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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
lOWA'S RURALS
in IL MEETINGS

Ames, Jan. 31.-Eleven conferences
and conventions were held today in
connection with the annual winter
short course at Iowa State college,
which is in progress this week.
The various organizations that held
their annual gatherings or special con-
ferences were:
Iowa Agricultural Experiment asso-
citation, Dairy Cattle Breeders section
of Iowa State Dairy association, Iowa
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders association,
Iowa Shorthorn Breeders association.
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers
association, Iowa Forestry and Con-
servation association, Cooperative
Cow Testing association, Rural Life
conference, Farmers banquet, Iowa
Farm Women's association, Parent
Teachers association conference and
Mothers congress.
Routine problems occupied the at
tention of all the organizations al
though many Of the discussions treat.
ed on points occasioned by the parti-
cipatioh of this country in the world
war.
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SPEAKERS TELL
OF WAR STAMPS
CONTINUED From Page ~


chairman of the w. S. S. campaign
told how the total in the selling OF the
twenty-five-cent stamps increases.
Mr.. Miller told a number of inter.
esting stories of how the stamps were
being disposed of in Des Moines and
| talked to the local bankers on the
methods used for the sale. Senator
| S. c. Saunders of Council Bluffs also
spoke.
MEETING THIS EVENING.
! The meetings to be held this eve
ming will be open to every man and
woman in the city.
Mrs. Frances E. Whitley of Webster
City. Iowa chairman of the Women's
Council of National Defense, will
speak at the women's meeting tonight
to be held at the Wapello club. The
speakers that attended the luncheon
this noon will speak this evening at
both meetings. The High School
Bows Glee club will sing
The mems meeting will be held in
the Commercial club at 8 o'clock.
ARE SELLING RAPIDLY.
The war savings and thrift stamps
are selling rapidly in Ottumwa but it
is expected that after today's meet
ings. an added impetus will be given
the work as a campaign will be waged
throughout the city by the Woman's
Bureau of the Commercial club and
sales will be pushed in the postoffice,
banks and several stores.
PosToFFICE SALES $4,000.
About $4,000 worth of War Savings
stamps have been sold by the Ottum-
wa post Office up to date. These
stamps have been disposed Of in vari-
Gus ways. Agencies for their sale
have been established in the Offices
of all express companies in town, and
the Wabash railroad has taken sup
ply to sell to the employees.
Every city and rural carrier has a
number of these stamps with him at
all times The schools of the city
have taken great many and are dis
posing of them to the pupils.
These stamps may be had at either
the general delivery or at the money
, order windows of the post office.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
DANIELS COMMENDS
COOK FOR BRAVERY

Washington, d. c., Jan. .31.-SeCre-
tary Daniels today commended Cook
James Marcio for bravery in rescuing
Chief Quartermaster Robertson,
washed overheard from the y. S. S.
Smith December II, while endeavor-
ing to clear jam in the steering gear
during a heavy gale while the ship
was rolling at SIS degrees. Robertson
became exhausted by the cold and
rough.sea and was unable to help
himself when Marcio tied line to
his waist and jumped into the water
after him. With the assistance Of
Lieut.. Richard L. Connolly the two
men were hauled overheard. Marcio
lives in Philadelphia and Lieutenant
Connolly at Waukegan, ILL.,
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BAKER CANCELS
KIN'SCONTRACT
SEcRETARY's RECORD CLEAR ON
GOVERNMENTS DEAL WITH
AIRCRAFT FIRM.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 31.-Inter
tary Baker, in an airplane plant at
Niles, Ohio, which had government
contracts but lost them, come up to-
day before the state military commit
tee at it's inquiry into the aviation
, service.
Secretary Baker ordered the con
tracts cancelled as soon as he learned
that the aviation service had awarded
them to a concern in which his
brother was interested.
"CosT PLUS" CONTRACT.
Senator Frelinghuysen Of New
Jersey submitted information he had
received that the corporation, the
Engel Aircraft company, of which H.
D. Baker is president, had been over.
capitalized, with 81 1898, 900 Of a $3,00O,.
600 capitalization representing good
will"
Colonel Deds of the aviation service
testified that H. D. Baker conferred
with him last June about securing a
contract but had been "fatly turned
down" because the plant was not
ready to produce. Later Colonel Deeds
said, when the plant was equipped,
contracts were given for airplanes on
a cost plus" basis.
PRESENT WORK Is GOOD.
A. ]. Engel, vice president of the
company, whose original patents was
taken over by the corporation, was an
experienced airplane builder, Colonel
Deeds added, saying, They are doing
a very good class of work now
The profit allowed to the company,
Colonel Deeds said, is the same as
given to other contracts.
NO MONEY ADVANCED.
Chairman Chamberlain asked if the
company had been organized specific.
ally to secure government contracts,
but Colonel Deeds said he thought not
as Engel had been making airplanes
before No money was advanced by
the government.
Senator Frelinghuysen also inquired
regarding the Fowler Airplane com.
pany of California. Colonel Deeds
said its president was an expert await
or and that the company has been
given contracts for fifty training ma.
chimes at s325,000 for the San Diego
aviation school.
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TROOPS WITHHOLD FIRE.
TAssociated Press Summary. |

ASSOCIATED Press summary.
Throughout Germany and especially
N the Industrial sections of the north
the strike movement is spreading and
more than 100000 workmen are re-
ported idle. Strikers and soldiers are
reported to have collided in suburb
Of Berlin and lives were lost. In sew
eral instances the troops are said TO
have refused to fire on the strikers.
Hamburg and Berlin appear to be the
most seriously affected. The workers
in government and private dockyards
at Kiel have joined the movement as
have more workers in the industrial
cities and towns along the Rhine and
in Westphalia, In the important BIT
yarian towns of Nuremberg and Furth
the workmen are out.
voRWAERTS PRINTS DEMAND.
Three important Berlin newspapers,
including the socialist Vorwaerts,
have been suppressed. The head of
the great Krupp works and Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg have appealed
to the workers to stay at their tasks.
the field marshal declaring that
the strikes must cease. Before
its suppression Vorwaerts printed
an ultimatum to the govern
ment in which the workers demanded
Q general peace without annexations,
amelioration of the food situation, the
lessening of military law and the
characterization of state institutions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
CHINA REBELS
HOLD YOCHOW

Picking, Jan. 81. - Yochow, the
strategic key to the upper Yang Use
kiang, has been captured by the
southern revolutionists, according to
a report from Hankow.
1t is believed here that the activity
of the revolutionists brought about
the southern journey of acting Presi-
dent Feng Kwo Chang and that he
will make an effort to effect COM
promise on the basis of reconvening
the old parliament and thus avoid n
declaration of war Feng Kwo Chang
is expected to arrive in Marking to-
day.
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DEPENDENT MOTHER
BIDS HER SON FIGHT

Dubuque, Jan. 3I.-Mrs. Norman
Streeter, old, crippled, penniless,
whose home is dilapidated house
boat on the Mississippi river bank, has
signed the required papers to permit
her second son, who is under age, to
join the army. Her older son is al
ready in the army. She and her aged
husband are dependent on the younger
boys earnings for their living, but on
her sickbed she gladly signed to send
him to fight for America and human
ity. The older son is with the Rain.
bow division in France.
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skEPTlcs IN HOLLAND.

London, Jan. 31.-Among the views
expressed in special dispatches from
Holland in regard to the German
strike Is one that the German govern
ment is exploiting what hardly
amounts to more than a peace time
demonstration with view to produc-
Ing more serious movement in coun-
tries where it apparently believes the
governments are less able than itself
70 control such movements.
; Another correspondent gathers
from the German press that the Ger
man government intends to make the
strike movement a pretext for break
ing off the Brest-Litovsk negotiations
and is ascribing it to the machina-
tons of the bolsheviki with whom,
therefore, it would be impossible to
hold further conferences.
WORkMEN ARE WARMED.
The semi-official Norddeutsche ALL
gemeine Zeitung, commenting on the
political aims of the strike committee.
warns the strikers that they will
achieve nothing by their action in ref
erence to the negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk Instead of furthering the
peace movement, it says, the strikers
will prejudice the negotiations and en-
courage Germany's enemies to resist
her Just claims. The newspaper adds
that the government expects the strik-
ers as the result Of calm consideration
to realize the foolishness Of their atti-
tude and resume work.
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CHICAGO TO HAVE
BIG ARMY STORES

Chicago, Jan. 31.-The largest store
houses of the army are to be located
here. according to military authorities.
Three warehouses with a floor space
of 100000 square feet were opened
yesterday and are being stocked with
army supplies. Other warehouses OF
the same size have been authorized by
General Goethals. They will be built
as soon as material is available. The
warehouses are being located here to
take care of the goods which railroad
conditions prevented from reaching
the east.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01

London, Jan 31.-A bolshevik de
cree establishing an all-Russian col
lesium for guidance in organizing the
"workmen's and peasants red army
Of the Russian councils republic" is
announced in a Russian official wire
less statement received here. The
committee was composed of two
representatives of the war commits
sariat and two representatives of the
general of the red guards.
Another decree assigns 20.000,00C
rubles for the organization of the red
army from the moneys in the wal
funds. The money is to be entrusted
to the collegium and must be re-
turned subsequently,
CLAIM ARMY SUCCESSES.
The Pravda prints rumor that Ru
mania lately has made a separate
agreement with the central powers
and suggests that this may include
compensation for Rumania in Bessa
rabia.
The bolsheviki government, accord.
ing to dispatches from Petrograd. con-
tinues to claim considerable military
success in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
It is announced that after the bolshe-
vik troops captured Bachmatsch sta
ton the officers of the nobility with
drew to Kiev which is surrounded on
all sides. The Ukrainian rada is said
to have lost confidence in the Ukrain-
ian soldiers. Workmen are organic
ing a white guard in the Ukraine I'm.
der Russian and Polish officers who
had been reduced to the ranks in the
Russian army.
cossAcK STRENGTH FAILS.
The capture of the towns of Kertch,
the Odessa and Yalta in the Crimea
is claimed by the bolsheviki. 1t is
said that the cossack General Dutoff
has been defeated and the capture of
Orenburg is imminent. Special dis
patches from Petrograd concur in the
belief that all the cossacks will de-
clare themselves on the side of the
bolsheviki The reports give instance
of growing adhesion and forecast the
downfall of the government OF Cen
eral Kaledines.
BOLsHEvlKI IN CONTROL.
Those opposed to the bolsheviki, &C
cording to the Petrograd correspond.
ent Of the Daily Express. admit a
growing conviction that the bolshe-
Wiki have come to stay eff not per-
nanently at least an inconveniently
long time" He says the bolsheviki
have won the confidence and support
of the people as the provisional gov
eminent never did and have also
struck a popular note on the question
of peace.
Rehabilitation of four more classes
of the army has been ordered by the
All men 81 years Of age
also are to be relieved of army duty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01

ship yard laborers of that city have
uuit work. After the men in the Vul-
ran yards walked out the others struck
yesterday, declaring their solidarity
with the Vulcan workers.
Clergymen vainly exhorted the strlk'
ers in Hamburg yesterday to continue
their work, the Gazette says. me
workers proceeded to the trades union
Headquarters and adopted resolution
opposing the pan-German fatherland
party and demanding immediate peace
without annexations or indemnltlea,
better labor conditions and improve
ment of the food supply.
A deputation waited on the general
In command of the district and said
the strikers would not resort to
violence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
CRAWIS UNDER TRAIN
MINER is BADLY HURT

Charlton, Jan. 3I.-TOm U'COM1eIl,
who is employed at Central Mine No.
1, met with a very serious accident
yesterday morning While going to
his work he crawled under "a train
which was standing on the Rock Is
land tracks to reach the miners train,
when it suddenly started, and he was
caught by brake beam and the
wheels passed ovel>him. His left thigh
was badly crushed and his right thigh
was dislocated. He is reported As
getting along as we'll as could be ex.
pected but his condition is very SER
iods
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Mary Juanita Davidson.

The funeral Of Mary Juanita DAY.
idson, who died Tuesday at st. Jo-
seph's hospital, was held at Sullivans
chapel at II a. m. today, the Rev.
Isaac Williams officiating. Immediate
" after, the remains were taken to
Abba on No. 179 and a service was
held at the Downs funeral parlors
there at p. m. with Mrs. Critchett
in charge. Interment followed in
Oakview cemetery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
NEBRASKA COLD AGAIN.

Omaha. Neb., Jan. 31.-Omaha and
vicinity again are in the grip Of in
tensely cold weather, the thermome-
ter registering % below zero.
Throughout Nebraska the railroads
are having difficulty in keeping their
trains moving.
A heavy snow is general through
the state and is drifted heavily in
places.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
WORKER GOES
TO CAMP LOGAN. TEX.

Orvie e. Johnson. physical director
OF the Y. M. c. A. at Davenport. spent
Wednesday with his mother, Mrs. l. O.
johnson, 256 South Ward street. en-
route to Houston, Texas. Mr.. johnson
has received six months leave of alb
sence from the Davenport "Y" and will
take I'D work at Camp Logan during
that time. His assistant, Louis Wun.
chel accompanied him.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
LIEUTENANTS TO
INSPECT BOARD

L4iea1tenants McFaul and Machtvey
of Camp Dodge are in Ottumwa this
afternoon inspecting tho local exemp-
ton board. The object Of the tnspec-
ton is to see how the local board car
ries on the physical examination and
to give instructions. A meeting Of the
board WAS scheduled to be held with
the officers this afternoon at 4:So
O'Clock
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
Enter, Victory
Cracker, Wheat
Flour Reduced

- INciNNATI, o., Jan. ST.
Acceding to the wishes OF
~ the national food administra-
tor the Biscuit and Cracker
Manufacturers association Of the
United States, at a called meet
ing held here last night, decided
to cut down the use of wheat
flour 80 per cent in the making OF
crackers, commencing February
I, and to advertise wheatIess
cracker to be known as Victory
crackers and a sweet cracker to
be called Liberty cookie.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
LOYAL Firms
WHIP REBELS
MEANWHILE RED GUARD HOLDS
CAPITAL AND ANARCHY
RULES COUNTRY.

Stockholm, Jan. 3O.-(Delayed)-A
is quiet at Helsingfors, dispatch from
that city reports. but fighting is under
way at other points in Finland.
The white guard, which is upholding
the Finnish government, is fighting
with enthusiasm and scoring successes
everywhere, notably at Kemi, Ulea-
borg, Kajanailmola and ST Mihiel,
where the loyatists disarmed the red
guard.
In fighting Tuesday near kamelo
station the red guard lost 81 killed and
127 injured, while the white guard only
lost killed and wounded
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
MILWAUKEE DEFsRs DIVIDEND.

New York, Jan. 31.--Directors Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST Paul rail-
way deferred action today at their
meeting here on the matter of declar-
ing semiannual dividends due about
this time on the common and preferred
stocks. 1t was explained that action
mad been deferred for an indefinite
period.
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Obituary
dn. Johannah Charlotte paIin.

Mrs Johannah Charlotte Dalin,
aged Y, died this morning at o'clock
at Ottumwa hospital.
Funeral services will be hello Satur-
day afternoon at 2 O'Clock from the
residence of her son, Carl Dalin, 2o2
North Ward street, and at 2:30 from
the First Lutheran church, conducted
by Rev. p. o. Bersell, pastor OF the
First Lutheran church. IntermeNt
will be in Ottumwa cemetery.
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CRISIS BELIEVED NEAR.

London, Jan. 31.-No one has been
permitted to cross the Swiss frontier
from Germany since Tuesday morn.
ing, according to the Daily News cor
respondent at Geneva. Private reports
received in Switzerland represent the
strike situation as having taken a ser
ious turn late Tuesday night The re-
fusal of Herr Walraff, minister of the
interior, to confer with the strike lead.
ers, ist~said to have Infatuated the
strikers.
Opinion in Geneva, the correspon.
dent says, is that the strike movement
will reach crisis soon. 1t is
eelt that the movement either
will collapse or take turn which may
force the German government to its
knees.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
Card Of Thanks.

We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and SYM
patty shown us in our recent bereave-
ment, the death Of our beloved hus-
band and father We also wish to
thank the I. o. o. F., the A. o. u. w.
and local No. 1885
Mrs. Acy Long and family.
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Edith Marion Wilson.

Edith Marion Wilson, age II. died az
o'clock this morning. at the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William T.
Wilson, 2.1 East Pennsylvania avenue.
She leaves her father and mother and
one brother Billy Wilson.
The funeral will be held Sunday at :
p. m. at the residence. conducted BY Dr..
T.. f. Day. The pail bearers will be
Walter McElroy, Carl Haw, Guy Reid.
Carl Rauscher. Lester Hardsocg. DIR.
w. C. Boone and Roy Stevens. Burial
will take place in Ottumwa cemetery.
Eta Robb.
Eta Robb died last night at the coun :
ty home. A private funeral was held
there this afternoon, and interment
followed in the county home cemetery.
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BOSTON FEELS CHILL.

Boston, Mass, Jan. 31.-With the
mercury lowering between 10 to II
degrees above zero and a cold wind
sweeping in from the northwest. Bos.
ton went to.wcrk today in buildings
inadeduately heated because of tho
fuel shortage which had shut off de-
liveries to more than 100 places
where thousands of men and women
work. Meanwhile the local fuel ad-
ministration made frantic efforts to
learn from railroad officials how soon
coal shipments might be expected
here for weather outside had delayed
tugs proceeding to this port with a
score of coal laden barges.
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COAL FAMINE iMPENpS.

Washington. D. G., Jan. 3l.-A fuel
famine in large sections of the east is
imminent today unless the railroad
administration can find way to speed
up coal movements despite snow and
ice storms which continue to hamper
traffic
Forecasts gave little basis for hope
as snow is promised in most sections
east of the Mississippi and there are
indications that many industrial
plants in New England, parts Of Penn
sylvania and the Atlantic seaboard
districts may be forced to close for
lack Of fuel.
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Mrs J.. N. kjttermay

The funeral of Mrs. J. N. Kitterman
was held at the E. c. Kitterman home.
northeast Of the city, at l o'clock to-
day. Burial followed in the Hitter
man cemetery.
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NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED.

London. Jan. 31-Only a few telc-
grams have arrived in Copenhagen
from Germany an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from the Danish cap
ital says, and news is scarce owing to
the fact that most of the important
Berlin newspapers have not been pub
lished.
The military authorities in the Ber-
lin district, according to the Berlin
correspondent of the Copenhagen Pc
litiken, have prohibited all meetings
convened to discuss public questions
as well as workmen's demands and
demonstrations.
KEEL WORKERS QUIT.
Fifty thousand workment have quit
work at Kiel. The strike is now gen
eral in the Chemitz district, which is
the most important industrial section
in Saxony. Field Marshal Won linden
burg's proclamation appealing to the
workers to stop striking appeared on
all street corners of Berlin yesterday.
The Germania of Berlin says that
Herr Walraf, minister of the interior,
still refuses to meet delegates Of the
workmen and the strike continues to
grow.
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BOLSHEVIKI
TIGHTEN GRIP
COLLEGIUM Az
THORIZED TO ORGANIZE
RED ARMY.

Petrograd, Jan. 31.-An Official
statement issued today by the
boIshevik government says that
"the new workmen's and peas
ants red army will serve to sup
port the coming social revolution
in Europe"
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: BIRTH NOTICE

BORN-Thursday, January 81. 1918, 70
Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Brooks, 537
Minnesota street, a daughter.