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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
Results Of Allied Offensive,
Which Germans Say Has Failed

pnxnc. the French troops, in In
trepid attacks, haye gained the
heights OF Mont CnrniIlet, the
CnsGue. the Teton and Mont Haut,
to the east of Rheims. All the
French snins have been held. Re
pentcd attacks by the Germnn
Crown Prince against the captured
positions have been made without
nyaii, and he has expended thous-
nnds Of lives in fruitiess efforts ITO
regnin the lost ground.
More thnn 1000 officers were In.
cIuded In the totni OF $4,000 prison.
ers captured. Enormous quantities
of material were tnken from the
Germans, including 445 heavy and
field guns, 1000 machine guns and
many trench gums.
Emperor William also has con-
graduated Emperor Charles on the
failure OF the Italian attacks along
the Isonxo from Plava to the sen,
but General Cndornn's troops hnye
gained the vodice ridge md have
mnde important advances on tho
Cnrso. The Italians added to their
gains on Friday by taking Austrian
positions on n front OF one md n
quarter miles, to a depth of 400
Jnrds, south of Castagnnvizzn, on
one OF the main roads to Trieste.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
ITALIANS ADVANCE
TOWARD TRIESTE
Push Forward for 400 Yards on
Front of Mile and
Quarter.
RUSSIAN NEWS DlSQU!ETlNG
Former Commander-in-Chief
Nicholas Reported to Have
Been Arrested.
RUSSIAN NEWS DIsQU!ETlNC

An advance OF 400 yards along a mile
and "A quarter front by Italian troops
on the road TO Trieste. announcement
by the Germans that they had captured
French position j 900 yards in length
northeast of Scissors and a British air
raid upon German bases along the Ger
man coast constituted the chief news
Developments in the war theaters on
Saturday.
Aside from the battle fronts. occur
rences In Brazil and in Southern Rus
STA bear important relation to the war.
Forty-siN merchant vessels. aggre-
eating 240.779 tons, are restored to the
worlds carrying trade at a time when
they are urgently needed by decree
signed on Saturday by President Braz.
OF Brazil. enabling that country to
make use of the German vessels now
in Brazilian ports. Thirty-thrce of the
German vessels are OF more than 1000
tons each. and one is of 1880 TONS
This action was the first step taken
by Brazil after revoking her dcclara-
tion OF neutrality in the war.
In consequence of Russian royalists'
riots in Tifiis. in the Transcaucausian
Government in Southern Russia. the
Grand Duke Nicholas, formerly COM
mander-in-ch of the Russian armies,
is reported to have been arrested.
Rome reports that the French sub
marine Circe has torpedoed and sunk
large enemy submarine as it was
leaving Cattaro, escorted by a torpedo
boat
British airmen again have dropped
several tons of bombs on zeebrugge.
Ostend. Bruges and the airdrome at
st. Denis.
The German War Office asserts that
during May the Germans captured on
the western front 12.500 men and 237
officers. including one general. and also
took three heavy guns, Pill machine
guns, i34 quick-loaders and eighteen
mine throyers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
IHy Associated Press.I


Although Field Marshal Won Hin.
denburE and Emperor william as
sert that the AnSlo-French oren-
sive on the western front has failed,
after seven weeks of effort, a
French official statement declares
thnt the Germans lost more than
$4,000 prisoners alone during the
French md British drives against
the German lines.
Emperor william writes the Ger
man Empress that the lighting In
France has reached n "certnin con-
ciusion.r Since April the British
have advanced on n front of twenty
miles, from Loos to south OF Bulle-
court, To nm extreme depth of six
miles east OF Arms. Field Marshal
HaiE's men have taken vimy ridge,
dominating the plains to Douni. md
have virtually surrounded Lens and
st. Quentin, and hnve held their
gains against desperate and re-
pented German attacks, while In
dictlng heavy losses.
In the same time the French have
advanced along n ffteen-mile front
north of the Aisne. md seized the
heights dominating the valley of
the AiIette River. the last nntural
defense before LaOn. In Cham
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
Conferees Agree on
Big War Budget
tBy Associated Press. ]

wASHISGTON, June 2.-Asree-
ment WINS reached to-day by Senate
aud House confcrees on the S3,OOO,-
100000 war budget, including pro-
vision for s75O,OOO.OOO for an Ameri-
can merchant marine and for ST.
100000 for nnvnI base on the old
jamestown Exposition site.
The House conferees yielded and
retnined I'm the bill senate nppropri-
ntions of sf,4OO,OOO for purchn.e OF
the jamestown I;aposition ~Ite. and
o,bcr propc c-ty casting sGOO.a0O on
Hampton Ronds for nnvul training
purposes.
The shippinE 1eEinlntion was re-
shaped 80 the President will direct
and he responsible for the ncquisi-
tiOn OF the merchant vessels, but
specifying that the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. headed by Cen
crai Goethnls, as well as the gov
ernment Shipping Bonrd, must lie
used In the work.
The appropriation of $4,000. 900
to be spent In the discretion of the
Secretnry of wnr yvns strIcken out.
Most OF the bill had previously
been agreed to by both houses of
Congrens. To-day's action Is fnal
and complete.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
GERMANY SEEKING /
|. SUBMARINE BASE
OFF VENEZUELA
Reported as Attempting to
Get Control of Island
of Margarita.
VENEZUELAN OFFICIALS
NOTIFIED BY WASHINGTON
-.
Pointed Out That Cession Would
Be Clear Violation of Mon: s. -
roe Doctrine. 20
TEUTON INFLUENCES AT WORK
Not Believed That South Americas
Government Would Yield
to Overtures. =:
rEUTON INFLUENCES AT WORK
Not Believed That South Americas
Government Would Yield
to Overtures. sel
rRy Associated Pres,.l


WASHING TON, June 2-Reports
have reached the government from. q
source described as reliable that Ger
many is attempting to get controleof
the Island Of Margarita. of the coast
OF Venezuela, for use as a submarine
base. Tho State Department has for
warded the information received ito
Venezuela for the consideration .of
Venezuelan officials. 49,
The exact nature OF tho advioesSas
withheld. but officials permitted it TO
become known to-day that tho report
had caused some concern hero. They
indicated that they had positive con-
firmation of overtures designed to Sc
cure control OF the island. but that
they were uncertain whether the effort
had met with any degree of success.
officials do not believe that the gov
ernment Of Venezuela would be "a
party to any such alienation OF terri
tory, even though temporary. Vens-
zuela is one of the South American
governments that have Joined in pro-
testing against submarine warfare aa
conducted by Germany.
GERMAN INFLUENCES AT @
WORK IN VENEZUELA
IL Hde oecn KNOWN Oy tne american
government for weeks. however. that
German influences have been actively
at work in Venezuela, and that indi-
rect. IL not direct. means have heen
used by the Kaiser's agents to secure
popular and official, sympathy. ~
1t is suggested hero that venezuela's
accession to the German overtures ! in
the case of Margarita is rendered very
unlikely by the fact that Venezuelan
officials could not fail to realize the
seriousness of passage Of the island to
the control of an enemy of the United
States. 1t is pointed out that tho css-
sion would be clear violation OF .he
Monroe Doctrine. and would undoubt-
edly call for energetic and prompt ops
position by this government. sfs
Margarita is off the northern coast
of Venezuela. near the southeasteE
corner of the Caribbean Sea, and
within striking distance OF the Panama
Canal. -
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cOsSACKS WILL ASSIST
IN OFFENSIVE OPERATION

PETROGRAD. June . (via London).-
The general council of the Cossack
forces has decided to send an address
to the government giving its assur-
ance that the Cossacks will assist with
all their strength in an offensive op-
Grafton because of their conviction that
peace cannot be secured except by
arms.
The Cossacks do not know what
desertion is" reads the address of the
council. They never fraternize with
the enemy. but watch faithfully in the
trenches"
The address expresses regret that the
CosSacks are spread over the whole
front. instead of being grouped to-
gether. so as to be able to strike a
powerful blow at a given point.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
BIG STEAMSHIP MERGER
Cunnrd Line, Allan Line, Peninsuiur
md Oriental and Smaller Com
Germs In Combine.
IBy Associated Press. ]

IBy Associated Press.1
SAN FRANCISCO. June "A merger
of score OF British steamship COM
panies. including the Cunard Line.
Peninsular and Oriental. Common
wealth Dominion Line. Allan Line,
Union Steamship Company of New Zea-
land. the New Zealand Shipping Com
pany, the British India Company and
several smaller concerns. has been
completed, according to a cablegram
received to-day by Reginald Beck Of
the Hind Rolph Company. agent OF the
Union Steamship Company.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
BRAZIL TO USE GERMAN SHIPS
INTERNED IN ITS PORTS
(By Associated Press

I11C NSaVcIaIOU ffcdu'J u -
RIO JANEIRO. June 2.-President
Braz to-day signed decree providing
for the utilization by Brazil of the
German ships In Brazilian ports.
The taking over OF the German shirs
was being put into effect to-day. tha
crews being interned on Fleuris Island.
Brazilian crews have gone aboard thu
German vessels
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-ll.
GRAND DTKE NICHOLAS
REPORTED UNDER ARREST

BY @Assocfa ted Press.l
LONDON. June 2.-The arrest of
Grand Duke Nicholas. former COM
manderin chief of the Russian armies,
in consequence OF royalist riots at
Tifiis. is reported in an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch quoting advices re-
ceived from Petrograd.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
COULD TAKE OUT LARGER
SUMS By PAYING PREMIUMS

The plans as prepared provide for a
fat insurance of $4,000 on the life of
every officer and private in the military
and naval service, to be paid to his
beneflciaries without premiums. 4
government insurance bureau would
handle the whole subject. and there
would be provision for a system of
insurance by which officers and men
desiring to do so could take out
amounts higher than the $4,000 free
policy by paying premiums at peace
rates.
The plan would provide also for
partial or total disability. and in the
case of death the insurance would be
paid in installments. the amounts
ing determined by government board.
Government officials are convinced
the best way TO dispose of the pension
problem is to meet 1t beforehand The
history of the pension system since tn,
Civil War has shown many abuses
which il is hoped to avoid by provid-
ing insurance before men are killed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
LIVES OF ALL AMERICANS
IN WAR MAY BE INSURED
Plans for Issuing $4,000 Free Policy
to Every Soldier and Sailor
Under Consideration.
URGED BY DEFENSE COUNCIL
Would Also Provide for Partial or
Total sability-Regarded by Of
ficials as Best Way to Dispose Of
Pension Problem.
tBy Associated Prcss.l

WASHINGTON. June 2.-Plans for
issuing $4,000 free government insur-
ance on the life of avery American SOL
dier and sailor during the war, in lieu
of pension arrangements. will be taken
up next week by the Council of Ma
tlonal Defense. A report prepared by
Assistant Secretary Sweet. Of the Com
merce 'bepaf nent rsady to be sub
mitted,. urges that the insurance be
provided through Legislation before
American troops are sent to France.
The defense council took UP the ques-
ton some weeks ago. and turned the
whole subject over to the Department
OF Commerce for investigation. The
report now ready offers a long list Of
arguments showing the advantage of
working out a compensation system
before American lives are lost in the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
SELECTED AS SITES
FOR CANTONMESTS
tRy Associated Press.l

tBY Associated PressJ
WASHINGTON. Juno 3.-Linda Vista,
Cal, and Columbia. S. c., have been
selected as sites for cantonments In
which forces of the war army will be
trained. The designations bring the
number OF sites determined upon up
to six, four having been announced
yesterday Ten arc yet to be chosen.
Kline Knrs Know Kno Kompetition.
mites on 10 gallons OF. gas Luxury with
economy. kar ahead OF It's Klass. 323
West RroAd.--Adv. - fr,s ..l. u lset-,,7
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
CONTINUED on Twelfth Pqge.)

49, BALTIMORE BY ROAT.- : y I-.
YORK RIVER LINE steamer train leaves
Richmond $50 p. NJ daily, except Sunday.
5; res $3.50 one wayi $3.50 round trip.--Xdv.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03

For snIe. 1000. 900 Fsrt SiNMding Tilnlcr.
to ~ miles railraad staston. . bout
1900 to 1900 crobs ties. Rest oak and
other timber. Addrees l1r. J. II, Davis, Ok
fcrd, N, fC.--Adv. Z, llis. II n jt.s. - .'i5t
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
GIRLS EXCEL IN SPELLING
Boys Take Second Place in Schools
Where Competitive Examinations
Have Been Held.

Complete tabulated returns of the
statewide spelling contests in which
State Commissioner Finley was so
much interested show that in the TO-
500 schools where bees were held.
the girls showed generally the great
er proficiency in spelling, and that Of
the silver medals awarded to county
champions only 80 per cent go to boys.
The original plan was to give each of
these county winners a free trip to the
state fair at Syracuse, but the infantile
paralysis scare interfered.
Why girls are better spoilers than
boys might make a good subject for a
monograph. 1t is a pretty commonly
accepted theory that a good speller is
born, not made. Which means, perhaps,
that visual memory is an inherited
faculty, capable, it may be, of develop
ment, but only within limit fixed by
the brain Of the pupil. Logic helps very
little, almost none at all, till after
study Of Greek and Latin and French
has forced attention on the origin of
"OA0Ss AAC IVY VI SAAA VI Auan VI
woman who most rarely mis-spells a
word is fortunate rather than admir-
able. The memory visuaIizes the print
ed form which reading has made ia
miliar. And this was the secret of
the way our grandInothers and grand
fathers got mastery over the old blue
! spelling book. Doubtless the pre-Froe-
bel webster" book. like all other
books used for the purpose, helped Wis
ualization by concentrating attention.
We are inclined to believe that the
average school girl reads more thar
the average school boy. After schoO
the boys interests are outside inter
ests. He is fishing or skating or play
ing ball. We would not have him 9th
erwise for all the spelling in the world
After all, the learning of things is bet
ter than the learning of symbols, ant
words are nothing but symbols. The.
aid in writing and in speaking. But il
the education that leads up to dOinj
things one hour in mathematics O
chemistry is worth more than a hun
dred hours of spelling.-BroOklyl
| Eagle
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
QUAINT OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM
Poor Children TO Solicit Aims
From the Rich.

In former times there were many
quaint customs connected with st.
Thomas day, the twenty-frst of De
cember, but most Of these have now
died out. In "Merrie England" the
children and young people of the hum
bier classes were licensed by custom
to go begging at the homes of the
well-tO-dO and the rich. This custom
was called "going a gooding" or ''go-
ing a corning" and was usually ac-
cOmpanied by a general merrymaking
and the singing of songs suited to the
occasion. In some remote parts of
England poor families are still permit
ted to make the rounds in quest of
aims on st. Thomas Day, but it has
now become a deadly serious business,
and not the gay affair Of former times
when youngsters went about singing:
Wassail, wassail. through the town, II
you've got any apples throw them
down;
Up with the stocking. down with the shoe,
Il you've got no apples money will
do:
The jug is white and the ale is brown
this is the best house in town.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
Sometimes Saving Doesn't Pay.

There is a credit man here who has
lately come to the conclusion that
saving disposition does not always pay.
This is the story: For long time this
man has opened all the mail that
comes to his department. After remOv-
ing the contents of the envelopes he
used carefully to slit them and open
them out for scratch paper, in the be-
lief that he was saving money for the
house thereby. Recently, however, after
being jOshed by a friend who saw him
doing it, the credit man decided to see
whether he was actually saving money
or not. He found that, on the average
he spent seven minutes a day Sitting
and smoothing out envelopes. On the
basis of a 300-day working year, this
meant that he was spending 35 hours
year on that job. Computing the
cost of this labor ON the basis of his
salary, he found that he was losing
time and the firm money. Now the of.
fee boy slits them and smooths them
out.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
WHAT BOY READS IMPORTANT
Youth Should Be Protected From De-
praVed Associations in Print as
Well as in Flesh and Blood.

What boy reads is as important as
anything else about him. You try to
protect him from depraved associa-
tions Of flesh and blood, but pretty
often you make little enough effort to
protect him from depraved associa-
tiOns in print
You send him to school in a belief
that the stuff he assorbs from printed
pages forms his mind; but out Of
school you may let him absorb stuff
from printed pages that is not fit to
be in a dogs mind.
Time was when you could tell a
wrong book for boy because it was
bound in yellow paper and sold for a
dime. Nowadays many wrong books
for boys are most respectfully bound
in cloth, and they are perfectly moral,
in the narroweSt sense of that absurd
word. They describe how a fourteen
year-Old boy, with a discarded set Of
harness and an old hoopskirt, made
flying machine and sailed around the
earth; or with a leaky wash boiler
and 81 in cash built a submarine that
destroyed the enemy's fleet; how lad
/ in knee breeches circumvented a gang
| Of desperate criminals and so became
| president Of a railroad at sixteen.
These tales of preposterous juvenile
achievement are depraved because they
are monstrOus lies. They do not stim-
ulate a boys imagination; they drug
/ il. They do not set his mind uSefully
at work, but send it off in a weird OPT
um dream. They do not brace or en-
large a boys mind; they lead it into
a vicious, enervating habit of dope
taking. They are a sort of psycholog-
ical whisky drinking that makes the
victim unrespOnsive to wholesome
natural tOnics and begets a flabby crav-
ing for the artificial kick.-Saturday
Evening Post.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
chartlna the Armx,s Feet.

To a layman, the records Of the In
spections of the feet of the various
militia regiments stationed on the
border last summer are astonishing.
For example, take the specific case Of
he Sixteenth Pennsylvania infantry.
Out Of 1,087 men inspected only 29O
with sound feet were found. Four hun
dred and seventy-six men were wearing
shoes from one to two complete sizes
too small. The Sixteenth Pennsylva-
mia sported $50 corns, 762 ingrowing
nails, 613 bunions, to say nothing Of
such esoteric maladies as "exostoses," !"
"pronation" and 'hallux valgus," of
which latter misery there were $50
well-developed cases. One wonders
how the Sixteenth Pennsylvania got
over the ground at all.-''The Feet Of
the Fighting Men," in the Worlds
Work.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
PUBLIC SALES

Thursday, Feb. 15-Stock and Farm
ing Implements, of W. b. Reed. on
the Garrison farm. on road from
Kenton to Seven Hickories. Leroy
Roberts, auc.
Thursday, Feb. 15-Stock and farm
ing implements, of Daniel Ford. on
the Theodore Cavender farm, on road
from Smyrna to Walkers School.
miles from Smyrna w. H. Col
lins, auc.
Friday, Feb. 16- Administrator
Sale of the stock and farming i'm
plements of Thos. W. Mabrey, de
ceased. on his farm on the road
from Clay ton to Greenspring, one
mile from Clayton.
Saturday, Feb. 17.-Stock and Farm
ing Implements of James Macort,
on road leading from Downs Chapel
to Hartley. about one-quarter of a
mile below Downs Chapel. Leroy
Roberts. auc.
Monday, Feb. 19.-Entire stock of
Hardware and implements of c. R.
Massey at his place of business (now
Wright's Garage), on Main street.
Smyrna.
Tuesday. 20-Stock and farming i'm
plements, of w. B. Fretz. on the
Reihms farm, on road leading from
Blacklist ms to Delaney's. 1 mile
from Blackiston. R. W. Slaughter,
acu.
Wed. Feb. 21-Stock and farming
implements. of Clarence Tingle, on
his farm on road from Kenton tn
Lockwood. 2amiles from Kenton. =
Leroy Roberts auc.
Friday. Feb. 23-Stock and farming
implements of W. Oliver Reed or
the briggs Farm. one and a hall
miles south of Smyrna on State
road. w. H. Collins, auc.
Saturday, Feb. 24.-Public Sale ot
Household Goods of Richard Smer'
don, in the town of Kenton, at
.. 10. Leroy Roberts. auc.
Monday. Feb. 26.-Administrator!
Sale of stock and farming imple
ments of Thomas W. Mabrey, de
Il ceased, on farm tenanted by his son
William 7. Mabrey, near Hazell'i
Corner. Leroy Roberts, auc.
Monday, March Stock and farm
ing implements of Joseph VanPel
al his farm near Greenspring. d
P. Hutchison. auc.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
contrIbuted From AII countrIes.

From the southwestern United
States every year now there are sent
to market tons of dates. If it had not
been for the bureau of plant industry
and its explorers, the date today would
not be an American product. Out Of
China have come cherries which took
gratefully to our soil and climate; from
the AItai mountains have come red
currants; from the Orient somewhere
has come the puckerless and seedless
persimmon, and from other places Of
the far-off have come fruits and vege-
tables Of good garden and table serv-
ice, and shade trees for the comfort
of men in sections OF this country
where no shade tree of American origin
would take root.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14

Thursday, Feb. 15-Stock and Farm :
ing Implements, of W. b. Reed. on
the Garrison farm. on road from
Kenton to Seven Hickories. Leroy
Roberts, auc.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
whv RInttera Are Scarce.

Did you get that stack Of blotters
with the "ads" on the backs this year7
OF course you didn't. It's the "high
cost Of botters" now. Owing to the
decreased production and the In
creased cost of paper stock, a Brook
lyn paper and blotter concern predict
ed that blotters this year were going
to be about as scarce as eggs.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
Much Of Canada unexpIored.

n. r paper upon the unexplored parts
+, Canada lana has been recently prepared
~. y Cnarles Camsel of the Canadian ge-
nas sE survey, in which he points out
4 he unexplored area Of Canada
,toas s,eater than is generally under
o0~s % In estimating the area of this
s,,n ry' he follows the plan Of consid-
IN as explored a strip of Is miles
On esch ., side Of an explorers route.
smos slis basis the unexplored area
ANA Vunts n to about 9O1, 900 square miles.
ho.,' 'iiis does not take account Of
tsn. .AS under 1000 square miles in ex-
Toto, Inis is about ss per cent of the
IL -, area OF Canada, excluding Arc
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
me LoaIc Of It.

.'What class of the population do
you suppose would make the best sub
marine crews7"
sweIl, the logical conclusion points
to the submerged tenth"
Smyrna times., 1917-02-14
When Your Child Cries

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