The Detroit times. [volume], July 26, 1917, NOON, Image 1

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Aliens To Be Called On Next Draft
/W' ' .T 7 v
Sufficient Is Too Much
All the worth-while news of this war
weary world can he told in ei>{ht panes
if those w ho are editing it for you work
hard enough.
SEVENT EEN T II YEAR. NO. 25 9 .
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DOWN OWN TROOPS IN FLIGHT
U. S. MOVES TO BRING
THOUSANDS OF ALIENS
ONOERORAFTPROVISIONS
Agreement With Italy
To Call Her Subjects
Already Under Way
PUBLIC OPINION
FACES ACTION
Injustice of Exempting
All Foreigners
Is Apparent
Ry WERH C. FILLER.
PtafT Coi rrzpoH irut nt . I*ret*
WASHINGTON. July 2« —The
United Hf.it*.' I*- oday negotiating
with the Allies to legalize drafting
many hundreds o»* thousands of
alien* In tins country to fight und* r
the American flag.
Hefor** the time for a second levy
the necessary abrogations of treaties
and action bv congress will bring
aliens under thi diaft law.
In every section of the nation an
outcry against the "obvious injus
tice" of the present 1» w*s applied
to non -citizens Is rising Already It
has reached congress and forced
’ action
The MoCumher resolution to draft
aliens Is today before ;» subcommit
tee of the senate foreign relations
committee. Under this resolution
aliens may be drawn Into the array
or deported upon refusal to serve.
The war department has approv'd
the resolution but the state depart .
mens hHs pointed out diplomatic »b j
afflictions In specific trea'les with
a half doz*-n countries preventing
drafting their citizens info the Unit
ed Slates military service
At the Italian embassy today It
was stated diplomatic negotiations i
were under way to nring 160,000
Italians of military age in the Unit j
rd States un 1* r the provisions of th" .
draft At present neither the ltal |
lan ~>r American governmenta rati,
la\ hands upon them.
Knch of th* allied countrte~ is ex
pert-*d in icf|ui* sce In the p* 1> |
nullification of any old obstructing
treaties and agreements. Hut
whether they do or not, officials
h* r* declan that congress may act ,
that law* supersede the treaties
Nations at war with Germany ar*
hardly expected to object to con
acrlption of their subjects Mere.
The mail of the war department
Is flooded with hitter protests from
cities with a large alien population
They claim that nearly every Amrr
ban will he taken in the first levy <
from certain districts with heavy
alien population
Von xa ho SntTer From IlhenmotUm,
Mt Clemens waters will help you. —
Adv
Gives Place In Registration
Line to Waiting Priest and
Escapes Draft Into the Army
Proving attain that a little htt of
human kindness and court ray never
costs anvtMm* and often htlng* re
ward Is the case of Rnvmond Bor
nardi. No. 11 ft Palmer are. eas*. a
young member of the pariah of Our
Lady of the Rosary Catholic chtireh.
at Woodward and Med bury aves
A long I in* of im-n standing
in front of the sch«»ol at Harper-are
and John R at., June f,, waiting to
legister for the dtsft, The row wan
more than a blnrk long, when the
Rev. Prank A PobrWk*. assistant
Pastor of the Rosary church, arrived
to report before the registration
hoard, lie was very busy, having
an important engagement In hla
church In Just a half hour, when two
of his parishioner< were to be mar
Tied
Hopelessly the priest surveyed th*
long line. He reallxed that if he
remained he would disappoint the
pair of souls and If he departed h»
might not get another chance to rei.
Ister during the day. While hesltnt
log he heard a voice calling him. It
came fiom young Bernard!, up In the
forefront of the line. |fe had waited
for more than two hour* for hf«
GIRLS IN FIGHT;
ONE IS STABBED
Helen Kaminski, 10 years old. No.
28 Bollard st , was stabbed In the
!*n bv Vln ent Ronia. 18 years old,
No. Pollard st , In a quarrel Wed
nesday afternoon, according to a re
port to the police.
RULtUG ON
■GRAND JURY
DUE TODAY
Supreme Court Expect
ed To Decide Juris
diction Question
ACTION SOON IF
CONNOLLY WINS
Jurors Will Be Ordered
To Report Saturday
Morning
The ruling of the state supreme
court on Prosecutor Jasnowskl's pe
tlt lon for a writ of prohibition to
prevent Judge Connolly from con
ducting hi unteniplafed grand Jury
Investigation in'o the public office.*
of lb-troll and Wayne county. Is
eag* rly expected thrnout the city.
Thursday. It is believed that a de
cislon will be handed down during
flic day.
If the recorder’s right to hold a
grand Jurv probe is upheld there
are many lawyers who predict that
it will he- the grand Jury, with
James H. Pound as special prose
cutor. will start its inquiry next Sat
urday. unless some new legal action
is taken to block the probe. The
Jury commission Is ready to convene
this afternoon to draw 23 names
from the special venire of 160 drawn
when Judge Connolly first deter
mined to conduct his investigation.
If the Jurors are drawn, they will
he ordered to report Saturday morn
ing.
Should Judge Connolly's Jury get
into action with the sanction of the
supreme court, there Is no possibil
ity of a circuit court Inquiry next
turn, and it was about to arrive.
"Father," he said, "will you take
my place In the line and I’ll go back
to the foot.? I’ve wasted the day.
» nyway, and perhaps you are In a
hurry,"
With many apologies the clergy
man accepted the young man's offer,
was speedily registered and hasten
ed b*~k to his church and made a
young couple very happy After the
ceremony he went to a fruit store
and obtained a quantity of delicacies
whhh he carried in the young man
who wns so slowly making his way
toward ihe registrars and who was
weary and hungry
It paid the young man to wait. If
he hnd held his place In the line he
would hate been among the very
first to be called, for KY. Pokrlefha’*
number came from the lottery no*
very early in the tarns, The man
who waited nhtalned a number that
comes so far down the Rst that
there Is no danger of his being sum
moned <»n th* first call at any rate,
for It is far bevond the quota hi?
district will furnish.
On the other hand. Ft. Pnkrlefks.
because of his profession, Is exempt
DETROIT TIMES
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Ferdinand: “I am too popular to he treated like Tino or Nicholas.”
(Copyright. Canada, 1917, bv the Public Ledger Company), fttnited Sfa'*'* Copyright. 1917, by the Public ledger
Company). All rights reserved.
September Jasnowski has been
strongly in favor of> holding'the In
vestigaMon before the cfrcufi court
I>eclaring that the arrest of An
fhony J Kloka was planned to di
vert public wrath from other per
sons In the county building. State
Senator James A Murtha. one of
Kloka’s attorneys, ha'* Issued a state
ment declaring his client Is being
unfairly treated by the authorities.
"With Tony In Jail, the*e officials
think there won’t he so much cry
concerning others who may be sub
Ject to criticism." said Murtha "The
former county treasurers merely
turn over a check for the amount
they took as Interest on public
funds Kloka turns over thousands
of dollars In cash and valuable sc
eurltles, and in the end he is thrown
in Jail and held on hail which I de
clare to he outrageously excessive.
"A man held for homicide often
is released on fin.ooo Kloka Is held
on $3 6,000 We are able to offer
s2o.o*>o, but It will take some time
to get $36,000.”
U. S. SAILING
SHIP IS SUNK
Crew of Augustus Writ Saved,
British Admiralty
Announces
liONPON. July 20.--The American
sailing *hlp Augustus Welt was
sunk June 21, the crew being saved,
the admiralty announced today. No
details were available
The vessel was owned by Welt A-
Comp.vnr, hf Walrtohoro. Maine It
was a foulr masted wooden sailing
ship of 1.222 tons, built In IRS 9. The
port of registry was Huston
TARIR, July 20 --No French ships
were sunk by submarines in the
week Just past, an official statement
today asserted Six French vessels
were unsuccessfully attacked.
frlallar—tß* plain neat kin*—thnt
to Hah* —Tlaoes J«k Dept.-—Wain ISM.
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917.
By Raemaekers
HARPER UNIT
REACHES FRANCE
Friends of Physicians and
Nurses Relieved By News
of Safe Arrival
Many anxious parents and friends
of the physicians, nurse* and young
men with the Harper base hospitto
unit are greatly relieved in min’d In
the receipt of cablegrams telling of
the safe arrival In Kndland, and lat
er in Franc*, of the unit, which waa
nnnounced Wednesday in The
Times.
The first cablegram front ITngland
reached the city Tuesday night, and
early Thursday morning Mr. and
Mrs. C I, Rrumme, No. 1T.4 Tavlor
nve., received n nics'i.tgc from their
nn, Carl, 19 years old, raying the
unit had arrived taf»l> In France.
The places of disembarkation In
Kngland and In France w< r>- not dis
closed In the cablegrams It Is said
that Washington received word of
the landing of the uni’. Monday.
Harper base hospital uni*, of
whieh Hr Angus McLean is *he
hond, left Detroit July 3. for Mbn
town. Pa., and left the latter en
campment July 12 to sail ’h* fol
lowing day, which, altho it wns Fri
day, the thirteenth, held n< terrors
for the unit members, who laughed
at the superstitious fears of their
friends
The uni* during Its stay in Alb-n
town was the envy of nil the other
unit* In the fact that Detroiters
had their complete equipment and
were ready *n th l minutest detail
Many of the units had been In \llm
town several weeks and were still
awaiting uniforms and other equip
ment.
vmi •» ! mb r i.ovr.i n
If yen have t-ore fun Tlure's t>ar
rei* of If In th* Coliseum under the
floard Walk. .IrfTersr.n at Hrtdge
Adv
PHstlsg—fke plain neal kind—that
to rt«bt—-‘Time* Jab KIM,
U-BOAT LOSSES
GAIN FOR WEEK
Twenty-five Big British Ves
sels, Increase of Seven,
Sent To Bottom
IX>NI*;N. July 26 Twenty-ona
British vessels of mon> than 1,600
ton* each and three of le*»a than
1,600 tons each were sunk last wpfk
l*v mines and submarines, according
to the weekly admiralty report on
shipping losses One fishing vcrsel
was also sunk
The announcement of the British
admiralty shows an increase ,jf sev
en vessels of more than 1,600 tons
sent to the bottom as compared with
the report of the previous w>>, k.
when 14 were sunk In the smaller
category, the loss is one less than
that given In the report of the pre
vlous week, while there was n fail i
Ing or by seven In the number of
Ashing vessels sunk
"Arrivals were 2,791; sailings 2.-
791.
JURY ACOUITS
RENA MOUNEY
oWman Bomb Snwpect Frevd
After Deliberations Last
ing 1 Hours
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 Mrs. j
Rena Mooney, one of five defendants
In the homlelde ra ;<es growing out
of the preparedness parade bomh
explosion here last summer wn« [
acquitted Wednesday. After a
trial lasting nine and one half w <-eks
the Jury deliberated r.l hours before
reaching Its verdict of "not guilty." 1
Seven other Indlctrmnts are pend I
tng arslnst Mrs Mooney, but it is
•ineertaln according to the district
attorney, whether she will be tried
again It was said the indictments
would bo dropped.
BULK OF RUSSIAN ARTILLERY LOST
IN ROOT, IS FEAR; DESERTERS RIDE
OFF ON HORSES WHICH DREW RONS
fine Russian Girl Soldiers
Give Lives for Democracy
BY WM. G BHEPUBRD
Btaft Correanundent Vruled Breaa
PETROURAD, July 26-Russian
women have laid down their lives
on the battlefield of democracy.
Against the reports of traitorous
retreat of some of the Rus*lan male
divisions before the Austro-Germanx,
came word today of how the wom
en’s "legion of death” on the Vilna
front fought and died in repulsing
an enomy attack.
For the first time in the history
of the great world war, casualty re
port* today chronicled the death
and injury of women in the
trenches.
Five women of the ‘‘T>eglon of
Death" were killed In thla first en
gagement in which they were called
upon to resist with arms, the inva
sion of their country.
The ‘‘lxurlon of Death” left Petro
FRESH SNA6
STRUCK IN
DRAFTING
Men of Conscription
Atfe Barred From
District Boards
MANY WILL HAVE
TO BE DROPPED
Staff of Examining
Physicians Is Also
Affected
ntv rierk Lindsay and his staff
of statisticians Thursday morning
had ready for every exemption board
in the rtty a list of names equal to
almost three tlmrs the quota each
district will he asked to supply f<>»
the army of conscripts. In all 2.!jho
lottery numbers sere Identified it,
the order they were drawn and ’hit
aggregated slightly more than 99.00 m
Detroit’s quota is 11,829, so it is re
garded as certain that enough name
have now hern Identified and lis*. 4
to more than make up the quo*s*
These lists were f-rnt to the boards
early Thursday morning and It was
» xpected they could th» n get ft,
work.
Another complication has art*.* i
however, which bids fair to disrupt
numerous boards and cripple nearly
all of them
AdJ Gen Persev Thursday morn
inr notified the chairman of each of
the 26 exemption hoards that men
of draft ~g* would not be eligible t<
seive on th** boards, nor would men
attached to anv branch oft! •* arm'
If this rule is followed I* will hno'>
off the boards many of the member*,
and especially the staff of physician
will be woefully deplete 1
Eminent physicians and surgeon*
have cr me forward in large number
to volunteer their service- It. -he
physical examinations without pay
so the work of ex .mining the dmf*
, and men mi' he expedited and r** T u
pleted in the three days by ts
gov. rntn.-nf Most of tl rtn, how
•-▼er. nre members of the Officer*'
Medical R* serve torps and. th-i<
fore, would not be eligible 1 o servi
Man' of those not members of th.
authorised military nrgaolfatlon «r
of draft are r.nd subject to call for
that reason.
CMty Clerk Lindsay believes that
unless this clause ran be amended
there will be rreat difficulty In get
tLMr ii'ffri»st men to carry on the
grad barely two weeks ago, Its girl
soldiers garbed in trousers, puttee*,
and tunics a trifle longer than the
usual army coats. They wore the
regulation army caps, over bobbed
hair and carried packs only a trifle
lighter than those of the regular
Russian soldiers.
They entrained amid the proud
tears of their families, soberly, like
veterans. The girls were of Rus
sia's best blood, of the strong stock
of some of the clty’B Intellectual,
financial and social leaders. Most
of them were students at universi
ties. Some were wealthy. All
pledged to “do or die" for Russia.
Today Petrograd proudly realised
the Russian women were capable of
the supreme sacrifice of their lives
for the new deraooracy. Except for
the women of Belgium, none have
suffered so in the years past a*
those of Russia.
work. Early Thursday morning he
was receiving telephone calls from
all over the city asking If these
clauses had to be obepel and he
.hastily wired both the war depart
ment and AdJ.-Oen. Bersey for a
more liberal construction of that
phase of the law.
Meantime the boards were getting
settled for tlie work and were be
sieged b ynien most of whom did not
present themselves for examination
but were eager ta learn their draft
numbers. Despite the columns pub
lished on the matter, thousands are
still going to the city hall for the
Informal lon which is no longer given
out there They are referred to the
district boards. Hundreds were In
line at the dty hall Thursday morn
ing seeking Information before the
office opened.
BRITISH BUMB
U-BOAT BASES
IjONTHW. July 26 A dispatch
from Amsterdam says a telegram
from the frontier announces Eng
lish airmen, during the last two
nights, have bombed Zeebrugge, the
German submarine base, and the
town of Bruges. Belgium. Explo
sions and fires followed the attack**
A submarine shed a’ Zei-brugge wn
damaged, according to the dispatch,
and it I* probable a submarine was
blown tip.
.May Quit For Softs
Hnmor Rn< It Milnnr la W*»»rl"«
kl* r*>l|n>llan m collector of tlie
pert of 'rn I nrli keena*e of Ike
HiintlMtaf ration’* •llltarir t»a»nt
• nftr*«iat pickets. Mr was oiaiurl
for tke picket*.
Prtntlag—tke plain neat kla«l—-«kaf
la Hgkt—Time* ink Dept—Wain 4AM
NODE
IN DETROIT: ONE CENT.
German Agents Plant*
ed In All Regiments
To Foster Panic
TRAITOR LENINE
IS ARRESTED
Agitator Faces Death!
Sentence As Foe
Spy
liONDON, July 26. —Russia’s root*
*-d army la Galicia may have lost to
the Gormans all ths wealth of ar-
Hilary and military supplies which)
the Allies concentrated for Oao.
Hnisiloff’srgreat offensive. Ehren If,
Premier Kerensky and his ministry,
armed with unlimited powers lao
ceed In stemming the rout, ■ applies t
of Incalculable value have been lotrt.,
The panic spread by German j
agents has not totally nnseatad the
reason of those troop* but the nits
of the German advanco tias been so
rupld that it Is doubtful If the two
linnets oan save ail their equipment*
One encouraging feature was ths
loyalty of Russian and Rumanian ,
troops In the southern Carpathians •
where they have vigorously attacked i
the Teutonic forces. The lighting on
the far northern front, around Vllng,
however, has practically teamed*
Petrograd dispatches admit lnatabii
lty of troops there.
Dispatches today served to ii>
crease the realization here of thogl-'
gantlc task undertaken by the new
democracy— that of re-forming ap
parently panic-stricken, spy-infested
troops with n new spirit that would
Imbue them to make a stand against
the ever Increasing encroachment of
the Teutonic armies.
They told of the wild confusion
with which the Russian Eleventh
army turned tail and ran, some of
Its soldiers shooting down their own
comrades of the artillery that they
might flee on the horses attached to
the gun limbers. Dig guns were
abandoned. Hupplles were left where
they lay. Stores of ammunition were
disregarded.
Through all the story London de
tected the work of the German so
oret agents "planted” In Hus' irtn reg
iments The Germans apparently
waited until the offensive had attain
ed its height with a gn at concentra
tion of forces and supplies and then
acted concertedly, so that the great
est possible b<»oty might fall into
rlie handr of the Germans.
Gieat fear whs f< It here today for
supplies of the Seventh nnd Eighth
Russian armies, ulso on the Galician
front.
PETROGRAD, July 2'* Vocolal
! • nine leader of the pro German
pacifists, chut ged with being In the
pay of the German government, and
the chief Instigator of treasonable
propaganda in Russia, who has been
a fugtive from Justice since the re
cent rioting Iti Petrograd, was ar
rc-’ed tn Finland late yesterday. He
is kept under strong guard and faces
sentence of death as an enemy spy.
T. K.'S FOURTH SON
LEAVES FOR FRONT
NEW YORK. Julv 26 Quentin,
the fourth son of (*oL Roosevelt, to
lea>• for the French front, Is now
enroufe to Europe with a contingent
of v r Than nmtu . If wit: ham**
THE WEATHER
Prfrnlt mill vicinity!
nlykt itii*l Krl«t*i> a«-n«-rulty folri *»•-
tic ft mndtrso «»**! h *k rsfcrl • »lml».
lower Wt< tilßou i l.rnrrolly fair
I'burarirT nl|kl anil I'rlitnyi *etnr
r hot cooler In north anil wral yaor
fl*na.
Windsor Man Found Dead
Ale* r>erckat»2/*lf> \esrs nhl. No.
*7 Tuscasora st . Windsor, was found
dead. Wednesday n*ghL on the l>. U.
R rslltoad tracks at River Rouge. J
The Feast of Rt. Ann* will bo ob
served today by Roman (,’a.dtaftb
Churchaa ihruout the worUL a
.