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MORGAN ÇITY, LA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1317.
No. 257
OAdal Dispatches Fron
Russia Show Array
M _
fortress of Kronstadt Who
Rid Revolted Surrenders
To the Provisional Govern
■eat
Washington, June 7.—Encourag
ing improvements in the Russism
situation was reported in official dis
patches today telling of stricter dis
cipline in the army, which was
threatened seriously by the political
fpheaval and the sweeping away of
pH caste. This is assumed to be a re
gait of the efforts of Minister of
War Kerensky, who has been tour
big the fronts.
Official reports from Russia al
ways have been much more optimis
tic than press dispatches, and con
sistently have scouted the idea of a
••parate peace. This has upheld con
fidence among State Department
Officials, who hope that the revolu
tion though throwing the allied of
fensives on the Belgium, French
pad Italian fronts entirely out of
pear, in the end would prove one of
democracy's great triumphs of the
War.
The great effort here now is to
b« friendly and sympathetic toward
fhe provisional authorities at Petro
grad, rather than distrustful and in
trusive. The government has adopt
ed » firm policy of not allowing the
feHghtest suspicion to arise that it is
frying to interfere in the internal
pffairs of »Russia.
Prompt settlement of the Kropd
stadt trouble, when radicals broke
■way from the provisional govern
ment to found a separate adminis
tration, has strengthened the belief
here that Russia will find its own
way out.
MOVING PICTURE PARTY -
Mesdames M. E. Norman and K.
R. Hood will entertain the members
Of Squad No. 2, of Company "C"
with a moving picture party at the
Evangeline tonight.
WANTED to purchase at <
empty piano box—Apply to A.
Gotten.
''Let us help you do your "BIT"
BUY A LIBERTY BOND
Our sorvtcos aro your for tho asking.
PEOPLES STATE AND SAVINGS
BANK
Opens Saturday's until 8 P. M.
Peoples State A Savings Bank
MORGAN CITY, LA.
On Busy Railroad Avenue
Open Saturday's until 8 p. m.
To
can
not
hear
GUS DREWS,
President
E. W, DREIÖÜOLZ,
Vice-Presdt
The Bank ol Morgan Gty
FIRST ON THE ROLL OF HONOR
How You Can Help Your Country
PRODUCE—All You Can
WASTE—Nothing
• LEND—-What You Can
PROPUCE FOOD—STOP ALL WASTE
Lend some of *our mopey to the United States by
vesting in a Liberty bond, and help onr county
the war. This bank will be pleased
subscription. Yon can invest in a
bend, and we Will assist you in case you can not pay
all cash.
in
win
to bandle your
$SO.OO or $100.00
'IMÜiÎmmmc HHHIM
D. WINCHESTER,
Cashier
A. B. O'BRIEN,
Asst Cuhier
tion
ing,
by
a
On French Coast
S u p p lie s of Food for Ameri
can Soldiers Are Begmnmi
To Arrive
Paris, June 7.—A large American
transport containing wheat for
American troops which are to come
later has cross the Atlantic under the
protection of an American warship
the Matin announces. The 1 trans
port is being unloaded at a French
port, the newspaper says.
Preparations are being made for
the reception of American troops,
the newspaper says further. A num
ber of basis similar to those of the
British army have been organized.
Camps have been laid out for in
fantry and artilltry and aviation
parks have been established for
American aviators. None of the
American officers is bringing his
family.
The Matin sayatheamval of the
transport means that the provision
ing of the army is well under way
before the arrival of the troops and
that accordingly the American
forces will make no call on the
French stock of food.
The ministry of marine announ
ced tonight that American warships
have anchored off the French coast.
** ■
The announcement reads:
"The French navy greets with joy
on their arrival these brothers
arms who under the flag of
great American republic have come
to participate until final victory in
the struggle against the common
enemy."
WOULD
DISFRANCHISE SLACK
ERS.
Washington, June 7.—A bill pro
viding that all persons between the
military draft ages who shall be
known as "slackers" shall be dis
franchised during the pendency of
the war with Germany and for one
year thereafter was introduced to
day by Representative Park of
Georgia.
toerâs Of The German Front
By The Brifisk
Storming Parties h A Rush Captured
Important Belgian Villages
Five Thousand Prisoners and a Large Booty
Material Captured
of War
In one of the most elaborately
planned and daringly executed
maneuvers of the war, Sir Douglas
Haig's forces have dealt a mighty
blow against the German line in
Belgium and been rewarded with
notable gains in terrain and the
capture of five thousand prisoners
and numerous guns of various cali
ber. In addition, they inflicted
heavy casualties on the Germans.
Over a front of more than nine
miles, extending from the region of
Ypres southward nearly to Armen
tieres, the British started their
drive in the early hours of Thursday
morning and at nightfall had every
where advanced their line, captur
ing villages and numerous points of
vantage, among the latter the Mes
sines- Wytschaete ridge which com
monds the surrounding plains for
Contracts For Shipbuilding In
Morgan City And Berwick Prac
tically Assured *
Mr. M. Janse, President of Janse Bros. & Co.
Conveys The Information
Mr. M. Janse, from Now Orleans,
telephoned Mr. M. P. Palmer, Sec
retary of the Chamber of Commerce
of Morgan City and Berwick about
noon, the following telegram that he
had received from Houston, Texav
and signed by thé Union Bridge and
Construction Company of Kansas,
City, Mo.
TELEGRAM
Houston, Texas, June 8, 1917.
To M. JANSE A CO,
New Orleans, La.
We have practically dosed con
tracts for building ships think you
can do the uni®. §p
UNION BRIDGE AND CON
STRUCTION CO.
And Mr. Janse added that hs had
not ns yet heard from his represen
tatives but that ha was expecting to
hear from them at any time.
ESPIONAGE MEASURE
REPORT PASSES HOUSE
Washington, June 7.—The con
ference report on the administra
tion espionage bill, with its export
embargo provision and drastic ad
ditions to existing laws against spy
ing, but shorn of the newspaper
feature, was passed by the House
today 86 to 22.
CONVICT
WANTS
BONDS.
LIBERTY
I
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by
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t
The following letter was received
by the Secretary of the Navy from
a prisoner at the Wethersfield,
Conn., penitentiary, asking for
formation as to purchasing two lib
erty bonds:
"As I am unable in my present
position to be of service to my
country in the manner in which
prefer, I should very much like to
purchase two liberty loan bonds,
one of $1,000 and one of $500, and
help out a little in that way. Will *
you kindly advise me when conveni
ent if I will be permitted to do so,
■nd also let me know just what to
Ido in regard to the matter."
miles and which for two years and
a half has been a troublesome sali
ent.
The village of Messines and Wyt
schaete fell into the hands of the
British during the attack and the
village of Gosttaverne and trenches
east of the village on a front 0 of
more *? an five miles.
Probably never in history was an
attack launched with greater pre
paration. For days the Wytschaete
salient had been the obejctive of
the British guns, which had hurled
tons of steel upon it. When the time
for the attack came, the British
loosed up mines containing 1,000,
000 pounds of high explosives in
front of the Germans positions, the
detonations being heard 130 miles
away in England.
ORDERS
LUMBER
SHIPS.
Gen.
Qoethals Places
With Southern
FOR 100
Big Contract
MilU.
of
The United Sattes Shipping
Board authorizes the following:
The committee representing the
Southern Pine Association, acting
for the Southern Pine Emergency
Bureau, announces that an order
for lumber of 100 ships to be sawed
by the southern mills has been
placed by Gen. George W. Goethals,
general manager of United States
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
Corporation, at an average price of
$35 per thousand feet at the mills.
Gen. Goethals, in placing the or
der with the Emergency Bureau,
said:
The contracts for these ships
have ns»t yet been let, but in the re
gular course of business should be
expected to be awarded within 60
days, and as soon as the contracts
have been let notification as to the
point where these ships will be
built will be forwarded to your sec
retary so that your mills may com
mence on these timbers.
"It is expected that orders for
these sets wfu begin in the early
part of June and probably will be
entirely placed within 60 * days."—
Government Bulletin.
* jeanerette, La.
Man has wonderful invention and
for that reason is sacrificing a gas
stern wheel combination tow-boat
pull hoat and sinker-raiser all opera
ted by boat's own power, pump
also, pilot house, tow-post, plenty ôf
room, fast, powerful, plow steel
cable or drugs, timeber tools, beds,
42 ft, X 12ft, overall. Timbermen
and tow-boatmen should investigate
immediately. First check for $700.00
takes it Alex Froment, Box 432,
6t
Your patriotic duty—BUY
Liberty !*oan Bond.
npossible Form of Coatract
Has Been Offered Says
Two Members of Board
joetbals Charged With
Blocking Shipbuilding
Washington, June 7.—Differences
over the government's wooden ship
building program came to a head
tonight when F. A. Eustis, assistant
general manager of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, and his assistant,
Huntington Clark, issued state
ments virtually charging Major G.
W. Goethals, general manager of the
corporation, with halting building of
the vessels by prescribing an impos
sible form of contract.
The statements reveal that the
fleet corporation has just received
offers from ten firms to build 496
wooden ships within twelve months
786 within eighteen months
General Goethals has turned the pro
posais down because the builders
wished to construct the ships on a I
cost plus ten per cent profit in
stead of contracing for a flat price
for the ships.
Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark are the
mining engineers who originated
the wooden shipbuilding plan adopt
ed by the Shipping Board and re
garded by General Goethals as im
practicbale. When the board formed
the fleet corporation and put Gen
eral Goethals at its head with full
powers to build ships, the two engi
neers were assigned to the corpora
tion as the general's aides.
After taking charge of the build
ing program, General Goethals turn
ed to steel construction and limited
the wooden program to not more
than 250 ships in eighteen months.
Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark contended
the corporation can build 2000
wooden ships within that time with
out interfering with steel build
ing.
General Goethals could not be
seen tonight for comment on the
statement. Chairman Denman, of
the Shipping Board, who has been
represented as opposing General
Goethals' plans to restrict wooden
building said:
"None of the members of the
Shipping Board has any knowledge
of the statements attributed to the
engineers, Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark
intimating a refusal by General
Goethals to build as many wooden
Having Opened A Tailor Shop Next To
Jolley Bros. Caro's Old Stand
I am now prepared to take care of
Your Tailoring Wants
Cleaàig, Pressing, Repairàg and Dy«wg
GLASER'S TAILOR SHOP
GIVE US A TRIAL
How Does It Benefit Me?
Business men believe in the 2F e deral Reserve
System, but many of them know little about it or how
it operates.
To tell our community how the system benefits
them and how they can contribate directly to its sup
port, we have prepared a short pamphlet.
if you haven *t seen it we shall be gladjeither
to mail it to yon or give £it] to
you if you will call.
The First National Bank of Morgan City
Capital and Surplus, $100,000. *
Send for Booklet, "Bow Does It Benefit Me?"
Bank Cashier at Natch
itoches is Smothered
By Robbers
I
Crime ■ Broad DayHgbt ■
(be Heart ofthe City-Booty
Secured $4500.00
Natchitoches, La., June 7.—A. E.
Bath, cashier of the Merchants and
Farmers' Bank here, was help up at
1:20 p. m. Thursday and the bank
robbed of $4500. The loss is fully
covered by burglar insurance and
the banks assets are unimpaired. A
customer found Cashier Bath on the
floor unconscious and gave the
alarm.
A physician was summoned and
after some time revived the cashier,
who said that he was alone in the
bank as is customary at that hour
every day, the bookkeeper being at
dinner. While working on the add
ing machine and before he saw or
heard any suspicious a cloth was
suddenly thrown over his face, he
felt as if smothering and knew no
more. He said he could not give no
clue to the robber or obbers.
The rebbery is thought to have
ben the work of a professional who
knew the cashier was alone at that
hour and practically no business
going on. The bank is in the heart
of the business section- and in the
same building as People's Hardware
Store, a block and a half from the
courthouse.
ships as he might, nor had they the
slightest intimation that they were
to be issued. General Goethals, as
head of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, in the service of which
they have been acting, has entire
responsibility for shipbuilding pro
gram, wood and steel. That power
was given him when the board was
organized April 16, 1917.
"The board has not insisted that
either wood or steer be given pre
ference. All that we desire is the
maximum of quickly constructed
tonnage for* immediate war neces
sities. General Goethals has not re
quested and assistance from the
shipping board and any request for
assistance that he might have made
or will make would have been and
will be given immediate attention.