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New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Pastor Russell's
Book Is Suppressed
The Finished Mystery" "
Scouting Patriotism, Must
Not Be Distributed

WASHINGTON, March Is - Because
"Thc Finished Mystery" Bible study
textbook, described patriotism as "a
certain delusicn" and "a narrow minded
hatred Of ether peopl $" and war as
"a work of Satan" distribution of the
book was forbidden to-day by the De-
partment OF Justice, acting undcr the
espionage acs
Thousands OF copies of tho book have
been seized IL many states, bat 1t was
not until to-day that the department
decided to prohibit It's distribution.
District attorneys were notified to
prosecute any dealers or other persons
selling or offering the book for sale or
for distribution.
The book purports to be the post
humous WORK of the late pastor, Charles
Tazc Russell, and was published in
Brooklyn BY the Peoples Pulpit Asso-
cation, with which are affiliated the
International Bible Students Assoc1a--
tion end tee Watch Towec Tract and
Bible Association. 1t was compiled by
Clayton J. Woodworth, Of Scranton,
who has been arrested on charge OF
scditous writings. He s legged to
Lave prepared the book snce the war
started, and to have inserted deroga-
'ory references to Americas cause in
the war
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

The buckwheat was found in q New
York hotel"
1t was explained that woman din
ing in the hotel had noticed certain
grittiness in some buckwheat cakes she
had ordered. She demanded that the
flour from which the cakes were made
be examined. Silica and sand, the
Food Board was informed, were found
, in the flour.
The idea that the poisoning of candy,
bread and flour was part of wide
spread enemy plot against New York
City's food supply was not favored by
| DR.. Charles F. Bolduan, head Of the
Board Of Health's Bureau of Public
Health Education.
The fact that the bread had not been
molested at the bakeshops seemed to
him as well as to Mr.. Williams to
show that it was not enemy work.
II think it's probably accidental" he
said. ut looks like the New England
candy case over again. There, you re-
member, it was found that one piece
Of chocolate contained sand.
"At this Office we received COM
plaint Of powdered glass in bread only
the other day. Analysis showed that
it was not glass but sand, and only .O2
per cent Of sand at that. am sur
rriscd that anybody noticed it.. The
sand came from brown sugar used by
the BAKERS"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

up o!,,;a+ concrste on. ste; statement of the So
committee is to report next week.
After the conference decides on the
new policy it will be submitted for
ratlhcation to the national Socialist
executive committee, composed of Nor
ris Hlllquit. Seymour Stedman, of Chi
cago; John NJ. Work, of Chicago: ::
Victor l.. Berger, of Milwaukee. and
Anna A. Maley. of Minneapolis.
Outlines Changed Ideas
Usher Solomon, secretary of the
state organization, said yesterday that
until the committees recommendations
had been ratified no statement would
be issued as to the new policy.
"The committee has number of
questions to decide before it considers
what shall be our war attitude in view
of recent events" he said. "It must
consider Japan's invasion Of Siberia as
we'll as Germany's invasion of Russia
The whole subject will be covered and
made public in statement next week.
Speaking for the rank and file of the
party, james Waldo Fawcett, former
worker for the pacihsts, said: "a re-
statement of the st. Louis anti-war
platform is Imperative; first, because
it is now obvious that Germany ia out
to crush democracy and labor must
utter voice against the triumph of
autocracy; SECOND, labor must have a
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Legislature Gets
Anti-Gerrnan Bill
Measure 'Annulling Alliance
Charter Referred to War
Committees
Especial Correspondence

ALBANY, March 1S. - The bill to
annul the charter Of the Gcrman-Amer-
lean Alliance Of New York State was
introduced in both branches of the
Legislator tonight. In the Senate.
Theodore Douglas Robinson. nephew of
Colonel Roosevelt, fosterel it. while
Assemblyman Schuyler M. Meyer intro
duccd 1t in the lower .use. The meas
ure was referred to the war commit
tees of both houses. The bill, the text
CT which was printed in The Tribune
to-day, voids all charters issued to any
corporation whose aims arc pro-Ger.
man.
Another wal measure Of Senator Rob
lnson requires all able bodied males b.
tween eighteen and fifty years to hc
employed regularly in useful occunn =.
ton during the war, after proclama.
ton by the Governor to that effect
The industrial commission NAV assign
lersons registered with the cmnlov-
ment bureau to avail ,ble occunat,on.
Sherlifs AMI other law off GERS arc tn
seek out AMI report vicls TORS. HabituoI
ioiterlng IN streets, roads, pool rooms
saloons. hotels, stores and denots ;s
prlma tacie evidence of failure to com :.
ply with the act. " oo'''
Violations Of the act nre runishnh,e
by imprlsonn ent of not more than one
year. '" o'io
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Wilson'S Note Proof
OF Worlds Sympathy,
Vie.v of Soviets

WASHINGTON, March 1S-The text
o. the reso ution adopted by the central
executive committee of the All Russian
Congress of Soviets, in answer to
President Wilson's recent message TO
the Russian people, already transmit
ted in press cables reached the State
Department to-day from the American
Consul at Moscow, together with brief
summary Of (. speech by the chairman
Of the congress in regard to it.
The chairman, NJ. SverdofT, expressed
the belief thai the proletariat and the
semi-proletara Of Western Europe, as
we'll as Of America and Australia, were
with the Bolsheviki.
The chairman is reported to have
said:
"Comradcs-1 shall have difficulty In
reading al the telegrams received here.
We have received a vast number. One
telegram stands out among them which
I shall submit. to your attention. 1t is
the telegram from President Wilson.
"Comrades, allow me, in the name
of the congress to express MY firm be-
lief that the wide masses of the pro.
letariat anl the -proletarlat OF
Western Europe, as well rs OF America
and Australia, are with US with all
their hearts. Allow me to express my
firm belief that these masses are watch
ing with the closest attention the strug-
giles which we are carrying on mere
in Russia ard l will permit myself to
submit to your attention the resolution
which was adopted by the presiding
body of the central executive commit
tee in answer to President Wlison .
address to the congress"
The chairman read the resolution ana
concluded: ,..
"Comrades. allow me to consider TINS n,
applause sufficient answer that you all
join this resolution"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

bail for hearing next Monday. She
said she had no money to employ
lawyer, and Commissioner Hitchcock
assigned Carl Whitney to look after
her interests. Chose was held in S25,-
900 bail for a hearing as a fugitive
from justice. In default of bail, both
were sent to the Tombs. Commissioner
Hitchcock, after reading the charge, cx-
pressed himself as reluctant to fix any
bail in the case of the Hindu, whom
he branded as too dangerous a man to
be free in this country. 1t was at the
suggestion of Mr.. Knox that the bail
was fixed at $4,000.
In the shop operated by the couple
in Waverley Place great masses of cor
respondencc were found, indicating
that they had been in communication
with the Workmen's and Soldiers
Council, in Petrograd, last December,
and with representatives Of the move
ment in all parts Of the world.
Bolshevk Aid Sought
Among these was an appeal to Leon
Trotzky, written on the paper Of the
India Nationalist party, which was
dated at Tagore Castle, Calcutta, De-
ccmber IL, 1917, asking the aid Of the
Bolshe9iki in freeing the plottcrs al
ready in custody in the United States.
In part the appeal read:
"rhe hand Of British imperialism is
long enough to have several scores of
Indian rcvolutionists arrested in the
United States Of America for starting
military enterprise in the United
States to overthrow British rule in
India These Indian revolutionists are
threatened with deportation, SO that
British imperialism will have a fair
chance Of taking vengeance on its
encr"'cs by sending them to the gal
lows.
"Wc beg the Russian people not to
forget us in our sore stress. We beg
you 10 proclaim before the world that
II this war is for the defence Of tho
people India should be free, and we
especially neg your good will in cham
pioning the cause Of the Indian revo-
lutionists. who arc now facing trial in
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Spies Told Italians
Wives Were Unfaitl1ful II

The retreat Of the Italian armies and
the invasion of Northern Italy last fall
by the Germans resulted from German
and Austrian propaganda in Italy and
not from the prowess Of the Teutonic
forces, according to lnez Haynes Irwin,
wife of VIII Irwin, magazine writer.
Mrs. Irwin told the New York Chapter,
Daughters Of Indiana, yesterday after
noon at the Hotel Astor of her eXpe
riences during the Italian disaster.
"On the day of the German attack, "
she said, "cvcry soldier in the Italian
regiments at the point of attack re-
ceived from his home village an anony
nous letter telling him that his wife
had been unfaithful to him. Owing to
the laxity of the Italian censorship
these letters all got through to the
men. Later it was learned that they
were false and that they had been sent
by Austrian agents.
"The Germans opened their campaign
to break the Italian morale by placing
at the point of attack, several weeks
before the battle, regiments Of Aus
trians, who fraternized with the Ital-
ians and urged them not to fight" Mrs.
Irwin said. "They made an agreement
whereby both sides were to drop their
guns and hold out their hands when an
attack came. On the day of the battle,
however, the Austrians were replaced
by Prussian shock troops. The de-
ceived Italians rushed forth unarmed
and held out their hands, only to be
slaughtered by thousands"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

the United States District Court in San
Francisco because of their working for
the liberation OF the people OF India
from the yoke Of the existing auto
cratic rule.
Long live free Russia. May she be
the true leader in the movement for
the freedom of the people Of the
world!"
Sought to Arouse Japan
Miss Smedlcy is said to be response
bic for the publication of a book en-.
titled "The Isolation Of Japan in World
Politics-By an Asian Statesman
which makes bitter attack on the
policy of the United States in dealing
with the countries of the Far East
According to information given to Mr.
Knox by Major Biddle, Of the Army
Intelligence Bureau, and Captain Bar
ntz, of the police bomb squad, who
worked on the case, the book is the
work of German propagandlsta who
sought to stir up feeling between this
country and Japan.
According to the Fedcra ,ials
Chose came to this county 1916
from Mexico and has since lone con-
siderable travelling under many names
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

seat at the peace table; and, third, il
Russian democracy is to be saved an
radicals must give their support to the
government which can save it,"
American Socialists expect soon to
confer with Socialists from France,
England and Belgium, who are on their
way to this country. The purpose OF
the conference is to enable American
Socialists, who were not represented, at
the inter Allied conference in London
last month, to express their views on II
proposal to hold an internationa!. work
ingmen's conference, at which delegates
are to be present from Germany and
Austria Hungary. The Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, which
has 100000 members who are inde..
pendent Of the American Federation Of
Labor already has gone on record IN
favor of the wo .kingm~u's conference.
President Samuel Gompcr' of the
American Federation of Labor has said
he will have nothing to do with any
conference in which delegates from the
Central Powers are represented.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
St. Louis Platform Change
Urged to Meet New
Conditions
Committee Drafts
Modified Policy
AuIocracy's Menace to Rus
sia Cited as Cause
FOR Action

The Socialist party is on the verge
of resembling its ''continuous, active
and public opposition to the war"
which was adopted as the party plat
form at the national convention in St.
Louis last summer, and is now forming
"a modified war policy" which Will
pledge Socialists to stand behind the
government and thus remove virtually
all organized opposition in this coun-
try to fighting Germany to finish.
The purposes Of the Socialists in re-
versing their attitude are:
To give the working classes "a seat
at the peace conference" when the war
is ended.
To encourage this government to ex-
tend material aid to Russia in fighting
the German invasion and to urge this
government to oppose Japan's invasion
OF Siberia.
TO strengthen the party by bringing
back into its membership such ele-
ments as were led away by John
Spargo, William English Walling, J. G.
Phelps Stokes, Upton Sinclair, H. L.
Simons, w. K. Gaylord, Allen r. Ben
son and others who repudiated pacif-
ism and came out in favor Of America S
entry into the war.
Socialist Sentiment Changes
Party leaders disclosed yesterday
that definite steps already have been
taken to wipe the anti-war platform
off the Socialist slate, and that this
action N TO MT
pacitist sentiment among the Socialist
rank and file, as was evidenced when
the United Hebrew Trades, which for
merely classed itself as a pacitist organ
ization, last week pledged it's 5000
members to work for the next Liberty
Loan, and when the Jewish Socialist
League recently announced its inde-
pendence of the party by coming out
squarely in support of the government.
Scores of individual Socialists took
the position that Gcrmany's crushing
of the Russian democracy made il
no longer consistent for the Socialists
to oppose the war and demanded that
the st. Louis platform be modified
events "probably" would make it ad-
visabe for the party to reconsider its
position.
Recognizing the changing sentiment
the leaders called conference to con
slider what should be done. One hun
dred Socialists, including the ten So
cialist Assemblymen, the seven SO.
ciaiist Aldermen and members of the
state, city and borough executive com
mittees, met at the Rand School, 7 East
Fifteenth Street. After several 'ex
ecutive sessions the conference ap
pointed committee of twelve to draw
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

posed Indian rebellion. They have
called on the representatives of Bra
I'll, the Republic of Panama, Chile,
Paraguay and Denmark in Washington
and have sent communications direct
to the Russian Bolshcvik government
asking for its moral and material sup
port.
Federal agents have been on the
trail of the couple for two weeks.
Their arrests were ordered by John
G.. Knox, Assistant United States At
torney, who took personal charge Of
the case.
When arraigncd before Commission
er Hitchcock the girl was defiant and
refused to answer questions. Hitch
cock pleaded with her as an American
to aid her government in the appre-
hension of all connected with the plot.
you are an American" he said.
"Havc you no love for your own coun-
try? Will you not aid it in it's hour
of need?
II have nothing to say and will have
nothing to say in the future" snapped
the girl.
Held in Heavy Bail
She is accused Of violation of the
espionage act and was held in SIC, 900
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Six, NOT $50, japanese
Killed BY Bolshepikt
[Stof Correspondence

WASHINGTON, March lS.Ilhs
State Department received a cable 70.
day from Minister Reinsch at PeSihs
transmitting a later report on taS y;
armed clash at Blagovestchensk, s,,
be1a, due north of Harbin, oetMssA
local japanese guards and the boiSas' ,';sad
Wiki. Only six Japanese we've a,a.ed' n.sd
instead of 150 as previously repoisS0'
and II wounded. 49,, >, ,he
Ambassador Francis reported 10 sn sno
department to-day that the bo.sn;- Pm
Wiki had changed the name OF Insm oa
party to the Communist party: ;L.sr Lsu@
Trotzky, formerly Foreign M'nsS.su, .ss
remains at Petrograd in charge oi wv
Peoples Revo outionary Commune eJaI VS.
missaire, thus indicating tina; ne ne Nas by
not broken with Lenine compie'e's "
withdrawing from the ministry. 20.
Consul Summers. at Moscow, urass
ported the ratification BY the Sonsrlsus rsvs
Of Soviets of the peace with 'he W.
tral Powers. ,he,s
He reported also that the menu'i;, aIs II
o. the American Red Cross foimets9 ,hs ~
Rumania are all safe and out % IN IN
German lines, some Of them ne,ls nas.s. =.
their way to Moscow from oas'sIIII s n
The queen of Rumania deccrsleu a.
the Red Cross physicians ano hu''''
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
'SGGslass'' i'm Bread
I sgl.las Out TO Have
Been Mere, G, Sand
A Few Loaves Sprinkled
Was Blow Aimed at
Bakers

The Federal Food Board is investi-
eating complaints that bread sprinkled
with powdered or broken glass, candy
containing ground glass and buckwheat
flour containing glass or sand and silica
have been supplied to consumers in
New York City and several suburban
towns during the last week
Candy bought in Nowburg and King
ston, and believed to contain ground
glass, is being analyzed by the board
Chemists are to make their report to-
day.
Three loaves of bread from Hoboken
Mount Vernon and New York City are
in the possession of the board. They do
not contain glass, so far as examina-
ton has shown, but small particles OF
glass have been found between the
loaves and their paper wrappers.
Tempered With in Wrapping
"The bread was tampered with in
the wrapping and not in the baking
said Arthur Williams, Federal food
administrator for New York City. "This
leads ME to believe that it is the work
of some malicious persons with a
grudge against the bakers, perhaps
The bread is the product of well+known
bakeries. 1 don't know wheather it
was wrapped at the bakeries, but
think not.
There is nothing to show that it is
he work Of an enemy agent. 1t is
obviously not a widespread attempt tc
poison the. food supply. The Food
Board has not asked for the aid of the
Department of Justice.
CAS- for the candy, it came from g
Greek restaurant in New York City
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Send Pro-Gerrnans to
ront, Urges Bishop
Especial Correspondonce1

PHILADELPHIA, March 1S.-"send
the German-AmeA:ican Alliance to the
front line trenches, and turn pacifist
pastors over to the Department of JUS
tice."
This demand by Bishop Theodore S.
Henderson, Of Detroit stirred the
Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference to the widest applause day.
II want to pay my respects to the
Germans and pro-Gcrmans of this
country" Bishop Henderson declared,
speaking with tremendous fervor.
of had my way | would mobilize
the German-American Alliance and
send it's members to the Western front
under the leadership of Senator La
Follctte."
Scores of men arose and cheered
madly. The spiritual atmosphere was
shaken for the moment. 1t gave way
to patriotic demonstration without
precedent in a religious meeting in
PHILADELPHIA.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Chose Inuolued in
Indian Revolt PIof

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1s. - S.
Nath Chose, Hindu, arrested in New
York to-day on an Indictment from this
city, was said by Mrs. Annette A.
Adams, Assistant United States District
Attorney, to be one of the most i'm
portant figures in an alleged plot to
set on foot in this country military
expedition tc overthrow British rule in
India. A group of the alleged con-
spirntors Is now on trial in the United
States District Court.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
American Girl
And Hindu Held
For IndiQr, Plot

plot designed to free India from
British rule. cause friction between
the United States and Japan and bring
about an alliance of the conspirators
in India with the Bolsheviki of Rus
sia was disclosed yesterday by Federal
agents when two Of the alleged leading
spirits were arrested and held in heavy
bail by Samuel Hitchcock. United
States Commissioner.
The prisoners are Sailendra Nath
Chose. Hindu, who was indicted in
San Francisco for conspiring with Ram
Chandra, Franz Bopp and others 10
start military uprising in the United
states to free India, and Miss Agnes
Smedley. an American girl. who has
been writing and lecturing for radical
organizations in this city.
Government agents believe the plot
Is OF Teutonic origin. The woman.
VINO is SAID TO have lived under d mum
Der Of aliases in different parts OF the
country, was taken into custody at The
shop operated by the Hindu and her
self at 15s Waverley Place, which has
been used for the dissemination Of &C.
ditious and pro-Gcrnan literature
She was known as Mrs. Agnes Brundin
in San Francisco. where she met
Chose.
Traiied for Two Weeks
Both were known TO the authorities
as mcmoers OF the Hindu- German
band Of plotters headed by Chandra
Chakraberty and DR.. Ernst Sekunna
up about year ago. Ghose vas ar
rested in the house in West I20th
Street formerly occupied by these
leaders
For some time the couple, with
others, have attempted 10 raise funds
in this country u finance the pro-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

been unable to compose, together with
threatening political disturbances s'slt st
Peking, requires the use by Chin. @f
all her available strength at home VA
"ln addition, China at present is o,.
cupying Harbin and attempting to sd. M
minister Northern Manchuria Hsr ~
fort has been effective in a way to -,
certain degree, but it is not all tba.
las been hoped for it. If any Chinese
forces should be permitted by Janan
to go into Siberia at all in connection
with such an expedition, they would he
very small, as China has not enoueh
armed and effective troops for employ.
ment at home. Therefore she could not
undertake a foreign expedition"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19

He has appeared under many aliases,
including Sanchez and Metra He OBJ
tanned financial help in San Francisco
from Chakraberty, and came to this
city last year and was for some time
associated with DR.. Sekunna, chemist.
Miss Smcdley was for some time
active in the forum movement started
by the Rev. Percy Sticknev Grant, of
the Church of the Ascension, and has
been writing magazine articles on
radical subjects. She is said to have
married man named Brundin, in Cali
fornia, but to have later divorced him.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Scriven Goes to the Front

ROME, March A. Brigadier Cen
cral George 7. Scrivcn, who is m at
tache Of the American Embassy here,
is leaving as the guest of the Italian
government for visit to the whole
Albanian and Macedonian fronts
New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Nearing to Answer Gompers

Professor W. Scott Nearing, presi-
dent of the Peoples Council, is cx-
pccted to answer Samuel Gompers's at
tack on the pacifist movement mt the
Rand School, 7 West Fifteenth Street,
Thursday night. when he speaks to the
text "Labor in Warp
The Washington herald., 1918-04-17
ST. MATTHEW'S DRIVE
TOTALS $63,O2O.52
Miss Sands Wins Cup for Women
With $l2,304.43.

With a total of SS3.OeO.52 for
liberty bonds collected in yester-
days drive. st. Matthews parish
closed it's campaign with a banquet
last night at which silver loving
cups were awarded to the captains
of the teams which brought in the
largest grand totals.
Miss Marian NJ. Sands won the
cup for the women with S12.3O4,-
AZ: second. Mrs. Anna F. Haney.
S5.21O43: third. Miss May Fenwick,
S4.415.43.
Henry r. Cover won the loving
cup for the men with SJ,S7S.43; Paul
F.. johnson. second with s4.SS3.43.
and NJ. +. Managan. third with 81
391.4S.
The final day of the campaign
brought in $T,5S4O2 The silk banner
i'm the women's division was won by
Mrs. Anna F. Haney. whose report for
the day was sl,021.43. Henry R.
Cover won the banner for the men
with a days return Of $l,221.43.
There were two $1,000 gifts yester-
day. One was from Rt. Rev. Mgr.
Thomas S. Lee, pastor of the parish,
and the other from Mr.. and Mrs. P. A.
Drury. Blaine Coppinger raised his
contribution to $50. There was an
anonymous gift of SEQ. Miss Eliza
beth Shea gave $500 and Miss N. r.
Deans raised her gift to S225.