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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1917)
12 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 4917. ENEMY TRADING ACT POT INTO OPERATION Commercial Dealings With Any Hostile Nation in Arms For bidden Except by Special Permit. Minister Lauds Non-Resistance And Beautiful Idealism of I. W. W. (By Associated I'mi.) Washington, P. C. Oct. 15. Broad war powers contended upon' the presi dent by the trading with the enemy act were put into operation under art executive order issued tonight dele gating the authority under the new law to the various government de partments and to a newly created war trade board. This trade board is composed of the members of the exports administrative board, which it will replace, with the ' addition of a representative of the Treasury department. It will continue to license exports, and will exercise a similar control over imports as soon as the president proclaims under au thority of the trading with the enemy act, the articles to be so restricted. Enemy Dealings Licensed. Trading or commercial dealing of any nature with an enemy company or agent in this country or abroad is for bidden, except under license of the war trade board, which also is au thorized to license enemy or "ally ofJ ...... ' . r,i,iln Arnrr kllCIMMeQ III T the United States, excepting insurance rrmnaiiif u-hnse sunervision is en trusted to the treasury. Censorship of mails, cables, radio and telegraph messages passing out of the United States is placed in the hands of a censorship "board consist- ing ot representatives oi iro Navy and Postoffice departments, the . j. l j a t r r.i Columbus. Oct. 15. Industrial Workers of the World were compared ot the early Christians, were extolled as not being one-tenth bad men, and minister;, of the Congregational church were enjoined to lend succor to them, n an : ddress here this aft ernoon by Rev. Sidney Strong, Seat tle, Wash He spoke to delegates of the National Council of Congrega tional Churches of the United States, in session here. Rev. Wi Strong told of his intimate acquaintance with a large number of I. W. W.' of visitations h had made to their members in person and. gen erally of an admiration hey. 'com manded in him. "Their leaders are men ot beatific countenances. They believe in a beautiful philosophy of non-resistance and art bound to a cause they think is right. They are idealists and they have a remarkable solidarity c pur pose. Their internationalisn and inter-racialism are according to the most lauded standards. Their organi zation is open to all alike. Distribution of wealth in this coun try was deolored bv Rev. Mr. Strong In forty American cities, lie said, it has been found-2 per cent of he peo ple control 60 per cent of the wealth. After declarir that present civiliza tion is capitalistic : throughout and that the iawyer, preacher and teacher arc allied withi the capitalistic system, Rev. Mr. Strong, turning to the war, said dejjiocra y in industry as well as government must come after the clos ing of the present conflict. SLACKERS WANT TO RETURN TOJOIN ARMY Draft Evaders Who Left Coun try Are Exiles; ManjPenni v less in Mexico; Regret Their Disloyalty. "war trade board and of George Creel, chairman of the committee on public information. . McCormick Is Chairman. The new war trade board is to con sist of Vance C McCormick. chair man, representing the secretary of state; Dr. Alonzu L. Taylor, repre- V senting Ihe secretary of agriculture; Thomas D. Jones representing the secretary of commerce; Beaver White, . representing Jic food administrator; Frank C. Mimson representing the shipping board, and a representative of the secretary oiihe treasury, yet to be named. All bit the treasury repre sentative are now members of the ex ports administrative board, whose work hereafter will be done by the bureau of exports of the war trade board, - " y Young Eussians. j Intoxicated With r Their New Liberty Boston, Oct. IS. Education of the , Russian soldiers at the front in the meaning of liberty and -democracy is occupying the attention of their lead ers, according to a letter from Cather ine Breshkovsky, the "grandmother of the revolution," to Alice Stone Black well of '.hiikcity. Many of the soldiers, she says, are "mad with the sole idea of liberty," while others of the uneducated young people imagine that the war must be abandoned immediately now that the monarchy is overthrown because the people were not consulted about be ginning it. All the country, she de clared, is working for the soldiers. "Some ignorant and some bad per sons, she writes, "inspired and en forced these iedas among the recuits snd it takes time and effort before the soldiers can be convinced that they ought to begin again to do their duty. It is much better now. "Thank providence, our peasants, tour fathers and husbands are reason- able enough to wait and maintain or der in their, villages. But the young workmen and soldiers are too inex perienced and ignorant to be mindful and patient- They imagine that all the old wrongs can, be undone in a few days and, therefore, they demand new conditions ot lite that cannot be. crea ted in a few months and with a war in our shoulders." Two Killed in Explosion V . at Dupont Powder Plant Philadelphia, Fa., .Oct. 16. An' ex plosion in the nitro starch dry house at the Dupont Powder works at Gibbstown, N. resulted in the in stant death' of two workmen. A third man is missing and probably dead. Another man was seriously, in jured. The destroyed building was a small one-story structure, isolated from the, rest 'of the'plant, and the iorce consisted oi me iour men men tioned. There was no other damage, The Dupont company says there is nothing suspicious about the ex plosion. The terrific force of the ex plosion shattered windows in Phil idclphia, twenty miles distant. Charles Evans Loses Out On Red Cross Golf Match Detroit, Oct. 15. Charles Evans jr., of Chicago, was on the losing end oT a golf match played tare today for the benefit qf the KecK Cross, Paired with Hueh Vaughn of Detroit he was beaten by Wilbur Oakcs and Jimmy StandisJv of Petroit, five up and four to play iu a thirty-six hole match. ,, ;: v , Seven Killed in Auto in " Collision With Fast Trai Detroit, Mich., Oct. l Seven vtr ons, one ma... two women and four children, were killed instantly late this afternoon when the automobile they occupied was struck by a Michigan Central passenger train near Warren Village. ' . ' Mobrjdge Mayor Defies ! : . A ; Effort to Remove JJim Mobridge S. D... Oct. - .-(SpecialsMayor C A. Smith, of this :ity, has defied the signers of a pe tition asking that a recall election be - railed so the voters of the city could xpress themselves on tbe proposed cmoval of the mayor from office, " Mail tirder Heads Confer ' On Conservation of Food Washington,' Oct 15. Representa tive of the country's largest mail Drder houses will confer with the food administration here Wednesday on co-operative means to be adopted for marketmr nri conservation of food uffs, '.( - , Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 15. Permis sion to return to th United States to enlisrwithou't being punished for flee ing to Mex.co, where many ofjthem now are penniless, wai denied to inen who left the ;ountry to evade the se lective draft, in a letter addressed to day by Colonel Fred S. Breen of the Arizona district exemption board to the local selection board at Nogales, which recommended. that such per mission be Kven. . J In his letter Colonel Breen. said that men who had fled to evade the draft now were classed as deserters and that a reward of $50 was offered for the .arrest of each. The letter containing the recom mendation i'rom the Nogfles board stated that the board had been offi cially informed by the American vice consul at Guaymas, Sonora, and by others that there were "many men in Mexico who absconded from the Unit- I States to evade military service," "Some are penniless," said the let ter. Some who have means are will ing to return to the United States for military service if assured they will be sent to camp with no court-martial or punishment." Ihis .8 contrary to military law, Colonel Breen said in his reply. "The deserters have beep given ample time to obey the law and the country is not going to bargain with such men at this time." Soldiers Break Up Demonstration of ' Gotham Socialists New York, Oct. 15. Socialists held mass meeting in Madison Sauare Garden tonight iu protest against the order issued by Postmaster General Burleson to the publishers of the New York Call, the New Yorker Volks Zei- tung and the forward, summoning them to WashinstorKto show cause why their papers should not be denied second-class mail privileges. - Morris Hillquit, socialist candidate for mayor, made Ihi principal address and the thousands of radicals who filled the building gave him prolonged applause, fhe police were forced; to close the doors betore the speakfng began and a detail of 200 patrolmen kept thousands that filled the adjoin tng streets in order. . s I With shouts of Down with capital stsl" and "Give ur a froe press I" sev eral thousand socialists marched from Madison Square Garden after the meeting to the Union League club in Fifth avenue, and than through the hotel district, where they encountered squads ot soldiers from the national army camp at Yaphank, N. .Y. Berlin Confiscates Iron ; ;. In Desperate War Need Copenhagen, Oct. 15. The growing dimculty of obtaining iron and -steel for war purposes in Germany is in dicated by an imperial regulation just promulgated in Berlin confiscating stocks of - structural iron and steel, common tubing, sheeting, cast iron and cast steel. The order prohibits the use of any of these kinds of steel or iron except by special permission lhe order goes far beyond the original regulation issued last July, which appuea oniy to certain junas oi siruciurai iron. ;. iu i American Steamer Sunk ,v. By German Submarine New York. Oct 15. News of the sinking of the American steamer Lewis Luckenbach, - by . a German submarine off the coast of France, was received here today. Forty seven of the fifty-six members, of the crew were landed, the message . said. . The Luckenbach, of 3,906 tons, was bound for Havre with a general cargo.- v SOCIETY BEAUTY . . COMMITS SUICIDE After Sensational Career of Love and Tragedy Illinois r Woman Ends Own Life . by Taking Poison. Aurora, 111., Oct. 15. Mrs. Lillian Stiles was found dead in a hotel here today, having committed suicide bv taking poison. A note which had been written to a friend asked that her body be cremated and the ashes thrown into Lake .Michigan. . A dozen years ago, Mrs. Stiles, a society beauty and wife of a prosper ous business man, eloped with Her bert Crane, millionaire. Mrs. Crane sued for a divorce and Mr. Stiles took similar action. The trials of these suits created a sensation at the time, owing to the social prominence of the principals. Mrs. Stiles and Crane took up their residence at the latter's country home. Several years ago Mrs. Stiles quietly returned to her old home at Str?ator, III., and some time ago Mr. Crane married the daughter of a wealthy Costa Rica planter. A year ago Mrs. Stiles went to live with friends in Eranston. She registered at a hotel hare on Saturday and when she failed to ap pear this morning the room was en tered and the body and the rfote found. All Branches of U. S. Service Profit by War Insurance Bill Washington, D. C. Oct. 15. Sam ples of the insurance policy which the government will write fop its soldiers and sailors were made public tonight By the war risk bureau of the Treas ury department. Plans ior placing the policies into effect will "be outlined Jiere next Tuesday at a conference of treasury officials with representa tives of the- nayy and officers and en listed men at the thirty-two cantonments. Details ot -the -policy drsclose that risks will be written upon the Jives of men and women between the ages of 15 and 65 m all branches? of the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, naval reserve, national naval volun teers, nurses "and any other branches of the United States service with the army and navy." 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