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THE AS tnm.AVEj'AtiiEiii rwmuti rur, eoldor PrMsyt Bat t fair, entries- ra ponhmn CHIZEN" WANT ADS , v. BRING RESULTS I o ASHEVILLE. N. C, FRIPAY.-MQRnI-NO,' iNQVfcVlBERj29, '1918 ' VOL' XXXV, NO. 04 iflUVK I'UVJS CUNT: ! ALLIES DEMAND SURRENDER OF KAISER . . "s f f t 1 LONDON Nov. 29 The entente allies have decided to demand that Holland surrender the former emperor of Germany to justice, according to The Daily Express. ; r - J O J; FOUR THOUSAND AMERIGANS ARE MAURETANIA Nexrly 11,000 officers and Men Enrbuta Home from England THREE LINERS ARE OONVEYINO THEM THOMAS L MOONEY' SAVED FROM THE SCAFFOLD BY GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA Governor Stephens Commutes Sentence to Lite Imprisonment Mooney. Was to Hang December t3 For Alleged Par tkipation in Bomb Outrages. Ready For the Peace Conference Represents About Half To tal Number in England When Peace Came WASHINGTON', Nov. St. General March, chief of taff, announced to ,day that th Cunard liner Uaure tania, which aalleJ from Liverpool for New Tork laat Monday, ha aboard ICS offleeri and 3,834 men of th American a army, including 11 sick 'and wounded. ' The liner ta due In New Ygrk early ' nest week. ' Cemntlng those n thV Xfsurstani. 10.16 officer and man. moat f them attached to air eervtce unit wnjch have been training in England, are now - en route - home. ' Thraa I'ners, the Lapland, Minnekahda and Oica, carrying 12 otOcera and 6.S14 men, left Liverpool laat wee.c and are due at New, York early lnHth coming Half Total Troops. Thki represent about half the total number of American troop in England When the armistlc waa signed. The remainder will , embark within the next ten day.' The units on the Mauretania were announced by General March aa follows: TL -. The 830th a era squadron, two of J Ocera, 132 men: -367th aero aquadron, . three officers, 111 men. Fifth . construction " company, air service, three officers, 222 man; tOtth ..aaroi .aquadf oawJJtree - - ofltaai,a.M .1-16 vmen;'-v!7th ,aro squadroa, -twovaf-S fleers. 19 -ineni ltthvr aquadron. . tthrh offlcera, ' 16 men; 225th aaro V. qus.d,rn,-tw officers. r2T men, 23th aaro squadron, four officers 171 mens' I7th aaro squadron, three officers, US men; 30Sth aero squadron, " Ave officers,, 143 men; SOSth aero squad . rop, two officers, 173 men; 3Hth aero squadron, three officers, 138 men; 3lBth aero squadron, two officers, 1M men;- 34lst aero squadron,- three of - fleers, 137 men; 311th aero aquadron, three officers, 131 men, 28th aero sauadron. two officers. 140 ' men; radio detachment, one officer, forty five men; 326th aero squadron, three officer, 11 men': 313th aero squad ron, three officers, 131 men;' 331st Hero aquadron, two .officers, 118 men; 138th aero squadron, two ameers, lis men: ISCth aero squadron, three of ficers, 151 nun; 317th aaro squadron, two officers, 143 men; 338rd aero squadron,' thr " officers, 137 men; 228th aero squadron, three officers, 13& men; 389th aero squadron, four officers, 188 men; casuals, seventy six officers, ' ope man; casuals, sick and wounded, eight officer. 107 men; casuals, one officer, four men; lnedi cal.departmept, nine officers, eighteen men. v - ' - Total, 18& officers,' 3,834 men. The 27thaero squadron appears twice in the list as received at the war department and it was assumed CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO,) SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Nov. 28. The sentence of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to be hanged on December 13, fofthe deaths of ten persons killed by, a bomb explo sion in San Francisco, during a preparedness parade in July, 1916, .was , commuted by Governor W. D. Stephens tonight to life imprisonment. Court action to save Mooney from the gallows was ex hausted by the prisoner, the Supreme court of the United States having recently decided it could not review the case. Strike Threatened Threats of a national strike in case the governor did not intervene had been made in various parts of the country and some time aeo it was reported that President Wilson had written the governor to see that Mooney suffered no injustice. The trial judge had also requested a new trial! for Mooney. ',,-. Governor Stephens' statement announcing the commu tation said that in considering the case he had had before him "the urgent appeal of the president of the United States that I grant commutation." "Originally, in January of this year, I received a letter from the president asking me if it would not be possible to postpone , the execution of Mooney until he could be tried upon one of the other indictments against him. . .V,.., No Occasion for Action. "Inasmuch as an appeal already had been taken to the Supreme pourtof , Calif ornla, which appeal itself - acted MTa e'tay bf theexeclitioti sion for action on my parti I take it that the president was not correctly informed as to the status of the case.".lbt th In explaining why he had not felt called on to act pre- i 1 ..,ii x viousiy, me governor saia: " "The case as presented to the California courts was that, of murder, without further evidence of motive than the impossible tenets of anarchists, whose sympathies for the German cause in the war are well known. Their wild pacifist theories fitted into the widespread activities of "A number, of persons of pronounced anarchistic ten dencies were arrested shortly after the explosion and of these Warren K Billing was convicted and sentenced to SECRETARY LANSING, AMBASSADOR VJHITE ANDXOLONEL HOUSE Tp REPRESENT THE UNITED ; ST A TES AT PEACE CONFERENCE THAriKSGIVIHG IS nnnrnnrn nil 1 1 i UtUU HI ALL SB SOLD IIS Celebrated in England A3 .Never Before-Football ''',Played MIDDAY . DINNEH 13 , - GIVEN : AT ' LONDC Major General ' Diddle; Ij v Chief Speaker of the . Dinner. Party v This Is Belie . Name On, fa Washington, Where Impression Is Growing That President Will y jhree Men on the Commission, and Speculation Has Narrow' ed Down to These Threef President's Sailing pae Hot Announced, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) OF NATION GIVES THANKS FOR RETURN OF PEACE AND VICTORIES OF II. S. BECAUSE ORJICK OF F000 Unless Help Comes Quickly , People Are Liable to Revolt FEAR BOLSHEVISM Special Services Held in i ; Most of Churches of the Country WILSONS ATTEND ' Washington, Nov. 28. The na tion today gave thanks for the return of peace and for the victories of American arms which helped to bring .the world war to. a successful con' elusion. . Special services were held -in most IyONDOM, Nov. 38. The population of Vienna Is reported In a desperate condition from lack of food, according- to a message to the Daily Express from Its correspondent in Vienna, who claim to have had an official recep tion there and to have been riven special opportunities for investigating uemrra ine. scenes. The correspondent's message, which la dated November 25. tells of tha soup Kiicnens established m the cltv, uacn of the ten kitchens, fc says, is leading: daily 3,000 men. women and children, who have to stand In line for hours awaiting admission,.- n Each receives leai than a pint of soup made of rotten eaJbbag arid flour containing a quantity of sawdust. On Sunday a little horse flesh ia added All these (human- wrscka, with 'CAPTURED' BY NEW YORK HOSTS AND HOSTESSES Uniformed Men Are Given Great Thanksgiving At Gotham Vwll BIG "VICTORY SING" churches over the country. President I bones protruding," continues the cor Wilson and Mrs. Wilson attended the I respondent, "exists on this soup. Hun . rentral Presbyterian church.' wherejdreds die dally and are 'burled. In pa Blmple services were conducted by thai per oofflns, becausv thy wood Is needed pastor, the Rev. Dr; James H: Taylor, j for fnel." v He says fVldentally that who read tha president's Thanksgiving! the olerks m tha Spanish embassy are proclamation'. - ' 1 aying oi starvation. Tr.,..Tvlor said tndav marked the ! "Vienna." ' tha correspondent adds. most atrlkln Thanksgiving in the his- "Is In a sullen mood. The whole of tory of tha world and that It sees the' Germain Austria Is afraid of Bolshev world entering upon the post-war period,; which, ha said, "has responsi bilities.' problems, ideala and visions all. Its own.". The tenth annual Pan-American mass at Ht. Patrick's Catholic church was attended by Representatives of jtwenty-one American republics, ; and -rtir.iomats from other countries. Secre tary . Lansing: and other members of 'the cabinet represented the United States. ..v;:, -''? -.': .VX President' Wilson did not leave the white house : rtler returning from church. -Only members of tha family were present for dinner and tha presi dent later spent several hour worth ing on hi address to congress which "lie will derrr before starting for Ku te fteud tba peace conference. Ism. nderstand there Is barely un sufficient- fowd: here for three -weeks and oirly enough coal for a fortnight. Unless help arrives quickly, 'hell will break loose. Aiready tha people ara buying rifles and machine guns. The official, the correspondent reports, complain that Hungary, haa food and the Czechs have coal, but that neither will part wlttav Its supplier The of ficials want the allies to put "pressure on these governments, ; He adds that tha leader of the red guard, a young Jew named Kiach, says ha wishes to afvold Bolshevism it possible. The Austrian guards originally numbered 7,00, but thousands of them , turned to Bolshw ik beliefs and hava been dismissed, uxttil oowr ha says, only 800 fainain, ' ' NEW YORK, Nov. 18. New Tork poured out the fullness of its heart today In solemn Thanksgiving for -a victorious peace. The material demonstration of that thankfulness to the men who helped win the ' war wis so widespread that every soldier and sailor in the city . was extended mora of hospitality than ha could ac cept. . . From morning until jilght the day was one triumphal march for the 60,000 or mora men In uniform who were guided about the city by boy scouts. From church to Thanksgiving table the processions marched. Clubs, patriotic societies and private citizens united to make the Sty one of. joy for th soldiers and sailors.' One', of the most notable features of tlya day was the "'victory sing' which opened in Madison Square Garden when 8,000 voices joined . in "The Star-Spangled Banner." Major- Gsneral 1. Franklin Bell was the principal speaker. . '' - Tha keynote of the religious oh. servanoa was struck at tha Cathedral of Bt, John tha Divine, where mili tary? and diplomatic - representatives of the United States and all the allied nations- assembled to give thanks for victory. Flags of all the allied nations-were held aloft by soldiers as the services were opened with the singing oi the national anthem. ... Whlls Uia nation's fla-h tera wnra being lionUed here, tha poor and un fortunate were not forgotten. Mis sions, spread .. special Thanksgiving tables for the poor, while orphftnagss. hospitals and even la lis war provided I with- hoUdajr Urc presslon growing araeng those who have talked. ywlth President KlVllson peace conference that the American delegation will ba limited o !hr (members, . and speculation over the personnel has about narrow ed down to these names: - ' ;' :"' Robert l-aniing, secretary of state. . Hsnry White, ambassador to Francs and to Italy under the McKinley ad ministration. , . .. Colonel K. it. House. ' Mo Announcement. There has been no announcement and there may 'be none before the president address congress next wsek, but it was said tonight white house callsra had bsen given to under stand that these men would be the American envoys. It also was indi cated very definitely that reports of the president having decided to sit st the peace table himself as a delegate were untrue. He goes to take part In the great preliminary meetings of xne neaan or the associated govern ments and to see the formal confer ences under way,' but not to serve as a delegate. . liars Party. 1 .- In addition to the accredited dels gates there will be a largeuparty, in cluding besides the military, naval, diplomatic and economic experts, other specialists in the multitudinous estlons to bs dealt with. Among em will be men of high rank, prep ared to participate in discussions that will take place outside of the formal conference and in position below only the accredited delegates, who, It Is assumed, will take ambassadorial rank. . Tha exact time of the president's sailing for Europe apparently still is unknown to any one except the presi dent himself. He is expected to leave the day after he addresses the new session of congress, beginning Monday and the address usually is delivered ..... ........ .... . , NBW.XpRKJNjiv. I.-A plea that tha party of law. and order In Rusala should have' Its 1 place at the , peace table efor Germany has been sent to President Wilson by the American Defense society! It was announced to night. ., .'. ..::-( , -":.: "We lsarn with amasemeht that'll Is contemplated that the party of law and order In ' Russia may nave no representation at tha peace confer-" nee, and that on - the other hand Germany may be represented there' tbs message said. . , "There ara as many Independent governments In Germany todrty as there are In Russia and all the various governments In Russia except that conducted by the Bolshevlkl are upon the aids of law and order. Anarchy cannot bs put down In Germany if it can act and react from Russia," ABKCRD STORY VN FOUND KD LONDON, 'Nov. 18. The Times says the absurd story which the Ger mans are reported to have spread semi-offlclallv-that the entente proo ably will consider the abolition of the blockade,. lsabsoluely unfounded. The allies have not the slightest in tention, the TWnes continues, of throw ing.aaliie their chief weapon for In sux-ing the aiignature of a Jaat peace and the performance of Its oondU tions, varticulai'ly in the present cha otic state, of Germany. . . After, quoting evidence In an en deavor to refute Dr. Self's declaration that Germany Is starving, the news paper says that Uertnan statsmsnrs on , this subject require careful' ex amination. W'hen the truth has beep ascertained, the allies and ths United States will allow the Germans from time to time during the peaoe nego tiations such food siiDolles that hu manity dictates; but the blockade must remain In force until a definite peace has been ratified. - Concerning the German attsmota'to draw a distinction between the allies and the United States, the Ttmna speak of the futHlty of these efforts. T(ftt&T-jAegardJlIo, Pri ldeaitrWflsona oomtng - visit to Europe, the Times say lha allies look upon this uitpra' csdented event un a great landmark In the world's history They rsjoica -that, the president la to make a visit, first, because they desire to sthow tha Uimltad State by Its reception they give tne chief executive -fhir sense of; tha immtnse dsbf they ows for Amerioa's assist nee, and, second, be oaiude they ara anxious to have tha Tasrsonal aid 6f President .Wilson. In 'the task, before them. TimEaR MOSTH8 NOT NECESSARV. tiONIXJN, Nov. H.-wDlscuelng ths arrangements for the peace confer--) ence, the Daily JSxprass says the sug gestion that the conference wouid ba at wprk fully three months before ths terms Wer read far slgnatura was strongly discountenanced in- -British ministerial circles ysstsrday. 1 Kurops, it was- urged; .could not stand three months of 'suspense during which measures for demobilisation and re construction would necessarily be held UP. .". 'f '.( . t i ' The conference, sava tha-newsnsnar. will hurry forward, to a aettlsmsnt of the raaiii , out lines of ths peace treaty which' 'Will be signed as soon as pos sible and arrangements wilt be made for soma sort of 'ini international police to' enforce, it, '.International commissions' will ; then, it adds, will continue to wrk out. the details with questions of world wide importance which go beyond ths terms as be tween ..the central and tha associated powers. ; '. , k ' i TjONDON. Nov. 1. The Amsrlran Thanksgiving day waa celebrated to day in England as never before. Th British co-operated ta tha observance of the anniversary and sntertnlnx t Americans ia many Places. At all thi naval bases, the admiralty direct e l that tha American naval units bs en tsrtained while the' officers and ere- 0( the flv American battleships In the Firth ef . Forth -were guests on board British warships there. In Iondon tha Droa-ram Inrludeit a football gams at Chelsea between teams of satlors and a midday dlnn-t at Albert Hall, ' where 400 . Brit i n sailors were ths hosts of 400 Amerivnti tare ' In the morning at the churrii for the army and navy, Bishop J nu DeWolf Perry of Rhode iininl preached. Foreign Secretary Balfnur. the Earl of Reading, British ambas sador to the United States Karl Cur son and American, - French. Italmn, Japanese and Chinese diplomats wern present. High mass for officers an. I men was celebrated at Westmimtr Cathedral. ' Three hundred msritin attended with their band. Gn, Riddle ispcuks. ' M tor-General John - Riddle, coin manding the American force hi United Kingdom,-spoke .at ths after noon services at the Kacle hut. , The Pilgrims held a litnrhean r . sfded over bv the Duke of contnn. Tsnlght there -were two bfg rtiuu one, of the American society and v other of tha American , onicers' cli, i where tha Ameriotns entertained ttrit ish guets. Including Sir Eric erid, first lord Of ths admiralty. Lord Mll ner. tha war aecretary and the Lord Mayor of London. t V -Tha American Red Cross supplied all the Americans In - Kngland witii a turkey dinner, gave dinners to SOU officers In different camps, and distri buted , th presldstrt s -proclamation. The crews-ofi ISO, American ships, all th way frem Gibraltar to th Shet land Jslands, were entertained by Brit ish seamen! ' GRATrrrDi; for harvest. 1 "X,ONDON, Nov. t. In the conr of a long article dedicated to Thanks giving day. th Daily Telegraph; after referring to th various celebrations in London,, says: ' , y ' "This year's Thanksgiving dav' will be -celebrated In , gratitude .for ths (CONTINUED ON PAGE TH11EE.) MORE ENEMY TRAJDEHM. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Addition of ninety-two firms to th enemv tfadlng list,' effective tomorrow, was announced' today,; by the . war trad board. Twenty-nine firms will ba removed from the list at th sam tlm. .' Twenty-four of th additions are Spanish concerns. Former Kaiser Gets Mass vof Correspondence Every day Is Stated. FIRST AERIAL BANQUET IN U. S. HISTORY IS HELD Nine Persons Take .Thanks; giving Dinner 2,800 Feet In the Air. . LONDON. Nov. 28. -A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Amerongen, Hol land, savs the stories regarding the former German emperors princely , above surroundings and Dig dinner parties and similar functions ar not alto gether true. ' - : The most ' strikinr feature of the dally life of William HohenEollern, th- correspondent continues 1st the mass of correspondenc to Vhich he devotes most of his mornings, and, apparently unrestricted by the- Dutch government, he Is kept accurately in formed of every development in Ojr many and elsewhere, and is reported to be able to .keep , in pretty clos touch with -th other slda ' of th frontipr. , Ths correspondent says- he teams n 4 good authority that The Nether lands government considers the form er crown prince the nly dangerous intriguer, the i former emperor's day being regarded as ended. - . . it is commonly reported at Ameron gen, th correspondent declares, that William Hohsnzollern will - not , be there long, but it is uncertain whither ,hv will gs - ' KLIZABETH. N. J.. Nov. 2. Th flroit aerial banquet - hi history was held today on an alt-plan 2,800 feet tne new Wine lie Id of the Unltod Htatcs air mall -evrvice here marking th Inauguration of the field as tne terminus ot the aerial mall set vice elween . Nw Tork,, Philadel phia and Washington. . A fsw minutes after th mail plane. In rharg of Pi tot Max Miller, left the field at 12:10 this afternoon, a big tiand'ey-rsg mucntne rose under control of Captain K. B. Waller, of the Royal Flying forces, and during a flight of twentr-two mlnuta above r' he ground, a real Thanksgiving din ner w sitrvvn iv uiuv perituiis. jwitvpf the guests were Captain Benjamin B, Llpsner, euprln.tnlent of the air mall service, and Allan R. Hawlev, Augus tnw Poti'. and other otflcin! of th Aero C!-ub of America. ' Speaking of the" proposed nation wide extension of the mall service, Captain Ltpsn-er said; . . -"W will have marhrn-e which will earry ia ton and a nait ot matt and in days of freight and parcel post by- airplane ar omiBCn . 1'IILL LEAVE PERO FOR HOME Peruvian Cabinet , and Sen- , ate h Approve Action of ; Foreign Minister. "1. HAVE YET TO LIE TO THE AMERICAN FEOFLE" SEC. MCA000 OEClIS Gave President Wilson Ilia . Exact ; Reasons for ' Resigning ; U:- IS COMING, HERB LIMA Peru, Nov. 8J - The Chilean consul . her 'will leave for home late today ,or tomorrow. m k . ; i, " n ; .- v It was reported in dispatches from Santiago.- and Lima Monday night that Chile nd Peru had recalled their respective consul. , , " APrnovE ACTION. ' ' ' . .LIMA, Peru, Nor. Jl Th cabinet and senats have approved the action of the torelgit minister in strongly protesting, to Chile against the ahtt Pertivlan riots t Iquiqu. -It is an nounced .that Peru will demand in- CHATTANOOGA, Tenw.', Nor. .-. I feel that I owe it tn mv Aid frUnda her to speak frank lv a.nd tn aa.v t them KOmefhina- I tnva iibefore," said William G. McAdoo, - retary of th' treasury and director general, of railroad, who ha Tjeen on a tour of inspection In the .south, st aa Informal dinner tendered to him at a looal club tonight. " -- - ,"It was not pleasant ' for - m to speak frankly to the American people as I did in my latter to President Wil son and to talk of my personal affairs, but 1 want to Day to you that 'those reasons sr the -exact reasons whv I am retiring from public life. 'There are v no other reaatms. I have -been amused by the theories of pollticMns and some newspaper. - la all.the sit years I nav been in ofhoe. I can hv truthfully that I have yet to lie to the American -people. -1 ,hv jiever misrepresented anything and - would not for all th -fortunes of the aces lie to them. If any man owe: any thing to the nation It 'is ta .be aquar and truthful. W'htn politician Warn that Jt Tiaya to be on nh level, then they will elevate America, and . poli tics.' Mr. McAdoo added that there would be . much additional government financing to meet th demands of re- demnltles; for thess . incident The oonstnictlon and that there should he sennrately upjn .the foreign minister j y esteraay. KTRVCUSE WIN bo ralaxation In patriotic endeavor in 'Pushing loan campaigns, and. in other . necessary work. . . Mr, McAdoo arrived here tonight from Birmingham, : 1-1 was met at tha station, bv a great crowd-of cltl- HTRACUSB, ' N." T., Novj 2. -Svra- 1 sen o-f all -classes, including many -rt eu. dafeated Columbia at football at! the older residents who had known the stadium ler this afternoon. SO tol'hJm when he was aa attorney at the 0- In the first contest between the two: local oar. colleges In fifteen years. The battle Becretary McAdoo len ton-l rht tot was staged on field M Inch deep ia I SaMabury, - N. C. and will va t Aohe- nud in spot. . Jvllis befr rsturntng to wa.unitotu
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