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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, oct Congress mcncing Apdl Saturday afternoon. The closing hours of the session wcrv market by the usual bursts of oratory and flow of patriotism. The major portion of public interest ccntercd in to his critics and the senate galleries were packed to suffocation while the Wisconsin Senator hurled his thunder bolts of indignation at his attackers. During the last hours of the session, President Wilson appeared in the sen ate and listened to the debates attend
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SPANISH PERMIT ESCAPE
 INTERNED DIVER

the truth of the story reaching here from Spain relative to the alleged cs- cape of the German submarine recent ly nterned in Cadiz.
 In many quarters it $ held that the German vessel was permitted to escape from Spanish control with the full Knowledge and possible connivoncc of the Spanish officials. It Is pointed out that this suspicion is fully sustained by the alleged escape of number of small German steamers earlier in the War The known pro German inclina- ton of a majority of the Spanish ollie ials is also accepted as a partial con- frmaton of the theory that the r boat was allowed to get away
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A thrilling play of stock gambling in Wall street will he shown at the Dream tonight, when The Stepping Stone" will be screened. Frank Keen an one of Americans greatest charac- ter actors has the role of the Lion" of the street, Mary Roland, who as the wife, was the stepping stone" for an interruptions broker to gain great wealth, through her friendship with the Lion of Wall Street" She Is discarded and her friend gets his revenge, by causing panic which breaks the worthless husband. The scenes were actually taken during a panic in the New York Stock Ex- change, and adds realistic punch to this five act Triangle Play.
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ing the closing of the extended period If congressional business.
 White House statements indicate that Wilson is not planning to follow tho "Na mplc of congress by taking > vacation in sucn strenuous t.n,4e In- stead, the president will devote ms tune to directing and cooperating with the various government depart- ments in the vast volume of war prep arations which are s"vcrly taxing the department machinery at present, II is said that the executive has declined 1 large number of invitations to. speak lt various political and other functions, but Is considering making a trip 10
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GERMANS RENEW HARD i. COUNTERS EAST OF YPRES

artillery has maintained an intense fire on every section of the British lines from the Poclcapello section 10 the River TYs, although no effort at infantry attack developed until last night The reports Indicate that the Germans are preparing 10 make suprcm" effort to restore their lost positions. but little fear is felt regard ing the outcome of the struggle as the British are now solidly intrcnched in
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
By Associated Press.


 AMSTERDAM, Oct. S.-External pressure having failed to force Ger many to state her war aims, internal conditions. which are daily growing more oppressive, threaten to compel the government to issue a full state mcnt relative to the objects for which it is continuing the struggle and the basis on which it is willing to make peace
 Reports reaching here from various German sources indivate that the government is at present facing the most serious internal crisis that has yet developed in the empire. Despite every effort of the German censors to prevent information concerning in- ternal conditions reaching the outside world. the growth of popular dissap- proval of the governments reticent att titude has become such that conceal mcnt is difficult.
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PORTION GERMAN RAIDER CREW
 CAPTURED

The captured Germans readily ad- mitted that. they were detailed to go to the Scadler and inauguratc raids on commerce.
 The men refused to state where they secured the whale boat and rifles and if it believed they were dropped from one of the vessels reported engaged in commerce raiding in southern Pacific waters.
 Warships are now on the way to take charge of the Scadler and bring the vessel to port
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ing their plans into effect, every branch of the railroad business will come to an abrupt staffdstiil, except that the strikers will take care of the govern ment military and sanitary needs. All passenger trains scheduled to leave Petrograd after midnight have been abandoned, except those trains which will proceed to the front
 Minikitin, the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, has issued a warning to
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u. S. DESTROYER
 REPORTED FoUNOEREO
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
 WASHINGTON, oct SA Navy Department report from tho American hotilla base in European waters an- nounces the foundering of an American patrol vessel on October at some point off the British coast.
 The report reaching the, depart ment contains no detail beyond the statement that there were no causal- ties.
 The cause of the disaster is un- known and the department has cabled Admiral Sims for details
 It is believed here that the vessel was lost in the severe weather pre- vailing off the western coast of Europe in recent days.
 A majority of the American patrols are destroyers and other small yes scls on the naval auxiliary list
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CONGRESS- BRINGS
 EXTRAORDINARY
 SESSION TO CLOSE

New Orleans in February to attend the bi-contenniol celebration of the foundation Of tho city.
 It is also stated that the president is seriously considering the organiza- ton of a war council, to take control of the foreign c0rurr-t-c.-- .4I-1hc country. Those close to the president say he believes that a council board. organized along lines similar to the British war exports council, will hc a great im- provcmcnt in the present method of the country's foreign com mcrco and will also prove widely bcnc- hcal in the matter of conserving the resources of the nation.
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PEnNSYL WANNA LIMITED
 CRASH WITH FREIGHT TRAIN

ence.
 Both trains were heavily damaged by the impact, the engines being in 10th instances completely Nrcckc! All of the head cars on both :rains were smashed, including the mail and baggage cars of the Limited and a large number of freight cars were knocked into splinters on the front end of the freight. Reports reaching here from Beaver Falls say that the tracks are piled high with freight and wreck
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the former German positions and are backed with the fuIl strength of the artillery forces.
 Reports from Belgium say the Ger mans have brought up heavy rein forccmcnts from other points to as sist in checking further advances of the British in the direction of Roulcrs, which i~ evidently considered the key point of thc German Flanders posi- tions.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-Reports from the American Legation in Pckin today say that the great flood now in progress In China is the most disas trous in the history Of the Chinese na- ton.
 Consular reports from the flood dis tricts indicate that no previous flood has ever cost so many lives or worked such widespread devastation.
 For hundreds of miles along the Yang Kiang river, towns and vil-
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CHINESE FLOOD
 GREATEST IN HISTORY

lages have been swept away In the muddy torrent pouring downward to the sea and an equally wide devasta region. Hundreds of bodies of flood victims have been picked up along the to be dead in Shanghai.
 The Pekin dispatches assert that the government is totally unable to care for the hundreds of thousands of peo- pie who are homeless and there is every prospect that wide spread star
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NEW GERMAN CRUISER MINED
By Associated Press,

By Associated Press,
 LONDON, Oct. S.-Rcports from Dutch sources assert that new Ger man battle cruiser engaged in making it's trial trips off the Helgoland coast struck a loose mine and was seriously damaged.
 The vessel is reported to have been saved hut three officers and twenty of the crew were drowned or killed by the explosion.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
By Associated Press.

LONDON, oct. S.--Icports from the British military headquarters in France this morning announce re- ncwal of the hard German counter drives against the British forces in the region east and n"rtheat of Yprcs, following an intense bor rdment of the positions recently urcd by the Haig forces
 Commencing Saturday the German
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By Associated Press.

PETERSBURG, Penn, Oct. S.-The West bound Pennsylvania Limited yer Falls this morning but aside from
 the serious injury of the four engine passenger train was carrying a large number of passengers among which National Base Ball Commission en- route to Chicago to attend a confer
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5y Associated Press.

PETROGRAD, oct. S.-A great rail- road strike which promises to tie up traffic in every section of Russia be- comes effective at midnight, following q conference of the railroad employees with the Council of Soldiers and Workman's delegates who have parti- ally endorsed the action to be taken by the railroad employees.
 In the event of the employees putt
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vation will add it's horrors to the fear ful conditions created by the food
 The need of funds is so great that the government has called upon all Chinese officials to contribute ten per cent of their salaries co assist in re- licving the wants of the multitude of homeless people.
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BOWLING ALLEY REOPENS

The Bowling Alley next door to the Eagle saloon is now open for business. Everybody cordially invited to como and enjoy themselves,
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INTERNAL CONDITIONS FORCING STATEMENT
 GERMAN PEACE AIMS

It is reported on excellent authority that Chancellor Michael is to face the critics of the government in the Reich stag this week and will probably dis cuss the governments desires to some extent although he will probably refrain from the expected open state ment relative to the war objects in keeping with the earlier announcement to the effect that the attitude of the allies is such that no peace offers will be made at present.
 It is expected that the debate in the Reichstag will probably center on the charges made by the advocates of an open declaration of war aims that the aristocracy and the military party have been furthering the Pan German scheme of annexations and indemni- ties.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
By Associated Press.

MADRID. Oct S.--Thc War Minis try announced today that the German submarine recently picked up off the Spanish coast in disabled condition and afterward intcrncd at Cadiz, has cvadcd the spanish patrol and cscap- ed to sea. after being repaired by it's crew. which were left aboard their vessel
 The exact manner in which the diver vessel vanished in the night.
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ENGLAND GRANTED FIFTEEN
 MILLION CREDIT
By Associated Press.

By Assoclated Press.
 WASHINGTON, oct. S-The Treas ury Department announced to day that an additional credit of fifteen million dollars has been advanced to the Brit ish government The money will be expended In this country, principally for war supplies.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08
CHINA DEvASTED BY WORST FLOODS KNOWN
RUSSIA FACING GREAT
 RAILROAD STRIKE

the strikers that in the event of their making the strike order effective they will have to answer to charges of treason.
 Minikitin has also ordered the oper- ators on the government telegraph lines to refuse to transmit the strike order.
 
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Those at the scene declare that the small list of casualties is nothing short of miraculous as the Limited was running at a speed of nearly fifty miles an hour when striking the freight train.
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NOTICE

For Ladies Hats. Dresses, Dress goods, Stamped goods and embroidery threads call at
 MRS. J. WANGER End Avenue opp. Court House.
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ATTENTION MOOSE

Regular meeting of the L. 0. Q. NJ. this evening Oct. s, 1917, at 8 o'clock. NORVIN w. LEWIS,
 Dictator. B. R. HOLDEN, Secy.
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London Suspicious of Escape Story
 LONDON, oct S.-Onicials here in- innate a serious doubt concerning
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-10-08

Moonlight water at tho City Bath House.
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PANIC WALL STREET-DREAM

equipment.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

Independence and the organic law
of our land.
When news reached Detroit that
the Hon. J. I. Sheppard, one of the
most broad-visioned fundamental
thinkers among the legal fraternity
of the middle west, had consented
to come to Detroit to inaugurate a
movement for the preservation of
the priceless heritage Of liberal de-
mocracy from organized Roman
Catholic political aggression, the
patriots eagerly sought tickets to
this important meeting.
The uneasiness of politico -ecclesi-
astical Romanism at the growing in
terest in the meeting, in spite Of the
fact that none of the usual methods
to attract an audience were deemed
necessary, can easily be imagined.
The MENACEs recent exposures Of
the hagrant lawlessness of Roman
Catholic and pro-papal officials rem
dered it inadvisable for Rome to re-
sort to mobocracy and criminal law
lessness, such as has marked her &C.
tion scores of times during the last
decade when attempting to prevent
freedom of speech and assembly.
The severe storm, however, was
viewed with great complacency by
the upholders of the papal system
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

forms, carry rifles and have armories
in which they are drilled and where
their ammunition and accouter-
ments are kept stored. State mill
tia officers advised as that they
were informed that armories and
wdr supplies we're owned BY THE
CHURCH. They also advised us
that these church organizations have
no connection with the government
of the United States nor with the
government of the state of Michigan
SO far as they know. They are not
chartered, affiliated or authorized,
so far as regular army recruiting
and militia officers know, with or
by the regular army or the state
militia. They are subject to no
army regulations or rules and are
in no wise responsible to the gov
ernment Of the United States ac-
cording to information obtained at
army recruiting, and militia Offices.
Within the walls Of the parish at
st. Francis church, however, the
priest in charge claimed total ignor-
ance as to the object Of the organiza-
ton of the company, photograph Of
which is shown in this paper) as to
who owns the armory directly across
the street from the parish or even
the names Of the officers Of the COM
pany. In fact he knew absolutely
nothing about it Che told your COM
missioner) and wouldn't even con-
fess that he had ever seen the men
on parade or in uniform-probably
never even saw the armory that
loomed up across the street from his
front door??????
1t is common knowledge that
these companies drill, hold target
practice and parade with their guns.
On Sunday morning in good wealth
er they may be seen marching to the
Catholic churches Of the city with
their flags, bearing the dragon in
sigma, floating in the breezes and
their rifles in hand or shouldered-
marching, if you please, to the
churches which, no doubt, they are
sworn to defend with their lives
when the hierarchy "becks or nods."
One of our informants, a leading
militia officer who had just returned
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

and that while thus carrying on . relentless
war on our public non-seetarian schools the
hierarchy had succeeded In entrenehinE its
minicns in the teaching force Of these same
nounced as goddess. and as gates Of hail."
as something like 60 per cent Of the teachers
In Detroits public schools are faithful ad-
herents Of Rome, the arch enemy Of these
same free schools.
(5) Our commissioner had furthermore
found out that in Detroit was to be found
a great Roman Catholic armory owned, not
BY the state Of Michigan. or BY this nation; ;
but by the church whose so-callsd infallible
heads have In recent years condemned THE
VERY KIND OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
which 6nds It's fullest expression In the FED:
who have also condemned in no unesrtain
words freedom Of speech, press, and absolute
divorce OF church and state wherever and
whenever Rome was or became dominant
in other words. THIS GOVERNMENT WITH
IN OUR GOVERNMENT--theroug mon
arehial in spirit and prsetice---now had in
Detroit a militia composed entirely Of sub
jeets Of the papal sovereignty and an srmory
for that militia.
6) The pitiful and tragic stories told By
rescued victims Of the so-called House Of
Good Shepherd Of Detroit; VICTIMS WHO
ROME ENRICHING PRISONS, revealed the
presence Of slavery with its injustice and
cruel wrongs in one Of the greatest cities
Of our nation.
These and other facts laid before
leading patriots of Detroit produced
profound impression. Through
the censorship by Rome of the sup
posedly free press, the Protestant
masses had been kept in ignorance
to a great extent of the actual con-
ditions-just as they are being kept
in ignorance in every other great
American city-while multitudinous
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

citizens Of Detroit in the same hall
on the issues Of the hour.
1t is safe to say that had the
weather been reasonably fair, thou
sands would have been turned away
from the great hall, but the phe-
nominally large audience Drawing
the worst storm of the year was
more profoundly significant, more
meaningful and, to the enemies of
fundamental democracy, more por-
tentous than a sunshine crowd five
times as large; for here we're up
ward of three thousand earnest
minded patriots moved by one COM
mon impulse.
The astounding facts brought out
by the special commissioner for The
MENACE, in his extensive and care
full Investigations, were a revelation
even to many of the patriots who
imagined that they were awake to
the peril of political Romanism, for
the evidence obtained revealed al
most incredible conditions; which
circumStantially proved the truth of
the allegations made by the Free
Press Defense League. They showed: ::
~ That through the Roman Catholic po-
litical boss and other handymen Of the hier-
archy, men had been elected to Offices carrying
great appointiye power and influence both in
municipal and federal appointments and fol-
lowing these elections an overwhelming num-
Der Of places Of great strategic Importance
had been given to faithful subjects Of the
papal hierarchy.
(2) That about 80 per cent Of the police
force Of Protestant Detroit are Roman Cath
olics.
(9 Following on the heels Of this Roman
Catholic entrenchment In the police depart
ment, with millionaire Roman Catholic po-
dealer had been illegally dragged to the
courts something like lis times for selling
The Menace on the streets and that this un-
lawful exercise Of police power in the inter-
est of the Roman hierarchy had been ex-
tended to other Protestant news-dealers who
sold The Menace, one of whom had been ar
rested. illegally, fifty times.
az 1t was shown that the Roman hier-
archy was here, as elsewhere, warring on the
public schools and rearing great parochial
schools for the children Of Romanist parents
where the anti-democratic papal theory
could be ineulcated into the childrens mind /;
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

commissioner that the total mem
bership of the companies of one of
the organizations in Detroit num-
bered about five or six hundred and
that in his opinion they were un-
lawful and had no right to existence
in our free democracy.
Two Separate Organizations
1t seems that there are two sep
arate organizations operating in De-
troit. One is said to be organized
by, in and for the church. The
other while not under the direct
jurisdiction Of the church is, never
theless made up of young Catholics
of Polish nationality. They may
be seen marching in the picture ac-
companying this article, dressed in
khaki uniforms.
This latter organization is known
as the Polish Falcons Alliance Of
America and is a semi Catholic or
ganization with headquarters al
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They
have a total membership Of approx
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

nifcant statements made and facts
brought to light that should have
opened the eyes of thinking people,
these rumors have until recently
had little weight or effect upon the
complacent equilibrium of peaceful
and chloroformed Protestants. They
have been discarded as improbable
and believed to be based upon over
wrought imaginings Of over-zealouS
patriots.
However, the startling and al
together amazing statement made
by Archbishop Edward Quigley be-
fore the German Catholic Central
Verein of Chicago on September
10, 1911, and published in the Chi
cago Record Herald the following
day should have brought every
Protestant in America outstanding.
Archbishop Quigley said upon
that occasion;
Organization is the hope of the
Catholic church here: The question
confronting the organization is
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

Jesuitical influences operating large
ly through political and business
channels had enabled Rome, the
arch enemy of our liberal democ-
racy, to gain strangle-hold on De-
troit.
Here were facts-incontrovertible
facts-and the patriots Of Detroit
saw as clearly as in the elder days
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry,
James Otis, John Hancock and
Samuel Adams had seen, that to
save the fundamental or basic prin-
ciples Of liberal government and
popular rights, q movement COM
bining courageous, united and deter
mined action must be inaugurated.
Too long had the Protestant mil
lions Of America slept while the pa
pal hierarchy through its American
Federation OF Catholic Societies, Its
vast and widely ramified Jespitical
societies, Ancient Order Of Hi
bernians and other oath-bound So
cieties who owe and show their first
allegiance to the papal sovereignty,
had been steadily ramifying political
Romanism in government. Now the
hour had struck for true patriots to
come to the front in the interest Of
liberal democracy and in defense of
the principles of the Declaration Of
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-03

MIN thousand guises has ru-
Al IL NOR insisted that Rome was
sl,S arming and training her
FL members for some kind Of
an impending conflict in the United
States.
1t has been said and often reiter-
ated that within her church base
ments and secret chambers, supplies
Of ammunition and rifles are stored.
The theory upon which these
persistent rumors are based is that
the Roman pontiff at the vatican is
steadily, and in secret, preparing
for the complete and open Roman
izing of America. And that if the
peaceable and steady eating away at
the vitals Of our free democratic in
stitutions in the final reckoning
fails, it is believed by many that
Rome will be ready to resort to use
9f arms to force further toleration
Of her encroachments.
While there have been many sig