The Oskaloosa Herald. VOL. 61 6 NO. OSKALOOSA, IOWA, THURSDAY. AUOLST as lOIS ESTAB. 1850 FIFTY MILES CUT GENERAL TRAUB AND HIS STAFF IN ' OFF OF HUN LINES MANK TOWNS ARE RECENT HAVE SHORT- TAKEN! VICTORIES ENED WESTERN FRONT. Both 32 AMERICAN DIVISIONS NOW the British and French

Ready Are Fully Equipped Flitting and For Ac- Forces the tion in France—Big Task Yet Be- fore the U. S. in Putting 4,000,000 Across by June. Hun Hard Today Washington,, Aug. 21. Thirty-two complete organized American divis- ions, around one million four hundred thousand men, are now in France, Chief of Staff General March an- French Troops nounced today. ¦March pointed out that to accom- FRENCH FORCES Within Miles BRITISH IN NEW Brig. (ten. 1.. Trnub 2 plish this remarkable task it took Peter ami staff, U. S. Infantry, la France. A French liaison officer Is seated at the,right. many ships, and in the meantime to keep up the present progress and ef- of Today ficiency in the project of four million CAPTURE CUTS DRIVE TAKE SIX men as is now planned by next June MRS. J. P. WALTON IS LEADER In The Wake THREE IOWA DEATHS TODAY the number of ships already on hands (By John De Gandt) will have to be than doubled. Oskaloosa Lady Chosen Chairman of One Killed in Action, One Died of more 5:30 p. troops Y. W. C. A. War Work Cam- Of The War Wounds and One Paris, m.—French Succumbs AND Hun Are TOWNS IN 4 HOURS Lines Shortened. paign for Sixth District. To Disease. outflanked the Ourscamps Forest The emergency fleet corporation is doing of war; MANY OTHER VILLAGES ALSO and have reached a point- near ATTACK “splendidly” to catch up, March Des Moines, la., Aug. 21.—Setting in 1479 day the 35th day Washington, Aug. 21.—General Per- STARTED IN FOG AT 4:45 said, but there is a need of ships motion the machinery which is to send of the counter ocensive. shing’s overseas casualty lists as is- FALL INTO Pontoise, less than four thousand which THEIR HANDS. O’CLOCK THIS MORNING. must cause a great increasing the story of Y. W. C. A. war work to sued by tlie department today carried production Picardy front: General Byng's yards or slightly more than two effort. every corner of lowa, leaders have tnree hundred and thirty-seven names. The pofrited the signifi- Third army opened a surprise at- miles southeast of Pres- chief out been appointed in the 15th federal dis- The list included killed in action 56, Noyon. cance of the fact that the general ef- tricts of the state. With the exceptions tack on a ten mile front between missing in action 144, wounded se- sure is now being methodically ex- fectiveness of the blows recently dealt PINCERS ARE AGAIN IN USE 6EN. of districts 1,3, and 5 (headquarters Albert and Arras at 4:45 o’clock verely 94, died of wounds 14, died from BYNG IS LEADIN6 FORGES out to the was for the pur- Moines erted towards and Noy- G 4 flans at Burlington, Creston and Des this morning. The assault accident and other causes 2, wounded pose of shortening the German lines was respectively), all districts are announc degree undetermined died on. The latter place is now not from the North Sea to Rheims which made under a heavy mist with 20, of dis- American Forces Are Camping On ing their leaders today. New Action Covert a Ten Mile Front as it now is less than two ease 7. only threatened from the south- stan/ds Headquarters for this informative tanks, cavalry and infantry pre- the Trail of the Retreating Huns hundred miles, thus being a reduction lowans in the list were: and Is Proceeding Satisfactorily campaign will be with Miss Esther ceeding. and Are Making Every Step east but also from the southwest. of fifty miles during the past week’s Killed in Action. Says Haig's Official Report. Erickson, state director for Y. W. C. Miserable For Th m. operations. By nine o'clock the British Counter Attacks Repulsed. A. war work, who is established in the Private Ernest R. Wilcox, Union- forces had advanced Young Men in Separate Class. Des Moines Y. W. C. A. She will work two miles ville. Paris, Aug. 21, 12:30 p. m.—The SOUNDS LIKE A FIGHT AT SEA (By Lowell Mellett) Washington, Aug. house through tne district leaders, who in and were then only about that Died of Wounds. French forces continue to progress on 21.—The With military through important the front the British Armies in,France, committee today ordered turn will work the leaders of distance from the city Lieutenant Laurence C. Shull, Sioux whole between the and | Heavy Firing Was Reported Today night captured August army Chairman Dent to report the new man the counties which their districts of Bapaume. City. the Aisne last and About Eighty-Five Miles Off the 21.—General Byng's power carrying Carlepont bill an amendment of comprise. County eaders have not vet Died of Disease and Cuts, the French war Atlantic Coast. struck the Germans on a ten mile putting men of eighteen and nineteen Asine-Oise front: General Man- statement today. been named. office announced The Arras Albert a years age t Private Fred Repphum, Lamotte. front between and In of in a separate classifica- To get the war time activities of gin is advancing on the whole Germans failed to counter attack. An Atlantic Port. Aug. 21.—A re- tion and not them In Marine Corps. heavy fog this morning. calling until all the the Y .W. C. A. before the public, five twenty-five mile front between French troops are advancing to the port of heavy firing eighty-five miles older men been I had taken. The bill different methods will be employed. the Oise and the Aisne. North of The Marine Corps casualty list car- west of Lassigny in very sharp fight- < off the Atlantic coast taken to in- The attack began shortly before will be reported favorably just as Through the Bureau of Information of Sojssons the advance now reaches ried fifteen names and showed 5 killed ing. 1 dicate a battle was under way be- five o’clock and just four hours later soon as it can be printed which will a depth of five miles. in action, 1 died of wounds, 3 wounded tween a steamship and a submarine be which Mrs. H .C. Evans is the head, Important Positions Taken. the British forces had captured Moy- either late this evening or tomor- \ literature dealing with the subject will severely in action, 6 wounded degree were brought here today by captains row. Flanders front: The British undetermined. "Between the Oise and the Aisne ( ennviller, Bucquoy, Albainzeville, Cour be distributed. Mrs. Chas. Rawson is No lowans were in of fishing vessels forces attacked on a mile front there was no change in the situation in charge of the Bureau of Meetings, the Marine casualties. Captain George F. Perry of the cellies, Acheit-Le-Petit and Beaucourt GERMAN STUDY DISCARDED this morning on the J-awe river last night as the enemy failed to re- schooner which will have the subject presented i Goodspeed reports that he on the Ancre. and won all of the objectives and act,” the communique said. 1 was fired on by a submarine early before chautauquas, fairs, institutes of took a number of prisoners. yesterday morning.' The steamship Big Guns Cut Loose. French Will Supplant Hun Language the County Teachers Associations, dis- “The French continue to progress] BIG JOB FOR CLAUDE PORTER was running in the Public Schools. women’s clubs, Russia: American Red Cross on the whole front and have captured 1 at a good speed and the At five-twenty the big guns which trict meetings of flash Units arrived Vladivostok Carlepont and Cuts. To the west of of the guns could be plainly churches, socials and all other ready- have at President 1 had been concealed in readiness for Des Moines, Aug. 21.—Not a single Considering Him for Assist- Lassigny the French progressed in seen, according to Perry. made audiences. Mrs. H. S. Hollings- from Tokio. Some of them leave 1 several days let loose a great public school Attorney General very fire of in lowa will offer Ger- worth, through the Bureau of Recruit- immediately for the Czecko-Slo- ant for Ability sharp fighting. In the western S. O. S. Call is Heard. study year, sabro and the troops sprang into ac- man in its courses of this ing, will enlist the co-operation of vak front. Displayed in I. W. W. Trial. part of the front German raids were Washington, Aug. 21.—An S. O. S. tion. according to A. M. Deyoe, state super- prominent people everywhere. Speak- repulsed.” ( Spain: Official confirmation was call about one hundred and fifty miles intendent of public instruction. be through the Washington, D. C„ Aug. 21.—Claude By six several parts the ers will furnished received here today that Spain Battle Line Being Lengthened. i off the New England coast was receiv- o'clock of Schools generally will be opening Speakers' Institute Bureau, which was .It. Porter, United States attorney for ed here by the navy department to- has sent a note to the German By Web Miller, Paris, 10 a. m., Aug. | lines were passed. the first week in September and th,e managed by Mesdames Fred L. Wells the southern lowa district, who assist- day. The department's policy is government announcing that she 21, —General Mangin is continuing his to Moyenneville where resistance was public school courses, including those and W. G. Lichty. Mrs. J. G. Early will ed iiKthe prosecution of 100 I. W. W. withhold such calls until details of will seize and intern German ton- advance between the Oise and the very was captured at six-fifty. of the high schools, have been rid of keep all agitators at Chicago is under consider- an investigation with facts are avail- active records. nage for all her ships that are Aisne rivers, and has made important Prisoners there said they all text books on the Hun language. ation by President Wilson for nomina- able. taken that Newly announced district leaders sunk German U-boats in the In the French appears to by tion as an assistair attorney gains at some points. had been expecting th'e British forces high schools are:, District 2, Mrs. Laura Jordon. future. general Huns Using Captured be the study and succeed William who Several more villages have been Ship for the past week. popular language pro- District 4, Mrs. J. H. Pace, to C. Fitz, re- Ottumwa: occupied. He is gradually extending A Canadian Port. Aug. 21. The vision has been made for the studying Council Bluffs; District 6, Mrs. J. H. signed recently it was learned today. 200 Prisoners By 7:05 a. m. his fighting front eastward until now steamship trawler Triumph reported of other foreign languages. Walton, District 7, Mrs. I. Mr. Porter has been district attor- Two Oskaloosa: it reaches from the Oise almost to to have been seized by a German sub- hundred prisoners were re- 8, Mrs. HON6ER AND NOT DISCONTENT ney since 1914 and was chosen by At- Jos. Hecht, Davenport; District Soissons over an irregular line near- marine yesterdajflias been armed with ported taken at seven-five. Some ma- TIED UP FOR WEEK. F. M. Hanna, Cedar Rapids; District torney General Gregory to act with guns captured. TRAFFIC ly twenty-five miles long. guns and manned German crew chine had also been Towle, Clinton; Dis- Was the Cause of Riots in Japan as Frank Nebeker of Salt Lake City in Only * 9. Mrs. Stewart of sixteen and is raiding flishing a few casualties were suffered the Japanese People are Thor- Tide. ves- Damage Caused by Storm Worse Than trict 10. Mrs. C. F. Altstadt, Waterloo; the prosecution of the 1. W. W. Huns Trying to Stem sels along the fishing banks by the British. oughly Loyal. according First Computed. District 11, Mrs. M. M. Blaise, Mason The Germans are pushing up reen- to survivors reaching here today. At 7:15 Coucelles was captured. Mr. Porter was called to Chicago City; District 12, Mrs. G .W. Ruth, forcements in motor trucks and are Three schooners are already said to on the New York. Aug. 21. —Three parts early in the year to take charge of Tanks Ride own Entanglements. Dubuque, Aug. 21.—Traffic Marshalltown; District 13, Mrs. Mary consolidating their resistance at the have been destroyed by the new raid- hunger and 4>ne part politician is the the government’s case against the I. Illinois Central between here and Johnson, Boone; District 14, Mrs. E. Carlepont border on the eastern banks ing vessel. The attack which the Germans had Dyersville tied up for week Dodge; formula of the present race riots and W. W. organization. will he a H. Williams, Ft. District 15, of the Oise Horn Bailly north to been expecting for the last week burst damage by the discontent in Japan according to because of the caused the Mrs. E. J. Stason, Sioux City. He left his work in lowa and lias . up in a camouflage mist laid manager string of ho- of which storm early last Saturday morning. Yoakama, of a devoted his entire time to the I. W. for some time over the ragged and Japan and Manchuria and Di- General Mangin is now In posses- AMERICAN RED CROSS IN RUSS. The wreck near Julien in which tels in W. worn to the GRENADE KILLS OFFICER. Man- sion of scores of villages and many battle fields and clung three men were killed and which was rector General of the Eastern ground while the tanks, Just what effect the new appoint- scores of strong points. He is holding One Unit Reaches Vladivostock With cavalry and due to a washout, has not been clear- churian railroads who is today in New and ment will have on his gubernatorial the entire Carlepont-Cuts road. Cuts 70,000 Pounds of Supplies to infantry pushed their way over ed up. the road stated yes- Lieut. Olaf Dann of Austin, Minn./ York. Officials of candidacy has not been disclosed. miles south of Aid Czecko-Slovak. around the enemy’s trenches and the terday that practically the entire line Victim at Cody. “Only hunger could have precipita- is four and one-half Noyon. newly barb wire entanglements. between here and Dyersville would ted such lawlessness on the scale of SIMPSON A WAR London, Aug. 2l!—An American Red Huns Field. have to be gone over and a large part the rice riots” said Yoakama. “Politi- SCHOOL. Many Other Positions Captured. Abandon Big Denting. N. M., Aug. 21.—An explod- Cross unit has arrived in Vladivostok of the roadbed replaced entirely. cians who are opposed to the govern- The British had made good progress ing hand grenade killed Lieut. Olaf B. Officer Is To Be'Sent To Hills 130 and 141, Belle-Fontaine from Tokio, bringing seventy thous- ment have been for some time trying U. S. Army before the sun shone down through Dann, of Austin, Minn., at Camp Cody Indianola. and were also captured. It Is and pounds of hospital supplies and FIRES RAGING to spread discontent of course, but the clouds about nine o'clock and FOREST today. The grenade was thrown by an also believed however that Hill 156 provisions a dispatch from that they never could have turned such loy- city cleared the mist which revealed that enlisted man from a transverse trench Washington, D. C. Aug. 21.—The has been reached and the table land reported today. al Japanese people into property de- t the had out of Valuable Property in Northern Min- during practice. A noncommissioned to the of Vassenes. Boches cleared most hurger. 1 war department has ruled in response north Part of the unit will go to the high nesota Destroyed by Flames officer in Lieutenant Dann’s company stroyers, had it not been for of the points on this side of the thousards of poor people to a request by Representative Dowell, He occupied Vaurezis two and one- Czecho-Slovak front immediately. saw it coming, shouted a warning and know that enbankment of the Arras railroad. A without sufficient food for that Simpson college, Indianola. have half miles northwest of Soissons. Virginia. Minn., Aug. dropped to the ground, escaping with nave been heavy clash of artillery preceded the 21.—Forest' because of the a unit of the students’, army training He has also taken Epheny six miles LESS SUBSTITUTES fires of serious extent and brush fires a severe case of shell shock. some time lately, , | i advance. J only corps. Prof. J. W. Campbell recently northwest of Soissons, Valprlez and are covering nearly forty miles along instantly. wealthy nee hoarders and the specu- Lieutenant Dann was killed wrote that there was great demand for the as far as Pom- Will Soon Be Required in the Use of; Fog Favored the British. and range high- lators. all lines to south the Vermillion Mesaba j His brother, Lieut. George B. Dann, drill there and that an officer Soissons. Flour. many asked mieres two miles west of No report had been received from ways. Hundreds of fire fighters, ( was the first to reach the body. Lieu- be detailed to train students. He also are at work. Two ALL DAYS FREE TO G. A. R. Americans the Pinchers. Miraumont and Lograst Woods, two of them volunteers, tenant Dann’s parents left here for said many students would refuse to Applying Washington. D. C., Aug. homes 21.—Repre-1 highly Important points where the of the blazes threaten summer home today after visiting their two school unless given opportunity By Fred ST Ferguson, With Ameri- sentative who Ten-Day Guests the attend Ramseyer conferred British forces were busy clearing out near Ely and property in Biwabik, a sons. Old Veterans at officer will be France, August — * for drill. An detailed can Armies in 21. with food administration officials to- machine gun nests of the enemy. menaces property west of Vir- State Fair. third soon. The French advance between the Oise day about lowa complaints as to the Conditions for the others are burning along the attack were ginia and BRITISH MILITARY MISSION and the Aisne is rendering the German distribution of sugar and wheat flour No Virginia and Hibbing Des Moines, Aug. 21.—Crocker and ideal. smokp barrage qquld ever roads between IN lines on the Vesle more difficult. substitutes, got reassuring news as to Keewatin. Kinsman posts of the G. A. R. wish to ft HEAVY CROPS ENGLAND. equal the e%cyy ( enfl^f .^f„.«>#. .fob, . being swung they 1 pqmaoflQD o'low «Jnt- Which Instructed hunhusker Division announce that all soldiers and wives As the Boche lines are substitutes. He was advised So far as the tanks were concerned civil war will Grain Yields Are Said to Be Largest back east and south of Noyon the en- would soon be cut uown to 20 per cent the crews were able to see if nces- 19TH DIVISION Has Departed From Camp Dodge. and widows of veterans TOCOMMAND be admitted to the state fair this year Since 1868. emy’s positions east of Soissons are instead of 50 per cent, and that a vic- sary while the tanks themselves were on any and all days free of charge I ¦* being so pinched that there is a pos- tory flour would be required of 80 per hidden from the Germans until tt From Fourth Camp Dodge, Aug. 22.—The officers Students Commiesioned through the courtesy of the state of London, Aug. 21. —England's grain sibility of them being forced to make cent wheat flour and 20 per cent sub- was too late to make any effective Be Training School to Assigned. of the British military mission w T ho lowa. An erroneous report has been crop this year will be the biggest retirement before the American forces stitutes as a result. It is expected the resistance. have been aiding in instruction to the given that but one day would be free ¦ since 1868, Sir Charles Fielding, di- from the Vesle to the Aisne. complaints over substitutes will disap- Byng Was Hero of Camp Aug. learn- division have 8L Quentin. Dodge, 21.—1 t was Hunhusker departed. for the soldiers. rector general of food production, in- American patrols are in close con- pear, as the present plan is not to re- ed today that students who are com- They to instruction to General Byng's Third army held the departed give forms the Daily Mail. Several thousand tact the Boche soldiers so as to quire them after about Rept. 1, except from the Fourth Officers with : line Arras and a point near missioned other divisions. Senator James Very Low. soldiers are working on farms and first as mixed with the standard forms of here will be to detect the start of their with- St. Que*in at opening the Training School used Captain H. K. Ross has been sent Baltimore, Aug. 21.—The condition other harvesters, including school flour which the government pre- the of t drawal. offensive on He officer tba new 19th division now to Camp Lewis, Wash., for duty as of United States Senator Ollie M. boys, undergraduates, Boy Scouts, scribes. jOeran March 21. will close Both In, withstood the enemy's assaults suc- forming here. The school inspector. Sergeants W. H. Robinson James of Kcntueky, who has been i village and college girls, Norwegian Sides Digging Distribution of sugar, Mr. Ramseyer that the new cessfully until General Gaugh’s shortly and It is expected and J. A. Ohborne, non-commissioned ill at Johns Hopkins hospital off and Swedish and Belgian refugees American artillery heavily was told, entirely In the hands Fifth > pounding was of army to thp right gave way and com- in** will be commissioned and asslgn- members of the mission are at Camp Fjrtght’s disease for about there 1 and German prisoners. City clerks are | the state food adm.nistratlon after the * Kill. . ImiiHKllalelyr—- as instructors in I raining. months was grave today. i spending (heir on (Continued Page 2.) total : |' •etuiDaoO) Shifrijlan vacations farms. on | allotment for the state is made. ’ (Continued on Page 2.)I