SELECTIVE DRAFT RULES EXEMPT FEW Power Given Boards to Decide on Each Case. SELECTION MYSTERY System by Which Choice W ill Be Made W ill Be Made Only a Few Day» Before Starting, ia Belief. th# members force*. of all other military Ilesmlatloaa Baaed aa Need. "The regulationa have been drawn with a view to the naeds and clrcura- atancaa of the whole country, and pro vide a ayatem which It la expected will work with the least Inequality and personal hardship Any system of selecting men for military eervtce whether voluntary or Involuntary in ita operation, neceesartly eeleote some men to bear the burden of danger and sacrifice for the whole Nation. The system here provided places all men of military age upon an even plane, and then, by a selection which neither favors tho one nor penalises the other, calls out the requisite number (or service. "The successful operation of this law and of theaa regulations depends necessarily upon the loyalty, patriotism and Justice of the members of the boards to whom Its operation Is com mitted and I admonish every member of every local board and of every dis trict board of review that their duty to their country requires an Impartial and fearless performance of the deli cate and difficult duties Intrusted to them. They should remember as to each Individual case presented to them that they are called upon to adjudi cate the most sacred rights of the In dividual and to preserve untarnished the honor of the Nation. "Our armies at the front w ill be strengthened and sustained If they be composed of men free from any sense of Injustice I p the mode of selection and they w ill be Inspired to loftier efforts in behalf of a country in which the citixens called upon to perform high public functions perform them with justice, fearlessness and Impartiality." WORLD HAPPENINGS 24,000,000 MEN AT WAR, SAYS EXPERT OF CURRENT WEEK Gen. Sir William Robertson Gives Graphic Faots About Pres ent Struggle. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventa o f Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things W orth Knowing. WASHINGTON. July ».— Preparation A strike o f 9000 coal miners of (o r the mobiliaation of the drat con Western Kentucky was called at a tingent o f 625.Ooo troops of the new mass meeting in Central City Saturday Nat* nal Army advance»! another step night. The strike went into effect t» ' when President Wilson promul- Tuesday. Higher wages are demanded. gai the regulations to govern ex emptions from military service. Announcement was made Tuesday Local and appeal exemption boards at the W hite House that President already have been appointed and the issuance o f the regulations will permit Wilson does not expect to take a vaca Officiate A re Exempt. them to organise immedli-;«ly a* * ore- tion this summer, but plans to remain pare for the concluding phases o f tn.' Persons who must be exempted or in Washington whether congress ad task of getting the men under train discharged by the local board Include: ing for duty in Fran»-e. Officers of the United States, of the journs or not. states, territories and the District of Exem ption la tsiat Step. Colonel W illiam S. Barker, o f the In the order in which they must Columbia: ministers of religion, stu dents of divinity, persons in the mili Salvation Army, left America Tuesday come there are three steps in the or ganisation process of the National tary or naval service of the United for a port in France, where he will of Germany, all other irmy as prescribed by Congress. They States, subjects who have not taken out their take charge o f all Salvation Army are registration, selection and exemp aliens, first papers; county or municipal o ffi operations among the overseas division tion. The first step has been carried cers. custom house clerks, workmen In through and approximately 10,000.000 Federal armories, arsenals nd navy o f American troops. men between 21 and »1 years of age yards, persons in the Federal service The French steamer Himalaya, o f have been registered. The regulations designated by the President for ex issued today cover in detail the opera emption, pilots. erchant marine sail the Messageries Maritimes, with 204 tion of the third step, exemption. ors, those with a status with respect to passengers and crew, has been sunk as Information concerning the second dependents which renders their exclu the result o f an explosion in the Medi step in the series, however, still Is sion desirable (a married man with de lacking and officials are guarding pendent wife or child, son of a de terranean. One hundred and seventy- closely the method by which selection pendent widow, son of a de six persons were saved. is to be applied. pendent, aged or infirm parent, or A corcerted movement by American brother of dependen. orphan child un Selection May Be by Number. The exemption regulations announced der 16 years of age), those found mor cor..posers and dramatists and leaders that the hoards will be advised of the ally deficient, and ;.ny member o f any o f national civic and musical organiza selection process later, although none well recognlxed religious sect existing tions, for the production o f American 18, 1817, whose creed forbids par o f the steps prescribed except the or- May opera and other native music in the ganixatlon of the boards can be carried ticipation In war and whose rellgio ’s accord with the creed. English tongue has been formally out until the selection machinery has convictions Claims for exemption because of de launched in New York. finished the names of the men whose pendents may be made by the man fitness and desirability for Army serv himself, hlo wife or other dependents, Forty-seven deaths from intestinal ice the boards are to judge. There Is by a third party, who has person trouble have jeeurred in New Madrid one hint, however, as to how the selec or ally investigated the case. The claim tion machinery is to work. made by the husband must be accom county, M issoi-i, in the last six weeks. The local boards are directed upon panied by supporting affidavits signed organisation to take over from the reg by the wife and by the head of a fam At least 100 persons, mostly children, istration precincts the cards and lists ily residing in the same territory. A are ill with the disease. The number o f the men registered on June 5, and claim by the wife or a third party must of known deaths from the disease in as their first duty, to provide a serial be accompanied by two supporting a f Southeastern Missouri now is 118. number for each registration card. fidavits signed by heads of families. This has given support to the belief The German authorities broke the Similar rules govern claims on the that the selection js to be by number. grounds of other dependents. recent strike at the shipyards in Stet Reports were current recently that the District boards must decide appeal selection drawing was to be made in cases within five days after the closing tin by the same means they used to Washington. of proofs, and their decisions are final. crush the April strike. They threat Presumably the process c f selection Certificates of exemption w ill not ened to muster the strikers as soldiers will be announced only a short time necessarily be permanent. They may and subject them to punishment meted before It is put Into operation. When be revoked w l’.b chang.ng conditions or that w ill be is not known. may be granted only for prescribed out to mutineers unless the men re sumed work. September 1 has been the tentative periods. _______________ date set for calling the 550,000 of the The Reichstag this week w ill be first contingent to the colors for train called on to approve a measure supple ing. Progress with construction of the It divisional cantonments for the troops menting the budget fo r the current w ill govern that action, however. It Is fiscal year authorizing the chancellor now believed there w ill be no serious Nine Killed When Car Plunges Over to mobilize a new war credit o f 15,- delay. 000,000,000 marks, bringing the total The examination process w ill not Twenty-foot Embankment Into take a great deal of time. It is d iffi appropriations for the war to 94,000,- cult to calculate the time the local Niagara Falls Whirlpool. 000,000 marks. boards w ill need In passing on the cases that come before them. Registration o f the country’s house Speed to B e Required. N iagara Falls, N. Y . — A belt-line wives as members o f the food admin The regulations provide, however, car on the Great Gorge route left the istration was begun Monday by state that decision in any individual case shall not be delayed more than three rails, plunged down a 20-foot embank defense councils and the women’s com Dr. days by the local boards. The whole ment and turned over in 10 feet o f wa mittee o f the National Council. process probably can be carried through Ray L. Wilbur, head o f the adminis in less than 10 days. ter on the edge o f the Whirlpool Rap tration’s conservation 'section, said it There were no surprises In the exam was hoped enrollment would be con- ination legulations. The task of pass ids at 3 :30 p. m. Sunday. ing upon the Individual cases is left Nine persons are known to be dead, pleted within two weeks. entirely tc the local boards. While the W illiam H. Moody, former associate President leserves the right to desig two persons known to have been on the nate industries necessary for the pub car have not been seen since the acci justice o f the Supreme court, died at lic good, the question o f whether re dent and probably are dead, an indefi his home in Haverhill, Mass., at 1 a. tention of any individual engaged in m. Monday. Justice Moody retired these lnductries is essential Is left to nite number, estimated at from two to the boards. ten, are reported missing and more seven years ago because of ill health. than a score are in hospitals, suffering He was secretary o f the Navy and at O fficers B rin g Trained. torney general in the cabinet o f Presi While these steps are being carried from injuries in the accident. out to get together the men of the A washout, due to recent heavy dent Roosevelt, and was appointed to National Army, the War Department the supreme bench in December, 1906. is making progress with the even more rains, was the cause o f the disaster difficult task of finding officers for which occurred just below the canti About 250 rioting negroes in East the forces. lever bridge, and 60 feet below the Part o f these w ill come from the 16 point where the smooth water o f the St. Louis, Monday morning, every man armed either with a rifle or revol officers’ training camps. The first 10,- 000 o f the 40,000 men at the camps upper reaches o f the Niagara river ver, virtually took possession o f the w ill be selected for commissions in break into turbulent waters o f the the first Increment of the new Army, Whirlpool Rapids. There were more “ Black B elt,” killed one policeman and seriously wounded other. W ith and that is lees than half the number than 50 persons on board, according to out a word o f warning the negroes of officers necessary. The War Department today approved general estimates. opened fire on a police department au recommendations of commanders of The car was running at a speed o f tomobile in which the officers were regular regiments, which will commis Less than half a riding and raked the car with bullets. sion 3000 or more regular non-commis 20 miles an hour. sioned officers to be captains in the minute elapsed from the time the mo- first 625,000 contingent of the Na torman fe lt the first sway until the The steamship Humboldt arrived at tional Army. It ts understood that from Southeastern Alaska more than 60 men from each regiment, car was bottomside vp on the edge o f Seattle Thursday with $400,000 o f gold bullion in addition to those now at the officers’ the rushing rapids. training camps, w ill be commissioned As it slipped down the 20-foot in from mining camps along the Yukon. for the period o f the war. cline from the tracks to the edge of Furs valued at $180,000 also were R e gu la r to Be la Command. the river, screaming men and women brought. A trained and experienced regular officer will command each regiment of fought to escape and some o f them A small contingent o f the United the National Army. To aid him he will were able to get free, but were unable have several other regular officers ex to obtain a footing on the steep bank. States Flyin g Corps arrived in Eng perienced in particular lines such as Wednesday wearing civilian There was a mad scramble in the land his adjutant, at least one Major, his clothes with blue silk armlets, hearing shallow water between the wrecked ordance and quartermaster officers, From the in white letters "U n ite d States Flying and some others. The remainder of the car and the river bank. officers will come from the reserve riverside the bodies o f at least two o f Corps.” lists, the training camps, or the ranks the passengers were seen to be caught of the regular service. Two conscientious objectors to con The President issued the following in the sw ifter waters, and were car scription, Frank J. Otto, Jr., and statement teday: ried down to the whirlpool. Stephen Stanley, o f Philadelphia, have ’’’The regulations which I am today Members o f the National guard regi been sentenced in the United States causing to be promulgated, pursuant to the direction of the selective service ment, who were on guard at the court to serve a year in prison fo r w il law, covering the remaining steps of bridge, saw the accident and were the the plan for calling Into the service of first to the rescue. The soldiers slid fully failin g to register on June 5. the United States qualified men from down the bank into the river and Admiral Frederick von Tirpitz, for those who have registered; those se lected, as the result of this process, to worked in water up to their waists mer German minister o f marine, has constitute, with the regular Army, the gettin g injured passengers free from arrived at St. Blaise, in the Black National Guard and the Navy, the the wreckage and passing them up the Forest. H e is suffering seriously from fighting forces of the Nation, all of which forces are under the terms of bank, where an emergency car had diabetes. Von T irp itz has been Ger the law placed in a position of equal been placed to carry them to the N i many’s chief advocate o f unrestricted right, dignity and responsibility with agara Falls hospital. submarine warfare. TROLLEY INTO RAPIDS Greece Calls Two Classes. Athens— It is stated in reliable quar ters that the classes o f 1916 and 1917 have been called to the colors, as they normally would be, and probably will be eent to Saloniki fo r training. No other classes w ill be called out at pres ent. Administrative control by repres entatives o f the entente allies o f var ious services w ill be withdrawn within the next week, except in caaes o f tele graph and censorship, which w ill be continued with the co-operation o f Greek officers. Colonel Negroposte is expected to arrive at Saloniki soon. Mexicans Gst Rations. Naco, A riz - Some 4000 Mexicans, form er employes o f the Cananea Cop per company at Cananea, Sonora, are being supplied with free rations from the camp store, the stock o f which has been confiscated by the local authori ties there. Each man is being given goods to the value o f |1.25, Mexican money, daily. It is estimated the stock on hand w ill last about 10 days. Mex ican authorities are encouraging the idle workmen to leave Cananea, and circulars have been posted announcing that free transportation. Jesse Williamson, o f Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to the embezzlement o f about $600,000 from the Pennsylvania company for the insurance o f lives and granting o f annuities to its clients, while serving as secretary o f the com pany. President Wilson has directed the Federal Trade commission to mske an investigation into production costa o f steel and lumber, the tw o principal materials that w ill be required for the great merchant fleet to» be built for the government. DEATH TOLL IS APPALLING British In France Fired 200,000 Tone ef Ammunition In Five or Six Weeks— How Transportation Difficult!## Are Overcomo. Loudon.—Qou. Sir William Robert son tn a speech recently gave a graph ic Impression o f some of the extraor dinary aspects o f the present war. It has become merely trite to observe that the war hns now completely over shadowed every other occupation and Interest In the world, but the exteut to which It has done this Is suggested In a moat forcible way by some figures which General Robertson employed. In the armies o f all the belligerent«, he said, there are now 24,000,!KK) men. which excludes the great civilian urwlcs behind the fro n t; lu the Fran- co-Prussian war the total o f all casual ties was less than 300,000, while In this war the killed aloue can ho count ed by tho mltltou. •'During the past five or six weeks we have. I suppose,” said General Rob ertson, “ expended some 200.000 tons of ammunition, which hns had to he moved by road, rail and sea from the factories In England to the guns In France and man-handled probably not less than half a dozeu times.” Great Transportation Task. Tw o hundred thousand tons of am munition means rutlier more than 16,- 000 carloads as measured by the mlulu- tnro freight curs commonly loading about twelve tons that are used In England. General Robertson dldu't suggest, hut any railroad manager with whom one talks will promptly make good the omission, that the mere trans portation o f this one Item of war sup plies at a time when freight cars have been sent to France by the thousand constitutes u terrific drain on the coun try's capacity to move things. T o transport ammunition Is a par ticularly delicate and dungerous busi ness and It Is only because o f splendid organization and high efficiency among railroad employees that there have been so very few accidents and prac tically no real disasters as Incidents to this service. General Robertson paid a special tribute to the men who huve organized and carried on this branch of war work. Comparing the scale and scope of the present war with former struggles, General Robertson was particularly In teresting and Impressive. He observed that the greatest peculiarity o f the present war Is In the colossal numbers of men employed at the front. As a matter o f fact, he omitted to empha size his figures by observing that the great proportion o f the civil popula tion Immediately engaged In work for the support of the army Is quite as Im pressive a peculiarity of this struggle, A W arfare of Machinery. It Is a warfare of machinery anil mechanisms, many of them new anJ heretofore almost untried. These have required to be pro», .iced, to he tested and to have great bodies of men trained for using them. Comparing the present war with that o f 1870 between Germany and France, General Robertson observed that “ In the 1870 war armies were counted by the hundred thousand, and at the battle o f Gravelotte, where the heaviest losses were Incurred, the to- tul casualties were only about 33,000 men on both sides, while for the whole war the total casualties of both sides were less than half a million. “ In the present war the killed alone can be counted by the million, while the total number o f men engaged amounts to nearly 24,000,000. In fact, this war Is not, as In the past, a war merely o f opposing armies, hut a war o f nations, and there is not today a man or woman In the empire who Is not doing something either tn help or to hinder the winning of the war. A man o f great distinction told me the other day that he estimated the weight of purely military effort at only 25 per cent o f the whole, the remaining 75 per cent being, strictly speaking, o f a nonmilitary nature, and made up of many elements— agriculture, food, shipping, diplomacy, etc. I think he Is probably not far wrong, and when peo ple ask me, as they sometimes do, how the war Is getting on, I feel Inclined to reply, 'W hy ask me 7 Why not ask yourself and the remainder o f the 75 per cent 7* ” Allies Outnumber Enemy. General Robertson's figure o f 24.- 000,000 as the number of men octnally engaged In the mllltnry operations Is probably based on as good Information as any man In the world possesses. The British general staff knows all about the armies of the entente coun tries, and knows nil that anybody out side Berlin and Vienna knows about those o f the central powers. He didn't suggest how the numbers are now divided between the two sides, but it la very certain that the entente nations decidedly outweigh their ene mies In mere numbers. The Germanic powers on the other hand, have the great advantage of shorter lines and easier communications. With Russia comparatively Inactive, It la not at all certain that the weight o f numbers la now very decidedly In favor o f the en tente peoples. But the weight of ma chinery la decldely to their advantage. In this connection there has been some Intimation In I'etrograd recently of the possibility that Japan might be called upou In some fashion to take a more active part 1» the struggle. The first suggestion o f this sort which came from Russia was In a brief dispatch saying the government had categorically denied persistent rumors that Japan might he employed to bring pressure against Rusala with the pur pose of couvtuclng Russia that It would he highly uudeslrahle for her to re pudiate livr obligations to her allies. Such a suggestion of course would he most unfortunate, and the denial from I'etrograd Is unquestionably absolutely correct, according to tho best authori ties here. World's Greatest Reaarve. Rut while the employment o f Japa nese force us an urgument with Rus sia Is quite uuthlnkahle there has been a reuewul of the suggestion (hut Jupau's uiagulflceut army might yet require to he employed lu some way In the Kuropeuu field. It represents the greatest reserve of completely pre pared military force that ever stood behind an active military campnlgu lu the world. It there were ouly means of moviiig It Ja|>au could rcudlly and quickly put 2,UOO,UOU, or If uecossury 4.01X1,000, soldiers Into the field. To move auy eouslderuhle propor tion of such a fore«» even Into the near est fighting ureus by water ts a ridicu lous Impossibility at this time, llut there has been serious discussion, I am told, at some o f the recent confer ences aiuoug allied leaders o f the pos sibility o f bringing Japuuene soldiers to Europe by way of the Trunsslherlsn railway. Today this would necessitate au Immense cxpuualou of the currying ca|iaclty of that route. A very lurge port o f It has now bevn double-tracked, and If It shall he recogulsed by the end of this year thut the war la likely to continue several years the further development of Trunsslberlun tonnage capacity might l>e found feasible and even necessary. On# thing Is certain uud that Is thut on neither side Is there at present any such prejudice us formerly existed against Introducing Asiatics uud A fri cans upon the Kuropeuu battlefields. The conception of this war as u war of the whole world has been strength ened very greatly since tho bcgluulng o f the present year. It Is looked upon by the western powers now as every body’s war, a war In which everybody hns nut only un Interest hut a duty to perform. Thnt conception lias affect ed tho attitude of remote and detached peoples to a striking extent. Foe ex ample, among tribes In Africa which would not be presumed to know any thing about what Is happening In Eu rope It Is snld that there Is a very con siderable Interest and a desire to help the western nations. BOY MAKES BOMB OF PENCIL; LOSES HAND Lorain, O.— Aspirations to he a real munition worker Just like some o f his grown-up corapnn Ions, cost fotirteen-yenrold John Katonak his right hand and lucernted his knee. Johnny took the lead from a pencil, filled the hollow tube with powder nnd plugged It with a dynamite cap In eucb end. He attached elec tric wires to set off the charge and when the wires heeame crossed the explosion followed. JACK BINNS TO FLY Jack llliius, wireless Hero of the steamer Republic may gut her fresh he roic laurels In the air. He hns just enrolled for the llrltlsh flying corps In the new llrltlsh recruiting office opened In New York, under the direction of tlrlg. (icn W A. White. Minus will he remembered ns tho first wireless operator to effect a res cue at sea through persistent calls for help. Illtins was the wireless mun aboard the Republic when she was rammed by the Florida off Nantucket, Jnnuury 2.M. ltxil. lie »tui-k t»> hit i»»■ -»t while (he ship w as sinking uud sent out die fumous N. O. 8. until the llaltlc re sponded uml rescued all of the MX) persons uhoard the rammed ship. 8lnce thru he has resided In America. lunch hour will miss the stocky, whtte-hulred figure who preached the Gospel In the heart of what the ma jor part of the nation has come to regard ns a den of wickedness. lie has enjoyed the reputation of being the highest paid street preach er In the world. From Trinity he re ceived a salary o f $5,000 a yenr. No one will ever know how much o f tbta “ the bishop" expended un himself, but the poor will tell thut he has always been open-hsnded and has never with held his aid when money was needed to keep a home together. He was a close friend o f the late J. Plerpuht Morgan, who often went to bis house. SMOKE MORE AND EAT LESS Latest Advice Given to British Psoplo In tho Food Shortage Situation. London.— “ Smoke more and eat less I" This Is the Intent advice given to the British people In the fond short age situation. It comes from Sir John Rees, who says: "It Is to be hoped that the Increased tobacco duty will not reduce the quan tity. The less people smoke the more they are liable to cat. It Is well known that the grossest enters are non-drjnk- ers nnd nou-smokers.“ Famous 8treet Preacher Placed on Re Tills advice refers to women ns tired List by the Trinity well us men, for the smoking hublt Corporation. has spread widely among women since New York.— "Thu bishop o f Wnll the war started. Formerly women street” has held Ills lust service In smoked only In their homes or In res his open-air cathedral at the corner o f taurants. Now they can be seen In Itrond and Wall streets, with Its pave the streets und In factories puffing ment of asphalt nnd Its celling of sky. away at pipes, mild rlgnrs or ciga In other words, the Rev. Dr. Wllliuiu rettes. Arrests o f women for smoking In Wilkinson, friend of millionaires und office boys In the financial district nnd munition factories became no com holder o f noon-day services there for mon that the magistrates had to Im many years, lias been retired by Trin pose severe penalties to break It up. ity corporation, whose mlssloner he has been. The weuther’s about the only th! The crowds o f rich men nnd poor some married couples have In o< who fill the canyon of Wall street at mon.—Chicago Examiner. WALL STREET BISHOP QUITS PAY OF ARMY AND NAVY ON FORÍÍG í T s ERVÍC Men o f the army and navy o f all ranks will receive a 20 per cent In crease In pay while on foreign service. The Increase Is figured on the 1P0H schedules. The revised schedule of the nitny and Marine corps, Just Issued ut Wash ington, Is as fo llo w s: ships are to receive n $30 a month crease. I’ny In the navy under the t schedule will be ns follow s: Nurses will receive an advance of $10 a month. Doctors will receive pay equal to thnt of an army officer o f equal rank. Chief nurses In general hospitals, base hospitals and hospital Chief petty officers will reeslvs from $47.00 to $77.50 a month; second class Pdtty officers, $41; first class seamen, $38.40; ordinary seamen. $82.99, sod apprentice seamen, $32. -Monthly- Rank. Shore. Una Admirals ...................... I1 .U 6 00 $1.237 50 Knar admírala Gat 2)...". 6 6 6 .« 731.83 Rear admirals (2d 2)...... M 0 00 MO 00 M onthly Chiefs of bureaus............ 600 00 IJoutenant general ........................ (614.17 Cnptalna ......................... 333 13 846 67 Major general ............................... 666.67 Commandera ................. 221 «7 m il Brigadier general .......................... 600.0» Lieutenant commandara 260 00 n o s Colonel ........................................... 333 13 Lieutenants .................... 200.00 27002 Lieutenant colonel ......................... 221.67 Lieutenants, junior grade ■ 1 6 6 « 121 47 Major ............................................ 250.00 Knalgns .......................... 141 « 142.21 Captain ......................................... 200.00 Midshipmen — at acade Flret lieutenant .............................. 166 «7 my ............................... (0 .0 0 ....... Second lieutenant ........................... 141 67 Chief boatswains, gun Flret eergeant, all arms................ 51 00 ners, rarpentera. anil- Battalion sergeant major............... 42.no makers, machinists end 1 Color eergeant ............................... 44.00 pharmacists ................ 141.«7 156« Sergeant, cavalry, artillery, Infantry 38.00 Medical directors ........... . 233 33 366 « Corporals, all arms ........................ 36 00 Medical Inspectors ....... »1 « »20 12 Privates, flret class, engineers, ord Surgeons .................... 260 00 nance, slrnal corps, hospital corps 33 00 Pay directors ........... ...” M 3 S3 »6 «.« Privates, second claea, hospital corps 31 00 Pay Inspectors ............ 221 « 120 28 Privates ..................................... 20 0 0 Paymasters .................... 250 0» n g