THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG. PA.
FREES SUMMER
RESORT HELP
Blrls In Short-Term Hotels
Granted a Seven-Day Week
by Industrial Board
AUTHORITY OF 1917 ACT
Aleo Issues a Rule Prohibiting tho
Employment of Minors in Estab
lishments Where High Explo- . .
sives Are Manufactured.
'Harriirburg.
Tho State Industrial Boarr" baa an
nounced new regulations for employ
ment of women In summer hotels and
Imjued a rule prohibiting employment
vt minors in establishments where
high explosives are manufactured.
The order In regard to the employ
meat of women, which was made undei
authority of tire act of 1917, is as fol
lows: "That the Industrial Board grants
to the short-term hotels, operating ap
proximately four months In the year,
the privilege of seven days a week on
It he basis of a seven-hour day; it being
understood that the employees In such
hotels working more than seven hours
per day shall not be scheduled under
the terms of this ruling, but will be
classed under the terms of the wom
an's law of 1915; It being further un
derstood that the schedule of hours of
labor shall be posted, as called for by
law."
The ruling on employment of minors
In high explosive factories prohibits
them from places where thore are
made picric acid, smokeless powder
svnd trinitrotoluol, a dangerous explo
live used for shells.
Bound to Be on Ballot
T. P. Twiblll and George Sterner,
Philadelphia, brought mandamus pro
ceedings In the Dauphin County Court
to compel the Secretary of the Com
jnon wealth to place their names on
the primary election ballots as candi
dates for Judge In Common Pleas
Court No. 5, Philadelphia.
. They found the office closed on the
evening of the last day for filing peti
tions and threw their papers over the
transom. The papers were found next
morning and rejected.
Each one of the 169 candidates for
Judicial or Congressional nomination
filing a petition for the September pri
mary at the Department of the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth will receive
a notice. The names placed on record
were certified to the commissioners of
thirty-two counties for the printing of
the ballots for the primary.
The Attorney General's Department
will look after the State's end In the
suit brought by General V. J. Hillings
to require receiving of his nominating
papers for Congress In the Twenty
eighth district. The question arises
for the first time because a blank peti
tion furnished the General contained
an extract from a law repealed by an
act of 1917.
Not on Volunteer Basis.
State draft headquarters gave outa
telegram from Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder, In which local boards
are warned against making up quotas
from only those men wiio declare will
Ingnees to serve In the new National
Army. It Is said by him that such
practice Is In effect making up the
quotas from volunteers.
The newly appointed boards In the
middle district organized at Harris
burg and Scranton.
The State headquarters draws atten
tion to the dates for calling the next
two quotas of 30 per cent, each of the
total number of men drafted, Septem
ber 19 and October 3. The district
boards are asked to be careful to draft
men In the regular order as they ap
pear on the lists, so that men drawn
late shall not get Into the service be
fore men whose names were drawn
earlier.
Asked to Fix Urban Roads.
The first application to the State
Highway Department for construction
of State highways through boroughB
to whose borders such roads extend
was made at the capltol by a delega
tion from Susquehanna county, which
asked that the department Improve
the highways In Montrose and New
Milford. These towns are about nine
miles apart, and on the main highway
from Scranton to Binghamton.
. The delegation Included Judge H. A.
Denny, Senator E. E. Jones, Represen
tative Allen D. Miller and the county
commissioners. They stated that New
Milford had voted the money to co
operate for its share. The State will
make a Burvey at once.
Only Barefooted Recruit.
Barefooted and wearing only over
alls, blue Bhlrt, sweater and cap, Mil
ton Chreimer, a Lancaster county
farm hand, hiked 16 miles over the
mountains to Lebanon to enlist in
the United States army.
Chreimer was pronounced by the
xamining surgeon to "be eligible, but
there was a question as to his being
18 years old.
He proved his age, and asked to
be assigned to the field artillery Ber
vice, to be near horses, of which he
Is particularly fond.
Pneumonia Most Fatal.
The following is a statement of the
principal causes of 10,473 deatliB
in Pennsylvania In May, as report
ed by the Bureau of Vital Statis
tics: Pneumonia, 1401; Brlght's disease
and nephritis, 979; early -infancy,
J550; tuberculosis, 198; cancer, 880;
tuberculosis of other organs, 198; can
cer, 583; accidents In mines, 75; rail
way Injuries, 110; other forms of vio
lence, C58.
The number of births In May was
31,205
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1 PENNSYLVANIA
I BRIEFS
aiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiummMiiiiiir.
For the first time In the history of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad In Shcnun
doah and section, four young women,
Misses Delia Shucavage, Anna Slnkca-
vage, Belle Kowoskl and Jcanette Can
cosky, 17 to 19 years old, were em
ployed as section hands, and were put
cleaning up about the local station and
tracks for a beginning.
Products from "war gardens" are to
have a place In a number of county
fairs and agricultural exhibitions of
the State this late summer and fall
i Premiums In fairs this year are greater
I than ever 'before.
raised a two-pound two-ounce potato.
.Forty raspberries, each three-quar
ters of an Inch In diameter, were
picked from a foot-long end of a bush
by Dr. G. A. Rudy at Summerdaie.
To meet shortages In teachers In
some rural districts in the State
schools are consolidating, and auto
trucks will take most distant pupils to
school. '
while Norristown pays 50 cents a
hundred, for lco, It may be purchased
at Green Lane ice houses, only twenty
miles-away, for 10 cents a hundred
retail.
The 'war has caused a shortage of
male teachers In Lancaster county,
many having enlisted. In several dis
tricts the directors have been unable
as yet to get such teachers.
Clarence' Baskes, the young man of
Fern Glen, who shot his wife In the
breast and badly wounded her at the
close of a Sunday school picnic at
Rock Glen, Is dead at the State Hos
pital from self-inflicted Injuries. Jeal
ousy Is ascribed as the cause.
The prosperity of farmers In the
Hazleton region was shown when the
commissioners of Butler township de
cided not to levy any poor tax for the
current year and the School Board cut
down the school millage from 10 to 8.
The Anthracite Forestry 'Protective
Association, composed of the coal, tim
ber, water and land . companies of
northeastern Pennsylvania, will build
three fire towers In the Hazleton dis
trict' at once between Hazleton and
Pottsville, Hudsondale and N'esqueho
ning and on the mountain lying be
tween Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton
Miss Mabel Krall, of Harrisburg, has
accepted the position of secretary of
Danville's fine new Y. W. C. A., made
possible through the generosity of
Mrs. Abigail Gelainger.
Three families were made homeless
by a fire which destroyed a century
old famehouse owned by Frank Qulgg
at Port Kennedy.
Roy Hawkins asks $1,000 and Elmer
Whitman 500 In a suit against George
B. Bortz, of Temple, the former for a
broken r!,b and the laiter a broken
fcot, sustained In a collision between
an auto and the plaintiff's motorcycle.
Boy Scouts encamped at Green Lane
unearthed wireless apparatus, and a
search Is being made for spies.
The Eagle Silk Company will Install
nineteen additional looms In Its I'hoe
nixville plant, making thu total 115.
The Berks P-d Cross expects Its
members to knit 4,500 each of sweat
ers, mufflers, socks and wristlets.
The Berks County Public Safety
Committee will arrange that all the
potatoes raised in Berks county shall
be stored within the county limits, for
consumption by Reading and Berks
county people.
The historical relics of Governor
Pennypacker have bcec removed from
his late heme at Schwenkvllle to Phil
adelphia, to be sold at auction.
John M. Groves has resigned from
Norristown High School faculty to act
as chemist at a Conshohocken indus
try. William Car was elected to suc
ceed him at a salary of $1,200.
The Heine Boiler Cpmpany, of
PhoenlxvIIle, will construct a two-Btory
clubhouse, with all conveniences, for
fifty new employees who are unable to
secure lodging and board in that town.
The Stafe Highway Department
notified the Franklin County Commis
sioners that the State had taken or
would take over the highway from
Fulton county through Mercersburg
and Greencastle to Waynesboro, 32
miles, now a toll road.
Steps were taken to organize a
Chamber of Commerce for the new
city of Bethlehem, which will have
at least 800 members. A campaign
to this effect will take place In Sep
tember similar to the one which
raised $1,000,000 for the nilltohill
bridge.
The Pressed Steel Car Company,
Pittsburgh, is employing efficient
women for its heaviest work.
As both William and John Mlnnlch,
Hazleton brothers, could not be ex
empted from draft to care for their
widowed mother, William, the younger,
goes to the army.
Parents of John Dellaven, of West
Conshohocken, who ran away, have
learned that he Is In France, having
enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps.
The Mt. Penn Fire Company has
netted $401 from a festival.
The State Department of Forestry
has given' twenty-five of Its foresters
and wardens, or one-third of Its force,
to the United States Army.-
John H. O'Neil lias resigned as a
letter carrier in Norristown, after
twenty-seven years' service. He has
become assistant superintendent of an
industrial plant.
Harry Wender and Albert Steuffert,
of Philadelphia, are In Norristown Jail,
charged with the theft of 400 pounds
of wire from the Bell Telephone Com
pany. Crlsman & Quillman were awarded
the contract for wiring Montgomery
County Almshouse property, that elec
tricity may supplant gas, for $1,303.
Finding it required more of their
time than they could give, the High
way Committee of Conshohocken
Council refused to continue the grad
ing of Tllrd avenue and has asked for
bids.
An ambulance truck from Allentown,
en route to Betzwood to figure In a
sham "movie" battle, was damaged at
Norristown when It struck a Reading
Railway locomotive at a grade crossing-
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PRESIDENT SETS
Federal Government Cuts Into
Profits of Jobbers.
ALSO NAMES ADMINISTRATOR
Next Step Wilt Be Regulations For
Distribution and To Fix Anthra
cite and Bituminous Re
tail Prices.
Washington. Government control of
the coal Industry was made almost
complete, when President Wilson
named Dr. H. A. Garfield, president of
Williams College, fuel administrator,
fixed anthracite prices for producers
and jobbers and set a limit on profits
to be made by bituminous wholesaler.
The next and final step will be to
make regulations for coal distribution
and to fix anthracite und bituminous
retail prices. This will be done whi-n
a distribution program is perfected
and when the Federal Trade Commis
sion ban completed a plan under which
retail profits may be fixed. ,
The anthracite prices fixed effective
Sep'ember 1 are virtually the same as
those now charged at the mines under
a voluntary arrangement made by the
producers with the Trade Commission.
The prices that may be charged by
Jobbers, however, will reduce present
costs shari'ly. Bituminous Jobbers'
profits, too, will be cut by the new
price scale et for wholesale trans
actions. '
The Scale.
The anthracite scale for railroad
owned mines, which include practical
ly all the big producers, follow:
White Ash Broken, $4.55; egg,
$4.45; stove, $4.70; chestnut, $4.S0;
pea, $4. Red Ash Broken, $4.75;
egg. $4.65; stove, $4.90; chestnut,
$4.90; pea, $4.10. Lyken.'i Valley
Broken, $5; egg, $1.90; stoves, $5.:;0;
chestnut, $5.30; pea, $4.35.
Other producers may charge an ad
vance of 75 cents a ton of 2.240 pounds
over the figures set for the railroad
owned mines. Those who Incur the
expense of rescreening It at Atlantic
or Lake ports may add an ndditicnul
five cents, a ton.
Anthracite Jobbers delivering coal
at Buffalo and points east of that city
will be allowed a maximum profit of
20 cents a ton of 2,240 pounds, and
those delivering it west of Buffalo may
charge nn excess of 30 cents. The
combined gross profits of any number
of Jobbers handling a shipment must
not exceed the limit of profit set for a
Blngle Jobber, except that a screening
charge of five cents may be made on
water shipments at Atlantic or Lake
ports.
Bituminous profits for jobbers are
fixed at 15 cents a ton of 2,000 pounds
and the parr.e restrictions that govern
dealings by a number of anthracite
Jobbers apply to bituminous trans
actions. Restrains Railroads.
The President's order forbids rail
road-owned mines from selling to
other mines and prohibits dealers from
selling coal produced by railroad-own
ed mines on a basis of prices fixed for
other mines.
The bituminous Jobbers' prices be
comes effective Immediately, us did
bituminous mine prices.
The coal administration will be or
ganized as soon as Dr. Garfield has
completed his work of recommending
to the food administration a govern
ment price for the 1917 wheat crop.
Dr. Garfield's price-fixing committee,
will be ready to announce a price
within a few days.
T. R. ENTERTAINS BELGIANS.
Colonel Tells War Mission His Views
On Peace Terms.
New York. Members of the Belgian
war mission were entertained by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt at his home at
Oyster Bay. In a short address to the
Visitors the Colonel declared the great
est menace to civilization at this time
was "talk of an inconclusive pence."
"We must have a peace that la Just,
and no peace will be Just which does
not give to Belgium a heavy In
demnity," Colonel Roosevelt said. "No
peace will be Just that does not estab
lish a great Bohemia and a great Slav
commonwealth In Austria, and which
does not join the Roumanian and
Itallan-Austrlans to their Roumanian
and Italian brothers. Such a peace
must force the Turk from Constanti
nople and free the Armenians."
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62,690 ASK EXEMPTION.
Young Men Of New York Apparently
' Not Eager To Fight
New York. The first official figures
of the draft In New York city, which
do not Include 21 of the 189 exemp
tion boards, show that 122,257 young
men have been examined and that of
Jhis number 82,494 have been declared
physically qualified, of whom 62,690
Claimed exemption.
Roscoe Conklin.?. Demitv Attorney
General In charge of the draft here,
Bald it is estimated that but 8,374 men
were needed to ccinplete the q-iOta for
the city of 38,6.11. Fifty-six boards
have filled their quotas.
LEAVES "PENNSY" FOR FRANCE.
W. W. Atterburr, Vice-President Of
Road, Gets Leave Of Absence.
Philadelphia.-Vice-President W. W.
Atterburv. of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, was granted leave of absence. It
Is understood that he will go to France
to assist In the construction and opera
tion of railroad lines there for the
transportation of troops, munitions and
supplies. Elisha Lee, geAeral manager,
baB been appointed acting rl coresident.
THE FRIENDLY ENEMY
LWrorNrTDHoA4 f HALT
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SECOND DRAFT
LOjGIf OFF
No Facilities For Training Sec
orfd Army Until Spring.
ALL CAMPS WILL BE FILLED
Provoct Marshal General Crowder
Says That Question Has Not
Even Been Given Con
sideration. Washington. A full statistical re
port on the operations of the draft law
will be prepared by the Provost Mar
shal General's ofliee as soon s the
mobilization of the first increment of
0S7.00O men'of the National Army has
been completed some time early in Oc
tober. Pending the preparation of tho re
port and careful analysis of tho con
ditions it discloses, no steps toward
calling a second increment to the col
ors will be taken.
General Crowder said that the call
for tlie second increment never had
been considered at any conferehce at
which he was' present and that he had
no indication that it had been taken up
in any way by President' Wilson or
Secretary Baker.
Next Call In Spring.
The first Increment will fill all the
training areas 16 National Guard
camps and 16 National Army canton
ments to capacity, and there will be
a surplus of men besido those assigned
to the regular army. The regulars are
now 12.000 above full authorized war
sti.ength by voluntary enlistment and
the National Guard is in a similar
situation.
Training facilities already are taxed
to ninke ready for the front nun now
available and Jt in regarded as very,
unlikely that organization of an addi
tional 5u0,(.00 men of the National
Army can be bercun until the early i
spring of 1918. Neither quarters nor
personnel to train the force will be
available before that time.
May Amend Regulations.
Iniquities of an unavoidable nature
will be shown in the statistical report.
There probably will be some amended
regulations based on actual experience
with til-.; first increment, and some
amemlments in the law may be
thought desirable by Congress.
It is possible that some provision
will be made whereby all the sons of
one family will not be taken. A new
definition of the status of married men
may be one of the things acted upon.
President Wilson's recent letter to
Senator Weeks Is taken by many to
Indicate a feeling that a more liberal
policy may be found desirable. At
present, under regulations, a condition
of actual dependency must be estab
lished to obtain exemption. The con
dition of marriage In Itself is not con
sidered. Another matter to be worked out is
the status of aliens.
Still another Is the status of men
who have passed beyond draft age
since being drafted and that of those
who have become of draft age in the
meantime.
NEGRO TROOPS IN RIOT.
24th Infantry Mutiny and Kill Twelve
White Men.
Houston, Texas. Twelve white men,
civilians, police officers and national
guardsmen, were killed and more than
a score of persons, men, women and
children, were wounded in an outbreak
here of negro soldiers of the Twenty
fourth United States Infantry, sta
tioned here to act as guards during
the construction of the camp where
the Illinois troops will train. It is not
known how many negroes are dead.
ZEEBRUGGE BOMBED.
Vicinity Of Submarines Raided By
British Airmen.
London. The Important submarine
base of Zecbrugge and other military
objectives In Belgium were attacked
by British airmen, the Admiralty an
nounces. Some hits were obtained.
RULES DRAFT LAW IS VALID.
And "Tom" Watson Gets Setback In
His Defense Of Negro.
Mount Airy, Ga. Federal District
Judge Speer held the Selective Draft
law constitutional In a decision here
in the case of Albert Jones, a negro,
represented by Thomas' E. Watson.
Watson contended that the law is a
contravention of the Involuntary Bervl
tuue provision of the Constitution.
The co-operative warehouse Is gain
ing In popularity in the South.
OF
FIXED' BY
Will Affect Public as Well as the
Government.
TABLE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Range Frpm $2 To $3.25 For Run Of
Mine and From $2.15 To $3.50 For
Prepared Sizes To $1.75 To $3
For Slack Or Screenings.
Washington. President Wilson an
nounced provisional prices for bi
tuminous coal at the mine
While it is said that the prices are
"not only fair and just, but liberal as
well," it was declared by men In close
touch with the coal situation that the
figures would prove a severe blow to
the producers.
The prices are fixed ty States, and
range from $2 to $3.25 for jun of mine,
and $2.15 to $3.50 for prepared sizes
to $1.75 to $3 for slack or screenings.
These prices will affect the public
as well as the government, although
machinery through which costs piling
up through middlemen may be cut
down, has not yet been r-elccted. This
will be the next step taken by the
executive.
. Provisional Only.
The oflicial announcement from the
White House follows:
"The following scales of prices is
prescribed for bituminous coal at the
mine in the several coal-producing dis
tricts. It is provisional only. It is
subject to reconsideration when the
whole method of administering the
fuel supplies of the country shall hava
been satisfactorily organized and put
Into operation. Subsequent measures
will have as their object a fair and
equitable control of the distribution of
the supplies nnd of the prices not only
at tjie mines, but also in the hands of
the middle men nnd the retailers.
"The prices provisionally fixed here
are fixed by my authority under the
provisions of the recent act of Con
gress regarding administration of the
food supply of the country which also
conferred upon the executive control
of the fuel supply. They are based
upon the actual cost of production and
are deemed to be not only fair and
just, but liberal as well. Under them
the industry should nowhere lack
stimulation.
MOVIE IDOL MUST FIGHT.
Bryant Washburn Refused Exemption
Because Of Family.
Chicago. Bryant Washburn, a
widely known motion picture actor,
must serve in the national army, Major
B. M. Chipperfield, representing the
Provost Marshal General, ruled. Wash
burn, who had. passed the physical ex
amination, claimed exemption on the
ground that he had a wife and child
dependent upon him. Secret Service
agents learned, Major Chipperfield
culil that Wnshburn had a bank ac-4
count of $5,500 and that his wife, who
was Mabel Forrest, an actress, had ap
peared In pictures before and after the
birth of their child.
GERMAN SPY NABBED.
One Of Fourteen Working Here For
the Kaiser. .
Richmond, Va. William F. Nain, 36
years old, arrested In Louisa Sunday
as a suspicious character and rearrest
ed Monday, charged with being a Ger
man spy, told the police he was one of
14 spies working in the United States
at the direction of the German govern
ment. GERARD UNDER GUARD.
Former Ambassador To Berlin Gets
Threatening Letters.
Chicago. Two detectives are guard
ing James W. Gerard, former ambas
sador to Berlin. He has' received
many anonymous letters showing deep
feeling held against him by persons
whose sympathies are with Germany.
MOBILIZATION TO BE DELAYED.
Dates Changed For Second "and Third
Increments Of Draft.
Washington. Mobilization of the
second Increment of draft troops was
changed from September 15 to 19 and
the third increment from September 30
to October 3. Mobilization of the first
increment will be as previously an
nounced, September 5. The postpone
ments are said to be due to delays In
the local boards In getting their
quotas ready for service.
WISH
I
Advance Made on Front of More
Than Eleven Miles. '
GERMANS QUIT TAL0U RIDEG
Drive Forward More Than Mile.
Prisoners Number Over Four
Thoueand Aviators Help
In Victory.
Paris. A smashing French victory
on the Verdun front la recorded In a
late official report Issued by the War
Office. The French have captured
the enemy defenses orl both sides of
the Meuse over a front of more than
11 miles, penetrating the German line
at divers points to a depth of a mile
and a quarter. More than 4,000 un
wounded German prisoners have been
taken. ,
4,000 Prisoners Gathered In.
The text of the statement reads:
"On the front north of Verdun our
troops captured on both sides of the
Meuse enemy defenses on a front of 18
kilometres and to a depth which ex
ceeded two kilometres at certain
points. On the left bank of the river
we hold in particular the Avocourt
wood, the two summits of Le Mort
Homme, Corbeauf wood and Cumleres.
On the right bank we have occupied
Talou Ridge, Champ, Cbampneuvllle,
Hill 344, Mormont farm and Hill 240,
north of Louvemont.
"On the right our troops have ad
vanced considerably In the Bols des
Fosse and the Bols de Chaume.
"The number of unwounded prison
ers taken Is more than 4,000.
Foe Strikes Back In Vain.
"The Germans' carried out violent
counter-attacks in the Avoucourt wood
and against Le Mort Homme and Hill
344, but our fire everywhere broke
down their efforts and inflicted heavy
losses. Our aviators took a brilliant
part in the battle, turning their ma
chine guns at a low height against
enemy concentrations and contributing
also to the repulse of counter-attacks.
"Our pilots brought down 11 Gorman
airplanes on the battle front, while two
other enemy machines were brought
down by our special guns."
Objectives In 80 Minute3.
The Temps says that in one hour and
20 minutes after the French Infantry
advanced to the attack at Verdun the
first objective had been attained and
German prisoners were going to the
rear.
Talou Ridge "Abandoned."
Berlin. The War Office announces
that the French, without lighting, have
occupied Talou Ridge on the Verdun
front east of the Meuse.
The German high command says
that Talou ridge was given up by the
Teutons because this line of defense
since last March had only been occu
pied by outposts.
GIVES GUARDSMEN MORE PAY.
Comptroller Of Treasury Rules On
Status In Federal Service.
Washington. Officers and men of
the National Guard, the Comptroller of
the Treasury ruled, Ire entitled to pay
in the Federal service at the rate of
their service in the guard. A third
enlistment man in the guard, for in
stance, is entitled to third enlistment
pay from the Government. Thousands
of officers and men will by this ruling
receive more pay than they expected.
BRITISH CASUALTIES 14,243.
Nearly Three Thousand Killed During
Past Week.
London. British casualties reported
in the week Just ending total 14,243
officers and men. Of this number 2,873
soldiers lost their lives. The detailed
figures follow: Killed anil died of
wounds, officers, 325; men, 2,548: total,
2,873. Wounded and missing, officers,
846; men, 10,524; total, 11,370. Total
casualties, 14,243.
GERMAN EDITOR JAILED.
Interned For Publishing Article En
couraging Violation Of Draft.
Little Rock, Ark. Curtis Acker
mann, editor and. proprietor of a Ger
man language paper published here,
was Interned In the county jail here
at the direction of United States At
torney Genereal Gregory.
RECOMMENDS IMPEACHMENT.
Governor F-i mon To Be Presented
To Texas Senate.
Austin, Texas. The House In com
mittee of the whole reported a recom
mendation that a bill of impeachment
against Governor James E. Ferguson
be presented to the Senate. The vote
was 81 to 52.
WAR COMMISSION ENDS.
One From Belgium Has Completed
Duties In This Country.
New York. The Belgian War Com
mission officially has come to an end.
Baron Moncheur, head of the mission,
announces that a few days will be
spent in New York In an unofficial
capacity
6,627 BRITISH SAILORS LOST.
This Number Does Not Include Men In
Government Service.
London. Since the outbreak of the
war 6,627 officers and men of the Brit
ish mercantile marine, exclusive of
those in the pay of the Admiralty, have
lost their lives, according to a state
ment made in the House of Commons
this afternoon by Sir Albeirt Stanley,
president of the Board of Trade.
Negroes in the United States have
a taxable -wealth of about $500,000,000.
FRENCH
Of
VERDUN
FRONT
BILLION
1015
fif
SHIPPINGJL S. M
Many Ships Planned &w
Those Commandeered,
TOTAL COST . $2,
Nearly Eight Million Toni Of
can Shipping Propo.ed In Ad
10 nearly iwa Million N0w
. Building In Yardi.
Washington. The mt,tn
shipbuilding program calls for.!!'
of 1,270 ships of 7;h.ooo toniJ ,
was revealed in estimates the shiT,
Board haB sent to Secretary s:cu
on which to base a request for.
$1,000,000,000 appropriation. i
This Is in addition to nearly j J
000 tons of shipping now buildlat
American yards, which nan been J
mandeered by the Emergency p
Corporation. A large part of ih(!.
ernment fleet and of the comnm!
ed fleet will have been cotnpletce
the end of the fiscal year, m
1918. Building, commanderim
purchases of vessels will t0:a
z,uuu,uuu,ouu.
SENDING MAIL TO SOLCIESl
now ueiiers i-or trie Boy n th U
tional Army Camps Should
Be Addressed.
Washington, Au'. 2:!. Before It--
several thousand young mmnj-
In the various cantonment can,; -the
National army, and tln-lr ri!i'
and other friends will wih lor.
to them. In order to expedite ;h, .
livery of their mail and cue tin-'.
the best service possible, tlie w
olllcinis instruct their cone.-ioiVi
If they know In advance the mv.
and regiment to which t!u ..!;
assigned, to addn-- ;nall mtnit:.:
this sample:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
A Company, First Infant:,
("amp (indue, Ioti
If the company and r-K:nn-si : I
known, the mail should be jlte-.
thus:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
of MiMe-tfi,
Camp l'iiil;.e. Ion
When all troops jip nrsaniwT:
mail for each man will ( di!r,t:-
direct to his company and refis-
Until then it will be d iiu-n-d tl:o..
his t-tate section.
FRENCH TAKE FAMOUS HILL I
With Brilliant Dash They C;r-j ll
Storm inportint Strorjhcll
Grand Headtpianeis of die F.v
Army. Hill 3M, th" tost nzv.-A
lmpoitant stronghold of t!ieG;l
fronting Verdun, ti ll ir.t-i I
hands. The Frene.i .nfrntrj, t;i
almost encircled tin; hill in fr
attacks, charged the Herman pS-
In a brilliant dash and carried :i:
storm, capturing the remainder o!:
Germans entrt -nclu'd tln-re.
. Not content villi tlii?
achievement, the 1-Vndi advatJ
further 2,000 yards and made p
sion of tho hill doubly ffurf. I
304, together with I.eMort Hrc:
commands all the ravines tad -
proaches as far rs Pouaniont Tl
loss of these positions difrvet-
Germans of all observatories fr j
which they could watch tlie T'
movements.
THE ITALIANS PRESS F0RWA!:
Capture Sixty Gun and Send &j
From Front 20,000 Prisoner
Rome. Tlie War Cilice repo"!"Jl
. ... . ..... (nil! f;l
ine Dame on me -
tinues and that about t,u FJ"'"'
hn rnTitlll-pd.
Ceneral Cadorna aanounrMtWi
Italians stormed new Autr:aa r
tions, broke up violent
tanlfC mil.lB hv the t ncW a""'
l.riro nnmher of Austrol!--?l'll
prisoners.
uuice siKienit-iu . - ,
moved from the Austro-Italitf l
by the Italians.
STOLEN STATUARY F0U1
U. S. Secret Service Me" "t!
Head Of Hyjeia.
i tercet
Washington. i lie
recovered a famous pl,(,(,,,i
statuary, "the head of H.11 ; " ,
lant December from the "' .
Tegeft, Greece. Mr. ourus ; r
the Creek legation here, I
months ago sought .J
United States in tracing ,J
the statue, was notiftwl that ,
been found In the ro
an in New yorK una
over to him for Oturn i"
SUFFRAGE PICKETS
ail an
Give
o a m J PnHina ucl
Motion For NevTn
The six wo""?.
Kanncr.hoororH nrrCSteO I" , -jl
""""" tmeffl " A
White House were ,
police court to pay Him ' f
orvo an rt;,v In Jail. J" '..wH
' .'..,.. nil
bonds pending acu-
a new. trial.
GOV. FERGUSON REM
. jI
. ....on"' I
Suspended Pending Act""'
Of impw - rrifr
Austin, Texas..'
. -aa ernm the on-' ..p;
W H H . mix IltrilUHTVl . .ir
f T, when theW
munntrpra named by the H011 u'
.ml to " ,A
resentatives piesrw- yr
51 - rutins of imneacliai"-
official misconduct. ,lci,r
lieutenant governor, a"" f
ceeded to the governor ,
ii HiiiiniLiuu
Senate.