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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Coal Order Big War Reminder.

New York, Jan. 19.-Former Presi-
dent Taft alluded to DR.. Garfield's or
der in an address to the National
Boot & Shoe Manufacturers associa-
ton as but lone of the disagreeable
features which must result from the
the war, but like the good Americans
that we are, we will adapt ourselves
to the conditions imposed by our gov
eminent. Many of us have not fully
realized that we are at war;" Mr.. Taft
said, "but DIR. Garfeld's order shutting
down manufacturing plants for five
DAYS looks very much like war"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
siciIian Nut Crop Small.

The crop of almonds this year has
been very small in Sicily, being only
about $4,000 bags of 220 pounds.
There are, however, 10000 bags re-
naming from last year. In cOnse-
quence of the short crop prices have
remained high, and buyers are paying
335 lire per bag. At normal exchange
the lire is worth 1913 cents, United
States currency.
The filbert crop has been abundant
this season and is estimated at 10000
bags of 22O pounds. There is none Of
the old crop left. The price is 142 lire
a bag.
The new pistachio crop is good and
there is a considerable quantity of the
old crop still remaining in the shell.
The price is about IS. Cd. go cents)
pound.-Commerce Reports.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Robbers Get $4,000 In Mill City Club.

Minneapolis, Jan. 19.-Five bandits,
two of them masked and all armed
with pistols, have held up and robbed
40 men of nearly $4,000 in cash and
jewelry valued at approximately $4,-
600, on the third floor of the Twin City
Walters association, S15 Marquette av
according to report made to the po-
lice. The two masked men, it is be-
lieved, were known at the place. The
men entered the associations rooms
at about 1870 p. M, says the report,
and ordered the men in the place to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
OFFICIALS CONDONE BIGAMY
German Journals Cry Alarm At Sit
uation They Say Exists.

German Journals Cry Alarm At Sit.
uation They Say Exists.
Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 49,
Several South German newspapers
received here cry alarm over the in
crease of bigamy in Germany in 1917.
They say the many acquittals, and
the lenient sentences imposed indi
cate that the authorities are condor
ing the offense.
Among excuses pleaded by the men
accused are loss of memory because
of shell shock; departure of the wife
without leaving an address, and in
fidelity on the part of a wife.
Some have gone so far as to de-
clare boldly that plural marriages
are good for the nations future. A
corporal told a municipal court that
he got married every time he obtain
ed leave from the trenches, and be-
1ieved lie had five wives.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
ITALIANS REPULSE TEUTONS

Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, Jan. 19.-The enemy has re-
ceived another bloody repulse or
the lower PiaVe in the sector nearest
Venice. Here his attack was thrown
back after four hours Of desperate
fighting. The enemy suffered heavy
losses, the ground being strewn with
his dead
The Italians captured $50 prisoners
and a large quantity of guns ard
war material.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
UNREST I'M DUAL MONARCHY
Bread Strikes, Riots And Tieups Are
Rampant

Rampant.
Zurich, Jan. 19.-Grave unrest is
brewing throughout Austria-Hunghr y.
Closely censored dispatches ndi-
Gated serious bread strikes and tie ups
at numerous munitions factories, as
we'll as civil clashes between Police
and crowds at numerous Austro-E Iun-
garian cities. GratZ, Brunn, l. utz,
Wienerneustad and Prague were all
reported to have been the scenes of
demonstrations, some of them violent.
Other cities were said to have
shown unrest.
The troubles, it is asserted, are due
to the prolongation of the peace ne
gotiations at Brest-Litovsk, the CON
tinuation of the reduced bread rat ions
one half the former allotment and
police measures against meetings of
the workers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
To End Title Examination Expense.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-Plans for
relieving borrowers of most of the ex-
pense of title examination have been
made by presidents Of the IL farm
loan banks in their first annual con-
ference VITA the federal farm loan
board. Arrangements probably will
be made by few eastern banks with
surety companies to guarantee titles
after limited examination, and if the
experiment proves successful the sys-
tenn will be adopted by all banks.
The banks also considered plans for
marketing their own bonds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
HAVE PLANS TO STOP LEAKS
War Trade Board Would Control
Coal for Ships.

Washington, Jan. 21-Drastic Il eg-
ulations governing the supplying of
fuel coal and stores to vessels at
American ports, designed, through
control of neutral shipping, to s nut
off the channel through which Ger
many and it's allies have been rec@ iv-
ing information from agents in this
country, as well as to prevent them
from receiving goods from Ameri ca,
are made public by the war ira de
boprd. They become effective Feb
ruary /.
AS a condition to receiving fuel $nd
supplies for their vessels, owners or
charterers Of neutral ships must Sign
an agreement with the war trh de
board, the officers and crews of shi ps ;
tleir destinations; their cargo les !;
use of their wireless and their sale
or transfer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Urges Unemployed as Railroad La Dor

New York, Jan. IA sugges ton
that idle labor, thrown out of work by
DIR. Garfeld's sweeping coal conse rva-
ton order, be employed in mo wing
freighters, was given to eastern rail
railroads by A. H. Smith, assistant 1T to
the director general of railroads. Smith
in a telegram to railway heads, said
he had been informed the closing regu-
lations did not forbid the loading and
unloading of cars at warehouses and
terminals The constructive point in
Dr. Garfield's order, he said, was to
get cars emptied for other work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Jap TROOPS IN VLADIVOS7 fox
Landed to Guard Japanese Citiz ems
Is Word.

Petrograd, Jan. 19.-The Naschi Eek,
formerly the Reich, asserts that a
japanese cruiser at Vladivostick has
puts troops ashore and that the Jap
anese consul there has issued a proc
laration declaring that the Japan ese
soldiers are to keep order owing to
the danger threatening Japanese citi-
zens. The proclamation of the eon-
sui adds that the soldiers have no
other motives and no desire to i1 ter
fere in Russian affairs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Most of Those Engaged In War
Work Freed From Observing
Fuel Restriction Order.
CONFUSION is RESULT
kilograms Flood Administration Ask
ing for Rulings-Industry in
Eastern Part of Country
At StandstiIl.

Washington, Jan. q. - In the 26
states east of the Mississippi river
and Minnesota and Louisiana the ma
tons manufacturing industry was
virtually suspended in obedience to
the governments order forbidding the
use of fuel. Most of the plants en-
gagged on war contracts were eX-
empted from tle order in kilograms
sent out Thursday night, but few
Of them learned of it in time and a
great majority Of them closed down
with the other factories.
Factories Exempt.
The country at large knew nothing
of exemptions except the few an
nounced and it was not until late
yesterday afternoon that the fuel ad-
ministrator admitted officially that
important war work was not eff
fected by the order, and gave out a
list of hundreds of factories that may
continue work on government con-
tracts only during the fiVe-day period.
Confusion attending enforcement of
the order was general. Such flood
Of kilograms poured into the offices of
the fuel administration asking inter
pretations and rulings and request
ing information concerning eXemp-
tons of industries that finally the ex-
emption list was given for publica-
ton.
Opposition in Congress.
Opposition to the order in Congress
apparently spent itself in debate in
both houses. During the day DR.. Gar
field replied to the Senate's request
that the order be suspended for five
days, disclaiming any purpose to be
discourteous, declining to comply and
again pointing out the necessity for
enforcement of his order
Food Administrator Hoover, in a
statement, interpreted the order to
mean that no check would be put on
the operations of any sort of food
handling, manufacturing or distribut-
ing.
Dr. Garfeld's statement emphasizes
the railroad congestion, which he de-
clares is threatening the food supply
points to the necessity for moving
ships to Europe and carries an appeal
to capital to bear it's share of the
burden brought by the closing order
by paying employees for the time they
are idle.
Plants Exempted.
The plants exempted from a list
prepared by Secretaries Baker and
Daniels are those manufacturing gas
masks, explosives for the government,
rife, pistols, machine guns and small
arms ammunition, forgings for the
government electrical supplies and
tool steel for war purposes, destroyer
and destroyer parts, seamless tubes
and condenser tubes, aircraft parts,
signal corps equipment, locomotives,
equipment for ships, WOODEN goods
for the army and navy, white duck
and Jennings for the government and
optical supplies
All shipyards, although not includ-
ed in the exemption list, will con
tinue operations under a special rul-
ing, as will hundreds of plants turn
ing out materials which go directly
to the manufacture of navy supplies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
FaIsiTcation.

George Cohan was advising an older
playwright who had not yet achieved
fame.
"You must give the public happy end
ings," Mr.. Cohan said. "a happy end
ing must be given, even if you have to
falsify the truth.
eve all falsify the truth at times.
Thus, on the stage, when the lovers
kiss, their troubles are over, whereas,
in real life, of course, it's when they
kiss that their troubles begin"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
FOIL SECOND DYNAMITE PLOT
Another Attempt to Kill California
Governor Nipped.

San Francisco, Jan. ia bomb adj
dressed to Governor William d. Steph-
ems mansion at Sacramento, was in
tercepted at the Ferry postoffice here
The package contained several
sticks of dynamite and suspicion was
attracted to it first, it was said, by
the fact that it carried insufficient
postage The executive mansion was
damaged December II last by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
A police investigation resulted in
the arrest of 55 alleged members of
the l. w. W., who are being held.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Teutons Trying to Kill Wheat Crop

!
San Francisco, Jan. 19.-Germany
latest attempt to destroy the wheat
crop of California and other states has
taken the form of shipment to this
country of powerful poisonous pollen
to be distributed by German agents
here in such a manner as to kill the
entire wheat output of this state, ac-
cording to a bulletin issued by the
state council of defense.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
cutlcura Stops itching.

The Soap to cleanse and Ointment to
soothe and heal most forms Of itching,
burning skin and scalp affections.
Ideal for toilet use. For free samples
address, "Cuticura, Dept. x, Boston"
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soap
20, Ointment % and 50-Adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
GERMAN PARTY ASKS PEACE
New Body Would Negotiate on VIII
son Basis

Amsterdam, Jan. 19.-The Tagliche
Rundschau Of Berlin learns from Mu-
mich that new political party has
been formed there, under the name Of
the free committee" and that it has
sent a telegram to the Reichstag
saying:
Notwithstanding it's partiality,
President Wilson'S recent message
contains a practical basis for the in
auguration of negotiations toward a
general peace"
The committee represents the ideas
Of Prof Frederick Forester of the
University of Mpnicn, who was OBJ
liSed to leave the Bavarian capital
for Switzerland because of his unor-
thodox views about the war.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
ON CONSUMPTION OF WEALTH
Bonar Law Favors Making Capital
Pay for War.

London, Jan. 1S.-Conscription of
wealth is a matter of expediency, An
drew Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex-
chequer. said in reply to memoran-
dunn from committee of the British
Trades Unions demanding CONSUMPTION
of wealth. The memorandum urged
him Immediately to conscript the
wealth of the nation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
General Meat Shortage Pos

Chicago, Jan. 1S.-"A very real pos
sibility of a general meat shortage
within a few months" is forecast by
Joseph P. Cotton, meat division chief
of the federal food administration.
Conditions in the Allied countries
make it essential to send them much
more meat" he said. ut will be
necessary to continue meatless days. -
However, meatless days in Pacific
coast states will be discontinued for
two months. Drouth has made me-
cessary the slaughter of much cat.
tie. 1t is impracticable to export.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
SIX KILLED ON u. S. WARSHIP
Cage Mast Falls in Heavy GaIe-First
Accident of Kind in Navv.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-Six men were
killed and three injured on U. S. S.
Michigan when the ship was caught in
a heavy gale at sea, it was officially
announced.
The men were killed and injured by
falling of a cage mast, the first acct
dent of it's kind in the navy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24

Bills to CentraIize War Operations.
Washington, Jan. 1.-TWO bills, one
creating a superwar council of three
members and another for director of
war industries, were tacitly agreed
upon by the senate military commit
tee as measures to centralize the
nations war operations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Ready-Witted.

"You need a change of scene"
But, doctor, I'm travelling man."
"Why-er-that's the point. Stay at
home awhile and see somebody besides
hotel rooms and railroad stations"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
Full Meaninn.

"Why do they call that one crack
xegiment?" because there is so much
snap about it,"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24

The road to sell is paved with good
inventions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24

Covetousness is the one sin many a
man is guilty of without knowing 1t.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24
WOULD FREE CzAR|NA
Germans Ask Liberty of Former
Empress.
Request Is Refused by BoIshevki and
Brings Decision to Try
Royalty.

London, Jan. 21.-According to
a Petrograd dispatch to the
Daily News, King Ferdinand of
Roumania, whose arrest had
been ordered by the BoIsheViki
government, is now under the
protection of the Allies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-24

Petrograd, Jan. 19.-MaXim Gorky' S
newspaper, Novoia Zhizn, asserts that
the German delegates in Petrograd
asked the representatives of the gov
eminent commissioners to permit the
former empress and some other mem
bers of the late imperial household
related to Emperor William to travel
to Germany.
The request was not only categOrl
cally refused but was the immediate
cause of decision to try the former
imperial personages.
A dangerous stage has arisen in the
relations between Roumania and the
Bolsheviki. A two hours ultimatum
has been sent to the Roumanian mill
tary authorities by the revolutionary
committee of the Ninth Russian
army, demanding free passage OF
Russian troops through Jassy, the
temporary capital of Roumania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
TWO CONDEMNED
 MEN LOSE APPEALS
 IN SUPREME COURT
Ernest Lawrence of Pickens and Lewis Russell of Jef-
 ferson Must Die

Montgomery, May 30.-(Specal)- )-Enest Lawrence of Pickens county and Lewis Russell of Jefferson county must die on the gallows Friday, July F, for the mur- der of George Lawrence. white man, in Pickens county, and Russell was convict ed of the killing of his father-in-law, Will Holiness, in the interior of Jeffer- son county.
 Lawrence, in his defense. put up the unusual pleas that he was not accorded fair trial because the names of no negroes appeared on the venire for the grand jury and that the names of no ne- groes were on the list of the petit jures from which those who sent him to death were selected, He charged that there were negroes in Pickens county who were qualified to sit on juries and exercise other rights of citizenship and that the jury commission of Pickens county had excluded their names from the jury box
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
German Submarine Said
 To Be Lurking in South
 Atlantic off Florida Coast
Passengers Arriving Brazilian Ship Tell Story of How Vessel Had to Dodge Danger Entering Gulf Stream Rumor of Enemy Craft
 Sighted Near Bermuda

An Atlantic Port, May 3O.-Recent reports that German submarines have been lurking in southern waters off the American coast were given sup port today with the arrival here of Brazilian steamship. The passengers said that last Saturday when the ship was entering the gulf stream off the Florida coast a wireless warning to look out for submarines was received and that the captain immediately changed his course and made a very wide detour before heading again for this port.
 Sir Leslie Probyn. one of the pas seneers, former British governor gen. eral of the Barbados, who is on his way to take the new post of governor general of Jamaica, said that before leaving the Barbados he had heard d German submarine had been sighted May 16 near Bermuda. One report to this effect was made by an Ameri- can vessel and another by a British vessel he said.
 Firmly convinced that they had nar- rowly escaped attack by d German t-boat, passengers on the Brazilian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
POLICEMEN MUST
 NOT MAKE ARRESTS
 ON ORAL COMPLAINT
to See Misde- meanOr Committed or Have
 Warrant, Holds Court
JUSTICES
 DIVIDE ON DECISION
City of Birmingham Interpleads in Appeal Going Up From Local
 Municipal Tribunal

Montgomery May 30.-(Special) Cities have no authority to include In their ordinances provision whereby officers may arrest persons on charges of misdemeanors on the oral complaint of an individual, but must have a writ ten complaint sw orn to before a no- tary or court official. under a decision of the supreme court Thursday, in the case of J. Turney Rhodes vs. Tom McWilson from the Birmingham city court Every city and town in the state is interested in the decision as policeman in the future will be un- able to arrest a person on a charge of misdemeanor unless he saw the offense committed or has warrant.
 Because of the importance of the case, M. NJ. Ullrnan, city attorney of Birmingham. made the fight in favor of supporting the right of policemen to make arrests on orh complaints He pointed out that if the court held that a written warrant was necessary, great confusion would result in the cities.
 He illustrated that some one might insult woman and then turn around corner of building. police man would have no authority to make an arrest on the oral complaint of the woman because he did not see the offense committed
 The cont divide l. four and three, on the decision, Chief Justice Ander son and Justices Mcclellan and Gardner holding that arrests could be made on oral statements and Justices Mayfield, Sayre, Thomas and Sonierviile rul- ing that such an arrest violated the bill of rights.
 Justice Mcclellan has prepared dissenting opinion. which has been ap- proved by Chief Justice Anderson and Justice Gardner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31
TIRE CONSERVATION EXHIBIT AT ADAMSON
 MOTOR COMP ANY
Goodyear Expert Explains Mysteries of High Mile age to All Tire
 Users

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' believes the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Akron, o., which is the reason given for the novel vet practical demonstration of tire use and abuse which is being held all this week at the Adamson Motor company 1920 Third avenue, north All drivers are urged to come and receive the ad- vice of the factory expert conducting this work, whether Goodyear users or not; in fact. one is never questioned in regard to the make of tires he is using
 An actual demonstration is given in that specimen tires are shown that have suffered in actual use, the particular form of abuse which is being described It will be told how to prevent rimcuts broken sidewalks, uneven wear, blowouts and, to great extent, punctures
 The advice is given generally under Il different heads How to increase tire mileage, proper imitation, what to do for thread cuts fabric breaks, how to avoid scraped treads. premature tread wear, how to use chains, how to make inner tuges last longer, rim cutting. chafed sidewalks and "The Way to Maximum Mileage
 This service is being conducted for the good of the people and to assist the gov ernment in war orders, it being figured that the education of the drivers in this manner will increase mileage enough to be of visible assistance Tt has been greatly the fault of the tire companies that small mileage has resulted in many cases" said the representative yester- day. We have had to make adjustments and maybe send a man away dissatisfied when the real fault lay in the fact that he had misused the tire. We should have told him how to use it and to care for it, That is the object of this exhibit. We build the mileage into the tire, it remains for the driver to get it out of it.
 The exhibit is being conducted along good common sense' lines and is prov ing popular with the drivers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-31

ship declared the vessel turned about and raced on the reverse course for 12 hours a top speed, after the first wireless warning. Suddenly their course was changed again and the journey northward resumed. although not in the line of their retreat
 Fears of the ships company had been somewhat allayed, they said, but in the dead of night a far off, mysterious flash of light prompted the captain to order zig-zag course, which was followed for many miles with engines throbbing at full power, while the passengers were ordered below.
 During the night, the voyagers said, their ship was in almost constant wire less communication with another craft whether destroyer or a seaplane, they did not know. Officers told them, they stated that two German subina- rines had been sighted in the At lantic heading toward the gulf stream.
 'C undoubtedly there are U-boats in the middle Atlantic" Sir Leslie said on coming ashore. It is reported that authorities in the West Indies still are without shred of information as to the fate of the United States CO., Tier Cyclops, whose disappearance is one of the mysteries of the sea.