The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-05-05
NEWS OF WORLD
IN TABLOID FORM
Activities and Occurrences Of
Interest Told Briefly
WAR DOlNGS IN PARAGRAPHS
England Gets First Loan From United
States-GoVernment to Help Farm
ers-HeaVy Fighting In France; Ger
mans Counter Attacking.

Washington - Both senate and
house have approved the conscription
plan for raising the new war army
The matter of age limit has not been
decided, the senate making men
twenty-one and twenty-seven, inclu
sive, eligible 10 draft while the house
sets ages twenty-one and forty. Sen
ate approved Roosevelt's division;
house disapproved. Senate bill au
thorizes president to enforce proh1b1
ton throughout army. Certain ex
emptions from service made, including
members of religious organizations
with creeds opposing warfare. Sen
ate increases pay of soldiers to $50 a
month.
ST. Paul-The public safety com.
mission of Minneapolis has ordered all
saloons, pool halls and motion picture
houses in certain sections of Mime
apolis closed as it's first war measure.
Mayor Van Lear is directed to re-
woke all licenses May for these bust
nesses, operating in the prescribed
territory. In this district are the large
flour mills which will have to supply
-four to the most of the United States
and the allies.
Washington-On Wednesday Secre-
tary McAdoo handed the British am
bassador a treasury warrant for $780,
:. 100000, the first loan made to any en-
tente government by the United
j States under the $700O,000,O00 war
! finance measure Sir Cecil Spring
J Rice, British ambassador, handed to
Secretary McAdoo a receipt on behalf
of the British government and the
transaction was complete.
Washington-To the press Rene
Viviani, Frances vice-premier and
head of the war mission, said the CO.
operation of the United States would
mean not only a military victory,
4 which was assured, but victory OF
morality and right. Expressing deep
gratitude for the enthusiastic Tecep-
tion given his mission here, M. Wv
iani said he relied it was to ''ouT
London-The foreign Office an.
nounced that the blacklist" against
American firms had been withdrawn
Raising of the blacklist will remove
the only real issue that ever threat,
ened ill-feeling between England and
the United States. The original black
list covered eighty-five business firms
Several have since been added.
Washington-The railroads of the
country and the chief shippers repre-
sented in the National Industrial Traf
fiC league have agreed upon 100 per
cent increase, or So day, in demur.
rage charges over the rate in effect
prior to Dec. last when emergency
rates were prescribed by the inter
state commerce commission.
Muskogee, Okla Five thousand
circulars printed in the Cherokee
language have been sent to Indian
farmers in Oklahoma from the offices
of the five civilized tribes, asking
them to use their farms to the fullest
4 advantage in the movement to in
crease the food production of the
/ country.
Copenhagen-The pan-German Con
servative and National Liberal organs
in Berlin are sharply campaigning
against the Socialist peace program
and take Chancellor Won Bethmann-
] Hollweg to task for not disassociating
4 himself and his administration from
Scheidemann and his propaganda.
Washington-To aid farmers in
meeting the food situation, the govern
ment took steps to throw resources
approximating $1O0,O0O,OOO into the
breach. The treasury department an
nOunced that all postal savings de
/ posits will be made Immediately avail
able for loans to farmers.
Portland, Ore.-After working two
years and half scrubbing floors and
cleaning windows in a Portland office
I building and receiving $40 a month,
Miss Mae Mcmahon, aged eighteen, is
the heiress to half of her grandfath-
er's estate valued at 100000.
New York-Former Ambassador to
Germany Gerard in an address here
/ said the German military caste hated
/ the name of America" And he added:
81 know Germany would have at
/ tackled America had the war ended in
German victory or a draw"
New York-Approximately $4,000
men have qualified for membership in
i Roosevelt's proposed army division, it
was announced. Only fifty of the ap-
plicants, it was said, were under
/ twenty-five years. None below this
! age is now being accepted.
/ Washington-Offi advices reach
ing the state department said that the
/ Mexican government had warned Ger
mans in Mexico that any cOncentTa-
/ tion of Germans near the American
border will be followed Immediately
+ by their arrest.
Washington - Official dispatches
/ from BerGe to the state department
/ announce the appointment there of a
+ committee organized for DrOpaganda