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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
FOOTBALL RESULTS
WEST.


Chicago, 0; Illinois, 0.
Northwestern. -: Purdue. 6.
Wisconsin. 10; Minnesota, Z.
Michigan. 81; Kalamazoo, O.
Ohio State, 26; Indiana. 3.
Great Lakes, %: Iowa, IA.
Grinnell, 25; Drake. 7.
Marquette. At; st. Thomas, 0.
Ohio e., 43: Baldwin, O.
Western Normal, IA; Michigan Ag-
gies, 0.
Camp Sherman, 26; Camp Taylor, Z.
Creighton. "a; Nebraska, Wesley
an. O.
University of Detroit, 35; North
western College, 0.
Camp Custer. "a; Camp Harllee, O.
EAST.
Notre Dame Z; Army, 2.
Cornell. 20: Carnegie Tech. o.
Pennsylvania, 27; Lafayette, O.
Syracuse. 6; Brown, O.
Amherst. IA; Columbia, g.
Navy. 95; Western Reserve. 0.
Swarthmore. 2S; Johns Hopkins, Z.
Bucknell, 10; Carlisle Indians, 3.
Dartmouth. 10; Penn State, 7.
Harvard, o; Portland Navy, O.
Camp Meade, 9; q. S. Marines, Z.
Boston Navy. %; Camp Devens, O..
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
3 U. S. men SLAIN,
) ARE WOUNDED
BY THE GERMANS
Twelve of Pershing's Soldiers
Taken Prisoner During Raid
in France.
CUT OFF BY BARR ',GE fire
Washington Told Enemy Stormed Po-
sition Early in the Morning Of ;lo-
vember 3--Americans Cap
ture Wounded German.

Washington, Nov. advancing un-
German raiding party, shortly before
daylight on the morning of November
3, stOrmed portion of q trench held
by American troops on the French
front, killing three, wounding five and
taking II prisoners, according to dis
patches to the war department.
Cut Off by Fire.
American Infantry We're in cccupa-
ton Of small salient for instruction
when cut off from the main body by
tillery.
General Pershing reports the cap
ture of one prisoner. Enemy losses
are not known, says the dispatch.
Aided by Barrage.
The official statement issued by the
war department is as follows:
'The war department has received
dispatch from the commanding gen
eral OF the American eXpeditionary
forces which stated that before day
light November salient occupied
for instruction by company OF Amer
lean infantry was raided by Germans.
1.-THE enemy put down heavy bar
rage fire, cutting off the salient from
the rest of the men, Our losses were
three killed, five wounded and II cap
tured or missing The enemy's losses
are not known. One wounded German
was taken prisoner"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
j. s. TO PUNISH
FOOD PIRATES
Cars of Potatoes. Onions and
Cabbage Thrown Onto Dump
at Chicago.
Commission M N INVOLVED?
Vegetables Said to Have Been Bouuht
and Sold Until They Finally De.
cayed and Were Thrown
Away.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-Harry A. Wheeler,
Illinois food administrators, stated that
grand jury action and federal prosecu-
ton will follow proof that food Is be-
Ing wantOnly destroyed in Chicago.
The announcement was made In con-
nection with discovery that thousands
OF tons of vegetables have been
dumped out of cars near the West CHI
cago yards of the Chicago & North
western railroad.
Mr.. Wheeler was informed health
department evidence tended to show
an embryonic board Of trade in opera
ton in railroad freight yards. Com
mission men, it is said, bought and re-
sold carloads of vegetables many times
until they finally decayed and were
thrown upon the dump.
Government operatives gathered in
formation to be presented to Mr..
Wheeler and Robert w. Childs, special
assistant United States attorney gen.
eral.
HadIey Will Investigate.
Meantime States Attorney Hadley
Of DuPage county visited the noun
tain of foodstuffs and announced he
would begin an independent investiga-
ton.
"This is an outrage" said Mr.. Had
ley after an inspection, "and those
guilty should be punished severely"
The prosecutor, accompanied by the
West Chicago chief of police, saw 1S
carloads of potatoes dumped upon the
ground beside the tracks. Some were
In good condition.
Four additional vegetable cars,
marked rubbish, and billed to the
'West Chicago dump" were rolled onto
siding there. Car. No. "2S211, South
ern" one of them, bore d condemna-
ton card of the health department,
signed by Passenger" Inspector. The
state food inspector is interested in it's
history.
Learn OF "Bum Spuds."
The health department last Thurs
day received a tip a car of "bum
spuds" had been opened on the Grand
avenue tracks Of the Northwestern.
John G. Passenger, an inspector in the
food bureau, was sent to investigate.
Upon arrival he learned the car was
consigned to the Shippers Produce
company and had been one-third emp
tied. He declared the contents field
frozen" and condemned the remaining
two-thirds.
Passenger said he was Informed the
carload Of vegetables had been sold
twice before his arrival. This infor-
nation was given by Northwestern
yard man, he said.
Frozen by Carloads.
Carloads of frozen or rotten pota-
toes, cabbages and onions were re-
ported in the Northwestern yards at
West KedZie street and North Craw-
ford avenue. Several steel gondola
, cars filled with decayed sugar beets
also were found.
According to- the policemen, some of
the potato cars had no destination
markings but were marked Hold
Spuds."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
DESTRUCTION OF FOODS
TO BE INVESTIGATED
II GERMAN SHIPS sunk
British Win Naval Battle in the
Cattegat.
Auxiliary Cruiser and Ten Patrol
Boats Sent to Bottom-EIectric
Vessel Destroyed.

London, Nov. 5.-The admiralty an
nounces that certain British forces
have been engaged in the Cattegat, an
arm Of the North sea, between Sweden
and Denmark, and that prisoners are
being brought in.
An official statement issued by the
admiralty says that ten armed patrol
craft, In addition to the German aux
iliary cruiser, which was equipped
with slx-inch guns, were destroyed.
The statement issued by the British
admiralty says:
Further reports from our forces
operating in the Cattegat have been
received. We destroyed a German
auxiliary cruiser armed with six-inch
guns and we also destroyed ten armed
patrol craft. SiXtyfour prisoners
have been rescued by our forces. No
British losses have been reported.
Further details will be published
on the return Of our forces to their
base"
An attack was made on British YES
sells patrolling the Belgian coast by
an electrically controlled high-speed
boat. The boat was destroyed.
The following official statement was
given out:
IAN attack was made on our vessels
patrolling the Belgian coast by an
electrically controlled high-speed boat.
The attack was defeated and the boat
destroyed"
Copenhagen, Nov. 5.-The sinking
of the German raider Crocodile and
five German armed trawlers Is report
ed by men on two Danish steamers.
The Crocodile was a new ship of
nearly 1000 tons, and carried crew
of 100 men.
The comm rec raider, which was
disguised, and the trawlers, were sunk
Friday in the Skagerrak. an arm Of the
North sea between Norway and Den
mark. The British destroyers thus
effected another cleanup Of German
naval forces in Scandinavian waters
'Elsinore Denmark, Nov. s.
Wounded men from a German arxil'
iary cruiser sunk in the North sea
were landed here.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
FRENCH Cont. nue.
PURSUIT OF FOES
Capture 18 Square Miles During
AdVance-Seek New En-
emy Line.
GERMANS LAID MANY TRAPS
Petain's Troops Find Helmet Which
Would Explode Mine-Patrols Dis
cover Trenches Empty-ArtiI-
Iery Active on Aisne.

On the French Front in France.
Nov. 5.-The French advance in pur-
suit of the Germans beyond the Chem
in des Danes has attained an average
of a mile and half, the southern bank
of the Ailette being reached every
where. Altogether since Saturday
about eighteen square miles of terri
tory have fallen into French hands,
the progress being necessarily slow
owing to the uncertainty as to where
the Germans will make a stand.
Many points in the line were bonn
barded by the German big guns during
the French advance, especially in the
neighborhood of Allies, where numer-
Gus mustard-gaS shells somewhat de-
layed the progress of the French
troops.
French Find Traps.
The French are displaying the
greatest prudence in their movements
In consequence Of the frequency of the
caverns on all sides In the hills. As a
result OF this caution the troops while
going forward discovered 4 number of
traps for the unwary.
In Cerny steel helmet hung on
pole was found on examination to have
an electric wire connection running
into a mine which would explode in
the event of the helmet being snatched
away. -.-.
AT the present moment the French
occupy every crest and possess all the
aIc <>,,so ,l~-
Cerny and Courteono, while so far as
can be made out, the Germans have
established their line on the other side
of the Ailette valley, whence a shower
Of bullets from numerous machine
guns come on occasions. They de-
stroyed every bridge over the Ailette
as they retired.
The German evacuation was discov-
cred on Friday by a patrol of chas-
seurs.
Guns Active on Aisne Front.
Paris, Nov. 5.-Notable artillery ac-
tivity is continuing on the Aisne front.
north of the Chemin- -des-Dames, where
the French re occupying advanced
ground along the Ailette river, the war
office announced.
In the Verdun area the Germans fol-
lowed up their heavy bombardment
with two attacks north of Chaume
wood, with both of which the French
artillery dealt successfully, causing
the Germans to sustain heavy casual
ties.
A surprise attack in the DamlOup
region was repulsed, as was similar
German enterprise northwest of Reims.
British Take Two Points.
London. Nov. 5.-In local actions on
small detachments of British troops
captured from the Germans two strong
defensive points east of BrOodseinde
and southeast of Poelcapelle.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
u. S. FINDS GERMAN HORRORS
Inventions for Frightfuness Cam
paiqn Found in Washington.

paign Found in Washington.
Washington, Nov. 5.-Proof that Ger
many plotted the war for world dom
ination at least ten years before she
struck In 1914 has lain hidden in
Washington unknoWn Tor years The
plans tor many of Germany'S deadliest
surprises have been deposited in the
United States patent office. Under
the trading with the enemy act they
may now be licensed to United States
manufacturers and turned against Ger
many.
An investigation in the patent Of
fee reveals:
l. The horrible flame protector and
gas shells that killed thousands of the
allies, taken unaware by this new bar
barity of warfare, were on record.
q improvements in German subma-
rines that now are sinking our trans
ports and destroying the supply ships
Of the allies.
3. Inventions in aerial and anti
aerial ordnance.
4. New grenades, heavy cannon, field
ordnance improvements and high ex-
plosive shells.
These records were assembled
through search of the patent office
to learn what German-Owned inven-
tions could be used by American manu-
facturers under the trading with the
enemy act 1t was found there are
more than 10000 of them.
The patent office records show few
German inventions of humanitarian
aspect, compared with patents of that
sort to other foreigners.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
SOCIALISTS CRY FOR PEACE
HiIIquit Supporters Cheer for la Fol-
iette at New York.

lette at New York.
New York, Nov. 5.-"We want
peace!" Morris Hillquit, Socialist
candidate for mayor of New York city.
exclaimed at the close of an impas-
stoned appeal to the proletariat at
Madison Square Garden. "Peacel
Peace! Peace!" echoed throaty cries
from among the $4,000 auditors, cries
that soon became deafening roar of
demands for peace, peace, peace"
Only a few moments before the
great audience had gone wild in q
demonstration for LA Toilette, the
next president of the United States"
after jeering every mention of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Elihu Root.
Hillquit commanded silence and
quickly concluded:
Because we stand for democracy
we urge an early and general peace,
peace that will save the people of the
whole world from suffering and ami
hilatiOn, peace that will mean the
end Of all wars. War is the game of
rulers. A true democracy, social and
political, is always pacific"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
TEN iMJUnED IN CAR WRECK
Two Coaches on Michigan lnterurban
Collide Near Camp Custer.

Battle Creek, Mich, Nov. 5.-Ten or
twelve passengers, mostly civilian,
were injured some seriously, when
two interurban cars on the Camp Gus
ter line cOllided. 1t was fhe second
bad wreck on this line since traffic
opened. Of the seriously injured one
Is likely to die. He is MotOrman
George Crane, who suffered internal
injuries. Crane. q new employee, not
yet In the company'S uniform drove
heavy interurban around curve at
full speed and smashed into a light
er car driving its controller half way
through the car. Only miracle pre-
vented several passengers being killed
outright.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
RUSS FRIENDLY WITH FOES
Siavs on Another Front Fire on
"Friendly" Teutons.

Petrograd. Nov. 5.-Teutonic st.
tempts at fraterniZatiOn met with a
mixed reception on the Russian front.
Ihere was Graternizing in the Dvinsk
region, but in the BuZeo area patrols
approaching with proclamations were
fired upon and driven away, the war
office announces. There were no mill
itary operations of Importance, accord
ing to the statement
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
ALLIED CHIEFS GO TO ITALY
Lloyd-George and Pa41Ieve Head Party
Off for Rome

London, NOV. 5.-Premier Lloyd
George has left London for Italy, ac-
companied by number of high mill
tary officials, it was officially an
nounced. The party accompanying the
premier comprised Lieut.. Gen. j. c..
Smuts, the former South African COM
mander; Gen. Sir William r. Robert
son, chief of the imperial staff at army
headquarters: Maj. Gen. F. B. Maurice,
chief director of military operations
at the war Office Maj. Gen. Sir Henry
Hughes Wilson of the general staff
and other officers.
Paris. Nov. 5.-David Lloyd George,
the British premier. arrived in Paris
He will accompany Prof. Paul Pain
leve, the French premier. to Rome.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
SHIP WORKERS GIVEN RAISE
Union conferee Says U. S. Boards
Scale Does Not Meet Demand.

San Francisco, Nov. 5.-UnifOrm
minimum wage scales for the Pacific
coast shipbuilding yards, guide for
all shipyards in the country, were an
nounced by the United States ship
building labor adjustment board. The
decision effects an increase of from 10
to 80 per ceSt over the old scale here,
although it's Uniformity makes it lower
In some localities than the temporary
scale now in force.
There won't be many ships built
under this SCALE" declared NJ. j. Ma
guire, a union cOnferee, representing
the metal trades craftsmen of the bay
districts. II believe the entire ship
building crafts of the Pacific coast
will appeal TO President Wilson against
the decision"
The scales are based upon the in
crease In the cost of living since the
beginning of the war it was stated.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
NAVAL PAY ROLL is HALTED
EmbezzIement Of $4,000 Reported at
Great Lakes Station.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-An embeZzlement
of $4,000 Of the funds of the paymas-
ters department Of the Great Lakes
Naval Training station became known
when it was announced that the month
ly disbursement of more than $1,000
900 has been held up for nearly a
week. The pay of more than $4,000
jackies has been delayed while an in
vestigation has been put under way.
All Of the paymaster's assistants are
under bond and none has left the sta
ton. It was announced that, while
none is under suspicion, there will be
no pause in the investigation until the
embezzler Is caught. Capt. w. A. Mof-
fett, commandant at the station, made
statement covering the incident. He
said the shortage had just been
checked down. after several days of
painstaking labor.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
SIX OF INDIANA FAMILY DIE
Two Women, Three Babies and Man
Killed In Car Crash.

Lafayette, Ind, Nov. 5.-Six persons
were killed when a Terre Haute- Indi-
annapolis and Eastern interurban car
struck an automobile driven by Hugh
Ellis, two miles north of here Sunday
morning. The dead: Hugh Ellis. Ella
Ellis. Mrs. w. G. Ellis. Maxine Ell
lis. Edna Ellis. Evelyn Ellis.
The three last named were chill
dren. The other babies of the family
were injured and were brought to q
local hospital. The family lived at
Frankfort, Ind They were former
residents of Lafayette.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
ALLIES WIN AIR BATTLES
Sixteen German Machines Shot Down
and Fifty Damaged

Paris, Nov. 5.-Air fighting on
scale unprecedented in the war was
indicated in an official statement,
which mentions encounters over NAL
were downed three captive balloons
burned and fifty German planes so
damaged they fell within their own
lines.
During the course of the battle of
Malmaison," the statement also saws,
tackled the enemy troops with their
machine guns and bombarded stations
and points of concentration. They
fought Gil aerial engagements"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
ENEMY BLAMED FOR FIRES

German incendiarfes Held Responsible
for Utah Blaze.
Salt Lake City, Nov. 5.-German In
cendiaries are held responsible for
q fire which destroyed hundreds of
tons of hay and 1000 bushels of grain
besides buildings on the ranch of Jo-
seph F. Smith, president of the Nor
Joseph F. Smith, as trustee of the
Mormon church, recently subscribed
for $25OOOO in Liberty bonds, to be
paid for out of the tithing funds Of the
church
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
ILLINOIS FLYER NOT DEAD
Corporal Buckley Taken Prisoner by
the Germans.

Paris, Nov. 5.-Corporal Everett
Buckley of the Lafayette flying corps,
who was reported killed on Septem-
Der s, is not dead, but prisoner In
Germany. 1t is believed that Buckley
was wounded when captured by the
enemy.
Corporal Buckley of Kilbourne H.,
was reported to have been shot down
and killed within the German lines.
This report was denied several days
later by Paris friends of the Ameri-
can flyer.
While on patrol Sergt Ray c. Bridg-
man of Chicago and Sergt. Henry s.
Jones of New York had an exciting
combat with two German biplanes,
lasting a quarter of an hour. Both
Americans expended all of their am
munition and drove the enemy far into
their own lines.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
indict rs as Army sIackera.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-Twenty-five out OF
thirty-four indictments returned by the
federal grand jury charged men with
refusing to report for duty in the new
National army or with failure to reg
lister.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
Flies at 1856 Miles an Hour.

Newport News, Va, Nov. 5.-Lieut.
Baldioli of the Italian royal flying
corps, plotting u Pomil airplane, flew
from Mineola, \. Y. t. Langley field.
near here, at an average speed Of
about 135 miles an hour.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
GERMAN GENERAL is KILLED
Won Berrer Shot to Death While on
Visit to Rioa Front

London, Nov. "a dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam
says General Won Berrer, commanding
the Wurtemburg armies on the north
east front, was shot dead while visit
Ing the trenches near Riga. General
Won Berrer had prominent share in
the capture of the Russian position In
this region
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
Walked From Pullman Car IN sIeep.

Warren Run, Pa.-Clad only In silk
pa5amas, Martin Clark of San Fran
cisco was found roaming in a potato
patch here. After his arrest it was
learned that he is q somnambulist and
during his sleep had walked from
sleeping car at the Wilkes Barre sta.
don.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
Senator's Wife Robbed.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-The police re-
ceived report that Mrs. James Ham.
ilton Lewis, wife of the senator, was
robbed Of jewels worth $50.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
BOMB WRECKS PARIS HOUSE
Missile Hurled Through Window Of
Church at st, Paul.

st. Paul. Mimi, Nov. 5.-The inte-
rior of the parish house of st. Agnew's
German Catholic church, this city, was
wrecked by bomb hurled through
window by an unknown person. The
five occupants Of the house escaped in
jury.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05

Kenneth Proctor Littauer, American
newspaper man now flying In the
Franco-Belgian escadrille, who has just
been decorated by King Albert Of Bel
GUM with the order of Leopold II and
the rank of chevalier. Mr.. Littauer
was formerly well-known writer on
metropolitan dailies and served in Lon.
don and Paris as staff correspondent.
After studying aviation he joined the
Belgian squadron. He has been also
honored with the French war cross for
flying and distinguished battery spot
ting
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-02-01
WIRES DANGEROUS
Light Wires and Telephone WIRES
Should Not BE Touched

The almost universal use of teie-
phone lines which by themselves
are not dangerous, has led many to
believe that electric wires are
not dangerous after all.
That the reverse is true is en-
phasized by an advertisement OF the
Riverside Light, Power & Gas Co.
in this issue in which they call at
tention to this danger
Mr.. C. L. Brown, general manager
of the power company in discussing
this matter stated that although the
company has put red danger signs
on hundreds of its poles and in other
places where the wires are some
what exposed. yet 1t has come TO
his notice that the power wires re-
Gently built in this territory are
being tempered with. That no one
has been killed is fortunate and the
COMPANY is taking the further pre-
caution of printing a paid ADVERTISE
ment in this paper as an additional
warning to keep away from all cleo
trio wires or telephone wires.
If man with gun or boy win
a stone breaks one of the glass in
sulators on a pole it might not hurt
him but his act might result IN
several towns being deprived OF
light and power and some one many
miles away being instantly killed
A power line when properly con-
structed is harmless, but when tam
pered with it becomes very dan
gerous. The company Offers re-
ward for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of any one
tampering with its wires. Parents
should caution their children to
keep away from electric wires and
not tamper with them not only Tor
their own safety but for the safety
of innocent persons miles away.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-02-01
Chanulno Judicial Districts

Reorganization Of the Kansas lu-
dicial system so that there will be
but five districts instead of the
present thirty-eight will be one OF
the chief problems for consideration
by the Kansas state bar association
which is meeting today in the su-
irene court room. Chief Justice ",
A. Johnston, chairman of a special
committee, appointed by Charles
Blood Smith. president of the as
ISOLATION, will present bill drawn
up yesterday for the lawyers to con
slider. Later it probably will be in
troduced into the legislature. Under
the provisions of the new measure
the state would be divided into 1--WE
districts with varying number OF
Judges, according to population and
work required.