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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, .JANUARY 27, 1918
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THE W EATHER
Washington,   Jan.    26.—Snow I and colder Sunday,  much colder Iat night; Monday fair and cold.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PRESIDENT CUTS NATION'S FOOD
SHAKE-VP BY GOETHALS RETIRES ARMY OFFICERS
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FOR EXPERT HELPERS FROM CIVIL
Quartermaster Corps and Ord¬ nance Bureau Are Relieved .   of Ali Dead Timber
ANSWERS OBJECTORS
Washingrton, Jan. 26.—Younger men In mufti with modern business experi¬ ence today are filling the quartermaster corps reorganized posts in places of older men in khaki with possibly nar¬ rowed military- views of business.
This is the primary result of Gen¬ eral Goethals complete upheaval of the quartermaster ser\'ice which became known today. With Secretary Baker prepared ne.xt week to make a broad Statement before the senate military affairs committee on the war policy, this shake-up and several changes this week will be an answer lo the military inefficiency charge by the senate.
Three brigadier generals have been eliminated from the old Sharpe machine and a fourth may go. Goethals finding lack of efficiency and provision for the future wrought a complete house clean¬ ing, pacrificins some of his personal friends in order to help win the war. He searched the country for the best men ho knew for quartermaster work. I">om abroad he will pick quartermast¬ ers who have made good under war conditions.
This move toward efficiency supple¬ mented the earlier step by Secretary Baker of appointing K. R. Stettinius purveyor general of war supplies, a post akin to munitions directof with¬ out the broad directive force attached lo a directorship. General Goethals' reorganizatloHKhip meanc, as many of¬ ficials see it, that clothing will be ready for the Holdier.«i when they need it and plentifully. He has named A. D. Scott, Boston, to see that clothing and equip¬ age is obtained and R. J.-JCborne, of Montgomery, Ward & Co., Chicago, to see that It Is pushed forward in a busi¬ ness-like way after it i.s fabricated. Some Are  Released.
E. M. Lliey of New York, has been chosen transportation director and his coming may replace Brigadier Gen¬ eral Baker, new embarkation chief.
In the sweep through the depart¬ ment General Abel Smith and General Thomas Cnize went back to retire¬ ment, while General D. L. Bralnard.' administrative officer, is on leave pending transfer. Col. C. H. Penrose, a supply officer, has been shifted to Seattle, Colonel W. E. Horton of fuel and forage, has been ordered to San Francisco, while other high officers clerical assistants have been shunted ibout.
Goethals—absolutely ruthless as to personalities—decided the civilian blood must be injected Into the or- janization which he found suffering from dry rot, lack of push and pep and lack of efficient plans for the future In so big an emergency.
While Goethals has been busy with these changes the ordnance bureau, too, has undergone a thorough revis¬ ion which will make for speed and efflclency by cutting the red tape.
These two radical reform.s will be followed by others. Gen Tasker H. Bliss, chief ..f staff, now in Europe, probably will be supplanted Tsy a younger man, .and the medical service Is likely to undergo revisions
Baker's statement to the committee Monday will be long. He will reveal facts not hitherto made public in his efforts to show thnt tho Administra¬ tion has accomplished a big task with a minimum of bungling and delay.
LACELOSI
Kaiser Insulted On Streets Of Vienna; Open Revelt Balks Plans of the Germans
Two tremendously significant facts seeped through the ironclad Ger¬ man censorship tonight. One was that Kaiser Wilhelm had been "openly insulted on the .streets of Vienna." The second was that there was a revcliitionar.v .irganiraiion and open revolt in  Budapest on Jan. 18.
The f^rst fact was carried in the te.xt of a speech delivered by Rhillip Schetjlemann before the main committee of the Reichstag, presumabl.v on Thursday, immediately after Chancellor Hertling had made his reply to President Wilson and I'remier Lloyd George. He bitterly assailed the German .liinker.s and militarists. The second fact was In a dispatch printed in the Berlin Tageblatt. The Amsterdam cable relating these facts waa as folltrws:
"Amsterdam. Jan 26.— On Jan. 18 a revolutionary organization was operating in Budapest and the governmental forces feared an attack by massed ."trikers. according to a delayed copy of the Berlin Tageblatt re¬ ceived here late  tod^y.
T!)e di.'sp.itch further asserted: "Soldiers and machine guns occupied the brid.ge between Buda and Brest, preventing the strikers from enter¬ ing the inner city. A number of strikers were arrested."
KAISER IS INSULTED.
Continuing, Scheideni.ann recalled the fact that the kaiser had been openly insulted on the streets of '^'Icnna and continued: "The conserva¬ tives demand that Germany be freed from Austria. They will manage us to lose our last friend.
"Honorable and complete reinstacement of Belgium is our duty. Let us try to save the world from new bloodshed in the spring. The feeling of our peiple is most serious. If you allow the Russian negotiations to break up and disappoint the hopes of those in the west, what then, if not a catastrophe?"
Judging from Germany's previous course, the very fact that her ct.nsor.ship permitted some hint of an actual revolution in Austria to pass outside her borders would seem to indicate that the actual facts of the case must be much worse than the details given.
In this connection tho United Press on Jan. 24 carried an exclusive dispatch from its staff correspondent in Petrograd, Joseph Shaplen, stat¬ ing that Smolny institute, headquarters nf the Bolsheviki government, had received a wireless message announcing the report of a revolution in Vienna.    This was  uiiconflrmed  from  any  other  source.
No previous report has ever leaked out of Germany that Kaiser Wilhelm was "openly insulted" on the streets of Vienna. When the incident recalled by Scheldemann occurred, waa not stated. .N'V^mention has been made of any visit to Vienna, by the German war lord during the last month' or inore.
NEW POLICY OF ATTACK.
Of almost equr.l signiflca.nce as indicating a new policy of bold at¬ tack against the junkers, the pan-(5ermans and the aristocrats as a whole, is the fact that Scheldemann actually dared make such a state¬ ment In a speech and that new.^papers printed it. The medieval concep¬ tion of "lese majeste" has heretofore ruled in Germany and there have been fow persons willing to risk its punishment by making statements which would show the German emperor as having other than complete support of all Teutonic peoples.
The fact that Scheldemann was the person to make such a statement and so boldly to criticize the pan-Germans as the above Amsterdam dis¬ patch indicates is likewise significant. Heretofore Scheldemann has been a  thick-and-thiri  supporter  of  the  government.
I in K MfMVST SAVE 300,000 TONS \-L n. „™i   EA CH MONTH FOR ALLIES
m BAKER
TO REPLY
Senate Committee Ready With Crossfire of Questions on Conduct of the War
President Wilson's Food Proclamation Puts The Home On Established War Diet
LLOYD GEORGE CRITIC
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U.S. TO HELP NORWAY
Chicago, Jan. 26—A seventy inch pearl necklace with, a diamond stud¬ ded clasp \-alued by Insurancce agents at $175,000. is among the |250,000 worth of jewelry stolen tonight by four bandits who held up the Heller-Rose Jewelry Co., importers, on the ninth floor of the Marshall Field building In the heart of Chicago.
The robbers made their escape. They worked for 80 minutes while they held Frank Rose, manager, and a girl as¬ sistant   prisoner   In   a   washroom.
The   $175,000  necklace   is  said  to  bei one of the most \tiluable in the coun¬ try.
Posing as a detective active in ihe | clty-wl<Te   clean   up  work,   one   of  the 1 hold-up men entered the jewelry shop shortly after 5 p. m.    While Rose was i engaged in an attempt to identify the picture  of a   "diamond     robber"   pre
Washington, Jan. 26.—Two medical reserve 'Officers charged with "neglect of duty" in that they brutally Ignored two sick soldiers in American camps, now face dismissal from the service and perhaps added punishment.
Disclosures in one case have re¬ sulted in an official investigation of Camp Funston, Kansas, conditions by the inspector general. The officers in¬ volved are First Lieut. John G. Dwyer, Camp Funston, and First Lieut. Chas. W. Cole, Camp Beauregard, La,
Others have been court martialed and in each case recommendation of dismissed from service were deemed in- .sufficient for their offen.ses so the cases were sent back for rediscusslon.
Dwyer, according to the court martial testimony, denied a very sick soldier admittance to the Funston hospital saying the man was not ill and that he must go back to "double duty"—a form of discipline he iiad no authority to impose. The testimony revealed that there was a tendency at camp to deny men admission to the hospital when  ill.
The soldier fn question went back toi his  headquarters where  comrades  ad- ' mini.stered to him.   The next  day   his! captain sent him back to Dwyer witli ! orders that he   be   admitted.      Dwyer complied   but  the  soldier's   Illness   by htat time had gone so far that he died shortly afterward.
In the Cole case, testimony was that the res;^i ve doctor ordered that a delir¬ ious soldier, waiting for admission to the hospital, be tied to check his par¬ oxysms and sent back to the regi¬ mental infiirmary.
Wahington, Jan. 26—Norway's bread basket, long depleted, will be filled by the United States in the future In re¬ turn Norway has guaranteed that no foodstuffs  or  war munitions  material
will be e^^portea Into Germany except with the express approval of tho En¬ tente powers and America, the war trade  board announced  tonight.
According to the agreement between the board and Dr. Fridjof Nansen, Norwegian commissioner, the United j States will lift the embargo on 300,000 metric tons of bread grains and rice, 50,000 tons of sugar, 10,000 tons of pork and beef, 14,500 tons of coffee and numerous other commodities in smaller quantities
But .Vorwav is not to receive these commodities without concessions on her part. The agreement specifies that the Allies are to be given first con¬ sideration in that country's exports. All Germany is to be allowed to import is 4,500 pounds of fish and non-edi¬ ble flsh oils. She further agrees not to send to Germany any minerals or chemicals used in the manufacture of munitions. A small amount of copper,
W"ashington. Jan. 26.—Making hia statement of war administration de¬ fense Monday to the Senate military committee. Secretary of War Baker re¬ opens the great legislative-executive fight. He will face a battery of cross qu?stions. Whlie In asking that he be given a chance to open up Ameri¬ can war accomplishments Baker inti¬ mated he did not want such examina¬ tion, the committee proposes to sub¬ ject him to it.
The committee, primed for what is regarded as a showdown battle be¬ tween it on one side and the war de¬ partment and the President on the other, will pepper Baker with pertinent queries.
It will probably want to know the full inside stoir of court martials of two medical officers at Camy Funston and Camp Be.iuregard for "neglect of duty,"—and just why the cases were deemed so flagrant as to demand re¬ consideration by the court martial up¬ on departmental order and investiga¬ tion of Camp Funston by the Insoector General. It will ask Baker whether it is true, as the committee has heard, that hereafter cantonment deaths will be suppressed to hush criticism.
Another matter will be prompted by Lloyd George's inquli^' concerning General Leonard Wood and the reasons for "burying" him in Kansas instead of giving him an important place in the war making machine.
Senators will ask Baker to tell frankly whether Wood was purposely ' "pKssed up" by tb.6 Separtment In sel- j ectlng men for Important places, in the face of the Allies' well known esti¬ mate or Wood as one of America's beat mllitaj-y men.
Tear off the  Lid.
Baker's personal statement is to be followed in the house by a defense of the war department by Representa¬ tive Carter Glass and Representative Dent, chairman of the military com¬ mittee. Both are armed with data fur- ni.shed by the war department sViowing what has been accomplished in the face of grreat handicaps since America en¬ tered the war.
Their speeches may "tear off the lid" in the house. Representative McCor¬ mick, who recently visited the French and Italian fronts and talked with allied leaders, may reply. Kfforts will be made, however, to prevent a storm.
.Administration leaders are anxious not to st.r up bitterness such as would '
'¦-Many oaiiaes have contributed to create the necessity for a most intensive eftUrt on the part of our people to save food in order that we supplv our associates in the war with the sustenance^Itally necessary to them in these days of privation and stre.ss. The redJfced productivity of Kurope because of the large diversion of man-power to win the war, the parti:>i failure of harvests and the elimination of the more distant markets for food stufs through ihe destruction of shipping, places the burden of thei." Hubsistfnce very largely on our shoulders.
"The foL'd administration has formulated suggestions, which, if fol¬ lowed, will -.'nable us to meot this great responsibility without any real inconvenience on our part. In older that we may reduce our consumption of \vheat and wheat products by thirty per cent., a reduction imperatively necessary to provide the supply for overseas, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers should purchiisi^ and resell to their customers only 70 per cent. of the am'iiints used in ifll".
"AU manufacturers of pastes, biscuits, crackers, pastry and breakfast cerexls should reduce their purchases and consumption of wheat and wheat flour to 70 per cent, of their 1917 requirements and all bakers of bi-ead and rolls to 80 per cent, of their current requirements. Consumers should reuuoe their purcha.ses of wheat products for home preparation to almo.st 70 per cent, of those of last year, or when buying bread, should purchcse m.Kted cereal bread from the baker.«.
HEALTH IS CONSERVED.
"To provide sufficient cereal food, homes, public eating places, deal¬ ers and manufacturers should substitute potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats and rice products and the mixed cereal bread and other products of the ba'^ers each contain an admi.xture of other cereal.s.
"In order that consumption may be restricted to this extent, Mon¬ days and Wedne.sdays should be observed as wheatless days each week. and one meal each day should be observed as a wheatless meal.
"In both homes and public eating places, in order to reduce the con- sumpti'tn of beef, pork and sheep products, Tuesday .should be observed as meatless day in each week, one meatless meal should be observed in each d.ay, while in addition Saturday in each week should further be observed as a day upon which there should be no consumption of pork products.
"A   continu.;d  economy in the  use of sugar will  be necessary  until later in the year. It Is imperative that all waste and unecessary consump¬ tion of all foodstuffs should be rigidly eliminated. WOMAN'S PLAIN DUTY.
"The maintenance of tho health and strength of pur own people is vii.;illy neces.sary al this time and there should be no dangerous restric¬ tion of the food suppiy; but the elimination of every sort of waste and the jiubstitution of other commodities of which we have more abundant supplie.s for thcsft which we need to save will in no way impair tho strength of cur people and will enable us to meet one of the most press¬ ing obligations of the war.
"I, therefore, in the national interest, take the liberty of calling upon every loyal American to take fully to heart the suggestions which are being circulated by the food administration and of begging that they be followe<l. am confident that the great body of our women who have labored so long in co-oper.ition with the food administration for the suc¬ cess of foi'd conservation, will strengthen their efforts and will take it as a ijart of their burden in this period of national service to see that the aoove suggestions are observed throughout the land.
"WOODROW WILSON."
NEWMEAILESSOAY,
IWOOFWHEAILESi
In Addition One Meal Each Day ¦  Must   Be   Without   Either Meat or Wheat
SWEEPING REGULATION
iONEYOEAIHIRIAL EOBYWI
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Labor Bodies in Other Coun¬ tries Stirred by Alleged Tyr¬ anny of Prosecution
FAIR BASIS URGED
Washington, Jan. 26.—To meet "se- rluus disquietude," not only In this country, but more particularly in Rus-
, „ , ^ ^ .      r^^ I sia.   President   Wilson   has   intervened
follow a long debat. They prefer | j^ j,pj,,^,j ^^ Thomas J. Mooney, con¬ victed and now under death sentence in connection  with the  San Francisco
quieter methods of beating the Cham- ' berlaln war cabinet and munitions di¬ rector bills, which grew out of the criticism's of war department efficiency Chamberlain will Introduce the -war cabinet, probably Monday. Adminis¬ tration leaders will play for time. They said today they want the country to get a chance to hear and understand the War Department's side before Con-
in excess of manufactured imports, can! sresa acts, be .sent Germany. While this flght is growing in feroc-
The agreement is to be operative for; '^>'' ^^'^ Senate committee investigating the period of the war, subject to terml- i ^"""^ ^^'^ '"^^ conditions is preparing nation by either party at the expira- i ^° report.
tion  of  one    year months' notice.
and    upon    three
POPE SEES PEACE TURN IN CZERNIN PROPOSALS
NEW   BISHOPS   NAMED
Home. Jan. 26.—.Appointment of Bishop Johnshaw to be archbishop of New Orleans and of the Rev Daniel O'Gorman Dubris to be bishop of Boise City, Idaho, was announced by th-^ Vatican today.
BIG   DIAMOND   STEAL. I
Chicago, Jan. 26.—Bandits escaped , with diamonds and jewelry valued ai ' $150,000 after they bound and pagjied | the manager and an assistant of the i Helley-Rose Jewelry Co.. importers, i;i the heart of the business section.
The bandits posed as city officials.
Rome, Jan. 26.—The Holy See con¬ sider.^ the speech of Austro-Hiingarlan foreign mini.ster Czemin as likely to hasten peace. Authoritive information today wa.s that Pope Benedict himself regards the speech as a special appeal to P'.esldent Wilson for further action.
The Czernin and Hertling speeches wre read with the greatest Interest by Val'.can officials but no formal com¬ ment was forthcoming.
Senator Reed announced today he expects a report with legislative recom¬ mendations will lie made within a week.
Railroad committees of both houses will get down to work in earnest draft¬ ing the railroad bill which will be greatly changed from the administra¬ tion draft originally presented.
FIRST WOMAN KILLER
GETS ONLY FIVE YEARS
CENSORS DETECT SPIES THROUGH CPENED MAIL
Washington,  Jan.    26.— Several    at- I tempts of German sympathizers in this sented by the thief, the bandit knocked i country to communicate military news him  unconscious.    Rose    and  his as-*" Germany  have  been  frustrated  by sistant were bound, gagged and drag-   ^^"^^"^  government censorship on  out-
ged Into the closet
The safe containing the necklace was opened. Jewelry safes and cab- pnets were robbed.
Police tonight branded the hold-up the most daring in months.
It was in the face of an active cam¬ paign against the criminal world and under the nose of the officials..] Of¬ ficials believed the jewel thieves have already left the city. It was fully an hour after Rose recovered and gave •he alirn^
going cables, lieutenant Thomas Bryan, U. S. N., told the house military affairs committee today.
News of transport and ship sailing were covered up by harmless looking code mes.sages Bryan said. The in¬ vestigation of the laxity of the mail censorship which grew out of the charges of several congressmen that ' only one letter in ten going to Euro- ; pean countries is opened was delayed |
today,   but   the   committee   will into  tbe  situation   next  week.
London, Jan. 26.—Extraordinary aerial bombardment was reported by Field Marshal Haig tonight.
"The rail sidings at Courtral and the billets at Roulers were bombed," he said. "Sixteen hostile machines were downed.   One of ours is missing.
"Last night eight tons of bombs were dropped on five enemy aero¬ dromes at Ghent and the billets at Douai were bombed with the new'aero¬ drome west of Tournai. One hundred and sixty bombs were dropped at Tournai.    All our machines returned."
Two brltish soldiers were missing after an enemy raid south of Fontaine Les Croisilles last night. Field Marshal Haig  reported tonight.
North of I'assachendaele he said British troops drove off i-aiders this morning.    Artillerying   was    reported
Dallas, Tex.. Jan. 26.—For the fir.st time in the history of Dalhis county a woman, Mrs. Katie Travers, was found guilty of murder late today and sen¬ tenced to five years In the penitentiary. Mrs. Travers was charged with the murder of Phil E. Tucker last fall. She still has to face a charge of murdering Mrs. Mrytle Cunningham.
CLOTHING    SALESMEN    WANTED.
WANTED—WeitzenKorn's require the services of extra clothing salesmen for their sale. Apply Monday morn¬ ing ^t 10 o'clock at the store.
LOST WRIST WATCH.
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preparedness day crime.
The President has written a letter to Governor Stephens of California, urg¬ ing him, with the co-operation of the state's prosecuting officers, to bring about a new trial for Mooney, "where¬ by guilt or innocence may be put to tho test of unquestionable justice."
On recommendation of a special commission, headed by Secretary of Labor Wilson, the President suggested that the execution of Mooney's sen¬ tence be postponed to await the out¬ come of a new trial based upon prose¬ cution under one of the untried In¬ dictments against him.
Mooney's   conviction   which   the   in¬ vestigating commission declared in its report  to  the  President smacked  of a "frame up" against the 1. W. W. lead¬ er,  has led to grave  international im¬ portance.    Early in the Ru.sslan revo¬ lution     It  was  being    used  by    anti- .Amerlcan    propagandists    among    the 1 Russian   workmen   r.a   an   example   of I this  country's   patriotic   rule  and  dis- ! regard for the laboring element.
It spread to such proportions in Rus¬ sia that the American embassy was subjected to attacks. The life of American ambassador.s In France aiid^ in Petrograd was threatened. Circum¬ stances of the case have been dissem¬ inated among the labor clas.ses of other countries.
Answer to Enemies.
Officials here have long attributed the general unrest among western workers to dissatisfaction with the Mooney trial. _And it was as the di¬ rect result of these national as well as international developments that Presi¬ dent Wilson personally took a hand in the matter several months ago.
A commission, including Secretary Wilson, J. L. Spangler, E. P. Marsh. Varner Z. Reed. John H. Walker. Felix Frankfurter and Max Lewenthal was named to inquire into we.stern condi¬ tions, particularly with reference to the justice of Mooney's trial, what pre¬ ceded it and what has developed since.
Much of the commission's work, was done secretly and on January 16 it made its report.
Without determining the giiilt or In¬ nocence of Mooney, the commission re¬ ported that circumstances surrounding the trial were such as to cause much disquietude. The President then de¬ termined to seek the co-operation of the California governor and pro.secul- ing officers to retry Mooney.
I
REVEmN LEIIER
Enemy Agents Plan to Halt America in Preparations For Drive on Germany
TRAIL A PLAIN ONE
Washington, Jan. 26. — Five fires which swept war plants through the east today sent scores of United States secret service men tonight on trails of a possible huge sabotage plot.
The belief that enemy agents have orcanlzed anew to carry fire and des¬ truction into war factories and ship¬ yards appeared strengthened by sin¬ ister circumstances of time and source of today's outbreaks.
These were:
Occurrence of all five fires within a few hours; timing of several at an ear¬ ly hour in the morning when probab¬ ility of "accident" seemed at the min¬ imum; and presence of suspicious per¬ sons at two of the victimized  plants.
Fresh trails were being followed to¬ night from plants at Baltimore and Newark.
Washington, Jan. 26.—President Wil¬ son tonight placed the country on stricter  food  rations.
In a proclamation he limited whole¬ salers, jobbers and retailers to 70 per cent, of their 1917 wheat flour require¬ ments and bakers to 80 per cent. He called for observance oC two wheatless days, .Monday and Wednesday, one wheatless and one meatless meal daily, meatless Tuesday and porkless Satur¬ day.
Simultaneously the food administra¬ tion announced Its new "victory bread" to contain 20 per cent, of cereals other than wheat after Feb. 24. It also an¬ nounced Tuesday would be a porkless ,day in addition to Saturday.
Despite the sweeping nature of lij" new food regulations, both Presidern Wilson and the food administration ex¬ pect hearty co-operation from dealers and consumers.
These drastic steps are necessary to provide wheat for I'^urope, the food ad¬ ministration stated. Thirty per cent, of America's normal wheat consump¬ tion must be sent to our Allies. Only radical cuts In the administration bill of fare Will provide the 15,000.000 bu¬ shels monthly which the Allies require.
Only part of the new food regula¬ tions will be compulsory under lb- powers possessed by the food adminis¬ tration. Dealers can be checked through licensing, but the food admin¬ istration admitted tonight that it would depend upon the .patriotism of the Am- encanKou's'ewlfe to enforce observance of the new war restrictions.
Victory Bread Ordered.
"War victory bread," the new na¬ tionil loaf, IS expected to provide thu big saving in wheat consumption and "win the war."
Graham and whole wheat bread will be considered as war bread but the real "victory bread" will contain twen¬ ty pei\ cent, of flours made from rice, rye,-potato, buckwheat, sweet potato or soya beans.
Retailers are ordered to seel wheat, flour only with an equal amount of one of these substitutes. Housewives need not mix these in their baking, though this is urged.
I'resldent Wilson in his proclama¬ tion ordering reduction of wheat by 3(i per cent., said: "A reduction is im¬ peratively necessary to provide the supply for overseas. ' Wohlesalers. jobbers and retailers, he stated, may purchase and resell to their custom¬ ers only 70 per cent, of their last year's requirements.
In addition, he declared that all manufacturers of biscuits, crackers. I pastry and breakfast cereals should j reduce consumption of wheat floux 70 I per cent. also. Bakers, including ho- ' tels and other establishments which I have their own ovens, are restricted to j 80 per cent, of their present require- I ments. Householders are to be limit- I ed to 70 per cent, of their last year's ! supply.
Restrictions on Wheat.
Substitution of potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats and rice products is urged to make up the wheat reduc¬ tion.
"In  order that  consumption  may  be restricted  to this  end,"  the President "Mondays     and    'Wednesdays
A mysterious letter, filtering through I ggyg semi-official   channels,   found   its   way ] ^^ould be observeed as wheatless daya into   President   \\ ilson s   hands.     This j g^ph  week  and  one communication, warning that enemies
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were planning an organized stroke against war plants and shipyards, was read at a recent cabinet meeting.
It recounted a plan for concerted firing of war plants on Jan. 22.
On Its way to obscurity Jan. 22 passed without the predicted develop¬ ments. This letter tonight has assum¬ ed Importance. Those inclined to credit it believed the plotters were i ijeij,„ "tipped" that government men were on ! "guard" duty and merel.v switched plans so that today's attacks may in reality have been the forecasted move.
But, all that was given out was that "recognizable trails" led from Newark and Baltimore and that every effort was being made lo unmask whatever general plot there may be.
That all plants so mysteriously fire- swept were directly or Indirectly gov¬ ernment war factories further influ¬ ence belief of a centralized movement.
wheatless daily should be observed. I Tuesday will be meatless day and j one meatless meal will be observed j daily. Porkless Saturday is provided I for by the President and the food ad- j ministration has included Pork, bacon, I ham, fresh or smoked, and lard in it.s j ban.
I     Economy  in  use of sugar   was    dt- I mandtKl   by the President for the time and   rigid     cutting    down     of waste among other foodstuffs.
The requirements will not undermine the health of the people. Expert dieti¬ cians were consulted by the food ad¬ ministration before it planned Its new rationing scheme and the present de¬ mands are entirely safe from a public (Contiaaed On Page S«vml)
GRANDSON OF GRANT
WOUNDED AT FRONT
With the French Armies in the Field. Jan. 26.—Algerton C. Sartoris, Washington. D. C, grandson of Gen¬ eral U. S. Grant and one of the few remaining American private soldiers in the French foreign legion, is in a hos¬ pital for the first time during eight j months at the front. Sartoris, who enlisted in the legion a year ago, is suffering from a combination of stom¬ ach trouble, exposure and very light shell shock. The explosion of a heavy shell near the American fighter caused no immediate effects, but left him subject to milder aliments. His con¬ dition is not serious.
Newport. R. I., Jan. 26.—Six men were killed and thirty injured by an explosion In a naval powder magazine of a torpedo plant on an Island near here today. The injured were taken lo the naval hospital. An official report made to Washington said there were no suspicious circumstances conrected with the explosion.
While officials declined to discuss the accident it was said a quantit> of T. N. T. exploded whilo being moved.
A heavy naval guard was posted about the plant. FJre engines found nothing to do as no«re of consequence followed  tlie  l>la.«=v