Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
The WORLD OVER
..ETEREsTING ITEMS OF PRESENT
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
1ting to the Latest Happenings OF
Interest Just Now Throughout
the World.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

To speed up the Shlpbuild1ng pro-
IAN, the war industries board Thurs
day issued orders to steel mills and
fabricating plants to make 100 per
cent deliveries on all orders for steel
ship plates from the Emergency Fleet
Corporation.
Death penalty for spies is proposed
in a bill offered Thursday by Repre-
sentative Daniel E. Garrett of Texas.
The bill defines the offense as lurking
or entering a government building,
wharf, dock, munition or other factory
engaged in government work, fortifica-
tion. camp, etc. And the offender
shall be tried by military court mar
trial with the penalty of death upon
conviction.
The legislative foundation for the
third liberty loan was laid Thursday
when congress completed and Presi-
dent Wilson signed the bill authoriz-
ing issuance of additional bonds at
Al per cent. Earlier in the day the
treasury announced that the bonds
would mature in ten years, that the
loan campaign opened Saturday will
continue four weeks, until May, and
that after the initial payment of per
cent on subscription, installments of
20. 35 and 40 per cent would be due
respectively on May 28, July Is and
August Is. The amount is $3,090,060
and oversubscriptions.
b;IJ;o~, loII.r.
mate cost to the United States of one
year OF war More than one-haIf has
gone in loans to allies and will be re
paid eventually Over one-third has
been spent for the army and military
establishments, one-tenth for the navy
and one-fifteenth for shipbuilding
Regulations requiring licensed deal
ers to sell wheat flour in not less than
12-pound sacks were rescinded Thurs
day by the food administration and
new two-pound minimum was pre-
scribed The purpose of the change is
to make it easier for the housewife to
buy equal quantities of wheat flour
and substitutes.
The war department order assigning
Major General T. Franklin Bell to COM
nnand the Western department and to
relieve Major General Arthur Murray
has been revoked.
Lord Reading, the British ambassa-
dor, Tuesday sent to President Wilson
a message of thanks on behalf of the |
British government for instant and |
comprehensive measures which the |
president took in response to the re
quest that American troops be used |
to reinforce the allied armies in |
France.
The American government has de- |
cided that Dutch ships en- route to the |
United States from Holland at the |
time the Dutch shipping in American /
ports was requisitioned, will not be I
taken over on arrival in America.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Three aviators met death at Filing
ton Field, near Houston, Texas, Thurs
day in accidents, being the first fatali-
ties to occur there in several days.
The first to be killed was Second Lieu
tenant R. F. Ives of Chicago, who was
at the wheel off machine that crash
ed to earth. Lieutenant Otto Epp was
III the rear seat and escaped serious
injury. Lieutenants Paul E. Ekstrand1
OF Brooklyn and Russell H. Ewiggins
of WaynetoWn. Ind, both lost their
lives when their machine plunged to
the ground.
At 6:29 o'clock Friday morning in
an arroyo behind the base hospital in
Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, John B.
Mann and Walter Matthews, two ne
gro privates of company |. S7oth in
fantry, paid with their lives for the
murder Of Ralph M. Foley, white, a
private of Company q. 13Oth infantry,
on the morning of the 18th of last Feb
ruary In Camp Logan. The two ne
groes were hanged on double galloWs
under the direction of Lieutenant Col
onel John VI Clinnin, commander of
the 10sth trains and the military po-
lice The men went to their death
without murmur.
The surplus produce raised in Texas
this spring viii be canned, IL the ef-
forts OF Walton Poteet Of the exten-
sion service of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College are successful.
AIr. Poteet says that & an 1rqaniza-
tons are being perfected over the
state and that community Gamers are
being purchased to save the produce
that can not be used now II
The American Red Cross has an
Ehorized : gift Of $500 900 50 the Ca
madam Red Cross fer war relief work