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I THE DES MOINES REGISTER: WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. 3 REVEALS CASE AGAINST DEBS Outlines Evidence Against Socialist Leader on Trial at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Sept. -The government revealed its case against Eugene V.

Debs, socialist leader, charged with violation of the espionage act today in the United States District court. District Attorney Wertz said he would complete his evidence tomorrow. According to witnesses, Debs prefaced his remarks at the meet. ing at Canton. 0., with the statement, "I inust be careful what say and, more careful how I say it." speech C1 this occasion is the basis of the government's case.

His alleged that by insinuation in offensets it was his intention to affirm the "war program" adopted by the socialist party referendum and is outskopen. in opposing the war and pledges the party to oppose conscription. Although in his speech Mr. Debs evaded direct affirmation of the program" witnesses were introduced to show that this was really what he intended to convey. Clyde R.

Miller, a Cleveland newspaper man, testified that he asked Debs on two occasions if he repudiated the "war program. He testified Debs replied de stood by the program and was ready to die for it. Joseph Trainor, an agent of the federal investigation bureau, testihe attended a meeting in Chicago of the socialist state secretaries, where Debs urged that they do nothing to change the "war program." Seymour Stedman, counsel for the defense, brought out in cross examination that reports of the government stenographer at the Canton meeting and tire notes taken by Edward Evans, a soldier, who attended the meeting, did not agree in all particulars. Debs is expected to take the stand in his own behalf tomorrow. STAGE ALL SET FOR REGISTRATION DAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

31 to 45, there will probaly be some 230.000. According to the government estimate as to the number frolasthe men that will be obtained registrants withthese age limits, they will not yield more than 15.000 men classified for immediate call. Probably this number will be exceeded in Iowa, but according to the adjutant general it is sate to say that the total number of class 1 men resulting from the registration in this state will exceed 20 per cent of the total numbers registration registered. June 5. 1917, on numbered about 216,000 men of which not more than 30 per cent were finally placed in class 1.

Introduce New Feature. A feature that will for the first time form a part of the system for handling the registrants will be introduced following the September registration. This is the service afforded by the newly appointed boards of instruction A board of this kind, consisting of three members, been appointed by each of the local boards in the state. has, These boards are composed of the highest standing the community, and their registrant duty and it give to him such then information as will broaden his views in relation to the war and his duties as a soldier. The idea is that these instruction boards will get in touch with the class 1 men on various occasions prior to their being called into service and will establish a relation between them and the board members that is essentially different from that which prevails throughout the military system and to many of them represents only compulsion.

Conferences between government representatives and the mem. bers of these various instruction boards will be held, the first one beginning today at Davenport, folSept. 12. at Waterloo Sept. 13.

at Mason City Sept. 14. at Sioux City Sept. 16 and at Omaha Sept. 17.

At these conferences the board members will receive information as to what will be expected of them in their capacity as oards of instruction for drafted men. I. W. W. Agitators Held by California Federal Jury on Charge of Arson SACRAMENTO, Sept.

Nineteen alleged Industrial Workers of the World were named in an indictment returned here today by United States grand jury, charging with a conspiracy to burn grain, foodstuffs and cannia. They to have neries and others planted" Califorset fire to or encouraged fires to be set in various places in the state. The defendants also were charged with a conspiracy obstruct the war activities of the federal government. Approximately fifty-five other alleged I. W.

already under indictment, were named as co-conspirators with the men indieted today. ILLINOIS READY FOR PRIMARY VOTE Much Interest in Outcome of Senatorial Contest in Today's Election. CHICAGO, Sept. in the state primary in Illinois tomorrow centers in the three cornered contest between Congressman Medill McCormick, Congressman George E. Foss and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago for the republican nomination for United States senator The campaign has turned on the loyalty issue.

Congressman McCormick and Foss have appealed to the voters for support on their loval war records Mayor Thompson's opponents charged him with being a pro-German sympathizer, with having opposed this country's entering the war, with opposition to the selective draft law, and the sending of American troops to France, with failing to use his official position to support government in the conduct of the war, and with hesitancy in authorizing Liberty bond salesmen to canvass hall. He was charged with refusing to extend an official invitation to Marshal Joffre to visit Chicago, which made it necessary for the city council to hold a special meeting to invite the distinguished Frenchman I made excuse that Chicago was to the city. a His opponents said he the sixth, German city in the world and he feared offending a large part of the city's foreign born population. On the democratic side. Senator James Hamilton "Lewis.

who was asked by President Wilson to be a candidate for renomination, will have practically no opposition. BUTCHERS' AGENTS KEEP ON SPOUTING OF HOPE FOR PEACE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. the task of cultivating this spirit, which, he said, "animated the glori ous troops and helped the brave population at home to bear all sufferings and Prince von Wedel, the German ambassador to Austria-Hungary, expressed the hope that a trustful and harmonious collaboration of diplomacy and the press would sueceed in promoting and reinforcing the brilliantly, proved friendship between Austria-Hungary and Germany. COURT OUSTS HAMILTON Sioux City Man Loses Place on the City Council. SIOUX Sept.

Special: Attorney General Havner won his contention in the ouster suit against Commissioner of Public Safety W. R. Hamilton here this morning when Judge McCall of Nevada signed the order ousting the commissioner from office. The trial has been in progress since Monday last week. Hamilton was charged with drunkenness, giving protection to bootleggers and soliciting bribes.

Sensational evidence connecting the commissioner with Des Moines women and Sioux City bootleggers was given. The end came without the defense producing any evidence and Judge McCall immediately announced his decision. HISTORY OF WAR IS CAREFULLY MADE UP Gathering of Facts From Day to Day Systematized in All Armies. LONDON, Sept. -A few years hence, school children studying their histories of the great war may be curious to Khow just how the minute details of the battles were assembled.

Teachers will find the answers in the historical sections of the various armies and the officers who roam the fields searching for data, rescuing precious Incidents from oblivion, gathering the details of chaos into an intelligent story. It was Canada which first set the example of how to glean history from the rubble of the battle field. When the United States entered the war its officers who were selected for historical work had the benefit of the experience of the allies. Photographic, sketching and painting have a big share in the task of recordings example the war, for France pictorial having efficiency with its Mission des Beaux Arts. Up and down the front among the battalions go special officers giving instructions battalion headquarters how to write their official war diaries, which are supposed to be accurate- chronicles of the doings of the battalion month by month If a big event occurs the battalions concerned chronicle their part in it, the narrative signed by the commanding officer.

Then diaries sent to headquarters where they are filed, tabulated and preserved by the historical section. Behind the and front line moving a staff of photographers picture men are constantly at work on incidents which in time will be recorded and shown to the public. There also are artists with their paint and brushes, getting local color, ing the havoc of war as it is. Reality is what they strive for. Recently an artist was so anxious tu get a glimpse of the actual happenings of a little raid that he went over the with the troops into a German trench.

Another working near the front remained too long in an exposed position and an inroad of enemy raiders forced him to hurry away from his quarters so quickly that many of his canvas captured. Buena Vista Opens. STORM LAKE, Sept. Special: Buena Vista college opened Monday for its twentysixth year's career. Despite war conditions, the attendance is good.

The new faculty members are R. S. Fulton, military tactics; Miss Mary Seale, home economics: Miss Flora Benedict. French and Spanish; Miss Florence Swisher, expression and Mrs. Frank W.

Harrison, education. CITY IN BRIEF Mrs. A. U. Swan, wife of the assistant secretary of the state executive council, returned Monday night from a three months' sojourn in the west.

A part of the time was spent in Los Angeles and the rest with her son, Lieut. T. B. Swan at Camp Cody, N. Mex.

W. S. Allen, secretary of state, and Henry Saberson, chief clerk in the secretary's office, are attending a conference of officials charged with the administration of blue sky laws in Chicago. Mrs. Alice Hammersby, 1116 West Eighth street.

was severely bruised, and probably injured internally, when she was knocked Forty- down by an automobile, at fourth street and University nue, about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was treated by the police surgeon, after which she was taken to her home. The driver of the automobile did not stop and his identity has not been learned. OBITUARY. Mrs.

A. P. French. Mrs. A.

P. French died at her home, 1137 Thirty eighth street, at 9:30 Tuesday night. She is survived by her husband, A. P. French, and two daughters, Mrs.

George Proud and Mrs. Roy Sparks. FuIneral announcement later. Fine Overcoats at 20 Per Cent Reduction $6500 Overcoats $52 To induce early buying in Officers' Overcoats, we are offering a liberal reduction of 20 per cent on extra high grade military overcoats tailored by Hickey-Freeman Co. of Rochester, N.

manufacturers of the finest clothing. This offer is made possible through a fortunate purchase of 95 overcoats which were carried over from last winter, and are in reality much better Woolens than is offered this season. Every officer needing an overcoat will do well in purchasing one of these bargains. STORE. Frankels 573 70 517 WA NUT ST Three Soldier Brothers 7 In French Hospitals WATERLOO, Sept.

10. Special: Three Waterloo brothers, members of Company One Hundred Sixty-eighth infantry are now in a base hospital in Two are recovering from injuries, while the third is suffering from diphtheria. Hicock, who has been wounded several times. is recove ing from the effects of shrapnel wound and expects to be back in the service shortly. Ray Hicok, -who has also been wounded, is recovering from the effects of gas.

Carl Hicock, the youngest of the brothers, has just been sent to the hospital suffering from diphtheria. He is within a short distance of the hospital in which his brothers are recuperating. VIOLENCE HOLDS SWAY IN MOSCO Refugees Tell of Wild Reign of Bolshevik Bandits in Ancient Capital. (By The Associated Press.) STOCKHOLM, Monday, Sept. 9.

-Dispatches received from Russia announcing that neutral ministers have protested against the wholesale shooting of political prisoners and threatening to expel the bolsheviki from neutral countries it the political executions continue, caused no surprise to travelers recently returned from Russia, who were in Moscow and Petrograd when the wild taking of hostages began. Ten thousand officers of the old army who were ordered to register in Moscow were held prisoner for nearly a week, almost without food. Cholera broke out among them, because of the crowded and unsanitary conditions of their quarters. Hundreds Shot Down. Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik secretary of war, wired General Alexieff.

commander in chief of the antibolshevik forces, that an officer would be shot for every bolshevist killed by the Czechs or white guard. Alexieff is reported to have replied that if officers were shot he would not stop reprisals until every Jew in Russia was quartered. Finally a majority of the officers, half of them from Moscow, were released, but hundreds of officers are missing and are reported to have been shot. Many thousands of officers in Moscow refused to answer the call to register and made their escape to the various antibolshevik fronts. In Petrograd the officers summoned for registration were generally taken to Kronstadt, where thousands are still held pris- oner.

Mutilated Victim's Body. Captain Cromie, the British naval attache, who was killed by the bolsheviki, who mutilated his body and let it hang out of the embassy Willdow until the neutral diplomats threatened to leave Petrograd if it was not removed. was friendly to the bolsheviki and belonged to the group of British officials who urged recognition of the soviet republic and co-operation with it, until Trotzky broke the faith about permitting the Czechs to leaves Russia by way of Siberia. Wage Question Bothers. STORM LAKE, Sept.

Special: The question of the price that should be paid to cornhuskers this fall is one which being agitated by farmers' clubs, in this county. County Agent Heren will special meeting of farmers to determine what will be a fair wage for cornhuskers. DISPUTES VIRELA'S FIRST SHOT CLAIM Commander of Sixth Artillery (lives Another Version of Opening of Hostilities. NEW YORK. Sept.

-The story of the first shot fired by the American expeditionary force in the war with Germany a shell sent screeching into the German lines about as dawn was breaking on Oct. 23, 1917-1 -is contained in a letter sent to The Associated Press by the commander of the Indiana battery which performed this important action. Sergt. Alex Arch of South Bend, a sergeant in this unit, Battery of the Sixth field artillery, 18 the veteran soldier who, according to this letter, yanked the lanyard of the pioneer gun to speak for the United States 011 the soil of France. Claimed by Another.

Newspaper correspondents who inspected the gun on the day it was fired were permitted at the time to in their cablegrams only that say this sergeant was from South Bend. The honor of firing this first shot had been claimed by another menber of the same battery. Capt. Inuus R. McClendon, In command of Battery writing of this event, expresses Cos his conviction that the people of the United States should have available an authoritative account, both because of the significance of the deed and because in his opinion credit should go to the man to whom the officers of Battery say it is due- -Sergt.

Alex Arch. "Sergt. Alex Arch of South Bend is the man who pulled the and sent the first American shot into the hostile lines on the morning of Oct. 23, 1917, at five minutes past Captain McClendon says. "I was present during all the firing of that morning.

How It Was Done. "In the gun drill of the 75 field pieces the gunner, a corporal. lays the gun for direction only; cannoneer No. 1 sets off the range, and at the command of the chief of section fires the piece. The chief of section merely repeats the command is ordinarily given by the lietenant who acts as battery executive officer.

this particular morning Arch had a special crew made up of the other sergeants, who were in command of gun sections 111 the battery, all of whom were anxious to have a hand in the job. Arch himself set off the range and acted as No. 1. the lanyard at my command 'fire'." Twenty-four Shots Fired. Twenty-four shots were fired that morning.

Captain McClendon continued, added: "The firing of the first 101 was 211 event which our division commander considered worthy of special mention and record, and ordered the shell cases of the first eight. sh sent to his headquarters with a view to their preservation. Later the commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces ordered the gun which fired the first shot to be withdrawn from service and I understood that it had been, or would be sent, to the states to be kept as a relic of the great war." Had. Narrow Escapes. EMMETSBURG, Sept.

Special: Earl Sturgess writes his father from France that he has been in a couple of hot battles since the big drive of the allies. One day a shell tore up the ground, nearly covering him with dirt. An other day he lost this gun in battle but was fortunate enough to pick up one belonging to a German. He put it to good use until the end of the day's struggle. MARION HARRIS Headliner At the Orpheum This Week Marion Harris Sings Exclusively For the Victrola All of Her Records Are to Be Had at Chase West's Read this list and check the ones you'd like to have us send you or come in and let us play them for you.

"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France" 18486 "There's a Lump of Sugar Down in Dixie' .18482 "Don't Leave Me, Daddy" 18185 "I Ain't Got Nobody Much" 18183 "I Wonder Why" (with Murray) ...18270 "I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" .18143 "My Syncopated Meloday 18152 Blues" 18152 "Some Sweet Day" 18343 "They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over 18343 "When I Hear, That Jazz Band 18393 Chare West Vicirola Headquarters MT. VERNON BEING REPAIRED Damage by Sub Attack Apparently Not Serious. WASHINGTON, D. Sept. 10.

Sims reporting today additional details of the submarine attack on the American transport Mount Vernon, says a periscope was sighted 500 yards off the starboard bow and the ship's guns opened fire almost the 010- ment a torpedo struck the ship. Four fire rooms were flooded by the explosion. The loss of so many lives, thirty-five being killed, was due to the fact that the watch was being relieved and there were many more men than usual in the fire rooms. Neither periscope nor submarine was sighted by escorting destroyers but a number of depth charges were dropped at the point wherso the periscope was sighted by Vernon. The Mount Vernon proceeded to port at a speed of fifteen knots and is now docked for repairs.

Vice Admiral Sims said the admirable conduct of officers and crew of the transport showed their thorough training for such an emergency and praised the great skill and ability with which Captain Dismukes handled the situation. ATHLETIC STARS IN GREAT FIELD MEET Six From Army and Navy Camps Will Be Selected to Compete. CHICAGO, Sept 10-Warren Wright of Chicago tonight donated $1,000 to defray the expenses of six of the best athletes now in military or naval service to the National A. A. U.

outdoor track and field championships to be held at the Great. Lakes 21 Naval and Training 23. The staSept. 20, amount is Independent of the $3,000 donated by the Chicago Athletic association for the same purpose, Martin A. Delaney, athletic director of the Chicago A.

A. under whose auspices the national games will be staged, was appointed to make the selections. He named Clinton Larson of Brigham Young university, national champion high 1 jumper, now stationed at Kelly field. San Antonio, Texas: W. H.

Meanix of Boste 1, holder of the 440 yard national record, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor; F. J. Shea of the University of Pittsburgh, all America: quarter miler, stationed. at Boston; Joe Stout, the former University of Chicago runner, stationed at Carruthers field, Fort Worth, Texas and Howard Drew. the negro sprinter, joint holder of the world's 100 yard record.

Drew is Camp Dodge, Des Moines. Iowa. A sixth man will be selected front an eastern camp. These men will compete under the colors of their respective car DS. The entry, 1 1st will elr next Saturday every Dre record breaking list Justice Bartor WA New York Supre named referee 01 Strikes Out Twenty-turee.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 10 Sanders, a former Western league pitcher, established a near strikeout record for nine innings recently when he fanned twentythree men, while hurling the Belton team against the Kansas City White Sox. He allowed only three hits and won 2 to 1. The "Famous Window" will to Adv. One woman bought four new hats here Monday---all of them for herself---and she was getting ready to 80 to New York Harris Emery HATS have the character that makes the right impression The woman referred to might have waited and bought her hats in New York.

Instead of that she bought them here and will carry them to New York for wear during her stay there. It was a splendid compliment she paid this store, a compliment indicating that Harris-Emery's Millinery Salon, in her estimation, at least, offers opportunities that are not surpassed in even the greatest of American cities. Every woman can be as well suited by the new hats that are here -so many hats here, such lovely models, and so many styles--scarcely two that are alike. Velour, Panne velvet, Lyons velvet, Paon velvet, and beaver are the materials, and coque feathers, fancy wings and ostrich feathers and bands are among the tasteful trimmings. Noteworthy, indeed, is the list of new shades here represented--russet, mahogany, taupe, and new Autumn shades of tan and brown.

Small, medium and large ready-to-wear hats, for street, afternoon and evening wear. Especially featured are striking new millinery creations at 8.75, $10 and 12.50 The Millinery Salon--third floor--at There will be a good dinner ready for you in the Tea Room at Harris-Emery's, this evening Dinner hours from 5:30 to 7:30. Music..