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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07
lBULLETIN
Cnited Press CabIeEramA

United Press CabIegram)
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Dispatchcs
from London indicate the total number
OF men and officers of the United Stntes
army lost or missing on the Tuscania
is l45' divided as follows.
Forfy-three officers and IO2 men,
These figures showed the total Off
GERS on board rs I19. men as a.O37;
ohlcers 90 and men saved as 1895.
Among the saved; I8 ship officers.
10 crew, 3 passengers and ~ unde.Ig-
nnfed' making grand total of all
saved 2.Is7.
The same figures gave total of alt
lost a. @1o' of which evidently 81 were
classified as not belonging TO tho L. :.
army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The funeral Of q. stevens will be held
al 2:30 tomorrow afternoon from the
late residence in 40 Indiana boulevard,
Whiting.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07

1t was announced that the Tus-
Cania was manned by British
sailors, with a British naval guard
and was conveyed by British war
ships.
Buncrana, at which survivors
from the Tuscania were landed, is
located on Lough Swilly. on the
nothern coast of Ireland, twelve
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07
J. BOAT
At TACK
COSTS us.
21O LIVES
1912 Michigan end Wisconsin
National Guartsmen Saved
When TusCania Goes
Down in Irish Sea
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
Omitted Press CabIegram)
LONDON, FEB. THE admiralty
officially announced today that 2Io per
sons and 2.1S7 saved in the torpedoinE
of thc transport Tuscania, Tuesday
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07

The Tuscania, a turbine steam
ship of more than 14,00O tons, was
the largest and finest vessel ever
built for the Anchor Line. She had
accommodations foF about $500
passengers. She was 567 feet long.
90 feet 9 inches in breadth and As
feet deep. She was a vessel of
strikingly handsome appearance
and fitted out sumptuously.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07

miles from Londonderry. Lough
Swilly is long. narrow bay run
ming in from the Atlantic Ocean.
Larne. where other survivors
were landed from the vessel. is on
the northeast coast of Ireland,
twenty-three miles from Belfast
It is north channel port. The ap-
proximate distance by water be-
tween the two ports is 100 miles.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-07
BRITISH
RUSH To
GIVE AID

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. -
Prompt and general cooperation was
offered by the British and Americans
on both land and sea. it was stated
pcstroyers. patrol boats and hospital
ships saved 90 per cent of the threat
enod lives. officials say. British hos
ritaI ships were rushed TO the scene
There was a sharp rebound from the
initial shock here when naval officers
declared that revenge is certain. In
the last three months British and
American patrols. they said. have sunk
I--boats faster than they have been
built. Now anti-sub work by Amer
leans is proving hopefully success
full"
Fortv-five Tuscania survivors land
ed Wednesday night were picked up
i'm open boats in a rough sea Other
survivors were landed in ports in IT,
stcr it was stated
PERSONNEL or SOLDIERS.
The tweaty-eiShth engineers are for
rosters recruited for pioneer work be-
mind the battle lines. The regiment is
line largest in the Sc rvice ana its mem
bers are drawn from every army ma
tfonal GUARD and national army division
as well as from the regular army and
general recruiting channels Many
were college men including experts n
forestry They have been training
tho American University at Washing
ton.
The aero squadrons We're drawn from
various divisions The remaining
troops comprising more than two
thirds of those aboard We're Michigan
and Wisconsin guardsmen. The 107th
engineers was composed of the former
first battalion Of Michigan engineers
and the l07th military police was
drawn from tho 4th and 9Th Wiseon-
sin infantry. Tho 107th supply train
.cas drawn FROM The 4th. 5th, and 9th
Wisconsin infantry.
NAY SUFFER ENPoSJRE.
Reports that survivors are being
Continued on page two.)
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New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

TO RENT-Furnishe room; large,
 pleasant front room; 3 Hart St,
 upstairs. 9-4-3dX
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

FOR SALE-Pigs for sale Two and three months old. Phone 1033-4 or call POS, Corner Oak and North sts.
 S-23-tf
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

called and since being in the army has made good. He was assigned to the 301st Field Artillery at Camp Devens and was promoted to be a corporal. Later he was transferred to the 302d Field Artillery and became a sergeant.
 He was later selected to be an in- structor. His brother, Herbert Hofer. Is in the naval aviation service and is now at the Charleston training sta ton.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

AUTOMOBILE PARTIES TAKEN out Buick car. Frank Brown, Tel.
 1882 7-25-tf
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

FOR SALE-Farm of 100 acres on state road, Good trout brook. Should cut 1900 cords of wood. Price $2,00O, terms to suit, or will
 rent for $1O,O0 per month. c. l.. Barnes. S-31-6d1c
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
FOR SAIE-

FOR SAIE--Wood well seasoned < foot lengths $12.0o cord, delivered. Leon r. Liegey, POS North St,
 Phone 1033-4 S-2C-tf
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
WANTED.

WANTED-Position as companion to elderly lady or invalid; willing to mako herself generally useful. Frst class references. Address Box &,
 New Britain, Conn. S-30-eod- 4dN
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

FOR SALE-The following talking machines were taken in trade. All in fine condition and worth twice what we are asking. Two Edison phonographs with fifty records, $6 each; one Grafonola, $10; two Graf onolas, one $20, other $25. Selec- tion of records with each outfit Come quick if you want one. Easy terms if you wish. Talking ma4 chimes may be scarcer later. Better decide on one now. Brodbrib &5 Wheeler, 1@S Main street, Hallinan building. 9-5-2dx
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
FOR SALE.

FOR SADE-CircasSian Walnut bed
 room furniture, also rug. Reason
 able. Box ,, Herald. S-52dx
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
FURNISHED ROOMS.

{ FOR RE1NT-Large furnished room with board for two gentlemen, 24 Washington St. 9-3-tf
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

TO RENT--TwO furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 498 Main. ,
 9-6-3dx
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

TO RENT-Nicely furnished front
 room 69 Arch st. 9-6-3dN
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
10 xsEN1.

TO RENT-Furnished five room fiat,
 Trinity street. to couple without children. Address Box 3BB, Herald
 office. 9-5-6d
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06

WANTED-Boy about 1 $ years old to learn a trade Address Pax 9 AK,
 Herald Office. s-23-tf
New Britain herald., 1918-09-06
HOFER GOES TO SCHOOL.
Wins Opportunity to Try for an Of-
 ficer'S Commission

Carl Hofer, who has been selected to go to the Central Officers Train ing school at Camp Zachary Taylor, was one of the early draft contingents
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-21
How Germany Made War
on Us in Time of Peace
By W. A. SCOTT, Director of the Course of Commerce,
University Wisconsin

by hiding bombs in the coal bunkers
of ships and tying them to rudder
posts. At his trial models OF bombs
of his own invention were exhibited.
By his own confession and that OF his
partner the money for this combina-
ton of treachery and murder was sup
piled by the German secret police.
In this dirty business the directing
spirit was the ambassador OF the Ger
man Government, Johann Won Berns-
torff. An ambassador is guest or
the nation to which he is sent and is
supposed to behave as such. But for
nearly three years before his recall
he devoted himself to intrigue and the
plotting of violence and murder. His
best remembered words while among
us will always be those OF his letter to
his government in which he asked for
authority to spend fifty thousand dol
lars, Gin order, as on former occasions,
to influence Congress through the or
ganization you know OF"
Not contented with waging war
upon us directly, Germany tried to stir
up bad blood between us and our
neighbors by treacherously violating
our hospitality. Her agents used our
territory as ground on which to make
plots with discOntended HindOOS
against India. They helped to promote
movements which were intended to
tear Ireland and Canada from the
British Empire. From our side of the
border they made number of direct
attacks upon Canada, such as the
dynamiting of the international rail
road bridge at Vancebogo, Maine, and
the attempt to destroy the locks of
the Welland canal.
Mexico received much attention
from these gentlemen. Germany hand
ed over six hundred thousand dollars
to the exiled Huerta to enable him to
stir up a new revolution in his unfor-
tunate country, placed one of her war
ships at his disposal, and, supplied him
with arms. The famous zimmerman
letter, of January, 1917, Will be re-
membered by everyone.
In this letter the German minister
of foreign affairs proposed that in
case of war with the United States,
| Mexico and Japan should join with
Germany: and promised Mexico she
should receive as her share of the
| plumber New Mexico, Arizona, and
| Texas.
In this long list of outrages nothing
has been said about the submarine
warfare waged against us. 1t began
| with the sinking Of the Lusitania. May
Il, 1915, when ia American citizens,
men, women and children were foully
murdered on the high seas. 1t con-
tinued till the toll of American lives
had reached twice that number.
The German government stops at
nothing. She has become a danger to
! the whole world. The danger from
her. when we at length broke off rela-
lions, was not remote and problemat
| ical. It was at hand. She was actually
making war upon us.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-21

In the short period of three years
Germany transformed the United
States from a friend and admirer into
an enemy at war. This fateful change
was due to a number of causes. or
these the most wide-reaching was the
war of the German government on our
country during time when we, in our
blindness, supposed we were at peace.
The war in Europe was not three
months old when there was established
in New York an advertising agency"
under the charge of a German named
Won Isel. This Office was raided one
day in April, 1916, by four United
States secret service agents. They
forced their way past the giant who
always stood guard over the inner Of
fee, and after a fierce struggle in
which Won Igel fought like tiger"
arrested him and seized the mass of
papers in his possession.
The reason for Won IgeTs tiger-like
fight became clear at a glance. Here
in the form of letters, kilograms, re-
ceipts, account-books, etc., etc., was
supplied detailed and absolutely con-
yincing evidence that the German gov
eminent had been engaged for
eighteen months in a war against the
Z United States.
Among the papers were those show
ing that Won Papen, the military at
tache of the German embassy, had
paid out money for placing bombs in
American merchant ships, and that
Ambassador Won Bernstorff himself
had signed checks to pay certain
American newspaper men to spread
the pro-German gospel, while they
posed as disinterested American citi-
ZenS.
other entries showed Germany
using our territory to work up an Irish
revolution against Great Britain, main
tanning a spy system, supporting a
bureau for the purpose Of stirring UP
strikes in munition plants and else
where, and paying stated sums OF
money to certain newspaper owners
who were glad to place their newspa-
pers at the service of the German gov
eminent for value received.
The Won Igel papers cover only a
comparatively small part of the Ger
man war against the United States in
i 1914-16.
Won Igel and Won Papen, it appeared
from other sources, superintendent per-
sonally the making of bombs on the
herman steamer Friedrich der Crosse,
iinterned in New York harbor, and saw
that they were slowed away safely in
1.-THE holds of outgoing ships.
!: Another member of this band of
fplotters was Dr. HI. F. Albert. He ar
rived from Germany with letter of
:credit for four million dollars in his
pocket, and the assurance that he
might have forty million altogether.
,He was to use it to manufacture pub
,lic opinion, to purchase the votes of
SCongressmen, and to do whatever else
j would advance the great cause.
Still another star performer was
Robert Fay. He did his bit, in part,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-21

Renters-Why not make your
mon thIy payments buy you home.
I have number of dandy places
for sale at from 500 TO $500 do Tn
and rent payments. Don't be
afraid you cannot handle these
propositions before / have talked to
you. l will show you how easy it
can be done. Places are going fast.
Four sold in past two weeks. A
numb Der of places to choose fro m.
Dandy locations. w. A. Robinson.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-21

For Sale-At -Vashburn, Wiscon-
sin, Complete dray line outfit Of
William Olson, deceased. Nine
horses with harnesses, wagons,
sIeighs and complete dray line
equipment. Also real estate with
barns and lumber shed. An es
tablshed business of many years
standing. Must be sold without
DELAY. Address. Bertha Olson,
Administrative, Washbufn, Wis.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-21

Good Led potatoes for sale, white
stock. ]. E. Westgate.
Dyspe psia is Americas curse. To
restore digestion, normal weight,
good health and purify the blood
use Burdock Blood Bitters. Sold at
all drug stores. Price 81 25. Adv.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11
BOYS EAT SUGAR
CONSIGNED To HUN
Stores Shipped Three Years Ago
Given to Army

Paris, Aug. 80, (By Mail )-When
you say it quick, thousand tons of
sugar seems a. small amount. But
when you sit down to contemplate it
you begin to realize that even in nor
NAL times a, thousand tons is a con-
siderable quantity and that in these
days Of sugar scarcity it is a. great
deal more.
Put it in simple terms and you sit
up. You cannot imagine, much less
count, the number of cups of coffee
it would sweeten or the millions of
three-layer, home grown chocolate
cakes that it would make. Reduce it
to ginger ale or lemon pop and the
thirsts that it would quench would
turn all the cameIs in the world into
teetotallers for envy.
Or, if you happen to have a small
boy handy. call him in and ask him
If there is a half an ounce Of sugar
in all-day sucker how many suckers
your 100000 pounds of sugar will
produce. Perhaps you may even be
able to figure it out yourself.
Anyway, while you are getting at
the result, you might like to know
that for three years a thousand tons
of tirst-grade American sugar has
keep it safe from German hands. For
three years Waterman have been
guarding it day and night. And for
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11

as the company can control. But the
company is doing it's utmost to meet
the situation as best it can, by earn
cstly soliciting the services of eXper-
fenced telephone operators who have
left he services blu are no now en-
aged in cher than their duties as
housewives. 4 canvass OF former
operators, not employed outside of
their homes, is being made in some
cities and some of these have patriot
ically consented to return to the
switchboard till the trouble has
passed.
The public. now doing so much to
help many lines of essential business
during the period of the war is asked
to give consideration to the troubles
of the telephone company. Use of
the telephone for really necessary
calls only would help the company
out of it's troubles. 1t is requested
by the company that the telephone,
recognized by the Government as an
essential of the first class, be regard
ed as such and that it be used, for
the time being at least, for essential
calls only Social conversations, eX-
change of minor neighborhood affairs
and such like, over the telephone,
make of that handy and mighty use
full instrument a non essential which
is taking the time and use of equip
ment and labor needed to carry the
vital work assigned to one of the
most essential utilities CT the nation.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11
CARR. DENYING LYLE

his task until the Germans cap
tured him.
BY post card Lyle writes from
his place of Imprisonment that he!
is sound and we'll. The Y. M. c. A.
will make an effort to get food
and clothing and other comforts
to him in the prison camp.
While the French were retreatingi
for strategical reasons, Y. M. G. A.
workers, like Lyle, stayed with
the troops during the rearguardi
fighting, gathering and distributing,
supplies. Four "Y" men joined the
staff of a base hospital and worked
90 hours a day as observation-disclosures
and nurses. !
LytIe sailed for France on Janybi
airy 8 as a secretary. He Is 49,
years old and unmarried. He was!
principal of a grammar school in
Mortified before he joined the "Y. II
Overseas forces. He speaks French
f1uently.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11

three years Watchmen have been
the rates, the would-be thieves and
the weather conditions to have that
sugar sweet and clean, ready for ship
ment on the shortest possible call.
It's said that Swiss agents bought
the sugar. But the French authort-
ties, suspicious of the quantity, did
little grubbing around, with the re-
suit that they became reasonably GER
tain that the sugar would go straight
through to Germany. Wherefore they
took charge of it on its arrival and
packed it away in Il warehouse, far,
far from the Fatherland.
OF course the owners protested.
The French merely smiled and hung
on. They had the sugar safely tied
up, and they kept it so until some
weeks ago when they and the Ameri-
can authorities got together to decide
on it's disposition. Not to be mean
about it, they agreed that the sugar
should be put up at auction, and sold
to the highest bidder. Out of the
total the original owners were to get
their share.
Several big private sugar-raising
concerns soon heard of the proposed
auction and got on the trail. SO did
the Y. NJ G.. A. which was just then
in need of sugar to keep it's factories
running full time. The "Y" bid top
ped ali others and got the sugar.
| The "Y' could have made many,
many things from that sugar But
the supply department agreed that
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11
TELEPHONE SERVICE
AFFECTED BY PLAGUE
Thirty Per Cent. Of New Britain
Force Has influenza

The epidemic of Spanish Influenza
has made serious inroads on the oper-
ating forces of the Southern New
England Telephone Co. through
out the state.
In some OF the small offices the en-
tire forces have been taken down with
this ailment In other offices any
where from 10 per cent. to IS per
cent. of the operators are i'll and off
duty and the operating staffs in the
larger offices have been considerably
reduced by sickness and by the neces-
sity of withdrawing girls from their
work in the cities and sending them
to the nearby small towns to take
the places of girls who are i'll.
Operators have gone from the New.
Haven office to several of the small
exchanges in the vicinity of that
city, and others have gone from
Hartford, New London, Waterbury
and Bridgeport to small exchanges
near those cities, to hold up the serv-
ice. The transfer OF these operators,
coupled with the fact that the cpl
demic has laid low 50 many girls in
these. large exchanges, has made it
diff1cdTt for the company to maintain
it's service in large centers at the
usual high standard.
Figures gathered by the traffic Of
iCials of the company clearly show
what they are encountering as q re-
suit of tine" spread of this dread dis
ease In Hartford 25 per cent. of the
force is Laid up. New Haven reported
81 operators sick. New London has
Is per cent of its opera tors i'll, Nor
folk rs per cent, WalEngford 25 per
cent. Meriden 35 per cent, Winsted
25 per cent. New Britain 80 per cent,
Middletown SO per cent, Bristol 25
per cent, Norwich so per cent Will
limantic 25 per cent, Putnam 80 per
cent, and in many, if not all of the
other exchanges the percentage is as
high as the average of those men
toned.
Precautions against the spread of
the disease among operators have
been taken by the company, so far as
is possible The operating rooms are
filled with fresh dir at frequent in
tervals and close attention is given to
the health of the girls. In addition
the transmitters used by the opera
tors are disinfected every night. In
ordinary circumstances this is done
but once q week, but conditions are
such that a daily disinfection is re-
garded as a good measure of minimiz-
ing the danger of contagion.
The situation is a serious one for
the telephone company to say the
least Before the epidemic the COM
pany was Handicapped to some ex-
tent by a scarcity of operators, as
we'll as other kinds of labor. Against
this condition was an ever increasing
demand for service. Then to the ex-
listing difficulties due to the abnormal
conditions under which many bust
nesses are laboring. came this cpl
demic to further deplete the already
limited number of good telephone
operators.
The conditions which bring about
the present troubles in the telephone
service, it is apparent are not such
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11
American Indians CO Abroad
As Workers For Red Triangl

1.-TWO American indians have
IL oeen sent abroad by the Ma
lional War Work Council Of
the Y. M. Z. A, one tor service with
the British troops in Egypt and one
60 France for work with the In
dams with the American Expedi-
tionary Force.
Leander Newton Gansworth. of
Davenport, Iowa, volunteered for
work with the Indian troops in the
American army and is now in
france He was born in Lewiston,
N. Y, where his father, two broth
ers and a sister live. He is a grad
uate of Carlisle College and is said
to be q relative Of the famous Red
Cloud Before entering upon Red
Triangle work he was financial Sec
rotary OF the Allied Printing Trades
council of Davenport, Rock Island
and Moline, and secretary and trea-
surer Of the Review Publishing
COMPANY Of Davenport. He received
military, athletic and gymnastic
training at Carlisle and after 1eav-
ing college was high school foot
hall coach for a time
S. Ralph Walkingstick, of 218
East Colvin street, Syracuse, n. Y,
who was sent to Egypt, is a Cher
okee Indian. He was born in Table
quah, Oklahoma where he S1rved
as Y. NJ. C. A. secretary.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11
ytle, Writing from Camp at
Limberg, Says That He
Is Sound and Well

Carl Dewing Lyle, OF Mortified,
Mass, a non-combatant who was
captured by the Germans In the
French retreat east and west of
Scissors during the first week In
June, Is the first Y. M. G. A pris-
oner Of war. Official confirmation
Of Lytle's detention in a Hun camp
at Limburg has been received at
the headquarters of the National
War Work Council Of the Y. M.
c. A.
Lytle was attached to the French
army. Amid rain Of gas shells,
he went into burning village to
rescue refugees In spite of the fact
that thousandI Of the enemy were
rushing into th Q place. He stuck to
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-11

VXTHAT do you build when you build ''Y'?
w A home-roof under foreign sky
A little house by the side of the road
Where brother eases his pressing load
Where still the Good Samaritan
May come and be a friend to nan'
Where lonesome lad in woman's eyes,
Can see his mothers face arise!
Where chap can write what he longs to say
To true blue girl in the q. S. A!
Where there are hundred brands Of JOY
To welcome and cheer homesick boyt