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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
COAT OF TAR FOR |. w. w.
Local Secretary at Yakima, WASH,
Roughly Handled by Loyal citi-
zens-Promises to Be Good.

Yakima, Wash. March ooh. B..
Myers, secretary Of the Yakima local
of the l. w. W., was taken a mile out
of the city at midnight and given a
coat of tar and feathers. and told to
leave town. Myers was told TO warn
his !. w. w. associates that any other
secretary who came to Yakima to work
would receive the treatment accorded
Little in Montana" Myers believ-
ing he was to be hanged begged hard
for his life. told his history, declared
he had been forced into the order by
threats of death. He said that Spo-
kane and Seattle money was support
ing the Yakima l. w. w. activities.
He promised he would be a good cih-
zen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
US. AGENTS TAKE
4 ALLEGED SPIES
Two Women and Two Men Ar
rested at Prominent New
York Hotels.
ALL MAY Be SENT TO FRANCE
Authorities Say Prisoners Have Been
Intimately Connected With Ger
man Espionage Actv-
tiles Here.

New York, March 20.-Four persons,
two men and two women, claiming
French citizenship, but who both
American and French authorities say
have been intimately connected with
German espionage activities in the
United States, We're arrested on Mon
day in their handsomely appointed
suites in prominent New York hotels
by agents of the department OF justice.
In making known the arrest of the
quartette, Charles +. DeWoody, divi-
sion superintendent of the department
of justice, intimated their deportation
was desired in order to place them
thorities, who may further their prose-
cutiOD.
The four spy suspects have been I'M
der surveillance for several weeks but
not until two of them, a woman styl-
ing herself Nine. DespinO DavidoTtch
Storch, and an associate, designated
as Baron Henri de Beville, departed
for Cuba a week ago after a mysteri-
Gus lwO-day junket to Washington, did
the authorities consider their appre-
henSiOn advisable.
The other two suspects are known
as Nine Elizabeth Charlotte Nix and
Count Robert de Clairmont.
When Nine. Storch and Baron de
BeviIle were taken into custody at Key
West, while en- route to Cuba, half
bushel basket of papers was seized
from a safe deposit box in this city
which one of them had rented. A num-
Der of cable messages in code were
among these papers.
Although each stopped at different
hotel or apartment, they were said to
have been associated in activities OBJ
jectiOnable to the government Mrs.
Nix is said to have admitted receiving
$1,000 from Count Won BernstOrff, al
though she claims it was loan.
Nine. Storch, or Nezie, and Baron
de Beville were together in Madrid in
1915, where they were known as the
Baron and Baroness Beville, fed
eral officials said, and were arrested
there accused of being spies for the
German government. Later they were
released.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

from six to eight pounds are sunk in
shallow water, and in August the tiny
shells begin to appear on them. The
stones remain in for two months, but,
since the young oysters cannot endure
cold, in November all rocks in less
than five feet of water are moved far
Their out. where the temperature is
more even. At the end Of three years,
when the shells are about two inches
across, they are taken from the water,
nuclei for pearls inserted in them and
replaced In the water, 80 of them to
every six square feet Of bottom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
FLYERS BOMB GERMAN TOWN
ProIectiIes Dropped by British on Bar
racks, Factories and Rail Station
at Zweibrucken.

London, March ia British air
squadron bombed Zweibrucken (Ba-
varia), says the British official report
on aviation issued Saturday.
In the air fighting u hostile ma
chimes were brought down and seven
others were driven down out of con-
troll. Fourteen heavy projectiles and
ten lighter bombs were dropped on
barracks, munition factories and the
railway station at Zweibrucken. Elk
plosions were seen all around the rail-
way station.
British aviators have downed lis
German war planes in day fighting
since March 1, 1t was announced. OF
these GA were demolished and "a were
sent earthward uncontrolled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
BIG WISCONSIN VOTE.
LENRoOT AND THOMPSON IN
CLOSE RACE AT PRIMARIES.
Davies Has Big Lead Over Mccarthy
on the Democratic Side in
Early Returns.

Milwaukee, March O-Fragmentary
returns from Wisconsin's senatorshiI
primaries gives Irvine L. Lenroot a
small lead over James Thompson. the
La Toilette candidate, for the Repub-
lican nomination. but the final results
are in deer doubt.
Incomplete figures from scattered
precincts in 20 counties gave Lenroot
1851, Thompson 1896. On the Demo
cratic side stood Davies, 1911; McCar-
thy, 316. Berger, Socialist. was given
236 in the same precincts.
fractional lines have been shot TO
pieces by the struggle over the '1oyal-
list versus bolshevik" issue, with the re-
suit that the political experts are I'M
able to pick any typical precincts from
which to figure out the results in adj
vance of the actual returns.
Lenroot is going stronger than ex-
pected in some La Toilette precincts,
which is taken as an augury of victory.
Joseph E. Davies, who resigned as
head of the federal trade commission
to chuck mis- bonnet into the ring, APP
parently has won over DIR. Charles
Mccarthy, militant progressive, by a
large margin, as the latest returns in
dicate
Country towns so far reporting indi-
cate that Davies is beating Mccarthy
by four or five to one in the rural dis
tricts.
record vote for a spring primary
was piled up in the state. In Mil
waukee the final count is expected to
set a new high-water mark. In some
city precincts. the waiting lines of
voters extended a block.
In all the Socialist wards heavy
baIloting was registered, but it was
surpassed by the vote in certain of the
silk-stocking Republican wards.
Muddy roads hampered the vote in
the country, but at that the indica-
tons are that the rural poll exceeded
the estimates.
Among the earliest returns was one
from 13 country precincts in La Crosse
county, which is Thompson's home
These gave Thompson 635 and LenrOOt
491. This is strong La Toilette terri
tory.
The same precincts yielded IA for
Davies and % for Mccarthy, while Ber-
ger, Socialist, got %.
Necedah, in juneau county, up in
Thompson territory, was reported at
Davies headquarters to have given
LenroOt 81 and Thompson Z. Davies
was given l and Mccarthy /.
Fort Atkinson, in Jefferson county.
a strong Democratic and German
American quarter, was reported as
giving Thompson % and LenrOot 1872
Davies got 172 and Mccarthy Z.
Waterloo, in the same county, gave
Lenroot 55 and Thompson 81 while
Davies got 10 and Mccarthy 8.
Nine precincts in the country just
outside Ashland reported 2S1' for Len
root and rs for Thompson.
The Lenroot tendency of the first
returns led Davies Headquarters to
conclude that the fight April 2 would
lie between Davies and Lenroot.
Outside Milwaukee incomplete re-
turns indicate that Berger has made
poor showing.
Madison, Wis, March 90 The SOL
diers' voting law passed by the spe-
cial session of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture just closed permits soldiers to
vote in the election April 9, but not in
the primary.
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SUSPEND 8-H0UR WAR CLAUSE
Restrictions Not Enforced on Govern
ment Contracts During the
Present Emergency.

Washington, March 20.-Regulations
requiring inclusion in every contract
for war construction of clause linn
iting the daily service of workmen en-
gagged in such work to eight hours have
been suspended for the duration of the
present emergency, the war depart
ment announced on Monday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
"RED" KUHN LOSES ONE EYE
Swapping of Towel by U. S. Trooper
Gusts Soldier and Ball
PLAYER.

Dallas, Tex, March 20.-"Red"
Kuhn, formerly of the Chicago White
Sox and later of the Coast league pen
nant last year, was drafted into the
army last fall and went to Camp Travis
at San Antonio, where he soon was
made corporal. A few weeks ago he
was lounging in the barracks when
the troopers started scuffling. One
snapped a towel, the fringe striking
him in the right eye and destroyed the
sight permanently. Kuhn was given
an honorable discharge from the army.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
KAISER TAKES U. S. PROPERTY
Berlin Government Notifies Spanish
( and Swiss Ambassadors Of Re-
taIiatory Measures.

London, March 20.-The Spanish and
Swiss ambassadors at Berlin have been
directed by the German foreign office
to notify the American government
that Germany will proceed with meas
ures against American property in Ger
many in the same proportion that ac-
ton is taken against German property
in the United States, Reuters Amster-
dam correspondent reports.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
WORKERS ON STRIKE
At BIG SH|PYARD
600 at Baltimore Plant Demand
Higher Wages.
S1O.56 A DAY ASKED BY MEN
Leave Unfinished Mine Sweepers Until
Decision Is Observation-Disclosures
Officers of Union Expect to
Settle Trouble Quickly.

Washington, March 20.-A serious
local interruption in the shipbuilding
progress, due to demands TO- increased
wages by workers who a month ago
were given substantial advances in
pay was reported to the shipping
board from Baltimore, where 600 riv-
eters, clippers, caulkerS, reamers and
| drillers left the hulls on which they
were working in the yards of the Bal
timOre Dry Docks and Shipbuilding
company.
Mine sweepers under construction
for the navy were left unfinished by
the strikers, as well as the merchant
ships building in an effort to offset
the losses from submarines.
Workers Demand $10.56 a Day.
The company officials reported that
the walkOut took place without any
legislation but that they understood
the men refused to work until de-
cision was rendered on their demand
for $1O.56 day for clippers and
caulkers and $24 a day for riveting
gangs of two men and a boy, all of
whom are employed ON what is known
as allowance work on intricate parts
of the ships bulls.
Officials of tie shipping board think
the strike is an effort to force day
wage scale on the basis of pay for
special work. The present day scale
for tenippers and caulkers is $3.50 for
eight hours, with many men making
greater sums in getting time and
half for overtime and double time for
holidays and Sundays. Riveters make
even more working on piece rates.
Expect a Settlement.
J. A. Franklin, president of the
boiler-makers' union, to which most
of the strikers belong, was notified
of the trouble, and confidence was ex-
pressed by officials that the national
officers of the union would settle the
difficulty. All of the metal trades
unions have promised complete coop
Grafton in the shipbuilding program
and have refused to hinder production
by special demands such as were
made recently by the carpenters. The
Baltimore trouble is believed Here to
be entirely local, with no likelihood of
affecting other yards, where the work
ers approved the new wage scale re-
Gently instituted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
SPIES BUSY IN WASHINGTON
Senator Owens Tells of Wire Tapping
in War Department and
Demands Action.

Washington, March 20-Charging
that German spies are constantly tap
ping telephone and telegraph wires
used by the war department. Senator
Owens of Oklahoma introduced in the
senate resolution calling on the de-
parement to furnish information con-
corning what measures We're being
taken TO combat it. The senate passed
the resolution without debate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

prowling through the temple. Back of
the stones were affairs and statues
just as Senka-amon-seken had caused
them to be replaced and the unviolated
names Of the founder and first restorer
We have recited this tale because, If
it were changed little, it might be
a story Of our own times. Men still
build with love in their hearts, but
give up when accident happens. There
is still unwisdom in the consideration
OF the chances of disaster. Folks are
content to clear away little dust and
let the most of it stay. The kingdom
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

likely to be developed by artificial
means. 1t was French savant, named
Henrion, who, 200 years ago, gave to
the world authoritative statements as
TO the height of Adam and Eve. He
said that the father of the race was
123 feet 8 inches high and Eve rs
feet inches. He noted that from the
creation of these enlarged editions of
humanity. degeneration had been
rapid; that Noah was only %, Abra-
ham only 20 and Moses but Is feet in
height.
According TO this French authority,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
ALLIED OFFENSIVE
IS EXPECTED SOON
Supreme War Council Holds Key
to Situation.
MAY HIT ON ITALIAN FRONT
Pooling of Army Reserves Will Permit
Overwhelming Concentrations at
Selected Points of Attack
and BeWlder Foe.

Washington, March 20.-The key t
the 1918 riddle of the western battle
front is in the hands of the supreme
war council at Versailles.
Decision as to the time and place
of major offensives by the allies rests
with that body.
1t directly controls also, officials
here believe, a new weapon forged
during the winter with which to make
effective its plans of grand strategy.
Foe Abandons Offensive.
That weapon is believed to lie in q
pooling of the army reserves of all the
allied armies, permitting overwhelm
ing concentrations at selected points
of attack.
American observers now are con
WINGED the German high command
plans a defensive campaign, and that
the long-talked-of drive on Paris OF
the channel ports has been abandoned
The initiative, according to this
view, rests with the allied and Amer
lean forces.
COMMUNICATES are being closely
scanned for the first indication of any
offensive operations mapped out at
Versailles.
Council Wilson's Plan.
The supreme council was created
under the urgent inSistence of Presi-
dent Wilson for aggressive action this
hacn1 nI
under the direction of single agency.
The exact scope of the councils au-
thOrity has never been disclosed 1t
was said both by Premier Lloyd
George and by Lord Curzon, however,
in explaining the status of the British
imperial general staff and the com
mander in the field Sir Douglas Haig,
that certain British forces had been
assigned to the councils control.
Reserves clew to Drive.
Decision by the war council, officers
here believe, as to the field where
these and similar forces from other
armies are to be concentrated will
show where allied blows at the Ger
man defenses are designed to fall
If there is to be no German drive,
as the war department predicted in
Its weekly war review, the council will
not be forced to hold its reserves for
defensive purposes, and can devote
this new agency to attempts to smash
weak points in the German line.
May Make Blow in Italy.
Opinion as to the sectors offering
the best opportunity for allied assaults
varies widely here. There is sub
stantial agreement, however, that the
Italian front may in fact become the
main theater of war this year
In any event, even though the SUI
preme council might have decided to
make the effort to break through in
Italy, it is believed that the first
moves in the game would be played in
France and Flanders
Drives with all the appearance of
being the real offensives undoubtedly
would accompany or precede the main
thrust.
The pooled allied reserves under di-
rection of the supreme council would
make possible a campaign of such ma
ture, designed to keep the German
command perplexed as to which as
sault would be driven home.
Theory OF Reserves.
The theory of pooled general re-
serves under command of the supreme
war council already has appeared in
the British press TO some extent as
the explanation of what has been said
in parliament.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
GERMANS SEIZE DUTCH "SUB"
informed Men Seize Guard at Batavia
and Put to Sea in Craft, Says
Traveller.

San Francisco, March 2O.-A sub
marine belonging to the Dutch navy
was captured at Batavia by sailors
from the interned German steamer
Graf Won Luttwitz, who succeeded in
evading the marine patrol and putting
to sea with their prize last January,
according TO Fritz Won Ebeishon, an
employee of the Dutch East Indian
government in Sumatra. who is in San
Francisco on his way to Holland.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

if the Christian dispensation had not
arrested this decrease, man by this
time-2O0 years ago-would have been
a mere microscopic object, and we may
conclude that by our time he would not
have been at all. NJ. Henrion did not
give any explanation as to height of
those ancients.
Perhaps the most gigantic story on
record is that concerning an immense
skeleton, said to have been in Sicily,
which measured 800 feet in length.
This story, however, carries its own
refutatiOnr as it is said that found be-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

ka-aElon-seken was Of more tenacious
nber. he rebuilt the broken walls.
cleared away the dust, and stones and
put his name on the foundation rocks
beside that Of Itlanersa. He was. how
ever, no better judge of the behavior
OF ellis. New fakes fell OF and put
the temple out Of business. Not until
Tour centuries Later did a king rise in
Ethlopia who thought enough of Anon
OF Napata TO restore the sanctuary, and
then he did q halfway job. The
Egyptian expedition of Harvard uni
yerSity found that out when it was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
HUMAN NATURE NOT CHANGED
Incident of Ethiopian History That
Bears Some Testimony as to
the Matter.

Itlsnersa was pious king Of Eth
opia. He built temple TO the glory
Of Anon of Napata .-.sder the overhang
Of great ciiff. 1t was scarcely more
than dedicated before the shelf Of the
cliff fell. Itlsnersa lest interest in that
particular god.
But the piety of his successor. Sem
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

resembling the shafts of great mines,
being from 300 yards to half mile in
length and lying from 30 to $50 feet
beneath the surface of the ground.
In these Old quarries are grown
nearly all the mushrooms consumed in
the French capital. Mushrooms -four
ish in these caverns at all seasons, and
they have. in Paris, the reputation Of
being superior in flavor to those grown
elsewhere. The worst enemy of the
mushroom growers is a species Of fly
that swarms through the dark passages
in such numbers as sometimes to ex-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
INVITED TO THE BIG DRIVE
Correspondents Reported Going to
Front, Invited by German War
Chiefs.

London, March 20.-The heads of
the German army have invited num-
Der of neutral newspaper correspond
ents to be present at the German of
fensive on the western 'front.' the Ex-
change Telegraph correspondent at Co
penhagen reports. The correspondents.
it is stated, will start for the front at
once
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26

side this giant was his walking stick,
which was 80 feet long and thick as a
telegraph pole. A clever calculator
made the estimate that a walking stick
only 80 feet in length for man who
measured 300 feet would be as ridicu-
lous as one of seven inches for a man
of ordinary stature.-Kansas City
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
Posse Pursues Bank Bandits.

Marshall, Mo-, March 20-A posse is
in pursuit of three men who made an
unsuccessful attempt to rob the bank
at Miami, Mo-, IA miles north of here.
The would-be robbers had blown off
the outer door of the vault with an ex-
plosive when they were frightened
away by authorities who arrived from
Carrollton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
French saVant Years Ago Gave Out In
formation That Adam Was t23
Feet 9 Inches Tall.

In recent years anatomists have
shown in a practical way that the
height of man or woman can re in.
creased to considerable extent by APP
pliances for stretching. These extern
,sions. however, have only been of
inches or fractions of an fnch, and
giants have not been. nor are they
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
Couldn't Tease Uncle ST.

$50 she took your old uncle from
Vermont to the banquet last night7
Didn't the profusion of cutlery at his
plate bother himf' 1T did at FIRST
Then he gave it up, pushed his three
forks aside, and proceeded to eat with
mis- knife."-Boston Evening Tran
script.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
THE MARKETS
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

FLOUR-The United States administra-
ton flour standards are as follows: Bar
ley flour. 9S 10. cotton sacks, $3.50; corn
flour, 9S Id. cotton sacks, $3.50; white rye
In jute. $500 per Dbl 9S ID. sack basis:
dark rye, STATS; spring wheat in jute, $40 60
@i0.SO; special brands, 5000; hard winter
in jute, s10.6OG10.sO; soft winter. 10000
1890
HAY-Choice timothy, $40. OO031. 90; No. 4
SOS. OO929 90: standard, 27O00D2s.OO; No. =
and light clover mixed, $26.00@27.OO; No. 8
red top and grassy mixed, $2100D230 90;
clear clover and clover mixed, $2400Q26. 90;
threshed timothy, $15.00@1700.
BUTTER-Creamery, extra, Act extra
firsts, 4O1Ac; firsts. 391a@4Oc; seconds. $50
S9c; centralized. Ale; ladies' S41a9351scs
process 3Sc: packing stock, 30632c.
EGGS-Fresh frsts, sec; ordinary firsts,
35G3515c miscellaneous lots, cases includ-
ed 341b13515c: cases returned. 33ihD34Ihc;
extras 4Oa41c; checks. 316311kc; dirties.
33m34c.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys Csc; old
ROSTERS 22c; young ROSTERS, 2S631c; ducks
2Sf31c: geese, 24d25c.
DRESSED POULTRY - Turkeys. 1910
34c: young ROSTERS, 25@29c; old ROSTERS.
22623c: ducks. 22625c; geese, 2O623c
POTATOES-Wis white, $1.15@
l. %; western, $13511.45.
CATTL F-Good to choice steers S1s25s3
A. IS; yearlings. good to choice, S9.0o113 25:
stockers and feeders, sS5Od12.O0: good TO
choice cows. $9.OOlD11. rs; good to choice
heifers, s9.00d11.75; fair to good COWS, $7.75
dS.75: Gamers, $6.50G75O; cutters, $500
$50: bologna bulls sS.0Od9.OO; butcher bulls
80 OO611 90: heavy calves. $9.000J12.00; veal
calves, $14O0d1750
HOGS-Prime 10 light butchers. s17.5Oa
IS 90: fair to fancy light $1725GI17s5: me
dunn weight butchers. 20Oa24O lbs. sl7404
1775: heavy weight butchers, 240I400 lbs.
S17. 156T17. 40: choice heavy packing SIG 500
f71O; rough heavy packing. S16.5O6I16. SO:
pigs. fair to good, $16.Ood17Oo; stays, Sl70
61SO6
SHFEP-Good to choice wethers, S120gD
145O; good to choice ewes. s11.00014 90:
yearlings. S1350d16.75 western lambs. good
to choice. s1s. 50118. IS: native lambs. good
to choice, $15.OGG17.75.
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of Ethiopia has faded from the earth,
but human nature has so little altered
that Itlanersa and Senka-amon-seken
and the unknown ruler of four CEN
turtles later might be born again and
have the company of their exact likes.
Toledo Blade.
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Kerensky Safe in cbristiania.

Tokyo, March 20.-Alexander Keren-
ski. deposed 2ussian premier. is safe
in Christianis, according to word re-
ceived here. Major General Iakhontoff
has been named vice minister Of war
under Kerensky.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
u s cadet Elxer killed.

San Diego. Cal. March 20.-Ralph
T. simpson of Pasadena, cadet at the
North Island Aviation school, was
killed on Monday when the airplane
he was flying fell from height of
about 500 feet into San Diego bay.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
Bulk Of Meyer Estate to Family

Salem, Mass. March 16.-Under the
will of George Won L. Meyer. formerly
secretary of the navy. the entire es-
tate. with the exception of public be-
ouests amounting to $4,000, is left to
his fnmily.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-26
Probe Cause of Panic.

Paris, March 1S.-A judicial inveSti-
cation has been opened into the cir
cumstances attending the panic in
subway station which resulted in the
death of seven men, % women and 80
children during Mondays air raid.