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ITALIAN HERO IS
ACCLAIMED III
LONDON. Oct. 25. — The air ex
ploits of Gabriele d’ Annunzio, the
Italian poet, novelist and dramatist,
have taken a strong hold on the
British public’s imagination, and. he
is acclaimed here as one of the
world’s foremost figures in aerial
warfare.
The London papers, which re
cently have been devoting consid
erable space to the daring Italian,
express surprise that a man of his
age afld temperament was able to
make so remarkable success as an
airman. Few expected, the Daily
Express says, that the "dandy Ro
man poet" would become an air
fighter after passing his fiftieth
birthday.
Above all, it is pointed out, he is
an inspiration to his people. His
deeds during the war are known to
all the world, but few outside Italy
realize that he has been the great
est public orator of his country
since the war began.
His speeches are full of prose
music, and the message which he
dropped over Vienna was written as
only a poet and a soldier could
write.
D’ Annunzio as a squadron leader
is said to be not only fearless, but
untiring. Routine bombing and
chasing have no attractions for him.
His fertile brain is constantly at
work devising new methods for har
rying the enemy in unexpected di
rections. That is why the Austri
ans hate him so intensely.
AUSTRALIAN SHIPS ARE
BUILDING IN AMERICA
SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 29.—
“One of the things I have been com
missioned to look after,” said Henry
Yule Braddon, the first and lately
appointed commissioner from Aus
tralia to the United States. There
are 10 ships on order and so far
only one has been delivered. If I
find that these ships cannot be sup
plied because of the war I will ask
the people here to agree with me
that in these particular circum
stances we shall be willing to wait
awhfle.”
I:
I1KI
STARTS CAMPAIGN
29.
?AN FRANCISCO, Oct.
Theodore Bell, independent candi
date for governor, will go to Los
Angeles tonight to open an informal
campaign.
OR. M’CARTHY SAYS
INFLUENZA MASKS
SHOULD BE WORN
County Physician J. L. McCarthy
returned last night from Death Val
ley Junction, where he was called
in connection with an epidemic of
Spanish Influenza. He stated this
morning that three people had died
there and in surrounding camps,
but that only a few cases remain
now.
The dead are a child, a niece of
William Howard of Tonopah Junc
tion; L. S. Howard and a man nam
ed, Connolly, who died in a nearby
camp.
Dr. McCarthy stated that he was
aware of no cases north of Death
Valley Junction in the direction of
Goldfield. “Flu” is reported in
Mina and it is believed that if it
enters Goldfield it will come from
the north.
As influenza in Mina and other
towns north may be said to be at
the very door of Goldfield, it is re
garded as highly improbable that
there will not be cases here and Dr.
McCarthy stated that, in accord
ance with state health laws, any
person with influenza should be re
ported immediately to him by |>
sicians or the public, who may
learn of cases.
Dr. McCarthy also suggested that
the wearing of masks be started
here tomorrow. He said patterns
may be secured at Red Cross head
quarters and that the "flu” pre
venters may be made of four thick
nesses of gauze about seven inches
long and from four to six Inches
wide, so as to cover the mouth and
nose. He said It would not be nec
essary to medicate the gauze.
IJTTLE MONEY IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Oct. 29. — The lack
of money and the great depreciation
of the Russian ruble has compelled
the Soviet government to resort to
the primitive form of trade, ex
change of goods. This form has
| been applied in Russia in a limited
I degree, because of lack of manufac
tured articles, the government giv
I ing the peasants agricultural ma
chinery, leather goods, nails, match
es and other such necessaries and
receiving the equivalent value in
grain. It is the intention of the
department of food to introduce the
exchange of goods system into in
ternational trade and for this pur
pose it sent a special emissary to
Norway to negotiate with the Nor
wegian government.
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WAR’S EMERGENCIES MET BY
ADVANCING DIAMOND PRICES
Cufcfceaws
*OuHinan.;v^ia^ lAvges't Diamond. (Exaei
How a diamond paid the emergency
expenses of a soldier’s family is one
of the sidelights of the war, dis
closed through the proposal of dia
4«ipnd cutting as one of the highly
^ j|d vocations now open in America
if^disabled “Yanks.”
Here is the story: A family ac
customed to affluence was strangely
disrupted when Belgium’s invasion
*ent out the call for men to fight
th? Huns; sons enlisted and went
overseas, a daughter entered war
work; family incomes were stopped
jnd a blue service star was turned to
gold. Heavy expenses had te b* met
and one remaining diamond had t> l>a
sacrificed. Fortunately, diamonds of
quality are more in demand than be
fore war reduced the supplies and
almost a fabulous sum was realized
from a quick sale in the emergency.
Before the war the jewelry ex
ports of Germany and Austria
amounted to $200,000,000 a year,
leading those of all other countries.
To secure for America a dominant
£lace in this trade will require a
tree increase in available workmea
and uninterrupted growth, even dun*
ing war’s economies, of the industry
with which diamonds are concerned
JOHN MORRISON DIES
IN ARMY HOSPITAL
AT HOBOKEN, N.J.
Johnnie Morrison died on Oct. 25
in an army hospital in Hoboken, N.
J., supposedly of Spanish influenza,
and thus closes the career of one of
the most remarkable young men
Goldfield ever produced. Remark
able not in that he ever achieved
great things, but in that he pos
sessed a character that made him
stand out from other young men
and made him a boy whose friend
ship was sought by all, young and
old.
After graduating from the Gold
field high-school some years ago,
possessing a wonderful physique,
skill and courage, he entered the
prize ring in Goldfield and Tonopah
and some of his battles will be
talked about while there are old
timers here to talk of such things.
While fighting was with him a side
issue, it was in the ring that he
gained his wide circle of admirers,
for it was there that he showed
himself in his numerous contests to
be a boy of rare courage and as
clean a fighter as ever crawled
through the ropes.
Always fearing that he was in
juring his future by fighting and
always saying that every contest
would be his last, he fought as long
as the game was alive here because
he liked it, and where is the man
who does not envy the gloved gladi
ator that instant when his right
hand is raised in victory or when
he stands over his fallen opponent
whose master he has shown him
self to be in a game in which the
ability to withstand punishment,
punishment without flinching, a
fine body and a sound mind are ev
erything.
Johnnie Morrison left here and
entered the army cantonment at
the university of Nevada. After
three months there he was trans
ferred to Camp Fremont, Cal., and
went east from there last week,
went east from there a short time
ago.
Before leaving Fremont he was In
quarantine with his regiment owing
to the influenza epidemic, accord
ng to a letter received hy his fath
er. In this letter he said: “We
are working hard and continually
j to lick the kaiser ‘over there.’ ”
This was his attitude in every let
ter written by him since he left
here. He was always training for
that day when he would enter the
I big ring to fight, perhaps, the final
battle for his country.
While he did not die in the glory
j of battle, he died for his country,
and for this the people of Goldfield
I honor him today.
He was born nearly 26 years ago
j in Leadville, Colo. He is survived
by his parents, two sisters and
three brothers. The remains will
i be forwarded to Goldfield for bur
ial.
He was a member of Company A
eighth infantry, and was about tc
sail for France when he was
stricken.
JAPAirnMoT WITH
UNITED STATES
INCREASING
TOKIO, Oct. 29. — Japan’s trade
with the United States increased
during the six months ended June
30. Exports to the United States
gained $30,500,000 and imports
$97,000,000.
The increase in exports was ac
counted for by the large shipments
of raw silk, habutae and other sta
ples. while the increase in imports
is attributed to increased require
ments of cotton, iron and machin
ery, as a result of the flourishing
state of Japan’s industries.
MOTOR CYCLE SIDE CARS
SURPRISE FRENCH PEOPLE
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, Oct. 29. — American
motor cycle side cars in the war
zone of France where American
troops are operating are more nu
merous than in any part of the
United States. As the side car was
new to France, naturally they at
tracted much attention at first. Now
the French pay no attention to
{them. The words “side car” have
come into common usage among the
; French people, who have as yet
, coined no French name for the ma-(
I chine.
AMERICAN ARTILLERY IN ACTION BEFORE METZ
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liver since the cleaning out of the St. Miliiel salient the tonifications of Metz have lieen umler the lire of the Am r
ran artillery.
FIRST CASE
OF “FLO”
IS HERE
i PERSONS FOUND WITHOUT
MASKS WILL BE PROSE
CUTED
The first case of Spanish influ
enza appeared in Goldfield today,
: according to I)r. J. L. McCarthy, ,
! county physician.
Dr. McCarthy stated that the or
dinance passed by the county com
missioners is now a law and he
appealed to the people to observe
the law strictly, from patriotic mo
tives, if not for their own protec
tion, so that Goldfield may do its
r part in preventing the spread of the
disease. According to dispatches
received in the past few weeks, the
wearing of masks to prevent influ
! enza is becoming general through
i out the country and an ordinance
making the wearing of masks com
pulsory became effective in Sacra
mento today.
From now on all persons found
without masks on Goldfield streets
will be prosecuted.
There are now 19 cases of Span
ish influenza in Tonopah, according
to the Tonopah Times. Three cas
es were reported Saturday, four on
Sunday and 12 yesterday. An or
dinance will be published at once,
making it necessary for every per
son appearing in public to wear a
mask. No public meetings of any
kind can be held and the schools
have been closed indefinitely.
LONG FLIGHTS
WILL 8E MADE
AFTER WAR
LONDON, Oct. 20. — No other
development in human history has
shown so remarkable results as
has flying in the last 10 years, says
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, a Brit-;
i.-h scientist and aviation expert.
“When the Wright brothers vis
ited Europe 10 years ago,” he Said,
“the airplane engines were of
21 horsepower. Today they are of
: 750 horsepower in some cases, and
the airplane’s carrying capacity has
increased from about 120 pounds to
three and one-half tons.
“Ten thousand feet was then the
highest flight. Today we are do
I i)ig 20,000. And while 40 miles an
hour was then the highest speed,
loday we are approaching 150.
“The British army in France be
gan with only 30 planes. I may
not give the number today, but it
is huge.”
Ix>ng flights, to and from Ameri
ca for instance, would be possible
| after the war, Lord Montagu said,
adding that he himself hoped some
day to fly to India. For long-dis
tance flying, however, he continued,
J it would be necessary to evolve a
| silent engine, for the public would
not be willing to take lengthy trips
j in ncisy airplanes.
BELGIAN KING IS
WITHOUT FEIN
OF DEATH
LONDON, Oct. 25. — King Albert '
of Belgium and Premier Clemen
ceau of France were apparently so
indifferent to shell fire to which
they were exposed while the pre- (
mier was visiting the Belgian front
recently as to arouse the admiration
of the Belgian soldiers.
One of them describes the inci
dent thus:
"The scene is laid among the
ruins of a part of the Belgian front
daily shattered by shells, bombs or
aerial torpedoes. In the street par
allel to the church a little group of
persons are walking. A tall khaki
figure seems to be guiding a civil
ian and some French officers. It
is a Belgian general wandering leis
urely up and down answering ques
tions and giving explanations to his
guests. From our dug-out we sol
diers watch with curiosity.
“Suddenly a whistle, an explosion
and a burst of smoke but 20 yards
from the visitors. Not one of them
took any notice. Another. It falls
•quite near. The Belgian general,
the civilian and their suites have
not turned their heads, but merely
continue to walk as slowly as be
fore. While the fire continues, the
visitors are getting nearer our dug
out and we stand at attention.
“The Belgian general is King Al
bert, the civilian is M. Clemenceau.”
drafTTeveis WEH
IN ARMY OF
LONDON, Oct. 2 8. — One result
of the war has been to democratize
the British army, and it ia regarded
as prcatlcally certain that after
peace lias been deck red England
will have a large standing army in
which a large number of men of
birth and education will be serving
in the ranks.
Before the South African war the
private was “a man of no social ac
count.’ He was forbidden entry to
what corresponds to the American
! “orchestra” at a theater, and was
told that his proper place was the
gallery.
The real democratization of the
army began when Lord Kitchener
summoned the whole people of Eng
land to service in the king’s forces.
With the calling of every class, dif
ferences of social caste were ob
! literated.
Officers of the old regime con
tend that there can he no effectual
i military discipline if officers and
j men fraternize socially. The other
night a general saw one of his offi
cers dining at a famous London res
taurant with a private soldier. He
took the officer aside and expostu
lated with him on his infraction of
the army code. The officer’s an
i swer was, “The soldier is my broth
I er.”
wo.mkx aid Loan in cal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. —
| California women obtained more
'than $75,000,000 worth of bond
subscriptions in the Fourth Liberty
loan, according to the loan commit
tee.
DR. JOSEPH HAS
NEW INVENTION
WILL I'Oll. TEREDOS AND MAKE
AIRPLANES GO AROUND
WORLD
Dr. T. B. Joseph, a Goldfield
chemist and metallurgist, says he
lately received encouragement from
Washington that his aluminum pat
ent and metal leaching patent, long
pending, would no doubt soon be
allowed and that he hopes to show
the large Nations how they can
easily produce twice as much pre
cious metal and copper as they
ever did before, to give greater
prosperity to the mining fraternity
and to produce safe airplanes to go
around the world in a few days, or
■;o cheaply make enough of them
to drop fiery bombs to annihilate
any army that could be congregat
ed, to forever stop wars and the
wasting of so many millions of lives
and billions of dollars’ worth of
property, and to travel with air
planes cheaper than by any cars or
steamships.
Also. Dr. Josephs says he lately
sent for another patent by which he
can preserve wooden railroad cross
i sot* of any kind of woody, fibrous
ma'erial, for all purposes of build
ing, for less than five cents per tie,
by treatment of creosote and chlor
ide of zinc, which at present costs,
government reports show, 37 Ms
! cents per tie.
As tlie government will have lo
j buy about 150,000,000 ties yearly,
I which would further cost over
$50,000,000 to treat them by the
f old method, by using his method
it would save the government over
] $50,000,000 in one year, he says,
l and by his method they would last
more titan twice as long as the ties
treated by the old method, which
treatment, much of it, is washed out
with rain water and easily takes
fire, while with his new treatment
| it would never wash out, and it
! could not take fire, except from a
j large fire, he says, and thus, as the
! Nation would not have to buy so
many ties yearly, in that one article
[ ii would save far more than $100,
| ooo,000 yearly in train wrecks and
i otherwise, by using more durable
t'es, and would not waste nearly as
* much yearly of piling, because the
teredos could not destroy them
when treated by the Joseph method,
he says.
As buildings could not be easily
set on fire when treated by his
method, and as many cities and
buildings would not be so easily de
stroyed, thus many hundreds of
> millions of dollars* worth of prop
I erty could be saved yearly by the
I use of his wood preservative, as
| well as the lives of many thousands
! of people who are burned up or
! crippled yearly in fires and train
wrecks, Dr. Josephs says.
This amount that could be saved
is small compared with what he
could save for the nation were he
given half a chance to try, he says.
YOUNG TONOPAH MAN
SERIOUSLY IVJIKKI)
Lester Hall, a young man employ
ed on the Tonopah & Goldf'eld rail
road as a brakeman, was struck by
an ore car at Tonopah yesterday
morning and his right hand and
ithree fingers of his left hand were
amputated when he was taken to a
hospital following the accident. No
one witnessed the accident and Hall
is supposed to have fallen under the
car after being struck. He lived
in Tonopah with his mother for
some time.