OUR MEN TRAINED
SOLDIERS
TAUGHT HOW TO USE AND
CARE FOR WEAPONS.
They Prove Successful in Saving Food
and Fuel — State Councils of De.
fense Will Advise War Risk Claim.
ants
Committ n Public Informatior
National
itions of the
(From
Washington.
and many organi:
al Guard having
the United rifle,
(modified fleld), it
sary to dey
troops could }
the use of this weapon
A statement 3
nance department tell
shooting, many
United States tenn
mational shooting
missioned
to Instruct
Ing and in t
the rifle.
In one
tion from th
stration
bling this
record
mounting
bling.
chanics’
hanlcs’
trained to ms
fleld.
their
aot be alk
fore they
in taking
in new
Nation
been equipped with
States model of 1017
became n
wher
author
and ser
offi
y
amg cers under
¥
RL)
classi
ike rep
Near orit] #3 00n
Frequently i
work
Comm
fished thre
are proving
end fuel «
department
from
newspal
“The
public t
kitchen
made
tively =h
be | t
establish
people's kite
(Lond
This suppl
week, wil
ono to 17
mer «
ber fa:
The con
urged the
voluntary
In the ser
of pay ar
of pay, t
money
diers and sail
Allotments
the
directly by the treasury
the
for insurand
should be ¢
risk
Washington, D. C.;
of pay, extra pay
Aecensed
other
auditor of the
agton, DD. C.
war-rigk
persons entitled
¢ taker
dressed ¢
insurance, treasury
saldiers
claims shoul
Consul General Thackarn, at Paris
enables: “A decree of April 5, published
April 6, gives notice t all merchan-
dise prohibited from importation by
law of May 6_1918, will be seized and
sold for profit of the state unless n
regular Import authorization be pre
sented within five days after arrival
For first 30 days after promulgation
of this decree requests for derogntions
from its provision can be addressed to
the minister of finance, in case parti
cular circumstances justify an excep
tion.”
Two per cent of the enlisted person
nel of the divisions and detacked unite
of the regular army, National Guard.
and National army, excepting the
coast artillery and various staff corps,
will be designated to attend the fourth
series of officers’ training schools,
which will open May 15. Admission
has also heen granted to some men
who have hed a! least one year's mill
tary training under army officers af
educational Institutions which
earned government recognition.
Night driving of motortruck supply
trains from the West to the seahoard
has been started hy the quartermas
ter's department as a stop toward finn)
training to fit men for service In
France,
According to the council of national
defense, the gained in
cross-conntry convoy work hans made
the truck companies able to travel en
experience
Camps are made nt the reguinr hour,
no matter where the company ls la
cated, except that open country Is giv
en preference over cities,
Optical glass equaling the product
of European manufacturers, from
whom only it formerly could be ob-
tained, is now being produced for mili
and several privately owned
factory In Pittsburgh, for use by the
navy department, contained 780 pounds
enough
700
optical
for
glass
lenses probably
manufactur
ing in the United States has been simi-
lar to that tefore the
Development In glass
of dye making.
were content to import
thems-
grinding, polish
glass
st be-
Europe,
selves Gong "ily hie
European
he three large
lund, one in France,
were closely
rets of the trade
ntury old, It was con-
formulgs ad fa
.
by many years of
#8 without tory
processes develo
One of the
au of
panies in
problen aeing the hn
tend
standards when, with fal
] 0]
America, it started to re
ly made products the
nss which
a typieal telegr
sent to the fa if a soldier in un
southern ean
“Have Coming
Going to Atlanta through coun-
tonight. Please wire me $60 at
Atlanta so 1 may pay for uniform and
home Wave identifica
tion as 1 am known In Atlanta.
Wire cash quick so 1 can get it to
morrow morning.”
Before being complied with, any re
quest for money to be sent under such
conditions should be verified by a let.
ter or telegram to the commanding of-
ficer of the camp in which the man
whose name is signed to the request? Is
stationed,
been discharged,
come direct.
not
The United States government Is
looking for men who cun take charge
of branch offices of the bureau of for
eign and domestic commerge, depart
ment of commerce, and men to act as
assistants In theese offices. Branches
are located in the principal commer
cial eltien. The salaries range from
£1800 to S000 for managers and
from £1200 to £1800 for nssistants,
A noncompetitive examination will
he held May 16 in various parts of the
country. Applicants will be examined
in export-irade technique, promotion
of commerce, and economic geography,
and credit will be given for knowledge
reign languages, The examina.
tlona will be under the direction of
the eclvll service,
The minister of agrienlture of Brag!
has been pnuthorized to establish .mod
ern experimental farms and agrien)
tural eolonles, especially for the edn:
cation of orphans and abandoned chil
dren,
AMERICANS IN
GREAT BATTLE
U. S. Troops.
HURL THE ENEMY BACK
Huns Leave
Amer
Many Dead—Losses On
can
To
Side Also Reported
Be Rather
Large.
Th
VILLA SLAYS ALL IN TOWN
To Massacre Wh
Mim,
n Girls
Are Refused
Texas Thirty oid men.
were killed bs
Villa’ en at San uz de Rosales,
40 miles utheast of Chihuahua City,
last Friday, according to a
brought to the border by railroad
Villa demanded that ¢
be delivered to him
refused his men were
evervone living in
ment, according to
Chihuahua City
report
men
ree young girlie
When thi
ordered to
RE Was
kill
setile
from
the little
the report
LUMBER RATES DISAPPROVED.
Virginia, Carolinas And Georgia Af.
fected by I. C. C. Report
Washington
in lumber
'
roiina,
Proposed nereases
rates from Virginia, North
South Carolina and Georgia
n Buffalo-Pittsburgh and
Frelght Association terri
were disapproved in a tenta.
port of an Interstate
examiner just
commerce
ade pub
1 lesion
MORE PEACE TALK,
Charlee Of Austria Reported To Be
Making Overtures To Ital
Stockholm. ~The
tional Press Agency
patch from Bagel says, th Emperor
Charlexs of Austria fg making a fresh
Jeace offer, appealing to Italy to con:
ider it in her own interests.
Catholle nterna
announces, a dis
thant
World War in Brief
STEAMER RAMMED
ware Coast.
To Lower
Rapidity
ALEXIS CZAR, SAYS REPORT
Sen Of Deposed Monarch Rumored To
Have Been Proclaimed.
that there ix ser rioting
capital, and that the rumor is
that Grand Duke Alexis
Nikolaleviteh has been proclaimed
tmiperor and that Grand
Michael Alexandrovitch i= the
leader in Russian affairs.
ious
wereinient
i
real
DEFINITE ANSWER WANTED.
Uruguayan Government Again Asks
Huns If State Of War Exists.
Montevideo. The Uruguayan Gor
ernmetn has again requested from
Germany a definite reply to the query
forwarded as to whether
Germany considers a state of war ex
many's answer to Uruguay's first re.
quest this point, but in the
meantime Uruguayan Forelgn
evades
the
ter.
Xenophon PP. Wilfley Accepts The
Missouri Toga.
ry Vilfley
2t. Louis Xenophon
member of the St
Commissioners and a well
Misgouri, was ten.
Gardner the seat
in the United States Senate vacated
recently by the death of Senator W.
J. Stone Willey announced he
would accept the appointment and left
for Jefferson City to confer with the
Election
known Democrat of
dered by Governo:
AMERICA MUST
Again there has come a pauses in the
clad bodies of German dead, and the
British and French are holding secure-
From Saturday until well into Man
night General von Arnim's forces
continued their efforts to break the
British lines on the Ypres salient and
10 press back the British and French
their efforts were
True, they gained their ob
but
out
hut everywhere
fruitiess
jective and again captured Locre
a counter-thrust them
in, and at # the French
again
were holding the
forced
lag! account
village
In the hilly region jus!
l.ocre the British also
§
ine enemy atl seve
tween Kemmel and
Much of the snap of
ching forces
veen
nas
naneuvers Lhes
in Flanders
Reinforcements
Depends On Man Power And
Te
it's Up
America
the
west cannot
engagement
of crises on
depends
present in
ultimate oulcome
the
which the
These
large
crises, up to 1 a
measure, have resulted favor
enemy 3
Attacks
lines were
The
against the
vigorous ariven
British intend
paralyze the independent will
the British command In
this the enemy has failed Unity of
command of the Allies has extended
operations to the broader field of pen
eral engagements in which all the Al
led forces will henceforth be used in
terchangeably.
“This change in the combat situs
tion has materially sitered the mo
ment of decision of the offensive. In
stead of the enemy being able to de
feat the British Army and then turn
its full energy against the French, the
ed to
power of
full united strength to the Lostile at
tack.
GERMANS RESPECT MARINES,
Devil
United States marines
Dogs.
New York
“Deufel Hunden” or “Devil
conferred upon them by the
Germans, according 10 letters received
at Marine Corps recruiting headquar
here from overseas. The name,
the letters say, saves the “soldiers of
the sea” from selecting a substitute
for the unfavored "Sammy."
“Wow, those guys put us in the
game class with the ‘Ladies from
Hell” a veteran sergeant of the ma
rines was quoted as saying in one
uote sent home,
title,
ters
SCORES CASUALTY PLAN
Representative Rogers Tells Of Dis
may Of
Relatives
BRITISH AIRMEN BOMB TROOPS
Huns East Of Locre Offer Good Tar
gfts To Pilots.
official report on
just issued save
“East of Loore the enemy's troops on
Monday offered good targets to
pilots, who dropped 275 bombs on
them and engaged them with machine
gun fire “Seven hostile machines
were brought down in air figating and
one was shot down by our infantry
Two of our machines are missing
London An
aerial operations
our
KILLED PLAYING SOLDIER.
West Virginia Boy Falls
Wooden Gun And Dies.
Elkins, W. Va Elkins lost its fret
victim this week, not in the
Upon
lard Lyele Kemper, § years old. son
and Mrs. J. R. Kemper, while
upon bis wooden gun, inflicting in
FIVE OF FAMILY KILLED.
Hits Automobile.
Ind. Five !
one family, were killed
Big Four passenger
an automobile In which
wae riding All of them were
instantly and some of the
bodies were carried half a mile by
the train
A SA
WASHINGTON.
The Overman bill was passed by
Faveile, persons,