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American Falls Press' M MBEK 3« AMERICAN FALLS, POWER COUNTY. IDAHO, FRIDAY, MAKO« 14 l#l». VOLUME XIX ditions Experienee mid Observation in For- eral, eign Lands Has Made Better Ameri- ] and cans of American Expeditionary ! Forces, N Opinion of Captain -Min- j other Par forces. before was IMPRESSIONS OF SOLDIER RETURNING FROM OVERSEAS service, and very glad to get home, Captain Virgil Minear of Rockland, talked interest rngly to the editor of the Press a few 01 days ago. Captain Minear left here ff Ma> 9 tramL a lmp e a d t1he e PrT 1C ^He was I good American citi- «1 when he left with a pride in the American ideals and institutions, but what he observed overseas, he said, had made him a better American than ! P^ed "SSTXwüai ÄnUw Captain Minear reported to the Fresh from overseas on sidio. Zl II camp Twentieth Field Artillery at San An T„„„. .« . . .eel 5SJ 2ELÄ ".«'y EÏ Ä . b " er«e. comma th ' A f tpr the under signing of the armistice he started «Pect signing o a of QC law. a ment i ism, he self. but for Germany pation, and got as far as Luxemburg, when he took advantage of an oppor tunity to get out of the service. He | sailed for home December 14. and arrived home about ten days ago. Captain Minear endured hardships and privations of soldier life in war time, and was subject to Yet he came through all the its dangers, without a scratch, and lost only two | of his battery of 194 men. This was ; largely a matter of good fortune, but as a result ; ! no doybt, in a measure, ol the care he exercised over his men. j The first man of his battery to be | killed was a cook. [ ish In order to havei food for his men at ail times ! warm Captain Minear had his cook tent lo cated within a few yards of his bat tery The cook experienced trouble In buliding a fire without a good deal ! of smoke, as the almost constant rains | ™ and that I ,)Ut , .. „ 1 ,,., some day, w en i ' . ' .. ' a German plane would spot the smoke and then something would - The cook defended himself ,e(1 to has Captain Minear kept the fuel wet. warned and remonstrated with cook several times, telling him the happen. by saying that it was not possible to make a fire with wet wood without making a smoke. j the ! tion I One day the expected happened, a ' German plane spotting the smoke | from the cook tent. Within a few | of t minutes two shells landed squarely (J j the tent, killing the cook and wounding another man. I and After that, j the captain remarked, there was no p trouble. The cooking crew could j build a fire any old time with any on kind of fuel, without creating a smoke. , It is only necessary, he added, to lo- m cate an object in order to blow it up, ^ on so accurate has gunnery become. Captain Minear and his battery par ticipated in some of the biggest bat tles of the war, having been on the battle front between four and He was in the St. Mihiel en to five months. drive, going over the top only 500 j yards behind the assaulting w He also participated in the biggest j battle of the war, the Argonne scrap. ! The artillery preparation for battle was indescribable, night of September 25th the artillery ! pened up along a fifty mile front, and kept up a drumfire until 7:30 the morning of the 2oth, when the ad The guns roared so ave i SH j of It , Captain Minear is proud of having fired 20,000 rounds of ammunition in ; thre^ big scraps, with the loss of bu two men. Although not wounded Captain Minear was gassed the night of September 27 and was in a hos He was in Tina . . K ! Soldiering is not accompan.ed by • the.thrills that most people imagine , u e I"" d °toÄ It is simply the hardest and most -x , lausting K.DÜ ot "ora. soar;rs a t.rnes, are forced to go until hc> . <rop in ie ' r .. . d ' j lay down and slept in the mud ' with süsü -a "D e onT m tmagtoe ^be'oerm&a*' "n't fiirht Th.^ Am ricans went up against The flower of toe German armv and advanced against defenses onit* natural nWrnrHnns that were consideredTo tmTulnerable Witen | . „ . fh art vantage or a lUtle°better tbtn an even break he .. . ... . unt whon hp T 8 it .I? 1 W ll kam J- anonlb" ' erad quick enough. The most interesting part of the SSI r^ fe ; r bUe t0 ahr h o e ai 'to "in wthihe saM «he JSdlêrs a J° whole feel that' the people at home have done lust as much to win the war as the soldiers by keeping j un the suDDlie! that were necessary* The nl^e to get spJLre w7aT. in France was at the front. Red tape waa rut there and it was oniv neces rv to make requisitions uT receive suodI ies the Truest ^ossibïrmo ment Back .n tbe rest'Tamp, con-I this On the • • vance began, continuously, lie said, that one could 1 not distinguish between the shots, and although there was a drizzling rain falling making it almost impossible object however the gun flashes were so con for one to see any near, stant as to enable one to read the headlines in a newspaper at consider able distance front the guns. pital for a month, court when the armistice was signed. x ditions were not so j^ood. Asked as to what he thought of conditions in foreign lands in gen eral, of their methods of doing things ] and of their government, he said: ! America is so far ahead of any j other country that it has made better Americans of all the expeditionary forces. A working man in America before the war, who earned $2 a day, was better off than the average pro fessional man or small business man 01 , all ?P e ' , 'Within four or five years, when the Â^aToritaî?« w?U Ä» «1 which will shape the destinies of the Untied States for a quarter of a century. Conditions in Europe are l-nmuiye in many ways when corn ! P^ed to those of the Uni ed States. " rdl TV"*, n r. 'rT k V!" 1 h e effect of what the American 5SJ er«e. .bd .he MS» b. b„. b.™ under will give him a greater re «Pect for the authorities, and for the law. I think the soldiers will exert a steadying influence in our govern ment and be a check on radicalism, i Asked as to what impression Social ism, as preached and practiced, in France, had made on the Americans, he said he could only speak for him self. Socialism, under European conditions, he said, may be all right, but will not work in this country. soldier lias observed abroad can not of | to | ; ; ! AGEE MENT REACHED ON DIVISION OF SHU'S j be | Great Britain Mill Stuk Her Share, But Allow France and Italy t<> Keep Theirs. A change in the attitude of the Brit [ ish government regarding the plan warships ! lo , , _ , , _ ! | ™ X to permit Fr^ce and Italy to keep some of the ships I ,)Ut sink her own allotment. In this way it is said, Great Britain , ' would relieve the United States of the the carrying out her proiec necessity of cat rytng out ner proyec ,e(1 B r<?at naval building program. to sink interned German has been noticed since the return of the to which, it is understood, was based on j the intention to prevent any one na ! tion from having such a predominant I navy as would give her control of the a ' Keas against the powers of the league | few | of nations. t The addition of a limited number (J j ( jj e (j erma „ warships to the "French and I and Italian navies would not sensibly j jjgtm.b the present balance of naval no p OWer> excluding Austria and Ger j manv any The desire of American naval ex , t„ a t the German ships be eli lo- m | na ted completely, it is said, is based up, ^ on considerations of economy, as they par bat the hold that if the German ships are giv en to Great Britain in the proportion proposed the United States would be compelled to spend one billion dollars to maintain her place in the naval lists. five 500 j j j j ! ! i SH ALL SOLDIER DEAD REM AIN IN FRANCE] j | j take up the matter of the disposition of their bodies now lying in France with the war department stating their wishes, according to a memorandum ! received Monday by Adjt. Gen. Wilson, It was the original intention of the j war department to transfer every i body back to home bur.al grounds but because so many requests have been received to permit them to remain in , ranee, the department is endeavor mg to ascertain the wishes of rela ; iives In as many instances as P'»-j stblc. According to the memorandum. General Pershing is expected to make arrangements with the allied com mand e ' h *prancT'wh'chTii) ! <a " r "" 1,1 , ranc hi li t be cared for by the government in , somewhat the same way that national ''tor* ■" a , ared for. __ . u .,„.,„1». American Fall* Basket . lhe ki.nh, rly Itm rh an Fall* Ha feet ' j some of the ex-High School basket ball players along with some of the4 ssru ä ■wns 17Tht loca"] quintoue^had B.e^'isi' up tors outclassed at everv stage of the game and so fast were'the cross fire plays front center and forwards that it times the visitors scarcelv knew | what wasiiaTpenmg The ' ,i„e-:.p a ami score was as follows he Kimberly. hp Thomnunn f ^ TTaZrn f 4 ' feou . 4 i Richard*, g ' . Total .17 at tmericaa Fall*. Evans, f . 21 j Watts, f .10 CoUings. c . 14 in Olive* g . 4 McCullough, g . Nix. f ........ Parr, g ..... - con-I ToUl M War Department Asks Relatives of Idaho Soldiers Killed in France to Make Wishes Known. Relatives of Idaho soldiers who lost, their lives overseas are advised to 1 THE ALEXANDER FINANCIAL CHICKS COME HOME TO ROOST. The Alexander administration was handed a bal of $900,000 to commence keeping the state house with. That was all spent. It used $50,000 of Snake bridge funds, $96,000 of Gem district funds and $122,000 of insurance money in paying bills for cur rent purposes. It left behind unpaid warrants amounting to more than $500,000 and deficiency war rants amounting to more than $145,000. For politi cal reasons it made the tax levy for the past two years so the needs of the state as known when the levy was made. Here, altogether, is more than $2,000,000 of financial deficit in four years of Alexander adminis tration. It should have turned in as much as it re ceived. It should not have spent through the general fund these special funds. It should not have created such warrants and deficiency indebtedness as a legacy for its successor. If it had not been for the deficit left by the Alex ander administrations the session of the legislature just closed would not have been compelled to appro priate more for current expenses than usual, ex cepting enough to care for the growth of institu tions in harmony with the development of the state. This was shown from the official records as carefully examined during the session. Senator Adams, chairman of the finance commit tee, said: "When we consider the holdover, the war burden, the necessity for reconstruction work and the making of state levies for political purposes far below the requrements of normal times, we feel con fident the public will understand the reason for the extra appropriations and will justify them." Representative Cecil Weeks, chairman of the ap propriation committee, said: "Probably no session of the legislature in years has been confronted with heavier responsibilities. We had to take care of growing institutions, of necessary highway improve ment to keep the state abreast of the times and to ar range for deficits of the two preceding administra tions. Now, the taxpayers will have to pay not only the bill necessary for the next two years but the shortages of the.-past, £tuw«ars occasioned by an ef fort to fool the people into the belief that the Alex ander administrations were saving them money. The Alexander chickens have come home to roost." ance river low there was a shortage of $177,000 to cover any , LETTERS FROM POWER COUNTY SOLDIERS Private Peter C. Kliever is justly | To proud of the record of the Second di vision of the American Expeditionary j forces and writ"* the Press from It j irlieh, Germany, under date of Febru | ary 1st, as follows: in your paper published December 17th, 1918, I read a very interesting | item in regard to Sergeant J. V. Lish of the 91st division being in three of our great battles. Well, if you do not aiind 1 would enjoy it very much if V(m will publish the enclosed cita thins of the famous Second division j ! ,,f which I am a member, and have been on every front and have partie j j pat e*d in every American drive from j i chateau Thierry to our last great , American drive In the Argonne. and 1 1IK tll „ world all knows, was acr ! , ht . Meuse river when we were halted by the signing of the armistice. 1 W( , an , no „ in the army of occupa tl0 n in Germany, doing the Watch on j the Rhine. Being a resident of Am : an FaU s and receiving the Press, . . , wj)| , |f . on lo( ,k-out for your „„„„cation. Headquarters Second Div. ' U ' f KU * . , ar j American Expeditionary forceB ; France, Nov. 11, 1918. 0rder8 1 '' An armistice between the Allied i nations and Germany has been signed "' 1( 1 hostilities ceased temporarily at. n a m (oday . ' 2. It is fitting that the great part played by the Second Division in • ^isrs-rA-rat tä ä "rw «. : 1 'wide front*west* of" "Rheims "and I reached the Marne near Chateau Thierry. The safety of Paris and oft I the Allied army itself w as at stake, 1 At this critical hour the Second Div ! Ln was deployed to meet the foe ' It stopped the advance. It drove him back, and it. demonstrated for all j ^ • »ime that the American Ik bccoiul to 4 I none „ valor, endurance, and In «be 4 grim and unyielding determination to i T Again on July 18tb during the last great enemy offensive the Sec ond Division, after a night's march ot unparalelled difficulty, struck near Soissor.s, the flank of the enemy sal lent, penetrated his lines and brought . 14 his offensive to a standstill This 4 was tbe beginning of the Allied of fensive which has continued uncea. 2 ingly and untiringly until today. 5. On September 12th, the Ameri-, - ~n army fought tu first battle In M France under American leadership [ To the Second Division was assigned the most difficult and the most Im portant task the capture of Thlau court and the Jaulny Xanimes ridge. It reached its second day objective on the first day, drove off the enemy's counter attacks and clinched the vie tory, 6. 2nd to 10th, they fought beside the fourth French army; on OcL 3rd It seized Blanc Mont ridge, the key stone of the arch of the main German position, advanced beyond the ridge and although both flunks were un supported, it held all its gains with the utmost tenacity, inflicting trem endoug Raj»;* on the^ enemy '. TIR» ,; i r " i al ar Z between tha? """'j"™' 'VgTTne Fore" to re " F » < h ® ' f ", kilometers f 0( ., 1 "* B Jeered to Join the American Army for the great lrat k v',v j H V li wsTh sTltfS mS ',",hor and ed the advance and droveto rough the enemy's for tlfl.-d lines to a depth of over 9 kilo meters seized the heights of Hayon ^111® *nd destroyed the enemy Dlvts ton oS the fronf on Nov 3rd it ad "d to Fos^, andattacketi and captured lht , heights of Vaux ut night; it pressed forward through the fore * t of Me! va! by a single road and occupied the ridge near Beau.non*; on the night of the 4th It again at sr. s s 32.-JSSJ? .*s»ä T This ' sup"h''d"vlslon k of right ing men is unsurpassed in valor, in skill, in endurance, in determination to conquer, and in the service to the cause of the Allies. In this great struggle many of our comrade, have made their supreme sacrifice for our j country, but their heorlc spirit dwells in the heartH of th** officers and the I men of the Second Division. JOHN A. Le JEUNE, Major Gen U 8 M C Commanding, J - *1 - ° Hernie B. Mueblen, Just home from France, a graduate of Columbia Unl verstty's Liberty Motor course and a first class electrician, has opened the . Charles Johnson machine shop on tbe south side of town Mr Mueblen was chief electrician at a U. 8 naval air station in France and bas bad a traln of tbe machine abop will be glad to know that it u again open [ such competent hands In the Champagne district, Oct. ing that few men have had. Patrons and in REPUBLICS 0 VERTH ROH IS PLOTTED BY THE HEDS AY Solicitor General Lamar Says Radi cals Planned to Establish HoMic »1st Government In the United States. the gue what they it.' Solicitor General l.amar of the postoffiee department submitted a memorandum of the senate propa ganda committee Monday stating that the I. W. W„ anarchists, Socialists end others "were perfecting an amal gamation with one object the over throw of the government of the Uni ted Stutes by means of a bloody revo lution and the establishment of a Bolshevik republic." Mr. luiuiar said his conclusion was based upon infor mation contained in seized mall mat turn tour on ing day the go or ter. Accompanying the memorandum were several hundred excerpts from the mail matter. Mr. Umar said this propaganda was being conducted with "such regularity that Its magni tude can be measured by the out spoken statements contained in these publications and the efforts muns ured therein to inaugurate a nation wide reign of terror and overthrow the government." Mr. Lamar said it was significant that this was the "first, time in the history of the so-called radical move ment Jn the United States that these radical elements have found a com mon cause (Bolshevism) in which they can all unite." lie referred par ticularly to the dif.satisfied foreign elements as being active in the prop aganda. The I. W. W„ said Mr. Lamar, Is perhaps most actively engaged In spreading tills propaganda and lias al Its command a large field force, know'll as recruiting agents, sub scription agents, etc., who work un ceasingly In the furtherance of "the cause." and l are my to of ol to COURTS MARTIAL AID BOLSHEVISM Senator Clmmherlalu Assail* Senten ces Meled Out for Apparently Trh ini Offenses. eourtniurtial Describing certain sentences in the American army as "things that make Bolshevlkl of our young men," United State» Senator George K. Chamberlain, chairman of the senate committee on military af fairs, sharply criticized courtmurtlal procedure in an addross at New York Monday. * Referring to long sentences which had been imposed for slight Infrac tions of the rules, Senator Chamber* laln Huid that "these hoys know that an Injustice has boon done them and tt will not Increase their respect for the government." "1 have found hoys of 17 and 18, not yet mature," ho continued, "sent away for long terms in prison, some of 'them becauso they were absent with out leave homesick youths who left to suy goodbye to their mothers or perhaps a lust word with their sweet hearts. Five days away led one of them to he sentenced for 40 yours." Senator Chamberlain urged a better treatment of (the returning soldier und asked every husinuss man to re employ men who guvo up their posi tions to enter the service, If they were physically capable of doing the work. The question of unemployment, he asserted, was largely up to the bust ness nein for settlement. Im on vie the It key ridge un with trem TIR» Hatnrduy, plcturtzes his ex tha? periencea and difficulties as an aver re- age American doughboy, from the ", lu . rB lhe "rookie" squad un til, as a finished product of military 0( ., u . HlnlnK , ,,e , nV ades HunlumI and the captures the Imperial German Stuff great with a method typically Yankee for mS novelty and surprise His feet, get him Into countless for- troubles under the ....sympathetic kilo- eye of his drill sergeant, and even after his advent Into the front line Dlvts- trenches he finds new complexities In ad- the management or a rifle and bayo and net. Fo.iow.ng numerous experlen ut ce» In his dugout he volunteers for the a special spying mission Ca.nou and flaged as a tree, he Invades enemy territory. A Hun wood-chopping at- party attempts to add him, dlsgolsed s rrssta T käst* i right- panted by the French girl who be in friends him, he seeks refuge In what proves to ^ the headquarters of the the General Staff. The Kaiser, Crown great I rince and von Hindenburg surprise have bhn tatsn attachon a Ojman oKte, our but Charlie saves tbe day for himself dwells and the girl by wearing the uniform the I of hin unconacioua victim. He rescues bis drill sergeant, also captured by Huns and together they conspire to escape. Their plan brings complete confusion to headquarters, from and »bakes the German army to Its Unl a the tbe was air traln to Oct. Second >M,IMI0,0<HI Chaplin War Trouble». "Shoulder Arms," the second Char lie Chaplin million-dollar picture, to be shown at tbe Auditorium on Frl I'lcl lire foundation. Announcement. Mary Mayne, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, has taken up her residence at American Falls, opposite tbe Lincoln school, and wishes tbe ladles to know that she will continue to represent tbe Primed» Remedies, called Balm of Figs, for ailing women li promotes health, vigor and vitality. Patrons formerly in BORAH IS l'l, AM NI Ml V TOUR OF THE WEST AY III Conduct Campaign to Coast \ gainst Nations' League Proposal— Returns to Capital Pleased WltR Results of Eastern Speeches. The only thing needed to arouB« the American people Hgainst the lea gue of nations la to tell them exactly what it means to American righta. Wheu they learn tile truth about it they say 'we want nothing to do wltlx it.' " Tills was the comment Tuesday of Senator Horan of Idaho upon his re turn to Washington from a speaking: tour against the league of nations proposal. His conviction on the at titude of tlie people is Imsed not only on tile sentiments of tjiose who at tended his meetings, but upon Ui« enormous amount of correspondence» which accumulated in Ills office dur ing hin absence. Beginning with a speech next Fri day nlgtft at Troy, N. V., and one at Rochester the following Sunday night. Senator Borah will start out on an other tour which will (tike him into the heart of the west and in all prob ability to the Pacific coast. He will go from Rochester to Chicago to ur range a meeting which will be hold probably on the niRht of March 18 or 19. Preliminary plans for the* campaign are being perfected ill Chi Is In rago. "1 uni very well satisfied with lb« results of-the trip,"said Senator Bo mb. "I found that the people, as » rule, lmd been misled iih to the plana and purposes of the league and knew uothlng at all about It; they l ad a visionary Idea that It meant merely the stoppage of all war. They are beginning to find out something, about It. By that 1 do not menu that my speeches are having any such wonderful effect, hut till ovor the. country the people are beginning tu> understand Just what Is proposed by the league and t hoy are declaring: themselves against It." Arter Senator Borah returns from his western speaking tour he Intend» to devote himself to the preparation» of u hill to provide for the submission! ol the league plan lo a vote of th« people. Ho lias advocated lu all at his speeches on the subject that th* proposal should not be put Into ef fect until after It has been submitted! to a plohlsclto. The bill to he drafted by him is to» provide for this so that If tt should appear probable thui. the league con stitution would be ratified by the son ate, a vote by the people can he take» before tl becomes effective. as our of af that and for not of with left or of re posi were work. he bust DERBY IN FEATURE OF "SHORTING LIFE*' Many Other Thrilling Scene* In Bltr Production. Chief among the big features that make "Sporting Life" so notable m photoplay, Is a zeene showing English Derby at Epsom Down». "Sporting Life" Is an adaptation by Maurice Tourneur of the celebrated Drury Lane melodrama of the satin' name which wus produced In and which has held the stuge period I cally ever since. It will be shown at the Irene theater next Sunday night Tile'story deals with a young llrlt Ish nobleman who seeks to reliuhlll late his fortunes, which are ut a low thorough sport »mau the I ,97 ex- enemy, aver- story which the interest, un and Stuff for even line In bayo for enemy i „,,„ nL be what the Crown oKte, himself uniform also they brings Lieutenant-Commander, Its ebb. lie Is and ho backs a prize fighter, and Iti'« own mare Lady Love, to Derby. Both events uru carried! through successfully, bui not without serious difficulties luid ill the young, sportsman'» path by a relentless is a charming love* wiu this Char to Frl lire There uispeuNive holds much The story Is un excellent one uinl from Life" I The principals In the e.ast Ralph Graves, Warner ( 'hurles Craig, Constance Blimey, and Willette Kershaw. •very standpoint, "Splitting: i u most notable production includo Richmond, and Fair Enlistments In Navy. Editor Press, American Fulls, Idaho. Dear Sir. This office Is receiving: many Inquiries from young men lu your vicinity asking whether tin navy is at present open for enlist ment W'e would esteem It a great favor If you would publish In the news columins of your paper the fact that the navy Is open to enlistment lo practically all branches In which firs* enlistments are over made. The age limits are 17 to 35 luelu Boys under 18 must have their Attention Is Invited to the fact thu». all the benefits of war pay, insurance, family allotments, etc., are still In effect. Further details as to pay. physical requirements, and In fact any Infor mation, will bo gladly furnished by this office to anyone interested. Thanking you In advance, 1 am Respectfully. 8. W. WALKER, U. S. N. ( Returned) Recruiting Officer. Salt Ij»ke City, Utah. • Baptist Charrh. Rev. Ford will speak next Sunday at 11 o'clock on "The Worth While Life." Bible school at 10 a m Last Sunday gave a record attendance in Sunday school—an Increase of over 70 per r ent in six weeks. A Men'» Bible clas Is lo be organized in the near future in connection with th« Bible school Toledo, at Lincoln know women vitality. formerly