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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
13
New York reports reveal tactics to dodge the draft including entrepreneur marriages and heart-stimulant schemes. Gen. Crowder warns marriage alone cannot grant discharge and stresses strict scrutiny of dependencies.
Senate debate touched on authorizing negotiations with allies to legalize drafting aliens. McCumber led for immediate alien drafting under negotiations. Chamberlain sought joining provision. Cummins agreed. Pittman argued compulsion moral. Lewis urged aliens to fight here or at home. Stone to refile. House committee favored a related McCumber-like resolution.
District boards across divisions report mixed results as 42 men at Franklin School faced examinations with 10 rejected for disability and 4 to 8 selected from among several divisions. Across divisions, quotas range from 47 to 108, with many noting exemptions and falsified claims as sources of concern and measures to fill army quotas.
Gov. Whitman urged a state food commission to aid federal efforts in food control. He asked powers to gather data on production and storage, regulate storage, seize and distribute food in emergencies, and report to the Federal Food Administrator. He stressed allied needs and rejected price fixing as federal responsibility.
The District council of defense woman’s committee hosts a public conference at Everett School tonight. Speakers include Mrs. Mary W. Thurston on conservation with a focus on canning, Mrs. F. L. Ransome on the war on waste, and Edward Evans on community trading. Harriet Blaine Beale acts as chair in absence of Mrs. Archibald Hopkins and urges all housekeepers to attend. Army strength near full, 171,000 volunteers in service, 2,705 enlisted Monday.
The Agriculture Department appeals for large scale sauerkraut production to conserve surplus cabbage that has crowded markets and risked rot on wharves. Officials note sauerkraut requires little labor and yields a healthful, appetizing food from fresh cabbage.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw chairman of the National Defense Council warns women against under eating in a statement to American women. She says advice on economy targets wasteful women and overeat ers not careful purchasers. She stresses Americans must eat enough to stay physically and morally fit, keep schools fed, feed children properly, and preserve social ideals.
Chicago to Wilson a telegram from W. D. Haywood secretary of the I W W declares a walkout of more than 250000 men if deported members are not returned. Miners in Michigan Minnesota Dakota harvest hands would join, following the Bosbee deportations and Moore’s arrest.
A government vessel rammed the schooner Charlotte W Miller near Cornfield lightship at 9 30 this morning sinking her en route from Lynn Massachusetts to Poughkeepsie New York with a load of sand Captain McLean and four crewmen were rescued and brought to New London Conn by the government boat.
A Washington dispatch says the Navy Department prepared a plan to protect shipping from submarines. A giant detector is being developed and is expected to be effective over about five miles. If proven, it will be stretched near German bases to locate U boats as they depart. Pending results, armed guards and convoys will be used. Officials say proper armament remains the best protection and no American ship with speed and proper armament has been sunk.
Misa Agnes Lowe, the Rocky Mountain National Park’s “Modern Eve,” abandoned a seven day solo mountain stunt. Hungry, drenched and nearly frozen after a day and night in the hills, she sought aid from a mountaineer as her mother and brother readied to fetch her. She declared lessons learned and future plans for modern gear.
Chicago Roumanian relief commission announces headquarters will be set up here with the arrival of Prof. Paul Negulescu former Roumanian senator who leads the national relief organization seeking aid for Roumanian war devastated lands.
A bill introduced by House military committee Chairman Dent proposes reorganizing the army general staff for the war, creating two assistant chiefs of staff, placing the War College under the chief of staff, empowering the President to set quartermaster and ordnance strengths, and abolishing coast artillery as a division to be led by a new chief on the general staff.
Dr E H Armstrong of Jacksonville on a Washington visit tours the East with his Oldsmobile and promotes Riverview property for investment. He owns Good Hope Mineral Wells at Riverview whose medicinal water is praised for stomach kidney and bladder issues and guaranteed with a transport-only cost if it fails. He is staying at the St James Hotel while the wells remain at Riverview and Jacksonville.
Dr Edmund Otis Hovey, geology curator at the American Museum of Natural History, has cable on arrival in Copenhagen from Etah Greenland. He led Crocker Land relief for MacMillan’s party and will reach New York by late August, with others still at Etah awaiting rescue by the Neptune and planning a return to the United States by October 1.
New York July 31 The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America files suit in equity in the Supreme Court to stop the United States Boy Scouts from using terms like boy scout scouting and from claiming affiliation with the Boy Scouts movement. The suit seeks an injunction, an accounting of funds, and prohibits identical uniforms and misrepresentation of membership. Charles E Hughes represents the Boy Scouts with Colin R Livingstone as president.
Leaders of both houses of Congress yesterday endorsed extending the mail franking privilege to American soldiers in France. The proposal has Postmaster General Burleson’s approval. Form of legislation and scope of free mail service for soldiers are yet to be decided.
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