L OF DRAFT IN TWO WEEKS MISSION First (.'»II W ill Be for From 900,000 to American Delegation Make« Ising Voy­ ENK WEEK 1,500,000 Mon Under New Plan 625,000 W ill Be Selected. SENT TO BOTTOM IN RUSSIA age Secretly on Fast llattlenhip to Help Troubled Country. Washington, D. C. — Plans o f the Washington, I>. C. Safe arrival at a Russian port o f the American com­ War department to draft from 900,000 mission to Russia headed by Klihu to 1,500,000 men o f the 10,000,000 Root, ambassador extraordinary, was who, it is expected, w ill be registered announced in u dispatch to thu Navy for the new army, were disclosed Tues­ department. The commission left Washington day by Provost Marshal General Crow­ May l, charged with greetings to the der to the senate military atfairs com­ new democratic government o f Russia mittee. Exemptions, he said, prob­ and authorized to give aid from the ably would result in reducing the num­ United States not only in the prose­ ber to 625,000 men for immediate cution o f war against the common service. enemy, but in the rehabilitation o f the While the War department had or­ English Force o f Light Cruisers A t­ Events o f Noted People, Governments Arrest o f Three Men in New York demoralized country. iginally planned to select 500,000 men It was preceded by a special mission and Pacific Northwest and Other tack Six German Destroyers in May Explain How Naval Secret* first. General Crowder told the com­ o f railroad experts, whose arrival al­ mittee the plans have been revised and Things Worth Knowing. Hot Fight Capture Men. Reached Kaiser'• U-lioata. ready has been announced. it now is proposed to require 625,000. A fte r a final conference between To secure this number he said it President Wilson and Mr. Root, the probably w ill be necessary to draft at commissioners traveled overland to the Theodore Roosevelt w ill g ive an ad­ least 900,000 and possibly 1,500,000 London— A German destroyer has Pacific ('oast and there taiarded a fast New York With three men under dress in Lincoln, Neb., on "A m e r i­ cause o f expected exemptions. been sunk and another damaged in a naval vessel. arrest who are alleged to be only General Crowder told the committee | running fight between six German de- canism,” Thursday, June 14, the clos­ Under the voluntary censorship, at minor figures in a conspiracy to truns- ing day o f the Nebraska semi-centen­ the additional 125,000 would be needed ! stroyers and Commodore T yrw h itt’s the request o f the government, nearly nut information o f military value to to fill up vacancies in the army o f 500, sqaudron, the admiralty announces. nial celebration. all American newspa|>er» refrained 000 and to keep training camps,in con­ Tho German naval base at Ostend, from publishing anything about their Germany through regular mail chan­ Ambassador Sharp at Paris has noti- | tinuous operation. on the Belgian coast, has been lium- departure or tho [stints through which nels, the Federal authorities Monday fied the State department that he has When the original plans for service barded by British warships. The B rit­ they passed along the way. transferred to Spanish diplomats Turk­ indicated further arrests which they for 500,000 men were made, he said, ish forces were undamaged. While no German submarines are said might result in disclosures of a ish interests in France for which he the department had not planned to The text o f the admiralty announce­ I known to be operating in the Pacific, has been caring since early in the war. German spy system. send American forces abroad so soon. ment reads: it was deemed wise to print no details So great had the crowd o f persons Casualties from foreign service, he "T h e vice admiral at Dover report» o f the trip until the voyagers were Apparently the government officers receiving liquor shipments become believed, sickness, etc., make neces­ that the enemy naval base and work- ho|>ed they could uncover an explana­ safely landed. around the Wells, Fargo express office sary a reserve o f 125,000 men, in ad- ships at Ostend were heavily bom­ The arrival o f the mission at Pctro- tion o f how Germany knew in advance at Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, that i dition to the duty at training camps, barded in the early hours Tuesday grad is awaited anxiously, because it o f the approach o f the American de­ the police were called to preserve General Crowder told the committee morning. A large number o f rounds j is confidently tielieved here that the order. he favored immediate drafting o f men were fired with good results. The assurances it brings from the Aineri- stroyers to the British coast so that an Santos Dumont, the Brazilian avi- registering, rather than postponement enemy shore batlerit-s^ rcturiu-d our j can government and the people and the Irish |s>rt could be mined. Two o f the men, whose names were ator, has invented a powerful type o f ^°r several weeks after fire, but our bombardment forces suf- counsel o f its members will do much to­ seaplane for fighting submarines, ac- r*K,stratlon- He regards it desirable fered no damage. ward steadying and strengthening the kept secret, are said to be American born, and the third a naturalized c iti­ cording to a Turin dispatch, which says that men drafted may know and have j “ Commodore Tyrw hitt also reports hand o f the provisional government. zen o f Switzerland. Examination o f a that the new machine w ill be manufac- a few weeks to make their personal . that early Tuesday morning a force of quantity o f mail seized by federal arrangembnts before called to the col- light cruisers and destroyers under his tured in the United States. COMMENCEMENTWAR THEME agents indicated transmission o f in­ ors. 1 command sighted six German destroy- A New York Federal grand jury has formation on steamships to Mexico and Details o f making exemptions also ers and engaged them at long range indicted 14 individuals and four cor- ; were explained to the committee by in a running fight. One o f the enemy Discussion* o f War Purpom* to Stir Up thence ¡sissibly by wircl»*»* to Ger­ porations on a charge of conspiring to the provost marshal general. He said destroyers, the S-20, was sunk by our many. Martial Spirit 1* Urged. defraud through the mails investors o f the government does not contemplate gun fire and another severely damaged, Am erica’s purjiose in the war — n the Emerson Motors company, a Dela- any class exemptions, but that all will Seven survivors from the S-20 have ware corporation with a stock o f $10,- be personal. Farmers, factory opera- j been picked up ane thu theme o f ' essays and orations in thousand* of l-ong Lull Broken by British Armies Roumania w ill establish a legation not be exempted as such, nor territor- schools ami colleges this June. The in Denpcrutr Fighting. Roumania recently I ¡ally. but all exemptions w ill be made United States Trade to in Washington. subject under three different titles asked this government i f the establish- individually. Get Ten Billion in Year has a prominent place in the list o f London- The infantry lull o f weveral The men drafted probably w ill be in ment o f a legation here would be i topics for discussion at commencement weeks was broken Sunday night, when agreeable and has just been told that training camps by September I, Gen­ New York— Ten billion dollars to be exercises recently issued by Franklin under the light o f a n«*arly full m«jon, eral Crowder said, and added that he the United States would be glad to spent during the coming year by the the British made an attack southwest favored beginning selections within United States and the allied govern­ K. Lane, secretary o f the interior. receive a charge d’affaires. Mr. Wm. D. Wheelwright, chairman o f Ixms and in the direction o f that two weeks after registration so that ments for the products o f American of the Oregon branch o f the League to besi«*ge«l city. Ruth Law, aviatrix, circled over exemption work may be expedited The [loint o f attack was due west Cleveland, Ohio, environs Wednesday, and notifications o f final selections farms, mines and factories, Secretary Enforce Peace, says that tho national dropping “ Liberty Loan bombs.” Miss may be made as soon thereafter as McAdoo declared here Tuesday night, headquarters o f the league, at 70 Fifth o f Avion, which is one o f the southern w ill bring to the country the greatest Avenue, New York, had prepare«! ma­ suburbs o f I xtis , the latter being the Law has started on a 10-days’ trip in possible. prosperity in its history. terial which will be mailed upon re- center o f a mining district which the interest o f the Liberty Bond cam­ "Som e people profess apprehension j "* ¿ 7 to"'students wishing to write sprawls for miles along the valley o f paign, dropping literature on several o f thc foI|owinK „objects j n the StiUrhez river. Middle West and Southwestern cities. BABY PLAGUE BEING TRACED about the future o f business, said Mr. | McAdoo “ Why, gentlemen, prosper- Secretary I W s list: Most o f Sunday night's fighting was Frank C. Webb, o f New York, and |i t yi n the next 12 months wi l l be " to Enforce Peace.” south o f the river although an advance Committe Declares Infantile Paralysis J. E. Munsey, o f Salt Lake City, are greater than it ever has been in our .•f repBration f „ r pe«c e at Close o f post was establish«*! north o f that en route to their homes following their Communicated by Contact. ' history. You cannot prevent it i f you i War ” stream. The British by early dawn release from the Federal Penitentiary try. “ The only thing that could stop •«international League o f Peace." had raptured all the intended [«ositions New York— Infantile paralysis is at Leavenworth, Kan., where they had prosperity would be the refusal o f the Xhe memben o f the ,eaifue> he de­ and were still fighting Tuesday along served six-year sentences imposed after communicated by personal contact, and people to support the reasonable meas- clare<| are 8lrivinKi with the approval the Lens-Arraa road. conviction in the Indianapolis dynamite not from contaminated sources o f milk ures o f taxation that are nee«led and to o f the af|mini„ tratIon, to emphasize They had raptured the electric power nor from lower animals, insects or by cases. k°n< 3 Kovt*rnmt'nt- the high purjiose o f the war as defined station just south o f the river where clothing and other extraneous objects, The secretary addressed a great mass by President Wilson, in the belief that the Germans had lieen establish«*«! for The Petrograd provisions committee says a report made public Tuesday by has decided to reduce the sugar allow­ the special committee of physicians meeting at Carnegie hall in behalf o f ■ thi„ ¡8 th(. tieHt way to Htir up mnrtial many months and which was fairly Liibery I-oan, which, he warns, gp,rit( which must be the basis o f all stiff with machine guns. ance to one-half a Russian pound appointed last summer to conduct an ‘ The station monthly. Only black or brown bread inquiry financed by the Rockefeller effective preparation. The league, it had been pretty well blown about by i f everyone did his duty. He appeal­ is unnecessary to point out, is not a artillery fire, but was still a formida­ may be baked hereafter, according to Foundation. ed to those who cannot fight on the pacifist body. It advocates war until ble fortification. an announcement, under penalty o f 18 The report made to Mayor Mitchel months’ imprisonment, or a fine of gives the record o f a study o f 5496 battle front to supply the means that the world, in the words «if President Further south the British captuml w ill enable the government to provide Wilson, is made “ safe for democracy.” some brick chimneys which had been $10,000 rubles. cases. It asserts that slight and non- j for the soldiers who go to the front. Former Preisdent William H. T a ft is transform«*! into a strong [xiint. Applications for admittance to the paralytic cases are the most frequent its head. These objectives sound rather second reserve officers’ training camp sources o f infection, "a s these cases Slackers Kush to Altar. strange, but most o f the bitterest at the Presidio w ill be accepted on and arouse no suspicion and other persons New York— On the eve o f registra- German Army on Strict Diet; fighting in the world-war on a vast a fter June 15, according to orders re­ come in contact with them; "th a t the disease usually developa frcim thme to tion day hundreds o f men and women front has, from time to time, swirled ceived in San Francisco June 4 from Two Meatless Days in Week gathered in the municipal building to about sugar factories, windmills, farm the W ar department by Lieutenant ten days after exposure, and that obtain marriage licenses, which were buildings, cemeteries, breweries, slag Colonel Albert Laden, commanding the "previous good health does not give being issue«! at the rate o f one every London— The condition as to fnitely settl«*«! that the best fml o f the ra City officials in charge o f the license German fighting units subsist on a com, as was done with wheat several dren. I » w .Suspension Disliked. bureau declared the m ajority o f the tion which equals only three-fifths in weeks ago. The price fixed was $1.65 Washington, I). C .--T h e section o f weight and value that issue«! to the prospective bridegrooms were taking on all contracts o f corn for future d e -: Gains Lost by Austrians, British troops. The best nourish«*! the immigration law under which Sec­ livery. There was less excitement Rome— Itailan troops Tuesday with- wives in the hope draft. German troops are those in reserve retary Wils«.>n has been suspending the among the brokers than on the occa- stood a heavy attack by the Austrians just back o f the fighting lines. They rules and permitting Mexican farm la­ Russians Win Positions. sion o f the similar action taken on on the western slopes o f San Marco in receive the maximum ration. Since borers to enter tho United States wheat some weeks ago. Petrfjgrad, via London — Russian the Gorizia area. The war office an­ the spring o f 1916, however, their would be repeale«l by a resolution in- President W’ ilson’s communication nounced that at the points where the scouts Tuesday broke through four! bread allowance has been cut «lown troducc«! by Chairman Burnett, o f the to the Russian government on the war Austrians had been able to penetrate rows of wire entanglements in front of one-third. The greater part o f this house immigration committee. The committee contends that if the aims o f the United States has been de­ lines leveled by their artillery they the German position near Kovel and reduction has occurml during the last secretary can make suspensions for eight months. livered at Petrograd by American Am ­ had been promptly driven out again dispersed the Teuton barrier guards. There arc now two meatless days a Mexicans he can do likewise for Asi- bassador Francis. It w ill not be pub­ and back to their own positions with Farther south in the Carpathian week in the German trenches. Even atics. lished in this country or Russia for a severe losses. Austrian attacks else­ mountains Russian scouts penetrated the indispensable sausage allowance day or two, while the State depart­ where between Vertoibizza and the the German wire entanglements near Lumber Bought by Goethals. has been cut down to two and three- ment is clearing up what are officially coast were stopped in their incipiency. Pnevi, drove the Germans from their quarter ounces daily. Rice has been Washington, D. C.— Lumber for 100 characterized as "m atters o f detail.” trenches and capture«! a machine gun, Spain Sends Sharp Note. eliminated entirely, being replaced by woixlen ships has been ordered from The Fashion A rt League o f America Madrid— The Spanish government, the War office announced. dry turnips. members o f the Southern Pine associ­ has decreed that a woman must spend it is announced in the newspapers, has A comparison between the British ation by Major General George W. Brussiloff in Command. $653 for clothes if she’s to be properly instructed its representatives in Ber­ Petrograd General Michael V. Ale- and German rations is interesting and Goethals, general manager o f the ship­ dressed this year. lin, Vienna and Constantinople to pre­ illuminating. The only issues which ping b«)ard’s emergency fleet corpora­ gieff, commander in chief o f the Rus­ sent an urgent note demanding that are common with the two forces are tion. The pri«*e is $35 a thousand feet Memorial Day celebrations were held sian armies, has resigned. General there be an end to the persecutions, These at the mills. Alexis Brussiloff, commander in chief bread, meat and vegetables. a t both ends o f the Panama Canal, deportations and lootings practiced The orders call for approximately are common in substance, but not in with speeches by W iliam J. Price, the o f the armies on the southwestern against the Jews in Palestine. King 140,000,000 feet and delivery w ill lie front, has been appointed to succeed weight or quality by any means. American minister to Panama, and Alfonso, it is said, has intervened di­ made as fast as the mills can cut the him. Genreal Gurko, commander o f Major Herbert White, o f the United rectly in this question. timber. Officers Miss Dinner. States Army. the western front, replaces Brussiloff San Francisco — The water supply on the southwestern front. Briton* to Be Retried. Ideas embodied in Rear Admiral Mexicans Rob American Ship. gave out temporarily at the Presidio 141 Alien Enemies Taken. Bradley A. Fiske’s invention o f a tor­ Washington, D. C.— Ralph K. Blair here Saturday and the army cooks Galveston, T ex.— Tho American fish­ pedo-launching seaplane have been and Dr. Thomas Addis, British citiz­ New York— The government’s activ­ were unable to wash the breakfast ing schooner Areas, was boarded by "appropriated” by the Germans, and ens, by a Supreme court ruling Tues­ ities against alien enemies, it was dishes. Consequently, when several the crew o f a Mexican gunboat off the were used by them in torpedoing the day, must undergo a second trial at learned here Wednesday, have resulted thundred leg-weary “ rookies,” candi­ coast o f Tehauntepec, Mexico, on the 3000-ton British steamship Gena off San Francisco on a charge o f conspir­ in arrests o f 141 persons in recent dates for commissions as officer* o f the high seas on May 31 and looted o f Aldeburgh, on May 1, according to a acy to violate American neutrality in weeks in this district, which includes Reserve Corps, returned from a two- clothing, fishing gear and medicine statement given out in New York by recruiting Englishmen in this country parts o f Northern New Jersey and hour march with 20-pound packs and chest. This news was brought here by the Aero Club o f America. Tw o sea­ for service in the British army. The Western Connecticut. The specific rifles, there was no dinner. The men Captain S. A. Macdonald, o f the Areas, planes participated in the attack and court refused to interfere with a sec­ charge in each case has not been made were forced to line up and take their who arrived in port directly from the one was brought down by the British. ond trial ordered. public. "ch o w ” in strict field method. scene o f the robbery. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Kaiser’s Naval Base on Belgian Coast Bombarded by British. Military News Sent to Berlin by Mexican Wireless. COMPILED SECOND SHIP INJURED FLEET S MOVE IS TOLD FOR YOU