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ONLY FIVE K8MBCR3 CAST VOT
AGAINST ADHttMSTHATION
MEASURE.
Forbidt Making Use of Foodstuffs In
Intoxicants.? Dry Victory Cams
Agtsr a Long Preliminary Struggle?
Carries $158^00, OOQ Appropriation.
Washington. ? The administration
{bod control bill, giving the President
broad anthority to control tbe distri
bution of food, food and fool for war
purposes and appropriating $152,500,
300 for its enforcement and adminis
tration, was passed by the House after
far-reaching prohibition provisions had
been written Into it
Ths vote was 365 to five, Represent
tatives McLemore, Slayden and Young,.
ft Texas, democrats, and Keeker,
-Missouri, and Ward, New York, re
. publicans, voting (n the negative.
The prohibition provisions adopted
would: prohibit the use of foodstuffs
Tor the manufacture of alcohoBc bev
erages, and would give the President
authority to take over for war pur
poses aU liquor now on hand. They
ware put into the measure during the
evening in committee . of the whole
ami when the hill came up in the
Bouse 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- j
dSca&y mentioned in the hillr instead
of gMng him blanket authority; vol.'
nntary aids in control work were
made subject to the penal provision;
sH persons in tbe fool administration j
except those serving without compesa- j
tion were placed under oivD service. |
V- a ad the President wa*; required Jto
fr make an annual report on the opera
vrtwlj, and opponents ot the, propos
' sls tannedistely begaa mastering their
? . forces for * recansiderstlen when the
blU comes op tor dl&cuaton In
lt,awt -
KiMOnfc THAN HAU>tilUJOH
fl!!1* ha^vovuntbber.d
Bttl*,W" New EnroHed.
Washington. ? More tiuut hal/ a mfi
" flbst men h**? ?voftn^red;.-to^'?*?
? -v. . V. v ^ - q
rWENTY-SEVEN BRITISH 3HI?t
HAVE BEEN BINT DOWN DO*
. ING WEEK.
Germans Gain Foothold In French
First Trenches h* Champagne Re
gion,? Huge Activities Along Many
Fronts. ? -=*. :* .L-.-i
The weekly report of losses to. Brit
ish shlgp'nf sunk by submarines or
mines has again reached alarming pro-^
portions." - - ' ?; ? ..." ^-?r.
It shows an increase over the re
ports of the past six weeks to ton
nage destroyed. ' The latent figures,
twenty-seveh y easels 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. Oaring the latter weeks forty
and thirty-eight merhantment, re
spectively, were sent fi> the bottom.
On the fighting fronts in Franee,
the British forces of Field Marshal
Hqjg have recaptured important posi
tions from the Germans east of Ar
ras, while the Germans in the Cham
pagne region have gained a'tootho'd
in French first-line trenches.
The British gain was made east of
Monchy-Ie-Pieux, where Monday the
Germans, under cover of ? violent
bombardment, drove back the British
and occupied their trenches. Between
the Alletfe river and MoulUn do Laf
faax, the Germans in a strong attack
In which huge eSecttros used,
captured a section of * trenchThato by
the French. The attack was delivered
over a" front of about two-thirds of x
SEregBre f*vo,v<iA,owv. ..vss 7
More than. $10,000 up to ?4 Jl^
?I These sub
50,103,050. Allot
eluding $100,000.
amount subscribed, '
$10;?ft(l Ja any. -Ins
scriptione totalled
raents to subscriber
aggregate $336.0??95O. f -
Mote tl?n JEW0.M0 ?p~ to and to
er cent
not Hi*
In aay instance. Bub
acfiptions to' ibis group totalled $320, ?
455,600, and. allotments will aggregate
pMore than $250,000 up "to anf^lju
chiding $2,000,000, thirty per cent, but
no less than. $112,500 in any instance, j
-iubscnptlotii-tjfc; T" '
tfrwiP - wae $80i, 5144*00. Allotm<
wilL aggregate JJ#,3Sl,0<^$S*g|''l
More than $2,000,000, up to and
eluding $6,800,000 each, twenty-five
per ?ent bat not less than $600,000: in
any . on* instance. Subscriptions in
this group totalled $234,544300. Allot
ments will total $53,661,250. ; j:: ;
I- JMOre than $6,000,6(00 up to and in
oluding $10,000,000 . each, twenty-one
per cent. Subsoriptiona-.in thte grotip
totalled $46, ?,74, 150; ' ?
aggregate $9,801,600. (
'$^;->abacriptfc>n tr; ofcj|
each wore received- The
warper cent, ana laeygwm r??
e bonds of Ike value of $5,055,000
'One subscriber to $2tM50,00?;
the largest, will bo given, 20.17 per
co*. * W,M5?
sat
NO SERIOUS DELAY HjflP
CANTOWMINT CONSTRUCTION
Baker Think? All Will Be Ready
. Washington.? There wlH be no s*
rleoi delay In construction of the six
teen cantonments for. the national
army, eald SecreMwj&. Baker and all
of1; the establishments probably will
be ready about September 1, the ten
^tatire date considered for aummordns
to the colors the first 625,000 men/ ^ ?.
pPhe process o^eelectinf lhS menJ
the secretary indicated, proba&y will :
be eat In motion early In July.
ii ? m t ln Li n m t i'i ? iV _ , n ? n tn ?! t I 1 1 ?? ? J |
sa? iieguiaaons ror tne exemption ana
.T. . ?_ .... I
cotton
pro vi1?
n for control of foodstuff
believed the ^haotld condl
te Senate-Is clearing, with s
RINE.
Bemdl!
yro.iL1 i?iiii
w
efficiency
: Lots and All Othar Available
Places In Town.
Q?es the state to show a better
gardens iif back
surplus of praductsVirom the
Dajaumstratfon Agent and other
-?rs with regard, to the conserrapi
these aitrplua products. AaheviHi
GountyFood
on. have .also :
W.^e^of ^uth Carolina, National
Warden; Wilbur F. Cannon, of Col
orado, and W. P. Lambert, of West
Virginia, National Inside Sentinel; to*.}
R. Mansfield,. of Virginia,, and , Jr.
BrlggB, of Oklahoma, National Outaide
Sentinel ; Rev. M.t>. Lichllter, of Penn
sylvania, NationJjt Chaplain.^,,
every two year*, ^ :
Folowing the election of officers,
^conncl1 took up the ^ueeUon^
to provide an additional fund of 560,000
KHflo QoInfl toChlnai^
Joha C. Kllgo,
11. PnlanAt<
Southern
,fflce sb one of the ulna
5 Southern Methodist de