Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-11

dustrial Workers of the World on
charges of violating the espionage act,
has begun at Chicago.
The Belgian order, the Grand Cross
of the Order of Leopold, has been
awarded to General Pershing by King
Albert in person. Pershing had re-
ceived the Belgian war cross.
A special draft call for 400 skilled
photographers, to serve with the sig.
nal service in France, was sent out
by the provost marshal generals Office
Friday.
Norman Hall of Colfax, Ia, author
of ''Kitchener's Mob" now pilot
aviator in the Lafayette escadrille,
shot down two German airplanes in
France on March %.
An official list places the casualties
In the anti-conscription rioting at
Quebec, Canada, at four civilians
dead, fifteen wounded and five sol.
iers dwounded.
The war board has issued instruc-
tons to steel-mills to put orders for
steel ship plates from the emergency
fleet corporation ahead Of all other
business.
The government has taken over the
entire output Of Bull Durham" to-
bacco, used for cigarettes, for the sol.
diers, and will pay the same price as
domestic jobbers.
The big White Star line steamship
Celtic. which was torpedoed while on
a voyage to the United States, is re-
ported to have reached British port
safely.
Russia will form an army Of l..
100000 men, NJ. Podvoisky, assistant
secretary of war, declared at con.
ference in Moscow of the various mil
itary department heads.
Every pro-German is to be driven
out of the Methodist Episcopal church
and reported to the department Of
justice, Bishop T. s. Henderson of
Detroit declared at the New England
conference at Boston.
The general strike at Kansas City,
growing out Of the demands Of laun-
dry workers, ended when laundries
took back their striking employees
with an increased minimum wage, but
without union recognition.
Thomas ]. Mooney applied to Gov
ernor Stephens Of California for
pardon from the sentence of death
imposed upon him on a murder
charge, which grew out Of bomb
explosion at San Francisco in 1916,
which killed ten persons.
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The third Liberty loan campaign
which opened April 6 will last -four
weeks, ending May 4, the Treasury
department announced. Banks will
be given five days after the cam.
paign's close to tabulate and report
subscriptions.
According to an article published in
the Berlin Tageblatt, burglaries and
robberies in Berlin average more
than 800 daily and great alarm has
been caused in the German capital by
the sensational increase in crime re-
sultfng from war conditions.
Nebraska, Ohio and Illinois were
marked in red on the maps of Ger
many as German territory before
the war, Gustavus Ohinger, president
of the Toledo, o., Chamber of Com.
merce, told the national American
conference at Washington.
During March 10 Norwegian ships
Of 34,994 tons were sunk by German
submarines and A seamen lost their
lives, while 20 more men are missing.
The total value of Norway's shipping
losses for March in round figures is
almost $1O,5OO0OO.
Robert P. Praeger IS, alleged pro-
German, was taken from hiding in the
city hall at Colinsville, H., by mob
and hanged to tree. The lynchers
were not masked and were said to
have been led by prominent citizens.
No arrests We're made. Several sus-
pected pro-Germans disappeared from
the vicinity Immediately following
the lynching.
1t cost the United States approx
mately $4,000, 100000 for the first year
Of the war, which ended April 6.
More than one-half has gone in loans
to allies and will be repaid event
ually; over one-third has been spent
for military establishment; one-tenth
for the navy, and one-ffteenth for