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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-29
Work From Stanhope,

The Red Cross workers of Stan
hope sent work to headquarters
Thursday, as follows:
bathrobes.
adult petticoats.
suits of pajamas.
sweaters.
pairs of socks.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-29
Stanhope Receives Yarn.

A consignment of helmet yarn was
sent the Red Cross auxiliary at Stan
hope Thursday. This chapter has a
quota of ninety-eight helmets, which
must be sent to division headquarters
Aug. goth. The utmost speed is nee
essary if this quota is to go out on
time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-29
Knitting Directions,

A supply of helmet yarn has been
received \at Red Cross headquarters.
All knitters are requested to follow
the directions given for knitting the
chapters quota of helmets.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-29
Donation From Homer.

The Homer Yoeman lodge has made
the local Red Cross a donation of
$1025.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Mines Scattered
Of Dela.vare BAY
By German Raiders

PHILADELPHIA, June Awhile de-
stroyers, submarine chasers and hvdro-
aeroplanes we're seeking the German
submarines off the mouth of Della
ware Bay, the government discovered
that the raiders had sprinkled mines
OFT the entrance to the bay. Officials
of the Fourth Naval District sent out
mine sweepers and this morning the
hrst miPe was picked up. Word was
at once sent to Washington, where
official warning was sent to mariners.
Admiral Nelm, the commandant of
the district, confirmed the finding to-
day, but would give no details.
The mouth of the bay is now being
swept, and far out to sea the shin
lanes are being searched for mines.
The chasers and airplanes are oper-
ating as far as seventy-five miles from
this base.
Ensign Allyn Ryerson Jennings, of
Philadelphia, son of Ryerson w. Jen-
nings, attacked one of the German sub
marines with ydro-aeroplane, it
developed to-day 1t is said to have
been the undersea boat that attacked
and sank the tanker Herbert l.. sPratt.
Sighting the crew leaving in small
boats Ensign Jennings volplaned tow
saw
the periscope of a submarine
1t was rapidly submerging, but bv
volplaning he got over the submersible
and dropped several depth bombs. He
reported there was no evidence that
any Of his bombs had found their mark.
In his attempt to destroy the raider
Ensign Jennings flew close to the water,
and at one time was near the sur
vivors of the sunken ship.
virtual network Of naval craft
patrolled the costal waters all last
night, and there was continued ex.
change of wireless messages between
the ships at sea and the bases. The
local base is in close touch with Wash
ington and coast stations and reports
are received at short intervals, but
officials are withholding all word of
the operations of the ships in quest of
the U-boats.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
"Staats-Zeitung' for
Loyalty Demonstration
By Gerrnan-Arnericuns

Yesterdays evening edition of the
"Staatszeitupg" contained the follow
ing editorials:
"To the Americans of German birth.
"War has been carried to the shores
of this country Not far from this
port German U-boats have sunk ships
and greatly damaged shipping. i.
"The German-A American press didn't
venture, up to now, the opinion that
tho Germans were under any obliga ton
of giving special proof of their loyalty.
That is true also at the present time
for there is no reason for doubling the
loyalty of the German born citizens
While we must rcpudiate any outside
suggestion of especially emphasizing
our truthfulness and arranging demon
strations of loyalty, the same may not
be said of an appeal originating from
within our ranks.
Therefore. we submit to our read
ers the following propositions:
ITO arrange an immense manifesta-
tion of citizens Of German stock to
show the rest of American citizens that
there is only one united nation at this
hour of danger.
"That demonstration is not designed d
to especially manifest our loyalty, but
to give all Americans the irrefutable
assurance that, in this war, there is
only one flag, the Stars and Stripes"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
F ear Cyclops Was
Submarine Victim
Missing Collier May Have
Been Sunk or Captured
as a Prize

- WASHINGTON June 4.-Did the
German submarines which raided
American shipping off the Jersey coast
destroy the missing collier Cyclops. or
was the collier captured at sea, prize
crew put aboard her and an attempt
made to reach Germany?
These questions have been raised by
the passing remark of one of the sub
marine commanders to Captain Lowry.
of the steamship Texel, that the u
boats had been on the American side
OF the Atlantic for two months. The
Cyclops has been missing three months
to a day.
1t is possible, though not probable.
naval experts say, that the collier with
her great cargo and some 800 persons
might have been "spurlos versenkt. !"
sunk without a trace, after she left
Barbados, where she had put in for
fuel. 1t is more likely, however, they
say, that the Cyclops, steamng home
ward some time after March 4, when
she cleared from Barbados, was met
at night by submarines at time when
only. an officer on the bridge and
small watch on deck was to be reck-
oned with. If this was done it would
have been very easy to send an armed
crew below, where most of her men
were asleep, and take possession of
the ship. Whether she then could
have been skilfully navigated through
the Allied blockade to Germany or
hidden in some out-of-the-way port
only adds to the mystery.
The statement OF the U-boat COM
mandcr that he had been in American
waters two months strengthens the
theory of those who have maintained
tnst there is submarine base on this
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Captain Tells of Futile Efforts
To Tow Three Lifeboats to Port

Captain Thomas Thomassen, Of the
schooner Isabel s. Wiley, landed here
to-day by an American coastwse
freighter with fifteen more survivors
of three vessels sunk off the New Jer-
sey coast by German submarines, told
thr.Ixng tale of dash he made tow
ard shore after he had taken to his
motorboat and received aboard twelve
persons held prisoner on the undersea
craft
When the submarine left him there
were pitching about in the sea near
him three boats of the steamer Winnie
come, which had just been sunk. In
these boats were survivors from the
Winneconnc and Captain Gilmore and
the crew of the Edna, another victim
Captain Thomassen who had In his
motorboa, not only his own crew but
Captain Sweeney and ten of the crew
Of the schooner Hauppaugo and the
mate Of the schooner Hattie Dunn.
wished to take the three lfeboats in
tow.
Holding conference on the high seas,
the occupants of the four small craft
decided tnat with the three lifeboats
in tow Captain Thomassen, having only
small supply of gasoline, could not
proceed more than ten miles. although
the shore was seventy-hve miles away.
1t was decided Captain Thomassen
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
New German Bomb
Used by U-Boats
On American Ships
'SSpurlos Versenkt" Device
Makes Little Noise and
Causes No Fire

PHILADELPHIA. June 4.-Germany
has devised new weapon and new
method for its campaign against Amer
lean and other Allied shipping.
Tho new weapon is one that makes
"spuros versenkt" (sirking without a
trace the significant phrase used
months ago by Count Luxburg-rea-
sonably certain. 1t is time bomb
that is smaller and lighter than a tor
pedo, that explodes with comparatively
small noise and does not set ship
ablaze.
These facts have been revealed by
examination of the oil-burning schoon-
er Edna, found derelict off the Della
ware Capes on May 25 and for time
supposed to have been wrecked in
Great holes in the side of the Edna
below the waterline were found later
They were supposed to have been caused
by torpedoes. When reports began to
come in Of activity of U-boats off the
Delaware and New Jersey coasts the
mystery of the Edna was supposed to
be solved.
Now, however, the divers who have
been examining the schooner. beached
report that, not torpedoes, but bombs
were used.
commander supplied with the new
time bomb halts defenceless ship,
takes off the crew or forces it into
boats, suspends the bomb in such a
way that it rests against the outside
of the vessel, adjusts a time fuse,
lights it and speeds away, knowing that
IN three hours or whatever other time
is determined upon the vessel will be
blown up.
We're the bomb placed inside the
ship the explosion would be deafening
and would be heard for miles. and the
and the explosion would be a warning.
and shortly the submarine would find
itself beset by enemies on all sides.
Another advantage of the bomb is
that it is lighter and smaller and less
noisy than a torpedo, but just as ef-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

should leave the three lifeboats and
make dash for help. He WAS headlng
for the nearest land when he was
picked up by a coast liner which later
transferred him and his men to another
ship.
They turned back, but could find no
trace of the three ifeboats of the
Winneconnc. The boats had been picked
up in the mean time by another vessel
and landed here on Monday night.
1t was at 8 o'clock Sunday morning
when Captain Thomassen, bound from
Princess Bay to Newport News and
Montevideo, first sighted a submarine
astorn. He took it for an American
vessel, but 80 it approached he made
out two strange flags, which he de-
scrbed as "black and white diamonds,' y
showing that it was an enemy craft. Z.
When the submarine fred she'll
toward the Wiley, which fell hundred
yards from the ship, Captain Thomas
sen called his crew on deck and low
cred the motor lifeboat At that mo-
ment the Wnncconne came in view,
and the U-boat fired snot across her
bow, forcing the crew 20 tahe to the
boats.
After the Winneconnc and Wiley had
both been sent to the bottom, the sub
marine came alongside Thomassen's
motor boat. After transferring the
men to the motor boat and dividing
twelve more passengers among the
three small boats, the submarine sailed
aWaV.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
War Economy To
Be Discussed at
Conference Here

The opening session Of the National
War Economy Conference begins to-
night in the Horace Mann Auditorium,
120th Street and Broadway, when sew
eral hundred Governors, Mayors, Fed
eral, state, county and municipal Of
hcers, chamber of commerce delegates
and representatives of business, labor
and civic organizations will discuss the
problem of meeting the cost Of the war.
Papers will be read advocating econ
oemy measures which the state and ma
tlon should adopt, such as the institu-
tion of budget systems, continued edu-
cation in community thrift and a
greater reduction in all public cxpendi-
lures.
The Hotel Astor will be the scene of
the second and third sessions, which
will be held tomorrow morning and
afternoon. The conference will end
with dinner at the City Club ito NOR
row evening.
>. Speakers on the programme include:
Governors Carl Millikcn of Maine,
Martin G. Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania,
Frank 0. Lowden Of Illinois, and Emer-
son Z. harrington, of Maryland; Frank
crit Macy, Paul M Warburg, Mayor
Andrew j. Peters of Boston, Control
Ter Charles l.. Craig of New York City,
Dr.. Frederick A. Cleveland, of Boston;
W. F.. Willougnby, R. Fulton Cutting.
Nicholas Murray Butler, Mortimer J..
Schiff, Thomas w. Lamont. Arthur N.
Pierson, Professor Howard Lee Nc
Lain, of Columbia University, and Vic
tor Morawetz.
The conference, to which admission
is free, is being held under the Joint
auspices of the Academy of Political
Science and the Bureau of Municipal
Research. The National Municipal
League and other civic organizations
are cooperating. To-night's session be-
gins at S:15
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Navy Well Prepared,
Senator Lodge Says
He Believes Raiding U-Boats
Will Be Unable to Stay
Here Long
(Special Dispatch to TIE Tribunc) }

Especial Dispatch to The Tr,6unc)
WASHINGTON, June 4.--Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Of Massachusetts,
ranking Republican on the Naval Af-
fairs Committee, following confer
ence with Secretary Daniels. to-day ex-
pressed confidence that the navy was
taking all possible measures to combat
the German submarines operating in
American waters.
"This has not been surprise, by any
MEANS" said Senator Lodge. "The navy
has been expecting that German u
boats would put in an appearance in
American waters for several weeks, and
has been prepared.
although I cannot, of course, dis
close the details of the anti-submarine
programme, feel every confidence that
it will be successful. Every provision
has been made for weeks and months
that human foresight could conceive.
We have abundant vessels of the type
as an adequate number of hydro
aeroplanes for coastal patrol work.
"No one could tell when or where
the German submarines would put in
an appearance. The waters Of the At
lantic offer quite a stable range, and
it is no discredit to the navy that the
U-boats have been operating unchecked
against non-military tonnage for a few
days. The navy is wide awake and is
doing the very best that can be DONE
I have every confidence that the subma-
rine raids will not only produce no ap-
rreciable military results, but that the
U-boats will find the waters Of the
North Atlantic too uncomfortable for
any extended stay."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Edge Puts U-Boat in
Sea Serpent Class

Governor Edge put U-boats in the
sea serpent class, and said the attack
on our coast was a German grand
stand play" in an address yesterday
at the convention of the Imperial
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Mobiles
Mystic Shrine.
"Fcr years the enterprising amuse-
ment promoters and newspaper CORE
spondents tried to wish the sea SER
pents on the Jersey coast" the Gov
ernor said. eve used to fear that
they would do US harm.
"We found in the course of time
that every sea serpent story increased
the excursion rush. Now l See they
are trying to wish submarines upon
US.
"No one in loyal Jersey will worry
about that. The hotel men know they
cannot come within five miles of At
lantic City, because the sand bars will
prevent them. There is not a proba-
bility that they will try. The chances
are, after bagging few unarmed
ships by grandstand play they are now
hotfooting for German harbors with
Uncle Sam in hotfoot pursuit. hope
he gets them before they escape be-
yond reach"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Powers of Cruiser"
U-Boats Exaggerated
New Type Merely Modelled
After Deutschland, Says
British Expert

LONDON, June 4.-Stories OF Ger
many's submarine cruisers may be dis
missed, says Archibald S. Hurd, widely
known writer on naval subjects, in an
article appearing in "The Daily Tele-
graph"
"They are merely large submarines,
such as we have seen building" he
says. "They do not represent a tri
umph of German engineering any
more conspicuous than a triumph our
shipbuilders have achieved. 1t was
because German submarines Of about
500 tons could remain at sea only a
short time, were very uncomfortable
and the conditions were very telling on
the nerves Of the crews, that the enemy
evolved a larger type. modelled on the
Deutschland. This type having been
designed, it was decided to indulge in
exaggeraton in order to impress the
world.
"What is the ruth about the Ger
man submarines ?" he continues.
"These cruisers displace not 5000
tons, but about 1000. They are not
f0O 1eeL long, put less IMAM oUc 1eet
Their speed on the surface is not twen
ty-eight knots, but about twelve knots.
When submerged they do not travel at
the rate Of fifteen knots per hour, but
approximately ten knots or so.
"1t happens that we have heard more
about the operations of German sub
marines than about the British, simply
because the enemy offers few targets
for our submarines while we offer the
enemy thousands of targets every
week. The percentage of hits by our
submarines is, in fact, about three
times that of the Germans, which
itself indicates the high standard of
efficiency of British ship design, con-
struction and operation.
"The work which British submarines
are doing is magnificent. Our officers
are handicapped by many things be-
sides. the small number of targets
afforded them. The Germans are able
to maintain their campaign only by de-
flying every law of every nation and ig-
noring the ordinary dictates of hu-
manity. There is nothing easier than
murder"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

hundred cases of OIL With this addl.
tional food and fuel, the officers de-
clared they could prolong their stay
even belong their scheduled time.
eve had brought off our photograph
from the Edna before she was sunk,
and we swapped records with the Ger
man sailors. The only fuss they
kicked up was when we started My
Country, IT'S Of Thee We had to take
that off in hurry"
Captain Holbrook proudly displayed
number of souvenirs which the ami
able active commander of the German
craft gave him at parting. One was
copy of the "Berliner lllustrirte zei-
tung." German paper of the date of
the u-boat's sailing from KieI. On
the margin of the paper the com
mander had scrawled, an remembrance
of the German submarine, May, 1918"
brass button. which the German
captain had ripped off his uniform, and
a tive-mark eoin, completed Captain
Holbrook's German possessions.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

gers aboard, and when all lights on the
steamer were extnguished Sunday
night, Captain J. H. Diehl and other Of
ficers explained that this was the usual
rrecaution. The explanation, Captain
Dichi said, satisfied all hands, and they
came through without the least intima-
tion that vessels were being sunk all
around them.
Captain Diehl did not know that his
ship was reported lost. He sent no
messages, he said After hearing shots
directly ahead, the vessels course was
changed and she proceeded at full
speed. close in.
Last night the wireless caught calls
for help from a tanker off the Della
ware coast.
The City of Columbus proceeded on
her voyage ttis afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Lights at Asbury Park
Resorts On as Usual

AsBURY PARK, N. j., June An
the absence of any orders to the con-
trary proprietors of amusement places
and hotels tonight turned on their
lights and kept them on as on other
nights.
There were rumors about here to.
day that an order to either dim lights
or keep them out entirely would be
issued, but when the authorities an.
nounced they had received no such in.
structions from the War Department
the proprietors of the various places
decided to light up as usual.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
City of Columbus
Arrives Safely IN
can Atlantic Porf''

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June A.
The Savannah liner City of Columbus.
with passengers, reported sunk by
German submarines that raided Amerir
can shipping off the New Jersey coast
Sunday, arrived here to-day No sub
marines were observed, and while Of
hcers of the ship heard gun firing four
hours after the City. of Columbus had
picked up an S o S call from the
steamer Carolina, none of the passen-
gers realized that they were in the
danger zone until the news was OBJ
tanned from coast patrol vessels here.
There were more than sixty passen-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Ship Mistaken for Target

WASHINGTON, June A warship
engaged recently in target practice
mistook the battleship Louisiana for
a target and exploded shell aboard
her, killing one man, the Navy Depart
ment announced to-day. The accident
was due to hazy weather.
The man killed was Fireman Moses
l.. Morgan, OF Gulf Point, Fla No
further details were given in the navy
announcement.
The death OF Fireman Roy H. Jolley,
U. S. N, of Water Mill, Long Island in
an accident aboard the U. S. S. Housa-
'tonic, May 81, was reported to the
Navy Department to- day.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Flag Given to Pershing Men

PARIS, June Am American flag.
the gift of the Marchioncss de Lafay-
cite, was presented to the American
troops ct Tours to-day.
Speeches were made by General FL
lonneux, chief of the French Mis-
sion to American headquarters, and
Llouten-,nt Colonel Edwards, Command
ing the American troops in the Tours
region.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
U-Boats Increase Recruiting

BOSTON, June 4.-The activity of
the German submarines off the At
lantic coast resulted in a large in
crease in applications for enrolment
in the merchant marine training SER
vice of the United States Shipping
Board to-day. Henry Howard, Director
OF Recruiting, reported that 1923 men
had passed examinations to-day and
would begin immediate training for sea
duty
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Clyde Liner Huron Makes Port

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 4.-Ths
Clyde liner Huron, from Jacksonville
for New York, with ninety passengers
port yesterday to escape the subma.
rine menace and arrived to-day at the
Clyde docks in this city. The passen,
gers were sent from here to their des-
tination by rail.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Prisoners on U-151Are Told
Raiders Planned to Block
Atlantic Ports
Men Who Know
America in Crews
Submarines Said to Have
Supplies for Voyage of
Six Months

The German undersea boat U-151,
said by its officers to be the first Of
feet Of submarines ordered to try to
block the North Atlantic coast, is car
rying double crew and has two cap
tains on board, according TO statements
yesterday Of survivors who had spent
eight days or the raider
Captain Charles E. Holbrook. of the
schooner Hattie Dunn. one of the first
victims Of the U-151, was authority for
the statement that there were seventy
SIX men In the crew Of the German, al
though the usual complement for cruis-
ing submarines of its type is between
thirty-fve and forty. =
1t is believed that the additional
crew and staff of officers were taken
along for the purpose of placing them
on an armed ship which might be capt
ured and then fitted up rs a raider.
Is not thought probable that the Ger
mans had planned to put prize crew
on an unarmed prey, because of the
distance which would have to be trav-
elled in order to take the booty to
home port
Said U-Boat Fleet Left Kiel
The boasts of permanent blockade
Of important Atlantic harbors were
made to some of the twenty-three sail
ors and officers of sunken schooners
by several of the German seamen with
whom they held conversation
The mate of the submarine told
Enock Roker, boatswain of the four
masted schooner Edna. that the subma-
rines which had shown their periscopes
thus far in American waters were only
the vanguard of large fleet which
started out, after a big farewell cele-
bration, from .Kiel. seven weeks ago.
Roker. huge Haytian negro. quickly
made friends with members of the crew.
The mate told him that the sailors of
this U-boat blockading fleet, now on
the way, were recruited from the ranks
of Germans who had seen service in
American waters before, and, therefore,
knew the geographical peculiarities of
the coast and the currents.
The mate told ME that when they
left Kiel they were provisioned for a
six months stay" said Roker, "and
he believed their orders were to re-
main here until August at least He
didn't tell me how many submarines
were in the feet, but no doubt would
have given me a great deal more in
formation if the higher officers had
not cautioned him and kept a close
watch
Mate Lived in Philadelphia
TO prove that he told the truth
about sailors with knowledge of Ameri-
can waters being especially chosen for
the patrol fleet, the mate declared that
he himself had worked for the Ham
burgAmercan line for number of
years and had lived in Philadelphia,
where he had a sweetheart. He
planned to send a message to ner
through me, but decided that it might
fall into the hands of the captain and
gave up the idea as dangerous.
He told me the voyage from Ger
many to this country was made by way
OF the West Indies, within sight of
Cape Hatteras. The Germans took ten
days supplies from the Edna, and a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
No Shells ON Hospital Shin

LONDON, June 4.--The British Adj
miralty, in an official statement issued
to-day, denies a German wireless report
that captured English student saw
munitions unloadcd from the hospital
ship Western Australia in Rouen har-
bor
"No munitions Of any description
ever were carried in the Western Aus.
tralia or any other British hospital
ship" says the Admiralty statement.