Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-04

The senate voted down resolution
which provided military training of
youths from 10 to 81 years old.
Railroads in the east were oper-
ated at loss in January, the first
month of government control. Profits
We're made in February, however.
Ten foreign born coal miners were
driven out of Hartford Ark, a min.
ing town, after being forced to kiss
the American flag.
The United States will get twelve
new steamships of 100000 tons dead
weight, in return for supplies of steel
furnished to Japan, the war trade
board has announced.
Resumption of fighting in Ukraine
between the Germans and the boil
sheviki is reported in dispatch
from Petrograd.
Shipment of any articles to troops
il France unless they have been re-
quested by the soldier himself was
forbidden by Major General March,
acting chief of staff.
The general walkout at Kansas
City in sympathy with striking laun-
dry workers resulted in two persons
being shot and five laundry plants
being badly damaged.
It has been officially announced
that the entire Turkish force in the
Hit area in Mesopotamia has been
captured or destroyed by the British.
Three thousand prisoners were taken.
Subscriptions to war savings
stamps in Nebraska, officially report
ed up to March % were $22, 214, 1853,
according to list of counties given
out by Director of Savings Ward Bur.
CESS at Omaha.
A report from American Minister
Morris at Stockholm says Germany
has agreed to recognize the independ
ence of Lithuania provided it joins
the German confederation and Shout
ders part of the German war debt
Premier Terauchi and Foreign Min
lister Motono of Japan, according to a
dispatch, have announced that Japan
is friendly to the bolshevik govern.
ment, and sees no reason at present
for armed intervention in Siberia.
Wage Increases tOtaling more than
| S2,oOO,OOO annually will soon be rec,
| commended for railroad workers by
the railway wage commission. All in.
creases probably will be retroactive
| to January 1.
| Because thousands of hogs now
coming into the market has increased
the meat supply beyond the country's
shipping and storage capacity, the
meatless day has been suspended fol
the next thirty days by the national
food administration.
General Foch, chief-of-staff of the
| French army, great strategist, to
whom has been accorded much of the
credit for the victory of the Marine in
September, 1914, has been made com.
mander-in-chief of the entente allied
and American armies in France.
4 Six great German-owned New .Jer
sey wooden mills, with total valua.
ton of more than $7O,OOO,OOO, have
been taken over by the government
The earnings of the properties during
the war will go into the federal treas.
ury for the purchase of Liberty bonds
President Wilson has sent tele
gram to Governor Stephens of Califor
MIA renewing executive appeal for in.
PREVENTION in behalf of Thomas ].
Mooney, who is under death sentence
in connection with the bomb tragedy
at San Francisco July %, 1916.
!. While urging the passage of a bill
to loan $10O0O,O0o to farmers to buy
seed in the house, Representative
Lever, chairman of the agricultural
committee, predicted that 1--WE are no.
many months away from bread cards
in this country
The Kansas City federal reserve
district, which includes Nebraska, ha.
been apportioned 1-3 per cent of, the
$3,OO0,000,000 third Liberty loar
bond total. This will amour. &
$13O,O000o0, or $lO,OOO,OOO higher
than the quota of the second loan.
A joint resolution proposing con
stitutional amendment to make it i'm
possible for any but citizens of tn,
United States to vote for members O.
congress and electors for presiden
and vice president wac iptroducad 4,