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The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
U. S. EXPOSES HUN PLOT
BoLsHEvik LEADERS SOLD RUS
STA FOR GERMAN GOLD.
ments, and That Kaiser Financed
Overthrow OF kerensky.


Washington Proofs removing any
doubts that Lenine and Trotzky, the
Bolshevik leaders. are paid German
agents-if any doubts remain-were
laid before the world Sunday by the
United States government in the first
installment of an amazing series OF
seven official documents aisciosea
through the committee on pupiic ih'
formation
Secured in Russia by American
agents. these documents not only
show how the German government
through its imperial bank paid its gold
to Lenine, Trotzky and their immedi-
ate associates to betray Russia into
deserving her allies, but give added
proofs, il any be necessary. that Ger
many had perfected her plans for a
war of world conquest long before the
transformations at Sarajevo. which, as
the world is now convinced. conven-
lentIy furnished her pretext.
Tbasa documepta further show tint
before ,ho world ,,,ar u,as four nontbs
old .,d moro than two vears before
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'reachery ior soio which might al
most wen be descriped without sacrl'
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pedestal WIN JUDAS anu MS tnirty
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
HARDLY WHAT YOU EXPECTED
STORY Reads Like Opening Lines of an
Elinor GIyn Novel. but You viii
Find 1t Isn't.

1t would have been the night before
Christmas-had Christmas fallen on
the following day. However. it didn't
But no matter. She was expectant
that he would come that night to make
her a proposal Things must be talked
over. She wondered how her husband
would feel if the worst came to the
worst.
He arrived. She led him into the
parlor and babe him be seated. Not
a word was exchanged for moment
She looked toward the door expect
antly. but in vain. Then she turned
her gaze on the man. How old he
looked; how careworn X
He met her gaze. He did not finch.
He opened his mouth as If to speak,
but his lips closed again as he heard
footsteps approaching the door. The
husband entered the room.
Il have been thinking it over" said
the man, as the husband took seat
near him. land l don't see how | can
possibly paper the dining room and
kitchen for less than S15.r-Indianapo
lis News.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
soldiers killed In railroad Wreck

Springfield, Mo.-Twenty-five sol.
diers were killed and between fifty
and sixty more were injured Tuesday
night when a freight and a troop
train crashed together one mile east
of Marshfield, Mo The first coach
contained troops from Colorado ard
Minnesota, and in the second coach
were troops from West Virginia, Iowa.
Illinois and Nebraska. 1t was stated
that the engineer of the troop train
was killed and the fireman badly in
jured
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
MACHINISTS WARNED
HALT STRIKE OR GET A GUN, Will
SON TELLS STRIKERS.
Bridgeport Men Must Waive Claims
Of Exemption Unless They
Return to Posts.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. = Striking machinists
at Bridgeport. Conn, were notified
Friday by President Wilson that un-
less they return to work and abide by
the wage award of the War tabor
Board they will be barred FROM en-
ployment for a year and draft boards
will be instructed to reject any claim
of exemption from military service
based upon their alleged usefulness on
war production,
The Presidents warning went in
letter addressed to the machiniste. re-
plying to resolutions forwarded to him
announcing the strike because of dis
satisfaction over the War Labor
Boards award and later interpreta-
ton by an umpire.
The War Department has taken over
the Smith & Wesson Company of
Springfield. Mass, and will operate
the plant and business to secure con-
tinuous production and prevent indus
trial disturbances.
The company recently gave notice
that It would prefer to have the gov
eminent operate its plant rather than
abide by decision of the War Labor
Board enforcing collective bargaining.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
U. S. still Urges Wool Conservation

Misunderstanding no real short
age is to be feared in the supply of
wooden cloth or clothing this winter,
the country was warned by the war
industries board against mistaken
belief that there would be surplus of
free wool over government require
ments. No free wool is available for
civilian consumption, the boards an
nouncement said, and added that con.
servation of wool and all the things
made of wool cannot be too strongly
urged.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Victory Certain, Says Lloyd George

Manchester. England Nothing but
heart failure on the part of the Brit
ish nation can prevent our achieving
a real victory said Premier Lloyd
George, speaking at Manchester. "The
German people must know the Prus-
sian strength cannot protect them
from punishment. This must be the
last war. To end all wars we must
impose a durable peace upon our en-
emies. The allies are now league of
free nations"
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
CLEAN UP CLASS !, FIRST DRAFT
Gen. Crowder Calls 1872 900 to Entrain
Sept 25-27 and Oct. 7-11-16.

Sept 25-27 and Oct. 7.1t-16.
Washington Provost Marshal Gen
.eral Crowder Monday wiped clean the
pot of class l men from registrations
before Sept. -. He issued calls for
three drafts of men to total of 1872
900. Every state is called on for its
quota. Twenty-Five thousand negroes
will entrain for camps between Sept.
% and 81; 10000 will entrain Oct. 16
One hundred and forty-two thousand
white men will entrain between Oct
and IL.
With these men in camps, the pro-
vost marshal generals office must adj
dress its next drafts for the army on
class | of the last registration.
Among the states from which the
white registrants were called. with
their number and the camps TO which
they will go are the following:
Arizona, 216-Camp Kearny. Cal.
Colorado. S0S-Camp Kearny
Montana. 1.461--Camp Lewis.
New Mexico. 335-Camp Cody.
Texas, 7.941-Camp Travis.
Utah. 454-Camp Lewis.
Wyoming 605-Camp Lewis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
After Murderers of Two Policemen

Denver, Sept 16.-Pursuit of the
band of train robbers and bandits
whose two days reign of terror in
Denver and Colorado Springs culmin
sted in the murder of Chief of Detec-
tives John w. Rowan of Colorado
Springs Friday afternoon and the muir.
DEF of Patrolman Luther McMahill of
The Capitol Hill substation shortly aft.
~ $3.50 o'clock Saturday morning, can
'lIres. Already four members of the
octeal gang of robbers. three men and
enc woman, are under arrest.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Friday, the 18th, unlueky for Huns.

Friday, Sept 10, 1918, will be re-
membered in Germany as most I'M
lucky day. 1t was the fifty-eighth an
niversary of Gen. John ]. Pershing's
birth in Missouri, and is celebrated
with the second day. of the great
American offensive toward the Fran
co-German border. 1t was the one
hundred and fourth anniversary of the
"dawn's early light" when Francis
Scott Key wrote the "Star-spangled
Banner
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

nv health so can do all my work and
l am SO grateful that am recommend
ing it to, my friends. - Mrs. D. ID.
ALTERS, R. R. A, Oregon, Ill.
Onlywomenw who have suffered the tor
lures of such troubles and have dragged
along from day to day can realize the
relief which this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, brought to Mrs, Alters
Women everywhere in Mrs. Alters
condition should profit by her recon-
mendation, and if there are any com
plications write Lydia z. Pinkham's
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for advice.
The result of their 40 years experience
is at your service. v.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
RULING IN MOONEY CASE.
Denies Prisoner Opportunity to Seek
Writ of Error.

San Francisco. Cal.-Thomas j.
Mooney. sentenced to be hanged in
connection with bomb explosion here
on preparedness day two years ago,
was denied by the California Supreme
court permission to seek writ of err
ror in the United States Supreme
Court. This was said to be the de-
fenses last move in the state courts.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
CAPTURE 5000 suLcARiANs AS
DEFENsEs cRuMsLE BEFORE
SWEEPING THRUST.
HAS men PUSH AHEAD
POWERFUL ALLIED ATTACK TO
BE REPLY TO AusTRo-HuN-
oARIAN, Up EAcEr NOTE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London. Sept. 49, - Serbian and
French troops continued the offensive
In Macedonia and have progressed
more than five miles, according to a
Serbian official statement received
here. The advancing allies have oc-
cupied an important series OF ridges.
The allied troops have captured more
than 5000 prisoners and twenty-four
guns Their casualties we're light
The allies are moving forward on
front OF more than twelve miles and
have taken the village of Gradesh-
nitsa, twenty miles east of Monastir
A Jugo-Slav division is fighting with
the Serbs and French. and has reached
Kodak. the most important position
In the region of the offensive
American Army Headquarters in
Lorraine, Sept Evidence is ac-
cumulating that the enemy intends
Withdrawing behind the Hindenburg
line In Lorraine II he is pressed any
further. He is burning towns along
the Moselle
1t seems probable that new and
mighty blow against the Teutonic
armies in France will be the allies
answer to the peace proposals voiced
by Austria on behalf OF the central
powers.
From the sea to the Swiss frontier
there is a tension which may fore
bode another development of Marshal
Foch's mastery offensive. All along
this battle line there have been local
actions by which the allies have tried
out the German positions apd gained
points of vantage from which to
launch their next assault.
In the Vosges region there is great
activity by the enemy, who evidently
expects the Americans to attack the
German lines to the west of the
Rhine. In this sector the Americans
are standing on German soil and an
assault there would. if successful,
carry the war nearer to the heart of
Germany than elsewhere along the
line
American, British and French de-
tachments are reported by the PRAY
da to have met the Bolsheyik forces
In battle on the Archangel front. The
Bolshevik troops, after an initial sue
cess. were repulsed by British rein
forcements and fled in panic.
The British advanced their lines
slightly at several points. They are
making steady progress in the invest
ment of st. Quentin, difficult task
even under most favorable conditions.
Gen. Petain's veterans are forging
ahead slowly but surely in their grim
and desperate struggle for the St. Go
balm forest, which the Germans have
been ordered to hold at all costs Not
only is the position a natural citadel.
but the Teutons have fortified 1t in
every way their ingenuity could de-
wise.
Notwithstanding the difficulty of
their task, however. the French are
moving on. taking prisoners as they
go.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

1
Washington, Sept. 17-Launching of
an offensive on the Bulgarians on the
Saloniki front by the reorganizeG Serb
ian army. in cooperation with French
| forces, and the capture OF three
strongly fortified Bulgarian positions
is announced in an official Serbian
communication received from Saloniki
The positions taken are Teak. Vetre-
, mix Dobropolie and the mountain So
kul, which the Bulgars had held for
the past two and one-half years. and
were regarded as their strongest
places.
The guns of Metz. chief defensive
work on the western frontier of Ger
many. and one of the strongest fort
resses in the world, and the guns of
the American artillery were engaged
in mighty duel Monday.
! American cannon are blasting the
gigantic web of railways centering at
Metz with storm of steel. while the
German guns have taken the advanced
positions, gained in the American
drive. under their fire
The Americans thus have liberated
from the grasp of the Hun territory
aggregatlng more than $50 square
miles in area.
ne Aineiicans eA'ehueu .nelr gains
pe'Meen 'ne Nieuse anu "oseiie rivers
on Sunday, advancing two miles on
thirty-three-mile front.
Norroy and Vilecy (the latter only
ABOUT iouiteeh nliieS rom Metz are
III american haiius ana patrois are re-
ported 10 nave advanced FAR ahead oil
General fershlngs main force.
line in front OF Metz, running from a
point on the Nerdnn-Etain road, near
Abaucourt TO the Moselle near Vilecy.
austrian prisoners captured by the
Americans are bitter in their denunci-
alton of the Germans. They accuse
the Germans of leaving them in the
lurch. Austrian officers declare they
tack and that repeated requests for
ammunition were ignored. The Ger
mans, they add. gave their entire at
tention to extrieating themselves from
the salient.
suddenly increased tremendously. but
is still insufficient to meet the British.
French and American forces. Tons OF
bombs are being dropped on the Ger
man military positions far in the rear.
London, Sept 16.-The British have
captured Maissemy, northwest of st.
Quentin, together with the trench sys.
TEN to the southeast and east of that
place. Field Marshal Haig makes this
announcement in his night report
Paris.-"South of the Disc" says the
war office announcement Sunday
night, I'VE maintained our positions
against violent counter attacks. We
captured the plateau east of vauxail.
Ion and the crest northeast of Celles.
sur-Aisne The prisoners taken by us
since Saturday morning exceed $500"
London.-Gen. Pershing's army. &C.
cordng to Sunday afternoons news
is making fine progress. Since Sat
urday afternoon it has advanced from
two to three miles on thirty-three
mile front. and the fortress guns OF
Metz have come into action against L..
Powerful air attacks are being con
\ statement ieeuad by tho o;r ,,,;n;,,r,
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
British Marines Land at Annoy.

Peking.-A Japanese destroyer has
arrived off Fu-Chow, and British mar
ines have been landed at Annoy to al
lay panic in those cities due to the
approach of the southern rebel force.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
House Working on Revenue Bill.

Washington. - All other business
displaced. the House Monday got
down to real work on the $4,000, 000,
900 revenue bill. Consideration of
amendments began under rule limit
ing members to fiye-minute speeches
on each amendment
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Try to Rob Illinois Bank.

Dixon. Ill-Five automobile bandits,
four of them believed by the police to
Bopp and Frank McErlane, who es-
capped from the county Jail in Chicago,
made an unsuccessful attempt to rob
the Citizens State Bank at Mount
Morris, eighteen miles northeast of
here
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Soft, Clear Skins.

Night and morning hattie the face
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. IL
there are pimples first smear them
with Cuticura Ointment. For free SAM
pies address. "Cuticura, Dept. Y, Bos-
on" Sold by druggists and by mail
Soap %, Ointment % and 50.-Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Wyoming Pioneer Dies.

Laramie. Wyo.-Henry A. Robinson,
81 years old. died near Fort Collins.
He was formerly coroner of Albany
county. Wyo., and veteran of the
Civil war.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
AUSTRIAN PROPOSAL REJECTED
BY LANSING THIRTY MINUTES
AFTER NOTE ARRIVES.
WILSON TERMS STATED
mo NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL THE
WORLDS AuTocRATIc POW
ERs ARE CRUSHED

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Amsterdam. Sept 6.-Austro- Hun
garian government invites all bellig-
erent governments to meet in neu-
trail place at time to be determined
to Secure an expression of views
which would show whether those pre-
requisites exist which would make
the speedy inauguration of peace me-
gotiations appear promising" The pro-
posal calls for all belligerents to send
delegates TO confidential and un-
binding discussion on the basis prin-
ciples for the conclusion of peace"
1t suggests there be no interruption
of the war. The Holy See and all
neutral nations also will be notified.
An official statement from Vienna
making the above announcement has
been received here.
Washington, Sept 16.--Germany
latest peace feeler. advanced through
Austria. II was officially stated. best
finds its answer in President Wilson's
Baltimore speech delivered last April
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit: the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
That was the Presidents answer
then, and. IT was reiterated, is his
answer now.
n 81 i'm OF Init nd
States, as was fully expected. uncon-
ditionally rejected Germany's peace
feeler. In doing so. the government
has spoken for all the co-belligerents.
Almost Immediately after receiving
the Austrian governments note from
the minister from Sweden. Mr.. Ekren-
gren, Secretary Lansing Monday
night issued this formal statement:
q am authorized by the President TO
state that the following will be the
reply of this government to the Aus
tro-Hungarian note proposing an I'M
official conference of belligerents:
1.-The government of the United
States feels that there is only one
reply which it can make to the sug-
gestion of the imperial Austro-Hun-
garian government. 1t has repeatedly
and with entire candor stated the
terms upon which the United States
would consider peace and can and
will entertain no proposal for a con.
ference upon a matter concerning
which it has made its position and pur-
pose so plain.
Mr. Lansing's statement was given
out within half an hour after he had
received the Austrian proposal.
There Is some reason to believe that
the secretary acted with this unprece-
dented promptness in matter of such
great import with the design not only
to indicate clearly the position of the
United States government but perhaps
to anticipate and prevent as far as
possible newspaper discussions of the
Austrian proposition which might con-
vey to the enemy misleading i'm
preston that there was any consider
able element in the United States will
ing to consider negotiated peace,
such as the "nonbinding" discussions
might develop.
The terms referred to in the reply
dictated to the Austrian note were
clearly set out in President Wilson's
Fourth of July speech at Mount Yer
non.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

Antikevoiutlonists Take Petroarad.
Paris-Dispatches received by Eng
lish newspapers through Helsingfors
announce that Petrograd has been
taken by the anti-revolutionists.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
kaiser's oratory Acts as Boomerang.

speech at the Krupps gun works
failed to Undue the small army of mu-
nitions workers at the big Essen plant
with that patriotic ardor aimed at by
the imperial orator. Thirty-eight hun
bred strikers. the Geneva correspond
ent of the Daily Express telegraphs,
had to be sent to the front almost i'm
mediately after the emperor's speech
and the strike agitation continues un-
abated A score of strike leaders
have been arrested. In Berlin, where
a state of siege prevails. the military
has threatened to shoot all strikers
who do not return to work.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

People in the world are so much
alike that if you find fault with one
you hit n thousand.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

ganic trouble which
pulled me down un-
til ! could not put my
foot to the floor and
could scarcely do my
work, and as l live
on a small farm and
rails e six hundred
chickens every year
it made it very bard
for me.
81 saw the Com
pound advertised in
our paper, and tried
IL II has reStOrad
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

That singers notes are cultural"
Then they ought TO be curbed.-
Baltimore American.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Sir Samuel Evans Dies.

London.-Sir Samuel Evans, presi-
dent of the British prize court died at
Brighton.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

r He's man OF iron. isn't her"
Yes, but he's NOT wen tempered. -
Baltimore American.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

Red Gross Bag Blue makes the Iaundres,
happy, makes clothes winter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
Boy Scouts Sell $4,000, 900 w. S. s

New York.-Boy Scouts of America
have sold more than s17.000.00O worth
of War Savings Stamps. it was an
nounced at headquarters of the or
ganization here.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

Many mans originality is due to a
defective memory.
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20
NOW RAISES
500 CHICKENS
After Being Relieved of Or.
ganic Trouble by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oregon. Ill.-"I took Lydia E. Pink
ham 8 Vegetable Compound for an or
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

London, Sept. 1G.-The British have
captured Maissemy, northwest OF St.
Quentin, together with the trench sys-
TEN to the southeast and east of that
place. Field Marshal Haig makes this
announcement in his night report
The Elbert County tribune., 1918-09-20

Paris.-'S South of the Oise," says the
war office announcement Sunday
night, I'VE maintained our positions
against violent counter attacks. We
captured the plateau east of Vauxail.
Ion and the crest northeast of Celles.
sur-Aisne. The prisoners taken by us
since Saturday morning exceed $500"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
Military Athletic Course
Is New Branch at Penn

Philadelphia. Feb. 26.-Under the
joint direction NJ Major Charles t.
Griffith, professor OF military science
and tactics, and Major r. TAFT Nc
Kenzie, director of physical educa-
ton, a full course of military ath-
letics commenced at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania yesterday aft
ernoon.
The new course will be entirely
supplementary to the course that is
now being followed by the infantry
unit of the reserve officers training
corps established at the university
last week by the War Department.
1t will be under the immediate SUI
pervision of Major Mckenzie. who
will be assisted in it's execution by
Assistant Physical Director William
]. Cromie, Lawson Robertson. track
coach, and George Kistler, the WELL
known swimming tutor.
The course will be limited to two
days q week-Tuesday and Thurs
day-the other days being reserved
for the regular drill. 1t is planned
to divide the military athletic work
into three different groups; namely,
work in the gymnasium, in the
swimming pool and on Franklin
field. Every student taking this
course will be instructed in every
phase.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
Yale Football Star
Falls to His Death
During Airplane Test

Fort Worth, Tex. Web. 26,-Hor-
ace Higginbotham, all-American
football star from Yale, and a; cadet
naval aviator at Hicks Field, NEAR
here. was killed late yesterday Wnen
the airplane in which he was rylns
fell 1000 feet.
Ensign Frank Lynch, also OF the
naval flying corps, who was plotting
the plane, was probably fatally IN
iured in the crash.
The wreck was discovered an hour
after the accident by a farmer who
had seen the plane fall. He thought
at the time that the aviators were
descending in full control of the
machine.
Higginboth was the som of r.
w. Higginbotham, a wealthy busi-
nessman of Dallas, Tex.
Lynch arrived here recently from
Hampton Roads, after period OF
training in Canada with the Royal
Flying Corps. His home is in Law
renee, Mass.
Higginbotham left Yale when the
United States entered the world war
and enlisted in the Naval Reserve.
After serving several months at New
London. Conn, and Newport, R. l.,
he went to Dallas. January 18, and
was awaiting orders to report to the
naval aviation ground school at the
Massachusetts, Institute of Techno-
logy. He left Dallas yesterday with
several friends for Fort Worth on a
visit