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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-19


amount will be called for in May;
The women's work amounts TO over.
fifty million dollars q year. The,
mem oership Is now over twentythree
million Our state has contributed
over $500, 100000 not counting the mag
niflcent work done by the women
BY order of the War department the.
Red Cross is the exclusive organic.
alton for administering war time re,
lief. ts
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-19

When Germany breaks you will feel
better If you have your income-tax re-
Ceipt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
British Official Is
Held for Espionage
Charles Alfred Vernon Ac-
cused of Conspiring With
Sir Joseph Jonas

LONDON, June 15.--charles Alfred
Vernon, who is said to have been en-
ployed in an important capacity in the
Ministry of Munitions, as charged n
Bow Street police court to day with
conspiring with Sir JOS nh iona for
mer Lord NJ y,r of Sh field, VIII was
recently arrested on the charge of
having communicated Information use
full to the enemy
The case was adjourned until
Wednesday next v hon the two prison
ers will be arraigned toy tn r.
Sir Joseph iona, prominent steel
manufacturer, WIS born and du
in Germany and came a B itish sub
ject by natura'iz ton in 1876. 1t was
indicated at the time of h S arrest that
a War Office official might figure in the
case, and yesterday the ar est of "a
prominent offci Of he go eminent
Offices" in this con ection was reported
from London. 1t has beeN asserted IN
London reports of the case that the
legged offence was committed before the
war began.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
533 Nurses Answer
Call of the Red Cross
Public Not to Suffer by With
drawal of $4,000 for
Military Service

Five hundred and thirty-three nurses
have enrolled thus far during the Red
Cross drive, it was announced yester-
day. Two thousand have asked for ap-
plication blanks, which they have not
had time to fill out, sign and return;
while thousands of others have taken
preliminary steps toward enlistment or
training.
The Red Cross is holding itself re-
sponsible for the care Of civilian pop
uistion and will use every means to
hll up ths ranks depleted by the trans
Ter of $4,000 nurses for military
service A meeting to consider the
problem was held yesterday at Atlantic
Division Headquarters, A East
Twenty third Street.
Miss Jane A. Delano, director Of the
Department of Nursing of the Amer
lean Red Cross, said:
"The Red Cross wishes definitely to
assume responsibility for the care of
the civilian population. 1t will see to
1t that nurses are provided and that
no community suffers for lack of atten-
ton as result of the withdrawal of
10000 nurses to meet army and navy
needs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
speaking Of German Prohibited"
Read Signs in Fifth Avenue Shops
broker Distributes 5000 With Request That Store Owners
Post Them in Effort to Check sedtous
Propaganda at the Outset

Several Fifth Avenue shops yester-
day sanctioned move to suppress the
speaking OF the German language in
public by posting in their stores and
display windows placards reading:
SPEAKING GERMAN PROHIBITED
ON THESE PREMISES
The plan, promulgated a day or two
ago by Fifth Avenue broker. had
gained great Roadway yesterday
After he had 5000 of these posters
printed he personally left them in
shops on Friday.
Yesterday he started out with more
than 5000 of them under his arm, in
tending to leave them in other places
of business. BY the time he had
walked from Forty,ffth Street tc
Forty-eighth Street in Fifth Avenue
his supply had been exhausted by Pc
destrians, who asked to be allowed tc
aid him in distributing them.
To Check Sedition
The aim of these signs, it was ex.
planned, is to put down any elemen,
of sedition before it has a chance to
propagate. The result will tend to
Amerlcanize persons now speaking
German by compelling them to study
and speak the English language, it wa
pointed out by merchants exhibiting
the posters. The placards also are be-
ing posted in elevators, building en-
frances and Railways.
ut is a splendid idea," said William
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Labor Conference
Told of Failure" of
Selective Service
Misplaced Zeal" and Ger
rors in Patriotism" Send
Skilled Men to Front

WASHINGTON, June 15.-ScIcctive
service has failed to fulfil its original
purpose of keeping at their work
skilled men engaged on government
contracts. Darragh Delaney, of the
War Department, to-day told the Ma
tionaI War Labor Conference.
patriotic but misplaced zeal" has
led many essential men to volunteer
for army service, he said, and errors
in patriotism" have been committed by
many draft boards, which should grant
deferred classification to all skilled
workmen necessary to the production
of war materials.
Indefinite furloughs have been given
several hundred trained men in the
army in the last month, according to
Mr.. Delaney, and several thousand
others will be sent home within the
next few weeks to prevent delay to
war contractssheld up by lack of skilled
labor.
Delegates to the conference were re-
ceived late to-day by President Wilson,
who, in brief speech. told them that
raising an armed force is easy, but
that the mobilization of an industrial
army is infinitely difficult. The Prcsi-
dent complimented directors of the
labor employment service for their
work in getting together some 100000
workers for war industries
Problems of obtaining skilled labor
are but little less serious than those
attending the shortage of common la
Dor, I. W. Litchfeld. of Boston, head
of the clearance and skilled labor sec
ton of the Federal Employment Ser
vice of the Department of Labor, tald
the conference at the closing session.
In an attempt to solve the problem the
Employment Service, as soon as posi-
BILE, will handle skilled labor recruiting
exclusively, he said.
Farmers soon will have to rely large
ly upon emergency boy labor as most
! of the former supply of skilled farm
workers has been drawn into industry,
! said M. A. Coykendall. Chief of the
Farm Service Division of the Employ
/ ment Service.
, 81 don't believesthat we have arrived
at the time for calling women to en-
gage in heavy farm work." Mr.. Coyken-
dali said.
William E. Hall, National Director
Of the Boys Working Reserve. said his
organization will have placed between
100000 and 100000 boys of between
sixteen and twenty-one on farms by
the end Of this season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Bright Lights
Again Appear at
Seaside Resorts
Two Illuminated Evenings
Permitted by Unsigned
Police Order

Coney Island, Rockaway and all the
other seaside resorts recently darkened
through fear Of air raids shone forth
in their pristine splcndor last night.
The lights were turned on by special
order of the Police Department, with
the additional permission to continue
the illumination tonight.
The order granting these places the
right to brighten up again for but two
nights is declared to be one of the
most unusual coming out of Police
Headquarters. The mandate simply
reads:
1.-THE normal lighting may be re-
sumed at the seashore for Saturday
and Sunday, June 18th and 10th, only.
Please notify all concerned.
"BY AUTHORITY"
The notification, it was learned,
emanated, from the Bureau of National
Defence, Police Headquarters of which
Allan A. Ryan is special Deputy Com
missioner, and was distributed under
the direction Of Inspector Underhill, of
the Telegraph Bureau. 1t was noted
that there was no authoritative sig
nature on the order, though official
papers Of this nature invariably bear
the Police Commissioners or Deputy
Commissioners name. No explanation
of the innovation was vouchsafed at
Headquarters, nor could anything be
learned concerning the two-day limit
to the reillumination. In many circles
however, the mandate is regarded as
an experiment, with the possibility
that the resumption might be made
permanent.
made in the order it is presumed that
that section of the city will continue
! darkened for the present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Registration of
German Women to
Begin Tomorrow
Enemy Aliens Must Report
to Police and Pledge to
Obey u. S. Laws

The registration of German female
aliens in the United States starts on
Monday. Every German woman,
whether a German by birth or mar
riage, will be required to visit police
officials and file afidavits giving proof
of her intention to obey the laws of
the United States.
Registration in the New York dis
trict will be under the general super
vision of United States Marshals Nc
Cartay and Power. Every woman
more than fourteen years old who is
subject to the order must present her
self at the station house nearest her
home with FIVE unmounted photographs
of herself on light background.
Must Pledge Loyalty
The pictures must be taken with the
hair brushed back from the face and
are to be signed by the registrant on
the back German women who have
taken out their first papers are moi
exempt from the registration.
Female aliens are urged by Marsha
ton blanks on Monday. Finger prints
of the women will be taken at the sta
ton houses The afidavits must be
sworn to before a police official.
The registration will continue unit
June 26. The hours are a. m. to Il
p. m. After the last day a date will
be set when all registrants shall cal
at the station houses for their regis
tration cards.
About 10000 Here
In the rural districts and in cities
and towns of less than 5000 population
female aliens will report to the neares
postmaster Representatives Of vari
Gus patriotic women's organization
have volunteered to assist the police
and postmasters.
Women subject to the order who fai
to register will be arrested for viola
ton of the espionage act and will b.
severely punished. 1t is estimated
that 100000 will be registered in tn
greater city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
British in u. S. to
Become Liable to
Draft This Week
Ratification of Treaty Elk
pected by Senate To-mor-
row or Tuesday
Especial Dispatch to The rribu,.e)


WASHINGTON, June 15.-Ratifica-
ton Of the treaty with Great Britain
by which Americans between the ages
of twenty-one and thirty-one living in
Great Britain or Canada may be
drafted into the British army, and Brit
ish subjects living in the United States
between the ages Of twenty and forty
four may be drafted into the American
army. is expected by the Senate on
Monday or Tuesday.
Irishmen living in the United States
are not affected by the treaty, since
there is no Consumption to date in Ire
land. and Australians are also unaf-
fected, Australia having voted down the
draft.
Although the treaty would permit the
drafting of Englishmen between twenty
and forty-four, it is not thought likely
this country will force an Englishmar
ever thirty-one into the American
army. The treaty merely gives this
country the right to do so. The Eng
lishmen are already, under the law
registered If they are between the ages
Of twenty-one and thirty-one.
Members of the Foreign Relation.
Committee expect treaty to be con
summsted shortly with Italy, providing
for the drafting Of Italians in thi
counry.
"This treaty with Great Britain will
be the model" said a member of tn
committee to-day. "As soon as it il
ratified we will conclude treaties will
our other allies"
At the Provost Marshal General!
office it was said there are about 1900,
900 men Of draft age in America wht
are nationals of other countries. L
was estimated that $4,000 Of these were
French, British and Canadians--th,
number of French being inconsequen
tial. There are also about $4,000 Ital
ians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

meyer, prop-ietoy of linen shop at
20 West Fortysixth Street. II nut
up the cards as soon as thew were
given to me and I shall enforce The
command. l want no German language
spoken in my shop"
Mr.. Joire, proprietor of lie Br,,n. AZ
west Fortysixth Street. Frenchman
who returned to New York CITY a few
months ago after being gassed twice in
the Battle of the Aisne, pointed proud
~ to three of the placards in his store
while he leaned on his crutches.
Urges All Post Them
If persons here could just realize
conditions over there they would see
more clearly the necessity of DOING
everything possible to fight sedition. .
he said. at is safe to say there are
no English Language newspapers pub
lished in Berlin to-day and that
speaking the English language is not
permitted there in public.
Every store In the city should post
these signs"
Among the Fifth Avenue shops
where placards are in evidence are }:
E. II. Glass. East Forty sixth Street;
Feinburg Fur Company, 10 West Forty.
sixth Street; Pastorfeld Restaurant
is West Forty-sixth Street, where a
placa-d is fastened to flag draped
over the entrance; Lady Teazle Shop
IS West Forty-sixth Street; Rocham-
beau, 33 West Forty-sixth Street, and
Jewel, SIS West Forty-sixth Street.
Managers of several concerns said
they expect to make sacrifices by los.
ing some of their German customers
but added that. despite losses. they are
glad to assist the cause.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Japanese to Study
American Red Cross

Representatives of the Japanese Red
Cross are expected soon to visit the
United States to study the methods of
tne American Red Cross. Through the
EFFORTS of F. N. Doubleday, of New
York. and Julian Arnold, field repre-
sentative of the American Organization
in China, the American Red Cross re-
Gently put through a most successful
drive" in that country.
Baron Ishiguro. president of the
Japanese Red Cross, who heads the
mission, and his compatriots were in
yited to come to this country by H. P.
Dawson, chairman of the American
Red Cross Council, with the view of
further cementing the friendship and
increasing the usefulness of the two
organizations.
Mr.. Doubleday said that $4,000 Chi
American Red Gross in the week s of the the
second "drive."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

were not accredited members of their
organization, the International Bible
Students Association.
Ire evidence sounds bad when it is
read IN court. Actual deeds were COM
mlttcd which were aimed directly at
the draft, whether consciously or not.
PATRIOTISM described as murder, the
spirit Of the very devil" does not fall
tleasantly on ears that are straining
Tor the latest extra in the street, Civ
ing the news of American soldiers and
sailors. whose patriotism is not to be
oellttied tor one moment in the hear
ing OF us grateful ones here at home.
Seems Gross Negligence
The ,carelessness of advising any
man, whether he was really conscien-
tious objector or merely coward. to
decline the call that to most Americans
IS the most insistent summons that
ever was sounded-this seems gross
and wilful negligence of duty as one
SITS under the flag in the courtroom.
But again arises the question that
has come to every disinterested OBJ
server of the trial. Are these relig-
ionlsts to be treated like pro-Germans
or obstructlonists, when though thew
believe In the war-as they testify
they have acted on the theory that the
conSecrated should not participate in
it? Is that white haired, lean faced
old man, William E. Van Amburgh.
with his ready courtesy, to be put be-
hind bars as menace to his country ?
Will the fact of his connection with the
organization convict A. H. McMillin,
the Scotch father who has already told
his little boy that he may go to prison
and whose favorite story is the advice
to that small lad. who urged him ia
run away quick before they got him.!
Weight on Both Sides
Will the years of devotion and SER
vice to study and religious work lead
Fred II. Robson to prison, because OF
I his advice to those whom he consid.
cred "consecrated brothers,? Nobody
knows
The question Of extremely religious
people always has been difficult in 8
world where they are so rare that no
! body understands them. On one side
we hear talk about fanaticism: on tn,
other, religious persecution. The scale
! is in the balance. There's weight or
both sides. It's the jury's job, and no
an enviable one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Workers March
Under u. S. Flag
To Prove Loyalty
Men of Kayser Plant Pub
licly Proclaim Allegiance
and Strike Is Averted

Residents in the neighborhood of the
Kayser knitting plant, which covers
almost square block at DeKalb, Will
lcughby and Kent avenues and Taaffe
Place, Brooklyn, were attracted yes
terday by procession of 100 men who
marched stolidly around the block,
with no music but that of the breeze
shaking out the folds of large Amer
lean flag.
From the windows of the plant,
which employs 1000 persons. were seen
hundreds of girls and men staring
eagerly out, many Of them running
through the building to see the parade
as 1T turned into another street. AS
the marchers, saluting by barring their
heads, passed under an immense flag
suspended over Taaffe Place. between
the factory and large annex, a great
shout went up, minging with the shrill
piping of the quitting whistle. The
demonstration meant that the Kayser
workers would not go out on the strike
which had been contemplated as a pro-
test against the alleged disloyalty of
certain of their fellow workers who
were interspersed with the paraders.
Last Friday petition, signed by al
.HOoC 9'VoO "OI hcIS, udU UecH SuUIHlt-
ted to Superintendent Meyer. 1t de-
clared that twenty of the operators in
the hosiery department had refused to
salute the flag which hung across
Taaffee Place; that they had not even
attended the unfurling exercises on
Friday noon. Unless these men mani
tested publicly their allegiance or were
discharged, the protestants announced
that they would quit work
1t was later decided that the entire
hosiery department should march
around the block to show their loyalty.
The men who we're said to have refused
to salute the flag were among the first
at the selected point of the parade
formation, at Kent and DeKalb ave-
nues. The flag the paradcrs carried
was borrowed from The Cafferty AS
sembly rooms, where the men met fo1
a few moments, while Superintendent
Meyer addressed them on loyalty.
Some of the employees who were
through earlier than the others crowd
ed interestedly about the starting
place. But nothing unusual occurred
The supposed disloyalists were greeted
with note of applause.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
O'Connell-Lindenann

The wedding of Miss Ethel Adele
Lindemann. daughter of Mrs. Hugo
Lindemann, to Ensign Harold ]. O'Con-
nell, U. S. N. R., in command of the
U-boat chasers now in active service,
was celebrated yesterday on Staten
Island.
The bridegroom, who is the son of
the late DR.. Joseph j. O'Connell, one
time Health Officer of the Port Of New
York, met his bride during his fathers
administration at the Quarantine de-
partment. The ceremony took place
in the Augustinian Chapel on Grymes
Hill. Richmond. and was performed by
the Rev. Father Daily.
The BRIDE was attended by Miss Me-
dora Grymes. Edward Tilyou. Of
Brooklyn, was the best man. After
ward there was reception at the
home of the brides uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Ludlum, 81
Occident Avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Germany Hears u. S.
Makes Captives Work

AMSTERDAM, June 15.-The Swiss
Legation at Washington has been asked
to look into the matter Of the compuls
sorry work of German officers informed
in the United States, according to an
announcement made in the Reichstag,
says an official Wolff Bureau dispatch.
Deputy Stresemann questioned the gov
eminent, and quoted London news
papers with reference to q photograph
in which Captain Koenig was alleged
to be shown breaking stones. Colonel
Fransecky replied to the Deputy as fol-
lows:
at is not clear whether officers are
compelled to do such work. The Swiss
Legation at Washington has been re-
Guested to investigate and inform the
United States government that if
within a reasonable time no salts
factory answer is forthcoming regard
ing the imposition of compulsory labor
on German officers, American officers
will be subjected to the same treat
ment."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Colorless Russelites a Contrast
To Red-Blooded, Patriotic Jury
Conscientious Directors Draft Pathetic Picture of
Resignation to Fate in Frame of Flags and
Liberty Loan Emblems

On one side of Federal court room
IN Brooklyn sits group of eight men,
lay figures all cast in about the same
mould-pale, dignifed and studious.
On the other side of the room facing
them is another group, plain men,
strong featured, with Red Cross but
tons, American flag pins and Liberty
pond emblems on nearly every coat
lapel. The first are followers of the
religious leader, the late Pastor Rus
sell, indicted for alleged conspiracy
against the government of the United
States and attempting to obstruct the
selective army draft. The second
group is their jury.
AS study in contrasts the scene is
perfect. The colorless, gentleman
nered men on trial are set in sharp
Juxtapositlon against their hardy, solid
jury as black is set against white
Their serenity rides peacefully over
and seems not to notice the frequent
court room controversies that arise
every day. Their voices stay at the
same quiet pitch, no matter what i'm
patience, what excitement is evidenced
in the voices of their qucstioners. On
every point they are the foils of every
one else in the room.
mot of the World"
They have said over and over again
that they are not of the world" and
to those who have seen them day after
day during their trial their own de-
scription seems to fit better than any
If
fear or of trembling about these men
Nothing of braggadocio or cocksure-
ness. A dignified, courteous company
religious convictions" And if they
are sent to prison they will go will
ingly, they say, for they Lad no other
course but to follow the will of the
Lord"
The grand jury indicted the Rus
sellites on four counts. The defend
ants, it is alleged, published the sew
enth volume of their series for Bible
students, book called "The Finished
Mystery" which contains severa
passages which the government
an excerpt from the we'll known ser
mon of the Rev. John Haynes Holmes
called "A Message to My People or
the Eve of War;" delivered ON April
5. 1917. Another is quotation from
speech of C.. E. Jefferson, delivered
before peace conference in 1903
Another is a paragraph known a:
"Come Out of the Mouth of tn
Dragon" in which patriotism is de
scribed as marrow minded hatred
, of other peoples" and murder"
! Advised to Ignore Draft.
| The Russellites also wrote letter
i to men of draft age advising them, i
their conscience could not permit, t.
decline military service or even non
military service if under military dis
cipline. Eighteen hundred affidavit
were prepared for those who sough
their advice and sent to them. The
testify they thought and still thin
they had the right to advise men thu
in accordance with the selective ser
vice act. which exempts men Of ce1
tain. religious sects who object TO mill
tary service.
The government charges, however
and some Of the defendants admit
that all the men who wrote to then
tor advice and whom they replied t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Men of 80, SO and 81
Called Up in Britain

LONDON, June f5.--Men of forty,
nine, fifty and Gfty-one have been
called up for medical examination for
the army
In this connection Sir Auckland
Geddes, the man power controller, 10
quoted by the chairman Of the Bristol
CONSUMPTION tribunal! as saying he was
trying to meet the urgent need for men
for year or two longer and expected
that the tribunals would do the same.
He was aware of the public feeling
younger ones remained; but some of
the younger men were essential TO the
munitions supply and could not be re-
moved to the fighting forces until the
older men were able to do their work.
Sir Auckland added that there wore
$4,000 fewer men in the government
departments now than three years ago