Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

On the anniversary of the lane ing of the first American troops in France, the municipal council o? Paris changed the name of Avenue Trocadero to Avenue Wilson, in honor of the President of the United States. Placards indicating the change in name will be placed along the street July 4. Extensions to naval training' stations by additional construction, Secretary Daniels announced Wednesday, will include accommodations for’ 12,000 additional men at the Great Lakes training station near Chicago; barracks for 10,000 men at Norfolk; 10,000 at Newport, R. L, and 2,000 at Pelham Bay, N. Y.

Roy 14. Smith, alias Harris, formerly teller of the First National Bank of Gary, was arraigned in the Federal court at Indianapolis Monday and pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $3,555. When indicted 'he was serving with the marine corps at Parts Island, S. C. He was sentenced to five years in the federal prison at Atlanta. Charles S. Preston, clerk of the White circuit court and editor of the Monticello Herald, has bm.i appointed assistant secretary of the Republican state committee, --and will sjiend practically all his time now in Indianapolis. Mr. Preston was a candidate before the last Republican convention for the nomination for clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. Alden Nordyke, of near Seafield, has been taken to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville, where he ip serving a term of froum two to fourteen years on a charge of grand larceny. Nordyke is alleged to have been implicated in the robbery of a store at Seafleld some time ago, and recently in the robbery of some automobile wheels from a railroad car at Monon.

The term “Foreign Legion’’ is often used for irregular volunteer corps of foreign sympathizers raised by states at war, often by smaller states fighting for independence. The term “the Foreign Legion" is colloqullly but incorrectly applied today to the Regiments Etrangers in the French service, which are composed of adventurous spirits of all nationalities and have been employed in many arduous colonial campaigns. Foreign legions were employed- by the kings from medieval times. A number of them were formed during the revolution and under the first empire, of which one was maintained till a recent period. This body, called specifically the legion, imade itself famous in Algiers and in the Crimea. K . The population of the Haw-aiian islands by the census of 1910 was 191,908, and that of Honolulu city, 52,1 83. Of this number 38,547 were Hawaiians, 22,303 Portugese, 79,674 Japanese and the remainder scattering.