The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 2

re a Everybody : Buy Liberty Bonds Help win the war. Enlist your dollars. \ Liberty Bonds have the same value and security as United + States money. | interest and are ation. They pay 34% cs exempt from tax- | Denominations of $50 and more. ! Obtainable at any Bank or Trust ~ Company, Buy Your Share SHERIFF WARNS ALL YOUNG MEN THAT THEY MUST BE REGISTERED Issues Proclamation, Advising Gov- ernment’s Requirements, Designat- ing Places to Register and Names of Men in Notified to Meet in Butler Next Saturday to Receive Instructions. Sheriff J. W. Baker has issued a proclamation calling upon all young men between the ages of 21 and 31 years, not to fail to abidé by their country’s call Tuesday, June 5, and be registered. The sheriff is in charge of the registration in every community in Bates county. Sheriff Baker's proclamation also contained a call for a meeting of the registrars he has named, to be held in the court house at Butler next Saturday at 2 o'clock p. m., when in- structions in the registration will be given. Sheriff's Proclamation sheriff's proclamation, to- with the registering places country and the The gether throughout the names of the registrars, follows: “Proclamation to the chief regis- trars and places of registration for Tuesday, the fifth day of June, 1917. “Under the authority contained in the act of congress and the proclama- tion of Woodrow Wilson, of the United States, designating Tr the fifth day of June, 1917, as the. day of registration pointing the sheriff of each ¢ a meniber of the board of re: for the purpose of of registrating eli- gible men, being all male citizens who have passed th and not on said day havin at their thirty-first birth “All men of the above age are com- | manded to present themselves on said June 5th, each in his voting pre- | ap- arriv- cinct or place of registration as named below, between the hours of 7 o'clock m. and 9 o'clock p. m. of that day and be duly registered by the local registrars of their re- spective_precinets-—And—your -atten- tion is called to the provisions of the law providing penalties for failure to register. “The attention-of all the chief reg- istrars, which I have appointed and named below, is called to a meeting of the board of registration of Bates county, Missouri, which is to be held in the Probate Court rooms in the city of Butler at 2 o'clock p. m. on Saturday, June 2, 1917, this meeting being for the purpose of receiving in- structions and being sworn in by the elerk of the county court. Your at- tention is also called to the provis- ions of the law providing penalties for failure to answer or serve when called upon. “The grave situation . confronting our nation at the present time re- quires a prompt compliance _ I Charge—Registrars | : le president | s|plot were prepared to act in r twenty-first birth- | existing orders you are directed to execute faithfully the duties you are charged.”——J. W. Baker,Sheriff. 'Submarine Sinks Transport With | Loss of 413 Men. London, May 24.—The — British transport Tray ania was torped- oed on May 4 with the loss of 413 persons. The Transylvania was tor- pedoed in the Mediterranean, The following official statement was given out today: “The British transport Tran- sylvania, with troops aboard, was tor- pedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4, resulting in the following losses: “Twenty-nine officers and 373 of other rank; also the ship's cap- tain, Lieutenant S. Brenell, and one officer and nine men of the crew.” PLOT DRAFT RIOTS? A Nation Wide Conspiracy to Hinder War Program, Government | Agents Say, | 6 Chicago, May 28—There is a na- jtion-wide conspiracy to discourage registration for the selective draft, |; government agents here said tonight, sr arrests were made in several ties, tvidence is said to have been sup- | plied the government indicating’ that jthe principal movers in the alleged such drastic manner as to foment riots if necessary to bring about material hindrance to the draft program. Three men and several women |were taken into custody here today |by federal agents and were ques- | tioned until midnight as to their part lin the anti-draft agitation. Identity of the prisoners was withheld, ; About the federal building tonight {it was said that although the alleged plot had been under way for only a | little more than a week, arrests have | been made in Roanoke, Va., Kansas Ci Mo., ~~ Detroit, —Mich,,—Eynn, | Mass., Dallas, Tex., Shreveport, La., and several other cities. | Others, it was added, will be taken into custody tomorrow in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, | Toledo, Buffalo, New York and other centers of pro-German or pronounced anti-war population. None of the federal authorities would confirm or deny reports, mere- ly saying that several persons were under detention for examination, Ac- cording to the most-reliable reports, a woman has been the chief mover in the alleged anti-conscription con- spiracy, Certain forces working in direct sympathy with, if not in the actual employ of the German govern- ment, are believed by the federal agents to have fomented the con- spiracy. BIG SHIPS FOIL U-BOATS Goethals Plans 15,000-Ton. Freighters to Be Torpedo Proct Washington, May 28—Fi een thousand-ton ships of steel, built with vertical compartments, so they may get to port after striking a mine or even being torpedoed, are includ- ed in the new ship-building program, which General Goethals has adopted, after discarding practically all the wooden ship program which had been laid ott by the shipping board, as impractical, These “semi-submarine proof” freighters. are to be much faster than the wooden or standard steel freight- ers. They also are to be turned out at a rate only limited by the capacity of American mills and shipyards, They will have a speed of fifteen knots an hour. Most of the big nish just now. That ‘is a much wiser thing to do than to send untrained troops to do now. Col. ~Roosevelt’s usefulness is not ended because his greatest desire is not given him, It may be found pos- sible later to give him a command in France, one which will not exceed his military experience, will gratify his desire for service, and use his good qualities, But, meanwhile, the President has emphasized the national need and has done so effectively. The need is for personal subordination to nation- al efficiency and for the coolest ef- eness in national effort. The war is beyond the hysteria stage, It is at death grips, and the best nerves, the steadiest muscle, the coolest heads, the best fed stomachs, docks and shipyards arranged for! construction of larger types .of ships; will be reserved for these huge, freighters. Testimony was given by General Goethals before the congressional | committees last week, it was learned | today, that ships of this size built op the vertical compartment plan could! strike mines or be torpedoed, even to|— the extent of having three compart- | ments blown in, and yet limp into. port as long as the machinery was! not thrown out of gear. The advantage of this ship over 7,- 500-ton boats, as explained by Gen- eral Goethals, was that the smaller boat sank when torpedoed—the big boat had a chance. It was stated that in all the submarine warfare thus far the Germans had not got a single one, of these big ships built in the verti- cal compartment plan; that the speed gave them an opportunity to run) away from the submarine and dodge the torpedo as well, Hitherto all plans for -meeting the submarine menace by the Shipping program have been with the idea of “over-| feeding” the submarine—count on some of the ships getting sunk, but hope through numbers to get many by. The United States has facilities | however, only to turn out a limited number_of this large type. These huge “semi-submarine proof” freighters are just one feature of the Goethals program of steel ships,’ however. As has been made. known before, the big bulk of the ships to be turned out are to be standardized ships of 5,000 tons each, They arg! -|to be fabricated at the miany steel’ mills and put up on hastily erected | ways on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Only six hundred thousand tons of the 3 million-ton building program are to be of wooden ships, according to the Goethals plan. Congress today, expressing its con- | fidence in General Goethals, saw the | House agree to a new “ship com-/| mandeering” amendment to the War Appropriation Bill. It is the most, drastic granting of authority the American government has — ever known. It gives the President pow- er to commandeer ships, ship mater- ial, modify, cancel or suspend any contract “now, exposing or hereafter made for any purpose whatever which requires in the execution there abor or material that may be util- ized in ship building; to requisition the entire output or partial output of any factory found to be necessary.” The House having recorded itself for giving this authority to the Pres- -Jand a disaster to untrained troops. ident to be carried through General Goethals, the big bill went to confer- ence. Final action will not be had for several days, but the vote late to- day on this one amendment assures a drastic “commandeering section” be- ing included in the conference report. No Roosevelt Di: President Wilson in finding it im- possible to accept Col. Roosevelt's offer to raise two volunteer divisions and take the American colors direct- ly to France was decided wisely, we think. The President gives the reasons for his decisions so adequately that the case is fully stated. We have ‘en- tered the war to conduct it efficient- ly and coolly. There would be no excuse for the United States if it did not do so. We are not entering upon an en- terprise in which men are without experience, but are engaging in one in which people have learned by very bitter experience. The Roosevelt division could not have been efficient. They might have been romantic, but they could not have been efficient. Col. Roose- velt hoped to raise them in a hurry, train them in a hurry, and put them. in action in a hurry. We fear they would have been killed or defeated in a hurry.; ‘A tremendous amount of enthu asm might haye been aroused in the country by the Colonel’s recruiting fervor and by the thought of these volunteers sailing to France. Butt that enthusiasm would not win a m of trench for the Colonel's volunteés ions. might. have been’ depressing to nation and its allies and stimul to our enemies. Liscsieed of commissioning cai +| vessel and the best provided bodies will win. ‘This is a business we are in, a bad business, but a business, not a spasm. —Chicago Tribune. TO SINK HOSPITAL SHIPS Certain Vessels Will Be Exempt in the Meditteranean if Great Britain Will Agree to Conditions. intention London, May 26—The lof the German government to sink all Entente hospital ships in the en- tire “barred’ zone” with the excep- tion of certain ships from Saloniki to Gibraltar, is semi-officially . an- nounced in Berlin, according to a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam, The German announcenient, as made in reference to their denials, the German allegations that the Brit- ish misused hospital ships, It cited several instances which, it was asert- ed, proved the correctness of the German accusation, The semi-of- fical announcement read, in par’ “The German government will in the future prevent all traffic by has- pital ships in the entire barred zone and in the Mediterranean, including the road left open for Greece, and will regard hospital ships appearing therein as war vessels and attack them immediately.” Germany, the announcement adds, will allow the transport of the ill and wounded from Saloniki on great rail- ‘ways to Kalamata Harbor and thence on hospital ships to Gibraltar on the following conditions: : Firstly—These hospital ships on the road left open to Greek shipping, must proceed at a rate of speed previ- jously reported to the German govy- ernment. ‘ Secondly—That the name -of~ the and the time of arrival or de- cated to the Ger- weeks in ad- parture be communi: man government six vance. Thirdly—That a representative of the neutral government representing Germany's interests in the particular country in question shall certify be- fore the departure of the hospital ship that she carries. only the- ill, wounded and nurses, and no goods other than materials for treating them. OFFICIALS OUTLINE PLAN OF EXEMPTIONS No Claims. Will Be Considered Until After Drawing of Names—Va- cancies Filled by Drawings. Washington, May 28.—Regulations to govern exemptions tnder the se- lective draft are being worked out by Provost Marshal General Crowder with a number of prominent Jawyers, Although the plans are not yet com- plete, it is probable the jury whee! system will be followed in selecting |. those who are to go into the first army of 500,000, and not until the names have been drawn and each registration district has provided the number apportioned to it, will ex- emptions be considered. As each in- dividual drawn reports, his claims for exemption will be passed upon, and if he is exempted another will be drawn to fill the vacancy. The law provides for local exemption boards in each county and for each 30,000 in city populations, Boards of review also will be established. on the basis of one or more to each judicial dis- trict. Each of the boards will be composed of civilians. Secretary Baker said today the process of selecting them had not been worked out. General Crowder said that only confusion would result from the reported intention of men above the specified age to register June 3. “This is mistaken patriotism,”. he said, “and registrars will be instruct- ed to accept cards only from men be- tween the ages of 21 and 30, in- elusive.” “WAR WILL END BY FALL” Bavarian Premier Expresses Satisfac- tion at Work of U-Boats. * Anisterdam, May 23 (via London). s/—In an. interview ‘published by Ger- man newspapers from a -Hungarian Count 4 they are the best America can fur- less than the United States can do Surplus..... Of Bates County Undivided Profits... We offer the best of service in all departments Weare especially well prepared to take care of the ‘FARMING INTERESTS Now is the Time to Save We pay interests on SAVINGS. sess. $50,000.00 . 50,000.00 . 10,000.00, | ABSTRACTS furnish abstracts interest on time deposits. W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO, We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate | FARM LOANS of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We have a complete set di Abstract Books and will and examine and perfect titles to same. | We will loan your idle money for you, gecuring INVESTMENTS you reasonable interest on good security. We pay’ to any real estate in Bates County J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. HOARDED GRAIN 12 YEARS A Cedar Point Man is Loading Out 4,500 Bushels of Wheat and 11,000 of Corn—Will Net $30,000, Cottonwood Falls, Kas., May 26— After, saving. his corn and wheat crops for nearly twelve years, the present war prices have tempted C. C, Smith of Cedar Point to sell. Re- cently he shipped out 4,500 bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of corn, which netted him around $30,000. Smith has lived in Chase County for more than fifty years and is the owner of hundreds of acres of rich Cottonwood Valley land. He was never married. For many years it has been one of his hobbies to build granaries and store the wheat and corn he raised. Some of the grain sold was put into his granaries twelve years ago. For some of the corn sold he. got $1.60 a bushel and $1.50 a bushel for the rest, while he sold the wheat at $3 a bushel. ‘ Since this grain has been raised and stored there has been a shrink- age of hundreds’ of bushels, grain men say, while other large quantities have been eaten by mice and _ rats, which abound on, the farm, eucenty | having learned food was plentiful. About six years ago Smith sold part of the big amount of grain he had accumulated. He is now selling all his wheat and all but 730 bushels of his corn, On the Smith farm is one very old horse, the only live stock, It is for this animal that Smith is keeping out the corn. More Than 1,000 of U. S. Army Now in Britain. London, May 24.—The engineers from the American Army who have arrived in England made a call early today on Ambassador Page and later separated for a series of conferences with War Office officials in regard to their various specialties. They were entertained at luncheon by the Earl of Derby, Secretary for War. American khaki was very much in evidence in London today. Severat additional officers and hospital units have arrived and nurses, especially of the Cleveland and Harvard units, in their blue uniforms, with white arm- bands labeled with the insignia of the American Red Cross, already have become a familiar sight to the Lon- don public, More than 1,000 persons belonging to the American Army are now in Great Britain. The charter granted this our operations to be semi-pul which we.ase.here to render. cuss our perfected nadine dgid 9c3 deeit voAT financial institution causes lic. In gonducting this bank- ing:-house, we are under certain obligations, specified and implied, to the community, An implied duty that we rec- ognize is that of informing every resident of the service Every benking facility is at ~ your command. : You are cordially invited to call and dis-