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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
British Make Successful Raid.

London. Fob. Liverpool troops
carried out successful raid last night
east OF Armentieres. capturing several
prisoners and machine guns" says to.
days war office report. Our casual
ties We're light.
The hostile artillery has shown
somc activity south OF Cambria ana
south of Lens"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
PACKING RECORDS SOUGHT.
Government Attorneys Begin Arsu.
nnents Before Judge Lands.

Chicago. Feb. 7,--Argumerts before
Judge lands, In the effort OF the fed
eral government to obtain the records
OF Swift & CO., in the evidence Of Hen
by Weber, were continued today by
District Attorney Fleming enpoundinS
the law for the government.
Meanwhile deputy marshal guard
ed the papers soaisht by the govern
ment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
TRANSPORT CARRYING
AMERICANS T0RPED0ED

British Ship Tuscana, Bearing Michigan and Wisconsin
Troops Sunk Off Irish Coast-Carried 2,179 Officers
and Men Besides British Crew-Convoyed by Brit
ish Warships Which Succeeded in Rescuing
Large Numbers Survivors Being Landed
at Irish Ports-Majority of Troops
Belong to Engineering Division.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
Ships Officers .Reacued.

New York, Feb. Gable messages
received here report the captain. pur-
ser and chief steward Of the Tuscania
saved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07

State Rail Directors to es Named.
Washington, Feb. 7.-State or local
railroad directors will fbe appointed In,
q number OF communities OF the cons
gested east by Director General Nc
Adoo in the near futurr
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07

London. Feb. IA resumption Of
the peace negotiations at Brest- t-Litovsk
today, II they are resumed. will take
place in a fog Of contradictions as far
as the world IL concerned. s
Berlin newspapers forecast a prob
able breach between the bolsheviki and
Germany.
No light on the situation comes from
Russian sources.
Foreign Minister Trotzky Is report
"a 10 be 1t Brest-Litovsk.
IN the meantime the bolsheviki con-
tinue to circulate by means OF the
wireless press statements OF the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
lNvALlDs SAFELY REMOVED.

Typhoid and Pneumonia Patients Ar
Landed Without Injury.
Londonderry, Ireland, Feb. Proof
Of the order prevailing on the Tuscania
after the ship was torpedoed Il given
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
Intense Artillery Fire Main
tained by Kaiser's
Forces in West.
AMERICAN GUNNERS
STOP AIR RAID
Twenty German Planes Seek TO Pene.
trate Lines on Sector Held by United
States Troops and Are Driven Back.
Entente Airren Bring Down Thirty
ono German Machines in Recent
Fiahtns-Neutrai Liner Searched.

On tho battle front in France the
German artillery continues active
in Flanders, tho Arras -Cambrai
sector and in Champagne. There
also have been small raids At wide
iy scattered points.
On the American sector the ar.
tiIlery action is lively.
Entente aviators still are busy
dropping bombs on German milf
tary establishments. One OF two
American flyers in a French bomb.
ing squadron brought down an en-
emy machine, and the American
qunners drove back twenty German
airmen who attempted TO cross the
American lines.
In recent fighting the entente
allies have brought down thirty
one German machines.
Negotiations at 1rsst- -litovsk
between the central powers and
Russia and tho Ukraine arc sx-
pected to be resumed today.
After his victory At uIabors and
tho capture OF Tannermorn, Gen
eraI Mannerheim, commander u
tho forces OF the Finnish dist, 10
reported to have been defeated At
TannermorH by Finnish rsvolu-
tionists. b
Paris, Feb. 7.--Heavy artillery hrSn
In the Aisne and yerdun front and
Alsace is reported in todayis officia
1t follows:
NJ otHAa n = -
icularly active on the front north o
he Aisne, in the region Of Chav!gnon
'argni and Flain on the right banl
II the Meuse, in the sector betweei
and Hill 344. and In III
vicinity of Hartsmansweiler kopf.
IN the Champagne the French car
led out n successful raid on German
renches east of Teton. In Alsace afte
'iolent artillery preparations the Ger,
mans made an inefrectual attempt e
penetrate the French lines at tw
points near RanholZ."
Evening star., 1918-01-27
PARKS M. RUCKER DIES
succumbs to Pneumonia a.at George.
town University Hospita1

Parks n. Rucker. a native OF Ambers,
county, but for the past four year. .
resident Of Farlee. near Clarendon. ".
died Friday at Georgetown UNIVERSITY
Hospital after a brief illness of pneu-
monia. Funeral services will be held
this afternoon, with Rev George 7.
Allen. pastor Of the Clarendon Bant;st
Church, officiating. Interment will ha
in Alexandria cemetery.
Mr.. Rucker was sixty-on years old
He is survived by his widow. Mrs
katherine e. Rucker. and ten chi,dran
They are Frank and J. e. Rucker -,
Kentucky: Daniel, Anna, WiiIis =. y.
RAIDER. Henry ana Eugene Rucker ~
Clarendon; Mrs Annie Brown ~ Al
herst, and Mrs. Elizabeth Rice Of naE-
ton. Three Of his soEs, Daniel Eucene
and Henry. are in the United States
Army.
Four brothers and five sisters .,.o
survive Mr.. Ruclter. They are: Gecrse
H. Rucker, clerk of Alexandra coun4y.
Daniel Rucker. Mack Rucker and
Smith Rucker Of Ruena Vista. Va. MA
N. A. Rees and Mrs. Ashton G. Tones
Of Clarendon. Mrs. Joseph CunnfnFham.
Mrs. Frank Cunningham and Mra'
Clarence Porter Jones' Of Newport News
Evening star., 1918-01-27
FORMER GERMANS.
.HARD|SH|P!S REVIVED
Demands of Metal Trades
Bring Out Story Of
Ernest Kreher.
He TRIED TO GET RIGHT

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA. Fla, January ,26.-The Metal
Trade Council. representing the boifer-
makers. machinists. blacksmiths, molders
and federal labor unions. with about 500
local members. last right adopted resolu-
tiohs urging the Emergency Fleet Corpo-
ration to commander the Tampa En-
gineering and Shipbuilding Company
plant and complete the two vessels now
building, saying they had noted evidences
Of what seemed to them delay and heard
talk which seemed to them disloyal, and
winding up with the statement that they
were tired of being stigmatized as work
ing for the kaiser
The resolutions have been sent to the
Emergency Fleet Corporation. They are
directed at Ernest Kreher, general man
ager Of the plant. who has been accused
of pro-German sentiments since his re-
fusal to buy liberty bonds of rotary
club committee in the first drive, when he
used language of pro-German nature.
Though there is wage dispute on be-
tween the men and the company, 1t is in
the hands of federal mediators, and they
specifically refrained from saying anything
about strikes in their resolutions. officers
of the council saying their desire was to
see the ships built
Evening star., 1918-01-27
GILBERT. KING PROMOTED
TO ENSIGN IN U. S. NAVY
Enlisted in Reserves Last April,
and, Like Brother John,
Has s'Gone Up"

Another Washington boy has been
promoted in Uncle Sans fighting
forces. Gilbert King, son of William
Bruce King. 1922 Wyoming avenue,
who enlisted in the Naval Reserve
force in April, 1917, and has since been
serving at Newport. r. l., and Woods
Hole. Mass. has just received his ap-
pointment as an ensign. His elder
brother. John Bruce King. who en-
listed at the same time and was ap-
pointed an ensign some months ago,
Is now serving on one of the battle
ships. The brothers are both graduates
Of Friends, School Of this city, and at
the time of their enlistment were mem-
bers Of the sophomore class at FRINGE
ton University.
Mr.. Kings stepson. Cornelius H. Bull.
mas been serving as second lieutenant
at Camp Lee. Va. since his graduation
in August from the reserve of1cers'
training camp at Fort Myer He en-
tered the training camp while a student
OF the sophomore class at the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
APPoRT1ONMENT AN ISSUE,
Controversy in New York Pending
Choice of Four Congressmen.

NEW YORK, January 26.-Supreme
Court Justice Blur today handed down
an order requiring the board of elections
to show cause why the old apportionment
should not be used as basis for four
congressional elections, soon to be held in
this city. to fill vacancies caused by re-
cent designations of members of the House
of Representatives.
The order was issued on motion Of Louis
A. CuviIlier, who alleged that the repub-
ican organization was planning to annex
two of the four seats, which had been held
by democrats, by using the apportionment
of 1917. This was not justifiable, he
held, as the men who resigned had been
elected under the old apportionment.
Mr.. Cuvillier is the democratic candidate
for one of the vacant seats.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
MARINES DEFY GERMANS.

PARIS ISLAND, S. c., January
26.-No fraulein. or whatever it
is they call a pin-feathered broil-
er Under den Linden. will ever
sport Marine Corps ornament at
the end OF. her hatpin If the oath
taken today by a recruit COM
pany of United States marines,
in training here. means anything.
This company designation and
destination deleted by censor), in
formal conclave, swore to destroy
their corps devices and to lose
their lives. If need be, rather than
see their honored emblem fall
into the hands of the enemy, to
be worn by his women as a token
of victory.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
GRANTS HEARING ON ESTATES.
Attorneys Confer With Alien Proper.
ty Custodian for U. s. Citizens.

A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property Gus
todian. has granted hearing OF attor-
neys of five estates belonging to Ameri-
can citizens in Europe. at the outbreak
of the war. to decide whether the es-
tates should be seized by the alien
property custodian until the war is
over.
The estates involved are the Nuttan
purchase or Gruntland sale; the estate
of Anna Woerschoffer: Gottfried and
Bertha Kreuger; A. Rosenberg, and
James Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
LETTERS SHOW HOW CLERGY
AID INCOME TAX BUREAU
ON has broken out in Vienna and

II they do it cheerfully. and willingly
will render a double service to their
country"
AS a result of the bureau of internal
revenues appeal. sermons on The Lib
erty Tax are being preached every
where throughout the United States
Evening star., 1918-01-27
SECTION lib AND Iu-c.
Food Exemptions.

Grain elevators. potato. or vegetable
houses: cold storage. all forms Of grain
storage. grain and feed mills, cereal
product manufacturers, bakers, can
ners, milk dealers. creameries, con-
dsnesrs and all other milk products
manufactortes. packing and slaughter
houses. los plants and refrigerators,
eugaf Hanufactures, binder-twine man.
ufaotursfs. ammonia manufacturers, i'm
eooticideS AMI fertilizer manufacturers.
naanu16 6cturers OF farm machinery for
oDF1ng use, manufacturers OF cereal
Mn 1maohinery. bag manufacturers,
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Locomotive Men Firm in Demands.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y. January 90
Fifteen hundred machinists employed
in the local plant of the American Lo-
comotive Company have voted by ratio
of about s to l not to resume work
Monday morning unless their demands
for increased wages are met, it was
announced today by machiMst union Of
f1cials. Company officers declined to
discuss the situation.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

OF American women was the American
Daughters OF Liberty, which was orr
sanised by tho women OF Philadeiphia
In 1850 to provide clothing for the suf-
fer1ng so1dierA 5,ss-'ss5 - !.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

No legal execution of . woman has
been recorded In Massachusetts since
July 3, ITS, when Bathsheba RuEEles1
Spoener was hanged In Worcester for
the murder Of her husband
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Hundreds of letters have been re-
ceived by the bureau of internal reve-
nue. in response to a request addressed
to the American clergy that they co.
Operate in impressing upon the public
their patriotic duty to pay the income
tax for, the support of the war.
One hundred and twenty-four thou
sand copies were sent to clergymen OF
every denomination. The response was
immediate and enthusiastic. One letter
which particularly impressed Internal
Revenue Commissioner Daniel c. Roper
was from a clergyman eighty three
years old. who evidently mistaking the
purpose of the message, inclosed one
dollar bill.
II am grieved to think it is not in my
power to do more, he wrote. Il am
past helping myself, but l am willing
to give half of what I have in the
i have dollar and few stamps left.
Returned by Commissioner.
The dollar was returned by Commits
sioner Roper with a letter expressing
his appreciation of the splendid spirit
of cooperation shown by the aged
patriot. and explaining that, it was
sought. but his services in impressing
upon the public their duty to pay in
come taxes.
Another letter was from clergyman
with~a wife three children and sal
ary of $500. and with $500 invested in
liberty bonds The children. eged four.
seven and nine, have put their savings
of $50 in war savings stamps, and the
family has contributed to the Red Cross
and " NJ. C. A. funds.
irving" he qayS StO do not
onlv our bit but our utmost
The. pastor of Methodist Church in
a small town in Illinois wrote. that as
a married man he was exempt from
the income tax, but would voluntarily
nay what he would have to pay If sim
gle. Lots of others, he said. would be
willing to do the same thing II such
movement were started. The bureau
able to take advantage of his sugges-
tion the statute fixing the exemptions
at $4,000 for married persons and
$1,000 for unmarried persons.
Whole Family Helps.
From Salvation Army headquarters
in one of the larger cities was received
q letter in which the writer stated that
he has four sons, one of whom is in
France on Salvation Army work, an
other.is in the Navy, and the third,
. being to young to enlist. is in train
ing for military service later. The
fourth boy is in high school. but is
working on Saturdays and buying war
savings stamps with his savings.
Inatances of personal sacrifices in or
der to- aid the government in the con-
duct of the war are numerous.
The following, which was by the pas
tor of "a church in MOUNT Vernon, N. Y,
is typical of the replies:
The great body of the ministry is
| in hearty accord with the government
in it's determined resistance against the
| autocratic military spirit of Germany,
| which threatens the liberty of the
world. Those wo help by paying their
| income tax will do a very small thing
compared with our boys who are ready
| to surrender their lives IL need be. but
Evening star., 1918-01-27
COCKTAILS DEFENDS
SORTING CONTRACT
General Declares Personal
Probe Proves First Informa-
tion on Army Scrap Wrong.
PROFITEERING is DENIED

The action of Charles Eisenman,
chairman of the supplies committee of
the Council of National Defense. in ne
gotiating the Army cloth scrap sorting
contract, which has been vigorously
criticised in the Senate military COM
mittees war Investigation. has been
given the indorscN IT of Maj Gen.
Goethals, acting quartermaster general.
after personal investigation.
A letter from Gen. Goethals to Mr..
Eisenman declaring that it was not
profteering contract, that the con-
tractors have received no personal
benefit, and that it was beneficial to
the government was sent yesterday by
Mr.. Eisenman to all members of the
.Senate committee.
In investigation of the contract given
the Base Sorting Plant. Inc, of New
York. witnesses testified the contractors
stood to make excessive profits of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 in sorting
scraps from Army clothing at cents
a pound and many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars more from discarded
Army clothing. Quartermaster General
Sharpe revoked the contract after an
Army investigation, in which it was
developed that Ira kaplan. brother OF
Samuel NJ. Kaplan, one of Mr.. Eisen-
mans assistants, was one of the con-
tractors.
Censured by Committee.
Both Mr. Eisenman and Mr.. Kaplan
have been severely censured before the
Senate committee as result
Gen. GoethalS made an investigation
of the sorting company at New York
last Saturday. His letter to Mr.. Eisen-
man follows in part:
plnSf confess that the information
I had concerning this establishment
gave me strong impression that II
was nothing short of a prohteering
scheme and that. while you were not
directly connected with it, you were re-
sponsible for it's establishment. From
the general trend of talk 1 heard OUT
side, / gathered this same impression
had taken hold elsewhere.
Proved Information Wrong.
"The result of the investigation on
Saturday showed how erroneous my in
/, formation was and / feel sure others
who held the amesopinion did would
experience a similar qualification to
Some basis for a contract had to be
adopted and / believe that the one se-
1ected was an equitable one at the time
the contract was drawn.
'The sense of fairness of the parties
to the contract was clearly displayed in
November Based on a better knowledge
of the costs-developed through expe-
rience-they proposed change. and then
again early in December. when they
| offered to eliminate all profits. An ex-
animation of the accounts has unques-
| tionably shown no benefits have re-.
suited to any of the individuals con-
| cerned. either directly or Indirectly,
that their motives and intent were
| clearly patriotic. and that they handled
| the business efficiently and economic
cally.''
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Tells Circumstances of Charges.

Peter o. knight. counsel for the Tampa
and Shipbuilding Company,
who also is president of the Tampa Hard
ware Company and is connected with
who has been conferring with officials of
the shipping board concerning the charges
against the shipbuilding company and its
president, last evening related the Cir
cumstances leading to the allegations
Ernest Kreher is German by birth,
but he Is an American citizen" Mr..
knight said. About eighteen years
ago I organized the Tampa Foundry
and Machine Company, in which
Kreher was employed as mechanic.
and eventually bought controlling
interest in that plant.
when the European war broke out.
the plant, which had used phosphates
this product. SO Kreher organized the
Tampa Engineering and Shipbuilding
Corporation. He got contracts with
the Cunard Steamship Company by
which he was to build two vessels for
them, virtually for the British govern
ment. Last August the United States
government commandeered these vessels.
I'm June when committee called on
him to get subscriptions for the first
liberty loan he very foolishly declined
see the kaiser beaten, but he would not
help supply funds to help kill his own
relatives in Germany.
Apologized and Bought Bonds.
''The papers took up this matter. the
committee reported 1t to Washington.
and Kreher apologized to the press. to
the public and to. his men and bought
5000 worth of liberty loan bonds.
Meantime his men had gone on a
strike, and labor leaders organized
them into union. They demanded in
creases In wages three times. and re-
ceived the increases. Finally they
asked for another increase, a reduction
in hours from nine to eight a
day, and for recognition of their union
Kreher declined. stating he already had
gone as far as he could in view of the
contract price for the vessels on which
they were working.
Accident Revives Trouble.
1.-TWO weeks ago last Wednesday two
hat-bottomed boats which the men, de-
spite warnings. used to go back and
forth to work. sank and seventeen
workers were drowned. They were two
of eight boats owned by the company
which the men used to save time In
going to and from work instead OF
taking longer trip on street cars.
"kreher worked all night helping to
recover the bodies, helped pay funeral
expenses. but the agitation against
him started all over again. came to
Washington on other matters and while
here officials of the shipping board
showed me numerous complaints re-
ceived about Kreher. I explained the
circumstances and they sent me a tele-
gram addressed to Tampa. designed for
publication there, in which the board
expressed its intention to cooperate
with the Tampa Engineering and Ship
building Company and to permit the
work to go on under the present man
agement.
Il have not heard of the demand of
the metal trades council that the
emergency feet corporation comman-
deer the plant"
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Waste of Railroad Fare.

: SAN FRANCISCO, January 2s.-Per-
sons who come to California to escape
meatless days in other parts of the
country are liable to spend their rail-
road fare in vain, Ralph P. Merritt,
state food administrator, announced
today.
"As soon as normal traffic conditions
prevail there will be no surplus of
meat In California Merritt said
Present indications are that we will
reach that stage soon. I cannot say
how long the present arrangement will
last, but the limit is March 13; it will
not be extended"
Evening star., 1918-01-27

The Missouri Pacific railroad has es-
tablished a free school in Little Rock
for the training of women to take the
places Of men called into Army service.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Women are now employed in every
department of one of the largest fur
niture factories in Grand Rapids.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Spring clips inside it make it pos
sible to hold a new reflector and
shade at any angle on an incandescent
lamp.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
SECTION VIII.

me purpose Of this section is to give
to local fuel administrators autho.itv
to modify, the order in any manner
which the local administrator feels
necessary to prevent injury to health
the idea being that many times local
moolncat1ons can and should be made
which ought not to be covered h,, g
general ruling applicable to the entire
country. Furthermore, state fuel ad.
illustrators are authorized in each ca se
u 70 SO interpret the order as to prevent
serious damage to plant or product.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
CALIFORNIA MEAT CAUSE
OF DISPUTES IN WEST
Advertisements A Boasting of overplus
Bring Prot st; Food Admins
traitor Takes Action

CHICAGO, January 26-Officials of
the Chicago branch of the National Sc
curity League today protested to Food
Administrator Hoover against adver-
tisements appearing in Chicago news
papers calling upon people to come to
California. where oversupply of fresh
meats has eliminated meatless day"
The advertisements also said that Di-
rector General McAdoo of the railroads
has announced that passenger service
to the Pacific coast will not in any
way be affected by eastern changes.
This is indefensible advertising and
invites the idle rich to go to California
and avoid all sacrifices which the en-
tire country is called upon to make.
1t faunts slackerism and encourages
it." the protest read.