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America Gets Five German Warships
The five German warships allocated to the United States arrived In New York harbor the other day. After
feeing exhibited and studied, they will be destroyed. The photograph shows the battleship Ostfrlesland towing the
cruiser Frankfort.
GERMAN CREWS
DAMAGE SHIPS
Vessels Alllocated to the United
States Arrive Here in Bad
Condition.
WILL NOT BE SENT ON TOURS
Only One of Ships Capable of Making
Voyage Under Own Power and It
Would Be Unsafe to Send Her
to Sea Again.
Washington.—Owing to deliberate
damage wrought by the crews to the
engines and other vital parts of the
five ex-German warships recently
brought to this country under the peace
treaty allocation, necessitating exten
sive repair to make them possible of
operation, none of the vessels will be
sent on an exhibition tour of coastal
cities, as the navy department had
hoped to do.
In making this announcement the
department included a statement by
Oapt. J. F. Hellweg, commanding offi
cer of the convoy which brought the
ex-German warships to America, as
serting that even the dreadnaught Ost
frissland, the only one of the five ships
capable of making the transatlantic
trip under her own power, was in such
condition on arrival at New York that
1t would be hazardous to send her to
sea again.
Calls It Vandalism.
Captain Hellweg attributed the con
dition of the ships, four of which, the
cruiser Frankfurt and three destroyers,
were submerged at Scapa Flow, to “de
liberate vandalism*' on the part of their
former German crews.
“The gutted condition in which we
found these vessels on taking them
over cannot be exaggerated," he said.
"'What had not been stolen was
wrecked. The vandalism Indicated a
■very careful preparation and the usual
thoroughness of the Huns In execu
tion."
Expressing the belief that the Ost
frlesland had been systematically loot
ed while in the German dockyard for
a year after her surrender had been
called for, Captain Hellweg also de
clared the presence of an "unnecessar
ily large crew aboard when the dread
naught was brought to Rosyth, Scot
land, indicated in the light of devel
opments that the crew was sent with
a view of looting everything possible
en route.”
Causes Many Breakdowns.
Not only did the German crews com
mit obvious depredations, Captain Hell
weg declared, but their "preparations
for future trouble by removing sections
of pipes and valves" were responsible,
he said, for numerous breakdowns in
the Ostfriesland’s machinery on the
trip Across. He cited one instance in
which a six-inch pipe line gave way
and flooded the fire room when the
vessel was a thousand miles from the
European coast. The dreadnought was
forced to make most of the voyage, he
said, with only one engine running, al
MOTORS KILL MANY
T<rfl of Autos Three Times That
of Industrial Plants.
Menace Growing All the Time. Almoet
In Proportion to Machines
In Use.
Atlantic City—The perils of com
mercial aviation do not compare with
the devastating motor menace, which
Is exacting a terrific toll of human life
throughout America, a report Issued
by the executive committee of the Na
tional Safety council stated.
There are obvious reasons why the
problem of making public highways
safe for the people who own them
should be given Immediate considera
tion by the automobile makers of the
country, unless they expect soon to be
confronted by a great volume of hos
tile public opinion, stretching from
though it towed the Frankfurt all the
way.
By bringing back on the deck of the
Ostfrelsland two 12-lnch and two 14-
inch guns which had formed a reserve
for the land batteries of the American
navy during the war, Captain Hellweg
estimated that more than twice the
amount appropriated to bring the ex-
German ships across, SOO,OOO, was
saved in their transportation.
CREW IS STRANDED ON ISLE
Castaways From Liner Carawa Pass
Four Weeks on Galapagos
After Vessel Sinks.
Sydney, Australia. —Four weeks’ ex
perience on the Galapagos islands was
sufficient for the crew of the Aus
tralian government liner Carawa, who,
like the original Robinson Crusoe,
were cnstaways on that island group
last April.
The Carawa last March left Port
Arthur, Tex., for Australia with ben
zine and case oil. When in the Pacific
It encountered a launch containing six
men, which had been blown out to
sea. The liner towed the launch to
Chatham islands in the Galapagos
group.
On Chatham Island the Carawa
struck a reef. Her stern post and rud
der were torn away and she began to
leak badly. The crew made for shore
and watched their boat sink.
The men lived In a tent made from
canvas from the ship and subsisted on
canned meat and potatoes. The food
HELP BUSINESS MAN
Uncle Sam to Supply Missing
Link Between Science and
Industry.
Department of Agriculture Installs
Staff of Engineers to Figure Out
Application Cost.
Washington.—Uncle Sam Is going to
help the American business man to use
new discoveries.
He Is going to do this by supplying
the previously missing link between
the scientific investigator, who consid
ers processes, and the business man
who must measure costs and related
problems. This missing link Is a force
of industrial engineers.
Secretary E. T. Meredith of the de
partment of agriculture, on the sugges
tion of Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of
the bureau of chemistry, has created
a new service—office of development
work—with a staff of engineers.
It Is under the direction of David
J. Price, who was chief engineer In
the dust explosions Investigations con
ducted by the department.
The idea is to translate through this
new service the discoveries and inven
i tions by the scientific investigators
coast to coast, said S. J. Williams of
Chicago, secretary of the National
Safety council.
“Reports dealing with the commer
cial development of the airplane Jdst
received from England show that 75.-
000 persons were carried on aerial
journeys in that country during the
last year with very few accidents and
but one fatality,” the council's state
ment continued.
“Statistics for the current year In
this country show that three times as
many people are being killed by auto
mobiles as In all the factories, mines,
railroads and other Industries In
America.
“One person Is killed by an automo
bile In the United States every 35 min
utes. and the menace Is growing all
the time, almost In proportion to the
Increase of the machines in use.
“It is estimated there will be 10,-
000,000 automobiles in this country by
the end of 1920, and the number prob
supply was limited and sleep was out
of the question on account of the mos
quitoes. In addition, convicts on the
island stole the castaways’ belongings.
After four weeks a schooner carrying
cattle and hogs picked the men up
and landed them at Guayaquil. Here
they shipped on a steamer for Colon,
where the Australian government liner
Australange, bound to Sydney, picked
them up early in July.
North Dakotan Invents
Grasshopper Harvester
Plumber, N. D. —Ed Larkin has
Invented a grasshopper trap that
gave excellent satisfaction this
year. The trap consists of a gal
vanized tank 10 feet long with a
perpendicular screen several
feet high at the back. It is
mounted on two small wheels,
pulled by two horses, and the
tank is tilled with kerosene and
soap. Mr. Larkin caught 100
bushels of grasshoppers.
One Retort Sarcastieal.
Marlon, Ind. —Mrs. Charles Bevan In
serted an advertisement offering to
trade her five children for poodle dogs,
so that she will not be compelled to
leave the dwelling in which she lives.
The house was sold to a bachelor, who
Informed Mrs. Bevan she must leave
or get rid of the children.
Twin Pastors Puzzle.
Greensburg, Ind. —For the good of
the church, Rev. Ovls Martin and Rer.
Otis Martin, twins, hereafter will
preach in different conferences. Be
cause their congregations were unable
to tell them apart, they have been sep
arated by order of the presiding bishop
of the M. E. church.
into terms that can be understood and
applied in the industry on a commer
cial basis by the manufacturer and in
ventor.
Such discoveries are being made ev
ery year concerning the utilization of
manufacturing waste; a new food sub
stance is found, or a new dye formu
la, a glue or a preservative.
In the commercial and Industrial de
velopment of these many valuable
processes and inventions they fre
quently have not been given a fair
trial because they were not at once
practical.
The application In the arts and in
dustries of such discoveries requires
the calculation of source and quantity
of supply and cost of production,
transportation and manufacture—
which is really an industrial engineer
ing problem.
So the plan of the officials of the de
partment of agriculture Is to allow the
scientist and researcher to proceed to>
the point where he is able to announce
that a certain process is effective.
Then the new service steps in and car
ries on development work to prove
whether the new process is commer
cially and industrially practical.
If It is found practical the engineers
furnish cost and other data to the
manufacturer and Inventor.
ably will continue to grow tremen
dously.”
DREAMS OF ARREST; GIVES UP
Actor Walks Into New York Station
and Confesses He Dodged
Draft.
New York. —Unable to sleep because
of a troubled conscience and a dally
fear of being arrested, Conrad Jancke.
thirty, an actor, walked into the West
Forty-seventh street station and. ac
cording to Detective Clarence Daly,
told him he had dodged the draft and
wished to surrender.
Janke said he avoided registering in
the first draft, but that he had regis
tered in the second, under the name of
Charles T. Jackson. He said he then
went to Panama as a railroad commis
sary assistant.
He declared he had been haunted
constantly with the Illusion that he
was being followed by federal agents
and would start from his sleep expect
ing to find one standing over him with
a warrant for his arrest.
THU ITHHTHWHH RECORD
‘ "FREEZONE”
Lift Off Cornsl No Paint
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
“Freezone” on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then shortly
you lift it right off with fingers. Truly I
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
“Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to
remove every hard corn, soft corn, or
corn between the toes, and the calluses,
without soreness or irritation.
Good Angels.
Good angels do not of necessity op
erate from a motive of helping certain
individuals. Often they are moved by
the thing to be done more than they
are by the idea of helping a person.
This big, promising, panting world
needs help. In it lie untold possibil
ities. Only a small fraction of its
benefits are being received by men. So
the good angel helps. When it sees
men struggling to advance good angels
help, for it is thus they advance the
world. So In proportion as you try to
benefit your fellow men you will be
coming under the observation of good
angels.—Grit.
EATONIC Users
—Do This —Get the
Greatest Benefits
Chicago, 111. —Thousands of reports
from people all over the U. S. who
have tested eatonlc, show the greatest
benefits are obtained by using it for a
few weeks, taking one or two tablets
after each meal.
Eatonic users know that It stops
Belching, Bloating, Heartburn, and
Stomach Miseries quickly, but the
really lasting benefits are obtained by
using eatonic long enough to take the
harmful excess acids and gases entire
ly out of the system. This requires a
little time, for eatonic takes up the
excess acidity and poisons and carries
them out of the body and of course,
when it is all removed, the sufferer gets
well, feels fine —full of life and pep.
If you have been taking an eatonic
now and then, be sure and take it regu
larly for a time and obtain all of these
wonderful benefits. Please speak to
your druggist about this, so that he can
tell others that need this help. Adv.
Different Though.
The ugltator had talked long and
wildly. “I cannot be still,” he sud
denly bellowed. “The words that come
into my mouth are as numberless as
the leaves on the trees.”
“Yes,” agreed n weary listener as
he arose, “but they’re different in one
way. It doesn’t tuke much of a bree-”
to start them flying.”
ASPIRIN
Name “Bayer” on Genuine
“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is genii
lne Aspirin proved safe by million*
and prescribed by physicians for over
twenty years. Accept only an unbroken
“Bayer package” which contains proper
directions to relieve Headache, Tooth
ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,
Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of 12
tablets cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger “Bayer packages.” Aspirin
is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon
oaceticacldeater of Salicyllcacid.—Adr.
Munches While He Punches.
The punching-bag record is held by
Sergeant Pernott of a London regi
ment, who recently kept the pigskin
on the move for 50 hours in an effort
to beat his previous records, in which
he succeeded, although he had hoped
to keep It up for 60 hours. It was,
of course, necessary for him to take
food and drink while keeping the
sphere bounding.
“Cold In the Head**
Is an acuta attack of Nasal Catarrh.
Those subject to frequent “colds In tha
head” will And that tha usa of HALL’S
CATARRH MEDICINE] will build up tha
System, cleanse tha Blood and render
them less liable to colds. Repeated at
tacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to
Chronic Catarrh.
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE Is
taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys
m. thus reducing the Inflammation and
estorlng normal conditions.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney St Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Excaptions.
“You know, dear, man proposes."
“Not always, auntie; this Is leap
year."
It sometimes pays to be good, bat
It's nlwavs good to be nald.
MILLS SEIZED BY
REDS IN ITALY
LABOR MODERATES DEFEAT THE
RADICALS IN CONVENTION
AT MILAN.
TAKE OVER 26 PLANTS
TROOP TRAINS HELDUP TO PRE
VENT MOVEMENT OF SOLDIERS
TO NORTHERN ITALY.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Rome, Sept. 14. —In the face of the
decision by a majority of workmen’s
and Socialists’ representatives not to
proclaim a general strike or to trans
form the '.present economic agitation
into a political struggle, scores of tex
tile mills in Milan, Alessandria and
other provinces were seized. Dispatch
es received here said twenty-six were
taken over in Turin alone.
Troop trains were held up in Bo
logna and Parma by the order of the
railway workers’ syndicate that no
troops should be transported in north
ern Italy.
The victory of the moderates over
the extremists occurred at a confer
ence in Milan, following a long debate.
The extremists’ resolution which would
have practically put into effect the
principles of the Third Internationale,
was voted down by a majority of 90,-
000 out of a total representation of 1,-
100,000. Deputy Dragona, who had
represented the metal workers in the
conference with the manufacturers,
presented a resolution for a compro
mise under the direction of the Gen
eral Federation of Labor. This was
adopted by a majority of 200,000.
Milan. —Immediate convocation of
the Italian Parliament for the purpose
of passing laws under which workmen
may take over management of indus
trial plants has been demanded by the
Confederation of Labor in session here.
Resolutions favoring a compromise
of the situation resulting from occu
pation of plants by workmen through
out Italy were adopted at a stormy
session of the confederation. Socialist
leaders bitterly attacked the confeder
ation and demanded that the Socialist
party assume control of the situation,
which they claimed had taken a purely
political aspect. When the Socialist
demands were rejected an additional
resolution was passed by the confeder
ation which asked the president of the
Chamber of Deputies and Premier Glo
litti to call Parliament into session.
“We demand,” this resolution read,
“immediate convocation of the Cham
ber of Deputies In order that the situ
ation may be examined and laws pro
posed which will bring about radical
legislative measures which, through
requisition of industrial plunts and
participation in their management by
workmen, will prepare the way for
direct control of workers in the inter
ests of collectivity.”
This resolution was telegraphed to
the president of the chamber and the
premier.
London. —The Post declared seizure
of factories by workers in Italy is the
first step of a vast conspiracy to over
throw the existing governments In
Europe.
The events in Italy, according to the
newspaper, were timed to occur simul
taneously with the expected capture of
Warsaw by the Bolshevists and were to
he followed by a general strike in
Great Britain and an uprising in Ger
many.
Key to Canton Seized.
Peking.—An unverified report from
Hongkong said key to Can
ton, had been captured by troops of
General Chen Chlung-Min, who is seek
ing to rid the province of Kwangtung
of militarists from the province of
Kwangai and restore Canton as the
seat of the “constitutional govern
ment” of China. Cantonese troops were
reported to have attacked on three
sides following fighting lusting eight
days in the surrounding district. Tsen
Ch’un-Usuan and Wen Tsung-Yao, lead
ers of the military party, it was re
ported, had sent their families from
Canton and were preparing to flee
themselves.
Methodists Say Tia Juana Rotten.
Washington.—Likening T!a Juana,
Lower California, to Sodom and Go
morrah, the board of temperance, pro
hibition and public morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church issued a heated
rejoinder to the refusal of Secretary of
State Colby to withhold passports and
border permits from Americans cross
ing the Mexican border to visit this
lidless town.
$2,225,000 Unaccounted For.
Chicago.—lnternal revenue depart
ment officials began an investigation
to account for the presence of $2,225,-
000 In the federal building vaults with
nothing on the books to show from
whence it came. The presence of the
surplus money was discovered when of
ficials of a corporation, called to ex
plain why they failed to pay $225,000
taxes, produced receipts showing they
had paid. The money was found In
the vault, but the government’s dupli
cate receipt had been lost and no rec
ord made on the books.
CANADA'S HARVEST
IS OVER
Threshing Shows Increase Over
Expected Yields.
The Winnipeg Free Press of a tew
days ago contained a cartoon of which
the following is a copy:
This probably as much as anything
else will give some idea of the state
of mind of the Western Canada farm
er. as he watches the tally from the
thrashing machine while his wheat le
being carried to the elevator.
From all sections of the country,
the most optimistic reports are re
ceived. the local and city papers are
filled with reports from twenty to thir
ty bushels of wheat to the acre, while
In some places oats are showing a rec
ord of as high as 120 bushels to the
acre.
Referring to Saskatchewan, it Is con
fidently expected that the wheat yield
will be nearly 125 million bushels.
Heavy rains which fell In districts that
did not promise so well in July, had
greatly improved the prospects there,
and there is no question that paying
yields will he produced. The yields
In the eastern part of the province
may not show to the advantage that
will those of the western part, but
too much cannot he said of this, for it
Is the results as they come from the
machine, and often these prove happily
deceptive.
There is now every reason to believe
that the wheat crop of the three prai
rie provinces will approach 250 mil
lion bushels.
Alberta will exceed the 70 million
bushels that had been looked for. The
average yield will be considerably
higher than it has been in the province
in any of the last four years.
The Department of Agriculture in a
recent report gave the opinion that It
cannot fall below twenty-two bushels
to the acre, and that It might easily
pass the twenty-five bushel mark.
Most of the wheat In the province
when the report wns written, stood
well up to three feet high, and on
some fields was still higher. The re
port goes on that in parts of South
ern Alberta forty and fifty bushels to
the acre yields will not he uncommon,
while there will be a good many yields
of from thirty to thirty-five bushels
to the acre.
In the northwest part of the prov
ince. In the country surrounding Bat
tleford and adjacent to the Canadian
National Railway line to Lloydmlnster,
and south the crops are excellent and
the yield will be heavy.
A larger than average wheat crop
is being thrashed In Manitoba. It has
been estimated that the total yield
of the three provinces will not be less
than 225.000,000 bushels, and It may
be that somewhere between 250,000,-
000 and 300.000,000 bushels will be the
final figure.
Oats Is a good crop in all three
provinces. This crop has also grown
rapidly during the last two or three
weeks. Excepting from those fields
which were sown late for green feed,
the’yield will be heavy and the grain
excellent. Barley and rye are abovp
the average. There was sufficient help
to harvest the crop.—Advertisement.
Rubber Made From Wood.
Rubber from the ocotillo, or candle
wood, of Arizona Is stated to resem
ble ordinary rubber in all respects and
to vulcanize satisfactorily. The ocotil
lo is very abundant in the wild state.
A ton of the raw material yields about
200 pounds of the gum and 90 pounds
of a tarry substance, and In the ex
perimental factory recently estab
lished a ton of crude gum is reported
to be produced dally. The tarry by
product is of value for certain uses.
The Cuticura Toilet Trie.
Having cleared your skin keep it clear
by making Cuticura your every-day
toilet preparations. The soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per
fumer No toilet table is complete
without them. 25c everywhere.—Adv.
Husband and Wife.
“You never take me anywhere. I
never see any life.**
“What are you talking about? You
can see plenty of life watching the
motorcars whizz past our front win
dows.’* j
No Time to Lose.
Love at first sight may be a good
idea, if you have a few days at the
beach. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Breezy One.
Doctor—“ Your wife needs a change
of air.” Tightwad—“ Well, I*ll get her
an electric fan.”