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The courier-index., 1918-07-19
MIsUNDERsToo

An Irishman who had recently come over was looking in the head lines in the paper. Are you pat riot?" "Pat riot is it." says he. "Begobs Pat is me furrust name and Riot hits me where l hye-Just count me in and let me know when and where the foight begins
The courier-index., 1918-07-19
REVISED PRICE LIST
 FIXED BY COMMITTEE

The following are the prices on groceries that have been set by the price setting committee of Lee coun- ty, operating under the county food administrator. These prices are where the customer pays cash at the time of purchase and carries the articles home:
The courier-index., 1918-07-19

day I was leisurely walking down one of the streets when, all of a sudden. heard bells ringing and whistles blowing. At first l was startled, but I soon found out the cause of it all It was 12 o'clock. noon. a call to the people of every community to pray for the preserva- tion of the men in the service under the American flag and the success Of our army in this awful war. It Is certainly a most beautiful idea. and l was just wondering if they had com- menced anything of the kind at home. It surely would do no harm. and we, as Americans. have faith in prayer, there cannot be anything more effective"
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coNsIpERATE

The poor fellow at the end of the table looked so unhappy that even the landladys stony heart was nov ed
 "How do you like the chicken soup. MT. Jones' she asked by way of saying something.
 "Oh-er-is this chicken soup?" he bIurted out
 Certainly. How do you like it?" "Well-er-it's certainly very tender" said he. apologetically
The courier-index., 1918-07-19
INTERESTING LETTERS
 FROM SOLDIER BOYS
A. c. SAMuELS, EUGENE HAMP- TON AND DEWITT SivEY RE- LATE EXPERIENCES IN ARMY CAMPS OF UNCLE SAM.

H. R. Mcveigh. war secretary of the Baptist church, is in receipt of letters from A. c. Samuel. Eugene Hampton and Dewitt Sivey, three of the Lee county boys who are in the service of Uncle Sam. Extracts from the letters that will prove interesting to our readers are given below.
The courier-index., 1918-07-19
WILSON MAY GO ABROAD

London, July 17.-President Wilson may visit France and England dur ing the recess of the United States Congress, it is rumored again in official circles, according to the Evening News. The paper prints the news of the rumor m it's gossip column today.
The courier-index., 1918-07-19

It has been proved that human bones will bear a pressue three times greater than oak. and almost as much as wrought iron. before be- ing crushed
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Continued on Last Pase)
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From Eugene Hampton 2. IT. s. Convoy Station. Co. H. 1i4th Supply Train, Detroit, Mich.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
DR.. CARL WILLIAMS AN OFFICER
Six Other Philadelphians Among
Those Receiving Commissions

Doctor Carl Williams. 50 School lane,
is among twelve Philadelphans to win
army commissions in the list announced
at the office of rhe adjutant general in
Washington. Doctor Williams. who is
widely known as Il former Penn football
player has been commissioned a captain
in the medical corps. Others named fol-
low:
To be first lieutenant. ordnance
Charles Samuel Hillman, 400 Chestnut
street.
To be second lieutenant. quartermas-
ter corps-William Henry Seixas, 1873
F'ernon street.
Enlisted men to be second lieutenants,
quartermaster cOrps-Miles Sterling AL
temose. 1852 North Fifty-fifth street
Clinton Adam Horne, 2S22 Master
street; j. \. Noeld, Oak Lane; l. +.
Schryer, 2411 North Garnet street
Enlisted man to be second lieutenant,
sanitary corps-Amos w. Stevenson.
1928 North Marvine street
To be second lieutenant, air service
(aeronautics)-RG G.. L. Ullman, Chester.
Enlisted man to be second lieutenant,
quartermaster corps-Ralph Short Charl-
ton, l01 Rochelle avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
10 YEARS FOR REFUSAL
TO SPLIT FIRE WOOD
Order Issued With Sentence at
Meade Emphasizes Necessity
l. o. of Obedience '' .
Camp Meade, Nd, Sept. II


That obedience is absolutely necessary
at all times in the army, particularly
when the army is at war or is preparing
for war, was driven fast into the minds
of some 10000 soldiers here this morn
ing. when Major General Jesse Mel Car
ter. the division commander, published
a general court-martial order approving
the sentence of Private Arthur Stewart
to ten years confinement at hard labor
for disobedience.
Stewart was a member of the Thirty
first Company of the 154th Depot Bri-
gade. First Lieutenant John w. Taylor
directed the lad tO cut frewood for the
company kitchen. He ''willfully DISC
beyed" and was arraigned. In addition
to the ten years he will have to reflect
over his indscretion in the United
States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort
Jay, he will forfeit all pay and allow
ances. due or to become due, and will
be dishonorably discharged from the
army.
Another ten-year sentence was ap-
proved by General Carter and published
this morning. The indscreet one in this
case was found guilty CT desertion and
he will share n fate similar to Stew
arts. He is Private Lewis A. Byrd Of
Company A, Seventeenth Infantry. Byrd
was charged with deserting from Fort
Mcpherson. Ga, on November 81, 1917.
He was apprehended at Bicholas, a ham
let of Georgia, On June 23.
Private Nicholas Malekovich, of the
Fifth Company Ct the 154th Depot Bri-
gade. was saved from a five-year term
at Fort Jay through the liberal inter-
pretation CT the evidence in his case by
the reviewing authority. He was found
guilty of refusing to sign a medical ex-
animation paper and was sentenced. The
reviewing authority held that 1t was not
proved beyond doubt that the soldier,
who Is a Russian. did not understand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
NEWS OF SHIPYARDS
LABORERS ON SHIPS
NOT TO BE DRAFTED
Schwab Goes to Capital to
Take Up Problem
With Crowder

Conferences between Charles NJ.
schwab, director general of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation, and Provost
Marshal General Crowder will begin to-
day in Washington on the question of
exemption from the selective draft of
approximately $4,000 shipyard workers
in the Delaware River district and hum
dreds of thousands of others in ship
yards throughout the country. Mr..
Schwab left for the capital this after
noon.
Besides finding It necessary to retain
on the job in the shipyards every man
engaged in the 1aborious work of build
ing ships and manufacturing ships fit
tings.' Mr.. Schwab has announced that
100000 more men must be brought into
the shipyards in order to carry. out the
construction program set for the re-
manning months of the present year and
for next year. Mr. Schwab was unable
to say today what methods would be
adopted to secure these additional work
ers. He expects to work out plans with
the provost marshal general which will
result in drawing them from among men
exempted under the industrial occupa- :
ton clause OF the man-power law and
who are now employed in industries not
so essential as. shipbuilding.
Mr.. Schwab said he would assure the
provost marshal general that no man
would be exempted from military service
in the "E. F.. c." list who entered the
shpyards merely to escape the draft
Heretofore the Fleet Corporation has
asked exemption only for highly trained
technical and administrative experts. The
scarcity of labor. however. has made It
necessary to extend the exemption priv-
lege to every honest, patriotic laborer
actually engaged in the construction of
ships
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17

lG. @. s. NachriChten Bureau, section H.,
No. SS3. Mar. ., 1879
Very SecrF
To the Commission for Fighting
the Counter-Revolution 1t is here
with communicated that for watch
ing. and If necessary attacking the
japanese, American and Russian off,
GERS who may command the expedi-
.tionary forces in eastern Siberia our
agents. StaufaCher. Krieger, Geze,
Walden, Buttenhof, Dattan and
SkribanoviCh take charge, and to
whom 1t is necessary that either
Commissar KoboZeff or any of those
named by the commission must ap-
ply.-Head, X. Bauer.
Note.-Comments to Telegraph ko.
bozeff" and "Telegraph Streabers' Of
illegible signature appear on letter, ant
below 1t is the order the list" initialet
"D. T." corresponding with the signint
habit of Dzerzshinski. chairman of tn
commission for fighting the counter
revolution. Below this order appear
the list of addresses, as follows:
Report according to List No. 3.
/. Staufacher. Nladivostok, Pan
offs house.
2. r. krieger, Nikolsk, Ussursky
3. Deze or Geze. Irkutsk, dru
store Zhinzheroff.
4. F. Walden. VladivCstok, hi
own house.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
STATE EMPLOYEES HELD UP
Republican City Committee ''In.
vites" Their Aid for Campaipn

state employees are included in the
list of job holders invited" to make
voluntary" contributions to the Vare-
controlled Republican city committee
Between 400 and 500 letters are said to
have been sent out by Magistrate
Thomas F. Watson, treasurer of the city
committee, asking State employees to
give their mite
reports were current yesterday that
many or the State office-holders would
ignore the request" Auditor General
snyder is reported to have told Phila-
delphians in his department not to pay
any attention to the letters. Most Of
the State employees take the stand that
any contribution from them should 20 to
the State committee.
While no letters have been sent to
policemen or firemen for political as
sessment, 1t Is understood that they are
being urged by their ward leaders to do
their bit for the city committee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
GERMAN PLOTS AGAINST
u. S. SHOWN IN PAPERS
Agents-Destructors Were to Be Sent Here-Assassina
tons of Loyal Russians-U.Boats for
Pacific

Rumania were coming. They also
learned quickly enough that Germany
was disposing of their hopes to see their
revolutionary propaganda take root In
German soil
Notes from the German intelligence
service to TrotZky, the commissioner of
foreign affairs. show first that a Turk
with Russian passport was sent to
Petrograd to keep watch over the Rus
sian commander er-in-chef, and that
month afterward. late in February. re-
moval of the commandern-chief. General
Bonch Bruevick. was demanded. Brue-
wick, whose continuance in the position
was particularly no longer desirable"
to the Germans. was turned out and
General Parski, named by the German
intelligence service, was appointed to
command the Petrograd district.
Another note from the intelligence
service complains that "the agents sent
to kill Generals Kaledn. Bogaevsky and
Alexieff. were cowardly, non-enterpris
ing people" This same document shows
that as long ago as December, 1917,
former German prisoners of war were
being dressed in Russian uniforms to
fight loyal Russian soldiers. Other COM
munications ask Russia to permit the
shipment of unassembled U-boats to
Pacific port so that the ruthless subma-
rine war may be carried on in that
ocean
The significance of the documents is
discussed in notes by Edgar Sisson. who
trough. the documents out of Russia
for the committee on public information.
DOCUMENT NO. 28
tGr. tGreaD General STAFF. Central Alb
theIuns. Section NJ. No. 800. February "a.
Confidential
To the Commissar of Foreign
Affairs: According to instructions of
the Imperial Government, I have the
honor to ask you to provide in the
shortest possible time a list showing
what commercial boats, auxiliary
cruisers and transports may be sent
into the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
where the German Government in
tends to form for the purpose of OPP
posing the Amercan-Japanese trade.
powerful commercial fleet flying the
Russian flag.
At the same time call to your at
tention the data that In your Baltic
fleet your sailors are selling from
the warships the launches. small
fittings. copper and bronze parts of
machines. etc. Would it not be the
proper time to raise. the question of
selling to Germany these war vessels
which are being stripped and dis
armed?
Please communicate the. decision
of the Government.--Head of the
Russian Section of the German Cen
MaI,, eraI Staff o. Rausch; Adjutant. U.
Note-opposite first paragraph Is no.
tation ASK Lomof. Markin" Latter
was one of Trotzky's secretaries. Op-
posite paragraph second, Markin makes
notation, Refer to Raskolnikoff." Lat
ter Is commissar on naval general
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17

staff. who conducted conferences with
German officers in Kronstadt in March.
April and July. 1917. and an active aide
to Dybenko in stirring up the Russian
fleet to revolt. Do not know who Lomof
is. The Importance of the first para
graph as indicating the use against
America to- which Germany intends to
put Russia is self-evident. The ludicraus
picture painted in the second paragraph
at once intensifies the shame of the end
ing of the fine, new Russian navy and
discloses the German hope of securing
and refitting the vessels.
Have original letter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
INFLUENZA FINDS
CAMP LEE ALERT
Immediate Quarantine for
Soldier Victims of
Spanish Grip
FEW SERIOUS GAS ES
5000 Pennsylvanians Sleeping
Under Canvas-Additional
Barracks Planned
BIZ a star Correspondent
Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va, Sept. II

Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va, Sept. II.
Five hundred cases of Spanish influ-
enZa have developed here. 1t has been
In tho camp to accommodate the pa
tients. only few of whom are seriously
ILL.,
The soldiers are being given medical
inspection daily. and all showing the
slightest symptoms of the disease are
Immediately quarantined.
The authorities believe the influenza
was brought here by rockies from sea-
coast cities.
More than 5000 Pennsylvanians are
sleeping under canvas. there not being
enough barracks to house all the re-
cruits. The War Department intends
TO have many additional barracks con-
structed before cold weather.
Miss Alice Peddle, Philadelphia, an
assistant librarian in the Wagner In
stitute of Science. is serving for. three
months. without pay. in the camp Ii
brary. Sc got leave from Wagner In
stitute, and is helping organize the camp
library.
Women are doing fine work in many
lines of activity here. this camp. more
than many others, having opened wide
it's doors to the restless SEX" When
the training camps were first estab-
lished the, army authorities opposed
having women around the cantonments,
taking the stand all work should be done
by the rockies.
This pre-war prejudice has been
abandoned to great extent. however,
and the military chiefs now realize
women can do some things better than
men, and at the same time release
large numbers of soldiers for active
duty.
OF course. many women are installed
at the base hospital, but their sphere
of influence does not stop in the medi-
cal wards.
They operate the telephone exchange,
help to manage the telegraph offices,
manage the hostess house. virtually con-
troll the camp laundry and have also
volunteered for service in the library.
The activities of women workers at
Camp Lee forms a most interesting
chapter in the history of the canton
ment and of particular Importance is
their work in the library.
II. S. Green, librarian at the camp, is
very proud of his library of more than
$4,000 volumes, but more proud OF his
women assistants. "They are experts"
said Librarian Green today, 'and do
ing valuable work"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
MISSION WILL HONOR HEAD
Calilee Superintendent to Cele-
brate Tenth Anniversary

old power house for God" will take part
in the celebration of the tenth anniver-
sary Of the Rev. j. j. d. Halls incep-
tion as superintendent.
The celebration will begin tomorrow
evening at o'clock in the mission
chapel, S23 Vine street. During his ten
years as superintendent OF the mission
Mr.. Hall has helped convert more than
$4,000 persons. Thirty-five of the con-
verts are now either in the ministry or
studying for it.
More than forty men converted in the
mission are known to be in the military
service. In the last year more than
10000 persons used the various depart
ments of the mission. Its greatest needs
now are funds to assist ministerial stu
dents. to repair fire escapes and provide
an electric sign
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17

8. ButtenhofY. Khabarovsk. o1o)
Kunet & Albers.i "A
8. A. Dattan. Tomsk. Nechey
kaya street go
Z. Kuzberg, Harbin, Office OF m :
Chinese-Ea stern Railway w.
sc. Skribanovich, BlaGov( \
chensk, house OF Kunst
Albers. t|xx<
Q. Panoff, vladivostok his o<@2
house. is' IN:
This letter was sent me after I ~
Petrograd and reached me April 81 ~
is important not only for content. in4fJ.
eating as 1t does the names and -;
dresses of agents destructors who ar9l
called upon for increasing activity
against the United States and Japan a
make the Pacific Ocean a new area ~
terror. but showing that the Germau4
general staff was continuing after M
Brest-Litovsk peace" to work actively
with the Russian Bolshevik governmeut.
Have original letter. E
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
SCHWAB TO INSPECT SHIPS
Will Visit Yards in New York
District Tomorrow

Charles NJ. Schwab. director general
or the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
Will go to New York on Thursday for an
inspection of the shipyards of the New
York district holding contracts with the
Government. He will return to his
offices here Saturday.
Mr.. Schwab SAID today he had post
southern shipyards until those yards had
made further progress. The trip prob
ably will be made montd hen.,. ard
will include visits to Wilmington, n. c :;
Charleston. S. c.. Savannah and Bruns-
wick, Ga. Jacksonville, Fla: Mobile,
Ala. Galveston, Tex, and New Or
leans, La.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
BURNS KILL Two CHILDREN
Invalid Mother Also Receives In.
iuries i'm Rescuing Effort

Bessie Kallick. ten years old, AIS
Emily street, died today in Mount Sinai
Hospital from burns received yesterday,
when her dress ignited while she was
cooking meal for her mother. who is
i'll, Mrs, Ksllick rushed from his
bed to beat out tie flames that envel-
oped her daughter. and also received
burns, which, with her weakened condi-
ton, and the shock. make her recovery
doubtful.
A match dropped on tablecover
oaused a fame which communicated to
the dress of eleven-year-old Katharine
Larkin, l044 Lancaster avenue. Rryn
Aawr, .inhicting burns which caused
taath within few hours
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
IMPORTANT SUGGEST
DEL SOLDATI ITAkIANI
Linee Austriache nella Re-
gione del Crappa Invase
dagli Italiani
Published and Distributed Under
PERMIT No. 341
Authorized by the act of October ..
1917, on file at the Postofflce Of Phila-
delphia, Pa.
BY order Of the President.
A. 8. BURLESON.
Postmaster General
Roma, II settembre.

Roma, II settembre.
Dale notizie giunte dal fronte di bat
taglia, confermate da un communicate del
Ministero della Guerra, pubblicato mel
pomeriggio di ieri, ST rileva che le truppe
italiane operanti sulle linee dele mon
tagne hanno, conseguito altri Important
successi. Nela regione nord e nord-
ovest di Monte Grappa, riparti itaiani
compirono una incursione contro lie linee
nemiche occupando alcuni punt che
migliorarono la loro poszione di fronte
al nemico.
Durante questa operazione gil italiani
presero 321 prigionieri catturarouo
numerose mitragliatrici.
Sui rimanente del fronte 81 ebbero
duelli di artiglieria ed attivita' di pattu-
glie.
Tutta la stampa italana ST scaglia
contro rAustria per le proposte discus
sioni di pace. II Corriere della Sera di
Milano dice: "E' necessario di offrire
una energica resistenza per lie proposte
dell Austria, perche' esse mirano ad i'm
brogliare belligeranti in un periodic
decisive"
II giornale II Messaggero di Roma
dice: LA prima condizione di Qualsiasi
discussions dovrebbe essere l'accettazione
da parte dele Potenze Centrali del prin-
cipio generate di liberia di Independent
"a per ogni nazione."
A Gallenga e. avvenuta una grande
manifestations in favore degli Alleati
con la partccipazione di Americani. In
glesi, Francesi Serbi, ma con speciale
entusiasmo per IAmerica che genero'
una dmostrazione imponente d am
mirazione per gil splendid successi con-
seguiti dale truppe americana al fronte
occidentale. lie mura della citta' erano
coperte di manifest che, annunzandone
la presenza, davano il benvenuto Mel
VILE +. Stone ed al Senatore Cutillo. IL
quale pronunzio' un patriottico discorso
sui soggetto: "L'America in Armi." en-
tusiasticamente applaudito. Egli disse:
moi eioiamo oggi per le splendide
vittorie dele nostre armi, lie quail sono
un positive indizio che e. vicino II giorno
della redenzione del popoli oppressi a
del trionfo dell'umanita' sopra la bar
barie.'
II discorso del Senatore Cutillo fu
spesso interrotto da indimentcabili ova-
zioni. Limmensa folla sventolava BAN
diere italiane ed americana, mentre
gridava: viva rAmerica -
Mr.. stone ed IL Senatore Cutillo par
tirono posca diretti al fronte. owe sa-
ranno ricevuti da Re Vittorio Eman-
uele.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
Named to Municipal Jobs

City appointments today include
Edward b. Wrinkle 1147 Erie avenue.
clerk. Bureau of Water. salary, $1,000 ::
Harry Wentzel. 3442 North Water
street. watchman. Board of Recreation,
5000; Franklin =. Williams, 45l9 Frank
ford avenue, maChinist, Bureau of
Water, S4.25 a day: Peter Fagen, 1929
South Eighteenth street, watchman,
Board of Recreation. 5000 a year, and
Elizabeth Settle, 629 North Nineteenth
street, hospital clerk, Bureau of Health,
5000