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MOVIE OPERATORS FILM BIG DRIVE OF ALLIES Washington, July 7. America will soon be seeing the big drive in the movies, according to a private Lon don cablegram received today by one of the embassies here. "Probably no such battle has ever before been recorded," the massage says. "The cinematograph operators are everywhere and exposing them selves with great heroism, securing pictures of troops actually leaving the trenches under a galling fire." o o 1,000 MARRIED MEN TO GET ' RELEASE FROM GUARD , Washington, July 7. ThougS hav ing no statistics on the number of national , guardsmen with dependent familieswar department officials to day estimated not 'more than 1,000 men will be discharged under Sec'y .Baker's permit to department com manders to free such men from serv ice. t Hundreds of letters asking release tof men with families have reached ,the department, but many of these duplicate the same cases. In freeing the men the states will give them an honorable discharge and must then recruit others, to fill their places. o o NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS IN MONSTER PARADE New York, July 7. A monster de- , monstration of striking garment workers was staged here yesterday, when upward of 35,000 men and tammnn nararipri ffirnncrll fho atraata of the East Side and then to Madison 'Square. The parade way in protest against the manufacturers who have , kept their shops closed for ten weeks, refusing to arbitrate with the strik ers. i o o - Boston. 22 persons, including 10 now under arrest, will appear before grand jury when probe into mystery surrounding death of Miss Margaret Ward begins. RAILROADS UNITE WHAT'S IDEA TO FIGHT UNIONS? The thirty-seven railroads which operate in Illinois have united ,Into an organization called the Bureau of Railway Publicity. The principal object of the organ ization, if one may judge from the announcement which it issues, is to wage war against Jabor unions and those who are seeking tp force rail roads to reduce their freight or pas senger rates. Headquarters have been estab lished at 38 S. Dearborn St., with An derson Pace as manager. , o o TELEGRAPH BRIEFS Grand Rapids, Mich. Marriage of Clara Louise Peck Waite to Dr. Ar thur Warren Waite was annulled by Superior Judge Dunhum on grounds that the marriage was contracted through fraud on the part of Waite. Springfield, III. Joseph Sanders, member of Battery B, New York field artillery, instantly killed when he fell from window of troop train. Washington. U. S. marines ex pected, to enter Santiago, San Do mingo, last night or this morning without opposition radio message to navy department said. Copenhagen. England and Ger many have agreed to exchange of civilian prisoners, according to infor mation received by Americans. East Orange, N. J. Jos. Ramsey, president of Lorain, Ashland & Southern railway and former presi dent of the Wabash, died here. Sandusky. When cable on steam er Wm. Nottingham broke it jerked off right arm of Michael Clinkenburg, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., sailor. London. King George received David Lloyd-George in audience and handed him seals of secretaryship of war. London. New Russo-Japanese treaty provides Russia and Japan shall confer with object of defend ing their territorial or special inter ests in Far East by joint action.