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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
German Efforts To Loosen
Haig's Hold Result in De-
feat and Further Ad-
vance by Britons; Ger
mans Kill Countrymen.
RUSSIANS ASSUME
OFFENSIVE AGAIN
rA...ociateta Press summaxy.l

IAssociatea Press Sunmaxy.J
Heavy cannonading was again IN
progress last night on the Flanders
battle front northeast Of Ypres. but
the infantry had relief from tho re-
cent hard lighting.
The last German reaction was not
encouraging enough, apparently, 70
warrant a speedy repetition, az Field
Marshal Haig, in his dispatches last
night reported that when the Ger
mans assaulted the British lines
northeast Of Langemarck yesterday
they not only were repulsed but lost
ground in q British counter drive.
NEW BATTLE iMPENDS.
Signs OF possibly important activity
impeding are appearing in other sec.
tfons of the British front, notably In
fine Arras region near the Scarpe and
IN the vicinity Of Lens, which city Is
still being closely pressed by the
Canadians. Considerable artillery
activity is announced from these Sec
tors
The artillery on both sides Is also
notably busy on the French front IN
the Verdun region. Last night its
activity reached the stage OF intense
violence north Of the fortress in the
Posses and Chaumes wood regions,
Paris reports.
RUSSIANS "coME BACK"
Although suffering heavy reverse
IN the recent German operation in the
Jacobstadt region, the Russians on the
Riga -Dvinsk front are showing recu-
perative power and today gained q
substantial victory in the sector south
r OF the .Riga-Psko6 road.
The Russian forces captured tho
German positions they attacked, re
esseH after hard strnsgle.
The German losses were more than
400 In killed and the Russians took .
number OF prisoners and ten machine
guns.
sLAvs DEFEND DviNek.
The object OF the Russian command
IN initiating this attack and others not
IN the similar operations recently
reported from this front may be the
rectification OF the line east Of the
| Dyina at points where 1t is now weak.
The need Of strengthening It where
possible is suggested by the assump-
tion on the part Of some Russian mill
3 tary critics that It is the aim Of the
Germans to push along the Dvina to-
ward the southeast for the reduction
Of Dvinsk. the keystone Of the Rus.
elan line on the northern front
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
alo Guns IN DUEL.

Paris, Sept. 24.-NQrth Of vsrdun
and In the region of Fosses end
Chaumes woods. the artillery duel
was intensely violent last night, the
French ONCE announced this after.
noon.
camp Of German prisoners near Bar.
le-Duc and two prisoners were killed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
vIReINlAN U.soAT VICTIM.

Halifax, N. g.. Sept. 24.-The British
,steamship virginian, 6.S27 tons. for.
merly an Allan liner In Transatlantic
passenger trade, is said to have been
one Of the victims OF the massed at
tack by German submarines on con-
voyed fleet Of British merchant vessels
off the Irish coast early this month
Persons arriving at an American port
ON Saturday brought word OF this
attack. their statements setting forth
that five merchantmen and two con-
voying destroyess were sunk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
SIGNAL CORPS
GOES TUESDAY

Orders received by the Rock Island
this afternoon definitely fix the time
OF the departure Of the G Company,
Outpost Signal Corps for Deming, N.
M. Captain Dan Steck's men leave
ON No. 20 at 1915 a. m. Tuesday for
Deming going direct from Eldon
where they have been quartered since
July 10. :.
A baggage car and two coaches Will
lbe used to transport the men and
their baggage. They go over the
Rock Island to El Paso. Tex. and
thence by the Southern Pacific to
Deming. The equipment that was
not furnished the men in Eldon will
be supplied at Camp Cody.
BAND GOES TOMORROW.
Twenty-eight Ottumwans are among
the Iowa cavalrymen who have been
ordered to leave Camp Abbott at
Grinnell for Deming, New Mexico. to-
morrow.
The local troopers, who left here
August Is, together with Troops B. G.
and %, Iowa Cavalry, will entrain for
the south at four o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
LOADING CARS TODAY.
A train Of twenty-one cars will be
used to transport the men. The ma
forty Of these are being loaded today.
The last ones. tho kitchen cars. will
be filed Immediately after mess to.
morrow noon.
The troopers will travel In day
coaches to Des Moines where they
will get their sleepers. The Rock
Island route, over the Allerton short
line will be followed through Kansas
CITY to Ei Paso and thence over the
Southern Pacific to Camp Cody, near
Deming.
ORDERS COME QUICKLY.
While movement orders have been
expected for sometime definite word
was not received at Grinnell until
late Saturday night.
A number Of the Ottumwa handmen
we're home over the week end They
all returned yesterday evening or
this morning.
OTHER UNITS GET ORDERS.
Des Moines, Sept. 24.-Four units Of
the Iowa national guard received or
ders from the war department today to
depart for the guard training camp at
Deming, N. NJ, as follows:
First infantry which has been doing
guard duty at Camp Dodge, entrains
next Thursday.
,, Company c Of Des Moines, Iowa en-
gineers, departs tomorrow.
Ammunition train company encamp-
ed at fair grounds here. leaves tomor-
row.
Battery F. Des Moines, probably
leaves tomorrow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
GERMANS CAPTURE STORES.

Berlin, Sept. 24.-General Won
Ludendorff announces in the oflicial
German statement issued today that
Sich quantities OF provisions. includ.
lng bread and nour, fell into the hands
OF the Teutons when they captured
Ahe Russian town Of Jacobstadt on
the Dvina river last week
The statement says that the British
troops made no fresh attacks yester
day on the Flanders front.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
RUSSIANS RoUr GERMANS.

Petrograd, Sept ~. - Russian
forces on the Riga front In the region
south of the Pskoff hishroad. yester
day took the offensive and after a
fierce struggle occupied the German
positions In the sector Of Silseme. the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
BY GEORGE r. BYE.

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WORKERS, WAGES INCREASED.

Johnstown, Pa, Sept. 24.-15.000
steel workers. employees OF the Cam
bria Steel company and the Lorraine
Steel company here today were noti.
fed that effective october I. their
wages would be increased 10 per cent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
LABOR IN INFERNO
OF HEAT AND CRIME

1.-THE Courier has completed ar
rangements for special and ex-
elusive correspondence from Lon
don and other European capitals.
and presents the first article here
xHjfh I 100
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
IN DEFENSE OF MR.. HOOVER.
Myers Tells What He Has Done and Will
Do.

Washington, July lS.-Before consid.
Grafton of amendments to the food con-
troll bill began yesterday in the Senate,
Senator Myers spoke in defense of Her
bert c. Hoover, answering attacks made
Monday by Senator Reed.
The Montana senator declared that
Mr.. Hoover was called by his country to
take charge of the food situation be-
cause of his wide experience.
He warmly praised the food admins
TRAITOR for his Belgian relief work and
his ability as a business man.
"Mr. Hoover has been advising the
country against waste, and for that be
has been sssailed as committing a mon
strous crime" said Senator Myers.
He has been giving advice in plain,
homely language. Is he to be derided
and held up to scorn for it!
IF we don't adopt some legislation of
this kind we will be the only nation at
war without it."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
Reichstag Insists That Mi
chaelis Adopt Majority
Plan for Reforms
AWAIT SPEECH OF
NEW CHANCELLOR
The German People Reserve
Judgment on the Change
in the Government

Amsterdam, July lS.--The conference
which Chancellor Michaelis, Field Mar
shall Hindenburg, Gen. Ludendorf am
other military chiefs have been holding
with leaders of the Reichstag msjorit!
are said in dispatches from Berlin yes
terday TO have been "unfruitful'
The Reichstag leaders, IL is declared
adhere to their insistence on a pledge
of mo annexstions' in Germany's wal
aims.
If this demand is not granted, Chan
cellor Mchaelis will be informed, the
Reichstag will continue on strike.
According 10 arrangement announced
yesterday the chancellor will address the
Reichstag at p. m. on Thursday. Al
though many rumors are in circulation
there has been no other cabinet appoint
ment as yet.
The Berliner Tageblatt reports that
Count Won Roerdon OF the German
finance committee is to replace Dr. Karl
Helffrich as secretary of the interior.
Pan Herman propagandists are dis
tributing pamphlets through the army
for the purpose of enlightening the sol
diers on the necessity for both annexa-
tions and indemnities. The principal
pamphlet is entitled "Germany's Future
Under a Good and Bad Peace" Accord
ing to the Tageblatt, the propaganda is
an attempt to demonstrate the advan
tages of German peace" over
"Scheidemann peace"
The Cologne Volkszeitung has flooded
the ranks with brochures called "A Hin
denburg Peace" Some 5000 of ito read
ers are said to have indorsed its views.
There is bitter opposition, however,
to this attempt TO ensnare the army
into politics. The Cologne Gazette says
it is an endeavor to create a special
or national plebiscite in favor OF Pan
German peace
The Socialists are quick to seize adj
vantage of the situation TO urge the
merits Of their own variety of peace.
The Muenchener Post declared its pur-
pose to organize field plebiscite in fa
,or of IAN immediate peace The Rhein-
sche Zeitung adds Perhaps the Pan
ierman organ Cologne Volkszeitung),
uite involuntarily, has opened the way
or the formation OF workmen's and
oldiers' council after the Russian mod
l." Other journals demand that mill
airy authorities take measures to stop
olitieal activity in the field. "The sol
ier's duty" says the Cologne Gazette,
is to enforce peace, not to discuss its
erms."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
FIGHTING FOR HAPPINESS

When you get into frame Of mind
that makes life seem one tiresome
duty after another, with no pleasure
In 1t; when Ill health seems 10 take all
the Joy out Of life and you worry over
things that are really not worth worry.
Ing about, then your nervous system
Is becoming exhausted and you are
approaching neurasthenia.
Your happiness Is worth fighting for
and red blood Is your best ally. 1t Is
a hopeless task TO try 10 restore your
health while your blood Is deficient In
quantity or quality.
To build up the blood there Is one
remedy that has been n household
word for a generation, DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People. They tone
up the entire system, make the blood
rich and red, strengthen the nerves,
increase the appetite, put color In the
cheeks and lips and drive away that
unnatural tired feeling.
The DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y, has published a
free book on nervous disorders that
contains a chapter on neurasthenia, in
which the symptoms are fully describ-
ed and the correct treatment given.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
your own druggist or will be sent by
mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 90
cents per box, six boxes for $3.50.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
SIXTY DAYS FOR
SUFFRAGE PICKETS
Sixteen Prefer Serving Workhouse SEN
tence to Paying Fines in
Washington.

Washington, July ls.-The sixteen
members of the woman's party arrested
Saturday in an attempt to picket" the
White House, were sentenced yesterday
to pay fine OF $25 or serve sixty days
in the District OF Columbia workhouse
at Occoquan, Va. They decided to take
the sixty days sentence An appeal will
be taken. Heretofore the suffrsgists
have gotten off with three days Jail
sentences.
Dudley Field Malone, collector of GUS
toms at New York, who saw the arrests
Saturday and was a witness in behalf
of the women, will act as their counsel.
1t was reported that Mr. Malone would
resign his post at New York to take
charge of the work. Mr. Malone would
not discuss the report.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
Compromise Amendments to
the Measure Are Vir-
tually Concluded
COMMAND SUPPORT
OF THE MAJORITY
The Chief Proposed Change
Would Give Control to
Board of Three

Washington, d. C., July ls.-Senate
leaders yesterday virtually concluded
their task Of drafting compromise
amendments to the administration food
control bill, and debate was continued
with the prospect of voting to-day.
The compromise agreements, the Dem.
ocrats ami Republicans who have been
working together believe, will command
support from a majority of the Senate.
Creation of board Of food admins.
tration in lieu of single individual
composed of three members directly UNI
der the presidents control, is the princ-
pal change to be proposed by the leaders.
Other important changes agreed upon
yesterday at the bipartisan conference
were for fixing by Congress of mini
mum price of sl.75 per bushel for wheat
and extension of the government licens.
ing and food purchasing powers in the
bill. 1t previously had been agreed to
limit government control to foods, feeds
and fuels, including gasoline and kero-
sene.
The minimum wheat price of sl.75,
under the tentative amendment drafted |
yesterday, would be for northern wheat
as basis or standard for minimum
prices of all other wheat grades.
Provisions of Senator Cores substitute
bill regarding the wheat minimum price,
the licensing and federal requisitioning,
purchase and sale powers were substan.
tally approved by the leaders.
The proposed compromises would pro
,ide for licensing of elevators, cold stor.
Ige plants, packing houses, coal mines
md factories; limited however, to prod
lcts and agencies entering interstate or
oreign commerce.
The conference also approved Senator
iore's proposal for government comman
eering, purchase lease or operation of
oal mines, and also his provision for
government purchase and sale, TO secure
easonable prices, of fuel, wheat, -four
neal, beans and potatoes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
HARD CAMPAIGNS
IN MESOPOTAMIA
AND PALESTINE
British Soldiers Write Home About the
Discomforts of the Expeditions
Under Generals Murray and
Maude

Melbourne, Australia, July ls.-Cor-
respondence) -Hardships and discomforts
OF the British campaigns in Palestine
and Mesopotsmia are the themes OF
many letters written by Australian sol
diers serving under the commands of
Generals Sir Archibald Murray in Pales-
tine or Major General Maude in Mesopo.
tamia.
III you want to see a muddle you
ought TO see camel convoy under shell
fire. writes one man from the vicinity
of GAIA in southern Palestine. THE ma
tives who lead the csmels run away at
the first shot and then the white men
try to induce, by all the profanity they
can muster, those camels to hurry out
of range or under the cover of hill.
All the time good lives are being lost
trying to save the convoy which per-
haps has the water supply for thousands
of men in the firing line
Dust, heat and flies are the three
worst plaques of Mesopotamia from the
soldiers standpoint, writes one OF the.
privates who suffered from them TO
you" he adds, "the flies would be quite
inconceivable. They settle in great clus.
tiers on everything Some Of them can
sting and bite severely With the com
ing of nightfall the ordinary flies dis
appear and the mosquitoes and ssnd-flies
take their places. The sandhy is an
plague. You have to wear a
very fine suffocating mesh on your face |
and at night you must spray thin acid |
over your face to get any peace. The |
goes up from ITO to l42 de- |
grees in the shade. The mornings work
being done you lie in your tent with the
Zap up, You almost gasp for breath.
Anxiously you wait the going down OF
he sun. You wear toupee or wet
lowell on your head. One very rarely
wears clothing and you lead the simple
life. The heat takes all pride from you.
You're just bathed in dust and sweat
You can get sunstroke through the
mall of your back. The hot wind, bad
Is it is, is better than the complete still
less although it bounces off the earth
linging sand and dust all over you. You
at sand and breathe it; you lie down in
t; it's in your mouth, eyes, ears and
lothes. These things leave Mesopota-
MIA burnt into your memory forever"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
GIRL, BACK HOME,
WON'T TELL STORY
Fourteen Year-0ld Woodsville Lass OBJ
durate in Face of Cues
tioning.

Woodsvlle, n. H., July lS.--At . O'Clock
yesterday morning, i4-yearold Hazel E.
Gallant, the girl who disappeared several
days ago and for whom a large posse
searched the country for miles, stepped
from the Montreal express here and re-
turned to her home. Her parents and
the authorities are subjecting her to sharp
questioning, trying to learn where she
has been and with whom.
When Miss Gallant left home it was
thought she went attired only in a night
gown. Her parents believed that she
left the house while walking in her sleep
Enlisting hundreds of the townspeople in
searching party, they covered every
bog and meadow, seeking the missing
girl, whom they thought they would find
either exhausted or dead After the
search had gone on two days, it was
learned that Miss Gallant had secretly
purchased whole new outfit of clothes a
week before her disappearance. Then
the hunt shifted to other towns and
cities where it was reported she had been
seen. 1t was learned that at 2:30 o'clock
on the morning she disappeared she was
seen boarding the Canadian Pacific ex-
press. Next she was reported in Man
chester, and the police of that city insti.
tuted vigorous earch for her.
Miss Gallant refuses to explain her
absence.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18

sold for as much as the original milk,
while the skim milk, which contains
about half of the food material, is fed
to animals or thrown away. Mr.. Perkins
has shown that in fact cream is lux
ury and that milk is much cheaper and
more nutritious. Digestive disorders
sometimes follow excessive eating of
fats, which is another argument besides
cost against the substitution OF cream
for milk
Protein is the most expensive ingredi-
ent in foods, being especially costly in
meats. 1t is exceptionally abundant in
milk. For this reason milk is said to be
a suitable food to balance a diet rich in
starches, sugars and fat, such as would
result from the use of only cereals, fruits
and vegetables. At ordinary prices Mr..
Perkins has figured that skim milk at
Zoe quart would be more economical
food than meat.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
Using Milk Is Practicing Economy.

The high cost of living may be reduced
by the increased use of milk, a highly
nutritious and digestible food. This is
the opinion of A. Z. Perkins, dairy chem
ist at the Ohio experiment station. He
says that quart of milk is equal in
food value to three fourths of pound
of beefsteak, eight eggs, Is pounds of
oysters, two pounds of fish, six pounds
of tomatoes or three pounds of apples,
and the milk is more easily digested
and far more economical than any of
the other foods.
One erroneous conception the public
has. this chemist insists. is that cream
contains in concentrated form most of
the valuable food material present in the
milk from which the cream was taken.
Because Of this fact the cream is usually
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
HE MAY PROTEST.
Mccall Doubts Estimated Massachusetts,
Population of 100000.

Boston, July ls.-Governor Mccall an
nounced yesterday that he was contem-
plating protest against the estimate of
100000 as the present population of
Massachusetts, which has been accepted
for use in apportioning the draft. Ac-
cordingly, he said, Charles F. Gettemy,
director of statistics. has been asked to
give him all available data on the sub
ject.
The census Of 1915 showed the states
population TO be 100000 and Governor
Mccall said that with immigration vir.
tually stopped since that time an in.
crease Of 100000 persons in two years
was apparently excessive.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
WORLD CHAMPION IN ARMY.
G. Finlsy, Australian Swimmer, in the
British Service.

Sydney, Australia, July ls.-News was
received here lately that G. Finlay Of
West Australia, the breast stroke cham
pion Of the world. received = commission
some months ago and i attached 70 a
camel oorP@ Of the British army in
Egypt. Finlay already has taken part
in the campaign in Palestine. lie left
Australia private In 1910 Fiulay wen
the kings cup, one 81 the most coveted
of Euglish trophies foT sll-zr0und swim-
ming
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
PROPOSE VICE DISTRICT.
For Mexico City District-Place to Have
Gambling Houses Also.

Mexico City, July ls.-Col. Gonzales de
la Mata, chief of police, has submitted
to the governor of the federal district
and the president of the municipality
project for the establishment in Mexico
of restricted district. In addition to
the regulation of the social evil, Col. de
la Msta proposes also to include gamb-
ling houses in the district.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
/. W. W. CAN'T RETURN.
Bisbee VIII Have Them No More-Mines
Soon to Be in Full Operation.

Bisbee, Ariz-, July ls-Attempts Of
dsported Industrial Workers Of the
World to return 70 the Warren district
have met with refusal by citizens who
last week rounded up 1900 members Of
the organization and sent them out Of
the state Several Of the dsportsd who
got BY the guards surrounding the dis
trict were gathered up and ordered to
leave More men reported fer work
Monday a. every shaft IN the Warren
territory. Employment otioes reported
that they uere besiesed for jobs aud
mining company oficisis expect soon to
have fun forces al work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
GERMAN STUDENT CASUALTIES.
Out of $4,000 Called to Colors, 5000 Are
Reported Killed.

Copenhagen, July ls.-Of total of
$4,000 German university students called
to the colors up to the conclusion of the
last fall and winter semester, 5000 have
been reported as killed, according to adj
vices received here from Berlin.
Berlin university was represented in
Germany's fighting ranks by 5,2s5 men,
of whom 500 are dead. Bonn university
supplied 3,647, of whom 1854 are killed.
The figures for some other universities
follow:
Heidelberg, l,649 called up, $50 killed;
5,255 called up, 10 per cent
killed; Leipzig, 300 called up, 664
killed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18

no effect, and Stood the pain for twelve
months. Then used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment, and found relief after twenty
four hours. and two cakes Of Cuticurs
Soap and one box Of Ointment healed
me lSignedl Maurice Levinsky, 7eo
Pembroke St. Bridgeport, Conn
Cuficurs Soap and Ointment are not
only wonderful healers but wonderful
preventives Of skin and scalp troubles
Il used exclusively. The Soap, for
daily use in the toilet. cleznses and pun
feS the Ointment sooihes and heals.
For Free Sample Each by Return
Mail address postcard. ssCuticura.
Dept. r, Boston-" Sold everywhere.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-18
NEUTRALS LIKE U. S. DOLLAR.
Swiss and Dutch Rate 1t Far Above Ger
many's Mark

Washington, July ls.-If the Swiss
and Holland money exchange rates are
indicative of chances of victory the Unit
ed States will certainly win. Treasury
department figures yesterday showed
German marks now quoted at less than
90 per cent of par, while the American
dollar is quoted at LOT.