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New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Camp Mills Order
Makes 6 Towns Dry
All Bars Are Closed in Mine.
ola, Hampstead and
Garden City

CAMP MILLS, June 15.-Captain c
W. Tobin, commanding the miltary
police here, issued an order to night
closing all the saloons and hotel an
rcadhouse bars within rad US Of five
miles of the camp. The order. which
makes q Sahara of the popular automo
bile touring country embracing Garden n
City, Mineola, Hampstead, Westbury,
Hicksville and East Williston, was is
sued, it was said, in connection with a
drastic effort to curb ot.egging.
Most of the hotels end roadhouses
have been obeying the law, but the So.
diers have been getting liquor. So all
the bars have been closed, while civil
ian and military authorities are round
ing up the illicit liquor traders.
More than sixty persons have been
arrested for supplying intoxicants to
soldiers in the last few days. Among
them were six women and several reta-
tives of men in service.
Staten Island bath-house owners
have received unofficial word that the
government will issue an order pre-
venting the renting of bathing suits
or bath houses to soldiers and sailors
lest the men. while in bathing suits, be
able to purchase liquor.
Coney Island bath house owners have
also been forewarned. but in both
cases plans have been mads to provide
bathing suits bearing insignia sewe9
on both sides a. the jersey. Mer
wearing such suits will not ha seryed
with drinks
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

being more rapid than would have been
the case with the average young man
of robust health and vigor.
Excellent Work in Camp.
"He has done excellent work in train
ing his men at Camp Funston. He has
been unwearled IN looking after the
health and welfare of his men. lie has
been rewarded by their loyal devo-
tions; they have been profoundly
grieved and moved by having him sud
denly taken from them.
"1he refusal to use his great ability
and energy means distint subtraction
from the sum total of our military eff
cheney, a distinct addition to the risk
from disease and discomfort which
some of our men at the front will have
to incur and distinct benefit to the
cause of Germany.
"No explanation has been given the
American people for the action con-
cerning him. Nothing has been made
rublic which warrants our belief that
this action was due either to profes-
sonal or patriotic considerations"
Copyright. 1913. The Kansas City Stas.)
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

handicap of smoke screen which
they had not hitherto experienced
that the Germans failed. In the
final result every man that crossed
was either killed or taken prisoner
and by June 2 the German attempt
to effect the main crossing at Cha
teau-Thierry had completely failed.
Hence came the second attempt of
Jaulgonne the next day.
Where American
Advance Took Place
A third point where the American
troops came in during the weeks
fighting with the greatest effect is
the region between Chateau-Thierry
and the Ourcq, where the enemy had
most enlarged his salient, giving him
self the most elbow room just south
of Torcy. The action was fought
through several days, beginning on
the morning of June 6, and should
be memorable as a starting point.
1t is the first occasion during this
campaign in which the American
lines have effected an infantry at
tack on any considerable scale and
have gone forward.
The Allied line here runs nearly
east and west, but with a lift little
northwest and southeast along a
tumbled piece of high ground brck-
en- by a few small woods. The front
of the Allied soldiers here as they
look downward and northward is
shallow valley carrying the light
railway between Villers-Cotterets
and Chateau Thierry. This val
ley is marked by villages the names
Of which are now so familiar to our
newspapers - Bouresches, Torcy,
Eussiares, Veuilly and La Poterie.
It was almost in The centre Of this
line, among and between the small
woods that diversity the sloping
fields above Torcy, that the Amer
ican advance took place.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Roosevelt Calls
Shelving of Wood
A Cruel Injustice
Grave Damage Done
to the Army and Allied
Cause

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, June 15.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt in a signed editorial
entitled General Wood to be pub
lished by "The Kansas City Star" to-
morrow, will say:
Senator Hiram johnson has rendered
many notable services to the public,
and among them is his recent speech
concerning the cruel injustice with
which Major General Leonard Wood
has been treated and the very grave
damage thereby done the amy and the
Allied cause at this critical moment of
the war.
General Woods entire offence con-
sists in his having before the war con-
tinually advocated our doing things
which now every one in his senses ad-
mits ought to have been done. Nine
tenths of wisdom consists of being
wise in time. General Wood was wise
in time. Moreover, by twenty years of
hard practical work he fitted himself
| to do peculiarly we'll in this very
crisis.
Senior General in Rank
"He was our senior general in rank
he was recognized by the best French
and English military authorities by ex-
perience trained to play an immediate
and important part in the difficult and
perilous joint work of the war. He
had testified at length and with ex-
haustive professional knowledge be-
fore the Congressional Military COM
mittees one year and two years prior
to our entry into the war, pointing out
military lacks which experience has
since shown to exist and which the
War Department then denied existed
"He is to be credited with the only
piece of serious military preparedness
in advance which is to our credit In
the summer of 1915, in the teeth of in
difference and hostility from his SUI
periors, he created the Plattsburg OFF
GERS Reserve Training Camp, starting
the system Of training camps which
has enabled US to officer our draft
army.
"Hesis in splendid physical condition
Recently, when in France, he was
! severely wounded by she'll burst and
the sursyons reported his recovery Al
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

for s2 Are "Tri!by" Style En-
velope Chemises of silk crepe de
chine; the whole yoke well-nigh
of broad filet-patterned lace, and
the bottom edged in this lace.
Or other styles with filet-pat~
termed lace tops and shoulder
straps, not to mention fine tuck
ings.
Or still another with narrow
loco STRAINS
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
u. S. Machine Gunners
Decide the Result

In addition to the Americans who
were working on the north bank
of the river on the outskirts of the
town, there was also large force of
American machine gunners on the
southern part across the river, and it
was these who, by support Of the
French colonial troops, decided the
result. The French engineers had,
of course, mined the bridge, and
when considerable part Of the
enemy's force had crossed, and
when dense column was actually
on the bridge, it was blown up.
But the small Franco-American
force which was containing those
great numbers which had already
crossed and at the same time trying
to keep under it's fire the German
concentration on the northern bank
had very hard time. Pontoon
bridges had been thrown across, by
which the enemy continued to pass
in spite Of the blowing up Of the
main bridge, and the numbers of the
Franco-American force were appar-
emily insufficient to meet the press
ure brought upon them. It. was
largely due to the excellence Of the
American machine gunnery under
the very difficult circumstances of
street fighting and alRo under the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Dainty, Tho Little-Priced
Silk Lingerie
In abundance During This Greo
Summer Preparedness Sale OF Linger1

Silk lingerie is not luxury when it costs SO lit
Who cannot indulge oneself in these satisfying unt
things when
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
The Crossing
at Jaulgonne

The choice of Jaulgonne by the
Germans as a place for forcing the
obstacle of the Marine River will
appeal to all who have studied the
history of war. A river obstacle
is most easily crossed under these
two combined advantages: First, a
bend in the course of the river, con-
vex toward those who desire to cross
and concave toward the defenders,
because upon such a bend you can
bring converging fire to bear from
all around its outer border upon
the defenders who are cramped
within it; the second, with high
ground dominating the river as
much as possible from the side of
the attack and fiat or lower ground
only in the hands of the defence
within the bend Of the river.
Both Of these conditions were
present at Jaulgonne. The Marine
here is rather over 200 yards wide,
and though it is not fordable it
makes great bend forward, that
is, with the outside of the bend
toward the Germans in the shape of
capital u. The bend is so pro-
nounced that the base of the land
inclosed is only $50 yeards across,
while the depth is very nearly the
same. All the southern part Of the
land within the bend-that is, the
part toward the point at which the
Germans attempted the crossings
fat, but at the base Of the curve
you get ground rising through the
village of Varennes up to the woods,
which are we'll back from the river
and about 800 feet above it (the
river here is at level of about 200
feet above the sea-. The northern
bank, on the contrary, is hugged
everywhere by very steep hills, high
er than those on the southern bank.
Ane village OF Jaulgonne lies right
on the northern bank and immedi-
ately up from the houses OF this
town and from the river bank both
above and below them rises a
steep bluff which at it's highest
point is more than 400 feet above
the stream. The fiat 'land within
the bend is therefore completely
Dominated from the northern bank,
Which was held by the Germans.
5000 Bayonets
Get Across
Ihe enemy unit which was chosen
Ior this work Of forcing the river
was the 175th Regiment of the line.
numbering, it may be presumed,
S,ooO bayonets and the usual com
piement Of auxiliary arms. 1t was
g course, only the active head of 8
aarger force which would have
ffcssed immediately once the bridge
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16


War; and Britoin's Most Dis
ttnguished Military Critic
convrisht. 1915. The Tribune Association
(rhe New York Tribune)
THE striking and novel feature
of the increasing resistance
II which checked and stopped
the German advance in the great
salient between Scissors and Rheims
was the work of the American con-
tineents who we're brigaded with the
Allied forces. At least three definite
actions stand out in which the Amer
leans have played vital part, and
they are highly significant Of the
wisdom displayed by the American
military command and the Ameri-
can political authorities when they
allowed their troops to be thus
brigaded by comparatively small
units during the strain which was
suffered at the beginning of the
great OTenSlVc iaSC March.
The enemy always calculated that
q very much longer space of time
would elapse before any appreciable
American force could appear against
him, for he thought of it only in
terms of separate army under the
united command. The policy of
brigading the first units after this
fashion has already begun to mod
ify the numerical position on the
Western front and has proved of the
utmost service.
1t is of interest, therefore, at this
moment to study the three actions
In which the work Of Americans has
been distinguished. The most i'm
portant of these apparently was the
German attempt to force the pas
sage of the Marne at Jaulgonne on
Monday, June 8, which was de-
feated by the Franco-American
force on the southern bank of the
river. 1t was an action in which
the Americans use Of machine guns
was, if am not mistaken, particular
Iy effective.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

1t may be this model (i1lus-
troted) with the floating panels
above the accordion-pleated tube
skirt-the fringed sash and
plaques of braid and rat-tail
work. $3.50
Or model of wonderful char
meuse satin weighted with discs
OF Jet bead work and narrowly
fringed in jet. sss
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Saturday, June /, up to the evening;

Saturday, June /, up to the evening,
the French colonial infantry and
the American machine gunners, who
We're necessarily gravely inferior in
numbers, maintained their defence.
But before it was dark on Saturday,
about nine o'clock, a great mass of
the enemy under cover Of a smoke
screen and protected by a very vio-
lent bombardment reached the town
and the bridge and began crossing
the latter.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

GIMBELS-ThirdF Floor
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Germans Beaten at Jaulgonne
With All the Advantage
Of Position
u. S. Machine Gunners
Master Enemy Post
pnssians Had Crossed River,
Then Counter Attack
Threw Them Back
By Hilaire Belloc

By Hilaire Belloc
Author of elements of the Great
Var'' and Britoin's Most DIS
ttnguished Military Critic
Copyright. 1918. The Tribune Association
(The New York Tribune)
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

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Or emise-iine" model piped
into panels by white satin edgings
from shoulder to hem. $45
A round-neck gown with a Rus
sian coat bodice, cape-back-aIl
patterned over with rat-taiI
embroidery, in black satin or
navy. $3.50
How piquant a certain charm
ing type will be in It'll
Still other models of black satin,
in this delightful fashion showing.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

vi h aid American
dominate dh db
by Fh the
American machine
French infantry
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
''Buffet-C Chantilly"

Serves many delicious ice cold
looos at little prices that will assist
you to respect Mr.. Hooyer's "no
peer request. Breakfast served as
early as $50 A. M.
GIMBELS-Eighth Floor.
Restaurant and Grill.
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28

other, whose name could not be recall
ed. Sometime prior to the Spanish
American war, after about twenty five
years of service Company F was mus :.
tered out of service. Soon after the
Spanish American war Company IL
was organized and mustered into the
state service by Colonel Mead with
Captain Hawkes. as its first captain.
He was followed as captain by Ernest
R. Brown, w. H. Day, w. A. Maltby,
George Radinan, A. o. Scott,
G. M. Cosgrove and Captain Herbert
Hauck who is still in command OF
Company H.
George w. Mead was once staff Of
ficer in the Second Minnesota. He
held the commission of lieutenant col
onel. He was connected with the
states military service nearly thirty
years.
The many friends of Colonel Lewis
are pleased with his rapid advance
ment from captain of Company c. He
has exhibited a great deal of interest
in military affairs and has put forth
considerable time in the upbuildlng OF
the home guard companies in South :
ern Minnesota He would be giad TO
serve his country in France.
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28
PHONE FOLK TO NELP
SECURE AID FOR FARM
Rural Lines In Iowa Have Con-
sented To Assist Employ
ment Service

Every rural telephone company IN
the state of Iowa, 5S1 in all, has been
asked by Secretary of Labor Wilson
to cooperate with the United States
employment service of the department.
of labor in assisting farmers OF that
state to harvest their spring wheat.
Similar requests are now being sent
to the rural phone companies in
Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri,
states where the wheat crop promises
a bumper harvest if farm labor in
sufficient quantities can be secured
for the cutting season. In all LOO
separate phone companies will be
approached in these four states. Only
the rural companies, those in intimate
connection with the farmers through
out the main wheat belt of the middle
west, are being asked to lend their
assistance.
Letters to the Kansas phone com :
panies from the secretary of labor
accompanied by an instruction cir
cular from Director General John B.
Densmore of the United States en-
ployment service were sent out on
Wednesday of this week. Managers
of central exchanges are asked to
call up all farmers on their lines in
order to ascertain their individual
| needs for help in the coming harvest
| together with wages offered and other
| necessary details. The replies would
be noted on special application forms
of the employment service and al
requests Immediately forwarded te
| the nearest branch office or repre-
sentative of the service. Qualified
| applicants for farm work listed OF
the rolls of the service would ther
i be forwarded without delay to thu
| farms where their help is needed
In spite of the great organization
built up by the United States EN-
! ployment service in the last fev
months it is believed there are still
I hundreds of thousands of farmer
who are still ignorant of the help i
can give during the peak load
period of the summer months. By th
/ cooperation of rural telephone com
panies the advantages of the servic'
as war measure could be places
| directly before practically every farm
er in the all ll-important middle west
ern wheat belt, where the harvest j
now about to begin. The employmen
Il service announces that if the plan i
successful in that region it will prob
ably be extended to other agriculture
districts
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28
WORKED BY SWlNDLER
Sharper Obtained Sum of Money From
Innocent Farmer

Innocent Farmer.
The story is told of a farmer of
this vicinity being neatly fieeced out
of sum of money by a shrewd sharp
er one day several weeks ago says
The Good Thunder Herald. The
stranger was invited in to the family
meal as it had just been prepared.
After the meal he offered to pay for
it and the. farmer declined the offer
with the remark that the little favor
was not worth mentioning. Then the
stranger represented himself as a gov
ernment official and demanded $40 of
the farmer, saying that he would have
him arrested on the charge of vio-
lating food regulations if he did not
dig up. Naturally the farmer was
frightened at the prospect of arrest
and without considering the untruth
of the charge, paid the money, where
upon the official" disappeared down
the road. The victim then took some
time thinking the matter over, and
not finding how he had violated any
rules, came to the conclusion that il
was a skin game. The other man
had completely disappeared and the
farmers added experience in dealing
with strangers was all he gained.
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28
One Indian Stands Twenty
Teuts On Their Heads
LET OUT HIS WARWHOOp
His Ghost Dance Caused the
Kaiser's Hired Men TO Scat !
ter Quickly
fAssoclated Press Dlspatch.l

Mandan, N. d., June 21.-tOne North
Dakota Indian is a match for twenty
Germans, according to letter re-
oeived here from Sergeant b. ii.
Tostevin, now in service in france.
The Indian is Charlie Rogers, a full
blooded Sioux of the Standing Rock
reservation, and member OF the
Eighteenth United States infantry.
"You ought to have seen that indian
the first time the boche made raid
on our trenches writes Sergeant
Tostevin. "He leaped over the parapet
swinging his old rifle over his head
He let out a yell that he had saved
for years, and it was a genuine war :
whoop by one of the people who made
war -whooping famous.
How They Mixed
"The Huns were pretty close be
fore we mixed. Rogers, of course, had
his gun loaded with five rounds, anc
his bayonet fixed. After swinging MS
gun around his head a couple OF
times, he brought it down to his
shoulders and emptied his shells a.
the enemy, swung it again, yelled ano
iabbed, and used the butt OF his CUR
to smash the skull of another, hat
my hands full all this time, but the
crazed Indians actions We're so fas1
that we half watched him, Germans
and we fellows alike. 1t was only
small .fracas anyway. The twenty o.
more Germans who were left to bea
| it, beat it for their lives. Roger:
never got scratch. 1t was in FAC
very much one man. scrap, almos
an exhibition. I never saw mar
move so fast lin my life, and | CUES:
the Germans hadn't either"
| Rogers is now being utilized as
sniper, and is enjoying himself pick
| ing off enemy sn1pers, Sergean
Tostevin adds, and says that othe
Indians in the regiments are bein'
| used for scouting and patrol dut.
because of the natural instinct whlcl
| fits them for this kind of work.
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28

myself, butsthat is one of my failings,
writing. / actually don't write five
letters month and consequently !
don't receive many, but Bill, i certain
ly like to get letters, so take hint
and write, also have others write.
1t has been rather a disappoint-
ment for us to be stationed at this
field SO long. Most of us expected
to be finishing the war up over across
by this time. In way, however,
have been rather fortunate since
last wrote you in the way of promo
ton, and now rank as M. S. E., which
is considered the highest in the serv-
ice, that is for the Non Com. 1t is
very desirable rank especially as ii
pays $S1 90 a month and clothes
food etc.
l enjoy the work here and dislike
the climate, if you ever visit this
place you will understand, hot Bill
gee. it gets fierce and with mosquitoes
and million other bugs and pests
it's no place to be, anyway for one
who has enjoyed the climate of good
old Minnesota, so take my advice
Bill, and never move to the so called
! Sunny South, for thatS all you'll gel
is sun and it's some sun here. l be-
lieve they have different one fol
this part of the United States.
l have had several good trips ir
planes the last month. Two weeks
ago, pilot took me to Alexandria
La. all-told it was $50 mile triI
and it was a peach too. We lef
Saturday afternoon and came bacl
Sunday evening. l am trying fol
flying instruction and hope to make
it, it is my one ambition and in my
estimation the only real game
| Well Bill, this paper is too expen
sive to write you a book on, so
will finish. Regards to all-Giffort
/ e. Francis.
p. S. Am sending under separate
cover my M. S. E. warrant You cal
have it for a souvenir if you want
if not send it back.
The Mankato free press., 1918-06-28
CIang Of Bell Stirs Blood Of
Yankee Soldier
WHO CARES FOR SHELL
Doughboys Broke Into Cheers
When They Saw Locomotive
Emerge From Woods

With the American army at the
front, May 29.-LBy Mail1-One of
the things that gets deeply into
doughboy's blood is the whistle of a
good old American locomotive in
France, and the clang of its bell.
1t sounds like home. The Ameri-
can locomotives are big, husky ones,
making the French engines look like
toys.
When the first American lOcomo-
tives arrived in France, the natives
were astonished at the deep toned
bells and whistles. French locomo
tives have a "tooter'' on them re
sembling an enlarged peanut-wagon
whistle, say the doughboys, and there
is no bell at all. The Americans
contend that the shriil French whistle
is too screechy and effeminate.
Truck Load of Dounhboys
A truck load of doughbOys was
bouncing over the road near a woods,
from which railroad emerged, in the
vicinity of Verdun. Suddenly there
came a deep toned blast of a lOcOmO-
tive from the woods, followed by the
painting chug that reminded you of a
train going over the Rockies.
Sounds like an American locomo-
tive, surer than thunder" shouted one
of the doughboys, you could tell that
noise mile away. Let's stop until it
comes out of the woods"
Who Cares For Shells?
"Were liable to get shelled here"
said the truck driver, "But if you
fellow are game, l am. I'd take a
chance on shells any day to see a
Baldwin locomotive go by with a
good old American puff and chug and
whistle"
The group insisted on stopping,
and the locomotive, hauling a host of
! tiny French freight cars, came putting
out of the woods. The doughboys
| broke out into cheers, and more
doughboys running the engine replied
with full-steam resounding whistle
i that echoed clear into Germany
81 can die happy now!" said one of
! the doughboys, as the truck moved
on toward the front, after the husky
American locomotive had been watch
I ed out of sight.