Cedar Falls Record, The (Newspaper) - August 9, 1917, Cedar Falls, Iowa WEEKLY EDITION THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and what unsettled tonight Thursday generally fair and cooler VOL XVII FALLS IOWA AUGUST 9 1917 78 BIG WIT IT By United Presb Washington Aug T United Ames Iowa Aug this a cultural department reporting hoard year lor college or not? today forecasted the wheat ot young men and women In Iowa tlon this year as College age and fitness and els compared with the their parents are deeply concerned forecast a ago and with this question The college bushels the average from 191.1 year is nearing to 1915 lows educators answered the The condition of spring wheat on question by ing that August I was estimated at per tion during the war was as as compared with per sary if not more than erer before cent a month previous per Many ot college age will join the cent ten-year average The colors to carry on the war timate for spring wheat production j These educators today announced bushels war increased the for ter bushels educated leadership ami Thre condition of com August 1 try spare those ready col- was 78.8 per cent as compared with THEIR BOY per cent in July and 73.4 per cent the ten-year average Ott gust 1 Corn production was tor bushels as com- pared with bushels the July forecast and bushels the 1911 to 1915 average After the war the or at least the old half ot it across the Atlantic will have to be It is there that Ore college man or the man who is educated above the will the most j good The educators throughout and the United States say j fewer turned out j colleges during the war the greater the handicap the re- j stage is reached To prove their case the tors throughout Iowa quote a para- a Decent statement b Secretary of When the is over there i be made upon such demands for anil women of knowledge training have never before come London Aug roar of big Gy United Frew Des Moines la Aug guns as they hurled their tons of 1 per cent of the convicts lead against the German lines was distinctly heard last night within thirty miles of London Windows at South End vibrated from the con- cusion of the bombardment The sound of the guns was the most dis- tinct that has been heard since the start of the war With the report of Field Marshal Haig announcing active artillery 1 during the night in the region j Ypres and raiding on the coast i speculation was rite as to the I ot the allied drive against the Germans being resumed i Ypres in about 100 miles on an j air line from South End The in- tense bombardment heard in land served to increase the general i expectancy of impending big events Field Marshal Haig was silent as to operations against Lens today but further word from that section was anxiously awaited One the most any country of dents rn work of rope empty the draft exemption occurred and today in fessore in the trenches j a drafted appear -are Already are many a polite literary men KAISER SUPPRESSES GERARD'S WRITINGS Will tion of of Former American Ambassador note on ot rush to harvesting the many years after the war some of these be to he would be not Ire to the Ire said Next year corteges America must come to I will be -able to Much obliged Teacue for the invitation The summons in England's gives the next instance will disabuse young mart's the war is a pink tea affair Jolm ot kerton teller in the Security Savings Bank at Waterloo appeared the board this morning The usual routine questions Taj the one relative tion Tie replied that he is ready go at any The ex- amination the fact that his heart lias a leaky valve due to a tanus infection some tive years ago He was a mighty young man Immediately following O'Donnell came a young man robust tanned single with no dependents He claimed exemption on the ground of religious scruples and ting that he was to take or even a bushel for corn who believe the col- technical leges kept filled The Britons almost by the movement during the two years df the war Today land is trying her The Iowa educators are working citizens of Iowa that an education will be a great aid in Winning the war Four j Americans Amsterdam man censorship forbids temporarily publication the writings of former Ambassador Gerard ad- wero thirty-eight vices tare hers Prince was by a German submarine it Tlearne'd today Gaze Prince German when lanSed a port last er all life gian Prince tie men took them aboard the closed the after traveling cm the for about miles the water BUIES PASSES SHELL FIRE ON FRONT Bf Paris Aug artillery on the Asine in chased with the blood of was by the war office bor's boy took refuge behind the wall erected by the government He would rather someone else fighting do his MEET Greensboro N C Aug leaders of the negro race arrived in Greensboro today to participate in a conference on negro education to be conducted under the auspices of the A M E church ot North Carolina The conference is to be formally op- ened tonight with an address by Governor Bickett IN TOURNEY Chicago I Aug ment for the junior championship of the Western Golf association today East of and west of enemy de- attacked the French line but were thrown North of St and in Alsace OBSERVED German failed GASOLINE ENGINE THREW CRANK HANDLE Andrew Hansen who is employed by the Clark Transfer Line had his jaw and cheek badly cut and bruised last evening at Dunkerton when crank handle flew from a gas engine and struck him squarely on the jaw He was standing by a tank with a number oE other men where a gas engine was pumping when the crank handle flew off open to residing in his were m the United States or Canada who are less than twenty years old was open ed today on the links of the Country CIuli at Highland Park will be continued over tomorrow and Friday Some of t His i injuries were causing him i able pain today Xy Des Moines Aug reaching Governor Harding's office today indicate the of beginning next wili be general in the stafie The governor's proclamation issued last week asked that the thought ot all daring next be directed the tional work of the Tear The governor's proclamation said education is not only vital in the conduct of the war but in Hie final victory for democracies the Commerce May Wave Ames la Aug S Iowa State col- lege has practically turned over entire resources bag and baggage Buenos Aug thc for the training sive German spy plot as the result men ta special lines war work of which ship tho reserve corps has a the college courses will today be offered this fall In addition to The miscarriage uf a letter these at a special government re- tended tar head the age led la the discovery quest special courses will he offered I in veterinary of the plot The letter fell into the carpentering and en- the foreign office An in- j in all its branches Work is already being given in telegraphy J is understood to have I revealed extensive organization i telephony automobiles Washington Aug may grant passes to families of em- ployees Who enter the or or the United States in the present war and who -are ries on the records of tire of five espionage system -are under tor trucks and tractors If there is a demand foi it the college will build Of the today up for skilled mechanics In j practically every trade required by arrests have been however owing to doubt ito Ar- Ule reserve corps tews make infliction of The offer comes at a nies as the penalties lar such offenses possible ily following Governor Despite this it is believed the 1 proclamation setting aside is of week as educational week interstate commerce will find some mm TO WAR ON TEUTONS Will Austria in THIRTY-FIVE HURT IN RAIL WRECK Car Into Car on Track at damp Dodge RUSSIAN TROOPS RESUME OFFENSIVE MEETS WITH DEATH ENROUTE TO FRONT Ry United FreMI Columbia O Aug G Shillinglaw 25 of Rapids Ia mechanician in the aviation corps 8 Russian was instantly killed today at Palmo resumed the offensive on Indiana when he leaned from a line front Two road car and struck a truck His Illy Trent Petrograd Aug villages have been captured and 300 body was brought here this after- ed cuts and bruises and a few bones lly Dos Moines Aug S persons were injured three of them seriously today when a passenger oar on the railway ed into a still freight car on the track near Camp Dodge The by sticking to his controller saved many persons from death of the linn snid The freight car was not sighted until the passenger coach was within 100 feet Tho application of till brakes aided in chocking the passenger coach This prevented telescoping of the freight which probably would have resulted In loss of life Moat of those on the car taken noon He was enroute to the front were broken Will be in WAT declaration de- upon by against many in a few days the of- fice declare The Japanese mission to America leave here in ber IOWA WOMAN WANTS TO GO TO BATTLE of Army in Wants to Join In Service jing young men not drafted and young to continue their education in this crisis We stand ready to give to the roled from the state penitentiary at Fort Madison and from the at Anamosa turn straight and make good in their new tions This is the statement of K C Lancelot state parole agent who has seen thousands of convicts come and go Unlike other pardon boards the Iowa body investigates not only the prison record of a man ed for parole but goes through his entire life's story If his life was clean his penitentiary ord will be a great help in getting a parole But if the man's life was shady before he came to the prison his good prison record doesn't count for much in the report If a prisoner is sent to either state penal institution for a number of years he is graded If during his first year he proves that he is a worker willing to obey the laws uf the stir and shows an inclination to lead a clean life when he is thru j with his sentence he is placed in what is known as the first it is from this class that the don board picks its parole dates Tho second class is made up of men who do not work and who have committed some violation prison laws These men are given further opportunity to get in the first ciass If they miss in their ond chance they are put in a third class The worst type of criminals makes up this class Men are dom taken from this grade and put on parole They usually serve their time and in most cases are back for another The work of the pardon board is most Lancelot told the United Press today After a reaches our first grade or class have little trouble in keeping ours eyes on him We begin ing him before he came under on rule Sometimes we go far back as 20 years We trace his life from the time he went to school un- til he committed his first offense It we find he had been a good boy and had committed the crime for which he was sentenced in the company of older persons we usually recommend his parole Our choice is seldom wrong If the investigation shows his life was not the best and that he has shown no desire to better self while in prison the dation is that he remain in prison until another parole examination is best of our ability any type of held If he has improved in the That a man wants to fit him for special war says the neering division of the college Men meantime he is given a chance for parole Lancelot said that more than lly N M AUR S Five children arc dead and more than a dozen others are ill as of an epidemic of diphtheria believed to have been caused by the j distribution of inoculated candy among the children Twelve of the children who have recently contracted the disease questioned by city health who will be called in the second and prisoners had been pardoned or the third draft will be especially roled from Fort Madison ed to take this training There is j tiary and from the Anamosa re- even a rumor that a large number of since the first of the year called in the first draft will Reports in these men that selected and sent to get such three out of four have gone ing at various institutions over tbe j straight and are making good in country i positions offered them after their release Tram New Virginia Iowa Aug certainly like to follow my husband to France I am of the kind of stuff which fears no de- teat So speaks Mrs W B of this city longs to do her hit on the actual field of battle Her husband ia now a member of the en- company that somewhere in Prance and would suit Mrs Riker better than to follow him and do service in thc ican service company She can drive an automobile as good as many in this country her Friends say and she ia a good along with it She has made her application to the Military Training Camps association and is anxiously awaiting her call to the colors I cers declared they had been given candy by a stranger ten days be- fore taking ill In each case the de- scription of the stranger tallied MOBILIZE FORCES WAGNER FACTORY MAKING CHANGES Thai i Will Anny Creation of Pauses This in of One or Creation of a department of en- BIG POWER COMPANY SUED FOR DAMAGES Fort Irr Company Says Dam lly United la Aug Dam ages amounting to arc asked in i suit filed in federal court hero by tho Fort Madison Ice Company against tho Mississippi Power Company of Keokuk Tho ice company alleged tho building of the dam changed the rent so the field ot ico in front of their houses has been destroyed and that the water has seeped Into their storage plant Washington Aug a break with inevitable Ar- army of will be mobilized this month according to today in government circles The pro-ally has been sharpened by revelations of German espionage plots it was said on account of expanding business a change in officials and j the addition of one was IOWA'S OLDEST RAILROADER DIES of Island jit Home in of Kidney Trouble lly Cedar Rapids In Aug Holmquist for forty-two years ter carpenter of the Rock Island railroad died here today of kidney trouble AT who was 67 years old was known as Iowa's est railroader The addition of the engineering department is accounted or by the statement that preparations to ket the elevator door banger quired from York parties last winter make it advisable M who formerly filled the position of superintendent will be placed in of the new de- His department will look after Hie elevator door hanger iness in particular and will also have charge of the development of all devices W L March secretary ot the com- pany has been made superintendent and E o Kern local agent of the W C F t N railway will take the position formerly filled by March Kern has resigned his railroad tlon to talte his new work Kansas
