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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Middle and northwestern states are to take immediate and drastic steps to fill their coal bins, and at prices short of exorbitant "war profits." Thirteen states, their representatives meeting in Chicago . at the invitation of the Illinois State Council of Defense, Thursday unanimously urged immediate federal action upon the President, lint in the meantime all states propose to go ahead, make inquiries, fix prices and otherwise control the situntion. A conference .between President Wilson, Secretary Daniels, Admiral Mayo .and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt today was looked upon as foreshadowing a more vigorous naval policy by the United States. For weeks there. have been growing demands that a sensational effort be made by this government to destroy Germanys facilities for launching U-boats unrestrained against the worlds commerce. Last rites for Old John Barleycorn will he said Saturday, September 8. Federal Food Administrator Hoover definitely ruled yesterday that the manufacture of whiskey must be stopped at 11 p. m. on the date named, as provided in the food act, which stipulates that thirty days from the approval of the act no foods, fruits, food materials or feeds shall be used in the production pf distilled spirits. A report from London says the British have progressed in the Ypres sector and captured Lange-mnrck. Berlin admits terrific battle in this sector, but says enemy successes were small. Canadians repel ten counter attacks against hill 70, north of Lens. Petrograd admits the retreat of Russo-ISoumaniau forces. Berlin reports enemy driven across the Sereth river; 3,500 prisoners taken. AVar volunteers for the regular army have reached a total of 190,347 men, bringing the roll to 7,000 in excess of the authorized war strength. Since the total quota for the expanded army was filled several days ago recruits have continued to enlist at an average of more than 1.000 men a day. They will he needed and the recruiting service will not relax its efforts. A steamer carrying American sawmill unit No. 3 to a British port recently was attacked in mid-ocean by two German submarines, according to a letter received from a member of the unit. Two torpedoes were fired at the ship and both missed I their mark by a few feet, the steamer escaping by its speed, the writer said. Thirty new divisions of German troops have been created since the beginning of ATon Hindenburgs retreat on the western front, according to an article by a well-known military critic, printed at Paris yesterday. He estimated the first three months of this years campaign cost Germany at least 510,000 men. United States Marshall E. R. Moore and Deputy M. L. Healy visited more than twenty towns this week in Iowa and warned more than 200 Germans, whose acts have been anything but loyal, that if there was not a cessation they would be locked up for the federal grand jury or interned during the war. Official announcement was made yesterday that the Netherlands minister at Berlin had been instructed to protest seriously to the German foreign office against the violation on August 7 of Dutch territorial waters by German airplane and torpedo boats off the Scheldt. Opinion of navy men at Washington is that the German undersea freighter Deutsehland had been captured, and not converted into a mar submarine, as reported from Copenhagen. The department had no official word, however. Appointment of Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, as ambassador at Constantinople is forefast. Count von Bernstorff has conferred with Imperial Chancellor Michaelis. From the 27,000 officers taken from the training camps just closed, a considerable number are being selected to begin immediately training in France under direction of Major-General Pershing. Another militia division will be rushed to France. It will bo the 20th, composed of New England guardsmen, and will- be commanded by Major General Clarence Edwards.
