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BULL MOOSERS WILL
BE IN RACE, HE SAYS
George W. Perkins Declares
Party Will Have Ticket In
1916 Campaign.
Kansas City. Mo., Nov. 22.—The fu
, lure of the progressive party in Missouri
-w | probably will depend on, the action to
be taken at a meeting of party leaders
from all parts of the state to be held
/ here today. Delegates began arriving
last night and parties from St. Louis,
St. Joseph, Joplin, Springfield and sev
eral other of the larger cities arrived
this morning.
An all day conference including a
luncheon in honor of George W. Perk
ins, of New York, chairman of the na
tional executive committee, has been
irranged.
In Chicago yesterday. Mr. Perkins,
conferring with local leaders of the
progressive party, said that "the pro
gressive party must and will have a
national ticket in the field in 1916."
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Partner of Ex-Senator Lorimer
Given Five Years’ Sentence
—$2,500,000 Filched
From Depositors.
Morris. Iti.. Nov. 22.-—Charles B.
Munday, vice president of the LaSalle
Street Trust & Savings bank, of Chi
cago, of which William Lorimer was
president, was found guilty of conspir
ing to wreck the institution, and his
punishment was fixed by a Jury at five
years’ imprisonment.
The jury took five ballots. They dis
agreed on the penalty, nine standing at.
first for the maximum punishment,
which would have been five years and
« fine of $2,000. Munday and his son.
J. Ci. Munday, were in the court room.
Munday’s wife, his two daughters and
son, the Rev. Father Joseph Munday,
were not in court.
The LaSalle street bank was organ
ized by Munday and, according to
charges of the state’s attorney in the
present trial, the name ’’senator’’ was
capitalized as one of the bank's assets.
When the bank failed in June, 1914.
there followed the collapse of nine oth
er banks and trust companies of the
so called Lorimer-Munday string.
Lorimer Trial Next.
Fourteen persons were indicted. Lor
imer and Munday being the chief of
them. The indictments charged them
with looting the institution of almost
$2,500,000, and, with violation of prac
tically every banking law of the state.
The state elected to try Munday first,
and. when he contended that his asso
ciation with Mr. Lorimer precluded a
fair trial in Chicago, a change of venue
to this city was granted.
It was charged that assets of the La
Salle street concern were stolen to or
ganize the other hanks of the chain, the
checks had been "kited” and that the
parent hank had been insolvent for
some time prior to the collapse.
Munday’s rise was spectacular. He
went ranldiv from manager of a small
telegraph office to part ownership in
11 banks and a dozen large business
concerns. He was born and raised In
Litchfield. Til., where his father was a
Justice-of the peace.
Maclay Hoyne. state’s attorney for
Cook countv, said the verdict was sat
isfactory. Lorimer and Henry W. Hut
tig, of Muscatine, la., will go to trial
after the first of next year, Hoyne said.
WILSON TO CONFER WITH
LEADING REPUBLICANS
Washington, Nov. 20,—President
Wilson today asked Senator Galiinger
and Representative Mann, republican
leaders of the Senate and House, re
spectively, to confer with him before
the opening of congress on legisla
tion for national defense. The time of
the conference will be arranged to
suit the two leaders.
The president sent the invitations in ,
accordance with his announced plan of
making a fight for military prepared- I
ness along nonpartisan lines.
Just before the opening of congress !
the president will confer with repub- |
iican members of the Senate and j
House military and naval committees. •
MOVIE VILLAIN KILLED,
Santa Barbara, Cal., Nov. 20.—A leap j
from a stage coach whose horses were !
supposed to be running away cost the
life today of Leslie Reed, a moving pic- j
lure actor, aged 20. Reed made the
jump while Impersonating a villlan. J
Belgian industries look to the Uni
;t-1 States for considerable industrial
Va.rt! -c. I
PLOTS UNEARTHED
Government Orders Investiga
tion of Alleged Conspiracy
to Smuggle Chinese
Into America.
San Francisco, Nov. 22.-—A sweeping
investigation of the federal immigra
tion service on the Pacific coast has
been instituted on authority of Secre
tary of Labor Wilson, according to a
statement of Assistant Secretary of
Labor John F.. Densmore, made public
here today. Densmore is in personal
charge of the inquiry into the many
charges that have been preferred
against the immigration service in
California.
The present investigation is said to
have resulted directly from the expose
of the Mongolia Chinese smuggling
conspiracy, following the arrest of Sfi
Chinese brought to this port on the
last voyage of the steamship Mon
golia and the alleged Intention of
smuggling them ashore.
Secret service operatives of the Uni
ted States government, it is said, are
now on their way from Washington, D.
C„ to this city under instructions to
report to Densmore.
JUSTICE LAMAR MAY
RETIRE FROM COURT
Congress Expected to Pass
Special Act — Wade Men
tioned as Successor.
Washington. Nov. 22.—President
Wilson is likely soon to have the ap
pointment of a new associate justice
of the supreme court. Plans are afloat
to put through congress a special act
to retire Justic Lamar, of Georgia, be
cause of ill health.
Members of the judiciary commis
sions of congress have been sounded
and are willing to report the measure.
If he is retired there will be a swarm
of candidates. Some friends of Judge
Wade, of Iowa, think his name might
be considered, but in view of his recent
appointment this is by no means cer
tain.
PAGE LEARNS FACTS
ABOUT ANCONA CASE
Said to Have Obtained Infor
mation Showing Responsi
bility of Plunger.
Rome. Nov. 22.—The American am
bassador, Thomas Nelson Page, has
collected additional evidence concern
ing the sinking of the steamship An
cona.
This evidence has been given from
several official sources as well as from
survivors. It is understood the am
bassador has established beyond doubt
the principal circumstances attending
the disaster, including the degree ot
responsibility of the submarine which
sunk the vessel.
The Italian government also in
formed Ambassador Page that it hail
made no contention that the submarin*
was German.
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STEAMER RISKED TORPEDO
TO REACH SINKING ANCONA
Washington, D. C., Nov. 20.—The
Italian foreign office has notified
American Ambassador Page, at Rome,
that it has no reason to believe that
the submarine which sunk the liner
Ancona with the loss of several Ameri
cans, was other than an Austrian. This
with the Austrian government's
acknowledgment of the act, clears up
the last possibility that it might have
been a German boat.
New York, Nov. 20.—Presh and dra
matic details of what happened in the
Mediterranean on the morning of No
vember 7, when the Ancona was torpe
doed by a submarine flying the Aus
trian flag, were brought to New York
today by the new Italian steamer, Giu
seppe Verdi, here on her maiden voy
age.
The Verdi heard the Ancona’s wire
less death cry, flashed it on to shore j
stations which the sinking steamer ]
could not reach and then rushed to the
Ancona’s a.ld, her boats swung outward,
her passengers lined on the deck, and
her officers momentarily expecting a
leath blow themselves from subma
rines known to be lurking nearby. The
Verdi steamed as near as she dared to
the spot where the Ancona went down,
but her lookouts saw nothing. Then,
turning swiftly, she fled for Gibraltar,
and security. ___ __ __
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DOCTOR VINDICATED
BY CORONER’S JURY
Chicago Physicians Uphold
Stand of Fellow Practi
tioner In Baby Case.
Chicago, Nov. 20.—Six persons, com
posing a coroner's jury, held that Dr.
H. J. Haiselden, who permitted an in
fant, Allan John Bollinger, to die when
an operation might have saved him to
a life of unhappiness as a defective,
was morally and ethically justified in
refusing to perform the operation which
his conscience did not sanction.
Dr. Haiselden, in his testimony, said
he did not reach his final decision not
to operate until ho had consulted 15
practicing physicians, four of whom
approved his course of letting the little
life expire, he said. The mother of the
child, wife of a well to do workman,
mother of three other children, all phy
sically and mentally normal, also
agreed that the baby would be better
off dead, he declared.
WICHITAN HAS PRIZE
TAX DODGING SYSTEM
Wichita, Kan., Nov. 20.—The prize
way to beat paying taxes has been
evolved by a Wichita man in the fol
lowing manner:
He deeded nine inches of the home
place to «. fictitious person and let the
tax -title lapse, no one caring to buy
such a small plot. The deal appears as
if the whole property is involved and
the man has been living on the w-hole
site peacefully and without paying
taxes.
An unearthing of fraud in tax title
sales, aggregating $60,000, upon which
the county realized only $9,000, revealed
the cheat and the owner has been com
pelled, like the others, to disgorge.
PIANIST DIVORCED FEW
DAYS AGO, WEDS AGAIN
San Francisco, Nov. 20.—The mar
riage of Tina Berner, Russian nia list,
to Vladimir Sliavltch, of New York,
was announced here today. Miss Ber
ner was granted a divorce Wednesday,
at Reno, from Bouis J. Bachner, of
Berlin. She and her now husband
were music students together in Ber
lin 10 years ago. The marriage took
place here yesterday before a justice
of the peace. Miss Berner giving her
age as 26 years.
ASSASSINS’ CLUB IS
DISCOVERED IN TOKIO
Tokio, Nov. 20.-—Recent attempted
assassination of Chiang Shih-I, an
emissary of President Yuan Khai Kai,
of China, has revealed the existence of
an assassin’s club among the revolu
tionary Chinese students of Tokio. It
is alleged the members are solemnly
sworn to take the life of prominent
workers for the inonarchial movement
in China
CHECK UP EVIDENCE IN
CHARGE AGAINST CONSUL
Washington, D. C., Nov. 19.—The de
partment of Justice today is making
further inquiry into the activities of
Austrian Consul General Von Nuber
and his associates. An announce
ment said information had been re
ceived which would probably lead to
further indictments for passport
frauds. The investigation is the out
come of a conference in New York on
Wednesday between A. Hruce llielas
ki, chief of the bureau of investigation
of the department of Justice and Dr.
Gorlcar.
Much timber in New Zealand having
been found highly suitable for the
manufacture of wood pulp, the gov
ernment is fostering the establishment
Of the industry. 1 i
Wireless Dispatch States Liner
Verona Is Being Pursued
By Giant Enemy
Submarine.
Madrid, Nov. 22.—(via London).—A
telegram received here today gives a
wireless message said to have been
sent out by the Italian Verona stating
that she.was being pursued by a large
submarine with two periscopes.
According to this telegram the sub
marine is accompanied by a steamer.
The position of the Verona was given
latitude 40 longitude 6, off Cabopalo.
The telegram was received from the
town of Sober, on Majora island in
the Mediterranean off the Spanish
coast 110 miles south of Barcelona.
The Verona was scheduled to sail
from Genoa November 9, touching at
Naples November 10 and Palermo No
vember It on her way to New York.
No word of her sailing, however, lias
been received.
Lutitude 40, longitude 6, is a point
in the western Mediterranean about 110
miles west of Sardiniu.
The Verona is owned by the Italian
Societa Di Nuvigazoinel at Vapore,
which also owned the Ancona, sunk re
cently by a submarine on the Mediter
ranean. She has been engaged for sev
eral years in passenger service between
New York and Italian ports. She is
4,261 tons gross, 482 feet long and was
built in Belfast in 1908.
PLANS TO UNIONIZE
UNORGANIZED LABOR
American Federation Hopes to
Take In 3,000,000 So-Called
Migratory Workers.
San Francisco. Nov. 22.—Initial steps
toward organizing the unemployed men
of the United States were taken today'
by the American Federation of Labor,
in convention here.
Organizers, acting under direction of
local central bodies of various parts of
the country, are to undertake the work
in conjunction with the executive coun
cil of the federation.
The plan was announced by the exe
cutive council, which recommended
that the task be started as soon as
practicable . The convention approved
the council’s recommendation.
Announcing the plans and recom
mendations, T. W. McCullough, of
Omaha, chairman of the executive
council, said that it was estimated
there were more than 3,000,000 "migra
tory workers” in the United States at
this time. Where strikes occur, he said,
some of these men usually appear and
are taken on as strike breakers under
promise of bettering themselves as
time goes along, and when the strike
is eventually at an end these men find
themselves again among tho ranks of
the unemployed.
"llv organization under the central
labor bodies.” said McCullough, ” we
can put some hope and some system
into the struggle these men arc making
for existence ”
MAD)N BLEACHERS
F L; MANY INJURED
2,500 Spectators Drop When
Grandstand Collapses—
None Fatally Hurt.
Madison. Wis.. Nov. 20.—A section of
the north bleachers fell at the begin
ning of the second quarter of the Min
nesota-Wisconsin game here this aft
ernoon. carrying with it nearly 2,500
spectators. Several persons were in
jured, but no fatalities occurred.
The game stopped as doctors and
many other persons hastened to assist
the fallen crowd.
DISCOVER NUDE BODY
OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Boston, Nov. 20.—Charles Wagner,
of Boston, whose card was found in a
trunk picked up in the Willamette,
containing the body of a nude man.
could give no clue today as to his Iden
tity. Wagner, who la engaged in the
clothing business here, failed to re
call any customer or person who might
have gone west with his card.
LABOR FEDERATION IN
ROW OVER CARPENTERS
Builders Charged With Encroaching Upon Jurisdiction Awarded
Machinists—Union With 200,000 Members May Be
Forced Out of National Organization.
San Francisco. Nov. 22.—Tho Amer
ican Federation of Labor, in the clos
ing sessions of Its 35th annual conven
tion today, face tho problem of at
tempting to heaf a breach in its ranks
that developed at the session last night,
which, In the language of prominent
officers and delegates, threatened dis
ruption of the organization.
The trouble aroso over consideration
of a resolution that, had it been adopt
ed, would have meant the loss of 200,
000 members of the federation. The
resolution, offered by the adjustment
committee, called for the suspension of
tho United Hrotherhood of Carpenters
& Joiners, the second largest interna
tional union in America.
The resolution to withdraw the car
penters’ union was the result of the
failure of the organization to refrain
from alleged encroaching upon Juris
diction awarded the machinists, cou
pled with tho carpenters’ union’s atti
tude toward the federation.
Gompars Fears Split.
In the course of the debate, Samuel
Gompers, president of the federation,
suid:
“Wo are not safe from disintegra
tion and failure if we lose sight of the
Ideals of human brotherhood."
John R. Lennon, opposing tho expul
sion of the carpenters, said:
“We are not safe from disruption."
Andrew Furuseth, secretary of the
sailors’ union of the Pacific const, de
clared Ids belief that the carpenters’
ilPLOTE BOY-ED
IN PROVISION PLOT
German Naval Attache Planned
to Provision Commerce Raid
ers From American
Ports, Is Charge.
New York, Nov. 22.—In an announce
ment made public last night. H. Snow
den Marshall. United States district at
torney. declared that attorneys repre
senting officials of the Hainburg-Am
erican steamship company who are to
be placed or. trial Monday for alleged
violations of the customs laws, had
filed concessions with him which will
tend to facilitate the trial. These con
cessions name Captain Karl . Boy-Kd,
naval attache of the German embassy,
ns one of those who discussed sending
coal and food supplies from United
States ports to German warships raid
ing enemy commerce in southern wat
ers at the beginning of the war.
In conceding the chartering of the
Berwlnd-Lorenzo, Fram and Hommer
stad, the defendants claim that the en
tries nt the customs houses concerning
the destinations of the vessels and the
filing of manifests complained of in
the indictment as irregular, were not
done with intent to defraud the United
States, but to deceive the enemies of
Germany. With this object in view,
the defendants claim that the alleged
violations of the customs regulations
was at best not a serious offense and
asserted that It Is not unusual for
vessels after leaving port to get orders
on the high seas to proceed to some
place other than the one for which a
clearanco was procured.
Another concession Is the admission'
that the four vessels were chartered
for the German government through
orders from the home office of the
Hamburg-American line after a meet
ing of Captain Boy-Ed, Karl Buenz,
director of the Hamburg-American
line and George Koetter, superintend
ing engineer.
Attorneys representing Buenz and
the others, notified the federal author
ities todav that the steamship officials
are willing to admit they plunned to
keep the German raiding cruisers in
supplies and that they had filed a mani
fest to deceive British naval comman
ders waiting outside Sandy Hook to
seize provisions onroute to the war
vessels.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CHECKING UP SPY PLOTS
Washington. Nov. 22.—The policy of
the department of JuBtice and the
treasury department in handling in
vestigations of bomb plots, munition
factory explosions and similar matters
was announced last night in a state
ment authorized by Attorney General
Gregory and Secretary McAdoo. It
indicates that in the future the bureau
of investigation of the department of
Justice is to be the main reliance of the
government in dealing with alleged
criminal’ activities in this country con
nected with the European war.
The secret service began investigat
ing alleged plots Involving American
neutrality shortly after the war be
gan. and it is well known here that It
has collected a mass of information
bearing on activities of many kinds.
Scores of reports have been made to
Secretary McAdoo and some of them
are said to have gone up to President
Wilson. _
DYESTUFF PRODUCTION
IS GREATLY HAMPERED
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Munitions Manufacturers Bid
Up Coal Tar Products—
Industries Suffer.
Washington, Nov. 20.—Important in
c .vases in the production of coal tar
dyes in the United States since the be
ginning of the European war are re
ported in an official statement today
by the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce.
Nearly all the American coke ovens
now are equipped to produce the coal
tar bases from which dyes are manu
factured. Meanwhile the demand for
the same bases for the manufacture of
explosives has kept prices so high that
the dyestuff industry has been ham
pered.
•'The present production of American
coal tar dyestuffs," said the statement,
“is at the rate of approximately' 9,0u0
short tons per annum. Sixteen months
ago the rate was 3,000 tons. It is now
conlldently expected that by the end
of 1916 the output will reach 16,000
tons."
unton was deliberately seeking to com
pel the federation to withdraw the
charter.
During the hour in which charges
were hurled at them and speaker anfter
speaker taunted them with bad faith
the big delegation of carpenters sat
silent.
Tho carpenters' union was accused of
repairing, dismantling and setting up
machinery in buildings in various cit
ies and with claiming tho right to do
such work. In defiance of the express
commands of the federation conven
tion In Philadelphia last year. Fur
seth In his speech said:
"I prefer the charge that the claim
put forth by the carpenters is put up
scientifically and purposely to bring
about expulsion."
Appeal to Carpenters.
George V. Berry, president of the
Printing Pressman’s union, offered a
substitute for the adjustment commit
tee's resolution. He moved that a com
mittee of five representatives of inter
national unions with President Gom
pers be selected to attend the conven
tion of the carpenters and try to get
them to recede from the stand they
had taken. Berry’s substitute was car
ried.
The program today called for the
presentation of more than 50 resolu
tions and for the election of ofTieers. It
was not anticipated that any candidate
would be named In opposition to Presi
dent Gompers for releectlon.
ram imposes
NEW PRESS RULES
Censors Demand Correspond
ents Guarantee Publication
of Articles as Sent—
Penalty Provided.
Berlin, Nov. 22.—For the purpose of
facilitating the transmission of news
from Germany to the neutral outer
world, the German general staff has es
tablished a "Neutral War Press Head
quarters," through which 31 recognized
and accredited correspondents in fu
ture will operate.
The new news bureau came into ex
istence during the last days of October.
Such members of the general staff who
have in the past been handling the ma
terial of foreign correspondents—cen
sors, officers, etc.—now form its per
sonnel, and are quartered in a build
ing at Lulsenstrasse 31A, a few blocks
away from the general staff building.
Three times a week it meets, that
is to Hay, Major G-confers with the
correspondents, explains the reports of
the general staff, and gives out such
items of news as are available. In ad
dition it ere is issued, dally, a com
posium of the foreign news which con
cerns Germany and the war.
Care has been tnken to include in
the conferences only newspaper men
who represent established und recog
nized papers, and, in the main, men
who are permanently assigned to Ber
lin. The representatives of American
r.ews associations, the special corre
spondents of various American papers,
as tvell as a number of Swedish, Dutch,
Rumanian, Spanish, Greek and Argen
tinean newspaper men are included in
the list.
Learn “Fate” of "Stories.”
The censors in the neutral press
headquarters assume Jurisdiction over
nil dispatches of a military nature, and
all trips to the front are to be arranged
through the new department Unlike
the censorship arrangements in m&ny
other countries, in this case the cor
respondents are kept exactly informed
of the "fate" of their “stories." Two
extra copies of everything written
must be submitted to the neutral press
headquarters censor. One of these he
retains for reference. The other event
ually is returned to the writer, with
annotations showing Just what
changes, if any, have been made in his
copy.
To the end that an exact control may
be exercised over the various news
papermen, they have been asked to
sign an agreement which is equipped
with a photograph of the writer. A
duplicate of this picture is kept on file
bo ns to make it impossible for any
unathorized person to represent him
self falsely as the correspondent of any
paper. A countersigned agreement, al
so equipped with a photograph, serves
identification purposes.
The agreement Includes the stipula
tion that the reporter will transmit In
formation secured by him through the
press headquarters only to the news
paper or newspapers which he repre
sents; that he will submit what he
writes to the censor; that he will see
to it that his paper or papers do not
misrepresent the contents of his
articles by means of false or mislead
ing headlines, additions or omissions,
and that he will furnish headquarters
with two copies of the paper or papers
which print what he has written.
It also stipuates that the newspaper
man shall publish no pictures without
the permission of the censor, and that
he shall in addition turn in two extra
copies for the flies. On trips to the
front the direction of officers in charge
is to be followed unquestionably. The
correspondents must promise that they
will not leave Germany before the end
of the war except with the express
permission of the press headquarters.
This last stipulation, it Is pointed out,
is not intended to restrict any man
from going home, if occasion requires,
or from making a Journey to a neutral
country, but merely to prevent him
from doing what a few correspondents
have done during the war—traveling
on the strength of a passport from a
neutral country from one battle front
to another, on opposite sides of the
struggle.
ST. THOMAS’ GUILD
TO HAVE BIG FAIR
The Woman’s Guild of St. Thomas'
Episcopal church will hold a fair at the
Auditorium all day and evening, next
Saturday.
At the booths will be Mrs. Van Buren
Knott, embroideries and linens; Mrs.
Milton'Crandall, aprons: Mrs. Charles
K. Palmer, children's booth: Mrs. R. E.
Comstock, the tea room; Mrs. Corniah
Beck, candy and cigars; Mrs. Clio
Chesterir-an and Mrs. Anna Gregory,
rugs. The Business Women's guild
will have a handkerchief table. Spe
cial music has been arranged for tha
day. Dinner, supper and tea in Ups
afternoon will be served.