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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. It was learned yesterday that food adminstrator Herbert Hoover has decided to proceed along the following lines: drastic measures of control will next In; applied to dairy products and to sugar. Dairy men are warned that if their present husiness practices are calculated to gouge the babies of the United States and the Allies, these practices must be discontinued. Sugar will be controlled by the exports council as soon as the food administration gets into full swing and the orgy of unexphunable high prices in that commodity must end. A board of control for wheat, independent of the Prefixing board headed by President Garfield oi ll-liams College, will soon lw named and similar boards will be organized for each commodity over which the food administration from time to tune takes control. Hoarders of wheat for high prices will be compelled to disgorge or face proceedings in the United States Court. S-cretarv linker has sent to the "White House the nomination of forty-one new major generals and IliS new brigadier-generals to command the iew divisions of the regular army, the national guard anil the national army. At least two of the major generals and si.xty-four of the brigadier generals come from the ranks of the national guard. The others come from the regular army. Inasmuch as the President may materially change the list before sending it to the Senate, the names of the officers- selected for promotion were withheld. From Copenhagen comes the news that more than 1S0.000 residents of Hamburg now are being fed in the municipal soup kitchens, owing to the difficulty of obtaining food supplies for individual households. The number has fallen off somewhat v now that fresh vegetables are obtainable, it having reached the maximum in April, Slay and June, when between 230.000 and 1U0.000 persons visited the kitchens daily for their meals. It is expected that the number will increase again considerably during the coming winter. Premier Kerensky, in replying to a message of good will King George sent him at the beginning of the fourth year of the war, said: I am certain the Jtussian people will find the necessary strength to .surmount the serious trials of the. present time and conduct the world war to an end which will be -worthy of the terrible sacrifices already made by every nation which is struggling .for right against anight." All war purchases by the United States will be subjected to a most rigid system of inspection, it became known here today. At a recent conference between Secretary McAdoo and John K. Sague. appraiser of the port of New York, it was decided that the customs examiners at this port should pass upon the grade of all articles purchased by the government, except munitions. The Illinois State Council of Defense yesterday -was held directly responsible for the strike of 13,000 mine workers in Illinois, by Frank Farrington. president of the Illinois miners. Farrington specifically accused attorney Levy Mayer, of the council, of Uttering "inflammatory statements." He said the Strike has gotten beyond control of the union officials of this district. Xews from Madrid is to the effect that the whole of Snain has been placed under martial law following disorders resulting from the general strike, which is spreading. This decision was reached at a meeting of the cabinet, which devoted its entire time to a consideration of the strike. Instructions were sent to military authorities, who have been given full control. Eight of the Austrian steamships which have been interned in American ports since the war began have been acquired by the Kerr Navigation Corporation, Edward F., Geer. its president and treasurer, announced yesterday. The transaction represented, it was stated, an investment of 12,000,000, and was financed by Norwegian bankers. A dispatch from Rome says that peace proposals made by Pope Benedict have been delivered to all the belligerent governments. The pope suggests restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Boumania and peaceful solution of the problems of Alsace Lorraine, Trent, Triest and Poland, according to reports received from Vatican sources. Meats and meat products exported from the United States in the fiscal year 1917 amounted to nearlv 2,000,414,000 pounds. against 1,250,000 pounds in 1914, according to a compilation by the National City Bank made public yesterday. Exports of breadstuffs in 1917 were 357,000,000 bushels, against 125,000,000 in 1914. A Geriuau submarine of the largest and latest . type lias been towed into Zcebrugge, Belgium, by two torpedo boats, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. The submarine is reoorted to have been rammed in the North Sea and "danjaged severely, resulting in the loss of three of the crew. The First Illimois Artillery, Colonel Henry .7. Iteilly commanding, will be the first military organization from tltis state to see "service in France, according to announcement made yesterday by the War Department in Washington. A British destroyer has been sunk by a mine in the North Sea. The captain, two officers and forty-three men were saved, according to an official announcement made in London yesterday. Ontarios oat crop will probably total 125,000,000. bushels this year, which will be the largest crop on record, reports the commissioner of agriculture. The average crop is 100,000,000 bushels. Routers Limited has been officially informed that China has declared war upon Germany and Austria-Hungary, the declaration dating from 10 oclock yesterday morning. The Federal Trade Commission in Washington intimated the methods used in handling the coal situation in Illinois wera embarrassing to President Wilson. Coal operators and representatives of the mine workers planned an emergency meeting yesterday to diseuss a campaign to allay the unrest among the miners. The British Government purchased nearly all the wool sold by New Zealand in the 1910-17 season. Unsettled conditions threaten to tie ivj every mine in Illinois, reports indicate.
