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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Visitors to Camps
Asked to Obey Rules
Commander at Merritt Says
Men Must Go Through Med
ical Tests orr Arrival

Relatives and friends of returning
soldiers who are scnt to Camp Merritt
are making the serious mistake, Ac-
cording TO the commanding officer of
Tint camp. of trying to sec the men
before they arc available, thus causing
themselves great Inconvenience and
overworking the army authorities.
Colonel s. l.. Sorey, Of tho 18th IN
fantry. the commanding officer at Camp
Merritt. Issued the following advisory
notice yesterdays
ait is constantly happening TINT fam.
ilics or friends of soldiers from over.
sens arrive at Camp Merritt desiring
to see the soldier IN whom they are in
terestcd even before he has reached
here from tho pier. and, IN my Gaze,
before he has passed through the San.
itary plant at this camp. II rs required
by orders that every soldier arriving
at this camp from overseas should pass
through the sanitary process before
being allowed to come IN contact with
civilians. As this process sometimes
requires as much AK thlrty-six hours
for IA large organization, people arriv-
ing here without informing themselves
about the availability of the soldier
will often be disappointed through the
availability OF the soldier to be
seen at that time.
irving here before visiting the camp
should call up Camp Merritt 1000, eX-
tension 298, for information as to
whether the organization to which
their soldier belongs has been through
the sanitary plant and is available for
visitors.
II may add that the rules Of the
camp are liberal in allowing soldiers
passes for not to exceed twenty -four
hours after they have been through
the sanitary plant, and that. in many
cases, parents and friends would find
it more convenient to await the grant
ing of this privilege to their soldiers
rather than to make long and diff
cult trip to Camp Merritt for the pur-
pose of seeing them. Visitors seeking
soldiers at Camp Merritt should inquire
at the information desk, Hostess House
Picket No. 3, on Knickerbocker road,
reached by way Of Tenahy."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
5 Killed, 5 Injured in
Winchester Arms Blast

fspwrinl Cor1wpmd~ncp

NEW HAVEN, March 1.-Thrcc en-
ployes OF the Winchoster Repeating
Arms Company wcrc KILLED this after
noon, live wcro wounded and ono of tho
largest storage rooms of the Winchcs-
ter factory was blown TO pieces In M
explosion which also destroyed thou
snnds Of primers and muskct caps.
Two Of the men killed. Timothy
O'Sullivan and George Curtis, were
pushing truck londcd with primers
intended for igniting cartridges. ono
theory Ia that the truck was 80 care
lessly pushed that the jar caused the
primers to explode, blowing up the on
tire load OF explosives. Another ia that
one of tho workmen dropped box Of
primers. Curtis and O'Sullivan we're
killed instantly and Michael Patton
died while being removed to the hos
pital.
The accident is the first of its kind
which has taken place since the en-
largement of the factory incident to
the beginning of the European war in
1914, despite the fact that millions of
pieces of explosives have been manu-
featured and transported from the
plant. The dead are:
Timothy O'Sullivan, twentv-eight
married; Michael Patton, thirty. and
George f. Curtis, forty-two.
The injured
Michael McDermott, Patrick Nc
Carthy, Edward Rowling, Edward Tobin
and David Conkln.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
New School Idea Gives
Bright Pupils a Chance
Special Glasses Provided in
Which They May Pass BY
Dullcr Classmates

Just as his mentally defective play
fellow has been given an opportunity
to learn. so the unusually bright pupil
is to have "A special school of his own.
in which his capabilities will have freer
scope: Such class already has been
este blshed in Public School Ga. in this
city:
This experiment il not particularly
new, for 1t is has been tested for two
years with great success. The classes
are made up of children approved by
psychological tests similar to those
used In the army and navy and recent
" adopted by Columbia University.
Special teachers, courses Of study.
physical trimming and educational facil-
tics arc offered, suited to development
of these chldten, who under the eys-
tom 40, lohR IN vogue were compelled
to mark time with their aiowet elisa
fhntes. a fund hhH beeh provided to pay
cnrfhte for the clnsAes to inuBetins,
parks .ehd o'l'er plaeeq Ia belevcd
knowledge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Transport Nearly
Capsized by Rush
TO Greet Friends
Sobral Crosses Sea Narrow.
ly TO Escape Wreck at
Brooklyn Pier; Brings
58 Officers, 2,555 Men

Tho transport Sobral, with 1856 re-
turning soldiers, nearly capsized yes
terdhy at her Brooklyn pier when the
men, eager TO exchange greetings with
friends and relatives on bargcs in the
bay, all rushed to the starboard side.
Gftecn degrees.
Naval Captain I, j.. Davitt, com.
handing the ship, ordered the soldiers
to the port side. Some demurrcd, but
the captain gained obedience by threat
ening to have the hose played on them.
Pumps were manned and the trans
port righted after several tons of WA
ter had been sucked into her ballast
tanks.
Forty-three white officers and l 500
negro enlisted men Of the 367th In
fantry, known as the Buffalocs, came
home on the Sobral. The first detach-
ment, with its commanding officer,
Colonel Moss, reached here on the
Rotterdam last week
Other troops aboard included ten
officers and 376 enlisted men of the
349th Machine Gun Battalion, New York
casual companies $50 and 1902, con-
sisting of three officers and 24S en-
listed men, and casual company 1908,
of Ohio, two officers and 238 enlisted
men.
Oliver and Frank Lucas, sixteen and
fourteen years old respectively, who
had slowed away on the Sobral at
Brcst, worked their passage over after
they were discovered. Their father
was killed in the war and their mother
lied shortly aftcrward. Sergeant Her
bert Oppenheim, whose home is at
1884 Street and West End Avenue, be-
came interested in the lads and plans
TO adopt them.
The Sobral was originally German
liner She was informed in Brazil
when the United States entered the
war, and subsequently was chartered
by the French government. She took
many American soldiers overseas, but
this was her first trip with home
coming troops. After the armistice
the Sobral was used to repatriate
French refugees and war prisoners
from Holland, and for this service
the vessel was decorated with the Croi1
dc Guerre.
Major V. l.. Appleton, of 26 East
Thirty seventh Street, commanded the
men of the 367th Regiment aboard
Major Fred Bull, of 500 Madison Ave
nue., was second in command. Major
j. NJ. Hagens, of 1926 Broadway, was
in charge of the 319th Machine Cur
Battalion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Co. Gibson Coming Home
Red Cross Commissioner for
France Given Notable
Farewell

PARIS, March f.-Colonel Hnrvev n
Gibson, of New York, retiring chairman
Of the Rcd Cross Commission far
france, was given farewell on his
departure to-day for New York. Colo
mel Robert f. Odds. Red Cross Com
missioner for Europe, said: "ffe has
performed The largest job tho War
Council had delegated my one in It's
service"
NJ r. Gibson took up Red Cross work
cnriy ~ 1917 The following yenr he
waa relieved entirely Of his dutIes M
pfeeidcnt Of thc Liberty National mink
70 devote .nll his attention 10 work
ovefsnhs' 1le took $4,000 900 IN cold to
the Orient hboprd The cruiser frnnen
rec To- relieve tina refugees fleeing from
the Turks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
German Ships to Start
On VOy0gcs for Food

PARIS. March 1.-The ships in Ger
man harbors will be started outward
on voyages for food within a few days
unless there is further delay for
alterations in the plan concerning
early movement 1t is expected that
the Allies will give Germany certain
credit on account Of food which Ger
many expects to purchase abroad and
bring back on the ships used by the
Allies for carrying troops homeward
from Europe.
LONDON, March 1.-The condition
OF the German merchant ships which
ultimately will be used TO transport
American troops homeward is surpris-
ingly good, in the opinion Of the
United States naval commission re-
CO. y sent to survey them. It is in
forred from the preliminary reports of
the commission to naval HEADQUARTERS
here that the Germans either Kept IN
the vessels during the war or that
since the armistce they nave been
bending every effort to got them into
first class condition in the belief that
Germany would be allowed to reGntor
the worlds trade immediately pence
WAS declared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Pershing Sister-in-Law Back
Was Nurse at TouI; Says Troops
Are Only EEOnlesick

The supreme desire of the American
soldiers in France was to see their
mothers, Mrs. Gertrude Pershing, the
widow of General Pershings brother,
said yesterday at the Polytechnic Hos
pital. Since last July Mrs Pershing
has been nurse at Toul She re-
turned Friday on account of i'll health
and expects to start for her home in
Denver, Col, in few days.
Reports of unfavorable camp con
ditions are untrue" she said. 81 can
not understand where the criticism
started, because the soldiers are salts
fed with things as they are. OF
course there are a few homesick ones.
The desire most often expressed is a
wish to see mother"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
77th Division Gets
l46 Bravery Medals;
9th Winner of 139
General March Announces
1913 U. S. Troops Won.
Crosses; Regulars Lead;
Battle Deaths 7,354,OOO

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Of the
1918 Distinguished Service Crosses
awarded for gallantry in action to
American soldiers, General March an
nounced to-day, 664, or more than
double the number given to any other
division, went to the I'd regulars.
The 26th (New England National
Guard), fourth in the list with 300
awards, led all National Guard and Ma
tional Army divisions. The 47th Rain
bow came next with 2O5, and the Goth
with TT. The 9th Division (New
York National Guard) received 1870.
The nth metropolitan New York Di
vision) received 146.
How Other Divisions Ranked
The divisions in order from the Both
with their awards we're:
Fifth. 1913 awards goth, 1870; nth. 146
9th, 1879; 32d. 1874; elst. 1874; S9th, "
18th. %; 10Th, go; s3d. 10; 4th. Sc 2Sth
S Ss '9 o. al 81 Soth az a. s2d a. 9Th. 90
II; 9Th. 10; 88th. l.
the infantry, General March said
naturally led. with 2,942 decorations.
Total War Losses
The number of mon of all nations
killed in action or died of wounds dur
ing the war, so far as available statis-
tics show, was given by General March
as 1854 900.
BY countries these we're: Russia
100000; Germany 100000; United
States 10000; France 1,385,300; Eng
land 706,700; Italy 100000; Turkey
10000; Belgium 100000 Rumania
100000; Serbia and Montenegro 1OO,-
600; Austria Hungary 100000 Bull
garia 100000.
Disqualification Of the army Ind re-
leased up to yesterday 1901 ,0b0 officers
and men, General March announced.
VI me total 77,642 were officers. De
mob lizatlon orders have reached
l,67 900.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
HAVNER BILL
BEFORE HOUSE
Appropriations Committee Reports
Measure Recommending Budget Of
$4,000 Annually For Two Years to
Attorney Generals Office.

Des Moines, Feb. s. With the
recommendation that it be passed the
appropriations committee Of the lows
house today reported the bill by Rep
rescntativc Dean OF Osceola county
|appropriatins $4,000 annually for tive
years to carry on the work oE the at
torney generals office.
In order to assure the early
effectiveness of the measure if passed
by both houses, the committee added
an amendment making the law effcC-
tive after it's passage and publication
in Dcs Moines newspapers.
Abolition Of the statewide primary,
substituting nomination by convention
of all state, district and conuty Off :
GERS. is proposed in a bill introduced in
he Iowa house today by Representa-
tive Mayne. of Palo Alto county.
The measure provides that only
township officials would be named in
the primary and at the same time they
were chosen. precinct primaries would
be held to elect delegates to the county
conventions.
Representative Wilson. Of Mahaska
introduced a bill to put the control OF
township roanS uhueT county poai "0
OF supervisors and provides an addi-
tonal mills tax. mills for improve
mcnt and mills for draggin of these
roads.
Drafted by the judiciary committee.
q measure to enable the state execu-
tive council to check up on the prop
erty Of n public utility corporation
which was marketing stock was passed
today by the Iowa senate. The council
is authorized to secure an appraisc-
ment of the company on which stock Is
offered. .
The house passed unanimously the
Weaver bill allowing cities to levy IL
mill tax for fifty years to pay for park,
art or memorial sites. The measure
will enable Des Moines and other cities
to purchase sites for soldier memorials,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
HARMONY RULES
GERMAN ASSEMBLY
Coalition Cabinet Certain to Be
Formed by Assembly Now in ses.
sion at Weimar-csntrists Pledge
Support to New Government.
lBy Associated PresAl

Weimar, Feb. THE composition
of the cabinet appears to be the prin-
cipal problem commanding the atten-
ton Of the new German lawmakers,
meeting here in the national as
sembly.
The original proposition was to form
a ministry of fifteen members, seven
OF whom should be majority socialists,
four centrists and four democrats.
The majority socialists. however. now
are understood to, be contending that
they should have a majority which the
independent socialist can not disturb
by any, political naneuvers.
Participation Of the centrists in the
by the action taken at their meeting
yesterday in which they decided to
work with the new government.
The constitution was again dis
cussed at meeting attended BY rep
resentatives Of the various German
states today, at which DR. Ludo
Hartmann. Austrian premier Co. Ger
many. was present.
: The new ministers probably will
bear the title Of Imperial ministers'
instead Of state secretary" Several
OF them will be without portforio.
even though additional portfolios be
created.
The finance ministry will be divided
into two departments, one for special
technical details andssto deal with
loans, and the other to be the de-
partment Of the imperial treasury, for
the administration Of socialized pub
lie works. 1t is possible that labor
ministery will he created. A de-
mobilization ministry and an economic
ministry are believed to be certain Of
formation. in addition to the reforma-
ton Of the imperial treasury depart.
ment. sN
Although the subject OF the consti-
tuition was on today's program. 1t was
believed that 1t would be impossible ia
reach II before tomorrow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
IoWA's HONOR ROLL.
Nineteen lowans Listed Among tn,
Casualties Of Our Overseas Forces.

Nineteen lowans Listed Among the
Casualties Of Our Overseas Forces.
Washington, Feb. S-The names of
nineteen Iowa soldiers appear in the
combined casualty lists issued for pub
licatfon today. They are:
Killed in action-Corporal Frank W.
Jones. Chester: privates Carl B. He'll
er, Dubuque; Thomas F. Murphy, viii
ton; Earnest A. Galland. Salix.
Died Of wounds-Privates Glen r
kendrick. villisca; Elmer E. Under
hill, Little Rock.
/. Died OF accident and other causes
Privates Thomas Lee. Sioux city:
James A. Steelman, Little Cedar.
Died of disease - Private Waugh
Bremen Brown, North English.
Wounded severely-Licut. William C
Aitken. Storm Lake; wagoner Todd
Garrett, Augusta; Privates sFrank NJ
Reetz -Cromwell; Helmuth L. Rock
Dixon; Joseph J. Rogan. Epworth.
Wounded, degree undetermined pre-
viously reported missing in action
Privates Earl c. Compton, Arthur:
Louis F. Guerttman, Humboldt: Henry
Often, Davenport.
Returned to duty. previously reported
missing in action-Privates Rudolph
Elwood Sandahl. Charlton; Harry
Watson, Des Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
German Woman
Visits u. S. Army
to See Yankee Sol,

Coblenz. Feb. 7.--Mm. Martha Greet
arrived here recently and presented
credentials at army headquarters cN-
planning that she wanted TO see her
son, and for this reason had made the
journey from her home In Essen.
American officers explained to aer
that the only German soldiers within
the occupied zone were those ON
special duty IN connection with the
turning over to the American army
property of the German army and that
Roland Greef's name did not appear on
the list Of these men.
Apparently You misunderstood me,
said Mrs. Greet TO an American who
spoke German. my son Is in Company
B. Eleventh infantry. United States
army. which will soon be stationed In
the region of Treves"
Permission for Mrs. Greet to visit
her son will be granted by army head
quarters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
PAGE ON e.


Telegraphie News:
Seattle Takes steps to End s. :.
New Terms to Germany Yet
Formulated. ~
Missing" Lists Exagy =
Clearing House OF " = Urged.
PAGES TWO, Thr y ND FIVE.
Iowa News . n
Bill
Youth Lives High on Bogus Checks
Appeal to School Children.
Boys Club I'm New Line OF Work
From Mudhold Berths to Clean Beds
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial:
Unfortunate"
Union Labor Declares War.
George d. Heron. Delegate
PAGE SEVEN.
Story:
The Light in the Clearing.
PAGES SIX EIGHT AND NINE.
City News:
Iowa Bottlers Meet Mere in 1920.
Not to Put on Sunday Trains.
Former Residents Dead.
Local Comment
PAGE TEN.
Markets and Generals:
Corn Prices Fail 10 Hold.
Oats Inclined 10 Sag.
Hogs Score Advance
All Cattle Gain During Week.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
The kaiser's Status.

Legally speaking my father is dead"
says ex-Prince Eitel Friedrich, Cir
cumstances have wiped him out OF
history You will never see him again.
Here speaks the dutiful son. for there
can hardly be any doubt that Count
William Hohenzollern would breathe !,
great sigh of relief if he could once
convince the world that he is as dead
as. say, his distinguished fellow Caesar,
Caligula. Obviously if man is dead
once he cannot die again. William
Hohenzol'ern once civilly dead and re
moved from the judgment of tribunals
of this world, could live on In peace
for twenty years at Amerongen.
But is he dead? 1t is a nice question
Of legal fictions, Of the delicate def
nitions of Jurisprudence and meta
physics. THE King of Prussia is
dead. long live the King of Prussia" +"
is now become as sounding brass and
a tinkling symbol: the King Of Prus-
sia is dead and Constituent Assemb-
ly lives. But the King Of Prussia. con-
sidered as an immortal legal entity, q
corporation SOLE must have his dwell
ing from time to time in certain morta |
pOdicos lloihi ie lHoNcS lIcS
fall into ruin. If, therefore. the King
Of Prussia. removes from his latest
tenement Of clay sooner than had been
expected, and finds on other place to
go, the situation is not different from
that Of gentleman who removes from
an apartment in town to a. bungalow
in Westchester, and finds upon ar
rival that the bungalow has been
burned overnight and that his funiturc
is piled in the road. The apartment
where he used to live still exists, al
though he left it; and whatever may be
the misfortunes of that impersonal
being. the King Of Prussia. William
Hohenzolern Is at present only the de-
serted apartment. His present agta-
tion may be compared, continuing the
metaphors of real estate, to that Of the
owner of a property who wonders If his
tenants misdoings do not, as certain
laws provide, inculpate the landlord.
But aside from these philosophical
hairsplittings there is another circum-
stance which 'invalidates Eiters fllial
argument offhand. namely, that Will
lam Hohenzollern does not admit that
he Is dead. So far from being convinced
that he is dead already, he seems to be
actively afraid that he is going to die
in the near future. William will have to
be deader than this before the world
will believe it.-New York Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
No Sympathy in Frisco.

San Francisco. Feb. S.-The san
Francisco labor council. it was an
nounced today, after a long debate. re-
fused last night to adopt a resolution
under which local unionists would have
refused to work on any job transferred
to San Francisco from striking points
Frank Miller. secretary OF the san
Francisco iron trades council. said the
strike at Seattle was unfair, that IL
was not sanctioned by an information
al union, and charged the Seattle metal
trades council with breach or talth
The rank and file of Seattle labor ne
asserted had been given no opportu-
nifty to be heard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08

reserve corps and for commissions in
the regular army. More than $4,000
have sought commission in the re-
reserves and 5000 in the regular army.
The British embargo has been the
subject of warm debate in the senate.
where there Is pending a resolution
by Senator Weeks, asking for infor-
nation from the state department, and
it was learned today that various
complaints have been received against
1t by the state department from
various manufacturers
1t is claimed that operation of the
embargo involves discrimination. Off
cials said today no evidence of dis
elimination has been presented.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
IOWA EDITORS TALK SHOP.
Three Hundred Delegates Attending
Most Successful Convention Of Assoeis

Three Hundred Delegates Attending
Most Successful Convention Of Assoeia
Des Moines. Feb. S-Round table dis
cussions and report on information
obtained in a questionnaire Of weekly
and oaily papers in the state ~marlked
this forenoon's sessions Of the Iowa
Press Association, which will elect
officers late today.
More than 900 delegates are attend
ing the convention, which opened yes
'terday and ends tomorrow. Heads Of
the association declared the meeting the
most successful in the history Of the
organization.
The questionable on newspapers
was conducted by the department of
journalism. Iowa State College. and the
report was submitted by Harry r.
O'Brien, Of the departments faculty
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
ToMMTs DISCHARGE NOT FINAL.
Letter Of Thanks Given at Present
Discharge on Peace Declaration,

London. Via Montreal. Feb. S.--The
soldiers now being released from the
british army under the rehabilitation
plan are not being finally discharged
The process OF discharge not being
rcrhpleted until after the peace SIS
signed. All the men released at pres
ent are being furnished with a letter
OF thanks from the army council for
the service to their country. Upon
their final discharge all the officers
and men who served will be given in
addition an illuminated certificate of
service in addition to their service
and war medals.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
Another Sympathetic Strike.

New York. Feb. S.-All union prick-
LAYERS and hoisting engineers employed
in various cities throut the country on
contracts held by members OF the
building trades employers association
of this city will be called out on
sympathetic strike Monday morning IN
an attempt to enforce the demands OF
carpenters employed by the associa-
tion for a 81 day increase in wages
william L. Hutchison, president OF 'he
Jrnitsd brotherhood of Carpenters anu
To;ners announced shortly after noon
today
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-08
Ask statement on EMBARGO.

Washington, Feb. s.-Inquiries have
been sent by the state department tc
Great Britain, France and Italy re-
garding the British, embargo, the
French Cartel system and the Italian
system Of government supervision OF
purchase, all OF which has an effect on
American Industries.
The war department.. has not been
advised that negotiations for German
liners to carry home American troops
have been concluded.
An, increasing number Of officers are
applying Tor commissions IN the army