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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01
NOV, % IS CASH
SALES HONOR DAY
FULL AMOUNT OF WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS PER ALLOTMENT
TO be BOUGHT.
PURCHASES INDICATE
BUYERS THANKFUlNESS
Ninety Thousand Dollars Worth TO Be
Sold Here to Raise City's Quota
Intensive November Campaign in
Effort to Avoid w. S. S, Draft or
Day Set For That Purpose.

Thanksgiving Day all over the Unit
ed States has been designated by the
United States treasury department as
Cash Sales Honor Day on when
day every thankful citizen is instruct
ed to go to his polling place or some
place designated by his local com
mittee and purchase the full amount
Of war savings stamps allotted TO him
n order to-make up his present quota
The order received by the county
chairmen reads:
"On that day every Iowan Is
requested to signify his thankful
ness that he and his family are
not at this time victims of GER
man barbarsm and That deNasta-
ton of property has not visited
mis- home and perhaps his loNed
ones; and in true appreciation OF
his thankfulness he is expected TO
go to his voting place, or such
other place as may be later ar
ranged and buy war savings
stamps not only to the full amount
of what he may have pledged pre-
can. in order that he may be able
a year from that Thanksgiving
Day to be thankful that German
barbarism has not come to MS
home
To Sell $4,000 in City.
Marshall county, on quota. Oh
$3.50, 900. now has credit for $5lO,oVo
net sales. 1t is estimated that $4,000
to $4,000 of this unsold amount be-
longs to the outside precincts, ana
that $50, 900 or thereabouts belongs 10
the city of Marshalitown.
County Chairman j.. w. Norris has
forwarded TO all precinct captains the
instructions sent to him from the gov
eminent. and an intensive campaign Is
"a be kept up all during November IN
4 desperate effort TO complete Mar
shall county's sales before Thanks
giving day and enjoy that grand
and glorious feelin'" on Thanksgiving
Day of not having to send any money
in the war stamp draft.
To Urge Heavy Buying Now.
People will be urged to buy heavily
at once. Precinct committees are IN
structed by the government to make
all alotments to every person in the
county sufficient to raise the county S
quota. Notices of these allotments
Will go out on Nov. IA, under govern
ment frank If people have already
bought stamps up TO their allotments
hey will be exempted from the stamp
draft on Thanksgiving Day. If no.
they can buy and clear their cards
before that day or go to headquarters
on that day and buy up to their al
lotments after deducting the stamps
already on hand and in their posses.
sion.
The family is made the unit FOL
allotments, and all stamps owned by
ali members of family will be cred
tied on the familys allotment. Or
the average. il no basis for exception
| exists, allotments will run very nearly
as large as the last liberty loan in the
city because the city's full years quote
for stamps is $4,000 as compared
to $4,000 for bonds. and corporation
purchases are not considered in thu
| stamp apportOnment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01

per person TO Iowa consunsrs durtns
November,
The restriction ~ to purchAang pan
OF the allotment In the hrst half and
part in the second half Of the month 10
also removed. and consumers may buy
the entire family allotmentat one time.
The increase applies to households ana
public eating places and Is in force
today, as made public by the Marshall
county food administration.
Speeding up the beet sugar In the
west and Of the cane sugar production
in the south are given,as the alleviatips
causes. = ts44 s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01
sREPUBLlCAN. MARSHAILT0wN IOWA. NOVEMBER 1915

w. q. spire. Marshalltown State Bank
VS.. Fred Hoes. Russell f. James VI.
+. c. Buchanan. ct al; II. F. Clark Il
Son VS.. Minneapolis & st. Louis, state
OF Iowa vs.. Morrison Tramberger. L.
Il. Dunmire VI. Old Reliable Drug
Company,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01

for carbon u nothing more than sas
that has failed to ignite. Gas Pep
makes a perfect ignition therefore
saves gas ana gives a smooth running
engine and clean spark plugs. Sold by
Abbott Il Son. Marshalltown Iowa
Established 1860.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01
Banks Closed.

Tuesday, November 9Th being cleo
ton day and legal holiday the fol-
lowing banks will not be open for
business: Fidelity Savings Bank.
First National Bank, Iowa Savings
Bank, Marshalltown Stdtc-0ank, Sc
curity Savings Bank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01
CHANGE SUGAR RULES
Hoover Wires Increase From Two 70
Three Pounds Per Person for 'owans
in Novenbsr-Beet sugar'from West
and Cano From louisiana.

Hard on the heels OF the promulga-
ton OF restrictions Of the sugar sales
comes very considerable relaxation
In a wire from National Food Admins
traitor Hoover alloting three pounds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-01
Attantio, Automobile Owners.

Attention Automobile Owners.
Do you want to save gas, set more
power and mileage at the same time
keep your spark plugs c.ean? Gas Pep
" i'll do II.
Carbon is a sign of wasted gasolene
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
AU-American Attack Looked For
By Army Officers in Washington

have been received, however, throwing
any light on General Pershing's plans
or the part assigned to him by
Marshal Foch in the present offensive
campaign.
Officers here anticipate complete
change in the character of the fighting
in the next phase Of the battle, with
Foch's armies assuming the offensive
in the fullest sense of the word and
striking to force the enemy back in
such manner that he cannot avail him
self of mis- old Hindenburg line de-
fences.
1t appears probable to some observ-
ors that the Flanders front might see
the next blaze kindled, with double
drive by British forces to pinch out the
salient there as it has been pinched
out at the Marne and again in Picardy.
They foresee also, however, the initia-
tion of movements of far greater scope
in the near future aimed at fanking
the Germans out Of the blunt wedge
into which the Picardy and Aisae bat
tlcfronts have been merged by recent
actions.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-A new
drive against the German positions
either in Flanders or between the Olse
and Soiesons is expected by many
army officers here as a result OF the
slowing up of the advance in the PC
ardy theatre.
The opinion prevailed among other
officers that the present struggle
around Roye and Lassigny would soon
terminate in the capture of those
points, to be followed by the taking
of Noyon. They agree with the COM
mentators abroad that all signs indi-
cate that the enemy intends to with
draw and is fighting fierce rear-guard
actions only to cover his retirement
and to permit him to prepare strong
lines in his rear on which to stand
fast.
1t appeared possible to some officers
that the organization Of the first Amer
lean army might be followed by an
American attack at some point on the
line which it holds beyond Verdun,
where there has been no recent fight
ing. No reports. official or unofficial,
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
Hero Cross for Son
Of Judge Pendleton
Recipient of Belgian Honors
Identified as Kin Of New
York Jurist

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 1A.-The
American lieutenant of infantry cited
III Belgian army orders for gallantry,
who was decorated with the Belgian
Croix de Guerre by King Albert, was
Lieutenant George II. Pendleton, son
of Judge Francis Keyes Pendleton. of
the New York Supreme Court, it was
learned here to-day
dispatch to the Belgian Legation
at Washington yesterday, through an
error in cable transmission. gave the
name as George Peudlon," but friends
of Lieutenant Pendleton point out that
private information and records at
Harvard University, where he was
student when the war broke out, made
1t evident that he was the recipient
Of the honors.
In the raid in which he was wounded
Lleutenant Pendleton was accompanied
by two officers and about twenty men,
Ihe object was to get certain infor
nation. They ran into a German pa
troll and hot fight ensued. All three
of the officers and some of the men
were wounded, but they obtained the
desired information from a German
whom they took prisoner. The colonel
OF the Belgian regiment was so pleased
that Pendleton was made an honorary
member OF the Regiment des Guides. a
crack unit "
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
Escaped Britons ell
Of German Cruelties
Say Prisoners Are Beaten and
Sick and Given Scant At
tention by Captors
tBy The Associated. Press

L
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE VESLE, Aug. Worn out and
suffering from hunger two escaped
British prisoners staggered into the
American lines north Of the Vesle to-
day. They had escaped from a German
pen after having been captured in the
Marine fighting, and it took them seven
days and nights to work their way to
Fismettc. On the last lap of their
journey the Britishcrs ran through g
German barroge
The Britishers said that the ration
given prisoners was three-quarters Of a
pound of potato bread, a pint of Thin
vegetable soup and "coffee" made OF
hawthorn berries. The allowance Of a
German soldier was the same, only in
somewhat greater quantity, OCCASION
llly supplement- by horse meat
1t is a common practice of the Ger
mans, the escaped men added, to beat
their prisoners with clubs and the
butts of rifles. Wounded prisoners, they
said, were sent to hospitals only when
they were unable to walk and then re-
ceived little attention.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
u. s. and British
Win in an Attack
On Hun Hangar

LONDON, Aug. 14.-Twenty- one Ger
man airplanes were brought down and
ten driven out of control yesterday, ac-
cording to an official statement issued
tonight on aviation operations. Six
British machines are missing.
British and American air souadrons
cooperated in an attack on an enemy
ardrome and destroyed six machines
parked near the hangers.
"The fine weather of August 13 again
enabled us to carry out large amount
of aerial work. The continual bombing
of the Somme bridges, coupled with
that Of railway lines and functions,
which has taken place night and day
since the heginnng Of the offensive.
has interferred with the arrival Of the
enemy's reinforcements. 1t also has
forced the enemy to employ large for
Nations OF air scouts in an endeavor to
protect communications of much vital
Importance to his other arms, but con-
centrations Of our air machines have
effectively dealt with all opposition.
fifty-eight tons of bombs have been
dropped during the last twenty four
hours on the foregoing objectives,
twenty-one tons by day and thirty
seven tons by night.
The French official statement on
aviation given out in Paris to-niyht
said:
our crews have downcd or put out
of action twelve German machines On
the night Of August 3-l4 our bombing
machines dropped thirty two tons Of
proJectilcs on enemy objectivcs Terr-
nier, st. Quentin, Ham and Noyon, on
blvouacs in the region Of OKuolles and
inc railroad stations ut Maison Bleuc.
Lui9hi9ours and Chatollet-sur Tourne.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
) Canadians axe
100 Hun Prisoners
Force Frightened Enemies Gu,
Of Trench and March
Them to Rear

WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES
IN PlCARDY, Aug. 13.--During the
opening days of the present offensive
FIVE members of we'll known Canadian
battalion captured more than one hun
dred Germans. In q dense fog early
one morning the party became lost,
and in cropping their way about came
suddenly upon fully manned German
trench. A corporal in the party gave
the order to fire. This show of force
brought more than one hundred Ger
mans tumbling up out of the trench to
surrender. The five Canadians then
marched the Germans to the rear.
The Canadian contingent takes pride
in having established a record three
day advance of $4,000 yards.
When the tanks went into action 2
piper of a Manitoba unit sat astride
the tank Dominion. He came through
unscathed, skirling his pibroch all the
while. Another Canadian piper was
killed leading his battalion into ac-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
Military Comment
By William l.. Mcpherson

=. Mcpherson
in six miles and q quarter of Noyon,
on nearly north and south line up
the Disc Valley. L Ecouvillon, which
he took on Tuesday, is about the
same distance . southwest from
Noyon.
Noyon is defended on the south
and west by Mount Renaud, just
above the junction of the Divette
River with the Disc. The approach
up the Disc is, therefore, far from
easy. But on the north side of the
Divette the ground is open. If Las
signy falls, the rugged terrain below
the Divette will cease to be of any
value to the enemy Lassigny is the
key to Noyon. And the French are
now on the outskirts of Lassigny.
Little infantry fighting occurred
yesterday from the Somme to the
Disc. Both sides are resting and re-
organizing. The Montdidier salient
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
The Official Statements

ground about these villages. A few
prisoners have been taken by us.
LONDON (DAY).-The hostile ar
tillery was active during the night on
the battlefront. There was no in
fantry action.
At midday yesterday local hostile
attacks in the Dickebusch sector
were repulsed. During the night he
enemy artillery has shown consider
able activity IN this neighborhood
and also against our positions north
west OF KENNEL.
I'VE secured prisoners last night
in a successful raid in the neighbor-
hood of Ayette. In the Nieux- Ber-
ouin sector our patrols have CON
tinued to push forward aud have
succeeded in establishing line east
of the village. A number Of prison
ers and machine guns we're captured
i'll The course Of this operation. Our
line has been advanced slightly east
of Meteren
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15

themselves in order to feel Il.
enemy.
1t is not improbable that by ri,
time the Crown Prince of Bavs,,
has drawn much of lbs material sps
many Of his heavier guns back Tow.
ard Armentieres and Lille. If h
hasn't, he is running dangerous risk;
such as the Crown Prince of pru,.
sia ran in the Marne salient and Va,
der Marwitz and Won Futier ran N
the Montdidier salient.
Foch's strategy of economy would
find full play in an attack on thi,
salient, which is being held by the
Germans in obvious defiance of mill.
tary prudence. They created it for
purposes Of offence, not of defence.
For an army unprepared to explo.
it extensively its retention is a
heavy liability. Perhaps it is now
only a shell. It's elimination would
be Of great advantage to the Allies
in increasing the elbow room Of tie
armies in Flanders and in restoring
the free use of the communicative:
through Hazebrouck, which have
been more or less interrupted since
April.
Fcch has gained the initiative HI
evidently means to keep it. Ths,
being the case, the only problem is
where he will strike next.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
The Great War-1471st Day

Tuesdays fighting put the French more
than a mile north Of Cambronne, close
to Attiche and Carmoy farms, which
are two big machine gun nests.
The French left, advancing on Las
signy, met with vigorous resistance
north of St. Claude farm and north
Of Marcuil Lamottc. They succeeded,
however, in fighting their way through
the woods, and moved their line 500
yards northeast Of Curry. North OF
Curry they reached the southern edge
Cf Logcs Wood and also penetrated the
park belonging to the chateau of Pies
sicr de Royc. They also reached Bel
val, between Plessicr de Roye and
Thiescourt. The enemy still holds the
greater part Of Thescourt Wood and
the form idable plateau Of Plcmont.
The French have row advanced their
line to within less than a mile and d
half of Lass gny. It will, however, ur-
doubtedly require a tremendous effort
to capture either Lass igny or Roye.
The fall of Roye would automatically
cause the evacuation Of Lassigny
MAN Power" Is Failing
The anxiety of the Germans concern
ing the depletion of their reserves ap-
pears 10 be confirmed by document
signed by General Ludendorff, copy
Of which was captured among other
Il 4,r,l,+
"The state Of our resources in men
and the economic situation in the in
terror" says the document, "oblige us
to send back to the fighting forces all
the men of the armed service"
The document prescribes the dcstina-
tion for all the men of this service
then employed in the rear, and adds:
"The high command desires above
everything to restore the infantry re-
serves"
Prisoners belonging to forty-nine
different garrisons in Germany give
confirmation of the existence of this
man power crisis, showing that the
garrisons had been largely depleted by
calls from the front and that numbers
Of others have been gathered up from
the rear
According to these prisoners these
men include mechanics from the CEN
trail aviation shops at Adlersdorf, near
Berlin, and miners from Aix-la-
Chapellc. Some garrisons, it is stated,
have furnished from 400 to 500 men of
the contingent of 1920; that is, youths
of eighteen.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15

age. here as elsewhere, in that they
have been falling back upon their sup
plies, while the French have been OBJ
liged to bring theirs up over difficult
country.
So far General Humbert's troops
have had four days of constant fight
ing, fully half of which has been spent
in gas-infested sectors. During all
this fighting it was the machine gun
against the rifle, the Germans having
comparatively few infantrymen in the
front line, but being plentfully sup
piled with machine guns-virtua1ly one
for each man, and all ambushed.
"Nests" Are Wiped Out
When the nests Of quick-frers were
discovered and a move against them
begun, this move had to be in the
nature of an outfanking process. which
was trying work in this rough region.
Besides holding the two important
crests of ST. Claude Farm and Ecou-
villon, the French are within 100 yards
of Monolthe, another high plateau
which commands considerable extent
of ground to the north and east
AS the enemy retreats he is picking
up his slowmoving material and is
accumulatng an increasing number of
guns and quantities of munitions. The
French, in advancing, have tended to
outstrip their artillery, and there are
no tanks to assist the infantry.
Slow Advance Explained
In comparison with the quick advance
of the first four days, the battle in
Picardy now may seem to be stagnant
but nevertheless the French have
pushed nearer to the Chaulnes- Roye-
LassignyNoyon line, to which the Ger
mans are clinging desperately. 1t took
the Allies & fortnight to get the Ger
mans from the Marne to the Vesle
The ground between the Avre and
the Disc is much more difficult than
North of the Marnc, being a labyrinth
of small wooded hills, in and out of
which the troops have to worm them
selves, surrounding and reducing each
summit separately and successfully. 1t
s no easy task, because the enemy laid
out his positions long ago. so he is able
to defend them with groups of picked
machine gunners who have orders
which they invariably obey to the lot
ter-to resist until killed.
Consequently every inch of ground
requires not only great determination
IN overcoming, but experienced skill.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15

is gone. The Matz River salient has
been almost wiped out. Foch has
secured the strategical results aimed
at in these two operations. The only
question now is whether he will
push his good fortune and try to
start another German retirement by
taking Lassigny and driving north
and east to Noyon.
The British night communique
announced a withdrawal by the Ger
mans from their front positions
above Albert, on a line from Beau
mont Hamel, through Serre and
Pusieux-au- Mont to Bucquoy. This
retirement harmonizes with the the
ory that Ludendorff is preparing
for a general retrograde movement
extending all the way north to
Ypres. The changes in the German
line below Albert have left a small
salient west of the Ancre River. Any
further retirement north Of the
Somme beyond Bray will accentuate
this exposed angle. Having success
fully fattened out the Marne, the
Montdidier and the Matz Valley sa-
lient, it would be only natural for
Foch to turn his attention to the
weak points in the German line in
the north
From Arras, the great Allied bull
wark in Artois, he can strike south
east toward Bapaume From the
three sides of the Lys Valley salient,
the weakest of all the wedges driven
by the Germans, he can squeeze Won
Arnim's armies out Of the narrow
and almost indefensible pocket into
which they crowded themselves in
April
The Lys Valley salient is an open
plain. Except on the northern side.
where the Germans hold Mount KEN
mel and the Wytschaete and Mes
sines ridges, it is exposed to a quick
breaking through attack. The Ger
man forces inside it have recently
shown many signs of uneasiness.
They withdrew last week from the
far southwestern corner. They have
lost ground steadily on the west and
south through many successful Brit
ish local attacks And they have
been making many local attacks
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
Vienna Forbids News
Of Italian Air Raid
lspecia! Dispatch to The Tnbune5

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Austria
is alarmed over the easy success of
the flight of Italian airplanes to vi
emma and has taken extraordinary
means to prevent further expeditions.
establishing new anti-arcraft batter
les and reducing the night lights, saws
en- official telegram from Rome TODAY.
Inc Vienna government has forbid
den the publication of the messages
dropped on the city by the Italian
aviators. and in all official bulletins
regarding the raid has suppressed the
name Of Major Gabrielle d'Annunzio.
the Italian poet-aviator. but, says the
dispatch. the Austrian public knows
all the facts concerning the raid.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15
King George Hears Of
Village of Chicago
Gets Prompt Answer From
American Soldier on
Battlefront

WITH TEE CANADIAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. 14.-When King George
was making Il tour Of the Picardv front
recently he. paid visit to the Ameri
can troops holding i section of the line
there. During his call the King asked
an American soldier where he came
from, and was greatly amused when the
soldier replied;
"From the village of Chicago"
King George also visited the French
troops in the sector adjoining the Brit
ish front and located to the right Of
the Roye road. He extended his con-
gratulations to them for their recent
victory.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-15

Copyright. 1918. BY The Tribune Association
(The NeW York Tribune)
V\RENCH pressure on the hinge
r. Of the new German line at
Lassigny and on the south
ern German front between Lassigny
and the Disc River continued yes
terday. This terrain is wooded,
broken and difficult. Progress can
be made over it only by iniiltration,
and that method, though economi-
cal, is slow.
Unofficial reports from Paris yes
terday forecast the speedy fall Of
Lassigny and sweep forward all
along the line east to Noyon. But
the French official night conmuni-
que reported only moderate prog
ress. The French have entered Ribe-
court, at the mouth of the big bend
of the Disc opposite Bailly, which
the Germans evacuated On Tuesday.
This brings General Humbert with