Battle Creek Moon-Journal from Battle Creek, Michigan • 1

BATTLE CREEK MOON JOURNAL THE KEWHPAJPER OR THE HOME VOLUME 3 NUMBBB 84 BATTLE OHXZK MICHIOAH RIDAY ATERNOON SEPTEMBER 14 1017 TWO CENTS PER COPY RUSSIA IS STILL BIG ACTOR IN WAR OICES MOVED MORE ORDER IN RUSSIA THAN TO THE CENTER IN ROOT TEUS CHICAGO THIS IS THE WAR PROGRAM mes new 47 Raw HASTEN END will TO SPEND MILLION AT CHRISTMAS OR TROOPS THIS YEAR a MORE WHEAT THAN MILLSCAN GRIND COAL RIOTS ARE LIKELY IN THE WEATHER the she that plot tho will Wide Spread Deamnd Through Country is That Those Who Revolted Be Used Severely it just as much order in Russia today a and maybe today by Ellhu Root former Secretary of Con'll BlIUllI to bo angle a very GERMANY SAYS CABLES ARE AAIR Shipments of oods and Material Checked Arrest Courtmartial and Im prisonment Awaits Soldier Who Makes Advances Work at Cantonment Progress es ar Enough to Allow Move to Permanent Offices government (With the people of Swe den in control of the affairs of state there 1b every reason to believe Swe official leaning toward tho Ger man militarists would vanish and aid to the tottering power of the Hohenzollerns would cease HEAVY PENALTY OR INSULTING ANY WOMAN kt 1 lx KORNILO HAS AILED Lower Michigan Cloudy to night and Saturday probably ehojvers RECRUITING NEW UNITS Cabinet in Russia Split Over Punishment of Rebels GDMPERS IS IN AVOR BREAD OR 2 CENTS ederation Leader Cannot See Sense of Charging a Nickel for THIS ELLOW MAY SOON BE PERORMING ON TOUGHEST RECRUITS AT CAMP CUSTER GIRL BABIES BORN TO GERMAN ROYALTY RED CROSS A A AND UNITED IN PLAN TO CHEER OUR SOLDIERS bacon may decide the fate of Rev Lyn George Kelly on trial for the Villisca murders" It developed to day Attorney General Havner It wr learned will place great stresa on the alleged discovery of a piece of bacon at the head of th0 bed where Joo Moore and hl wife two of the eight victims were slain The stalo will introduce witnessoi who have boon in cells and hospital rooms occupied by Kelly to testify ho had a mania for biding small pieces Pastor Accused as Axe Murder er aces Strange Clue Chicago Sept 14 Samuel Gompers president of the American ederation of Labor see the advantage of he prefers two cent bread have sen two cent bread that was dear why talk of bread for five cents he declared Gompers reiterated his assertion that the newly formed American Al liance for Labor and Democracy was created to co operate with the Amer ican ederation of Labor in helping to win the war Washington Sept 14 A million dol lar Christmas for figflhtlng me nis assured today by nation wide arrangements made by the Red Cross A A and Knights of Columbus Help Is needed The local branches of the organiza tions named will tell you how to do your share It is expected these plans will as sure about a dollar's worth of holiday happiness for every American fightliiK man in the world Men of the 8 A In the trenches in rance in train ing at home or battling tho Boat on the ocean all will bo visited by a Santa Claus sporting tho spear and helmet of Mara Local branches of tho organizations named will bo In charge of gift giv ing and celebrations among tho draft ed men aviators Rainbow Dlvialonera and others In American cantonments in this country Local branches of the Red Cross will have general super vision of the work which already Is developing on a large acale throughout the nation Major Murphy of the Red Cross Commission to Europe will see that Christmas gets to the Yankee boys at the front The organizations named also are co oper ating to make the overseas event 4 big day among tho boys preparing for battle 'Berlin Sept 14 (Via London) reply to 'Pope 'Benedict as agreed upon today will specifically declare that Germany has no desire to Interfere In the internal affairs of other nations according to the Berlin Lokal Anzelger The form and text of the reply was approved today by leaders of the special Reichstag committee named by ChanceJIor MIchaells to aid In con sideration of the matter The Lokal Anzelger laid stress on the fact that the note does not re semble the American reply In thatlt flatly holds no one nation shall mix In the internal policies of another Swedish People Realize Nation Has Helped Germany to Detri ment of Own Interests LEADERS ARGUE OVER PENALTIES KAISER REPLIES TO ROMAN POPE JAMES ARLINGTON THE HORSE BREAKER It is probable that James Arlington who Is in charge of the army's most energetic drilling may soon be at Camp Custer He Is kept busy hurrying from one camp to another taming wild ponies for army work and maneuvers Arlington is perhaps the best horse trainer in the country and though hie Job looks rather rough hs says he likes It 1 8 urther Any Soldier Becoming Infected With Venereal Di sease Will Be Isolated and His Pay Stopped No Promotions or Special As signments Will Be Made Until Division is Com pleted PIECE BACON TO DECIDE ATE Chicago Sept 14 there is in the United States This statement was made State and head of the commission to Russia on hla arrival to a patriotic meeting tonight "Russia is still a factor in the War and will continue to he add ed opinion regarding that has not changed since my last public statement in the east despite the present trouble with General Kornlloff the two million Gormans were removed from the eastern to the western front before the United States could get fully into action there You can readily see what Russia Is doing in that regard to aid the Allies Arrest courtmartial and imprison ment for any soldier who stops a wom an on the street or Is otherwise in sulting to a woman or girl Isolation and loss of pay for any soldier who contracts syphilis or other venereal disease during his hours of leisure This is to bo tho War department's program for meeting the social evil in connection with tho Michigan Wis consin cantonment Reports from physicians on every case Of venereal dlsensn In man or woman brought to their attention tied Isolation of the victim mulct' florin as stringent ns iurroumls pox and like disinumu I his tn the program from tho civilian ns planned this afternoon at frank and very Interesting meeting of the War Recreation Board To this board Dr 1 IL Kellogg brought a report from Col William 11 Powell sanitary Inspector outlin ing for the first time tho military strfetions for Cnmp new na hmm County Medical Roilety which every doctor will Im asked obey this law President I Pell will name committee to wait on Chief of Police IT arrington and auk that as fast as syphilis victims are found they bo detained The entire War Recreation Board voted for this action and for placing an on resolutions pass ed at a conference of state authori ties on sex diseases held In Jackson Wednesday asking Governor Sleeper to name a commission to get venereal diseases under the same control as now checks smallpox tuberculosis (Conttnues on Page 8) Berlin Sept (Via London) Germany holds the American as to Count Luxburg makes the matter affair exclusively The attitude here is that the telegrams cited by the American State department as to the Argen tine matter show that the sages were not inspired by the German government and were merely private proposals indicat ing the Initiative of a single Ger man diplomat The further fact was pointed out that the German government had not followed the advice given in the Luxburg messages but on the contrary had settled Its differ ences with Buenos Aires Battle Creek will be well patrolled by provost guards with orders to ar rest any soldier who insulin tt woman or girl tho report declared Court martial will follow with terms of Im prisonment baaed on the gravity of the offense urthermore tho name will be posted where every other soldier can read II together with tho punishment accorded him Twice each month every soldier be given a medical examination will of course start and first sign of venereal disease mean that the man has trod forbidden paths Ho will at oimo be placed in an Isolation hospital and his pay will automatically stop Camp Custer will send Its men out on their week end holidays untainted and so If they come back tainted Bat tle Creek will bo held responsible At thia session of the War Rncreittion Board Dr IT Kel logg pointed out the part of tho program The state law asks phyal claim to report every case of venereal disease and asks civil authorities Io Isolate tho victims Neither thing is done A movement Is on In Jackson Kalamazoo and Battle Creek In particular Io enforce both Dr A Kingsley stated tit this meeting that he started reporting ven ereal diseases when the law was put Into effect Tint found other physicians did not do ho hence ho quit Dr Kel logg suggestH a mealing of tho Cal at New York Sept 14 Backers of tho old theory that In war times births of boy babies far outnum ber those of girls were given a set back today at the news that the Kaiser has another grand daughter Tho girl was born to Prince and Princes Adelbert The Crown (Princess also recently gave birth to a girl baby Thus the most warlike family of the most war like nation In the warlike world has had two girls born to It In the midst of the greatest war In his tory Petrograd Sept What punish ment shall be meted out to General Kornlloff split the Russian cabinet to i day our ministers have left the cabl net Personal surrender of the revolting arpiy chief is Imminent Hla troops have melted away to a mere handful Government troops which three days ago captured his headquarters to the rear at Pskoff 'press upon him from that direction and in front is the etone wall defense of the provis ional troops from Petrograd There Is widespread public demand that those responsible for the coun ter revolution be severely dealt with It was this question apparently which led to retirement from the cab inet of Vice Premier Nekrasoff Min ister of oreign Affairs Terestchenko Minister of ood Plechechonoff Min ister of Agriculture Thernoff and Min ister of Ways and Communications Gourepieff The latter explained the withdrawals because the ministers It was impossible to carry out orders to 'take certain measures against Later Terestchenko withdrew his' resignation and It was announced to day he had been named as vice pre mier That the measures" pro posed by Kerensky were for severest punishment of the rebel leaders was confidently asserted In certain circles This view was given public confirm ation in the announcement that Klschkin a cadet leader had accept ed the post of minister of the Inter ior In the reorganized cabinet The Cadet party through Prof Paul Mili ukoff has persistently stood out for drastic punishment of all those align ed against the provisional govern ment for the death penalty for trea son and for severely repressive meas ures against Intriguers Klschkin it was stated had accepted his office Klembovsky must explain several of his actions during the short lived rebellion The government has al ready demanded of him why he per mitted rebel detachments to pass toward Petrograd To this he replied non committally requesting that he be relieved of his command 'Privately Klembovsky was quoted as declaring he had asked Kornlloff to send 12 cavalry divisions to aid In the Riga defense and that headquar ters had refused preferring to send one of these against Petrograd In the revolt then farming CANTONMENT Washington Sept 14 spectre of coal riot and oonflacation passing coal shipments by local authorities was presented to uel ifnlnlstrator Garfield today rom all parts of the country small jobbers those who handle trade and the basket at a time buyers are writing in warning The freezing poor they say will storm the coal yards They )will force localities caught short of fuel in mid winter to seize any coal Insight as the mayor of Des Moines Iowa did last winter supported by public demand A typical letter from a jobber unable to obtain one fifteenth his nor mal tonnage with seventy small retailers to supply says: these retailers cannot obtain fuel for the poor people they supply the latter let their children frseze There will be coal 'Railroad experts admitting car shortage and the gravest traffic con gestion in the history said there is now no hope of filling all domestic and Industrial coal demands in tho scant eighty days remaining before yrintar jug jthevails and Jake I '7 New York Sept 14 Within two weeks there will bo so much wheat available for flour milling that the big northwestern mills in Minneapolis and other cities will not be able to handle It all Thia was predicted today at headquarters here of the United States ood grain corporation The wheat shortage in Buffalo NJ mills has already been relieved It wag declared The United States Grain Corporation with central offices Yn New Yorki Is the ederal organization for controlling the wheat situation It is in close touch with wheat conditions all over the world An official of! this organization stated today that some Minneapolis mills are running Onj about ninety percent capacity now because the farmer? sale of their: crops at minimum prices assured arc not in any rush to move the wheat! to market With the prevailing good weather the farmers are busy preparing the land for next year's crop It was declared It was pointed out that the farm i nr see no advantage In hustling their crops to market as they can go to the banks any time and get money on their wheat on a basis of a minimum price which stands until July 1 1918 However the grain corporation official said there will be no further a bulletin board bears Information that men will TreenllatadL for tho const ruction regimen taAt certain building This little ordet may mean little or it may mean Tillich When the construction organization! completes Its work nt Caisiip Custer iti In HiHsllde that it tuny bo picked ns a unit and hoi down In rance Sixteen army divisions of tho United win bo transferred to rench anil some tlun during the next year! and these will need Sixteen campa there an well aa here Nothing could bn mure logical than to fend those wonderfully efficient organizations which have ao successfully built the great camps lit this country to rance to prepare tine foi'vlqn himins for ttnvl divisions of the National Army which will service on the Western front Tu the llrat place the organizations are only rr'achlng their greatest efiv elency and It would bo lolly to dis band them if there remains any build 1 Ing to bo The majority of tiia big men In tho work aro already In the service and the civilians who have had a share In the responsibility of preiaring tho camps would welcome an opportunity to cross tho' seaa na a non cornbatlve forco While these conditions are only surmised Iti is more than possible that they will' actually occur NO PROMOTIONS UNTIL 1 4 NEW ARMY IS COMPLETE I No promotions among tho selected men "will occur tin'H tho entire dlvis ion has arrived and has been assign od the officers about tho camp clare It would be unfair to both of fleers and enlisted men to pick andR (Continued on page 16) Gradually the administration depart merit of Camp Custer Is gravitating toward the geographical center of the cmp Into what will be the administra tion headquarters of the 85th division1 after it Is completely organized The division headquarters which have been temporarily In building 180 will move Sunday Into the permanent offices at building 811 The construc tion department has not announced definitely when It will follow but the early part of next week will undoubt edly see the structural men at the far end of the camp as the building which it now occupies will be needed to for the 40 per cent arrival of selected men Wednesday Ye doiday thu postolllcu moved to UiIh dhtrh'f and thu telephone offi ces will also CHtablhdicd in that neighborhood Thoso buildings wtdi bn near tho Watts farm where Major' General Dickman in already quartered so the power of the camp will bo con ceniratod In Hie sector near tho SOO1 buildings The road will dis charge Its pttsscpgcrK near this point and the arterlmv of camp life will lead out from this googrnphlca1 heart ARE RECRUITING NEW (( CONSTRUCTION UNITS dGERMAN IMPORTS MAY RE CUT New York Sept 14 uGerman Im ports from Sweden of foods and raw material for the manufacture of muni tions will bo seriously curtailed or cut off altogether when the full ef fects of the State department's revel ations concerning Swedish intrigues are felt In Latin America by the Swe dish people The use of Swedish officials to as sist cause against the In terests of the Swedish nation itself Is shown as much In the unnoutral Swedish activities In Mexico City as In Buenos Aires The revelation that offi cials and financial classes have been working for Germany at the expense Aof the common people of Sweden will In the end greatly assist the spread of democracy in Sweden At a time when ships were being sunk by German submarines and Swedish subjects wore being mur dered by the boat pirates Swedish diplomats are shown to have been conspiring in secret to further thisvery ruthlessness Sweden is the only neutral contigs Juctub to Germany that has an officialand aristocratic class modeled in jpart after the Prussians It was the 1 short sightedness of this class that caused Norway to secede from Swe den in 1905 These Prussianized Swedes are disappointed imperialists who long to recover inland wrested from Sweden by Russia more than IOC years ago At the same time the capitalistic element in Sweden is proGerman be catiee it has made large sums of money during the war selling goods to Germany The official and capital istic element in Sweden is solely re sponsible for the present Swedish diplomatic scandal The common people of Sweden have long been en 4 gaged in a struggle against these re actionaries and have been demandingthe further democratization of their Choke German Intrigue Washington Sept 14 The United I States is aiming at sweeping German intrigue out of three nations Argen tine Sweden and Mexico And would convince Teuton Liberals the world Is unsafe while such ting exists That is the meaning behind revelations anent Swedish partner I ship with Germany shown by a letter of German Minister Von Eckhardt Mexico to German chancellor published today Sweden Not Alone This letter proved that Sweden has been not alone messenger for Ger many but also directly in league as spy with her for Von Eckhardt open ly declared In his letter that olke Cronholm Swedish charge at Mexico City was messenger and would give news a hostile Thus far the American aim shows signs of bearing good fruit irst Argentine has summarily dismissed the German minister there who used the Swedish lega tion to pass Insolent plotting messages Second Sweden is wrought up over the" revelations her papers condemn the government and with elections coming on there the question of the alliance with Ger many is the big with the anti Germans apparently running ahead Third Mexico know the Unit ed has the to German plotting on her soil and will probably be chary of harbor Ing Teuton spies hereafter and may even do as Argentine dismiss tho German minister America is trying with her revela tions also to feed the flames of dis satisfaction among liber als to convince them of oft repeated charges that the world is not safe for democracy while the Kaiser and his strangling intrigue stretches out through the world Ger liberals who have opposed in trigue and who hate such blundering as German diplomacy has shown the past few years are taking heart at the conviction of the German system Nation Was The last doubt that Sweden had been by Germany was swept aside in the latest letter This un der March 8 1916 date said Cron holm carried messages personally for Von Eckhardt seldom quite late at and is the only dip lomat through whom Information from a hostile camp can be Von Eckhardt asked the chancellor to have Cronholm decorated by the Kaiser but suggested it would be well to hide the fact from all but Cron holm and the Swedish government un til after the war Cronholm it developed today at the 7 edish legation was abruptly dls (Contlnued on page 3) djjK e' C' MV A 1 fir Ot Sil LT WM TEnWIlh I'" A' rklVt9 1 MV A ix huiociMit I 4 3.