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New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Officers Dead or
Wounded, Corporal
Led His Company
Clifford Wiltshire, Member
of Old Goth, Killed When
His Great Chance Came;
Wrote of ssCharmed Life''

For almost a year, Corporal Clifford
Wiltshire, of 1922 Avenue P, Brooklyn,
fought on the battlefelds of France.
He was among the very first of the
American troops to go across.
Late in September he wrote his wife
that he had grown to believe he bore
charmed life. He was killed in ac-
tion on October 5.
In the report of his death, it was
said that he was leading his company,
oneof the 165th--the old 69th-into
battle at the time he fell. Every COM
missioned officer in the company had
either been killed or wounded in the
early stages of the battle, and Cor
poral Wiltshire had finally been left
the ranking member of the organiza-
ton.
Besides his wife, Corporal Wiltshire
leaves an infant son, whom ne never
saw
Corporal Herman A. sutter, of Pail
sade Avenue, West Hohoken, was killed
in action on November 2. He had an
ticipated his possible fate by arrang-
ceive any message that might come
from the War Department in order
that his aged mother might be spared
sudden shock in case the message
was to be one telling Of his death.
Corporal Sutter was twenty-five years
old. He was drafted in April and went
overseas in May.
Sergeant Walter Perkins, of 499 Val
ley Road, West Orange, N. j., was
killed in action on November 1. He
was twenty-five years old, and at the
time of the first draft, when he was
inducted Snto the army, made his
home at Linden, N. J. Sergeant Per-
kins was married to Miss Marion
Schollin, of West Orange, on Thanks
giving Day, 1917. He went overseas
in May last.
Corporal Frederick Emil Schwencke.
killed in action on November 7, was
one of the rescuing party that freed
the Lost Battalion" from the trap in
which it had been caught in the Ar
gonne Forest. During that fight he
captured four prisoners singlehanded
and won promotion for the deed. Cor
poral Schwencke was thirty years old.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
party, ''o AZ Vhe kepUDllcAn

party ''' All 'he republican
me country did return to tho Re.
lpuol'can l;u party, not because. as I be.
iieVes through any great confidence in
p"np r"e hepunlican party, but because the
spuoncan party was the one instru-
"s ;4s =; through which it could express
.s ".sapproval of the lack of democ.
..y. IN 'he Democratic party.
ca nu'' as say, where the Hearst
papers were printed, and where thcy
carried high their banner of trne d.
mocracy, of Nrue freedom. of true
ipsa'rlot'sm, voiced in their motto Of
america First the Democratic party
won overwhelmingly and increased its
.ep'esentation in Congress, while the
rest OF the country was going unitedlv
against the Democratic party.
" In New York City, where NV New
YORK American and New York Even
ing journal are published, the large st
majority ever given a Democratic can
dldate was registered in the vote for
Governor.
IN Boston, where my Boston Ameri-
can and Boston Advertiser are pub
Ashed, the city was carried overwhel I'M
ingiy for the Democracy, and David |.
walsh, Democratic Senator, was sent
1o' Washington to take the place of
John w. Weeks, the Republican Sena-
tor.
"The city of Chicago, where my Chi
cago Herald and Examiner and Even
ing American are published, went over
w,helmlngly Democratic by one of the
largest votes ever registered, while the
southern part of Illinois, which is
served by. the st. Louis papers and not
by the Hearst Chicago papers, went
overwhelmingly Republican.
IN Atlanta and in San Francisco and
In Los Angeles the Democratic Con
gresslonal delegations increased or held
their own.
Everywhere that the Hearst papers
were published Democracy triumphed
on truly Democratic lines.
nat proper criticism, therefore, is
there of the Democracy or the Ameri-
canlsm of the Hearst papers?
They have been vindicated by the
people, to whom they appeal and to
whose voice the Democratic Represen-
tatives in Congress should listen with
Self-interested attention.
1T is not for me or for the Hearst
papers to make any defence, and l do
not make any.
ut is for ~the Democratic majority
in Congress to make defence. It has
been indicted. 1t has been repudiated.
Its policies have been impugned and
rejected.
And if the Democratic party is not
distinctly and definitely democratic, it
Will have no cause for continuance.
and Will go forever out of existence as
the Federalist party did after the
passage by that party of it's oppressive
and restrictive un-American legisla-
tlon one hundred and eighteen years
ago.
"Sincerely yours a.
"W1LLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST."
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13

shrapnel and machine gun bullets at
Soissons, July 10.
The only thing that seemed to
bother him was the fact that the loss
of his arm would bar him from the
army.
Fred j. Propher, of 8S st. Nicholas
Avenue, was with Company c, 306th
Machine Gun battalion, and was
wounded at scissors also 81 was at
my machine gun, August o. when |
was shot through the abdomen" he
said. Aside from that he said he did
not vans to talk about himself.
Sergeant Phillip F. Wagenbrenner was
with the same battalion and was
wounded in the leg by shell frag-
ment. His companion was killed. His
home is at Sd Shore Road.
Other wounded New York men were ::
Frank Dughelmo, Company C. 116th In
fantry, SO Pitt Street; Cozena Baffaele
Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn; Lieutenant
George H. Morgan, Company E. 18th
Infantry. 122 Sterling Place, BROOKLYN;
Corporal William Luzzi 35S Whitton
Street, Jersey City; Arthur Bloth,
9th Marines, 842 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn; Thomas F. Conboy, Company
D. 7th Engineers, 23 East 126th Street:
Charles Rogers, 3o7th Field Signal Bat
talon, Woodhaven, L. l., and William
Ankner, Company F, 114th Infantry. asa
W Woodward Street. Richmond.
The Mercy sailed from Brest No
vember 26. The ship was said to have
carried some of the worst cases that
have left France. Two of the patients
dued during the voyage. She was for
merly the Ward Line steamship Sara
toga. The welcome up the river and at
the pier outrivalled that accorded pre-
vious troopships.
The Siamese Prince (British), from
is to reach New York TO-DAY
with 1893 surgical cases. The Santa
Anna, an American transport from
Brest, with 48 officers, 21 men and 79
civilians. is another. The Zacapa and
possibly. others are expected to dock
any hour. The Susquehpnna, which has
a large number of returning men
aboard, will dock at Newport News in
stead of New York, the military and
naval authorities announced. The Le-
with 5000 men, is expected to
reach port on Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
DIR. Adolph Henry Ney Is
Arrested as Enemy Alien

DR.. Adolph Henry Ney, enemy alien,
said to have been associated in the
early days of the war with DR.. Hugo
Schweitzer in his attempt to corner the
carbolic acid market, was taken in
custody yesterday by Agent Mathews
of the Department of Justice. Ney
was arraigned before Perry M. Arm
strong, chief examiner of the Enemy
Alien Bureau, charged with failure to
register as an enemy alien and was
ordered detained at the Raymond
Street Jail pending investigation. He
probably will be interned.
Ney was arrested in the office of
Frank Hemingway, Inc, of 115 Broad
way, where he was employed as con-
sultng chemist. He lived at Boston
Road and Sprague Avenue, Scarsdale,
N. Y. DR.. Ney said he was born in
Nuremberg, Bavaria, forty-two years
ago, and that he was educated in the
universities of Munich, Freiberg, Baden
and Zurich. He received degrees from
these institutions and specialized in
chemistry.
He came to the United States in 1901
and returned to Europe three years
later. For time he continued his
studies and then travelled about the
Continent. He worked for while at
Manchester, England, with German
chemical concern. He also was en-
ployed in Austria, where he was de-
ported because the authorities thought
him Pro-Czech in sentiment He
served eighteen months in the Ger
nan army before returning to this
country in 1910. In 1914 he was an
cmploye of Thomas A. Edison.
He said in answer to questions by
Mr.. Armstrong that he was not Ger
man and that he had not registered as
ing capacity. He explained that his
father had served in the British,
French and German armies, and that
Marshal Ney of France was forbear
of the family
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Dekes Pay Tribute
To Their Heroes
Who Served Nation
Third of Fraternity's Mem
bership Fought in France,
Hundred Falling in Action
Plan to Aid Veterans

The Dekes have gone 70 the coicrs, and soFns Of
them nsvermore
VIII Join our mystic circle or enter our temple
Bright be their names smblszonsd. dear God. we
And give strength to follow where they have led
in the Aghtl
they did not fail
And our altar shall glow forever with the pride and
the esrll OF the tale.
Dekes last night gathered to do
honor to their heroes--the heroes who
gaze their lives on European battle
fields, those who now are in hospitals
resume activities of peace that were
dropped when they answered the call
to the colors:
But the Delta Kappa Epsilon war
service committee, which called yester-
days convention, did not limit itself
to singing the praises of its members.
1t chose the most practical method of
showing its appreciation of the ser
vices of the Dekes who went abroad
in the service of their country.
The committee guaranteed to find
employment of every member OF the
assistance. A committee on business
opportunities and employment was ap-
pointed to carry this guarantee into
execution.
After the business sessions, held in
the afternoon at the fraternity head
quarters, 80 West Forty-fourth Street.
reception and concert were held
in the evening. A. Barton Hep
burn. Frederic B. Jennings, Henry
Harper Benedict, James c. Colgate.
Professor Charles Baskerville and
James Anderson Hawes described the
contributions of the Dekes to the ma
tion during the war.
The war record of the fraternity
shows that more than one-third of its
living membership actually served on
the firing lines of Europe. This is
said to be the largest percentage of
actual war services offered to the
country by any organization in the
world.
More than 100 of the fraternity's
members have been killed in action
and many more have died in the ser
vice. Fifty-fve members of the or
ganiZation have been decorated by
various Allied governments. The first
officers killed during the Civil War.
the Spanish-American War and the
present war by strange coincidence
were members of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity.
Yesterdays convention was intend
ed originally as the war meeting of
the fraternity. But the absence of so
many members in military service
abroad caused. the real war convention
to be postponed until next fall
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13

It's headquarters was at Revigny and
st. Dizier The troops on this trans
Port are described by the War Depar
ment as follows:
One Hundred and Forty third Regi-
ment Field Artillery, headquarters,
sanitary detachment, ordnance detach-
ment headquarters company, band,
supply company. detachment and Bat
teries A and B. 10 officers, 492 men.
=, Slxty-ifth Field Artillery Brigade
Headquarters, 3 officers, SIS men.
The 9Th Railroad Artillery Ordnance
Repair Shop of 20 men was the only
soldier cargo on the Rappahannock.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
10000 Troops ON
Their Way Home
On Five Ships
Two Former German Liners
and Three Army Trans
ports Sail With Men, War
Department Announces
Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-two for
mer German liners and three army
transports, bringing over 10000 United
otates soldiers home from France, are
no" on the high seas on their way to
America, the War Department an
nounced to-day.
Inc Levlathan, carrying 1881, sailed
from France on December 8 for New
York. The Martha Washington, which
lett brest on December with 2,405
troops aboard, destined for New York,
was the second largest ship to embark
Tor American shores. The Celtic, which
sailed from Liverpool on December 8,
also is routed for New York with 2,277
troops aboard.
Ihe army transports are the Rappa-
hammock and the Mallory, which sailed
from st. Nazaire on December and
December with twenty-nine men and
l,48I men, respectively. These troops
probably will disembark at Norfolk
Except for wounded men aboard the
hive troop ships, only few of the re-
turning soldiers have seen actual
service
The Leviathan carries casual COM
panles 301 to 312 and the second anti
.altcratt sector, with casuals, bring
ing the total up to 1881. The patients
on the huge converted German liner
number ,41S, divided as follows: bed
ridden, 100; mental cases, fifty; iso-
lated, thirty eight, and others not re-
quiring special attention, 1921.
Aboard the Martha Washington are
miscellaneous men from the 3sth
Division, which is largely composed of
National Guardsmen from Indiana and
,hentucky, and the 10th Field Artil-
lery headquarters Company and the
18th Division of state troops from
31st Division of state troops from
Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
The field artillerists of the 31st Divi-
sion never penetrated further into
France than Brest, the port of debarka-
ton, but some of the 1913 men of the
36th Division were near the front be-
tore the armistice was signed. Other
men on board the Martha Washington
include 539 enlisted men, classed as
casuals, who are sick and wounded. but
not to the extent that they REQUIRE spe-
cial attention.
The Celtic carries 1855 officers. 2.122
enlisted men, seven nurses and two
civilians. Of the soldiers. 22O are
classified as tuberculous, 70 are bed
ridden, and lao others not recurring
special attention. The liner also car
ries the S14th Pioneer Infantry outfit
of negro troopers.
National GIardsmen from the 40th
Division, made up of men from Cali
fornia, Nevada, Utah, Colorado. Ari-
zona and New Mexico, compose the
bulk of the soldiers on the MALLORY.
The 10th Division was depot organi-
zation used largely for replacements.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Cerman-Owned Bayer Co.
PlantSoldfor $5,31O,OOO
Special Correspondent

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 12.-The Bayer
Company plant in Rensselaer,, one of
the German owned concerns taken over
by the government, was sold to-day at
auction by A. Mitchell Palmer, custo-
dian of alien property.
1t went to the Sterling. Products
Company, of Wheeling, w. Va, for $5,-
1000, and the purchaser will have
to pay s1,5s4,oo in back taxes and
penalties. The capital stock of the
company was s75o,ooo.
The purchase, besides the Bayer
plant. includes the Synthetic Patents
Company. owners of the patents used
by the Bayer Company, and the Wal.
liams & Crowell Color company, OF
prov;dence.. r. /. There were dozen
other bidders, including the du Pont
Powder Company, which offered s23,5oo,,,
900. This is the largest sale conducted d
by Mr.. Palmer.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Justice Levy Explains
Part in ssWoyheit'' Deal

Justice Aaron J. Levy, of the Mu-
nlclpal Court, whose name was brought
out in testimony before the Senate IN
dietary Committee in connection with
the purchase of "The Warheit." has
telegraphed to Senator Overman to ex-
PLAIN the deal which, he points out,
was "exploited and exploded" in the
last mayoralty campaign.
Upon Mr.. Miller's urgent and re-
peated lnsistence," he said, 81 was
finally induced by him to introduce him
to Samuel Untermyer, from whom he
sought in my presence and upon the
strength of Mr.. Untermyer's friendship
Tor me to secure a loan which he re-
quired to avoid bankruptcy, which
would have involved the forced sale of
his interest in 'The Warheit.' which
was then pledged. Mr. Untermyer
finally very reluctantly consented to
make the loan out Of friendship for
me, but advised Miller against taking
the loan. as he considered it hopeless
proposition.
great financial distress and owning a
minority interest in THE Warheit,' ,
which was pledged, and as to which
the loan had been called, offered the
stock to me. I joined with his part
ners, who owned the majority stock, in
buying his minority interest in THE
Warheit' for $4,000 and borrowed $685.
600 of that money from Mr.. Untermyer.
The balance of $4,000 was furnished
by Miller's partners and myself, and
we divided the stock between US.
Thirtyfive thousand of the $4,000 we
paid was used to take Miller's stock
out of pledge. The transaction was
closed while Mr.. Untermyer was in
South America. 7 have since repaid
him $4,000 of his money and shall
soon repay the balance"
Justice Levy asks for an opportunity
to make his reply again under oath.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Returning Soldiers Urged
To Rejoin N. Y. Guard
Special Corresponding


ALBANY, Dec. 12.-National Guards
men now in the National Army will be
given every opportunity to reenter the
state military service upon their dis
charge, the State Defence Council an
nounced here to-day on instructions
from Governor Whitman.
Reorganization plans are being form
ulated under which there will be plenty
of room in the state forces for the for
mer National Guardsmen.
Acting Adjutant General Westcott
said to-day that the closest harmony
existed between the National Guard
and the New York Guard. the organiza-
tion that succeeded the National Guard
after the beginning of the war. He
declared that 80 per cent of the Off
GERS and many of the enlisted men of
the New York Guard at one time or an
other saw service in the National
Guard
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Mrs. Astor Cleans Up
Dishes and Sails Home

Mrs. Vincent Astor, who served as
waitress and dishwasher in Bordeaux
canteen, will return to New York on
the French steamship Lorraine late to-
day or tomorrow. The canteen con-
Quoted by her was purchased by her
husband, now lieutenant in the navy.
Mrs. Ethel Rumsey, daughter of Oliver
Hartman, helped her conduct it,
When the armistice was signed, Mrs.
Astpr decided she had done her duty
and took passage on the Lorraine
After Mrs. Astor leaves the ship she
will go to her city home, at $40 Fifth
Avenue
New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Epidemic in Guatemala

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Outbreak of
violent epidemic of influenza, with ex-
tremely high fatality rate, was reported
to the State Department to-day from
Guatemala. The report says the epi-
demic is especially prevt lent in the
northern and western mountainous re-
gions of the country.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-09-06
CYRUS
From the Citizen

Cheney" Oscar Thompson is re-
ported to be with the American Ex-
peditionary Forces in Siberia.
In letter written to a Starbuck
friend Ben .Griebenow states that he
is working at his trade Of electri-
clan in France.
There has been some false stories
circulated to the effect that Henry
Snetting had died of wounds received
in action. This is not true. In a.
letter to his sister here he states that
he received but a slight wound over
the ear.
Died, at her home north of town
Mrs. Tone Halvorson, aged 83 years,
6 months and Is days. Impressive
funeral services were held from the
Halvorson home after which all that
was mortal of this grand old mother
in Israel was tenderly conveyed to
the Scandia cemetery, where she now
rests in peace.
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TAPS SOUNDED FOR
ONE MORE MORRIS BOY
Funeral of Lester 7. Schumann Was
Held From Home Last
Sunday


The body Of Lester T. Schumann,
who died at Camp Wadsworth on
Aug. Is, arrived in Morris last Fri
day and the funeral was held here
Sunday. The Knights of Pythias
lodge in Minneapolis, of which Lester
belonged. requested that the body
be allowed to remain in that city for
a short service and this was granted
Services were held at the knights of
Pythias hall on Goth Ave. and the
body then escorted back to the sta
toned. The first part of the X. P.
service was held in Minneapolis and
the members of the X. P. lodge in
Norris took charge of the body on
it's arrival here and completed the
service Sunday. AZ.
The funeral was held in Morris
Sunday afternoon at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. III. Schumann and
members. of the National Guard es-
corted the body to the cemetery,
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where a salute was fired and taps
.ounded. Rev. Wilcox of Morris Off
GATED at the service.
Lester T. Schumann had for sew
,ral years conducted a clothing store
IN Goth Ave. in Minneapolis, being
in partnership with a Mr.. C. P. John
son. During he funeral service in
the city last Thursday every bust
ness place on goth Ave. was closed.
On the 25th Of July he left with other
men from the 18th ward to go to
Camp Wadsworth as a soldier Of his
,ountry. He was. feeling fine until
taken with pneumonia which caused
his death just one month from the
day he left for camp.
The body Of Mr.. Schumann was
escorted from Camp Wadsworth by
Patrick O'Donnell, another young
man who left from Minneapolis at
the same time that Lester did, and
he never left the body until 1t was
safely in the hands Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Schumann of Morris.
Those from a distance who attend
ed the funeral were Walter Sand
berg, C. P. Johnson and DR.. C. l..
Schumann, all of Minneapolis, and
Ralph Schumann, of Neenah, Wis.
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WEST DARNEN

Mrs John Ross arrived home from
Grey Eagle Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bixon and family called
at the Marvin Dripps home Sunday.
Earl Crusen went to the cities Satur-
day night to take in the state fair.
Miss Agnes Holman of Morris was
guest at the John Ross home few
days this week
Miss Myrtle Paulson from east OF
Morris, visited at the Hawk home last
week
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Morarity and son
Charlie spent a few days at Birch Lake
last week.
Mrs. E. M Bowlin was a. Norris Wis
itor last Tuesday.
The wind storm last Tuesday night
blew the new silo on the Casey farm all
to pieces also the machine shed on the
John Ross farm and some grain was
scattered over the fields.
Allen Dripps arrived home from Tyler
Monday evening.
Miss Hazel Witwer of Norris and
Miss Mabel Anderson Of Davenport, Ia,
spent Monday afternoon and evening
at the J. w. Beh1 home.
J. J. Newell, August Huebner, Sr.
Art LePage, Victor Kohl and j. w. Behl
are all putting up new silos.
Miss Mabel Anderson was a Morris
visitor Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Basin and daugh-
ter Emma spent Wednesday afternoon
at the J. w. Behl home.
You'll enioy The RAD son Min
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Fair Food Prices

: Prepared under the direction OF
the United States food administration
for Minnesota, by Mrs. F. A. Han
cock, Chairman of the Fair Food
Price Committee for Morris, showing
average wholesale prices being paid
by local retailers for the staples
named and highest prices which may
be charged to consumers for same.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-09-06
M. E. Church

Morning, 1880, Preaching service.
Sermon by pastor.
11:45, Sunday school, Adult BIZ
BILE classes
Evening, 700, Epworth League
devotional meeting. (League Rally
Day. "Weak Places in Our League
to be Strengthened" to be led by the
cabinet.
500 Evangelical song service with
director. Short sermon by pastor.
Special music in all services.
R. Wesley Wilcox, Minister.
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Pepperton M. E. Church

PeppertOn W. E. Church
Prayer services at 10 a. m.
Sunday school at IL a.. m.
Reports by the Stewards, Mission
airy Society and Sunday school sup
erintendent at z p. m.
Sermon by the Rev. F. e. Hirsch,
Dist. Supt. at p. m. followed by the
sacrament of the Lords supper
Special music. Everybody invited.
w. C. Stegner, Pastor.
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Notice

To the land owners of The Town
of Framnas: You are hereby notified
to cut the weeds along the high ways
adjoining your land before Sept. LIST,
1918.
1895 e. e. Solseth, Town Clerk.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-09-06

FOR SALES Standard Fairbanks
Wagon platform scale, ton capa-
city. Enquire Lampert Lumber Co.,
Morris, Mimi. tt.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-09-06

FOR RENT.-160-acre farm, under
cultivation also 80 acres in pas
ture and meadow; can be taken at
once. Inquire of Mrs. Margaret Igoe
Leary, Morris, 222 Atlantic Ave.
%4 36-38.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-09-06

STOVE FOR Self-feeder
used only four months. Will sell
at half-price for quick sale. e. A.
Nelson, Morris. 1888.