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THE f EMUWEEKLV TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEMtAMOt SECOND LARGEST MAJ. GEN. HUNTER LIGGETT U. S. WAR TAX F. QUATTRONE WHAT CAN U. S. WHEAT CRO E1OT BI1LI0NS 0 " Surplus Is Expected to Be Large Enough to Feed Our Allies. Secretary MoAdoo Asks Direct Levy, Brunt to Fall on , ' War Profits. MAY TOTAL BILLION BUSHELS department of Agriculture Forecasts 931,00,000 Bu.-of Spring and Win ter Wheat Combined Oats Put at 1,600,000,000 Bu. "Washington, June 10. The second targest wheat crop In the history of tho country Is In prospect for this Tenr'a harvest The department of agriculture Friday forecast n total of :D31,000,000 . bushels of winter and spring wheat combined and held out the hope tlmt with n continuation of the present Ideal growing conditions a harvest of a billion bushels might 'be attained. The principal crop estl mates arc: Bushels. "Winter wheat 587,000,000 Spring wheat 344,000,000 AH wheat 031,000,000 'Oats 1,500,000,000 -liarley 235,000,000 flye 81,000,000 . A continuation of favoraWe condi tions to harvest based on the Increased par yield used for- the. later reports would mako tho final returns this year 080,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 bushels. Present estimates arc in, per cent larg er than tho harvest of last year, when 651,000,000 bushels were secured. Kansas has tho promise of 07,114, 000 bushels or more, than double its jrteld of last year. . Nebraska, which 3iad a crop falluro last year, has 43, 049,000 bushels and Oklahoma 32,207, 000 bushels, a total for the three states of 172,000,000 bushels, compared Vlth 88,000,000 bushels harvested last .year. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Mis souri combined have 188,000,000 bush-, els, or 50,000,000 bushels more than Jlnst year. i . In tho three Northwestern- states, I where tho bulk of tho spring wheat -crop is raised, there Is the promise of 214,000,000 bushels against 1G3.000.- '000 bushels harvested last year. North h'esitrn Ntwsixcrr Union A new American fighting unit com posed of two army corps, approximate ly 200,000 men, who huvo hnd long training In France, has Just been formed, and it has been unofficially stated that MaJ. Gen. Hunter Liggett would bu Its coummndor. NEW DRAFT CALL OUT CROWDER ASKS STATE GOVER NORS FOR 200,000 MEN. two Million In the National Army When the' New Men Called Reach Cantonments. Washington, June 7. While a mil lion young Americans were registered on Wednesday for service in the war, Orders WPIlt nut frnm Prnipnot Atnrclinl General Crowder to tho governors of 'V , Krcaier' WANTS LUXURIES HIT HARD sugge8to Raise In Unearned Income Rate Gives Views In Letter to Kltchln, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee. Washington. June 8. Se"crctnry Mc- Adoo on Thursday recommended In a letter to Chairman Kltchln of tho house1 wu.vh and means committee tliat tho new revenue bill be drawn to raise SS.OOO.OOO.OOO by taxation, one-third of the estimated $24,000,000,000 expen ditures in the fiscal year 1011). e niso recommended that n war- profit tax be established at high rate,. 10 oe superimposed upon existing ox- cess profits tuxes; that tho normal in come tax on unearned Incomes be raised and that heavy taxation bo Im posed upon luxuries. In his letter the secretory said: If I may, without Impropriety, offer n suggestion as to the revenue measure, I should recommend: "1. Thnt one-third of tho cash expenditures to be made during the fiscnl year ending June 30, 1019, bo provided by tnxatlon. According to my estimates, tins would Involve rais ing $8,000,000,000 through tnxatlon. "2. Thnt a real war profits tax at a high rate bo levied upon all war profits. This tax should be superim posed upon the existing excess prof its tax In such a way that tho tax payer should be required to pay Which- F. Quattrouo, Italian high comrais- Tlw following, from "'Important Itenw," published by tho Southwestern division of tho Amerlcnn Red Cross, arc facts that are Interesting to all the chapters: Knitting. "Tho president hao called out anoth er army of men. This means hundreds ;of thousands more sweaters millions of socks. Many knitters hnvo slack ened thoir work with tho coming of spring. Fall seems so far off that It Js natural to think thero is plenty of time to got ready for it but this train sionor to tho United States, has denied ,or ronsonlng Is perilous. The task Is positively the statement that American 11 "'B oc. Only the steady dny-by-dny wnoat snipped to Italy comes bnck to oric win count not the spurt of en- this country In tho form of snachottl Mr. Qunttrono protests tlio statements tlmt ships are lying Idlo In Italian ports, aud declares that further re duction of tolinago In tho trndo bo tween tho United States and Italy womu monnco tho Italian neonlo nnd tneir army with starvation. HOOVER SAVES BEER ADMINISTRATION SHOWS OPPO- SITION TO "BONE DRV" NATION. all states except Arizona to mobilize between Juno 24 and 28 200,000 men. This brings the total selective son- ice men called up to 1,505,704. When they arc In camp tho army will num ber over 2,000,000. tended by the marked the enrolling a year ago of 10,000,000 men. Tho moil wlin nnnonroil nn Wnilnns. 'Dnkota has the promise of 02,000,000 , day before 4,500 local boards, military authorities estimate, will yield 750, 000 fit for active duty, :bushels. I A big wheat crop this year, with 'large yields in Argentina, Australia "nd India, means a great deal to the J.ne existing excess profits tax should he amended In certain Impor tant particulars so as to remove In equalities. Thnt there should be" a sub stantial Increase In the amount of - ,v . uuu Hwunuu)- '- earned Incomes. Under existing 'laws wi ijaitu uiuui mut earned Ihrnmna nl.nwn nn-fnln empttons are taxed 4 per cent as an Income tax and 8 per cent as an ex cess profits tax. making a total of 12 per cent, while unearned Incomes, de rived from securities, etc., nre taxed only 4 per cent.' Tho 8 per cent tax tvmie an act of congress requires snould be recognized as nn Income that tho now registrants bo placed at tax and tho rate of 12 per cent (4 pen T1"!1 partlc",nrly. ,n the the bottom of tho class to which they cent normal nnd 8 nor cent excess iSuv aMrSEn fa XZl 2!!?. l.ould be retained ln. resect rcountry. There Is enough wheat In (the United States, based on tho pres ent outlook, to place domestic con sumption on a normal basis of 500, JOOO.OOO bushels for export. On the ibnsls of 400,000,000 bushels for domes tic consumption wo could spare 500, .000,00 bushels for the allies. North America should have over 1, C250,000,000 bushels, or enough wheat this year providing present conditions are maintained to harvest to more 'than supply the normal Import de mands of Europe for an entire year. The oats promise of 1,500,000,000 lliushels Is 87,000,000 bushels short of tho record harvest of last year, but should tho present outlook bo main turned tho final returns should show well over 1,000,000,000 bushels, a fig ure never equaled in the history of fthe country. Condition is tho highest in years, being 03.2, compared with a ten-year average of 89.4. Acreage is a record 14,475,000 an increase of 2.1 per cent over last year. Rye, with 81,000,000 bushels, or .21, uuu.uw ousneis more than last year, Is jthe largest crop ever raised. Barley ;ls estimated at 235,000,000 bushels, or 20,000,000 bushels In excess of last , year. as Wednesday's requisition upon gov ernors probably will exhaust the first class in some states. vvniie no rormci explanation was made, this was believed to have been the reason why Arizona was not In cluded in Wednesday's call. Registration days for men hereafter becoming twenty-one years of ago probably will ' bo fixed every three months. Assignments for the men cnllcd. un der Wednesday's order Indicate the rapidity, with which troops now are moving overseas. It is estimated that 1,000,000 men becomo of age yearly, and tho new BIG SUM FOR COAST DEFENSE lCKiaiuiius nre expucieu to jo lar to- to earned incomes, while a higher rate than -12 per cent should bo Imposed on unearned Incomes. "4. Thnt heavy taxation bo Imposed upon nil luxuries." Explaining his Ideas for a new tax to reach actual profits made out of the war, Mr. McAdoo wrote: "Tile existing excess profits tax does not always reach war profits. Tho rates of excess profits taxation are graduated and tho maximum is GO per cent. In Great Britain there is a fiat rate of 80 per cent on all war profits. hears Putting Country "On a Whisky and Gin Basis" Wine Is Also Protected. Washington, June 0. Administra tion opposition to any attempt to stop the manufacture of beer nnd wlno so long as tho snlo of whisky Is permit ted was mado certain with tho an nouncement that Food Administrator Tr ,. ' . uuovur opposeu sucn u step -becauso ho believed tho evils attoudaut unon putting tne nation on a "whisky, brandy and gin" basis would far out weigh tho small food savings that womu result. President Wilson al- ready hud stated In n letter to Sen- ator Sheppard of Texas, prohibition cnampion, tlmt ho would not use his power to prohibit tho use of. iood- stutrs in beer mid wlno unless Mr. IT, . . uvuui n?fc'urucu sucn a step neces sary. After the position of tho nresl- dent nnd tho food administration had been mado known Senator Shennard anu otners said tho senato would striko from the 811,000,000 emergency agricultural Dill a houso amendment prohibiting tho use of somo $0,000,000 carried by tho measure unless manu facture of wlno and beer was stopped iy tne president.. . .i uiusiasm wuen tne pressure comes. Utlllzo every moment. Carry your knitting bags on the street cars or tho farm wagons, or Wherever you nro. Thero will bo n greater need of knitted articles next winter than thero was last. It is truo that yarn 1ms been hard to get. But much of this short- ago can bo overcome If none of It Is Avnsted for any purpose for whtch n substitute can bo found. Lot overvnni iwho can got any of tho yarn for socks knit tocks and let those who can only get the heavy yarn knit sweaters with. uut timrKu.. An arrangement is now under consideration for tho collecting nnd refooting of worn socks in order that thero may bo no waste. "Chapters should knit in tho follow- lng proportions: For one pnlr wrist lets knit one mufller, ten helmets, 50 sweaters, 100 pair socks. Our men nbrond aro In constnnt need of socks. Knit socks. ."From now on tho making of quilts and nfghnns must positively bo dls continued. No more of either of thesa will bo accepted at tho bureau of sup, piles." Food. Preserving, canning, drying nnd oth crwlso conserving fruits nnd vegeta bles may not seem at all romantic, but they nro genuine and essential ways oC being of real service to our country, and thnt Is all that counts now. They nre among tho duties thnt lio nearest to many women. Tons of fruit go to. waste annually where no attempt is mado to gather wild berries or save the excess of home-grown fruits. IfJ they cr.nnot bo given awny for can-) nlng, they ought to bo dried or saved, in somo way. It is up to tho earnest,' women In overy community to help1 soivo rood problems. J Straight and Draped Skirts. Thero Is n strong struggle going on this early In tho season between the straight nnd tho draped Bklrt. Both aro lending fashions and neither one. Is now, but tho ultra-smart woman Jn 8lsts that tho draped skirt is better than tho straight one, nnd sho is up-' held by ninny of tho dressmakers. On. the other hand, thero nro hundreds ot women who say thnt tho draped skirt has been so featured in cheap matc rials In low-priced gowns thnt it Is exceedingly commonplace. The strug- glo makes skirts interesting nnd In cidentally adds to tho confusion oC tho season, which lias turned out to bo nn arena into which hundreds of fashions have been Indiscriminately thrown. Organdie for the Girl "Graduate ward keeping up the first class in each state from which thus far all men for tho national array have been drawn SEVEN IN PLOT AGAINST U. S. Jeremiah O'Ueary and Six Others In dicted by Federal Grand Jury at New York. Now York, Juno 10. Six men and jdno woman wero Indicted by a federal 'grand jury here on Friday on a chargo of high treason. The Indicted Include Jeremiah O'Leary, Irish agitator, now a -fugl-tivo from Justice. Tho others aro: Maria K. do Vlctorlca, now being held .at Ellis Island, nnd Paul Rodicker, who aro charged with being spies of tho Gorman government; Albert Paul Flcke, W. J. Robinson, Emtio Kipper and John D. Ryan. In an indictment the defendants nre charged with furnishing Information of vnlue to tho military and naval ene mies of tho country; with handling money for tho financing of enemy propaganda; with placing of spies in munition and other manufacturing plants, and with handling money for tho financing of bomb plots through out America. WAR TO FINfSH LANSING Secretary Condemns Any Action Look ing to Peaco That Will Not For ever Crush Prusslahlsm. New York, Juno 7. Suggestions of peace based on a 'perpetuation .of i'russlanlsin" and criticism of the government and tho conduct of the war, "which was not constructive,' were condemned by Secretary of State Lansing here. I'russla having "wickedly sought war," tne secretary said, .It is tho de termination of tho American people that "irussld shall have war and more war and more war, until tho very thought of war is abhorrent to tho Prussian mind." Mr. Lansing spoko at tho commence ment exercises of Columbia univer sity, which conferred upon hlni aud upon Lord Reading, tho British am bassador, the honorary degrco of doc tor of laws. War Department Asks Congress for ifit,uuu,aoo to Establish Balloon and Seaplane Stations. Washington, June 8. A SIO.000.000 appropriation for establishing balloon ami seaplane stations to guard tho United States' against submarines nnd nlrcraft was. asked of conirress on Thursday by tho war department. Tho department desires to estnbllsh 10 stations, 13 of them on the Atlan tic const and three on the Gulf coast. Definite locations wero not given. The coast defense plnn as submitted by tho department also calls for the cstaDiisnment of fortifications along tuo const so tlmt guns could bo transferred on railroads from one point to another to meet possible at- tOCKS. War Correspondent Wounded. Paris, Juno 10; Floyd GIbbohs, war correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune nl American headquarters, was wounded by mnchinfe gunflro 'whllo following operations of Ameri can troops near Chateau Thierry. Fire Renders 50,000 Homeless. Amsterdam, Juno 10. Fifty thou sand persons nro homeless as tho re sult of a lire at Stamboul, tho Moham medan section of Constantinople, which devastated the whole eastern nnrt of the Sultan Sella nuarter. GEN. MICHIE DIES IN FRANCE Was Brilliant Soldier and Formerly Chief Aid to General Scott Death Sudden. Paris, Juno 7. Brig. Gen. Robert 13. L. Mlchio of tho American army died In a railroad train near Rouen Wednes day. Ills death was sudden and unex pected, us he had not been ill. NEW YORK FEARS AIR RAID Great White Way Is Darkened Fol. lowing U-Boat Raid Airplanes on Guard. New York, June C Excent for street lamps, not only Greater New York but near-by Jersey and sound coasts wero dark on Tuesday night. Shortly nfter eight o'clock airplanes Hew over tho city to observe how tho order was being observed, nnd also to see how effective it was. Tliev finw low and tho nolso of their ongines at tracted tho attention of those on tho strewts nnd in houses nnd an alarm went out that German airmen wero bombing tho city. Tills subsided when tho real olilect of tho flyers beenme known. Start New Air Route. New York, Juno 8. Experimental airplane mall service between Now York nnd Boston was inaugurated IT1IUU UlUUlWUUIIl HUUU, UllllUU DIUIOH niH .,,1.1. ,,,l,fl. . , 7 army, started on tho Initial flight from Z Belmont Park, L. L Must Curo Huns of Desire for War. Now York, Juno 10. Thomas A. Rd- Ison, in n statement rend to n conven tion hero, said: "Thero Is but ono re- C. W. FAIRBANKS IS DEAD i-ormer Vice President Succumbs to Nephritis In Indianapolis Home After Longjllness. ' indlnnapolls Juno 0. 'Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice nresl dent of tho United States and former United States senator for Indiana. died at his home hero at 8:55 o'clock Tuesday night. Death wus duo to nephritis, which hud been n chronic ailment with him, but not regarded as particularly serious until recently. All memuers or tlio family excent Mai, Richard Fairbanks, who Is In France, wero at his bedside, (ilmiios Warren Fairbanks was born In n log cabin on a rami in Union county. Ohio. Mav 11, 1852. JIo attended Ohio Weslevan university. In 1874 ho was' admitted to tho bar. Tho same year ho located In Indlnnapolls nnd mnrrled Miss Cor- neiia Colo, who had been a student wl(h him at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1890 he was named United States senntor from Iudlnnn. On Juno 23, 1004, lie was nominated as Republican, candl date fqr vice president and his elec tion followed. SEES FARM FURLOUGHS END governor of South Carolina Returns From Capital and Predicts Tillers' Call to Colors. UQiumuln, 8. C, June 8. Governor Manning on his return from Washing ton on Thursday told tho stato eoun- ell of defense in public session tlmt tlio government would hnvo to cancel fnrm labor furloughs nnd call to tlio colors rnrm laborers In class one. "Tho United States." ho declared. may nnvo to raco troublo In Moxlco. It might bo necessary for tlio United States to place an Immenso army In itussia. "xno U-boat .attacks," ho said. "might lie but tho preludo to other tilings to come." Germany must bo cured forever of tho desire to wago war." Fire Sweeps Arizona Town. Jerome, Ariz., Juno 8. More than one thousand persons wero mado homeless by a fire of undetermined or igin which swept through tho Mexican Neal f New Fuel Post Washington, Juno 10. Fuel Admin. Istrntor Gurflcld announced the ap pointment of J. B. Neal as director of production of tho fuel administration. Italians Smash Foes. Rome. Juno 10. Italian forces broltrt into enemy trenches on tho Monto Dl Vnl Bella front, taking 50 prisoners. six machine guns and a quantity of materlnls, tho Italian war ofllco an nounced. ffSi'SL?17 m0r0 Uan 009 Ono of P,nn8 01 nw oflice is to vuuwft i uTfTmilntn m-mlitntlnn E. A. Strause Found Guilty. Peorin, III., Juno 10. E. A. Struuae, banker, was 'convicted of murdering Berno M. Mead. Tho Jury returned n verdict of murder in the second de gree on Friday, after deliberating four hours, Thero is a vogue for organdie and lor net nnd other gossamer weaves' nut most, of all for organdie. It Is used for frocks and for hats and in nil Its long history nevor appeared In lovelier conceit. It is mado In flower- nice colors and seems to suggest quaint styles to designers who mako the most of its sheer, crisp texture in frocks that aro as Irresistible ns spring blossoms. Frills, narrow laces. Jn rufllcs nnd insertions, ruchlngs nnd sasnes just naturally follow in tho path of organdlo and everybody wears tins utterly feminine material from tho little three-year-old to her grandmother, So, in u summer when everything tlmt looks like oxtravagunco Is taboo, wo may expect thnt womankind will simply revel In organdie. It Is mado in white and all the lovely light colors yeiinw, lavender, pnlo green, rose. blue and pink and In plain nnd cross bar weaves. Plain skirts with knoe- deep or oven deeper hems make placo for frills of lace or organdie, or aro left untrlnuned to be worn ovor Ince- trlmmed batiste petticoats. Older women choose light green, lavender nnd white, and younger ones Include these with yellow, blue and rose flhndes. The" effect of the palo colors over whlto is particularly good when frocks aro mado with tunic skirts llko .that shown In the picture. Tho very deep hems contrlbuto something of the samo advantage In deepening palo tints over white. The lovely frock pictured In whlto .cross-bar orgnndie witli a Httlo trim ming in bands of thread laco on the bodice is protty enough to pleuBo tho most exacting girl graduate- and slm across tho front with many short rowa of shlrrlngs. Very often sashes aro of organdlo nnd narrow frills and ruches of It take the placo of laco for" trimming. After a day in tho front-lino trenches of wnr work, clad in overettes in tho' garden, or overall aprons In Red Cross rooms and the most matter-of-fact street tlothes for our goings and comings, a decent regard for tlio opin ion of mankind with tho nccent on tho man mnkes It a pleasnnt but Im perative duty to get Into n protty frock. It Is very restful to nil con-' corned. x Capes Float From Waistcoats. Tlio designer who combined tho waistcoat with tho capo offered a choice morsol In costumery. Tho ono gives tho other gruco and solidity. The waltcoat keeps tho capo from fly ing In tho faco of tlio public, and it protects the chest and back from whatever chill winds may blow. And, further, In this dny of conservation of clothes as well as material, It gives ono a chance to go without n blouse. Thero aro waistcoats thnt aro nothing but corselots, sleeveless ones, to which nro attached short or long flow ing capes. These garments co on dm a bodlco. Collars of Organdie. Organdie collars and cuffs ur shown in a variety of colors and ds signs and tiny ruffles nro Yflrv mnh plo enough to belong to her, It has liked on tho simple, straight band1 a wish of wide taffeta ribbon, shirred ' which come in various widths.