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Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
WILSON GETS CANE
OF BELGIAN WOOD

Washington, May 9-Lieutenant
Colonel w. G. Mackendrick of the
British army presented President Will
son a cane made from the door of
the celebrated Cloth Hall of Ypres,
Belgium. Similar canes have been
given King George of England, King
Albert of Belgium, President Poin-
caire of France, Lloyd George, pre-
mier of England; General Haig and
General Petain.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
NAVAL Av|ATORS
FALL INTO SEA
{By Associated Press)

Atlantic Port, May 9.-Two naval
aviators in state of exhaustion aft
er remaining afloat with a damage
hydroplane five miles from Miami
Fla, were rescued by coast steam
ship, which brought them here. They
fell into the sea when the mech
anism of their plane went wrong.
They told the captain they couldn not
have held onto the craft much Ion
ger The aircraft was also taken
aboard and was put ashore at the
quarantine station here.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
JAPANESE LOAN
|. CHINA HUGE SUM
|>M .R.R. SECURITY
E(fty Million Yen. in Two Loans,
+ Msde by Toxic, the japanese Bank
ers .4Taking in Exchange Mortgages
on Telegraph and Railroad Lines in
the Orient.
(By.ASsociated Press)


Peking, Friday, May "a loan of
20,000,000 yen, secured by Chinese
telegraph revenues has been closed
with japanese bankers and the first
installments are arriving.
An additional loan of 20,0OO,OOO
yen, secured by the Tsinan Shunteh
railway, is reported to have been con-
'cluded.
Newspapers are full of sensational
gossip concerning the Chinese-Japa-
nese negotiations, which are declared
openly will be the means of the Jap
enese dominating every sphere of in
fluence in China.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
GERMANS UNABLE 10 GAIN.
by Associated Press)

'Dy HSSUcIdLUI TTeSS
With the British Army, May o.
After their first successes yesterday
in the fighting, the Germans were un.
able to gain further, despite repeated
smashes. A bitter struggle occurred
west of Wierstraet, but the Britis
clung desperately to their positions
The British organized a counter at
tack during the night which was 50
vigorous the Germans were unable ia
Withstand it, and they gradually fell
back until they had abandoned all
ground gained.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
SONS OF WEALTHY
TO DO FARM WORK

New York, May 9.-Sons of feal-
thy North Shore fathers appeared clad
in overalls and straw hats recently
among the 100 students of the New
Trier High School, and plower a ten
acre tract near a truck garden. They
will SOW it under the direction Of
Professor w. A. Snyder, but will turn
nit over to other. Later, most of the
boys have agreed to go to work on
farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
CAMPBELL, NEW AVIATOR
BRINGS DOWN FIRST HUN
(By Associated Pressl

San Francisco, May 9.-Douglas
Campbell, son of the director of the
Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton,
as member of the U. S. aviation
corps, brought down his first German
airplane in France six months after
he began training, according to a let
ter to his mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
SUB LANDS MAN
ON IRISH COAST
(By Associated Press)

. London, May 9.-Government Off
cials arrested man landed on the
Irish coast recently by German sub
marine. Parliamentary Secretary
of the War Office announced in the
House of Commons that the prisoner
was in the Tower of London and would
be courtmartialed
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
GOmpers Asks Removal of wager.
(By Associated Press)

Washington, May 9.-President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, has asked the president to
remove Arthur Yager, governor of
Porto Rico, whom he charged with in
competence in handling the labor sit
uation on the island.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
CANADIANS WIN.

Canadian Headquarters, May g.
Strong raiding parties of Nova Sco-
tia and New Brunswick troops entered
an enemy outpost yesterday at Neu-
vile Vitasse, southeast of Arras. They
inflicted many casualties on the eGr-
mans and captured prisoner and two
machine guns. Their losses were
slight.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
FRENCH AVIATOR
DOWNS "a PLANES
(By Associated Press)

Paris, May 9.-Within five minutes
Tuesday Sub-Lieutenant Nungesser, a
leading French aviator, brought down
his thirty third and thirty fourth Ger
man manachese, and damaged another,
which undoubtedly will be placed to
his credit.
Sunday he knocked out two other
enemy airplanes which have not been
officially recorded.
During his three years Of air fight
ing Nunguesser was been wounded II
times and has served on fifty-two
bombing expeditions.
They had been floating for 18 hours
on one of the planese, the pontoons of
which were leaking, and sharks in
creased their peril.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
SHIPPING BOARD
WANTS BILLIONS
(ByAssociated Press)

Washington, May 8.-The Shipping
Board today submitted to Congress a
request for an appropriation of $2,-
223 ,S35,OOO.
Production Director Schwab told
the Senate commerce committee that
he had cancelled cost plus contracts
of the Submarine Boat Company of
Newark for 100 steel ships and sub
stituted contracts on flat basis of
$960,OOO for each ship, to speed con-
struction.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
BEGIN ON FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
(By Associated Press)

Washington, May 9.-With the work
of the Third Liberty Loan unfinished,
the Treasury's loan publicity bureau
has started preparations for the
submit designs for posters, window
cards and buttons by June l.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
TO DISSOLVE RE|CHSTAG
IF BILL REJECTED
(By Associated Press)

Amsterdam, May 9.-Chancellor
Won Hertling as Prussian premier has
decided to dissolve the Prussian cham
'ber if on it's third reading the fran
chise reform bill is rejected, accord
ing to the Cologne Gazette.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
BRITISH FORCED BACK A BIT
(By Associated Pless)

With the British Army in France,
May 9.-Fighting is in progress to-
day near Vierstraet, southwest of
Yprese. At one time the British were
forced back slightly by machine gun
fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
MESA MUST
ASSUME ITS
SHARE BONDS
DISTRICT DIRECTORS TELL
MARK ROSE 1T WOULD BE BUT
FAIR FOR MESA LANDS TO AS
SUME SHARE OF BONDED IN
DEBTEDNESS OF DISTRICT.
Water Will BE Pro Rated This Year,
Not on Assessed Valuation, but on
Actual Acres in Crop, 1t Was De-
cided at District Board Meeting
Buy Tyler's Lots for $4,000.

Although Mark Rose did not like
the idea one bit, District directors
today expressed the opinion that the
East Mesa lands, in return for wa
ter from an all-American canal, should
assume their portion of the bonded in
debtedness OF the District.
President Holt believes this policy
equitable and fair to the people Of
the Valley. Director Nickerson took
up Roses cudgel and thought that the
lands should come in free. The dis
cussion which followed favored Mr..
Hollis stand. At the recent mass
meeting the consensus of opinion was
in favor of the East mesa lands as
suming a part of the debt.
If any pro-rating Of water is done
this summer, the water will be pro-
rated according to the number OF
acres in crop, and not on the as
sessed valuation of lands, as was the
case last year. The secretary was in
structed to write to all the water COM
panies and get statements of the num-
Der of acrese actually in crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
(By Associated Press)

w 11So0CIuOOU I 1SooT
Washington, May 9.-Michael Vi
Otti of Monterey, CAL, has been killed
in action. Casualties reported today
are: Three died of wounds, two from
accident and six from disease. Thir-
teen were severely and forty y-One
slightly wounded, and one taken pris-
Oner.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
Mrs. COwles Reelected.
jBy Associated Press)

Hot Springs, May s.-Mrs. Josiah
Evans Cowles of California has been
,re-elected president of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09

PRESS WANT ADS BRING
QUICK RESULTS.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
lQQS0LO|ERS
ACCIDENTALLY
'SHQT At CAMP
CORPORAL STANLEY KLUSE-
WITT AND CORPORAL JAMES
OLIVER DIE FROM ACCIDENTAL
DISCHARGE OF A COMRADES
GUN.
Commander at Camp John II. Bea-
com Refuses to Give Out Any In
formation Regarding the Shooting
Bodies Are in Calexico Undertake
ing Establishment.

As Troop X. Eleventh U. s. cavalry,
was preparing for drill at Camp John
H. Beacon, CalexicO, this morning,
at 7:15, a rifle in the hands of one
of the troopers was accidentally dis
charged, and the bullet passed through
a partition and through the bodies of
Corporal Stanley klusewitz and Cor
pOral James Oliver. The men died
within ten minutes after being shot.
The commander at the camp stat
ed that it was contrary to the regu-
latiOns to give out any information
other than to state that the men were
accidentally killed. A military in
quiry will be made into the shoot
ing.
Corporal Klusewitz came from
Pennsylvania and Corporal Oliver
from Maryland. The bodies are await
ing word from relatives at a Calex-
leo undertaking establishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09

(By Associated Press)
Paris, May 9.-Heavy artillery
fighting is taking place on both sides
of Ancre.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-09
HUNS DRIVEN From ~
Fl ffli@yQlERSll$i1I1hS @
Won ARNIM' 'SGRAH
MINIONS DASH INENY
SELVES IN VAIN
AGAINST ITISH
LINES ALONG ANGINA
Only at One Point DO tth,
GermanS Gain and Thei1
AdvanceTherek Incon
siderable HeaW Mrins
On the SOAme. VN&

II <N..os|S.es ted 4eX! !
lo"$nf w Vt Ns'"f,hss ~
I'VE W dr En- fS<ml lpOrtions of
Allil from line Which the3 en-
Tied bet een clytte and Voor-
azele by Bri n counter attack
dehvered la night. The British have
made furth progress east of Ami
ems and betd en the somme and the
Ancre. A German attack in Flan-
ders yesterday was conducted by two
divisions.
The British inflicted heavy casual
tiese on new German attack early
today north of KENNEL. The Ger
mans pressed back the British line
slightly at one point.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
Clarke County Man Sentenced tc
Three Years in Penitentiary
for Disloyalty.

/ After being indicted on the
charge of espionage by the. federal
grand jury at Creston last week
Frank Beal of Liberty township,
Clarke county, plead guilty to the
federal district court. Before sen
fencing Beal to three years in the
penitentiary at Leayenworth,. Kan
sas; Judge Wade took occasion to
deliver to the prisoner the following
lecture that every disloyal man or
woman who dwells beneath the pro,
have heard. Judge Wade's remarks
were brief but they were delivered
with great earnestness.
After asking Beal some questions
bearing on the utterances he. had
made against the government Judge
Wade said:
| will tell you, Mr.. Beal, we have
got to get down to certain definite
positions in this country with refer
ence to this war One of them is,
this country has been at war now
for a good many months, nearly a
year. will be a year next week, and
any man that is not with this coun-
try in this war is against this coun-
try. That is all there is to it.
don't care what his reasons. are;
don care where he comes from; |
don't care if he has been in this
country for four generations; he is
either with this country or against
guilty to a charge that shows you
stand before this court With that
fact admitted, and this court is not
going to permit that sort to do on,
as far as this court is concerned.
This country is willing to fight the
enemy in front, but it is not willing
tn no CHI in %
ought to be here shouting for the
flag. You have lived in this country
all your life, and have had all the
benefits of this government, all the
benefits that any other citizen has
had. If you haven't had as much
the misfortunes. But there is, one
thing that has got to be understood;
and that is that the fathers and
mothers who are sending their boys
into this fight that is raging over
there today are not going to allow
anybody on American soil to weaken
or crow or try to crush the spirit
kind. While we have men who say
things under the stress of excite
ment or anger, things Of that kind
that they are sorry for the next min
ute, here is a statement made by
different witnesses under oaths that
SHOWS tudt YOU HOL Oilly lHtIuS lhooC
statements that you admit here. but
that you talked to boys that were in
the draft advised them not to go,
and all that sort of thing. In other
words you just manifest a DISPOSE
ton to be rebel against the author.
ity of the United States, and OF
course, we cannot tolerate that.
The judgment of the court is that
you serve three years in the peni-
Tertiary at Leavenworth, Kansas,
and pay the cost Of the prosecution.
-OsceOla Sentinel
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
DON'T FEED CHICKENS TOO
SOON.
| No Food or Water Should BE Given
for 40 Hours After Matching.

To secure best results for the new
spring hatch, the following instruc-
tons are advisable to follow, say
the poultry men at Iowa State Col
leke:
/. New chicks should receive no
food or water until 4S hours old.
2. For first feed use sour milk
or buttermilk instead of water.
3. From first to seventh days,
feed chicks often, a little at a time,
to keep them working and hungry.
4. Feed a small amount of green
foods, according to the appetites OF
the birds. Chopped clover, alfalfa,
sprouted oats or Swiss chard.
5. Litter should be clean and
sanitary at all times.
6. Musty or mouldy grain should
not be fed. 1t causes bowel trouble.
Z. Infertile eggs may be fed
raw, mixed with ground feed in the
form Of mash moistened with but
termilk, or they may be hard boiled
and chopped, including shell.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
Injured in Auto Accident.

About 8 O'Clock Thursday night
at point on the Jefferson Highway
five miles south of Des MOines an
auto driven by w. H. Baker of Lee
roy, went over an embankment
about fifteen feet high. Though the
car turned over and rolled down the
incline the occupants escaped serious
pinned beneath it in such manner
as to break her left limb in two
places below the knee.
Another car of the same party
driven by j. B. Calhoun of Leroy,
all of whom had been at Camp
Dodge to visit with soldier boy
relatives was close behind the We
hicle that went into the ditch. Aid
was given at once by getting Mrs
neah the wrecked car. The injured
woman was taken to a nearby farm
residence and medical aid was sum-
moned from Des Moines at once
Early the next morning, in response
to hurried call DIR. Sells brought
the injured woman to his hospital In
Osceola where the fractures were re-
recovery.
To make matters worse while Mr.
Baker and his friends were with
Mrs. Baker at the nearby house
thieves stole about everything that
could be taken OF the wrecked car
Though the owner was away from
the car only about thirty minutes he
lost all his tires, including the extra
one, and all the tools he had with
him.
There seems to be an organized
den of auto supply thieves in the
vicinity Of Des Moines.-Osceola
Z.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
Statement

OF the ownership, management,
etc, required by the Act Of Con-
gress of August "a, 1912, Of The
Leon Reporter, published weekly at
Leon. Iowa, for April /, 1918.
State of Iowa,
Decatur County
Before me, notary public in and
for the state and county aforesaid
personally appeared O. E. HUH, who
having been duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he is the
owner. and publisher of The Leon
to the best of his knowledge and be-
lief, true statement of the owner
ship, management, etc, of the afOre.
said publication for the date shown
in the above caption, required by
the Act of Congress of August "a
l9l2,, embodied in section 443
wit:
That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing ed
itor and business manager are:
Publisher-O. E. Hull, Leon,
Iowa.
Managing Editor-O. E. Hull,
Business Manager-o. E. Hull,
Leon, Iowa.
That the owners are-O. E. Hull,
Leon, Iowa.
That the known bondholders,
mortgages, and other security hold
ers owning or holding l per cent or
more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are:
None.
O. e. Hull
Editor and Owner.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this LIST day of April, 1918.
Carl Monroe, Notary Public.
My Commission expires July 4,
1918.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
Caddock to Wrestle Olin at Des
MOines.

John DIN, champion of Finland,
who meets Earl Caddock. at the Des
Moines Coliseum for the worlds
championship on the evening = OF
rday April ,l H. ste was d the Dodge
Neb., quit. That was two years ago
and since that time Stecher has re-
fused to finish in one match with
Earl Caddock and one with Strang-
| Ter Lewis.
Olin's remarkable showing in a
contest with Alexander aanna :
him the right to meet stecher:
The Finn held Aberg to three
hour draw and at once was proclaim Aim 4,
ed a coming champion by the New
England sporting writer's.
A Springfield, Mass, promoter ar
ranged a match with Stecher, VINO
considered an invincible champion.
He was not able to conquer DIN;
however, and quit after 2 hours. and
50 minutes of work, the referee
awarding decision to the Finn.
During that time the Nebraskan
had olin in n,t dangerous ge WSen %a ss
cured his body scissors hold and
ith aheE minutes. Try as he did,
however, he was unable to push
Olin's shoulders to the mat. DIN
was bridged most of that time and
finally flOpped loose.
The scissors did not even weaken
DIN, however. 1t simply peeved
him and he went after stecher IN
rough and tumble fashion. He lift
ed the Nebraskan bodily from the
mat and hurled him for flying fall
but Stecher squirmed away. before
his shoulders were held to the mat.
A few minutes after that Stecher
| left the ring and refused to return,
the bout being awarded to DIN.
That was the first wrestle Stecher
had failed to win in less than an
hour and it was the first time that
wrestler had ever broken away
from the body scissors after Stecher
had secured it properly. The pro
moter, Oscar ThorsOn, is now re-
ceiving orders for reservations at
his office, SIS East Locust Street.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
SOLDIER LETTERS LOST.
Thirty Thousand Letters Gone For
ever When Steamship Sinks.

Thirty thousand letters to reia-
tives and friends at home, written by
American soldiers in France. were
lost when the steamship Andan1a was
sunk off the coast of Ireland the lat
ter part of January, it was announc-
ed recently by the postoffice depart
ment. The letters were written by
the soldiers between January 10th
and goth.
MANY relatives of the soldiers in
this country have wondered where
the ..long looked for letter was and
now. while the letter did not come,
the home folks are sure it was
sssamong those lose.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-04-11
REPORT OF BIRTHS.
List of Births Filed with Clerk of
Courts During the Past Month.

Burrell Norris Blake, boy, March
I, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Thomas Blake
n n55ss az n Thomas sss 1Rss9t boy
Bright, Leon.
Alice Bernice Baker, girl, March
49,, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos NOS Daniel Dan q
Baker, Garden Grove township.
Mildred Marie Baker, girl, March
-, Mr.. and Mrs. Hobert w. Baker
Garden Grove township.
=, boy, March 10, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Andrew Buoy, Blooming.
ton township.
10, Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Bran.
mer; Richland township.
March 16, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM A.
Birdell Bixler Garden Grove town.
Stella Marie Bohn, girl, March
II, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Franklin
Bonn, BeacOnsfield.
5 Sarah Ara aG Olive Mr Collins girl March
Long Greek township.
Lyman Campbell, boy, April /,
Mr.. and Mrs. Macy Campbell, Eden
Cecil Eugene Cox, boy, March 25,
Mr.: and Mrs: Charles Franklin Cox,
ui1ell loWuSHlp.
Mrs. Clarence Daley, Fayette town
ship.
and Mrs. oressteSs s. Evans, III WOOD ai:
NO. Dorothy i W. barline Poland, girl,
land, Riciland township i eo' ", 70
Louis Leroy Green, boy, March
Greek township. >'
Bernice Laurene Grimm, girl
March II, Mr.. and Mrs. James +.
Grimm, Long Creek township.
Mrs. Clarence Green, Grand d. River fHa
Marcs 3d. Mare Mr. and A nrs. Neal B BG!
Hamilton, Decatur township.
- Raymond Lewis Jones, boy,
March 10, Mr.. and Mrs: David l..
Chester l Kenneth met 'o JOHNSTON, boy,
March %, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert f.
Johnston, Eden township.
and Mrs Cliff Lloyd, Decatur.
Wallace Greeley Magnefron, boy,
Feb. rs, Mr., and Mrs. VIM. Magne-
Z. Media ViFginia Morris, girl, Feb.
Garden Grove township. "
Newell, boy, March "a,
M: and Mrs. VIM. D.. Newell, High
Point township.
Lilis Evlyn Norris, girl March
25, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. ri. Norris, De-
catur township.
Alta Mildred Owens, girl, March
20, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. w. Owens,
Leon.
- girl, March 8, Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Scadden, Leon,
Orlyn Loretta Schenck, girl.
March /, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Or
vile Schenck, .Fayette township.
Clare Frederick Snyder, boy.
March 10, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Clare
Snyder, Leon.
James Hersel vandeflute. bow.
Feb. %, Mr.. and Mrs. Hersel Van
derflute, Fayette township.
--, girl, March 20, Mr.. and
Mrs. Erastus Wilson, Long Creek
township.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1918-04-11
CoIapIon News

Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Riggs and
family motored TO Baltimore Friday
last 70 attend the parade on Saturday.
Miss Mamie Leach is visiting Miss
Lorena Goldsborough, OF Leonard.
town.
Misses Dettie and Lilith Heard, OF
Washington, are the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis c. Heard.
Miss Bell Yates visited Miss Ethel
Ewell Saturday afternoon and had .
splendid game OF tennis, and later in
the afternoon they we're joined by Miss
Madeleine Bussler.
Mr.. John Leach, ST., left for tho
Capitol City on Saturday evening bus.
The stork visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Davis, leaving a bouncing
baby girl. Our congratulations.
Miss Goldie Ewell, teacher Of Long
wood School, Helen, Nd, spent the
weekend with Der parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrison Ewell.
Miss Eiie Ewsll has become quite an
expert chauffeur, as she drove the car
up TO Helen, accompanied by her
mother, after her sister Friday after
noon.
Misses Susie Yates and vevR Leach
spent the week end with Miss Blanche
Abeil, Al The Bridge farm, near Leon
ardtowu.
Miss Anna Hutchinson and Mrs.
Edith Drury, OF Wa hington, spent
several days last week With relatives
and friends Of Compton.
The Compton school children are
preparing their athletic exercises 70
be held az Charlotte Hall next month.
THREE IEsEPARABLEs.