Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — FEAR ENEMY POISON PLOT [ARTICLE]

FEAR ENEMY POISON PLOT

Booklets “Made In Germany” Cause War Scare In Public School at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, L. I.—The discovery that they were “made in Germany” caused B. E. Whittaker, prinlcpal of the public school, to order pupils to throw away booklets which had been given to them by a stranger. Samples are to be analyzed, as It is believed the booklets may secrete germs of diseases Several days ago a stranger came here and gave the to many school boys and girls. He said the booklets had pictures of prominent men which would appear by rubbing the scrapings of a pencil on a page with tfiOrfinger. Mr.-Whittaker got one of them, and discovered on the last page the words,

“Made in. Germany.” He collected ns many of the books as he could and instructed pupils to throw the otners away. J “I have sent these books to New York for analysis,” said Mr. Whittaker. “The children to get the pictures of President Wilson ahd Mr. Roosevelt had to rub tlieir fingers over the page of the book. Naturally, the children afterwards put their fingers in their mouths, and as there is much illness among pupils here I decided to send the booklets for examination.”