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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
GERMANS HAVE
NAMED PEACE Terms

the British the difficulties caused by
Germany's demand or Holland con-
corning the transfer OF German ma
terials across Holland TO Belgium.
The proposal made by Jonkeer
kolyn, the dispatch from The Hague
represents are said there TO have bcen
as follows:
"First-Germany to- all
claims in the west.
Observation-Disclosures OF Belgium.
e-Lorraine TO be auton-
omous. within h German federation.
"Fourth--The status in the east to
remain as at present.
"~Fifth-Austria TO make certain con-
cessions TO Italy in the Trentino.
sixth, Balkan questions to be solved
by an International conference.
"S~even.h-All colonial questions af-
fecting Africa and Asia Minor to be-
settled by a conference OF all the BEL
iigerents.
"Fighth-Cermany TO abandon an
Claims TO her forme, Chinese protec-
torate of Kiao Chat. but in exchange
to receive certain economic concessions
in China"
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VAST FORCE To
BE MOVED SOON
More Americans to Be Moved to
France In Two Months Than
There Are Men In Belgian
Portuguese Armies.
WILL SLACKEN IN JULY
Transports Then to Be Devoted
to P;ling Up supplies
Yanks to Form Separate
Army Next Fall.
BY United Press.

Washington, ID. c, May America
is now shipping large armies to France
in response to the allied appeal for
reserves.
During May and June contemplated
shipments will moro than equal the
fighting strength Of the combined Bel
gian and Portuguese forces on the west
front.
July and August will show a slight
decline in the average as added ton
mage is turned to the task OF getting
across newly needed supplies in IN
creased quantities.
In the fall and winter months the
work of building up this countrys
fighting forces abroad Will be more
methodical. Divisions torn apart for
the purpose Of brigading units with
the British and French Will be brougnt
together and organizations left behind
will be sent to complete a cohensive all
American army.
June 5 Registration Day.
It is purposed to have a registration
June s for all young men who nave
reashed 81 since the last registratlon
This will create q new reservoir OF
Glass / men, now being rapidly de-
pleted by the heavy drafts OK Aprll
and May. AT the present. iStc - -
will find few in Glass ! remaining un-
less the war department: has completed
IT'S ella Justification of the new thousands.
Hence there may be some slight SLOW
ing up of draft calls during June n
July. -
Meantime a new and determined
movement is afloat in congress TO In
sist upon universal military training:
A determined attempt to put IL IN the
great army expansion program VIII Dc
made when the SIS, 000, 900 900 army
appropriation bill reaches the floor OF
the House.
Plan to Be Proposed.
Advocates OF the system VIII pro-
pose that young men be given three
months training in their 18th year.
three months in the goth and SIX
months in the 21st. Although the plan
was defeated in the Senate n was
| opposed by the administrator n DIG
expansion program has doubtless add-
| ed strength to the universal training
forces. a majority Of the republicans
have lined up behind the plan 1t IL
claimed.
! Universal training would make a
| much smoother working war machine.
Representative Madden said To-Day.
The men of u, who are to be taken
into the army as they become or age.
would be ready for the finishing train
ing touches the moment they are IN
Quoted into service"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
War Department Begins Probing
Failure to Obtain Machine Guns
Colt Company, Which Holds Most of Contracts Falls Down on
Program-0rganization Badly Upset by Draft,
General Dixon Tells Congress.

guns Is improving, members declared.
General Dixon placed the blame for
the delay OF the heavy gun on a bad
Reorganization OF the Colt company,
due to the draft and other causes.
Many of h company's skilled workers
refused to claim exemption, he said.
Today's hearing revealed the gov
eminent has practically decided to
abandon the cost plus system of con-
tracts.
Appropriations for $4,000 machine
guns for use on airplanes was asked
by General Dixon. In addition ST.
600, 000, 600 will be expended for incen-
diary bombs, indicating that the activi-
ties of the American aviators, al
though delayed, may be a potent force
within the year.
Secretary Baker, II was revealed to-
day, has told the committee he hopes
to Ia 1900, airplanes in service on
the French front by July l." Most of
these he admitted. will be made in
England n France.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
WAGES IN GERMANY
Do NOT KEEP PACE

Washington, ID. C.-lncreases in
wages paid in Germany have utterly
failed to keep pace with the increased
cost Of living says the April bulletin
of the Department Of Labor.
The average increase in wages has
been 80 per cent while the living cost
has gone up 800 per cent. The greatest
increase in wages a been received by
Prussian metal workers who are now
getting 50 per cent more than they
formerly received. Increases as low
as Is per cent have been reported n
som women are still being paid less
than $3.50 per week.
The purchasing power of money has
dropped to one-fourth its value before
the war according to the bulletin. Ger
man workingmen, 1t says, are being
underfed. One egg per week is their
allowance. Oleomargarine is limited
to an ounce and a half for Il family Of
four. ~
Sugar Is more plentiful, the family
allowance being one and one-half
pounds. Coffee is practically unob-
tainable. Potatoes are the heaviest
item i'm the ordinary diet.
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BY j. w. r. MASON.
United Press War Expert.

New York, May IA period 81
pessimism has began within the
central empires, because Of the
cessation of Won Hindenburg's
bloody offensive and q realization
that the extravagant promises Of
the kaiser's militarists have not
been met.
Hence forth increasingly serious
conditions will be reported as ex-
listing in Germany and Austria
Hungry. The kaiser's incorrigibly
dramatic temperament made this
reaction doubly inevitable by Or
dering last March the announce
ment in such grandiloquent terms
of Hindenburg's slaughter.
Nevertheless, caution is neces-
sary in interpreting too optimistic
ally the immediate results Of the
disappointed hopes of the German
and Austro-H Hungarian people.
Although Hindenburg has been
checked, the kaiser can tell his
subjects that Germany's position
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
Boche Shells Sing
Requiem for Slain
American Soldiers
BY FRED S. FERGUSON.
United Press Staff Correspondent.

With the American Army in Picardy,
May 5.-Lieut. Colonel Griffiths, who
was killed by a shell as he was emer-
ging from his dugout, rests in n grave
such as he might have picked out him
self-within sight of the enemys
lines.
The usual funeral ceremonies were
impossible because of the Germans
proximity and the constant lombard
ment of the American positions.
Without even a flag wrapped around
the body. it was placed in a long trench
and buried beside IL other American
soldiers.
The burial party was few in numbers,
so as not to draw the boche fire. The
chaplain and the others wore tin hats
and gas masks.
No American volley was fired across
the grave, as the body was laid to rest,
but the enemy shells overhead
hummed q requiem.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
CARD IS BEST TRUMP
KAISER STILL HAS in DECK

at the peace conference has been
greatly strengthened because OF
the Picardy offensive.
This is the final card that the
.HohenZollerns have to play. That
the argument will be used with all
the desperation of despair is Ger
tain. But, to make it effective,
the kaiser must show there Is a
possibility Of q peace conference
being called in the immediate flu
ture at which the German gains
in Picardy and Flanders can be
capitalized.
The German government. there
fore, must start another peace
drive at the earliest possible mo-
ment. 1t will be necessary for the
allies to block this crafty new Of
fensive before it gathers serious
impetus. A conference to end the
war under present military con-
ditions would be interpreted by the
people Of Germany and Austria
Hungary as having been forced on
the allies by HindenbuEg's drive
against the west front.
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Der Kaiser Plucks
Posies for Kaiserin
As Great Guns Roar

London, May 6.-The kaiser has
found his Boswell in Karl Rosner, war
correspondent OF the Lokal-Anzeiger,
who. says the Daily News, retails to
the German public all the wise and
humane u~tterances the "All Highest"
has been making OF late In the course
81 his tour around the battlehelds Of
Fla uders.
kaiser, as the clock strikes /, sits
down to his soup. which he brings
with him In a thermos saucepan, and
how, afterward. he busies himself
ideally with picking fresh violeta 20
send to the kaiserin.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
By United Press,

Washington, d. c., May 7.-Produc-
ton OF heavy Browning machine guns
been "a failure comparable only
to the breakdown of the aircraft pro-
gram" members of the House Military
committee declared today. The num-
Der of these guns so far produced
has been "ridiculously small" Repre-
sentative Kahn, ranking republican de-
after the committee spent two
hours questioning General Dixon, now
in charge Of his work.
A military investigation OF the fail
ure has already been started, Dixon
said, asking that a congressional in
vestigation be delayed until the results
of the present probe are known.
Conditions at the plants OF the Colt
Arms company are being inspected
now, General Dixon said. The majority
of the contracts for the heavy Brown
ing guns are held by this company.
Production of the lighter Browning
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BY Associated Press.

London, May Foreign Secretary
Balfour told the house of commons
today that no peace offers had been
made recently by the enemy. He added:
There is no representative Of 4
neutral nation in this country who has
made tentative or informal suggestions
OF peace negotiations"
London. May 6.-Germay's peace
emmissary, according TO III
Daily Mail, has been busily work.
ing here. but has made no progress
in any direction. There is reason
TO believe, IL says. that the German
agent who has been reported to be
a Dutch financier to Germany to
report there is nothing doing
a Central News dispatch from
Tne Hague says the Dutch inter
mediary is reported to be Jonkheer
kJlyn, former minister OF war.
Jonkheer Kolyn went to England last
week at the head Of a mission. whose
purpose was said to be to explain to
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
MERGER OF CHURCHES
HELD TO BE VALID

Washington, d. c., May 6.-Merger
in 1906 of the Cumberland P~resbyter-
ian church with the Presbyterian
church and consolidation of their
church property was declared valid to-
day by the supreme court Federal
DEGREES awarding cotrol of the $780,
900 endowment and buildings Of the
Missouri Valley college, a Cumberland
educational institution, at Marshall.
Mo-. to the Presbyterian synod of
Kansas, also were sustained
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
ILL HEALTH Is CAUSE
OF NED EGAN'S SUICIDE

Chicago, H., May 6.-Ned Egan.
famous as q minor league baseball
manager, committed suicide by shoot
ing, in q hotel here early today. Egan
was to have been manager of the Mil
waukee association club this year, but
i'll health prevented. A note indicated
his illness inspired the suicide.
Egan, who had been in a Milwaukee
sanatorium- since February, when his
spine was injured in a skating rink ac-
cident, secured AN over Sunday leave
from the institution. Purchasing a re-
yolver in milwaukee,, he came to Chi
a and registered at the Grand Pa
cific hotel. His bed had not been used.
Egan began as an infielder in 1897
with an eastern "semi-pro' team and
secured his first experience as a man
ager in the New York State league.
After becoming manager of the Water
loo Central league club in 1906 he won
four pennants and eight seconds there.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
1,OOO,O 900 WOMEN ARE
ENGAGED IN INDUSTRY

Hot Springs, Ark, May 7.-Eleyen
million women and girls are employed
in American industries, according to
the industrial and social conditions de-
partment report, which was made to-
day at the convention Of the General
Federation Of Women's clubs. by bIrs.
ID. d. Wilkinson. of Louisiana.
sixty per cent of all workers In
munition plants are women. 1,S00.0 900
are engaged In agricultural pursuits
and dairying. Seven hundred and fifty
thousand OF these are under the age
OF q years" said Mrs. Wilkinson.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
AND NOW LITTLE MARY"
DENIES SHE'LL RETIRE

Los Angeles, Cal, May tn not
retire as long as the public wishes to
see my pictures" said Mary Pickford
upon her return from a strenuous cam
paign in behalf Of the Liberty loan.
Tomorrow she starts work on a new
picture, and will o o begin erecting q
new residence.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
M OF FORMER
EMPEROR Is MOVED

the former emperor, together with the
former empress and one OF their
daughters, have been transferred from
Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg Q70 miles
southeast Of Perm, on the Asiatic side
Of the Ural mountains), according to q
soviet announcement. The transfer was
ordered because Of the alleged efforts
of peasants and monarchists in the
n~eighborhood of Tobolsk to promote
the escape OF the prisoners.
The announcement does not mention
the former heir apparent, the young
Alexis Romanoff.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
FAIL TO GET VOTE ON
STUFF MEASURE FRIDAY

Washington, May 6.-By Il margin
of one vote, a motion proposing that
the senate proceed neg Friday TO
consider the House V lan Suffrage
resolution to the constitution was de-
feated in the senate today. The vote
was 40 to 81, just less h the neces-
airy two-thirds.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
SEEK CANCELLATION
OF RATES ON LIQUORS

Washington, ID. c., May Western
railroads TODAY applied to the Inter-
collation. Of commodity rates on bran
dies, cordials, gin, rum, wine and
whisky, between Chicago and ST. Louis
and various points in western trunk
line territory.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
THIS GERMAN EDITOR
"TAKES IT ALL BACK

Milwaukee, Wis" May 6.-The Ger
mania Herold, German language paper,
here, in today's issue ~denounces the
kaiser's government for starting the
world war and editorially retracts
everything il has a regarding Eng
lands responsibility.
The Herold, in admitting IL has been
misled for three years. ays the revela-
lions of Prince Lichnowsky awakened
-
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
DAKOTA WESLEYAN TO
GRADUATE TWENTY-ONE

Mitchell, s. D., May S.-Twenty-one
young men and women will be gradu-
ated from Dakota Wesleyan university
this week. DR.. w. ID. Schemmerhorn,
president of the college, preached the
b~accalaureate sermon at the Methodist
Episcopal church Sunday morning and
Dr.. j. Il. Jenkins delivered the univer-
sity sermon Sunday evening.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
WOUNDED ARE HOUSED
IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Paris, May $50 many German
wounded have arrived from the Flanders
battle front that the German author
tiles in SelZaeter, Getvelde, Terdock.
and various other towns in western
Flanders have closed the schools, con-
verting them into hospitals. Many
wounded have been transported in
barges on the Lys river.
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LOSES FIGHT TO STOP
BEING SENT TO FRANCE

Washington, May 6.-Federal court
DEGREES dismissing Habeas Corpus
proceedings sought by Robert Cox OF
Missouri. a member Of the national
army to prevent his being sent to
rance were sustained today BY the
supreme court.
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BY Associated Preso.

With the British Army in France,
Sunday, May 5.-Luck seems to be go
ing against the Germans along the
crucial northern battle front. Sunday
still found the Prussian commanders
working desperately to whip their or
CARNATIONS into shape for a renewal
OF the delaying offensive, while the
allied forces aided by the weather
continued counter operations which
are most disconcerting to an enemy
playing against time.
IT was quite apparent the Germans
intended another assault in Flanders
yesterday, but the arrangements were
upset by q combination Of events.
These were the allied operations and
tho heavy rain which converted the
ground into mud flats over which it
was difficult to move either infantry
or artillery. There was also confus-
ion arising from wholesale reliefs and
the arrival of strange troops in the
German area.
The allied artillery has been main
tanning an in~cessant bombardment OF
enemy territory and Friday night be-
fore the projected German attack the
French and British runners played
havoc with the German preparations.
The allied troops also have been car
rying out local operations which i'm
proved their lines and upset enemy
schemes.
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HOT ~ REV YORK.

the hottest May G in the history Of
New York. The mercury scared 30 8!
In the late afternoon. 6 degree: higher
than the lex. hottest Nay c. iH 1895.
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British and Australians Improve
Positions In Several Sectors
BY Brilliant Night
Attacks.
BATTLEFIELD Is SLOUGH
Germans Appear Unable to Or
ganize Heavy Attack Because
of Incessant Anglo
French Fire.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SiMMS.
United Press Staff Correspondent.

With the British Armies in France,
May british troops have advanced
1000 yards on a front of more than a
mile, between the Ancre and the SOM
me. RI
North of the Somme, tie Austria
lians advanced 700 yards on a 1900
yard front, and early today they add
ed another 500 yards, on IL 1000 yard
front.
The first Australian advance was
made in the darkness early Sunday
morning. Suddenly and silently they
swept forward, surprising the thin
German garrison in the front line just
north of the Sonme. and taking some
prisoners.
Similarly, In pitchy b%lackness early
today, they pushed On despite strong
opposition. There are many German
lead and the Australian casualties are
not heavy.
Intermittent Smelling continues. It
is raining.
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LOCAL BLOWS HALTED.

Berlin (via London), Sunday, May 8.
-Repulse OF Anglo-Frcnch attacks on
the Flanders battle front is reported in
the official announcement by tho war
office today. More than 300 prisoners
ire reported captured in the fighting.
Increased artillery activity south OF
the Somme Is announced In the state
ment which reads:
After the strongest artillery prepa
ration French divisions attacked our
divisions or KENNEL hill u near
.Bailleul unsuccessfully. They werc re-
pulsed with heavy losses n left over
300 prisoners in our hands. An intended
attack by an English division west Oh
Bailleul failed TO develop because OIL
our fire.
South Of Hebu.erne tnorth OF the
Somme) strong British thrusts failed
The baltic front on both sides Of the
Somme saw a revival OF artillery ac-
tivity in the evening. II increased
especially near Nillers- BretonneuS and
On the west bank OF the Avrc."
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FIRE 10000 SHELLS.

Paris, May 6.-The American artil-
lery fired &C, 900 shells into the German
trenches before Il recent attack. COM
pletely blotting them out, it was an
nounced here today.
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Rx Associated Press.

London, May THE British line has
been advanced on n considerable front
between the Somme and Ancre rivers
west-southwest of 'Morleancourt, says
the official statement from Field Mar
shal Haig's headquarters today.
The British positions in the neigh
borhood Of LOGON and the Lave river
on the southern leg Of the Lys salient
in Flanders have been improved as the
result of local fighting.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-09
By Associated Press.

Germany has not yet taken up the
offensive. In the west and probably an
other effort against the allied armies is
held In allegiance to be made stimuli
t~aneously with the hearalded Austro-
Hungarian drive against the Italians.
III preparation for further enemy at
tacks on the Flanders battlefield the
British and French have been improv-
ing their positions III local operations.
The allied troops in an attack between
Looro and Drancourt have advanced
their line 500 yards on ayfront of 1000
yards, gaining positions which
strengthen the important sectors or the
front between Scheppenbers and Mont
Rouge. German counter attacks were
repulsed with loss. Berlin reporting on
the same fighting, attempts TO make
out the attacks were made in large
force. It say they were repulsed and
that the French lost 800 prisoners.
On the south leg OF the Lys s%alients,
which is the one the Germans must at
tack IL they wish to connect this battle
field with the one in Picardy by wiplng
out tho Arras salient, the Germans
have made no further attempts TO push
back the British from their gains at
Hinges, earlier efforts having failed.
The artillery fire continues most In
tense on both legs OF the Lys salient
and south of the Somme in Picardy.
Attack Italy Soon.
The coming OF a strong push on the
Italian front is heraided officially from
Vienna, which that Emper-
or Charles and his military advisers
are now on the front. In the Trentino
and the Tyrol there have been largo
movements of enemy troops.
Rom does not report any marked
infantry fighting or does Vienna. but
the Italian war office notes a great in
crease in the violence OF the Austrian
artillery fire. especially on the Trenti-
no front, where the new attack probab-
ly will come in an effort to force the
Italians from the Piave line. Aerial ac-
tiyity IN northern italy is intense,
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SPECIAL NOTICES
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned is required by law to file liens March 30th, 1918, against all property where the tax remain unpaid on the list of 1916.
 HOWARD F. S TT7H, Collector, SIS ts City of Bridgeport
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-21
AUTO ACCESSORIES

AUTOMOBILE supplies, tires, vulca-
 mixing and battery charging. Com
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 parts. Selected line Of factory sec
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