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it EASED UPON SIXTEEN WKIKl]
OF INTEN8E TRAINING
WORK.
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W*rk Will Be Varied With Lecturee
by American and Allied Officers 1
Who Are ?x parte in Modern War
fare Tactics.
Washiggton. ? Tr&iDing work map
- ^?d out by the war department for
actional guard and national army <U
riaions before tbey wifl be retarded
aa ready for daty abroad la based
OS a 15- week coarse of the most in
(onalre kind of work in" the open,
Wtffec with lectures by American and
aBifr officer*, . who.: are experts in
modern warfare. . he schedules have
been announced.
Great stress is laid upon tha ne
cessity for night training. Trench
raiding, scouting, trench building and
operations of all kinds which may be
called for in actual combat will be
duplicated at the campe through the
? night hours. To gtre tha men some
respite, their Wednesday and Satur
day afternoons will be kept free, ez>
mpl in the case of backward indlTi
duais or units. Target. praactice runs;
through the entire course and the
schedules call for 40. hours' training
aach week. '?-,*1
A striking feature of tha program
la tha fact that practically the entire
M weeks will be devoted to training
indiriduale. platoons and companies. [
Brigade, di>ia|eaal and eran rag*
tal exercises are reserved for a
.v. of each company tha re
sponsibility for training of Mas than
company units, so that they may get
in close toach with their men.
lUgid requirement is made that of
ficers be present with their commands
at all drflls. Hie whole system it
to be prepared in advance so that
aach ofieer and mail will know Just
the work to be done during the day
aad night before him.
Mew .elements wilt be injected irfto
the training each week. The lecture
program with graphic illustrations
will show all that three years of war
hare brought of gas attack, of bomb
ing aad ?f bayonet work. First aid
instrwtino holds a high place for
wounded soldiers today must depend
largely on themselves.
: At regular intervals review courses
will be given and a program of test
courses to determine the. proficiency
of each man tn each phase of his
work has been devised which will
give a perfect line npon every sol
dier's ability and be the stepping
atone of promotion.
COAL MINERS WIN FIGHT
FOR INCREASE IN WAQE8
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Operator*' and Miners' Represent*
three Reach Agreement on Terms
of New Contract
Washington. ? Bituminous coal min
ers of the central competitive field who
their light for a general wage in
crease when, operators' and miners' I
repfcaentathres in conference here
reached a compromise- agreement on
the terms of a new contract ' The
agreement pressagns a wage raise!
throughont the industry sine* the cen
tral field scale serves aa a basis for
all other districts and a consequent
advance in the government's fixed
price for coal. *
Operators' representatives agreed
to the new wagee no condttioh that I
they be absorbed in higher coal prsceeJ
After the agreement drawn by a sub
committee, is ratified by the foil con- 1
ference, they will go to the fuel ad
ministration and ask a revision up
ward of present coal prices to meet
-the raise. The wage increase, accord-]
ing to operators' estimates, will add
from W to CO cents a'ton to the cost
of producing coal in thick vein mines
REVOLT AGAINST MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT IS STARTED
Brownsville, Texas. ? A revolt
againafthe Mexictn government has
been started by Gen. Porflrio Gonzales,
former Ceiranza commander, 7ho has
mobilized *00 folocren at Aldamas, |
near the Nuevo Leon-TeTmauHpas .
line, 150 miles west of Matamoras, j
cording to resorts reaching harei Akh>i
mas is 100 miles south- of Roma, Tex.
&n trains out of Matamoras, ad
April it has placed at the disposal of I
the administration seventeen billions
of dollars and has authorized con
tracts fOr almost two and a half bfl
lions more. Most of the money was
for war purposes, including seven bH
Oeos for loans to the Allies. The ap
propriations committees, through
chairmen, Senator Martin and Repre
sentative Fitzgerald, made the figures
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Hm QsHas Hut Dees Kot Affect the toad
Because ol its tonic and laxative effect. LAX A
TiVB aROMCM0PXK?B is better than ordinary
riaytoc ta head: BemcaSn^fhiU^ me and
Mt&tti sigMtar* oi E. W. GKOVK. 30c.
stcary of the logw
to Uie Ca^utiH:
ent ctuir*<*tenL In ''Rlp Van W
ab!? vagabond In tbe master!/
que what Joe Jefferson wu to
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With The
LAST DAY OCCUPIED IN D|nM
and criticism of ua
.
follctte.
mildly censoring
Mb o t Alabama .tor
sembers In connec
ts 'BgrastortTrlte
!> furttoh tandf to
any claim that
m ja' -^r ?
mm& Month, pa
Largest of Kind In History of t
the immedl^e
Ut meet
R^Wiihln lesf thto/three rahinteg the
senile 'StWp&d ' the conference ' re
>t?, hf J ,,,i We.Tih.-ktff.ir
proprtatk&'biH caffi^^- $7,767,434,410
in cash and authorised contTacis. To
morrow the house is expeted to adopt
It |fc? sen(?W ^ Preeldsht Wilson,
r The measure la said to be the great
est of the kind In the hiatory of any
JtS i^S
and Mfe through the senate in record
breaking time without the formality
for which the Wse had voted $35,
006,000 and th? senate $413,000,000,
the conference substituted $875,000,
000. For regular quartermaster sop.
plies, $116,000,000 was agreed to after
the house had voted for $100,000,000
and, the Mnate $168,000, 000.:.;- ^ ";
Probably the largest appropriation
in -the* bill Is for the ordnance depart
ment of the *rmy, which gets $095;
100,000 for purchase, manufacture
and teat of mountain, siege and field
cannon, and $225,000,000 more, or con
tract obligations authorisation, to
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; T^ct? obligations
> autlwrtsed for amiwtalfcicifc :
Provision f? Inserted Whloh Raises
Major General Pershing and Major
General Qiies t& the Rank of Gsn.
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Washington.? With the 110,000 max
imum insurance plan restored, as
urged fiyihe adn^nistrationand'with
an addition provision raising Major
General-. Pershing, commanding, the
American forces- to France, and Major
-General Bliss, chief of staff; to the
ctnk ofi. general, the soldiers' ft*}** sail
o.-siilnsurance bili/joarrying-air appro
priation of $176,000,000^ was passed
By the senate by a vote of 71 to 0.
An amendment by Senator Smoot,
adopted, 37 to 33, provides that- $25 a
nxwth shall bepaid widows of Civil
War and BpaniSh-Amettcan war vet
erans as welTgSrto 4he widows of men
who may bo killed in the present war.
*fei*. w31 mean-aa increased cost to
the government of $3,500,000 annually
and an advance t?$16 a month to
4,141 Spanish war wldowa Uhd. $5 a
month" to <3,644 Civil War widows.
* Other ^amendments offlared by the
Utah annate? atrtfioristog thebureau
the army and niavy nurse corps. Un*l
Ser the bai aait howjtjmds a Tfldow !
woold;. Receive $26 a month, compared
fa $si\>3*ed by the house, while; a*
widow with two , children would re
calve $47.69, a reduction of $6. . The
other auctions ?f the house bill were
accented with only minor changes with
the exception of the Insurance section
?which permits * soldier norr not. later
than five" years after the war ends to
convert his life insurance without med
ical examination Into any other form
of insurance he may request
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REPRESENTATIVES FROM TSN
SOUTH KRN STAT 18 FIX PRiCI
FOR STAPLE.
Meeting of Thoee Interested In Grew
ln? and Marketing Held in New 0*
leaner-Many Delegates Advocated
Prioea of 88 to 42 CentK
New Orleans.? A price of 80 cents *
pound to the farmer was agreed tipon
at a meeting here late of men in
terested In marketing and growing ot
cotton in 10 Soathern states as bein;t ?
Justified by the present selling prices
. of mafiufatcured cotton products. The
price was suggested in an amendment
to a resolution adopted itfTprerlouaif
which declared against price regula
tion of cotton by Congress or delegat
ing of this authority to any olher
body.
Although the amendment, intro
duced by L. B. Jackson, director ol
the Georgia bureau of markets, met
with some opposition, It was recog
nised as a compromise and was al
most unanimously adopted. Unsuc
cessful efforts to have the amendment
read 35 instead of 30 cents were made
by B. W. Da'jbs of tfayesville, S. C.,
and other leaders is the morement to
secure a 30-cent minimum.
Resolutions also were .adopted en- .
dorsing the movement f?\ have baleu
of cotton standardised throughout the
cotton -belt' by mating them of the; ^
uniform size of 54 inches long >y 27
inches wlds. ? ?Yi'-f&i
While many of Old delegates advo^,
cated holding of cotton for mini- .
mum prices ranging from 80 jo 42
cents, gennal' sentiment -Was against
such acWtafci Addressee by Senator-*'
Ransdell, State Food AdmlniftS^H
Earke^ and WiHiam JB-J?ompwn
Petrograd.? Eight thousand soldfc
at Gomel/in the province of Mobile
after a meeting, refused to go to tJ
front, says a telegram from Com
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