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The Washington times., 1918-11-23
No Political Reason.

Ne Political Reason.
Suggestions that there was a politi-
cal reason behind the resignation were
sharply and bitterly resented in Ad-
ministratton circles. A report that the
Secretary retired because President
Wilson had disregarded his advice
and appealed to the people TO return a
Democratic Congress was character
lied as utterly false" by sources close
to the White House. Only one reason
existed for the action. officials said,
and that was the reason frankly as
signed by Mr.. McAdoo in his letter to
the President.
Naturally there was much specula.
ton as to the effect his retirement
would have on his political future.
Leaders who follow closely the trend
of events said that It was as yet too
early to say whether his retirement
will eliminate McAdoo as a possible
candidate for the next Democratic
Presidential nomination. However,
the majority of political leaders here
seemed to think that he had bene-
f1tted himself. He is going back to
New York city to resume his law
practice on January /. On that date
"Al" Smith will be sworn in as gov
ernor. For the next two years the
Empire State will have a Democratic
Administration. Secretary McAdoo
was one OF the first of the Admins
tration leaders to indorse the Smith
candidacy. Consequently. officials
said today, the incoming governor is
sure to have a very friendly feeling
for the former Secretary. Should he
so desire, officials said today. there
is not the slightest doubt that Mr..
In
fiuence in the next Democratic ma
tional convention as the State dele
cation can easily be lined up for
him.
Mrs MeAdoO FnvorS Move.
Officials said today that the resig-
nation OF the Secretary not only has
the complete Endorsement of Mrs. Nc
Adoo-President wilson's daughter
but that she had urged him to retire
as soon as possible. The long con-
tinued strain of overwork has slightly
impaired his health and it is under
stood Mrs. McAdoo was insistent that
he take steps to secure much needed
rest
When Mr.. McAdoo retires to private
life he will leave the following Official
positions:
Secretary of the Treasury.
Director General of Railroads.
Chairman lex officio) Federal Farm
Loan Board.
Chairman Federal Reserve Board.
Member of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
Chairman United States section OF
the International High Commission.
Chairman United States War FL
nance CORPORATION
Director United States Public Health
Service.
The Washington times., 1918-11-23
YANKS KILLED IN
WAR over $4,000
CONTINUED from First Page.) }

Continued from First Page.l
Pershing to send home. to the extent
Of available transportation, such units
a. are not needed for the army occu-
patton.
These branches are railroad artillery.
army artillery. gas, tank, and air serv-
ices, and skeletons Of certain divisions
which have been used in replacement.
HIS full statement of casualties
showed:
Killed and died Of wounds 36,154
Died of disease. se.... 14.S11
Deaths unclassified. 2,2O4
Prisoners 2,163
Missing 1.1GO
The total casualties ran to 226,l17.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
DISCHARGED SOLDIER
IN PECK OF TROUBLE
Is Held at Canton, s. D., For
Passing Worthless Checks /,
on Merchants.

Canton, s. d., Sept. 28.-The Lincoln
county authorities arrested a young
man dressed in the uniform OF the
United States army on the charge of
obtaining none under false p~retenses.
He is accused of having passed a num-
Der Of checks which proved to be
worthless. The prisoners name is sup
posed to be either Howard Benson or
Lawrence ensCn He admitted to the
authorities that he had been dis
charged from the army twice.
Checks found in his grip were signed
Howard Benson and Lawrence Benson
and had been cashed at Sioux City.
At n place in Canton he purchased
a "a box OF cigars and received change
for the SIS check which he rendered.
At another place he passed a worthless
check for SO.
A day or two before his arrest in
Canton a stranger clad in a soldier
uniform. appeared at Beresford In an
automobile, which became disabled. TIC
Nalman Staley, a citizen. he represent
ed that he had to be at Sioux Falls In
a short time 10 get some army officers
and secured the loan Of Staley's auto
to make the trip. This IA the last
seen OF him In Beresford, and II is be-
lieved the young man arrested In Can
ton 10 the same one who borrowed
the auto in Befesford.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
INDIAN EDUCATION
is GIVEN CONSIDERATION

ton from the federal education de-
partment in attendance at the confer
ence Of the National Society of Ameri-
can Indians here this week has brought
about a considerable discussion be-
tween the Indians present. and the rep
resentative Of the government on edu-
catiOnal matters. The Indians have
several points of dissatisfaction with
present rules and regulations and pol
icies of the government in relation to
the federal schools where Indians are
educated, and these matters will re-
ceive the attention OF the federal rep
resentatiye here, and later Of the edu-
cation department for adjustment.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03

Not only do they bomb our hospitals
and use a~mbulances as targets" says a
returned Red Cross man, but they
arm their own Red Cross men, to en-
able them to Kill allied soldiers. Every
German Red Cross worker carries with
him an automatic revolver, a gun, and
sometimes a bolo."
A steamship arriving In New Yorl,
this week, without. a woman or a child
on board. reports hat the British ad-
miralty has banned the sailing OF
women and children, on account of in
creased U-boat activity along the Brit
ish coast
A foating concrete dock, similar TO
the new ship Faith" was constructed
in the Philippines in 1905, and is still
in use.
One request to the wal service com
mittee Of he American Library Asso-
citation came from a Greek soldier who
asked for a hook that would help him
teach an Italian soldier how to talk
English.
Nothing on earth can stop the
Ianks now-uniess it's the folks al
home" says a lieutenant Of the flying
corps who, four times wounded, re-
turned to his Minneapolis home this
week.
London is shortly to open a leave
club for women In the various serv-
ices, the "Waacs.f "Wrens" or Pen
gums" whcn--on To- we, or passing
through the cig.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03

The allied governments necessarily
demand every guarantee which they
consider necessary to them to safe
guard their military operations to pre-
vent the dispatch Of German troops to
Bulgaria.
" In discussing the Bulgarian proposal,
1T Is pointed out the allies rave no in
tention OF attempting to make a final
territorial settlement in the Balkans,
which obviously must be q matter for
consideration at the peace conference.
The question, it Is stated, is one of
the conclusion of suc a military agree
ment as would prevent any further
danger from the Bulgarian side to OPP
erations Of the allies in the Balkans.
III implies the rehabilitation of
the Bulgarian army or it's employment
elsewhere against Bulgaria's present
allies.
No steps in the territorial questions
involved will be taken without the
fullest cooperation and support of
Greece and Serbia, but one Of the es-
sentials of any preliminary agreement
must be the evacuation by Bulgaria OF
all territory outside Bulgaria proper
occupied by her armies since the out
break Of the war.
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II the terms laid down. which have
been dispatched to Sofia. are not ac-
ceptable to the Malinoff government
the allied powers, IL is added. have no
further conditions to propose. and it
will rest with Bulgaria to find other
representatives who car accept these
conditions.
The Hague. Sept. 28.-The Bulgarian
parliament has approved Premier
Malinoff's request for an armistice,
and delegates are now enroute to the
frontier. according to dispatches re-
ceived here today.
London, via Montreal, Sept. o.
Arthur j. Balfour, the British foreign
secretary. and Andrew Bonar Law,
chancellor Of the e~xchequer, are I'm con-
ference with David Lloyd George, the
premier, with regard to the Bulgarian
armistice proposal.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 28.-Wolff
Bureau, the semi Official German news
agency, say the Bulgarian Premier
Malinoff's peace offer is" against the
wishes Of King Ferdinand and the Teus
tonic alliance.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
PRACTlCED FRAUD ON
INSURANCE COMPANY
That Is Chs<ge Lodged Against
Ma. Whose Household
Goods Were Burned.

+. Sioux Falls, S.. D, Sept. 30.-G. F.
Hatcher, a travelling man who former
~ resided in Sioux Falls, but who now
is a resident of Minneapolis, as the
result Of his preliminary hearing In
this city was bound over to the state
circuit court under a bond Of S1,500
on the charge of o~verrating the value
of furniture which he had burned In
a fire In Sioux Falls an January IL
last. He put in a claim for $4,000 for
The destroyed household effects he had
stored In the burned building. his
policy being for that amount. He
swore in his statement that the eff
fects were worth $500. 1t is claimed
by the state that his furniture and
other Effects were worth much less
than he claimed. The amount OF the
insurance policy has not yet been paid
to him by the company.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
MADE NO OBJECTION
TO CANDIDATE BATES
Action of Citizens of Britton, S.
D., Said to Have Been Direct
ed Against Townley Only.

Aberdeen, S. d., Sept. 28-The action
Of a crowd Of Marshal county residents
at Britton Tuesday afternoon in refus-
ing to permit Nonpartisna league
speakers to hold a meeting that had
been advertised for that place at that
time, has created much interest In this
section OF South Dakota.
= About a week ago when the Nonpar-
tisan league first announced q meet
ing would be held at Britton on the af-
ternoon Of September "a. which would
be addressed by A. c. Townley Of st.
Paul, president of the league. M Mark
p. Bates, OF Letcher. league candidate
for governor of South Dakota, a meet
ing Of citizens was held at Britton
and a remonstrance was sent to the
South Dakota state council Of defense,
asking that organization TO prohibit
NTownley speaking, on the ground that
the league leader is not loyal. The
state council did not act, a member OF
the organization stating that 1t was
the policy of the state council to leave
such matters to the county defense
councils n hat usually IL was the
custom to have a representative at the
meetings, who was instructed not to
modest them unless actual disloyal talk
was INDUCED In.
Reports from Britton state that the
league speakers, travelling in automo-
biles. reached there, from Sisseton, s,
D., about IL o'clock, Tuesday morning.
About noon a delegation Of citizens
waited on Townley and informed him
that he would not be allowed to speak
AS they considered permitting him to
speak would be an encouragement to
disloyalty. The point was made clear,
reports from Britton say, that no OBJ
lection was made to Bates holding q
meeting If he desired. However, al
about 1880 o'clock, as the Nonparti-
sans were still in town, apparently de
termined to hold their meeting, a crowd
estimated at between 300 and $50 men
part of them farmers, again waited OF
the speakers and escorted them to the
Day county line, forbidding them to ad-
dress the Britton people.
The Nonpartisans are scheduled for
a meeting in Aberdeen on Saturday ev-
epInG 4~ H
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03

The tin output o. the world In 1918,
according to figures complied by t1e
National City Bank, New York, Was
III, 500 gross tons against 121,S00 tons
in 1915, which was the record. The
1906 production was $4,000 tonsAnd the
100. 600 -ton mark was passed in 1908
with an output Of l04,100 tons. In the
last normal year the worlds tin cut
put by principal countries vas as fol
lows: Halay peninsula. $4,000 tons;
Bolivia. 81, 900 tons; Dutch East Indies
o 1000 tons; China, 5000 tons: Siam
1000 tons; Africa, 5000 tons: Great
Britain. $500 tons, and Australia, 4,50(
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
eAasso SOLDIER
REFUSES B,scHAReE

Trent, S. d., Sept. 2S.-Anker Ler-
rett, a young man from Trent, who has
seen a great deal of service in France,
and who nearly lost his life when
gassed, has spurned an offer OF an
honorable discharge from the army.
After being gassed he was returned to
the United States n sent to the
Cape May hospital. He now has re-
covered to such an extent that he is
spending a short furlough with South
Dakota relatives and friends. He Is
still very weak and is scarcely able to
speak above a whisper. At the conclu-
sion of his furlough he will return to
successfully with the military authori-
ties to keep him in the service and give
him a chance to dc something more
toward winning the war for the United
States. -
WEBSTER-John S~lunaker, Adam Paul.
Michael Burtad and Ralph r, Bolk. of
Stanberg, near here, were arrested on
the serious charge of transporting liquor
into the state, and when taken into a To-
cal court they entered pleas OF guilty and
were required to pay $75 n costs each,
their aggregate fines and costs amounting
to $322. They had shipped several car
loads OF stock to the Twin cities, and after
receiving payment therefor purchased a
couple of automobiles and a quantity OF
liquor and started for nome.
MILBANK-Nels Swan. a farmer living
near here, had a narrow escape from
death while threshing. His trousers
caught on a set screw while the thresher
was In operation and he fell. In falling
his foot struck the whistle cord and
blew the whistle. This attracted the at
tention Of other members of the crew,
one of whom rushed to the engine and
shut II off in time to save Swans life.
Even as II was practically all the cloth
ing was torn from his body and he was
badly bruised and cut.
PIERRE-Frank Zobesky, of Vivian,
while on a load of hay backed against a
fork handle with a box OF matches In his
pocket, with the result that the whole box
started at once, and in attempting to
smother the flame by rolling on the load,
the hay caught fire, only by rolling
off entirely was he able to put out the
fire In his clothing. He hurriedly un
hitched the team, but the hay and the
wagon burned, setting a prairie fire
which spread over a large tract before
il was under control.
FLANDREAU-LeoR Heath, who spcn,
his boyhood here, It has been learned was
one OF the victims of the submarine at
tack on the Mount Vernon, which was
torpedoed early this month with a loss OF
80 lives. Young HEATH was a fireman on
the Inflated ship, having enlisted at Pine
City, MINI.
PIERRE-What is thought to have beer
a dust explosion" destroyed a threshing
separator which was at work near Eu-
reka. There was no evidence of any
| attempt to destroy the machine by in
| tent. and the. only damage was that 10
the woodwork Of the machine.
vOLIN-Bee owners of this vicinity
who are quite numerous, are receiving
| large sums from their honey product. One
| Of them, F. +. Varing. has this fan sold
| honey to the value OF SIG.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
INSURANCE POLICY
WAS GOOD AFTER ALL

Sioux Falls. S. D., Sept. 2s.-Mrs.
Benjamin A. Carlson, of this city, is
$1,000 richer as the result Of q peculiar
incident. Her husband was killed In
an automobile accident in october. 1915.
Among other effects he left a life in
surance policy for $1,000, but he APP
parently had defaulted in some OF the
payments and his widow was convinced
that the policy had lapsed. Later when
the notices commenced to come she
thought them delinquent letters and
burned them without opening. Finally
the state agent Of the company dis
covered that the dividend checks were
not being cashed, and he started an in
yestisation which BOY has xssaltsd N
$1,000. Some extended INSURANCE on
the policy had amply covered the uh-
paid premiums so the policy had not
been voided.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
CEREMONY TO ATTEND
OPENING OF COURT

Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. 28.-Two i'm
pressive ceremonies will mark the
opening OF the October term of state
circuit court for Brown county on
Monday, September 80. One will be
the admission to citizenship of over
20 foreign born citizens. The new citi-
zens will be addressed by H. c. Jewett,
president Of the Jewett wholesale gro
Gerry and chairman of the Brown Coun-
ty Red Cross Chapter.
The other feature will be the dedica-
ton Of its service flag by the Brown
County Bar Association. There are
10 stars on the service flag, one being
a gold star, In memory Of c.. c. shorty
Croal. a gallant young lieutenant, who
was killed in battle in France last May
The court calendar for the term is
long, but most OF the cases will be
postponed, II Is expected, being jury
cases, and 1t has been decided no Ia
call a jury for the fall term because
Of the busy season on the farms.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
$780,, - 49,"
BEING TA45sRhAffkA Is oesge7ea

Milbank, S. d.. Sept. 2S. - William
Nagel, one Of the young men called
to the colors last spring from Grant
county under the selective draft, ftnds
himself in a peculiar p~redicameht be-
cause he needed the advice OF friends
and violated HIS fhriough. Military
police from Camp Funston came to
South Dakota and took him back to
that camp, where he will have to face
a charge of desertion. Some weeks
after reaching Camp Funston with
other draft men last spring young
Nagel secured a one-day furlough for
the avowed purpose OF visiting Kansas
City. Instead of going to Kansas City
he came to South Dakota and secured
work on a Grant county farm. When
the military authorities learned OF his
whereabouts and caused his arrest he
had been absent from camp for a per-
iod OF 100 days. The one day fur
Tough was the only permit he had
ever been granted to leave camp.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
HE LIKES SOUND
OF THE BATTLING

Canoya, s. d., Sept. 2S--Archie Peck.
a South Dakota young man who is
serving with a motor battalion of the
End Ammunition Train OF the Ameri-
can forces on the fighting front in
France, writes hat he gets lonely UNI
less he can hear the sound OF the big
guns. He writes in part:
"All that worries me is the boche
shells bursting around the trucks, but
/ am pretty well used to them by now
and I don't think they've got my num-
Der over there. l like 10 be up where
you a hea the guns va It really
seems lonely without that sound
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
CHALLENGES ToWNLEY
TO PUBLIC DEBATE

WATERFOWL, S. d.. Sept. 2S.-Rev. S.
II. Maxwell, author OF a series of arr
ticles entitled, The N%onpartisan
League From the Inside" has chal-
lenged A. c. Townley, president Of the
league to a debate on league questions.
Rev. Mr.. Maxwell says he has challenged
the league head TO a debate on the pub
lie platform on several occasions but
says his challenge was met with the
reply sthat Mr.. Townley would have
no time for IA debate until after tho
November elections.
Rev. Mr.. Maxwell was formerly one OF
the national lecturers OF the league.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03

In the time Of Nero there were pro-
,~3essional dentists who could replace
pycamore wood, which were fastened
TO their natural neighbors with got3
wire. A gold plate with, several teeth
attached has been found In am Etrus-
can tomb. But those dentists knew
nothing of the art OF excavating and
;QllinB cavities. When a tooth became
too painful they removed il. not by
quilting 1t, but by prying ~ out in a
Jmanner that must have bsen most dis
.tresSing to the sufferer.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
SOUTH DAKOTA IS
GREAT FOOD PRODUCER

Sioux Falls, S. D. Sept. S1,-ssIth
Dakota is rated igI percentage of crop
production for 1919 1t the Top Of the
whole nstbf AZ states. according to the
South pak6ta immigration department.
me United States department Of agri-
Culture experts report for August on
the staple human food crops credits
South Dakota with 1898 per cent, the
nearest other state having 1871 per
cent n only a few states showing
better than 100 per cent.
So just when the world needs food
to sustain their victorious armies
abroad along the Sunshine state
with it's record Of way over the top" :
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
AGED FARMER KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

Alexandria, S. d., Sept. 2s.-Charles
King, an aged and wealthy farmer
living eight miles south of town, was
fatally injured Tuesday afternoon while
enroute by auto from Iowa points
where he had been visiting. He was
driving his own car and was near
Marion Junction when a rough piece
Of road caused the car to overturn,
crushing him beneath. He lived for
some hours and was able to tell Of the
accident. William King, a son, re-
siding in this city, was able to reach
his side a short time before death
came.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
REPUBLICAN, WORKERS
IN LOAN CAMPAIGN

Mitchell. s. D.. Sept. 2S-W. Fl. King.
chairman OF the South Dakota repub
lican state committee, has been advised
by National Chairman w. H.. Hays thai
In the forthcoming Liberty loan cam.
paign the entire republican organiza'
ton, from national chairman down II
precinct committeeman n voters. viii
devote themselves TO the end that tn!
loan be oversubscribed. This order hal
been sent broadcast over the state with
Instructions that politics shall not in
tcrfere with the complete success OF thu
campaign.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
Invasion Of Bulgar Soil !
Continues Despite Pleas

London, Sept. 28.-Serbian troops, continuing their eastward
thanking movement, have passed Kochan, Is miles southeast of Karo-
tovo, and are now at Radovishte, - miles north of Stroumitza, it was
officially announced in the Serbian war office statement received
today.
Capture Of Veles, from which the Serbs arc pushing northward
toward Uskub, was officially confirmed.
"We are now in Radovishte and have advanced beyond Ko-
chane," the communique said.
''We have entered veles and the advance toward Uskub has been
resumed" Il
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03
PREPARING GERMANY
FOR HARD FIGHTING
Military Writers Lulling Public
Sentiment For Com
ing Crisis.

Copenhagen, Sept. 34-German mill
tary writer's are preparing the people
for more hard fighting before winter,
according TO information reaching here
today.
Baron Ardenne writes that Marshal
Foch intends to direct a final blow
against the German army, as crises
have now been accomplished on all
fronts with the exception Of Meso-
potamia.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-03

Tons OF fat are obtained each month
from waste in the British army camps
Of Macedonia The grease in table
scraps. and even dishwater fails to
get by the grease traps Installed in
every. English camp. The result is an
abundance or soap, soft n hard, ana
also glycerine, valuable in the manu-
fACture of munitions
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PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES
AT SPRINGFIELD, 8. D..

Springfield, 8. D., Sept. 30.-The
people of this place witnessed an I'M
usual patriotic demonstration Thurs
day night at the opera house when DIR.
w. II. Mullen, of Bloomfield, Neb., and
Sergt. Star Burton, of Niobrara, Neb,,
delivered addresses. The latter, a
former resident Of this place, told Of
his experiences in France. where he
saw service for several months.