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Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

What the Imperial German govern.
ment offered the farmers Of America
in its ruthless submarine warfare was
not the loss of profits, but slavery TO
the saber-rattler OF Potsdam He pur,
posed to make us slaves by murder
ing the people who took our products
TO market BY all the laws of civil
ized warfare, commerce under a neu-
trail flag was free from any hindrance
except the legal interference justified
by war. But the Germans not only
stopped merchant vessels. they sank
them. Sank them without warning
without trace-the most devilish
thing war has seen since the savages
scalped our ancestors and threw
screaming babies into the flames Of
burning cabins.
The German plan of sinking mer-
chant vessels without trace is based
on the marderer's maxim that dead
men tell no tales" 1t was exc
cuted by the massacre OF men, wom-
en- and children. who. having COM
mitted themselves to small boats in
the open sea after their ships were
torpedoed. were mercilessly raked
with gunfire, and exterminated to the
last unprotected. uSpitied SOUL These
are the murders that stain the hands
of the Kaiser, his advisers and min
ions. These outrages were perpetrated
on neutral vessels when all that civ
ilized warfare gave the Germans q
right to do even with the merchant
vessel under hostile flag, was tc
stop It at sea and make it prize Of
war.
To kill the civilians on board. ever
under a hostile hag. was nothing bui
unmitigated murder. And these mur
ders were committed in order that We
might be enslaved, Having the
right to take the sea with his feet
but being afraid to do so for fear h,
might lose It, and being unable b,
fair means to stop the selling OF oul
products to his enemies. the kaise
declared that he would do i by thu
foulest methoos ever resorted to il
war. He declared the sea closed
and that he would keep it closed, no
by war. but by murder.
To have submitted would have cos
us dear in prosperity but that woul'
have been the least of our loss.
We should have had to grovel be
fore the German government.
We should have had to accept mui
(This is the second of three articles.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Council of Defense Favors School
District Organizations

In a statement urging the crea-
tion of community councils" the
Council of National Defense cites
these advantages of the school dis
trict as a unit of community organi-
zation:
The school district is small enough
to permit individual contact, and is
non-political.
The schoolhouse supplies a meet
ing place in each district. and in
many schools includes domestic sci
ence. manual training. and other IA
cilities.
The school district reaches chill
dren and parents alike. and in the
cities the school is, to a large extent,
already in touch with the alien pop
ulation.
The school is an established cen
ter of information and education.
The school principal or faculty
provides a tried agency through
whose assistance community organi-
ization can be quickly affected.
The school district. with the school
house as its center, is already SOC
ial community. especially in far.
districts.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Federal Trade Commission Protects
Mail Order Lumber Companies

The Federal Trade Commissicu
has issued orders TO 9S lumber COM
larles of the Middle West and far
West. requiring them to stop certain
trade practices in relation to mali
order lumber concerns. Among 'he
practices which are barred by The c.
de", are the following
Obtaining from mail-order con-
Germs. in bad faith or by subterfuee.
estimates of the prices of lumber
and building material and obtaining
catalogues and special Information
intcaded only for bona fde custom
crs end prospective customers.
Through actual or threatened
witadrawal of patronage, including
\ anufacturers or wholesalers 10 r..
fuse to furnish supplies Of lumber
and building material to mail-ordcr
concerns.
Following or causing statesmen oi
mail-order concerns to be followed
from place to place with the object
of hindering and embarrassing thea
in their negotiations with prospec-
tive customers.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Food Administration Further Limits
Use of Wheat Flour

Under the new baking rules is
sued by the Food Administration.
the substitute for wheat-iour cor
tent of all bread and rolls must
amount to 25 per cent. The sub
stitute content hereafter required in
various products follow:
Sweet yeast dough gods. 33 Is
per cent: crackers. 5 per cent;
cookies and ice cream cones, 33 Is
per cent: cakes. 33 l-3 per cent:
pies. SS 1-3 per cent: fried cakes.
S3 Is per cent; pastry. SS 1-3 per
cent: batter. cakes, waffles. quick
breads-such as muffins and Boston
brown bread, &c 2-3 per cent.
Under the new rules no public
eating place may serve more than
ounces of bread and rolls or more
than 4 ounces of quick bread to any
one person at any one meal.
With customers who buy Loaf
bread, bakers are urged TO promote
the use of the three-quarter qouhd
loaf. following the Food Administra-
tons request that the 12-ounce loaf
be used where the 16-ounce loaf WAS
used before.
Bakers are urged to introduce
quick breads" as wheat-saving
measure. These quick breads. in
cluding muffins. baking-powder bis
cults. corn bread. Boston brown
bread griddle cakes. and waffles,
must contain 2-3 wheat -four subsfi-
tutes.
The use of the words milk or
cream on wrappers and labels is
no longer prohibited. but milk bread
must still be sold at the same
price as bread made without milk.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Glass Found In Food i'm But One
Case Out of 200 Investigated

s. The frequent and widespread pub
:lication of statements concerning the
sDresence OF ground glass In food
6tuffs has len the Committee on Pub
'1ic Information to inquire into the
authenticity of these reports. Ii
has been advised by the Food Ad-
ministration that thorough investi-
nations of more than 200 OF the cas-
o. has disclosed only one instance
In which ground glass was found In
the foodstuffs inpected.
# The case in which glass was found
occurred at Fort Smith, Ark. A
baker in that town had had trouble
With his employees. one of whom, de-
3&iring TO destroy his employers bus
1bess, had filed with glass loaf OF
1hread which was to be delivered to
IN orphanage. When the bread was
to the inmates of the institu-
@Ion several of them suffered lacer-
&tions OF their lips. No more serious
= Ajuries resulted
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

Portland Union Stock Yards.

Portland Union Stock Yards.
April 20. 1918.
Cattle receipts today. 275, total
for the week. 1925. Cattle receipts
this week have been extremely light.
Everything that shows any killing
qualities whatever has been sold at
excellent prices. The light receipts
have not brought a great deal of
quality cattle to the market this
week. although some fairly good
steers sold as high as S12.25. The
market today is exceptionally strong.
Quotations are follow: Good TO
choice steers S11.75 to $12. 25, med
ium to good steers S10.75 to SILL
rs. common to medium steers So
90 to $1,000. choice COWS and hei-
fers $1010 to $11.00. common to
good cows and heifers $500 to So
so: Gamers $500 to $500. bulls
$3.50 to $3.50. calves $3.50 to Sl2.-
90. stockers and feeders $3.50 to So
SO.
Hog receipts today. 200. total for
the week $500 The hog receipts
are only ordinary with demand very
insiSttnt S17.75 has been the top
price. I'll is puts Portland with the
top of the recognized markets Of ;he
country. Quotations are: Pr';re
mixed S17.6O to S17.T5; medium
mixed S17.35 to $3.50, rough heav-
les S16.35 to $3.50. pigs $500 70
s1o. 90. bulk S17 60 TO $3.50.
Sheep receipts none. No change
in quotations. which are: Prime
spring lambs $4,000. heavy lambs
$3.50 to $500. yearlings $500
TO S15.25. wethers $500 to $3.50
ewes $1,000 to $3.50.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
New Swindle Takes Money from
Parents and soldiers

Parents of soldiers in camps are
warned by the War Department of a
swindle which has been successfully
operated in various camps.
telegram is sent informing the
soldier has furlough. and request
ing funds by wire to come home.
waving Identification. The rest is a
mere matter of detail.
Parents and friends should be
warned of this game and of the sim
liar one where the telegraphic re-
quest is to mail money TO the soldier
care general delivery.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

In order to meet the demand for
increased production of foodstuffs,
instructions have been issued in
Canada, permitting the free admis-
sion of teams. vehicles. implements.
and other outfits. which have been
ton on their reexportation prior to
December 81, 1918.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Government Provides Soldiers Here
and Abroad with Athletic
Eouipment

Nearly 600 boxes of athletic goods
have already been distributed TO the
troops in the United States and Eu-
rope by the Commission on framing
Camp Activities, which expects 70
equip every company gong 10
France with athletic goods.
Each box contains l dozen base
balls. 4 baseball bats, catcher's chest
protector. mask and mitt, baseman
gloves. playground balls and
hats a soccer balls. footballs. 2
volley balls. 10 sets of boxing gloves.
medicine ball, baskt ball and rule
books.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

The total amount of foodstuifs
shipped during March from the
United States and Canada to the al
lies. according to the Food Admin
istration was about 100000 tons,
compared with 10000 tons in Feb
ruary.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
RederaI Farm Loan Board Approves
bans Totaling sf0O. 900. 900 in Year

Al A review of the first year OF op-
ration of the Federal Farm Loan
Hstem shows that 2,S0S national
&rm loan associations we're incor-
1prated. representing about four as
Dciations to each five counties OF
Ne United States. They average 20
Members, or total membership OF
Douf $4,000 farmers.
# The 12 land banks have received
applications for over 10000 loans.
mounting TO about $500, 100000 d.
bout 10000 loans, amounting TO
Yer s160.000,000 have been APP
owed. and on 10000 of these loans
Yer sS0,L00,000 has been paid tJ
e farmers.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

In Norway where no gasoline has
been obtainable for many months
and automobiles have practically
ceased running. experiments are be
ing made to operate motor cars with
acetylene gas.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
OF Bread Is Again Cut
BY French Order

The latest bread allowances IN
hnce. placing the ration at about
lD-thirds OF that heretofore main
hed. limit maximum consumption
4 day, as follows:
children less than 3 years old
ounces.
Ehildren from 3 to IL years old
Ounces
Persons from 13 to 60 years old
1 ounces (hard workers In TINS
class may receive 3h ounces
re
Persons oyer so. z ounces.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
American Altman
Shoots DosUr ive
Airplanes in Day

PARIS. June 15.-Sergeant David E.
Putnam, of Brookline, Mass, is re-
ported to have downed five Germans on
juno 20. Three of Putnaln's aerial
victories are official and the other two
arc under investigation. This record.
il the five victories are officially
accredited, makes Putnam's total thir-
teen, supplanting Lieutenant Frank
RayGes, Of New Bedford. Mass. as the
American ace of aces
The feat accredited Sergeant PUTNAM,
is the most notable performed by an
American aviator and has probably
been eclipsed only once during the
course of the war. The only other
aviator getting a larger bag of enemy
airplanes in a single day is Lieutenant
Rene Fonck, French ace, who on May
8 brought down six German machines.
Sergeant Putnam is descendant Of
lsrac4 Putnam On April % it was an
nonnced that he had been awarded tho
War Gross by the French government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Troops
NolU Hold Sector
Near Slviss Border

by United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN
TRANCE, June 15.-American troops
are holding section of the Allied line
a few kilometres from the Swiss Dor
der, south of Hartmann sweilerkopf.
They have been in this sector since
the middle of May, but permission to
announce the fact was only given to-
day.
This is the first American unit to
occupy sector in German territory.
Their line is in mountainous dis
trict.
The Alsatians welcomed the Ameri-
cans as deliverers.
Hartmannsweilerkopf is hill on the
north bank of the Thur River, between
Thanh and Sennheim. 1t was the
scene of some of the most sanguinary
battles early in the war and has been
fought over several times. 1t is eight
miles northeast Of the nearest point Of
the. Franco-German frontier, and is
more than twenty miles north of the
Swiss border.
AS the Americans are South" OF
Hartmannsweilerkopf, however, they
may be at any point between that hill
and the south border. The line runs in
almost a straight line from the hill
to the point where the French, German
and Swiss borders meet, passing
through Aspach, Burnhaup, Giidweiler,
Friesen and Uherstrass, all German
towns
This announcement now definitely es-
tablishes American forces on eight dis
/ tinct fronts, Flanders, Amiens, Verdun,
{ Toul, Luneville, Woevre and Alsace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Americans XIII 20 of $50
In German Raid

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, June 15.-~A German raiding
party of $50 men and three officers at
tackled the American line south of
Thiaucourt at o'clock this morning.
The enemy lost at least twenty killed,
of whom one officer and four men died
In the American trenches.
The American casualties were light
and they took one wounded prisoner
Such of the Germans as attempted
to proceed toward the American rear
lines in search Of prisoners were driven
back OR killed in -quartered fight
ing.
One American, when surrounded by
German officer and five privates, re-
fused to surrender. Instead ne threw
a bomb which killed the officer and
wounded the others Of the enemy party.
According to the wounded prisoner.
the raiding party belonged to the 104th
Crown Princes Regiment of the doth
Division. He said that the division ar
rived on this front from Russia on
April /.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Kiev Bonbarded,
Cathedral Felled,
By Big Explosions

AMSTERDAM, June 15.-Much dam
age was caused in Kiev, the Ukrainian
capital, by an explosion in the NUM-
lions works there on June 8. says the
"Lokal Anzeiger," of Berlin. There
were twelve big explosions and several
smaller ones, lasting from 10 o'clock in
the morning until late in the afternoon.
The biggest explosion occurred at IL
o'clock, when people standing on the
ramparts at Petclersk were hurled to
the ground. Shells fell in all direc-
tons over the city.
The Svjerinetz Cathedral collapsed
like pack of cards, houses were blown
over and the streets turned into
sr..ouldering masses of debris, while
the neighborhood of the munitions
plant was "a Of fire. The Toiski
convent was destroyed
The correspondent refers to rumors
that the explosion was due to machina-
tons Of the Bolsheviki against General
Skoropadski, the Ukrainian Hetman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
American, Forester
Engineer Captures
A German Airr,1o1

by United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
LORRAINE, June 1.-two German
planes wers brought down by Ameri-
can ai1men Thursday, 1t was announced
to-day. One American observation
plane failed to return.
Corporal E. Frizzi, forester eng1-
neer. captured the pilot Of one German
plano single-handed and unarmed. The
BocAe was carrying two pisto $. When
his plane dropped Frizzi saw the OBJ
server jump out He ran up to him
and holloCed:
Islands up, you damn Heinie, before
I knock your block off,"
The German stuck his hands up
without attempting, to use his pistols.
Frizzi seized the 'Bache's gans and
brought him into camp, where the
American soldiers entertained him UNI
til the French gendarmes arrived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
300 Arrests Made
In Anfi-Souiet Plot
jBy The Associated Press

MOSCOW, June More than three
hundred arrests already have been
made by the Soviet government in con-
nection with the anti-Soviet plot.
Among those under arrest are NJ Kish-
kin, Minister of Public Welfare in the
Kerensky Cabinet, and M. Malyanto-
witch, Minister of Justice in the Keren-
sky Cabinet, and many other Social
Democratic and Social Revolutionist
leaders.
Partial disclosures made by the So
Wet government allege that the counter
revolutionary headquarters in Moscow
had extended it's organization through
out Siberia and Central Russia under
the name of "Union for Defence of the
Fatherland and of Freedom" The or
ganization is accused of planning the
overthrow Of the Soviets and the estab
lishment of a government standing for
the national interest of Russia, reor-
ganization Of the army on the old basis
and continuation Of the war against
Germany with the support of the Allies.
The organization is said to have con-
sisted chiefly Of former officers dis
gused in shabby clothes, travelling as
bagmen and labore~~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Soviets Pick
Poor Peasants
To Seize Grain
Committees of Needy Men
Are To Be Backed by
Workmen
(By The Associated Press)

MOSCOW, June lathe Central
Executive Committee tonight voted to
create committees of poor peasants Tor
the purpose of taking a census of grain
and other food necessaries in villages,
confiscating all in excess of that above
requirements and distributing food and
agricultural machinery among the peas
ants they decide are needy. The com
mittees, which are permanent, are to be
formed by the local Soviets, and only
the poor can become members. Their
activities are to be directed exclusively
against rich peasants. who are declared
to be hiding grain. and against the
bourgeois opposed to the Soviet gov
eminent.
To help these committees enforce the
measure, armed detachments of work
men have been formed in Petrograd
and Moscow, 5000 in each city, and
more are to be formed and will be sent
to various villages. Notwithstanding
the severe criticism of the measure by
the opposition, particularly the Social
Revolutionists, who pointed out that it
will cause civil war among the peasants
and stated that they would oppose its
enforcement when passed because they
regarded it as injurious, it was adopt
ed by large Bolshevik majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Americans Haze
Beaten Foe Every
Time, Says Briton

LONDON, June 15.-American SOL
diers are more than match for the
Germans in the opinion of Reuters
correspondent with the American
forces in France, who has been with
the Americans for the last month.
Whenever the Germans have met the
Amer cans, he says, the Germans have
been beaten.
"My IMPRESSION" he adds, "is that
the Germans will find in their new
foes men more resembling our domin-
IONS soldiers that the home-born
Tommy They are full of tender
ness, as the German wounded already
have had cause TO know. Blu. they
will not have mercy on men who do
NOT fight straight and will avenge
comrades slain by treachery to tho ut
most platoon"
Referring to the large infusion of
Americans of German descent, tho cor
respondent says that they make good
soldiers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Have Won 1880 Miles Of
Railway in Their
Attack
Defy the Soviet,
Resist Invasion
Threat to Discontinue Send
ing Grains to Russia An
other Weapon

LONDON, June 15.-The Czecho-Slo-
sian Soviet government in Siberia and
the Ural region continued their Sue
cesses, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Moscow. dated
June II. During the 9th and 10th of
June, having occupied Samara. they ad-
yanced rapidly toward Ouffa.
On the Siberian railroad. from
Tcheliabinsk to Tomsk IA distance of
1880 miles) all the towns are in the
hands of the Czecho-SIovacks. Omsk
was occurred on June by a united
force of Slavs and Cossack peasants
under command CT Colonel Ivanoff, the
Soviet forces having retired from
Omsk and Tunen.
lished in the Omsk- Nicholaevsk region
has notified the Soviet government at
Moscow, the correspondent adds, of the
abolition of the government of Sol
diers and Deputies in Siberia and OF
the creation of the new provisional
government. The notification staten
that the Siberian government, which
is Joined by Commander ivanoff in the
forwarding of communication, does
not lntenu TO WORK LOT tHe SepdratloH
of Siberia from Russia, and is ready
to negotiate for supply of provisions
to the northern districts of Russia.
Should the Council of Commissioners
at Moscow, however, attempt to re-
establish the Soviet power in Siberia.
it is declared, the Siberian government
will resist and will discontinue the
sending of bread grains to northern
Russia.
The advent of the large contingents
of Czecho-Slavs in the Far East is
noted in times" dispatch from Pc
king, dated June 10, as having brought
Two divisions of these troops, the cor
respondent says, are now scattered
along the Siberian railroad from
Tchelyabinsk eastward, on their way to
Vladivostok, while about $4,000 of them
have arrived at Vladivostok. Their
presence at this port il causing irrita-
ton to the local Bolsheviki, who are
anxious for the immediate shipment of
these troops overseas.
Meanwhile General Semenoff, the
anti Bolshevik leader in Siberia, does
not find his affairs prospecting. accord
! ing to these advices, which report that
he has been obliged to retire to Daurk-
tia, while the force comprised of former
prisoners of war opposing him is in
creasing.
ION the other hand" continues the
correspondent, public feeling every
where in Siberia is hot against the
! Bolsheviki. Manifestation, against them
are growing, but all the centres of pop
ulation are dominated by the Bolshevik
] element. which alone has supplies of
arms and ammunition, making action
! against them a difficult matter.
"The universal cry of Siberia is for
the assistance of an Allied force around
which all the Moderates can rally.
"a small force of Cossacks and others
commanded by Admiral Kolchak is OPP
1 posing the Bolsheviki on the Eastern
Manchurian border, near Vladivostok.
/ The Bolsheviki are threatening to blow
up the immense stores of ammunition
in Vladivostok if Admiral Kolchak at
tacks them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
Refugees Return
To Deserted Homes
Behind u. S. Lines

by United Press STAFF Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICANS in PIC
ARDY, May IL (by maiD The rcfu.
gees are comirg back to Picardy.
with the American soldiers holding
the line before Montdidier, the high
water mark OF the German advance in
this region, the old men, women and
children who fed before the Bochc
guns are slowly drifting back to their
homes.
Villages close to the front are shat
tered and torn. They are not habitable
for civilians. But it is to the little
towns further back that the refugees
are returning.
AS the American forces moved in to
road to Amiens they passed pitiful
professions of homeless French women
and children Piled high on the heavy,
old-fashioned two-whceled carts were
all the household goods that could be
gathered together. A mattress was
usually the topmost piece and atop this
sss old women and children. A boy or
an old man plodded beside the horses
drawing the cart
Now the women and children and the
carts and horses are on the roads
sgsln. But they are headed back tow
ard their homes, if their homes hap
pen to be in the villages fully re
Claimed. In many towns shops were
ieft deserted, with goods which appar-
emily had been sold still on the counter.
when the first warning of the approach
OF the Huns came. For miles and miles
back of the front soldiers could pur-
chase nothing, as there were no shop
keepers Billeting officers took over
housesc that had been left open, but
every movable piece of furniture was
earned out. Tho evacuation OF the en-
dangered villages was complete.