THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. TO" NAB IDLERS ' AND SWELL ARMY House Committee Approves Baker's Plan. THE ARMY BILL EXTENDED To Give President Unlimited Power in Drafting Men. CROWDER SPRINGS SURPRISE Issues Order Calling Upon Idlers Of Draft Age To Get Positions And For Store Clerks And Other Young Men In Non-eeeential Industries To Get Jobs Helpful In War Or Be Taken Into Army Army Bill Pro vides For Ordnance For Force Of Four Million No Change Yet In Draft Age. THOSE HIT BY NEW DRAFT RULE. Under the rules framed by Provost Marsha General Crowder for the purpose of making; every t man of draft ace "do a man's work ' or fight," the following are classed as Idlers: Gamblers of all descriptions, em ployes and attendants of bucket shops and race tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and the like. The following are held not to bo eatltled to exemption: (a) Persons In the serving of food or drink In public places, In cluding hotels and social clubs. (b) Passenger elevator opera tors and attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of lube, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings and bath houses. (C) Persons, Including ushers and other attendants, engaged and occupied, in and In connection with games, sports and amuse ment, excepting actual performers In legitimate concerts, operas and theatrical performances. (d) Persons employed In do mestic service. (e) Sales clerks and other clerks employed In stores and other mer cantile establishments. The War Department, In an nouncing the new regulations, says: "It Is expected that the list of non-useful occupations will be extended from time to time as nec essity will require, so as to Include persons In other employments." Washington. Two Important steps were taken toward perfecting the task of putting the nation on a war basis. Soon after Provost Marshal General Crowder had promulgated a drastic amendment to the selective service regulations requiring every man of draft age to work or fight. Secretary Baker appeared before the House Military Committee and asked that President Wilson be authorised to call to the colors all men of draft age who can be equipped and trained. The committee promptly and unan imously Toted the authority Into the Army Appropriation Bill about to be reported to the House. Under existing law power Is given to draft one million fighting men, in addition to special units. This limit soon will be reached with men con stantly going into camp to replace those sailing for France as fast as ships can be provided to take them. With the law changed as the Presi dent desires, the manpower of the country will be drawn upon for what ever force may be necessary to win the war. General Crowder's new regulation is far-reaching in scope and touches not only habitual Idlers, but also re quires that draft registrants now in occupations held to be non-useful seek new Jobs or take their places In the Array. Clerks in stores, waiters, bar tenders, employes at places of amuse mentincluding baseball parks pas senger elevator men and other em ployes around hotels, clubs and busi ness buildings, as well as gamblers. ,'ortune tellers and racetrack and bucket shop attendants-, all fall among those classed as non-usefully encaged. Enforcement of the rule is expected to add some men to the Army, and to do a more Important pervice in improving the labor situation in es sential Industrie. The House Military Committee's ac tion came after hearing Secretary Baker's completed army bill, with provision for the pay oi 3.000,000 men and wtth ordnance appropriations on the basis of an army of 4.000.000. The measure will be laid before the House carrying a total of $9,509,129,000 of actual appropriations, and authoriza tion for contracts amounting to $2,464, 416,000 more. Mr. Baker told the committee in executive session the President's rea sons for asking that no limit be pieced upon the number of draft men to be called. Members said later it was esti mated that an army of 5.000,000 could be raised without changing the draft ages. BALKS AT PROHIBITION. Louisiana First State To Refuse To Ratify. Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana Is the first state to refuw to ratify the Fed eral prohibition constitutional amend ment The State Senate, y a vote of 20 to 20, defeated a resolution of rat ification adopted a few hours prev iously by the House, 70 to 44. Legis latures of 10 states have ratified the amendment The amendment to the existing raw adopted by the committee follows: "Provided, That the authority con ferred upon the President by the act approved May It, 1917, entitled 'an act to authorize the President to In crease temporarily the military estab lishment of the United States, Is here by extended so far aa to authorise him during each futoal year to raise by draft, as provided In Bald act and acts amendatory thereof, the maxi mum number of men which may be organized, equipped, trained and used during uch year for the prosecution of the present war until the same shall have been brought to a success ful conclusion.'" Deferred classification granted on account of dependents will be disre garded entirely in applying General Crowder's new rule to compel all men of draft age to engage in useful occu pations. A man may be at the bottom of Class One or even in Class Four, but if "he falls within the regulation and refuses to take awful employment he will be given a new numter In Class One that will send him into the military service forthwith. Local boards are authorized to use discre tion only where tbey find that en forced change of employment would result in disproportionate hardship upon bis dependents. It bad been known for some time that some form f "work .or fight" plan had been submitted to President Wilson, but there had been no inti mation that it was so far-reaching in scope. Both the military authorities and Department of Labor officials be lieve that it will go a long way to ward solving the labor problem for farmers,- shipbuilders and munition makers, and will end for the present at least, talk of conscription of labor. The announcement gives notice signi ficantly that the list of non-useful occu pations will be extended from time to time as necessity requires. HOSPITALS BOMBED BY HUNS. Hundreds Of Wounded And Those Caring For Them Killed. British Army in France. German airmen have again bombed heavily British hospitals in the area behind the lines, and this time have killed and wounded some hundreds among the personnel and patients of many different hospitals in the group. Re corded in the casualty list are the names of several sisters, who, with other women nurses, stood bravely by their posts throughout a terrific del uge of explosives. There is in the neighborhood one large American hospital and another in which there are American workers, but neither of these appears to have suffered. Last summer a number of American doctors and nurses were killed and wounded when these same hospitals were raided by the Germans. This latest horror was perpetrated Sunday night, apparently by four squadrons of enemy planes, which ap pear to have comprised more than a score of machines. A great num ber of bombs were dropped, about 29 per cent, of them huge affairs which dug vast craters la the hospital grounds, and the rest high explosive shrapnel which sent their death-dealing bullets tearing In every direction through the crowded hospitals, tents and buildings. A three-seated airplane was brought down by gunfire while flying at a low altitude, and the occupants were made prisoners. The enemy captain and the pilot sustained comparatively light shrapnel wound, while the observer was not hurt When questioned why he had directed his men against hos pitals, the captain explained In a matter-of-fact way that he did not see the Red Cross signs. He said he was seek ing military objectives and had no de sire to molest hospitals. With a shrug of his shoulders, the German captain added that If the Brit ish choose to build their hospitals near railways they must expect to get them bombed. NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS. A deficiency appropriation of $36, 2C3 for resurveying public lands In Colorado and the classification of lands Involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit has been asked of Congress by the Interior Depart ment.. B. L. Winchell, traffic director of the Union Pacific, has been appointed re gional director for the southern dis trict, and N. D. Maher, of the Norfolk and Western, regional director for the new Pocahontas operating district. Charges that two Food Administra tion representatives have been bribed by dealers prompted Food Administra tor Hoover to warn state food admin istrators to exercise particular care in the employment of investigators and other Food Administration representa tives. Pacific coast tanners having govern ment contracts will be given first op portunity to purchase the output of hides in California, Oregon, Washing ton and Nevada. Major General Erasmus M. Weaver, chief of Coast Artillery, wae transfer red to the retired list of the Army on account of age. John R. Alpine, of Chicago, was named advisor to Stanley King, War Department representative on the La bor Policies Board. Government insurance of Dutch ships taken over by the United States Is provided in a bill approved by the House. The Rivers and Harbors bill carry ing $21,572,000 was passed by the Sen ate and now goos to conference. DUTCH MINISTER QUITS. Resignation Of Dr. Philips Announced At The Hague. The Hague. It Is oflklnlly announced that the resignation of Dr. August Philips, Minister to the United States, has been accepted. An Amsterdam dis patch of May 22 slAted that Dr. Philips had requested that he be relieved of his post at Washington. It was said that the Minister's request was made on medical advice. . BREAK WIH U. 5. POSSIBLE Fabela Incident Regarded As Underlying Cause. GERMANSATTHEB0TT0M0FIT Germany's Hand Seen In Action Holding Up Of Minister To Argentina The Under lying Cause. Washington. In Mexico's sudden breaking off of diplomatic relations with Cuba, is een an indirect action against s the United States. Those here most familiar with Latin-American affairs profess to Bee in it the forerunner of more direct action, pos sibly an Interruption of intercourse between the United States and Mex ico. Although without official informa tion of a detailed character, It is un derstood here that Mexico's real grievance against Cuba Is the recent incident in which the Mexican Min ister to Argentina, Senor Fabela, was delayed In Havana, while some offi cial, ostensibly a Cuban customs In spector, searched his baggage, and probably removed some papers said to have been of an international char acter. No announcements of this feature are being made lure, and no official secrets, if there be any, are being disclosed. But it is known that at the same time some sort of a negotia tion was going on between Mexico, Argentina and possibly one other Latin-American country, having for Its purpose a common attitude toward this war. It is presumed that any papers found In Senor Fabela's lug gage had to do with it. This Incident Is believed here to be the real cause of the break, and those who entertain this belief are firm in the conviction that Mexico was coa vinced that the United States was responsible for the incident. A break between Cuba and Mexico, It is felt, disrupts practically nothing but a long standing friendly relation. In the opinion of those In close touch with the subject. It may actually give Cuba a free hand, as the Mexican foreign minister says in his announce ment, but perhaps not in the manner suggested. American agents for some time have been reporting German agents operating in Cuba, some of them crossing frequently to the Unit ed States as Cuban citizens or Mexi can citizens. A severence of diplo matic relations probably would leave the Cuban Government feeling more at liberty to investigate their activi ties. When first class powers are con cerned, a break In diplomatic rela tions inevitably has been followed by war. Between lesser powers this rule Often fails to hold good. DEEP FAITH IN ALLIES. Costa Rica's War Declaration Proves Its Love Of Liberty. San Jose, Costa Rica. The Costa Rlcan Congress adopted the resolu tion declaring that a state of war existed between Costa Rica and Ger many after President Tlnoco had per sonally appeared before the Senate and Chamber of Deputies in joint ses sion and explained the moves of the Executive in asking lor the war dec laration. Previously the President had conferred with his friends in Con gress, a free exchange of views tak ing place. It is pointed out here that Costa Rica's action in declaring war shows that the great German offensive of this year, far from affecting sentiment In this country adversely to the Al lies, only gave new incentives to place itself enthusiastically on the side of the powers that are fighting for the independence and liberty of small na tions. THE TRAINING CAMPS. Attendance Materially Below What Was Expected. Washington. Reports received at the War Department from command ers of a fourth series of reserve offi cers' training camps show a total at tendance materially below that ex pected. Less than 12,000 men have reported for instruction, althougil provision had been niaCe for 16.500. The fact that National Army divisions are far below their proper Etrength is given as the re.ison lor the failure of the camps to reach the size desired. It is probable that authority for sup plemental selections will be given division commanders. BOMBS KILL 6 NEAR PARIS. All Huns' Victims Members Of Same Family. Paris. One of the bombs dropped In thebutkirts of Paris during Fri day night's attack by German aviators killed six members of a family re cently repatriated through Switzer land. Ten other persons were injured. The other bombs which were dropped in tlie suburbs' fell on farm lands, causin? but slight damage. M03BY'S GRANDSON NAMED. Osteendant Of Confederate Chieftain Goes To West Point Washington. Beverely Mo.-hy Co'e man, 19-year-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Watson E. Coleinf.n anil a grandson of the late Col. John S. Mosby, the noted Confedc-ate chleitaln, has parsed the examination for appoint ment to the West l'oint Military Acad my. Voting Coleman has made a stood rrcord at the Washington public xhools and was a lieutenant In the Ilgh School Cudets In his third year 01 Refected AMERICAN S E British Transport Sunk Between England and France. 56 ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR All Died At Once, Admiralty Fears Are Thought To Have Been Killed In One Compartment By Explosion. London. The British armed mer chant troop ship Moldavia, with Amer ican troops on board, has been tor pedoed and sunk, according to an offi cial bulletin Issued by the Admiralty. The text of the Admiralty statement follows: "The armed mercantile cruiser Mol davia was torpedoed and sunk. "There were no casualties among the crew, but of the American troops on board 56, up to the present, have not been accounted for. It is feared they were killed in one compartment by the explosion." The Moldavia was torpedoed with out warning. It was a moonlight night, and although a good lookout was kept the attacking submarine was not sighted before the torpedo struck. Most of the men aboard were in their hammocks when the explosion occurred amidships. The sailors and soldiers alike showed no panic. They fell calmly Into line and await ed orders. When it was seen that the Moldavia was settling down, all on board were taken off by the escorting ships. The men lost all of their belongings, but were supplied with new clothing at the different naval ports where they were taken. War Department In Dark. Washington. Sinking of the British armed merchant cruiser Moldavia, with a probable loss of 56 American soldiers, was announced in a cable gram from the British Admiralty to the War Department No details were given, but the understanding here is that the ship was moving between England and France. The war Department authorized this statement: "Information has been received form London that the British armed mer chant cruiser Moldavia has been sunk and that 56 of the American soldiers aboard are missing. "The announcement was made by the British Admiralty." ' The Moldavia was of 9,000 tons gross and owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany. She was built at Greenock in 1903 and was 520 feet long. Sunk With Loss Of 37. Queenstown. The Cork steamer In niscarra, bound from Fishguard to Cork, has been torpedoed and sunk. Thirty-seven members of the crew are missing and are supposed to have been lost. Fve survivors of the disaster have been landed. They are the captain, the thief officer, one Bteward and two sailors. Tile Inniscarra wa,s struck amid ships. She listed Immediately and foundereJ In four minutes. The Inniscarra was a vessel of 1,412 tons. She was built in 1903 and belonged to the City of Cork Steam Packet Company. U. S. S. Wakiva Goes Down. Washington The United States Ship Wakiva, a converted yacht, was sunk In European waters In a collision on May 22, with a loss of two men. W. B. Hoyt, carpenter's mate, Et tleboro, Mass., and Joseph M. Farley, fireman, Chicago, were the men lost. An announcement by the Navy Depart ment says the Wakiva, formerly owned by H. S. HarkneFS, collided with a navy cargo carrier. She was rated nt 863 tons, and probably was In a patrol squadron. FINN GOVERNMENT QUITS. Dictator Zvlnhufvud Asks M. Paa sikivi To Fjbrm Cabinet. Stockholm. The Finnish Govern ment has resigned as a result of the appointment of former Premier Zvln hufvud as temporary dictator. M. Pnasiklvi, a member of the old Finn ish party, and a former senator, has been asked by Dictator Zvlnhufvud to form a cabinet. Oil has been discovered at Bell Is land. Newfoundland. OOP DOEDSHIP 0 AMERICAN FLIERS IN MANY FIGHTS Take Active Part in Bombing Operations CHASING THE HUN MACHINES American Squadrons Participated With The French In Bombing Op erations On A Large Scale Behind The German Lines. French front In France. American air squadrons have been engaged in participation with the French in bombing operations behind the Ger man lines. These operations are be ing carried out on a very large scale. At one time recently 120 Allied ma chines were flying at the same mo ment in bombing work. Records have Just been received of the air activities along the French front between May 15 and 18, since the weather became again favorable to flying, which reveal the intensive aerial work of the character noted. In this period 105 aerial combats were fought in the course of patrols. Ger man machines to the number of 37 were destroyed, sixty others were forced to land badly damaged within their own lines and eight captive bal loons were burned. In the same period bombing squad rlllas threw 160 tons of bombs on the enemy's depots and other establish ments. Of this quantity the night bombing squadrlllas dropped 135 tons. During the night of May 15 no less than 120 airplanes were in the air at the same moment bombarding a large number of towns and villages in German-held territory, causing fires and explosions everywhere. American and Italian squadrons participated in these operations. On May 16 the broad daylight work continued with the bombing machines being protected by 73 chasers, which swept all the enemy aircraft out of the skies over a large space. American Army in France. Capt. David Peterson, of Honesdale, Pa., after a long chase, sent down a Ger man two-seater airplane wabbling and diving to the ground in the neighbor hood of Chateau Salins. The Ameri can aviator pursued the tnemy ma chine for 40 kilometers along the bat tle line and then chased him 12 kilo meters behind the German lines be fore he succeeded In attacking him from beneath. The German's dive to the ground followed promptly. Lieut. William H. Taylor, of New York chased a German biplane from the American lines to over Pagny-Sur-Moselle, north of Pont-a-Mousson, and defeated the Boche in a desperate fight, 5.000 meters in the air. A bullet from the enemy machine barely missed Lieutenant Taylor, and punctured a wing of his airplane. A second later the lieutenant saw one of his tracer bullets penetrate the fuselage of the enemy machine where the observer was working a machine gun, and there was no more fire from the German. Lieutenant Taylor continued to fire at the German pilot, and after 450 shots had been fired, most of them at about 70 yards, the enemy ma chine went spinning toward the earth in a nose dive. HIGHER WAGES FOR 2,CO3,000. McAdoo Announces General Increase To Railroad Employes. Washington. General pay Increases for nearly 2,000,000 railroad employes were announced by Director-General McAdoo, effective next' Saturday and retroactive to last January 1, carry ing out substantially recommenda tions of the Railroad Wage Commis sion. The aggregate of the Increases probably will be more than $300,000,000 a year, half of which will be distri buted within a few weeks as back pay in lump sums ranging from about 100 to nearly $200 each. CHINO-JAP PACT SIGNED. Tokio Calls It Forerunner Of Raoorochement. Toklo. The military agreement with China has been signed. Being military In nature, it i not likely the details will be announced. Also It was arranged particularly to meet the con tingency of possible military action In Russia. Hopes are entertained that It will be the forerunner of a perman ent rapprochement with China and therefore it is regarded as of great historical moment. IRISH PLOTS PART OF Plotted With Other Groups Here Besides Sinn Fein. SECRET SERVICE ON TRIAL Irish Uprising Set For The Date When The Germans Had Expected To Reach The Channel Ports And To Create A Division. Washington. Disclosure that the government has gathered evidence in this country of conspiracies between Irish Sinn Fein leaders and German agents to precipitate a rebellion in Ireland was followed by announcement that government agents have uncov ered rlmllar German Intrigue wit!) other nationalistic groups in the Unit ed States. German money, it was said, has been used to finance agitation among negroes and among Finns, Lithuani ans and other of the so-called "op pressed nationalities," which for years have had natlonlist griev ances against Russia or other anti Germanic allies. In most cases, this propaganda has been carried on by Americans affiliated with these groups, paid from some mysterious force believed to be the German Gov ernment. Except among the radical Irish agitators, however, the propa ganda did not appear to make much headway. For many months, It is now re vealed, United States Government agents have been inside the counsels of the Irish In the country who plotted armed insurrection of Irish citizens against British rule and have discovered conclusive evidence that German money and promises of aid stimulated the. conspiracies as a means of diverting the British Gov ernment from its war task In France. Direct action to stop the intrigue was thought not advisable, inasmuch as the Government did not wish to med dle in domestic problems of the Brit ish Empire, but the information gath ered was turned over In some cases to British representatives and it Is understood that the recent arrest of a number of Irish Sinn Fein leaders was prompted probably by evidence of German-Irish plots discovered In this country. Full details of the evidence were not made public, it is explained, because a number of persons still are under surveillance. Some announcement of the reasons for arrest of the Irish agi tators is expected soon, however, either in London or Washington. The story of how the Intrigue in this country was discovered, it was said, if published fully would tell of many communications brought sur reptitiously Into the United States in violation of regulations. Many of these were written with invisible ink and In code, and when deciphered fur nished clues leading to detection of many ramifications of the plot. The men responsible for the agitation were supplied with funds from deposits In banks in which German representa tives formerly kept their accounts, or from other mysterious sources. The Irish radicals, in their corre spondence, referred frequently to the promise of German aid In an uprising, which was to be called for this month or next, when the Germans had ex pected to reach the channel ports in their big drive. The Germans then were to send arms and ammunition and possibly troops to the Irish coast to participate in the rebellion. ALL RAILROAD PRESIDENTS OUT. They Are Relieved From Active Duty As Executives. Washington. Every railroad presi dent in the United States was relieved from active duty as executive man ager of his road today by Director General McAdoo, who will appoint a Federal director for each road, respon sible only to the Railroad Administra tion. In many cases the president of the road may be named Federal direc tor. To safeguard the interests of stock holders and maintain the individuality of each railway Federal directors, whenever possible, will be appointed from among the otreratlng officers of the property, the director general an nounced. This will avoid disrupting any road's working organization un necessarily. Ab another step in the reorganiza tion of railroad management the di rector general ordered the creation of two new operating districts the Allegheny region, 'consisting of the principal trunk lines east of Pitts burgh, excluding the New York Cen tral, managed by C. H. Markham, now regional director for the South, and the Pocohontas district, consisting oT the east and west trunk lines termi nating at Hampton Roads. AMERICAN FLIER KILLED. Pershing Reports Accidental Death Of Lieutenant Kurtz. Washington. General Pershing's communique, transmitted to the War Department, reported that Lieutenant Kurtz, an American pilot, had been killed accidentally within the Amer ican lines. SUBMARINE GETS U-BOAT. German Cruising Craft Sunk By A Britisher. London. A German submarine . of the cruiser type was sunk May 11 In the latitude of Cape St. Vincent by a British Atlantic escort submarine. The Admiralty made this official an nouncement. . Cape St. Vincent Is on the south west extremity of Portugal. INTRIGUE PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS Fire broke out from unknown ori gin In the planing mill of J. B. Fluke A Son, in Altoona, and the entire building nnd adjoining lumber yards were soon in flames. Two dwelling one nt each end of the yard, and five others ncross the avenue, were alto destroyed. Several other dwellings In the Immediate vicinity were scorch, ed. Seven families were mude home less. The loss Is $50,000, more than half of It being sustained by the con trading firm which hnd no Insurance. West Falrvlew high schoool will graduate n class of nine pupils. Stnnley Olenlck, twenty-five yenrs old, committed suicide by shouting nenr Kistler. Trof. J. W. Bueher has been re elected supervising principal of ihe Marietta public schools and principal of the high school. Twenty-seven Bradford county towns rnlsed Jionor flogs won In the Third Liberty Loan drive with pa. trlotlc exercises. William Bradford, a Ferguson Val ley fnrmer, lost his right eye, which was penetrated by the horn of a steer as the animal threw Its head about. Surrounded by more than 300 rela. lives nnd friends, Mr. nnd Mrs. Thom as J. Armstrong, of Altoona, celebrat ed the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Martha, three-months-old daughter of Mrs. A. P. Smith, of Rockport, Is the youngest owner of a Liberty Bond in the Hazleton section. To discourage "fly by night" mer chants from locating lh Scronton, council has boosted the city tax on transient dealers to $200 a year. When John Kehoskey resigned from the Huzleton police force he was the tenth mnn to quit the department since the first of the year. Granting a wage increase of four, teen per cent, the Consumers' Ice and Coal company, of Scranton, ended a strike called by fifty drivers. Edward McGIll, a dalrymnn at the Laurytown almshouse farm, sustain ed a fracture of the right arm and serious contusions of the body when attacked by a stubborn calf. Leroy KeHer, of Bnrto, In the navy, died of appendicitis nt New London, Conn. More than 6000 persons participated In the pnrnde which marked the launching of the $1.10,000 Red Cross cnmpnlgn in Reading. The Rending railway school for telegraphers In Pottstown, nnd which hns had 100 students since it opened eleven months ago, will be closed. In the annual declamation contest for gold prizes between girls of the Pottstown high school, Eleanor Miller won first prize nnd Sara Gilbert sec ond. . Stricken with heart trouble while on her way home from a cemetery, where she went to look at a burial lot, Mrs. Samuel Marks, sixty-eight, died at Reading. To mark the reaching of $1,000,000 In deposits, President Buckwnlter, nl the Royersford Trust company, gave a banquet to the directors, officers and employes. Burgess Ritter hns prohibited the sale of fireworks and firearms of all kinds In Liverpool this year. The Suzanne Sllvercruys fund, start ed a few days ago nt Lewlstown In behalf of the Belgium people, hns reached $5000. Burban E. Woodrlng, a traveling salesman, is the first Allentownlan to be accepted by the Y. M. C. A. for work, in France. Mistaking young , laurel for te leaves, Henry Anderson, aged seven years, of Red Cross, nenr Ilerndon, ate heartily of the tender shoots. A short time later he wos token violent ly 111 nnd died In convulsions caused by the polronlng. Lawrence county farmers have turn ed under more ground this spring than ever before. They're plowing for lib erty, and, with good weather, lorper crops will be raised than ever In the county's history. German will be dropped from the curriculum of the Altoona schools at the close of the present term. Mrs. John E. Thomas, a clerk in the Allentown courthouse, has received I telegram announcing that her hus band, who wns a member of the Unit ed States ambulance corps, In Franc?, enlisting Inst summer, nt Camp Crane, has been brought back to this country, and is now at the base hospital at Woynesvllle, N. C recovering from wounds received in action. Four Lnnenster high school hoys were formally expelled. They were the ringleaders In an egg-throwing In cident some time ago and later were concerned In the absence from school of the entire senior class. Several of the boys were enlisted In the boys' working reserve, but their pranks have interfered with this. Thot school teachers ore not entitled to pay for the month or more of school lost on account of the state In fantile pnrnlysls quarantine, Is the opinion of Judge Moser, of Northum berland county, who henrrt the test cose of Thomnslne Holter vs. the Tut ton school district. Fourteen drafted men left Shoiiiokm for Columbus Jjarrncks, Columbus, 0. They were given a rousing send-off by a band nnd hundreds of citizens. A committee of pntriotlc organizations presented each man with tobacco, cigarettes and cignrs, while the Red Cross provided each with a comfort kit and luncheon. County Superintendent of Schools M. S. Bentz has written to the teach ers of Cambria county, requesting them to omit the study of German un less pupils who. are about to go t9 college need two years' of modern language and, have already taken one. Allentown's homeopathic physicians hnve joined their allopathic brethren In raising the prices of profession'11 visits 50 per cent. Although reported to be worth more than $15,000, Matt Zukonls, a blind man of Luzerne, was arrested on charge of taking a smoll boy to f York, where the youngster sold Ven' cils, turning the money over to konis. The blind mnn came home ano lf J the. boy stranded. In New York.
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