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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
INQUIRY IS BEGUN ON
n, c. & ST. |. WRECK
INTERSTATE COMMERCE CON-
MISSION ASSUMES CHARGE
OF INVESTIGATION.
Collision, Worst in History of Road.
Cost 90 Lives, With 70 Injured, and
the Mortality List Is Likely to Go
Higher.

Nashville -Preliminary official in
vestigation of the actual cause OF the
disastrous wreck which occurred on
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
railroad at Dutchman's Grade, killing
90 people and iniuring rs. was begun
here by three representatives OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission, B.
c. Craig, Dan +. Johnson and j. b.
Ford While the three representa-
tives are acting under the accident IN
yestigation law of May, 1910, requlr-
ing the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to investigate all collisions, de-
railnents or other accidents resulting
in serious injury to persons or prop
erty of railroad occurring on the line
of any common carrier their findings
in the cause for the wreck will De in
corporated with that of George l..
Loyal, assistant to the regional d.
rector of the south under the federal
railroad administration, who was
scheduled to make the government in
vestigation.
The Nashville Chattanooga & ST.
Louis officials have offered their CO.
operation and have furnished all data
asked by the investigators
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
GEN. CROWDER CALLS 5000
To Produce Spruce Wood for Air
planes-Tennessee o,4ta e5.
Mississippi's Quota SIS.

Washington.-Provo Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder issued call for an ad-
ditional 5000 men from So states to
produce spruce wood in the forests of
the Northwest for airplane work.
From class 1 men who are quail
fled for special or limited service will
be accepted. These, as we'll as regis
trants in the second, third and fourth
classes qualified for general military
service, may volunteer until July 90,
but after that date sufficient men will
be elected from class / to make up
any deficiency in states quota. The
men are to entrain July 30 for Van
couver, Vancouver Barracks, Washing
ton
The allotments by states include:
Alabama s5. Arkansas 154. Florida %,
Georgia 90, Kentucky IS, Louisiana
125. Mississippi 55, North Carolina 20.
Oklahoma so, South Carolina 25, Ten
nessee 145, Texas 146.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
TWO ARE BURNED TO DEATH
Flyer and Mechanic Strapped in Seats
and Were Unable TO Extricate
Themselves.

Ardmore. Okla.-Lieut r. b. Sulli-
van and Mechanic Doyle of Barron
Field. Fort Worth, Tex. were burned
to death near here when their ma
chine fell into nose spin while as
cending. Lieut.. Sullivan and Mechan-
ic Doyle, in one machine. with an
army aviator in another, came here
on a practice flight.
The other machine had just passed
out of sight on the return trip when
Sullivan attempted to rise against a
brisk wind He was about 100 feet up
when the machine took nose dive
and fell. Flames Immediately burst
out, covering the machine, which
burned fiercely for twenty minutes.
The men were strapped to their seats
and unable to extricate themselves.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
YAMkS ABROAD NOW 100, 900
General March Says That Three Army
Corps Have Been
Formed.

Misunderstanding by half OF
the time 1t was originally estimated it
would take to put Americas first field
army in France was disclosed with the
formal announcement by General
March that three full army corps had
been organized by General Pershing
and that the number of soldiers sent
overseas now numbered more than
l 100. 900.
The IS divisions composing the
corps, consisting of four regular, nine
national guard and five national army
divisional units. probably will COM
pose the first army. which, with sup
Elemental army troops such as heavy
artillery, will total a million men.
Instead OF one field army on Jan. i,
1919. originally planned, ii now ap-
pears probable that two such armies
will be- operating in France by that
date, backed by full American built
and maintained supply lines. The
great project OF establishing the
American army as the right flank OF
the battle line will then be within
sight.
General March said organization or
the first field army had not yet been
completed. The formation of the three
corps. however. and his announcement
that troop movements to France were
proceeding at the same astounding
rate that has been the rule for the last
three months. made the American mill
tary program clear
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
ROB TEXAS SPECIAL;
BANDITS MAKE ESCAPE
MANAGE TO ELUDE A SEARCHING
PARTY OF TWO HUNDRED
AND FIFTY MEN.
Believe That Looted Cars Yielded
Only Triflng Amount-Four FER
sons on Train Wounded During TER
rorizng Shooting.

PaCla Kas-After several hours
search through the brushwood border
ing the Marais De Cygne river, home
guards, sheriffs posse and volunteer
villagers numbering about go men, re-
turned to their homes without having
found a trace of the bandits who con
Quoted the spectacular midnight rob-
berry near here of the Texas Special,
fast passenger train of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad.
Some of the searchers expressed the
belief that the bandits, who escaped IN
motor car had probably reached Kan
sas City. The Kansas City police have
been asked to watch for them.
A merchant who lives on the JEFF
ferson highway, which runs near the
scene of the holdup reported that
motor car loaded with men stopped in
front of his home early in the morn
Ing He said the occupants were going
toward Kansas City and seemingly
were lost.
According to postal and express COM
pany employees, the mail and express
cars which the bandits detached from
the train and later ransacked, yielded
them only trivial amount.
Four persons on the train were
wounded during the shooting. which
apparently was INDUCED in by the rob-
bers in order to intimidate the passen-
gers. The injured were taken to
hospital at Parsons. 1t was thought
all of them would recover.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
FIELD MARSHAL IS
REPORTED DEAD
SUFFERED APoPLEcTIc STROKE
AFTER A QUARREL WITH
THE KAISER.
Won HlNDENBURG, AGED 70
Hague Paper Reports That Differ
ences Of Opinion Between Field
Marshal and Emperor Cause
Of Fatal Stroke.

Amsterdam.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is dead, according to the
newspaper Les Nouvelles- His death
IS said to have occurred after stormy
interview with the German emperor
at great headquarters at Spa. The
emperor and the field marshal are de-
clared to have had serious differences
OF opinion concerning the German OF
fensive toward Paris. The field mar
shal died from congestion of the brain.
The violent interview between Won
Hindenburg and Emperor William oc-
CURED on May 16, Les Nouvelles says
1t was followed by an apoplectic stroke
which ultimately resulted in the field
marshaIs death.
The newspaper says it's information
was obtained from good sources In
the occupied district of Belgium"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
AMERICANS ARE FIGHTERS.
Huns At Last Recognize Them A.
Real Adversar.es.

Huns At Last Recognize Them A.
Real Adversar.es.
With the American Army in France.
An indication OF what the German
army thinks of the fighting ability OF
Americans is given by copy OF an iu-
telligence report OF the tdeleted) -
German army, which has just been OBJ
tanned. The report. describing the
fighting on the Marine, refers to the
(deleted) American division as very
good one, almost an attacking divis-
ion.," and adds that the nerves Of the
Americans have not yet been shaken.
The German fire, the report says.
had been unable to affect the morale
Of the Americans, who only lacked the
necessary instructions to make them
serious adversaries.
Prisoners taken by the Germans.
the report states, were physically wei
built and were aged from Is to %
years. Their Characteristic utterance
u uoted rs I'VE kill or are killed"
The report adds that it IL impossi-
Ne to obtain military information
from the Americans. and that they
rarely will indicate the positions they
occupied IN the line.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
AUSTRALIANS SWEEPING ON
Make Advance On Three Thousand
Yard Front to a Depth of Six
Hundred Yards.

With the British Armies In France.
The Australians made still another ad-
vance, carrying forward their line
astride the Somme to a depth of about
a third of a mile, on a front of nearly
two miles This improves their posi-
ton in front of Hamel village and
strengthens the British front in the
marshes around Silly-Laudette.
There seems to have been no serious
fighting. The German outposts fell
back when pressed, and the only OPP
position was from machine guns post
ed some hundred yards behind ITEM
The Australians captured one officer
and 10 men. The German artillery has
INDUCED in heavy retaliatory fire on
the defenses held by the Australians
and Americans, and has sent over a
certain amount of gas. Villers-Breton-
neux has been severely shelled.
The German artillery similarly was
active north of Albert in the vicinity
of Beaumont Hamel and on the Flan-
ders front in neighborhood OF Bethune
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
AMERICAN SHIP SINKS SUB
Cape Henry, While She Was
Returning From Europe.

New YOrk.-A German submarine.
which attacked the American steamer
Lake Forest, 1900 miles off Cape
Henry, while she was returning from
a recent voyage to Europe, is believed
to have been sunk by the steamer
guns, after a two-hour running fight,
according to information received
here in marine circles. Capt. Herbert
r. O. Johnson, United States naval re-
serve, officer in command OF the ship,
has been commended to the navy de-
partment for having sunk the U-boat
by officers associated with him in the
naval reserve
The Lake Forest was formerly the
War Fox. and was taken over by the
United States shipping board on the
Great Lakes soon after she was
launched
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
MUTtNY NEAR SMYRNA.
Turkish Troops Refuse to Serve and
Kill German Officers.

misunderstanding to an uncensor-
ed private letter, which was smuggle1
out of Smyrna, on the Asia Minor
coast regiment in the Turkish vilayet
of Adm, southeast of Smyrna, which
had been ordered to Mesopotamia, mu-
tinted and murdered its German Off
GERS Many soldiers from regiments
sent to suppress the mutiny Joined the
mutinous troops. the letter declares
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish premier.
went to Smyrna and granted amnesty
to the mutineers, who were given the
promise that they would not be sent
to the Mesopotamia war area.
From the same source comes the
statement that the Turks have re-
stricted cultivation OF everything ex-
cept food products, thus causing big
rise in the price of tobacco
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
MONSTER BASTiLE DAY PARADE.
Americans Cited in Army Orders
March Through Paris.

Paris.-Heroes distinguished during
the war in all the entente allied
armies participated in a monster pa
rade through the streets of Paris Sun
day in celebration of the fourteenth
of July-Bastile Day American
troops from the First and Second Di-
visions. recently cited in army orders,
represented the United States army.
One detachment took part in the cap
ture of Cantigny while others were in
the Chateau Thierry fighting.
All the American units had been in
France more than d year and wore
two service stripes. The American
expeditionary forces were showered
with flowers by French girls and were
received all along the route with the
greatest enthusiasm.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
AUSTRIANS LOST 100000
Prisoners Report That Corporal Pun
ishment Has Been Re-established
in Austrian ARMY,

Italian Army Headquarters.-Evi
dence secured from Austrian prison
ers indicates that the Austro-Hungar-
ian losses during the recent offensive
were in the neighborhOod of 100000.
The prisoners say that corporal pun
ishment in the Austrian army. which
was abolished last year by Emperor
Charles. has been re-esta blished in
practice. Other reports made by cap
tives tend to confirm accounts of poor
wheat and potato crops in Austria. The
condition of these crops is said to be
particularly bad in Bohemia. In the
region of Pilsen.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
INDEMNITY FROM RUSSIA.

Paris. - (Havas Agency - Ger.
many's claim for indemnity from Rus.
STA amounts to the round sum of T..
0O0. OO0. 900 rubles. according to a re-
port printed in the Vossische Zeitung
OF the work done by the mixed com
mission named to take up considers
ton Of claims growing out Of the con-
clusion Of the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
This commission has concluded its
sessions, during which the German
representatives. says the newspaper,
presented claims aggregating the
amount named for war damages.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Two Held As Suspects.

Paoli, KAMA man and a woman
are being held as suspects in conneo-
ton with the robbery near here of the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas passenger
train They were apprehended at
Vance, Kan, by Capt c. F. McClay OK
the Kansas state guard. and were later
brought to Paoli for investigation.
Reasons for the detention OF the
couple were not made public, but it
was said that farmers living near the
scene of the holdup lave identified the
two as being in the vicinity shortly
before the robbery.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Cold Drinks Bad
for Your Stomach
How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries
That Hot Weather Brings

Cold drinks in hot weather are bad
enough for anystomach but doublyso,
in fact, dangerous-whent the stomach
is out of fix and you suffer from indi-
gestion, acidity, food-repeating, heart
burn, sour stomach, and that awful
puffed-up, bloated condition after eat
ing. In fact, all stomach and bowel
miserieC are greatly aggravated i'm hot
weather. You can't be too careful.
Sunstroke can be traced in many cases
to poor digestion. Everyone should
watch their stomach in hot weather.
Keep it sweet and cool. Here is an
easy and pleasant way to correct stom-
ach ills. !. A compound has been dis
covered which surely takes up the
harmfuljuicesa and gases from the stom-
mach, leaving it sweet, clean, cool and
comfortable. ~ You won't know you
have stomach II you take one or two
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
YANkS STOP THE HUNS.
American Gunners Shell German Pc
sitions on River.

With the American Army on The
Marne-A German Jaeger division
(Chasseurs) has been placed in the
front opposite the American lines east
of Chateau Thierry. Several Jaegers.
clad in the distinctive German uniform.
attempted TO cross the dam on the
Marine. south OF Mont ST Pere. but the
American machine gunners. always on
the alert. swept the dam with fire,
frustrating the enemy enterprise.
The Americans have fired several
mustard gas shells across the river,
causing the Germans to wear gas
masks continually.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
AUSTRIANS EAT HORSE FLESH.
Information Is Given Ry Huns Cap
tured BY Italians.

Information Is Given Ry Huns Cap
tured BY Italians.
London.-From many Austro-Hun-
garian prisoners captured by the Ital-
ians. in the course of the recent op-
erations interesting Information has
been cleaned of conditions on the bat
tie front as well as in the dual mon
archy itself. Officers, noncommes-
stoned officers and men agree that
things along the front line are going
badly, and that, although the officers
and men are not actually starving,
they are always hungry" Horses
dying from exhaustion or wounds are
at once cut up and eaten by the troops.
According to information received
from prisoners. both Austrians and
Hungarians are DESTROYS of peace.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19

EATOEIC tablets after your meal. 30
light and pain-free you will feel. q
There Ia not q harmful thing IN
EATONIC tablets. They taste hnel
just like eating candy. Druggists will
tell you that EATONIC users saythcy
never dreamed anything could give
such quick and wonderful results; you
can insure yourself "A good, cool, sweet
stomach, you can eat what you like,
and always have the appetite TO eat H..
EATONIC is absolutely guaranteed.
Get a box from your druggist today.
Use it to get rid of and prevent the
stomach and bowel troubles that are
bound 70 come in hot weather. ii
EATONIC fails, return TO your drug
gist and get your fifty cents back. II
you cannot obtain EATONIC where
you live drop card 90 Eatonic Remedy
Co., Chicago, Ill. They will mail you
q box at once.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Trust Me! Try Dodson's Liver Tone!
CaIomeI Harms Liver and Bowels
Read my guarantee! Liven your liver and bowels
and get Strengthened up without taking sicken-
ing calomel. Don't lose days work.

mercury and attacks your bones. Take
a dose Of nasty calomel today and you
will feel weak. sick and nauseated to-
morrow. Don't lose "a days work.
Take spoonful OF Dodson's Liver
Tone instead and you will wake mp
feeling great. No more biliousness,
constipation, slugglshness. headache.
coated tongue or sour stomach. Your
druggist says II you don't find bod
sons Liver Tone acts better than hor-
rible calomel your money IS whiting
for you.--Aav.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
WAR PROHIBITION LAW.
Legislation Proposed AS Substitute
For Pending Amendment to the
Agricultural Bill.

For Pending Amendment to the
Agricultural Bill.
Washington.-Legisl to prohib-
it the sale OF distilled liquor, wine or
beer after Jan. 1, 1919. and to prohibit
the manufacture Of wine and beer
after Nov. l next, was agreed upon
by the senate agricultural committee.
The legislation is proposed as sub
stitute for the pending Norris amend
ment to the emergency agricultural
appropriation bill, which would stop
the sale of distilled liquor and wine
June 80, 1919, and prohibit the manu-
facture of beer three months after the
bill becomes law.
Provisions for the expectation Of
liquors already produced were consid-
cred by tho committee and probably
will be reported in some form before
the senate acts on the amendment.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19

There's no reason why person
should take sickening. salivating Gallo
mel when a few cents buys a large
bottle Of Dodson's Liver Tones per-
feet substitute for calomel.
1t r. a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but II doesn't make
you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson's Liver Tone, because II In
perfectly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug. Ii II
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Dupont Employees Victims.

Memphis.-A large number of the
dead and injured in the Nashville
Chattanooga & ST. Louis railroad
wreck are believed to have been Ia
borers sent from Memphis to work IL
the Dupont powder plant.
These workmen occupied coaches
ahead Of the Pullman sleepers, and
H. NJ Baugh, secretary to Superin-
tendent E. NJ. Wrenn at Nashville.
said over long distance telephone that
80 per cent of the deaths and injuries
occurred among the laborers and in
the day coaches.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Wire Lines in Wilson's Hands.

Observation-Disclosures of the tele-
graph, telephone and radio lines now
rests in the hands of President Will
son.
the senate passed unamended and by
vote of 46 to 16, the resolution au-
thorizing the president to take over
the communication lines whenever he
deems it necessary The house had
previously passed the measure.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
KAISER is ANGRY.

Orders All Negotiations With Russia
Broken Off.
London.-As soon as Emperor Will
liam heard of the assassination Of
Count Won Mirbach. the German am
bassadOr to Russia. according to au
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam, he ordered Foreign Sec
rotary Won Kuehlmann to break off
negotiations with the Russian dele
gates in Berlin.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
MANY OFFICERS KILLED.
Garrison In Servia Said To Have Re-
beIIed On Account of Food.

Corfu.-A serious mutiny among the
Austrian troops in one of the occupied
districts of Servia is announced by tn
Servian press bureau here. The gar-
rison at Kraguyevatz, the former Ser
yiaan arsenal, broke into rebellion be-
cause of bad food, the statement de-
clares. and many of the officers were
killed.
The mutiny was suppressed after 2
veritable battle, in which machine
guns and artillery were freely used.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
For MALARIA, CHILLS and FEVER.
Beyond Their Understanding.

IL is worse than useless TO attempt
to create In the minds of the young
unnatural ideals in which self-sacriiice
and seif-repression are the chief at
tributes of goodness.-Elln Flagg
Young.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Comfort Baby,s Skin

When red. rough and itching with hot
baths of Cuticura Soap and touches Of
Cuticura Ointment. This means sleep
for baby and rest for mother. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
X, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap IS, Ointment % and 50.-Adv.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Marine Corps Number SIS. 1885.

Observation-Disclosures corps officers
and men now number 55,1S5. An an
nouncement from the marine head
quarters says since July /, 2,2e0 en-
listment papers have been received
at headquarters. and il is estimated
5000 are pending at recruit depots.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Both Engine Crews Dead.

Nashville.-Engfneer VIM. F. Lloyd
and Fireman Tom Kelly, of No. 4, both
Of Nashville, and Engineer Dave c.
Kennedy and Fireman Luther l..
Meadows, OF No. l, both OF Nashville.
were killed in the wresk on the Nash
Vile, Chattanooga & st. Louis railway
near here. Kennedy had been in the
service of the road 50 years. He was
found under the boiler of locomotive.