The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 7

EASTERN TROOPS GO FIRST|MAY INSURE ALL SOLDIERS! SEND MILITIA TO FRANCE ef. A Snug, Inexpensive Garage Mave yur ree stein, fo min m your home, Le "For Walls, Ceilings If you like to.“carpenter” put it up yoursel! GU. Tet eRaeie tenet odBoard and Partitions ene tight to ve pane, ohne ox’ Noard cases.) ~ Seren Woot beards miraiateans Se °TSE YOUR Deaba vOR Paes PLANE, H. S. WYATT MISSOURI \ PACIFIC Butler Station CORRECTED-MAY 7, 1916 ‘ NORTH * No. 206 K. C. Pagr.... 5 No. 208 K. C, & St. Louis Pagr.t No. 210 K. C. & St. Louis Psgr.10: SQUTH No, 201 Joplin Passenger. No. 207 Joplin Passenger No. 20 Nevada Passenge! 8: re INTERSTATE (Arrive), Butler Passenger. Local Freight.... WEST (Leave) No. 693 Madison Local..... 71:06 a. m, No. 6837 Madison Passenger.... 1:30 p. m. All freight for forwarding must be at depot not later than 10:30 o'clock a. m. or will be held for. following day's forwarding. Freight for Inter- state Division must be delivered be- fore 6 o'clock p. m. No freight. billed for this train in the morning. Madison and local freights carry pas- sengers, g Claude L. Plain, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS CCC DR. H. E, MULKEY ~ , Veterinary Surgeon Fourteen -Years Successful : Practice: . At Garrett’s Old Stand Phones: Res. 268... Office 3 North Mo. State Bank DB. J.T, HULL : Dentist Entrance same that leads to Fox’s : Studio. North Side Square Butler, Missouri’ Attorney at Law Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI 7. J. HALSKY, BD. 9. D. Nese ané "TSurent’ Upocmaiion 5 | Teuton Peace I a tL Stockholm, June _1—The _interna- valuable barometer for gaugifig - masses of the warging = “nadia! Sounding the delegates and corre- spondents reveals strikingly) that this ‘pressure is decidedly greater in the ii . {exempted as such, nor LUMBER COMPANY Butler, Mo. FIRST DRAFT IS INCREASED ‘ TO 625,000 Call Will Be From 900,000 fo 1,590,- ooo, Exemptions Then Being Made. : Washington, D. C.—Plans of the War Department to draft from 900,- 000 to 1,500,000 men of the 10,000,- 000 who, it is estimated registered Tuesday for the new army, have been disclosed by Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder to the Senate Military Af- fairs Committee. Exemptions, he said, probably would result in re- ducing the number to 625,000 men for immediate service. Details of making exemptions also were explained. The Provost Mar- shal said the Government does not contemplate any class exemptions, but that all will be personal. Farmers, factory operatives and other special classes would not be territorially, but all exemptions will be made in- dividually. The men drafted probably will be in training camps by September 1 Gen. Crowder said, and added that he favored beginning selections within two weeks after. registration so that exemption works may be expedited and notifications on the final selec- tions may be made as soon thereaf- ter as possible. While the War Department had originally planned to - first select 500,000 men, Gen. Crowder told the committee the plans have been re- vised and it is proposed to require 625,000. To get this number, he said, it probably will be necessary to draft at least 900,000 and possibly 1,500,000 because of expected exemptions. Gen. Crowder told the committee the additional 125,000 will be needed to fill up vacancies in the army of 500,000 and to keep training camps in continuous operation. When the original plans for service from half a million men were made, he said, the department had not planned to send American forces abroad so soon. Casualties from foreign service, he | belieyed, sickness, etc., make neces- sary a reserve of 125,000 men in- ad- dition to the duty at training camps. Gen, Crowder told the committee he favored immediate drafting of men registering rather than postpone- ment of the draft for severdl weeks after registration. He-regards it de- sirable that every drafted man have few. weeks to,.make... personal (Aar- 4 { ‘rangements before being called to the colors. The result, by a process of sum- |marization that will account for—ev- éry man of the 10 millions who marched Tuesday to the registratiqn places, -will’reach Washington: in (48 brief messages each representing the complete results ofa State. ‘ ‘Until those reports. arrive Federal ‘officials will have nothing to do ex- ‘It may be days before the roll of States is complete. No partial. re- titns will be transmitted. from -pre- county officials to the State horities or by the latter to the the| Provost a ay General. EP yarse eae, imsmedintely on the close of registration at 9 p. mm. The, card) will be. -examjned, and the summarization tabled and trans- Guardsmen From Other States Will} Follow Rapidly and Then New National Army Will ‘Be Sent. : Washington, June 2.—National duard regiments, yet to be selected, will be fighting in France or Belgium before. December. They will make up, the major portion of the second expeditionary force that the United States will send in a general plan of having between one hundred thou: and and 125,000 Americans fighting in the trenches before winter sets in. -As the Kansas and Missouri troops will not go to camp until August 5, it is not probable they will he includ- ed in the first expeditionary force of guardsmen, However, it is known from the war plans being worked out by the general staff that all the na- tional guard regiments ‘may expect to be on the firing line by spring. ready to participate in the next spring of- fensive. s While the makeup of the first na- tional guard expeditionary force was not divulged, it was indicated the di- visions of the-New York, Pennsyl- vania, Illinois and Ohio guard, the largest individual state units, will form the nucleus for the national guard divisions sent abroad. To these would be added detached units from other states. “The only announcement the War Department is prepared to make is that troops are going abroad,” Sec- retary Baker said today. “No policy will be laid down in advance.” Secretary Baker said the guard, when called out, would be’ sent to state mobilization camps. The pur- pose in this is to permit the organi- zations to fill their ranks to war strength by recruitment at home. The national guard organizations then will be sent to concentration camps in the South and Southeast, largely in General Wood's South> eastern Department, for intensive training before they are sent abroad as the second large American ex- peditionary force. The present plans of the War De- partment for sending troops abroad are: 1. General Pershing’s division of infantry, supplemented by a regiment of marines, 25,000 to 28,000 men in all, now under orders to sail for Eur- ope at the earliest possible moment. 2. Nine regiments of engineers, nearly organized, to form another expedition for work back of the line. This will be supplemented by addi- tional detachments from the regular, army force. 3. Four or five divisions of the na- tional guard, forming the second big expedition, with additional regular army troops. There are now sixteen guard divisions in the process of for- mation. The guard units that get whipped into effective shape first in the intensive training camps will be the first ones designated for. service abroad. : 4. By the time these regulars, re- serve and guardsmen are in France the first national army of 1-2 million} will be in training to form sixteen di- visions, the remainder of the national guard will be in process of expansion | to sixteen full divisions, and the reg-| ular army, by the addition of fifty-| one regiments now being formed, | will be expanded into sixteen full di- visions. Out of the three remaining forces the third big expeditionary force will be drawn. aul Plans have matured sufficiently: to) assure that General Pershing’s divis- ion, which will need but little train- ing behind .the trenches, will be in the fighting before fall, The first na- tional guard expedition should be ready to go into the trenches by De- cember. The first expeditionary force from the new National Army should be in| the trenches to join in the fighting late next year. . All the guard and all of the regulars that can be spared from the training of the National Army should be, over in France by next summer, depending on the ship- ping available. Secretary Baker has asked Con- gress to raise all present major gen- eralg of the army to the grade of lieu- -tenant, 4Q at they may rank capa “Goan peseral officers of the European armies and with the American navy... He -is prepared to Tentative Suggestion is a © Payment of $4,000 in Lieu of Pension to Beneficiaries: — Larger Policies at Peace Rates. Washington, June 2.—Plans ‘0: is- suing $4,000 free government imsur- ance on the life of every American soldier and sailor during the war in lieu of pension arrangements, will be taken up next week by the Council of National Defense. A report pre- pared by Assistant, Secretary Sweet of the Commerce Department, urges at the insurance be provided be- tere the troops are sent to France The defense council took up the question some weeks ago ard turned the whole subject over to the Depart: iment of Commerce for inves.'sation. The report now ready offers a long list of arguments showing the ad- vantage of working out a compensa- tion system before American lives rare lost in the war. The plans as prepared provide for 2d flat insurance of $4,000 on the life of every officer and private in the military naval service, to be paid to his beneficiaries without premiums. A government. insurance bureau would handle the whole subject and there would be provision for a sys- tem of insurance by which officers and men desiring to do so coul4 take out amounts higher than the $4.00c free policy by paying premiums at peace rates. Insurance companies, it is said, are ready to approve the scheme if. as- sured the government will not con- tinue in the insurance business after the war. : At the end of the war, the yovern- ment, it is suggested, could turn over to insurance companies its premium war business, dropping the flat $4,- 090 policies on all who leave the service. The insurance plan, it is believed, would improve the morale the troops, since many would go into bat- tle much more. willingly if assured their dependents would be cared ior if they were killed. The plan world provide also insurance for partial or total disability, In case of death the insurance would be paid: in install- ments, the amount of which would be determined ‘by a government board. ot SENATE WOULD EXEMPT MOVIES Places Tax on High Priced Theaters and on All Motor Cars. Washington, June 1.—Exemption of popular price moving picture thea- ‘ters from amusement taxes and the levying of a new federal license tax on motor. car owners, ranging from $7.50 to $25. with reductions for cars used a year or more, were agreed up- on today by the Senate finance com- mittee in continuing revision of the House War Tax Bill. ~. Under the committee's amendment all moving picture theaters charging less than twenty-five cents admission would escape the tax of one cent on each dime paid imposed by — the House measure. Treasury experts that estimate 'there are 1,400,000 owners of motor cars subject to the $7.50 tax, 760,000 subject to the $10 levy, 1,219,000 in the $15 class and 231,000 subject to the $20 rate. The license tax, pay- able bwymotor vehicle owners direct, takes tle place of the House tax of § per cent upon manufacturers of such vehicles. The committee’s sec- tion would provide the rate of tax to be based on each motor car or motor cycle as follows: ‘ Motor cycles, $2.50; motor cars listed retail price at time of purchase not over $500, $7.50; over $500 and not over $1,000, $10; over $500 and not over $2,000, $15; over $2,000 and not over $3,000, $20; $3,000 and over, $25. | Kansas Woman Kills Indian Mate. Arkansas City, Kas, June 2— Mrs. Luella Moncravie shot her hus- band, Henry Moncravie, an Osage Indian, with a revolver last night. He died an hour later. She was tak- en to the county jail at Winfield. Mrs. Moncravie is a white woman and had started divorce proceedings urge this upon Congress with vigor ae large tea are sent abroad. ere is a desire for. e in this, as General Persie Sitees the rank of lieutenant general when he joins the conferences of allied general of- ficers. The question of creating fourteen new major,generals for the national to command the fourteen new divisiong has not been taken up. There ‘are now only two guard major generals—in New York and Penn- sylvania, Regular army officers may be given these positions commanding guard divisions if the wishes of the NEW SEAPLANE TO HIT ‘ U-BOATS_ Invention to several different times, but always dropped them on compromises, Moncravie left the house wounded and got to the steps of a church a block away, where he fell and called for-help. . He made no statement re- garding» the shooting. He was 41 yeats old ‘and was worth $50,000. He was married three times and is sur- vived by his 13-year-old daughter, Eunice, by his first wife, who died six years ago. FAVOR ADVERTISING TAX Senate Finance Committee for 2 Per Cent Levy and No Postal In- crease. Washington, Jurie 4.—Aiter sever- al hours’ discussion of how newspa- pers, magazines and other publica- tions shall be taxed for war pur- poses the Senate finante committee today’ adopted a resolution against second class postage rates “favor of levying a direct flat cent tax upon advertising fe- Genera] Staff Plans to Send 125,000 Guardsmen This Fall. Washington, June 2.—Five divis- ions of national guardsmen—about 125,000 men—will be in Europe by the time snow flies if plans under consideration by the army general staff are adopted. Action on these plans is expected either today or early next week. The fact’ that they are now.before the staff explains the reason behind abandonment of half of the proposed cantonments for the new army and national guard. The staff is understood to look favorably upon the plan, although there is the practical difficulty of transporting such a large number of troops so soon, t While the plans have not been fully worked out, they contemplate, in a general way, only scratching the sur- face in the matter of training in American tent camps, leaving the real hard, intensive work either to can- tonments in Great Britain or to training classes in France. As the plans now stand the War Department would pick the best trained of its national guardsmen for the service. They would supplement the one division of regulars under General Pershing already arranged for. If transports can be provided, there is practically no question as to send- ing the .men abroad before winter. They might even be seasoned and trained to get in on the last of the autumn drive, and certainly would be fit for the meager winter service and for the big spring drive. In making plans for this additional force the War Department is taking into consideration that a single divis- ion of the regular army is only a “drop in the bucket,” whereas five divisions supplementing that one could make a real ipression on the western front, both from a military and psychological standpoint. It is the idea of army officers to retain the bulk of the regular army in the United States to train the new selective service army. The plans for sending the national guard abroad came as a surprise here, as it has been supposed Ameri- ca would send no troops other than the Pershing division abroad in much less than a year’s time. Does This Hit You? Perhaps you are oné of those in po- sition to benefit from a reminder sent out recently by the federal public health service. After an investiga- tion showing the tendency of nerv- ous diseases to shorten life, the re- minder, offered in the course of a bulletin, says: “So far as is known, no bird ever tried to build more nests than its neighbors; no fox ever fretted be- cause he has only one hole into which to hide; no squirrel ever died of anxiety lest he could not lay in enough nuts for two winters instead. of for one, and no dog ever lost any sleep over the fact that he did not have enough bones laid aside for his declining years.”"—Joplin Globe. Dedicate State House Nov. 6 — Jefferson City, June 1—At a ses- sion of the capitol building commis- sion today, at which Architect Egerton Swartout of New York was present, the date for the- dedication of the new state house was fixed for November 6. Originally the dedica- tion was planned for July 4, but was postponed for the reason that the furniture will not be completed and installed -by that date. SHE “KIDDED” THE PRESIDENT “Woodie, Old Top, How Are You?” the Hotel Hello Girl Asked. She is one of the most obliging telephone operators at one of the most popular hotels. But she thinks she knows when she is_ being “kidded.” So when a_ masculine voice called the other day and asked for a very distinguished guest at the hotel she inquired the name. “Woodrow Wilson,” came back over the phone. Now, that is an old gag and doesn’t go any more. “Well, Woodie, old top, how are you?” she gently chided... “You haven’t called up for several days. You don’t know how I have missed |your sweet voice over the wire. where have you been?” The voice said it would like to have the call and seemed oblivious to the telephone girl’s “taffy.” _“Oh, I’m getting him all right. But really, Woody, don’t you think you have been neglecting. me of late?” She made up her mind she would make him very tired*of such silly ef- fort to fool a tired hello girl. By and by the response came and she heard things that worried her. She looked thoughtful and chewed her mint more vigorously. “I wonder if it could be,” she mused. Nervously she called the White House. One of the secret ser- vice’ men responded. ~“Please, have you had a call there/] ‘ | CROUCH BROS. No. 7 S. Main St. for our ‘hotel recently?” After a minute’s delay the reply came back: “Yes, the President has been talk. ing to the, hotel.”. ; it STRUCK ON STATE CAPITOL Use of Convict Laborers Resented by Construction Employees. Jefferson City, June 4.—Every workman employed on the new state capitol quit work this morning when a force of convicts was brought on the grotinds to work in cleaning up and leveling the ground purchased by the state to add to the capitol park. About one hundred mechanics em- ployed on the building laid down their tools’ the minute a force of con- victs came within the inclosure of the new building and commenced tearing up an old street. Some fifty men employed by the Joseph Pope Construction Company also laid down their tools. These men were at work constructing the terrace around the new building. The work- men objected to the presence of the convicts so close to them, Shortly after noon the strike was adjusted and the men returned to work. The basis of settlement was that the convicts are not to be em- ployed inside the fence inclosing the capitol, but can ‘be employed else- where as the warden directs. Two weeks ago some fifty con- victs were employed in wrecking old buildings on the grounds added to the park, and without any protest irom the workmen, This morning Warden Painter brought a hundred convicts from the prison and began work on a large scale. The legislature appropriated $25,- ooo for improving the grounds sur-° rounding the capitol. Governor Gardner would not approve this item until he had reached a distinct un- derstanding with the capitol commis- sioners that convicts should be em- ployed. The Pope Construction Company has the contratt for the terrace work at a cost to the state of $131,000 “T can do the terrace work with convict labor for $90,000,” said Ward- en Painter, “and thus save the state more than $40,000. I may say, too, that the new capitol is so nearly com- pleted that if the state is forced to do so it can be completed with con- vict labor, something, however, that is not desired.” a Tent Camps for the South. Washington, June 1.—It was ex- plained at the War Department to- day that the decision to reduce’ the number of army cantonments from thirty-two to sixteen and quarter the men unprevided for in tents, had been reached because the cantonment system had been found nearly twice as expensive as expected. The ap- propriation for cantonments was 77 million dollars, while the estimated cost of thirty-two cantonments would be about 150 million dollars. The sites of the sixteen canton- ments have not yet been definitely settled. So far as possible the tent camps will be in the South, A FELONY TO HOARD FOOD Drastic Amendment to Bill Adopted ° by Senate. © Washington, May 31.—Hoarding, storage or destruction of food, fuel or other necessaries of life to limit supply or effect prices would be a felony under an amendment to the government's first food bill adopted in the Senate today without a record vote. Several senators protested that the provision was too drastic and would prevent legitimate storing to equal- ize markets, but all efforts to modify it failed. When Senator Fall pro- posed that the Federal Trade Com- mission be empowered to decide whether storing is reasonable, Sen- ator Poindexter, author of the amend- ment, insisted that any such charge would weaken the effectiveness of the measure as a weapon against speculators, Violation of the section would be punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than three years. CLOTHES DOCTORS For _ Practical cleaning and pressing. We positively clean everything but a guilty con- science. Hats Cleaned and Blocked All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. Goods Called for and Delivered. Phone 17x Batlen, Mo,