Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1918, Page 6

! ! t 1 THE HUN” == BS LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN Copyright, Wis, by Pat Alva O'Brien CHAPTER Vil. Crawling Through Germany. The exact spot at which I mude my lesperate leap I don’t know. Perhaps, tfter the war is over, someone on that rain will be good enough to tell me ind then I may go back and look for he dent I must have made in the rock yallast. I have sald, I didn’t stop very long hat morning after I once regained my senses, 1 was bleeding profusely from the wounds caused by the fall, checked it somewhat with handker- thiefs I held to my face, and I also ield the tall of my coat so as to catch! he blood as it fell and not to leave ell-tale traces on the ground. Before I stopped I had gone about a nile. Then I took my course from the ‘tars and found that I had been going ust opposite to the direction I should | 2e making, but I could not go back tcross the track there. Heading west, therefore, I kept this sourse for about two and a half hours, but as I was very weak from loss of | blood I didn’t cover very much ground in that time. Just before daylight, I came to a canal which I knew I had to cross, and I swam it with everything I had on. This swim, which proved to be the first of a series that I was destined to make, taught me several things. In the first place, I had forgotten to remove my wrist-watch. This watch had been broken in my fall from the air, but I had it repaired at Courtrai. In the leap from the train, the crystal had been broken again, but it. was still going and would probably have been of great service to me in my subsequent adventures, but the swim across the canal ruined it. Then, too, I had not thought to take my map out of my sock and the water damaged that, too. Thereafter, whenever I had any swimming to do, I was careful to take such matters into consideration, and My usual practice was to make a bundle of all the things that would be damaged by water and tie it to my head. In this way I was able to keep them dry. It was now daylight and I knew that it would be suicidal for me to attempt to travel in the daytime. My British uniform would have been fatal to me. I decided to hide in the daytime and travel only at night. Not far from the canal I could see a Héayily-wooded piece of ground, dnd I made my way there. By this time I had discovered that my left ankle had been strained in my leap from the ‘train, and when I got to the woods I was glad to lie down and rest. wound in my mouth had been opened, too, when I jumped, and it would have been difficult for me to have swallowed | had not the piece of bread, which was to serve for my breakfast, got wet when I swam the canal. hiding place in which to spend the day and I tried to dry some of my clothes, but a slight drizzling rainfall made that out of the question. I knew that I ought to sleep, as I planned to travel at night, but sore as I was, | caked with mud and blood, my cloth- ing soaked through and my hunger not nearly appeased, sleep was out of the question. This seemed to me about the longest day I had ever spent, but I was still to learn how long a day can really be and how much longer a night. When night came I dragged myself together and headed northeast. My clothing consisted of my Flying Corps uniform, two shirts, no under- wear, leather leggings, heavy shoes, a good pair of wool socks and a German cap. I had a wallet containing sev- eral hundred francs in paper money and various other papers. I also had a jackknife which I had stolen one day before from the property room at Courtral, where all the personal ef- | fects taken from prisoners were kept. | For a day or two I had carried a knap- sack, but as I had nothing to carry in it I discarded it. I traveled rapidly, considering my difficulties, and swam a couple of canals that night, covering in all per- haps ten miles before daylight. Then I located in some low bushes, lying there all day in my wet clothes and finishing my sausage for food. That was the last of my rations. That night I made perhaps the same distance, but became very hungry and thirsty before the night was over. For the next six days I still figured that I was in Germany, and I was liv- ing on nothing but cabbage, sugar beets and an occasional carrot, always in the raw state just as 1 got them out of the fields. ‘The water I drank|their kindness and sympathy during|for the previous month. was often very rank. One night I lay in a cabbage patch for an hour lapping| wish to express our appreciation to|all articles of food combined show a the dew from the leaves with my|the Salt Creek Masons and Midwest Price increase of 15 per centr tongue! During this period I realized that I must avoid meeting anyone at all haz- ards. I was in the enemy's country and Iny uniform would have been a dead give-away. Anyone who captured me or who gave information from which my capture resulted might have been sure of a handsome reward. I knew} that it was necessary for me to make| progress ag fast as possible, but the but 1! I found a safe | maln consideration wis to keep out of sight, even if it took me a year to get | to Holland, which was my objective. | From my map I estimated that I was about thirty-five miles from Strassburg when I made my leap from the train, and if I could travel In a straight line I had perhaps one hundred and fifty miles to travel. As it was, however, I was compelled to make many detours, | and I figured that two hundred end fifty miles was nearer the extent of the journey ahead of me. | In several parts of this country I had to travel through forests of young pine trees about twelve feet high. They were very close together and looked almost as if they had been set out. They proved to be a serious obstacle to me because, I could not see the stars through them and I was relying upon | the heaven to guide me to freedom. I am not much of an astronomer, but I know the Pole Star when I see it. But for it I wouldn't be here today! I believed it rained every night and day while I was making my way through Germany and Luxembourg. My invariable program at this stage! of my journey was to travel steadily all night until about six in the morn- ing, when I would commence looking around for a place wherein to hide during the day. Low bushes or woods back from the roud, as far as possible from the traveled pathway, usually served me for this purpose. Having found such a spot I would drop down and try to sleep. My overcoat was my only covering, and that ws usu- ally soaked through, either from the, rain or from swimming. The only sleep I got during those days was from exhaustion, and it usu- ally came to me towards dusk when | it was time for me to start again. It was a mighty fortunate thing for ,me that I was not a smoker. Somehow I have never used tobacco in any form. I was now fully repaid for whatever pleasure I had foregone in the past as a result of my habits in that partic- ular, because my sufferings would cer- tainly have been intensified now if, in | addition to lack of food and rest, I had had to endure a craving for to- bacco. About the sixth night I was so drowsy and exhausted when the time came for me to be on the move, that I was very much tempted to sleep through the night. I knew, however, that that would be a bad precedent to establish and I wouldn't give in. I plugged wearily along and about 11 o'clock, after I had covered perhaps The | | a4 Found Myself Right in a German | Back Yard.” | four miles, I sat down to rest for a moment on a shock of brush which was sheltered from the drizzle some- | what by other shocks which were stacked there. It was daylight when I awoke, and I found myself right in ‘a German backyard, You can imagine that I lost no time in getting out of that neighborhood and I made up my mind right there and then that I would never give away to that “tired feeling” again. In the daytime, in my hiding place, wherever it happened to be, I had plenty of opportunity to study my map, and before very long I knew it almost by heart. Unfortunately, however, it did not show all the rivers and canals which I encountered, and sometimes it fooled me completely. It must have been about the ninth | night that I crossed into Luxembourg, but though this principality is officially neutral, it offered me no safer a haven than Belgium would. The Huns have violated the neutrality of both, and dis- covery would have been followed by the same consequences as capture in Germany proper. In the nine days I had coverei per- haps seventy-five miles, and I was that much nearer liberty, but the lack of proper food, the constant wearing of wet clothes, and the loss of sleep and rest had reduced me to a very much weakened condition. I doubted very much whether I would be able to con- tinue, but I plugged along. TO BE CONTINUED oo CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks to Dr. Lathrop, the nurses, F. 'M. Brown, ana many friends for We also our recent bereavement. |Refining company employes for the |beautiful floral offerings. | MRS. J. E. BURKE, Victor, Colo. JOHN W. BURKE, Victor, Colo. MR. AND MRS. L. W. TERRILL, 10-30-1t ‘ Casper, Wyo. NOTICE The masquerade dance to be given by the Royal Neighbors of America on Hallowe'en night has been postponed on account of the quarantine. Notice of its age will appear late B ORDER OF COMMITTEE. er. Plate boiling beef and chuck jlamb. PRINTER FALLS VICTIM TO FLU; BRIEF ILLNESS Fred, Hillstrom, aged 23 years, died this morning at the Red Cross hos-| pital after being ill since Sunday with pneumonia, ‘superinduced by influ- enza. Mr. Hillstrom was a young man of excellent character and while he had been in Casper but a few months he had many warm friends among his fellow workers He had been employed in the mechanical de- partment of the Casper Daily Press and was a member of Casper Typo- graphical Union, Loéal No. 735. He attended a meeting of the union Sat- urday night and seemed in his usual good health. Mr. Hillstrony came to Casper from Lehman, S. D. He is survivew by his wife and one small child, who are in Casper. No funeral arrangements have been made, the body being at the Shaffer- Gay chapel. bd > MILLION PHONOGRAPH RECORDS 15 GOAL OF NEW DRIVE STARTED NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Five hun- dred cities and town throughout the States started an intensive drive to- day, under the auspices of the Phono- |graph-Records Recruiting Corps, this city, to round up a million or more phonograph records to be sent to American soldiers and sailors in can- tonments here and in service over- seas. In New York hundreds of men and women prominent in musical and pat- riotic work who are devoting their |time to make “canned music week” a certain success. The 15,000 music dealers in the United States are co-operating to get the idle or “slacker records” out of their dusty cabinets and into the service of the soldiers. Every music store is a voluntary receiving station for idle records and those sent to the dealers will be promptly put into act- ive service in, some camp, on a de- stroyer or transport or at the front in France. Sir Charles Wyndham, the famous | English actor, served as a surgeon ir the American civil war. ADDITION TO HOSPITAL IS AUTHORIZED | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. | Word has been received from the |superintendent of the state insanc asylum that the permit for the recon- |struction of the building has been |granted. The material is on hand | and work is under way there. This ir | contrary to the report published Sat- jurday afternoon, wherein misinfor mation had been received. Insane patients are being held at |the county jails throughout the state | because of the influenza epidemic which has rendered it virtually impos- sible for keepers to leave the asylum to take care of patients, and more will be taken in as soon as the attend. ants are able to some after them. WYOMING LEADS WORLD AS CATTLE COUNTRY “Wyoming is without a doubt the greatest cattle country in the world,’ isthe remark John Sirom of Laramie made recently. Mr. Strom is in witk a couple of loads of s*eers, “The ranges are in od condi- tion all through our section and good cattle are being run very, heavily this season. Many cattle are up in the timber in the reserve and from recent trips to the timber ranges these cattle are in excellent condition,” he said. According to Mr. Strom these cattle will be on the market after the snow falls. “This,” he said, “is be- cause of the amount of good feed ‘through the timber and the cattle will not come out until snow covers the grass and they are forced to come down to the ranch for feed and water.” —Record-Stockman. Se | 29.— Americans are the greatest water- {drinkers in the world. _——— LIVING COSTS CONTINUE TO GROW, SAYS REPORT The high cost of living is still on its way skyward, according to figures made public by the bureau of labor | statistics. Reports for the month of July this year, shows an increase of three per cent in retail food prices over prices Compared with July 15 last year, For the five year-period, July 15, /1913, to July 15, 1918, prices in- ‘ereased 69 per cent. Meal advanced 123 per cent, potatoes 105 per cent, jlard 104 per cent, and flour 103 per ‘cent. Every article for which the bureau has secured prices had ad- vanceti at least 50 per cent. | | In the price advance of 15 per cent| in one year only beans, potatoes, | were flour, coffee, and bread were cheap- THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE WHEAT STOCKS ~ STILL HIGHER PARTY TO SAFEGUARD INTERESTS, THAN IN 1317 Food Survey of Department of| Agriculture Shows 195 Million Bushels on Hand; Report | es A Is Encouraging t Improvement of Conditions in State WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Ac- (From Wyoming Labor Journal) . cording to a food survey of the de- partment of agriculture dated Octo- ber 1, 1918, the commercial stocks of wheat reported for that date amount- | ed to 195,997,839 bushels as against | 114,331,842 bushels reported on hand in a similar survey for Septeni- ber 1. These figures refer to stocks actually reported and do not rep- resent the total commercial stocks of the country, nor do they include stocks on farms. The stocks reported for October 1 were held by 12,979 firms, consisting of elevators, ware- houses, grain mills, and wholesale dealers. The holdings, like those of September 1, 1918, were nearly three times as large as the stocks| held by the same firms a year earlier, | the actual percentage for October 1/ béing 297.6 per cent of the 1917! stocks. Survey and Visible Supply Compared | The commercial visible supply fig-| ures as published by the Chicago} Board of Trade for the nearest date, | September 28, show 90,623,000 | a year ago, and the corresponding Bradstreet figures for 1918 show 98,155,000 bushels as against 13,- 072,000 bushels for 1917. A very great relative increase in the com- mercial stocks of wheat on October 1 this year as compared with the same date last year is shown by these figures as well as by the results of the more extensive survey. CASUALTIES TO AEF REPORTED BY WASHINGTON The following casualties are re-| ported by the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action__ 7 Died of wounds_- s=° 17 Died of accident.and other causes . ___. 8 Died of disease__ 57 | Wounded Severely __ -141 Wounded, degree~ undeter- min gd irs eee Sk Wounded slightly _ Missing in action__ | Total) ra 24 Sea a> Sees Died of Accident Ambrious R. Christensen, Dagmar, Mont. « Died of Disease Fred Morin, Rosita, Colo. Clarence Emil Neu, Desmet, S. D. Wounded Severely Walter E. Spooner, Climax, Neb. Eric F. Weissborn, Glendive, Mont. Clifford T. Burtt, Twin Falls, Idaho. Glen C. Allen, Sidney, Mont. | Oscar Mack, Weeping Water, Neb. | Wounded, Degree Undetermined | Joseph G. C, Conrad, Libby, Mont. | é seas E. Rouse, Colorado Springs, | ‘olo. | Harold Sinclair, Baker, Mont. _| Byron D. Martin, Denver, Colo. } Owen L. Olinger, Curtis, Neb. Joseph J. Stephens, Omaha, Neb.) Slightly Wounded | John V. Chermake, Ulysses, Neb. | Coleslaw Rozski, South Omaha, | Neb. zi Missing in Action Ralph Dewitt King, Crete, Neb. MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES The following casualties are re-| vorted by the commanding general of | the American Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action = See eases 2 Died of wounds received in action 5 ae Died’ of disease a a Wounded in action, severely 3 | Wounded in action, degree undetermined _ 1 Missing in action_ 19 In hands of enemy__- 2 Total __ Died of Wounds + Nelson Peterson, Dayton, Idaho. Died of Disease Jens J. Jensen, Winside, Neb. Missing in Action Harold T. Stoy, Pocatello, Idaho. Fe PLEAD EAAA AAA A A dh dh hd Prisoner | Wayne J. Colahan, Lewiston, | Mont. | —-- ———__ NO CHANCE AT ALL One dusky citizen was in uniform. | The other clung to his civilian garb| and railed against the draft. “I ain’t a-goin‘,” he asserted, ‘an’ nobody | gwine to make me.” “Niggah,” re- plied the other earnestly, “Ef Mr. Woodrow Wilson wants you to go,| youse goin’! Dat man jes’ took a hour of daylight from God Almighty. Den he done took all de railroads away from de white folks an’ give ‘em to his son-in-law. What chance has you got’’—Written by Miss Eng- say sister of Attorney Frank Eng- land. § roast advanced 36. and) 33 per cent, and sirldin steak 29 per cent. Hens 36 per cent higher. Lard, pork chops, bacon, ham and lamb showed increases ranging from 19) per cent for lard, to 25 per cent for) | apparent that the Republican party, | with the needs of labor. LABOR MUST LOOK TO REPUBLICAN SAYS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF UNIONS Labor Well Represented on Legislative Ticket and’ Republican Candidates Are Also Pledged to | Robert D, Carey, Republican nominee for governor of) Wyoming, having made his declaration respecting his attitude | toward labor and favoring among other things an increase in the amount of compensation to be paid under the working- men’s compensation act of the state, and having pledged the! candidates upon the state ticket with him to his policies, it is is seeking to carry out its plan by/ ness, good judgment and sanity of its placing in nomination upon its legis-| leaders who have obtained wonder-| lative ticket, men who are by their fy] results for organized labor with-! occupations intimately acquainted out pursuing methods of the boycot- | ter and agitator. Among the men who are candi-| These men who have been men-} dates for the legislature this year) tioned are not only qualified to safe- upon the Republican ticket are Wil-| guard the interests of labor in the) liam J. Walls of Cheyenne, secretary | next legislature, but are conservative, of the Trades and Labor Assembly,| reasonable, and progressive men, president of the Pressmen’s union,| well informed, broad minded and secretary-treasurer of the Allied/ qualified to pass upon and deter- Printing Trades Council, and inter-| mine any measures which may come national state organizer for printing| before our lawmakers at the next pressmen atid one of the most promi- | legislative session, and can be trust- | nent’ organized labor men in the/ed in that regard by all divers in- state; Matt Bunten of Rock Springs, | terests. William McIntosh of Superior, Dan} .On account of the fact that many Prentice of Reliance, all of whom be- long to the ranks of organized labor, and Thomas R. Wilson of Alta, Jessie L. Hall of Lusk, and F. E. Gildory of Sheridan, who have come from the of the state senators hold over and are not elected this year, that the WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1618 NO TRADE WITH U.S. AFTER THE WAR, HUN CRY Imports from This Nation Must Be Curtailed, Says Rhenish Westphalian Gazette AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30—*“No buy- ing from America if it can possibly be avoided,” must be the German watch- word after the war is the assertion of the Rhenish Westphalian Gazette, an important German industrial organ. The reason given by the paper is that before the war, the balance of trade between the Unitd Stats and Ger- many was against Germany to the extent of nearly 1,000,000,000 marks a year. Germany imported from the United States goods to the value of 711,000,000 marks while German exports to the United States amount- ed to 713,000,000 marks. Dividends on German holdings of American se- curities, in addition, helped to pay the bill of goods bought in America. “How could we possibly meet a still further increased debit balance,” asks the paper in despair. ‘We had to realize our American securities to pay for raw materials while the United States was still neutral, to meet demurrage on our ships held in American ports.” The conclusion seems inevitable to the Gazette that Germany must so curtail her cotton and copper imports from the United States as they do “Wyoming senate has always had ajnot exceed or only slightly exceed, large Republican majority, and of|her own exports of fertilizers, dyes, the fact that the next legislature will| chemicals, etc. The rest of-Germany's | ample of the supreme importance of, four million men who will be under | per cent nearer. ranks of labor. The present condition of power and influence of organized labor in Wyoming is due more, perhaps than from any other, to the level headed- MORALE THAT WINS BATTLES IS STRENGTHENED BY UNITED WAR _ WORK AGENCIES; DRIVE IS NEAR Never in the history of the world; ‘Viewed as a total sum, $170,500,- has there been so specatcular an ex- 000 seems gigantic, but divide it by in all probability be Republican, it is seen at this time that labor must look to the Republican party to safe- guard its interests in the legislature this year. morale as is now being presented on| arms in our army and navy during! the western front. The forces that the period it is expected to cover and confront each other are not widely) it means less than 15 cents. a day dissimilar in number or equipment. per man. Yet one army is constantly with-, “Surely there is no father or drawing and the other irresistably| mother or friend of a soldier in this moving forward. The difference is| great. country who will say that 15 spelled in the single word—morale. | cents a day is too much to sped on Now that the Liberty loan is‘over| his church, his home, his libar), his there is just One more task forthe|theater, and his club over there.” American people—to provide the) General-Franchet D'Esperey, com- comforts of life for American boys| mander-in-chief of Allied operations thru the United War Work campaign;) in the Balkans, whose whirlwind which has for the purpose of raising| drive forced Bulgaria out of the war funds, amalgamated the seven or-| and brot a victory over the central ganizations doing welfare work for| empires nearer, was enabled to win the soldiers and sailors—the Y. M.|thru the strengthened morale of his erstwhile imports from America, it says. can and must, be stricken off the list. . “Our imports of American agricul. tural machinery must cease,’ says the writer. The openings offered in Russia, Rumania and the Balkans are so great that we must push our own machinery there with all our might.” of C., Salvation Army and others of American dollars in behalf of the French soldiers. In a letter to the director general of the Foyers, General d’Esperey re- cently wrote: “It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to testify my apprecia- tion to the work that is being accom- plished by the Foyer due Soldat of the Franco-American union, which is under your direction. In extending your activitiestto the army in the Far East, you are accomplishing a noble and useful work. The soldiers who'are separated ftom their coun- try even more ‘than the soldiers who are fighting on their own soil, appre- ciate the service which you' have ren- dered in co-operation with the Y, M. C, A. in establishing these Foyers du Soldat, where the soldiers are able to come together for rest and recrea- tion. I am assured that the results Cc. A., Y. W. C. A., K. of C., War) jyces. General d’Esperey was deco- Camp Community Service, Jewish|rated in honor of his achievement. Welfare Board, American Libraray| He gave enthusiastic endorsement to Association, and Salvation army. the morale-strengthening influence It is the service rendered by these} of the Fuyezs du Soldat, the organi- organizations that makes for the) zation for soldier welfare built up splendid morale of the American|in the French army with the coopera- armies. General Pershing in a re-\tjon of the American Y. M. C. A, cent letter commenting on the work/ one of the seven agencies joined in of these agencies quoted with ap-| the. United War work campaign. proval the statement of one of his| ‘French military authorities are en- which you have achieved will en- courage those who have already aided you in this patriotic call to respond again in your next financial cam- paign. = Liberty Bonds wanted. Highest cash price paid. Room 4, Kimball Building. Security Loan Co, phone colonels who said, “Give me nine/thusiastic in their gratitude for the men who have a hut to spend their expenditure thru the Y. and the K. evenings in and I will have a-better| = 702, . 10-12-tf When you are hungry think of the White House Cafe. 10-26-23) fighting force than ten men would | . be without it.” | Dr. John R. Mott, director general of the United War Work campaign says, “If it is worth 24 billion dollars to keep our boys under arms next} year surely it is worth 170 million and more to add 10 per cent to their fighting edge to bring victory 10 This is the appeal | of the seven united war work agen-| cies to America and particularly to those four million homes where ser- | vice flags fly. TO THE VOTERS OF WAIT A MINUTE—Uncle for his service, but he is not too old to make you a thoroly efficient, officer as County Assessor of Natrona County. Vote for ED McGRAUGH for County Assessor Next Tuesday in Casper goes Great Maje a from us ’ COLD WEATHER IS HERE We Carry the Largest Line of Heaters Coles Hot Blast Great Western Oak Exclusive agents for the We can save you money by buying & Schulte Hardware Co. NATRONA COUNTY Sam says that he is too old MIMD SIM. stic Range 132 North Center St. GLE EAM LM Ahh Ah hh AA AEALAALAAAALAL ‘ ASI LILLE LAPP LL AD 2