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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
WEAK IN AIR AT THE START
Great Britain Had but Four Squad.
rons OF Airplanes, but Made
Rapid Strides.

London.-The declaration OF war by
Great Britain at midnight, August 9.
1914. found the Royal Flying corps
with only four squadrons In being
representing well under 100 alrplanes.
Three OF these s|quadrons went instant.
ly to France. A new squadron fol.
lowed these pioneers In about ten days
time, while n fifth squadron modified
and set out in "a hours. renchlng the
lighting zone.
In those early days Of the war ma
chimes were used simply for strnteglcal
reconnaissance. II was 70 until after
the battle Of the Alsne, when settled
lines Of warfare were established, that
artillery fire control from the air and
the cruder forms Of cooperation with
the infantry were prpcrlced and de
yeloped.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
ACTIVE TO THE LAST

American engineers under heavy mr.
tillery fire. Crossing the stream on
bridges but two feet In width WIS IA
s.lll more hazardous business. But
apparently the marines consider
nothing too hazardous 10 at least at-
tempt.
With the enemy's artillery and ma
chine guns pouring an lncessant fire
UPON these slender straws Of passage.
the marines advanced. Time after
time an enhlade Of fire swept rows Of
them into the swirllng Meuse-but
they advanced.
The crossing finally effected, they
pressed on with undaunted courage
and stormed the Huns stronghold on
the east bank. The Germans gave way
before the impetus Of that furious
charge and the marines again found
themselves yictors IN their last great
battle Of the a
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
AERIAL APRONS
GUARD LONDON

gradually close In their fire so the
enemy could not escape. the aerial
box gradually being narrowed.
The entire process depended largely
upon listening devices which could de-
tect the approach of a humming air
plane miles away.
Efficient Defense System.
The defense system was so eff
Client that T5 per zen of the raiding
machines were kept out Of London.
And those machines that got past the
barrages had great difficulty In escap-
ing, To the terror of bursting shrap-
mel was added the confusion of Nerey
lights, some red, some blue, others
green, white, yellow and orange, and
these flashing lights. in~termingled
with the terrific din of the exploding
shell, SO confused aviators that they
lost all sense of direction and spUSe
and many of their machines got out of
control, becoming an easy prey. In
such cases British birdmen would mp
proach, firing on the enemy machine,
anti-aircraft guns would halt, and the
hostile plane would he brought down
by a burst from the British plane. But
often there were fierce duels, marked
by spitfire from the machine guns OF
the contending flyers.
The course which the raiders tool
was traced out, minute by minute, by
the "stethoscope" operators, and di
rections given to s|earchlight crews
anti-aircraft gunIers and flashed t'
airdromes by aerial defense headquar
ters, which conducted the cattle mucl
in the same way as II general In tn
field.
Scarcely a Gotha got through tn
outer London barrage |unscathed. Tn
faint hearts who couldn't pcnetrat'
the barrage often turned back, only {
find they were outnumbered -four f
one by faster l,.itish machines.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
CONVICTS USE YARN ROPE
Make 25-Foot Rope From Yarn Fur
nished by Red Cross and Escape
From Prison.

Boise, Idaho.-With the aid of q 25-
foot rope braided from yarn furnished
the inmates by the Red Cross, Fred
George, alias Gruber, and Harry Hin
ton escaped from the state penitenti-
airy. George has a life sentence for
murder banging over him and Hinton
was serving five to fifteen years for
robbery. With the aid of the yarn
rope the men let themselves down
from the top of the wall surrounding
the ~DeDitentiary.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
sApEN.FoWELL AND SCOUTS.

On the anniversary OF the outbreak
OF the war In Europe, Lieut.. Gen. Rob
ert s. s. Baden-Powell, founder Of the
boy scout movement, addressed the fol-
lowing %cablegram to the Boy Scouts
Of America:
"Hope scouts' viii Join In increased
effort to make fifth year Of q sue
cessfully the last"
Chief Scout Executive James 10.
West replied as follows:
american scouts through splendid
war service program have g~loriously
justified value organized boyhood. Arc
pledged to hundred per cent partlcIpa-
ton in effort to make fifth year sue
cessfully the last"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
LOU LOST HIS HAT
AND ALSO THIEF
Deputy Sheriff Goes to San Fran
cisco for Robber and Has
Experience.

San FranciscQ-Lou McKeily, depu-
ty sheriff at Kelcyville, Lake county,
came to San Francisco to have the po-
lice here help him find some cracks
men who robbed the post office there.
McKelly wore a big broad-brimmed
white hat with a %rattlesnake skin for
a band. 1t is a hat he was proud of.
Said he to Detective George Hippeley:
81 have shown some of you fellows
how to hunt for big game up there IN
the summer time. Now you show me
about your hunting down here"
Then they went to dinner in a fash
ionable cafe. McKelly hung up his
rattlesnake skin hat. They sat down
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
QUITS "RoAD" FOR SAFETY
Throws Up Job to Avoid Danger From
Trains and Shortly After is Killed
by One.

Cleveland. &C, A. Idle, after 30
years ION the road" with the Erie rail-
road, abandoned his job to avoid dan
ger from the trains. And every day
since his wife would congratulate her
self that now she could be content in
the knowledge that he would come
home safe from his work in the office
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men.
Then, one day, he took a holiday
and with his wife visited a cousin at
Warren. o. The three went riding In
the cousins automobile. They came
to a crossing.
All three were killed by a passing
train.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

Col. Oscar j. Charles, one or the
best known young officers In the army,
was wounded September % By n shell
fragment which drove his water can
teen into his leg below the knee. He
refused medical attention, removed
the canteen himself, had 1t retilled,
and served wounded men near him
with water from 1t and kept command
Of his regiment until the battle vas
over. Colonel Charles was ut II time
| adjutnnt ut West Point, served
through the Spanish war with dlstinc-
ton, was in the Moro campaign, and
was one of the first officers to ask
transfer to line service In the recent
conflict. He commanded the Three
Hundred and Sixteenth infantry In
the Sev~enty-ninth division.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

and ate turkey, while McKelly ex-
planned about the way the cracksmen
did the job in Kelcyville.
When they had finished McKelly's
big rattlesnake hat was gone. There
was a row, but it was no use. The
best that Hippeley could find out was
that a woman at the next table had
been heard TO remark:
81 would like to have that hat over
there to decorate Johns den.".
McKelly bought a brand new hat,
called a "beanny," and went back to
Kelcyville without the cracksmen.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Bird Saves Boys Life
on French Battlefield

Manchester, N. H.-How n
bird on a battlefield OF France
indirectly saved the life of Prl-
vate Edward Lassonde OF the
United States heavy artillery
was told by the young man IN
a letter TO his father.
Lassonde said that he was
riding on n calssOn loaded with
ammunition when n bird began
TO circle about his hend. II
few so close that Its wings al
most brushed Lassonde's cap.
Finally the young soldier sprnng
from his seat and ran after
the bird. Just then a German
sherl struck the caisson and II
went up with a mighty ,axplo-
sion. The Manchester boys
chase OF the bird saved him
from injury or death.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
poINos OF THE SCOUTS.

The scouts Of Montclair, N. j., with
a hastily contrlyed apparatus, sue
ceeded in h~elIographing from Glen
Gray to Montclair, a distance OF six
teen and a half miles. Communication
was opened ane short messages were
read.
Fire broke out three times In the
mountains back Of Piainneld. New Jer-
sey. and each time the boy scouts
gent put TO fight IT.
A Brooklyn troop Of scouts assisted
IN old lady to secure food and fuel.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

London.-London's aerial aprons, or
how the Gothas were kept away
might form one tense chapter IN a
book about how the British bafiled the
Hun air raiders. The last six months
of the wal there was moi n single air
raid on London, de, in part, TO the
fact that the city's defenses were such
that they filled enemy flyers with ter
ror. Any aviator that escaped n
death traps-and the chances were
about one in three he would not-gen-
orally was of little value thereafter for
flying, because his nerves were shat
tered. A British aviator who by ncci'
dent was caught in the aerial barrage,
but managed to land safely near Lon
don, tossed on Il bed, verging ON in
sanity for weeks, so horrible was the
experience.
Roughly, there were three chief
weapons for dealing with Hun air
raiders the aerial barrage, aided by
searchlights fast, fighting scout planes
that attacked the invaders, and aerial
aprons. The Germans, it may be noted,
were never able to perfect any scheme
to prevent British ~aviators from
bombing Rhine towns even in the day
time.
Aerial Aprons Queer Things.
The aerial aprons were queer
things. They reminded one of rope
portieres. Upon signal, captive bal
looms were sent alOft from the out
skirts of the city, the balloons being
in pairs. These buoyed up n curtaiT
Ct dangling ropes, n half-mile or st
long. These aerial aprons served two
purposes: First, they forced the raid
ers TO fly high, and when they flew
high they could not drop bombs eff
fectively; second, any machine dart
ing into the ropes courted destruction
When flying high they were met by thu
British fighting scouts. These aeria
aprons were shifted daily us to heigh
so enemy airmen could not be fore
warned.
London always had the protection
If four score airplanes during tn
asst year of war. These machine
could mount to 10000 feet. The avl
Htors were picked night flyers. A
such heights it is difficult to see m
other airplane ut 100 yards. But a
1 given signal these birdmen took
me skies, jealousy guarding the al
Jroaches to London. These brave fl
lows often chased S hostile machln
into the barragc and a few BIRTHS
hirdmen were killed by their NV
shells. But whether it was Il Heppeli
or a Gotha that was bent On baby xii
ing the British scouts would swoop
; their foes like hawks.
> The barrage was almost like drur
dre. There were two outer barragC
and one inner. Scores of guns, mar
+ of them siX-inch rifles, were employc
in this work. They generally workt
!, In batteries of four, each unit of Il
battery, perhaps, being n mile or tv
from the other units. The four gun
would endeavOr to get II hostile plan
y Va the center of their box fire, and tho
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
Leaves Loot in ioebox;
Conscience Stricken.

waukegan. nl.-A hOusebreak-
er who stole several articles OF
valuable jewelry from the home
of DIR. and Mrs. Paul o. Berger
here became conscience stricken
and a few days afterward. when
Doctor Berger looked In his ice
box, he found the Jewelry there.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
TRAVEL IN AIR SAFE

flew from Bulgaria to German East
Afrlcn, carrying twelve tons OF ammu-
milton. When the Zeppelin reached
Africa and the commander heard that
the force for which II was taking the
ammunition had surrendered the dlri-
glble made the return journey, reach
ing home safely after having been In
the mir without landing for four days,
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

Winsted, COnn.-The power plant at
electricity for lighting here went
dead" early one morning recently. An
investigation developed the fact that o
rat had put the plant out Of business
by crawling into the terminals and
short-circuiting the system.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21


on the doorstep.
Calls HoIdup Story Absurd.
81 do not believe his story" said
Captain Coughlin after Rokawicz had
been held to the grand jury for MUIR
der and was lodged in the county Jail.
81 think he killed Papke, but his hold
up story is absurd. He knew Papke
well enough to have recognized him.
am satisfied there was some other
reason. The murderer always in his
confession tries to justify his act. In
the months that we have been investi-
eating this case we have been unable
TO find a motive. | think Papke's dog
must have snapped at Rokawicz. An
argument followed. Rokawicz drew his
knife and stabbed Papke In the back.
"Rokawicz, / believe, is d victim of
a peculiar form of insanity"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

A Canadian Whaling company has
been engaged in canning whsle mcst
for sevs nj monthA- !
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21
BREAKS UNDER
SPIRIT VOICES
Conscience Lashed, Chicago Man
Clears Crime Committed
Last Winter.
TELLS STRANGE TALE
Voices Become Louder and More In
sistent-ln Terror Man Takes to
Whisky and Whisky Loosens
His Tongue.

Chicago.-The voice of a murdered
man rang in the ears ef Joseph Roka-
wicz. For almost a year after his
neighbor, Frederick Papke, was found
dead on the doorstep of his home by
his own daughter, the voice talked to
Rokawicz. He did all he could at the
time of the tragedy. He volunteered
to act as a pallbearer, helped the be-
reaved family and when the fiat be-
came vacant Rokawicz moved in next
door to the Papke family. Papke was
killed the night of January "a, and
from that time onward he heard
voices.
They became louder, more insistent.
They accused.
Rokawicz, in his terror of the super
natural, took to whisky-and the whis-
ky loOsed a tongue that had talked
only sympathy before.
II would not be surprised If this
Rokawicz knew something of your hus'
bands DEATH said a neighbor to Mrs.
Papke not long ago.
The n~eighbor had heard the voices
answered by Rokawicz. The widow
went to Capt. Thomas ]. Coughlin of
the stock yards police station and
Rokawicz was arrested. At first he
denied knowing anything of the MUIR
der.
Breaks Down and Confesses.
At last he broke down and told Cap
tain Coughlin Il strange story.
81 was coming home" he said, with
Il full months pay in my pocket. |
feared holdups. l had my long-bladed
pocket knife in my hand. AS | passed
the Papke house | saw a man standing
there. His back was to ne. | thought
he was a holdup man-and ! stabbed
him. l went home, believing | had
killed a robber and | did not worry
The next day l found that had killed
Frederick Papke, my neighbor, my
friend. / was horror-stricken. l dc
what | could-but the notes.-the
voices"
Papke, according to his wife, haC
taken their pet dog out for an airing
after supper. He had been standing
in front of the house. The daughter
Emma, heard a whining and scratching
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-21

at the door. She opened 1t to find that
her father had crept that far-dying
on the dOorStpD.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-04-27
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
ON ADRIATIC QUESTION

The Austro-Hungarian Empire
then the enemy of Italy, and al
whose expense the pact of London
was to be kept in the event Of vic
tory, has gone to pieces and no long
er exists.
Not only that but the several parts
OF that empire, il Is agreed now by
italy and all her associates. are to
be erected into Independent states
and associated as a League of Ma
tons, not with those who were re-
Gently our enemies, but with Italy
herself and the powers that stood
with Italy in the great war for lib
erty.
I'VE are to establish their liberty
as well as our own. They are to be
among the smaller states whose in
terests are henceforth to be safe
guarded rs scrupulously as the in
terests of the most powerful states.
THE war was ended, however, by
proposing to Germany an armistice
and peace which should be founded
on certain clearly defined principles
which set up new order of right
and justice.
Upon those principles the peace
with Germany has been conceived,
not only. but formulated Upon
those principles il will be executed.
We cannot ask the great body OF
powers TO propose and accept peace
with Austria and establish new
basis which originally constituted
the Austrian empire and in the
states of the Balkan group and on
principles OF another kind. We
must apply the same principles to
the settlement of Europe in those
quarters that we have applied in the
peace with Germany. II was upon
the explicit avowal of those p:inci-
Piles that the initiative for peace was
taken. II is upon them that the
NAOAI OH uNNult VI pNdNN u.s. AVNNs
"If those principles are to be adj
hered to, Fiume must serve as the
outlet OF the commerce, not of Italy,
but Of the land to the north and
northeast of that port; Hungary,
Bohemia, Roumania and the states
of the new Jugo-Slav group. To as
sign Fiume to Italy would be to
create the feeling that we have de-
liberately put the port upon which
all these countries chiefly depend
for their access TO the Mediterran-
can in the hands of a power of which
it did not form an integral part
and whose sovereignty if set up
there. must inevitably seem foreign,
not domestic or identified with the
commercial and industrial life of the
regions which the port must serve.
II is for that reason, no doubt, that
Fiume was not included in the pact
of London but there definitely as
signed to the Croatians."
Italy Needed Professionalism.
And the reason why the line OF
the pact of London swept about
many of the islands of the eastern
coast of the .Adriatic and around
the portion of the Dalmation coast
which lies most open to that sea
was not only that here and there on
those islands, and here and there
on that coast. there are bodies of
people of Italian blood and connec-
ton. but also, and no doubt chiefly.
because it was felt that it was neces-
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-04-27

In issuing his official statement
on the Adriatic question, President
Wilson let IL be known that he de-
sired once again to call attention To
the fact that there we're certain we'll
defined principles which have been
accepted by the peoples of the world
an the basis for lasting peace. The
United States delegation simply re-
called this in order that there should
be no deviation from these princi-
pies.
The text OF the statement follows:
"In view OF the capital import
ance of the questions affected, and in
order to throw all possible light
Anpon what is involved in their set
stlement ! hope that the following
statement will contribute to the final
formation of opinion and to a salts
factory solution:
when Italy entered the war she
entered upon the basis of definite
private understanding with Great
Britain and France, now known as
the pact OF London"
Since that time the whole face
of circumstances has been altered
N ny other powers, great and small,
have entered the struggle. with no
knowledge OF that private under
atauding.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-04-27
Raihoaa Notes

Travelling Passenger Agent Evans
of the Frisco, was among those with
the Liberty Loan Special the past
week. Ten years ago Mr.. Evans
face was often seen here, but in lat
ter years he has been in charge of
the Denver, Col, office. Mr.. Evans
recalled many pleasant memories OF
Columbus, but was saddened when
told of those that had crossed the
Great Divide Mr.. Evans was so fond
of Columbus that when he met Mr..
Chas. Tesch. Sr., there was but a
scene. Here is the best tailor ever
and | used to be dolled up from his
shop-pass up the tailors of the big
cities"
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-04-27

candidate drove on. Hello! Hellot"
exclaimed the candidate at the next
stopping place. rs the boss at
homer" Yes, sir, in the stable .
To the stable and behold the boss, a
black buck.
Geenral Yardmaster Chas. O.
Long of the NJ. & o and S. /. NJ.
railroads and the Southern, has re-
sumed work after vacation of a
month spent in places of interest on
the line of the Chicago & ST. Louis
A Liberty Bond special train
moved over the s. |. M. the past
week. This road, like the NJ & O.,
subscribed literally and the usual
100 per cent was wired to the gem
eral Offices located in Mobile, Ala.
Mr.. Frank Stolzer, looking in the
pink of health. dropped into Column
bus the past week, after overseas
duties. Frank is introducing Mrs.
Stloser, having married in Louis
lana while In a cantonement.
Conductor Augustus Cunningham
is relieving Conductor ireland A.
Crump. who has joined Mrs. Crump
on visit to brother in New Orr
leans.
Engineer Jessie Johnson. of the
NJ. & o., is back at work after six
weeks off on account of injuries
sustained by kick" from crank
ing car.
Roadmaster j. B. McDade, of the
NJ. & o., is out after a few days
that confined him to his room in
Tuscaloosa. Ala.
Mrs. Herndon, the mother of the
well known Herndon boys, who are
with the NJ. & o.. at Okolona, Miss,
was here during the week on a visit.
Trainman Walter Lawley of the NJ.
& o., has bid in a north local"
The run was vacated by Bernard
Collier
Flagman Dave Parsons has been
sick during the past week at his
home In this city.
Mr.. Alonzo Beard has caught.
work train that is working in and
out of Columbus.
Mr.. Dave Parson, a we'll known II. |
& o. fagman, is off duty on account
of sickness.
Engineer Stroude K. Cone. of the
NJ. & O., has relieved Engineer r. o..
FAINT. on the Columbus owl.
Relief Agent Gore. of the S. !. NJ. |
was a visitor to Columbus during
the week.