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PAUSE COMES
{Continued from First Fage.)

valley through which Tho Ailelts stream
runs.
Further along toward Craonnr. which
sits on the road and commands the
mann road from Rheims to l.aon on the
P.lAin spreading eastward. lies iurte-
hiSc farm which shares with trrnE con-
stant German attention. in CONSEQUENCE"
If its situation near trnrnhe' the con.
lin,ied possession OF which is of great
Importance Of the Germans. The OPP
posing artilleries Tight an incessant duel
in thIs sector. and the Germans are 40
ing their utmost by holding traonuc L"
threaten the French advance across tho
nat lands toward Laon.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES III
FRANCE. via London. April rs. 1920 r.
m.-peSpile all thu woudruuS war
cold steel OF the bayunot has assorted it.
SELF anew in much Of the recent bitter
lighting rs tn" arm of last appeal As
already related tho struggle about
Monchy-le- rrcuX since Monday have at
tanned an intensity uncQuallcd hy any
Of the fighting in the Sommc campaign
last year
Thrre was one German position north
of the town AMI paralleling tho Ecarpe
river which resisted four desperate at
lacks II was finally decided 10 take
This position at tho point Of the bayonet
without p shot of any kind being Tired
70 rob tho attack Of It's surprise nature.
TIN. attack WAS made along q three
quarters Of q mile front under cover OF
darkness.
The British hattaltons were formed
in cumnarttvely close order and at the
WHISPERED word OF command repeated all
along the line. trudged forward into the
night. Overhead shells were droning
and back of the lines guns could be
heard. Four unsuccessful daylight as
saults had left touch OF chaGrin
which WAS TO be wiped out in this get
ting" of L man. There is little more to
tell. The sound of the fighting in tho
trenches was lost In the British barrage
which closed down some distance be-
hind the German positions Immediately
the British sigualled they had entered
th.. position. This barraEe cut off any
German who attempted to flee from
the bAyonet charge.
Thus. in ten minutes with the silent
hayonet was secured q position which
had held out for two days.
The baronet also has come In effect
lively in dealing with the ever-truuhle-
some machine gun and gunners. y few
brave men. stealing out In the night
have been able to accomplish much.
Several British hattaltonS have re-
ported in the last few days that the
'kamcrad' ruse, suddenly standing ul'
In the shallow trenches and holding up
their hands and shouting across to their
opponents that they would surrender.
Two battalions believing the sincerity OF
this proposal started across 10 bring IN
the prisoners but were Immediately at
tackled.
Incidents Ike this have helped mater
tally 70 give the element OF bitterness 10
the fighting TO n degree which has star
battles since the first German rush
through Belgium.
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TRAITOROUS SPEECH
BRINGS EXPULSION


MADISON. Wis. April o6.-Frank
Raguse, Socialist member Of the State
Senate from Milwaukee. was expelled
from that body tonight for having
made what 80 Of the SO members be.
lieved were unpatrlotic remarks on
the floor of the Senate last Tuesday.
The remarks were made in course Of
debate on resolution TO print and
publicly distribute $4,000 copies OF
President Wilson's state OF war mess
age" Raguse objected to the rneas.
ure and declared:
This resolution is to create patriot
ism but it will not do II. You cannot
create patriotism in Il country where
So per cent. of the people do not own
land The only way to create patriot
ism. as understand it. is to do as was
done when the Maine was blown up
from the inside and property and lives
both were destroyed in order that Re-
member the Maine should be heralded
over the country and the people would
b. aroused TO PATRIOTISM
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Wheeling Girl Causes
Arrest Of an Alleged
White Slave TraffiCkeI

Srrrial niSratch 10 the lnteiligeirr'.
BUFFALO, y. Y. April 26.--George
Nazarean, aged -. Of HOS Buffalo
avenue. Niagara Falls, y. Y, was ar
rested late Wednesday AT the Falls on
complaint OF Marie Crosse. IS, OF
Wheeling. The police believe Naza-
rean is a white slave trafficker. The
Crosse girl said Lat last week IN
Wheeling she NIT =. relative. of Naza-
rean. who offered 10 secure for her
work in Il restaurant at Niagara Falls
at Sc per week. Last Sunday she re-
ceived transportation 10 the Falls.
and when she arrived was taken 10
HOS Buffalo avenue. She failed TO
find work al that place and was IN
,roduced to several men last Monday.
\ relative at Wheeling learned that
the girl had been detained AT the
Falls and he came Wednesday. and
Nazarean's arrest followed. Nazarean
was held in 81 900 bail and ordered
turned over TO immigration officials
and the charge Of violating the Mann
white slave law probably will be
placed against the prisoner.
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HOSPITAL PROGRESS
REPORTED BY BOARD.
New piettcian and Additional 1ntsrns
Have Beeu Appointed at the u ,
o, v. G.. H. -

Splendid: records of hospital work
were reported last night at the monthly
meeting of the board Of directors Of the
ohio Valley General hospital. Progress
during March was related.
In MACH the hospital treated 3.459
Dersons. BAL more than in March. 1915.
For chahty in March. l3lI, there was
spent slMa354. Major operations, l19
in number were performed.
The hoard voted to send Miss II. 81.
Thalcn. principal OF the training school
as delegate. TO the National Association
of Nurses convention in Philadelphia
this week.
The resignation OF Miss A. ". Lam:
bert. chief dictician since the hospital
has been housed in the new building, was
accepted. Miss Lambert inherited an
estate in the east and has left wheeling.
Miss Mary Farnhan, an experienced dies
tician ina large eastern hospital. has
been accepted In that position at the
local hospital. .,;.q-+s
The board approved the appointment
Of Or. o. g. Walker. 1917 graduate at
ohio State University. as. an .interHe,
Next year with the acquisition Of fiLe
resident nAthologist, the inferno staff
Th" HOSPITAL unit plan was also dis
cussed. -
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EXPLOSION
INSIDE ACT, PERHAPS

CHESTER. Pa. April 26.-Some Of
the inspectors employed by the Rus
sian government al the plant of the
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation,
where 1873 lives We're lost by an eXplo-
sion on April 10. We're radical Social
isis and had voiced their disapproyal
of the ammunition industry. according
TO testimony produced at an inquest
to-day into the disaster. While con-
flicting views AZ TO the cause Of the
explosion were expressed by the va.
riOus witnesses. many incidents point
ing TO attempts 70 wreck the plant
were detailed. Witnesses told OF find
ing matches wrapped in waste under
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Insurance Company Official
Says 10000 Die Annually From
-. Preventable Kidney Disorders

.pira,nry glands become active. Wh'ch
eliminates SOME OF the vast" ptouuc'S
by way OF The skin. In TINS wa!
Warmers Safe Kidney anu Liver
Remedy. not only helps prevent KID
ney diseases. but it is an etfeci!te
remedy in all stages. Warner 9aie
Kidney and Liver Kennedy Is no eN-
neriulrnt Of rnday. but has been IA
blessing TO thousands vi sufferers Tor
the last An years.
Il wish 10 say that your remedies
have been used in our family for
about .f;een wears. We are never
without bottle OF Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Remedy in our
home. and it mas saved many Il doc
tors bill Ii is IL wonderful medicine
for all diseases Of the KINGS and
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and $l.00. Free sample il YOU write.
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WOTk Tor the common 9OOd 10 any Onc Vi u
you will clean the stomach, liver and bowels OCCASION
ally with gentle laxative you keep we'll Too
much fuel in mans machine, such eating too much
meat, or alcohol tea, nervous overwork and lack
of exercise in outdoor air bring constipation and bad
health Eat less meat plenty of vegetables, and with
air and good exercise you need little else. If the
liver needs rousng-and most of us need this
week-take safe vegetable of the leaves OF
aloe, May-applc, Of jaap made into tiny sugar
coated pill sold by almost every druggist as Doctor
Picrce's Pleasant Pellets and first put up nearly
fifty years ago.
Most people die eventually of acid
dition. If the blood can be rendered more alkaline,
the longer we live. With regular hours, six eight
glasses of water between meals, sensible food
and chance get the poisons out of the system,
man will live to bea hundred. But, unfortunately,
our highly nervous way of living brings increased
storage of uric acid in the body. This acts as
poison, and consequently we suffer from headaches,
neuralgia, lumbago, aches or pains, rheumatism govt
Get rid of this uric acid poison by taking harm
less medicine called Anuric, which throws out the
uric acid by stimulating the kidneys. Drink pint
strength) after meals and at bed time. Anurc can
Doctor PIERCE Invalids Hotel. Buffalo, N. Y for full
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oil pans blackened match head
among broken powder pellets and
pieces of steel in the black powder OF
the shrapnel shells.
Officials Of the company and DR..
Francis y. Patterson, of the State bu-
reau of industrial hygiene and engl-
npering. expressed the view that. the
explosion could be traced only to SIN
lister origin.
Louis Herman, a guard on the bulk.
head along the Delaware river, at the
plan,. testified he had fired six shots
at occupants of a MOTOR boat he saw in
The river two days before the explo-
sion. He said they were acting suspl-
ciously. and refused TO halt when he
called upon them to do so.
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ON CONSCRIPTI0N
CONTINUED From FIRST PaEe.)

those subjec; 10 draft y 10 ~, instead
Of 10 10 -. and that it should contain
a provision that the president. when
peace is declared. must give UP Ills
authority TO raise an army under it.
I'VE are needed on the battle line or
Europe" the Missouri senator conun-
ued. There must be no hating at
home The president thinks the time
is past for experiment.. agree with
him. 1t is Imperative that we act III
once and get ready with the least pos
rsible delay. am for that plan which
will most certainly. speedily and eftt-
GENTLY meet the demands OF the hour.
Pass this bill and We will forthwith IN
ter upon plan that will not be expert
mental: its success is assured from
the beginning
Urging CONSUMPTION as the sure
means OF raising large army. Senator
Myers. predicted in the senate that IL
might b. necessary fer the United
States To recruit, 100000 men before
..dctory is won.
"a war Paper md OF dollars only
wou Id be i diSSrac" and make America
wnrd and rerrnach through history.
he said. Il hrIiev. tho German kaiser
would rather blow up th" world mo
Smithcrcans than see defeat. DO vol
draw 4 i'm" between the German gov
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The alarming death rate from kidney
disorders may be reduced by prompt
: attention ID affected kidneys.
VA prominent life insurance com
ftAy, from abundant statistics. show
Vat fully, 100000 Americans die an
haally trdn kidney diseases Since
fully js-Ge or sixty thousand. Of these
fatalities could be prevented or post
poned for years il the presence OF
kidney disease was discovered in lis
early. stages. 1t is high time that
everyone should take an interest in
the health of their kidneys. Now the
kidneys work day and night 10 pro-
tect the blood and body from an ever
increasing quantity OF poisonous sub
stances. They perform their function
of filtration faithfully and persistently.
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver REM
edy should be selected for the treat
ment of kidney disorders. Il sootheS
and benefits these delicate organs,
and has a direct action on the cirrula-
ton. With better circulation. the per-
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BIG BRITISHER SUNK.

NEW YORK. April 26.-Thc British
freight steamship City Of Paris,
vessel of $3.50 tons gross register has
ben sunk by German submarine. ae-
cordinc TO adriceS reaching here 70
day. The City. OF Paris loaded with
cargo was on her. way 10 New YORK
via England from: an East Indian port.
The date and locality of the sinking
are not known. other than il occurred
prior 10 April 30
The City of Paris was owned by
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WOOD TO CHARLESTON

NEW YORK. April 26.-Maiur Cen
c?al Leonard Mood to-day AUTHORIZED Il
denial of published reports that iha
order had hc"I raSCind"h which directed,
him To tax" command Of Ihr new depart
IrrIn of TN, Southeast of IN" United
States Army effective May /.
General Wood said hr wnUlI turn
his command, comprising thu present
Department OF III" East Ia his success
sor. Mai"r-ti"l"rHl j. r. R"li. on Monday
ard would rrOr"rd al once. /" t'harl"S-
ten. =. e.. which will Ia his h";idqunrt-
'rS in lh" n"W department.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-27
FORMER JUDGE DAVIS
IN SUDDEN DEATH

CUMBERLAND. Md. April 2G-Mll-
lard F. Davis. Go years old. former
Judge of The Allegheny county or
phans court. died suddenly tonight
while attending service al the SLeph-
ems ErangelistIc tabernacle here. He
had marched with the independent. Or
der Of Odd Fellows from their hail.
Judge Davis came here from keysrr.
W. Va. about % years ago. He mas:
been Baltimore L. Ohio engineer and
lost his leg in IN accident al Rowlrs-
burg. Nest Virginia. He was elected 10
the orphans court bench on The Dem
oCra1ic ticket Surviving are his sec
Oud WIFI and four children.
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ORDERS TO TRAIN THEM FOR
SHOP AND TERMINAL WORK
RECEIVED HERE.
Feminine Reserve Force to Be Raised
to Take Jobs as Fast as the
- Men Leave.

That wpmen. will be placed on all
the Jobs possible by the Baltimore Il
Ohio Railroad as soon as the men
leave Is the word that comes from Bal
nmore and IS substanttated by Wheel
ing Baltimore & Ohio officials.
A general order has gone through.
out the system that women be trained
for work on the lines and in the shops
and terminals at once. so they can step
in as the men go off TO war.
1t is said that the women will be
paid the same wages as the men
whose JOBS they take received. The
exact methods of procuring the wom-
en- had not been outlined. but the local
Offices expect orders by the first OF
next week.
The Baltimore & Ohio has been at
the first of the list in all the patriotic
moves OF the last year. say officials
harn
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ways tired and no appetite. Words
cannot. express my gratitude for the
good your medicine has done me, and
through me to my family. | recon-
mend Lydia T. Pinllham Vegetable
Compound to all women suffering from
female troubles. particularly to Danish
women. Mrs. META DAMGAARD- MAT
IAN, 2l37 KimbaIl Ave, Chicago, Ill.
1t is positively true that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
helped thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
Illumination, liberation. tumors. irregu-
larities, periodic pains. backache, that
bearing down feeling, Indigestion and
nervous prostrRtion.
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WOMEN To HOLD JOBS LEFT BY
B. { D. MEN WHO CO To WAR

eminent and the German people. We
ar. at wa: with the 'i"rIu>H ?'"p'" who
largely share The kai$cr'S DISCRIMINATION
~ win the war II all costs.
Representatives osborne. California. a
uniun volunteer III tn" civil war, sup
porting the administration plans. "ul0E-
lied tho, president and suggested that II
a.. should deem il wis" ~ accept the
services oil culunrl. Roosevelt. To raise
Il division for S"rvic" in France. 1t
would DE 4 glorious inspiration 10 tn"
Am. ric:In people. without cOnpromiS" 70
the principles a. the conSCription bill
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GOVERNMENT
IN GERMANY?

cOPEN HAGEN, April 90
via London, 9:15 p. Mt is
reported that p hi ii p Schelde-
mann, leader of the German ma
iority Socialists, who recently
visited Copenhagen in an en-
deavor to bring about a peace
between Russia and Germany, is
here again.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-27
Germans Claim victory.

LONDON. April IT. 2:H0 p. m.-The
German news pa pers are claiming viz
tory in the battle Of Arras. t"legraphs
the CORES pondcnt at Til" Hague ur the
Evening News. The Frankfurter Tei-
lung says: Tho second baItl" Of Arras
can never be made good by the British.
who lost II al an enormous cost In men
and material
The Cologne Gazette says: German
troops look across fields piled with
curpses TO the British army. which they
have repealed SUCCESSFULLY"
The Cologne Nolks Zeitung says: THE
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proved IN neaiLu
with the first bot
tie of Lydia E. Pink
h a m s Vegetable
Compound; a f t r
taking two bottles
| am entirely well.
Before taking it |
could not do any
kind of work with
out a pain in my
back as | suffered
so much from in
hammation. | had
l.o,lanl,ar 1t,ou q
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-27
NAMED BY cox,

COl.rMBUS. Ohio. April 26.-Gov-
ernur Cox today designated Adjutant-
General Wood o represent ohio al
the meeting Of the National Defense
Council in WHshini Gnn. May =.
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a.. CLEAN STOMACH
MAKES a WELL MAN!
(BY DR.. |. W. SHORT. J

in
rkfhec
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PREDICTED FROST
Thermometer Likely to GO Down to "a,
Weather Observer Declares.

Il wouldn't be surprised II the temper
;tur" would go down 10 IL during tho
night and that is tn" frost line. said
Mass R.SSi. ForSythe. o: the local fore
cast station late last night. Thirty-tGo
abovs zero Is freezing point and ~ IL
frost.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-27

the Ellerman lines and was buailt at!
Glasgow in 1907 She was 1873 feet
long with a 81 foot beam.
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Th,. total vtIttr If Tho rudium tested
AT the Cnitcd States Bureau Of Stand
ards. IN Washington. exceeds Sl.nn0.-
GOU.
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Siccrricd position has become an elastic
band. Il living wall which has dissolved
tn" physical and moral strength OF the
ruGrur
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WASHINGTON. April 2e.-In his
address as president, opening the
: eleventh annual session of the
American Society of International
Law, hero tonight, Euhu Root re-
ferred to the war against Germany
as the greatest peace movement and
declared that the world cannot ex-
ist half democratic and half auto
cratic.
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DANISH WOMAN
REGAINS HEALTH
Tells Everybody What Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for Her.

Chicago, Ill.-'It gives me great
pleasure to let others know that | i'm.
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Harry G. Hunter Shows open today,
Bridge Park: twice daily. apr26tf
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JOHN TOPPING ON
COMMITTEE OF THE
STEELMASTERS

NEW YORK. April o6-Appoint-
ment Of a committee 10 apportlon
among steel manufacturers the govern
ment's war orders according TO the
capacity Of their various plants was
authorized at a meeting OF leading
steel men at the office Of Chairman
Ebert Fl. Cary. Of the United States
Steel Corporation here today.
In making til IS announcement,
Chairman Gary said that the meeting
at which were represented manufaC.
turers OF plates. structural shapes,
bars and other steel products, also
ton OF the general committee appoint
ed in the general iron and steel in
stitute in agreeing with the govern
ment upon prices.
These prices are $500 base per
hundred pounds for plates as compared
with So 10 $40 in the open market.
and $3.50 base for structural shapes
and bars as compared with 81 10 ST.
The distribution Of tonnage was in
compliance with government request.
The meeting also approved he sugges-
ton of the Iron and Steel institute
committee that government contracts
be managed through d clearing house
committee with officers at Washing
ton.
a subcommittee on alloys consist
ing Of Chairman Gary, James 4. Far
rel!. Z. G.. Grace. and F. 4. S. Clarke
was appointed. The committee sup
cruising the Washington office Will
consist of Chairman Gary. Mr. Farrell,
John A. Topping and Mr.. Clark.
Mr.: Topping. now chairman OF the
Republic Iron Company, the largest
independent concern in the country. is
former Wheeling man. who was sec
Rotary Of the old Aetna-Standard conf
pany. When the latter was taken ov-
or by The United States Steel company
no became connected with that cor
poratlon. later serving az head Of the
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company, and
eventually becoming the head Of the
Republic.
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before and take Anunc double triple
DouorP vaidE otI Y. or full
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
DISBURSEMENTS HOLD
BACK HIPBUILDING
Hurley Blames Rear Admiral
Caps for Delays.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Testimony to-
day of shipping board officials in the
senates investigation into the delays
of the shipbuuding plan disclosed that
the start in construction on fabricated
steel ships was delayed two months by
refusal of Rear Admiral Capps. former
head of the construction board, to close
contracts negotiated by his predeces-
sor, Major General Cocktails, until
many alterations in them We're made.
This and other delays were brought
out In questions asked BY the senate
commerce committee conducting the
inquiry of Chairman Hurley and John
A. Donald of the shipping board,
Charles Piez, new general manager of
the corporation, and Rear Admiral
Bowles, his aide.
Some of the causes for the general
delay in both steel and wooden con-
struction were given by the witnesses
| as changes in specifications, differ
ences by Admiral Capps and builders
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Trading Is Almost Negligible
and UndertOne Indicates
Sluggishness.
BONDS ARE FEATURE
Both French and Russian Sc.
curities Show Stiffening
in Interest Rates.

New York. Dec. 22.--Trading in
stocks today was altogether inconse-
auential with sluggish undertone.
Rails and some Of the more prominent
indnstrials were mildly reactionary,
but shippings, oils. motors and a few
less distinctive war issues showed
moderate steadiness and occasional
strength.
Short covering was productive of
more evenness todard the close, United
up their sales.
The market for bonds far exceeded
in interest that for other securities.
Despite the disarowal of new peace
moves. further substantial recoveries
were scored by the Anglo French SIS,
Paris 6's and French municipals.
On the curb, where Russian gov
eminent 51a and 6Is per cent are dealt
In, over night advances OF to Z
points were reported. Domestic bonds
reported no change. Liberty As were
duh at 97.07 to 81 with greater ac-
tivity in the avs at 1886 to 1924.
Total sales, par value, S2,525,000.
Old United States bonds were I'M
changed on call during the week. Tho
feature of the bank statement was a
contraction of 1913. 100000 in actual re-
serves. reducing that item by more
than half with an accompanying de-
crease Of $4l2,00o,0O in loans.