The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-04-17
DorNcs THE COUNTRY OVER

N After striking his wife on the head
n with a bed Stat, George Jacobs, aged
so went TO his room at Olive Hill and
Ithoked himself 20 death.
n Farmers in the Northwest have
iresponded periodically 10 President
4 Wilson's appeal for increased pro-
Itiuction and are planting bigger
|crops.
n Secretary McAdoo In statement
4 ISSUED Saturday declared that in his
<opinion the war tax to be placed on
<distilled spirits by Congress would be
Retroactive.
George Eastman, head Of the East
Imam Kodak Company has announced
1his intentions Of subscribing $4,000
tO0O TO the proposed Government loan
4of $4,000, O00.0 900.
Il Representative John w. Langley
Fannounces that he will oppose any
transcription measures in the Army
phil and will insist upon reliance on
ythe volunteer system.
Friedman, Keller & CO., Paducah
whisky merchants, have offered to
tpay their employees half Of their
lpresent salaries in the event they
lNEill enlist for the war.
Americans in Germany are not TO
lbe informed but will be treated in the
game way that President Wilson has
ANNOUNCED Germans living in the
limited States will fare.
! The 1000 or more blind persons
of Kentucky have formed an organi-
kation and will appeal 90 the General
sAssembly 20 pass q blind pension bill
timilar 10 the one IN force in Ohio.
DIR. Lorin STICKY, professor Of so
II 20 nj the IInlyaT-
Atty OF Iowa, has been elected presi-
&ient Of Sayre College, the oldest
.Presbyterian institution in the South.
y After having been estranged from
this brother, John ID. Rockefeller Tor
eighteen years. Frank Rockefeller,
if2 years old. died at his apartments
I'm a Cleveland hotel from a stroke of
Aparalysis
" Prohibitionists in Congress are at
tempting TO stop the distillation Of
hiram during the war as part OF
food conservation plans, while dis
Killers Of the nation propose increased
faNes on spirits and "A curtailment of
Manufacture.
NJ Ben and Anderson Graft, Of st
Louis, sons Of Howard Gratz. the pio-
|. teer editor of the Kentucky Gazette.
Lexington, have offered n reward Of
a.. 900 10 the captain and crew Of the
frst American merchant ship TO des-
trov a hostile submarine.
More than S2.0O0.000 was pledged
o. Jews Of nationwide prominence
: tpward the proposed Sl0,00O.0OO
fnnd for the relief Of Jewish war
Sufferers ut dinner given in New
York City by Jacob II. Schih, in hon
lQr o. Julius Rosenwald, Of Chicago,
And Henry Morgenthau, former am
Uhssador to Turkey.
- Theodore Roosevelt in letters To
o. chnirmen Of the Congressional
Military Affairs Committees heartily
!. 4dorsed me Administration com
ttlsOry service program, hut urged .
the necessity Of organizing force Of ,
lolunteers % take their places on the
isinE line within four months. Col .
Aosevelt would raise and command .
the division " this force.
e--<.antrol Of publicity in connection 7
Nth the Government war activities /.
wns placed bv President Wilson Sat F.
,nfiny in the hands Of a committee Of T,
public information whose task It will I
~ 10 safeguard secrets of value TO .
fne enemy and nj the same time 90 .
3ee that all affairs Of the nation are I
laid before the public. The commit
Tee will be composed of Secretary /
lansing, Daniels and Baker with |
George Creel as civilian head