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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTK!/.—^Two former attaches of 
the German Consulate at Chicago, who 
became attaches of the Swiss Consulate 
after the declaration of war, were arrested 
by Federal agents Aug. 8 and will be 
held as witnesses against Chicagoans ac¬ 
cused of conspiracy to foment a revolu¬ 
tion in India. The men arrested are Her¬ 
man Neidinger and Richard Kulke. They 
are said to have important knowledge con¬ 
cerning ^ the alleged connection of Kurt 
von Reiswitz, former assistant German 
Consul in Chicago, with the Indian plot. 
Three persons were killed and two se¬ 
riously injured at Marietta, Ga., Aug. 8, 
when shrapnel from the field pieces of 
three batteries of artillery from the of¬ 
ficers’ reserve training camp at Fort Mc¬ 
Pherson. Ga., passed over the top of Ken- 
nesaw Mountain and scattered deadly 
fragments over a part of its north side. 
The New York Health Department is¬ 
sued a warning Aug. 9 against the pur¬ 
chase of any hut the standard grades of 
court plaster. To prevent infection from 
tetanus germs, which were spread broad¬ 
cast in gift plasters in the W^est, the Com¬ 
missioner urges all here to be careful not 
to accept any plaster from strangers, and 
to buy only the best. An examination is 
still being conducted in the department 
laboratories of plaster seized here sev¬ 
eral weeks ago. 
Dr. Fritz Rergmeier, president of the 
St. Paul Volks Zeitung, Tvas arrested 
Aug. 9 under the President’s proclam.a- 
tion of April 6. The policy of the Volks 
Zeitung has been to “cast aspersion by in¬ 
nuendo” on American war measures, it 
was charged. United States Attorney 
•Tacques said no trial would be held, and 
that the editor would be held as an enemy 
alien until President W’’ilson permitted 
his release. Bergmeier came from Gei’- 
many 12 years ago and has taken out 
first naturalization papers. 
Curtis Ackerman, editor of a German 
language newspaper at Little Rock, Ark., 
was arrested Aug. 9 charged with en¬ 
couraging resistance to the draft. A 
man called in the first draft informed As¬ 
sistant United States Attorney Rector 
that Ackerman offered to give him pow¬ 
ders •w'hich would reduce his weight so 
that he would be physically disqualified. 
Rioting broke out in the street car 
strike at Lima, O., Aug. 9. Three men 
were shot. Six strikers and sympathiz¬ 
ers were arrested, charged with attempt¬ 
ing to burn a car and with cutting trol¬ 
ley ropes. 
Nine men were arrested in Ne-w York 
Aug. 10 on the charge of smuggling rub¬ 
ber on neutral ships for the use of Ger¬ 
many. 
Seventeen persons were killed and up¬ 
ward of twoscore injured, some probably 
fatally, when two trolley cars on the 
Shore Line Electric Railway crashed head 
on at high speed a short distance from 
Branford, Conn., Aug. 18. Both cars, 
of heavy construction, were running at 
high speed, it is said, and the force of 
the impact was such as to lock them to¬ 
gether, a mass of twisted iron and steel 
and splintered wood. Many of those killed 
died instantly and others within a short 
time after being taken from the wreck¬ 
age. 
The arrest of four men, two of them 
German citizens, by Federal secret ser¬ 
vice men as they met at San Antonio, 
Tex.. Aug. 14, brought to light conspiracy 
on the part of an organized hand which 
has smuggled into 'the United States 
through Mexico .$2,000,000 worth of 
opium within the last two months. In 
an automobile in which the four men 
traveled from Eagle Pass was found $12.- 
000 worth of the drug packed in metal 
containers and secreted in a concealed 
casket built beneath the oar. Documents 
taken from the inner lining of the co.it 
of Carl Whitmeyer, a German citizen, 
gave the names of twenty men in the 
United States said to he members of the 
organization. Their arrest was ordered. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Wis¬ 
consin State Council of Defense has ap¬ 
proved a plan whereby county road crews 
may. at the discretion of the county coun¬ 
cils of defense, he requisitioned for haying 
and thrashing and other rush work on 
farms where a serious labor shortage ex¬ 
ists. 
Resolutions asking the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment to fix a minimum price of 75 
cents and a maximum of $1 a bushel for 
corn to insure a sufficient acreage to en¬ 
courage stock men, and also urging ex¬ 
emption from the draft of stock feeders, 
were adopted Aug. 10 by the Chicago 
Live Stock Exchange. They were for¬ 
warded to President Wilson, Herbert C. 
Hoover and Secretaries Houston and Ba¬ 
ker. The purpose of both resolutions 
was the increased production of live 
stock. 
Evidence of a conspiracy among large 
packing interests to corner the entire to¬ 
mato output of the Pacific Coast has 
been discovered, it was said Aug. 10 at 
the offices of the Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion at Washington. The commission’s 
investigators in California reported that 
three large canning concerns are in¬ 
volved—Armour & Co.. Morris & Co. and 
Libby, McNeil & Libby. These compa¬ 
nies, they charged, had attempted to pur¬ 
chase the entire California tomato crop 
from local canners, and prices conse¬ 
quently are jumping. Although at 92i/^ 
cents a dozen local canners are assured 
August 25, 1917. 
of a good profit, the three packing com¬ 
panies, according to the trade commis¬ 
sion, have sent the prices up to $1.30 and 
higher. The retail price, investigators’ 
reports say, also is taking an upward 
turn. Trade commission officials are of 
the opinion that the California situation 
should not appreciably affect prices in 
other parts of the country, as the total 
California output is only one-twelfth of 
the entire country’s pack. 
Twenty thousand American harvest 
hands will help save Canada’s grain crop, 
and nearly half as many Canadians will 
dig potatoes in Maine, under an arrange¬ 
ment reached Aug. 14 by representatives 
of the American and Canadian Govern¬ 
ments. Immigration regulations will be 
suspended by both countries to permit the 
labor to cross and recross the border. 
American harvest labor, working north¬ 
ward with the grain season, heretofore 
has stopped at the Canadian line and 
scattered to other pursuits throughout the 
T’^nited States. The agreement made to¬ 
day contemplates their crossing to take 
the places of thousands of Canadian work¬ 
ers who this year cannot go to the West¬ 
ern grain fields because of labor short¬ 
age throughout the Dominion. The wheat 
fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al¬ 
berta begin to ripen just after the crop 
in the northern tier of States is gathered. 
Canada is counting this .vear on a 800.- 
000,000 bushel yield of wheat, the second 
largest the country has grown. Maine’s 
potato crop is about ready for digging, 
and there is not enough available labor 
in New England to take care of the yield. 
Canadian labor employed for a short time 
will enable Maine farmers to save all 
of their crop. 
WASHINGTON.—That conscientious 
objectors to war are not to be excused 
entirely from serving the country was 
made clear in a ruling Aug. 13 by Pro¬ 
vost ^larshal General Crowder holding 
that such persons should be sent to the 
mobilization camps along with others 
drafted, to be assigned later to non-com¬ 
batant branches of the service. A con¬ 
scientious objector is defined as follows: 
“Any person who is found by a local 
board to be a member of any well recog¬ 
nized religious sect or organization, or¬ 
ganized and existing May 18, 1917. and 
whose then existing creed or principles 
forbid its members to participate in war 
in any foi’m and whose religious convic¬ 
tions are against war or participation 
therein, in accordance with the creed or 
principles of the said religious organiza¬ 
tions,” 
The entire 687,000 men composing the 
first increment of the army draft forces 
will he under training early in October. 
Under orders issued Aug. 13 the first SO 
per cent, of the quota of each district 
will begin entraining for cantonments 
September 5, the next 30 per cent. Sep¬ 
tember 15, another 30 per cent, Septem¬ 
ber 30, and the remaining 10 per cent, 
will he mobilized as soon after that date 
as possible. The plan to assemble the 
new forces in instalments distributes the 
task of furnishing supplies and equip¬ 
ment through September. ^ It will also 
prevent serious shortages in any camp 
and will give the new officers from the 
training camps time to familiarize them¬ 
selves with their duties gradually before 
responsibility for a great body of men 
falls on them. 
Secretary McAdoo Aug. 14 told Chair¬ 
man Simmons of the Senate Finance 
Committee and Chairman Kitchin of the 
House Committee on AMays and Means 
that the Government would need addi- 
■tional credits of $10,000,000,000 through 
a new bond issue at the present session 
of Congress. Furthermore, he told the 
Congressional leaders the Government 
would need an additional $1,000,000,000 
to be raised by taxation over and above 
the $2,000,000,000 carried in the revenue 
bill now pending ir the Senate. Of the 
$10,000,000,000 bond issue asked between 
$3,000,000,000 and $4,000,000,000 will be 
required to meet the demands of the Al¬ 
lies before .Tune 30, 1918. 
Far reaching plans for control of the 
country’s wheat supply were announced 
Aug. 12 by the food administration. The 
scheme proposed by Mr, Hoover contem¬ 
plates the purchase of the entire 1917 
wheat crop, the licensing of elevators and 
mills, the appointment of a fair price 
committee which will fix the price to 
producers, the abolition of trading in 
wheat for future delivery, and absolute 
control by the food administration of ex¬ 
ports of wheat and flour. The first step 
which the Administration proposes to 
take is the requirement of licenses for 
all elevators and mills with a capacity 
greater than 100 barrels a day. This 
regulation will go into effect September 1 
and the conditions of issuing the licenses 
are that only the reasonable and custom¬ 
ary charges shall be made for warehouse 
service; that no wheat shall he stored 
for more than thirty days without ap¬ 
proval of the Administration, and that 
certain information as to receipts and 
shipments be regularly supplied. Agen¬ 
cies will be opened for the purchase of 
wheat at all the principal tenninals and 
transactions will be carried on with the 
regular dealers. Based on August 1 con¬ 
ditions the 1917 wheat crop was esti¬ 
mated at 653,000,000 bushels. No re¬ 
strictions will be made as to quantities 
which will be purchased and no charges 
will be made except a nominal pei-cent- 
age to cover the costs of operation. A 
properly created auditing committee will 
check all transactions at every point. 
