Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-26
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Paris-500 Yankee soldiers refused
to hear President Wilson in an adj
dress. The vote was taken viva voce.
Later a motion to reconsider the
vote, inspired by realization of the
serious mistake made, was passed,
nine groups voting against reconsid-
Grafton and 81 groups for it. Ad-
journment shut off further proceed
irgs, and so the record of the meet
ing shows that the commander-in
chief of the army was exposed to an
affront which was not effectively
withdrawn or corrected
Palliators of he faux pas say that
the men voted 40 in the belief that
he was too busy to be troubled Pol
itics is limited at and it is said that
the group voting does not represent
the soldier body.
Henry Ford, the Detroit manufac-
turer of automobiles will put a mo-
tor car on the market to sell for be-
tween $3.50 and $500. 1t will be a
finished product. Mr.. Ford claims to
have been forced out of the old com
pany by court decisions unfolding
the demands of minority stockholders
for increased divisions. He under
took to use the surplus earnings in
tractor manufacture and YVES enjoin-
ed Ford says he could not give or
throw his money away so he will
build new type of car. His de-
cision will not make the people bit
mad.
New YOrk-FedcraI Judge Mayer
Tuesday upheld the conviction of the
A
Scott Nearing, who was acquitted on
charge of disseminating sedltious
writings The court denied mo-
ton for new trial. An appeal will
be taken. Nearing, formerly uni
versfty professor, admitted writing
The Great Madness, criticizing Am
ericafs entrance into the war. The
jury acquitted him and convicted the
society which printed and circulated
the booklet
Washington cable received by
Sens. Lodge and Hitchcock signed by
two former Russian officials sets
forth that BoIshevism fostered by
German influence threatens the civ
ilized world. It claims that treating
with the present Russian government
means that the best influences in Rus
STA will be submerged and Pan-Ger-.
man domination set loose on the
world. It flnp1ores consideration of
Russian problems.
Washington president has set
aside the sentence in the case of 10
negro soldiers tried at Camp Grant
for an attack on a woman Sec. Bak-
er states that the Judge advocate gem
eral had found undue haste in try
ing the men as the division was leav-
ing for France. Eight were given
death, five life sentences, one insane
and five acquitted but the verdicts
will be reviewed.
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300 miles per hour by airplane! A
French engineer, August Rateau, has
an engine that will develop high
speeds at high attitudes. Heretofore
the engine lost power directly as the
air becomes rarified. Rateau's de-
vice is a small turbine working off
the engine exhaust This turbine
congresses the air drawn in to nor
NAL density. The result follows.
French tug-boats seized the German
sub, U-29, at Cartagena, Spain, and
other subs at FerroI. A German sub,
attempting to- escape from Ferrol
was sunk by the French. This is a.
war echo.
Five billion pounds or 20 million,
tons of food stuffs went to Europe,
in 1918. At least it started for
there. Half of this was pork and
nearly third beef.