Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-26

IN the recent upneaVal.- Ieiii6ii 7siis
;eet Safseell III the fortress o. I
sSVeabery
Formal demand for the removal OF
Robert NJ. La Toilette from the Onll-
ted States Senate is made in re ss9
tons adopted last night by the Min DIN /
nesota public safety commission after
an all day discussion of his disloyaii
speech last Thursday before the Non
partisan League conference at the %:
Paul Auditorium. The conduct OF
La Toilette and other Senators was
referred to the Federal Department
of Justice, with a request thaC 'nes
be vigorously prosecuted. A Letter
was received yesterday IN St. raul'
Mimi, from the Senator's son 10
college chum, in which young La
Toilette says he will join the colofs'
AS fully justifiable reprlsals 1or
the alleged ill-treatment by non COM
batants in German East Africa, ~
Carl Peters. German scientist
makes the suggestion, when the
Hamburger Nachrichten prints
prominently, to this effect:
..That double the number of Belgian
men women and children f>suPerlor
SOC al standing be CO.. ,e''eA to marcH
in winter time, inadequa ely clad an
fed prison fare, from ter 10 1iitee'
times between Constanza, on inc
Black Sea, and Riga, on the halti'
| coast"
Aroused bv the repeated base!ess
rumors scattered broadcast thaI
| merchant vessels and others nave peer
sunk by submarines, the Navy De-
partment, yesterday took occasion 10
issue an official denial, particularly
IN the case of story circulated last
Saturday that five merchant vessels
and two conveys had been lost IN an
engagement. On that day Admiral
Benson. chief of operations, made 1t
plain that the department had not
received any such advices that would
indicate any such disaster
Two men were killed early yeSter-
dav in Richmond Cal, in an explosion
which tore out the forward works ana
s,,nerstructure of the Standard UlI
tanker J. A. Mof'ett, as she lay at
lher pier. The explosion was proba-
bly, caused by ignition of gas while
the men were cleaning the hold. More
than sixty thousand gallons OF oil
which had been pumped aboard es-
capped destruction. The town of Rich
mond was shaken by the explosion as
by an earthquakes
! A strike at 10 o'clock Saturday
morning of 10000 members of the
Is metal trades unions employed in
Seattle shipyards and allied contract
shops was ordered yesterday by the
Seattle Metal Trades Council the
central organization of the 10 unions.
'fhe strike call, it was said, is the
result of the insistcnt demand of the
| rank and file of the shipyard workers
for a "show down on the long pend
ing wage increase controversy. As
dear as can be estimated, three big
steel shipyards, about Is wooden
Alipyards and 40 contract shops will
ke affected by the strike.
| 5 A published list from the German
dide of the names Of vessels sunk
by submarines gives reason. to be-
lieve that Norwegian vessels have
been the victims Of the "sink without a
trace policy. mad" no:o".o'is by E;n
tuxburg. The latest liSI published at
EI.:mburg contains the names Of two
81 seven Norwegian ai<'rErr: $50: mcrs.
nh.ch failed - return from their
| August cruise in the arctic and were
supposed to have been lost with all
hands in storms.
After an all day debate the senate