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ROUND IIP SHIRKERS. DAY OF GRACE FOR THOSE WHO FAILED TO REGISTER HAS PASSED. Provost Marshal General Crowder Or? ders the Arrest of Every Man Who Evaded Registration for Military Services-States Must Furnish Fall Washington, June 11.?The period I of leniency ended tonight for men be? tween the ages of 21 and 30, inclu? sive, who failed to register for the war army last Tuesday. Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder sent to the governors of all the States a message asking them "to inaugurate from tomorrow a vigorous, aggressive and effective enforcement of the penal c ause of the selective service law against all who have, by their failure to register, brought themselves under the provisions." The penalty for failure to register on June 6 is Imprisonment for a year and enforced registration, but Gen. Crowder immediately after reg? istration day, recommended that local boards provide further opportunity for delinquents. The department of Justice today notified United States at? torneys to release those already ar? rested for fallere to register provid? ing they have now registered. Gen. Crowder has nearly completed a draft of regulations to govern ex? emptions and exemption boards, and expects to lay It before Secretary Baker In a few days for approval. The general believes no class should be exempted a* such, but that local boards should decide on the circum? stances in each individual case. He favors use of some device such as a Jury wheel for drawing the names of those to be examined by the exemp? tion boarda The regulations will be made public In detail after Secretary Baker and President Wilson approve them. A few more States reported regis? tration totals to the provost marshal general's office today but Indications were that all would not be completed for nearly a week. Gen. Crowder's message to gover? nors said: "? "Quotas are to be assigned to the several States in proportion to the pop? ulation as determined by the bureau of the census and not in proportion to the registration. The result is that eVery person who has failed to regis? ter Is seriously increasing the burden of those who have registered. "It is requested that every effort be now made to detect and arrest persons subject to registration who ha*re not registered and to bring each promptly to the attention of the nearest repre? sentative of the department of justice. Care should be taken that the lists prescribed In paragraph 39 (men reg? istered) are promptly posted and all i registrants should be asked to assist in- bringing non-r ?giatrants to the at? tention of the police." Among States reporting so far Ohio stands first in the proportion of regis? tration to the census estimate with 118 per cent Washington is the low? est State with 50.9 per cent. . When the provost marshal general's office closed tonight 33 States had sent In complete returns. They showed a total registration of 6,368.388, com? pared to census allotments totaling 7,068.482. The returns during the day about kept up the percentage of pre? vious reports and predictions as to the grand total that would be shown by alt the States?from 9,000,000 to 9, 860,000. In the 33 States reporting the white registrations were 4,817,980, colored 830.586. aliens 4*2.439, and alien enemies 68.304. The possible exemp? tions Indicated were 3,439,527. PRISON' FOR SLACKER. School Teacher Sent to Prison for One Tec*. New York. June 13.?Federal Judg? Chatfleld, in Brooklyn, imposed a pen? itentiary sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days on Herman P. Levin e, a school teachor and college graduate, for not registering under tile selective draft law. PROHIBITION BILL APPROVED. Senate Committee Agrees on New Food Bill. Washington, June 13.?The senate agricultural committee today ordered reported the new bill which would prohibit the manufacture of food sup? plies Into intoxicating beverages, both distilled spirits and malt liquors, dur? ing the war. \ PICTURES OF PRESIDENTS. Will Adorn the Liberty loan Bonds. Washington, June 12.?The likeness of the various presidents from Wash? ington to McKinley will grace the new Liberty bonds, which are being en? graved in various colors, according to denomination. The bonds will be thirteen by six inches and printed on distinctive silk fibre paper. Wim THE BICH. LODGE AND PEN ROSE SECURE RADICAL CHANGES IN WAR REVENUE BULL. Provision Increasing Surtax en In? comes Over $40,000 Stricken Out? Special Tax Upon War Munitions Profits to Be Repealed. _ Washington, June I).?."tadical changes in the income tax section of the house war tax bill previously agreed to tentatively were finally approved today by the senate Inance committee. The retroactive tix on 1916 incomes designed to raise $108, 000,000 and the so-called I/eriroot amendments increasing surtaxen on in? comes of more than $40,000, to bring in about $66,000,000, were stricken out. The committee spent the entire day on the income section. At adjourn? ment a proposal by Senators I'enrose and Lodge for further reduciion of surtaxes on Incomes over $40,000 war pending. Important amendments regarding income taxation of corporations' stock dividends and receipts from subsidiary corporations were adopted. Stock dividends, the committee proposes, shall be taxed the amount of earnings on profits so distributed, in accord? ance with the present treasury c epart ment practice. To prevent double in? come taxation of corporation profits, it was decided to exempt fron tax? ation income received by a holding or other corporation from another cor? poration upon which the income tax has once been paid. Formal approval was given an amendment to repeal the present spe? cial tax of 12 1-2 per cent, upon war munitions. Most of the day's debate centered upon the Penrose-Lodge proposal to further reduce surtaxes on incomes of more than $40,000. EVADING REGISTRATION LAW. Alleged That High Powered Cars Bear Licenses Intended for Ford Automobiles. Columbia, June 13.?Violations of the autombile license law have been reported to the State highway depart? ment. It is charged that licenses for Fcrd automobiles are being used on cars of larger make. Capt. J. Roy Pennell, State high? way engineer, called the attention of tho alleged violations to the attor? ney general's office and the follow? ing opinion was rendered: "Replying to your verbal requost of the 11th inst, in which you state that it has been brought to your at? tention that certain parties are pur? chasing automobile licenses for Ford cars and using th^m on cars of higher horse power and for which an increased license would be re? quired, and ask to be advised ts to what procedure should be taken to abate this practice, I beg to acvlse that by reference to section 10 of the highway act you will see that any person or persons who, after the pas? sage of the act, fall or refuse to reg? ister their cars as provided in the act shall be deemed guilty of a mis? demeanor and shall upon conviction, be punished by fine (of not more than $25 or imprisonment for not n orc than 16 days for each offense. "If, as stated by you, certain par? ties are avoiding the payment of a full license fee on the car or cars owned by them by registering them under the name of some other car or lower horsepower, then they are vio? lating the terms of section 10 of J.he act and are subject to the penalties therein provided. The punishment being a tine not in excess of $25 or imprisonment for not more than IS days would place the offense within the Jurisdiction of a magistrate and prosecutions for violation of this sec? tion should be brought in magistrate courts." ARRIVING IN FRANCE. Ambulance Drivers and Nurses La nd at Boulogne. Boulogne, June 12.?Another in? stallment of the vanguard of the American army has arrived in France in the form of one hundred and fifty ambulance drivers and soventy-lUe nurses. They were enthusiastically cheered by crowds that greeted thorn on the quay. 17-159 SHOT TO PIECES. Found Disabled by Spanish Torpedo Boat and Towed to Cadi/.. Cadiz, Spain, June 11.?A Spanish torpedo boat discovered German sub? marine U-1&2 disabled from gun shots, which struck the engines. The sub? marine was towed Into Cadiz, where it will t?e interned. PKRSH1NG IN FRANCE. Commander of American Army Will Reach Paris Tonight. Paris. June 13.? Gen. Pershlnp landed at Boulogne ti is morning and I will arrive in Paris tonight. CAMP CONTRACT AWARDED. COLI MRUS <GA.) FI KM TO ERBOT BUILDINGS FOR COLUMBIA CANTONMENT. Provided That House- for Soldiers Who Will he Quartered Near Capi? tal City Must be Ready fur Occu? pancy by First of September. Washington, June 11.?The war de? partment today awarded the contract for the Columbia cantonment to the Hardaway Construction company o: Columbus, Ga., and that for Atlanta to Arthur Tufts of Atlanta. These contracts call for houses o. both one and two stories in construc? tion which will accommodate approx? imately 30,000 men and must 1? completed in every way and ready for occupancy on September 1. The basis for remuneration which the contractors will receive will bi 8 per cent, on the aggregate of con struction, and as stated here toda> it is impossible to sa; at this time what this final cost will be. The awarding of the Columbia con? tract now eliminates any element of doubt that might possibly have been lingering since the plans of the war department for the various canton? ments were 3omewhat changed two weeks ago. Immediately the construction com? pany will begin its work or construc? tion near Columbia what in itself will be a good sized city and every? thing will be rushed toward comple? tion. INDIAN BUYS LIBERTY BONDS. Jackson Baniett, Creek Tribe, Sub? scribes $?10,000 in Bonds. Washington, June 11.?Jackson Barnett, reputed to be the wealthiest Indian in the United States, today subscribed $640.000 to liberty loan bonds through his guardian, Carl J. O'Hornett, of Henrietta, Okla. Sec? retary Lane's ruling that Barnett, who is a ward of the government, might do this, opens the way to many In? dian subscriptions. Larnett, a full-blooded son of a Creek chieftain, derived his wealth from oil land near Tulsa, Okla., which he at first indignantly rejected, de? claring the tract fit only for coyottei and jack rabbits and in no wise suit? ed to an Indian who merely wanted to fish and hunt as he pleased. The discovery of oil and the lease of Bar nett't land made the Indian a rnil lionalre?he had $755,893 cash on de? posit May 1 last?but he was unable to handle his financial affairs and a guardian was appointed for him. Barnett has never accepted more than fir- a month of his income and shows little interest in the size of hi? fortune. Last year he paid an income tax estimated at $50,000. Archbishop Mundelein, of Chicago, has subscribed $10,000 to liberty bonds personally and issued a statement In which he declares that he wants to "demonstrate to the people of Cri cago, and especially to the Catholics, that the church considers it a positive duty to assist this nation in every way possible In gratitude for the peace and liberty which the church has en? joyed in the United States." He has recommended that every congrega? tion in his diocese take at least $100 of the bonds. LETTER FROM THE FRONT. A Fighter Writes to Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. "Would have written you long ago, but it has been decidedly inconvenient. "Following up our notable success of April 9th wo gave Frits a good I punch on the nose on the 28th, driv? ing him back 150 yards * ? * when if you please Fritz lane's a 12-inch arm? or piercing shell on our billet at 5.51 in the morning completely demolish? ing it and burying us?miraculous cs cape!" This young fighter was resurrected and put in the hospital for two weeks, but could not be kept there Now be Is eager to be at the enemy again. Think of it?he is fighting for you and it takes only one $.r>00 subscrip? tion to care for him for one year? buy the bond?quick! The banks will help you. BRITISH HOLD GAINS. German Counter-Attacks Fail to Dis? lodge Them From Positions. The British south of Messlnes suc? cessfully withstood German counter? attacks on the positions they won yes? terday below Lens and on both sides of the Bouches river, British artillery and machine guns drove hack the Get mans, The British also spent the night making scenic the advance they scored yesterdaj In the two mile front easi and northeast of Messines. Then was little activity on the French front except by the artillery. One million tons of plates wiii.b* required to carry out the government'* program for the building of :',,noO,r1on tors of steel shlpa RIGID INQUIRY ORDERED. SENATE COMMITTEE WILL THY TO ASCERTAIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH FUSES. Effort Will also be Made to Find Out \ Who Betrayed Confidential Infor? mation of Ordnance Bureau. Washington, June 12.?The senate naval committee will rigidly inves? tigate the charges that the type of detonating fuse used in navy shells is inferior. Secretary Daniels announc? ed that he had directed Rear Admiral Earle, chief o:: the ordnance bureau, and his two immediate assistants, to appear before the committee. The sec? ond phase of the Inquiry will be to discover how certain high confidential information of the ordnance bureau became known. E. V. GREEN GOES TO XEW YORK. Resigns Ills Position In Chattanooga to Accept Place in Jas. II. Dunham Company. Chattanooga, Tenn. News. E. V. Green, manager of the whole ?fl le department of Miller Uros. cniu pany, has resigned his connection with this company after seven years of service to take charge of the job department of the James H. Dunham company, one of the oldest and largest dry goods houses in the United States Prior to coming to Chattanooga, Mi Green was for eleven years one of the department heads of Miller Baineyer company, a large dry goods jobbing concern of Philadelphia, Mr. Green left Thursday for New York, accompanied by his family, having given up his residence on Fort Wood. During the seven years of res? idence in Chattanooga Mr. Green and his family formed some pleasant friendships, their departure proving a source of regret to these friends ufl well as his business associates. COTTON CROP NOT LARGE. Smallest Hub URccption of Last Year's Since 1909. Washington, June 12.?According to a bulletin about to be issued by th^ bureau of the census, the American cotton crop of 1916?1 1.449,980 equiv? alent 500 pound bales?showed a slight increase as compared with the pre? ceding year but with that exception was the smallest since 1909. The crop of 1916 exceeded that of 1915 by about 258,000 bales but fell below that of 1914?the largest ever grown?by 4,686,000 baleB, or 29 pe. cent. The production in Alabama. Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina fell be? low that reported for 1915, while the remaining States show increases. By far the most pronounced decrease took place In Alabama, in which State the 1916 crop, amounting to 533,402 bales was only a little more than half as great as that of the preceding year, 1,020.839 bales. The sea island cotton crop of 1916? 117,579 running bales?was the larg? est on record, with the single excep? tion of the crop of 1911, which ex? ceeded it by 1.74 3 bales . Althouuh cotton is grown in IS States, the combined product of three ?Texas. Georgia and Arkansas, the only States which produce more than a million bales each In 1916?repre? sented nearly three-lifths of the total crop of that year. Texas alone re? ported 3,725,700 bales, or nearly one third of the total crop. FRENCH TRANSPORT SI NK. German Submarine Destroys ship and Drowns Hundred and Ninety. Paris. June 13.?The liner Se quana, carrying five hundred and fifty passengers, torpedoed and sunk in At? lantic with the loss of one hundred and ninety men. Among the pas? sengers was a detachment of Senegals ritles. Tlie Sequana was formerly the City of Corinth, owned by the South At? lantic Navigation company of Paris. The ship was four hundred and thirty feet long and a gross tonnage of 557. MUNITION FACTORY WRECKED. serious Accident in French Automo? bile Works. Paris, June 13.? An accident is an? nounced in one of the principal auto? mobile factories, which i* making mu? nitions, a large number of work? men were wounded. No details ar? given. COUNCIL BUYS BONDS. Benneitsville Municipal Body Invests In Liberty Bonds. BennettSVllle, June 12.- The city council of Benneitsville today voted t? buy |600 worth of Liberty bonds. The ca uncll consists of L J. Breeden, mayor, and T. B. McLttUrln, T. B. Mc Call. F. 0. Ilollls, B. D. Moore, alder? men. , PtfWT PIPEM HIST. TRADE COMMISSION M IKES RE* POUT TO SENATE. Print Paper Manufacturer* in Com bine to Squeeze $35,000,000 Out 0 Newspaper!?Plan to Fix Reason able Price Fails. Washington, June 13.?The pooling of news print paper production and importation under a government agency for its distribution to publish? ers at a price providing a fair profit to the manufacturers is recommend? ed by the federal trade commission in reporting Its investigation of the paper industry. The commission als'> suggested that the government seek to induce Canada to establish a sim? ilar agency to cooperate with the American pool. In the letter transmitting the re? port to the senate, which ordered the investigation, the commission declared that if the 1916 consumption of paper is equalled this year the cost to con? sumers will be $35,000,000 more than last year, and one-half this will rep? resent additional profits to the man? ufacturers. The report said the vol? untary agreement with mnnufa.ctu.reiv for the distribution of paper at mod? erate prices failed because there :s no law to enforce the plan, and ex? orbitant prices are still being charged The situation is serious. CONTRACTS FOR WOODEN SHIPS. Goethals Arranges for Building of Sixteen Vessels, Making Total Now Eighty. Washington, June 12.?Contracts for construction of 16 wooden ships were let today by Maj. Gen. Goethals, general manager of the shipping hoard's emergency fleet corporation Ten went to Sanderson & Porter, a New York concern, and six to the Maryland Ship Building company of Baltimore. The corporation has let contracts altogether now for 80 ships complete and 24 wooden hulls. ,Of the complete ships 30 arc wooden, 18 steel and 32 composite. CONSCRIPTION IN CANADA. Compulsory Military Service Rill Pre? sented by Premier. Ottawa, June 11.?A bill for com? pulsory military service by Canadians between the ages of twenty and forty five years was presented in the house of commons today by Sir Robert Bor? den. The premier said that on January 1, 1915,, when he had authorlezd the en? listment of 600,000 men for overseas service the offer was taken as a pledge that the number would be raised. Un? der the voluntary system more than 400,000 men had been raised, he de? clared. Lately the number of men volun? teering had fallen off, while the de? mand for men Increased, Sir Robert explained. To date Canadians had suffered casualties to the number of 99,000. In April and May, last, 11. 7f*0 men had been enlisted in Canada, while there had been 17..122 casual? ties among Canadians at the front. There were under arms enough Ca? nadians to supply reniforcements for soms time to come, but for military reasons he could not say how long. But during the next seven months to keep four Canadian army divisions in the Held the enlistment of 70,000 men was needed, to keep five division:, in the Held 84,000 men were needed, tlfl pointed out. There w.is a greater number Of suitable men in Canada and it had been decided they should be brought to arms by compulsion. Ml'RDERER ESCAPES FROM JAIL. I nder Death Sentence for Killing Woods Rider. Charleston, June 12.?Aleas Cooler, convicted with Will Davis of killim; VV. 1). Thomas, woods rider for the Okeetes club, in December and sen? tenced to be electrocuted, escaped from Hie Jasper county jail at Ridge land tonight, lie had the assistance' of another prisoner, who was pre? vented by tiie jailer's wife from es < aping. Cooler and Davis were con? victed March .'5 of murdering Thomas, who came upon them while the) were trespassing and hunting. Theii case has been appeal to the State supreme court, which has not acted yet. Cooler was defended at the tri ll J hy Former Gov. Blease. Blood? hounds from the State penitentiary will be placed on the troll in the morning. Sheriff Langford has In? structed deputies to scour the coun? tryside and has called on othei sheriffs to assist In catching the pi is oner. Spot Cotton Rises. Savannah, <!a.. June 12.?spot cot? ton broke all records in Savannah since Civil War times today when good middling) basis of local trading, was posted at 15 cents per pound. This price drew sales of only 27:! bales and the tone was posted steady. The cir? cumstances brought forth many strong predictions of a 30 cent market. GOVERNMENT IND EXP0RI8. ESPIONAGE HILL FINALLY PASS? ED Df SENATE. Officials Regan! it as Highly Necessary to Insure I?roi>er Conduct of Eco? nomic Struggle. Washington, June 12.?Control of exports was given the government to? day when the senate finally approved the administration espionage bill with it'i embargo clause. The measure now sent to the president for his sig? nature, puts into the hands of the executive a weapon by which it is In? tended to stop supplies from entering Germany through neutral countries. Passage of the bill removes to a great extent the necessity of the British blockade since the United States, orig? inator of most of the exports that reach the neutrals, will be in position with the aid of British machinery es? tablished during the three years of the war to see that the countries are sup? plied with just enough food and ma? terials for their own needs. The measure also gives another powerful weapon to the president in that it permits him to trade for arti? cles controlled by the allies, which heretofore have been permitted to zone to America cnljr In limited quantities. The United States, with an enormous trade balance in its fa? vor and largely independent of the rest of the world for raw supplies can force release of the supplies It docs need by exercising its new power of exports. Fair control over shipping will re? sult. As administered, the act will require licenses for export cargoes and under this arrangement the govern? ment can force neutral ships from harbors where they have sought safe? ty from submarine attacks into, ser? vice to transport cargoes wanted by their home countries. American and allied shipping, too can be required to carry cargoes to the destinations the government considers should be supplied for a proper conduct of the war. The act probably will be adminis? tered by the department of commerce. The state department will decide questions that Involve international policy and the food administration will have the final word regarding food exports. Officials say the measure Is as es? sential to a proper food administration as arc the food control bills. PUT DOWN MUTINY. Loyal Soldiers Suppress Uprising of Disloyal in Russian Army. Petrograd, June 11 v*da London, June 12).?The forces in the army at the front which are loyal to the provisional government have had their first test of strength with dis? loyal pacifists and have won a notable victory. Two days ago Lieut. Gen. Stchrabacheff, commander on tho Roumanian front, gave an order to disband one infantry, one tirailleur and one Siberian tirailleur regiment, all of which were considered useless for fighting purposes. Three regiments of another di? vision were ordered to take up a new position, but refused to do so, and thereupon received an order to dis? band. The soldiers openly mutinied. i The men of one of the regiments ar? rested the commander and seven of? ficers, tore their badges from their uniforms and beat two officers, leav? ing one Insensible on the road. A regimental committee resolved that the regiment should not move, thereupon a loyal committee of sol? diers of the whole army, after de? liberating with the army staff, pro? nounced for stern measures against the mutineers. A resolute general was chosen, hav? ing under his command two divisions of loyal cavalry, two battalions of infantry, one light battery, armored motor curs and airplanes, and under? took the task of suppressing the re? volt. When the loyalist general had occupied positions against the mu? tineers he sent an ultimatum to them demanding the surrender of the ring? leaders; that they take up positions BS ordered, and that they undertako to serve faithfully in the future. The mutinous soldiers, seeing they were surrounded, attempted to nego? tiate, but at the last moment their leader Incited them to new resist? ance. The loyalist general Imme? diately ordered his guns into action whereupon the rebels unconditionally accepted the ultimatum and sur? rendered. There is great rejoicing in govern ment circles tonight over the first success In the Inevitable struggle against the ton es of anarchy, TWO MORE CANTONMENTS. Secretary Baker Selects siics at Fort Riley, hail., and Des Moincs. Washington, June IS.?Secretary Baker has added Fort Riley. Kansas, and Des Meines, Iowa, to the list ap? proved for division cantonments.