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ARMY OF WORKERS FOR IT

Is Smaller.

McAtfoo On 8 poking Tour—Makes Eloquent Appeal In Cleveland for Success •>* Vast War Oflanng. Washington — The smt UberiJ Ixxkn drive started Monday throughout the country vrlth a rush T* iegraphlc nportr to the Treasury from every rcctfon indicate tremendous enthusisem cn the part of tens of thousands of worfcers and a fair flrst-day volume of •abscrlpttons toward the IS.000.000.500 Btinlmum which har been set as the goal of the four weeks - campaign Flags and Whistles Flags were flown, whistles were blown, acres of billboards blossomed Into red. white and bide posters and thousands of workers started the cam pcign with enthusiasm from New England to California. Everywhere, from post office*, bank and store windows, railway station*, street cars and scores of other public places. Mberty posters with varied slogans were pasted up and workers began the lank of finding

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Town* and rlties from coast to coast .welcomed the beginning of the campaign with distinctive demonstrations Here In the capital, street car* were stogped for two minutes at noon, and automobile boms and Isrens let loose a bedlam of noiae a* the field force began its work In hundreds of other communities the story was the same, varied only by the methods followed Ho Hon reported a chorus of steam whistle* greeting the opening of the campaign Mayor Mltchel of New Tor*, started It there with an address Philadelphia let louse her factory whistles at 10 o'clock and two hours later gased aky ward at a squadron of six aeroplane* that circled the tower of the City Hall, dropping loan Uierature while l.liOO Boy Scouts started collectlag contributions McAdoo Makes Plea. Bee retan McAdoo opened bis transConUbeotsI speech making tour in Cleveland, where Iria Speaker, star outfielder of the Cleveland baseball Club. pJ'Chased the first bond Needs *12VOOOOOO a Day. The specta. ular features of the first day succeeded every mhee, reports to the Trass cry Department indicate, .n arousing widespread enthusiasm To keep siive this enthusiasm and swell Its vclume til) even person who enu C i a Liberty bond does buy one Is the rk to which Ibe volunteer army is £n|j|ff*otiag Its serious attention here were no! tnrliprd to WailiHft/eVh. tremendous task A vast Itofct-R’rt^n’ftwork must be done Zdurtag the next 23 more working days person the ranks of the r, Frt)rt! r *W* , " : ""' Ar avetaar of at.ifliyffi'Q? 0 ■ da* In subscriptions for UtHWk p.-rii-il would bring the total ift^taPP to the Minimum Whai off) Clalatiope for is to make • ver- day a

HANDS OFF" THE POUCY FAUIUES MUST CONSERVE

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vbasl*. 126.000.

bnr.g the total lo wit'iln hailing dl» lance of the t:..<AiO.0001100 nhicii th*country is expected to subscribe With Ib.lKKi.mai subscriber* as the goal, the average dally subscription !l*t would show 400.00V name* Again. eight-hour working

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OOVERNMENT RAISES WAGES Mew Seal* At Academy And Eapen-

ment Station.

▲anapolis Mil An increase In the wag*' of Ooverniuent euiplm .-s at the Naval Academy and also a< the Naval Bai*nment Btatloa her- f,, r ,» classes of labor, both as to the mail main and minimum per dl>-m. is prr. vided in a new wage scale which ha* been agreed upon by department ofh Ci*l» of Waahlngton. is the re»ult of UMDrrvur conferences with the repr * aentatne* of the league of Govern Employes and otFers :u the last

several months

Special Envoy Declare* Doer Of Trade I* Always Open And That Hit Oeveroment Welcome* Competition. New York.—Proclaiming a Monroe Doctrine of the Far Eaat. Ylaconnt lahll. bead of the Japan mlaalon to the Vnlted State*, warned the nation* of the world that his country would not tolerate aggressions against the territory or Independence of China. At the aame time he pledged Japan not to attempt similar aggression on

her part.

Sneaking a: a formal dinner in honor of the Imperial envoys' visit to New York i he Ambassador of'Emperor Yoahlhlto outlined publicly for the first time since he set foot on American soil the policy ot hi* Government as It relates to China. "Circumstance* for which we were In no sense responsible gave us cer tain right* on Chlnoee territory." Viscount ishli said, "but at no time In the past and at no time in the future do we or will we seek to take territory from China or to deepol! China of her

right*.”

Then with dramatic earnestness he eipounded the “hand* off policy of his Government “We wish to be and alway* to continue to be." hr declared. "the idnrrre friend and helper of onr neighbor, for we are more Interested ‘.baa any one else, except China, in good government there. Only we must at all times for self protection prevent other nations from doing , what we have no right to do We not | only will^not seek to assail the in tegrity or* the sovereignty of China, j bul will eventually be prepared to de < fend and maintain the integrity and independence of China against nny aggressor. For we know that our ow u landmarks would be threatened by ' «nj outside invasion or Inlerfeience In China” While '.x boldly warned tBe rortd I against any attempt to invade the rights of the republic of the Far East. Viscount IihM promised with equal •arncstne** that the door to legitlmati - trade In China never would be closed I by Japan This declaration was cheered by the l.ooo public men. bank era. merchant* and captains of Indus try who heard him. Viscount Ishii attributed to Gorman machinations "sinister rumors of op jire.**ion or the false suggestion of a i policy ditected against China" when ever Japan or America appca.-ed to make progress In that country. The Knvov declared emphatically j that the "gentlemen's agreement'' en tried into between Elthu Hoot, when I Secretary of State, and Ambassador Takahlrn should be sufficient guar- ! antee of cotiUnts-d friend!' telation* tw tween the two nation* "Gentlemen. Japan 1* satiM'ed with { this." he eirlalmed, “are yoo?" Referring to the alllaree between Amrrlea and Japan in the war. be said is e'osmg "It 1* not conceivable that you of America oi we of Japan, be ! rause of false cry ot unstable peace. I ean ehangr th« lourse ret by a star. It i* no. reneehaolr that for some petty gain secured by the sacrifice of pnnrlplt al the price of honor lost we i tan be brought to swerve from our purpose, lit fall the standard ot right J or bleak the bonds of friendship It . ,* not conceivable thal America and J Japan, out ideal* one. our purpose fixed, ean fail In iht* great common I j undertaking "

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Members of Aviation Corps Also Implicated.

NAVAL AGENTS INVESTIGATE

RUSSIAN MDBS IN RIOT Preparations For Arming Finnu* N.ppea In flue. I'etragrad Dlsordets are lepurted at Tambov. Sob mdes southeast of Moscow, amt at Kustov. In Crimea, where mob* led by former criminal . exiles in Hlberla burned and desteoved I much grain and other prop*m« The towns are under martial law and troop* have been '-tit from Mt.s.-u.t Rioting also i* reported In Turkestan, whither troop* have been dispatched OBREGON TO WASHINGTON Say* Visit Is For Pleasure and For Medical Treatment San Krnnclsco -Gen Alvaro Obre gun lertuet Mexican aecictary of wat. wee hi re Monday, rn route to Wash

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Houee-To-Houee Canvass Will Be Made Week Of October 21 to 2S to Enroll House-

wives.

Washington - Th' harvest of America's crops will yield less this year than last. This lx the situation called to the attention of the American public by Herbert 0. Hoover, the Feod Administrator. In another appeal to the people to co-operal- wi h the Government In the supreme task of cona nrlng the n~tion's food supply. Reminding the country that the Allies now constitute America's first line of defense id the war against Germany . Mr. Hoover declares that they must be fed If the war Is to be won. They can be fed. be declares, if the people of the United Ststes. who are the only people engaged In the war who are not on rations, will help eliminate waste. He urgss every Church and every civic snd patriotic organization to Join in the campaign for economies In food. Along with his appeal. Mr. Hoover announced plan* for a final campaign to enlist every man and woman of the country In the ranks of a food conservation "army." During the week of October 21 to 26 he intend* to haws a bouse to-house canvas* throughout the nation to cover the 22.000.000 families In the United States. In his staiemen.. Mr. Hoover says* "The week of October 21 to 28 has •>een selected for a nation-wide campaign to complete the enrollment of our forces in conserratlon of our food

supply.

"The harvest la now In hand and we ean measure the world's food re-

sources.

“The available supplies this harvest year are less than last yean the demand upon us ts greater than Inst remr, and from the lait harvest we export?d more than we mold really afford. We ean only meet the call upon ns nrrt year by saving* and'by Mib«tI'uiion of commodifies which cannot be ti*r.>ported - "We sre asking every householder, every hotel, rrstsuranf and dealer In foodstuffs in the nation to become a member oj the Koo.1 Administration for conservation, und to pledge them selves to follow, insofar ns circumstances peruilt. the suggestion* that will hr otfen-d from lime to time ns to measure- >-f food saving*. “For u* there 1' no threat of priva- • tion We wish i.nly that our people should eat plenty, but wisely and without want! Wisdom In eating 1* to make pos-ihle sum adjustment* in our food consumprion -hipping and war necessities as will allow ws t« fulfil! oor Cud in exports to our al lies. By eilniiha.ion of waste we serve ourselves eronomleslly and morally "Therefore, appeal to (he churches and to the school* tor ibelr assistance j In this cinsadr: to all the orcanUa liens for delease, local and natloMl. to all the agenclei. commercial, social and civic, that they Join the Admin Istratlna In this work for the fun la menu! safety of the Nation.” It I* declared at the offices of the Food Administration that nearly 2.0M>. (Km women of the country already 1 have taken the plvdge to lU'niah the food tha Allies and our own oversea* lorccs require b* means or economic* 1 and results are already begiwninr to j

appear.

The foods lo be saved fur export * are wheat, beef. pork, dairy product* | and sugar; those that may be used gem rously are fish, poultry, fruit. 1 vegetable" and all cereals but wheat WAR APPROPRIATIONS BOARD Congress Urged to Provide Smglr

House Committee.

Washington < rvwtion of a single House commitic« to c-oatrol nil np piopriationa for !he period of the war Is proposed ‘n a resuiutloa Introduced I Representative FTiigerald. who de | dared be would urge Immediate action on the proposal, as he regar-ied It j a* the "nuvet Important and impera five need of ibe time" "The purpose of this tvoolutioa I* to concentrate during the p. nod of the j • ar all appropriation* In n stngle com | mittce." said KepiesenUtlve Fill in aid. 'Since fongross convened In April the Committee cn AppropriaHot* has pa—ed upon estimate* aggies a ilng mote than IIO.'HX'.OOO.OOOO KILLS HER SLEEPING HUSBAND. W.t# Sty* She Learned He Hod

Poisoned He. Mother.

Thorough Inquiry Being Conducted On The Pacific Coaat And Cenaorship Is Tightened By The

Naval Authoritlea.

San Francisco—Navy Department agents have charge of further devel-opni.-ot* In the German spy plot In which two naval ensigns, five members of the aviation corps and a recruiting officer are alleged to be implicated In treasonable operations with Idem Erwin Froderlch Schneider, of the German Navy, his companion. Theodore Kaslnger. both in military prison bore, and four Austrian armyofficer* held in Leredo, Texas. Naval officials Immediately threw the utmost secrecy about further op •rations which are expected to result la arrest* at nay moment Action of the Navy officials is now centered In Souihern California. It is believed, where one of the Naval ensigns ts stationed at San Diego and one uf the aviation member* is enlisted In the training camps there. .

TRENCH AND CAMP' OUT OCT. 8. Weekly Newspaper tVIII Be Printed For Every Army Crmp. Wa*hlngtoa.— “Trench and Camp.” the weekly newspaper to be prinu d for every army camp through nation wide co-operation of newspaper publishers will make Its first appearance Yfnmiay. October 6. It was to have eppeart-d a week earlier, but arrange ment of details In the Far West made a-poMponement necessary. The paper will be published under the auspices of the National War Wc * Council of the Young Men's Christian Association All the arrangements between publishers and the many detail* of the undertaking* have b*-en directed by John Stevrart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leedei. who will have genera! management of the paper

GER1U PLOT

OFFERISJ SIRII5

Germans Will Evacuate Belgium on Condition.

Men Arrested in New York 1 Planned to Cripple Ships. ALSO DEMANDS GUARANTEES

CHEMICALS FROM TEUTONS

LIBERTY BONDS AT 100.24. Activity and Riaa AKribued To Announcement of New Issue. New York —Trading in Liberty 2% per cent Government bonds at quote Horn running frxan 100.04 to the new pjemiuni of 100.24 was llw sinking faatur. of an otherwise unsettled movetu. ni on the Slock Exchange Friday Hales of the Liberty issue ag cregaled about |6J60.0«K>. or almost *0 per cent of (be day's total operations In the open bond market. Among dealers the greater aetlvity md the enhanermt-n! were attributed lo the overnight announcement of (he Treaaury Department's intention to create a new bond for an unlimited »mount at 4 per cent, interest

MORE AMERICAN CASUALTIES

Private Killed In Accidant In Lin* Of | plans*

Duly; Lieutenant Wounded

About On* Hundred Aliens Taken. Many Of Whom Had Carborundum, Used To Destroy Machinery. New York—Plans to wreck raa riilnery in munition making shops In America at the bidding of German agent* In Europe ar* believed by the police lo have been defeated through the arrest of about 100 Germans and German sympathizers In raid* here. Nearly all the men arrested are me chanlca. A number are employed In munition* plants and on nary contracts. In the possession of some were found quantities of carborundum in pulverised form—a chemical used to destroy delicate machinery. The men knew one another, had bald various meetings at which police and Navy Department agent* were oreaent unknown to them, and had been under surveilance for many month*, according to the police. The suiplcion U held that the car Vvrundum reached here from German i agent* In Scandinav ian countries. E;. I phasis was placed on the discovery of I this chemical, some of It In the form of lead pencil*. In possession of a Ger- ‘ man courier in Norway some months i ago. This agent admitted, according j lo police Information, that he had been I sending carborundum lo Germans In | countries at war with Germany. Some of the men were arrested, it | was said, at the headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, but j the majority were taken from their

! homes.

In the round-up more than 200 city detectives and patrolmen were en-gng'-d. Little difficulty was egperienced in finding all of tbe men on the lists sent out from headquarters and with one exception there was no resisting by tbe men wanted. Suitcases filled with papers, bundles of various sixes, boxer, tools, parts of machinery and contrivances having the appearance of explosives, all seised In tbe raids, were nattered about on the flooraof offires at police

I headquarter*

WOMFN FLAN TO SELL BONDS. To Dispose Of OncThlrd Of New

Issue Of Liberty Bond*

Washington ~-Oae-t bird of the salo* In the coml-ig Liberty Loan campaign is the task set for tbe women uf the country by the Women's Liberty lx>an Committee, which held a two day session here with more than 1M delegati* from all sections in attendant-. Mrs W. G. McAdoo. chairman, prrsidid. and Mr* Antoinette Funk, of Chicago, announced the rrcat share of the woifc undertaken amid entbui (astir ap

Washington -The sllel.t wounding ot Flrat Lieutenant Howard F. Keating. of Philadelphia. Medical Corps, during an air raid on the night of Sep^ l.-mber 24. was irporled to the War ■ •epartment by General rershing The death of Private James Tracy, of Phil xdrlphla. a- , result if "an ac- ideal lb the line of du' ~ .^o was reported Another cablegram announced th< death oa September 24 Dum natural ranee* of Sergeant lit Johnson, of St

Paul.

7 YEARS FOR DRAFT BLOCKER. Frisco Attorney Sent to Fcdoral

Prison n Washington.

Han Francisco Hacli! O'Connell, a Gan Francisco altuin-l. wr« sentenced lu seven veai* In the McNe.l'a Island Federal Penitentiary !n Waihlax on in tbv United Stairs District Court fur runsplnng to obstruct ih.- rrlertive draft •** 'The net (or which you stead convicted was very rloae to 1 treason ” declared Judge W C Vi Floet. In seatrneing O'Connell p qnostionabl) the things you have dun* were decided)* intended tu stab your

country in the back "

23 KILLED IN COLLI8DN.

Passenger On fit Louis and Frisco

Runt Into Empty Troop Train.

Kellyvtlic. Okla Bodies ul 1C ne groea and seven white men Lave been taken Iroui the wreckage ul the St Louis and San Francisco train No 7. which collided head on with an empty troop train, one mile MHithweat of hero. It Is believed that several moie i

bodies still are in th* debris.

WOMAN DROWNS HER CHILDREN Inaan* Mother Drop* Voungetera | n ie

Old Well

I ScMbooier. N Y—Mrs Cart *c mold, residing at Townsend, in a 111 , j ot Insanity, drowned hor two boy*, one aged f- years and the oilier Ik months, in an old well near tbe bunse t She later di aggod the bodies from tbe ! w.a and laid tboui up tbe gras*, whore j I Ley were found by a Ueigbbc-

LIFE SAVED BV CORSET STAY. I BuHvt Fired By Husband She

Had Arrosted.

[ Houghton. Mich.—Tbe life of Mr* Frederick Landroche. id Hancock, probably was sated b, a corset stev Her husband, arraigned in roan on a 1 charge of non-support, asked for per mission to speak to hi* wife. This | being granted. Imndrucbe pulled a re volvrr and fired twice One shot Went wild, ibe other was deflected by th* corse! stay Before Laadrorbe could

flrx again he was overpowered SPIES REPORTED (SHOT.

Ambassador Pag* Quoted At Tolling

Of Gorman Agents With Pershing.

Durham. N ( -Court martial and subsequent pulling to death ot two German sides, one a wireir** operator j and the other an orxlerly to a com uiandtng officer m all probability i , saved General Pershing's expedition J ary fore# w bile * n route to France. I from disaster, according to a letter re- ! reived by • son of American Ambas I w *“«r Hines Page, from his I

father.

j SLACKER TAINT 1 CO MUCH. j Man Who Fought Draft Will Enlist

Whsn Jai! Term Ends.

, Milwaukee - Nicholas Vcw*. who of ! I fered armed irsistanre n««i Man! j t.FW«r recently wh.-n approached foi ! arrest foi failure to register, wi!) , r ; Join th. navy ,d his own volition at th. expiration of a Jail sememe of U- I ! cays Impos'd by Federal District Judge ' (ielge. I would rather be called am name other than a sUrkrr ' " j EX-CONCRCF8MAN A SUICIDE J K N.choi* Wrote "Old. Poor and j | Blind. What's The Use Of L.vlng " Raleigh. N u - John A Nichols. 64 I I nlted State* t'oiumialsuner hero and at one tunc a member ot ('ongrooa. committed sul.ide In th. Poetoffic Uuildihc by shooting himself A note

i ta in. office read

‘Old poor and blind, wbat's th* use

Th# Now Gorman Offer la Tc Giv* Up BolQiwvi Provided Gomury |, G.iarantood tit* Right To Dt volop Hor Enterprises. London —Germany has agn.d ^ evacuate Belgium on certain cosdk Don*, it I* declared In a German !,». cial statement, according to a dilate* from Bento. Germany. It 1* stipulated, munt i.a»* a* right to develop her economic enterprises frevOy In Belgium. ..{*<* ally In Antwerp. The proposal waa made la a rappiementery note to the Vatican, replying to the peace Initially * of r ( .pe Benedict It was In the form uf * verbal communication nude by Far elgn Secretary Kueblmann -o tbe papal nuncio at Munich, wherein the Foreign Secretary apeclfieo r.c roo dl lions under which Germany was s ; |y lag to conclude pence on the bnvu t4 the evacuation of Belgium. The .t-r-bal note to the papal nuncic said Germany would contribute a share of th* compensation lo be paid to Brtcloa for war damage* Belgium would be required. It said, to give e gnrrant.s that any snch menace as that wairb threatened Germary la 1814 would ■* future be excluded. Belgium must undertake to main'.x!* administrative separation of tSi* Flanders and Walloon district- Intro doced by Germany, the verba! note says, because this separation com a ponds to the wishes of n maJo-.i> at the Belgian people and becauf t;.: m-ay desires such separation .>n ac couo' ->f racial sympathy. A semi-official comounlcatio ir the German pr**a In explanation ..f th* new German proposal says tbe guirro u-ent intentionally avoided -ating more clearly tbe conditlonr thu» mllined. These conditions are mid tc h* compatible with the dignity of Ikk

glum.

Germany avoided mentloninv th* question of the throne. beeauM- 'ha was a Belgian domestic matter Germany, tbe communication say*, will agree to any government in I which accepts the condiUoi- *e- - Tbe principal question Is h. r : * guarantees enumerated can b*- forme

lated.

Any peace worth having canai-t he found in a cessation of active • .it Itle*. fallow.si by s proces- . :-rt j '“rial bargaining to be emL. • v j protocols and pacts, and still !• i , sn arrangement Imposed ellhei by .< | lor* or vanquished which sel* at dr i fiance the historic tradition-, i-t-.i-Uon* and liberties of the nooi l.s a?

fevicd.

Ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith. »hs has recently returned from a v - !• the w os tern front, made this drr:*-* lion la addressing a mass-nn • nr at Ge«fi* under the auspice* of t Alms ('ommltloe. He desertIm-J t!.e I German reply to the paptil note a» | tetinlng with "nebulous and un< ;» gsaerallUeo,” bui giving no indlrsttoo ihat Gertnany will uke any praitlral •itps to open the road to res! and lasting peace W’a* Germany ready to k-i tote French territory and give Belgium tui! Indej-endence. wllhoul feller* or rv«> v allons* be asked A drflnl’r r. | • i« th.tr questions, he said, won!.! te j worth a whole column of “plou- ii" tudes.” CONGRLSF BOWS TO WILSON Action On Invitation To Visit Eu-op* I* Postponsd. Washington. — Fostponeiu. Ii! .rf -.ciion on invitation* to Uongrr- - fi«-» British and French pfficlsl* t>r a o-b gresslonal delegation to visit Luni* w a» agreed upon at a Joint me " ‘ ' f the Sen*!. Forolgn Relatlcn- < bJ House Foreign Afiain commit!.' - I-’ 1 lowing reeelp - of word from Prr*H>at W'il*on that he deemsJ dlspaici. .' » congressional comnlaslon abroa.' i» opportunle at this time. BOXES NEARLY MATCHLESS Steel Springs Instead Of Movchs* '• Swedish Product M.nnoapoli*.-W- J. Ksnord' I"* priotor ol » Ugnr storo, called tb* ^ tenuon of Federal agent* her. * supply of matchna. mamufactu--Sweden and purchased by Ke* • ' througn a local wholesalr hou-- » • ' contained scores of small steel si” Many box*, held two of th« ri "** and i ontaiaeu only a few m* 1, ’' Kennedy declaied

| THE COUNTRY AT URM Nmety *«o member* of the Y 11 * Royal Flying C'orpr from Toront. wiU train In Fort Worth tht* • 1 « tr

arrived in Texan

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