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V) 1" DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. 151 HAVE PERMIT RESTRAINT PUT ON FREEDOM OF DEARTURE OF ALIENS FROM THIS COUNTRY. ORDER ISSUED BY PRESIDENT Proclamation Puts 'Unto Effect on September 15th the Control Act Passed Last May To Curb At tempts to Evade Draft. Washington, D. C. Freedom of de parture from this country of allons by which a number of dangerous enemy ngonts have been able to os capo from tho authorities will not bo pormlttod after September 1C, under a proclamation signed by Presidont Wilson and executlvo order. Tho proclamation and executive, order puts into effect tho alien control law pass ed by congress last May. Undor the executive ordor aliens after Soptomber IB will bo required to obtain permits before leaving the United States, and additional restric tions will bo placed on the entry of aliens. Attempts to ovado tho draft through loavlng tho country, which officials bollovo will increase with the pagsago of the bill extending tho draft ages, will bo rondcred loss easy. On a Footing with Amorlcano. "Heretofore Amorlcan citizens have boon roqulrod to mako applications for passports in order to go abroad and to explain to tho satisfaction of tho department of stato tho necessity of their trips, while allons have boon pormlttod to depart freely without making applications for or explaining their trips," said an explanatory etatoment Issued by the stato depart ment. "Tho new law now placoa aliens In this respect on a basis sim ilar to that of citizens. "It is bollovod that many allons Save boon leaving tho United States as Gorman agents, carrying Informa tion abroad for the use of tho enomy. Tho now law is doslgnod to prevent the departure of all such onomies of the United States. There have boon numerous instancos of tho operations of such Oerman paid agents and splos who havo loft tho count'ry bocauso there was no law to prevent tholr de parture." In this, connection tho stato depart ment statement pointed out tho free dom with which such porsons as Itobort Fay, organizer of Gorman 'buir.b frets, Franiz von IUntelon and Pay's assistant, Dr. Waltor R. Schoolo, have been ablo to GBcapo. NEAR8 EIGHT BILLION GOAL. Excess and War Profits to Yield $3,000,000,000. Washington, D, C. An 8 per cent exemption, in addition to a specific $3,000 exomption on tho excess profits of corporations, with a tax of 40 per cont on all oxcess profits botweon 8 per cent and 20 per cent and a tax of 60 per cent on all oxcoss profits oxcooding 20 per cent was agreed upon by tho House ways and means committee. Tho committee in writ ing this schedulo into the $8,000,000, 000 revenue bill also adopted the treasury's alternative plan for a flat 80 per cent tax on war profits; The committee agreed to tho threo classi fications of buslnoss tor purposes of reduction from tho war profits. Half of Woman'a Body Found. Wooater, Ohio. . . James Martin, caretaker of tho Point Breozo Chau tauqua grounds at Smithvlllo, near hen, found the lower half of a wo man's body in a wolghted sack In a waterholo near tho grounds, accord ing to word recclvod by tho sheriff of Weyno county, Tho legs of the body had boen sawed In two nt tho fcnees. Build Ship In 30 bays. Detroit, Mich. A rocord in ship construction 1b claimed by tho Groat Lakes Engineering works lu deliver ing to tho omorgoncy (loot corpora tion, comploto in every detail tho 3, BOO ton steol freighter Crawl Keyos 80 working days aftor its kool was laid in the yards aUEcorso, Mich. Check Rent Profiteers. Washington, D. C.---Raising of tax valuations on tho property of land lords guilty of charging oxtortionato Tents to war workers, it was announc ed, Is ono method by which tho bureau of Industrial housing through co-opora-tion of local city governments In un. jlortaklng to check rent profiteering, Fifty Stars On Church Flag Storm Lake, la. -Fifty stars wore placed on a sorYlco Hag at St. Mary's Catholic church In Storm Lake. Rev. .Alfred Dove, of Sioux City, assisted Hoy. Father Cooke In tho bloBBlng of tho flag. Tho audlonco sang Jn unison "Tho Star Spanglod BannoV' at tho closo of ho service Calllaux Conspiracy. Paris. Tho Tomns sav that It la able to confirm that tho caao of for. mer Premier Joseph Cuillaux, who is charzed with treason, will bo referred -to tho sonato, sitting aa a high court of justice Renounce tho Kaiser. Chicago. Gorman mombera of tho .Chicago Symphony orcbestia ro- joounced tho kalaer, tho "vntorJaudi and such of tholr kin a? ore fighting Jn the enemy nrmlos, at a meeting of ffce Chicago Federation of Musicians HUN DIVER MAK GAS RAID (MS. Six Lighthouse Men at Charles ton, S. C, Overcome ' by Fumes. U-B3AT SUNK BY DESTROYER United States War Craft Uses Depth Bombs to- Sink Submarine Off Virginia Twelve Ships Destroyed. i Washington, Aug. 14. Using poi soned gns, n German submarine at tacked Smith Islnnd, off tho North Carolina const Saturday. Six men were overcome. The official announcement said tho 'my department received a dispatch from Charleston, S. O., that tho nttack with gns about flvo o'clock Saturday nfterno'-ii temporarily "put out of busi ness tho const guard station and light house personnel." Tho report goes on : "About 40 minutes after the nttnek threo largo oil spots, each over an ncro In extent, wero observed passing. "This oil, from which tho gas was no doubt generated, must havo 'been released from a submarlno in tho vi cinity of tho entrance to tho channel witn the hopo that it would como in with the tide, but tho tide lortuuntely set along tho Island. "Report was made to Colonel Choso. coast artillery coits, Fort Caswell, N. O., by Captain Willard of tho Smith Islnnd coast EUurd after tho effects of tho gas wero noted. Six men wero gassed. No deaths. "Tho gns had tho effect of mustard gns and was effective nbout 8(1 or 40 minutes. "Tho Incident was rannrtpri hv CtM onel Chnso to tho nnvnl district com. mander. Smith's Island Is off tpo mouui or tho Cnpe Fear river, near tho cntrnnco or the channel to Wilming ton, N. 0." Tho German submnrlno operating off too Virginia coast was attacked by an American destroyer, which used' 17 depth bombs in nn effort to get tho raider. Tho submarlno did not re ippear and oil wns noticed on tho Bur laco of tho sea. German submarine raiders operat ing off tho Atlantic coast havo de stroyed threo moro vessels, tlo navy Jepartinent announced. Tho British teamer Pcnlstos.0 of -l.lSO gross tons was torpedoed 100 miles east of Nan tucket lightship Sunday turning; tho Swedish steamer Sydlnnd, of 3,031 gross tons, wob sunk by bombs August 3 100 miles southeast of Nantucket, nd nn Amorlcan schooner, reported as tho Herman Winter but uot yet defl altely Identified, was destroyed by gun uro Sunday 200 miles east of New fork. All members of tl)d crew of tho Sydlnnd wore reported saved, but tho navy's dispatches did not clear up the cato or tno crows of tho other ves sels. Tho Pcnlstono and Hermnn Wintor wero sent down In Uo vicinity of Georges bank, off tho Massachusetts rOARf. Wfini-A n UI1mn.lnn nn.MA At... 1 "-JV-v muivanuu VUU4U lu UU Burfnco Sunduy In tho midst of a fleei or American fishing vessels, nine of which were destroyed. ALLIES AID CZECH0-SLAVS Bolshevlkl Flee to KronsUdt Fear Army of 300,000 Hun Policy Faila In East London, Aug. 14. British and Jap anese troops which wero landed at Vladivostok have Joined tho Czecho slovak forces" who nro fighting against German control in Siberia. Tho Brit ish troops aro co-operating with tho Slav army on tho Usurl river, about 120 miles north of Vladivostok. With tho lncrenso of Czecio-Slovak and other armed antl-bolshovlk forces' In greater Russia to moro than 300,000 men, Premier Lcnlno and his foreign secrotnrv. I.pnti Trntr.W. lmw nn.i from Moscow to Kronstadt, tho nnvnl imso near Fotrograd, according to a dispatch by tho semi-official Wolff bu reau at Berlin. Tho Berlin Lokal Anzclgcr stntea that tho entlro bolshevik government will bo moved to Kronstadt. Commenting on tho removal of Doc tor nclffcrlch, tho German ambassa dor, from Moscow to Pskov because ho feared for his life, tho Berlin Vossischo Zeltuug says: "Moscow Is In tho hands of anti German elements mid the followers of tho social revolutionises of tho left. This would show thnt tho bolshevlkl rule at Moscow Is nt un cud, and this Is the cubo not only at Moscow but In tho greater part of Russia, If not lu tho whole Russian empire. "This throws a vivid light on tho falluro of the German policy In tho East." Ex-Governor Kellogg Is Dead. Washington, Aug. 18. Wllllnm Pitt Kellogg, formerly of Canton, ill., who served during tho reconstruction period as United States senator from Louis iana, und as governor of thnt state( aied ut the ago of eighty-eight. Aviator Uses Parachute. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 13. Lieut JnineH II. Dale, St. Louis, uvlntlon of fleer, made n Micccssful 3.000-fnrt twin 'sn Sunduy with u parachute from an lirpinno nt Tullnferro field, tho (bird 9arvi) to nccoiupllbh the teat- THE SKY IS BEGINNIhQ 10 CLEAR Sm jjSraJffljTWiliW ?) V a iQo. vMb'MBK'iKBSHMHKMBMWK .jBEmtgm BALTIMORE AMERICAN. - TO CONTROL PACKERS EDERAL TRADE COMMISSION CHARGES CONSPIRACY. Recommendations Provide for Seizure of Plants and Establishing Cen tral Wholesale Markets. Washington, Aug. 10. Bitterly ns- sulllng tho great packing firms of Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudnhy nnd Wilson for creating a "structure of conspiracy, control, monopoly und re straint," tho federal trade commission, In ii report to President Wilson, recom- mends that Immediate steps bo taken to glvo tho government n monopoly over such portion of their business ns "will refttoro competition." This report hns been In the hands of President Wilson slnco July 5, but, becnuso of the serious charges made In connection with It, nnd tho radical recommendations therein contained, It whs not mndo public. Publication wasf authorized directly by the president. After declaring that producers, com petitors nnd consumers nro nt the mercy of tho packera tho- commission makes tho followlug recommenda tions: First, That tho government acquire, through tho railroad administration, nil rolling stock used for tho trans portation of meat animals and thnt such ownership be declared a govern ment monopoly. Second, That tho government Ac quire, through tho railroad commis sion, tho principal and necessary stock yards of tho country, to bo treated as freight depots, and to bo operated under such conditions as will Insure open, competitive markets, with uni form chnrges for nil services per formed, and the acquisition or estab lishment of such additional .yards from time to time. Third, That tho government acquire, through tho railroad administration, all privately owned refrigerator cars, and that such ownership bo declared a government monopoly. Fourth, Thnt tho federal government acquire such of tho branch houses, cold storage plants nnd warehouses ns nro necessary to provldo facilities for tho 'competitive marketing and storage of food products In tho prin cipal centers of distribution nnd con sumption. Tho same to bo operated by the government ns public markets und storngo places under such condi tions ns will afford nn outlet for all manufacturers nnd hnndlers of food products on equal terms. Novelty In Ticket Selling. Chlcugo, Aug. 13. Tho government hns sprung n novelty In tho matter of ticket selling for tho grent war expo sition which opens In this city on Sep tember 2. Tho prico of each ticket bought in ndvnnco will bo only 2.r cents, but tickets bought nt tho gnto will cost double. Two children will bo admitted for each ticket. Tho ad mission has been mndo lojv because tho government Is desirous thnt every mnn, woman and child that can possi bly got to Chicago should see nnd un derstand this patriotic exhibition, which Is to glvo the people of tho mid dle west tho biggest wnr lesson they over had. Flyer Finds Negro Slayer. Dewey, Oklu., Aug. 14. After N. Willow, n negro, hnd shot and killed Chief of Pollco Mull und escaped ho was discovered In the town by u' local aviator. Ills signals brought n posse nnd tho negro was captured. Forbids Liquor Sale on Trains. Washington, Aug. 14. Sale of liquor lu railroad btatlons or on railroad trains in forbidden by Director Gen eral McAdoo In nn order effective Im mefllntejy and, applying to nil lines mi ner government control. v KSSwSSBSSHt.' ydMMWaMiaWiiiSW' isTt r&wA RUSS WAR ON ALLIES u. S. CONSUL REPORTS HOSTILE ACTIVITY BY BOL8HEVIKI. Lenlne Telia Gathering of Soviets In Moscow That a State of Con flict Exists. Washington, Aug. 12. Consul Poold at Moscow has Informed tho state de partment thnt Lenlne, tho bolshevik premier, recently declared before a gathering of Soviets in Moscow that n state of war existed between tho Russian government and the entento allies. In response to questions from tho allies' consuls, Tchltcherln, com missionaire of foreign nffalrs, said that tho premier's statement need not bo considered n declaration of war, but thnt it rather was a declaration of n stato of defenso on the part of Rus sia, similar to the situation that ex isted at ono time with Germany. The consul's report, received by ca ble, gave the stato department its first ofllclnl Information confirming reports that tho bolshevlkl wero formally characterizing ns an act of war tho operations of the allies' forces on tho Murman coast. Tchltchcrln's explanation was mndo publicly, tho consul said, at tho re quest of tho allies' consuls. Mr. Poolo also reported that In spite of denials of tho authorities, tho bolshevlkl were throwing obstacles In tho why of tho departure from Russia of British and French military representatives. TO EXEMPT MARRIED MEN Secretary Baker Urgea Change In Law So Registrants Need Not Classify Selves. Washington, Aug. 12. New draft regulations, under which the govern ment would do tho selecting, are under consideration by tho war department. This was disclosed on Frldny by Sec retary Baker, after ho hnd appeared before tho sennte mllltnry committee to urge prompt enactment of tho act extending the ago limits. He mndo It plain that he Is not satisfied with tho present system under which tho regis trant must -claim deferred classifica tion. Many with dependents hesitate for patriotic reasons to mako such n clnlm. He said ho was Inclined to tho opinion that the marriage relation will Itself confer deferred classification. NO MORE U. S. VOLUNTEERS Baker and Daniels Act to Prevent Disruption of Industry Pending Disposition of New Draft Bill. Washington, Aug. 10. Voluntary en listment in tho army and navy wns suspended completely on Thursday to prevent disruption of Industry pending disposition of the bill proposing to ex tend drnft nges to lncludo nil men be tween eighteen and forty-flvo years. Tho orders wero Issued-after n con ference between Secretary Bnker nnd Secretnry Daniels and wcremade pub lic utter President Wilson hnd visited tho offices of both secrctnrlcs late in tho day. Western Union Raises Pay. New York, Aug. 14. Announcement of u general lncrenso of 10 per cent in wages to nil employees of tho West ern Union Telegrnph company belong ing to tho nssoclutlou recently organ ized by tho compnny wns made here. Heavy Tax on Soft Drinks. Washington, Aug. 14i A 10 per cent tax on nil soft drinks sold by manufac turer or producer nnd n tux of from 1 to 2 cents on faoda fountain drinks were written into the $3,000,000,000 revenue bill by the house committee. ijK'tAiaBwa'jj.iiULcii &ti 388EBS3fSKw4C3j PLAN RATE TEST CASE Suit to Determine Power of Federal Railroad Chief May BoTrled In Court at Lincoln. Tho first test case In the federal courts to determine whether Director General McAdoo posesses constitu tional power to fix Intrastate railroad rntes and to override state laws or railroad commission orders, may bo furnished by Nebrnska. Steps aro now being taken by tho national as sociation of railway commissioners i to intervene In the Rock Island and Missouri Pnclfic 2-cent faro enses, now pending in tho federal court at Lincoln, and probnbly In other suits which all the railroads of Nebraska nro litigating. A circular letter has been sent out by C. E. Elmqulst, Washington representatives of the na tional association, to tho stato com-m!sslons-.of twelvo states, proposing thnjt thoy prepare to participate In tho Nebrnska cases, for the purpose of maintaining tho right of a stnto to fix rotes, within its own borders. Governor Neville hns appointed a committee of nine prominent Nebrus knns to nld the National and Stute Council of Defense In dealing with the problem of Americanizing people of this state of foreign birth nnd their children. "The most Important nnd perplexing problem demnndlng solu tion In Nebrnska nt this time," said tho governor In making the appoint ment, "Is that of Americanizing n con siderable number of our people of for eign birth. It Is of evon greater Im portance, If possible, thnt we Insure tho thorough Americanizing of the children of such parentage." Preliminary estimates of Nebrnskas principal crops on August 1 made by the state board of agriculture and tho federal bureau of crop estimates aro winter wheat, 5,253,000 bushels; corn, 200,785,000 bushels; onts. 58,370.000 bushels; rye, 8,352,000 bushels; bar ley, 4,243,000 bushels, and hay 7,151, 000 tons. After admitting he had secured sugar with a false affidavit, Frank Pulls, Madison county farmer, sub scribed $100 to tho Rod Cross and $50 to the Y. M. C. A. and ngreed to pay the expense of having a big food con servation sign painted in n con spicuous plnce in Norfolk. Governor Neville has appointed P. J. Cleland, Norfolk; Edward Meyers, Orleans; Geo. Bmndels, Dan Gellus and H. F. Mciz, Omaha, to represent Nebruskn nt the annual convention of the International Asosclntion of Fish nnd Game Commissioners In New York, September 12 and 15. Rentals of stnte school land have Increased $95,80-1 In the Inst eighteen months," which Is $17,591 more than they grew in the previous ten yenrs, according to Land Commissioner Shumway. Income from sales and rentals go into the permanent state school fund. Food Administrator Peterson of Lancaster county denied Lincoln peo ple nn extra allowance of sugar to accommodate state fair visitors. People- over the state who Intend to visit Lincoln folk during the fair must bring their own sugar, he announced. The Madison1 county draft board will take about 74 farmers out at the fields to fill tho August draft call.' The board plans to draw the 1918 class 1 men nrtor the farmers go and then " "" " ""? h" w,7t fill the subsequent calls with the class 1 n1 .1 mon nf thn 1017 1Iq A rumor Is current that un nero plnno factory Is to be established at Omaha to cost in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. It Is understood that liberty motors will bo furnished for the planes, which will bo built ex clusively for the government William A. Fugan, member of the Hall County Gouncll of Defense, plended guilty to painting the front of the oftlco of tho Grand Island In dependent. He wns given a nominal fine nnd resigned ns a member of the council. Placards Imirlng the admonition, "Cut Out tho Kaiser's Tongue. If You Can't Speak English, Learn It. Keep Still or Move Out," havo boen placed in the store and office windows by tho honve guards -at Fremont. Work is progressing rapidly on tho new $00,000 consolidated school build ing nt Lewlston, Pawnoc county. .V moonshine still discovered by state officlnls near Broken Bow has been ordered destroyed. The mnn charged with operating tho still plend ed guilty and was fined $100. Whisky Wus being mnde out of corn nt tho still. The second nnnual convention of the Nebrnbka Potato Growers' asso ciation will be held nt Scottsblu'ff No vember 13 to 10. At that tlmo full plans will be mndo to hnndlo the big spud crop raised In the .western part of the state. A cninpnlgn is now. on in Nebrnska to secure 700 girls to enroll lu the. United States student nurse reserve. Recruiting stations nro In every town In the stnte, and Miss Mary Cogll, chairman of tho nurses training de partment of tho Nebruskn womnn's co- uulttee urged nil who curt to offer Uielr servlcc-H. Stnto Auditor Smith 1ms rejected for registration $18,000 of bonds Is sued by tho-Bushnell school district In Klmbnll county for the reason thnt the bonds exneed the legal limit nl 'a ! 'jy 'j a The voluntary resignation of tho pastor of the Danish Lutheran church lit Stnplehurst because Uio could not speak tho English langunge well enough to conduct sen-Ices In It, is taken by the stnte council of defense ns nn evidence of the patriotic deslro of the Danish people nt that plnce to conform to the recommendation that: nil church sen ices and public .ns semblnges throughout tho state b conducted in English. The Bohemian bazaar to be given, for tho benefit of tho pzecho-SIovnk army, at Omaha, September 1 to 8, Is expected to be tho largest nffnlr or the kind ever held In Nebraska. Gov ernor Neville will open the bazaar. Donations amounting to S2r,non nj.. fenny nave been made. A firm nt Morso Bluffs donnted nn automobile which wllLvbo raffled off. Tho stato food administration hast sounded n wnrnlng to Nebrnsknns to go slow with Ice. Ten suggestions are offered for saving Ice, among them being ice .should not bo used im sen-lng food, don't detain tho lcemnn nnd don't put more Ice thnn Is neces sary In ten and other drinks. Con serve or go Iceloss, says tho warning.. The stnte food ndmthlstrntlon nV Omaha has been ndvlseU bv Washing ton offlcinls thnt mall order houses, shipping sugar Into Nebraska to be used for canning nnd preserving pur poses, must comply with the cer tificate rule, which provides that salest can bo mnde only on certificates Is sued to tho purchaser by the 'county food ndmlnlstrnfcor. Government exhibits at the State fair at Lincoln September 1 to 0 will' occupy tho entire Arts nnd Textile building. Tho exhibit will lncludo thousands of objects of patriotic In terest such ns captured trophies, Browning nnd Lewis -machine guns, gas masks, trench periscopes, hand'i grenades and depth bombs. " Lancaster county has ndopted n sugar card system. Tho cords are ar ranged so that It will bo Impossible for householders to get more than twol pounds per person por month. Thlsi ruling has been evaded and so mucin trouble hns been experienced with Iti that the sugar cards had to be adopted: as a last resort. Tho war department's call for 130,-'-207 men for military service Issued August 8 will take 1,500 white Ne braska registrants and 170 colored.; The men will entrain beforn thr infr " , of tho month, white registrants going) . vjuiui uuaiuu unu me coioreu men., to Camp Pike. - Deuel county has had six Inches of" rain during tho past month and p, dlctlons nro being mndo that tho county will havo the largest crop ink its history this year. Threshing ofr wheat has commenced and tho yield" por acre in some fields Is ns high nsi forty bushels. All four of tho Bons of Ashley Londrosh of Winnebago nro in the' service, according to n letter received-! by Governor Keith Neville In connec tion with the record which he is com piling of Nebraska hoys in the service.'. Justice F. G. Hnmer of the Nebras ka supremo court died nt Kearney nt. the age of 75. Justice Hamer was: serving his seventh year on the su preme bench of the state. Ho took of flee January 1, 1912. Six or seven airplanes will partici pate in a sham battle nnd maneuver oyer the city of Omaha August 80, or 81. The flyers will show what a renU combat In the air looks like. , Tho western corn root worm is- damaging corn In some fields In the TJInf- ,! Cll.t. ,, .. ""7 """" vuhbm. according,- " " "" AKem unriStie OX. T-y1rvA jamJm Tho first two volunteers In Butler county to writo up their applications for nrmy nursing wore Misses Nellie nnd Henrietta Lanspn of David City.. Thursday, September 5, hns beeni set aside as Omaha day nt tho state fair. Thousands of folks from the big city are planning to attend. Nenrly a million bend moro or. cat-- j tie, hogs and sheep reached tho South , , umnim mnncet Curing the past month, man during July of last year. From January 1, 1018. to August 1, 1018, 705 automobiles have bcetiHtolen, nt Omaha, compnred with 427 during; the same period Inst year. Thousands of buffalo, catfish, enrp nnd bnllhcsds wero killed in lakes In tho vicinity of Fremont during the re cent hot spell. Farmers In Holt county expect .tho largest corn crop this year In the his tory of tho county. Tho wnr hns created a grent do-, mnnd for straw. Thousands of tons nro being shipped from this stnto to-, nrmy cantonments. Tho demand Is so. grent thnt It will well pay farmers to hale their straw and load It on cars for shipment. The Interstate Commerce enmmis-. slon hns ordered Ujo railroads of Ne brnska to Increase tho minimum on carload lots on flour from 2S.000 pounds to 40,000 pounds between points In Nebraska to meet the lnler fitnte rate. The national food administration hns nsked the stnto-ofilce at Oiunhu to. suggest to the farmers of Nebraska the Importance of marketing their wheatr nt tho earliest possible date. The word comes from Washington, not as a demand, but morcly as u sugges tion. Despite the fact thnt tho Nebraska potato acreage this ydur Is 15 pet con t below thnt of 1917," present Indi-. cntlons are that tho crop will. Vqunl' thnt of Inst year. Prospects aro bright for nn enormous yield In the western unit of the state. X , i " 'if -.-- vi e.tfrjvB.Bfwi