The Polk County post., January 10, 1919, Image 2

WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
SOCIALIST LEADERS GUILTY
Victor L. Berger and Four Associates
Violate Espionage Law.
SERIOUS FIGHTING MERCHANT SHIPS
! OCCURS IN BERLIN TO CARRY CADETS
Chicago.—Five leaders of the Social­
ist party ‘were found guilty by >a jury
Training System of Shipping
after five hours and 50 miufeles' de­
§ DAD AND 3 SONS FIGHT
g
Board to Be Extended to
liberation in Federal Judge Landis'
3
UNDER
GEN.
PERSHING
court Friday of conspiracy to violate
Large Vessels.
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Natick, Mass.—Murtin Neury
the espionage law by delivering public
• of this town, whose three sons
speeches and circulating published ar­
• are members of Generul Per-
ticles with the wilful intent of causing
2 shing’s forces in France, was
insubordination, disloyalty and refusal
of himself In Pershing's command
Y o u n g Men W ill Le arn the R o a d to 5 on the plains of Arizona during
of duty among the military and naval
« the Indian campaigns. Pershing
the Q u a rte r D eck and C o u n tin g
forces of the United States and with
2 was then second lieutenant of a
R oom — H ig h C la s s of S e a ­
Events of Noted People, Governments interfering with the recruiting service Government Issues Proclamation In
of cavalry troop and Neary was a
men W anted.
S' sergeant.
g
structing Troops to Prohibit
and Pacific Northwest and Other
and the enforcement of the selective
Washington.—Apprentices and endet
draft law.
Gatherings in Streets.
Things Worth Knowing.
officers will be placed on all large ves­
The men found guilty are:
sels of the American merchant marine, good foreign representatives in com­
Victor L. Berger, representative-
to be trained for higher places, much
Berlin.—The government has decid­ ; the same as sailor boys were trained mercial and industrial lines, nnd
Twenty-two states now have ratified elect from Milwaukee, and editor of
agents on the staffs of the steamship
the
nation-wide dry amendment. the Milwaukee Leader.
ed that it will %pd the plottings of the to "become officers nnd shipping mer- lines at home nnd in foreign ports.
Adolph
Germer,
national
secretary
Thirty-six states are required.
Spartacus socialists with the means at | chants in the early days of American
“I regard the recruiting service of
of the Socialist party.
seagoing, according to a plan to be the shipping board ns something that
A inpvemont to erect a monument
J. Louis Engdahl, editor ■ of the present at its disposal, and in a put into execution at once by the is to produce for the mercantile ma­
at Oyster Bay, N. Y.. to commemorate American Socialist, official publica­ proclamation issued Wednesday in­ United States shipping board.
rine of the United States a substantial
The basis of this plan is a system type of men of the seamen’s class thnt
the life and work of Theodore Roose­ tion of the Socialist party.
structs its troops to defend the gov­
velt has been inaugurated.
• William F. Kruse, national secre­ ernment and prohibits gathering of of individunl training on shipboard will be officers later on, men who can
for American youth capable of-rislng go abroad,and learn the business» and
tary
of the Young People’s Socialist groups in the streets.
An annual rental of $53,603,437 is
through instruction to a shipping ca­ carry the Americun interests with
Street battles continue. During the
reer, the ultimate goal of which is .the
provided in the government contract League.
1
Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, Social­ fighting .revolvers and hand grenades position of sldpninster, steamship them.
with the Pennsylvania lines, east, and
“I want to make seagoing just as
have been used. The number of per­ agent or manager, or trade representa-
ist
writer
and
lecturer,
formerly
di­
six subsidiaries, it is announced by
attractive as I possibly cun. 1 want
rector of the literature department of sons killed or wounded is not known. I tive at home or abroad in the great
the railroad administration.
to attrnct to it the boys who come
The Spartacus group has captured program of commercial expansion by
the Socialist party, ami author of anti­
from colleges, and who know how to
the Spandau arsenal and distributed sea by which the country is to keep swim and play tjnseball. I want to
Major-General J. Franklin Bell, com­ war pamphlets.
mander of tlie Department of the
The convicted men face prison ;yms among its followers. It is said busy it? vast merchant fleet.
make conditions, aboard ship such that
The plan has been devised as an ex­
East, died Wednesday night at the terms of from one to 20 years, fines of the government would consent to a
they will feel it is the best destiny
tension o f . the wartime system of
Presbyterian hospital In New York. from $1000 to $10,000, or both, at the parley with the Spartacus faction, pro- training conducted by the board, they can find.
I
vided
civilians
were
disarmed,
occu­
“The men we want to attract to the
His death was due to heart disease.
discretion of the trial judge, who will
through which large numbers of Amer­
pied buildings were evacuated and ican lads were given brief intensive sea, I feel, are the men such ns we
fix the puifishment later.
Iduho, through action of the state
Attorneys for the defendants imme­ i Chief of Police Eichhorn should give schooling on training ships, before be­ remember ourselves in our school days
senate Wednesday, ratified the amend­ diately presented a motion for a new in. The Spartacus group has captured ing sent to sea.
—nice, clean boys, who had good
homes, and who wore leaving home
ment to the federal constitution seek­
the
postoffice.
The
offices
of
the
F o r C om m ercial Service.
trial. Judge Landis fixed Jaunary 23
amid the old family discussion as to
ing to prohibit forever the manufac­ as .the date when he will hear argu­ Wolff Bureau, the semiofficial news
This finished product is expected to whether they would be bankers, insur­
ture and sale of Intoxicating liquors in
mature
in
the
form
of
able
seamen
of
agency,
have
been
transferred
to
ments on this motion. The five de­
ance men, retail merchants, or what
the United States.
a high type, petty officers, deck and not. I want to add to that list the
fendants were taken in custody In the i Frankfort.
engine-room officers—all Americans— very important nnd very alluring oc­
Nine persons are dead and a score courtroom, but a few minutes later
Paris.—Serious fighting occurred as well as n needed supply of young cupation of the pursuit of the sea.
of others suffering injuries as the re­ were released on their old bonds of
men* experienced in sen-going and car­
“When we ask American .boys to
sult of a spectacular fire and explo­ $10,000 each. Seymour Stedman, chief Monday in Wilhelmstrasse and a large go-handling, who can he further
sion which wrecked a.film exchange counsel for the defendants, declared number of Spartacans are reported trained in steamship offices and export­ come aboard ship, we certainly must
ail recognize that we have got to as­
building in Pittsburg late Wednesday. that the case will he'appealed to the to have been killed, say dispatches.
ing and Importing business houses, sure them of quite a different condi­
The Independent socialists have join­ with a view to later commercial serv­
The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. United States supreme court if neces­
tion than lias existed in foreign com­
sary to keep hjs clients out of prison. ed the Spartacans and proclaimed a ice connected with shipping.
merce during the past thirty years;
Lieutenant-Governor Channing P.
It was this system of training that I might say, unhappily existed.”
general strike in Berlin. The majority
Cox of Boston sent a telegram to Sen­
enabled
early
merchants
of
Salem
nnd
socialists and democrats are support
ator Lodge Wednesday, asking him to REDS TAKE VILNA AND
Boston to outstrip all rivals in foreign
ing the government.
trade, and make themselves and their TH EFT OF HOUSE CHARGED
introduce in congress a resolution pro­
MASSACRE CIVILIANS During the fighting on Monday the communities
rich.
viding for the changing of the hame
Spartacans entered th.e chancellor’s
In thus extending its present train­ C o n tracto r Is B ro u gh t In to C o u rt A c ­
of the Panama canal to Roosevelt
cused of the La rce n y of a D w e ll­
Warsaw.—Vilna has fallen into the palace, from which they opened fire on ing service— which continues ns here­
canal.
ing House.
hands of the Bolshevik army, several . the buildings of the Vorwaerts. Eich- tofore under the direction of Henry
I horn, the Spartacan police chief, is re- Howard of Boston—the shipping board
Ten million murks arrived in Cob-
thousand strong, w*hich drove out the
Medford, Mass.—Charged with the
has the benefit of experience in train­
! ported to be fortified in the castle.
lentz Thursday by special train, this
ing cadets at sea gained' by its new larceny of a dwelling house, Clarence
sum being the first payment by the Polish militia. A massacre of civil­
McLean, a building wrecker, lias been
BerMn.—A government official has director of operations, Jolui H. Kos-
German government of the ^¡5,000,- ians began at once, partly because the
brought into court by Mrs. Mary J.
Poles
had
offered
resistance
and
had
seter
of
San
Francisco.
000 marks due in January for the ex­
informed a correspondent that the cab­
Mr. Rnsseter has decided ideas on Gilleland, owner of the property. Ac-
penses of the American army of occu­ arrested or shot the members of the inet has rallied all agencies to the sup­
the training of young Americans for
local Bolshevik committees.
port of law and order and defense of seafaring and for steamship opera­
pation.
Tim Polish troops, who had no can­ the government,
tion. He has tried out many of these |
Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik prem­ non and only a few cartridges per
“If the Spartacans attack us,” said ideas In a practical way through his j
ier of Russia, has been arrested at the rifle and were under command of Gen­
Command of Leon Trotzky, minister of eral Veitko, retreated to Lanovarova, the official, "they will find us pre­ management of the Pacific Mail Steam­
war and marine, who has made himself where they were disarmed by the Ger­ pared. We have all the troops needed ship company, one of the largest ship­
ping interests operating from the
dictator, according to a Moscow dis­ mans and sent to Bialystok. There to assert our authority. Naturally we American West const to the Orient,
are
anxious
to
avoid
a
conflict,
birt
if
patch to the Gothenburg, Sweden, they were robbed by the Germans and
it come* it will not be of our choos­ South Sens and South America.
Gazette.
At the conclusion of a recent con­ Few Hundreds Only Are Suffering
were started off for Polish territory, ing.”
!
ference
at Washington of shipping-
From War’s Strange
The Paris Temps says it is able to Lemburg, where the Poles aro defend­
The correspondent has been inform­ board officials Interested 111 develop­
ing
themselves
against
the
Ruthen-
slnte that President Wilson has offi­
ed in competent quarters that the gov­ ing the training plans of the board un­
Malady.
cially informed Premier Clemenceau ians, apparently safe for the time ernment is hurriedly mobilizing all der peace conditions, Mr. Rosseter
that he does not desire to be consid­ being.
available defensive forces. The Sparta­ expressed his views on the subject at
The political situation at Warsaw I cans also are arming and making the length. Later he embodied them in
ered at the peace congress as the head
of a state, hut only as the prime min­ is stationary. As a result of inter­ royal stables their headquarters. A ¡lie following interview:
views which Ignace Jan Paderewski spacious apartment in the former chan­
ister of his state.
hfigh C la s s of Seam an W anted.
has had with General Pilsudski, Pa­ cellor’s palace has bden equipped as a
"Shipping
men are agreed that if at­ A lt V ic tim s W ill Be C om p letely R e ­
Mrs. William Waltenberg and two
tainment of our new and enlarging in­
derewski has agreed to form a new Red Cross room.
covered in a Y ear, S a y s Surgeon
sons, George and Arnold, aged 3 and
terest in foreign bommeree is to be se­
cabinet, provided the Socialists In the
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G en e ral’s Office— L e ss T h an
!) years, .respectively, were burned to
cured, we must certainly hnve a very»
ministry withdraw from their predom­
1,000 C a se s to Be Treated.
death In their home in Colville Wed­
high
class
of
American
merchant
sea­
inating position. General Pilsudski
nesday morning, and another son,
men ; the same kind we lmve so ad­
expressed himself as not wishing to
Washington.—Fear that the nation
mirably developed for our navy.
Lawrence, uged 7 years, was so badly
use Ills authority to force the with­
“We all know of the higher social will have a big problem on Its hands
burned ho is not expected to recover.
drawal of these Socialists.
siandafd that naturally prevails in in the care of soldiers suffering from
Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, 74,
this country; nnd, personally, I would shell shock is utterly without foun­
Paris.—The return to Paris of Presi-
say that I would not only accept the dation, declared Col. Peace Bailey of
world famous us a giant, died at his
! dent Wilson, the arrival of Lord ttob- present standards, but I am disposed the surgeon general’s office. Amplify­
home at Seville, Ohio, Wednesday.
| ert Cecil, the special delegate of the to go n step further, beciyise that is ing the Statement before the senate
Rates, who toured the world with a
; British government on the league of the tendency; nnd if we nre to get military committee that hundreds of
circus, wus seven feet four inches tall
nations, and the presence here of Leon good men and train them to be good victims of the strange disease actually
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and weighed 360 pounds. He was
Bourgeois, the French representative seamen nnd then good officers, we recovered at the signing of the armis­
married twice, his first wife being over
Washington, D. C.—At least 1,400,- on the same subject, marked the in­ must see that they nre placed under tice, Colonel Bailey expressed the
eight feet tall.
000 tons of foodstuffs, costing approx­ auguration of exchanges on the defin­ such environment ns will naturally opinion thnt so far as'present knowl­
edge of the malady indicates, practl-
The Southern Products company of imately $350,000,000 delivered, will be ite terms by which the league is to be evolve into a condition of their being
Dallas, Tex., which was mentioned in needed to carry through, until the constituted.
n hearing before the senate committee next harvest, the populations of the
Already considerable progress has
Investigating German propaganda as districts thus far investigated by the been made on the various tentative
having participated with the Chase American staff of the Commission on proposals, but in the absence of the
National bank of New York In a loan European Relief. This estimate was president has not taken definite form,
of $3,000,000 to the German govern­ seut by Herbert Hoover to the Food but it is expected that he personally
ment, denies any knowledge of such a administration in a cablegram review­ will take a leading part in the final
ing the conditions as found in central formulation of the plan. Meanwhile,
loan.
Europe and tho Balkan states. Finland. however, the various governments
Five transports and the battlesdilp
Baltic states, Serbia, Jugo slavia, Vien­ chiefly interested are presenting out­
North Carolina steamed into New
na, Tyrol, Polnnd, Roumanie, Bulgaria. lines In qplte definite form.
York harbor Tuesday, bringing a total
Armenia and Czecho slovakia.
The British plans of this tentative j
of nearly 9000 officers and men of the
The surveys made by the American natuA> have been presented, one by
army and navy from France.
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commission, Mr. Hoover said, discloses Lord Robert Cecil, the other by Lieu- j
Lieutenant David L. Fultz, United that meats, fats and milk are so short tenant General Smuts, of the War cab- j
States army, was unanimously elected In many regions that the health of the inet. The French plan as formulated
president of the new International people Is very much impaired, mortal­ by M. Bourgeois also has been set j
Baseball League at a meeting of cltib ity among children is appalling, and forth and these are being compared by j
owners In New York Tuesday night. there is a constant nleuace through the the American specialists, who are pro
At his own request the term was lim threatened spread of Bolshevism, espe­ paring the ground work for President |
Bed to one year.
cially in the cities.
Wilson.
Brief Resume Most important
Daily News Items.
Government and Spartacans
in Hot Clashes.
COMPILED
MANY
FOR
YOU
FLEE
CAPITAL
MISS ELIZABETH WALKER
STUDY FOR HIGHER PEACES
One of the handsomest of the debu­
tantes of this winter’s social season in
Washington.
cording to the evidence submitted Mc­
Lean negotiated with Mrs. Gilleland
for the dismantlement of the house, af­
ter it had been condemned by a ha nd­
ing inspector. Mrs. Gilleland denied
that such an arrangement had been
made and charged that McLean “stole
the house.” The court continued the
cuse to give the principals an oppor­
tunity to adjust the matter between
themselves.
BRITISH GIRLS ARE TRAINED
Food M in is try P rep are s Y o u n g W om en
E m p loyee s fo r C om m ercial
Careers.
London.—Hundreds of girls em­
ployed at the ministry of food regis­
tration clearing house are receiving in­
structions during working hours for
commercial careers.
The London
county council has taken charge of
their education and each girl is given
one and a quarter hours every day ex­
cept Saturday for instruction and
study.
Classes fire held three times a day.
The girls are from sixteen to eighteen
years old.
There are classes in bookkeeping
French ami shorthand, and the girls
are also given the choice of recreation
classes in elocution and singing.
SHELL SHOCK HITS
YANKEES LIGHTLY
MANY RESTORED BY PEACE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PLANS FORMULATED
NEED 1.400,000
TONS FOODSTUFFS
SHOES FOR THE DESTITUTE BELGIANS
The Red CrosR canteen service,
T w e lv e T ra n sp o rt’s F itte d U p
Washington. D. C.—Total deaths j
both at home and abroad, will be i
New
York.—Twelve former freight among the American expeditionary,
maintained “until every soldier is {
home,” according to George F. Scott, I steamships Of the Amertcan-Hawatian forces in northern Russia to January 4
general manager of the American Red j and Iuickenbach lines have been taken were given as six officers aiW 126 men.
over and equipped as transports, with i In a cablegram received at the War
Cross.
a combined troop-carrying capacity of department from Colonel James A. j
President Wilson will return to the 19.000 to 20,000 men, by the Untted ■ Haggles, American military attache j
United States to attend tho closing States army transport service, It was with Ambassador Francis at Arch-
sessions of the present congress, ac­ announced here Saturday.
cording to present plans, and will
Before the war the vessels were in ment of the troops was complete, the
come hack to France for the later sit­ the South American and Panama canal health excellent and the morale very
tings of the peace congress, says a trade, and during the conflict they | good. Food conditions were described
Paris dispatch.
were used as cargo carriers.
j as very good.
cully all victims of shell shock should
be completely recovered within a year,
the great majority In a much shorter
time.
L e ss T h a n T h o u sa n d Cases.
Reports received here are that there
are now less than a thousand cases
of shell shock to be treated, thanks to
the improved methods by which the
United States army combated the af­
fliction. Preparations had been made
to take, care of 2,500 cases, sent to this
side by March 1, but since hostilities
ceased word from France shows there
ure only 300 cases there requiring
treatment in this country. There are
probably about the same number en
route home.
It is accepted here that the drop in
the expected number of sufferers was
due directly to ttie news of Germany’s
surrender. The only explanation for
this is the removal from the sufferers
of apprehension that they would
again be subjected to an ordeal that,
acting on the minds, actually twisted
their bodies ^out of shape.
Serious as have been the ravages of
shell shock among the troops, said
Colonel Bailey, described by Surgeon
General Ireland us one of the coun­
try's leading psychiatrists, the United
States forces have not suffered to the
extent those o f the other allies have.
This Is due largely to the fact that 93
per cent of the cases developing have
been cured in the field hospitals by the
prompt treatment provided.
G iven Sp e cia l T reatm ent.
The more seriously afflicted are
brought to this country and seut to
Plattsburg, N. T„ where there is a
special hospital of 1.500 beds. Within
a short time after admittance most
pntients avow they are regaining their
normal condition, and ufter observa­
tion Indicates that this is so, they nre
removed to n casual detachment at the
hospital for brief additional observa­
tion. When it is tfvident they have
recovered they are sent to camps near
their homes to be mustered out.
The rapidity with which cases nre*
being cleared through Plattsburg con­
vinces Colonel Bailey that there will
be few permanently disabled by the
disease. This Is tn marked contrast
to the situation In England where
there are 20,000 shell shock, victims on
the pension rolls.
Colonel Bailey revealed thnt. con­
trary to the general belief, shell shock
does not necessarily come from heavy
cannonading. Proof of this is found
in the fact that from 10 to 12 per cent
The g ir t In Hu« p h o lo g ro H o i*
it n«\ i ilw iii i m o f an enormous pile of the casualties in the «’bateau Thi­
of shoes donate»! h> to -o p te . II o v e r th I'n tte » ! s -
r . t the destitute people erry fighting were shell shock, most of
of Belgium. The ? li >«•■» nr>> m a ward* •use in N work. N. J.. which is the these men haring «*en exposed only
to machine gun fire.
distributing centir of tlio u siiH » '* ><f I -ns of »loth n g for the Belgians.