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Driving Load of Lumber to a
Corncrib Not One of the Vo-
cations Covered by Risk.
Convene to Work Out Plans to
Assist Government
Government to Train Soldiers
to Meet Kaiser's Armies .
Lansing Makes Public Not
ACTION AFTER WAR ALSO UP
Sent By Ambassador
WRONG ELEVATOR RIGHT
REGIMENT IN EACH DIVISION
PLEDGE 0
ROUPS WILL USE
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Many Appeals Are Dismissed Reck
let Man, Who Took it Agalntt
Order, "Furthering Employ
er' Buine."
Harrisburg,
Thirty or more decisions were an-,
xounced at the office of the State
'Workmen's Compensation Board, In-!
eluding a dozen In which compensa-.
Hon awards made to employees ot rail-,
Mad engaged in interstate commerce j
knd governed by decisions of Federal
Court were set aside.
Among the appeals dismissed was
oe In which a claim for compensation
tor dependents of a man killed while
engaged in farm labor was refused.
Commissioner James W. Leech hold
ing that there could be no compensa
tion given for a man driving a team
loaded with lumber for a corncrib, un
der the existing State laws. He add
ed that the counsel for the appellants
"should have presented 111 arguments
Ho the Legislature, or may yet be
urged to go before an appellate court.
The Board would be pleased to have
the whole question passed upon by
the appellate courts."
' la affirming an award In the case of
Chennlak vs. the Pennsylvania Sugar
.Company, the Board found that the
Kan was engaged in furthering bis
employer's work, even though in going
to obtain drinking water be used a
prohibited elevator and was killed by
It The Board holds that at the time
the man was not in bis luncn period,
and that his errand "was fully as much
In the furtherance of his employer's
tusiness as though he nad been going
to fetch tools or any other necessary
equipment This being so, it is im
material that be selected a means of
transportation which was not only pro
hibited by his employer, but was so
dangerous that "the attempt to use it
was reckless to the point ot foolhardl
ness," la the case of Hemmlg vs. the Flso
er Hosiery Company, a Berks County
cue. It was held that an employee who
Xell down stairs after completing a
' day's work and was not Injured be
cause of the condition of the stairs, wa3
not entitled to compensation. In the
opinion, after a rehearing, of Carr vs.
the Pennsylvania Railroad, the man Is
awarded compensation for being nurt
through being shoved off a bench dur
ing a rest period at a station.
Appeals dismissed Include Kelly vs.
Vldvale Steel Company, Philadelphia;
Wallace vs. Meadow Hill Coal Com
Jny. Scranton; Gcffken vs. Martin,
York; Roskowskl vs. Pittsburgh Coal
Company, Pittsburgh; Quigley vs. Mc
Dowell Paper Company, Philadelphia;
Pfeffer vs. Republic Iron & Steel Com
pany, Youngstown, O.; Love vs. Mar
chall Coal Company, Pittsburgh; Bry
all v. Delaware & Hudson Company.
Bcranton; Herbert vs. Pennsylvania
Railroad, Pittsburgh; Achey vs. Phil
adelphia & Reading Railway, Philadel
phia; Chovlc vs. Pittsburgh Crucible
Eteel Company, Pittsburgh; Hazlett
-. Buchman & Rosen, Washington;
Basnofsky vs. South Fork Coal Mining
Company, South Fork; Walters vs.
Philadelphia & Reading, Pottsvllle;
Granville vs. Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad, Scranton; Blumen
tine vs. Philadelphia & Reading, Har
risburg. ' The other cases come under Federal
decisions.
Box Car For Coal Trade.
The Public Service Commission's
Bureau of Rates and Tariffs Issued
this notice:
As an aid to relieve the difficulties
mi the bituminous coal mines, caused
liy insufficient cars for shipment being
available, the Public Service Commls
alon has granted the coal-carrying
railroads authority to amend the "car
distribution rules," effective Immedi
ately, to permit the assignment of box
rars to mines, regardless of the num
ber of coal carrying cars supplied, and
not to be charged in the distributions
This practice will be carried out
only for west bound shipments of coal,
and la designed to make use of box
cars, which are now moving West
empty for the grain movtment East,
which is very heavy at thU time of the
year. It will also enable operators to
increase the output of coal, which will
relieve not only the markets in the
"West, but also will have a beneficial
Influence on coal supplied in the East,
In that it will conserve coal-carrying
cars to this traffic which might other
viae be necessary for coal moving In
other directions.
Reinsurance Local Now.
The State Workmen's Insurance
Board has placed the reinsurance of
the State Fund, covering its catastro
phe hazard, with an Insurance com'
pany licensed to operate In Pennsyl
vanla and Incorporated. William J
Roney, manager of the Stato Fund,
eald that prior to thla time there were
no companies Incorporated by this
Commonwealth to write excess rein
eorance risks, and consequently it was
Impossible to place the business with
a strict; y Pennsylvania insurance com
pany.
Stat Imposing Penalties.
The Attorney General's Department
"brought suit against the Economy and
Artisans' Building and Loan Assocla
lions, of Scranton, for $100 lines each
tor tailing to make report on condl
tlon to the State Commissioner of
tBanklng for 1916. Suit waa also
brought in behalf ot the State Fire
XUrahal against F. O. Kruegerman, of
Bcranton, for recovery of $575 fines
for tailing to remove a building owned
y him in Wllkes-Barre. The fines are
916 a day for each day of failure to
report
A demonstration took place at
Ashland In honor of departing con
scripts. Mlnersvllle gave the drafted men
of the Seventh district a great send
off. '
Suggestions for holding ot a rural
lite day in various counties have been
made by the State Board ot Educa
tion. Bucknell University opened with an
enrollment of 170 freshmen and a
total enrollment of more than 600
students, a loss of about 200 from
the three first classes.
Dickinson . College enrollment at
Carlisle is 320, as against 370 last
year, and the biggest drop was In the
senior class, which numbers 40, and
gave heavily to army service.
Schuylkill county's Judges will have
to run again In November, having
failed of election at the primaries.
Only 293 votes were polled at the
primaries by both parties in Doyles
town, and 225 of these were Repub
licans. John W. Coar, veteran tax. collector
at Lansdale, was defeated for the
Republican rcnomlnation at the pri
maries by Harry W. Shultz, 24 years
old.
Arch Johnson, vice-president of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, received
about SO per cent, of the votes cast
for Mayor of Bethlehem, and bis name
will go on the ballot unopposed at
the fall election.
The result of the primary election
gives Harrisburg two Republican can
didates for Mayor, to be voted for
In November Daniel L. Kelster, for
mer member of the Legislature, and
George A. Hoverter, alderman of the
Ninth Ward.
Twenty-two Ohio cows were sold
by John K. Kulp at Pottstown at
prices ranging from $70 to $125.
A coal famine threatens to close
many Reading industres.
The Diamond State Fibre Company
at Bridgeport declared a 15 per cent
bonus to its more than 300 employees.
This 1b the largeBt bonus ever given
by the company. The last was 11 per
cent, three months ago.
Peddling during curb market hours
has been forbidden by Hazleton town
council.
The price of potatoes throughout the
Lehigh Vahey Is gradually coming
down, and It is expected that they will
soon sell for less than $1 bushel.
T'ae crop is a very large one. Some
farmers predict that potatoes will sell
as low as 60 cents a bushel when real
harvesting commences.
Mifflin county farmers are placing
an unusually large amount of ground
In wheat.
Further efforts will be made during
the week by the Public Safety Com
mittee to put the Hazleton curbstone
market on a firm basis.
General C. B. Dougherty, of Wilkes
Carre, has been selected by the State
Armory Board to act as vice-chairman,
succeeding the late Adjutant General
Thomas J. Stewart.
The Montgomery County Fish Asso
ciation has planted 7,400 blue catOeh,
three-fifths Inches long, and 6,500
small mouth black bass, two-fourth
Inches long, in the Perkiomen at
Scbwenkville and vicinity.
More than 50 young men and women
at present having their homes in Kutz
town are following the teaching pro
fession, not to mention 5.000 others
who are fallowing the same work in
jvery section of the country, anil who
were born in Kutztown.
During the parade held in honor of
the drafted men who will eoon leave
Reading, $380 was thrown upon a flag
carried by Boy Scouts, and this money
will be used to purchase tobacco.
On six acres Solomon DeTufk, ot
Crlesemersville, harvested 1,460 bush
els of potatoes.
Berks county farmers have started
selling potatoes from the fle.ds at 90
cents a busnel.
Because ot an alleged excessive
raise In rent, J. H. S. Griess ft Co., who
for years have operated the Gabel grist
mill, a Pottstown landmark, will retire
from business October 1.
According to Controller Heebner'e
report to the Montgomery County Com
missioners there is a balance ot $133,
000 In the county treasury.
Twenty cows sold by Holman ft Gra
ham at Phoenlxville brought from $87
to $160 per head, only two selling for
less than $100 each.
Close to 700 freshmen have enrolled
at the Pennsylvania State College for
its wartime session. The total attend
ance in all departments is 1,804, about
600 short of the registration last year.
The school of agriculture suffered most.
William Michaels was killed, Wil
liam Fitzen fatally Injured and a third
man less seriously hurt when the for
mer's automobile struck a telegraph
pole between Lykens and Williams
town. Fitzen received concussion of
the brain. He was hurled twenty
yards Into a field. Tne car waa going
down a steep grade and Michaels lost
control.
More than 170 children of West
Chester cared for community gardens
at their respective homes in competi
tion for the various prizes offered by
the Chester County Trust Company
and tho New Century Club. The first
prize of $5 In gold waa awarded to
Robert Gamble.
Marysville haa eighteen school chil
dren who are violating the compulsory
attendance law.
The, Gimar Association, of Reading,
presented a medal to Edwin McDowell,
of that city, for B&vlng R. C. Schelly,
Harrisburg, from drowning In the Sus
quehanna. Miss Margaret S. Rankey ha been
appointed teacher of Reading's first
open air school.
L. K. Hostetter, of Landls Valley,
has been In the bee business only
since 1904, when he started with two
hives. Now he has 110 hives. It Is
believed that the bees in his colonies
number over 6,000,000. This season's
yield of honey may reach 10,000
pounds, and it sells at 20 cents.
Charged with keeping disorderly
houses, Obed Musser, aged 75, Lancas
ter, and Mannle Clum, an extensive
Columbia real estate owner, were sen
tenced to Lancaster county Jail.
War Department Issues Order For
Technical Branches Of Many
Kind To Train At
Cantonments.
Washington. The American armies
In France will meet the Kaiser ct his
own game. Liquid Cre and r will
be brought into play agalntt the
enemy. Plans for new organizations
to undertake this type of warfare were
completed and announced ofllclUly by
the War Department.
Engineer regiments will be trained
In the projecting of gas wave and the
use of liquid fire. One regiment so
trained will be Included In every divi
sion. The same order directed the organ
lzation of a number of technical
branches for each army, as follows:
A mining service, water supply serv
ice, general construction, engineer sup
plies, printing, road service, pontoons,
and for the line of communication a
general construction service, forest
service, quarry rervlce, light railway
service, narrow-gauge railway service
and other.
These forces will be raised by the
volunteer or draft system and Nation
al Army cantonments will be utilized
In organizing them. In capes where
engineering training Is required tne
regular engineers' training camps will
be utilized. -
NOT TO SEIZE HOME FOODS.
Government Nail Story Intended To
Stop Canning By Household.
Washington. The untraceable
rumor that the government intends to
take canned and dried foods from
home persists and has spread to such
an extent that the Department of Agri
culture placed an explicit and official
denial In the hands of every county
agent and representative, with instruc
tions to give it widest publicity.
The government never has con
templated commandeering foods from
the homes in any sense, and the per
sistency of the rumor leads officials to
believe its basis probably may be
found in propaganda to hinder food
conservation, and thereby continue
high prices.
COTTON MEN'S FEARS ENDED.
McAdoo To Ask Britain Not To With
draw $110,000,000 Investment.
Washington. Secretary McAdoo
told a delegation of Southern congress
men there was no need for alarm over
the prospective withdrawal of $110,
000,000 of British funds now Invested
In cotton and farm lands. The govern
ment probably will ask Greut Britain
not to call for the money at the ma
turity of the loans now approaching.
PRISONERS AS TARGETS.
Inhuman Treatment Is Alleged Against
the Austrian.
Washington. Stories of Inhuman
treatment of Italian prisoners by their
Austro-Hungarlan . captors have been
brought to Rome, according to dis
patches received here by a prominent
Italian lawyer, sent home by the Aus
trlans among a number of Incapaci
tated prisoners. This man reported
that captives were systematically tor
tured In the prison camps, In many
cases being used as targets for re
volver practice or deliberately pois
oned. CHINESE ARMY TO FRANCE.
Twenty Thousand Volunteer Reported
Sent
Toklo. China, according to the
Peking correspondent of the newspa
per Nichl-Nlchi, will send 20,000 vol
unteer troops to France. The force
will be only the first detachment of a
Chinese expeditionary army to aid the
Allies.
POPE TO TRY AGAIN.
Rome Dispatch Say Another Peace
Note Will Be Sent
Paris. A Rome dispatch to the
Temps says it seems to be confirmed
that Pope Benedict will send another
note containing peace proposals to the
belligerent powers toward the end of
September.- The newspaper's advice
adds that the note will be more specific
and enter into greater details than tho
recent one.
TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS LIKELY.
Eighty-eight Per Cent Of Regular
Use the Weed.
Washington. The War Department
Informed Representative Barkley, of
Kentucky, who Is seeking to have to
bacco made a part of every soldier's
rations, that 88 per cent, of the regu
lars are tobacco users. A canvas of
national Guardsmen and drafted men
Is to be made to determine how many
of them use tobacco.
FRANCE LOSES FOUR SHIPS.
Two Large and Two Small Vessel
Week' Submarine Toll.
Tarls. Two French merchantmen
of more than 1,600 tons and two ves
sels of less than that tonnage were
sunk by Teuton submarines or mines
In the. week ending September 19, ac
cording to an official statement given
out by the French Admiralty. In this
period 980 vessels arrived and 894
cleared at French ports. Two French
abiDa were unsuccessful attacked.
RUSS A
REPUBLIC 15 SAFE
Ambassador Bakhmeteff Sub
mits Report to Lansing
THE PACIFISTS PAST ZENITH
Military Situation Improved, While
Talk Of Separate Peace I Called
German Falsehood Pacifist
At Height Of Power.
Washington. That the Russian re
public may command the respect and
confidence of the United States more
than ever before is the purpose of a
formal report by Ambassador Bakh
meteff to Secretary Lansing. The out
standing features of the Russians'
statement to this Government are:
Russia's future is (secure.
Her army, considered an Incal
culable factor before the Kornlloff re
volt, is now the strongest bulwark of
the republic.
The Bolshevik), favoring Immediate
international peace negotiations, have
parsed the zenith of their power after
being temporarily strengthened by
concessions from Kercnsky during the
recent crisis.
The Pan-Russian soldiers and work
men's convention in Petroerad Sunday
will curtail Ltnine's sudden assump
tion of power over the Tetrogiad
council.
A more favorable military situation
exists now than at any time since
Korniloff's Ill-fated Galiclan drive.
Absolute denial of any demand for
a separate peace between Russia and
Germany.
The Bolshevik! are for peace among
all nations not a peace with Germany
alone. Reports emanating from Wash
ington during the week that Russia
was talking separate peace were
branded at the embassy nH "malicious
falsehoods" with a "pro-German
tinge."
That the recent revolt will be the
last serious opposition to the Govern
ment Is confidently predicted. Over
throw of the "most popular military
leader In Russia" (Kornlloff) "will un
doubtedly serve as a warning to others
similarly Inclined," It was stated at
the embassy today.
AMERICAN SCHOONER SUNK.
Crew Of the Ann J. Trainer Safe,
Consul Reports.
Washington. The unarmed Ameri
can schooner Ann J. Trainer was sunk
September 16, a consular telegram to
(he State Department reported. The
crew of seven men were saved. No
details were received.
World War in Brief
Berlin apparently Is much exercised
over the ever-increasing volume of
shells from the British big guns. From
the Houtholst Wood, northeast of
Vpres, to the River Lys, on the Belgo
French border, Berlin reports, the
British fire has been destructive. Field
Marshal Haig's artillery increased its
volume of shots to drum fire several
times.
While the Infantry has been virtual
ly idle on the northern end of the east
ern front, the Roumanians continue
their offensive in the mountain region
northwest of Fokshanl, Moldavia. At
tacking the Austro-German defenses
south of Grozechti, near Ocnza, the
Roumanians captured a height Ber
lin reports that the Roumanians, at
first successful, were driven from the
positions, suffering casualties and
losing prisoners.
As on the front In Flanders and
Artois there has been no major opera
tion on the French portion of the
western front. At several points from
the Alsne' Valley to Lorraine the
French have made raids into the Ger
man defenses. Here, too, the expendi
ture of ammunition is great, especial
ly on the Alsne front and northeast
of Verdun.
The smallest number of British ves
sels of more than 1,600 tons sunk in
one week since lase February is Bhown
In the weekly statement from the Brit
ish Admiralty, which reports the loss
of eight of the large size. There Is a
decided increase, however, In the
smaller sized Bhlps, 20 of these being
lost through mines or submarines, the
second largest number since Germany
Intensified her submarine campaign.
The American steamer Platurla, of
3,445 tons, owned by the Standard Oil
Company, has been torpedoed, with
the loss of her master and eight mem
her of the crew.
10 BIG ARMY
UP TO 2.300,000
Baker Making Arrangements
for Calling Next 500,000
FIRST BIG-MOBILIZATION ON
Movement To Training Point Carried
Forward Smoothly In Alt Part
Of Country Scene Of
Popular Enthuiam.
Washington. While mobilization of
the first major Increment of the Na
tional Army was proceeding through
out the country, Secretary Baker and
the chiefs of the War Department ap
peared before the Senate Appropria
tion Committee to present requests for
an additional $287,416,000 with which
to provide equipment for a total force
of 2,300,000 men.
Included among the Items is the
ordnance equipment for the next 500,
000 men of the National Army.
All Comforts Provided.
Dispatches from all parts of the
country Indicated that mobilization
was being carried forward smoothly
and amid scenes of popular enthusi
asm. The National Army men were
given a tremendous send-off as they
trooped to their trains led by the local
board offlclals, who found them quali
fied to Join the ranks of the nation's
defenders.
Every essential for the health and
comfort of the men has been provided
for. They will be fed and sheltered
without difficulty,, and their arms, uni
forms and all the balance of their war
equipment will be ready for thera as
rapidly as they, are ready to use it.
There are busy days ahead at the
cantonments. Not only must the men
be examined by military doctors and
finally accepted for army service, but
they must be organized Immediately
into provisional companies for admin
istrative purposes and to make pos
sible their final assignments to the
infantry, cavalry or artillery or to the
special corps of the Army. The qual
ifications of each man are to be noted
and his ultimate duty as far as prac
ticable will bear some relations to the
training he has received in civil life
and his own inclinations. .
All this will take time. Time also
will be required to determine what
men of the National Army are to be
transferred to the National Guard di
visional camps to fill those divisions
to fighting strength. The organization
of the companies, battalions, regi
ments or other' units of the National
Army itself cannot be completed 'until
this transfer has been made.
Pending the time when the fighting
forces of the National Army begin to
take shape, it is not essential that full
uniform equipment be available for
every man assembled at the camps.
Preliminary instruction in the school
of a soldier, which teaches men how
to stand and walk and the bearing and
deportment of a trained and disciplined
fighting man, can well enough be given
In citizens' clothes, If necessary.
PUPILS VOTE OUT GERMAN.
Prove Decidedly Unpopular In Park-
ercburg School.
Parkersburg, W. Va. German as
one of the branches in the course of
study in the High School of this city
Is unpopular with the student body, as
shown by the large number who have
signified their Intention of dropping It
On Monday, the opening day of the
schools, the students were informed
that they could use their own pleasure
in the matter.
SURGEON, IN BATHING, DROWNS.
Dr. M. W. Wagner Caught By Under
tow In Atlantic.
Norfolk, Va. Surgeon M. W. Wag
ner, U. S. A. medical director at Fort
Story, Camp Henry, was drowned In
the Atlantic Ocean while bathing with
Lieut. B. S. Beverly. Fifteen minutes
after the two officers went in the
water Surgeon Wagner disappeared
and was not seen again.
THE KAISER'S PASSION. .
Report Confirmed Of Reward For
First American Prisoner.
Paris. The American headquarters
staff in France has Just been informed
by the French authorities that Em
peror William has promised a prize of
300 marks and three weeks' leave to
the first German who captures an
American soldier. This information
came from a German prisoner recently
taken, who declares that the offer was
contained In an order issued through
out ib army,
Control Of Material and Machinery
I A Necessary To Victory A
Mobilization and Train- .
ing Of Men.
Atlantic City. N. J. American indus
tries Riinnnrt of the aovernment in its
prosecution of the war was reaffirmed
at the opening of the war convention
here of American business men, cailea
by the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
Sneaking of a preliminary meeting
held by the Chamber's national coun
cil, J. W. Fahey, of Boston, honorary.
vlce-Dresldent of the organization, de
clared that the country's business'
men, after helping win the war, will
"so organize as that never again shall
a group of murderers form a govern
ment to threaten the progress and lib
erty of the nation.
"This fundamentally Ib a struggle
of nations in which control of ma
terials and machinery are as neces
sary to victory as the mobilization and
training of men," said Mr. Fahey, who
added:
"This tremendous enterprise is es
pecially a concern of business and It
Is the task of American industry to
answer the call which the world and
humanity makes upon it. Behind the
national council are more than half a
million business men, corporation and
firms. This chamber has at its dis
posal offices, equipment, machinery
and capital. No similar machinery to
equal it is available to any other
nation Involved in the war, and we are
indeed negligent of our duty and re
sponsibility if we do not utilize it up
to the utmost American business haB
heard the call, and never before have
men of business responded with great
er devotion, energy and sacrifice than
those of our country."
Plana for assisting the government
and state defense councils with coal
and food conservation problems, It was
announced, will be worked out by the
chamber soon. A discussion of these
topics developed the general opinion
that the coal shortage is due to in
adequate transportation facilities.
Some speakers predicted coal famines
in parts of the country this winter if
the subject is not dealt with wisely.
AMERICANS SINK U-BOAT.
Armed Steamer Surprises Raider At
tacking Schooner.
Copenhagen. Two German sub
marines have been sunk by British
naval forces, reports the Bergen cor
respondent of the Tldens Tegns. Six
men from the U-boats were taken prls;
oners.
An armed British (later reported
American) steamer in the North Sea
sank a German submarine which was
shelling a neutral sailing vessel. The
second submarine was sunk by a Brit
ish torpedo-boat destroyer while at
tacking an armed steamer.
PREPAREDNESS IN SPAIN.
Plan For Army and Industrial
Mobilization.
Madrid. At a cabinet meeting it
was decided to create two new regi
ments of field artillery, seven bat
talions of garrison artillery and seven
battalions of heavy artillery. It was
decided also to appoint a special com
mittee to draft a plan of Industrial
mobilization from a military point of
view. Eduardo Dato, the premier, ex
plained that these reforms were not
undertaken in any militaristic spirit.
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE
The American antl-Vlvisectionlst So
ciety, named In the will of Grace M.
Fogg, of New Haven, as heir to her
estate of approximately $120,000. will
receive about $100,000, while a sister
will receive $15,610.
The cases of Mrs. Annie Riley Hale,
of New York, and Alfred E. Whitehead,
arrested in Hartford, Conn., at a
meeting of the Hartford branch of the
People's Council of America for Demo
cracy and Peace, were postponed.
Every plumbing establishment in El
Paso was affected by a walk-out of the
union plumbers, who demand $8 a day.
Inspectors from the medical division
of the Army declared that the bar
racks buildings at Camp DIx are too
small.
Official announcement was made
that duly qualified women registered
at Radcllffe College would be admitted
to the Harvard Medical School this
year. '
The Indiana women's suffrage law
was declared unconstitutional and
void by a Judge of the Marlon County
Superior Court.
Fire, believed to be of Incendiary
origin, destroyed 70,000,000 feet of lum
ber in the yardB ot the Red River Lum
ber Company, near Westwood, Cali
fornia. Coal mines, manufacturing plants
and industries generally resumed
operations In Illinois when 8,000 work
ers, idle last week because of a sym
pathetic strike, returned to work.
Motor-cycles and bicycle are be
coming popular throughout SJam,
H0PD TO SWAY ACTIO
Speak of it a Being Well Known-
No Direct Personal Offer Made
to Congressmen More Ex.
pesures Expected.
Washington. According to
nouncement by Secretary Lam
German gold has been used to
lull
ence Congress, If Count von Hernstorl
former German Ambassador to
i
United States, Is to be believed.
Not only that, but on January
last, when it seemed apparent
It
President Wilson would act to brii
the United States into the war at
enemy of the German Empire, BtJ
storff cabled to the German fon,
Office for permission to spend jp
$50,000 additional to Influence
gress and prevent this country mt,
ing the war. The text of the mwtJ
follows:
The Message From Bernitorfl,
The message, dated January
1917, follows:
"I request authority to pay out
to $.50,000 (fifty thousand) dollars
order, as on former occnMoni, to
fluence Congress through the orjJ
lzation you know of, which can
haps prevent war.
"I am beginning In (lie meant
to act accordingly.
"In the above circumstance a
lie official German declaration
favor of Ireland Is highly desire!
In order to gain the suppoit ol
Influence here."
The higher officials of the Stile
partment declined to sav whether
text of this cablegram was in tl
hands when diplomatic i elation
Germany finally were broken. In
connection this statement was mat
"The text of Count von flerm
cablegram in Itself was sufficient
have warranted a break In diploitil
relations. For unexampled audai
in endeavoring to influence the h
est legislative body In the I'n:
States the action of the Amba.w
was unparalleled in hMnry. But
was only one thing In connection
his operations at tills particular t
For Instance, the State Peparti'
has good reason to fed certain
Count von Pernstorff had for Mid
two weeksJefore the German
marine note was Issued pc:
knowledge that it was eominf,
that it would openly break the p:
ous promises that international
WR3 to be observed In the ronduc:
Its submarine campaign. During':
two weeks the Ambassador did"'
thing possible tu mold public ojfc
toward the contentions of IriMiot
ment and to try to Influence oft
to a viewpoint that unrestricted
marine warfare was the only u-i
Germany could make to C
Britain's blocadc methods and Iff
icy of arming all of her merchant'
with guns fore and aft."
Other Evidence In Hani
It is admitted that thee
of information dealing with Count'
Bcrnstorff's operations In the I
sion of the department. Ttt
months before he left the l'1
States the Count, now German An!
sador to Turkey, was under wain
WrPt Service ooeratives detail'-
the task by the State Der""
These men kept a faithful rtw
the Ambassador's movement!
the money which he received
limited Quantities through l
known New York banking Am
NEW SITE TO COST MORE-
.Baker Ask $7,000,000 to W.0O0JK
Proving Ground.
Baker has submitted a new
ki Conoto Anni'OpriltK""
. .in..... nrnvlnXf
mmee lor hd aruin-w . .
asking for between VMf
applied for with which to P"
Kent Island. Tula l takf"
that the War Department ntf '
ed its proving grmin --
ire consider
... . i ,1 ms
territory than would have b.
able even ir tne w
had been taken.
EIGHT-CENT SUGAR
SOON-
Beet Producer Com
Washington. lie" lt
.r
In conference with te ' k
istration reached a """"',.
monf nnHnr which the J
DOUt
rice of sugar will ' .
... .Willi
cents a pound.
.uinooUn, ot Eastern re" .
fin III '
at VA cents apowndJ
the retail price, h h , i
normally be not nio
quarters of a cent Ms1"
U. 8. ENGINEERS Tl
Take Over Importa"'
" - - iti'dl" i
French Strategic p4
American Training CLA
An American regiw-" .... W
..- .vn nvpr an W' .
ZT'Z rail",.,
they have not yet 6" ,tl(F
Am tho rwmalis I""
bomb their trains. T6 , 4
entirely under th' '
handling supplies of
French units.