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Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on
the outlying suburbs of Paris late
Thursday night. Not ono of the enemy
was able to penetrate the defenses of
the city proper.
An armistice has been concluded be
tween the Ukrainians and Germans
and the Russians on the Kursk front
and the Russian legation is making an
effort to t arrange an armistice on the
remaining fronts.
Aerial mail servico in the United
K.v.m nn nrrnmnlishml fact !
Wednesday. Piloted by army avia-1 the very greatest importance, that if
tors, airplanes carried consignments of i any person were found gtii ty hat per
mailfrom New York and Philadelphia n might be praffcuted vigorously
to Washington and from Philadelphia , and promptly, and that tho reputations
to New York. of tllosc attacked might bo protected
if die charges were found to bo
The Austrian and German emperors .groundless,
at their meeting at German grentp Tne etter to Senator Martin was
headquarters, German nowspapers say, i tne suuject of heated discussion,
according to an Exchange Telegraph ! Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon,
dispatch from.' Copenhagen to London, I wno introduced the resolution of lit
selected monarchs for Lithuania, Cour- ( qujryt called before the senate expen
land, Esthonia and Poland. ditures committee considering it, de-
Plans had been made in 1914 for a ' clared thero was no intention of 1n-
,-nvnliifinn nf fiormnns in tht United !
States in case this country should be
drawn into the European war, accord
ing to testimony given in New York at
the state attorney general's investiga
tion of reports of hidden munitions.
M. Duval, who was director of the
suppressed Germanophile newspaper,
Bonnet Rouge, in Paris, was con
demned to death Friday by courtmar
tial for treason. The six other defend
ants were sentenced to imprisonment
for terms ranging from two to ten
years.
General Dallalio, minister of muni
tions, and Signor Bianchi, minister of
transport have resigned from the Ital
ian cabinet. Senator Giovanni Villa
has been.appointed minister of trans
port, while the minister of war will
take charge temporarily of the minis
try of munitions.
The Vossische Zeitung, of Berlin,
announces that war had to be pro
claimed at Ekaterinoslav, Odessa and
Poltava as a strong counter current to
the order of things was observable.
There are several groups of great Rus
sian forces in the Don region, the
newspaper said.
After buffeting strong head winds in
the ocean off the Golden Gate, the con
crete steamer Faith returned from a
successful trial trip late Friday after
noon. The vessel, which made a suc
cessful trial trip in San Francisco Bay
on Sunday, May 5, was given an ocean
test to determine further her worth.
The British admiralty restrictions
on navigation in the northern part of
the North Sea in consequence of the
laying of a great mine field for the
purpose of foiling submarines, became
operative Thursday, and hereafter all
shipping in that area must comply
with stringent regulations or ignore
them at their own peril.
American railroads in the first three
months this year earned only $71,705,
000, as compared with $179,431,000 in
the same period last year, making a
loss to the government under the sys
tem of common operation of about
$109,000,000. Tnis report by the In
terstate Commerce commission covers
- all but five of the 1QG railroads in the
country.
Lieutenant Benjamin V. Maurice,
of New York, died at Ellington Field,
Houston. .Tuesday, of injuries received
when his airplane fell on April, 16.
John Verburg, ofi Chicago, was shot
- and killed by bis crippled son, John,
Jr., because he had.struck th"o youth's
mother when she objected to his de
mands that a 15-year-old daughter get
employment -,
Bread tickets as a war-time measure
in Chicago may be necessary, accord
ing to sentiment among 12,000 master
bakers of that city ip session thero
Wednesday.
Women of the Methodist Episcopal
! .Church South, won their 40 years'
fight for full lay membership in the
church when tho general conference in
session at Atlanta, 'Ga., struck from
the church law the prohibition against
their election as church stewards and
as delegates to the, general conference.
TO AID INVESTIGATION
Ex-Justlcc Charles K. Hughes Selected
by President WHsorf to'Asaiit Ifi
Oiliclal Aircraft Uquiry.
Washington, D. C. - President Wil
ton lm Summoned Charles Evnns
Hughes to net with Attorney General
Gjj-egory In Uio Investigation of crim
inal charges made In connection with
aircraft production.
Mr. Hughes' acceptance of the task
was announced Thursday at the White
House, and ho will come to Washing
ton in a few days to go over plans
with the attorney general.
This announcement overshadowed In
interest another development which
I created a great stir at the cnpitol.
In a letter to Senator Martin, uio
Democratic leader, tho President ear
lier in the day had emphatically re
iterated his opposition to the phrasing
of a pending resolution auUiorlzing
further inquiry by tho senate military
committee into aviation and other
phases of war preparations.
He declared he 'would regard tho
pnssago of such a resolution as a vote
of want of confidence in tho adminis
tration and virtually as nn nttemp to
take over tho conduct of tho war.
In designating ex-Justico Hughes,
whose record' in the New York insur
ance investigation is well remembered.
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itohitoi toubc.uiu,.
ment of Justice's investigation was of
VeStlrattng the "Conduct 01 U1C war
and that tho resolution was worded as
if it was only to give the military
committee of which he is chnirman au
thority to resume its previous investi
gations. ARREST HIGH-UP ARI20NIANS
Deportcrs of Alleged I. W. W. Last
July Indicted by Federal Jury.
Tucson, Ariz. Twenty-one oC the
leading mine company, officials, em
ployes and business meaof the Warren
district were arrested at Bisbee Thurs
day morning on indictments, returned
by the federal grand jury which last
week completed an investigation df the
deportation ljist July of nearly 1200
alleged members of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
The warrants charge "consipracy to
deprive a citizen of the United StSites
of his rights in 'violation of section 19,
penal code."
In the absence of United States
Commissioner J. D. Taylor, who now
is in Chicgo, the arrested men ap
peared before Justice of the Peace M.
C. High, acting commissioner, who
fixed their bonds and set their arraign
ment for May 28 in Tucson.
Grant H. Dowell, general manager
of the Copper Queen Consolidated Min
infg company at Bisbee, was the first
man arrested. The warrant was served
by United States Marshal Dillon.
Bonds were fixed at $5000 each by the
United States commissioner.
Judge Sawtelle in his chargo to the
jury last week instructed that not only
should the charge of conspiracy to de-,
prive citizens of their rights be consid
ered, but that the question of tho ob
struction of the draft in deporting a
large number of registered men also
should be taken up.
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Italian Flag is Wanted. - ,(
Vancouver, Wash. The Italian flag'
will fly from the flagstaff of tho Fed
eral building in this city May 24, the
anniversary of Italy's entrancejnto
the world war. J. W. Shaw, postmas
ter, has been notified -by ,thc govern
ment to do this, , bu as Uncle Sam
has no Italian flag, he is, "scouting for
pne. Anyone knowing of. on Italian
flag, large or small, Jthatitiay bo ob
tained for May 24, will confer a lavor
oy lniorrning me postmaster,
Starvation Grips Siberia.
Harbin, Saturday Tho Karjmskaya
railway junction ha.bW captured by
General Semenofftho 'anti-Bolshevik
leader. '
Military railway engineers have
been dispatched to restore thcrallway
in the rear of tho retreating Bolshe
viki. The people in whole' districts of Si
beria uro dying of tar.vation owing to
tho lack of transportation of food
stuffs. .
Hoover Wants $7,000,000.
Washington, D. C Food Adminis
trator Hoover asked tho houso, appro
priations committee Thrusday for $7,
000,000 to provide offices and clerical
hire for the 4000 county foodfc.admlnis
Supplemental. Forces Back of
Front Make Total 2 Million.
ITALY ASKS U. S. AID
UrltUh Amazement is Expressed Over
Plans of Americans Hun Propa
gandists Say U. S. litufllng.
Paris Tho United States has prom
ised to have 1,500,000 fighting men in
France by' tho end of 1918, says
IHommo Libro; Premier Clemon-d
ccau's newspaper.
These troops, it adds, must have
their own organization and services,
which will mean at least 2,000,000
specialists, workers, men in tho quar
termaster's department and others.
Tho newspaper says certain misun
derstandings which had oxistcd have
been cleared up and that under no cir
cumstances will allied workers or sol
diers roplaco French workers In fac
tories.
The presence of American workers
on French soil will be In direct conse
quence of tho presence of American
fighters on the front.
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London American preparations on
tho western front arc nmnzlng In their
immensity and plans are being made to
care for 6,000,000 American troops,
Harry E. V. Brlttain, secretary of tho
Enirlish branch of tho Pilirrlms Club.
told tho Royal Colonial Institute Wed-
nesMlay nfgnt.
If the Germans do not give In, ho
added, the number of American troops
will be increased to any nmount neces
sary. Washington, D. C. - Announcement
by Premier Clomenceau's newspaper
that the United States has promised to
havo 1,500,000 fighting men in Franco
by the end of this year seems to fore
cast complete fulfillment of Secretary
Baker's predictions of last January lns
forc the senate military committee.,
Divisions on the western front
whero American units aro brigaded
uitli ie Ttritttth rtml Prnnrll. It tut.
J . M.1 1 ! , I l i
came Known inursuny, win iignp unuor
American commanders whenever
American troops predominate.
The plan means that General Per
shing soon may lo placed )n command
of British nnd French units, as well as
his own Americans.
In addition to this, as lllustrntivo of
the unit of the command under which'
General Foch directs the American
and allied armies, it was said officially
that Foch commands Italian troops -in
Italy as fully as he docs American,
French nnd British- troops in France
and Belgium.
Italy, in an Informal way, has made
known to the United States that tho
presence of Americnn troops on tho
Italian front is greatly to be desired,
it became 'known hero Thursday. Jfc
few thousand men under tho American
flag, Italians feel, would hearten the
Italian civilian population and their
troops.
Italy has an abundance of manpow
er, but desires tho inspiration that
would bo affordod by tho presence of
American forces. In the face of a
threatened Austro-Gcrmnn offensive
on tho Italian fropt, tho dispatch of
American troops to Italy, It Is de
clared, would convince the Italian peo
ple that America stands firm behind
thofr country,
German propaganda is active Ip
Italy from Sicily to tho Alps, telling
the people they aro left to their own
Resources, that thoy aro fighting hope
lessly and that America has been bldff-
Camp Lewis to Expand.
Tacomn, Wash. Room for C000
more men will bo provided at Camp
Lewis, it wan announced Friday. Tho
second ston h of all barracks at tho
camp will he built out over tho kitch
ens, which now aro only ono story,
providing ho oxtrn room. Monoy for
tho new work will bo taken from nn
estimate of $300,000 for construction
work at the big training grounds. The
barracks work will cost $170,000, and
baso hospital improvements $100,000.
Omaha Hounding Up Idle.
Omaha Tho Omaha police Saturday
started arresting all Idlers under a now
state law passed at a special session of
tho legislature. Tho penalty is a fine
up to $10,000 or Imprisonment from
ono to. 20 years. Anyono not working,
who refuses to accept useful employ
ment, will bo declared guilty of sedi
tion and arrested.
U-Iloats Being Sunk hy Allies Faster
Than Enemy Builds Thom--Iess
Shipping IauI Per Month.
Pnrls -Tho effectiveness of tho Gor
man submarine, campaign Is declining. 1
Tho Gorman government in aware of
Oils fact, declared Georgo Loygous,
minister of marine, boforo tho naval
committee of Uio chambor of deputies
Monday, but has mado Uio greatest
efforts to conceal It, He said Uio sit
uation was most favorable nnd Umt
the sinkings of submarines in tho first
three months of 1918 through allied
measures was greater than the number
built by the enemy.
Minister I.eygeus referred to the
statement iniide in Uio relchstag on
April 17 by Vice Admlrnl von Ca polio,
German minister of marine, In which
ho said 000,000 tons of allies' shipping
were sunk monthly. This figure, the
minister said, was Incorrect
1 It was reached nnd passed In April,
May and Juno of 1917. In July It de
clined and In November It fell ImjIow
400,000 and since has diminished con
tinuously. M. LeygoiiM said that In February,
March and April 117211 French steamers
and 788 French sailing vessels passed
through tho danger zone whero a few
monUis ngo losses by torpedo hnd.huun
very heavy. Not a single ship was
sunk.
On the other hand, he said, the num
ber of submarines destroyed had In
creased progressively slnco January In
such proportion thut Uio effectiveness
of enemy squadrons cannot bo main
tained nt tho minimum required by tho
regulations. Tho number of enemy
U-boats destroyed in January, Febru
ary and March wns far greater in each
month than Uie number constructed In
the same month. In February and
April the number of submarines de
stroyed was three less than tho total
destroyed in tho previous Uiree monUis.
Those results, tho ministry declared,
were due to the methodical character
of the war against submarines; to tho
close co-ordluntton of tho allied nnvles;
to Uie Intrepidity nnd spirit animating
tho olllcers and crows of naval and
ncrlal squadrons and to Uie intensifica
tion of the use of old methods nnd tho
employment of new ones.
YANKEES TAN HUNS' HIDE
American Shell Fire Keep's, Teutons In
Hellish. Torment, " ,
With tho American Army In, Franco
-A gigantic enemy ammunition dump
nt Cnntlgny was fired by Uie Americnn
artillery Monday .morning. At Uio
saino timo two fires were started in
Montdidicr, followed by numerous ex
plosions. Tho weather continues misty nnd
rniny. There wns no infnntry action
anil only intermittent mnchlno gun nnd
rifle fire. Tho position of Uio Gor
mans is becoming more nnd more In
tolerable, while Uio Americans are en
trenching their jiosltloris more firmly.
Any ho)os Uio enemy might have had
of breaking through in this sector aro
diminishing.
The Americans tako nothing for
granted, but return fire two to one,
which is believed to set a now pace in
this sector. What appears to trouhlo
tho Germans most is that tho Ameri
cans never turn back when Uio enemy
uses gas. They give him a double doso
of Uio same, with cvcryUiing olso tho
enemy tries.
Improved weather conditions led to
increased air activity In tho Toul bcc
tor Tuesday. Many Americnn planes
were working over tho enemy lines
and observation balloons were sent up
for Uio first timo in many days.
Tho American artillery Monday
night nnd Tuesday morning directed a
heavy and harassing firo on German
rear areas, whero. It is known troops
are billeted nnd it Is suspected that
others aro moving.
, To Increase Freight Rates.
Washington D. C. Estimates mado
Tuesday by railroad administration
officials indicate that an incrcaso of at
least 25 per ccntln freight nnd passen
ger rates will bo necessary this year to
meet 'tho higher costs qf fuel, wages,
equipment nnd other operating ex
penses now sot nt between $000,006,
000 and $750,00.0,000 mora than last
year.
Recommendation that rates bo
raised by approximately this pcrcont
ago'has beeri mado to Director General
McAdoo by his advisers. Ho is ex
pected to act within Uio next six
weoks nnd to put increases into effect
immediately.
' 20,000 Refugees Aided.
Cairo, Egypt Tho British govern
ment Is transporting 1500 Armenian
refugees from Jerusulcm to Port Suld.
Others aro coming from tho south
east. Rev. Stephen Trowbridge, represent
ative of the American commltteo for
Armenian iyjd Syrian relief, said' that
20,000 refugees hnd boon given assist
ant In Jerusalem by tho commltteo.
A hospital has been established at
Mojdel, near Gaza.
Arming of Troops Must Stop
Jo Take Many Large Cities.
LITHUANIA IS CALLED
Kaiser Informs Country That it Must
Share War Burdens of Teutons,
Including Military Service.
Washington, I). C.-I)etalls of tho
latest German demands on Russia, re
ceived at tho State department Wed
nesday from Swedish sources, show
Uiat Russln has leen asked to make
financial concessions, to give up Mos
cow nnd other largo cities to the Ger
mans, to consu arming troops mid to
dissolve nil recently formed military
units. v,
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A mstordam Emperor William has
Issued n proclamation concerning Hhh
uanla In which it is assumed Lith
uania will participate In Uie war bur
dens of Germany.
In tho proclamation the "lndccn
denco" of Lithuania, allied with the
German empire, is recognized.
"We assume that the contentions to
be, concluded," the .proclamation says
further, "will take the interests of tho
German empire into account equally
with thoHo of LIUiuaiila and that Lith
uania will participate in theAvnr bur
dens of Germany which secured her
lllierntton."
I.IUiuanla is one of tho former Rus
shin border states which the Germans
have attempted to set up ii.t nominally
Indoemlent countries under German
Influence.
Germany Is making every effort to
exploit tho states economically but,
oxcept in the cose of Poland, has not
attempted to forco tho former Russian
subjects to .fight wlUi Uie German
army, as Uio emperor's, announcement
indicates may now lie done in LIUiu
anla. Tho attempt to enroll n Polish army
on tho same plen that la now" mado n
tho caso of Lithuania wan n failure.
Tho Vorwaerts of -.Berlin said re
cently Uintstrong npos!tion was de
veloping among Uio Lithuanians to
transforming their country Into a, Ger
man somi-fcdcrnl state. Entire Inde
pendence is demanded.
The Lithuanians number about 2,
000,000. -r
Washington, D. C. Emjieror Wll
liiim'H proclamation recognizing tho
indo'cnicnce of Lithuania nlllled with
tho Gcrmnn empire, was received with
no enthusiasm by olllcers of the Lithu
anian National Council headquarters
here.
"The assumption Uint'LiUiuanln will
participate in Uio war burdens of Ger
many means a contribution of threo
things: Money, munitions nnd men,"
tho olllcers declared. "Tho first wo
hnvo not as Gerrhnnv has alrendv lm- S
povcrlshed us; thj5 second wo havo no
means of supplying, bccntiso wo lack
tho first. Thcroforo Germany can ,
havo reforenco only to 'men." '
AIR MIL'' SERVICE STARTS
Machines Are Capable of Carrying .100
to COO Pounds of Mall.
Washington, D. C America's first
nlrplano mail scrvico was Inaugurated
Wednesday botween Washington,
Philadelphia and Now York, wiUi
planes starting simultaneously nt
11:30 n. m. from tho Nntionnl Capi
tal and Now York. President Wilson,
cabinet momberH and other govern
ment officials attended Uio ceremonies
preliminary to the initial flight.
Tho President, as head of tho Amor
lean Red Cross, will receive tho first
letter hy nirplano from Now York.
Tho communication will bo from Gov
ernor Charles S. Whitman nnd will ex
press his wishes to tho President,' for
the success of the Red Cross campaign
to raise $100,000,000, which starts
Monday. ".
Tho mail airplanes will bo piloted by
army aviators especially detailed to
tho scrvico for oxperlenco In cross
country flying. ,
Drug' Seller Sentenced. ,
Chicago Federal Judgo LnndiB
Tuesday sentenced Nathan II. Sclmff
nor, a young physician, to Imprison
ment for two years at Leavenworth,
Kan., for violation of tho Harrison
anti-narcotic Inw. Schaffnor'H bookH
showed his Income from his practlco
was from $80 to $150 a month until ho
began providing drug users with nar
cotics, when his ofllco receipts in
creased to about $1500, 'per
month, 'S''
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