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Show CHIEFTAIN, MARYSVALE, UTAH THE GREAT AMERICAN SPIRIT SHIPS TAKEN OVER RECKLESS WASTE OF TEUTON LIFE IN FURIOUS BATTLE NORTHEAST OF ARRAS. SHIPS GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN MAY BECOME TARGETS FOR KAISER'S SUBMARINES. Representatives of England and France Join with High Government Officials In Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon. Germans Hurl Dense Masses of Their Best Troops Against British and French Lines Only to Meet Death in Rain of Shells. Senate Passes Resolution Providing for Transfer of Seized Vessels and Their Use in Commerce Under Direction Shipping Board. Mount Vernon, Ya. The flags of Great Britain, France and the United States floated proudly together on Sunday oyer the tomb of George Washington. Beneath them, spokesmen of democracies paid homthe three age to Americas soldier and .statesman, and pledged themselves, each to the other in the name of the dead, to prosecute thq present mighty struggle against autocracy on the lines he himself had followed in bringing America into being. In groups of twos and three, an eminent gathering, including the members of the French and British war commissions, the presidents cabinet and members of congress, bad strolled up through the sloping grounds from the river bank until perhaps half a hundred people stood with bared heads in a semicircle before the toiub. Without formality, Secretary Daniels motioned to M. Viviani, minister of justice and former premier of France, who advanced slowly into the center. Before the tomb of Washington, whose efforts towards liberty his own ancestors hud gloriously aided, M. Viviani delivered an address in which the whole force of lus emotional power, deepened by the significance and of the occasion, fought for expression. Then came forward Arthur James Balfour, foreign secretary of Great Britain, who stood for a moment in silence, a tall, erect, kindly figure. Overcome with all that the situation meant iu the lives of the two great countries, Mr. Balfour abandoned his decision not to speak and gave expression to a few poignant sentences, evidently straight from the heart. England lias honored Washington ns she had never before, he said. Marshal JofTre, victor of the Marne and idol of the French people, spoke two brief sentences: "In the French army all venerate the name and memory of Washington. I respectfully salute here the great soldier and lay upon lus tomb the palm we offer our soldiers who have died for their country. A correspondent at the London. front on April 26 reported the following vivid picture of the furious battle now raging between the Allies and the Teutonic forces: Eigiit times in the last thirty-sihours Hindenburg lias hurled gigantic hecatombs of human flesh iuto the death teeth of British dealers on the battle field northeast of Arras. TeuFight times the ton youths, the Hiudenburg reserves 10,000 to a mile came on in dense masses. Thin lines floated back behind them like a nightmare, the thousand fold toll of the cannon that had battered their breast wall to hits. The same happened again and IN BLAZING MINE again on thething front far to the south, where Teutons and French face each other iu the supreme struggle on the hills of Cliemin des COAL DISASTER IN COLORADO Dames, a stretch of about six and a MINE BRINGS SORROW TO half miles. MANY HOMES. Not Inch did these human battering rams chip off the British line that Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Dust menaces their northern pivot Douai. Not the smallest dent did they hamWrecks Workings and Blaze that mer into the French circle of steel that Followed Snuffs Out Lives is threatening their southern strongof Surviving Miners. hold, Laon. But this they accomplished on both Trinidad, Colo. Trapped iu a blaz- fronts they checked their foes ading mine, 120 or more men are bevance, temporarily at least; checked lieved to have perished. it by heaping up in front of the Wotun There .seems no chance of escape and the Siegfried lines mountains of for uuy of the men caught behind the corpses. And still tonight they were fire which broke out following an exsurging forward in dense masses, plosion on April 20 in the Hastings stalking in a sea of ldood, charging Fuel over the breastworks of dead, attackmine of the company near Ludlow. ing, attacking and attacking again. All of the bodies found were badly To win the greatest battle in the of a sheet that burned, indicating worlds history, the sheer weight of a flame swept through the mine after multitude of men or, more correctly, the explosion, probably killing all of of mens bodies is depended upon by the men in the mine instantly. the kaisers high command to stifle The explosion which caused the dis- the fire gusts of manaster is said to have been caused by made machines. Trenches, dugouts, a sudden change of temperature, reall field works, fortifications "lines sulting in spontaneous combustion of these tilings are an echo, drowned in coal dust. the cyclone of the guns that brought The disaster is one of the greatest them to naught. in the history of the southern ColoThat is what happened in the west rado coni mining district. The few, yesterday and today and is happening if any, who escaped the flames that there tonight. swept the interior of the mine are beGERMAN CABINET FACES CRISIS. lieved to have been suffocated. Washington By unanimous vote the senate passed a resolution Monday providing for transfer to the Americau government of title and possession of enemy ships in American ports and their use in commerce under direction of the shipping board. There arc about 100 Gorman and many Austrian ships in American ports and all are under repair, though lie Austrian ships are not included in the resolution as the Unltea States and Austria are not at war. Many of these ships will be put into service at once, in fact some of them are probably now on the high sea- -, carrying cargoes which will be of great value to the allies, and others will he sent out as fast as possible. The resolution was debated in the senate for more than four hours behind closed doors. The discussion centered on questions of damages for the seized vessels after the war, hut all efforts to provide u method by which owners of the property would he given a right to sue in courts of the United States were defeated. Legislation of this kind will be left to a later date, possibly until Germany lias shown her determination to provide a legal method by which Americans can be compensated who have been damaged by illegal submarine destruction of American property. The passage of the resolution was forced by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, a former secretary of state, who said it would be a crime if the ships were not taken over at once and as targets for the German submarine. BIND TIE OF THREE NATIONS FRIENDSHIP AT THE TOMB OF GEORGE APPROVE PRESIDENTS PROGRAM TO RAISE LARGE ARMIES BY SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION. Measure Provides for the Drafting of Men to Raise Suitable Army to Prosecute to Successful Conclusion the War with Germany. Washington. The administrations program to raise an adequate army by selective conscription was approved on April 28, the senate and the house by overwhelming majorities passing the bill to raise a war army by selective draft. The final rollcalls brought into line behind the bill many senators and representatives who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by decisive defeat of volunteer amendments earlier in the day iq both houses. The senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan, 69 to 18, passed the bill by a vote of 81 to 8. In the house the vote against the volunteer plan was 813 to 109, and that by which the bill itself was passed was 397 to 24. As passed by the senate the measure provides for the draft of men between the ages of 21 and 27 years, while in the house measure the age limits are fixed at 21 and 40. This be will and lesser discrepancies threshed out in conference during the week so that the bill may be in the bands of the president as quickly as possible. The war depaitment already has completed plans for carrying it Into effect. Senators who voted against the bill were Democrats : Gore, Hardwick, Kirby, Thomas and Tramell 5; Ree publicans: Borah, Gronna and La 3. Total 8. Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, Democrat, was excused from voting at bis own request. He did not give a reason. The twenty-fou- r representatives who voted in the negative were: Democrats: Burnett, Church, Clark of Florida; Grosser, Dill, Claypool, Dominick, Gordon, Hillyard, Huddleston, Keating, Sears, Sherwood, Sisson 14, Republicans: Bacon, Hayes, King, La Foliette, Lundsen of Minnesota Mason, Nolan, Powers 8. ProSocialist: hibitionist: Randall 1. London 3. Total 24. Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader Kitchen, and Chairman Dent of the InHitary committee, who had favored the volunteer system, all voted for the draft bill on the final roll call. Republican Leader Mann also was recorded in the affirmative, as was Miss Rankin, who previously had voted with the volunteer advocates. Both senate and house adopted amendments just before the final roll calls, which would greatly increase the pay of enlisted men during the war. The house provision would make (heir pay $30 a month, and that approved by a month. the senute wQulfl, fix it at The present pay is only $15. Among the amendments adopted in thg seriate was one which would permit Colonel Roosevelt to recruit a volunteer force for service in France. A similar proposal had been rejected by the house. Among the more important amendments adopted in the house was one empowering the president to- exempt from the draft in his discretion persons engaged in agricultural work, ft pother w7ould require each state to furnish a quota Of men apportioned according to population and still another provides "that no bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enlist and "that no person liable to military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such service. : Fol-lett- Anglo-Saxo- ; WASHINGTON. n EXPECTS AID FROM AMERICANS. Joffre Wants Stars and Stripes on the Firing Line. Washington. Marshal JofTre told the people of America on Sunday through Washington newspaper correspondents who called upon him that France cherishes the confident hope that the flag of the United States soon will be flying on her battle lines. GENERAL KUROPATKIN $- -9 "FARM AND ARM battle-hungr- SUBMARINE MENAGE WILL BE REMOVED IN THEIR DESTRUCTION. British Admiral Declares Arming of Ships is Severe Blow to German Strategists as Submarines do Not Like Armed Ships. 'Washington. Submarines will soon become less and less menacing to the cause of the entente nations. New devices have been perfected and still are being perfected which will detect and aid the presence of the Also materially in their destruction. the general arming of merchant ships is proving a severe blow to German strategists. This ray of hope was held out on April 26 by Admiral Dudley de Chair of the British war commission, in his first interview with the American press. Naturally, the admiral said, what is being done in the way of new inventions cannot be given in detail, but progress is constant Does that mean the .submarines will be In the future driven from the seas? was asked. Not necessarily that far, was tile reply, but I am confident that it will be sufficiently efficacious to prevent German submarines from driving shipping from the seas. Admiral de Chair talked frankly about the submarine menace as a whole and of his experiences while iu command of his squadron patrolling the North sea. He also smashed a pet idea that has been expressed generally that merchant ships are helpless before submarine attacks. Naturally, darkness gives the subsaid the admarine an advantage, miral, hut I think it has been greatly The submarine must exaggerated. come to the surface to launch its torThe torpedo itself leaves a pedo. phosphorescent streak in the water. If your gun crew is fully awake and watchful it would stand a fair chance of potting the submarine. German submarines do not like armed ships. We nave not lost many armed ships in the last year, not nearly so many as is popularly supposed. They arc leaving our armed ships alone and going for the unarmed neutrals, SOLON Victor-Auierica- n death-dealin- With Farm and arm! Chicago. this battery Theodore Roosevelt entered Chicago April 2S and in two stirring speeches urged that every energy of the entire nation be directed toward making the potential might of the United States felt in the war against Germany, and he demanded that not an hour be lost iu dispatching troops to the tranches. His first speech was made at a luncheon at noon; his secoud at a mass More than $13,000,000 was paid by meeting in the immense amphitheatre Germany to Russian army commanduniadvocated He at the stockyards. ers at the time of the Russian revoluversal training as a permanent policy; tion to let the Teuton troops pass hi hut he advocated conscription, through the Russian lines, but the plot pleaded that he should be allowed to failed completely, according to reports servimmediate for a division recruit received from Copenhagen. General ice with the allies. Kuropatkin, the governor of Riga, got when he was He roundly applauded $8,000,000, It Is asserted, but sent the of use war the the rged that during money to the duma government at ;rnin for the manufacture of and did not surrender his pobe prohibited. beverages sition. after the war between the different parts of the British empire have been indorsed by the imperial war conference, according to a statement made in the house of commons April 27 by Chancellor of the Exchequer A. Bonar Law. Fearful Loss of Shipping. Amsterdam. In the first two months submarine warfare, of unrestricted more than 1,000,000 tons of shipping was sunk by the Germans, Dr. Karl Helfferieh, Gorman secretary of the interior, told the reichstag main committee. CHINA c MAY ENTER WAR. Special Committee Advises that China Declare War on Kaiser. Pekin. A declaration of war against Germany by China is expected within a fortnight. 3'lie special commission for international affairs designated by the government has advised that China enter the war. The question will go before parliament shortly. MRS. EMILY BROWNE Tj EXPELLED. Milwaukee Socialist Ousted from the State Senate. , Madison, Wis. Senator Frank Milwaukee Socialist, was expelled Thursday night from membership in the Wisconsin senate for contempt, disorderly behavior and conduct unbecoming a senator of Wisconsin in making a disloyal statement on the floor of the senate Tuesday night. The vote on the expulsion of the Milwaukee Socialist was 30 to 3, Senators Ragusc, Arnold and Zumaeh, Socialists of Milwaukee, voting against the resolution. Chicago Bakers Strike. Chicago.- The strike of bakers in Chicago, winch was called Saturday in fifteen ol the largest bakeries, has assumed serious proportions in the The opinion today of city officials. walkout by the strikers, who demand increased pay, shorter hours and bet- ter working conditions, has lessened the daily bread supply by one million loaves. Russians More Willing to Fight. Petrograd. Minister of Justice Kerensky has announced that only is tlie army belter prepared and more willing to tight than before the revolution, but that the factories are putting out moie ammunition than at any previous stage of the v ar. Guarding Against Graft. Washington. Action to prevent even a suspicion of graft In the disbursement of $3,000,000,000 army funds lias been taken by the war department. The following order has been sent out: The purchase of any article, pulilica tion or other tiling by which an officer of the army, would derive financial profit will not be permitted to be math from public funds dufing the present war. Railroad Revenue Slumps. Washington. Operating income of the railroads decreased approximately $22,335,000 during February, notwithstanding an increase of $2,500,000 in total operating revenues, according to the monthly summary of reports. g Socialists Demanding Reforms in One Direction and Junkers in Another. The Hague The German cabinet is facing the most diifficult situation of its wartime existence in its effort to find a safe middle ground between the socialists and the conservatives. Both parties are becoming more and more insistent and vociferous, the socialists demanding the democratization of the government and peace without conquest or indemnity, vvjiile the eonsenatives are demanding, with equal urgency, reforms in exactly the opposite direction. Indorse Preferential Trade Tariffs. trade tariff Loudon. Preferential Rag-use- Roosevelt Urges Immediate Colonel Action in War with Germans. y blood-soake- DEVICES HAVE BEEN PERFECTED WHICH WILL AID NEW BADGER SLOGAN. alcho-holi- x Fight for Prohibition. Washington. A determined effort to bring about national prohibition for the duration of the war was launched at a meeting of representatives of various political parties and of farmers organizations. Will Browne, a Mrs. Emily Vandecook woman navigator, has offered her services to the United States. Mrs. Browne Browne, is the wife of Commodore who discovered a group of islands in the Pacific which now hear his name. Peace Conference in Vienna. London. ('omit Herding the premier of Bavaria, sps a dispatch from Munich, is going to A lenna to confer Modify Espionage Bill. The administration itslmiulon. espionage bill amended so that P would interlere in no wav wiili newspaper criticism of the governhimiL was 'ported l.ivoiab'y o the house on Apt il cabinet with the ministers regarding peace prospects. Austro-Hungaria- Reprisal for Reprisal. Announcement was Copenhagen. made before the reichstag main committee in Berlin that Germany will adopt the sharpest reprisals if German prisoners are embarked on hospital ships of the allies. Rheims Cathedral Bombarded. General Carranza's Mexico Baris. Stung by the steady advance City election as iresidont of the republic on (he French front, the Germans on was formally celebrated by troop April 2G threw iiJleen large caliber parades in all the principal cities in shells at the Kheims cathedral, damMexico ou April 29, the president tak- aging several important parts of the famous monument. ing tiie oath on May 1. Warships Shell Ramsgate. at Gennan Loudon. doMrojers night, the tacked liamsuato Fnd.i war office announced. A large number of 'dudls were tired, hut the dei stroyers w ei e dnurn oil by land lex Where Speculators Bumped. Chicago. Speculative wheat prices withered away on the receipt of annum, rim nfs that the BidiMi govern-nut,h! acquired suff.cioiit supplies nt, including 33 001,000 fm ,o mi Hope of Rescue. Germany Drafting "Exempts." Amh M' dam A Brilm olficml Hastings, Colo The luM hope that emuiit Las that a great number any of (lie 120 miners eniomlHd m the of exempts h ivo been dialled f"t I' 'i;1 Hastings mine of the Vi Fuei eompanv hove Fudij in nmi: s iu', 'limy will lu replan1 u ii mid those liable tor the .,m wm'd be tumid aliv was oliu 51 I u r f e. aha idutk t sundnj mju. Root to Head Conmiss'on. Flihu Boot v ill ho id ,u Washing! h c ,i ; g a h mg Lie Bi H i. o be emph mm o n m UiI-m- u in Auk the i mu ev t w m mi at ho vn! ' s iv m ei i n 'v ' ill nh hike lli'1 did v e a hmbie ixplosioi. v he h hi v u d B " w Mdting 3 in "d.i k h -- I'M 111 l i) m v. v ,id (II ill - w d no h ctioii pi M)h pl , 'll P 1,, . Uli '! h .i n ' ol! ois Ol it bu-i- i at V unipeg; CGebrate Carranzas Election. No German b.it-te- ( Gernirr.s Use Siamese M.nes. 'opuih g n 3 he G. rma - a re i1'- .' id RAISING FUNDS FOR WAR. Tax Exemptions May be Further Reduced. Washington. A war revenue measure designed to raise not less than about $1,500,000,000 by direct taxes during the coming year has been reported to t lie house ways and means which committee by a has been drafting the bill in sei ret sessions. Reduction of theincoine lax exceptions from $3000 and $4000 to $1000 and $2000 for single and married persons, respectively, and an increase ot the excess profits tax from 8 per cent on all amounts over 8 per cent and $5000 to 16 per cent are two of the proposals. Income CONTROL FOOD LEGISLATION. Agricultural Department May be Given Supervision of Production. Washington. rl'he administration's food control legislation was introduced April 30, in both houses of congress. In the house Chairman Lever of the agriculture committee offered a bill to give the agricultural department direct supervision of food production and distribution. The program was put before the senate in a resolution by senator Gore, chairman of the senate committee. The measures proposed do not cover price fixing or control of grain entering into the manufacture of liquors.. Both these subjects will be dealt with later. Called Outlaws. Washington. Count von BernMurlT, former German ambassador to the United States before the war, spoke disparagingly of German citizens in this country, saying they had run away from the fatherland to avoid military service and were "outlaws, according to a statement made public Monday by Senator Bheland of California in connection with comment on the passage of the war army bill. German-American- s Nebraska Now on Dry Roil. Lincoln, Neb. At S oclock Mondnv night S29 saloons, fifteen brewenos and ten rectifying plants iu Nebraska closed, under a prohibitory law initiated by the electorate and reinforced by a suplemental statute enacted by Purchase, manufacthe legislature. ture, sale or gift of liquor is prohibited, but possession is not forbidden. , Villa Escapes for Third Time. Juarez. Francisco Villa, for the third time, lias escaped Gen. Francisco Murguias troops and the campaign in western.Ohihuahua has been abandoned for one that will :e undertaken southwest of Chihuahua pity as soon as General Murguia and his command of 4000 troops arrive in the state cap- ita. Negro Shot by Guard. Spokane Thomas Quarles, a in the Idaho National Gu .id, Mi doing patioi duty, u;v Mnnd'y mg rn' and killv d a negvo who vvh a lM'lio.id bridge taihd to h. It vliou pn-va- L eomnif oded. |