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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. There will be no exemptions from army service until after registration, the war department an-luiuuces. and authorizes the following statement: "Provost Marshal General E. II. Crowder finds that ■may sersooa confuse registration with draft. Each is a distinct process. Exempt ions will Ih granted after draft and not before. Even convicts and alici enemies are obliged to register. There is littl" difficulty in answering the questions which are asked in regard to registration, for there are no exceptions to me rule that all male persons in the Inited States between the ages of 21 and .U. inclusive, must register, except those already in the Federal military or naval service. Tornadoes during the last tiiree days in seven states of the middle west and the south have killed nearly 251 people, injuring more than 1.201. wrecked thousands of houses, killed hundreds of heads of live stock Bad devastated many thousand acres of growing crops, according to summaries today. The revised list of dead and wounded are as follows: Dead. Injured. Illinois ".:• 898 Indiana 12 220 Kansas 21! 88 Kentucky 40 ! Missouri 7 IS Tennessee 20 88 Alabama 31 100 Arkansas 28 88 Total 248 1.207 Panama has proposed that the Inited States advance Sl.lHMi.tMNi.tMHi for immediate construct ion of strategic roads an. I railways as a step in proper defence of the Panama Canal zone in the world war. The sum would in effect be an advance on account of the |2B8v888 a year which the Inited Slates is to pay to Panama in perpetuity under the canal treaty.
