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New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Sabotage Is Dropped by
l.W. W., butin Word Only
1t May Rise Again in Its True Value, Says Official
Organ of Western Macontents-Chicago Trial
Jury Still Incomplete

ranks of the disloyal," replied Beau
dette.
Attorney Vanderveer sought to have
the man excluded for cause, but Judge
Lands overruled him. Frank Nebeker,
in charge of the prosecution, said:
To exclude this man because he is
prejudiced in this way would be to
hold that every man prejudiced against
disloyal people was not qualified to
serve on this jury. 1t is unthinkable"
Judge Lands declined to exclude
Beaudstte and Attorney Vanderveer
used his ninth peremptory challenge.
The defence had ten. The eighth was
used during the morning on a farmer,
Frank Buell., who said his ancestors
had lived in America for 200 years. lie
denied having any prejudice against
the defendants, but said he was in
hearty accord with the American social
system.
Some of the veniremen show a sad
lack of knowledge of subjects which
are supposed to be familiar to school
boys. One juror wore a blank express
sion when he was asked if he knew who
made the laws of the United States.
He finally shook his head negatively
Big Bill Haywood assumed a pious
expression and said: ooh, Lord, we are
entitled to trial by jury of our peers"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Social and Economic Re.
construction After War
To Be Considered
No Discussion of Peace
Socialists Invited to Three
Days Sessions, Opening
Friday

Socialists and Radicals have been
invited to a national conference, which
VIII open Friday, for three days ses-
sion at the Peoples House, 7 East
Fifteenth Street, to discuss Social and
economic reconstruction after the war"
William E. Mason, representative at
large from Illinois; Orville S. Ander-
son, Socialist nominee for Governor Of
South Dakota; Algernon Lee, the Rev.
Norman Thomas and DR.. Judah L..
Magnes will speak.
All the leaders formerly identified
with the New York pacifist organiza-
tions are to take part. No mention OF
peace" is made in the propaganda sent
out to promote the conference by the
Peoples Council, 1873 West Thirteenth
Street.
The conference call says:
"The world is being remade. Whether
we like it or not, every human insti-
tuition is undergoing a process of re-
construction that has already produced
changes of revolutionary character in
economic, social and political life. 1t
is no longer a question whether we
shall or shall not change. The real
issue now is. What changes shall take
place and who shall direct them?'
"The British labor movement is
making a statesmanlike effort to have
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
DR.. c. M. de Pena Dies
In Capital Hospital

WASHINGTON, April 3O.-Dr. Car
los Maria de Pena, minister from Uru-
quay, died in hospital hero to-day.
DR.. de Pena was taken i'll the day
before the funeral of the Chilean Am
bassador, Don Santiago Aldunate, April
%, and his condition since then had
been considered hopeless. He had
peen IN this country as minister since
May 81, 1911, He was a member of
one of the most distinguished families
in Peru.
DR.. de Pena was born in 1852 and
had held several Cabinet positions in
his native country. He was one of the
most. noted lawyers of his country,
practising in Montevdeo after his
graduation from the University Of
Montevideo. Later he became profess
sor of political economy and admins
trativc law at the Montevideo Uni
versity, and since that time had been
honorary professor of the School Of
Law and Sciences of the university.
In 1889 and 1890 he was Mayor of
Montevideo and later was Secretary Of
the Treasury of Uruguay and Minister
Of Public Works, Industry and Instruc-
ton. In 1902 he was sent on con-
tldential mission by his government to
Brazil and N 1911 he was vice-presi-
dent Of the Uruguayan delegation to
tho Pan-American conference at Buenos
Ayres. He leaves wife, four daugh-
ters and two sons
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
American Deserter
Confesses He Is Spy

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 30.-Fred
Robertson, Federal District Attorney
for Kansas, announced tonight that
Wilhelm Won Linder, held in the mill
tary prison at Fort Leavenworth as a
deserter from the American army. had
confessed that while working as Ger
man spy prior to Americas entrance
into the war he obtained valuable mill
tary secrets in the vicinity Of Norfolk,
Va, where he photographed the naval
works.
The confession, Mr.. Robertson an
nounced, stated that Won Linder served
in the German army before coming to
the United States, where he met Cap
tain Won Ehlsruhue, naval attache Of
the German Embassy at Washington,
in Philadelphia in 1914.
From then until shortly before his
arrest as deserter at Laredo, Tex,
March 20, 1917, Won Linder worked un-
der Won Ehlsruhue, spreading propa-
ganda in German communities. His
activities were reported to the German
Government through Captain Boy-Ed.
according to the alleged confession.
In 1918 he was arrested in Norfolk,
but was released in three months on
his promise TO become an American cit
izen, and, according to his alleged
statement, then was ordered to Au~
gusta, Ca, to enlist in the American
army. As member of Company B.,
LIST Georgia Infantry. Won Linder OBJ
tanned Information Tor the German
Embassy at Washington, Mr.. Robertson
said.
After five months he was ordered to
desert and report for duty at Juarcz,
Mex. whore he was TO gather military
information, the confession stated.
Hc has been ordered intexned at Fort
Douglas. Utah. for tbs period Of tho
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Mayor Silent on
Plan to Bar "Ads"
In German Papers

Although Mrs. Oliver Cromwell Field,
head of the American Defence Societys
committee for the suppression of Ger
an-language newspapers, has not yet
received reply frorl Mayor Hylan to
her letter asking his cooperation in
dealing with the German press, she
penned another note to him yesterday,
asking whether the city was still allot-
ting public advertisements to the Ger
man daily press.
nicipal advertisements in the German
papers were always bestowed as polt-
cal compliments.
Mrs. Field received a note from one
of Mayor Hylan's secretaries stating
that her letter had been received and
that it would be brought to the atten-
tion Of the Mayor.
Andrew Stanton, president of the
Newsboys' Union, which pledged itself
not to sell or deliver German papers,
and Joseph Bochino, business agent of
the union, yesterday sent out members
OF their organization to prevail upon
non-union dealers to boycott the en-
emy-language press They said that
J. b. Marcus, president of the New
York Newsdealers and Stationers' As
sociation, who had appealed to all the
newsdealers of greater New York not
to bar the German papers, is not speak
ing for his whole organization.
The Harlem branch, the most i'm
portant unit of the association, they
said, had already taken action to sup
press German papers. Marcuss appeal
was published in all the German dailies
yesterday; likewise letters from Ferdi-
nand Rice. president of the Bronx
Newsdealers and Stationers' Associa-
ton, and d. Barlsh, president of the
Yorkv:lle Newsdealers' Association,
urging news vcnders to stick by the
German publishers, no matter what the
public said against such traffic
The Board of Commissioners of
Montclair, N. j., at it's next r4eeting,
it is stated, will pass an ordinance pro-
hibiting the sale and distribution of
German newspapers and periodicals,
This morning all German papers and
periodicals will be barred from the
newsstands in West Hudson, compris-
ing Arlington, Kearny, East Newark
and Harrison. Eight newsdealers in
the Oranges have notified their patrons
that they will sell no Teutonic papers
after May /.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
.ravlag Refuses to
Stop German Press

ELIZABETH, N. j., April 3O.-Mayor
Victor Mravlag clashed again with the
patriotic American element in Eliza
beth to-day when he fatty refused to
cooperate with committee of women
headed by Mrs. G. Bertram Woodruff
in suppressing German language papers
here. Mrs. Woodruff is chairman of the
civic department of the Wtmen's Club
and representative of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Mayor Mravlag lectured Mrs. Wood
ruff and her companions, read them a
letter 6om Attorney General Gregory's
office Stating that the German papers
had full right to circulation, and
said that attempting to suppress them
only wrought hardship on persons who
could not read English.
The last time Mayor Mravlag, who
is Austrian by birth, aroused the patri-
otic citizens of Elizabeth was shortly
before the declaration of war, when
he refused to accept an American flag
at public celebration from Mr.. Wood
ruff, husband of the woman who called
on him for aid, in stamping out the
German press. The Mayor gave as his
reason that Mr.. Woodruff had SANDER
ed the German race in a speech he made.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
IStaf Correspondence

CHICAGO, April 3o.-The word
Sabotage" has been stricken from the
vocabulary of the l. w. w. on the
theory that rose bv any other name
would smell as sweet. The "wabblies"
insist the practice will not die though
the word expire
Congress having fixed thirty years
as the maximum penalty for any one
found guilty of practising sabotage, the
general executive board of the l. w w.
held meeting yesterday, and adopted
resolution in which they set forth
that the organization does not now and
never has believed in either destruc-
tIon or violence as means of accom-
plishing social reform. 1t was also
stated in the resolution that the in
dustrial interests of the country are at
tempting to make it appear that sabot-
age means the destruction of property
and the commission of violence.
To-day's issue of "The Defence News
Bulletin" contained a copy of the reso-
luton, and also carried an editorial,
which has this to say about the word
"sabotage":
"The membership will find it to thcr
advantage to forget and drop the word.
The word itself is not worth it. 1t may
rise again in the future in its true
light and in its true meaning. If so,
the future will take care of ITSELF"
Executive Board or Trial
The members of the general execu-
tive board are among the 113 members
Of the organization who are on trial
tion of the war. They are William D.
Haywood. Francis Miller, Richard
Brazier and G. L. Lambert.
"The Defence News Bulletin" is pub
lished at 1901 West Madison Street,
Chicago, every day. 1t has taken the
place Of "Solidarity," suppressed some
months ago for alleged seditious utter
ances.
Judge Lands announced this NOM
ing that he would hold night sessions
in his court until the jury was COM
pleted. Venireman after venireman was
excused for cause during the day, and
in addition the defence used two of its
peremptory challenges. One of these
was used on Arthur S. Beaudette, a
salesman and a man of pronounced
ideas. Beaudette said he had a preju-
dice against men who advocated big
social changes at this time. He said ne
was not in sympathy with people who
do not believe in the investiture of
property rights in the individual At
torney Vanderveer, for the defence,
asked:
"Do you think persons holding such
ideas and seeking to put them to the
test are disloyal? ?"
II think they are following in the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01

the forces Of labor dominate the re-
construction. Can they do it? Will
they do it? The answer rests with the
labor movement of the world
Subjects bristling with radicalism
are announced. After discussing "Pay-
ing for the War" on Friday, the confer
encc on Saturday will discuss "Solidar-
ity in the American Labor Movement"
The British Labor Programme" and
universal Military Training" On
Sunday morning and afternoon at the
Central Opera House, Sixty seventh
Street and Third Avenue, "The Russian
Situation" will be discussed. At night
DR.. Magnes will be postmaster at n
banquet.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01

involve an unfair discrimination at the
very outset.
81 beg you to believe that it is not
only an injustice that l am seeking to
essary work that l am trying to pro-
tect. If the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association can help me in any
manner or point out to me what larger
efficiency can be secured it is it's duty.
shall be glad to receive this commit
tee at any time. Sincerely,
GEORGE CREEL,
"Chairman."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
German Song Books
Burned In Sioux Citu

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 80. - Un-
vatory of music at Morningside Col
lege here last night, took nearly q
hundred German song books, which
were being used by members of the
German Methodist Episcopal Church.
which held it's meetings there, carried
them to the athletic field and burned
them.
German Bibles were carried out, but
were not burned.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
3 Killed in U-Boat Fight
Chincha Beat OF Submarine
After Firing 80 Shots

WASHINGTON, April 80. = Three
members of the American steamship
Chincha's crew were killed, the Navy
Department announced to-day, in the
ships fight with a submarine March 21.
Previous reports had said several men
were injured, but made no mention of
any having been killed.
The Chincha beat off the submersible
after firing about thirty shots. One
shot from the submarine struck rhe
Chincha aft, killing Seaman A. S. Ed
New-York tribune., 1918-05-01
Colorado Republicans
Denounce La Toilette

DENVER, April so.-The Colorado
Republican State Committee, meeting
here late to-day to elect a chairman,
passed resolution denouncing United
States Senator Robert NJ. La Eel
lette for his war attitude and demand
ing his expulsion from the Senate.
RADIO representatives in Congress who
voted against war with Germany, al
though not giving their names.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
OUR MINOR ILLS ARE
REVEALED BY DRAFT
And Uncle Sam Tells How TO
Correct and Cure Them.

Provost Marshal General Crowde-
has called attention TO circular of
instructions prepared by tie Z. S.
public health service for registrants
declined in the draft because OF ply
seal disability. The ci.cu,ar. ea3ses
OF which have been placed in all the
local draft boards throughout the
country, is the result of a recomM en-
dation made to General Crowder by
Surgeon General Rupert Blue OF the
q, S. public health service. The
eurgeon general oints out that in the
first draft about ene-third Of the men
examined were rejected for physical
disabilities and that hundreds Of thou
sands will be added as a~pcsalt'soa ne
examinations to be made of the new
registrants.
1T is highly desirable" said Sur
geon General Blue, that the men
found to be disqualified for military
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
JEWISH REPUBLIC IN
HOLY LAND ASSURED
BY the Recent Victories In
Palestine.

After 1000 years of exile, it is now
almost certain that a Jewish gov
eminent will be established in Pal
estine When General Allenby, at the
head of his victorious army carried
the Union Jack into the Holy City
last December, dream of twenty
centuries became possible. On the
hills of Zion Jewish civilization
with something of its old moral and
intellectual vigof may once more
come into being. The Jews have seiz-
ed their opportunity, and already an
Administration Commission of He
brews is at work restoring the coun-
try for that race.
This Administrative Commission
has program. It's aim is to bring
back the life of the JEWISH colonies
in Palestine to their fiourishing pre-
war conditions. It intends to furnish
the necessary educational medical,
and economic aid to all Jews who go
back to the Holy Land. One of its
most important projects is the i'm
mediate founding of a Jewish uni
versity. Along the lines of diplomacy.
the Commission proposes to create
harmonious relationships with the
Arab and Armenian states which are
to be it's neighbors.
All over the world, the tribes of
Israel have waited through the cen
turiues for this promised day. Their
poets have sung of it. The exiles have
yearned for their native land. Great
Pritain's military operations of last
winter have furnished an opening
wedge for the realization of Zion's
hopes. When Britain undertook the
rescue of Palestine, in order to strike
o staggering blow at the Turk. the
eyes of Jews everywhere watched
the progress of General Allenbys ar
my. They saw that little army foot
by foot and mile by mile drive back
the Turk and the Hun. Their JOY
grew as they beheld it move forward
from GAIA to Bethlehem, from Beth
lehem to Jerusalem, from Jerusalem
to Jericho. When Jerusalem fell, the
delight of the Jews was unboundnd
for Britain had already gone on rec
ord, through the speech of Balfour
as favoring the establishment in
Palestine of national homeland for
the Jews.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
NO NEW Telephone:
UNLESS A NECESSITY

A new telephone order in refer
ence to telephones went into effect
by the Government yesterday. The
Government has issued an order
that no new telephones whatever
could be. installed except where alb
solutely necessity would be shown
and in the transfer of telephone Of
an old subscriber, charge would be
made for time and material. The
new order remains the same in refer
ence to installing new telephones,
but for transfers the charge of SIS in
advance before stroke of work
will be done.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
BERkELEY'S WOMEN
DOING Their PART

While attending War Activities
meeting in Charleston last week,
Mr.. Gray Silver. of this city, was in
terrogated by Mrs. Lydia Poffenber-
ger the well known state chairman
CT women's activities.
"We're not going to work under
you men! we're going to work with
you," was the. way she put it, and
Mrs. Poffenbarger means what she
says. She called upon Mr. Silver, to
tell of what the women of his sec
ton, who have an enviable reputa-
ton for themselves in war work had
accomplished, and he paid the high
est tribute to- them.
women in Berkeley county are
rot only selling bonds; they are
harvesting the apple crop" he said.
men have been taken from the
farms by the war, and women, who
have never had to do a days work
before, women who have lived In
ease and luxury, along with their
sisters who lived a more practical
training, have donned overalls and
have gone into the orchards and
made possible the saving of our ap-
pies. They handle ladders many feet
high, climb them, pick the apples,
fill the barrels, and even drive the
trucks which carry them from and
to their homes morning and evening,
the trucks carrying hundreds Of bar
rels Of apples to the towns during
the day. I'll promise you that the
women in my county shall have
their fair credit in the fourth liber-
ty 1oan," he finished.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

service by the examining physicians
of the local draft boards should re-
ceive definite instructions as to the
meaning of their disabilities and that
a strong appeal be made to them to
correct these disabilities as far as
possible But the object of this meas
ure is not only to reclaim men fer
military service or for such service
as they can perform, but to lessen
the burden OF illness and disability
among those engaged in essential in
dustrial work. 1t is hoped that the
really a primer of the physical de-
fects of the nation. will reach far be-
You'd the draft board and be. utilized
BY all agencies interested in improv-
ing the public health to instruct the
.pecple with regard to their physical
deficiencies and the ways and means
by which they can be remedied."
According to the U. S. public health
service experience everywhere shows
that the proportion of persons with
physical impairments is considerably
greater in persons between 80 and 40
then in those between 20 and 80 years
CT age. This waning vitality at ages
over 80. so commonly accepted as in
e1..table. can be postponed to a large
sx.ert In this connection, it is point
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

ed out that so per cent of the pliysi-
cal defects found in the last draft
were of preventable or durable ma
ture
In addition to furnishing ali the 10
cal draft boards throughout the coun-
try with sufficient number of the
Circulars to supply oae - &C: r.
istIrant rejected because of physical
disability arrangements have been
made to furnish specimens of the cir
cular TO life insurance companies.
fraternal organizations, labor unions,
employers OF labor and others who
desire TO reprint the circular in its
present official form for wider dis
t,s.bution
s-lle [. S. public health service
will be glad to furnish specimens of
this circular on application and urges
all organizations that can reach large
groups OF people to reprint and dis
tribute the circular and thus contrib
ute materially to the public welfare
and the national defense"
The circular issued BY the G. s.
public health service is entitled "In-
formation for Guidance and Assist
ance OF Registrars Disqualified for
Active Military Service Because of
Physical Defects" 1t is four-page
leafiet. containing specific informa-
ton relating to the commoner causes
of rejection or deferred classification,
e. G.. defective eyesight, teeth and
disease. feet. underweight, overweight
hernia, hemorlhoids, varicocele, vari-
cose veins, bladder, kidney and urin-
airy disorders, ear trouble, heart ai-
fections, high blood pressure, lung
trouble, rheumatism, venereal dis
ease. alcohol, nervous and mental dis
ease and miscellaneous conditions
The information is presented in SIM
pie form and has been approved by
the highest medical authorities. At
the end lis a striking quotation from
President Wilson, ut is not an army
we must shape and train for war;
it is a nation" This is followed by
the following. personal appeals:
10 not go through life with han
dicapts that may be easily removed.
Do not shorten your life, reduce your
earning capacity and capacity for en-
joying life, by neglecting your bodily
while other men are cheerfully
facing death for the cause of democ-
racy, do not shrink from facing
little trouble and expense to make
yourself strong, healthy and fit"
Over a million copies OF the leafet
have been sent out to the draft boards
Requests for specimen copies should
be addressed to the U. S. public health
service, Wllsl frgton. d. c.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
FINISHES GROUND WORK.

Cadet A. r. Spring, former we'll
known young Baltimore and Ohio
employe, is home from Cornell Uni
versity, where he graduated in ground
work at the aviation school. He will
later go to Dallas, Texas, to COM
plete his studies in flying.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
ABNoahihl WEIGHT

Undertaken Thrush, of Moorefeld,
was called IS Purgettsville this
week to bury son of j. N. Leather
man, who died OF diptheria. The
young man was only is years and
weighed 2Ss pounds. He was #
inch tall
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
UARENTs LEAoAuE'

There will be meeting of the Pa
rents League of High Street School
in the school building at 4 o'clock
tomorrow Thursday evening
MRS. w. r. KLINE, Pres,