TACIT, SIX MEDFOItP MAIL TttTBUNE, MEDFQRD, OWiONT, SATURDAY, ATTCiTTST 4, 1917 All SHIPS NOW SERB REGICIDES BUILDING SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT Emergency Fleet Corporation Requi sitions All Merchant Vessels of More Than 2500 Tons Now Under Construction in American Ship yardsTo Speed Building, METED JUSTICE AFTER 15 YEARS Military Leaders Who Assassinated King Alexander and Queen Draga Shot or Imprisoned After Military Court Martial Murder Clique Plotted to Kill Prince Alexander.' POSSES TOLD TO SHOOT TO KILL (Continued from Fuse One.) WASIIINflTONY Auk. 4. Tho emergency fleet corporation today TCIplisitilincd nil merchant Vl'SSt'lH of more tlmn 1231)0 tons now biiildinjr in American shin yards. Double nn triple labor shifts will be put in the yards to speed construction. No announcement was made as to tho amount of tonnage taken over, bill the shipping board's records show that about 7(10 vessels of near ly 2,000,(1(10 Ions of all classes are building As last as the yards are cleared of their present construction they will be pnl to work on the arent fleet tlie government will build. Compen sation for tbo construction seized will be determined later. Much of the Immune building is for Hiilisli and Norwegian account. Its final disposition will he left lo negotiations with tho poveriiinvntx concerned, nil ho the president lias power to retain it if the tonnage is needed by the United States, SAN FHANCISCO, Auk. 4 The emergency fleet corporation's action today in requisitioning merchant ves sels of more than 'i'lOO tons now baildiii),' in American ship yards will approximate 200 vessels now under construction in Pacific const plants, it was announced by officials of the Vnion Iron Works here. Definite figures rctfnrdinjr construction of such vessels in individual ship yards were withheld. I'"uclieally all of the vessels beinjr built by the Union Iron Works, the largest plant on the coast, are of more than 2."i()U tons, it was learned. OF TOM WATSON . WASHINGTON, An. 4. Tbo al leged activities of Thomas K. Watson of Thomaston, tin., iiro under close scrutiny of the department of .jus tice, whose officials aro seeking to determine whether they can briny; proi'C.edings against him because of recent statements urjjinir resistance to the draft in his uiuira.iuc. Copies of the publication hrmilil to the attorney jreneunl's ulteution contain lists of contributions varying from If'J to if .100 to a fund to be de voted to testing tlie constitutionality of the draft law. COiirTS. .Island of Corfu, Jly 10 (correspondence of the Associated Press).- Kate has at last fallen on th ii t hand of military regicides who some fifteen years ayo broke into the royal palace at Helfrnide at night and assassinated Kill); Alexander and the Serbian ipicen Draga. Three high officers have recently been shot lifter military court mar tial. Three more are awaiting death sentences, seven officers, including a general, have received life sentences, and some thirty officers htivo receiv ed lesser sentences of from one to five venrs. Wbile the outside world was shock ed, the hand of assassins enjoyed at home a certain immunity and even glory, for having rid the country of a dissolute ruler, and his plebeian gypsy ipieen, for the name of Draga bad been well known in the concert halls of Kniobi before she hail the luck to win a king and crown. The murder clipie remained in control of the army until after the present war, when Prince Alexander became regent, owing to the ago of King Peter. One of his first 'l ads was to restore to aetivo service a great number of officers retired by tho niurder clique. This resulted in the cliipio plotting his dentil, but the conspiracy was 'discovered. More than forty high officers wore tried as a .result of the conspiracy. Those condemned to death include Colonels Dimitrivitcli, Milanovitch, Toutzdvitcb, I,iizitch, Lieutenant Colonel Vesnitch, anil Commander Vulovitch. General Popvitch heads tho list of thoso condemned to life imprisonment. In the list are most of the band who carried out the murder of Alexander and Queen Draga. MEETINGS TO PROTEST ST. PAUL, Aug. 4. Fifteen com munications reporting war proteBt mootlngs scheduled at various points In ?.ltnuosota. wore roeolved at the of fleo of tho public safety commission today. No reports were received of diserdors at any meeting alrcadyhold tint sheriffs have keen Instructed to watch out for outbreaks. TORONTO, Out., Aug. 4. A cam paign to obtain 10,000 men for har vest work In tho Cnnadlan northwest was started here today at a confer ence of employers from the city's In dustrial plants. Spreading terror among the cace ful, law-ubiding rural inhabitants and ''imprscb'sing innocent men into their ranks, the objectors have found hiding places in the timbered hills and fields of growing corn and cotton. Posscmen declared it will tako sev eral days, and possibly a week, be fore the hunt is terminated. I i Women to Poison. Affidavits sworn to by men im pressed into tho objectors' ranks, who nftenvards escaped, gave evi dence that the plot to withstand ser vice in the national army was wide spread, but poorly organized. It was said the machinations included plans to burn and dynamite bridges, dc mornlize traffic in general and to rob and plunder whenever the oppor tunity offered. Officers and posse members have been warned not to accept food or drink at unfriendly farm houses. Women and children left behind by the recalcitrants were said by offi cers to have been instrncted to poi son (lie food and drink of any vis itor wlio cannol give a prearranged signal. Captains oNhe outlaw bands wear red ribbons ueross their breasts. Estimates of the number of men enrolled in the oh.jnc.tnrs' ranks var ied. The popular belief, however, was that they number between 500 und (100. A youth giving the name of Jabez Bencfield, brother of an alleged captain of the "southern" district, and a man giving the name of J. D. Alanenloy, about (iO years of age, are in tlie hands of a posse. Shots Aro Kxcluingcd. ARDMORE, Okla., Aug. 4. A posse guarding ahighway near Stone wall In Pontotoc county exchanged about 40 shots with a band of alleged draft resistors early today. None was Injured. A detail of national guard cavalry has left Wcwoka for the trou bled districts. CAMERA CATCHES PLANE IN DIVE TO RUIN liiidgo Is Horned. MUSKOWKE, Okla., Aug. 4. W. 0. Humphrey, general superintendent of the Missouri, Oklahomah and Gulf railroad, rocoived word this morning that an M, O. & G. bridge near Calvin, St) miles south of Muskogee, In Hughes county, was burned last night. All wires have been cut and details were not obtained. WAR'S OBJECT TO END WAR (Continued from Page One.) As Koreign Minister Sonnino of It aly and the other representatives of the entente allies reached the plat form the gathering rose and cheered again and again, while the playing of the national anthems of the Italians aroused tremendous enthusiasm. Premier l.loyd George's uppcar nncc was the signal for a remarkable manifestation of popular fervor. ' . : .ia : ' photo-I One of the most unique graphs ever taken of an airplane is this showing Lawrence Brown's ma chine smashing into tho ground at Atlanta', Ga. Drown had given an exhibition of bomb dropping, blowing to bits a dummy submarine, lie was coming down after his performance, when sun in his eyes caused him to lose control and crash into electric light fires, throwing the machine nose down to the ground. The ma chine was smashed, but Brown, es caned unhurt. The inset shows Brown. LITTLE'S FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Mj'TTK, Mont., Aug. 4 The body of Frank II. Little, I. W. W. execu tive officer, who was lynched in Buile by vigilantes last Wednesday morning, will bo buried at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. r'uncrul services will be in charge of I. W. W. mem bers and metal mine workers union members. No minister will take part in the funeral talks, it was said to day. ThT body wilt" be interred in Mountain View cemetery. Talks by union nnd I. W. W. lead ers and tho rending of letters and telegrams from I. W. W. thruout the country will mark the funeral pro gram at tho underti.iing parlors. A procession of union men nnd I. W. W. will follow the ,110'dv to tjio c,onicterv. the casket to be .borne upon .. the shoulders of twenty of the man's former ncrpiiiintancos and friends. Death masks nnd photographic pic tures were made of Little today Jjy local I. W. W. officials;" ' Yesterday it was annoiinccil that Little's body would be interred in Oklahoma. - The chango'in program wiis made when William I). Haywood, wired from Chicago the direction to "bury the body on fighting ground." XOTIt'H. On account of the Increased price of ico tho past month, from f 1.75 to $S per ton, aro compelled to closo the East Sldo market until cooler weatho'r when it will bo reopened. All ac counts will bo settled at the Economy Market. NICHOLS & ASHPOLE. AMSTERDAM., Aug. 4. The Holland-America line steamship Nordam, homeward bound, run upon a mine to the westward of the Island of Texel, on Friday afternoon. There were no casualties. The ship is still afloat. The Noordam is a vessel of 12,5m tons gross and was built at Belfast in 1902. She is 550 feet long. This is the second time that the Noordam has struck a, mine. In October of the first year of the war the steamship ran into n mine whiel passing thru the English channel. Seven persons on board were injured by tbo explos ion. On that occasion the vessel managed to rench port. Texol island is the largest and southwesternmost of the Frisan isl ands, which form a part of tho Dutch province of North Holland. BRITAIN CONTROLS SEAS SAYS BERLIN NAVAL EXPERT COPENHAGEN, Aug. 4. Captain Perseus, naval expert of the Berliner Tngcblatt, in a review of tlie third naval .ycap. of the war, says the su periority of the British fleet, despite heavy losses, is great enough to jus tify its claim that it controls the seas. The German fleet is unequal to meet it. The high sens fleet, in conjunction with tha'eiiast jflefenso guns; submn-, rines, mines, etc., will undoubtedly he able to beat off all attacks and keep the enemy from the coast, but he adds warningly Gorman minds should give no room to views of an offen sive activity of the fleet. Captain Perseus says that every intelligent German realizes that un restricted submarining must be eon- ducted with all energy until England realizes it is more profitable to dis cuss pence than to accept further losses, but, on the other hand, he warns against super-optimism for a too speedy success in the submarine war in view of the amount of world tonnage and the great shipbuildini possibilities available for the en tente. SANOTAJVliNUTE OFFICER RECRUITS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4. Bar ring unforeseen contingencies, every man remaining in the reserve offi cers' training camp here may con sider that he has been recommended for a commission, it was learned here today. Those who failed of recom mendation have departed by ' hun dreds in tho last few days, bolstered by the war department's suggestion that they enlist with prospects for a non-commissioned officer's post im mediately, and a chance at a com mission Inter on. A few will be held over for the second training camp. No official list of commissions nnd those who get them will bo given out NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Lack of co operation between the uniformed po lice and the detective bureau of New York City was found by the grand, jurji, which Investigated charges of police negligence in the case of Ruth. Cruger, the high school girl, whose ' body was found in the Bhop of Alfredo Cocchi. In a presentment today the ' grand Jury stated also that "there seems to be an inadequate supervision ol detective work on the part of the commissioner in charge thereof." An Indictment charging neglect of duty was returned against Lieutenant Alonzo Cooper, who was acting cap tain of thte fourth branch detective bureau, which conducted the search for the Cruger girl. Cooper pleaded, not guilty and was held for trial a' $1000 bail. , Lack ot Interest in the discovery ot tho crime by the fourth branch bu reau was shown In the evidence, the ' grand jury reported, and added that there has been a "senseless and cruel rule on the part of the police depart ment to do nothing in regard to a missing person for 24 hours.. The grand jury is of the opinion that miss ing .persons should receive at jeast tho same attention as missing automobiles." DRIVE RUSSIANS FROM GALICIA . (Continued trom Page On.) sivo Tuesday morning the entente al lied troops made further progress east of Kortebeer Cabaret. 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