Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1918 — Page 3

URGE WHALE MEAT AS SUBSTITUTE FOR BEEF

A movement to urge the people to eat whale meat as a substitute for beef, lamb, artd other victuals has been begOn by the American Museum of Natural History. Statistics submitted by this institution show that this whale meat can be marketed for about 12J4 cents a pound and is- just as tasty and nourishing as any other meat. It has been used in Japan as a foodstuff for the past 20 years, and has proved satisfactory. Should this r.ew eatable appeal to the American people it will undoubtedly result in t tremendous expansion in the whaling industry. The photograph shows the enormous tongue of a Gray whale.

TELLS OF NIGHT LIFE IN THE TRENCH

Correspondent Gives Thrilling Description of First Experience at Front. LIGHTED BY STARRY BALLOON Night Watchers Trust Nobody But Themselves—Both Bides Watching the Flaring Bombing and Machine Gunning at Intervals. With the French Armies in the Field. —Night life in a first-line trench has Its little bag of thrills for the beginner. Polios say night trenches are monotonous, but all Pollus have seen livelier things than trench life. To an American correspondent, spending a first night on the fringe of No Man’s Land precisely as no doubt hundreds of thousands of Americans will before the end of the war, a nocturnal trench has all the melodramatic elements to keep up interest and drive monotony away. Darkness seems to settle down quickly over t;he frowsy, weedy, gray strip in front, which nobody owns and nobody treads in daylight. A battery of French guns bark sharply in the rear. Firefly flashes wink a mile behind the enemy’s wire. The French gunners are saying “Good night” to a Boche battery, and the dull “boom,” "boom,” “boom” —then the squeal of enemy steel above tells you the Boche is answering. Unless unforeseen things happen tonight, the gunners will “rest on their arms” until daybreak. On “quiet” sectors like this it often happens. With darkness down, the night shift is eating supper in their dugouts and rigging out in sheepskin jackets to begin the silent night watch over the parapets. The dugouts—corrugated steel and sand-bag construction at intervals a few yards back of the first line —are smelly and dark, but filled with life. Its human, life and Insect life, the latter making little difference so long as steel and sandbags shed vagrant shells. Men say they can get accustomed to insects, but the bite of a shell is different. *> Signs of America. The correspondent found the inevitable American sign in these dugouts tonight. Penciled names on the wooden bunks suggested New York’s East side, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and other purer American names suggested early settlers on the prairies of the middle West. In fact, it was in the trench Just outside that a small body of American “Sammies” on November 8 fought desperately against overwhelming German odds in America’s first battle of the big European war. i The night Pollus have taken their places a few yards apart along the parapet. The day Pollus have filed into the dugouts for food and rest. A machine gun is “rat-tat-tat-ing” its evening tryout. All machine guns are frequently tested at night. A fainter “rat-tat-tat-tat” shows that the Boche is doing it, too. A bright, fiery streak roars up nearby and a small white parachute floats gently down with an incandescent flare lighting up No Man's Land for a hundred yards around. Somebody saw a suspicious move beyond the wire, an officer explained. The officer orders a few rifle grenades fired as a warning to prowling’ Boches, perhaps trying to learn something or to cut the wire. The Poilu heads, silhouetting over the parapet at intervals against the blackness beyond, “dnck down” for an instant while the grenades explode with cavernous roars. These missiles fly into a hundred pieces each and wipe 'out life for rods around. More machine guns are tapping their warnings or having their “tryouts” here, and there along the line. The Boche again, as if nervous, is doifig it, too. Nobody Is Trusted. A half-hour follows without a single spark of fireworks. But it breaks out again—both sides watching, flaring, bombing, machine-gunning, suspicious things in that uncanny black stretch of No Man’s Land, fringed on each side

with night watchers who trust nobody but themselves. Another period of silence except low voices of men talking in “trench whispers.” They’ve learned to “trenchwhisper” by constant practice. A Poilu apologetically explained, as he rearranged his nest of black egglike hand grenades on the trench shelf before him, that American soldiers talked too loud at first. But they finally learned to "parler doucement” he added. The Boche is active again. A flock of hand grenades roar themselves into silence on the other side as fiery light streaks perform arcs like Roman candles and then float gracefully down under their parachutes into the German wire. A rifle grenade explodes half-way across No Man’s Land and Boche machine guns take up the tune. The Boche having told the French by the display that no German soldiers are prowling in this part of No Man’s Land, there is silence again until time makes things uncertain. “The Boche has no reason to be nervous yet,” whispered an officer. “Our first patrol goes out at 2 o’clock. Would you like to go along?” Patrolling is one of the milder games of hide and seek in No Man’s Land at night and it’s something most all American trench soldiers will learn before the war is over. '

Sixty Gothas in Raid On Paris

Passengers Arriving in United States Give Thrilling Accounts of Attack. FAMOUS BUILDINGS WRECKED Bomba Tore Up Btreete During TwoHour Siege In Inky Darkness— Death Toll 245—‘Drop Nino Tons of Explosives. An Atlantic Port. —Thrilling eyewitness accounts of one of the tremendous German air raids on Paris, were brought by passengers arriving at this port on a French steamship recently. One of the passengers, in a position to know all the facts, declared that more than 200 men, women and children had been killed, that 60 fast Gothas had taken part in the raid and that over nine tons of explosive bombs had been dropped during a two-hour siege. One American ambulance driver alone, according to a passenger, picked up 70 bodies during the flight “The Germans picked out the darkest night in a long time to make their raid,” said this informant, whose name cannot be divulged. “Their squadrons came over Vincennes, and headed for the heart of the city. Fought in Dark. “It was about midnight when the popping of the antiaircraft guns woke me and gave the first alarm. I looked out hut nothing could be seen in the blackness, except the flash of the defending batteries, in every part of the city, and, occasionally, the sizzling trail of a. bomb. “French machines had risen to the attack at the first signal, but they were greatly handicapped by the darkness. The rattle of their machine guns could be plainly heard and there were several clashes, but for the most part the French fliers went winging blindly and at random through the dark. “For two hours the city was pelted with bombs. Hospitals were hit and convalescent soldiers wounded. Famous public buildings—l am not allowed to tell their names, bat they are known all over the world —were'lJadly damaged, and some of the famous boulevards and public squares were torn up as by ah earthquake. Death Toll Put at 245. “From information I gathered the toll of death was nearer 245 than 45,' as the ofllcial statement says. An American ambulance driver, a friend, worked through the night with other members of the corps, scouring every part of Paris, for the whole city was

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LONDON HAS NEW CRIMINAL

He Gives Poisoned Candy to the Woman Conductors of tho Mo- . torbuses. London. —This city has a new kind of criminal. He will take rank with the “ink squirter” of New York and possibly “Jack the Peeper.” This newest brand of criminal has been giving poisoned candy to woman conductors of motorbuses. ’He is described as middle aged, of gentlemanly appearance and suave speech. Several of his victims have been taken unconscious to hospitals, but all have recovered. At least a dozen young women have received poisoned candy from him and without exception they have been taken violently ill soon after eating it. His custom is to wait until he is the only passenger in the bus and then to open a box of chocolates and Invite the conductor to help herself. Usually the woman says she will, because candy is s,carce and costly In London and the conductors do not make handsome wages. He usually asks the intended victim to take as much as she wishes, and a moment or two afterward leaves the bus. All the women say they could identify him. The police are making a diligent search for him, but their search, does not prevent him from carrying on his operations. There are thousands of motorbuses in London, and the field of operations is therefore large.

Y. M. C. A. DUGOUTS AT FRONT

Eight of Them Established in Trenches Taken Over «by the United States Troops. Chicago.—Eight Y. M. C. A. dugouts have been established in the trenches communicating with the battle line which American boys in France have just taken over, it was announced here by the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. At these stations along the way to the front the Sammies are able to procure hot coffee or chocolate and other edibles as well as to mail letters to the folks back home. Often, it is said, the Y. M. C. A. secretary is the last man to bid the boys “So long” and to greet them or dress their wounds when they come out. The Y. M. C. A. has been charged by both the French and American armies with the conduct of the entire canteen system in France.

Rich Man Seeks Service.

Denver, Col. —Courtland S. Dines, millionaire brokbr, of Denver, has undergone an operation on the nose and throat that he may qualify for service in the aviation division of the National army.

under fire. He picked up 70 bodies, in addition to scores of wounded. “The next morning I found that three of the bombs had fallen and exploded on the doorstep of the house where I was stopping, tearing great holes six feet in diameter. I found several unexploded* bombs nearby, of the shape of footballs, but considerably larger in size.” After the attacking squadron had retired, according to the passengers, it was found that one of the enemy planes had been brought down. The people of Paris, the passengers said, were of the opinion that the raid was by way of reprisal for what French fliers had done over German citieA”

POLITICAL LEADER IN RANKS

South Carolina Legislator Waives Exemption and Enlists in the Marine Corps. Port Royal. S. C.—Side by side men from various walks of life, Len A. Scott, three times Republican representative from Hardin county, Tennessee, and minority floor leader in the lower house of the last twb legislatures, Is rapidly learning the fine points of Marine life. He enlisted in the Marine corps recently for the duration of the war, waiving exemption on the ground that he was a state legislative officer, and was sent to this station for preliminary training. Scott Is well known In political circles, It being remembered that he was the author of the first resolution Introduced in the house of representatives, pledging support to President Wilson when war with Germany became Inevitable.

FINDS LONG-LOST SISTER

United Btates Gunner on Transport Says De Kalb Has Bunk Many U-Boats. Pittsburgh, Pa. —Searching for his sister, whom he has not seen for ten years, Floyd Long, aged 33 years, gunner on the United States steamer De Kalb', formerly a Pittsburgh boy. an* rived In this city and shortly afterward ascertained that his sister, Mrs, Alfred Ward, resides at 1707 Laporte street. His brother-in-law, wire chief for the Bell Telephone company, Hlland exchange, met Lotig and the reunion of brother and sister followed at the Ward residence. Long' related to them the story of several battles with German submarines In which he has taken part. He asserted the De Kalb’s guns have accounted for many U-boats and displayed a medal for sbarpshooting.

THREE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES CHANGE HANDS IN SHORT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Three titles are now in new hands. And it all happened in 24 hours. At Anita, la., Earl Caddock, a private in the National army, was awarded a referee’s decision over Wladek Zbyszko, champion wrestler. Caddock took the first fall after one hour and twenty minutes of rough going. When the agreed limit of two and a half hours of actual wrestling had expired the referee awarded the decision to Private Caddock, N. A. The decision carried the title with it. At Saranac Lake, Bobbie McLean won the world’s professional speed skating championship, defeating Edmund Lamy in three special events. In Chicago, Augie Kieckhefer won the world’s championship at threecushion billiards from Alfred De Oro by scoring a total of IDO" points to De Oro’s 128.

BOXING FOR BLIND SOLDIERS

One of Favorite Sports in SL Dunstan's Where Canadian Boys Are Being Educated. Boxing is one of the favorite sports of blinded soldiers In St. Dunstan’s, London, England, where Canadian boys who have lost their sight are being re-educated. ' ' The extent to which other senses can be trained to replace vision explains the eagerness of the Canadians to take np civil life. Boxing is possible for the men by the use of little bells on the wrists of the gloves, differently toned for the right and left hands. Hearing becomes so keen that It Is easy for the men to judge the distance, and follow the motions of their sparring partners—so easy, In fact, that spectators cannot be convinced the boxers are blind. The Canadian boys whose re-educa-tion has been arranged for at SL Dunstan’s by the military hospitals commission not only learn a new occupation, but through training'regain selfconfidence, and a firm grasp on the new life.

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ATHLETICS AT CAMP DEVENS

Very Few Dull Moments After Day's Work Is Done, Says SergL Francis Oulmet. Sergt. Francis Oulmet, former national amateur and open golf champion, writes from Camp Devena at Ayer, Mass., that he is having lots of fun. He says that there are few dull moments left after the day’s work is done, as athletics are very popular. “When America gathers her men together for a great drive against the Germans, she will have the finest collection any nation could boast of,” is Oulmet’s opinion.

WAR CONTRACTS TAKEN OVER

Reminders of Federal League Days Held by Gedeon and Nunamaker, Now With St Louis. The St Louis Browns took over two ■war-time contracts when they got the bunch of five players from the Yankees. These reminders of Federal league days are held by Joe Gedeon and Les Nunamaker and gre said to call for about $5,000 a year each.

BINGLES OF SPORT

Some states permit wrestling because they don’t know whtt~ta do with the promoters. They claim the world In progressing, but we’ve seen a lot of guys wearing eaMnuff* this winter. A number of college teaipi are going to be informally defiesJetf this spring. The Cobs have tbeir work cot out They will have to beat the Cards, Giants and Beds to the pennant ana the Sox to He dough. The Yankees and Braves art going to take a spring jaunt together. Misery loves company. How can Philadelphia fans boycott the Athletics? There is no such animal. If the Cabs win the pennant this year it will be against the law to print an interview with Larry Doyle. The minor leagues asked for a . moratorium. By July they win need a morgue. Looks like a hard summer ahead for the pennant venders. ; Charley Ebbets will be glad < when the war Is over. He win ; have a chance to invent a few < more holidays.

MISS BJURSTEDT TO CONTEST FOR TITLE

Reports emanating from California a few days ago to the effect that Miss* Molla Bjurstedt, national woman law* tennis champion in half a dozen languages, would leave within the next few weeks for her home in Norway, and hence would not compete In the* woman’s Indoor championship tourney, are unfounded. Marvelous Molla has denied them herself, and she anticipates being a contender again for the crown that she won two years in succession. The great Norwegian has been playlag sensational tennis at the Height* casino, In Brooklyn, and threatens to sweep the courts once more In IMS.

CHARLIE HERZOG MAKES FINE TRADING MATERIAL

OFFICIAL AMERICAN LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1918

1908—Herzog joined New York €tt» ant*. 1910— Traded to Brave* by Giantt with Outfielder Collins for Outfielder Becker. 1911— Traded by Brave* to Giant* for Shortstop Bridwell and C»tchCT Gowdy. 1913—Traded by Giants to Cincinnati with Catcher Hartley for Outfielder Beecher. 1918—Traded by Cincinnati to Giants for Pitcher Mathewson, Outfielder Roush, Infielder McKechnie and cash. 1918—Traded by Giants to Brave* for Infielder Doyle and Pitcher Barncai

To Send Teams to Francs.

Several major league club owner* favor Charley Comiskey’s plan to send the two pennant-winning big league teams to France and England a* soon as the war la ovar.