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The Washington herald., 1918-06-13
SENTENCED NEGRO SUICIDES.
Wife Slayer Leaps from Courthouse
Window When Found Guilty.

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 12.-Starting
from his seat, just as the foreman Of
the jury announced that he had been
found guilty of the murder of his
wife, David Adams, a negro. dashed
through a closed window in the Ale
gheny County courthouse here today.
He was dead when picked up in the
street below. The negro's body graz
ed two automobiles as It whirled
through the air to the asphalt pave
ment.
A note found on Adams body indi-
Gated that he had intended to COM
NIT suicide II the jury returned q
verdict of guilty in the first degree.
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13
Germans Start Offensive Against
Russia on 60-Mile From De-
tween Valuika and Zhukovka.
FRENCH FORCED TO WITHDRAW
German Tactical Success in Oise- -.Aisne
Triangle Compensated by Counter
Blows Southwest of Montdidier

London June IA Russian wireless dispatch dated
Monday the Germans have started an offensive on front
of 100 versts (abour sixty mles) between Valuka and
lhukovka. large deacmens acting independently The Russian
foreign minister Tchtchern. has note to Berlin de-
handing the retirement of these German forces
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13
Official Reports
From, War Front
AMERICAN.

The following communiQue from
General Pershing was announced last
night:
Aside from continued artillery
in the Woerye. and the taking
of prisoners by our patrols In Picardy,
there is nothing to report"
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

Cable dispatches the last forty-eght hours have told
of off :nve actions by CzechOovak army Of 10000 men
on and near the Siberian Railway The Berlin government was
said to have threatened semofcay. through the Nord
Deutsche Agemeine Zeg to punsh" Russia if the Soviet
maintained its alleged attitude of approval of the reported
Czecho-Slovak amy's operations
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

Atchison Red Cross has discovered
that the donor Of many mysterious
packages of knitted sweaters, socks
and sca;fs sent to the society. II the
bachelor president Of the Atchison
Savings Bank. He learned TO knit a.
q boy IN Sweden,
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

Success aternaed with for both sides on the fourth day
OF the Battle for Compgne The Germans succeeded in soueezna
good of the French salient the osene triangle Foc,
troops compelled by Huers pncer to withdraw their
line probably five miles front of miles, Two other tactical
by the Germans of the Ose and south the Asne were
fully oounterbanced by further French countero~. and progress
southwest of Monr and by their the major p. of
the German ne of attack 7e front between the ADe and
the forest Of Vlers-Cotteret .
ENEMY'S LOSSES GREAT
The scale of losses however decisive factor again
tipped heavily the German side weight terrcy
punished cuup heavy divisions including the Kaiser fines,
guards" Brandenburgers
At staggering the prince finally managed to bring
his forces the Ose those on the hank
But he still far of his ambitious aim,o draw
straight line of steel from Montdder through compegn. and
Cotterets Thy on the Mane front Of
sixty miles
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13
German Right Defeated.

The German right southwest Of
Noyon again went down TO defeat in
a savage all-day battle. netting the
French 100 prisoners, several guns and
much important ground in the region
Of Belloy Wood and St Maur.
Meanwhile the German army north
west Of Chateau-Thierry. the left
wing OF the huge semi-circIe facing
Paris. again tasted American steel.
The village OF Montecourt, north OF
Eloup and from the southern part Of
Bussieres were recaptured. the French
night communique states.
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

The cod is estimated to yield 5000
900 eggs each season. As many as
s.oOO. 900, 100000 and even 100000 eggs
have been found In the roe Of single
cod. An eel was caught in Scotland
some years ago which ccntained up
ward Of A0Q0,eoo eggs -
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

- . SrltTl&lcs - % make possible
S100oO aiTplane, pointing out that there
are few automobiles which approach
that price To date $lO5. 100000 has
been spent for complete airplanes,
with an additional 81. 900 for gen.
eral equipment including instruments.
The total obligations OF the board as
Of May = were ss5e. s.. .s74s6.
The Washington herald., 1918-06-13

CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26

the Germans are making a determin-
| I'd effort to smash the British front
Forty divisions. or about 400, 900
1eutonic troops are in the fight. The
total number of cannon the Germans
are employing cannot be estimated,
but unofficial reports say that there
We're 1000 guns on one small sector.
made their appearance on the British
front.
The attack was launched under the
eyes of Emperor William, Field Mar
shall Won Hindenberg and General
J Ludendorff. the three guiding spirits
of the German war machine. The
French report fighting in various
sectors and especially in Champagne
and Lorraine.
Hostilities are not limited to the
front in France, but the Italian bat
tie line is beginning to show signs OF
activity beyond the ordinary. An
Austrian attack in the Frenzela val
ley was checked by the Italians af
ter an advanced post had been taken.
A drive there would be for the pur-
pose Of gaining a foothold on a road
to the plains OF northern Italy.
American Punish Eenemy.
American cannon have continued
the terrific pounding Of the German
lines in the Luneville sector and raid
ing parties have found that the Ger
man trenches there have been de
molished. So complete is the evacu
alton of the German first lines that
an American patrol crossed No
Mans Land without artillery assist
ance and without being fired on by
the enemy. The Germans, continu-
ing their advance in southern Rus
sis, have captured the city of Ocha-
kov. Al miles northeast Of Odessa.
The Germans are also continuing
their invasion further south. Cha
otic conditions are reported in north
ern Russia, where the people are
fleeing as best they may from the in
vading Teutons.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
BIG GUN LOCATED
is 76 MILES AWAY
Continued from Page ~

line back about two and half miles
1t was reported that st. Leger was
the scene of a hard struggle and that
Doignies had been re-taken by the
British. These points are about four
kilometers, or PAS miles, back of the
British lines, as they stood before the
attack began. Berlin claims that
British first line positions from Ar
ras to La Fere were captured.
Forty German Divisions Employed
The concentration of men and ar
tillery on the British front. as shown
in official reports, demonstrate that
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
LONG RANGE BOMBARDNIENT
DUMFOUNDS ORDNANCE ME

Washington, March 23.-The long
range bombardment of Paris, by a
German gun presumably 81 miles off,
announced as a fact today in the
French capital, dumfounded Ameri-
can ordnance. officers. The 22-mile
bombardment of Dunkirk by the Ger
mans more than year ago had set
a record and ordnance officers of the
American, British and French corps
freely conceded they never had
dreamed of monster gun with a
range Of more than 80 miles.
Some officers frankly questioned
that shells from rifled cannon act
ually had fallen in Paris. Others
sought eXplanotion in new devices or
secret gun emplacements in the vi
cinity of Paris. None wanted to be-
lieve that any gun had been invent
ed by the Germans or any one else
which could throw a 1-2-inch pro-
jectile 60 miles.
The finding of shell fragments
bearing the marks of gun riding
seemed to preclude the idea of any
ordinary airplane bomb. 1t was
suggested that monster arplanes
guns might have been used
but no one has ever conceived the
possibility of carrying 1-2-inch
weapon in the air.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
THE BRITISH IN PALESTINE
FORCE PASSAGE OF JORDAN

London, March 23-The British
in Palestine have forced a passage of
the river Jordan, bridged the stream
and established themselves on the
vanced eastward against considera-
hle opposition and continuing op-
erations, according to the official re-
port announcing the crossing.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
TITANIC STRUGGLE
ON WESTERN FRONT
Continued from Page 1.)
FRENCH FORCES FIGHTING
DEPERATELY AROUND NOYO.

Paris, March 25.-The French
forces which are fighting to the
south of st. Quentin, around Noyon,
though retiring slowly, are carrying
out strong counter attacks and in.
fiicting heavy losses on the Germans,
says the war office. statement to-
night.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
TWO AMERICAN FLIERS ARE
NAMED IN THE DISPATCHES

Washington, March 23.-Two
American fiiers are named in official
dispatches from France today as
bringing down German aeroplanes.
Lieutenant Larner downed a Ger
man, opponent in the Champagne re-
down one near Courtroom.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
BOMBARDING OF PARIS
PUZZLES THE EXPERTS
Has Germany Invented Monster
Airplancs Mounting Guns OF
Large Caliber?

Paris, March 23.-The Germans
have been firing on Paris with long
range guns. Since o'clock this
morning shells of 24O millimeters
have been reaching the capital and
suburbs at intervals of a quarter of
an hour, killing 10 persons and
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26


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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
BIease to Speak i'm Manning.

BIease to Speak In Manning.
Columbia. March 25.-Cole l.
Blease has announced that he will
officially open his campaign for the
United States senate at Manning
Saturday, March 80.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26
THE SEASON FOR NEW
RUGS

Every house likes to change the
looks OF the rooms at this time of
the year, and no one thing will do
more for the rejuevcnation of the
whole home than a new rug.
This showing of the newest rugs
fills springtimc need, and our as
sortment of sizes, qualities and har-
monlous colorings and patterns
Will meet the requirements of the
most discriminating. Owing to
stringent market conditions it will
of these while they are reasonably
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-26

wounding about 15. The shortest
distance from Paris to the front is
over 100 kilometers (62 miles)
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-07-22
DELINQUENT TAX ROLL REAL AND PERSONA
 PROPERTY OF SEWARD ALASKA, FOR THE YEAR 1917

hereby delinquent Special year Incorporated Town Territory open public inspection Office the Town Clerk National Building North Seward Territory Alaska Oh Scpmb Iol will ed 10 Territory Alaska, O
 testimony Whereof | set my official Seward Territory day of July, 1918. (SigneO
 (SeaD F.. Reed
 Municipal Clerk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
WAR and DOCTORS
Battle Has Not Dulled Army
Surgeons Sensibilities.
They Are Sympathetic in Car.
ing for Wounded.
FORECAST

With the American Armies in the
Field, Nov. 9.-war has not calloused
or dulled the sensibilitfes of the Amer
lean army surgeon. Nothing stands
out finer or nobler than the tender
care and earnest solicitude with which
American military doctors handle their
soldier patients.
In three-day trip thru the Saint
Mihiel sector the correspondent of the
Associated Press had many opportuni-
ties of observing the work of the
number Of field dressing stations and
also several hospitals just back of the
battle line, thru which hundreds of
wounded Americans were passing.
Disabled American soldiers, from
the time their wounds are dressed at
the advance casualty station to the
time they arrive at the last base hos
and tender care at the hands of the
army doctors. They get better care
and more attentive treatment than an
average person would in peace times.
To-render the soldier free from pain,
to make him comfortable, to cheer his
spirit, the American military doctor
will exhaust every resource, will sacri-
flee sleep and food and all personal
thought of himself.
Thousands of instances occur where
army physicians, SO absorbed and 80
alphabetically interested in their pa
tients. will keep night after night an
anxious and unbroken vigil over the
progress of their condition, and will
rest only when ordered to do SO by a
superior officer.
Besides the use of anaesthetics the
Yankee doctor. caring for his fighting
comrade only as he would care for a
brother, resorts to a hundred other
means of relieving the wounded mans
distress. In the actual battle zone he
has to act as physician and nurse, for
no women are permitted in the front
lines. It is always impressive to see
the gentle, cautious way he places his
patients in bed, the infinite pains he
takes to cause them as little suffering
as possible when applying or remov-
ing dressings, and how kindly and re-
assuringly he speaks to them.
The ambulance drivers and stretcher
bearers spare no pains to see that the
sick and wounded in transit from the
front over broken French roads suffer
no hardship or discomfort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
TUESDAY.

gold stripes with silver stripe in
the center for a lieutenant colonel,
and five gold stripes for a colonel.
Higher ranks will have other distinc-
tive markings. A gold eagle will be
mounted over the visor on all officers
caps much in the position of the orna-
ment on the present cap.
The enlisted mans cap will have a
black visor and black band. with a
single stripe of color at the top of
band to show BRANCH of service. 1t
also will have an ornament in position
corresponding to the one on an Of
ficer's cap.
The officers blouse, to be worn with
the Sam Brown belt, will be longer
than at present and very roomy be-
low the waist, which will be form fit
ting with an in-seamed belt. The
rear, and the flaring effect will be pro-
nounced all around. The breast
pockets will have pleats. The lower
pockets will be cut-in, only the flap
marking where the pocket is, and they
will .lave an inside-bellows effect, Civ
ing an unrufned coat front. The pres
ent sleeve braid will become a sort of
cuff, having an angle with piping in
color of branch of service.
The greatcoat for officers will have
a convertible collar, to be worn either
roll down or buttoned up under the
chin, with the new color patches on
and have two rows of large. compost
ton buttons.
For Rank and File.
The blouse for enlisted men will be
longer than at present. and cut SO that
there will be no gap at the bottom
when it is buttoned. 1t also will have
color patches. Pocket seams will not
show on the outside, only the flaps
marking the position of the pockets
The lower pockets will be beloved
inside, the same as in the officer
blouse. to give a maximum carrying
capacity without bullying the coat
front.
The enlisted mans overcoat will be
single breasted. with one row of brass
buttons, with the pockets at the sides
running at an angle. The collar will
be similar to the collar of an ordinary
raincoat. and fit closely at the neck
It also will bear the color patches.
In addition to the question of gen.
eral uniform changes, the board may
recommend changes in officers insig-
mia, chevrons for noncommissioned of.
ficers and service chevrons.
Samples of the new noncommis-
stoned officers chevrons are radically
different from the present ones. They
are much larger and wider and curved
| to a point. On the coat sleeve they
look like the markings of a coast-lhe
on a map. the edges of each stripe
being black.
It is also proposed that service chev.
olive gray cord-like material. and thai
they be on the upper instead of the
| lower half of the left sleeve.-Stars
and Stripes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
WAS A SAD Girl
Ten.Year-Old' Child Writes t(
w. r.. Smith.
She Tells Him About Losing
Her Pet Squirrel.
THURSDAY.

W. r. Smith, state printer. not only
is popular with the voters as his rec
Ords show, but he Is very popular
man with the thousands of school chill
dren who use the text books he turns
out for them at the state printing
plant. In every book that he sends out
he inserts a slip inviting the user to
write him and many interesting letters
are on file in his office from young
sters all over the state.
One was received recently from lit
tie fellow in the western part of the
state stating that he liked to study the
books very much but would appreciate
it If Mr.. Smith would make the prob
lens in the next arithmetic he got out
a little easier.
One of the best letters he has re-
ceived lately came in this week from
a 1O-year-old girl at Louisburg, Kan,
in which she tells about her pet sQuir-
rel. Here is what she said:
Her letter About Squirrel.
"I had a pet squirrel and his name was
Bunny. And he sure was. pet We had
him pretty badly spoiled. We fed him
hickory nuts and walnuts and he sure
knew when we cracked them for he knew
the sound Of the hammer. He would hunt
us up wherever we were and would CLIMB
upon our shoulders and eat the kernels.
when winter time came. he wept to the
clothes room and cut hole and went te
the soiled clothes pile and stole handker
chiefs and stockings and aprons to build
a nest. The colder the weather got the
more he would gather for his nest. Days
that were not cold he would come out fol
a play and would jump and romp uror
the bed and chew my fingers like a kitten
Rut when spring opened up he took no
ton to make a visit and went to neigh
bor's and spent two days and night and
then came home
THAT evening he was so hungry and
sleepy that he did not have time to play
and went to bed and slept. Then he stay
ed with me only a few days till he tool
another visit and he must have run acre s:
/, some squirrel friends for he never returned
and / sure was sad little girl. "a true
story)
written by Militine Gettel, Louisburg
Kan"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

ed the morsels of delicate blue that he
might place them in the hands of the
one he loved so well. Back he plung-
ed and was almost at the bank again,
when he was seized by a cruel cramp,
and could no longer hold his way
against the whirl and surge of the rap
ids. The roar of the falls not far be-
low was in his ears. he could not stem
the current, and he realized that his
hour had come.
Looking into the white face of his
beloved, he smiled, as with his last
strength he flung his bouquet at her
feet and cried, "Forget-Me-Not" and
disappeared beneath the waves. She
never did forget him, but wore the
flowers in her hair till the day OF her
own death.
"There Is flower, lovely flower,
Hinged deep with Faiths unchangfng
hue;
Pure as the ether, in its hour,
OF loveliest and serenest blue.
The streamlets gentle side it seeks,
The silent fount the shaded grot;
And sweetly to the heart IT speaks,
Forget-Me-Not, Forget-Ae- Not"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
JAP FOOD RIOTS
Toxic Business Man Urges His Coun-
try To Learn a Lesson.


Correspondence Of the Associated Press)
riots in Japan are dangerous symp-
toms of a widening social cleavage in
the opinion of Toshio Fujiwara, a
leading business man of Toxic and an
authority on social questions. He con-
trasts the conditions under which the
working class of Japan live with the
enormous profits of great enterprises.
and sees in the ostentation of the
countless war millionaires social irri-
tant which is causing the theories of
western agitators to work on the
minds of the japanese wage earners.
Mr.. Fujiwara thinks that Japanese
skilled workmen have already acquir-
ed the ideas of the working people
of western countries. He adds: These
ideas, unfortunately mostly in wrong
sense, are steadily working upon the
minds OF our working people, espe-
cially those in big cities like Toxic,
Osaka, etc" He continues:
Leaders of the natiLn are therefore
strongly urged to adopt some meas
ures for relief of the general discon-
tent SO that disaster r .ay be avoided.
Should this great discomfort of the
working class be left without remedy,
we may have more serious outbursts
and these may bring about a catas-
trophe to the empire"
Mr.. Fujiwara urges that japanese
statesmen learn a lesson from Amer
lean and British statesmen in the
handling Of national prupiems. espe-
cially food problems. improvement of
the living conditions of the workIns
classes in Japan, he believed to be
urgently imperative, and this reform
should be inaugurated in the big cities
of Toxic and Osaka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09

Proposed changes in the American
army uniform, now under considera-
ton by the army board:
Brass buttons, bright hued patches
on collars Of blouses and overcoats,
caps with black visors and colored
rank, and colored piping, denoting
branch of service. sewn in the seams
of the breeches-all these are features
of proposed uniform changes for the
A. E. F.
The changes have been under con-
sideration by an army board which
has spent weeks in deliberations with
tailoring experts. In its work the
board had Many sample uniforms
tailored, and many proposals were de-
bated. among them the adoption OF
the roll collar. 1t is thought prob
able, however. that the present collar
will be retained.
If the proposals are adopted, the
uniform will show these changes:
Brass buttons wherever bronze ones
are used at present. This change Is
considered necessary because of the
growing difficulty in obtaining bronze
in the quantity needed for the army.
Patches of colored cloth sewn on
the collars of all blouses and overcoats
to show branch of service. Embroi-
dered regimental numerals placed on
tie patches of color.
Black visored caps for officers and
enlisted men. The officers cap will
be similar in lines to the present ones,
but the crown will be higher at the
front and lower at the back. A broad
colored stripe of color will show
branch of service.
Gold Stripes for Officers.
Gold stripes paralleling the service
stripe will show rank-a single stripe
for second lieutenant, two stripes for
a first lieutenant, three stripes for a
captain, four stripes Or a major, four