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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
KEPT THEM MOVING
English Major Has Machine Gun
Crew on the lump.
About as Little Uncertainty In His
Urders as There Are Polite Phrases
In the Language He Employed
In Issuing Them.

make my way through the thick
brush at Camp Upton to a machine
gun range, guided by the intermittent
staccato chatter of Colt and hoping
that I'm not by any chance wandering
on to the private reserve of any busy
bullets, william Slavens McNutt
writes in Golfers.
come out of the woods on the rear
of the gun position. Near big camp
fire dozen or more American officers
are grouped around two machine guns
listening to the instructions of an Eng
lish major. The English officer Is a
short, spare, peppery veteran with a
raspy voice that he can use for the
sane purpose that mule skinner uses
blacksnake.
"Burr-wuffw he shouts. That's as
near as l can get to 1t phOnetically.
Two captains leap to their places by
the 'machine gun. The one who sights
and operates the piece throws himself
fiat on his back with head Graded on
the knees of The man feeding. There
is some slight delay and the English
major breaks into song.
; "Come, come! Carry on! What are
we waiting for? You should have
killed a hundred by now. What is It'll
What is it? My word! Not so slow
We're not having dinner, you know;
we're killing Boches. What the blink
ety-blank's wrong now? Come, come !
Carry Oni Carry on ~
The gun speaks jarringly. One side
of the barrel splits stream of yellow
cartridge cases over the breast of the
operator holding the trigger. Three
hundred yards distant the blade OF cuE
lets slices the ground before the tar
yet and throws up little line of dust
The major orders fifty yard adj
vance. The American officers dis
mount the piece, go forward at the
double-quick and set it up once more
The operator pulls the trigger. Moth
ing happens. He fuses and tugs. Still
no result. The English major Gains
himself and heaves Il deep sigh. He
looks at the gun crew like a man with
no insurance viewing a total loss. "Oh
my eye !" he groans sadly. How deae
you'd have been by now! All right
leave off, leave off Never mind"
He points to the man who carried
the ammunition and who is standing
behind the gun curiously watching the
efforts of the crew to make it shoot.
"Next time don't stand up behind the
gun. You stick up there like dummy
in shop window. A body would
think you were an advertisement fol
something. You're not trying> to sell
the gun to the Boches, you Know
Standing there giving away the gun
positioni Next time find cover twenty
PAGES to the right or left and try tc
act like bit of mud. Yes"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
l.epors of Panama.

When the United States government
began,to construct the Panama canal 1t
found seven pitiful lepers in the re-
public in an isolated and forlorn build
ing. In 1905 it was voted to spend $780,
600 for n suitable building for these
outcasts. In April, 1907, hospital was
opened at Palo Seco and each patient
was given plot Of land on which he
might raise fruits and vegetables, and
so be partly self-supporting. The
Episcopal church, in establishing here
the Mission Of the Holy Comforter, has
offered these lepers practically the only
society they ever see except each other.
Now a chapel. school for the chill
dren. an infirmary for the shut-ins and
laundry and gardens for the active
make these lepers feel that they are
being given their chance.-The World
Outlook.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Crushed Zeppelin Under Road Roller

When the French began 20 take 10
pieces the skeleton of the gigantic Yep
pelln that fell ON the hills near the
banks of the Buech they found II an
almost ineXtricable tangle of metal.
The way they went to work was most
ingenious.
At the suggestion Of NJ. Dumanois,
a naval engineer, they cut the carcass
apart with oXy-acetylene torches; the
pieces of framework were carried by
men TO a nearby road, where a heavy
steam road roller was sent over them
10 crush them Hat. Thus the bulk was
reduced by four-flfths. and the metal
most aluminum-was carted away
TO the foundry.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Weekly War Story.

From one of the training camps full
of Ohio soldiers comes this absolutely
yeracious story:
The company cook went to the COM
handing officer and respectfully asked
when the soldiers wereto be supplied
with gas masks. The officer answered
that he did not know. A week later,
the cook again expressed his desire for
a gas mask. This time, the officer zap
pened to have n sample Of the latest
contriyance of this nature, which Will
probably be used by our soldiers In the
trenches. He showed 1t to the cook,
who Immediately asked to borrow 1t.
Inquiry revealed that the cooks idea
was to put the mask on before he
tackled big job of peeling onions.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08

When an American is told that any
thing is impossible his impulse is to
try to do il without delay. For this
reason no one will be astonished,
though everyone will be interested, in
the story of member of the Ameri-
can Aviation corps in France who was
disciplined by having his machine ia
ken away from him temporarily be-
cause he had used II in looping the
loop-a dangerous evolution, on ac-
count of its peril forbidden to be at
tempted in this machine. While, well
up in the blue" the aviator had start
ed to perform the feat and made five
graceful loops in descending to the
ground. His commanding officer clos
ed his reprimand by asking, "Why did
you do it," and the aviator replied, "A
Frenchman told me it could not be
done" 1t was not unnatural that this
explanation made II favorable impress
sion on the officer, and that he related
il with admiration In proof of the fine
spirit of the fellows the United States
is sending across the Atlantic to hold
up Uncle Sans end of the world war.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Beautiful Feet in Hartford.

We have observed that large ma
iorlty of the men who traverse our
residential streets in this time of snow
and ice wear oyershoes of some kind
and that the large majority of Women
do not. Whether II Is woman suffrage
or plain recklessness that accounts for
this difference we cannot say. II can
not be because oyershOes are unbe-
coming 10 a woman, for those wearing
them look very trim.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Exhaust Steam.

More attention than ever before is
being paid this winter TO careful use
OF exhaust steam In power plants. II
may be applied TO innumerable pur-
poses. such as heating feed water for
the steam boiler, for many washing
purposes, heating buildings, pasteuriz-
ing and sterilizlng and the like. A
small investment In additional boiler
room equipment, such as an exhaust
steam heater, will effect savings OF
several hundred dollars year In the
coal BIZ, Of even a moderate sized pow.
er plant.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Illinois Germans Oppose Loan.

An Illinois banker. chairman Of one
of the county organizations, in letter
to the sales division. announces his
Organization complete. He adds. how
ever, that there will be some strong
opposition to the loan by some OF our
Germans. as they are being scared up
by someone telling them that the gov
eminent would force them to put up
one-haif Of their money in bonds" His
community contains many Germans.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
Record Year for kinaston.

Consul Felix S. S. Johnson of King
ston, Ontario, reports that on the basis
of business already done the declared
exports from that Canadian district to
the United States during the past cal
endar year will approximate $5,OOO,OOO
in value, as contrasted with S2,434.-
642 in 1916 and $1,2SS,2S1 in 1915. In
1910 Kingston had an export trade
with the United States OF less than
S300.000.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-05-08
llncomplimentary AIIuslon.

LOOKING at the writing on that let
ter you have just addressed and post
ed reminds me that you have one asset
the kaiser brags about"
"Whet is that?"
"a mailed list" 90
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
SCENES ARE STORMY.

BERLIN, Tuesday, Dec. 17.-(By the Associated Press )-The second days session of the congress of the soldiers and workmen's councils of Germany was marked by stormy scenes. Herr Lansburg, majority so- cialist, denounced the business meth ods and dictatorial attitude Of the soldiers and workmen's council of Berlin. He declared that the executive committee of the council had pre- scented a chaotic budget statement
 Just before the session adjourned, 30 soldiers created a sensation by in vading the meeting room and demand ing that the delegates immediately vote to disarm and disqualify all off cers and to place all authority in the hands of the soldiers and workmen's council.
 Their appearance caused a great uproar After repeated efforts the chairman and members of the gov ernment gained control of the meet ing.
 The spokesman for the soldiers then announced their demands after which the invaders left the hall. The congress finally adjourned until to- morrow.
 The invasion was regarded as an other attempt by the Liebnecht fac tion to stampede the congress.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
SOLDIERS INVADE SITTING.

BERLIN, Wednesday, Dec. 1S.-(By the Associated Press. )-Evidently re- flecting the views of the Ebert Scheidemann group, Vorwaerts takes the most serious views of the incident of yesterday when the congress of soldiers and workmen was invaded by a party of soldiers. It accuses the extreme left of aiming to disrupt the congress.
 Tt must be declared openly" says the newspaper, that there is danger of the whole government apparatus crumbling and the armistice and peace negotiations being broken off on the ground that no competent Ger man government exists and that all Germany will be occupied by entente troops"
 The Freiheit, on the contrary, de- clares the invasion of the congress could be explained by the indignation of the soldiers at the counter-revolu- tionary activities by the officers of certain troops.
 The demonstration by the soldiers was SO in accord with the utterances of Lederbour, and other radicals at Tuesdays session, as to suggest more than a coincidence.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.-Propa- ganda machinery set up by the Ger man government in Berlin and throughout the world, to spread Ger manic ideas and the methods of fi- nancing this in the United States were described today 10 the senate investi- gating committee by Alfred Brecker. deputy attorney general of New York
 5olo Was SwindIer
 The witness also told of his investi- cations for the French government of the success of BOlO Pasha, executed as a French traitor. in getting SI,6S3.. 900 of German money in this country for purchase of the Paris Journal. but added that since apparently the Paris Journal did not change its attitude of loyalty toward France. the transaction was a pure swindle" of the German government
 How System Worked
 Mir. Becker read documents gath cred partly by the British secret se4v- ice showing that the German foreign office and other government depart ments at Berlin maintain elaborate systems both before and after the Flu ropean war began to influence thought all over the world, working mainly through the press. Branches of Ger man banks and commercial houses co-operated in a vast cohesive organi- zation to promote friendly relations toward Germany. journalists, college professors, bankers. business men and commercial consular attaches-many of them being citizens of the country in which they worked-were employed NIT. Erecker said. Usually the propa- ganda was insidious. with an attempt to conceal it's real nature or pur- pose.
 As early as 1909. said Mir Brecker. George von Skal, a former German reserve officer and later auditor of accounts of New York city. was told on a visit to Berlin, by a representa- tive of the foreign offices press bu- reau, that he would be valuable in case of a future war to keep in touch with the press in the United States There was no evidence, however. that he acted in this capacity after the United States entered the war. the witness said.
 Buy News Agency
 The German government in May,
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SUGGEST SUDDEN DIFFICULTY

1 MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 19.- In commenting editorially upon Presi. dent Wilson's visit to London, now in i immediate prospect, the Guardian, to- |. day regards it as significant that the president means business which the leisurely arrangements previously contemplated hardly seem to imply"
 Tt is unnecessary to speculate, D continues the newspaper, upon the precise causes of this sudden change of plans, but obviously the circum- stances of the moment are not such as to brook delay. The news from Germany shows that two things are essential if order is to be kept and a stable government mainta1ned-the population must be fed and the indus tries started by the returning soldiers and munition workers thrown out of employment and yet We hear of noth- ing effective being done.
 MT. Hoover has been here nearly a fortnight. He has a vast task to perform. Has he all the resources and all the authority he needs? He has immense experience and energy, but no man can make bricks without straw, and we are not so sure about the straw"
 Before he left America, says the Guardian, MT. Hoover said he favored the raising of the blockade, but his statement to this effect, it says, was not allowed to appear in England, the opposite impression being conveyed instead.
 Has Mir. Hoover changed his mind? Has he been oVer-ruled or is the deci- sion pending?" the newspaper in- quires.
 The Guardian refers to the impos- sibility of an indefinite stay by Presi- dent Wileson, who had come with defi- nite principles and policy, it says, which the allies had formally and definitely accepted, but the president could not have been long in Paris, it adds, without discovering what it calls the strange discrepancies be- tween this professed acceptance and the sectional and purely nationalistic demands put forward by various coun tries, not excluding our own"
 The Guardian believes that Premier Lloyd George desires to act with
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
THINKS SUPPORTS HIM
PROGRAM OF PRESIDENTS MOVE MENTs LIABLE TO CHANGE BUT
 NOW PLANS TO LEAVE PARIS FOR TANk HEADQUARTERS XMAS EVE, THEN TO ENGLAND
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 PARIS, Dec. 19.-Definite plans
 for the peace conference are not
 shaping as rapidly as some of the
 American commissioners expect
 ed. Meanwhile President Wilson
 is taking advantage of the oppor-
 tunity to assess public opinion in
 France and incidentally in Great
 Britain. His advisers say he is en-
 tirely satisfied that the peoples
 are largely in accord with the
 principles he has announced as
 necessary to a durable peace.
 The members of the American mis- sion are employing their time before the peace delegates from the various countries actually assembled, in a series of informal conferences, which eventually will include a represents tive of each of the entente belliger- ents. Neutral states will not come into these discussions.
 The feeling among all the entente conferees is that the making of peace should be their first task, so that they may determine upon the broad out lines of a league of nations, which, later, representatives of neutral coun- tries will assist in completing.
 While the American commissioners are holding these informal exchanges. which are designed to clear up diverg- encies of opinion, the president is con- stantly giving the closest attention to immediate problem. He is receiv- ing reports from the United States, from American diplomatic agencies throughout the world, and from the group of investigators brought here for the purpose of studying the many special problems which will arise These investigators are continuing their studies with the advantage of being on the ground and in intimate contact Yith original sources of infor- nation.
 The president may change the pro gram of his movements while await ing the opening of tb,e conference. It was not supposed until today that he would visit England before the new year, but he has received urgent invi- tations to come soon.
 American observers deduce from the pressing invitation to the presi- dent to come to England during Christmas time that some conferences of the statesmen with the president there would logically follow It is understood, however, that the presi- dent favors the holding of all confer ences in Paris as far as possible.
 It appears to be virtually settled that all the actual peace conferences will be held in Paris and that the in- formal exchanges, which will lay the ground work for the final delibera- tons, also will be carried on here.
 How long the president will remain
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ROSS DECLARES
 KNOWS HUERTA'S
 FOUR K|DNAPPERS
Statement Given Strength by Fact of His Filing Com plaints in Court; Consul Arrives Thursday
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DOUGLAS. Ariz.. Dec. 19-Acting under orders from the governors office. John F. Ross, Cochise county district attorney. this afternoon began an investigation of the kidnapping last Saturday night of Dr. Enrique de Huerta, who was taken across the line by Mexicans and Sunday morning summarily hanged. Mir. Ross said he had obtained the identity of the kid nappers and this morning he filed four complaints with the local justice of the peace.
 E. NJ. Lawton, American consul at Nogales. Sonora, is expected to ar rive here tomorrow and begin an in- quiry for the state department. The commander of the Arizona military district also is making an iuvestiga- ton of the affair.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
GIVE COMMISSION POWER.

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19-The con gress of German soldiers and work mems councils on Wednesday adopt ed a resolution, according to a Der lin telegram, transferring legislative and executive power to the peoples commissioners (the Ebert govern ment) until some other arrangement is made by the German national as sembly.
 The congress further appointed a central council of soldiers and work men to exercise parliamentary super vision over the German and Prussian cabinets with the right to appoint and depose of all of Germany until the final arrangement of the state of af- fairs of Prussia.
 The congress rejected a resolution demanding the complete elimination of the bouregoise class from the gov ernment.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
OUR DELEGATES WILL INSIST ON
 SHIP SINKING
American Delegation to Peace Conference Will Have the Backing of British in This Object
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Press dis. patches from Paris saying that the American peace delegates. with Bri- tish support, will urge the sinking of the surrendered German warships as the solution of the problem of their disposition. led to initiation of steps today in the senate to obtain an of ficial statement of the facts and to wide discussion in naval circles. At the state and navy departments no in- formation was available, Secretary Daniels repeating his previous state ment that he had never heard the sug- gestion officially, while at the state department it was said that so far as known there no such project was in-
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GERMER IS ON STAND
ADMITS MILLIONS OF PAMPH- LETS DECLARED BY GOVERN MENT TO HAVE BEEN SEDl- TIoUS WERE DISTRIBUTED BY HIMSELF AND ASSOCIATES
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CHICAGO, Dec. I9.-Letters from John Spargo in which he declared that the attitude of the socialist party since the beginning of the war has been "unneutral, un-American and pro- German were read to the jury today by counsel for the government during the crOss-examinatiOn of Adolph Ger mer, general secretary of the national socialist party, at the trial of five sO- cialist leaders for violation of the es- pionage law.
 Spargo in one letteF said that the call for the St. Louis convention of the party held in April. 1917. at which the proclamation and war program platform were adopted read as if it might have been written in the Ger man foreign office. He protested against the conventions being held in St. Louis, "one of the largest German cities of the United States"
 Spargo was a member of the execu- tive committee of the national social ist party but resigned in. May, 1917. and later was sent abroad as a mem Der of a labor commission by Presi- dent Wilson.
 Germer on Stand
 Adolph Germer, defendant, was on the witness stand all day and was still under cross-examination when court adjourned
 The name of Frank P. Walsh. form CT head of the federal industrial rela- tions commission and until recently aAa NITsu1rar,n of the federal war labor board, was brought into the case by Germer. He said Walsh, Darrow and Seymour Stedman were present at aO meeting of the executive committee of the na- tional socialist party in Chicago in July. 1917, at which the espionage law and certain literature being dis tributed by the organization was dis cussed. He said that a committee of Walsh. Darrow, Stedman. Engdahl and himself was named to go to Washington to protest against the action of the postOffice depart ment in suppressing the American So- cialist.
 Millions of Pamphlets
 Germer admitted that millions of copies of pamphlets declared by the government as being seditious had been distributed by the socialist party. them were the St. Louis con vention proclamation of war program, ''the price we pay" and why we should fight" by Rev. Irwin St. John and down with war" said to have been prepared by Victor L. Berger and Adolph Germer, defend ants, and John M Work. a member of the executive committee of the na- tional socialist party.
 Germer testified that no copies of
 1Continned on Pare Threel
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LEONARD SHOWS MUTINY.
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CLEVELAND, O.. Dec. 19.-Pitcher Hubert (Dutch) Leonard. who figured In yesterdays trade of players be- tween the Boston and New York American league teams. intimated here today that unless he gets part of the purchase price he will not re- port to the Yankees.
 If New York had to add some cash" Leonard said, "I want part of the purchase money. And New York will have to pay me a nice. fat salary or I will not join the Yankees"
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tients having long since recovered and returned to duty. Officials explained that total is really less due to the fact that General Per shing's total included marine casualties Of 1902 killed and more than 4000 wounded, which already have been published by the ma rine corps headquarters here
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Casu- alties of the American expedition ary forces which have not been published but which have been
 announced officially by General Pershing had been reduced at noon. December IS. to a total of 66.s92. These, the war department announced today, were classified
Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-20
ARSON LETTERS READ IN TRIAL
 WODBLY HEADS
Reference to Sabotage and Other Crimes Heard by Jury Trying 46 l. w. w. Leaders
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SACRAMENTO. Cal. Dec. l9.-Let- ters referrering to arson and other forms of sabotage and to the attitude of California newspapers and political figures regarding the Wheatlands, Cal, hop riot. were read to the jury late today at the trial of 46 persons in the United States district court here today for alleged plots to ob- struct war activities
 Most of the letters bore the sigma lures of alleged eo-conspirators with the defendants here. including sev- eral men convicted at the Chicago l. W. W. conspiracy trial last summer. Several touched upon activity charged
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