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Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08

London, April during tank
parade at Wandsworth, London su-
burb, tank suddenly swerved and
pinned two girl spectators against a
railing at the side of the street. Both
were taken to the hospital in SER
ious condition, the skull of one being
fractured, while the other suffered
broken arms and internal injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08

army rations Of the the front note beef
naoes bacon ham and jam What the fare the plains of
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
RELIEF SHIP TO
co TO FRANCE

Los Angeles, May 7.-Southern
California will contribute an entire
shipload of supplies of various kinds
for the stricken sections of France
One of the great new steel freighters
recently launched by the United Sta
tes Shipping board will carry the car
go and Chairman Hurley of the
board has given his sanction to the
undertaking. The plan originated in
the Chamber of Commerce here.
When the great vessel was launched
lit was christened with the name cho-
sen by the constructing company; it
is now planned, with the consent Of
the builders, to re-christen the cessel
LOS Angeles" so that vessel bear
ing the name of the city shall sail on
it's maiden voyage, an errand of mer-
cy, laden with the products of the
country about Los Angeles.
Every community in southern Cali
fornia will be invited to contribute
to the cargo, according to the local
sponsors of the move. When l.. N.
Brunswig, who made arrangements
with the shipping board, returned to
his home, he signalled his success by
donating $1,000 to the cargo fund
With this sum as nucleus, the com
mittee in charge was confident that
This will be the second relief ship
to be loaded by Californians, the Ca
mino having lied with full cargo
of relief supplies for Belgium in 1914
it soon would have an adequate car
go in readiness.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08

Omen violation of the gambling within the confines
of the City of seemingly being wnked at by the city
chance for either merchandise or money
Gambling merchandise one
the carnival wheedle the people OF Fl
Ceutro out of funds we'll be better
The police authorities Ell deserve the of
Iaw-abdn citizens uphold the law by closing these
lawful gambling games They have been banhed from every other
California community.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-08
(RN Associated Prassl

Washingt ton, May AT the same
time that Attorney General Gregory
began planning the investigation of
the aircraft situation which the pres
ident ordered, Chairman Chamberlain
of the Senate military committee de-
clared the committee would have a
thorough inquiry of it's own in an at
tempt to locate personal responsible
ity. Senator Chamberlain promised
there would be no whitewashing.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
GERMANS FAIL
IN Big ATTACK
MEET WITH VIRTUALLY NO SUc-
CESS, PUBLIC is ASSURED BY
BRITISH WAR OFFICE.
Deliver Terrific Attack Against the
French North of Amiens-Roye
Road-Met BY Storm of Fire From
French Guns.

London.-"German attacks met with
virtually no success" the British War
Office assured an anxious public. Cen
eral Haig's forces in turn inflicted
heavy casualties on the enemy, who
delivered strong attacks between the
River Somme and the vicinity Of Buc-
quoy. Hard fighting also took place
north and south of Albert as the re-
suit of a heavy attack by the Germans
on the British lines along a front of
5000 yards between Aveluy and Der
nancourt.
London.-The lull in the great bat
tie on the western front is ended.
German forces have renewed their
assaults south of the River Somme and
ON the French front.
These attacks are admitted to have
yielded some gains to the invaders in
the critical sectors just to the east OF
the city of Amiens.
The fighting, according to latest
reports, has been heaviest in the neigh.
borhood of Hamel, where the British
were forced back slightly, and in the
triangle formed by Rivers Luce and
Avre, further to the south, where the
French were forced to give ground.
Nothing is known as to the details
of the battles in three sectors, but the
fact that the Germans have been in
a degree successful would seem to in
dicate that they. have succeeded in
bringing up some of their heavier can
non and new divisions with which tc
continue their attempts to capture
Amiens.
Reports from the French and British
fronts have mentioned heavy rains
which would mean that the Germans
have been working under a severe
handicap in bringing up guns, ammu
milton and supplies to the front.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
New York State Has Sugar
Camp Which Yields 10000
Gallons OF Sirup Annually

Up in New York stnte. in section
Of the Catskills, there is d sugar camp
In grove OF some three thousand we'll
grown hard naples, big enough 90
carry from two to four buckets apiece
when sugar-making time arrives. There
Is big evapOrating house, where the
sap runs from large tubs into an evap-
orator, the flow automatically regulate
ed to keep 1t simmering away at the
right temperature.
There are big stirring kettles ana
hundreds of mOlds, and the strap.
when 1t begins TO sugar, is put into
the kettles and stirred until it Is 40
white as thick cream. Then 1t Is
poured into the little nlOlds or tins,
and forms the scallOp-edged cakes that
are to be marketed. Or If 1t will pay
better to do so, the sirup is sold in
gallon cans before being reduced to
sugar.
And a farmers boy has developed
this big business from a start made
when his father, like all farmers in
the region, boiled enough sap in the
spring to make what maple sirup the
family would need through the year.
A visit to New York had opened the
boys eyes as to the market for maple
Sirup there. He found that n poor
quality, only % per cent real maple.
sold for more money than the best
brought at home.
He made a bargain with his father
for the rental of the sugar grove and
then began the development that has
reached a plant such as Is described
above, with an output reaching in a
good season up to 10000 gallons, which
bring him not less than $1.5O per gall
Ion, and sometimes more when made
into sugar Here was boy who had
eyes that could see an opportunity at
home.-Frank Harrington. In st. Mich
| olas.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
VAST EXTENSION OF POWER
Control of Ships is Now Asked Of
Congress in Bill Introduced BY
Senator Fletcher.

Washington-Vast extension Of
Federal powers over shipbuilding,
shipping rates, docks and terminals
has been asked of the Congress by the
Shipping Board, and is proposed in
two bills introduced by Senator
Fletcher of Florida Chairman of the
Commerce Committee, after confer
ence with Chairman Hurley. The
President would be authorized by the
legislation to prescribe through the
Shipping Board charter and freight
rates and to take over ships, docks,
wharves and terminal facilities in one
bill, and the second measure, amend
ing the law creating the Shipping
Board, would extend it's authority
over ownership and transfer of YES
sells, existing or under construction.
Both bills have been referred 20 the
Commerce Committee.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Broke Rib While sneezino.

After this, by order Of his physi-
clan, Bernard Whann will only laugh,
cough or sneeze in moderation. He
had been seized with sneezing fit
and when he recovered he found HIM
self suffering an acute pain in his left
side.
DR.. J. W. Annie was called in ana
discovered that one of Whann's ribs
was broken. Then Wkann explained
that 1t was the fourth such accident
in q few years. Not long ago after
coughing violently, he had broken an
other rib, while similar misfortune
had come to him after an attack OF
hiccoughs. Some years before q rib
had snapped while he was moving a
piano.
Doctor Annie diagnosed the case as
"chalk ribs" and was inclined to think
that other bones in Whann's body were
affected the same way.
Whann is a piano tuner and goes
all over the country tuning pianos for
opera stars.-New York Sun.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
War Industries Boards New Plan.

ngton.-Bernard N. Baruch,
Chairman of the War Industries Board,
announced a new plan of organization
of the board with a view Of preventing
conflict in the ordering and delivery
of supplies and of obtaining unification
in dealing with industrial problems.
Chief functions will be Centered in the
recently appointed requirements divi-
sion, which is to serve as a central di-
recting agency in the machinery of the
War Industries Board. President Will
son, in his letter appointing Mr.. Bar
Gch as Chairman of the board, said
the Chairman should be constantly
and scientifically informed of all con-
tracts, purchases and deliveries, in or
der that he may have always before
him an analysis of the progress of
business in the several divisions of
the Government in all departments"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
PROPOSE CHANGE IN DRAFT
Would Put Industrial SIackers to
Work and Make Local Boards
Employment Agencies.

Washington. - Drastic modification
of the draft classification lists which
would affect in one way or another
the status of every one of the millions
of registered men, is proposed in a
plan submitted to President Wilson
by officials of the Provost Marshal
Generals office and the Department
Of Labor. While the primary purpose
of the new program is "purification"
Of the second, third and fourth classes
of registrants who are not engaged in
any productive industry, attention also
would be given to lower sections o.!
Glass /, and the effect, it's trainers be
lieve, would be to solve the nations
labor problem and largely increase the
output of the necessities of life. Tho
proposal would utilize the draft ma
chinery for putting industrial slackers
70 work. Every registered man who
has been granted deferred classified
tion would be given to understand that
such deferment is not legal right. but
a privilege, and that if unfair advan-
tage is taken of that privilege it will
be summarily revoked.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
ORDER MILLS TO SPEED UP
Steel Mills Must Make One Hundred
Per Cent Deliveries To Ship
Building Plants.

Washington.-To speed up the ship
building program the War Industries
Board issued orders to steel mills and
fabricating plants to make 100 per
cent deliveries on all orders for steel
ship plates from the Emergency Fleet
Corporation. This will give priority
to these orders and supplements re-
cent orders to the mills to turn out
no plates for commercial purposes
The action of the board followed com
plants made before the Senate Com
merce Committee by George J. Bald
win, Chairman of the Board Of the
American international Shipbuilding
Corporation, which is building fabri
Gated ships at Hog Island, Pa, that
his yard and some others are short
of ship steel.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
To Use Whole Force, King Is Assured.

London.-Replying to greetings on
the occasion of the anniversary Of the
entry of the United States into the
war, President Wilson has telegraphed
the following message to King George:
Permit me to express my warm graf
ifcations. Your generous message has
been received and / assure you it is
with the greatest satisfaction that tho
people of the United States find them
selves side by side in this final war
for free self-government with such
steadfast and indominable associates.
Permit me also to assure your Majesty
that we shall continue to do everything
possible to put the whole force of the
United States into this great struggle" ."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
BIG FIRE IN KANSAS CITY
Property Loss Estimated at Three Mil
lion Dollars BY City Fire
Chief.

Kansas City, Mo.-Fire in the whole
sale and manufacturing district of the
West Bottoms, and said to be of incen-
diary origin, caused property damage
estimated by the chief at $4,000, 900.
More than a dozen persons were in
jured, five of them firemen. The lat.
ter were injured, one of them proba"
bly, fatally, when floor fell with
them. The others were hurt by falling
wires and debris. Three looters were
arrested. The entire fire-fghting
forces of Kansas City, Mo-, and Kan
sas City, Kan, battled with the flames.
Dynamite was used to check it and
keep it from making further inroads
on the wholesale and manufacturing
houses lying to the west and south of
the fire zone.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Western Newspare. Union News Service

Western Newsparc- Union News Service.
Washington.-Mob violence must be
ended. This edict was issued from the
White House at the conclusion Of the
Cabinet meeting. To make it effective
the Administration will urge the i'm
mediate enactment of pending legis,
lation which would empower the Fed
eral Government to deal severely with
the several forms of disloyalty. Presi-
dent Wilson is said to regard the
growing tendency Of communities to
make and execute their own laws to
suit the suspicious OF the hour as rep
resenting a serious menace to the
country. The cause is attributed to
existing laws, without teeth" and un.
der which the Department of Justice
has been unable to get convictions in
the Courts.
The circumstances surrounding the
lynching of Robert P. Prayer, an al
legged pro-German, brought the issue
to a head. The incident is declared
to be a characteristic example Of dis
position by the American people to set
tie problems in their own way when
the laws are inadequate. The seri-
BUSINESS with which the subject was
presented at the cabinet meeting is
said to have emphasized the determi-
nation of the President to minimize
disorders growing out Of exaggerated
patriotic impulses, such as have de-
veloped in various districts recently.
In this connection the Congress may
be asked to enact statute, in addi-
ton to the proposed amendments to
the espionage act, making amenable
to the Federal Government as we'll as
to the state, all persons who partici-
pate in mob violence. The purpose of
the move to amend the espionage law
is to suppress the seditious utterances
of sUap-box orators and make possible
the punishment of spies by severe pen
atty. Newspapers and loyal citizens
who have not found the existing law
oppressive should have no concern
over the desire of the Administration
for added powers, it was said.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Hun Losses 500. 600.

Paris.-The accounts of carnage in
the German ranks which has been
wrought by the fire of the Allies, as
given in the official communications
and by correspondents at the front,
are more than confirmed by stories of
the wounded in French hospitals. Cap
tain Vidal, of the British Army Medi
cal Corps, said after visiting hos
pital in which were men who had been
brought in from the Disc front, that
the wounded with whom he talked
were fully convinced the German
losses had mounted to 100000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
U. S. ASSISTANCE
RENDERED ALLIES
CALLING OF 10000 DRAFTEEs
MAY MEAN THAT MANY CAN
BE SENT OVER MONTHLY.
crowder's Order Trebles Number Of
Men To Be Indueted Into SerV-
Ice This Month.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-On hundred and
fifty thousand drafted men will be
called out during April instead Of
$4,000, the quota originally determined
upon for this month under the second
draft. Orders to induct this number
into the military service before May l
were issued. Provost Marshal General
E. H. Crowder will transmit the order
to local draft boards through the State
Governors. This decision by the Gen.
eral STAFF was definite step in Presi-
dent Wilson's program for speeding up
the assistance the United States is to
render the allies this year. That the
governmental machinery was gaining
momentum was plainly evident in all
departments. Similar monthly calls
for drafted men are planned, it was
understood. The rapidity with which
drafted men are to be ordered into the
military service will depend upon the
movement of trained troops overseas,
it was said. With the 100000 month
program obtaining, 1,350,0O0 men will
be drafted by the end Of the year. The
number of men to be sent overseas
this year and the consequent number
of men to be drafted will be regulated
by three considerations:
1. Shipping facilities.
2. Available equipment.
3. The needs of the allies.
General Crowder said the draft ma
chinery is now in shape to supply men
| as fast as needed. 1t is believed that
in arriving at the 100000 figure for
April the General Staff has worked out
a plan under which this number OF
men can be transported to Europe
each month. In order that there may
be no hitch in sending men to training
camps local draft boards are rushing
the physical examinations Of regis
trants placed in Class l. Word also
has gone forth to speed up all appeal
cases. Several distinguished callers
discussed the draft plans with General
Crowder. Among them were Governor
Manning, of South Carolina; Governor
Stewart, Of Montana, and Representa-
tive Steenerson, of Minnesota.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
SOLDIERS TOWORK ON FARMS
Many Ohio SeIectives Will Assist
Farmers of the Buckeye
State.

Camp Sherman, O.-With the COM
ing of spring the Governments
thoughts are seriously turning to the
farm. AS a result approximately 5000
Ohio selectives will assist the farmers
Of the Buckeye State SOW seed and
harvest the 1918 crops, according to
a bulletin issued by division headquar-
ters. Adjutant General Mccain, in a
telegram to Major General Edwin T.
Glenn, stated it was the intention OF
the department to make use of the au.
thority to grant furloughs to enlisted
men in accordance with the act OF
March Is, 1918, to enable them to en-
gage in agriculture during the present
farming season for the purpose of aug
menting the agricultural production.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
When Newspapers Came Hlah.

Those who pay six dollar for daily
newspaper, 500 copies year, deliv-
cred at the house, and who stop to
think Of the cost, the toll, the work In
volved in it's making need no argument
but for those who do it may be inter
esting for them to know that in the
Civil war the subscription price of the
Macon Daily Telegraph advanced to
$4S a year, then to $50, and then to
$72; again to 800, and finally to $12O
q year. The Memphis Appeal charged
SIS q month in gold for its subscrip-
ton, The New York Sun during the
Civil war went from So to Sc year
or So delivered.-Lewiston Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
BECAUSE SHE KNOWS
BY AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
of the ViciIantes.

She is fragile little elderly gentle
woman, q teacher by profession, an
Alsatian by birth. During the sum-
mer holidays of 1914 she left her home
In Strasburg, and came over to visit
her brother. in suburb of New York.
She has been here ever since, too
proud to be a tax upon her brothers
slender means, and maintaining her.
self by French lessons here and there,
governessing, helping mothers, and
other work to which she has never
been accustomed but which she does
with the true spirit of France. have
heard-yes, and felt-complaints
trickle out and then dry up entirely
at the sight Of that gallant little fig
ure plowing indomitably through the
snow. Her earnings, it hardly need
be said, are not large, yet she has
bought Liberty bond of each issue,
and is resolved to keep on as long as
the war does.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Cost of War to U. S. ,or One Year

Washington.-Nine billion dollars is
the approximate cost to the United
States of one year of war. More than
one half has gone in loans to allies and
will be repaid eventually; more than
one third has been spent for the army
and military establishment; one tenth
for the navy, and one fifteenth for
shipbuilding. Just one sixth of this
big war cost has been raised by taxa
tion and other ordinary sources OF rev.
enue, and the balance has come from
sale of liberty bonds and certificates
of indebtedness.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Will Use Thirty jap Ships.

Washington. - Approximately 80
ships of 5000 tons each will be obtain
ed from the japanese Government.
The deal involves no change in owner.
ship, but gives the United States the
use of the tonnage during the war at
specified rates. The United States al.
ready has obtained 100000 tons of ship.
ping from Japanese builders by pur,
chase in which the exchange of steel
plates for ships played an important
part. Still other ships probably will
be built for the United States in Jap
anese yards asta joint war measure.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11

western Newspaper Union News Service
Moscow.-Admiral Kato, japanese
Minister OF Marine, has issued a proc
lamation at Vladivostok dealing with
the landing there of Entente allied
forces. The Japanese Minister says
he feels great sympathy with Russia
in the present situation, wishes ces-
Bation of fratricide and the fullest real
ization of the revolution, but was COM
PEELED to take steps to protect life and
property of Japanese and allied sub
jects in view of the murder of Japan.
ese soldier and because there were no
local organizations at the Siberian
port able to maintain law and order.
The Admiral adds that he has asked
his Government for further instruc-
tions. President Soukhanoff, of the
Vladivostok Council of Soldiers and
Workmen's Deputies, reporting to the
Council of National Commissaries,
says that in his opinion the killing OF
the Japanese was a political murder,
as no robbery was committed.
Efforts to apprehend the criminals,
he adds, have been unsuccessful. He
says the landing Of Japanese troops
was effected in the presence of the
Japanese Consul and Admiral Kato.
1t was made without the consent Of
the American, British and other Con-
suls, and no warning was given to the
local authorities. Later British forces
also were landed. The Council of Sol
diers and Workmens' Deputies pro-
tested to the consular corps. The
American and British Consuls con-
sented to receive the delegation as
representatives of the Soldiers and
Workmens' Council. The Japanese
Consul would deal with them only as
private persons and the French Con-
sui refused to see them at all. Pres.
ident SOukhanoff reports that the Jap
anese section of the city is being pa
trolled by Japanese detachmCnts COM
posed of three to ten men each. Tents
are being erected at the end of the
Chinese street and also in the church
yards of the Japanese church. The
Council of National Commissaries is
sued statement saying: Japan has
started campaign against the soviet
republic"
1t then points out that the landing
Of troops at Vladivostok was effected
after the murder of the Japanese
without waiting for an investigation
to be made, and says the crime was
part of a prearranged plan.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
Six Men Held as Leaders.

Collinsville, lIl.-Six men, said to be
ringleaders of the mob that lynched
Robert P. Prayer are in custody. This
announcement was made by the sher-
ifs office at Edwardsville. The pris-
oners have been hidden away to pre-
vent the possibility of Jail delivery.
Several representatives of the Attor-
ney Generals office and the United
States Department of Justice are in
Collinsville to investigate the lynch
ing. Further arrests are expected, the
sheriff's office announced.