PAGE EIGHT INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS SERGEANT 5PKACKLIN ourselves in) also each man had I came to things were quieter, so queer to see the ghastly white All the exhibitors are hardly WOUNDED IN CHARGE two sand bags, so you see we had I tried to attract attention to getting by and most of them are look in everyone's face while in I quite a load to pack with us on 1 myself. No one came near me a charge, no color at all as one losing money. The present high COMMITTEE BEGINS I Writes Letter From Hospital the charge. All had Lee-Emfield and as it was then 2 p. m. I is pretty highly strung. cost of living has affected the Giving Experiences at Front. rifles this time. It was a six mile thought I might as well die on Very truly yours, film business as well as all other RAILWAY INQUIRY walk .from Albert to the front the move as lying so I got off my Percy Spracklin. lines but the chibitors have had No. 72,065, Sgt P. Sprachlin, 27th die YVe went past the line of harness and started to crawl, as to stand the brunt of it. Can. Ward F-7. The County heavy guns 6", 8", 9.2", 12" and long as I was on a level I could 2 BOATS REPORTED Every twin city exhibitor and Proposed by Presldoot lo Setter of Middlesex War Hospital, a few 15" guns all out in the go a little but as soon as I got BOUND FOR AMERICA every visiting exhibitor is urged Napsbury, near St. Albans, Oc- open, line upon line of them— in an upright position like when to attend next Tuesday's meeting Militn of Carriers. tober 13th, 1916. some sight to see them working I was getting out of a shell hole New York, Nov. 25.—Reports and take an active part in the deliberations. I can tell you. We waited all I had stopped to rest in I would of two fighting German submarines night until about 5 a. m. in the feel too faiint to move. It took Mr. Earnest Bennett, sinking merchantmen trench then the leading waves me about three hours to crawl off the American coast are expected International Falls, Minn. Statement of the Condition of crawled out to a half way trench Officials of Roads Prepared to Advocate about 500 or 600 yards. I finally here again by shipping AMERICAN STATE BANK, which had been dug previously. Federal Incorporation, Supervision ©I Dear Erne got to a trench where I found a I circles, following a report that RANIER Securities and Extension of Authority Its quite a while since I wrote At 6:20 a. m. the barage started, few men of the' twentieth batt. 1 the British admirality has warned at close of business on November 17, of Interstate Commerce Commission. you last and as I am pretty sure just a short bunch at first, then and got my wounds dressed then allied shipowners that the 1916. Washington, &ov. 20.—Ten members your reply will have gone to the bunch let loose, lord! It was and an officer tried to carry me submarines eluded the British RESOURCES of Congress, five Senators and five France and I will not get it I'll' just a continuous din, one could Loans and Discounts $38,491.95 to a better part of the trench as eluded the British nets and headed Overdrafts 552.66 members of the House of Representatives, start our correspondence over not hear any single sound, even Fritz was sending over blocks of of American waters. Banking house, furniture and began here today an inquiry into fixtures 3,475.00 the again. It is now four weeks since the burst of the heavy shells, heavies. I could not hold on to Fast destroyers and cruiser patrols subject of public control and su- Other real estate 200.00 hit and three weeks since Fritz put into us. Our platoon pel-vision of railroads that may lead to I got his back and finally fainted again. have been warned to be on Due from banks 11,070.92 arrived in this home. I have officer was a Capt. Mussel who the revolutionizing of the whole scheme He finally brought me around the lookout for the raiders, reports Cash on hand 2,148.32 times, but as my had not been over long, he was of governmental regulation of the coun- _otten few and saved my life by giving me here declare. Shipping up a Total cash assets 13.219.24 {£232% STATES foe, though healed, swells up good tho. I looked to him and a few beef tablets to eat with a men here today understood the Checks and cash items 7.85 Internal revenue 409.26 tiou of government ownership of rail- when I walk even a. little I am made a motion with my hand, he drink of water. I laid in the admirality had advised its merchantmen ways. kept in bed yet. I sure "have had nodded his head and we started trench all night. Big shells were telephone and telegraph lines that Germany expected Total 156,355.96 some time. I have seen the war out, the boys right after us. We dropping all around me and some LIABILITIES *nd express companies. to repeat its U-53 performances just Capital Stock $10,000.00 of jtg phases the last of did not crawl Or run, took a The members the committee jn ajj came so close that the concussion when it became evident the noW) Surplus fund «1,000.00 JXZ "al* "I or!which was a glorious charge I steady walk. The ground was almost broke my chest in, United States would not protest. Undivided profits, net 1,115.77 Nevada, chairman Senators Robinson took part in for about ten min- dry but just one mass of shell I had gotten a couple of overcoats According to reports here, one Deposits subject to of Arkansas, Underwood of Alabama, I utes. A whole lot can happen holes. Shrapnel and bullets were off stiffs lying near me and check $33,813.17 of the U-boats is expected to operate Demand certificates... 628.00 Cummins of Iowa and Brandegee of jn that short space of time, flying I guess, as men were drop- laid in a kind of hole in the bottom off Halifax to catch British even Cashier's checks ... 368.60 Connecticut. and Representatives Ad- battaiion ha(j front of ping here and ther$, also big ones of the trench. The fumes transports carrying Canadian a Total immediate liabilities c»n°„p 3 "a. S Of WUconTn about three hundred yards and lit pretty often and a couple landand from the shells almost poisoned I troops to England and the other 34,809.77 me. I was yellow for two were given the job of advancing ed right in the line of our fellows is expected to operate off Nantucket Hamilton of Michigan. The in- Savings Deposits ... 1,930.84 about eleven hundred yards, in front. I saw several crumple quiry was recommended by President weeks after. About 5 a. m. of Light, in the waters visited Time certificates ... 7,499.58 which was a little farther than up and fall on their faces then Wilson in his message to Congress in the 16th I was carried to the by the U-53. Total Deposits 44.240.19 Qerman third line. The Ger- 1 lay still, I guess the concussion December of last year. He described dressing station, then I got Total $56,355:96 man front line was about filled them Its queer how one EVEN THE MOVIES dressed properly and got a cup of Amount of reserve on hand. $12,851.62. ARE GOING UP under which the railroads are operated yards. The second line was not leels. 1 telt all in before 1 had hot cocoa, also, as there was a Amount of reserve required by law, for making them more useful serv trench but a sunken road run- gone a hundred yards, so as I fellow there who knew me well and $5,221.46. a ants of the country as a whole." njng diagonally across our front.! was a little in the lead I dropped I got a shot of rum and this put State of Minnesota, The regular Tuesday meeting ss. The third line was supposed to be in a shell hole to get a couple of me to si till I got to the rest Prominent Men as Witnesses. of the officers and executive County of Koochiching In order to obtain the views of all, Qnj partiy finished. Of course deep breat.hs. I seemed to be station in Albert. I finally, got board of th Motion Picture Exhibitors' We, Ackley Hubbard, president and G. W. Anderson, cashier of the above to a large hospital at Commiers the8 tra^nsporTation^finesetheecommittee for the few days previous all the choking and my heart seemed to corporation of the named bank, do solemnly swear that has invited prominent shippers, bank-, lines and surrounding country be tied up, I only laid there a near Pans Plag on the coast of the above statement is true to the northwest was held at the headquarters, best of our knowledge and belief. ers. representatives of commercial or- -was pretty badly inauled by our second or s£, then I got up and France, then I was operated on, second floor, Bijou ACK1LEY HUBBARD, ganizations. railway executives, econo- heayy artillery, which must have went on. For some reason the had the ball taken from my foot. President. theatre building, Minneapolis. G. W. ANDERSON, arr^iSi taken the nerve from most of the leading waves went too much to On the st I got here. Our bat­ 21 Acting on an editorial in Cashier. commissioners of various states who Fntzies opposed to us but did not the right and something hapbegan talion did fine, got to the third Subscribed and sworn to before me "Amusements" last week the this 23rd day of November, by G. W. their evidence today. Their alter the ground we had to go pened to the platoon on our left line and that night helped to take twin city motion picture theatres Anderson. testimony is directed chiefly to oppos-1 Very much of it was so as no one seemed to be there. I the town of Courcelette. It is (SEAL) V. w. Davis, over will all increase their admission Votary Public, Koochiching- County, ing kadly plowed and pitted with motioned to the men to go half any enlargement of the federal marvelous how one could get prices fifty per cent beginning .. Minn.. My commission expires July authoritv over commerce that would 1 1 c, 30, 1922. detract from the powers now exercised shell holes and craters that it left and started that way myself. over all that level and bare January 1st. With one exception Subscribed and sworn to by Ackley could not be worse. There was Just them I came on the enemy by state bodies. They will be followed! stretch of ground without getting this was the unanimous sentiment. Hubbard before me this 25 th day of November, shortly by officials of railway labor no wire to go through as the en- front line, I seemed to be almost 1916. killed, in spite of our barage (SEAL,) MAE A. OSBOBN, organizations who are expected to reg- jg nQt given any chance to alone, there were two fellows of shell fire. We were under fire A special committe was appointed Notary Public Hennepin county, Minnesota. ister their opposition to the increase 1 entanglements. The just near me who were kneeling My commission expires Oct. from several strong points to our to see the corporation attorney of governmental authority over wages 6, 1921. air is prett) well filled with shells and firing into the trench then front and Thiepval was only a and try and arrange some fend conditions of labor. Correct attest- two directors: all night so it was unhealthy to I noticed one big German pointtry ABTHUB X.. JONES, Chief interest In the hearings centers short distance to our left. It is feasible plan. KENBY A. HUBBASD. in the proposals that will be put to do any of this kind crt ing his gun at me so I dropped forward by representatives of the railroads. work on Fritzie's side the last on one knee, pointed at him but for it is reported that they will four months. We were to go he dropped his gun and started advocate an extension of federal authority over in four waves, or lines, in along the trench to the left. I over rates and securities to the extended order. These four were shot him, then threw a bomb in practical exclusion of state control of these matters. It is understood-also that to go right thru, cleaning up all the trench when I saw it exthey they will go on record in favor of fed-' I saw but not stopping to plode ran over the trench a few eral incorporation of all railroad lines take prisoners or to investigate yards and turned around. I was Legislative Program of Railroads. dugouts, etc. Two other waves all alone, the others being at From an authoritative source is obtained They were placed in between our first least a hundred yards off and in the following outline of the legislative and third wave to mop up, that is the trench with their hands up program which the railroads 1 to ciean Up an the first wave left in were a string of Frities. This will ask the committee consider iu enemyline ^V11 first ™aytfl,rp^s»-you Sut j"st.imafr" Please one of the principal defects in the pres- and second waves left in the sec- me the shelling they had gone cut system of railroad regulation is ond line or sunken road. I was through, I did not know what to the lack of coordination resulting from jn platoon on the right of the do: I was covering about thirty the simultaneous aud conflicting regu- ... n4. A lation by the federal government and third wave- At a certain tlme 011 °f them 1 could not start in at by the 48 states. They will, therefore, the morning of the 15th (Sept) any one of them 1 could not turn •sk that entire governmental control our field guns were to put a bar- niy back on them an idea came of the rates and practices of interstate age or heavy fire of shrapnel on to me, I motioned them out of brXoedeT,rlM.l'1m,?djTfa^mf""eTa. the enemy front line for thre« t.he tr®nch a"d baclJ toward our body so that interstate traffic may be minutes, then raise it and keep a "ne where 1 knew they would be regulated without reference to state fire on the sunken road for six picked up by the following wave, lines, leaving to the state commissions minutes, then raising it to the they hesistated to get out of the jurisdiction only over local matters and __ /c.^a local public Utilities As a part of this thlrd llne for a shoI"t time. This trench as their own guns (field plan, a compulsory system of federal was to keep the Germans from and machine) were sweeping the incorporation is to be recommended sticking their heads over the top country but I made a move toaccompanied a bayonet by federal supervision of 0£ trench and thus give us ward them with my so lailroad ^toc.v and bond issues. chance to s:et right on them be- about half of them got out and A reorganization ot the Interstate ,, Commerce Commission will be asked. f°re they could raise rifles or ma- started back, the others sneaked Made By In order to enable the commission prop chine guns on us. The attack was along the trench. When they all WOODEU1L, GOODDALE & B1TU, SLLalitts ei'l.v to exercise its increased powers pretty wide front and a few had their backs to me I turned Syracuse, N. on a It is also proposed that the preparation ijattajjons on our left and lots on and continued my way to our obour and prosecution of cases against the to right were attack the jective. I met only two more railroads shall be delegated to some same time, also we had artillery Germans, they were in a big Other agency of the government, possi bl.v the Department of Justice, so that by the thousands behind us and shell crater. One was holding the commission may devote its energies who they sure did some great work as the other in his arms seemed to its administrative functions. well as the aeroplanes. The "to have been hit in the chest, With the commission thus relieved and the "tanks" were to appear on the saw he was dying pitiful of some of its present duties and equipped to handle its business more promptly. scene for the first time, three look on the others face told mc the railroads will urge that the period were to be about our front. We they were harmless, so I did not during which the commission may had feft the St. Eloi part of the bother them. I got almost to the now suspend proposed increases in Ypres' salient on August 20th, sunken, road when I caught up rates be reduced from ten months to 80 days, with provision for reparation after a sixteen day stay in the! to a corporal in another platoon, to be paid to the shippers if the advance and trenches and for the next thre£|He saw me coming as the shall be declared unreasonable. weeks we were route marching shell fire was lulled just then- I They will also ask that the •commission there and drilling with full pack in var- heard him say "Is no one Look for the Label be given the power to prescribe on our left Sprack" I said, "No," IOUS towns back in France, then minimum as well as maximum rates to that in meeting complaints discrimination and pointed to the bunch on our 6f we entrained at St. Omer for the the commission may order right front and just then a shell Somme sector. We distrained the advance of a rate which it from a battery enfilading from quite a distance from the line and Considers too low. the left put a lead ball in my left did the re^t of the trip by route' One of the most Important recommendations instep just below the ankle and for which the railroads marches, we camped near Albert trill ask favorable consideration is I yeHed, "I'm hit" and turned to for a week and then started for^ that the commission be specifically flop in a shell hole when another the line on the night of the 14th. authorized to take into account in shell put a piece in my back. As Each man had his full harness, rate regulation the effect of rates on with rations haversack back, tipon total earnings in the light of expenses. 1 could not do any more I, for the (beef and biscuits) mostly filling first time took thought for my While the Newlands Committee is it as we did not know when we own safety. As shells and bullets required, under the resolution creating E S O E O A I would be relieved after we had were still in order I kept it, to submit a report by January our taken objective, 220 rounds of close to the bottom of the hole. 2 next, It Is not anticipated that the I N E N A I O N A A S I N N E S O A ammunition, two Mills bombs Committee will have come anywhere I was so stiff I could not tie up bear completing its labors then. (rifle and bayonet, of course) and my foot so I bled a lot. I lost either a pick or a shovel (to'dig consciousness a while and when pits' 1 or* A"* .'4*, 1 -a? "1 'J- MIMiij