The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-18
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The rcquisition by the America
merchant marine will include carg
ships of more than $500 tons dea
weight capacity and passenger yes
sells OF more than $500 gross tons reg
lister The limit will probably be low
cred to include craft of more than / so,
| tons.
Representative Kahn Of California
the Republican who led President vii
sons forces in the house when the
army draft law passed, says Il new
| draft act will have to be passed at
the next session of congress. 1t Is
contemplated to have every man be-
tween the ages Of an and 81.
Secretary Lansing has made public
trcachery. This time it Is shown that
he was engaged in plots to blow up
Canadian railroads and to use Irish.
Americans in the United States for
carrying on sabotage on their own
COuntrymcn.
Government control Of foOdstuns has
been extended to take in virtually all
II
proclamation Of the president
After November | the manufactur.
age, storage, importation and diStribu
tion Of some twenty odd prime com.
moditicS will be licensed However,
many small dealers will be exempt.
An agreement between the war ll-
duStrics board and steel manufacture
crs fixing maximum prices for steel
products, about third under existing
market prices, has been approved by
the president.
The embargo on coal shipments to
Canada has been lifted by order OF the
president.
England will renew loans on Amcri.
can farms. The letter from the Brit.
ish government instructing British
companies to call one hundred million
in mortgages has been rcscinded. The
oncy was to have been used by tho
British authorities for war purposes.
The credit the United States govern
mcnt has extended Britain more than
offsets any money British capital has
invested in the United States.
With the swearing in OF nine new
cabinet members the members OF the
Liberal party who see in compulsory
military service the only solution for
bringing forth the full strength OF tho
Dominion Of Canada in the prosecu.
ton OF the war have Joined hands with
Sir Robert Borden, says an Ottawa,
Ont. dispatch.
Admiral Mayo, commander-in-c chief
of the Atlantic fleet, and his staff have
returned from England, where they
participated In Il naval conference
with the allies. This announcement
is authorized by the navy department
No details OF the conference have
been made public.
After four spent in the center OF
Europc's colossal struggle, Pleasant
y. Stovall. Of Savannah, Ga, United
states minister to Switzerland do.
clared on his arrival "at an Atlantic
| port that the economic situation in
Germany is most acute and that no
believes the backbone Of German ro.
sistancc has been broken.
Food pledge week set for Oc.,ho,
p TO 27 has been postponed TO tho
! week of October 2S to November ( hv
! Food Administrator Hoover, at tho rc.
quest of the president, so that il win
not conflict with the final week Of tho
second Liberty Loan drive.
The Ecuadorcan secretary of for
cign affairs sent cablcgram 10 ~,
Ecuadorcan legation at I.imau am
bouncing that Doctor Perl, thc German
minister to Peru and Ecuador, resi-
dent at Lima, win not be offcEll,
received by the Ecuadorcan guv,rn
mcnt in case he attempts to 20 10 Ec
uador. This action is no surprise /,
official Washington
Virtually all the staple foods cor
Humcd by the American people will II
put under government control by Nc
Vcmbcr ]
Tho FOOD administration announce
that President Wilson will issue a.
executive order requiring that mann
i0cturcrS and distributors OF some .
fundamental foods operate under |
c"nsc restrictions designed to proven
unreasonable profits and to stop spec,
'0lion and boarding
Car shortage leads labor troubles a
a factor in reducing the country's Goa
supply.
The food administration has held II
less than two hundred conference.
and 1t Is pointed out that IL talk wi
reduce tbe high cost OF living, tn
country mas a monopoly on talk fest.