Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — FOUR GERMANS HELD IN IOWA [ARTICLE]

FOUR GERMANS HELD IN IOWA

Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 3. — Four prominent German citizens of Lowden, near here, were arrested by federal agents on charges of making treasonable utterances, Those arrested were Albert Schaeffer, sixty-flve, retired farmer; ' William Retchman, sixty?flve, furniture dealer; Ernest Meier, sixty-five, retired farmer, and Carl Gerhl, thirty-six, farmer.