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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-11
cuticura Kills Dandruff.

Anoint spots Of dandruff with Cuti-
cura Ointment. Follow at once by a
hot shampoo with Cuticura Soap, IL a
man; next morning If a woman. For
tree samples address, "Cuticura, Dept
Z, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment % and 5O.-Ady.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-11
AUDUBON COUNTY JOURNAL.
ONE OF ioWA's BEST
pes Moines Nurse Of Is Years Experl-
ence Endorses Tanlac for stom-
ach and Nerve Ills.

Tanlac, the new tonic compounded
from barks and berries, is subjected to
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-11

Occasionally fellow may adopt a
good gas mask by closing his mouth.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
Sam Horowitz
CLOAKS and SKIRTS
Ready-Made and To Order
357 STATE r E
Perth Amboy. N. ].

We T closing out our entire
remaining stock of Ladies and
Children's Spring Goats. Come in
and see the bargains offered.
WAISTS AND M1DDIES
Ladies' lawn and wolfe waists,
white striped or colored; large as
sortment, each .o5c
Ladies' silk crepe de chine and
georgette crepe waists, $1.95 to
$4.e6.
Ladies' Middies, white, striped
OIL colored, $50, $1.45, $1.7b, $1.98
Children's white middies, 400.
Special also at -. CSC and $1.45
SKIRTS
Ladies' white gabardine, pique
and silk poplin skirts, $3.50 to
$4.o5.
Ladies' colored cotton, wool
and silk, plain gathered or plated
skirts $3.50 to $4.95
ovERALLS
Boys brown, blue and striped
overalls, sizes s to Is, Soc and up.
Youths or juvenile overalls,
sizes "a to "a, brown only, special
Soc.
Mems brown, blue, striped and
white overalls and jackets, $1.25
to $3.50.
PANTS
Boys Khaki Pants, sizes z to 16,
76o, 89c and $50.
Boys summer striped pants, 600
Boys heavy gray or blue pants,
Toe and$1.16.
Mems work pants, $1.69 per pr.
Mems blue and brown mixed
pants, $500 to $500.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH
Claimed Invention Could End War In
Thirty Days and Allies Could March
unohaIlenoed Into Berlin.
Tests Prove lts Value.

Rome.-The kaiser's dream Of VIC
tory and world supremacy may be
blasted out by 'canned lightning" a
terrible death engine invented by an
italian scientist. Dazzling swords Of
fire, more deadly than are highest ex-
plosives, followed by annihilating *
plosions. are capable Of destroying en-
envy trenches with n binding fash,
according to his claims. Mine sweep
ers equipped with this device could
fire mines thousands of yards distant.
On the land. Scanned lightning" could
be used TO form a most successful bar
rage and could wipe out the defenders
of German trenches with unerring GER
tainty.
The scientist is credited with hav-
ing discovered a means OF ~concentrat-
ing and rejecting electric rays in such
q manner as to produce the results de-
scribed. 1t is reported that this In
ventor has proved to representatives
OF his government that electric cur
rent can be concentrated and directed
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
"No CHILDREN" RULE BANNED
Landlords In Seattle Are Appealed to
20 Remove Signs From Their
BulldInaa

Seattle. Wash.-"No Children Al
lowed" signs must be removed by Sc
attic landlords from their properties,
according to j. ". spangler. vice pres
ident Of the Seattle chamber OF COM
merce. Re has issued an appeal to
rooming house proprletors. hotel men
and me Of rental properties. de-
claring that owing to the scarcity Of
quarters for shipyard workers and
others engaged in war work the stu
alton In this city is becoming alarming.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
IN rays. -
Tests Held on Banks Of TIber.

IN rava FF~ s2sx15
Tests Held on Banks Of TIber.
In describing the results Of these
tests, held on the banks Of the
historic T1ber, f. n. Randall, writing
in the Illustrated World, says that the
scientist was asked to burn through
a three-inch plank Of hardwood. In
an instant, the writer says. the plank
was scared and broken as IL 1t had
been broken by lightning.
Oficials then asked the scientist to
explode two bombs. one hidden along
the bank Of the river and the other In
the bed Of the stream. Within ten
minutes the bomb along the bank ex-
ploded. 1t required a much longer
time to explode the other bomb, but
this, too, was finally accomplished.
The entire outfit used by the inventor
was placed on q single small barge.
An approximate idea of the power
Of the arcing electricity may be OBJ
tanned by watching an electric furnace
at work. II will cut the hardest steel
like putty. To fash such a flame
through an aeroplane. submarine, bat
tleship or a trench would leave a to-
tai wreck. Mines placed in the North
sea by the Germans could be elm
mated, and mine sweepers could de-
stroy all OF these hidden terrors Of the
sea located within thousands OF yards
Of the ship. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
Navy Superstition.

A visitor on a British battleship
was dining with a group Of officers
when his fork accidentally struck a
glass tumbler. AS the glass resounded
the officers shouted as. one man. Hun"
On asking for an explanation the visit
or was told that the ringing Of a glass
meant bad luck. One officer declared
that on n ship he formerly COM
manded every time a glass was rung
a man fell overheard. This Is why
officers now cry Hun" when a table
accident occurs. they hoping to trans
fer their bad luck to the enemy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12

ators and concentrators behind the
lines, In shell holes or craters In mo
mans land" When the enemy
charged he could sweep the whole line
as It passed. annihilating each success
sive wave Of advancing Germans.
Mr.. Randall says that he can't say
that this has been done or viii be
done, but he don't dare to suggest that
II cannot be accomplished. Light,
heat and rays Of other kind can be
reflected. BE concludes by saying:
"Once this problem is solved there
will be no war. If the allies were pos
sessed Of equipment that would permit
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12

IN 1857 the population OF the earth,
according to Busching. was about
1.O00.000.O00; in 1900. according to
Fabri and Stein. only 9O0.000.000i In
1888. according TO Stein and Horschel-
man. sT2. 10000. In 1853 Dietrici ss-
timated 1t at 1.268.000.O0o and Kolb. in
1866. at 1.220.000.0o0. According to
the latest calculations the earth is In
habIted by 2.40o.000.0o0 happy 90 hu-
man beings.-New York Tribuna
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
Death 20 AIrplanes.

! In a graphic description. Mr.. Rand.
all paints a picture Of what would
happen with this machine in action.
Every enemy airplane or any feet Of
them would fall to earth, a crumpled
wreck. At the touch Of a button. a
bolt Of electricity would suddenly
shoot forward with incredible speed.
A few SCARED parts would be all that
was left Of what had been a soaring
airplane a few minutes before.
A scout could Turk with his deadly
weapons. connected with the Renar-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
Not Mandatory.

"What are you going to order for
breakfastr" asked the waiter.
"Orderf" repeated the mar with q
precise manner. II shouldn't think Of
ordering. But I will venture defer
entially to request q boiled egg and q
cup OF coffee. :
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
era of speechiessness.

'You haven't made a speech in some
time"
"Why make a speech" said Senator
Sorghum. with all this war news
they wouldn't print 1t. and If they did
print 1t, nobody would Eead It."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12

the arcing at a distance Of powerful
electric currents, the war would be
won in 80 days and allied troops would
be marching unchallenged into Ber-
lin"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-12
TAxICAB DRIVERS KNIT
BUT THEY ARE WOMEN

Cleveland, Ozone Of the
least surprising thing to be
seen on the streets Of Cleveland
now is a taEicab driver calmly
sitting in a taxi at its stand,
purling and dropping, while sox
and sweaters develop before
your eyes. But the drivers are i.
girls, for Cleveland is rapidly
getting a large proportion Of its
day drivers from the other sex.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
CrOaUr1 Prince
Wanted DriUe
So He Got 1t

Paris, July IS, Correspondence
Of the Associated Press III feel
ing between the German crown
prince and Crown Prince Rup-
preCht had its effect on the Ger
man high command in beginning
the present offensive between Sois-
sons and Reims which already has
turned into a defeat for the armies
commanded by the heir to the
PrUssian throne.
The German crown prince, ac-
cording to reports, strongly desired
that his armies should have the
honor OF striking the first blow in
the offensive OF 1918 The emperor
is believed to have lent favorable
ear TO the wishes of his son and
early indications were that the
German crown prince would have
another chance to redeem his great
failure at NeTdun.
Crown Prince Rupprecht OF Ba-
varia, whose command is on the
northern end OF the battle line, how
ever, laid his case directly before
the high command instead of be-
fore the emperor. AS a majority
IFGDIEELlDIl II WAS me view u OCLt-
eraI LudeHdortf and his associates
that the blow should be struck in
the north and without taking into
account the personal issue between
the two crown princes the high
command decided to attack in the
north The emperor is said to have
assented rather reluctantly, while
the German crown prince main
tanned that the main drive shoC Id
be made farther south.
Decision having been made the
big offensive opened in the north
III March and was given a double
check, first east of Amiens and sec
ond, east Of HaZebrOuck. This fail
ure gave the German crown prince
strong support for his plea that the
drive should be made against the
French lines, and apparently the
high command gave its consent.
on May p, the German crown
prince struck against the Chemln
Des Danes ana was not halted un-
I'll the Marne was reached. His
next effort to reach Paris by way
OF the Montdidier-NOyon front was
sropped short. His latest effort, be-
gun on July Is, was stopped after
three days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
Official Report.
TWO WOMEN AND
MAN ARE DEAD IN
SHOOTING AFFAIR

Canover, S. D., Aug. 6.-Three
persons are dead as the result Of
the mysterious shooting in a hotel
here last night. They are:
Mrs. F. Dexter, wife of a Canover
banker; ]. r. Williams of Ander-
son, Mo, or Cedar Bluffs, Neb., and
a woman supposed to be Williams
wife.
Mrs. Dexter and J. r. Williams
died almost instantly and the VIII
Iiams woman succumbed during the
night
Mystery still surrounds the trag-
edy. Williams is believed to have
ended his own life after fatally
wounding Mrs. Dexter Whether
Mrs. Williams shot herself or was
hit by a bullet from the gun in the
hands OF Mrs. Dexter's slayer is
unknown. The only witness TO the
shooting was a boy who came here
with the Williams late yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Dexter, who prior to her
marriage to the Canover banker
last November, was known as Mrs.
williams, is believed to have been
the former wife of J. X. Williams.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
OCFH'S MEN HOLD LINE NORTH OF vESLE
Effective Work of Britain's
Mystery Ships i'm War Against
German U-BOats is Revealed

London, Aug. 6.-Interesting rev.
elations regarding the work of Brit
ish mystery ships which have play
ed an important part in anti-subma-
rine warfare are made by the naval
correspondent of the Times. They
show how British seamen have met
German craft and cunning with
craft and cunning. Until this week,
the public has known nothing about
the mystery ships, known in the
navy as the q" ships, although
several officers, notably Captain
Gordon Campbell, have been deco
rated for their services on these
vessels. Details now can be made
public as the Germans are becom-
ing aware, through bitter expert
ence, of the methods used against
them.
How a woman and baby" ac-
counted for U-boat is told by the
correspondent. The submarine or
dered a vessel to surrender and
fired a few shells into her. The
boats then left the ship, leaving
on board a woman, who ran up and
down the deck with a baby in her
et4 MS dS IL udu- Inc O-DOdt came
alongside the vessel and the woman
hurled the baby into the open
hatch. The baby" exploded and
blew out the bottom of the subma-
rine. The woman" was decorated
with the Victoria cross.
The correspondent says that the
first mention of mystery ship was
in the case of the Baralong, which
on Aug. 10, 1915, sank a U-boat aft
er tOrpedOing of the British liner
Arabic. 1t Will be remembered, he
says, that the German government
protested that there was nothing to
indicate the Baralong's warIike
character The Baralong case was
probably not the first in which a
ruSe was used and since then the
Disgusting of armed vessels as in
nocent merchantmen for dealing
with submarines has attained con-
siderable dimensions.
'Howls and moans," added the
naval correspondent, went up in
Germany about the treachery of
British seamen, but the German al
legations curiously ceased at the
beginning of 1916. These alIega-
tions afforded typical example of
German mentality, for they ignored
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
Foe Guns Busy.
BROADER RULING
FOR EXEMPTIONS
IN 18 TO As DRAFT

Washington, Aug. 6.-Broader
provisions for exemptions have
been written into the new man
power bill, now before congress,
so that the nations war industry
fabric may not be upset by un-
duly large Withdrawals of men
over 80 years of age for military
services.
Provost Marshal General Crow
der, appearing today before the
senate military committee, eX-
planned that he had deemed it ad-
visabIe to substitute the words "oc-
cupations and employments" for
the word industries" used in the
existing law, in the section affect
ing industrial exemptions.
This would make possible a
more liberal Interpretation of the
law and prevent the induction into
the army of many men performing &
essential work at home and yet not
actually in industrial occupations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
CHIEF. NURSEIS
LOST IN SINKING
Mrs. Violet Long Among Women
Victims of TOrpedoing of Hos
pitaI Ship BY U-BOat-

.. London, Aug. 6.-One of the
women lost in the torpedoing Of
the ambulance transport Warilda
was Mrs Violet Long, chief control
Ter of the British woman's auxili-
airy corps, better known as the
'tommywaacs. With her sister,
Mrs. Long started the work of the
corps early in the war.
At An English Port. Aug. g.
Eight wounded American soldiers,
six from Chicago and one from
Quincy, Ill, are among the surviv-
ors of the Australian ambulance
transport WariIda, torpedoed and
sunk without warning Saturday.
Survivors have landed here.
The admiralty's announcement
says that two military officers, one
commandant, 112 of other ranks,
one American soldier and seven of
the crew of the Warilda were
drowned, a total of 123. The trans
port remained afloat for nearly
three hours.
The rescued Illinois men are:
Lieut.. Harold T. Hubert, Privates
Carl Schweiding, Thomas Strathas,
George W. Wenthel and Herbert X.
Nelson of Chicago and Captain
James Beatty of Quincy.
Corporal Ralph D. Buchanan OF
| Chicago is reported missing.
The vessel &as carrying 500 per-
sons. including many nurses en-
route from France to England.
American and British destroyers
hastened to her rescue. No U-boat
was seen.
| Scores of wounded on the third
deck were trapped with their nurs-
es, when ladders and, foreways
were wrecked by the explosion.
Heroic efforts to save these vic
tins by ropes failed
Lieutenant H. T. Hubert, OF Chi
cago. said most Of the American
wounded hailed from that city. Cap
! tain J. T. Beatty. of Quincy, Ill,
endeavored to save a "WAAC'
nurse from the demolished deck
of the transport, and Lieutenant
| Hubert. of Chicago, was one OF the
! leaders in the rescue work, playing
a heroic part.
Captain Beatty told this story,
Il slid down a rope TO the wreck
ed portion of the ship. where
wounded were crying Save met
and women screamed.
Il got a wounded 'Waac' nurse
in my arms and marched to the
upper deck.
There / started TO slide down
a rope with her into life boat,
but she slipped out of my arms
and was drowned.
1.-TWO lifeboats filled with nurs-
es and wounded soldiers capsized,
but life belts kept the women and
men afloat until destroyers picked
them up"
Halifax, n S. Aug 6.-The Stan
dard Oil tanker Luz Blanca was
sunk after a three-houf battle with
a submarine. The submarine she'll
ad tho small hnata
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
LLOYD GEORGE
SAYSHOLDFAST
Message of Premier to British En-
pire Urges People ON War An
niVersary "TO Stick"

London, Aug. 6.-"Hold fast" was
the keynote of a message to the
British Empire of Premier Lloyd
George promulgated through the
kingdom last night
The message was read in all
theatres, concert halls and NOV
ing picture houses 1t follows:
The message which l send to
the people of the British empire
on the fourth anniversary of the
entry into the war is, Hold fast!'
I'VE are in this war for no self
ish ends. We are In it to recover
freedom for the nations which
have been brutally attacked and
despOiled and to prove that no peo-
pie, however powerful, can sur
render itself to the lawless ambi-
tion of militarism without meeting
retribution, swift, certain and dis
astrous, at the hands of the free
nations of the world.
ITO stop short of victory for
this cause would be to compromise
the future of mankind.
Il say, hold fast! because our
prospects of victory shaYe never
been so bright as they are today.
Six months ago the rulers of
Germany deliberately rejected the
just and reasonable settlement pro-
posed by the allies.
Throwing aside the last mask
of moderation, they partitioned
/ Russia, enslaved Rumania, and at
tempted to seize supreme power
by overthrowing the allies in a
final and desperate attack.
Thanks to the invincible brav
cry of all allied armies, it is now
evident to all that this dream Of
universal conquest, for the sake
of which they wantonly prolonged
the war, can never be fulfilled.
But the battle is not yet won.
The great autocracy of Prussia will
still endeavor by violence or
guile, to avoid defeat and so give
militarism a new lease OF life.
We cannot seek to escape the
horrors of war for ourselves by
laying them up for our children.
Having set our hands to the
task, we must see it through till
just and lasting settlement is
achieved
In no other way can we secure
a world set free from war.
Hold fast"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
BURIES MAN AND
MARRIES; FINDS
MATE IN ASYLUM

St Louis, Mo. Aug. 6.-Mrs-
ZeaIia Phelan Of this city recently
learned that a man she buried as
her husband followed the Gal
weston flood in 1900, was a total
stranger TO her. Following the
burial of the man. Mrs. Phelan mar
rjed r. L. Hawpen. who died here
a month ago. Mrs. Phelan few
davs ago discovered Phelan in the
Illinois state hospital at Alton
Mrs. Phelau said her husband had
become mentally unbalanced by a
bfow received during his rescue IN
Galveston. She said he wandered
about the country in search OF heF
and was finally placed in the Alton
asvIum. The sudden meeting with
his wife at the hospital restored
Phelan's memory, so his wife OBJ
tanned his release. They are now
living together.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06

GALL ISSUED FOR
4,O00 SELECT MEN
IL FROM THIS STATE

Springfield, Ill. Aug. 6.-AIl city
exemption boards in Illinois out
side Of Cook county, with the ex-
cepton Of Danville, viii be ex-
pected 10 furnish 40 selected men
10 I'LL the call for 1000 men TO en-
train for Camp WadswOrth, Spart-
snsburg. South Carolina the five
day period beginning Aug. p, Ad-
!Gtan- General Frank S Dickson
announced today. Danyille viii
furnish 45 men
Some OF the boards required to
eutra-1 90 men apiece are as fol-
lows
Aurora. Quincy, Decatur, Peoria
and 2. East st. Louis ], , and 3.
Springfield ] and >, Joliet and
Rockford ] and .
CgIuly boards listed Is such,
although containing city popula-
tons, viii not have 10 contribute
to the Aug - quota
Chicago boards and those in
Cook county viii send quotas rang
Ing from L. TO 30 men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
War SUMMARY

On the Reims-SOisSOnS front
the situation has been stabil-
lied for the mOmen, while the
lied for the moment, while the
further operations.
North of the VeSle the Ger
mans have been repulsed in
efforts to disiOdge French and
American units which crossed
the river from the south bank.
Heavy artillery dueIs are in
progress along the Vesle. where
the Germans are attempting TO
make a temporary stand be-
fol-. the allied drive.
Eismes. the great German
base which was captured by
the Americans and is held by
them, is Il special target or the
German artillery.
1t is not believed that the
Germans will try TO stand long
on the northern bank OF the
Vesle. but will soon retire to
positions north of the Aisne.
General FOch has given no
indication of his plans.
The activity along the Vesle
lends color to the opinion that
he is not yet through with the
German crown prince and that
the Germans between SOisSOns
and Rheims will have TO give
more ground.
Paris announces that French
troops have reached the west
bank of the AVre, north Of
MOntdidier.
The bOmbardment of Paris
by the German long range gun
was continued today.
The United States army cas-
ualty list today contains 35S
names. and there are li0 on
the Marina T0taI 49S-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
LATE BULLETINS

montgomery. no. Aug. o.
npcaker Champ Clark ter the
18th time was rcn0minated Tor
congress ia the Democratic
primary iu this district today
without opposition.
The Hague, Aug. G.-The
American and British minis
ters Cu July 20 addressed Il HGte
u Foreign Minister L0ud0n
containing ampiiiicatioH oi and
Improvement on the offers al
r'ady made concerning the in
deEEiticatjgn Tor or replace
hcHJ nj reqUisiti0ued Dutch
Vessels in case Of loss.
4 Canadian Atlantic Port,
Aug. 6. The British schooner
Gadys J. Holland has been
sunk By "A German submarine.
The crew landed today at "A
Nova Scotian town. They said
the attack took place yesterday
morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-06
49S Yankees
Arc Reported
In Casualties

Washington, Aug. 6.-Army and
marine corps casualties in the fight
ing on the Marne-Aisne salient
made public by the war department
numbered 498-35S soldiers and 40
marines. This brought the total
since the toll of victory began to
arrive yesterday to 1928 and the
number of all casualties since
American forces first landed in
France to 16,409.
Three army and two marine corps
lists were given out early today. a
accumulation of them shows: