New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-10
Tells Why RinteIen Ca,
Up Scheme to Halt Shin.
ments to Allies
Government Case
Lamar Told Captain, s,,,
Witness, That "Other sid.s
Paid Gompers

Why Franz Rintelen abandou.s 4,
scheme 10 stop the shipment Of -
tions 10 the Allies through.
charged, Labor's National Peace c..
Gil vas revealed yesterday in 4.
United States District Court b. A
drew D. Meloy. The captain Cav. ~.
his plan, when he was informal 4.
Meloy that it was absurd, for on. -.
gested By the witness.
Meloy's proposition, he declared =,
der oath. was TO corner the mutt.
market by outoidding Allied sr,y,
buying supplies with German god 9,
storing them here. While Rin..,
was on his way 70 Germany TO IN.
this plan approved by the Germ
War Office he was seized By the Be-.
ish at Kirkwall.
Permission TO land was r.fu,.
Meloy, who posed as RinteIens .,
ployer, and he was forced to return
the United States. He is unt.,
dictment for having conspired 70 4.
tain a fraudulent passport for Rut.
len.
After Meloy's testimony the cover.
ment rested its case. Rntelen Is q.
pected 70 take the stand to-day ia \,
own behalf. David Lamar, il he n,
witness at all, will follow. The OH,
six defendants, who are all ont !,
bail, with their counsel, held A eos.
ference with Frank Moss at the ,Ie,.
of the session to decide on their 4.
fence.
Meloy Tells Of Talks
Meloy yesterday continued his ro,,
Of his talks with Rintelen.
"When Captain Rintelen told ne |,
expected TO stop the shipment Of m.
nitions to the Allies by strikes eslls
through the medium Of Lab,rs M
tionsl Peace Council said Nsloy, \
told him that the plan was absurd a,
that the only way TO stop munitcr
going abroad was 10 buy all tat K
did not want others 10 get. Frei,ra
Stallforth a German banker froa
Parral, Mexico) was present at las
conversation"
IL was in this talk, according 70 u,
witness, that he first heard Rintele
mention the names OF Frank Buchat
an, then in Congress. and ex-Repre
sentative NJ. Robert Fowler, both from
Illinois. and two OF the organizers o
the Peace Council.
"Rintelen told me that il had bee,
represented TO him that within thin
days not a pound OF ammuntis.
would be manufactured in the Unit
States. | said that any man who q
him that was cheating him. He q
me LamarShad organized Labor's v
tional Peace Council and that IL W
going TO draw into il all ORGANIC
labor and would crystalline the pes
sentiment among laboring men.
said Buchanan and Fowler were !
recting the programme. but that
relied on Buchanan for its success.
Then Meloy brought in the name
Samuel Gompers. He quoted Riutes
as saying that Lamar had informed N
that the head of the American Fedeb
tion of Labor was receiving sl2,50di
month from "the other side"-means,
the munition makers. {
Course Included Strikes
Rintelen, he went on. said that u
course Buchanan was helping dire
included the calling of strikes in M
milton plants. T.
II said TO him, Test the ability 4
Buchanan, Fowler and Lamar to 3
what they say they CAM Meloy we
on. "Rinetelen replied that the Bridr
port strike of the munition makers W
their work. I told him Lamar ~
Buchanan did not have a hand in|s
and asked him TO break away frs
this cheap. trivial element" Lsur
according 10 Meloy. claimed credit y
causing the Bridgeport strike.
Lamar asked me-" the witness ,
called, "'What do you think OF q
Bridgeport strike? That is only. n
beginning. Within thirty days we "
tie up every munition factory in "
United States | said, "Gompers a.
settle that in twenty-four hour
Lamar replied, And Buchanan can -
tie Gompers in twenty-four hours
At the conclusion of the goyer
ment's case Albert Massey. counsel 70
Rintelen, made a brief formal apple
ton for a verdict Of acquittsl for ~
client. Judge Cushman denied It.
Bailey Makes Motion
Then Senator Joe Bailey. counsel 10
Buchanan. made q long plea for lA'
action on behalf OF Buchanan, conteno
ing that no conspiracy had been proves
even admitting that the money FOR "a
boris National Peace Council had con-
from the public treasury OF Germany
Judge Cushmsn said he would renasi
a decision on Senator Bailey's motle'
to-day. when he will hear similar mo
tons from the counsel for the o'oe'