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50 KILLED AND INJURED IN CIRCUS TRAIN WRECK Today Tlrrw Wwti Tkse Crises. Mick f tie Aaiails k Hgra Bemgs. NATIONAL EDITION WEATHER: Fair and coBtboed cool today aad prob ably Monday. By ABTIIUB BRISBANE. Justice in Chicago U tryinsr, on the charge of mender, a young woman named Plotka. She sits, sometimes dry-eyed and defiant, sometimes weeping. Occasionally she faints, especially when kind things are said of her and the judge suspends the pro X ceedings and has her carried out into his private room. Too -would be interested if yoo could be taken into a court of the pagan priests in Borne, centuries before the birth of Christ, to see a Vestal Virgin tried for letting the fire go out. Yon would read Trith interest an eyewitness de scription of the Bomsa girl, con Penned and buried alive. You are equally interested, be cause the courts of law and the crimes of men are part of the de sirable civilization, as it is shown is our courts. The judge sits on the bench, careful and impartial. One man, Tepresenting the peo ple, talks to the jury in rows. All his talk is: Tor what she has .done this, woman should bo killed." Another lawyer, representing the girL talks to the same jury, cross-examines her accusers, and ill his talk is: "You must sympa thize wth this young woman. Kever mind if she did kill the man. Think of the circumstances and set her free." Sere is the rtory, incredible, horrible, told and sworn to. It is for the jury, carefully obedient to the instructions of the judge and their own consciences, to say what shall be done. The gi'l accused worked bard and earned $40 a week at her trade. She met a young man named 'Jinera. stadyingijsedlcine. She declares that aheSgrkeft to help pay for his ed She swears, Snses and ttho marcs on Sad throat confirm it that t her and choked her. Her employers say that the man, came hanging about her workshop atTOon sad &1E&S&&BZ:ttgtt JarTy, that she might pay for wEaJresie Other charges, infinitely worse involving the murder of children unborn, are made against the man who bow lies buried under the ground shot to death by the girt on triaL - "What will the Jury do with this young woman? If tfcey believe what she and others say of the dead doctor is true, will they decide ?, as she killed the. doctor, the court of justice shall now kill her? Very interesting are these trials of women accused of murder, with their Tarylng results. Pauline Plotka's case is one of three that have recently Interested Chicago and the outside world. First there came Ruby Dean, a young woman studying the organ, she said, that she might play later in church, and while she studied singing in cabarets at night, she, very young, met a middle-aged veterinary surgeon and was put in jail accused of shooting him dead. She said he hadn't been very kind to her. She held the pistol that Killed him, but it was an accident. The Jury said: "Go home, don't worry." Another case was that of a school teacher,, no longer so very young, nearly forty. At that age she, fell violently in lore also with a middle-aged man, who was a veterinary surgeon. "When' he lost Interest In her she did not 'kill him. but .killed his unfortunate wife., who came to ask the younger woman to let her hus band alone. The judge and jury sent her to prison for nineteen years. This was a surprise to many, as out of more than twenty women recently accused of murder in or very near to Chicago not one had been con victed. These women represent not merely three separate crimes, but are part of what we call civilisa tion, part of the strange mixture ot all the animals back of us In evolution the mixture called human nature. , If you can tell what was the matter with Ruby Dean, Grace Lusk, Pauline Plotka. the two middle-aged veterinary surgeon b, and the young doctor who took the young woman's money and paid with his life, you will be able to answer a good many questions con- cernlng this queer combination that we call "modern civilization." htr-facd NUMBER 10,568. AUSTRIA IN VIENNA POPULACE . GART, Ind, June 22. One hundred and fifty employes of the Hagen-beck-Wallace Circus were killed and Inured yesterday when a Michigan Central army equipment train, run ning at tremendous speed, hurtled into the rear of the gaudily-painted circus train In which they were slumbering. Thirty-three bodies, terribly muti lated and burned, have been lifted from the wreckage. One hundred and eight men, women, and little children, injured In the crash, are being cared for at hospitals in Gary and Hammond. Many of them were believed to be fatally hurt. Sixty persons are missing, accord ing to a hasty check by Edward Ballard, an owner of the circus, after a visit to morgues and hos pitals. Some of them may lie la the wreckage, which was swept by fire and Is still smoldering. Acting Coroner Henry c. ureene. Who made rounds of hospitals and morgues with Ballard, estimated that the death tell will be between thlrty-flve and fifty. He belleres that many of the missing are being sheltered in nearby houses. Engineer Missing. The equipment train was unoccupied except by the crew. The engineer is missing and railroad officials belieTe he was killed. The "cause of the wreck had not been officially determined. The circus train had been halted because of a hot box. 7. n had pone lo the rear to take the usual safety precautions. General iii&censer Agent L. W. Lineman, of the (Continued nn Page 2, Column 8.) LOST AND FOUND DOOK ConUlnlnr adrutlslns natter and letter Introducing Oeo. N. Ball, box 94, Tim office. it DOG-WMU poodle, lust clipped; lost June n. Reward, nth st. a. w. y fcKXJCAN'bOG-Black and tan: answers to name of Podro: quit small, thinly formed, tart ears, prlmlnent ryi wore sreen collar. ton Columbia-road K. W. Peons Col. tai-J. II WILL FARTT who found black stilt trrabrslla with leather handle and fold monacram (D, T. iC J at Keith's Theater. Thursday matinee, Idndly rotanraamo to m Blltmnre st. 14 (Coaitetttd on Clauifitd Pagu. I T r S& . S0 J& J. iMTiiin'afireissr fgJnwrirTTin fliffT" Tit ffrmT kwSFMl ' JFrrvjaBenWiJsaTAasaVTisasWf-jMyeFiAgr -'SaeaffeejPKs. issssssilHsaaMii-i - f'lSsT"T7v"'sMfsa . - Jxtl9lbQ4fiaT3BBc7EarS41KlBKr' Ie.VTT' SSSSS JLt. J?-M,tva.VApEsr79 DEATH UST GROWS AS CIRCUS WRECK DEBRIS IS MM Cablegram To THE PIAVE RIVER DRIVE CELEBRATING THE IN ITALr' tOtwrtrtt: IMS; UMtT.ViCsktaa.1 17-Year Locust Dae To Visit Va.,W.ViL, and " N. Car. Hhs- Summer The locust are coming! Watch for "em! So warns the Bureau of Ento mology of .the Department of Agriculture, which says that the ninth brood of the seventeen-year locust is due to occur this sum mer in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Next year the main branch of the family the tenth brood, the entomologists call it is due to arrive, and will occupy the Ohio Valley and the Alleghany Moun tain region from Alabama and Georgia northward through Penn sylvania to parts of New Tork State and New England. HUSBAND TO FACE WIFE IN PULLMAN KANSAS CITT. Mo., June 23 John R. Jackson was taken to Khelblna. Mo, last night to face a charge of wife murder. Mrs. Jackson was strangled and thrown from a Pull man compartment occupied by her husband and herself. Jackson, In an alleged confession to the police, said jealousy of a saval recruit was the cause. Mrs. C. A. McCalU Jackson's mother-in-law, told the police Jackson formerly llvd in Birmingham, Ala., and was known there as "Irving Mor-r.n- She also said he left Birm ingham while under $5,000 bond in as embexsltng ease. FntMEN INJURED AT PHILADELPHIA BLAZE PHILADELPHIA. June 21. One fireman was severely burned and two others badly cut In a fire which de stroyed the furniture factory and warehouse of Louis E. wiser, en South Fifth street, yesterday. 'I . r ' '- CHARGE OF KILLING WASHINGTON. SUNDAY, JUT2 23, 1918. ADMITS "GREAT VICTORIES . - : x THREE POUNDS OF SUGAR AINTH IS Drastic restrictions on sugar consump tion have been announced by the food administration. They include: Reduction of home consumption to 1 pounds a person a month. Reduction of less essential manufac tured products, including sweet drinks, to SO per cent of their normal sugar requirements. Cutting of Ice cream manufacturers to "S per cent of their normal amount ot sugar. Food administration officials are work ing on details of a ration card by which they win enforce the three pounds a month rule. Serious Reduction. This rationing scheme follows a seri ous reduction In the available sugar sup ply for the United' States and the allies. Shipping shortage, destruction of over 200 French sugar factories, loss of thou sands of acres of French and Italian beet sugar lands, have combined to cre ate a serious scarcity of sugar, accord ing to the food administration. The strain upon America to provide sugar for the allies Is Increasing. Only strict conservation will enable food officials to tide over the crisis without btlng forced to mo-e drastic steps and In creased prices. The new rationing regulations are effective July 1. Every manufacturer will be required to certify his sugar needs to the Food Administration be fore he can obtain sugar. Only the following products will get their full amount of sugar under the new rule: Canned fruits, canned vegetables, explosives, meats, catsup, chile sauce, drugs for medicinal pur poses, apple butter, packers of pre served fruits, mince meata, glycerine. Insecticides, capsules, and ant poison. MOTHER JONES ENDS STRIKE TO AD) U. S. MORGANTOWN, W. Vs, June 23. Mother Jones has reversed her role. Reports from the flerepta coal mines say that the noted strike leader has ended a strike there by urging the men to return to work and help the Government. NEW FOOD RULING 1 ' liatian Embassy SUPPLY W PROBE M IMLY Disotvary.ef Relations Between D. C. Merchants and Army Mess Sergeants May Start Bto Inquiry. A natloa-wida isTeatijcatKm -of re litioaa between dealers aaijplyinjr trmy.caap with-Iooda and the mess aerwuBTitr-rgcerring food suTOlIes for t -eaajpa'jnay follow tfie tmcovar- r here Aeaterday of -raft ring .i ji!)ii. --l-- I... i swtr-TnfeHtIrfBrrf j&ai profeafciy resulted in XBt'los & thfc Government of thousand of jdoHara. 1 Three mesa s'enrcant already naVa been placed under arrest by the mil itary authorities as the result of in vestigations at 'Washington Bar- racks and at Camp Humphreys, Va ;the big engineer camp about twenty miles south of Washington where 17,000 men are in training for over seas service. Fe&d Dealers Arrested. The arrest of' the mess sergeants waa announced by the military au thorities following the 'arrest of two Washington food dsalefs, itorrls Whittlln. proprietor ot the WhUtlin Meat Company, at B38 Louisiana ave nue northwest, and Henry B. Terrett. wholesale and retail meat dealer at 9SO t-oulslana avenue, on charge of violation of Section 33 of the penal code, or an attempt to defraud the Government the penalty for which Is a fine of not more than 15,000 or Im prisonment of not more than five years, or both. The military authorities refused to make public the names of the mtsw (Coutlnufd on Page 2, Column 6.) FAMRlLLSlO T NEW YORK. June 23. In a sudden fit of insanity Thomas J. Sfaelley, a real estate broker, yesterday shot and killed his six-year-old daughter, Grace, and his four-year-old son, Thomas, Jr., seriously wounded his youngest daughter, Dora, twelve months old, and then shot himself through the right temple. He and bis surviving child were taken in an unconscious condition to a hospital where physicians say they will die. E KAISER'S END, SAYS B LONDON. June 23. "Amerlca'a en trance into the war sounded the death knell of German militarism." Premier Borden, of Canada, declared in( a speech at the dinner given by the Empire Parliamentary Association In honor of the Dominion members. Borden paid tribute to America's economic aid to Canada. CHILDREN HOOTS HIRD AND SELF NTRY OF AMERICA CANADIAN PR 1 6 Turkey Would Take This IF SHE COULD AMSTERDAM, June- 23. Turkey1, ww-mbm, accorsf to the Turkish ncvnpvpct Aati, as rtjmfc Iiba in lie Berlin Vonreerts, arc as follow.: SatTaatler of all occspied parts of Faleadwe aal Irak (a xten've dktrict in West CeraL Persia, cer rwponteir to aackat Me&t). RMtera&m of TaHaA domaaliw im Eyypt hJesjBMtcacg of Persia asd the mees eet of Brig mlkitmrt -Aere. m Criaaea, a German prace m Geerpa, aa m Armenia, as refeats. Asters to .keep the oconied potties ef -Northern Italy eBT Tripoli, Dotlecweaae, aJ Cyreaaka; arc letaiaeal te Tariiiey. THF' INrXT, June 23. General von Lu dendorff, the German field command er. In, a message to Vienna, says that Germany Is unable to dj more as re gards food for Austria, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. The general adds that efforts now being made will result In an increased supply ot foodstuffs being obtained from Bessarabia and the Ukraine in April and May. The forces on the west ffont, he says, have only the necessary up plles, the reserves being exhausted. Grain shipments from the Ukraine, says a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen,, have "been held up by a new disturbance.-, . ALUS A RIOTS ifeottrtfwbckmen were killed and nineteen were wounded when troops fired upon strikers ot a locomotive factory in Vienna yesterday, French cables report. The strike movement Is growing. and a large number -of factories in Vienna are affected. Sternest repressive measures are being exercised by the military and police. Attacks of socialistic papers against the government continue, and workers are urged to conduct demon strations. It was estimated that 45,000 strikers participated In the riots which oc curred yesterday In two district within Vienna. AHACKOmRL IS UNCONFIRMED LONTJOK, June 23. No confirma tion has been received of the report emanating from the Amsterdam bourse that an attempt had been made to assassinate Emperor Karl. Little credence was placed in It, but every etiort was being made to trace its source. A Zurich report today said tnere were further demonstrated In Vienna yesterday, huge crowds parad Ing the principal streets and demand ing restoration of the bread ration, increased wages, reduced hours of la bor, and Immediate conclusion of Seace. The police Intervened and Isnersed the demonstrators. The au thorities Issued a proclamation. threatening severe measures to re press the disorders. Vienna newspapers freely publish details of strlke'developments, which In Itself is regarded as highly signifi cant, the government heretofore hav ing sternly suppressed any such news. The Nleu Frele Presse bpldly de clares that "a revolution la possible." MM CANT GUNS 11) BLAST AUSTRIA : livS.PlAN umm worn ZSaaSe Says DEFEAT ef the Black Sea by pleca am Otto- i America Is ready to launch a big gun program for three more years of war. The guns will be built for the primary purpose or smashing the Germanic defenses on the east bank ot the Rhine. They call for three field armies of 1,373,000 men each, or morp than 4.000,000 in all. This Is the meaning ot the five billion-dollar fortifications bill which was reported to the House yesterday.! It reveals the purpose of General Pershing and the allied staffs to carry the warfare clear to the German bor der and assault the citadels along the Rhine with ten. twelve and fourteen inch guns and slxteen-lnch mortars. The program for carrying the war Into the enemy's country was formu lated by Oenerai Pershing, approved by the allied war council In Paris and by the general staff of,the War De partment here. The exact amount carried In the bltl Is J5,S,09,::. of which 12.C21, 4tl.S5 are In contract authorizations and JI.8U.610.J79 in cash. For the artillery program J500.000.000 Is al lowed in cash and S729.711.2SS In au thorisations, making a total of il,2Ii. 721.23S. Field artillery and ammuni tion are to receive (he bulk of the total appropriations, i3,40t.0C5.S4S be ing allowed for these purposes, the balance of 127.030.379 being for sea. coast defenses and other purposes. Ordnance Factory, The big gun program necessitates the construction of an ordnance fac tory, and tor this purpose 240,000,000 la allowed. The plant Is being con structed at Neville Island In the Ohio river, neat Pittsburgh. It will manu facture guns from the steel ingot up to the finished weapon. This will be (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) 42-TON BRITISH ILS.Fi E - AN ATLANTIC PORT. June A British tank weighing forty-two tons has arrived here in charge of Captain Lush. It will be used for In struction at American military camps. This Is the biggest tank ever trans ported, being much larger than .the Britannia. MAIL UP 21,000 FEET. NEW YORK, June 23 Carrying two passengers Lleutentants Webb and Bonsai Lieutenant Culver broke the altitude records on the Phfladel-Dhla-New Tork airplane mall rout today when he reached a height t 21,000 feet. TANK ARRIVES IN CAMPS PRICE THREE CENTS. FOE IIS 10 JUSTIFY FAILUREOF OFFENSIVE V1nna iMHgFa! 'SUtml irt of AlliedTlpHty In Mm and Guns Numbers Realty Against Italians. . i Austria admits an ItaUaa -victory and. la. sedans to Justify the erltaa troua. failure . ot bar carefoSr olazaea drive bv itHae ctatemeata of allied superiority fcaaeo aatt naa, iSoraertVtae ItaHaa-aabaair Aeri- K It is declared that.ta newayyett of the dual 'monarchy are. itafrnfng that the Auatriaaa vrers outaoai- ibered all along tha Una and that the 5 Italian superiority at every atratejic point was overwhelming. The Aua trians also are insisting,, in their ef fort to squelch dissatisfaction of the Anstro-Hungarian populace,- that the French and British sent heavy reserves to Italy m soon as the drive was launched. Italians Otrtauabcrei. The Italian high command denies the truth of the allegations, asserting that the Austrian forces outnumbered the Italians and their allies at TfiT point. A cable to Ambassador dl Cellars stated that Premier Orlando cava equal credit to- the wonderful defen sive organization o( tha forces In Italy and the high morale ot the troops for the Italian victory. Premier Orlando gave out an Inter view after a Conference with General Diaz, commanding the Italian forceiv and an Inspection: of the battle line In wblch he said that be had been im pressed by the wonderful spirit ot tha fighting men. He was. recognized by a brigade of infantrymen marching toward the first line and was greeted with shouts of "They shall not pass." Premier Orlando mentioned tha fact that General Diaz was In com munication with every unit of his force throughout the fighting and that the complete reorganization of the line of defense waa effected twice in six days. Italians Never Sieve Fit. Minister Blssolati has issued a statement at Rome, to the effect that the Italian soldiers were never mora fit for the struggle than they are now and that their high morale is directly produced by their under standing of the great responsioiuiy lying before them of stemming tha Inroads of tha Austro-Germans. Home dispatches indicate that further intense fighting may be ex pected. The continued attacks of General Wurna at Montetlo Is held to show that the Austrlans are will ing to make unprecedented sacri fices in an attempt to atone in a small measure, at least, for their reverses, .. The military situation was de clared to be unchanged all along the line, despite the fact that tha last reserves were being pressed into service. The Twenty-third Aus trian Army was thrown against tha Italians near Fossalta. but were un able to advance against the Italian Ore. EXPECTS SURRENDER OF AUSTRIAN ARMY By COL. AME3UCO FIO, Military Attache at the ItaUaa Em bassy. Unofficial reports that the battle along the Piave is slackening in. In tensity confirm the b.e)let that the Austrlans have definitely a1aadonew the offensive there. lb fact, our ad vices are that the Italian troops are decisively victorious in that sector. The fruits of the victory are lliely t 41 i y