Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

JBIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. (domestic and foreign items Culled From Events of Mo* I merit Iff All Parts of the World— Of Interest to AH tho People Everywhere. EZ.S. — Teutonic War News More than a million American men rill be in service in France in the ear future, declared Secretary of Far Baker in qn address to 137 gradates of the United States military Academy at West Point, N. Y. * » *. . . ' Captain Charles of the American Steamer Edward Pierce put into an Atlantic port after a desperate flight Irom a U-boat. The Pierce was pursued for several hours and many shells xvere hurled at her hulk. ♦ * * t. An appeal to the United States and the allies to send an expeditionary force to Russia to repel the German invaders, forwarded by the central committee of the Cadet party in Russia, was transmitted to the state department at Washington by the Russian embassy. '♦ » • An American transport fired five shots at German submarine 75 miles off the Jersey coast, with unknown results, according to information brought to an American port by the captain of h Brazilian steamship. ** * . “On Sunday our flying squadrons, Co-operating with the French on the battle front, worked Continually from dawn till dark,” the British statement on aerial operations bays. “Our bombing airplanes Impeded the enemy’s advance and harassed his troops and transport fcvith constant machine gun fire.” » ♦ * » A plan for pooling all the resources Of the United States and its co-bel-Ugerents into one vast economic and War machine, on which government Officials and representatives of the allies are working, will be submitted Boon to President Wilson. ♦ * ♦ X More than 700,000 American soldiers have been sent to France, Secretary Baker, said in a speech at’Washington to French “Blue Devils” who came so aid ip the third Liberty loan campaign. Mr. linker’s previous official announcement some weeks ago was khat more than half a million had gone over. •, ♦ ♦ * The American steamer Pinar del Rio fcras sunk by an enemy submarine on June 8, it was announced by (lie navy ■department. The sinking occurred about 75 miles off the Maryland coast. p?wo lifeboats containing the captain and crew of the steamer have been picked up at <ea ami landed. * * *

> More than 24,000,000 pounds of sugar en route from Cuba have been lost by submarine sinkings along the Atlantic coast this week, Food Administrator Hopver announced. Further cuts in sugar consumption will be necessary to make up for loss. * * * Domestic A. L. Hitchcock. Socialist member of the Cleveland school board, convicted of violating the espionage act, was Sentenced by Judge Killits to serve ten years in the Atlanta prison. ♦ * * Lieut. David J. Schalle. Sixteenth United States cavalry, was killed in an encounter with Mexican troops on the Mexican side of the llio Cramie. * * "Working men of the United Stales will be satisfied only with a peace brought about by the complete overthrow of the German military machine, according to President Samuel Gompers; who made the principal address at the opening session of the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at St. Paul, Minn. * •• * * ' Lieut. R. Bardwell of New York was killed and Major Brooks of Kansas City, commander at Scott field. Illinois, ■was probaldy fatally injured when their airplane fell 400 feet. It was said the “thin air” probably caused the men to lose control. ■' * ♦ ; The fate of Brent Dow Allinson of Chicago, poet, pacifist and conscientious objector to military service, now rests with President Wilson. The general court martial at Camp Grant. 111., reached its findings in the Allinson case and it is said to have decided on an extreme punishment. * *. * Jack McGee of Pawtucket, an aviator who had given many exhibition flights in this country, T was killed in an airplane accident at East Greenwich, R. I. ♦ ♦ * Forty-five conscientious objectors were sentenced to life imprisonment at Dalias, Tex, The sentence of life Imprisonment imposed by a courtmartial on the conscientious objectors was revised to 25 year* tyy Brig. Gen. O’Neil. The men are nearly all from Oklahoma and members of the Mennonite faith.

A bill granting suffrage to tne women of Louisiana was passed by the lower house at Baton Rouge, La., 80 to 21. It now goes to the senate, where suffrage leaders claim they will obtain a proportionate majority. • •’ ♦ President Wilson telegraphed to the American Federation pt Labor and the American Alliance of Labor and Democracy/In convention at St. Paul, Minn., urging renewed efforts of labor in support of the war program. Nd controversy betweiwi capital and labof should be permitted to interfere with the prosecution of the war, the president said. * • * Speaking at Charlotteville, Va., at commencement exercises of the University of Virginia, Secretary Daniels declared that good would come out of the world war in that it would teach the lesson that “the rule of force must be resisted successfully at every cost and at the supreinest sacrifice. We shall pay heavy toll before victory’ comes,” he said, “but all is not staked on a single battle.” ♦ • * Federal and state officers captured eight of a gang of sixteen alleged draft resisters and conspirators in a remote section of Saline county, 50 miles southeast of Little Rock, Ark. • * * Predicting a production of 13,518,000 tons of American shipping in 1919, ‘(more than turned out by Great Britain in any five years,” Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board, electrified an audience at the commencement exercises at the University of Nqtre Dame. America in 1920, he declared, will have a merchant marine of 25,000,000 deadweight tons. • • • In the most extensive roundup of draft evaders undertaken in Michigan, the potice, co-operating with federal authorities, took into custody 2,000 young men in two days. •, * • Investigation of the suspected plot to smuggle several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of so-called Russian crown jewels into this country lias led to the detention in Dallas, Tex., of Silliman Evans, formerly a clerk of the American' legation at Copenhagen. * * * One man was killed outright and 12 passengers injured near Salt Lake City when four coaches of the Denver & Rio Grande passenger train No. 1 left the rails and rolled into a ditch. * * ♦ European War News The loss of the Austrian battleship Szent Istvan—torpedoed in the Adriatic by Italian destroyers, is officially announced in Vienna. The Austrian official communication says that several officers and 80 of the crew of the battleship are missing. * » ♦ Two Norwegian steamships, the Vlndeggen and Henrik Lflnd, were sunk by a German submarine when about two hundred miles east of Cape Charles, Va. Their crews, totaling 68 men, were rescued by a British Steamship. Eighty tons of copper ingots, part of the cargo of the Viudeggen, were taken aboard the U-boat. The Swedish steamship New Sweden, a passenger and freight vessel of 5,319 tons gross register, owned by the Swedish-American-Mexico Line, was sunk by a submarine May 20,

The British transport Ansoniarewn—ed by the Canard line, has been torpedoed in the Atlantic by a German submarine and !><> of the crew have been landed on the Irish coast, according to cable dispatches received in New York. Forty persons are missing. * * * Five British aijfl twelve German seaplanes of the largest type fought a battle off the Dutch coast, according to a Terschelling dispatch to the Handelsblad. One of the German machines was observed to fall in flames into tlie sea. :*. * Italian forces broke into enemy trenches on the Monte Di Vai Bella, from, taking 50 prisoners, six machine guns rind a quantity of materials. *' * * Washington V I ' To meet the needs of. the -American and allied armies and the civilian populations of France, Great Britain and Italy, lire American people were asked by v the food administration to plane themselves on a limited beef allowance from .now until next September 15. Secretary of War Baker announced the appointment of Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth college, to be assistant to the secrethry of War in charge of industrial relations. • * * A call for selective service men for limited military service was issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder. The men will be sent into the Northwest to cut spruce for airplane construction. ♦ * • Secretary Baker, before the senate military committee at the start of hearings on tlie army appropriation bill, said the orders holding Major General Wood in this country were regarded “for the good of the service.” : . N , -" * * * Members of the senate military subcommittee investigating airplane production returned to Washington after visiting plants in Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis and Dift'ton. They said the plants visited were rapidly reaching a Quantity production basis.