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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-07-19
Germans Make Gain.

paris, July 10. The Germans made
] an I,S al tack last night on the Fyench
line south OF the Somme and gained
Rfound In the vicinity Of Biaches, the
War office statement announces.
The German attack was delivered
axainst the French positions from
Biathes to La fMaisonette. Several
attempts to take La Maisonette failed.
With heavy loss to the Germans, the
statement says, but groups Of the
attacking forces spread along the
canal on the east side Of Biaches,
where the fighting continues. "
"A German raid on hill 304 on the
yerdun front west of the Mouse was
broken up by French infantry fire.
Eaxt OF the river there was fighting
With grenades in which the advantage
rested with the French. The artillery
was active about La Laufee and
Chenois.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-07-19

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The sun., 1916-12-22
WILD DUCKS LIKELY
TO CUT MEAT PRICES
That Is View Expressed al
Dinner of the Game Con-
servatiOn Society.

The public can freely whet It's duck
appetite now. Wild ducks are becoming
so abundant and therefore so cheap that
II Is possible they will cause the price OF
meat TO drop. according TO a report read
Mt the dinner consisting entirely OF
game which was held by members Of
the Game Conservation Society AZ the
Aston Hotel last night.
In the course OF n report read or beh1l.
OF the president of the society Elce-Pres-
ident 4. A. Hlllodwelt on the likelihood OF
the birds giving beef a run for the
money as follows
wild ducks have been reported as
oNerabundant in many parts of the coun-
try. within the year they have APP
peared in the Minnesota and some other
markets at 81 each. and 1t seems likely
this desirable food will soon be plentiful
enough In all our markets and will tend
to lower the cost OF meat" Recently
mallard ducks on Long Island. formerly
almost IA rarity, ave appeared IN great
numbers. he said.
other speakers were j, W. Titcomb,
Game commissioner of Vermont George
II. Graham. Game Commissioner of Mas
saChusetts william s. Haskell, attorney
FOR the American Game Protective AS
ISOLATION. and the Rev. Dr. Herbert X
Job of the National Association of Audu-
hon Societies.
The sun., 1916-12-22

bankers We're serene.

officers and employees OF all the big
banks which loan heavily IN stock
Exchange collateral were serene. They
had money to put ont in abundance ~ I
per cent. on call loans. and there was
no greater discrimination ON collateral
than on any other day OF the declining
movement. II there was any chang" Il
was in tho direction Of loaniug more
closely up 80 market prices. for as
stocks 20 down Me pr'ceutag" Of mar.
gin between loan value and market
value decreases. Tho banks greatly eur
tailed the ampuu. lent on Stock EN.
change collateral accnrdingly without:
calling Of loans.
TIL reduction of bank loans was &C.
compauied naturally by a reduction IN
loans of brokerage houses. On" ut the
big wire houses cut down its obligations
TO the banks by more than s., 0oo .o0e
Lowe market prices did not require SO
much money for the operation of the
Stock Exchange mdch'sry.
The March and May cotton Options.
which are the most speculative positions
In cotton just now. declined about s. =
bale. Spectators IN both stocks ana
cotton sold some of their cotton 80
protect their positions ig stocks md
vice versa. The net result was a reduc.
ton Of bank loans on stocks and cotton
both
The sun., 1916-12-22

toners who had pariayed their accounts
and wero unable to put up the required
margins as stock went down, but there
was nothing at all In the sacrifice OF pa
per profts or In the dismissal OF a small
army OF spectators to AFFECT the BUSH
ness, brokerage or banking position.
A readjustment Of market prices to
peace conditions, whether pending negoti-
atoms end In peace before spring or
whether they collapse utterly. was inevl-
table according 10 bankers who have fol-
lowed the trend OF war contracts. h
have noted the disappointment OF hun
dreds OF manufacturing companies which
have taken such contracts and who know
that only the tried and tested companies
are to receive such contracts even II the
war lasts ten years more. None of these
bankers has for weeks seen anything In
the future except a shifting OF the secure
ties OF many war companies from "A war
TO a peace basis.
The sun., 1916-12-22
BEARS KILL XMAS JOYS.
In WR1I street Fiji specW-
Intors with GIoOM.

The bear raids in wall street have
taken the Christmas JOY out of the
hearts Of hundreds of spectators. While
the steady. hard plugging clerk. who has
tended strictly to his knitting at his
desk and has not been lured at lunch
hour to take n plunge on the war brides,
Is happy with his bonus, there are al
most countless numbers OF persons In
New York and throughout the country
who have been stung.
stories noated into the Office of TIE
Sl'H las, evening OF persons who had
lost their savings Ivy plunging on the
war brides" A 60 years old, VINO
had made a fortune IN real estate Just
before the panic OF 1907. was seen walk
ing slowly with bent head up Park
I,ow yesterday afternoon. lie had
bought stocks in 1905 and investing eau
tiously had made some money.
About n year or more ago he became
interested In the war brides and lie pur-
chased freely. lie had some sense of
proportion then and was content with
a good sized profit. lie got out. But
the tips about United States steel
going to Iho and possibly 200 urged him
to plunge heavily for thousands OF shares
around 1872. He kept putting up margin.
but yesterday he let everything go and
s~orrowfully turned homeward. lie must
20 out lO-uaN ana Try 10 get n salarleu
job.
There were spectators buying Marine
preferred at 100. Influenced by the pros
rect of some so per cent. OF back divi-
dsnds. scores of persons are said to
have purchased that stock on margin at
the tupnotch prices and that stock closed
yesterday almost forty points down from
the high price.
A school teacher became Interested a
year ago in Submarine Boat. then SELF
ing around 81. She went to n banker.
put up a lot OF good stock and put sI5.-
900 into the stock at that price. She
looked at tho curb quotations yesterday
and saw her stock quoted around ~.
There were some Spectators who had
purchased or margin who saw their
stocks drop by lehps in the last week
and who hravely called upon their bank
reserves for extra margin but who Nes-
terdnv let their stocks go at losses Of
twenty and twenty-five points.
\ scamstrcss. who had been eft sl0.-
coo and who had heard some of the
women for nom she worked tell OF
the money they had made playing the
market aspired som" months ago 10
turn her hard earned money INTO enough
to make her comfortable for life. She
bought crucihlr steel around So ans
Baldwin Locomotive around 81 Shs
saw both go up for a time and then
the prices swung against until her broker
called for more margins which were
NOT forthcoming
The sun., 1916-12-22
CONSUL ADMITS MEN
WERE USED AS SPIES
But Bopp Asserts They Were
Not Hired TO Put Bombs
in Entente Ships.

S.S FR,Ncisco. Dec. 2i.-Franz Bopps
German Consul-G General In san Frans
cisco. took the stand In his own BEHALF
to-day In the Governments suit alleging
conspiracy on the part of German Con"
sular officers TO hinder and destroy mus
milton shipments To the Entente Allies
Bopp and six others. including Louis Js
Smith. the Governments chief Witness
are under Indictment.
Bopp conceded tina the Nicc-Consuls
r.. II. Won Setback. had employed g. u
Crowley. a detective. and smith, a for-
mer dynamite factory hand. during
Bopp's absence tn the carly months OF
the war. lie insisted. however. the two
were engaged as confidential agents 10
furnish evidence Of Entente violations
of American neutrality. and not TO place
bombs In enemy ships, trains and tun"
nels.
Earlier cross examination Of Won
Setback by tho prosecution elected that
he had comparatively little authority In
the consulate. Bopp alone had access
to the strong box IN the consulate safe.
he testified. On July 2S. 1913, the date
when S,nith says he was paid S1.254.So
for alleged attempts TO blow NJ ships ana
tunnels. Bopp alone. according to Won
Setback. WIS authorized to extract tho
necessary sum
l. "Bopp ana l." continued Won Setback.
discussed the construction OF SUBJ
marines for the Br.t'rh by the Union
Iron Works in Slu Francisco in 1915
after Mr.. Schwah had promised that
such construction by the bethlehem Steel
Corporation should cease. II was then
we determined TO hire a detective to
check IN for us.'
Tho Union Iron Works is subsidiary Of
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
The sun., 1916-12-22
LETTER BOXES FOR NEW YORK.
Delay Due 10 Attempt tO Meet
Wishes or Art Commission.

WAsHiNGTuS. Dec GI-Thc Post Of
fee Department made public tonight q
letter from i y Edgetton, purchasing
agent Of the Department. written In re-
sroUse 10 q letter from Mayor Mitchell
stating that the department is making
preparations for the erection Of letter
boxes in New York city.
Mr.. Edscjton asserts that much of this
delay has been due - the inability OF
the Department 80 meet the wishes Of
the New York Az commission. whose
authority Is not recognized ~ the Feds
eral Government. lie adds that orders
have been issued TO the contractor to
rush the boxes 80 New york and requests
the municipal authorities to cooperate
With the pUstn1st"r OF New York In
meeting the difficulties that have been
encountered i' erecting pcdostals or ate
tarhing the boxes to- light poles and
buildings.
The sun., 1916-12-22
LAUD DR.. PARKHURST
| FOR HIS FIGHT ON VICE
Church Federation at Banquet
in His Honor Hears How
lie Cleaned Up n. Y.

Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst was de-
scribed by many speakers AS the man
chiefly responsible for the dellverance
of New York city from its former con
ditions of vice and corruption AT n din
ner given in his honor last night by
the New York Federation OF Churches
at the Aldine Club.
Two of his eulogists had been IN the
city for years when pr. parkhurst be-
gan his passionate at the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church in 1850. They were
the Rev. George u. Wenner OF Christ
Lutheran Church. who anne to New
York in 1868. and the Rev. II. Pereira
Mendes of the spanish Portuguese Syna-
pogue. who has been n pastor there
since 1917.
Former Assistant District .Attorne"
Frank Moss said he remembered the
time when there were hardly ten men
I'm New York who dared stand up and
tell the truth abou; conditions.
Thanks to Or. Parkhurst's splendid
courage there are now 10000 of them"
he said.
pr. Cornelius woelfkin OF the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church, after giving pr.
rarkhurst credit for disrupting the
forces Of evil in New York expressed
his wonder that an assassin's knife be-
fore thiSh had not struck the distinguished
refOmer down.
Or. Parkhurst told the diners he felt
he had done nothing unusual. that he
had not overworked, for overwoik is
SLOW suicide but that he knew some
thing had been accomplished. He
praised Mayor Mitchell as IA man not
afraid and Police Commissioner Woods
az the best Commissioners In the history
of the city.
"Byrnes was tl,e strongest, but also
the ~wickedest." he asserted. but Arthur
Woods IL a Christian and "A gentleman -
The sun., 1916-12-22
TIRRELL Wins $4,000
LIBEL SUIT VERDICT
AdamsOn, His Associate I'm
Bureau Of Standards. Was Pre-
viously Awarded $4,000.

A jury before Justice Piatzek last
night returned a verdict for $1,000 dam
ages In favor OF George l.. Tirrell, d.
rector OF the bureau Of standards In the
Finance Department. who brought suit
for 500. 900 against the Herald. alleging
that he vas libelled in articles published
In the newspaper. which he maintained
gave the impression that he had OBJ
talned a recommendation for salary in
crease from the city through "~trickery."
Tirrell's action was concomitant with
the suit Tor the same amount brought
against the newspaper by Tilden ADAM
son. director " the bureau of contract
supervision. who believed he had been
m!sreprescnted In the same articles. A
jury before Justice Hotchkiss OF Mo-
vember l6 awarded a verdict for $25.o 0
damages TO Adameon. The Herald Is
taking steps to appeal the verdict in the
Adsmson case.
The stories In question were published
In the early part of November. 1914. and
indicated, according to the contentious OF
Adamson and Tirreli. that the raise in
their pay from $4,000 to $500 a year.
cured at the last moment when the Board
Of Estimate on October 81. 1914, was do
ing its hurried best to close up the 1918
budget.
The two plaintiffs came prominently
into notice In connection with their work
to put into effect the salary STANDARDIZED
ton scale. under which the pay of lesser
city employees was to be cut.
Mayor Mitchell was among the wit
nesses called by counsel FOR Tirrell. The
Mayor. who gave much the same testi-
mony in the preceding case. made state
ments TO the effect hat the increase for
the two butenu heads had been Ciytu
sufficient notice beforehand to preclude
it's being damned through without due
consideration. Evidence Of the same pur-
port was given by the Borough Presi-
dents and Comptroller ~Prendergast. The
Jury was out about an hour.
The sun., 1916-12-22
MUST IAN EGGS.
hight Dealers Are summoned Into
SUPREME Court.

Eight dealers In eggs. including sew
eral large companies operating chains
Of grocery stores. will he restrained
f~cn selling storage eggs without stamp
Ing them as such by the httorney-Gen-
erals office, according to an announce
men, made yesterday by edgar Brom-
berger. Deputy Attorney-Gencral.
Papers were being served yesterday
or the eight concerns In an action for an
order to show cause why an injunction
should not be issued restraining them
from dlsobeying Commissioner Dil.on's
order. The step was taken after Justice
Gresnbaum in the Supreme Court on
Wednesday expressed the opinion that
Nrms other than James Butler, Inc.
should be brought into court. II was
tine original intention of the Attorney
Generals office to make the James
Butler case a test of the legality of Conn
missioner Dillon's order. The Butler
firm, by a temporary injunction. Is re-
strained from selling storage Eggs In
their $50 stores throughout the state
without stamping them In accordance
with the order after next Saturday at
Z \. NJ. The other firms will be sim
ilarly restrained.
According to Deputy Attorney-Gen-
eral Bromberger. the firms agains,
which the State Is acting are the Union
Pacific Tea Company, the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company. T. X. Dixon.
l.. O~ppenheimcr. Daniel Reeves, Inc,
Harry Weissberg, Charles Spreckles and
Fred Lowenfels & Son.
Mr.. Bromberg ger said yesterday that
probably the firms would not base their
defence on their innocence of violation
Commissioner Dillon has exceeded his
authority In issuing II.
The cases will come up for argument
in the Supreme Court on next Tues
day, Inspectors of the Department OF
Foods and Markets are prepared ia
testify concerning alleged violations OF
the order.
\ conference Will take place this
afternoon between Commissioner Dillon,
Frank A. X. Boland. representing inter
ests affected by the order, ana Mr.
Bromborger. An agreement may be
reached concerning the order.
Turkeys will be high this week, ac'
cording to George H~ildebrand. Deputy
Commissioner of Foods and Markets, be-
cause the snowstorm recently has held
back shipments mean to arrive in the
city before Christmas. II families
would postpone their Christmas dinner
II few days they would probably din
cheaply and well on turkeys which vii
arrive here after Christmas. Yesterday
the price OF the best Maryland stock n
Wholesale was from 80 to 35 cents g
round, and to this sum must be added
tbout Ave cents more for the retailer
The Virginia turkeys were from 81 t.
81 cents a pound wholesale.
Ducks and geese were about 90 cents
and roasting chickens q to 90 cent!
wholesale. Storage eggs dropped abou
a cent yesterday to SO cents "A doser
and should sell for from SO to 40 cent
a dozen In the small stores.
The sun., 1916-12-22
FINDS COMBINE IN
HIGH COST OF FOOD
Head Of National Inquiry Says
transportation Is Being
Manipulated.
ONE CASE ABOUT READY
Public Advised Not to Play
Into Hands Of the
Spectators.
ONE CASE ABOUT READY

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charge Of the nationwide coal and food
inquiry. m,dc . Su, Rod .,a,.u.,, zoo.
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,.,,on, - 600, co... ha. No., nhaolas
ga ,hs cna, bci, nm No, oniy on a..
savro.ds In, M ,nr,,ina,. .,a NJ
Anaor.on az 10 rcod,e,, IA y,v ,ha,
.nar. 4. r.,so, Do .,sn.c, ,ha; smch
ac,io, 10 tho ,eaui, NJ an or,ie,iai and
illegal combination I'm restraint Of trade
n ia equally logical 20 saw tina, n prima
t,c,o nae In. heen est,blIsbed when
col dealer. arc found rsconslvninv coal
aver ana oycr again from ono brnker IN
sno,her To DELAY delivery ana thereby
crca,e n manic. The coal il then sold
4, a snec,,Iative market at greatly on.
HANGED price. Such conditions are being
investigated thoroughly.
eve have a large part OF n case In
A,ca,,ne illegal combination hut mend
ing tho conclusion OF the investigation
The sun., 1916-12-22
CITY WORKERS FIGHT HI KOsT
They Form n C%OOperRtiv g Union
and Buy at WhoIesnIe.

In an effort 10 combat the high cost
Of living thousands o. city employees
nave organized cooperative buying clubs
and "A movement II now under way to
have all the $1,000 city employees Join
thc club. A credit union has also been
established for the purpose OF loaning
money at reasonable rates OF interest.
The action OF the city employees was
revealed yesterday when John II. Cree
Uer. chief clerk In the Corporation Coun-
sells Office, who ls also head of the en-
rloSc res conference committee. received
from the Sinking Fund Commission per-
mission to use one of tho rooms In the
Municipal Building as a storeroom for
me fooistuTs. Comptroller Prendergsst
" Treasurer OF the uhion .
The sun., 1916-12-22
tlose Loss Loss
HtCh Yes since Nes
4 "snfr and sane Panic"

" Mer" was any panic at all II was
'ell characterized by a prominent banker
as IA safe and sane panic" There was
excitement I'm the brokerage offices in the
hnailclal district, and In the uptown
branches, and undoubtedly there was ex-
citenent and confusion OF mind and such
a stampede 10 sell ~ mark a panic in in
terror brokerage houses as well. But
there was no panic or frlgh, among the
members of stock Exchange houses or in
the banks.
Brokers had their accounts with GUS
toners wei protected. having taken ann
pie warning from the experience of pre-
rious big dips in stocks since the war he
gan. Even the big wire houses. which
have NEST difficulty In communicating
Will their customers, had their affairs
In such good order that there was not the
slightest commotiou In the money crowd
IN the stock Exchanged. or any urgency
10 secure accommodation from banks.
Panic fear for the most part was pos
sessed only by spectators who had made
great profits I'm the war stocks and who
dreaded that what the market had given
them the market might take away.
The sun., 1916-12-22
FRIENDS DINE JOHN M. RIEHLE
Quest BOomed for Comptroller AT
Dinner In Democratic IIuL.

|" proposing - toast 20 President WI
son at n dinner In tine National Demo
cratic cub to John y. Richie. president
Of tho organization, last night, Charles
Il Alexander said
We ave all read his peace note ami
We hal him. He was reelected because
hc kent ne out o. war. 1 hope the daN
VIII soon come when all the belligerent
nations Wal saw, Vie has drawn us out
~ war
President wilson sent a letter ex-
pressing rYrct ~ his Inability 90 be
urc-, ~ ARD Z, uNe''ug hte greetings &,
'aI those - Attendance inpug 'hos"
.r 'trudau." f. s''2k"rs'
..pia VS. Charles =. Murphy.
EuP'" Iu#i.. H I"H-... ... hle'lr
slil 90, ,i." s1pu'i lt.. @ man TX.
him as rpmr.ro.cr .fohu " Keller
made , -p,r.h presenting u SILVER scr
y'." - the guest II hgro' Other speak
,r- were Leslie ! %To'0pE'ua i;er'os"ntl-
tive Iieu'v " Go'dfoe'c and John *.
Saau". About go were present.
The sun., 1916-12-22
FORD PLANT TO CLOSE 7 DAYS.
Factory suspension "a Relieve tall
road CongestiOn-f2,OO O Idle.

DETROIT. Dec. Ell Beginning to-mor-
row tne Ford Motor Company will close
its plant for seven days in order to re-
lieve the railroad congestion here. that
carloads of food and fuel may be ham
died. il was announced to-day by Frank
l.. Klingensmith. vice-president. The
suspension will mean n production loss
OF approximately $500 cars a day.
Mr., Klingensmith said that the nor
NAL coal consumption OF thirteen cars
daily will be curtailed to the amount
needed to keep the plant above freezing
temperatures. Forty-two thousand men
are made idle by the order, meaning a
wage loss for the week Of 1900, 900.
The sun., 1916-12-22
TO PARADE AT INAUGURATION.
National Guard VIII Take Part In
Military Display Jan. I.

ALBANY. Dec. 2i,-scveral of the Ma
tlonal Guard units which saw service
on the Texas border this summer Will
Join with some of those which were not
ordered out of the state In the military
display incident to the inauguration here
on January ! of Gov, Whitman, The
d%etachmonts to participate were an
nounced tonight by Secretary of State
Hugo and Adjt.-Gen. Stotesbury as fol-
lows;
Thirteenth Coast Defence command OF
Brooklyn. detachments of the following
infantry regiments: The First Of hing
hamton. the Second OF Troy, the Seventh
of New York and the Tenth Of Albany :
a detachment of the Naval Militia Of
New York a troop Of Squadron 4, New
York Cavalry. and "A gun detachment
from the Field Artillery to fire the
Governors salute.
The sun., 1916-12-22

port, and added hat there was not the
slightest excuse for a bankers confer
ence.
In the brokerage offices clerks were
working early this morning in prepara-
ton Of accounts for the Stock Exchange
clearing house. The clearing house
force was prepared to work all night.
Thousands Of men with stocks on hin
margins. who had fingered for the last
bit OF financial news as long as the
customers rooms were open, thought
bitterly OF the morrow.
The sun., 1916-12-22
Prices Above Last Years Low.

In the course of this REIMBURSEMENT. it
was pointed out, many Industrial stocks
have gone down far from their high
prices. but. withost exception. these
stocks still rule far above the low prices
Of last year. before the intense spccula-
ton in war stocks began.
Just how a number or these stocks
stand with comparisons Of low prices last
year. high prices since January l. 1915,
Losses from those high prices and gains
from the low Of 1913 by comparison with
yesterdays close IL shown in the follow
ing table:
The sun., 1916-12-22
FINDS TlAn OF FOOD COMBINE.
Will Take rs Msnths 20 Ran IL
Down, says Hurley.

WASHINGTON. Dec. Bin reporting
.favorably Representative. Boriand's reso-
luton to have the House direct the Fed
raj Trade Commission to make an ex-
haustive inquiry into the high cost of liv-
ing the Judiciary Committee to-day ex-
pressed the opinion that only n thorough
investigation into production. marketing
storage would solve the problem.
A letter from Chairman Hurley Of the
Trade Commission accompanied the re-
port, saying the inquiry would require
hfteen to eighteen months and cost about
$4,000. Hearings. the report Sid. had
disclosed a condition strongly pointing
TO "A control Of products by those en-
gagged I'm. marketing the same in this
country as In foreign countriea."