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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
AIIenby's Army Push Ahead
Three Miles In Face of
Stubborn Resistance.
BIG THEATRES QUIET
Commandments And Artillery DueIs
Only Activity On West Front
Gold Weather lmpedes
Operations

London, Jan. IAN advance of
another three miles along the Nab
lus river, about 2 miles north of Je-
rusalem, has been made by Cen
eral Allenby's forces in Palestine,
says the official statement just issued,
land after stubborn resistance have
occupied Bireth, the ancient name
of which IS Beeroth-
East of the road Hizmehgereh was
taken. West of the road the ridge of
Rawllah and Kettireh was occupied.
I'm the center Of the line mounted
troops advanced to Khurbetha, Ibuhar.
it'll and Deirelkuddis.
Big Theatres Quiet.
aside from bombardment and re-
ciprocal artillery duels, little is going
on in the major theatres Of the war.
On the French front weather is still
cold, and this, with snow, is impeding
operations on large scale.
Germans essayed an attack against
the British northeast of Ypres. where
for several days they had been laying
down a heavy preparatory artillery
fire. The attack was futile, for the
British raked the Germans with fire
and repulsed them with considerable
losses.
Raids Are Fooled.
likewise attempts by Germans to
carry out raids of small French posts
near St. Quentin, Bezonvaux and Vau-
quois resulted in failure, and in addi-
ton the enemy lost men made prison.
ers. There is still intermittent artil-
lery activity along the entire French
front.
''In the Italian theatre, the infantry
is idle, but the big guns continue to
carry out mutual bombardments
against opposing positions in the hill
region from Asiago plateau eastward
to the Piave river. This activity is
particularly pronounced on the Monte
Tomba section and few miles to the
east, on both siLes of pederooba, near
upper reaches of the Pave river"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
100000 GRECIANs PERISH
Victims Of Organized Teuton.Turkish
Massacres, Says Greek.

Victims OF Organized Teuton.Turkish
Massacres, Says Greek.
New York, Jan. AT least 1,OOO,-
!! 900 Greeks, men, women and children
have persisted as the result Of organ
lied massacres and deportations by
the Turco-Teutons in Asiatic Turkey,
according to statement by Lazaros
George Macrides, son of leading
merchant Of Trebizond, made public
through the Armenian and Syrian re-
lief committee here.
Macrides, who recently arrived here,
says he was one of party of 1000
Greeks rescued by the Russian fleet
that bombarded the town of Ordon
late last August and took the refugees
aboard. He had been taken to Ordon,
he said, when the Turks raided Trebi-
zond and seized his fathers store,
along with those of other Greek mer-
chants.
Those of us who were between the
ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into
the Turkish army" Macrides said.
"The women and children and older
men were placed temporarily in homes
and orphanages until the opportunity
offered to dispose of them in the ap-
proved Turco-German style, which in
this case turned out to be wholesale
drowning.
"The unfortunate survivors of de-
portation were towed out for several
miles into the Black sea and then
calmly dumped overheard just like so
vived. German efficiency has simply
organized the natural brutality of
the Turk and made it many times
more effective than before"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
20 ooo. 600 /. Rcd Cross Roster.

New York, Jan. 1.-The American
Red Cross will begin the new year
with a membership of more than TO-
900 900 it was announced here at the
close of the nationwide enrolment
campaign Everyone of the 13 nation
al divisions exceeded the quota set for
it by the Red Cross headquarters in
Washington. Actual new members
added to the rolls of the organization
were 14,S53,535 Membership in the
Northwest division which includes Min
nesota has reached a grand total OF
559.535.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
THREE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK
Thirteen Officers and 1870 Men Die,
Admiralty Reports. BE-.

London Dec. 31.-Three British
torpedoboat lestroyers were sunk
through being struck by torpedoes or
hitting mine off the Dutch coast on
the night OF Dec. %, with the loss
of II officers and $50 men, thu ad.
miralty announces.
The statement reads:
Three of our destroyers were
mined or torpedoed during foggy
weather of the Dutch coast on the
night of Dec. %. A total Of 10 officers
and $50 men were lost"
A Zeppelin and seaplane which
was accompanying 1t have been
wrecked in tho North Sea, according
to a Central News dispatch from Co.
penhagen. quoting advices received
there from West Jutland. The Zep-
pelir Is said to have fallen in flames
to the sea.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04

Prescription. only had to take two bot
ties to cure me of my weakness and build
me up in a strong, healthy condition.
'Favorite Prescription is fine medicine
for women. Mis-. A. MCKENZIE, 6l9
Wall Street.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IowA.-rAs far back
IS can remember, when a girl at home,
my mother always kept Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets in the house. She had
liver trouble and the only relief she ever
found was in the Pleasant Pellets NY
husband also has liver trouble and has
never failed to get quick relief when he
children, too, as purgative medicine and
for bilious attacks and they always give
relief. l have never known them to fail.
They are fine medicine and a most won.
derful regulator of the stomach, liver and
bowels. Mrs. R. E. DAY, 9O2 Ave. C.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
SAVE AND SERVE
WITH NONE SUCH
Nh =. ,s;--' 1xy.~ ~,-
: .a:A WAX P
rsSS'' " AAS 4 "
No Top Crust
;sSatisfactory-Economical

Ask your men-folks If they can think of
tnytliing better than a good, healthy, man
Gxed piece OF mince pie.
The kind that tempted them as boys more
than any other one thing that cooled m the
kitchen ;;-..le-and that tempts them today.
Then think how easy it is with NoNE
SUCH Mixes MEAT to make this pie that
ycur nlen-iuii:s like-el>y TO make on short
notice and so economical. Good, too, for
buildings, cakes, and cookies.
1t is condensed and so prevents waste.
You add the water yourself. 1t is sealed in
parafin wrapping; no hand touches it but
your own; it keeps and ripens like fruit
cake in the package; costs but few cents.
Bas. NONE SUCH War Pie-no top
crust. Saves -four, shortening, labor, money
saves half the crust. Good, too.
NoNE SUCH MMCE MEAT makes i. easy
and economical to give your men-fo!ks the
Vie they want
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
WAR LECTURER DROPS DEAD
Col. !, 6ioeIow Dies While Speaking
at Houston.

Houston, Tex, Jan. 1.-With q
burning denunciation of Germany for
its atrocities against Belgium and a
plea for preparedness on his lips,
Col. Charles Bigelow of New Haven,
Conn, known over the world - q
traveller and lecturer, dropped dead
before an audience of more than
1000 persons at the city auditorium.
He had been talking nearly an hour.
Colonel Bigelow, 81 years of age,
returned from the battlefields and
wartorn lands of Europe but short
time ago, and his lecture here Vas
to arouse American people to reali.
cation of the war.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
DECLARE ITS INDEPENDENCE
1essarabia Decides On Republican
Form Of Government.

PetroKrad, Jan. 1.-Bessarabia
has declared its Independence as the
Moldavian republic to form part of
the Russian federated republic.
Bessarabia is government of south
western Russia, adjoining Roumania.
About half the inhabitants are Rou-
manians. The population is in the
neighborhood of 100000. Kishinev
is the capital Of Bessarabia. which has
an area of about $4,000 square miles.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
WOMEN ARE NEEDED
TO HELP IN WAR.

Women can be usefully employed in
nursing the wounded, in mating up
the soldiers kits, and a thousand other
ways. Many American women are
weak, pale or anemic from w"man's
ills. For young girls just entering
womanhood, for women at the crit
ical time; nursing mothers and every
woman who is rrun down. tired or
over-worked - Doctor Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is special, safe and GER
tain help. 1t can now be had in
tablet form at most drug stores.
You can procure trial package by
writing Dry. NJ. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel,
Buffalo, N. Y, enclosing 10 cents.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
SIeuths eaffIed in Woman Hunt.

Los Angeles, Jan. 1.-THE mystery
surrounding Nine. H. sought as the
associate of Franz Schulenberg, al
legged German master spy, appeared
only to deepen while federal and state
authorities followed fresh trails. At
Richmond, Cal, officers are trying tc
find out what Mrs. Frieda Sodern
knows of Schulenberg. Mrs Sodern
conducted a confectionery stand at
Camp Ricon, a summer resort near
this city, which Schulenberg is said
to have frequented while at his noun
tain cabin.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
Cold Wave Hits Europe,

Paris, Jan. All of Southern
Europe is in the grip of severe storm
and unusually cold weather Dis.
patches received from Madrid say that
snow is still falling heavily in that
city and that there is much suffering
as result of lack of coal, due to the
stoppage of railroad traffic
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
Teuton. to Mistreat U. s. Prisoners.

With the Army in France, Dec. 81
It is learned on absolutely reliable
authority that Germany has decided to
adopt most severe measures against
all Americans made prisoners. 1t is
said they will be treated the same as
the Russians, who have been maltreat.
ed in the worst way, being starved,
kicked and beaten. A high German Of
fetal is quoted as saying that Ameri'
cans are unintelligent and not entitled
to the ordinary courtesies extended Al
lied soldiers taken prisoners. No mercy
10 expected by U. S. soldiers.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
Moran Secret Service Chief.

Washington, Jan. Nv. H. Moran,
assistant chief of United States secret
service, has been appointed chief Of
the service by Secretary w. G. Nc.
Adoo. Moran, who succeeds William
J. Flynn, recently resigned, will al.
sumo office Jan. I. He has been con.
nected with that service IS years.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
SIOUX CITY, Iowa. -r Some time age

! became all rum
down, weak nd
nervous, caused by
my having wOmanly
weakness. l had
severe pains in my
back and sides, also
bearing-dOwn pains.
l had doctOred but
did not get relieved
of my ailment, so I
began taking Doctor
piorpa'S u1rit
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-01-04
Wood Joins Pershine's Force.

Kansas City, Jan. 1.-Announce-
ment has been made at Camp Fun
ston, Kan, of the safe arrival in
France of Major General Leonard
Wood Nothing was said in the an
nouncement of the purpose of the
visit
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
GERMANS CHANGE TO SAVE HERSELF

Our war aims are taking form as the war goes on. presl-
dent Wilson has stated the position of America a OF 'ouay'
but he would not have set such terms of peace as ID .
ible minimum last April. More than once attention mas Deeh
directed to the changes that have occurred in the aims 0 Il IN
victors in every great war of any length. In our UlVh war
emancipation of the slaves was an afterthoughL LII y r hn"o
war with Spain the primary intent was to free CuDa' ii ~
body thought of acquiring the Philippines. In this war hus-
STA was to get Constantinople, but today Turkey is olereu
peace with Constantinople as her capital.
President Wilson and Premier LLOYD George agree III %
surfing the German people that Germany will not be destroyed.
The president declares that Belgium must" be evacuated ana
restored, and that the wrongs done to France, in the matter OF
Alsace-Lorraine should" be righted. The use OF the woros
must" and should" is significant, for the president is a stick
Ter for the exact use of words. In his former war messages
he said nothing about Alsace-Lorraine. Now ne speaks OF
these lost provinces. If Germany does not grasp at this offer
of peace America will say must" instead of should" we
are following our own precedents in changing our war AIMS Is
the conflict progresses.
Germany must now state her war aims as explicitly as the
British premier and the American president have done. me
kaiser has no excuse for no, laying his cards on the table now
that he knows the full measure of his foes demands. Ii ne de-
clines to do so and fails to win a decisive victory In france
within six months the terms offered to him may be harder, and
his own people may refuse to keep him and his line on the
throne. His double dealing with the Russian Bolsheviki and
his avowed intent to rob Russia of four of her richest provinces
have started a backfire in the German socialist party that
seemed beyond possibility a few weeks ago.
The socialists and all other Germans should know that
peace would quickly follow the downfall of autocracy. The
kaiser does know it and is fighting for his throne. If he re-
fuses to seize this chance he risks the loss of both the war and
his crown. The situation changes with kaleidoscope rapidity,
but it is clear that if Germany neither wins the war nor makes
peace before America can put a million or more men In the
field she will have to accept whatever terms her foes dictate.
Casualty lists will not make Americas terms of peace any
easier than those the president has offered to the Teutonic al
lies-New York Commercial.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
WE SHOULD EAT MORE FAT

Fats and oils are necessaries of life. The federal food
administrators are talking of having the packers trim the fat
off the meat before sending it to the retailers. 1t may be pos
sible by this method to save some of the fat that is now vast
ed, but the trimming should not be too close. Practical cooks
and retailers can point out what the people eat and what they
throw away.
Americans do not eat enough fats and oils, and part of
what they do eat is prepared the wrong way. Children should
be taught to eat more fats than most of them do. Practically
all children and young persons who display a tuberculous
tendency dislike fat meat and olive oil, while very few who eat
fats and oils freely die of consumption. When the disease is
contracted the common treatment is to give the patient all the
fats and oils he can be induced to swallow.
Deep breathing, apples and other fresh fruits, plenty of
water and a diet rich in fats are the best preventives of pull
mOnary tuberculosis and also the best cures. Fruits help the
digestion of fats in some mysterious way and do the work best
when not eaten at the same meal. The best fats are cream,
butter, bacon fat, olive oil and beef fats, but healthy persons
with normal stomachs can consume other edible fats and oils
with equally good results. Our food administrators should
not decrease in any way the present consumption of fats for
it is less than it should be and the people of this country will
be healthier if they consume more, provided they do not over
work the frying pan.-Exchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
GERMANY WANTS GOLD AND SILVER

The Frankfur,er Zeitung, after observing that the gold
asked for from private individuals in the shape of personal or
naIaents. etc, has not come in in sufficient quantities, observes
that even if it did land it is hoped that people will wake up and
respond practically to this coll of the fatherland) all the gold SO
contribute would still represent but a 1.-THE of the precious metal
NJ eded, as it only exists in the possession of a small class of
Inc well-to-do.
1T is, however, quite another matter in the case OF silver,
People of all classes possess silver ornaments, tea services and
ether objects, and these can be converted into silver coinage
which at the present time would prove eminenuy useful for
payments abroad. For the purpose of keeping up and strength
ening our foreign exchange in neutral countries, the Imperial
bank has been compelled of late to send considerable quantities
of gold abroad.
"a good influx of silver would repair this deficit at least in
part and prevent the necessity of drawing further upon our gold
reserve, the keeping up of which has become the measure OF
our economic strength and capacity to hold out financially till
the end of the war. Even though silver has not the same value
as gold as a means of International payment, yet the fact of it's
going up at the present moment so considerably in price that
today it S worth more than at any time during the last % years,
proves the great demand it now enjoys"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
CHEAPER RUBBER

Raw rubber is one of the few commodities that have fallen
i'm price during the war. Unfortunately for Brazil, which pro-
duces both, coffee is another to meet the same fate. The Brit
ish government handled the rubber situation without foresight
and for a time rubber was dear. This caused the East India
planters to produce as much as possible and the result is the
lowest prices on record for raw rubber, though the retail
price of rubber goods does not reflect this decline to a degree
that consumers can notice. Automobile tires contain so much
long staple cotton that the addition to the price of that COM
modify, it is claimed, offsets the decline in rubber.
At current prices it has become Improbable to gather wild
rubber in Brazil, and the Brazilian government cannot control
the market because most of the h~igh-grade raw rubber comes
from the British and Dutch East Indies, where the Brazilian
rubber tree is cultivated with great success. The best Ceylon
rubber sells for as much as Para up-river fine, the choicest
product of Brazil, in the New York market.
Rubber is commodity the consumption of which increas-
es as the price falls. Were it cheap enough it would be used
for sidewalks. Some English authorities say that the East
Indies can produce high-grade rubber to sell at a shilling a
pound i'm London, or 25 cents in New York, and the develop
ment of plantations will not be checked before it falls to that
price: In that case rubber will have repeated the story OF
quinine, which declined in price as the East Indian plantations
increased their output, while the wild bark from South America
disappeared from the market.
The war has caused sharp advance in the price of quiz
nine. While the history of their production is very similar,
the resemblance between them in a commercial sense is not
close. Extremely low prices for quinine did not stimulate con-
sumption, but the consumption of rubber jumps with every
drop in the market. A man would not take an extra dose of
quinine if he got it for nothing, but he could and would use
more rubber goods if the price were cut in two.
Lower prices for crude rubber will benefit manufacturers
of rubber goods. Consumption of raw rubber is greater than
ever, though the Teutonic allies and Russia are getting very
little of it. By the time the war comes to an end, production
will have increased so much that the demand from central
Europe is not likely to raise the price appreciably. Cheap rub
Der should help the automobile business and many other i'm
portant American industries that export freely. New York
Commercial.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
SELF-CONVICTED OF SEDITION

In its appeal for funds to defray the cost of defending
Big Bill Haywood, general secretarytreasurer of the |. w.
w., and 165 other members now awaiting trial for conspiracy
to defeat the military policies of the federal governments, the
New York Call, a socialist daily, says: Under five counts the
|. W. ". is charged with trying to abolish the wage system, go
ing on strike, opposing registration, sedition and counselling
workmen to restrict the profits of employers. Who is safe if
men can be sent to prison for fighting for labor?"
While the Call does not state the case accurately, the point
is that it upholds opposing registration and sedition." This
country is at war and every American is subject to military
service. Those who refuse to register or encourage others to
refuse commit a crime that may amount to high treason.
Those who uphold such reasonable practices are fipbt;np for
the kaiser and not for Observation-Disclosures.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
PROVISIONS OF THE NEW COTHIN ORDER

The Vienna ZGt says that the expected introduction of cloth
ing cards in Vienna is now an accomplished fact. The new
card is actually called a supply voucher" but the object is the
same: without an official voucher no article of clothing can be
bought. This includes underclothing and spun and woven
goods.
"The aim of the clothing order is to provide for the urgent
needs of the poorest classes. With this object, clothing sup
plies are to be regulated for all classes, in order to insure sup
plies of peoples clothing so far as this can be done with re-
gard to other necessities, especially the needs of the army.
"As long ago as the beginning of the year the cotton and
wool centrals arranged for the classification of all %procurable
supplies of clothing. Both centrals were instructed to have
new goods made up for the popular use, according to the avail
able quantities of raw material. These articles, together with
the old clothes collected at the depots established by the crown
land authorities, will form the basis of the peoples clothing
supplies, which can only be obtained on production of the sup
ply voucher"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26
ENCOURAGE HOLDING LIBERTY BONDS

The secretary of the treasury, Hon. William u. McAdo
ecently authorized the following statement:
1T has been brought to my attention that numbers OF
merchants throughout the country are offering to take
Liberty Loan bonds of the first and second issue at par,
OF even i'm some cases at a premium, in exchange LOT
merchandise. While | have no doubt that these mer-
chants are actuated by patriotic motives, | am sure that
thew have failed to consider the effect which the accept
ance of their offers would have upon the situation.
we are making the strongest effort to have these
government bonds purchased for permanent investment
by the people at large, to be paid for out OF the past OF
future savings of those who buy them. Purchases thus
made not only result in providing funds for the uses OF
the government, but they also effect a conservation OF
labor and material.
"When the bonds are exchanged for merchandise, it
defeats the primary object of their sale, it dlscourages
thrift and increases expenditures, thus depriving the
government of labor and material needed for war pur-
poses. In addition to this, such bonds when taken In
exchange for merchandise must in most cases be lmme-
diately sold in the open market. This naturally tends
to depress the market price of the issue and makes 1t
less easy to sell future issues at the same rate.
81 hope that the merchants of the country, upon a
more careful consideration of this subject, will discon-
tinue their efforts to sell merchandise and take Liberty
bonds in payment"