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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
RAILROAD WORKERS GET RAISE
The New Increase Adds 500, ooo, 900
To Annual Railroad PayrolIs.

ashington-Nearly 100000 men.
OF half the railroad employees in the
United States, share in additional
wage increases approved by Director
General McAdoo for track laborers.
watchmen, other maintenance of way
employees, clerks, station agents and
other classes of employees drawing
relatively low pay.
The new increases, the second
granted in supplement to the govern
ment's general wage order, will add
nearly e10O,OOO,000 to annual railroad
payrolls. The increases range from,
80 per cent upward.
Details of the new order will be an
nounced shortly. The director general
adopted most of the recommendations
of the board of railroad wages and
working conditions, which investi-
gated requests for more pay. Pay
increases for railroad telegraphers
are the subject of another report to
be made soon.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
WHEAT Price FIXED
AT $3.50 Per BU.
PRESIDENT WILSON IN PROcLA.
NATION SETS 1918 PRICE
FOR 1919 CROP.
PEACE LOOKED FOR IN 1920
Before Next Harvest President viii
Appoint a Commission to inves-
tlgate Farm Labor.

Washington.-Thi years govern
ment wheat price was continued in eff
feet for the 1919 crop by Presiden;
Wilson in proclamation fixing $2.2O
as the minimum price at primary
markets. Winter wheat will be sold
at this price, but the president &C,
companied his proclamation with a
statement giving notice that before
the next harvest he will appoint a
commission to report on increased
cost of farm labor and supplies 10
guide him in determining whether
there shall be an advance in price for
the spring crop.
Such an advance, If given. the pres.
ident said, will apply only to produc
ers who by that time have marketed
their 1913 production.
The possibility of peace before the
middle of 1920 was touched upon in
the presidents statement, in connec
ton with the risk that by guarantee
ing wheat prices the government
might lose as much as a half billion
dollars if Europe should find it's sup
plies available from the southern
hemisphere. Therefore, the Govern
ment is undertaking a risk which
might in such an event result in a ma
tional loss of as much as 100000, zoo
through an unstable surplus; or in
any event, in maintaining a high level
of price TO our own people for LONG
period subsequent to freedom in the
worlds markets.
The proclamation fixes as reason
able guaranteed prices for Mol north
ern spring wheat and its equivalents
at the principal primary markets the
following:
New York. $2.391a; Philadelphia,
1893; Baltimore and Newport News
$23S%; Duluth. $2.22A; Minneapo
lis, $2211a; Chicago, s226; st. Louis
1924, Kansas City and Omaha, $2.1S;
New Orleans and Galveston, $2.28;
Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Astoria
San francisco and Los Angeles
$500; Salt Lake City, Great Falls
Pocatello md spokane. 81.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
GASLEsS EDicT TO BE ENFORCED
Second ofense Against the Federal
Request May Lose License.

Detroit-Even provided that the
federal government does not within
the week issue orders positively for
bidding the use of gasoline propelled
automobiles next Sunday Detroit auto
owners are expected to be virtually
100 per cent patriotic on that day and
on succeeding Sundays, instead of
only so per cent. as they were last
Sunday, the first observance of the re-
guest.
In eastern states steps have already
been taken to punish auto owners,
who heedlessly, or otherwise, violate
the request of the federal fuel ad-
ministrator that autos be used for
nothing except business purposes on
Sundays In Massachusetts and some
Of the Other eastern states penalties
providing for the taking away Of auth
licenses on the second offense against
the federal request are already in eff
feet
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
Reported Full Flight for the Eastern Side of Canal du ford
Thousands of Prisoners Fall Into
Haig's Armies.
GERMANY PLANS TO CALL TURKS
AND BULGARS TO WESTERN FRONT
Germans Have Tasted Disaster in the Drocou Line Battle
and Are Working Fast to Prevent An Even Greater
Catastrophe Overtakng Them

Armies of the Allies now menace
the six great German bases along
the foes new line of defense as
follows:
British and American troops at
Richebourg-St Vast are Ii miles
southwest of Lille.
The British east of Hamblainles
Pres are six miles southwest of
Douai.
The British east of Buissy are
eight miles northwest of Cambria.
The French east of Epenancourt,
where they have crossed the Som
me, are about 10 miles due west of
st. Quentin.
The French forces that have
crossed the Canal du Nord and are
in the outskirts of Genvry, are II
miles west of La Fere.
The Americans near Laffau2,
northeast of scissors, are II miles
southwest Of Laon.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
RED CROSS HELPS ONE MILLION
During First Six Months $500. 900
Was Spent For Home Service.

Washington.-Mor than 10000
persons throughout the United States
have been rendered assistance by the
Home Service Branch of the Ameri-
can Red Cross since this country en-
tered the war. This is disclosed in
the first Of a series of reports, made
public to show the use being made ot
the first Red Cross War Fdnd of $780,
100000 and the plans so far perfected
for future work.
During the first six months OF the
present year $1,500,00O was expended
for home service. but by January
Red Cross officials expect the total
to reach $6,0OO,O0O with a monthly
demand of 100000 thereafter.
The purposes of home service"
the report says, ARE to conserve
human resources in fighters families,
to relieve emergencies, to supplement
Government provision for dependents.
to aid disabled soldiers, 10 supply in
formation Of any kind to men in SER
vice or to their families, TO help fam
lilies to keep pace with fighters who
are getting a broader outlook on life
and to help maintain the morale of
our Army and Navy by safeguarding
homes.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
STACKER RAID NETS 10000 MEN
$4,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Police and
U. S. Agents Conduct Roundup.

New York-Federal officials esti-
mated shortly before midnight Tues
day that more than 10000 suspected
slackers had been arrested in New
York and nearby cities in the great
roundup of draft evaders conducted
by $4,000 soldiers, sailors, police and
government agents.
Semi-official estimates of the num-
Der of "willful slackers or deserters"
ran from 80 per cent of the men ar
rested in certain districts of the Bronx
to per cent or less in the outlying
cities and towns. Most of the pris-
oners, it was said, come from other
parts of the country.
According to Charles F. Dewoody,
chief of the local bureau of investi-
cation of the department of justice
who directed the drive, from 10000
to 1900 men had been taken to the
Sixty-ninth regiment arrnory alone.
while police stations in Manhattan
were literally filed to over-howing so
that prisoners had to be placed under
guard in the school yards.
In Brooklyn and Queens, another
10000 had been rounded up, while
the Bronx contributed more than 1900
About 5000 arrests had been made in
Jersey City, 1000 in Hoboken and L.
500 in Passaic.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12

With the British Army in France
The British victory in the battle of
the Drocourt-Queant line seems COM
plete. Without having delivered a
single counter attack, and staggering
from the blows administered to them
the Germans are in full flight for the
eastern side of the Canal du Nord.
The enemy is trying to save what
men and material he can from the
wreck in and behind one of the most
powerful defense systems ever de-
Vised. The much boasted Drocourt-
Queant line, or as the Germans call
it, the Wotan line, is totally shat
tered.
The British are driving far through
It and the Germans are hurrying east
ward, leaving behind only pockets of
machine gunners, and even resistance
from these is gradually melting away.
Near to Canal du Nord.
Strong British forces are now fight
ing their way down the Hindenburg
line and are cleaning it up as they go
Meanwhile, little south from here,
another force is driving on the Hin
denburg line frontally. The German
has tasted disaster in the Drocourt
line battle, and now his disorganized
and badly depleted forces are working
fast to prevent an even greater ca
tastrophe overtaking them.
The British rapidly are approaching
md arc close IN tha Canal du NOrd
the territory behind which is even
now under heavy fire from many Brit
Ash cannon.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
5000 RUSSIANS FACE DEATH
Main Streets of Moscow Occupied BY
Troops-Peope Keep Hidden.

Amsterdam.TAn announcement by
the Bolshevik government to the
effect that 5000 social revolutionaries
who have been arrested and sentenced
to death will be executed if the re-
evolutionary party conducts fresh in
trigues against the soviet govern
ment, is quoted in Moscow dispatch
to the Vossische Zeitung.
Other dispatches to the same news
paper state that all roads leading to
Kremlin and also the main streets uf
Moscow are occupied by troops. The
inhabitants keep indoors, fearing fresh
disturbances. Moscow, the dispatch
es say, appears deserted.
Japs Pursuing Enemy.
Tolxio.--Entente Allied troops op-
Grating in Siberia are closely pursu-
ing the enemy forces in the Uyeraya
river region, according to an Allied
official statement issued by the Japan
ese war office.
I'm the engagements with the enc
my Captain Kenomi and Sergeant
Major Sumamoto killed Is non.com-
missioned officers and privates and
wounded 1876 of the enemy. including
seven officers.
"Detachments OF the forces of Gen.
eral Semenoff, the Bolsheyik COM
mander, occupied Dauria, in Trans
baikalia, where Semenof's main
forces are being concentrated Ad-
vance guards already have occupied
Halanole
THE strength of the enemy along
the Siberian railway is not known
Near Soltowni enemy forces number
ing 1000 were seen retreating. They
had destroyed the railway bridge and
water tanks and had poisoned the
wells.
"Welfnevjinsk, Newzeleginsky and
Fem have been stormed and occupied
by Czecho- Slovak forces and Cossacks
coming from the west The red guards
are reported to have retreated along
the railway and southwark to the Rus
so-Chinese border and to Kiakhta.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
GERMANY MAY WAR ON SPAIN
Next Insult to Spanish Flag BY Ger
many, Spain May Join Allies.

WashingtOn.-The seizure by Spain
of one OF the German vessels interned
in a Spanish port, while not officially
reported here, is received as a fact,
am is commented or as an act that
will disclose whether Germany can
afford to declare war on Spain.
Officials here differentiate abso-
lutely the act of the United States III
utilizing the vessels of neutrals for
war purposes and the act of Spain
which is obviously retGliatory meas
ure against Germany and may lead az
any moment to a declaration of war.
IL was stated by a diplomat of the
highest rank that the number of ships
which Spain may seize is beside the
question. The main point is that one
actually has been seized 1t is believ-
ed that there are more than 100 valu-
able German ships in Spanish ports
which may be seized in turn to avenge
any future captures of Spanish YES
sells trading under international law
as neutrals.
IL also was stated that the friction
between Spain and Germany has
reached such point that the next
insult to the Spanish flag by Germany
may result in, SPANS taking the mi
tiative and coming out for the Allies.
The makeup of the cabinet looks in
that direction, according to an Ameri-
can diplomat official The action TAX
en- by Spain manifestly Is the work Of
the Spanish premier and his reputa-
ton here is that he is intensely pro.
Ally
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12

At a meeting between representa-
tives OF the Michigan adjutant gener-
ais office and local board officials ar
rangements were outlined for bringing
into the Detroiters who will be com
PEELED to register for selective service
Thursday, September IL.
The fact that this registration is i'm
minent is too generally known to need
comment. But E. Fred Thornton, of
district board No. 1, calls attention to
several phases of he issue which are
vital and which should be thoroughly
understood by the men affected.
All men whose business will COM
pei them to be absent from the city
September IL should appear before
their local board previous to that time
and register They will be required
to make a sworn statement that their
absence will be unavoidable and any
who take advantage of this provision
of the law to avoid the rush on regis
tration day will be liable to prosecu-
ton for perjury.
Railroad and boatmen who are leav-
ing the city on runs a day or two be-
fore the 18th and are uncertain re-
garding the hour OF their return should
register before leaving.
Another class of men who should
protect themselves are those residents
of the city who do not claim Detroit
as their legal residence. These
should appear before any local board
in the city and fill out a registration
card before September IL. This must
be mailed by the registrant to his
home board, inclosing a self-addressed,
stamped envelope for the remailing
to him by his board of his registra-
ton certificate, which will be received
as soon efter September IL as the
mails can carry it.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
ROAD MATERIAL UNDER U. S. BAN
Highway Commissioner Rogers Goes
to Washington to Make Protest.

Lansing, Mich.-Highway Commits
sioner Frank p. Rogers is on his way
to Washington to protest on behalf of
Michigan against the order IN road
materials. effective September 10.
Under the new ruling the govern
ment has stopped the use of road
materials of all kinds. unless the
roads upon which they are to be used
are approved in Washington.
Many Michigan roads will be stop
ped, according to Mr.. Rogers. while
in plenty of cases gravel can be had
locally and without any resort to rail
transportation. but culverts and other
necessaries will have TO be hauled.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
EXCISE TAX ON
GASOLINE &c. GAL.
MANUFACTURER. PRODUCER OR
IMPORTER OF AUTOMOBILES
TAXED TEN PER CENT.
FLOOR ASSESSMENT 7 PER CENT
Use of Electric Automobiles SIS Per
Horsepower and so Cents for Each
100 Pounds of Weight.

shington-Automobil taxes In
the new revenue bill are as follows:
Excise taxes on manufacturer, pro-
Queer or importer, automobile trucks
and wagons, five per cent. automobile
and motorcycles, 10 per cent OF the
price for which sold. Floor stock tax
10 be paid by the persons holding for
sale articles on which tax under rev.
enue act of 1917 has been paid: Au-
tomobile trucks and wagons, two per
cent; automobiles and motorcycles,
seven per cent.
Now excise taxes: On manufactur-
er, producer or importer; automobile
trailers or tractors, including tires,
inner tubes, parts and accessories,
five per cent of the price when sold
or leased; automobile tires, tubes.
parts and accessories sold on or in
connection with trucks and automobile
wagons, five per cent; on or in con-
nection with automobiles or motorcy-
cles, 10 per cent; tires, tubes, parts
or accessories. sold to any person
other than a manufacturer or produ-
Ger of automobiles, etc., 10 per cent.
Under the head of special taxes, the
use of autos is taxed as follows: Use
of motorcycles, So; use of automobiles,
other than electric, 20 horsepower or
| less, $40; 90 to 80 horsepower, $40;
80 to 40 horsepower, $50; more than
40 horsepower, $50. Use of electric
automobiles, S. per horsepower and so
cents for each 100 pounds Of weight
An excise tax OF two cents a gallon
is levied on gasoline.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
ia MICHIGAN MEN PROMOTED
"a From. Detroit and 80 From Other
Parts Of State Receive Commissions.

Neutrality-suspicious. hundred and
fourteen Michigan men--34 OF them
from Detroit and so from other parts
of the state have received commits.
sions as officers after training at the
fourth officers training camps at
Camp Lee. Virginia; Camp Grant, Illi-
nois; Camp Sherman. Ohio; Camp
Gordon, Georgia; Camp Dodge. Iowa,
or the field artillery central officers
training school, Camp Taylor, Ken
lucky.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
eurIeson to o. K. Phone Rates.

washington-Un orders, issued
recently all changes in telephone rates
must be submitted to Postmaster Gen.
eral Burleson for approval before be-
coming effective. and the companies
are required to make a charge for
installing new telephones. OF changing
location of old ones.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
80 SHIPS FINISHED IN AUGUST
% Delivered to Federal Government
other II Past Test.

Philadelphia American shipping
was increased by 33 wooden vessels
during August
This was announced by Charles Piez,
vice-president and general manager OF
the Emergency Fleet corporation. or
these. % were actually delivered to
the federal government and the other
IL passed final tests and are ready
for delivery.
Mr. Piez said most OF the new ships
would he used in the American coast
wise trade, but that a few would be
diverted to English channel work con-
nec'ed with the war.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
May Call other Troops to West.

Amsterdam-Count Won Bernstorff,
Talaat Pasha and other leading Turk
fish government officials are expected
TO Berlin to participate in important
conferences regarding the Balkan sit
uation. Plans to bring Turkish and
Bulgarian troops to the west front
will be one of the main subjects OF
discussian, it is learned.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
SEPTEMBER IL, MADE HOLIDAY
Parades, Rallies and Other Exercises
Will Feature 1916 Registration.

Lansing Draft registration day,
September IL, will be observed as a
holiday in Michigan, the war board
has decided. Industrial plants will in
most cases close. Parades, rallies and
other exercises in all large cities will
stimulate registration. Military bands
will be sent to the larger cities. Four.
minute men will also be sent out.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
procourt.oueant Line Falls.


enthusiastically the. whole OF
the "Wotan line" the Hindenburg line
switch between Drocourt and Queant,
built by the best brains in the Ger.
man engineering world, equipped with
all the ingenious devices of twentieth
century technique, is now in the
hands of the British.
English and Canadian troops ripped
q six-mile cash into it, breaking the
German hold on what remained of it.
The British stand at some points
four miles beyond this formidable
line which ever since the great 1917
retreat has been a taunt and chal
lenge to the Allies.
Line Crumblno Fast
The pivots, Queant and Drocourt,
are still in German hands, and the
Teutons are maintaining precarious
hold on shreds of the northern end
of the line, but this is crumbling fast
Dury and Cagnicourt, two and four
miles beyond the Switch line, re
spectively, we're captured, and on the
way to Cagnicourt the Canadians
cleaned up Villers. Les CagnicouTt.
The British, according to latest Off.
cial word from Field Marshal Haig
have passed the German defenses on
the line Eterpigny- RiencourtV illers
Les-Cagnicourt. They are advancing
on Queant. Noreuil, northeast oi
Bapaume, is in their possession.
Next to this important strategic
success, was the penetration by Brit
fish troops into the outskirts of Lens
reported by Haig. The town lies in
the heart of Frances "black country
one of the richest coal regions in
Europe. The Germans are slowly
clearing out OF it, and complete oc
cupation of Lens is expected to be
announced shortly.
British and Americans Make Gains.
Several thousand prisoners, accord
fng to Haig's bulletin, were taken
Substantial Roadway was made also
by the British and Americans in Elan.
ders although the reports give no de
tails of the new advance there.
Violent fighting ragged along the
line between the Scarpe and the Som
me. The Germans hit back with
Berserker fury, but their counter
thrusts broke down with the excep.
tion of one or two that resulted in
their retaking for a short while, some
few positions
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
U-B0AT SINKS FOUR MORE SHIPS
American Steamship Omega Torpedo
ed-Twenty-six Still Missing.

A British Port.-The American
steamship Omega has been torpedoed.
Twenty nine persons were saved.
Twenty-six are missing Many bodies
have been washed ashore. The cap
tain of the Omega was drowned His
body has been Landed.
The Omega was 1886 tons gross and
was built at Belfast in 1880. She was
owned by Barber & Co. of New York
British Steamer Escriek Sunk.
A Canadian Atlantic Port-The Brit
lsh steamer Escrick, 4,151 tons, bound
from Bordeaux to Montreal, was tor
pedoed 500 miles off the French coast
Thirteen survivors of the crew of g:
have arrived here on an oil tanker
Survivors were afloat in their life
boat for three days before the oil
tanker came along. Chief officer
Llewellyn, in command of the survl-
vors, said the Escrick sank in 20
minutes. He made for the land and
covered 200 miles before being res
cued.
Two Fishing Schooners Sunk.
ST. Johns, N. Twenty men from
the fishing schooner Elsie Porter, of
Luneburg, N s., and FIVE from the
schooner Potentate, of La Have. n.
s., landed here, reporting that their
vessels were sunk by a German sub.
marine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
$780, o2 PRISONERS TAKEN
SINCE JULY is. 1918.

The Allied forces on the western
front have taken 12S,302 prisoners
since July 10. In the same period,
2.O6g guns, 1,734 mine throwers
and 1873 machine guns were cap
tured.
The Allies have extended the
lighting until now 1t embraces q
front of some 120 miles, from
Ypres to scissors.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
10000 IN STATE TO REGISTER
Those Who Have Not Reached Their
4eth Birthday Must Register.

petroit-Every citizen of Michigan
who has not reached his forty-sixth
birthday September IL MUST REGIS
TER under provisions of the new draft
law. II you are As years and S64 days
old BE SURE TO REGISTER.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-12
Two Fishing schooners Sunk.

Would Close Non-EssenuaI Plants
Observation-Disclosures to the fed
eral board of farm organizations, in
session here, authorized a petition to
President Wilson to shut down all non
essential industries.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-06
COMMUNAL FOOD
SYSTEM Is BEGUN
in SCOTTISH CITY

Edinburgh, Feb. 6.-The municipal
corporation has instituted a system OF
communal feeding, not for charity, but
as q method Of conserving food sup
plies. 1t is under the charge of a
of the town council. 1t is
intended to provide wholesome foodsat
cost price for those who find it more
economical to get their meals from
such q center
A number OF, eating places have
been established, supplied from. one
cooking and distributing center. equip
ped to provide 10000 meals a day il
required.
A sample menu for dinner, consist
Ing Of four courses, is here given:
Scotch broth and bread. a
Or, lentil soup and. bread. $500. 3
Fried aflleted paddock and chip
potatoes ,......... 4
Roast beef, potatoes and maehed
turnips !. Ia
Or. hot pot. /. i. !. III. "a
People have plenty Of money, and
communal feeding sis not NECESSARY:
but II Ii not asquestipnf OF money, but
q question Of conserving food. The
food provided Is Of the best quality.