Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - February 15, 1918, Waterloo, Iowa THE RECOGNIZED WANT AD PAPER OF WATERLOO AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER WEATHER FORECAST Chicago Feb Partly cloudy tonight and so me colder tonight continued cold Saturday and Sunday Courier Established ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRES WATERLOO IOWA P R 1 D A Y F E B R U A R Y P 0 U R T E K N PAG E S PRICE THREE CENTS GERMANS PROPOSE TO OCCUPY P REJECTS TROTZKY 1 PEACE PUN Drive for Petrograd Decided on at Conference of man Leaders at Imperial Headquarters U S Ambulance Men Honored by France TO OPEN BATTLE ON NORTHERN FRONT Military Aid to Be Given Ukraine in War Against Bolsheviki Breach Eastern Front in Paris Feb American ambulance service publishes in its field service bulletin a tabu- lation of Americans in tho lance and transport sections who have been decorated by the French government for bravery jind other meritorious services Up to the time the service was taken over by the American army one ambulance man ed the legion of honor 232 re- tho war cross four ed the military medal and 17 sections were cited officially Over Half of Shipyard Army oiled Washington D C Feb More than half of the great number of shipyard workers needed to carry out the country's merchant marine program have been secured in tbe first half of the first week of the enrollment campaign by the United States public service re- serve This is shown by incomplete returns to William B Hall director of the reserve Mr Hall pointed out today that to get suitable men is more important han speed in attaining the quota He emphasized the fact that men are not expected to leave their present obs until they are called upon by he labor department for ng service London Feb resolved to military l ties against northern Russia This decision is said to have been I reached at a conference at il ial headquarters special es say The conference was attended by I Emperor William Chancellor von Hertling Field Marshal von denburg Gen von Ludendorff Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann and others The no war but no peace plan of Leon Trotzky the viki foreign minister was rejectee at the conference according to th Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Express and as Trotzky does not want peace he will get formed to determine the amount of supplies and to what extent we can give assistance in this respect sistance will be given both y and militarily Military suppon will be if central depots junctions must be protected by dits and the Bolsheviki It is not a question of a military alliance but a common organization for the protec Lion of railway service and delivery o grain IS HILLED IN ft FIGHT FLYING Says Wilsop Injected Politics Into War Issue by His Criticism of Senator Chamberlain Famous Dancer Meets Death in Accident to His Airplane Near Fort Worth 2 French Airplanes Sink Submarine in Encounter Paris Fob encounter between two French planes and a Gorman submarine In tho English channel recently probably in tho sinking of tho U-boat it had been bombed bjr Uio pianos according to an official announcement by French admiralty The airplanes wero ou patrol duty over tho nel when they discovered tho submarine on the They attacked it maneuvering so that tho sun was at backs and the marine plunged but it did not before tbo aviators had in dropping several bombs on or near the periscope While one airplane returned to the for more bombs tho er kept watch and Haw tbe submarine emerge a few seconds with a list to port of 46 degrees After attempting to right itself tho submarine again disappeared only to reappear a third time Its in- stability however increased and suddenly the observer saw the sub- marine lint still further and sink HO Lbat even the periscope could not bo seen SUPPORTS WAR CABINET IN SENATE SPEECH BRITISH IN FLANDERS TWO MURDERERS Assails Sec Baker's Miles 150 Flights Over German i Away Attitude Present Lines Hero of Many Daring System Faulty Says J Exploits Was Instructor One Reads Bible and Prays in Last Hours Other Jokes and Plays Cards Invasion of great Russia it fs added will continue at any rate until Petrograd is occupied by German troops ARMISTICE AT END A dispatch to the Daily News from Rotterdam says that the Germans take the view that tion tho it did the war ended the The armistice expired Feb 14 The mans now consider that they have a free hand and mean to use the op- This according to the ent does not mean necessarily that the Germans will immediately try to reach Petrograd but more probably that they will support the Ukraine by force of arms The Germans he says are carrying on an active propaganda in the Ukraine for the purpose of gesting to members of the rada that the new state is endangered by the i Bolsheviki It Is declared that this i is all part ot Germany's scheme for OF STIRS MTH Linn County Institute Turned Into indignation ing Kaiser Speech PRESENT PUTS ILL LICENSE II Chicago Feb ition Wheed slayer of two persons in the Win slow Brothers robbery last summer and Lindrum slayer of Patrolman nan were hanged from the same scaffold here today The men spent their last hours in widely contrasting ways Wheed read the bible prayed and declined breakfast after a sleepless night Lindrum snored lustily for six hours played cards with his guards and remarking that his last breakfast ought to be a good one ordered steak pie fruit French Washington D C Feb Fort Worth Tex Feb President Wilson was charged with Vernon Castle of the rojal deliberately Injecting politics into flying corps was killed this morning the controversy over war efficiency while flying 15 west of by Senator Weeks a Republican Worth member of the military committee Castle in trying to avoid a cadet In a speech today vigorously swerved his machine beyond his con- Ing the war department and other trol fell and was unable to rig lit branches of the government himself The cadet waa an Supporting the military can but was being instructed by the war cabinet and munitions British The accident happened rector as a constructive non- close by the Benbrook partisan effort to aid and not cadet was uninjured rass President Wilson in unifying MACHINE TO WORK America's war force Senator Weeks Castle's plane was near the ground detailed delays and difficulties of arut ne was in the front seat in- the government's military the cadet instead of in the tions He declared that lack of a rear the instructor usually Held Tho Cedar Rapids la Feb Rev John M Driver a pastor of the People's church of Chicago who ated an uproar at the convention of the Linn institute yesterday by his address extolling the of the kaiser and the man people was roundly denounced at a patriotic of 800 teachers here today Led by Miss Lulu B Secrist county ent schools several teachers spoke on the loyalty of the teachers of this county and scored Dr Driver for bis admiration of the kaiser fried DIE IN 7 Death in both cases was by each dying in seven utes last words I beg pardon for my sins God bless you Lindrum in a clear voice I innocent Later as the noose was being ad- justed the hangman to Make it tight Fix it right Only the required by law were present STORY OF CRIMES entral body to make and direct all rides Had he occupied the rear seat of the government's war plans la would not have been injured responsible for present past troubles BLAMES PRESIDENT he saw the danger of a sion with the approaching plane Castle undertook what aviators In his charge against President know as an Immelman turn The Wilson the senator plane failed to respond War Trade Board to Take Full Control of Exports and Imports Tomorrow Steps Taken to Save Ship Tonnage for Trans- porting Troops and War plies Washington D C Feb n new proclamation today President Wilson placed all exports to all tries under license by tho war trade board after tomorrow The proclamation also applies tho license system to all imports and thus places tho entire foreign com- merce of the country under tho j censo system of the war trade board It is ono of the steps of reducing ocean carriage to release ships for transportation of troops and war materials Not a question indicating The accident occurred at the 50 FEET cadet wag R His ly Injury is a black eye Castle never regained ness but died in the field hospital 20 minutes after the fall Concussion had been raised until drome president deliberately interjected Into by are attack upon the chairman of the committee Senator Chamberlain and the committee It- self and calling to the White House many Democratic party leaders not for consultation purposes but to in- sist that a discussion of this tion on the floor of the senate be pre- vented if possible Have we come to such a pass that the action of the most important committee In con- gress at this time is to be forbidden by the president BAKER A PACIFIST Referring to Secretary Baker the brain was the Edward Ammunition Wheed was i ator Weeks said after praising many convicted of the murder Allen and Louis Osenberg Barton army express i Neither do I wish to unjustly cause Capt Castle belonged to the Eighty-fourth royal flying corps squadron The plane only 50 feet above the ground and was going rapidly The plane with which the machine was threatened was just STATEMENT The following explanatory ment wag issued by the war trade The president has today issued 8 British War Craft Sunk by Foe London Feb British craft which were ing submarines have been sunk by a raiding flotilla of enemy destroyers it is an- officially After having sunk these sels seven of which were drifters and one a trawler the enemy destroyers returned rapidly northward before they could be engaged The de- stroy raid took place in the straits of Dover the official announcement states 100 BABIES DIE IN FIRE Fifty-Two Charred Bodies ered From Ruins of treal Institution v HEROIC EFFORTS BY SISTERS SAVE MANTi Victims Were Little Ones Only Few Days or Few Old Seek Mowing two proclamations which come effective tomorrow ing The Immelman turn in payroll messengers with money for the Brothers plant 4700 West Harrison street and Harry Lindrum was convicted of murder of Capt Castle met death was named er Lieut Immelman the German er who downed many allied airplanes before being down himself cording to flying officers criticize the head of the war 1 it is a combination turn and a ment He has had to deal with a j twist while said an aviation will be- Thc pose and effect of these tions are to subject to control by cense the entire foreign commerce of the United States and from and er Feb 16 1918 no commodities be exported from this country or im- ported into this country except under license The president has heretofore sued several proclamations ling certain exports and The military situation and tho tonnage situation have made increasingly parent tho necessity of instituting a complete and control of all our exports and imports NEED SHIPS FOR TROOPS The transportation of our armies RESTRICTIONS ON BUSINESS HOURS LIFTED FEB 18 multitude of questions the disposal officer CapL Castle evidently tried j to the maintenance of a Cedar Rapids is no place for John Tiernan a patrolman Thompson's pro-German Wheed armed with a sawed-off dar Miss Secrist said We were im- posed on yesterday by a Chicago speaker who apparently belongs to the same pro-German club as Mayor breaking up the former Russian Thompson consequently it is up to pire with a view to extending her own power and influence over the new whom it is posing as tector UKRAINE BATTLE NEAR It is certain that the Bolsheviki are now moving troops against tho Ukraine a Berlin dispatch to tho says and the central powers do not intend to shotgun held up Allen and Osenberg Aug 28 when they were in front of the plant Blowing off Allen's head he turned quickly and struck of many of which meet my approval j to dive under and around the other If I were to criticize the i machine but was too close to clear tary personally It would relate to his his own temperamental relationship to the i FOR AIR STUNTS continued flow ot the supplies and munitions needed to maintain them in fighting trim requires the use of every ton of shipping which can war Doubtless he himself would Castle was wounded but once in 1 De devoted to these purposes admit that he is a pacifist by nature j tbe service and then but For example even now he Is j He was an advocate of the air berg a fatal blow with the butt of the ed to universal training and I gervice as the means of winning tho gun With as booty he 1 not divorce myself from the con- war hut always doubted the of the fruits of their lately concluded peace The newspaper adds that it probably has been decided at the conference at imperial headquarters to resume operations on the northern Russian front for of the Ukraine STRATEGIC PEACE Amsterdam Feb with the Ukraine waa made not only so that the central powers might obtain any unpatriotic stain which may blot this institute This is our ity to convince the public that we do not harbor any love for the enemy as Dr Driver told us we should Other speakers were equally as vere on Driver A Red Cross ment which was not listed on the program was launched and the sale of thrift stamps and the latest financial plan were indorsed Driver spoke at an institute at Monticello last night Before he the platform he was warned by the mayor that there must be nothing pro-German said Driver was inclined to argue the point but the mayor informed him he had ders from the federal authorities and he would be arrested if he caped after a long chase thru the streets Included in the money taken was a considerable amount of gold coin Thru a with whom Wheed was endeavoring to exchange the gold coin the police learned of hiding place at the home of his mother in Thomas street Going there to arrest him the police found the home barricaded and turned into elusion based on his own testimony that he has been inclined to plan for prosecution of the this condition has to some degree meated the ity of returning from Berlin in safety in the event of raiding that city His This demand must be met and If it becomes necessary to curtail our ex- ports or imports these are measures which are forced upon us by the critical tonnage situation and the ot availing ourselves of every flying in and about Fort Worth was j possible means of maintaining our as famous as his dancing for his i armies in France stunts in the air had held thousands The limitation of exports Is basis that we are miles away j Of soldiers and civilians spellbound j essary also to conserve the products from the front instead ot hastening i day after day would exercise if our borders were the battlefront of this country for the use of our own preparation with all the vigor we Castle was one of the most I people and the peoples of the nations aviators ever here Discussing his death of One of the notable features of i both the British and American forces associated with us in tho war wo Normal business hours will bo re- stored Monday Feb IS under an order issued late yesterday by Charles Webster state fuel Only an unexpected cold wave or blizzard will prevent the order from becoming effective In his order forwarded to bers of fuel committees over the state Mr Webster In order to conform with Dr Garfield's order suspending heatless Monday and to conform with rules and regulations of other states I deem it to the best interests of the state of Iowa to rescind the early closing order of Jan 28 to take effect on Feb IS This does not affect the Thursday and Sunday lightless night order Kindly impress on the consuming public that notwithstanding the favorable weather of the past few days the fuel situation has not im- proved materially except In a few communities Rigid economy in the use of fuel should still be practiced A few days of blizzard and cold weather would again put us In a very serious tion J E Sedgwick chairman of the Waterloo fuel board had not received a copy of the order today He said Montreal Fob ruins of the Grey west the bodies of more children were recovered this noon 62 the death toll of the tragedy which tlon last night The heroism of the sisters who were nursing soldiers In- home from overseas fighting averted greater loss of life Nearly crippled and wounded military men and only a tow weeks old were enabled to escape thru the valiant efforts of the nuns The origin ot the fire has not been determined SEARCH IS TTP Montreal Que Feb 41 charred bodies ot babies already re- covered Irom the smoldering rains of the west wing of the Grey nery swept by fire last night men today continued their search for other possible victims of the institution were unable early day to give a list of exact number of missing but they able loss of life The fire the cause of is at- to defective electric wiring started in the dormitory of Creche where there were dren mostly babies rof a or a tew weeks old Nuns and nursing sisters made efforts to save the children The ot ife were confined to this section of the nunnery There were more than 1.000 in- mates of the nunnery HAD INMATES All the Inmates the great ings except the to have escaped They included nuns nurses sisters wounded or sick soldiers from overseas aged sick or crippled men and to the number of almost a thousand When the flames were in the west wing the alarm was quickly given and all those able to help themselves fled to safety The heroic nuns places of and the sick and wounded as well as the in- fants under their charge The children were housed In section of the building where the fire started and the spread so quickly that it waa impossible to save them all SOLDIERS ESCAPE INJURY None of the soldiers suffered In- jury altho nearly 200 of them quartered in the building The ages of the Inmates of the however that he probably would be j nery ranged from two or three days acquainted with the plan of to almost a hundred years a way as to aid as far as possible operation before tomorrow Some i inmates were housed those countries to the south which Was expressed at tlie action jn another section of the nunnery a veritable arsenal For two hours j present situation Senator j commented on the fact that he Wheed held 200 officers at bay Weeks contended Is the virulence pied the front seat of the plane i always depended upon us we j Webster in rescinding the fore he was finally captured In the j used in attacking those who favor which is unusual for an instructor must also dispose of our surplus in der Jan for it had been pre- bv the flames Ml T ffi W j i T n rt Jt T- ft ft i 11 L V not immediately menaced long fight three police officers were wounded Wheed was tried before Judge John Sullivan in the criminal court and prosecuted by James A O'Brien an assistant state's attorney early in the committee's plan of i Ordinarily the teacher is in the SUCh a way that Germany and her Dieted that the hours would not he tion They are referred to as rear seat he watch the j derive no benefit restored to normal before April 1 ters mischievous meddlers and even as servitors of the enemy cadet better and where he is in less j frOm and we must secure for I The fliel situation in Waterloo has danger from a fall foodstuffs but also to effect a breach In the eastern front it is indicated in DEYOE ASSAILS TALK Asserting that Is is physically j trol the machine better from that urgently needed impossible for the president to in-i and can control the cadet in November He pleaded insanity as co-ordinate and direct all the event he gets excited and promulgation a defense Wheed once served six government's functions Senator i ens to wreck the plane Why Capt j does no T t n o T M K I M 1C years in the Ft Leavenworth Kan a dispatch from Vienna A statement Des Moines Feb M bills from a well informed source dealing state superintendent of public KILLED A PATROLMAN np A T I 5 n -i prison for counterfeiting five dollar I pRESENT SYSTEM Can it be possible the president can con- i in shipping and j improved with the warm weather that prevailed for several days but a INVOLVED cold wave of any duration would of these two again cause conditions to become not mean an rious I Castle was seated in front today 1S on exports or a prohibition of Under tho order issued yesterday not known imports but places in the hands of by Mr Webster business houses raay Speech Was Misunderstood Says FAMOUS AS DANCER the president the power to regulate open and close at regular hours with the conclusion of the Brest negotiations and given to na newspapers As attitude particularly concerning the application of the principle of self-determination made satisfactory conclusion impossible It became tho political task of the powers who were working for peace to make a breach in the eastern front that is to arrange a peace with the Ukraine thereby also arriving at a settlement of the Russian and manian questions Peace with the Ukraine had to be made if only be- cause a way was opened by it to ern Europe's richest The statement adds that peace with the Ukraine was obtainable only on condition that should be ed to the Ukraine the desire for which could be fulfilled by the of the principle of which is recognized as plying to Russian territory Peace with the the statement continues is the corner stone of the entire peace structure PROMISE GRAIN SUPPIA In conformity with the of the peace treaty all Ukrainian Surplus grain is to be exported up to July 31 A commission has been scored Dr Driver's ad- Harry j j dress upon his return today from shooting and was convicted of John Tiernan a j i will be embarrassed by such a i New York Feb 15 Vernon which he will exercise thru the war j nights will continue on Feb Ing on made by Premier Lloyd George in the house of com- It would seem as if he would 1 tie had a national reputation a trade board and the treasury and Sunday and the old mons this week German newspapers ress upon ms return today from snooting ana Kining i embarrassed to a greater extent j dancer His home was here With j This power will be exercised i rules and regulations pertaining to argue that Chancellor von edar Rapids where he attended the patrolman when the latter perpetuation of the disjointed i bis wife also a graceful dancer he i the single purpose of winning curtailment of light in stores and ad- reference to British coal stations was 3 r and will be inade signs will prevail not all a question of German de- interference i mands our foreign trade and to i El Havana Be Cigar Nobody in Germany the HB me -T by a perpetuation of the disjointed his wife also a graceful dancer ne i the teachers meeting and heard the him robbing a west side dry goods j now R great popularity several i the war r t store Aug 23 Lindrum was cap- failed tQ years ago as a teacher of modern to avoid withstanding the shipping I dances When the war broke out without and tended too much to ex- He was tried before Judge Kickham those responsible for the and was later sentenced to Supt Deyoe said I kept asking I be hanged Dec 12 He was granted serf all of the time the man was an appeal to the state supreme court j speaking whether or not he was j but that tribunal refused to review spreading German propaganda He said once or twice that Germany may the case The date for the hanging was finally set for Feb 15 Lindrum be wrong and finally he said like Wheed alleged insanity in his defense He was on parole from the Pontiac prison when he shot Tiernan which has failed to deliver coal notT j both of the Castle's became pose upon our exporters and withstanding the i ed in war work and Mr Castle took ers no restrictions except those supply we have which has been up aviation in the accomplishment of for a failure to protect our j He was granted an aviator's pilot necessary objects soldiers against sickness and furnish j license by the Aero Club of America them with suitable clothing j Feb 9 1916 after having made a many is wrong Efforts will be made it was said to prevent Dr Driver from filling other 1 At the criminal courts building it speaking engagements in the state AMERICAN TO SHAMROCKS ON ST PATRICK'S DAY Chicago Feb flags instead of Irish shamrocks will he distributed at the reception and hall of the United Celtic American societies of cago this year on eve Efforts to obtain shamrocks proved unavailing on account of shipping tions It stated that fifteen or more years have passed since the death sentence has been imposed fpr the murder ot a Chicago police officer We are the inventors and satisfactory record in test flights ers in airplanes and yet we have no j Newport News Va He was horn in I airplanes We have the greatest i Norwich England May 2 1887 i steel works in the world and yet we IN I have few guns We lend the world I Castle had made over 150 flights in automobile manufacture and yet over the German lines and was the we are just commencing to obtain i hero of many exploits in the war motor trucks and worst of all the His work had been especially Drink Buck First for Thirst advertisement system we have is responsible Flanders front ami covered a camp hospitals not having heat wa- period of nine months He came to tpr nr Fort Worth last October along with 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 of Paper will be sent Phono calls reach this office before p m ter or sewerage Altho praising of the department toward reorganization Senator Weeks said Edward R tinius the civilian surveyor of chases is In an impossible tion and that the administration throwing away an opportunity to make an effective organization by rejecting the plan for a munitions director Lord Wellesley JOINED BRITISH His right Blythe Soon aviator license he sailed Bound for Cuba Is j Damaged in Crash j An Atlantic Port Feb American passenger steamer which left here yesterday returned today with a large hole starboard amidships She was in collision shortly after midnight with an unknown steamer the fate of ON PACK TEX VAW bound for Cuba The collision irum curred a dense fog The senger ship was hit by the bow of the other vessel whose anchor was San a Great Quality Cigar torn off when they separated and left a hole made by the collision Italy Prepares for Another Foe Drive Rome Feb Diaz of the inn army in an interview in the says now that the eastern front does not threaten the central empires Italy must he prepared for t new effort against it It is impossible to he added when may occur much depending on tho weather Rut in the two terrible winter months of November and ber the enemy's intention to break thru was In vain before the resistance of our soldiers who realize they aro defending our soil and our homes says saw anything in the chancellor's remark but an ironical interpretation ot President Wilson's principles which if logically carried out might prove inconvenient to ca's allies It adds that evidently the speechmaking oh freedom of the seas instead of removing standing is creating new ones fore it declares a direct discussion is preferable Berlin Papers Hint Roumanian Amsterdam Feb newspapers of Thursday evening in- timate that peace negotiations with i Roumania are about to be opened They say altho no official have been issued it may t that Roumanian negotiators who will first discuss a prolongation of the armistice have arrived place agreed upon
