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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
COLUMBIA FLOATS TO PEKIN
Excursion Boat on Which IS Persons
Lost Lives Rises to Surface While
Workers Are on Board.

Peoria, Ill.,, July 13.-Llke some
ghost craft come to strike fear with
it's hoary outlines, the steamer Co
lulnbia, which crumpled up in the Hi
nois river last Saturday with more
than 600 persons aboard, rose abrupt
ly out of it's grave Thursday after
noon and fioated almost to the water
front of Pekin, So of whose citizens
lost their lives in the wreck. When
finally the wreck stopped and was
boarded by rescue workers two more
bodies were recovered. Coroner Clary
and Sheriff Wilson, together with 10
or more workers, were aboard the Co
lumbia when it suddenly popped to the
surface There was hasty scramble
to quit the vessel and all reached small
boats in safety.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
U. S. OBSERVES BASTlLE DAY
Chicago-General Foch Sends
Message.

New York, July 16.-A monster
demonstration by vast audience in
Madison Square garden on Sunday was
the eliminating event of the days
celebration here of Frances national
holiday, commemorative the fall of the
Bastile.
General Foch's message read as fol
lows:
''We are celebrating today the an
niyersary of Our independence and we
are fighting for that of the whole
world. After four years of struggle
are stopped. He sees the number of
his adverSaries increase each day and
the young American army bring into
the battle a vaor and faith with
out equal. Is not this a sure pledge
of the definite triumph of just
cause?"
Chicago, July 16.-The fall of the
Bastile echoed through Chicago on
Sunday. Its echoes rolled generously
through sermons. They mingled with
the thunder of salutes from warships.
They lowered amid the drum beats of
ia Marseillaise," as the tricolor crept
aloft in Grant park before the eyes of
10000
With the American Forces in France,
July 16.-On all the American fronts
in France United States soldiers Sun
day joined their French comrades in
enthusiastically celebrating the French
fete.
dent Poincare. who was accompanied
by Gen. John J. Pershing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
BAGGED 4,1O2 HUN PLANES
British Give Enemy's Air Losses Dur
ing Year Ending July 1-Engiand
Lost 1927 Machines.

London, July 15.-British airmen
brought down 4,102 hostile machines
during the year ending July 1, the Brit
ish press bureau announced on SAT-
urday. During the same period the
British lost 1121 planes.
The bureau declared that British
aerial superiority is continually grow
inc and that the American output will
give the allies a very great adyan-
tage."
During the year ending July Brit
ish airmen on the west front destroyed
2,15O hostile airplanes and drove down
1883 out of control" the statement
said
IN the same period naval aviators,
cooperating, shot down 623. The total
of ours missing was 1,121.
"On the Italian front, during the last
quarter, the British destroyed 100 en-
envy planes ard drove down six out of
control; on the Saloniki front, in the
last half year, we destroyed p and
drove down 10; in Egypt and Palestine,
from March to June, we destroyed 26
and drove down 15.'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23

plant to the sheriff or chief of police
or any officer, charging them With va
grancy. If the vagrancy laws are not
being strictly and unrelentingly en-
forced in your community, yours is
one of the very few places II the Unit
ed States where those laws are not be-
ing enforced. You can help to see
they are enforced. You can see that
loafers in your section get Job or go
to Jail. Every loafer put to work re-
leases man who may help on the
farm.
Farmers need hands. Soldiers must
have food. Farmers can't produce
food unless they have help. The loaf
er is aiding the enemy whether he
means to do so or not. The man so
dead of spirit as not to realize his pa
triotic obligation must be forced to
see it. Give the loafers of your town
a Observation-Disclosures under
standing of their alternatives. This
is no time for word mincing or baby
talk.
Make him go to work or go to Jail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
BIG ROUNDUP NETS 5000
Hundreds Seized at Cub Baseball
Park in Chcaeo-Movies and BIZ.
lard Halls Combed for Men.

Chicago, July 13.-More than 5000
men of draft age were seized on Thurs
day as suspects by agents of the. de-
partment of justice in the greatest
roundup of slackers in the city's his
tory. The drive was prosecuted by
federal operatives and the police, The
scene of the first raid was the Cubs
baseball park.
Hundreds who could not produce
registration cards were rushed to near
by police stations.
Meanwhile other details of police
and secret service men entered no.
tells, barber shops, saloons, motion pic
ture houses-every place, in fact,
where men of draft age might be
found-while the streets similarly
were combed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
US. TROOPS help
BRITISH IN RUSSIA
Allies Occupy Whole of Thurman
Coast-BoIsheviki Officials
Flee.
RUSSIANS ORDER ALLIES OUT
Foreign Minister in Moscow Demands
'na' English Withdraw Army
without 0elay-czecho-S lo-
wax Soldiers Take Kazan.

LONDON, July 17.-American and
British troops have occupied the whole
o. the Thurman coast. in northern Rus
sia' says dispatch received Monday
from Moscow to the Central News
agency by way of Amsterdam.
After capturing KEN, a railroad sta
ton on the White sea coast, the dis
patch adds, the American and British
forces advanced toward Toroki. the
russian boishevik authorities having
Withdrawn TO Nirok.
The commanders of the entente al
lied forces have issued an appeal to
the population on the Thurman coast
requesting help against Germany and
Finland. 1t is declared that the Muir
man coast is Russian territory under
the protection of the entente powers.
Meanwhile the Germans are making
desperate attempt to control the
Thurman coast They need the har-
bors for submarine bases now that
Zeebrugge has been closed and Ostend
rendered of little value, while the Brit
ish mine fields make 1t ever more diff
ticult for their submarines to reach
the Atlantic.
The total German force in Russia is
81 German and 10 Austrian divisions,
composed mainly of old and inferior
men.
M. Tchitcherin. the Russian foreign
minister, has addressed q note to
Great Britain. demanding that the
British detachments now on the MUIR
man coast be re-embarked without de-
lay.
Czecho-Slovak troops have captured
the city of Kazan, 430 miles east of
Moscow, an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Copenhagen says it is re-
ported from Moscow. The city was
taken after the bolsheviH had put up
violent resistance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
STAMPS FOR FAIR PREMIUMS
Bureau of Agriculture of Lake Charles,
Louisiana, Makes Splendid
Recommendations.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Why not give War Savings stamps
to prize winners at agricultural fairs?
The bureau of agriculture of the
Lake Charles Uouisiana) chamber Of
commerce has suggested that FL pre-
miums given by state, county and other
fairs this year be paid in War Savings
stamps. resolution expressing that
proposal was recently adopted by this
bureau of agriculture ant is being
sent to all federal and state officials
interested and to the proper represent
atives of fair associations in every
part of the country. The idea is meet
ing with hearty approval.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
J. o.laKES over
ALL WIRE LINES
Senate Adopts Measure Giving
President Control of Tele-
graph and ! telephone.
VOTE ON BILL, 46 TO IS
Attempts Made to Except Phones and
Press Lines Defeated-Senate
to Meet Mondays and
Thursdays.

Washington, July 16.-By vote of
rs to 16. the senate Saturday night
accepted the resolution. already passed
by the house, empowering the presi-
dent to take over the telegraph and
telephone wires.
All attempts TO limit the power of
the president were defeated and the
bill passed in the form demanded by
Mr.. Wilson and his cabinet.
The senate entered into unanimous
consent agreement to recess three days
at time until August 90 and during
that time to transact nothing but rou-
tine morning business.
Senator Watson of Indiana proposed
an amendment to exempt telephone
wires from public control. The amend
ment was rejected by vote of Al to
20. Another amendment by Senator
Watson to exempt press wires was
voted down, 80 to 81.
The resolution follows:
Resolved, That the president dur
Ing the continuance of the present
war, is authorized and empowered,
whenever he shall deem it neces-
sary for the national security or de-
tense, to supervise or to take posses
sion and assume control of any tele-
graph, telephone. marine cable or ra-
dlo system or systems. or any part
thereof. and to operate the same in
such manner as may be needfu or de-
CT Ahn - ~,
which supervision, possession, control,
or operation shall not extend beyond
the date of the proclamation by the
president of the exchange of ratifca-
" tons of the treaty of peace.
Provided, That just compensation
shall be made for such supervision.
possession, control or operation. to be
determined by the president; and if
the amount thereof, so determined by
the president, is unsatisfactory to the
such person shall be paid 70 per cent
of the amount so determined by the
president and shall be entitled to sue
the United States to recover such fur
ther sum as, added to said 70 per cent
viii make up such amount as will be
just compensation therefor, in the
manner provided for by section TWEEN
ty-four, paragraph twenty, and section
one hundred and forty-fve of the judi
cial code.
Provided further. That nothing in
this act shall be construed to amend
repeal, impair, or affect existing laws
Z or powers of the states in relation to
taxation or the lawful police regHla-
ton of the several states except
wherein such laws, powers or regula-
tions may affect the transmission of
government communications or the use
of stocks and bondss by such system
or systems"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
IDLER MUST WORK OR FIGHT
Every Loafer Put TO Work Releases
Man Who May Help on Farm
Farmer Needs Help.

prepared By the United States Depart
me1t of Agriculture)
Work or tight!
The government makes that man.
datory upon every man within the
draft age.
Self-respect makes 1t mandatory up
on every man of every age.
II, perchance, there are any idlers
and loafers continuing to lead lives of
useIessness in your town despite war
needs for man power, you can do a
great deal to cause them to change
their course. You can make a COM
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
$50 BATTLEPLANES SHIPPED
Deliveries of New Liberty Motors Up
to July Are asia, Says
Baker.

Washington July 17.-Four hundred
and fifty American-built battleplanes
have been sent abroad or delivered at
ports for shipment on July 5, the date
of the latest complete official report
reaching the war department. In an
nouncing this figure on Monday, Sec
rotary Baker disclosed also that de-
Iiveries of Liberty motors of all classes
on the same date had reached 2,514.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
M'ADoo STOPS SPECULATION
American Secretary of, the Treasury
Takes Steps to Prevent Gam
bling in Exchange.

Rome, July IA note issued by
the semioflicial Stefani agency says
that William G. McAdoo, American
secretary of The treasury, has advised
the Italian ministry of finance that
measures have been taken to prevent
speculation in italian exchange in the
United States. All matters concern
ing Italian purchases in America also
have been settled for long period.
Credits will be opened in the United
States. with the object of absorbing
offers of Italian lire there in accord
ance with rules reached by common
agreement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
uouse Adiourns TIL AUGUST 10

Washington. July fT.-Following
the leadsof the senate the house reach
ed a unanimous consent agreement
10 adjourn in series of three-day
recesses until August 10. The agree
ment was presented in formal form
by Majority Leader Claude Kitchin
and was not finally passed upon until
IN hour had been consumed in debate.
The agreement provides that the
house shall meet Mondays and Thurs
days and shall adjourn Immediately
after the prayer and the reading of
the journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
10000 AUsTRlANS DESERT
Hun Soldiers Flee Inland After the
Piave Disaster-3,ooo Arrested
in Budapest.

London. July 16.-Forty thousand
deserters from the Austrian army fled
inland after the Pave disaster, the
Zurich correspondent of the Daily
News has learned from neutral sources
he declared in dispatch. Some of
these are armed and are hiding in the
mountains. Three thousand deserters
were arrested in Budapest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Exchange 100000 captives.

Berne. July I5.-More than 100000
invalid and sick prisoners of war Of
different nationalities have been ex-
changed and repatriated through Swift
zerland since the beginning of the war,
according to official statistics.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
CITIES MUST HELP

prepared by the United States
Department of Agriculture)
In any American city it may
come to pass that men who know
how to chop wood or pick cotton
or harvest wheat will have to
close their offices and stores dur
ing the periods of seasonal strain
and come out and help the farm
ers. All the ether countries at
war have done that and we must
do it if the need appears.-Clar-
ence Ousley, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Edison. Jr.. Joins Tank Forces,

Morristown. \. j.. July 13.-WiIIiam
l.. Edison. son of Thomas A. Edison.
the inventor. and honorary chairman
OF the nav.7 consulting board. enlisted
in a tank division of the United States
army and LEFT for Fort Siocum.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Iowa U. commandant Dies.

Cedar Rapids, Ia, July 17.-Capt.
Andrew C. Wright, commandant at
Iowa university, is dead at Iowa City,
according to dispatch received by
the Evening Gazette. He was a re-
tired army officer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23

Complaint Is made that the United
States missed a great opportunity In
Russia, and this is followed by a state
ment that this country ought to have
exerted a sufficient amount of infiu-
ence in Russia to have prevented that
great country from deserving the allies.
German propaganda has heretofore
been credited with having turned the
scale in Russia. But now comes a
story to the effect that Kaiser Bill
and Emperor Charles have been send
ing vast quantities of liquor to Russia
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23

tnat the sugar Of the beetroot. upon
which the substitute depends for alco-
MOL cannot be spared for beer. Beets.
ne says, are badly needed for manufac-
ture OF sugar, dilution of jam and max.
ing OF coffee substitutes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Street Car Men Get Raise.

Washington. July 13.-Forty per
sent increases in the pay of erect
-ar conductors ana motcrmen All o1er
the nation will be recommended by
the war labor board. Many cities n.a
raise the fare to six cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Air instructor KILLED

Belleville, H.. July 13.-Lieut. Lee
c. Giddings of Duluth, Mimi. an in
structor, was killed and Cadet Ed
ward c. Darlington of Washington. d.
c.. was severely injured when an air
plane dropped 500 feet at Scott field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
HAITI JOINS WAR ON HUNS
Declaration Is Voted Unanimously by
the Council of State, Says
a Dispatch

Port an Prince, Haiti, July 1.-THE
council of state, acting iN accordance
with the legislative powers given it
under the new Haitian constitution.
has unanimously voted the declaration
of war upon Germany demanded by
the president of the republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Iurk capital Bombed.

London, July 15.-Air force contin-
gents acting with the British navy
dropped half-ton of bombs upon the
city of Constantinople on July Z. it was
announced by the admiralty on Fri
day afternoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Want Huns Interned.

London. July 16.-Demanding a
"clean sweep" in interning enemy
aliens, London citizens on Saturday
staged the biggest demonstration in
Trafalgar square since the beginning
of the war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
can,t Sven Have nNear.Reer.r

Germany's brewers hoped this year
% produce a beer substitute that
should really resemble beer. but the
russian minister OF finance has is
sued decree that puts an end to the
iream Of the foaming stein.
A new process has been patented
= which near-beer was to be made
from beetroot. hops. yeast and wa
.er. Many breweries had already In
stalled machinery required under the
patent.
Nae minister OF finance has decided
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Six Killed in Ran I.rs N.

Louisa, Ky. July I7.@-Siy men were
killed and IA Injured, some seriously.
on Monday whoa a locomotive crashed
into three motorcars carrying laborers
on the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23

and IL was the booze" that turned the
trick in that country.
AS to propaganda. it Is very doubt
full whether the United States could
have done anything since our entry in
to the war to prevent the catastrophe
in Russia. Before that time our neu-
trality would have made it impossible
for US to use propaganda for or against
Germany. 1t should also be remem-
bered that the Germans have been US
ing the propaganda In Russia for
dozen years for the very purpose of ac-
conrplishing the results that have been
so favorable to the Germans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Ehectixs Funnicide.

Lime-sulphur solution at dormant
spray strength Is an effective fungi
eide, and subsequent sprayings with
the summer strength of one and one
half gallons to fifty gallons Of water
will aid in the con.rol of several de-
structive fungus diseases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
cubans Save Yank officers.

Havana, July 15.-At the mercy Of a
heavy sea. the engine of their motor
boat having failed three miles off shore
near Santiago, two American army Of
ficers were rescued by the crew of a
launch OF Cuban gunboat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Oil Cleans Wood.

A small quantity of olive oil applied
to a wet cloth from which most of the
water has been wrung furnishes an ex-
eeIlent cleanser for fine wood The sur
face of the furniture should be rubbed
with the cloth and then dried thorough
" with soft, dry rag.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Italy Reduces Generals.

Rome. July ia military bulletin
DEGREES the retirement, with loss of
rank and pay. % Generals Cadorna,
Parro and Capello. General Diaz has
been decorated with the grand Gordon
Of the Military Order of Savoy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
% 500 Work at Hoo Island

Philadelphia, July 10 Rapid prog
ress is being made toward the compile
ton of the Hog island shipyards. Thir-
ty-fiye keels have been laid and the
number of workers at the yards has
reached $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
White Soldier Is HANGED

Waco. Tex, July 13.-Nat Hoffman.
aged twenty-five, a white soldier, was
hanged at Camp Macarthur. He was
convicted of attacking a schoolgirl
last April. The court-martial sentence
was affirmed by Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
concrete Boat Is ;sunched

Pittsburgh. Pa, July 16.-With pomp
and ceremony as though it were a bat
tleship of the line. the Concrete, the
first motor propelled concrete boat
ever constructed, was launched in the
Monongahela river Saturday afternoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Soldiers in Camps Healthy.

washington. July 13.-The weekly
army health report issued here IN
Thursday says health conditions ar
home camps continue very gatisfac-
tory. Deaths this week we're 112;
Last week. 81.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23

Paris. July 15.-Russian railway men
are on strike in several districts, ac-
cording to Zurich dispatch. quoting
he Leipzig Neueste Nachrichten. The
strike threatens 20 become general. the
newspaper reports
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
kuehlmann asick Of II ALL

Amsterdam. July 15.-Dr Richard
KGehlmana will go to Switzerland for
a long vacation. a Berlin dispatch
states. Il will be glad to get bit Of
fresh air" he was quoted as saying TO
friend Il am sick of it ALL"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Huns Kill give Relaians.

Amsterdam, July 16.-Five Belgian
peasants were killed and 10 were in
iured by German soldiers during
riot in the city market at Brussels
The trouble resulted from German of
ticers requisitioning vegetables.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
COmDanN.

Said the cynical one: "a man is
known by the company he keeps,
usually despised by the company his
wife keeps for a few weeks during the
summer, and feared by the company
daughter keeps three evenings a week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
U. S. Orders FIFTY More Ships.

Washington. July 17.-Contracts for
80 additional steel cargo ships have
been let by the shipping board to Jap
anese yards. Contracts also have been
let for building 20 transports to the
Bethlehem corporation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Illinois Elxer & kiIled.

Buffalo, N. Y, July Nv. A. Hale
of Quincy. ILL.,. an aviator, was killed
by the fall of an airplane at Curtiss
field. Homer V. Sharp, enlisted in
Washington, bat whose home is at Fort
Worth, Tex. was injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Tell of Sin Losses.

Italian Army Headquarters. July H.
Evidence obtained iron. Austrian
prisoners indicates that the AAstro-
Hungarian losses during the rcceEI Of
fensive were in the nelgLberisood OF
25O,Uo5
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Berlin Tells of Air Victories.

Berlin, July 16.-An official stare
ment says: During June, 46S hostile
airplanes and g. balloons were shot
down. TIVE hundred and seventeen of
the former are in our possession. We
lost 155 airpIanes and 81 balloons"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Substitute for Platinum.

A gold palladium alloy which makes
an acceptable substitute for the more
expensive platinum iridium alloy used
in chemists utensils has been devel-
0ped By metallurgists in California.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
DENY Aid to Mooney.

San Francisco, July IA petition
for a writ of probable cause. designed
to keep Thomas J. Mooney out of
the penitentiary until his case could be
acted on by Governor Stephens, was
denied by the supreme court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Launch Six Ships in Day.

Portland, Ore, July 16.-A worlds
record for the number of large ships
launched at any one time was estab-
lished here when the g. M. Standifer
Construction corporation sent six
wooden hullS into the water.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
umher Director Chosen.

Washington. July i'll. III. Kirby of
Houston, KY. has been appointed lum-
Der administrator of the Emergency
Fleet corporation, to administer all
activities of the shipbuilding program
connected with lumber.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Soil for Navy Beans.

Ground for navy beans should be
pIowed and narrowed several fines
until the soil Is pulverized as fox a
garden.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-23
Jap Invents Novel sDrInkI.,

A japanese Is the inventor of a
street sprinkler that distributes water
so as to form advertisements on
smooth pavements.