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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
Several Victims Complain to
Police They Had
Been Defrauded.
WEARS UNIFORM
MAJOR IN ARMY
Engages Apartment, Tend
ers Worthless Check, Re
ceives Change; Gone.

A white man of striking appear
ance, giving the name of "Major II
L. Clark, according to the reports Al
the police station. has been imperson
ating an army officer. wearing the
uniform of a major and thus far has
succeeded in getting at least $50 at
one point, and from a widowed lady,
who keeps a rooming house on Gads-
den street. The police all have n
description of him, aad should he be-
picked up, he will prS..lIy be handled
IN the federal courts for obtainjn.
money under false pretenses, and 9th
er charges, and in the state courts
Tor defraudlng people. Officers on
all beats Yesterday kept lookout for
a man fitting the description with
which they had been furnished. bur
with no result.
In the possession Of the police d.
partment IS worthless cheek for tes
sum of $50, which the bank, on wbi.f
It had been drawn, has tlrned down
the party being unknown there. III
check. according to the ssctim.
turned IT over to tile police, was a ~
sented by tatn wksosn slra thosss.
was an officer, who was IN eearsh
rooms. A suite which she lad
vertised, was shown, and the stan
accepted. rendering in payment the :,
Tor months rental in advance. ,yh
the lady said was $50. Upon ccee
ing the rooms the stranger. tender,
the check, saying that it was all tt,
security he had with him. aid asked
Tor the change. The oblieinr house
keeper at once accommodated her fp
tufe roomer, and was congratltlatin,y
hersef on having such distinguish
ed roomer until she showed tl1e check
over the counter at the bank. Then
the fact dawned on her that she was
the victim of what the police believe
IS swindler of the first water.
AT another place, it was stated 4ho
stranger offered Va twenty five JolIa,
blll, as the would-be victim descrihed
It. and asked for change for weex.s
occupancy of room. The only rea
son why the second victim did not fan
Tor the shrewd game was because she
nad no change in the house to ret,I,,,
Tier caller, 1T is said. stated that be
would get the change and return
and thus far has not been located.
Inc public should be warned or
TINS Kind of a man." said Com missio,,-
er sanders, yesterday, talking of the
case, Tor a man with a naval or an
army uniform on would be taken i,
ahywhere. hence the very urgent rea
son Tor giving the case publicity
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
|CATTS RETURNS
JOB
TO BOWLING
DUvAL COUNTY oFFICIALl RE-
LNSTATED AFTER "HEARING'
ON CHARGES = HAYES LEWIS
LEAVES OFFICE DEC. 1.
Special to The Journal

Tallahassee, Nov,~ 16.-Governor
Cats this afternoon signed an order
reinstating VIII. Bowling as sheriff
of Duval county, effective Dec. 1.
This will give Sheriff Hayes Lewis
ample time in which to check out, it
was stated.
Mr.. Bowling said tonight:
1.-THE Governor this morning gave
me a hearing on the charges upon
which | was removed, and they were
not sustained; therefore, | was rein
stated"
Mr.. Dowling could not hide his
pleasure, and did not try to. He said
the Governor sent for him, and it was
a great surprise to him.
@Do you think the walking away
of Stein, the motion picture man. who
was sentenced to seven years for as
sault on a girl under Is years of age,
and was trusty in the Duval county
jail, had anything to do with the de-
cision of the Governor to oust Lew
is 2" Bowling was asked.
NO." he replied, Il do not think
that had any bearing on the casa"
1t is believed here that Attorney
General Van Swearingen, who, with
Senator Trammell, was with the Gov
ernor in Georgia recently, brought
about the reinstatement of Dowling.
Soon after the adjournment of the
last legislature, about six months
ago, Bowling was removed, and
Hayes Lewis of Jackson county was
appointed sheriff of Duval in his
stead. :. Bowling was given a hearing
today on charges then made against
him of failing to enforce the prohi-
bltlon laws in Jacksonville, and the
charges were not sustained. Bowling
is wiring his friends the news, he
said. He leaves for home tonight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
Henry Ford To be Associated
u. S. Shipbu;lding Board

As vice president and general man
ager of the emergency fleet corpora
ton, Mr.. Piez is in immediate charge
of the merchant fleet building, and
as his immediate aid Mr.. Ford will
bring to the government his abilities
as standard production expert.
Although thoroughly outspoken in
his pacifist views until the United
States entered the war. Mr.. Ford
since that time has repeatedly pledg-
ed his personal and business resources
to any aid the government might ask
of him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
ITALIAN ARMY
REPULSES ALL
MOVES OF HUN
Daily Continue to Stiffep
Front, Repelling German
Invaders in Attacks.
RUSSIAN SITUATION
STILL UNCERTAIN
Last News From Petrograd
Reported Street Fighting
Was in Progress.

ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY
The Russian situation is still cloud
ed by uncertainLr, owing to the in
terrupted communication with Petro-
grad, where last reports said the Boil
sheviki faction had control and street
fighting was progressing.
On the Italian front, which is the
only world war theater where inten-
sive fighting is in progress, the ltal-
ians daily continue to stiffen their
front from the region of Lake Garda
10 the Adriatic.
Nowhere have the Teutonic allies
penetrated their front for new gains
of any great Importance. On the
other hand, their attacks were met
With fierce resistance and ultimate
repulse, except at Cisnon, which was
taken by the invaders.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
THREE AMERICAN
SOLDIERS DIE IN FRANCE

Washington, Nov. 16.-Deaths OF
three American soldiers, two from
sickness and one by accident were re-
ported today by General Pershing.
They were:
Private Edwin S. Linton, medical
department, base hospital No. 18, died
November 18th of scarlet fever. Ed
win Linton, father, Washington, Pa.
Private Claude E. Mieusset, ma
chine gun battalion, died of broncho
pneumonia: Mr.. c. Mieusset, Boston,
Mass.
Bugler Floyd N. Cramps, engineer,
killed by railroad train October 17th
Mrs. Anna A. Cramps, mother, South
Minneapolis, Mimi.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
GERMAN ATTACK IN
BELGIUM is REPULSED.

Paris, Nov. 16.-A German attack
in Belgium was repulsed last night
by the French, the war office an
nounces. The statement follows:
aIn Belgium the Germans attempt
ed to recapture one of our points of
support north of Veldpoek. The at
tack was repulsed completely and ap-
preciable losses were inflicted upon
the enemy. Elsewhere on the front
right thank of the Meuse (Verdun
'front.', where heavy artilly firing con-
tinues.
= German aviators bombarded the
Region south of Nancy. There were
no victims"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
Farmers Join U1;o,, Labor
To Help Win Great War

Buffalo, y. Y, Nov. 16.-A pledge
from the farmers to join hands with
union labor to help win the war was
given at today's session of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor by A. c..
Townley, president of the Farmers
partisan League, and l.. v.
Strayer, second vice president of the
National Farmers Congress.
The farmers realize Mr.. Strayer
said, 'tthe great responsibility that
rests upon them in this great world
crisis. The fallacy that we are op-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
PHELPS TO ANSWER FOR
ESCAPE OF BLACKWELLS

Deputy Sheriff HartsfieJd left yes
terday on the noon train for Mobile
where he will take in charge and re-
turn to Pensacola for trial the white
man named Phelps, who is alleged ~
have aided the Blackwells to mai
their escape while the late hurricane
weather prevailed in this section. A.
cording to the stories of the RlacL-
wells, Phelps let them out of the cell
without much persuasion. PbeIns
denies this, and it is for the purpose
OF having jury pass upon the re-
spective merits of the case ~
Phelps is being returned here.
The deputy recently secured
requisition for the return of pbelns
and it is expected he will reach IA
city on the return trip with his man
this afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
SEA SLINKERS
HAVENOTQUIT
:.
EXPERTS AVER
INEACTIvITIES OF U-BOATS RE-
GENTLY, NAVAL MEN BE-
LIEyE. NOT ANY INDICATION
THAT CAMPAIGN COLLAPSED
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Nov. 16.-American
naval experts, it was made plain to-
day, do not agree with the view that
the lull in submarine activities means
the collapse of the U-boat campaign
or that ti-submarine measures have
proved wholly effective. They agree
progress is being made, but prefer "a
POSTPONE Judgments on whether the
U-boat has been eliminated as fac
tor until the theory has been more
thoroughly tested.
Meanwhile the American navy will
continue it's preparations to deaf with
the menace.
It was said officially at the navy
department today that there was
nothing to foreclose the possibility OF
a very heavy toll of ships next week
or at an subsequent period and that
VARYING results still were expected,
: Secretary Daniels authorized this
statement:
"The submarine menace has not
proved the decisive factor in the wal
that the Germans predicted 1T would
be. It has done great harm which
should not be underestimated, and IS
still a menace. Its purpose was to
starve England by August and this
of course, it has failed to do"
The situation is this, as navy offl-
cials see it:
"The effort of the U-boat cam
paign to starve out Great Britain by
fall of this year has failed. Winter
is here and Great Britain has not
been starved into submission and Is
in no immediate danger of being
starved The submarines still con-
stitute, however, a grave menace to
vitally necessary traffic and every ef-
fort to increase protection against
them must be made.
Such protection is being increased
every month. Additional destroyers
are coming into action and building
of a great fleet of new American de-
stroyers is proceeding rapidly. Var
ious devices for detection of U-boats
are being made more effective and
instrumentalities for their destruction
are being improved. The convoying
system is working out well and will
become increasingly efficient as new
destroyers and other craft are added
Secretary Daniels conferred today
with shipping board officials to ad-
just the two building programs so as
to secure the maximum results frsnl
available facilities. Mr.. Daniels said
! later that the navy and the board
were working in perfect harmony and
that every energy was being copcen-
trated on the production of destroyers
and merchant ships.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
BARRANCAS MEN TO
PLAY AT HATTIESBURC

For the purpose of engaging a
strong team at the cantonment at
Hattiesburg, Miss, strong football
squad left here yesterday, and about
forty of "the boys" went along with
the players as supporters. A special
car was attached to an outgoing train
and it is expected the soldiers from
Barrancas will give good account
of themselves. Those in the party of
players were: Lieutenants Cromarti,
Hargrove and Clarkson, Sergeants
Smith and Meriwarck, Corporals
Bingham, Concillas and Roller and
Privates Madero, Roland, Atrnor.
Wright, Bowers, Arnold, Haywood,
Densmore, Ryszka, Manta and Fluke.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17

Washington, Nov. 16.-Henry Ford
has agreed to give his aid to the gov
ernment's merchant shipbuilding pro-
gram by becoming an assistant to
General Manager Piez of the emer-
gency fleet corporation.
Mr.. Ford will deal especially with
standardization and a speeding up
Induction Of the merchant fleet: and
lady is building in his Detroit mo-
factory small ship parts. He will
the government most of his time
will serve without pay.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17

posed to you and you to us should be
corrected
President Townley urged the fed
GRAFTON to cooperate in putting field
and factory war products on the
market at lower prices and in great
er quantities.
In regard to the political asrect,
Mr.. Townley said:
Remember that this would be so
mean coalition. The farmers of this
country represent 81 per cent. labor
25 per cent. of the nations voting
strength"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
BRITISH IN PALESTINE
MAKE GREAT GAINS.

London, Nov 16.-The British army
which is pursuing the Turks along the
coast in Palestine, has made further
substantial gains, the war office an
nounces. It has reached line from
Ramleh Ludd to point three miles
south of Jaffa.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
British Naval Aviators Gre
ate Havoc on Board
the Sultan Selirn"
WAS FORMERLY
GERMAN GUNBOAT
Another Vessel Damaged,
and Missiles Also Struck
Turkish War Office.
nv ASSOCIATED PRESS

London, Noy. 16.-During recent
air raid over the Gallipoli peninsula
and Constantinople by British avia-
tors, the former German cruiser
Goeben, now the Turkish warship Sui
tan Selim, was hit and large ex-
plosion caused, it was officially an
nounced today.
A vessel named the General, and
reported to be the German headquar-
tiers at Constantinople was twice hit
by bombs the raiders dropped. Two
hits also were obtained upon the Turk
ish war office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
TOWN OF CISMON
CAPTURED BY TEUTONS

Berlin, Nov. 16.-The town of Cis-
mon, on the northern Italian front,
has been captured, the war office an
nounces. Near the Adriatic on the
western bank of the Piave, Hunga-
rian troops advanced and captured
1000 Italians.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
JUDGE PARKHILL ON
PROVOST MARSHALS STAT

B. Parkhi1l, of Tampa, formerly Judge
of the Supreme Court of Florida. has
been appointed as assistant to the
Judge Advocate of the United States
Army and will be assigned to duty in
the office of Provost Marshal General
Crowder. Judge Parkhill will have
the rank of major in the army.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
POPE PLEADS WITH POWERS
TO OBSERVE RULES OF WAL

Rome, Nov. 16-Pope Benedict has
asked the government of the central
empires to instruct their military au-
thorities operating west of the Isonzo
to follow the rules of international
law in respecting the lives and prop
erty of civilians and in the uprotec-
tion of women and children, the
clergy, hispitals, churches, bishop s
palaces, and presbyteries.
The pontiff has also ordered the
papal nuncios at Munich and Vienna,
if necessary, to appeal personally
and directlv to Emperor William and
Emperor Charles to obtain the fulfill
ment of his wishes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
KERENSKY'S FORCES
REPORTED DEFEATED.

Petrograd, Wednesday, Uov. H.
Premier Kerensky's forces, which ad-
vancedf rom Gatchina to Tsarskoe-
selo, have been defeated bv the work
mems and soldiers forces, twelve
miles south of Petrograd. The Ker-
ensky contingents retreated to Cat
china.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
DENY PETITION OF ROAD
TO DISCONTINUE OPERATION

Tallahassee, Nov. 16-The Railroad
Commission today. issued an order de-
nying the petition of the Ocklawaha
Valley Railroad Company to discon-
tinue operation on Dec. 1.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
vISCOUNT COWDRAY
SENDS IN RESIGNATION.

London, Nov. 16.-Viscount Cow
dray, chairman of the British air
board, has resigned in consequence
of Lord Northcliffe's letter to Premier
Lloyd-George.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17
7 H E w E A T H E r

Fair Saturday and Sunday, gentle to
moderate north winds.
Highest temperature yesterday, II de-
grees; lowest, az degrees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-17

CONTINUED on Page Eight
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05

way of comment on the recent dis
closure Of the afflictions which beset
the two great Americans. Now that
the truth is out, the President may ex-
peet, at some future time, to be ac-
cused of attempting to steal the
Colonel's thunder, for not until after
Colonel Roosevelt confessed to having
lost the sight of one eye in boxing
match way back in 1905, was the pub
lie let in on the secret that President
Wilson, by excessive reading, had
rendered one Of his eyes practically
useless.
The President and the former Pres
ident may each be blind in one eye,
but nobody would have known it from
looking at them. There is no outward
indication that Mr. Wilson or Colonel
Roosevelt is short on eyesight, and the
secret is one that both might have
kept, had not the Colonel, after a per-
iod of training, taken the newspaper
men into his confidence, and told them
of the boxing contest with Colonel Dan
II. Moore, Of the Field Artillery, back
in 1905.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
ARTILLERY
NOW FIRING INTO THE
GERMAN TERRI TORY
Raid In Which American Pris-
Oners We're Taken Reveals
Troops Location
By j. W. T. Mason
Written for the United Pressl

Written for the United Press
New York, Nov. 5. = The German
war office IS location of the first raid
on American trenches as along the
Rhine Marne canal, indicates that
American artillery is now firing its
shells directly on German territory.
The western battle front crosses the
RhineM Marne canal within easy artil-
lery range of the German boundary of
Lorraine. By revealing the spot where
Teutonic raiders found the American
trenches, the kaiser has been compell-
ed to- permit the German people to
know that America s first lombard
ment on the European battlefields must
have caused demolition of positions up
on the German empires own soil.
The first announcement that Ameri-
can artillery had been engaged in ac-
ton in France was made October 81,
while the date of the German raid on
American trenches was November g..
For at least a week, therefore, before
the Germans sent a patrol to investi-
gate the sudden activity opposite the
Lorraine border, American guns must
or potential bombardment.
ILLS lb uOuDIleSb tu0 IcdSOH why tHO
Germans took such unusual measure to
raid the American trench sector by
providing barrage artillery fire and
suttino off the American victims from
all possible help during the period of
the raid. Artillery ammunition is too
precious to Germany to be thrown
away in this costly manner often The
damage, however, that American shells
had probably been doing on German
soil for at least week, makes explic-
able the apparently reckless expendi-
ture of barrage fire to assist party
of raiders.
The Germans must be fearful of send
ing raiding parties against the Ameri-
can trenches without artillery protec
tion, because of the extreme thinness
of the German-Lorraine front. In Flan-
ders where the greatest fighting inten-
sity is occurring, the Germans have
four men per yard. All along the Lor-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05

that he is best fitted for, where he is
in position to do the best for his school
and to do it with the least strain and
injury to himself, The military value
of this work is seen in the success Of
the French in capturing one of the
strongest forts on the western front
almost without the loss of man, after
having rehearsed" for the exploit for
many weeks.
This work is directed by the depart
ment of Physical Education men, in
charge of DR.. A. d. Browne, who has
succeeded in getting the whole school
to playing. Cooperating with him are
the departments of Health, the Military
and the intercollegiate sports under
Coach Jos. A. Pipal.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
=. QUICK RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry of thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets,
the substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards, a practicing physician for
II years and calomeps old-time enemy,
discovered the formula for Olive Tablets
while treating patients for chronic con.
stipation and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel, but a healing, soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the '1seynote" of these
little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets.
They cause the bowels and liver to act
normally. They never force them 20
unnatural action.
II you have dark brown mouth'' uow
and then - a bad breath = a dull, tired
teeling-sick headache-torpid liver and
are constipated, you'll find quick, sure and
only pleasant results from one or two lit
Gle DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every night
just to keep right. Try them. 10c and
25c per box All druggists.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
THE OLD RELIABLE
BLOOD BUILDER

Still retains its supremacy. People
still take Hoods Sarsaparilla be-
cause it is an old family friend, has
proved its merit to three generations
in purified blood, expelled humors,
restored appetite, relieved rheuma-
tism, banished tired feelings.
1t long ago became recognized as
the standard blood purifier and
general tonic. 1t originated in
Boston physicians successful pre-
scription, and comprises medicinal
roots, herbs, barks and berries such
as are often prescribed for ailments
of the blood, stomach, liver and kid
neys. Buy it in the same style pack
age your mother bought it in,--same
fine appearance, same pleasant taste,
same certainty of good results.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
CONSTIPATION is
a PENALTY OF AGE

Nothing is so essential to
heaItk in advancing age as free
dom and normal activity of the
bowels. 1t makes one feel
younger and frezher, and fore
stalls colds, piles, fevers, and
other dependent ills.
Cathartics and Purgatives are
violent and drastic in action and
sho I'D be avoided. A mild, ef-
fecelve laxative, recommended by
physicians and thousands who
have usod it, is far preferable.
This is the combination Of simple
laxative herbs with pepsin sold
by druggists under the name of
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. II
costs only fifty cents a bottle; a
trial bottle, free of charge, can be
obtained by writing to DR.. w. B.
Caldwell, 456 Washington ST.,
Monticello, Illinois.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
Athletics for All Men
But Too Much for None
Better Body Exercises and Foundation
Games Fit Students for Army Life
and for the Big Game

o. "A. G., Corvallis, Or, Nov. 5.-Bet-
ter bodies for all young men and
physical fitness for the strain of mill
tary hardships and the big intercol
legiate games, are the aims of the
athletics required of students here.
The big and the over-developed hus-
kies that need no "buildingn are no
longer grabbed up ON their first ap-
perarance on the campus and given the
"too-much' treatment necessary to
''win the game " Instead every man
is given a special examination to find
out what he most needs and then the
kind of drill that develops it, and as
signed to play with his eollege-mates
the games he likes and needs. If de-
fective in bodily vigor he is given
special corrective exercises. Two hun
dred men are now taking corrective
exercises.
The foundation games not only
strengthen the body and clear the mind
but incidentally disclose the special
athletic qualities, if any, that each
man has. He is then graduated natur-
ally into those intercollegiate sports
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-05
President Of Railroad
Must Account for Funds

Washington, Nov. 5.-The supreme
court today decided that M. H. Smith,
president of the Louisville and Nash
Vile railway, must make public the pur-
poses for which certain funds were spent
under his personal direction. The de-
cision follows fight led by Ex-senator
Luke Lea, who charged the existence of
huge corruption fund to maintain
lobby, bribe state officials and corrupt
Legislatures.
The decision means that the interstate
commerce commission may from now on
go into the innermost secrets of rail
road IS political conduct and may decide
if certain expenses may be legitimately
approved by it as Operating expen-
cac -