Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernel* Culled From Events of Mo ■Mat in Al! Parts of the World—* Of Interest to All th© People Everywhere. U.S —Teutonic War News A German- American spy has been arrested oc. tlie American front. He was —jhr in company with a .German noncammxsrtoned officer who is a prisoner end win? attempted to escape with the spy** aid- Both wore American officers' uniforms. • • • A requisition upon all states except JLrfzcaa. Delaware and Vermont for 4JK9 specially qualified draft registiaals to ©o to camp May 20 was sent •srt fry Provost Marshal General *ern v- •• • * ..TffSgfcr Capt James Norman Hall, *©tkor and one of the best-known avl•»oes in the American or allied ©rmies. is missing after a thrilling bat•fh> ;ew B»tles inside Germany opposite the Tool sector. Two German macteies also went to earth during thekettle in a crippled condition. Captsfn Hall's home ts Colfax, la. The American steamship Tyler, forMeriy an Old Dominion line freighter, fcs.* been, torpedoed and sunk off the Vtaodi coast. according to information received in New York. Eleven memben of the crew were killed or ©med. • • • American prisoners of war arfi beta© shamefully treated In German psfaou camps, if all have had the experiesee of an American interviewed by ■ French soldier, also a prisoner la Germany, just before he escaped. • • • Lieut. John Rosenwald of the American medical corps, formerly one of ©» best known of Western football players, has been killed by shell fire fa rte Lnneviile sector. Lieutenant Hosenwald was captain of the University of Minnesota eleven a few years ago, and made a brilliant recard. • • • One American officer ami three privates were awarded the cross of war at a hospital near Verdun for gallantry displayed in the recent raid by Orman shock troops on American psetdoas. The soldiers decorated are: Lieut. H. J. KeHey. Ottawa. Ill.; Private D. K Smith. Steens’ Miss,; Private G. A. Hopkins, Baltimore, ML: Private AloysiuS Brown. Brooklyn. N. Y. • • • - W*? A Rasmussen of Portland, Ore., was killed by a German shell while leading his men in a reemnoissance on the American front in France.

♦ * * Anyr*^ n Salvation Army wornin *>n Memorial day will flowers and the Stars and Sfirtpe* ‘Xi the grave of every American fighter buried there since the war Jtays a dispatch from New York. • • • BerMM.oi Ned Kgan manager of the Milwaukee basetail ream of the American as-soia.rit.-t. for a short time early in the cctnmitied suicide at Chicago ky sheeting. It is supposed that ill health prompted the act. Domestic Wage advances to 1.929.399 railroad wipfeyees. ranging from 1 per cent to the k;-f~ to 43 per cent to the lowest .workers and aggregating $300,were made public in an exhnstive report by the railroad wage coexmisb n to Director General Mc-A-f-o. Mr. McAdoo, it is learned on hash authority, will accept the report and t«r the wage increases into effect « .xi..e .-s of the date of January 1 laah - • * ♦ Ezh" Amerieti-n gunners were killed cev, wounded near Benbrook, of Fort Worth, Tex., when a threetocfc she I evpl.jdefl, < >ne gun crew, -ASrtiiKssed •> i f members of tiie headOMupany of the One Hundred sr,i forty-first infantry, was entirely ' wipe-i.-out.' .* » * Prefl C- EL Kamann, formerly principal the Lincoln school of Peoria, HU was fcuß-'I guilty of disloyalty. He was sentenced to serve three years in LeavejEworrh. prison and to pay a fine of $5,OOfiL Pupils testified that he praised th«e kaiser and criticized the United Stare*. • • * In an airplane accident at Camp Bardo* Ont. Second Lieut. G. A. Ruffridge of Montclair, N. J, and Cadet H_ BL O'Leary of Toronto were killed. • • • Five thousand dollars’ worth of Ger■u war bon-ls were seized by select <Btnice operatives in the home of AuTWmnn a farmer near Newton, Ja. Twxnann was born in Germany. ’ Twelve alien women were lodged in detention camp fit Gloucester, N. by the department gs justice.

The results of Tuesday’s election of officers of the General Federation of Women’s clubs for the ensuing biennial term, made public at Hot Springs, Ark., were us follows: President, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles; first vice president, Miss Georgie Bacon; treasurer, Mrs. Benjamin Clark. * * * Washington One of the three largest wheat crops ever produced In the United States was forecast by the department of agriculture. Its bulletin estimates the /winter wheat crop at 572,530,000 bushels, estimated on conditions existing May 1 and a canvass of the acreage remaining to bo harvested. * * * “Condemn not too hastily lite mistakes of tliost; in authority.” This was the valedictory to the present session of congress of James It. Mann, Republican leader in the house, made on the eve of ills departure for the middle West to take an extended rest. » * » Attorney General Gregory, acting at President Wilson’s direction, on Tuesday began planning the investigation of the S64O,(XX),<XX) appropriation for the construction of aircraft. • • * President Wilson issued a proclamation ‘designating the week beginning May 20 as : “Red Cross week,’ 3 • and calling upon the American people to contribute generously to the second $100,000,000 war fund of the American Red Cross for the alleviation of suffering among the American troops in France and their dependends at home and among the fighting forces and civilian populations of the allied countries. v • * • Xenophon P. Wilfley of Missouri, Democrat, was sworn in to succeed the late Senator Stone. His credentials were presented by Senator Reed. • • • Official figures of the third Liberty loan were announced by the treasury department as $3,316,628,250. The final figures, it was said, will go well over the $4,000,000,000 mark. ♦ ♦ ♦ An agreement on the bill extending the selective-draft law to youths twen-ty-one years of age since June 5, 1917, was reached by senate and liduse conferees. ' The amendment providing that the additional registrants shall be placed at the bottom of present eligible lists was retained. • • • A department of justice investigation of the charges of graft In aircraft production, made by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, was ordered by President Wilson. Borglum’s charges of pro-German influence also will be investigated. Demand for a criminal investigation was made in, the senate recently. • * * A billlon-dollar appropriation for aircraft production was asked of congress by the war department. The estimate was presented to the house military affairs committee by Major General March, acting chief of staff. • • • The Sherwood bill granting a minimum pension of $25 a month to Civil war veterans was passed by the house and now goes to the senate. Graduated payments from $25 to $39 a month, according to age and length of service, are provided. • • * The senate agreed to the conference report on the so-called sedition bill, an amendment of the espionage act, which would punish by imprisonment for 20 years or by tine of SIO,OOO, or both, those who utthr or write seditious sentiments or incite curtailment of war production.

* • • Foreign The peace treaty signed by Germany and her allies with Roumania practically demobilizes the Roumanian army, says a dispatch from Amsterdam. It separates Dobrudja from Roumania and restores to Bulgaria territory ceded in 1913. Indemnities are renounced, but damage caused by the war is to be paid by special agreement. Free navigation of the Danube is provided, and equality of all religions in Roumania is guaranteed. ♦ * » N<> favorable occasion for a further peace move liy Pope Benedict lias presented itself, nor (Joes one seem near, it was stated at the Vatican in Rome regarding the report that his holiness would make a peace offfr. ♦ * * . Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of Russia has addressed the representatives in Moscow of the United—States, England and France, requesting the speedy recall of their consuls at Vladivostok and an investigation of their alleged participation in negotiations said to have been conducted between the Peking embassies of the powers named and the Siberian autonomous government. The governments are also asked to define their attitude toward the soviet government. • • • Foreign Secretary Balfour told the house of commons in London that no peace offers had been made recently by the enemy. * * • - : „ -.. One of the sensations of the war has been developed by the publication of a letter in London by Gen. F. B. Maurice, deposed director of military operations in the British war office, charging that the government has misled the public with regard to the conduct of the war and the strength of Field Marshal Haig’s forces.