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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Sander and Wunnenberg
Sentenced for 2 Years and
Fined $500 Each
Six Alleged Plotters
Then Rushed to Trial
Government Tries to Prove
Won Papen and Boyd
Led Bomb Scheme

Declaring that they pleaded guilty
to shield others, Judge Van Fleet, IL
the United States Circuit Court, yes
terday sentenced Albert A. Sander and
Charles Wunnenberg, German spies, to
two years in prison and fined each
$4,000.
Then, without delay he put on trial
six other Germans charged with con-
spring TO destroy ships carrying sup
plies and munitions to the Allies by
fire bombs - Captain Charles Won
Kleist, alleged superintendent of the
bomb factory, and these officers of the
Kaiser Friedrich der Crosse: Carl
Schmidt, chief engineer; Ernst Becker,
electrician; Frederick Karbarde, George
Praedel and Wilhelm Parades, assist
ant engineers.
Two others indicted with them. Cap
tain Emo Bode. pier superintendent of
the Hamburg American Line, where the
Kaiser Friedrich der Crosse is docked,
and Captain Otto Wolpert, superintend-
ent of the Manhattan piers of the Atlas
Line. where other German ships arc
moored. will be placed on trial the mid
die of next week, when the present
trial is expected to end.
DIR. Scheelc Escaped
A ninth man indicted. DR.. Walter T..
Scheele. called the chief of the group,
escaped before the eight were rounded
up.
The foreman of the jury to try the
so-called bomb plotters is Herman Il.
Dohm, and two other jurors are Ger
man born or of German extraction.
Through its first witness, Henry
Barth, a member of the New York po-
lice force, who worked with Federal
agents, the government sought to prove
that Captains Won Papen and Boyd,
military and naval attaches of the Ger
man Embassy, were the actual dl,,
rectors of the German bomb squad, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Brooklyn Arions
Also See Insult"
Il, Loyalty Call
DR.. Seyfarth, President,
Says Members Already
Have Given Pledges
Other Germans Sign
The Mayors Committee An
nounces 100000 Avowals
Being Made Daily
Other Germans Sign

More opposition to signing the
pledge of loyalty to President Wilson
developed yesterday ..mong German
Americans. DR.. Gotthard E. Seyfarth,
president of the Arion Society," OF
Brooklyn, said that the society would
refuse to circulate the pledge IN It's
clubhouse because, like the members
CT the Arion Society of New York, we
regard the invitation to sign as doubt
OF our loyalty and therefore an insult"
The Mayors Committee on National
Defence has not attempted 20 place the
pledge in our clubhouse" said DR.. Sey-
Earth. az !. did We would refuse 10
post il. Fifty per cent OF our fOO
members are native Americans. Inc
rest are naturalized. We consider that
va already nave given a pledge of 10y
altv and it is unnecessary to relterate
if. The members may sign lndivlou,-
allv. if they like. but the society VIII
lot countenance it,
William Forster. president of the
Iiederkranz. said his club would take
no action opposing the signing OF the
pledge by the members.
when the Mayors committee sent
rs .he blanks we placed them on the
t9ble for all 20 sign who cared TO- said
Nr. Forster ~ is being signed. l
was one Of the first 20 sign IT,"
Officials OF the Deutscher Nerein said
70 action had been taken on the pledge.
The Mayors committee yesterday IS.
.ued this statement on the action OF
the Arion Society directors IN calling
tho pledge "a gross insult:
"In distributing the blank pledges
we asked for the cooperation Of more
than fifty leading clubs. So far as the
committee is aware. the Arion Society
is the only one which has felt that tns
request that it should assist in giving
portunity to register their support OF
The President in this time. of crisis
was any reflection on their loyalty.
Whatever the views Of the Arion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Germans in Haste
To Get to Mexico
Consul Here Busy Issuing Safe
Conducts-Not Interested in
Mems Purposes, He Says

The Office of the Mexican Consul. in
the Equitable Building. was crowded
yesterday. Only a few of those pres
ent were Mexican brown, most were
Teuton blond.
Three clerks we're kept busy issuing
papers and answering questions. The
conversation was principally in Eng
lish and Spanish. but every now and
then groups of visitors would break
into German.
Juan Burns. the Mexican Consul, and
his clerks refused 10 say how many
safe conducts had been issued to Ger
mans during the day or since the sit
uation between the United States and
Germany reached a crisis. but il was
freely admitted that Mexico was glad
70 welcome Teutons from the United
States.
ut is part Of my business TO en-
courage immigration to my country,
said Consul Burns. "The Germans are
very desirable imm grants. as you have
found in the United States. II is only
natural that a good many Germans
should want TO leave the United States
at this time and settle in Mexico. 1t
looks as il there might be real trouble
between this country and Germany, and
if il comes to war the positions of Ger
mans here probably would not be
pleasant. At least that is what the
Germans feel. believe they would be
safe enough anywhere in the United
States. if they behaved themselves.
1--WE are mighty glad to get the Ger
mans into Mexico. We need them 10
help settle and build up the country"
Are they going to Mexico to build
up the country or to fight Uncle Sam -
Senior Burns was asked.
"If they are going to Mexico FOR any
other than peaceful purpose | am not
interested. II is none of my business.
am here fulfilling my duties as a
consul in legitimate manner, and that
ie oil -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

Society, the fact is that among the first
two hundred signers were a dozen or
more Of the most prominent Americans
o. German descent resident in New
York.
"The plan has not been an official or
even a semi-official undertaking, but
has been entirely in the hands of pri-
vate citizens"
The United Brothers, composed OF
$50 former citizens of Germany and
Austria. announced they had adopted
resolutions pledging support TO Presi-
dent Wilson.
The committee headquarters, at 80
East Forty-second Street. announced
that pledges we're being received at the
rate of 100000 day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

trouble until it comes. and We always
have with us the optimist 10 make us
forget the element of time"
General Goethals was frequently
cheered. and particularly when he ad-
vocated universal military training.
THE volunteer system has failed in
every war except the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, and that can't be called a
war" he said. 1T will fail again.
Are We going TO learn our lesson"
Referring 10 a statement by Colo
mel Cornelius Vanderbilt. who was
also a guest. and who asked the
Rotary Club 10 support the National
Guard, General Goethsls said:
Not enough praise has been given
the militia. They have been and are
the true patriots. They have been
handicapped. but largely through the
failure of the government TO provide
equipment.
The government Is trying 10 do
better, but il is succeeding only in
spots. Il is not the fault OF the mill
tia. but of the system, and until that
is changed our difficulties are always
going 70 be what they have been and
are now"
New York Fortifications
General Goethals took issue with
newspaper statements TO the effect
that the harbor defences of New York
are useless because they cannot pre-
vent the landing by an enemy force
on the south shores of Long Island.
II the harbor defences can force an
enemy 10 resort TO such tactics Hey
have served their purpose, he eX-
planned.
But" he added New York is not
at present fortified against lombard
ment by heavy ships at sea"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Compers Asks Advice on
Labor Problems of War

Washington, March 22.-The Council
of National Defence. in dividing up the
seven members of its advisory commits
sion. made Samuel Gompers chairman
Of the committee on labor for the con-
servation and welfare Of workers.
Mr.. Gompers to-day invited large
body of men and women to cooperate
in carrying out the committees work.
Workmen. employers, doctors and
other experts on conservation ana
welfare have peen invited to member
ship on the committee, without COM
pensation.
will take place April ,, at Washington.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Brooklyn Car Falls
Into Subway; Is Hurt

Thirteen passengers were badly jolted
and two seriously injured last night
when a Nostrand Avenue car was de-
rallied near Ditmas Avenue, in Brook
Ign, and the front trucks fell six feet
to the roof of the new Nostrand Ave
nue. subway. Iron beams. bridging the
excavation, prevented the car from
plunging into it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

that the money financing them came
from the German Embassy through
Wolf Won Igel, under-secretary Of T..
embassy, and Franz Won Rintelen.
While Barth was a witness, Won
Kleist, who sat only few feet from
the press table, exclaimed frequently
in an undertone:
"0h! Oh! What damned lies"
After Barth had identified half a
dozen bombs and the portions OF
dozen more as part OF the haul seized
when the defendants were arrested, he
told Of a confession which he says
Captain Won Kleist made 10 him and 10
Detective Sergeant Barnitz.
Failed on Notes
Barth said he learned that Won kleist
was angry at Scheele because the latter
failed TO make good on notes for $500.
He said he told Won kleist he came
from Won lgel and wanted TO know the
captains history before he could in
troduce him TO the paymaster.
Won Kleist, he continued, after re-
lating how he came here in 1888 and
became a naturalized American to be
captain Of an American boat, said he
first met Scheele on March I, 1915.
On that date, according TO the de-
tective. this conversation took place
between Won Klest and Scheele:
Scheele: Are you thorough Ger
man."
Won Kleist: Tf you arc as good
German as am you're a dandy
Scheele: There never was man
named Won Kleist who wasn't a good
German
Showed Him $4,000 Check
"Von Kleist," continued Barth, "told
me that Scheele took him 10 his house
tina; right end showed him a check for
$4,000 drawn on Knauth, Nachod &
Kuhne. but he said he could not re-
member who signed it," Scheele, he
explained, tod him that this check was
only a small insinlriert. and that IT
proved that they were not going to do
things in "A small way. Won kleist SAID
that Scheele then hired him as super
intendent of his factory where the
bombs were manufactured.
The witness declared that Won kleist
was given instructions from Scheele TO
admit Captain Bode, Captain Wolpert
and Captain Steinberg, who fed to Ger
many in woman's disguise. at all
times TO the factory, and not to inter
le1c WIFI lntll Htihs VII Oht ONNeo'S'
tavse three we've on Il, point of IS
saulting DR.. Scheele, because some
bombs that he made and which were
planted on half dozen ships failed to
explode.
A suitcase filled with bombs, from
which the explosives and acids had
been extracted, occupied a corner of
the courtroom when Sander and Wun-
rcphprp were sentenced
Sought Map
John c. Knox, Assistant United
States Attorney, in charge of the vsri-
Gus German plots, said that the two
had George Vaux Bacon and other
Americans in their employ sent TO Great
Britain, with special instructions to get
a map Of the anti-aircraft bases and the
place where a certain cable from Amer
lea touched England. By pleading
guilty Sander and Wunnenberg have
best served the German Empire by pre-
venting from exposure the men behind
them who planned the enterprise and
furnished funds for its execution, he
added.
Judge Van Fleet. passing sentence,
said the law was inadequate to metc
out proper punishment to men like
Sander and Wunnenberg. The maxi
mum is three years. Because taey
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23

saved the government the expense of a
trial he gave them only two years. A
German-American banker OF this. city
Is reported TO have been instrumental
in getting Sander and Wunnenberg to
plead guilty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Says Bryan's Overnight
Army of a Million Would
Be a Mob
Heavy Guns Needed
Canal Builder Says U. S. Can
Turn Them Out if Time
Is Given

ITO put it mildly. it is disgraeeful,
declared Major General George W.
Goethals yesterday, referring TO the I'M
prepared state of the nation. The
builder of the Panama Canal was
guest of the Rotary Club at luncheon IN
the McAlpin. lie talked preparedness
and talked straight from the shoulder.
Bryan's army of million men rush
ing TO the colors in day would be an
unframed. unequipped mob, he said
Before ships could be built with the
eleventh hour appropriation of $780,
900 900 our war would be over. And II
was a curious situation, he added, that
the country which invented the sub
marine and the aeroplane was totally
deficient in both.
"Plans for national defence pre-
pared after we had learned some les
sons in the Spanish-American War are
still in pgeonhole at Washington.
he said. at is a serious question. II
we should go TO war with first class
power. whether those plans could be
carried out in time to meet an at
tack.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-23
Optimistic Forgetfulness

1--WE need heavy guns. Due to no
foresight on our part, we are indus
trially equipped to turn them out-if
given time. We are so interested in
other pursuits we never anticipate
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
''The Million Dollar Doll"

Miss MarigoId Gano, late star
of Han.merstien's High Jinks
Co, )" heads the big musical COM
edy success, The Million Dollar
DOLL" which plays here at the
Amuzu Theatre on Friday even
ing, March 2. The Dubuque Tele-
graph Herald, in speaking of Miss
Gano's work, says her appear
ance, singing and dancing, and
all-round cleverness, makes her
work delightful, and she is des-
tined to become big little star
before long.
The Million Dollar Doll' is
this seasons greatest musical at
traction. Parents are urged to re-
serve their seats early.
Seats on sale at Levy Drug Co.
Reserved seats Sl.00.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
Recent Fires.

The old superstition. or call it
what you will. again proved true
to tradition that three fires always
follow themselves IN quick success
sion. as was demonstrated by the
one on Sunday night and the other
on Monday afternoon. following
the one az the oil mill, a few nights
before. but luckily none of the
three were serious.
Sunday night during the per-
Torrance 70 n erQVdsd house, .
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

There is no more enthusiastic
or willing worker a member of
the City Beautiful League than
Miss Marie Breazeale, who has a
most laudable project in view in
the interest of the League. The
muchIy discussed white Way"
is claiming her special interest,
and she is planning to erect one
of the lights by her Individual eff
forts, and is using every means
within her power to make enough
money for that purposes Satur
day morning she sold flowers and
could have trebled the sales If the
narcissus, daffodils violets and jon
quils hadn't given out. Soon next
Saturday morning Miss BreazeaIe
can be found on Second street,
next to the Peoples Cafe, where
she will offer flowers and sand
wiches, and everybody SD ,uld en-
courage this public-sDirited young
lady, by buying of her wares and
help the great cause.
AS an aid to education, we doubt
whether you can do anything else so
worth while this month as to help
t'make your neighbor reading neigh
borhood You want better schools,
better roads, more cooperative enter
prises, farmers club, farm women's
club, aud richer social life-and the
best way to arouse interest as to all
these agencies of progress is to get
your neighbors to reading about them
fifty-two weeks in the year. Talk
about having some agricultural leader
come around and make talk for you;
that is good as far as it goes, but he
speaks only once during the twelve
months to part of the family, whereas .
the truly progressive paper is silently
influencing the whole family for good
every week in the year. Every public
spirited man and woman therefore |
should feel it a public duty to put at |
least one good paper into every home |
in the neighborhood. The Progressive
Farmer.
The paintings of the Oriental timber
bamboo in northern Florida and Louis
isiana have grown to a height of Is |
feet, and there is no longer any ques-
ton about their producing in this coun-
try good canes comparable to those
which they produce in China and Japan. I
quick method OF their propagation |
has been worked out so that it will be |
now possible to supply large enough |
quantities of the young plants to set |
out many small areas throughout the |
South, from the Carolinas to California |
wherever there is sufficient moisture |
and the land is not too high priced to
admit of their cultivation.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
Prizes for Bird Houses.

The birds are going TO get their
Innings this Spring, as the Boy
scouts and Camp Fire Girls are
busily designing and working out
their designs into ornamental, but
practical bird houses for which
The City Beautiful League has
offered prizes.
There will be a public display
of all submitted on next Monday
March 9Th which the public is
cordially invited to inspect and a
committee of competent judges
will award the prizes.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
Exchange Bank
NatChitoches, La.

we are among those who haven't
missed days's attendance, on until
old age has dimmed our eyes, we have
taken it up each week and have i'm
bibed, without approaching the fact,
much more than the neighborhood Cos
sip which we thought was practically
all it brought to US. We have, indeed,
absorbed its ideas on many subjects.
We have become advocates of good
roads and good schools with it; of
cleanliness in politics and Of upright
ness in business life, following it's
imperceptible guidance and little
reckoning that we haven't been
leaders ourselves-while in truth it has
been the despised purveyer of neigh
borhood gossip, as we have looked upon
it, that has lead US, and this although
we have even often used its actual lam
guage in learnedly expounding our sup
posedly original views. "-E. H. Tom
lison, Morristown IN. j. Record.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
Knights Of Pythias

There was something doing IN
X. of P. circles the past week
when on Friday night tie n
new members were initiated into
the order and on Saturday dele
CATION of fourteen from tn 9
Shreveport lodge, came down to
conclude the ceremonies of the
night before and wound up with
q big banquet at the Dranquet
Hotel when all the substantials
and delicacies of the season were
served IN first class style to the
delectation of all The Knights and
their guests.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

the brilliant color schema of the
day to Misses Norma and Mildred
Hill, Blanche Weldon, Marie
O'Quin, Marguerite Stewart, Joyce
and Pearl Weaver, Una Prud-
homme, EIma Lambre, Mezie
BreazeaIe, Wvnonah and Rowena
Bredl by the gracious hostess, as
sisted by Miss Amelie Cloutier.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

SALESMAN WANTED = To sell lu-
bricating oil, grease, specialties and
paint. PART OF whole time. Commits
sion basis until ability is established.
Permanent position and wide field
when qualified if desired. Man with
rig preferred
RIVERSIDE REFINING COMPANY
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

The federal government is now lend
ing substantial aid to Louisiana in road
construction. About $500, 600 will be
available from that source in the next
few weeks. The state is now setting
aside one quarter mill special tax.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
Classified Ads.
FOR SALE

Dwelling house corner Third and
Lafayette streets, with or without
store building and stable. Seven rooms,
electric lights, water and screened
throughout. Price reasonable and
monthly payments if desired. Apply
to A. Z. EWING. 2-1-I7 If,
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
The Home Paper Big
Factor in Our Lives

The sway of the home paper comes
over US unconsciously. We subscribe
to it to crafty our curiosity as to what
is going on around US. Yet from the
time we begin to pick it up, while still
school children, to read, perhaps how
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01


Messrs. Sidney Katie and Hen
ry Williams have returned from a
visit to New Orleans; Miss Henri
D., who accompanied her father
REMAINED over for a week or two
longer.
AS towns grow into cities. land in
creases in value. Buy lot while land
is cheap. See Hedges.
Mines. q. King and Reynolds
of Little Rock are the guests of
their brother and wife Mr.. and
Mrs, ID. &. Scarborough, their
first visit to their old home in sew
eral years.
All the niftiest material for skirts,
waists, suits and one-piece dresses can
be found at that up-to-date establish
ment-S. & H. KAFFIE'S DEPART
0IOhE.
Mr.. A. A. Fredericks, Miss Axe
accompanied by Mrs. G. V. Por-
ter went to Lake Charles Thurs
day where they gave recital Fri
day night and returned the next
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Dugas and
children of Donaldsonville came
in last night to attend the exer-
cises at the Normal, their daugh-
ter being a member of the class
that will graduate tonight.
Miss Irma SomDayrac has
reached home after stopping over
for carnival in New Orleans after
an absence since the early fall, in |
New York, where she took an art
course at Columbia.
MIR. Joseph Esther of Shrcve.
port, who is contempt lting locat-
ing in Natchitoches is spending a
few days looking around after
some real estate with that object
in view.
DIR. aud Mrs. E. w. Breazeale,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Clont!er, Mines.
Brown, Garcia, Trichel, Genius1
and Misses Keator and Cloutier
were among the Campti visitors
during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Weaver
and youngest son drove out to
Cypress late Tuesday night to
latch the cannonball so as to reach
Eaton Georgia as quickly as pos
ible in response to a message that
Mr.. Viewers father criti-
ally i'll.
Mines. w. 7. Cunningham, r. /
N. Winstead, j. w Jones, Jr..
nd Misses Dezendorf and Har !
rove have been in Crowley ALL
week attending the annual session i
# the Louisiana Womans Mis- )
ionary Association. 1o
A heavy rain and hail storm &C
ompanied by tightening and thun-
Ter deluged the town and sur
country for several 4
lours, Friday morning.
The Camp Fire Girls have been /
,usy starting the work on the park, /
hat was so generously given S
o them for the purpose by DIR.
jlarence Plerson, opposite the old '
amily property on Jefferson. {
Plans for the beautifying of this 9
,retty plot of ground will be de- b
'eloped as the season advances. !
The Committee in charge of the
istrict near Bayou Amulet on :
second Street did a wonderful :
mount of labor Saturday, plant
ng some twenty odd Crepe Myr-
lie trees with their own fair hands, :.
7hile the Committee in charge of .
be same district on Front Street :
as been working on the ravine :
1hich is one of our natural beauty .
pots and art and science helping =
ature, this place will be won- !
erously attractive this season. '
KNIGHTS of PythiaS D
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

FOR RENT-Seven-room house with
bath and garage, near Normal School
next door to Congressman Aswell.
Apply to James Dey or Charles De-
BlieuX.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01
FOR SALE

One or two lots on the west side of
Cypress Avenue, within one block of
the Normal School, and in the most
desirable residence section of the town.
CHARLES V. PORTER.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-03-01

The most successful self-made men
are self-starters. -Deseret News.