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The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23
ARMY '. ". G.. 4. MOTIFS


\ most delightful concert boy the
2ilh Infantry Band was rendered
thursday evening at the "I'' open
air entertainment place. durinG
which Major Lewis n, Ball of the
i.ih CAVIAR, delivered q most >plen-
lid address nn "srrNicr."
MAJOR Hall was very much apprc-
lated by bath soldiers aud civilians
of whom there were present about
1875.
Hear the l2th Cavalry Band next
Thursday evening. Everybody wei
romc Polk e.. webb. Camp Sec.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

Judge Alvin y White of silyc.
lily is out for the democratic nom
nation for district judge of the di-
tricl composed Of Grant and Lun
counties. Judge H. r. Ryan "a,
present incumbent, Is also ont 10.
he nomination.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

Nj and Mrs. Ivan Hobbs ot Ala
musa, Colorado announce the arr
val of a baby boy on August 1911
Mrs. W |. Hobbs. mother of Iva
Hobbs Is In Alumosa, hut will 70
turn home about september T.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23
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Born 10 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lon
don. "Wednesday night, August 2ist,
q scyen-pound hahy girl Mother
aud child doing nicely.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

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Three houses containing fifteen
rooms. now rented aud returning
better than 81 q interest ON price
asked Four lots included. Also
seven vacant lots east part of town.
Robert Flack II
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

Lieutenant Bauman Path Infantry
returned from a visit to Chicago on
August i2lh bringing back his
bride.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23
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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION

W. y
An examination for the position
Of clerk In the poslofilce will be-
held M this city on September a.
Applicants must be- citizens Of thc
United States between The ages oi
ls aud - years ou th" date of thr
examination
Applicants must be- plysirally
sound and male applicants must b,
not less than s feet { inches ir
height IN bare feet and welsh moi
less than - pounds without over
coat ar hat
For application blanks and far.
'hcr information relative In tins cN-
animation addrc,. No" l.ucal S"rr"-
lary. Board of {. ;. Ci,il Sorylc,
Examiners. Columbus. y. ".
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

DO your two bits every day Buy
a thrift stamp.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23
clRNnAL NEIs JUNIOR
HED CROss SG'



The CARNIVAL given hy the Junior
Rcd Cru-s Wa, . very successful af
fair. The Chamber Of Commerce
luildlug Wa, beautifully dcroralro
aud i've hooll,s were arranged on the
sides of the building where ico
cream. case, pi",. Valormrlnu-. etc
were sold, DauCiu- was enjoyed iu
M" r,ruiul lno q large watermelon
was auctiunod oil several times to
the highest bidder netting large
pront. Nnoul s1O wa, received dur
ing the doy about SOS of which was
profits
The young folks wish to thank
Those Who so generously patruullrt
the affair, aud the merchants, mosI
ell of whom gave something from
his lno of merchandise needed, ih.
ladies for their pies, cakes and can
dies, aud the 18th cavalry and IN,
Path Infantry bands for lhrir music
and also those who took part IN IA,
program.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-23

Buy ThriII SUNNI every day.
The sun., 1918-08-25
MAIDS TO "HOLD UP"
JAMAICA MOTORISTS
Will Collect 81 From Each
for Hospital Fund.

4 hold up" game will be played on
roads leading to Jamaica, l. T., for ''-'
days beginning Friday at lu \ VI ~
l25 of the faireSt damsels Of queens.
borough, who will be CARRIED e "lte
and will have their hair tied VIII re1
white and blue gibbons. They have
pledged themselves to stop every motor
list on the roads and collect g rom
each for the automobile amhular'" 'Nhd
os st. Marys Hospital, Jamaica The
need $4,000 and they are Go.a; ~ gel
lift the traffic is heavy enough
A pass will be given 70 every '""''o'
uting motorist to be stuck on his WIG
shield, allowing access 10 roads iI''h'
on without challenge from IL, far Sc
tries The campaign viii last '1r7as"
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Ds NJ
Day, The girls have announced 'st, I'D.
roads of Long Island are in eN'e'.,.'
condition for driving, and they nave
notion that once the public hear ""A
they are up to the dust OF the tpiFls'
will not settle on the Jamaica highways
from day TO day.
James j. Munro of Richmond N'.I ne
only man connected with the affair ;.
far as could be learned. is tN'r Ns
stations at which the girls ". 'a"'
The ladies auxiliary OF ~, Ma - pos,
ptal is directly in charge Of 'I" .'"'
paign.
The sun., 1918-08-25
RUSSELLITES WILL
DESERT BROOKLYN
Conviction Of Leaders as Draft
INSTRUCTORS Impairs Their
Usefulness.

The Russellites. who have for years
leaders we're sentenced recently as draft
Instructors to twenty years imprison-
ment in the Atlanta Federal prison. in
tend to leave Brooklyn. DR.. Walter e.
Spill. vice-president Of the Peoples Pull
pit Association. the local body. admitted
yesterday that. after a conference in
which the imprisoned leaders particle
pated, such a step had been decided
upon.
As a first step in this plan the old
Brooklyn Tabernacle at 10 to II Hicks
street has been sold TO the Cameron Ma
chine Company. Inc. for $4,000. Much
Of the Office furniture, a. The Bsthei"
at 122 and 124 Columbia Heights has
been sold. DR.. Spill said the organiza-
ton still owns this extensive property
but indicated it might be disposed Of at
any time.
When DR.. Spill was asked If the or
ganization intended to establish head
quarters in Atlanta. where Leader Jo-
seph F. Rutherford and six of his CO.
workers are imprisoned, he said:
II do not believe that the organization
will establish headquarters In Atlanta
To me 1t does not appear that that place
would be Just the right place TO go to-
We have considered many places and on
many occasions reached what looked like
a final decision only to have our inten-
tons changed at the last moment"
The organization feels that the prose-
cution in Brooklyn of it's chief officials
and their conviction has greatly impeded
1t In the pursuit of its religious work.
The sun., 1918-08-25
TABLEAUX PORTRAY HERoISM.
Patriotic Display in Windows Of
Marshall Field a Co.

The heroic spirit of Belgium. Italy
France, Great Britain and the United
States is appealngly pictured in five al
legorical tableaux on display in the
show windows OF Marshall Field & Co.,
manufacturers and converters. on Broad
way at Twenty-fourth street. They were
designed and executed by the firms win
dow stan. were displayed in the retail
store in Chicago during the last Liberty
Loan drive and have been brought to
New York to help the next drive here
The Fuel Administration has given per-
mission for illumination OF the windows
on Friday and Saturday nights each
week. to benefit those who cannot see
the tableaux in the daytime
The purpose of the artists who ar
ranged the tableaux is TO portray the
attitude OF each nation in the war as
manifested by its standard bearer. The
figure representing the United States ex-
presses this sentiment:
THAT men everywhere may breathe
the air OF human freedom, that nations,
weak and helpless. may no longer be
vandalized and trodden down; that the
world may become forever safe from the
tyranny of militarism-the American boy
with Old Glory goes over the top, and
In the glare OF world on fire we shall
not fail to see him. day on day, in the
unfiinching van with those who carry
on to final victory"
The sun., 1918-08-25
PLAN TO BAR ALIEN
ENEMIES ON COAST
35 Mile Zone From Matawan
Creek to South of Point
Pleasant, n. j., Proposed.

A proposal to create an alien enemy
barred zone thirty-f1ve miles long from
Matawan Creek to the MetedeconE
River south of Point Pleasant, on the
New Jersey coast, was discussed yes.
terday at meeting of Representatives
of the army. navy and Attorney-Geuera,
with Rufus w. Sprague, Jr., chief Of The
New York port enemy alien bureau. The
proposed zone will extend from one 10
two miles inland, and will be barred 70
enemy aliens without permits
The possibility OF persons on shore
communicating with German submarine
leads to the proposal for coast barred
zone. Many German aliens engaged IN
truck farming will he affected If the zone
is created The conference yesterday
was the first of n series and nothing
definite was decided upon
Among the officials present were
Major Marston of Governors Island
United States Marshal BollschweH.'r -
the northern district of New Jersey am
Commander Rittman of the N,N YoGN
navy yard.
The sun., 1918-08-25
LONG ISLAND COAL
DEALERS PROTEST
Charge FaUoritism Toward
One Company.

A largely attended meeting Of dis
gruntled Long Island coal dealers was
held yesterday In the court house at
Mineola to protest against alleged unfair
practices Of the Fuel Administrator Of
Nassau county in permitting a Long ISL
and coal compsny to receive 200 cars Of
anthracite. Resolutions were adopted
asking for an investigation by D. w.
Cook, the Fuel Administrator for New
York State.
William N. Zane Of william g. Zane
q Sons of Oyster Bay. said that one
company received 200 cars Of anthracite
In April. whereas his own firm had been
unable to get a pound.
ut appears that the Fuel Administra-
tor Is actually soliciting business" he
asserted. THE people and the dealers
as well have to buy from one company
because there Is no other coal availabl
and the result is that we dealers have
been almost frozen out OF business"
J. w, Birch of Merritt raid he wrote
to Irving C. Cox. Fuel Administrator OF
Nassau county, asking aid in getting
coal. and received an answer In which
Mr.. Cox advised him not to continue In
the business under present conditions.
A general question put to the meeting
by w. H. Brown of the Long Island
Fuel Association. asking IL any of the
members of the dealers association had
received any aid from the Fuel Admin
istrator. Wac met with a loud and ex-
p,osive negative.
The sun., 1918-08-25
ORDERS /. X. T. TO END
GREENSBORO JAMS
Magistrate Fines Two Men
Who Dodge Paying Fares.

Magistrate Kochendorfer Of the Long
Island City court partly, but only partly,
sympathized with the I, r. T. yesterday
after he had imposed fines of 81 each
on two workmen who in the rush hour
fought their way aboard an elevated
train near the Greensboro Bridge and
finally succeeded in getting in through
the exit door without paying their fare.
Reports that reached the Magistrate
were that a general row took place re-
sulting from this action. Three men
were arrested, one of whom after spend
ing several hours in jail received a sus-
pended sentence. After handing out the
two 81 fines. Magistrate Kochendorfer
sat down and addressed a communica-
ton to Frank A. Hedley. general man.
aser OF the lnterborough.
He said that $4,000 people quit work
for the day between and s 80 in the
section of Long Island City abutting
the bridge and that the burden of
handling them without trouble is upon
the company.
ut seems to me-" he said, that the
situation can be remedied without an
noyance to your company and incon-
venience to the passengers II you would
have an additional ticket chopper on
duty at each station at the rush hour.
feel that the people who use your lines
are entitled to some consideration and
II is my desire to see that justice is
done to all concerned"
The sun., 1918-08-25
QUEENS BOY SAVED
COMPANY BY DASH
WardWell Dexter Won Cross
in Defying Barrage.

Another thrilling chapter was written
yesterday into the frsgmentary history
of the 165th Infantry, which has been
filtering back to this country from
France. This concerns the heroism of
Private wardwell Dexter OF Company
C. who during the engagement around
Chateau Thierry saved his company from
humiliation by dashing through a Ger
man barrage and bringing up reinforce
ments. Two messengers had been killed
in attempting the trip. He came through
the ordeal with his life and the Dis
tinguished Service Cross.
Dexter's mother, Mrs. William Dexter,
OF Mott and Ely avenues. Long Island
City. heard the story yesterday from
Eugene Halpin. top sergeant in her sons
company. Halpin returned to this coun-
try recently with twelve other non-com-
missioned officers from the 165th to act
as instructors and drill masters.
I'VE had taken a TRENCH" Sergeant
Halpin told Mrs. Dexter, IT do not
know which one 1t was but we were
fighting around Chateau Thierry at the
time. The Germans tried their old game
They laid down a tremendous barrage
and with heavy reenforcements were pre-
pairing to counter attack. 1t was die,
retreat OF reenforcements for us. We
did not want to die, we would not re-
treat. so We sent for reenforcements.
THE telephone was out Of order 80
we sent one man. Later we sent an
other. Finally Dexter started out He
found the two. other men on the way
and later we buried them where they
lay. He made his way to the reserves
When assured of reenforcements Dexter
started back to tell his officer that help
was on it's way. We held that trench"
The sun., 1918-08-25
FORTY CENT HAIR CUT
ZONE AGREED UPON
Manhattan BARRIERS Scorn
Lou Prices of The Bronx.

The Bronx BARRIERS may fix the price
of haircuts at Is cents, but the rest OF
New York will have to pay 40 cents or
go long haired. That was the vital point
contained In the announcement OF George
Durant. secretary OF Journeymen Bar
bers Local $50. yesterday. in stating that
he had the strike in Manhattan below
Fifty-ninth street we'll in hand.
Mr.. Durant said that the backing Of
Or. Joseph Rerk Of 1856 Broadway and
other millionaire BARRIERS" has been OBJ
tained TO bring about an amicable ad-
Justment OF hours and wages. Peace
will be restored in tonsorial parlors on
Monday. he predicted. or at least by
midweek. His statement was seconded
by H. p. Apgar, president OF the local,
who said that ninety-five Manhattan
boss BARRIERS had accepted the terms of
the strikers and 700 journeymen would
be at their chairs on Monday.
I'VE want to make ourselves inde-
pendent of tips and not objects OF
charity" President Apgar asserted.
The wage scale which the boss BARRIERS
are asked to pay is SIS a week for street
shops, with half over s25 taken In by
any one barber; SIC a week for hotel
shops, with half over $50 taken in.
Mr.. Durant wished II understood that
the Manhattan strike has nothing to do
with The Bronx. He said that no self
respecting barber would entertain the
notion of is cent haircuts.
The sun., 1918-08-25
TENANTS APPEAL TO GOVERNOR
He Refuses to Go Into Matter of
Rent Administrator.

A committee from the Tenants League
Of New York City waited on Gov. Whit
man yesterday at the Hotel st. Regis
and interviewed him on the rent situa-
ton here.
The Governor refused to call a spe-
cial session OF the Legislature to con-
slider the renting problem, but promised
the committee he would give the Ten
ants League his moral support and con-
slider the various bills which will be for
warded to the Legislature at the regu-
lar session in January. 1t was sug-
gested that rent administrator be
appointed, but the Governor refused to
20 into the matter and promised to
grant a lengthier interview at the Exec
utive Mansion In Albany.
The sun., 1918-08-25
INSANITY SAVES 2
FROM DEATH CHAIR
Lunacy Of Pair, in Cells for
Condemned, Discovered by
Sing Sing Doctor.

Conrad Hart Of Brooklyn and Earl
Austin Of Canandaigua. two convicted
murderers In Sing Sing were taken from
the death house yesterday to an insane
h. pitaL Both will escape the electric
chair.
The men owe their lives to Lieut.
Amos o. Squire. U. 8. NJ. official prison
physician. who during his visits to the
condemned cells found they showed
traces Of insanity DR.. Squire so re-
ported to Gov. Whitman. who designated
Drs. Pilgrim. Kieb and Smith Of various
State hospitals as a commission Of allen
lists to investigate DR.. Squire's report
They bore out what DR.. Squire said. and
the Governor commuted both prisoners
and ordered them removed to the Dame
mora State Hospital at Dannemora
prison.
Besides being irrational. Hart has
been growing weaker for months and
only weighed ninety-two pounds when
moved. A while ago the Governor
granted him a three months stay when
il was reported that the murderer was
predisposed to tuberculosis and would
live only a short. time.
Hart was convicted of killing Mary B.
Edwards in Kings county in September,
1917. Austin murdered a farmer and a
woman III Ontario county a year ago.
Both slayers are 80 years old.
The sun., 1918-08-25
REPORT THREE MORE
VICTIMS OF U-RAIDS
Transfer of CreU at Sea Told
by Coast Guards.

A report which furnishes strong evil
dence of additional ravages of enemy
submarines along the Atlantic seaboard
was brought to All Atlantic port last
night by coast guardsmen from Il nearby
station During the afternoon, they
said, they saw two steamers some dis
lance out from the station stop abreast
OF each other while one OF them. APP
parently foreigner. transferred seven
or eight men to the other
The ship to which the men were
transferred was headed for an Atlantic
port; the other was outward bound.
The shift occurred about three miles
from shore, too far for the Identity of
either vessel to be established.
The coast guardsmen are convinced the
small group Of men form a part of the
crew OF some vessel recently DESTROYED
by U-boat Although the crews OF all
ships known 10 have been sunk within
the last few days have been accounted
for at least three unidentified ships, two
of them schooners, according to a re-
liable report, have been sunk.
The captain OF a coastwise sailing ship
which reached an Atlantic port Friday
said he passed an overturned steel yes
sci about 500 feet in length. the dis
mantled hull of a schooner and n sunken
four masted schooner, the masts OF which
were protruding just above the waters
surface. y
The sun., 1918-08-25

He thinks. he says, that the residential
section Of the town Is unlikely to have
been picked as the spot for the murders
when comparatively lonely stretches OF
road were so near at hand.
Thompson supports his theory by
pointing to the story OF Patrolman
James Lynch. who saw the motor car
speed past him as he was standing In
front of the Railway Bank. short dis
lance from the Pennsylvania station and
DR.. Moore's home. This was within a
few seconds Of the time Kupfer's body
had been thrown from the automobile,
end Lynch says 1t back fred twice as II
passed him. the reports sounding exactly
like revolver shots. The motor car
slowed down, and, believing that It had
been stolen because of the speed 1t had
been making. Lynch mounted his BIZ
cycle and started In pursuit. But be-
fore he had gone more than $50 yards
the automobile started again and passed
over the bridge, back firing continually
until It was out Of sight and hearing.
The possibility that Kupfer and Miss
fanny had taken some one with them
when they left the Highland Park Inn,
run by Rudolph Oscarwald, at 1:15 A.
NJ. Thursday was eliminated yesterday by
Oscarwald himself He said he had
closed his establishment at midnight
and that the place was deserted when
the young couple started away.
Mrs. Oscarwald said Miss fanny was
greatly worried over the lateness Of the
hour and asked to be permitted to re-
main with her all night. sleeping in the
bungalow near the roadhouse. Mrs.
Oscarwald told the girl that It would be
better for her to 60 home-no matter
what her mother might say-than to
wait until morning and then appear.
showing plainly to the neighbors that
she had been out all night.
The sun., 1918-08-25
7 ARRESTS MADE IN
ROOF PROPAGANDA
Six Men and q Young Woman
Accused Of Distributing
SeditiOus Literature.

A young woman and six men were ar
rested yesterday in a raid on an East
104tir street house that is said to have
been tho headquarters Of the Boishevik
group that has been distributing sedi-
tious literature. The raid followed an
uprising" that disturbed the East Side
Friday night and eliminated in a riot
outside the New Star Casino in East
10th street.
For several weeks Government agents
have been trying to trace the source of
an apps rently inexhaustible fiow of lit
erature attacking the President and the
policy OF the United States toward the
Bolsheviki. Hundreds of pamphlets
have fiuttered from the roofs to lodge
Side.
The raid on the 10th street apart
ment was made by. agents of the De-
partment of Justice. military police and
a squad Of Police Department detectives
attached to the Army Intelligence Blu
reau. Inspector Tunney was in charge.
The following persons were arrested :
Nollie Czymer. waistmaker: Gabriel
Trober. bookbinder. Borough Park.
Brooklyn; Jacob Abrams. paper cutter.
5 East 104th street: Jacob Schwartz.
bookbinder. s East 104th street; Samuel
Lipman. furrier, 29o Brook avenue. The
Bronx: Hyman Rosansky. hatmaker. 70
East 10th street, and Lyman Lachow-
sky. book binder. 1877 Monroe street.
The police said that all the prisoners
came from Russia and that none has
been in this country more than eight
years.
Copies OF seditious pamphlets were
found as we'll as copies OF Blast. an an
archist publication. The pamphlets we're
printed in English and Yiddish. The po-
lice say they also found weapons and
forged draft cards.
The prisoners were arraigned before
Samuel NJ Hitchcock. United States
Commissioner. charged with conspiring
to violate the espionage law. They were
held in $4,000 bail each for a hearing.
Three women and two men who were
arrested during the riot outside the New
Star Casino. were sentenced to serve two
days in the workhouse by Magistrate
Pollock in the Harlem court yesterday.
The women were Clara and Sophia Kess-
Ter, sisters. 214 Forsyth street, and Jep-
ME Konder of Frelinghuysen road. STU
ten Island. The meh were Peter Shap-
tro. IS. of 319 East Ninety-ffth street.
and Abraham Kakiro, 3S. of 81 East
131st street.
Tony Ronolsky of 1913 Madison street
was held for examination to-day. His
bail was fixed at $1,000.
The sun., 1918-08-25
BRONX GIRL GONE;
POLICE BAFFLED
May Foral Vanished Aug. 2,
Leaving No Trace.

May Foral. 16. Of 3l7 East 150th
street. The Bronx, has been missing
from her home since Wednesday. Au-
gust Z. and all efforts Of the police and
the missing persons bureau to find her
have been without avail.
The girl was employed in a cigar fac
tory in East 14oth street and on the
day OF her disappearance left for work
at the usual hour. When evening came
and she did not arrive home her brother
Ralph, with whom she lived, called the
manager of the factory on the telephone
and found she had not been there that
day. He Immediately communicated with
the police. About two weeks previous.
neighbors say. thAy saw May occasion
ally speak to two men. in the neighbor-
hood. Immediately after the girls dis
appearance the men vanished also.
When she left home May wore a dark
brown dress. black shoes and no hat.
She has dark brown hair, weighs about
400 pounds and is about Ave feet two
inches in height.
The sun., 1918-08-25
TRAVIS CASE TO BE APPEALED.
states Highest Court VIII SIT
Tuesday to Hear II.

Notice of appeal from the decision of
the Appellate Division overruling JUS
tice Cropsey. who declared void the petit
ton of Eugene M. Travis for renomina-
ton as Comptroller because the sigma
lures of the notaries public had not
been authenticated, was filed yesterday
by Louis J. Altkrug. counsel for John
Kissel.
Mr.. Atkrug telegraphed to the clerk
OF the Court Of Appeals in Albany sd-
vising him of the filing OF the paper and
asking that a date be set for a hear
ing. The court previously had agreed
to sit on Tuesday.
1t was the opinion % Mr.. Altkrug that
he would not need special permission to
go to the higher court. as he asserted
the prohibition against an appeal with
out such permission in cases bf unani-
nous decision by the Appellate Division
ran only where 1t was an unanimous
affirmance.
-. am we'll pleased over the deci-
sion." said Comptroller Travis yester-
day. II wish to thank my various friends
throughout the State for their offers of
assistance"