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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Card of Thanks.

The undersigned wish to thank the
many kind friends and neighbors for
their assistance and sympathy and
floral offerings during the illness and
death of our beloved husband and
brother.
Mrs. Bessie Anderson.
Andrew Anderson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Firemen's Dance Tomorrow Night.

The DEBORAH fire. department will
give their annual Thanksgiving dance
at Steyer's opera house tomorrow,
Thursday evening. Helwig's orches-
ira will furnish the music, and big
crowd will be in attendance
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
This Weeks Stock Shipments.

The Equity shipped out four cars
OF cattle and two double decks OF
hogs Saturday night. On Sunday
morning Ole Burreson shipped two
double deck loads of hogs for Reeves;
Gilbert Pearson of cattle; Young &
Paine one car; Frank Pilgrim cars;
Curtin Bros. one car and James Dor
an one car.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Moved to DEBORAH.

Ole Ellis and family are moving to
DEBORAH this week from their farm
in Pleasant township, which they
recently sold. They will be welcomed
as residents here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Big Mortgage Trust Deed.

Waukon, Nov. "a mortgage
trust deed for 100000 from Inter-
state Power Co. to the Chicago Trus:
& Savings bank & Trust Co. and Lu-
cius letters, trustee was filed with
County Recorder Klees. 1t occupied
sixty-eight pages of typewriter
manuscript.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Will Winter in Florida.

Monday evening Messrs. Ludwig
Winger, John and Albert Ellestai
and families and Ole Tolstad depart
ed for Fort Pierce, Florida, where
they will spend the winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
CreSco Shut Out DEBORAH.

The Cresco high school foot ball
team took the DEBORAH high team in
to camp at the fair grounds last Fri
day by a score of 81 to 0.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Estrayed

From the Even Doe restaurant
building, my paint cart. Finder please
notify Theodore NJ. Halvorson, Decor
ah. 4S-1w
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29

FOUND-Pocket in DEBORAH
with small sum of money. Enquire
of Ed Nordheim, route Z, Decor
all. 4S-1pd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
Conferred Degrees on Glass Of Ten.

DEBORAH Encampment /. o. o. +.
conferred the Encampment degrees
on class of ten Monday night. Cres-
co Encampment No. 215 doing the
work A banquet was served by the
Rebekah lodge.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29

Try Our Want Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-11-29
gnblie 0r;aiuil.
BY HARRY j. GREEN

,ECoRAH, IOWA, NOV. 80, 1916.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
CAPT. CASEY, NEMESIS
OF RIVER PIRATES, DIES
Retired Officer Commanded the
Cjty's First Police Boat.

Captain Milton Casey (retired), who
was skipper Of the first police boat com
missioned in New York Harbor' the
Judge Moore, died yesterday in the Holy
Family Hospital, Brooklyn. he was
sixty-seyen years old and had been re-
tired ten years.
Captain Casey was born in Westport
Ireland, and came 70 this &C untry when
he was fourteen years old. He went TO
school at De la Sale Institute and then
spent several years at sea, sailing
around the world. ",
Captain Casey joineo the New YORK
police in 1881. Because OF his expe,,
rience before the mast he was one OF
tho first selected for the work when the
harbor squad was organized. 1t was
then that the river pirates and the
"Smoky Hollow" gangsters in Brooklyn
were reaping a harvest of loot along the
i. .aterfront. Captain Casey and his crew
on the Judge Moore did effective work
in Kidding the city of these looters.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Utterly In
adequate to Meet Needs,
Says Representative.
WAR DEPARTMENT
AT FAULT, is CHARGE
Provision Made to Pay Only
10000 Enlisted Men-Sum
for Artillery Insufficient.
lFron Tho Tribune Bureau !

Washington, July 29.-Quoting Sec
retary OF Wer Baker to show that the
Hay army reorganization bill does not
permit tho regular army to exceed
100000 enlisted men for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1917, Representative
A. P. Gardner to-day attacked the army
appropriation bill.
He declared it is utterly inadequate
and that the fault lies with the Hay
army reorganization law and with the
War Department. Mr. Gardner also
said that. while it had been shown that
s441 100000 should be spent for field
artillery and ammunition, the pending
bill and an earlier bill provided for only
s3s. 900, 900 for that purpose. AT that
rate, he said, eleven or twelve years
would be required to obtain an ade-
quatc supply for the early months OF a
possible war.
Representative Gardner expressed sat-
isfaction that the Senate had AT last
Welded 70 the House and mad CON
sentcd to make adequate provlsion lot
the dependent families of National
Guardsmen and regular soldiers or
dered TO the Mexican border. lie con-
tinued:
This army appropriation bill when
we are now considering is bad because
Il is utterly Inadequate, and anyone
who really believes in preparedness
must know that il Is utterly INADEQUATE
The fac. alone that the record does not
show a single anti-preparecness Sena-
tor voting against the bill is an ex-
ceedingly significant circumstance.
Blxmes War Department.
"The farit lies fundamentally with
the recent Hay army reorganization
law and with the War Department,
which refuses to grasp its nettle IN the
matter Of field artillery and field ar
tillery ammunition.
"The country has been cockered up
into the belief that the regular army
has been increased by the Hay act to
175,OO0 enlisted men of the line, peace
strength. theoretically, that will be
the case in the fiscal year ending June
30 1922. and not before. This army
appropriation bill permits US to pay
10000, and no more. enlisted men OF
the line of the regular army during
the next year Listen TO this extract
from a letter written by Secretary
dated July 7, 1916, 10 George W. Loft,
a Democratic member OF this House
of Representatives from New York:
"'The Hay Chamberlain act author
ICES about 100000 enlisted men for
the line of the regular army durink
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917;
.hs is also the number provided fof
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Scores Prostrated-Many
Struggle at Beaches for
Dip in the Lake.
FORTY-FOUR BABIES
DIE DURING DAY
Price of Ice Is Raised-Cieye.
land, with Mercury at l02,
Faces Milk Famine.

Chicago. July 29.-Excessive hss,
killed one person every thirty minute.
here to-day, according to reports mad.
10 the police and Coroner. Heat pros
trations were reported BY the score
and many accidents were attributed 70
tLe high temperature. The MAXIMUM
reached was 50 degrees.
Iake Michigan afforded the only rea.
relief and hundreds OF thousands Of
persons visited the shore during the
dav. In the afternoon several beaehs,
ran short of bathing suits and crowd,
stood in line for blocks, waiting 70 g!
into the water.
A. the Clarendon, the newest muni,.
ipal beach, one man was INJURED ari
about twenty were overcome by hea.
when several hundred persons tired V
force their way through doors cIox:
because all suits were IN use. I"en'I
policemen quelled the disturbance.
Forty-four babies under a year el:
died in Chicago during the twenty
four hours ending at midnight, oreif'
ing the local record. Many resulte:
directly from the heat, j. ID. Robert
son, Health Commissioner, said,
Announcement of a rise IN price ol
ice from 80 70 40 cents a HUNDRED
pounds was made by several smaller
dealers to-day.
The crest of the heat wave sppsr-
entity passed Milwaukee today, Il 10
r.ported. The thermometer reached
it's highest point at 3 o'clock, when
il registered 81. One man is expect
ed 70 die OF heat prostration there To-
cav and many others have received
medical attention.
Reports from points throughou'
Wisconsin show that the hot spell cor
tinues unabated, with three deaths sbS
many prostrations.
Two persons are reported dead q
St. Paul, Mimi, where the tempera.ur'
reached 96.
As babies continued 70 die from hes
danger of a milk famine increased.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Government Completes Its
Inventory of BuSi-
ness.
CONGRESS TO AID
IN DEFENCE PLAN
Industrial Reserve Will Be Great
Help in the Event of
War.

Washington. July 29.-The colossal
task of making an industrial inventory
of the United States. state by state, IN
an attempt TO mobilize Americas re-
sources for war, is now virtually COM
pleted, according to an announcement
to-day by Chairman Howard +. Coffin,
Of the Committee on Industrial Pre-
paredness of the Naval Consulting
Board of the United States, who has
the work in charge. Just how plants
the country over can adapt their equip
ment to produce the thousands Of
things, from shells to shaving brushes,
necessary for the governments use in
national emergency has been worked
out through field reports from engi-
neerS and chemists who are members
of the American Society Of Civil Engi-
neers, the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers. the American Society OF
Mechanical Engineers, the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers and
the American Chemical Society.
Coincident with the announcement
comes the statement from Chairman
Coffin that Congress has practically
completed legislation which will carry
out the committees entire programme
for establishing a firm and enduring
foundation for the nations defence.
This will provide for the sending OF
annual educational orders 10 American
manufacturers in order to teach them
during peace how 20 turn out the mill
al "A
emergency An industrial reserve will
also be created, so that in time Of war
the skilled mechanic may be kept DIT
work where his services are most valu-
able. instead of being sent to the firing
line.
Business men the country over re-
ceived the Investigators with the great
est courtesy and cooperation. More
than 10000 concerns, each doing an an
nual business of over 100000. were
classified, in addition to many smaller
plants. At the time of the Mexican
crisis Chairman Coffin sent out urgen:
telegrams 10 the chairmen Of all state
boards urging all possible haste, and
Secretary of War Baker detailed five
regular army officers, two of them mem
bers Of the General Staff, to the com
mttee headquarters in New York. In
stances from state reports follow:
From Alabama, Chairman Sewell,
while reporting n considerable apathy
toward military affairs, says that trans
portation, manufacturing and particl-
iarly mineral problems, with especial
reference to coke deposits for high ex-
plosives, have been gone into carefully.
The development of a charcoal in
dustry in Florida, where now almost
none is produced, is foreshadowed in
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
u. s. SENATE ASKS
MERCY FOR IRISH
President Requested to
Urge British Clemency
for Political Prisoners.

Washington, July 29.-By vote OF
As 10 10 the Senate to-day adopted a
resolution requesting President wilson
n transmit to the British government
an expression Of hope that 1t would
exercise clemency in the treatment OF
Irish political prisoners.
BY its action the Senate overturned
the report of majority Of its Foreign
Relations Committee and followed a
course outlined in a minority report
made by Chairman Stone and Senators
O'Gorman and Pittman.
The resolution. submitted by Senator
Pittman, which was adopted despite
the counsel of Senators that such a
resolution would do the convicted Irish
knights cause more harm than good,
and against the refusal of Senator Mar
tine. author of the original Easement
resolution. to accept it as substitute
for his own. reads as follows;
"Resolved, That the Senate expresses
the hope that the British government
land will commute Easements sentence
Of Irish prisoners. and that the Presi-
dent be requested to transmit this hope
to the British government"
The vote was preceded by a debate,
during which Senator Phe!an led the
speaking for the resolution, and Sena-
tor Williams opposed 1t.
THE English ministry would be mad
men to execute Sir Roger Easement"
the latter said. They would be
lunatics TO do such a thing and show
themselves not even possessed Of the
ordinary shrewdness of peanut poll
tician. l believe that, left alone. Eng
land viii commute Cahement's sentence
to Imprisonment, and that after the
war he will be pardoned."
Three mocrats-Fletcher, Pome-
rent and Williams, voted against the
resolution. Senators Lodge, Borah.
McCumber, oliver and Brandegee, all
Republican members of the Foreign
Relations Committee, voted against it.
Chairman Stone and Senator Pittman,
Democratic members of the committee,
voted Tor it.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30

and his leutcnants through the actions
Of extremists and small cotcric OF
anarchistic members is tho fear of the
leaders on both sides.
Schlesingcr and other union oi'c,aiiS
will make a report to Mayor Mitchel'
at IL o'clock Tuesday, on the entire
strike situation. A..
Schlcsingcr, in replying to the
manufacturers ultimatum, said;
"The morning following the reachlng
Of the agreement +. j. Willie an
nounccd in the press the ASSOCIATION
had scored great victory over the IN,
union and had won 90 per cent OF ~ ~
points. That provocative. groundles,s
and hoastful statement is doubtless en-,
tircly responsible for the resentiul
attitude Of the workers toward tl the
agreement. In refusing to accept TINS
oe,rccrent .he workers have only put
into practice a lesson learned from
,beir EMPLOYERS. who have time after
time repudiated their agreements
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Heat Wave Coming East,
Weather Bureau Predicts

Washington, July 2y.-Ihe eentraI
part Of the United States continued un-
der temperatures as high as 104 de-
grees in the upper Mississippi! valley
and the lake region. Scores OF deaths
and heat prostrations were caused.
Tomorrow the heat wave will con-
tinue in the central part OF the conti-
nent and spread east, Weather Bureau
officials predict, ending the cooling ef-
feet of the Hudson high" which has
moderated temperatures along the At
lantic Coast for two days. Thunder
showers may occur tomorrow over up
per Michigan, but elsewhere there is
little immediate hope of rel.ef.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Mavor of Minetta Lane Buried
With $4,000 Worth of Pomp
Children and Needy Whom He Helped Lnser at Chufcn
Door to Give Last Blessing and thrill over
Magni6cence of Friends Funeral

Lushed and shabby congregation and nv
the trio Of priests. They dipped thelr
fingers in holy water. made the sign Oh
the cross and bowed as did their elders.
Then they sighed and stole on tlptoe
TO the door.
Only in death had the Mayor oil
Minetta Lane" INDUCED in extrava-
pnnce. Love of display had had no part
in his life; yet he set aside a sum OF
$4,000 20 be expended on his funeral
and the erection in Calvary Cemetery OF
a mausoleum.
There was much of pomp about the
funeral. The mass drew 10 close.
The undertaken flicked an imaginary
speck from his tight-ftting froek coat
and adjusted his black skull cap.
"Cross your banners over the casket
when it comes out" he whispered IN a
businesslike way to the two standard
bearer Of Italian benevolent societies
who hanked the church door.
An anticipatory air OF hustle stirreu
Bleecker Street. The members OF The
band. who had been patiently nodding
on the curb, arose. Suppressed thrills
and muffled bass notes foated down the
soualid street as the bandsmen tested
their lTStIuIutnlos INV
warned the crowd to stand back-the
crowd of gaunt vagrants, dreary eyed
women and mildly curious lounger'.
The drivers Of the closed carriages
slouched into Hancock and Downing
Streets, where their vehicles stood in
long rows.
The musicians strode slowly to their
appointed place behind the two ba-
rouches loaded with flowers. The
hearsc came next, followed by that
funereal major domo, the chief under
taker. still wearing his black skull cap.
Eighteen pairs of marchers, repre-
sentatives Of eighteen benevolent So
cieties of which Libretto had been a
member, shufled into line. Thirty
coachmen wheeled their carriages in
place.
As the last four carriages, all empty,
turned north into Macdougal Street
Little Italy" resumed its normallty
Children played once more in the
streets. An itinerant hurdy-gurdy
struck up a waltz. The Mayor OF
Minetta Lane" was no more.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30

in the pending army appropr'"''""
bill om
"The Board Of Expert Army Omcers,
known as the Trea. Board, IN its repor
10 the War Department, shows tnsi
VIC must erpend SAL 100000 for he'd
artillery and field artillery ammun;,-
lion. This pending bill. together wi''i
. bill passed earlier in the session.
allows n, TO expend $4,000, 900 for that
nurpose. At that rate Of approprla,,
lion IL will be between eleven anu
twelve years before we shall nav
enough field artillery and heIh aru'-
lery smmunition on hand 10 give us
an adequate supply for the early
months OF war.
Shortage in Ammunition.
"Thc War Department absolutely re-
f,scs .onarely 70 face the greatest les
son taught by this war-to-wI'' w
necessity cf field guns big ana sfnu,,i
quantities Of artillery ammunition anu
nlentv Of machine guns. Here IS ar,
extract from letter from Oeneia'
Crozier setting forth TIE facts;
".There are actually completed anu
:, ,ha rossession Of the United state
COS field guns and carriages Of modern
types and $4,000 rounds ot ammuH'-
ton therefor a.,a
"In preparing for the somme ADVANCE vans
the British army alone expended l'oop,-
600 rounds Of artillery ammunition per
dav. In other words, in single day'
on single sector Of single front,
single one Of the European oelligerehyS
used no nearly twice as mucn neIu
artillery ammunition as our entire ma
ii nal supply"
Nearly half the officers OF the army
general staff were sent back 20 troops
TO-DAY under the provision Of the new
army law which reduces the NUMBER
OF staff officers stationed in Washing
ton by ten.
The provision is regarded BY army
officers as hostile to The General stan
and to seriously interfere with I'M
portant work being done BY It.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
200 CLERKS STRIKE
ON JERSEY CENTRAL
Resent Alleged Attempt to Halt
ORGANIZATION.

Two hundred clerks employed by the
New York branch Of the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey left their desks
yesterday, after Superintendent c. H..
Stein had refused to reinstate eight
men alleged to have been dismissed
for their activity in organizing Jer-
sey City Lodge 373 OF the Brotherhood
of Railroad Freight Clerks.
The strike began in the Jersey City
yards of the railroad. BY the time
the strikers had finished their first
mass meeting last night it was claimed
that all the clerks in the Elizabeth.
Elizabethport. Newark and Communi-
paw yards of the division had joined
the revolt
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30

Four black horses. draped with purple
netting, drowsed yesterday morning De-
fore the Church of Our Lady oil rom
peii The ornate hearse to which they
were attached was surrounded with uh-
dertakcr's assistants. Two SILK hats
hung on the silver mounted lamps oil
the hcarse.
From within the quaint church IN
Pleecker Street came the tones OF
Father Demos voice as he chanted the
solemn high mass of requiem. Two
priests Joined in the responses.
youthful acolyte stared at the ceiling,
swinging the urn of burning incense.
Giovanni Libretto, the mayor Of Mi
Meta Lane" was dead.
For thirty years Libretto and his
wife had lived in one small room. Bare
walls. a bare floor and only the essen
tial pieces of furniture had made the
place a home. He came to America as a
Young man from Basilicata, Italy. A
dealer in bottles. his industry and
thrift had through the years brought
him fortune. He was worth $4,000
when he died.
Stinting himself, "the Mayor" was
proportionately open-handed with his
adopted people of Little Italy" No
beggar or cripple ever appealed to
him in vain. The regular cry of the
ragged children of the neghborhood-
Pop, pop, gimme a penny"-had never
gone unanswered. Often he sent whole
battalions Of children to the movies.
Children Pay Tribute,
And the children had not forgotten
his generosity. They crowded into the
church yesterday. dumbly conscious of
their loss. Round eyed they stared at
the hundreds of clustering candles, at
the three tall tapcrs burning at each
end OF $1,000 bronze casket, at the
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Children Pay Tribute,
the report of Chairman McLain of that

the report of Chairman McLain of that
state.
Indiana, according to Chairman Bar.
nard, can supply enough canned food
for any army that the country could
ever put into the field. Missouri re-
ports through Chairman Philip n:
Moore that it's chief contribution will
be lead and zinc, together with harness,
clothing, -four, bakery and machine
shop products. Montana reports that
nearly every town in the state has one
or two garages with machine shops that
could be of great value, while the horse
markets Of Miles City and Dillon could
supply cavalry troops.
over 1000 high explosive shells n
day could be turned out by railway
motor manufacturing company in Ne
braska, according to Chairman Hold
redge Guns could also be made there,
while food, clothing and mineral sup
plies are available.
Wyoming, with the great interstate
railway repair shops, could contribute
materially to a mobilization Of national
resources.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-30
Fearing Violence, Manu-
facturerS Hire Detectives
to Protect Shops.
ULTIMATUM FAILS
TO MOVE UNION MEN
Less than 3 Per Cent Will Re-
turn TO Work This Week,
leader Says.

Benjamin Schlcsinger. international
president Of the garment workers
union, issued a statement, last night.
in which he declared the union would
refuse to order its men back to WORK
under the proposed agreement with
the manufacturers and in compliance
with the ultimatum delivered yester-
day morning by the Manufacturers
Protective Association.
The ultimatum warned that the
agreement must be accepted by the
union by next Wednesday morning or
the manufacturers would cease treat
ing with the union and hire the men
back as individuals.
With the situation apparently hope
lcssly deadlocked after more than
thirteen weeks OF conferences and
negotiations. both sides prepared for
4 test of strength, this week, which
is expected to develop added bitter
ness and hostility. if not actual
violence.
Manufacturers Hire Detectives.
The manufacturers are engaging the
se~vises Of large number Of detec-
t;yes from q private agency. These
men will be used TO guard the shops
and see that returning workers are
not molested by the strikers. The
strike leaders have arranged to have
on duty an augmented force OF pickets
10 stop every man who attempts 70 re-
turn TO work next Wednesday or later,
in response TO the manufacturers in
vitation.
Orders 10 the strikers will be the
same rs from the beginning Of the
strike. There must be no violence or
disorder. The picketing must be peace
full. Few believe, however. the deci-
sion of the manufacturers TO resume
operations in defiance of the union will
be carried out without clashes between
the returning workers and the strikers.
Schlesinger said yesterday he
doubted il more than two or three per
cent Of the men on strike would 90
back 10 work under present conditions.
With so small a number OF workers,
Schlesinger said it would be folly for
the shops to attempt to operate. The
manufacturers think differently. They
believe they will get enough men back
within a few days 70 break the strike
completely.
Will Report to Mayor.
That the control of the strike may
get out Of the hands Of Schlesinger