davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Transactions IN railroad stocks
we're slightly larger in March than
in February. but nevertheless much
below normal, while the turnover Of
industrial stocks was the smallest
OF any month for several years.
That is convincing evidence of the
apathy of public interest in the mar
ket. It is confirmed by rather
more accurate measure Of public
participation-the volume Of trad
ing in odd lots. Average daily sales
OF odd lots during March we're 80
per cent below the average for Feb
ruary and p per cent less than the
average for 1917.
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= C,net. Of nnn dnllnr
Elections

Eugene w. Dutton, manager Of the
Fifth Avenue branch Of the United
States Mortgage and Trust Company
has been elected assistant treasurer Of
that institution.
f. =. Jennings has been elected Il
director of the Continental Bag Com
pany, succeeding Ogden L. Mills.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Stocks
Eonds
Dividends
Extras
petrnit Iron & Steel c,

Detroit Iron & Steel Company.--An
eXtra dividend OF 2i2 per cent on the
common has been declared in addition
to the regular quarterly dividends Of
. per cent on the common and u.
per cent on the preferred stocks, all
n.Eab.e Anril Il
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Military Markets

r INTEREST in Wall Street in the
I progress of tae titanic struggIe
no9 raging ou the Vert front IN
fraaee has been maintained ut fever
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Bank JIearIngs- = he Days bank
clearings al New York were $406,S63,-
S84; balances, $71,318,4T1
Sub-Treasury.- banks lost to the
Sub-Treasury yesterday Sis 900.
silver-Holiday in London. New
York, 9Slsc. unchanged; Mexican dol
lars, dc, unchanged.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Current

r you calculate the cost of tie dollar
in terms Of foreign money at par value
that IS, as if you were buying dollars
with pounds marks or francs-its
value II the close Of last week, as com
pared with a year ago, would be about
as 10 loWa:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Below is given the current exchange
value Of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
PARTY, as calculated by the United
States Mint:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

with $609,447.8 SAT for the week ended
March %.
The actual condition of member
banks shown by the Clearing House
statement yesterday follows:
Loans, discounts, invest
ments, etc. ........... s4s335, ,461 coo
Reserve members. 2,oa2 0oo
Reserve ii Federal Re-
serve Bank. K............ $50, lO+,Uuo
Reserve IN vaults Of state
banks and trust CO.'S. 17,576.CO0
Reserve in depositories.. 1890, coo
Net demand deposits 3,752, ,3550o0
Net time deposits. ........ f83,355,Qo0
Circulation .............. o5,aiS,uoo
Aggregate reserve ........ ooO,ooO,uuo
Excess reserve. e.........,.. ol,o99,OOU
United States deposits deducted.
S29l,4l5.000
The changes from a week ago were:
Loans and discounts. Dec. sf1,75o,oo0
Cash in vaults Of FEEDER
al Reserve members Dec $4,000
Reserve n Federal Re-
serve BANKS. me lO,oCo,ooS
Res in vaults Of state
banks and trust cos. Inc 10000
Reserve in repositories Inc. 592, 600
Net demand deposits Inc 4O,236,O0O
Net time deposits. Dec. 6,4@8,oO0
Circulation .............Inc. 4O9,UJ
Aggregate reserve. Inc. 1t,553,00o
Excess reserve. Inc. 6,+54, l2U
Acceptance Rates-Current bid prices
for prime acceptances are as follows:
Thirty Sixty Ninety
Spot delivery: days. days days.
Eligible member
banks ......... 414eo 4+as % 43s7o
Eligible non-mem-
Der banks ...... 41s9s 4ls9s 49,
Ineligible q n k
bills .......... 5l496 $40 $40
Fer delivery within thirty days:
Eligible member banks. s........ .45s %
Eligible non-nember banks. 434 %
Ineligible bank bills ............6 &c
Discount Rates-Ofcial rates of dis
count for each Of the twelve Federal
districts are as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
News Digest
" eW I OK

New Foreign Branches l0r Farmers
Loan and Trust. The Farmers Loan
and Trust Goa many has been author
zed by the State Superintendent Of
tanks 10 opea branch Offices at each
@. Jae following places.
IT plac iu French war zone
convenient rt rae headquarters eff the
Gn-tea 5tato. 'lCees, at place on the
c9ast 0f France ROW occupied by the
eN3edltionary iorees.
TO 0Ier British Treasury Biils.-J
7 Morgan IL lo. VIII offer on tuesday
Jae usua- aIsoIH5 Ut British Ire3sll -
ninety gs-C~y cil ON per cent dis
aoua- basis They w-l mature JULy L.
Iaeee IS 80 casn the ra-e.
Ask Aetna Ezn asiros Proxies. 4
comm tee OF ocac lers O the Aetna
tTp .asiTas Company representing
more tn.a 1893 0t shares of common
ard preferred atoc.s. -s plepar.us a cir
cular to send - stocAa0llers asking
lor proNlea In tha name Of T. L. Fem
ton. JOSEPH II. Lova-l, of Lowell L Go.
is caair..aa ri Ira committee, and
James II. Ao -hcre, Of l.os su1erg *
Dall, is counsel. Ire committee an
~ouuces -fa- S opposed 10 the plan
gf raaa tlac the ariAirs of the COM
pany on the ground that "such a step
Is unnecessary
General Motors-Chevrolet.- Stock
holders o. the t.er.0. At1lor COM
pany arr In rereIYc Of notices asking
heir consent ~ tee saIc Of the assets
eft the compaHs to The General Motors
company. Ihe not.es reads.
General Meters Corporation has
made an ofe To your company to pur-
chase all Of its assers. property and
good VIII. exclusive of 10000 shares
Vf General Moa-rs common stock now
owned by your company. The purchase
price IS to be 80 Gs4 shares Of General
Motors c0mmot stock. and la addition
1t Is proposed aat tie liabilities of the
heyrol Company are TO be assumed
b. ta Uerers Motors Corporation.
meeting Of your board OF d.
rec ors 1T was deemed advisable to ac-
cere tae o.fer Sub Aet to approval Of
-'e co1paNys .tockhoiders. II accept
81. The Chevrolet C0muauv would own
s2.G3i shares Of General Motors com
.aoa cock and Ire Tree OF all liabilities.
keep sue1 as light arise after the
CATO Of ,rgn
ire afoao0ao sale has already been
eonscH5eo 10 ma GRITTY ii interest
RI the stoekA lters of tie Chevrolet
Company and q fern Of csnsenA Is in-
closed herewith for Your slnnafare +
approved by YOU
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31
Federal Reserve Banks

WASHINGTON.
$400000 bills discounted 3S0Q00
Of
March IS and 90 The shows the own
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

tn S609,447,s47 for the week ended
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

Adirondack Electric Power Company
Quarterly dividend Of IL per cent on the
pre- erred stock. PAYABLE April to stock
holders of record March t.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-31

To Offer British Treasury Biils.-J
7 Morgan IL la VIII offer on tuesday
the usua. amount Ut British Treas, -
nitety-Qay BIDS ON 8 per cent dis
cou1- basis They viii mature July l.
L.-.- 10 GU ~ -.
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CHAPTER III.
Captured by the Huns.

I shall not easily forget the 17th Of
August, 1917. l killed two Huns In
the double-seated machine In the
morning. another In the evening, and
then | was captured myself. l may
have spent more eventful days In my
life. but l can't recall any Just now.
That morning, In crossing the line
on early morning patrol. l noticed
two German balloons. l decided that
a. soon as my patrol was over
would go of on my own hook and see
what q German balloon looked like
at close quarters.
These observation balloons are used
BY both sides In conjunction with the
artillery. A man sits up In the bal
loon with wireless apparatus and dI.
rects the firing Of the guns. From his
point Of vantage he can follow the
work Of his own artillery with n re-
markable degree Of accuracy and at
the same time he can observe the enc
my's movements and report them.
The Germans are very good at this
work. and they use a great number OF
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ting It out It takes less than a min.
ute for the fabric to burn of the wings
and then the machine drops like an
arrow. leaving a trail Of smoke like a
comet.
As their tracer bullets came closer
and closer to me ! realized that my
chances Of escape were nil. Their very
next shot. l felt, must hit me.
Once. some days before. when I was
flying over the line. I had watched a
fight above me. A German machine
was set on FIRE. and dived down
through our formation In flames on its
way to the ground. The Hun was div
Ing at such a sharp angle that both
his wings came of. and as he passed
within few hundred feet Of me saw
the look Of horror on his face.
Now. when I expected any moment
to suffer similar fate, l could not
help thinking Of that poor Huns last
look Of agony.
l realized that my only chance lay
In making an Immelman turn. This
maneuver was invented by German
one of the greatest who ever flew and
who was killed In action some time be
fore. This turn. which made success
fully. brought one of their machines
right In front Of me, and as he sailed
along barely ten yards away. had
the drop" on him, and he knew It.
His white face and startled eyes
can still see. He knew beyond Ques.
ton that his last moment had come,
because his position prevented his tax
Ing aim at me, while my gun pointed
straight at him. Ny first tracer bullet
passed within yard Of his head, the
second looked as II 1t hit his shoulder,
the third struck him In the neck, and
then l let him have the whole works,
and he went down in a spinning nose
dive.
All this time the three other Hun
machines were shooting away at me.
I could hear the bullets striking my
machine one after another. l hadn't
the slightest idea that / could ever
beat of those three Huns, but there
was nothing for me to do but fight, and
my hands were full.
In fighting. your machine Is drop
ping, dropping all the time. I glanced
at my instruments. and my altitude
was between 5000 and 5000 feet.
While was still looking at the in
struments, the whole blamed works
disappeared. A burst Of bullets went
into the instrument board and blew
1t to smithereens, another bullet went
through my upper lip. came out of the
roof of my mouth and lodged In my
throat. and the next thing knew was
when / came to In German hospital
the following morning at five o'clock,
German time.
l was a prisoner Of war.
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the Huns
these balloons. II was considered a
very important part OF our work to
keep them out of the sky.
There are two ways Of going after a
balloon In machine, One OF them is
to cross the lines at n low altitude, fly.
Ing 10 near the ground that the man
with the antiaircraft gun can't bother
you You fly along until you get to the
level Of the balloon and II, In the
meantime, they have not drawn the
balloon down, you open fire on 1t and
the bullets you use will set II on fire
IL they land.
The other way Is to fly ever where
you know the balloons TO be, put your
machine In a spin so that they can't
bit you, get above them. spin over the
balloon and then open fire. In going
back over the line you cross at a few
hundred feet.
This Is one Of the hardest Jobs In
the service, There Is less danger IN
attacking an enemy's aircraft.
Nevertheless. had made up my
mind to either get those balloons or
make them descend, and | only hoped
that they would stay on the job until
l had chance at them.
When our two hours duty was up,
therefore. | dropped out OF the forma-
ton as we crossed the lines and turned
back again.
was at height OF 1900 feet, con-
siderably higher than the balloons
Shutting my motor off, | dropped down
through the clouds, thinking to find
the balloons at about five or six miles
behind the German lines.
Just as I came out OF the cloud
banks ! saw below me. about a thou
sand feet, a two-seater hostile ma.
chine doing artillery observation and
directing the German guns. This was
at point about four miles behind the
German lines.
Evidently the German artillery saw
me and put out ground signals to at
pact the Hun machines attention, for
saw the observer quit his work and
grab his gun. while their pilot stuck
the nose Of his machine straight
down.
But they were too late to escape me-
was diving toward them at a speed
Of probably two hundred miles an
hour. shooting all the time as fast as
possible. Their only chance lay In
the possibility that the force of my
drive might break my wings. knew
my danger In that direction, but as
soon a. l came out of my dive the
Huns would have their chance to get
me, and knew had to get them first
and take q chance on my wings hold.
Ing out.
Fortunately some Of my first bullets
found their mark. and / was able to
come out Of my dive at about four
thousand feet. They nevar came out
Of thei1i
But right then came the hottest sit
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and thence to Germany. He said when
they put In at Gibraltar, after leaving
England. there were two suspects
taken of the ship. men that he was
sure were neutral subjects, but much
to his relief his own passport and Gre
dentials were examined and passed
o. K.
The Hun spoke Of his voyage from
America to England as being excep-
tionally pleasant, and said he had a
fine time, because he associated with
the English passengers on board, his
fluent English readily admitting him
to several spirited arguments on the
subject Of the war, which he keenly
enjoyed. One little incident he related
revealed the remarkable tact which
our enemy displayed In his associa-
tions at sea. which no doubt resulted
advantageously for him. As he ex.
pressed 1t, he made hit" one evening
when the crowd has assembled for a
little music by suggesting that they
sing "God Save the King" Thereafter
his popularity was assured and the de-
sired effect accomplished, for very
soon French officer came up to him
and said. "It's too bad that England
and ourselves haven't men In our army
like you" It was too bad, he agreed,
in telling me about 1t, because he was
confident he could have done a whole
lot more for Germany II he had been
In the English army. In spite of his
apparent loyalty. however, the man
didn't seem very enthusiastic over the
war and frankly admitted one day that
the old political battles waged in Cali
fornia were much more to his liking
than the battles he had gomez bugh
over here. On second tho, he
laughed as though it were a good joke.
but he evidently intended me to infer
that he had taken a keen interest n
politics in San Francisco.
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smiled. AT this time ] was just be
ginning to say few words. as my
wound had prevented me from talking.
but said enough to let him know
what ! was doing there and how I
happened to be there. He evidently
hal heard my story from some Of the
others, though, because he said 1t was
too bad ] bad 92t broken my nssk;
that he did not have much sykbat1
Eith the flying corps anyway. As-
asked me what part of America came
from. and / told him California"
After a few more questions he
learned that / hailed from San Fran.
cisco. and then added to my distress
BY saying. How would you like to
have good. juicy steak right out Of
the Hofbrau?" Naturally l told him
1t would ''hit the spot" but I hardly
thought my mouth was In shape Just
then to eat 1t. / Immediately asked.
OF course, what he knew about the
Hofbrau. and he replied. u was con-
nected with the place a good many
years. and I ought to know all about
It."
After that this German officer and
l became rather chummy; that Is, AZ
far as ! could be chummy with an
enemy, and we whlled away q good
many long hours talking about the
days we had spent In San Francisco,
and frequently In the conversation one
Of US would mention some prominent
Californian, or some little incident oc-
curing there. with which we were
both familiar.
He told me when war was declared
he was, Of course. intensely patriotic
and thought the only thing for him to
do was to 60 back and aid In the de-
fense Of his country. He found that
he could not 90 directly from San
Francisco. because the water was too
well guarded by the English, so he
boarded boat for South America.
There he obtained a forged passport
and In the guise of Montevidean took
passage for New York and from there
to England.
He passed through England without
any difficulty on his forged passport
but concluded not to risk going to Hol.
land for fear Of exciting too much sus.
picion, so went down through the
Strait Of Gibraltar to Italy. which was
neutral at that time, up to Austria,
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-07-25
CHAPTER w.
Clipped Wings.


The hospital In which I found my.
self on the morning after my capture
was a private house made of brick,
very low and dirty. and not at all
adapted for use as hospital. 1t had
evidently been used but few days on
account Of the big push that was tax.
Ing place at that time of the year. and
in all probability would be abandoned
as soon as they had found a better
place.
In all, the house contained four
rooms and stable, which was by far
the largest of all. Although l never
looked Into this "wing" of the hospital,
l was told that 1t. too, was filled with
patients lying on beds Of straw around
on the ground. ! do not know whether
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4
lily observing that nothing could be
done with what was left, made my
way back to infantry headquarters
where l was able to telephone In q
report.
A little later one Of our automo.
biles came out after me and took me
back to our airdrome. Most of my
squadron thought l was lost beyond
doubt, and never expected to see me
again: but my friend, Paul Raney. had
held out that l was all right. and as
I was afterwards told. said, "Don't
send for another pilot; that Irishman
will be back. II he has to walk" And
he knew that the only thing that kept
me from walking was the fact that our
own automobile had been sent out to
bring me home.
had lots to think about that day,
and I had learned many things; one
was not to have too much confidence
In my own ability. One of the men In
the squadron told me that l had bet.
ter not take those chances; that 1t
was going to be q long war and
would have plenty Of opportunities to
be killed without deliberately "wishIng
them on" myself. Later was to learn
the truth Of his statement.
That night my "fiight"-each squad
ron is divided into three flights, con-
sisting Of SIX men each-Sot ready to
go out again. As I started to pu. on
my tunic I noticed that was not
marked up for duty as usual.
! asked the commanding officer, a
major. what the reason for that was.
and he replied that he thought had
done enough for one day. However.
I knew that II / did not 60. someone
else from another flight" would have
to take my place, and I insisted upon
going up with my patrol as usual. and
the major reluctantly consented. Had
he known what was In store for me,
am sure he wouldn't have changed his
mind SO readily.
As II was we had only flve machines
for this patrol. anyway. because as we
crossed the lines one Of them had to
drop out on account of motor trouble.
fy,r patrol was up at s p. m, and up
to within ten minutes of that hour 1t
had been entirely uneventful.
Az n IN N m xvhI1n
were flying at a height OF 1900 feet.
We observed three other English ma
chimes which were about 5000 feet
below us pick a fight with nine Hun
machines.
/ knew right then that we were In
for 1t, because ! could see over toward
the ocean a whole flock OF Hun ma
chimes which evidently had escaped
the attention Of our scrappy country
men below us.
So We dove down on those nine
Huns.
At first the fight was fairly even.
There were eight of US to nine Of them.
ohl eooh NHc otutl uuSulucS WHICH
had seen in the distance, and which
were flying even higher than we were,
arrived on the scene. and when they,
In turn, dove down on US. there was
just twenty Of them to our eight
-Four Of them singled me out. was
diving, and they diyed right down after
me, shooting as they came. Their
tracer bullets were coming closer to
me every moment. These tracer bull
lets are balls of fire which enable the
shooter to follow the course his bul.
lets are taking and to correct his aim
accordingly. They do no more harm
to a pilot II he is hit than an ordinary
bullet. but II they hit the petrol tank,
good night! When a machine catches
fire In flight there is no way Of put
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lTo BE CONTINUED,
Wives Evidently His Hobby.

Probably the modern worlds marry.
ing record for men was created By
George Witzof. the bigamist whose
marriages have variously been estmat-
ed at from 200 to 800. It was report
ed that In the space of q single week
he went through marriage ceremonies
with ten women.
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0'BRIEN FINDS HIMSELF A PRISONER OF WAR AFTER A
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

synopsa-Pat Oen resident of Momence. H.. seeing
service the American flying the Mexican
Joins the British Royal Flying n Canada and after brief
period France He squadron
service the front He German
flyers from which he emerges victorious
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Worss'n eolls, Too.

Old Job had his troubles. but nobody
raised the price of Ice on him when he !
was laying In his winters coaL--At.
lanta Constitution.
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From hls prison, o'erisn VII.
nesses 4 thrilling air battle
which results In the death Of HE
ehum, who 10 shot down BY .
German flyer. Don't mIee ~
next lnstallment.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-29

FILE EXPENSES
TWENTY-FIVE Candidates Have Filed
Expenses-Many More to Come
In Before Thirtieth.

! Yesterday IN county court. twenty-five
! candidates for offices in Ohio county
ut the past election In tho county filed
! their expense accounts with County Clerk
| John Wells. The largest amount cX-
| pended was $3.50 by Daniel &. Dean,
who ran for county missioner while
many candidates handed IN expense &C
| counts stating that nothing had been
expended to run for office. No cand!-.
dates received contributions from their
! friends according To their statements.
| Tho twenty-five expense accounts filed
! were
John N. Ritter Democratic candidate
| for county commissioner, S4T.
! William r. Otta. Republican candl-
date for member Of house OF delegates
! expended nothing.
| Richard y. Stein. Democratic candi-
date for the presidency or the board OF
education. expended nothing.
! John T. Bcttner. Republican candi-
date for president OF board OF educa-
tiun, expended nothing.
Tom y. Fnulk. democratic candidate
for member OF the house Of delegates,
spent nothing.
Sam a. Reynolds, Republican candi-
date for a membership in the Triadcl-
phia district board Of education, spent
Harry A. Weiss Republican candidate
| for a member Of the house OF Delegates
spent Sc
John II. Lnzear. Democratic candidate
for county commi ssloncr of free schools,
spent Sld.35.
George S. Eoerts. Democratic candt-
| date for q member OF the board Of cdu-
caion Of Triadcluhia district spent
nothing.
Harry H. Pendelton. Democratic can
didn,e for judge OF the criminal court
spent nothing.
Charles Snyder. Democrat. candidate
for a membership in the board OF cdu-
! cation, spent nothing.
II. z. Richards. Republican. candi-
! date for the house Of delegates, spent
SS.75 :,
George ". Oldham. Democrat. n candi-
date for the presidency Of the board OF
education OF Triadclphla District spent
nothing.
\. II Garrison. Republican. candl-
date for the presidency OF the board OF
education of LIbcry district expended
! nothing. ;,
Charles f. RAIDER, Republican. candt-
date for constable HFulton, spent moth
| ing. :,
Robert Fl. Mckee Republican, candi-
date for school commissioner Ill Liberty
! district. spent nothing.
/ ~ e. Dean. Republican candidate LOT
! county commissioner. spent s9'.oQ.
T. w. Farmer. Republican candid7te
! for snpcrintcndcrt Of free schools spent
| sl2S5.
Fred c. Stcinbcckrr Republican, can
didate for president Of the board Of edu-
! cation OF Liberty district, spent S-''''
| Alexander &. kennen. Democrat. can
dldato for school commissioner OF Cen
! ter district, spent nothing.
r. l.. Wam$lcy. Democrat. CANDIDATE
| for the house Of d"lrgat"S. spent S@.'h.
Alan H. Robinson, Republican. "anui-
date for Judge OF the criminal courts
! spent sl9od.
| Many Others will file their expense nc
counts before the lhlrtIcih of this month
which is the last dny allowed ny the
! law.