The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-06-07
.PLOTTEnS HELD
N HIGH BAIL
Four Men and Woman Under
Heavy Guard al. New York.
MEXICAN BORDER is SHUT
U. S. Agents Arrest Men Who Attempt
to Leave Country Before
Draft Registration
Others Held.

New York, June Under guard OF
squad of soldiers, four men and
one woman, arrested by the police at
Madison Square garden charged with
attempting to obAruct CONSUMPTION,
were taken before n United States
commissioner here and held in high
bail for examination.
Arraigned on a federal complaint
charging them with being concerned
in a conspiracy to circulate pamphlets
advising people not to register, all
pleaded not guilty. The bail of. the
men was increased to $1,000 and of
the woman to $500. The prisoners
are Mrs. Jennie Diemer, Louis kra-
mer, Louis Sternberg, Joseph Walker
and Norris Becker. 49,.
\ Arrest Three in Kansas City.
|, Kansas City, Mo-, June 2.-Three
more arrests were made in the govern
ment's investigation throughout west
ern Missouri and Kansas of alleged
anticOnscription plots, bringing the TO-
tai to Is.
/ w. +. BrOwder brother of two men
.on whom warrants were served here
axld at Olathe, Kan, was taken into
custody and held in default of bond of
$4,000.
/ Henry !. Doilie was arrested here
in the printshop In which 1t is charged
he printed the circulars and folders
used by the organization known rs the
Federation for Democratic Control, the
status of which is being inquired into
by federal officers. ...
I p. J. Mccain, alleged member of
the organization, walked into the fed
eral building and surrendered.
! Federal officials said the investiga-
ton was continuing.
Close Mexican Border.
/ San Antonio, Tex, June 2.--Federal
agents arrested more than a dozen
young men who were seeking to cross
into Mexico.
! The specific charge, according to
Robert Barnes, chief of the bureau
of investigation, who ordered the pr
rests, Is seeking to evade military
registration" He said u rigid sur
VIGILANCE was being kept over those
seeking to cross into Mexico, and
that no young men of registration
age were permitted to leave the cOun-
try.
Those under arrest, Mr.. Barnes said,
give their residences as Boston, New
York, Detroit and other points in the
North.
IA Held in Detroit.
{ Detroit, Mich, June 1.-Two moro
arrests were made here by federal Off
GERS working on an alleged conspiracy
to interfere with the draft rcgiStra
ton. Those arrested are Morris Su-
gar, prominent in local Socialist cir
cles, and Samuel Diamond, a factory
worker. Federal authorities now have
il men under arrest in connection with
the alleged plot.
rs Names on Petition.
La Crosse, Wis, June 2.-PrOably
the first direct evidence that anti-con-
scription petitions are in circulation
was uncovered here In the arrest of
Gus Felzer of Elroy.
Felzer was ordered arrested by Dis
trict Attorney A. c. Wolfe, charged
with circulating a petition demanding
that the CONSUMPTION law be submitted
to popular vote. The petitions in his
possession had % signers, it is stated.
! The petition, according to Wolfe, is
one of a number printed in Chicago
and circulated throughout the middle
West,
/. ~. ID. Guard for Los Angeles. .
r Los Angeles. Cal, June Six hun
bred coast artillerymen will be brought
to Los Angeles to guard the city June
& ) against possible draft registration ri
lotiAg, it was learned from United
States Marshal G. It. Walton. Walton
says he has learned that agitatOrs are
endeavOring to stir UP Mexicans here
to resist registration. .... f...
Two Farmers Arrested. ,..-.
Charleston, w. Va. June 2.-Isom
,Elkins and Babe" Means, young farm
ers, were arrested by Deputy United
States marshals at Davis Creek, w.
Va, and brought here, charged with
distributing seditious literature tend
ing to discourage military registration.
They were held for hearing before
the federal commissioner,
Antidraft Raid In Michigan.
Grand Rapids, Mich, June Fed.
eral agents raided the headquarters OF
the Socialist local here and seized anti.
draft literature. AT Manistee, Mich,
Rev. Charles Mossner,gan evangelist
was arrested for urging young men to
refuse to register.
STRIKES IN 100 RUSS PLANTS
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