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THE YALE EXPOSITOR. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1917. WILL RAISE NEXT ARMY BY CLASSES ALLIES GAM B30RE GROUND AT YPRES Home Guard PLAN OF ORGANIZATION FOR CONTROL OF FOOD mm WAR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN METHOD OF DRAFTING MEN. uniteo jtate" Food Administrator mr hoover BRITISH AND FRENCH IN NEW ATTACK, FORCE TEUTONS FURTHER BACK. BACHELORS AND IDLERS GO FIRST RUSS FLEET MAKES ESCAPE STATE Foot? AOMINEJTRATOR MB . PEtrCOTT J TATE CAMPAIGN HtADQUAffTl LAN JING. MICH. MARV FVCtMAN OltCCTOft JTATE. CAMPAM lUCUTIVl COMPUTTte War Workers and Men With Families, or Other Dependents, Will Be Last to Go, Under New Ruling. Apparently Bottled Up In Moon Sound Last Week, By German Fleet, Slavs Outguess Opponents. ?P Jk mm $M ELEVEN SHIPS SUNK BY GERMAN RAIDERS H EAVILY ARMORED CRUISERS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN RAID IN NORTH SEA. TEUTONS EVADE BRITISH WATCH Nine Merchantmen and Two British Destroyers Are Prey No Aid Given Drowning Survivors. London Two British destroyers and hine unarmed merchantmen was the toll which two extraordinarily swift and heavily armed German commerce raiders took In a North sea battle hist week, according to an announce ment made by the British admiralty. The traditions of the British navy were fully sustained by the two Brit ish hornets of the seas the Mary Rose and the Strongbow. Outranged by the raiders' puns, outspeeded, they went into battle and fought to a finish with their formidable antagonists two pigmies against giants. Eighty eight officers and men perished on the Mary Jtose and 47 on the Strongbow. The two Gorman raiding ships slip ped out of their haibor in the dark. They sped north, scouring the seas for merchantmen bringing supplies to England. Somewhere between the Norwegian coast far to the northern boundry of the North sea they came suddenly on a fleet of Norwegian and Swedish merchantmen," convoyed by the two British destroyers. No Effort Made to Save Survivors. The battle was furious, but unequal from the start. The attack of the Britiph ships, however, enabled three of the neutral merchantmenrto escape. When the British destroyers were sunk, the Germans promptly proceed ed to their assault on the unprotected and unarmed merchantmen. Five Norwegian and three Swedish ships were sunk at once without examina tion of their papers, without warning, and without any regard Jor the lives of passengers and crews aboard them. Then the two marauders, fearing arri val of British patrol boats, turned tail and fled. Not an effort was made to rescue survivors who struggled in the water. Two British vessels attracted by the sound of the gunfire, later picked up 30 Norwegians and others. A Christiania dispatch added that the admiral commandant of the Swedish navy had reported the rescue of 37 persons "from Norwegian and Swedish ships" presumably survivors of the same German sea victims. $100,000,000 BASE IN FRANCE U. S. Will Build Giant Depot to Supply Troops at Front. Washington Work of building an Immense ordnance 'depot and arsenal base in France for the American army will start soon. A contract for Its construction has been awarded. The great supply depot will be near the seaport "somewhere In France, on a 6pot which has been turned over to the American forces for their ex clusive use. Total cost of the enterprise will be about $100,000,000, It Is expected. Ma chinery for the arsenal Is already be ing delivered. The cost of this equip ment alone Is $6,000,000. More than 1,000 miles of standard gauge railway will be built from the base to the sector of front occupied by General Tershlng's army. Engineering organizations, recruited largely from the Btaff of the Pennsyl vania railroad, already are in France, preparing for construction work. Pay ment for the work will be on the basis ct cost plus 10 per cent. Eighty Head of Cattle Burned. Rochester Fire of probably locen llary origin destroyed the three big hams on the Parke Davis Co. biologi cal farms here at a loss which will run from $50,000 to $75,000. Eighty head of valuable stock used for ex perimental purposes were cremated, and all the other contents of the struc tures were destroyed. Although the value of the entire plant, which cot .ers two miles.'is estimated at $1,000, 000, the other structures were not tdamaged T. R. Has Had the Sight of But One Eye Since . He Left White Houss Stamford, Conn. Col. Roosevelt disclosed a few days ago that since he retired from the White House he has not had the sight of his left eye. This was the result of a blow re- ceived In a friendly boxing match in the White House gymnasium. "I don't thing many persons know this," he said, "but the fact Is I was having a lovely bout one day with a husky young captain of artillery when he crossed me with a hard right swing and landed on my left eye. . "The punch broke some of the blood vessel of the eye and I haven't seen from It since." BANK ROBBERS GET $31,000 Auto Bandits Make Big Haul In Two West Michigan Towns. Grand Rapids Bank robbers In a daring automobile raid Saturday, clear ed up $31,000 in two neighboring west ern Michigan towns, Alto and Middle ville. The safe of the Farmers' State bank of, Alto was blown open at 1:45 tn. and, according to bank officials, a. m. and, according to bank officials, $1,000 was taken. All telephone wires At 3:30 a. m. the Farmers' State bank at Middleville was robbed, cash to the amount of $20,400 being secured by the safeblowers. Indications are that the two banks were robbed by the same gang. Alto and Middleville are about 10 miles apart by automobile- road. Three robbers drove Into Middle ville at 3:30 and after robbing the Blake department store of a number of blankets, blew the safe in the Farm ers' State bank and escaped with $20, 400 in cash, leaving $5,000 in a bag on the floor of the bank building. Five explosions were heard by the villagers but no one went to the scene until after the bandits had fled. The Job was apparently done by the same gang that recently robbed the bank at Climax, according to Sheriff Cor nelius Manni, of Barry county. , The men drilled a hole i:i the Bafe with an electrically driven drill and blew the safe, a modern strongly built vault, to pieces. COUNTRY FACES SUGAR FAMINE Hoover Warns That Shortage Makes Saving Imperative. Chicago Formal warning was iss ued here Saturday on Instructions from the office of Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator, that a sugar fam ine Is upon the country and that the moment of America's first self-denial in the matter of food has arrived. Tho warning states that manufact urers using sugar In their products are closing down and that thousands of persons are threatened with tem porary loss of employment. Individ uals as well as dealers are called up on to do with the absolute minimum of the product. It was announced that as the Atlantic states have the great est scarcity that beet sugar from the west will be rushed first to that section. WAR TAX BOOSTS TRAVEL COST After November 1; All Transportation Rates Will Be Raited. Lansing After November 1 the cost of railroad, steamship and interurban travel, and express and freight rates will be increased to help Uncle Sam pay the $40,000,000 a day It costs to prosecute the war. Every Interurban, steamship or rail road ticket costing 35 cents or more will be subject to a war tax of 8 per cent. Women to Guard Custer Morals. Traverse City The State Federa tion of Women's Clubs will do all pos sible to better conditions at Camp Cus ter. Mrs. Burrltt Hamilton, tlce-presi-dent at large, outlined work to be car ried out there. Women's clubs, fra ternal organizations, churches and pri vate citizens will help remove all con taminating Influences along two lines enforcement of the law and to make rood conduct attractive. Citizens will sign pledges to entertain soldiers In their hcrP1. , Washington A new method of rala ng future draft armies has been an nounced by the war department. It Involves many and Important changes In the original system. As ex plained at the office of the provost marshal general, the plan Is designed to put the right man Into the right place at the right time. It means the examination of every registered man who has not already been sent to camp, Including those who were exempted from the first draft. In practical operation, It will probably mean a general exemption during the next draft of nearly, all married men or men who have depen dents of any kind. After an official statement, signed by MaJ.-Gen. E. II. Crowder, provost marshal general, had been issued, there was a further explanation of the new plan by one of his aides, giving an idea of how it will be put into operation. Divided Into Five Classes. The registered men will be divided Into five classes. In class one they will place all men who can most easily be spared for military duty. This will include men with no persons dependent upon them. Men with wives and families who are not dependent will not be exempt per se, although It Is expected that mar ried men, generally speaking, will not go into class one. Men who are not skilled workers In any particular oc cupation, or who are not skilled work ers In any particular occupation, or who are engaged In an occupation not necessary to the prosecution of the war. will go Into class one. In class two the local board will place the men who are slightly less preferable for military duty, such as men with partial dependents and those who are skilled in certain needed oc cupations. In class three, will be placed the men who are highly skilled operatives or who have persons utterly depen dent upon them,- such as aged parents or small children. In class four will go the men who are the last to be taken for military purposes, those who may have large families who would be left destitute if the breadwinner should be taken away or who are absolutely essential factors in war work. In class five will be grouped men who will never be called for military service, such as cripples, mental or moral defectives, criminals and the like, or persons whose physical unfit ness is manifest even without exami nation. This is the discard class. No man who is placed In it will ever get into the army. Class One Summoned First. When these five classes are estab lished by the local boards, all over the country, the war department will be. ready to proceed with the business of raising the second draft army. Men in class one will be summoned first for physical examination and no class two man will be taken in any draft dis trict until the entire roster of class one is exhausted. While , there is no way of obtaining accurate Information at this time, It is believed that few men outside of class one will be taken In the next draft of 500,000 men, which Is expected to be called Into service next spring. GERMAN SUPPLIES ARE SEIZED Immense Stores Bought By Teuton Agents Taken by U. 8. Government New York One million bales of cot ton worth $143,000,000 are included In the German-owned supplies stored In this country which the government will seize, according to reports. Government seizure of Immense stores of cotton, steel, copper, nickel, leather, oils, chemicals and other sup plies bought by German agents before the United States entered the war, was reported here Monday as having already started. The supplies seized are valued at ap proximately $25,000,000. American brokers are holding supplies valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, in the names of German agents. The seizures are being made, it Is reported, under the Trading with the Enemy act. This law gives the gov ernment the right to take over all German property Just as German ships were taken and settle for It after the war. Drunks Overcrowd Jackson Jail. Jackson The board of supervisors have voted to enter Into a contract with Hillsdale for the housing in the Jail in that county the overflow of drunks from the Jackson county jail. Since the establishment of the canton ment at - Battle Creek this city has been over run with workmen from the camp who came to this city to ob tain supplies of liquor. As a result the local jail often has been overfll'ei and cots had to be placed In corrMors to provide for he overflow COUNT WAI CAPT 0 TK CO At. HOUSEWIVES OF MICHIGAN ASKED to help niri WAR Representativesof Federal Food Administration Will Make House to House Canvass Asking Conservation BIG DRIVE STARTS OCT. 28 Government Does Not Expect People to Go Hungry Asks Substitution of Other Foods for Meat, Fats, Wheat, Flour and Sugar. Lansing. Next week will bring to Michigan women the opportunity to prove their willingness to help win the war. Sunday, Oct. 28, begins the big food drive throughout the United States, and here in the Fenlnsular state tho organized forces of Herbert Hoover's food conservation army are assembled, awaiting the moment to move for ward. The objective is the individual home everywhere in the state. There are 804,000 of them. There are estim. ated to be that many housewives in the state, and the rational calcula tion is that 80 per cent of them will be peraonally visited and her enlist ment iu the cause personally solicited during the week of the "drive". Success Depends on Housewives. It is a tremenduous undertaking for a seven day period. Preparation for It has necessitated weeks of labor by tireless workers, hundreds of them, engaged without pay in the mere pre liminary work of organization. Success now hangs upon the readiness of the housewives to respond to the personal appeal. Do they know just what is at stake? Do they realize the importance of the undertaking? Do they realize the full significance of their opportunity and MICHIGAN FOOD DIRECTOR GEORGE A. PRESCOTT, OF TAW AS. . Mr. Prescott was appointed focd administrator for Michigan by Herbert Hoover. While Mr. Prescott has un limited powers he has, so far, preferred to use persuasion In his efforts to reg ulate the prico of food In this state. A- V "! COOKTf tXICUTIVC comniTTtt SSvsj PUBLICITY CAPT does the full weight of their respons ibility rest upon their conscience as the week of opportunity is reached? Nothing, now, but the returns that phall come In from the campaigners In the field, the reports of names en listed in the cause, can answer these questions. The purpose of the pres ent article, printed gratuitously by this newspaper for the good of the cause and to help our country in Its struggle to maintain our fighting forces in the field, is to tell as concisely and clearly as possible what Is aimed at in the forthcoming "food drive" and to impress upon the women folk, for the last time before they come into personal contact with the food cam paigners, that what is about to be of. fered to them Is the chance to enlist for service In the war. Governor Tells Purpose. Gov. Albert E. Sleeper, in a pro. clamation addressed to Michigan housewives when the organization work of the campaign had been gotten fairly under way, stated the purpose in words as succinct and significant as it can be stated. This Is what ho said, after mentioning the dates, now established as Oct. 28, to Nov. 3, In clusive: "During this week duly accredited agents of the United States food ad ministration will visit every home in the United States with a view to ob taining the signatures of housewives to cards which pledge the signer to co-operate in a nation-wide food con servation endeavor. "Michigan will be canvassed thoroughly, and it is the hope of every patriot that our state shall make a showing equal to the best You are earnestly requested to give these canvassers a courteous re ception and a moment of your time. They have a few days only In which to canvass your community, and they will be brief and to the point. "They will explain that the object of the conservation campaign is to save food stuffs that can be sent abroad for use of our soldiers and to help feed the starving populations (n countries that have 'been made the theatre of a hideous war which, with out our defensive cooperation In con tribution of men, money and food will certainly be brought to our own doors." There was more of It, but the ab solute necessity of patriotic helpful ness lu the kitchens of the homes in this state i3 sufficiently indicated by tho above. You Are Asked, Not Commanded. Please take note of the general tenor of the governor's words. It is an appeal, not In any sense a com mand. You, the housewife of Michi gan, are ASKED, not commanded, nor cajoled, not even entreated, to do your "bit". The case is stated, merely, In direct common sense terms, and the expectation of response Is obvious. The governor, voicing tho sentiment and belief of the whole state, expects you to sign up for tervlce In this great movement, to perform the ser vice willingly and thoughly as best you can; and the gratitude of a hung ering world at war be your reward. Mr. Hoover's right hand man in Michigan, George W. Prescott, federal food administrator for this state, has by proclamation made a similar appeal to the housewives and all others whose dally activities touch upon the preparation of food for use at meals. He Is more specific in 'his appeal, pointing out the f-llcwlrg facts: What is asked of the women folk Is NOT curtailment of the quantity of nourishing foods for family use. It Is NOT asked that people stint them - TOW!? jxccutivc COMHlTTtC CAPT selves. It is NOT expected that Mich igan people are to go hungry that they may help to feed others. Such a thing would not be deslreable if It could be expected. Furthermore It will never be necessary, as the food clnservatlonists believe, if the proper-method in the use of foods is universally observed. That is the nub of the situation the adoption by a vast majority of households throughout the country of a certain system. Not Necessary to Stint The best name for the proposed system, undoubtely, Is SUBSTITU TION. What will be asked of Michigan housewives during the coining week is a pledge to substitute certain foods for others. Conservation, a saving of food stuffs, is to be effected, in the main not by cutting down the use of food but by using .here at home good food that cannot with ad vantage be sent abroad, thus releas ing for export, foods that can be sent abroad. And it is food that will win the war". Mr. Prescott, in his proclamation, gave a general indication of what the substitutions are to be. He points out that, the four primary needs of the ar mies are meats, wheat, flour, sugar and fats milk products, mainly. Corn Cannot Be Shipped. "We cannot ship corn," he says, "It will spoil In transit by heating. We can send wheat, and it is one of the staples on which all peoples depend. Let us, then, substitute rye, buck wheat and corn for wheat upon our tables. Beef and pork are the meats upon which our allies fortify them selves for the terrific endeavors of trench warfare. By our observation of meatless days we can Increase the supply which is being send abroad. Fats are lndispenslble for the pro duction of explosives. Let us save fats by boiling Instead of frying in order that more lard may be sent overseas. Liberal use of vegetable oil Is recommended." The women of this country are the real food experts. They are the real food administrators. Nobody knows that better than the men and women who have been organized as an army of appeal to enlist the women of the country as an army of subsistence in the waging of wir for democracy. It is readily believe that they will have the willing assistance of their house holds In their opportunity of service. A -man who would "kick" about the quality of a nutritious meal planned and perfected by a patriotic wife In her country's service would be a mighty poor patriot Any housewife whoso efforts are not properly sec onded by the lord of the house can tell him just that and know that she tas public opinion at her back. Pledge Will Be Asked. The outward and visible sign of tho great opportunity for the indiri dual housewife will bo the appear ance at her door sometime during the week of Oct. 28 of a woman or a man wearing the badge of the federal food administration who will present two cards. One will be Sor the signature of the housewife, and It will pledge her to do her beat to observe the food tubsitutions recommended from Washington. The other card will be a neat device In colors to hang In the front window that the passing world may know that here Is another house hold enlisted In the effort to win the war. One last word to the housewives of Michigan, therefore: Sign the pledge cards ENLIST. Hang up the color cardFLY YOUR COLORS. London The British and French forces In Belgium have delivered an other attack against the German front northeast of Ypres and have captured all therr objectives, consisting of many strong positions. The offensive was launched south east of Poelcapelle and northward along the southern border of the Hou tholst forest. The fighting front cov ered a distance of about a mile and a half, with the French operation on the northern and the British on the southern end. The Russian gulf of Riga fleet, which last week apparently was bottled up in Moon Sound by th German naval forces, has made its way out of the sound, and now is guarding the north ern entrance to the sound off Wormso Island. The Russian vessels made their es-, cape without farther losses than the battleship Slava, which was sunk in a naval engagement and two other ves sels, presumably transports which went ashore. From its new position the fleet Is po situated that it may make a dash for the gulf of Finland around the western Esthonla coast or, If menaced by attack from the greatly superior Grman unit3. take refuge again in the waters of Moon Sound and play hide and seek with the enemy. Meanwhile the Germans have land ed forces on the Esthonla coast, press ed back the Russian right wing slight ly and occupied the western portion of the Werder peninsula. COAL MINERS GO BACK TO WORK Strikes In Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Are Settled. Washington Fuel Administrator Garfield announced Monday that all coal miners resumed work in Indiana, practically all in Ohio and all miners are resuming in Illinois. He said re ports from all sections Indicate a grati fying tendency downward In the coal crisis. Dr. Garfield Issued this statement on retail prices: "Reports Just received from state fuel administrators indicate in many sections a gratifying tendency down ward in retail prices. "In Harrisburg, Pa., and Philadel phia, retail coal prices have been re duced. "In New York city prices recently have been reduced by larger dealers from 10 to 40 cents a ton on various grades, and other dealers are meeting these new prices. "In Wilmington, Del., prices have changed somewhat lower. "In Birmingham. Huntsville, Selma, Talledega and Sheffield, Ala., prices have been reduced from 25 cents to $1.23 per ton." ANTILLES SURVIVORS LAND Reach French Port Safely Families . of Lost Each Receive $6,000. Washington Survivors of the Uni ted States transport Antilles, sunk by a German submarine October 17, have arrived at the French port, according to late reports received here. Seven ty men perished when the transport went down. The treasury department announces that all hands in the military and na val service who perished with the loss of the transport, come within the score of the new war insurance law, and thereby automatically carrjed insur ance to the amount of $6,000 each. ROBERT FITZSIMMONS IS DEAD Fighting Bob," Former Ring Cham-, plon, Succumbs to Pneumonia. Chicago Robert Fltzsimmons, for 4ner champion heavyweight pugilist of the ' world, died at a hospital here Monday after an illness of five days of pneumonia. The former champion was taken sick last Tuesday while appearing in a vaudeville theatre, and his ailment was at first diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning. "Fighting Bob" was 55 years old. Cost of Binder Twine to Be Cut. Jackson The federal food adminis tration has named Acting Warden Frendaorf of the Michigan state pris on to serve on a commission to regu late the production and price of binder twine. A possible outcome- of the work of the commission through price regula tions may be the saving of some $8, 000.000 to the purchaser of binder twine, or 10 per cent of the $80,000,000 used annually by the American farmer.