Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15

idea that they are certain to be
drafted anyhow and prefer to join
the service voluntarily.
Daily air mail service between New
York and Chicago is planned by the
postodice department.
All heat records were broken in the
eastern states August 6, when the
thermometer registered 106 at several
| points.
Newsgathering is an Indispensable
industry, Secretary Baker said in dis
cussing draft regulations at Washing
ton.
Fifteen train loads Of ammunition
and supplies left by the Germans in
their hasty retreat from the Scissors
Rheims salient fell into the hands Of
American troops.
Since August, 1914, including those
already with the colors, Great Britain
has raised for the army and navy g.
100000 men, according to an official
announcement.
| The British and French penetrated
deeply into the German positions over
a front of more than twenty miles in
Picardy last week. More than 1900
Germans were made prisoners and
hundreds of guns were captured.
President Wilson has let it be
known to members of the house and
ways committee, which is framing the
new $S,OO0,OOO,OOO revenue bill, that
he is interested in heavy tax on
war profits.
| The administrations new man
power bill, which requires every man
between the ages of 1S to 81 and SO
to 45 to register for military service,
1 was introduced in both houses of con-
gress last Monday.
/ According to Washington reports
President Wilson is contemplating a
speaking tour over the United States
in the. interest of the fourth Liberty
loan drive, which will take place from
September % to October 10.
In making a statement on the war
| situation recently Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain said that $50
1 Jh,,1o ,,sr 4.
ed for since tho war began, more than
half of these in the past year.
4 With the launching of 1913 vessels,
\ totaling 631,944 lightweight tons, and
4 the delivery of forty-one others Of
1925 lightweight tons, new records
4 in shipbuilding were established in
July, the shipping board announced.
In urging enactment of the new
manpower bill extending draft ages
to from IS to 45 years, General March
told the senate military committee
that the war department plans an
army of approximately 100000 men
to be raised as soon as possible.
Il
II An official Berlin statement admits
the loss of Captain Strasser, leading
Zeppelin squadron commander, and
the entire crew of a Zeppelin, which
u was shot down over the North sea
when approaching the British coast.
: u
A slump of 1891, 900 bushels in the
prospective Kansas corn crop since
J July 8, owing to lack of moisture and
I extreme hot weather, is reported iI
the monthly statement given out by
Edward G. Paxton, field agent for thu
United States Department of Agricul
: ture in Kansas.
: Administration officials at Washing
$ ton expressed surprise at the ruling
3 Of the draft board at Waterloo, Ia
E that employees Of paper there shoul,
q seek more productive employment O
e be called into military service. The
y said the action of the local boar
probably would be overruled by tn
\ district board.
1 >
d Replying to a request that he expo
d dite the lists Of American casualtie
s in the fighting on the Scissors
y Rheims salient, General Pershin
g cabled Secretary Baker that the tas
IS of assembling the names of the me
e was an extremely difficult one becaus
II of the fact that American troops al
it brigaded with French and BIRTHS
units.
n German submarines have strus
III again off the New England coast. TIL
a. time an undersea raider sank With
y bomb the crack knocabout Gloucest
he fishing schooner Robert and Richal
he off the southeastern coast of Maine.
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Tables compiled from the live sto,
to markets of Chicago, Omaha, Kans
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