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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
next CALL IN
DRAFT IS TO
60 OUT SOON
Expect to Summon April
Quota of 500, 900 Men q:
in Near Future.

Washington, April 5.-Orders for
the mobilization of the first large
number of men7of the second draft
will go out to the governors Of the
states very soon.
Fifteen thousand men of the sec
ond draft are -ow mobilizing, and
the April call about to. go out will
represent probably more than the
months proportion of the S00,N0
men who it previously has been an
nounced, will be called during the
remaining nine months of the year.
To call the 100000 in equal
monthly increments would mobilize
them at about a rate of 10000 a
month. However, there is no as
surance that this will be a fixed fig
ure because the flow of men will be
determined by the needs of the
army in France. AS General PERISH
ing may call for specially qualified
troops, an average of 10000 a
month may be much exceeded or
decreased.
1t has been announced that the
men will be drawn as gradually
and in as small numbers as possible
so as not to dislocate industry, and
particularly agriculture.
May Be Called Faster.
f, So far as possible this plan will
be followed The immediate need
of increasing the American forces
in France. however, to meet the
German drive in the west is likely
to result in calling the men faster
than first supposed. For that rea-
son the April call undoubtedly will
exceed its normal average. In fact,
If the need is pressing the entire
100000 might be called in much
less than the nine months orig
iDally planned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
RUSSIA ANXIOUS
TO EEARN WHERE
IT'S SEA FLEET IS

London, April 5.-The Bolshevik
government is anxious to learn the
whereabouts of the Russian Black
sea fleet, according to a wireless
statement sent out from PetrOgrad
Thursday. The statement, which is
signed by Naval Commissary Buka-
shovitch follows:
ITO Sablin feet commander, Sc
bastopoI: Wire us position Black
Sea navy, especially as concerns
Odessa, Nikolayev, Batoum and
Trebizond. We have no recent in
formation as to who is in posses
sion of those places"
A Petrograd dispatch to the
Daily Mail dated Wednesday says
that German steamers have arrived
at Odessa.
German banks, the dispatch adds,
are reported to have offered the
Russian government a loan of one
billion rubles to be guaranteed by
the revenues of the Northern and
Siberian railways.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
HOW NICEi
Germany Suspended Smelling of
Paris, She Says, Because
of Funeral There.

Amsterdam, Thursday, April A.
A Berlin official statement today
announces that the bomfardment
of Paris was suspended on Wednes-
day because of the funeral of the
counselor of the Swiss legation in
Paris.
NJ. Strohelin, counsel of the Swiss
legation IN Paris, was one of the
worshipers in the parish church
struck by shell from the German
long range gun on Good Friday.
Washington, April 5.-The name
o. Nine. Dutreil, daughter of George
l.. Ingerham of New York, was
added today to those of Americans
killed and injured when church
in Paris was destroyed by fire from
German long range guns. Both of
Nine Dutreils legs were broken,
according to a dispatch from Am
bassador Sharpe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
ALL is SET FOR
BIG LOAN DRIVE
Final Preparations Made for Open.
ing Campaign Tomorrow
Some Quotas Filled.

Washington, April 5.-Final prep
arations were being rushed today
for the opening tomorrow of the
sale campaign of the third Liberty
loan
Directors of the drive announced
that 10000 of the bonds already
had been turned out by the bureau
of engraving and printing and it
was estimated that one hundred
thousand will be ready by tomo--
row. Thereafter the bonds win
leave the presses at the rate CT
SEQ ,000t daily to supply demands for
cash sales and immediate delivery.
New York, April 5.-Twenty
thousand persons will hang paste
board liberty bells" inscribeI
ring it again on 1850 900 door
knibs in New York tonight and al
army OF small boys will ring the
doorbells tomorrow morning to ac-
quaint residents that the third Lib
erty loan drive has started.
Chicago, april 5.-The Calumet
industrial region, where 10000
men are employed, has arranged
to welcome the new Liberty loan
campaign at noon tomorrow with
a sounding of every steam whistle,
siren and fog horn in the district.
Joliet, Ill, April 5.-Rural sec
tions of Will county in which third
Liberty loan opened yesterday, are
reporting rapidly. Homer went
'over the top" in two and One-haif
hours yesterday, WheatIand and
Wilton oversubscribed and Plain
field had passed its quota early
today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
ARMY WANTING
400 PHOTO men
Call Sent Out for That Number
From Among Draft Men-Are
Needed in Air Service.

Washington, April 5.-A call for
400 photographers registered in the
draft to mobilize at Madison bar
racks, Sacketts Harbor, n. Y, April
Is, was sent out to 10 states today
by Provost Marshal General Crow
der. They will be put i'll the air
service.
The photographers will be asked
to volunteer for the work, but if
enough registrants do not come for
ward, some will be inducted into
the service.
A call also was issued for 1926
registrantS to be given two
months course in automobile driv-
ing and repairing and other me-
chanical work
Local boards of Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Michigan, kentucky,
Missouri and Texas were directed
to furnish these men. Missouri
was called on to send 125 men to
Washington university, st. Louis
and 500 to Iowa State Agricultural
and Mechanical college at Ames.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
WAR SUMMARY

Striking at positions south of
the SOmme nearest Amiens, the
Germans have renewed their
offensive with heavy forces.
In desperate fighting with
the French and British the en-
emy has been able to make only
slight gains thus far, elsewhere
being repulsed with great
losses.
How well the FrancO-British
forces withstOOd the onslaught
of the enemy IL shown by the
fact that on a front Of nine
miles north of MOntdidier the
Germans used more than 10O,-
900 men.
The British center held its
ground against the attack,
while the left fell back some-
what south OF the SOmme.
This morning the British war
office states that the British
have been pressed back II short
distance on the front east or
Amiens to positions east OF VIZ
Iers- -BretOnneaux.
Another sector of the battle
line has been taken over by
American troops. and il Is now
announced that they hold posi-
tions on the heights Of Meuse
south of Ferdun-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
Execute Pair
OfNegrOes for
Camp Murder

Houston. Texas. April 5.-In a
little arroyo within the limits of
Camp Logan a score of persons
this morning saw the first military
execution held here since the camp
was established. John B. Mann
and Walter Matthews, Negroes. pri-
Yates of Company l. Three Hun
dred Seventeen infantry, paying
with their lives for the Staying OF
Private Ralph NJ. Foley, Company
G, One Hundred Thirtieth infantry.
The condemned men went TO
their death calmly and the entire
proceedings lasted but a few min
uteS.
Placed in the stockade of the of
flee building after taps last night
the condemned men were awakened
early this morning, allowed to eat
their breakfast and at GAS Were
placed in an army truck under
guard and taken to the execution
place, a score of PAGES from the
road. The two were placed on the
scaffold. the final prayer was said
and the traps sprung. Six officers
of the hospital corps declared death
practically instantaneous.
The crime for which the death
penalty was inflicted by court mar
tial and approved by President Will
son, was the murder of Private Fo-
ley, who was murdered by the Ne
groes while they were engaged il
cleaning up around the camp. Fo-
ley was stabbed in the ear and died
two hours later. The Negroes fled
but were quickly captured and
their trial begun the following
morning, lasting two days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
AMERICAN AIRMEN
PAID TRIBUTE BY
ENGLISH WRITER

London. April 5.-A tribute to the
American aviators in France who
are numerous and always brill
liant" is paid by the correspond
ent Of the Daily Mail. He says that
American aviation mechanics also
have rendered splendid aid.
Describing the air ngnung on the
western front, the correspondent
says that never before in any army
have airplanes been used in such
great concentration. On one sector
OF the battle front as many as 800
machines are in the air at one time
The use of machine guns on enemy
troops, guns and transports. by low
flying machines. lie adds. has been
carried to a point far beyond any
thing in previous experience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
GAS FIRMS MUST
LAY MAINS FREE
rs RULING MADE

Springfield, ILL.,, April 5-Utility
companies in Illinois will be re-
quired to make extension of gas
mains to private consumers with
out charges as usual, despite war
cost increases, it was indicated to
day in an order of the public utili-
ties commission. In the order, the
commission declined to grant the
application of the public service
company of northern Illinois to
suspend rule 10 which required
certain main extensions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05

Zurich, April 5.-Austrian par
liamentary circles believe that ne
gotiations have been opened be-
tween President Wilson and Count
Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister. A telegram from vi
emma to the Neueste Nachrichten of
Munich says:
Count Czernin's speech has Gre
ated a profound impression in Aus
trian parliamentary circles, where
it is believed that communications
have been opened between Count
Czernin and President Wilson which
already have reached further than
Count CZernin's statement shows"
London, April 5.-The Neue Freie
Presse of Vienna, taking hand in
the peace offensive of the central
powers, reverses the Clemehceau
story told by Foreign Minister
Czernin. 1t says that before the
offensive on the western front Pres
ident Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George favored discussing peace
terms, but Premier Clemenceau We
toed the suggestion and finally
caused them to adopt his standpoint
of war to the end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
THE WEATHER

Probably rain tonight and Satur-
day. Warmer tonight
Highest temperature yesterday, 81 !:
lowest last night, 80; temperature
at a. m, 30
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour.
Precipitation. none.
Relative humidity at p. m, "a !;
at a. M, 64
J. NJ. SHERIER, Meteorologist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
LENROOT SAYS HE
WILL STAND BACK
OF WILSON IN w AR

Milwaukee, April 5. - United
States Senator-eIect Irvine L. Len
root declared in a statement today
that he would support President
Wilson in the senate as he did in
The house in all measures TO help
the prosecution Of the war.
We are all Americans; pun to-
getheT fight together; America
must win the war, said Mr.. Len
root.
He said that Berger. the Social
Isl candidate received too many
votes, but the combined loyalty
fote demonstrates beyond all ques-
ion the loyalty of Wisconsin as a
state"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
GERMAN DEBT HUGE.

Amsterdam, March 90, by maio.
-Germany's debt after the war
will be 80 times what it was at the
beginning, George Bernhard. editor
of the Vossische Zeitung, declared
in a lecture recently in Berlin, ii
connection with the campaign for
the eighth German war loan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
LATE BULLETINS

London, April 5.--The Irish
convention which has been dis
cuSslng the question OF home
rule for several months con-
cluded its deliberations today,
says the Central News agency.
Spokane, Wash, April g.
Police today ralded the head
quarters of the Lumber Work
ers and Agricultural Workers
unions of the /. w. W. here,
took 80 men TO police headquar-
ters and seized all books and
literature In the rooms.
New York, April 5.-The Gu
nard line steamship Valerla, Il
vessel OF $500 tons gross regis
ter, has been sunk In the Irish
sea, according to word received
here by insurance interests.
The Valeria left here March
with a cargo for a British port.
Washington, April 5.-Fran-
els j. Heney has resigned as
counsel for the federal trade
commission In its investigation
OF the packing industry, having
completed his work.
Harrlsburgh. Ill. April s.
Bandits robbed the New Burn
side bank last night aud eS-
capped with $1,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
RATE PROBE ORDERED.

Washington, April 5.-A general
investigation of railroad freight
rates on petroleum and petroleum
products was ordered today by the
intsrafafa cnmmarca commission
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
Czernir1 and
Wilson Talk
Peace, Claim

Amsterdam, April 5.-An Of
fetal announcement made in
Vienna today reiterates the as
sertiOn of Foreign Minister
CZernin which was denied yes
terday by Premier Clemenceau
of France that a conversation
concerning peace has been
held between Austria Hungary
and France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN.

River forecast: Steadily falling
stages in the Mississippi will pre-
vail from below Dubuque to Mus-
catine until heavy rains occur.
j. NJ. SHERIER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05

M e m b ber Of Audit
Bureau of CircuIations
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05

Asao ciated d Press
Leased Wire Report
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-05

CONTINUED On Page seven)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
Maintain Highways
for Truck Traffic

7THE annual convention of the
y American Road Builders asso-
citation, in session at st. Louis this
week, discussed all economic phases
iof highway improvement and especial
emphasis was laid on the necessity of
providing for maintenance after a
road is built.
1t has been pointed out repeatedly
that money appropriated for good
roads is virtually wasted unless re-
pair work is kept up year after year.
Every highway engineer has made
this matter plain, but now that roads
have come to be recognized as mill
tary as we'll as ordinary traffic neces-
sites bad road--a road run down"
should be, in time, a thing of the
lpast.
With all the money expended on
road improvement in Alabama within
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
, MORE nLoATED BONDHoLDERs

NJ MOhE4
Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's.
s'Bloated bondholders'. was term of
reproach utilized by demagogues to ar
ray class against class. That distainc-
ton has been wiped out by the govern
ment's campaigns to finance the fight
against the Huns. Treasury department
records show that liberty bonds are
now widely distributed throughout states
where owners of securities formerly
were regarded as special proteges of
satan This new class of investors has
discovered that it is easy to acquire
bonds by making small monthly pay
ments. The next step in their lesson
will come when they clip their coupons
and observe how easy 1t is to make
every dollar they save earn four cents
a year. The result will be the creation
of tremendous class of investors who
will not relinquish the saving habit
when the government stops issuing
bonds. The French became a nation OF
bondholders after the Franco russian
war. The habit they developed in re-
Spouse to the needs of their govern
from the cost of that war. When
Frances needs were supplied. they
turned to other standard securities. That
is what the governments financial ex-
perts predict will happen in the United
States. There win be fewer American
securities held abroad in the future and
the money formerly sent out of the
country each year in the form of letters
and dividend payments will go into
the pockets OF the new type OF Ameri-
can bondholders-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
Cotton Price Level
and Forthcoming Crop

1EOR several weeks the spot cotton
y market has remained around 80
cents, and it is safe to assume that
lit will not decline unless the farmers
increase their acreage this spring to
the extent of making a bumper yield
possible.
That there will be some increase
over the acreage of 1917 goes without
saying. 1t will be needed, but small
increase, rather than such extensive
planting as would mean record
breaking crop, would pay the cotton
grower better in the end.
When planting time comes, if indi-
cations point to only moderate
crop-say 13,500,0oo or 100000
bales-a high market will be assured,
and if not more than 100000 bales
are in sight when ginning begins the
farmer can count on 35 cents or more.
A million-bale crop for this state
would be about right In normal
years Alabama has produced much
more than that--one year so per cent
|more-but the record crop was ginned
before the boil weevil had run riot
| in our cotton belt.
The progressive farmer has learned
to minimize the ravages of the pest,
and 1918 may prove to be fairly
good cotton year; but the grower will
make more money if he turns his at
tention intelligently and earnestly to
intensive cultivation and raises from
three-quarters of bale to bale to
the acre on a comparatively small
acreage than he would if he started
out with an old-time planting and pro-
duced much less per acre.
Let the farmer make up his mind
now to follow the advice of the state
commissioner of agriculture to make
cotton only one-fourth of his food
and feedstuff production. That will
require only a small average increase
in acreage.
The farmer can regulate, to large
extent, at least, the price of the next
crop. By pursuing the planting course
that business judgment would dictate
he can with certainty keep the spot
market from slumping.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
ART AND HAIR

and an apology are Immediately extended
andNRissah, the handmade of Holdah, all
swear on Jesse's long, false property
whiskers that nevermore will they wan
der around the hills of Judea unless this
calumny be atoned for, Seelah.
Mr.. w. Page says that the outrage
is one not only against Miss Stuarts
own lovely, wind-tossed locks, but
against art. Critics do not know art
when they meet the lady face to face.
For, in recognition of the claims Of art,
Miss Stuart made most heroic sacri-
flee. Once she had hair so long that the
seven Sutherland sisters looked like
bald-headed men in the front row COM
pared to her. 1t swept the ground. 1t
had to be carried by small Ethiopian
employed for that purpose.
When Miss Stuart and her hair went
into 1.-THE Wanderer' David Belasco said
to her sternly: Miss Stuart, come out
from behind your hair. l see you" Miss
Stuart stepped out and Mr.. Belasco ex-
planned to her that Tisha, the role she
was going to play, had hair like Mrs.
Castle, secured by placing an inverted
bowl over the head and cutting neatly all
around the edge. Miss Stuart said she
would get a wig. Mr.. Belasco said q
wig was not art. He wanted everything
natural. Miss Stuart would have to cut
her beautiful hair short off.
Miss Stuart sent for bowl, inverted
it over her head and snip. snip went the
scissors. Then to her horror sheN dis
covered that her hair stuck out like the
fretful quilts of the porcupine. Mr.. Be-
lasco wept with delight. 1t was just what
ne wanted. But it was hard for Miss
Stuart when she was appearing as Miss
Stuart and not as Tisha, daughter OF
Nadina, Miss Stuart turns her hair loose
and it runs all over the place. 1t is ma
ture, it is true art, it is Mr. Belasco's
great idea.
And then to have the chronclers of the
drama say it is wig! The pity of it!
Likewise the crueltyl A plague on those
false scribes who know not the true
from the false, even though they meet
it face to face. Seelah again
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
Spirit That Will Make
America Victorious

\ * MEXICAN soldiers on board the
NSA torpedoed transport Tuscania
sang as the ship was sinking beneath
them.
That spirit will carry Americas
army on to victory. Those young men,
former national guardsmen, felt that
they were bound on an exalted mis-
sion. If it was their lot to die in the
sea without firing a shot across "No
Mans Land" they knew they would
not die in vain, that the great sacri-
flee they made would spur their coun-
trymen to new efforts and vaster un-
dertakings in order that the military
power which has drenched this world
in blood may be forever put down.
British soldiers have sung in SINH
lar circumstances and, no doubt, so
have the soldiers of France. All are
equally heroic and inspired by the
same ideals-ideals with which the
German soldier is not familiar. He
may think he's defending his father
land, but deep in his heart he knows
that he is a slave of the war lords
who have imposed their will on him
and send him to the shambles to per-
petuate their own power.
1t is not thus with the soldiers of
democracy. To die in just cause is a
glorious privilege, one which brave
men, whatever land they call home,
seek now and have sought since the
beginning Of time. There is as wide a
chasm between fighting for ones
ideals and fighting for ones masters
as there is between the brutal "kul-
tur" which has made Germany hated
the world over and the principles
which inform the people of America
and her allies.
We may rejoice that the loss of life
was no greater, we may feel just
pride in the conduct of our men, whose
gallantry was superb, yet they be-
haved as it was confidently expected
they would if a lurking U-boat found
its mark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
War Can Be Won BY
All Pulling Together

G6WL\TE must win the war;" eve
Wv will win the war; "world
democracy will triumph" are phrases
that have been made familiar in the
recent months. All loyal Americans
have reiterated them and all have
welled up with patriotic fervor when
the changes have been rung on every
note of confidence in our ultimate
victory.
But more than sentiment is needed;
more than passive attitude Of I'M
swerving loyalty. The entire coun-
try must pull together. The govern
ment is acting and has been acting
ever since war was declared against
Germany. In a short space of time
the war and navy departments have
accomplished wonders.
The food administration, the fuel
administration and the boards dealing
with war preparations are straining
every nerve to make victory doubly
sure.
America is no place for slackers.
Fortunately traitors are few. Those
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
Colonel Roosevelt's Hold
On American People

! NOLONEL ROOSEVELT is so
~ essentially human that when
misfortune comes his way his worst
enemies cannot withhold a grudging
sympathy. To the American people
he is the Colonel" In that respect
he enjoys unique distinction. 1t is
not necessary to add his name. The
street gamin knows who is meant.
Now that the colonel is i'll, his
tremendous popularity is once more
in evidence. People in all walks Of
life show real concern over his condi-
ton and wish for him speedy recov-
cry. The colonel is by long odds our
most picturesque personality. We
should hate very much to lose him.
There have been times-many times,
in fact-when we were sorely vexed
with him, when we even doubted his
sincerity, yet there is much in the
man that compels admiration.
He has ever been a fighter and
Americans love fighter, whether in
the pugilistic arena or the White
House. He draws the crowd to him,
call him demagogue, charlatan or
what you will. In spite of his blum
ders, his inconsistencies and what
many believe to be an overweening
ambition, the colonel has done a great
diversity of things remarkably WELL
May he soon be restored to health.