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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
BILL TO RATION U. S.
Sweeping Power to Hoover to Cut
Nations Diet.
Hoover Charged Hotels Were Using
Patriotic Pledges of Economy to
Impose on Public.

Washlngton.-Th first of Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover's twin food bills.
proposing to put the nation on rations,
was reported favorably by Chairman
Lever Of the House Agriculture Com
mittee.
With it was made public the testt-
mony by Hoover in the committee
hearings in which he declared the ma.
ton must cut down 25 per cent. on
breadstuffs, 10 per cent. on beef, 12fo
Is per cent. on pork and fat, 10 per
cent. on sugar and per cent. on dairy
products.
Almost carte blanche power is given
the food administrator to regulate food
from the time it leaves the farm until
it appears on the restaurant table or
in the bakers loaf.
Committeeman were assured that
the size Of pieces of meat, bread and
other foods in public places will be
enforced at once under the bill.
For instance, it is proposed tina: a
steak shall weigh no more than six
ounces per person.
Home consumption Is not to be rig
idly regulated, but it is affected by re-
strictions which are placed on manu-
facturers and distributors who sell to
the housewife
- Hoover declared himself emphatical-
ly In the hearings for seed subsidies Of
various sorts to farmers to increase
production. He told the committee
that last years corn crop, far from be-
ing the heralded record maker, was
2O0,000,000 short of normal when its
poor quality was considered.
Opposition in the house, judging
from the committee vote, will be scat
tering. Several Republicans joined
the Democrats in making the favor
able report. Opposition Of others was
based on individual paragraphs.
Hoover told the committee one chief
reason for pressing the bill was that
certain hotels were using their present
patriotic pledges Of economy as a
means Of imposing on the public.
The other of the. twin Hoover bills
was taken up at once by the commit
tee. Its paragraphs to fix cotton and
corn prices have aroused bitter opposi-
ton, all under surface because the
bills text has been kept supposedly
secret. They may have to be stricken
out
The x:ioning bill probably will fol-
low the administration bill on the
house floor.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
GENERAL

Two hundred cooks, between eigh.
teen and forty, are needed at Camp
Upton.
Ground glass was found in tomatoes,
crab meat and jelly in Scranton, Pa.
Camp Upton will give ball to OBJ.
tain 100000 for an indoor drill hall.
Cleveland bakers have defied the
Food Board and raised the price OF
bread to retailers.
The War Board issued q license for
shipment Of news print paper across
the Canadian border.
Commissioner Cato Sells announces
that 5000 American Indians have en-.
listed in the army and navy.
Secretary McAdoo commended the
patriotism Of the New York banks,
which made the $5GO,O00,OO0 issue of
treasury certificates a success. The
next issue will be at 4k per cent.
The rivers and harbors. bill as re.
ported to the house carried no provi-
sion for q forty foot channel in the
East river and He'll Gate at New York.
Charles n Wexler, Stamford
(Cunn.) lawyer, admitted drawing up
a fraudulent will to the t250,000 estate
Of Henry w. Ranger, noted American
painter.
The railway fuel men offer to aid In
conservation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01

Director General McI&Sou refused a
pernit to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt;
to use a private car from New YORK;
TO Spartanburg, S. c., where her hus-
band. Colonel Vanderbilt, is in camp.
NJ. B. Seymour, president of the
American Bison Society, protested to
the San Francisco park commissioners
against killing nine buffalo as war
measure for food for the bears.
Three more American aviators are
killed, two in France and one in Tex
as. Cadet Victor L. Dennis attempts a
nose dive at Love field, near Dallas,
when only 100 feet up, and crashes to
earth, his gasoline tank exploding and
enveloping him in flames. The other
two are Flight Lieutenant Claude q.
Purdy and Cadet Charles E. Jones.
Arthur Woods, former police COM
missioner of New York, has been ap-
pointed to take charge of American
propaganda in foreign countries.
Viscount Ishii, head Of the recent
Japanese mission to the United States,
has been appointed Japanese ambas-
sador at Washington.
Forty enlisted men of the Twenty
fourth Infantry (coloreO went on trial
at San Antonio, Tex, before court
martial on charges Of murder and mu-
tiny.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
Gcrrnan-American War

The first American battleplanes
equipped with the powerful Liberty
motors, now are on the way to France
Secretary Baker, in revealing this fact
told of the tremendous difficulties en-
countered in their production and EN-
Dhasized the need of skilled mechanics
to care for them.
Secretary Baker declared that all es
Inmates regarding when the second
draft would be called were mere
guesses and not authentic.
The war department approved the
scheme for the publication of a weekly
newspaper in France for the American
troops.
An American patrol disperses a Ger
man patrol lying in ambush. An
American sentry in listening post
challenges dim figure and receives a
volley in reply, whereupon he fires and
hits the German, who shouts. Then
the American guns belch death-blood'
stains where the Germans had been
showing casualties.
The allied conference at Versai] es
decided to have one head to run the
allied armies.
Because of a scarcity Of seed field
corn the Wa Trade Board announced
that exports Of corn to Canada for
feeding and manufacturing purposes
will be limited
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
WASHINGTON

Doctor Garfield, fuel administrator,
announces that new preferential
board will be created soon for the dis
tribution of coal under four class
heads, with a curtailment of some of
the nonessential industries Of the
country.
That the McAdoo tubes have been
under federal control since January l
became known through inquiries In
the financial district.
The federal railroad administration
revealed that it was considering
lengthening the work day in railroad
shops.
A favorable report on the bill of
Senator Gore of Oklahoma to increase
the minimum price for wheat of the
1918 crop from 81 to $3.50 a bushel
was made by the senate Agriculture
Committee.
Nelson Morris testified that the
packers pay their employees fair liv-
ing wage and denied stock yard con-
ditions were as bad as pictured by en-
ployee witnesses.
Washington's view Of the Russian
peace treaty is that, being made under
compulsion, it would not be recognized
by the allies, and its validity would
depend on the outcome of the war.
Secretary Baker lifted the ban of
secrecy regarding army contracts and
announced that Charles Eiseman no
longer is connected with the war de-
partment.
Responsibility for the 100000 wa
ter front fire at the quartermaster's
depot, Newark terminal, January 26,
was placed upon private contractors in
statement made public by the depart
ment Of justice. "Gross neglect Of
even the most ordinary precautions"
was charged.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
SPORTING

Hans Wagner, in making a four
minute war address in Pittsburgh, re-
iterated his former statement that he
will not play ball this year and has re-
tired from big league baseball. The
big fellow recently lost a baby daugh-
ter shortly after it's birth.
Heinie Wagner, veteran shortstop Of
the Boston American League baseball
team, will not play with the team this
year, according to statement by Har-
ry Fl. Frazee, president of the club.
Major league officials intimated that
in the event the Internationals decide
to quit and the Sunday bill is beaten
in New York state the Yankees and
Giants may play Sunday games at
Harrison, N. J.
"Old Man" Courtney-old man as
the Cornell students know him-will
again be directing the crews at the
university this spring. Two years ago
it was reported that the wizard of the
Hudson had retired from the direction
of oarsmen, but the lure that calls Hen
back TO any field Of sports was too
much for him.
Assemblyman Hurley's bill permit
ting eight round professional boxing
bouts in New Jersey was given boost
by a dozen speakers at hearing be-
fore the Social Welfare Committee Of
the house, Trenton. There was no op-
losition, and Mr.. Hurley has assur-
ances that the bill will be reported in
the house.
Al overseas professional baseball
organization to be composed Of six
clubs and to be known as the Anglo
American League has been launched.
London, Paris and Brighton are sure
of places in the league. Three clubs
will be located at camps.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
TROTzKY SIGNS
, Forced treaty
Announced That Germans Will
Annex Baltic Provinces and Get
s4,OOO,OOO,O0O Indemnity.
BOLSHEVIKI REDS YIELD.
Dvinsk and Lutsk Captured and Vast
Armies Invade Russia Over Wide
Area-Move Could NothHave
Been Anticipated"

London. - The Russian Bolsheyik
government has capitulated and an
nounced it's readiness, although pro-
testingly, to sign a peace compact un-
der the hard terms imposed by Ger
many, which includes, according to
Trotzky's statement, the payment OF
$4,OO0,0OO,OO0 war indemnity by Rus
sia to Germany.
Notwithstanding this, however, Teu-
tonic troops are advancing eastward
into Russia over a front of 400 miles,
from Riga in the north to Lutsk, q
scant so miles from the East Galician
border, on the south. Apparently thus
far the operation has met with no op-
position. The northern reaches of the
Dvina river have been crossed by the
enemy, the important railroad town of
Dvinsk, whence roads run northeast
Wdlu W IcllOSIdu uuu SdSlN dAu "
Smolensk, has been captured, and
Lutsk, one of the famous fortresses
forming the Volhynian triangle and
the gateway leading eastward to Kiev
has been entered without the Russians
attempting to stay the foe.
The official announcement of the
capitulation was signed by Nikolai
Lenine and Leon Trotzky on behalf OF
the Peoples Commissaries of Russia
1t protests against Germany attacking
a country which has declared the wal
at an end and which Is demobilizing
its armies on all fronts, but in the
circumstances, it says, the government
regards itself as forced formally tt
declare its willingness ito sign a peace
upon the conditions which had been
dictated by the delegates of the Quad
ruple Alliance at Brest-Litoysk.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
DRIVE FOR 10000 MEN.
British and Canadian Recruiting Mis-
sion Starts Campaiun.

British and Canadian Recruiting Mis-
sion Starts Campaign.
New York.-"The British and Cana
dian recruiting mission is beginning
q special drive to get 10000 men from
the United States In the next two
months" said Brig. Gen. w. A. White
"At first sight this seems unnecessary
in view Of the fact that the draft re-
cruiting convention Is about to be sign
ed between the United States and
Great Britain, whereby all British sub
jects In the United States between the
ages of twenty and forty (both inclu-
sive) will be subject to draft into the
American army. Here are the simple
facts:
"There are approximately 10000
Britishers and Canadians of American
draft age in the United States today.
These men have actually registered
their names under the American draft.
There are at least 100000 more Brit
ishers and Canadians between the
ages of thirty-one and forty-one, so
that at the lowest estimate there are
100000 Britishers and Canadians who
will become liable to draft into the
American army when the convention
is signed. Out Of this number the
British and Canadian recruiting mis-
sion has actually enlisted 10000 men
and rejected $4,000. This means that
there are still about quarter of a
million Britishers and Canadians In
this country who have not yet offered
themselves for enlistment. Two
months after the signing Of the con.
vention these 'ncn will have the op,
portunity Of joining the British OF
Canadian army and I intend to get
10000 volunteers during this period II
it can be DONE"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
ESSENCE OF ALL
CURRENT AFFAIRS
A Summary for Busy Readers
of the Significant Doings
of the Day.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
Progress of the Worlds War-War
and Legislative Activities at the
Nations Capltal-NeWs From
Every Corner of the Country.
WAR BULLETINS

Mr.. Baker, secretary Of war, looks
for renewed warfare on the western
front very soon, both sides being ready,
but the opinion prevails in Washington
that the allies may take the offensive.
British aeros continue to raid docks,
aerodromes and other targets in Bel
gium, and have accounted for four
German airplanes, the admiralty an
nounced in statement.
The United. States and her allies are
forging ahead in the race with Ger
many's submarines. The lowest point
in the charted curve Of the interna'
tional shipping situation has been
reached and passed.
Lenine and Trotzky Informed the
German government by wireless that
they are forced to sign peace treaty
Upon the conditions proposed by Ger
many, at the same time protesting
against the Huns resumption Of war.
Germany demanded territory and S4,-
O00,000,000 indemnity.
The conviction of Bolo Pasha has
freed the French nation of a--load of
doubt, strengthened confidence in the
cabinet and created feeling of as
surance that the German offensive, If
: 1t comes, which Is by no means GER
tain, will mark the collapse of the
German militariSts.
Germany has resumed war on Rus
sia; Austria will attack the Ukraine
only; the Poles have been fighting the
Bolsheviki.
The Prussian budget for 1913 calls
for Sc, ,625,000 to be devoted to German
propaganda in Polish territory.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
TEN PLANES ATTACKED ENSIGN
Germans Shot sturtevant Down, The,

Germans Shot Sturtevant Down, They
Claim, Says Sims.
Washington.-Vice Admiral Sims adj
vised the navy department that the
American seaplane in which Ems =
Albert Dalton Sturtevant, .. 5. J
f., was lost, is claimed by the Gc-
to have been shot down j.
Ensign Sturtevant was see
the machine.
apparently this lnachir
tackled by ten enemy planes,
patch states.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
URGES BANKS TO REPORT.


Alien Property Custodian Sends circu.
lar to Financial institutions.
Washington.-A circular outlining
the duties Of the alien property Gus.
todian under the trading with the en-.
emy act was sent to all state and ma.
tional banks, trust companies and in.
ternal revenue collectors.
1t was signed by A. Mitchell Palmer
and urged the necessity of reporting to
him at once any enemy property known
to be held by any one in this country.
Fully $4,000 copies were distributed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
HUDSON TUBES IN U. S. CONTROL

Taken Over With Railroad but Publi1
Announcement Withheld.
New York.-Wall street was sur.
prised to learn that government had
taken over and assumed control of the
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Com.
pany, popularity known as the Hudson
tubes. This was done when the rail
roads were taken over late in Decem
Der, but public announcement of the
fact was never made, and only now
has it become known generally in the
financial district.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
600 IN BRITAIN SIGN FOR DRAFT.
Consul General Says All of Military

Consul General Says AT OF Military
Age Are Now Registered.
London.-Approximately 600 Ameri-
cans resident in the United Kingdom
are subject to the draft under The
Anglo-American treaty. That number
have registered since the draft scheme
went into effect. This niedf.s that vir-
tually all the Americans of draft age
in the kingdom have signed up. There
are approximately $4,000 American
citizens now resident in the United
Kingdom.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
War Council Americas ProposaI.

war SOullSH fNfflCiiSoS TIOPoSdt.
London.-The British prime minis.
ter, in a statement before the house Of
commons on the decisions Of the Su.
preme War Council at Versailles, paid
high tribute to the plan submitted by
the American representatives.
"If should read the document sub
mitted by the-Americans,' said Lloyd
George, "there would he no need to
make this speech. The case is presented
with irresistible power and logic
General Tasker II. Bliss, the Amerl-
can chief Of staff, represented the
United States at the war council. He
was attended by Arthur Fl. Frazier,
secretary of the American embassy In
Paris, who acted as diplomatic officer
to report the proceedings.
The policy adopted by the Supreme
War Council, Lloyd George declared,
was not the policy of the British gov
ernment alone, but Of all the great al
lied governments In concert.
"There is absolutely no difference
between our policy and the policy OF
France, Italy and America in this re-
spect," he said.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-01
AMERICAN PLAN WINS
United States Dominated Ver-
saiIIeS Council.
Allies Unanimous In Calling for More
Centralized Direction of
Operations.

Washington.-The United States die
tated the policy of central control for
the allied forces on the western front
and will oppose notifications from
any quarter. The opposition 10 the
plan developed by political elements in
the British army is disturbing, but is
not considered serious. 1t Is not eX-
pected to affect the efficiency of the
united strength against Germany gain
ed in this way. -
This official view was rt flccted ut
all the big executive departments con.
nected with war work in Washington.
France and Italy are in thorough ac-
cord with all plans for greater unif-
cation and have so informed this gov
ernment, it was said.
At the conclusion of the cabinet
meeting confidence was expressed at
the White House that Premier Lloyd
George would BE able to overcome the
opposition which has developed against
his policies. ANY other outcome Of the
bitter controversy now engaging Lon
don, it was believed, would reveal the
British army as an undisciplined or
ganization, partly political and above
the government.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-13
HUN KILLED
BY A ROCK
Result of a Hand to Hand Fight in
Shell Hole

With the American Army in
France, Sept. 12-Rocks and a steady
nerve saved g. private of an American
division in the Toul sector, who was
taken prisoner by German raiders re-
Gently, but who escaped and returned
to his own lines. The Germans were
particularly exasperated at losing the
prisoner because they had vainly
sought to capture and hold one man
from the division opposing them. But
this one slipped through their fingers,
The American was carried to the
German trenches after having been
surrounded. Suddenly, he broke
away and ran. The Germans did
not fire because they feared they
might hit one another. The Amer
lean stumbled into shell crater and
bombarded his pursuers with rocks.
One of the Germans leaped into the
hole alongside of him, but the Amer
ican killed him with trench knife,
then dashed from shell hole to shell
hole until he reached the American
lines.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-13
MACHINE GUN FIRING

Real Test of Successful Aviator
Somewhere in France, Sept. 13-
Correspondence of The Associated
Press)-Accurate machine gun fire
is the chief requirement of the sue
cessful combat aviator, allied aviation
experts agree. Fortunately for the
Allies that is one department in which
their aviatoIs excel.
1t is Interesting to note the prog
ress made in the weapons used by
aviators. At the opening of hostil-
tiles ahplanes were used mainly for
observation work. Their pilots were
armed geferally with carbines, and
sometimes only with an automatic
revolver. Then came the fighting air
plane and the single and double ma
chine gun.
But these rewer and more deadly
weapons are useless unless properly
aimed, and this is no small task as
the pilot must aim not his gun, but
his whole machine. He must use his
airplane as a gun mount. 1t is easy
to conjure some of the pilots diff
culties when the gun mount is man
.oeuveing and travelling twice as fast
as any express train while it's target
is in similar action.
Nor is that all the difference be-
tween aerial and ground gunnery.
On the ground, ammunition .is
practically unlimited. In an airplane
.f irh4 &c
ammunition is therefore strictly linn
tied. The greater, consequently, is
the need for accuracy in shooting
1t is important that no ammunition
shall be carried which is not absol-
utely reliable and all is selected and
tested. Guns are vigorously inspect
ed, for a jam at a critical moment
might prove fatal. In training, on
the other hand, ammunition is care
fully selected for its badness; the
object being, by means of frequent
gun jams, to make the clearing of a
stoppage automatically simple to the
pilot.
The successful air fighter must be
good pilot; but even the most bril-
liant trick flyer, the "stunter" who
can throw his machine about in the
air and make it a supremely difficult
target for his adversary, is neverthe-
less incompletely equipped as fighter
unless he can combine brilliant flying
with brilliant gunnery. Foch's rule
that "offence is the best Defence y
appliesseven more in the air than on
land, and it is by following that rule
that the allied fighters have won
their ascendancy over the Germans.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-13
ORDER TO RESUME WORK
Is Likely to Come from President
Wilson to Bridgeport Machinists

Bridgepor5, Conn.,, Sept. 12-Sam-
uel Lavit, business agent of the ma
chinists' union, today stated that
William H. Johnston, president of the
international Machinists' union, had
sent him i message to the effect that
President Wilson was preparing a
proclamation addressed to the strik-
ing machinlsts and tool makers of
Bridgeport, in which they will be or
dered to return to work
Mr.. Lavit said the strikers would
obey Immediately any order from the
president and leave WITH him the set
tlement of the differences after a re-
view of the causes which have led to
a strike.
More thar 400 metal workers left
the city today ir response to a call OF
Business Agent McInteiI of the New
York union for d thousand men to go
to plants IN Pennsylvania.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-13
DAVID G. DoNAHUE KILLED
Meets Instant Death When Rutland
Sleeper Hits Auto

South Hero, Sept. 12-David
George Donahue Of Charlotte, man
ager of the Boston Jersey Creamery
at Alburg, was instantly killed to-
night when the automobile he. was
driving was struck by the southbound
train on the Rutland railroad at Keel
ers crossing about IL o'clock. AL
most every bone in his body was bro
ken.
No one saw the accident. The MA
chine was carried down the track two
or more rods before being tossed to
one side. Conductor Wyman was in
charge of the train, and the select
men were called to take charge of
the body.
Mr.. Donahue was az years of age
and went to North Hero today to
register under the selective service
act. His wife is Mrs. Lillian Dona-
hue of Charlotte.