Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-09
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS OF THE WEEK HELD TO
A FEW LINES.
BOILED FOR QUICK PERusAl
Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
The Chicago Herald has been con-
solidated with the Examiner.

The Chicago Herald has been con-
solidated with the Examiner.
Reorganization of the paper indus
try of the United States to put it on
war conservation basis is planned
by the government.
May movements of American troops
to fill the gaps abroad will exceed the
record of April, it was stated officially
at Washington.
The war department has resumed
the practice of giving addresses Of
American soldiers named in casualty
lists sent from France.
Proposed federal Improvement of
the Missouri river between Yankton
and Vermil1ion, S. D., was adversely
reported on by the war department.
Reports that Pope Benedict intends
to issue new peace offer soon
were accepted in Washington official
circles as another bit of German prop
uganda.
Detroit is the country's largest
'bone dry city, all saloons in the
city having been closed by the state
wide prohibition, which became eff
fective April 80.
A British freight steamer ran down
and sunk a German U-boat off the
Irish coast, her crew reported upon
their arrival at an Atlantic port.
The war departments ability to
equip and transport men is the only
limit to be placed on Americas 1918
army, Secretary Baker informed the
house military affairs committee.
A new bill just introduced in con-
gress authorizes draft total of A.
100000 men, which with counters al
ready in the service, would make an
ultimate maximum strength of 5O00,-
600 men.
The largest single draft call of the
warrior approximately 100000 men
has just been made by Provost Mar
Shall General Crowder. The men are
ordered to begin mobilizing on Satur-
day, May %.
Gabriel Principe, whose asSasina-
ton of the Austrian Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand at Sarajevo was one of
the causes Of the great war, died at
the fortress of TheresieEstadt, near
Prague.
Secretary of War Baker has asked
congress to appropriate approximately
SIS ,00O,O00,OOO for the army for the
next fiscal year. Last year the army
estimate aggregated $4,000, 100000 to
pay for a force of 100000.
The British admiralty has found
that the channel at Zeebrugge, in
which old British cruisers recently
were sunk during the naval raid on
the German submarine bases on the
Belgian coast, is still blocked.
A measure designed to unity all
evangelical churches of the United
States and consolidate under the
name of the Church Of America"
will be introduced at the annual gem
eral assembly OF the Presbyterian
church at Columbus, Ohio, May 10.
That America is stripping to deal a
death blow to Prussian militarism
was emphasized when War depart
ment officials appeared before the
house military committee and asked
that Congress give blanket authority
to President Wilson to increase the
army to whatever size may be neces-
sary TO win the war.
The failure of the Germans to
force the evacuation of Ypres on
April 20 is said by correspondents at
the front to have been the most dis
asterous blow the enemy has suffered
since the great offensive began. The
price paid by the Germans is de-
scribed as the most appalling in his
tory, their dead literally covering a
front five miles in length.
Germany has demanded of Russia
an exchange of prisoners and has
threatened to take Petrograd unless
the Russian government agrees to the
terms advanced.
The report circulated In Germany
that an entire fleet of British trans
ports is waiting in the channel to
take the British army home in case of
need is characterized by London Of
ficials as lie.