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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06

TOLL Of THE PLUMGER.


Paris, June 30-Two French mer-
OF more than 1000 tons and
three OF less than that size were sunk
by submarines or mines in the week
ending June ~, according to the week.
that time there were 1888 arrivals at
French ports and go sailings.
London. June 36.-The Elder-Demp.
eter steamer -Addah, was torpedoed
without warning and sunk by a German
submarine on June Is. The submarine
fired ON the captains boat, killing eight
men.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06

made greater by the shell fire of many
months
The bombardment which preceded the
attack was carried out on a fairly vic
front and was of but slightly less inten-
sity than that which has preceded some
of the greater actions OH the British
fronts.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
ARGENTINA READY
TO END NEUTRALITY
Sinking Of Toro Brings Crisis
Which May Compel Gov
ernment to Act.

Buenos Aires. June 3o-Argentine ap-
pears likely to announce revocation Of
her neutrality between Germany and
the United States within a few hours
The Toro, which was recently SUM by
a sub. has apparently brought the gov
eminent to a crisis.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
OWA RED CROSS FUND
NEAR $1,50O,000 MARI

Des Moines, Ia, June 30.-A. E. Keep
ford and James B. Weaver, state direc-
predicted today that the Iowa DO
nation to the Red Cross will go to at
least $500. 900 and may go $780, 900 be-
You'd that mark.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
BREAKS HUNGER STRIKE.

Council Bluffs, Ia, June 30.-WiImer
err. broke his hunger strike today at
the county jail eating for the first time
Ainoa Monday.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
The Same Trespass.

A farmer, going over his land,
caught an Irishman with his dog tres
passing in a field, and threatened him
with prosecution.
Returning, however, through the
same field an hour later he was sur
prlsed to meet the Irishman in an
other part Of 1t, and exclaimed an
grily:
"Whati Trespassing again?"
mo, no." answered Pat, "t's still
the same trespass. Fair play, sorr!'
A Sight Mistake.
"This punch-his-seems a trifle
weak"
"Go slow, old man. You're dipping
into the goldfish globe"
When you take a habit out for an
airing the habit rides.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
OLD PRIVATE BANK
Closed; ASKS GUARD
Graham q SONS, Carrying
Heavy Deposits Call on
Police for Safety.

Chicago, June 30.-Doors OF the old
private banking firm of Graham &
Sons. which has heavy deposits, were
closed this afternoon. A police guard
Was requested.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
GAIN FOOTING.

Paris, June 30.-Picked German
troops made a heavy attack last night
on the Verdun front near Hill 304 and
Avocourt wood. after especially severe
Smelling. Today's official statement says
the attack was disorganized by the
sharp reply of the French artillery and
that the Germans obtained q footing
at only a few points in the first line.
This morning the Germans made an
other violent effort a of Hill 304. 1t
failed completely.
The Germans were active on the
Aisne front also. All their attacks
were renulsed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
GERMANS REPORT GAIN.

Berlin. June 80. (via London).-Gen
man forces yesterday captured French
positions on both sides of the Malan-
court-Esnes road, on the west bank OF
the Meuse, the Verdun sector, over q
width of 1000 yards and a depth of 500
yards, the war Office announced today.
Today the Germans stormed a 300
yard wide French position in Avocourt
wood. More than $50 prisoners were
taken at both points.
London, June so.-British troops to-
day in an offensive. gained their whole
objective, say a telegram from British
Headquarters in France. The British
captured German forward positions on
a 2,000-yard front south and west OF
Oppy, in the Arras sector.
The official statement says the
British captured prisoners n machine
guns. They also continue to gain ground
south of the Souchez river and have
entered the town OF Avion, about two
miles south of Lens.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
BANK FIGURES FALslFlEp.

London. June 30.-According to q
dispatch to the Times from Amsterdam
German specie from the imperial bank
Of Germany has been received there.
several Dutch banks. The correspond
ent says 1t obviously is a small part Of
the German debt to Holland, chiefly for
.foodstuff, and is the only practicable
method Of preventing further serious
damage to the reputation Of the Ger
man mark.
The morning newspapers comment
on the Significance Of the decrease in
the returns of the Imperial Bank OF
Germany, saying they have been falsi-
fled throughout. They say that al
though returns are admitted the
iact Is that gold has been sent out Of
the country from time to time. The
Times says the real difficulty for Ger
many Is whether the gold she sends
abroad will rel come back.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
Startling Developments, Per-
haps Peace Offers, Expect
ed in Berlin When Reich
stag Meets Next Week.
GOLD SUPPLY DECREASES
Press Muzzle Is Made Tighter
Than Ever-Haig's Job In
dicates a Wider Scale Of
Operations Near Lens.

London, June 3O-Greece's active par
ticipation in the war on the side Of the
entente was imminent this afternoon.
Athens, June 3O.--The Greek govern
ment has broken diplomatic relations
with Germany, Austria Hungary, Bull
garia and Turkey.
clared, the Greek government considers
Ia a state of war exists since its ad-
vent to power yesterday.
Amsterdam, June 30.-Emperor
Charles told representatives of Austria
today that he was striving for peace at
the earliest possible date, according to
a report received this afternoon from
Vienna.
London, June 3O.-Special dispatches
from Rotterdam say it is inferred
there in view Of the gagging Of the
German press that something drastic
has happened OF is about to happen
in Germany. They quote the Frank
eurter Zeitung complaining that it was
compelled to issue its political sec
ton until further notice without an
independent expression of opinion and
say the censorship now far exceeds
anything previous.
The press is declared to be complete
y muzzled. 1t is said the real secret
ST the paper shortage is a govern
nent move to compel newspapers to
print such bare news allowed, exclud-
Ing commentary matter.
The belief is expressed in Holland
that next weeks meeting of the reich
stag may produce startling develop
ments.
GOLD RESERVE FALLS.
Copenhagen. Tune 29.-For the first
time during the war the weekly report
Of the Imperial Bank Of Germany
shows a decrease in it's gold reserve
which this week is 10000. 900 marks be-
low the preceding week. Increments for
;. long time have been steadily decliR-
ing despite earnest propaganda and ap-
peals to surrender jewelry. The bank
by the scantiest Of margins, to avoid
The humiliating acknowledgment that
the growth has paused entirely.
This weeks decrease is attributed
semi officially to heavy purchases
abroad. The increase of the gold re-
serve a long since ceased to keep
pace with the increase in note circu-
lation. The bank several months ago
was compelled to abandon the old legal
basis of gold n silver, covering for
paper circulation and supplemental
metallic covering by reckoning COM
mercial paper to make up the pre-
scribed one-third over.
With h gold supply failing despite
almost efforts federal authorities of
late devoted their chief energies to a
campaign to restrain an increase in
note circulation by promoting the use
of checks and bank transfers instead
of cash.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06

London, June s0-Greece's active par
ticipation in the war on the side OF the
entente was imminent this afternoon.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06

When you take a habit out for an
airing the habit rides.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06
STRUGGLE MORE BITTER.

British Headquarters in France. June
So.-lby the Associated Press)-The
fighting is more intense in the vicinity
of Lens.
The British made a brilliant attack
last night, during a binding rain that
accompanied a thunderstorm on a
number of the southwesterly suburbs Of
the great mining city, including the one
known as AviOn.
All sAe first detectives Of the attack
were gained and the indications are
that the British are still pushing for
waru today.
Men Fight In Wrsckaue.
Yearly. 200 prisoners already have
been collected in the cages and more
captures a-'e reported on the way back
from the fighting front. A number Of
machine gums also are reported taken.
The fighting took place In, and out
among bits Of ruined buildings. collies.
pit dericks and the usual litter and
paraphernalia Of a mining settlement,
only In this ease the tangle had been
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-07-06

Amsterdam, June 30.-Emperor
Charles told representatives of Austria
today that he was striving for peace at
the earliest possible date, according to
a report received this afternoon from
Vienna.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26

piled by the above figures, the prod
ucts added and their sum divided by
100 (the sum of the valuation Of the
crops).
ut shows general tendency toward
declining prices from 1866 10 1896 and
toward advancing prices from 1896 to
tie present time. the general move
ment being retarded or accelerated. ac-
cordlng to the size Of the crops in any
particular year. Crop yields were eX-
irsordinsrily large IN 1915. retarding
the upward trend. and comparatively
small in 1916, accelersting the upward
trend
How Prices Change
"lf the average farm price on De
ccmber | for the fifty years 1866 to
1915 be represented by 100. the figures
representing like prices last December
would be: Wheat. 1873; corn, 203: oats,
1876; barley. l53: rye, 1879; buckwheat,
I7s; potatoes. 272; hay, il5; tobacco.
ls5: cotton, 1872. the average Of tho ten
combined being l7s."
In the same number OF the Monthly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
Miss Rankin Raised Pay
Of NeW Zealand WOnle1
CongessmanElect from Montana Obtained Increase for
Seamstresses Although Not Wearer of Spats or
Specacles-Fond Of Movies She Admitted

the Hon. Miss Rankin credit for raising
the wages of New Zealand seamstresses
ftCm six shillings 10 ten shillings 4
day-a point that could be written into
movie scenario entitled, say, The
American Dressmaker."
A sawmill and a big ranch owned bv
Miss Rankin's father precluded any
possibility she ever would have TO worH
for living. SO when she went 10 New
Zealand last winter she carried letter
of credit more than ample to meet The
expenses of first class travel.
Miss Rankin regarded the letter OF
credit as a drawback, and resolved 10
earn her own living as means of get
ting in closer touch with conditions.
Like most Western girls, she had had
an all round practical training in the
domestic arts. Sewing had been her
forte. and she had no hesitation in de-
scribing herself as a first class "Ameri-
car dressmaker" when she filed her APP
plication with an employment agency in
Auckland.
Miss Rankin's first employer that
time shc was established as Jenny" in
a cooperative home abbreviated as the
Girls Friendly"-wanted some beach
frocks made Five shillings a day was
the offered remuneration.
"But | never worked in America for
less than twelve" said Miss Rankin.
Eight shillings was the compromise
price. A weeks work completed the
beach gowns. Jenny" got her next job
by advertising. There we're plenty OF
people ready to employ an American
modiste who considered her services
worth no less than twelve shillings a
day. and after that Jenny had vaca-
tions only when she chose 10 take them.
Girls Know a Friend
There was some jealousy in the
Girls Friendly" at first. But it
couldn't be denied that Jenny" wasn't
made proud by her success. She even
went so far as to share her ideas and
20 suggest that increased wages could
be had by any sewing girl who hon
estIy thought herself worth more than
five or six shillings a day and asked
FOR it.
Gradually wages went up during
"Jenny's" four months in New Zealand.
She left one day without revealing she
was anything but what she had ap-
Auckland heard no more of Jenny"
until last fall. Then there came a
batch OF letters to the residents OF
the Girls Friendly" in which were
inclosed the campaign cards OF the
Hon. Jeanette Rankin.
"Your American dressmaker,' the
letters announced, "has been elected.
She will be the first woman to sit in
the United States Congress-
The Hon. Miss Rankin treasures the
ronlv from one of her closest New Zea-
land friends:
Three cheers for you and for us!
We're getting ten shillings day now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26

tition, as announced By the executive
committee, were:
George Adrian. real estate operator
and director in .he German Exchange
Bank; Joseph V. Gallagher, treasurer
o. the National Conduit and Cable
Company; Arthur Kennedy, Of p. j. Ken
edy, publisher of Catholic publications.;
james McHugh, of Joseph p. Ntzhugh,
& Son. wicker furniture manufactur-
ers; Frank Mccoy. treasurer of the
Columbia Oil Company OF New York;
Charles Milgrim, ladies' suit manu-
facturer; Ramsey Peuguet, secretary Of
the Silk Association of America; Sam
uel Rosenberg. OF Stein. Doblin e. Co.,
lace manufacturers; Albert Tilt. presi-
dent Of the Phoenix Silk Company;
Thomas Walker, of William Walker &
Sons; James Flynn. general manager Of
the Valentine Nsrnish Company;
Thomas Conner. general manager Of A.
|. Namm, the Brooklyn department
store; Charles Fitzsimmons. secretary
of the National Aniline and Chemical
Company; James +. Freel, OF the
Brooklyn Candy Company.
Christopher Cunningham. a boiler
manufacturer. of Newtown Greek; Cor
neIius A. Mcclure. of the William V.
Burroughs Brick Company; William H.
Strang. a storage warehouse owner;
John ". McGrath, marine supernten-
dent OF the Cuban-American Steamship
Company; Thomas Quinn, president
of the Bronx National Bank; George
Rcinhard, Bronx grain dealer; George
+. Frost, manager Of all branches of
the Corn Exchange Bank; John W.
Brown. general sales manager of Austin
Nichols & Co.; John Adikes, produce
dealer, of Queens; Carl Berger, Ridge
wood banker; Alfred NJ. Barrett. for
merly treasurer of the Catholic Club;
Harry Kleinert, Of the Kleinert Rub
Der Company; John w. Rapp, president
of the Art Metal Company, of College
Point; Paul Sohmer. of the Sohmer
Piano Company; Samuel 3. Serena, of
the Long Island Railroad. and John W.
Wainwright, Rockaway Beach real
estate operator,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
Lodges Armed
Ship Plea "Flubdub,"
Malone Asserts
Senator Is Called desperately
Pro-Ally' in Speech at West
Side Y. NJ. {. A.

Senator Lodge, who on Saturday
made an urgent plea in the Senate Tor
the arming of American merchant yes
sells and for the sending of battle
ship to bring Ambassador Gerard
safely home, was characterized yester-
dav as "a so-called statesman, des-
perately Dro-Aily," by Dudley Field
Malone. Collector of the Port Of New
York. Mr. Malone, who spoke at the
West Side Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION. ;ook fling at "pseudo-Amer-
leans" and "old Aubdubs in the Senate"
who are criticislng President wilson's
policy.
"The pseudo Americans. he said,
ARE the patriotic window decorators,
the people who ape the society of Lon
don and Paris, sitting around clubs
criticising their country while their
wives make bandages. The old fub-
dubs in the Senate are those who seek
TO dignity the Senate when they should
be getting down TO work."
He classified "some editors in the
City of New York" as among the win
dow decorators" who are urging the
country to go TO war. but who would
go no nearer war themselves than TO
the windows to watch the soldiers
march by.
America" he said, has 20,OOO,OOO
critics of President Wilson's foreign
policy, 100000 of whom are men who
are not earning s25 a week for the sup
port of their families"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
May Sell Food
AT Cost to Poor
Of Philadelphia
Officials TO Push Bill Authorizing
City to Fight High Cost
of Living

Philadelphia, Feb. 25.-A bill de-
Sgned TO relieve the suffering among
Tie poor in this city caused by the high
priee Of food will be introduced in the
legislature al Harrisburg tomorrow
aight, and efforts will be made 70 rush
ia passage. The measure, which is the
ou'eone Of telegrsphic correspondence
between Mayor Smith. who is in Flori-
ca, and Director Wilson of the Depart
laasnt Of Public Safety, would permit
ne city 20 purchase foodstufs and sell
lhsn a. cost 70 its citizens.
Il reads IN part: From and after
ne passage Of this bill IL shall be law
iei for councils Of cities OF the first
csss 70 authorize the purchase Of food
products 70 be afterward sold 70 resi-
cents Of said cities at cost, the pro-
hours
setds Of such sale TO be disposed Of in
wen manner as said councils may di-
rect"
City officials to-day received a tele-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
Police Find Former $4,000
Man Working as Bus
for So a Week
PRISONER VANISHED;
$4,000 WAS MISSING
Robert Carter Asserts He
Had Only Sl2 When He
Left New York

Albany, Feb. 2j.-Robert Carter, who
until month ago was drawing $4,000
a year as traffic manager of the Mid
vale Steel Company. was arrested here
to-day on charge of embezzling
$4,000. He has been employed for the
last few weeks as a bus boy in res
taurant at s. a week.
When Carter disappeared from the
New York Office Of the company. at 1865
Broadway. early in January, it was dis
covered that his books showed short
sge. Since then the police and de-
teotives Of the National Surety Com
pany, by whom he was bonded, have
been searching for him all over the
country.
Detective Hawkes., of the New York
police, and Detective Riley. of the
surety company, found him in a cheap
lodging house on Columbia Street.
Beyond saying that the amount he is
accused of taking was greatly eX-
aggerated, he made no comment when
arrested. Those VINO knew the fault
lessly dressed officer Of the steel COM
pany would not have recognized the
thin. grimy figure that the police ar
rested.
Carter refused to talk about the
shortage. but talked Willingly enough
of his drop from wealth to poverty.
when left New York." he is quilted
as saying, 81 had only sl2. | didn't
know whether it was best to stay and
take my medicine or try to get away.
| caught n night train to Albany, with
out telling either my wife or my two
children goodby.
II couldn't get a regular job for a
long time. Then I got work as bus
boy. | was hoping that ! could get a
job as a waiter in time and be able TO
send something to my wife and chill
dren once in while
When told that he was accused of
having two wives. the man said stifFly
that he did not choose to discuss his
family affairs. He refused to say
where he had lived in New York. Be
fore going to the Midvale Steel Com
pany, he said that he had been traffic
manager for wholesale fruit COM
pany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
BOSTON CALLS ON WILSON
TO ARM MERCHANT SHIPS

Boston, Feb. 25.-President Wilson
is called upon 20 "arm our merchant
ships now and employ the strength Of
our navy to protect them in their legal
rights" in a petition signed by long
list Of prominent educators, business
men and others, which was sent to
Washington tonight. The petition
asserts chat our ports are blockaded
and that our defenceless ships can no
longer sail with safety"
The signers include President II. c.
Bumpus Of Tufts College, William Ros-
coe Thayer, an overseer Of Harvard
University; Professor II. L. Warren,
dean Of the faculty Of the School OF
Architecture at Harvard; former State
Senator w. A. l.. Bazeley, Of Tx
bridge; Albert Green Duncan, former
president Of the National Association
of Cotton Manufacturers; DR.. Morton
Prince and Professor Lionel Marks. of
the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
noloRy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-26
Declare War Now,
Hibben Demands;
Calls u. S. Tickle
Princeton President Says Nation
Must Defend Right as
Solemn Obligation

DR.. John Grier Hibben, who succeed
ed President Wilson as head Of Prince
ton University, characterized the
United States last night in an address
at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn. as a tickle nation
without an international conscience,
and demanded its entry into the war
forthwith to defend the right The
obligation to defend what was right, he
explained, was an obligation no less
binding than that to preserve peace.
"The trouble is we have not the first
vestige of an international conscience
he said. ave forget. We are aroused
to enthusiasm for little while, but
we have not the gift TO continue 1t.
Compare the state of mind OF the coun-
try at the time of the sinking Of the
Lusitania with that of to-day. do
not know what others think, but |
think Count Won Bernstorff should
have been sent home the very day after
that happened.
"But in the end we dismissed the
German Ambassador, and we stand
ready to-day to go to war with Ger
many, yet we are not prepared as
nation to go to war with any country
European or Asiatic, excepting perhaps
China. And why are we so brave now?
Let us be frank. There is only one
reason why we are brave. We are
brave because we know that the great
British feet stands between US and at
tack at the present time.
"Let US 20 thoroughly into this
question and ask ourselves what do we
believe. II we believe that the iron
rule of a world empire is threatening
Europe, and even America, and that
the whole civilization of Europe is
hanging in the balance, should not we
of America have part in the war
and not wait until we are forced into
it? If we believe that the Allies are
fighting for a righteous cause. the
cause of justice and the old decencies
and humanities. why should we not
have a part and lot with them?
al believe that is the solemn obli-
cation resting upon us-and that we
should be driven into the war TO de
fend our commerce"