Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
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To remove any misunderstanding as
to who will be required to register
under the new man-power act Provost
Marshal General Crowder, in state
ment last night said that all men who
have not reached their forty-slXth
birthday on or before registration day
September y, will be included WITHIN
the maximum age limit and all who
have reached their 18th birthday on
or before that date will be included
within the maximum age limit. All
men within those age limits who have
not heretofore registered will be re-
ouired to do so On September. y.
Final action on the bill providing
for national prohibition after next
July l and continuing until the demob-
ilization of American troops has been
completed after the war failed again
Yesterday in the Senate owing to the
introduction Of amendments to The
s12,OOG,OOO,000 emergency agricu.tu-
raj appropriation bill, to which the
prohibition legislation is attached.
An amendment providing for the pr
chase by the government of all dis
titled spirits held in bond CD July l at
a price to be fixed by commission
appointed by the President was IN
troduced late yesterday by Senator
Bankhead, of Alabama.
American dead, who lose their lives
in foreign service, will find only tenn
porary resting places abroad. At the
conclusion of the war their bodies will
be brought home. Whenever possible,
Identification will, be made and the
grave marked. Details of the plan
provide that the same protection ac-
corded the army dead shall apply IN
every respect to the navy men. Also
the remains of all officers, enlisted
men and civilian employees VIII die
on ships en- route to or srom the
limited States shall be embalmed and
returned to the United States IN 'he
same ship.
Hanging to an improvised scaffold,
which he had erected by mailing
boards between two trees, the body Of
Adolf Swager, young man OF Ger
man birth, was found near Annapolis,
Nd, yesterday morning. He had been
missing since. Saturday morning. 1t
is believed that he took his life by
tying a rope around his neck and then
climbing one of the trees and fasten-
ing the other end around the boards.
His feet were only an inch or two
from the ground.
Louis B. Nagler, former Assistant
Secretary of State for Wisconsin, who
was recently convicted under the es-
pionage act in consequence of utteran-
ces attacking the war activities OF
the American Red Cross and the \. NJ.
c. A., has been sentenced to term
of thirty months in the Federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth. Pending their
appeal at the October term of the
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals, Nagler will be under bond in
the amount of $500.
Paris newspapers print the following
semiofficial statement: "Thc hour
seems close at hand when the superb
efforts of the allies will begin to
bear fruit one of our great chiefs
said Tuesday. we are on the last
lap and close to the winning post
The revenue bill, officially estimated
to produce S,1S2,492,000 in twelve
months following its passage, was IN
troduced in the House yesterday ny
Chairman Kitchin of the Ways ard
Means Committee. 1t represents the
unanimous judgment of the twenty
three members of the committee as t.
the best method Of financing tne war.
A disaster unparalleled in he his
tory of the cotton growing industry
in the United States has befal!cn the
American cotton crop this year. As
the result of severe drought IN July
and August, the governments Sep
TENDER cotton report, issued yester-
day, forecast the prospective produc-
ton this year at 11,137,0 900 equivalent
500-pound bales, 4,O9S,00n bales less
than was forecast at the bcs inning OF
the az son.
Suspected draft slackers to the
number of from 10000 to 10000, pos
sibly many in excess of those figures,
were arrested in the metropolitan dis
trict in New York yesterday in the
most spectacular roundup ever wit
messed here. Many of the men ar
rested were honest, Of course, but no
could be made by the men
the crusade, and all were
herded off to the "bull pens" to be