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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
INCREASED
VALUATION
State Reports Show Gain Of
$142,808, 300 Over
Last Year.

Trenton, Dec. 1.-THE annual re-
turns to the State Board of Taxes and
assessment by the counties of the
state show that the net valuation tax
able of real and personal property
listed by the local assessors and the
County Boards of Taxation is $780,
926,O1O.5O, an increase of $142.SOS,-
3O9.64 over the valuation Of 1917. The
net valuation does not include bank
and trust company stock, which is sep
arately assessed at three-fourths of ]
per cent, and for 1918 is taxed $780,
5S5.21.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
MRS. SoL0MAN, HIT
BY SkIDDING AUTO,
DIES FROM INJURY

..
Mrs. H. Soloman Of One Hundred
and Twenty-second street, New York
city, was fatally injured on Friday OF
last week in New York by being run
down by a funeral automobile. She
was crossing the street in One Hun
bred and Twenty-fourth street and
Park avenue in the rain and was hold
ing an umbrella at the time. The ma
chine skidded as it reached her neigh,
horhood, and before Mrs. Soloman
could get out of the way she was
struck and knocked down. She lived
until last Sunday and died. Mrs. Solo
man was sixty-eight years of age and
leaves a married daughter and one
grandchild, besides brother, Mr.. s.
S. Frey, of Cumbermede Road, Pali-
SADIE.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21

Mr.. Fissel back and forth from the
camp to Mr.. Fisseps home in Newark.
Jones had taken Mr.. Fissel to New
ark that evening and was returning
to his own home in Englewood at the
time of the accident.
Chief Roeser has been in charge of
the Hasbrouck Heights police depart
ment for eight or more years and had
been an efficient and able officer. He
is survived by his wife, one daughter,
Mrs MARCEL L. Vreeland of Hudson
street, Hackensack, and Harry Roe
ser, a lieutenant in the Hasbrouck
Heights Home Defense.
There appears to be another side
to the story. 1t is said that Chief
Roeser and another officer were
standing in the center of the roadway
when Jones approached them in his
car. The officers, it is claimed, had
their backs to the approaching auto
mobile and paid no attention to two
warnings made on the horn by Jones.
As the auto came opposite the off
GERS Roeser, it is said, stepped out in
front of the machine and facing the
other way.
After Roeser had been hit, it is al
legged, the other officer left the scene
and was brought back in the Jones
car.
William Fl. Fissel, for whom Jones
was driving, is now said to have also
been in the machine.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
TEANECk BOY
KILLED ON LAST
DAY OF WAR

Private Edwin WEIGH of Teaneck, a
dispatch carrier with the Three Hun
bred and Second Engineers, was kill
ed in action the very day the armistice
was declared, according to a telegram
received by his wife, Mrs. Emily
Welch, from the war department. Mrs.
WEIGH believes her husband was kill
ed while carrying to the front lines
the news that an armistice had been
signed. He was twenty-four years old.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
WALDWICK
BOY KILLED
IN ACTION

The army casualty lists issued Mon
day by the war department contain
the names of the following Bergen
county boys:
Killed in action, John L. Dow, VALID
wick.
wounded severely, John r. Starr,
Waldwick; Walter Caldroney, North
HackenSack.
Wouned, degree undetermined, Cliff
ford r. Myers, Westwood; George
Douglass Myers, Rutherford.
Wounded slightly, Basili Mondiva,
Lodi.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
AUTO DRIVER KILLED
TRACY GIRL IN Fl. LEE,
HELD ON MAMSLAUGHTER

Philip Cohen was Wednesday ar
raigned before Judge John B. Zabris-
kie on an Indictment charging him
with manslaughter and entered plea
of not guilty. 1t is alleged that on Oc-
tober 10 at Fort Lee he ran down and
killed with his automobile Elizabeth
Tracey. The trial date was fixed for
December "a
No date of arrest or trial of the poll
ticians who made this killing possible
has been set But it should be-
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
HoEBEL's FLOWERS.

Louis Hoebel, the Fort Lee florist,
keeps up his high standards as grow
err and purveyor of high grade flowers
and floral designing. On number of
occasions recently he has shown some
wonderful creations in floral art here
abouts. OF one thing the public may
be thankful for, and that is the
promptness and excellence of Hoebel's
service. An order sent to him has
both polite and immediate attention
and automobile delivery.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
JOHN DAVIDSON, JR.,
GETS TELEPHONE MERIT
IN MULT|PLEX SYSTEM

Among the names of the staff mem
bers of the American Bell telephone
system recently published i'm connec-
ton with the new multiplex device
was John Davidson, Jr., a young
nephew of Mrs. Charles T. Logan Of
Palisade. Mr. Davidson has been with
the telephone company several years
and has made steady advancement
right along in the engineering depart
ment He holds very high rank.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
RAYMOND CAIROLLA
WREATH UNVEILED
SUNDAY IN Fl. Lee

The bronze wreath in memory of
Raymond J. CairOlla, Fort Lees gal
liant soldier, the first man in the
borough to lose his life in the war,
will be unveiled on Sunday, December
%. The exercises will be begun at
the Fort Lee Athletic Club, of which
CairolIa was member, the unwilling
to take place later at Monument
Square. A large crowd is expected to
be present.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
TWO BERGEN
COUNTY BOYS
DIE OF WOUNDS

The army casualty lists issued con-
tain the names of the following Ber-
gen county boys:
Died of wounds, Edward ]. Ander.
son, Bergenfield; Harry Douglass, En-
glewood.
Wounded severely, Curtis ]. Gray
Carlstadt, now at his home
Wounded slightly, Alfred ]. LIEU.
reuX, Hackensack; Basili Mondova,
Lodi.
Wounded, degree undetermined, ia
cob A. Yeomans, Ridgewood; Lester
Knapp, Rutherford; Henry J. Nader,
Park Ridge; Tony Ciavoglia, Wood
ridge; Gustav Bjorkman, Englewood.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
PATRIOTIC ENTERTAINMENT
A HUGE SUCCESS


gathered in the High School assem-
bled last Friday evening for the Girls
Patriotic League entertainment and
witnessed a high class program pre-
scented in excellent style, which show
ed careful training and interested CO.
operation.
The Weehawken Heights orchestra,
whose director is Mr.. Beesley, was a
pleasing addition to the program, rem
dering various fine selections during
the evenings. and to the strains of its
lively march the fifty league girls
marched up to the platform, all in
white, then, with Mr.. Dana at the
piano, they sang their league song,
composed for the occasion by the
league chairman, Mrs. Donaldson, the
music of which was composed by Mr..
Dana. In it the girls demonstrated
the work they were doing in the
league
Miss Lavelle Coysh, the young pres
ident, gave little speech, summing
up the history of the league and intro
duced the harp selection played by
fvfvieH Donaldson over thirty OF the
girls participated in the Folk Dances
of England, Italy and France in cos
tune, during which Cecilia Mccarthy
gave violin solo and Lavelle Coysh
and Margaret Hendy terminated that
part of the program with singing the
Battle Hymn of the Republic" in
which the girls joined in the chorus,
and they, with the audience and or
chestra, sang America"
The local league chairman then in
troduced Mrs. E. Speer of Englewood,
the Bergen county chairman, and call
ed attention to the fact that the league
was the most democratic and repre-
sentative organization in the borough,
the only one combining every nation
ality and creed for service and socia-
bility, as evinced by the flags on the
platform of France, Belgium, Italy,
England, Ireland, the CZecho-Slovaks,
etc, obtained from league members.
Mrs. Speer told of the splendid work
accomplished all over, any request
from the camps bringing immediate
response.
The evening was most satisfactorily
completed by the splendid motion pic
lures 'Under Four Flags" the most
up to date episode of the series,
Americas Answer" obtained through
Mayor Cadien. These are only just
beginning exhibition in New York city,
and the reels were run off in good
shape by Warren Moody, who is an
all right operator
They evoked much enthusiasm from
the audience, who were most appreci-
alive of the whole well rendered pro-
gram.
The folk dances were in charge of
Mrs. Levy of Palisade, well known as
dancer and instructor of excellence
The Girls Patriotic League is ma
tiOnal organization under the War
Camp Community Service, with Junior
and senior branches.
The Cliffside Park branch is Junior
one, composed mostly of girls from
twelve to sixteen years. 1t was or
ganized in June under the National
Defense Committee, of which Mrs. j.
HI. Koch is chairman and by whom
Mrs. George Donaldson was appointed
borough chairman and leader of the
league, which has done excellent work
all summer and fall for the Red Cross
and for Camp Merritt
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
The Kiss viii Keep.

Meet the returning soldiers with a
pie in one hand and kiss in the 9TH
err" says the Arkansas Gazette. And,
say, if you have to throw away either,
don't drop the pie-Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-21
WALTER JONES, OF ENCLEW0OD
RELEASED UNDER $1,000 BAIL
ON MANSLAUCHTER CHARGE

No Eyewitnesses Of Accident But 1t Is Said Chief Roeser
Was Directing Traffic on Terrace Avenue When Struck
Accused Man Is Chauffeur for Contractor Fisse, Of
Newark Who Had Done Extensive Construction Work
at Camp Merritt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
ALLEGED FORGER
 IS ARRESTED HERE

G. A. McManus, "A years old, who was arrested Monday by Detective N. s. Raymick on information from Ar kadelphia, was taken back to Arka- delphia last night by the Clark coun- ty sheriff to answer a charge of for gery.
 Clarks is said to be charged with having possed forged checks in Ar kadelphia, Leola, Sparkman and aMl- vern. According to Detective Raymick, Mcmanus, has been wanted for year. Detective McManus will get reward of $50 fer the arrest
 Detective McManus yesterday also arrested Henry Renfrow, white on a charge of desertion from Camp Beau regard, and Lovely King, negro, charged with failing to answer the draft summons. They were taken to Camp Pike for court martial and Ray mick will receive reward for captur- ing them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
TRASH HEAPS USED
 TO MAKE MUNITIONS

Washington, Aug. 6.-Trash heaps in England. which have given up thousand of dollars worth of waste fats for use in making munitions, now are being robbed of their picturesque will do their bit toward putting the Herman army back where it belongs.
 Necessity for conserving a metal absolutely indispensable to- the con- duct of war virtually has eliminated the use of new tin from civilian pur- suits. It's place is being taken by salvaged tin, gathered in the dumps and alleys of the cities. and by various substitutes, such as paper and cloth containers.
 Figures supplied by the British Foreign Office to official sources here attest the great saving effected in the use of tin plate In 1913. the biscuit trade used 12.000 tons of tin. This year that trade has had 515 tons and will get no more Old tins will be utilized or the trade will do without. Boot polish manufacturers have re- pared with 5000 tons annually before the war. Scrap sent back from the front in France is being worked up.
 Domestic tinware. the housewife's pride, is receiving 750 tons quarter where 5000 tons were used in 1913. Printing ink has received 31 tons this year, comparaed with 237 tons in 1913. No tin has been allotted for the civil- ian tobacco trade. but the army is be- ing taken care of.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
SIX KILLED IN
 HEAVY STORM
 IN LOUISIANA

(Continued from page one.) city of 10 to 20 miles an hour. No damage was done here except to shade trees.
 Telephone messages from Port Ar thur and Sabine report similar condi- tions as here.
 Apparently all danger in the pres ent disturbance has passed. No re- ports have come from the east of Beaumont because every wire has gone down under the blow.
 Passengers on incoming trains from that direction, however give no alarm ing reports from that section.
 A. U. Alexander who arrived here tonight from Sulphur, La., and gave a description of the storm and the havoc that it wrought in that little town of about 2,000 inhabitants this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock.
 The wind attained a velocity of more than 70 miles an hour, he said automobiles on the street were strip ped of their tops and the bodies turn ed over.
 7 Many received minor injuries while
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
Home Guard Charge Too
 Realistic
Negroes Desert Homes and Flee as Climax to Skir-
 mish Work.

The envelopment of and charge up. on an imaginary enemy" by the Pine Bluff Company of Home Guards last night caused paniu among three negro families northwest of the Bellwood cemetery last night.
 It was the first real field work the guards have engaged in. Under com mand of Top Sergeant Felix Smart the 90 men were spread out thru the woods in a skirmish line and given an objective near the three houses for the climax of their strategy.
 It was as dark as pitch and the men crawled and scrambled thru the un- derbrush toward the said objective. As they neared it the inhabitants of the three houses became aware that strange figures were coming toward them.
 Then the charge of the Guards and the retreat of the inhabitants began simultaneously. With loud yells the Guardsmen leaped forward against the "foe" The frightened negroes, with visions of a German invasion, took out for parts unknown, scatter ing to the four winds.
 After half hours work by the guardsmen the negroes were rounded up and assured that the soldiers were "home boys.'
 "Lawdee," said one negress, with a child still under each arm. "I sho thought de Germans was on us"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
Yankees Laugh as Hun Hurl
 Thousands of Gas Shells
Germans Big Guns Work Overtime in Effort to Dis courage Americans From Preparing Ad-
 vance Lines but Fail.

assembling for a crossing of the Vesle.
 At some places along the highways the Germans would start planting shells in zigzag line for mile or -so and back again. often dropping them every twenty or thirty feet and then repeating the process along the objective, for which they were aiming.
 Yankees Laugh At Elm.
 South of Bazoches, where the Ger mans tried this trick, they fired a lighter gas first, following it up with sneeze gas, and suddenly switching to more powerful poison gas, hoping to catch the allies mapping. The men, however, have learned to discern the various varieties of shells and have regular systems of sending word along the line for their protection. Today likewise there happened to be south wind which carried the gas back across the Vesle and after put ting on their masks for each attack, the gas was blown back.
 Meanwhile the American and French heavy guns to the south were sending in repeated salvos and the Germans were supplementing their gas shelling with mine throwers and machine guns north of the Vesle. These smaller weapons were kept working full time in the hope of keep ing clear the south banks of the ri- yer. Darkness came and with it more rain. The Germans kept pounding away after darkness, but for every shell the enemy sent in the Americans sent across half dozen or more and never said goodnight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07

With the American Army on the Vesle, Aug. 6.-(S a. m. By The Associated Press. )-The Germans along the line opposite the Americans west of Fishes used their guns free ly yesterday afternoon in an appar- ent attempt to discourage the Ameri- cans and their French allies from fur ther aggressive efforts.
 The Germans were handicapped in this effort by the weather conditions. It was misty and at times rainy, and although German ballons were up they must have been unable to report accurately. About afternoon the Germans began trying other methods to get the range for their heavy guns. Many shells which threw out black smoke upon exploding were hurled toward cross roads and other objectives to guage the range from the smoke clouds.
 But the mist likewise hampered ac- curacy in observations on these shells and after wasting numbers of them the attempt was abandoned. =
 Gas Shells Fail.
 Late in the afternoon the Germans began using mustard gas, sneeze gas and some chocolate gas-so named from the fodor. These gas attacks were ineffective, the American gas drills having taught the troops all the German tricks.
 Nevertheless the Germans were persistent. They combed the hills bor- dering the Vesle with gas shells, en- deavoring to reach the roads leading to Fishes and other points where they thought the allies might b,'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07

tubes, two in the bow and one aft, and carried ten torpedoes. She was also armed with gun for shell fire just forward of the coming tower.
 My first meal aboard the U-boat consisted of stew made with stringy meat, probably horseflesh, supple mented by small portions of sausage with black bread. As the voyage pro- gressed this bread became mildewed and uneatable, and then some bread of lighter color, which had been kept in dramatically sealed receptacles, were served, but was even more un- palatable than the black bread. The coffee was made of burned barley and acorns. The commander and officers of the U-boat fared as the lower rat ings, but were able to supplement their allowances with timed ham and other canned food"
 As the submarine was forced to keep below. the waters surface a great deal of the time life aboard the submarine was anything but pleas ant.
 "The eboat sweated and al lspare clothing became saturated with mois- ture, while the atmosphere often be- came foul and breathing difficult" he asserted. "While we were sub merged the crew would start the gramaphone. That machine supplied the music which was played triumph antly when the U-boat got another victim. Really the sinking of any merchantmen caused that crew as much joy as if the members had sunk a war ship.
 "One night there was more than the usual amount of rejoicing and the gramaphone's liveliest airs were play ed. The Germans had torpedoed an oil tanker which, according to the com mander, sank in thirty seconds. could not help wondering at the mentality of men who could rejoice at such a thing, knowing that without giving them the slightest chance of defend ing themselves or escaping they had sent innocent sailors to their death.
 "The next day we seemed to be out of the track of steamers, and l went into the coming tower and saw the officers amusing themselves by shoot ing at gulls or empty bottles.
 By this time the submarine evi- dentlv had reached the extreme out ward point of her voyage, and we started on our return trip to Helgo- land. Three Norwegian ships were stopped for the purpose of obtaining fresh food. Soon after this there was much excitement when it was ascer- tained that there was a British sub- marine in our vicinity. By listening the crew could hear the enemy subma- rine, and the Germans feared she was going to attack us. We submerg- ed and eventually lodged the British vessel.
 "The U-boat was equipped with powerful wireless apparatus, and each evening, providing the weather ano other conditions were favorable,( the German commander remained on the waters surface in wireless communi cation with his base"
 The British captain finally arrived in Helgoland, and afterward was transferred to Brandenburg. Even tually he was taken to Switzerland and released, reaching England on June 19.
 And now the captain is getting ready to go to sea again.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
SEEK FLOURLESS LOAF

Amsterdam, Aug. 6.-Experiments to perfect flourless loaf of take the place of bread have been recently conducted in Germany according to word received in Amsterdam.
 Advices from Berlin say that the Workmen's Food Control Commission has successfully carried on the ex- periments with the result that bread without flour was made. The eXperi- ments are said to have been satisfac- tory. The formula for the new bread substitute is not given.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-07
WAR IS INCREASING
 CRIME IN GERMANY

Amsterdam, Aug. Correspondence of The Associated Press).-War has caused an increase of crime anad de- pravity among the German people, ac- cording to an analysis published by the Berlin Vorwaerts. The paper re- calls that at the beginning of the war prophets spoke of "steel bath" in the waters of which the morals of the German people would recuperate.
 Since August 4, 1914" says the Vorwaerts, i've have allowed the blessings of this bath to act on us with steadily increasing vigor and the re- suit is a moral condition of health of the German people, of which the compilations of criminal statistics give convincing reports. These tell ns of the steadily increasing number of crimes of brutality. and serious crimes against property and a glance tat any newspaper confirms the hor- ribly increasing number of robberies and burglaries in the cities anad as we'll as in rural districts. Systemati- cally organized and methodically op- erating bands of robbers menace continually life and property of 're- spectable' citizens.
 Also honesty of the latter has suf- fered perceptible crack and here the influence of the steel bath is di- rectly proved. We do not fear that We are disclosing anay state-endan- gering secret when we announce the fact that at present there probably are few German subjects who have not in some more or less serious manner violated the existing government de- crees and laws and made themselves liable to punishment"
 The Vorwaerts then cites the in- stances of the citizen. who on Sum- days goes to the country to buy food for hOarding purposes, of the proud wife of the owner of a large estate. whose chickens Hay" eggs only for a mark apiece, of the wife of the first lieutenant who sells the food articles received from her husband at the front at fancy prices and the army 3f usurers, secret traders and fOrgers.
 The Vorwaerts then dwells on the effects of the steel bath on the grow ing generation and cites complaints by the clergy and attackers to show that depravity is one of its results.
 The paper calls attention to what it describes as the fruits of the best education as shown during the Ra- deck-Bernstorff libel casae." It adds: "When refined cavaliers of the most prominent society apply the most common names to each other and box each others ears, then no one has the right to claim for one certain class, dency and wellJbehavior.
 "Tbe steel bath exerts its effects on everyone and splashes over the home oe the proletariat as we'll as over the playroom in the family of the count" concludes the Berlin publication.