Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Record Of Current Happenings Col
lected from Various Sources.

\ baby. l3 days old. was operated
on for appendicitis at a Harrisburg.
Pa. last Sunday.
Richard Folsom Cleveland. son Of the
late President Cleveland. aged 20
years. has enlisted in the United States
marine corps.
Seven cotton mills. employing 10000
operatives. at Lowell. Mass. have Civ
en- notice of n 10 per cent increase In
wages. effective next Monday.
According to ruling by Provost
Marshal General Crowdcr. men Of the
1918 class Of draft registrants may
now enlist in the navy or the marine
corps.
E. H. Copman has been appointed
tfedetzii of i the
ern railway system by Director General
McAdoo. Mr.. Copman was formerly
A large amount Of mail was includ-
ed in the loss Of the steamship Caro-
lima, which was sunk by n German
submarine off the New Jersey coast
last week.
Thousands of college boys from all
over the country have enrolled in the
United States public service reserves
and will he employed on farms until
the colleges reopen in the fall OF the
year. II Is estimated that more than
20. 900 students will work on farms.
Because Of lack Of interest and small
attendance on games. the Southern as
Sociation will bring its playing season
to an end on June 2S. General Crowd
cr's work or fight" regulations arc
assigned as an additional reason for
quitting.
In an address at South Bend. Ind.
Monday, Chairman Hurley said that 10y
1920 the United States would have
/ 5000. 900 tons of merchant ships
which will give America the largest
commerce fleet ever assembled by one
nation in the history Of the world.
Twenty-four penalties for violation
of food regulations were announced
Monday by the food administration
| for the last week. The penalties i'm
posed ranged from one day to sly
months revocation Of license and con.
tributons to the Red Cross Of from
$25 to $1,000. Most Of the violations
involved excessive profits in sugar ant
| -four or failure to observe the whca
flour substitute regulations.
When German waves Of troop!
fling themselves against the Alliet
trenches their fear of slaughter await
ing them is dulled by use Of druf
which produces homicidal frenzy. ac'
cording to Frederick Wilkes. a soldier
in France, who has written TO hi:
father. q Pittsburgh newspaper man
| Wilkes, serving in q gas-and- flame di'
vision. describes how what he believe:
is a new German device to impe
storm troops to brave death, was dis
covered. He says: "One OF the boy:
noticed n canteen on the bodies o
dead Germans and took one OF then
with the idea OF getting water. III
had not swallowed II long before III
began to act like a maniac. with ap
parently q crazed desire to kill eyer!
one he saw. Then we discovered tina
the rum had been drugged."
Sixty million tons Of bituminous Goa
will be taken from the non-war In
dustries to keep the war industries
running from national disaster. Thi
unqualified statement was made Mon
day by DR.. Fl. A. Garfield, fuel admin
istrator, in announcing the complete
programme OF enforced conservation
that will be put irto effect immedi
lately. Ever industry that is not turn
ing out war supplies will have to GU
down its consumption pro rata: SOM
must either convert their facilities t
war prod uction or cease operation: ev
cry ,mblic utility will be affected: ev
cry hotel, Office building. theatre ant
household will be compelled to ente
upon a period of rigid economy. Th'
program will reach not only into tn
large factories using thousands or tom
coal, but into houses and hotels whicl
will be ordered to cut down on sucl
Things as the number OF electric bulb
in use.
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