Dayton tribune., December 21, 1917, Image 2

BOYS STAGE "DUEL”
OF CURRENT WEEK
Mock Affray With Rifles Becomes Too
Real and Lad is Killed by Play­
mate Near Oregon City.
INTERNED SHIP IS
4
TO OUST BOLSHEVIKI
General Kaledines and Other leaders
to Make Short Shrift of Radicals
London— Russian officials in London,
who are establishing direct communi­
cation with General Kaledines and
other leaders of Democratic organiza­
tions in Rusaia, declared to the Asso­
ciated Press Wednesday that the move­
ment to overthrow the Bolsheviki was
suppported not only by the Cossacks,
but by almost all the leaders of the
other parties. These leaders, it was
said, are confident they will be able to
make short shift of the Bolsheviki.
Oregon City. Ore.—Leslie LeDoux,
aged 14 years, was killed Saturday af­
ternoon in the hills back of Parkplace
when four boys, three of them armed
with 22-calibre rifles, deliberately ar­
ranged and carried out what they
termed a “ duel.”
Officers say the fatal shot was fired
either by Cecil Green, aged 13 yearSj
and a nephew o f the dead boy, or by
I-ake Smith, the 15-year-old son of W.
Brenta of Noted People, Governments W. Smith.
It is a strange story that Sheriff W. Revolutionary lh-opaganda Is Dissem­
Stockholm, Tuesday—A proclama­ Americans Abroad Fighting With Guns
and Pacific Northwest and Other
J. Wilson extracted from the lips of
inated From Hawaii at Instiga­
tion of General Kaledines, the Cossack
of French Make - Rifles Scarce
the Green and Smith boys and from
Things Worth Knowing.
leader, declaring that the Cossack gov­
tion of German Government.
Cecil Shaw, aged 8 years soon after
in Training Cantonments.
ernment has taken over power in the
the recovery of Leslie’s body. The
four boys were on good terms, and
Donets region of Southern Russia, is
Twenty-one British merchantmen after lunch the Smith boy went to the
published
in the Yushny Krai, a news­
Honolulu—While her band was play­
Washington, D. C.— Members of the
were sunk by mines or submarines last LeDoux home with Cecil Shaw, and ing lively tunes to drown out all tell­ paper of Kharkov, a copy of which has
week, as against 17 the previous proposed that Leslie and Green join tale sounds, the wireless apparatus of
senate military committee Friday sub­
reached Stockholm, having escaped the
them in a hunt.
They all started,
week.
jected Major General Crozier, chief of
going back of Parkplace about a mile. the German unprotected cruiser Geier, Bolsheviki censorship.
Western railroad lines were ordered For a while they enjoyed the innocent interned in this harbor, relayed mes­
ordnance, to three hours of sharp
General Kaledines declares that the
by the Railroad War board Thursday sport of shooting at a mark, but this sages between German agents in the
cross-examination, seeking explanation
to send 100 locomotives to aid in re­ amusement soon palled and, according United States and Japan in further­ Cossacks have the means of maintain­ of delays in providing the war army
ing
order
and
intend
to
use
their
whole
lieving traffic congestion.
to the other lx>ys, it was Leslie who ance of a plot to embroil the two coun­ power to oppose the Bolsheviki.
with weapons.
loiter they intend
to press questions which the general
The British government has donated proposed that they fight a duel and tries in war, according to an article
The
newspaper
puldishes
sharply
objected to answering in the open
£1,000,000 for the relief of Halifax, it that he take Smith’s gun, and stand off appearing in the Star-Bulletin here.
The article, which is published with worded protests against the Bolsheviki hearing.
was announced Friday by Andrew his nephew, Cecil Green, and Lake
from
seven
different
army
corps.
Tur­
Throughout the examination General
Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex­ Smith, the latter using Leslie’s rifle the authority of the United States Na­ kestan is reported to be mobilizing all
and Green his own gun.
Leslie took val Intelligence Bureau, declares that men between the ages of 16 and 46, Crozier insisted that there had been
chequer.
up a position behind a big tree, while the seal placed on the Geier’s wireless' who will be sent to Tashkent, capital and would be no delay In equipping
Another payment of 525,000,000 to Green and Smith crouched down to­ by the American government was bro­ of that government, to fight the Bol­ soldiers sent abroad.
He admitted
Italy Thursday, the first for many gether behind a large stump. It was ken by the Germans in order that the sheviki, who now control the city.
that because of a shortage of machine
weeks, brought the total actually paid at this point that the little chap of the messages might be sent.
guns the American troopa in France
The information
regarding the
to that government from the $500,- party, Cecil Shaw, says he protested,
were supplied with weapons of French
000,000 credit allowed up to $320,000,- and warned the contestants that they Geier’s activity in this supposed plot HEAVIER BURDENS TO COME make and that there was a lack of
000.
had better be careful or somebody was obtained from the dairy of Cap-
both machine guna and rifles in the
would get shot.
His advice fell on tain Grashof, of that vessel, the arti Congress is Urged to Concentrate on training cantonments, but declared
The effigy of United States Senator
deaf ears and he withdrew to a safe cle asserts.
that the training of troops would not
War Problems.
La Follette was burned on the campus
“ Grashof’s dairy says, according to
distance, but remained to watch the
be serioualy retarded.
of the University of Wisconsin Thurs­ fray.
the article, that in November, 1914,
Washington, D. C.— Warning that
Responsibility for the machine gun
day after a monster mass meeting of
The three boys opened fire and every and W^rugry. 1917, messages order­ the United States must prepare to as­ situation was placed by the general
students.
They adopted resolutions
time a head would appear around the ing the Widespread promulgation of re­ sume further burdens to win the war squarely upon Secrotary Baker, who,
pledging loyalty.
stump or from behind the tree a rifle ports that Japanese forces were to
ho said, had taken a personal interest
They had kept up the land in Mexico and German forces in was given Wednesday in the senate by in • the matter and ordered an investi­
Prohibition advocates from “ dry” would crack.
states told of the good effect prohibi­ firing for probably 15 minutes, when Canada were handled by the Geier’s Senator Reed vigorously opposing as gation which resulted in the adoption
tion has had in their communities at suddenly Cecil Shaw yelled to Green wireless, the operators working night a trust scheme the Webb export com­ in June of a new gun known as the
and day in order that there would be
Thursday’s convention session of the and Smith to stop firing.
bination bill which President Wilson Browning type. This statement came
“ You have shot L eslie,” cried the no delay in the transmission of these
when Chairman Chamberlain said he
Anti-Saloon League of America, being
in his recent address urged congress to
radiograms.”
boy.
was not satisfied with the explanation
held in Washington, D. C.
According to the diary Count von enact.
The trio rushed over to the tree and
that the delay had been caused by in­
Camp Mills, Long Island, where the found Leslie prostrate with a bullet Bemstorff, ex-German ambassador to
Declaring that conrgess should con­ vestigation.
and Captains
Oregon regiment has been stationed hole squarely in his forehead. He the United States,
“ Neither am I satisfied,” responded
centrate upon great war problems and
for several weeks, is being vacated was alive, but was breathing heavily Boy-Ed and Von Papen, his principal
the witness, “ but 1 am not [»ersonally
defer
consideration
of
such
legislation
and when its present garrison has de­ and was vomiting.
He was uncon­ aides, figured prominently in the plot
responsible. ”
parted the camp will not again be used scious, and the frightened boys eased George Roedick and H. A. Schroeder, as the export trade measures the Mis­
Neary every member of the commit­
by troops during the winter months.
his position and placed his cap under ex-German consuls at Honolulu and souri senator said that with Russia out tee joined in the examination and
his head and then, terror-stricken, pro­ Manila, respectively, are also impli­ of the war and Roumania also “ gone,” questions were fired across the table as
Cheyenne is shivering in a tempera­ ceeded to study out a false story to cated.
rapidly as the general could answer.
ture of 5 degrees E>elow zero, a drop take home with them.
Both pleaded guilty in San Francis­ the enemy, numerically, is now super­
They swore
Chairman Chamberlain took excep­
ior in manpower.
of 38 degrees Thursday in one hour,
each other to secrecy and placed Les­ co recently to complicity in a plot to
tion to conclusions drawn from Gen­
and the mercury will hover between lie ’s own gun in his hand and then establish a revolutionary government
Although an opponent of army con­ eral Crozier’s testimony that congress,
15 and 20 degrees below zero for sev fled, leaving, as they supposed, mute in India.
scription, Senator Reed predicted that by failing to make prompt appropria­
eral days, according to government evidence that the E»oy had died by his
A German secret agent known as
new draft levies probably would be tions, and labor troubles, were largely
forecasts.
"K -17” was said in the dairy to have
own hand.
General
necessary
and urged military training responsible for the delay.
About 7 o’clock Sunday morning aided in the transmission of these mes­
Crozier said he had not (intended that
Bishop Paul Jones, of the diocese of
sages, and also to have advised the for youths between 18 and 21 for coast such an interpretation be made and
Utah, of the Protestant Episcopal while Sheriff Wilson was going to
German
government o f the sailing defense work.
Invasion of America, that millions of dollars appropriated
Parkplace
for
a
second
time
in
search
church, Thursday appeared before
times of Danish vessels from here and he asserted, was not beyond the realm had not been expended. Delay in sup­
committee of three bishops which of the missing boy, he met Lake elsewhere.
of possibilities should other allied plying rifles, the general explained in
met in St. Louis, to consider charges Smith and Cecil Green together, the
powers fall beside Russia, Roumania great detail, was due tl» tho factory
of disloyalty that have been made latter handling a paper route and
and
Serbia.
being
on
his
way
to
the
interurban
car
changes incident to modification of the
against him.
SHARK PÙLLS ANGLER TO SEA The
Webb bill was denounced by British Enfield type, which large pri­
after his papers. The sheriff stopped
Havana—The house of representa­ the boys and talked with them and,
Senator Reed as destructive of the vate plants in this country are equip­
tives Thursday night adopted a resolu­ suspecting that the truth had not been W oman Fighting from Boulder Drowns Sherman anti-trust law at behest of ped to make, to use American ammuni­
tion declaring a state of war to exist told, he urged them to make a clean
trusts and monopolies and a proposed tion. Better rifles are a result, he in­
When Fish Takes Bait.
between Austria-Hungary and the Re­ breast of the whole affair. The Smith
legalizing of illegal combinations sisted. He also said Craig and pother
San
Francisco—
A
large
fish,
pre
public of Cuba. The action was taken boy gave the first information to shed
which would encroach on consumers types are now being sent to National
sumably a shark, pulled Mrs. Anna
following the reading of a message light on the tragedy by saying:
abroad and increase domestic prices.
Army cantonments and that other pro­
Conners to her death on the rocks of
from President Menocal recommending
" It repeals,” he Baid, “ every vestige duction is increasing. Detailed state­
“ L eslie’s gun went off yesterday Moes Beach near here Sunday.
Mrs.
such a declaration.
of that system of anti-trust statutes ments regarding prospective deliveries
and nearly shot m e.”
Connors was fishing from a large tx>ul-
Sheriff Wilson promptly marched der. A companion, Emil Bedenbeck, built up during 28 years by the Federal of rifles he regarded as confidential and
The Cossacks under General Kale- Cecil Green to the LeDoux home, and,
government so far as the same apply were postponed until a later session.
heard her cry in alarm and turned to
dines and the Bolsheviki forces are re­
in the presence of Mr. LeDoux, he see her bracing herself against a to commerce with foreign powers. It
ported to have met in at least two questioned him sharply and finally the
is intended directly to legalize the NEW KITCHEN CARDS SOON
Before
fights, with the counter revolutionists boy broke down and confessed the strong pull upon her line.
creation of combinations and trusts to
the victors in both. The engagements truth and went with the sheriff and Bedenbeck could reach her she was control every foreign market in which
dragged into the surf.
occurred at Mohilev and at Tamanov-
the American citizen may seek to sell Housewives to Be Requested to Make
Claude Rittenhouse straight to the spot
Bedent>eck, after an hour’s battle,
ka and the Bolsheviki losses are de­ where the body was found.
Further Saving*—Sugar Short.
his goods. Indirectly it will enable
brought the woman’s unconscious body these same combinations to control the
clared to have been heavy.
Washington,
D. C— A [sugar ration
back to the ledge upon which she was
domestic markets, because a control of
The Bolsheviki have dispersed the UNCLE SAM TO HELP FARMER fishing.
of three pounds for each person a
He then scaled the adjoin­
the priecs of the surplus that goes
senate, the highest Russian court, and
month, a pork less day and one wheat-
ing cliff and summoned aid.
When
abroad to find a market controls the less and meatless meal a day will be
all the other courts at Petrograd, in
he returned he discovered the body had price of the home product.
keeping with the recent decree of the Measure Authorizing Purchase of Loan been swept out to the sea.
recommended to householders in a new
It had not
This measure has the enthusiastic kitchen card soon to be put out by the
Bonds Favored by Congress.
people’s commissaries, substituting
been recovered up to a late hour.
support of the allied trusts of the
new revolutionary tribunals. The only
food administration.
Observance of
Washington, D. C.—The Secretary
United States, together with their ser­ wheatless and meatless meals will be
opposition met was at the congress of of the Treasury is authorized to pur
“Garabed” to Be Tested.
vants, agents, employes and sympath­
county judges, who refused to be dis­ chase not exceeding $100,000,000 of
asked in addition to the wheatless
Washington, D. C.—The bill provid­ izers. It will be supported by every and meatless days called for now.
persed. They were arrested.
farm loan E>onds each year for two ing for tests of a mysterious machine newspaper that believes in the control
The normal consumption of sugar
J. A. McHugh a rancher of Auburn, years upon recommendation of the for utilizing free energy devised by of big business which regards every
Wash., and his son, John E. McHugh, Farm Loan board, in a bill favorably Garabed T. K. Giragossian, an Armen­ effort to lim it or circumscribe the pow­ in the United States has been more
convicted in the federal court of con­ reported by the house banking and cur­ ian inventor from Boston, was passed er of capital as undesirable and dan­ than seven pounds a month for each
person.
spiracy to violate the selective draft rency committee.
Saturday by the house after lengthy gerous.”
The cards will caution against hoard­
Requests for the legislation came debate.
law by making false affidavits sup­
The measure provides for
ing foodstuffs in homes, pointing out
porting the son’s claim for exemption, from the Farm Loan board, which plan securing the discoverer’s rights if the
La Follette Quiz Put Off.
that the practice not only is selfish but
were sentenced late Tuesday.
The to ressume within a few weeks the machine is demonstrated to be practi­
Washington, D. C. — Another hitch that it contributes to high prices and
father was given six months in the sale of bonds, stopped December 1, cable and that the government may
developed Wednesday to further post­ defeats the purposes of the food ad­
county jail and fined $500.
The son, when a selling agreement with private use it without charge.
Authorization
now at Camp Lewis cantonment, was bond dealers expired.
A similar bill passed by the last ses­ pone the senate elections com mittee’s ministration in seeking an equitable
fined $50.
of,purchase by the Treasury is sought sion of congress was vetoed by Presi inquiry into Senator La Follette’s St. distribution.
The reverse side of the card carries
in order to stabilize the interest on the
Thomas B. Love, of Dallas, Tex., bonds and to enable bankers to have dent Wilson. The new measure was Paul speech. The committee discussed a message to householders. “ The food
introduced to meet the President's ob- whether further investigation would be
has been nominated to be assistant sec­
situation in Europe,” it says, “ is far
time to float them instead of throwing jection to providing that there shall
retary of the Treasury to fill one of
them on the market under emergency be no patent on the general principle made by the sub-committee, which will graver than when the preliminary sur­
the new offices created for the war.
meet next week to decide the question vey of the food supply of the world of
conditions with high interest rates.
involved.
of procedure, and deferred for the last year was made.”
Petrograd newspapers report that
present the proposed examination of
Congressmen to Pay Tax.
Teuton Republic Urged.
Chinese troops have arrived at Harbin,
ex-Secretary Bryan.
Free-Seed Plan Profitable.
Washington, D. C.—The house ways
Manchuria, to protect Chinese inter­
Washington, D. C.—The committee
Tacoma, Wash.—-Double the amount
ests, according to the Berlingske and means committee has directed on public information makes public an
Socialist Regime in Russia.
of seed potatoes which Pierce county
Tidende.
Chairman Kitchin to draft an amend­ article written by Germans and circu
Washington,
D. C.—Candidates for loaned farmers and others unable <o
ment to the excess profits section of lated in Germany urging the over­
Reserve Corps commissions who failed buy them last spring, have been re­
A general inquiry into the opera­ the war tax bill that would clear up
tions of the war department in arming any doubt as to the tax on the in­ throw of the German war lords and the through physicial disability or lack of turned as payment of the loan. This
and equipping the American forces comes of professional men receiving proclaiming of a republic. The docu­ military knowledge to be recommend­ was true in every case except one
was decided upon Tuesday by the sen­ $6000 or more a year being applicable ment, which was distributed through ed by commanders at training camps where the farmer did not have a crop.
German republicans in Switzerland, are to be called into the military serv­
ate military affairs committee. Sec­ to members of congress.
declares that peace will not come until ice of the Nation to officer the new So successful was the plan that the
retary Baker and other department
commissioners are considering their
The committee will vote on the
heads will be called to explain various amendment and members say it will be Hohenzollemism is overthrown and the National Militia soon to be organized free seed program to include many
German
people
take
their
stand
for
for guarding ports and government other vegetables. Potatoes valued a t
features of war activities.
reported favorably.
fe» manitv and civilization.
property.
$500 were given to the county.
Brief ¡Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Dairy of Captain Exposes Trick
Played at Honolulu.
COMPILED
BAND DROWNS SOUND
FOR YOU
General Crozier Lays Blame on
Baker Before Committee.
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
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