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She iHl - VOLUME XIV. MRS. SIMM'S BODY EXHUMED BY PERMIT DF COUNTY OFFICER i Nesbitt at Wilmington Issues Stai°ment Telling Why He Gave Lea\e to Enter Grave of Wealthy Woman WILMINGTON. X. C.. Sept. 34.—Dr. Charles T Nesbitt, county health officer, announced today that he had issued a permit for the exhumation of the "body o.” Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham. He told Major P. Q. Moore that he would issue a statement to the newspapers later ana explained that the reason he had with held information was that he had been they thought a crime had been com mitted Graham Kenan, "first cousin and broth- -in-law of Mrs. Bingham who is a Wi’mirg’on attorney, issued a state n-snt today declaring that •"members of her fcmily” had had- an autopsy per lorisie i •"th«\,-usual and regular way” *i» adt. e of leading physicians. He said the? were justified in this action by ’ the facts and circumstances relating to Mrs. Bingham's illness and death as disclosed to them." The results of the autopsy had not yet been made known to them, he added. KENANS STATEMENT. Mr Kenan's statement says; The facts and circumstances relating to Mrs. Bingham's illness and death and »« disclosed to members of her family justified them in. and made it their d»"ty to consult lending physicians who advised tfeat an autopsy be performed. This has ben done in the usual and ’■egular way in the broad open daylight by the best experts obtainable, but thd results of their investigation have not vet been made known to the family. "AU interested may be assured that any, investigation which has been or may he made, has been and will be conduct ed in a proper and legitimate manner, and with absolute fairness to all parties concerned. *Th e feelings of the family naturally made them desire to have as little pub licity r.s possible given the matter. "T hope the public will be fair enough n«t to jump at any conclusions based on the facts -,ow in their possession.” County Health Officer Nesbitt also issued a statement later, in which he said he had issued a permit last Tues day for the disinterment of Mrs. Bing ham’s body at the request of Graham Kenan, who told him that the family was anxious to ascertain if possible pie cause of .death, “the matter not Saving been settled to their satisfaction.” * Mr. Nesbitt's statement says" “With reference to the issuance of a permit for the disinterment of the body nt Mrs. Bingham. I desire to say that I issued such a permit on Tuesday morn ing, September 18. at the request of Mr. Graham Kenan This kind of permit is issued for the sole purpose of protecting the public health against possible dan cer that might arise from the disinter ment of a body which would dissemi nate disease. It had no other status. "The reason for this disinterment, as stated by Mr. Kenan, was that the fam ily of the deceased were anxious to dis cover. if possible, the cause of death, the matter not having been settled to their «atisfaetion. The statements made by Mr» Kenan were supported by his family physician, who was present at •';» Interview, and they requested that I refrain from giving any newspaper pub licity to the matter. “No person other than a newspaper •nan ha® asked me for any Information concerning the disinterment of Mrs. Hingham’s body, excepting Mr. Shepard Bryan, the legal representative of Judge Rinrtam. to whom 1 unhesitatingly told all the facts pertaining to the disinter ment of the body that were in my pos session. “I was not present at the disinter ment and autopsy of Mrs. Bingham's body, and have no personal knowledge of that occurrence, and had no other connection with the matter.’’ Georgia Men to Fill. Field Hospital Corps Are Sought by Major Georgia men are wanted to fill up the vacancies in the Georgia field hospital corps at Camp Wheeler, near Macon, and in an effort to get Georgia men Ma jor C. F. Holton, in charge of the Geor gia field hospital enlistments, is in At lant recruiting. Between SO nd 90 men are needed. Ma jor Holton said Monday morning, and it is the desire to fill the vacancies, if pos sible. with Georgia volunteers, since the field hospital company now is composed entirely of Georgia men. Only two or three weeks remain for volunteers to get into his company. Major Holton further stated. After that It will be filled with men from the national army, he sa.d Major Holton will be at 508 Postoffice building until Wednesday to give infor mation to prospective volunteers, but en listments for this unit can be made at •ny time. 1 ruck Runs Into Five Points Crowd, Knocking Down Three Women * dairy delivery truck, driven by George H. Parker, of East Lake. < r*eh> ed info pedestrians at Edgewood avenue and Peachtree street at 1 p m. Monday, knocking down three women and run ning over Miss Leila Haroigrave. of 38 Jones avenue.and injuring her. but not seriously. She was taken to Grady hospital and found to be bruised but with no bones broken. An X-ray will be taken, however, to see if she has sustained a fracture of the elbow. The three other women were much frightened and their dresses were ruined from their fall on the wet street. Parker, who was taken to the police station on a charge of reckless driv ing. but was later released under a small bond, states that he got the sig nal from the traffic policeman to cross Peachtree Into Edgewood, but that as he neared the sidewalk, the crowd got in front of him and he put on brakes, which, however, refused to work, result ing Ln the accident. Full Associated Press Service BY CANNONADING ! RAGES NEAR YPRES: i MWBESI Signs of Activity on Other British Fronts Are Appearing. Artillery is Busy on the Ver dun Front NEW YORK. Sept. 24.—(From For eign Cables from European Capitals.) i Heavy cannonading was again in prog ress last night on the Flanders battle front non beast of Ypres. but the infan try had a relief from the recent hard ' fighting. Signs of possible important activity impending are appearing in other sec tions of the British front, notably in i the Arras region near the Scarpe and in j the vicinity of Lens Considerable ar i tlliery activity is announced from these I sectors The artillery on both sides is also . notably busy on the French front in the I Verdun region. Although suffering heavy reverse in recent German operations in .lacobstadt region, the Russians on the Riga-Dvinks front are showing recuperative power and today a substantial Russian victory is reported in the sector south of the Riga-Pskoff road, the Russians captured the German positions they attacked, re | taining them after a hard struggle. The German losses were more than 400 in | killed and the Russians took a number lof prisoners and ten machine guns. The Berlin official statement today j claims the capture of large quantities 'of provisions by the Germans when Jacobstadt. on the Dvina, was taken In (last week’s assault. • LONDQN. Sept. 24—German raiders en tered British trenches early last night near La .Basseville. Field Marshal Haig j reported * They were driven out with losses after a short fight, after a few British soldiers had been taken.’ On both sides of the Scarpe. the Bri tish field marshal reported the enemy artillery active during the early morn ing. South of Lense and northeast of Ypres there was artillery activity dur ing the night. Violent Artillery Is Reported by French PARIS. Sept. 24. —North of Verdun and in the region of Fosses and Chaumcs woods the artillery duel was intensely violent last night, the French war of fice announced this afternoon German airplanes bombarded the camp of Ger man prisoners near Bar le Due and two prisoners were killed. Teutons Take Town and Territory in Drive on Russians NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—8 y Foreign Cables From European Capitals.)—Ln the midst of Russia's internal troubles has edme another German stroke on the Russian northern front, resulting in the capture of the bridgehead and town of Jacobstadt, on the Dvina, and the enforced retirement of the Russians in this region to the eastern bank of i the river. The fall of the bridgehead gave the j Germans possession of .lew territory son a from of approximately 25 miles and six miles in depth enabling them to push their lines to the west bank o: - the Dvina in this area. They took only four hundred prisoners from the re treating Russians but gathered in fifty guns from the abandoned positions. Dramatic as this suddenly developed operation was. it seems unlikely to de velop anything comparing in impor tance in its effect upon the general mil itary situation with the desperate bat tle still in progress on the Flanders i front. | Loath fco give up the valuable ridges the British wrested from them on ; Thursday, the Germans continue to launch desperate counter-attacks from their battered Flanders line and to com bat with determination every effort of Field Marshall Haig's forces to Improve I their positions. Thts official statement lays stress on the exceedingly severe , character of their losses. The German command seems particu larly reluctant to surrender the slight elevation west of Gheluvelt, close to the ! Ypres-Menin road. Fierce fighting de veloped there Saturday, the engage i inent centering about the position l known as Tower Hamlets. Press dls ' patches Indicated that up to mid-after noon tnere had been no cessation of , the struggle, the tide of battle flowing back and forth within a narrow area. Berlin’s official statement makes no claim of any ground recovered from the British. It records the fighting of Friday, the day following the initial ■ t British dash, as marked by contlnua l ' tion of British attacks along the Lange marck-Hollebeke front, which were re i pulsed and describes Saturday’s en gagements as fighting of a local cnar >l actor, which resulted in German suc , ' cesses. Regarding the air fighting of Thurs i day and Friday, the customary com parison is given by Berlin of German and entente losses in machines. Thlr • ty-nine hostile machines were shot down on those days by the Germans i It is declared, while only three German machines were lost. This varies nota bly from, the British official account, which mentions ten Germans airplanes destroyed and six driven down out of control. The probable loss of ten Brit ish machines, classed as missing, is aa [ ' mltted by London. Meanwhile, as a complement to the land fighting In Belgium. British war , been bombarding the town of Ostena, , ships of the Belgian coast patrol nave where German naval works were shell ed with results pronounced satisfac ' tory. British aviators continued their extensive bombing operations behind the German lines. Ostend being one or the points successfully attacked by the aviators as well as the fleet. , Capture of Jacobstadt • Announced by Berlin BERLIN. Via London. Sept. 22.—Cap ture of Jacobstadt was formally an i nounced from the Riga front tonight. "Northwest of Jacobstadt we broke through the Russian positions.” the war office declared. "The enemy was forc i ed back against the river and yielded > the bridgehead and positions forty kilo ‘ metres (24 milesi wide and ten kilo metres (six and a fifth miles) deep. (Continued on Page 7, Column 5.) Billy Sunday’s Big Tabernacle Rising to Completion; It Will House His Forces to Fight the Devil in Atlanta THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION, although it shows but one end of the immense Billy Sunday tabernacle now rapidly nearing completion, gives only a faint idea of the vastness of the mammoth structure where the famous evangelist will hold his Atlanta revival. AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE MFR FIRE OF GERMAN CHON / Two Members of Contingent Who Were Wounded by Shell Fragments Are Proudest Men in Camp BY WTT-T.TAM PHILIP SIMMS. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD. Sept. 24. —American troops for the first time are under German fire In France. Two American soldiers have been slightly wounded. They were struck by fragments’Of a bursting shell. A certain contingent of the American army is now located directly behind the British lines, well within range of the enemy guns. The two wounded men are the proud est members of this contingent, which I visited Sunday. 1 visited the camp today. Neither or the two American soldiers were badly enough hurt to earn gold medals. They were tne heroes of the camp, however, and the most envied of all. The eyes of this American contingent are turned longingly to the British line —so near to them that the Americans are now within range of the enemy guns. , . Tiie men’s work with the boom of cannon always in their ears. They are great pals of the Tommies, and listen enviously to stories of "going over the top.” So eager are the men to light that the strictest regulations, imposing se vere punishment, have been necessary to prevent them sneaking off to the front, under chaperonage of Tommies. A group of officers sat today before a table on which reposed a great dish of Boston baked beans roofed with brown ed bacon, and toasted in cocoa the day. when they should follow the stars and stripe- then fluttering overhead behind a barrage. This was their answer to the kaiser’s offer of an iron cross. 300 marks and a fortnight’s leave for the first American, dead or alive. And aft er the toast the officers rolled cigar ettes to ward off their impatience to get into action. it was the first performance, of this kind seen in this part of the world. American officers hugely admire the British achievements, especially after a glimpse of the difficulties of their war making. The Americans admit they have much to learn and many Illusions to be shattered. They say no amount of pictures or lectures or theoretical practice can prepare the mind for the actual fighting. Officers must see the real thing to understand the task. America had no idea that fighting methods in the great war were contin ually changing, these officers explain ed. Folks "back home" have believed the present fighting strictly warfare from trenches —but as a matter of fact the actual fighting is now over prac tically trenchless country, the enemy occupying concrete reinforced shell holes. with steel and concrete "pill boxes" scattered over an area two-thirds of a mile wide. The trenches are only used to the rear of these defenses, and are manned by reserves, instead of by continuously fighting forces. The new British barrage is the object of the Americans’ profound admiration. They regard it as the only safeguard by which the pill box zone can be navi gated I Big Stills in Lumpkin County, Not Dawson, Writes Mr. Anderson The Journal is tn receipt of a com munication from .1. R. Anderson, of Dawsonville. Ga., in which he protests against the publication on September 18 of a news story describing the capture of two huge blockade stills on the prem ises of Henry McKee. The stills were not found in Dawson county, declares Mr. Anderson. The Journal takes pleasure in pub lishing Mr. Anderson’s protest, in which he sa ya: “I saw in your today’s issue of the Semi-Weekly paper that Dawson county was in the limelight on account of a big raid the deputy marshals had made on the premises of Henry McKee "I wish this corrected, as McKee does not live In Dawson, but Lumpkin coun ty, and the story constitutes a slur on our county." ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1917 MEANS, ARRAIGNED FOR KING MURDER, PLEADS NOT GUILTY Coroner’s Physician Says Wid ow Could Not Have Fired Fatal Shot—Undertaker and Others Testify at Hearing CONCORD, N. C., Sept. 24.—Dr. Wil liam H. Burmeister, ohief coroner's physician of Cook county, Illinois, testi fied today at the preliminary hearing of Gaston B. Means that in his opinion It would have been impossible for Mrs. Maude A. King to have held the pistil which inflicted the fatal wound In the back of her head near here August 29. Means, who is charged with the mur der of Mrs. King, testified at the coro ner’s inquest that Mrs. King accident ally shot herself. Dr. Burmeister also said there was no evidence of powder burns around the wound. He was the second witness. UNDERTAKER’S TESTIMONY. L. A. Weddington, undertaker who handled Mrs. King’s body, was the first witness to be called by the state. He told of being called by Afton Means to prepare Mrs. King's body the night of the alleged murder and of shipping, In a hermetically sealed casket Ina steel case, to Asheville in company with Af ton and Gaston Means, August 30th. The questions here indicated the state believes tiiere was a discussion between Gaston Means and Mrs. Anne L. Robin son, Mrs King’s mother, as to the dis positoin ot Mrs. King’s body. The casket, Weddington said. was opened there for Mrs. Robinson and then taken to Chicago at B. G. Means’ order. “All he said was ‘we have decided to take the body to Chicago,' ” said Wed dington. Means went with the body to the grave yard in Chicago, sticking close by it, the witness said. Means claims Mrs. King had on high heeled slippers when she stumbled and fell, discharging the pistol, he says, ac cidentally killing her. Weddington tes tified Mrs. King had on no slippers or anything but hose on her feet when he got the body the night of her death. He remerbered that because he exam ined her broken ankle. Weddington said it was either Gas ton Means or Mrs. Melvin w'ho sug gested the party stop at Cincinnati en route to Chicago “to get some flowers.’’ Dr. Wm. Burmeister, chief of the cor oner’s physician of Chicago, who has the bullet taken from Mrs. King’s head at the midnight autopsy in Chicago aft er the authorities’ suspicions were aroused, then took the stand. His testimony is expected to prove that Mrs. King could not have died ac cidentally or by her own hand as Means says she did. He described the autopsy. DESCRIBES WOUND Burmeister, In describing the wound, told how the bullet entered two inches above and two behind the left ear and described a circle conforming to the contour of the skull as It raced through the millionaire woman’s brain. Burmeister swore that Mrs. King's arms were not long enough for her to hold the gun far enough away to inflict the death wound and leave no powder burns. "Besides.” said he, "she was right handed and wouldn’t have shot herself on the left side of the head, anyhow.” The defense here questioned Burmeis ter’s qualification as a gunshot expert. The court said he could answer. Burmeister swore: "It is my opinion that the deceased could not have fired the shot that killed her from a gun in her own hand." The lead and steel bullet fragments taken from Mrs. King’s brain were here introduced./ It was, Burmeister said, a 25-caliber steel-jacket bullet, “such as could be fired from a .25 Colt automatic pistol.” Gaston Means’ gun was a 25-caliber Colt automatic’. It was introduced in evidence. TELLS OF TESTS. Burmeister bolstered these assertions by declaring that tests on blotting paper ; with a 25-caliber Colt automatic showed that at ten inches distance powder burns showed on the paper, and that Mrs. King, on whom there were no powder burns, could not have held a gun more than ten inches behind her ear and fired it so the bullet would have entered her head as it did. E. T. Canster. for the defense, tried to batter down Burmeister’s statement but failed. He asked Burmeister if he hadn’t decided these tests before he made the autopsy. This precipitated a sharp tilt between Canster and Solicitor Clement as to Canster’s abuse of the witness. Canster claimed the right to impeach the witness if he could, and proceeded. Dr. Burmeister testified that Mrs. (Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) llEffl DESPERADO KILLED 81 OFFICER NEAR MP Giant Desperado Slain by Deputy After the Latter Had Fired William Williams, a negro desperado who was wanted in Jones county for a murder in which five men were killed, was shot to death at an early hour Sunday morning in a shanty opposite the railroad depot at Chamblee by J. W. Webb, a deputy attached to the of fice of the solicitor general, who, with Deputy Sheriff R. P. House and Gus Hudgins, of Decatur, had gone to the shanty to raid a crap game. Complaints of the crap game had been made to the police officers by army officers at Camp Gordon, and as Webb, Hudgins and House entered the shanty, Williams ;toq£Aup ( .Bome money lyli(g on the table and prepared to give fight. He grappled with Deputy Sheriff House and they struggled from, the room in which the negroes were shooting craps to the front porch of the shanty, followed by the other officers. On the porch, Wil liams drew from his hip pocket an auto matic pistol and fired at Hudgins, and as the bullet flew wild, Webb shot at the negro, one bulled striking him in the hip and another in the head, killing him instantly. Williams was a large man. weighing about 215 pound®, and it was his wife who told Sheriff McCurdy that he was a "bad man" and that he was wanted in Jones county for the murder of two white men and three negroes in a card game. The other negroes arrested in the erap game Sunday made no effort to re sist arrest and are lodged in the jail at Decatur. ARGENTINE’S BREAK WITH GERMAN! IS HELD UP Kaiser’s Disavowal of Luxburg Accepted by Officials as ‘Temporarily Satisfactory’ BY CHARLES P. STEWART. BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 24 For the immediate present at least, Argentine’® determination to declare war against Germany, is to be held in abeyance. Government officials today accepted as "temporarily satisfactory” a mesaage from the German government, tranamlt ted through the- Argentine minister at Berlin, disavowing Count Luxburg'® ut terances and denying that the kaiser ap proved of Luxburg’a aotlona personally. The fact was emphasized, however, that this disavowal does not constitute full, free and formal reply demanded in Argentine’s ultimatum. Its receipt, however, stops the chamber of deputies’ Immediate consideration of the resolu tion supporting the government's plea for declaring a state of war with Ger many. Public interest was transferred from the German situation today to the more pressing crisis of the nation-wide strike. At 1 a. m. today all railway employes struck. Complete paralysis of' all rail communication seemed certain. The sit uation is admittedly of the most serious character, as many cities lack large sup plies of fopd and fuel. Three Men, Same Name, May Become Candidates For Recorder’s Court Talk around the city hall Monday centered for a time on discussion of the possibility of three “Johnsons” being in the race for Judge of the recorder’s court at the election next year. Friends of Aiderman Steve R. John- 1 ston of the Fourth ward, are known to have suggested to him that he make| the race. Councilman W. H. Johnson, j of the Fifth, also has given an atten tive ear to friends who have suggested, to him that he be a candidate, while Recorder George Johnson is regarded as a certain candidate for re-election. There wag humorous speculation at| the city hall over the confusion at the. polls that might result if three candi- ■ dates of the same name enter the race. | NEW EXPOSURES OF GERMAN INTRIGUERS BF 01 PROMISED Intrigue in Rumania and Fur ther Disclosures in Mexican and Argentine Intrigues May Be Shown at Washington WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Germany will be convicted further before the world this week on charges of high handed Intrigues against the peace of other nations. With revelation over Sunday of a Teuton bomb and poison plot in Ru mania, government authorities hinted that it might be shown the Teutons had tried to spread disease in America as one of her insidious means of hampering war work. s The bomb and poison plot in Ruma nia showed the Teutons planted bombs in the German legation garden at Buch arest after the United States had taken charge there and also had left vials of germs to poison horses. Similarly, the Teutons may have spread the germs of lock jaw in court plaster recently found in the United States to be infected. Whether or not such a plot is dis closed, the senate is promised an expose of treacherous German work in trying I to stir up anti-American feeling in Ja pan, and anti-Japan spirit in this coun . try. Viscount Tshii, now in this country I with the Japanese commission, has al ! ready hinted at such Intrigue. Senator ' King, who Saturday showed the Aus trian embassy to be subsidizing some of the foreign language press has data on the Japanese plot, and will speak “by the book” when he does make his new exposure. The government is prepared to give out documentary proof of its recent rev elations in cases where denials are en : tered by those concerned. For instance, it proposes this week to make public a photographic reproduction of the Eck liardt-Cronholm-Mexlco City plot letter, the authenticity of which has been de nied by the principals. It was rumored today that the gov ernment has additional data on the Lux burg-Argentine case, but it is careful to avoid anj' appearance of trying to Jbrre Argentine into action against Ger many, when Its avowed purpose In mak ing the revelations has been to show Sweden's duplicity and Germany's un ashamed peace propaganda methods. Regrettable Affair, Says Paper of Bernstorff Plot LONDON. Sept. 24.—Tn commenting >n the latest Washington disclosures concerning the activities of Count von Bernstorff. former ambassador to the United States, the Koelnische Volks Zeltung. according to an Amsterdam dispatch to Reuters Limited, says: "This affair, if true, has a very dis agreeable character, and its highly re ! grettable. The American government, God knows how, was able to get a hold, ! apprently. of the whole collection of 1 German diplomatic documents which it is now exploiting against us and Sweden. What the state department remarks about the relation between von Bernstorff’s policy and the U-boat war can be recognized as a misleading in ■ vention by every one who knows the history preceding the U-boat cam paign.” Baker and Fanner Must Squelch Middle Man, Pack Informs Bankers ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Sept. 24. When baker and farmer unite against the middleman the country’s food prob lem will be near solution. C. L. Pack, president of the national emergency food garden asssociation. told the American Barkers’ association in convention today. “The farmer is the best friend the country has," said Pack. "If he is pros perous you bankers and all the rest of us are prosperous. The thing for you to do is to get together and smash the cornerstone of high prices. Aid the farmer over the rough spots so that he can produce more foodstuffs than ever before.” Three million emergency gardens by "city farmers" has produced 1350,000,- 000 worth of food f. o. b. kitchen door," said Pack. "We must produce food as near the points of greatest consumption as possible, route the middle men and cold storage men and thus relieve the railroads." NUMBER 102. GERMANY’S UWLESS, DEPREDATIONSINU.S. BY ir/TRIGUEEXPOSEO st K-o-rt Foreign Language —Papers .• ’rwl r? eiew Uoo Ta Have Part in DissemmaHng id erfT .KHmOiv alrl ored jorf anolusT ed) irdj* 1 anil, na.it OFFICIAL EXP® proves charges:: AGAINST KAIM -,t / ri sriT Through in 7 officlAl'l based on ‘ •vbh Ifefe! pajjeWi,*’’' 10 '* the governrfUriF’&W *yt>AVfdt , - v ' , ‘ l ed Germany ’'ofj'Spyfng’. ting in this countrjP munitions Bhi^s, infttteffss, i i>t?is- 1 ’ ' 14c opinion artd ' perpetrate many other :1 sfidroeltps ‘ while still Senator King 1 fwveaJed that' th4 German and ■ 'Austriiin^imfifcwftei*°* had paid checkH ’Teirtwi plot J& aides, and ’ ‘ Yev«4p how the bad soiikai^t^’ 151 stir •up aritl-Afetferfb^nis^ 11 "*® aFI pan. .rrfrw-r r a. a Previously u ' this' 7 had revealed J . corr U which m Ambassadof 7 "Bferri&ofctf " I a ,50.000 sluiffi government to Sway against war; that CPVPt,J-uxburgt Buenos Aires,' bad uijsa Swedish minister as for his spurlpp ( grams; that the ln . Secretary Zimmerman' aligning Mexico against the United „ t the German MexicqClty f . .e W py n „, used the Swedish minister tb^fa nnx aa spy messenger" that aperman “ agent in the PhUipflipes offered, white woman as"k 'fisLlt to 1 phos pectlve Filipino <_ n ...-Tr. y WASHINGTON. 8 dp tn t diplomacy—that orudfcp •fBSiAM stretching it® claws out ; fr<?m strasse to all the here tonight in an otliciaj expose aiil plotting fearsome things imflthi»Giehij| nation. • ” From the ”von Igel , the possession of the commit toe on public inforamtiM together a story klflF tn'or<j startling than fiction, many through her embapsp.’.Nep» earned with: 'jmZ. rti “Destruction of lives -and property in merchant vessels on thif'hijth seas; violation of the laws of , z States; Irish revolutionary plots against j Great Britain; fomenting ill feeling 1 against the United States Tn I ''lttexico; subornation of Amerlcaji writers and lecturers; financing of propaganda; I maintenance of a apy system uridaotthe guise of a commercial lnve»tigM.fl<HL bu reau; subsidizing a .bureau to labor troubles in munitions plaitfg; bomb industry and other related;->lo—l tivitlee.” * Bllnsa 1 BERNSTORFF FEATUREJD. 1 Across the page streaked the name, pjf | Count Bernstorff, former German am-J bassador, and his shameless aides. vnhJ Papen and Boy-Ed. attaches of tbs em-tj bassy. ruLffl Atop of this new revelation ItnkingJ the German embassy with throttling de-J signs against the United States eam»J Senator King tpday in the upper con-1 gress branch, revealing letters tha* proved "Fair Play” and other racial® newspapers had fattened on the la: gessaj of Gei-man and Austrian agents. He ad-J vised weeding out the propagandists an<U counselled making war on Austria Bul-J garia and Turkey. Congress sizzled over! the state department’s expose of Bem-J storfTs attempt to get 850,000 for u>J fluencing congress "as on former occa-J sions.” The state department disclaimed] any Intent to blacken any congressman'll name, but indicated that It did not fejfl t. congress of Bernstorff’s lies would do much good Out of the von Igel expose may detailed this brief, though perhaps jointed, account of Teuton within a nAtio nwlth which GermaxM and Austria were at pei<£. In April, 1916, secret service miß raided the "advertising office" of voH Igel in New York. He claimed to bl on German territory and defied the of* fleers to shoot him,* saying war woul<* result. They didn't shoot but they soti| his papers—damning evidences of a di-, rect chain between the German embas sy and plotters who would bomb muni tions ships, who would upset Ireland—> papers that showed Judge Cohalau, of. New York, as a direct aid of the em bassy in its anti-British work; checks' that showed embassy payment® to Teuton helpers such as foreign language newspaper editors; documents that con victed the Teutons of fomenting the Sir Roger Casement’s Irish rebellion; along, with offers from Americans to do das tardly work, such as blasting mubition plants. • £ Marcus Braunr, editor of “Fair Play,” figured in both the committee expusa and the senate discussion. Other news papermen named with Viereck, of Vie reck’s Weekly; Edwin Emerson. » noted journalist; J. Archibald, already espesed as. an aide to Austrian machinations. SENATOR KING’S EXPOSE. Senator King's expose showed checks direct from the German embassy to Marcus Braun, a letter from Braun ac- ; knowledging receipt of payments and subsidies to foreign language papers from Charge Zwiedenek. of the Austrian embassy, including "telegram cozienny,” "Hlustrovani List” and "Fair Play.” Jeremiah O’Leary, editor of "Bun”—— an Irish-American publication barred from the mails and excoriated duHng the campaign by President Wilson—also is named in the expose. “Check 146" on the Riggs bank*. Washington, is behind the story of Paul Koenig, Hamburg-American line secretJ service man's connection with von Pa* pen in a deal whereby bombs like lumps (Continued on Pago 2, Column 1.)
