Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-21

Thirty-one ships, $4,000 tons, were
completed during January and Feb
ruary for Americas merchant feet,
the shipping board announced.
Nine members of the crew Of a
large tug were drowned when the yes.
sci sunk in the Mississippi river near
Pointe-A-La-Hache, La.
According to figures given out in
Washington, Camp Funston, Kan.
will receive 3,O33 men in the March
20 draft call.
By vote of AZ to SO the Maryland
house Of delegates defeated a bill Civ
Ing women the right to vote at presi-
Dental elections.
Texas will practically become dry
state April Is, as result of bill
passed by the legislature creating dry
zones Of all territory within ten miles
OF army camps.
One hundred thousand gallons Of
fuel oil became ignited at Lordsburg,
N. NJ, resulting in the destruction Of
eight locomotives, a roundhouse,
storehouse, besides many houses.
Forty-three American soldiers had
been killed in action in France at the
end Of March 2, while 252 had been
wounded and IS captured or missing,
according to war department informa-.
ton.
The War department has notified
relatives of fifteen Iowa soldiers of
their death in France. Some were
killed in action, while others died of
diseases. Twenty Iowa soldiers are
numbered among the wounded.
One American woman was killed
and an American man and woman
were wounded in an mir raid over
Paris, March 18th. Total casualties
were 100 killed and seyenty-nine
wounded.
A nonpartisan league meeting,
scheduled to be held at Gregory, S.
D., was prevented and five league or
ganizers were beaten and driven out
OF Gregory county across the Nebras-
ka line.
Provost Marshal Crowder announc-
ed that 100000 men are to be called
this year under the second army draft,
5000 Of them to be assembled be-
ginning March %, together with
$4,000 men of the first draft of 6S7 600
not yet summoned.
A. G. Townley, president Of the Ma
tional Non-Partisan league, and Jo-
seph Gilbert, secretary of the organi-
zation, were indicted by grand jury
Of Martin county, Minnesota charged
with issuing seditious circulars and
dlscouraging enlistments for the army.
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The commissions on union of the
Presbyterian church north and the
Presbyterian church south failed to
agree upon a plan for the proposed
merger of the two church bodies at
their joint conference at Atlantic
City, N. ].
In honor to the memory Of aptain
G. McHenry and Corporal Donald Ma
craze, Des Moines men who were kill,
ed in tacion in France, Polk county
supervisors have designated two sec
tions Of the White Pole road which
will bear their names.
One hundred persons were killed,
sixty-six Of them suffocating in rail-
way tunnel, where they had fed for
safety, and seventy mine injured when
sixty German airplanes raided Paris.
1t was the most disastrous raid yet
carried out on the French capital.
With Russia's great seaport Odessa
In the hands Of the Germans the leu.
tons will have access to vast stores
Of wheat which can be transported
overland, or by sea to points where II
can he readily shipped into Austria
and Germany to feed the hungry PEG.
pie Of those countries.
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German prisoners Of war are to be
distributed over areas in England and
France which the. enemy aircraft is
subjecting to attack in their raids, DE.
cause allied prisoners in German
hands have been placed In towns
which the German government con.
siders likely to be attacked.
Two states, Iowa and Minnesota
will not be required to furnish any
men for the $4,000 summoned to the
colors beginning March 20. Nebraska
must furnish. 459, Colorado 1928, Kan
sas 587 and South Dakota 226. New