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
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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
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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.
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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
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sivo Tuesday morning the entente al
lied troops made further progress
east of Kortebeer Cabaret.
French Statement.
PARIS, Aug. 4.. Despite the con
tinued bad weather along the battle
front In Belgium, Bays an official
statement Issued thl safternoon by tho
French war office, French troops
pushed forward last night, advanc
beyond the caboret of Kortebeer,
nt any time, in the opinion of army
authorities here. Each successful
man will be advised by telegraph
from the war department. It also
was announced that n list of the men
now in camp would not be uvailable,
for military reasons.
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dealing and for conservative man
agement. The result is that there
is much in its name ; for our name
now represents all that is highest
and best in banking.
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Established 1888.
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