Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-06-22

dominated Saturday by President viii
soR to be minister to Honduras.
Secretary Baker Friday appointed
Max Thelen of San Francisco to be
supervisor of war contracts under
Quartermaster General Goethals.
President Wilson again has thrown
the weight of his influence into the
balance for the federal woman suf
| frage amendment. He has expressed
hope that the senate would act favor
ably at this session on the resolution
| for submission of the amendment
passed by the house last January after
he had given his Endorsement, to the
states.
Nearly complete reports to the pro
vost marshal generals office show
that 744,S65 young Americans who
have become of age during the past
year registered for military service on
June 5. This is 266,724 below the es-
innate of the census bureau. but since
more than 100000 unregistered 21-
year-olds already are enlisted in the
army, navy or marine corps, the mill
tary authorities find the result entire,
ly satisfactory.
Congress was asked by the shipping
beard Thursday to tighten the grasp
Of the government upon the country's
shipbuilding industry by legislation
forbidding the building of new plants
or the extension of old, except under
license.
All fountains in the White House
grounds were stopped Wednesday at
President Wilson's direction because
of a threatened water shortage in
Washington.
Explanation by President Wilson
Wednesday of his call for open diplo-
macy, made in an address to congress
last January. meant not public discus.
sion of delicate matters, but open,
above-board and explicit" publicity OF
completed international relations, was
followed by defeat in the senate, so to
%, of Senator Borah's proposal for
public consideration of treaties.
3TATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The ninth annual convention of the
10 nd,
journed Friday at Chicago, H., after
the house of delegates unanimously
adopted a resolution urging compul
sorry military training for all young
men before they are permitted to vote.
Siren horns with sounds which can
be heard for several miles have been
set up at intervals of thirty blocks in
New York City for sounding an alarm
in the event of a raid by airplanes
from the German submarines off the
Atlantic coast. A twenty-minute blast
would herald the coming of enemy air
machines, and repeated fivesminute
signals would announce that the dan
ger had passed.
Texas state and national banks can
not deduct from the value of their
stock the amount invested in Liberty
Bonds, in the opinion of State Comp
troller Henry B. Terrell If Liberty
Bonds held by banks should be exempt
from taxation, large amounts would
be exempt this year and assessments
reduced. That can not be done, said
Comptroller Terrell.
Houston, Texas, has been selected
as the location of the supply station
which will furnish all aviation camps
in the state, and the government has
leased for period of one year wharf
No. 4 and the warehouse adjoining, |
both located on the Houston turning |
basin.
Assistant Attorney General w. A. |
Keeling, in charge of liquor law ques-
tions in Texas, says that the state
wide prohibition law becomes effect |
we at midnight on Tuesday. June 25,
and that when the saloons close at
$50 on the night of the 25th they have
zone out of business in this state for
aver.
More than a million American men
viii be in service in France in the near
uture, declared Secretary of War Bak-
sr in an address Wednesday to 137
graduates of the United States Mill
airy Academy at West Point, N. Y.
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was
married at HOLLYWOOD, her country
Iome in Massachusetts, late Wednes.
lay to Raymond T. Baker, director OF
he United States mint