IT REACHES
NO. '22
(Signed) "WOODROW W1LSOX. t
' "By the President,
(Stgsod) "ROBERT LANSING,
? "Secretary o ? State.''
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TTtADINQ WITH THE ENEMSY ACT
? IS TOT WTO OPERATION
APPEAL COMES FROM WHITS
HOUSE FOR LIBERTY LOAN
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
URGE PEOPLE 1 ASSEMBLE
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President Makes Stirring Appeal for
People to Pledge to Support Govern
ment ? Special Word to Subscrip
tion Workers.
Washington.
behalf of the liberty
proclamation setting
as liberty day and
oi the nation
In their
"pledge to one
ernment
est
The
lows:
"By the Preeident of the Vnlted
States of America, a proelm&tioa:
"The second liberty loan gives the
people of the United Staets another
opportunty to lend theier funds to their,
government to sustain their . country
at war. The might of the United
States 1b being mobilized and organis
ed to strike a mortal blow at autocra
cy in defense ef outraged American
rights and of Che cause of liberty.
Billions of dollars are required to
arm, feed and clothe the brave men
who are going forth to light oar coun
try's, battles and to assist the nstions
with whom we are maktng common
cause against a common foe. To sub
scribe to the liberty loan is to perform
a service of patriotism.
"Now. therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son. Pitsident of the United States of
America, do appoint Wednesday, the
twenty-fourth of October, as liberty
day, and urge and advise the people
to assemble in their
the empire of our
of what America
bring this war to a victorious conclu j
sien.
Tor the purpose of participating in
liberty, day celebrations all employee
of the federal government through
out the country whos* services eait be
spared, may be excused .at U o'clock.
Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of Oc
tober.
"In witness whereof. I have here-]
unto set my hand sad caused the seal
of the United States to. ha affixed,
i "Done in the District oT Columbia,
this 12th day oC October In t&A year
of our Lord, one thousand nine hun
dred and seventeen and ef the inde
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
u. PRODUCERS' -NAVE CON*
THEfR BEST, GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY ANNOUNCES*
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Due to Inerease In Manufacturing
and T ransportatlon Activity.? Coal
~ Being Mined at Rate Never Equaled
Before.
coal shortage wae admitted by the geo
logical survey*; which attribute* the
situation, not to the iailure at produc
ers, to do their beat, but to the unprec
edented demand. G ..
"The tremendous increase Jn manu
facturing and ; transportation activity
this year," said * statement issued
today, "has created a demand tor soft
coal in excess of any in the past, an
increase ia demand tha^. is difficult
to measure in terms bt ions, but that
is certainly more than tlie. 10 per cent
by which the production has increased.
To meet this demand the operators
hare been mining coal at a late never
before equalled."
A serious "coal shortage exists in
Ohio, fuel administration' officials' were
told by a delegation of consumers
headed by Attorney General McGhee,
who" came to Washington to protest
against lifting the embargo on coal
shipments to Canada, of 200 towns
in the state reporting oof? than 100,
tile delegation declared, are entirely
without coal and are unable to obtain
supplies because virtually all coal min
ed in the state is going thruogh lake
ports in the northwest and Canada.
The people of the state, spokesmen
for the delegation said, are suffering
and cannot watt until the northwest
Is supplied under the fuel administra
tion's priority order befcre ,5*ying In
winter stocks. Mayors of some towns
have seized carloads of coal en route
to the lakes afid have apportioned ft
ota or roans wtu oe supplied m me
same fashion the final intention is
to distribute coal amour domestic
users and industries where It Is most
essential. r.
Ooa! prices in some districts ol
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia
were raised by the fuel adminlstr*
tion after it was shown operators
could not mine coal at a profit at the
prices fixed recently.
LEGAL OBSTACLE OF AERIAL
PROGRAM 18 CLEARED AWAY
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Washington. ? Legal approval has
beep given the agreement between the
aircraft production board and the Air>'
plane - Manufacturers' * Association,
clearing away a possible serious ob
stacle to the government 4640,000,000
?'? ???** wum'Mi. 4 Attorney' General]
Scnora
(vork of her gifted husband, Senor Jose AiMfcmi
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With The Chautauqua Coming to Fi
FEW DISPATCHES HAVE ? CftEAT
ED MORE INTBRE8T IN QFFI
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CIAL WA8HIN0T0N.
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Indicate* That Iron Diacipilip* oT-Ger
man Military System Might Be Los
ing rta Hold^-Oec?ninfl Morale'-to
Noted by AHUf*
& WaaMiigtoii<-^^i*pRtdwi
the war began have wore In
iaai^^^E iMiP.
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powers have
>ct the purposes . of said act to
the" Importation, manufacture,
and distribution of: necessa
the extant htteteafter.ipitf:
and associations engaged in the busl
ness either of - operating cold
storage-warehouses <?3pcold storage
n^ho^ae, for the purpose' of ^gp;
s
sd- to -.or below a temperature "of 48
degrees. Fahrenheit, In ' which food
tfptocts are placed and held : far j?
Saya Or fuww; ?). operating ekrra
: tors, warehouses or otter places , for
3 torage of oats, bailey, bbans,
cice* cottonseed, cottonseed cake, cot
tonseed meal or peanut meal-- or (3)
^manufacturing (Including
^WP^pfi^D?^>.or packl??fc or dis
^tribuilng ^iFKfl'Jdlng buying or selling)
*ns~# <th?, following commodities:
?Vn*** rye or rye
floury oats, 'oatmeal or rolled- oats;
i^PiiCom grits,*#*** meal, hominy,
<cora flour, starch from com,- corn- oil,
corn syrup or glucose; rice, Tice flour ;
dried beans; pea seed or dried peas;
cottonseed, " cottonseed oil, cottonseed
cake" or cottonseed meal: peanut oil
or peanut meal; soya beim oil; soya
bean itoeal, pahn oil or copra oil;
oleomargarine, lard, lard substitutes,
oleo oils or cookingfatj; milk, butter
or- cheese; condenaec, powderetJ>pr
evaporated mii} .'fireah, . .canned or
cured. beef, pork or mutton; poultry
or eggs; freah or frozen fish; fresh
fruits or vegetable; canned peas;
dried- -beans, tomatoes, corn, salmon,
or safdlnes; dried prunes, apples,
peaches or raisins; sugar, syrups or
molasses." '
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COLONEL HOUSE IS A
VI8ITOE AT WHITE HOU8B
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~ Washington? Systematic collection
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of economic,, historical, political and
other Information on European cOfr
!igIborC.d ; toamy?top
;t?. -mre -!8 quite
ir's houses, stables,
tract will hayc#
ere and wholesale dealers and retail
ere doing a baseness of more thin
$100,000 annually In the commodities
to-be named. V ''A
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Mr. McAdoo is now speaking dally ]
In the interest of second Liberty loan.
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CONTROL ALL
THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION AN
N0UNCE8 PRESIDENT WILL l&
8UE EXECUTIVE ORDER. '
Wilson's Order Will Prescribe Redo
lation* Under Which Some 80 Fun
damental Foods Will Be Manufsc
tured and Sold.
Washington.? Virtually all the sta
ple food consumed %by the American
people will be put under government
control November 1.
. The food administration announced
that wlthia a few days President Wil
MB will issue an executive order re
quiring that mani* ' * "
mental
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Issuance of /he President's procla
mation has be?& delayed, tbe^ an
nouncement said, that the food ad
ministration might complete confer
ences with representatives of trades
and producers and Consumers.
"It has been the desire ol' the food
administration," the announcement
continued, "to secure the co-operation
of all patriotic men in the various
trades so as to eliminate speculation,
hoarding, unreasonable profits, waste
ful practices, etc., in the great distri
bution system of" the oountry.
"The feod administration has se
lected about 20 basic commodities,
and .their products as forming the
prime basis of life, and has limited its
licensing control to the commodities,
?OA -also, in so far as practicable,
eliminated the smallest units ofTrasi
ness in these staples.
"It is the purpose of the tpod ad
ministration to effect conservation In
the commercial use of these commod
ities, and to keep tfiem owing to
ward the .consumer In dlr*# lines
through the channels of trade in as
economical a manners possible, Toe
administration does not wish to di*
turb the .noraal artivities, of business
and no business factor.;pe.*fonning a
oselS^fcinctioa ^.'wlll Je 'expetced to
surrender that function. : V
"The proclamation will require ail
of those handling the commodities
concerned to apply for license before
jfcnrember .1, upon .forms whi$h will
^supplied on>p*iication to the food
?flmfatfsttmtjton. *. >
GERMANY'S MILITARY STRENGTH
SHOWS MARKEDDECREASE
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any's .military
blear^Bcreaae
. the war began
>ased upon data
?taff maffepub
strength now. sb<
for the 'first time
according to
.of,the:Ffench ge>
Ing heavily
in the -east
IILDJNG PROGRAM
-B* FIXED
OR
616 DEFICIENCY IS EXISTINB
National Army Divisions Formed Out
Of First. Increment Are All Short of
> Quota? Doom for Regiment at Each
Cantonment.
Washington. ? Discussion of the ad
visability of expediting the call for
the second increment of the draft army
now is In progress at *he war depart
ment and it appears likely that the
date may be fixed 'lor some time in De
cember or January.
Mobilization of the first increment
-of 687,000 men is now ear .enough ad
vanced to show dearly that there will
be a big deficiency for the 17 national
army divisions. More than 250,000 ol
the first Increment Are stiL to be as
sembled, bat it already is evident thai
there will be available at the 16 can
tonmeuttf quarters for an additional
regiment at each. post and at some
for a full brlgadeof two regiments.
The strength of the new regimental
organization is 8,600 men. With a
regiment lacking at each cantonment,
t^is alone would mean a shortage of
nearly 60,000 men. In addition, there
has been authorised a separate divi
sion of negro troops, which means
nearly 30,000 men withdrawn from the
original number assigned to the 16
cantonments.
{ The shortage la due partially to the
necessity of taking out of the national
army men to fill up national guard di
visions. .Two complete national divi
sions of southern troops have been
absorbed In this way. The remnants
of three other southern national army .
divisions will be consolidated to form
a single divisional unit, and the sur
plus men from other camps will be
sent south to make up tiie missing .
dirteioqp;- . , ? . f
Drafts on th** national* army fOWft ?
cal service will tdn nearly as many
more though not aS of them will be
taken from the national army. '
HAIG'S ATTACK CHCCKIO
BY DELUaC OP RAIN
Already 8wampy Region Converted
into Quagmire.
For the first time since' he started
his series of attacks against the Ger
man positions in Flanders, Field Mar
shal Halg has had to cease an opera
tion before all the objectives were at
tained. It was not the German guns"
however, that stopped the British. It
was a mora than usually heavy rainfall
which started during the battle and
turned the already swamp region over
wfaieh the. men ware supposed* to pass
into a veritable quagmire from which
they couM not untrack themselves for
a forward move.
The drive, as. has been customry
in HaJg'o strategy waa started In the
early hours of Friday morning and
extended from near the Houtholst
wood to Mow the - Yprea-Menln road.
At several points the British troops
sncceeded in gaining ground over
fronts ranging up to a thousand yards
but here the rain lntevened and the
fighting ceased for the day.
The struggle was particularly bit
te rto the north of PoelcapeUe and
arpund Fass&chendaele. In the lat
ter region the Germans apparently
have massed their strongest array of
troops, hopeful of being able to stay
* further press forward by the British
toward the Ostend-Llle railroad. ,
The Germans were expecting the
battle for several hours prior to the
signal for the British to attack they
laid down a heavy barrage fire all
along the line. Interspersing the "Tain
of steel and explosive sheela wlt? as
phyxiating gaa . bombe.
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iAST St. LOUIS
MEMBERS CONVICTED
Belleville, 111.? Herbert Wood and
Leo Kerne were fotm^ fullty of the
mnrder Of Scott Clark, a negro, who
died as a result of Injuries received
In the recent race Hots In East St
Louis, ^and the penalty was fixed at
14 years* .imprisonment. Wood and
Keene were the first white men to be
tried on charges growing out of the
face riot Ten negroid? were found
guilty last Sunday, and each wtfc
POLITICAL SPEAKERS
; $flMK
Washington. ? Citizen soldlert In the
national arm^ training cantonments
w?l not hare to fowgo the privilege