SOCIALISTS NAME CONVICT
NO. 2253; DELEGA TES WEEP
Cablegram Sims Testi
fied Nearly Made Him
Jump Overboard Shown
Not Secretary's.
Original Obtained From
British Admiralty Is
Found to Be Signed by
"A. F. Carter."
Washington, May 13. — Charges
that a cablegram presented before
the senate naval investigating com
mittee during the testimony of Rear
Admiral Sims, bore a forged signa
ture were made Thursday by Sec
retary Daniels. Ho referred to a
message which Admiral Sims had
presented as part of his criticism of
the navy department and which pur
ported to have been signed by the
secretary.
"Somewhere somebody was guilty of
signing my name to an official dispatch
which the original, here produced, shows
T never signed," Mr. Daniels told the
committee, "or of altering a dispatch by
erasing the real name and substituting
'Daniels.' "
The concluding paragraph of the cable
gram read:
"In regard to convoys. I consider that
American vessels having armed guards
are safer when sailing independently."
Mr. Daniels testified that im
mediately upon reading the ad
miral's testimony ho knew he never
sent such a cablegram and he
started an investigation and final
ly found the original dispatch in the
British embassy, which It had been
sent, and that the name signed to
ft was "A. F. Carter, by directions
of chief of naval operations."
'"The statement that it was signed
'Daniels' is untrue" said the secretary.
"No such telegram signed 'Daniels' was
•ver sent to Admiral Sims. In his
'.esuimcny, he reiterated that this dis
patch made him about reedv to jump
overboard,' and that it was signed with
Hi\ name, conveying the impression that
•he civilian secretary of the navv had
presonsilly passed upon the question of
a particular method to protect sh'riping
Bud was re?jstiTig the adoption of the
ronvoy system. I knew 1 never enter
tained the opinion stated in the dispatch
he displayed."
Admiral Sims should produce the per
sou who changed the signature. Mr.
Diuiiels declared, adding that the admir
al owed "an apology to me atid to tho
country for the impresion undertaken
to he made by his testimony based upon
h false signature."
Much of the secretary's testimony was
ievoted to the controversy over convoy
ing troop ships. He insisted that the
Admiral 's course regarding the protec
tion of troop ships caused the depart
ment "much anxiety' and finally be
"bluntly" told Sims that everything was
secondary to the safe-guarding of ves
sels carrying American soldiers.
Mr. Daniels charged that Admiral Sims
withdrew the destroyer escort from the
first convoy as soon as it arrived abroad,
lenving the transports without protec
tion for the return voyage. Admiral
Sims, he said, finally was instructed to
protect the ships when they left France.
Own Reports Contradict Sims.
deferring to Sims" testimony that the
first troop convoy, sent ovei in June,
lftl'7, was not attacked by submarines
and that there was no submarine within
ruN) miles of the place where the attacks
were said to have occurred, the naval
secretary presented messages from Ad
miral Sims giving accounts of such at
tacks.' The first of these messages was
dated June 30, 101T. and said:
"First group attacked by submarines,
longitude 2.1 degrees, ".0, before arriving
at first rendezvous. Second group at
tacked longutude 8. Strongly believe
that enemy obtained information by in
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Debs Nominated for Presidency for Fourth Time
as "Lincoln of Wabash," to Salvos of Cheers
From Convention, but Tears Flow as Orator
Touchingly Describes Leader in U. S. Prison.
New York, May 13.—Eugene V. Debs, federal convict No.
2,253, was nominated by acclamation for the presidency of the
United States at the Socialist party's national convention here.
Cheer upon cheer greeted the naming of the Socialist leader,
now serving a ten-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at
Atl an ta, fo r vi olatio n of the espionage act. The din was continued
as all those who had been able to crowd their way into the con
vention hall strained forward, eyes bent on the platform, where
was set a life-sized portrait of Debs, framed in black.
Nominated by Indiana Friend.
Debs was nominated as "the Lincoln
of the Wabash" by Edward Henry a
delegate from Indiana, Debs' home
state.
In his nomination speech. Henry de
scribed with such effect a visit which
he had paid Debs shortly after the
Socialist leader entered the penitentiary,
that four of the delegates broke down
and weDt.
Morris Hiilquit, one-time candidate
for the New York mayoralty and chair
man of the convention's platform com
mittee. has predicted that the party iu
1!>*20 will poll from 2.000,000 to 3,000,
000 votes. In 1908. when Debs ran for
the presidency, he received 420,97."
votes. In 1912 he recived 897,011.
65 Years Old; 10-Year Term.
Debs began serving his 10-year
sentence for violation of the war-time
espionage act April 13. 1919. Debs, wh.>
-r
nr^dential °^nomînation lfi's ? part*
pre. ldentia! nomination b. ■
,° U . r , ln jes previously. Ile a Demo
™ 1 -ÎT: . ^ u a . m ' ^
the late seventies, he served two terms
in the Indiana legislature from Terre
Haute, his home town H« wi i!
< andul.ite foi < o gi s. t
Indiana district. In 1894 fromMay to
November, he served a sentence in jail
tercepting and deciphering dispatches
sent ine from naval attache's code."
"On the next day. July 1, 1017." Mr.
Daniels said. "Admiral Sims sent this
cablegram :
"'It is practically certain that the
enemy know position of the first ren
dezvous and accordingly sent a subma
rine to intercept before juncture with
destroyers.'
"We had no reason then and have no
reason now, to doubt Admiral Sims'
own positive statements made at the
time that the convoy was attacked; the
report of Admiral Cleaves and the of
ficial report of the French general staff
to the same effect."
Sims Tied Up Leviathan a Month.
Mr. Daniels r>lso testified that Admir
al Sims had objected to the use of the
former (Jerman liner Leviathan as a
troop ship, on the ground that her great
length made her a better target for tor
pedoes than smaller vesels. He also
said the admiral had contended that the
ship should be operated to Liverpool
rather than to Rrest, because of better
facilities for handling her cargo.
The department, the secretary said,
followed the admiral's advice with the
result that the Leviathan had to await
an entire lunar month at Liverpool he
fore she could get out of the harbor.
Later the Leviathan operated out of
Rrest where her turn-around "was
measured in hours instead of weeks and
she broke all records in the number of
troops transported."
Mr. Daniels presented various offi-j
cial documents to support his conten
tion that the convoy system was orig
inally sponsored by the American navy
and that it was not adopted fully until
several months after the 1'nited States;/?
entered the war and had sent many de
stroyers and other craft overseas, thus
providing the ships to make the opera
tion of the convoy system possible.
Lusk Damage Suit
Draws Attention
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Missoula. May 1.1.— Seven criminal
cases and 'J7 civil ea^cs are set for trial
in the district court during the May
term, which has just begun. The three
most interesting of th«i criminal cases
jnre those in which F. S. Lusk. Paul
Quesnel and Charle»; B, Effinger are
defendants.
The Lusk case grew out of a circular
that the defendant, who formerly was
president of the First National bank
here, is alleged to have issued concern- i
ing Philip S. Brown, a Missoula at- ;
torney.
(Quesnel is said to have been identified '
,as one of the group of men that, as- !
jflhulted Fred Miles and robbed him of j
several hundred gallons of whiskv on
Iuly 31 of last year. He was appre
ended in St. Paul.
The others are liquor cases.
Would Fully Advise
Automobile Tourists
of Game Conditions
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Helena, May 13.—Names of fishing
streams, regulations regarding hunting,
fishing and carrying firearms will be
posted at every automobile tourist camp
in Montana during the next few weeks,
according to J. L. Dellart, state fish
aud game warden.
Mr. Dellart says that many cities in
the state arc providing for these camps
and they are being put in largely through
the efforts of the commercial aud civic
organizations and it is his aim to seo
that tourists are given every opportunity
to learn the g-imc laws and be directed
to good fishing streams in the interests
of attracting visitors to the state and
preserving the law without painful and
costly explanations to tribunals.
Winifred Drillers
Go On a Vacation
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Lewistown. May 13.—The drillers
the Kansas-Montana near Winifred have
taken "vacations" and through their
action drilling has again been tempor
arily stopped. It is expected that Man
ager W. T. Brown will very quickly
have the drill going again.
F RANCE WILLING TO RU N.
Washington. May 13.—Senator France
of Maryland, in a formal statement, hns
announced that if the Republican na
tional convention could find no other
candidate to support the principles
which he outlined in a recent speech
as those for which the Republican
party should stand, lie would be willing
to be coin c the party staudard bearer.
at
for contempt of court in an Illinois
V
l VI
conspiracy case.
His present imprisonment results from
investigation of a speech in Canton, O..
June Itl. 1918. which led to his arrest.,.
two weeks later for opposing the war
and urging labor to cease all activities
whicb in any way tended to prolong it.
Every atom of influence and energy in
the Socialist party went into the fight
to keep Debs out of jail, but each ap
peal was turned down. The American
Federation of Labor convention in June,
1919, voted down a resolution favoring
clemency for him.
Won Fame in Big R. R. StHke.
a
The name of Debs as 'head of the
Socialist party of America ' has gone
round the world. _
Russia sought his releasein appeals
through diplomatic channels. With Fre-1
mier I^enine of Russia he last June was
' * ' honorary president of the
wori'l labor congress.
In 1893. Debs organwed the American
Rai]w|v unjon> wh f ch within a short
time won the celebrated (Jreat Northern.
strike. In the same year, the Pullman
strike broke out and Debs and his as
sodateS were placed on trial for con-,
spiracv to obstruct the movement of
■ ps tp( ,
4 , 8jpk „ anH tfap trjfl) wfls .. tcmp £ arily
suspended." Technically the trial is
still pending.
Debs is also credited by the Social
ists with having helped to organize all
the unions which now comprise the "big
of the railroad brotherhoods.
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Made for Final Vote on
Knox Plan Saturday.
Washington. May 13.—The provision
,,, .
,n Republican ncace resolution, re
«(nesting the president to open negotia
tions with (Jerniany for a separate
treaty, was stricken out Thursday on
motion of Senator Lodge, of Massachus
etts, the Republican lender.
After the provision had been stricken
out, agreement was reached for a final
vote on the resolution at 4 o clock Sat
urday.
The agreement was made by unam
mou» consent, atter negotiations between
Senator Lodge and Senator Underwood,
0 f Alabama, the Democratic leader,
jj r _ l.odge's motion to strike out came
as a surpr j so . n,. dir] not explain his
r „ asons f or the motion, which was sus
tajned in the absence of anv objection.
Th) , SPct i 0 n strieken out'had drawn
particular fire from the Democrats and
f, In Senator McCumber Republican of
Sh Dakota KepuDliran,.
Senator Lodge suggested
vote Fri-1
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BILLINGS WILL OBSERVE
"SHIP-BY-TRUCK"
WEEK.
Special to The Daily Tribune.
Billings. May 13.—Plans are being
made by the Billings Automobile associa- ,
tion for a demonstration program for
national "ship-by-truck" week. May 17
'22. Arrangements will be perfected at :
a meeting next week. A $50 prize is to
be offered high school students for the
best essay on the "sbip-by-truck" move
ment.
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