Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — FINANCE BILL GIVEN O. K. [ARTICLE]

FINANCE BILL GIVEN O. K.

Senate Committee Approves Measure Which Aids War Firms. Washington, Feb. 22.—Prompt passage, with bi-partisan support, of the administration measure to establish a war finance corporation and provide federal supervision over private security Issues was planned when the revised measure was reported to the senate with the unanimous indorsement of the finance committea, The funeral took place at Hornchurch, Essex, England, recently of Thomas Medlake, an iron founder, who died at the age of eightyeight. Mr. Medlake attributed -bis long Hie, health, and energy to cold water, of which he drank a quart a day. Sped miens of twenty-one out of twenty-nine medals issued in Germany during the present war have been presented to the British museum. They include a large cast-iron medal representing an air attack on London in August, 1915, with Zeppelins over the Tower bridge.