WOULD HAPPENINGS
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SECRET WAR RULE CHARGED
President Wilson Accused o f Forming
Hidden Government.
Washington,
D.
C.—Seven
men
formed *a “ secret government of the
United States,” which, working "be­
hind closed doors,” determined all of
the so-called war legislation “ weeks
and even months” before war was de­
clared against Germany, and befriend­
ed "big business,” Chairman Graham,
of the house committee investigating
war department expenditures, charged
R-34 FINISHES SEA U. S. FIELD TRIALS OF POISON GAS
FLIGLT IN SAFETY
Second Dead Sea
Off English Coast.
Huge Dirigible Soars Into Min­
eóla. Without Aid.
TRAVELS 3600 MILES
Monday after reading into the record
Events o f Noted ‘ People, Governments a digest of the minutes of the council Giant Airship Completes Atlantic Voy­
and,Pacific Northwest, and Other
age, Battling Through Fog
of national defense.
Things .Worth Knowing.
and Storm.
The seven men were named by Mr.
•
Graham as Hollis Godfrey, Howard E.
Coffin, Bernard M. Baruch, Samuel
The transport Noordam from Brest Gompers, tA-anklin H. Martin, Julius
and the Arizonian and Calamares from
Rosenwald and Daniel Willard, mem­
St. Nazaire arrived at New York Sun­
bers of the advisory commission of
day with 6936 troops.
the council. This commission, he add­
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
ed,
was designed by law to act in
President Wilson, announced Saturday
that according to the present program purely an advisory capacity to the
Mr. Wilson will address the senate on council, composed of six cabinet of­
Thursday.
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ficers, but the president, he asserted,
London.—A sea in which noth­
ing may live has come into be­
ing off the southeast coast of
England. It is u second Dead
sea.
Formerly this sen abounded
In life. It was the home of the
succulent shrimp, the merry
mussel, the winsome whelk and
the cOy «cockle. Now the natural
home of those domestic dainties
tins fallen under a blight,, and
they have been obliged to pack
up their shells and silently steal
away.
Pegwell bay is where the Dead
sea lies. It was once the most
famous of the shell-fish areas.
Its downfall is trnced to the
sinking of an oil tank steamer
early in the war. The vessel was
torpedoed one night and thou­
sands of gallons of crude oil
flooded over the Downs.
The oil swamped the haunts
of shrimp, mussel, whelk and
cockle. They were lubricated to
death. Further sinkings caused
more poison to invade the shell­
fish beds, the shrimps’ breed­
ing waters, and now the whole
area is dead.
Public Now Permitted to Know
Details of the Tests
Conducted.
Atlanta Rivals Reno
in Its Divorpe Mill
Atlanta, Ga— Because of the
great number of divorce suits
undefended
in
the
Atlanta
courts Judge John T. Tendle-
ton, who a few weeks ago de­
clared that Atlanta is out-Kcno-
Ing Reno in divorce records, has
recommended the appointment
by the county of a “ divorce de­
fender” to investigate thorough­
ly all divorce pleas and active­
ly represent the defense in all
undefended divorce cases.
“ If husbands and wives knew
that both sides to these family
troubles would be aired in court
nmj that the faults of both sides..;
would be exhibited before the
jury, there would be a lot of
people more willing and eager
to settle their differences peace­
ably instead of rushing into
divorce courts,” declared Judge
Pendleton.
ANIMAL LIVES SACRIFICED
Conditions
W ere
Reproduced
As
Nearly Like These of the Battle­
field as Possible— Greatest
Secrecy Maintained.
New* York.—Tucked away in a bar­
ren pine belt in New Jersey, near
Lakehurst, was located one of the
most Interesting army camps in the
country, for there tests were made in
actual lnrge scale field trials of new
gases which looked promising for
warfare in laboratory tests. Of course
the greatest possible secrecy guarded
all proceedings there, the personnel,
both enlisted and commissioned, hav­
ing been selected with great care, so
that nothing would leak out. Now
that the camp is disbanded, scarcely
a trace of it remaining, Lieutenant
Colonel W. S. Bacon, chief of the
proving division, tells of the work of
the camp in the Journal of Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry.
While the camp lasted a ll the
things done with gas on the combat
fields of Europe were tried out there.
T.he camp ha,d trenches, dugouts, con­
crete bomb-proof retreats, so that gas
effects might be accurately noted and
results applied to overseas work.
There were hospitals for the gassed,
goats, dogs, guinea pigs and monkeys
that were subjected to m ilitary ex
posure, and the Sort of care that hu-
muus received abroad was given to
those animal sufferers. They were
saved when possible, nnd when not
possible the camp authorities knew
they had a gas which would be fata!
also to enemy soldiers. The camp
called at all times for the exercise of
chemical, electrical, medical, engi­
neering nnd military skill of high or­
der, and it became one of the most
valuable agencies in the war.
Mineóla, N. Y.— Great Britain’s su­
per-dirigible R-34, the first lighter-
than-air machine to cross the Atlantic
ocean, anchored here at Roosevelt field
at 9:54 a. m. Sunday (1.54 p. m. G.
M. T.) after an aerial voyage of 108
hours and 12 minutes which covered
3130 kriots or approximately 3600 land
miles.
Passing through dense banks of
A dispatch from Weimar received at made them the real executives.
cloud, with the sun and sea visible
Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, says a blll( After Mr. Graham had read to the only at rare intervals, the R-34 was
has been introduced in the German investigating committee a digest de­ forced to cruise 2050 sea miles to reach
national assembly providing for rati­ signed to show that the military draft, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, from East
food control and press censorship had Fortune, Scotland, and 1080 sea miles
fication of the peace treaty.
been discussed by the commission sev­ from there to Mineóla.
The gasoline launch Waldo, with
eral weeks before »war was declared, When the super-dirigible arrived here
nine persons aboard, is missing as the
Representative Reavis, republican, Ne­ she had left only enough petrol to keep HE SLEEPS ON WINDOW LEDGE
result of a heavy gale which struck
braska, interrupting, asked “ if all this her moving 90 minutes longer. Her
Corpus C’hristi, Tex., early Sunday
Thousands Watch New Porter Slumber
was prior to the president's speech on crew, almost sleepless for four and a
on Perilous Couch in
morning and lasted until nearly mid­
armed neutrality, in which he said he half days, were weary almost to the
Philadelphia.
night.
was not contemplating war.”
point of exhaustion, but happy at the
Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president-elect
The chairman answered affirmative­ successful completion of their trip.
Philadelphia.— Office workers in the
of Brazil, sailed for home Sunday af­ ly.
Haggard, unshaven, their eyes blood­ buildings near Broad and Chestnut
ternoon on the American dreadnought
Mr. Graham said that censure of the shot from the long vigil and lines of streets nnd thousands of pedestrians in
the street had the chill of their lives
Idaho, after visiting the United States council and commission, uttered in
care bitten deep into their faces, Major as they watched a man lying on the
and Canada on his return from the senate and house, led Mr. Coffin to
G. H. Scott, t ie commander, and his ledge of a window of the Land Title
peace conference.
urge that a “ definite channel of con­ officers showed plainly the effects of
building, taking a siesta.
Two hundred delegates • have regis tact” be established between the coun­ the anxious hours through which they
Entirely oblivious to the commotion
tered in advance for the 10 days’ ses­ cil and congress.
lived Saturday while they were cruis­ he was creating, he slept peacefully
“ in other words,” commented the ing over the far reaches of Canada and on, his arms outstretched in luxurious
sions of the conference of church work­
ers of the midwest province of the chairman, "congress ought to be edu­ the Bay of Fundy, beset by fog, heavy ease, his feet sticking over the edge of
Proper Bursting Charge.
the sill from whicli wns a sheer drop
Episcopal church which opens Tuesday cated.”
winds and terrific electrical storms.
“ To make clear the trials and tests
of forty or fifty feet to the pavement.
In
brief,
Mr.
Graham’s
digest
charg
at Racine, Wis., college.
"It seemed as though the atmosphere
His slumbers, however, were soon necessary,” Lieutennnt Colonel Bacon
ed that the president organized the was haunted by 5000 devils,” said Lieu­
A record for a trans-Atlantic round
brought to an end when repented tele­ writes, "before n substance was’ final­
council in violation of the law and
ly recommended let us take as an ex­
trip of 12 days 1 hour and 35 minutes that, in addition to framing legisla tenant Gay Harris, the meteorological phone calls to the building superintend­
ent’s office told of the sleeper and his ample substance X, which has been
was established by the steamship Great tion, dictated policies the country was officer.
With the R-34 long overdue at its perilous couch. The mnn turned out to found In the research laboratory to
Northern, which arrived at New York to pursue, and befriended “ big busi­
destination, petrol supply running low be a new porter and John, the bend be promising, both us to toxicity nnd
Sunday from Brest. The vessel also
ness.” Included in the report read and buffeted by strong winds, Major porter, climbed out, woke him and soon ease of manufacture. Enough of this
held the former record of 13 days and into the record was a letter by Judge
substance was made to fill several
Scott decided while over the Bay of brought liiqi “ back to earth,” both hundred shells of various calibres.
43 minutes.
Gary advising the committee it was Fundy to send a wireless call to the figuratively nnd physically.
The first step toward making a recom­
The Irish Unionist Alliance, replying disregarding the laws “ supposed to American navy department to prepare
mendation was to determine a proper
LATINS
BUILD
BETTER
HOMES
to a manifesto issued recently by the regulate business.”
to give assistance if it were needed.
bursting charge for the substance.
“ Irish Dominion League,” asserts that
After Chairman Graham had told the This was merely a measure of precau­
“ After the bursting charge had
the first act of any freely elected par­ committee that the minutes he had tion and did not indicate discourage­ Influence of Italians Who Have Lived been determined large number^ of
in United States Aids
the shell were repeatedly fired on
liament in full control of Irish econom­ read into the record were unofficial, ment. While destroyers and submar­
Movement.
trenches, wooded areas, rolling and
ic and military resources, would be to but “ substantially correct,” the com­ ine chasers were racing to her assist­
level ground, etc., in the same num­
proclaim an Irish republic. .
mittee decided to call Grosvenor Clark­ ance, the R-34 was plugging steadily
Rome.— The Italian who has lived bers as used in actual warfare.
General Cretien, commander of the son, director of the council, to estab­ ahead on the way to Mineóla. Once long In America is helping to Amer­
"Animals were placed In these
clear of the Bay of Fundy the atmos­ icanize Italy more potently than any Areas and samples of the gas taken.
allied forces in Bulgaria, has informed lish their authenticity.
pheric hoodoo »which had beset the other factor. He has introduced Amer­ A fter a number of such experiments,
the Bulgarian premier that peace dele­
Arm y Probe Is Ordered.
craft from the time it took the air was ican ideas nnd Americans ways of do­ very accurate and constant results
gates from that country will be called
ing things at every possible turn when were obtained, upon which, if the sub­
San Francisco.— An investigation gradually left in its wake.
tp Paris soon and that the Bulgarian
it is practical and more efficient than stance proved satisfactory, data could
government is invited to nominate a was ordered Monday by Rear Admiral
the Italian.
Ex-Prince Prefers Death.
be given to the artillery as regards
delegation, according to a Sofia dis­ J. L. Jayne, commandant of the 12th
The Itnlo-Ainerienn has brought hack how many shells of this particular
Amsterdam.—
“
The
allies
can
only
naval district, of charges by enlisted
from Am éricain idea of better housing
patch.
gas should be used, with corrections
men that money had been paid to petty have my dead body; I will myself de­ condition's, and If h# decides to settle
for size of area, wind velocities, tem­
The new treaty with France, by
cide
on
my
life
or
death,”
the
former
again in Italy he builds a home pat­ peratures, ground conditions,
officers to secure transfers from un­
etc.
which the nation is promised American
German crown prince is quoted as hav­ terned along American lines with
desirable assignments.
Trials were continually held to deter­
aid in case of an unprovoked attack
plenty
of
space
around
it,
nnd
with
its
ing
said
Friday
in
discussing
a
possi­
Three chief yeomen of tho receiving
mine how many high explosive shell
by Germany, was described as "the
division of rooms.
ship Boston in San Francisco bay were ble demand for extradition.
could be fired with gas shell on the
premature obituary of the league of
The statement, reported by the Brit­
same area without affecting the con­
taken into custody pending completion
nations ns a league of peace” in a
of formal charges against thqni. As­ ish wireless service correspondent, U. S. SHIP LOSSES $30,000,000 centrations.
statement issued Sunday by Senator
“ The use of the high explosive
signments to ships on the Atlantic was said by him to have been made to
W a r Risk Bureau Paid Damages on
Borah, republican, Idaho.
shell in combination with gas shell
coast were secured through money a Dutch official who talks daily with
152 Vesels T hat W ere Lost Dur­
was highly important in order to
The German Conservative party has payments, it was said, and in like the former crown prince.
ing the W ar.
disguise rhe gas bombardment. The
According to this official, Frederick
issued a proclamation, signed by Ern­ manner men were able to have their
burst of gas shell fired alone can be
est von Heydebrand, the party’s leader names erased from lists for transfer Hohenzollern is in excellent health. He
Washington.—Just how spectacular
distinguished by - the small detona­
takes motorcycle trips daily and fre­ was the rise In ship values during the
in the Reichstag, stating that the party to ships in Russian waters.
tion.”
war
wns
shown
In
an
announcement
quently visits both the rich and poor
“ declares war on the government and
Lines of Trenches.
by the war risk bureau that the Stand­
on the Island of Wieringen.
intends to use Its whole strength to
Anarchist Plot Foiled,
Two complete lines of trenches and
ard Oil company’s steamer John D.
re-establish the monarchy, according
n,„ne.—An anarchist plot to attack
Arehbold, first ship insured by the gov­ several impact grounds were used for
Fight Picture is Rushed.
to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex- th0 central part of Rome by means of
San Francisco.—Early Sunday edi­ ernment agency, was protected by n the work, and shells were fired for
change Telegraph companj.
hand grenades and other explosives
policy for #770,000 m 1014, but when as great distance as 5,000 yards. Not
tions of a local morning newspaper
A windstorm which bordered on n has been exposed by the arrest of 16 carried a reproduction of a photograph she wns torpedoed tn 1017 her Insur­ only were the most minute accounts
ance had been increased to $2,200,000. kept of all conditions at the point of
tornado swept northeastern Montana of the conspirators four hours before of the Willard-Dempsey fight at Tole­
Ttye marine and sen men’s division of firing, but a sampling contrivance was
and northwestern Worth Dakota late . the time fixed for carrying out the do. Ohio, which, the newspaper assert­ the burenu, paid loses on 152 vessels
arranged by which at all times and
Monday night and early Tuesday morn- plans.
ed, was brought here in 54 hours and with n tonnage of 397J059, nnd on 275 places the Intensity and effect of gas-
ing, killing seven»!, injuring many
About the same time 30 anarchists 22 minutes from Toledo by airplane lives lost by the hazards of war. Total charged air coultl be recorded. Photo­
others and causing grt>at damage to motored to Fort Pratalata, four miles and fast mail service. The photo­ monetary losses amounted to about graphs were also taken of every ex-
I plosion as an aid in determining the
buildings both in towns and in rural from Rome, and tried to induce the graph, according to the newspaper, $30,000,000.
garrison to join in an attack on the was carried by "airplane from Toledo
sections.
Rome market place. The soldiers fired to Chicago'; from Chicago to Ogden,
Wheat in all Canadian elevators has
on the anarchists and seized several Utah, by railway mail and from Og
been commandeered by the board of
of them. The others fled.
den to San Francisco by airplane, ar
grain supervisors in order to provide
riving here early Saturday.
Greece with 15.000,000 bushels ^rithin
FORTUNE LOST IN STRIKES
Labor Disorders in Ruhr Coal District
of Germany Prove Financial
Disaster.
Berlin.—The strike recently conclud­
ed in the Ruhr .coal district lias cost
the miners $8,000,000 In wages. The
output deficit for April is 3.330,000
tons, representing ifiore than $34.000,>
000.00. The loss t(T physical property
is believed to be so great as to pre­
clude profitable operation for a long
time to cotne.
The miners In the Ruhr coal fields
are more than $25,000.000 out on their
wages account ns the strikes have been
going on intermittently since tlie begin­
ning of the revolution. In the Hiun-
born district miners struck G8 days out
of 140 working days between November
9 and April 28.
The loss tft the nation ns a result of
the coal strikes cannot be computed. It
caused a general paralysis of railway
traffic, the shutting down of industrial
plants and a loss of revenue and
freight to the state railways. The na­
tional strike fever Is believed to have
caused a depreciation In the national
currency of more than $4,000.01)0.000,
nnd to have aided to repress the value
of the German mnrk»abroad.'
TRAIN APES AS FARM HANDS
Doctor Garner Plan» Establishing Col-
ony of Chimpanzees in United
States.
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New York.—Dr. Richard Lynch
Garner announced his Intention of es­
tablishing a colony of chimpnnzees nnd
gorillas in the United States to uplift
the entire npe rnce. He has just re­
turned after two and one-linlf years
spent in the French Congo for the
Srnithsoninn institution.
The professor said he believes apes,
if given the advantage of modern ed­
ucation and environment, would devel­
op Into a race that would sow and
reap and toil in the mills. In refined
young lady apes the professor sees a
possible solution of the servant prob­
lem.
“ Sam, a hoy npe that shared my
home tn Africa, lenrned to fetch things
I called for,” he said. “ He became as
particular as I nbout bed slteets being
smoothed out, nmi couldn’t go to sleep
without n pillo*. If mnn could train
a dog to herd sheep, man enn in;ike a
farm hand out of an ape.”
conditions that would be most effec­
tive In practice, low-lying clouds of
gas and wide diffusion being the
things desired. From 125 to 150 sains
pies of gassed air were taken daily
on the ranges. t
• There was a research laboratory
for the analysis of gases under field
practice, a chemical laboratory to pre­
pare gases for the experimental work,
nnd a loading plant. The filling o f
every shell wns enniyzed and imme­
diately after firing, samples of the re­
leased gas were at once analyzed for
decomposition products.
REMINDERS OF OUR DEAD IN PERSHIN6 SQUARE
Harvest Calls For 10,000.
the next 12 months, it was announced
Lincoln.— Nebraska needs 10,000 har­
In Toronto. No shipments can be
made at present without permits from vest hands at once, according to an
estimate made by H. C. Filley, of the
the board.
Nebraska unlversfty department of
The allied governments have repre rural economics, who has just received
so mod to the government of Holland reports from governmental agencies
the necessity of taking steps to pre­ throughout the state ^hieh asserted
vent the departure of «the former Ger­ that unless the men are forthcoming
man emperor from Holland, C. B. immediately the state's big wheat crop
Harmsworth, undersecretary of state will suffer. So urgent is the need for
for foreign affairs, announced in the harvesters that automobiles are being
house of commons Monday afternoon. used to convey the tpen to the farms.
The German ex-Crown Prince Fred
Five-Cent Far« 1« Wanted
crick William escaped from the island
Spokane, Wash.—Following notifica­
of Weiringen Sunday, according to an
tion of the state public service Tom-
Amsterdam dispatch to the Solr.
missiou's extension of the slx-eent fare
Premier Lloyd George received a for local street railways for an addi­
rousing ovation when he appeared in tional 90 days, the city council adopt­
the house of commons Monday. The ed a resolntion asking the commis­
premier had been cheered by crowds sion to restore tho flve-cent fare for
on his way from Downing street to a period of 90 days. It is argued that
thé house, hut the reception from his such a teat would afford « fair com-
feiiow members in the house eclipsed parlson between the six-cent and the
the cheers he had received elsewhere flve-cent fares as far as the financial
since his return from Parts.
j effect on the companies is concerned.
Bodies of Three Recovered.
Spokane, Wash.— The bodies of the
three persons who lost their lives by
irowning by the overturning of a
launch on Twin I-akes, Idaho, late
Saturday night, were discovered Sun­
day morning. They were James A.
Burns, a rancher; his daughter. Phyl­
lis Burns, aged 17, and Chester I*
Graves, who came here from Kansas
about two weeks ago. Nine persons
were in the 18-foot boat 150 feet from
shore when the accident occurred.
W ind
Fan» 400-Acre Fire.
Missoula, Mont.— A fire covering
about 400 acres on Mill creek, in the
Bitter Root forest, eight miles west
of Corvallis, Mont., was the chief con­
cern of officials at the service head­
quarters here Monday. Fanned by a
strong wind, the fire is reported as
being beyond control at present Ex­
cept for this fire, however, the situa­
Row of “ graves" built by Mrs. Laura I’rlsk In Pershing square at Forty-second street and Lexington avenue« New
tion was generally favorable, officials York city. These graves will serve as a reminder to the throngs who pass of the supreme sacrifice made by over
00,000 American soldiers.
said.