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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
7
A message from Herbert Hoover, food administrator, will be read in churches May 26 to urge patriotic volunteer action reducing wheat and wheat products. Ministers were sent copies of the statement stressing renewed effort, and calling for meat and sugar conservation and widespread canning this summer.
President Wilson visited New York for a Red Cross fundraising drive and promotional events. The trip featured photographs with the President and his entourage at the Metropolitan Opera for reception and publicity during the campaign.
The missive urges abstaining from wheat and its products by those able to do so to spare supplies for children and invalids. It notes many households need ready bread and calls organizations and communities to spread the plan. Major Mast flew 140 miles in 1 hour 40 minutes from Lonoke to Park Field, Tennessee. Denison to host next Eagles meeting. officers elected include J. C. Canty and W. C. Bulger.
An advertisement claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic cures low vitality due to impure blood. It promises restored vitality and energy by purifying the blood and an invigorating strengthening effect. Price listed as 60 cents.
A Sonder committee led by J. E. Jarratt has received numerous applications for overseas service with the Army Y. Subcommittees target churches fraternal groups and local towns to recruit volunteers. The push seeks 1600 men per month for two months and continued need afterward, prioritizing experienced business leaders, organizers, and recreational directors who are fit for service and over draft age.
Important matters affecting relations of state and federal authorities to wartime conduct will be considered at the annual joint conference of the United States Public Health Service with state and territorial health officers in Washington on June 3 and 4. Texas health officers will attend. Topics include sanitation of extra cantonment areas and cooperation to prevent disease interchange between civilian and military populations. Discussions will cover control of cerebrospinal meningitis typhoid fever trachoma hookworm pellagra and other communicable diseases in relation to military health, with each disease to be addressed separately.
A Camp Travis case sees Linton Caplan, medical department private, sentenced to five years in federal prison for wilful disobedience of orders after refusing to work about the capitol. Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen reduced an initial ten year term, Caplan to be sent to Leavenworth soon.
Fifty three Bolsheviki members of the crew of the Russian steamship Omsk, arrested in Norfolk on May 22, charged with conspiring to seize the ship at sea, were sentenced by local authorities.
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