GERMAN FIRGT
LINE AGAIN GUT
British Advance to the East
of Gricourt.
GERMANS AGAIN COUNTERING
Gen. Nivelle's French Forces Capture a
Fortified Position Near the Chemin
des Dames, Fronting Laon,
Their Chief Objective.
London.-
porarily to a nibbling process on the
part of the French and British
of the Germans.
Fresnoy village, retaken by them from
the Canadians, while in and
constantly alternating fortunes,
Sir Douglas Halg reported further
progress by his troops near Bullecourt
and added that “costly efforts of the
South
tions” were fruitless.
plece out of the German first
of Gricourt.
airplanes since April 6
Latest Official Report.
French attacks were
all British and
assailants and emphasized that
moy remained entirely in our hands
spite of repeated sh at 44
in
Briti tacks
Quarters in France reads:
the south bank of the Scarpe.
eover of a heavy bombardment, the
snemy renewed his attempts upon our
positions In the Hindenburg line, east
of Bullecourt. His attack was com.
pletely repulsed by our troops.
“Further hostile counter-attacks
near Fresnoy were equally unsuccess-
ful,
“A party of the enemy ralded our
trenches southeast of Ypres; a few
of our men are missing.”
The French Operations.
Paris. — The official communication
fssued by the War Office reads:
“Northeast of Soissons and on the
Chemin des Dames the artillery fight-
Ing was intermittent, except in the
Braye en Laonnois, where the two
artilleries displayed great activity.
“We carried out detailed operations
which proved of value to us. North
of Sancy particularly we captured an
enemy trench system and took about
80 prisoners. In the sector of Chev-
reux the Germans attempted anew to
drive us from the trenches which we
ghined on May 8; their attacks were
broken by our barrage and machine
gunfire
“Our caught under their
fire and dispersed enemy troops con-
eentrating In that region. Quite
spirited artillery actions occurred
south of Moronvilliers. Northwest of
Prosnes we made appreciable progress
and took about 30 prisoners.”
batteries
RUSSIA TO SEND MISSION.
Early Departure Of Root For Petro
grad Also Announced.
Washington.—Official announcement
was made of the coming of a commis-
sion from- Russia, the personnel of
which will be announced later. It was
announced that Elihu Root, heading
the American Commission to Russia,
will go with the distinction of being a
special ambassador. The American
commission will depart very soon
FRENCH FARMERS CALL TO U. 8,
Want Troops So Home Workers Can
Be Released.
Moulins, France. — The Agricultural
Boclety of the Department of Allier
has asked the Minister of Agriculture
to propose to the Government of the
United States the Immediate sending
to France of men to replace French
farmers who have been mobilized, thus
permitting the farmers to return for
urgent farm work.
TURKEY DELAYS AMERICANS,
Leaving.
age experience difficulty in
Turkey, and the Pmbassy at Constanti-
mople 1s making recommendations.
An official dispatch received by way
away, May 4, but 20 men between 18
and 46 were not permitted to depart
at the last moment.
MORE PAY FOR JACKIES.,
Amendment Equalizes Navy and
Marine Corps With Army,
Washington. — In approving the
#00 men and the marine corps to 30,
800, the Sepate Naval Committee in:
serted an amendment ralsing the pay
of enlisted men In both services
squally with the increases in the War
y bill, which gives a private not
than $25 per month. /
(Copyright.)
LOAN BOND |
It Must Be Paid For in Four
Installments.
M'ADOO ANNOUNCES DETAILS
Balance To Be Paid In Four Install
ments, Running To August 30.
Bonds Will Be Dated
June 15.
The
Loan bonds, Secretary
will be in denomi-
Washington. $2,000,000,000
issue of Libe
McAdoo announced,
nations of from $50 to $100,000, will
mature in 30 years and be re
deemed by the Government in 15; will
be subject to payment in four install
ments, and will carry the privilege of
conversion into any bonds which may
be issued later during war at a
igher rate of interest.
Two per cent. of the subscription
The re
mainder will be paid as follows:
June 28, 18 per cent.; July 30, 20
per cent.; August 15, 30 per cent, and
August 30, 30 per cent,
The bonds will be dated June 15 In- |
stead of July 1, the date previously
designated, and interest will be pay-|
able semi-annually on June 15 and
December 15, *
Bonds In Two Classes.
Two classes of bonds will be issued,
coupon and registered. The lowest
denomination of registered bonds will
be $100, other denominations being
$500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000 and
$100,000. Coupon bonds payable to
bearer will be issued in denominations
of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000
The present offering, it was an-
nounced, will be limited to $2,000,000, |
000, and “no allotments will be made |
in excess of that amount.” This dis |
poses finally of reports that Mr. Mc
Adoo had under consideration the ad-
visability of extending the amount of
the offer to include a percentage of
raubseription which apparently will |
on books are
may
the
Ove
result when the subseripti
closed June 15 next
May Be Closed Before June 15.
“Applications must be made on or
before June 15, 1817,” reads the formal
announcement, reserving to the Secre- |
tary the right in his discretion to close
the subscription books at an earlier
date. The statement then gives the
terms of payment and continues:
“Accrued interest will be payable
with the full and final payment
{August 30). Provision will be made
for the privilige to pay earlier the full
subscription price upon terms and!
conditions determined by the Secre-
tary.”
In order that the various payments |
required for the settlement of this |
bay be completed with
the least possible disturbance of
monetary conditions, the Secretary!
will avail himself of the privilege given |
him by the act to redeposit the pro
ceeds of the bonds, in so far as It is |
practicable, with the various national |
Change in the date of the bonds |
from July 1 to June 15 was made, it |
the heavy burden of work incident to
The second offering of $200,000,000 |
in Treasury certificates of indebted. |
i
made within 10 days. From the pro- |
ceeds an additional loan may be made |
to Great Britain.
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CHICAGO PAPERS GO TO 2 CENTS.
All Expected To Have Ralsed Price In
Another Week,
Chicago.~~Another week Is expected
to see all Chicago newspapers, the
price of which for years has been one
cent, selling at two cents, owing to
the high prices of paper and all other
elements entering into thelr prepara.
tion. The Herald made formal an-
nouncement of the advance Tuesday
and set the date for next Monday.
Other papers admitted that they had
decided on similar action,
BILLION DOLLARS
AMERICAN SHIP
Measure Contemplating the Con-
struction of 6,000,000 Tonnage
MAY COMMANDEER PLANTS
Under the Bill Which Will Give the
President Sweeping Powers All Other
8teel Construction May Be Re-
duced To Actual Necessity.
President Wilson will
appropriate imme
diately 000 000 for the construc
tion of 6,000,000 tonnage of American
ships to defeat Germany's submarine
blockade
The administration bill, providing
for this colossal program and vesting
in government heads sweeping powers
to make merchant shipping the most
powerful factor in winning the war,
will be introduced in both houses of
Congress and will speedily be rushed
through.
With this appropriation a great
fleet of steel and wooden vessels will
be put into the steamer lanes within
a comparatively short time to rush =a
steady stream of supplies of all kinds
to the nation’s Allies. The entire pro
gram outlined by the shipping board
legislation will be
completed within 18 months, or two
years at the most The legislation
would authorize the President to di
vert to government use the products
of every steel plant in the country and
would provide for the cancellation of
existing contracts between those
plants and private consumers. It was
1
explained that perhaps part of the bil
Washington
ask CC sa to
O60
to indemnify fully parties whose con.
tracts are cancelled
Only manufacturers will
be exempt from the provisions of the
proposed law who are needed in
other ways for national defense work
Sheel mills also will be permitted to
supply the railroads with the mini
those steel
are shown to be absolutely necessary
to meet the nation's war needs
Such prompt action is expected by
Congress that administration leaders
are confident that the machinery for
turning out the ships would be set in
motion within one month. Large num-
bers of contracts have been drawn and
are ready to be signed when authoriza-
tion for their construction is given
No embarrassment on account of la
bor with which to carry on operations
upon a 24-hour basis in shipyards will
be encountered. Assurances of the
utmost cooperation of the
labor's authorized spokesmen.
National defense heads
that as a war measure
of steel products to
declared
ship building
BLAYS WHOLE FAMILY!
Kentucky Farmer Kills Parents,
Brother and Sisterin-Law,
Elkton, Ky Frank Millen, a young
farmer, killed his father, Charles
Millen; his mother, Mrs. Betty Millen;
his brother, Elmore, and his brother's
wife, Amy, and hanged himself. Young
Millen notified the authorities here by
telephone that he had slain the mem.
bers of his family and was about to
take his own life. “The whole family
is dead but me,” he told Coroner Bart.
lett over the wire, “and I will be dead
when you get here”
“UNCLE JOE” CANNON 81 YEARS,
As Vigorous As Ever and Recelves
Congratulations.
Washington. Representative Joseph
G. Cannon, of Illinois, former Speake:
of the House, was 81 years old Mon
day. Despite his years, “Uncle Joe’
apparently Is as vigorous and active
as ever. He received many congratu
Iations from members of Congress,
Government officials and others,
ANY ENGINEERS
10 60 T0 FRANCE
Trained
Railway Men.
ON COMMUNICATION LINES
Will Be Volunteers and Are
Be Raised At Great
Rallway Centers Of
Forces
To Nine
Country.
Washington
f army engineers, to be composed ex
ciusively of highly trained railway
men, will be the first American troops
to France, They will go
st possible moment,” the
War Department announced, for work
communication lines, but specula
as to or to
points they will is forbidden
because of the submarine menace
will volunteers,
great
country. Each
commanded by an engineer
of the Regular Army, alded by
an adju All other officers will
railway engineers or offici
The expedition will an
strength of between 11,000 and 12,000
} being
en, eacn
battalions of three comj
0 be sent
“at the earl
on
tion exactly when what
be sent
be
The new forces
raised at the railway cen
of
be
nine
ters the regiment
will
colonel
tant be
Lis
have total
roriment sey 1Yi 130 ed
regiment COM PpoOReq
of two anies
each Every
ers necessary to
yranch of rallway work
illding or opera
ented iz
the bt
tion of lines will be repre
+3 * 1 »
and ea War Dep
ts a responss to the
ranks
ow,
»
mit & ca:
The deparin
“The War Depar
orders fi th
wr ne
ible, of nine
of engineers, whicl
proceed to Fran
sible moment
communicatio
press that
regarding this force be
than that given All detalls re
garding the force will be given out as
fast as compatible with the best pub
lic interests ™
ulation or
no
t
BDC
>
carried other
out
VAWTER I8 ACQUITTED.
Jury At Christiansburg, Va. Requires
But One Ballot
Christiansburg, Va. — Charles E
Vawter, former professor at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, was acquitted
by a jury in the Montgomery County
Circuit Court of the murder of Stock-
ton Heth, Jr.
The scene that followed the an
nouncement of the verdict was an af-
fecting one. Deputy Clerk Trig Wal
ters had not finished repeating
Jury's decision when Professor Vawter
Jumped from his chair and clasped his
mother in his arms. The aged woman
shouted, “Oh, glory!”
Attorney R. 1. Jordan, of Radfard,
one of Vawter's counsel] and the only
lawyer in the room, with =a
“Thank God!™ sank into his chair and
wept
the
fervent
KAISER REPLIES TO SULTAN.
invokes Aid Of Almighty To Gain
Complete Victory.
A dispatch to
Telegram Company from Ameterdam
gives the reply of Emperor William to
recent congratulations sent him by the
Sultan of Turkey on the bravery of
the German troops. The Emperor, in
the course of his reply, said:
“All eyes are turned on the mighty
conflict in the west, where
enemies, superior in numbers and ma
terial, are seeking a decision
“Our brave troops are there accom-
plishing deeds such as never before
have been recorded In the history of
May the
Almighty also protect them in the
future and lead them to complete vic-
tory.”
London Reuter's
our
CANADA PROFFERS TENTS.
With United States,
Washington —Canada has an enor
mous reserve stock of tentage and
other quartermasters’ supplies
URGES THEFT I
FOOD AND CLOTHING
Houston Makes Nationwide Ap-
peal for Economy in Homes.
APPEALS TO HOUSEWIVES
| Tells Them Ounce Of Food Spoiled
In Every Home Means Daily
Waste Of 1,300,000
Pounds.
Washington.—In an
women of the United
the
Secretary
appeal “to
} tates”
Houston da
na
ef
lares that
most
emergency by
dec they can
their “bit effectually in the
tional practicing
fective thrift in ]
The appeal was
requests for a
service women can render the
their hou
prompted by many
statement as to the
nation
in the direction of producing the con-
serving agricultural
Every woman ca
service to the natic
emergency, says tl
her
home duties to h
not leave her
he arn forces.
ed and
to sunnly
ip
She can help to f«
and help
those bevond the
ciothe our
Arinies food to
seas by ticing of-
1 her own household
Wilful Waste, Woefu!
ana
TE
wrest act fond
} protect fo
ce 1
the cul
vary hit
dirt, m or
quire
into her home
such foods as veget
and milk
iucts
utes for meat She mus
business to see that
is thrown away
wasted
or is
Every Ounce Counts.
“Waste in any individual household
may to be insignificant, but if
only a single ounce of edible food on
the average is allowed to spoil or be
thrown away in each of
homes over 1300000 pounds ma-
terial would be wasted each day. It
takes the fruit of many acres and the
geem
our 20,000,000
of
work of many people to raise, prepare
and distribute 464,600,000 pounds of
food a Every ounce of food
thrown away, therefore, tends also to
waste the an army of busy
citizens
“Clothing is largely an agricultural
and the
the sheep ranges, in
4
year
labor of
product represents results of
labor on cotton
When.
needlessly
needed to keep
be con-
passing
do well to look
more par
arian point of
fields and in mills and factories
ever a
discarded
useful garment is
material
EOome
ed
one warm or dry may
merely to gratify a
Women would
ng at this time
from the utilit
Take Care Of Shoes.
too,
proper shoeing of !
great supplies of this material
are 80 many in
ch hide, and is a shortage of
ala for leather as well as for meat.
thing that can be done to en-
courage adults or children to take care
of their shoes and make last
longer means that so much more
leather is made available for other pur
poses.
“Leather, is scarce, and the
calls
There
armies for
only pairs of shoes
there
them
Make Your Apron a Uniform.
“While all honor is due to the wom-
en, who leave their homes to nurse and
care for those wounded in battles, no
woman should feel that if she does not
wear a nurse's uniform she is absolved
from patriotic service. The home
their minds fully to this vital subject
of food conservation and train them.
selves in household thrift, can make
of the housewife’s apron a uniform of
necessary for the equipment of
armies.
the Canadian War Purchasing Com-
mission, made the offer to army ofll-
clals. Shortage of tentage is expected
to be a serious problem in organizing
the mobilization camps for the select
ive draft army, and the Canadian stock
may be found useful.
MENOCAL IN DANGER.
Plot To Assassinate the President Of
Cuba Foiled,
Havana-—An attempt was made to
assassinate President Menocal, of
Cuba, by means of a bomb explosion.
Nine arrests were made before the
conapirators could carry out their plan.
The Cuban authorities for some time
had been investigating a reported plot
to make a new attempt against the
life of President Menocal by certain
disgruntled elements of the recent
abortive rebellion.
and encourage thrift
neighbors.
among
your social standard.
become obligatory.”
ACCUSED OF SLAYING WOMAN.
50Year-Old Man,
ing led to the arrest at Hendricks,
Tucker county, of Baxter Shaffer, 50
years old, on the charge of murdering
his sweetheart, Mre. Stella Long, 30
years old, who was found in her home
with her head beaten to a pulp. Shal.
fee's fist is mashed, one of his shirt
gleoves torn off and his body bruised.
He admits spending most of the night
at the house, but says the blood on
his clothing came from carrying the
woman's body inte the house after a
train had hit her. Shaffer is in jail
at Parsons. .
BROKEN DOWN
IN HEALTH
Woman Tells How $5 Worth
of Finkham’s Compound
Made Her Well.
Lima, Ohio. ~—**1 was all broken down
in health from a dis placement. One of my
y lady friends catpe to
see me and she ade
vised me to come
mence taking Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Veg-
etable Compound
and to use Lydia E.
Pinkham's tive
Wash. 1 began take
ing your remedies
i took $5.00 worth
in two months
= was a well woman
after three doctors said 1 never would
stand up straight again. 1 was a mid.
wife for seven years and I recommended
the Vegetable Cc nd to every wo-
man to take bef birth and after.
wards, and they all got along so nicely
that it surely is a godsend to suffering
women, If women wish to write to
me I will be delighted to answer them.”
— Mrs. Jennie Moyer, 842 E.North St,
Lima, Ohio.
Nomen who
1, .
ments, weaxness,
suffer from displace-
irregularities, ner
vousness, backache, or beari down
pains, need the tonic properties of the
roots and herbs contzined in Lydia BE
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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TRICK WAS COSTLY TO HIM
Conjurer Vho “Found” Coins or
Street Car Floor Forced by Con.
ductor to Turn Over Money.
A eon'n
theater got
members of 1
while, moved hy
he pretended to
stooping her and there, and producing
the from the
» amazement of
gers, say Toronto Mail
friends laughted heartily at
Not so. howe the conduc
ard and stegnly de
m under seats, on
Baur
the passer
His two
the joke. er
tor
came fora
who
manded
25-cent pleces he
r that he
accordance
lost
th »
order
in
governing
» CArs,
' protest that
The
helleve
in order to
visit to the police
* up the colns.
trick.
not
him,
avold a «
Inharmonious.
with them Twis
the conto
ircus propri-
among
atter
crappin’
bose” replied
, two of ‘em is
Frenchman and the
and every once In
guin’ about the
Hope for the best and make the best
of what yon
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