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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
CLOSE SCHOOL
WITH PROGRAM
NORTH ENGLISH GRADUATING
CLASS WILL GIVE CALL OF
THE coLoRS."

North English. May 1.-THE com
mencement exercises of the class OF
1918 of the North English High school
will be held at the Orpheum theater'
Friday, May "a. 1918. The program
for the evening follows
SongSGlee club.
Class Address, Education and
Democracy Paul s. Pierce.
NSong-Glee club.
Presentation of Diplomas-Supt. l..
H. Davis.
Rev. J. H. Krenmyre will deliver
the beccalaureate sermon at the
Methodist church. Mayv19.
The class play, 1.-The Call of the
Colors," will be presented at the
Orpheum theatre May %. The cast Of
characters:
Sallie Palmer-Maude Greenlee.
Mrs Hilary-Rosalia Monaghan.
Miriam Thorpe-Pearl Hinkley.
Lee Son,ers-Susie Thomas y
Lois Moore-Grace Mckinley.
Laura Jones-Erma Taylor.
Miss Smith-Cora Reed.
Az Vfsitor-Ada Woodward.
Cecile Deering-Susie Thomas. 2
Vilette-Ada Woodward.
Sergeant Hilton-Harold Rowe
Harrison Ray-Sherwood Swain,
Billy-Walter Riess.
Rudolph-Rae McKinstry
Act l. A Gauze Room, near an
American Training Camp.
Act II. A room in French chateau
near the firing line in France.
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KILLED
lNAUTO CRASH
TRAIN STRIKES CAR ON CROSS.
ING KILLING LITTLE GIRLS
- NEAR BURLINGTON

Burlington. May 17.-Three little
girls Of Burlington were killed, Mrs.
Oscar Gustafson, mother OF one of the
children. Ia very seriously injured and
Mr.. Gustafson Is considerably bruised
as the result Of crash about 6 o'clock
last evening when Rock Island passen-
ger train No. IS smashed into the au.
tomobile driven by Mr.. Gustafson,
about three and one-half miles north Of
Burlington. The dead are Ursula
1.easch, Kathleen Bosch and Opal Gus.
tafson. The children met instant
death.
After the crash the train was stopped
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gustafson brought to
Burlington. where the injured woman
was taken to Burlington hospital. Her
husband is not seriously injured.
Mr.. Gustafson Is chauffeur for n. S.
Rand and was driving Mr.. Rand's Ford
truck at the time. Grief-stricken so
that he had difficulty in talking, he
told Of the accident. He said that he
and his wife were in the front seat and
the children In the back.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN
AS I neared the crossing" Mr.. Gus.
tafson continued, Il thought it neces-
sary to see II a train were coming. The
road turns sharply. My wife looked in
one direction. toward the north, and
toward the south. Neither Of US saw a
train and I continued across the cross
ing. There is bell at the crossing
supposed to warn by ringing when a
train approaches. but IL 1t rang on this
occasion I did not hear 1t. When 1
reached the track the crash came"
The three little children We're all 10
years of age and they were chums.
The automobile was smashed COM
pletely, being a total wreck, pieces fly
ing in every direction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
DEATH Is VERY SUDDEN

Abba, May 1.-THE death OF MrS.
William Porter occurred at her home
at 2 o'clock Thursday morning Mrs.
Porter has been in poor health for
several years but has been in usual
health. her death coming as a shock
to the community.
Mrs. Porter took heavy cold Mon.
day and was threatened with pneu.
monia but Wednesday seemed to be
Miss Jessie Tedford was
caring for her but Gent for friends
when she found she was growing,
rapidly worse Wedne sday night. Her
husband, Rev VIM. Porter Ii at Ches,
ly, Ontario, Canada, and the relatives
have not been able to receive an an.
swer from him. Mrs. Robb, daughter
of Mrs. Porter. arrived Thursday
from her home in Blanchard
The funeral services are not yet ar
ranged on account OF not having -
ceived word from Rev. Porter.
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PALMER CASH
AIDS CHARITY
FORMER SOCIETY LEADER LEFT
100000 IN PERSONAL
PROPERTY.

Chicago. May 1.-THE personal
property left by Mrs. Potter Palmer,
the society leader who died last week
in Florida, was s1,6oO,0OO. This is ex-
elusive of the trust estate left by Mrs.
Palmers husband estimated to be
worth between s2O,OOO.oOO and 5000
600. The income from the trust fund
now goes to her two sons. Potter and
Honore. The will makes several i'm
portant charitable bequeaths as fol-
lows.
To sons to be used for philanthro.
ply. 100000.
To United Charities of Chicago,
100000.
To children's memorial hospital. $780,
600.
To Art Institute, Chicago, art works
worth 100000.
Legacies go to many servants, in
Guiding $500 to George Marshall, a
footman now in England.
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EAGER VOLUNTEER
CAN'T GO ACROSS

Keota, May 17.-Private Leo Brown
is home. Leo will be remembered as
the 17-year-old lad who was so eager
to enlist that he obtained special per-
mission from government authorities
to enter the service. He was sent to
Camp Houston. Texas, and his only
immediate concern was the delay in
"going across During the winter he
was hit by an automobile driven by a
reckless chauffeur, sustaining what
seemed to be trivial injuries. Later it
developed that all was not well with
his right leg and the surgeons finally
were obliged to amputate the limb ,up
to the thigh Now Leo is discommod-
ed for further service.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
HUNS DEMAND
BIGGER ALSACE.
INSPIRED NEWSPAPERS cLAMoR
FOR NEW SLICE
OF FRANCE.

Correspondence Associated Press1
Amsterdam, May German
newspapers are now demanding the
extension of Alsace-Lorraine further
into France "as protection against
a neighbor who for more than 600
years has always been the attacker"
1t is suggested that the frontier,
which now runs along the crest Of the
vosges mountains, should hereafter
be at the bottom Of the French side
of the mountains.
Germany surely has the right to
secure her frontiers, as Austria has
DONE" says the semi-offlcial Strass.
burg Post, land she certainly can
claim that her heroic efforts entitle
her to TRANQUIL and peaceful exist.
ence hereafter"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
IOWAN FIRED FIRST
AMERICAN SHOT

Mount Vernon, May 17.-Word has
been received here that the first piece
OF American field artillery to be dred
in the present war was touched on by
Sergt. Francis Beatty, an Iowa man
and graduate OF Cornell college, class!
OF 1918. He was a member Of the AM
phictyon Literary society.
After graduating from Cornell,
Beatty took special work In economics
at Harvard and at the time OF his en-.
listment was an efficiency expert for
a firm In Buffalo.-N. Y. His parents
resided at Cedar Rapids but formerly
lived here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
MINES
No MAN 5 LAND
Member of American Patrol
Explodes Bomb In
Neutral Zone.
LBy Associated Press Stan
CORRESPONDENT

Correspondent
With the American Army, in France,
May 17.-The Germans opposite the
American sector northwest of Toul are
resorting to Internal machines in an
effort to check the activity of Amer.
can patrols, numbers of which go out
every night to roam No Mans Land
and even German land virtually at will.
A member of an American patrol
stepped on a harmless looking wire
near the German lines yesterday and
a bomb Immediately exploded in the
center Of the patrol group. It had
been planted by the enemy. ..
The members of the patrol either
entered or we're assisted into an aban.
doned trench nearby and the soldiers
prepared for a fight. believing one was
certain to come. They waited in the
darkness for half an hour for some.
thing to happen but the Germans did
not come out. The party then made
its way back to the American line.
American aviators in the section
northwest of Toul brought down an.
other German airplane this morning.
Full details Of the action have not
been received. It appears. however,
that Lieut. Edward Rickenbach OF
Columbus, Ohio, answering an alarm
shortly after daylight. encountered
three enemy planes. He attacked
them and shot one down three kilo-
meters inside the enemy lines.
ILieut. Rickenbacher. formerly an
automobile racer was decorated with
the French war cross on Wednesday.
He assisted in bringing down German
aifplane in enemy territory two weeks
ago. in the same engagement which re-
suited in the death or capture of Cap
tain Norman HALL
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WILSON IN NEW YORK
TO HELP RED CROSS

New York, May 17.-Prelim1nary 10
the opening of the campaign in New
York to raise one-fourth of the Red
Cross war fund Of $10O,0o0,000, inter
est here today was centered in the
visit of President Wilson. The presi-
dent will remain in New York for
three days. He will review a parade
Of $4,000 persons on Fifth avenue
Saturday afternoon and address Red
Cross meeting at the Metropolitan
opera house in the evening. The re-
mainder of the presidents visit will
be devoted mainly to pleasure.
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OF
WILSON aAT KEOKUK

Keokuk, May 17.-President Will
sons brother-in-law, DR.. Stockton AK
son. will be in Keokuk next Tuesday.
May 81. for an address under auspices
Of the national Red Cross organization.
The Keokuk chapter will have charge
of DR.. Axon's appearance here.
DR.. Axon is accredited to the cen
trail division of the Red Cross with
headquarters in Chicago. He is speak
ing now in behalf of the new war fund
that is to be created for the organiza-
ton.
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ALL must WE'D,
KuLTUR' S Plan
Marriage Law Proposed
For Germans; Birth
Rate Low.

London, May 1.-THE German com.
mission appointed to examine the de-
cline in the birth rate in Germany has
reported recommendation for the
compulsory marriage of Germans be.
fore their twentieth year is passed,
according to dispatch to the Daily
Express from Amsterdam.
Financial assistance would be grant
ed by the state according to this plan
which provides penalties for those
failing to comply. Provision also is
made for the punishment of married
couples who remain ,childless. i,
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PLANE. BREAKS;
LATIN AGE DIES
Resnati Is Killed While
Testing American Built
Caproni.

New York. May 17.-Captain Anto-
MO Silvio Resnati Of the royal Italian
flying corps, who piloted the ten pas.
senger Caproni biplane from Washing
ton to New York and back again re-
tcently, was killed at noon today at this
Hemstead flying field.
Resnati, one Of the most famous
italian military aviators, met his
death while testing an American built
Caproni plane Of the bombing type re-
Gently authorized for purchase by tho
United States government.
CARRIED BOMB CARGO
Flying alone and. carrying cargo
Of sixty bombs, Captain Resnati left
the flying field on what was to have
been the first test of the new type
of biplane
The machine arose only 100 feet
when one of the planes crumpled and
it fell backwards. Captain Resnati,
strapped to his seat, was unable to
release himself. and one of the three
heavy engines crushed him to death.
On October %, 1917, Captain Res.
natl established new American flight
record in Caproni biplane by flying
from Norfolk to Mineola with. nine
passengers in 4 hours and rs minutes.
He has met with several accidents but
none Of them. was serious.
LEADER IN AVIATION
Early this year 1t was announced
Resnati was preparing to fly in an
Italian car which could dive under
water as we'll as sail through the air.
1t Was said this machine would be able
to travel faster under water than q
submarine.
Resnati was we'll known as the chief
Italian aviator demonstrating the Cap
roni planes in America.
The immense Caproni machine.
with its enormous wing spread, prac-
tically has been selected for American
army use az night bombing plane be-
cause of its tremendous weight carry
ing capacity.
Resnati was in close conferences
with American aviation ohicials at
Washington in the development of the
air program and they had the highest
re gard for his skill and technique.
LEFT BED TO FlY
Lieutenant Belloni Of the Royal fly
ing corps, who was on the flying field
at the time, Bald the death of Resnati
was due to the fact that, apparently
forgetting his usual caution, he at
tempted to turn and rise while the
heavy machine was still too near the
earth. an error that always results
fatally.
The indirect cause, according to the
lieutenant, was that Respati was i'll
when he attempted the flight. The
aviator had been complaining for some
days and Monday and Tuesday his con-
dition became 80 serious that he took
to his bed. Rather than further delay
the test. however, he insisted on flying
today despite his indlsposition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
Kerensky Comes
To U. s., Report
In Washington

NEW YORK, May 17-AIex.
ander T. kerensky, who be.
= came premier Of Russia In
July 1917, and was depossd In
November by the boishevikI, 10 ex.
pected to arrive in the United
States next week, according to 4
report published In the New York
Call, socialist organ.
This report, sent from WashiHa-
ton and said to have originated In
authoritative sources, states that
kerensky Probably will arrive at
an Atlantic port Monday and will
90 direct to the Rus3san embassy
at Washington, which Is still In
charge Of Boris BakhmeteIff, ap-
pointed ambassador : to United
States during the kerensky
regime.
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,BOLSHEVIKI DEAF
TO FINLAND PLEA

London, May 1.-THE Russian boil
sheviki has declined to intervene, at
Helsingfors on behalf of,,the Finnish
rebel leaders, according to telegram
from Helsingfors received at Copen-
hagen and forwarded by the Exchange
Telegraph company. The rebels had
asked the Moscow government to take
some action to obtain favorable terms
for them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
AIRPLANE POSTWAR
TRAVELS RAPIDLY

Washington. D. c., May 1.-THE
mornings airplane mail post from New
York to Washington reached Philadel-
phia at 12:4O O'Clock, making the first
part of the flight in one hour and ten
minutes,
The airplane bringing the mail from
Philadelphia and New York landed
here without mishap shortly before 8
p. m.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
'CRE VS. WRECK
ELEVEN SUBS
To FOIL HUNS
British And Russian Craft
Were Sunk In Finnish
Waters.
ENEMY WOULD HAVE
CAPTURED VESSELS

London. May 1.-THE seven British
submarines destroyed by their crews
at Helstngfors to prevent their being
captured by the Germans reached the
Baltic sea either through the straits
between Denmark and Norway and
sweden or by the way Of Archangel.
according to an admiralty statement.
The class G boats went by way OF
Archangel while the class e boats
took the other route.
Russian naval officials blew up their
four American built submarines before
retreat1ng from Hango, In southwest
lern Finland, last April, the British adj
m1ralty announced last night
sRfToNs ESCAPE CAPTURE
Seven British submarines also were
destroyed when the German naval.
FORCES sdd transports approached
Hango. None OF the, British vessels
foil into the hands Of the enemy, tho
admiralty announced.
The seven British submarines wero
DESTROYED during the Ave days from
April 8 to April s. The admiralty
says the project of blocking the har.
Dor by sinking ships in it had been ~
jected by the Russian admiralty com.
mander-in-chief.
The effect Of tho destruction Of til
British submarines upon the cruise
Of merchant vessels was, however, ths
statement says, excellent and induced
the destruction OF many ships which
would otherwise have fallen into the
hands Of the enemy. e
CREWS SOUGHT PErRooRAD
"The, guns at and near Hango," the
Admiralty announced says, "had al
ready been dismantled and upon the
appearance of the German forces, the
Russians retreated from the vicinity
after blowing up their four American
submarines.
-Four British submarines Of class
F. were taken outside the harbor Of
Helsingfors on April and blown up
and sunk. Three c boats were de-
molished between that day and April
8. Their crews we're removed to Pet.
rograd."
IMPRISONED ~ ICE.
All British submarines in the harbof
Of HelsinEfors were destroyed when
the city becauseNit was impossible ia
get them away, owing to the fact that
they were frozen fast, according to an
admiralty statement. The submarines,
which had been operating in the Bal.
tic since the early part Of the>war were
blown up, together with their stocks OF
torpedoes, ammunition and other ma.
terials The crews have arrived IN
England having travelled by way Of
Mourmansk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
loWAN wAsELEcTRocurEp

Marshalltown. May 17.-Edwin G..
Wallace, widely known throughout
Iowa as trap shooter, was electrocut-
ed at his home at Exter. Cal. Monday.
Wallace. who was running fruit
ranch at Exter. was engaged in repair
ing pump connected with his ,irri-
eating plant, when an iron pipe he held
IN his hands touched high tension
wire used to convey electricity to the
pumps. He was instantly killed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
m,sREpREsENrs CORN, FINED

Cherokee, May 1.-THE Cherokee
county council of defense fined w. j.
McCrum of this city recently for mis-
representing seed corn he was selling.
He had shipped in seed corn from
Grand Island, Neb., and disposed of it
here. The corn was labeled to test 80
per cent, but evidence in Justice
Green's court showed the corn was be-
low the advertised test and McCrum
was fined $40 and costs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-21
WOMEN ENROLLED
IN AUSTRIAN ARMY

Berne, Switzerland. May 17.--Aus-
TRAN newspapers are exhibiting con-
Germ at what they call the effeminiza
ton Of the army. It appears that
$4,000 women and girls now are en-
ployed in the auxiliary services as
clerks, servants, etc. and that others
are being enlisted at the rate Of $780,
900 month. They are being enrolled
at Vienna and sent into the field
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ARMY pEsERrER IS CAUGHT

Cedar Rapids. May Thames v.
Sweeney, a deserter from the national
army at Camp Dodge was returned to
that cantonment today by Sheriff j.
+. Ruhl Of Benton county. Sweeney
was arrested at Vinton several days
ago.
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CALLED BY ILLNESS

Charlton. May 17.--Mrs. Nellie Van
Vaikenberg, of Monmouth, ILL.,. has
again been called here by the illness
OF her sister, Mrs. Genevieve Argo
Jones. whose condition the past few
days has been critical.
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SOMEBODY MUST HAVE TOLD

Clinton, May 17.-After swearing
the minister and friends to secrecy. NJ
C. Fisher of the Rock island Argus
and Miss Irma G. Loucks. also of
Rock Island were married here yester-
day by Rev. George Raymond Cady, it
Was revealed today.
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aid RUSS
ALLy'S Plea
IS Renewed
London Press Unites In
Urging Intervention To
Break Kaiser's Grip On
Valuable Eastern Terri
tory. lAAiA
4 &,
DISORDER GROWS
IN UKRAINE CITIES

London, May 17.--An urgent plea
for allied Intervention in Russia to
resist German aggression there is
made by the Daily Chronicle in com.
menting upon Lord Robert Cecil's lad
mirably sympathetic reference to Rus
STA in the house Of commons yester-
day"
The paper says thst the more the
allies allow Russia to fall under Ger.
man influence the harder 1t will be to
extrtcate her eventually. 1t declares
that Russia Is now unable to recover
hersen without foreign military inter
vsntion.
\ DoLsHESuN ARE PoWERLEss
q The London, press in general Is
urging the necessity of allied inter-
vention of prompt nature If what Is
alluded to as the rapid Strengthening
'ot German grip on the country is to
b successfully com batted. The news
papers refer to Lord Robert Cecil's
house Of commons remarks and the
accommodating indications of the in
ability or unwillingness of the boil
shevih to resist the German penetra-
ton, and in some instances the ad-
.vocakes OF intervention reiterate the
EARLIER pleas for allowing Japan to
Get.
FAITH IN JAPAN
The insistence upon JapanAs disin-
terestedness is renewed. as is Japan
ere loyalty to the alliance. The Daily
Telegraph concludes its article with
these lines:
The statesmen at Toxic have made
It clear that they have no covetous
aims. In order to support the general
policy of the allies and especially to
protect Siberia from Teutonic ra-
pacity, Japan, we are convinced, is
ready to act in any way that promotes
the ideals Of the entente powers"
MARTIAL LAW IN ODESSA
London. May 16.-(Delayed)-Mar.
tial law has been proclaimed at
Odessa by the Austrian commandant
at the request of the Germans, accord
ing to Berlin advices forwarded in an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam,
Street fighting in Odessa is report
ed. At Kiev Austrian patrols are in
the streets day and night and thous.
ands of persons are fleeing from the
city.
Berlin expects to receive 100000
sheep and $4,000 pigs shortly from
Rumania and 100000 tons of cereals
in July and August.
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Ten Lose Lives
When Hun Shot
Hits Ally Ship

~ ARTS, May 17.-Ter passen.
gers, one European and nine
Arabs, were killed when the
French steamer AtIantlque was
torpedoed In the Mediterranean
early this morning. The steam
ship managed to reach port by
her own means, It is announced.
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BRITISH CRAFT SINKS

oNT V0FI WHAT 0VNN0
= London, May T.-The British
steamer Clan Maekay was sunk In
a collision on May II, according to
a telegram from Gibraltar received
by Lloyds. The crew was saved.
The Clan Mackay was APO feet
long and measured $3.50 tons.
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The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-04
CLUcK, CLUcK.

Fowls rations in Great Britain But it isn't any old
Kind of fowl that qualities that
To deserve the food allowance fixed by the hen
must snow record she delivers her quota eggs she STAYS
on the payroor grainro but Stacker Her case
even harder than that of Israel in the Egyptian bcieds if sh
fails to provide meals she becomes one.
We do not learn that the principle applied in England
70 human ackes but would be good rule follow both here
ana there This not plea for cannibas course Ever
cannbas understood their enemies not their
ductive friends.
But there is virtue in the recently expressed demand ta
shpyard workers be compelled days week Their
wages are so nigh that many OF them refuse work than
-ou and these esure expuisites given the option OF
working complete week going to the trenches they may for
get the lure OF the movies Sitting picture theatres cheer
ing the American Flag displayed films poor substitute fol
the work that needed to keep that flag flying Shpbuders can
hardly claim to be in occupation they generally
unoccupied
Give them resno exemption The 18 to IS draft viii
soon find men to fill their places