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The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-17
AVIATOR ESCAPTD.

Cuicago, oct l6-LicuCcuant Fraul
iiewellyu. of Quincy Ill, toll Nhil'
bombing the German lines east OF tb'
Mouse, beyond ConscuvOyc. hie aero
plane having been riddled with bullet.
.accordus TO a special dispatch to th'
Daily News today The machine drop
ped into a shell hole IN No Man.
Laud and LleWellyn managed to ciudt
the Germans until dark when he es-
capped to the American lines
The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-17
ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON
LIFE OF LEVINE

Amsterdam, Oct l6.-AnOther at
tempt has been made upon the lite Of
Nikolai i4enine, the Bolsheviki premier
according TO Leipzig ADend Ieitung
General Anzegers KEY correspond
ent. Lenine received a bullet in the
shoulder from a revolver in the hands
OF NJ. DIV ani;zke, Of the information
bureau OF the soviet Dwanitzke was
arrested.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-17

II ms was Nav y LAY IN tue cam pas
and on batleshpe and at land stations
Throughout the world, Americn sailors
and naval officers turned in pledges
of part OF their small earnings to help
pay the expenses Of the war Even
without todays additions, the navy
has already subscribed more than So
000.0 600, Rear Admiral T, J, Co"ie.
navy Liberty ioan officer, told Soc
rotary McAdoo today
The secretary. who has three sons
in the navy, then proceeded to "matcn
the navy" with another 800 aubscript-
ion for himself
For the fighting men ON land, Brs-
adler General Lord, army Liberty ioaa
officer. reported that soldiers. GXclus
live of the American 1itionary
frees. had bought s31,00u000 in bonds
Iup to last Monday, and CAPTAIN Rob
ert w. Daniel, assistant army Liberty
loan officer. estimated tails would be
raised to $f5.0o0,000 by the END Of
the week,
This means" said a war depart
ment announcement, that the army
will buy of this loan double the amount
subscribed to the third Liberty loan
A telegram received from Fort Oglc-
thorpe. Georgia, stated that numbers
.of interncd German prisoners wished
TO invest in fourth Liberty bonds
Permission was given by y Mitchell
Palmer, alien property custodian.
Reports from all sections of the
country today show that railroad men
had subscribed for Sl09.63S,000 ri the
close Of business October II.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
THE CRIMES
OF GERMANY
Taken From Official In
quiries of the
Allies

(Note-Specific violations of in
ternational law by Germany, as
shown by official reports and deposi-
tions from actual witnesses in Bel
gium.)
Postoffice official (D-S5), Weerde
i saw two little children (girls)
three or four years old, standing be-
side the road with a woman who
appeared to be their mother. AS
the Germans came up two of them
drove their bayonets thru the bodies
of the two children killing them.
Close beside the road there was a
small far mhomestead burning, and
the bodies of the two children were
pitched into the flames by the SOL
diers who killed them.
Belgian Soldier (D-SS) Eppeghem
At Eppeghem, in the middle of
September, | saw the dead body of a
child about two years of age GUS
side the village ear the road to
Vilvorde. A German lance, similar
to those used by Uhlans and other
German cavalry, was in the child's
body, and was stuck into the ground
thru the body.
Belgian Soldier (D-94) Boort-
Meerbeek-l and my two comrades
were at the spot where the three
crosses are marked. We saw Ger
man soldier come out of the wood
and fire three separate times at a
little girl of from four to six years
of age who was at the point marked
A. Seeing that he failed to hit the
child by firing at her and that she
stood quite still he ran at her and
bayoneted her in the stomach. AT
the sight of this we rushed up, and
the German soldier threw up his
hands as sign of surrender, but |
killed him with the butt end of my
rife.
British Soldier (L-18) France
One day at the beginning of Septem-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
THERE IS MONEY /
in DANDELION'
Government is Ready 4
Pay well for Despiss
Yellow Pest; Needle
for Medicinal Proper
ties; Other Weed
Common in Idaho q
Demand. IN

Idaho owns a regular gold min6F
and thought that it was nothing but
a lot of yellow weeds. The lOw1y#
dandelion has come into it's own. Mr.
Fluharty, director of the UniverSity
of Idaho extension department, hAnM
received a communication from as1NI
eastern chemical concern quoting Nm
price of % cents pound for The
dried roots of the lowly, despisedH
dandelion plant Some one remarkedA
when he heard it that it was unfor-
tunate that the city of Boise did not
purchase Columbia park, since the
dandelion proceeds there would beN
sufficient to absorb the next LibertXN
loan. MIA
The demand is based on the shortxN
age of crude botanical drugs as evil
denced by the prices they commando
The dandelion root is the source OfH
these drugs and since the foreignS
particularly the German, supply has
been cut off the price has gone sOarAs
ing. The military demand must be-
met and the government has placedN
large contracts with chemical con-
Germs for the supplies. Farming dis
tricts are being counted upon to pro
vide the material. No experience or
capital is necessaryeto harvest the
weeds; the demand is inexhaustibl0s|
There is an element of patriotisM
in gathering the weeds and with the
dandelion in particular every one
harvested to provide for the mediT
cinal demand will rid the state of one
more unsightly weed. Additional in
formation may be secured from Lee.
Fluharty, director of agricultural exx
tension at Boise. He will provide the
names of chemical concerns who are
under government contract and WILL
take any amount of material offered
In addition to the dadelion, there
are a number of other Idaho weeds
which have a similar medicinal
value. Some of them are: Skunk
cabbage leaves, with value Of 81
cents per pound; yellow mustard
seed, IL cents; MULLEN leaves, 2M
cents, and the dried flowers of white
and red clovers, which have value
of II and IA cents pound, respec-
lively. BS#
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02


vocating adoption of the plank, and
State Chairman Stephen D. Taylor
strongly recommended the same &C.
tion to the resolutions committee,
Senator l. E. Rockwell of Blaine
county a member of the committee,
fought the plank bitterly while the
committee was considering it, and
when he failed to secure its elimina-
ton he took the fight to the conven-
ton floor.
The debate flowed back and forth
for three-quarters of an hour. The
issue involved. briefly stated, was
whether or not the party desired to
take a stand for and in behalf of
state control of water power re-
sources. The Republican platform
advocates:
Country's supreme duty to win
the war; strong prO-American party
candidates; restoration of reclama-
ton service; protective tariff; pass
age of federal prohibition amend
ment; record of members of con-
gressional delegation; re-establish-
ment Of the office of labor commits
sioner; passage of good roads and
legislation strengthening fish and
game act; amendments to farm mar
ket bureau laws and strong farm
legislation; establishment of CO.
operative selling agencies; amend
ments to workmen's compensation
act providing for graduated in
creased benefits and state invest
ment bank; election of members of
public utilities commission; state
development of unused water
power and submission of constitu-
tional amendment to the people so
providing; passage Of federal amend
ment to constitution providing for
universal woman suffrage.
Condemns: Country's lack of pre-
paredness ON entering present war;
partisan and petty politics played by
Democrats, extravagances of public
officials and creation by Democrats
of many new offices; secret d.
plomacy as proposed by the present
administration.
Lemhi, Custer, Boundary and
Lewis counties were not represented
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02

Der on the retreat from Mons we
passed thru small village. | do
not know the name of the village.
The regiment halted for about ten
minutes and | went into a kind of
back place which we used as a lat
rine. 1t was sort of yard behind
houses and was filled with rubbish.
On the ground were two boys
bodies. One was about eight and
the other would be five or six. The
bodies were lying together. The
hands had been cut off both bodies.
The stumps were torn and the blood
was black. About four feet away
from the bodies was the body of
a girl about ten years old. She had
a jagged wound in the stomach.
Brisish Non-commissioned Officer
U-2) SCISSORS, France.-We were
searching the houses for German
stragglers. The first house in the
village l entered with section was
farmhouse; it seemed to belong to
we'll to do man. We found in it
the cOrpses of a man As or SO
dressed as farmer, the woman of
about 40, and two girls, one eighteen
and one thirteen, and boy about
eight. They were all lying in the
kitchen shot, and all fell against the
same wall.
British NOn-commissioned Officed
U-3) Marine, France-We were
searching a village for patrol of
Uhlans at $50 p. ma small village
of about fifty houses. We found
them in a house; about ten got out
side, but we did not let them get to
their horses and we killed them all.
On the ground floor in the front
room, it was a house of about six
rooms, there were twenty Uhlans,
who Immediately put up their hands
and we took them prisoners. On the
floor in the corner near the fireside
| saw two women and two children.
One was dead the one | judged to be
the elder. Her left arm had been
cut off just below the elbow. The
younger woman was just alive, but
quite unconscious. Her right leg
had been cut off above the knee.
The boys left hand was cut off at
the wrist and the girls right hand
at the same place.
British Soldier (L-1S) Retreat
from Mons remember we put up
for that night at Chailvet. The
Uhlans must have been thru it. We
saw women and children lying dead.
One or two of the bodies of women
had no heads.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
SPRINGFIELD

Milbry Pew spent Saturday night
with Mrs. Slater returning to Black
foot Monday. She spent Sunday In
Sterling attending to some business
for her parents, who are still at
Pioneer.
Mr.. Wilder was in BlackfOot on
business Saturday.
The community was given quite
a scare when DR.. McKinnon pro-
nounced that the little daughter Of
w. E. Wells, who is slowly recover
ing from her painful burns had
small pox. Many families had been
exposed and there was a wholesale
demand for vaccination. In a few
days the doctor found the small pOx
was a mistake, sores resembling
small pox having been made by I've
in the water into which the child
fell.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Snyder and
family made business trip to
Blackfoot Saturday.
An investigation Saturday by
several farmers headed by County
Agent Monroe found weevil in the
alfalfa fields of Armons Shelman
and in some neighboring fields. Tho
the weevil may not seriously affect
the alfalfa crop for few years un-
doubtedly it is very apt to spread and
become a pest as it has in Utah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Berg attended
chautauqua Sunday evening and
heard the fine lecture by Lincoln
Writ, the man who had been behind
the German lines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Shelman and
Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Chandler drove
to Blackfoot for the chautauqua per-
Torrance Monday evening.
DR.. McKinnon at his last visit to
Lilace Wells, who has been in bed
for three months with a bad case
of leakage of the heart, said she was
much improved, could sit up some,
and even take short rides in the
car. The many friends of Lilace
will rejoice over this news.
Alec Hiede brought charming
week and invites everyone to the big
public wedding dance Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Thomas and
Mrs. Kicks of Rexburg were guests
of w. w. Stephens Monday even
ing.
The Misses Veneta and Ruby Neil
son went to Blackfoot Monday to be
vacinated for small pox. Mrs. w.
w. Stephens accompanied them.
Miss Oral Blackburn spent Mon
day night with Miss Vera Stephens.
A farm bureau meeting was held
in Springfield Monday evening. M.
o. Monroe was down from Black
foot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02

all extend our heartfelt sympathies
to the ones left to greive the loss.
M. Jensen was in Kimball Friday
having some work done at Landon' s
blacksmith shop.
Mrs. Mamie Hess of Goshen was
visiting relatives here the last of the
week.
Albert Anthony is taking the treat
ment for rabies, as he was accident
ally bit by horse that was afflicted
by the dreaded disease. At the pres
ent writing he is getting along just
fine and the doctor thinks there is
no danger whatever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Frandsen came
down from the dry farm to attend
his fathers funeral.
Miss Eula Palmer has gone to
Boise, where she will attend summer
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Anthony and
daughter Minnie left for Lava Hot
Springs, where Mr.. Anthony will
take the baths for rheumatism, as
he has been laid up all spring.
Mrs. Jim Landon has been on the
sick list, but is on the improve at
present.
Quite number of young folks at
tended the movies at Blackfoot this
week, including Henry and Arthur
Landon and Miss Elva Sorensen.
Mrs. Agnes Williams visited at the
home of Rosa Jorgensen one day
this week.
Athol Frandsen is home from
Camp Funston, Kan, on account of
the death of his father.
Monday
Charlie Palmer has a new attach
ment on his motorcycle and it seems
to be quite an attraction for the
girls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Landon were
business visitors at Blackfoot Satur-
day.
We are very sorry to hear that
Moroni Mecham has been seriously
ill again and hope the reports are
true that he is getting better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Landon
spent Subway at the home of Jack
Landon.
The farmers of this community
were very pleased over the rain as
the ground was very dry and some
of the grain had started to burn,
but the storm will hold it until it
can be irrigated.
There has only been one or two
of the farmers of this neighborhood
that has had to replant any of the
beets; on the average the crops look
exceedingly well here.
POLITICAL PARTIES
AnOPT pTATENORN
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
LIGHTNING CAUSES BLAST \
Sets off Dynamite in Mine and
Men are Buried Under Debris

VIRGINIA., Mimi. - LightntnI
striking wires connecting dymar0
blasts all ready to be exploded in IA
Silver open pit mine of the M. ~
Hanna company, west of Virgin
Thursday caused the worst mn!
accident in the history of the Mesa
range. At least twenty men We
buried alive. There were $50 f19|
working and many were badly n
jured. Steam shovels and rescu|
crews are at work.
1t is said at least mint tons 4
dynamite exploded. Several tons y
powder near by was not set of.
The lightning struck the connes1
ing wires running into the differeu
drifts and in a twinkling the Who'll
rim of the pit seemed to lift up AM
settle in a great mass of rocks anl
earth, burying the men who wer
yet tinkering with the dynamite.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
KIMBALL

Mrs. James Nielsen and Mrs. Lii
liam Anthony were visiting with Mrs.
Myrtle Hepworth of Blackfoot the
first of the week.
Miss Laura Anthony gave pleas
ant party Thursday evening refresh
ments consisting of ice cream and
cake were served.
Bishop William Taylor and family
motored to Firth Friday.
The community mourns the loss
of Erastus Frandson, death COM
ing Thursday evening, caused by
rheumatism and heart trouble. We
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
POLITICAL PARTIES
ADOPT PLATFORM

Continued from page one
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02
SUFFERING FROM BROKEN

Little Norma Bever, daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Bever, fell fro
her tricycle. last week and broke N
arm. Not noticing where she WI
going while riding between the a
theatre and the Club cafe the tricyc
overturned breaking her arm. 81
is rapidly recovering. #
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02

GUM during the first months of the
war is fully described in this diary
DR.. Muehlon deals with the crueltie4
and denominations committed by Tho
Germans, quoting in CORPORATION The
statements of Krupp's representative
in Belgium, who was an eyewitness
of much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15
HUGE TASK IS FACED
BY TRANSPORT CORPS
Will Have Complete Control of
Personnel and Equipment Of
Motor Service.

The recent creation of the Motor
Transport Corps to take over from all
other corps complete control of all
motor vehicles in the Army will en-
tail the execution of plans of great
size and scope.
The Motor Transport Corps per-
sonnet and equipment with each
American Army will comprise nearly
as many men and officers as were en-
gagged on both sides in the battle of
Waterloo; enough motor trucks to
stretch in an unbroken line across
the state of Ohio if they were parked
end to end with five-foot spaces be-
tween them. and enough motor cycles
and other vehicles to stagger by their
mere numbers the masters of warfare
in any other times than these.
The actual number of men and Of
ficers provided by the Motor Trans
port Corps to each American Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15
PRESS Of ROME IS HOST
TO ME[WLLEE. STONE
Associated Press Chief Toasts King
Victor and the Italian
Army.

ROME, Thursday, September r.
The press Of Rome today gave a
luncheon in honor of Melville, E.
Stone, general manager of the Assoc
ciated Press, which took on the char
acter of demonstration of 1talo-
American friendship.
The guests included members of the
cabinet, senators, deputies and news
paper men, without distinction of
party. @
Premier Orlando sent a message
from the front to Mr.. Stone as a
tribute to the organization which the
guest of honor represented and prais-
ed the fraternal solidarity OF the
Italian. and American press as pre-
cious collaboration in the common
work"
the press association, welcomed MT
Stone in the name of the entire tai
If the treasury, speaking in the name
Of the government, expressed its
strong faith that the cooperation of
America in the war would lead to a
definite victory. He proposed toasts
to President Wilson ana the Ahefl-
can In Reply. Mr.. Stone expressed his
thanks in the name of his country,
rointing out that both Italy and
America were inspired in this war
niause. he proposed the health of King
Victor Emmanuel and toast to the
Italian army.
tation to Mr.. Stone Of an Italian flag,
on which the names of those present
we're inscribed. He said he would
take the flag to America and preserve
it as a memento.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15
JEWS IN UNITED STATES
SOL|DLy BACK OF WAR
New York's East Siders, Formerly
Reluctant, Now Eagerly Sup
port the Government.

Despite their native adherence of
.yar and militarism, the Jews of the
United States have become unit for
the war against Germany. The rea-
sons for this attitude have been ex-
amined by a writer in the American
Weekly Jewish News who concludes,
after discussion, that not only does
the heart of the East Side of New
York, the largest Jewish colony of
the world. beat, with America. but
that that particular section has ac-
tually become zone of the strongholds
of unadulterated Americanism.'
The reason for this Is the work of
education which has been carried on
among Jews since the war came to
America. 1t was brought home to the
people of the East Side that the United
States is not lighting for conquest,
but for freedom. Fighting for free
dom is .. thing<that the. Jew under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15


stands President Wilson's speeches
have been widely printed and dis
tributed by the Jewish newspapers.
Even the socialist papers admitted
that President Wilson is utterly sin
cere and that his conditions of peace
are almost exactly the conditions that
the socialists of the world demand;
while the editor of one anarchist
paper actually bought liberty bonds.
The enthusiasm and activities of the
Jewish population of the East Side OF
New York for the war are described
by the writer. in part, as follows:
"Since the third liberty loan a spirit
of patriotism and devotion to the
United States has swept across the
district and has enveloped every one;
lines of .demarcatfon between classes
have been obliterated by all-embrac-
ing fervor.. In the third liberty loan.
in the Red Cross campaign. in the war
savings and thrift stamp drives, in
the demonstrations and patriotic
pageantry of the Fourth OF Jury the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15
SAY AMENDMENT WILL WIN.
Democratic Women to Discuss SUI
frage With President Wilson.

Through the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, an
audience will be granted by the Presi-
dent at 2 o'clock Monday to depu-
tation of southern and western demo-
cratic women, in regard to sthe fed
eral suffrage amendment. Since the
interview was first arranged several
weeks ago its purpose has been
slightly changed. At that time these
women felt the need of greater help
from the President, whose support of
the measure has been constant and
open. But now women from the
south and the west bring the message
to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent Of the national association. of a
pronounced change in the attitude of
some of the senators and consequently
a change in their plans.
while we are not at liberty to make
the names public. yet we now ara
assured of the necessary backing to
put the measure through" Mrs. Gait
said. I'VE have reason to believe
that the passage of the amendment
at an early date will not be by
mere two-thirds vote, but will carry
several additional votes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-15
CITIES LEFT IN RUINS:
HOUSES EMPTY SHELLS
Country Along Nesle-Roye Highway One Vast
Cemetery-Description of the Havoc.
Wrought by Germans in France.

of bitches and she'll holes. and up and
down mine pits-is a labyrinth or
trenches, boyaux, smashed shelters,
immense bomb craters and stray
The terrain is one of the most des-
perately contested. in all France
From August, 1914, until March, 1917.
and again since March of this year, 1t
has been fought over foot by foot. 1t
is strewn with every variety of
testants during the past four years.
Where the quiet peasant village of
Crapeau Mesnil once stood are only
bitches and cellars half-flled with
brickbats, hunks Of metal, abandoned
ammunition. helmets and rags.
Leges Wood Blown Off Map.
Loges wood has been blown off the
map. and also Fresniers hamlet, Per-
haps the scene was all the more
hideous because the heavy rain on
Sunday night had washed away the
veil of dust such as that which COW
cred the battlefields north of the
ugliness that struck the eyes like a
blow. Parties of Italians, Annamites,
and black soldiers from Madagascar
We're working. trying to improve the
roads and to save whatever material
was possible, but otherwise the land
to Lassigny there is not single place
standing that would shelter a human
being, though perhaps some of the
dugouts, whose entrances offered an
extremely filthy prospect, are still
habitable.
Lassigny itself is a heap of bricks
and stones, around which trenches and
barbed wire entanglements extend for
miles in every direction. The poilus
carried the defenses inch by inch,
Notwithstanding the terrible, stubborn
defense of the Germans. These were
fairly beaten and forced to withdraw
My mind evidently is not of the same
cast as that of the German staff, for
1 am unable to see what military adj
vantages are gained by devastating
towns and villages and ravaging fields
and orchards. The Germans claim that
they did not desire to leave shelter for
war purposes, but the objection does
not hold good.
Just outside Of Ham and other
places l saw barracks constructed by
the French after the first German re-
treat that are still intact and capable
of housing great numbers of men and
animals. The Germans did not destroy
the barracks, because they knew they
could be replaced in a short time.
whereas. the wrecking of stone and
brick structures creates a damage
that will hamper France for years.