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McHENBY PLAINDEALER, Mc^ElSTKY, - "*• " \ - - , v : -f ̂ rfr^\K . «i*-» * »„ "7MV4IB r •"TS. f " • V^V- V r < -^0-y v , < • ' ; ' * i - 7 ^ , % *• -v ®#ii * y*%n ; Jfy w# 7 It^'41 *r$ - FOR THOSE WHO WILL REGISTER ' $jvernment Has Issued Circulars ; Dealing With Questions to . vv Be Asked. ^ i* t* , ̂ k«k _____ -- MAKE WORK EASIER JUNE 5 yf . *S:V- ir9 >; " ly-C, !•#-V . Tfcit FoTJowIno Detailed Information Should Be Read by AH Who Are of the Age Called Upon *° Do MiliU|,y , *.< Service The law requires every man who has passed his twenty-first birthday and not yet reached his thirty-first hirth- day on June 5 to register that day for amy service. There are no exceptions. jUl men from twenty-one to thirty twist register. Exemptions for health «rother reasons will come later. This newspaper publication I® the only notification you will get. A prison sentence is the penalty for failure to register. The government has adopted a plan to facilitate and simplify the filling in of conscription registration cards June 5. Circulars containing the twelve questions to be asked and advice as to how they should be answered have been prepared for distribution. How Answers Should Be Made. The circular, which bears the head­ ing, "How to Answer Questions on Registration Cards," reads as follows: "Questions will be asked for you to answer in the order in which they ap­ pear on this paper. These questions are set out below with detailed infor­ mation to help you answer them. **Do not write on, mark or otherwise mutilate these instructions. Do not re­ move them. Th^r should be carefully read so that you will have your an­ swers ready when you go before the Registrar. "1. Name in full. Age in years, -- "This means all your names spelled oqt in full. "State your age today in years only. Disregard additional months or days. Be prepared to say 'nineteen' or "twenty-five,' not 'nineteen years fhifee mouths' or the like. "2. Home address. ~ "This means the place where you have your permanent home, not the place where you work. Be prepared •to give the address in this way: *2^2 Main street, Chicago, Cook county, Il­ linois that is, give number and name of street first, then town, then county and state. Write Birth Date in Advance. "Date of birth. .< '"Write your birthday (month, day add year) on a piece of paper before going to the registrar and give the pa­ per ,to him the first thiag. Example: 'August 5, 1894.' "If you do not remember the year, start to answer as you would if some­ one asked you your birthday, as 'Au­ gust 5:' Then say, 'on my birthday this year I will be (or was) years old.' The registrar wiil then fill in the year of birth. Many people do not carry in mind the year they were born. This may be obtained by the registrar by subtracting the age in years on this year's birthday from 1917. "4. Are you (1) a natural born citi­ zen t (2) ft ^naturalised citizen; (3) an dliett; (4) or have you declared your intention to become a citizen (specify which) ? "(1) If you were born in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, you are a natural born citizen, no mat­ ter what may have been the citizen­ ship or nationality of your parents. If you were born in Porto Itico you are a Citizen Of the United States, unless you were borii of alien parentage. If *ou were born abroad, you are still a citizen of the United States, if your father was a citizen of the United States at the time you were born, un­ less you have expatriated yourself. *(2) You ate a naturalized citizen if you have completed your naturaliza­ tion; that is. If you have 'taken final feapers.' But you are not a citizen if you have only declared your intention to become a citizen (that is, if you have only 'taken out first papers'); in the latter case you are only a 'declar­ ant.' .» ^Ycu are also a naturalized citizen ft although foreign born, your father J «* surviving parent became fully nat­ uralized while you were under twenty - one years of age, and if you came to . tjfee United States under twenty-one. * "(3) You are a declarant if. although , 4 citizen or subject of some foreign f country, you have declared on oath be­ fore a naturalization court your Inten­ tion to become a citizen of the United States. Receipt from the clerk of the court of the certified copy of such declaration is often, called 'taking out flrst papers/ You are not a declarant INFIELD RIFLE TO BE ARM y ;®an Be Turned Out Quickly and in ' Quantities by Factories That Are Now in Operation. " f , Manufacturing facilities for the feprlngfleld rifle are not adequate' fo "supply the number required for the •f< larger force which the United States •$»ay decide to send abroad and to re- , . place the wastage of such a force. ;* -Fortunately the existing small-arms ; .factories which have been turning out If your first paper was taken out after September 26, 19061, and hi more than seven years old. "(4) You are an alien (f you do not fall within one, of the three classes above1 mentioned. \ • •< f>. Where were you bora? , "First name the town, tften the state, then the country, as 'Columbus, O. 'Vienna, Austria ;* 'Paris, France 'Sofia, Bulgaria.* "6. If not a citizen, of what country are you a citizen or subject?" What Is Your Job Right Now? "7. What is your present trade# oc­ cupation or office? "This does not ask what you once did, nor what you have done most of the time, nor what you are best fitted to do. It asks what your job is right now. State briefly, as farmer, miner, student, laborer (on farm, in rolling mill, in automobile, wagon or other fac­ tory, etc. If you hold an office under state or federal government, name the office you hold. "If you are In one of the following offices or employments, use one of the names hereafter mentioned : 'Custom house clerk, 'employed in the transmis­ sion of the mails,' or 'employed in an armory, arsenal or navy yard, 'mar­ iner actually employed in the sea serv­ ice of citizen or merchant within the United States.' • "8. By whom employed? Whfere em­ ployed? ' "If you are working for an individ­ ual, firm, corporation or association state its name. If in business, trade, profession or employment for yourself, so state. If you arc an officer of the state or federal government say Wheth­ er your office is under the United States, the state, the county or a mu­ nicipality. In answer to the question as to where you are employed give the town, county and state where you work." "9. Have you a father, mother, wife, child under twelve or a sister or broth­ er under twelve solely dependent upon you for support (specify which) : "Consider your answer thoughtfully. If it is true that there Is another mouth than your own which you alone have a duty to feed do not let your military ardor interfere with the wish of the nation to reduce war's misery to a minimum. On the other hand, unless the person you have In mind is solely dependent on you do not hide behind petticoats or children. "10. Married or single (which)? Race (specify which)? "This does not ask whether you were once married, but whether you | are married now. In answer to the question as to your race state briefly whether Caucasian, Mongolian, negro, Malayan or Indian. Declfire Military Service, If Any. "11. What military-service have you had? Hank? Branch? Years? Na­ tive or state? "Xo matter what country you served, you must give complete infor­ mation. In answering these questions first name your rank, using one of the following words: 'Commissioned offi­ cer,' 'noncommissioned officer,' 'pri­ vate.' Next, state branch in which you serwd in one of the following words: 'Infantry,' 'cavalry,' 'artillery,' 'medi- ecl,' 'signal,' 'aviation,' 'supply,' 'ma­ rine,' 'navy.' Next, state the number of years' service, not counting time spent in the reserve. Finally, name the nation or state you served. If you servpd under the United States or one of the states of the United States, name your service in one of the fol­ lowing terms: 'National Guard* (of such and such a state), 'militia' (of such and such a state), 'volunteers of United States' or 'regular army (navy) of United States.' "12. Do you claim exemption from draft? Specify grounds. "Because you claim exemption from draft, it by no means follows that you are exempt. For the Information of the war department you should make a claim now if you intend to prosecute it. Some persons will be exempted on account of their occupations or offices, some on account of the fact that they have relatives dependent upon them for support. Your answer touching these things will be important in sup­ porting the claim you now intend to make in your answer to the present questions. Be sur<j, therefore, that the grounds you now state are in con­ formity with your answers to ques­ tions 7 and 8. "In stating grounds you claim as ex­ empting you use one of the following terms: If you claim to be an execu­ tive, legislative or judicial officer of the state or nation, name your office and say whether it Is an office of the state or nation. If you claim to be a member of a religious sect whose creed forbids its members to participate in war in any form, simply name the sect. If you are employed in the transmis­ sion of the United States mails or as an artificer or workman in an armory, arsenal or navy yard of the United States, or if you are a mariner em­ ployed in the sea service of any citi­ zen or merchntit within the United States, so state. If you are a felon or otherwise morally deficient and desire to claim exemption on that ground, state your ground briefly. If you claim physical disability, state that briefly. If you claim exemption on any other ground, state your ground briefly." quantities of rifles for the British army are equipped to manufacture the En­ field rifle In more than sufficient num­ ber. Therefore it has been decided to adopt- the Enfield rifle, but mani^fac- tured to use American ammunition. Our government will continue to manufacture the Springfield model, the ammunition for which will be inter­ changeable with that of the new En­ field. The United States Is in a very satis­ factory position so far as all typs of ammunition are concerned. 255 DIE WHEN TORNADOES HIT EIGHT STATES 1,207 Persons Injured--Heavy Property Loss Caused by Qy-. clones in Three Days. "' 92 DIE IN ILLINOIS TOWNS . . . •) - / ? Thousands of Homes Destroyed and Crops Ruined--Hundreds of Fam- I ilies Made Homeless--Mor$^ Than Score Lose Lives inr-> Indiena---103 Dead in - • ». v Southern States. 1 * A ' SUMMARY J^STORM LOSS Dead. --mv State. Illinois Indian# Kansas-. "ft&li K e n t u c k y : . Missouri tin,. >; Tennessee ' '20 Alabama 31 A r k a n s a s . . 2 3 92 12^ 40-SsW ured. 605 220 60 60 12 53 eating that the casualties were hea*» tfest in the two cities. The farmers, however, reported heavy property losses in the destruc­ tion of buildings, the death of stooji and damage to growing crops. Avail­ able estimates placed the damage in the county at between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000, of which $i;2.">0,0<K) was 40 Mattoon, and about $75O,OU0 ia Charleston, - , 5,600 Persons Homeless* : White Immediate food needs la Charleston ai&l Mattoon were provided for, relief officials made It plain thi t the necessity for aid still was vital. Iu both communities; the, storm cen­ tered itself largely on the*homes <tf worklngmen, and among the 5,000 homeless were hundreds who lost therr all in the ruins. # - , Troops on Guapd. Members of flVe companies of the Fourth infantry, I. N. are still pa­ trolling'the two towns. ' . Names of Tornado Victim*. The lists of those killed by the to;*- iiado at Charleston and Mattoon ana believed ttf be complete;; Following is also the list of. the dead identified In other devastated districts: AT MATTOON. Totals -41 • , • * * » • vx ' 4».245 I* Chicago, May 30.--Tornadoes on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in eight states of the middle West and the South hfive killed 235 persons, injured more than 1,207, wrecked thousands of houses, killed hundreds of heads of Mrs. C. Anderson, T, Bridges," Harry HeaveNs, MV; Cora Beavers, Mrs. IMckerSj fi. Burkfe (colored), William lirown (colored), T. C. Benson (Col­ ored), Mrs. Naiicy Coons', Mrs. Joseph 100,1 CavidsOn, Edwin Daugherty, Mrs. 52 ' l>e Hone. Frestr Lhsviflson, Charles Flckes (child). John- (Jrubbs, Mrs. J. 1,20? (Jrubbs, Charles Harris, Miss ---- Heritage, Lizzie Iiickey, Mrs. Dora Holiowell, Mrs. Grace Huddleson, Mrs. Elizabeth Hyde, Thomas Hyde, Mrs. C. Jackson, Clarence Llewelien, J. Needy, Itamona Nelmes, Walter Mel­ ton, Mrs. Etta Mullinix, Mrs. Owen, Jack Pierce, Aga L. Phelps, Mr. Red- RESCUED FROM THE GREAT TORNADO MILlVlA AND REGULARS UNABLB TO GET ENOUGH VOLUNTEER* TO FILL REGIMENTS. ARMY NEEDS 100,000 MEN Various States Show That Recruiting !• Falling Off. --Regulations Attacked in Congress. Washington, May 29.--The National Guard must be recruited by draft to Its war strength of 400,000 men. Sitattfs arer.sUowing a falling off in vol­ unteer enlistments. The prospects also are that men between twenty-one and thirty years, inclusive, will have to be drafted be­ fore the summer Is over to enable the government to bring the regular army to its full authorized war strength: Army regulations for war registra­ tion ar& under attack already in the house. : Representative Vare of Phil­ adelphia, by resolution, wants elimina-, tion of the section requiring state­ ments of reason for exemption with registration. He contends it is un­ wise and -unnecessary and leaves open for criticism of lack of patriotism. His resolution probably will fail. Since April 1 there have been 83,- 940 men recruited for the army out of a total -of 183.898 needed to bring it to full war strength of 293,000 men. Unless recruiting, which has shown a decline during the last week, takes a spurt, it may he necessary to resort to the draft. Latest reports reachiug the milUia bureau of the war department show that recruiting for the National Guard not in federal service is not holding its own. During the last ten days 24 states reported gaihs in National Guard recruiting, while ten states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii re­ port losses. The net result Is a loss of 869 men. The chief factor in the loss is Ohio, where the National Guard units not in federal service have dropped from 651 officers and 10,824 men on May 10, to 440 oificers and 8,002 men on May 20, a losp of 3,033. The last available figures on the strength of the National Guard in the federal service showed that May 1 there were 3,184 officers and 68,566 men. .There are about 100,000 men in the grand units, which are to be drafted into the federal service be­ tween July 15 to August 5. To bring the National Guard to full war strength of 400,000 men would require the addition of more than 200,- 000 recruits. Prospects now are that this additional 200,000 cannot be ob­ tained without the draft. PEACE RIOT AT CHICAGO Mrs. Dolly Wright and her four children whom she saved from death when their home in Matfdoii Was destroyed* by the tornado. None of this family was injured. ' ' ' live stock and devastated many thou-, sands of acres of growing crops, ac­ cording to suminaries on Monday. The latest in the series of tornadoes, started last Sunday, apparently in the. vicinity of Willisville, in southwestern Illinois, swept southward across the Ohio river into Kentucky, down the Mississippi into Arkansas and Tennes­ see ami finally veering eastward to­ ward Alabama, where the storm ap­ parently spent itself. The dead in the, four southern states was roughly esti­ mated at UK), and the injured at sev­ eral hundred. , Tornado Series Began Friday. The destruction began last Friday In Andale, Kan., where 26 people were killed and <X) injured. Late Saturday a twister, probably the most severe of the series, struck the rich corn belt of central Illinois, killing 54 persons and injuring per­ haps 500 in Mattoon. At Charleston.. ten miles east of Mattoon, 37 were Willed and more than 150 injured. The property damage in the two cities is estimated at $2,000,000. Another destructive storm late Sat­ urday crossed a territory approximate­ ly,UK) miles north of tlia center of Illi­ nois, reached into northern Indiana and caused the loss of a dozen lives, the injury of more than 200 and a heavy property damage. Heaviest Loss of Life in Illinois. Mattoon, 111., May 30.--American sympathy manifested itself in a sub­ stantial fashion for the plight of Charleston and Mattoon, twin victims of the tornado which swept central Illinois on Saturday, leaving behind It death and ruin. So far as was known the wind cost 92 lives and resulted in injuries to about 650 person,? p Coles county. Re­ ports from the farming districts Indl- FUTURE BEFORE UNCLE SAM man, Mrs. Redman Redman (son), Redman (daughter). Mrs. John Reed, Mrs. Belle Shelley, F. A. Spauldlng. I. G. Spitz, Harrison Stokes (colored), Master Swanson, J. R. Sweeney, Mrs. J. It. Sweeney, Joseph Taylor, Mrs. Lee Taylor, Lorraine Taylor (child), Margaret Taylor (child), Mrs. Charles Temple, Mrs. Susan Travers, Arietta Tudor, Mrs. Alberta Turner, James Turner, Owen Waggoner, Waggoner (baby), John Williams. AT CHARLESTON. Mrs. R. C. Barnes, R. <?. Barnes, Mrs. B. E. Ba.vless, Ba.vless (child), Paul Ba.vless, Clarence Bingaman, Nel­ lie Bingamnn, Mrs. George Briggs, Frank Case, Mrs. Will Cobble, Mrs. J. A. Colby, Mrs. Colby's mother, John Deed, Wilson Goodman^ Mrs. Jessie Huddleston, Jesse Htlddleston, Napo­ leon Huffman, Earl Jenkins, J. W. Johnson, George Kilgore, T. I>. Knaus, Mrs. William Lang, Madeline Lang, Mrs. Sarah Linder, Mrs. Johann Mc- Mahon. Bert Neel.v, Clark Nelson, Douglas Nugent, Mildred Owings, Mrs. Sara Shores, G. A, Smith. Sr., George Smith, Alta Stewart, Mrs. Sue Trav- er. Bid Warman, John Wenn, Jr., Mrs. Clem Wright. AT JOLIET. Ffrank Drumm, Louis l^onsbrusch, Clinton Schweitzer. AT HEBRON, IND. Leslie Kenny, Mrs. Leslie Kenny, E, B. Pratt, D. B. Pesh, Mrs. D. B. l'esh. NATION PREPARED FOR WAR I||llunitkms Boird Confident That Rifles ;/ and Ammunition Will . Be Found Ample to Equip Any Force. f 1 America is ready for the war so far its rifles and ammunition are con- " *erned. Fnfi!* A. Scott, chairman of ?fhe general.munitions board of the Council of National Defense, issued |he following statement: t * "We are In a position now to assure : 'IIm country that rifles and ammunition May Yet Have to Bear Brunt of Euro­ pean Fighting, Is Opinion of Ex-Ambassador Gerard. Philadelphia.--"If Russia stacks arms and German submarines continue to litter the wvah with the merchant marine, Uncle Sam will have to bear the brunt of the great battle practical­ ly alont," d**clared former Ambassador Gerard, at a ameeting of the Red Cross. - . AT KOUTS, IND. C. J. Bessecker, Julia Hane. DEVICE TO STOP U-BOATS Attack on Wilson's Course fn War Causes Pitched Battle Amid Thou­ sands in Grant Park. y Chicago, May 29.--Four thousand men and women In the Auditorium the­ ater on Sunday demanded that -the government set forth in simple lan­ guage the terms upon which It will make peace with Germany. And 5,000 other persons held a peace meeting in Grant park, which resulted in a riot and the arrest of eight speak­ ers who had denounced President Wil­ son. Inside the theater there waft no criti­ cism of the administration, but with unanimity that amounted at times to wild enthusiasm the uudlenc§ joined in a demand for a statement of terms of peace and denounced any attempt by the government to throttle discussion On the rostrum in in the press. 133 DIE ON SPANISH SHIP Reuters Reports Sinking of the Steam­ er Eizaguirre -- Consul Among Missing--Sank in Five Minutes. London, May 29.--Forty-eight pns- gers and 85 of . the crew of the Spanish steamer Eizaguirre are be­ lieved to have perished as a result of the sinking of the vessel. A dispatch received by Reuter's Telegram company, the date or origin of which lias not been made public, reports the loss of the Eizaguirre. It says the second officer reported that the ship sank in five minutes. He was awakened by a great noise and tried to get passengers into his boat, but the boat was swept away and almost simultaneously the ship broke in halt He saw no boats afloat except the oite In which he escaped. British Newspaper Says American In­ ventor's Contrivance Will Wear the Submarine Out. - London.--The Westminster Gazette says the submarine menace Is helng mastered by a simple method, whleh the correspondent Ityd4?ates is the In­ vention of an American. The method requires only a little time to wear the German submarines out, says the Gazette.' Guilty of Trunk Murder. Aledo, 111., May 29.--Burt Sapp, horseman, wvas found guilty here of the murder of Enima Larkin. . He was sentenced to 20 years In the peniten­ tiary. Sapp killed the girl in a stable at the race track here, packed her body in a trunk and threw it from a train. Six Fishing Boats Sunk. Copenhagen, via London, May 29.-- A dispatch from the Faroe Islands says that a German submarine has sunk six Faroe fishing boats on the vbanks south of the islands. About thirty fishermen are missing. will be ready for American troops as fast as they can be raised and other­ wise prepared for foreign service. There are on hand more than enough rifles for the rifle-carrying men of an urmy of approximately a million, and arrangements have now been made to provide for the arming of a larger force and for tho reserve which wast­ age under modern war conditions makes necessary. Plans have b«*en completed to take advantage of the factories developed In our country af the result of the KuropeaA war." FAST' TRAIN STRIKES ' AUTO JAPS SCOUTING THE OCEANS Th*#«» Men and Two Women Instantly Killed In Accident Near Town/ of Montau,*Ohlo. Akron, O.--Five persons, three men and' two women, were instantly killed when a train struck the automobile they rode In. News of the accident reached here when the sole survivor of the car, the driver, Henry Ross, tele­ phoned the sheriff's office. He disap­ peared after the asddwt,. '* * iCar- zrK?; Admitted That Powerful Fleets Are Aiding the Entente in Search for German Submarines. Tokyo.1--Three powerful Japanese fleets are aiding the entente allies In U-boat warfare at Great Britain's re­ quest. The fi <t definite statement on the subject was issued by the admiral­ ty. A Japanese squadron in tlie Medi­ terranean Is commanded by Rear Ad­ miral Satew » Irishman Must Head Conventjeii. ' London, May 29.--Leaders expressed hope the chairman of the "Irish Gov­ ernment Convention" will be an Irish-' man. It was contended an irishman could enter into sympathy of the con­ ference with a better spirit. 8lated to Succeed Hoover^ Rotterdam, May 28. -- Jonkheer Charles Ruys de Beerendroeck, a mem­ ber of the chamber of deputies, has been selected to htad the Belgian re­ lief commission In succession to Her­ bert Hoover, It was announced. Will 8oon Sail for France. An American Port, May 28.--Mobi­ lizing from a half-dozen American unl verslties scattered all over the coun­ try, more than, two hundred young men will sail soon to Join the Amerlcfln am- ^ w r, J-.S - %r •/? . \\\m m fr - • WRIGLEYS PERFECTCUM i Made by machinery-- filtered--safe-guarded In every process: Factories inspected by pure food experts and highly praised: Contented employes ̂ of whom perfection is the pride: Such is WftlCSLEVS -- the largest selling gum in the world. - « Helps appetite and digestion. Keeps teeth clean -- breath sweet. H The Flavor Lasts More Than a Taste, "So you've been having a taste of camp life?" 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Saxon cars have simply been in a state of transition, passing thru phase after phase of gradual improvement without a break in pro­ duction. They are refined from time to time* " not radically changed. Th«y arc In th« follsst sens* of th« phraas, products of •volodoa. They arc developed ratbar *h«h built. Isn't that ths kind of a car you want--on* that yoo •Can fwl confident ia right before you put down youf food money for It t If It flaw then you want a Saxon. < There Is still some good lair limy apw far Saxon Dealers. For information you abouli ' apply to Saxon Motor Car Corporation Detroit, Michigan