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HOUSE VOTES TO SEND FOOD MEASURE TO

CONFERENCE Special Rule Requires Conferees to Disagree to all Amendments Presented by the Senate. OPPOSITION IS MELTED WASHINGTON, July 25. The ad ministration food control bill was sent to conference in the house today under a special rule without a record vote, Opposition which developed yesterday disappeared. , The house conferees were Instructed by the rule to disagree to all senate amendments. Defeat of the senate amendment to create a joint congress ional war expenditure committee, dis approved by the president, was pre- . saged by this action. Fight Flattens Out. The fight against sending the bill to conference without a separate vote on the amendment to which the President objects, began yesterday by Re publican Leader Mann completely flattened ont. Thirty-one Republicans joined 133 Democrats voting for the previous question on the rule, adoption of which eliminated all debate and all 101 voted against it. Representative , Randall, of Call fornia. Prohibitionist, . was the only man on the Democratic side of the house to vote with the 101 Republic ans. Cast Solid Party Vote. On the motion to adopt the rule, Democrats cast a solid affirmative vote and less than half a dozen native votes all from the Republican side of the Mhise were cast. Senator Gore, chairman of the sen ate agricultural committee, arranged ; with Representative Lever for the first meeting of the conferees tomorrow , morning. Mann Is Obdurate Before the rule ' for Immediate ac Uon was brought in, Republican Leader Mann had refused unanimous consent to send the bill to conference. Amid thunderous applause from floor and galleries, acting Chairman Garrett, of the rules committee, offer . ed the rule and denounced, those who were delaying action. The demand for the previous question followed quickly and threw the Republicans into the greatest astonishment. Heated demands weremade by Representative Campbell of Kansas to know If it was the intention to prevent debate. It was, he was advised. Cannen With Democrats ' Republicans were hurridly ordered to their seats to vote against the previous question but when thirty-one of them, including former Speaker Cannon, voted with the Democrats, It was obvious that a chance at a partisan fight was useless. An attempt by Representative Len- , root Republican, - of Wisconsin, who was prepared to fight the rule, to , make a statement regarding sending the bill to conference after the final vote, was prevented by objection from Representative Doollttle of Kansas. Adjournment followed, the entire proceedings requiring less than fifteen minutes. Slick Will Always be Slick at That "Strictly fresh" eggs, sold by Thomas Slick, living on North Fifth street, weren't as fresh as Slick would have had people to believe, according to 'police who arrested him on the charge. . Slick isn't as "slick" as he thought he was, police say. In police court Wednesday he pleaded not guilty to Belling bad eggs to James Paros, restaurant keeper at Fifth and Main street, and the case was set for hearing Saturday morning. flick was required to furnish a $50 bond, which be did. ' Under the law dealers are required to candlle all eggs before selling them. They are subject to prosecution for selling bad eggs. Do Your p''- Join the Bit Now LljJ Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weath er Bureau Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Continued warm. . Temperature Today. Noon 84 . Yesterday. Maximum 86 Minimum 67 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Continued warm with probable showers. General Condition Local showers and thunderstorms occurred yesterday in many places over Wayne and adjacent counties. Weather continues warm-in the Mississippi valley as far north as Candian border. Tempera- " tres are falling over all part of western Canada. . One hundred degrees in shade yesterday at Medicine Hat, Canada and Williston, North Dakota. Weather will continue sultry and unsettled for twenty-four hours longer. I

On Trail of

CHICAGO, July 25 The trail pursued by sixteen year old Laura Hansen, of Elmhurst, 111., and H, W. Petrie, a musician sixty years old, is to be run down by Federal authorities, if the irate father of the girl makes good his threat. The girl formerly was a pupil of Petrie's, but the lessons were discontinued when the parents noticed Petrie's attentions to their child. Both the girl and man turned up missing at the same hour July 20. Petrie is married and has a married daughter.

Industrial Exemptions to be Decided by District Board

Persons who are planning to claim exemption from the draft on industrial grounds wiU not be able to file such claim with the Richmond district exemption board, according to M. W. Kelly, clerk of the board. Industrial exemptions include those of farmers, mechanics, and others whose work is such that it is necessary for them to stay at home to keep the fighting men on the front prepared. ' .- ' Must Take Examination. All men claiming industrial exemption must first be examined and pass ed by the local board and- then must He their claim for exemption witn tue district appeal board, Wayne county'ss appeal board being stationed in Fort Wayne. .The claim for exemption on indus trial grounds must be filed in the Wine Drafted Men Volunteer Services Nine Richmond men have either gone or are going to enlist as volunteers in the army and navy. Six of them will leave for army recruiting station in Indianapolis Thursday, and one went Wednesday afternoon. Two recruits for the navy have gone, one Wednesday and one Monday. Boys Ride Bicycles 175 Miles in Day A rid of 175 miles by bicycle in one day was made by Clem Meyers, Joe Stevens and Charles Stevens, Rich mond boys, when starting their vaca tions two weeks ago. The boys left Richmond for Toledo, Ohio, at 3 o'clock in the morning and arrived there at midnight that night They took a boat to Detroit and spent two weeks there with relatives. Campaign to Raise $300 is Begun Members of the Second Baptist church are carrying on a campaign to raise $300 by the first Sunday in August An addition of two rooms, a choir stand, and several smaller rooms is being built to the building on North G street. The work will be finished about the first of September. Rev. H. A. Gresham, of South Carolina, is in Richmond, working, in the interests of the churches in that state. The churches need money to pay oft a debt. Rev. Mr. Gresham has visited many cities in Indiana and is pleased with his results. He and Rev. Mr. Robinson are conducting a ten days' meeting in the Second Baptist church now. The public is invited. , , ... TWO COUNTY OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS COUNTY'S TAXES L. S. Bowman and William Mathews, county auditor and county assessor, have been called to a meeting of the state tax commission to be held in Indianapolis next Friday to discuss the tax assessments of the state for the coming year. Wayne county' share of the 6tate tax will be discussed at the meeting as will the tax assessments of other counties in the state. RED CROSS WILL BE FORMED IN HAGERSTOWN FRIDAY HAGERSTOWN, Ind., July .25. Hagerstown will organize a branch society of the Red Cross, Friday afternoon. The meeting will be held in the Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock. Hagerstown has many persons inter ested in Red Cross work. Several Richmond "persons will attend the meeting and aid in the organization.

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I same manner as for dependent exemp tions, and are handled in the same way as dependent exemptions except they are out of the jurisdiction of the local boards. If candidates for industrial exemption are passed as physically qualified, they must then, either by mail or in person, file a claim before the district appeal board at Fort Wayne, within a limited time after their call and their claim will be acted upon, independently of their examination by the local board. THEY 'WONT! " COPENHAGEN, July 25; Replying to greetings from the Pan-German meeting Admiral Spheer, commander of the fleet, said he hoped the German people, on the threshold of victory,' would not disgracefully renounce their future. ASHE IS HELD TO GRAND JURY TROY, Ohio, July 25. Robert S. Ashe, of Richmond, Ind., president of the Gettysburg and Bradford Electric Light company, and . Timothy Glenn, mayor of New Paris,' Wednesday af ternoon were arraigned before Mayor Clay Hartman on the charge of brib ery and waived examination. - .... Each was held to the grand jurydn the sum of $5,000, which was furnish ed by Vice-President Taylor of the First National bank at Richmond The men were to appear In court Thursday night but . consented to make their appearance a day earlier. They are charged with giving each of the . six councilmen at Bradford $100 to vote in favor of extending the company's franchise in that village. It is the opinion of officers here that both men will throw themselves on the mercy of the court. JORDAN EXPECTS LARGE CROWDS Record breaking attendances are expected at this year's . .Chautauqua, President Jordan of the Chautauqua association said Wednesday. The sale of over 1,500 season tickets at $1.50 each has been assured. Tickets wiU be placed on sale August 1. Over 1,500 Richmond persons are ex lected to camp at Glen park when the Chautauqua opens August 19. . - : . ALLIED CONFERENCE TO - CLEAR AIR AFTER PEACE MOVE BY THE REICHSTAG ' PARIS, July 25. The labors of the allied conference .will not be limited to the Balkans. For one thing it is important to clear the air after the Reichstag action last week, s - Although Premier Lloyd-George has already replied to a . certain extent to the speech of Chancellor Michaelis, it is desirable, says the ' Matin, - that the allies should issue a joint statement on what happened at Berlin so that Germany's peace manoeuvre may everywhere be checked and reasons given where they are needed ' while the allies cannot accept the resolution as a basis for, peace negotiations., MEXICO TO BORROW ' MEXICO CITY, July 25. The house of deputies last night passed a bill giving the President power to contract a loan of 150,000,000 pesos for the gov. ernment- budget.1 " -

DOUBT CAST ON MICHAELIS BY GERMAN PAPERS

Writers S ha re LloydGeorge's Skepticism of Chancellor's Aims. COPENHAGEN, July 2S. Premier Lloyd George's skepticism regarding Chancellor Michaelis' - good faith, bis doubts whether the chancellors reply to the Reichstag " resolution really means what it pretends to mean, his belief that the reference o! peace professing statement-' to the-security of frontiers, capable' of being extended at will to cover the absorption of Belgium and . any other, desired annexations, received unexpected . justification and corroboration from German sources in the growing frankness of criticism which the1 defunct Zukunft might envy. , , It was declared yesterday that Chancellor Michaelis. speech was ambiguous and open to two interpretations which Lloyd-George mentioned. ' Policy Laid Open It was added that the policy of silence of political aims inaugurated by former Chancellor Von BethmannHollweg and continued by Herr Michealis had laid the German policy open to that dubious repute which LloydGeorge criticised.His picture of : German - parliamentarism : under ' the farmula of Herr Michaelis may be distorted, so it was declared, but it contains enough truth to serve as a warning to the German people. The Berlin Tageblatt. reprints the full text of Lloyd-George's reply to the German chancellor, explaining that this is advisable because remarkable errors of distortion and omission in the sense desired by the government crept into cummaries of earlier declarations . from the opponent camp which were supplied by the semiofficial Wolw News. Bureau. The Kreuz Zeitung, under fire of the Radical ' papers slightly. .modified but did not revoke statements about the government's war policy. No official declaration was made. ,-, GUARDIAN NAMED FOR GEORGE BAYER Declarine that thi defendant .was of unsound mind, and incapable of managing his estate, Judge Fox. Appointed Dr. Jqfotsf'NK Vwampler, aa guardian, of Qeorge C. Bayer, son or the late John Bayer,! jh circuit court Wednesday morning. ; 1 . The -petition for tfce appointment of a guardian was filed oy w. w ampler, who has been the trustee of the Bayer estate since the death of Mrs. Bayer, several months ago. ; f According to the testimony given in the hearing, George Bayer's mind has become unbalanced through the excessive use of alcoholic liquors. Bayer admitted before the court that he was not capable of managing his estate, but asked that he be given a chance to rid himself of his alcoholic condition and that he be not placed in an insane hospital. " ' ' This request was granted by the court, and at the motion of the petitioners it was agreed that Bayer be placed in a sanitarium .until such a time as be may. be aeciarea curea. : CANADA CAN GET BIG LOAN HERE WASHINGTON, July 25. Secretary McAdoo has notified Sir Thomas White, Canadian minister of finance, that the United States government has no objection to Canada's obtaining a a short time credit of $100,000,000 from private sources in the American money market. -i Mr. McAdoo declined to state whether arrangements for the loan had been made. ' : - It is understood, however, that ne gotiations have been proceeding for some time between Sir Thomas White and New York bankers and have reach ed the point where further progress awaited the consent of the American government. . German Field Guns Pour Shells Into Retreating Masses COPENHAGEN, July 25. A semi-of ficial German report describes as a striking panorama the retreat of the Russian armies in Galicia. Retiring columns stretching to the horizon can plainly be observed from numerous vantage points. v The retreat occasionally degener ates into a full rout, particularly un der the - influence of the Austrc-Ger-man field guns which are abreast the infantry vanguards and dash forward to a hill top from. where they pour a demoralizing fire into the masses crowded In the roads.'--;' - I Additional quantities of munitions. provisions . and six heavy guns were captured. Another report says that airplanes heavily bombarded the station at Monasterzyska and the new road for the Russian troops south of the point from which regular communication has been severed. GOVERNMENT EXAMS HELD Tim a T-nmf nation R for' KtMmminlii were given in the postoff ice Tuesday and Wednesday. One was for field service and one for places in Washington. Just one person took each ex amination.

Wanted His Friends to Have Good Time at His Obsequies DULUTH, Minn., July 25. Provisions for a luncheon and a .band concert for bis friends during the time required to cremate his body made by the late William F. Norton, of Louisville, Ky., whose will disposing of $500,000 estate was filed for probate here today. He died in Louisville. The will demands that the following directions be carried out: "I wish a special car to be engaged to carry my body to Cincinnati, Ohio, for cremation in that city. "I wish the buffet of the car which will carry my body to be well stocked with things to eat and drink, so that my friends who will do me the honor to see me well started on my last long journey may not want for anything to ease their hunger or slake their thirst." The will also directs that a fortypiece band be engaged to "render a fine concert program composed of my favorite selections." It is finally directed that Norton's ashes be deposited in a bronze urn in the family monument at Maple Grove Cemetery,' Russelville, Ky.

FIVE AMERICAN SAILORS KILLED WASHINGTON, July 25. An explo sion yesterday on the submarine A. at Cavite, Philippine Islands, killed five men and injured three of the officers and crew. The explcsion from a preliminary examination appeared to be due to the ignition of gas within the ship The cause of the ignition of the fumes has not beer, reported. Women's Battalion Successful in Its First Engagement PETROGRAD, July 25. The Russian Women's Battalion raised by the twice wounded girl officer Vera Butchkareff, was in action on the front at Krevo yesterday for the first time. They are reported to have been suc cessful although the battalion suffered such losses, the extent of which is not yet known. - The Novoe Vremya correspondent at the front reports that the women behaved to an exemplary-way, gaining the respect of the men soldiers. - The "Command of death" Is the official title of the battalion raised by Madamolselle Butchkareff. It recent ly left for the front, after a review by M. Kerensky. Most of the recruits are from the higher educational academies or secondary schools, with a -few peasants, factory girls and ser vants. Some married women were accepted but none who had children. Most of them are between 18 and 25 years old. of good physique. They wear their hair short or have their heads entirely shaved. The girls carry the cavalry carbine which is five pounds lighter than the regular army rifle. They were drilled under the instructions of a male ser geant of the Kolynsky regiment. TALKS HIMSELF INTO ARREST When Jesse R. Miller, who claims Eaton, O., as his home nervously asked Patrolman. Westenberg if he knew of a prospective buyer of a Ford, Patrolman Westernberg told him that he did. The two walked to police station, where the "prospective buyer" was supposed to be. Miller, on close questioning, admit ted, according to police, that he stole the automobile In Wayton, O., Monday night and drove it to Richmond. He had just gotten here and drove up near City Hall when he asked Patrolman Westenberg if he knew of a buyer. , Dayton authorities were notified and will take Miller and the machine back to that place. Miller will not resist extradition. BIG MILLS RE5USE TO QUOTE PRICES ON WINTER WHEAT Quotations on winter wheat, such as is now being harvested by Wayne county farmers, will not be furnished by the big mills of the country until the government food bill, now before congress, is settled, according to Omar Whelan, a Richmond feed man. Several inquiries as to the prices oh winter wheat were sent out to the big mills of the country some time ago by Whelan but answers to all of these have been that no quotations could be offered at present on account of the pending food bill, the embargo on foreign shipments, and the big estimates of the harvest, v.. NEW ADMIRAL IS NAMED FOR RUSSIA'S BALTIC FLEET PETROGRAD, July 25. Rear Admiral Razvozoff has been appointed commander in chief of all the Russian naval forces In the Baltic. , ; The newspapers Monday-announced that Rear Admiral Verdervski. commander of the Baltic fleet, had been arrested for communicating a secret government telegram to sailors committees.

UILP'EK "We Must Build Ships,' Not Talk About Them," Says Edward N. - Hurley, New Shipping Board Chief. y

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WASHINGTON, July 25. Vice chairman Brent is today acting head of the shipping board pending senate confirmation of President Wilson's appointment of Edward N. Hurley as chairman to succeed William Denman. Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, chief constructor of the navy , is in charge of the emergency fleet corporation as successor to Major General George W. Goetbals. The nominations of Mr. Hurley and Bainbridge Colby, who was-selected to fill the vacancy on the board, caused by the resignation of Captain John B. White, were today before the commerce committee of the senate for action. Prompt approval of both appointright I thought maybe you soldiers parties. , "We must build ships, not talk about them," declared Mr. Hurley in outlining his plans. "American labor, the most skilful and intelligent in the world can turn out the ships In record breaking time. We are going to buckle down and get busy. i Only Lemons and in Green COPENHAGEN, July 25. A re markably frank article by the Berlin correspondent of the National Tidende passed by the foreign office cen sorship, discusses the seamy side of the submarine campaign and the effect it has upon neutrals. It is generally - recognized : he says, that - the longer . the campaign continues the fewer friends Germany will have after the war. This consideration together with the . thoughts of the many billions which another six months' war would cost, were the two principal factors, which contribute to bringing a. majority of the Reichstag Into line upon a bid for immediate peace. The . correspondent says now it Is generally admitted that the effect of the campaign has been miscalculated, not regarding the amount of, tonnage sunk, but as to the time required to make its effects felt in England. The German people still are convinced ii Cap" Streeter Bids Soldiers Welcome; He's For Uncle Sam CHICAGO. July 25. "Cap." George Wellington Streeter, who has fought many battles with' police-and deputy sheriffs: during. the last twenty years when they have attempted to oust him from the "Deestrict of Lake Michigan," a portion of the lake front which he claims by right of discovery, welcomed the Second Regiment Illinois artillery, when it went into camp today on the property. When the "Cap" saw a squad of artillery men laying out the. camp, he went to investigate. - "What are you fellows doing on my property?" He asked. , "Well, cap"aid a sergeant, "we're just going to camp here for a while and get ourselves in shape to help lick the kaiser." ... -; ' - "Oh," said the captain. "That's all right I thought may: be you, soldiers had been sent . to take possession of the deestrict and if that was. the case, I'd fought the whole lot of ydu. This land belongs to. me by right of discovery and an army couldn't take it away from me. But if you are just going to camp here for a while, I have no objections. You soldiers are perfectly welcome to Streeterville. I'm for Uncle Sam." . . -- - . ' .-- . -. . - , - :.

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INTRIGUING Of! RUSSIAN BATTLE Lltll Kerensky Soon to Hare Mutinous Units Under Con trol, According to Reporta From Petrograd. FRENCH HOLD FRONT (By Associated Press Russia's shaken armies in GaUcte are still in a retreat which, bids fire not to end until they reach, approximately the line occupied by them lain year before General Bru&sUoff began, his big offensive. Despite this extensive retograde movement, covering virtually all the front between the north Galldan border and the Carpathian foot bills, the tones of both official and "fflMf1 dispatches coming out of Petrograd is not-pessimistic. . End of Plots Seen. There is apparent confidence that the disorganization in the ranks induced by the machinations of the extremists and believed to have been largely promoted by German Intrigue will be adequately dealt with and ai firm front again be presented to thai enemy. For one thing, the Germans by their admission have not the men to spareto prosecute a sustained offensive on a large scale on the eatern front. The British and the French are keeping them too busy and they are too apprehensive of some extra forceful stroke from the west to transfer any great number of troops from the Franco-Belgian war area. For another, the Russians have big reserves of men, and Premier Kerensky with the vast powers now in his hands, will find it is possible, it is believed, to weed out the disloyal element rapidly from the front ranks and replace them with the hosts of dependable troops which Russia still possess. French Show Strength. The Inherent strength of the entente position in the. west has Just received Continued On Page Nine. Pershing Praises French Chasseurs PARIS, July 25. General Pershing, accompanied by General Joffre, yesterday visited the French front and reviewed Incidentally one of the most famous battalions of French chasseurs which figured in the fourteenth of July review in Paris. General Pershing expressed high admiration of the dash and smartness of the men. Onions Seen Groceries of Berlin that It will succeed ultimately if given time and they themselves are able to hald out Front Can Hold Out Disregarding Galician happening as accidental, the correspondent says there can be no question of a big offensive owing to lack of men, as' Field Marshal Von Hindenburg frankly admitted but there Is no doubt the front can hold out The correspondent gives as two if the most striking Impressions upon his return to Berlin the disappearance of children who have been sent to the country in thousands, and the appearance of a new type of Berliner, a lank individual with skin hanging in folds who has supplanted the corpulant German. A few have lost more than . fifty pounds in weight many more than thirty,' but they are healthy and usually improved. Another feature is the disappearance of vegetables owing to the drought Green groceries display only lemons and onions. EIGHTY MINERS KILLED BY BLAST - HALIFAX, Novia Scotia, July 25 Eighty workmen were killed today In an explosion - at No. 6 mine ' of the Dominion Coal company at New Waterford, C. B., according to advices received here from Sidney. Twelve bodies had been recovered at noon. . Kaiser Sees Troops on Galician Front COPENHAGEN, July 25. The arrival of Emperor William at the Gallo-: ian front yesterday morning is reported In a Berlin dispatch. , - v The emperor . awarded the order Pour Le Merite with oak leaves and chain to Prince Leopold' of Bavaria. General Hoffmann, Prince Leopold's chief of staff, and Major Franz, chief of staff of an army corps. - . '