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— ALSACE-LORRAINE LOOTED BY HUNS Spoliation of Two Provinces by Beast of Berlin’s Barbarians Continues. ART TREASURES TAKEN AWAY Objects of Priceless Historic and Ar- tlstlc Worth Carried Off to Supply tbs Demand of the New Rich. With the French Annies.— Ger- many's latest spoliation of Alsace-Lor- n in e consists o f the carrying away from the latter o f all the old antlqul- ties and objects of art In which the two provinces for centuries have been unusually rich. The exodus o f all these objects, many o f priceless historic and artistic worth, across the borders o f the two provinces and over Into the big Gen man cities would appear to consti tute German's final effort to squeexe out o f Alsace and Lorraine the last thing o f value while she still has It within her power to do so. During the seventeenth century A l sace and Lorraine became very much a center for various lines of art and •apeclally fo r the making o f the vari ous styles o f furniture which have and solid. The styles which hear the names o f the kings o f France, and which. In the villages, were o f fine and delicate workmanship, acquired In the country districts a character entirely original, rustic. It la these that the antlquarlnns are now after. "A s a consequence while attending auction sales they find time also to ; , seek out the Uttle Alsatian homes and find little difficulty by (laying the 1 country people In actual currency In acquiring the old family clocks, of which the majority no longer run. and the chairs with their magnificent 1 ' hacks worn by age. “ The demand for objects o f this j sort has Increased immensely during the year that has Just finished. The i real buyers o f them are to be found In the large cities. For the most part they are the ‘new rich' who have made their fortunes from the war and j who from one day to the other find themselves transported from the couu- j ter to the top of German society and 1 seek by all menus to surround them- j selves with objects o f ancient art.” or CURRENT WEEK Chicago. — When the lights were put out the other night In the four-story department store o f Moeller Brothers, here, the curtail, went down on the first act of a stirring drama of pa triotism. The Moeller brothers, John P. and Karl C. have offered up the million-dollar busincas aa a sac- rtfice on the altar o f loyalty to the nation In which their father ami grandfather, both German- born, made their fortunes. Stock and buildings have been sold and the brothers now are await ing dally the call to report for j] Event* o f Noted People, Government* service In Uncle Sam’s army. and Pacific Northwest and Other For 40 years the Moeller*, Things Worth Knowing. grandfather, father aud sons, have been building up the busl- noss. until last year Its transac tions totaled more than $1,000,- Cantor Charles W. Wagner, author of 000. Three and a half year* ago the widely known book, "T h e Simple the father died and the sous L ife ," is dead at his home in Paris. took up the business, which at He was 67 years old. the time o f Its liquidation had Lieutenant Benjamin V. ftturice, over 160 employees. o f New York, died at F.llingtun Field, w w w c w w w w w w w Houston. Tuesday, o f injuries received when his airplane fell on April 16. GUNFIRE IS MADE SURE BY PHOTOS »graphic printing plant and •rtistic furnishings. Because Alsace French Artillery to High skilled workers, photographers and and Lorraine were the centers o f the mathemutldsns. In a very few hours Efficiency. various trades, art crafts and manu after the receipt o f the day's opera facturers that were employed In the tions from all the various sources, production o f these historic styles of dozens o f copies of the corrected maps furniture, thousands o f the best are ready for Issue to all the staffs pieces remained In the two provinces o f corps, divisions and brigades oora- where they became heirlooms in the i Prised within the army concerned. native families. Nothing Is omitted from the maps— Every Enemy Object Accurately Re Treasures Forced on Market. every church, house, chlmuey, mill, corded A fter Airmen’s Scouting of It Is largely this class o f art ob bridge, road, railroad, group o f tree* Flights— Maps Brought to jects that the Germans are now Is marked, as well as every turn and Date Daily. searching out and carrying off to Ber twist of an enemy trench or system of lin, Munich and other German cen i barbed wire entanglements; every French at the Ger- trenen Front.— ra m i.— Accuracy Accuracy and effi- | stream, ditch, bridge, ford, every path ters. Owing to the fact that Ger man authorities are now forcing the rfency have been made possible for the use<i by gupp)y partleai eve_ point of < French artillery by the Invention oi j ----- -------- , . ,, — liquidation and sale of all i------- homes — and resistance, orgatdzed shell crater, look ____ ___ properties ________ owned **j _______ other by French an instrument that enables French out post Is shown on the maps. Maps citizens and often o 4 f * Alsatians guilty mapmakers to locate almost exiuily a 4 very [arKe 8(-ale are given v v “ v *4 - J a m m u u o ^ u 1 1 i j * . i x . ( on “• 4 f 4 *1 J 4 4 *l * ' U lt u l t K ill II when »» llvli only o f French sympathies, thousands an object within the enemy lines «m e n an attack ,s about to be earr|,,<j out< o f these old pieces of furniture are has been photographed from au air- M (ba( each offlcer am, tnnn pakrtjc|. being thrown onto the market in a plane. In transferring to a map toe pat,n(f may know PXact|y what („ i„ manner that enables the German anti- photographed object, such us an enemy front o f h!m am, wh#t hl, nla). ,,xpect quartans to buy them at nominal fig- battery or munition dump, the margin Jo encounter durlng his advance, nres. In other instances, the anti- o f error Is limited to less than five _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ quartans search out families that have yards. been Impoverished by the war and This permits the French artillery to THESE BOYS force them to part for a little ready pour Its shells with almost certain ulm money with objects o f the greatest unto German gun emplacements, By ROBERT ADQER 80W E N artistic value. trench positions, cross-roads, cantou- of The Vigilante*. Thts exploitation o f the two prov- ments. rt,..ioud lines, aviation camps They are not heroes In their own es lnces by German antiquity dealers ap- aud other enemy organizations. It Is teem. pears to have reached such a proper- unnecessary for the gunner to have These boys whose souls with hero tlon that even the German press, even a distant view of the object he Is ism glow. notably the Klelne Press of Frankfort firing at. Whose steadfast eyes so clearly see below have printed articles pointing out the ,nvention Make. Transfer Easy. Iniquitous practice. The Hagenauer , , . . The semblance and the glamor o f the Zeltung also details the scandal In the To take a photograph of the enemy following manner: Hues from a French airplane Is an Yet not the less upon their spirits gleam "Th e lovers o f the art objects and *°t £ antiquities of Alsace are becoming Jecta photographed _ to their exact to- The Joys and splendors of young alarmed over the fate o f all the beau- ''aB°n on a map » a * <>. . life's bright show, tlful and precious art treasures that fremely difficult. ns 1 ' The ardent flame, the keen desire to know, are now actually leaving the country- varyin* an<i ang ro 11 . , From all parts o f the German empire the airplane observers ma« ♦ _ And love's right royal guerdon to re antiquarians are now arriving and , photographs. By the In yen on ° deem. gaining possession of hidden tre a s -iof the officers attached to * ores from the very bottom of the two graphical section, this d 1 > W ill they come back? we ask with frontier provinces for the purpose o f been almost eliminated, quivering breath. reselling them at fabulous prices to Not only the aerial observation serv- Nor dare to show the very dread thelr clients at Berlin. Munich and ! Ice but other methods of -putting Ger- we feel. elsewhere. ’ man positions— more especially can- So calm and bravely unafraid are “ The hour Is propitious fo r such j non and machine-gun emplacements— th ey; purchases. Numerous auction sales are utilized as aids to the work of the As though the challenges they make and foreclosures offer favorable occa- military map-maker. The flashes of to Death slons for the acquisition o f objects o f guns as they are fired from the Ger- The purposes divine of L ife re real style. Many small middle-class man side form one valuable adjunct veal— families o f the villages have need o f to his work, hut the most important of T ls we who falter at the price money, and without too much Insist- all U the calculation o f the speed o f they p a y ! ence will give up a bureau o f the the sound o f the firing charge o f the Louis X V I style which has come down ! German shells. This has been brought u i o u c e T C n UAM V n o n P C to them from a grandmother and to a basis of such perfection that the n A o n A n V t o l t U UnAlxI U n U r o with what they receive they can pro- j guns can now be located with almost j ----------- cure other articles more ludispens- absolute accuracy. In fact. In recent Alabama Farmer Takes 38 of Them able. operations It has proved that the sys- From One Piece of Land In “ In the seventeenth century the art tem o f observation by sound has given Nineteen Year*. crafts were very flourishing In Al- successful results In over 80 per cent Montgomery, Ala.— Harvesting 38 sace. The house furnishing which one , of instances. encountered even In the smallest. In every army there Is a branch of crops from one patch In 19 years, pur most faraway villages were elegant j the geographical section and each is chasing seed potatoes only onee In that time, Is the record o f U. W. Phelps, a prominent farmer of Shat- well. Ala. Mr. Phelps looks after the digging >f his potatoes himself and see* that i sufficient number of potatoes are left In the ground to furnish seed for the next crop. J? A fter the crop matures the ground Is covered with pine straw, not only protecting the crop from cold but also furnishing fertilizer for the next year. T w o full crops are grown eaeh year and potatoes fresh from the eurth twelve months a year are had by Mr. Phelps’ method and gratifying results are obtained In every case. PROCESS IS NEW INVENTION LONDON MILLINERY FOR CIVILIANS 1 S w H e lm sU 1 r A C «»l Uifc \ \ A Prrftf4*-. í HIS NURSE A SCHOOLMATE United States Soldier Hss a Remark able Experience in an English Hospital. Tacoma, Wash.— To be nursed back to health In fur away England by a former schoolmate Is the happy for tune o f Perry Howard, son o f Mr. and I Mrs. A. Howard o f Puyallup. Mr. Howard Is confined In an Eng lish hospital suffering from exposure following the sinking o f the Tuscanla. At the hospital he was assigned to the care of Ada Allan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Allan o f Puyal The very latest line In hats for men and women Is on display In lxmdon lup. Mr. Howard writes his parents ■hops, and there Is nothing iancy about them, fo r they are steel helmets, the that his sufferings and disappointment •ort worn by the troops In the trenches. These helmets are a defense against were In a measure assuaged by meet shrapnel, and already many men and women In London are wearing them ing with one with whom he could talk because o f air raids. over old times. ^ -- - J / J \ TO AID INVESTIGATION CLOSE LARGE STORE TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY Kx-Justire Charles K. Hughes Selected by President Wilson lo A **M in Official Aircraft Inquirv. 1 IE RUSSIA Washington. 1». C. President Wil- son has summoned Charles F.vans Hughes to act with Attorney General Gregory In the investigation o f crim inal charges made in connection with aircraft production. Mr. Hughes' acceptance o f the task was announced Thursday at the White House, and he w ill come to Washing ton in a few days to go over plans pvith the attorney general. This announcement overshadowed in Kaiser Informs Country That It Must interest another development which Share War Burdens o f Teutons, created a great stir at the capitol. In a letter to Senator Martin, the Including Military S erv ie . Democratic leader, the i*resident ear lier in the day 4iad emphatically re iterate») ilia opposition to the phrasing if a ( h .uling resolution authorising Washington, D. C. Details o f the further inquiry by the senate mlljt^s-C '•«test German dcmaiul* on Kuaaia, re committee into aviation amV ceived at tiie State department Wod- phase* o f war preparations, t ».•sdav from Sw «h *h sources, i^yiw He declared he would J ! that Russia has been asked to mi ke passage o f such a reno'uuoll fe financial concessions, to give up Mos o f want o f confidence in « As- cow ami other large cities to the Ger tration and virtually as a n V J ^ m p t to man*. to cease arming troo|is and to take over the conduct o f tiua,wlr. dissolve all recently formed military In designating ex-Justice Hughes, units. Bread tickets as a war-time measure in Chicago may he necessary, accord whose record in the New York insur remembered, ing to sentiment among 12,000 master ance investigation Amsterdam Kni|ieror William has bakers o f that city in session there the President said rtf' fe lt the depart- issued u proclamation concerning l.ith | ment o f Justice's investigation was o f uania in which it is assumed Lith Wednesday. the very greatest importance, that if John Verburg, o f Chicago, was shot any person were found guilty thut |wr- uania will partici(>ato in the war bur * , and killed by his crippled son. John. son might lie prosecuted vigorously dens o f Germany. In the proclamation the ‘ ‘ ¡nde|>en- Jr., because he had struck the youth’s and promptly, and that the reputations mother when she objected to his de o f those attacked might tie protected dence" o f Lithuania, allied with the German empire, ia recognised. mands that a 16-year-old daughter get i f the charges were found to be " W e nsaume that the contentions to employment. groundless. lie concluded, ” the proclamation says The letter to Senator Martin was further, " w ill lake the interests o f the Major Kalph Hoyce, o f Hancock, Mich.; First Lieutenant Herbert R. the subject o f heated discussion. German empire into account equally Senator Chamberlain, o f Oregon. ; witli those o f I.ithuanin and that L ith Garside, o f New York, and Lieutenant who introduced the fesolution o f in- 1 Paul Meyer*, o f Milwaukee. Wia., have uania w ill participate in the war bur by a jquiry, railed before the senate expen- dens o f Germany which secured her lieen decorated with the war c ¡dilures committee considering it, de lilieration." French general. clared there was no intention o f in Lithuania is one o f the former Rus Count James Minotto son-in-law o f . ti t,„ ..com,uct o f lh, U u i. F. Sw ift, the packer, was taken ; ^ ¿ t the reBolutlon w u wortl„ , ^ sian border states which the Germans have attempted to set up as nominally into custody in Chicago Wednesilay by i f it was only to give the military inde|>endcnt countries under German deputy United States marshals, two committee o f which he is chairman au influence. weeks after his arrest was ordered on thority to resume its previous investi Germany Is msking every effort to a Presidential warrant. gations. exploit the states economically hut, The chief features o f an agreement except in the case o f Poland, has not to strengthen the alliance between j attempted to force the former Russian ARREST HIGH-UP ARIZONIANS Germany and Austria-Hungary have subjects to light with the German been laid down, says an official state army, as the*em|>eror's announcement ment issued in Berlin in regard to the j Deporters o f Alleged I. W. W. le s t indicates may now lie done in Lithu visit o f Emperor Charles to German ; July Indicted by Federal Jury. ania. great headquarters. The attempt to enroll a Polish army Tucson. Arix. Twenty-one -o f the Orchestra* composed entirely o f wo leading mine company officials, cm 1 1 on the same plea that i*«lo w made in men w ill be seen in the neur future ployes and business men o f the Warren the case o f Lithuania was a failure. The Vorwaert* o f Berlin said re throughout the country, according to district were arrested at Bisbcc Thurs Mrs. Enos P. James, o f San Diego, day morning on indictments returned j cently that strong opposition was de Cal., the only woman delegate attend by the federal grand jury which last veloping among the Lithuanian* to ing the ‘23d annual convention o f the week completed an investigation o f the ] transforming their country into a Ger American Federation o f Musicians in deportation last July o f nearly 1200 man semi-federal state. Entire inde- l>endence is demand«!. Chicago Tuesday. alleged members o f tile industrial The Lithuanians numtmr about 2,* Women o f the Methodist Episcopal Workers o f the World. 000 , 000.1 The warrants charge "consipracy to . Church South, won their 40 years' fight for full lay membership in the deprive a citizen o f the United States ; Washington. D. C. Emperor W il church when the general conference in o f his rights in violation o f section 19, ; liam’s proclamation recognizing the session at Atlanta, Ga.. struck from penal code." independence o f Lithuania a llli« l with In the absence o f United States | the church law the prohibition against the German empire, was received with their election as church stewards and Commissioner J. D. Taylor, who now j no enthusiasm by offlcer*"of the Lithu as delegates to the general conference. is in Chicgo, the arrested men ap- anian National Council headquarters peared before Justice o f the Peace M. | here. British mounted troops, after cap C. High, acting commissioner, who "T h e assumption that'Lithuania will turing Kirkut, in Mesopotamia, pur fixed their bond* and set their arraign- j participate in the war burdens o f Ger sued the Turks for a distance o f 20 ment for May 28 in Tucson. many means a contribution of three miles to the northward, says an official Grant H. Dowell, general manager things: Money, munitions and men,” statement issued by the British war o f the Copper Queen Consolidated Min- the officers declared. "T h e first we office. On May 11 the Turks were in fg company at Biabee, was the first have not, as Germany has already im driven across the lesser Zab river at man arrest«!. The warrant was nerved poverish«! uh ; the second wo have no Altyn Kupri. The latter place is 60 by U n it«! States Marshal Dillon. means o f supplying, because we lack miles southeast o f Mosul. | Bonds were fixed at $6000 each by the j the first. Therefore Germany can The Right Honorable W illiam Mor j U n it«! States commissioner. have reference only to men.” ris Hughes, premier o f Australia, ar Judge Sawtelle in his charge to the rived at a Pacific port in the United ; j ury week instructed that not only States Wednesday with a party o f afiould the charge o f conspiracy to dt AIR MAIL SERVICE STARTS Australian officials en route to a war prive citizens o f their rights lie consiil- confcrcnce in London. Passenger» on gred, but that the question o f the ob- the vessel said a German raider had ! struction o f the draft in de(»orting a Machine* Are Capable o f Carrying .100 attacked and dam ag«l a British trans- numlwr o f re g is te r«! men also to 600 Pound* o f Mail. • port on which the premier had sailed should be taken up. Washington, D. C. Am erica’s first previously. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ airplane mail service was inaugurated Nothing further has reached Ottawa Pershing's Task to Grow, i Wednesday between Washington, officially as to the disposition o f the Washington, I). C. General Per- j Philadelphia aad New York, with I nited States troops in France. _ shing probably soon will be command- planes starting simultaneou*ly «i( statement contained in the cable from . 111:10 n. m from tin- National Capi the British war cabinet and issued a t , • "* 1 r,t,sh. * e tal Bnd New Yfirk. President Wilson, Ottawa by the director o f public in- I * « * “ A m e r^ m units formation that the Americans were with their ali.es on the westeYn front cabinet member* and other govern ment officials attended the ceremonies not to be utilized in the fighting line K0* * i ‘>rw* rri- As i f exem plifying the • unity o f command and lotion into preliminary to the initial flight. until they had a complete self-support The President, as head o f the Amer which the U n it«! States d j l its co- ing army has not been changed or helligerenta hav* entered, i\ lie c «m e ican Red Cross, will receive the first modified in any way. known here Friday that vTienever letter by airplane from New York. An anti-loafing bill, modeled in some American troop* predominate in the The communication will is1 from Gov- respect* after statutes in effect in brigaded divisions a* the process goes ] em or Charles S. Whitman and will ex Maryland and New Jersey, was signed on, these divisions, under present j press his wishes to the President for by Governor Whitman, o f New York. plan*, w ill lie turned over to Pershing. I the success o f the Rod Cross campaign Wednesday. It requires all able-bodied ■ to raise $100,000,000, which stArta men from 18 to 50 years o f age, a fter Italian Flag is Wantsd. Monday. proclamation by the governor, to be I Vancouver. Wash. - T h e Italian flag ! Th<' ""»¡I airplanes w ill be piloted by "habitually and regularly e p g a g «i in! w ill fly from the flagstaff o f the Fed- » '‘" ’ V aviators especially detailed to some lawful, useful and recognized j ♦»ral building in thin city May 24, th«> **i*vice for exporionc«* in croHH- business, profession, occupation, trade j anniversary o f Ita ly’s entrance into country flying. or employment until the termination the world war. J. W. Shaw, (xistmas | o f the w ar.” “ Give a L ift Club” Comes. ter, has l>een notified by the govern -1 Sergeant L. Baylies, o f New Bed-1 ment to do this, but as Uncle Sam New York No soldier or sailor w ill ford, Mass., an American flyer in has no Italian flag, he is scouting for lack means o f free transmutation in France, has brought down seven Ger- one. Anyone knowing o f afi Italian man airplanes withffi the last tw o] flag, large or small, that m^y be ob this city if the mayor’s committee on months, says an official dispatch from tained for May 24, w ill confer a favor national defense succe«ls in it* (dans launch«! for the organization o f the France. by informing the postmaster. “ give the uniformed men a l i f t ” fra Seven young men o f Brussels, bom ternity among automobile owners. The in Belgium o f German parentage, but Starvation Grips Siberia. committee I* distributing card* hear Belgian citizens by adoption, have Harbin, Saturday - The Karimskaya ing the word* "G iv e the u n iform «! men been taken to Germany to be enrolled railway junction has been captured by a lift a* far os you g o .” The card* in the army, according to an official General SemenofT, the anti-Bolshevik are to h* stuck on windshield* an»! will dispatch from France. leader. , constitute sufficient Invitation for en M ilitary railway engineers have listed men to jump into automobiles Emperor W illiam has returned to been dispatched to restore the railway whenever they pull up at the curb. Potsdam owing to the political crisis in the rear o f the retreating Bolshe resulting from the recent rejection o f vik!. Drug Seller Sentenced. suffrage reform by the Prussian diet. The people in whole districts o f Si- Chicago — F «le ra l Juilge l.andis Count von Hertling, the imperial chan lieria are dying o f starvation owing to Tuesday sentenced Nathan H. Sohaff- cellor, has been summoned to Potsdam the lack o f transportation o f food ner, a young physician, to imprison to report on the situation. stuffs. ment for two year* at Leavenworth, Kan., for viidation o f* t h e Harrison Serious disturbances in the Austrian- Hoover Wants $7,000,000. anti-narcotic law, Schaffner’* book* Hungarian fleet have caused changes Washington, D. C, Food Adminis showed hi* incom e from hi* practice in the high command, a dispatch from Switzerland says. The crews, com trator Hoover asked tho house appro was from $80 to $160 a month until he posed largely o f Slavs and men o f priations committee Thrusday for $7,- began proviiling drug users with nar Italian descent, have made much 000,000 to provide offices and clerical cotics, when hi* office receipt* in to about $1500 per trouble and the disturbances were put hire for the 4000 county food adminis creased month. trators. - • — down with difficulty. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Arming of Troops Must Stop- •• To Take Many Large Cities. COMPILED LITHUANIA IS CALLED FOR YOU j