The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 3

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Mr. Armstrong is fully capable of getting out just such a paper as will meet the wants of the soldiers. He has had years of experience in general news- paper work with dailies and weeklies, and has, the faculty of injecting into the papers the fact that they’ .were the subscriber's papers, published for THEM: He knows news and each day will have all that is “dging” in the Guardsman. Mr. Armstrong has arranged with editor of the Official Bulletin, the daily paper published at Wash- ington, giving the official war news, to secure copies of that. paper daily. to serve as a supplement to the Guardsman, both’ papers being given for one subscription, ' Besides being of interest and inspiration_to the sol- diers. the paper will truly supply 4 heartfelt want to the folks back home to whom it will be as a daily letter from their sons, brothers, wives: and sweethearts.—Cass County Leader. PEPPER HELPED : 2 Gouvicr FLEE. jbe filled from -leral service before August 5. The Spice Spilled Scént.for Jeffer- eon City Doga and Man Hecaped. . ' Jefferson City, June 29—Frank Johnson of St. serving a 5- year term in the penitentiary for burgtary, not only fooled the prison bloodhounds tottay, but cacaped. » He was with two hundred other the governors of all states that are entitled to additional units in the na- tional guard forces. This waiving of the minimum strength opens the way for nearly all the states to organize up to their au- thorized strength. It means that where a captain can get a: dozen or twenty men together as the founda- tion of a company which a state is supposed to raise, that company will -|be accepted by the government and later recognized by the United States government and will be given further ‘|time to recruit up to the necessary strength and to select the: additional Officers, In the event it is found im- possible to recruit these new com- mands up to war strength, they will the selective draft army. In Missouri and Kansas, though, the new organizations are all under way now. While no decision has yet been reached upon. the subject, it was stat- ed today by a high official of the War Department that it is very prob- able that none of the national guard commands will be taken into the fed- The question has been put up to Secre- tary of War Baker with a recommen- dation that the August date be adopted, but he has not given his de- cision, “However,” said an officer, “I think it is a safe bet that August 5 will be adopted.” The original otders called for tak- ing the national guard into the Unit- ed States service in three increments. the first -July 15, tle second July 25 and the third August 5. A ‘number of officers will be in readinéss to re- ceive the first lot July 15, or the sec- ond July 25, and they advocate mak- ing the first class August 5, or pos- sibly taking all in on that date. It is stated that if there is a change in the orders and a postponement, the national guard - commands will not be held in their armories' for ten days or two weeks for recruiting pur- poses, as was at first planned, but will be sent at once to their mobili- zation camps. Recruiting detach- ments may be left at home, but the various commands will be sent to camp at once. ‘As the Missouri and Kansas guard were not scheduled to go into federal service until August 5 anyway, the change will not affect them. U-BOATS HAVE WIRE CUTTERS Captain of Torpedoed Ship Sketched Submarine of New Type. Base of the American Flotilla in British Waters, June 28—The cap- tain of a torpedoed merchantman has turned over to the naval authorities here a sketch of a new type of Ger- man submarine equipped with a wire- cutting device designated to release it from nets. The sketch shows sev- eral strands of stout steel hawsers stretched from the bow through the conning tower to the stern. At- tathed to these is a, series of heavy circular knives, a foot in diameter and placed about a yard apart. The captain made the drawing while in a small boat after his ship had been torpedoed. He had been shelled and torpedoed in two other ships, but on neither of those occas- sions had he noticed anything new in the type of the German diving boats. The theory of the captain is ‘that a boat so equipped would have hope of being able to cut its way through any steel nets in which it might be- come enmeshed. ‘PLENTY OF PROOF Fromr People You Know—From : Butler Citizens. The greatest‘ skeptic can hardly fail to. be convinced by evidence like this. It is impossible to produce bet- ter.proof of merit than the testimony bn — of Butler, of people who geen at any time. Read the ee case of it: cW, H. Holloway, 213 S. 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Action taken by President Wilson today virtually assures noninterference with the man- ufacture of the milder intoxicating beverages for the time being at least, if not for the entire war period. The ban on whisky will not be altered, however. The President straightened out the tangle over the liquor legislation in a conference with Senate Democratic leaders at the White House this morning. Subsequently he addressed a letter to the Rev. James Cannon, Jr., chairman of the Legislative Com- mittee of the Antisaloon League of America in which he urged the pro- hibition advocates to ‘withdraw their opposition to beer and.wine for the present. Dr. Cannon replied late today that he and his associates recognized the force of the President's appeal and said that a conference would be held at once with dry leaders of Congress. Although Dr. Cannon did not at- tempt-to speak for his constituency, his letter gave the impression that the President's wishes would be re- spected. There is every reason to believe tonight that the President’s action has saved the brewing and wine industries of the country. An immediate outcome of Presi- dent Wilson’s intervention in the liquor fight was the drafting of a sub- stitute amendment to the food bill by Senator Gore of Oklahoma, chair- man of the Senate Agriculture Com- mittee, which would prohibit the manufacture of distilled spirits dur- ing the war, but would allow the mak- ing of beer and. wine. The amendment also gives discre- tionary power to the President to stop the manufacture of lighter drinks whenever he finds it essential to conserve the supply of foodstuffs. At the White House conference, which was attended by Senator Mar- tin, Democratic leader; Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Democratic whip; Senator Phelan of California and Senator Gerry of Rhode. Island, President Wilson urged that the Senate pass liquor legislation, if it were felt that there should be such legislation at this time, which would not include beer and wine, He want- ed Congress to take conclusive ac- tion and not leave it to him to ex- ercise discretionary power, but indi- cated a willingness to accept the re- sponsibility if there was no other way to dispose of the matter, The President made it plain to the Senators and later in his letter to Dr. Cannon that ‘it was imperative that the food administration ‘law, be passed without further delay and in- sisted that the country would suffer if the liquor controversy prolonged the debate. The Senators informed the Presi- dent that the attitude of the Senate unquestionably s against eliminat- ing beer and wine. for prohibitory legislation and it was urged that the only way to bring about a compro- mise that would win support from the rabid prohibition element was to put in the discretionary feature. — ‘When the President, convinced that against beer and wine was tnwise. at this oe con- | sented to the discretionary clause | The Virginia Store night are convinced that the amend- ment lifting the ban on beer and light wines would pass the Senate. Senator Gore expressed himself to be entirely satisfied with the outcome of the conference and believed that it would clear the air and hasten the passage of the food bill. “This move of the President has, I believe, saved days, if not weeks, of delay in putting the bill through,” said Senator Gore. “Advocates of nation-wide prohibition, such as my- self, were eager for a compromise that would put the broad question of prohibition over until after the war. The antagonists of prohibition in any form were ready to talk against the measure indefinitely. The Senate had reached a point that meant. a worse tangle as it went on. si “TI have no doubt whatever—in fact, I can put it stronger than that—that this compromise, giving discretionary power to the President to stop the manufacture of beer and wine, will be passed. It will win support even from advocates of nation-wide prohi- bition on the Democratic side, for it goes into the Senate with the advo- cacy of the President as a means of unraveling what has become a diffi- cult knot.” GREECE ENTERS THE WAR The Government Considers That Hostilities Now Exist With the Presence of Troops in Greek Territory. Athens, June 29..—-The Greek gov- ernment has broken diplomatic rela- tions with Germany, Austria-Hun- garia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Though war.has not yet been de- clared, the Greek government consid- ers that a state of war exists since ite advent to power yesterday. Paris, June 29.—Telegraphing from Athens under today’s date the corre- spondent of Le Temps says: “The Greek government has direct- ed its minister to Switzerland, G. Caradja, to communicate to the Greek legation at Berlin, Vienna, Sofia and Constantinople instructing the ministers to break diplomatic re- lations between the Greek Kingdom and the governments of Germany, A aialie teal Bulgaria and Tur- ey. “The Greek ministers at these cap- itals are instructed to leave their posts with their staffs and to place their archives with the Netherlands legations. “The rupture is based on the in- compatability of maintaining diplo- matic relations with governments that are carrying on war in Greek territory.” Cuban Sugar-Cheapest, * Washington, June 29.—The cost of producing sugar is less in Cuba than in any other important source from which the United States obtains its supplies. A comprehensive report on the subject, issued by the De- partment of Commerce, -shows the net cost per potind of raw sugar, delivered in the United States, not including duty, is 1.719 cents -for sugar from Cuba, 2.328" cents: from Porto Rico, 2.697 cents from Hawaii, 3.975 cents for: Louisiina cane sugar and 3.74 cents for beet sugar pro- duced in the United States, f. °. b. factory.” The difference between these fig- ures and the prices paid by refiners represents the profits, of producers. Raw sugar was quoted. today in New York at 6.39 cents a pound, and re- fined 7 1-2 to 8 cents a pound.