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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1917-06-29


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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1917-06-29

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15

since President wilson's democratic Ger
many appeals were showered over the Ger
man lines from Allied airplanes.
Those surrendering do so with the un-
derstanding that they are to be treated, not
as enemy prisoners. but permitted to work
for a German republic.
The advocates Of a republic OF Ger
many" said a report to the American
Government "who are conducting a brill
liant campaign from the security Of neu-
trail neighbor state. are distributing among
German homes and through the German
armies this important information.
let Republic be your password
ITO the comrades on the west front:
We have secured the issue of the following
general order to the French army, Who
ever surrenders himself and gives the pass
word republic will not be treated as an
enemy prisoner of war. If he desires he
will be permitted to work with us and with
our countrymen in the same cause for the
freedom Of Germany
According to semiofiicial source today
hundreds of German troops have accepted
this invitation. They go over to the French
side in twos and three.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
ORDER OF $25O,OOO,OOO
IS PLACED FOR SHELLS
Millions More Are Needed, but
Limits of Capacity Have
Been Reached
NEW YORK, Nov. -.

Total inquiry for projectiles for 75-mll-
limeter guns, part of the Government 5O,-
900, 900 shell program, was 33,OOOOOO, or
which %, 100000 were TO he for field pieces
and 100000 for antarcraft guns BE
cause of lack Of capacity only about two
thirds of the business could be placed now
and part of this. about 100000 shells, was
awarded to Canadian companies.
Some of the contracts were let at agreed
prices, while on others payment Will be
made on a cost and percentage basis The
total involved In the orders placed is eStl-
mated at Il minimum of S25o,OOOOOO.
Concerns sharing on the order are pledged
to the utmost secrecy, and II Is impossible
at this time to give details Of thu distribu-
tion. But it can be stated that the to'
lowing companies were among those that
received large orders: American can Com
pany, r II. Symington Company, New YORK
Air Brake Company. American car ana
Foundry Company and Worthington Pump
and Machinery Company. General Electric
Company. it Is understood, also received a
suhetantial contract.
The War Department Is bending every
effort TO increase productive capacity and
II is likely that other and possibly larger,
orders will be placed in few months.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15

This condition. however. will only be tenn,
porary as the first contingent OF the second
40 per cent of rockies will begin 70 arrive
next week and before the end OF the weeS
there will be 5000 new men In the camp
The men here are learning the customs
insignia and other distinguishing charac-
teristics of the French army. Tnere are
five officers and six noncoms from the
French army detailed here and their horizon
blue uniforms give a picturesque toucn 10
the mass of olive drab khaki. The ROCKIES
here have been confused as to the RANK Oh
these men and as to the military courtesies
due them. The natty blue uniforms ana
the sodierly bearing of the Frenchmen are
In themselves sufficient to arouse the ad.
miration and envy of the rockies mere. but
added to this Is the fact that every man
seems to have "a little bit different UNIFORM
from his brother. Virtually all OF THESE
men have won medals for bravery ana
either wear their ribbons or the medals
themselves Every man wears on MS lett
sleeve chevrons which indicate length or
service.
BY the time the rockies have learned to
tell the rank of the French officers the Eng
lIsh and Canadian officers viii be here and
will add another completing element in the
mass of military etiquette that they VIII
have to know.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
HOOVERlSM IMPRESSED
ON ROCKIES AT DIX
War Department and Food Ad.
ministration Urge Conserva-
ton in Camps
MUST CLEAN PLATTERS
Cantonment Greatly Impressed With
Bearing and Appearance of
French Teachers

CAMP DIX, Wrightstown. y. j., Nov. 10.
Hooverism and yet more Hooverism IS
the order which has reached Camp Dix
from Washington. The War Department
and the food administration have become
concerned over the was;aBc In the food
that is going on in the various CantonmentS
Whether this alarm Is based real facts
or only the potential possibilities of vast
age in these camps. where the amount of
foodstuffs handled in day is staggering
is not divulged in the order. The messcs
here are run under the regular army system,
a system developed through decades of ox-
perience of service, and to the outsider n [
least it seems to he the last degree of
efficiency and utilization.
But there Is a great chance Of saving
and eConomizinE in food wastaEc, officers
here point out and that is not covered i'm
any system or regulation. That is the
"clean plate policy, which depends for its
success ON the corporation or every man
in the camp. officers have diuncd this
into their men ever since the first draftcc
arrived here But rookie who has been
drilling for four or five hours can not be
relied upon 70 accurately gauge the exact
quantity of food he can stow away at one
sitting.
Camp Dix "outhts" at present look as If
cyclone or Hun raiding party had caught
them unawareS. Every infantry company
has been reduced to remnants by the
exodus of 5000 mon who have gone south
to join other National Army divisions. This
movement is now almost completed and its
effect was staggering last evening when
the men lined up for retreat and i'll place of
the companies of 250 that used 10 form Tor
this ceremony many companies We're only
able TO assemble a scant fifty or sixty men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
WOMEN FRUSTRATE EFFORT
TO BLOW UP TENEMENT
Thwart Supposed Black Hand Plot in
New York by Putting Water.
on Bombs

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.--Two women who
were not afraid 10 handle dynamite bombs
early today frustrated an attempt to blow
mn a tenement building in which were
housed sixteen families. Two bombs placed
on different floors in the building We're dis
covered with their fuses burning
one of them was found by Mrs. BEN
jamin Newman and she threw it into her
kitchen sink and turned the water on it. a
small part Of the bomb exploded, destroying
the sink but no one was injured.
The other bomb was found by Mrs
(ialenti NonaVeso She carried pail Of
water out to the hall and threw it on the
burning fuse, eXtinguishing II.
Police believe that Black Hand operatives
sought revenge upon some one living i'm the
building.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
UEIlv WILL RETAIN
LITTLE PENN POST
General Plans to Return
After Six Weeks Trip
to France
NEWS PLEASES HIS MEN
Surgeons Succeed in Their Eff
y forts to Prevent Spread of
Measles-Danger Past
CAMP MEADE, Admiral, Md. Nov. 10.

CAMP MEADE, Admiral, Md. Nov. 10.
Stories to the effect that Major Geherai
Joseph II. Kuhn had completed plans 10
reiinquish command of the Scventy-nintn
division and join the Pershing expedi-
tion In France were set at rest today when
Il became known that The skipper at
Little Penn will remain on the job.
He intends to go to France some time
during the present month, and VIII remain
IN the war zones for period of six weeks.
During that time he will learn the latest
Wrinkles In warfare and then return 10
his happy family in the Maryland mus.
During his absence Brigadier General
Nicholson commander Of the 157th Brigade
will be in command Of the division That
General Kuhn is to retain command oil
Pennsylvania's citizen soldiers Is welcome
news 10 the men who are in training. II
any man has endeared himself to the boys
II is the joval and painsthking General
Although a strict disciplinaran, he is al
ways concerned in the welfare and happi-
ness of the enlisted men, and this trait
has won the affection OF the men who VIII
follow him to France.
Announcement was made at division
headquarters that the surgeons have been
successful in their fight against the spread
of measles in the 3l4th Infantry regiment
and that all danger concerning the spread
of the disease is past.
only three cases developed and the men
afflicted are isolated from their comrades
AS a further check the regiment IS segre-
gated from other units, and Is denied the
privileges OF public buildings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
TURKS DRIVEN 7 MILES;
BRITISH LOSE 2 SHIPS
Allied Cavalry Advance in Pales.
tine Brings in 100
Prisoners

LONDON, Nov. 1j--New Turkish posi-
tions in Palestine have been attacked by the
British, who drove back the enemy a dis
tance rf seven miles, II was announced by
General + Il. Maurice, chief director Of
military operations at the War Office.
The Admiralty announces that British
destroyer and a small monitor, which were
operating in conjunction with the army in
Palestine, have been sunk by a submarine.
Seven men are missing from the destroyer
and twcny-siX from the mentor.
General Maurice in his statement on the
land operations said the Turkish force con-
fronting General Alenby. the British COM
mander. has now lost half its entire effec.
tiyes. lie said the number of prisoners and
the booty taken in the latest attack had
not yet been reported, but that one cavalry
division. which was only a small part of
thc force engaged, took 100 prisoners, two
guns and fourteen machine guns.
General Maurice said the British front in
Palestine now runs along the Wadi Surar,
which was the biblical brook kedrou This
position Immediately covers Jaffa and the
railway junction on the route to Jerusalem.
The War Office announces that the Turk
ish forces in Mcsopotamia having with
drawn thirty to fifty miles north Of Tokrt.
the British returned to their original posi-
tioHs, according to the plans made before
the Tekrit. advance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15

Tekrit is on the TiEris, niuety-scvcn miles
northwest Of Bagdad. II was a strongly
intrcnched Turkish position which the Brit
ish outfauked and captured on November 6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
ARREST RHODE ISLAND MAN

CHESTER, Pa. Nov 15-Edward Lam
dry of Woonsocket, r. l., Is held by the
local authorities for Rhode Island officials.
who wired here to apprchend the man on
a charge of white slavery. Landry was
known in this city as Joseph Raymond
Josephine Barnes, nineteen years old, was
arrested by the police. She is from Woon-
socket and admitted that she left there re-
Gently TO join Landry in this city.
Peter J. Quinn, an attorney and an uncle
of the girl. tel"graphed chief of Police
Vance to hold the girl until he arrived
here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
PRESIDENT IS FOOLED
BY NOVEL CAMOUFLAGE
Man and Cannon Appear From
Nowhere" at Demon
stration
NEW YORK. Nov Is

NEW YORK, Nov 10
War camouiage, many interesting things
about It and how recently at Washington
Barracks President Wilson was fooled by
ingenious examples of 1t were told OF last
night at the Architectural League of Amer
lea i'm the Fine Arts Building.
The speakers were Captain Aymar, cf the
camouflage contingent of the Engineers
Corps Maximlian Toch. long an authority
On the subject, who has recently Travelled
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf doing
such work, and Ernest Ptxeotto, the noted
artist, who also has become camoufiager.
It was Captain Embury, who. after out
lining the work of the camouilage contin-
gent told of the President Wilson episode.
Lieutenant Sheriff. Fry, "A former Cornell
man. id organized little camoufiagc en-
terta inment, to which at first few OF the
generals of the barracks were invited. But
when the word got around there came a
score OF requests for invitations from other
generals and civic dgnitaries, and atop Of
the heap was one which read;
why leave me out?
ing"
WOODROW WILSON"
The exhibition was in the open and the
first thing Fry said was:
"Gcntlemcn, there's 4 man in uniform
standing within five feet Of you. Can You
see him?"
They looked everywhere and couldn't
see any man until Fry blew a whistle and,
we'll the rock opened and a man in uni
form arose at the Presidents elbow. The
President laughted like "A boy and then said
he had heard of "a Summy thrcc-lnch gun
we had made.
"'Yes Mr. President said Fry, we have
the gun It, right here with MS
"They stared around and couldn't see any
gun until Fry again blew his whistle ana
"A very natural screen Of foliage parted
and there was the gun.
THE rubber bulb was handed the Pres
ident and when he squeezed there an
exposion from the end OF the dummy,
painted to look like fine steel that caused
the President to jump and secretaries and
major and hrigader generals and all the
colonels jumped with him
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
York Fuel Chief Names Five Aids

YORK, Pa, Nov. 15.--Robert j.. Gephart,
fuel administrator of York County, has
selected these business men to cooperate
with him: Gordon T. Campbell, presiden,
and general manager of the York Railways
Company; t., w Gardner, purchasing agent
of the York Manufacturing Company; Max
Grumbacher, proprietor Of the BCn-Ton De.
partmcnt store. this city; *. y. Elton
treasurer and manager of the Susquehanna
Casting Company, Wrightsville, and Paul
Winebrenner, banker and manufactures
of Hanover.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
TROLLEY STRIKE SETTLED
Burlington Line Compromises on Wage
of Twenty-eight Cents an Hour

MOUNT HOLLY, y. j., Nov! 15,--The
.trilse Of conductors and motormen of the
Burlington County Transit Company was
settled, when It was agreed to make the
wage twcnty-cight cents an hour The
men were receiving twenty-five cents and
asked for thirty.
Persons travelling from Mount Holly to
Turlincton and Moorestown were pleased TO
SEQ the cars running again after the road
had been tied up since early yesterday
morning and hundreds had been greatly
inConVcnienCCd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15

The record established by the Manayuns
police station for furnishing fighting men
to Uncle Sam was increased today. when
It was announced that District Detective
Hugh Mclaughlin, of that station. has en-
listed as a cook in the coast artillery and
will leave Saturday for Governors Island,
New York. Mclaughlin Is an experienced
cook and. in addition, has had fighting
service with the Texas Rangers He Is the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
Order of United States Fuel Administrator
(pIeose read corefuJv)

The States Fuel Hereby Orders Directs
sato and subject to modification hereafter from time to time and
Upon day November corporation,
association or person engaged in whole or in part in the
and corporation association partnership maintaining
Illuminating shall use any eoa foT the purpose Of
sed oGu & o sPRy s
of coal % for hn the id % air, @ or
illuminated display advertisements notices signs
ornamentaon of building in the interior of buildings
and special hereinafter further otherwise provided
the @s
any 3 5 @ ,0 or state 0"e'
b This order shall not apply to the maintenance of street lights
the officials thereof for such maintenance to the of
lights for purpose by or in compliance with orders Of any
0 Electric signs fronts of buildings
other places of business therein extending herefom the
retail shop the and location of theae other
sss ] the play
as the ay be- be lighted Illuminated or operated by
electricity produced by coal the period
O'Clock the which time the of place of business
manner and to the business conducted
%en and pube assembly to until hour
after time fixed flor hs Enng S Of b % Of sa G
the the of electricity needed to
Administrator of the State within which such sign
This order shall not apply porch lights houses
egress during night time lights private drveway
grounds of hotel manufacturing establishment
residence the platform of railroad stations approaches
yards lights mark the loca
exits lights similar when
by Fuel the within which
such lights located Provided however that the number and
such lights by this paragraph W permitted shall be
direction of the State Fuel Administrator
of the State within which such buildings grounds located
shall be extend the length Of time
otherwise and State Fuel
which such sign illumination be dis
played or operated
If the above order is not quite clear to any one
interested, further information may be obtained
at our Main or District Offices
The Philadelphia Electric Company
Jos. B. Mccall,
49, DreSident.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
KAISER'S SOLDIERS
SEEKING REPUBLIC
Hundreds Surrendering on
West Front to Enter Into
Propaganda Campaign
WORK IN NEUTRAL STATE

LONDON, Nov. Is.
The second German counter-attack in
three days against newly won British
positions north of Passchendaele was
completely repulsed" yesterday after
noon, Field Marshal Haig reported this
afternoon. The German attack came
after greatly increased enemy artil-
lerY fire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
Governmental Regulation
of Electric Signs

WE are in receipt of an order
w from the United States Fuel
Administrator regarding the use
of coal for the purpose of gener-
ating electricity for use in opera
ting Illuminated advertisements,
signs and other forms of exterior
electrical display lighting.
The Philadelphia Electric Company is de-
sirous of aiding the Government in every
way possible in this measure, instituted for
the purpose of conserving fuel supply, but
it is necessary, if the fuel savings resulting
therefrom are to reach the maximum figures
hoped for, that we receive the earnest CO.
operation of all our customers, and the
public generally, in the matter of limiting
sign and display lighting use according to
the directions contained in the following
order:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-15
WASHINGTON. Nov. IS.

NSHINGTUN, NOV TO,
With Republic" as their password, hum
dreds of German troops are surrenderine
Voluntarily on the west front, the Ameri-
can Government is semiofiicialy informed.
These surrenders are the result of the
French Governments follow-up campaign