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RED CROSS REPORT
COVERS BIG WORK
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Is.
SUE DETAILED REPORT OF
HUGE SUMS SPENT.
WORK REQUIRES HUGE SUM
s7s,45o,727.s5 Appropriated For Re-
lief In This Country and Abroad
During First Year Of coun-
try's Struggle.

Washington-What the American
Red Cross has done with the vas
sums of money entrusted to it by thC
people of the United States is stated
in detail in report just isssed by the
national headquarters. To date, $40,
$50, 727.35 has been appropriated To-
relief work In this country anC
abroad.
For foreign relief $44,657,795 ha:
been appropriated as follows: France
$SO,519,2596O Belgium, $1,999,6S1
Russia, 1851. 940S7; Roumania, $2,617,
1886: Italy, $3,146O16; Serbia, 1871,
1906; Great Britain, $1,7O3,642; 9th
er foreign countries, 1886 800; Amer
lean soldiers who may be taken pris
oner, $343,627.
The foregoing appropriations are
from the time the United States en-
tered the war until April 30, 1918. Fol
the United States the Red Cross has
appropriated $2,612,532.6O and the rea
son this sum is not larger is because
the government provides nearly ev
erything our army and navy needs
and besides, there is no civilian dis
tress in this country of any considers
BILE proportions
The great variety of the military
and civilian relief work being done
by the Red Cross is indicated briefly
in the following list: Canteens that
afford food, baths and sleeping quar-
tiers for men at the front; rest sta.
tons and recreation centers for sol
diers in transit and at port Of arrival
in France; care of destitute children (;
furnishing supplies in 1000 hospitals;
teaching mutllated soldiers new
trades; reconstruction of villages;
bringing together families of soldiers
scattered by the war; farms for con-
valescent soldiers; sanitariums for tu-
bercular and other patients; food,
clothing, medicine, and shelter for the
homeless and destitute; and other ac-
tivities too numerous to mention.
1t is stated by the national war
council that all salaries and admins
trative expenses are paid out Of mem.
bership dues, so that every penny
given to the Red Cross war fund has
been spent for relief. This answers
the rumors that have been circulated
about the expenses of operation.
Out of 255 executives in the four.
teen divisional offices of the Red
Cross in the United States, SO per
cent are women. The policy is to Sc
lect the most competent person re.
CARELESS of politics, sex or religion.
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AMERICAN SHELLS
STOP HUN RAIDERS
HEAVY COMMANDMENT BY U. 8.
ARTILLERY FRusTRATEs
GERMANS.
DROP GAS SHELLS ON ENEMY
6. o. s. Call From French Sector
Brings Prompt Response From
Americans With Deadly Re-
suits On Enemy.

With the Army in France.-A Ger
man barrage fire at shutdown opened
the heaviest bombardment of many
days along the American sector, the
American artillery replying shell for
shell as the firing of the heavy guns
spread along several kilometers of
front. Two Americans we're killed
and nine wounded during the bonn
bardment, and one suffered she'll
shock. -
1t is known that the American gun
ners wrecked several BIZ the enemy
dugouts and so badlys damaged the
first line positions that at one point
the Germans are unable to occupy
them. ~
When the bombardment had reach
ed its greatest intensity the Germans
suddenly concentrated their fire at
two points, throwing about $50 shells
into town in which the headquar-
ters of certain regiment are located
and which heretofore had been inn
mune to enemy fire.
After the bombardment a wounds
American soldier was discovered in a
position where ii was necessary to
carry him over trench top to a field
dressing station. A medical corps
man displayed the Red Cross and the
Germans ceased firing until the man
was removed.
Return "Kulture" To Teutons.
The American artillery has injected
large number of samples OF Teu-
tonic culture into Germany. Gas shells
were rained on German lines in such
profusion that the enemy's raid was
frustrated and turned into costly rout.
In this instance the American artil-
lery located behind the American
front lines was called upon to sup.
port French comrades in a thanking
sector. The French front was sud
denly drenched in a heavy German
barrage in which there was a large
mixture of gas shells. At the same
time the French observers discov.
cred a large number of Germans ad-
vancing across No Mans Land at a
safe distance behind their curtain
fire.
The allied front line called for re-
taliation and 1t Tzs forthcoming in a
hurry, The French-manned batteries
and the American-manned batteries
opened up with well adjusted ranges
1t was the American artillery's first
cutting loose in some time and the
Yankee gunners took full advantage
Of the opportunity. Batteries manned
from the regular army, the national
guard and the national army we're all
engaged
1t was all over in 30 minutes, the
Germans retreating in disorder and \
leaving a number of dead behind. For
good measure the allied barrage play
ed on their front line for 10 minutes
after their withdrawal.
One national guard major from Chi
cago, who commands a regular bat
talon of American heavy artillery, re-
ported to headquarters with the fol.
lowing laconic telephone message:
"The enemy has ceased firing and so
have ]"
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MILITARY MORATORIUM.
Senate Committee Reports Fighters
Civil Rights Measure.

washington-The administration sol.
diers' and sailors civil rights bill,
which passed the house unanimously
last year and provides for a military
moratorium, was ordered favorably re
ported by the senate judiciary com.
mittee. Minor amendments we're add.
ed, but the purpose Of the bill--to re.
Iieye men at the front from legal pro
eeedings-was retained.
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PERsHING RETURNS GAS MASKS
AFTER BEING SUPPLIED WITH
GREATLY IMPROVED TYPE.
British Experts Approve Latest Pat.
terms After Actual Tests-Those
First Designed Now Being Used
Only In Training Soldiers in Home
Cantonments.

Washington.-The secretary of war
authorizes the following:
Various newspapers during the past
few days have printed a statement
that 100000 gas masks, made in this
country and shipped to Gen. Pershing,
have been returned to the United
States, being absolutely worthless
for the purpose for which they were
intended" 1t is due the parents and
the relatives Of the mn wheo will use
gas masks that the facts be known.
Why They Were Reshipped.
Our experiments in the United
Gen. Pershing was told that a supe-
rior to any previously used have been
constant and gratifying. Previous to
January l, 1918, only 10000 masks had
been shipped from this country for
Europe. Before these masks were is
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B0LSHEvIKl CAPTURE KEW

London.-Eicv, which Tor some time
past has been invested by the Boil
shevik troops. who are engaged
against the Ukranians, has surrender.
ed. according to an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch from Petrograd
Kiev. capital OF the government OF
Kiev, lies on the right bank OF the
Dnieper. II Is called the mother OF
Russian cities" and in 1902 had about
250, 900 inhabitants. Recent dispatches
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HEATLESS MONDAY STICKS
Closing Plan viii Not Be Abandoned
At Present, Decides Garfield
and McAdoo.

Washington.--It was practically
certain after a conference between
Fuel Administrator Garfield and Di-
rector-General McAdoo that the heat
less Mondays could not be immedi-
ately abandoned as had been hoped,
because the intense cold had so cut
down movement of fuel supplies to
the country.
AS Director-General McAdoo and
Fuel Administrator Garfield went
into conference to discuss abandon
ing the heatless Monday reports
came in showing coal movements
east of the Mississippi cut more than
Is per cent in the last two days.
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CAN'T DRAW ON FUNDS
6olshevlki Adopt New Attitude Toward
Diplomats.

London.-The Bolshevik government
has adopted another method to com.
pei foreign governments to recognize
it. The Bolsheviki are refusing to per.
NIT British and other foreign embas.
sizes and consulates to draw on sums
deposited in Russian banks until the
Bolshevik government is allowed to
have complete disposal of Russian
funds in the Bank of England.
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GREAT NAVAL RESERVE
10 Three Times A. Large Az During
spanlsh-Ameriean War.

Annapolis, Md.-The United States
naval reserve force. now embracing
6, 900 men and 1850 officers, lis
larger than the regular navy when
war was declared and three times as
large as in the Spanish-American
war;, Secretary Daniels declared in
addressing the special graduating
class Of 800 reserve officers at the
Naval academy.
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Hold Amerleans b ReIalum.

washington.-Five Americans IN
Belgium have been denied by Ger
man authorities the right to leave
that country and go to Holland. Ths
Spanish minister at Brussels sent
such Information to tie American
minister at The Hague. who tele-
graphed the state department.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08
PLAN MOTOR POST ROUTES
PostmasterGen Burleson Announces
Aim to Establish Motor Truck
Postal Service.

Washington, D. C.-Deliveries over
parcel posts aggregating between
three and four thousand miles by mo-
tor truck within the next three
months, is the aim announced by
Postmaster-Gen Burleson.
One chain of motor truck routes
will link up Portland, Me-, with New
Orleans, and another will cover a
large stretch of territory in Ohio, IL
linois, Indiana and West Virginia.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08

Amsterdam.-A Munich dispatch
says that several strike leaders have
been arrested there. including the writ
er, Kurt Eisner and Frau Sarah Lerch.
The troops prevented 3 demonstration
which was attempted before Wittels-
bach Palace. where the king resides.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08
GEN. BARRY RETURNS
10 Optimistic After Inspection Of the
French Front

An Atlantic Port-Maj Gems. 7hom-
as H. Barry and II. F. Hodges OF the
United States army, who have been
making a tour OF inspection along the
section Of the French front held by
American forces. arrived here on an
America steamship. They expressed
optimism regarding the general situa-
ton abroad and said their mscslon had
been an enlightening one.
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FUEL OIL UNDER CONTROL.
Mark l. Requa Selected As Chief Of
Oil Division.

Washington.-Government control
OF the oil industry became effective
under proclamation of President
Wilson authorizing Mark L. Requa,
chief of the oil division Of the fuel
administration. to establish a licens
ing system for all manufacturers or
distributors whose gross sales exceed
100000 barrels annually. The procla-
nation does not extend to gasoline or
kerosine.
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Refuses To Convene ReIehstaa.

Amsterdam.-The president Of the
Reiclstag has refused 10 comply with
the demand Of the Socialist party
that the Reichstag be eonvsked In
special session. according to the Der
lin Tsgeblatt-
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EstsbIIshes Bread Ration.

washington.-A two-ounce bread
ration was ordered by the food ad-
ministration for patrons Of hotels,
restaurants and dining cars. This al
lOvance is about that now observed
in England.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08

Washington. : Belgium has been
granted another credit Of S3.5o0.000
by the treasury, making her total
loans from the United States
$50 900 900.
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JOHN |. SULLIVAN DIES
Americas Greatest sportman Gets FIN
Al Knockout

Arlington, Mass.-John L. Sullivan.
one OF the most interesting figures OF
prize-ring renown. died suddenly Of
heart disease at his farm in West Alb
ington. As was his wish. he died with
his shoes on" Although stricken with
heart trouble three weeks ago he had
quickly improved and was in no sense
an invalid. He was about 70 leave his
house for visit to Boston when be re
ceived hts final knockout
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Rnl.hsxIkl n cnntroI.

Petrograd The capture Of Kiev BY
the BoIshevih virtually without re-
sfstance insures the authority OF Boz
sheYEki rada in the Ukraine.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08

Dallas, Texas--Miss Emma May
Poole. ~. was shot and instantly
killed by ]. Frank LoEeIl. the girls
sssp-father. who then shot and killed
himself.
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Aa,h.r Oh. rhan support Family

Minneapolis, Minn.-Faeed by the
possibility Of having to support his
wife and six children after living for
tive years on his wife's earnings,
peter Roussin, Of ST. Paul. killed him
self.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08

under the sinister influence Of foreign
control II we do not win. We must
win, therefore. and we shall win.
need not ask you to pledge you: lives
and fortunes with those of the rest Of
the nation to the accomplishment Of
that great end
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-02-08

London.-sixteen classes or GreeA
raseryists have been called to the
col0rs. Reuter- dispatch from Athens
announces.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
ENEMY VERY ACTIVE
SOUTH OF POSITIONS
HELD BY AMERICANS
ARTILLERY FIRING BECOMES LIVELIER
IN THE ITALIAN THEATRE OF WAR
COUNTER ATTACKS AGAINST THE
FRENCH BY FOE REFUSED. T.

The expected renewal of the German having fail
ed to develop the Allies continuing their tactics of antic
pang the thrust by reaching out for vantage points from
which the better to resist it.
aggressors the latest operation of
this kind carried out late yesterday They rushed out from
their lines south of Haies the Somme 'front.' their obec
tive being wood situated at about point the
had made their furhes westward advance and within
a short distance of the PariszAmiens railroad.
The operation entirely successful resulting in the
capture of the wood the slopes west of the Avre river
session of which improves considerably the Allied defensive
position this important sector
evidently recognized this fact for they
strongly night Their determined attack failure
however, for after spirited fighting the French remained in
possession of their position after having euhe enemy up
badly with their fire. besides taking than hreescore prs
oners.
The artillery reported by to violent
last night north of Montdde just to the south of this SECTOR
troops holding portion of the front The
also along the souhery side of the
Montdder salient far east Noyon and the Germans
tempted to attack at point this line but promptly
checked.
statement indicates considerable activity
by the hostile artillery the British portion of the Somme
the and Ancre Valleys while this morning in
creased the region Anere
Morancour the Australians recently have made not
where yesterday they repused German
fort to recapture the lost ground.
On the Flanders likewise speed
up early today the KENNEL sector after having
their guns moderately hard during the night
southerly of the Lys salient the Behune Neppe
wood regions.
especially in the Trenno and the mountain front
Garda to the Pave Italian troops Monte Corno repus
led further Austrian attempts to regain the summit of the
heights.
Much interest is displayed in Allied capitals the
ing the emperors and their
diplomatic and military assistants and especially in the truth
behind the apparently purposely official statement
Its results.
That firm alliance between countries has
been cemened is certain and it is believed
has been forced make for her denquences
ally Of Germany by getting deeper into the power of the
stronger nation. Developments in the future it felt
probably will show whether Emperor Charles has
PEELED to the offensive against Italy to send large
numbers Of his troops to aid the exhausted
western 'front.'
The emperors, according to German newspapers picked
out rulers for Poland and the occupied portions
Russia including Courland and Esthona The
appointed these border disclosed
Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
white SLAYER is
Arrested after
z YEAR SEARCH

After being pursued for two years
by Federal authorities, for violation
of the Mann act, Gabrielle Donna
alias John Ferera," was captured
Sunday, in Stamford, by Charles II.
Lane, local agent for the United
States Department of Justice. Donna
was arraigned before United States
city yesterday, and is now being held
under $4,000 bonds pending further
action in his case.
For two years, the man Donna,
masquerading under the fictitious
name of John Ferera, was sought by
the Federal authorities as a violator
of the Mann White Slave act Evid-
ence was secured against him, but he
managed to keep his Whereabouts a
secret from the Department of JUS
tice agents.
Last Sunday however, Charles H.
Lane, local agent of the United States
Department of Justice, went to SIAM
ford and arrested Donna at $40 State
street, where he was living with his
wife's niece, Felicino Porccio. Upon
his arrest Donna insisted that he was
John Ferera," but transports which
were located by the Department of
Justice agents proved Donna was the
mans right name, and the John
Ferera" was simply an alias.
At the present time, Donna's wife
is living in Italy. He has been in
this country number of years.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
SELECT M0NARCHS FOR TERRITORY
Kaiser and Charles No1ni-
nate Rulers for Poland
and Other Lands.
CONFERENCE STARTS
INTERNAL STRIFE
Bavaria Objects to Prussia
Being Arbiter of Ger
many's Destinies.

London, May 15-The Aus
TRAN and German emperors at
their meeting at German great
headquarters, German news
papers say, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen, Sc
lected monarchs for Lithonia
(Lithuania?) Courland, Estho-
MIA and Poland.
King Ludwig of Bavaria was pres
ent at the conference at German great
headquarters Of the German and
Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, which COM
ments on the political and military
importance of the meeting. The
newspaper says:
The meeting Of the two emperors
at which, as the head of the second
largest German federal state, the king
of Bavaria was present, was a world
political event of first rate import
arce, which in view of the tremen-
dous military strain in the west, is
particularly calculated to enable us to
look forward hopefully and confidently
to further successes for the German
sword"
Both King Ludwig of Bavaria and
King Frederick August of Saxony
seem to have been participants in the
conference of the German and Aus
TRAN Emperors, although apparently
neither was invited to be present. The
is indicated by a statement in the
Munich Neuseste Nachrichten, which
says:
THE hour is grave and Bavaria
cannot leave Prussia to be the whole
arbiter of German destinies. Kine
Ludwig therefore decided to proceed
to headquarters The departure Of
the king of Saxony to take part in the
negotiations participation which
was not desired in Berlin circles
was due to the same cause
German and Austrian Liberal and
Socialist newspapers, says an Elk
change Telegraph Co. dispatch from
Copenhagen, are dissatisfied greatly
with the far reaching decision tina
has been made, reached without thu
sanction of the parliaments.
The convention, the Vorwaerts Of
Berlin says, will not cause much sat
isfaction in Austria, where the Ger
mans are very unpopular owing tt
pan-German agitation. A majorit.
of the Austrian people, it adds, will
consider that the convention will
have fatal effect on Austrian indus
try after the war, when the necessit,
will arise for getting large loan
from foreign countries.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
PLANES With
MAIL FOR TWO
CITIES START
President Wilson Witnesses
Initial Start of Skilled
+ .Aviators.

Washington, May Is - Aeroplane
mail service between Washington and
New York went into operation today
when the first mail carrier piloted by
Lieut. George L. Boyle, left Potomac
park for Philadelphia, at 11:45
o'clock. President and Mrs. Wilson
witnessed the initial start.
Carrier planes started from both
cities. Skilled military aviators, de-
tailed specially for the service took
the first consignment in large train
ing machines capable of transporting
from 800 to 500 pounds of mail.
Relay planes were provided il
North Philadelphia, where the bags
were to be transferred as soon as the
incoming machines landed. The trip
between the capital and Philadelphia
was expected to take about an hour
and 20 minutes, while from Philadel-
phia to New York the flying time was
estimated roughly at one hour.
New York, May 15-The first aero
plane mail service in the United States
was begun today when a government
aeroplane piloted by Lieut.. Torrey H
Webb, left Belmont park at 11:3C
a. m. for Washington with pouches
containing some 1000 letters.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
LENIENCY SHOWN
BY JUDGE WEBB
IN UPPER COURT

Judge James H. Webb proved len
lent in the criminal superior court to-
day in passing out sentences where
pleas of guilty had been entered, i'm
posing very light sentences in some
cases, and in several suspending exc
cution and placing the prisoner under
probation.
Arthur B. Nichols of Fairfield was
sentenced to not less than one wear
nor more than Is months in the state
prison for an assault upon his common
law wife, Lulu Nichols, March 9 last,
when he fired a shot at her. the
charge striking her leg. Amputation
was necessary later. 1t was brought
out that Nichols, his wife, and others
had been having a cider party and
that Nichols was considerably under
the influence of drink During a
quarrel he took a gun and fired it, the
charge striking Lulu Nichols, inf1ict-
ing dangerous wound. Nichols had
a pretty good record, and this was
taken into consideration. He was de-
Tended by Attorney R. G. DeForest,
public defender.
George Baluchal1, IS, a former en-
ploye of the Post & Lester Co., plead
ed guilty to theft of articles from the
store valued at $3.50 which he had
passed to friends and failed to charge
on the books. He offered restitution
but it was refused by the officials.
who wished an example made. Judge
Webb suspended execution of a. SEN
tence of nine months in Jail and plac-
ed the boy on probation.
Edward Vaccaro was sentenced to
the reformatory at Cheshire for a
| serious ofense against a young girl.
Wilbur S. Griffin was sentenced to
one year in Jail, and probated. He
was accused Of thefts of automobile
parts valued at about $500 from the
Loconobile Co. where he was en-
ployed, most of which he used upon
an automobile he had for himself. He
had previously been fined $3.50 for fall
styling a marker for the same auto
mobile.
Suspension of nine months Jail
sentence was also allowed in the case
of Mike Madokovich, accused of a
statutory offense, in which extenuat-
ing circumstances were shown. 1t
was alleged that the woman in the
case was taken in by him after she
had been driven from home by her
husband, and that the two afterward
| lived together. The case against the
woman will be nolled.
Judge Webb announced after the
| jury had been called and 80 of the 40
summoned had answered to their
names, that he would give special at
tention to claims of farmers actually
engaged in planting who asked to be
excused. Several made claims, and
excuses were granted, so that only %
of the original panel of 40 was finally
left to act upon trials.