The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 1

© HOUSE PASBES _$7,000,000,000 pUPPLY BILL Prompt Seiiate Action Expected on a ‘ Largest Money Measure in Nation’s History. ‘Wadhingto® D: C., Sept. 18—The '$7,000,000,000 war deficiency bill, / ¢arrying huge appropriations for the - ~ army, fortifications and Shipping Board, passed the House today by a unanimous vote. The bill, the largest supply meas- ure in the country’s history, now goes to the Senate, where prompt ac- tion is expected. It directly author- izes contracts for $2,314,000,000 addi- tional. The big items include: Shipping Board, $635,000,000 cash, ‘as part of the board’s construction rogiam limited to an aggregate of ¥,749,000,000; fortifications, $1,495,- 000,000 ‘appropriated and contracts ‘authorized - for $975,000,000 more; naval emergency fund, $100,000,000; War Department emergency fund, $100,000,000; construction of addition- al torpedo-boat destroyers, $225,000,- 000, to start a $350,000,000 program. Transportation of the army and its supplies, $35,000,000; army subsisi- ence, $175,000,000; quartermaster sup- plies, $100,000,000; clothifig and camp equippage, $350,000,000; horses, $30,000,000; barracks and quarters, $49,000,000; Medical, Department, $100,000,000; Engineer Department, $15,000,000; ordnance stores ammu- nition, $39,520,000; small-arms targct practice, $13,000,000; ordnance stores and supplies, $70,000,000; automatic Bers “nachinie riftes, $220,000,000, and $118,- | 000,000 more authorized; armed mo- tor cars, $16,750,000, and $5,000,000 + more authorized. : Aviation, $35,000,000; naval ord- nance and ofdnance stores, $12,446,- 480; ammunition for vessels, $40,000,- 000, and $15,000,000 more authorized; Datteries and outfits for vessels, $50,- 000,000, and $28,000,000 additional au- sthorized; reserve ordnance supplies, $47,500,000 cash, and $17,500,000 more authorized. committee have been planning propose such a provision as an amendment to the bill, but may post- pone their effort in view of the gen- eral desire to hasten adjournment. ‘ Second-ctass postage taxes in the| The latest thing in the tilling of the war:tax bill were agreed upon today| S°il is the synmotor, which, while it by the conferees. / | guides itself, plows’ and cultivates, A modified zone plan for increas-| 0WW and reaps. The farmer may sit ing rates on newspapers and periodi-|0" hia front porch and see his crops cals was decided upon, according «to Planted and ‘grown and gathered reliable information which filtered| Without putting his hand to the work. through the strict order of secrecy.| She device, patented by Herbert L, None of the conferees would dis-| Washburn of, Laurel Springs, N. J., close any intimation of their action,| Consists of a 4 or 8-horsepower gas- but information was obtained to the[otine tractor adaptable to any ordi- effect that a corgpromise Between the] "aty agricultural implement 4nd with House and McKellar plans had been|dglicate guiding apparatus connected reached proposing a limited circula-|Ly a broom wire to a drum mounted tion area in which present one-cent-|0n a steel post in the center of the a-pound rate woutd not,be raised. | field. “As the tractor moves the A tentative agreement to impose| Wire winds about tha drum, shorten- an automobile tax on manufacturers|ing the radius just enough to guide and eliminate the proposed tax on|the working implement into a gent- individual owners was reached as fol-}ly, inwinding spiral. The circumfer- lows: ence of the drum is thus the width of . Machine selling for less than $s00, the furrow or row or swath. All the $15; $500 to $750, $20; $750 to $1,000, | man has to do is to connect the wire $25, and $5 additional for each $250|and crank the engine. The symotor | The Synmotor, Which-Guides Itself Makes Farm Work Lighter. - addition. in the selling cost. Motor| will then. work its way around and trucks would be exempt. around without attention, till the : small circles near the post are reached and the field.is done. Another quéstion is whether the in- vention-islimited to small scale farm- ing. One might doubt whether the guiding cable would work so accur- ately at long distance; but Mr. Wash- burn says that the matter of steering, which first occurs to questioners, is the least of his difficulties. Last year he successfully worked a field of seven” and one-fourth’ acres planted with cow peas and sorghum, and he thinks that a 10-acre field should be the standard among’ farmers who would use the synmotor. This would Denies Libeling Lincoln. . Vincennes, Ind, Sept. 14.—Dr. Wilhelm T. Von Knappe pleaded not guilty to the charge of libeling Abra- ham Lincoln, and is at liberty today under a bond of $250. Von Knappe was arrested yesterday on a grand jury indictment as a result of an in- vestigation of a book entitled “His- tory of the Wabash Valley” which the doctor wrote and sent to St. Louis to have printed. In the book he charged Lincoln, it is set forth ia the indictment, with being a traitor to his country during the Mexican War,| require a cable 371 feet long.—Phila- with being an infidel and blasphemer. | delphia Record. Von Knagpe asserts his defense will fi rence a er evidence to sustain his May Examine All Registrants. —_—_—_— Boston, Sept. 15.—Provost Marshal Many people spend a lot of’ time|General Crowder asked~ Governor and other esti- Committee may be the bill With new army mates, the Senate called upon to , increase ‘around $1,000,000,000. Senate Republicans favoring con- igressional expenditure supervising McCall in a telegram today for his opinion as to the advisability of sub- jecting every man registered under the Selective Draft Act to immediate explaining things they know nothing about. Many a word at random spoken, may soothe, or wound, a heart that’s broken. | ; : : physical examination. in order that there might be no delay in certifying aule¢g i} BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. to| PASSING OF THE PLOWMAN men for service when the time comes for another call to the colors. The provost marshal general said the 7 million men who have. not been called for examination are naturally in a state of unrest and as a resuit|- find employment difficult and often hesitate to enter upon any enterprise that requires continued attention, Vagrants Must Work or Fight. Tulsa, Ok., Sept. 18—Holding that the towns of Pawhuska and Hominy, in Osage County, have too many ablebodied men doing nothing, Coun- ty Attorney Cornett today directed all pgace officers each of Osage County, town or settlement to arrest all suspected ‘ vagrants. Arrested ones will be taken to the court-house at Pawhuska for courts of inquiry. All civic organizations, of the coun- ty have pledged assistance in the ef- fort to rid rooming houses and pool halls of loafers. “They must work or fight,” said the county attorney today. Bootleggers, Equipped With Air- Planes, Beat “Bone-Dry” Oklahoma. Bartlesville, Ok., Sept. 18.—Boot- leggers have found a means of evad- ing Oklahoma’s “bone-dry” law by carrying intoxicants in airplanes past the noses of Federal officers. The “over-ground” route has proven—so successful authorities fear the State will be flooded. It has been impos- gible to determiné whether or not army aviators were participating in the raids or if it was confined to in- dependent flyers. Shippers Warned of Car Shortage in U.S. Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 18.—The State Public Service Commission will igsue a warning témorrow to shippers to co-operate with the railways in tak- ing care of the shortage on account of the war. The statement says that the rail- roads are loaded down in the trans- porting of Government supplies, and that it will be many months before °S, NUMBER 49 TO LEAVE FRIDAY Second Detachment of Bates Coun- ty’s Draft Quota Ready to Fi Go. Preparations for sending the de- tachment of Bates county’s quota for the national army to the training camp at Ft. Riley are completed and the thirty young men and three al- ternates have all been ordered to re- port to the exemption board in this city Friday. They wilt leave on the north bound Missouri Pacific at 11 o'clock Friday morning. Following is a list of the thirty young men and the three alternates: 1095 Snodgrass, Orville L., Spruce 676 Wilson, James A., Rich Hill 506 Burch, Carl O., Pleasant Gap 548 Barnett, Jess E., Rich Hill 924 Fox Claude W., Rich Hill tory. McCall, Fred Buell, Foster 1178 Garber, Harry Heber, Butler 1331 Fenton, Charles Owen, Drexel 1282 Cox, Joseph C., Butler 1236 Bush, William D., Worland 18 Lankford, Cecil E., Adrian 1484 Kegerreis, William C., Spruce 739 McMillin, Erwin, Merwin 513 Hauver, Walter S., Butler 1020 Kenney, William A., Ballard 602 Wiek, Carl W., Rich Hill 786 Leslie, William F., Hume 1549 Piggott, Joe Jabez, Butler | 966 Pettus, Lee S., Rich Hill 332. Dye, Robert Lee, Rockville 379 Groves, Ira R., Rich Hill 298 Hicks, Wm. LeRoy, Rich Hill 905 Kennedy, Charles Thomas, Ap- pleton City 3ourquin, Raymond E., Butler Switzer, Clarence E., Altona McHenry, Wendle S., Foster Betz, Levi Lloyd, Montrose Kenney, Edward, Rich Hill Circle, Preston, Rich Hill Fleming, Sam‘! J., Rich Hill Ashley, George J., Rich Hill Cone, Harvey J., Rich Hill Bishop, Everett D., Butler Aun itws BIE SAA wmarasran on 54 A‘large number of Adrian people attended the burial services of H. F. Stearns here Wednesday. Fi J. E. Dowell, of the Adrian Jour- ‘Spruce Honors Her Departing Soldiers, A lawn sociak was held in the church yard of the Presbyterian church at Spruce Tuesday evening in honor of the boys from Deepwater township who will leave Friday for Ft. Riley to join the National army. The principal address was made by the Rev. Teays, of the M. E. church, South. He gave the boys some goad advice and told the boy that the prayers and good wishes of the friends at home would follow them to the trenches of France. After the singing of several patriotic songs # feast of watermelgps, that the boys will remember long after they leave Bates county, was served. @ihe boys who will go from Deepwater town- ship are Orville Snodgrass, Clyde Kegerreis and Will Kenney. e House Appropriates $2,000 for Champ Clay Portrait. Washington, D. C., Sept. 18.—The House today appropriated $2,000 to defray the expense of having Champ Clark perpetuated in oil. The Speaker will sit for an official portrait to be hung in the House lob- by. Former Speaker Cannon, whose picture adorns the lobby along with those of Mr. Clark’s predecessors in the presiding officer's chair, made the motion, which carried unani- mously. A dozen artists have paint- ed the Speaker hoping to win the commission. None of the paintings proved acceptable. The Pleasant Gap Fair. The third annual Pleasant Gap township fair is being held Wednes- day and Thursday of this week at Henry's Grove, one-half mile south of Pleasant Gap. The weather was ideal fair weather and a large crowd was present for the opening Wednes- day morning. A very large list of premiums are offered and much in- terest and enthusiasm is being shown, The Pleasant Gap Township fair has become one of the institu- nal attended the burial services of additional facilities can be provided. |H. F. Stearns here Wednesday. tions of Bates county and gets big- ger and better every. year. = ; Copyright 2917 ‘The House of Kuppenhetmer Up-to-the-Minute : Stetson Hats to. the fabric in your clothes this season. Wool is scarce and the requirements of the gov- ernment will make it still scarcer. It’s a seas- on when your Kuppen- heimer store means ‘.more to You than ever. For half a century the reputatian of the House of Kuppenheimer'’ has rested on the unequalled quality of its fabrics. 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