Cedar Falls Record, The (Newspaper) - November 8, 1917, Cedar Falls, Iowa THE Fair and Thursday not change in temperature IOWA THURSDAY 8 John Sterzl editor of the LeMars has been arrested authorities at Fort Dodge because of an editorial in his paper containing much the same German propaganda that has been spread hereabouts by word mouth editorial quoted a letter claimed to have been received from Twentyone According to Official Statement the first American war vessel by a German Uboat since the war start ed wa here last night When the edwas recorded ere last night patrol boat Alcedo s converted in the war one Monday Orie officer and twenty men of the ships complement of 85 are missing De tails of the engagement were not given in the dispatch telling the loss the vessel The navy de statement said The navy department has been advised by ViceAdmiral Sims that at November 5 the American Alcedo a con was torpedoed and by a German submarine m the and twenty men are missing The snip sank m tour minutes after being struck Several vessels were searching for possible survivors at the time the report The ried a crew of seven officers and men The list ot given out lfr Selma vf E S Gozzett Mrs A G Gozzett Astoria Long Island James J Cleary seaman mother Mrs Albertina Cleary White Plains N Y R mother Mrs B Wesche Brooklyn N Y R W Riker seaman mother Mrs Harry E Riker Brooklyn N T R Holler seaman mother Holler Richmond Hill New York City J W Brunkhardt seaman mother B Brunkhardt Brooklyn N Y Luther E Weaver seaman fath er B W Weaver Brooklyn N Y John Wynne Jr seaman wife Mrs John J Wynne Jr New York E Harrison mess attendant un cte Henry Pool Tyler Ala F W Inserting fireman mother Mrs C Jersey City Allen T Edwards seaman moth er Mrs Lydia M Edwards Jack C F Gaus seaman mother Mrs Mary Gaus Jamaica L I V E Harrington seaman moth er Maud Harington Ashland W U Sarratt seaman mother i Mrs W D Witt North Pork W Va W W Smock seaman father D R Smock Des Moines la S J Towle seaman mother Mrs Mary Jamaica L I J R Daniel seaman father J A Daniel S C H A boilermaker mo ther Mra Teresa Edin cott NY Prank W Higgins yeoman nav al mother Mrs Bertha R Higgins Staten Island N Y Robert McCray sea man father Capus McCray Charles ton S RETURNS INDICATE WETS WON IN OHIO GOi precincts to hear from wets wer leading in the prohibition contest thi afternoon by a total of 12000 votes The remaining precincts will hav to show an average dry majority o twenty to the precinct If the drys ar to carry the state Charging that big town slickers have took him at intervals for va rious sums which total a lump roll of Henry M Woodford an eccentric old capitalist of la brought suit in the United States District court in Chicago Monday He wants his says the Chicago Tribune According to the story ot Wood ford it wasnt hard to sell him any thing bright and looked like a bond He alleges that the takers of his are George W Mills of Chicago and Gustave B Hen gen a California mining promoter Though they say out in that he has been stung on cement plants and other things he charges hat Mills and Hengen got theirs by selling Kentucky Midland railroad jonds Midland Coal company bonds and more in the Oregon Pacific rail road Some the transactions ed as Aug 4 for worth of bonds really worth Oct 1 for bonds actual 7 inthe Oregon Pa for actual j value These are only a part of the finan cial transactions which he alleges reduced his working capital so con Woodford states in his suit that Midland Coal company was rep resented to him as owning 10000 acres of coal lands in Kentuck on which all modern coal mining ma chinery was installed that the daily output was 2000 tons and the prop erty worth He says the truth of it is that the defendants really owned about 800 acres of unimproved coal lands the actual value of which is about an acre First Three Heroes mil be Buried in France Sammies Overwhelmed by Superior Force Story of bight 1 ells State Defense Council Sends an Investigator to Investigate Alleged Profiteering BY UNITED PRESS Des Moines Nov Word was received here today by the State De Council from tney anu wane 011 f ship and that many soldiers wem JOWa than thirty cars Of de vegetables landing on railroad he reached charged that overboard and committed suicide rather than take the dope it was also charged the officers treat ed the enlisted men like hogs By J W Pegler United Press Staff Correspondent With Army at the Front Nov were making ready today to bury in the hallowed soil of France the first American sol diers to fight and die to make the world safe for democracy Three of them died four others wounds and 13 are some where behind the German this first encounter and today every man preparing tor line ji it The Americans did not tell have a chance against ing superior masses of he enemy The fact that they have a chance didnt make them stop light ing however until they had liter ally been smothered under the Ger mans The small American was in f The enemy put a front line trench The the sudden acceleration of artillery fire He decided to consult his su officers and started carefully weaving his way back He struck the German barrage It knocked him flat but he ered and a second time tried to press along Again he was flung down by exploding shells and for the third time he dauntlessly went Sterzl however did not give the I person receiving the i name letter of the nor that of the soldier who wrote it He was vehement in his denunciation of the government is said Liberty Bond Falls township sellers in Cedar story several weeks ago that United States soldiers were put to sleep be fore they embarked and that they did not awaken until after they Had reached France The penalty for violation of the E N Dunnebeck wir ed the council that there is no decrease in prices and that merchants al low fruit to rot rather than sell it at less thai set prices An investigator Jias been dispatched to bar tound Hes In the Hospital wem GIVE DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE TO TWO sustained the best traditions of the American army Overwhelming Odds The little detachment of Sammies was outnumbered The fact that they fought against overwhelming odds and were cut off from rein forcements did not deter them from striking back with all their power j In the narrow trenches where here was no room for rifle shots le Americans fought with their guns their bayonets their Tench knives their entrenching and even their hands The glare of exploding shells bowed occasional rapid pictures of groups one or two American soldiers surrounded by a olid mass of Germans Didnt Have a This was the story as survivors la Nov dishonorable discharges from regi ments at Camp Dodge were ed today They were for 0 H Wengrin company Infan ry who is sentenced to 15 years a Fort Leavenworth for disobedience nd J E G Stivers of the sentenced to or five years on a charge of theft Courtmartial proceedings agains wo lieutenants charged with conduct will be announce week of Germans Then a big party of American wounded estimate them at 210 in came over The German raiding party com posed of picked shock in rush j American troops had just en tered this particular bit of trench They fought like wild cats until smothered under the weight forces back to their lines dragging their own dead and wounded with them together with their American prisoners I turned to their lines the lieutenant was found unconscious He was re the detachment attacked was immediately after he brought his men into the trench by vived later and told his story day he was in the base hospital re covering from shell shock The shelling began sudden ly said one of the wounded Sam mies today few minutes later I turned around and saw a big German j standing in the trench beside me The next thing I knew he shot me bang The whole American army in France realizing that the first i American casualties were those of an ordinary trench raid less was boiling with impatience to day to get revenge on the boches The American dead will be buried with military honors in a little American cemetery near the Amer ican camp been suspected before of arrested orders of Seta U S attorney for the northern district of Iowa lit CADORNA HAS NEW DEFENSE PREPARED oT Cador na has established his new ine according to a Renter dispatch from Italian today fu elected the entire ticket of twelve superior and two circuit judges in yesterdays county election by a majority over the socialists ing 80000 in a total vote of 225000 according to practically all returns early today NEW MEXICO GOES IN DRY COLUMN BERLIN SAYS THE PURSUIT CONTINUES the moun tains and also on the Venetian plains the pursuit is continuing the war office declared today Thousands have been taken prisoners Nov of New Mexico placed the state in the dry column at yesterdays election hy what dry campaign officials mated was a majority ot almost two to one Barly returns today indicate j a majority of votes tor the prohibition amendment HAS PLAN TO END SHORTAGE OF COAL j Corporation Ocs Moines j Coal Ihin For His City v J DesMoines la Nov ation Counsel H W Byers of DCS Moines suggests the following plan I Jo end shortage of coal here 1 That the city be organized in to distribution districts to cut out long hauls and expedite deliveries 2 That the Res Moines fuel com mission the coal dealers and con sumers meet for the purpose of co operation 3 That complete inventories of coal supplies in the city be compiled at once and at regular intervals in the future and placed on file 4 That the names of all dealers storing coal in extraordinary titles be published and held up to public sconi Mr Byers stated that in his ion there is plenty of coal in the El YORK Petrograd Nov declar ing that the threaten to open the front to Germany Pre mier Kerensky today asked the pre liminary Russian parliament if it would support the government in sup pression of their attempts to seize civil and war powers Kerensky openly declares lie pro poses to use all governmental pow ers to crush the attempts of the Bol By London Nov of Gaza by General expeditionary army in Palestine was formally an today Further to the east the war office announced that the whole of the Turkish defense line from Beersheba to had been taken The expeditionary force also re ported its capture of a village eleven miles north of Beer sheba taken yesterday Gaza to the and is less than miles southwest of Jerusalem British forces Mon day are reported to have taken sheviki and all malcontents to Turkish first line defenses on the trol Russia His declaration has praci citys outskirts been forced by leaders of the capture of puts the Petrograd Soviet of Workmen and j British army only 20 miles distant Soldiers in canvassing soldiers of the from Petrograd garrison is back in power in New York today af ter the greatest show of strength its history John F Hylan was elected mayor yesterday by a of more than 147000 In Tammany captured every bor ough presidency the presidency ot the hoard of aldermen the office of controller reelected at torney and made it a clean sweep The vote totals with 22 districts miss ing out of 2068 early today were Hylan 293385 Mitchel 143050 138795 Bennett 52828 MARINE LEARNING TO SHELL CITIES ITALIAN RETREAT IN GOOD ORDER country there Is no general shortage It is hts belief however certain communities are in act ual want due to lack of effective dis systems rnu you cm no need Soil it Have you need for something you do not possess Use Used find ready want ad department in either when advertised through the A little money spent there ords classified advertisements brings big results SAYS U S FORCES FORTIFYING AZORES dis patches received today assert that United States forces arc fortifying the Azores and quoted Lisbon dis patches as protesting and demanding an explanation How IT S Marine recruits training in the big Marine camp at Quantico Virginia where several Cedar Falls boys are situated is pic tured in the following brief word from there II S Marines bombarded an enemy city yesterday and the only buildings left standing after the terrific fire were churches and hospitals j i It was only a miniature city to be and the buildings were more than a toot high Cities in min are used as objectives by Ma rine Corps artillerymen in training here and the little buildings in them are plainly labelled gun barracks church hospital ot the Italian line to the Livenza river in good order was formally announced by the war office today To the north the retreat was said to have been protected by covering units and to the south by adequate rear guard NEW JERSEY VOTES FOR LOCAL OPTION Option Adherents Assemblymen tx Control y marked in practice tl y marksmanship in adjacent t to option were elected razing
