The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-06-01

Regulations TO govern exemptions
under the selective draft are being
worked out by Provost Marshal Gen.
CrowGer with a number OF prominent
lawyers Il Il probable that the jury
lMi.eel system will be followed in Sc
lecting those to go into the first army
or 500. 900, and not until each district
has provided the number apportioned
to It viii exemptions be considered.
The first food bill providing for the
survey aud carrying more than Sl4,-
900, O00 was passed by the House with
out record vote. II is said a fairly
accurate estimate OF the country's re-
sources will be available three weeks
after the President signs the bill.
similar measure Is now pending in the
Senate and action is expected to-mor-
row.
The Senate Finance Committee de-
cided to exempt from taxation many
articles levied upon by the House,
To substitute stamp taxes for the man
ufacturers' gross sales plan of the
House and to consider new taxes upon
the second class mail matter The lat
ter would be based ON advertising space
in publications.
Vacancies in the officers training
camps. resulting from the withdrawal
Of candidates for commissions or for,
any otser cause. win not be filled. the
War Department announced. 1t is re-.
garded as too great a handicap on the
whole force to have men enter now and
lattempt TO catch up.
! The Industrial crisis in Russia Is re-
ported To be 40 acute that according TO
recent utteranees OF the Minister Of
| Finance, only a miracle can save the
country from economical ruin, so great
are the demands for the workmen. The
Socialists urge an early peace as the
ionly remedy.
/ Nation and Charleston, Ill. RACED By
the tornado, began preparations last
nigh; for rebuilding the devastated
AREAS The work OF reconstrnct.on has
been put on permanent basis by the
I Red Cross Contributions nj Mattoon
last night had reached over 100000
I one hundred thousand Americans
counting those now serving in the
French and British armies and hddi-
uonal units ordered abroad soon viii
be In France, according 10 an official
statement issued by the British War
ONCE.
Tho Italians have amRshed their way
across the Timayo River and captured
San Giovanni. two miles northeast OF
Dunno, which Is on the railroad lead
ing into Triest Nine 6-inch guns fell
into the hands OF the Italians
Foreign Minister Balfour.h cad Of the
British Mission TO America declared NJ
ottawa that the British empire had
'stsked its last dollar on democracy.
and that n democracy failed. England
would be bankrupt inded
Chill will support Brazil In adopt
Ing vigorous measures against German
submarines. says the Dlario lliustrado
at Santiago In commenting on the rec
ommendation OF President Braz for the
cessation OF neutrality.
Charles Z. Hughes declared In New
York last night that M the world is 10
be made safe for democracy. II must
be a world IN which the millions recog-
nize and maintain the supremacy OF
the law"
An investigation by the Senate Ma
val Affairs Committee OF the accident
on the armed merchant ship Mongolia.
in which two American Red Cross
nurses were killed. was ordered by the
Senate.
The Brizilian Chamber passed the |
first reading OF the Government meas
ure revoking Brazll's neutrality in the
war between Germany, and the United
States.
II is the Shipping Boards intention |
TO build $50 or 200 wooden cargo ships
and the balance OF steel