Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1918)
RIEF RIGHT REE Z Y BITS OF NEWS B NEW YORKERS LAVISH TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS New York- Nov. 28. New York poured out it heart today in thanks giving for a victorious peace. The material demonstration of that thankfulness to the men who helped win the war was so widespread that every soldier and sailor in the city was extended more hospitality than he could accept. ' One of the most notable features of the day was the "victory sing" in : Madison Square Garden, when 6,000 voices joined in "The Star-Spangled Banner." Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell was the principal, speaker at the "sing." , MISS CARNEGIE WILL MARRY ROSWELL MILLER. New, York," Nov. 28. The engage ment pi Miss Margaret - Carnegie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carntrim it Pleural! fi1li thie city, was announced tonight. Mr. I Miller is a son of the late Roswell Miller of New York and Chicago, widely known railroad man who, at various times, served as president, general manager and chairman of the board of directors of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail road company. Recently he has been, in the Unitgd States submarine chaser service. EVERYTHING' THAT'S BEST IN THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS WEST THAT'S OMAHA. The Omae DAely Bee VUL. 40. JU. 141. 0-thi p. o. nto ut of Mink 3. II7 OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918. By lllill (t hmD. Dally. S4.M: Sunday, IJ.M; Dally Sun., WW; tutiM) Ntk., itM ttn. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER For Iowa and Nebraska: Generally fair Friday and Saturday; colder Saturday. Thermometer KtBillnn: 8 m .Sl l p. m 83 a. m ...311 p. m 15 7 m S J p, m SI S a, m. ....... .334 p. m 3H 9 m. m 8.1 '6 p. m a 10 m. m SO S p. m is It a. m S01 p. m 34 It m .81 Mian : , ; :. WORK OF DRAFT BOARDS SOON TO BE CONCLUDED. Trenton, N.' J., Nov. 28. A tele gram received today from Provost Marshal 'General Crowder informed Governor Edge that Secretary of War Baker had issued instructions that local draft boards are not to be utilized in demobilization of the troops .General Crowder directs that draft boards be instructed to complete all data on hand as soon as possible. ; .. The boards are also ordered to conclude as quickly as possible their classification of the 18-year-old boys and the 31 to.37-year-old class. Ad jutant. General Gilkyson said tonight the work of draft boards soon will be' soon ended. B'NAI B'RITH GIVES GOLD MEDAL TO WILSON. Washington, Nov." 28. Officials of the independent order of IVnai B'rith presented to President Wil son today the gold medal awarded him by the society last October as the man who rendered the most dis tinguished service to humanity dur ing the past year. Adolph frause of Chicago, presi dent of the society read a formal salutation, hailing the- president as champion of permanent peace, the leader in the fight against militarisjn, cruelty and misery, and expressing the belief that the people of the U. S. "are fortunate for havirtg at this time for their leader a man whose words carry weight, not only with the allies, but even with the defeat id nations." UjpiNiiK 9tJ.KVJi.lJ NlNtH ON AIRPLANE W .FLIGHT Elizabeth, N. J., NoC 28.-Ttie first aerial banquet in history was held today on an airplane 2,800 feet above the new flying field of the United States air mail service here. ,A few minutes afti the mail plane iit charge of Pilot Maxmiller, left the field at 12:10 p. m., a big Handley Page machine rose, under control of Capt. E. -B. Waller of the Royal Flying forces, and during a flight of 22 minutes above the grounds a real Thanskgiving dinner was served to nine persons. Among the guests were Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner, superintendent of the air mail serv ice, and Allen R. Hawley, Augustus Post nd other officials of the Aero Club of America. Speaking of the proposed nation wide extension" of the mail service Capt. Lipsner said: y "We will have machines which will carry a ton and a half of mail and the. days of freight and parcel post by airplane are coming." ) PERU TO DEMAND INDEMNITY FOR IQUIQUE RIOTS Cabinet and Senate at-Lifna Back Foreign Minister's " Protest to Chile; Nor Apology Sent. 7 Lima. Nov. 28. The cabinet and senate have tpproved the action of the foreign minister in strongly protesting to Chil against the anti Peruvian riott at Iquique. It is an nounced that Peru will demand idemnities for these incidents. The entente ministers at Lima called separately upon the foreign min ister yesterday.' " The Chilean consul here will leave for home late today or tomorrow having been recalled. , No Apology Received. . '-Santiago, Chile. Nov. 28No communication has been' received from Peru since the protest of the Peruvian foreign minister against anti-" Peruvian riots at Iqutque Chile, and attacks on .Peruvian coir sul, it was said at the foreign office today. It was added that the announcement of Crlos Castro Ruiz, Chilean consul general in New York that the difficulty between Peru and Cihle had been settled by- an anolozv on the Dart of the Peruvian government was evidently due to a misunderstanding. t - Breach Reopened. New York. Notfi 28. Carlos Cas tro Ruiz, Chilean consul general here, asserted tonight thai his re cent statement, announcing a settle ment of the differences between Chil and Peru, was correct at the time he made it. He said later de 1 velopments had caused a reopening of the breach. -Mr. .Ruiz said he considered rupture -of diplomatic relations be- . tween the two countries possible. but declared there was no Iikeu hood of war. US. PEACE MISSION LIMITED TO 3 ENVOYS Speculation as to Personnel Narrows Down to Robert Lansing, Henry 'White 1 and Col. House., Washington, Nov. 28. The im pression is growing' among those who have talked with President Wil son about the peace conference that the American delegation will be lim ited to three members, and specula tion over the personnel has about rarrowed down lb these names: Robert ansing, secretary of state. Henry White, ambassador to France and to Italy under the Mc Kinley administration. Col. E.-M. House. There ha! been no announcement, and there may be none before the president addresses congress next week, but it was said tonight White House callers had been given o understand that these men would, Ec the American envoys. It also was indicated very definitely that reports of the president having decided to sit at the peace table himself as a delegate wese untrue. He goes to take' part in the great preliminary meetings of the heads of the asso ciated governments and to see the formal conferences under way, but not to sefve as a delegate. . In addition to the accredited dele gates there will be a large party be sides (he military, naval, diplomatic and economic experts, other special ists in the multitudinous questions to be dealt with. Among them will be men of "high rank, prepared to participate in discussions that will take place outside ot the tormai conference and in position below only the' accredited delegates, who, it is assumed, will take ambassador ial rank. , The exact time of the president s sailing for Uurope apparently still is unknown to anyone except the pres ident himself. He is expected to leave the day after he addresses the new session of congress, beginning Monday, nd the address usually is delivered the second day of ihe session. Paris, Nov. 28. (Havas.) At a meeting preliminary to the sitting of the delegates to the peace con ference, it is announced, committees will be appointed to study different (Continued on Faro Two, Column Three.) Col. Hayward Cited for French War Cross for Bravery in Action New York . Nov. 28.-CoI. Wil liam Hayward, commander of the Thirty-Sixth Infantry, formerly the ISth regiment New York National Guard., wW was wounded in the Champagne offensive last September with his regiment, has ieen cited tor the Croix De uuerre tor gal lantry according to information re ceived tonighjt. Colonel Hayward though? wounded insisted on leading his men into battle displaying marked gallantry, the citation says. He was formerly secretary of the republican national committee. Swiss Commander Ee signs. Berne, Nov. 28. Gen. Ulrich Wille, commander of the Swiss army.shas asked the federal council to relieve him of his duties. , Since the armistice, has been signed, he says, his services can be dispensed with. COUNTER REVOLUTION ALREADY IN FULL SWING, SAYS GERMAN MINISTER Secretary Barth Tells Sol diers and Workmen in -Berlin Generals Now in Open Revolt. BULLETINS. 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. - London, Nov. 28. At a Berlin meeting of the soldiers' and work men's council, Herr Barth, secre- . tary for social policy in the Ebert ministry, declared that a counter revolution was in full swing, ac cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph com pany. Several generals have issued counter revolutionary proclama tions,, and have attempted to dis solve the soldiers' and workmen's councils. Herr Barth said that the chief army command had been ordered to come to Berlin and that the dismissal of General Eberhard had been demanded owing to the ar rest of the members of the sol diers' and workmen's councils on the western front No reply had been received, Herr Barth contin ued, but if the order is disregard ed, the chief army command will be arrested. Army Held Loyal. London Nov. 28. "It would be a great mistake to suppose the kaiser- is aone wun, ne nas many aancr ents in Germany, who are quite resolved not to take the recent de feat lying down," is the opinion given the Daily Mail's correspon dent at The Hague by a Dutch citi zen, who spent the whole period of the revolution' in Bremerhaven and now has returned to Holland. The returned Dutchman estimates the proportion of loyalists to revol utionists as one to two, and he says a large number of soldiers are what might be called "true to the kaiser." It must not be imagined, he in sists, that the German army, al though smaller than before, has ceased to exist. On the contrary, he represents it as very much in existence and moreover commanded by a general devoted to the former emperor's cause. . Predicts Counter-Revolution. The correspondent's informant did not doubt that something in the shape of a counter revolution would be attempted before long. He said the red flag is still freely displayed in Bremerhaven, but he heard that it had almost disappeared in the Rhine district. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Amerongen, Holland, says the kstories regarding the former Ger- i : .1.. ... I ta4il cmpciur 3 piiuicijr suuuuiiu- ings and big dinner parties and simi lar functions are not altogether true. The most striking feature of the daily life of William Hohenzollern, the correspondent continues, is the mass of correspondence to which he devotes most of his mornings and apparently unrestricted by the Dutch government is kept accurately in formed of every development in Germany and elsewhere and is re ported to be ble to keep in pretty close touch with the other side of the frontier. The correspondent says he learns on good authority that The Nether lands government considers the for (Contlnued on Page Two, Column Seven.) tSix American Officers Visit Treves and Coblenz Amsterdam, Nov. 28. According t6 a Treves dispatch published in Monday's issue of the Dusseldorff Nachrichten, sif American officers, described as "of the American relief committee," arrived at Treves, con ferred with the workmen's and sol diers' council and proceeded to Coblenz. Week Set -Aside for Food Conservation Campaign Washington, Nov. 28. X cam paign to bring home to the' American people the need for food conserva tion so that 300,000,000 hungry peo ple in Europe and Uhe near east may be fed, will be conducted next week by the food administration. Beginning Sunday, when a mes sage from Food Administrator Hoover will behead in the churches all over the country, every possible medium will be used to awaken the nation to its "opportunity for re newed service and sacrifice for re lief of. millions released from the . 1 , Each day of the week will be set aside for a special feature of, the campaign. "The conservation Week cam paign," said a food administration statement today, "will bring out the need for saving food and sharing it with the allies and the liberated na tions. X ' "The coming yar we must send 20,000,000 tons of food to Europe practically the limit of loading ca pacity at our porj. The magnitude of this undertaking may better be understood in comparison with our pre-war exports of less than 6,000.000 tons per year and export last year of only 11,820,000 tons," , - . Bear Hunt in Park Most Thrilling Event of Holiday in Gotham New York, Nov. 28. An im promptu bear hunt in Central park was the most thrilling event of Thanksgiving day in New York. In the excitement of the chase, an assistant keeper of the 5b dropped dead of heart dis ease, a patrolman lost a chunk of flesh through a bite in his right calf and a soldier's left thumb was bitten off while he was pursuing bruin up a tree. There is reason to believe the bear would have escaped had it not got in the path of an auto mobile. It was swaggering across a road in the direction of the top most tree in the park, when the motor collided with it. The car was considerably damaged and the cub's spirit was broken. Bruin had only strength enough left ito reach the top of a small tree, the eighth it had climbed since the chase started, and there it was lassooed by a mounted po liceman and dfagged back to the cage in the zoo from which it had fled. The cub was mascot of the Twenty-second United States in fantry until it became too ois teroAis for the barracks. BLOCKADE Will CONTINUE UNTIL HUNS SIGN PACT Allies Have No Intention of Abandoning Chief Weapon for Insuring Just Peace, Says London Times. London, Nov. 28. The Times says the absurd story which the Ger mans are reported to have spread semi-officially that the entente prob ably will consider the abolition of the blockade is absolutely unfound ed. The allies have not the slightest intention, the Times continues, of throwing aside their chief weapon for insuring the signature of a just neace and the nerformanre of its conditions, particularly in the pres-t ent chaotic state of uenjiany. When the truth has been ascer tained, the allies slnd the United States will, allow the Germans from time to time during the peace nego tiations such food supplies as hu manity dictates, but the blockade must remain in force until a defini tive peace has been ratified. There after it may be kept in abeyance as the chosen instrument of the league of nations for enforcing its deci sions. Welcome Wilsqa's Visit. Concerning . the German attempts to draw a distinction between the alllies and the United States, the Times speaks of the futility of these efforts. With regard to President Wilson's coming visit to Europe, the Times says the allies look upon this unprecedented event as a great landmark n the world's history. They rejoice that the president is to make the visit first because they de sire to show the United Statesvby the reception they give the chief ex ecutive their sense of the immense debt they owe for America's assist ance, and, secondly, because they are anxious to have the personal aid of President Wilson in the task before them. To Enforce Armistice Terms. Paris, Nov. 28. Edouard Ignace, under secretary for military justice and pensions, announced in the chamber of deputies today that par liamentary' commissions would be appointed to witness the execution of the clauses of the armistice re lating to war prisoners. , 1 Meanwhile, the tyider secretary said automobile convoys and re victualling trains tinder guard would be 'dispatched to the various con centration camps for war prisoners. The chamber of deputies passed without a roll call an order of the day expressing confidence that the government would enforce the exe cution by Germany of the armistice clauses concerning food for prison ers and the repatriation of the sol diers. . s ' Aquitania Arrives With 4,000 Canadian Soldiers Halifax, N. S., Nov. 28. The gi ant British liner Aquitania reached here today with 4.000 returned Ca nadian soldiers on board, , , S ARMIES OF SOVIET IN ESTIIONIA ADVANCE Fate of Volunteer Northern Army Unknown; British Reach Belgian-German Frontier. Helsingfors, Finland, Nov. 28. Reports from the Baltic province of Esthonia Wednesday said that Rus sian bolshevik troops on Tuesday captured Pskov, 160 miles south west of Petrograd. The fate of the volunteer northern army was un known. It was also reported that Dunaburg, 110 miles southeast of Riga, had been taken by the bol shevik fearces and that Narva, 81 miles southwest of Petrograd, was being bombarded. Britons Hold Hun Guns. London, v Nov. 28.-Advance guards of the British troops have reached the Belgian-German frontier in the region between Beho and Stavelot and are in possession of more than 1,400 surrendered Ger man guns, according to an official communication issued tonight. William. HohenzoUern May Be Extradited, Says Paris Professor Paris, Nov. 28. William Hohen zollern can be extricated, in the opinion of Professor Barthelemy, of the Paris law faculty, who ex plains that his guiding principle is that when there is an apparent -con-flicy between law and common sense the solution is always found by following the latter. ,The theory that a political crime is any crime 'inspired by purely political motives,, the professor de clares, has long been abandoned. He notes that Belgium in 1856 classed regicides among common law criminals. Crimes such as the assassinations of President Carnot of France and King Humbert of Italy were inspired by political mo tives, he points out, and yet the authors of them were executed. - The atrocities ordered by former Emperor William, the professor continues, are condemned even in a state of war by international law and constitute common law crimes. To maintain that they are not be cause the object for which they were committed was political is, he argues, an absurdity. n U-Boat Avenue, Harbor of Harwich, is Over Mile Long London, Nov. 28. (Via Montreal) A Reuter correspondent who visit ed "U-boat avenue" off Harwich, where the surrendered submarines are lying, states that the "avenue" is over a mile long. The submarines are towed to either side in batches of threes and fours. Officers, when asked the whereabouts of their flags, said their flag was a red one. 1 The correspondent visited a sub marine of the DeutschTand type and saw a blood-stained cat-o'-nine-tails which a British sailor had found un der the captain's bunk. Peace Negotiations Last Spring Blocked by Gen. Ludendorff Copenhagen, Nov. 28.--The Hague correspondent of the Vi enna Neue Freie Presse says that unofficial representatives of France and Great Britain last spring de clared that their governments were prepared to initiate peace negotiations. The correspondent gives the following terms as those acceptable to the allies in return for a cessation of hostilities: Evacuation of Belgium, Ger many to pay two-thirds of the damage done in the kingdom; the, question of Alsace-Lorraine to be' referred to a referendum; southern Tyrol to be ceded to Italy; Triest to be made an international pori; Qrkia MAnaafrM anI to be evacuated and Germany's colonies to be returned. v - Baron Burian, then Austro-Hun-garian foreign minister, says the correspondent, was prepareM to is sue an invitation for peace nego tiations, but General Ludendorff, the German chief quartermaster, intervened, saying: "Let us con quer." A day later, the corre spondent adds, Ludendorff started an offensive. . Entire German Army in FocKs Grasp When Armistice Was Granted London, Nov. . 28. (British Wireless Service.) The war cor respondent of the British Wire less service at headquarters in France says that when the Ger man delegates came to see Mar shal Foch with regard to the arm istice the marshal, as well as the British high command, knew per fectly well that a few days more "the marshal put it at 10 days at the most" would have seen the surrender of the entire German army into his hands and the cul mination of the greatest victory of all ages. "The marshal," says the corre spondent," renounced that great victory deliberately and with his eyes open, because continuation of the struggle must have cost a cer tain number of French and British lives and he could not have it on his conscience to sacrifice one life after it was in his power to make peace on terms of victory." GOVERNOR REDUCES SENTENCE IMPOSED FOR BOMB MURDERS In Granting Commutation Requested by President Be cause of International Interests Involved, Cali fornia Executive Declares Absurd Propaganda Making Condemned Man Appear as Martyr. CAPTIVE BRITON COFFINED ALIVE BY HUN SOLDIERS I Inhuman Treatment Received in German Prison Camps Related by Prisoners Freed by Armistice. London, Nov. 28. (British Wire less Service.) An official statement issued today says that since the armistice was signed 444 British of ficers and 8,350 met! of other ranks, former prisoners, have arrived -t Hull from Holland and Germany, SS officers and 8,216 men of other ranks .at Dover and 500 at London. The statement says the protest of the British government, with regard to the ill treatment of British prison ers, has been communicated to the German government and the Ger man authorities replied that the Ger-i man high command was doing all in its power to deliver prisoners in good condition. Sick Men Beaten. One sergeant who had been a prisoner for seven months spoke bit terly of an enforced .march after his capture. For four days, he said, the prisoners had virtually no solid food and when they arrived at camp they were put to work burying men who had died from starvation. In one week 15 out of 100 died. No pity or leniency was shpwn to men who were -unable to work through sick ness. Oply blows and the usual punishments of half rations were given them. A noncommissioned officer of the royal army medical corps said that the worst sight he saw' was near Soissons. He was working in a hospital where ! English prisoners were suffering badly from , dysen tery. While living, a man was put into a coffin, and some German sol diers were preparing to nail the lid of the coffin dowfi. "I protested," said the officer, "that the. man was not dead, but I was langhed at and pushed to one side. The Germans went on with their gruesome task and afterwards in formed me they had nailed the coffin lid down with four six-inch nails." Murdered by Sentry. Another man who said he had been captured eight months ago, de scribed the murder of an" officer in a prison camp near the Aisne. "In the camp one day," he said, "I saw a British officer being bullied by a German sentry. The German soldier was demanding the officer's boots, but the officer refused to part with them. After a little further ar gument the German soldier shot the officer and took the boots from him as he lay dying on the ground." Flu Epidemic in Amoy. Amoy, China, Nov. 28. Influenza is epidemic in Amoy. It is estimat ed 8 per cent of the population is ill. 1- Sacramento, Nov. 28. Gov. William D. Stephens com muted tonight to life imprisonment the sentence of death imposed on Thomas J. Mooney for murder growing, out of the Preparedness day bomb explosion in San rancisco on July 2, 1916, when 10 persons were killed and 40 others injured. ' In a lengthy statement given to the public, outlining hit reasons for commuting the sentence, Governor Stephens said Mooney's case largely paralleled that of Warren K. Billings, another bomb case defendant, who is now serving a life sen tence in the Folsom, Cal., penitentiary. vj i tit governor said there were lllllinnvnn nil" certain features' connected with the nUNUKtUo Ult DAILY IN VIENNA OF STARVATION "Unless Help Arrives Quickly Hell Will Break Loose," Wires Correspondent of London Paper. , London, Nov. 28. The popula tion of Vienna is reported in a des perate coindition from lack of food, according to a message to the Daily Express from its correspondent in Vienna, who' claims to have had an1 official reception there, and to have been given special opportunities for investigating behind the scenes. The correspondent's message, dated November 25, tells of the soup kitchens established in tlje city. Each of the 10 kitchens, he says, is feeding daily 6,000 men, women and children, who have to stand in line for hours awaiting admission. Each receives less than a pint of soup made of rotten cabbage and flour containing a o,uantity of saw dust. On Sunday a little horse flesh is added. "All these human wrecks with bones protruding," continues the correspondent, "exist on this soup. Hundreds die daily, and are buried in paper coffins because the wood is needed for fuel." He says incident ally that the clerks in the Spanish embassy are dying of starvation. "Vienna," jthe correspondent adds, "is in a sullen mood. The "whole of German Austria, is afraid of bolshevism. I understand there is barely sufficient food here for three weeks, and only enough coal for a fortnight. Unless help ar.ives quickly hell will break loose. Al ready the people are buying rifles and machine, guns." The officials, the correspondent reports, complain that Hungary has food, and the x Czechs have coal, but that neither will part with :ts supplies. The officials want the al lies to put pressure on these govern ments! He adds that the leader of the red guard, a young Jew named Kisch, says he wishes to avoid bol shevism if possible. Thousands of Austrian guard turned to bolshevist beliefs, and have been dismissed until now, he says, only 800 remain. Red Flag of Bolsheviki Unfurled in San Francisco San Francisco, Nov. 18. The red flag of the Russian bolsheviki was unfurled at a recent meeting here, Department of Justice investigators said today. "The Marsellaise" was sung, (a one-act -iJaylet "The Czar in Exile," said by the investigators to be "incredibly dull," was pre sented, and pictures of Lenine and Trotzky were unveiled. English Naval Base Near Destruction by Explosion London, Nov. treal) The latest time happening 28. Via Mon interesting war for now. released publication, is a story of how Dover narrowly missed' being blotted out just prior 'to the last Belgian of fensive. The harbor was crowded with war vessels of all descriptions, in cluding four monitors about to start out for the Belgian coast to co operate with the land offensive. Suddenly an explosion shook the town and soon it was discovered that the monitor Glatten, was ablaze in the harbor. It is stated that Admiral Keyes boarded the Glatten, and, realizing the catastrophe, both to the city and the other warships in the harbor, that would result if the Glatten's magazines' exploded, ordered air raid sirens to be blown to clear the streets. Orders were also given to sink the Glatten. The destroyer Broke succeeded in hitting her with three torpedoes in a part from her magazines thus sinking her and saving Dover,' case which convinced him that the sentence of death should not be ex ecuted. -or tnis reason, ana De cause of the "earnest request" of President Wilson for commutation, he did not believe that the extreme penalty should be paid. Governor Stephens sai(J he accepted full re sponsibility for the wisdom and jus tification for the action." x Finds Justification, In reviewing the case, Governor Stephens said his action was taken after a painstaking survey of. the evidence produced at Mooney's -trial, . but because of "certain new develop ments following the conviction," which could not be considered by the state supreme court, to which the case had been appealed, he found justification.- for setting aside the death sentence. "In arriving at this conclusion," the governor continued, "I ' have exercised that caution which must be observed in weighing evidence presented outside of established legal procedure. By commutation to life imprisonment Mooney's case will be in the same status as that cf Warren K. Billings, who was con victed of the same crime and re---ceived a sentence to life imprison ment." . "I refuse to recognize this case as in any- fashiorfsjepresenting a clash between capital and labor,"s the governor said, and he charac terizes as absurd the propaganda that would make Mooney appear as a martyr to the cause of labor. In support of this statement he quotes a letter from Alexander Berkman, outlining the plan adopt ed for the Mooney campaign. He denies that Mooney is a true .frie-nd of labor and characterizes his pre vious, record as such that it does not enlist faith in him among law- . (Continued on Pago Two, Column Two.) American Airmen Honored by Their French Comrades Paris, Nov. 28. (Havas.) At a dinner given last night by American aviators in honor of their French comrades in the air service, it was announced by the under-secretary of aviation that of 240 American pilots in the Lafayette squadron, 60 lost , their lives. Many of the most noted . French airmen, including v Rene Fonck and Captain Heuteux, as well as Italian aviators, ere present at; s the dinner. The French Aero club on Thurs day, December 5, will give a ban quet in honor of allied airmen who have escaped from German captivity. On the same evening a medal will be presented by the club to Ga brielle D'Annunzio, the Italian author-aviator. Potash Problem Turned Over by War Industries Joard Washingtonov. 28. The prob lem of increasing potash production in the United States so that the American farmer maybe permanent ly freed "from the grip of Germany's monopoly on the world's supply of fertilizer ' materials" was turned over to the Interior department to day by the War Industries board. President Wilson directed that the Interior department take over this work from the chemicals division of the board as a part of the program of definitely continuing necessary work started by agerrctes created during the war. ' Governors' ' Conference Will Meet at Annapolis Madison, Wis.,' Nov. 28. Re construction problems will be con sidered at the annual conference of governors which has been called to meet at Annapolis, Md, December 17 and . 18. Former Gov. William Spry of Utah, chairman of the con- ference, issued the call for the meet ing, and it is expected that nearly every state in the union will be r resented. -