Waterloo Evening Courier And Waterloo Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - October 8, 1917, Waterloo, Iowa ADVERTISING AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER WEATHER FORECAST Chicago Oct fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday ESTABLISHED REPORTER ESTABLISHED ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE WATERLOO I O W A M 0 N D A Y OCTOBER 8 1917 PACKS PRICE THREE CENTS OBJECTIVE OF Large Naval Force Concentrated in Gulf of Finland by the Enemy Stockholm Says NEW BRITISH POSITIONS EAST OF YPRES ATTACKED Borrowed Gun to Shoot Herself Uses It on Her Husband Instead Wade Cul pepper African Baptist Minister in Hospital With Five Bullet Wounds as Result of Family Were Two Other Women in the Held in County Jail Infantry Assault Near Polygon Wood Repulsed London Says Prisoners Are Taken Unofficial reports from Stockholm say strong German naval forces have been sighted in the Baltic sea off the Danish and Swedish coasts bound probably for the Gulf of Finland for a drive on Helsingfors Finland and Petrograd The Germans are said to be concentrating a large force in- mine sweepers seaplanes and After borrowing a revolver with which to commit suicide Hannah Culpepper changed her mind and turned the weapon on the cause of her sorrow and shot her husband five times She is in the county jail awaiting the outcome of his wounds The victim Wade Culpepper ter in the African Baptist tion is at St Francis hospital with his left forearm punctured two lets in his thigh and two in his back The shooting occurred last night about 9 at the family home Shilliam avenue while Culpepper was packing his belongings tory to leaving town The wife says he intended to go to live with er woman JEALOUSY THE MOTIVE Mrs Culpepper arrived in Water loo from Alabama about six month ago and was married here Her sus as to her loyalty were aroused several weeks ago by letters he received in feminine home indicates her desire to commit That her own body would have re- the bullets instead probably Is rue if Culpepper had not started a quarrel last night Becoming en- aged when he choked and beat hor and flung a lamp at her she emptied the gun In him to protect herself CALM AND BEHAVED Mrs Culpepper who is only 31 but who has a son 14 by another riage was lodged in Matron Myrtle Barr's department at police quarters last night She was calm and meek and willing to give the of- any information they asked During an interview she My husband has not treated me right for some time and he has beer writing and getting letters from i woman who lives in Birmingham He is a local preacher and 1 could see that I was losing out with him as ho intended to leave me and go to th other woman in Birmingham Saturday afternoon about o'clock I went to the home of Mrs Cat Madison and borrowed the ver and eight shells telling her there was a snake in my cellar and that I wanted to kill it Mrs Madison said Now whatever you do don't get into any trouble with this gun I NT Standardized System of Baking to Be Tried Out in delphia This Week CONSIDERABLE REDUCTION IN PRICE IS PROMISED Saving of Sugar Lard and Milk Effected Result of Long Series of Experiments GIANTS AND SOX ON WAY TO NEW YORK FOR THIRD BATTLE New York Fans Expect Favorites to Come Back on Home Favors Sox 8 to Men Admit They Were Clearly McCarty to Be Back Despite Hurt ised I had so much trouble with my husband I borrowed the gun to kill myself and intended when he left the writing She opened enough to learn that he was corresponding with a girl in Birmingham and one in Youngstown O She claims he was leaving home to join the one in he A note at the transports and plan to attack by land and sea Today's British official statement indicates no in the intense ar- Youngstown and that 1 tillery duel in Flanders The definite mined to kill herself development reported was the launching of the expected counter tion by the Germans The attack de- livered after a heavy barrage had been laid down was made east of Polygon wood where the British are established on the highest point of the ridge The British guns beat off the mans oil ridge a few of whom remained as prisoners in British hands ATTACK YPRES POSTS j London Oct Germans j made an attack last evening on j British positions east of Ypres where the British recently had made to shoot myself Philadelphia Pa Oct delphia is to be tho scene of an ex- periment by Herbert C Hoover tional food the pre- of a loaf of war bread It is also proposed to lish a standardized method of house for good but he abused mo so t and tne bread The new last night just before he finished packing up his clothes to leave me for good 1 shot him three times He then threw a lamp at me I ran out of the house reloaded the gun back In the house and hot him twice more BOOT BOOZE mm: is ports that the enemy was repulsed The statement i An infantry attack developed against our positions east of Polygon wood after the enemy had put down a heavy our front between Hollebeke and The attack was beat off by our fire a few prisoners maining in our hands Reichstag Leader Says America Cannot Be Forced to Quit Peace Desire Grows Amsterdam Oct ieh Progressive member of the GULL ID CITIZENRY TT 4 Getting Out the Vote war loaf will it is said effect a ing of sugar lard and milk and yet be wholesome The department of agriculture In co-operation with Mr Hoover has sent D R Jacobs of the bureau of chemistry hero to instruct bakers in the preparation of the bread Jacobs said in an BIG SAVING PROMISED The exact weight of the new loaf I cannot tell at present but I will say that its size will effect a erable saving over present prices after the experiment is tried out In this city we shall establish the same methods and recipes in every section of the United States I anticipate no difficulty In securing the of the bakers as we are satisfied tha if they carry out instructions will be able to put the new bread on the market at a profit that will al jow them to continue business a Task Maj Gen Plummer Aids Prohibition Forces Des Moines Oct big i usual EXPERIMENTS I According to Mr Jacobs nev i bread is the result of a long serie of experiments carried on to deter mine if possible whether ther i might be some way in which th fort by the temperance forces to route steadily increasing price of the staf reichstag is quoted in a Berlin dis- booze from Iowa on this J of life could be lowered The ex patch as having said at a meeting of I week From now on up to the day with success Dot We successfully raided fte the central committee of his party that of voting Oct 15 meetings will he i from the chemical and mechanica 1 i Binding up standpoint and wu 87 of Police Captain See Game New York Oct tho cago White Sox and tho Now York Giants due to arrive hero lato from Chicago the of tho world baseball series now shifts to Now York and local u disappointed but not Ho result of the first two games Is hoping for Glan victories In Tuesday's and ay's contests It la argued by tho fans that on omo grounds and with tho gement of a friendly crowd the Hants stung by their defeats will themselves and demonstrate heir true form The betting has switched and wagers of 3 o 1 on the White Sox are asked with but little money In sight All is in readiness at tho Polo grounds to handle tho great throng hat will witness the classics has been provided except tho weather and that promises to bo fair Despite unusually energetic measures to check ticket speculation quantities of the coveted joards reached speculators and they are being offered for sale at an Increase of from 300 to 400 per cent above the stipulated price The vanguard of baseball from various parts of the east arrived last night and hotels are crowded to capacity Special trains will bring additional quotas row GIANTS STILL HOPEFUL On Board the New York Giants Special Train Oct confident of ultimate success despite their defeats at Chicago the Giants passed thru Detroit early this ing on their way back to Nerw York where tomorrow they resume their world series operations against the White Sox Beyond admitting that they were clearly outplayed in every department of the game iu the two contests at field little to say of their Chicago reverses Their trip from Chicago thus far had been a quiet one with the ers whiling away the time at cards and other amusements They ex- Oct aol J Gallery In command of tho police detail at White Sox park during tho world's aeries games was today when ho learned that 87 youngsters Ing to bo his sons had beon passed Into Sunday's givmo The crowds waiting around tho park gato several boys go up to the various whisper to tho policemen or purk on duty and walk in When the policemen checked up at quarters it was found that 87 of Capl Gallery had been passed In I'll have to call up to square myself for tho young that put It over on the said Capt Gallery Players Fully dent of Winning Title in Next Two Games at Polo Grounds Buck Weaver Predicts Some Heavy sell Likely to Pitch Tuesday's Game Answer to Questions Is Unsatisfactory Michaelis Under Fire COMMITTEE OPENS OF Expected to Be Finished Within Ten Days to Decide on Procedure Method On Board tho Chicago White Sox Special Train Oct Chicago Sox arc spending east today flushed with two victories over the champions of the National league In tho world struggle and are eager to tackle the New York Giants tomorrow at tho historic Polo grounds There 1s not one member of ball club who does not bellevo that tho Sox will capture tho supremo honors of ball in four games The White Sox were surprised at the ease with which they solved tho shoots of left side Schupp They had heard BO much of his effectiveness in the National league pennant chase that they looked for trouble when he started but they found no riddles In his de- livery and some of tho westerners did McGraw MAY FORCE CHANCELLOR TO STATE HIS WAR AIMS Pan-German Agitation Threatens to Divide All Germany Into Two Hostile Camps my's line east of Monchy last night altho the military situation was held all thru the state l there was no hope of with a final onslaught on Sunday just I have the A Jr I tha ra cult ing Germany s enemies on land AH j preceding election day uie resun for the submarine campaign have the first opportunity to judge By the Associated Press British Front in France and Oct counter attack by force east of Polygon 000 tons of shipping had been sunk he asserted but no disposition ward peace on the part of England Get out the vote is what the big temperance workers are hammering home to their audiences ad- week wood region of Reutel last j wag A rationing system evening was quickly beaten off by for foodstuffs had not even been in- MAY artillery and machine gun fire The j and no one was able to say front involved was over a width oft the u-boat would make mand Gen E H Plummer in com- i 500 yards The attack was land more for peace preceded by a heavy artillery barrage i was put down not only in this I CONQUER AMERICA section but along a greater portion of the new battle line The rain of yesterday turned the Flanders battlefield into a mass of cannot be forced I Dodge where more than I young men are to be trained for vice overseas is out in a signed make Herr ed cannot pay a war indemnity deep mud and filled the shell only England But force America to There remains ill should we in the adoption of the con- amendment He declares help win the war Every man in the United States HT TEN IN PACIFIC to reach New York at 5 o'clock or thereabouts this afternoon and seemed anxious to return to the familiar surroundings and friendly faces of their home city HURT IN CRASH Catcher Lew McCarty who was forced to retire from yesterday's con tesl after a at the plate Nemo Leibold the White Sox out i fielder declared that he expected t i be fit to resume play In the New York opening of the series tomorrow I McCarty's right elbow and were painfully hurt but It is suppose not seriously bruised in a collision I resulting from his effort to prevent Leibold from scoring on Eddie Col- Washington D C Oct 8 ning Investigation today of the of Senator La Folletto before he league at St Paul ho committee in charge of the mapped out preliminary and then adjourned until Thursday to await further not think It likely that would send him In again Whoever starts for tho Giants is going to bavo Bald Buck Weaver Did you notice that External pressure to force the German government to set forth its war aims clearly having failed on the surface internal conditions within the empire threaten to compel the suance of a full statement of aims What the German loaders want if they are successful son and Felsch aro getting busy with their WEST Capt Eddie Collins of the White Sox said on tho train today and Chick and Felsch agreed with him that Sallee was tho best pitcher that the Giants had sent against them It IB not that ho has so much stuff on tho ball said Collins ing of Salleo but he knows how to use it and pitch intelligently He closely approaches Eddie Plank in ability and reminds mo much of him iu his way of pitching and ion from La Follette and also from j FeUch work in f n will bo discussed In the reichstag this week probably today Tho Imperial chancellor Dr aells Is finding the way as difficult was for his predecessor von former Secretary Bryan No public hearings will bo hold tor tho present Chairman Pomerene an- and the committee believes it possible that tho Investigation will be concluded within a few days sibly without any open testimony changed his plan to Issue a public statement regarding bis declaration In the St Paul speech that Mr Bryan told President Wilson of ammunition aboard the when tho vessel sailed from New York on her last voyage His statement probably will be made to the committee No other statements In Senator La speech are being investigated at this time Chairman Pomerene said an has denied the statement INQUIRY TO BE SHOUT Washington D C Oct tions of procedure and whether Ha hearings shall be public were among those awaiting determination by a senate privileges and elections sub- committee of which Senator Pomer ene of Ohio IB chairman when it met today preliminary to beginning inves the box The White Sox expect that Cicotte will pitch on Tuesday altho Reb Russell Is anxious to go In ing that his arm Is in good shape again The White Sox special is crowded with Chicago fans en route to see the continuation of the world series in New York on Tuesday WILL PITCH RUSSELL Chicago Oct 8 Clarence land manager of the White Sox day Is wearing a bandage on his right hand on account of a burn which he suffered at tho ball park During the excitement after the game yesterday when he was preparing to leave for New York the victorious manager in turning on tho hot shower at the clubhouse thrust his hand Into a great volume of escaping steam and it was BO badly burned that it had to be bound up In oil Just before leaving for New York Rowland said he would start Russell and he must now face the critics of the the reichstag Whether as has been charged the bureaucracy and the army have been furthering the panT German scheme of annexation and in- is expected to be brought out in the reichstag debate FAILS Dr Michaella on Saturday sent Minister of the Interior Helfferich before the reichstag to make a ment on his behalf failed to mollify the critical members of the reichstag and the sitting was ad- to today after the rice speech had been Gen von Stein the war minister was jeered when he attempted to explain the army's side of the accusation that the high command was using very strong methods to help the man agitation some before ignation had a strength with Admiral the reputed of ruth less fare and the chancellor won The admiral since has been and the new Fatherland party of which he Is one of the sponsors according to recent has been very or Cicotte with water making most difficult military operations of all sorts The sun was shining this morning but it take several days of fair weather to repair the day damage done only England But we in uvery man in ice in the fourth inning order to obtain an indemnity of should be willing to support and Whaler Armed With Cannon and single In the inn ng marks sacrifice force prohibition forever in order to and another prevent the possibility of the health of a single soldier being impaired Gen Plummer declares In a letter to the Polk County lion Germany's allies Herr Calm all along the fighting lines during tue night is reported Baseball Magnates Wreck 4 Trainmen Hurt I continued were not inclined to con- the war for pan-German plans of conquest but were striving for peace by understanding and tion while the pan-German clamor for annexations was finding a bad reception among them He asserted Pittsburgh Pa Oct of the National Baseball commission were on the Pennsylvania Limited on their way from Chicago to York when the train was wrecked near Beaver Falls west of here this morning All tracks were blocked by the I and while one track was being opened physicians attended to the injured who were confined to the engine crews Four of these men Machine Gun Is Captured Near the Fiji Islands Amendment association Gen Plummer thus sets forth his In reply to your letter of Oct London Oct Exchange Telegraph dispatch from i and for a time It was feared that he might be incapacitated for j the remainder of the aeries Immediately after his accident i however he was examined by tho club trainer and no signs of a ture or even a severe strain were dis- covered He hoped to be able to play by tomorrow and declared that by I would say that a successful general i says it 5s there that a Wednesday he should be practically was asked why he was always with a crew of Germans from He replied because he took the raider been as good as over against In the the for peace without annexations or In- IN REICHSTAG It has now come to a test between the followers of the on- one side the majority of the reichstag on the er Recent reports that the feeling between the and the reichstag majority has been becoming more intense some its members of the reichstag having IA ot the series tomorrow its memoers or tne of Senator Robert M La I on gone so far as to charge that the alleged disloyal speech be- rmP said j tatlon of the is dividing in -t i rn 1 nn n r H in 10 fore the league at St Paul recently Sinoe the scope of the inquiry is limited solely to the accuracy of the recorded speech and accuracy of ator La statement of facts therein the committee hopes to ish its work inside of 10 days ator La Follette was expected to nish the committee with a correct copy of his speech today that the long working hours and in- every possible precaution neglected j eti the vicinity of the Fiji islands f jr TT sufficient feeding at home increased nothing no matter how trifling it The boat contained a gun and 1 U the desire for peace among the work ers and that strikes might ex- i or campaign if the war should be ed for aims of conquest I r We should take every precaution neglect nothing seemed in his preparations for a chine guns the dispatch says and the Germans admitted they had been detailed from the to make raids the German people into two camps on the question of the aims of the Pier sol on Trial for Kidnaping of Slain Keet Baby possible no seem if it may help in any way to make sure the success in the great world war The presence of two German sea raiders in the south Pacific was made in dispatches from Samoa to the navy department last week Madrid Oct German sub- marine interned at Cadiz has caped Several German submarines have sought refuge in Spanish ports gard to prohibition We know that Marshfield Mo Oct trial accidents of all kinds have occurred of Claude J Piersol charged with j drunkenness The drunkenness kidnaping infant son j Of one general one officer one single might cause the loss of It is not a time now to consider have bcen one of them which JiST -ed by the crew of the put In at was out or badly hurt and were removed to of a Springfield Mo banker was to a hospital at Rochester Pa The open in the circuit court here t torv in oral merchantmen are reported to have been sunk The was active in the south Atlantic last sinking 11 merchantmen passengers on the limited including the members of the commission were brought to Pittsburgh soon er 10 o'clock journey east and continued their sol who is only 20 years old Is Everyone should be willing to to have headed a band two 01 personal objection to whom are charged wrth him In the j in to insure prevention 2t of any possible accident loss of life at AT New Haven Conn Oct A school of military aeronautics at Yale university has been planned and sanction now rests with the war de- according to announcement liquor Chicago Oct SARAH TO BE FAIRY GODMOTHER OF PATRIOTIC Chicago Oct work of organizing the Children's otic league was begun here today the plan calling for a union the children of America for the purpose of assisting the children of the allies both and after the close of the war Madame Sarah Bernhardt who is in Chicago has consented to become the fairy Belgian and French consuls In several cities have sanctioned the plan the death of the child whose 1s dangerous to health and every man Haynea 21 years old s in or the States should be Ivan hardware i son of an Em- merchant and the port later by Spanish torpedo boats To prevent further incidents i of this nature King Alfonso on June last signed a decree forbidding submarines of belligerent powers to navigate Spanish waters or enter same time Spanish ports It was declared that all submarines which entered the Spanish zone would be interned TO DISCIPLINE OFFICERS Washington D C Oct government baa taken tic action to discipline the officials responsible for the safe internment High Court to Hold Hearing on Draft Law Washington D C- Oct permit early decision tho supreme court today advanced appeals ing the constitutionality of the draft law and fixed Dec 10 for hearing ar- Rowland If I do I will depend upon should Russell show tnv of weakening In the event that Russell does not look good when j VICE CHANCELLOR HIT warming up I will send Cicotte to thu mound EXPLAINS PLAY Chicago Oct Faber ol Cascade fa Chicago American league pitcher and base running strategist left behind with his friends last t an explanation oL his attempt to steal third base at a moment when Weaver was exercising squatter sovereignty In that precise spot When I hit and reached second on meet the rounding third as I pulled up and j the reichstag thought he had scored Perritt took a slow wind up and I lit for third That's bow it happened Plan to Double U S Destroyer Fleet Copenhagen Oct newspapers which support the stag majority severely censure Dr Helfferich the vice chancellor and minister of the interior for his in- capacity to respond to the feelings of the reichstag and expect decisive today They are of the ion that the future of the ment may depend on the debate today In view of the motion of the pendent Socialists that the stag is of the opinion that the reply of the government to the Action government which asked that ments on seven suits be heard at the Washington D C Oct tary Daniels had before him Among them are those of Emma contracts for additional destroyers Berkman ready arranged tentatively with the The Zeitung declares that this motion is a vote of censure formally directed against Dr aelis the imperial chancellor but really against Dr says that if the motion is adopted Chancellor Michaelis and his colleagues must resign or the reichstag must force them to do so Other newspapers demand a clear statement from the government on the peace resolution of the majority builders appropriating and fines for urging men of 1 for their construction tion age not to register 6 was found in an abandoned j cistern does not figure in the charge to support and enforce a freshman at the University of of the German submarine which against Piersol conviction for tion forever in order to prevent the committed suicide last night by or attempting to kidnap j possibility of the health of one single soldier being impaired now Aside as a measure to insure cess in war is unquestionable and have drowned myself in the lake carries a life sentence in Missouri 200 witnesses have been called from many parts of the i reasons the expediency or try and a special panel of 75 has been summoned for poses The courtroom has been en- to provide accommodations I for the crowd that has come here fov the trial Dick Carter one of the defendants slashing his throat with a safety razor blade which was still in his raped from On the basis of official dispatches from Madrid thp Spanish Milk Cause Strike of Wagon Dr j and for financing plant additions to j carry out the program was put thru i In the last hours of the session of j The navy has declined to publish j the number of additional destroyers contemplated but it has been stated officially that the flotilla from all question of expedience from Bright hand when the body was found Juan Riano made this in Jackson park today A note found in his room I Chicago Oct jump to 1 cent milk in Chicago may bring a In spite of all the precautions j strike of members of the Milk Wagon taken by the Spanish naval i Drivers union it was learned today either in commission or under con- struction would be more than bled and when the program has been completed have a far the United States will greater number of de- amount at this time and should be j Cards in his pockets indicated thac the removal of pieces j The drivers will meet next Thursday than any other power loyally by every citizen of the United States he was a member of both the were supposed indispensable state and the Illinois Commercial for trie German to consider what action to take ing Great Britain Attorney charge T vmm f xJ 4 U Signed E H PLUMMER i Men s association and of the M s interned at Cadiz j that small distributors are coerced J CLOTHING DEALERS R B Patin in the alleged plot to abduct C A ing the war department on training Clement a jeweler of Springfield will be a witness for the state T 1 v OHI Cl fc SJ C A at On lape of escaped yesterday afternoon leaving advancing prices by criminal his coat was pinned an exemption its torpedoes and munitions on PRESIDENT CONSIDERS TRIP SOUTH DURING FEBRUARY Washington D C Oct dent Wilson plans no vacation speaking trip between now and the Christmas holidays and will spend most of bis time quietly in ton directing and co-ordinating war work The president has declined a ber of invitations to make addresses but is considering a trip to New leans in February to attend the bi- centennial celebration of the city's foundation MASONIC OFFICIAL DIES London Oct grand secretary of English Free Masons died in London today He was years old Smoke Diamond Joe 5 cent cigar Good to the last puff camp activities and now at Camp Dodge is also out In a statement ing the adoption of the amendment MEASURE OF AVAR EFFICIENCY In his statement Mr says addressing the local I presume you have a copy of the law which forbids selling liquor to soldiers in uniform Our government has recognized that in order to win I button No reason for the suicide was parent If thru error of the carrier boy or other cause this paper should not be delivered at your home by 6 o'clock please phone 3330 and a copy of paper will be sent After o'clock tele- phone No 2 land they had been deposited government has opened a courtmartial and has also decreed the destitution of the and the first tant of the arsenal and of the cal commission which examined the i submarine and the release of the i general In command of the naval de- of Cadiz apart from other disposition which it may consider fit to adopt later on RUINED BY HIGH PRICES tactics a year ago received apparent confirmation in an Instance today Chicago Oct was asserted The Merkle Dairy company holding at the semi-annual meeting of the with many government officials and dairy experts that the present price contains a liberal percentage of profit declined to advance prices to 13 cents One of their wagons was overturned the milk cans emptied and the harness slashed United National Clothiers tion here today that the high price of materials lias driven the small re- tail clothiers out of business in in- numerable cases The big retailers It was said are getting along an the smallest margin of profit San a Great Cigar advertisement El Tovar Broadleaf Havana Cigar WHAT HAVE THE FORCES IN FRANCE BEEN Uncle Harry Tells of the the Trenches PAGE c
