THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH : 22, 1919.
MAJOR IN ARMY
ACCUSES BAKER
OF AIDING I.W.W,
War Secretary Perverted Acts
of Congress for Protection
of Obstructionists, Says
Major Foster.
Kansas City, Mo., March 21.
.Secretary of War Baker was ac
cused directly of "aiding and assist
ing" the I. W. W., internationalist
' socialists and humanitarians in their
program of blocking the construc
tion of the army, by Maj. Dick B.
Foster, member of the general
court-martial which tried 135 al
leged conscientious objectors at
Camp Funston in an address before
the city club here today.
"This was done," Major Foster
declared, "by extending and per
verting the acts of congress for the
protection, comfort and solace of
these obstructionists."
"In making this accusation," Ma
lor Foster continued, "I consider no
rumors, no suppositions and no
guesses, but have it entirely upon
my. own personal knowledge of the
treatment extended these obstruc
tionists. This knowledge was gain
ed from official War department or
ders and communications and the
personal knowledge of obstruction
ists I gained while acting as one
member of the general court-martial
pf 13 majors .and captains before
whom approximately 135 objectors
came, for trial."
Cites Secret Orders.
The speaker cited alleged secret
orders issued by the War depart
ment of which the public knew noth
ing, he said, but of which the ob
structionists were well informed, as
one process of "extending the pro
visions of the congressional act to
the advantage ttf the objectors."
"Local draft boards," Major Fos
ter said, "had received instructions
to induct into military service and
to send to army camps all men be
tween the ages of 21 and 31 years.
"There was, however, ( an inner
working of the military program.
Objectors of all classes found pro
tection awaiting in extensions of the
act of congress by secret orders, and
every man who expressed or showed
, any disinclination toward military
service found a well organized and
well promulgated propaganda of the
obstructionists awaiting that sup
ported him. Bulletins and pamphlets
from the National Civil Liberties
bureau of New York City were semt
secretly promulgated among the
drafted men, upon their arrival in
camp. These' bulletins were argu
ments against military service and
, contained detailed instructions as
" to how the drafted man might avail
himself of pacifist protection.
Army Officers Gagged.
"Confidential letters and bulletins
were sent to commanding generals
of all national army and National
Guard cantonments and camps, the
very nature of which prohibited any
officer in the United States army im
parting to the public their contents.
Each confidential order or bulletin
contained the closing paragraph:
"'Under no circumstances should
these instructions be communicated
to the newspapers.'
"Public opinion, no doubt, was re
1 sponsible for the secrecy of these
instructions, as they ..were of a na
ture which would have been revolt
ing to the American public had they
known the full facts.
"One of the first of these secret
" orders' provided absolute immunity
for any man who chose to refuse
military service. In part it reads:
" 'With reference to their attitude
of objecting to military service,
three mm are not to be treated as
.-violating military laws, thereby sub-
of the articles of war, but their atti
tude in this respect will be quietly
ignored and they will be treated
with kindly consideration.'
"Officers of the army were dumb
founded that the War department
should order violations of military
laws to be quietly ignored and that
the violators of the law be treated
with kindly consideration.
Inquiry Restricted.
"The number of objectors in
creased and numerous complaints
on the peculiar condition went from
army officers to Washington. A
board of inquiry under the direct
and personal supervision of the sec
retary of war resulted. The an
nounced intention, of. the board was
to discriminate between the true ob
jectors and false objectors. The
range of the board, however, was
limited by a second secret order
promulgated by Secretary Baker
December 19, 1917, which read:
" 'The secretary of war directs un
til further instructions on the sub
' ject are issued, personal scruples
against war should be construed as
constituting "conscientious objec
tors" under the instructions con-
."tins office dated October 10, 1917.'
"By that order every man who
had any reason for objecting to mil
itary service, whether cowardice,
humanitarianism, international so
cialism, belief in the principles of
t the Industrial Workers of the
World or what not, had to be per
mitted to violate all the military
. regulations and his violations had to
. be quietly ignored and the man
treated with kindly consideration.
"One of the objectors wrote this
... letter while in the guard house:
"'From what little news we get
We almost go crazy for joy when
we read or hear that the red flag is
rapidly waving over more and more
'- territory in Europe, for we know it
means liberty in the fullest sense of
the word for those downtrodden
workers.' , ' ,
"That is the class of men the War
department ordered us to treat with
kindly courtesy, and we did so.
faior Foster dismissed the case
of the sincere religious objectors,
saying that for such men he had tne
i highest respect. .
1 Major Foster attended the rirst ot
ficers' training camp at Camp Fun
ston and there received his commis
; sinn as lieutenant. With the as
signment of Gen. Leonard Wood to
tamp funston, ne was appomieu
chief of the deoartment of training
camp activities and amusements and
his elevation m ranic came wun nis
activity in that assignment. In pri-
Senate Passes Bills
Giving Greater Power
to City Commission
By a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, March 21. The senate
passed & number of measures of
interest to Omaha.
Two bills by Robbins, S. F. No.
165 and S. F. No. 166, art
destined to give the city com
mission greater authority in
the matter of public improvements
for streets. The first allows the
commission to pave, or repave, or
grade without a petition of the
property owners. The compan
ion measure allows the commis
sion to straighten streets. The
second bill aroused some opposi
tion and was characterized by
Hoagland as granting the com
mission "despotic powers."
Cooper's bill granting the clerk
of the municipal court of Omaha
a 1200 salary raise passed the sen
ate. '
STRIKERS STOP
SHIPS LOADING
IN ARGENTINA
Longshoremen Refuse to Do
Bidding of Government in
Effort to Reopen Port
of Buenos Aires.
Buneos Aires, March 21. In its
efforts to solve the difficulties caus
ed by the port strike, the govern
ment today formally ordered the
longshoremen to unload tho coast
wise steamers inside the port to
permit of the entry of transatlantic
vessels. The longshoremen however,
refused to comply with the govern
ment's demand.
The packing house of La Blanca
was among the firms boycotted by
the striking longshoremen, who now
refuse to do ' anv work for shios
handling it3 products. Today the
Blanca concern attempted to load
a transatlantic steamer without em
ploying union stevedores, and sent
a smaller steamer laden with froz
en beef to be loaded on the steamer
in the roads.
The small steamer was pursued
by two lanuches carrying strikers,
who boarded the tug, beat the cap
tain ana crew and torced them to
abandon their posts and enter the
launches. The captain and his men
were carried to the shore, where the
Argentine marines rescued them
and arrested the strikers.
Substitute League Covenant
Drafted by Utah Senator
Washington, March 21. Senator
King of Utah, announced today that
he had drafted a substitute for the
proposed constitution of the league
of nations, designed to meet objec
tions to the present document as ex
pressed by various members of the
senate, and would send it to Presi
dent Wilson at Paris. T.he senator
said he had inserted provisions spe
cifically exempting the Monroe doc
trine and preserving the right of the
United states to control immigra
tion, the tariff and similar questions,
as well as permitting a nation to
withdraw from the league upon one
year's notice.
Army Athletic Activities
to Be Continued This Year
Chicago, March 21. Agreement
was reached todav at a meeting of
athletic directors of army camps and
cantonments ot the central west to
continue all athletic activities this
year. Capt. John L. Griffiths, tem
perorary chairman of the committee
on training camp activities, urged
that intermural sports be not ne
glected. Meeting with Captain Grif
fiths wer Captain Lewis Omer,
Camp Grant, Lieut. Fay Smith,
Sherman; Harry Cohn, Taylor; John
VanLieu, Dodge; Benjamin Ogden,
Funston, and Floyd Rowe, Custer.
Srtlrliern Oftmincr Tntiiorht..
Two hundred and seventy-eight
soldiers are expected tonight from
inicago on tneir way to rori u. a.
Russell, Wyoming, to be discharged.
They will arrive at 6 o'clock and
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win spenu me evening in umana,
vate life he is a member of an archi
tectural firm in Kansas City.
Major Foster was at his own re
quest given a discharge from service
at the time General Wood left Camp
Funston for Chicago to take com
mand of the central division.
Bureau's Activities Explained.
New York, March 21. Charges
of Major Dick Foster that the Na
tional Civil Liberties bureau had cir
culated in a semi-secret manner
among drafted men arguments
against military service were brand
ed &s false "both as to the subject
matter of our literature and the
method of distribution," in a state
ment here today by Walter Nelles,
counsel for the organization.
"Our publications largely were re
prints of the War department's reg
ulations as to conscientious objec
tors and kindred subjects," ' said
Mr. Nelles. "We furnished these
tracts to anyone interested, includ
ing the War department," he added,
"and distribution was made through
the mails from headquarters in New
York. We had no branch offices
and no agents in the vicinity of the
cantonments. Most of our literature
was sent out in response to requests
for it received by mail from then
who had heard of our organization
from friends or through reading
newspapers or periodicals."
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Delegates Decide to Abandon
Conference Unless Port on
Dalmatian Coast Is
Given to Italy.
Paris, March 21. (By Associated
Press.) The Italian delegation to
the peace conference has unanimous
ly decided to withdraw from the con
ference, unless Fiume is assigned to
Italy contemporaneously with the
conclusion of peace.
The decision of the Italian dele
gation, as reported from Paris, ap
parently brings to a head the bitter
controversy between Italy and the
new Jugo-Slav state over the dispo
sition of land along the Adriatic,
formerly belonging to the Austro
Hungarian 'empire, which both na
tionalities claim.
Claimed by Slavs.
Italy's claims originally included
virtually the entire Dalmatian coast,
with Triest and Fiume, which latter
city' is the second principal seaport
on the eastern side of the Adriatic.
Recent reports have been that the
Italian representatives have been
manifesting a disposition to make
important concessions regarding the
land along the Dalmatian coast, pro
vided that the city and harbor of
Fiume remained to Italy. The Jugo
slavs, however, have been insistent
that this port be allotted to them,
claiming it to be essentially a Croa
tian city and necessary to the new
Jugo-Slav state as affording the only
suitable sea outlet.
On the - other hand, there has
been no disposition on the part of
Italy to yield its point, so far as
Fiume was concerned. Its attitude
was officially stated by Premier Or
lando in addressing the Italian
Chamber of Deputies March 1,
when he declared that while Italy
remained "faithful to the spirit of
conciliation which inspired the
treaty upon which Italy entered" the
war," that did not mean that it could
"remain insensible to the appeal
reaching it from the Italian town on
the Gulf of Quarnero (Fiume),"
which was "exposed to the loss of
both its nationality and indepen
dence." Reason for Blockade.
"We do not think," added the pre
mier, "that this is possible at the
very moment when it is wished
that the world may he redeemed
from. a memory of violence done to
the rights of peoples."
There have been several "inci
dents" at Fiume and other points in
the territory claimed by both Italy
and Jugo-Slavia, since the signing
of the armistice, and the feud at one
time grew so bitter that Italy es
tablished a blockade and cut off food
relief imports for the interior. This
matter was adjusted by the supreme
council in Paris, however, and the
reports of late have indicated that
an amicable settlement of the con
flicting Italian-Jugo-Slav claims was
possible, if not probable.
Valuable Seaport.
Just what has caused the Italian
delegation to announce its determi
nation on the Fiume question at this
time has not been developed in the
Paris advices. It is known, how
ever, that the question of territorial
adjustments has been before the con
ferences of premiers which have
been taking place during the last
day or two. An Associated Press
dispatch received last night from
Paris regarding a conference held
yesterday between President Wilson
and Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd
George stated that there was every
reason to believe that the fontier
issues were among the foremost ob
stacles which the conferees were
seeking to remove from the path to
a rapid conclusion of the peace
treaty.
Fiume before the. war was the
chief seaport of the Hungarian king
dom. It has several harbors and its
position and facilities made it the
seat of virtually the entire shipping
trade of Hungary. It had an ante
bellum population of nearly 40,000.
Sistine Choir to Tour
New York, March 21. The fa
mous Sistine choir from Rome will
make a concert tour of the United
States under the auspices of high'
dignitaries of the Roman Catholic
church in May, it was announced
today.
The choir, which is the oldest
and most famous in the Christian
world, is composed of 32 choral
chaplains and for many centuries
these singers have had the exclusive
privilege of singing at those func
tions at which the pope officiates in
person. The' Sistine' clroir was
founded in the fourth century.
v OBITUARY v
EDWARD SIVERS died at his
home In Glenwood, la., March 20.
He was born January 24, 1854. The
funeral will be hold Saturday, con
ducted by the pastor of the Baptist
church, with burial at West I-ilberty
cemetery.
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IOWA GOVERNOR
HITS BACK AT
LEGAL OFFICER
. "
(Continued From Pace One.)
matter of the pardon of Rathbun,
signing and forwarding the papers
to Ida Grove. He also asserted that
Governor Harding in his testimony
at Ida Grove, for the first time ad
mitted the boy's guilt.
Judge Kennedy stopped short in
the giving of his evidence when
Representative Epps, Ottumwa,
raised the question whether his re
marks were to be considered as evi
dence or argument. The judge said
he was there simply as a citizen and
wished tp be free to express himself
fully. On motion of the committee,
he was granted privilege to present
all of the facts as he saw fit.
Met Snell in Chicago.
Judge Kennedy, in his testimony,
declared the grand jury evidence in
possession of the committee would
show that Governor Harding met
Thaddeus Snell, an Ida Grove attor
ney, in a Chicago hotel two days
before he granted the pardon.
Attorney General Havner pre
viously had testified that he had
been informed by William Rathbun.
sr., that Snell was the first .to pre
sent the Rathbun family with a pro
posal for an attempt to obtain
Young Rathbun's pardon.
Testimony taken before the grand
jury, according to Havner, in regard
to a check Attorney Clark gave
Snell for $1,333.30, was conflicting.
Havner testified Clark said the
money was given Snell for services
rendered in getting a client to settle
in a certain case, while Snell told
the grand jury, Havner said, that
the money was the payment of a
"social debt."
To Call Havner Again.
It was said tonight that Havner
might be called as a witness again
tomorrow after Kennedy's testi
mony is completed. Others to be
examined tomorrow include Clark
and Snell.
Investigation of the case may be
completed early next week. It con
cerns, the reasons the governor had
for pardoning Rathbun before he had
served a day of his life sentence for
criminal assault, and also the meth
ods employed, by the attorney gen
eral's office in gaining its revocation
and sending Rathbun to the reforma
tory. War Department Advances
Funds to Railroad Service
Washington, March 21. The ur
gent need of the Railroad adminis
tration for ready cash with which to
meet current obligations was par
tially met today through payment
of $100,000,000 by the War depart
ment on acocunt of transportation
of troops and war supplies.
The payment covers bills already
approved and anticipates bills which
ordinarily would fall due within the
next three months. War 'depart
ment acountants have computed the
amount now due from the depart
ment to $65,000,000 while the rail
road administration estimates it at
$80,000,000.
Acting Secretary Crowell said the
sum had been made available by the
shifting of funds heretofore appoint
ed for the War department but un-evtended.
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Senate Kills Bill
Carrying Penalty for
Owning Bad Eggs
By Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Neb., March 21. The
house Friday stuck a knife into
H. R. 244, a bill requiring all
dealers in eggs to take out state
licenses and carrying stiff penal
ties for the possession or sale of
bad eggs.
Rural members of the house
antagonized the bill on the
ground that the farmers would
quit bringing eggs to the mar
ket because of the penalties.
Governor McKelvie had urged
the house to pass it, in a mes
sage which he sent to the members.
WAR VICTORIES
WON BY FAITH,
FOCH IDEGLARES
"I Have But One Merit, That
of Never Despairing," Says
Commander-in-Chief of
Allied Armies.
Paris, March 21. Marshal Foch
was reminded today that March 21
was the anniversary of the beginning
of the great German offensive to
ward Amiens and was asked by Jules
Sauerwein, of the Matin, to explain
by what methods the marshal had
turned the offensive into a German
defeat. The allied generalissimo re
plied: "You ask me, me to tell you much
in a few words". Victories are won
by science, that is true, but also by
faith. When one has faith one does
not retire; one stops the enemy
where one finds him.
"You tell me, that I gave victory
to France. It was our admirable
soldiers who gave it. I have but
one merit, that of never despairing."
Jury Deliberating in
Case of Bull
Editor
New York, March 21. The jury
which heard the case of Jeremiah A.
O'Leary, charged with violation of
the espionage act, had failed to reach
a verdict at 11 o'clock tonight after
11 hours' deliberation and was locked
up for the night.
All through the afternoon nearly
200 men and women, friends of
O'Leary or advocates of his free
dom, stayed in the court room and
remained until nearly midnight. They
seemed confident the former editor
of Bull, an anti-British publication,
and former president of the Amer
ican Truth society, which was in
dicted with him, would be acquitted.
Mrs. Pusey, Pioneer Woman
of Council Bluffs, Dead
Mrs. Pusey, wife of Senator N.
M. Pusey, died last evening at he
Edmundson hospital after a long ill
ness from heart weakness. Mrs.
Pusey was one of the pioneer resi
dents of Council Bluffs. The body
was taken to the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Emmet Tinley. Funeral
arrangements will be announced
later.
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RAVAGING TOWNS
IN LOWER EGYPT
Gen. Allenby Hastens to
Cairo as Disorders Spread;
Turkish Flag Flying in
Some Villages.
London, March 21. The situation
in Egypt is becoming worse and is
at the present time distinctly grave,
a Reuter dispatch from Cairo says.
General Allenby, the commander in
Palestine, will reach Cairo Tuesday.
The large forces of troops already
in Egypt are being reinforced.
A large number of armed Bedouins
have entered Behira province,
Lower Egypt, from the west and are
robbing towns and villages.
The Turkish flag is reported to
be flying in some villages of Behira
province. There are no reports of
any casaulties having been suffer
ed by the military, but some promi
nent native officials and several
Egyptian police have been killed.
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several of whom have been deported.
Postoffice Affairs.
Washington, March 11. (Special Tl
f mm.) Civil servlcs examination will t
held April 10 for postmasters at the fol
lowing placee : Proaaer, WasMt Sweet
water, Wyo., Walnut, Neb. 1
The poatofftce at Rokeby, Lancaster
county, Neb., la discontinued, mail to Roca;
Mattby, Perknla county, 8. D., mall to
Strool.
Postmaster appointed In Iowa: Kelley,
Story county, Julius J. Zimmerman, vice
David W. Clayton; Klron, Crawford
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Wyoming! Granger, Sweetwater county,
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