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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
SPORTING

S. Kasliro, a japanese, won semi
| final round match in the Middle States
| tennis championship.
Jimmy Burke, coach of the st. Louis
Americans, was appointed manager Of
the team by Phil Ball. president Of
the club, to succeed Fielder Jones, who
| resigned two weeks ago. Burke join
| ed the Browns the first of the season,
coming from Detroit.
Besides making all those home runs
Ruth has found time to play little
| left field, little center fed, do some
| work at first base and pitch nine COM
piete games.
Heine Zimmerman continues to play
| fine ball at third base.
Johnny Evers, who has won the
nlaudits Of millions of baseball enthu-
| Siasts for many years, IS all ready for
;he trip overseas. When Johnny ar
| riyes in France as the baseball gener-
alissimo" behind the firing lines he
| probably will be given great recep-
| ton.
Lightweight Champion Benny Leon
ard scored a victory over Jack Britton,
the claimant of the American weltcr-
| weight crown.
The Reds, in need of a pitcher, have
made strenuous efforts to induce Ed
die Gerner to return, but to no avail
He has q congenial position in Phila
delphia and pitches OH Saturdays for
a semi-pro team.
The underhand delivery of Mays, by
the way, has proved especially battling
| to the Athletics this season. A hit by
Munich kept Mays from q no-hit game
| last week.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05

The house rejects compromise with
the senate to give Major General Bar
nett. commander of the marines, a
rank equivalent to that of lieutenant
general.
President Wilson Is reported to have
given his approval to universal MILL
tary training proposal that will be en-
bodied in Secretary Bakers man pow
er program promised for September.
Governor Mccall of Massachusetts
announced his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for United Sta'es
senator in opposition to Senator
Weeks.
In opposing extension Of the draft
age at this time Secretary Baker tells
Congress there will be 100000 Amer
leans under arms in August, of whom
1,450,000 will be in France, and there
will still be $1,000 left in Class !.
The senate adopted an amendment
to the army bill providing that Central
and South American countries or any
other nation fighting Germany may
train troops in the United States.
Two hundred and twenty thousand
men are summoned to the colors the
latter part Of July in new draft cali
by Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
PETH OF THE
w A r N E w S

General Pershlng reported the capture
by American forces of 240 prisoners
and a quantity of machine guns In
an advance In the Chateau Thierry
region, south of Torcy.
With the return of almost normal con.
ditions on the italian front and with
no Indications apparent that It Ia
the intention of the Americans In
the Immediate future to launch an
other stroke against General Diaz's
armies, the eyes of the world are
being centered once more In expec-
fancy on the battle area In Franco
and Flanders as the possible theater
of early encounters on large scale.
An Austrian report received via Hol.
land gives the number of Austrlans
drowned In the Plave as 10000.
All is quiet along the PIave front In
the italian theater, where the ltal.
lans are secure In the positions from
which they drove the Austrlans from
the western bank Of the river.
The German high command has sent
to Austria request, couched In Ian.
euage described as the reverse OF
friendly, for information of the cause
of the defeat.
The Kaiser received from Austria
request for troops, which will Ger.
tainly not be granted.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
j, S. First Line Tfi?OOff 5 5
Americans Will Form Right Flank
in Allied Attack.
General Scheme Puts Americans on
Right, British on Left and
French in the Center.

Wasllington.-The first division OF
The American army landed in France
one year ago, Is days after General
persliing reached French soil. In The
y months that have since elapsed this
division has grown to all army in size
and during July million men, all told,
will have been se:t forward.
Behind this million, another l,0O0,-
coo men are in camps and environments
cuuipped and eager TO move, and be-
Lind these third million will rapidly
ill up the gaps left at home as The
divisions sail for the front in an end-
less chain.
Secretary Baker estimated that be-
tween G5 end 20 per cent o. the men
already shipped are comhaIant troops
in the strictes: sense Of the word. The
first division has now beer. expanded
10 fighting force of G00,000 men,
backed by an organization Of the sup
uIy and transport lines that it takes
.,1G 900 mer to make effective.
On this basis it is clear That General
:'crshing now has under his command
the substance of the first field army,
con,priscd of Is infantry divisions
with all necessary auxiliary troops.
SO far as known, there has been no
oprortunily yet for the actual formal
lion OF this army as il military unit
The whole force has been in training,
officers and men, but the day probably
is net far distant when twill be pcs
&ihle for General Pcrslling t. assemble
his first army, which will be ii veteran
lighting force.
American troops are now holding
sertors of varying ,en@ths in at least
six places on the battle line. 70 meet
the emergency presented by the Ger
man drive, however, they have been
drawn away from the region formally
assigned to the United States and are
face to face with the enemy Oh the
Marine, in pirartly and Flanders.
The real American sectors, however,
lie on the Fight flank Of the great bat
lie front. From within sight Of the
Swiss border where they stand on
German soil. almost 10 the shadows "i
lie battered fortress of irrdun, Amer
:can troops ale in The trenches.
There never has been an oil!rias
statement of the vast S'lIrne of Amer
;c;tn participation III. the war, hHt tie
scope Of Ike idea now begins to be-
come apparent.
The location Of the strictly Amcri-
"an sectors makes ii appear hat ihe
whole project rsSts on assignment 10
he United States Cf the task OF hold
!ng the right flank. as British armies
Hold The left. leading 10 The CHANNEL
urts, leaving Frince free 10 rourr!i-
rate all her armies IL the sector along
he road To Paris.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
FOREIGN

Persistent reports from many
sources say Nicholas Romanofr, dcpcs-
ed Gar has been put to death BY the
Bolsheviki. Another report says that
the Red Guards are moving down the
people with machine guns to suppress
revolt in Petrograd.
Allied diplomatists are watching
carefully the Czecho-Slovak fight to
reach the Siberian ports, from which
the Bolsheviki are seeking to bar them.
The Canadian War Trade Board as
sumed control of the expectation Of
hides and skins, whether foreign or
Canadian origin. Licenses will be re-
quired for all exports of these prod
ucts with no exception in favor of any
country.
w. NJ. Hughes, premier Of Australia,
speaking before the London Chamber
of Commerce, said Won Kuehlmann's
speech was clear admission that the
vaunted German drive was barren 81
gain.
The Italian war office reports that
all of the artillery lost during the ear
" days of the Austrian offensive has
been recovered. The Capo Sile bridge
head has been extended and further
prisoners taken.
The Municipal Council of Paris re-
named the avenue Trocadero the Pres
ident Wilson and the new name plates
will be placed before July 4.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
German-American War

The latest account of the Ameri-
cans victory at Belleau shows that
the troops from overseas in addition
to killing or wounding many OF the
enemy took 81 prisoners, II machine
guns and 10 automatic rifles and q
large quantity Of ammunition and 9TH
er war stores.
For the moment the Germans seem
resigned to their loss to the Americans
of the Belleau wood, northwest OF
Chatteau-Thierry. No counter attacks
have been made in IN endeavor to re-
gain the lost ground.
General Pershing has selected reg
iment now in France for service IN
Italy.
The Germans now fear the Ameri-
cans at the front and arc amazed a.
their speed and the accuracy Of their
artillery fire.
The citation Of Maj. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., and other Americans
for bravery at Cantigny has inspired
the whole army.
The senate approved Of legion of
"Slavic races oppressed by Germany
and Austria" for service at the front.
American troops have extended their
operations to the Vosges, 1t Is now
permitted to announce.
Captain Edmundson and IS members
Of the crew Of the torpedoed Argonaut
arrived at an Atlantic port OH Brit
ish steamship.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
GENERAL

Draft boards get orders for enforce
ment of work or fight" edict. Rules
allow few, If any, exemptions for reg
iStered men.
Farmers are paying as high as $5
q day for farm hands.
William Richey, a digger in the coal
mines at Coalbrook, Pa, made q rec
ord of 165 tons in two weeks time.
His pay check for the period was
$155.42.
The food administration advanced
the price Of sugar along the seaboard
5 cents a hundred pounds to pay for
increased sea freight and insurance.
There were six deaths>for the week
ending June 10 in the United States
airplane camps.
The war department announced that
Clifford N. Markle, New Haven, for
merly pitcher of the New York Yam
KEGS, is a prisoner of war in Germany.
-Four indictments charging larceny
and conspiracy are, returned against
Mrs. William Cumming Story, head of
the National Emergency Relief Socie-
tv. and her sons. Stirling and Allen, as
n result of an investigation Of the So
ciety's financial affairs.
William H. Taft and Frank P.
Walsh, joint chairlnen of the War La
Dor Board, rule that President Wilson,
under recent war legislation, has pow
er TO increase street car fares.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
u, 5, TO help RUSSIA
President Decides on Policy al
Special Cabinet Meeting.
Sending Of American Troops to Russia
Not Precluded In Proposed
Plan.

Washington. - The United States
policy towards Russia has been decid-
ed on by the President, 1t was learned,
and action will be taken shortly.
The President has made up his mind
completely on the general features Of
the policy he intends to follow. An
nouneement of it, it is understood,
waits only upon tn! working out Of
certain details. The decision was
reached at d meeting which the Presi-
dent had with his cabinet advisers.
The rebuilding of the Slay nation
through pcaceable aid to the people Of
Russia is the chief thought underlying
the Presidents plan. This provides:
First, for the sending Of a new COM
mission to Russia, to be headed by the
ablest man who can be found for the
task, and, second, for an offer Of CO.
oDeration in the re-establishment Of
agriculture, trade and industry.
Under no circumstances and by no
inference is military intervention to be
undertaken by this government. En-
phasis is laid on the fact that this
country is not to extend relief to Rus
sia, but that its policy Is to be entire
ly one Of mutual aid.
There is still to be determined also
the authority in Russia to which this
government will make its proposals.
Whether it will be the CZechO-SlayS,
who are variouSly reported as strong
ly organized IN Siberia, or whether 1t
ia to be the Soviet or some other pow
or In Russia affairs cannot yet be
definitely stated.
American troops may go into Russia
under the policy determined upon, but
il is stated they will not go in any
guise that can be nj taken for armed
military intervention. They will 90 as
organized railroad construction units,
as foresters, as transport men and as
Industrial organizers.
Their only military duty will he to
rol;ce and 10 protect The great Ameri-
can s:cres and supplies tliat are now
In Russia and tia; are to go there.
They will aid Russian authority, but
will in no sense Gir!a!e. That such
men can ably discharge The duty to he
assigned 10 them is assured by the con-
drrt of similar units behind" the lines
in France.
II is understood to be the conviction
of tbp President and his advisers that
this policy when formally announced
will carry sufficient evidence of friend,
ship 10 all of the Russian people to
bring from them of their own initiative
REORGANIZATION Of the nation for war
Oh the size Gf .l!eir friends.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
CALLS ISSUE or
S8,OOO,OO0,OOO
Kitchin Reports Measure to
House in Preparation for
Fourth Liberty Loan. !
MORE CREDITS FOR ALLIES.
Revenue Measure to Raise Another
ss,ooo,ooo,ooo of $24,ooo,oo 900
Needed to June 80, 1s1e-Eight
Billion Bonds Next Session.

Washington. - The fourth Liberty
bond act to provide for an additional
$4,000, 100000 to carry on the war and
extend credits to the allies was intro
duced in the house by Chairman kftch-
in Of the Ways and Means Committee.
1t raises the total of bond authoriZa-
tions for war purposes to 1900, ,OOO,-
900.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Leffingwell appeared before the house
Ways and Means Committee on be-
half Of Secretary McAdoo to ask for
the additional authorization of $S,OOO.-
100000 In Liberty bonds. The next
bond issue, Mr. Leffingwell indicated,
would be $6000,O0O,000 and the inter-
est AZ per cent.
He told the committee that this Is
sue would carry the treasury we'll into
the winter. Another bond issue, he
said, would be made before the end Of
the fiscal year of 1919 if the war con-
tinued
The new revenue bill upon which the
committee is now working will raise
another $S,000,OOO,000, thereby provid-
ing for two-thirds Of the total amount
of $24,000,000 which Secretary Nc
Adoo asked Congress to raise for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1919.
The remaining $9,00O00O,00O will be
provided for in another bond act, which
will not be submitted until the next
session Of Congress In December.
The committee sent to the house ac-
companying the bill q report from the
secretary Of the treasury showing that
there are now authorized and availa-
BILE to be issued under acts already
passed bonds to the extent Of $4,O21,-
214200, which may be issued any time
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1919
The bill increases the authorizations
for loans to the allies by 81 00O0,-
900.
The total allotments in the war bond
acts for credits to the allies have been
as follows: First Liberty bond act, S3,-
OOO,O00000; second act, $4,00O,OOO,0 600;
third act, S1,500,000,000; fourth act
pending, $1,500000,0O0, making total
of $10,O00,0O0,00O.
There were 100000 purchasers Of
the first Liberty bonds, 9,50O,OOO Of the
second and 100000 Of the third.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
latest NEWS IN
ABRIDGED FORM
Events That Concern the TWO
Hemispheres Recorded So as
to Be Read at a Glance.
BULLETINS ABOUT THE WAR.
Progress of HostiIites in the Heavens
Above, the Earth Beneath and
the Waters Of the Seven
Seas.
BULLETINS ABOUT THE WAR.
WAR BULLETINS

Allied troops in the Balkans are
holding fast against the Germans and
Bulgarians, said Major General Scriv-
en-, who has returned from a tour OF
military observation.
British troops in a night operation
took German strong point in. the Lys
salient east Of HaZe5rouck, capturing
prisoners and machine guns.
The Italians have buried $4,000 Aus
trians on the west bank of the Piave.
Czecho-Slavoc troops operating in
western Siberia have captured Eka-
terinburg, in the center of the Ural
mining country.
A new sector held by the American
troops in Alsace is in the region north
west Of Gebweiler. This sector is not
far from the famous Hartmansweier-
kopf, the scene of so much hard fight
ing in the past. The 4>mericans are
now holding a considerable front in
three different sectors in Alsace.
The Americans took the remainder
of Belleau Wood. The German losses
in killed and wounded we're extremely
heavy. They also lost at least 264 pris-
oners, including captain and six
other officers. The Americans captured
many machine guns.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann, German foreign
secretary, in a speech in the reichstag
dealing with questions of imperial poll
cy, declared he was ready to discuss
peace, but preliminary requisite was
mutual confidence. He did not believe
the end Of the war could be reached
through military decisions.
Correspondents with the British
armies in the north say the line just
now is quiet and wet weather has i'm
paired the prospects of a German drive
in Flanders. Nevertheless, another
blow is expected soon.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
WASHINGTON

Anti-suffrage ilibustering again pre-
vented the passage Of the woman suf-
frage amendment in the senate.
Carrying an amendment providing
for national prohibition as war
measure, but not fully effective until
June 80 1919, the $11 100000 emergen-
cy agricultural appropriation bill was
reported to the senate
Nearly 100000 young men of twen-
ty-one, who registered for military
service last June 5, had their order In
the draft classes fixed by a second ma
tional draft lottery, held with formal
ceremony at the senate office building.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles urges govern
ment to send armed force and military
Instructors into Russia and save nation
from Germans.
Secretary Baker requested that no
action be taken by Congress to raiSt'
the draft age to forty years unit!
studies now being made are completed
and a report is compiled and plan
adopted by the army department. His
request is likely to be complied with.
The American government finishes
the biggest harvest nf taxes ever gath
cred in this country. Excess profits
and income assessments collected will
total $2,775,O00,0O0. it is estimated.
An intensive campaign to round up tax
dodgers now will be begun.
Senators favor Hitchcock substitute
amendment making uraft ages from
twenty to forty.
The Forest Service reported that the
lumber cut in the United States for
1917 amounted to 35,000,000,000 feet.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
WOOD WARNS OF LONG WAR.
Tells Michigan Alumni 1t win End

Tells Michiqan Alumni 1t VIII End
When awe Have Won"
Ann Arbor, Mich.-"Don't look for
the end Of the war till it comes. No
man living can tell how long that will
Ae. The. end must not come till we
have won" said Mai. Gen. Leonard
Wood at the University of Michigan
alumni reunion here.
Other speakers at the meeting ia-
Guided NJ. Stcphane Lausanne, editor
of lie Matin, and Sir Robert Falconer
Df Toronto.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
Senate slDEsrEPs SUFFRAGE.

Resolution withdrawn After Much
Parliamentary Jockeying.
Washington. - Efforts to bring the
house resolution proposing submission
of the Susan B. Anthony equal suf-
frage amendment to the federal Con-
stitution to a vote in the senate failed.
After three hours of debate and par
liumentary jockey:ng before crowded
galleries expecting final action on the
franchise proposal pressed for 40
years, the resOlti Il was withdrawn
by its managers.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
AMERICAN ARMY FOR ITALY.
Purpose Is to Demonstrate Unity OF
Entente and America.

Washington.-A regiment of troops
in General Pershing's eXpeditionary
forces has been ordered to Italy, prob
ably as an advance guard of addition
al forces to be sent later to complete
the unity on that front of Italian, Brit
ish, French and American troops.
Secretary Baker announced that
General Pershing had been instructed
to select regiment now In training In
France for immediate movement to
Italy. 1t will be replacosi by regi-
ment to be sent from the United States
to fill up the division from which 1t Is
drawn.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
COLD WAVE HITS GERMANY.
Three Inches of Snow Falls and Frost
Ruins Fruit Trees.

London.-Snow has fallen to depth
Of from one to three inches in several
parts Of Germany. according to J dis
patch from Amsterdam to the En-
change Telegraph Company. Frost has
caused havoc to the fruit trees.
The cold wave, the message adds is
considered to he an economic catastro-
phe. Berlin and flamburg have eXpe-
rienced four days of uninterrupted
rain.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
BONE DRY LAW APPROVED.

Liquor Traffic Would Be Abolished on
June 80, 1919.
Washington.-Ry vote of to 3
the Senate Committee on Agriculture
voted TO stop the use of food or food
stufrs in the manufacture of beer three
months after the passage of the act
ans, lie sale Gf whisky and wines on
June -. 1910.
Tie proposition is in the form OF an
afue.,t.!.,,lt h. ScGa Or Norris to the
feed S~.ie$ bill and was reported to
Tie senate.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-05
GIRL SLAYER ACQUITTED.
Pauline PIotka Declared Not Guilty Of
SWeetheert's Murder.

OWCClITCcII
Chicago.-Miss Pauline Plotka was
found not guilty by jury Of the MUIR
der Of her sweetheart, DR.. Anton jim
dra, an inferno, whom she met at the
Cook County Hospital and shot fatally
on February Is last Miss Plotka Is
one of more than score Of women ac-
Quilted Of murder by jurles in the
criminal courts Of this county in the
last few years. Only three, including
two negresses, have been convicted.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-08-29
AMERICANS GO THE LIMIT
Speed Of Motorcycles Used by United
States Soldiers Attracts Atten-
ton In Paris.

All Paris is familiar now with the
sight Of huge motorcycles ridden by
big fellows in campaign hats and guild
ed through the streets at alarming
speeds by sure and steady hands, says.
a war correspondent. 1t seems that
the ordinary French motorcycle has
something like three horsepower, while
these American military motorcycles
develop IL horsepower. This leads the
French to observe that Americans love
power and lot Of 1t. In their ma
chimes they must have. it.
One of the Paris papers has been at
pains to look up record made In
24-hour race on the Sheepshead Bay
track not long ago. Somebody on q
mechanical red devil with two wheels
maintained during that period. 1t
seems, an average speed Of hundred
miles an hour. The French common
tator notes the figures, apd hopes that
the American staff motorcyclists who
carry dispatches between American Of
ficers and the various bureaus Of the
French war department will not make
1t point of national honor to equal
the Sheepshead Bay record on the
Boulevard Saint-Germain. One fan
cies that the FrenchmaD who makes
the uggestion-mildly, as he says
really thinks that the mad Americans
are quite capable Of going anywhere as
fast as their machines will let them.