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sot. \ 141 44 1 ; . . • • THE STANFOIii) WORLD AfeftWorog& GE11111 HilIVE IS ALMOST SHIPPEU SOME PROGRESS, HOWEVER, IS STILL BEING MADE BY INVADERS. PAYING BIG FOR NEW GAINS Prussian Guard Division, Pride of Crown Prince's Army, So Badly Shot Up That It Has to Be Withdrawn. (War Review for Jutw I) Although it cannot be said that the Germans In their new offetishe have been definitely slotipeti, there is, nev- ertheless. a mairked diminution in ilw speed with oltich they started inn, and their gains since Saturday have been relatively small ellen cuter:trill eitit those of previous illtys. And. accoilling to the ilecolints of un- official oltservers,...wherever they have been able since the stiffening of the allied lines to attlain new positions. an exorbitant price in live:: has been ex- tteted from them. So great hove loam the disunities suffered Ilint the Plats - stun guards division --the pride of the German crown prince -is do...hired to have been withoirnan from the battle. Partienharly hard fighting iul iihas been in progress between Chateau Thierry, is twit' the Germans are endetivoring to push forward to- wnrd Paris. lint not ithine have the French troop , l iii. ist eVeryWhere Sae- cessfully uilistood the onslaught, lint on several sere.] ilell1Sei es have tak- en the and gained ground. As a whole the situation along this line 18 relatively tinelmilgoal. Holding German Line. The German woe office has ill last admitted that the allied line on the west lois been reinferceil by fresh units, hut it asserts that they have nut been able to held the positions to whIelt they Were assigulal. Neverthe- less the fact is patent from an obser- vation of the war maps that nittiost everywhere itt this region the German line, for the moment at least, is being hard held. From Chateau Thierry ea st wa rd along the Marne and telowe to Itheims: the \sitmitIon is aittitilly un- changed from that of SualdaY• enemy now holds the 'lowdown hank of the !startle for a distonce of shout 15 miles. but as yet he has made StriallS endeavor to 1 • 1 . 110“ Germans Learn of Lallaell. The news of what it has cosi the Gernillti 11 l'IlliPS in Wen killed. wounded or made prismier hi the torosetti !mine Is resehine thorium.). throng!' to Ito less nuthortintive setiree Guilt the semi-of- ficial Niwildentsche Aligetneitte 74 -1 - Nog. This journal prints a letter 4 from a (lemon colonel at the front which urges Ow people to bear their losses with indigence mei eotifillenee. JUSt Raids in Flanders ' 1.1ttle tighting aside from the IISIlai Silitill /Ifillil'S 111.1 WVI•11 is taking piece on the Flanders front. The liritish hitve isirrIed out) success - 2111 raids on several secters licre and taken nearly 300 prisoners. In Ole 'Hanna ii11•1111.r the opera- tions continue of a minor character. , American Flyers Active. t Americtin aviators are g i v i ng g account of themselves over the battle line in I'm flee. Since April 14 when they first took the air in offensive op- erations, they have shot down at least 83 enemy planes and themselIes lost only seven. Volunteer recruit. to the mindier of no.000 for Immediate set -tire sill Ii the Irish divisions lire asked for by the lord lieutenant of Ireland in a proc. lamation. After this recruitment 2.- 000 to 3,4100 men t((('( lily are asked for to maintain the Irish divisious. Legis- lation giving land to men ii 110 fight for their tiotintry is promised in the proclamation. Sign Gets Him 10 Years. Seattle. Wash.. June 4.-Em ii Her- man of Everett. \ash.. secretary of the Socialist party of the state of \Vashington. yesterday was sentenced to serve ten years at the federal peni- tentiary at Mt -Neil island for violation of the espionage art. M.11111111, the government aileged„ permitted to be posted in his office a eircular which read: \Don't be a SOlilier; be II man.\ ANTI -WAR DISORDERS ^ ARE INCREASING IN AUSTRIA LADY vigil:lilt:DA !may Drogheda. alto is au ardent aviattrix, is in lids eolit,•1 to raise f Is for her 111;11/ NI al' cliti Iles, I nly recently 1.71.1. Itriogionla held an aviation ill prObilit:r \X'.11 le it here. She WI'Sa 111.11 1,1 liElliall11-%Viale. 1 . 111111 alma' she learned the 1111III:i itotricacies of the airplane. This is her most re- cent ietograph. EXPECT GERMAN FLEET TO GIVE BATTLE SOON U. S. and Great Britain Preparing Side by Side. -Our Navy Has 419,000 Officers and Men. New Yoek. June 3.- The Faded hats a large ninither tif first chi- , battleship , . \preptiring side by side with best Attics of the British tat iv for an en:4711giiiment 4111 the high seas which is explainsi to occur at tiny time with the lier1111111 ricer,\ to:cording to a Silliella.111 ill 1111 address here last night by Rear Ad- niiritl Albert la1.11VPS. '1 alit 1101 going beyond the border limo of secreey. - Ileriar, .1 Admiral Illeortes, \Wilell I S:1:. lila! 11 few days age there came 3111 11 1111 to the heads of the British navy that lile CW11111111 %sere abotit lo I -0111e out ion Ihe eNpecteil ',no:agent...III on Ilie !MOW lill the‘ilrlikh navy glisc the first class Americatt battleships n post of lioemr In prepara- tion for the•attack. 'I know that our %MPS lalW work- ing with the Ili Push limy in making ready for this fight ar.• in the prime of condition mei full) prepared to win the engagement. have ttlimit j:4i ves- sels iotir there 11..V\ ii11 , 1ui s' 14 . 11 .1;5.000 tint' 10,000 Melt adman' them. - Adenind Glens . .., said that \we now 'lave 11 navy .of P.I.011et of flo.00rs hind more than 400.01K1 men. u.r ii Ilavy fotir times greater than it is as Just loefore we en- . owed the wilt . ,\ Asked if tiny method hail been Ile- vised to'ilestroy an oncoming torpedo. Admiral Cleaves replied: \Practically none.\ Asked bow near to (air shores German summit - Ines hail tipprottcheil. he referred his gam:Goner to the sec- retary of the navy. Report Idlers Says Crowder. NVashington. Junc 4.--itilles for the enforcement of Prevost Ilairshal Gen- eral Crowder's \wiirk or fight\ regu- lations, call on all eitizeils to report to the nearest hold draft board names of men us - hip are Imbitually bile or who are employed toomproductively. Each local hoard is ere:deli into what will be practically a court to sit probably weekly to decitte such eases as may be 'brought before It. ATLANTIC PORTS PROTECTED. NVtishington. 4. -Members of the house naval committee were /IS - purr(' by Secretary Daniels late ye sr- tr:illay that Atlantic coast defenses against submarines were adequate and it would be unnecessary to repel] vessels from the war zone to deal with etibinarines on this side. The imeretary said the purpose of the Ger- mans evidently Wns to frighten the A Inerlentl people into demanding the return of some Of their navel force - • . v abroad. RED CROSS WAR FUND IS $56.439,291 OVER QUOTA NVashington. June 3. -The American Red Cross second ear mercy funil tons . totals $160,439.201. with indications that when all reports from the drive of a week ago are tabulated a $70.- 000.000 oversubscription of the $100,- 000.000 gottl will be shown. In announcing these figures, Henry I'. I tavison. chairman ik the Red Cross nor council. said the returns show that nuore'than 47.000.000 Americans. nearly half of the teital population of the country, contributed. Those giving to the first fund last year numbered only five million. Not only did every Red ci:oss divi- sion ill the vountry oversubscribe. hut oto- -Alm gulf - turned ill 111..1 . e than three times the amount of its (Viola, while five others. the Atlantic. north- ern. northwestern. southern and south- western, more than ilimbled their al- lotments. 'rile states tripling their quota were Alabama, Mississippi, IVyoming, Ari- zona and Smith mill those more Gum doubling their allotment were New Jerse3. comtecticut, Nebras- ka, Limisimet. colorado. New Mexico, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wash- ington. idalut. Del:twerp, West Virgin- ia. Tennessee, Texas and ii:nrisas. Alaska turned in more than fottelitnes Its quota. TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE. New Redford. Mats,, June 4. -The textile mills of this city, empinying 35,00u operatives. were shut down yes- terday in tionsequenee of a genensil strike ealled by the textile council. One-third of the operatives here been engaged on government contracts. The mill glites were opened at the 'Mani time: Operatives took their clothing and personal belongings anti went sway whimut any demonstration. There was no picketing by any of the mployes. 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.--Sisires of Unit- ed Sillies Were riinging the waters off the north At mull,' elitist last night searching few . the t Written Alb- in!! 111111il• 101114 ex - peeled attaek oil Alma - Wan shipping in Mime waters late Sunday afternoon. Nine vessels Well. knosvit last night to have been stink by G1'11111111 S111111111 - rim,: off the north Atlantic coast since May 25. The inrgest to fall prey to Gm raid- ers, ehielt ins. seeking to prevent the sailing of transports with troops for the hat ii l,'fI,'Id if France. watt the New York & Porto litter Carolina, of 8,0on tens. us hien was attacked Sun- day night about P.:5 miles southeaSt of Sandy Illook. The fate of her 220 pas- sengers and crew of 13o. who took to the limits when shells begim to fall nimitt the vessel, is still miknewn, but there wits hope that they had been picked up by smile -piassitig ship or isiumulul reach shore safely iti the small boats. Ni it it life Was lost ill the sink- ing of the other ships, al -cording to lute reports. Besides the Carolina. the known vic- tims of the L' -boats nre lit,' tanker Her- bert I.. Pratt. the steamship Whittle - dumb. of 1,8110 tons, and six schooners the largest of which were the Haute pituge. ti new ship of 1.00141 tonsr and the II. Ode. 'rho 'wens of these eight vessels have liven landed at At- lantic ports. Mutt ii ,ns iontOldlt ashore' by the sur- vivors indicated that the Winnieconnie anti nearly all the schooners were sunk by the Saila' U-boat alibih hail been lurking in the path of shippine off the NPW Jersey eun,l and Delaware ropes sinee late last moutft. The stories told by the skippers of the schooners Indi- cate that the commanders of the sub- mersibles were tmusttally humane for German submitrine offieers, lit no in- stance. so fnr as known.. was it lifeboat shelled anti in all isi,tes reported the ereWs were glVion opportatilly Ii, es- cape or were taken aboard tile subma- rine where some of them Were kept prisoner for eight <buys before they Uere turned sidrift to be pieked up by a passing vessel. Another Reported Sunk. The SfiV11 I111/1 iille steamship City of f'olundots is reilorted to have been sunk, hut no definite news of her fat,. has been rereived. \iflint survivor,: of C-liont bauks weroo brought to an Atlantic- port last 'night on II Sle11111Sitill su - Ihlehi lull - loll !heal 111/ from small boats. Will Stop Menace. The navy threw at veil of wartime secrecy about the steps it Was taking lii voilliteract the Menace of the sea pirates. hut Seeretary Daniels made the untu fliletul announcement that meas- ures had been (taken to meet the dan- ger to shipping. While the details of literal operations were withheld, it is known that de- stroyers. fleets of submarine chasers and other vessels are flashing their searchlights over the waters along tile coast and far out at seat front Maiate to Florida. Air Black With Planes Hydro airplani-s and airplanes aro , e like flocks of huge birds from h‘ ,.! - y station along the Atlantic coast when the warning was flashed to titem anti were soon scouting over the Iors where it wits believed submarities would be most likely to be lurking. Foreign avielors and Amerlean ste. dents as well its the reenter Amerlisin flyers, eagerly voluttleered for service. More than it hundred airplanes and dirigible imilootts left Hazeliturst I. ation field alone on scout duty. Nut r. all the aircraft were manned 1.y regular army aviators. They eircisl over Long Island sound and off the Atlantic from Sandy Hoek to the ea -t- ern extremity of Long Island. Use Training Machines. In their flights yesterday the air. era ft were not armed. but in a short time Wiii he equipped with bomb drop. ping equipment nial 11111chille guns. The machines pressed into patrol senice had been used for training 'file Clyde line officials are win: ied about the safety of the steamship Mo- !mirk of that hue whieh left a soutlewn port yesterday afternoon with tipprox- 'mutely 250 passengers. No word ,‘ as iecelved from her yesterday and it is 1 . 011f41(1(1111 1/OSSIblf. situ. might have been lit the path of the elieftly subma- rines. 17,000 POLES ENTER TRENCHES, Washington, June 3. -Word retwhed here yesterdny from li'rtinee that the polish legion of 15.(1414) men recruited In the United Slates, t.igether uith SOine 2,000 Poles draW11 America], will take its Wave with the allied armies tomorrow. Though they serve with the French army as a sep- arate unit, the Poles will enrry their own maroon flag with its silver eagle and, some of lite companies from the United States will display the Stars and Stripes as well. Au,tiian Flag Pulled Down by Bohe• itoans. - -,Barracks and City Hall Fired by Angry Mobs. .inne 1.-ltiots and internal disorder , of all kinds are increasing iii Bete-oda. A N'ie llllll newspaper says that n hat Is happening Miley in Bohe- mia resembles the Lombardi anti Vene- tian uprisings in 1848 except that today the empire is hampered by her engage- ments in a war from which Ate does tel St4. H ‘Vlly h11 . 1'Sra t 43107.1.11 (.111w,k. exasperated by bruttility, set fire to the barracks amI to the city ball, where the mounted penis.. were lodged. Eight of the orri- e,,rs were burned to death. At Kolln tIt,' temple pulled down the Austrian flag alai raised the Bohemian flag. Public buildings inive been burned at Talmo . and other towns in ilithemitt and Ho I uiiittut,i. Nforaviti. At Prague the .iffices of the G1'1111:111 IIPWSIII1PPI% the %dating and Neuve Nachrichten, were sacked. The Prague correspondent of the Sint gut t N4arre Nuehrieliten tele- graphed to his paper that the events o r la s !' week at Prague exeeeded in gravity all the previous demonstra- tion , . The Neu Frele I'ressesof Vienna ap- peals to iult conservative elements for the preservation of the Austrian state. asserting that \only the tenacity and union of those who desire tile preserva- tion of the st:tte can initke the mon- archy survive this great crisis.\ The rrotian press reports that mar- tial taw has been proclaimed in Bo- hemia. that rioting hits occurred in vain,31is towns. ENEMY ALIEN HELD FOR CAUSING ST. LOUIS FIRE St, Lollig, JIllie 3.-.1rtny officials express the belief that the mysterlims fire that did $1,000,000 Mintage at two wareloauses at the United States itr- stand here early Sunday morning wits of German origin. Amato Itionjack, 23 years old. , an Austrian alien enemy. was arrested shortly lifter the fire started when he all to vattit the fence surround- ing the gin eminent reservation. He denied 1:11111Wledge 'of the ft re's origin and said he attempted to climb the six flee stockade to watch the blaze. Ile is belti without bond for the fed- eral authorities. The warehouses are used for the storage hf goods ready for Immedlute dispatch OVerSeas.. Fairbanks Growing Weaker. Indianapolis, Junk( 3.-4'llarles Fairbanks. who Is ill at his home here. lolt ground continunily yesterday anol no belle is T1OW entertained for his recovery ity his (Vet' physician. The physieiati stales that the former vice president's condithin 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. $16.40t.16 60: light butchers, $16.601216.80; prime heavy, $16.450 16.60; heavy packing, $169)16 35; rough heavy, $15.50h15.85: se- lected light, $18.75h 16.90; medium and light. mixed. 316.4111, 16.65; bulk, $16.50/) 16.70: pigs, $16.25017. Cattle. Receipts. 15.000. Beef steers and butcher stock. steady; calves active. Sheep: Receipts 12.000 head. Market weak. Western lambs. bidding 10c to 25c lower; spring Iambs receipts double decks of Californias and off natives. Fair good Californias. $19. Natiye yearlings and wethers, market weak. Omaha Livestock. Omaha, June 4. -Hogs, Receipts, 4,600. Market mostly 15e higher. Heavvy. $16.40 e16.45; mixed. $16.45et16.55; light. $16.50 ((16.60; pigs. $120 16; bulk, $16.45h16.55. Cattle: Receipts 4.600. Market steady. Native steers. $12.25h 17.40; cows and heif- ers, $9.501i 14; western steers, $9.50fit 12.50; cows and heifers. $7,509,50; canners, $7.50h 13; calves, $8412.50; bulls, stags, etc., $80 12.50. Sheep: Receipts 4.300. Market strong. Lambs, $15.7591 19.60; yearlings. *16th' 17.50:: wethera, $14.50016.50; ewes, $100 13. St. Paul Livestock. St. Paul, June 4. -Hogs: Receipts 5.- 100. Market steady. Range, $16.10016.20; bulk. 316.15016.20. Cattle. Receipts. 2,900. Killers steady. Steers. I7.60017; cows and heifers. $80 14; veal °elves, steady, $7013.25; stockers and feeders, steady, $6.50q11. Sheep: Receipts 60. Market steady. Lambs, $10Q18; wethera, $7@13.50; ewes, 16613. Chicago Grain, Chicago, June 4. -Corn: No. 2 yellow, $1.68; No. 3 yellow, $1.57; No, 4 yellow, $1.32f) 1.42. Oats: No. 3 white, 72V72%c; standard, 724aly73N,e. Rye: No. 2, nominal; No. 3, nominal; No. 4, $1.53. Batley: $1.26. Thnothy: $568. Clover: $18V28. Minneapolis Grain, Minneapolis, June 4. -Wheat: Receipts, 208 cars, compared with 297 cars a year ago. Corn: No. 3 yellow, $1.45e1.55. Oats: No. 3 white, 69 1 / 2 9/70 11 ,ic. Flax: $3.66(23.68. Flour: Unchanged. Shipmente,' 40,- 676 barrels. 41.65Q1.68. Barley: 93c0$1.20. SHOPMEN . ASK THAT NEW WAG t SCALE BE REVISED Washington, June 4.-Itepresenta• Oyes of 500,000 raliwny Atop men yes- terday nicked the railroad administra. Hon not to put into effect the new wage settle without upward revision for their crafts, saying great dissatisfac- ttOn would be created, and intimating that it might lie impossible to avoid many strikes. They urged speedy ac- tIon to revise the settle in order to pre- vent employes from going to shipyards within the next week or two. WILLIAM L. FRIERSON lliant I. Drierson, the assistant nItorney general whom Attorney Gen- eral Gregory appointed to investigate charges against the management of United States aireratft work. lie Is ii 1111 Chattanooga. Tepti., and has the reputntion of belog IL careful lawyer. FOUR - LARGEST EXPRESS COMPANIES CONSOLIDATED Government Will Take 56 1 % Per Cent of Revenues for Transpor- tation Prjvileges. liVasitington, May 31. ---One union ex- press 10111p:1113' for the United Stotes was created yesterday by agreement between Direettir Getterql Nit-Adoo tool the Adams, American, YVells-Fargo and Southern companies, tr1111:411qr- tat ion 1111ShIPSS will be 111l.rgeli under a new private ciirporation within cap- ital of more than $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 1 when the combination becomes effective, shippers will di- reet shipments \by express\ without regard to company, and soon there- after the individual names of the sep- arate companies will begin to distip- liear from wagons, stations alai ears. The eontimny will be the express car- rying ageney of the operated privately, but under contract to tprn over 50 1 4 per cent of their gross reve- nues -more than $200,(X.10.000 lust ye:1r -to the 'skids for transportatien privi- leges. Three smaller railroad owned companies. the Westeril. Great North- ern find Northern, may Join tile com- bination later. t\OFILD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM Federal courts hills,' no jurisdiction over tile selective drat bonrciS\. the Ended Slides supreme court, in effect, has decided, In denying mandamus pro- ceedings to have an order of a local board in Alilwankee reviewed. * The president of the Bolshevikl com- missioners in the Don Cossack coun- try has been bonged by anti-soviet Cos - sticks, according to a Reuter dispatch from Nloscow. Ile was tile chief or- gatnizer of the Cossack movement op- posed to General Kaledities. * Dr. Ramon Valdez, president of the republic of Panatna 4 is dead. * An exhibition of \German art anti Imam . \ Is to be opened in Constontin- °pie this spring, itccording-,to u dis- patch from Amsterdam. The scheme__ is financed by funds provided by the German propaganda department. Informal disapproval of rivet driv- ing contests which hits been expressed by some union men Is receiving atten- tion of the shipping hoard. Officials, however,' are not yet convinced that the contests are detrimental to pro- AluctIOn IIS the union men claim. * Or 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 ills - pa tiAled by internal Revenue Commis- sioner Roper to examine neeounts of coal operators in \Vest Virginin. 9Itio and Pennsylvania to ascertain whether any changes should lie made. * Only 600 professed ennscientious ob- jectors litive been reported among the 1,300,000 men called for militnry serv- ice tinder the drnft, Seeretary Baker states. This proportion of one objector to 2,000 fighters will be reduced still further when the bon rd of Inquiry ap- .pointed by President Wilson to exam Me into each case has reported. * Swedish reports tell of the destrue- tion of a Zeppelin that Was shot down off .the Jutland mast by it British tor- pedo boat destroyer. The crew of the airship was drowned. 4,000 MEN IN THE JUNE HAFT CALL LOCAL BOARDS MUST TILL QUO- TAS ONLY WITH MEN IN CLASS ONE. NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY --- State Chemist . Coblelgh Says Montana Law Regarding Gasoline Is Obsii. lete on Account of Changes in Refining Methods, lielena.-1'wo draft ealls have lie' 'it reetnved by Adjutant General G1%4.11;111. (1111. is rat' 4,0011 men to entrain for Camp Lewis during the five-day period beginning Jinn. 24. 111111 the other i:ot for 103 grammar school)] graduates who) have had Seale eXPeliellee lines and aptitude for mechanical wiwk to take 11 Sill.- Plall'Se for three months at 111:1 ill Illeei1111111'4, radiou operaPng and blaci:sinititing, hoident to military SerVire at lite front and behind the lines. This last call may Ii,' filled by volutitary induction. The aillittilieltis by counties will be Made. later. Only white men and men physically I ualified for general militury SerVire are to be furnished Maier Idle 1./Iii fel' 4.001. \TiliS Pail,\ reads the tele- gram. \must be filled front Men is lilt' iii l'hisn I lout not exceeded. .11,tke any you deem necessary to meet local conditions. If practil:- !OOP tile • 111 . 11ViSiallS tiLt hug t,i men atetively. completely and assiduously engage') in the planting and cultiva- tion of crops should be complied stub. RAI If a lomat board is tumble to fill its allotment 11 . 41111 within Chiss '1. it will prioceial to select such farnoc.., Iii its judgment can best be sparvoi.\ The eall for the 103 men to talk; the special course at Bozeman Will lie filled by voluntary Induction until June after which It must lie filled by In- voluntary induction. The men will re- port at itozonann June IS. * * * Masons Form War Council. Creation if a state-wide :Masonic (war council has, been announced here. floivernor 'Sam V. Stewart is made ad - Visor to the council, which is commistal of representatises of every (annoy. with a eminitittee ttt large composed of past grand Masters reSidllig Ili the Stine. There Will lie it grand lodge war relief fund, to be disloursed by the new conned. The member of the e. lllll /al ltl ench county - will have general su- pervision of lodges in that enmity, as regards war work, lbw of the iturpose4 Is rigid enformi. mem of stalitiott and sabotag 1:1‘‘s„ na- tional and state, and all Orliel'S of domi- cil- of defense. nallimal and state. The influence of the fraternity, it is 11 H- alal need, is ill se east against till sus- pension or industrial activity during I ie war. The Maisons tinder this new conned . will support all nail* activities, espeehilly Ill,' sale of Liberty loimis: :Ind Thrift stamps. 'Fite temporary council. to sit midi tile next meeting; of the grand lodge. ilaS been . natimal. * * * Montana Gasoline Test Is Obsolete. Montana law requiring that gas- oline shall test not less than .03 spe- cific gravity is it bark number. accord- ing to Ii report State Chemist AV. colileigh has made to Secretary oif State C. '1'. Stewart. lie points mit I hat the Shell flu' gravity test wits all right with straight refinery gasoline but IlOW gEIS011ne Is also Made hy the blended Mid synthetic process. Ile says the Bennie test may give a higher ratiog to a poor, and a low ratIng to a gond gaPolint.. It,' revoillinentIS the deportment of chemistry be given ti ditince to inves- tigate . gasolitte on Nioutima market' -a to supply the technicul 'information It Which legislation anti subsequent regulations can be based. Color, acid- ity 11111i volatIllty are more important Ginn specific gravity. he says. * * * Ford Wants Free Speech. Attorney fleneral S. ('. Ford hag sent a).etter to the state couneil of tiefea . r. 1 calling upon the latter to co- operate with him in securing to Now partisan league organizers anti speak- ers. aud everybody else. the right of free speech mut to make public lob dresses in the state. iind charging that ntembers of county councils have been among those persons who have denied free speech and prevented men front itilt king addresses. * * * Bowman Finds Crops Are Good. E. K. Bowman. chairman of the state n tmard of hail insuranee commis- sioners, who has just returned, from Ii trip through northern rind eastern Montana, says crop conditions . were never looking better. Mr. Bowman saki he wns particularly impressed by the fact thud the ground was in unusually good mud It Ion. • * Governor Names Thrift Day. flovernor Sion V. Stewart, In a for. 011th proclamation. has Set the Week Of June 28 in Montana for a drive for War Savings end Thrift saamps, call- ing upon the people \to enlist in the valiant army of production, through the medium of membership of wttr savings societies. denying themselves every noteessential find devoting ever)' possible resouree to the purchase of our government's seetwities, and thus making more sure the elleCeSSfUl ter- mination of the conflict.\ Si 4 4 4 .s S
