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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-10-04
aAtnrdaY, Sept. 20.

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the unfsiling advertisement Of at
! fractions ranging from cheap vaude-
vile artists to the greatest st prima
donnas and lecturers Of note, has
been infeHantfally used! a mum Der Of
times III connection with the ap-.
peafapce; Of Company H An our city.
The repetitipn of this warning has
not been because OF any desire on
+ the paft Of members Of the company
or thaf of their friends to play to
the Grandstand, r but merely because
1t has s6esn impossible to fathom the
Intentions Of the War Department,
Z Consequently many rutnors of an
early depaxtMres have been ctrenlatsds;
Ats tho prese1ss lpwasssktti; Z;
Is known positively tint ths Com 6
! pany are tas psss thru Jamesto for;
the last time, as they win De. .entrafhfs
ed,within few heurs to start on the
long Journey to Camp Greene, Char
,lotte, South Carolina. Thence they,
will not return as q company except
by way Of the trenches, unless, per-
chance. the worlds prayer for peace
should be- answered before their SER
vices are needed.
AS announced last night, 1t, is
thot that the troop train will pass
thru the city late. this evening. Rail-
way officials believe that It will be
between 10 and one o'clock before
the train reaches Jamestown There
will be bnt = few. minute's Is stop here.
as it 10 planned to rush the train
thru az quickly as possible. The
stop win be- for the purpose Of. chang
ing locomotives, SO it will probably.
be from ten to fifteen minutes.
"a large crowd will doubtless gath
er ats the station tonight In spite Of
the lateness Of the hour. A desire
TO catch another glimpse Of the.
company and to have q few minutes'.
farewell sconversatt Ion with friends
I Or loved ones viii bring many to the
depot. Glad dly would they wait all.
thru tie light if necessary. And
hosts of friends OF Individual guards
mon. ana those interested n these
soldiers Who have come from within
{ our midlt, fllls ia dsof this chance;
to cheer the boys on their long JOUR-
ney. Ss',sf9 sts'ss38s ss.Sss
emlers of Comp q Will not
go Shungry,sfor ! time Sats least Valley
CITY people having subscribed total
of5 over IS. .sO 90 toward the messSfund:|
Contradictions range from To- rs
Sinssise Members sof the conn mitee Al
charge of raising the fund sares Darby
SO'Malley. d ard, John Tracy and;
James Graz
SII plans to place arti cles for the sol
5diers eshment aboard the train
here Tor heir senterta ainment sn
route, bpt On account of the late
ness of the l,iour VIII ne Inn
practi ticable & 81 I I, III ii snEs I u 8 fornalAl.
srecsptis isn. The' greeting that the'
boys h0xeyeI ,vill ~ 81 snthns3
siasticS and q scc yincins I proof of
JamestoWn's . ,sI u Y opld bbs-
more formal csfsm \ olnnisss : = ~
The compists m Inelnb sok
( mpany lith thslr oha aesss, u slasS
follstgs
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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-10-04

x.Raympnd Nddyy Corporal
William johnson /
John -. Clemens .ti
George w. Hatlleld s:5
\ George D. Marshall
Milton q. Ratzlan ..f
Gunner s. Gunderson
d Luther Barnard 4,
Ninth Squad.
Parker L'Moore, Corporal
William Eiden 4s6
+ Iver C. Prescott
Oscar kellogg 3q /,
4 Jacob j. Hammer
William Kloubec
Earl T.. Tew Il,
George d. Flynn
Tenth Squad
Jonathan e. Ballenger, Corporal
Clifford G. Compton
Otto Schneider
4 Raymond Clark " .,ss /;
Adolph Wedman .5
Henry j.. Renter .ss.. 81.
Cecil L. Congdon
Daniel c. Nc Carthy i. .s.s
sss5 Eleventh Squad. .gsa.
Nick Romer, Corporal N .SS..; 3 !,
Ralph Wolff
Henry Custis 5ss3
Palmer Mellon S5
Louis Kloster 555s ~ s,5s d. y t'5lss5S ~ !,
& Fred M. Romer
Roy Mcleod q s
& Edward NJ. Turtle 3 AZ s 4
Twelfth squad. II
Philip Blewett, Corporal Us
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-10-04

sSarReant Vernon III Zacher
Sergeant. Reuben Poindexter
Sergeant. Walter il. Willard
i SergAan q TIOlR; RerS + .C. ltBereeren @
+ Clook..s Lnzerne D. Brandt
& Cook Harry Z q. Il Wheeler 4.s's y
Cook Frai,, K SA n Blonnt ss.sIl5 &.
{ Mechanic. JohngE. w agaer ~ Z.
]. .Miisician, Glenn, e. Bulls
3sMI4 ssian, Rudolph Christ
First Squad. 81
Fred S,%Dunn, Corporal 7s35
John Fsslsterman Il s
Noble P.&SyAEley x!
Charles F.sa Hney s;5:..s.
Bernard H. KaS2g
+ Walter CarlsonsS S. +.
Marion =: stein bsssssas L.
Lauritz Hanson 81
Second Squa6
BENJAMIN Nelson, Corporal
Edward f. Read
,Eldred r. Siltman !
Felix G. Przytarski
Evar l.. ChristiansOn
4 Andrew Akkersma
Arthur Peterson
Third Squad.
Leonard M. McMartin, Corporal
Clarence Long !: 3;fig'
William Lee. (. 81 II
Harry Maxam
"A. Peterson
Yale L'M0ore
z phiIin Thnrouou a5sa ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
GERMANS PLANNED ]. ID INVADE SOUTH
 BRAZIL, IS LEARNED
Plot Said to Have Been Dis covered in Letters of VOn Luxburg- Sensation
 in Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentine, October 2S. A sensation has been OccasiOncd here by the publication of dispatch from Rio de Janeiro asserting that the Bra- gillian foreign minister has made known that translati0n of dispatches sent by Count Won Luxburg through the medium of the Swedish legation. while the count was German minister to Argentina, has revealed a project for a German invasion of southern Brazil.
 The newspapers here demand that the government publish the Luxburg dispatches or else authorize their pub lication by a foreign government.
 (The dispatches were sent to Wash -ington for translation and the for eign government" referred to evident ly is the United States.)
 The Argentinian government Is be- ing criticized for it's silence.
 It was reported unofficially last February that bands of armed Ger mans, presumably sailors interned in Argentina, had crossed the Brazilian border. Carreira De Freitas, a Brazil ian ex-deputy at that time, denounced operations carried on in southern Bra gil. where there is a large German element, in connection with the Ham, burg Colonization company. It was re- ported that the company purposed to colonize a section of southern Brazil, admitting only Germans. In April it was reported that Germans in south : ern Brazil were concentrating and that German insurrection was being planned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
GOVERNMENT SPENT
 A BILLION DOLLARS DURING OCT ODER

Washington, October 2S.-Government expenditures of s1. .Ooo, ,0000OO is the record which the month of October has estab- lished at the treasury department. The total, which includes loans to the allies. may exceed even this huge sum, possibly by s100,O00,000.
 Thus far it stands at $9S5, 5,342, 387, with yesterdays S spending not included. For the 23 working days thus far counted, it shows average expenditures of approxi- mately $42,600000 daily, or almost s30,0O0 every minute of the day and night. Ex- penditures for last Friday the latest rec ord published, were $6S,975,94s. but this was an unusual day, considerably higher than the average, though not by any means record.
 The increase in the daily expenditures is greater at the present time than 1t was month ago, and is steadily growing. It is thought that it will continue to grow A 5000, 900 month, officials assert, Is not far off. It may be reached. with the retirement of short-tine treasury certifi- cates, to be met out of liberty bond re- ceipts, by mid- winter.
 Expenditures for the fiscal year thus far have reached the total of 8, 446 659, ,764, of which $1,77O, 100000, more than half, is represented by loans to the allies. These loans and the interest, the more to be repaid the government by the bor- rowers, and therefore do not represent actual expenditures to the American peo- Dle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
FRENCH-bELG|AN
 VICTORY SAID ID
 BE IMPORTANT ONE
By the Associated Press


 British Front in France and Belgium. portant victory won by the French and Belgian armies over the marsh lands ot Flanders yesterday is the record of a spectacular military operation, which be- fore it's completion would have been branded as impossible by the average ex- pert. is story of men who battled their way forward over morasses and through water into which they sank lit- erahy to their necks at time and, with riffs and cold steel, conquered the enemy in large and vital strip of territory which includes within it's borders such places as Kippe. Mercklem, Aschhoope, Verbreandesmis and Kostermolen.
 The striking feature of the performance lies in the part played by the Beigians in yesterdays drive. When the Poilus reached the neighborhood of Luyghem in the afternoon and began their assault on this place. the Beigians, who were watching from their lines across the floods. joined in and, numbers of them, piling into ferries, poled the-s' way through the eastern shore and hurled themselves on the Germans concealed in concrete de- lenses in the region north of Luyghern with such good effect that they quickly captured this entire northern tip of the so-called Luywhem peninsula
 The territory covered yesterday is T strip of land about 1000 yards long and varying in width from 1500 yards at the narrowest place to 5000 at the widest. lf line be drawn from a point just north of Langewaede westward almost to Se- veoten. this would constitute the b1ne of the strip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
Summary of the News
GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS treat.
 Germans and Austrians capture 1OC,cOO prisoners in drive. French and Belgians win in FIan- ders.
 Total subscription to liberty loan is still uncounted. Prcxident apIN nln to all people tO be saving of food. Cold wave coming. Government spent billion dollars during October. 2-Attorney General Martin may en- ter race for governor. 3EOhiO officers at Camp Sheridan will study artillery.
 LOCAL NEWS 2-America must be worthy of vfc- tory. says Dr. Barnwell. Dr. Denny conducts two dedica- tions.
 Recreation fund for camps needed. Allies paying f0f national sins, says Dr. Edmonda. Dr. stunrt's patriotic sermon K applnudch. Dirnltn Rham Trust provides digest of war revenue law. McAdoO sends mensage of cone Gratulntlonn. Civic parade to mark departure of negroes today.
 FEAEyRES 4--Editofial comment.  xaIarket revicws
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
AMERICAN NATION
 KNEELS IN PRAYER,
 ASKING VICTORY

Washington, October 2S.-In churches and in homes throughout the nation Americans bowed in solemn prayer for success of their nations arms. 1t was the first day of prayer so designated by presidential proclamation since the United States entered the war.
 At Central Presbyterian church here, the President and Mrs. Wilson heard Rev. pr. James H. Taylor utter this sup plication
 Remembering always the teachings of Christ. we must believe that our cause at this time Is just. We pray, there- fore, God, that the liberty and dem ocracy with which our nation Is blessed shall be shared with peoples less fortu- nate, even at the cost of the blood of our sons. May the time come speedily when nations, great or small, powerful or weak, may be free to work out their ideals without threat or menace. May we be part of Thy agency on earth to bring these blessings to the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
GENERAL RIDDLE MADE ASSISTANT CHIEF 0F STAFF Baker Intimates This Does Not Mean That He Will
 Take First Place
 Later On

Washington. October 2S.-Secretary Ba- ker announced tonight the appointment of Maj. Gen. John Riddle as assistant chief of staff, a post vacant since Gen. eral Bliss succeeded Major General Scott as chief of staff The appointment will greatly tighten the. burden on General Bliss.
 General Riddle has a reputation for executive ability and as colonel he special engineer regiments which were among the first troops sent abroad in the war He comes to his post in the department with personal knowledge of what is transpiring at the fighting front and also with a knowledge of general staff duty.
 Secretary Baker made it plain recently that he did not regard the selection of an assistant chief of staff as a prelim- mary to the naming of a new chief of staff to succeed General Bliss when the latter reaches retirement age, Decem- Der 31. The work of the assistant chief of staff is of such an important charac- ter that the secretary thinks the filling of that office should be considered as separate question:.
 MT. Baker said the appointment of a new chief of staff was not now under consideration, but that when the time came. every effort would be made to select the man best fitted for the post, regardless of precedent. It was indi- cated that the field Is open to every officer of experience at home or abroaI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
WIFE OF DELAWARE GOVERNOR KILLED
 IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Wilmington, Del, October 2s.--Gov. John G. Townsend, Jr., was slightly injured and his wife is dead as the result of an automobile accident late last night. While r.Arning to their home at Shelbyville from Newark they encountered a storm and suddenly l team loomed up ahead. The governor threw on the brakes of his motor car and it skidded. turning over twice. The governor was thrown clear ana not badly hrrt He removed his wirn from beneath the car but she died Tn few minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
PRESIDENT APPEALS ID ALL PEOPLE ID
 BE FOOD SAVING
Says This Is Absolutely Necessary if America Is to Aid the Allies
 Sufficiently

Washington, October 28. President Wilson in a state ment issued today urged every home and public eat ing place in the United States to pledge it's support to the food administration and to comply with its re- quests. His appeal marked the inauguration of family enrolment week, during which everybody in the country will be asked to be- come a member of the food administration in order to assure nationwide cooper ation in food conservation.
 The President said that in no other way than through this cooperation of the people can the nation accom- plish it's object in the war. The state ment follows:
 "The chief part of the burden of finding food supplies for the peoples associated with us in war falls for the present upon the American peo- pie and the drain upon supplies on such a scale necessarily affects the prices of our necessaries of life.
 "Our country. howver, Is blessed with an abundance of foodstuffs and if our people will economize in their use of food, providently confining themselves to the quantities required for the maintenance of health and strength; if they will eliminate waste, and if they will make use of those commodities of which we have sur plus and thus free for export larger proportion of those required by the world now dependent upon us, we shall not only be able to accomplish our obligations to them. but we shall obtain and establish reasonable prices at home. To provide an adequate sup ply of food both for our own soldiers on the other side of the seas and for the civil populations and the arm les of the allies is one of our first and foremost obligations, for if we are to maintain their constancy in this struggle for the independence of all nations we must first maintain their health and strength.
 "The solution of our food problems. therefore. is dependent upon the indi {. dividual service of every man. wom and child in the United States. The great voluntary effort in this direc- tion which has been initiated and or ganized by the food administration under my direction offers an opportu- nifty of service in the war which is open to every individual and by which every individual may serve both his own people and the peoples of the world.
 i've cannot accomplish our objects in this great war without sacrifice and devotion and in no direction can that sacrifice and devotion be shown more than by each home and public eating place in the country pledging its support to the food administration and complying with its requests.
 WOODROW WILSON,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
BIRMINGHAM NEXT
 ID NEW ORLEANS
 IN LOAN FIGURES

Atlanta, October 2S.-Incomplete tabulations made today of liberty loan subscriptions in the sixth federal re- serve district were highly satisfac-s tory" to reserve bank officials hera, according to an announcement tonight. The total figures for the district still far from complete, now are believed to have passed the s100,0oO.o 900 mark, with Georgia, it was said. leading the states in the district with subscriptions of nearly $24,O00,O00.
 The standing of some of the prin- cipal cities in the district. based upon reports received late last night by re- se\e bank officials follow:
 Kew Orleans. $12,000.ooo.
 BirSengham, $S,20O,000.
 Atlanta, sS.00o.o00
 Nashville, ST.200.000 M
 Chattanooga. $3.530 ,000.
 Sav.snnah. $3.000.0O0.
 Knoasille. s2,35O.000.
 Montgomery, s1,1oo,0o0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
Fire in New Orleans

New Orleans. october 2S--Fire to-
 night destroyed the three-story plant. of the Klotz Cracker company, limited. on Tchopitoulas street between Girod
 and Lafayette, in the heart of the wholesale and warehouse tlistrict,| causing damage estimated at $loo. According to the ' atchman. the flr1 started neaS heating apparatus on the first floor while he was maki0x his rounds on the second floor. 's,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
Kerensky Again Reported
 Going to the Front

Petrograd. October 2s.-Premier Keren- sky has gone to the front. The newspa- pers today publish note to the effect that the war minister has begun the elab- oration of a scheme fer the reorganization of part of the army on the basis of sepa- rate nationalities. As result of the con- tinuance of disorders. martial law has been proclaimed in many cities and towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29

stroyed all their depots and stores and Cividale was on fire when the Austro- Germans entered it.
 MAY TURN ABOUT
 Possibly the Italians in this region, who are declared by Rome to be retreat ing to prepared positions on the plains, will turn about and meet the enemy Tn open country fighting
 If they do not and the enemy is able to keep up westward the fast pace that has been maintained since the .com- mencement of the operation, the greater part of the Italian forces along the north eastern line will be threatened with cap ture. The situation is so grave that a special meeting of the French cabinet has been held for the purpose of, deciding upon the question of allied cooperation on the Italian front.
 FLANDERS FRONT
 The fighting on the western front in Flanders has died down to some extent except for artillery duels. The British, however, have bettered their positions along the Ypres-Roulers railway in small attacks, while the Belgians and the French have captured several important salients in the region of Dixmude< Along the Aisne front the French are violently bombarding the German positions and 1t is probable that soon again they will de- liver another of their sharp and decisive strokes toward Laon, their objective in the recent fighting. An attack by the Germans near the Froidmont farm was repulsed.
 EASTERN FRONT
 In the Gulf of Riga and in the region of the head of the Gulf of Finland the Germans for several days have remained quiescent, making no endeavor to land additional forces on the mainland, where they met with repulse twice last week. No large infantry actions have taken place along the Russian front. On the contrary, there has been return to the fraternzing between the Rusisans and Germans. which was noticeable some tibe ago on various sectors. Near He uksr and in the region of Krevo such efforts have been noticed. In the former sector scores of Russians who had gone out to meet the enemy on footing of friend ship were dispersed. by the fire of the Russian artillery.
 AIR OPERATIONS
 British airmen daily are flying over points behind the line in Belgium held by the Germans and dropping bombs upon military positions and airdromes. Railway functions have been bombed effectively and explosives have been loosed several times upon the Sparappel- hoek and Engel airdromes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
Total Subscriptions to Liberty Loo ' Is
 Still UncoA4nted
Treasury Department Announces That Amount is "Matter of Speculation Conviction is Gen. eral, However, That Maximum Quota Has Been Reached-All Districts
 Exceed Minimum

Washington, October 2SThe total amount subscribed to the second liberty oa the treasury department announced to- night still "a matter of speculation Several days prob ably will eapse before the full extent of the nations ubscrip tons Is ascertained
 without tonight change in the district Yorks maximum of the much s1,75OO00009
 
 thanto estma f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29

Reserve bank officials and 1ocaI committees. working until aftsk mid- night last night all over ther country. rested today. They have ftill next Thursday to make the complete re- port.
 TOTAL NOT KNOWN
 Returns received at the treasury to- day gave little indication as to tha final result" the department an- nounced tonight. "On the face of re- turns 1t cannot be said whether the sale exceeded s5.oOo, 100000 Conviction is general, however, that 1t probably approximated the maximum total Banks, of course. have made no eff fort to tabulate all their returns and may not do so till the final day for reporting, November 1. Obviously. great changes may be made in the to- tai between now and Thursday.
 ALL DISTRICTS BUY MINIMUM
 Tt seems certain that every district has gone well past it's minimum andR that several will exceed thef x>nas nuns sufficiently to carry the Weaker districts to the high mark in the gem eral total.
 New York, Chicago. Cleveland and San Francisco were showing especial ly strong in the late returns. How far New York will go over its maximum is a matter of conjecture Some think that the excess may reach $250, .00o. Chicago district chairmen have begun to feel that their total may reach the maximum of $700.000,0oo. Heads of other districts rose in- frequently from their avalanche of returns long enough to ask that final Judgment not be passed upon them for few days until all sales have been thoroughly canvassed. "'Every state in our district has exs ceeded it's minimum allotment.' tho Minneapolis district reported. PACIFIC COAST REPORT "At last reports virtually every part of the San Francisco district had passed it's minimum and many had gone beyond their maximum. Mes- sages from the Dallas. Atlanta, St Louis and Richmond districts told of great displays of enthusiasm on the last day of the sale, but added that many reports on final totals were bad- ly delayed.
 Indians have subscribed $3,S66,750, according to latest reports by Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs" Figures received here show that the army has subscribed something over $s2,000,00o. About s50.ooo,000 has been allotted by soldiers to the federal re- serve bank at New York General Per- shing cables that $5.7S4,6U0 has been subscribed by the American expedi- tionary forces in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
NAVAL ENGAGEMENT |OFF BELGIAN COAST
 IS W0NBY THE ALLIES

kondon. october 2s.A German tor pedo~ boat destroyer was hit twice by shells from British and French de- stroyers during an enga cement Satur- day afternoon between six entente al lied and three German vessels and IT German airplanes off the Belgian coast, according to an admiralty state ment issued today The three Germans were forced to seek safety under the land batteries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
COLD WAVE ALONG
 MISSISSIPPI IS DUE
 MONDAY TUESDAY

New Orleans October 2s. Freezing tenn peratures Tuesday in the sugar and trucking regions of Louisiana and east Texas was predicted tonight by Dr. I. M. Cline, district forecaster of the local weather bureau, A cold wave was pre- dicted Monday for Arkansas, Truckers and cane growers were warned to take precautions, especially with seed cane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-29
French Cabinet Meets to
 Discuss Aid to Italians

cabinet met this evening to determine upon CO non President Poncae presided
 estimated in Exchange Telegraph dispatch opposed the front c the AusoGermn tinnes their numbar