sent to the line before daylight.
The night had been cold and the mud
that yet marks the xoada, notwlth
tand there have been two or three
days without rain, was slightly frozen.
The men shivered as they rested toy
the roadside.
. When the command finally was giv
en Cor the advance, the elements who
were to push forward. In some cases
miiai mart on the Ions line between
the, extreme left and right, moved off
and
ft
I jfetato the mists that appear always to
I Ilroud .this part of the country,
cans ha been ordered to advance"
namv-held territory. there was
suranoe that they would encounter mo
hostility. The Intelligence department,
which lias '.never, ceased to function,
had accurately reported that the Ger
mam were carrying out their agree
ment of evacuation and there was avl
dence the belief both bjf omcer and
;men tht no trap was awaiting them.
TOOK MO VIUI
No chanoes were taken, however.
The engineers were the second units
to press forward and they carefully
f began their work of looking out for
f mines and tainted water. Every db
1 stacle was tested before it was moved
I in order to find out If it masked ex
1 plosives. For some time the Ger
irjTans have shown a spirit of co-opera-V-
tion in showing the Americans where
mines were located and in themselves
destroying . mem. s was some unw
after the engineers moved forward be
fore the heavier columns took the
roads. The entire army finally was
moving, and moving along the lines
WINSTON-SALEM, Nov. 17. The death toll in the
'riot here tonight which followed efforts of a mob to storm
the city jail and lynch a nero prisoner had been in
creased at midnight to five a girl spectator, a city fire
man and three negroes. The police believe that a de
tailed search tomorrow will show that at least seven per
sons and maybe more were killed
Upwards of a score of persons are believed to have
been injured, five or six of them seriously. They are
mostly white persons and include two members of the
home guards, which was called out when the mob made
its second visit to the jail after shooting a negro and ao
cidently wounding a white prisoner in the afternoon.
WINSTON-SALEM, Nov. 17.-At least, five per
sons are known to have been killed and probably a
score of others injured, several seriously, in a riot here
tonight which resulted from the efforts of a mob of
several thousand men to storm the city jail and lynch
a negro accused of shooting J. E. Childress and Sheriff
blrnt and attacking Mrs. Childress last night,
.Late tonight hnng was still going on m different
parts of the, city, the mob finally having broken into
small groups. Efforts of the home guard and the police
to restore Order were unavailing even at that time and
Governor Bickett was asked to intervene. He ordered
home guards here from Greensboro and Charlotte and
arranged to have a company of regular soldiers sent from
tamp folk, near Kaleigh.
Two Dead.
The known dead are:
Rachael Levi, a young woman bystander, and Rob
ert Young, a fireman.
The more seriously injured include Margaret Georcre.
Linwood Heeler, John Rumpler, citizens, and Frank
O'Brien and R. T. Hawley, members of the home guard:
Charles White, shot arid seriously hurt, Jules Stith, Cecil
Aiiey, J . i . Adams.
HZ' the first time since the ArjtedbUwJ
BI101. - . , . - - f
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NOW DISCUSSING THE
IT
BRINGS PROMISE i ,
OF BRIGHTER DAY
AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT? IN THE
LASTtDAYS OF THE WAR WILL STAND
T IN ANNALS OF WORLD'S HISTORY
Twenty-One U. $. Divisions, Totalling More Than 750,000 American Troops, Par
tidpated Irt the Battle of Argonne, The Decisive Contest That Brought
Germany To Her Knees and Ended the World War.
Peace Has Come Through
the Great Triumph, of.
Right Over Might
PARIS, Kov. 17.(By The Aesocia- , With the eonclualon of the St.. Ml
ted Prsss. Out of thli confusion and J h' ction. the steady inflow of Amer
1 Five of the more seriously injured, including ' two
members of the home guard, were takeft to hospitals, but
many others were treated at their homes.' The total num
ber of injured was not known and the police would not
even hazard an estimate.
The "mob first formed this afternoon about 3:30
o'clock and stormed the jail. Three shots were fired and
the necrro accused of fthootinfr fTift.fwn mpn anA a44a1riv.fr" Imm w4 afarft human fortffht
n " " h V w s,wuv MIUVVSV1I.XAIK, , ,
Mia. vuuuicoa was Bviivusiy wouuueu, wiuie a prisoner
named Tragg also was hit in the arm by a stray bullet.
Mob Loots Stores.
After some, difficulty, the police succeeded in charing
daze 'of the crowding,' military events
on the western battle! line since late
In September, when ibattle followed
battle until from Klartdera to Verdun
there was ceaseless action, it la now
permissible to outline to a certain ex
tent the .part played by the American
armies in the final decisive battle
of. .the war, which, shded. with tne
armistice of last llonfay.v V:. .'V---'-"-
Military seasons v heretofore ' nave
prevented accentuailoiithe acoom-
filishments of tr Jlmerfc&ns,' except
n a most general manner. The dis
patches from the field hava been nec
essarily ; fragmentary ' "d . - possibly
Were overshadowed by the accounts
of the more dramatic operations over
the historio. battlefronts to the west.
But it now may be " stated that
twenty-one American divisions, ' total
ing more than 760,000 American com
bat troops, participated in the action
beginning September 2 1, known vari
ously as the Battle of the Argonne
and the Battle of the Meuse, but
which? history may call Sedan the
.- hrmigh. oermany to ner
lean forces caused a displacement of
power as between tne allied and Ger
man armies. Thus It no longsr was
necessary, to pursue a policy -of re
ducing a salient or nibbling at it
The American troops had ahown what
they, could do. ( . .
.1 Called on JVsnhing, ,
'A' broader policy of general attack
along the entire 'line was then adopt.
ed and the high command called upon
General Pershing to take the Argonne
sector. ' admitted ir one of "the
If not entirely the most difficult of
the -whole front. tThe . broken ter-
raln the topography and tha lack of
roads made a problem- airricuit to a'
scribe. Germany had in four years
fortified it to the last derree of mill
tary skill, with superb roads, both
rail, and -motor, oonnectlng up to the
rear positions and bases. . -,..V'
The outstanding feature of the Ar-
sronna forest le a Ions chain of .hills
running north and south, covered wlrh
a dense- growth of trees and under.
arrawth.' maklna- an advance, dlmoult
and offering superb oefenslve quail--I
Virtually -no roads exist in tne
tcotmirutito ON PAGE TWO.)
Would Adjourn Before De
cember 2 in Order to
Get Mileage
FIGHT EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -leaders
f the senate and house are expected
to decide within a few days whether
It will be possible to adjourn congress
sine die a day or two before the third
and last session of theS!xty-fiftrt con
gress begins, December. 2. Should the
present session,, which began last J"e
cember. and the new on merge.
f'Hembers would lose travel mileage
V. owances.
V Adjournment will depend largely
on whether the senate finance com
mittee can repore the reduced ; war
' revenue bill before December 2 and
on the speed with which unfinished
huslness is cleared up. Now work
connected with the conversion of thef
OF
THE VHRK'GOUNCILS
Formation of New Political
Party Doesn't Seem
to Help Matters ,
SOLDIERS UNITED
DHTHS IN U. STHJIN
ILDIERS
Census Bureau Makes Start
ling Statement in Con
nection With Epidemic
83,306 DEATHS
AMSTERDAM, Saturday, Nov'. 1 .
Berlin newspapers and dispatches
rennhlnir Iiapa InHlfot that , v. tm
great confusion in Oermany. over the I te1 state caused more deaths than
WASHINGTON. Nov, 17.- The re
cent epidemlo ef Influensa In the Unl-
powers to be given, the various coun
ells, committees arid officials. .The
dispatches indicated that there is
chaos in government affairs, owing
to the' formation by the Snartacua
group of a new political party which
has reduced the strength of the in
dependent sociallcrts. ' How strong this
new party will be la not known.
The so-called executive council of
the workmen's and soldiers' council
has followed the Berlin garrison's de
mand by "temporarily" rescinding Its
order for the formation of a civilian
red guard. 1 There is reason to believe
that the executive council, despite the
country irora a n.r " fact that Captain von Beerfeld. was
aiso may prove lauior. - -. forced to leave It because he was con
With republican members of the 8l(Jered tbo radical, Is still more so
finance committee opposing fiecreuiry ( clftilgt,e and radicar than he larger
juvluvu -- . -t j fnunrn. rrom wninn u nai lta nnm
is t - . . " -r , - , - - - -
for
mediate ' legislation fixing taxes in
1920,. it may require ten days or two
weeks- for the committee to complete
redrafting the measure. When- the
bill comes up in the senates-fa bitter
partisan fight on this-'feature is ex
pected. ' .
Besides preliminary work on legis
lation made necessary by the ending
of hostilities , and tne discussion cx
dinlomatlc affairs. the- 'senate ' this
week plan to dispose of the national
war-time - prohibition Din Dy enmi-
i Bating the rent 'profiteering amend-
ment, which the house has refused
: II to accept and ' which has delayed
I'lnal' enactment of the measure many
-i'The bill comes tip tomorrow and
sritn tnia riaer wimurawn, wiu go
to the president." . Prohibition advo
cates .are confident that ha will -approve
the measure, which would pro
hibit the sale of any intoxicating
Hquora from - next July 1 until ihe
laflaerlcan army is demobilized. ' ,.
mission
That the bulk of the- soldiers them
selves refuse, to countenance Bolshe
vik methods again has been demon
strated at at meeting in the relchstag
building of delegates from all the sol
diers' councils in Berlin and delegates
of similar council' elsewhere. - -The
Berlin soldiers' are united firmly
aealnat Dr. Karl Uebknecht. They
declared; be had been thrown out of
the barracks owing to. nis repeated
efforts to deliver incltive speeches,
v Premlet; Ebert, in addressing the
meetings, declared that a vast major
ity of the people, supported the gov
ernment. The government had noth
ing to fear from -the troops-at the
front, but that many men from rear
positions who are hurrying home are
causing disorder in Baden and Wurt
temberg. - ' ' -- - ' "
The premier added that the United
States would help feed the Germans,
but that order must be maintained.
occurred among the American expedi
tionary forces from all causes from
the time the first unit landed In
France, until hostilities ceased.
This announcement today by the
census bureau was basod on unoffi
cial estimates of the total casualties
among the overseas force and reports
from . forty-six cities having a com
bined population of 2J, 000, 000, which
showed 82,808 death from influenza
r a. numan lores.gnj , . . irnvriil
tne world's Diooaiest sno ...T " J :; isr
paEHI l UfllltllS www., , -
oil is such that he least rain con
verts it Into a slippery,:; miry i mess.
In other words the physical oondltli
is uch that the line of attack for an
advancing army is limited to valley,
chief among which is that of the Aire
river. ,,. i
. Vital Hector. -From
the edge of the forest, where
the resistance was viciously strong,
the enemy possessed t innumerable
flanking position. But .beyond this
difficult region lay the Mer.fmedy
Sedan line, whloh vas recently cap
tured. A German 'order (described It
SS "OUT HIS mriery. - represanveu
costliest .war. , ;n :, ,
Crux of the Wa. 5
In order to understand the military
situation which made the Argonne
operations the crux of the war, it la
necessary to go back to the reduction
c the St. Mihlel salient in the mid
dle of September. This brilliant
American - accomplishment . is still
fresh in history. It cut- off at dne
stroke a menacing enemy projection
toward Verdun and weakened the en
emy's defensive by threatening Mets,
pne of Germany' two greatest ad
vance railway center for distribut
ing ' troop and supplies along the
Montmedy-Sedan line.
iMets also was the pivot on which
the enemy, swung through Belgium
Into France and therefore 'obviously
it was, the pivot on which his retire
ment must hinge. The Argonne, the
bext step below here, threatened the
irreat railway arterle running west
ward from Mats. , .
nno.half of the German rail supply pn
the western front. . It meant death If
CUt. ' ' ,J".'V ' '' :" '
The high command told Pending
to put It, The American First army
was put in motion from 6t. Mihlel. In
nine day it wa on the Arrnne line
ready for an attempt, the failure of
which might mean disaster and the
success of which would give untold
results. ' The- quick movement of an
enormous toody of man, the establish
ment of a new line of supply and all
the complicated military preparations
was regarded with pride , by the
American commanuers.; . , . t
. ItoallMxi' Task. '
The American knew what ' con
fronted them. .They realised that this)
was no second 3U Mihlel. but n en
terprise at Vhich' other armies had
balked for four years. They knew
;.nlr;-i,h ,!,., fc.7.TIT7,. bout us, in which our hearU t
rank -whh the nrst battle , of ; the
Marne. with Verdun, with the Rom me
and the Chemtn-des-Damee; and they
knew that on them depended the fate
of the great attack on the rest of the
front If forced back Here the" em my
must give way to the west. If : he
held he could hold elsewhere.
ft was at daybreak of Beotember II.
When the Americans wont In. Using
nine division for 'the' preliminary at
tack and under. ,. vlcorous . . artillery
support they advanced five kilometre
the first day. But the enemy wa not
taken wholly by urprise. The second
day he threw into the line five coun
ter-attack divisions he had held in
close reserve. They were- his best
troops, but -they failed not only to
push the Americans back, but they
failed to check the gradual advance of
the "Americans over the difficult ter
rains s ,
The first phase of the action ended
October 81. during whloh the Amerl-
cane' gains were not large but they
oompelled the enemy to' use a large
humibsr of division which " became
lowly exhausted and thus were un
able to parry the- hammering he wa
receiving from the French and Brit
ish on the west.
It Was bitter flahtins- In the wnnri. 1
Druen ana ravine, over a res-ion per
fectly registered and nlotted bv the
enemy wnere nis guns, big and little,
could be used with ther greatmit ef
ficiency. The original nine American
divisions In some cajns wert kept in
the line over three consecutive weeks,
xn American - reserve' then were
tnrown in until every division not n-
WASHINQTON.V Not. lT.Pre
dent Wilson, In a proclamation today,
designated . Thursday, November II.
a Thanksgiving day and salO . this
year the, American .people have
pedal and moving cause to be
grateful and rejoice. Complete vic
tory, he said." has brought not only
peace, but the confident, promise of '
a new day as well. In which "Juntlce
hall replace ' force and jealous)- In
trigue among the nations." . ' '
The proclamation follow: - .,
, , Thanksgiving ItlS. ;
By the president of . the ; United
State of America. ; ..
1 A proclamation: - " '.
It ha long been our custom to
turn In' the autumn of the year In
praise and thanksgiving to Almighty
God for His many blessings and
mercies to us as a nation. This year
w have special and moving cause to
be grateful and to rejoio. , God has
In His good pleasure given u peace.
It has not come as a mere cessation ,
of arms, a mere relief from the strain
and tragedy of war. It baa come as'
a great triumph of right. Complete
victory has brought us not r peace
alone but the confident promise of a.
new day a well, in which juatioe. shall
replaee force and i jealous .Intrigue
among , the ' nations. . Our gallant
armies have participated in ; a
triumph which is not 'marred "or
stained , by - any purpose of selflnh
aggression. In a righteous cause they,
have won 'immortal, glory and -have,
nobly served their nation in serving
mankind.' ' God . has indeed been
gracious, W have cause fors such
rejoicing as revlvs and strengthen
In us all the ' best tradition of our
new -course and look, forward with
new hppe to new and greater duties.
,' t Book Divine Gufalancev :
' While we render thanks for these
things let us not forget to seek the
divine guidance in the performance of
those duties, and divine mercy and
forgiveness for. all error of act -or
purpose, and pray that in all that we
do w shall strengthen the .ties of
friendship and mutual . respect upon
whloh we must assist to build the'
new structure of peaoe and good will I
among the nations.
wherefore I, Woodrotr Wllaon.
president of the United States of,
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, .the twenty-eighth day of No
vember next a a day of thanks
giving and ' prayer, and Invite the
people throughout the land to cease
upon that day from their ordinary '
occupations and in their several -
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'kCUNTlNCSD ON rAIM TWO.)
WITH ONLY THREE DAYS
LEFT CAMPAIGN L
War Work Drive Must
Raise $124,999,050 to
Reach Needed Total.
NKW TORK, Nov. 1J. -With only
three days left to work, the united
war work campaign committoft faced
tonight the necessity of raising $124,-
8D9.050 to provide the evon war re
lief organlsationg with the 230,000.
000 they need to keep the American
umit oe-
armv and navy, nappy
Not.mbUrMSn, frm Septembr toloSrb,crlPUons tonight totalled
Normally these cities would have L.vBtitv-f our' ner cent of the original
4.000 deaths from these causes dur
ing this , period, it was said, leavlns
approximately 78,000 as the number
properly chargeable to the epidemic.
"The total casualties, in the Ameri
can expeditionary forces,', ; ra.lh , the
annoimcement, "have recently been
unofficially estimated at 100,000. On
the basis of the number thus far re
ported It may be assumed , that the
deaths "from all causes, including dis
ease and accidents are probably less
than forty-five per cent and may not
be more than ; forty per cent f the
total casualties. On this assumption,
the loss f life in the American expe
ditionary force to date- about 40,000
or 45,000."
The total of deaths due to the in
fluensa epidemio in this country is
not known, the announcement said, a
only' the forty-six cities for which fig
ures were given report vital statistic
to the census bureau. Tha greatest
mortality due to the epidemlo. if pro
portion to population was 7.4 perl
thousand in Philadelphia and the
next greatest, 6.7
of a fifty per cent over-snbscrlption
will satisfy the -officials, they declare.
KEIUORTH HDSRTAL
t
No Definite Decision Has
Yet Been , Made, Senator
Overman Is Informed.
(By S. II. Wlntors.) ;
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Senator
Overman called at the war -Icpart-itnent
vesterdav to make sDeulllc In
quiries about the future Intentions of
the government toward Kenilworth
hospitsl, at Ashevllle, and was In
formed tnat tne aeparimeni as yet
has made no decision in regard to
that Institution. There a good
chance, however that the Kenilworth
hospital will be permanently retained
by the government. Official here
are well aware of the superior ad
vantage of Kenilworth as a hospital
representatives
His Peace Policy Was En
tirely , Upset by Plans
Formed at Berlin.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. lT. (By The
Associated Press. )-The" former im
perial German chancellor, prince
Maximilian of Baden, has issued a
pamphlet In which he writes:
"My peace policy was entirely up
set by. the proposal, tor an armistice
whlrfh was handed to me in oomplete
form on my arrival In Berlin. I fought
againat it for ' practical' and political
reasons, " It seemed ' to me a grave
mistake to allow the first step toward
peace to be accomplished by such an
nml-s admission of Germany'
weakness. -,.-sV!-"--
"Neither the enemy powers nor our
SEEK TO HAVE GHILOHEfr
TO
Children's Bureau of De
payment of Labor
Makes the Move
LETTERS SENT
site, and department
who h.n vlaltait it aav that AtM ell- i
TZTZ -i. tT ii re. mBU0 avanw own peopie regarded our military ait-
r i , ,717.11. u . : rayetteviue, in. x;., mnmrn mnwiuiro
ported 1 themselves n"atP'flf as the central training camp for heavy
few of these having Pf the , fl"y'arUnery in times of peace. It itands
Pjr cent over-ubscrip tion mark asked th, begJ ,how todlly for after-war use.
rJi. . " . , .t ' , ; -Columbus, Ga., Is the natural peace
; Tha eastern states continued to lag, L, .u . . ... .u.
however, t,' eir percentage. ?
a given out by the committee to-, ' ,"hAh th- . r-oiumbus . camn will
WASHINGTON, Nov. IT. -An ae
tlve campaign to secure the return te i
school of thousands of children who -have
been drawn into Industry dur. -Ing
the war emergency, has been '' -launched
by the children' bureau of
the department of labor. An ' an.
nouncement today said that Ietterf
have been sent to all state official
responsible for the enforcement es"f
school attendance and chlUt laboiw
laws asking their co-operation. --Tha
bureau alio has enlisted th -co-operation
of the local child wel
fare committees of the council of na. .
tional defense, the federal employ
ment service and the boys' working
reserve.
Thousands of children, the an
nouncement said, were drawn into un
suitable occupations during the war '
by the attraction of high wages.- In
many Instances children under four
teen are being employed more than
eight hours a day, it was said and
children a young as five years have
been found in industry. --',
nlo-ht belne- as follows:
' New - York, sixty; New Jersey,
seventy-three; Pennsylvania, a outsjde
of Philadelphia, sixty; - District of
Columbia, thirty-eight: Virginia,
seventy-nine; Massachusetts, eighty;
Rhode Island, ninety.
"DREAD FLOtn EXHAUSTED.
reported from Baltimore
' STOCKHOLM, NOV. If. By The
Associated Press.) Report! from
Heislngfors are to . the . effect that
bread flour has become exhausted.
There is none for- distribution, this
per thousand wa week and the situation is said to be camp
Although the . Columbus - camp will
not be - the pretentious , institution
planned a few months ago, It probably
will be the training place tor, 4,000
or 6,000 men in peace times. , -
Indication are that the south may
hop for the retention of the. follow
ing camp:
Camp I Gordon. Atlanta; Camp
Bragg. Fayettevllle: Camp Polk, the
tank corps training school, at Raleigi,
and the small arms camp- at Co
lumbus, Ga. Langley Held, Virginia,
may be retained as an aviation center.
The averaire Infantry and aviation
is scheduled r aoanaonmeat
mm soon as jpracUcabie.
uation such -as to . make desperate
measure necessary. -v; 1 proposed that
the government as a. first measure
should state exactly its program of
war alms and demonstrate to the
world our agreement with : President 1
Wilson s principles and our readiness
to undergo heavy national sacrifice
to-fulfill those principles. - j ,
: . " was told in TepJy that there wa
not time to wait for tha effect of such
a statement and that the situation at
the front demanded that a proposal
for an armistice should be made with
in twenty-four hour, to be supported
by publication of the names of a new
and unimpeachable government," '
; ' OTTO FOREIQS JIUrtSTETl. .
COPENHAGEN. Nov. IT. Dr. Otto
ha been appointed Austrian forels
minister,' according to- dlapatol
salved bar. ;
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