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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
BASE HOSPITAL
UNIT REACHES
FOREIGN PORT
Ottumwans Breathe Sigh of
Relief When Word Comes
OF Safe Ocean Trip.
INFORMATION SENT
OUT FROM FAIRFIELD

Numerous Ottumwans breathed a
sigh of relief last evening when the
news was flashed about the city that
Base Hospital Unit r had arrived
safely across the sea and is now in
Europe.
A card written in New York was re-
ceived this morning from DR.. J. F. Her
rick, captain of unit r, announcing the
safe arrival of the unit in foreign
port. Herpromised a letter to soon fol-
low the card
RECEIVE NEWS LAST NIGHT
The word was telegraphed here
from Fairfield to the homes of some
'of the orderlies in the unit and one
anxious parent Immediately thought OF
some equally anxious mother or father
and spread the glad tidings-tidings
particularly glad in the face of the
sinking of the British liner Calgariaa.
reported in yesterdays news dis
patches which had cast pail of gloom
over many families where member
belonged to the unit. The unit had
been known to have sailed but moth
ing had been heard from it.
WIRE FROM FAIRFIELD
A. w. Taylor of Fairfield, notified
Secretary NJ. l.. Toulme of the Com
mercial club late last night. Mrs.
d. B. Johnston, mother of C. S. John.
ston OF The Courier editorial staff.
who is corporal in Unit r, and
Postmaster c. w. McCarty. whose son
Merrill is member of the unit, also
received word, as did the other fam
lilies of the unit members.
NOTIFY ORDERLiES' FAMILIES
An arrangement is said to have been
made with Major Clarke whereby the
families of the orderlies would be mott
fled when the unit arrived. The news
reaching Fairfield last evening told of
the safe arrival at foreign port
A telegram is reported to have been
received at Fairfield by N. c. Anstead,
whose son, Robert, is member of the
unit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
OUTP0STS
IN j. s. I D 60
UNDER HAMMER
Senators Approve Measures
For Breaking Up Vast
German Interests.
WILL HAMPER HUNS
AND HELP AMERICA

Washington, D. c., March PLANS
to break up the vast holdings Of Ger
man interests in the United States and
place them in other hands so that after
the war they cannot continue to be
what have been characterized as out
posts of German kultur in America
were presented to congress by A.
Mitchell Palmer, the alien property
custodian and unanimously approved
by the senate appropriations COM
mittee
Mr.. Palmer asked, and the commit.
tee agreed, that legislation should be
attached to the urgent deficiency bill
empowering him to sell these proper
ties to any private interests-but not
to the United States government-the
proceeds to be held in the treasury
until after the war.
GERMANY HAS SIMILAR LAW
Whether the German owners will re-
ceive the money would be determined
by the peace terms.
American property in Germany, the
committee was told. is subject to such
action. Like treatment Of German
property in the United States, Mr.. Pal.
mer told the committee, would hamper
Germany and help the United States
win the war.
The value of German property sub
ject to such disposition amounts to
hundreds Of millions.
COMMITTEE DIVIDES
The committee by party vote ap.
proved an amendment to authorize the
president to take legal title to the Ger.
man steamship piers and property at
Hoboken, N. ]. The republicans oppos,
ed it, fearing that it might lead to gov.
ernment ownership and operation OF
shipping facilities after the war.
In taking over the enemy property
and selling it. under the provision
agreed upon today the price would be
fixed by the alien property custodian.
BIG MONEY MAKERS
Another argument advanced by M.
Palmer was the question Of expense
or profits of enemy property during
the war. Some property Mr.. Palmer
said. is being operated with extremely
high profits and it was not right that
the government should devote its
money and talent to piling up profits
for enemies to be delivered to them
at the end of the war. By selling the
property now the profits would ac-
crue to Americans and the present
market price be reserved for possible
return to original owners.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
BOLTWEAKENS
OLD DRY PARTY
PROHlBlTIoNISTS DISAGREE AS
TO MERGER WITH
NATIONALS.

Chicago, March 7.-While preparing
to 60 ahead as national organization
leaders of the prohibition party ad-
mitted today that the action of fifty
one delegates last night in boiling the
convention and going over to the new
national party has dealt the prohibi-
ton organization severe blow. The
motion r,c~ge with the new party,
debated li~2ughout yesterday failed
of a necessary two-thirds when the
vote was taken, 173 for and 141
against.
WOULD COOPERATE
Thereafter a resolution was adopted
to cooperate with the national party
"in the furtherance of certain aims
and another resolution was adopted
that the prohibition party retain it's
name and its activities" but that its
national committee meet with the ma
tional party committe to cooperate in
furthering the election of state legis-
lators and congressman favoring the
platforms of each party"
The principles On which the two
parties agree and which led to the
proposition of merger, first made last
fall. are prohibition, woman suffrage
and public ownership of public utili-
ties.
NEW PARTY MEETS
Nation wide prohibition and woman
suffrage will be the leading planks in
the platform of the new national
party which resumed sessions OF its
first national convention here today,
augmented by more than 100 dele
gates who bolted the prohibition party
late yesterday when that paTy dead
locked over a proposed merger. The
adoption of platform was expected
some time today.
WOMAN SCORES RED CROSS
The American Red Cross and the ma
tional administration were roundly
scored from the floor of the conven-
ton by Mrs. Frances Beauchamp Of
Lexington, KY, in an address which re-
ceived the most prolonged applause of
any yet made Mrs. Beauchamp at
tackled the Red Cross for its policy of
encouraging the sending of tobacco to
soldiers and alleged that it is unwit
tingly the tool of the American To.
bacco company She asked the con,
vention to appeal to the administra.
tion to prohibit this policy. which she
contended is directly interfering with
the efficiency Of Americas fighting
men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
SPEAKER CLARK
IS 6S YEARS OLD

Washington, D. c.. March Speak
er Clark celebrated his sixty-eighth
birthday today, receiving the congrat-
ulations of hosts of friends and being
the guest of the Missouri delegation
at luncheon.
Former Speaker Cannon told the
house he hoped Mr. Clark would live to
be lone hundred years old and then
run foot race intellectually and phys
ically."
Speaker Clark responded character
istically and the house applauded and
cheered
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
$500 INCOMES
KEEP FAMILIES
RAILROAD WAGE QUIZ SHOWS
SOME AMERICANS SAVE
FROM THIS SUM.

Washington, D. c., March THE
most extensive investigation into liv-
ing costs ever undertaken in this coun-
try has been made by the railroad
wage commission in its search for in
formation on which to base recon-
mendations for wage increases. More
than 500 newspapers and every cham
Ter of commerce in the United States
were called on by the commission to
furnish data on the rise in prices.
Reports from newspapers were gath
cred at the commissions request by
trained newspaper men who were in
structed to visit families with incomes
of $4,000 and less and ascertain how
much they were spending for food and
clothes now as compared with 1915.
.The result was astonishing" Secre-
tary Lane, the chairman, said today.
1--WE found some families saving on in.
comes of $500 year"
Elaborate reports of wages paid by
railroads have been made, showing
that in the United States approxi.
mately / per cent of all railroad work.
ers receive about $50 a month, the
percentage increasing as wages ad-
vance until 9la per cent are paid from
sci to $65 month. When wages
reach $3.50 a month the men in each
division as the pay advances S.. total
less than l per cent OF the entire mum.
Der.
For the first time in history, an ac.
curate census of all railroad workers
has been taken. showing that 1886, 900
men and women are employed in
transportation.
The recommendation of the commits.
sion to the director general will be
final They are expected to be made
this month. possibly within two weeks
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
COUNCIL APPROVES TREATY

Petrograd, March THE central
executive committee Of the soldiers
and workmen's council. while recog-
nizing that the German peace terms
we're those Of political bandits" has
called on its delegates to the Moscow
congress to vote for the ratification
of the peace. says the lnvestia, the
bolshevik organ. This action is ad-
yised because the peace has afforded
the social revolution an absolutely
necessary respite"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
CANADIAN FLYER
KILLED IN TEXAS

Fort Worth, Tex, March Burton
Hurlburt, Royal Flying corps cadet,
whose mother lives at Prescott. Ont.
was killed this morning when he tried
to make landing. He was flying
with an instructor at the time. The
latter in the back seat escaped unin-
jured Hurlburt is the thirty-sixth
cadet killed here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
Army's Health
Is Improving,
Reports Show

wv ASHiNGTON, D. c.. March
" 7. Continued improve
w ment of health conditions
in the army camps and canton
ments in the United States is
shown in the detailed report Of
the surgeon general for the week
ending March I. The death rate
-6.6 per 1,00O-is the lowest re-
corded since November, is. 1917.
"Pneumonia continues to de-
cline In all the camps" the report
says.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
RUSSIAN ENGINES
TO BE USED HERE

Dunkirk, N. V. March 7.-Engines
built at the Brooks plant ofNthe Ameri-
can Locomotive company for the Rus
sian government will be turned over
to American railroads, it was said
today. The work of changing details
of construction has been completed
and the first of the engines will be
put into service within few days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
GERMANS MARCH ON
TOWARD PETROGRAD

of
II black
line in map
Rychia Germans ()
and fighting
At Kasatan the Germans
Hungar
territory after refusing for
o. Pskov (5) German hands according reports believed
from Perograd
now n hands invaders
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08

RIOT SCENE
DISORDERS CAUSE MANY AR
RESTS IN CAPITAL OF
NORWAY.

London, March 7.-Rioting today in
Christiana in consequence OF which
many arrests were made. is reported
in press dispatches reaching Copen-
hagen, as forwarded by the Exchange
Telegraph. Crowds stormed bakeries
and butcher shops and there were
before the parliament
building
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08

rograd dated Wednesday, but was re-
sumed during the night on several
sectors in order to allow the Germans
to reach and consolidate the line De.
tween hamburg and Gdoff teast -ot
Lake Peipus and South OF Narva).
It is reported in Petrograd tha'
banks have been reopened. the prop
erty of landlords restored and otncr
conditions approaching the OLD regime
revived in towns occupied by the Ger
mans
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
Despite Official Announcement Tha
Invasion Is Ended By Treaty With
Bolsheviki, Armies Advance
On Various Fronts

,,don March
Tebond
the official by the German
n;h cnr,rn.nd hostiities
AAeA ~ RUSSIAN CAPITAL ONLY 68 MILES AWAY
m; from the The Germans reported
the recent peace treaty signed
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
YANKEES DEFY FOE IN NO MANS LAND
One M0re Crime
Added To Score
of Hun Heroes

7 ONDOk, March 7.-HoW the
members Of the crew Of a
German submarine brutally
killed the wounded master Of
Belgian fishing smack who re.
fused to leave the vessel is de-
scribed in press association
dispatch from Penzance. The u
boat attacked the smack with
gunfire and the skipper was
wounded severely. He urged his
men, including his son, to save
themselves. The submarine COM
mander forced the fishermen to
row German sailors to the smack
in order to place bombs aboard.
One Of the Germans drew a re-
voiver and shot the helpless skip
per through the head in presence
Of his son.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
Nine Soldiers, Hiding In
Shell Hole Near German
Line, Take Chances With
Death in Thrilling Race
To American Trenches.
NEW UNIT AT FRONT
TURNS GERMANS BACK
by The Associated Press
SNv, ~ T&~-a.~~~I>

With the American Army in France.
March 6.-CDelay AN American
, patrol comprising one officer and eight
| men, which had been missing since
last night in the sector northwest of
i Toul, suddenly emerged from she'll
hole close to the German lines today
! and made dash across No Mans
Land without a shot being fired at
them.
1t was noon when the patrol car
ried out its rush to the American
| line. The mems comrades, looking
on, expected every second to see them
wiped out and their safe return was
an agreeable surprise. They explained
that they lost their way in the dark
last night and hid in the shell hole.
ARTILLERY SHELLS GERMANS
The enemy artillery has not re-
sumed its activity. The American
guns today effectively shelled the
enemy first lines and also town be-
hind the German lines where buildings
their troops were using we're de-
stroyed.
There was much aerial activity
throughout the day. the American
anti-air battlers driving of a number
Of enemies.
Y. S. OFFICER MAKES CAPTURE
ArF American staff colonel, while
WITH Il French ratlas. party fsr.
the purpose of securing informa-
tion a few days !,efore his men
took up their positions in the
new American sector on the Lorraine
front, met Prussian lieutenant in an
enemy trench and captured him. The
colonel, with an American captain,
brought the Prussian officer back to-
the lines the Americans are occupy
ing.
ENEMY MEETS SURPRISE
The German raid in this sector oc-
Cured on Monday night, sharp fight
taking place in which the Germans
suffered a repulse with losses. In it
unit which was among the most re-
cent arrivals displayed the customary
American fighting energy and appar-
emily gave the enemy much warmer
reception than he expected.
The American troops here are train
ing with French troops as at the
Chemin des Danes position. This
makes the third American force now
facing the enemy.
u. S. CASUALTIES SLIGHT
During several days Of the Ameri-
cans service here the casualties have
been extraordinarily slight, as the
sector is one of the Quietest. The lines
are far apart and the position is held
by strong points rather than by con-
| tinuous trenches.
The Prussian lieutenant's capture
was the first instance of an enemy
officer being taken prisoner by the
Americans and also the first occasion
upon which an American officer had
captured either an enemy officer or
soldier in this sector.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
TREATY WITH FINLAND

Amsterdam, March 7.-Offciai
announcement was made in 6er-
lin today Of the signing OF a
peace treaty between Germany
and Finland, and also OF trade
and shipping agreements and a
supplementary protocol. The
treaty was signed at noon today.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
CAPITAL is CALM

Petrograd. March 5.-(Deiayeo3-
Petrograd was calm and orderly tooay
regardless Of the presence OF German
troops at Narva, 100 miles from the
capital. and evidence on all sides Oh
the removal of war supplies oy the
departing bolsheviki.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
"RING OF IRON"

Petrograd, March 6.-Delayed) y
To a gathering of workmen's and sol
diers' delegates at Moscow on Monday.
NJ, Prokrovsky, leader of the second
delegation at Brest-Litovsk, explained
the treaty with the central powers.
Deeply moved he begged those in SYM
pathy with the democratic revolution
not to deceive themselves. The new
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-08
NEW SECTOR FOR AMERICANS
{ Associated Press Summary

ASSOCIATED Press Summary
Details of the engagement Of Mon
day night. in which American troops
occupying a new position in French
Lorraine beat off a German raiding
party. show that the Americans are in
training with French troops. as are
those on the Aisne front north of the
Chemin des Danes. AS yet only one
American group. that east of st.
Mihiel. is holding a sector Of its own
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CONTINUED on page .. Col. 2.)
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GERMAN ATTACKS BLOCKED

Paris, March There was spirit
ed fighting with artillery during the
night in the region of Beaumont and
Bezonvaux, on the Verdun front, and
in Upper Alsace, near Ban De Sapt
and east of Largitzen, says today's
official statement 'In Lorraine the
Germans undertook a number Of raids
after bombardments. in the region OF
the forest of Parroy.
Near Neuveller attacking troops
were dispersed by the French fire.
In the region of Bures there was q
spirited engagement. The French
repulsed the Germans who sustained
appreciable losses Near Veho. the
Germans also were repulsed by the
French, who took prisoners"
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ADVANCE STOPPED, THEN BEGAN AGAIN

stopped
Telegraph dispatch Pc
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ITALIAN FIGHTING RENEWED

Rome. March 6-(Delayed) There
was a lively renewal of reciprocal fire
between Lake Garda and the Astico, in
the region of Montello and along the
coastal zone" asys today's official
statement.
Our batteries made effective CON
centrations OF fire on enemy troops Ia
movement in the Asiago basin. south
of Primolano, on the back slopes a
Col Della Barretta and in the vicinity
of Lampol to the left of the Piave.
South of Tierno hostile reconnaissance
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fCortinsct on Page 2, Col. ~
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-03
mo NONSENSE"

(By Charles B. DriscolD
"Ill stand no nonsense from the ianks
When this big war is done;
III make them open up their banks
And ladle out the mon"
The bully by the River Rhine,
Smote hard his royal hip,
AS he slammed down his royal stein
And bit his royal lip.
Those tango lizards, one day will
The violinist pay,
AS sure as | am Bloody Bill.'
Thus did the All-Highest say.
Thank God, the lizards didn't wait
As Wilhelm thought they would,
But started with their nonsense gait
While starting still was good.
As things are going now in France
II really doesn't seem
That bloody Bill will have a chance
To realize his dream
The lizards in their khaki suits
Are treating Wilhelm rough,
The nonsense that their cannon shoots
Is pretty nasty stuff.
-1-
That little Lang range in the North
is just the thing for newlyweds.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-03

TELLS Of EVILS
Of OWNERSHIP
BY GOVERNMENT.

KUN l., july Or. MaiIeO lanta'
leoni, who is considered an authority
on systems OF government, secs great
danger for European nations in the
wartime tendency toward govern
ment control of railways. lie says
will shake off such parasitic ideas"
In an interview with the Associated
Press Or Pantaleoni said:
Government ownership of railways
is only one of the many Affections
sure to be imposed upon this poor old
Europe after the war With the war
the government has become almighty
with us. The government now does
everything and after the war its en-
croachments will be appalling and
bring us near to ruin.
The United States is run on diff
ferent lines. 1t was founded on other
principles. And while ii may be har-
assed after the war by the bogies of
government control, il will shake them
OFF. The country is too young and
strong. Parasitic government control
ideas attacking it will be no more
than lice on big, healthy dog.
"If | had never before been con
WINGED OF the futility of government
control, this war would certainly have
convinced me. am now sure that
the less government nation has the
better il is for the prosperity of its
people. A government is always
robbed. always too late in what it
does is always betrayed by its EN-
ployes.
THE war waste in Italy has been
about eight billion lire. 1t is a we'll
known fact that privately-owncd Ger
man railways have always paid
greater dividends than those owned
by the government there. In France
the Western railway. as controlled by
the government is a miserable and
costly failure.
"One of the arguments advanced in
favor of government ownership of
railways is that thereby a nation gets
steady class of employees who pay
debts, raise families, live modestly
and do their work for relatively small
pay This Is fallacy. too. The
whole world is ruled by chance. The
greatest wealth Of the world, its
crops. depends on the weather. II
you give a class OF people in nation
sure thing, remove their chances
of money loss. you do so at the ex-
pense of the other people. of the farm
ers, for instance. who must take
great chances In other words, you
increase tho risks of the majority for
the benefit of the minority.
Besides. this class of people with
the sure thing on small pay wind up
by not earning what they are paid. 1t
is not their individual fault but that
Of the system
IL repeat, and with the experience
of many years of Europe behind me.
that everything government does
must be badly done. and the degree
of badness depends on the average
capacity OF the nation doing 1t. The
postoffice and government telegraph
and telephone systems of Europe are
monuments to inefnciency and waste.
THE prosperity and welfare of the
whole world in the near future de-
pend upon the fight which honest and
Intelligent people make against the
folies of government control"
AUCTION SALE
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-03

That little Lang range in the North
western Hardware Company's window
is just the thing for newlyweds.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-03

FOR SAlE-one sewing machine as
good as new. $500; one Victor cat
met. $1,000; lot of Mason glass
jars. Apply Mrs. John Gamble 2S.3t
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-03
AUCTION SALE

On Wednesday, July 3, at 1890 a.
m, all restaurant fixtures will be
sold. WELLS RESTAURANT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Calendar for the Week

SUNDAYCarnegic Hail. Of the Philharmonic
Acoan Hail. concert OF the Symphony Society," Hppodrome
1915 by Mmc GalCurc Chicago
Opera Metropolitan popular
cert Princess Theatre 1915 recital by Gordon
witch Village Theatre S:15 ballots by Michio
City College, p recital by Samuel Baldwin.
MONDAYMpolan Opera House, 315
Butterfly;
French "au Aeoian Hail.
Philippe; 3:15 p. m recital Adelaide Fischer
WEDNESDYAeolan Hail. recital by Rudolph
ropotan Opera House, S5 Italian
Lexington Theatre
College, p recital A.
THURSDAYCarnegc Hail. panoforte
mesnil $3.50 the Philharmonic
panoforte recital by Marjorie Church,
House, French LIE Prophet
Gle Jongleur
torca recital by Vernon dArnalle
FRlDAYAeoian Hail. by Charles
Shatuck; S:15 recital
230 by the Philharmonic Society;
by
THEATRE opera
Carmen"
SATURDAY-Cnegie Hail. $3.50
p by the Philharmonic Society," m.
the benefit
Italian in Engls.
est Elizabeth" Lexington Theatre
m, Italian opera at popular prices, aida"