Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK 1 CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. ________________ ■ ■ A ). ' (domestic and foreign items I Kernels Ciilled From Events of Moment In All Parts of the World—* Of Interest to All tho People Everywhere, Washington In favorably reporting a bill to impose drastic penalties for disloyal acts the senate judiciriry committee adapted an amendment by enator Poindexter of Washington prescribing imprisonment for 20 years and .SIO,OOO fine for “whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of the German empire or its allies in the present war or by word or act oppose the*cause of the United States therein.” ♦ ♦ * Congress disposed of the war finance corporation bill when the hones adopted the conference report agreed to by the senate on Monday. It makes possible tho organization of a $500,000,000 corporation with power to issue $3,€00,000,000 of bonds* * * •

I Senate amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill, Including the for increasing the government wheat price guaranty to .$2.50, were disagreed to by the house and the measure went to conference. ♦ * ♦ 1 Tho house concurred in a senate resolution requesting the president to designate a day of prayer f«>r American arms. • ♦ * »■ The resolution amending the selective draft act by requiring registration of youths reaching ' twenty-one years since June 5, 1917, and estimated to add 700,000 more men to the roll of eligibles, was adopted by the senate. It now goes to the house. * • • Five hundred of the leading hotel and restaurant proprietors of the country promised Food Administrator Hoover to abolish absolutely the use of wheat products until next harvest. Simultaneously with this action Mr. Hoover announced a complete suspension of “meatless days” for a period of 30 days. • * ♦ . The war department at Washington received the following cablegram from General Pershing: “Have made all our resources available and our divisions will be used if needed. French are in fine sporit and both armies seem confident.— Pershing.” , ♦ ♦ *

U.S.—Teutonic War News Major General March, acting chief j of staff, directed that issue of the ( •daily casualty list here be suspended ( pending definite interpretation from Secretary Baker as to whether it is forbidden by his new order providing that General Pershing’s headquarters shall issue all news relating to the troops in France. * * * At the Lincolnshire airdrome near London in a ground collision between airplanes, Lieut. S. Hugaenin of the American flying contingent, recently of Racine, Wis.; Corporal Seisert and ■Private Krautman were killed. A fourth man was injured. • • • * American troops on a certain sector in France other than that in the region of Toni have been subject to an extraordinary heavy gas attack. ♦ ♦ ♦ We are going to have a whole lot of airplanes much sooner than was expected after the recent disclosures before the military affairs committee of the senate. We shall have enough airships by .July to insure an allied superiority in the air over bur enemy that can never lie overcome. * * * European War News The British war office in London pays a compliment to American airmen in the official statement on aerial operations:. "During the last fortnight of intense fighting in the air," says the statement. "the assistance rendered by the personnel of the American air service attached to the royal air service has been invaluable." * * * “There are indications that an Austrian attack on Italy is in preparation ami we shall not be surprised if it develops before long." said Maj. Gen. F. B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the British war Office, in his weekly talk. “There is no question that the German losses in the last fortnight have been very considerably heavier than ours/’ General Maurice added. * * » < In intensive air fighting 13 German aircraft were downed and eight sent down out of control Ixv British airmen Tuesday, according t<r the official British communication. The British themselves lost seven machines, which are missing. • • • White guards (the Finnish republic’s troops) are bombarding Tammerfors, Finland, and many buildings are on fire. A Swedish detachment fighting with .the White guards thus far has lost 15 l-LBed. and 79 wounded of the total of 841 men.

I A 111 e<l cp-operation with the council lof workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates I in the defense of the Kola and Mour--1 mansk coast and railway is an estab- , lished fact, according to dispatches to Moscow, which announceJbat French and British officers are working with bolshevik troops as instructors, as I well as supplying British marines and French soldiers returning from the Russian front.

■• • * Foreign I The seizure of the Dutch merchantmen in American ports is characterized by the Dutch government, in a statement in the Official Gazette, as an act of violence which it . will oppose with all the energy of its conviction and its wounded national feeling. The government takes issue with the proclamation of Presidbnt Wilson regarding the decision of the United States, saying it contains assertions which are contrary to the'facts. * * » “Czernin lies.” This is all Premier Clemenceau of France had to say when 1 told of the statement of Count Czernin that he had inquired whe'ther AustriaHungary was ready to negotiate and if so on what basis. * * * Domestic Receipt of orders from Washington to intern Dr. Karl Oscar Bertling as an enemy alien was announced by offleials at Boston. Doctor Bertling, who was sent to this country by the German government in August, 1914, as a propagandist, was arrested at Lexing- ' ton. He was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. • • * Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, was involved in producing the film “Spirit of ’76,” alleged to have been made to show the British in an untrue light, according to the prosecution Tit Los Angeles, Cal., in investlgation of the picture. ♦ ♦ ♦ ■ Unfair trade practices were charged In complaints issued by the federal trade commission against the Cutler Mall Chute company of Rochester, N. Y„ and the American Mailing Device corporation of Ngw York. ♦ • • The United States government ship building program for March surpassed the goal set in launchings by ,12.000 tons, the shipping board announced, but fell short in deliveries be--1 cause of shortage of steel plates. Thirty hulls of 232,786 tons were put into the water ami 20 vessels of 102,206 tons were completed.

♦ ♦ » Alessandro Vallero, owner of a Brooklyn coffee house and alleged leader of a gang of blackmailers and gunmen who. it is charged, committed 23 murders. was sentenced to die in the electric Chair the week of May 5. • * • The curtain arose upon the first act of the greatest jurisprudence drama Staged in this country since the United States entered the war, when 114 members of the Industrial Workers of the World were placed on trial before Federal Judge Landis at Chicago on charges of sedition and conspiracy against the government to hamper the war. • • • James Cowgill (Dem.) was elected mayor of Kansas City, Mo., according to late returns, which showed his plurality nearly 8,000 over Cyrus Crane, the Republican candidate. * * * The vault of the Bank of Conception at Clyde, Mo., was blown open and SI,BOO In cash was taken. ♦ ♦ ♦ With an overwhelming outpouring of loyalist votes in Tuesday’s aldermanic elections, Chicago shot Socialism into oblivion. Not a. single Socialist survived the deadly concentration of “liberty ballots.” Mayor Thompson’s candidates were also beaten in every instance where there was a contest.

• • * Five hundred and seven German ! prisoners arrived in Atlanta. Ga.. from Fort Douglas. Artz., and wert sent to the internment camp at f’ort McPherson, to be kept for the remainder of the war. Their arrival increits»4l the number of war pribsners at the local camp to 1,373. , * ♦ * Twelve hundred foundrymen employed by tb.e American Car and Foundry company at Chicago went on strike for an increase in wages and an eighthour day. " ♦ ♦ ♦ Mayor Daniel W. TToan. Socialist, running on an antiwar platform, was re-elected mayor of Milwaukee. * *i* Bloomington. 111., voted by a majority of 2,138 to close its saloons. * * ♦ When 177 Gary. Ind., saloons closed at midnight 200 storerooms became va - cant and 1.000 persons were compelled to seek new employment. * * ♦ Government war work in the Hampton Roads, district was interrupted by a strike of several thousand carpenI ters and other workers. The carpeni ters Inaugurated the strike for an iQ- , crease in pay. * • • The wet and dry question waa settled in Madison,.Wis.. by a majority of 34 votes in favor of the drys. Rock Island. HL. voted dry on Tuesday. The 41 saloons which were left the federal government had put 51 out of business’will have tb close.