HOOVER IS SUSTAINED
President Wilson Wins Fight in Con
ference for Single Food Adminis
trator During War Period.
VICTORl IS SEEN IN
PEOPLES’ ECONOMY
pr«*siilc«l over by capable, dev«»ted men
niul wumi'ii who sacrificed every in
terest in this national service. This
is the organisation of democracy, and
this is positive prtx>f that U| h > ii call of
national «luty our po«>ple will rise, ami
rise over night, t«> the real defense of
I their faith. “
ALLIES IN CREAT
Washington, D. C,— Yielding to the
urgent request o f President Wilson,
-
French and British Hurl Teutons
Brief Resume Most Important senate and house conferees on the food Hoover Says Success in Certain
1 Airmen Drop Two Bombs and Retire
control bill Monday eliminate«! the
Back on 20-Mile Front.
City, Alarmed. Watches Fight.
Daily News Items.
in Increased Food Supply.
provision for a f«xxl board o f three
members instead of a single adminis
Paris — German airplanes made a
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trator and consente«l to make one more
raid on Paris at 11 o ’clock Saturday
effort to agree regarding the section
night.
Two bomba were drop|t*xl on
creating a war expenditures committee
the capital. The opinion is held here
o f congress.
The conferees had reacheil an im
that the raid was made with the object
- — —
passe on the two proposals when the
of testing the |x>*aibility of a success
Events of Noted People, Government« President intervened, and there had Reports Made bv Pities Representing ful German attack in force similar to Germans Throw In Great Masara of
been indications that a final disagree
Freah Troops — Alii
Establish
and Pacific Northweat and Other
15,000,000 Population Show One-
the recent raid made on London.
ment might be rep«>rted.
The war
committee
section,
written
into
the
A few minutes before 11 o'clock i
Superiority o f Air Forres.
Things Worth Knowing.
Third Decrease in Garbage.
bill by the senate and strenuously op
watchers of the French aviation serv
posed by the President, was the only
ice in Paris heard the noise of a motor
remaining problem.
and
then an explosion, followe«l after
Before
Monday's
meeting
the
Presi
London — British tnxqNi in conjunc
Free postage for all soldiers, sailors
Washington, D. C. — America will
a brief interval by another.
tion with the French forces on their
and marines during the war is pro dent conferred at the White H«>use
win the war, Herbert Hoover declared
posed in a bill introduced by li epre- with Representative Lever, heading
The perfecture of Paris was acconl- left attacke«! the German |iositions
in
a statement Sunday, because of its
sentative Lonergan, o f Connecticut.
ingly instructed to give the alarm long a wide front north of the river
superior resources and through the
Lya at 3:60 Tu«'s«lay morning.
Andrew Avery, a negro, was lynched
throughout the city. The last notifi- j The text of the British statement
ability
o
f
the
American
people
to
or
on the main street o f Garland City,
cation to the |>eople of the capital to announcing the offensive in Flanders
ganize. The success, already evident,
Ark., Wednesday night.
It was
take refuge for a jx>s*ible raid was says:
charged that he had assaulted and rob
o f the nation’s voluntary food conser
“ In i*onjunction with the French
given
on the night of March 16-17.
bed William Woods, a contractor.
vation effort, Mr. Hoover said, points
troo|>* operating on our left, we at
Soon after the warning of the raid
Vice Admiral Maximilian Njegovan,
tacked at 3:50 o'clock on a wule front
to a final victory.
ers
was given, the sky over the city
commander o f the Austrian fleet, in an
“ Germany accomplishe«! less in this was alive with defense airplanes, north of the river Lys.
interview given to the Neue Freie
“ The allied tron|>a have captured
direction in 12 months," said Mr. Hoo twinkling like stars from which they
Presse, declared he did not believe
their
first objectives on the whole
Fire-
ver, “ than our people have in four. hardly could bo distinguished,
submarines would bring about a decis
front attacked and are rc|M>rtcd to be
sound-
ion in the war.
The only need of legislation and au men dashed through the str«‘et*
making satisfactory progress at all
ing alarms on powerful sirens and one
thority is to curb those who would profit by one the street lamps flickered out. points.
Deportations o f civilians from Mons,
“ (ionsidorable numbers of prisoners
Belgium, continue, the German gov
by this voluntary movement.”
Residents of the city, awakened
already
have been captured.”
ernment sending away 129 men on
More than 2,000,000 women, Mr. from their sleep, instead o f taking
June 26 and 39 on June 28. It is prob
Hoover announced, have enrolled as refuge in cellars, mounte«l to the roofs
British Front in France The entente
able they will be to work on the Ger
or into the streets to watch the dron
members o f the food administration
man front in France.
ing airplanes. At 1:10 o ’clock the allietl forces which launched their
and pledged themselves to follow its firemen gave the signal that all danger offensive Tuesday morning have ad-
British casualties in all theaters of
directions
as to saving food within the was over and the Parisiennes turned to vaneed well beyond the ahell-shattcre«!
military operations published in the
front line German trenches. In many
household. Within 60 days, he said, their betls, having seen nothing of the
newspapres during the month o f July
places they have reached the second
enemy.
total 71,832 officers and men.
The
many more millions will have become
line defenses on a 20-mile front of at
officers killed, wounded or missing to
members.
tack, according to early report*.
tal 2503, while the men number 69,-
British and French troop* went into
“
No
one
can
rightly
be
gl«x>my
over
329.
battle under rover of what perhaps
the outcome for the American people
The Navy department has ordered
Only 50 of 200 Who Went to Front was the greatest barrage fire yet seen
5,100,000 pounds o f canned peas, to be Expert whose appointment as National in this war,” said Mr. H«x)ver. “ Suc
during the war.
Return- German Women Fight.
Food Administrator is assured by cess in this war is a question of re
delivered as needed at tentative prices
Between Dixmude ami Bocainghe
victory o f the President over Senate sources and of the will and ability of
o f $1.15 to $1.50 a dozen cans, with
Petrograd — When the Russian wo the attackers reported they had se
Conferees.
all orders subject to revision so prices
the people to reorganize themselves to men’s battalion, known officially as the cured the two first lines of trenches
may be based on cost plus a reasonable
use them rightly and to endure. Many “ Command of Death,” went into ac after having fought over the most
profit.
difficult terrain imaginable.
the house members, and Senator Cham thinking Americans and the whole
tion against the Germans near Smor-
The British ugain have captured I .a
With President Wilson’s indorse berlain, the administration’s senate world has been watching anxiously the
ment, the foreign relations committee spokesman, and earnestly insisted upon last four months in the fear that dem gon July 26, they captured a number Bassevile, which they re«-ently relin
has favorably reported Senator Mc- one-man food control and elimination ocratic America could not organize to of women, from whom it was learned quished to the Germans.
The British and French forces are
Germany for the first time that German women
Cumber’s resolution opening the way of the clause creating the expenditures meet autocratic Germany.
by treaty negotiations for drafting committee. Within an hour after re has been confident that it could not be also were fighting on the battle front faring a large concentration of Ger
man artillery and fresh troops which
ally subjects in this country into the convening the senate conferees yielded done.
have been rushed up.
on the food administration section,
"Contrary proof is immediately at in western Russia.
American army.
The entente allies have establishe«!
adopting the original house provision our door and our people have already
Ten wounded heroines o f the wo - \
Dark days literally are coming for for appointment by the President of an demonstrated their ability to mobilize,
Petrograd rom|detc air suj»criority.
men’s battalion arrived
Berlin. An order has been issued re individual administrator, not subject organize, endure and prepare volun
The entente military officials say the
Sunday,
leaving their commander,
stricting the lighting o f stores, hotels, to senate confirmation.
morale o f the Germans here is not up
tarily and efficiently in many direc
restaurants and cafes.
The order is
The President’s personal interven tions and upon a mere word of inspira Vera Butchkareff, and Marya Skryd- to the old standard.
due to the admittedly inevitable coal tion, the
conferees declared was tion, aside from the remarkable as loff, a daughter of Admiral Skrydloff,
shortage and tranportation difficulties largely instrumental in breaking their semblage o f our army and finances.
former commander of the Baltic fleet
o f the coming winter.
The newspa deadlock in the food administration
“ We entered the war four months; and Minister of Marine, in a hospital
pers complain nothing is being done to dispute. His course was criticised by ago and it was announced by the Presi- at Vitebsk
relieve the situation.
some members and some sharp tilts in dent that one o f the great problems o f ; Interviewed, the women said it was Chicago Reports 20 Fatalities in Day;
the war would be food.
There has reported that o f the 200 o f the corn-
Believing Bob Silester possessed of the conference were reported.
Cleveland II Mercury 102.
Success o f the food administrtion, been no consequential national or local mand who reached the front, only 50
an evil spirit, George Johns, James
Chicago Eleven additional deaths
Jefferson, Lena Jefferson and Rosey President Wilson told the conferees’ legislation, yet the greatest spontané- remained. Twenty were killed, eight
depends upon its ous volunteer effort ever made in his- were taken prisoner and all the rest from the heat were reported to the po-
Wilder, Indians, beat Silester to death leaders, largely
i lice We<lnesday evening, making a
with clubs Tuesday afternoon and bur management by one man. He said a tory has not provided us with a larger were wounded.
ied his body in sand, according to an larger board would “ seriously inter stock o f food supply as a result o f
“ Several tim es,” said one wounded total o f 20 in Chicago in 24 hours.
other Indian, who reported the murder fere with successful conduct of the patriotic planting in every quarter, girl, “ we attacked the Germans. Es- Seventeen o f this number were men
There were persistent but but waste is being eliminated out o f ¡ pecially memorable was our attack at and three were women. No account is
to Everett, Wash., officers Wednesday, i war.”
unconfirmed
reports that the President every crack and cranny o f our homes Novospassky wood, near Smorgon, taken of the numerous deaths o f babies
All four are under arrest.
felt retention of either the three- and of our industries, and this is being I where the enemy, hearing the voices i in the congested districts. Of the
Damage mounting into thousands of member board or the congressional
done without compulsion of the law, of girls, lost their nerve. The result large number prostrated many will die.
dollars was done to crops in North committee would be sufficient
Cleveland, O., re|x>rts maximum
cause but by spontaneous effort and self- was that many o f them were killled,
eastern South Dakota by a hail storm for a veto. Senator Chamberlain de
tenqs-rature
o f 102 and 14 deaths, in
denial of the people.
wounded or taken prisoner. Among
Monday night. Hundreds o f telephone clared positively that the President
In Detroit the
“ Our present prospects indicate an the prisoners were a few women, from cluding 11 babies.
and telegraph wires in the region are gave no intimation to that effect dur
increase of production o f cereals by whom we learned for the first time street thermometers show 103, with 94
down. It is reported that one strip of ing the conference.
There have been
850.000.
000
bushels.
Literally mil- j that German women also were lighting. the official figure.
farming land two mlies wide and ten
nine
deaths
in
Detroit.
Bittsburg re-
In yielding on the food administra lions of new gardens have been planted
“ We did not feel the slightest fear
miles long between Westport and Gro tion section the senate conferees se-
or extended everywhere.
We have o f our personal safety.
Our passion |s»rts the hottest day o f the year and
ton was devastated.
Another strip, cured“ ~adoption'of a new section pro the largest supply o f vegetables ever
was to serve the fatherland. We ad eight deaths.
near Warner, also was levelled.
Manufatcuring centers in New Jer-
viding for a board o f three members, in our history.
vanced gaily against the foe with
Since the beginning o f hostilities one o f whom would be the president of
“ The wolf is at the door o f Europe laughter and song, our only unpleasant » e y j’eportjrom one to four deaths and
366 persons have been killed and 1092 an agricultural college, to fix wheat and with all these surpluses, our stock sentiments being when we first came in Boston business was generally sus
Official
injured by>air raids in the London me prices based upon the standard pre of foodstuffs would still have been too to the corpses. Once, when replying pended because o f the heat.
tropolitan area, according to a state scribed by congress for next year’s little for the demand upon us during to the enemy’s severe rifle and ma forecasters say the heat wave is gen
ment made by Sir George Cave, the J crop o f not less than $2 per bushel for the coming year if our people had not chine gun fire, we discovered to our eral over the entire central valleys.
home secretary, in the house o f com- ; No. 1 spring Northern,
responded to the call for wise use, amazement that all our men comrades New England and the middle Atlantic
The conferees also formally voted to economy and elimination o f waste. in the neighboring
mons. During the same period the
trenches had states. The lower lake region and the
secretary noted 2412 persons were abolish the rule establishing secrecy The response not only in planting, but treacherously fled, leaving us— a hand south and southwest are included in
killed and 7863 injured in ordinary I of their discussions.
also in conservation, has been of such a ful o f women — to face the enemy the spread o f torridity.
In striking contrast with the torrid
street accidents in the same territory.
spontaneous, magnificent order as to alone. ”
ity o f the rest o f the country, points
give
us
confident
optimism
in
the
abil
The editor o f the Polish Review,
in Oregon and Washington report light
ity of our people to prepare and to
published in London, has received from
frost which is said to have damaged
preserve.
A. R. Lednitsky, chairman o f the com
tender vegetation, temperatures there
Ariadne,
11,000
Tons,
Torpedoed
-All
"Our
American
canners
will
this
mittee appointed by the Russian pro
On the Conti
year produce about 1,700,000,000 cans Several Hundred Work in Chicago Car falling to 30 at night.
But 38 o f Crew Saved.
visional government to settle affairs in
nental Divide, maximum temperature
of
fruit
and
vegetables.
Our
govern
Shops
Wear
Overalls.
Poland, a telegram saying that the
London — The British cruiser Ari-
is 40 degrees. At Fort Riley, Kan.,
government
has granted amnesty to adne, o f 11,000 tons, has been torpe- ment and the allies will require about
.
.
Chicago — Employment of several maximum temperature is 115 degrees
200.000. 000 o f these cans.
The re
Polish prisoners of war who are Rus- doec| an(j 8Ungi according to an official
turns we have from various state or hundred women as laborers by the and one death and numreous prostra
sian subjects and who fought against statement issued Monday by the Brit-
ganizations
indicate, from the results Ryan car plant, South Chicago, begun tions resulted.
Russia in the Polish legions and that ¡8h admiralty.
There is a bright side to the situa
obtained for the first half o f the sea
they will not be treated as rebels.
j Thirty-eight members o f the Ari-
as an experiment several weeks ago, tion, as the hot days and nights are
son, that the American women will
A strike o f workmen in various adne’s crew were killed by the explo- preserve this year 200,000,000 jars and has proved so successful that several making the corn crop with remarkable
trades in Rio Janeiro is growing. The | sion.
All the other sailors were cans of fruit and vegetables, and will large manufacturers are considering rapidity and the world will need a lot
saved.
bakers have joined the movement.
thus supply any deficiency called for the advisability o f adopting the plan. o f com.
by the armies.
The Belgian mission, headed by
The women range in age from 18 to 45
Roumanian Morale Fine.
Paper Contract Made.
“ The eliminaton o f waste in the
Baron Moncheur, has returned to
years, receive 30 cents an hour and
London
— The Times correspondent
New
York—
The
Editor
and
Publish
country
has
been
most
gratifying.
Washington after a 9000-mile tour of
at Roumanian headquarters, telegraph
er published Saturday an announce The best index o f this saving is in work eight hours a day.
the country.
ment by the paper committee o f the garbage returns from our large cities.
Experience has shown that in the ing Saturday, speaks enthusiastically
The British submarine C-34 has been American Newspaper Publishers’ asso
We have the returns from the month lighter tasks the women perform as o f the morale of the Roumanian sold
sunk by a submarine, it is officially an ciation that through a contract made
o f June from cities o f population of much work as men, but in the heavier iers and their successful advance,
nounced from Berlin.
The sole sur by the committee with Lord North-
15.000. 000 showing a reduction of lines one man will often do twice as which resulted in the capture o f 240
vivor was taken prisoner.
cliffe’s Newfoundland mill, 80,000 tons their garbage by 32 per cent under the much work as a woman.
About 75 machine guns, 80 guns and 3000 pris
The fire at the Atlantic Refining of newsprint annually will be available month of June last year.
The cor
per cent o f the women who begin work oners on the Eastern front.
company, o f Philadelphia, late Friday without contract for small newspaper
“ Now that we make a broad survey at the plant remain, while the others respondent sAys, however, that, owing
night, caused a Iosa estimated at publishers in the United States and oth o f the country after four months we quit after a few days.
The women to the situation in Galicia, operations
$500,000. Nearly 400,000 gallons of ers who have been paying high prices find every state spontaneously creating wear overalls and are provided with on a great scale were unlikely in Rou
gasoline were destroyed.
for their print paper.
manie.
a definite and active food organization special washrooms.
GERMAN PLANES RAID PARIS
COMPILED
FOR YOU
WASTE
SECOND LINES TAKEN
IS REDUCED
HERBERT C. HOOVER
RUSSIAN GIRLS BEAR ARMS
HEAT CAUSES MANY DEATHS
BIG BRITISH CRUISER SUNK
WOMAN LABOR IDEA SPREADS