DESPERATE REMEDY
Five-Day Shut Down
Coalless Mondays Ordered.
SHIPYARDS ARE EXEMPT
Munitions Plants, However,
Railroads, Homes, Hospitals and
Army Camps To Be First
Supplied.
Washington. — America’s manufac”
turing enterprises, with but few
ceptions, in all states east of the Mis
sissippl were by the
Government to suspend operations for
five days, measure
relieving At
ns of re
ex
river ordered
as a drastic for
the fuel famine
a further mea
that industry
iuding all
the
same time, as
Hel, it
business
mal act
buildings liday ey
vday for the next 1 weeks,
: Mondays
S2.00NN,
1
was directed an
gener: inc
ally,
ivities that require
observe as a
«O06 QOowl
ries, but
he sale of drugs and
and near
musement
ngs
"hile the order does
known tl}
conti
con
REALLY WAR, SAYS TAFT
“Must Adant Ourselves Lil
America
WHISLER LOOT FOUND.
$62,000 Stolen From Ar
Cs
my Bank
Quarters.
In
ptain's
| iw
BR >
taken fron a snk af
Funston | ‘aptain swis Whi
nite he had billed . y ave wd
is i 5 ' . $44 : y » Maat
injured a}
ia een
i v
found hidden
8 quarters
more
in the
the barracks here
The
stored
in
TO ney, in cu
in at
eviden
finding
probably
the
rency, waa found
nea
WwW hisle
Ihe
cing place
tiy prepared
of money, it
closed the case
that Whis
(‘ar
up
add
Haag
tain
for it
was said,
ae far as
an accomplice,
&-
NAVY DROPS DOUBTFUL MEN.
the
theory ler had
formation.
Washington Ag a result of the in.
vestigation into the nationality, afMlia
tions and record of every men ia the
Navy, three highly technical experts
in the hydrographic office have been
dismissed. Confidential! character
the work they do made it necessary,
officials say. One of the men had
been attached to the office U7 years.
MEATLESS DAYS
- (1 DONT Eo
. ~ "ods
Gow, | NN
HOPE IT
| sows FOR
(4 once mys
AS THEY REACH
Mandatory.
Meacures Designed To Prev
in Public Eating
Rega
fulnesc Houtes—
-
Early Passage rded
As Certain
AMERICAN TRAWLER LOST.
Admiral 8ime Reports All Her
Saved
Crew
MAY DROP MEN OVER 31.
Baker Would Discharge Those Still
On Draft List.
whington. Secretary Paker has
viced the Senate Military Commit
ee the War Department favors dis.
charging from draft liability men who
passed the age of 31 since reg
jstering on June §, 1917, and without
having been called to the colors
have
World War in Brief
German newspapere admit that the
American destroypre’ system of at
tacking the Udloats with depth
charges ia proving effective,
German
mouth, England. Three persons were
killed and 10 injured.
| east of the Bremta River.
ed in the Senate.
SHEV IKI TYRANNY
Rumanian Minister And Staff At Pet
rograd Under Arrest,
AFTER HYPHENATE ALLIANCE,
cnator King Offers Bill
German-American
To Abolish
Body.
Washi
oration of the
fiance
duced by
ngton al of
(ier
the incor
Al
intro
and
committee
be
for a
man-American
in a hill
Senator King, of Utah
referred the Judiciary
The ttorney General would
thorized bring proceedings
receiver to close up its affairs,
t
$
i was proposed
to
au
to
INSURED AGAINST U. BOATS.
Officers And Crews of Merchantmen
To Be Covered.
Washington —Docatise of the exten:
sion of the submarine war zone Secre
tary MeAdoo ordered Government life
insurance in force for officers and
crews of American merchantmen
the Cape Verde Islands, and points
on the wes! coast of Africa, north of
Sierra Leone. Sailing vessels will not
AGAINST [-80AT
, L. Luckenbach Refused |
to Surrender.
- E -
DESTROYER TO AID
Battle Had Raged For Four Hours
Before The Warship Finally Ap-
peared On The Scene And The
Submarine Ducked.
“Never!” This wars
flushed by |
sleamsni;
Washington
the grim, laconic
from the
lauckenbach
with
was urged by a
response
American
when, after
a German submarine
United States Ce
ing 0 the
didn't Al
fired by the
radio
J. L
a four
he
troyer, specd rescue, not to
}
And she thoug!
LT
ne shots
3
found the
1
{
have been
part
Airing § aut 3 G6 and ceased firing
apd
ahmarine
by
whici OOK
¢
H
11:40, two hundred two rounds
being fired at th
destroyer stood
were repaired,
irs and a half, and then
the L.ucke
ied about 5 P
nbach 10 a CONVOY
reacs M
DRAFT BOARDS ON FEE BASIS
Boards To Get Thirty Cents For Each
Man Classified.
Igton Extravagant
members
gervices in classgifvin
Provost Marshal
to accept
ied
recom
and oth
tavinnigt ern
AGH JSRLTA
members
h the
draft to pl
WAITa
ers connects
of the selective ace the
feature of ti
ie classificat
basis
ram
General
ary fon
In a teleg
ernore
sent to all state gov
promuigates
approved by Presi
under which the boawrds
receive an aggregate
30 cents remuneration for each man,
finally classified, exclusive of com-
pensation corks or examining
physicians are not members of
the board Under the old rules the
boards were allowed a maximum of
$1560 a month for each member ex
Crowder
new regulations,
Wiison,
hereafter
dent
will of
for
who
ACCUSED OF POISONING 38.
German Chore Boy Arrested n Lum.
ber Camp, ,
Mountain, Wis. Thirty-eight men in
a lumber camp here are seriously ill
from being poleoned Sunday night
and the Federal authorities
have been notified, When arrested
Zinbach carried passports from Swits.
erland countersigned by former Am.
bassador von Bernstorff. It is said
that he iz a German,
IN FAVOR OF
Manifesto by Social Revolution-
ary Assembly.
ATTACK ON
Accused Of Deluding Wornout
diers With Hopes Of
While Opening The
Front To The Enemy.
Inimediate
Peace
revolution
As
bit
ne
Petrograd, The social
members of
sembly
ary the Constituent
have lssued manifesto
terly denouncing Bolsheviki
of
ne
who have
an abyss
urpers POW Eers pre-
cipitated the count
of
into
war and anarchy.
4
placing restoration oj
the hes their own pro
signers the anifests
PEACE
sibly
leven
declared
don thel
Petros ilep:
timt interest fr t ¥
Now
rano rt
"1
ta diverted
Breet. Lit negotiations
ITreDATra ie for meeting on
T
i nt Assembly
nonties
anticipat
four was
1s
Kronsta
George J Tonkin ecently
National Committee
Addicts
imprison
(N. J.)
having been
gecretlary o he
Relief of 1}
sentenced to four months’
ment In the Mercer
State Penitentia
found guilts charge of traffick
ng in morp! in jon of
Federal Drug lL.aw in New York
Charles C
police
for the Wug was
County
ry aller
on a
hine violat
chief
his
Healey, former
of Chicago, who, with co
be brought to trial
Several hundred Serbiane, residents
of Indianapolis, were advised to join
the United States fighting forces or
return to Europe and join the fight.
ing forces of their own country, by
Dr. Milenko Vesnitch, head of the
Serbian Mission to this country,
Samuel Mitehell, former paymaster’s
clerk at the Naval Academy, was cap-
tured at Atlanta, Ga, and will be
taken to Annapolis to answer a charge
of embezzlement.
Practicaliy all divisions of the Penn
syivania lines west of Pittsburgh were
reopened to traffic,
TOOMANY TORGUES
Language of the United States Is
Urged for All
Earth's People Learn to
Bpeak English,
The next thing that must be done in
the way of world efficlency to g
rid of ‘a lot'of languages that are floy’
ng around to the restraint of trade,
It will be the
but it must be done, just the
thing bunch of
over a mountain
is ret
most difficult feat of
Kame,
This of every people
or
different
near neighb irs
the
from
grent
world has 1 antend
langunge
is the 1
handicap
with today, asserts a writer
Angeles Times Mag
Moreover, this
is the
has
strategies,
hatreds
The biggest
relations of
has been the
in the Los
pazine.
surplus of Is
one thing, above all
isunderstandings
spolls, hell-ra
wey 11 wr
generally.
others
caused
bar against
peGne
differen
one
he took
ompli i
sarned these lines
The
aR nearly
gible, and then force the other f«
to speak our language fo
good,
thing to do is to make
a master of En
Hows
own
Horse Breeding in Brazil
Any project ich has for
pose the betterment of
certs
wl ?
breed-
in
to
in ranch-
lar operations, writes Con-
Alfred I. M. Bottsc
The developn
animal
attention
the country has come
ge its ful
ing and sin
sul General
Rio de Janeiro.
been ; going on slo
perceptibly for several jears
ranch at thelr o
have wted various types of cattle
and ted Individually with
crosshreaeding. Work in this direction
also has been done by the National So-
ety of Agriculture in Rio de Ja-
ueiro seconded by state cattle asso
ations and ranchmen's leagues,
Recently a commision appointed by
the president of Brazil for the study
conservation of the national re-
in to attract
since
possibilities
wily
Some
OWnLers eX}
imp
experimen
wi
wnse
of live stock, taken from the reports
Oil. yielding Plants in Denmark.
At a large meeting of farmers’ as
sociations recently held in Copenha-
gen, there was much discussion about
the planting of oil-yielding plants, such
There has been a
areas planted to grain, but on account
of fats and
edible olls, it now seems to be desir
able to grow more oil-vielding plants,
especially ns the residue left after
pressing out the ofl (ofl cakes) will
help to supply the great deficiency In
cattle feeds,
Irish Crop Report,
According to the agricultural statis.
tics of Ireland the total acreage under
crops in 1016 was 4.808.575. The acre-
age under crops the past year was
5,570,458, showing an increase of 768»
878 acreg or 16 pdr cent. The total
area under potatoes in 1017 was T08.-
2063 acres, as compared with 586.808
acres in 1016, an increase of 122,065, or
21 per tent; under hay, 2,582,723 acres,
ns compared with 2.408247 acres In
1016, an increase of 126,476 acres, oF
5.3 per cent