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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
ANOTHER UNIVERSITY
MAN KILLED IN ACTION

+ WASHINGTON-The list of !
+ casualties for yesterday contains 1
+ the name of Lieutenant John 1
+ Webster Rhoads, of Payette, 1
+ Idaho, killed in action. 1
+ The above brief telegram to 1
+ The Star-Mirror tells of the j
+ death Of another University of I
+ Idaho man who has made the !
+ supreme sacrifice and given his 1
+ life for his country. webster" 1
+ Rhoads, as he was known here, +
+ attended the university in 1915 +
+ 1916. He took civil engineering. t
+ He had many friends in Moscow +
+ and in university circles, to +
+ whom his death will be a great +
+ shock. Nothing is known here +
+ about his parents or other rel +
+ atives. He was only in the uni +
+ versity a short time, but made +
+ himself generally popular while I
+ here. There have been more +
+ University of Idaho men killed +
+ during the present war than +
+ men from any other educational !
+ institution in the northwest. +
+ 1. I. + + + + i + + + + I. + !.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13

artillery
|
Among prisoners prisoners poorly
to sting
in
the prisoners He
said this is quite the German
Yesterdays Fighting Success for the French
PARIsThere yesterday
general situation Germans fighting result
but did the French distinct other
in
elent
the by which
the days operations for they stopped the German efforts south the Ane
been successful in the last two fighting
ExceIH In USE of Gas
in warfare
Allies effect
America Radio Trenches
of yesterday
German trenches Sunday patrol in which
killed returned without casualties
Appalled, Losses
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE-By Associated Press)
An entire division of the famous jaeger cut to pieces Ronssur
while guards division effecves
divisions,
attack and the advance to the valleys all the which
stricken at of his
will
they
a
Finally the striking
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13

Germans back
repulsed positions and the
Germans
positions whihthey
artillery
he army
Taken whole situation
believed that the German about
learned that paid
value and that they Paris without sacrificing
Following telegraphc
Freach Hur BackTh Germans
hardan
blow against the German which had
the
in
north bank of the
Violent combats continue between
the east Of this
between Bouresches Beleau
artillery rifle
retired Americans possession
the during
hold in the Occur Vres and ST. Fierre-Aigle sectors
American Casualty List Is Heavy
list of seriously wounded is the largest yet reported There are 1SS names
killed died of disease 1877
wounded wounded slightly undetermined
missing action and have been taken prisoner
British and French Improve Positions
their distance
in
positions
Rdgewood in both operations
Many Prisoners
American the fighting
which clearing
Germans Had BeenW Warned
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
Ed, HOFSTEDE IS
AGAIN CONVICTED
NOTORIOUS ATTORNEY SYMPA.
THIZER WITH 1. w. w. GETS
THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL

Attorney C. F. Hofstede, who was
arrested when practicing law at Oro-
fino and convicted in the federal court
at Moscow on the charge of encour-
aging young men not to register under
the conscription act, and who served
a term in Jail for the offense, is in
trouble again. The Spokane Chronicle
conveys the information in the fol-
lowing article published Tuesday:
Edward Hofstede, an attorney,
John Grady, alias Bert Carroll, a
Hillyard switchman, and John West
fall, a woodsman, who have been on
trial much of the time for the last
week before the police court on the
charges of violating the city's new
syndicalism ordinance, were found
guilty by Police Judge Witt shortly
before noon today.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
MOSCOW WOMEN SEWING FOR
BELGIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN

A number of Moscow women living
in the vicinity of the Idaho hotel,
meet, whenever possible, and sew for
the Belgian refugee children. Yes
terday afternoon eight of them met
in the parlor of the Idaho hotel and
made number of garments. Hoover
lied refreshments were served by
Mrs. Simonson, of the hotel. These
women are doing splendid work and
accomplishing much for the suffering
Of the outraged kingdom.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13

each was sentenced to serve sc
days in jail and fined $100 and costs.
All gave notice of appeal to the ssu-
perior court. Their appeal bonds
were fixed at 5000 cash in each case,
and it was announced that sufficient
funds were available, in the event that
a $50 Liberty bond was accepted as
cash, to secure the release of Hofstede
and Grady.
"This ends the trial Of prisoners
taken by the police a-month or so ago
in the second raid upon local I. w. w.
headquarters. Hofstede and Grady
were taken at the st. Regis hotel and
Westfall is declared to have been
working with them.
"It has been maintained by Hof-
stede and Grady throughout the trial
that they were concerned only in work
for the defense Of members of the
I. w. W. in Jail and had nothing to
do with the general I. w. w. move
ment.
"Hofstede declared he was person
ally the defense counsel and was sole
ly answerable for it's activities; that
Grady had simply assisted him in Sc
curing defense fund donations, and
that Westfall had nothing to do,
either with the defense committees
work or of the l. w. W."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-06-13
DELIVER BUT ONCE
A DAY IN MOSCOW
G.. E. SMITH A N N OU N c. E S
CHANGE OF DELIVERY SYS-
TEN HERE JUNE "a

The government has requested
through H. D. Martin, Latah county
food administrator, that the mer-
chants make but one delivery a day
to any house. l will state that on and
after June "a I will make only one
delivery per day as follows, using.
Jefferson as the dividing line and in
cluding both sides of said street and
what few houses there are on Jeffer-
son and Adams below c street and
west to the city limits will get their
delivery commencing at 800 in the
morning. All people east of Wash
ington street, not including Washing
ton, will get their delivery COM
mencing at 200 in the afternoon.
G.. E. SMITH.
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board side, which was unusual. But
1 did not think anything of it until /
came over the side. There were the
side boys lined up, and the Old Man
was there, with the ships steward
beside him.
He took the log book from the stew
ard and showed it tC me, and there
was my name on it. Now when you
are punished for anything you are
logged, but I could not figure out what
l had done to get punished for, so /
was very much surprised. But the
Old Man slapped me on the back and
everybody cheered, and then 1 saw it
was not punishment, but just the op-
poSite.
When people ask me what / have
received my decoration for (Croix de
Guerre), 1 tell them ! do not rightly
know, and that is a fact. 1 do not
know whether it was for going back
from those trenches or for destroying
the storehouses. So always tell them
l got it for working overtime. That
is what the Limeys say, or. if they
have the Victoria cross they say they
got it for being very careless. ASK
one of them and see.
All of us were certainly glad to be
aboard the Cassard again, and if any
place ever looked like home to me it
was the old ship. Our casualties were
very high and we were therefore Or
dered to put back to Brest. We had
a great little celebration that night,
and next morning weighed anchor and
started back, after clearing for action.
I was still pretty blue about Muir
ray but very much relieved as to the
safety of my own skin, and / figured
that after the Dardanelles and my last
day there they had not made the right
bullet for me yet. The rest of us felt
about the same way and we were sing
ing all the time.
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officer had said and / figured would

officer had said and I figured would
have to go back and stay with them
or bring them back. Either way there
was not one chance in a hundred that
any of us would make it. Because
when 1 got through it was really just
a miracle and nobody would have
thought it could happen.
Then the officer told me to go back
to the beach, where our naval guns
were, and that was detailed to them.
Maybe you do not think was glad?
But there was rough work still ahead
of me, because when l got behind the
third line saw a wide open field that
was light gray from the shell smoke
hanging over it, and / could see the
flashes where the big ones were doing
their work, and I had to go through
that field.
1 fell time and again, sometimes
when l thought shell was near, and
sometimes when I had no reason for
it-only I was thirsty again, and was
shivering all the time, and was so
weak I could not have choked a gold
fish. / do not remember hardly any
thing about going through that field,
and you might say the next thing l
knew was when I was overtaken by
a dispatch runner, and got in a tin
tub at the side of motorcycle and
was taken to the guns.
1 felt ready for a Rip Van Winkle
nap then, but the officer in command
would not let me. He said they were
short of gunners-the terrific Shelling
had killed off dozens of them-and as
he knew I could point gun he had
ordered them over the telephone to
get me to the beach as fast as possi-
BILE. He spotted the two warehouses
I have spoken of for me and said it
was up to us to put them out of com
mission. The gun was a 14-inch naval,
and that looked good to me, so 1
bucked up a lot The warehouses were
about 10 or IL miles away, / should
judge, and about 80 or 40 yards apart.
1 felt very weak, as I have said,
and shivered every once in a while,
so I did not think I could do much
cunning worth whistling at. But they
loaded the old 14-inch and made ready,
and we got the range and all was set.
The officer told me to let her ride.
SO I said to myself, "This is one for
you, Murray, old boy. Let's go from
here,
So I sent that one along and she
landed direct and the warehouse went
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CHAPTER XIV.
Je Suis BIesse.

AS usual, when we got to Brest there
was rush work day and night on the
Cassard to get her out and supplies of
all kinds were loaded for our next
visit to the Turks. The French gar
bies were always keen for the trip
back to Brest-they were sure of load
ing up on tobacco and other things
they needed.
My twelfth trip to the Dardanelles
was different from the others. The
Cassard was doing patrol work at the
slime in the neighborhood of Cape
Helles. Those of us who had served
on the Peninsula before were thank
ing our stars for the snap we were
having-just cruising around waiting
for something to happen.
We had not been there very long be-
fore something unexpected did happen,
for we ran into two enemy cruisers
which I afterwards heard were the
VERT and Kaiserliche Marine-one ON
the Starboard and one on the port
How they had managed to sneak up
SO near us I do not know. They
opened up on us at not much more
than a thousand yards and gave us a
hot time from the start, though with
any kind of gunnery they should have
done for us thoroughly.
We came right back at them and
were getting in some pretty good shots.
l was in the 14-inch gun turret, star
board bOW-my old hangout-and we
were letting them have it about four
shots every five minutes and scoring
heavily.
do not know how long we had been
fighting when part of our range finder
was carried away. 1t was so hot,
though, and we were so hard at it that
such little thing like that did not
bother us. 1t is hot in any gun turret,
but l have always noticed that it is
hotter there in the Dardanelles' than
in any other place. The sweat would
simply cake up on us, until our faces
were just covered with film of pow
derry stuff.
But the range finder was carried
away, and although it looked bad for
us [ was feeling so good that l vol
unteered to go on deck and get an
other one. 1 got outside the turret
door and across the deck, got the nee
eSsary parts and was coming back
with them when I received two ma
chine-gun bullets in the right thigh.
One went clear through bone and all
and drilled a hole on the other side,
while the other came within an inch
of going through. The peculiar thing
is that these two were in line above
the wound got at Dixmude. The line
is almost as straight as you could
draw ii with a ruler.
OF course it knocked me down and
hit my head a pretty hard crack on
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21
ra,ding parties and small attacks from

raiding parties and small attacks from
enemy trenches.
We had no sooner got used to the
she'll hole and were making ourselves
as comfortable as possible in it when
along came shell of what must have
been the Jack Johnson size, and we
were swamped. We had to dig three
Of the men out, and though one of
them was badly wounded we could not
send him back to the hospital. In
fact, the shelling was so heavy sthat
none Of us ever expected to come out
of it alive.
So, it was like keeping your own
death watch, with the shells tuning
up for the dirge. 1t was impossible to
listen to the shells. If you kept your
mind on the noise for any length Of
time it would split your eardrums, I
am sure. So all we could do was to
lay low in the shell hole and wait for
something to happen.
Then they began using shrapnel on
us, and one of our machine gunners,
who got up from his knees to change
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

up in fire and smoke. I felt good then,
and laid the wires on the other ware
house and let her go. But she was too
high and / made a clean miss. Then
/ was mad, because | had sent that
one over for myself. So 1 got the cross
wires on the warehouse again and,
I said to myself, "This is not for any
body, just for luck, because I sure
have had plenty of it today"
Then the juice came through the
wires and into the charge, and away
she went, and up went the second
warehouse. That made two directs out
of three, and guess it hurt the Turks
some to lose all their ammunition.
The officer kissed me before could
duck and slapped me on the back and
keeled over. / was just all in.
They brought me to with rum, and
they said l was singing when 1 came
to. When they tried to sing, to show
me what song it was, / figured it was
Sweet Adeline" they meant. But 1
do not believe I came to, singing, be-
cause 1 never sang "Sweet Adeline"
before, that I know of, or any other
song when anybody was in range. But
heard it lots of times, so maybe
did sing it at that.
Then 1 went to sleep feeling fine.
The next morning the detachment
from the Cassard was withdrawn, and
saw some of the men who had been
in the two trenches, but I was not
near enough to speak to them. So
do not know how they got out.
You never saw a happier bunch in
your life than we were when we piled
into the lifeboats and started for the
Cassard. The old ship looked pretty
good to us, you can bet, and we said
if we never put our hoofs on that place
again it would be soon enough.
We were shelled on our way out to
the Cassard, and one boat was over
turned, but the men were rescued
Two men in the launch I was in were
wounded. But we did not pay any
attention to that sheiling-the Turks
might just as we'll have been blowing
peas at US through soda straw Tor
Il 7:n cared.
! ncJicCd that when we came near
:" {; S@ar(l the other boats heid !
j let orr jlunch get into the Lead,
'5lgt we circle0 around the Cas-
.. LeNS ana cane up on the St&r-
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FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN starting
September 28th.
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people are looking at one show they
always want to tell you how good some
other show is, and that was the way
with the sergeant.
"YOu should see what they did to
us at st. Eloi,p he said. "They just
baptized us with the big fellows. They
did not know when to stop. When you
see shelling that is shelling, you will
know it, my son."
swell, if this is not shelling, what
the devil is it? Are they trying to
kid us or are you, mon vieux?" which
is French expression that means
something like "old timer"
'"My son, when you see dugouts
caved in, roads pushed all over the
map, guns wrecked, bodies twisted up
in knots and forty men killed by one
shell-then you will know you are
seeing shelling."
Then one of our men sat up straight
against the parapet and stared at us
and began to shake all over, but we
could not get him to say anything or
move. So we knew he had shell shock.
And another man watched him for a
while, and then he began to shake,
too. The sergeant said that if we
stayed there much longer we would
not be fit to repel an attack, so he
ordered us into the two dugouts we
had made in the hole, and only himself
and another man stayed outside on
watch.
The men in the dugout kept asking
each other when the bombardment
would end, and why we were not rein
forced, and what was happening, and
whether the Turks would attack us. 1t
was easy to see why we were not rein
fOrced-no body of men could have
got to us from the reserve trenches.
The communication trenches were
quite a distance from us and were
battered up at that. Some of the men
said we had been forgotten and that
the rest of our troops had either re-
tired or advanced and that we and
the men in the trench who had tried
to signal us were the only detachments
left there.
Pretty soon another man and
relieved the two men who were out
side on watch, and as he went down
into the dugout the sergeant shouted
to us that he thought the Turks were
afraid to attack. He also ordered one
of us to keep live eye toward our
rear in case any of our troops should
try to signal us. When 1 looked
through a little gully at the top OF
the hole, toward the other trench, all
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

could see was barbed wire and
smoke and two or three corpses. I
began to Shiver little, and / was
afraid I would get shell shock, too.
So began to think about Murray and
how he looked when they took him
off the wall. But that did not stop the
Shivering, so thought about my grand
mother and how she looked the last
time 1 saw her. was thinking about
her, / guess, and not keeping very
good lookout, when a man rolled over
the edge and almost fell on me. He
was from the other trenches. carried
him into the dugout and then went out
again and stood my watch until the
relief came. We were doing half-hour
shifts.
When I got into the dugout again
the man was coming to. He was just
about as near shell shock as had
been-by this time I was shivering
only once in a while, when I did not
watch myself. He said four men had
been sliced UP trying to get to US be-
fore he came; that they had lost
II men out of their 80, including the
sergeant-major in command and two
corporals; that they were almost out
Of ammunition; that the trenches on
both sides of them had been blown in
and that they were likely to go to
pieces at any moment. He said they
all thought the Turks would attack
behind their barrage, for he said the
curtain of fire did not extend more
than hundred yards in front of their
trench. What they wanted us to do
was to relay man back with the
news and either get the word to adj
vance or retire or await reinforce
ments, they did not care which-only
to be ordered to do something. There
was not a commissioned officer left
with either of the detachments, you
see, and you might say we were up
in the air-On1y we were really as far
in the ground as we could get.
The man thought there were other
Of our lines not far behind US, but we
knew better; so then he said he did
not see how any one could get back
from there to our nearest lines. /
did not see either. Then we all fig
ured we were forgotten and would not
come out of there alive, and you can
believe me or not, but l did not much
care. Anything would be better than
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21
CHAPTER XIV.
The croix de Guerre.

/, When we had been on the shore
for about three weeks we found our
selves one morning somewhere near
Sedd-el-Bahr under the heaviest fire
ever experienced. Our guns and the
Turks were at it full blast, and the
noise was worse than deafening.
A section of my company was lying
out in shell hole near the commu-
nication trench with nothing to do
but wait for shell to find them. We
we're stiff and thirsty and uncomfort-
able, and had not slept for two nights.
In that time we had been under con.
slant fire and had stood off several
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

particular charge happened to be de-
fective. The shell split aud caused
pack fire and the cordite, fire and gas
came through the breech, which the
explosion had opened.
1t must have been piece Of cordte
which did it, but whatever it was, it
nit HE in the right eye and blinded it.
The ball of the eye was saved by the
French surgeons and looks normal, but
1T pains me greatly sometimes and
they tell me it will always be sight
less.
was unconscious Immediately from
the blow and from the quantity of gas
which 1 must have swallowed. This
gas did me great deal of damage
and gives me dizzy spells often to this
day. do not know what happened
during the rest of the engagement, as
l did not regain consciousness until
three days later at sea. But 1 heard
in the hospital that the French super
dreadnaught Jeanne dare and the
light cruiser Normandy were in it as
well as ourselves, though not at the
time l was wounded, and that we had
all been pretty well battered. The
Cassard lost 96 men in the engage
ment and had 4S wounded. Some Of
our turrets were twisted into all man
ner of shapes and part of our bow
was carried away. One of our lieu
tenants was killed in the engagement.
l was told that both the Werft and
the Kaiserliche Marine were sunk, in
this engagement. / have seen pictures
of sailors from the Werft who were
prisoners at interment camps.
When we arrived at Brest the
wounded were taken from the ship in
stretchers and after we had been rest
ed for about fifteen minutes on the
dock put into ambulances and rushed
to the hospital. On the way those who
could leaned out of the ambulance and
had great time with the people along
the streets, many of whom they knew,
for the Cassard was Brest ship. And
of course the women and children
yelled, "Vive la France!" and were
glad to see the boys again, even
though they were badly done up.
Some of our men were bandaged
all over the face and head and it was
funny when they had to tell their
names to old friends of theirs, who
did not recognize them. AS soon as
one of the Brest people recognized q
friend off he would go to get cigarettes
and other things for him and some OF
them almost beat us to the hospital.
do not know, of course, just what
the surgeons did to me, but I heard
that they had my eyeball out on my
cheek for almost two hours. At any
rate they saved it. The thigh wounds
were not dangerous in themselves and
if it had not been for the rough treat
ment they got later on they would be
quite healed by this time, am sure.
really think l got little extra at
tentiOn in the hospital in many ways,
for the French were at all times anx-
ious to show their friendliness to
America. Every time my meals were
served there was a little American
fagyon the platter and always large
American flag draped over the bed. I
had everything wanted given to me
at once and when I was able to, all
the cigarettes / could smoke, which
were not many.
While was still in bed in the hos
pital l received the Croix de Guerre,
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

the steel deck, but was able to crawl
on to the turret door. just as I was
about to enter the gun was fired. That
The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-21

CHAPTER I-Albert N. Depew, author
lf the story, enlists in the United States
eavy, serving four years and attaining
|he rank Of chief petty officer, hrst-class
gunner.