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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
NORMAL TRAINING
EXAMS THIS WEEK

The examinations for normal train
ing to be conducted by the county su.
'perintendent of schools this week, will
start tomorrow The subjects and the
time for taking the examinations are
announced by Superintendent Gardner
as follows:
Wednesday at i p. m, preliminary
pedagogy and grammar.
Thursday at a. M, civics, methods
of reading, photography and music.
Friday at 9 a. m, agriculture, manu-
al training for boys and home econ.
omics for girls.
Friday at p. M, penmanship, physi-
olosy and United States history.
The subjects will be designated by
the county superintendent or deputy
before the students Wednesday morn
ing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
URGE USE OF
MORE BUTTER
AMEs EXPERT SAYS IN LONG RUN
y USE OF SUBSTITUTES IS
FALSE ECONOMY.

Ames, May 14.-"In the long run 1t
will be false economy for Iowa house
wives to use substitutes In place Of
butter" says M. Mortensen. head Of
the dairy department at Iowa State
College.
There is no real substitute for but
ter fat as food and as builder of
Human health and strength" says Mr..
Mortensen. 'tDr. q. v. McCollum Of
Johns Hopkins university, who is in
Iowa this week ON speaking touh,
has proved that butter fat contains an
elements which he calls Soluble A.
which Is necessary for human growth
and health. This substance, he also
says, is not found in the fats from
which oleomargarine is made. Children
who are deprived of butter fat become
afflicted with eye trouble and other
wise show that they are not being sup
Piled with an important food material.
Housewives who exclude butter from
their tables are taking serious chances,
especially with growing boys and
girls"
"This other fact is worth consider
ing Also added Mr.. Mortensen.
Every time housewife uses butter
substitute she strikes hard at one of
Iowa's greatest industries-the dairy
industry. Already that industry has
suffered and in every dairying COM
munity farmers are reducing the mum.
Der of cows"
In letter to Mr.. Mortensen, urging
that every effort be made to stimulate
1owa's dairy industry r. A. Pearson,
assistant secretary of agriculture at
Washington for the war period, says
that dairying must be encouraged for
three reasons: First, because dairy
products represent cheap and neces-
sary form of animal food; second, be-
cause dairy cows consume relatively
large amount OF foods that cannot be
used directly by human beings; third,
because dairying is necessary to main
tain the fertility of the soil in large
sections Of the country"
FUTURE PROSPECT is GOOD
Mr.. Mortensen adds another reason:
After the war, when transportation be.
comes normal, there will be great
market for dairy products in Europe.
Their peoples are starving for butter
fat and as soon as American dairy
products can be- safely and conven-
iently shipped across the seas they
will make enormous demand for Amerf-
lean butter and cheese. 1t is vital,
dairymen point out, to keep the Amer.
lean dairy industry at high efficiency
to meet that demand.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
159 SHIPS
U. s. REPLY
TO u-BoA1s.
Federal Board Has Obtained
Deliveries Rapidly And
Reports They Will Con-
tinue To Increase; Ton
age Passes Million Mark.
EIGHT U. S. VESSELS
SINGLE WEEKS SHARE

Washington, d. C., May 1.-THE
first million tons Of ships completed
and delivered to the United Statesl gov
eminent under the direction Of the
shipping board have been put on the
high seas to help defeat Germany.
A total of 159 vessels of 1,108,611S
tons was completed up to May IL, &C.
cording to statistics compiled by ex-
'perts Of the shipping board. Since
January more than half of the total
tonnage, 667 1896, has been delivered
and the monthly totals have shown =
steady increase.
WAIT FOR BOILERS
Most of the ships delivered were 70.
QUESTIONED on the ways or in contract
the war. Virtually all are of steel coz
great wood program has been deliv...
cred, although forty-six have been
launched, due to delay in obtaining
first completed wood ship built on con-
tract for the government now is UNDER
going speed trials off the Pacific coast.
deliveries of ships made last week
were at Seattle, .Sparrow's Point, Nd;
Chicago, Ecorse, Mich; Gloucester, n.
j.; Wilmington, Del, and New York.
EIGHT SHIPS IN SEVEN DAYS
Eight steel ships totaling 1880 tons
were completed during tie seven days
ending May II. Fourteen vessels were
launched with total tonnage of 100
Of which seven were steel with total
capacity of 32,100 tons.
The steel deliveries included one ~.
frigerator ship, two tankers and hr0
cargo vessels.
The state of Maine during the week
turned out its first wooden ship for the
government, the Andra. $500 ton
vessel built at Portland.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
PLAN PROGRAM FOR
MEMORIAL DAY

Richland, May 14.-Citizens who met
one evening last week to arrange for
the observance Of Decoration Day Sc
lected committees as follows:
Vocal music, Joe Dagle and t. L.
Henderson.
instrumental music. H. J. Loar and
Lemma Mills.
Speaker. Rev. Ashbe, Rev. Behren
and D. L. l.. Foote.
Automobiles, e. E. Steele.
Finance, Walter Duke and g. l..
Evans.
Decoration of park stand Jessie
Smith, David Bruins, Mrs. G. J. Leech,
Mrs. Pleas Hoskins and Mrs. John
Greenlee.
Floral committee, Mesdames " w.
Ward, B. T. Bottorff, N. w. Callister,
Herbert Steele.
Hold over, Dr. L. L. Foote, Ed Han
sen and H. ]. Loar.
The latter committee is instructed to
arrange the program.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
HONOR SHOWN
RECRUITS
Ottumwans Throng Station
When Thirty Depart In
COuntry's Service.

i Ottumwans in large numbers gath.
cred at the union station this morning
to bid adieu to another contingent of
her honored sons who came from all
walks Of life and readily took leave of
their dear ones that they might re.
spond to Columbia's call. Thirty fine
young men boarded Burlington train
No. IS at 1886 o'clock and started on
the first lap of the journey to the front
where they will bear their share of the
fight for world wide freedom.
Relatives and countless friends
thronged the y station platform and
many who had assembled with them at
the court house at the final roll call be-
fore departure, gathered about the
library when the picture of the group
was taken and then fell In either be-
hind the marchers or walked along the
sidewalks en- route from the court
house to the station.
OLD SOLDIERS LEAD MARCH
Led by gray haired but proud old
veterans Of the civil war who carried
the Stars and Stripes, keeping spright-
ly step to the airs played by the First
Cavalry band or the martial music Of
the fife and drum corps ever present
on patriotic occasions, the thirty young
men who left for service today were
the envied Of many.
When the station was reached there
were awaiting their arrival large num-
bers of relatives and friends. Feeble
men and women mingled with the In
fants in arms and all generations. The
struggle of many Of the loved ones to
stem the tears when ties were about to
be at least temporarily broken, was
heroic. The splendid behavior Of the
thirty young soldiers was commend
able and inspired all present with
hopes of the success that American
forces are to win when they enter in
strength to combat the merciless and
CORY streaked Hun.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
The laborer, the clerk, Office man,
farmer mechanic; the native born and
the foreign born, including a son of
sunny Italy who, belonging to New
York contingent, left by transfer with
the local lads, made up the contingent
today. All were Characteristic Of the
American fighting man and all r"rear-
ing to go" and will be drilled into the
rudiments of soldiery at Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-, where they expect to
arrive tonight.
These men with some Of the eight
men who leave Friday for Ft. Benja-
mine Harrison, were guests of the
Commercial club yesterday at lunch
con. The latter part Of the month an
other contingent Will leave for Camp
Dodge and it is expected it will be the
largest lot to go thus far About sixty
men are expected to be called in the
next draft.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
REED PREDICTS
COAL FAMINE
Urges Use Of Waterways To
Reduce Railway Con-
gestion.

st. Louis, No, May 14-Unless coal
production and transportation facili-
ties are speedily increased, last win.
ter's fuel shortage will be duplicated
with it's consequent suffering among
the people and curtailment Of war in
dustry, Senator Reed of Missouri pre-
dicted today in an address before the
Mississippi valley waterways conven-
ton.
The output of coal mines this sea-
son, Senator Reed said, has been
actually less than for the correspond
ing season Of 1917" and transporta-
ton facilities, while improved, cannot
cope fully with the situation until tho
government employs every possible
agency within its power.
URGES USE OF RIVERS
He urged that the nations water
ways be utilized to the fullest extent
to aid the railroads in solving the
problem.
PLAINLY, it is the duty Of the gov
eminent to do two things and to do
them at once" he continued 1T
should increase the efficiency Of the
railroads Dy every lHedAo III us po"
er; it should buy every engine and
freight car that can be turned out and
it should not stop to count the cost.
at should at the same time place
boats and barges upon the great inland
waterways of the country. AS soon as
these lines are in operation, and they
can be constructed within a few
months time, they will begin to so
relieve the congestion on eastern rail-
ways, that the coal mines of the coun-
try will be able to secure an abundant
supply Of cars"
WOULD RELIEVE CONGESTION
Speaking specifically of the Missis-
sippi river, the Missouri senator ad-
vocated its use as the best means of
relieving the congestion at the Atlantic
staboard The practicability of the
port of New Orleans, he said, is appar-
ent when it is remembered that prior
to the war "the foreign tonnage ship
ped from New Orleans and New York
was substantially the same"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
MOTHER AND
BABIES DROWN
FATHER FINDS BODIES IN TANK;
HIS WIFE'S THROAT
Is CUT,

Webster City, May 1.-THE dead
bodies of Mrs. Carl Carlson and her
baby boys were found in the watering
tank at their farm fifteen miles south
Of this city by the husband and father
when he came in from the field Satur-
day evening. The mother had her
throat cut. 1t is supposed that one Of
the children fell in the tank and
drowned and that the mother, upon
discovering it, went insane and cut her
throat and drowned the other children.
Coroner Foster was summoned from
this city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
British Losses
In Huns Drive
SetNew Record

T oNDoN, May 14-The total
British casualties reported In
the week ending today is
41.612.
They are divided 10 follows:
Killed or died Of wounds; Off
cers, SOL; men, 6,065.
Wounded OF missing, officers,
2,123; men, 1928.
[Reports Of British casualties
usauIIy arc not available for some
time after the actions in which
they arc sustained. The large total
In the last week evidently repre-
ssnts losses suffered when the
fighting In Flanders and Pieardy
was at its height. Complete records
have not been given out but II 10
probable that the Casualties report
cd in the last week are the hsav-
lest British losses Of any week Of
tho war. Tho total last wssk was
3a691.1
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
PLAN RED CROSS DRIVE

Abba, May 14.-Mr. Kidder of Des
Moines gave a good talk at the King
theater Sunday afternoon in the in
terest of the Red Cross drive. DR..
Eschbach of Abba had the meeting in
charge and after the address by Mr..
Kidder the chairmen Of each township
and of each ward in Abba held meet
ing with their workers to plan the
work. Ten thousand dollars is the
amount to be raised by Monroe county
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
AIRCRAFT BUILDING
UP TO BUFFALO MAN

Washington, d. c., May 14.-Archer
A. LAndon, of Buffalo, was today ap-
pointed to be director OF the division
of production Of the aircraft board.
Mr.. Landon has been vice president
of the American Radiator company.
at is felt that Mr.. Landon's wide ex-
perience and great ability will mater
ially advance the production OF air
craft" said the announcement by John
D. Ryan, director Of aircraft produo
ton, $3.50.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
WILL CHARGE SIX
CENTS CAR FARE

Jefferson City, Mo-. May 1.-The
United Railways company of st. Louis
has been granted the right to charge
a six-cent street car iare in that city
by the state public service commission.
The ruling becomes effective June l
and is to continue for year, when the
company must show cause for making
the order permanent. -.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
FUTURE PROSPECT is GOOD
DISAPPEARS WITH AUTO.

Atlantic, May 14.-After working
only a few days, housekeeper en-
ployed by Adolph Pauson, farmer liv-
ing south Of here, took French, leave,
in her employers auto
mobile. She left a note announcing
the car would be left in an Omaha
garage Authorities are on the trail
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
DEMAND FOR WAR
MOVE is SILENCED

Washington, D. c., May 14.-New in
formation on the relations between
the United States and Turkey and Bull.
garia was given the senate foreign
relations committee today by Secre-
tary Lansing. Afterwards Chairman
Hitchcock of the committee said it
was not likely that demands for war
on the two countries would be- taken
up II tbs time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-17
WEIRD tale
OF H | D D { N
GUNS aired
IN new YORK
Broker Is Told Pro-Germans
Are Waiting For Army To
Reach English Channel As
Signal For Crusade to
''Germanize" America.
FORTY HIDING PLACES
IN UNITED STATES

New York. May 1A-Reports that
thousands Of rifles had been secretly
imported from the Krupp works al
Essen "in order to Germanize the
United States" were related today at
an Investigation conducted by Attorney
General Lewis into rumors of boarding
OF arms by German interests in ths
United States.
Edgar A. Holmes of this city, wit.
ness, credited the reports to man
named James H. Grossly. Holmes as
q broker, tried to buy the rifles but
was unsuccessful, he said. During the
negotiations, he said, Grossly told him
that some 100000 rifles had been i'm.
ported from Essen, via the Hoboken
docks Of two German steamship COM
panies, and we're to be used in the
United States If the Germans were
successful in reaching the English
channel ports
GUSTAV LUsHFNG, CUSTODIAN
Mr.. Holmes identified a copy of a
letter written June by himself offer
ing to sell 100000 Mausers and 1,000,-
600 cartridges.
Mr.. Holmes testified he had not seen
the articles but had talked with an en-
gfneer named Francis L. Judd, who
said he had seen the boxes containing
100000 rifles. Two months ago, Holmes
said, the United States tried to buy
them but they were not purchased.
Holmes had been in touch with the
United States officials throughout the
negotiations.
Gustav Lushing was named by
Holmes as the man who said by vari
the goods. Judd told Holmes the rifles
had been tn an East Side warehouse in
New York and had been removed but
were within an automobile ride of an
hour and half from Broadway.
MACHINE GUNS IN CACHE
Charles H. Murray, hotel owner Of
Washington, d. c., testified he had
heard of the existence Of the rifles
through Russian agent, Ivan Norodny
who claimed they had been taken to an
upstate New York farm and that he
had shot one Of the weapons himself
Norodny said Lushing had farm at
Woodbury. Falls and that party Of
German officers including Captain
i
ing at the German club in New York
Through Norodny, Murray met Lush
Ing and was showed an itemized state
.ment Of the quantity of hidden NUM-
tions, as follows:
100000 Mauser guns; 250,o00,000/
cartridges
100000 carbines; 1000 rounds
cartridges.
100000 rifles.
600 machine guns.
FORTY HIDING PLACES
flushing, according to the witness
said the were stored in forty different
places in the United States.
Robert T. Tucker, a tanner of
Charleston, 8. c., testified that he
heard Of the rifles through his ac-
quaintance with Russians in business
Judd told Tucker he, said he had seen
cannon and rifles at a warehouse in
Brooklyn. According to the witness
New York lawyer finally told him the
rifles had been sold.
II am thoroughly. convinced that
these rifles are in this country and
that Lushing knows where they are"
said Tucker at the close Of his exami- |
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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-06-20

cellar and in the evenings there were
still songs. The fighting went on;
sometimes one side gave little
ground, sometimes the other, but al
though the cellar underwent many
changes, it never fell into German
hands.
A few weeks ago, there was a
Strengthening" of the British line,
and at this point, the line moved for
ward. An ambulance aid-post took
over the cellar, the wounded were
brought in on stretchers and attended
to by candlelight. Then the sound of
the guns moved further away, and an
engineers dump was established in
the village. The cellar was filled
with coils of wire and men working
on machinery of varous kinds, and the
men sang as they worked
Finally the engineers moved else
where and a party of men came up
and started building strange new
house above the old cellay. 1t was one
of the first of the new advance sta
tions of the Y. M. G. A., and as soon
as it was finished it began to fill up
with crowds of men not so different
from the men of the old days. One
of the workers, rummaging in the
debris in the cellar, found the old sign
board, discolored and Clipped. They
have put it up over the door, and the
"White Rose" is again doing business.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-06-20
HAS SUCCESSOR
TO PEKING GAZETTE

Shanghai.-The new Shanghai Ga
zette, which made its appearance here
recently as Shanghai's second after
noon daily, has a number of new fea-
lures appealing strongly to the read
ing public. AS the Shanghai success
or of the Peking Gazette, recently sup
pressed by government order, it will
carry several of the features of it's
predecessor, among them, translation
from the Chinese Government Ga
zette of the principal mandates issued
at Peking. The first page of the
paper will regularly carry all the late
kilograms, and other pages will be CIV
en- up to translations of the principal
editorials from the vernacular papers
and selections from the English and
American press. The paper will also
carry daily picture page.
Like the Peking Gazette, the Shan
hal Gazette is being edited by Mr..
Eugene Chen. one of China's foremost
young editors.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-06-20
COULD HARDLY
STAND ALONE
Terrible Suffering From Headache,
Sideache, Backache, and Weak
ness, Relieved by Cardui,
Says This Texas Lady.

Gonzales, Tex Mrs. Minnie Phil.
pot, OF this place, writes: give years
ago was taken with a pain In my
left side. 1t was right under my
left rib. It would commence with an
aching and extend up into my left
shoulder and on down into my back.
BY that time the pain would bs DO
severe I would have to take to bed,
and suffered usually about three days
...I suffered this way for three years,
and got to be a mere skeleton and was
30 weak could hardly stand alone
was not able to go anywhere and had
to let my house work 60. L suffered
awful with pain in my back and
had the headache all tho time. just
was unable to do a thing. My life
was q misery, my stomach got I'm an
awful condition, caused from takina
80 much medicine. ] suffered 80 much
pain. I had just about given up all
hopes OF our getting anything to help
me.
One day a Birthday Almanac was
thrown in my yard. After reading
its testimonials decided to try Car
dui, and am 80 thankful that I did.
for I began to improve when ON the
second bottle...I am now O well
woman and feeling fine and tho cure
has been permanent for 1t has been
two years since my awful bad health.
I will always praise and recommend
Cardui" Try Cardui today. ID 20
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-06-20
THE WHITE ROSE" CAFE
IN FRENCH VILLAGE

Behind British Lines in France, MAY
13.-( Correspondence of the Associat-
ed Press)-Before the war the "Es-
taminet of the White Rose," typical
French village cafe, looked out over
broad fields and a peaceful country
side. Today all that remains of it is
the old sign-board, splintered and
bullet-marked, which hangs over the
entrance to new Y. M. G.. A. hut on
the site of the old village cafe.
The White Rose, in peace time, was
the meeting place, every evening, of
the French farmers, men with heavy
boots and tanned skins, who came
in for drink and a smoke, served
smilingly by the old patronne's
daughter. Often the men sang quaint
songs in their harsh voices, and the
rafters shook with prodigous laugh
ter.
Then came the war, and the men
carried their quaint songs far away
south to the Ardennes. Other men,
strangers, sat at the wooden tables in
the uniform Of the British army. They
too had tanned skins and heavy boots
and sang strange songs loudly. They
called the patronne Mother" and
joked with her, winning her affection
The Germans were advancing, and
one evening their guns were heard
The inhabitants of the village gather
ed their belongings and left their
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inn-keeper and her daughter.
The German advance wavered and
broke before the British counter at
tack, but the German guns had done
their work. 1t was sad wreck, that
"Estaminet of the White Rose" win
dow-deep in debris that looked out
over fields SCARED with shell-holes and
muddy wastes on every side. But the
men in khaki were still there, singing
their songs as if nothing had happen
town, the orchards were ruined, the
church-spire leaned perilously, and in
front of the village ran trenches with
masses Of barbed wire. In what re-
mained of the little inn, staff officers
worked by candlelight, protected by
sandbags which darkened the home.
One day a prolonged and violent
bombardment demolished nearly all
that remained Of the village, and the
Germans attacked. Hardly one stone
was left standing on another, and only
the cellar of the estaminet remained
after period of bitter fighting in and
out of the village. A crater yawned in
the main street in front of the inn,
but a company officer worked in the