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RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF k v l(. TAKE 3.000 GERMANS BRITI8H PENETRATE ENEMY'S LINE8 EA8T OF YPRE8 IN ELQIUM. WIN POSTS ON WIDE FRONT Teutons Mass Troopi at Threatened Points, Dut Make No Counter Attacks Allies Menace U-Boat Base. London, Sept. 112. British troops on Uio Belgian front attacked the German positions east of YprcH anil lire re ported to have penetrated the Oeruiun posltlonu us fur a h the Zonucbekc Gheluvelt line. The olllclul report Is sued on Thursday night bays 11,000 prisoners were taken. neuter's correspondent at British headquarters, reporting the extent of tho British advance, telegraphs that up to the time his report was dis patched the Germans had launched no counter-attacks. They were masslug In certain places, however, where tho British guns were bombarding them. Tho British penetration Iiiih reached the depth of a mile, "which, consld In the chnracter of the ground, Is a wonderful achievement," the dispatch ndds. It characterizes the result of the nttnek as n "line success." Field Marshal Hitlg's selection of tho buttle front to the east of Yprcs, In Belgium, us the scene of his latest offensive against the Germans, Indi cates that It Is the coutlnuuuce of the expressed purpose of the British com mander In chief to force the iirmies of Crown Prince llupprecht of Bavaria from tho western coast of Belgium nnd to cut off the German Buhmurine nnd airplane bnses on the North sen from Zccbrugge to Nleuport, Includ ing Ostend. The British drive apparently is be ing made In the direction of Haulers and Courtrnl, from which Belgian towns, according to recent dispatches from the Dutch frontier, the German military authorities have been evacu ating tho civilian population. SUGAR PRICE TO BE LOWER United States and Allies Unite to As sure Economy In Distribu tion. Washington, Sept. 22. Appointment of nn International committee to ar range for the distribution of available i supplies of sugar In the world was an nounced on Thursday by the food ad ministration. Two members of the committee were appointed by the 'al lied governments. They are Sir Jo seph White-Todd and John V. Drake. Si-. Two 'American members of the committee appointed by the food ad ministration are Earl D. Pubst, presi dent of thu American Sugar Refining company, and William A. Jamison of Arbuckle Brothers. The llfth member of the committee Is George M. Itolph. All the beet sugar producers have signed the contract presented by the government assuring a maximum price for beet sugar of $7.25 a hundred pounds nt seaboard rellnlng points as soon as the crop Is available. It Is said that this should mean a reduction of 1 cent a pound In the retail price. WORLD'S SERIES ON OCT. 6 First Game Will Be Played at Chicago Players Will Give Exhibition Con test at Training Camp. Cincinnati, Sept. 22. Chicago won the toss for the opening game of the world's championship series on Thursday ut the meeting of the nation nl baseball commission here. Tho ofllclnl dates for the world's se 'rles as delected by the national base ball commission are: At Chicago, Oc tober 0, nnd Sunday, October 7 ; New York, October 0 and 10 ; Chicago, Oc tober 12 ; New York, October 15. The umpires will be O'Lnughlln and Ev ans of the American league and Klein nnd Itlgler of the National. The world's series players will be Instructed to piny an exhibition game either nt ltockford, III., or at Camp Mills, Mlncola, L. I. PRICE OF COPPER 23 1-2C Employers Unable to Cut Wages and United States May Seize Recal- cltrant Mines. Washington, Sept. 22. President Wilson approved nn agreement en tered Into by the war Industries board by which tho United States govern ment, Its allies and the public will ob tain copper ut 221 cents a pound1 f. o. b. New York. A formal statement said that tho proper departments would bo asked to take over mines nnd plants of those who balked, Tho agreement provides that wages In the copper In dustry, now at a high level, shall not be lowered. Greek General Arrested, Athens, Sept. 22. General Panou los, who ordered the Greek soldiers to lire on tho French nnd Ilrltlsh sol diers In Athens last December, has been arrcste-l at Mlssolonghl. Ho Is considered a dangerous reactionary. Two Americans Die In France. Washington, Sept. 22. The death of two members of thu American expedi tionary forces Is announced. Myron Rerttitnn of North Vernon, Ind., enp tain of engineers, died of a tumor, and JMmunil S(iulr died of pneumonia. CLIPPING t 3533532 BALflMORt AMERICAN W-JSSWaES5?5Siy BIG STRIKE IN WEST GREAT WAR CONTRACTS TIED UP AT SAN FRANCISCO. Employers Shut Down Plants and Await Action by the Administra tion at Washington. San Francisco, Sept. 10. Strike riots and disorders on Monday, lu which 15 persons received injuries necessitating hospital treatment and 30 rioters were arrested, continued throughout the day following the walkout of 28,000 Iron workers ami shipbuilders, which brought work to a standstill on more than $ino,(KH),000 of naval and mer chant vessel construction for tlte gov ernment. The strike Is characterized as the most extensive in the history of the Tactile coast. A company of United States marines was landed at the Union lion works dock, where the men went on strike. It Is r ported another company has been ordered from Mare Island to the plant and that the government will take similar artlnu to protect ship building plants at other bay points. Full details of the strike and the de mands of the 25 unions Involved for higher wages have been reported to Washington. The employers have placed the Nmu' Maturely up to the federal nlllcliiK closing down their plants and making n attempt to op erate while they await government ac tion. BILLIONS VOTED FOR U.S. WAR $7,000,OCO,000 War Deficiency Measure Carries Appropriations for Army and Shipping Boards. Washington. Sept. 20. The .?7.KI0.. 000.000 war deficiency bill, carrying huge appropriations for the army, fortifications utid shipping board". passed tin nouse on iuestiay ity a unanimous vote. The bill, the largest supply measuie In the country's history, now goes to the senate, where prompt action Is expected. With new army and other esti mates, the senate committee laay In; called upon to Increase the bill around $1,000,000. N Senate Republicans favoring a con groRvlonul expenditures supervising committee have been planning to pro pose such a provision as an amend ment to the bill, but may postpone their elTort In view of the general desire to hasten adjournment. ADAMS0N GETS NICE BERTH Father of the 8-Hour Law Is Named General Appraiser at Port of New York. Washington, Sept. 21. President Wilson ecnl the following nominations to tho senate : Judge William C. Adamson of Georgia to be general Ap praiser of merchandise at the port of New York; Byron It. Newton of New York, to be collector of customs at New York; Daniel O. Roper of South Carolina, to be commissioner of In ternal revenue. American Killed by Shell. London, Sept. 22. Harry Shlnn of Philadelphia, nn American citizen, was blown to pieces when a torpedo fired by a German submarine hit n Rrltlsh ship. Two Rrltlsh subjects wero killed at the snino time. German Troop Trains Collide. Amsterednm, Sept. 22. A score of persons were killed and twoycorehurt in a collision of two German troop traliiH between Brussels and Vlllnrs, according to advices tecelvcd here mi Thlll'MlllV. ITS WINGS MORE MEN TO CAMP MOVEMENT OF NATIONAL ARMY CONSUMES FIVE DAY8. General Crowder 'Delivers His Final Ruling on Exemption Appeals Politicians Are Powerless. Washington. Sept. 20. Approxi mately 274,800 men will leave their homes beginning Wednesday on Amer ica's mobilization for war. They are the 40 per cent due Septem ber 20. Never In America has such n force been moved In similar time. All local boards are ready with their contin gents. With the arrival at the camps, the mobilization will be well under way. Fi-e per cent Is already In camp. The next quiitti of 40 per cent will mobilize October 5. Only white troops will he mobil ized, except In states where canton ments are located. There colored troops also will be mustered In. (ieneral Crowder delivered this tlnal ruling on exemption appeals: 1. There Is no appeal to the presi dent except lu claims based on agri culture ,or Industry. 2. No evidence not submitted to dis trict boards will be considered by the president. The provost marshal general ruled however, dependency cTnlnts declined by district boards may be appealed to state governors. BUSINESS BACKS U. S. IN WAR Secretary Baker Says Support Provvr. Democracy Safe for World Speaks at Atlantic City. Atlantic City. N. .7.. Sept. 20. "American business In Its support of the war to make the world safe for democracy Is proving that democracy Is safe for the world," Secretary of War Raker declared on Tuesday In the keynote speech delivered ,iefore the grent war conference of th chamber of commrce of the United States In xs.nn here. "We are marching mil lions strong, our soldiers, our business, our Industry, all we have pledged to the great struggle to free the nations of Kurope." lie continued. Ills dramatic recital of the crimes of Germany aroused 2,000 solid business men guth oi ed from throughout the nation to a remarkable demonstration. They arose, cheering nnd singing, n Mr. Raker pledged all America's might ti the cause of democracy. TO HAVE ARMY OF 2,300,000 Secretary Baker, Preparing for Next 500,000 Selects, Wants $287,- 416,000 More. Washington, Sept, 20. While mo bilization of the first major increment of the National nrmy was proceeding throughout tho country Secretary Ra ker and tho chiefs of tho war depart ment appeared before Uie senate ap propriation committee to present re quests for an additional $287,410,000. with which to provldo equipment for a total of 2.300,000. First Breadless Day In Bay State. Boston, Sept. 21. Wednesday was the first of the two whentless days n week prescribed by the state food ad ministration. Thousands of house wives hnve agreed to co-operate In tho movement. Masons Pledge Loyalty, fjt. Louis, Sept. 21. The Grand Lodge of Missouri, A. F, nnd A. M., In "session here, on Tuesday sent n tele jrnini to President Wilson pledging to him the loyalty of the 70.C00 Masons of Mi-sour! EXPOSE GERMAN DUPLICITY OFFICIAL REVELATION OF ASTOUNDING TEUTONIC TREACHERY INDICTMENT AGAINST THE EMBASSY Dark Intrigue of Imperial Government Revealed in Evidence Obtained by U. S. Depart ment of Information Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington. Teuton dlplomncy the crude, sinister thing, strotchlng its claws out from Wllhcmstrassc to all tho world hnB bcon revealed hero in an olllclal oxposo ns plotting "fright fulness" within this nation. From Von Igcl papers, long In tho possession of tho government, tho committeo on public Investigation has pieced together n story stranger and moro startling than fiction. Within the last few days a German newspaper published in this country employed as the headline of an article dealing with n rumor of German-American disaffection in this country the derisive legend, "Lleb' Washington, xnagst ruhlg seln." This is a parady on tho refrain of "Die Wacht am Ithcln," tho German national hymn: "Llob Vaterland, raagst ruhlg soln." "Loved fatherland, be restful (or undisturbed.)" In the parody It carries a sneer comprehensible only to one who un derstands the German mode of speech and thought. Of itself tho incident Is slight. Rut It typifies a certain important phase of tho German propoganda which subtly but persistently seeks to prsent Ger many's courso in America in tho most favorable light, even to the extent of defending tho improper activities of the Teutonic diplomatic representa tives before their passports wore given them. Rccause of this continu ing propaganda certain documents in the possession of tho department of justice now assume peculiar impor tance, in that they prove undeniably the intimate relations between tho ac credited representatives of the kaiser In tho United States and plotters against tho laws and the security of this country, whose enterprise did not fall short of projected wholesale de struction of life and property. Such of these documents as were essential to legal proceedings brought gainst the Germans have been pub lished. Others are here made public for the first time. They form a curi ous. If disjointed, chapter in the diplo matic history of tho war. Arrest of von Igel. In the fall of 1914, when the German plots against Canada were fomenting In this countyr, there was established, at 60 Wall street, an "advertising" office presided over by a big, suave man of Teutonic aspect named Wolf von Igel. Thoro wero two peculiar features about this office. One was that it was frequented during two years of singularly quiet and unbusi nesslike existence chiefly by Germans who had nothing whatsoever to do with advertising. The other was a largo safe, bearing the insignia of the Gorman imperial government. To this offlco there camo one morning In April, 1916, whllo von Igel was pre paring a mass of papers which ho had taken from tho safe for transfer to the German embassy in Washington, four United States secret service agents from the department of Jus tice, who made their way past tho guardians always on duty, put von Igel under arrest nnd undertook to seize tho papers. The German was large, powerful, and bravo. With the aid of ono associate ho stubbornly fought the officers, striving to rescue the papers, to close tho safe, to get to tho telephone and communicate with his superiors. After a protracted struggle tho defenders wero over powered and tho papers seized. Tho German embassy at once entered its protest. Those wero official papors. They wero sacrosanct. Tho diplomatic prerogative of a friendly nation had been overridden and the person of Its representative insulted. To this the stato department roplled that tho in vaded premises at 60 Wall street wero described In the contract as a private huslnoss offlco for tho carrying on of advertising, and that von Igcl had not been formally accredited as n Gorman representative. When tho papers wero FEED WHEAT TO LIVE STOCK Oklahoma Farmers Resent Action of Government in Placing Ar bitrary Price Oklahoma City Wheat Ib being fod to livestock nn a substitute for corn In many counties of northeastern Ok lahoma, and ponding government no tion very llttlq additional wheat will bo markoted from theso counties nt tho prico fixed by tho food adminis tration, according to a statement by tho Btato board of agriculture Tho action of tho farmors is due to a num ber of causes, chiof of which is tho This Mormon Some Fighter Salt Lako City Fielding K. Smith, 17-year-old son of Joseph Smith, presi dent of tho Mormon church, routed two thugs in a fistic encounter here when they tore an Amorlcan eagle from hlB coat, according to a roport to tho police. Young Smith was cross ing n Hold to his homo whon two men with a flashlight approachod nlm. "Take that dirty flag off," com manded ono. Instead of complying Smith tackled tho couple, knocking ono to the ground, the other taking to his heels. examined by tho department of justice the reason for von Igol's determined fight became appnrcnt. Here, In the form of letters, telegrams, notations, chcckB, receipts, ledgers, cashbooks, cipher codes, lists of spies, and other memoranda and records, wero found Indications In some Instances of the vaguest nature, in others of the most damning conclusiveness that tho German Imperial government, through Its representatives In a then friendly nation, was concerned with Violation of the laws of the United States. Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. Irish revolutionary plots against Great Hrltaln. Fomenting ill-feeling against the United States in Mexico. Subornation of American writers and lecturers. Financing of propaganda. Maintenance of u spy system under tho gulBo of a commercial investiga tion bureau. Subsidizing of a bureau for the pur pose of stirring up labor troubles in munition plants. Tho bomb Industry and other re lated activities. Atop of this now revolution linking tho Germany embassy with throttling designs vagalnst tho United States, came Senator King in the upper con gress branch, producing letters that proved "Fair Play" and other radical newspapers had fattened on tho lar goss of German and Austrian agents. Ho advised weeding out tho propa gandists and counselled making war on Austria, Bulgaria and Turkoy. Con gross sizzled over tho stato depart ment's expose of Dernstorff's attempt to get $50,000 for influencing congress "as on former occasions." Marcus Braun, editor of "Fair Play,'1 figures in both tho committee expose and tho senate discussion. Other newspaper men named are Vioreck, of Viereck's Weekly; Edwin Emerson, noted journalist; J. Archibald, already exposed as an aido to Austrian ma chinations. Senator King's expose showed checks direct from the German em bassy to Marcus Braun, a letter from Braun acknowledging receipt of pay ments and subsides to foreign lan guage papers from Charge Zwledlnek, of the Austrian embassy, including "Telegram Cozlenny," "Illustrovany List" and "Fair Play." Aside from all those sinister reve lations, tho expose chnrged that the Teutons evon tried to operate on high American military men in furthering their schemes. Senator King rovoaled that tho Ger man and Austrian embassies had paid cheeks to Teuton plot aides and prom ised to reveal how tho Teutons had sought to stir antl-Araorlcanism in Japan.' Previously this government had re vealed correspondence which proved: Ambassador Bornstorff wanted n $50,000 slush fund from his govern ment to sway congress against war; that Count Luxburg, Buenos Aires, had used Swedish minister as messen ger for his spurious vorsenkt tele grams; that Foreign Secretary Zlm mormann suggested aligning Mexico and Japan against tho United Statos; that the German ambassador at Mexi co City used tho Swedish minister there ns a spy and messenger; that u German ngent in tho Philippines of fered white women ns a bait to pros pective Filipino insurrectionists. Of the completeness and skill of Germany's spy system in this country, a glimpso is afforded through the voluminous correspondence of Dr. Theo. Otto, of Allentown, Pa. Dr. Otto's special concern was to ascer tain the naturo of tho contracts for munitions nnd nrms upon which the various factories in tho neighborhood were engaged and report them to the Gorman embassy. His work was such us to earn him spoclal commendation, for which ho expresses himself In one of his letters as duly appreciative. scarcity of corn for feeding purposos, coupled with tho fact that tho farmer fools tho government has placed an arbitrary prico upon his product at a tlmo when tho law of supply and do man Is In his favor, without at tho samo time fixing tho prices of other articles for his consumption. Buenos Aires. Tho Argontlno sen ate by a vote of 23 to 1, ImB declared for tho breaking off of relations with Germany. Tho resolution now goes to tho chambor of doputlos. There Is strong public feeling in favor of lis final pasBago. Lincoln, Nob. Nobraskans havo al ready donated 5,000 books which havo been shipped to Kansas City, to pro vldo roading matter for tho Amorlcan soldlors in training damps and al ready in sorvlco in Franco. KanBaB City is ono of tho redistributing sta tions for tho Amorlcan war council, whoro tho books will bo classified and forwarded to tho training camps. More books nvo being collected for tho samo purpose and tho campaign will contlnuo for sovoral weeks until it is deemed a sufficient amount of ma terial han been collected. WOMAN SICK TWO YEARS Could Do No Work. Now Strong at a Man. Chicago. 111. "For about two yean I suffered from a female trouble so I was unable to walk or do any of my own work. I rend about LydiaE. Pinkham'u Vegetablo Com pound in tho news papers and deter mined to try it It brought almost im mediate relief. My weakness has en tirely disappeared and I never had hot ter health. I weigh 165 pounds and am as strong as a man. I think money is well spent which pur chases Lydia E. 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Although they probably hnve not been aware of tho distinction, It Is nono tho less a fact. Of course the Jce crenm is not ordered by the aristocratic name of orchid. On the contrary, It bears the very ple beian name of vanilla. There are said to be no .less than 1(3,000 varieties of orchid scattered over the earth. All of them have the peculiar artificial beauty and tho haunting odor that seem Inseparable from this flower, which looks almoBt ns though It were n product of nn un healthy condition In nature. Of all these 15,000 varieties, only ono has any practical value, nnd that Is the ono from which vanilla comes. Tho plant grows abundantly In South aud Cen tral America, nnd hns been transplant ed to other tropical countries, whero It Is now flourishing. A Pacifist. At three years bid Reginald was al ready n celebrated coward. Partlca larly he was afraid of nil four-footed animals. There was talk In tho family of adopting a dog. "Would you like to have a dog, my son?" said the proud parent. "No," said Reginald. Somewhat later Reginald returned to his father's side. Evidently he had been turning over in his mind tho prop osition recently submitted. Td like to hnve n dog," said he, "If I could have one with his mouth shut." There Was a Reason. Two men thrown together at a horse show were discussing their adventures with the equine tribe. "A horse ran nway with mo once and I wnsn't out for two months," re marked the man with tho plug bat "That's nothing," replied the man with the bowler. "I rnn nway with a horse once and I wasn't out for. two years." , At the Telephone. ' "Hello! I want to see Mr. Diggers at the telephone." "All right. Come around to his of fice. He's Just using the phone." Bnltlmore American. B3 if you never tasted Grape-Nuts FOOD you have missed one of the good things in life Q 63 s JUr W4 IfAMlim yygyyjH'f HT""1 aW. :Mav. jh. jsc i