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Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
Arctic Explorer
 Is Arrested On
 Technical Charge
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Captain Frank E. Kleinschmidt widely known as an arctic explorer was arrested here tonight by detectives attached to the Bomb squad on the technical charge of having violated the penal law by hay ing a revolver in his possession.
 The detectives seized trunk in which they said they found a revolver, a deck of cards and a quantity of pa- pers. In the trunk also was a scrap book containing newspaper clippings, one of which showed a picture of Cap tain Kleinschmidt with a group of Austrian officers about to make an as- cent in a dirigible balloon over the war front,
 Captain Eleinsch.nidt was arralgncd in night court and released on $500 bail for further examination.
 Captain Kleinschmidt returned to the United States in February. 1916, after having spent sixteen mon .hs as he declared at that time, with Austro- German forces on three war fronts. He gave many lectures on his experiences
 He aroused much criticism in June of this year by a lecture which he deliv- cred at the plant of Thomas A. Edison at West Orange, N. J., in which he praised Germany and attacked some of the allies of the United States, espec- ially the Russians whom he accused of vandalism.
 Captain Kleinschmidt, who is ar American, tonight vigorously denied thatffe is pro- German.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
Gotham Water Front
 Under Military Guard

into effect the alien enemy procla- nation. By the middle of next week the department of justice expects to promulgate rules under which u1- naturalized German male adults will be forced to register with the police and obtain special licenses for travel within the United States.
 The department of justice in its announcement, emphasizes that American citizens as we'll as Germans must observe the water front instruc- tons and not attempt to pass the guard lines without being adequately identified by the provost guards and given permission to by the soldier guard. The drastic rule was declared necessary to make sure that danger ous aliens are sifted from the thou sands of longshoremen, teamsters. clerks. stevedores, businessmen and others having legitimate business within the dock areas
 The department of justice advises that the barred zone be marked by some sort of a line and that signs notifying alien enemies not to pass be placed at frequent intervals. In cases of street cars or railroads pass ing through the barred districts. Ger mans will net be permitted to be aboard, even for continuous passage Any found within the zone for any reason whatever, will be arrested and probably interned for the period of the war Permits previously granted to Germans to enter water front zones are revoked. The re- striction. however, does not apply te public ferries. X
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
CAPTURED SUBMARINE |S
 SUNK BY GERMAN CREW

CTS, second having come up; that the submarine, apparently damaged, did not return the fire, and sank imme- diately after one destroyer had taken her in tow.
 It is now known that the submarine rose because hsr steering gear was put out of commission by the explosion of the depth bomb. As she appeared above the water to meet gun fire from the destroyers at close range, most of her crew clambored on deck and raised their hands. Boats put off from the de- stroyer to take the prisoners on board and while this was going on some mem- bers of the crew were busy opening the sea cocks below. When the prisoners were removed and tow line had been attached the captured craft, filling through the open cocks, went down.
 Navy officers assumed that the Ger man sailor who died was wounded by shell fire, though it is understood that Admiral Sinls report did not clear up that point.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Regula- tions under which the New York water front will go under military guard Sunday midnight to bar alien enemies, were announced tonight by the department of justice acting under President Wilson's recent alien enemy proclamation. Similar regu- lations will be applied to other coast and lake ports as soon as soldiers are available.
 The soldiers will have instructions to shoot all persons, aliens or citi- zens, entering the barred zone 100 yards from piers, docks and ware houses, unless identified by special private guards to be supplied by pier owners. Blue uniforms will he worn by the soldiers to distinguish them from other military forces and to lessen the danger of accidental shooting of persons claiming ignor- ance of the guards identity.
 Alien enemies under the presidents proclamation may not enter the pro- hibited zones under any circum- stances and must move out if they already have business or residence places within the 100 yard limit. By this strict system of patrol, the gov ernment hopes to eliminate the pos sibility of enemy plotters causing fires and explosions on piers anu in water front warehouses.
 The orders issued tonight are the first installment of regulations which the president authorized attorney 1 general Gregory to make in carrying
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
HARD FIGHTING
 |S GOING ON IN
 CAMBRIA BATTLE
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Hard fighting continued in the battle of Cambrai Saturday with the British pushing determinedly north ward on the Fontaine-Queant line west of Cambrai.
 Unofficial reports late in the day indicated the probability that Gen. eral Byngs troops had wrested pos- session of the hotly disputed Bourbon wood from the Germans and had recaptured the town of Moeuvres- The village of Fontaine, less thar three miles from Cambrai was re- ported in flames, suggesting the probability of an impending German retirement from that place.
 The Germans are resisting des- perately the British advance which is being pressed most energetically on this east-to-west front. General Byng's evident intention is to drive in behind the main Hindenburg line, preached in Tuesdays suprise attack and the Queant-Drocourt switch line, while still pushing this encircling movement of Cambrai to the north and east.
 Fridays British attacks were chiefly delivered on this same front. Gains were scored but Bourbon wood and Moeuvres still remained in Ger man hands. Byng's troops had even captured Bourbon village to the north of the wood, Berlin's official state ment indicates, but were driven back by a strong German counter thrust. The British have pushed consider ably to the northwest of Moeuvres however. and are hammering at Inchy which the Germans are battling de- termined to retain.
 The Italians have now completed successful two weeks defense of the Piave line and the northern front | protecting it's flank. Although they have had to yield ground during this | time on the front between the upper Piave and the Asiago plateau, thei1 | defensive line remains unbroken. The Italian fourth army under Genera Robilant, was on the aggressive be. tween Piave and the Brenta or Friday while the first army beat of heavy attacks between the Asia gC ] plateau and the Brenta and the thirC army foiled further efforts by tht Austro German forces to bridge thu | Piaye with pontoons.
 In Palestine, the British are clos ing in on Jerusalem, their officia statements claiming added interes because of their increasingly fire
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Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
Kansas City Is Dry
 When Soldiers Come

councillors office would regard the case as closed, as 1t would require weeks, possibly months before a deci- sion could be reached in the state su- preme court.
 Earlier in the day attorneys for the saloon keepers obtained a temporary restraining order preventing the proc lamation from being enforced and cit ing the mayor to appear and show why the presence of the troops constituted an emergency. The mayor contended that "the presence of so many soldiers freed from the restraint of their off cers" did constitute an emergency and that his proclamation was based upon his authority to close the saloons for forty eight hours at any time an emer- gency existed.
 The request that the saloons be closed was understood to have come from the authorities at Camp Funston
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
BAKHMETEFF SAYS
 |S MT FOR PEACE
 UNLESS ENTENTE IN
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WASHINGTON, Nov 24-Boris Bakhmeteff, Russian ambassador to the United States today formally re- pudiated the Bolshev.KI government in Pctrograd and announced that he would recognize no control that seeks to break from the entente and make peace with Germany.
 At the same time it was announced that three of the ambassadors chief aides had resigned to avoid having fur ther relations with the Bolsheviki, and that similar action would be taken by the leading naval and military mem bers of the Russian alIssion who came to this country with MT. Bakhmeteff and who since have been temporarily attached to the embassy.
 All of those leaving the embassy, with possibly one or TWO exceptions. 1t was announced, would seek service with the United States in the war against Germany. They included Lieu tenant General Vladimir H. Roop and Rear Admiral De Richter of the naval and military mission; John Sukine, first secretary and r. De Mohren- schildt, secretary, whose wife is a daughter of Secretary McAdoo.
 The two secretaries already have
 
 Roop and Admiral De Richter have taken the suject up with the state de- partment. Councillor O. Onou was the third member of the embassy staff who resigned but no announcement was made as to his future plans.
 Ambassador Bakhmeteffs repudia- ton of the BolsheVikI government made known in a formal communication to Secretary Lansing was regarded here as likely to force an early decision from the American government as to it's att titude towards the Bolsheyild if that element continues in power.
 It was generally agreed .'that the Bolshevih leaders could not allow today's incident to go unnoticed and it was regarded as certain that they would cable the ambassador his dis missal and name a successor. That would place squarely up to the govern ment the question of recognition but it was believed the United States would | take no formal action until it has l ascertained the views of all the govern ments at war against the Teutonic | powers.
 In his letter to Secretary Lansing l Ambassador Bakhmeteff declared the Bolsheviki leaders do not represent the spirit of Russia and reiterates a beliet repeatedly expressed at the embassy that the government they are attempt ing to set up will fan because of its inability to make good extravagant promises.
 The situation brings sharply to the fore again the question of further credits of Russia and that of con, tinued shipment of supplies. There i! a division of opinion among govern. ment officials it is said as to the bes policy to pursue.
 Supplies still are going forward, bu in limited amounts and precaution. have been taken to hoIG up the move ment if it appears maler:aIs are likel,
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
WILL CENTRAL|ZE
 OPERATION OF ALL
 EASTERN RAILWAYS
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-Operation of all railway lines east of Chicago as one centralized system was decided on today by the railroad war board to ob- tain a maximum of efficiency in traffic movement. Cars and trackage facili- ties will be pooled regardless of own ership or the railroads indiXidual in terest. Tifs almost revolutionary move was announced tonight after an all-day conference between members of the war board and government officials, at which many remedies were offered for the freight congestion that has para lyzed transportation in the east. It was adopted as the best and readiest means of meeting a situation that has threatened the production and dispatch abroad of war materials.
 The roads will be operated by con- mittee of vice presidents of the lines, under the general direction of the war board, itself comprising five of the country's railway heads. The commit tee of vice presidents will be given full authority to adopt any measure found necessary to accomplish a unified op- eration.
 The operating program calls for the following:
 Diversion of locomotives employers ana mdcnlne tOOlS rom western t0 eastern equipment.
 Pooling of all tracks and equipment in the east wherever practicable.
 Pro-rata distribution among eastern roads of open top cars on a basis o1 tonnage carrying capacity of the equipment in the pool.
 Diversion of congested lines of all freight that can be handled by any open route.
 To make more effective the pooling arrangement the war board reeom- mended that the government take tts following steps immediately:
 Survey the present contracts arc methods of purchase and shipment oi coal that cross hauls may be elimi. mated and that coal may move on tht shortest route from producer to con. sumer.
 Extend the pooling of coal produc. tiOn and shipment.
 Transfer as far as possible the move ment of foodstuffs and other expor | commodities to southern ports to re lieve congestion in north Atlantic ports Survey all government requirement. 1 involving the movement of raw mater | (COntinued on Pape TwON
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
Kelly Acquitted
 of Ar M urders
 On Second Tr1Gl
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RED OAK. Iowa, Nov. 24.-Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly, was acquitted of the charge of committing the Villisca ax murders of 1912 by the jury in Ifs second trial in district court here tonight on the first ballot, after four hours and twen- ty-fiVe minutes consideration.
 The preacher was charged with kill ing with an ak, Joe Moore and family and two Stillinger girls in Villisca on the night of June g, 1912. The jury in the first trial held in September, voted eleven to one for acquittaI
 Kelly will rest at Red Oak home for some time, then finish the book of his life on which he had been work ing while in jail. State officials would not say whether an attempt would be made to place the preacher in an in- sane asylum.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
TO SUCCEED CAPPS TReDIbltcan A D aaead NHgf..

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Rear Ad- miral Frederick R. Harris, chief of the navy's bureau of yards and docks. was named today to succeed Rear Admiral Capps as general manager of the shipping boards Emergency Fleet corporation. Admiral Capps asked to be relieved because of i'll health. Ad- miral Harris was assigned to the place by Secretary Daniels after the ship ping board had asked the navy depart ment to detail another naval officer for the work. He is a civil engineer
 and as chief of the bureau of yards and docks has introduced many mod ern business methods into the service
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
 IS AGAIN
 CHOSEN
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BUFFALO, N. ", Nov. 24.-Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor for 35 years, was reelected today virtually without op- position and with him the other of ficers except John B. Lennon, treas urer, who was defeated by Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Teamsters' and Chauffeurs' Union.
 An effort to read into the defeat of MT. Lennon a weakening of the position of President Gompers as leader and a part victor for the small group of pacifists which has opposed him was secuted by promi- nent federation men. It was declared that when it was decided by To- bins friends to run him for the of flee, Gompers announced an un- equivocal policy of hands off
 It was further stated that the unions which lined up against Gompers on the endorsement of his war policy early in the convention today divided, the majority of them voting for Lennon. The vote for treasurer stood: Tobin 13,476; Len non 9,102. Tobin drew his strength principally from the teamsters, ma chinists, miners, carpenters, bridge and structural iron workers and brewery workers.
 To make his position clear, Mir Tobin in accepting office declared there was no pacifisin and anti-isn in him.
 Since war was declared" he said. T have tried to carry out the wishes of President Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and of Af ! States. want no misunderstanding as to my position With thousands of men in our union there has not been one strike. We have not crip- pied industry during the war. We have been fighting an enemy from whom we expect no mercy if he is victorious. We are trade unionists. but we are Americans first and should be willing to make any sac rifice in this cause. I am human and have aspired to this office-in | doing so I have done no wrong"
 This statement was greeted with cheers and there was another dem- onstration when President Gompers pledged his undivided loyalty and effort to the cause of men who toll in the most crucial period of the history of labor and of the world No liberty loving man, he said would ask or seek peace now unt the purposes for which the United States entered the conflict had beer accomplished.
 We have declared ourselves in the fight for freedom and democracy there is no doubt where union labor
 stands" he said
 There were a few scattering vote.
 against MT. Gompers and one agains Frank Morrison for secretary.
 The convention tonight adopted unanimously resolution demandin, new trials for Warren K Billing, and Thomas J. Mooney, convicted c murder, resulting from the Sai
 Francisco labor unions. Its impolt ant change was the striking out o
 provision calling on all fedora and local unions to contribute to th defense of Billings and Mooney. The investigation committee D, !, labor conditions reported t3 the con vention that there is 70 labor short
 age in the country at this time. rl
 the contrary, the report declares. un , employment is widespread in severa ! trades.
 : The committee declared that hous 1 (Confinued on Page Twol
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--A German submarine captured recently by two American destroyers was sent to the bottom by members CT her crew open ing cocks below while their shipmates stood on deck with hands raised in sig nal of surrender All the crew were taken prisoners.
 One of the Germans was drowned while being transferred to destroyer and another died. The latter was buried with military honors.
 Secretary Daniels announced the capture and sinking of the submarine today in a formal statement which made no mention of prisoners nor Of the reason for the boat sinking. The details leaked out av jne department later, but the secretary would neither confirm nor deny them, saying he had issued the statement in agreement with the British admiralty and could not add to it.
 There was a report in naval circles that approximately forty men, includ- ing five officers, were taken off the submarine. If this were true, 1t Is pointed out, the vessel undoubtedly was one of the largest of the cruiser type known automatically to be operated by the Germans.
 The action occurred in the war zone several days ago and the submarine went down while one destroyer was at tempting to tow her to port. Although the British policy is to publish nothing in such cases, an agreement was re- ported between the navy department and the British admsralty to give our certain facts which Secretary Daniels announced today in a brief statement
 MT. Daniels statement said a de- stroyer on patrol duty, sighting a. peri scope at 400 yards headed for it and dropped a depth bomb that the sub marine came to the surface soon after wards was fired upon by. two destroy
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
FEDERAL TROOPS
 MOVE SOUTH ID
 ENvEL0P VILLA
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JUAREZ, Mex, Nov. 24-El Paso days before Diaz. was truly a pass of the north tonight as troop trains shut tied in and out of the railroad yards regiments of cavalry cantered along the river roads and bugles shrieked their calls to arms as the federal forces from the garrison and camps and race track course passed through the old town and took the field to participate in the enveloping movement 300 miles wide which General Eduardo Herman dez and General Jose Carlos Murguia have begun 10 trap Villa in the desert country to the south of Ojinaga, tenn porary "capitaP' of the Villa movement
 Juarez tonight had all the living color of a rail head in the center of a Mexican campaign High halted cavalry men, squat little infantrymen and dashing scouts of, the rurale fly ing squadrons passed through the streets to the throb of drums and the trill of falsetto trumpets. Reviews were held in all the barracks, prelim- iary to sending the troops south to the field base at Villa Ahumda, where they will detrain and go in pursuit of Villa forces.
 General Murguia, wearing a Mexican ''chano" riding suit of buckskin, high felt sombrero and silver spurs, re- viewed the troops on thoroughbred horse with silver mounted saddle and gave the officers their final instruc- tions before leaving for the Villa hunt. General Pedro Favela, commanding the vanguard of 1900 troops entrained his cavalry division soon after dark and was scheduled to leave before
 midnight. Other troops will follow him and form a junction with the cav airy column of General Hernandez in l the field southeast of Juarez. A bat i tie shortly was predicted by staff off r cers at the military headquarters to- night
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
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KANSAS CITY, Nov. 24.-After a hearing which lasted all day Circuit Judge Daniel E. Bird ruled that a proc lamation issued by Mayor George Ed wards, closing the saloons because sof the presence of several thousand sol- diers and sailors here today to attend the football game between teams from Camp Funston and the Great Lakes Naval station was in valid and granted a temporary injunc- tion preventing enforcement of the order The saloons remained opened all day pending the outcome of the hearing.
 Judge Birds ruling, which was verbal, stated that attorney for the de- fense might appeal the case. As the mayors proclamation only directed that the soloons be closed from a. m. until midnight it was said the city
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to fall into irresponsible hands. No further funds will be advanced, it is said until the situation clears and the American government can be assured of the establishment of a stable gov- ernment that it can recognize
 In connection with Ambassador Nakhmeteff's letter and the announce ment of the resignation of members of the force it was explained today that the Russian consular representatives in this country will continue to perform their consular duties, taking their irl- structions as heretorore from Ambas- sador Bakhmeteff. These duties re- late chiefly to commercial matters and the protection of Russian citizens.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
Ban On Garman Papers

FL PASO, Nov. 24.-Mexican off, cials here have urged the American postoffice department to ban all Ger man propaganda newspapers from Mexico which cross the border. A num- Der of these papers, known to have been subsidized by German agents have been sent here to cause dissen- tion among the Mexican people living on the American side of the line. Pro- German posters have also made their appearance n Juarez, one containing General Francisco Murguia's famous ! ct ri ct 1,autra litv statenent
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
May Not H1fict Death
 Penalty Or DeSerter

ably for military service there. He was. charged after his apprehension how ever, only with desertion and the Ques- tion of his intention to join the enemy forces was not developed at his trial
 It has not been the custom in any ar my, even in time of war to impose the death penalty for desertion unless the act was in the face of the enemy or unless there was evidence to show that the purpose of the offenders was more than merely to attempt to eVade mili- tary service,
Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-While the death penalty has been imposed on an enlisted man of the American army who is of German birth, on his convic- tion of assertion, it was indicated to- day at the war department that the findings of the court martial would be overruled and sentence commuted to long term of Imprisonment.
 The soldier was stationed at Panama and there appears to be little doubt that after his desertiIp he endeavered to, make his way to ermany presGm-
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