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Evening star., 1917-09-09

which nets thrifty and energetic pickers
from $3.50 to $500 day. The general
plan of the successful pickers is to gather
the moss from the boughs Of trees that
directly into their skiffs and then transfer
It to barges which are towed to the fac
tories
The uses Of this moss are numerous.
and. because of the high price of cotton.
larger quantities of the moss are being
used by automobile factories. mattress
makers furniture manufacturers and the
builders of railroad sleeping cars and day
coaches as stuffng for cushions. Recently
rope Of a good and serviceable kind is
being made from the moss. and 1t has
long been found useful as a packing for
fragile objects. such as glass, crockery and
the like, but as a packing of this char
acter moss comes in competition with
many grasses which are cheaper and per-
haps quite as satisfactory.
The moss crop Of Louisiana last year
brought a revenue of 100000 to the
people of that state. and it has been
estimated that the value OF the crop this
year will be in excess of S3,000,000. The
town of Plauuemine is the central point
Of the Louisiana moss industry, there be-
ing four moss factories there. but many
other factories are distributed through the
state. the largest of them being in the
town of Whitecastle. Rosedale and Ope-
lousas are also centers of activity in pre-
pairing the moss for market
This strange vegetable growth is put
through curing process. after which II
is run through a gin with comblike teeth.
After being ginned. combed. 1t is press
ed into bales that have an average weight
OF 100 pounds.
There should be no confusion between
this variety of moss and that moss which
is exceedingly valuable In surgery. called
sphagnum moss. The last named moss
grows in many parts of the world. but is
gathered in immense quantities in Eng
land. Ireland and Scotland and is serving
wounded men in the military hospitals in
Great Britain. France. Russia. Italy.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
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WASHINGTON, May lS-Congress begins the sixth week of war tomor- row with the calendars of both hous- es still filled with legislation which the administration feels is essential to the successful conduct of the conflict with Germany.
 The senate after two weeks debate on the espionage bill drawn by the of justice, is expected to pass that measure tomorrow.
 The house probably will conclude discussion of the $1,S00, ,00O. GOO war revenue bill early in the week and send it to the senate, where two days of committee hearings have indicated that many changes are to be made in its structure before it goes to the White House for the presidents sig nature.
 The espionage bill has been stripped of the press censorship section which caused much of the opposition to it's passage. The injection of an amend ment last night prohibiting the use of cereals or grains in the manufacture of intoxicants during the war, although q bitter pill to the foes of prohibition. probably will not greatly delay ulti- mate passage of the entire measure. Plans of leaders in the senate are not clear as to what measure of the several important ones shall be taken up after the espionage bill, but it is
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
BRITISH ATTACK
 SUBMARINE BASE
(By Republican A. P. Leased Wire)

ROTTERDAM May London)The yesterday the Belgian the
  snera 10 hospitals. Brit LONDON, 13An ofci2! this the admiralty Of ouS Saturday morni by our
  machines md eother slsered of territory and Nasin
 
 
  issued today done
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
DECLARES EFFORT AT SEPARATE PEACE WOULD B. B. AN e..E EVERLASTING
 SHAME TO THE RUSSIAN NATI0]
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fRepublicaF A. p. Leased Wirej ! PETROGRAD (via London). May l3. Addressing a congress of delegates of the field army. Minshiviki Tsere- telli, member of the council of work mems and soldiers delegates, declared that the German and Austrian prole- tariat had not yet emerged from the state of chauvinistic intoxication into which they had been plunged by pr. von Bethmann- -Hollweg, the imperial
 German chancellor and the Imperials- tic bourgeoisie.
 As long as the German proletariat marches with Emperor William" said the speaker, "our position is clear Should we now stretch fraternal hand toward the peoples of Central Europe to conclude a separate peace it would be an eternal shame which would lead inevitably to the downfall and annihilation of Russia.
 We will not seek to break our en- agreements with our allies On the contrary, we will do our utmost that the allegiance arranged by the bour- eeoisie shall be more solidly cemented by the fraternal union of the allied democracies.'
 Albert Thomas, French minister of munitions, was received yesterday by the executive committee of the coun- l cil of worllmen's and soldiers dele gates and invited to explain his point | of view on the present political situa ] tion on the war and on the actions of 1 international socialism.
 | NJ. Thomas said that France was at I which Russia might lend. The hopes of the French democracy were that the ! new Russia would help France unre- l servedly.
 1 He recalled the intrigues of the Ger
 man socialists and sa5d that after the United States had entered the war and after the revolution in Russia, the
 western socialists would not consent to discuss the democratic aims of the
 war unless they were convinced that
 the war would he vigorously prose cuted, for the war aims of internation-
 al democracy never would be recog- nized by Prussian militarism
 To realize democratic ideas, the French minister said, all must work together to assure the defeat Of Ger many.
 The speech was listened to with SreGt interest anu NilH SIONlIS SNl pathy as it proceeded. Although sev-
 eral of the points raised had beer
 discussed and decided by the executive | committee, the committee requested that it be allowed to defer until Mon- =
 day it's reply to the new questions in-
 volved.
 General Korniloff, commander of the Petrograd garrison. resigned today
 The general explained that his resis-
 nation was due to an impossible posi- ton arising from the efforts of revo- lutionary organizations to control the garrisons and added:
 Well. then. let them take the re-
 sponsbility."
 The last straw which led to the commanders resignation was the de- lmand made yesterday by the executive committee of the council of soldiers land workmen's delegates that all Kor- lniloffs orders should be presented to
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Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
WHEAT SITUATION
 GIVES BROKERS
 WORK OH SUNDAY
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CHICAGO, May 12.-Board of trade
 directors met today to consider the
 wheat situation, and at the end of a hour conference in the Union
 League club President Joseph P. Griffin
 said no statement would be given out until after another meeting is held at
 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 All the leading private wire broker age firms were notified during the day
 that members of such firms would meet at S:45 o'clock Monday morning ito
 discuss trade conditions and to see what action could be taken regarding
 trades in wheat and May corn, and call | ing of margins and other features which were all for prompt action" None of the leading officers of the board of trade would discuss the prob able action of the directors. Among the members with no official connec- ton with the organization it was said that the likelihood was an order would be issued curtailing or stopping the trading in july wheat and May corn and fixing a settling price. This action
 was taken on Friday regarding May wheat but notwithstanding prices on the next day went soaring on July wheat aud May corn.
 It was this condition that led to the meeting today.
 Board officials were emphatic there win be no closing of the exchange. It was ssiid that to close the board would 1 prevent cash grain trading, which was regarded as the most vital part of the grain trading of tbe country and entail i losses on the farmers and others who have contracts to fill or grain in transit.
 The advance of 9 cents in July wheat on Saturday and of 50 cents last
 week has led many brokers to believe that the way to stop soaring of prices is to restrict trading to pres ent commitments. None of the officers of the board would admit that the possibility of government action influ- enced them in considering the market , there was TO action pending on | here was no action impending on
 their part so far as their knowledge
 went.
 When President Griffin of the board
 of trade came from the meeting. which 1 lasted well into the night, he said: There is plenty of grain in the country to carry Us through. If it were ! not for hysteria, this wild frenzy which
 has seized America and the allied gov
 ernments, in fact the whole world,
 there would be no such prices paid for
 wheat as at present. Not only are the
 governments at war buying with fren-
 tCcntinued on Page Two)
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
I'LL THE SO|L AND REDUCE H|GH
 COST IF LIVING
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NEW YORK, May 13.-The problem of the high cost of living can be solved by increasing the cultivation of the tillable land of the country through the taxation of unimproved land and untaxing improvements and other products of labor; according to a brief filed with the federal trade com mission by the committee on the high
 cost of living and made public here today.
 The brief urges the commission to
 recommend that some such action be
 taken by the legislatures of 2S states
 which possess a total farm acreage of
 430, ,S65,65 acres, it is stated, with only 250, ,9SS acres improved. In all other states, the brief states, the
 change should be made possible by constitutional amendments.
 1t is evident" the brief reads, that the unimproved land in these states forms a considerable acreage, and that complete utilization of this land and of all farm land in these states can be achieved through the proposed change in the tax, which would materially i'm prove the food situation in the United States within a year"
 The general committee of the or ganization includes Frederick c. Howe commissioner of immigration of New York; c. E. Kegley: master of the Washington state grange; J. J. Pas | toriZa mayor of Houston, Texas, and Dante Barton, vice chairman of the committee on industrial relations Charles II. lngersoll is the chairman
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
MONGOLIA |(jj AIN AT I l TA(C'KE:: ]
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 (NO DATE)-May 93.-The American steamship Mongolia, frcm which the coGntry's first shot in the war with Germany was fired with such accuracy that a German submarine was sunk, arrived at an American port soday from Europe bringing report hy the officers Of another apparent encounter with a Uboat.
 The second adventure was on May 4, according to Lieutenant Bruce M. Ware, the man who com mz9ded the naval gun crew which disposed Of the submarine on April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. The Mongolia was on her homeward voyage, when about midnight the wake of what was be lieved to be torpedo was seen in the moonlight. The missile if it was one, passed under the ships bow. No submarine YVES sighted, but a shot was fired from one of the Mon goia's guns in the direction from come and nothing further was hSaiu U UT SSSI to iftHiSS-e d SupnlS rine's presence.
 The gunners of the Mongolia were jukiiant upon their arrival. They asserted their conviction that the shot on April 19 sank the sub marine. It was fired, Lieutenant Ware said, by James A. Goodwin, sunner's mate, of Portsmouth, Va. Lieutenant Ware declared that through his glasses he saw the shot strike the U-hoats periscopc and that the hit was followed by a cloud of white vapor, as if an internal explosion had been caused. After that the submarine did no. reap pear, he said.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
VIVlANi IN BOSTON
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BOSTON, May 15.-Boston gave . warm greeting today to Rene Niviani, former premier of France and head of the French mission to the United States. At banquet tonight NJ. Vivia- ni pointing to the Stars and Stripes said: Your flag bears 4S stars, repre- senting s states. Each state h&s it's own legislature. but all are subject to federal laws for all. May We }.ot hope for the day when all the nations of the earth will be united as arc your states under certain broad and general re- strictions that will make it forever im-
 ossible for some mad autoerat to play naVoc with the universe M
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
American Dentists Repair
 German Imperial Teeth

COPENHAGEN. May London -Em no state o with the United
 
 or Piqua Oro to him attend to the imrer teeth. ~ tooth he be
  Germany eimpera and to
  laderogs rush of members of the other paere of the Americans Some e the
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
DisLOYAL TO COUNTRY
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'
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.-Freder ick T. Reidt for thirty years a member of the United States army and formerly having the rank of sergeant, Friday was sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth after con- viction by a military court martial of having made statements diSloyai 70 the country and derngatoly to President Wilson. Reidts prasioas discharge Nvas ordered cancelled ano he was declared dishonorably discharged and his month- ly pension of $50 was declared for feited
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
EIGHT CENTS ON SUNDAY
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CHICAGO. May 1S.-The Chicago Sunday Tribune and the Chicago Sun day Herald announced tonight that their retail price outside of Chicago will be increased from , gents to cents a copy, beginning May 20. An nouncement was made several days ago that the selling price of the Chi cago Daily Tribune would be increased to : cents in the. territory where it has been selling for 1 cent. The increased cost of materials entering into the manufacture of newspaper was given as the reason in each case. The prices of all othr daily papers will be in- creased to ? cents Monday also.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
TO RECRUIT NEGROES
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ATLANTA. Ga, May 13.-Henry Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta negro, who was recorder of deeds in Wash ington during the Roosevelt and Taft administrations, announced at a po- litical mass meeting of negroes here today that he would open offices here tomorrow to recruit d regiment of Georgia negroes to go to France under Colonel Roosevelt in case the colonel is permitted to lead a force there.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
FIND INTERNAL MACHINE
reennhIican A. P. leased Wirel

PARIS. May 13.-An internal machine was discovered recently in the Bellevue palace in the Tiergarten in Berlin, where the imperial German family now is residing. according to d cOrrespond- ent who sends German newspapers to I.'Humanite. The machine, he says
 contained enough dynamite to wreck the palace and the adjoining buildings
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
JoFFRE IN MONTREAL
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MONTREAL, May l3. - Marshal Joffre paid visit to Montreal today events of Canadian history. Probably no other man ever received such a spontaneous and general welcome. His coming is expected to have good ef- feet on recruiting i,1 the province oi Quebec as he intimated that, al though Canada had done much in the war. more was desired.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
In Hands of British


 LONDON, May 13.-Most of the yil- lage of Bullecourt, in the Hindenburg line, is now in the hands of the British. who also, according to the official re- port from headquarters in France. oc- cupled the western section of RoeuX. The battle of Bullecourt, on the south ern end of the Arras front. where heavy fighting has been raging for the last week and one of the most desper- ateiy defended sections of the famous Hindenburg line still is going on, ac- cording to the official statement issued today by the British war office. North Of the River Scarpe the British made a slight advance last night. capturing some prisoners.
 The report reads:
 Early this morning the enemy made two further counter attacks upon our positions in the Hindenbure line easr of Bullec0urt In both cases his at tacking troops were repulsed and left a number of dead in front of our trenches.
 K+ During the past ten days the Aus trian troops have gallantIy main tanned their positions in this sector Of the Hindenburg line. having during that period repelled at least twelve de- termfned hostile counter attacks.
 The greater part of the village of Bullecourt, which lies in the Hinden- burg llne, IS now in our hands. North or the Scarpe our troops established themselves during the day in the west ern houses of RoeuX and again made progress on the western slopes of Greenland Hill, capturing a few pris- Oners.
 Five German airplanes were brought down in air fighting yesterday; fiy.. others were driven down out of control One other hostile machine was shot down Tn our lines by our anti-aircraft guns. Six of our airplanes are miss ing''
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
Home Guards ExpcutQd
 !. As Spies of Villa Army
(Republcan Associated Press Leased wire)

FL PESO May 12Chhuahua
 d the execution there coonas sxc Vega and Frsroisso
 5oh officers at first enjoyed the confidence of the General Peshnss old district 300 head of stolen and mules of we'd from the rebel Saenz Vilawhen
 Vega and Saenz their and of oion.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
LEADERS AS DELEGATES
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[RepublIcaN A. p. Leased Wi.el
 LONDON, May 13.-The German Social Democracy in Austria is send ing as delegates to the socialistic con- ference at Stockholm four of it's lead ers according to the Vienna Arbeiter Zcitung. says a Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam. Other socialist parties in Austria are sending delegates
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
ESP|ONACE BILL |S LIKELY
 TO PASS us. SENATE TODAY

probable it will be the food control bill.
 Conferees on the war army bill called to meet again tomorrow because the house after once rejecting the so- called Roosevelt amendment, now 1 wants to put it in. are not expected to take long at their task. Since the i Roosevelt amendment originated in the senate it j is possible that the army
 measure can be disposed of without
 much debate.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
Twenty Days Al Required
 To FSU 7Yuimimg Camps


13.The fui Of eco which the 
  Arthur F. Cosby of the Military Training Camps association noune completion the which will begin their work  probably Aucust
  to make camp"
  to will in the
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
Secretary DrAdoo Wu Tour Middle West o Preach Gospel o CoobNuton
BRITISH RECAPTURE BULLECOURT AND SEND
 GERMANS RETREATING
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    but the dvantase rested with Field Marshal He forces gained by them the western Greenland hill untedf by British The
 
  Msons
 
  in nader
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
FOREST IS WOUNDED

[Eepubicar A. Leased Wire1
 OTTAWA. May 13.-C. E. Ecres; of Loveland. Colo, was listed as wounded in the casualty list of the Canadian overseas force. issued tonight.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
KING UNDERGoEs OPERATION

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 COPENHAGEN, (via London) May l3.-King Gustave of Sweden under went an operation on Sunday accord = ing to adyices from Stockholm. The operation was of minor nature. but the king will be confined to his bed for few days.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
LABOR TEMPLE DYNAMlTEO
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KANSAS CITY. May 13-An explo- sion early today seriously endangered the Labor Temple here. Fire Warden Marvin said dynamite apparently had been used. One man, sleeping in the building was injured
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
Says Attacks Fail

BERLIN, May 1S, via London tEritish admiralty per wireless press The great British attacks launched yesterday against the Ger man positions on the Arras battle front, says the official statement is sued today py the German army aeadquarters staff have broken down. At Roeux the British were successful in forcing their way through the German lines. but at al, other places they were replilsed after hand to hand fighting, suffering the heaviest loses Fighting for possession of Bulicoourt again broke out today.
 The supplementary official report from Headquarters this evening leads:
 There was lively firing near Ar ras- Local advances by the Britisl against Oppy Parl and Bullecourt. failed
 Or the Aisne and Cha,npagnss fronts inc situation is unchanged. ."e
 Two Russian motor boats" savS ;e' rtiicial statement appeared to- d,y tt the entrance to Riga bay. Yd fired on them, sinking one and se Fcreiy damaging the other
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14

There is still no indication of the ap- proach of any fighting of moment be- tween the Austro Germans and Rus sians on the eastern front from the Baltic Sea to Rumania. Along this en- tire line the operations consist merely of small skirmishes and reconnaisances.
 In Macedonia violent artillery duels are in progress along the entire front with the preponderance in the gun power apparently on the entente side
 Sunday saw no infantry action there.
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14
German Attacks Smashed.

r-aRtS, May 13.-Troops com n1iii~td by the German crown prince tfils morning launched several vio- ieAt attacks against the French lines on the Champagne front north oT Rheims, O. the plateau south of Cfaonne and m the region of Mai sons de Champagne. The official statement this afternoon says an the German attacks were smashed by the French artillery and rifle fire. the TeutDnS Slfferi ioccac
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14

Russian Airplane Falls PETROGRAD, May 13, via Lon don-f British admiralty per wire Continued on Page Two)
Arizona republican., 1917-05-14

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-09-14

ing considerable interest IN a new arm"
material devised W an inventor here.
Broadly stated. the principle on whiri
ii j. based y that Of distributing the pres
sure of proiectile- and explosive. as
rapidly aS possible with the aid 81 z par
ticular material specially fitted for tina
task. The armor consists Of a system 81
double plates with more or less space be
tween them according To the nature of ihe
proiectile il j. intended to serve against
Such space i filled with a material which
j, very similar Ia sand. but u of extremely
fine grain and IL the same time extracrdl-
narily hard. II further possesses = high
specific gravity, easily absorbs heat and
has a high melting point, % that the sepa-
rate grains do not change their form ever
at high temperatures. Ii j. likewise in n
great measure resistant 10 the operation
Of acids.
Snperficiallv regarded. the device show
considerable similarity 10 the existing ar
NOR plate system. whereby A filling 81
sand j. introduced between two solid
plates with the object of Smothcring the
proiectile in it, course and thus rendering
il innocuous; but demonstration are said
To have clearly shown n difference. The
inventory expects a great deal OF his new
protective armor ~ 4 defense against
aerial bomb attacks. believing that it Will
prove capable of resisting the biggest
proiectlleS.