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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Sclanaedica Denied a
NeIU Trial on Libel

Iowa Falls, Iowa, May 12.-An-
nouncement has been made that de-
cision has been rendered in the fam
Gus Schmedica- -Altshuler legal tangle
by Judge Mccall in which the appeal
made by the pldintiff for new trial
has been turned down.
The motion for new trial was made
on the grounds of error of instructions
to the jury by the court with the re-
suit that verdict was given in favor
of the defendant. Indications are that
the plaintiffs suit for $4,000 against
the defendant in which he alleges that
his character and business was dam
aged to that extent because of state
ments the defendant is alleged to have
published in several newspapers dur
ing the 1916 election will be dropped.
The decision rendered by Judge Mccall
undoubtedly ends the most bitterly
fought libel suit in the history of Har-
din county.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Maj.DupOnt Recalled;
CT. KuehN,le to Speak

Des Moines, Iowa, May 12.-(Spe-
ciaD: A change in the program of the
Iowa business congress, which opens
in Des Moines tomorrow for a three
day session. has been made owing to
the recall to New York of Major
Edouard Dupont, the French soldier
and banker who was to have taxed to
the delegates on Thrift as Good Busi-
ness for Business
Major Dupont left for New York
yesterday on the close Of the weeks
tour of the Iowa bankers special train.
His place on the business congress pro-
gram will be taken by Carl +. Kuehlne,
of Denison. an Iowa banker who is
thoroughly in touch with the national
thrift campaign and the aims and pur-
poses of the Iowa War Savings com,
mittee's work in Iowa this year. Mr..
Kuehnle will talk to the bankers group
Of the congress at the Des Moines club
Wednesday noon.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Feel That Italy has Been
Snubbed by England,
United States and
France.
ALSO WANTED FLEET
Also Believe Wilson is Obsti-:
nate in Withholding
Fiume.
(By The Associa ted Press. J

ID
Rome, May 11-Discontent aud ..r,iri.
tation are again growing because Of
news from Paris which indicates that
Italy is not likely to get what she
claims as her rights. Il
The Messarggero says President
Wilson is obstinately obdurate in his
views as regards Fiume, showing that
he has not changed his mind.
Other reasons for dissatisfaction III J:
The Observation-Disclosures
alliance, from which italy is ex-
cluled, 4, \. f.'-st.. .-eSs, q; Z !,
The assertion that probably the
Austrian mercantile fleet will be
divided among the allies; this hav-
ing been held as being entirely
Italy's property.
The clause in the treaty with
Germany which says that the sig
nature of the three principals are
sufficient to ratify the treaty
again excluding Italy.
Reports that Ethonopio is under
the protection Of France.
All newspapers in Rome have pub
lished adverse comments on these sub
jects. ~.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
CHURCH PENSION
FUND. is ABOVE
TEN lNILLIO

=. 4 g = d
! New York, May The first an
nual report of the church pension fund
of the Episcopal church, issued today.
shows that the total resources Of the
fund amount to $1O,772.659.51 This
makes the church pension fund one
Of half dozen largest pension granting
corporations in the world.
In the first two years Of the funds
operation, the Episcopal church paid
nearly $1,2OO,QOO for old. age and dis
ability pensions for its clergymen and
their widows and orphans. This is
the amount Of assessments paid into
the fund by parishes and missions in
the United States and foreign field
since 1t started on March !, 1917.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Nurses at Camp BOlUie
Hospital are Boxers
(By The Associated Press J


Fort Worth. Texas, May 12.-Nurses
at the Camp Bowie base hospital who
recently began taking boxing lessons
are making marked progress, some Of
them already packing mean wal
lop," according to Harry GilmOur.
professional instructor.
The course, prescribed by medical
corps officers as the best exercise open
to the twenty-five nurses in the limit
ed time at their disposal, has classes
twice a week at which the young wo-
men, wearing extra heavy gloves, are
taught the tricks of right swings, left
hooks, upper-cuts and ring general
ship.
1t is planned to provide music dur
ing the drills, as this accompaniment
was found effective ut the mems box
ing classes here.
The nurses care for between 800 and
600 wounded men each week. and when
boxing was proposed as a stimulating
exercise they entered the training
with enthusiasm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12

Those Held. \
Farmer, who is thirty-five., ad been
connected with the bank for ntne years.
The others were:
Lloyd Patton, thirty-three, Des
MOines.
Robert Don Carlos, nineteen, Lib
erty, Mo.
Laura Jones, alias Liz Christie, Des
Moines. ss,.,
It is charged that plans for the rob
berry were made at the woman's home.
The robbery Of the bank. was record
ed as one Of the most sensational in the
history Of Des Moines. It was staged
in the heart Of the business district
shortly before the bank opened ut .
o'clock In the morning.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Many Large Cities
Haze Municipal Mart

Washington. d. c.. May 12.-Ac-
cording to report about to be issued
by Director Sam l.. Rogers, of the
bureau Of the census department Of
commerce, municipal markets We're
maintained during the fiscal year 1918
by 1873 of the 227 cities having more
than 10000 inhabitants. These 12S
cities reported total of 2S7 markets,
ia of which did retail business, "A
a wholesale business, and 40 conducted
both retail and wholesale business.
The market empoyees numbered $40.
The largest number of markets shown
for any one city is 10. for New Or
leans; Baltimore reported II; New
York, D; Wilmington. Del, s; Pitts
burgh. 8: and Los Angeles, Milwaukee.
Washington. d. c., and Columbus.
Ohio, each. No other city maintain
ed more than 4. and, the majority oper-
ated only each.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
College Me, Cooper
ate iIs Thrift Work

Y =. -
Des Moines, Iowa, May 12.-(Spe-
ciaD: At the request of President
Donald J. Cowling of the American
council Of education, colleges and uni
versities in middlewest states are now
naming representatives from the fac
ulty to cooperate with the state direc-
tors of war sa Wings work in the Seventh
federal reserve district in the 1919 gov.
ernment thrift campaign.
In Iowa those already named are Dr.
J. w. Dickman. professor Of sociology
and political economy of the Upper
Iowa University at Fayette; and Prof.
Macy Campbell, head of the depart.
ment of rural education, Iowa State
Teachers college, Cedar Falls.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Discomfort IS Growing Fast in Rome
FILIPINO CREW TO
Man DES TR0YER and
SUBh llR||lNEF FOR U. 5.
(By Tie Associated Press.) J

SAN Francisco, May 12-For the
first time in the history of the United
States navy, an American destroyer
and submarine, when completed,
will make their maiden trip out Of
here with petty officers and crew
composed entirely Of Filipinos. ~
Nipety-seven Filipinos are taking
the course at the Mare Island navy
yard near here, which will fit them
for duty aboard the new ships. Others
will come until the total complement
Of ia men for the destroyer and thir-
,ty-nine for the submarine have been
assembled.
The destroyer Jose Rial. and the
submarine F-3O, now building at the
Union Iron. Works here are the gifts
Of the Philippines to the United STATES
navy. When they are placed in cnu,-
mission the Philippines will enjoy the
distinctions, not only that they have
paid for the ships, but that they have
also supplied the ships to man them.
Heret ofore Fllipinos have been al
lowed to. enlist in the United States
navy, with few exceptions in the Ash
attic station, only as mess attendants.
When the. Philippines announced its
gifts, an order was issued by the navy
department to tlc. commanding officer
of every ship .afoat - nominate from
his crew such FilipiAos as he cos,sid-i
cred desirable to form the compliments
for the new vessels. The boys also
were allowedssto make application for
the assignment.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12

to have a reciprocal policy adopted as
to the repatriation of prisoners and re-
quested that details of the transfer be
placed in the hands of a commission.
In the second note, the head of tho Ger
man peace delegation has counter in
ternationai labor propOsal,S the labor
charter having been inspired at Leeds
and Berne Ii is argued that the pur-
pose is to create among socialists an
opinion favorable to Germany and with
the direct collaboration ief the people
Of that country.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
18th ENGINEERS |:
REVIEWED TODAY
BY CAICAGoANS
u - 4 n y - - -,
(By The Associated Press. J

Chicago, May 12.-The Thirteenth
regiment OF engineers, recruited in
Chicago from all districts of the cen
trail west, returned home today and
passed in review before cheering thous-
ands.
] It was the lucky Thirteenth that
played the leading role in the lucky
campaign, which transformed streets
Of rust into railroad, over which the
American troops were hauled to the
battle line of France. Many prominent
railroad men from the middle west
were in the reviewing stand. Many Of
the men are from Iowa.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
TWO IOWANS
LISTED IN CAS-
UALTIES TO-DAY

Washington, ID. c.. May Pin a
list Of 3S5 casualties given out by the
war department today, including thirty
deaths from various causes, are the
names Of two Iowans. They are Pri-
Yates Austin E. Hiatt Of Irwin and
William q. Muhs of Lowden, both Of
whom died of disease.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
3 KILLED; z SER
I0USLY HURT WHEN
TAIN JUMPS TRACK
(By The Associated Press. J

MoultOn, Iowa, May 12.-Three men
we're killed and two seriously injured
when Wabash freight train No. 05
jumped the track south Of here yester-
day afternoon. IN
PC. Douglas Of Stoutville, Mo-, fire.
man, was fatally seakiel and ice De-
tlaney Of Keokuk and an unidentified
man. thought ito be from Aurora, III,
were killed; ., III 49,
The injured were Ed Mullen and
Martin Kelley Of Baldwin. Ind
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Fatally INJURED
At CARuSo BANQUET
BY 4 BLOW ON HEAD
(By The Associated Press.l

Chicago, May 12.-Edwarl Velroni,
proprietor of a restaurant and a school
mate of Enricho Caruso noted tenor,
died at a hospital today as a result Of
a blow on his head while he was on his
way home with his wife.
velroni had Just left his restaurant,
where banquet had been given in
honor of Caruso, who sang in con-
cert yesterday in Chicago.
Mrs. Velroni declares chauffeur
struck her husband. while other wit
nesess said he did not
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
EBERT ALLEGES
AN ION
IS DELIBERATE R
President Of German Repub-
lie Says Allies Deliber-
ately Seek Annihi-
lation.
UPRISINGS OCCUR
and Socialists
Active in Central
Germany.
(By The Associated Press. J

Berlin, May 10.-"Germany has ,lll-
furled a new banner on which is in
scribed President Wilson's fourteen.
points, which the president has dis.
carded," said Frederick Ebert, the
German president in a statement to the
Associated Press today.
President Ebert called the peace
treaty monstrous document. He de-.
ciared that history held no precedent
for such deliberate annihilation Of a
vanquished people.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
500, 900 Hotel Com
paI1y in NeUada

Nevada, Iowa, May 12.-Parties who
are interested in swinging hotel
proposition Tor the city of Nevada have
taken an option on site and organ
lied and Incorporated the Nevada Ho-
tel Company, with a proposed capital
stock Of 100000, with an idea in view
of building hotel in the city.
The men who have filed the articles
of Incorporation are +. c. Marohn. l.
A. Potwin and l.. r. Belden. all of Des
Moines, and the papers were recorded
at the office of the county recorder
Saturday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
State Draft Head
quarters is Closed

Des Moines Iowa, May 12.-The
state draft headquarters, maintained
ns part of the adjutant generals
Office where the work OF the draft was
directed and the records kept and
which has been busy since the war
closed in bringing the records up to
date and closing the books, closed Sat
urday.
The office of the disbursing officer
for the draft in Iowa, Major Roy w.
Smell, also closed and Major Smell for
warded his final report to the provost
marshal general.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
CONFERENCE IS
ASKED TO GIVE:
KOREA FREEDOM
Little Nation Would be Free
From Japan delegates
Seek an Under !,
standing.
READY FOR AUsTRIANs
German Notes Regarded as
Propaganda. Attack
Petrograd?
tBy The Associated Press

s- a. 1 Z s u. =
The peace conference leaders
have renewed efforts to reach an
understanding on disputed ques-
tions in view Of the ilmminence of
the arrival Of the Austrian peace
delegates in France.
Meanwhile attempts are being
made by the German delegates to
draw representatives of the allies
and associate powers into an oral
discussion Of phases Of the peace
treaty, presented the Germans last
Wednesday,. French opinion, as re-
fiected in the newspapers, regard
ing the, notes received from Count
Won BrG.kdorff Rantzau, head OF
the Gerlnan delegation, are regard
ed by Premier Clemenceau, spresi-
dent Of the, peace conference, as
direct propaganda.
To Win Socialists.
The note on a counter intcrna-,
ticnal labor program, the French
J charge, will lead the socialists and
labor classes Of the allied conn
tries in general to believe the Ger
man government is working in
their favor.
The German cabinet, under the
direction of Chairman Ebert, took
up yesterday counter proposals to
the peace terms to be made by the
Germans delegates at Versailles.
A commission from the German
national assembly will meet during
the day and discuss the terms Of
peace.
Assembly Meets.
The German national assembly
will meet in Berlin today and 1t is
expected that Cancellor Scheide-
mann will give some idea concern
ing the German reply.
To Attack Petrograd?
Allied forces are reported in a
dispatch originating in Helsing
fors, Finland, to be preparing to
make an attack on PetrOgrad. 1t
is said that $4,000 men will be en-
gagged in the operation and a
French cruiser is lying before Hell
singfors waiting to take part in the
attack.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
H.DOdge Man to Talk
To Advertising Club

Des Moines, Iowa. May 12.-H. w.
Stowe an attorney of Fort Dodge. will
talk to the advertising Club of Musca-
tin. in that city tomorrow night as
representative of the Iowa War Savings
committee. Mr.. Stoves address will be
one of the first of series planned at
the request of advertising clubs. to ex-
plain the 1919 government thrift CAM
paign.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
TO WITHDRAW ! An.
.ERlCAN TROOPS OUT
OF NORTH. RUSSIA
(By The Associated Press. y,

Archangel, May 12.-Temporary ar
rangements have been made for the
withdrawal of the American troops in
northern Russia early in June:
These plans We're taken up on the
public announcement Of the plans of
the United States government by Secre-
tary Of War Baker, but no definite Or
ders have yet been received by the
American Commander.
American troops have not been en-
gagged on a a'large scale during the previ-
GUS months fighting.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Spartacans Active

Berlin. May II. me spartats rs and
independent socialists are again active
in central Germany.
At Eisenach yesterday they forced
the major Of the district and the dis
trict director to march at the head Of a
parade of radicals. carrying red flags
Afterwards the officials were beaten by
the crowd
The government forces at Weimar
have been transferred to Leipsic where
the Spartacans are threatening an up
rising on behalf of council govern
ment.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
The German Notes.

Paris, May -, (4:15).-The council
of four at its meeting today decided
to refer the German note on labor and
war prisoners to experts instead of ans
wering it at once, as in the case of the
first two proposals of the German dele.
gates.
The first part Of the last note asked
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
sinnino And House Confer.

Paris. May 12.-Baron Sinnino, the
Italian foreign minister, held confer
ence today with Col. II. NJ. House Of
the American peace delegation.
At the conference they went over
the Italian situation with view to
reaching definite adjustment before
the Austrians arrived. The conference
was held at luncheon at which House
was the guest of the Italian diplomat.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
Koreans Want Liberty.

Paris, May PA petition from the
Korean people, asking their liberty
from Japan was submitted to the
peace conference today by representa-
tives Of Korea.
The petition asks for the recognition
Of Korea MS an independent state and
the notification Of the treaty of Aug.
10.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12
-Four Suspected Of
Des Moines /! Bank Al
Robbery Arrested
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

By ASSOCIATED PRESSD
2 Des Moines, Iowa, May 12,-M. r. Farmer assistant
cashier Of the Iowa State Bank and two other and
wnan have been arrested in connection with the theft Of
more than 42 900 in cash and Liberty bonds from the
bank March 25, Sheriff John Griffin announced today
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12

Buster Brown. Prescriptions. 12ds
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-12

Buster Brown. Box candies. 1913
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-23

enOugh-they left traces o. that fear
| In their sons and grardsons. In the
minds of most of these, indeed. their
thrift was next to their religion: to
save, even for the sake of saving, was
their earliest lesson and discipline. No
matter how prosperous they were they
could not spend money either upon
"art," or upon mere luxury and enter
tainment, without a sense of sin.
Against SO homespun a background
the magnificence of the Ambersons was
as conspicuous as brass band at a
funeral. Major Anderson bought two
hundred acres of land at the end of
National avenue; and through this
tract he built broad streets and cross
streets; paved them with cedar block.
and curbed them with stone. He set up
fountains, here and there, where the
streets intersected, and at symmetri-
cal intervals placed cast-iron statues,
painted white, with their titles clear
upon the pedestals; Minerva, Mer-
curry, Hercules, Venus, Gladiator, EN-
peror Augustus, Fisher Boy, Stag
hound, Mastiff, Greyhound, Fawn,
Antelope, Wounded Doe and Wounded
Lion. Most of the forest trees had
been left to flourish still, and, at some
distance, or by moonlight, the place
was in truth beautiful but the ardent
citizen, loving to see his city grow,
wanted neither distance nor moon
light. He had not seen Versailles,
but, standing before the fountain of
Neptune in Anderson addition, at
bright noon, and quoting the favorite
comparison of the local newspapers
he declared Versailles outdone. All
this Art showed a profit from the
start, for the lots sold well and there
was something like a rush to build
in the new Addition. It's main thor
Oughfare, an Oblique continuation of
National avenue, was called Amber
son boulevard, and here, at the juno
ture of the new boulevard and the
avenue, Major Anderson reserved
four acres for himself and built his
new house-the Anderson mansion, of
course.
This house was the pride Of the
town. Faced with stone as far back
as the dining-room windows, it was a
house of arches and turrets and Cir
ding stone pOrches: it had the first
porte cOchere seen in that town.
There was central front hall" with
great black-walnut stairway, and
open to green glass skylight called
the DOME" three stories above the
ground floor. A ballroom occupied
most of the third story, and at one
end of it was carved a walnut gallery
for the musicians. Citizens told stran-
gers that the cost of all this black
walnut and wood carving was sixty
thousand dollars. "Sixty thousand
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-23

dollars for the woodwork alone! Yes,
sir, and hardwood floors all over the
house! Turkish rugs and no carpets
at all, except Brussels carpet in the
front parlOr-I hear they call it the
reception ROOM Hot and cold water
upstairs and down, and stationary
Washstands in every bedroom in the
place. Their sideboard's built right
into the house and goes all the way
across one end of the dining room. 1t
isn't walnut, it's solid mahogany!
Not veneering-solidm mahogany Well,
sir, presume the president Of the
United States would be tickled to
swap the White House for the new
Anderson mansion, if the Major'd
give him the chance-but by the AL
mighty Dollar, you bet your sweet
life the Major wouldn't!"
The visitor to the town was certain
to receive further enlightenment, for
there was one form OF entertainment
never omitted: he was always patri,
Otically taken for "a little drive round
our city, even if his host had to hire
a hack, and the climax of the display
was the Anderson mansion. sLook
at that greenhouse they've put up
there in the side yard" the escort
would continue. "And look at that
brick stable! Most folks would think
that stable plenty big enough and
good enough to live in; it's got run
ming water and four rooms upstairs
for two hired men and one of 'em's
family to live in. They keep one hired
man loafin' in the house, and they got
married hired man out in the stable,
and his wife does the washing. This
town never did see SO much style as
Ambersons are putting on these days
and / guess it's going to be expensive,
because lot of other fOlks'll try to
Keep up with 'em. The Majors wife
and the daughters been to Europe,
and my wife tells me since they got
back they make tea there every after
noon about five O'Clock and drink it.