French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-04-04
THE WEEKS EVENTS
.ovrANT NEWS. OF STATE, MA.
TON AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
pnIIND ABOUT THE WORLD
=. Condensed Record OF Happenings
OF Interest From All Points
Of The World
Domestic

Domestic.
warning to the public ito be most
.orofuI in the future when eating
Srood rolls, cakes and pastry" be-
oonse Jagged bits of glass have
I~on found in flour, bread and bread
Dranners." has been issued by the fed
oral hoard in New York City.
MESSAGE from David LlOydSGeorge.
1--WE minister of Great Britain, call
mo mon the United States to send
american reinforcements across the
Atlantic in the shortest possible space
of time" was read by Lord Reading,
british high commission to the United
States. at a dinner given in New York
in his honor.
The Texas court of criminal appeals
reversed and remanded for a new trial
the case of Harry ]. Spanall, who was
found guilty by a jury and sentenced
to serve five years in the ~penitentiary
for the killing of Lieut.. Col NJ. G.
Butler, U. S. A, at Alpine, Texas, on
July 20, 1916.
A dispatch from Maria, Texas, says
ten Mexicans and Private Theodore
K. AIbrite, an American cavalryman,
were killed in a fight between United
States cavSAry and Mexican bandits
near Pilares, Mexico. 4
Suspension of the meatless day reg
ulations for 80 days has been ordered
by the national food administration in
instructions telegraphed to all state
food administrators.
Anent the rumer that the admins
tration at Washington had been plan
ming to shelve General Wood, it is an:
nounced that he has passed h most
rigid physical examination, and viii at
once return to his command at Camp
Funston, Kansas.
Nelson Morris, chairman Of the
board of director OF Morris & Co., Chi
cago packers, claimed exemption be-
cause he had accepted a position with
the government at Washington and
would become one OF the 81 "a yaare
statesmen in Washington. The dis
trict appeal board ruled that inasmuch
as>Mr. MerrisxhRd goHatoWaShr6tanT
it was apparent that he was. Iot es;
sentfa1 to the business, and>piaced.
him in class la .4~-f ~rsE
Six great German-O%ned New Jer.
sey wooden mills, with a total Valua-
ton of more THAN $%70,UO0:000, '"have
been taken oveFsbg- the aheAH prop
erty custodian. Here they .are> The
Passaic Worsted Spinning mills, the
Botany Worsted mills the New 5er-
sey Worsted Spinning mills, the; Forts
Mann and Huffman; company 2 the
Gera mills, all Of Passaic, N. j., and
the Garfield Worsted mills OF Garfield,
N. ]. ->,s,.- ~-s4 as,s'
Riots which for a time threatened
to assume grave proportions broke out
at Kansas City, Mo-, when efforts were
made to resume street a service,
paralyzed by the general strike which
has been on for several days.
Second Lieut.. S. ]. Dickson OF Los
Angeles, Cal, attached to Camp Joe
Johnston at Jacksonville, Fla, was
shot and killed by Mrs. Louise. Biegert
Of Girard, Pa, who then committed
suicide. The aus has not been made
public.
me gun with which the Germans
are bombarding Paris is a product Of
the Krupp works at Essen.
Entirely new in this warfare, the
Americans worked like the best vet
Grams in the battle of the Somme,"
said a wounded French captain who
had been taken back from the front,
says the Paris La Liberte.
The presence of American auxiliary
troops on the fighting line in the great
battle is the subject of much favOra-
bic comment.
Cost of living is reported to have
increased from 200 to 800 per cent,
While wages-of the working people
nave only increased so per cent.
10 make known to British and
French labor the position of labor in
the United States with regard TO the
war, a delegation of nine American
labor leaders, with credentials of the
American Federation of Labor, will
sail shortly for England and France
Charges that German spies are re
Sponsible for this country's failure to
Keep up in its airplahe program were
made IN the senate by Senator Over
man of North Carolina.
Paris dispatch says that a mum
Der OF German soldiers who had put
On British uniforms in order to ere
dte confusion in the battle on the
Somne front we're taken prisoners
ana summarily executed.
Inc rate at which troops. will. go for
ward TO Europe cannot be stated fOl
military reason, but it is largely de
pendent, upon the speed with which
ships are turned out. y,
The extent of American military aiC
10 the allies this year depends on tn,
work done in American plants of al
kinds.
Back from a visit to the western bat
tie front, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, IL
d confidential statement before .tht
SenSte military committee, declares