Registration Cards for 7th Year Olds to Be Issued
A Texas exemption board informs Major John C. Townes that blank registration forms and printed matter for men reaching age will be issued soon. The card design changes include blue printing for distinction, with old forms used until supplies exhaust. Brazos county is estimated to have about 220 registrants pending final congressional action on the law.
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John C. Townes
Selective Service Law
Texas
Brazos County
Congress
Five Men Leave Friday for Army Mechanics Training
Houston Friday in response to a department call lists five men Gus B Bukowski James H Stephens Elmore Stephenson Louis Fridel and Edward Dugat. Bukowski will join in Austin Dugat reported at Beeville exemption board volunteering as painter not yet accepted. Calls issued May 6 for two men for army mechanics school to report May 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Gus B. Bukowski
James H. Stephenson
Elmore Stephenson
Louis Fridel
Edward Dugat
Bukowski
Austin
Dugat
Beeville
Army Mechanics School
University of Texas
Brazos County
Carll Announces for Commissioner
The Eagle announces BE. D. Carll as a Democratic candidate for precinct No. 1 commissioner subject to the July 27 primary. It notes this is his first political bid, his Texan roots, 20 years in the county, and his success as a farmer and stock raiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. D. Carll
Carll
War Price Pressures Raise School House Bid Totals
Only two bids for the high school construction were opened. The lowest base bid plus plumbing, wiring and architect fees would total about 110000, while the bond issue provides 90000. Architect M L Waller will review bids and plans to see if a satisfactory building can be built within appropriation. War prices for labor and materials caused the shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Waller
Signal Corps Dance Invitation for Red Cross Ladies
Special order 1234 directs Red Cross Ladies of Bryan and College Station to report to the gym by 8 30 p m on Saturday May 11 for a signal corps sponsored dance in appreciation of courtesies. Officers and enlisted men sign the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Headquarters Signal Corps
College Station
Texas
Red Cross
Bryan
Signal Corps
Kaiser Returns to Potsdam as Russian Diet Rejection Shakes Europe
Berne May 8 Associated Press reports Emper or William hastened home to Potsdam amid a political crisis sparked by the Russian diet rejecting suffrage reform. Chancellor Her tling has been summoned to report on the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presa
Berne
Switzerland
William
Potsdam
Hertling
Captain M. C. Funston Leads Signal Corps School At A and M
Captain M C Funston is promoted from first lieutenant to captain and commands the signal corps service company school for radio mechanics at A and M college. He has 20 years in the service with campaigns in Cuba the Philippines Alaska and Panama. The school will receive a Dodge car and three Ford trucks from Fort Sam Houston today to aid the radio mechanics program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Funston
Signal Corps Service Company School For
M. College
Ashington
Signal Corps
Funston
Havng
Cuba
Phlippines
Alaska
Panama
Fort Sam Houston
Leon Springs
EheGttohu
Lastuc
A. and M
Company K
College
Service Company School
Frederick Funston
School For Radio Mechanics
Captain Funston
German farmer forced to buy liberty bonds in Eagle Lake
Eagle Lake reports the Home Guards coerced a wealthy German farmer to invest $2000 in liberty bonds after his son protested. A crowd gathered and the man was whipped with a rope and forced to kiss the flag. The liberty loan flag raising was postponed due to heavy rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Lake
Tex
Liberty Loan
A and M Track Men Ready for Big Southwestern Meet
A and M track team coached by Prof. H R Brayton prepares for the Southwestern Conference meet in Norman Oklahoma Friday and Saturday. The squad aims to recoup after a narrow 512 point loss to the Longhorns in Austin with medals expected Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Brayton
Norman
Okla
Austin
Brayton
Great Lakes Sailors Gone
Great Lakes Ill May 1 new batch of apprentice seamen who entered the navy training school last winter were called to active duty by May 1. From December to January thousands reported at the station and since April 15 they have been leaving in large quotas mostly bound for eastern receiving ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas Great Lakes
Navy Training School
Huns Deport Italians Outrage Women and Divide Families
The Italian embassy in Washington reports resumed wholesale deportations in invaded northern Italian districts. Outrages against women are alleged and families are being separated as part of the actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Italy
Australians Push Forward At Sailly Le Sec Front
Australian forces advanced 500 yards along a 600 yard front near Sailly Le Sec east of Amiens and pushed back Germans 300 yards on a 500 yard front west of Morlancourt despite a heavy barrage. British troops maintained the overall pressure in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
France
Captain Hall Reported Missing in Air Battle
Report from American Headquarters in France dated May 8 says Captain James Hall, famed French and American flier, is missing after a battle near Toul. He and two other Americans fought four Germans. The army mourns his loss and wonders if he was killed or could land safely after the fight over Pagny Sur Moselle. Private Troy Forest of Mammoth Springs Arkansas is listed killed in action. Privates Bryan Andrews of Antoine Arkansas and Homer Hadden of Ponca City Oklahoma are reported wounded slightly.
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Hall
Associated S’ress
France
Toul
James Hal
Pagny-Sur- Moselle
Troy Forest
Mammoth Springs
Ark
Bryan Andrews
Antoine
Homer Hadden
Poncacity
Okla
British Advances and Artillery Fire Reported on Front
The war office said successful minor operations last night pushed British lines a short distance in the Amiens sector between the Somme and Ancre rivers. Early today increased hostile artillery fire occurred on the Flanders front between Beteren and Kemmel.
Artillery Clashes Along Avre River Northeast of Amiens
Heavy artillery fighting raged last night on both sides of the Avre river southeast of Amiens, the official announcement said. The report from Washington dated May 8 notes intensified shelling in the border area as Allied and enemy forces clashed near the frontline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autho
Associated Press
Washington
Avre
Amiens
Rehearing Denied in Spannell Case
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused the state's motion for a rehearing in the Spannell murder case. W. J. Spannell is charged with shooting Colonel M. C. Butler at Alpine on July 20, 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
W. J. Spannell
M. C. Butler
Alpine
Bizzell to Speak at Fort Worth on Rural Welfare
Dr. W. B. Bizzell president of A and M College leaves tonight for Fort Worth to address the State Press association on Agricultural Development and Rural Welfare. He will also visit Grubbs Vocational School in Arlington and the junior A and M College at Stephenville during the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Bizzell
A. and
M. College
Fort Worth
State Press Association
Grubbs Vocational School
Arlington
Stephenville
Captain Sims to Leave for Medical Training and War
Captain B U Sims resigns as city commissioner to join the medical corps. He will depart for Rochester Minnesota for brief training, then report to Rockford Alabama for base hospital duty. His family will stay until early June and later accompany him before his departure to Europe. The city commission may call a special election tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. U. Sims
Medical Corps
Rochester
Minn
Rockford
Commission
Famine and distrust sweep central powers say traveler
An interview from Stockholm by Politiken describes famine and distrust across central powers. The traveler notes Hungarians shun Austria amid shortages while Ukraine shows little due to Bolshevik scorched retreat. Czechs unite for a Czechish republic and south Slavs oppose Hapsburg rule. Germany sees improved food but defies with victory certainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
Stockholm
The
Politiken
Hungary
Austria
Ukraine
Germany
Wheat crop forecast signals record U S production
The Agriculture Department projects a 572 539 000 bushel wheat crop based on conditions May 1 and harvestable acreage. May 1 planted area stands at 36 392 000 acres with an expected yield near 15 7 bushels per acre and rye output around 2 629 000 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Plane
Washington
Agriculture Department
Signal Corps Men at Training Camp Colleges and Camps
Seventy men from the signal corps service school for radio mechanics have dispersed after orders to various posts. Lieutenant M. C. Funston reports his nominees for officers training camps largely approved. Several from the recent group will attend the signal corps officers training school at Leon Springs starting May 15, while others have already departed for the engineering officers training school in Petersburg, Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signal Corps Service Company School For Radio Mechanics
College
M. C. Funston
C. Tuerpe
R. G. Pustejovsky
H. E. Rollins
J. W. Grace
A. R. McLean
P. L. Neal
O. Winchell
Kk. A. Abbott
Theodore G. Teague
C. A Seale
Signal Corps Officers Training School
Leon Springs
George B. Morgan
D. &. Martin
J. W
Skinny
Williams
Petersburg
Engineering Officers Training
Shipping Board’s Wants Record High Aid Request
The Shipping Board submits estimates to Congress seeking an appropriation of 2,223,835,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shipping Board
Associated Press
Washington, May
Congress
The
Price Revival At Methodist Church Starts Sunday
A revival at the First Methodist church opens next Sunday morning with Rev. Thurs ton B. Price as evangelist and F. W. Rollins as singer. Price is known in Bryan for a prior revival during Rev. Glenn Flinn’s pastorate and is highly regarded as a revivalist. Rollins brings a proven singing and choir directing reputation and aims to assemble a large city choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
E. W. Solomon
Thurston B. Price
F. W. Rollins
Price
Bryan
Glenn Flinn
Siger
Complete Census of Brazos County To Be Taken Soon
Captain J. T. Maloney of the Brazos county home guard organizes a full county census in the coming days. Guardsmen will use printed blanks to list each household head, children names and ages, nationality, occupation, land tenure and crops, livestock, and labor needs or surplus labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Maloney
Brazos County
Army Aviators Killed In Long Island Crash
Two army aviators died when their aircraft fell near Central Park on Long Island near Mineola New York. The incident occurred May 8 and is reported by the Associated Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mineola
N. Y
Central Park
Long Island
Upper Classmen to Training Camp
Seniors and juniors granted furloughs for the fourth officers training camp open May 15 at Camp Bowie have left college for home before duty. A single campus reception at the Y M C A honored them and their dates. list includes Melton Hockaday Ray von Rosenberg Shiner Copeland Snow Sanders Carson Lipscomb Bates Hagan Phillips Warren Cooper Leffel Pries ter McKnight and Wipprecht among seniors and Rasmussen Slay Merrell Klock Becker Wormser Clayton among juniors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Bowie
J H Melton
F. J. Hockaday
W. J. Ray
W. E. von Rosenberg
W. J. Shiner
C. M. Copeland
O. L. Snow
A. N. Sanders
A. D. Carson
C. Lipscomb
W. W. Bates
T. Ek. Hagan
J. M. Phillips
G. R. Warren
F. A. Cooper
R. C. Leffel
L. E Priester
J. B. McKnight
Carl Wipprecht
A. A. Rasmussen
J. R. Slay
R. E. Merrell
N. H. Klock
C. L. Becker
M. R. Wormser
H. N. Clayton
All's Well With A and M Men In France
H A Top ling 17 writes from somewhere in France where he is attached to the detached wagon company No 1 28rd engineers AEF. He reports the country people and work are charming and wishes every A M man could be with them. He remains hopeful for an early and successful end of the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Topling
President Bizzell
France
Maurice May Give Asquith Power Shake in Britain
London May 8. General Maurice former war office chief accuses ministers of false statements and the government faces a possible censure vote. Asquith and followers back Maurice in a move to oust Lloyd George, Grey and Lansdowne cabinet. Debate set for Thursday with two-judge inquiry reportedly rejected.
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Asquith
Maurice
Gen
Fuchs
Lloyd George
London
War Office
Lloyd-George
Viscount Grey
Marquis Lansdowne
House
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Court of Honor
Frederick B. Maurice
British War Office
Bonar Law
Army Council
Maurie
Foch
France
Waterloo
Wellington
Blucher
German Domination in Ukraine Sparks Anarchy and Riots
London May 8 The Associated Press reports that German action in Ukraine has overthrown the government and sparked widespread anarchy. Riots have broken out in several cities including Kiev where many killed and the Ukrainian premier narrowly survived an assassination attempt with minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ukraine
Exchange Telegraph
Kiev
Governor Hobby Proclaims Sunday May 12 as Mothers Day
Austin reports Governor Hobby issued a proclamation designating Sunday May 12 as Mothers Day across the state. The declaration urges appreciation for mothers and their contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Hobby
War garden vegetables for Red Cross sale planned
Beans beets radishes onions and Swiss chard offered for sale to help the Red Cross. Orders to be filled tomorrow morning with proceeds from the harvest benefiting the war relief effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Red Cross
Flat price replaces got plus plan for steamers
Washington May 8 The cost plus contracts of the Submarine Boat company at Newark New Jersey for 160 steel ships of 5000 tons each have been cancelled. Charles Schwab production director of the emergency fleet corporation told the senate commerce committee in an investigation today. New contracts were substituted on flat basis of 96000 for each ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Submarine Boat Company
Newark
N. J
Charles Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation Today
Senate Commerce Committee
Unruly Team Slows Main Street as Wagon Spooks Farmer
A team belonging to Tom Wortham, a Black farmer, bolted on Main street this morning. The fray left Wortham bruised and shaken but not seriously hurt after a local doctor attended him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Wortham
Railroad wage increase announced by board
Washington May 8 The railroad wage board today announced its award in the application of railroad employees for wage increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Railroad Wage Board Today
Kaiser Gratitude Cements Peace With Rumania
Emperor William replied to Chancellor Hertling's peace congratulations with pride and gratitude. He credits God’s help and Germany’s patriotic resolve, military leadership, and strong diplomacy for guiding the nation toward a hopeful future after war in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
William
Hertling
Rumania
East
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McQuillen
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Jonas
Wipprecht
Hudson
Mahan
Landon
Denny
Tyler
Dinan
Sexauer
Neuman
Lee McQuillen
Great Lakes
Spannell
Captain Sims
Methodist Church
Wich
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Fol
Haig
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