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CLAMS IN MEXICO
American Citizens Seek Damages
Aggregating $475,000,000.
PILING UP PAST TWO YEARS.
Mexico Will Readily Obtain Loan
Through Influence of This Govern
ment as Soon as Investigations by
Ambassador Fletcher Satisfy Presi
dent Stable Government Exists.
Washington. Claims against the
Mexican government from American
citizens for loss of lives and property
amount to $475,000,000, and those of
foreign governments filed with the
state department bring the total against
the southern republic to more than
$1,000,000,000.
These claims have been piling up for
the last two years, and it is believed
those now presented to the state de
partment represent about all of the
valid ones. As a more stable govern
ment is established in Mexico Ameri
can citizens and foreign governments
are pressing their demands for pay
ment.
The situation is one of the utmost
concern, not only to the United States,
responsible to our citizens for the set
tlement of their claims against Mexico
for loss of oil property, mines and
lives, but also those of foreigners. As
to claims of foreign governments, the
Photo by American Press Association.
HENBY P. FLETCHER.
United States has no legal concern, but
inasmuch as it assumed control over
the situation under the Monroe doc
trine it will exert its diplomatic influ
ence to see that these claims are paid.
American and English capital to the
amount of $1,500,000,000 is invested in
Mexico, and in the last three years the
revolutions have damaged the mines
and oil wells, in addition to piling
tip claims for the loss of lives of for
eigners.
Mexico needs money badly not only
to begin payment on these claims, but
to re-establish her domestic affairs.
The new ambassador from Mexico to
this country, Ignacio Bonillas, fully
explained the financial needs of his
country to President Wilson, when he
was received here recently.
Since then this government has been
considering advancing a loan to Mexi
co. A member of the administration
expresses the opinion that Mexico will
readily obtain a loan through the in
fluence of this government as soon as
investigations by Ambassador Fletcher
satisfy President Wilson that a stable
government exists. No other country
will consider a loan to Mexico, and
this government will not. aid Mexico
financially until a stronger government
is set up.
HE FEARED CONSCRIPTION.
Worried Bridegroom Tries to Kill Wife
and Himself.
Middletown, N. Y.Fearing he would
be conscripted for war and that he
would have to leave his seventeen
year-old bride, whom he married on
Christmas day, Harry York, twenty
four years old, shot his wife, Anna
May, in the head and then fired two
bullets into his own brain.
Ever since it bad been announced
that men between twenty-one and thir
ty might have to go to France York
has worried about leaving his bride.
She was reading the questions to be
answered by those registering for the
conscription aloud to him when he sud
denly pulled a revolver and without a
word shot his wife and himself.
Wolf Pack Rounded Up.
Okmulgee, Okla. Twenty-one gray
wolves, the largest pack reported in
Oklahoma in years, was rounded up
recently twelve miles northeast of
Beggs, Okla., by J. A. Scott and Boyce
Green. There were two old wolves and
nineteen partly grown pups-in the pack.
Dogs ran the pack to earth, and the
mother wolves killed two of the dogs
before the hunters came tip. The old
wolves and several of the younger ones
had to be killed before the hunters
could take some of the pups alive.
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SAVES GIRL, WINS A BRIDE
Maimed Expert Swimmer Snatches
Miss King From the Surf.
New York.The loss of his left arm
and left leg did not prevent Ludger
Gagne, Jr., of 20 Wesland avenue,
Boston, from being an expert swim
mer or from saving Miss Louise King
of 25 Salem street, Winchester, Mass.,
from drowning at Revere Beach last
summer and eventually winning her for
his bride.
When twelve years old, Just half his
present age,_ Gagne's swimming and
diving records were considered marvel
ous. Then he fell beneath the wheels
of a train and lost a leg and an arm.
After his wounds had healed and al
though Boston harbor was full of
whitecaps and storm signals were set
he swam without trouble to Boston
light, six miles out.
Gagne was talking to a life guard at
Revere Beach last summer when cries
for help came from the water. A girl
was struggling a considerable distance
from shore. Gagne reached the girl
first* She was Miss King.
Gagne and Miss King became en
gaged. Her parents favored the match,
but advised the young couple to wait
until Louise was twenty-one. They
vetoed the suggestion, however, and
were married by Deputy City Clerk
Cruise in the municipal building chap
el, this city.
NEBRASKA'S CONVICTS
MAY 60 TO THE FRONT
They Are to Be Drilled In Tactics
by the Warden In the State
Penitentiary.
Lincoln, Neb.The state penitentiary
is to be turned into a military garrison
for a part of each day, and the state's
prisoners will become soldiers if nec
essary. Warden Fenton has decided
on military drill for practically all the
convicts as soon as sham wooden guns
can be made. Prison Secretary O'Con
uell, a member of the First Nebraska
regiment in the Spanish-American war.
will be drillmaster in chief.
Should the war with Germany reach
such a stage as to become a drain on
the citizens of the country Warden
Fenton believes the younger prison in
mates may be called to the front. He
says he is adopting the military drill
as one of preparedness.
The warden will himself take the
training with his charges, and if the
convicts are summoned to war he will
offer his services. He is popular with
the men, and they say they would want
no better leader. Many have expressed
their eagerness to enlistthree-quar
ters of themthe prison authorities
say. There are about twenty former
soldiers and sailors in the prison, and
these are expected to act as aids to
Secretary O'Connell in teaching the
war game. The warden says he will
see to it that the men lack nothing in
knowledge.
He has issued a call to the three
cooks in the prison that they show
their patriotism by complying with the
request of President Wilson with_re
spect to wasting of foods. The peni
tentiary farm is to be enlarged mate
rially.
HOARDING IS UNPATRIOTIC.
Boston Man Says Those Who Lay Up
Food Are Traitors.
Boston.Henry B. Endicott, execu
tive manager of the Massachusetts
committee on public safety, issued a
statement asserting that the person
who hoarded .money and large quan
tities of provisions for an indefinite
period "should be pointed out as a
traitor to his country and to his fellow
men."
"Certainly nothing could be further
from patriotism or helpfulness to other
people," he said, "than for a set of men
who have money and credit to selfishly
purchase an unusual amount of sup
plies for themselves and by so doing
inflict upon their less wealthy neigh
bors the burden of unnecessarily high
prices."
Food Grown Along Railroads.
Durham, N. C. Vegetable gardens
bordering the railroad tracks is a new
Idea in North Carolina to add to Amer
ica's food supply In the world war. The
Durham and Southern railway, owned
principally by the Dukes, wealthy New
York tobacconists, has offered its right
of way for planting. It has further
more offered free seed to encourage the
growers.
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MAY EAT OAT BREAD.
Swedes Ak Permission to Sell It.
Hunger Marches Continue.
Stockholm.The Bakers' Association
of Sweden presented a memorial to
the state economic commission setting
forth the difficulties of obtaining suffl
cient rye and wheat flour and asking
the authorities to permit and to order
them to use a certain proportion of oat
or barley flour in bread. The bakers
assert that the situation indicates with
certainty that such a measure must be
eventually resorted to and point out the
advisability of doing it now instead of
delaying until the time when the pro
portions of barley and oats must neces
sarily be greater than would be the
case now.
A body of female factory workers es
timated at 5J000 marched recently in
an orderly manner through southern
and western Stockholm to the office of
the largest local milk company, where
they demanded a better distribution of
milk and lower prices.
Hunger demonstrations continue at
various places in the kingdom.
METEOR LIKE SEARCHLIGHT.
Crashes Into Mountains and Illumi
nates Whole Valley.
Bishop, Cal.Illuminating the upper
Owens valley for half a minute like a
searchlight in the skies, a meteor of
extraordinary size and brilliancy flared
across from east to west one night and
brought up against the high Sierra Ne
vada.
There was a crash that could be
heard for miles when the foreign body
hit the mountain side far above the
floor of the valley. It sounded like the
impact of a projectile from a great gun
against a fort.
Besidents were startled by the pas
sage of the mighty streak of blue-white
fire through the darkness and again by
the loud explosion that followed .con
tact with the granite range which
stopped It. Then followed a tumbling
of dislodged stones not far from the
camp of the Round Valley Tungsten
company.
MORGAN ON PATROL DUTY.
Financier's Son Assigned to Ship.
Young Iselin Also Enrolls.
New York.Junius Spencer Morgan,
son of J. P. Morgan, who recently re
ceived an ensign's commission in the
naval coast defense reserve, was called
into active service and assigned^ to duty
on a coast patrol boat.
Ensign Morgan has always been in
terested in boats and sailing. Last
summer he shipped as an ordinary sea
man on the U. S. S. Maine for the ci
vilian training cruise.
Adrian Iselin 2d, son of C. Oliver
Iselin, who has sailed many cup de
fenders to victory, enrolled in the naval
reserve as chief boatswain's mate.
Paul Nevin, son of the late Bthelbert
Nevln, called at the naval reserve of
fices to enroll. Mr. Nevin came from
Tulsa, Okla. As a member of the ci
vilian crew of the Maine last summer
he made a record in gunnery.
DOG ADOPTS COYOTES.
Takes Four Into Her Charge en a
Ranch.
Santa Ana, Cal.Four coyote pups
have been adopted by a mother dog on
the ranch of Arthur Pefley, north of
Santa Ana.
The coyotes -were found in the foot
hills back of El Modena'by Virgil Prit
chard, a high school boy, whose dogs
fought off the mother coyote while
Virgil got away with the little coyotes.
Clarence Pefiey had a dog with two
puppies.
The four strangers were put on the
ground near the mother and the pup
pies, who were busily engaged In par
taking of a meal. Rather bewildered,
the coyotes crept to the mother dog.
The dog eyed the coyotes, then when
they approached she began licking
tbem, aud soon the coyotes were just
as busily engaged in eating as were
their cousins.
CHARLES P. TAFT 2D ENLISTS.
With Nine Yale Students Enters Artil
lery Service.
New Haven, Conn.Charles P. Taft
2d, son of William Howard Taft and a
junior in Yale college, enlisted for the
artillery branch of the regular army
with nine other undergraduates. All
1 he enlistments were Qt students who
were under age for the reserve officers'
training corps of the university and all
had consent of their parents. The
quad will go to Fort Myer, Va.
The students who were enlisted with
Faft^were John M, Anderson, Jr., Cin
cinnati Robert T. Cairns, Overbrook,
Pa. George H. Ennis, Jr., Derby, Conn.
John E. Fasick, Altoona, Pa. Francis
r. McNamara, Clinton, Mass. Cyril B.
Alosher, East Greenwich, R. I. Albert
H. Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa. H. S.
Porter, Higganum, Conn. Carl M.
Thomas, St. Louis.
DROWNS BATHING TOY.
Child Boat Falls From Claremont
Club's Float.
New. York.In an effort to give her
Teddy bear its first deep water bath
Virginia Peterson, three and one-half
years old, toppled from a float an
chored off the Claremont Boat club,
One Hundred and Eighth street and
the North river, and was drowned.
The child was a prime favorite with
yachtsmen along the North river and
with her mother lived at the boat club,
where the latter is employed as maid.
Robert Harris of 201 West Twenty
sixth street recovered the body, but
resuscitation was impossible^even with
a pulmotor.
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II RAH.R0AD ARMY
Will Build Up Lines of Traffic In
France^
NINE REGIMENTS CALLED.
They Will Be Part of Regular Force,
and at Head of Eaclf Regiment as
Colonel Will Be Engineer Officer of
ArmyConstruction Will Be Main
Work. New York.^-Need for fxpert railroad
men to repair the lines in France is so
pressing that an urgent call has been
sent out by the railroads war board to
the various roads of tj(f& country for
assistance in organizing nine regiments
of railroad men to go at once to France.
They will be a part c|f the regular
army, and at the head of each regiment
as colonel will be an engineer officer
of the army.
The plans of the board call for five
construction regiments, one shop or re
pair regiment and three operating regi
ments. Construction will-be the main
work of the men sent over, but the re
pair and operating needs are hardly
less immediate. A notice sent out by
the railroads war board toys:
"The French railways are badly run
down. They need mofe or less complete
rehabilitation. France has no men who
can be spared for this woik. She wants
all her men at the front 'Before we can
train men to go into the trenches we
can. supply France's railroad wants,
and we can do it practically immedi
ately. Any men we send over must be
soldiers, so it will be necessary for the
railroad forces to enter the army.
"We propose to make ,up five con
struction regiments of six companies
each to do this rehabilitation. Each
jegiment will have an engineer officer
of the United States army as colonel
and another officer front the army as
an adjutant. The other officers will be
made up of railroad mejx, except that
the commissary will be provided by
the United States army..] Each lieuten
ant colonel will be a chief engineer of
a railroad or some one else of similar
experience.. The captains will be taken
from the engineers of maintenance of
way, the lieutenants from supervisors
or road masters and the noncommis
sioned officers from track and bridge
foremen. The privates will be track
laborers.
"The pressing need just now Is for
officers for these regiments. They will
require five chief engineers, thirty en
gineers of maintenance o|.way, ninety
supervisors or road masters, sixty track
foremen and thirty bridge foremen.
Each company will have 150 track la
borers and fourteen bridge carpenters
as privates.
"The next important requirement of
the French railways is for shop forces.
They are short of men to repair their
locomotives. It is proposed to organize
a shop regiment, to be made up the
same way as the construction regi
ments, except that the lieutenant colo
nel will be a superintendent of motive
power, the captains will be master me
chanics, the lieutenants will be shop
foremen and the noncommissioned offi
cers gang foremen. The rest of the
company will be made up of boiler
makers, machinists, blacksmiths and
their helpers."
TOY GUNS POPULAR.
Modeled After Anti-aircraft Weapons
Used by Zeppelins.
Washington.Teddy bears and mini
ature anti-aircraft guns are by far the
most popular toys in Great Britain,
says Consul Wilson in a report from
London to the United States bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce. Ted
dy bears have always been more or
less popular, but recent events seem
to have created a greatJy increased de
mand for this toy..
The toy guns are modeled after the
anti-aircraft guns which Were brought
into prominence by the visits of the
Zeppelins.
Toys that find the most ready sale
are those of a military character.
NEW FORM OF "CON" GAME.
Two Inches of Butter 8pread on 8and
8old to Chicago Consumers.
Chicago, 111:A new-form of confi
dence game has been /practised with
success here during the last few days.
Several storekeepers and hospitals have
reported to the police that they have
purchased from agents tubs purport
ing to contain sixty pounds of butter,
but .have found when cutting into the
tubs' that the butter extended but one
or two Inches from the surface and
that the rest of their purchase was
sand.
The tubs were sold for as high as
$19.50, making the price of the butter
V* the neighborhood of $4 a pound.
FAVORS DAYLIGHT SAVING.
President However, In Doubt aa to
Necessary Legislation.
Washington."President Wilson ex
pressed his .approval of the daylight
saving plan to a delegation headed by
-Representative Borland of Missouri
and Marcus Marks of New York, presi
dent of the National Daylight Saving
association.
The president told them the only
question in his mind about legislation
to carry it into operation was whether
congress leaders would look upon it as
war legislation, to which they have
tacitly agreed to limit the session's ac
tivities. *The subject will be taken up
with the leaders.
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FARM HANDS GET $45
A MONTH, WITH BOARD
That's In South Dakota, Where Bump
er Crops Are Predicted.
Sioux Falls. S. D.-Beeause of a
shortage of farm hands it has become
necessary in many parts of South Da
kota for the women and boys of the
households and even the girls to work
in the fields. So the farmers and their
wives and children are hard at work
putting in what Is believed to be the
greatest acreage of spring wheat in the
history of the state.
With the prospect that prices for
foodstuffs will continue high during
the war the farmers have decided to in.
crease their crop acreage. With a fa
vorable season South Dakota will pro
duce this year the greatest crop of
foodstuffs in its history. The residents
of towns are preparing-to have larger
vegetable gardens than ever before, so
there is every indication that the state
will make a new record In crop pro
duction this year.
Farm hands ready for work demand
from $35 to $T45 a month and board,
and In many instances the farmers pay
these prices. Only a few.years ago
good farm hands could be had from
12 to $20 a month and board, and
those who received the higher figure
were the envied of their fellows.
NATIVES LOOTED SHIP
DRIVEN IN BY A BOAT
Battle Between Crew and Beach
Combers, During Which One
of Latter Was Killed.
New York.Driven by pitiless "tigers
of the sea" into the clutches of equally
pitiless human tigers lurking along the
beaches of northern Spain was the
fate of the officers and crew of the
schooner Phineas W. Sprague.ithe cap
tain and chief officer of which ves
sel arrived in an American port on
board a passenger liner from Cadiz.
According to Captain F. A. Jarvis,
the Sprague was pursued by a German
boat while coasting through the bay
of Biscay and was forced to seek ref
uge inside the three mile limit There
the vessel was caught by a treacher
ous current and thrown on the Beach
near Carbonares, Spam.
No sooner did the residents of that
part of King Alfonso's domain see that
the schooner was helpless, declares the
captain, than they boarded the vessel
in droves and commenced to loot her.
A battle between the crew of the
schooner and the beach combers en
sued, during which one of the latter
was killed. The Sprague was a total
loss.
On board the same vessel which
brought? Captain Jarvis and his chief
officer back to this country were
several other survivors of submarine
disasters, including Captain Phillip H.
Johnson and twenty-one men of the
steamship Zward and five jnen from
the schooner^Edwin R. Hunt, both of
which were destroyed by boats.
OWL MAKES TOWN DARK.
Alight* on Electric Wire, Damaging
Lighting Service.
Durham, N. CA few nights ago
about 9:30 o'clock the electric lights
of Morgantown, N. C began flickering
and finally went out. It was later
discovered that a little Insignificant
screech owl was the cause of the trou
ble, losing its life as a forfeit for at
tempting to alight on an insulator.
The bird was shown on the streets
of the town. Its wings were scorched
from tip to tip and its body was burn
ed by contact with the live wire.
When the owl alighted on the insula
tor the current was started racing to
the ground, and the Insulator burst
The line wire was burned in two, and
when it fell the current was cut off
automatically at the switching station.
BREEZE GOT THE MONEY.
Any One May Keep Three One-Dollar
Bills if He Finds Them.
Wichita, Kan.The wind blew fret
fully the other day in Wichita. Mrs.
Sam Sanders-of Whitewater, who had
been shopping, did not close her pock
etbook securely, and at the corner of
Main street and Douglas avenue a five
dollar bill and three one-dollar bills
were blown out. They rose high in
the air, and John Young, a police cap
tain, and others went in pursuit.
A block away a negro overtook the
"five." The others had disappeared.
Taking the "five" to Mrs. Sanders,
he returned it, with a bow. "Thank
you," said she. "You can have the
others if you find 'em."
DRAFT SONS TO FARM.
Fathers Plan Land Purchase to Ex
empt Boys From Army.
Washington.Casting about for ways
to keep then* sons, who are a little over
twenty-one, out of the army, two rich
men In upper New York state have
written to Representative Charles B.
Smith to know if they purchased
farms and put their boys on them
Would not that exempt their sons from
the draft They proposed to make
their sons superintendents of the farms
and thus entitled to exemption, they
thought, as "agriculturists."
At the war department it was said
that this ruse would not get very far,
as neighbors could be depended upon
to expose it
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PUBLICITY BUREAU
LIBERTY tOAN OF 1917
R. W. WOOLLEY, DIRECTOR
WHAT IS A LIBERTY LOAN BOND?
A Liberty Loan Bond is a solemn
promise of the United States to pay
at maturity the amount of the bond
to the holder thereof, and to pay in
terest semi-annually each year from
the date of the issuance of the bond
until it is fully and finally paid.
WHAT IS THE SECURITY FOR A
LIBERTY LOAN BOND?
The faith and honor of the United
States, backed by all of the resources
of the nation and the American peo
ple. A Liberty Loan Bond is a mort
gage on all the resources and taxing
powers of the government and all of
the resources of the American people.
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF A LIB-
ERTY LOAN BOND.
There are two kinds of Liberty Loan
Bonds. Bearer Bonds are to be issued
denominations of $50, $100, $500
and $1,000. These Bearer Bonds,
which are made payable to bearer,
have interest coupons attached which
are detached by the holder when the
interest installments they represent
are due, and can be cashed at any
bank the same as a United States
treasury note.
Registered bonds are to be issued,
which are registered as to both prin
cipal and interest, in denominations of
$100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,-
000 and $100,000 checks for the
amount of interest due will be mailed
out semi-annually to the holders of
these registered bonds.
WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF A LIB-
ERTY LOAN BOND?
Liberty Loan Bonds of the first is
sue of $2,000,000,000 are to bear date
of June 15, 1917, and to run for thirty
years, except that the government re
serves the right to pay them fifteen
years after date. If this right is not
exercises by the government fifteen
years from date, the bonds will run
the full thirty years.
These bonds bear interest at 3%
per cent per annum, and the interest
is payable semi-annually on the 15th
day of December and the 15th day of
June in each year.
WHAT SPECIAL ADVANTAGES
HAVE THESE LIBERTY
LOAN BONDS?
One especial advantage no other
bonds, national, state, municipal or
corporate, have is that if the United
btates during the continuance of this
war shall issue other bonds at a high
er rate of interest, the holders of these
Liberty bonds have the right to ex
change their Liberty bonds for bonds
bearing the higher rate of interest,
dollar for dollar.
WHAT OTHER SPECIAL ADVANT
AGES DO THESE BONDS
POSSESS?
They are non-taxable. If your city
county and state taxes are three mills
on the dollar, a not unusual tax, these
bonds are equivalent to ordinary cor
porate bonds or other investments
bearing 6% per cent.
In addition no federal tax which war
conditions may later make necessary
will affect these bonds. The only tax
these bonds are subject to is the in
heritance tax, which applies to all
property of all kinds whatsoever.
HOW ARE LIBERTY BONDS OB-
TAINED?
Blank forms of applications for the
purchase of these bonds can be obtain
ed from the Treasury Department, any
federal reserve bank, any national,
state or private bank, any express of
fice and any postoffice in the United
btates. Any bank or postmaster will
aid applicant in filling out his blank
and the other acts necessary to obtain
these bonds.
IF THESE BONDS ARE SO DESIR
ABLE, WHY IS IT NECESSARY
TO ADVERTISE THEM
EXTENSIVELY?
It is not necessaryjto advertise these
ponds to sell the whole issue, but it
is earnestly desired that this loan
shall be a popular loarf, a loan by and
from the people at large of the United
btates, and not alone from banks,
trust companies and financiers. To
that end bonds are to be issued of
small denominations, and subscribers
for small amounts are to be supplied
before the subscribers for large
amounts are granted their full sub
scription.
IS IT PATRIOTIC TO PURCHASE
THESE BONDS?
Yes every American who sub
scribes to the justice of the course of
the United States in entering and
conducting the war we are now en
gaged in should subscribe to the Lib
erty Loan Bond issue to the extent of
his or her financial ability.
Every American who subscribes to
the belief that an American should
stand by his or her country should
subscribe to the Liberty Loan Bond
issue.
Every American who loves America
und te jealous of America's honor
should subscribe to the Liberty Loan
Bond issue. The real success of the
loan is to be more determined by the
number of Americans participating In
it than by the amount subscribed. The
spirit of the nation is going to be
judged abroad, especially by our ene
mies, more by the number of its Amer
ican men and women who support
this bond issue than by the mere
amount of money subscribed.
YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTYBUY A
LIBERTY LOAN BOND.
A LIBERTY LOAN BOND IS A
MORTGAGE ON THE UNITED
STATES
REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA AND
BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND
WHY "LD3ERTY LOAN?"
The $5,000,000,000 bond issue of this
year is named "The Liberty Loan of
1917" because it is to be a loan from
a free people to be used in freeing the
world.
It is the loan of a liberty-loving peo
ple to be devoted to the establishment
of liberty in Europe and on the high
seas.
It is the loan^of the great democracy
of the New World to redress the
wrongs and support the cause of de
mocracy of the Old.
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MARINES O FIRST
Seasoned Veterans to Be Under
Colonel Doyen's Command.
MAINLY FROM WEST INDIES.
Colonel Doyen, Fifty-eight Years Old,
is Graduate of Naval AcademyHa
Has 8een 8srvice In ths Philippinss
and Orient and In Haiti and Santo
Domingo. Washington.A regiment of veteran
United States marines, equipped as
regular Infantry, will go to France as
part of Major John J. Pershing's com
mand. There will be approximately
2,000 men In the regiment, probably the
largest numerically that will be en
gaged on the western front
Colonel Charles A. Doyen, at present
commandant ef the United States ma
rine barracks in this city, who has been
in the service thirty-four years, will
command this new American contin
gent
For the most part the marines will
be taken from regiments now on duty
in Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba.
Photo by American Press Association.
COLONEL CHABLES A. DOYEN.
This means that Secretary Daniels will
send-the pick of "sea soldiers" with
General Pershing's command. Every
marine in the contingent will be a vet
eran who has been frequently in action.
The American marines have been char
acterized as the peer of any fighting
force on earth.
Colonel Doyen is a graduate of the
Naval academy. He is fifty-eight years
old, but remarkably active for a man
of his years. He has seen service in
the Philippines and the orient in Haiti
and Santo Domingo and in other places
wherever marines have been in action.
Secretary Daniels would give no ink
ling as to when the big regiment will
go across the Atlantic. This Informa
tion will be In absolute secrecy, just as
the departure of General Pershing and
his staff and the force which is to fol
low them will be closely guarded by the
military authorities.
SCHEME TO BEAT BOAT.
Connecticut Man Would Corral Torpe
does With Magnet.
Waterbury, Conn.Fred Hemmings
has invented a device to offset the dan
ger of the torpedo in its attack from
the submarine or otherwise. The de
vice Is an electric arrangement of great
magnetic power attached to the side of
the ship, which will attract the torpedo,
bring it to the side of the ship attacked
and then lift it to the deck without ex
ploding it
Mr, Hemmings believes it is destined
to revolutionize sea fighting and will
make vessels practically immune from
torpedo attacks. Lawrence Addlcks,
chairman of the naval board, Is now
considering Its adoption for service.
Theodore Roosevelt has congratulated
Mr. Hemmings in a private letter.
PLOWING DAY AND NIGHT.
Tractore and 8erchliflhte Used to
Help Cayuga County Farmers.
Auburn, N. Y.The Cayuga County
Home Defense league committee be
gan intensive food production on the
farms of the county by putting out
tractors which will plow continuously
day and night
Searchlights have been installed, amf
three crews will go with each machine,
working in eight hour shifts. The com
mittee charges farmers $2.50 per acre
to plow and $3.50 an acre to plow and
fit the land, which covers cost of oper
ation and maintenance.
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PLAN 440W TO MAKE
AN EGG WEIGH MORE
Simple as adding two and two
Is the plan launched in Chicago
by the American Poultry associa
tion to increase the nation's
meat supply by 100,000,000
pounds In four months. Raise
chickens, is the answer. Lone
egg doesn't weigh much, but in
four months it can be trans- ,4
formed Into a chicken weighing 4
4 three pounds. ~4
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