The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 8, 1917, Page 1

THE FIRST CASUALTY LIST |e American Soldiers at Last Fighting in the Trenches of France. Three Killed, Four Wound. is _ed and Twelve Taken oO Prisoner in the First Fight. . With the American Army in France, Nov. 5 (By The Associated Press)—A small detachment of American infantrymen was attacked in the first-line trenches early Sat- urday morning by a much superior force of German shock troops,. The Americans were cut off from relief by heavy barrage in their rear, They fought gallantly until overwhelmed solely by numbers. The fighting in the trenches was hand-to-hand. It was brief and fierce in the extreme. As a result of the encounter, three Americans were killed and four wounded. A sergeant and corporal and ten men were tak- en prisoner. = Two French soldiers, who were in the trenches, were also killed. The enemy lost some men, but the num- ber is unknown, as their dead and wounded were carried off by the re- tiring Germans. From the beginning of the engage- 3 ment until the end the Americans : lived up to all the traditions of the American army, the records showing the bravery of the detachment and of 4 —individuat members. — ne b Washington, Nov. 5.—Arrange- ments for supplying captured Amer- icans with food and clothing in the German prison camps have. been made through the Red Cross, which has a committee in Switzerland to send rations and other necessaries at regular intervals. As the num- ber of Americans in German hands increases it may be necessary to make further’ provisions for them through the Spanish ambassador in Berlin, who is caring. for American interests there. The capture of the soldiers height- ens interest in the question as to probable ; treatment of American prisoners in Germany. Other’ military prisoners have been[= used on roads and in the: field, and} presumably the Americans will be treated the same way. : Secretary Baker would make | no 3 comment today on the capture. The % facts made public were all that had reached the department, he said, and spoke for themselves. As to treat- ment of prisoners and reports of brutality in the German camps, Mr. Baker’s only comment was that the United States was bound by the Gen- eva convention. and would live up to it so far as any prisoners falling in- to American hands was concerned. The .American troops captured by the Germans in the trench raid on the morning of November 3 prob- ably were trapped in their dugouts and forced to surrender or be blown to pieces with hand grenades with- ‘out a chance for their lives. This is the only explanation which occurs to army officers today, lack- ing any. details of the fighting. General Pershing’s brief report merely stated that the German artil- tery had dropped a heavy barrage fire about a sector of the trench, cut- ting the men off from help. No ex- ~ plariation of the eight casualties and the twelve men taken prisoners’ was received. The fact that one wound- 4 German was captured, however, indicated that the trench had been re- occupied by the American forces. The official casualty list of the losses of American troops in France in their first clash with the Germans follows: The killed: Private Thomas F. Enright; sister, Mrs. Mary Irwin, 6641 Premo street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Private James B. Gresham; moth- er, Mrs. Alice Dodd, 1001 West Ohio street, Evansville, Ind. Private Merle D. Hay; Harry D. Hay, Glidden, Ta. The wounded: Private John J, Smith; brother, F. D. Smith, box 82, Ludington, Mich. Private Charles J. Hopkins; vroth- er, James W. Hopkins, Stanton, Tex. Private George L. Box; father, James L. Box, No. 700 North Grady street, Altus, Okla. , Private Homer Givens; father, William F. Givens, Cloverdale, Ala. Private Charles L. Orr; mother, Mrs. Sarah Regnell, R. F. D. No. 5, Lyons, Kan. Captured or missing: Sergeant Edgar M. Halyburton; father, George B. Halyburton, Stony Poi c. F Coser Nicholas L, Mulhall; ‘mother, Mrs. Bridget Mulhall, 189 ‘Ninth street, Jersey Citv, N. J. Corporal Edwin H. Haines; moth- er, Mrs. Elizabeth Haines, route Piet + paca ae Okla. Private w father, Willow avenue, Louisville, Ky. er, Neil Gallagher, Blockton, Ala, William Lester, Tutiviler, Miss. er, Ada R. Langhman, 461 Oakwood Mrs. Eva Tilton, Collins, Ia. Des Moines, Ia. der and William E. Browder, weré sentenced to one year in the Bates county jail by United States District Judge Van Valkenburg, at City Monday, for refusing to register June 5 for the selective draft. costs of the case were also assessed against them. . mediately by the military authorities. Under a recent ruling of the provost marshal they will be compelled to enter the army after serving the jail sentences, * the court Monday morning to be sen- tenced Judge Van Valkenburg asked them if they had anything to say. Earl R. Browder spoke up: because we do not believe it is con- ‘Stitutional.” plied: your attitude your extreme condition of mind toward the government and the acts passed by Congress. months for each of you.” members of the circle which was found in Kansas City late in May to hamper the operations of the draft law. ©, Sam. Kendall, R. F, D. No. 2, Roll, Okla. Private William P. Grigsby; moth- r, Mrs. Lizzie Grigsby, No. 1278 Private Frank E. McDougal; son f R. 1. McDougal, a real estate man f Maryville, Mo. Private Daniel B. Gallagher; fath- Private John P. Lester; father, Private Harry Langhman; moth; oulevard, Chicago. Private Dewey D. Kern; mother, Private stationed at Fort Dodge, Thomas R. Sullivan, Earl R. Brow- Kansas The The three will be registered im- When the three were taken before “We do not believe the law under hich we were convicted is a law, ‘o that Judge Van Valkenburg re- “You defendants clearly show by Twelve The Browders and Sullivan were| ‘|ture of the city funds. Draft Objectors to the Bates County Jail. STAND AT ATTENTION. Be prepared to greet the cold days in the protecting embrace of a winter overcoat. that old coat that has done its “bit,” but in one of the new KUPPENHEIMER OVERCOATS Come in and behold the long line of models now standing at attention There’s the military turned out ‘trench styles and belted models, and the all ‘round division vice—for ail ’round wear, the husky ulster and great-coat brigade is awaiting the command to go over the top for you and rout. old General Zero. Exceptional Exceptional ==» $18, $20, $25 STYLE PLUS BOYS’ COATS 4 =| Samuel | Levy Mercantile Co. = LARGE LINE TRENCH AND ULSTER COATS AT.............:000-0---- BIS BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8,_1917 DEMOCRATS CARRY NEW YORK Huge Buildings for Offices at Washington. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.—One of the manifold problems presented by the war is that of furnishing ade- quate office accommodations for the Hylan Elected by 100,000 Plurality. Socialists Badly Defeated. New York, Nov. 6.—John F Hylan a county judgé of Kings County, was | 4% eletced mayor of New York today thousands of additional officials, Py a Aa ape rag inca than esi clerks, and other Federal servants He carried wi im. the entire Dem- . . 7 8 ocratic city ticket, including Charles i eee POnP nS inte WW astinaton) L. Craig for comptroller, Alfred E. Fhe Government is exercising its Smith, now sheriff of New York] Ptrogative in this direction and has County, for president of the board}commandeered conveniently located of aldermen and Edward Swann for} office buildings and apartment district attorney. huses. with free hand> Ia vadit The indications are the Democrats} { BAR wi il acs ten noeay: tion, it is erecting huge temporary structures for use as offices, and in will have a majority in the board of estimate, which controls the expendi-| St the building of these contractors are breaking time records for construc- tion work. A building to house the six hundred officials and clerks of the Council of National Defense, containing more than 100,000 square f€et of floor space, was erected and fully equipped in fifty-three days. Similar buildings nearby are for the use of the forces of the Food Admin- istration, Fuel Administration, and Army Ordnance. Work is well un- der way ona mammoth | structure which will cover three city blocks to house the overflow of the War and N Departments, the contract for which calls for completion in four, months, Ry these methods the Government keeps in advance of its actual needs. At the present rate of increase the usual 35,000 Federal employees in| Washington will be more than dowb- led if the war continues another year. Workers of all kinds are being ap- pointed, stenographers and type- writers and draftsmen for service gencrally, ‘and what are known as schedule. clerks, index and catalogue clerks, clerks qualified in statistics or accounting, and clerks qualified in business administration for the Ord- | ndnce Department of the Army, be-/ ing in great demand. Representatives of the Federal civil service commission at the post offices in all cities are the official re- cruiting agents for the great civilian Mayor John P, Mitchel, who! sought reelection as a Fusion candi- date, although not formally nominat- ed by any party, was a poor second in the race. His vote in 1,440 dis- tricts out of 2,060 in the city was 104,729, compared with 205,268 for Hylan. Morris Hiflquit, the Socialist can- didate,-about whom rallied most of the radical elements in the city and all those who favor an immediately negotiated peace, stood third, with 89,879, and William Bennett, who unexpectedly won the Republican primary nomination from Mayor Mitchel, was fourth, with 84,627. Snowed Under Socialists. Chicago, Nov. 6—A bipartisan ticket returning the sitting judges of the county bench to office today defeated by an estimated plurality of eighty thousand votes a Socialist ticket, which was charged with hav- ing appealed to an anti-American and anti-war sentiment. Most of the wards with a large German popula- tion returned heavy votes against the Socialist candidates. In the por- tions of the county outside of the city of Chicago, the German settle- ments voted for the Socialists. In order to be strictly up-to-date, the janitors of several of the public | week also saw forty-six ships sent to schools of Kansas City went on a afmy, an-army of a half million be- strike last week. : hind the men behind the guns. Not in awaiting your inspection. division with its smartly showing coats for any ser- $5 to $10 GOOD Dal? fi FOR MEN AND WOMEN TUESDAY'S ELECTION Submarine Efficiency. A study of the results of thirty-six weeks of unrestricted submarine war- fare on the part of the Germans seems to indicate that they may be expected to sink on an average. of about twenty boats a week, As this is out of an average of about 5,000 arrivals and departures from English ports, it means that the once proclaimed irresistible submar- ine campaign is less than one-half of one per cent efficient. There is one interesting feature about the latest official statement of U-boat losses, however, that one would like to see explained. This is the statement that for the week end- ing October 28, the latest for which a report is offered, only one submar- ine attack was beaten off. Does this mean that the Germans are becoming ‘more efficient when they do strike? For the week in question there were eighteen boats sunk, which may be considered about two below the average. In the week of June 3 there were also eighteen boats sunk, but. that weel: there were seventeen attacks beaten off. In the week of July 15 there were eighteen boats sunk and twelve attacks beat- en off. The same record was made in the week of August 19, and again in the week of September 0, while in the week of October 13 there were eighteen boats sunk and five at- tacks repulsed. ce The weck ending May. 6 saw the largest number of attacks that went for naught—thirty-four—but that Prohibition Wins in Two States. Womans Suffrage Carries in New York and Loses in Ohio. The outstanding features of the elections in the United States yester- day was the apparently assured vic- tory for woman suffrage in New York state by a majority of approx- imately 40,000. While the suffragists were winning in the east, early re- ‘urns from Ohio indicated defeat for them in that state. Two states, Ohio and New Mexi- co, voted on prohibition. Ineom- plete returns from Ohio showed that the contest in that state was very close, with the drys leading by a small margin. The prohibitionists evidently had carried New Mexico. The entire republican state ticket, headed by Governor Samuel W. Mc- Call, won an overwhelming victory in Massachusetts, while the demo- cratic state ticket, headed by West- moreland Davis for governor, was successful in Virginia. Interests in the municipal elections centered upon New York, where Tohn F, Haylan, democrat, defeated Mayor Mitchel, candidate for re-elec- tion, by a plurality of more than 140,- 000. The entire Tammany city ticket also was elected. The socialist vote showed a gain of more than 400 per cent over that cast in the municipal The bipartisan judicial ticket in Chicago defeated by a pluralitv esti- mated at 80,000 socialist candidates standing cn an anti-war platform. The attempt of Senator Penrose, backing the so-called “town meeting” candidates, to oust the Vare brothers from control in Philadelphia, upon the face of the returns up to mid- night, appears to have been success- ful, but at that hour both sides were claiming victory. William A. Magee, former mayor of Pittsburg, seemingly was defeated the bottom. In the week ending September 30 there were only thir- teen boats sunk, the least for any week since the campaign started, and that same week there were sixteen attacks beaten off. It began to look then as if we had learned how to thwart the German submarine com- manders, The latest reccrd isnt so encouraging, and particularly so be- cause there has been a steady dimin- ution of our getaways during Octo-|] by E. V. Babcock, a wealthy business ber, there having been only eighteen man. Both are republicans. Harry for the four weeks, which is only|L. Davis, republican, was chosen slightly more than the average for a] mayor of Cleveland. Charles W. single seven-day period.—Joplin] Jewett, republican, was chosen may- Globe, or of Indianapolis. By electing a George W. Smith mayor 6f. Louis- . : ville, the republican party in that city scored their first victory in ten years. John. Galvin, republican, was chosen mayor of Cincinnati. George F. Buck defeated Louis P. Fuhrman, the incumbent, for mayor of Buffalo. Buck is a republican. Hiram H. Edgerton, republican, was elected mayor of Rochester, and Walter R. Stone, also republican, mayor of Syracuse. Schuyler Merritt, republican, was elected to congress from ¢Connecti- cut to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ebenezer J. Hill, republi- can. Merten E. elected attorney York state. Lewis, republican, was general of New INCREASE IN COAL PRICES NOT JUSTIFIED “There is Absolutely no Excuse for Raising of Prices,” Declares At- torney-General. Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. §.— “There is absolutely no justification for the recent increase of price on granted by Fucl Administrator Garfield. “I feel sure -he is sincere in his work, but the information he acted ‘pon as to the cost of production is not correct, and the prices he has fixed for coal should have been less.” Thus declared Attorney General Frank W. McAllister tonight, after he had held a three hours’ conference vith State Fuel Administrator Wal- ‘ace Crossley. The latter today opened his general offices here. Crossley fears trouble in the bi- tuminous coal mines in Illinois and Missouri, because the miners, with their increased scale of wages, will only work about half the time. In he opinion of Crossley, the Govern- ment should establish a certain week- ly scale of tonnage for the miners to !work in order to keep up the supply. Attorney General McAllister threw down the gauntlet in his determina- ‘ion to fight the coal barons and gave out the following statement: “I propose to fight the excessive ‘ief from them.” Revival Services at the Christian Church. : Very interesting revival services are being conducted nightly at the Christian church in this city. This veek the pastors of the other prot- estant churches in the city will oc- cupy the pulpit, except Saturday night when there will be no services. Sunday will be Rally Day, and an ef- fort is being made to have the en- tire membership of the church pres- ent. Next week the services will be con- ducted by the pastor and will con- tinue indefinitely. campaign four_years. ago. - = coal prices until the people have re-——