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American aided the prisoner to escape
and was an accomplish IN spying.
NEW YORK. May o.-ThAt an
American contingent IL now in ser
vice on the Italian front is reported
in dispatches from the Austrian
front to the Berliner Tageblatt, \
copy OF which has been received here.
The number OF Americans and the
arm OF the service they represent Is
not given.
The Berlin newspaper further says
that q Bohemian legion has also join
ed the Italian forces. Dispatches
several days ago said that BohemianS
in large numbers were planning to
Join the Italians as soon as Italy
could furnish them with equipment
and supplies.
The British and French auxiliary
troops have disappeared from the
italian front with the exception OF
various special troops and artillery"
the Berlin paper says.
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is more patriotic than the male-or
words to that effect.

is more patriotic than the male-or
words to that effect.
Under a Senate bill, introduced
by Mr.. Weeks, appeals for money to
win the war cannot be made to the
public through bazars and other en-
tertainments without q license. The
bill is explained by what is now only
too well known as "profteering'
through a percentage Of gross re-
ceipts.
Mr.. Stephens Of Mississippi wants
to build a national military high
way ii. E., automobile boulevard)
from Memphis to Washington, one
half the cost to be paid by the States
and the other by the Federal Treas
ury. His bill leaves the total cost
to be calculated after the work is
done.
Mr.. c. W. Merrill, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, told the Senate
Committee on Mines and Mining Of
the need for encouraging the pro-
duction Of domestic arsenic. He was
chiefly interested in killing potato
bugs with it. He had no official
knowledge Of experiments with it in
making a successful poison gas, |"
for use in the most highly scientific
warfare; but it seemed they were
not satisfactory.
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By W. V. BYARs.

gency appropriations to win the
war. These may be fractional at
times, as when they run from half
a million to fifty millions. Yester-
day the provost marshal general
only asked for SIS, 762, 900, to make
good deficit expected for the COM
ing fiscal year. Secretary Baker
recommended it as imperatively nee
essary and, Of course, it will be
voted at once. Incidentally the pro-
vost marshal general himself was
before the House Committee on Mil
itary Affairs yesterday, explaining
his program. and if it involves
other fractional increases OF this
kind, all he will have to do is to
mention. As a hundred millions is
only one-tenth Of billion, it is easy
to calculate what a small fraction
fifteen millions is, as fifteen-hun-
dredths Of one-tenth.
After these fractional amounts,
when we come to round numbers in
the same pile of documents, it is
part of the days routine. Nobody
gasps. Everybody at the Capitol
has forgotten how to gasp at round
numbers, such as were used yester-
day when the Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury forwarded a letter
from Chairman Hurley, of the Ship
ping Board and Emergency Fleet
Corporation, which he said would
fully explain the need of an addi-
tional appropriation of something
over two billion dollars for the com
ing fiscal year. Chairman Hurley
DID explain that these increases over
his estimates already submitted
were asked because Of "increasad
activities" it had been impossible IN
anticipate. The amounts asked were
S2.223,OOO.OOO for the emergency
shipping fund and 1885 900 for sal
aries. The House may make some
remarks on Hog Island in connec-
ton with the increase asked for sal
aries, but it will vote both sums
very likely without the Suggestion
OF the absence of a quorum.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Schwab, the new
Director General OF the Shining
Board and Emergency Fleet CORPORA
tion, can count in billions and their
fractions as easily as most Of us can
in dozens. He appeared yesterday
before the Senate Commerce Com
mittee which Is undergoing consider
able education in the new arithmetic.
While the information impaired by
Mr.. Schwab was in secret session. il
was explained afterward in part. as
far as it is explainable at all, to those
who are not experts in high finance.
1t seems that Mr.. Schwab was told
by the committee to Ego ahead" and
use his own judgment on a new con-
tract plan he wishes to try out at
Newark, where the Submarine Boat
Construction Company has contracts
for 100 ships Of 5000 tons each which
on estimates under the cost plus"
system were to cost the Government
S750,OOO each, plus S37,5OO as a
'fee." Mr.. Schwab explained the
new system Of contract under which
the contractors would build each OF
the $50 ships for S96O.OOO at their
own risk. 1t was reported that a
member Of the committee suggested
that the cost seemed to he going I'D,
81 far as he could see, but that,
there was general
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STEADY STREAMS
FROM j. S. SWELL
FORCE IN FRANCE.
~ CARL GRoAT.


The American army in Francs will
be well on the way to the 100000
mark by the end Of the year.
This forecast had added weight to-
day from Secretary OF War Bakers
official revelation that we have now
passed the 100000 mark cover there"
His disclosure heartened the war
capital today as nothing else has
done, for II recorded in concrete fash
ion q record Of accomplishment In the
face OF many discouraging delays.
The figure represented a generous
proportion OF lighting men, supple
menting the behind-the-lines workers
who necessarily form q foundation OF
such an army as we plan
Increase Is STEADY.
Included In It are regulars, national
guard. and national army forces.
And. the addition to the half million
now there is being accomplished
steadily. A maximum effort II expect
ed to be reached this month or noxt,
and to continue well along into the
summer!
While It may not be said Just how
fast the troops are moving, Il can be
stated reliably that The present speed
Is several times as great as Il was IN
the ebb period around February.
The British Representatives here
are greatly cheered by the way In
which the Government. from itB own
resources and with British aid. has
been able to exceed original promises.
This is due sin part to diversion OF
shipping formerly used In nonesson-
tiaI transportation; in part to faster
turn around on transports through
skillful planning by the army and
navy transportation men, Colonel
Hines and Commander Belknap; and
largely because OF the system Of bri-
gading Americans with French and
British units.
Multiplied Five Tines.
Authorities estimate that praetic-
ally i've times as many troops could
be handled with the same amount OF
shipping under this brigading plan
as could be accomplished were d.
visional units kept intact and sup
piled from this side with all necsS-
sary material
The need for more and more Amer
cans rapidly was borne In anew to-
day with word that the Boche push
in Flanders had landed him IN some
first-line positions in the YpreB SEQ
tor. He Is evidently on the verge OF
q new and terri8ls smash. And the
British admittedly need more aid
hastily IN view OF the fact that they
have used their forces almost contin-
uously. eating up many reserves to
hold the Boche at critical moments.
Some military men here think the
drive now at hand Is quite possibly
next to the last great effort. They
said that, aside from a possible Ital-
ian offensive, they doubted that the
German could keep up his major
thrusts much farther, though they
warned cessation OF such smashes,
would by no means mark the end o.
serious battling.
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sUcKsHoT LEAGUE BUSY.

BEAVER, Pa, May e.-"warninE
to the Kaiser's friends: Keep your
mouths shut or you'll be next. By
order OF Squad A, Buckshot League"
This warning on a placard adorned
an image presumed to represent q
pro-German that was suspended by a
rope from a pole in front OF the
Bridgewater postOffce.
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1t was said not quite two thousand
years ago, and It is now often re-
peated that to admire nothing" Is
the only thing that can make and
keep any one happy. The difficulties
Of 'life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness" have changed little II at
all since then, but words have
changed so greatly that it is useless
to try to be happy at the Capitol, or
anywhere else merely by refusing to
admire anything admirable that hap
pens to be in reach-as for example
the statue of the late John James.
ingalls,, who invented the admirably
expressive phrase, frying out their
fat" as applied to Colonel ,Roose-
velt's "mAlefactors. of great wealth"
who are now in the highest standing
as instructors in efficiency.
We ought, in fact, to admire a
definition Of that kind, as it helps
to explain our former habit Of induc-
ing supermen to make voluntary con-
tributions to our Presidential and
Congressional campaign funds by
using the psychological offensive"
against them. In fact, "admiring,
as we now understand it, is a salts
faction and a means of happiness.
We may admire" as much as We
like. What we are advised not to do,
however, is not to be surprised,
shocked, astonished, stupefied, or
thunderstruck at anything whatever
which occurs when an earth OF the
kind we are managing in our own
way, gets away from US. In short,
we are TO take what comes and not
get of our base" when everything
is turning out worse than we or any
one else ever thought possible
II these remarks are not applied
to anything in particular, they are
in entire harmony with the new Sc
dition bill. Hence no one is author
lied to apply them to the matter-of
fact, everyday routine Of requests
to the House for additional emer-
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appreciation of the new system, az
Mr.. Sehwab explained it.

appreciation Of the new system, az
Mr.. Sehwab explained it.
The Senate debated and postponed
the passport bill" as it passed the
House, requiring a permit or pass
port" to leave or enter the country.
1t debated further and defeated the
committees BILL intended to limit
national banks in granting the over
draft privilege to directors or others"
Senator John Sharp Williams ex-
planned that he sometimes oYerdrew
his account 10, $40, $50, and even
more. He had once oVerdraWn 1920
and he thought it absurd for the
United States Government to inter
fere. This able argument, with
others more technical, needed only
support from a sufficient number Of
bank experts, to beat the bill
Finally the Senate took up the Post
office Appropriation bill, which, as
passed by the House, carried $685.
726, 900. Senate increases, chiefly
for salaries, disposed Of by the House
in a separate bill, made the total
1871, 154 900. Consideration OF the
bill was not completed. AS the
river and hRrbor appropriation bill
was reported by the Senate Commit
tee on Commerce, the only Increases
in the total Of the House bill were on
items Of need for naval purposes.
The merely nominal appropriations
for the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers were not changed. AS the
bill passes finally, the total will prob
ably be less than $25, 900, 900.
The event Of the day in the House
was the temperance Of Republican
Floor Leader Mann. He was re-
ceived with applause and cheers
from both sides as he made a de-
mand for unity in winning the war
with patience shown in dealing with
all inevitable mistakes and deter
mination to go on to victory at the
cost of any sacrifice. He greatly re-
GREETED, as did the House, that he
was forbidden by his physicians to
resume his work on the floor.
Mr.. Gordon, Of Ohio, announced
that he had been called away the
previous day to session OF the Mil
itary Committee, but that if he had
been present when the vote was
taken on the sedition bill he would
have voted mo-" This, with Mr..
London's vote, would have made two
votes in favor of supporting the
Constitutions guaranty of free
speech and a free press in America.
And Mr.. London was not born in
America.
The House adjourned early to
avoid complications on the Wednes-
day calendar. 1t passed a bill to
standardize "screw threads" in man
ufactures for the army and navy.
Mr.. Emerson, Of Ohio, made a
speech supporting q bill he intro
duced to require tickets Of admis- !
sion to all House galleries, so as to
keep out German spies. His main
argument was that not long ago |
members of a committee divulged |
on the floor of the House contiden-
tial information obtained in secret
session. 1t was ancient history"
however, which had probably been
reported to Berlin in twenty-four
hours after it occurred.
Mr.. Caldwell introduced a House
bill authorizing the District of Co
lumbia Board of Children's Guar
dams to grant allowances to the |
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LFALn TODAY-CARMEL MYERS Tr
THE MARRIAGE LIE" TOMORROW
WV s. HART In BLUE BLAZEs
RAWDES."
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HID0EH TODAY - AIARGARITA
UhLADEN FISHER in THE PRIMI
TIVE WOMAN" TOMORROw-AIBiE.
OLGA PETROVA in The Light Within -
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LEADER 500 T5B Gth t s. 4 SIT w WEEP
GLADYS BROCKWELL
IN HER ONE MISTAKE"
EXTRA Fox Sunshine Comedy. "A
EelEhbor'B Reyhole."
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LlOIi4L HAROLD LOCKWOOD IN
BROADWAY BILL" Also a DrsW
Comedy.
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.cRANDAIJ'SA American LIST ar. I.
SlAlllNDlLL y T ODAY ETHET
CLAYTON IN THE WITCH WOMAN. -
TOMORROW PAULINE FRFpFPTSrI-
in MADAME JEALOUSY"
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There are always a few people who
refuse TO do what the Government
asks them. But this should not be
the excuse for the rest OF uB to do
ikewise.-D. c. Food Administrator.
The Washington times., 1918-05-09

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OAhINUhLL j TODAY - KATHLYN
WILLIAMS IN THE WHISPERING
CHORUS" TOMORROW-ELSIE FER
GUSON in THE LIE"
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AMUSEM ENTS
TdQXYS
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ATTRACfH&3

1DAVnATTJc saVOyI4th 4 Col. I'd.
LNHNDHLL } TODAY = CARLYLE
BLACKWELL IN "A LEAP TO FAME"
TOMORROW - EFFIE SHANNON in
HER BOY"
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rDHUOATTJC Casino. 9TH & r HtS.
OlNhItDhLL j TODAY AND ALL
WEEK-"BIRTH
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cTDIN0 TODAY AND ALL THIS
SlnItINU WEEK-CHARLIE CHAP
LIN In IA DOGS LIFE"
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MpH Open at $50 P. ".
Vi I'LL ~ FRANKLIN FARNT-M IN
1881 Z 81. "A STORMY NIGHT
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.TPANnbII1C AVE. GRAND.
SllhlNDlLL y 645 Pa. Ave. 9, r.
.TODAH-ENID BENNETT IN ..SAI-C,TJ-
TH. NAUGHTY" TOMORROw-KTTT
GORDON in THE PURPLE LILY
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HOMES
CAROLINA

Q0ME'C CAROLINA.
lIOIlLL y I1th & N. Car. Ave. 8. Il.
PEGGY HYLAND In DEBT OF HON
Or" Also Fox Sunshine Comedy.
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Through Vice President Marshall
the Twenty-seventh Continental Con-
gress of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution submitted resolu-
tions Of protest, which included
protest against "the honors Of war"
paid to two German prisoners Of
war who died in the military prison
at Atlanta. Mr.. Kipling once OBJ
served thai the lady Of the species
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/ American aided the prisoner to escape
and was an accomplish IN spying.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-10-10

ND he keeps going till he gets what he started ater No
bursting shrapne poisonous gases dun him! No fear
of bursting bombs and bullets stops him. Forward he goes his
whole heart and soul set putting the German brues out Of
business That's the American way fightngto know no
retreat, to stand defeat to go Forward to Victoy
The same sharp challenge to battle sounded for us
right here at home. We must in the American
way with our dollars We must lend money to finance
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-10-10

Our task is to pay for the Ships the guns the SHE'LL the
food and clothes of boys who fighting for proec
ton. We must work. save-and lend-wth thought
Vctory We must show the warmaddened hun united
American people moving shoulder to shoulder to Victory
Get in the fight Mster-wth your whole heart Do your
share in the scrap.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-04-30
Three-Fourths of Bonds Sold

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Liberty Loan
cent subscribed, the total being $2,2 ,3O1 $50.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-04-30
Yures Takes Name of Suicide Corner,
as kaiser's Picked Divisions Shatter
Themselves in Vain Attemots to Storm
and Capture British Defenses at Bloody
Salient

LONDON, April 29.-"Suicide Corner" the Ypres bend
remains unb1oe and many thousands of picked German fight
who tried to today either dead wounded at the
end of aday battle in which General Won vany
to break through.
From dawn until DUSK and far into the night the German
infantry hurled against the southern and southeastern ap
proaches but every impered line held like granite.
The attack planned gigantic scale. All the
from Meteran to the lake Nebeke village along 5mie
cnt the Teuton divisions forward with the
Conquer or die
Thousands of them did the latter while the remainder either
remained the field wounded steamed back before the
derous British artillery and machine gun fire. An earthshang
drum fire preceded the infantry attack
The German defeat is the worst they have suffered since the
drive began General Hag in his night official report
states that the German losses vey heavy The British
ied marshal seldom the word Every" in his reports
The battle is by and fighting continues at
vital points The amporant thing is that had the Germans
broken through disaster would have befen the entire British
front.
General Hag prepared to get out of the nasty salient but
proposes to do it in his own time.
Hags night statement declared that the attack made
extraordinarily large forces of the and extended to
the Belgian lines north of Ypres.
Fighting of great intensity developed along the whole Allied
'front.' says Haig he 25th 49h and 21s British divisions
repued every attempt their POSITIONS despite
sive determined attacks" ~
French positions the hills around Schepenberg and
Mount Rouge heavily attacked but the
pulsed
Strong partial attacks by the French Hangard Wood
repused according the German office and adds that
in German raid French trenches the east bank of the
Meuse prisoners taken.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-04-30
PROPAGANDA PLAN
OF NOGALbS MAY
BECOME NATIONAL
Chamber of Commerce Committee Takes
Steus to Make Radical Fight Against
Pro- -Teuton Agitators, Enlisting Fed
eraI and Mexican Assistance IN Project

Steps were taken last night by the Chamber Commerce
committee appointed fight poGeman propaganda Sonora
Snaoa that may lead national backed by the
federal authorities the effects of the work done by
Teutonc gents in Mexico. The committee decided:
Fst-To write to the Bureau of Public Information of the
War Trade Board at Washington appealing for cooperation and
financial assistance
second-To communicate with the Douglas Chamber of
Commerce outlining its plans and inviting cooperation the
part of the Douglas business interests
Thd-To appoint delegates to visit the Nogales, Sonora
Chamber of Commerce about to be organized and invite to
appoint delegates with the delegates from here in visiting
p Elias Gales Of Sonora and Governor soano of Sna
by personal interview their
and cooperation
Consul A. M Iawton and H Delgado present
the meeting Special Agent W. T. Haley of the War
Trade Board and President Bracey Curtis of the Chamber Of
Commerce i
Probably significant the meeting
called forth by remark from Mayor H. M Cgett that it
unfortunate that there general impressions that General
Gales was proGerman propagandsts
Il don't believe that that is true said President Curtis
earnestly II don't believe that General Gales the officials
Mexican people The trouble is that they have
information from de- but filled full of msnfoma
ton from the friends of Germany"
That is true" said Mr. Delgado. "The difficulty comes
that the get nothing from this side They know
only what they hear from the other side
Chairman j. A. Legarra also told of the friendship of Sonora
officials Americans and Consul Lawon said that Nogas
Sonora where the Mexican people in contact with Amer
knew the TRUTH they friendly to country
COL A. T. Bird told of organization in Mazaan,
posed English, French and other aednaon cti
for antGeman propaganda and Mayor Cage told of
similar organization in Guynas.
Discussion disclosed anmy of opinion that for efec-
tive propaganda work. newspaper published in Mexico in the
Spanish language practically Indispensable and the
on that such paper be established and subsidized if
sry favorably received
F. F. Rodriguez who volunteered to visit General Gales in
the interests of the committees plan and Consul Degado
selected delegates attend the meeting of the Nogas Son.
ora Commerce. with delegates that body will be
invited to appoint call General Gales and later Gov
Soriano of Sinaloa.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-04-30
PLANT
EMPLOYEES BUY
WAR BONDS
PURCHASE $50, AND
LIST is YET GROWING.
American and Mexican Fellow
Workers Sign Applications
Side by Side.

Employees of the Arizona Gas
& Electric company subscribed
for $3.50 worth of Liberty
Bonds Sunday and Monday, as
the result of a War Loan meet
ing held at the plant of the COM
|pany Sunday afternoon.
Additional subscriptions from
employees who could not be pres
ent at the meeting will add con-
siderably to this amount before
the close of the week, and Man
ager Kelsey hopes that the total
will reach $1,000.
One of the significant fea-
lures of the occasion was that
Iemployes of Mexican blood came
forward alongside their Anglo
Saxon workers and placed their
names on applications for bonds.
The taking of subscriptions
was preceded by short talk by
&c. B. Walker of The Oasis, who
spoke of the great cause which
it was a privilege to aid. He
contrasted the supreme sacrifice
which the boys who go cover
there" were making with what
was asked of those who remain
ed behind, but added that all
who assisted in any way would
be glad for the remainder of
their lives for what they had
done, and that the greater then
"bit," the greater would be
their future satisfaction when
the cause of world liberty was
won.
Mr.. S. S. Proto addressed the
meeting, explaining the details
of the plan, and assuring the
men that the company would CO.
operate with them in every way
possible in meeting their sub.
seription payments.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-04-30
MAY
! VACCINATE AS
WAR PLAN
MEASURE is PREDICTED
BY DIR. RAY FERGUSON.
Bases Statement on Reports
Submitted at Meeting of
State Medical Society.

Universal vaccination of citi-
zens of the United States as a
federal government war meas
ure is foreshadowed by reports
presented at the meeting of the
Arizona State Medical society,
according to DR.. Ray Ferguson,
who returned Saturday from at
tending the annual meeting of
the society at Phoenix.
"It is, certainly coming, and
coming soon," said DR.. Ferguson
Sunday. "Just how soon l can
not say, Of course, but it will be
in the very near future, from
the reports that were read at
the meeting Of the society.
"This will mean not only vac
eination for smallpox, but for
typhoid, and will be enforced
without exception.
"The time has come when
those who ignore the plain les
sons Of history will be compelled
to take q back seat, and the peo-
pie of this country will be pro-
tected against contagion,
whether they desire it or not.
"The government has reached
the point where it has decided
to temporize with faddists no
longer, but will take action to en-
force laws against exposing the
peope to the danger of epidemics
because a misguided portion of
the population refuses to heed
the lessons that experience has
taught.
"Sixty thousand doctors have
been killed in the war, and the
time is coming when there will
not be doctors to protect the
people should an epidemic break
out.
ARIZONA has sent 28 per cent
of it's practicing physicians to
the army, and while this is the
highest proportion of any state
in the Union, the percentage is
high throughout the country,
and if the war lasts another two
or three years this country will
be stripped Of a large share OF
it's trained medical men.
"There is a real danger that
through SOME means, contagior