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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31

By liquefying the gas helium a Eu-
ropean scientist has succeeded in
reaching temperatures within six de.
grees of the absolute zero.
A new telephone transmitter is com.
posed of but II parts and is in the
form of a disk which can be carried
Ia the pocket, the usual heavy sun
ports being omitted.
Exclusive turkey ranches are found
in the unsettled foothin regions ~
California and in parts of Arizona ana
other Western states, where 1000 or
more turkeys are raised each season.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31


Washington, May 23.-Provost Mar
shall General Crowder today announ-
ced that every man of draft age must
work or fight after July /. The order
is under a drastic amendment TO the
selective service regulations. All
draft registrants. besides idlers, in
what are held to be nonuseful occupa-
tions, win be given an opportunity be-
fore local boards to choose a new job
or join the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
reached by the new regulation also In
clude walters and bartenders, theater
ushers and attendants. passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, ETC.. domestics
and clerks In stores.
Deferred classification granted on ac-
count of dependents will be disregard
ed entirely In applying the rule. A
man may be at the bottom of class /,
or even in class A, but IL he fails with
In the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment he will be given a
new number in class 1 that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use dis
erection only where they find that en-
forced change of employment would
result In disproportionate hardship up
on his dependents.
M-u Cnlva &hn I aknr Drohiara
The statement of the provost mar
shall generals Office is as follows:
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selectiye service regulations which
deals with the great question of COM
polling men not engaged in a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves 10 some form OF labor. contrib
utiug to the general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confronted with
tie alternative of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering the army.
"This regulation provides that after
July /, any registrant who is found by
local board TO be a habitual idler or
not engaged In some useful occupation
shall be summoned before the board,
given chance to explain and, In the
absence of satisfactory explanation,
to be indicted into the military service
of the United States.
"Any local board will be authorized
to take action. whether it has an orig
ina jurisdiction Of the registrant or
not; In other words, any man loafing
around a poolroom in Chicago may be
held to answer to Chicago board even
though he may have registered in
New York and lived there most of his
life.
"The regulations which apply to idle
registrants viii be deemed to apply
also to gamblers Of all description and
employees and attendants of bucket
shops and race tracks, fortune tellers,
clairvoyants, palmists ard the like,
who for tbs purpose Of the regulations
shall be considered as idlors.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31

Apparatus using electrically pro-
duced ozone has been invented by a
paris scientist for quickly purifying
the interior of barrels used In brew
cries.
An even has been invented TO utilize
for baking the smoke and hot gases
mat ordinarily would pass out of 3
chimney from residence heating
plant.
The cherry gets its name from c.
rasos. an old Greek torn on the Black
sea. whence came TIE first garden
cherries knows to Europe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31
Talking Politics.

II don't hear you talking politics
very much"
'ssNo," replied Senator Sorghum.
Talking politics Is all right in time of
peace. But I'm willing to fight for the
future privilege Of talking my politics
strictly in my native tongue"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31

Miss Oldun-Cne thing worries p !,
and that is the wedding trip. II W.
be horrid to have people know.
Her Dear Friend-Oh. don't woTi}
Get him to call you ma" when you |.
travelling and they'll think yol ~
his mother.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31
Bulletin.

Washington, May %. Theatrical
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the di-
rection of Secretary Baker. who is said
to feel that the people cannot do with
out all amusement in war time and
that other amusements could be dis
pensed with more readily.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31
A sunnestion

The Woman believe I've danced
with you before. haven't /?
The Victim Gunno; If you have
why dout you do it now p haparral.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31
plentv of Them.

Did your cousin get any daHlSs1
in that assault caseT"
did He?" Wen, you wouldn't y
that if you could have seen his face
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-05-31


Washington.-Ra Railroad freight rates
are Increased 25 per cent and passen-
ger fares 20 per cent by an order is.
sued by Director General McAdoo.
The increase is necessary, it was an
nounced, to meet raises in wages Of
rail employees just announced and
higher cost of coal and other supplies.
Il is estimated that the increase in
rates, by far the biggest in the his
tory of railroads. will bring In from
SS00000,000 to $9O0.0O000O additional
revenue TO the roads within the next
year.
The new freight charges. which
cover both class and commodity rates,
become effective June % and the pas
senger increase will 90 into effect June
10.
Issued under authority granted by
the railroad act to President Wilson
acting through the director general
the order wipes out all interstate lower
rates effective on either freight or pas
senger traffic.
Travellers In standard sleeping and
parlar cars are required to pay 80
cents a mile in addition to Pullman
fares and in tourist sleeping cars 3A
cents. Pullman rates remain the same.
Communication and other suburban
rates on railroads are increased 10 per
cent. Fares on electric interurban
lines are not affected.
Special Rates Abolished.
Special excursion, mileage conven-
ton and tourist rates, with few ex-
ceptlons, are discontinued, privileges
such as stop-overs and free side trips
are abolished and excess baggage
charges are increased.
Both freight and passenger rates on
boat lines operated on the lakes, rivers
or coastwise by railroads are to be
raised proportionately with the gener-
al increases.
A number of fat Increases, instead
of percentage additions, are ordered
for coal, coke. lumber. ore. stone, grain,
cotton, live stock, meats, sugar, bullion
and other commodities.
In announcing that the rate Increases
are required by public interest, Direc-
tor General McAdoo referred to the
rapidly rising cost of coal, which he es-
timated this year alone at $160,000,OOO
more than last year. and to higher cost
of every other material entering into
railroad transportst ton. Operating ex-
penses, he estimated, would be be-
tween $SS0,000.000 and $500, 600, 900
greater this year than the $2,S52, 0O0,-
600 figure of last year.
No part of the increased rates is on
account of the program of nearly a
billion dollars of improvements, addi-
tons and new equipment this year, he
explained,
1T is earnestly hoped" said the d.
rector general, that all citizens affect
ed directly or indirectly by this increase
of rates will support the general prin-
eiple of such increase as an unavoid-
able war measure and accept the ad-
dltional burden in the same spirit of
self-sacrlfce in which they have ac-
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THESE ARE HIT ny ORDER TO
FIGHT OR WORK.

THESE ARE HIT ny ORDER TO
FIGHT OR WORK.
Idlers.
Gamblers.
Bucket shop employees.
Race track attendants.
Clairvoyants and the like.
Professional golfers.
Professional baseball players
(probably).
Elevator operators at clubs and
stores.
Club and hotel doormen.
Walters in he els and clubs.
Ushers in theaters.
Attendants at sports.
Persons in domestic service.
Clerks in stores.
Specially Exempt.
Actors.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
~ AssoeIated Press.b

Uy Associated Preas.l
WASHINGTON, March S.-Legisla-
tion enabling the government to
place in American hands permanent
ly great German commercial and In
dustrial concerns in this country
which have been instruments in
spreading the grip of German kultur
was favorably reported to the senate
by the appropriations committee. 1t
is in the form of an amendment to
the pending urgent deficiency bill,
empowering the alien property
custodian to sell any enemy prop
erty taken over by his office.
The committee also approved an
other amendment giving the presi-
dent authority recently asked for by
him to acquire by purchase or title
the great piers of the Hamburg
American and the North German
Lloyd steamship lines at Hoboken,
IN. j.
In statement explaining the pur-
pose of the new power sought, A.
Mitchell Palmer, the alien property
custodian said:
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08

but the Turks are also aggressors
in Asia Minor Reports state that
the Ottoman troops are operating
near Trebizond, on the southern
shore of the Black sea.
Germany has negotiated peace
treaty with the republic of Finland
by which the latter agrees not to
cede any territory or grant terri
torial rights without the consent of
Germany, which In consideration for
this concession, covenants to OK
ert her influence to secure recogni-
tion of the Finnish government from
other nations. All claims for war
costs or damages are waived and the
Aland islands will be evacuated by
the Finnish troops and will not again
be fortified. A commercial treaty
will be negotiated at once.
The Bolshevlk authorities have
announced that they will not permit
the revolution to be defeated and
have expressed the determination to
continue fighting a holy war" even
If they are forced back to the Ural
mountains.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
Today's Resume of War News
NY Associated Pre..)

uy Associated Press)
Fighting continues at various
points along the eastern front. That
Germany considers the peace con
vention she forced Lenine and Trot
zky to sign as a scrap of paper"
Is evidenced by the announcement
that the TeutoDs have reached Jam
burg, town sixty-eight miles from
Petrograd The report of the sub
sequent partial retirement of the
Germans does not lend encourage
ment to the belief that further In.
vasion of Russia has been aban-
doned
The text OF the peace treaty signed
by Rumania serves too, to show
that the central powers are loath
to forego any conquests they may
make in Russia One Of the clauses
of the Rumanian treaty bound that
country to assist in the transport
of Teuton forces through Moldavia
and Messarabia on their way to
Odessa, the "granary of Russia"
Not only are the Teutons advanc.
ing against the demoralized Slavs,
q N-N-a-A.
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GERMAN CONCERNS TO Be TAKEN OVER

Power under the law is restrict
ed now to cases where 1t is neces-
sary to sell in order to prevent
waste and protect the property. The
proposed amendments will largely
extend this power and make 1t pos
sible for the alien property custodian
to convert into cash enemy interests
in this country The Hamburg
American and North German Lloyd
docks are owned by New Jersey cor
porations in which the stock is en-
tirely enemy owned and has been
turned over to the alien property
custodian, who is placing his repre-
sensatives on the board Of directors
of those companies.
There is no thought or purpose
of changing the character of the or
binary Investment In America OF the
enemy SUBJECT residing in enemy
territory. Snch investments viii be
continued as at present except when
necessary to prevent waste or pro-
tect the property, when sales may
take place"
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
NEW REGULATIONS
IN RE.CLASSIF|CATION

uy Associated Preas.l
WASHINGTON March S.-Re-clas-
sification according to physical con-
dition of the men called In the next
army draft is provided in revised
instructions for medical advisory
boards which are being sent to the
local boards throughout the country
The new regulations, made public
last night, require that every man
summoned before the board shall
be placed in one of the following
four classes
(A) Acceptable for general mill
tary service.
OBJ Bl--Acceptable for general mill
tary service after being cured of
remedial defect
(C) Acceptable for special or
limited military service in a speci-
fled capacity or organization.
(D)-Rejected and exempted from
any military service.
1t is the intention of the provost
marshal general to provide later
for the further investigation and
classification of the men acceptable
for limited or special service so that
record may be made of the sort Of
work each of these men may be as
signed to do without endangerinl
his health.
Under the new regulations many
ailments and defects which gained
exemption of drafted men in the pas
now will result only in their beinl
listed in group B. Such men, I
they choose, will be given the privi
llege of securing the services of theii
family physicians in the effort {
remove the defect, but If they hay'
mot availed themselves of this priv
Ilege within specified time, the.
will be called into military service
and ordered to cantonment hos
pital, "a reconstruction hospital o
to a civic hospital. as may be dc
termined by the surgeon general.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
GREAT OFFENSIVE EXPECTED TO
START ABOUT MIDDLE OF APRIL
Substantial Army of Americans is
Already in Trenche son
Western Front

TO others 1t appears probable that
no offensive will be undertaken on
any considerable scale before May l.
They base that view on reports that
the French offensive in 1916 started
in April, proved to be at least two
weeks too early The guns and
transport could not be brought for
ward to consolidate all the ground
the troops were able to wrest from
German control
Meanwhile, during the last few
days there has been less discussion
of German offensive on the west
ern front. There are observers here
who never have been convinced that
the Germans actually intended to
attempt another drive at the channel
ports or at Paris. To these officers,
the admitted concentration of Ger.
man forces has seemed a defensive
rather than an offensive step. They
believe that the German general staff
foresaw great allied effort this
year and were moving to offset It,
While much has been said both
officially and unofficially OF an ex.
pected German offensive, nothing as
TO probable aggressive measures by
the allied forces has come over the
cables This fact has attracted par.
ticular attention because of the re.
iterated official declarations that the
allied line outmatches the Germans
in gun and man power, and In view
OF the formation. during the winter,
of the supreme war council designed
to make the warfare more aggres.
slve on the part of the allies and
the United States.
A substantial American army al.
ready is in the trenches on the
western front and Secretary Baker
has indicated that there may be at
least million American troops in
France during 1918
80
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ORGANIZED PLAN IN.
Wolves MILLIONS
NY Associated Press'

tny Associated Pressl
WASHINGTON, March S.-Partial
Capitalization of the purchasing OF
between $1,OOO,OOO,OOO and $4,000.
100000 worth of railroad supplies
and equipment this year under gov
ernment supervision is involved in
a plan for organizing the railroad
administration division of finance
and purchases just announced by
Director General McAdoo
John Shelton Williams, as head
of this division will be assisted by
central advisory committee of three
pert railroad purchasing agents,
and regional purchasing committees
will be created for the eastern, west
ern and northern operating regions.
Through the central organization
will be bought locomotives, cars and
steel rails, the principal big quantity
purchase of railways, and an effort
will be made not only to economize
by wholesale buying methods, but to
standardize equipment and supplies
Coal and other fuel will be bought
mainly by individual lines to sup
ply their individual needs, but under
the supervision of the regional com
mittees. Cross ties and lumber are
to be bought principally by the roads
along their own lines, but may be or
dered through the control organiza
ton.
"All other supplies needed for cur
rent operations will be purchased
for the time being says Director
McAdoo's statement, through thu
purchasing departments of the re
spective roads, but all contracts TO
periods of six months or longe
must be approved by the regiona
committee before completion
AS fast as possible all purchase
win be centralized, and the regions
committees are to draft recommends
tions for the accomplishment of thii
In addition, these three regions
bodies will be expected to report d.
tails of costs and contracts to tn
. railroad administration, with a vie
!, to giving all roads the advantae
of efficient methods which may hav
a been developed.
Railroad administration officia
believe that eventually they can say
more than a hundred million dollai
a year by centralized purchasing,
though no definite predictions al
made for this year, owing to u
necessarily slow process OF organi
ing a nationwide buying system.
n -
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08

WASHING 4 ON. March S.-Troops
and supplies Tor General Pershings
forces now are moving to France
on schedule time, II was learned To-
day on high authority. While fig
nres may not be published, ii was
stated positively that transportation
requirements of the army are being
met by the shipping board, and the
immediate situation as to ships was
described as satisfactory.
In view OF this assurance that the
United States will be able to main
tain its place as a fighting unit on
the battlefronts reports from the
western 'front.' are being scanned
more eagerly than every by officers
here for the first signs of the 1918
campaign 1t is felt strongly that
the opening OF major operations in
what President Wilson has predicted
viii prove the decisive year OF the
great war will not be much longer
delayed. Mud has been the deter.
mining factor of many previous west.
ern front operations. SO long as
the ground is soft with the winter
rains, II is impossible to move for.
ward great guns and necessary trans
port trains to support an advancing
line. Even In Flanders, however.
Indications this year are that the
ground will harden early in spring,
permitting either side to undertake
the enterprises planned.
In previous years April has seen
offensive operations set in motion
BY the allies. For that reason many
officers seem to anticipate raiding
and minor assaults before the middle
OF next month. which will show
in themselves that the ground is
being mapped, information obtained
and local strategic advantages estab-
lshed by one side or the other in
preparation for great effort.
- AS%SAe Aa-oS-e-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
CORPORATION
MEASURE IS PASSED

tiy Associated Presal
WASHINGTON. March s.-The
war finance corporation dill passed
the senate late yesterday afternoon.
Opposition to the measure dwin-
died after various important amend
ments had been made in the original
draft. Senator Owen of Oklahoma,
chairman of the banking committee
and leader OF the opposition forces,
withheld his vote declaring he could
not approve the legislation,
The house ways and means com.
mittee already has prepared a re-
port on the bill and its considera'
tion in the house will begin next
week. Expedition is strongly urged
by the administration because Of
the measures effect on general
finance and especially the third Lib
erty Loan in April.
Creation of the war finance cor
poration, to be managed by Secre-
tary McAdoo and four directors, ap.
pointed by the president, and subject
to senate confirmation, with capital
of $500, 100000 and authority to is.
sue bonds up to $4,000. 100000, is
provided for in the bill. The cor.
poration's directors would be au.
thorized to make advances, generally
through the federal reserve banking
system, to banks, trust companies,
savings banks, fire and life insur-
ance companies, and to make direct
loans to railroad and public utility
corporations and to going business
contributory to the war.
Instead of a plan for compulsory
licensing of security issues of $780,
900 and more, the senate, after Wig
orous opposition to the origina
scheme. substituted system of vol
untary licensing, through capita
issues committee" OF five officials
Including three members of the fed
eral reserve board, with advistor!
lpowers only. Late yesterday after
lnoon the senate adopted an amend
ment by Senator owen prescribing
that this committee shall be ap
Ipointed by the president and con
Ifirmed by the senate, instead of b,
the federal reserve board with See
Iretary McAdoo's approval
The life Of the corporation is no
specifically limited in the bill, bu
liz is provided that final liquidatio
of its assets shall begin six month
latter peace Is declared
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SUBMARINE MENACE BEING OVERCOME

they count. 1t has taken time to
devise and build the weapons, but
they are beginning to become avail.
able now.
When the United States entered
the war the navy contributed prompt
ly all that 1t had available to join
in the submarine hunt. Sir Erie paid
high tribute in his remarks to the
spirit and efficiency of American
naval units, crediting them with a
fair share OF what had been ac-
complished. Vice Admiral Sims de-
stroyer forces have constituted only
the advance guard of what the Amer
lean navy planned to furnish for the
fight. Even with that limited aid,
the allied navies have held the
enemy and are now destroying one
out OF every four or five German
U.boats that put to sea.
Now Americas real contribution
to the naval warfare is about to be
felt. With every passing week the
strength of the force will grow, for
it is embodied in the most extensive
construction program ever under.
taken for the navy Of any power
The new destroyers and Other
craft must be added to the patrol
fleets gradually as they are com
,pleted. Therefore no sudden falling
Off OF tonnage losses is to be ex
pected. II has been stated publicly
by high British naval authorities
however. that next August will show
beyond question that the U boats
have been overcome. There are OF
ficials here who are hopeful that de
cided results will be apparent be
fore that, perhaps as early as Ma!
! or June
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
RUSSIANS
CAPTURE
HAMBURG

LONDON. March 8.--A Petrograd
official announcement on Thursday
said the Russian revolutionary
force captured Jamburg Tuesday. A
Stockholm dispatch says the Finnish
government asked the kaiser to ap.
point his fifth son, Prince Oscar
king of Finland.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Petrograd says that Bolsheyik
Commander Krylenko has resigned
because of differences with the coun-
ell of the peoples commissaries,
also because of disagreement over
the latest actions of the council
a Russian official news agency
says that the Germans have not oc.
cupied Kiev, capital of Ukraine,
which the reyolutionaries still hold.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-08
JAPAN WILL WELCOME
CHINA'S COOPERATION

ny Associated PrehS5
LONDON, March S.-A Daily Mail
Tientzin dispatch says 1t is report
ed that Japan intimated welcome
of Chinese cooperation in the event
of necessity for extreme measures
in Siberia, thus desiring to demon
strate unselfishness. II is reported
that the Chinese government has OBJ
tanned documentary proof that the
Germans definitely offered assist
ance to the Russian reyolutionaries
IL they caused trouble.