Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-21
Washington.

Notifications Of the recent freight
rate increase order announced by III
rector Genera McAdoo, provide thai.
The plan BY which n'rastate rates
shall be roscindpd hat the minimum
charge Of Slj car shall not apply
to local switching movements nor .
heavy articles such as brick, sand
lumber ore and coai and hat the IN
crease Of Is cents hundred pounds
on cotton is 10 Apply TO any quantity
instead u only % car loads
Two Norwegian steamships, The Vim
deggen and Henrik l.und, were sunk By
German submarine when about no
hundred miles east Of Cape Charles,
Va. This brings Tho total u vessels
sunk by Uboats since they began
their campaign In these waters to eigh.
teen
President Wilson has approved IA.
ton wide compulsory work movement
to supplement Provost Marshal Gene.
raj Crowders work Or night regula.
ton. In a letter addressed o Gov
ernor Harrington II Maryland made
public in Washington. the president
endorsed adoption BY other states Of
the Maryland compulsory Uorh law
under whi be- work or fight r-in-
eiple " madt applicable 20 all men be
tween tne ages ~ 8 and so
An arrangement ps ghich army ofd.
GERS may urchase their uniforms fiom
he qua,teim,-fer department At cost
las been announced by the war de-.
partment Heretofore officers have
had to purchase their own clothing
outside and many complaints have
been made that The dealers have taken
advantage Of this fset TO raise prices
beyond a reasonable level
Members Of the house ways AMI
means committee have given expires
sion to growing Impotence over the
fact that most Of the witnesses ap.
pear'ng 10 discuss the new revenue
legislation have come with pleas for
exemption from war taxation.
That the war department will ask
modification Of the select service law
so as TO include all men between the
ages OF eighteen and fortyhve or for
lynne lis The forecast of well.inform.
ad popur.gaippa1 tn,J.r.
In the crushing Of Germanism in
the United States the Koelnische Volke
Zeitung sees a disaster in a measure
balancing the Teutonic military sue
cess.
Under an agreement among all thu
allies. II Is stated in Washington, II
in understood that the military service
ages OF all the allied nations are 10
be made uniform.
To check further industrial conges,
ton in the already overburdcned east.
the government has prescribed a dis.
trict in which II will permit no in
crease in the volume OF war orders nor
in the number OF plants handling
them
For the first time In more than
thirty years the granaries OF the Nor
mon churches are being swept clean
More than quarter Of million
bushels Of wheat have been turned
over to the food administrator from
the Mormon wheat storehouses in
Utah.
The new policy announced by the
war industries board and fuel and
administrations will tend to
create expansion of industries in the
middle west and south, although the
process is expected to be so gradual
as not to work any hardship on any
other manufacturing area
In spite of recurring rumors that
action in Siberia by the allies
with American support or approval is
imminent, no agreement has yet been
-uached on any feasible plan for posi-
I've action in regard to Russia.