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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
FINED FOR BOARDING.
Toledo Man Posed As Grocer and
Got Big Order.

Burlington, March 27.--Bert Nor
gan of Toledo. Iowa. appeared at the
United States Food Administrator
Deems Office yesterday to answer to
the charge of food boarding. He had
ordered from a Chicago concern a
large quantity of food commodities,
including 100 pounds of sugar, order.
ing under the name of M. r. Morgan
& Sons, which concern went out of
business last July. The charge was
admitted and fine of $50 was assess.
ed, which will go to the Red Cross
society of Toledo. The administra.
tion was lenient in this case. as the
100 pounds of sugar and most of the
other products had been returned TO
the Chicago wholesaler.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
To Extend Nations Credit.

Washington. March 27.-Secretary
McAdoo's request for additional au-
thority TO float four billion five hun
bred million and pay out one billion
five hundred million for allied loans
was provided by the house and ways
ccthnittee IN a bill today which viii
he put up In the house tomorrow,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
LEVINE ToTTERlNc.
His Fall AS Premier Of Russian Boz
shgviik is Predicted.

Berne, Switzerland, March 1.-THE
fall of Nicholai Lenine. Premier Of the
Russian Bolsheyiki goyernmenE Is inn
minent according tolthe BerliusFrank-
furter zeitung. copies OF which have
been received here.
The secession of the Socialists AMI
those who repudiated the recent peace
treaties with the Germans is consid-
cred inevitable the paper said.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
DRY GAINS CLOSE BREWERY
The scheIIhas Company, Established
in 1868, Gives Up Struggle.

Winona. Mimi, March 27.-Due to
inroads into its territory by prohibit
ton and the Increased cost Of manu-
featuring, the Schellhas Brewing Com.
pany, established here in 1868 will go
out OF business within thirty days, it
was announced today. The plant has
a capacity Of twenty thousand barrels
annually. ,rw
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
!. W. WIS UNDER ARREST.
Caught in Executive Session Wearing
Badges at Butte.

Butte, Montana. March "a. Forty
one members of the Industrial Medal
Workers Union most Of them wearing
!. w, w emblems are under arrest
here following raid on hall where
the organization was holding an ex'
ecutive session. NaA
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
I. i :. !. !. i. i. 4 .s#+++.
ODESSA is Rg-TAKEN.
Germans Have Been Driven
Out BY Russians.
!. !. ]. !. I. /. 4 4 :. $500.

Moscow, March % The Ukraine
Bolsheviki forces have captured Odes.
sa from the Germans after a bloody
fight, according to Official Telegraph
Agency dispatches received here to-
day. The Black Sea fleet cooper.
ated.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
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u-soAr SUNK.
American Oil Tank Puts Up
a Plucky Fight.
"a. $50. I. 90. .s...+h....

Washington, March 27--After an
hours battle with a U-boat on the
morning of March /, the American oil
tanker Paulsboro sent the enemy YES
sci beneath the waves, damaging and
putting her in great Distress" the
navy department announced today.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Reserves Ready for Invaders

Amsterdam. March %. The allies
are holding strong reserves south of
the penetrated front, swaitjNg for an
attack on the German troops from the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Hals Admits Retirement.

London, March 2i-"Furthe: local
fighting northeast of Albert as re,
ported by Field Marshal Haig in his
official war office statement from the
British front this morning. The situa-
tion there is unchanged" he continued.
'In the neighborhood of Bray as a
result of an enemy attack yesterday
afternoon astride the Somme our fore
es were forced to fall back short
distance"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Hun General Killed in Action

London. March 27.-General Won
Blotnitz. commander in chief of one
of the German divisions attacking ST.
Quentin was killed in action Friday &C.
cording to dispatches received here
today from German sources.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Enemy sustains Great Loss

South of the Somme heavy enemy
attacks last night against our lines
were repulsed after severe fighting
with heavy and severe losses to the
enemy.
AT one point in this neighborhood
the enemy forces succeeded in pene-
trating our lines but their forces were
soon thrown back by heavy coun-
ter attack"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Crucial Stage Yet to Come.

Along the Pozieres Ridge, astridt
the Somme, across the obliterated val
ley OF the Ovilleres, Warlencourt lie
sars, Longneval, Mount Auban and
p Mametz9 the Germans are strewing
= icorpses and are slowly pressing for
ward, The battle undoubtedly has not
as yet reached its crucial stage.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-28
Hard Fighting Again Today.

BY William Phillip Simms with the
British Armies in the field. March q:
-As the battle RACES today, the Brit
ish forces are holding the gates to Al
bert determined against the attempts
of the Teutons to capture them
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Sixteen Steel Ships
Completed in 2 Weeks
Especial Dispatch to The Tribume)

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Sixteen
steel vessels. of 89,162 dead weight
tonnage, were completed and delivered
to the Shipping Board during the first
two weeks of June, it was announced
here day. This output included FIVE
contract vessels, totalling $4,000 tons,
and eleven rcquisitioned vessels total
ling 1852 tons. Three vessels, totalling
17,100 tons. were constructed in Atlantic
shipyards, eight vessels, totalling 26,-
362 tons, in Great Lakes yards, and FIVE
vessels, totalling 45,700 tons, in Pacific
yards.
The Baltimore Drydock and Ship
building Company has reduced the
average time for ship completion by
one-half. the Shipping Board an
nounced to-day. This company has
completed and delivered twelve con-
tract steel vessels to date on an
average building time schedule of
130 So days. In pre-w;Ar days vessels
oe the type constructed by the Balti-
more company, the Shipping Board
states, required a year for completion.
The ten ia test built vssels for the
Shipping Board have averaged 80 9-10
days between kefl laying and delivery.
The 5,50O-ton collier Tuckahoe, record
holder in this or any other year, was
built in thirty seven days. On the list
of the ten fastest built ships the slow
est time was 119 days.
On the Pacific Coast the five vessels
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Carlton Rejects
Presidents Plea
To Prevent Strike
Especial Disnntch to The Tr;b,ne,

Especial D'enntch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 17.-The reply
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany to the request of the President
that it cease discharging employees for
joining the Commercial egraphers'
Union was received at the White House
to-day.
While it's contents have not been
made public, there is excellent author
lty for the statement that the company
has not acceded to the Presidents re.
quest. 1t is not, however, final re-
fusal to comply, and leaves the door
open to further negotiations.
Newcomb Carlton, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
will make public at noon to-day the
company's answer to President Will
sons request that it cease discrim-
mating against employees who join the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union. Mr..
Carlton would not indicate the nature
of the reply.
The letter which the President re-
ceived yesterday was prepared last
week and approved at meeting of the
executive committee of the board of
directors.
1t is understood that in it the COM
pany makes the point that it cannot
attempt to guarantee continuity of
service if it turns over the disciplining
of its employees to any organization,
more especially one not controlled by
the employees, and which is prepared to
strike to enforce it's position on mat
ters that may be in dispute.
Percy Thomas, ce-president of the
union, said yesterday that it il. rapid
ly enrolling new members and is ready
for anything that may develop.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Old Grudge Against
New Shipyard Boss
Makes 1000 Strike
Shewan & Sons Employees
Charge Assistant Fore
man Opposes Unions

A thousand men cashed their checks
at o'clock yesterday morning in the
iron department Of the James Shewan
e. Son shipyard at Twenty y-seventh
Street, Brooklyn, and then failed to
report for work. AS result there was
no labor yesterday on twelve urgent
government repair contracts. and other
work in the yard went neglected with
total loss estimated by company Of
ficers at $4,000. The men declared
that unless the difficulty was settled
forty eight hours would see the re-
naming $500 out.
At a o'clock in the afternoon COM
mttee of the strikers called at the
company Offices. Not until then, ac-
curding to James and Edward A. She
wan, did they know the mems COM
plant. The committee informed the
two brothers that the men objected to
Charles Saunders, an assistant fore
man, who started work in that posi-
tion in the Shewan yard at noon yes
terday.
See Nom Union Plot
foreman in the yard Of the Morse Dry
Dock and Repair Company eighteer,
months ago when the mon workers now
employed by the Shewans we're work
ing there and went on strike. They
said that Saunders was instrumental
IN filling their places with non-union
men and expressed the belief that his
arrival in the Shewan yard meant that
an effort was to- be made there to dis
rupt their organization. 1t was added
that an associate Of Saunders had since
been employed by Staten Island ship
building concern and that the union
men there were restlve.
The Shewans declared they had no
intention of discharging Saunders, that
he was the best man for the past
in which they had placed him and that
the men were permitting their per-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Baker Approves
Sentences Imposed
Upon "Objectors -
Continued from page l

cases, nor am uncertain as to the
correctness of the results reached.
The soldiers in all these cases were
either naturalized citizens of the
United States or native citizens of the
United States, born of parents of coun-
tries with which the United States is
now at war. They were properly mem
bers of the army of the Urited States
pursuant to the selective draft law.
They were summoned before
proper officers of the army and asked
whether they would in fact fulfill their
military obligations by fighting against
Germany and Austria in Europe.
"They all answered that they would
not There was the same
shutting on the part of some of the
soldiers as to what they meant by their
answers, and some long -winded refine
ments were undertaken to the effect
that some of them were willing to fight
Germans and Austrians generally, but
would not fight their own relatives,
although they offered no explanation
OF the process by which they were 60
ing to discover whether particular Ger
mans and Austrans whom they were
required to shoot at from long range
happened to be related to them.
Blood Ties Very Strong
"1n one of the records the soldier
claims to have an uncle, evidently too
old to be in the military service of
Austria, whom he once saw, and he had
heard of ten or twelve other relatives
in Austria, of some of whom he had
seen photographs which must have
been of very persuasive character
since they aroused in him, emotions
OF blood kinship strong enough to over
come the obligations of his oath of
allegiance as an American citizen.
'These men were full citizens of the
United States, most of tt EN- by the
voluntary act of naturalization. They
were full citizens in the sense that
they had equal rights and privileges
with all other citizens. They have also
equal esponsibiltes. Among these
duties and responsibilities is to protect
the United States against all its enc
mics, domestic and foreign. No right
is extended to naturalized citizen to
pick and choose"
Twelve obJectors were sentenced as
follows:
Hyman Polkes, fifteen years; Will
lam j. Solder, twenty years; Joseph
White, fifteen years; Anton Zsoldak,
ten years; julius Levinthal, eighteen
months; Louis Silverman, ten years;
Mayer Suffkind, ten years. Louis II.
Blumenthal, fifteen years; Samuel
Spire, five years; Paul Bauer, ten
years; William Charles Schwab, twenty
years, and Michael Ciupa, ten years.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

from as far east as Buffalo and New
York from as far west as the Missis-
slppl. Thus labor has been induced to
move fruitlessly from one place to an-
other, congesting the railways and los
ing both time and money.
Such condition is unfair alike to
employer and employe, but most of
all to the nation itself, whose existence
is threatened by any decrease in it's
productive power. 1t is obvious that
this situation can be clarified and
equalized by central agency-the
United States employment service of
the department of Labor, with the
counsel Of the war labor policies board
as the voice of all the industrial agcn-
cles OF the government.
such a central agency must have
sole direction of all recruiting Of civil
ian workers in war work, and, in TAX
ing over this great responsibility, must
at the same time have power to assure
to essential industry an adequate sup
ply OF labor, even to the extent of
withdrawing workers from non-essen-
tial production. 1t must also protect
labor from insincere and thoughtless
appeals made to it under the plea of
patriotism, and assure it that when
1t is asked to volunteer in some pri-
ority industry, the need is real.
wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America, solemnly urge all employers
engaged in war work to refrain after
August l, 1918, from recruiting un-
skilled labor in any manner except
through this central agency. l urge
labor to respond as loyalty as hereto.
fore to any calls issued by this agency
for voluntary enlistment in essentia
industry. And ask them both alike tc
remember that no sacrifice will have
been in vain if we are able to prove
beyond all question that the highest
and best form Of efficiency is the spon.
taneous cooperation of free people.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Gompers to Urge
Minneapolis to
Elect a Socialist
Labor Federation's Head
to Speak From Platform
With Thomas Van Lear
lSpccini Dispdtch to Tic Tribunal

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
ST. PAUL, June 17.--Samuel Com
pers, president Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and James Lord, pres
ident of the mining department of the
federation, Wednesday night will speak
on the same platform with Thomas Van
Lear, Socialist Mayor of Minneapolis,
running for reelection. The meeting
will be under the auspices of the local
council Of the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy.
The news is interpreted in various
ways. 1t will mean great increase
IN the strength of Van Lear, who UNI
doubtedly will emerge from to-day's
primary one Of the two final candidates
for election. Throughout the primary
campaign Van Lear has consistently
refused to repudiate, in advance of his
resolution Of the Socialists, main
tanning that it was not local issue.
This has lost him much strength
which the Gompers support will tend
to bring back to him.
On the other hand, Van Lear, in
speaking before the alliance, pledges
himself to its principle of support of
the government in the prosecution of
the war, which he says he has never
withheld
THIS gathering in of the radicals in
Minnesota is distinct gain to the
alliance.
The day at the convention of the
American Federation was occupied with
jursdictional disputes, chiefly inter-
esting to the unions involved. One
fact. however, emerged from the heat
ed controversy, that the minute split
ting up of unions into crafts some
times seriously affects the national in
terest. 1t was revealed that jurisdic-
tional dispute between the coopers and
the 'longshoremen recently came near
causing a strike on the New York
waterfront.
A resolution was unanimously passed
denouncing the formation of a COM
pany union by the Western Union man.
ayers similar to that recently formed
by the Rockefeller plants in New Jer-
sey Such unions, the delegates said,
had been vetoed by the war labor
board. The protest was sent to Wash.
ington.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
New York Fliers Get
Commissions Abroad
Especial Dispatch to The Tribume) }

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Commis-
sions as first and second lieutenants in
the non-hying section of the Signal Re-
serve Corps are to be given 1,700 cadet
hers now in training in the flying
schools of the British, French and
Italian armies, the War Department an
nounced to-day. When the cadets
qualify as hiers the commissions will
be changed to the flying section.
Among the $50 cadets commissioned
to-day the following New Workers in
Franco we're included:
Snug Rock, Yonkers Paul G.. Durbin. l51
Magic Avenue. Francis Mcdonald. Great
Neck l.. L. Harold M. Mcdowell, 143 Lib
erty Street; Harold F. Merritt. 90 William
Street, and Albert LOUIS Miller, 20 Clinton
Street, Hempstead
West Fifty-ninth Street; Thomas p. I3arratt,
l47 West Nincty-fourth Street. Charles Pit
Burt. 800 St Johns Place. Brooklyn: John
w. Clerke. 500 Newtown Road. Richmond
Hill; William G. Cochran. Southold. l.. l. ::
Russell S. Dart. "a West Seventy-seventll
Street Arthur x. Doolittle, Gil West 127th
Street Steele Dubosuue, Great Neck Station /;
George Gates ENNIS. 2242 East Fifteenth
Street, Brooklyn; Thomas Ewing, jr.. East
Sixty-tifth Street; Horace Baker Forman, ~
st. James Place, Brooklyn Fred Grumpclt,
1866 Penn Avenue, Rosebank. Staten Island
John II. Guilshan. 35i West 120th Street
William A. Hanway, Pelham Manor; Joseph
II. Harper. jr., 140 East Fifty-sixth Street
Charles r. Hincrman, 100 West Seventy
sixth Street, and Rodman B. Montgomery. 80
Broadway.
Other commissions issued by the War
Departm day included:
Cyrus B. Marshall, 9o5 West End Avenue.
captain. Ordnance Reserve Corps.
Harry kicner 179 Marcy Avenue, Brook
lyn, second lieutenant. non-hyng section.
Signal Reserve Corps.
John Norman McMlath. Camp Dix. second
lieutenant. National Army.
Brooklyn, major, Quartermaster Corps, Ma
tional Army
Edwin j. Dowd, 62S Forty-fourth Street,
Brooklyn; Frank w. I.atson, jackson and
Second avenues, Long Island City, first lieu
tenants Sanitary Corps, National Army
Philip X. Rhineander, Is East Thirty
sixth Street, second lieutenant. National
Guard
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

been spent out of the Presidents emer-
gency fund.
Hearings before the committee. at
which Mr.. Cree defended himself
against attacks for alleged socialistic
tendencies, were made public to-day.
Discussing excerpts from alleged So
cialistic editorials written by him in
Denver newspaper in 1911 and 1912,
Mr.. Creel had this to say:
"They were all written in the heat
of campaigns. as | have explained.
believe absolutely in the initiative,
referendum and the recall, but the
language represented a state OF mind
at that time, the excitement OF the
moment, political strife. crowd psy-
chology and that sort of thing.
Modifies Expression
"For instance, when Mr.. Roosevelt,
in 1912, said the Republican convention
was bunch of burglars. do not think
he meant that in literal sense, but
merely expressed state of mind"
Explaining statement in other
editorials that "Amcrica is now re-
garded as a nation of commercial
sharks" when asked whether his views
have since been modified, Mr.. Creel
said:
81 trust sincerely that I have modi-
tied my form of expression, and think
| am writing far more dispassionately
and Judicially to-day. and have modi-
ned my views to a great extent. Early
enthusiasms give way inevitably before
the cautions and disappointments of
life"
A salary list presented by Mr.. Creel
shows that Clayton D. Lee, business
manager of the committee, and e. S.
Rochester, director of the official bull
letln division each received SIS 200 a
year; Henry Atwater, manager of dis
trlbutior division. $4,000. and Clara
Sears Taylor, director of woman's was
work, $3,38O.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Kerensky Minister Here

A. 1. Konovalov. Minister of Trade
and Industry and Vice Prime Minister
Of the Kerensky Cabinet. who is on his
way to Washington to confer with Off
cials OF the State Department reached
New York yesterday. Mr.. Konovalov
was imprisoned for three months by
the Bolsheviki, but escaped last Novem-
ber and came here by way of Siberia.
Aside from letting it be known that
he intends to ask Washington for mill
tary help for his country Mr.. Konoya-
One of the party said it was his be.
lief that If an Allied army could be
sent to Russia all the substantial ele-
ments in that country would raIIv
around it aaya nucleus for q future
Russian arm&
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Railroads Not Compensated c
No Standard Contract Under u.
S. Operation Yet Made

WASHINGTON, June 17.-So many
difficulties have been placed in the
way of framing standard contract
for compensating railroads during gov
ernment operation that not contract
has ben executed, J. Barton Payne,
counsel for the railroad administration.
told the House Interstate Commerce
Committee to-day, in urging approval of
resolution extending from July to
January the time for relinquishing
eny road the government decides not
to retain.
eve must be able to deal with the
roads while the government has the
power of REIMBURSEMENT" Mr.. Payne
said, $50 as to assure fair treatment
both to the government and the rail-
road owners"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Predicts Chilling
Of Wilson'S Marrow
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)


WASHINGTON, June l7.-"There
will be scenes which will make the
marrow of Wilson's bones turn cold"
declared German newspaper, in COM
mentine on the exploits of German
submarine in American waters and pre-
dieting events to come. according to a
resume Of German press statements
concerning the U-boat operations on
this side of the Atlantic. cabled to the
State Department to-day.
In strong contrast to the boastful
tone of the German press, a neutral or
gan, the National Zeitung," of Basle.
was quoted as asserting that Germany
would have to pay an excessive price
for the adventure.
Another enemy paper asserts that
America is already trembling for fear
of German air attacks and that the
hour is perhaps not far distant when
American ports will be bombarded bv
German cannon.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Electric Strike Put
Up to Taft's Board

WASHINGTON, June II. - Joint
Chairmen Taft and Walsh of the War
Labor Board announced to-day they
had decided to undertake adjustment of
the threatened strike of 10000 en-
ployes of the General Electric Company
at Schenectady, N. Y, who are demand
ing higher pay and shorter hours. A
strike vote has been held up pending
the boards action.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Strikes Drop to Minimum

WASHINGTON, June IT, Fewer
workmen were idle last week because
of strikes than during any other week
this year, the Department of Labor an
nounced to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

built in the fastest time have averages
100 Is days between keel laying and
delivery; on the Great Lakes. ia Q:
days; on the Atlantic Coast, 200 Il
days.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

sonal animus to outweigh theif patri-
otism. If the men had complaint.
they added. rules bad been laid down
by the government as to their method
cf procedure and should have been fol-
lowed. They denied having designs
inimical to organized labor.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Appeal to Government
A telegram setting forth the situati

Il JSIEEI HIH beLtIUR iUi tII CfIS 6fLUdIIUII
and requesting advice was sent by the
firm to William Blackman, director Of
labor for the United States Emergency
Fleet Corporation. Pending the receipt
of an answer, the Shewans said, they
would not try to hire non-union men
to take the places of the strikers.
The strikers declared that they were
Americans and had no desire TO ham
per the governments war programme,
but that the Shewan company in hir-
ing Saunders was acting contrary TO
"the declaration of President Wilson"
that employees had the right to or
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