The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 1

WILL COSTMORE If you put off your buying : toa later date. _ Every mark up in prices means some- thing to you. To-day our stock of Dry Goods, Clothing and House Fur- nishing is at its best. Prices are higher than they were a year ago, but not as high as they will be. \ : : Hundreds of yards fine wash goods selling now at eS — 9eyd > Hundreds of yards of fast color dress gingham, i2eyd. Hundreds of yards of percales, : gelling now at ..10e yd. Hundreds of yards of fine torchon laces, selling now at Se yd. Hundreds of yards of the best and finest wash goods, selling now at ' 25e yd. Hundreds of yards of fast edge nainsook and Swiss embroidery at 10c yd: Hundreds of.yards of fine curtain scrim, selling now at 12%c yd. Hundreds of yards of sport stripe skirtings, selling now at 25¢c yd. Hundreds of yards of fine table damask, selling now at 30c fast color gingham petticoats, selling now at 65c Dozens of Welworth and Wirthmore waists, ~ ing now at selling t $2.00 and $1.00 Dozens of fine spott hats, selling now at - 50c and $1.00 -“30e'to $1.50. Dozens of VOLUNTEERS First Appeal to People Names Wi to Fill wv Army for - ar. Washington, D. C., June 20.—Pres= ident Wilson issued a proclamation today designating the week of June 23—30 as. recruiting week for the regular army and called upon un-| married men without dependents to enroll for war service in order. that. the ranks of the regulars might be} filled promptly. The proclamation follows: PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT: THE “I hereby. designate the period. of June 23 to June 30, next, as Recruit- ing Week for the regular army and call upon the unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 40 years,- who have no dependents and who are not engaged in pursuits vitally necessary to the prosecution of the war, to present themselves for enlistment during the week herein designated to the number of 70,000. (Signed) Woodrow Wilson.” The President's action was taken |’ at the request of army officials, who have been seriously concerned over the slow rate of recruiting for the regular army despite the fact that the ‘department's recruiting agencies cov- er every section of the country and that the men are asked to serve only for the period of the war. It had\been hoped that the regu- lar service could be brought to its whole war strength of approximate- ly 300,000 men by June 30, which would have permitted the War De- partment to carry out its plan in re- gard to the training of all forces to be raised and also as to the dis- patch of armies to France. ; For. several days, however, the av- erage enrollment for the army per day has been little more than 1,000) men instead of the 5,000 or more the department hoped to obtain. Today’s recruiting bulletin shows that since March ‘121,363 men have been enrolled as war volunteers of, the 183,898 necessary to bring ¢! service to war strength. The: army, therefore, is now in the neighbor- hood of 70,000 men short of war strength and the President's call, the first he has made directly for war ‘volunteers, is designed to fill in this gap as quickly as possible. National Army Will be Drafted in Capitol to Avoid Favoritism. Washington, D. C., June 23.—Reg- ulations for drafting the new nation- al army, now awaiting President Wil- son’s approval, contain provision for every step in the great undertaking, except the actual method of the draft itself. No official announcement has been made and official confirmation is withheld, but it has been stated, and generally is accepted as true, that the Federal “Government itself will do the drafting probably here in Wash- ington, so there will be no opportun- ity for local favoritisms. As the regulations now stand, ev- ery registered man bears a number. The identity of the numbered men will be unknown to those in charge of the draft machinery. As the num- bers are drawn they will be tele- graphed to the home district, where the registered men will learn if they have been drafted. Then the question of exemptions will come up, and this will go before the local boards. If a man is ex- empted the man bearing the number which: was drawn next in order will take his place, and so on. : In this way, all those available for service out of the 10,000,000 who reg- istered will be made ready for the country’s call, and from them the first increment of 625,000 will be assem- bled. Pienty-of time will be given for drafted men to arrange their person- and report to the canton- ment camps. It is hoped to have them all in training by tember 1, or soon thereafter. _” May Imports Set Record. pir cesar late last week has ap- WILSON CALLS FOR 70,000 {Elevated Machine Gun Now Drops|U. 8. SOLDIERS NOW EXCEED Its Bullets Into Enemy's Trenches. Behind the British Lines in France. June 8.—Use of the machine gun as a weapon for indirect fire-by-elevat- ing the gun so the bullets awill fall into the trenches of the enemy ie one of the recent developments of war- fare which convinces the British army that the American expedition- ary force should be trained within the sound of the guns at the front. This change in the method of us- ing the machine gun -have brought ‘about within a year. It shows, say the British officers, the rapidity with hich methods—of—fighting are be- ing altered and that. if capable offi- ters were to be sent to’ the front from America the systems they learned might be out of date before the troops they were to teach ar- rived in France. In one type of so-called indirect fire a machine gumis trained by day on a stretch of road or communica- Htions which the enemy is using at Pnight for bringing up supplies and re- Penforcements, The machine-gun tripod is careful- ly adjusted to command this road, and stakes are placed so that the bullets can be sprayed over the road. Then at night, although the road is, invisible, the machine gun is turned on at intervals of perhaps one hour, sweeping the road clear of any enemy supply columns that may be there and in effect making the use of that road impossible at night. U. S. Jackies Are Only Persons in England to Get White Bread. Base of American Flotilla in Brit- ish Waters, June 22.—Jackies of the American patrol are getting the best care and fare, as one result of the adequate equipment of the flotilla’s mother ship and the efficiency of the men who man it. “It is really marvelous what you Americans can do,” remarked a Brit- ish officer. The ship not only keeps the fleet in trim but bakes the bread “Sat performs innumerable other ser- vices for the men. The. mother ship is the only place in the British Isles where bread other than “war bread” is made. A baker formerly with two of the biggest ho- tels at a famous Atlantic Coast re- sort turns out daily several hundred loaves of the finest white bread. The meals for the jackies on board are cooked by.a chef from one of New York’s popular Broadway hotels. In fact, life is so pleasant aboard this beehive of industry that five members ‘of her crew have not set foot ashore since her arrival, prefering the ship’s accommodations. BOARDS OF EXEMPTIONS ARE NAMED Rules to be Issued Soon So Army Selection May Begin Next Week. Washington, D, C., June 26.—An- nouncements of local exemption boards in 24 States who will pass on the exemption claims of candidates for the National Army under the draft law, were made today. - The rules governing exemptions have not yet been issued but will be soorf, so the ‘work of selecting the army may be begun next week. The President had asked the Gov- ernors of the various States to nom- inate candidates for the boards and it may be assumed that the boards as. announced have the approval not only. of the President, but of the State executives. Among the States in which committees are complete are: _Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi and I!linois. In nearly every instance the coun- ty boards in Missouri are made up of the Sheriff, County Clerk and a phy- sician. : In the cities, however, many of the board members were chosen from private life. The Bates county Board is composed of J. W. Baker, Sheriff; Frank Holland, County Clerk; Dr. T. W. Foster. TEUTON PLOT INFURIATES ALL NORWAY Nation Appailed at Wholesale Ship- ment of Infernal Machines for Ships. Christiania, Norway, June 26.— Discovery of the German plot to de- stroy- Norwegian steamers by explo- as recruiting week for the Regular to obtain during the week seventy HALF MILLION Army and Navy Jump From 300,000 * to 700,000 With Declaration of War. Washington, D. C., June 24.— More than half a million 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 and 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 enrolled in the various branches of the fighting service and the great majority of them are armed equipped and under training. They will be joined at the end of the sum- mer by nearly a million men select- ed for the new National Army*from the millions registered for war duty June 5s. ; The regular army totaled a fittle more than 100,000 men three months ago. It is nearing the 250,000 mark today, and War Department officials, backed by the press of the country, are bending every effort to bring it tp to 300,000 during this week. The National Guard, 150,000 strong when war came, numbers nearly 260,- ooo 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 thorough and sol- dierly way, as shown by the trivial damage the plotters have been able to inflict. The Marine Corps, whose ‘slogan of “First to Fight” has been respected by the Government in attaching a seasoned regiment of sea soldiers to Maj. Gen. Pershing’s expeditionary force to France, has been raised from 17,000 to nearly 30,000 men, The regular bluejacket force of the navy has been raised from fewer than 60,000 to 120,000, while probably 12,- ooo men have already joined the force of engineers newly created for ser- vice in France. Forty thousand picked men are tinder strenuous training at the of- ficers’ training camps, insuring good junior officers for the national army. Other thousands are doing their share at the medical corps and en- gineer corps training camps and still others are with the naval coast de- fense reserve, keeping the Atlantic Coast free from the submarine men- ace and insuring a clear road for the endless stream of cargo carriers which are taking American war sup- plies to Europe. The immediate need, administration officials believe, is to bring the regu- lar army up to its full strength with- out delay. These are the first line troops, the men who will be the first Americans to face the German hosts. They will be the bone and sinew of Gen. Pershing’s army, and there must be no delay in getting them ready to go, President Wilson has designated the present. week as: recruiting week for the regulars. Secretary Baker has sought the aid of all newspapers to the end that 70,000 men shall be enrolled before June 30. No expla- nation. of the need for getting men by that time has been given, but it is assumed that it has to do with get- ting forces to Furope. Brig. Gen. McCain, Adjutant Gen- eral of the army, has pointed out again that under the selective army bill every man who volunteers in the regular army from any State means one man less that State will be re- quired to furnish in the regular army. A careful record of the State distri- butions of recruits is being kept for that purpose. Gen. McCain also directed atten- tion to the fact that after the second series of officers’ #aining camps has closed the only road to promotion will be from the existing forces. Men in the regular regiments will have equal, if not better chances for secur- ing commissions than men in the Na- tional Guard or the National Army. They will be of longer experience and will be the first’ sent to France. This Week Army Week. “To the editors -of all newspapers President Wilson has by proclama- tion fixed the week beginning today Army. The Army needs and expects Ames, NUMBER 37 MISSOURI NOTES. George Pace, 18, and Joe Pace, 13, brothers, fell out of a boat in Flat Creek, Pettis County, Friday and drowned, They were skylarking with two Skaggs brothers, who swam to shore. George Pace’s body was re- covered. _ While he was out for a walk at St Joseph Thursday, Father James Kearful, an aged retired Catholic priest, was attacked by a robber, and when he resisted, the footpad shot him three times and escaped. Father Kearful is not expected to recover from the wounds, Mrs. Dee Richardson, who led the attack on the suffrage pickets in front of the White House one day ‘last week, is a former Missourian. She has been a resident of Washington for several years but at one time lived in Henry county. She is separated from her husband, who runs a cigar store in St. Louis. Josh B. Piersol, grandfather of Claude Piersol, now being held in St. Louis in connection with alleged abduction plots in Springfield, was killed by a St. Louis & San Fran- cisco freight train near his home in Billings, Mo., Wednesday afternoon. An investigation of Piersol’s death is being made by the coroner of Christian county. Joseph J. Crites, lawyer and poli- tician of Rolla, Mo, was_ indicted Thursday night by the Greene Coun- ty grand jury in connection with the passing by the lower house of the state legislature at the last session of the Optometry Bill. The offense charged against Crites is bribery. It is also charged he accepted employ- ment from those behind the measure on a contingent fee, in violation of the Anti-Lobby Law. The people of Chariton river bot- toms were thrown into quite a flurry last week when it was reported that at.a certain place near the river ashes and other unusual things were boiling out ef-the ground. It was rumored that it was a long extinct volcano again becoming active. Large num- bers of people visited the spot and found that the reports were true. So far no satisfactory explanation of the phenomena has been advanced. While his wife was cooking dinner in an adjoining room, William Miko- man, 27 years old, ended his life at his home on White River, 20 miles east of Cassville, Thursday, by shoot- ing himself in the right side with a rifle. He died almost instantly. He leaves a widow and five children. Registration records in the office of Count Clerk of Cassville show that he had not registered under the draft act. It is said that is a reason why he committed suicide. Organization of the. Missouri State Tax Commission has been perfected by the selection of Cornelius Roach - as chairman, Olga Meals of Monroe County secretary and Miss Clara Kesweter of Kansas City stenog- rapher. Other clerical aids will be selected later. The commission at once will take up the tax valuation of the railroad and other corporate property. This, however, must be done along the lines mapped out by the State Board of Equalization. Draydale, a small town in Platte county so named because it is one of the wettest spots in the state, has been causing trouble lately for the officers of the United States as well as-the state officials. It is situated just across the Missouri river from Leavenworth, Kansas. About all the town consists of is four saloons and they are well patronized by the citi- zens cf Leavenworth as well as quite a sprinkling of soldiers from the-training camp situated near there. Gov. Gardner has been appealed to and it is probable that Drydale will be “dry” im a very short time. BRITAIN MUST NOT LET UP London Times Warns Nation Not to Shift Load to America. London, June 25.—Commenting on the astonishing success of the Lib- erty Loan, the London Times's fi- sancial editorial says: - “Confident as we may well be in the financial strength of the United here be so foolish