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TERSE—CLEAR
Saves your time and
your eyes
SIXTEENTH YEAR, NO. 128,
PRESIDENTS HENCHMEN
KILL SHIP WARNINGIH
COHCRESS; BREAK NEAR
iWilson Determined to
Act If More Ameri
cans Die
DEMOCRATS
ARE DIVIDED
Many Would Waive
Rights to Keep Coun
try At Peace
BY I'SITKD PRESS.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. As con
gress convened today, all Indication*
nerv that President Wilson had won
his first desperate skirmish with
the forces who favor conceding the
German submarine i*»*itlon to the
extent of warning American* to
stay off armed liner*.
Any »ffort to adopt a renolutlon
to that effect. It seemed clear, would
he suppressed, and that without the
necessity for the prealdent person
*lly api»carinff before congress, a
move predieted by some administra
tion men yesterday.
So convinced were administration
leaders that they hsd the situation
In hand that expected engagements
at the White House were not made
by Chairman Stone and Chairman
Flood, of the senate and house for
eign affairs committees.
Flood was able to report that his
committee absolutely would not re
port out any such resolution. Stone
had only to guard against a flood
of oratory, having avoided any op
portunity for consideration of a
warning renolutlon by obtaining a
recess, instead of adjournment, last
night, he believed.
German Ambassador Bernstorff
said he had not received his in
structions from Berlin regarding the
l T nlted States demands that she
armed merchantmen question he
Joined wjth she settlement of the
Lusitania negotiation*.
Possibilities that might cause
further delay were suggested at the
cnityunty. but it wa* said no tnfor
mat lon to show the InsfrucHons ac
tually have been delayed has been
received.
That it will he necessary for the
It •nllaaol «*n Pur Klr*r».i
NEBRASKA STATE
HOUSE BOMBED
in V SITED Pit ESS.
LINCOLN. Nab., Feb. 24.—An at
tempt was made to blow up the Ne
braska state cnpltol building early
today. A bomb, enclosed in a steel
< nsing, was exploded in a trash
burning furnace In the west wing.
Great New Peril to German
Cause in Russia’s Advance
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Hero Hr** the latent move* in the* Russian drive In the far east. (1)
Shown where the north win* of the Turks, defeated at Enerum, Is falling
b.irk on Treblcond, which Is threatened alao by the Russian Black sea
lh>et. (2) Shows the Turkish center retreating to Ersinjan. (3) Indicates
the third Turkish army, now cut off from communication with the others,
and fleeing toward Diarbekr. (4) Denotes the route of the Russian ad
vance; once they reach Ras-el Ain, which la the present terminus of the
liaadsd railway, they can effectually block further supplies being sent to
Itagdad and will ultimately be in a position to follow the railway toward
the Mediterranean, thus cutting off the Oerman advance on the Sue*
viinal. (5) Shows where a British force is surrounded by Turks, to
whom relief is coming up the valley of the Tigris, forming anew peril
for tbe Turks
BRIDGE MUST BE
UP BYJUNE 23
City officials will insist that the
temporary bridge to Belle Isle be
completed by June 23, the last day
of school.
The common council, Tuesday
evening, ordered the commissioner
of public works to advertise for bids
for anew bridge. In preparing the
specifications for advertisement. As
sistant Corporation Counsel William
E. Tarsney exercised extreme care
to avoid possibility of further delay.
The payment by the city of a bonus
for completion of the bridge before
June 23 was suggested as a means
of hastening the work. The first
advertisement will appear Friday
and all proposals must be filed with
Commissioner Fenkell within 10
days.
This will make the third time the
city has advertised for blda on »*
temporary bridge. The first low hid
was approved hy the Joint commit
tee on bridges and ways and means,
but was thrown out by Commission
er Fenkell. The second low bidder
had his proposal approved bv the
romninn council, but the aldermen
Inter rescinded their action because
he did not comply with a 90-day
provision In the rpeciflrations.
Says Boy of Today
Needs Chores
Chores!
The city boy today doesn't know'
the meaning of the word. The wood
his father split and carried, the
walka he swept, the snow he shov
eled. the errands he ran, have all
been usurped by modem efficiency
and superlative civilization.
"The boy of today needs chores,"
saya Calvin R Kendall, of New Jer
sey. commissioner of education In
that state. Chores are the comple
ment to formal education, where a
country boy sharpens his wits and
Ingenuity and develops his paiiea<£
and re*pon*ft»!fffy. The best sitlp
stitute the city boy can be offered
Is manual training and shop work,
and when the board of education
asks for fun her appropriations for
this work, give it to them. It isn’t
tomfoolery or a fad. It s a down
right necessity
*l>on , t And unit with the board
of education, but influence the citi
zens you know to see the value of
going deeper Into their pockets and
bringing tip the wherewithal to
make things better.”
The number of immigrants who
came to this country via the port
of New York In the year Just ended
was only 95.467—ab0ut one-tenth of
the number who came the year
preceding the war
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DETROIT TIMES
AT THE REAR ENTRANCE
PORTUGAL
NABS SHIPS
OF TEUTONS
Action Is Expected to
Bring War With
ToW*rs
36 STEAMERS
ARE TAKEN OVER
Nation Is Capable of
Furnishing 240,000
Trained Troops
LISBON, Feb. 24. —Germany and
Austria are expected to declare war
Immediately upon Portugal, as the
result of the action nr the Portu
guese naval authorities. Carrying out
an official decree, (’apt. Rego, com
mander of the Portuguese na\al di
vision, has seized .ifi German and
Austrian steamers, some of them
large vessels, lying In the Tagus
river.
Foreign Minister Costa announced
that the vessels were confiscated be
cause Portugal needed transports
and because of the fear that they
would escape into the Atlantic, pos
sibly to raid allied commerce. In
support of this statement, he said
that only Tuesday nl»;ht the German
steamer Ockenfels had escai>ed from
the port of Flinchal, Madeira islands,
without clearance papers. The
Portuguese minister to Germany was
today instructed to call the matter
to the attention of the German for
eign office.
Though no stale of war has ex
isted between Germany and Portu
gal. the Portuguese government, un
der the terms of an alliance with
England, has openly sided with the
allies. Portuguese troops have aid
ed the English operations against
the Germans In Africa.
It Is believed that the govern
ment's arbitrary action will force
an immediate break with Germany
and Austria. Officials, however,
professed confidence that whatever
the outcome of the affair, Spain,
at least for the present, will con
tinue to preserve her neutral posi
tion and that Portugal’s course will
not Induce her to enter the war on
the side of the Austro-Germans.
Captain Rego carried out the de
cree at 4 o’clock yesterday after
noon. Aboard a gunboat, and under
the guns of two Portuguese war
ships, he visited each Austro-Oer
man vessel, gave the crews three
hours In which to disembark and
after they had left hoisted the
Portuguese colors. As the German
and Austrian sailors were being
rowed ashore the Portuguese war
ships hocyned a salute of 21 guns.
The government’s action was ex
tremely popular and crowds gathered
In the streets today, cheering be
fore the government buildings In
dlgnaMon against Germany has been
rising steadily since last summer
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916.
when a German U boat sank two
Portuguese ships. The Portuguese
congress on two separate occasions
has declared It to he the duty of the
government to declare war on Ger
many, whenever that action seemed
necessary.
Under an old treaty by which
Great Britain guaranteed Portugal's
integrity, the republic sent troops
against the Germans In Angola.
West Africa, alleging ns a further
cause for action that the Germans
had previously invaded Portuguese
territory.
About 120.000 Portuguese troops
are now mobilized anti about that
many more can be put in the field.
NEW YORK. Feb. 24.- Both
1 Portugal and Spain have been mak
ing heavy purchases of ammunition
recently in the American market,
according to imornmtion obtained
by the United Press several weeks
ago. This discovery was made at
about the same time t..*»raltar (Ms
patches carried the hint that Spain
was preparing to attack "ortugal
and Join the Teutonic powers if a
favorable moment was offered.
CATHfIIiCS’TO
BUILU CHURCH
On petition of Bishop Foley the
common council. Wednesday night,
vacated the alley between Quincy.
Blaine and Pipgrec-ave*. Anew
Catholie church, the forty ninth I;;
Detroit, will he built on this site to
take care of a rapidly growing dis
trict. Not a house in the area that
the proposed new church will serve
is over live years old.
The church will be celled (be St.
Theresa, Hnd will relieve St.
parish which is now overcrowded to
such an extent that mass Is being
celebrated in the basement for some
of the parishioners. Th*' first unit
of Bt. Theresa church will cost
about $30,000. Additions to the
church will he built as the parish
develop*. Fr. J. J. McCabe will he
In charge of the new parish.
NUkt It 0 frrte-t OiiT. Take
noonday lunch at Hotel Grtawold.
•0c Adv.
rrlatlnc—Fh» plain nent kind—that
la rl*M— Times Joh Dept.—Main 4X20.
Pacifists Meet in Washington
As War Talk Fills the Capital
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Wilt,
more war talk iu the air than at any
lime In months, prominent delegates
from a score of organizations today
joined in a peace demonstration at
the capltol. Before the house for
eign affairs committee, they urged
adoption of Representative Mever
Ixmdon’s resolution proposing that
President Wllscn call a peace coun
cil of neutrals.
The speakers represented almost
all nations and hundreds of thou
sands of memuers in various so
detles. They expressed conviction
that the time Is ripe for peace pro
posals If made hy this, the most
powerful neutral nation.
Representative London read tele
grams from Socialist leaders
throughout the I’nlted Btales promis
ing co-operation In his peace plan.
Among today’s speakers were
Morris Hilqult, of New York, and
SECOND BIG
SHIP TAKEN
BY MOEWE
British Liner Brought
Into,, Port of
Santa Cruz
206 PRISONERS
HELD ON BOARD
Four Other Large Ves
sels Shared Fate,
London Fears
P.Y USITED PRESS.
LONDON, Feb. 24.—German
commerce raider* who yeuter
day ran the captured British
steamer Westburn into the port
of Santa Cruz, Canary islands,
dashed out to sea early today,
scuttied the vessel and escaped
in boats, according to dispatch
es from Santa Cruz.
The Germans landed all their
-ritish prisoners before sinking
the ship, a later dispatch said.
LONDON. Feb. 24—Dispatches
from Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. Canary
islands, state that the missing Bri
tish ship Westburn has entered that
port in charge of a German prize
crew, with 206 prisoner* aboard.
She Is believed to have fallen
prey to the German raider Moewe.
The Westburn. a 3,300-ton ship. left
liverpool Jan. 21, for Bueno* Alrea.
It 1* feared that the steamer*
Flemenco, Horace, Luxemburg and
Edinburgh met a similar f ate, as
they are long overdue.
Way** Mineral and Tnrklab Hatha
for men and woman. Open all night.
•-Adv.
James II Maurer, of Reading. Pa.,
of the Socialist executive commit
tee, President Johnston, of the In
ternational Association of Machin
ists; Ernest Hohm, secretary of the
Central Federated union, New York;
Herman Bernstein. New York editor
and member of the Ford peace par
ty; Abraham Hhiplacoff, Brooklyn
Assemblyman; Henry M. Haviland,
New Y'ork attorney; Mrs. Jeasle H.
Maackaye, Woman’s Peace Party;
W. T. Thom, Baltimore Society of
Friends; lairs P. Nelson, Denver
journalist and Ford peace party
member; Mine. Lucy Thoumain,
delegate to the Women’s Interna
tional Peace Congress; Dr. L. J.
Fisher. Chicago; State Senator D. B.
Moiitgomery, West Virginia; Percy
Tetlow, of Ohio, representing United
Mine Workers; Dv. John J. Ardnn.
Scranton, Pa., and Dr. Isaac Hour
wlch. New York publicist.
GERMANS EIGHT MILES FROM MtH
PARIS ADMITS; SEVER SURROUAOM
VILLAGES TAKER; KAISER DIRECS
BERARDMAY
TAKESTUMP
FOR WILSON
Expected to Return to
America for Cam
paign Tour
WILL TELL OF
CONTROVERSIES
Expected to Bare Way
I Bryan Hampered the
President
Bv CARL W. ACKERMAN.
(Sfu/T Correspondent united Prett.)
BERLIN. Feb. 24.—Ambassador
Gerard, It was strongly hinted to
day, may make a speaking tour of
America in support of President
Wilson’s candidacy for re-election,
If the Republicans make the Wilson
submarining policies their chief tat
get of attack.
Gerard plans to visit the United
States before the Democratic na
tional convention in June. If he
finds the president under heavy Are
by opponents of his dealings with
Germany, he may take the stump to
explain a few things about the sub
marine controversies that the
American people know little about.
The ambassador is convalescing
from the injuries he suffered early
•his week while skiing near Munich.
Persons close to him said today that
in addition to considering campaign
ing for Wilson. Gerard expect* la
urge the necessity •#*« strong LsTHf
plank at the Democratic convention
in St. Louis.
Ambassador Gerard, it Is report
ed, is convinced that Europe is pre
paring to flood America with cheap
products at the end of the war, to
the detriment of American indus
tries. It is understood he will urge
the Democratic platform makers to
advocate a tariff wall at least high
enough to shut out this kind of com
l>etitloii.
If the eircuiustances make It pos
slide. Gerard may give the Ameri
can public many interesting side
lights on the submarine controver
sies. He may, for instance, explain
why Germany thought at the be
ginning of the negotiations that
America was bluffing and did not
mean what she said in her official
notes.
Gerard himself tried for weeks to
impress upon German officials the
seriousness of the situation. Mean
while. Ambassador Dumba was In
forming the Austrian government
that Secretary of State Bryan had
assured him the United States would
never take strong action against
Germany and the Austrian govern
ment was passing this information
to Berlin.
Foreign office official* told Ger
ard of Bryan'a alleged statement. To
add to the complications a politician
from Illinois, carrying credentials
from Bryan, arrived here, met many
high officials and assured them that
President Wilson was writing bis
notes for “home consumption."
What Gerard thought of these
moves was communicated to Col. E
M. House on the latter's recent visit
to Berlin.
THE WEATHER
Detroit »bH vlrlaltji Tku radar
eight anti Frlda>, annrttled. priilialil)
light ianwi raider Friday i moderate
winds, aklftlag to aorthneal.
I .<»«er Wlrklgnm I’rohahly aann
flurries Thursday alfht and Fridas t
eolder Friday| freak shifting nlndi,
hei'omlna aorlkweat.
Highest temperature tkla date In
pant « yearn. M la IIMMi lowest. II
keloar aero la IMM.
Oa« year a«n todayi Highest tern
l»eratare. 40 1 lowest. Kit mean. .Itl|
eloady neatker with .01 Inek of rain.
Tke nan netn Tkarnday at dild p. m.
aad rlnen Friday at Till a. m.
Tke moon rlnen at 12i&0 a. t ”'rl
day.
NK WYORK, Feb. 24.—Demanding
to bo arrested for murder because
hlo conscience troubled him. a man
answering the police description* of
Jean Crones today surrendered tn
Patrolman Gallagher. He said he
was Crones and later gave hit
name aa George ttanaipph, 34. of
Scranton. Pa. Two wltneaaes who
knew the Chicago anarchist when
Crone* lived in New York said the
man was not the fugitive poisoner
Printing—tke plain «Mt kind—tkat
tn risk!—Timer Jnh l)ept.— Mala 4A20.
last EDrnii
>■• * x.. i %,T!v' "SSM
SHOOP IS
REWH.E.A.
PRESIDENT
Chicago Man Chosen
Head of Department
'of Superintendence
WOMAN IS
MADE SECRETARY
Marguerite McGuire,
of Philadelphia,
Gets Post
Kansas City was chosen as
the next place c.f the N. E. A.
meeting.
John D. Shoop, superintendent of
the public school? of Chicago, was
elected president of the department
of superintendence of the National
Educational association, Thursday
afternoon, in Arcadia,
President-elect Shoop succeeds M.
F. Bhawkey, state superintendent of
schools of Charleston, We6t Va,
Fred L. Keeler, superintendent of
public instruction of Michigan,
whose home is in I.ansing, was
elected first Tire-president, and John
Dietrich, superintendent of schools
of Helena, Moat., second vice-presi
dent.
Marguerite T. McGuire, supervis
ing principal, of Philadelphia, was
elected secretary of the department,
succeeding Lucy Wheelock, prinoi
(UmiltwM m fas* Klftra.)
Women Who Figure in City 1
Hall Graft Case in Chicago!
II
Above, Mrs. Page Waller Eaton, center of “woman political
dal;” below, Mra. Louise Oaborne Rowe, commimoner of public «aM§|||
fare, named in ‘-graft*’ charges, in Chicago. Jllll
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—“ Cities of
America need women brave enough
to martyr themselves. If necessary,
to And the crookedness In politics,
exi>ose graft and kill It.”
This Is the declaration of Mrs.
Page Waller Eaton, center of a
woman-politician cyclone that has
struck Chicago and in which the
city council will investigate charge*
by Mrs. Eaton against her superior
officer. Mrs. Iconise Oaborne Rowe.
Mrs. Baton was appointed super
intendent of social surveys la«:
spring bv Mavor “Rig Util” Thomp
son. whom she supported In the
campaign.
oniTc|H
Other Assaults ChccHH
ed With Loss, Parftjfl
Claims viMB
BEGINNING OF ‘i»
DRIVE FOR PARfIH
Fall of Fortress WgJH
Leave Road
Say Critics
COPENHAGEN, Fsb.
Kaiser Wilhelm has arrive# ' fIKHBSI
the Verdun front to enc°ur«gMß||B
hie troops to the grsataat
forte, according to •erlle BnHHH
vices today.
The kaiser, the roperti
addressee his troops each
urging them to conquer VSfBfIHHHj
any coat.
AMSTERDAM, Fsb.
Belgian vessel Zetbrugge
been sunk off North HMfIHH
lightship. The crew was
ed.
COPENHAGEN, Fab.
The crew of the Swedish
er Moland, sunk whila en rs*it|9!||B
to the English port of
Hartlepool, hat been plckatf
the North Sea.
VIENNA, *Fsb. 24—An HbW
lan transport, carrying trMfgyHHH
away from Albania, has
sunk by Austrian aeroplane* |M||||j|
the harbor of Durazze, It wm
flcially announood today.
LONDON. Feb.
reports that a Japanese
has appeared In the Metfßaißßß
ranean are unfounded, th«
ted Press wae Informed authahsmv'V:-'^
iUtlvely today.
PARIS, Feb. 24. —French mHH
ea Fa«e ■hesa
[ Her salary was f. 1.000 a y«iC3Hl||l
first official order, she charge** mß||||
to “come across” with one t biri l-;;
her salary to supjiort the
slster ln law. Mrs Margaret MivetawH
"until the imm>nr could make a pUc*Bf*-j
for her." She says she was
the mayor needed help because |H|||
was under heavy expense. WKm
"In June I gave a check for ftfljH
a third of my monthly salary*JHjH
Mrs Rowe." said Mrs Katot. i
"1 decided tn make the
pure politics When I got
1 resigned ” iHi