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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
HELM NAMES five SOL0NS
Congressional Probe in 6ernstorff
SIush Fund Believed Certain.

Congressional Probe in Bernstorff
SIush Fund Believed Certain.
Washington, Sept. 29.-Representa-
tive Thomas Heflin of Alabama has
broken the Bernstorff $4,000 slush
fund scandal wide open in the House
of Representatives. He has named
five legislators and demanded infor-
nation of what connection they had,
if any, with o-German activities.
With his startling. accusations he
Immediately removed all doubt that
there will be congressional investiga-
ton. Nothing can prevent it now,
whether the administration wishes or
not.
Goaded to expose the men he &C.
cused, he named these:
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin,
Representative Fred A. Britten Of
Chicago, Representative William E.
Mason of Chicago, Representative Pat
rick D. Norton of North Dakota, Rep
resentative John M. Baer of North
Dakota.
OF the men named four were in
Washington. Senator La Toilette de-
clined to answer questions concerning
the -Hefin charges. Messrs. Norton,
Britten and Baer issued warm retorts,
Mr.. Mason was in Chicago.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
SPEAKERS TO TOUR NATION
Strong Fight Against Pacifists Is to
Be Made

Washington, Sept. 2S.-The nations
war task is to be presented to the peo-
pie in a nationwide speaking cam
paign in which many organizations
will be enlisted to attack paciism
and rouse the country to the impor-
lance of the work it has undertaken.
Arthur E. Bestor, president of the
Chautauqua institution, has been chos-
en- director of the campaign and will
coordinate efforts of all organizations
which participate. The purpose of the
speaking campaign as expressed by
President Wilson in his letter Of ap-
proval is to give to the people that
fullness of information which will en-
able and inspire each citizen to play
intelligently his part in the greatest
and most vital struggle ever undertake
en- by selfgoverning nations"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
HAS ATTAINED OBJECT
Bulgaria Is Ready to Quit War,
Asserts Envoy.
Has Captured Territory Which by
Fright Belongs to Her." Says
Panareto.

Washington, Sept. 2S-Kaiser Will
helms dream of a Mittel Europa is
something that Bulgaria is not the
least interested in.
In an interview, Stephen Panareto
Bulgarian minister to the United
States, said his country had attained
the sole-ends for which it entered the
war and is ready TO quit, providing
she can keep the territory (which by
language, nationality and historic
right belongs to her,
Bulgaria, he said, would have pre-
ferred to have fought with the Allies
but Germany made more acceptable
business proposition.
Bulgaria entered with one object, to
regain Dobrudja, Macedonia and parts
of Serbia which were unjustly taken
from her during the Balkan war and in
the treaty of 1875" said Panareto
frankly. @'She had no particular love
for the Central Powers-in fact, few
years before, had been at war with
Turkey. As the price of entering she
asked restoration of former territory
which by President Wilson's statement
of national boundaries rightfully be-
longs to her.
Bulgaria preferred to join the Al
lies, but they offered restoration pro-
viding Serbia would consent to take
in exchange other territory-presum'
ably wrested from Austria Hungary or
Turkey. Our prime minister even told
the Allies that within "a hours of the
acceptance of Bulgaria's terms our
army. would be marched on to Constan
tinople.
"Germany's offer was unqualified
Dobrudja and Macedonia were to be
restored. We joined the Central Pow
ers-not because we had to but be-
cause we deliberately chose to-
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
All American Merchant Craft
Over $500 Tons to be
Requisitioned.
458 SHIPS AVAILABLE
IN he Used in Transporting troops
Supplies and Munitions to Euro
mean Front-Order Is EHec-
tive October IS.

Washington, Sept. 29-The Ship
ming board announces, in statement
giving charter rates Of the vessels
affected, that en- October 10 every
American merchant vessel OF more
than $500 tons dead weight capacity
available for ocean service, will be re-
Questioned.
American ships available for ocean
traffic total slightly more than 2,OO0,-
600 tons, but some already have been
taken over for the army and navy.
In most instances, the ships, 1t was
said, will be turned back to their own
ers for operation on government &C.
count, subject at all times to any dis"
position the shipping board may direct.
45s Ships Are Available.
Within less than six months virtual
" every one of the 458 American ves-
sells now available for ocean service,
including regular liners, will be either
in the service of supplying American
troops and warships abroad or in
trades considered vital to the con-
duct of the war. The intention OF the
government is to replace ships drawn
from regular trade routes and from
the coastwise service with neutral ton
mage for which negotiations now are
pending with neutral governments.
Foreign ships will be admitted into
the coastwise service by suspension OF
the coastwise shipping laws. A bill
to make this suspension possible ls
before Congress.
Cut in Rates.
The rates announced will cut sharp
ly the present charter and ocean
freight rates. It is the intention it is
understood to apply them later to any
foreign ships chartered in the United
States.
For freight vessels the rates a ton
month figured en- time charter on a.
basis of dead weight tonnage are as:
follows:
More than 10000 IONS, s5.75; $1,000
to 10000 tons, Sc; 6,001 to 5000 tons,
$6.25; 4,O01 to 5000 tons, $3.50; 3,001
to 1000 tons, $6.75; $500 to 5000
tons, 81. ~.-.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Call for More Men Necessary
or Incomplete Divisions
Is Outlook.
men NEEDED
Whole Fabric Of Infantry Being Reor-
qanized on New Warfare Plans
Division Fighting Strength
Now 1880.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-When the
first increment of the National army
of 1000 men has been modified
there is little doubt now that large
deficiency of men will be shown.
Seventeen national guard divisions
must be brought up to war strength
and several special service forces or
ganized out of this reserve, so the
number of drafted llep remaining at
the environments hardly will be suf1l-
cient to organize the 16 National army
divisions to full strength basis.
Whether incomplete divisions Will
be formed or call for more men Is
sued has not been indicated.
Recognizing Entire Infantry.
Secretary Baker has said that de.
finite figures as to the number OF Ma
tional army men it would be necessary
to transfer to the national guard were
not available Not only are these dlv1
sions being organized for the first
time, but in the midst of that mob1l1
cation the whole fabric of the infantry
army is being reorganized on the new
trench warfare plans.
The fighting strength of the new
division is now fixed at 27,50O men
The II guard divisions on that basis
will have a total strength of 49,, SOC
men.
Guards Total Near 100000.
The guard probably brought into the
federal service a total of not more
than 100000 men, possibly less. II
will take, therefore at least $4,000
National army men to fill up the guard
divisions. Another 100000 of the Ma
tional army will 60 to the air service
and certainly as many more to other
special services. That would leave not
more than 100000 men to form the 16
National army divisions which should
have an aggregate war strength OF
433,OOO'
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
TEDDY AFTER LA toilette
Calls Him country's Most Sinister Foe
Of Democracy.

Chicago, Sept. 2S.-Declaring Sena-
tor Robert M. La Toilette of WiscOn-
sin, to be 1.-The most sinister foe OF
democracy in this country" Theodore
Roosevelt in a speech on 1.-THE Chill
dren of the Melting Pot" here,
launched a scorching philippe at paci-
fists in general and unpreparedness.
After his address, which was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm, the
meeting held under the auspices of
the National Security League, adopted
a resolution offered by Bishop Samuel
Fallows and seconded by Judge Jacob
M. Dickinson, former secretary of war,
condemning the Wisconsin senator for
his recent public utterances and de-
claring him unworthy to represent
the loyal people of America"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
BIG U. S. WAR CHEST;
HOW MONEY is RAISED

X Bond bill Of April "a, $1,000, 000,-
600.
Bond bill Of September 20, &c.
s. 53e, loot, 900.
War revenue bill, $2,5cO, 200, 900.
Regular revenue, 81 1888, 900, 900.
y Total, $1e, 1911 900 600.
s. HOW MONEY is SPENT.
* Loans to Allies, $1,000, 600, 900.
= Army, $e,sso,o1s,ee1.
Navy, $1,6o5, oes,45s.
" Aviation and air craft, 1894 ,000,-
600.
Shipping, s1,o4o.ooo,ooo.
Selective draft, 48,658,413.
Food control and survey, $173,-
Il s4e 400.
s. Soldiers and sailors insurance,
$176,25o, 900.
- Emergency fund to President,
= 100000, 900.
* Totals, s17,es7, s72.ea2.
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The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
New Arrest Made in French Case

New Arrest Made in French Case.
Paris, Sept. 27.-Another arrest
has been made in the Bonnet Rouge
case, when Jacques Landau, a report
er on that paper, was taken into Gus
tody. Landau testified before a mag
istrate that it was he who obtained
safe conduct for NJ Duval, director of
the paper, to visit Switzerland. A
suspicious check was found on Du-
val when he returned from kis last
visit to Switzerland. The case played
a part in the recent cabinet upheav-
al. Miguel Almereyda, editor Of the
paper, committed suicide.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Britain Treats Prisoners Best.

London, Sept. 24.-Admission that
the treatment of German war prison
ers in Great Britain was superior to
the treatment received in any ether
country was made by the chief Ger
man delegate to the recent conference
of British and Germans on war prison
ers, according to a statement made by
Baron Newton, one of the British del
egates, in the house of commons ~Vir-
tually no complaint was made of the
British methods of handling prisoners.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Millions Homeless in Chinese Floods,

Millions Homeless in Chinese Floods,
Picking, Sept. 2S.-The city of Tien
Tsin is threatened with destruction bv
flood. The Chinese city and portions
of all the foreign concessions are I'M
der water, which is rising "a pidly and
which covers the great plain to the
southeast of Picking. 1t is estimated
that 100000 Chinese are homeless
and without food. The Eoang-Ho over
flow has spread to the northward and
has broken the Grand canal at many
places. The mud walls protecting
Tien Tsin are being strengthened I'M,
der foreign supervision,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Trade Bodies to Aid Liberty Loa,

New York, Sept. 26.-More than 100
trade committees, each under the
chairman ship of a leading exponent
of business in New York city. are be-
ing formed to assist the flotation of
the second Liberty loan. These COM
mittees will work under the general
direction of advisory committees Of
which G. Deb. Green is chairman.
Each divisional chairman will name a
committee of most influential men in
his own trade and each of the COM
mittees Will have an expert bond sales
man to direct the actual selling.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Hurting Body Injuries Man.

Marinette, Wis, Sept. 26.-William
Williston, % years old, member of
Company 1, W. N. G., was fatally in
jured at Mauston, Wis, when he was
struck by a Chicago, Milwaukee and
ct. Paul train while crossing the track
to take an incoming train. His body
was hurled so feet, breaking his neck.
Death resulted half hour later. The
body wa brought home. When Will
liston was struck his body, IA passing
through the air, hit the station agent,
who was nearby, injuring him quite
badly.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Minimum REACHED IN LOSSES
British Losses for Week by U:Boats
Smallest Vet.

London, Sept 2S-Thirteen British
merchantmen Of 1000 tons and over
and two vessels of less than 1900 tons
were sunk by mines or submarines
last week, according to the weekly
admiralty statement, just issued. In
the aggregate this is the smallest num-
Der of vessels sunk during any one
week since Germany began her in
tensified submarine warfare last Feb
ruary. Two fishing vessels also were
sunk last week.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04

London Hotel for U. S. Army ~"
Paris, Sept. 26.-The American army
Y. M. C. A. has leased the Hotel Rich.
mond, just off the main boulevards,
and it will be opened Oct. 1, as a COM
bination officers clubhouse and hotel.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
SOCIALISTS GAIN IN SWEDEN

Those Opposed to Government Show
Strength in Election.
Stockholm, Sept. 2S.-Election re-
turns show that the composition Of
the new second chamber will be as
follows:
Socialists who are supporters of M.
Branting, SO; Socialists of the Left,
H.; Liberals, 81; Conservatives, 3d.;
New Peasant parties, H.
The supporters of M. Branting, who
in the campaign strongly criticized the
foreign policy of the government,
gained IA seats. The Liberals gained
and the Conservatives lost %.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

White House Picket's Case Arouses
Interest of Mrs. Champ cIarle
Washington, Sept. 27.-The mystic.
rious solitary imprisonment of Mrs.
Frederick Kendall of Buffalo, N. Y,
one of the White House suffrage pick
cts serving a 30-day sentence in the
workhouse at Occoquan, has aroused
the active interest of Mrs. Champ
Clark, wife of the speaker of the
house.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Women to Aid Second Loan Issue

Women to Aid Second Loan Issue.
Washington, Sept. 28.-Women from
IL federal reserve districts, represent
Ing Women's Liberty Loan commit
tees, met here to discuss program Of
advancing the forthcoming second Lib
erty Bond issue. The conference of
which Mrs. w. G.. McAdoo, wife of the
secretary of the treasury, is chairman.
will last two days.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
italians Give JeweIry for Country.

Rome, Sept. "a. - Nearly 1000
pounds Of gold has been donated to
the treasury department during the
past four months in the form of orna.
ments old coins and family jewelry:
The golden crown of Prince Amedeo,
the father of the duke of Abruzzi, was
one Of the gifts originating in the city
of Turin. Venice so far has led all
the cities of Italy with 22O pounds of
gold. Florence has given 80 pounds,
Milan 200 pounds, Brescia 55 pounds,
Rome 100, and Tu2n about $50.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
Approve Immediate Draft Tests.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-Thirty- eight
out of 40 governors have approved the
suggestion of Provost Marshal Gener.
al Crowder that the 100000 register
ed men not called in the first draft
be examined immediately for military
service
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
MEXICO EXPECTED TO BREAK

ProqnoSticatIon WADE by american
With Interests There.
Ell Paso, Tex. Sept. 2S.-A predic-
ton that Mexico would follow Argen-
tina, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay by
breaking off relations with Germany
was made here by an American who
has large interests in Mexico, but who
declined to permit his name to be
used.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-08
.BLONDS ARE DOOMED,
PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS
Slated for. Annihilation. Declares Lee
turer at Y. M. c. A.
Blends must go,

Blends must go.
This was the declaration OF DR.. n. w.
Shefrerman. who spoke on Climatic In
fluences on Different Types" before
large audience in the lecture hall of the
Young Mems Christian Association last
night.
'"BIondes have been our greatest fight-
ers," DIR. Shefferman told his audience.
The worlds great rulers have also been
classed among this type. Even angels
are represented as blondes. But the pass
ing of the blonde is coming. 1t is newt
able
The fact that they are such fighters.
that they are so changeable and variety
loving will be the chief factors in their
downfall and ultimate annihilation."
DIR. Shefferman compared the qualities
and possibilities Of those who had sharp
feature with those who had blunt and
receding ones.
Sharp faced people, he said. were prac-
tical and forceful, and demand facts and
not theories. Persons with blunt fea-
lures, he said, were thinkers. dreamers
and theorizers whose one redeeming point
was their tenacity of purpose.
Next Wednesday. in the third Of his lee
lures on character analysis. DR.. Shelter
man will speak on the three different
types Of man: the thinking type, execu-
tive type and worker.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-08
CITY LOSES IT'S fight
FOR U. S. ARMOR PLANT
Chamber of Commerce Will Lend In.
huence to Alexandra.

Washington Is out of the race to Sc
cure the government armor plant, ac-
cording to the board OF directors of
the Chamber of Commerce.
The board held its regular monthly
meeting yesterday afternoon. when the
special committee who have had in
charge the securing of the armor plant
for the District. reported that Wash
ington will, in all probability. be over
looked in the selection of a site for the
plant by the government. The COM
mittee strongly recommended that in
the event the District be unable to
secure the plant. Alexandria be sup
ported in its efforts. A resolution to
this effect will in all probability be
sent to the Secretary of the Navy.
The board authorized a committee
OF ten to work in connection with the
Bureau of immigration on an Ameri-
canization day mass meeting to be
held on the Monument Grounds on
July 4.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-08
HARVARD FRESHIES
DON'T Stand ERECT
Four-6fths Said to Have the College
Slump"
>reriaI TO The Washington Herald.


cambridge. Mass March 7.-Har-
wards freshman class numbers 746
members. OF these only one-fifth have
= perfect posture.
OF the four-fifths of the class who
have a faulty posture, three-fifths OF
them when asked to stand correctly
were unable to pass muster. Two in
every ten of these four-fifths have feet
that make them unfit for immediate
military duty.
Dr. Lloyd T. Brown. Of Boston. con-
men in connection with the physical
examination held yearly. In the Har-
Va:d Illustrated Magazine, in which
his findings are made public, he writes:
The object of these examinations
was to find out if the so-called college
mans slump or sIouch was a fact or q
fancy: to find out, if possible, If this
Slumped position carried with it a po-
t"ntiaI of sickness. and lastly, how
great a proportion of young, healthy,
edrcated men had good or bad feet,
from the point of view or use.-
DT. Brown, summarizing his findings
adds:
This means that out of 746 stu
a bad or very bad posture. or. in other
words. the so-caIled college slump is
unfortunately a glaring fact and is not
a fancy.
The bad and very bad postures. DR.
Brown finds. indicate a potential fol
sickness"
The Washington herald., 1917-03-08
|SNOW COSTS GOTHAM
100000 TO REMOVE
Freezing Conditions Made Truck Work
lmpossible-Stom Began Afresh.

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York, March 7.-Seven hundred
thousand dollars for one snow storm Is
some bill. but that is what New York
City will have to pay for the one old
Father Winter served up to the city.
not la carte. This particular snow
storm started last Thursday and, with
only few intermissions, kept up un-
til Tuesday.
In fact, statistics show that this
storm will do down as the most expen-
sive of the winter. and may take close
to $1,oO0.000 out of the citys pocket
book before the last vestige has been
removed.
The cost advanced rapidly yesterday
because of the aggrsvation OF condi-
tions caused by Monday nights freez-
ing temperature. That forced the
street cleaners to abandon the use OF
the 100 motor-driven ploughs. with
which swift progress had been made
on Monday, and to resort to the much
slower hand-and-pick method of re-
moval. But with the milder weather
which is promised for today the depart
ment expects to make short shrift of
the snow that remains.
Only part of the city had been clean
ed when the storm renewed itself with
redoubled fury and was follow ed by a
hard freeze.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-08
TELL MOVIE PRODUCERS
What Foreigners LIKE
American Consuls Describe Tastes of
Audiences in Other Lands.

The movie mania has spread to every
land-from China to South Africa-and
each land, aye. even each community, has
its own particular likes and dislikes re-
garding films, according to reports re-
eeived by the Department of Commerce.
The movie" houses Of Shanghai, China,
according to Consul General Thomas Sam
mons, cater to the better class of Chinese.
who prefer comic films, Wild west
shows, or something sensational and ex-
citing.
The type of picture most in favor with
the Chinese Of Canton, according to Vice
Consul p. r. Josselyn, is the detective
drama, although films of adventure are
also in large demand. American produc-
tions, depicting cowboy and other 1ea-
lures little understood by the Chinese are
not popular. says Mr.. Josselyn.
The pictures most appreciated by the
Inhabitants of British India, according 10
Consul Lucien Memminger. Is the ultra
sensational American. detective photo-
plays have proved very popular.
Five-act feature films usually are shown
In the theaters of Australia, according
to Consul Lucien N. Sullivan. Some OF
the theaters he says, have two star plays
for one show in addition to war pictures
and one or two comic acts. The dramatic
type Of picture Is most in favor.
The people Of South Africa, according
to Consul John P. Bray, are not unani-
nous in their preferences. Their interest
Is equally distributed among the tragic,
melodramatic, comic, or scenic subjects
Recently, however, there has been marked
interest in pictures dealing with Ameri-
can and English family and political life.
Love Is the most popular theme in the
Dutch West Indies. according to Consul
George s. Messersmith. Romantic hlms
are by far the most common. Few COM
mon pictures ever are exhibited, he says.
and these usually are very poor. The
Consul believes that American films OF
adventure and daring. as well as comic
subjects, would please the audiences
There is only one picture house on the
island Of Curacao. For a long time the
government forbade the showing of films
on the ground that the poor people paid
out for picture shows what they should
have spent for food.