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The Evening Current VOI-. I. NO. . CARLSBAD. NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY. AHJt ST 10, IH17. f.'t.OU Year. fiOr. Month. Sr. Copy. EFFORTS BEING MADE TO AVERT STRIKE OF 400,000 CARPENTERS IN NEW YORK BILLS INTRODUCED FOR GOVERNMENT TO El INSURE LIFE OF SOLDIERS AT FRONT By Associated Press. New York, Aug. It'- LmqJmi and representative (if the wur Hnl navy departments resumed the conference to aver', a strike if twenty-five hun dred carpenter employed on the con struction of the army and navy can tonment in New York city and vicini ty. The strike was called liy dele gate of the building trade and i held in abeyance pending the outcome. It i poilile the entire memlierahip of four hundred thousand, rontitut-. ming the carpenter ' brotherhood, I might be drawn into a general walk out. The government is ecking to j adjuit the difference lietween the firm of Henry, Steer, incorporated, and the brotherhood. The carpen ter are atriking over employment by the firm of one hundred and fifty non union carpenter on construction of marine cantonment at I'elham Hay Park. FOOD CONTROL AND FOOD 10,000 PACKA6E OISRPPEARS SURVEY BILL SIGNED TODAY -POSTAL CLERK ARRESTE0 By Associated Preai. , Washington, Aug. 10.-The admin By Associated Pre. i -trillion food control and food survey I Tucson, Aug. 10. Walter Coakley, bill were igned by the preident. AMERICANS WOUND the pnstnfficc clerk who fled follow ing the disappearance of a ten I hull land dollar package of currency ffOItl tthe postt office, was arrested at l.eb 'anon, Indiana, this morning. ED AT BATTLE FRONT K.II.KMI EMPLOYEES IN SPAIN WILL iO ON STIU KB, l!y Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 10, BimmoM Alexander introduced bills m the sen ate mid llOIIM today making effective a program insuring to the armed funis of the United States insur ance written by the government on the lives of men at the rate of eight dollars per thousand in sums of from MM to tttl thousand, and making it compulsory for soldiers to allot a min imum of fifteen dollars monthly out of their pav for dependent wives and children. The government will add from five to fifty dollars monthly to aid family, according to the circum Htances of the dependent. New Y'ork, Aug. 10.- The threaten ed strike of carpenters employed Ml government work was called off and an agreement reached in conference under which union hours and wages hereafter will prevail on work con tracted for by the government. By Assnciatd Press. Paris, Aug. 10 Price McQuillan Ovi r ook of Pennsylvania, and Wa no Y'etterlein, of Philadelphia, mamtx I of the American Ked Cross ami,' n service, were seriously m ndl d by a" shell while loading ui. i ' I at ap advance post at the battle front today. By Associated Preai. Madrid, Aug. 10. The government railroad employees of Spain will strike tonight. FRENCH TROOPS "KAISER WILSON" DISPLAYED ON BANNER BY WOMEN AT WHITN HOUSE TORN DOWN MAK E PROGRESS Labor Parly to Send Delegate, sty Associated Press. London. Auk 10.- Conference of the British labor parly voted to send delegates to the Stockholm consulta tive conference. SANTA fM INCREASE W AtiES OK SHOP EMPLOYEES TODA) By Associated Press iBy Associated Press. Washington. Aug. 10. A banner I , ; i i ... ik. ...u:.. L..- i... uajliayni in nv om- hvwbw gwuva vj uy Associaiea i res uiSMStyra ui ino wnm swsi gsrtva m Chicago, Aug. 10. The Santa Fe ; women who were a party of the suf Railway Co. announced an increase jfrage pickets addressed ' K ii - ' Wil of eleven to fifteen percent in the'a0n" was torn uOWTl by a crowd, jeer . n.l .. ,. I 1 J LImUm wages of shopmen toda.y ing and hissing. By Associated Press. London, Aug. 10. French forces on the left flank of the British lines in Bel Hum made further progrrrs to the en and north of Bixachoote last night cording to a report from Field Mar -mil llaig. The British raiding part es blew up several Herman dugouts on a wide front east of Monchy Le Pieiix, on the Arras front, and damaTOd tile Teuton defense. THIS BANK HAS BEEN UESICNATEO AS DEPOSITORY FOB LIBERTY I.O N KI NDS. We naturally feel sense of pride in this recognition and expression of CONFIDENCE on the part of the V. 8. government. The First National Bank Carlsbad, N. M. THROUGH OUR MEMBERSHIP In the Federal Reserve Banking Syalem e are placed in a stronger position (han eer before to take care of our depositor, whether large or small, whether cheeking or saving accounts; and at the same lime In give them the moat modern hanking M-r- ice We pay I percent interest on saving accounts compounded semi-annually. THE NATIONAL BANK OF CARLSBAD SEAMEN AND EM to brim; psecdo ori.ey. the crow, here for trial PLOFERS REACH AN AGREEMENT By Associated Press. Washington. Aug. 10. -American seamen and employers reached an agreement on wages during the war. solvinif the problem of obtaining men to operate the great merchant ship this country is building. Benjamin Mrlatoah. Charged With Victimising Albuquerque Women. Arrested aa He Leave Penitentiary. TURKISH BATTERY SILENCED BY WARSHIPS London, Aug. 10. -Entente war ship while bombarding Turkish bat teries along the coast of Asia Minor, reduced one to silence and destroyed an airdome, says an Athens dispatch. Benjamin Mcintosh, alias Curley the Crow, under indictment on th I charge that he victimized eight women of Albuquerque, will lie brought to New Mexico for trial in the United States district court. Mcintosh completed a term in tfce United Stales penitentiary at Fori Leavenworth. Katis., last week an I was arrested as he pased out of the prison gates to be held for United States Marshal A. 11. Hudspeth of New Mexico. He was to be conllned in jail at Topeka until Marshal lluds- ipeth called lor mm. l osing as i uncy uaj i row, u pvwu . of (ieneral Custer's command, Mcin tosh, operated in Albuiueriie little more than two years ago. He obtain ed $IH from each of eight women, according to officers, to tile claims to land in Montana which, he repre sented, they could acquire at an en ticingly small cost. The women were slow to suspect Mcintosh and when officers began to receive reports u' his activities he was gone. Mcintosh was sent to the peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth by the United States district court of Kansas. TAFT FEELING SOME WEST HOAK NOW i BETTERTODAY COMPLETELY HELD Clay . enter, Kans Aug 10 RY THF RR I Ml 1 Physicians attending former presi- I J MIL llll I IUI I denl Taft determined this morning to: 'give him the Irst food he bad eaten u I since the alack of intestinal trouble M Associated Press, 'early Tuesday. "Mr. Taft is some On Battle Front, Directly Fast of better this morning," Dr. II. F. Mor i Belgian Town of Ypres, Aug. 10.- gan. his physician, MM, He has no oe nriusn t'oiupieteii ine capture or tc inpcratuic, and although weak, is more cheerful and like himself than at any time since he became ill. The patient was given egg and toast. I don't want to say the danger mark has passed," aid Dr Morgan the town of West lloak and secured the remaining positions held by the dormant, on the west Hook rioge, it ts officially announced. THE MFI.lTNt; POT. EXPLOSION IN ( HEMIC WORKS KILLS M N Y AL . WOMEN. Italy is using volcanic heal to warm i her houses and light her cities. Iowa leads with automobiles, hav ing one for every eleven inhabi tants. i U. A. It. men of .Massachusetts are to register for service of some sort , I it in,' lb, a ..i Mexican official that every ! WW (CO will be exiled. Canada has the I mileage per head I any country in the During 1911 '.he I U. S. was half of th new buildings erected. I The throne of the late Russian dynasty has been placed in the Na tional Museum at Halaingfofa as a curiosity. By Associated Press. London. Aug. 10, Explosion and lire in the chemical vvorks in Fast London wrecked buildings and killed and injured scores of workers Thir teen bodies of women were recovered. has announced agitator In Mex- greale.it railroad si population of world. lire loss of the cost of all the By Associate; i'ress. Washington. Aug. 10. Evidence of a conspiracy among the large packing interests to corner Hit entire tomato output of the Pacific coast was discov ered by the Federal Trade Commit ion, it is announced By Associated Press. Washington, Aug io laldon ; Hopkins, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was nominated by the president as assis tan! secretary of the interior, succeed ing the late It. O. Sweeney.