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MARK HYMAN
RAILROAD EMPLOYES
GETBIG INCREASE
JACK MUNR0E
5B U.S.TROOPS LOST
WHEN BIG SHIP SIIS
TAB HEEL SOLDIER;
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CLAIM CROWN PRINCE' ARMY
HAS CAPTURED CHEMIN
DES DAMES RIDGE. ,
DRIVfFOR GHANFL PORTS
It Is Probable That Americans Are
Engaged in the Fighting on
Both Fronts.
GermftnV's gteaf offensive on the
westtfhj front has been resumed. With
onV brief artillery preparation, two
blows Jiave been struck by the Teu
ton armies,, which have been reorgan
ized since disastrous losses were in-
Tjtoted on them by the French and
VLfritish during the Picardy and Fland
ers battles in March and April. One
attackwas on the ltoe from Voormey
lee toLocre, southwest of Ypres; the
other 6n the 35-mile front from Pinon,
north of Soissons to Rheims. This is
known as the Aisne sector.
In Flanders the Germans have gain
ed virtually nothing, but farther south
the Berlin official statement claims
the German crown prince's troops
, have carried the whole ridge of the
Chemin des Dames and now are flght-
ing on the Aisne river.
Recalls Fearful Fighting.
On the Aisne front the present bat
tle recalls the fearful fighting of last
summer along tlje Chemin des Dames,
where for weeks the German crown
prffcce, hurled hi3 men against the
Fre?lch positions only to see them
finish d and beaten. Last year 75 di
Vjsijons were engaged in the German
attacks along this line alone.
The attackf re is really in the na
ture of a line-straightening operation.
It is being launched from Laon as a
center and is aimed at the elbow in
the line formed during the fighting in
"Picardy in March and April. Here,
however, the Gernfa'ns must face per
manent works, which have been occu
pied by the French for long periods
and which can be defended quite
easily.
Evidence that the allied supreme
command was forewarned of the new
German attack may be found in the
fact that British troops are fighting
there. Up to the present, it had been
believed that the British forces did
not hold positions much south of the
Somme, east of Amiens.
PRESIDENT PUTS END TO
QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT
Washington. President Wilson
ended discussion over whether Congress-
shall stay in Washington this
summer to enact new revenue legisla
tion by appearing before the house
and senate in joint session and calling
upon members to put aside, politics
and all other considerations to provide
money for growing war expenses and
to advise the country in advance of
the tax burdens it must meet.
Just as the President was leaving
the White House for the capitol word
came that the German drive against
the west front had been renewed. He
gave his visit a dramatic touch by
announcing this news as he concluded
his prepared speech. saying it
strengthened the purpose he had tried
to express.
ine aemana mat, wim ine war at
its "peak and crisis," Congress do its
duty at home as the soldiers are doing
their duty in the trenches overseas,
brought instant acquiescence. There
still was reluctance in some quarters
to believe immediate legislation im
perative, but plans for mid-summer
adjournment were abandoned and
both democratic and republican lead
ers expressed their determination to
go at the task of passing a revenue
bill with a will.
A suggestion by the President-that
most of the new taxes probably would
fall upon incomes, excess profits and
luxuries and that profiteers would be
reached in this way was greeted with
cheers, and congressional leaders said
later the money needed would come
from those sources.
RED CROSS MERCY FUND
REACHES TOTAL OF $133,306,630
Washington. Germany's challenge
of frightfulness In France has been
answered by the American people
with an outpouring of $133,306,630 for
the second war mercy fund of the Red
Cross. This was an over-subscription
of $33,306, 30, with returns bUH com
night. Greater New York which earlier
had reported only $27,000,000, turned
in final subscriptions at midnight oi
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&VS9Kj& t Wtilrn Nwpnp- Union f-:-i
Mark Hyman, who for several years
has been special assistant to the at
torney general for antitrust Investiga
tions, Is now assisting Assistant At
torney General Todd In the Hog Island
Inquiry.
EVERY MAN TO WORK OR FIGHT
UNLIMITED POWER' TO PRESI
DENT TO INCREASE ARMY
TO SIZE HE SEES FIT.
Drastic Amendment to Selective Serv
ice Law Touching Habitual Idlers
and Non-Useful Workers.
Washington. Two important steps
were taken toward perfecting the
task of putting the nation on a war
basis.
Soon after Provost Marshal Gen
e-ral Crowder had promulgated a
drastic amendment to the selective
service regulations requiring every
man of draft age to work . or fight
Secretary Baker appeared before the
house military committee and asked
that President Wilson be authorized
to call to the colors all men of draft
age who can be equipped and trained
The committee promptly and unani
mously voted the authority into th
army appropriation bill about to be
reported to the house.
General Crov. der's new regulation
is far-reaching in scope and touches
not only habitual idlers, but also re
I quires that draft registrants now in
occupations held to be non-useful
seek new jobs or take their places in
the army. Clerks in stores, waiters
bartenders, employes at places of
amusement, passenger elevator men
and other employes around hotels
clubs and business buildings as well
as gamblers, fortune tellers and race
track and bucket shop attendants all
fall among those classed as non-use
fully engaged. Enforcement of the
rule is expected to add some men to
the army and to do a more important
Bervice in improving the labor situa
tion in essential industries.
The house military committee's ac
tion. after hearing Secretary Baker
completed the army bill, with provi
sion for the pay of 3,000,000 men and
with ordnance appropriations on the
basis of an army of 4,000,000. The
measure will be laid before the house
carrvina- a tntal nf S9 KfiQ 1 ?9 Ann nf
actual appropriations, and authoriza-
tion for contracts amounting to $2,'
464,416,000 more
May Mean Five Millions.
Mr. Baker told the committee in
executive session the President's rea
sons for asking that no limit be
placed upon the number of draft men
to be called . Members said later it
was estimated that an army of 5,000,
000 could be raised without changing
the draft ages.
The new regulation also will af
fect the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places including hotels and so
cial clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, doormen, footmen
and other attendants of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, office build
ings and bath houses.
"(c) Persons, Including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu
pied in, and in connection with games,
sports and amusements, excepting ac
tual performers in legitimate con
certs, operas or theatrical perform
ances. "(d) Persons employed in domestic
science.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
stablishmeni3.
EFFECTIVE SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST;
RETROACTIVE TO LAST JAN- s
UARY FIRST, 1918.
ABOUT $300,000,000 ADDED
All Increases to Be Determined Upon
Percentage Basis Upon Pay in
December, 1915.
Washington. -Oeneral pay increases
for nearly two million railroad em
ployes were' announced by Director
General McAdoo, effective ' next Sat
urday and retroactive to last January
1, carrying out substantially recom
mendations of the roadroad wage com
mission. The aggregate of the in
creases probably will be more than
$300,000,000 a year, half of which will
be distributed within a few weeks as
back pay in -jump sums ranging from
about $100 to nearly. $200 each.
The director general departed from
the wage commissioner's recommen
dations in the following particulars:
. The principle of the basic eight
hour day is recognized, but owing to
exigencies of the war situation, hours
om employment are not actually re
duced and overtime is to be pair pro
rata; future adjustments of pay are to
be made on the basis of eight hours.
In addition to the ordinary scale
of increase, day laborers employed
mainly on track work are to get at
least 2 1-2 cents an hour more than
they received last December 31.
Women are te f9?e.i.ve the same pay
as men for the same work and negr3
are to get the same as white men for
similar employment.
To work out a multitude of inequal
ities and other injustices caused by
varying rules' of employment and
condition of organization, the direc
tor general created a new board of
railroad wage and working conditions
consisting of three railway executives
which will conduct extensive investi
gation and recommend wage and other
employment changes.
All increases now orderd will be
determined according to a percentage
scale based on pay received in Decem
ber, 1915, and any incrases which
have been allowed within that time
will be deducted. In many cases the
raises in pay in the last two and a
half years are about equal to the
increases now approved and conse
quently these employes will get little
or no more. To correct just such situ
ations when injustices are apparent
will be one of the principal duties of
th new wage board, whose creation
was suggested by the railroad wake
commmission. In no cases are wages
to be reduced.
Men working on the monthly,
daily, hourly, piece work and train
mile basis will benefit by the new j
allowances.
RED CROSS GOES BEYOND
GOAL BY TWELVE MILLION
Washington. With the American
Red Cross' second $100,000,000 war
mercy fund already over-subscribed
by $12,097,304, officials were setting
no limit to the outpouring of dollars
on the closing day of the week's
drive. That that daily average of
something more than $18,000,000 would
be far exceeded they had no doubt.
On the face of returns at headquar
ters here 11 of the 14 divisions had
oversubscribed, with the gulf leading
the home divisions in percentage with
210, but the foreign topping them all
with 300. The three divisions which
had not attained their quotas were
expected to go over the top.
The Potomac division shows $4,200,-
290 and the southern division $3,701,-
100.
Greater New York lacks $1,399,66
of equallying its quota. Philadelphia,
with an allotment of $4,500,000, has
given $5,500,000, nearly four times
its minimum. Pittsburgh has attain
ed only 56 per cent of Its $4,000,000,
while Chicago has turned in only 47
per cent of its $7,000,000. Boston is
another of the larger cities behind in
the campaign.
PLEA OF COUNT MINOTTO
DENIED BY FEDERAL JUDGE
Chicago. The plea of Count James
MInotto for freedom on a writ of hab
eas corpus from internment on a
Presidential warrant was denied by
Federal Judge Carpenter. The judge
withheld reading of the decision to al
low the count to pass a night with his
wife, Countess Ida May 'Swift Min-
otto, daughter of Louis F. Swift. The
count's counsel had admitted the gov
ernment attorney's disclosure that
tho count's father was born in. Y'enna.
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Jack Munroe, who gained fame as a
prize fighter when he challenged Jef
fries for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world, only to be beaten
when the bout was staged, is now in
the United States helping , boost the
Liberty loan. He has been fighting
over there with the British army and
is now a commissioned officer. His
right arm was wounded In battle.
TORS ARE VERY ACTIVE
EXPERTS THINK MAYBE GEN.
FOCH WILL TAKE OFFENSIVE
II HUN DOES NOT.
Redistribution of German Troops
Along Entire Front Is Reported
By French Officers.
In the past years of the war a pe
riod of extraordinary activity by the
aerial squadrons of the contending
armies in France has been considered
as an indication that events were
rapidly shaping themselves for an of
fensive by one side or the other. At
the present moment the most notable
feature of the war situation is the re
markable work of airmen in various
sectors where a German attack is
looked for. This activity has not been
restricted to the actual battle area,
but far back of each front there have
been daring raids. The Rhine cities
are being frequently bombed, while
Paris has again been in danger of a
new German attack from the air.
American aviators have borne a
prominent part in this fighting. In
the Luneville and Toul sectors they
have given a magnificent account of
themselves, while further north, and
even in the defense of London they
have demonstrated their fighting ca
pacity.
The German plans ior a resumption
of the offensive in France have been
seriously hampered by the sudden
blows of allies here and there along
the front. The Germans have been
forced back at numerous points and
new lines which may be more easily
defended have been established by
the allied nations.
The Americans on tlielr own sectors
have given the enemy no rest. The
artillery has battered the German
lines night and day, while the infan
trymen have raided German outpost
positions and have proved themselves
capable of outwitting and outfighting
the enemy. General Pershing's men
have won several hot fights with,'the
foe and have captured pr-'sones. A
night eas attack was loW0'1 tha
Germans by the American
three waves of shells (LfSlhing a
wooded positic of the enemy with
poisonous fumes.
The French, too, have been at work
in various, sectors, particularly in the
Somme region. They have gained
ground here and there at points where
positions of tactical value were wrest
ed from the Germans.
VIENNA DECREE PROVIDES
FOR DIVISION OF BOHEMIA
Washington. Division of Bohemia
into 12 districts with advantages in
the electoral domain given to the Ger
man minority In each so as to reduce
the Czech representation in ' parlia
ment is provided in a ministerial de
cree issued at Vienna.
An official dispatch from France
says thi3 effort to dismember and
Oermanize the Czech state caused
the recent serious rioting at Ostrau,
Pilsen, Nachod and other 'places
which resulted in the proclaiming ji
martial law at-d the imprisonment cf ;
150 persons. , J
ANOTHER VICTIM OF HUN SUB
MARINEPLYING BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
LOST ALL THEV
Sailors and Soldiers Alike Showed No
Panic; Fell Into Line, and
Awaited Orders.
The British mercantile cruiser Mol
davia, carrying American troops from
America to Europe, has been torpe
doed, and 56 American soldiersare
reported missing. The liner was8"unk
Thursday morning, according to an
official statement by the British ad
miralty. The Moldavia is the third tfransport
carrying American troops to be tor
pedoed by the Germans. Of the ves
sels carrying Americans, the Antilles
was the first to meet with destruction
by a U-boat. She wasi3unk October 17,
last, when returning to this country
from Europe, and 70. lives were lost.
The second was the Tuscania, which
was sent to the bottom off the north
of Ireland February 5, with a loss of
life totalling 101.
The only other secrious attack made
on American transports occurred last
June when vessels carrying some of
the first expeditonary units under a
convoy commanded by Rear Admiral
Gleaves, narrowly escaped disaster in
the mid-Atlantic.
David Lloyd 'George, speaking at
Edinburgh, has said that the subma
rine is still unconquered, but that It
is no longer a vital menace to the
entente allies.' He said that the U
boats are being destroyed faster than
they can be built by Germany, while
the allies are building ships faster than
the submarines are sinking them.
-
Washington. Sinking of the British
armed merchant cruiser Moldavia,
with a probable loss of 56 American
soldiers was announced in a cable
gram from the British admiralty to
the war department. No details were
given, but the understanding is that
the ship was moving between Eng
land and France.
The war department authorized this
statement:
"Information has been received
from London that the British armed
merchant cruiser Moldavia has been
sunk and 56 of the American soldiers
aboard are missing.
"The announcement was made by
the British admiralty.'
NAt a- late hour the department had
no further information to indicate
what American units were on board
the vessel. Many men are in train
ing in England and it is possible that
the Moldavia was carrying a contin
gent bound for the front.
THE GOVERNMENT OF COSTA
RICA WILL WAR ON GERMANY
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. The
government of Costa Rica has declar
ed war on the central powers, accord
ing to advices received here.
The declaration of war by Costa
Rica on the central powers brings the
total number- of nations aligned
against Germany up to 21. All of the j
central American states now nave
clearly defined their attitude toward
the war. Panama, Nicaragua and Gua-
temala have become belligerents.
Honduras has severed . diplomatic re-j
lations with Germany while San Sal-1
vador has remained neutral, explain
ing that this neutrality is friendly to
the United States.
The government of Costa Rica,
headed by President Tinoco, has never
been recognized by the United States.
It came into pejwer after the deposi
tion of President Gonzales, in Janu
ary, 1917. In an effort to otjtain
recognition, the Costa Rican govern
ment sent an envoy to Washington,
last July, but was not received at the
state department. Major E. J. Hale
of Fayetteville, N. C, is American
minister to Costa Rica.
CONTRACTS ARE LET FOR
TWO PICRIC ACID PLANTI
Washington. The war department
announced that contracts had been let
by the ordnance department for the
establishment of two picric acid
plants, one to cost $7,000,000 and be
located at Brunswick, Ga., and the
other to cost $4,000,000 to be located
at Little Rock, Ark. Contracts for
the plants have been let. Sites we:
chosen in the south, the statemer.i
says, after careful investigation c
housing, labor and transportation.
SECRETARY BAKER WILLING IF A
PRACTICAL PPLAN CAN BE
ARRANGED.
Ill BE 110 SPECIAL DEPUTIES
The Department of Justice Consider
Force of Webb Bill Sufficient to
Ferret Out Desertion ,
, Special from Washington. J
terence between Hon. Thomay
ren, chairman of the He.va.ocjf
executive committee, Secrevr
Navy Daniels, Senator SimcJ
Senator Overman relative to
dier and sailor vote is seemins:
ductive of resulast. Secretary of Wai
Newton Baker has reopened the ques-1
tion and gives out this Interview: '
"The question, of having 'the sol
diers vote is a difficult one," the sec
retary said, "but everybody is anxious
to have it done if possible. You know,
with the soldiers in this country w
made a rule that wherever a state had
provided the machinery for taking ths i
vote, we would help all we could to
facilitate the operation of that ma-f
chinery. The war department obvJ
ously cannot take the responsibility t&-
taking, collecting and returning the
votes. If it is possible for us to -work
out a plan by which we can facilitate
the state doing it through their own
agencies, of their own creation w.
would be very happy to do it. 1
states provide machinery whichi
practicable and can be worked we wil
do our utmost to enable them to work
it. If some plans are practicable and
some impracticable we will not pun
ish those states whose plans are prac
tical because of the impracticability.
of, others.
"If it is possible to work out a plan
It will apply to the American expedi
tionary force."
Webb Force Considered Ample.
The department of justice has ab
doned its contemplated plans of
signing a special (fep"Ct tJer?
V
evaders of the selective draft law in
Mitchell county, North Carolina. The
force of United States Marshal Char
lie Webb of Asheville is considered
sufficient to cope with the situation.
However, the department has under '
consideration plans for detailing at
special officer to western North Caro-
lina to capture young men in Mitchell I
couuty that have fled to mountain
haunts in eluding war duty.
The war department recently issued
a letter to Senator Lee S. Overman oi
if they would voluntarily surrender to
authorities. A letter from ex-Lieutenant
Oovernor W. C. Newland , had
placed the blame for their desertion to
a more enlightened public that had in
cited rebellion to the selective draft
act. He said they Vould make tie
flnaaf 4vra dfc-T rli'oro whAn rr fV iV'
duties were clearly explained to the!
The war department said the gveaAb
offenders who knowing the righl'j
course had preached disloyaJty to a
less enlightened people. .
Wants Many Workers.
Special from Washington. W. W.
Neal, a hosiery manufacturer of Mar
ion, McDowell county, Is here seeking"
government co-operation from the de
partment of labor in supplying a short
age of flfty i00pers and knitters In his
ractory. He is manufacturing socks
for the and the labor agencies
win likeIy render him assistance. The
trafflc conditi0ns are so congested that
he ig forced to obtaln a speclal permit
frm .ljlrnd admlnUtrBtimi h.-
fore the government orders can be
moved. Mr. Neal left Washington for
Philadelphia where he will attend a
three-day session of the manufictufC
ers of hosiery and underwear of the
United States. He will visit Atlantic
City and New York while north.
Soldier's Head Crushed.
High Point. Ernest Marsh, a mem
ber of the 113th Field Artillery, sta
tioned at Camp Sevier, "was picked u
near Jamestown with a crushed skull'
and brought to the hospital here. ,
Dealers and Producers In Session
Charlotte. Discussion of tne gov
ernment attitude tow
f.?---,Athe cotyfiy--
4 nny, di-
seed industry by Geor
rector of the cottori
the Federal food Y
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