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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
All Lines West of Chicago to
Be Utilized Regardless of
Ownership or Of Individ-
ual Interests.
Vice Presidents of the Roads
Banded Into Committee to
Weld Lines Into Great Eff
ficiency Machine for a
Period of. One Year.

Washington, Nov. 24.-The railroads
war board acted today to solve the
worst transportation congestion in the
country's history by pooling all lines
west Of Chicago.
These carriers will be operated as a
single unit, regardless of ownership
and individual interests" the board an
nounced after comforting with leading
government officials.
Competing and parallel lines will
freely utilize each others locomotives,
employees, machine tools, cars, tracks
and terminals as freight demands re-
Cuire.
ONE BIG MACHINE.
Vice presidents of the roads were
banded into a committee to weld the
lines into one big efficiency machine
for the war.
BY the steps officially announced
tonight the railroads are believed 20
have played their last card to solve
the coal and war freight congestion
which officials regard as a serious do
mestic menace. If they fail during the
winter months to meet the war strain,
summary government seizure and con-
troll for the balance of the war is prob
able.
FOR MAXIMUM MOVEMENT.
That the railroad executives realize
this was indicated by their statement
that the measures adopted are cal
culated to enable the eastern railways
to transport the maximum freight
which it would be physically possible,
under any organization or by any
method, for them to move with their
present facilities.
At the same time, the railroads made
a number Of recommendations for CO.
operation from the government. They
recommended sectional pooling of coal,
elimination of cross hauls of coal and
diversion of foodstuffs and other ma
terials to southern parts to relieve the
congestion of the eastern terminals.
They appealed for a reduction in the
great volume of preferential orders,
which by placing a substantial major
ity of the freight moved on the same
plane, defeated its own object"
TO FORMULATE RULES.
The committee Of operating officers
the vice presidents-will meet here
dOnuay 10 IOTIHuldte luftner TuleS IOI
carrying out the railroads pool.
Locomotives. cars and labor will at
once be transferred from western and
southern roads to the eastern lines
| along which government munitions
factories and export movements have
TO RELIEVE SITUATION.
The government henceforth is to
play a more active role in transporta- =
tion affairs. Further conferences
| look ing to- the relief of the situation
will be held between the railroad ex-
ecutives and various government
heads. At today's meeting Of the rail-
roads war board the government was
| represented by Fuel Administrator
Garfield. Food Administrator Hoover
Priority Director Lovett and members
of the interstate commerce commits
| sion and the shipping board. 1t was
perhaps the most notable and slgnifi-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
General Byng's Men Fight
ing Their Way Onward
Despite Concentration Of
German Reserves,
Giant Tanks Sweep Onward
Through Forest and Be-
hind Them Is the Infantry
Taking in Dazed Prison
ers-Bourleon Village Re-
sisting.
BY WILLIAM PHILLIP slMMs

With the British Armies in the
Field. Nov. 24.-GENERAL BYNGS
GUNS WE'RE GATHERING DOWN
GERMAN DEFENSES WITHIN TWO
MILES OF CAMBRIA TONIGHT.
HIS MEN WERE FIGHTING
THEIR WAY ONWARD DESPITE A
CONCENTRATION OF GERMAN
RESERVES THAT FAIRLY FLOOD
ED THE DEPOT CITY. THE FIGHT
ING WAS THE MOST DESPERAH
SINCE THE GREAT SURPRISE At
TACK OF WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Early in the day British Tommies
hurled the enemy back upon Fontaine
Notre Dame. The village was a hol-
low shell of ruins, smoking and burn
ing.
GERMAN TOWERS SHATTERED.
Close by, Byng's men swept over
Bourloeon wood. Its trees were
splintered in the rain Of shell fire, its
artfully concealed German observa-
ton towers shattered and captured
At Moeuvres the two armies
clinched and swayed in the battle.
Then the British doggedly battered the
enemy lines. They seized German
| loosed the enemy's own artillery
against him. 1t was no question OF
accurate range. The guns were aimed
German gray.
TANKS STILL ACTIVE.
The tanks continued their marvel
Gus exploits in todays red-hot fight
ing.
At Bourleona wood they crawled
into action and swept onward through
the forest. SMALLER TREES AND
SAPL LINGS WERE CRUS HE'D
UNDER THEIR GIANT SIDES AS A
FIELD OF RYE STRAW IS BAT
TERED DOWN BY GIANT TERRA
PINS. THEIR FLASHING GUNS
lINCINERATED THE FOREST
Behind them came infantry. rapidly
mopping up the snipers and taking in
! dazed prisoners.
USING ENEMY's GUNS.
British Tommies using the enemy
guns against the Germans were re-
ported at several points. illustrating
| the speed of the British onslaught. At
one point two enemy IT'S were seized
from the Germans, their Garage car
| riages twisted around and the fire
| from their two threats so speeded
gainst the enemy by the British gun
ners. that the muzxies glowed red hot
| and tammed the shells.
Fontaine Notre Dame was swept ov-
!; er by the tanks. They plodded pond
erously down the main street OF the
| village. terrifying the Germans by their
| hail of fire. They crunched up to
within few feet of heavily fortified
| buildings to send their flaming
| breath into the German loopholes. Bull
| let's ratified harmlessly off their sides.
Late tonight, Bourbon VILLAGE, Just
! beyond the wood. was stili resisting.
Desperate fighting was reported there.
ENEMY FALLING BACK.
| As this is written. the enemy 10 fall.
ing back on Pronville--a suburb OF
| Cambrai--fighting desperately. but
steadily forced to give way.
| Fontaine's blazing ruins are believed
now to be No Mans land, the battIe.
raging across their illumined desola-
! tion.
! GERMAN LOSSES STAGGERING. 1
! Crown Prince Rupprecht ordered his
| troops to hold Bourieon wood. At Al
costs. They failed-and the cost Of
this unsuccessful attempt was stasger-
ing to his fast dwindling ranks.
Bourleon's commanding heighta are
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
Asks Idaho
to Line up
for Boys
Head of Northwestern Red
Cross Campaign Here to
Start Movement-E. III.
Dewey Is Named State
Chairman.

Hervey Lindley, one OF the veal
thiest men of Seattle. was a Boise
visitor yesterday. Although inten-
sively interested in business, Mr.. Lind
ley has laid aside all personal and cor
porate interests and is deyoting his
time. energy and ability exclusively to
the Red Cross, which Is instituting a
campaign for 100000 new members
that will close on Christmas day.
Mr.. Lindley is head of the commit
tee having in charge Idaho, Washing
ton, Oregon, and Alaska.
Yesterday he completed. his general
organization by naming E. H. Dewey
of Nampa as a member of the COM
mittee having Red Cross jurisdiction
over the three states and Alaska and
the committee has designated Mr.
Dewey as chairman for Idaho.
At Nampa yesterday Mr.. Lindley,
who was accompanied to Idaho by c.
E. Arney. immigration commissioner
for the Northern Pacific, with head
quarters at Spokane, held a confer
ence with MIR. Dewey and Frank F.
Johnson of Boise. head of the previous
Idaho Red Cross campaign. Mr.
Dewey and ]. III. Gipson Of Caldwell
who will be prominently affiliated
with the Idaho campaign, left last
evening for Seattle with Mr.. Lindley
and at the headquarters of the Pacific
Northwest Red Cross organization the
detailed plans for Idaho will be worked
out.
WANTS 100000 IN IDAHO.
while Idahos membership quota
for the purposes Of this campaign is
only $1,000, in addition to the present
membership of 10000" said Mr.. Lind
ley yesterday, I'VE expect a gross en-
rollment in your state of 100000 by
Christmas day-and we feel sure we
will not be disappointed.
This is highly important service
and one in which every citizen can
join. 1t means SO much to the boys in
the trenches-TO YOUR IDAHO
BOYS-now en- route to France as is
understood, that 1 cannot imagine any
citizen refusing to join.
I'VE are not after money. but after
members. entailing a cost of 81 each
for the year-mishty small when
measured by the benefits to our sol
diers. This money is necessary, but
of far more importance is to have q
compact body of citizens at home
joined together to carry out the loft
lest aims of patriotism.
I'VE intend to make II possible not
only for citizens to Join in this move
ment, but TO take memberships In the
Red Cross for the boys in the
trenches. When the Idaho list is ex-
hausted there will be memberships
for soldiers from other sections avail
able.
I'VE intend to have an active cam
paign and we believe 1t will be enor-
mously successful. ! have been proud
to point out everywhere I have been
that the little state of Idaho-little in
point Of population-has always ex-
ceeded its quota In every undertaking
having bearing on this war. l feel
that in this case Of the Red Cross the
record will be more than maintained
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
BANK RossE0 ~ vEooMeN.

Dana, Ind. Nov. 2l.--f e08men pro-
cured between $4,000 and $4,000 when
they forced the safe of the First Ma
tional Bank here last night. The work.
II is believed. was done by gang OF
bandits which has been operatin8 in
this territory for the last six weeks.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
M|lAEi Ei1A|g]E1M|5|!|n 1A|g]E1M|n
HE1kII1l.l

Local forecast for Boise and vicin.
ity: Sunday. fair.
Forecasf for southwestern ldahos
Sunday. fair:
svEsTERpAYse WgATHER MEME
Highest femperature, So.
Lowest tempefature, 81. e j
q Mean Temperatures. ~ " s
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
ENEMY HELD At BAY IN
FLOODED MARSHES; men
FIGHTING HAND TO HAND

With the Italian Armies, Nov. "a
Fighting hand to hand, half submerged
in flooded marshes, Italian troops to-
day were holding the enemy at bay on
the lower Piave.
General Borovich's Austrian troops
strove desperately to fight the floods
loosed by the Italians in defense of
Venice, no less than they fought the
troops themselves. The men OH both
sides battled from hummock to hum
mock. Massed attacks were impos :
sible. The fighting resolved itself into
man-to-man battles. scattered mile
after mile along the river or beyond its
banks.
CONSTRUCTING BOATS.
Italian aviators reported the Aus
trians hurrledly constructing boats
behind the lines. Some have already
unsuccesscully attempted the passage
of the watery no mans land. Teu-
tonic construction engineers are work
ing, trying to drain the territory.
From the upper end of the great
line, fighting was reported today
around Lake Gardau. The Austrians
unsuccessfully tried to penetrate the
Italian lines.
All OF General Diaz's bulletins have
been purposely conservative. The line
is holding everywhere-and firmly.
Enemy losses have been enormous.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25


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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
American Citizens
Beaten to Death by
Turk Spy Seeker s

Reign of Terror in Palestine With Horrible Atrocities
Perpetrated Against the Jews-Wholesale Charges OF
Espionage Made Against Natives by Authorities as
British Advance on Jerusalem Confessions Extorted
From Men and Women.
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TO RELIEVE SITUATION.

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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-06-22
THE CLIO MESSENGER

The home talent minstrel show
given at the Auditorium for the bene-
fit of the band, Saturday evening, was
attended by fair sized audience and
was very creditabe considering the
amount of time spent in preparation.
The show was given under the direc-
ton Of Willard Reid, of the Bon-Ton
Comedy players. The band realized
neat sum from the production.
Rex Stanley, son of Mrs. II II.
Stanley, of Clio, who for a number of
years has been in the naval service of
the United States, is now with Adj
miral Sims squadron of torpedo boat
destroyers in European waters help
ing to hunt down the German devil
ships more familiarly known as sub
marines Mrs. Stanley recently re-
ceived a card from her son, which,
owing to the limitations imposed by
the censor, was confined to the state
ment that he was well.
The Red Cross Knitting Club met
Monday evening at the home of Mrs.
Ed. l.. Beeman. There were about
fifty present Mrs. Hoff was elected
chairman. The society was divided
into different divisions for each
branch of work They made two
rules which are the only ones they
have: First that each one buy their
own needles; second, that each fol-
lows the instructions of knitting
made by the national association. The
yarn will be furnished for all those
who do not feel prepared to buy it.
Miss Selby has the yarn and those
who want it can get it on Tuesdays
! Thursdays and Saturdays. Those
who want to knit sweaters meet at the
home of Mrs. Meeks this Friday after
| noon.
After several months OF service as
reporter for The Messenger. Miss
Betty Mott has gone 30 Millington
where she will reside with her aunt
Mrs. {. ]. Maynard, Tor a time The
latter is not in the best of health and
the death of her mother, Mrs Dexter
coupled with the fact that her hus-
band is away from home large por-
ton of the time, being travelling
salesman. made il seem a duty foI
Betty to reside with her Betty was
faithful and efficient employe of The
| Messenger, a testimonial we give il
all sincerity and gratitude Miss Mil
Cred Jewell will take Miss Mott.
, place on The Messenger force, for ;
time at least, and we bespeak for hei
the same measure of kind considera
tion which was given our former re
/, porter.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-06-22
w. c. T. u. Note.

The w c I u. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Milton Covert on S. New
st. Wednesday, June. q.
The ladies have decided to send liter
allure to Marquette prison. Everyone
is asked to contribute Please bring
such papers as Saturday Evening Post,
Country Gentleman or other good mag
azines and leave at the home of Mrs.
|. Corwin. The prisoners are anxious
for good reading, so, edo your Bit and
bring them at once so we can send the
box soon.
Press. Supt
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-06-22
CARD OF THANKS.

To the friends and neighbors who
lent kind assistance and extended low
ing sympathy during the illness and
at the death of our beloved little
daughter and to the people of Clio,
the Odd Fellows, Rev. c. w. Greene,
those who sang and to the donors of
the beautiful flowers, we would here
by make an expression of our sin
cerest gratitude.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wilcox,
and family.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-06-22
Card of Thanks

To the friends and neil, hbors who so
kindly lent assistance and extended
sympathy during the illness and at the
death of our beloved husband and father,
to Rev. Mr.. Greene and those who sang,
we would hereby make an expression
of our heartfelt thanks.
Mrs. j. Powell
and family
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-10

sands, nay, hundreds OF thousands, o
men otherwise liable to military
I service will of right and Of C ssity
be excused from that service ant
assigned to the Fundamental, sus
tanning work of the fields and fac
tories and mines, and they will be
as much part of the great patriotic
forces of the nation as the men un
der fire.
A MESSAGE TO FARMERS.
take the liberty, therefore, Of
addressing this word to the farmers
Of the country and TO all who work
on the farms: The supreme need OF
our own nation and d the nations
with which we are cooperating is an
abundance of supplies, and especially
of foodstu1is. The impor' anCe of an
adequate food SUPPLY, esre lilly or
h present yer, is s1peIla i've. Wi h
ogt abundant fool, alike or h arm
rs ana the corlrs now at VIZ, tie
wholc greet enterprise upon which
we have embarked viii br tx DON
ond fail The worlds food nv S
are low Not only during the pr s MT
emergency but for some time aft r
peace she'll have come bob or own
people and a lsrge proportion of TIE
people of Europe must rely upon
h havosts in America. Upon he
farmers of this com 'ry, thfrr for 4,
in large measure, rests the Fat of
the war and the fate o. The nations.
May the nation not count uron III m
TO omit no step that will in re ase he
pI cductiCn CT their lend or hat
will bring about the most effsctual
cooperation in the sole and dis ribu-
tinn o. their po'rcts? The time is
short 1t is of the most imperative
importance that everything possi-
bic be done and done Immediately
to make sure OF large harvests. I
call upon young men and old alike
and upon tho able-bcdied Toys of TIE
land to accept and act upon this duty
to turn in hosts to the farms ard
make certain that no pains and no
labor is lacking in this great matter.
FOR EVERY HOUSEHOLD.
Let me suggest, also, that every
one who creates or cultivates a
garden helps, and helps greatly, to
solve the problem of the feeding OF
he nations; and that every house
wife who practices strict ecinomy
puts herself in the ranks of those
Who serve the nation. This is the
ime for America to correct her I'M
>ardonable fault of wastefulness and
Let every man and
very woman assume the duty O,
careful, provident use and Sxp"ndi-
ure as a public duty, as a dictate
If patriotism which no one can now
expect ever to be excused or for
,iven for ignoring.
WOODROW WILSON.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-10

work, not be overloaded before his
bones and muscles have hard ned
Second, to morals. Some o. these
children will so away from home
and lose the watchful care OF
their fathers and mothers.
GUARD THE YOUNG WORKERS
1t is up to every grown man
woman in Idaho to do their part in
safeguarding these children. Their
parents are giving them to the
country as truly as tho they W, MT
to the front. They are enl ing az
truly as the boys who shoulder the
rifle.
WHO WILL FIGHT
OUR NEXT WARP
Nobody but the men and WON n
into whom these boys and girls are
to grow. If there is arc h-r war it
VII be IS much wors thin this
one as this is worse than any prev
ious We shall need Drawn and brain
and human power than IS never be-
fore. Let us be wise now before
it is too late.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-10

-FOUR seamen not only, but also fo,
a large part OF the nations will
whom we have now made common
cause, in whose support and by
whose sides we shall be fighting.
We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side OF the sea, subma
rines or no submarines, what will
every day be needed there, and abun
dant materials out of cur Ii Ids and
| our mines and cur factories with
which not only to clo,he and equip
our own forces on land and a
but also to clothe and support or
people for whom the gallant fel.
lows under arms can no longer work,
to help clothe and equip the armic s
With which we are coop re ting in
Europe, and to keep the looms and
manufactures there in raw mat rial;
coal to keep the fires going in ships
at sea and in the furnaces of hum
dreds Of factories across the SEA;
steel out of which to make arms
and ammunition beth here end there;
rails for WORKOUT railways back of
the fighting fronts; locomotives and
rolling stock to take the place of
these every day going to pieces;
mules, horses, cattle for labor and
for military service; everything with
which the people OF ENGLAND and
France and Italy and Russia have
usually supplied themselves but can
not now afford the men, the mater
ials, or the machinery to make.
THE DUTY OF THE INDUSTRIES.
1t is evident to every thinking
man that cur industries. on the
farms, in the shipyards, in the
mines, in the factories, must be
made more prolific and more eff
;ient than ever and that they must
De more economically managed and
better adapted to the particular re-
{uirements of our task than they |
rave been; and what 1 want to say
s that the men and the women who
ieyote their thought and their
energy to these things will be serv-
ng the country and conducting the
light for peace and freedom Just as
ruly and just as effectively as the
men on the battlefield or in the
renches. The industrial forces Of
ne country, men and women alike,
VIII be a great national, a great
International, Service Army,-a not
lpie and honored hest engaged in
ne service of the nation and the
World. the efficient friends and saw
ors OF free men everywhere. Thou
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-10


THE FARMS.
Ny Fellow Countrymen:
country into the grim and terrible
war for democracy and human rights
which has shaken the world creates
so many problems of national life
and action which call for immediate
consideration and settlement that /
hope you will permit me to address
TO you a few words of earnest coln-
sci and appeal with regard to them.
We are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and
aba about to create and equip a
great army, but these are the simp-
lest parts of the great task to which
We have addressed ourselves. There
IS not a single selfish element. so
Tar as can see, in the cause we
are fighting for. We are fighting
Tor what we believe and wish to be
the rights OF mankind and for the
future peace and security of the
world. To do this great thing worth
lily and successfully we must de-
Vote ourselves to the service with
out regard to profit or material adj
vantage and with an energy and in
telligence that will rise to the
level Of the enterprise itself. We
must realize to the full how great
TN task is and how many things,
now many kinds and elements of
capacity and service and self-sacri-
flee, it involves.
These. then, are the things we
must do, and and do well, besides
fighting, -the things without which
mere fighting would be sruitless:
ABUNDANT FOOD
SUPPLY ESSENTIALS
We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-10
STATE OF IDAHO
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

LET an WEN Of EDOCA ION.
Protect the Children and the School
The State Department of Educa
tion is joining heartily and vigorous
ly in the plan to get the older pu
pills into productive labor, just a
far as it can be done wisely; on
position on that score is clear. But
don't "save at the spigot and vast,
at the bung." England is alread,
wishing she had not used her chill
dren so recklessly at the beginning
a. the war. Let America learn by
England's experience. In Europe in
the stress of sudden warfare, the
children were, for the moment. for
gotten.
IN ENGLAND
In Great Britain, for instance
some of the first war economic
were in the educational system.
School buildings were taken over for
military purposes; teachers enlisted;
repairs, building, appropriations, and
supplies were cut down; evening
schools, medical inspection, hocl
dentistry, and free lunches were
stopped or cut down. Thousands of
children Of II and IL were exouse d
from school to go to work.
SCHOOL SYSTEM IN RUINS
Thousands of children in England
are without teachers or schools. At
least 10000 children between II
and IL have left school to go to
work. Sir James Yoxall said in
Parliament, "a large portion OF our
elementary school system is in ruins.
JUVENILE CRIME
Juvenile delinquency in England
has increased at least "a per cent
Since the war began. In Berlin in
1915 there were twice as many
Times committed by children as in
1914.
WHAT SHALL WE
DO IN AMERICA?
The President said in his message
o Congress calling for war: my
owG thought has not been driven
rom its habitual and normal course
D. the unhappy events of the last
Wo months, and / do not believe
he thought of the nation has been
Uttered by them. In other words, we
n this country still have our ideals
md principles intact. We must re-
nain true to them.
'CHOOL CHILDREN
AT WORK IN IDAHO.
thousands OF boys and girls are
.oing into the fields to work, some
t whom have never worked before.
{ is fine thing, and will do them
vast amount OF good, in body,
mind and character. But there are
hangers. First to health, in that
ono of them may be overworked
nd suffer permanent injury from
Ner-fatigue and exhaustion. A colt
must be broken cautiously to hard