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Detroitjfer SECOND EXTRA VOL 82 NO 191 INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS SEIZED BY DRAT YOUNG MEN ARMY MEASURE ASKS HOUSE VOTES WAR 373 TO 50 AMID CHEERS PRESIDENT DELIVERING HIS GREAT WAR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS PACIISTS LOSE STUBBORN IGHT DECLARATION STATE WAR US WAR UND Detroit Jurist Startles House by Paper Struck at Court Attempt to Swing Legislation to George A uller to Complete Repay Grudges is Alleged in war department $2 HANGED IN EIGY HOTEL CID1LLAC Ladies 4 including one without con ycar Thia total is ap appruxiinately as fol which crews parts Han an4 PQ cut issu' increased taxation higher taxis on estates 5 GERMAN SHIPS SEIZED AT BOSTON The text of the lood resolution follonst Whereas The Imperial German government has com mitted repeated acts of war against the government and the people of the United States of America therefore be it resolved By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared and that the president be and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire nand and military forces of the United States and the resources of the government to carry on war against the Imperial German government and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the congress of the United States AMENDMENT ORBIDDING SENDING TROOPS OVERSEAS REJECTED COST ADDS UP ABOUT $3000000000 There will Le in dieting first gardening Efr ch course will day and accommodate 200 RECRUIT REGULARS IMMEDIATELY WITH GUARD UNITS TO 600000 Special to ne PrCs New York April 5 for a training camp to le held at armington I under the au pices of the women's section of the PRICE: TWO CENTS The Holy City's or Too Alone" Madison Theater today 2:15 1:15 Adv carps At ookihts At 13 Woodward Adv Action Comes After More Than 16 Hours of I Continuous Debate Marked by Gains in Strength Proposal to Dispatch Only Soldiers Who Specifically Volunteered for European Duty Also Meets With Defeat DETROIT MICHIGAN RIDAY APRIL 6 TWENTY TWO PAGES Parts Han Ve have a number of late models taken in new care Exceptional ly low prices for quick sale itohfnson Co Woodward at Edmund Xdv WILSON APPROVES CONSCRIPT BILL in the senate PACIISTS PROLONG THE DISCUSSION Without roll calls the houso rejected all amendments proposal to prohibit the sending of any troops overseas gressional authority and another to permit the dispatch of only such as had specifically volunteered for European service There was no attempt to filibuster but the pacifist group under the leadership of Democratic Leader Kitchen prolonged the discussion with impassioned speeches declaring conscience would not permit them to support the president's recommendation that a alate of war be de clared Volunteer Army Plan is Abandoned for Train ed Efficient orce 2000000 to be Raised In Two Years New Building at Cost of $1166246 Enjoy delicious old ashioned Sunday Dinner fowl and all the accessories: 31 30 1234 to 8:30 Hotel Griswold Adv communication JtiOO Award Made at Private Meet ing but Commissioners Deny Action Was Secret George A uller company con tractors of New York and Detroit wore awarded the contract for gen eral construction and mechanical equipment of the new main library building on their bid of 1116246 at a special meeting of the library commission Thursday afternoon Besides Librarian Adam Strohm Secretary Charles It Robertson and Commissioners Kennedy Mumford and anl Controller Engel former Library Commissioners Ber nard Ginsburg Hinton If Spalding and it Burton were present at the meeting but tor some unac countable reason newspapermen were politely refused admission MOUtlltN DANCE NIGHT at The Pier every riday Select par ties Kenned an uuiereni tree Gentlemen 10c Adv corer 3 to a Special music entertainment decorations Both THE WEATHER Rain or Snow All Interned Vessels Ordered Taken Over Government Immediately After Passage of War Resolution Boston Mass April 6 ive German steamships have been in refuge at this port were ordered seized and their dispossessed by Collector of the Port Edmund Billings early today The 'rsa Alat inlrin nvi'f ft A 1 the Wlttcklnd Koln and Ockcnfels freight steamers WILLEHAD SEIZED AT NEW LONDON New Ixjndun Conn April 6 The North German Lloyd steamer Willehad which came here from Boston last August in order that accommodations might be provided for the members of the crew of the German merchant submarine Deutschland was ordered seized this morning by Collector of the Port James A McGovern ORDERED SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT Washington April It is understood that orders for the seizure of all German ships in American ports went out this morning immedi ately on the passage of the war resolution by the house The vessels will be held for the present as a measure of safety So far there has been no decision as to whether the government shall take them over and pay for them after the war THREE SEIZED AT BALTIMORE Baltimore April 6 Three German steamships the Rhein Neckar and Bulgaria were ordered seized at this port this morning A United States marshal assisted by a company of national guardsmen has I boarded the vessels HVBOID JARVIS MVtV The Holy or You MaHon Theater today 1:15 1:15 Adv bviihiih" now Hex beat novel in photo drama at Washington Adv IS NEWS PLOT JERIES litHoin til vis sings The Holy or You Madison Theater today 2:15 Adv BURGLAR CAUGHT OLLETTE STONE IN STORE ESCAPES Slips Out of Two Coats While Under Arrest and Runs Despite Shots Slipping out of two coats a man caught red handed while nibbing the Woodward lowt shop at 3C1 Woodward avenue escaped from Motorcycle Patrolman Cl arlton jshortly after midnight Charlton fired the fugitive but failed to halt him although he bt IHvea he wounded the burglar in the leg Patrolman Eaward Rogers while patenting his beat discovered the man working on the safe of he flower shop The man attempted to make a getaway but Rogers arrest ed him He transferred his pris oner to the mounted patrolman The latter wm taichrf the man a patrol box when he made a sudden lurch leaving the policeman grasping the empty clothing The coats ar now at the irst precinct station but nothing was found in the pockets that would identify the robber tnr Choir Mnui finunud'i Death ad Life" Tonight 50 voices with special soloists and orchestra first part jvv tonight Secund and third Easter night Woodward at cock Adv Scarab viap vp'" 2 to ex Addlsoa HoteL Adv Washington Crowd Strings Up Dummies of Senators to Lamp Posts Ppectal to Th ree Press Washington April grimly without otentatiun Sena tors Ia ulhtte uf Wisconsin andStone of Missouri were hanged in effigy tn downtown Washington late tunlgbL Two lay figures placarded with the names of the twu senators who yesterday voted against the reso lution declaring the existence of a state of war between the United Mates and Germany were siru un to lamp posts near the inter section of ourteenth and street The effiries were shrouded in black ana jcilow robes Eaeh bore a placard marked A traffic policeman was attract ed by a big crowd that feathered When re reached the scene of the hangtng however he was unable to nnd the men that had suspended the dummies The crowd augment ri UJ uirairi Rinrs Vitwrg Jeeri as a reserve squad of lieemen hurriedly summoned down the two figures i apci uuuvn VJU1W MAIN LIBRARY i SAYS EORT WAS MADE nmimn i nm nm to his aid UU1UKAU1 LL1 1 55 rents inest In city Hotel Nor irinndle Adv ing of women here today The camp will open July 4 classes aid and last 29 women KASIKn MONDAY DANCE At Arcadia Largest in Detroit's his ton Ladies 10c Men 25c Adv tiop 11 000000 MreiiRth la Aaked I'y that time machinery that had been built would provide enough trained pincers nnd non commission ed ottlcers to train a million or mure inen at a time If that were neces saiy The war department bill how ever proposed to authorize iow only the first two classes of the new ar my making a total of more than 2uu0nini trained troops would be available possibly within a year and a half ur iu two years at moat The Bum of nearly 43000000000 asked of congiess to carry out this program duals only with the first year of preparation Behind it stands the Hied of an equal sum lor reserve supplies of ammunition cannoli and other war material if the army Is to be employed in ac tual war Included In the present estimates are the cost of cantonments to house the troops Presumably the previous plans of the general staff tdr 16 military districts will De car ried out This would provide lor Id complete and fully equipped army uivisions and while II is not pro posed to create any additional tec tieal units of the National luard steps will be taken to fill In the gaps III thi present guard stiuc tur with cavalry artillery engi neers or other special troops com pleting the tactical organisation of those jrpes on sound military lines Plan Schools for tlffirers Staff officers regard the plan as the most effective that could be worked out They regard rxpan siuii of the regular urniy and bring ing of both that force and present regiments of the guard to full war etiength as vital since for five mouths they expect to employ these agencies as a huge school from 4 uutlnued Three Column our Committee Hearing By Staff Correspondent Lansing Mich April 5 As a I result of the declarations of Po lice Judge Jeffries of Detroit regarding the activities nt the De troitNewa in Its attempts to shape state legislation the so called re form courts bill was this morning given what is probably its death blow Judge Jeffries appeared before the judiciary committee of the house of representatives to protest against the passage of the bill After de tailing how the measure would it it became a law wreck control of Its own elections by plac ing the election machinery In the hands of the mayor and administra tion ho told the committed that The Detroit News had promised him the aid of Attorney General Groesbeck tn securing him tin appointment as fudge of the new court if he would publicly declare himself in favor uf the measure Groesbeck Henles romlee Attorney General Groesbeck this noon emphatically denied that he had given tu any newspaper anv intimation that he would support any one for a Judgeship in the pro posed court that he had had any conversation on such a subject the Detroit News or anyone representing It made any such promise all I have got to say Is that It Is absolutely ridiculous It is so ridiculous on the face of It that I consider It necessary to dis cuss it nt all I have enough work In my own office without attempt ing to fix up Judicial appointments In Detroit for newspapers" Judge Jeffries made ihe follow ing statement to the Judiciary com 1 mitte: "I am now going to say some thing I didn't wish to say but I want you to know Just who is be hind this bill Henry Montgomery a I reporter for The Detroit News came to me and told that If I would i come out in an interview in favor of the bill he would assure me the influence of Attorney General Groesbeck with Governor sleeper to Continued en Three luma Seven Tiivsiivn: 'nw tehm class Apr 12th Ad vanced Apr 10th Cadillac S57 for booklet Adv GOOD AMERH'VN OOD! Kafeteria Woodward at Clifford Adv CHEERS GREET ANNOUNCEMl VOTE Choers greeted the announcement of thdTresult A few minutes later Speaker Clark signed the resolution and the house then ad journed to meet again Monday and take up the recom Jmendations tor war legislation I The 50 who voted against the resolution were: Almon i Bacon Britten Browne Burnett Cary Church Connolly of Kansas Cooper of Wisconsin Davidson Davis Decker Dill Dillon Dominick Esch rear uller of Illinois Haugen Hayes Hensley Hilliard Hull of Iowa Igoe Johnson of South Dakota Keating King Kinkaid Kitebin Knutson La ollette Little London Lundsen McLemore Mason Nelson Randall Rankin Reavis Roberts Rodenbcrg Shackleford Sherwood Sloan Stafford Van Dyke Voight Wheeler Woods of Iowa THOSE VOTING OR RESOLUTION Those voting for hoResolution: Adamson Alexander AsuU eok Aswell Ayrea Bankhead Barkley Barnhart Bell Black Blackmon blanton Booher Borland Brand IlrodKck Bruckner Brumbaugh Bu chanan Byrnes of South Carolina: Byrns uR Tennessee Caldwell Campbell of Pennsylvania: Candler of Mississippi: Cant rill Caraway Carew Carlin Carter of Oklahoma Clarke of lorida Claypool Collier Connally of Texas Cox Crisp Crasser Dale of New York Dent Denton Dewait DtcKirson Dies dixou Dooling Doolittle Doremus of Michigan: Doughton Drane Dupre Eagan Eagle Estopinal Evans erris isher itzgerald lood lynn oster uller of Massachusetts Gallagher Galllvan Gandy Gard Garner Garrett of Tennessee: Garrett of Texas Glass Godwin of North Carolina Goodwin of Arkansas Gordon Gray of Alabama Gregg Grifiin Hamill Hamlin Hardy Harrison of Mississippi Harrison of Virginia Hastings Hayden Heflin Helm Helvering Holland Hood Houston Howard Huddleston Hulbert Hull of Tennessee Humphrey Jasoway Johnson of Kentucky Jones of Texas Jones of Virginia Kcboe Kelly of Pennsylvania Kellner Key of Ohio Kincheloe Larsen Lesaro Leo of California Lesher Lever Linthicum Llt tlepage Lobeck Lonergan Lunn McArthur McCormick McCullough Mcadden McKenzie McKlnely McLaughlin of Michigan McLaughlin of Pennsylvania Madden Magee Mann Mapes of Michigan Miller of Minnesota Miller of Wash Photo by washiurum Ifili 1i ntm 4 1 This remarkable photograph was made at just 8:43 Monday as shown by the clock over Vice President Marshall and Speaker Champ Clark and is from the only negative made by a time exposure President to Have ull Power Over Selective Conscription Imprisonment Provided for Evasion of Registration If Called Washington April 5How the government plans to raise a wararmy of a million mffffwithin a year and of two million within two years was disclosed upon adoption of the war resolution by the house A bill prepared by the general staff and approved by the president for submission to congress provides for the immediate filling up of the regular army and National Guard to xvar strength of more than 600000 by draft unless enough volunteers enlist quickly and for bringing into the service by late summer of the first 500000 of the new force of young men between the ages of 19 and 25 years to be called to the colors by selective conscription DRAT ONLY WHEN NECESSARY In drafting its program the staff recognized that the United States must start at the beginningg and train first an army of 100000 officers and non cpmfnissioncd officers to undertake' the training of the thous ands of 'youths who will enter the service with no notion of military duty or life Expansion of the present regular army to its full war strength of 287000 enlisted men and 11700 officers means many new regiments of all arms to be created by dividing existing regiments and filling each half to war strength with volunteers or conscripts The National Guard regiments all Vf which can be called into the federal service under existing law will have approximately 327000 men and 10300 officers at war strength Xdnew regiments of the guard would be organized and the full fimit of ttuunational defense act would be invoked to wipe out distinc tion bctwCcil federal and state forces Here also volunteers would be received and drafting resorted to only when necessary TO ILL GAPS IN ACTIVE ARMY Those two steps would provide a total force of 614000 incn and 22000 officers to be supplemented by a recruit organization for each un making an additional 200000 men under training but to be held in reserve to fill gaps in the active army as they occurred b'zsr iiv( tnnnilic tlipcp fvnan1r1 fnrrs will hf fttihirrtntl tn training of 3 character hitherto unknown in this country Simultaneously reg and Senate With Charge That istration ot an men between ages of 19 and 25 will be carried out with federal state and munici pal authorities co opcrating A year from noiv a second Incre ment of SOOOOu youths would bo called out another 100000 officers and non commlssloncd officers would be drawn from the regulars the National Guard forces or from the first sectlua 'of the new army to officcrand train the second sec Washington April 6 The resolu(ion declaring that a state of war exists between the nlted States and Germany was passed 0 1 (T DTT TAMO lie house Bhorty aflpr 3 this morning by a vote ot 373 to 50 In I I IpIXl The action came after more than 16 hours' debate The debate be 1 Li UlLluL vll Ran al 10 o'clock Thursday morning and continued until 2:45 this tnorn I Ing when the roll call began Requests for This Total to The resolution already passed by the senate will be signed by the Equip Military Arm of Nation today after Vice rrealdent Marshall has affixed his signature Presented to Congress Wabash ll 00 nt train arrives Chicago Dll a Terminals cen jlrally located both cities Adv HEX BHVIII AT Ills BEST bee Barrier" in photodrama at the Washington Adv Librarian Htrobm explained Thursday evening that while the meeting was an executive session he did not know that the press had been excluded and Commissioner Mumford when asked for the reason for such action said emphatically: "There was no reason for it Somebody evidently pulled a bone head play The meeting should have been open to the press and if I had been present when the request for admission came In the doors Continued on Three olumn live SC hole Sinn Gounod'S nnd Tonight 50 voices with special soloists and orchestra irse pari ai aoo tonight Second and third Easter night Woodward at cock Adv DVNCE VBC'ADIA TONIGHT inzel's Big Band Ladies free men 10c Adv Hotel Adi nrv EVSTEB UnoKtm SOW At 83 Artv OEK VON MACH for your Interior decorating paper hanging and painting Wut 311 the Amerika and Cincinnati passenger ships and Navy a orce Says Secretary Daniels is to' Be Increased by 100000 New Recruits Washington April Congress was asked today to provide Imme diately $3502517000 to finance the war for one portionable lows: or the 952537933 or increasing the author ized strength of the navy to 1501'00 men and the marine corps to 30000 men $175355 762 or other necessary expendi tures for the naval establish ment at the direction and dis cretion of the president $292 538 1 90 or the coast guard so it may perfect its telephone sys tem uf 000 A bond Including large incomes whisky beer and to haycu In addition to new methods of taxation probably will be re sorted to tv raise th huge amount 931X101'00 OCO by Buud luaue Unofficial estimates to the fed eral reserve board ate tu the effect that the batiks uf the federal re serve system are in a position to absorb up to IZOuuuuovOU of war bunds nt once at a rate of interest not exceeding 3 1 2 per cent Sec retaiy McAdou authorized the state ment that fie thought the govern Contlnued on hree 4 olumn live CAMP OPENS JULY 4 ROOM OR 200 I a msg: I ft ft ft lull (II 1 4 I GU I I ZSrW Bara an IffirTTlfflimiwI iffulHII RkH IH Hi 9 fl 4 1 3 jf WMifeii rwauHfaww a u'l 1 in 14G trMuuln ffAtn I ft At rt RT1 1041 Volk t't i.