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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
4 DRACNEET FOR
WORLD News
FIotsam and Jetsam of Live In
terest Caught From the Wires
and Boiled Down.
GREAT CONFLICT EP|TOMIZED.
Important Happenings in. the Forty
eight States of the Union-occur-
rences at the Capital-Latest
Cable ccIsen, ations.
WAR BULLETINS

On all the rivers, the Lys, Somme,
Disc and Aisne, the Germans are ap-
parently engaged in general retreat.
Their resistance is greatest in front OF
Calnbrai. where the British have again
crossed the Canal du Nord south OF
Marquion.
Seventy-five submarines were sunk
by the British In the year ending Au-
gust, 1913.
The city of Lens has been definitely
evacuated by the Germans, according
to reports from northern France. The
British, 1t Is stated, are retralnlns
from occupying it only because OF the
gas fumes remaining there. Patrols
protected against the fumes nave en-
tered the city, 1t is stated, and found
it clear Of the enemy.
The Germans are now giving ground
over the entire $50 mile battle front
from Ypres to Rheims.
In the Lys salient the British cap
tured Wulverghem. South of the Sen
see river the Germans are evacuatins
tie ground west Of the Canal du Nord.
Tie whole German front opposite
the British army, from the Somme TO
Peronne to Messines Ridge, is in
state of fux. 1t is difficult to say that
the enemy is holding firmly anywhere,
though everywhere the Germans are
doing their best to cover the retreat
with rear guard machine gun actions.
Many prisoners captured by the
British were middle aged. Many were
obviously unfit for front line duty.
Five out of six had their shoulder
straps cut off to prevent Identification,
and number wore iron crosses New
comcrs to the cages were greeted with
shouts OF laughter and welcomed by
their previously captured comrades.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
MONTFPFY COUNTY VA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13 l9

Government expenses for August
were at the rate OF $40,446 a minute
Owners Of platinum jewelry were
requested by the government to send
it to the mint an receive 500 an
ounce for it.
The war department ordered more
than 100000 packages Of chewing
gum for the army.
President Wilson praises efforts OF
Zionists to establish national home for
Jewish race in Palestine in letter to
Rabbi Wise on eve of Jewish new year.
Insurance statesmen of Canada and
United States in win the war; conven-
ton organize to crush the German
peace propaganda appearing through
out both nations.
American ship construction for Au-
gust passed 100000 dead weight tons, a
worlds record for one month.
New York Railways Company seeks
permission to stop all street cars be-
tween midnight and a. m.
Alfred e. Smith, president Of the
Board of Aldermen, led William
Church Osborn for the Democratic
nomination for governor Of New York
by about the same margin that Gov
ernor Whitman led Mr.. Lewis. Mr..
Smith had nearly one hundred thou
sand majority over Mr.. Osborn in New
York city, and the returns indicated
that he would have about sixty thou
sand majority upstate.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
FOREIGN

Control Of the purchase and sale Of
export wheat in Canada will be as
sumed by the government.
Chita, the capital Of Transbaikalia
and the stronghold Of the Bolsheviki
in Siberia, has been captured by
Czecho-Slavok forces.
Prisoners taken on the western
front since August l total 10000, it
was estimated. The British captured
Approximately 10000 and the Ameri-
cans and French 10000. The British
total losses were not much greater
greater than the number of prisoners
they took.
All machinery on interned German
ships in Chile was damaged by the
crews. They used dynamite.
The son of DR.. Clemens Delbrueck,
former German imperial vice chancel-
lor, was killed in action.
DR.. Hans Won Hertig, Munich ply
sician, wants to have law enacted
to prevent German widows from mar
rying.
Two large warehouses at Copenha-
gen were secured for storage of sup
plies of American prisoners in Ger
many.
At the national conference of Brit
ish postal employees demands will be
made FOR higher wages, pensions and
better working hours.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
/ w. w. BOMB KILLS FOUR.
Thirty Injured by Explosion In chlca
go Federal Building.

Thirty Injured by Explosion In chica-
60 Federal Building.
Chicago.-A bomb placed behind a
radiator inside the entrance to the
Federal building exploded with terrific
violence, killing four persons and IN
juring. 80. The building was wrecked.
The list Of dead:
J. B. Ladd, twenty-five, sailor, Sail
ma, Kan. attached to Naval 1ntelli-
gence Bureau.
Edward r: Kollow, seventy-fve,
foreman general delivery department,
post Office.
Helen Miehlke, nineteen, Chicago.
William Wheeler, mail carrier, Chi
cago.
Definite blame for the outrage was
placed upon the l. w. W. by Phillip J.
Barry. acting head of the department
of Justice in Chicago. Hundreds OF
federal operatives and American Pro-
tective League members were sent out
TO round up every known l. w. W.
Fifty suspects were brought in, among
them men who were said to have made
threats against the government after
the trial of Haywood and other con-
SpiratOrS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
HUNT FOR SLACKERS5
More Than $4,000 Suspects seat
to ArmOries of New York. /
Suspected Men Seized From Railroad
Terminals, at Subways, Eelevated
Roads and at Work.

New York.-New York's draft clean
up, the detection and putting into uni
form of young men who fooled them
selves into thinking that they could
save their precious skins by evadin2
the selective service law, started on a
Drodigious scale More than 42,OOo
were caught in New York's boroughs
and the nearby cities of New Jersey.
A great specially organized police
force Of 10000 men began what Is OIL
cially called q canvass Of the city and
metropolitan district, including Hobo
ken, Jersey City and Newark. They
flung out a net in which $4,000 sus'
poets were enmeshed in Manhattan
alone Rnt enaranatinn of the real
slackers from those who at first Sight
may have appeared to be such, when
went on in police stations and In the
central sorting establishment, the SIX
ty-ninth Regiment Armory at Twenty
fifth street and Lexington avenue,
seemed to vindicate the Judgment OF
United States Marshall Mccarthy.
"This drive" said the marshal. "is
necessary and will have great moral
effect on the community, proving once
more that no man is exempt from TAX
ing his place in this war until he Is SO
labeled by the government But 1t VIII
demonstrate what l have said righf
along-that New York is no slackers'
town"
The raids in Manhattan yielded r..
900 and in Brooklyn 10000. Jersey
City and Hoboken contributed 10000.
The proportion Of proved slackers was
probably less than 3 per cent. The
others had left their draft credentials
at home or were not Of conscrpt age.
The hunt will go on. The canvassers
have been asked to be more careful
than many of them were the first day.
One of the most important immedi-
ate results of the concerted raid was
the arrest and Identification of five ac-
tual deserters from the United States
army. These were men who had been
sworn in under the selective draft, but
who had escaped or disappeared be-
fore arrival at their camp destinations
They have been sent under guard to
Governors Island, where they are SUBJ
ject to trial by military court martial,
with a probable penalty on conviction
or 20 years penal servitude in fed
eral prison.
Four hundred other young men, as
a result of the first days roundup,
have been inducted into the service
which they had sought to evade. These
are men who had been summoned in
the draft, but failed to appear. They,
too. are liable to severe punishment
before being sent into the fighting
lines.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
100000 men SENT
General Graves and Staff Arrive
at Siberian Port.
Ambassador Francis Reports That
10000 Russians Flocked to the
Czecho- -Slovaks.

Washington. - General March an
Rounced that the total embarkation OF
American soldiers for all fronts, IN
Guiding the Siberian expedition, num-
bered more than 100000 men on Au-
gust 81.
. The arrival Of Major General Will
liam S. Graves and his staff-at Vladi-
vostok to take command Of all Ameri-
can forces fighting on the new eastern
front, was announced by General
March.
General Graves took with him from
the United States 43 officers and 1855
men, who will join the regiments from
the Philippines already on the ground.
A Czecho-Slovak officer has arrived
at Archangel with word that $4,000
loyal Russians are operating with the
10000 CZecho-Sloyak forces moving
westward along the Trans-Siberian
railroad from Ekaterinburg. The news
reached the state department in q mes
sage dated August % from Ambassa-
dor Francis.
Since the officer left Ekaterinburg,
more than a month ago, more advances
by the Czechs have been announced by
telegraph, but his report is regarded
as important because of the light 1t
throws upon the relations of the
C2cchs with the people Of the country
through which they are moving. He
says the Russians are pleased with the
overthrow of the Bolshevik control
and that Bolshevik soldiers are flock
ing to the support of the Czechs.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
Gcrn1an-American War

Lord Reading, British ambassador
at Washington, addresses American
troops who took Juvigny, telling them
the people at home are proud Of them
and that their work has put new spirit
in the whole British and French
armies. His address Is said to have
been the first ever delivered by an am
baSSador to troops on the front line.
Franco-American troops have push
ed the Germans on the Vesle line
north across the Aisne, while on the
Ailette they occupied the lower forest
of Courcy, reached thes lopes of Port
Conde and taken 30 villages.
Washington believes the desperate
efforts being made by Germany to stop
Marshal Foch's advance are due to
Berlin's realization that it's expected
peace drive this winter will fail if the
Hindenburg line is not held. The view
now Is general in Washington that
Germany has definitely lost" the war.
United States troop shipments over
seas have passed the 100000 mark,
250,000 being sent to France during
August General March in making the
announcement said the goal Of 2OOO,-
900 by November l would be more
than attained.
American navy headquarters in Lon
don announced that nearly 100000
men were transported during August,
one-third Of this total in American
ships.
: American troops fighting in Flan-
ders have reached the western out
skirts Of Neuye Chapelle.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
WORLDS RECORD
REVENUE BILL.
House and Senate Plan Speedy
Consideration of $8,0O0,-
000,OOO War Measure.
HEAVIER TAX ON PROFITS.
Largest Revenue Expected From New
Taxes Will Come From War Profits
and Excess Profit Tax-May
Yield S3,2Oo,Ooo,ooo.

Washington. - The greatest revenue
bill in the history Of the world-one
that will reach into every American
, pocketbook, bulging or depleted, and
take part Of what is there to help win
the war-was introduced in the House
of Representatives The wealth and
industry OF America will pay out in
one year under the new taxes $685.
$4,000.
The bill is drawn in furtherance of
the fiscal policy Of providing one-thlrd
Of the annual expense OF carrying on
the war from taxation and the other
two-thirds from the sale of bonds. This
policy was adopted, 1t was explained
in the report which accompanied the
measure, upon careful consideration
Of the effect Of the fiscal policy upon
the morale of the people, upon the in
tlation of prices, upon production ana
with reference to the relative ability
of those people to pay taxes now and
after the war"
Many sources and objects Of taxa
ton in the bill are new to the people
of this country. Such as these are the
10 per cent. tax on clothing, on car
pets, picture frames, travelling equip
ment, umbrellas, kimonos and foot
wear. They will pay a tax of 10 per
cent. on their automobiles In addition
to the manufacturers tax of . per
cent, and they will have to contribute
2 cents on every gallon of gasoline
used for running the car. Pianos, pipe
organs, electric fans, bathing suits,
furs, sculpture, paintings, yachts and
motor boats are some of the other new
things on which a tax Is to be levied
and collected.
In the report of the committee ac-
companying the bill, 1t Is shown THAI
the largest revenue which is expected
to be derived from the new taxes will
come from the war profits and excess
profit tax. The yield from these taxes
Is estimated at $3,200,000,000 The
next largest will be the individual III
comes tax, which is expected to pro-
duce S1,4S2, $4,000. Then comes the
tax on beverages, which is to yield
S1.137, ,C00,000
The committee has officially estimat-
ed that The various taxes will bring IN
the amounts shown in the subjoined
table. The receipts are figured on the
basis of twelve month period:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
WASHINGTON
a@oNeAnH91%es &

President Wilson called for a full
report on the Stacker raids, which
closed with their third day. Mr.. Will
sons action followed a bitter attack
in the senate on the raids and those
conducting-them with resolution call
ing for an inquiry.
The senate approved granting power
to the President to. fix dry zones about
war plants, but failed to reach vote
on national prohibition.
Shipbuilding figures for 1918 show
the United States leading Great Brit
ain in tonnage production for the first
time in history.
The War Industries Board, with the
approval of President Wilson, names
committee to consider the feasibility
Of stabilizing the prices Of raw cotton
The decision is the result of the recent
advance Of SO q bale, following the
short crop forecast of the government
report.
The eight billion dollar war revenue
bill, increasing all taxes except STUMP
taxes, is unanimously reported to the
house. a turbulent voyage is pre-
dicted.
The 1918 cotton crop was estimated
by the department Of agriculture at
11,13T, 600 bales, the smallest of any
year since 1909.
Nearly one million men, or half the
railroad employees in the United
States, share in additional wage In
creases approved by Director General
NIcAdoo, for track laborers, watchmen,
other maintenance of way employees,
clerks, station agents, and other
classes Of employees drawing relative
ly low pay.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
KAISER WILL DEFEND KULTUR.
But He Tells Munich People He ls
Havind Hard Sleddinq.

observation-disclosures William has
telegraphed the municipality of Munich
a message in which he says: "The Ger
man people understand the difficulty Of
the present decisive battles against an
enemy filed with hatred, jealousy and
the will to destruction, but has unani-
mously decided to devote all its
strength to defend against its enemies
assaults it's sacred soil and its kultur,
which it had won in peaceful work"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
ORDERED STACKER DRAGNET.
Responsibility for the Raids H. New
York Fixed.

Washington.-The Stacker round
ups" in New York city were carried
out by direction of the department OF
justice, and full responsibility for them
is assumed by A. Bruce Bielaski, chief
Of the departments Bureau of Infor-
nation. 1t also was said that an OIL
Ger of the provost marshal generals
office had worked with the department
in directing the raids, as had the Mill
tary Intelligence Bureau. :.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
INQUIRY INTO STACKER RAIDS.
President Wilson Demands That Greg
orv Explain at Once.

President wilson DenanoS ihaI Sfe9-
ory Explain at Once.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wilson set
on foot a personal inquiry into the cir
cumstances surrounding the Stacker
raids in New York city and the whole
sale arrests made in connection with
the dragnet tactics of the department
of justice and government agents.
Stirred by complaints from many
sources, some of them from senators,
the President sent letter to Attorney
General Gregory requesting the facts.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-09-13
DRY ZONE EDlCT PASSES.
President Wilson Has Power to Es.
tablish.

taDIiSh.
Washington.-The senate, taking
cognizance Of the increasing demand
for restriction of the traffic in intoXi
cants in the neighborhood of coal
mines, shipyards, munition plants and
other establishments producing war
necessities, passed without even roll
call resolution by Senator Kellogg of
Minnesota authorizing the President
to declare "dry zones" wherever in
his opinion such action was necessary.
Williams news., 1918-01-03

a revolver or other weapon, she ran to his assistance. She arrived in time to seize one of the negroes as he was walking through the door lead ing from the cell room into a hall way, from which his escape to the outside would have been easy.
 Without waiting to consider the pos sible results, Mrs. Mullen seized the fellow, a strapping six-footer, by the collar, twisted him around, gave him a push and kick that sent him head long across a narrow corridor to his knees and safely inside the steel cage where the prisoners are kept.
 The other two negroes, who had dragged MT. Mullen well inside the cage, loosened their grip and slunk into their cells. No opposition was of fered at all as the steel doors were locked.
 There were 12 negroes in the cage at the time, but only the three took part in the attack upon the jailer. Of the three negroes engaged in the at tack upon the jai1er two are charged with murder and the other with felon iouS assault.
Williams news., 1918-01-03
FATHER COULD NOT CHOOSE
Parent Unable to Say Which of Two Sons Should Join Army and Which
 Should Stay at Home.

Cleveland.-John Stotz, a farmer re siding in Huron county, Ohio, ap- peared before the district draft exemp- ton board in Cleveland and asked that one of his two sons be relieved from military service in order that he might assist in the cultivation of 149 acres of land. Members of the board sug gested that Stotz name the lad to be favored but he declared he could never look their mother in the face if he picked either of them.
 When Stotz could not make a deci- sion, the board chose the youngest, Edward, aged twentY-two years, and sent the older, Robert, aged twenty five, home with his father.
Williams news., 1918-01-03

He wore a soldier uniform, and he was passing the hat for Clark Griffith's bat and ball fund, smiling his old in- gentOuS smile as he worked through the crowd, saluting friends of his base ball days.
 A salutation from Lank Hank is like a blast of fresh air. It is no casual holding with him-no num- bling how-d'y-do sort of greeting. He tells the world when he says hello. He is always glad to see people, and he wants them to know it.
 It struck us that day that it was singularly appropriate for Lank Hank Gowdy to be there in that uniform; it seemed to us quite in line with his spectacular career, and it strengthened the appeal which the personality of Hank has always had for our imagina- tion.
 He was the first baseball notable to enlist for service. Many another will follow in his footsteps during the coming winter, but Lank Hank was first. That will be his claim to fame long after his deeds on the dia- mond have been forgotten.
Williams news., 1918-01-03

It always seemed to us that the most spectacular figure ever produced by world series or by any other big sporting event was Lank Hank Gowdy, the blond backstop of the Bos- ton Braves, who bludgeoned his way to fame in 1914, writes Damon Run yon.
 Unheralded and unsung, Lankus Hankus went into that series and ripped it wide open. He was SUD- posed to be an addle-pated sort of fellow behind the bat, an indifferent catcher and bum hitter, but for four stirring days the long Ohioan was Solomon squatting in the shade of the hickories and a Hercules when he straddled the plate.
 An ingenious fellow is Lank Hank Gowdy, with an ingenious smile and an ingenious way of thinking. After the series was all over and we took to reflection and retrospection it seemed to us quite natural that he should have turned out to be hero.
 SaIutation Worth While.
 We saw Lank Hank during the last world series up at the Polo grounds.
Williams news., 1918-01-03
ROAD BUILDING LARGE TASK
President Of National Highways Asso- citation Tells How a Great Sys-
 tenn Can Be Built.

Thanks to the pushful, pervasive motor car, American road building has 'got a move on" at last. There is ev- anywhere the cry for roads. The draw back has been that, as yet, there has been no coordination of these multi tudinOus enterprises. The president of the National Highways association. Charles Henry Davis, in recent paper stated that we spent last year $240,- 955,967, or more than two-thirds the total of money expended so far on the construction of the Panama canal for road improvements throughout the country. MT. Davis contention is that good roads, roads that run for thou sands of miles through state after state, are, properly, not the responsi- bility of the state, but of the nation. He would have the federal government build system of national roads join- ing the West with the East, the North and the South, connecting every part of the country, as is the case with the national highways of Europe, and, as history shows, such as was the essen- tial equipment of every first-class power of the past, according to the Boston Evening Transcript.
 How would such an enormous con- struction be paid for and kept up?
 neer, "the government built 100000 miles of properly planned roads, and at the same time purchased, say, 300
Williams news., 1918-01-03
- The SIouchy Man,

:, A slouchy young man is not only to be criticized for his outside habit, the way he walks, talks and dresses, but for the inside habit which these things imply, observes the Ohio State Jour- nal. A slouchy man is slouchy inside as well aas outside. His mind is slouchy, his thinking 1ags, his ambi- tions droop. Anyone can tell him on the streets. He swaggers along, lolls about and dresses like a scarecrow. The fashions are slouchy and he revels in them. You cannot expect much of such a man. His spirit driv- els and lounges along as if to be orderly and proper was a sin. Such young men are poor timber for citi- Zenship.
Williams news., 1918-01-03

new and clever and attractive-espe- cially when they are presided over by pretty auburn-haired girls like Clar- fta. Her voice was as sweet as any of her birds notes, and her own bright lcoloring and fresh gowns quite as dec Orative-though in a different way. People did buy birds for Christmas, and most of them were as well satis- fled with themselves for having en- couraged the enterprise of such a nice girl as they were with their purchases. They even bought birds after Christ mas.
 Then in the spring Clarita had a new idea. What would the many peo- pie who were. going away on trips or to hotels do with their birds? She got her artist friend to letter a sign for the window that read, Birds Boarded" It was surprising how many birds wished to find summer quarters. A number of Clarfta's for mer feathered pets came back to lodge and the little shop was filled with song and color and soft futterings. $
 One June day little old lady came Into the shop, followed by tall young man who appeared to be her son. He was A very tall man, quite unneces- farily tall for one so handsome to be- gin with, but he seemed to be rather embarrassed by the large gilded bird cage he was carrying. Possibly men do not like to carry bird cages through the streets.
 The cage contained pair of fine canaries, and they had come to board. The young man set them down, with B sigh of relief, and looked at Clar- ita, while his mother made arrange ments for their care, giving the girl all sorts of careful directions.
 "You see," she explained, ''Pm going away for the summer, and my son is too busy, even if he'd remember to feed them, and I don't believe he would. T hate to leave them. I won- der[ wonder if you'd write me now and then. just to let me know they're all right2'
 Clarita smiled amusedly. She would, of course. What was the address? Hrs. James Tucker