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EXPORT OF FOOD
UNDER CONTROL
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF EX
PORTS AUTHORIZED IN
ESPIONAGE BILL.
EXPORT COUNCIL IS NAMED
Commerce Department Directed to
Administer Details. President . Is
sues Statement Outlining Country's
Policy. No Curtailment of Trade.
Washington. Control of American
exports, authorized in a clause of the
espionage bill, was assumed by Pres
ident Wilson with the appointment of
an export council comprising the sec
retaries of state, agriculture and com:
niftA e and the food administrator. An
executive order creating the council
directs the department of commerce
to administer all details of operation.
A victorious conclusion of the war
cai. come, said the President in a
statement outlining the country's ex
port policy, only by systematic direc
tion of American trade.
"The free play of trade will not be
cbitrarily interfered with," he Bald.
"It will only be intelligently and sys
tematically directed In the light of full
information' with regard to the needs
and market conditions throughout the
world and the necessities of the people
at home, and our armies and the ar
mies of our associates abroad."
The first proclamation will require
the licensing of all coal and fuel ship
ments, including bunkers, and Its pur
jMise is to give the government first a
i.rm grasp on shipping. The second
will provide a system of licensing for
every class of exports to the European
neutral countries, and is designed to
prevent supplies from reaching Ger
many. Every move . under the act will be
made under presidential proclamation
issued on the advice of the exports
council, which will meet every day to
discuss subjects of policy. The three
cabinet members and the food admin
istrator probably will name represen
tatives to take care of most of the
routine work. These men probably
will be Dr. E. E. Pratt, of, the depart
ment of commerce; Lester H. Wool
sey, of the state department, Assistant
Secretary Vrooman, of the department
of agriculture, and a representative
of the food administration.
Licensing will be done by the com
merce department's bureau of foreign
arid domestic commerce, of which Dr.
Pratt is head. The bureau will be
expanded by the addition of about
three hundred employes. d cover the
cost of operation, Secretary Redfield
will ask for $150,000 from the Presi
dent's emergency fund and later will
ask of Congress $750,000 to carry the
bureau through the year.
Collectors of customs who are un
der the treasury department will be(
charged with preventing unlicensed'
cargoes from leaving the country.
REPORTS SHOW RED CROSS
FUND OVERSUBSCRIBEC
Money Pouring In and Definite Fig
ures' Are Not Available.
Washington. Tabulations at Red
Cross headquarters showed $100,313,
0CO in reported pledges, of which $35,
903,00 was from New York City and
$64,320,000 from the remainder of the
country. Further reports are expect
ed to swell the total fro $5,000,000 to
$10,000,000, campaign managers said.
Washington. Oversubscriptions to
the Red Cross hundred million dollar
mercy fund was assured when .the
eight-day nation-wide campaign closed
with final rallies.
Definite figures will not be avail
able for several days but Red Cross
officials ' said they had no doubt that
Ae totals will show that American
generosity has responded in the same j
spirit as for the liberty loan wun mil-:
lions more than asked.
All through the week additions will
be made to the fund, for campaign
committees in a number of cities in-1
sisted on continuing the canvass be-1
yond the fixed time. I
Red Cross officials will now formu-'
late plans for the most efficient ex
penditure of the millians, large por
tions of which are sought by humani-!
tarian interests in European war
stricken countries and in America.
Just as the campaign was closing
Monday the first actual money reached (
the Red Cross treasury by areial mes-.
senger. Miss Katherine S-tlnson, a '
young air woman, descending upon ,
the capital at the end of a two days'
flying trip from Buffalo, Albany, New
flying trip from Buffalo, carried to
Secretary McAdoo, treasurer of the
Red Cross, money and pledges gath
er d from cities she visited.
JOSEPH R. HAMLEN
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Jospeh R. Hamlen, vice president
and general manager of a large lumber
business in Little Rock, asked Eliot
Wadsworth of the American Red Cross
if he could do anything for him in
Arkansas. . "No," replied Mr. Wads
worth, "but you can do a lot right here.
Take that desk over there." From
then on Mr. Hemlen was Mr. Wads
worth'J secretary, and has not yet fin
ished the business he went to Wash
ington to do.
EARLY PASSAGE OF FOOD BILL
PROSPECT FOR PASSAGE BY JULY
1 APPEARS MUCH BRIGHTER
NOW.
Senate Leaders Tentatively Agreeing
to Compromises is Designed to
Greatly Expedite Consideration.
House is Making Progress.
Washington. Prospect for passage
of the administration food control bill
by July 1, as earnestly desired by
President Wilson, appeared brightei
after the House had rejected import
antamendments which promised to da-
lay final action, and Senate leaders
had tentatively agreed to compromises
designed to greatly expedite consider
ation. ,
Rejection In the House on a point
of order of proposals to include shoes,
clothing, farm machinery and cotton
seed under the regulation food provis
ions cleared the way to passage to such
an extent that a final vote is expected
soon. 'Prohibition proposals and Rep
resentative Lenroot's amendment to
strike out the licensing feature of the
bill constitute the only apparent ob
stacles to a final ' vote at that time.
To pass the measure with as few addi
tions to the original draft as possible
in order to expedite conference con
sideration is the plan of Representa
tive Lever, in charge of the measure.
He told the House that minor changes
could be made at leisure while it now
is of the utmost importance that the
big control machinery be started.
House republicans are rallying gener
ally to support the bill. One of the
speeches in its behalf was delivered
by Representative Gillette, of Massa
chusetts, 'acting republican leader.
While perfunctory debate was pro
ceeding in the Senate, substantial
progress towards composing differen
ces was made by the leaders at infor
mal conferences. The changes tenta
tively agreed to include:
PROVISIONAL MINISTER
IS ORGANIZING RUSSIA
For Purpose of Conducting War Says
Count Bakhmetieff.
Washington. The Russian mission,
headed by Special Ambassador B. A.
Bakhmetieff was entertained by Presi-
TAnt TXTfTortn o a cs a a sffnnctT fit t Vl A '
White House with with members of
the cabinet, congressional leaders and
high officials of the army and navy
present.
Ambassador Bakhmetieff accepted
an invitation from Vice President
Marshall to address the Senate.
Secretary Baker, accompanied by
Major General. Bliss, assistant chief
of staff, returned the official call paid
upon him by Lieutenant General Roop,
the military member ofthe mission.
Russia's consecration to a war to
the end with German autocracy was
avowed by Special Ambassador Boris
A. Bakhmetieff, head of the Russian
mission here, in a statement to the
American people. Only through vic
tory, he said, can a stable world peace
and the fruits of the Russian revolu
tion be secured.
FOOD CONTROL SILL
IS
ONLY FIVE MEMBERS CAST VOTE8
AGAINST ADMINISTRATION
MEASURE.
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
Forbids Making Use of Foodstuffs in
Intoxicants. Dry Victory Came
Agtera Long Preliminary Struggle
Carries $152,500,000 Appropriation.
Washington. The administration
food control bill, giving the President
broad authority to control. the distri
bution of food, feed and fuel for war
purposes and appropriating $152,500,
000 for its enforcement and adminis
tration, was passed by the House after
far-reaching prohibition provisions had
been written into it.
The vote was 365 to five, Represen
tatives McLemore, Slayden and Young,
of Texas, democrats, and Meeker,
Missouri, and Ward, New York, re
publicans, voting in the negative.
The prohibition provisions adopted
would prohibit the use of foodstuffs
for the manufacture of alcoholic bev
erages, and would give the President
authority to ;,take over for war pur
poses all liquor how on hand. They
were put into the measure during the
evening in committee of the whole
and when the bill came up in the
House proper the anti-prohibition fac
tion did not demand another vote.
Few important changes were made
by the House outside the prohibition
section. The control powers of the
President were limited to articles spe
cifically mentioned in the bill, instead
of giving him blanket authority; vol
untary aids in control work were
made subject to the penal provision;
all persons in the fool administration
except those serving without compesa
tion were placed under civil service,
and the President was required to
make an annual report on the opera
tion of the bill.
After several hours of parliamen
tary sparring, during which the pro
hibitory proposals were thrown cut
repeatedly on points of order, the
prohibition element got the upper
hand and forced adoption of amend
ments which would forbid the use of
any foodstuffs during the war for
making intoxicants, and would give
the President authority , to take -over,
in his discreation, all stocks of dis
tilled liquors.
Action on the prohibition amend
ments was taken in committee of the
whole, and opponents of the propos
als Immediately began mustering their
forces for a reconsideration when the
bill comes up for final discuslon in
the House.
MORE THAN HALF MILLION
MEN HAVE VOLUNTEEERED
Between 700,000 and 800,000 Men Are
Now Enrolled.
Washington. More than half a mil:
Hon men have volunteered in the
American army and navy during the
period of less than three months that
has elapsed since- war was declared
to exist.
The army, navy, and national guard
represented an aggregate strength of
little more than 300,000 men when
the war resolution was adopted. Today
between 700,000 and 800,000 are en
rolled In the various branches of the
fighting services and the great major
ity of them are armed, equipped and
under training. They will be joined
at the end of the summer by nearly a
million men selected for the new na
tional army from the millions register
ed for war duty June 5.
The regular army totalled a little
more than 100,000 men three months
ago; it is nearing the 250,000 mark
today and war officials, backed by the
press of the country, are bending every
effort to bring it up to 300,000 during
the present week.
The National Guard, 150,000 strong
when war came, numbers nearly 260,
000 today, according to' the best esti
mates available. Of that number
nearly 75,000 actually are under arms,
guarding against German plotters and
doing the Job in a thoroughly and sol
dierly way.
The marine corps, whose sloyan of
"first to fight," has been heard by the
government, which attached a season
ed regiment of sea soldiers to Major
General Pershing's expeditionary force
to France, has been raised from 17,000
to' nearly 30,000 men.
The regular bluejacket force of the
navy, the men behind the big guns
and who already are trying their metal
against the enemy off the Irish coast
under Vive Admiral Sims, or upon
armed freighters has been raised
frdufless than 6u,000-4o 120.000. 'The
boys of the country have thronged to
the navy in great number
BY HOUSE
LIEUT. COM. HAROLD E. COOK
Lieut Com. Harold E. Cook is the
commandina insoector for the navy at
the Midvale steel Works near Phila
delphia.
INCREASE IN VESSEL LOSES
TWENTY-SEVEN BRITISH SHIPS
HAVE BEEN SENT DOWN DUR
ING WEEK.
Germans Gain Foothold In French
First Trenches in Champagne Re
gion. Huge Activities Along Many
Fronts.
The weekly report of losses to Brit
ish shipping sunk by submarines or
mines has again reached alarming pro
portions. It shows an increase over the re
ports of the past six weeks to ton
nage destroyed. The latest figures,
twenty-seven vessels of over 1,600
tons and five under 1,600 tons, place
the losses in the first category high
er, except ' during the weeks ending
April 21. and April 28, than during
any- similar periods since Germany's
intensified submarine campaign ' be
gan. . During the latter weeks forty
and thirty-eight merhantment, re
spectively, were sent to the bottom.
On the fighting fronts in France,
the British forces of Field Marshal
Haig have recaptured important posi
tions from the Germans east of Ar
ras, while the Germans in the Cham
pagne region have gained a foothold
in French first-line trenches.
. The British gain was made east of
Monchy-le:Preux, where Monday the
Germans, under cover of a violent
bombardment, drove back the British
and occupied their trenches. Between
the Ailette river and Moullin de Laf
faux, the Germans in, a strong attack
in which huge effectives were used,
captured a section of a trench held by
the French. The attack was delivered
over a front of about two-thirds of a
mile and followed a violent bombard
ment of the French line.
PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS
FOR ARMY VOLUNTEERS.
Washington. President Wilson is
sued a proclamation designating the
week ofune 20-30 as recruiting week
for the Jugular army, and called upon
unmarried men, without dependents,
to enroll for war service in order that
the ranks of the regulars might be fill
ed promptly. The proclamation fol
lows: "Proclamation by the President:
"I hereby designate the period of
June 23 to June 30, next, as recruit
ing week for the regular army, and
call upon unmarried men between the
ages of eighteen and forty years, who
have no dependents and who are not
engaged in pursuits vitally necessary
to the prosecution of the war, to pre
sent themselves for enlistment during
the week herein designated to the
number of 70,000.
(Signed). "WOODROW WILSON."
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF
CHINA'S TROUBLES FORECAST.
Washington. Peaceful settlement
of China's internal troubles was fore
cast in an officia' dispatch to the
Chinese embassy from Peking. The
message said the two eouthern prov
inces of Yunnan and Kwantung had
notified the central government that
they favor co-operation towards a
peaceful settlement and are ready to
do everything possible to clear up the
situation.
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S
ARE
OVER THREE BILLION
TREASURY DEPARTMENT MAKE8
ANNOUNCEMENT OF FINAL
TABULATION.
ALLOTMENTS TO BE flUDE
Secretary McAdoo Announces That
All Subscriptions of More Than $10,
000 Will Be Pared Down. New
York District Led.
Washington. Liberty loan subscrip
tions totalled $3,035,226,850, an over
subscription of nearly fifty-two ,,per
cent.
The final tabulation has been offi
cially announced, showing that more
than 4,000,000 persons bought . bonds.
Ninety-nine per cent of subscriptions,
or those of 3,960,000 persons, were for
sums varying from $50 to $10,000,
while twenty-one subsribers applied
for allotments of $5,000,000 each or
more.
The New York federal reserve dis
trict, led the list with subscritpolns
totalling $1,186,788,400, or more than
three times the amount subscribed in
the next district, Chicago, $357,195,-.
950. The other districts sent subr
scriptions as follows:
Boston, $332,447,600; Cleveland,
$286,148,700; Philadelphia, $232,309.
250; Ban Francisco, $175,623,900;
Richmond, $109,737,100; Kansas City,
$91,758,850; St. Louis, $86,134,700;
Minneapolis, $70,255,500; Atlanta $57,
878,550, and Dalas, $48,948,350. These
subscriptions include those sent direct
to the treasury and apportioned among
the various reserve districts.
Allotments Made.
Allotments will be made, Secretary
McAdoo announced, as follows:
An subscriptions up to and Includ
ing $10,000, full amount. These sub
scriptions totalled $1,296,684,850.
More than $10,000 up to and in
cluding $100,000, sixty per cent of the
amount subscribed, but not less than
$10,000 in any instance. These sub
scriptions totalled $560,103,050. Allot
ments to subscribers in this group wUl
aggregate $336,061,850.
. More than $10,000 up to and in
cluding $100,000, sixty per cent of the
amount subscribed, but not less than
$10,000 in any instance. These sub
scriptions totalled $560,103,050. Allot
ments to subscribers in this group will j
aggregate $336,061,950. j
More than $100,000 up to and in
cluding $250,000, forty-five per cent
of the amount subscribed, but not less
than $60,000 in any instance. Sub- j
scriptions in this group totalled $220,-
455,600, and allotments will aggregate
$99,205,000.
More than $250,000 up to and In
cluding $2,000,000, thirty per cent, but
no less than $112,500 In any instance.
The total of subscriptions in this
group was $601,514,900. Allotments
will aggregate $1S4,381,000.
More than $2,000,000, up to and in
cluding $6,000,000 each, twenty-five
per cent but not less than $600,000 in
any one instance. Subscriptions in
this group totalled $234,544,300. Allot
ments will total $58,661,250.
More than $6,000,000 up to and In
cluding $10,000,000 each, twenty-one
per cent. Subscriptions in this group
totalled $46,674,150; allotments will
aggregate $9,801,000.
Two subscripttons of $25000,000
ivprl Thfl allotments
to these subscribers will be at the
of 20.22 per cent, and they wilir
ceive bonds of the value of $5,055
each. One subscriber to $25,
the largest, will be given 20. J
cent, or $5,093,650. A
NO SERIOUS DELAY IN
CANTONMENT CONSTRt
Baker
Thinks All Will
Bej
September 1st,
Washington. There will be
rious delay in construction of
teen cantonments for the nai
army, said Secretary Baker ana-
of the establishments probably wl
be ready about September 1, the ten!
tative date considered lor summoning
to the colors the first 625,000 men.
The -process of selecting the men,
the secretary indicated, probably will
b set in motion, early in July.
Regulations for the exemption and
selection processes have been prepar
ed and wilt lie made public next week.
President Wilson is understood to
have rpproved the general scheme
worked out by the war department to
secuie fair and unselfish application
of the law through local officials. Mi
nor modifications are being made
bat plans will be completed in a few
day.
ftSHEVlLLE GUIS
GARDEN RECORD
CHALLENGES THE STATE TO
SHOW A BETTER RECORD IN
MATTER OF GARDENS.
500 BOYS AND GIRLS WORK
Making Gardens in Back Yards, Va
cant Lots and All Other Available
Places in Town.
Asheville. Tha city of Asheville
challenges the state to show a better
record in the matter of gardens than
is being made here. More than 500
boys and girls are employed in making
gardens in back yards, vacant lots and
other available places. The call of
Governor Bickett and the State Food
Conservation Commission has been
heard and heeded. The products rais
ed in the fcity gardens this year will
reach a value of several thousand dol
lars. A large part of the cerdit for
the mobilization of the boys and
girls for this purpose is due to Mr.
Ralston Fleming, who is head of the
School Garden Committee of the
Asheville Board of Trade.
There will be a very considerable
surplus of products from the hundreds
of gardens in and adjacent to Ashe
ville and Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon,
head of the Home Demonstration
Work at Raleigh, is to be here this
week to advise with the County Home
Demonstration Agent and other lead
ers with regard to the conservation of
these surplus products. Asheville peo
ple are thoroughly alive to the im
portance of making and saving every
pound of foodstuff possible.
The Asheville Board of Trade and
the Buncombe County Food Conserva
tion Commission have also vigorously
pushed a campaign for increased pro
duction of food and feed stuST in the
county. At this time Buncombe far
mers are being urged to plant corn,
potatoes, cow peas, sorghum or buck
wheat upon the several thousands of
acres In the county from which small
gain is now being harvested.
v J. H. Noyes Heads Jr. O. U. A. M.
Asheville. John H. Noyes, of New
Hampshire, was chosen by the Na
tional Council, Junior Order United
American Mechanics as National
Councilor. H. R. Lochner, of Ken
tucky, is Viee-Councilor.
The other officers elected are as fol
lows: Charles Reimer, of Maryland,
National Treasurer; George H. Davis,
of Maryland, National Conductor; Sam
W. Plyler, of South Carolina, National
Warden; Wilbur F. Cannon, of Col
orado, and W. F. Lambert, of West
Virginia, National Inside Sentinel; Jas.
R. Mansfield, of Virginia, and Mr.
Briggs, of Oklahoma, National Outside
Sentinel; Rev. M. D. Lichliter, of Penn
sylvania. National Chaplain.
Milwaukee was named as the next
meeting place. The council meets
every two years.
Folowlng the election of officers,
the council took up the question of
levying a special tax on the members
to provide an additional fund of $60,OC0
for the orphanage of Tiffin, Ohio.
Bishop Kilgo Gjtng to China.
Durham. Bishop John C. Kilgo, . of
the Southern Methodist Episcopal
church, will leave his Charlotte home
next week for a four-month sojourn in
China, Japan and Korea. By appolnt-
ent of his office as one of the nine
shops of the Southern Methodist de-
Wlnation, he goes to the Orient as
t nre8idillir chUrch official In the
Bishop Warren C. Candler, of
Ga., will . preside over the
Carolina Conference that meeU
tenville in November, and Bishop
Ltkins, of Asheville, will con-
e Western North Carolina Con-
in the absence of Bishop Kilgo.
d With Burning Hotel
Nat Young, who
United Statea-p
rpe, was rgf
Deputy
aYge of burning the
Elk Park, Avery coun
ago. The young man h
me actual Durning oi inut,. j
Frosts In Watauga.
Lenoir. Reports from Watauftl
county show that a heavy frost oc
curred in many sections of the county
recently, doing most severe damage to
vegetation. The bean crop, which is
a very large Item for the county,. has
been almost totally destroyed, while
the Irish potato yield will be greatly
diminished on account of the severe
freeze. Visitors coming In from Blow
ing Rock report that many large fields
i-f potatoes in and around that section
been chirred and razed to ths
WfM'will be almost a total Iobs.
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