Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U. S, —Teutonic War News Five United States navy gunners as well as the imprisoned captain of the Standard Oil tanker Campana may have died in the German submarine U-2, which sank the vessel, according to Third Officer J. H. Bruce, who, with 60 members of the ship's crew and eight of the gun crew, arrived at an Atlantic port on a French steamship. ♦ • • Aliens who are exempt from draft tinder the conscription law will be forced to fight in the war with Germany as a foreign legation if a bill which Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pittsburgh will introduce in the house at Washington becomes a law. * * * —F-' Major Genera!* Pershing. commander' of the' American expedition in France, returned to his Paris headquarters after witnessing the French offensive on the Verdun front with General Petain, the commander in . chief of the French armies.. * • ♦ As to when our army will get to the actual fighting nobody knows. Even the secretary of war at Washington says he cannot tell, implying, though not stating, that that was a matter for General Pershing to decide. The air is full of rumors that there have been battles in which our army abroad hag taken part. These are as unfounded as the recurring stories of a transport destroyed at sea. -•. * ' Fifteen Germans were arrested at Tripp, S. D„ by federal officers, charged with violation of the espionage act. * * • More destroyers, deadliest enemy of the submarine, than any other nation in the’world possesses, will be built by the navy department, to enable America to master the U-boat problem. This was made plain at a conference at Washington between Secretary Daniels and 25 shipbuilders summoned by him to Washington, ♦ » » Since the declaration of war approximately 1.300.000 men have offered themselves for service In the fighting forces of the country. The official total under arms' today is 943,141 men. These represent voluntary enlistments. The draft will add .687,500. Hence in another month the United States will have 1,631,000 men under arms.

Four Austrian army officers, alleged < to be accomplices of Capt, Erwin i Schneider, recently arrested at San ! Francisco on a charge of being a German spy, were taken into custody by department of justice agents at Lmredo, Tex. 'F> ' . » W • Domestic Ohio’s defense council blamed Ger- j man sympathizers for t*ie closing of five Ohio mines with a production of 400,000 tons daily. ♦ • • A verdict of guilty was found at New York against Kalman Gruher, “go-between" for Dr. S. J. Bernfeld and Louis J. Cherey. members of exemption board No, 90, who pleaded guilty to receiving bribes for granting . exemptions. He was sentenced to two vears in the Atlanta penitentiary. Joseph Levy, twenty years old, of New York, was arrested at Atlantic City for fleecing business men by representing himself to be a son of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. United States Commissioner Lewis held Levy In SI,OOO bail. « • ♦ One person was killed, a half dozen others injured fatally, and 20 to 30 others more or less seriously hurt in the v reck of a Toledo & Ohio Central excursion train at Lime City near Toledo, O. ■'. ♦ » » Judge Speer of the federal court at Mount Airy, Ga., held the selective draft law constitutional in a decision In the case of Albert Jones, a negro, represented by Thomas E. Watson. Watson contended that the law is in contravention of the involuntary servitude provision of the Constitution. S. Schulz of East St. Louis, 111., who was one of the 105 persons indicted in connection with the East St. Louis race riots, pleaded guilty in the circuit court at Belleville, to conspiracy and to one count charging assault with intent to kill. He was sentenced to an indeterminateterm of one to fourteen years in the Chester penitentiary. • • • Sheriff James N. Taylor, a member of the Logan county exemption board, and Judge J. W. Edward of the county court, were placed under arrest at Russellville, Ky, by Deputy Marshal B. M. Richardson on the charge of conspiring to violate provisions of the selective draft. Three explosions, along what ia called the “powder Hne." a series at small buddings, at the Kings Mills der coDipany’s plant at Kings Mills, O* caused rhe death of four men. J

Federal Judge” George A. Carpenter at Chicago cleared the way for the i prosecution of disloyal spellbinders In a far-reacliing decision at the preliminary hearing of Adolph Germer, national secretary of the Socialist party, who is charged with violating the selective service act. Judge Carpenter held Germer in §5,000 bonds to the United States grand jury. ♦ * ♦ ' ' ' - / . Arthur Shattuck, the concert pianist, who inherited a large estate upon the death of his father, F. C. Shattuck, a Wisconsin paper manufacturer, has turned the entire income from the estate over to the war relief for the duration of the conflict, it was learned at Chicago. i x • • • Washington Seventy-five million dollars more tax was laid upon wealth. By vote of 35 to 31 the senate at Washington adopted the Lenroot amendments imposing much higher taxes upon individual incomes than the senate finance committee planned. » * • A stinging rebuke was the reply of Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield of Washington to J. E. Vair Dyke of East Orange, N. J., who wrote the secretary asking him to support the La Follette peace resolution. Redfield flayed his correspondent as exhibiting “nothing of the American spirit.” .•* * . Flat feet do not necessarily disqualify a man for army service. Provost Marshal Crowder of Washington, n a telegram to the state governors, called attention to the army physical regulations which specify that “a broad, flat sole is common in laboring classes, particularly among negroes, and is in no way disabling.” The senate at Washington was startled with a warning that the cost of living must be reduced at once to prevent destitution, and a protest against army selection and a -.war to which many are opposed.sjnd which may lead to sanguinary >rebellion. La Follette read the letter to the senate. It was written by a miner of West Frankfort, RL . • ♦ * Information was obtained at Washington that a complete embargo will be placed on exportation of' meats. After the order is effective the food administration will determine the quantities of meats that may be -shipped to allied countries, and the exports council will carry out the de-cision-reached.

The extensive scope of preparations for the health, comfort and recreation of American soldiers in France is Indicated by reports from Maj. Grayson M. P. Murphy, head of .the Red Cross coipmlssion in France, made public at Washington. ‘.* * * Without opposition rhe “senate at Washington confirmed the nominations of former Representative \ Ictor Murdock of Kansas to the federal trade commission and all except two of nearly 200 major and brigadier generals recently named by President Wilson. ♦ ♦ ♦ European War News Eleven persons are reported to have been killed and thirteen injured at Dover in a raid by ten German airplanes. Two of the enemy machines in Kent county, England, were brought down. * * * Austria’s terrible toll of casualties lit®’ the continuing Italian advance reached 35,000 in dead ami wounded, according to Italian headquarters’ estimates. ♦ ♦ * British casualties reported to London in the week ending Tuesday aggreI gate 14.243 officers and men. Of this number 2,873 soldiers lost their lives. i ♦ ♦ ♦ The Italians in their offensive on the Tsonzo front have crossed the Isonzo river and already have taken 7,500 prisoners, it was officially announced by the Rome war department. I* * *

A smashing French victory on the Verdun front is recorded in the official report Issued by the Paris war office. The French have captured the enemy defenses on both sides of the Meuse over a front of more than elevenmiles, penetrating the German lines at divers points to a depth of a mile and a quarter. More than 4.000 unwounded German prisoners have been taken. ♦ ♦ * An air raid in which 111 French airplanes participated, dropping 13,000 kilograms (28.000 pounds) of projectiles on German military establishments, was reported by the French war office at Paris. Seven German machines were shot down and a balloon and eight others were badly damaged, it was stated. Two French machines failed to return from the raid. ♦ ♦ * An engagement between British and German scouting ships in which German destroyer and several mine sweepers were damaged was reported by the admiralty at London. The British warships were not damaged. Two German aviators flew over two hospitals behind Verdun, which are joined by. a wooden bridge over a road separating the buildings, Four incendiary bombs which were. dropped set fire to three wooden wards crowded with wounded. * * * British light naval forces destroyed n Zeppelin airship off the Jutland, Denmark coast, says an official communication issued at London. The communication adds that there were no survivors from the crew of the airstdn. '