North Carolina Newspapers

J .THE WEATHER FORECAST North and South Carolina: Fair Sunday and Monday. THREE SECTIONS. FULL LEASED WIRE' SERVICE ' - - . f ' ' .' : ' , if-. ; :j . . . i. , ' w. u : - - t 1 1. 1 . XXIII. NO. 300 DESPERATE;. RA GES Crown Prince Hurls Masses of Men in Furious Effort to Take Lost Position. HXND-TO-HAND CLASH y OF TERRIFIC NATURE rr " r: I ;flUicl Fire, Bomb . and Bay onet All Add to the Slaugh fr and Horror Canadians Qrive Germans Back Time d lime gam wun an1 j-jeavy Losses. ;By William Philip Simms, United . wifh the British armies in the field, . Press own w. . "-f-I'IITlJY fi . o The Crown Prince has or 70 h;H r,etn? at aU C08tS t0 iTo be Taken-Up For Relief of .,vp the city of L.ena. .,Vi- t-i i- t l a 11. , Pat tVia nrrtpr is thp min- 1 ,, "z of the blood of men from every' Kom of the German empire on ,ini or this iuuuiiu ui ucttm. The e-anadians-are- beating -them tn fresh from the gory work m'p today they had never used their bayonets to such extent as they vavp on Hill TO. ' Sixteen counter-attacks have been made arainst the newly won positions JJ the British since Thursday. The I hting has been hand to hand with, bayonets, knives, clubbed rifles and hare fists. It is the heaviest, continued ''"se ...... tipiitine of the war. Evc counter-attack by the Ger- j jucceedin the one preceding it ; the pouring 0ine. march across the open field with Cana. Hinn .nrtillery and machine guns tear ing the ranks to pieces ai every sip. Still they come on. They push for ward over the bodies of victims of pre vious attacks. Then bitter man-toman struggle and the German surviv ors roll back clown the slip. More than four German divisions have been used up in this fighting. They include the crack Prussian guards (a German division is usually computed at $20,000.) . j The advance of the guards across the valley and the slope, in which they were prac.icaliy wipfd .out, Rival led the famous - charge -the Light Brigade, the immortal si; hundred;-o British history. - ' Their mission was almost as hops less. Yet they came four abreast across the valley of death, sweeping forward to destruction in. the deadly fire of British guns. The city, which the British must yet capture from (heir dominating heights aboi Lens, is one of conorete. Ba neaffi the city representing the former thriving: industrial center of France 13 another veritable solid rocw construct ed by the enemy. All means of ingress and egress to the city are seventy feet under ground. The whole region is burrowed HKe a rabbit warren, and it is such defenses as these that the British must blast away. Fighting With Liquid Fire. London. Aug. 18 With liquid fire, bomb and bayonet and the weight of massed divisions pressing forward in repeated assaults, the Germans con tinued their efforts today to wrest from the British the conquered posi Jions dominating approaches ; to the coal city of Lens. . Fo rthe third day the staunch Cana dians, holding Hill 70 and other posi tions east and north of the town, suc cessfully resisted every attack. The Germans were driven back with heavy losses inflicted by British guns, vhich swept their lines with a deadly fire. In reporting to the war office to night. Feld Marsh"! Haig told of these assaults against the British positions. Fighting has died down in Flanders, but the slopes about the outskirts of Lens bid fair to become all but as bloody as the hills of Verdon, as Crown Prince Ruppecht drives his legions on. I nthe meantime terrific warfare is being waged in the air. Twelve hos le aeroplanes were reported brought .tojown in Haig'sj-eport tonight, while enemy planes were driven to earth "evorul control. Twelve British machines are miss- The operations in the air have Jeen carried on in spite of a gale thai as swep the battlefield from the west. nriton aviators, however, have cross-' Ja the German lines, bombing and turning iheir machine guns on Gar aJ infantry. They hav made re peated raids, carried on thair ol-ser-jon work and generally played a fading ,oi,. in the fighting tank ' ot Ii00s an enem? counter -at-loss Wu: (1,ivon bck with haavy anri S ln disord(1i' by our barrage fire u manno guns at short ranges." Hell Mn,...l,l ri... I. j. tonight 1 riill&s report saiu anon,th" noihborhood of Hugo wood, sunnnT countf'r-attack failed though puortod by fiammenwerfer (liquid "I quipfor'10 rr'8ion of Ypres arti,lery,. Is "A our m'rV- wind yesterday told against mobino y' in aeriaI operations, but tnemir'r r-:'u!H and narrassing ot the Obgorvn i 'n 1 1 ry continued actively and .. ,,s Wf're carried out all day Photo,. ,n'Usuay large numbe- of '8ainV'!l 5 wertaken. Two of our tyhjip ."''''"nes collided." front Wf!nran,ry actions on the French cation 'l,)atod today there were Great !! a renewal of activity, from Pa;. '"'drying was announced ibut vJL by the war office tonight 'Sand !"c' on the Californie pla. and 0,1 both sides of the Meuse. 9 - ABOUT- LENS ADMIHISTRATIDN RUSHING FORIBD WAR PREPARATIONS President Actively Supervis- ing borne Branches. of the Most Important Work rr A I F f ctd I ii 1 ttiam THE FIRST MEASURE 1 ne ruDiic--r ssemDiing 'Troops For France ; Bond. Issue Preparations . (By United Press.) Washington, Aug. 18. President Wilson today turned . his shoulder di rectly to the government war wheels. War preparation gained momentum and peace talk, waned as the Presi-I dent worked. He called at the Hoover commission, at the Federal trade commission. Department of Justice and the priority board of the Nation al Defence Council. Immediately afterward it was learn ed the President early next week will direct prrority shipments of coal to wni.",,,Ari tha ommission to direct prices and distribution of coal from all mines to the consumer. The Justice Department began the preparation of briefs to defend the constitutionality of the draft law. It is planned to move that cases brought against the act be dismissed the first day the Supreme, Court works after meeting October 3. Hoover announced a Nortb Amertagai,nst; conditions in Palestine. .A can shortage of 400,000000 bushels of wheat in supplies heeded by "the Allies this year and urged that, one pound per week of some other cereal be ; substituted for wheat by every person In the Understates;" - The exports , council decided to ; add cotton to the list of products' subject to license before export. - Congress will be asked to direct that all 3 per cent. Liberty bonds be converted into 4 per cent, bonds when' the new loan is issued. This is done because the proposed surtax on the new bonds would increase the prem ium of the old bonds. Another week . of war, featured by the Pope's spectacular bid for peace j long illness at her apartment in the showed tremendous net results. Two 'library. . , . divisions of troops are being whipped J, Miss Coffin went to 'the library af into shape for immediate service in;ter a service as professional nurse in France. A regiment of marines is to be sent for training in Cuba. Plans have been completed by railroads and th War DeDartment for mobilizing the first 687,000 troops in the national armv. Guard forces will De raovea. South to training camps within the next ten days. The Senate moved rapidly along in eliminating from discussion features of' the $2,000,000,000 revenue bill toj which there is no opposition. The House Ways and Means committee j discussed the proposed $7,538,945,000 1 bond issue to take up' the Liberty is sue and float $4,000,000,000 additional. AMERICANS AT FRONT SEE REAL WARFARE (By United Press.) American Field Headquarters, Aug. 18. The glare of real war that sud denly broke over a sham battle the American troops were engaged in last night whetted their ., appetites for ac tion more than, ever toaay. The Americans were engaged in 1, nractice. firinsr rockets, and generally working out the problems of modern warfare in darkness when. the horizon suddenly glared red. uun kashesy could be seen. From the dis tance could be beard tne rum Die 01 artillery. The battle on tne line aiong. which the French and Germans have, been continuing for 3 years was under way in all all of its intensity. ' Far away- search lights could ' be seen flashing in the sky, the long fing ers of the light probing the darkness. Hundreds of signal rockets and star shells could be . seen mounting - and oursuue m.uie uu.; . sale," shipment, .distribution, appor- smoke of bursting shrapnel was yis- tIcHjnent or st0rage thereof among ible in the glare, and over all was the deilerg and consumers, domestic or sullen rumble of heavy guns. ! foreign " ' ,When ttie war practice was finished,. . & ' , J .... . , the'Aincrican soldier flocked to hn1; Commandeering of their mines fac SpilSnre they viewed the spectacl es any coal - operators resisting this to better advantage. : control; - v , : . Or the President, under the law, ' " may "require any or all producers of ; f al r and ,coke to sqll their products V "VIGILANTES' BUSY IN NEW V lalyVto the United States through an YORK. si agohcy he designates, Which -will reg- - , " -' ulate -the re-sale,1 priceS, production, v. - TTnUhf' Pi-fiss?!? idisiributiom New . York, ; Aug. ; 18 Hot -X- times were in prospect In New t York tonight when squads of the district twhere ' curb orators -5s -X- were talking.- ' . -55- . The "Constitutionalists," sup- f porting free speech, : had short -X-1 hand reporters at every meeting,' 4f , 4 to make-records of wnat transpir- ( rX- '"vigilantes organized to demana country for definite action, tneJresi & arrest Of street speakers uttering dent decided' to step; in. His orders -X- treason, , sallied fortn to palroL 4fj W'H jset at tost all .uncertainty over AVILMINGTON; NORTH VflA T TTTf A ITALY NOW BEARS MANY DIFFERENT Divergent : Reports Reach Rome as to Germany's Po sition. POPE TO PROTEST ABOUT PALESTINE PontifF Deplores Crimes Being t r'nmmiHAlJ . kl? TVio Tin-Ire ' 1 . m r Will Cmnnr Do? (By John H. Hurley, United Press Staff Correspondent); '. Romer, , Aug. 18.Looking toward Germany for first response to the PEACE REPORTS f ope s peace appeal, Italian circles re-i - , "?,"rr - near Columbia, was lodged tonight ceived widely divergent reports today ,orous Proaecution Bfthe war until with the Secretary of War by Gov as to action Berlin may take. . - Prussian militarism., is destroyed' ernor Maimin; of South Carolina The A dispatch to the Idea Nazionalewas urged tonight by the League to declared that Germany intends to pro claim Alsace-Lorraine an autonomous confederacy, as a precaution against tive. The conditions oui::u,i oy the Pontiff which would result in the .re turn of Alsace to France are vigorous ly opposed. ... On the other hand, earlier reports were that Germany had assured the Vatican of her moral support-in the peace . move and that Austria had of fered to open negotiations. . . A solemn protest is said to be in course of preparations bv the PoDe Buui-ujuiai oLtiit-iiiciiL utruicii lit; nets been informed that the inhabitants have been starved 4 and massacred by the Turks. Houses have been pillag ed and . women and girls carried -off ta.harauiArConstantJinople, died after long And fine service (Special to TJie Dispatch.) Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 18. Miss Jennie- .Coffin, librarian of the "' Olivie Raney Library since its organization sixteen years ago, died today, after St Mary's school. Since taking the library work she had been in steady service until . two months ago. Her death had been expected every day. 1 She was a native of Salisbury and ' was Dorn bz years ago., une sis- ter, Mrs', Sallie Coffin Taylor, sur vives. The funeral' takes place Sun day morning from Christ church. FOR CHEAPER GOAL President to Take Action This Week Which Will Bring This About. ' (By United Press.) Washington, August, 18 President Wilson; next Monday or Tuesday will Order governments control over coal distribution and coal prices. Lower coal prices to American homes are certain. The revolutionary action by this' government will fix. coal prices from the mine to the consumer and decide who shall have priority is ex- pected to be taken in the following manner: ; " Under the Pomerene amendment to the food control law, the President may Clothe the Federal trade commis sion with powers "to fix the price of coal ' and coke, regulate production, c T cbal operators failing to adjust vthe iuatibu,; voluntarily or to satisfy the? g'-owing demand throughput the prices, which has caused dealers,, fac .tories anJ public utilities to delay put ting in coal reserves. -. r - The ; law vprovidesV that "in fixing maximum pr'coU for - producers i the commission : 'vHi ! row-; the cost of just and? reasonable profit'siim-m CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19i19l7.J . rv ' e mm rm mm mm mm v r , . ,- i , . i - ' . ... v . ' REFUSAL DRAWING GOLOR THE ALTERNATIVE "'.h r r r n LINE AT CAMP; EIN; fiERlNy 1 t -III LS I I - ! R nTnnun iinir v nw m 1 irn inTiAn Vigorous Protest to Accepting ' Pope Benedict s , ; Proposal x . - j RESOLUTION SENT PRESIDENT WILSON League Declares No Peace Without Abolition; of Prui sian - Military" Autocracy -Met in New York. 1 , r: i:;;' (Br United? Press.)" ; New4. York, Aug". .IS.Rejection of tt , . - - jcvuuu .t Enforce Peac. This sentiment was embodied in a resolution telegraphed to President Wilson. ' : : v ' ; ' Among those participating in the debate prpceding passage of the reso- lution were President s Lowell, of Har- vard; Dr. Wm. F.: G," Slocum, presi- dent emeritus of Colorado .College; Johri H. Fahey, of Boston; Lavern W. - Noyes, Chicago and John B. Finley, of Baltimore. The resolution said the Pope's sup- North Carolina, South' Carolina and port of a league of naUons to enforce Florida at Camp Jackson, at i Colum TOO ,i,i aa 'bia. It is essential that negroesand peace, was welcome,, but adds thatlPorto Ricang ?hould not bemobilized such a league can be made effective ( at same camp ? with whites. I wish to only by abolition, of the "Prussian mil' protest to yoq.; in person Tuesday itary; autocracy at .whatever cost."' AFTER HKSCXt""- THINKS SEC. DANIELS ! (By United Prjss.) 1 - (By UnUed Tress.) Washington, Aug. 18. Secretary off Washington, Aug. 18. The Depart fhe Navv Daniels belinves th Mavv ment-of Justice is . preparing for a League is out to "get" him. He intimated this to callers today, following his order proscribing league On the opening- clay of the Supreme members from United States naval Court's fall session, Oct. 13, the gov vessels and stations because of the ernment , will probably move to dis league's personal attack on him in niiss the cases. . connection with the Mare Island ex- The government's brief is already plosion. ' s j being drawn, it was learned officially Navy4 Leaguers sr;v Daniels will .today. The absence of specific au- have to recall many naval officers, members of the league, from sea duty if his order sticks. Daniels revised his ban on leaguers' ment's legal sharps the greatest diffi material contributions to enlisted men culty. This will be met by-.pleading by saying members may send their that the militia lost ; its identity as gifts through Navy Department chan- such when it was sworn into Federal nels. service.1 " ' .'' ' ', ' . - A MLB EXEMPT ALL POLICEMEN Also Firemen, is Request Made on President by Hughes and Others. (By United Press.) New York, Aug. 18 President Wil son is requested to amende the select ive service rules, so local boards will be empowered to exempt firemen and policemen, in resolutions passed by the district exemption boards of New York State, it was announced tonight by Charles E. Hughes, chairman of the New York City board. Hughes wrote to Governor Whitman pointing out the necessity of exempting fire men and policemen in big cities. : . At the , same meeting, the district boards passed a resolution urging the President to detail all medical and dental students and hospital interns, draf ed ito the national army,? to schools where their instruction may be continued, so the army will have a constant supply of competent med ical officers. In this connection an other letter : was sent to' Whitman by Hughes, pointing, out the necessity for more surgeons in tne army ana navy. -X- -X- -K- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- fc ' ' ' ' '"'X -X- DISTRICT EXEMPTION sBOARD MEETS MONDAY. -X- -X- . r- " - " -X- - (Sp'ecial to The Dispatch).- f X-" Goldsboro,v N. C, :Aug. 18. .-X- Tho '1-3trict exemption'; board of -X- Eastern North. Carolina has been -X-called together for 'its firstses X- sioh, to. be held in this city, open- -X-' ing Monday. ' v : ' ' . " -x- . Col. J. D.v Langstori, of. Golds- boro is chairman7 of the board, -X--X- and he stated today that the busi- -X- X- ness awaiting them would prob- -X- in session for longer. '"-'i',';yjH wj,. I A'r? Governor of South Carolina Protests to . the War ' Department. ' SAYS BE DISASTER TO COMMONWEALTH Don't Want; Negroes ' and' Porto Ricahs Trained at Jackson, ; at Columbia. , (ByS United Preas.) Columbia, s. C, Aug. 18 Strong I .nrotesi . nirainsst t mini rt t n ncrm inH 1 t ri ,' " . " , Porto Rican troops at Camp Jackson, Governor also called upon the South Carolina delegation in Congress to unite with , him to "prevent this dis aster to thin State." The members of Congress w;ero asked, in a telegram, to caeet with" the Governor in Wash ington Tuesday mornins: at 10 o'clock iand personally file the protest with the Seretay 6f ar. ; j, "I protest with' all my power," said . the' Governor in ; a . telegram to the Secretarv of War. nWainst i mnhiiin. tion of Porto Rieans and negroes of morning next. PREPARING TOAGET QUICK DECISION .quick clean-up of attacks on the con- stitutionality of the conscription law. fthority in the Federal constitution for sending National Guard troops out of I the United States is giving the Depart- In The Air Fighting won The Flanders Battlefield Allies Steady Advance. (By United Preis.y ; "S London, Aug. 18. The renewed battle of Flanders will enter; its third day Sunday, witlvBritish'-:aridr,rench troops still in possession of ill. posi tions taken in the first t drive, , and with the Germans launching ; vain counter-attacks in efforts to regain them. ' !-' . The battle which burst forth about Lens with- the assault of the Cana dians on the approaches to the coal city will enter it's fifth day, with the same conditions prevailing, Lives have been prodigally sacri ficed by the! Germans in their efforts to regain the lost.groundJ-v.They'ad; mitted today the capture j of Lange mark by the British, after claiming it had been retaken, yesterday. . The bIotipr nf hill 70. near Lens, are thick German rlPad. hut thft Canadians I are grimly holding on about. Lens and the French and British are .slowly making further progress in. Flanders. , The greatest aerial activity in months has marked the " allied offen sive. William Phillip Simms, , United Press staff correspondent -With the British armies, today reported a. total Of 114 German airplanes brought down by the British during the past week. Of this ; number, 62 were destroyed outright. Nineteen German machines were destroyed ' in ' one day, and 20 driven out of control. Additional raids have been made by British navgl planes on military . estab lishments in Belgium,, and a squadron of 111 French aeroplanes.", dropped more than 14 tons of bombs". on" va rious German encampments' and to wh3, . including Frieburg t and ; Bris- gau.'in tne ljucny pi aauen.; th rnnh " wmnrf 7 fiprman 1 ma- - chines and a balloon brought down and 8 other airplanes damaged. Forty ( British and twtf French ma- ; ES In Rejecting ; the Terms of j Peace Proposed by The Pope GRACEFUL SURRENDER 1 OR FIGHT TO A FINISH America's Answer 'to be Thor- oughly Considered Sepa rate Replies to be Made. One Hopeful Sign. r ' (By United Press.) Washington, ; Aug. 18. The coming week probably will witness publica tion of America's position toward the Pope's peace proposal. Secretary of State Lansing, reveal- ing today that the present plan is to have America and her allies answer the proffer separately,xlet it be known emphatically that the note will be thoroughly digested and "given care ful consideration" before the answer goes forth. . That it will be rejection is the conviction of international ex perts. ' : i v-. ' : ; On the other hand there is a strong conviction - among well informed per sons that ' the President may make some : statement which Germany can "take or leave" as a basis for ultimate peace. , , ' v-. :. While studying, the peace- message thoughtfully, the President gave fresh evidence tody that he is heart and soul in pushing the war, successfully, by, visiting many war work branches and .instilling in leaders , a tonch of "npn Vmm th,' anrnc in0t peP. . . From this. : some interoreted the idea that Wilson, perhaps, believes fast work throughout the, nation may I convince ; tlerm9n! Sepf&npp-;tio bacic down ny; the United states -now. Certainly, ;all' departments say, there is more real ; push to the war preparations; than , ever before. The War Department, especially. Is forging ahead, to get as many fighters abroad before winter as possibly can be car ried. ' " ; ,:: , '-7.--- : ., v ' Out of the foreign comment sifting in . here stood ' a hopeful ' sign in v the Vatican organ Corrlere - . Italiaho's statement that the Pope; really desired that Alsace-Lorraine 1 go - back to France, and Trent and ' Trieste to Italy. Such a sblution would remove a vexatious stumbling block now in the peace path. And close examination of .the note shows the Pontiff evi dently was bidding for an independent Poland. ; ' - . - . ' All in all, authorities here believe the. general turndown accorded ihe Pope's offer will convince Germany that'her fate is now either a graceful surrender or a battle ; to . the knock out. ; ; V ' ILLINOIS TO CONTINUE PROBE COAL SITUATION . ; (By United Press.) Chicago, Aug. 18. The Illinois ; in vestigation of . the coalO situation will continue, it was announced tonight, despite the report from Washington that President Wilson was expected to take action on coal prices early next week. . ; . ' y 1 . . - : v , -- Hearings j are expected to be com pleted Monday.. Fuel Director Carter expects to announce Tuesday or Wed nesday what he deems a fair price, for coal in Illinois. This, it was said to nisht. might be a reduction of $1 from the maximum : prices ( fixed in - Wash ington in June. They were . $2.75 a ton for mine run and $3.50 for screen ed sizes. SHOT UP CAR AND . , MANY WERE WOUNDED (By: United Press.) : . Montgomery, Ala., Aug.. 18. Motor- man: Roger Hall was shot in the back and i probably fatally wounded, j : and Byrd Boyd, ' a' passenger,- was shot through the shoulder and Frank Wor ter. another passenger, was, shot in the leg.-while ;sse,Wonductor. was beaten up with knucks tonight. A strike is. on and soldiers sympathiz j mg wun tne strmers are Diamea ior 'the trouble, It being asserted that they shot up the car ' tonight. x- - - GREECE UNDER MARTIAL LAW. ' , fBv United PressL Athens, Aug, 18.-AH'Greece is X- now under martial law, a decree X-having been issued extending the -X- order from the Athens . region, X- which ; was first put under mill- X- tary control. " ' ' ' 4f " ' ' . X- At the time Athens was put Tin- it X- der martial , la wi the general- as- -X--X- sumDtion was because of move- X- ments of allied troops. Whether - X - the extention of the order to in-; X - cludft the ' entire country . may - X - mean development of more: se- -X- 4f rious conditions is problematical, -X- : , 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. T RED GOVT. 1, Report to German Admiralty ; Found in His Posses- ' ' , sion. NABBED BY SLEUTHS J , IN PHILADELPHIA Also Had Drawings and Navy Yard Officials , DeclareHe Admitted Being" in : Pay of Germany Notaries f j to Be Indicted in Philadelphia By: Government. ,! . f V: iny United Press.) 1 . ,: Griener; former; German army lieu-. tenant and alleged, spy, s in e han4s J of the Federal authorities here to--. night." ;,;v..is- - . .': V When ' he was arrested ' wnnrt - ' - ) ;; i which he . was preparing , for the Gerr."' luau aumjKiLy, was iouna in nis pas-: ' . 1 session. Drawings of a submarine and of a submarine net, which is used by tne anies, were also seized i iavy yara omciais say tnat ne aa initted he was in the pay of 'the iTefU ? ton government. " ,' "'' ' ; .. . ,;; : ' Reports submitted by Department of Justice agents today to T. Henry : l tJf: Walcutt. Assistant United States Dis- action Monday against notaries public ' ': here, who have been active In swear-j " ing men to draft exemption claims." ' Investigation fpllowed charge that the officials were preying upon illit erate registrants ,. by collecting : money? upon promise to obtain - exemptions. AGAIN THEY SELECT J W PRISON TO FINE , , (ByT United Press.) v Washington, Aug. 18. In garb, housed -alongside" petty , crimin als, six women's' party pickets are . in tX:- lSrinnS uccotJua? r?SSgr2' f ' JHJ0- rather Tthan nav Sift fin7 i 3ii: fatner Jtnan pay . 510 fine . In police police w : imp aiiciuuuu, ailCI xl UUgB rilgU told thm their, White-House picket Picketing: wlirxbntintie raesplt th v" police order to arrest the banner bear. ers, the ' women's party headquarter? announced tonight ; f . : , " 4 Amove. to strengthen the ' police authority against the militants was i made by Senator Myers,, of Montana, today, when. he. introduced a bill pro- uiuning me carrying or ; banners re flecting on the President under penal ty of one v year imprisonment and $1,000 fine. Myers denounced the su fragists . appelation 1 of "Kais'er" 'for President Wilson- and declared the country is "disgusted with the "picket TO REDUCE WEIGHT FOR NAVY ELIGIBLE ' , (By United Presl.) ' V ' ';. Washington; Aug. 18.Further t re duction in weight requirements, mak ing more registered men eligible for the new national army,ywere announc ed today by the Provost Marshal Gen eral's office together .with a- method of examining mariners on the Great Lakes. . -V ; ;' ;, :?';' rj:,; ;'V,:: Acceptance was authorized of draft ed men 61 or 62 inches.high, weighing not les3 than 110 pounds; 63 inches not less than il2 pounds; and 64 Inch es and over provided under weight id due to temporary causes. ' ' ; In case a sailor on the Great Lakefer misses a scheduled draft examination by his local board,5 the new ruling to day provides he maybe examined by any local board In 'Buffalo, Detroit. Chicago, Milwaukee: 'Erie or,? any or tie principal lake ports. v WANTS WILLARD TO MEET WINNER (By United Press.) ' ; :; 'J Cleveland, Ohio Aug. 18.--Jesse Willard4 In Detroit tomorrow will re ceive a bigoer fffor i championship fight with the winner of the Fulton-'. Morris Labor Day bout at , Canton Ohio. , ; '-Hp: v ; ' . ; Matt Minkle, local promoter, left on a ooat tonight for . Detroit.- - It wa said he. would . offer, Willard $50,000 for his; signature. ,, ' f ; ,?: t iimKie has anndunced the Canton . fight as an elimination affair to choose an opponent. fora,Willard. : .. ; -: - : FEARING DRAFT, SHOT ; WIFE AND HIMSELF (By United Pres.) A Newport, Maine, Aug. 18. Fearing to be separated from bis wife through the ' draft, Leon Folsom, aged 23, to day shot, and killed his wife and then ; shot himself. The wife, who was only 16, was shot in each temple and each breast Folsom wounded himself cin, f the right temple and Is not expected to .live.; i BIG INJUN" AGAIN M JUlIMo THE GIANTS - (By United Presg. New York, Aug.. 18. Jim Thorpe ift tagain a Giant, the famous Indian was resold by Cincinnati today Manager .Miuew8on: sucjune 10 nis agreement to give the local ,-club first-chance, f s :, , The purchase of Magee . from the ing of a come-back are the reasons. 1 1 i, i fl. 3. filf' 1 if: -rl 8 Ell ! : H ' i U" Ill- i s 1 1