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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
UNCLE SAM TO TAKE
over MERCHANTMEN
VESSELS OF MORE THAN $500
TONS DEAD WEIGHT TO BE
SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT.
American Ships Available For Ocean
Traffic Total Slightly More Than
1000, 900 Tons.

Washington.-Every American mer-
chant vessel of more than $500 tons
dead weight capacity available for
ocean service, will be requisitioned by
the Government by October Is, the
Shipping Board announced in a state
ment giving the charter rates at
which the vessels will be taken over
American ships available for ocean
traffic total slightly more than 2,0OO,-
900 tons, but some of them already
have been taken over for the army
and navy. In most instances, except
where required for actual Government
service, the ships, it was said, will be
turned back to their owners for oper-
alton on Government account, sub
ject at all times to any disposition
the Shipping Board may direct. The
rates announced will cut sharply the
American vessels for carrying Govern
present rates charged by American
vessels for carrying Government sup
plies. 1t is the intention, it is under
stood, to apply them later to any for
eign ships chartered in the United
States. The chartering will be in the
hands Of the Shipping Boards Char
tering Commission, which Welding
Ring, of New York, has just been
named to head.
For freight vessels the rates a ton
a month, figured on time charter on a
basis of dead weight tonnage, are as
follows: More than 10000 tons, $5.75;
S,OO1 to 10000 tons, Sc; 6,0O1 to s..
900 tons, $625; 4,0O1 to 5000 tons,
$3.50; 1901 to 1000 tons, $675; $500
to 5000 tons, ST. Vessels of speed
in excess of IL knots will be allowed
SO cents a ton additional for each
knot or fraction over II. For passen.
ger vessels the board adopted two
fold basis Of classification, Glass A
comprising steamers with a capacity of
more than $50 passengers, and class
B with capacity of from IS to $50
passengers. Steamers in both ratings
are classified further according to
speed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
HEFLIN OPENS SLUSH
FUND BAG; NAMES FIVE
Demanding Full Inquiry of Pro-German.
tsn-Accuses La Toilette, Baer,
Mason, Britton and Norton.

Washington.-Rep Thos.
Hetiin, of Alabama, broke the Won
Bernstorff $4,000 slush fund scandal
wide open in the House of Represen-
tatives when he named five Legislators,
and demanded information of what
connection they had, il any, with pro-
German activities.
With his startling accusations he
Immediately removed all doubt that
there will be a congressional investi-
cation. Nothing can prevent it now.
whether the Administration wishes it
or not.
Goaded to expose the men he ac-
cusad, he named these:
Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin;
Representative Fred A. Britten, of
Chicago; Representative William E.
Mason, Of Chicago; Representative
Patrick D. Norton, of North Dakota;
Representative John NJ. Baer, of North
Dakota.
These names were brought out by
Heflin when he appeared before the
House Rules Committee, which is con-
sidering resolutions offered by Norton
and Fordney, of Michigan, to probe the
Won Bernstorff fund and its applica-
ton to the Congress.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
AGREEMENT REACHED
ON BIG WAR TAX BILL
Senate and House Conferees Complete
Measure Which Will Raise $780,
100000 For War Purposes.

Washington.-The war tax bill, in.
creased to raise approximately 49,.
zoo, 100000 federal revenue, in addition
to 81 ,333, 100000 obtained under exist
ing law, was completed by the Senate
and House conferees. After two weeks
deliberation the conferees reach
ed agreement on the bill-the largest
in the American history and in the
making four months--and sent the re-
vised draft to the printer
While the action officially was said
to be tentative, virtually only formal
approval of the new draft remains to
be voted. The report will be cOnsid.
cred first by the House and the bills
enactment into Jaw is regarded as as
sured.
Additional taxes of between $780,.
100000 and $300,000,000 over the Sen
ate bill, which totaled $2,416,000,0 900,
were added by the conferees. As
passed by the House the total was ST.
86S 900 900.
Senate levies of $1,O6O,OO0,OOO or
war excess profits and $S42 100000 on
incomes substantially were unchang.
ed, the conference increases being d.
vided among many items, with few
new taxes added and many eliminated
House provisions restored. Tho sys-
tenn Of levying on war excess profits
taxes, however practically was rewrit-
ten in compromise between the Sem
ate war profits and House excess prof
its system. A minimum exemption Of
7 per cent on invested corporate cap
ital ic said to be provided, with modi-
fed allowances for intangible assets.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
VOTES TO
BREAK WITH GERMANY
Congress Demands Immediate Rup.
ture BY Vote of So to 1s-Issue
Now in Presidents Hands.

Buenos Aires.-The House of Rep
resentatives has voted in support Of
the Senate decision calling for dip.
lomatic break with Germany.
The President of the republic, Senior
Irigoyen, in whose hands now rests the
final decision, is faced by a nation
solidly united for vengeance upon the
empire that besmirches its honor. The
populace is clamoring not only for a
break, but for immediate war.
The man in the Presidential chair,
constitutionally pacifist, still is hold
ing to his announced theory that war
should be avoided.
A small group of politicians support
HMM some quarters where recent
American history has been closely fol.
lowed, they are referred to as "the
willful group" Their influence is
equal to nil, it is said.
The voice of the Argentine people
was spoken in both branches of Par
lament, the votes on the rupture res.
olution being: Senate, 90 to /; House,
So to 1S.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
PROLIFIC OF GOOD STORIES
Recent Military Registration Furnished
Numerous Humorous Incidents
Like These Recorded.

The military registration was quite
prolific Of interesting incidents. A
negro grew anxious when he saw the
registrar In his district clip Off the
corner of his card to designate that
the regIstrant was a negro. He asked
In alarm:
what is you doing now7 Is yon
segregating us?"
1t was the Tenth Ward OF Southern
town that a young man approached,
gave his name and answered all the
questions. He was twenty-one and had
as dependents his wife. children and
mother-in-law..
"DO you claim exemption?" he was
asked.
"Shucks. no." was his answer.
The lowest ratio of exemptions
asked in another place was nineteen
out Of S41 eligIbles. The warden of
the Eastern penitentiary said:
1--WE surely have n lot of patriots
In our hotel. The old fellows even
wanted to slip their ages back on us
so they could register" Altogether
61O inmates of the penitentiary ,agis-
tered.
Waving his registration card ener-
getically and calling for the chief regis
trar, husky blond American, appar-
emily sailor, rushed into City Clerk
Sweeney's office in Buffalo, after regis
tration, and sought immediate change
In the card.
"Who asked me whether / am
Caucasian?" he demanded. I'm not
of that race"
"What are you, an African?" Clerk
Sweeney inquired.
"Why-why-why, what'll you have2
The drinks are on me-"
An Irishnian insisted on not having
Great Britain indicated As his govern
ing country, and held up his signature
until he obtained his first papers.
Another man, asked If his wife had
any other means of support than him
self, replied:
"Well, hope not"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
PRICE OF COAL
SET TO DEALERS
n. A. GARFIELD, THE FEDERAL
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR, CON-
MENcED HIS DRIVE.
The Price Of Pennsylvania Anthracite
Pea Coal at the Mine Is Reduced
Sixty Cents a Ton.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington.-H. A. Garfield, the
Federal Fuel Administrator, com.
menced his drive at retail prices Of
coal. BY an order issued under the
Presidential authority no retail dealer
may make a margin greater by more
than 80 per cent than the margin he
made in 1915. The order is effective
at once. The price of Pennsylvania
anthracite pea coal at the mine is re-
duced 60 cents a ton, and the prices
and classifications of the Transmits
sissippi and Southern coal fields are
set for the first time.
The margin referred to is defined as
the difference between the average
cost of the coal to the dealer on his
dock or siding or in his yard and the
price at which he sells to the con-
sumer. This margin includes the deal
er's profits. In no instance may the
margin exceed that of July, 1917.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04

Louisville, Ky.-Grant and Luther
Shipman, miners. were shot and killed
in a pitched battle between striking
miners and a sheriffs posse near Ages
Creek. The posse, led by John A.
Ward, county judge, had gone out to
serve warrants on men recently in
dicted by a special grand jury. While
the posse was searching houses in the
neighborhood it suddenly was fred
upon from a woods. More than so
shots were exchanged in the fight
which followed. The two Shipman
brothers were found on the ground,
one dead the other mortally wounded.
The death Of the second brother oC-
Cured at the Harlan hospital. The
identity Of no other men was estab-
lished, and no reports of other in
jurieS have been made. Two addition
al arrests were made for alleged par.
ticipation In the Wilson-Berger am
bush
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
U. S. WILL CONTROL TRADE
Program Includes Only Overseas Rusi-
ness, and Means Expenditure of
$1,7es,Ooo,ooo Say Experts.

Washington.-By 1919 the United
States will have nearly one-third of
the total overseas merchant tonnage
of the world. The 1918-1919 program
of the United States Shipping Board
and Emergency Fleet Corporation, as
compiled by the Shipping Board eX-
perts, provides for 14,501,3 dead
weight tons. The total overseas ton
mage of the world is 46,500,00 dead
weight tons. 1t is estimated that the
submarine sinkings will keep the fig
ures nearly the same until the United
States program is completed.
The shipbuilding program includes:
Four hundred and fifty-eight ships now
engaged in foreign trade or ready, q
871,359 tons; 1T seized German and
Austrian ships, 7OO,2S5 tons; 400 steel
ships commandeered in American
yards, 100000 tons; 636 ships con.
tracted for, 3.l29.7OO tons; new ton
mage for which Congress has been
asked to pay, 100000 tons. Grand
total for 1888, 14.5O1.344.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
ReIoium Mills Striped.

Washington.-Otf Official dispatches re-
ceived here confirm reports recently
brought out of Belgium and Northern
France that the Germans are stripping
textile mills of the machinery, destroy
ing or sending it to Germany. Actual
removal or machinery has been re-
ported from Roubaix, Tourcoing and
near Courtrai, and the purpose of the
conquerors to carry out this policy
throughout Flanders is forecast by an
order to all mills to furnish inventor
les of their equipment. In some quar-
preted as possible sign Of an ap-
preaching evacuation of large sec
ton of Belgium.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04

New Orleans. La.-Unless there was
great loss of life and property at Pen
sacola, which city still is cut off from
the outside world, the hurricane that
swept the gulf coast from the Missis-
sippi river to the west coast of Flor
ida did not do great damage.
The wind blew at 100 miles an hour
at places, but warning given in adj
vance and the fact that the wind shift
ed so as to blow the water from the
beach into the gulf kept the loss down.
For hours practically the entire
coast was isolated, all telegraph and
telephone wires being down and great
anxiety was felt, fears being enter.
tanned that the hurricane might exact
such toll as that of last year, when
many lives were lost and several mil
lion dollars worth of property de.
stroyed.
With communication restored to Mo
bile, Gulfport, Biloxi Pass Christian,
Bay St. Louis, Long Beach and other
towns, there was only one life report
ed lost, and the property loss appar-
emily was comparatively small. Rail
road bridges along the gulf were dam
aged, and at Mobile and other cities
some buildings were unroofed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
CINCINNATI MARKETS.
Flour, Hav and GraIn.

Flour-Winter patents $11, winter
fancy $1O.50, winter family $40, winter
extras 50, low grade $3.50.
Corn.-No. white $2.14@215, No. l
yellow $2.O7, No. l mixed $2O61a, white
ear $213@214.
Hay-No. I timothy $21.5O@22, No. 2
$21.50@22, No. 8 $21@22, No. l clover
mixed $21.5O@22, No. 2 $21@21.50, No.
1 clover $23@23.5O, No. 2 $22@23.
Oats-New No. 2 white SIC, stand
ard white 6112c, No. 3 white 61@612c,
No. mixed 60@61c, No. 8 mixed $50
60c, No. mixed 57@59c.
Wheat-No. l red $2.2O, No. 2 red
$2.17, No. red $214, No. 4 red $2.11@
2.13, No. red $204@21O.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter-Whole milk creamery extras
45kc, centralized creamery extras 43c,
firsts 41c, seconds 3Shc.
Eggs-Prime firsts 40c, firsts 3Sc, or
dinary firsts &c, seconds 36c.
Live Poultry-Broilers, over ~ ID,
choice, 24l3c; IL lb and under, Csc;
fowls, lbs and over, 241ac; under 4
lbs, 2412c; roosters. 16c.
Live Stock.
Cattle-Shippers $9@13.50; butcher
steers, extra $1O011.5O, good to choice
5000, common to fair $6.5O@8.50;
heifers, extra $8.5O@9.5O, good to
choice $775@S.25, common to fair Sc
@7.5O; COWS, extra $7.75@9, good to
choice $6.50@75O.
Hogs-Selected heavy shippers
$19019.15, good to choice packers and
butchers $19.10019.15, mixed packers
$18.75Q19.15, stays $13@17, common
to choice heavy fat sows $14@18.25.
Sheep Extra $9.75@10, good to
choice $S.5O@9.5O, common to fair SAC
$50.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
PLOTTERS ARE NABBED
BY FEDERAL AGENTS
ROUNDUP is MADE IMMEDIATE
LY AFTER GRAND JURY CON-
PLETES BIG TASK.
Haywood Among First To Be Taken
into Custody, After 1866 Members
of Body Are Indicted.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago.-A nationwide conspiracy
TO hamper the Government during the
var is alleged in a blanket indictment
returned in the United States District
Court against 166 leaders of the Indus
trial Workers of the World. Arrests
speedily followed. Almost before the
court proceedings had reached the
stage of the discharge of the jury Dep
uty Marshals were on their way to
tomobiles donated and driven by wom-
en- and quickly returned to the Federal
Building, bringing prisoners with them.
In the first hour 35 men were thus
hailed into the Marshars office and
later were questioned by investigators
for the Department of Justice.
Among the first to be taken in Gus
tody was William d. Haywood Secre-
tary of the national organization of
the ]. w. W., who was questioned Sep
tember 5, when the headquarters of
the !. w. w. in various cities were
raided by the Government. An ex-
planatory statement issued by the
Government attorneys who have di-
rected the investigation of the alleged
seditious conspiracy, the crime of
which the men named in the indict-
ments are accused, said: THE prose-
cutions are under Sections 6, 10 and
81 of the Criminal Code and under the
espionage act. Only leaders in con-
spiracies or those personally capable
in connection with the perpetration of
crimes against the United States are
included as defendants"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Russia's Water Tonnsoa

The water net Of Russia (Finland
not included), comprising rivers, lakes
and canals, at the end of 1912 covered
an area of 3S6572 square kilometers.
In 1905 the river steam fleet of Euro.
pean Russia numbered 1897 units, with
a total horse power of 192,2S4, while
the sailing vessels, rats and other flu,
vial conveyances numbered 23,175
units, with total tonnage of 1856
600. 1t IS officially stated that 91 per
cent Of all steamboats, were built In
Russia proper, As per cent in Finland
and As per cent in foreign countries.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Weather Bureau Sends Warning.

Misunderstanding was given by
the Weather Bureau that the West In
dian hurricane, which did great prop
erty damage at Jamaica Sunday, evil
IDENTIFY had passed into the Gulf of Mex
leo by way of the extreme eastern
coast of Cuba, moving north-northwest,
and probably would strike the Amer
ican gulf coast. Hurricane warnings
have been ordered on the gulf coast
from Mobile, Ala, to Apalachicola,
Fla, and northeast and southeast
storm warnings on the remainder of
the gulf coast of Florida to Key West.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Men Of observation-disclosures

If man is going to commit a crime
during his lifetime, the chances are
that he will do 1t at the age Of twen-
ty-nine. 1t is curious fact that sta
tisticS have shown that man is more
dangerous at this period of his life
than at any other.
The general supposition is that men
have attained the highest development
OF their mental and physical powers at
twenty-nine, and they are supposed to
be able to distinguish between right
and wrong and to realize the conse-
quences liable to follow the indulgence
Of either.
Next to the age of twenty-ninc, the
greatest number Of criminals have
been aged twenty-one, twenty-Sevcn or
forty-five years.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Thrilling Reports Of Naval Actions.

London.-Another series of thrilling
reports of recent naval actions against
German submarines, illustrative of the
manner in which the U-boat menace is
being met, was given out by the Admi-
rally. The records are official and au-
thenticated, but no dates are given.
The statement begins by reciting how
a torpedo gunboat sighted periscope
600 yards away and turned ship so that
the periscope was travelling in the
opposite direction to that in which 1t
WAS first seen. When at a distance of
so yards the periscope disappeared,
and the gunboat, altering it's course,
passed over the submarine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
KAISER HAS NEW PROPOSAL
Would Yield Belgium, But Under Con-
ditions, So He Replies to Vati.
can on Peace Note.

London,-Germany has agreed to
evacuate Belgium on certain condi-
tions, it is declared in German Off
cial statement, according to a dispatch
from Berne given out by the wireless
press. Germany, it is stipulated, must
have the right to develop her eco
nomic enterprises freely in Belgium,
especially in Antwerp. The proposal
was made in a supplementary note to
the Vatican, replying to the peace ini
tiative of Pope Benedict. 1t was in
the form of a verbal communication
made by Foreign Secretary Kuehl
mann to the Papal Nunco a. Munich.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04

change. later took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and soon
felt change for the better. took it
until was in good healthy condition.
recommend the Pinkham remedies to
all women as have used them with such
good results. Mrs. MILFORD T. CUM
MTNGs, S22 Harmony St., Penn's Grove,
N. ].
Such testimony should be accepted by
all women as convincing evidence Of
the excellence of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound as a remedy for
the distressing ills of women such az
displacements, inflammation, liberation,
backache, painful periods, nervousness
and kindred ailments.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
HURRICANE SWEEPS ISLE
OF PINES; MANY PERISH
Pensacola Is Isolated, Even BY Wire
less, But Other Cities Report
Light Property Loss.

Havana-One steamer and several
sailing vessels were sunk, numerous
houses razed and great damage done
to growing crops and fruits by the
West Indian hurricane, which struck
the Isle of Pines, according to dis
patches received here. Advices from
Batabano, situated on the mainland,
say it is believed there that many per-
sons perished on the islands, although
no definite information regarding the
casualties has been received here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Communication is Severed.

New York.-Buenos Aires, the capi-
tai Of Argentina, was completely cut
off from teIegraphic communication
with the outside world, according to
a flash" sent to the Commercial and
South American Telegraph Company
by it's manager at Valparaiso. The
message did not state what had hap
pened to interrupt the communication
with the United States.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Relieved as Prison Official.

Washington.-The charge of bad
treatment Of prisoners at OccoQuan
Workhouse by suffragettes who spent
time there as result of picketing the
White House. resulted in the relief
from duty Of Superintendent William
H. Whitaker, formerly a prison super.
intendent in Indiana. Whitaker was
relieved from duty without prejudice
by the Board of Charities after decid-
ing upon an investigation, explaining
It would be embarrassing both to the
superintendent and the board for
Whitaker to continue his duties.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Arousins Sentiment Against Senators.

Arousine Sentiment Against Senators.
New York.-ln an open letter to the
Governors of the states, made public
here, the Executive Committee of the
American Defense Society urged that
steps should be taken at once to rid
the United States of those men who
by their seditious utterances are giving
aid and comfort to Germany. THE
public remarks and the votes of Sena-
tors Of Stone, Reed, La Toilette, Gore,
Gronna. Vardaman and Hardwick," I"
the letter stated, clearly show their
willful obstruction, seditious, if not,
indeed, reasonable, tactics" Each
Governor was asked to arouse public
sentiment through an appeal to the
fathers, mothers, wives and sisters of
men at the front" in his state,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Tobacco Saved Daniel Boone.

Tobacco has played it's role in Amer
lean history. Daniel Boone, the his
tory Of whose deeds is the portion of
every young American, once saved his
life with tobacco. When he first set
tied in Kentucky, where no whites had
preceded him, his cabin was surround
ed by number of hostile Indians.
Powdered tobacco, which was on the
shelf, proved to be his life-saver, for
he blew the tobacco into the eyes of
the Indians and made his escape be-
fore they were able to extract it.-Ex-
change.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Powerful Drive Bv Italians.

London.-In another powerful drive
the Italians have captured the high
ground south of Podlaca and south
east of Madoni, in the Isonzo sector.
The official announcement of this sue
cess by the Italian War Office reports
also the capture of 1,409 prisoners.
The text of the statement reads: by
a sudden. bold action we improved our
position toward the southeastern edge
of Bainsizza Plateau, capturing some
high ground south of Podlaca and
southeast of Madoni
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04
Explaining Parliamentary Procedure.

Endeavoring to explain Mr.. Bonar
Laws statement on the abandonment
Of the Mesopotamia proceedings to a
French gentleman (wrltes corre-
spondent). l pointed out that Mr.. Dill
Ion had secured permission to move
the adjournment Of the House. "Ah."
he said, that is to stop discussion. It
will prevent the Left from objecting,
for there can be no more speech.
Wonderful parliamentarians you Eng
lish." I explained that the adjourn
ment motion meant more speech in
stead of none at all, and he was as
tonished. "Truly quaint people, you
English" he observed. - Manchester
Guardian.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-04

Ottawa, Ont.-The Governments of
Canada and the United States are ne
gotiating an agreement to prevent
men Of either country from avoiding
compulsory military service by resid-
ing on the other side of the line, it was
learned. The allied nations in Gu
rope recently adopted similar plan.