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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
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ROBBERY REPORTED IN
LOWER PART OF CO.

Sheriff Joseph H. Bells was this
morning notified of a robbery in
the HARDWOOD section of the county.
Complaint was made to the Sheriff
by Mr.. Daniel Hardesty who keeps
general store at Harwood, that during
his temporary absence form his store
yesterday afternoon some one rified
the safe making away with cast to the
amount of about 1920 It-is expected
That Baltimore detectives will be put
to work on the case by Sheriff Bells.
(. Bonds Build Airplanes. Buy Lib
erty Bonds.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
MOTHERS GRATEFUL
TO CHURCH PEOPLE
Write Letters to Pastor Acknowledge
Ing Attention Shown
Sons

Sons
The pastor of the First M. E.
Church, the Rev. Dr. HI. w. Burgan,
has received number of letters from
parents of service men, who, from
time to time have attended this
church.
The following are extracts from two
letters recently received by the pas
tor from two mothers of men in the
service. These are but two of many
such letters.
This one from Massachusetts:
II cannot express my thanks for
hospitality shown to my boy with the
other boys in the service while in An
napolis. 1t has been beautiful and /
appreciate it / assure you. My early
life was spent in Kentucky. | know
the South and my heart is still there.
am glad to know my son is keep
ing up his usual custom. / was al
most afraid he might neglect going
to church.
ANNIE H. TIFE
This from San Francisco:
with great pleasure we received
your letter about our son attending
church. It's such help in our sep
aration to know he is among friends
while away from home. He has
written me also of the kindness ex-
tended him in the homes of Annapolis,
and it was great help in giving him
up. / hope my other son, just passed
eighteen. will be as fortunate when
.he leaves us to find the same infiu-
ences as William has found. We thank
you all SO kindly for the interest"
KATHERINE H. wADSWORTH.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
T0 RE RITRIED HERE

The remains of Mrs. Ella Burwell.
who died at San Francisco late last
week, is now being brought across the
continent and Will be inferred at the
Naval Academy cemetery here on
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. BurweE
was the widow of the late Admiral
William 7. Burwell. beside whose
remains she will be inferred.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
ANNAPOLITAN CLUB
FLIES SERVICE FLAG
Handsome Banner with Twenty-Seyen
Stars Is Now Displayed from :
Club Porch

without ceremony. and its hanging
witnessed by only three Club menu
bers besides the President. DR.. Gus
Ter, a handsome service flag with
twenty-seyen stars was fioated to the
breeze yesterday afternoon from the
GENRE of the porch in front of the
Annapolitan Club.
The flag measures five by four feet.
1t is made of the best quality red
bunting. with white centre, and on
the white field are the. blue stars.
The AnnapoIitan Club is fash
ionable social organization for men,
and has a large membership OF the
leading professional and business
men of the city.
The following are the members OF
the Annapolitan Club who have stars
in the Service Flag:
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-24
PREPARATORY SERncrS

The regular Preparatory Sarv,..
for the Celebration of the sacrsr ,'oS'
of the Lords Supper viii he bsl5 !. !.
morrow evening in the lecture ~ ~
of the First Presbyterian Church ''u
The celebration will be on Snns
a. the morning service.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
SOCIALISTS TO CALL
WORLD CONFERENCE
Ask American Federation to
Join Them in Plan.

London, Feb. 22.-Emil Sanderveide,
representing the Belgian labor party.
presided at the continuation of the
conference OF the labor and socialist
parties of the entente allied countries
today. NJ. Eanaervelde said there were
two great questions before the confer
encc, namely, the elaboration of a
common program and the calling of Il
general international conference. On
the first question agreement had vir-
tually been reached. thef speaker said.
He added:
tsThe American Federation Of Labor.
is the only party to the contract that
is lacking. Its adhesion is indispen-
sable, and measu must be taken to
insure it,
Continuing NJ. Eanderveide said
We cannot ignore what the Boil
sheviki have done to discredi; their own
country and international socialism, -
but he added that 1t must not be for
gotten what the Russian revolution
had done for internationalism and
socialism. "------
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Kaiser Expected
to Whip America
With Propaganda

New York, Feb 92-The bittercst
disappointment of the war for the
frussians has been the shattering
of the ''fatuous belief that the la
bor unions Of the United states
could be stampeded by ''insidious
propaga nda." Secretary of the
Navy Daniels declared in an ad
dress here tonight.
Speaking with Samuel Gompers
at patriotic mass meeting ar
ranged by the American alliance
for labor and democracy, Mr. Dan
iels predicted that labor viii not
swerve from the patriotic ideals.
which have actuatcd it thus far
and that when the war is over il
viii have won its own fight as
woll
Il make no appeal to labor AS "A
class" he said, hut tonight speak
TO men of labor organizations be-
cause they are mighty force in
our national life and are taking
the lead IN patriotic celebration Of
this holiday In the national metrop-
oils. Indeed, the day for appeal
to any red -bloodeu American has
passed. II Is a time rather To give
thanks to those who are engaged
heart and soul ana 10 point cut
not why they should serve but
how and where they can make their
efforts tell .most for victory.
1T is an open secret can talk
about 1t freely now w--that the real
hope Of the Prussiaus that Ameri-
ca would never be effective In this
war lay In It's famous belief that
labor could be SO lrritated, by iu-
sidious propaganda, so misled by
hired agiiators, ms TO insure ma
ton wide strikes, almost upon the
declaration Of war Far bittcrer
than the failure OF the submarine
to sweep the seas has been the fall
ure of the German spy to tic this
great republic hand and foo, by
stampeding labor. organized and
unorganized, Into something very
nearly approaching Il social rcvolu-
ton"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
BOURQUIN ASKED TO RESIGN
Germans Center
Artillery Fire
on u. S. Troops

With the American Army in
France, Feb. 22.--By The Associ-
ated Press.-The artillery bonn
bardment was still more intense
on the American sector west of
Toul Night and day enemy pro-
jectiles are falling in towns and
have been directed at number of
strategical points. Tho damage
done has been unimportant Three
American artillerymen have been
wounded.
our guns replied to the enemy
with three shells for one, firing
accurately on roads and enemy
works. Shells We're dropped on "a
party of seven Germans repairing
wire entanglemcnts. Some were
wounded and the rest scattered.
Early this morning a small enc
my party attempted to raid our
lines and was driven off by rifle
and machine gun fire. after which
artillery fire chased them back to
their lines.
A trench mortar projectile fell
ON one of our trenches today kill
ing three d'wounding four. Rain
has prevented aerial activity and
the trenches and dugouts are
flooded. ~m
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Four Arrested Charged With
Scheming to Deliver All
Sammees to Huns.
TAKE STEPS TOWARD
CLEANUP OF ALIENS
Accused May Face Death as
Extreme Penalty Because
Of Treason Act.

Camp Lewis. Feb. 22.-The arrest of
four soldiers against whom serious
charges may be filed was announced
today at the office of the division
judge advocate. who withheld their
names. What action in regard 10
their cases is to be taken the Judge
advocate would not say, beyond the
TACT that instructions were awaited
from Washington.
According to the Judge advocate S
office. the men are accused of having
entered into plot to shoot their Of
ficers as soon as they were placed on
the battle front in France and to de-
liver tho men Of their units, II pos.
sible. into the hands of the Germans
as prisoners.
II the accusations are sustained. the
men face death as the extreme pen
.alty, and in any case discharge from
the army and tnternment as enemy
aliens. the judge advocate said.
The arrests were made in connec-
tion with the cleanup of Camp Lewis
of enemy alien soldiers which already
has resulted in about 200 men being
dropped from the service. A total of
"a men We're discharged today. What
disposition Is to be made of them
when they leave the army is for the
civil authorities to decide.
Private T. ]. Tampanes of head
quarters company at Camp Lewis is In
the division headquarters guard house
charged with having sold discharges
from the army TO Camp Lewis SOL
diers at $50 each.
Tampanes. according 10 officials, OBJ =
tanned the blanks from some unknown
source and found a number Of vic
Tins, the men thinking they were
getting out of the army service with
clean bill.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Old City Of Jericho Falls
Before Attack of British

London. Feb. 22.--The British forces
In Palestine have captured the city OF
Jericho. Australian troops entering the
city on Thursday. Aside from its his
torical and sentimental importance the
capture of the city gives General AL
ienby control of number Of strategic
roads over which to move his men
and their supplies.
Within - miles Of the present Brit
ish position is the railroad from Da
ma SOUS TO Mecca. which has been the
|ar;ery which has fed the Turkish forces
operating against the Arabian tribes
men. II this road were cut. it would
give the tribesmen great advantage In
their struggle.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Blows Follow Argument
Over Case Against Crum

Helena, Feb. 22.~~Spec iai. .---Scna-
tor John Edwards OF Rosebud
county and Mayor George Horkin
Of Forsyth, tho senator's home town,
came 10 blows In the lobby of the
Placer hotel tonight. over the Crum
case. Edwards landed one blow
on Horkin's mouth. smashing q
cigar down the Mayors throat. be-
fore bystanderg and officers inter-
fered.
Edwards had approached Horkin.
smiling. and accused him OF not tell
ing the truth while on the stand at
the legislative inquiry into Crum's
pro German utterances.
The incident Is an outbreak OF bad
feeling which has existed between
the two men since the crum trou-
BILE began.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
u. S. Concludes Trade
Agreement With Norway

Washington. Feb. GA complete
agreement in which the other allied
nations are in accord, has been reached
between the United States and Nor
way. Tic terms have no, yet been
made rublic.
Announcement Of the successful con-
ciusion Of negotiations between the
war trade board and DIR. Fridtjof Nan
sen, the Norwegian commissioner
which have extended over several
months was contained in this state
ment Issued by the board tonight
a, through the committee On public in,
formation.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Germans Plan to Resume
Shipping on Black Sea

Amsterdam, Feb 22--.Adsices re-
ceiyed here from Berlin yesterday say
that it was announced In the joint
sitting of the reichstag that it was
planned to resume shipping in the
Black sea after the mines have been
cleared away. The plan Is to expedite
shipments 10 Germany from the
Ukraine. Germany to supply agricul-
tural machinery and implements in
return for grain.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Face Sublugatior.

furtnE absolute subIugation at tho
hands of the advancing Germans. the
Russian premier and commander.in-
chief have taken what steps they can
TO make nj least II nominal defense
against the invaders Of their country.
Orders that guerrilla warfare be car
iied on and placing Petrograd In a
stat" Of aicg" have been Issued by
Lcniue and krylcnko. and IT lis ex-
pcc'"d that th" Germans will meet
with some resistance before long,
That the TeutonB can be tempo
rarily checked, however, rs doubted,
even IN Pctrograd The Russian
nfmys dehacIc apparently IN 30 com .
pletr thai there Is no shadow OF
authority over It's units. Berlin re-
ports that the first g.sthonian regi-
msnt has deserted III u body and Of
fcred Its seIvicrz 10 thn German cont
mander who ia operating In tho north :
"rn-m most Baltic nrovince, Tho Rus
sian navy, too, Is completely diaor-
Ranlz"G and, willie 1t Is desired 10
withdraw The whrshira from ateval and
liclSingfOrs TO krOnstadt, ii Is believed
that this operation IL impossible, In
view Of thn disuRo into which tho
Baltic fleet has fallen. Only the sub
marine boats are In ii seaworthy con-
dition. IT Is reported.
Germans Continue.
There IL aR YET no definite adviceg
as to the rumorcd fall Of the Lenlnc .
Tro'zky En|GrnmGnt. Tho proclama :
ton directing that resistance be Of =
fercd 10 Tho German advance. how
ever. did mot bear the name of Tretzky
who hitherto has bceu Il virtual die .
tator. which may be significant.
The Germns have pushed still fur
ther eastward In tho past - hours.
CONTINUED on Page Eight.j
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Continue Advance Through
Country Meeting With
No Resistance.
'BOLSHEVIkI WOULD
PROTECT PETROGRAD
Germans Stop Messengers on
Way to Dvinsk and Take
Them Prisoners.

Amsterdam, Fob. GA Russian
courier with the peace proposals
OF the Russian government has ar.
rived in Berlin. according to ad-
vices received here. The kord
Oeutsohs Allgemcin zeitung, tho
German semi i-offieiai organ. says
tho reopenins Of the negotiations
with tho Russians cannot be es-
pected for some time.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
CourtmartiaI for Men,

Washington, Feb. 22.--Officcrs of
the judge advocate generals office
said today that any national army
soldiers charged with plotting treason
would be tried by military courtmar-
tial and If found guilty would be
liable to the death penalty. No report
on the arrests at Camp Lewis had
reached the judge advocate general
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
The Weather
PoRkLEss DAY TO-DAY.

At least one meal each day should
be meatless.
You can now eat mutton on any
day.
Eat "war bread" at all times.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
RE'chsrAo ADOPTS PEACE.

Berlin. Feb. s2--via Amsterdam
The main committee Of the reichstas
today adopted the peace treaty be.
tween Germany and the Ukraine,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
GERMANS SEIZE
BELGIAN YOUTHS
Students Communicated for
Hard Labor Behind Hun
Lines in France.

Washington. Feb. 22.-Official dis
patches to the Belgian legation today
told of the further communicating by
the Geramns of young Belgians for
military work behind tho German lines
and the filming OF Louis Franck, n
Flemish deputy. 10000 marks. for urg :
Ing the Flemish people to stand stead :
tastkin their resistance 10 German po-
litical intrigHes.
Franck was taken before a military
tribunal and was threatened with de-
portation the dispatches said, but de-
spite the German concern over the
spread of the movement against the
authority of the self styled council OF
Flanders, this threat was not carried
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23

Foreeast-increasing cIoudiness
Saturday, probably followed by
rain or snow and colder at night
on Sunday.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Work Behind Lines.

Communicating of men for work
behind the German lines continues to
grow. the dispatches said. At Renaix,
an industrial town in eastern Flanders,
500 young men were seized, many be-
Ing taken In the streets. Some fed
ana the Germans threatened to take
old men unless the young ones re-
turned.
Students were taken from an engi-
neering school of Mons and sent to
work at an aviation camp, while in
l-nxemburg more than 600 young men
have been taken from villages for mil
itary work.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Weave Net of Evidence
More Closely Around
Judge Charles l.. Crum
of Rosebud County.

Helena, Feb. ~, Slowly, but surely
| the net of evidence in the hearing ~
| the Impeachment proceedings against
| District Judge Charles l.. Crum of
! Rosebud county was woven about the
jurist In the house OF representatives
| here today. Witnesses were called
| who. by their careful weighing OF
words, impressed the membership of
| the complete sincerity of the matter
| contained IN the affidavts filed against
the Judge, and at the sano time. vir-
tually dispelIod the suggestion, which
arose among "A few members yesterday.
| hat there might he other than patriot
| ic motives behind them.
And so. the members OF the house
returned to their original position that
| the Rosebud county judge had not only
unwiseiy expressed himself but that he
actually had been guilty Of the ex-
preston Of pro-ierman sentiments
| which would long ago have landed
n man of lesser position In jail Oh one
Of the graVest charges possible now
| IN these days of war.
More Evidence.
Two Of the outstanding witnesses of
| the day were Donald Campbell. n For
| syth lawyer. md ". II Lyudes, "A
rancher who livos in the county. Both
Of them were effective witnesses. The
former was the man. IT had been
thought. who might have had a person
al motive for the removal Of Judge
Crum. His testimony. however. dis
PEELED that view, and when he had fin
ished the members felt and realized
| that they had heard the story Of man
who, once friend and great admrer
| of the accused man. had been turned
against him entirely by sentiments
which he could not reconcile with his
own patriotic feelings,
Az for MI Lyndes he gave the I'M
lprcAsio1t Of being just what he is-an
honest, uneducated farmcr the father
| of boys whom he has been glad to give
| to Americas cause, and who resented
| the words Of the judge that he was n
| damn fool to give his sons 10 be
butchefed in Wall streets war" And
| his impression wus, perhaps, even NOR"
defective than that af the lawyer who
preceded him.
| Mr.. LyndeB "mptaticHlly impressed
ia" members Of the constant practtc"
of Judge trum to oppos" the draft
when h. told of the conversation hC
lhad with IN" Judge iu the ait"rS
rhamberD when he was IN Forsyth
Ito serve on II jury, He said that the
Judge first bsI.rd him ~hut he thought
lrf the draft.
Would Bury Son
Il told him / Thought 1t Haa HIl
right" said Mc witness, ANA ticu
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)

Paris, Feb. give have just been
and We have arrived at a very sa,isfac-
tory conclusion.
Andre Is altogether a man Of peace
although at. times one might seem 10
detect a fcrocious expression in his
left eye, and stil1 more ferocious ex-
preston In the place where his right
eye used to be-
Andres plan is very simple. and does
not include haggling over terms.
Any Kind of a treatment will do. be-
cause the important point lies In when
the document III signed
He wants to continue the war until
only one German remains. conclude a
peace with him, then try him with due
decorum, and hang him for the crimes
Of the Huns.
To some this view may seem more or
less radical; but If your sister had been
in the captured and evacuated district,
and had seen her father and husband
and son killed, and If she and her
daughters had been for Is months the
slaves of German beasts, you'd have
another reason for fighting this war
than the mere duty to humanity.
YOU'D HATE.
We have all heard these tales of at
rocities, but reading them far away,
from the scenes does not sem to carry.
any reality.
II Is only when you come actually
face TO face with despicablc ravage
which has been done that you begin
10 realize what ghastly savages, what
british barbarians. Wha, intolerablc
beasts these Germans are,
Some beautiful grapes led us to
Andre.
They lay in a tiny show window In a
tiny shop In one of the tiny narrow
sidestreets In which Paris abounds, ard
they were so large, so round and plump
and purple, and 80 superior in appear
ance TO all their poor neighbors, the
knotted little apples aud the weazencd
little sour oranges, that II seemed only
an act Of mercy To take them from their
inappropriate surroundings.
4 clang of the little bell over the
shop door. and. from the back room.
a fat little woman came running, young
but motherly.
All; the grapes
She lifted the solitary bunch from its
bed of cotton tendcrly reverently, and
explained that they were very eXquis-
ite. but very expensive.
How much?
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.

NJ T. MI ----..-. NJ p. m..----[B
Promise for warmer weather was
announced last night but no doubt
many Missoulians feel that it is slow
In coming. If 1t brings rain any delay
will be appreciated.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
NJ 'AD0O DENIES
F.. FOOD SH0RTA AGE
Declares That Hoover Made
Mistake Regarding Rail
Tieup of Supplies.

Washington. Feb. 22.-Director Cen
eral McAaoo today gave assurance
mat so far AZ transportation IL con
cerned. there Is no danger OF suffer
ing from a serious food shortage In tho
eastern part of the country"
This was prompted by the warning
given last night by Food Admins
traitor Hoover. that unless grain and
meat movement Is greatly Increased
In the next 50 days, the country would
be threatened with an acute shortage
of food. and the program Of food ship
nents to the allies would fail. In a
i.tter TO Mr. Hoover. the director gen
eral declared that II the food admin
lstrator will give definite information
on tho location Of stocks OF supplies
intended for the allies. the railroads
viii move thcm promptly to seaboarri
simultaneously the railroad admins
tration gave out figures showing thai
the movement OF grain to the primary
markets In the west within the last
ten days, was far greater than IN
previous years
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Arrest Courtcrs.

fotrograd. Feb. s2.--An official
statement issued today says:
The Russian parliamentary mes
s"ngcrS started In "A motor car from
Ri"shitsa for DVinsk. bn, near the
station at Antonopol We're met by a
German automobile armed with ma
chine guns, The Russian motor car
was allowed TO pass. bat the parsia-
m"htar} representative and the com
missioner of the Fifth army were de-
tanned and brought back To RlcshItsa
III the German automobile"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23

l'ieshltsa Is about 100 miles south
cast OF Riga aud about 50 miles from
Dvinsk. Antonopol iB u village about
20 miles from Kieshitsa II Is pre-
tnmed that the parliamentary mes
scngcrs were carrying the formal ac-
ccpLtncc of tho German peace terms
to General Hoffman, who Is somewhere
along the Russian front.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-23
Would Avoid Clash.

Although declaring their desire To
avoid a controversy with the food ad
ministration, officials Of the railroad
directorate today did not conceal their
belief that Mr.. Hooycr's statement WAS
not borne out by facts shown In their
reports. Members of Mr.. McAdoo's
staff assumed the attitude that Mr..
Hoover had dealt in eeneralities, not
supported by figures or other evidence
showing such u pessimistic outlook
on future food conditions.
4 railroad administration statement,
without referring to Mr.. HooVer's
declaration that the domestic and al
He'd food situation can pc solved only
by loading 100000 bushels Of grain
q day for the next so days. cxplained
that already 100000 bushels Of grain
are being loaded daily and even better
loading is in prospect.