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• dsteexmet,t I - - ,,,, leettrjer-r47004#44.4 GERWAN DRIVE IS ALMOST STOPPED SOME PROGRESS, HOWEVER, IS STILL BEING MADE BY INVADERS. PAYANG v BIG FOR NEW GAINS • Pranislan Guard Division, Pride of Crown Prince's Army, So Badly Shet Up That It Has to Be Withdrawn. (War Review for .June I) Although it cannot he said that the Germaits in their new (offensive have been definitely: stmoneal, there is. nev- ertheless. a marked (Taitintition in ihe Speed with which they started out, and their gains since Saturday have beim relatively small when dssinliards1 with those of previous days. a Anil. at -cording to the aceounta of un- official observers, wherever they have been able qince the stiffening of the allied lilies to attain new positions. an exorbitant price in liN.'s hilS hien ex- acted from them. Si great have been the casualties suffered that the Prus- sian guards ilivislon-the pride of the German crown prince ---is declared to have been withdritan (ruin the battle. Particularly hard fighting again has .. been in progress bet wee!' Soissons and Chateau Thierry. where the German,: are endeavoring to 'bush forward to- ward Paris. but not alone have the Freneli troops almost e‘er3 where Slle- cessfully withstood the onslaught, but on several sectors themselves have tak- en the Initiative and gained ground. As a W1101e the situation along this litle IS relatively inwhangeol. Holding German Line. The German wilt. offiee hum at last admitted that the allied nio , on the west has been reitifstreed by fresh units, but It asserts that they have not been able to hold the positions to which they were asaigned. Neverthe- less t he fact In patent fr an oloser- vathot of the war maps that almost everyaltere in this region the Gerlill111 line, for the moment at least, is being hard held. Fnma Chateau 'Thierry eastward along the Marne alld Whoop to Ithelins the sittiation Is :lethally tin- eltanged from that of Monday. The enemy now holds the northern hank of the Sterne for a distanee of about 15 milers but as yet Ile hits Insole no fieriouti endeavor tit manta the strewn. Germans Learn of Losses. The news what it has eost the (lemon armies in men killed, wounded! Or 'Mile prisoner In the present battle In reaching liermany through a no less authoritative souree than the semi-of- ficial Norddeutsche Aligemeine %els lung, This journal prints a letter from ' a (lemon colonel at the front wide!' Urgea the people to hear their losaes with patietwe and corifhloare, f: Just. Raids in Flanders : Little fighting agate from the usual eMall affairs between raiding parties Is taking place on tile Flanders front. The British haVe earried out sill:res.:- fill raids on several sectors here and taken nearly 300 prisoners. In the Italian theater the opera- tions continue of a in:iior diameter. American Flyers Active. American aviators are giviiig good account of themseivea over the battle Ilne in France. Since April 14 when they first took the iii ii offensive op- erations, they have shot down at least ft3 .enemy planes and thienseives lost only seven. Volunteer recruits to the number of iso.orm , for immediate ser‘ice with the Irish divisions are asked for by tile lord lieutenant of Ireland in at proe- lamatiow After this recruitment 2.- 000 to 3.000 men monthly are asked for to maintain the Irish divislons. Legis- lation giving land to men who fight for their country is itromised in the proclannation. THE STANFORD WORLD LADY DROGHEDA T-toly Drogheda. a !to Is att ardent aviatrix. as in I h • Cullnlir us raise funds for her many war (liarit Ms. fitly reeetoly Lady Drogheda held an awl probalaa -.%111 duplicate it here. She Wils It !Mph! of tIraltatio-Winte. from hom she learned the many intricacies of the airplane. This is her inost re- cent photograph. EXPECT GERMAN FLEET TO GIVE BATTLE SOON U. S. and Great Britain Preparing Side by Side. -Our Navy Has 419,000 Officers and Men. aaw York. June 3.- The United States now has :I largo number of first class battleships. - preptiring side hy aide with tile [WS( SWIM of the Brit1Sh Ifavy for' ant engagement on the high seals expected to orcirr Ill any lime with llw German fleet,\ according to a statement made iii all address here last night lay Rear Ad- miral Albert Weaves. \I alit not going beyond the border line or secrecy.\ declared Adrull'ul (Rem es, \yawn I say that a few dap( ago !here came rin alarm to the heads of Ilie Itritisli navy that Hie German battleships were :Mord to 4-.11114 out tor the expeeled engagement art the Malt seas. I know that ihe lir.lisli navy 114'11;1' 4 gave the first class Ameriean battleships a oats; of honor Itu prepara- tion for the ittiaek. \I know that our ships now work. tint nith the British navy in making ready for this fight are lii the prime 0? 1.01011111111111111 (I/113 prepared to win the engagemenr. We hale about 17(0 ves- sels over there now and between 35,1100 .tudi -111,111/0 men aboard them.\ IlleaNes said that \we now lave a 11.11‘Y if 111,11 ii officers itui e than 400,000 men, sir a nosy four times greittl.r thilll It was just heriire we en- tered the war.\ Asked If atity method hail been de- vised to destroy diii oncoming torpedo, Admiral (Reeves replied: \Practiertliy none.\ Asked how to.air to our shores Rerman suginarines had it lie referred his tmestioner to the see- retary of the navs. Sign Gets Him 10 Years. Seattle, Wash., June 4. -Emil Her- man of Everett. Wash., secretary of the Socialist party of the state of Washington, yesterday was sentenced to serve ten years to the fedaral peni- tentiary at McNeil laland for violation of the espionage au-i. Herman. the government alleged. permitted to be posted in his office a eircular which read: , • \Don't be a soldier; be a man.\ RED CROSS WAR FUND IS $66,439,291 OVER QUOTA Washington. June 3. -The American 'Red Cross seetind war mercy fund now tOttlIS $1136,-139.1:91. With 11111iCallons that when all reports front the drive or it week ago are tabulated a 370,- (MOAK* oversubseription of the -$100,- 000,000,goal wH1 lw shown. In ontiouncing these figures, Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war commit, said the returns show that more than 47.000000 Americans, nearly half of the total population of the country, contributed. Those giving to the first fund last year. numbered only five million. Not only dill every ited Cross divi- sion in the country overaubseribe. hut ones -the gulf -turned in more than three times tile amount of its quota. While five others, the At north- ern. northwestern, southern and south- western. tnore than doubled their at' Report Idlers Says Crowder. lotnients. Washington, June 4.-Itulem for the The states tripling their quota were enforcement of provost Marshal Gen- Alabama, Slissisaippi, Wyoming, An eral Crowder's \Work or fight\ rept- zona and South Can - 11111a. (11111 those 5ations, call on all eitizens to report more than doubling their allotment to the nearest loeal draft board 1111111es were New Jersey, Contiectieut, Nebras of Men who are habitually idle or who kit. Louisiana. Colorado, .New Mexico are employed non-produetively. Each New Humps:hire. Nlarth Dakota.. Wash local board in erentell 11110 11 lilt I will ington. Idaho. 1aelaware, West Virgin be practically a court to sit probably in, Tennesaee. Texas and Kenstts. weekly to decide suet) caaes as may be Alaska turned in more than four times brought before it. its quota. ATLANTIC PORTSPROTECTED. Washington. June 4.-- Members of the house nnval Committee were as - \(tired by Secretary Daniels hoe y es- enlay that Atlantie coast defensea nioillist submarines were adequate a and It would he unnecessary to recall 'veasels from the witr zone to deal with submarines on this side. The secretary said the purpose of the Ger- , mans evidently Wan to frighten the Amerlean people into demanding the i return of tonne of their naval force , abroad, TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE. New Bedford, Mass., June 4. -The textile mills of this city. employing 35.000 operatives, were shut down ats terilay In consequettee of it genera strike veiled by the textile council One-third of the operntivest lifire beet engaged on government contraets. The mill glIten 111.1e Opened ut the MIMI time. Onerativee took their clothing and personal belongings and wen away without any detnonstration. There was no picketing by any of the tnployes. • SUBS SINK SHIPS ON JERSEY COAST NINE AMERICAN VESSELS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED SINCE MAY 25. NO LIVES REPORTED LOST In All Cases So Far Submarine Has Given Crew and Passengers a Chance to Escape. -Navy Takes Action Speedily New York. June 4. Scores (if Unit• ed States aarsilips Were l'alliging ille waters off the north Atlantic coast last night searchittF for the G01111111 81111- IllarilieS Which him; ex - peeled attack oil Anterietto allipping in home waters late afternoon. Nine vessels Were Iill0W11 flint ttlkhut to 1131VP been sunk its. German subma- rines off the north Atlantic coast since May 25. The largest to fall prey to lit.' raid- ill'e Seeking 10 prevent the sailing of transports with lroops for the battlefield , of Frattria 'was tile New MVO liner Carolina, of 8,0011 ions. which was attacked Sun- day night about 125 miles- southeast of Sandy Hook. The fate of her 220 pas- aetigers utmaci erew of Mb who took to the bouts when shells began to fall about the vessel. Is still unknown. but there was hope that they had been picked tap by some passing ship or wmild reach sloire safely in the small Malta. Not it life Wit:: lost in the sintra lug of the other ships. according to late reports. Besides the Carolina, the known vic- tims of the U-boats are the tanker Her- bert I,. Pratt. the attataiship 1Vinnie- connie of 1,a00 Its, and six schooners the largest (if a Melt W. , 1 - 4 , the Haup- pauge. It next ship (if 1.001 tons, anti the Edward H. l'Ole. Tile crciV,i of these eight VeSSeISTInve 111441 landed at At - !matte ports. Rumors brought ashore by the sur- vivors hunt -aced that the WinniecOnnie Mill nearly all the schmetera were 81111k by the snipe uhich had been lurking in the path of shipping off the New Jersey CO:Int ill111 Delaware capes shire late last month. 'The stories told by the skippers of the schooners indi- cate thot the commander -4 tof the sub- mersibles were unusually humane for German submarine loffiet.rs. In no in- alanee. so far Its known, was a lifeboat shelled aud in all ettaes reported the crews were given opplirtitnity to es- cape or were taken aboard the salami- rine Ivhere some of Iltem were kept prisoner for eight (lays before they were turned adrift tu he picked up by it passing vessel. Another Reported Sunk. StIVIIn111111 Ste/1111Ship City of Colmnbus Is reported to have been sunk, but no definite news of her fate has been received. rift en murals - lira of U-boat attm•lia were brought to an Atlantle port last night on at steamship %%hit+ pieldell theirt tip front smolt boats. Will Stop Menace. The navy threw a veil of wartime secrecy abolit the steps it was taking to counteract lit.' mennee of the sea pirates. but Secretary Daniels made thexonfident sntiouncement that meas- ures had been taken to meet the dan- ger to shipping. While the details of naval operation.: were withheld. It is known that de- stroyers. fleets of submarine chasera and other vessels are flashing their searehlights over the waters along the ClInSt mid far out at sea front Maine to Florida. Air Black With Planes Hydro airplanes and airplanes arose like flocks of huge birds from every naval station along the Atlantic coast when the warning %YRS MIS:Ilea to then) and were goon scouting over the wa- ters where it wits believed submarines would be most likely to be lurking. F'oreign aviators and American stu- dents as well its the regular American flyers, eagerly volunteered for service. More than a hundred airplanes anti dirigible balloons left Ilazellturst avi- ation field alone on scout duty. Near- ly all the aircraft were manned by regular army aviators. They circled over Long Island (sound arid off the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the east- ern extremity of Long Island. Use Training Machines. In their flights yesterday the air- craft were not armed. Inn in . a short thine will he equlpped with bomb drop- ping equipment and machine guns. The machines pressed into patrol seta had been used for training purpose. The Clyde line offielais are worried about the safety of the steamship :Mo- hawk of that line which left a southern port yesterdny afternoon with approx. iinately 250 passengers. No word was received from her yesterday and it is coosidered poasible she might have been in the path of the enemy subma- rines. 17,000 POLES ENTER TRENCHES. Washington. June 3. -Word reaelied here yesterday from }'ranee that the Polish legion of 15,000 own recruited In the United States, together with some' 2,000 Poles drawn from South America, will take its plaee with the allied armies tomorrow. Though they serve with the French army as at sep- arate unit, the Poles will enrry their OW11 maroon flag with its Silver eagle and some of the companiea from the United States will display the Stars and Stripes as well. ANTI -WAR DISORDERS ARE INCREASING IN AUSTRIA Austrian Flag Pulled Down by Soho. inians.-Barracg• and City Hall Eared bi Angry Mobs, London, June 1.--Itiots and Internal ,ai,,, ra t i o-s of all kinds are increasing in U4,114410111. A Vienna newspaper says that what is happening flighty in Butte - trim resembles the Lombardi and Vene- tian uprisings in 1548 except that today the einpire is hampered by her engage - ill 11 war from which she does not sca• a way to escape. .11 Ghozett erowdm, exuaperated by pollee brutality, set fire to the'burraeks and to till. lily halbarhere the mounted polier• were lodged. Eight (if the offi- cers burned to (144011. At Kohn peopk. pulled down the Austrian MIL.: allot ra;sed the Billiendan flag. piddle littilditigs have been burned at Tabor and other towns in Bohemia and lit I amuts, Moravia. At Prague the affires oil the German newspaper, the Zeitung tool Neuve Nachrivitten, were sttekuti. • The Prague eorrespondent of the St totaaft NellVe Nachrichten tele- graialed to Ids paper that the events of bort week at Prague extweded in graNity all the previous demonstra- tions. The Neu Pride Presse of Vienna ap- peals to all conservative elements for I e preservation of the Ant:Irian state, asserting that \only the tenacity and union of those who desire the preserva- tion of the state can make the mon- archy survive this great criais.\ The Crotian press reports that niar- flail law has been proclaimed In Bo- hemia. that rioting has occurred In various towns. ENEMY ALIEN HELD FOR CAUSING ST, LOUIS FIRE St. Louis, June 3. -Army officials express the belief that the mysterious fire that (lid $1,000.000 damage at two warehouses tit the United States ar- senal here early Sunduy morning was of German origin. Antott Itonjack. 23 years old, an AllS1111111 alien enemy,. was arrested shortly after the fire started when he attempted to vault the fence surround- ing the government reservation. Ile denied knowledge of the fire's origin and said he attempted to climb the six foot stockade to watch the blaze. He is held without bond for the fed- ora] authorities. The warehottaes are used for the storrige of goods ready for immediate (lisp:till) overseas. Fairbanks Growing Weaker, Indianapolis. Jtme 3. -Charles W. Fairbanks. tvho Is III at his home here, lust ground continually yesterday and no hope Is now entertained for his recovery . by his chief physician. The physielan state. that the former vice president'a condition is more critical than at any time during his illness. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Livestock Chicago. June 4. -Hogs: Receipts. 18.- 000. Market higher. Heavy butchers. $16.40'016.60; light butchers. $16.504 1610: prime heavy. $16.45416.60; heavy packing. $160 16.35: rough heavy, 115.60416.95; se- lected light, 116.75416.90; medium and light. mixed, $16.404 , 16.65; bulk, 116.500 16.70; pigs. 116.25417. Cattle: Receipts, 15,000. Beef steers and butcher stock, steady; calves active. Sheep\ Receipts u.400 head. Market weak. Western lambs. bidding 10c to 25c lower: spring lambs receipts double decks of Californias and off natives. Fair good Californias. $19. Native yearlings and wethers, market _weak. Omaha Livestock. Omaha, June 4.-110gs- Receipts. 4.600. Market mostly 16c higher. lioavvy, $16.40 6,16.45; mixed. $16.45416.56; Ught, 616.50 416.60; pigs. $120 16; bulk, 116.45016.55. Cattle: Receipts 4,600. Market steady. Native steers, 112.25017.40; cows and heif- ers, 19.69414; western steers. 19.50412.60; cows and heifers. $7.5049.50; canners, 17.50413; calves, $8012.50; bulls, stags, etc., $8612.50. Sheep: Receipts 4.300. Market strong. Lambs, $15.75419.60; yearlings. $1641 17.60:: wethers, 114.50616.50; ewes, 1100 13. ER. Paul Livestock. St. Paul, June'4.-HOgs: Receipts 5,- 100. Market steady. Range, 116.10416.20; bulk, $16.164111.20. Cattle: Receipts. 2,900. Killers steady. Steers, 67.50017; cows and heifers, 184 14; veal calves, steady. 17013.26; stockers and feeders, steady, $6.i0,411. Sheep: Receipts 60. 0 :11arket steady. Lambs. 110418; wethers, $7413.50; ewes, 81413. Chicago Grain. Chicago, June 4. -Corn: No. 2 yellow. No. 4 yellow, $1.67; No. 4 yellow, 11.324 Oats: NO. 3 white, 72472 3 / 4 c; standard, 72½473%c. Rye: No. 2, nominal; No. 3, nominal; No. 4, 11.53. Barley: $1.26. Timothy: 1548. Clover: 118428. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis. June 4. -Wheat: Receipts. 208 cars, compared with 297 cars a year ago. Corn: No. 3 yellow, 11.4541.55. Oats: No. 3 white, 1 395470c. Flax: 13.6643.68. Flour: Unchanged, Shipments, 40,- 676 barrels. Rye: $1.6601.68. • Barley: 93c6$1.20, SHOPMEN ASK THAT NEW WAGE SCALE BE REVISED Washington. .Tune 4. -Representa- tives of 500,000 railway shop men yes- terday asked the railroad administra- tion not to put Into effect the new' wage scale without upward revision for their crafts, saying great dissatisfac- tion would he created, and Intimating that it might be linpossible to avoid Many strikes. They urged speedy ac- tion to revise the Neale In order to pre- vent employes from going to shipyards within the next week or two. • WILLIAM L FRIERSON William I.. Frierson, the assistant °Homey general whom Attorney Gen- eral Gregory appointed to investigate charges tug:thou the managetnent of United Slates aireraft work. lie is a illative - of Chattanooga. Tenn., and has the reputation of being it careful lawyer. FOUR LARGEST EXPRESS COMPANIES CONSOLIDATED Government Will Take 50Ia Per Cent of Revenues for Transpor- tation Privileges. 1Vashi net on. May 31. -One union ex- press company for the Unitval States was created yesterday by agreement between Dirertor General :McAdoo and the Adams, American, Wells-Faego and Southern companies. %rhos' , transpor- tation business will he merged under a new private eorporatIon with a cap- ital of more Illan $30.000.000 to be known probably as the Federal Ex- press company. George C. 'Taylor now. president of the American, will be head of the new concern. After July I when the combination becomes effeetive, shippers will di- rect shipments \by express\ without regard to company, 1111f1 soon there- after the individual names of the sep- arate companies will begin to disap- pear from wagons, station:4 and cars. The company will be the express car- rying ageney of the railroads. operated privately, but under contract to turn over 50 1 4 per ei•nt of their gross reve- nues -more than $200.000.000 last year -to the roads for transportation privi- leges. 'Three smaller railroad owned companies. the Western. Great North- ern and Northern, may join the com- bination later. WORLD NEM IN CONDENSED FORM Federal courts have no jurisdiction over the selective draft boards. the United Statea atiprente court. in effect, has decided, in denying inandanms pro- ceedings to hove an order of it local board in Milwaukee reviewed. The president of the Boisheviki com- missioners in the Don Cossack coun- try has been hanged by anti-soviet Cos( sticks, according to a Reuter dispatch from Moscow. lh , wits the chief or- ganizer of the Comauck movement op- posed tar General Kaletlines. Dr. Ramon Valdez, president of the republic of Panama, is dead. • * An exhibition of \German art and kultur\ is to be opened In Constantin- ople this spring, according to a dis- patch front Amsterdam. The scheme Is financed by funds provided by the German propaganda department. • * Informal dlaapproval of rivet driv- ing contests which has been expressed by some union men is receiving atten- tion of the shipping board. Officials, however, are not yet convinced that the contests are detrimental to pro- duction as the union men claim. * 1 As the first phase of a big drive to check up excess, profits and income tax returns of big business interests, 25 trained accountants have been dis- patched by Internal Revenue Commis- sioner Roper to examine accounts of coal operators in West Virginia. Ohio and Pennsylvania to ascertain whether any changes should be made. . Only 600 professed conscientious ob. jeetors have been reported atnong the 1,300,000 men called for tnilltary serv- ice tinder the draft, Secretary Bnker states. This proportioti of one objector to 2.000 fighters will be reduced still further when the board of inquiry ap- pointed by President Wilson to eX11111 Me Into each t•ase has reported. * •4 • Swedish reports tell of the destruc- tion of n Zeppelin that wan shot lawn off the Jutland emist by h British tor- pedo boat destroyer. The crew of the airship was drowned. t 4,000 MEN IN THE JUNE DRAFT GALL LOCAL BOARDS MUST FILL. QUO- TAS ONLY WITH MEN IN CLASS ONE. NEWS OF THE CAPITAL GUY \ State Chemist CobleIgh Says Montana Law Regarding Gasoline is Obso. lete on Account of Changes in Refining Methods. lielenat.-Two draft calls have been rereissial by Adjutant General Greenatt. thie is for 4,000 men to entrain for (\map Leais during the five-da)' period beginning June 2-4, and the dther Is for 103 grammar school gradtiates who have had sonic experience alone me- chattleal lines and have Millie aptitude - for merit:mica' work to take a spe- 0111 COIll'Se for three months at Boze- man itt autontoldle mechanic:, radio. operaCtig mid itwidete to military service at the front tool behind the lillen. This last call 'mis - hap filled los voluutary Indio:Man. The allotments by comities ,will be loath- ini t e t i tt . ly white men and men physically qualified for general military service are 10 Ile furnished under the earn for 4,000. - This eall,\ reads the ta gram. \must be filled from men %%Mi- lo Class I but not execetied. M.ike ally adjustment:4 you deem nas:ussarv to meet loyal eaanditions. If practic- able the provisions relating 10 Mel/ 11c1 iN els, completely and a•-i'dmitisly engaged in the planting and cultiva- tion of crops should be complied II tilt, But if it local board Is unable to fill Its allottnent from aithin Class 1. it will proceial to silo., such farina:es as Iii its judgment can best 11, , apared.\ The call for the 103 men to tat.. the special course at Bozeman will las filled by voluntary induction umiutll Jame N. after which it must be filled by In- voluntary induction. The mete will re- port at Bozeman June 15. * * Mascms Form War Council. Creation of a state-wide Nlasorth- lwar council has been antiolinced here. 'Governor Sam V. Stewart IS Made ail - the WhiCh Is e011iposed of representatives of every county. with a committee at large eompoatal of past grand masters residing in the Shalt'. 'lere will be it grand lodge Wall' relief fund. to be disbursed Ity the new council. 'The alelidoir of the etinneill In each county o ill have general su- pervision -of lodge , : In that county, as regards war work. (Me of the purposes is rigid enforce - Metal of sedition Mid solaitag laws, na- tional and s•,ite. and all orders( of coun- cil,: of defense. national and state. The Influenee of the fraternity, it is an- nounced. is to ve east against all sus- pension of indirsirirll . aiillvity during the war. The ,Nlasoris tinder this new council will support all war uctivities, especially the sale of Liberty Meals rind Thrift stanips. The telpporary council, to mild the next meeting of the grand lodge. has !wen mooed. * * * Montana Gasoline Test Is Obsolete. 'flue Montana law requiritia that gas- oline shall test not less than .63 spe-4 cifie gravity is a back number. accord- ing to it report State Chemist W. hi. -Cobleigh has matle to Seeretary of State C. T. Stewart. Ile points wit that the specific gravity test was all right with straight refinery gasoline but now gasoline Is also made by the blended 111141 samthetie process. lie says the Biome test_ may give it higher rating to a poor, anal It low rating to) at good gasoline. Ile recommends the department of chemistry be given a chance to inves- tigate gasoline on Montano markets to supply the technical informatitut upim which legislation and subseq111.111 regulations can be based. Color. avid- ity and volatility are more important than specific gravity, he says. * * * Ford Wants Free Speech. Attorney ailette?al la C. Ford lulls sent a letter to the state council of defense, calling upon the latter to vo- operate with him In securing to Non- partisan league organizers and speak- ers. and everybody else, the right of free speech and to make public ad- dresses In the state. and charging that member's of vounty councils halve been among those persons who have denied free speech and prevented men from making addresses. Bowman Finds Crops Are Good. Bowman. chairman of the state board of Wail insurance commis- sioners, who has just rettirned from a trip through northern And eastern :Montana. says crop conditions' were never looking better. Mr. Bowman said he was particularly itnpressed by- the filet that the ground was in untIsuelly good condition. * * * ' , Governor Names Thrift Day, Dovertior Snin V. Stewart, In a for- mal proclamation. has net . the week of June 28 In Montana for a drive for War Snvings and Thrift !damps, eall- Ina upon the people \to . enlist In the valiant army of production, through the meditturt of membership of war savings societies, denying themselves: every non -essential and devoting every possible resource to the purchase of our government's securities, and thus Making more sure the sueeettsful ter- mination of the Conflict.\ el 91 11 Oil f I e I ,..,/iVea4,15
