The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 133, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 10, 1917 Page: 3 of 4
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THE NORMAN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
PATROL WORK IS FULL OF
THRILLS FOR MEN OF NAVY
Blindfold Campaign of Submarine
Chasing Is Replete With
Surprises.
''TORPEDO FISH" IS FOOLER
Interesting Sidelight on Work of Navy
in Fighting U-Boat Peril—Many
an Encounter With a Table
Leg or a Swab Handle.
New York. —Leaves from the diary
of the commander of a destroyer and
flldellghtH on the thrills that come to
the men aboard the vessels of the Unit-
ed States navy In the war zone
were made public in a statement
Issued by the navy publicity bureau of
318 West Thirty-ninth street.
"It is stimulating from the maze of
convoy and submarine search work to
untangle vivid threads of adventure,"
the statement said. "For the first half
of a certain month a few points stand
out for emphasis or visualization."
They are these:
"Enemy operations have been large-
ly in the southern part of our area.
Calm weather and the moon have fa-
vored them. Merchant ships have as-
sembled thickly at the rendezvous, and
the sight has been frequent of one
destroyer—often of the older type—
with four or five great vessels on her
hands before others assigned have Join-
ed the escort.
"Many rescues of crews have been
successfully made.
"In 'behind the net,' however, it is
less easy to borrow the lookout's eyes,
set for the pin thrust of the distant
periscope through the blue frets of the
<iulet, treacherous ocean. Or to hear
in the dark small hours the throbbing
general quarters alarm, the blowers
hum in a racing crescendo, and the
gun crews—like Tweedledums and
Tweedledees in their slate-hued life
preservers—tear the covers from the
ammunition boxes. It is a tension to
bear down at 2!> knots upon the lean
tramp that makes no response to the
flap-flap of your searchlight blinker,
spelling out the challenge; to distin-
guish whether the phosphorescent
streak that at night flashes across j'our
how is made by a Hun torpedo or the
animal skippers have named the 'tor-
pedo fish' a blackfish or porpoise. Sur-
vivors come mutely up the side, often
Lascars aud Cingalese, muttering of
Allah and America indisttngulshably.
Given cigarette 'makes,' they 'roll a
pill.' calmly stick It behind the ear,
and as the surgeon uncorks ills iodo-
form in the washroom for gashes made
by wreckage, some old gunner of the
reserve takes pneumonia from his
hours of exposure, and is put ashore
at X say, ou a stretcher, and with his
hours of life numbered.
Two Ships in the Thick of It.
The Y and the Z have been in the
thick of such Incidents. At 18
minutes past 1 o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 11th, the X was steaming
singly at 15 knots, with a quiet sea
and good visibility for that hour. The
captain was smoking a cigar on the I
bridge, wondering, he told me, whether
Mrs. would ever have the pleas-
ure of putting roses on her old man's
tomb up the Hudson. A heavy explo-
sion, without flash, shook the dark- |
ness about three miles over the port
bow. A whistle bleated three times,
and tiie radio shack culled up the tube
that the steamer Kioto was torpedoed
20 miles southwest by west of I'ustnet
Light.
' 1 lie X switched on her general
alarm for battle, changed her course
to 228 degrees true and plunged thith-
er at full speed. In two minutes she
made out the staccato sparks of a
blinker, repeating over and ou r. 'Tor-
pedoes [—Torpedoes I' In five, she
changed her course 10 degrees faster
east, and at half-past one the flush
decks of a single stacker of about
4,0<X> tons loomed over the cocoa mat-
ting and thrust men about u gun.
"She was now nearlng the freight-
er. bow on, a bit to port. Suddenly
out of the darkness to the right a livid
beam rushed straight and shimmer-
ing at her under the sea. We put over
full right rudder. The torpedo passed
close aboard across his bows, to the
left, just ahead of the Kioto, and as
the luminous wake receded like a muf-
fled searchlight It seemed to break
spent upon the near horizon. 'Any-
liow,' said the captain afterward, 'it
wns worth crossing the ocean to see
ami feel that Instant. It made those
roses seem a lot nearer.
"The destroyer began to circle the
Kioto at high speeds, with alternate
right and left rudder. Her blinker
stammered on, that she had been hit in
the port quarter abaft the engine room.
Then the lights ceased. Ten minutes
after two loaded lifeboats emerged out
«> the starboard darkness. They held
CO men, including the second officer
and a tull engineer, wounded In the
leg. 8eon after two o'clo li all were
si P tiloard the X. She continued to
circle the steamer, which was slowly
•inking by the stern. Alarm of the dis-
aster had been flashed to adjacent pa-
trols. The Y nosed into sight and
stood by, likewise H. M. S. , who
signaled that she had taken aboard 10
more survivors and the Kioto's Im-
petuous captain—he that returned to
the wreck. At 20 minutes past
the freighter sank, leaving only float-
ing wreckage and a Coston light, which
flickered up time to time until j
diiyhreak like a lantern in a lifeboat.
"Neitliei
trig her tail to them. At the same i
inent the sounded six blasts
her whistle, followed by two, to im
that the attack was being made
port.
Miss by Small Margin.
"Both torpedoes missed the —
but by the smallest margin. The —
submarine nor destroyer I making high speed, swung with full
had used guti'lre. The German was \ 'eft rudder toward the submarine. At
not even sighted. Only two torpedoes i f'Vfl minutes past nine o'clock a third
were known to have been fired the 1 torpedo was fired nt the convoy, ap-
one which crossed the X's bow, and ! Patently from another submarine,
the one which settled the Kioto.
"Only two duys before the X had
had a better brush with a 'sub,' and
"•ay have got her; skippers put In
the claim on evidence as good. She
was steaming in the same area, un-
der like conditions, when at ten min-
utes past eight in the evening she
sighted a pronounced wake. One could
even estimate the speed at which the
submarine had been submerged—about
eight knots.
"The X worked up to full speed,
turned with left rudder, and run down
on the right hand side of the slick.
In six minutes she had reached Its
'head,' ready to drop a depth charge;
four minutes to run to the end of the
wake, two more to allow for the
'sub's' run beyond—and she tripped
the pump. With the charge, which
was set for 80 feet, was dropped a cal-
cium torch pot to mark the plnce. The
explosion audibly Jarred the blowers,
and within three minutes bubbles
swirled to the surface. But in the 20
minutes that the X circled the vicinity,
hoping the injured enemy would rise to
the surface, no further sign of damage
was revealed.
Four days later the turned her
convoy over to the nt two hours
before daylight, and returned to her
regular patrol. About five o'clock in
the morning she took under her wing
the steamer Pentwy, bound for Man-
chester. At a quarter to eight Cap-
tain Lyons sent a quartermaster aloft
to the main track to clear a fouled
commission pennant. Scarcely had
the quartermaster reached It when he
called down to the watch on the after
deckhouse. 'Periscope, two points
abaft the port beam!' The thing was
1,500 to 3.000 yards from the ,
who was 400 yards ahead of the ,
one point on her port bow. The whole
body of the submarine was distinct to
the quartermaster though, oddly, In-
visible both to the bridge and the fore
top lookout. The periscope seemed
headed westward, and she at once
started to submerge. Within 20 sec-
onds, ns the destroyer came to gen-
eral quarters, first one torpedo, Instant-
ly followed by a second, radinted from
the point where she had vanished.
Both were making surface runs, for
the sub's conning tower hatch still
must have been near the surface. They
threw spray up fully 20 feet, clearly
visible against the choppy sea. All
hands on the bridge and decks saw
them—as did the , astern; for she
swung sharply to starboard, present-
about 200 yards ahead of the first. It
approached from the broad on the |
's beam, also making a surface
run at about the same range as the
first two, and missed.
"But now the was In sight, some
four miles distant, ready to relieve
the of her convoy. She, too.
made full headway on signal, 'Make all
speed t6 us; submarine in sight;'and
searched In the vicinity of the ,
while the followed the 'sub's'
slicks. The first wake tended east.
but in ten minutes lost Itself among
the whiteenps. The second and plain-
er one led westward, Irregularly, as if
the 'sub' had bee" zigzagging. A
depth charge was dropped at Its end.
but a half hour's search found proof
of nothing. The really had saved
herself by quick and efilclent band-
ling.
"The 's adventure with the
steamship Tarquah cannot be told un-
til that flivver comes into port. The
, and —— had a hand In
It; and the first's account of the sink-
ing of the Obuasl—where she arrived
long after the deed—shows the defect-
ive functioning and poor marksman-
ship of German torpedoes. The
reports to the same effect. At half-
past ten o'clock on the morning of
the 13th she picked up in her sen area
two boats and 23 survivors of the
Greek steamship Charilaos Trlcoupls.
Two hours before, two torpedoes had
been fired at her, at an interval of
25 minutes. The first struck the star-
board quarter, between rudder and
propeller, and, falling to detonate, did
little damage; but the crew abandoned
ship. The second hit the starboard
side a midship, blowing up the Greek
so that she sank In five minutes. Be-
tween the two shots the submarine
came to the surface, but Instantly sub-
merged. Not a man appeared on deck.
This submarine, like all others report-
ed for the fortnight, are declared to
have been of the U-50 to 00 types.
"So, as yet, no blood hns been spilled !
on any of our gun mattings. The
mean, blindfold campaign continues j
with small apparent losses either in j . . „ , . . .. , .
•subs' or shipping. We follow oil i>l nt Varying forms of It have been
slicks with the thrill of a woodsman ln,,'"l i,v'U ,,n 1,1 i1^ "lestln" "" fl°w"
striking a strange cross-trail In the for- er,n* kingdoms of China and Japan for
est; we mass guns over a 'periscope* |
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ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE OH LIVER
I Guarantee "Dodson's Liver Tone" Will Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Doesn't Make You Sickl
Stop using calomel! It makes you
sick. Don't lose a day's work. If you
feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti-
pated, listen to me!
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of tho bones.
Calomel, when It comes Into contact
with sour bile, crashes into It, breaking
it up. This Is when you feel that aw-
ful nausea aud cramping. If you feel
"all knocked out," If your liver Is tor-
pid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, If breath is bad or stomach
sour Just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson's Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee—Go to any
drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a
spoonful and if It doesn't straighten
you right up and make you feel fln®
and vigorous I want you to go back to
the store and get your money. Dod*
son's Liver Tone Is destroying ths
sale of calomel because It Is real liver
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it cannot salivate or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti-
pated waste which is clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone will keep your entire fam-
ily feeling fine for months. Give it to
your children. It is harmless; doesn't
gripe and they like Its pleasant taste.
—Adv.
The Beauty of Flowers for Home Decoration.
GROW CHINESE PEONIES
By L. M. BENNINGTON.
The old-time "piny" was a rank-
looklng, evil-smelling plant, with a
large rod flower of stiff, waxy appear-
ance, blooming generally in May. It
was not beautiful, but It was hardy
and pushed its way out of the ground
in the spring as soon as the frost
would permit.
Peony is the botanical name for this
that turns into a swabhnndle or table
leg; vide the 's and 's fa-
mous battle with a ventilator ofT the
French coast. Vnd the and ,
I hear, have celebrated the chagrin
and thrills of it all In ballads which I
shall try to send you."
German People Are Starving
Teuton Wife of American Soldier
Tells of Conditions
There.
HARD FIGHT TO GET AWAY
Woman Has Harrowing Experiences
in Trying to Leave Country—
Says People Are Fleeing
When They Can.
San Francisco.—The real conditions
in the fatherland were described here
by Airs. George B. Szadelskl, the Ger-
man wife of an American soldier.
Mrs. Szadelskl arrived here after a
plucky tight of over five mouths to
get herself and three children out of
Germany and over here, where she
could Join her husband, who Is with
the quartermaster's corps, United
States army, at Honolulu.
"Germany Is starving. Her people
do not want war, and ure fleeing the
country when they can. Not so much
the war, but food and where It Is to
come from Is what the German people
are thinking of," said Mrs. Szadelskl.
"When the people crowd up too eag-
erly in the street, waiting to get their
small bit of food, men come out with
whips, or pour hot water on them to
make them orderly. That Is In the
town of Mecklenburg; there we stand
waiting two hours or more In rain or
snow. Put In Berlin It Is worse, and
men and women wait In line all night.
Buy With Cards.
"AH things are bought by cards,
even clothing and shoes, Jt I need a
new suit or my little boy needs new
underwear, I must go to the officials
and explain the need and show them
the worn things.
"A grown man or woman gets half
a pound of meat a week, a tenth of a
pound of butter and three pounds of
bread. This bread Is made of pota-
toes and a kind of green turnip, and Is
so soggy that only a little can be eaten
at a time. There is no coffee, except
a kind made from the turnip, nnd
there Is no rice. One gets a fourth of
a pound of sugar, and there Is no soap
at nil.
"Famine? There's a famine now.
The rich—yes, the rich can buy a
goose, but they must pay for It 175
marks (about $44). I have seen wild
ravens sold In Berlin for three and
one-half marks. Everything Is much
worse than America thinks.
"Yet there will he no revolution.
That Is because there are no men at
home to mnke a revolution. The worn* ;
en look at one another and shake their !
bends. 'When the men come back,' Is j
the word they pass around. We have
men of fifty and seventy for home de- j
fense, and as doctors and officials.'
And we have boys of fourteen. All
other men are In the army."
Mrs. Szadelskl said she never re-
ceived $500 which her husband sent
her last February. A woman friend
a long period of time.
' In China these forms have been
, crossed and recrossed thousands of
j times. The hybrids that are the re-
! suit of these centuries of crossing nre
: the most beautiful flowers In the
j world.
While traveling In China several
! years ago I had the rare good fortune
j to be in the Interior during the bloom-
I ing season of these flowering plants,
i and I wns so much Impressed with
them that I purchased 1,000 of the
| most striking and popular colors for
! the home test.
These arrived In good condition and
of hers who went to the authorltle
for money sent from Ainericn wns told
were carefully planted on my farm In
Virginia. They flourished from the
start. I readily sold blooms last year
for $5.00 a dozen. Most of these went
to New York and Boston. At this
price for the flowers an acre of estab-
lished plants would produce a splen-
did Income.
The Idea underlying the growing of
these flowers Is to get the blooms
| early and ship them to cities North,
where the demand for flowers in May,
that no more money from the source n(ling Docorntion day, May 30, is so
wou ( e given to any private person, ^reat ns to exhaust the entire output.
Do Not Want War. Is the one scnson of the year when
' flowers are scarce.
"The people do not want war, but
what can they do? They cannot even
say what they think or there would
soon be chains nround their necks.
"Yet there is bitter feeling against
America. I would be sorry for any
American soldier that falls Into the
hands of tho Germans, either the sol-
diers or the people. That Is because
the newspapers talk always of the
evil-doing of America—and the people
believe what they read. They began
hating America long ago, when they
heard It was aiding England. It Is not
France so much, but Englnnd and
America that Germany hates."
Sergeant Szadelskl had been nn
American soldier for years before he
met and married the little German
woman, during a visit to Germany sev-
ernl years ago, but he left Just before
the war. This led to suspicions that
he was nn American spy, nnd so when
his wife wished to leave Germany last
May she had an immense deal of red
tape to untangle. For a month she
hnd to go before the police ench day;
then she was summoned to Berlin.
At the Danish border every scrnp of
paper but her passport wns taken
away, nnd In Copenhagen she was re-
ceived coldly by the American lega-
tion, because they would not believe
that the wife of an American soldier
would speak only German. After cor-
respondence with Secretnry Lansing
nnd others, the legation was finally
convinced Hint she was not a spy, and
she was permitted to sail for New
York. She will leave In a few days
with their three children for llono*
lulu.
Potatoes Without Vines.
Findley, O.—Fred Neeley Is grow-
ing some vineless potatoes In his war
garden here. When his potatoes fnlled
to come up he started to plant cab-
bage plants, nnd found that the pota-
toes he had planted were developing,
but that the vines were absent. They
were larger than walnuts.
The peony Is the only flower of
prominence that blooms early enough
In the season and the one flower that
defies hothouse culture. It is an out-
door plant and will not succeed when
put under glass, and therefore cannot
easily be forced by artificial means.
When planted on land that Is quick .
to respond to the first rays of the sun
in the spring, land sloping to the south,
but made rich and powerful to pro-
duce a strong vegetable growth, tho
peony will produce flowers to ship
about May 18.
At this season of the year there Is
not a flower of any variety to be seen
In any northern market unless It comes
from further South.
Tho blooming season lasts about 15
dnys and Is generally at its height
Just before Decoration Day.
The plants never fnll to bloom, re-
quire but little care, and being legum-
luous, enrich the soil.
Once in tho ground, there they re-
main for five years. No other flower
is more deserving of popularity. So
easy to raise that the novice can raise
it, so permanent that a clump has been i
known to bloom annually for half a
century. So hardy that no protection
Is required In the bitterest of winters,
and so free from disease and fungus
that one Is spared the labor of fighting
disease.
Canadian Farmers
Profit From Wheat
The war's devastation of
European crops has caused
an unusual demand for grain
from the American Conti-
nent. The people of the world must
be fed and wheat near $2 a bushel
offers great profits to the farmer.
Canada's invitation is therefore
especially attractive. She wants
settlers to make money and happy,
prosperous homes for themselves by
helping her rsice immense wheat crops.
You ran get a Homestead of 160 acres FREE
and other lands at remarkably low prices. During miny
yeaia Canadian wheat fields have avcragod 20 bushels to
the acre manv yields as high a* 45 bushels to the acre.
Wonderful crops also of Oaty, Barley and Flax.
Mixed farming as profitable an industry as grain rais-
in# 1 he excellent grasses lull of nutrition are the only
fond required for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools,
churches, markets convenient, climate excellent.
Thnro In an extra tfntunnd for farm labor to replace th«
niunjr yming moo wbo iry« volunteered for tho wur. The
Oovornuient In urBin« furnier* to put extra acrea*;* Into
rikIii. Write for llu rutiir and particulars as t<> n*ciucod
railway rates to tiupu of lwmigraUou, Ottawa, Canada, or
G. A. COOK
2012 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Cnnadlnn Onvernment Aaent
l/'v-
Their Opinion.
"What do Jobbs' friends think of
his running for ofllce?"
"They think It Is a standing Joke."
How's This ?
We offer $100.00 for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALL'S
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALI/H CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak-
en Internally and acta through the Blood
on tho Mucous Surfaces of th<> Syatein.
Sold by (Initials for over forty years.
Price 75c. Teatlmonlala freo.
P. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
CROCUSES FOR SPRING BLOOM
The bulbs should be set three Inches
deep, and should be plunted In Octo-
ber or early November, to Insure suc-
cess. They are very effective when
combined with Snowdrops, Daffodils,
and other spring flowers. To get a
natural effect In the lawn they can be
scattered In handfuls and planted ,
where they lie.
Crocuses may also be grown Indoors
either In pots or bulb pans, In loam or
In dishes filled with good soli. Place
the bulbs close together, half an Inch 1
below the surface.
COMPOSTING OF LEAVES
It Is a question whether the time |
nnd labor expended In tho composting i
of leaves, ndded to the original cost, 1
can be made profitable or not.
Croton Plants Make Flnt House Plant*.
NEED SOUND MIND AND BODY
Depleted Man or Woman Is Always
Depressing and Does Not See
Bright Side of Life.
To keep fresh Involves determina-
tion and will. It Is so easy to go on
laboring, both at work and pleasure,
until we are depleted In mind nnd In
body.
Then we are sources of danger, not
only to ourselves, but our whole sur-
roundings, for a depleted man or
woman is always depressing. They
have not enough vitality to soe things
brightly, to look at events In a sound
commonsense manner. Their opinion
and views nro biased by their own
mentally and physically devitalized
condition, and they take the dark-
colored, pessimistic view of things and
events, In this way acting as poison-
ers of the happiness of their loved
ones and others.
It takes a sounfl mind In a sound
body to see things always rose-col-
ored, and to take the cheery, optimis-
tic view of things which so helps those
with whom we are associated.
To keep a whole body means that
we must never lower Its vitality unless
unavoidable, by Incessant work, by so-
called pleasures which really rob the
body of much necessary power needed
in other directions, but that In calcu-
lating our day's or week's work, we
Include sufficient rest to restore the
energy we have expended.
It Is a duty we owe to ourselves
and others to take this rest in which-
ever form each individual finds pos-
sible or pleasant.
To some a week's end In the coun-
try will give tone and health, to others
a quiet rest at home, but everyone
should allow sufficient rest every day
in the silence away from other so-
ciety, In which to relax and be per-
fectly quiet. This will help keep the
balance of body and soul and Its con-
tinued practice means a continual re-
freshment.—Mary Yentes.
Make The
Laundress
Happy
by making it possible for her to turn on!
beautiful, snowy white, clothes like new.
Red Cross Ball Blue
will enable the laundress to pro
duce fine, fresh-looking pure whita
clothes instead of the greenish
yellow usually obtained. RED
CROSS BALL BLUE always
pleases.
5 cents.
Af all up-to-date grocers.
Yon Get R.B.M.
WHEATLESS
MEALS?
don'T bother ,
me-say! (BcStnj. /
JUST TRY
POST
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High priced brands give no
better results.
ask raurt grocer
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Dissolved in water for douches stops
pelvic catarrh, ulceration and int'laxn*
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A healing wonder tor nasal catarrh,
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