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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
INDICATES EARLY CALL
Men in Class I Will Be Made
Available for Service at Once.
instructions Are Sent Out BY Adju.
tant General Rhinow For An
Immediate Survey.

St. Paul. April 30.-Adjutant Cen
eral Rhinow. acting on instructions
from the war department at Washing
Ton. has ordered an immediate sur
rey Of all men in Minnesota in Glass
under the selective draft law.
Identical instructions were sent to
avery ad1ntant general in the coun.
try. dispatches from various cities In.
Heated. - .
This order was interpreted by Min
aeapolis draft officials to herald an
unparalleled induction Of men into the
army. perhaps a call for all available
men in Glass l.. This opinion was
fOreshadowed in Secretary Bakers
weekly war review. which declared
that the great battle now raging on
the western front had resolved itself
inc a question of man power and that
it was the imperative duty OF Am
africa to furnish the Allied reserve.
Every Minneapolis draft board Is
busy compiling lists Of men available
for Immediate service.
Dispatches from Washington said
there were indications that efforts
will be made to add 100000 to the
army at the earliest possible time,
experimenting the 100000 already
with the colors and 100000 previous.
" scheduled to be modified this year.
The result would be the necessity of
providing new funds for force of
more than 100000.
The dispatches said Secretary Baker
would lay his plans for army expan.
sion before congress within the next
two or three days. With the quota
Of 100000 men already called for this
year. and the project to summon L.
100000 more. this number will absorb
practically all OF the present regis
trants in Glass 1: estimated at e.
100000. &c
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
PRESIDENT APPOINTS BOARD
Nominates Four Men to Aid In Fin
ancinu War industries.


Washington. April 30.--President
Wilson has nominated membtrs of the
congress to determine on and render
financial aid 70 Wa. Industries. Those
named were:
William p. G. Harding. Alabama.
present governor of the federal re-
serve board. for a term Of two years,
Allen Il. Forbes. New York. for two
years.
Eugene Myer. Ir, New York for a
term Of four years.
Angus w Mclean. North Carolina.
for term Of four ytars.
AT the same time the president
nominated seven members Of the per-
manent capital issues commission,
which licenses the issuance of secur-
tiles by private corporations, munich
palities and individuals. They are
Charles s. Hamlin, Massachusetts;
John Shelton Williams. Virginia: Fred
eric A: Delano, Illinois; James B.
Brown. kentucky: John S. Drum. Cal
ifornia: Henry. c. Flower. Missouri:
and Frederick H. Golf, Ohio.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
GIRLS SHOW COURAGE
Party Of Americans Braves Shell
Fire and Bombs. 49,.
Smith College Unit Wins Admiration
by Aiding Wounded Soldiers
Close to Battle Front.

Somewhere in France, April To-
(By Courier to Paris April 3O.)-Dur-
ing the recent German advance Am
erican college girls displayed extreme
bravery and played conspicuous roles
Nineteen OF them now are quarter
ed in certain French town where
this dispatch is written, but they are
still carrying on" doing what they
can do to alleviate the lot of French
and English speaking wounded, in the
hospitals and passing through The
girls are members Of y unit from
Smith college.
On March 20 they were at Grey
court. On the 21st the battle had
progressed so far the windows Of
their houses began to rattle with the
thunder of the oncoming guns. Civ
ilians evacuated the place hurriedly
and the girls were transported by
automobiles, one party to Verlaines,
and another to Espery-Hallon They
took milk and food for old refugees
and children They were everywhere
Many French family will never
forget them. =.
They were warned to leave Wick,
but number of British officers who
had been two days without food came
into the town. so the American girls
stopped another "a hours and fed all
that came earning their everlasting
gratitude. Finally they arrived at
Montdidier by way OF Roye. which
was heing evacuated
They set up temporary children's
hospital in Montdidier hotel, cook
ing for and serving every hungry
refugee and soldier who passed by.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
RIIY w. g. &.
Norwegian Steamship Sunk

An Atlantic Port, April 3O.-The
sinking of the Norwegian steamship
Wegadesk by bombs, after the crew
of German submarine had held her
a prisoner for two days and had re-
moved from her hold 50 tons of brass
and copper. was described here by
members of her crew who arrived on
French steamer The Wegadesk, Of
4,271 tons gross register, was en-
route to Genoa from Baltimore. On
March 10, when about 100 miles of
the coaH OF Morocco, she was stop,
ped by q submarine.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
Seeks Information Regarding A..
legged Restoration of Mon
archy in Russia.
WIRES TO PE1ROGRAO
New German Minister Is Requested
To Forward All Available Facts
to the Berlin Foreign
Office.

ocIA1u, via LOuuOA, <ApEA OV.-4 Ut
under secretary for foreign affairs
Baron Won Dem Bassche Haddenhaus
en-, has wired Count Won Mirbach, new
German ambassador to Russia, for a
report concerning truth of rumors
that the monarchy had been restored
and whether disorders existed.
BUY w. s. S. -
The under secretary refers to ru.
mors which have come through Fin.
land, and says that he has received q
letter by devious route from Petro.
grad. dated April 10, stating that a
monarchist proclamation was immi.
nent and that General Michael v.
Alexieff. Alexander ]. Guchkoff, Paul
N. Milukoff and Michael v. Rodzian-
ko, all identified with the Kerensky
regime. are in Petrograd.
All these concurring reports, which
reach us from various sources. do not
sound altogether probable. beg you
to wire me your report" he conclud-
ed. -
The newest Russian government In
Petrograd. according to the Alton
bladet Of Copenhagen, says an Elk
change. Telegraph dispatch. has de-
nounced the Brest-Iitovsk treaty with
Germany. It calls for new treaty.
with Esthonia under Russian rule.
Germany Denies Russ Charge.
Petrograd, Wednesday. April "a
Via London, April S0.-General Count
Won Mirbach. the newly appointed
German ambassador to Russia. pre-
scented his credentials to the Boise
vik government at Moscow today.
simultaneously, the German govern
ment issued an angry denial of the
recent Russian accusations that Ger
many had broken the Brest-Litvsk
peace agreement by the continued ad
vance of German troops into the Cri-
Taa. 7
1t is declared here that the Rus
SLAMS will sink the Black sea fleet to
prevent the warships falling into the
hands of the Germans. Already
large part Of the Russian crews has
fed. -. 4.gl-.
The Turkish ambassador and his
staff also arrived at Moscow. 1t is
stated the Turkish delegation has In
vited the Caucasian republic to send
delegates TO Trebizond, a Black sea
port in Turkish Armenia. to negotiate
peace with Turkey.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
1Ioodhounds Trail Slayer.

Rochester, Mimi, April 30-Blood-
hounds, shipped here from Waterloo,
Iowa, have taken up the trail of
Thomas Armstrong, former city asses
sor, who escaped Thursday night after
numbering his wife and shooting his
IA year old stepson, on a farm six
miles south. Armstrong; father, who
arrived a week age from Philadelphia
with hopes of settling the family
troubles, says his son had not re-
moved his clothes for more than a
week. He believes the slayer 10 in.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03

DR.. John tSh1n7tH H. FINLEY, commissioner
II education for the state Of New
York, it is announced unofficially, will
be the head of the Red Cross work
in Palestine. The Red Cross has
made comprehensive plans for the re.
lief of the people of the Holy Land,
who for centuries have suffered I'M
der Turkish rule, and recently were
rescued through the British conquest
If Jerusalem. THE initial WORK OF
The Red Cross commission" says the
announcement, will be to establish
in Palestine four medical units to
combat typhms. cholera and other dis
eases. A fully equipped hospital will
be established"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
= BUY w. 8. s.
Yankees Honored for Bra

Washington, April 30.-Five more
members Of the American ambulance
military authorities for bravery The
French war cross was awarded tc
each. The men named are First Lieu
tenant Okla P. Dobes and Private
Charles V. Tompkins, Richard III.
Baker. James T. Jones and John w.
Wood. The decorations have been
awarded to the war department to be
transmitted to the state department.,
with the request that they be re-
tanned until Congress accepts them.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
BAGS stcond German Plane.

Washington, April 30.-Lieutenant
g. Defreest Larner. an American avi-
ator, has brought down his second
German airplane. Flying alone he at.
tackled the German machine. killed
the observer and shot the. machine
down in flames. killing the pilot, &C
cording to word which has been re-
ceived in Washington. The action
took place in the Disc river section
where he was flying with the French
armies on March 25.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
URUGUAY AGAIN INQUIRIES
Asks Germany Whether Two coun.
tries Art At War. e.

Asks Germany Whether Two coun.
tries Art At War.
Montevideo, April 30.--The Uru-
guayan government has again request
ed from Germany definite reply to
the query, previously forwarded, as
to whether Germany considers state
Of war existing between the two
countries.
Germany's answer to Uruguay's
first request evades this point. but in
the meantime the Uruguayan foreign
minister declines to discuss the mat
ter. .5
A recent London dispatch reported
on the authority of Berlin advices
that Uruguay expected to declare war
on Germany at an early date The
German newspapers had been notified
to prepare the public for this develop
ment
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03

Hopes to Have Forty Thousand Men
in France Soon. ..
An Atlantic Port, April 30.-Cap-
tain Ting Chat Chen. military con-
sellor to the president Of China. ar
rived here on a French steamship
He said that China now is sending
troops to France to fight for the Al.
lies.
Captain Ting. who is graduate of
West Point. for some time has been
IN Europe as military observer. He
said it is the calculation Of the Pc
ing government to have no fewer
than. 10000 fighting men with the
French by early summer
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
Germany Pays For Internment.

Washington, April 30.-The keep Of
enemy aliens interned by the United
States must be paid by the Swiss and
Swedish legations for the German
government. the state department an.
bounced. Law abiding enemy aliens
who become objects of charity will
be cared for by national committee
to be formed to raise subscriptions.
The families Of interned enemy aliens
also are to be supported by the Ger
man government through the Swiss
and Swedish legations, the department
announcement said.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
BUY w. S. S.
Supreme Court viii Recess.

Washington. April 30.-The supreme
court announces that arguments for
the term will close Friday and that
next Monday the court will recess
two weeks for the preparation of
opinions. Another recess for two
weeks will be taken May 20 Opinions
will be rendered on June and July
10. The last for the term.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
Buy w. s. s.
Mooney Opposes Strike.

San Francisco, April 30-Thomas J.
Mooney, under sentence of death for
murder in connection with the pre-
paredness day parade bomb explosion
here in 1916, sent telegram to Pres
ident Wilson stating that he has
made every effort to stop the proposed
general strike planned in his behalf
May 1.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
CHINA is SENDING TROOPS

BUY W. s. s
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-05-03
GERMAN LOSSES DOUBLED

Enemy Is Losing Submarines at a
Rapid Rate.
Rome, April 30.-Loss Of German
submarines during the last six weeks
have been more than double the rate
in January and February, according
to advices from Zurich.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

Hope in a wooden vessel OF about the
same size. Along about that time the
Geroess and Venetians had wooden YES
sells OF 1900 tons. and before that the
great naval battle between the English
and Spauiards were made in vessels %
wood The largest ship Of the spanish
Armada was % 1890 tons aud the biggest
Of the English ships n that engagement
Both were of wood
SINE Last for Many Years.
As TO the life and strength Of the
ships. one Of the most famous vessels OF
English history was the wooden flagship
which Nelson commanded II was known
the victory II was 15s feet long and
50 feet beam and OF 2162 tons That boat
had been afioat 30 years before she took
part in the battle OF Trafalgar
The Olivia OF 81 tons, built in 1873. was
still sailing IN 1910 and the Polly, a
wooden schooner. built in 1s05, was on the
water doing good work In 1902 The con-
Wet ship Success. which was built IN
1888. when George Washington was pres
ident. is stiu on the waters As 20 the
strength OF the wooden fleet for many
purposes the vessel OF wood Is stronger
than the vessel Of steel Il IS better able
70 stand the crushing Of the ice and 10 is
used for polar explorations The Fran
used By hansen In north polar seas, was
made Of wood She had an outside plank
ing OF three thickness and the shell OF
the vessel measured more than three feet
She was III feet Ions and had three
masts and a steam engine The America
fitted out FOR the ZleEler expedition 20
the north pole. was an old wooden whaler
which had been So years on the water.
She was Isl feet long and % feet beam
The Discovery. on which Capt. Scott first
went TO find the south pole. was OF wood,
as was also the Terra Novo. on which he
went later The largest wooden vessel
ever built e said 10 be the Wyoming
launched in 1893 az Bath. Afe- She was
six master. $50 feet long, 50 feet wide ana
80 feet deep
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13
TRAVELETTE
OLYMPIA.
by NIKSAH.

THOSE who had the naming Of
1 mountains and cities OF the north
west chose with a lavish hand from
the names OF gods and goddesses Of
mythology and Indian tribes. The
Olympic mountains might wei have
been those from which Jove hurled
his thunder. And the sylvan town OF
Olympia. the capital OF the state Of
Washington. seems more fitting for
the temples OF Greece than those Of
lawmaking OF an American state.
With the exception, possibly. Of
Annapolis. Maryland. no state in the
union has chosen such an old world
appearing hamlet for its capital a
town almost segregated from the out
side world. AT the end Of a wonder
fully beautiful waterway. deep seated
in the hills and forests. Olympia has
none Of the atmosphere Of politics and
big business.
The town is very small one. so
small indeed that the average over
land train would not even hesitate as
it passed through. Its water front,
until recently, has been adorned with
pleasure craft, fishing fleets and can
ne~y boats. The fjords OF Puget
Sound afford unlimited opportunities
for fishing and pleasure excursions
Olympia is a small inland seaport.
Here loggers and lawmakers have
met in the past 70 solve the mighty
problems of legislation and lumber
ing Here cannery boats tied up in
winter for Overhaulng- Here, in time
long past men tramped IN from Ia
coma and Seattle with the supplies
which they could not wrest from ma
ture. on their backs
The town climbs a short distance
into the surrounding hills rising from
the water front. and then stops The
state capital resembles a dignified
seat of learning in northern Europe;
in fact. nearly all northwest build
ings bear the stamp Of the home of
their builders, the Scandanavians,
Scotch and English EettlsrA
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

the great melting pot OF the country
the crucible that win bring forth the
best spirit OF Americanism that the
country has yet known
VIII the young woman from F1ori-
da- Alabama or TeXaS-as the case
may be-marry the young man from
Connecticut. Massachusetts or Maine.
and amaze her grandmother-Who
still remembers the civil war wildly
by bringing a Yankee boy 20 tbs
land OF the magnolia and the mock
ing bird on their honeymoon2
Why nOr- II is as much TO the IN
terest OF our country that We have
these fine. clean American marriages
as that we build ships OF drill sold
lers- This is exactly the sort OF mar
rage we must have TO carry on the
great American traditions
Not Sufficiently American.
our population Genes TOO largely
from the foreign boru-people who
are apt 70 make their money here
but leave their patriotism On the old
Instead OF paying statisticians and
endowing research bureaus with huge
sums Of money 70 prove that native
Americans have small families. or no
families az all why does stern Gov
ernmeut-blnd to its best interests
place insuperabIe barriers in the way
Of marriages between its faithful en-
ployees2
II is understood. though there may
be no actual law on the subject. that
when the girl I'm the Government de-
partment marries a felloW-employs
she must resign She automatically
dismisses herself And Vet the joint
salaries OF these two young people
would secure a happy American home.
War is a great awakener. and be-
fore this one is over. perhaps our
Government VIII cease to be the stern
stepmother she has been in the past.
and allow the long separated lovers
to wed. New York has already
threshed out the question. in the case
of the married woman, school teach
err. and the married woman school
teacher won the fight
Therefore, when the red bird sings
20 the lady OF his choice. let not the
pretty girl from the CaroIinas
despair Uncle sam NAV be trusted
TO see that in matchmaking. among
his own girls and boys. there is much
wisdom
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

ONCE upon q Summers night
Mused a nlischief-n1akiHg sprite.
Underneath the leafg hood
Of q faHp-hduHted mood.
Here and there. N light and shade,
W-assorted couples srGped:
Lord" said Pack, IN elfish glee.
Lord. Uhat fools these MORALS be-"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

NOV he sings The self-same tune
Underneath an older moon.
Life 10 him Is, plain enough.
Sill a game Of blind mans 5uf.
# ne listen ne may hear
PuekisA Laughter alwGps near.
Ind The elf's apostrophe.
Lord. Dhaf fools these MORALS BE-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14
HE'S NOT A JACKIE
Samuel G. Blythe, in the Saturd;
 Evening Post

Samuel G. Blythe, in the Saturday
 Evening Post.
 A gob is sailor, a man of the American navy, a bluejacket, and the term is self-applied. It is the gen. erie term for all men of the service, up to those who wear the gold on their sleeves; and even so, the sailors ing officer as the main gob. The use of it primarily is to show the sailors detestation for the usual designation of them-jackies. Nothing rouses the ire of sailor so quickly as to call him a jackie. He doesn't like it, and expressed by the "ie," for him. It doesn't fit either his own assumption of his manliness or with the fact of that manliness.
 He is a big, broad-chested, Drowned, hairy, two-fisted person, is the man of the American navy, and this speaking of him as a jackie with it's impli.a- tion of smallishness is anathema to him. He is rough, tough stuff in q rough, tough game; a fighting man, a man who goes to sea in anything that comes along, from dreadnaught to motor launch no bigger than . whale boat, withstands the perils of it. does the incalculable labor of it. has the clear-eyed courage of it, ready to fight over, on top of the water, and does SO fight, and he fees in- suited to be called jackie, as if he were 8 fair haired. red-cheeked little fel- low sailing toy boat in pond.
 Jackie? Forget that jackie stuff, Where do you get it. anyhow? Cob, dod gas you-g-o-b! It is the same with the soldiers. Their resentment of the attempt to tack the title sam mees on them is acrid and universal They won't have it. And I don't blame them, having, as it happens, an acute personal interest in the matter. Now Samuel is good sonorous Biblical name, and Sam is the yirile contraction thereof, but this Sammee business, that gets on ones nerves. Hence our soldiers, scorning the Sammee appel- latien, call thepselves Tanks, which is a good, masculine, soldierly term; thus the men in our navy call themselves gobS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14
THE .FARMERETrE,

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 we are about fed up on the farmer cite pictures in the rotrogravure sections pictures have been a eature of the Sun day papers ever since we entered the war. Beautiful girls riding tractors, reap
 ing grain, and hoeing in the fields greet the readers eye. They are supposed to be pictures of patriotic college girls from the cities who have gone into the country as first aid to the hard-pressea farmer, who needs labor. Invariably the girls are dressed in oyeralls (contrary to the habit of the real farm girD and broad-brimmed straw hats, all tastefuIIy selected and tidily arranged. If the pie lures had the earmarks of genuineness we should be ready with hearty applause for this example of patriotic service made by the girls of Vassar and Barnard, but our suspicious have been aroused We suspect, for example, that the girls are chorus girls who are dressed for the oc- casion, taken out on Long Island and posed by an enterprising newspaper pho- tographer A specially good photograpn recently noted contributes to that sus- pcion. The young lady's lower lip was painted in high eolors to make the lip register" in the picture. farmerette who had been raking hay for an hour or so would not have much paint left on her lip by the time the photograp pher arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14

peace offer as Dr. Solf gave to the world Saturday, in reply to President Wilson's ultimatum, it would have been accepted at it's face value.
 Yet the German government, by violating all international law and setting at naught every obligation to its neighbors and to humanity, has brought itself into such disrepute, has made itself so universally hated and has plunged the German people into such depths of moral obliquity that it's promise to make an uncon- 'ditional surrender to the allies is viewed everywhere with suspicion and incredulity
 While the world waits for Prasi- dent Wilson's momentous decision, on which the fate of humanity hangs, there seems to be but one thought in America and abroad. Germany can not be sincere. To such a pass has the German government brought the fatherland and it's people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-14
Enormous Output
 of British Shells

] 1D ECENTLY during fifteen con
 IN secutive days British artillery hurled into the German lines more than ten thousand tons of shells a day, according to statement made by Winston Spencer Churchill, min ister of munitions. Yet, when the war started it is said that Great Britain was making no high explo- |sives.
 This achievement, which would have been impossible for British gunners three years ago, offers convincing proof of the way in which the muni- tions industry has been organized and lspeeded up in England.
 Since the war began four years ago England has built up an enormous in- dustry for making munitions. There are now between two and three mil lion persons employed in this work,
 many of them women, and the output ] is so great that the artillery in France and Flanders can we'll afford to "slosh" the Germans with shells day
 and night for an indefinite period
 This is what British efficiency has
 done. Not bad showing for a na- l ton heretofore deemed a bit stupid
 and slow of action. In producing
 shells, as in every other phase of the
 world war, the Briton has shown the
 stuff that he is made of.