The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 1

i Till WHATUtR Pill VnoHav, Oik- Itrtd tad Vicinity fin Best Cable News Ob the Dally Dereloj Ids Sltvation fa Enron Ii to Be Found Pall; 1 Krld. f.lr. II i tmn tn th mora- wiuiunr. ill! in "The Examiner" HWotutrd of REG. U.S.

PAT. OFF. CC NO. 152. FRIDAY SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 29, 1918 TWENTY PAGES.

VOL CIX. FRIDAY infol crrzir 1 1 44 Wil 'son's Appeal Prompts Decision, Stephens; TNEZ ANN CRITTEN-1 DEN, former secretary fo- J. K. Armsby, who died in France on day that armistice was signed. REVOLUTION AOftiMOinrno emand Surrender of Former Kaiser Allies to HTOO I HLU0 IN GERMANY I I 1 BAR OUT THE Stephens Tells Why EXTRADITION Luxembourg Grand Duchess Will Abdicate DECISION IS SURPRISE 10 Generals Issue Proclamations and Attempt to Dissolve the Councils of Soldiers and Workmen IS GERMANS He Commuted Tom LEGAL, SA1S PARIS EXPER1 Bavaria Severs Diplomatic Relations With Berlin Charges Government With Deceiving People BOTH SIDES ENGLISH CRY entence Mooncy's By Unlrrnil Sanln.l AMSTERDAM, November 28.

The abdication of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg is expected shortly. The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies is to decide whether the Grand Duchy is to become a republic or whether it shall be merged with Belgium. Te latter course is said to be generally favored by the people of Luzembourg. Union Leaders Expected Governor to Grant Pardon and Provide Trial on Other Counts "Invasion" After Peace Is Signed Is Feared; Issue Plays Big Part in Political Campaign Atrocities Declared to Be Covered by International Law and Constitute Common taw Crimes LONDON, November 28. At a Berlin meeting of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Council, Herr Barth, secretary for social policy in the Ebert ministry, declared that a counter revolution was in full swing, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company.

Seve-il eenerals have issued coun Governor Refuses to Recognize Case as Issue Between Capital and Labor; Convict Is Scored Newspaper Declares Foe Should Understand English Said "Good-by," Not "Au Revoir" lifflGEil Returned Dutch Traveler States That Hohenzollern's Friends in Germany Still Hope to Win ter revolutionary proclamations and have attempted to dissolve the Soldiers and Workmen's Councils. Barth said that the chief army itself acted as a stay in the execution, there was at that time ho ocoaeion for action on my part. 1 take It that tho 'president was not correctly Informed as to the etatus of the case. In March I received a telegram from the President, urging that I commute Mooney's sentence. It was as follows: "The White House, Washington, D.

12:06 p. March 27, 1918. "Governor William D. Stephens, Sacramento, "With great respect, I take the liberty of saying to you that if you could see your way to commute the sentence of Mooney, it would have a most heartfelt effect upon certain international affairs which his execution would greatly complicate. "WOODROW WILSON." A cable dispatch by Damon Runyon, Universal Service staff correspondent, received from Luxembourg Wednesday, gave the first news that the Luxembourg Grand Duchess has but a precarious hold on her throne.

The dispatch stated the chamber recently voted to retain her. SACRAMENTO, November 28. The following is Governor Stephens' statement regarding his commutation of the Mooney sentence: On July 22, 1916, ten persons-men, women and children were killed and about fifty others were wounded in a bomb explosion during a preparedness parade In the city of San Francisco. The parade was a patriotic manifestation into which the people of the city had entered with much spirit and loyal Impulse. Manifestly, because of the occasion chosen, hostility to the nation's defense measures must have had a part in actuating the perpetration of so horrible a deed.

It is not unreasonable to assume that a sympathy, or even a definite relationship, existed between these LONDON, November 28. The entente allies have decided to demand that Holland should surrender the former Emperor of Germany to justice, according to the "Daily Express." SACRAMENTO, November 28. In an executive order accompanied by a lengthy written opinion, Governor William D. Stephens tonight commuted the death sentence of Thomas J. Mooney, under conviction of the San Francisco bomb murders of July 22, 1916, to life imprisonment at San Quentin prison.

DIESlfRANGE Inez Ann Crittenden Stricken by Pneumonia on Day That Armistice Was Signed. BY E. G. FITZHAMON, Stiff Corrpndent ef Unho! Santo. (Special Cbl Ditpatek.) LONDON, November 28.

There is crystallizing throughout Great Britain a fear of a German invasion not an invasion threatening life and limb tut of the insidious sort, looked upon as an offshoot of the doctrine of "peaceful penetration," ana as menacing British national institutions and ideas. "Thow out the Huns and keep them out," is the issue being raised in the election campaign and "big business" has actually inaugurated commond had been ordered to come to Berlin and that the dismissal of General Eberhard had been demanded, owing to the arrest of members of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Councils on the western front. No reply had been received, Barth' continued, but if the order is disregarded the chief army command will be arrested. fBy Universal Stnrle. mmm In his written opinion, the Gov Death came on the morning the armistice was signed to a California woman who had done noble and brilliant work in France, in the service of her country.

I BOLSHEVIK ernor stated that he was moved to commute the sentence by reason of new evidence in the case In the annals of the women who and by reason further of Presi helped in the actual work of war, the name of Inez Ann Crittenden might Russian Red Chiefs Exhort Troops to Invade Baltic Provinces for Food. dent Wilson's repeated request that Mooney's sentence be com very well lead all the rest. And just as the world struggle muted because of the interna a policy toward that end, the purpose being that of never again allowing Germans to work themselves into high and influential places in England. The Carlton Hotels Company already has invited the proprietors of th Ritz-Carlton, New York, to cooperate in this campaign, according to Chairman William Harris of the board of directors of the company. PREMIER IS ATTACKED.

"In view of the threatened influx of enemy aliens," said Harris to Universal Service today, "the board of directors has prohibited the employment by the Carlton and Ritz hoteis of tional complications involved. ended, when her name and fame were on the lips of the new leaders of men produced by war, when the soft wings of peace brooded once more over the PARIS, Tuesday, November 26. William Hohenzollern can be extradited, in the opinion of Professor Barthelemy of the Paris law faculty, who explains that his guiding principle is that when there is an apparent conflict 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 declares, has long been abandoned. The ordered by former Emperor William, the professor continues, are condemned even in a s'2re of war by international law and constitute common law crimes.

To maintain that they are not because the object for which they were committed was political is, he argues, an absurdity. SOCIALISTS STILL ACTIVE. LONDON, November "It would be a great mistake to suppose the kaiser is done with; he has many DECISION A SURPRISE. nations, she died in Paris, a victim In June I received this additional message, the President again urging commutation of sentence: "The White House, Washington, D. 3:51 p.

June 4, 1918. "Hon. William D. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal. "I beg that you will believe that I am moved only by sense of public duty and of consciousness of the many and complicated interests involved when I again must respectfully suggest a commutation of the death sentence imposed upon Mooney.

I would not venture again to call your attention to this case did I not know the international significance which attaches to it "WOODROW WILSON." STILL IN STATE COURT. At the time of the receipt of these messages the case was still pending in the Supreme Court of the State. Not until August 23 was the case Anally disposed of by the California The Governor's action was a of pneumonia, at the age of 31. By Universal brvic. LONDON, November 29 Bolshevik forces have captured Dvinsk, according to a Helsingfors dispatch received via Stockholm.

The Bolsheviki are said in the dispatch to be bombarding Narva, a port in the Gulf of Finland. surprise upon account ot its HER ABILITY RECOGNIZED. Before America entered the war, coming in the midst of a new the abilities of Mrs. Crittenden were recognized in her home State. drive by Mooney's friends to se COPENHAGEN, November 2S.

The Republic of Bavaria has broken diplomatic relations with Berlin "because of the continuation of the deception of the people by the Berlin government." The break between Bavaria and Berlin has been threatening for days. At the federal conference in the Prussian capital early this week Karl Eisner, Bavarian Premier, openly foreshawdowed it. He demanded the Immediate ousting of Dr. Mathias Erzberger and Dr. W.

S. Solf, whom he accused of trying to continue the Prussian imperialistic policies. From The Hague late today comes a dispatch saying it Is understood "on unimpeachable" authority that the former Kaiser will not be permitted to remain in Holland much longer. Bavaria, through her breaking away from Berlin, now looms as the successor to Prussia as the dominant power in Germany. She is assured of the support of virtually all the South German states and of the new German Austrian republic.

The at cure his pardon or a new trial for him. It had been urged by Moo When she entered the United States Signal Corps, as chief operator of a telephone unit of several hundred women, ranking as a lieutenant, she was confidential secretary for J. K. Armsby, president of the California Packing Corporation. At one time she was sent to New any German ciuzens ana asned tne New York Ritz-Carlton hotel to follow its example." The Northcliffe papers are fanning the popular feeling in this respect and incidentally they are attacking Premier Lloyd George for not defining Iris stand on the question.

In this connection a dialogue in the course of the Premier's speech at Wolverhampton the other day is interesting. Interrupting the Prime murderers and the propaganda and violence then being engaged in throughout the country by agents of the German governmsnt. GERMAN ACTIVITIES. 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 the Kaiser's agents in this country.

A number of persons of pronounced anarchistic tendencies were arrested shortly after the explosion, and of these Warren K. Billings was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and Thomas J. Mooney found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. So long as avenues of appeal to the courts remained open to Mooney, and he was availing himself thereof, I deemed it improper for executive authority to interfere. Although the constitution of California clothes the Governor with power to exercise clemency at any time after conviction, it is important, so far as practicable, not to intrude into any criminal case until the judicial branch has finally disposed of it Only recently has final action been taken by the United States Supreme Court, and the case of The People vs.

Thomas j. Mooney placed squarely before me. In considering the Mooney case, I have had before me 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 nutil he could be tried upon one of the other indictments against him. The commander of the Northern Red Army has exhorted his forces to invade the rich Baltic provinces and there are prospects of raids on a large scale for food and other loot.

When German troops withdrew from Dvinsk they lcTt the city at the mercy of returning war prisoners and there has been much disorder. By AiiMitted Fms. IIELSINGFORS (Finland), November 2S. Reports from the Baltic province of Esthonia Wednesday said that Russian Bolshevik troops on Tuesday captured Pskov, 160 miles southwest of Petrograd. was also reported that Duna-hiirff lift milps southeast of Rica.

ney's supporters that a commutation of sentence to life imprisonment was not desired, as they believed in Mooney's innocence and in behalf of the Mooney prosecution it had been said that a commutation was not desired, as the State believed in Mooney's guilt. adherents in Germany who arc quite resolved not to take the recent defeat lying down," is the opinion given the Daily Mail's correspondent at The Hague by a Dutch citizen who spent the whole period of the revolution in Bremerhaven and now has returned to Holland. The returned Dutchman estimates titude of the Northern states toward the southern federation is obscure. Prussia, where the Soviets are most Minister, Alderman wellesley Davis asked: "Are you in favor of keeping out the Germans?" The Premier: "We have had quite enough cf the Germans." The Alderman: "It is a question which the entire country wants answered." NORTHCLIFFE'S STAND. The Premier: "It is a very 6mall question compared to the vaster ones before us." Northcliffe's "Evening News" will say editorially tomorrow, under the heading "Good-by, Not Au "If Lloyd George thinks the country regards the clearing out of the Ridfi Issue he is Verv rnr-h influential, is threatened with com plete isolation.

British Diver Fleet the proportion of loyalists to revolutionists as one to two, and he says a large number of soldiers are what might be called "true to the kaiser." The correspondent says he learns on good authority that The Netherlands government considers the former crown prince the only dangerous intriguer, the former emperor's day being regarded as ended. On Way to Kiel York to assist in the' confidential negotiations resulting in the formation of the Packing Corporation, successor to the J. K. Armsby Co. Reading and writing 1-Yench fluently, Mrs, Crittenden passed the examination easily, and at once was given recognition in the service.

PROMOTION WAS- RAPID. She won rapid promotion after her arrival in France last February. First, she was transferred from the telephone unit to the American Embassy in Paris, with the Committee on Public Information. One month before her death she was promoted to a position in the Intelligence Department, relieving an officer sent to the front As the signs of peace grew, until they lit the whole world with their heraldings of joy, Mrs. Emily Murphy, 119 Alvarado road, Berkeley, looked forward with fond anticipation to the day when she would receive word that her daughter, now famous, would return from war-swept France.

Perhaps it would be for Thanksgiving. At all events, it would be by Christmas. Then came the blighting message that Inez Ann Crittenden had succumbed November 11 to an attack of influenza. But her mother is brave in the thought that few daughters have served their country so nobly and so well. courts and on November 18 by the Supreme Court of the United States.

I have carefully reviewed all the available evidence bearing on the case. There are certain features connected with it which convince me that the extreme sentence should not be executed. Therefore, and because of the earnest request of the President for commutation, and conscious of the duty I owe as governor of this State to all of it people, I have decided to commute Mooney's sentence to life imprisonment In doing so, I accept full responsibility for the wisdom and justifica-tion of the action. The record of the trial In the Superior Court was reviewed by the Supreme Court of our State, and it found no reason for upsetting the judgment of the lower court However, there has remained for me to consider in addition certain developments, following the conviction that could not be considered by the Supreme Court It is because of this new evi- (Continued on 2, Colu-mn i By Unhreru! fttnicft, LONDON, November 2 8. Twenty had been taken by the Bolshevik.

Daughter of Andrew Carnegie Betrothed NEW YORK, November 28. The engagement of Misa Margaret Carnegie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, to Roswell Miller of this city was announced tonight Miller is a son of the late Roswell Miller of New York and Chicago, widely known railroad man. Recently he has been in the United States submarine chaser service.

Jane Addams May Be mistaken. As he says it is an easy ne Eritish submarines are reported thing to ao we rausi suppose mat ne will do it at the earliest possible mo-hut. in order to make that nni. to have passed Ihe Skaw in a south Only an overpowering national reason, it was said by the prosecution, would reconcile them to a commutation of sentence. In his opinion, the Governor does not discuss the new evidence upon which he partly rest3 his action, but he does set forth in full the two telegrams from President Wilson urging a commutation of Mooney's sentence because cf international considerations.

NATIONAL INTEREST. The President's telegrams make no reference to the gtrflt or. erly direction. A British surface sible the country must see to it that fleet Is near the Skagerak, ready to the memDers ui me new aniament a proceed to Kiel. are simuariy mmueu.

"Tim Huns are makinsr arnnr The Skaw, or Cape Skagen, is the ments to return here when peace is a -A 4k. A a Sigrnea. ixi. uiera unuereiana mai northern extremity of the Isle of Jut EX-KAISERIN IN HOLLAND. By Unimul Starlet.

LONDON, November 28. The ex-Kaiserin has arrived at Amerongen, Holland, according to a dispatch to the "Daily Mirror." The former Kaiser was not at the train to meet her, but she was received by the wife of the German Minister to The Hague. The ex-Kai-serin had twenty large trunks. She appeared be la the highest spirits. we said ana not 'Au Re vnir.

land, oft wliich the great sea battle Candidate for Mayor was fought on May 31 and June "Every parliamentary candidate must be asked to put In writing his 13U. The Skagerak is an arm of SUPREME COURT APPEAL. Inasmuch a3 an appeal already had been taken to the Supreme Court ef California, which appeal th North sea oetween Norway and Jutland, It is part of the channel CHICAGO, Noverrber Miss Jane Addams is being mentioned as a candidate of a Chicago woman's party for Mayor. views on ine expulsion oi we nuns. There are few constituencies where ths question does not rank as of the first importance," cnnectlnff the North and Baltic was..