Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-15

New York. May 14.-ApproXimAtely
ZOO New York lounge lizards" and
others ilk will have to go to work
under the provisions Of the anti
loaflng act signed last night by the
Governor, according to an estimate
made by James r. Smith, assistant
district attorney. who is conducting
the anti-Vice crusade in this city.
Employees OF gambling Clubs and
hand book men at race tracks are in
cluded in the category, he said. Mr..
Smith declared he did not construe
the law to apply to actors tempo
rarily out of employment" He put
them in the same position as the
school teacher or college student who
has long summer vacation.
Washington, May Representative
Treadway of Massachusetts introduced
resolution today instrUctlng the rules
committee to investigate statements re-
tiecting upon Congress alleged to have
been made by George Cr2el. chairman
Of the committee on public information
in speech at New York. 1t was re-
ferred to the rules committee
Pittsburg. May 14-Neville Island. an
nounced today by the war department
as the site for the ordnance plant to be
erected by the United States Steel Cor
poration, is stretch of land in the
Ohio river Just beyond the city limits
some seven miles long and not more
than mile wide. At one end is located
the Neville furnace of the Carnegie
Steel Co, which, il was stated today
would likely be used as the nucleus FOR
the blast furnace plant which Will be a
part of the new enterprise.
Washington, May A committee of
10 experts of the steel corpora ton will
have immediate charge of the work
, The cost of building the nlant will b.
, approximately s5oHooM0 possibly more.
Officers of the steel corporation will
work in conjunction with the war de-
partment and will receive no compensa-
tion for their services
Construction is expected to begin al
most immediately The steel corpora
ton Will be given A free hand in the
construction and operation Of the plant.
London, May 14.-"Reports from
Liese say that one cavalry division
from RTmania has passed through
Liege going westward and that more
troops from Rumania are expected on
the Belela front" says a dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Am
sterdam. Orders have been given
for all other traffic on the railways
to stop n order to allow these troops
to pass. the correspondent adds.
Washington, May 14.-Cnder an
amendment to army regulations an
proved today by Secretary Baker
necessary dental work is added to the
remedial treatment TO which all SOL
diers are required to submit. under
penalty # court martial. The mum
Der OF cases in which fighting men
quailed oefcre the dentists forceps is
said to have made the order ncCess-
airy.
Medford, Mass, May 1.-THE
Tufts College baseball team toda y
lost the services Of its coach. Dr.
Walter J. Nolk, who was notified to
report 70" active service as a lieuten-
ant in the army signal corps.
Boston, May 14.-Secretary Of State
Lansing was asked today by a legis
lative committee for his opinion as
TO the constitutlonality of a pending
bill which would require unnatural
lied aliens to register and to paw a
registra' ION fee of S.. The proposed
law would apply TO men of foreign
birth above the age of q and women
over IS.