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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11
WEEGHMAN YIELDS THE AXE.
Releases Schick and D1iacOll to
Make Room for "StarS."

Chicago, Dec. Ito make room
for the stars who are to be purchased
with his 100000 bank roll. the Chi
cago National league club owner
started wedding out the deadwood
yesterday by releasing Outfielder
Maurice Schick and Infielder Paddy
Driscoll to the Los Angeles club Of
the Pacific Coast league. Strings are
attached to both players by the we'll
known option system.
Driscoll was tried out by Manager
Mitchell, of the Cubs, at second base
last summer during one of Larry
Doyle's periods of interpretation
Schick was obtained from the semi
pro ranks and gave promise Of devel-
oping into a real outfielder. Both are
subject to the National Army draft.
and Driscoll has announced a desire
to enlist.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11
TO CAPTAIN RUTGERS.
William \. Feitner OF Bloomfield to
Head Gridiron Team.

New Brunswick, N. j., Dec. IL
William A. Feitner, of Bloomfield. q
member Of the junior class, has bAen
elected captain Of the Rutgers foot
ball team for 1918. Feitner was sub
stitute end in his freshman and
sophomore years, but was one Of the
mainstays of the team during the past
successful season. He Is nineteen
years of age, and weighs ITO pounds
Kenneth Kendall, captain OF this
years team, has left college to en-
list in the United States Naval AVA
ton Corps.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11

PIRATE PITCHER IN CAMP.
Rockford. ILL.,. Dec. 11-Harold
Carlson. pitcher on the Pittsburgh
National league team, entered Camp
Grant yesterday.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11
NINE IN ROW FOR MAUPOME.
Defeat Hugh Neal in Interstate Bill
Hard Match, so to 81.

Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 11.-Like all
others who have attempted to defeat
Pierre Maupome on his own table at
the Euclid billiard parlors, Hugh
Neal Of Toledo went down to defeat
last night by a score Of so to 81 in
sixty-six innings.
1t was Maupome's ninth straight
victory at home. Maupome's high
run was 4. Heals best was 3. The
contest was one Of the Interstate
League matches
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11

ridors. So far the meetings have
drawn few men actually connected
with National or International clubs.
Among the outsiders looking on was
Bill Clymer, manager of the Louis
Vile team, "a regular at all baseball
sessions,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11
MCDONALD LEH1GH LEADER.

Bethlehem, Pa, Dec. lI.-Ge0rge
(Bucky) Mcdonald, who played at
center and guard on the Lehigh foot
ball team the past season, has been
elected captain for next year. NC
Donald comes from Everett, Mass.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11
ED PFEFFER TO ENLIST.

Chicago, Dec. lid Pfeffer,
pitcher on the Brooklyn Nationals,
came to Chicago yesterday from his
home in Champaign, Ill, to enlist In
the Naval Reserves.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-12-11

Cures Colds in India
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets
remove the cause. E. w. GROVES
signature on box. soc.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

terday delivered a heavy counter. at
tack and compelled the British to
withdraw from the village to a posi-
ton little south of it. The fighting
at Fontain was at close quarters and
particularly bitter.
Germans Are Active
This morning the Germans in the
eastern part of Greve Coueur village
were maintaining an intensive ma
chine gun action against the British
in it's western environs.
Rain fell last night and today dense.
low-hanging clouds were letting down
steady drizzle, which made aerial
observation very difficult. Notwith-
standing this handicap both the Brit
ish and the German airmen were oper-
ating at exceedingly low attitudes
along the battle line. The enemy's air
planes we're especially active in the
region of Bourlno wood.
The total of prisoners SO far counted
still remains somewhere between 5000
and 5000.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Italians More Than Hold
Own On Lake Carda

After hard fighting, in which the
troops came into hand to hand fighting
with varying results, Field Marshal
Haig's forces now are in possession
of the town of Bourbon, and the great
er part Of the Bourbon wood, west OF
Cambria, giving them dominating
position over the much-sought-for rail-
road center and the surrounding
country.
English, Welsh and Scotch battal-
ions, aided by the cavalry, now dis
mounted, encompassed the defeat of
the Germans, who had concentrated
fresh reserves-men of extreme valor
Ito face the British in do or die
effort to win the positions which mean
so much toward the ultimate capture
of Cambria, with its tentacles of rail-
roads and highways, leading to all d.
rections, and on which Field Marshal
Won H!nden5urg is so dependent for
support.
Little else except thegaining of this
town and of the wood had had place
in the stragety of the British com
mander-in-chief since his dash Of last
week placed his forces west and south
west of Cambria, virtually upon the
threshold of the town. Ever since the
initial attack the Germans had
tenaciously disputed every inch OF
ground realizing that with the fall OF
Bourbon and the wooded heights the!1
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
One Day Only
NO CHARGE FOR EXAMINATION

DR.. Mellenthin is a regular gradu'
ate in Medicine and Surgery and IS
licensed BY the state of North Da-
kota. He visits professionally the
more important towns and cities and
offers to all who call on this trip
consultation and examination free,
except the expense of treatment
when desired.
According to his method OF treat
ment he docs not operate for chrome
appendicitis, gail stones, ulcers OF
stomach, tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit many won
derful results in diseases OF the stom-
ach, liver, bowels, blood, skin,
nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed
wetting, catarrah, weak lungs, rheu-
matism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal
ailments.
If you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any
better do not fail to call, as i'm
proper measures rather than disease
are very often the cause of your long
standing trouble.
Remember above date, that exam
ination on this trip will be free and
that his treatment is different.
German spoken. Address: $50 Bos
ton Block, Minneapolis, MINI.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Knit! Knit! Knit! Is
Appeal Of Red Cross
for Warm Things

New York, Nov. $50 great is the
present demand upon the Red Cross
for knitted articles for men in cantap-
ments and army posts and those
aboard American warships, that the
Atlantic division today sent out an
appeal to chapters in it's jurisdiction
to mobilize all the volunteer help it
can get in an effort to speed up work
on sweaters, wristlets, mufflers, he'll
NETS and socks. rs.
In the last three days requests for
100000 knitted articles were received
by John Magee, director of military re-
lief for the division, from canton
ments, forts and embarkati0n camps
in New York, New Jersey and Connec-
ticut. With virtually every requisition
for sweaters and other knitted artf-
cles, he says, comes the request that
the garments be delivered at the
camps before Christmas.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
British Hold the Hill
Looking Into Mouevires

British Army Headquarters in
France, Nov. 23.-The British and the
German forces last night rested on
their arms along most of the new bat
tie front after three days of deter
mined conflict. Hard local fighting
continued at some points, notably in
the vicinity Of Creve Coueur, Moeuv-
res and Bouron wood, but for the
most part the British were engaged
in consolidating work and the Ger
mans gave little trouble in the way
of counter
1t appears that the British early to-
day drove back the enemy at the ele-
walton just west Of Mouevres, known
as Tadpole corpse. This hill dominates
a large section of the canal Du Nord,
running east of Moeuvres and to a
large extent the village itself, which
is still in German hands.
There has been no further change
at Fontaine, where the Germans yes
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
North Dakota Band Is
Stationed at Camp Mill

p smarct, Nov. 24.-The North Da-
kota second reg.mental band is now
stational at Camp Mills, Long Island,
and is g unit of the 116th United
States engineers, an organization
composed Of troops from Washington.
Idaho Oregon, California and North
Dakota, according TO information con
veyed IN letter from Director Harold
E. Bachran to Governor Lynn j. Fraz-
:er. Director Bachman said that the
regiment, Of which the North Dakota
band is a unit, expected to embark
soon for france. His message to Gov
ernor FraZ er reads.
Thought l would drop You line
and let YOU know now the Old Second
North Dakota band is getting on. We
are now the band of the l16th eng II
GERS, an organization composed OF
troops from Washington, Idaho. Gre
gon and North Dakota. We expect to
embark for France very shortly. Our
new regiment is an excellent organlza-
ton and we like it very much.
Harold B. Bachman.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Number Of US. Men in
France Not to Be Told

Washington, Nov. 2S,-Arriva4 Of
American troops in France has kept
pace with the exception of the war
department, Secretary Baker said to-
night in the first statement he has
ever authorized in connection with
the progress being made in increasing
General Pershing's forces. Mr.. Baker
declined, however, to state the num-
Der of troops forwarded or to indicate
whether he anticipated delay from
this time Movement of the forces he
said, depended on two elements, the
training and equipment Of the men
and the availability Of ships.
AS fast as they are ready ships and
men will be combined" the secretary
said. LAS many American troops are
now overseas as we expected in the
beginning to have overseas at this
time
Mr.. Baker indicated that an OfIic al
statement CT the number OF American
troops in France was not to be eX-
peCted at any time during the war.
He caused an inquiry to be made OF
the military censor, Major General
MClulIyC, uOWCNCl, W III may lCol1L
in more liberal regulations as to pub
l'cation of the designations of regi-
mems, brigades or companies which
are engaged in action on the front
from time 20 time. If there is No sound
military reason for suppressing that
information. Mr.. Baker said. he de-
sired to give it ont.
The secretary's attention was called
to the fact that the British official
statements recently have named at
least by geographical destination the
troops used in various offensives. Ap,
parently a new policy in thS regard
has been adopted in London and the
war department may do likewise
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
-Four Valley City Boys Get
Promotions at Camp Mills

Camp Mills, Long Island, N. Y,
NOV. 21.-Because of the addition OF
many hundreds of draft men from Cal
ifornia and the western states yester
day, to the First North Dakota many
new officers were needed, and % North
Dakota commissioned and noncom-
n,issioned officers were promoted.
Second Lieutenants Promoted
The following second lieutenants
were promoted to first lieutenants:
Leo Domick, Wahpeton; James Prem
tice, Grafton; Fay Ross, Valley City;
John Frame, Bismarck; Cyril Page,
Grand Forks; Earl Smith, Fargo; N.Y.
ron Omlie, Grafton; John Zimmerman,
Mandan: Carl Erickson, Williston
John Mole, jamestown; Chrit Kunz,
Dickinson; Allen Gilbertson, Hills
boro; Earle Hanson, Grand Forks.
Serqeants Raised
The following sergeants were made
first lieutenants: Clay Anderson;
Grafton; Archibald Melchior, Fargo;
John Bush, Valley City.
The following sergeants were made
second lieutenants; James Soules,
Dickinson; Harley McCready, Valley
City; Elmer Stoke, Grafton; Harry
Thompson, Fargo; Lester Jeffrey
Grafton; Edward Anderson, Williston;
Peter Baker, Bismarck; Peter Kick
Mandan; Fred Kellogg, jamestown;
James Brady, Valley City; Walla &c
Mcrdcn, Williston; George Fischer
Wahpoton; Arthur serumgard, Devils
Lake; Edwin Knudson, Hillsboro
Merwin Hanson, Grand Forks; Will
mer Elton, Grand Forks; Carl j
Lantz, Minot; Percy Robins, Minot;
Paul Erb, Dickinson; Clarence Hasse
! and Arthur Kelly, Grand Forks.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Bohnhof Writes About
Attractions of New York
Hotel Woodstock. N. Y


Dear Folks. | got 36-hour pass to
go to new York. Being 50 close |
thought it would be shame not to
see a little of it.
Yesterday l was down to the water
and saw the Statue of Liberty.
went along Broadway for miles and
even on Wall Street Nothing but
high buildings and Jews. They are
digging up the streets nearly all over
Yesterday l rode on the elevated, un.
derground and on the ground lines.
The underground goes the fastest.
When hit town at o'clock l step
ped up to cop and told him was a
M. P. military policy on a pass We
had a nice talk and he directed me to
! this hotel. A good joint but first
| class. l had a good hot bath last
night and this morning, and oh for the
sleep | had.
am going to tell you more about
N. Y. The Hippodrome is the theater
in this city. wa stold so at the hotel
office. | wanted to buy ticket at the
news stand and everything was sold
; except very high stuff. He told me
to buy standing room for 81 and tip
! the usher for seat. l got in and ask
| ed about seat with about 40 others,
he said he had three of the very best
seats in the house, but wanted $3.50
tip apiece. l said get the seat and l
got it. A box seat to the right of the
stage, and two other soldiers followed
and the rest got beat. The stage is
no no ~ ~
Valley City, (The building must seat
at least $4,000 people. They had ele
plants, horses, autos and box cars
i light specially and everything right or
| the stage. The act must have had 400
people in it. They had a scene of sol
diers leaving and had many compan
les marching past, and ship go it
high and 200 it. long, in back of the
stage, move off with soldiers yelling
A history pageant showing the devel
opment, history and immigration OF
America all in their own costumes.
Then lots of trappy work, and artists
drawing pictures and even making
pictures OF rags pasted on boards
talk and other ways, all while you SEE
about three or four at time. The1
lots of humorous stuff as moving fur
niture wagon falling apart. box car:
with trains, (about $50 men, Alst
at the last act big swimming poo
go by $50 ft.) and diving horses, row
z boating, diving, people falling in, al
kinds of sprays and people swingin.
all covered with little electric lights
1t just kept ME gazing for three
hours and this is only part of thu
stuff that was there. 1t is simpl.
great. This is high class stuff agains
that cheap show stuff. I never hat
an idea that the human mind coult
produce such things.
Yesterday the top sergeant and tn
captain would only give me pass I'm
til a. m. this morning, l saw Col
white and told him | wanted to Sc
New York also by day and he mad
them come across
The colonel told me that would b
transferred to his Headquarters CO
camp very soon. Mrs. White sal
they had to have at least one Vale
City boy in their company. You cal
tell that I have had a good time yes
terday and today.
Best wishes to you folks,
Lawrence.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Ahief superintendent of internment
and appoints the sectional quarter
masters who give all administrative
orders and are responsible for all ac-
counts.
Requests for internment are sent to-
the bureau of information at Berne
and from there forwarded to the tin
Grant commission of Swiss doctors
which visits the camps of war prison
ers. After designation for interment
by the itinerant commission, a prison
er must be finally approved by the
commission of control, which is COM
posed of two Swiss doctors, two doc
tors from the army which has taken
him captive and a representative of
the government of that country. In
ternment follows Immediately upon
approval by the commission of con-
troll. All transportation of interned
men is under the jurisdiction OF the
International Red Cross.
How They Live
The informed are quartered in hotels
boarding-houses, sanitariums and the
like, their quarters in no way resem-
bling hospitals. The rooms are bright
and attractive and can as a rule &C.
commodate two, and at most four
men. Officers and enlisted men are
quartered separately. All interned
men are carefully examined by physi-
clans and assigned for treatment.
Work has been declared obligatory
for every interned man whose health
permits it. The informed are divided
into six classes, according to their
physical capability for work, the
classification being entrusted to prac-
ticing physic ans who must act with
prudence. The prisoner works for
his own welfare and re-education, not
for the benefit Of the Swiss, but care
is taken to avoid unfair competition
with Swiss industry. He receives
wage commensurate with his body,
some governments requiring portion
of his wage to be turned over to the
national treasury to be used toward
the cost Of maintaining their prison
ers. The propr' etor Of an establish
ment is paid six francs for an officer
and four france for a soldier, an in
crease being allowed for tubercular
patients for whom extra food is neces-
sary.
Interned men are considered as
prisoners and cannot resort to law on
civil matters or engage in ordinary
commercial pursuits. Marriage is per
mitted when state from which the
prisoner comes declares it's will nS-
ness to recognize his marriage. The
frequenting of inns and the usage CT
alcohol are carefully regulated but it
is difficult to secure the co operation
of the local authorities. who are I'M
willing to take measures to keep IN
termed men out of saloons
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Wounded Men Will Be
Enterned in Switzerland

Washington, Nov. 24.-Americas
sick and wounded prisoners of war in
Germany may be invalidated to Switz-
erland. The other allies have such an
arrangement with Germany and SIM
liar one is under consideration in the
United States.
The arrangement provides for in
ternment in Switzerland of all sick
and wounded prisoners taken by the
central powers or the allies. The in
ternment of sick and wounded prison
ers Of war in neutral countries is new
in history.
Up to January, 1917, 10000 intern
ed men passed through Switzerland,
including $4,000 French, 4,6O0 Bel
gians, $500 English and 1880 Ger
mans and Austrians. 1t is estimated
that an equal number has undergone
treatment since, Switzerland being
able to care for $4,000.
At the request of the international
Committee OF the Red Cross, Switzer-
lard opened negotiations with France
and Germany in October, 1914, with a
view of providing for the exchange
through CWlCZcllduU VI pIloOuGIS VI
! war so seriously wounded as to be I'm.
fit for military service. In November,
1916, some ten thousand French and
German prisoners, incapacitated for
further military service, were returned
| to their own countries through Switz'
erland.
Idea Develops
! Then developed the idea of intern
lment peculiar to this war, the care OF
sick and wounded prisoners of war not
totally incapacitated. A bureau of in
| ternment was created by the surgeon
general of Switzerland, in January
1916, and that same month test was
made with 100 French and 100 German
prisoners suffering from tuberculosis
These prisoners are interned for the
period of the war, their own countries
agreeing to return anyone who es
capes.
The rapid growth of internment has
necessitated an elaborate system Of
administration and accounting. The
war commissioned of the arms is
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Mrs. Helen Hadgeman. Of Bozeman
Mont, who has been visiting IN Mas
sachusetts. will arrive Monday, and
will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. j.
f. Featherstone.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Courtenay Gazette: Miss Holman
of Valley City, arrived Sunday and
has been visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Rloomberg.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Seven n l,rses from the Bismarck
hospital were the guests Of Miss Pal
ma Davidson at dinner Friday. They
were en- route to Fargo to take exam
nations for Red Cross service in
France.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

FOR SALE-Pure bred white Holland
turkey Toms. S. N. Weinkauf, Cour-
tenay, N. D. 22-4Wp
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Glen Granger has gone to Fargo to
spend the week end with relatives.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29
Water Front to Go
Under Martial Law

Washington, Nov. 24.-Regulation
under which the New York water front
will &C under military guard Sunday
midnight to bar alien enemies, were
announced tonight by the department
Of justice, acting under President Will
sons recent alien enemy proclama-
ton. Similar regulations will be ap-
piled to other coast and lake ports az
soon as plans were available. The
soldiers will have instructions to shoot
all persons, aliens or citizens, enter
ing the barred zone 100 yards from
piers, docks and warehouses, unless
identified by special private guards
to be supplied by pier owners.
+ Alien enemies, under the presidents
proclamation, may not enter the pro-
hihited zones under any circumstance
es and must move out if they already
have business or residence places
within the 100-yard limit. BY this
strict system of patrol the govern
ment hopes to eliminate the posi-
b:lity Of enemy plotters causing fires
and explosions on piers and in water
front warehouses. BY the middle of
| next week the department of justice
expects to promnlgate rules under
, which unnaturalized Germans male
adults will be forced to register with
the police and obtain special license
for travel within the United States.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-11-29

Marion Sentinel: Misses Agnes o.
son, Clara Bomberg, Aylene Pike and
Erna Rousch were over-Sunday WISH
tors here, the two former visiting at
their homes and the two latter at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Webber-
They returned again to Valley City,
via Eckelson on Monday to resume
their studies at the Normal
The Prescott daily news., 1917-11-10
ANNEXATION SCHEME
 PROVOKING PROTEST
tria-Hungary and Germany
 Have Territorial PIan-Op- posed by Entire Press-Over- turns Reichstag Peace Policy.

Copenhagen, Nov. 9.-The proposed settlement of the eastern problem by annexing Poland to Austria-Hungary and Courland and Lithuania to Ger many has few friends in Germany aside from the proponents of the idea. Virtually the entire press opposes it. The conservative and nationalist or gans are against it, because they fear the effect of such step upon their own anti-Polish policy in regard to the Polish provinces of Prussia. The lib- eral and Socialist newspapers are in- dignant at the attempt to decide a question involving the whole future of Germany behind the back of the Reichstag and also resent the efforts to overturn the anti-annexation peace policy set forth in the Reichstag reso- lution.
 The Socialist organ, Vorwaerts, of Berlin, declares that this adoption of an anneXationist policy in the most irretrievable form puts in the shade the crisis regarding the chancellorship and all other developments of the day. It reminds the government that the Hapsburg monarchy, two parts of which are absolutely non-German, while in the third the German element has hard struggle to retain it's, in- fuence, may at no distant time be- come military danger to Germany.
 The Kreuz Zietung reminds the au- thorities of the repeated promises to leave definite settlements until the end of the war.