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Unl- erslty of G:X:n Library Isli Wil7IWnrDTrk If A TT Forty-seventh Tear. Pally Twolfth Year. Silent Picketers of White House Per sist In Displaying Banners With Sentiments Deemed Treasonable to Crowd, Which Spends Day Smash ing Banners Police Always Late. WASHINGTON, Juno 21 The per sistency of suffrage sentinels at the White House, in hoisting banners bearing inscriptions interpreted as be ing "treasonable," culminated in an anti-suffrage demonstration here to day when a crowd of nearly a thous and persons tore down the banners for a second time today. Crowd Smashes Banners. Once earlier in the day, when the suffragists appeared witb a banner bearing the same inscription as that torn down yesterday, a small ciuwd demolished it without much demon stration. Soon after noon, however, the sentinels reappeared with a new banner, stouter than the others which they, expected the crowd would have more difficulty in destroying. The crowd was good natured for the most part but determined in its work and did not attack the women who hld the banners. Police were forced to clear the sidewalks in front of the w)frte house several times but always managed to reach the scene of tlte attack on the banners just a moment too late. Police. Just Too I.a( The crowd was not organized and showed no signs of interfering with the sentinels themselves until a wom an, modestly dressed, who had l.een talking earnestly to one of flic sen tinels for several minutes, suddenly snatched one of the banners and ran into Pennsylvania avenue. In a moment, the crowd got into action and the sentinels were sur rounded. One by one their flag-, of purple, white and gold, were taken from them- and torn to shreds. One standard bearer, Miss Hazel Hanking, game to the last, climbed upon the pedestal of one of the white house gates and raised her banner as high as she could over her head in an ef fort to save it. She lasted only a moment. A man took the pole from her hand, broke it over the iron gale and the flag of suffrage fell to the ground. Other Onto Attacked. After all the banners on the en trance had been torn away the police began to disperse the crowd, but sonic one remembered the pickets at the other entrance and to the footin- of scores of automobile bonis in the crowded avenue, the crowd charged the banner bearers at the other gale. The work there was quickly done. One woman tore a silken strap from the suffrage colors on her hat and held it high on a pole. She was im Tcdiately surrounded by a guard of several other suffragists and efforts to lake the colors away from her proved unavailing for several minutes. In the end, however, the banner met the fate of the others. WASHINGTON, June -.The nif- fragist sentinels brought another ban ner to the White House gales today and nnothcr crowd tore it down. To day's wrecking of the banner was i'rte with more deliberation than was the case, yesterday. The iolicc did not interfere. The inscription on the banner to day was the same as on the one dis played yc.-tcday, acensins President Wilson and Klilm Knot of "deceiving Russia" in savins that the IViled States is a democracy and pleading with the Russian mis-ion to demand the enfranchisement of women in the Vnitcd States. (Continued on pace nix.) ,1 NKW VDUK, .tunc 21. Kollonine a ounrri'l with hi- fcife over m incv matters, Richard Harndt, a widely knimti athlete of Uro.ikhn. carlv to day shot and killed hi- wife, his -on-Kiiton, aged 4: a baby boy, Donald, one and a half years old, and then committed suicide by sla.-hin? his throat with a mznr and shooting him self in the head. CROWDS TEAR GOLDLARBPOSES FOOD CONTROL DOWN BANNERS AS SPOKESMAN IDEA HYSTERIA OF SUFFRAGISTS! OF SOCIALISTS SAYS SHERMAN WEATHER Russian Citizen at Stockholm Claims to Represent Hillquest and Berger, is Repudiated by Party Officials Declares Socialist Party in America Strictly Neutral and International. STOCKHOLM, June 21. Hr. Max Goldfarb, one of the American so cialists who have arrived here, de clares in a report submitted to the Dutch-Scandinavian committee .that: "Altho the I'nitcd States is al ready in the war, I can say that the jMisiton of the American socialist party as a whole is strictly neutral and thoroughly international." The report calls for the creation of :i permanent socialist committee to work for a permanent peace. A sec ond recommendation deals with the composition of the congress which will be called upon to settle the is sues of the present struggle and de mands a "congress of representatives of the nations and not of the govern ments." I'osck as SHkesinan. , Dr. Goldfarb continues: "The governments have forced upon t lie masses this terrible war. Let the .musses force upon the governments such an international arrangement as would make a repetition of this carnage impossible." Dr. Cioldlarb told the committee that be spoke in the names of Morns llill(iiist, Victor Merger and of the whole American socialist party, which he said, "is heart and soul witb you anil will gladly abide by your decis ions, tending to save the world from the horrors of war." Three delegates from the Kalian minority socialist body, Lahriola Rai niondo, Lerdn and Cuppa, the repub lican deputy, have arrived. llcpudtatcl in America. Although Dr. Goldfarb, who is con nected with the Korward of New Yor1 -. described liimself on bis arrival jt Stockholm as a representative of the American socialist party, socialist leaders in this country, state he has not been authorized to act oa behalf of the party. Abraham Cuban, edi tor of the Forward said yesterday Dr. Goldfarb was , not an American but n Russian citizen. CHICAGO, June 21. At National socialist headquarters here today it was said that the socialist parly of llie I'nitcd States never has taken any action authorizing Dr. Max Goldfarb to speak or act for it at Stockholm. U-BOAT TURNS I'AU'iS, dune 21. A tJerman sub marine that torpedoed a Mrilish slcumcr turned its guns on the life bouts and killed eight of the offi cials, the admiralty announced today. "(tne of our patrol bonis of the r.rililany flotilla," the statement says, "picked up ."II men belonging lo a sub marined liritish steamer and drove off with its guns two submarines which were -till close to the bonts in which the liritish crew had taken refuge the ni;jlit before. A patrol bout of the same flotilla saved 10 men from a liriti-h steamer. The submarine which torpedoed her turned its guns nn the lifeboats, killinc eight of Hip occupants." DI ItLIN. dune 21.- The Sinn Kein er, who have held several demonstration- -iii"e the iclcu-e of the persons arrested al the tn f the uprising last year, brought about further di--urdei- today. Some ,'tiui of them, carrying Sinn Kein flag-, attneked residences oi fonacr soldiers over over which I nion .lacks were flvin Windows were smashed and police who came up were stone". Kight men and five women were arrested. Maximum Yesterday 80; Minimum Today HO. FORECAST . MEDFOR1X Illinois Senator Compares President to Man With St. Vitus Dance Says Administration Has Not Even Horse Sense Passed From Apathy to Hysteria, to Food Dictatorsh'ip. WASHINGTON', Juno 21. The ad ministration food control bill prob ably will pass the house Saturday but when It will go thru tho senate is un certain, altho the general belief at the capitol today was that its enactment would be accomplished within two or threo weeks. The bill may even be finally enact ed by July, as urgently requested by President Wilson, according to Sena tor Chamberlain who Is piloting the mcasuro thru the senate. Debate proceeded today in both branches or congress. In the houso general debate rules, and the rule limiting speakers to five minute talkB was in effect to continue until a final vote. Is reached, probably late Satur day. Mores for Vote, on It. When the scnato took up the food bill today no senators seemed ready to debate it, so Senator Chamberlain, in charge of the mcasuro moved for a vote. Senator Sherman then led off in opposition to the bill charging that it Is especially aimed at fanners. City dwellers and labor unions, he declar ed, are its point advocates. "The senato and house will pass any thing that any lnbor union on- j dorses and endeavors to thrust upon them, right or wrong," he said. Or ganized labor controls legislation In this administration and -the last. It dictates to senators, while the farni ers are unorganized." Senntor Sherman said he would vote for legislation to prohibit manu facture of foodstuffs Into intoxicating beverages, but would vote against this bill unless its "blanket" powers aro eliminated. lju ks Horse Sense. Referring to the bill's provision to co-ordinate activities of production, Senator Sherman said. "That's what's the matter with the man with St. Vitas dance; ho can't that's what Is the matter with this administration. It lias slumbered for four or five years. "Why this administration reminds me of a balky horse lazy, apathetic, Indifferent and unsympathetic with murder unspeakable and outrage Infi nite. When It wakes up It is worse scared and doesn't have equine sense. We've now passed from apathy to hysteria, from individual liberty to food dictatorship. ANARCHISTS INDICTED FOR DRAFT PLOT NKW YOU l, June 21 Kinnia Cold man and Alexander llerkinan, called the two lending anarchists of this eounlrv, were indicted today bv a federal grand jury here on charges of conspiring to induce young men not to register for the selective dral'l. They pleaded not guill v and were held in 2."i.0ll() bail each. PHOTO TAKFN "vr nrcTuc dat- rr.-i n TMr.i oMniiM,.,! ppitiqm TPnriPS RETURNING FROM FRONT LINE TRENCHES. Here ore Itrltl.ili troops In a moment of rM mi llie wiiy lw k from llie rroiil lino UencliiM nn ot fronl. A few of Hie rnddlrr hnvo Ixvn uonmled, hut not rtionly. They nm on the Ntrotchei-M. Sonio of the men ntv huMly dcMiilng awny the itr-iiniiilni1 dirt of fwvernl (Inyn under fire. Thin In nn official lliltl-h photo ami one of the Ih-m ji t receivifl from the front. OKKGOX, THURSDAY. Bl ,1 uiii hi ft J it e JtlM ' rv'i IHSKfiiT .'.VHP' i.VM- v . . .vi:v.vL ; . : ; - ..-'......(.., ... it ,-a-v" mb-m. . . t. -g . ... This is th 'Vhu'k iU plrtiirtv' iijmmi wliicli tlw licfrnso rolics larct'ly for ariiittnl of ltcim MiKiioy, now on trial. It shows Itonn and Tom Moomy on tlio roof of !rs. l(MHHy's music stutllo a mile auay from the prcimmliirs tiny explosion just prior to the hfat that Killc:l ton prisons iind injured over 10 others, thus refuting tho testimony of tho proserin ion's star witmvscs. Anows point, to tlit luinicys ami to the street clock which in enlarge ments f'r court records shows the time s 12 o'clock. The explosion occur-l-o l at i::Oit. RUSSIA STERNLY QUELLS RIOTING BY- USE OF TROOPS PKTIiOCKAD, June 21. Martial law has hern proclaimed in Tomsk, Weslern Siberia, because of whole sale murders ami robberies committed by criminals who Jiad been granted amnesty and had joined (lie forces of the militant anarchists. More Hum 150(1 of Ihese pardoned criminals have been a rested with about. 800 others. Twenty persons were killed and a number wounded. The arrests followed the exposure of a plot, to plunder all of Hie banks ind simps and assassinate (he leaders of civic organizations. The HOO as sociates of criminals were dni.i.'ired from the haunts' of the latter. The en Mia It ies occurred hen some re sistance was offered to the nrre-ds. NKW YolfK. June 'Jl. -Ki-bt per sons were killed and i;mnv"nM;d-'d in a clash bet ween Lro eminent t roups and supporters (he newly funned republic of Kirsanov, in the province of Tambov, Russia, according to a cabinet dispatch received here today from I'e( i'ol'I'jhI bv tho Jewish Daily Korward. The -kirmish was caused by the refusal of Ihe new republic to recognize the nulhority of the I'etro urad .L'overnmcnt. Tonight and Tomorrow Tartly Cloudy; Cooler. .IV XV) 21, 1917 II 1 t , - ... EXTRA PROFIT TAXES EXTENDED WASHINGTON', June 21. Inten sion of extra profit taxes in the war revenue bill to individuals cnijaed in trade or business as well as cor porations and partnerships, was de cided upon today by the senate fin ance committee. From this individ ual tax nn ndditionul .$100,000,000 in revenue is expected. An exemption of $."() 00 in assessing Hie tax will apply lo individuals on the same basis as corporations. The individual tax would he additional lo the income: tax. The object of (be tax is to reach war profits of trade conducted per sonally and not in corporate or part nership form. The tax, it is expected, will apply alo to professional liieu such as physicians and dentists. In levying I he excess prut its tax upon corporations havine; suhuurmal profits during three year period pre ceding the war upon normal and ex cess profits calculations are to be based, the coMitntHcc derided lo allow ihe $."(000 exemption and also an ad ditional exemption of six percent up on capital actually invested and cm-ployed. UNE HAL Rill MRS 0 fl AS NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER Witnesses Drawing Coil of Evidence Around Mrs. Mooney Billings Scared Lest Witness Pick Up Suit Case Mrs. Mooney With Billings Previous to Explosion of Bomb. SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 21 Thiee witnesses testified today in the trial of Mrs. Renn Mooney for mur- ler resulting from a bomb explosion in u preparedness parade last July that they had seen a Jitney bus near the scene of the explosion n tew nun- uUw before it occurred. A fourth witness said he saw n jitney n mile from the scene at a place previous witnesses swore they had seen War ren K. Hillings and Thomns J. Mooney in company with Mrs. Mooney a short lime prior to the blast. Weeps on Stand. Miss Kstelle Smith, one of tin prin cipal witnesses for the H'ate, broke down and wept shortly after takini the stand. "Some women are nuikiutf faces at n:e," Miss Smith sobbed. After Miss Smith repealed substan tially the same story she told at tho trial of Hillings, that she had seen him in a dental ol fice where she was an attendant, about a mile from Hie scene of the explosion within nn hour and a halt ol Hie tune it occurred, O'Connor on cross examination at tacked her character. The court sus tained a motion to stiike it. from the record. "Hillings, carrying n sail case, came into the office between 12 :15 and V2;'M) p. in.," the witness smd. niilliiK-s Suit Case. "lie represented himself ih a 'Chronicle' reporter nnd snid he w.i til ed to tuke pictures from the roof, lie obtained permission. Awhile Inter he came back into Ihe office, looking ill ami distressed. 1 remarked that he acted (pieer.'' After many interrupHons from at torneys Miss Smith said: "When I started 1 pick up Hill ings' sail ease he said, 'My God, don't touch that " 'What, what is the mutter!' I ask ed. " 'I am afraid you "will strain the lens in the camera.' " "After Hillings started downstairs did the woman you say was Mrs. Mooney, say nnythiuLr?" nsked Attor ney O'Connor. "I heard her .say, 'come on down, can't you see what you are doiue;,' ' SUNK BY U-B0A1S ROMK, June 'Jl.-Two Italian steamers and five sailing ships were torpedoed by submarines duriicr the last week, according lo the official weekly announcement made public to day. Two other steamers were at tacked but e-eaped. During the same period t0'i ships with a total .yross tonnage of 71 1 ,S.".", sailed. NO. 78 "Command of Death" is Official Title of Woman's Army Raised by Twice Wotinied Girl Officer Leaves In Fortnight for Front Most of Re cruits From Educational Academies PHTHOOHAO, Juno 21. "Tho commnml of death' which is the of ficial titlo of tho woman's regiment raised by the twico woundod girl officer Vera llnitchkaroff, will bo re vlowcd today by Minister of War Ker ensky. Tho regiment will hnvo its first public parade on Sunday and will lcavo In a fortnight for tho front, probably for tho Minsk sector. Tho Associated Press correspond ent, who visited tho barracks In Toi'Kvuya street, found posted at tho gate a little bluo-nyed sentry in a soldier's khaki blouse, short breeches, green forage cap, ordinary woman's black stockings and neat shoes. Tho sentry was llarya Skrydloff, daugh ter of Admiral Skrydloff, fovmor com mander of the Baltic fleet, and min ister of marine. Insido thero were four largo dormitories, tho beds with out bedding nnd Btrewn with heavy soldiers' overcoats. In tho court yard 300 girls were at drill, mostly between IS and 25 years of age, ot good puhsiquo and many of thorn pretty. They wore their hair short or had their heads entirely shaved. They were drilling under tho instruc tion of a male sergeant of tho Volyn- sky regiment and marched to an exag gerated good stop. Itlghl Discipline Comauiler llnitchkaroff explained that most of tho recruits woro from the higher educational academies or secondary schools with a few peas ants, factory girls and servants. Some married women were ncceptod but nouo who had children. Tho com mander explained further: 'Wu aply tho rigid system of dis cipline or tho pre-revolutlonary army, rejecting !ho new priuclplo of tho self-governed. Having no tiiuo to, in- ii ro the girls gradually to tho hard ships wo Imposo a spartan regime from tho first. They slcop on beds without bed clothes, thus eliminating tho weak. Tho smallest breach of discipline was punished by expulsion or disgrace. 'The ordinary soldier's food Is fur nished by Iho guards cnulppago corps. Wo rise at I and drill dally from 7 to 1 1 and again from 1 to 0. Tho girls carry tlio cavalry carbine, which Is flvo pounds lighter than tho regu lar army rifle. On our first parade I rciUCKted any girl whoso motives were frivilous to step out. Only one did so, but laler many who wero un able to stand Ihe privations left us. Official It.'glmont. "Wo are fully official nnd nro nl ready entered nn the list of Tegl incnls. Uniforms nnd suplles nro re ceived from tho ministry of war, to which wo render ni count and prosont reports. Yesterday tho commander of Ihe I'otrogrnd military district re viewed us ami expressed his satls- faclliin. I am convinced that wo will excel the male fighters." Aked as to the altltudo of the male army, Comiuandor llnitchkaroff said that only Ihe Volnysky regi ment, which led tho i'elrogrnrt rovo lulion, was really favorable. The n gliiM'iil il clerk is Madame llarhara lliikovshlkorf, editor of tho weekly Woman and Kronoiuy and au thor or Koine admirable stnllcH. She fii'u tiiat Mine. Kerrimky Intended to join the H-rlm'-iil, nol as a soldier, hut as a Ulster of Mercy. SUPPLY IS CUT (Ul-KNIIAHKN'. .June Jl. Tho ' lerman newspaper publishers, who arc alicady bitterly complaining ot' the:;reat H'daetion by Hie nvenuuent of then while paper supply, are now faced with another serious, cut in their allowance, ranuiiu; from 11 to !M'L. per cent nnd effective July 1. The biir purep suffer the most, tho publishers of books nnd magazine be-in i? nl lot ted 70 per cent of the to tal consumption. REGIMENT OF RUSSIAN GIRLS READY FOR WAR
