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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
RESULT OF BOMB PLOT
Conspiracy Gives Impetus To De.
mand For Strong Laws.
Congress May Pass Bill Prohibiting
immigration For From One to
Four Years.

Washington, May 5.-Impetus has
been given to the demands among con-
gressmen for strong laws restricting
radicals in this country by the bomb
plot on the lives of public men.
Indications are that among the first
measures presented in the new Con-
gress will be one stopping immigra-
tion of from one to four years. This
is designed to keep out Bolshevik
propagandists.
Congressman Burnett of Alabama,
author of such bill in the last Con-
gress, has announced his intention of
re-introducing 1t. Burnett was one OF
those to whom a bomb was sent.
The report of the Overman COM
mittee, which investigated Bolshevism,
Is counted ON to furnish the founda-
ton of a number of restrictive laws.
The report is expected to be presented
to Congress In June.
Aside from the anti-immigration
bill other measures likely to be pre-.
sented include:
Prohibition against carrying the Red
flag
Broadening the governments pow
ers to suppress radical newspapers.
Strengthening of the existing
espionage laws.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
Searching for Anarchists Who
Mailed Bombs to Many
Prominent Persons.
PAPER SOURCEIS FOUND
No Arrests Have Been Made Thus
Far, But II Was lntimated That
Several Radicals Are I'm
der Suspicion.

New York, May 5.-Postoffice in
justice and New York detectives un-
der Inspector Faurot, continue their
hunt for the anarchists who deposited
in the mails more than a score OF
bombs addressed to prominent men
In all parts of the country. No arrests
have been made as yet, but it was
intimated that several radicals are un-
der suspicion.
Details of the progress made in the
inquiry were not disclosed. District
Attorney Swan announced that he had
received an anonymous communica-
ton suggesting that he investigate the
activities of three men who have been
prominent in Socialist and I. w. w.
activities. He intimated that he would
act on the suggestion.
Paper Maker Located.
Captain II. ID. Trounce, explosives
expert of the Bureau of Mines, arrived
here from Washington, and made an
examination of the bombs 1t was
found that the dynamite In them had
Eeen soaked in nitroglycerin to make
1t more deadly.
The bombs which have not been ex-
amined were removed from the post
Office when it was discovered that acid
designed to explode illuminate of mer-
curry caps was eating through threat
ening an explosion.
Officers at work on the case >
convinced the Internal machines n J
made here. They expressed satisa e.
tion at their success in finding the
plant which manufactured the paper
used as a covering for the bombs.
Only small quantity of the paper has
been distributed. 1t may be possible
to trace the assassins by means of it.
No Connection of Cases.
1t was said there appeared to be no
connection between the bomb con-
spiracy and the finding of a quantity
| of explosives In house in West 45th
| street, raided by government agents
seeking narcotics illegally held The
| quarters were occupied by Charles j.
Pinchel, alias DR.. Charles r. Bald.
| win," who conducted medical in.
stitution." He is charged with vio-
lating the drug act.
Pinchel told the police that the ex.
plosives were stored in his living
| apartments by Oscar Parker of Phila
| delphia, whom he met while serving
in the army
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
United States Chamber of Com.
merce Report Is Based on
Complete Statistics.
PREDICTS LARGE CROP
Acreage Never Before Equaied Has
Been Planted and a Yield Of
Nine Hundred Million
Bushels ls Forecast.

Washington, May 5.-The United
States Chamber of Commerce, in a
report based on statistics obtained
from all sections of the country, re
peats the prediction by the department
of agriculture of a wheat crop this
year even larger than the record
breaking crop of 1914.
The report stated that an acreage
never before equalled had being plant
ed and yield of 900,000,O0O bushels
of winter wheat was forecast.
THE condition of the winter wheat
is so high as to be without precedent
or parallel" the report said.
1T is, in fact, a monotone OF per
fection. The plant came through the
winter and the trying month of March
unscathed and unhurt. In many sec
tions of the West and Southwest IL
was necessary to pasture 1t to live
stock to keep down its rank growth
Reports of damage are mostly re
markable by their entire absence.
There are mere rumors of Hessian fly
and some stray predatory insects, but
catastrophe or some Egyptian-like and
unexpected plague of insects inter
vene, the yield probably will be 900,.
100000 bushels, or about 33 per cent
more than the great harvest of 1914"
The report stated that one interest
ing side light OF the situation was
that about 20 per cent of the yield
would be south of the Mason and
Dixon line. Southern states which
never before grew winter wheat, this
year have large acreages planted, 1t
was said.
Reports showed that the seeding OF
spring wheat had been delayed from
10 days to two weeks by excessive
rains, and decrease of acreage as
compared with last year was expected.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
SHIPS TO GUIDE PLANES
go Destroyers to Mark Route for
Trans Ocean FIiers.
Navy Trio of Aviators VIII Travel All
Night on First Leg of Flight
to Europe.

New York, May 5.--At 1880 o'clock
"some morning in Newfoundland" the
navy's Transatlantic seaplanes will
begin their flight OF not less than 1874
hours TO the Azores, 1t was learned to-
day.
The three planes, the NC-1, 3 and 4,
will travel all of one night and will not
alight before or 6 o'clock the morn
ing after they depart from Newfound-
land. Sixty destroyers equipped with
searchlights will sweep the heavens
with continuous swinging beams all
night for night flying.
For daylight reckoning huge num-
bers will be painted on the decks and
sides Of the vessels so that observers
in the planes may check their course
regularly on the way overseas. Fly
ing will be at height of about 1000
feet, according to Commander Towers,
in command of the air squadron.
Estimates available tonight are that
each machine will consume about $50
pounds of gasoline an hour at the
start, but by the time the Azores are
reached fuel consumption will have
dwindled to something like $50 pounds
an hour, the decrease being attributed
to tightening of the load carried, as
gasoline is consumed on the passage.
Base Ship at Station.
st. Johns, N F., May 4.-The United
st. Johns, N. f., May 5.-The United
States navy became real factor in
the contest for transatlantic flight
honors when the mine layer Aroos-
took, flying the Stars and Stripes,
dropped anchor in British waters at
Trepassey bay. 1t had on board the
crew OF the naval air station which
will be maintained as the base for
the American flying boats.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
KILLS WIFE, BABY AND SELF

insane Farmer Believed Government
Was Going to Take His Land.
Omaha, May 5.-Georgel Greber, a
retired farmer suffering from the hall
lucination that the government was
going to confiscate his land holdings.
killed his wife and daughter. Mrs.
Greber's brains were beatenS out with
q ball bat and her throat out. The
baby's head was severed. Greber
went to the bathroom. climbed on a
table. tied rope to bearip in the
ceiling and around his neck, then cut
his throat and kicked over the table.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
News OF Their Arrival in French
Capital Brings Surprise
in This Country.
BELGIUM IN PROTEST
Territorial Concessions-Five Great
Powers to Take Control of Enemy
Cables-Chinese Dissatisfied.

Paris, May 5-An Austrian peace
delegation has arrived in France. The
delegates have been housed at st. Ger
main
Had No Intimation.
Washington, May 5.-There have
been no intimations that an Austrian
peace delegation was on it's way to
Paris, of which St. German Is a sub
urb. In the case of the Germans the
procedure was to send invitations to
Berlin for the sending of German dele
gates to receive the Allied terms of
peace. In the lack of news regarding
a similar invitation to AustriaHun-
gary 1T seems possible that either an
Austrian delegation has come to
France on it's own initiative for a
special purpose or that the imperfect
conditions of tranmission from Eu-
rope now prevailing have resulted in
the non-arrival of explanatory dis
patches which might throw a new
light on the foregoing message.
Treaty About Ready.
With the work of framing the Peace
treaty seemingly almost completed,
except for some secondary matters,
the Allied and German delegations at
Paris are waiting for the formal pres
entations of the document early next
week. Final decisions on several prob
lens which must be written into the
terms of peace were reached by the
Council of Three.
Cables Must Be Given Up.
Germany must give up her cable
systems, according to reports, but the
Allies will not incorporate In the trea
ty the plan for the future disposition
of this property. The cables will mere
ly remain in the hands of the five
great powers until an agreement Ii
reached as to what will be done with
them. This is virtually the same plar
said to have been adopted in deal
ing with the warships which Germany
has surrendered.
Chinese Dissatisfied.
Objections over some decisions Of
the Council of Three are heard al
Paris, the Chinese delegation issuing
cldttIIeHt 10 tH6 cutCt ludt tnc dClIOI
of the council merely substituted
Japan for Germany in Shantung ant
gave Japan additional control of rail
roads in Southern Manchuria." Bel
GUM, too, is disposed to object to the
conclusions of the council, 1t being re
ported that the Belgians will not OBJ
tain rights they demanded over the
control of the Scheldt river nor terri
torial concessions in the Dutch prov
ince of Limburg and in German Maest
RIGHT.
italian Situation Unsettled.
The Italian situation is still unset
tied, but efforts are being made by
the American and French ambassadors
at Rome to reach an understanding
with Premier Orlando. Measures have
been taken to prevent further attacks
on President Wilson by the Italian
press and by persons engaged in dem
onstrations.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
ALIENS FACE DEPORTATION
undesirabIes Are Being Rounded Up
On Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, May 5.-Parties Of
alleged alien revolutionists are being
made up in San Francisco, Seattle and
other coast points for deportation as
a result of the receipt of mailed bombs
and other radical activities at these
points, Edward White, commissioners
of immigration, announced here.
The recent murder of Mrs. George
ID. Greenwood. Oakland society ma
tron, by bomb and the receipt here
OF Internal contrivances by District
Attorney G. M. Fickert and his assist
ant, Edward A. Cunha, have caused
the immigration authorities to re-
double their efforts to round up all
alien undesirables, White said.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
AnaeIrs Terms Taken Up.

Ann Arbor, Mich, May 5.--No an.
nouncement concerning the presiden-
cy Of the University Of Michigan, re-
Gently offered to Professor James r.
Angel of Chicago, was made by the
board OF regents at the conclusion of
q special meeting just held. An an
nouncement on the subject, 1t was
said, may be made by President Har-
ry B. Hutchins next week. Professor
Angel is understood to have condi-
toned his acceptance of the presiden-
cy on several changes In policy at
Michigan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
RED SUSPECTS HELD IN WEST
Fifteen Arrested In San Francisco
While MANY Leave.

San Francisco, May 5.-An exodus
of persons known to harbor anarch-
istic views is reported by the police
Attempts to detain several of these
radicals for investigation regarding
bomb plots proved that nearly all have
left the city. Fifteen aliens, including
Russian suspected of planting a
bomb in Oakland which killed Mrs.
George Greenwood, were held for de-
portation by immigration authorities.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
SUMMONS TO CONGRESS
EXPECTED ABOUT June |

Washington, May s. - Intima-
ton that special session Of con-
gress will be called by President !.
Wilson to meet about June ! is
contained In confidential dispatch-
es received in Washington from
Paris. II was said In authorIta-
tive administration quarters II was
quite possible that II the situation
in Paris should develop rapidly the
special session might meet even
before June /. In that case, the
call would be made BY cable.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
Won HINDENBURG RETIRES

Receives "Undying Thanks" of People
for His Services.
Berlin, May 5.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg has written President
Ebert announcing his intention to re-
tire to private life.
During the transitional period"
says Won Hindenburg, Il considered it
my duty to serve the fatherIand, but
with the conclusion of a preliminary
peace my task will be fulfilled"
Herr Ebert replied asserting to the
request of the field marshal and ex.
pressing the ''undying thanks" of the
German people for Won Hindenburg's
services and self-sacrifice.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
MEN HAVE WESTERN FEVER

Many Returning Soldiers Looking, for
Big Opportunities.
New York, May 5.-Many American
soldiers returning from France and
who lived in large American cities
plan to migrate to the West or go to
South America "for breathing space
and bigger opportunity" ]. Frank Han
ley, former governor of Indiana, de-
clared upon his arrival here as a pas
senger on the steamship Nieuw Am.
sterdam. He has been in France nine
weeks as a Y. NJ c. A. worker.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
BURNS OFF FLORIDA COAST
Wireless Calls Ships to Vessel Facing
Destruction

Key West, Fla, May 5.-A large ves-
sci enveloped in flames is reported off
Sombrero lighthouse, go miles east of
here. Wireless dispatches gave no de-
tails other than that the ship faced
destruction and three other vessels
were standing by. Three submarine
chasers were ordered to the scene
from the naval station here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
SOLDIERS WIN THEIR FIGHT
Canadian Government Excludes All
Non-Warrinq Peoples.

Winnipeg, May 5.-The Canadian
government has issued order barring
out of Canada immigration of Duk-
hobors, butterflies and Mennonites.
This was in line with recent demand
of soldiers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
SOvIETS STILL IN MUNICH
Reports Indicate They Are Holding
Some Parts of City.

Some Parts of City.
Washington, May 5.-Bavarian gov
ernment troops have entered Munich,
but reports appear to show that the
soviet forces still hold some parts OF
the city.
A rather indefinite report from Lon
don states that Russian bolshevik
army is marching on Hungary" fol-
lowing the arrangement of conven-
tion with the Ukranians. Whether this
means the Ukranians are permitting
the bolsheviki to join the Hungarian
Reds against the Rumanians has not
developed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
OFFER OF REDS TURNED DOWN
Rumanians and czechs Spurn Ad-
vances of Hungarian Government.

vances of Hungarian Government.
Geneva, May 5.-The Rumanian and
Czech-Slovak governments, according
to reports received here, have refused
to entertain the offer of Bella Kun, the
Hungarian foreign minister, to accept
territorial conditions providing that
fighting stopped on all fronts. The
Rumanians and Czechs continue the
march on Budapest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
LOS ANGELES MAYOR FREED

Acquitted by Jury of Taking Brlbes to
Protect Vice.
Los Angeles, May 5.-Mayor +. L.
Woodman, on trial here for several
weeks on charges of having accepted
a bribe to protect vice conditions, was
acquitted last night by jury in the
superior court.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-05
GIVEN F0RTY-EIGHT HOURS
Russian Reds Demand Roumanians
Evacuate 6essarabla.

London, May 5.-The Russian soviet
government has sent an ultimatlon to
Roumania, demanding the evacuation
OF Bessarabia. A wireless dispatch
from Moscow says that the Roumanian
government Ia given 4S hours In which
to make reply.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05
(To be continued

The Springfield Free Press feels aWfully
bad over the poor little rich girls and
boys who lost their lives on the ''Lusi-
tania," but doesn't do any worrying
at all about the many times multiplied
number of poor little poor girls and boys
who were left at home to starve or worse
than that when their fathers or big
brothers were called away to the war.
It's nothing to Erickson that hundreds
Of thousands of such youngsters fail to
receive the education that would fit
them for life but it's a horror almost
unbelievable that few dozen Of the
surplus rich should lose their Hives because
they insisted on riding on the 'Lusi-
tania." Can the sob stuff about the
"Lusitania." You know as we'll as we
do the United States did net go to war be-
cause of the 'Lusitania' incident and
since we did not go to war then there
must have been some good and sufficient
reason which even you can guess.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05
A False Argument.

The following paragraph is taken
from the Clipsheet issued by the Board
Of Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, 2O4 Penna. Avenue S. E.,
Washington, D. c.: prohibition is now
an American Policy. No matter what
his previous attitude, every local citizen
should now BE AMERICAN. The day
of controversy has passed. We cannot
henceforth oppose prohibition as a
world policy without opposing America. -
This is a false argument, not only
in it's conclusion but even it's premises are
wrong and misleading. Even if prohibition
could be termed IAN American policy
whatever that means, it would not fol-
low by any means that an opponent to
prohibition still believing in the human
right of shaping ones own destiny could
be styled an un-American or as disloyal
to his country And still less would it
passed. In democracy every minor
ity be it ever so small has right to
express it's opinion, on any and every
question. But the biggest error in the
false argument is contained in the idea
that because prohibition for the present
actually may become part of our
federal cons titution, every American
should have to work for prohibition as
a world policy. The American policy
has always been not to NEEDLE in the
home affairs of other countries, and it
will be more American in the future also
to stick to this policy than to try and
dictate to the peoples in foreign countries
how to live.
Due to- past and present conditions
in the liquor trade which should have
been remedied in some other way but
were not, prohibition may get try-out
in the United States but it's life, most
probably, will be only short one because
the old spirit of human rights and free
dom inherited from our forefathers I'M
doubtedly will reassert itself and will give
back to the people what by all rights
belongs to them, the right to govern
each one his or her own personal life,
rather than to live by the cut and dried
formulas provided by those who cannot
imagine others as wise as themselves.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05
A NEW DAY DAWNS
Control of Capitalist Industry.

control OF CdpltanSt industry.
Meanwhile, however, we ought not
TO throw away the valuable experience
now gained by the government in it's
assumption of the importation of
wheat, wool, metals, and other commo-
dities, and in it's control of the ship
ping, wooden, leather, clothing, boot
and shoe, milling, baking, .butchering,
and: other industries. The Labor party
holds that, whatever may have been
Ghe shortcomings, of this government
importation and, control, it has demon
strably prevented~a lot of ffprofiteer-
ing" Nor can it end Immediately on
She declaration of peace. The people
will be extremely foolish if they ever
allow their indispensable industries to
slip back into the unfettered control of
private capitalists, who are, actually
at the instance of the government it.
self, now rapidly combining, trade by
trade, into monopolist trusts, which
may presently become as ruthless in
their extortion as the worst American
examples. Standing as it does for the
democratic control of industry, the La
Dor party would think twice before it
sanctioned any abandonment of the
present profitable Capitalization OF
purchase of raw material; of the pre-
sent carefully organized "rationing"
by joint committees Of the trades CON
cerned, of the several establishments
with the materials they require; of the
present elaborate system of "costing'
and public audit of manufacturers &C.
counts, so as to stop the waste hereto.
fore caused by the mechanical ineffi.
cheney of the more backward firms; Of
the present salutary publicity Of ma
nufacturing processes and expenses
thereby ensured; and, on the inforna.
ton thus obtained Tin order never
again to revert to the time profit.
eering) of the present rigid fixing, fol
standardized products, Of maximum
prices at the factory, at the Warehouse
of the wholesale trader, and in the re
tail shop. This question of the retail
prices of household commodities is EN-
phatieally the most practical of all 30
lltical issues to the woman elector. The
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05

Mistah Grounding is some cheerful
progn' sticator all right. He promised
on his sacred honor as an ancient weather
man that there should be no more
winter after Sundays, rain and then
see what we got Monday. Anybody
who believes that grounding knows
anything at all is certainly very cred
ulous person. For our part we have de
Icided to doubt that there is even any
grounding at all who looks for his shadow
on Candlemas Day. 1
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-05
Open Forum !! !! i!

"A conscience is needed tor the age,
as TOR the i1adiuidual a poarer that shall
reueol itself and arouse and convict 1t. '' Ell
Rise up, @, Conscience! Awake Citi-
zens! Rouse yourself Authorities!
b The younger generation are galloping
too quickly, check the reins or Vel
exper: ence a little Reign Of Terror I
These boys, and their 8 games Of sports
are getting to be too numerous, and
destructive. ... III STA III
Something is radically wrong some
where someone is failing to do their