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TREASON CHARGE
AGAINST PLOTTERS
Three Men In Columbus, 0.,
May Face Death Penalty
URGING ANTI-REGISTRATION
Federal
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District Attorney Takes Se-
Measures to Check Anti-Con-
scription Movement.
Charges of treason, a capital of
fense, were filed by United States Dis-
trict Attorney Bolin against three men
who, with several others, were arrest-
ed in connection with anti-registration
plotting in Columbus, O.
Each pleaded not guilty before Unit-
ed States Commissioner Johauson and
was held under $25,000 bound for a
of the plot became known
when Uniicd Siites marshals i
a print shop and office in Scout
street practically all foi the
literature printed. it
t appeared to be wel
11 organized. Harr;
where
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a graduaie of Ohio -State u.uve
and Albert Valaisper, a ear
were arresied for distributi
conscription literature
Iennacy is ed to have had
more than 1,000 stickers and 3
in his possession, urging youn
not to enlist. “Some of the poster:
read:
“Better rot in jail than on foreign
battlefields.”
“Rich men have brought on
war; they will get richer by gambling
in foodstuffs.”
Many of the posters were signed by
the “Young Men’s Anti-Millitaristic
League.”
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German Money Back of Plots?
Evidence gathered-by federal agents
convinced the officials that several
organizations of national scope plot-
ted to defeat the selective draft.
Circulars have been found in several
cities urging men eligible for service
not to register, some of the papers
containing phrases such as ““It is bet-
ter to rot in jail than on a foreign
battlefield.”
Arrests have been made in several
cities, including New York, where
three students, one a young woman,
are charged with conspiring to pre-
vent enrollment for army service.
Their organization, officials say, has
branches in colleges throughout the
country.
Vigorous prosecution is proposed of
all persons involved in these plots,
the department of justice has an-
nounced. One suspected conspiracy
that is under investigation concerns
letters sent out by the “World Peac:
association, Northfield, Minn.,” urgin :
men to resist conscription by pleadin-~
“conscientious objector” grounds as a
reason for their exemption.
Officials have also ordered that’ all
men subject to draft be prevented
from leaving the United States. This
action follows reports that scores of
young men have recently crossed into
Mexico or Canada.
PROHIBITIVE TAX
PLACED ON WHISKY
Senate Decides on Levy of $5 a Gallon,
Beer Making Is Not
Affacted.
A prohibitive tax on manufactures
of whisky and other distilled spirits
for beverage purposes during the
war, of approximately $5 a gallon, was |
dccided upon by the senate finance
committee in revising the war tax bill.
Brewing of beer is not affected by the
tax.
After several hours’ discussion of
how newspapers, magazines and other
publications shall be taxed for war
purposes the committee adopted a
resolution against increasing second
class postage rates and in favor of
levying a direct flat 2 per cent upon
advertising receipts. The decision was
tentative, but is expected to be final.
Only one member of the committee
voted against the resolution. Chair-
man Simmons announced that the
vote was merely to gain a concrete
expression of committee sentiment,
and fo that extent was tentative, and
Bs open to further reconsideration.
Other senators, however, stated that,
With such an overwhelming vote, it
was believed that the 2 per cent ad-
vertising tax would be finally adopt-
ed. Revenue of $15,000,000 is esti-
mated.
In voting on the advertising tax
question the committee considered,
but postponed, a decision upon ex:
empting newspapers and other publi-
eations whose annual advertising re-
ceipts are less than $2,000.
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FIVE-YEAR-OLD MARINE
~ PROUD OF HIS UNIFORM
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bv American Press Association.
ROBERT BONNER
While Napoleon was idolized by hi:
soldi~rs as the “Little Corporal,
Robert Bonner, five years old,
Beaver place, New York city, is the
dapper “little sergeant” of the United
States marines and proudly wears hi:
sergeant’s. chevrons and sharpshoote:
Photo
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up sea soldier. Bob has been chummy
with the “soldiers of the sea” all his
attired in full regulation uniform.
PRINCE UDINE DELIVERS
ITALY’S WAR GREETINGS
Commissioner Addresses Senate—Con
flict Declared to Have Drawn Two
Nations In Closer Friendship.
Speaking in broken English before
the United States senate Prince Udine,
head of the Italian commission, deliv
ered the war greetings of his country-
men to the American people. He de-
clared the conflict has wrought a
closer bond of sympathy and under-
standing between the peoples and,
while deploring anticipated sacrifices,
predicted ultimate victory.
All members of the commission ac-
companied the prince. In the diplo-
matic gallery sat Count di Cellere, the
Itaiian amp r } the C unite :
di Cellere. Secretary c.
State Phillips them to the
capitol.
“in this hour of danger, in whic:
military absolutism is threatening
everyone, there are nations that hav
| forgotten old and new coi stition
to defeat iil
t and pave united
medal with all the dignity of a grown- :
life and was never fully satisfied until ¢
i to the common safely,” said
! prince.
i “We are in a more fortunate po i- |
| tion. Between the United Srares of
America - and Italy theye never has
| been any cause of conflict} thereicre,
in ycur history and in ours, there is
no peze which should be forgetten in
{ this hour of brotherhood.
i “In our pres: alliance we need
not forget any war, nor any rivalry,
nor any strife. We must acknowledge
that this new and closer union means
for us a greater bond of sympathy
i and solidarity, added to those which
| already linked us.”
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GERARD SAYS LONG WAR
tary Service, He Declares.
Despite her losses Germany now has
nearly 12,000,000 men in military serve
ice and her military strength has not
been broken, James W. Gerard, former
| ambassador to Germany, told the
| Broadway association at its luncheon
| at the Astor hotel, New York.
In estimating the German losses he
said the Germans had lost 500,000 men
in prisoners, 500,000 permanently in-
capacitated, 500,000 less severely
wounded and about 1,500,000 killed, a
total of 3,000,000 men. Since the war
she has called yearly 400,000 recruiis
to the colors.
“Germany mobilized 8,000,000 men
in ten days,” he said, “but the United
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20,000 in the same time.”
look forward to a long war and that
it should economize in food.
RUSSIANS WELCOME AID
Received at Vladivostok.
gion appointed to aid Russia and
chief engineer of the Panama canal,
has arrived here. Members of the
commission were cordially received by
| a committee of soldiers and working-
{ men. The speeches delivered indicat-
ed eagerness on the part of the people
which it is offered.
The commission spent a day study-
ing the terminal problems at
vostok.
States could not mobilize more than !
Mr. Gerard said this country should °
U. 8. Railroad Commission Cordially :
headed by John F. Stevens, former |
to accept American aid in the spirit in |
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Germany Has 12,000,000 Men In. Mili- |
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The United States railroad commis- i the paint on a wooden Inglan's cheek.
Jeannette Kling, Play Reader
EANNETTE KLING is one of the five leading lyceum play readers of
America. She comes the third evening of the chautauqua. Bach winter
she goes tc Washington and studies all the late copyright plays. She
then selects the one she thinks chautauqua audiences would like the best.
This one she presents on the chautauqua platform the next summer. Some
people say that they would rather see Miss Kling put on a play all by herself
than to see it in an opera house. .
LINCOLN McCONNELL
“He Gets Juice
Out of Tombstones”
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ALPH PARLETTE says this about Lincoln McConnell: “T wish every-
body who ‘don’t like lectures’ could hear him. 1 wish the king who
never smiled again would sit in on a McConnell outburst. He can crack
He can get juice out of a tombstone
and flowers out of a snow bank. He can read a page from the Congressional
Record and convulse you or a page from Webster's Unabrideed and make you
scream.
“His lectures are a series of terrific broadsid
tions and stage gymnastics. He enjoys his lec
smacks his lips—the sentences taste so good. e
serious. You laugh, yell and cheer; you wipe the tears out of your eyes and
realize you have risen. It was a sermon all the time, with the fun and side
show just to save things. The audience has been shot, slugeed and spanked,
but every one sees it was needed. McConnell has 2 wav 1itting the hard-
est licks as though he were trying to commute the puni ent. He looks
@own over the audience and lovingly watches the villains die.”
McConnell will lecture here twice the last day of the chautauguoa.
R
ical stories, lmpersona-
Ss much as anybody. He
mber, he is tremendously
U-BOATS ATTACK
LINER KROONLAND
Torpedoes Hit Big Ship But
: Fail to Explode
SHELLS FIRED AT UNSEEN FOE
Steamship Attacked Off the Coast of
England by Two Submarines—Zig-
zagging Saves Vessel.
Two German submarines made a
concerted torpedo attack on the Amer-
ican line steamship Kroonland on her
last outward voyage from New York,
firing four torpedoes, two of which hit
the liner glancing blows but did not
explode, according to a report brought
by an American, recently in England,
who said he was told of the attack by
an officer on the ship.
The liner was nearing the British
coast, the American was informed,
when two torpedoes, fired from op-
posite sides of the vessel from sub-
merged U-boats were seen, Both tor-
pedoes missed the bow of the ship by
less than twenty feet. The Kroonland
was already going ‘’at high speed -and
the navigating officer on the bridge
gave orders to zigzag.
Quickly two more torpedoes were
launched. This time the aim of the
Germans was better, for the missiles
actually touched the sides of the liner,
but the blows were not sufficiently
direct to explode the contact de-
tonators in the torpedoes.
The naval gunners on the Kroon-
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Funeral Direetor and Embalmer
Meyersdale, Penna.
309 North Street
Economy Phone.
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land opened fire at the unseen targets,
sending explosive shells into the water
at the point where it was judged the
submersibles were when the torpedoes
were launched, but so far as Bnown no
hits were recovred.
TO RUSH MEN TO FRANCE
United States Will Have 100,000 on
Firing Line Before Winter.
More than 100,000 American “first
class fighting men” will probably be
engaged in battling Germany on the
west front months ahead of the orig-
inal schedule.
This became more or less of an
actuality when the fact developed that
the army general staff has had under
consideration and has about decided
on the dispatch of four or five di-
visions of national guardsmen abroad
“before snow flies.” The idea of such
a move has been received rather
favorably among the United States
BALTIMORE
MARCH 31 AND JUNE T
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Tickets valid for all refular trains and good
returning 10 days including date of sale.
Tickets including 5 days boara in Washing
ton, side trips, etc., may be secured upon
payment of 820.50 additional.
SECURE FULL INFORMATION
FROM TICKET AGENT
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RAILROAD
SPRING TOURS TO
WASHINGTON
AND
war chieftains, though they are con-
fronted with the very practical and
stupendous difficulty of securing suf-
ficient transport service.
Kaiser After U-Boat Base.
The government hears from a source
‘described as reliable that Germany is
attempting to get control of the island
of Margarita, off the coast of Vene-
zuela, for use as a submarine base.
The state department has forwarded
the information to Venezuela for the
consideration of Venezuelan officials.
A corporal and six troopers from
the state police troop at Pottsville
have been ordered to Harrisburg to as-
sist in guarding the state capitol.
They will be on duty day and night, in
addition to the regular capitol police
men.
After a week’s campaigning the en.
listment party seeking recruits for
the United States navy left Punxsu.
tawney without receiving a single ap
plication.
Howard Minglin was killed and four
others were injured in a rear-end coi-
process.
lision of cars on the Youngstown-
Sharon trolley system near Sharon.
George Harrison, aged forty-six, of
Pittsburgh, is dead as the result of
injuries sustained when a barrel of
pickles rolled on him
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Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwo-
man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
that in which the work ig
done at our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many
more times, use purer and
more costly soap, and keep
all the clothes in constant
motion during the entire
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyersdale Steam Laundry
Children Cry
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