The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 19, 1917

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JICH American blood from free doms veins soon will be used to quench the war flames of Europe. WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Unsettled tonight and Sunday; probable showers and cooler Sunday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1917 SIXTEEN PAGES THREE CENTS 25,000 VETS OF BORDER FRAY TO FRANCE AT ONCE General Pershing: "Will Lead First Division to Trenches. Stars and Stripes Soon To Be Seen on Firing Line. june 5 is Registration day All Men Between 21 and 30 to Answer Call Then. First Army of 500,000 Not Be Summoned Before Sept. NO ROOSEVELT ARMY NOW President Wilson Says He Fol lows Military Advice. ew Life Is Placed in Ameri can War Machinery. President WP?on' proclamation in full will be found on page of this edition of the Slate Journal. Washington, May 19. United States regular troops led by Major General l'ershing will carry the Stars and Stripes to the European battle front. Under orders from President Wil son a division of approximately 25,000 troops will go to France as soon as possible to co-operate with British and French forces. President Wilson will not use the authorization given in the war army bill signed by him last night to permit Colonel Roosevelt to raise a volunteer expedition for service in France. In an announcefent to this effect the pres ident said his action was based upon expert military advice from both sides of the water. Machinery for enrolling and sifting 10.000,000 men and paving the way for the selection of the first 500,000 men under the new war army law, based on the president's proclamation was set in motion by the war department today. Register June 5. The proclamation calls on all men between the aijes of 21 and 30, inclu sive, to register for military service on June 5. The drafted army will not be called to the colors until about September 1, but by that time the regular troops are expected to be in action against the Germans. The orders for the sending of regu lar troops to France, the statement re garding Colonel Roosevelt and the proclamation were issued by the pres ident last night after he had approved the war army bill. Heal War Thrills Pershing's 25,000 and the call of the president summoning the nation to arms, gave Washington a real war thrill today. It is certain the American flag will be seen on the firing line, probably lon before the selective service army (Continued on Page two) TWO ZEPS DOWN Big L-22 Fell Within Sight of the Danish Coast. Second Was Hit by Lightning and Exploded. Copenhagen, May 19. Destruction of the Zeppelin L-22, reported without details in an official British announce ment on Monday occurred off Esbjerg within sight of the Danish coast, ac cording to the accounts of eye wit nesses from villages on the shore These accounts indicate that not one but two Zeppelins were destroyed on that day, inasmuch as the explosion of an airship off Terschelling was re ported from Holland, at a point too distant to cover the same case. The loss of the second airship is attributed to lightning. Plunged Into Sea. The L-22 was seen off Esbjerg while making one of the customary daily observation tours up and down the coast of Jutland. It was engaged by a British force which presumably was looking for the German destroy ers that of late have been fishing up British mine fields in this region. The Zeppelin was not far from shore and was plainly visible. Its opponents could not be seen, but their presence was made known by the sound of guns- Witnesses saw the airship dart upward after the first round of shots. Then they heard a second salvo. The Zeppelin endeav ored to manuever itself out of range but with the-ihird broadside, it wen down. At first it sank slowly and then plunged down at great speed into the sea below the horizon. K. C. Broker's Clerk to Prison. Columbus. O., May 19. Weldon H. Wells. 2 5. Kansas City broker's clerk, next week will enter the Ohio peni tentiary for life. He was found guilty of second degree murder in criminal court here last nteht for the killing of Mona Simon, 26, in a hotel here January VI. FULL REGIMENT OF MARINES ARE SELECTED TODAY Colonel Doyan at Head of Land and Sea Fighters. 2,600 Veterans From Haiti, Cuba, Santo Domingo. EQUIPPED LIKE THE ARMY Organizations To Be Brought Home From Tropics. Only Seasoned Men Will Be Al lowed in Forces. Msv 1 9. A reeiment of marines, commanded by Col. j Charles A. Doyan and composed of j veterans of active service in Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba, will accom pany the army division to be sent to France under Major General Pershing. Secretary Daniels, in making the announcement today, said the marine regiment would hav a strength of 2,600 men. It will be armed, equipped and organized in the same way as the army regiments of the Pershing expeditionary force. Organizations which will compose the regiment will be brought home from the tropics immediately. Doyen is now commandant of the Washington marine barracks and president of the examining and retir ing board of the marine corps. He has seen real fighting service, having been in command of the marines aboard the Hancock, stationed in Do minican waters in 1914. Doyen has also seen many years' service on the west coast and in the Philippines. The marines will live up to their traditions in accompanying the Persh ing force. They have always been known as "the. first to fight. 'f Colonel Doyan now commands the Washington barracks in this city. Mr. Daniels pointed out that there would be no members of the marine organ ization sent who are not seasoned vet erans of several active campaigns. dairTmeFhere High Cost of Production and Current Prices Under Glass. Obrecht, Reed, Mohler, Haskell and JIanley on Program. Kansas dairymen are in Topeka for the annual convention this afternoon in the supreme court chambers in the state house. Governor Capper today welcomed the visiting milk and cream producers. Following the discussion of current dairy subjects, the visitors will be guests on a motor trip thru Topeka and to a number of Shawnee county dairy farms. Cost of production and current prices for dairy products are subjects which this afternoon will receive seri- ous attention at the hands of the dele gates. Some of the largest dairy farms in the state are represented at the meeting and it is probable that plans will be worked out for meeting the present high cost of foodstuffs and the question of marketing sup plies at a profit. The cost of produc tion ana the price to the consumer will be discussed by R. C. Obrecht of Topeka. A number of men will discuss the question with Obrecht and places on the program have been ac corded Frank Haskell of the Beatrice Creamery company: L. R. Manley of the Topeka Pure Milk company, and W. B. Van Horn, a prominent dairy man. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, and Prof. O. E. Reed, head of tho dairy division of the state agricultural college, will dis cuss the question of increased pro duction and profit on the dairy farm. J. C. Bigger, a Shawnee county dairy man, will tell of the science of "Milk ing Cows for Profit." As automobile trip late this after noon will be in charge of T. F. Doran, Topeka lawyer and dairyman. AIR SQUADTOWAR America's First Fighters Being Mobilized Today. They Probably Will Beat Gen eral Pershing to France. New York, May 19. America's first squadron of air fighters probably may beat General Pershing's expedition to France. The First Reserve Aero squadron of 154 men, 34 of them pilots and the balance mechanics, is being mobilized here today and will be on the French front within a few weeks, the Aero Club of America announced. The squadron wiy, fly French planes under the Stars and Stripes. The personnel comprises men trained at government aero schools at Mineola and Governor's Island. In the lists are Major Raynal C. Boiling, Captain James E. Miller, Leutenant Hobey Baker, the Princeton athlete and Lieutenant Blackmail. TOPEKA WILL PUT ON A BIG DISPLAY AT REGISTRATION Every Man of Military Age to March in Mammoth Parade. Greatest Patriotic Demonstra tion Topeka Ever Staged. HOLIDAY FOR WHOLE STATE Governor Urges Every Com munity to Hold Services. Bands Will March Thru Topeka All Day Long. Preliminary plans for the biggest patriotic demonstration in the history of Topeka on conscription day, June 5, were made today by the entertain ment committee of the Chamber of Commerce, headed by George Godfrey Moore, chairman. Like demonstra tions will be held in all cities in the United States and a telegram from the American Chamber of Commerce today instructed the local organiza tion to begin the immediate prepara tions of plans for the demonstra tion. Every man of the 7,500 or 8,000 in Topeka who will be obliged to regis ter on June 5, which will be a na tional holiday, will be asked to march in a monstrous" parade on Kansas av enue on the night of June 5. All To peka bands, uniformed lodges. Bat tery A, and veterans of tho Spanish American and Civil wars will be in vited to join the parade. Speeches at State House. The parade probably will start from some designated point on lower Kan sas avenue to Tenth street and thence west on Tenth street to the state house grounds where further patri otic demonstrations will be held. Speeches by prominent Topekans, songs in which thousands of Topekans assembled will participate and many other patriotic demonstrations wiil concludo the day's program. Bands ond fife and drum crops will be pressed into service in the morn ing and will march from one point to another in the city, probably stopping in front of registration places in the various voting precincts and playing patriotic airs. In the afternoon furth er demonstrations will be staged by school children carrying American flags. These are tentative plans formulated in haste today noon at the Chamber of Commerce. Chairman Moore ap pointed a committee of five, including James A. Troutman, Earl Akers, J. E. Austin and C. P. Buck, with himself as chairman, which will outline a com prehensive plan fcr the demonstration to be presented to the committee Tuesday noon. Get Competent Clerks. Hugh Fisher, assistant county at torney, suggested that the Chamber of Commerce volunteer its willingness to obtain competent clerks to work at the registration booths conscription day. He declared it would be impossible to accomplish the work necessary on that day unless competent persons were placed in charge of the work. He was appointed a committee of one to volunteer the services of the Chamber of Commerce to Mayor House. It is believed, however, that Mayor House will be vested with power to conscript any one he desires to serve on the reg istration board on that day. Members of the entertainment com mittee who will be in charge of the demonstration are: J. E. Austin, Ray Lattner, Robert Fullerton. Claude E. Frain, S. L. Courtney. William E. Brelsford, B. P. Bartlett, P. O. Hagen, Dr. George Allen, Harry J. Brockman, Robert Stone, James A. Troutman, Hugh Fisher, C. P. Buck, P. L. Dwin nell, G. S. Ismert, L. B. Holland, Earl Akers, E. W. Smelser, James E. Mc- tariand, is. L. Overton and L. C. Gibbs. A State HoUday. Registration day under the conscrip tion act will be a patriotic holiday in Kansas, according to a statement today by Governor Capper. Business houses will be urged to close for the day, patriotic services will be held thruout the day and Kansas will pay homage to the men who are later to answer the nation s call for service in the war with Germany. All details for the registration were today completed in the offices of Gov ernor Capper and Charles I. Martin, adjutant general. Instructions- were telegraphed to registration boards in each county and city with a population of more than thirty thousand. In the counties the sheriff, county clerk and county physician compose the county board. In the three large cities of the state Kansas City, Kan.. Topeka and (Continued on Page Twol PARAGRAPHS FROM WILSON'S MESSAGE All men between ages 21 and 30 inclusive must register. Any person failing to register or who registers falsely shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In case of temporary absence from his legal residence, a man must register by mail. Hours of registration shall be between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m.,- June 6, 1917, at the registration place in their home precincts. Those who are too ill to register are required to apply for instruc tions before June 5th as to how they may register by agents. Those absent from home on June 5th shall, when in cities of over 30,000 population, apply to the city clerk of the city wherein they may be sojourning. That registration day, while not a holiday, should be made "a great day of patriotic devotion and obli gation when the duty shall lie upon every man to see to it that the name of every male person of the designated ages is written on the list at honor." HE'LL CARRY FIRST ft SMm Gen. John Maj. Gen. John Joseph Pershing, who is to lead America's first battle unit against the Germans, has been a fighter of Indians, Filipinos and Mexi cans. A vear a.ero in Marnh. then a i brigadier general, he commanded the column which went into Mexico in search of Villa and held his line many months against menacing movements of Mexican troops. He served in Cuba in 1S98, and later led successful opera tions agains tthe Moros in the Philip pines. Karlier in his military career he had fought the Apache and Sioux Indians in the west. General Persh ing, who is nearly 57 years old, is a native of Missouri. At one time he intended to -be a lawyer, and gradu ated in a law course at the University of Nebraska. Later he entered West CIRCLES OF WAR! They Will Be Represented on Program Patriotic Rally. Xayy League Affair First Big City Meeting; Program Out, The Navy league, assisted by prac tically every large military, social and fraternal organization of Topeka, will hold the first real public patriotic meeting in Topeka Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the city auditorium. The rally will feature speakers from the three great circles of war life, the newspaper, the church and the fight ing forces themselves. Bishop James Wise of Topeka, will talk on "War From the Church Pulpit," and Henry J. Allen, representing the newspapers, will be the second speaker of the pro gram. C. P. Buck will talk of the navy and its scope in war times, its work and influence. Assembling hour for aft organiza tions has been set at 2:30 o'clock. Military organization including Bat- j tery A, the medical corps, the engi- neering corps, the signal corps and the Second regiment band will meet at 112 East Seventh street. In uniform they will march to the auditorium. The Good Government club. Wo men's Relief corps and Lincoln circle will meet at the transfer stationand will attend the meeting en masse. Lincoln Post and all other G. A. R. organizations will assemble at the Quincy street fire station. The Ro tary club, Co-op club and .the Satur day Night club, at the National hotel. Republican find Democratic political parties too, are co-operating with the League in their rally. Frank A. Whitney, Frank Chaney, James B. Mullin, and R. W. Blair, officers of the county political organizations have pledged their support. Preceding the addresses, thirty-five boys and girls from Quincy school, I including t ight prominent character izations, will give- a fifteen-minute patriotic pageant. The pageant was written by Fred Voiland. It was first j given at the High school exhibit and j was considered by those in charge of the Navy League meeting to be worth I repeating. i me irogram. Following is the program, including I the organ prelude, to be given at "2:30 by Dean Horace Whitehouse. Organ Prp.ude. .Dean Horace Whitehonse I Call to Order Justice I John Marshall, President Navy League 1 "The Star Spangled Banner," t Led by Paul B. Van Ness. j Prayerl Father F. M. Hayden Patriotic Pageant Quinny School Introduction of Chief Justice Johnston as chairman. Address C. P. Buck, Topeka j Address Henry J. Allen. Wichita "Onward Christian Soldiers." Address Bishop James Wise 1 "Your Flag and My Fla?" airs. hi. i. ixnonoerger Pledge of Loyalty tothe Flag. "America." f Chicago, May 19. Burglars who en tered the plant of the Italian Product Distributin gcompany -today scorned the office safe and cash register but stole $2,000 worth of cheese, mush rooms and olive oil. An automobile truck apparently was used to carry off the edibles. 201,000 In Chicago Red Cross. Chicago, May 19. Nearly 18.000 new memberships to Jhe Red Cross were gained in the campaign here yesterday, bringing Chicago's total to 201,035 and giving the city a big lead in tl.e nationwide drive for members. COLORS TO FRANCE J. Pershing. Point, receiving his diploma there in 1886. He married a daughter of Sena tor Warren of Wyoming, but lost wife and three children in a fire at the Presidio, San Francisco, two years ago. The war department's bureau of insular affairs was organized by Gen eral Pershing soon after the Spanish war and for a time he was its chief. During the Russo-Japanese war he acted as military attache at Tokio and was with Kuroki's army in Man churia. From 1906 to 1913 he was in the Philippines again, part of the time as governor of Moro province. Then he became commander of the Eighth brigade, with headquarters at San Francisco, and served In that ca pacity until the Mexican developments last year. ARD CASE TO JURY Testimony Completed In Sensa tional Iola Murder Case. Lawyers Launch Arguments; Jury Examines Bullet Holes. Iola, Kan., May 19. Taking testi mony in The trial of Roy Ard, charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Viola Ard, was completed here today and arguments of the opposing attor neys will be heard, this afternoon, with the prospect that the case will be given to the jury by tonight. The jury todiy spent more than an hour examining closely the bullet holes in the dress worn by the wealthy far mer's wife the night in November, 1914, when ehe was killed. LARGEST IN TIME Appropriation Measure Passed hy Senaet Greatest in History. Carries Wrar Budget for $3,342, 300,000 Expenditures. Washington, May 19. The largest appropriation bill in American his tory the war budget measure, carry ing $3,342,300,000, including $750, 000,000 for American merchant ships was today passed by the senate by a viva voce vote. The amendment authorizes the president to commandeer ship build ing facilities and factories. Aceptance of the ship building pro gram was in the senate committee of the whole. Senator Smith of Georgia withdrew his amendment to spend $100,000,000 of the appropriation for government purchase of freight cars. SHOWERS FOR SUNDAY Mr. Flora Also Promises a Drop In the Temperature. Hourly temperature readings for the day reported by the local office of the United States weather bureaus. 7 o'clock 68 11 o'clock ..78 8 o'clock. 70 j 12 o'clock SI 9 o'clock 71 1 o'clock 83 10 o'clock.. 73 I 2 o'clock 83 The wind was blowing at the rate of 20 miles an hour from the south this afternoon. Temperatures con tinued to rise thruout the day and this afternoon the average was reported 10 degrees above normal. Summer showers with thunder and lightning, are on the weather program for Sunday, according to S. D. Flora, local meteorologist. It will be the first real thunder and lightning rain of the season, .and will be a sure indica tion that winter1 frost has left the country. The official forecast promised un settled weather for tonight and Sun day with probable thunderstorms and cooler Sunday. Friday night the mer cury remained around the 67 degree mark making the night temperature average higher than the normal sum mer night. It was 11 degrees above the normal May night temperature. (Continued on Page Two.) R. R. REGIMENT OFF TO FRANCE IN 4 WEEKS Officers in Topeka to Recruit Men for Santa Fe Co. Captain Overpeck Has Orders to Get Beady at Once. 25 MEN GO FROM TOPEKA All Must Be Santa Fe Men and Well Qualified. Work Will Be to Build Up the Railroads of France. Headquarters to recruit twenty-five employes, Topeka's quota for the Santa Fe Railway company of the Wesfern Railway regiment which, it is officially announced, has been or dered to be ready to go to France in four weeks, have been established in the storehouse of the Santa Fe shops by Captain LeRoy Overpeck, ap pointed to command the Santa Fe company; Lieut S. S. McConnell and First Sergeant S. A. Morgan. This morning a meeting was held at the storehouse and the reasons for organization of the regiment, and the duties to which it will be assigned, were explained to thirty employes. Twenty men, fired by the fact that the regiment will be one of the first to the war zone, volunteered. Only five were accepted, however, because of the strict examinations and recommenda tions, the latter from' officials of the railway company, required. Get Men at Once. Captain Overpeck today announced that he and his detail will be in To peka today and tomorrow at the headquarters in the storehouse. The officers arrived in Topeka late Friday night. This is the fourth or fifth city at which Captain Overpeck has stop ped to recruit a quota of men. Twen ty applicants have already been finally accepted from different parts of the system. Captain Overpeck has in his possession more than 125 applications upon which he will act soon. The Santa Fe company's captain an nounced immediately after he arrived here that orders from the war depart ment were to the effect that the regi ment would see immediate service in France on French railroads. Orders, he said, have been received by Col. I. Langfitt, commanding the regiment, that the regiment, is to be ready to move in four weeks. Volunteers here for the company should report to Captain. Overpeck at the Topeka headquarters. They must be Santa Fe employes able to pass the examinations and requirements of en gineers and regiments similar to the one being organized in the regular army. Recommendations from offi cers of the company and' records of the men, made during the time they have been in the service of the Santa Fe, will receive much consideration. Six Railroads Represented. The. regiment to which the Santa Fe company is to belong is being organ ized by six big railroads which have easten terminals at Chicago. The road3 include the Santa Fe, the Great North ern, the Rock Island, the Illinois Cen tral, the St. Paul and the North western. The duty of the regiment will be to operate, build and reconstruct rail roads exclusively. Captain Overpeck announced that this would be done in France. Before going into actual duty the men in the regiment will receive but little technical military training. Ex perience they have gained in railroad service is approved as equivalent to such training. The men will, how ever, be trained in entering, occupying and leaving transports cleanly and properly. That, for their voyage across the Atlantic. Officers of the Santa Fe company, as announced in Thursday's issue of the State Journal, were picked from officials of the road. Overpeck and McConnell were stationed in official capacities at Emporia before receiving their appointments. Morgan was sta tioned in Chicago. The total enlist-d ment or me company, wnen tuny or ganized, will be 164 men. The Santa Fe company is being or ganized under the supervision of ex ecutive officials.- W. B. Storey, vice president in charge of operation, is devoting considerable time to tho project in view of making the Santa Fe unit one of the best to go into foreign service. T. R. IS A GOOD LOSER "I'll Work for Reoriiiting and Liberty Loan," Ho Beciares. New York, May 19. Asserting that the Roosevelt division would have been ready to sail for France on Mon day of next week, if it had been ac cepted when first offered, Colonel Roosevelt today expressed his pleas ure that Major General Pershing was to command the first American troops which will go to France. Pershing was one of Roosevelt's fa vorite army officers when Roosevelt was president. He was promoted over 862 other officers from a eaptaincy to become a brigadier general. "At this moment, I have nothing to say," the colonel replied, when questioned about President Wilson's decision not to send volunteers to I Europe for the present, "except that if the administration has deemed it wise to grant the request I made about raising a division three and one-half months ago, the division would have been ready to sail this coming Mon day. After sixty days intensive train ing in France, it would not have been distinguishable from the regulars and it would have taken away from train ing troops at home only' ome-twelfth of the number of regular officers that will be taken in the division of regu lars sent abroad. Let me say, how ever, how pleased I am that General Pershing, with a division, is going over. I am delighted that we are soon to have .men in the fighting line and, like every other good citizen, I am delighted to do everything I can to help the recruiting, and I appeal to every one to help the liberty loan." I DON'T COMPLAIN, EYES OF WORLD UPON US-KAISER An Appeal to People of Berlin to Withstand Hunger. Race With Father Time and Famine In Germany. POTATO SITUATION WORSE Altona and Hamburg Reduce Their Daily Rations. May Grant Bread Rations to Make Up. for Shortage. Copenhagen, May 19. The potato situation in Germany apparently is growing steadily worse, altho the weather no longer furnishes an ex cuse for scanty shipments. Follow ing the example of its sister city, Al tona. Hamburer. next week will reduce the weekly ration to twenty-four j ounces, substituting an allowance of i 640 grams of bread for the rest of the promised five pounds. To meet the dissatisfaction which this state of af fairs produces, the government has authorized grocers to sell all their re maining stock of canned vegetables next week. The Berlin potato ration is being maintained altho with great difficulty because of the moral effect of reduc ing at the capital the allowance promised so definitely after the April strike. In a remarkably worded official ap peal, the people of Berlin are implored to remember that the eyes of the world are upon them. They are ad monished to cease complaining and recognize thankfully how much bet ter conditions are at Berlin than in the war ravaged enemy lands of the British Isles, which it is said are headed toward actual starvation. Simultaneously, there are publish ed official arrangements for a race between Father Time and famine that shows how perilously scant is the margin of safety, under the most favorable conditions, between the mo ment when the present stock is ex hausted and the time new flour will be available. These plans provide for selection of the region where the har vest will ripen first under this year's climatic conditions to which reapers, threshing machines and military workers will be sent. All arrange ments have been made for rushing this grain to the mills. To grant compensatory bread ra-1 tions to even 10,000,000 of the em-! pires population to make up for lack of potatoes, would eat into this stock j at the rate of more than 7,000 tons' weekly. MRS. L0CKW00D )EAD She Was Pioneer Suffragist and Can didate for President. "Washington, May 19. Mrs. Belva A, B. Lockwood, the first woman ad mitted to practice before the supreme court, a pioneer in the woman suffrage Mrs. Belva Ixck wood, the only woman who has ever been a candidate for president. She died today. movement and the only woman whs ever -was a candidate for president of the United States, died here today after a long Illness, aged 86 years. AMERICA'S FIRST SHOT Former U. S. Officer Opens Balkan Offensive for Serbians. Paris. May 19. The first shot fired for America in the Balkans was fired by a former American military offi cer, now a worker with the American relief fund. According to word receiv ed today from Salonika. A five-inch gun of a Serbian battery on the Mace donian front was useo- The American, whose name was not given, asked permission to start the offensive by this shot. It was grant ed. He denned his American uniform and. fired six shells into the Teuton trenches while Serbian soldiers cheered. N IJ if- U.S. WILL BELGIUM Our First Troops to Aid in Holding King Albert's Line. Help Right Wrongs That Turned World Against Germany. ALL OF BELGIUM THAT IS LEFT International Duty of Protect ing Bleeding Nation's Strip. Sentimental Status of WaTing Flag Over Violated Soil. Washington, May 1 9. American troops, when they go to the European battle front, may take places to but tress the little Belgian line, so tenac iously holding fast to a strip on the extreme west all of Belgium that escaped tho German invaders. The war department today had no announcement to add to its terse bul letin of fast night which merely saivl Major General Pershing would lead a division of regulars abroad "at as early a dute as practicable." But President Wilson's statement explaining his reasons tor not accept ing at this time Colonel Roosevelt's offer of a division contained a phrase which has attracted much attention and suggested the possibility that American troops may go to Belgium to help right the wrongs which turn ed the werld against Germany. The president explained that th regular army officers whom the col onel wanted to take with his division were ."needed fofc" "the much moro pressing and necessary duty of train ing regular troops to be put in tho field in France and Belgium as fast as they can bo got ready." Oar Part for Humanity. So far as known, that was the first official mention of putting American troops in Belgium and the sentimental status of sending troops bearing the American flag to the violated soil of the little country in whose behalf all humanity has been aroused has quick ly been recognized. Those who favor it, point out that since the United States entered the war to defend hu manity against German aggression, its troops could not be better employed than In behalf of the most outraged nation of all humanity. Of course, American troops would be used otherwise, too, but in taking a place in the Belgian line they would release British and possibly French troops for other points. Destination a Secret No infoimation will be given out as to the dale or places of departure of General l ersHing and his staff, who will precede the troops to Europe. Destinations will also be withheld un til troops have been safely landed. Preparations for sending of tho first expedition of regulars moved for ward swifily today, but entirely with out publicity except as to the partici pation of the marines, a full regi ment of which was ordered abroad with tha legulars to make good tho "first to fight' slogan of the corps. it can be said authoritatively, now- evea, that the government propose&.tit give tne troops every possible advan tage of training and equipment to fit them for their task. Used t Big Guns All military advisers have agreed, that additional training within sound of the guns at the front must be given, to forces taken to the battlefields lit France before they take their places in the line. The regulars of the expe ditionary force are certain to hava that training. In placing new division in tne line of battle. Great Britain has, followed the practice of accustoming the men gradually tt the work before them. The first hundred thousand f the Kitchener army was put in with, each battalion flanked by veteran Brit ish or French troops, until it found itself. Pershinjr in Conference. Presumably General Pershing will select, in conference with French and British officials when he reaches tha scene of action, the location for ths American training camps and the part of the line to which American troops will later be assigned, will also bs determined then. The machinery to build the srmiM that are to follow Pershing's, waa la full motion today. Early reports in dicated a tremendous stimulation of recruiting, both for the regular army and the national guard, as a result of the announcement last night and ths publication of the president's procla mation fixing June 5 as registration day for the selective draft army. NORWAY IS ANGRY Steamship Seized by U-Boat In Four-Mile Limit. Serious Diplomatic Conflict May Result, Is Report. Christiania, Norway. May 19. Ths Norwegian steampship Thorum has been seized by a German submarine inside the four-mile limit which Nor way always has claimed as the bound ary of Norwegian territorial waters. I and a serious diplomatiovconfllct may result. The Thorum was chartered by ths government, to carry forage to north ern Norway, where there is a feed fatr.tn. A Vtrv..ian f ,m- .1. tempted to prevent the seizure but did I not use its guns, as the submarine was I outside be. Ihrae mile limit.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING,. MAY 19, 1917 FRANCE DRIVING DEMON ALCOHOL i FROM COUNTRY! Wine Loving Nation in Most i Effyetiye Check. Government Prohibits It in I Army and Navy Zones. METHOD IS STRICT CONTROL Each Commanding General Is 1 "GoTernor" of Territory. Women as Well as Men ot Allowed to Drink. Paris. May 19. While the United Btats is struggling with the war pro hibition problem, France is today quietly administering a most effective check to domon rum and its dire effect on itional efficiency in war time. In those districts of France where the highest efficiency is demanded of those engaged in vital war work or where vigilance and stamina are the order of the day strong; drink is barred. Alcohol has been driven from the army zones, naval zones, munition tries, isolated where it is incapable of material interference with the war trnerth of the nation. France's method is strict control. Tn every army zone of northern France, the commanding general is not only the supreme head of the militarj i roes but "governor" of the civilian population. In these zones alcohol has been driven out. In every naval zone of the Atlantic and Mediterranean casts strong drink is prohibited by the simple virtue of a decree issued by the admiral commanding the zone. Not only are sailors and men in na tional service denied the use of strong alcoholic beverages but all inhabitants of t he zone, women as well as men. Albert Thomas, minister of munitions, has issued similar decrees to regulate the alcoholic consumption of the great munition making areas when these areas are not in military or naval wines. No! only have prohibitory measures been decreed but heavy pen alties a re imposed when workers, by any chance, set bad examples for fel low workers. By Arbitrary Decree. The chamber of deputies recently denied the urgent request ot ex Premier Hi i and to allow the govern ment to take the linuor problem of the country in hand and control it by right of arbitrary decrees. Political complications Intervened. But since Fiance is at war this arbitrary control is placed in the hands of the military authorities who are today regulating me prooiem witn a arm hand. Pend ing the forthcoming peace when the great problem of general prohibition in France will flame up again in the rrencti legislature the present system of control today is simplicity itself. WANTS BOARD CLERKS Larimer After Volunteer Conscription Day Workers; Many Respond. Hugh Larimer, sheriff, has been using the telephone all day getting volunteers for the army registration boards June 5. The order calls for a board for each country precinct with a member of the board for each 80 persons to be registered. Larimer has not been turned down by many of the persons upon whom he has called. Most of them have been glad to give their services in this manner. He must arrange for the boards in all the precincts in Shawnee county outside of the city of Topeka. To Sleep Well TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE- Half a teaspoonful in a glass of water, taken befor retiring, in sures restful sleep. Buy a bottle. Adv. REVOLUTION Not alone in the European countries but right here in America. The methods, the system of doing things are revolutionized. In commer cial life, in professional work, in medical science methods change. So in the treatment ot rectal diseases. Methods have been revolutionized. Tis no longer necessary to go to a hospital, be placed under the in fluence of ether or other anaesthe sia, be snblect to the knife, com pelled to lie in the hospital bed for weeks in order to be FREE FROM FILES. Now methods, tried methods. sucveMsfnl methods arc now In use by some of the most progressive spcriallMs of the dav for the Cl'RE OK ril.ES. Think of going to the office of Dr. C. S. Wolfe, the rectal special-It.- receiving an application for PILB TUMORS, you go on with your work, you suffer none, the ir ritation caused by the tumors dim inishes, there is no soreness and in a short time Your Piles Are Cured You Are Free Dr. Wolfe will be triad to talk with Ton nhont this snlendid treatment. His FREE HOOK will he sent to you even if you live right here in Topeka. ome to the of rice when you have come to the point when you wish to know more of his methods. EXAMINATION' IS FREE OOXSCLTATIOX IS FREE The cost of a cure Is more reas onable than you may think. Come in. DR. C. S. WOLFE, Specialist 800 Kansas Ave. Topeka. Kan. Office hours regular except Wednes day end Thursday. These duys are fully occupied. WAR COUNCIL IN U. S. Allied Mission Suggests United Com mittee in Washington. Washington, May 1. Establish ment ot a Joint, permanent committee of all the allies to sit in Washington to facilitate America's co-operation in the war has been suggested by the French-British war missions. It be came known officially today. The allies have suggested that the United States send representatives to take part in the various committees on the conduct of the war in London and Paris. TOPEKAN KILLED! Joe Frank, Iowa Guardsman, Hit by a Train. Was Guarding1 a Rock Island Br id ere at Des Moines. pes Moines, la.. May 19. Joe Frank, private, Company B, Iowa Na tional Guard, whose parents reside at Topeka, Kan., was killed by a Chicago, Rock Island Pacific train at a bridge near Des Moines Friday. Frank was on guard duty at the bridge. There Is only ona Joe Frank listed in the city directory He was a cigar maker for R. T. Kreipe and left To peka about two years ago. He was about nineteen years of age at the time he resided in Topeka. His par ents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frank, 232 North Branner street. They could not be located this afternoon. Jacob Frank is laborer at the Santa Fe shops. TOPEKA WILL PUT (Continued from Page One) Wichita the city clerk and city physi cian will serve on the board. A Solemn Holiday. While the boards are conductlngthe registration, Kansas will observe a solemn, serious, patriotic holiday. Governor Capper has not as yet stated whetherd a special proclamation will be issued. Such action, however, is not regarded as necessary, as the pro clamation of President Wilson is suf ficient under the act of congress. The governor, however, has urged that all Kansans participate in the observance of registration day. "It is a duty which every loyal, pa triotic American should feel deeply," said Governor Capper. "No better demonstration can be made than by the observance of the day as a pa triotic holiday. I hope special ser vices or patriotic meetings can be arranged in every community. Kansas should show her loyalty to the men who are to answer the call to arms and I hope the day will be observed thruout the state. The state can make no better demonstration of her patriotism than by setting aside this one day to this worthy cause." Instructions Sent Out. In Instructions to county registra tion boards. Governor Capper sent telegraphic directions to the sheriff of each county. The instructions were in part as follows: "Your board is directed Immediate ly to select suitable persons as regis trars in each voting precinct in your county and arrange for suitable places far such registration. "Your board is hereby required to complete appointment of precinct reg istrars and selection ot registration placesand determine whether you havean ample supply of blank forms and report to governor on or before May twenty-fourht, nineteen hundred and seventeen. "Secretary of war suggests that it will take not less than one registrar for each eighty persons to be regis tered. Your board is authorized to appoint as many registrars in each precinct as will be necessary to com plete registration in one day. All registrars must take oath set out in regulations before notary public. All services required to be voluntary and witnout pay. 25,000 TROOPS (Continued from Page One) is ready for action. Seasoned veterans of the regular army will be with Pershing when the American flag is carried into the trenches. At the war department all hands turned today to rounding up the sup plies for the expedition. New Life Into Work. Congress and all departments xe sponded to the announcement made at the w hue House last night. It seemed to put new life into the war machin pry "on the hill," where weeks have dragged along in preparing emergency measures. Cleaning Vp Calendar. With the army bill out cf the way the increase bill, boosting the number of enlisted men in the navy from 87.000 to 150,000 and the marine corps from 17,000 to 30,000 will be ready for the president's signature late to day. "Spy bills" should be cleaned up early next week. The war budget bill may be disposed ot today in the senate, r urtnermore, congress prom ises to get down to hard work on the revenue and food bills before next week is over. Appeal to Republicans. The president last night made a personal appeal to Senators Knox, Lodge and Gallinger, all Republicans, to get behind the war program and push it to fruition with all speed pos sible. The president apparently i! counting on Republicans as much as Democrats, if not more, to hasten thru the program. T. R. Issue Not Dead. There was at the capitol, some com mendation and some criticism of the president's attitude regarding the Roosevelt volunteers issue. Army men, generally, however, think vv ll son has done the right thing. But there were some senators and repre sentatives who declared they would take the first opportunity publicly to condemn Wilson "for not mobilizing Roosevelt." The issue they declared Is still far from dead Move Aviation School. Chicago, May 19. Thirty carloads or military aviation equipment, includ ing 208 aeroplanes, are here today preparatory to the removal to Chicago of the army aviation school which has been at Memphis. Tenn. Need 10,000 Men. New York, May 19. The 10.000 men required to place the New York National Guard on a war footing by July 15 will be enlisted three times over, according to Col. Charles H snerrlll, recruiting officer.. "FINEST BODY OF TROOPS IN WORLD THESE REGULARS" That Was Foreign Military Ob serTer's Idea of Pershing Men. They Marched 23 Miles a Day Without Water and Sang! FLOWER OF AMERICAN ARMY First Expedition to France Will Make Country Proud. And They Will Follow "Black jack" Pershing to H Washington. May 19. "The finest body of troops in the world" that is what a foreign military observer ex claimed as" Pershing's veterans swung across the Mexican border four months ago. And these are the men .that will make up "Pershing's twenty-five thou sand" the first American troops or dered to France. They are the men that pushed across hee "Hell Hike" twenty-three miles without water in a withering sun in one day and pitched camp singing. x America and the allies will be proud of these men. They are the flower of tne army. In the 12,000 men that followed Pershing into Mexico after Villa the United States has the best trained body of men and trained for real fighting that can be found in the world. Pershing Trained Them. After the first rush into Chihuahua the little army settled down on the sun-baked plains to wait. While they waited Pershing gave them the hard est continuous round of training any American iorc.es nave ever undergone. For eleven months they drilled, drilled. armea. The war department was wakinsr tin The lessons of the world war were eagerly seized upon. Every phase ot r-uropean warfare was studied and the results drilled into the men. Practice Modern Warfare. Modern trench fighting was Dracticed day by day.- Under military men who had watched Kitchener whip his .mil lions into shape and seen real trench fighting on the allied fronts, the army dug the new style trenches and prac- Liueru suing over me lop. or months they plowed across the desert on hikes cf ten, fifteen and twenty miles. It was severe training. "Over the Top." But the fruits should send a thrill thru the nation when they "go over" the front trenches the first time in France. As the little army marched across the international line at Columbus, N. M., on the morning of February 5, the foreign military attache watched them. In a thirteen-mile column, with Pershing at the head, they poured sil ently down the dusty slope, "sand clouds" rising from the hot desert. The little group on the border line stood fascinated Then the attache, who had seen thousands of men train, flght and die. broke the silence. "They're the finest body of fighting men in the world," he said. "They've had such training as no other army has had. And in them is the spirit of you Americans t I don't know what it is but I can see it in the swing of their shoulders and tne rhythm of their march." These men are now waiting: for the word. As an old grizzled first sergeant said while the troops were marching out: xney a follow '.Blackjack' Persh ing to h And "Blackjack" Pershing is the man to lead them there if need be. SHOWERS FOR SUNDAY (Continued from Page One.) By 2 o'clock the mercury had risen to S5. High temperatures were reported from all over the country and no cold spell was recorded on the weather map. North Dakota even registered 4 degrees and Wyoming, too, was hot. In Kansas the same temperature prevailed over the entire state. The highest temperature on record for this date was 89, in 15'11, and the lowest 80, in 1888. WEATHER IABIJI. Famished by the weather bureau office. Topeka. Kansas, for the twenty-four hoars ending at 7 a. m. Saturday. stations. High. Low. Prec. Wther. Boston Buffalo, N..Y Calgary, Alb Chicago, 111. CIm-innatl. O. 72 SO 0 Fair 00 4S 0 Clear 62 no 0 Clear 74 ISO 0 Cloudy R4 (14 .OB Clear 80 72 0 Clear 76 no 0 Cloudy fW a n Clear 7s r-2 .08 Fair Rfi (V) 0 Cloudy R r o Cloudy .7 TO O Clear 8 4S 0 Cloudy R 04 0 Clear so fa o Cloudy (50 SO .14 Clear SO (14 0 Clear OH m a Clear S S4 O Fair 90 64 0 Fair T4 52 .24 Clenr, S2 SR .10 Clear 02 KO .OS Rain R4 K .04 Cloudy s 00 .10 Cloudy 72 48 0 Clear 60 4S O. Cloudy 72 44 .OS Ratn 04 40 .02 Rain 70 42 .04 Cloudy 02 44 .04 Rain 04 SR o Clear SO CI O Clear So ks .jo clear Sd RS O Clear SS 0 Cloudy Corpus Christ!, I'enver. i oi lies Moinea. Ia. Puluth. Minn EI Paso. Tex Pt Worth. Tex... Galveston. Tex. Havre. Mont Jacksonville. Fla.-. Little Rook. Ark... I .os Angeles. Cal.. New Orleans. La.. New York, N. Y.. N. Platte. Neb Oklahoma, Okla. Phoenix, rrz. Pittsburg, Pa 1'ortlanrt. fire. St. Louis, Mo St. Paul, Minn..... Salt Lake. Ptan San Francisco. Cal. Sault Ste. Marie.. Seattle. Wash. Sheridan .Wye. Spokane. Wash. Swift Current Sas. Tampa, Fla Toledo, Ohio Washington. D. C. Winnipeg. Man. Kansas Weather Report. Stations. High. Low. Prec. W'ther. Anthony Coldwater. Concordia. CoMidge rioilge City Ftn ports. Eureka. Ft. Scott. Gnodland. Hanover. Haya. Hortoo lola Liberal McPhersoti. Mckivlll3. Manhattan Phlllipsbnrg Scott City Sensn TOrEKA Ttioa Wichita Kansas ('It V. 64 T Pair Pfl 04 o Fair A 0 Clear BO ISO o Clear 02 62 0 Fair 86 m T Cloudy 86 62 Clear 81 4 0 Cloody 84 no o Cloudy SO 60 0 Clear 98 M 0 CloudT 88 62 0 Fair S4 48 0 Fair V SO O floudv 04 04 0 CloudT 05 62 0 Fair 00 60 0 Clondy 8 IS6 Clear 04 m O Fair 86 8 Clear SO 67 O Cloudy 04 .18 0 Clenr 00 (K o CloudT SO 70 0 Clouily SS 70 0 Clear St. Joseph SS i Stage of river at Topeka 4.8 feet. WILL ASK FREEDOM Sinn Felners Don't Want Represen tation at Convention. Dublin. May 19. The Sinn Felners will not seek representation at the Proposed convention to settle the Irish problem nor will they pay regard to any constitution agreed upon by that convention. Their policy, as stated by their official organ. Nation ality, is to present Ireland's' case for Independence at the peace conference. FOR FT. RILEY "Y" Officials Have ProTided Com fortable, Roomy Quarters. Music for the Soldiers Bought in Topeka Today. War work of the State T. -M. C. A. has taken definite strides this week with the opetiing of the officers' train ing school at Fort Riley. It was an nounced this morning that the old Ar tillery Post exchange building of the camp has been given to the Y. M. C. A. as temporary headquarters for its work. Writing and amusement equip ment were purchased this morning in Topeka and were sent to the camp im mediately. A piano and victrola and music will be there with the real open ing set for Monday morning. The building itself, according to the report of Clifford Pierce, state secre tary, who returned from Fort Riley Friday night, is exactly what the asso ciation wanted. It is nearly 100 feet long and 70 wide and two stories high. The old barracks have an ideal place for gymnasium for the soldier, six bowling alleys, a large reading room and a comfortable lobby. Nearly 200 magazines and newspapers will be sub scribed Jto I) the Y. M. All of these will Include "home town" papers and magazines of the first class. The building will accommodate 2.500 men. Six More Buildings. Plans for at least six mora asso ciation buildings are being made by me omciais. cacn brigade stationed at the camps in Kansas will have a club house with five secretaries. With tne mobilizing of the national guards and volunteer companies nrobablv ten more buildings will be erected be- iore winter. To finance this work the state has been divided into fourteen districts each one to contribute a set amount to the $3,000,000 national war work fund to be raised by the association. Kansas' share of this national fund amounts to $75,000 and Topeka, in the fifth district, will raise $10,000. The local work will be in charge of A. D. Gray and T. E. Prout, secretary of the railroad Y. M. C. A. here. Altho Kansas is to raise only $75, 000. with Fort Riley named as the mobilization point for the central western states, nearly three times that sum will be spent for the encamped soldiers. Coffeyville has started on a $5,000 campaign and according to A. R. Elliott, has reported great success. Mankato, one of the small er towns interested in the campaign, has raised $250 which will be in the hands of the state association by the time the building at Fort Riley opens. Topekans on Committee. Topeka men named on the Topeka wax work committee are: S. E. Cobb, chairman; A. D. Gray, Frank P. MacLennan, W. W. Bowman, David Bowie, Dr. S. J. Crumbine, J. B. Larimer, C. S. Elliott, R. EL Rut ledge, J. E. Griest, James B. Mullin. George Guild, T. C. Whittaker, Fred Derby, S. N. Hawkes, Frank Camp bell, Marco Morrow, B. P. Bartlett, Morton Albaugh, George Sorenson, Fred Voiland, Justice J. S. West, E. L. Copeland, Earl Akers, Charles Adams, B. B. JEitleman, E. C. Carswell, the Rev. E. J. Kulp, L. F. Shirk, O. H. White, C. D. Skinner, H. B. Wilson, J.. R. Sargent. Maj. A, M. Harvey, Jack Dillon, Robt. Stone, Roy Thomp son, F. J. Funk, W. H. Rutter, W. O. Rigby, Frank Bonebrake, Scott Hop kins, Samuel Lux, Charles Wolff. J. C. Bowman, O. E. Wright. A. A. Godard, Frank A. Thomas. George E. McEn tire, E. H. Crosby, H. A,. Auerbach, A. P. McKown, C. A. Karlan, James A. Troutman. BRITISH LOSE SEAFIGHT Austrians Sink Fourteen "Drifters" and Torpedo Cruiser. London. May 19. For the first time in the war, British and Austro-Hun-garian naval forces have clashed. The battle, which took place in the Adriatic Tuesday, was reported by the admiral ty today, tho only meagre details were given. Austrian light cruisers, it ap pears, descended in a raid upon a flo tilla of British "drifters," sinking four teen of them. A lively engagement be tween one or more British warships and the Austrians ensued. The British light cruiser Dartmouth was torpedoed but reached port. There were eighteen casualties aboard the Dartmouth. The Dartmouth, a vessel of 6,250 tons, was laid down In 1909. Six inchers were her heaviest guns. "Drifters is the term applied to small power boats employed in submarine chasing. COMSTOCK IS DEAD Representative From Indiana Was a Veteran of Civil War. Washington, May 19. Representa tive Daniel W. Comstock of Indiana, died here early this morning of pneu monia. He was 77 years old and one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil war now jservlng in the house. Kodak Time Now that Spring weather is here, all out-of-doors is an in viting field foryour Kodak. Let us supply your Kodak needs we've a full assort ment of Kodaks, Films and Kodakers Supplies- We do the very best of de veloping and printing. We give you the best results from every exposure, speed ily and satisfactdVily. Geo. W. Stansfield DRUGGIST 632 Kansas Avenue RUSSIA LEADERS WILL STAND FIRM AGAINST KAISER First Official Act of War Minis ter Stiffens Nation. Gorernment Is United in Rejec tion Separate Peace. ROME IS AFIRE WITH JOY Italian Offensive Is an All-Victorious Progress. Wares of Germans Are Be-! pulsed on French Front. Fetrograd. May 19. The provision al government declared today that It was united in the rejection of a sep arate peace and that it adopts, as its aim, the re-establishment of a gen eral peace which will not tend either to domination over other nations or to the seizure of their national posses sions a peace without annexations or indemnities. New Treaties. Russia's new coalition government will insist on revision of all existing treaties pledging the nation with its allies and will demand full publicity and revision of all peace terms and war aims. The new government does not insist on publication of present internal agreements that treaties which were entered into by the old regime in Rus sia. It insists, however, that these old agreements be abrogated and new compacts, with the existing govern ment, replace them. These new agreements, in line with the present Russian slogan of publicity and no se cret diplomacy,, will be made public in full. It was stated today that President Wilson's aid would be invoked to carry out this program and second the Rus sian government's demands on the al lies for revision of treaties and or peace terms. Frencn and British socialist dele gations now here announced they would recommend such steps to their respective governments. "The "revision of peace terms" spec ified above, probably means the nejv Russian government desires the allies to express adherence to the war of no forcible annexations ana no con tributions." The phrase has been dis torted by German propaganda and Incorrect translation, into "no annexa tions and no indemnities." Such war aim exactly coincides with that of Germany. i The correct translation, and the real intent of the Russians, however, is not in any way m accord with the German plan. Under the Russian plan Russia would be justified in demanding revocation of the annexation Uy Ger many of Alsace and Lorraine, unless the people of those provinces them selves voted for such annexation and of registering disapproval of the levy- of purely punitive indemnities Mich as Germany has levied on Bel gium. Petrograd, May 19. It appeared today that the "Lloyd George of Rus sia" had been found. He is A. F. Kerensky, minister of war and marine under the new coalition cabinet, which is uniting all factions into a har monious administration. On the first day in his new post, Kerensky's energy was manifest by two force'ul appeals to the people to fight the right fight. Orders to the troops and the sailors indicated the new war head would exact implicit discipline. A speech which he deliv ered to members of the peasants' con gress was an eloquent plea for "a last heroic effort." "Let us show the world," he urged", "that w not only know how to destroy but to .create." Turning from the peasant delegates to a group of soldiers' and workmen's delegates present, he admonished: "I call on you to make a last heroic effort to hep me show the world that the Russian army has not demolished the temple. The restoration of disci pline is essential Ivpropose to make it like iron. I am sure to succeed." Kerensky also announced today he will shortly go to the front to address the soldier and spur them to renewed activity. A Call to Troops. Petrograd, May 19. Issuance of a powerful appeal to the army and navy to stand firm against the enemy, was the nrst official act of the new mm vi miu mimic, ii. x-. xieieu- sky, today. "The country-is endangered," he de clared. "Each must help avert that danger. The minister of war and marine will refuse any request to re sign based on a desire to escape re sponsibility at such a grave time. "Deserters are enjoined to return to the army and the fleet by May 28, after which date infractions will-be severely punished." As if to give weight to the order, all generals and troop commanders, who have been in Petrograd returned to their forces today. The government expresses its con viction that the Russian army will not suffer thts Germans to destroy Rus sia's western allies. Russians Active. Berlin, May 19. More active ar tillery fighting on the Russo-Galician front is reported in today's war office announcement which says the Russian fire was answered in an energetic manner by the Germans. Fighting In Macedonia. London, May 19. "The enemy again has heavily counter-attacked our new positions on the Struma front (Macedonia) but were driven back with loss," says an official announce ment today. "The royal naval air ser vice successfully bombed the airdrome and camp at Prams." Hold Key 4o Austrian Iefenses. Rome, May 19 The Italians yes terday reached the crests ofvhill 651 in the Vodice. These positions are the key to the Austrian defenses north of Monte Santo. The New Cabinet. The government and democratic parties have agreed to distribute the portfolios of the new cabinet as fol lows: Premier and minister of interior Prince Lvoff. Minister of foreign affairs Tereschtenko. Commerce and iudustry Konovaloff. State controller Godneff, socialist. La ber Skobeleff. Justice Pereveiewff. Food and auppliea Pieschehonoff, social ist. War and marine Kerensky. Finance Shlngaroff- Poat and telegraphs Tseretelll. Ways and communications Nekrftzeff. Education Manuiloff. Profeaeor Grimm Is appointed minister for affairs concerning th constituent as- semniy, ana rnnce bnait uovesy, secretary of the first duma, is minister of public aid. Waves of Germans Repulsed. Paris, May 19. -The Germans once more returned to the attack on the Aisne from last night, hurling troops in waves against the French positions northwest of Brayne-En-Daonnois. The Germans were unable to reach the French lines except on the extreme western part of the front attacked where some German detachments won a footing in advanced trenches. The losses have been tremendous in these struggles. Austrian Losses. Rome, May 19. Austrian casualties to Tuesday in General Cadorna's great offensive drive were reliably estimat ed today at 12,000 dead, wounded and missing. Since that date sweeping further successes have probably in flicted almost as great casualties xm the enemy. Rome Is Afire. Rome is afire with enthusiasm over the victorious progress of the Italian troops. Front dispatches today relat ed an almost unceasing battle along the entir-j front, attacks and counter attacks from the enemy melting into a gigantic conflict. Much of the fight ing is nana to nana. Gorizia is suffering severely from Austrian bombardment. Austrian Side of It. Vienna. May 19. Abandonment of Kuk hill, southeast of Plava "after two days of the fiercest fighting." was announced in the Austrian official statement of today. "In the Gorizia region," the state ment continued, "there were dense massed night attacks which were stop ped. Around Montsanto a stroner at tack in the morning was repelled in nana to nana ngnting. "So far we have taken three thou sand prisoners." British Are Quiet. London, May 19. The British of fensive was apparently deadlocked again today with Hindenburg's massed reserve forces. Field Marshal Haig reported merely a number of raiding encounters and no actions of major importance. "Northeast of Gouzeam court we carried out a successful raid last night and brought back prisoners and a machine gun," the statement said. "East of Loos, northwest of Armentieres and east of Ypres hostile raids were repulsed." CUT NUMBER TRAINS St. Louis Railway Heads Would Fa cilitate Freight and Troop Traffic St. Louis, Mo., May 19. Executives of the five railroads having general offices in St. Louis met here Friday to consider means of reducing the number of trains and in facilitating the movement of freight and troops The meeting was held in the office of B. F. Bush, receiver of the Mis souri Pacific system. He said that plans would be considered for the im mediate elimination of all extra pas senger train service and for the dis continuance of some regular thru trains when the movement begins. Coach and locomotive equipment, he said, would be pooled for the move ment of troops. The roads represented at the confer ence werti the Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain, the Wabash, the St. Louis San Francisco, the Missouri, Kan sas Tiexas and the St. Louis Southwestern and the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific- Xo Boxing In Jfew York. Albany, May 19. Profession boxing-will be illegal in New York after November 16. Governor Whitman signed the Slater bill, which is to be come effective on that date and which repeals present laws governing the sporty TODAY'S MARKET "REPORTS Chicago, May 19. WHEAT Stoppage of all new buylna: of future deliveries of wbeat'liat had the effect of cutting down prices of such optiona 12 to 224 cents as compared with a week ago. Corn quota tions meanwhile have risen 414 to 4 cents, oats show virtually no change and provi sions vary from 57 cents decline to so ad vance of 20 cents. Measures adopted to halt the recent wild upward flight of the wheat market appeared only to aacelerate the excited rush to purchase. It had been boned tbnt bar ring of all transactions In Mav delivery would enforce in the trade a sufficient de gree of calmness to render any more radical expedient unnecessary. The Immediate re sult, however, was exactly the reverse, with would-be buyers frantically bidding and nothing for sale. A sharp bulge in wheat values took place later. Strength of other grain ap peared to be largely responsible. The close was unsettled. 12c net higher, with July at $2.40 and Sept. at $2.17. CORN Corn hardened in price owing chiefly to signs of urgent borne and for eign aemana I'llUl.. I J 1 J strength owing to scarcity of sellers and to small receipts. Reports of ideal growth conaitions iauea to nave any lasting Dear ish effect. After opening oft to a like advance, the market rose to well above yesterday's close. It was aald current arrivals of corn were not sufficient to meet the lnduatriul demand. Upturns in prices continued un checked until Just before the end of the ses sion. The close was nervous, with gains of 3c to 4Vic net OATS Oats were independently strong because of an active export call. PROVISIONS Provisions averaged higher. OATS In oata the large export sales of late acted as a stimulus to buyers. Higher quotations on nogs uitea provisions. Chtcaso Grata and Fork Market. (The range of prices for grain futures on the Chicago Board of Trade as reported by the Topeka Board of Trade.) Chicago, May 19. uioae Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT July ..223 240 223 240 228 Sept ..205 222 202 217 205 CORN July ..152- 157 l.M4 1554- 152H- Sept ..1443- 14914 14 114- Itihi-OAT-S July 66- 6814 BfiiA 67- 66H- Sept 56i- 5S 564 S71- S6V4 PORK July ..38.70 38.85 3S.G0 38.65 28.42 LARD July ..22.70 22.82 22.70 22.82 22.62- Sept ..22.80 22.90 22. SO 22.92 22.72 RIBS JulT ..20.87 20.92 20.75 20. K 20.70 Sept ..20.95 21.12 20.92 21.07 20.65 Kansas Cttr Grain Fatnros. (The range of prices for grain futures on the Kanaaa City Board of Trade as re ported by the Topeka Board of Trade.) Kansas City, May 19. Close High Low Today Yes. 300 284 300 2S5 240 225 240 224 y. 215 204 215 204 161H ina 155 130H 154V 150 14614 mu, is'a 141V4 105V4 loo 100 iuo Open WHEAT May July ..225 Sept ..204 CORN May ..11V4 Julv ..150i Sept .141 LVc ..10OV4 Kansas City Grain Market. Kansas City. Mo.. May 111 WHEAT Cash Market 5c to 10c higher. No. 2, hard. $2.0TS3.0SH No. 3. $2.893.00 No. J, red, to.uu; jno. a. S2.vug.:.vs. CORN Market iic to 4c higher. No. 2, mixed, $l.tio; No. 3, S1.631.64: No. 2, white, $1.61.70: No. S, $1.631.60; tie. 2. yellow. $1 .66(81.67: No. 3. $1.6o. OATS Market c to lc higher. No. 4, white. 72rji5c: No. 2, mixed, 70VaTH4c BYE $2.05210. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $3.75(33.90. HAY Market scchaoged. SHORTS $1.801.9 BRAN $1.50. Wheat receipts 82 cars. Chicas-o Grain and Perk Market Chicago. May, 19. WHEAT Close July. $2.40: September, $2.17. CORN July, l-5ii4Q4; September, $1.4814. OATS July, 67Hc; September, 67 (9 9c. PORK May, $38.60; July. $38.65. LARD May, $22.70; July, $22.82; Septem. ber, $22.92. KIliS May. $20.80; July, $20.92; Septem ber, $21.0721.10. Kenaas City Grata Market. Kansas City. Mo.. Mav IS. Cloae: May. $3.00: July. $2.40: September, $2.15. cuka May, fl.lil.; July. H.M; (Sep tember, $1.45 December, $1.0514. Liverpool Grain Market. Liverpool, May 19. WHEAT Market dull and easier. American advance offaet by continued free and increasing floating quantities. CORN Moderate offerings and general demand firm. DATS Kaay with Increased srrlTals and renucea consumption. American orrera in creasing. Uuifed. Kine-dom stocks fair and continental demand continues especially rroin Italy ana ranee. New Tork Sua-ar Market. New York, May 19. SUGAR Raw augar firm; molasses. $5.14 centrifugal, $6.02; refined steady fine granulated, $7.5CHg8.50. Chleag-o Produce Market. Chicago. May 10. BUTTER Market higher. Creamery. 3338c. EGGS Market hiher. Firsts. S4(S36c ordinary firste. :il v.faM'aC at mark cases included. 31fiz34U,c. POTATOES Potatoes and live poultry unchanged. Kew Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, May 19 COTTON Spot Market firm and unchauged. Middling, Kansas City Produce Market Kanaaa City, May 19. BUTTER Butter and poultry unchanged. EGGS Firsts, 34c. New Tork Money. Market. New York. May 19. MONEY' Mercantile paper 4-5 per cent. Sterling 60 day billa, 4.72: commercial 60 day bills on banks. 4.71',: commercial w days Dills, f.iiv. demaud, 4.75 9-16: cables, 4.767-10-, franca demand, 5.73; cables, 5.72. Guilders, de mand, 41: cables, 41 Hi. Lires demand 7.01: cables. 7.00. Rubles, demand. 28 cables. 28. Bar silver. 74. Mexican dollara. 57ts- Government bonds 4eadyj ttaiiroao. Donas neavy. New Tork toek Market. Wall St.. New York. May 19. A precipl tate decline of 6 points in Denver Rio Grande preferred to 20, representing a loss of ten points in two days, was the noteworthy lncideut of today a early trad ing. The weakness of Denver reaulted from yesterday's decision of the federal court imposing a penalty in excess or $.tj, 000.000 against the road. Western Pacific, which is expected to benefit Dy the court ruling, rose almost 2 pointa. In other quar ters or the list over-night developments at Washington occasionea moderate re atraint. On secondary offerings, however. leaders showed average gains of a point on verr llflrht dealings. Dullness was the outstanding featftre of today s limited session, latest events la re lation to tne war maKins; lor general cau tion. Prices held remarkably well in the main, the only marked exception being shown by the motor group which added to vesterday'a setback by 2 to 4 pointa. A ttti point break in Denver Rio Grande preferred followed publication of an im portant court decision against that road. Other rails were firm. United States steel and affiliated industrials aa well as popular equipments ana munmona are inciinea to regain part of yeaterday's late reversal. Specialties and utilities were featured by Industrial alcohol, distillers, securities and Ohio gas showed advanced of 1 to 2 ooints. Final auotatlona were onlT slight ly changed from the best. The closing was atrong. Salea approximated 250,000 snarea. .ponaB were neavy. New Tork Stock Market. (Furnished by Topeka Board of Trade.) New York, May 19. Today Yes. Am. Beet Sugar 90 894 Anaconda Mining 80Mi 79V4 A., T. S. F., e 100 Bait. Ohio 60H 68 Central Leather 80 86 Chesa. Ohio 57J 57t4 C, M. St. P, e 73 73J Chino. Copper 55 64 Col. Fnel Iron 51 5014 Oreat Northern. D 1054 105iSfc Inspiration 571 57 Miami Copper .19 X Missouri Pacific 27T 26 Penn. Railroad 52T4 62, Reading, c 88 RSJ4 Southern Pacific 91 Union Pacific, e 135 144 U. S. Steei. c -,12214 121 Mi Utah Copper, c 11314 112 White Motors 4414 4414 Wabash Ilia Kansas City CIto Stock Market. Kansas City. May 19. HOGS Hog re ceipts 500; market 6c to 10c higher. Bulk, $15 80ai.35: heavy. $16.3016.45 packers and butchers. $16 00 16.35; light, l5.50j4 16.10; plBS. $13.5041 15.00. CATTLE Cattle receipts 500; market steady. Prime fed steers. $12.50313.25; dressed beef steers, $10 00(312.25; western steers, $9.0O13.00: southern steers, $H.O0a 12.00; cows. $7.00(&11.25: heifers. JS.OOC 12.25; atockers and feeders, 005.11.00; bullB. $S 00(S10.50; calves. $8.0014.00. SHEEP Sheep receipts 500; market ttMdr T.nniha. SI 5.00(5? 20. 10 vearllno-a. $14 OOia 17.00 wethers, $13.00(815.50; urn. $12 (XXji 15.00; stockers and feeders, $8.00S lO.ou. Chleac-o Live Stock Market rhlmiro Mav 19. HOGS Hog recelnts 7.000; market 5c to loc above yeaterrlny'B average. Bulk, $15 90(131635; light, $15.1.Vov lw.no: mixea, i,f.u(a-io.o; neavy, Mo.iutto 16.50; rough, 15.7(Xa,15.85; pigs, $10.50g 14.60. CATTLE tattle receipta oou; market steady. Native beef cattle, $9.6013.70: stockers and feeders, $7.6010.40: cowa and heifers. $.6.VSU.60: calves, $10.00(gl4.75. RHKhf hneep receipts r.wiu; marsex steady. WetherB. $12.75( 15.75 lninbs, $15.75g20.40; springs, $15.0lKS21.00. Grain Gossip. (Furnished by Topeka Board of Trad.) Minneapolis wheat Btocks have decreased 820.000 bushels this week. blevator biocks oi wneat in xvansaa city have decreased 276.752 bushels thus far thia week and corn stocks Increased 13,680 bushels. Exports Irom tne Lnltea states-ana Can ada yesterday were 600.000 bushels of whejit. 11.000 barrels of flour. 244.000 bush els of corn. 389.000 bushels of oata wheat sad flour combined, 650000 bushels. Exporta of wheat and flour from the United States and Canada this week, ac cording to Bradatreet's, were 4,608,000 bushels, compared with 8.508.000 bushels last week and 9,805,000 bushels a year ago. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Otnr Own Of flora at f!htrun a- a. v Omaha. Denver, Sloox Ctty. So. Fort Worth and E3 Paso. Corn shipments this week were 785,000 '"shipments of wheat from Argentina thill week Vere 1.369,000 bushela. compare dwith 979.000 bushels last week nd .088.0(w bushels a year ago. Shipments since Jan uary 1 arrecate 27.144,000 bushels; a yesr agof 41.784,000 bushels. Corn shipments this week were 211.000 bushels, gainst 327.000 buahels last week and 1,292,000 bushels a year ago. Total corn shipments ince January i are w,ww duci, vear ago. 27.Kl4.uou nusneis. no oata exported. "Wheat is from old contracts tor threat nritaiu v at the expense of stocks, as the movement to ports is light." says a csbls from Liverpool. "Tonnage remains scarce and rates are advancing." Morning Gossip Letter. (Furnished by the Topeka Board of Trade.) summary) President signs draft bill; nxea j uoe 9 aay ior rciiBtm"" between ages of 21 and 80 Inclusive. Pershing ordered to France with dlTlaion of regular aa early as possible. Roosevelt will not go to r rtnea rn. dent, while commending colonel, will not avail himself of authority vested lo bill to send volunteer divialon abroad. Premier Borden tells parliament that Canada mnat adopt elctiT draft system. House ways ana mean committee meeia to attpmnt tn raise thru war reTenUe bill 445,000,000 dollar. McAdoo estimates of added coat for flrat year of war. Radical change In war taxation bill, al most certain to be made by senate finance committee. Chicago Market Letter. (Furnished by the Topeka Board of Trade.) Chicago. May IS. The Herald savs: Holdinga of July and September wheat by the allies are aald to be only 8.000,000 Jnly and 4.000.000 September. Originally they had 25.000,000 of all futurea. The figures are given Dy tboae in a position to Know what haa been going on. They have needed 4.000.000 bushela of futurea per week to exenang ror tne caen grain jn various positions and reduced their holding in that wav. They, with other governmenta have orders out for one thousand cars of wheat and barley, mainly wheat to be shipped rrom tne norm r-acinc coast, ah export business has the right of way at present. A better tone 1 noticeable in the wheat and all grain market. Ffforts to hold prices down nave Deen unsuccessrui as all became overaold on the decllnea. Ab sence of pressure of cash wheat and the constant cloaing of export buainess which i not given out, i more of a factor than appears on the surface. several or tne otticiaia ot western rail roads say they are getting more cars to use for moving grain but the increase tn new buaines take up the Rurplus. On May 1 the United State held 43.000.- 000 buahels wheat available for export to July 1 and for carryover into the new crop according to 3. F. Howard, of tho Daily Trade Bulletin. Export from May 1 to July 1 last year were 33.000.000. H allows 525.000.000 for domestic consumption,- 80 million for seed aad 155 million exported to May 1. New York, May 19. Jndg Learned Hand, in the United Statea district court baa rendered an opinion in wblcb he de cide in favor of the Equitable Trust com pany In the long standing litigation against the Denver A Rio Grande Railroad corn- fiany and fixea the amount of damages n exceea of 18,000,000 or for which the Western Pacific was sold under foreclosure at 32,272.274 dollara and fixes that amount to be paid to the Equitable company. Merrltt Oil corporation baa completed lta first well In the Big Muddy field reach ing in large volume at depth of 2.6H0 feet well la located in eastern end of lta prop erty and prove up the field to much wider extent than bad been anticipated. TOPEKA MARKET REPORT. Topeka Livestock Market. (Price turnlsbed by Wolff racking Co.) Topeka. Kansas, May IS. CATTLB AND HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $13.00(3,15.90 HEAVY 13.00(iil6 00 LIGHT 12.00ai5.S PIGS 7.00(410.00 Steers Oonrt to choice ...,.....$850 to 9U9 Fair to good........... 7.00 to 8.2a Cows Good to choice. 8 on to 9. no Fair to good 6-00 to 7 50 Common to fair 4.00 to B.50 Heifer Good to choice 8.50 to Fair to good 7 00 to S 2S Common 5.00 lo 6.00 Bulls Fleshy 7.50 to f.ca Medium 6.20 to 7.2S Veal Calves Prime fat .....z... "00 to 10.00 Medium good 7 00 to 8 no Fair O.00 to 8 60 Sheen and Lambs. Pat wether 8.00 to 0 0 Fat ewe 7 00 to 8.00 Fat lamb 00 to 12.00 Goat 4.00 to 6.00 PIGS T.OOflflOOO Shorn lamb and shtep tc under abor prices. Positively cannot use sheep or lamb un less fat. Retail May. (Furnished by W A. Gilchrist. 626 Qainey Street.) Topeka. Kansas, May 10. PRARIB HAY $16.00. ALFALFA $20.00. xopka Grain Marks. (Furnished by J. B. Blllard. corner Kftaaaa An, and Curtis SCI Torek, Kansas, May 19. CORN $1 BrV? 1.60. OATS o04t5c. Poultry ana Ctrl. (Furnished by th Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Lanrent and aadisoal Toreka, Kioaa. May 19. HENS 314 lbs. and over. 19c; under 314 lbs., 10c; springs, over 2 lbs.. 17c; under 18c; old rooster. 13c: stagy young roost ers, 13c. EGGS 29c. Eggs ar. retailing lo Topeka 3234 d07,en. Butter from 3542c. Topek flay Market. (Furntabed by T. A. Beck. 212-214 K. nth.) Topeka. Kansa, May 19. PRAIRIE HAY $18.00. ALFALFA $1K 00. WORSES VANTI HORSES WANTED $3.00 paid for dis abled, live horse delivered at our Slant, or $1.60 at your place. Dead .r? ,nlL eow removed free within 12 mile. Topeka Rendering Co. Tele phone 361. St PmL E. Buffalo. E. sL

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1917 3 BUSINESS DIRECTORY Telephone numbers and addresses for your convenience in buying. Filed away this list could be called on often for quick reference. It will appear every Saturday. If you are not rep resented call Phone 3530 Adv. Dept., for information. Advertising Companies. pinKCT AUVKUTlSINti CO.. 412-414 Central National Bank HUIj. Pbone IMS. Blryrleti and Motorcycle. AWNKB CYCI.K CO.. 115 East Tib St. Pbone 144. Ralne Collcrea. .OUGHEKTY'S BUSINESS OOI.I.EGK. Georgs EL Dougberty. I'res.. -US Wmt 8th. Pnone 50rt. Bunk. MERCHANTS NATIONAL RAW. New Enclau.i iluHrltng. I'bone 4173. Driifffflatft. MARSHALL -BROS., 135 Kansas Are. Pbone 535. Dry 7nod. WARItEN V CKORBY CO.. 613-17 Kanraa Ave. Pbone 3509. Elrrtrltnl FlTtnre. Repairs. RuppUe. H. B. HOWARD ELECTRIC ATU letlc Supply. 71t Kansas Ave. Pbone 1377. Kye Specialists. DR. K. PAINK. 716 Knusoa Ave. Phone 7:4. Express Dray and Transfer. TOPEKA THANSFRR CO.. O. H. White. 028 Adams St. Pbone 355a Orocerles and Meats. LANNAN LANNAN. 312-16 E. 4th. Phone 3845 Insurance. FALKINER WR XT WORTH. GF.S- eral Insurance. 4U9-U Nw England Rldg. Pbone 511. Ice BAUGHMAN BROS., 2235 Lincoln St. Phone Seta rOPEivA Pt'KE MILK CO., 400-02-04 Jackson St. Fnon 537. Jewelers. K. H. MOREHOUSE, 427 Holllday. Pbone 1028. J link Dealers. DYAL BROS. CO.. WHOLESALE Scrap lion. 214-16 N. Kansas Are. Pbone 21 Loans, Mnrtasre. Financial Ajecnts. FARM MORTGAGE CO.. Crawford Bid?. Phone 33:H PIONEKR MORTGAGE CO.. 4th Floor Mulvane Blrta Pbone 214. Mattress Factories. McENTTRE BROS., SPRINGS. BEDS. Mattress Factory. 227-229 Quincy. Pbone 5273. Opticians. W. J. LEWIS. 09 Kansas Are. Phone 1042. Photographers. C. J. BOEGEU. 707 Kansas Ave. Phone 3989. Real restate Dealers, Loans, Insurance. C. P BOLMAR REAL ESTATE, Collections. 30 Colombian Bldfr. Phone 725 Ring 2. Hand Dealers. TOPEKA SAND CO.. Foot of Topeka Ave. Phone 3438. Tndertakers. H. W. BOMGAHDXER, 21 Jackson St. Phone 146. Our rooms never looked well" Of course, you want your furniture and hangings to harmonize with the finish on your walls, ceilings and wood trim well, simply finish them with VELOUR FINISH This is a durable oil paint which dries with a soft, water color effect. It may be successfully applied to plaster, wood work, wall-board, canvas, burlap or any other wall covering; also to steam and hot water radiators. Eighteen beautiful tints to select from; will combine harmoniously with any furnishings. Velour Finish may be used as appropriately in the parlor or living room as in the bedroom. We guarantee this finish to be lasting and sanitary. If it becomes soiled, you can wash it with soap and water. C M. HILL SON Wall-paper and Interior Decorations Kanas Avenue ,urtM- 83S INorth Kansas Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS GEORGE. A. WOOD Paint and Wall-paper, 1003 Topeka Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS BRAY'S PAINT PAPER STORE Wall-oaner, Paints and Glass, 1725 Kansas Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS 823 Topeka Steam Boiler Works ESTABLISHED 1877 JOSEPH BROMICH, Proprietor Mr. Power Plant Man Cut that Fuel Bill by Using Economy Forced Draft Grates Write or phone us for particulars and Illustrated Circular. Jobbers in Steam and Water Supplies. 123 to 129 Jefferson St. Phone 463 Topeka, Kan. "First Mortgages, or liens, upon real estate were well rec ognized investments back in the dim early ages of mankind. But despite its antiquity the real-estate mortgage grows more important every day." ALBERT W. AT WOOD THE FARM MORTGAGE CO. TOPEKA, KAXSAS PflRFlQ flRF UCDC HOUSEWIVES, HERE UHflUO Hnt nt-IlL IC THF. RF.ST WAY TO 3Iayor Has Received Big Sup ply Registration Blanks. Officials Prepare to List To peka's War Strength. NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS Three Clerks To Be Used in Every City Precinct. Board Will Have Its Headquar ters in City Hall. The city hall, it was announced to day, will be headquarters for direc tion of activities in. registering Tope kans between 21 and 30 years old for military conscription June 5, the date set by President Wilson for national registration. The city board, of regis tration will be stationed there. It is comprised of City Clerk Covell, H. L. Clark city health director; J. E. House, mayor, and J. E. llson, chief of po lice. Topekans affected by the presi dent's proclamation will register in their voting precincts. Several sacks of registration cards have been received by Mayor House. One sack of mail, received by the May or i riday, is not to be opened until orders to do so are received by the mayor from the war department. In the absence of such orders as yet the contents have developed into a city hall mystery. Speculation upon what is in it is the principal occupation of several employes and officials. House also announced today that he has been instructed not to give out any further information on registration day until instructed by the war department. Many Volunteers In. Three clerks, it has already been announced, will be stationed at the registration place in each precinct. Mayor House asked Topekans to vol unteer as clerks as a patriotic duty. Eighty-three have volunteered and have been accepted. A total of ninety six are needed. Nine Topekans have also volun teered the use of their property for .registration places. Twenty-three are needed. The places that have already been procured are in the following pre cincts: Seoond of the First, fourth of the Second, fifth of the Second, seventh of the Second, first of the Fourth, fifth of the Fourth, first of the Fifth, sec ond of the Fifth and fourth of the Fifth. Bad Cough? Feverish? Grippy? You need Dr King's New Discovery to stop tha cold, the soothing balsam ingre dients heal the irritated membranes, soothe the sore throat, the antiseptic qual ities kill the germ and your cold is quick ly relieved. Dr. King's New Discovery has for 48 years been the standard remedy for coughs and colds in thousands of homes. Get a bottle to-day and have it bamly In your medicine chest for coughs, olds. croup, grippe and all bronchial af fections. At your drnepist, 50c. Adv. State Journal Want Ads Get Results. Oklahoma Car Is Here Topeka Invited to Visit Demon stration Car at Santa Fe North Passenger Station A car of the McAlester Real Estate Exchange of Oklahoma which is trav eling through the Middle West to give residents information of the sale of 500,000 acres of Indian land, which will be offered by the government in tracts from 40 to 160 acres on easy payments. The land will be offered sometime this year at a price ranging from $3 to J 7 an acre. Purchasers will not be required to live on the land, but may hold it for investment or lease it for the oil, gas and minerals it may contain. The car now here has been sent out by the business men of Okla homa who are interested in the devel opment of the state. The citizens of Topeka will be welcome aboard from 9 a- m. to 9 p. m.t daily and Sunday as long as the car is here. Many of the products of Oklahoma are exhib ited on board and those in charge will be glad to supply all th- necessary in formation regarding the state's re sources and opportunities. No land will be sold during the exhibit. Some Reasons Oklahoma residents claim that the place has few superiors for agriculture and mineral development. The state affords more opportunity for diversi fied farming than any other in the union with the exception of Texas. Oklahoma has 7,000 square miles of land underlaid with coal and few of its mines more than opened. More rivers with natural drainage capacity than any other state save Colorado. It is eighth in railroad mileage, fif teenth in population and not yet ten years old. Capitalization considered, Oklahoma leads all other states in the amount of money deposited in its banks. Oklahoma surpasses any other state in growth. Has more miles of good roads and less improvements on same than any state west of the Mis sissippi river. Oklahoma is first in the production of peanuts, third in water melons, first in tonnage in alfalfa, fifth in vegetables, with less than one tenth of the state trying to cultivate garden products. Has the most envi able climate of all states save Cali fornia. Population averaged, it has the second largest church member ship. Has the best equalization of taxes, private and corporate, in the world. The southeastern part of the old Indian Territory, which is now known as eastern Oklahoma, has been well named Uncle Sam's garden spot. The car will be here today, Friday and Saturday. Open from 9:00 to 12:001:00 to 5:307:00 to 9:00 Car north Santa Fe passenger sta tion. Advertisement. MAKE "WAR BREAD' New York, May 19. A "war bread" which can be sold at a profit for 3 cents a loaf weighing- 24 ounces has been made by the French chef of a hotel in this city and is now being sold to the hotel employes. It is said to taste better than whole wheat bread and to retain its freshness four days and sometimes more. The principal ingredients, according to the receipt, are whole wheat flour and stale bread. The stale bread must be soaked in clear water for two hours and then run thru a sieve until pul verized, the receipt reads. Then to each pound of one pulverized product, is added four pounds of white flour and one-half cake of compressed yeast. Five pounds of material it is said will produce seven one-pound loaves of bread. HEAVINESS IN WHEAT Chicago Pit Nearly Deserted as War Rumors Float Thru. Chicago, May 19. Heaviness in wheat prices resulted today from re ports that representatives of the Eu ropean entente nations had agreed to liquidate their options on American grain futures and to co-operate with the United States in a pooling system whereby exports from this country would be apportioned with due regard to domestic requirements. Word that the rushing of wheat and barley ship ments overland from the Pacific coast to be dispatched to Europe was being directed by the federal government tended also to ease the market, espec- nally as it was said Australian wheat would be brought in to make up the deficit. Business here in wheat was the smallest of the week, a little knot of half a dozen brokers on one edge of the pit being all that was left of the 300 or more who until recently formed the usual number. Opening wheat prices, which ranged rrom the same as yesterday's finish to 5 cents lower, with July at $2.23 and September at $2.05, were followed by changes that made the setback general, but less ex treme, and then by something of a re covery. MEN WONT REGISTER 50,000 In New York Who Will Refuse to Fight, Says Emmo Goldman. New York, May 19. Speeches radi ating a revolutionary spirit were deliv ered last night at the organization meeting of the No Conscription League in the Harlem River Casino. Emma Goldman shouted that there are 50,000 young men in New York City who would refuse to fight and who would not register for the draft. She declared that the organization would do all it could to support them in their refusal. Her call for funds brought showers of coins to the plat form. Only the presence of 100 policemen, 50 detectives, 150 militiamen and spe cial guards at times restrained the au dience from the wildest sort of a dem onst rationi "When America said she went into this war for democracy," cried Emma Goldman, "she put on the books a shastly lie. If we want democracy let's begin at home." Literature was distributed freely among the audience. A paragraph in one piece read: "American workers: What are you going to do? It is not enough for you to refuse to fight, to resist conscrip tion, to denounce government, it is the business of American workers to do what their brothers in Russia have done." Alexander Berkman reiterated the remarks of Emma Goldman. BANDITS TAKE PAYROLL Five Robbers Hold Up Clerks at Elevated Exit. Chicago, May 19. Three men were shot and one badly beaten by five automobile bandits today, who held up three men at the Racine street exit cf the Metropolitan elevated and escaped with a $6,000 pay roll of the Stein Gar ter company. The clerks were returning from the bank with the pay roll in a satchel. As they stepped from the elevated en trance into the street, an automobile contining five men dashed up. Four of them attacked the group guarding the pay rool while the other remained in the machine. LET'EM GO, RET 'EM GO! Strikers in Denver Threaten to Farm It Unless Recognized. Denver. Col., May 19. "We will go out and work on farms before we will go back to work unless our union is recognized," declared striking bakers today. The bread situation became acute today with the supply virtually ex hausted and "baking powder biscuit' finding a place on the menu of many homes. SOCIALISTS ARE READY First of Series of Stockholm Confer ences Betrin Monday. Stockholm, May 19. The confer ences 'of the various Socialist delega tions will commence Monday, each delegation holding a separate meet ing. The Bulgarians will meet first, followed either by the German minor ity Socialists who are now stated to have received passport or the r innisn Austrians will follow and the succeed ing week the Hungarians will meet. Explosion Wrecks Chicago Plant. Chicago, May 19. An explosion of gas partly wrecked the plant of the Standard Spiral Pipe company on the southwest side here early this morn ing, killing two men and caus ing property loss estimated at more than $20C,000. Tony Bellinc, a fore man in the plant and a laborer known as Mike were the two killed. The bodies were removed from the fire following the explosions. Sarah Bernhardt Better. New York, May 19. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, with her physician's per mission, expected to take her flrst trip out of doors today, after an operation in a hospital here. Physicians say she will be able to leave the hospital within a few days North Side News BIG HORSE SALES North Topeka Has One of Larg est Markets in West. $150,000 Worth of Stock Dis posed of Since January. Few Topeka people are aware that in the last five months the largest horse buying center in the middle west has developed in North Topeka. Since January $150,000 worth of horses have changed hands here, un der the management of one buyer. Frank Bechtelheimer, at his barn 9i6 North Kansas avenue, holds auc tion sales every Saturday at which from J15.000 to $is,uuu wortn oi horseflesh changes hands. Bechtel heimer started his horse auctions in January. At that time, and for the flrst few weeks, the sales avoragea $3,000 a week. The reputation of the business spread, however, and today buyers from all parts of the country come to Topeka ror tne Saturday sales. Charley Crews, well known auctioneer, sells the stock. oeorge Young acts as clerk, keeping record of the sales. Last Saturday $18,000 worth of horses were sold. Horsemen from St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kansas City and Chicago come to buy. Today Armour Company of Chicago, sent an agent to purchase draft horses. Buyers from the Oklahoma oil fields procure mules at the Topeka market. The British and French governments have repre sentatives at the sales. Mules are sent south for use in the cotton belt. Kansas horsemen who have large or ders for horses are always present. Agents Bring in Stock. Bechtelheimer has agents over Kan sas and Nebraska and surrounding territory who purchase for him. The stock, all of which is of the highest grade, is shipped to Topeka and auc tioned off. It is an interesting sight to watch the hot bidding for the fine type of heavy draft horses much in demand over the country. The animals in Bechtelheimer's yard today were the finest yet pro cured. They are worth from $155 to $250, and are as beautiful a collection of horses as one may see outside of a circus. Many North Topekans drop in at the sales each Saturday to watch the bidding. Now that the government has ap propriated $200,000,000 for the pur chase of horses and mules for the army, the growth of Topeka as a mar ket for fine stock is expected to con tinue steadily. Beer Bottles Scarce. C. H. Dyal Son report that the number of beer bottles coming in from territory surrounding Topeka is dimin ishing at an alarming rate. On an av erage in "normal" times, it requires six months to collect a carload of bottles. At the present rate of speed at which the bone dry law is traveling. they say, it will take about six years to collect a carload. The Eyals will ship a car to Kansas City Monday, and the outlook for the future collection of the once familiar "empty" is very black in deed. Coleman is employed In the North Topeka branche post office. Airs. w. s. Hododoom is in North Topeka visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Forbes. OAKLAND NOTES Churches. Kansas 'Avenue Methodist, J. K. Scheer, pastor. Morning service, ad dress by Mrs. W. D. Fisher. Evening service, at 8. Sermon by the pastor. Theme, "Our Measure." East Indianola Community, Frank D. Jackson, pastor. Morning service, foreign missionary sermon and offer ing. Evening service, 7:45, baccalau reate sermon. The following is a contribution from a North Topeka newspaper man who knows whereof he speaks. The un initiate are informed that this is "vers libre": DID YOU ever CATCH A car TO NORTH Topeka AND HAVE it stop FOR A Freight train. AT THE U. P. Crossing AND WAIT there WHILE THE train STOPPED AND waited too AND THEN started AND STOPPED again AND BACKED up and THEN something broke AND IT stopped AGAIN WHILE THE brakie WAVED his arms AND FIXED something: AND THE train STARTED AND GOT out of the WAY WHILE the braki WAVED HIS arms for ANOTHER train TO GO by AND YOU waited FOR A half an HOUR AND WAS late FOR SUPPER then WHILE the brakie WAVED his arms AND THE train BACKED up again AND started AND something BROKE WHILE the brakie WAVED his arms AND FIXED something AND WAVED his arms AND THE train STARTED AND GOT by at last WHILE YOU had lost YOUR OWN temper AND YOU cussed. BUT IT didn't do ANY GOOD and after YOU GOT over YOU LOOKED back AND SAW the brakie. WAVE HIS arms. FOR another TRAIN AND a friend OF YOURS was TRYING to get ACROSS, and you LAUGHED. Social and Personal. Nearly all the members of the North Topeka Outing club will spend Sun day in their camp. List Sunday the number cf those who made the trip, including members and their fami lies was greater than on any previous day in the history of the club- About fifty persons were present, A new cabin will be erected to supplement the two at present in use. Claude Ewing and Wm. Kirkwood of Elmont. were In Topeka today on business. Mrs. Ed Seal, of Grantville, was in tho city today. Mrs. S. J. Britton and her children will spend Sunday in Atchison with Mrs- Britten's mother. A. M. Petro, druggist. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Coleman will leave Topeka May 28, for Gunnison, CoL, wher they will make their home. Store Closes Notes and personals from Oakland, By Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m., 3530; other hoars, 4751 K-2. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Greer and Miss Ed na Welk, Michigan avenue, will spend Sun day in Vinlaml, Kan., as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Greer's daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Barker. Mrs. Mabel Week man, has returned to her home in Plattsburg, Mo., after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Keats. The annual school picnic was held Fri day at Garfield park. A good crowd was in attendance. The high school seniors will grfve their play, The Blossoming of Mary Anne," Saturday evening. May 26. at the Tecumseh grange hall. School will open next fall, on the third day of September. Miss Eva Millard will entertain the members of the boys aud girls glee clubs with a dinner, Monday evening at the Na tional hotel. Mrs. Elmer Hicks has returned to her no me alter spending two weeks in Kansas City. There will be no services Sunday morn ing at the Oakland Methodist church. Sabbath school will be held at the reg ular hour. In the evening the Rev. J. B. Gibson will have charge of the services Mrs. E. W. Renbarger, Wabash avenue. wiu leave Monday to spend the next three weeks in Kansas City, Mo. A special meeting of the" voters in school district No. 38 will be held at the Oakland school Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. At this time the report of the committee ap pointed at the last meeting will be received and acted upon. All people in Oakland who are voters are invited to attend. Mrs. Philip Stacbelbeck has returned to her home, Wabash avenue, from Atchison, where she was called last week by the ill ness aud cieatn or ner niece. Mr. and Mrs. John Hertzler, Arter ave nue, nave as a guest tins weeic, air. txeriz ler's brother, Mr. Henry Hertzler, of Fort MndfBon, Iowa. The members of the Oakland W. C. T. will hold their "Mother's Day" meeting Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Walter Ham ill, Wabash aenue. The devotionals will be led by Mrs. J. L. Heller, "A Picture of a Good Mother," Mrs. R. P. Tavlor: song. "Mother Is the Best Sweetheart of All," Mrs. Effie McCastin and Mrs. Joseph Bow er. Each member may bring a mother as her guest. The girls of the seventh grade at the Oakland school surprised Miss Mary Waye Miss Waye will leave soon for her home in Hutchinson, Kans., after spending the winter witL her aunt, Mrs. William Ben ton, Michigan avenue. The girls present ed her with a little ivory clock as a re membrance of the occasion. The guests outside of the class were: Miss Maude Benton, Miss Eulalia McNeeley, Miss Flor ence Taylor and Miss Ursula McNeeley The Seniors of the Oakland High school gave a hay-rack ride, Friday evening. The annual song recital of the pupils of the Oakland' schools was given Wed nesday evening at the woolen mill. There were many beautiful exercises both by the pupils in the higher grades and those in the primary classes. A minnett was danced by small children in costumes of the colonial period. A Reuben and Ra chel dance was given in Quaker costume. A large group of hoys and girls gave the boatmen's chorus in sailor costumes. Lit tle Bo-Peep. Little Miss Muffitt and Jack and Jill were all represented in costume and a Mother Goose dance was given. A number of children from the first grade gave a rainy daisy dnnce. Over 1,000 per son s a tten ded the performance. A Is rge mea su re of the success of the evenin g"s program was due to the music instructor. Miss Eva Mdlard. Miss Millard states that she is planning to give another program next year as this one was received by such a large and enthusiastic audience. About ftt0 children took part. The two glee clubs of tht school and the orchestra gave several numbers POPE SAVES BELGIANS Benedict's Intercession Waived Iron Fist of Kaiser. at 9 o'clock Store Closes at 9 o'clock Rome, May 19. Ten Belgians, re cently sentenced to death at Charlerot by a German courtmartial have been reprieved by the kaiser in consequence of Pope Benedict's intercession, ac cording to Vatican information today. Donate Ambulances. Chicago, May 19. Fourteen ambu lances have been given in Chicago to the ambulance field service in the last ten days, it was announced today. They have come from private individ uals, churcres and clubs. on sale after 7 this evenim (No 'phone or mail orders, please) On the Main Floor Women's up to 50c Neckwear; odd Collars and Sets after 7. .19 50c Imported Face Powder; white, flesh and brunette. Up to $2.00 Hair Ornaments set with brilliants choice 50 5c Hair Xets with elastic bands: all colors but black, each...-! Men's $1.00 Shirts; both soft and stiff cuff styles 69 Or. the 2nd Floor 3c and 5c Embroidery Floss; silk and mercerized per skein.. l Up to 15c Fancy Braids in colors per skein l Women's 50c Knit Pants; the loose knee style in sizes 4 and 5 19 $1.00 Camisoles of pink Crepe de Chine and wash silk; small. 50 On the 4th Floor 59c Boston Ferns, for the porch after 7 this evening 25 $1.70 doz. Dinner Plates of decorated china per set of six "70 Wm. A. Rogers $f.50 Nicklo Silver Teaspoons per dozen. -OOrt Hardwood Clothes Pins on sale after 7 o'clock 7 dozen .7 65c Water Pails; 10-qt of heavy gray enamel ware 43S 5c Snow Flake Lnnndry Soap this evening 10 bars 39 10c Jefferson Toilet Paper; full 1000-sheet rolls.... 12 rolls 97 "1 'IfiU Miifl B I 1 Vp to 50c Neckwear; soiled and rumple Collars. Jabots, etc. 5C Up to 50c Hair Ornaments; high back combs, fancy pins, etc. -5c 10c, 12 6c and 15c Candy; all mixed together and priced to close 5 Women's 10c Vests; elastic ribbed, fully taped tonight. -72 Women's 50c Hose; fancy fibre silk boots; "seconds" on sale 25 75c Summer Corsets; net or light batiste; all sizes 55f 50c Brassieres; all lace, and lace trimmed net and linene. -29 Girls' 25c Undcrwaists with supporters; sizes up to 9 years 12 Boys' 50c porous knit Union Suits; sizes S to 16 years 29 Men's $1.00 Athletic Union Suits; limit of four to one person 69 35c Woven stripe Madras; white with colored stripes yard 19 50c Poplin; white, cream, pongee, pink, light blue yard...-29 I-eave Topeka 4.45 am 8.00 am 7.40 am 1.15 pra 3.05 pm 6.00 pm 8.00 pm 8.40 pm To and from Kansas City and Chicago Arrive Arrive Kansas City Chicago 7 (VI mm am wtm (t oo pm 7.25 am 7 4.1 am 7.25 am 9 1.1 am lt.15 am 11.15 am 7.50 am 9.45 am 3.30 pm 5.05 pm 7.00 pm B.55 pm Leave Chicago 9.50 am 9.50 am S no pm 8.05 pm 10.30 pm 2.15 am 6.00 pm Leave Kansas City 9.40 pm 10.00 pm 9.10 am 11.00 am 4.30 pro 7.45 am Arrive Topeka 11.25 pm 11.50 pm 11.05 am 10.30 am 12.55 pm 0.40 pm 10.13 am Let TJ Help Yon Plan Your Nezt Trip Through r. 1,. btcrges. c. p. i. a. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1917 Mr. and Mrs. John Sarprent, jr., of 1312 College avenue, announce the ngrasement of their daughter, Kloise, to Mr. H. W. Kingsley o Chicago. Ill The announcement is of much in terest to Topeka people, as both the Sargent and the Kingsley families are well known in the business and social life of the town. Miss Sargent is a graduate of tne Topeka high school and was a student in Washburn col lege for a year. Later she went to Chicago to be a student in the Art Institute. Both she and her brother, Mr. Churchill Sargent, are artistically gifted. Mr. Kingsley is the son of Mr. IT. A. Kingsley, manager of the Kaw Pav ing company, and Mrs. Kingsley. He is a graduate of Washburn college and is now in business in Chicago. The Kingsley and the Sargent families were neighbors for years, and the ro mance which is to culminate in the marriage of the two young people had its beginning in a girl and boy friendship. No date for the wedding has been met. Miss Gladys West gave a bridge party this afternoon in compliment to lier sister-in-law, Mrs. Koland West, and her cousin. Miss Mildred Woodle, both of Chicago. The guests were: Mrs. Itdland Wwt Mrs. Tom 111 lard Sits WmMile Mrs. J. 1. Mouey- Aln. W. Snyder penny Mrs. Itubrrt Muru Mrs. Wnlter Chaney Mrs. H. i. Moore -Mrs. George Me Mm. J. 8. t Dermott Air. A. K. lltlltngH Mrs. Forrest KutZ Mrs. A. J. Cumuli, Mrs. .1 nines Mo jr. Karland Mrs A. K. -Tones Miss Winifred Greene ill iMiisv -Nell Miss Corinne Itlpley Mim Ali.e GrlfCin MIhs Anita Welsklrvh Mi l.H' il- Khuore Miss lay Monnw JWs Virginia Miss l.ois Lintlflay Kin-lit-U MIkh Nelle Mct'ar- t.t 1.1'iiorp Monroe lnul Miss Until Cmw;'I Miss Ktliel Erer 7X1 i Kil't'ln iugliam Mies .Iiinle llliiin Pr. JJUian Mnlnne M t y h AnneTta Ni'ull Mis Oruu Money -Ttliss Lena ititxter penny Mrs. Mmiiivf M;iv Miss lil;i Grosch Mrs. l'eruley CI in per Miss Gladys l'urker Mrs. C.eorgo Thacher Guernsey, of Independence, newly elected president general of ihe national Daughters of the American Revolution, was the guest of honor at a reception given ly women of I'nrsons Friday night, at the home of Ir. and Mrs. G. W. Masse r. Topeka women who were guests, going to Parsons from the state federation meeting at Pittsburg, were Mrs. H. O, Garvey, the newly elected president of the Kansas Federation of Women's clubs, Mrs. Noble Prentis. Mrs. Charles F. Spencer and Mrs. John T. Chaney. Mrs. Garvey and Mrs. IVentm were in the receiving line. Miss Clara Fritz will leave next week for an extended western tour, upending the ea: ly j art of the sum mer in Alaska, going into the interior and as far north as the Arctic circle, where she will witness the midnight nun at its greatest brilliancy about June 2 3. in the vicinity of Fort Yukon. The rest of the summer will be spent ct the beaches on the western coast of California, including a trip to the Ha waiian Islands before her return in the late autumn. One of the resolutions put thru at the annual convention of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, which will be of wide interest to Kansas wo men especially those who mix a bit in politics, was one by which the govern or of this state will be urged to ap point at least one woman on the new state board of administration. Of course the sop that has been handed to the women in the appointment of an entire feminine board of moving picture review might be expected to silence them on the administration ap pointments, hut the resolution put thru hy the most powerful woman's organi zation in the state, hardly looks like it. Another resolution, touching educa tional subjects, was one by which the women will ask for a regular tax levy for the support of the state education pi institutions, which is considered bet ter than the former method of going lefore the legislature every two years esking for an appropriation. The new plan is for the regular levy, sufficient to cover the needs of the various insti tutions; the distribution of the funds to be In the hands of the board of ad ministration. The high school garden party at Central Park Friday afternoon was the fourth annual May party given for the mothers of the girls. Nearly all the girls of the school were included in the pageant. There were songs, pantomimes and dances and costumed pageant. All the eight classes of the high school, the junior high school and the various school activities were GIASS TRADE, MARK K.GG. U. PAT. OFF. Don't be misled by imitations Be sure it's a CREX Insist upon the salesman showing you the name C-R-E-X woven in the edge of the side binding it's the hall-mark of quality, satis faction and value in grass rugs You can put CREX in every room In ths house and on the porcb with equal effect, equal satisfaction, equal ECONOMY yls your dmmlmr for color-folder r wrrito to as direct it'm FREE CREX CARPET COMPANY 212 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY A quiet weddlrg took place last night in rattier iiayuen s pariors. ramer v.n nors performed the ceremony which united in marriage Miss Marie McKernan and Mr. W. M. Brooks. The attendants were Mr. Frank Heck and the grooms sifter, Mrs. Minnie Kain. The bride wore light bine chins silk with pearl trimming end carried bride's roses. Mrs. Rain wore pink organdie with lace trimming and carried pink rose. Music was furnished by the Zedena aiaiiflonn ciud. Mrs. W. E. Gibson Issued invitations yes tenia v for the marriage of her daughter. Bessie Streeter, to Mr. David Emery Pal mer, Wednesday evening. June 1, at half past eight o'clock. There will be a re ception afterward at the bride's home. The at home earns rean nr ugui i 41." Tenth Avenue, west." represented in the procession. Miss Edna Anton of the senior ciass was the May queen and her throne was situated at the east side or tne large lake. Her attendants were Miss Gladys Pratt, Miss Eleanor Eckert. Miss Helen Wagoner and Miss Gladys Jones". The girls did not serve any refresh ments, as in foorner years. They had previously votefl to use the money for the support of a French orphan. The nlav. "Midsummer Night's Dream' for the benefit of the Red Cross fund, will be given this evening at 7:30 o'clock, the weather permit ting, at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Clad Hamilton of Potwin Place. In case of rain, the play will be post poned, and announcement or the date wilt be made later. THERE'S A WOMAN IX OUR TOWN Who has a gift for rhyming, and has put into a limerick what a number of people were saying in plain prose after one of the recent, charming parties at which the Ices were flavored to suit the taste of most of the guests to a T. She called this bloom of poesy "The Brandied Cherry Versus the Bone Dry Law," and tjiis is what she said. "At a party of late U most grieve to relate) The eats were well fortified very! 'Neath diminutive flags Quite conducive to Jags Was found a John Itarleycorn berry.!"

The members of the Music Study club will have a picnic at the McAfee farm Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs. Iceland McAfee as hostess. A truck will be sent from the farm at 4 in the afternoon to meet the Gage park car line, for the use of any guests who have not their own conveyances. Mendelssohn's music will receive special attention at Grace Cathedral on Sunday, both morning and after noon. Selections have been made from his greatest works. At the Ves per service at 4 p. m. the following program will be rendered: Aria from St. Paul "O God Have Mercy" Angel Trio from Elijah .."Lift Thine Eyes" Miss Price, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Shoemaker. Duet and chorus from Hymn of Praise.. "I Waited for the Lord" Mrs. Price and Mrs. Shoemaker. Aria from St. Paul "But the Lord is Mindful Mrs. Shoemaker. Aria from Elijah "If With All Your Hearts" Mr. Glenwood Jones. Chorus from St. Paul, "How Lonely Are the Messengers" Cantata "Hear My Prayer" Nocturne from Midsummer Night's Dream. Violin and organ. Miss Helen Phippa and Mrs. J. A. Campbell, The Red Cross buttons can be ob tained by those holding receipts for the payment of dues, by calling at any one of the following places: Pelle tier's glove counter, Crosby Brothers toilet goods counter, or Warren M. Crosby jewelry counter. The Masons will have a meeting next Thursday night, and Mrs. David Palmer, Mr. Glenwood Jones and Mrs. Charles Brooks Thomas will be pres ent to take over memberships thai: evening. Some soliciting for Red Cross memberships has been done among the Masonic members. Little Eleanor. Feltenstein, reputed to be the most temperamental child in Topeka, is known for her talent in aesthetic and interpretative dancing. She has danced for nearly every wom an's club in town, and she has appear ed repeatedly on programs of various sorts. People who want to collect a good sized company for a recital, ad vertise little Eleanor as their trump card and the crowds usually come ail right. Now appears the child in a new role that of versifier. She is a RUG I fourth grade pupil1 4n Harrison school, and in response to an order for a com position prepared offhand, she pro duced a Jetter in rhyme to her "Dear est Uncle Archie,' who has gone off to the wars. Now Eleanor is only 8 years old; so she doesn't claim any familiarity with t he laws of versification, and the chances are that she doesn't know an iambic foot from a club foot. But she knows that she is fond of her soldier uncle, and ehe gives expres sion to this sentiment and the popular spirit of nationalism in the following lines: We nre proud T)f you today. May God protect you and all the brave Boys for tltls brave deed. Of serving your country iu time of need. Just think of your dear mother, Lamenting your hard fate. Write to her often. For news fche will always wait. We hope jou will learn to be A soldier, brave and true So this country will always Le Proud of such boys as you. We all love this glorious .country And if for her you muHt f iff lit, rod will wu ten-'over you nod all. For the cav.se is just and right. I will prac fnr you and ell brave boys. And hope that God will hear my prayer, That pear is soon to be restored. And heart:-; triad ever?" where. Your little niece who loves yon. Eleanor. Mrs. J. G. Strickler pave a dinner party Friday night for the teachers in the primary department of the First Methodist Sunday school. Covers were placed for: 4 Mr. and Mrs J'ifl. Kulp Mr. anrl Mr. tStrti-kler Mrs. Fre4 BonebralscMr. William Whttmer -Mrs. juattox S Airs. J. M. inbble MrfcrO-lary Cbafn Mrs. I. Walker Mrs. rharles ioslin Mrs. Stouebeck Miss Klisabfh Ed son Miss Dorothy Crane Miss Gladys GartsideMiss Hetty Fife Miss Winifred PitcherMtss Mary Paxton Miss Edna Anton Miss Dorothy Brooks Miss Octavla Elliott

Mrs. C. W. Jones of 1164 Clay street will entertain the Diesnon club Thurs day afternoon at her home. The Kansas chapter of the Ameri can Guild of Organists will have a con vention in Topeka next week, and a part of the activities of the conven tion will be an organ recital at Grace cathedral Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The recital is to be a part of the entertainment for the delegates to the diocesan convention of the Episcopal church which convenes Monday of next week. The concert will be given hy four of the leading organists of Kansas, as sisted by the choir of Grace cathedral, for which Mr. Herman gpnnger is di rector, and Mrs. J. A. Campbell, or ganist. The organ soloists will be Prof. Charles S. Skilton, department of organ and theory of the Kansas State university and fellow f the American Guild of Organists; Dean Horace whitehouse, at the head of the fine arts department of Washburn col lege: Frederick Rogers, doctor of mu sic, of Hutchinson, and Dean Daniel A. Hirschler, of the Emporia Normal, and president of the Kansas chapter of the Organists' guild. A feature of the program will be the rendering of the newest composition of Professor Skilton, his Sonata in D minor, written in four movements. The sonata will be played Monday night for the first time, and as Professor Skilton ranks well among organists and composers of this -country, and as he is connected with a Kansas scnool, the rendering of his composition will be of peculiar interest. In this sonata, moderate use Is made of the whole tone scale and the modern harmonic style without resorting to extreme disson ance. The first movement begins with out introduction, with a theme or canonic character, the first and sec ond motives harmonizing with each other, so that they may be used in manifold combinations and transferred to the whole tone scale. A study of the construction of the sonata is in teresting from the side of technical composition as well as from a purely musical standpoint. Dean J. F. Deb. Kaye wm mane a short address on the subject, "Dignity in Church Music." After the recital a reception will be held in the Guild hall for the delegates to the diocesan convention, given by the clergy of Topeka. A tea for the benefit of the Red Cross society was given Friday after noon by Mrs. W. P. Lyman and Mrs. Henry H. Haynes, at Mrs. Lyman's home in the Del Mar apartments. The rooms were decorated with soring flowers. There were vases oX spirea and purple iris, and bouquets of flowering crab. A big basket or flowers stood back of the tea table in the living room. Mrs. Haynes wore a frock or white voile, trimmed with bands of green embroidered in white. She wore a corsage of pink sweet peas. Mrs. Ly man wore a striped suit of gold and blue silk. Those who assisted were Mrs. Sam Lux. Jr.. Miss Esther Clark, Miss Ariel Nichols, Miss Nannie Zahn er. Miss Elizabeth Mills, Miss Helen Louise Crosby. Miss Ernestine Klein and Mrs. Lyman's two little nieces. Dorothy Butlin and Cecelie Butliu, who are with their mother, Mrd. Claude Butlin of the City of Mexico, visiting at the C. J. Wilson home. The little girls wore white embroidered frocks, with pink ribbons. In addition to the silver offering to which the guests contributed a lunch eon set was offered at a raffle, at 25 cents a number. The set is a very handsome one, being hand embroid ered in an attractive pattern in colors. The amount of money returned by the party was something over $21 and the raffle will be continued until the amount reaches $25. The diploma recital given by Miss Virginia Leach last evening at the Guild hall was a marked artistic suc cess. Miss Leach is a pupil of Miss Florence Lund, of the expression de partment of the College of the Sisters of Bethany. Miss Leach's interpreta tion of Hauptmann s "Sunken Bell was strong and indicative of powers .n reserve. The character portrayal was realistic, and the symbolism which raises the story from the realm of the fairy tale to that of reality, was ad mirably brought out. Miss Leach's performance proves her unusual abil ity as a reader. The marriage of Miss Jennie Sohl and Mr. Theodore Nordland took place Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson, 413 Polk street, at 8 o'clock. Before the ceremony Miss Anna Peter son sang "For You Alone. Mrs. C. E. Malmberg played the Lohengrin Wedding March, and Miss Geneva Tulien led the wedding party, carrying the ring in a calla lily. Miss Flora Carlson was maid of honor and Mr. Elmer Johnson, best man. The ser vice was read by the Rev. J. A Ja cobson in the living room, before an altar banked with palms and bridal reath. The bride's gown was of cream taf feta, trimmed in Oriental lace. She .Vii&L: zf? mmsa Jiaiaiillai; Vim. 'Boy Shoaf and her little "The tumult and the shouting dies" for a while, and the conventions that swarmed in Topeka this week are over. The delegation that touched the social side, was the members of the Pharmaceutical association, whose women folk gadded nearly every min ute of the two days they were here. At the banquet which closed the session, prizes were awarded to var ious worthy persons in the convention and the beauty prize went to a To peka woman. Mrs. Roy Shoaf. Mrs. Shoaf, before her marriage, was Miss Frances Walsh. She is an attractive young matron, tall and striking in ap pearance, with animated expression, wore a veil and carried a bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. After the ceremony Miss Arnette Holcomb sang "Bid Me to Love," and Miss Peterson sang "A Perfect Day." Supper was served after the wedding. The decorations were in pink and white. The out of town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nordlund and their daughter of Nebraska, the Misses Tu lien of St. Marys, Miss Effie Nord strom of Lindsborg, Mr. Elmer John son of Kansas City and Mr. and Mrs. Hakanson of Meriden. Miss Ruth Carl son and Miss Margaret Newberg as sisted in receiving the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Nordlund have gone for a trip to California, and after their return they will go to Kansas City to make their home. Mr. Nordlund has a position with the Rock Island. Mrs. C. F. Menninger's class of high school and college girls, who have finished the four years' course in Bible study, will have their commencement Sunday evening at the First Presby terian church. A program has been arranged which includes some Bible exercises by the class, an organ and piano duet by Mrs. Robert Garver and Miss Ethelyn Harrison, a solo by Miss Marguerite Gohlke, and singing by the Sunday school quartet, the members of which are Mr. 'Horace Bowman, Mr. Roy Naylor, Mr, Arthur Taylor and Mr. Herbert Hughes. Dr. S. S. Estey will maky the graduating address. The irlef tne class are: Elsie-Cuthbert Ruth Larimer Irene Smith Marian Dana Ruth iiBc!ie Virginia Kitehell Lmiine Arthur Marv McClements MaT-yuerite (iohlfce Theo Cobb Kutu KomiR juciie luaguire Esther Thomas Edith Switzer ("Jertrude Ford Frances Ford Maym Parsons Helen Rutledge Ethel Harritt Marjorie Hill Margaret Marshall Ruth James The choir of the First Baptist church will give Mendelssohn's can tata "Come, Let Us Sing." Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. In addition to the cantata a trio for violin, harp and oreran will be played by Miss Gladys Gaw, Mrs. F. A. Derby and Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Nadyne Hedrtck, who has been studying voice under Professor Car- tella of New York, and tor tne past six weeks has been living at the Meuh- lebach hotel in Kansas City, is now in Topeka visiting Miss Olive Ward of 1912 Kansas avenue. Miss Mildred Ramsey, who is grad uating this spring from the Washburn schol of fine arts, will give her di ploma recital in piano Monday eve ning. Mav 21, at 8:15 o'clock in the college chapel. f Miss Rebecca Adams, piano student at Washburn, will give her Junior re cital Tuesday evening of next week in the chapel. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. Frank R. Millspaugh and her daughter. Miss Mary Hambleton, left Friday evening for Muskogee, Okla., to visit Mrs. Millspaugh's son. Mr. Clarkson Millspaugh. They will be gone two weeks. Miss Bernice Fuller will return Sun day from an extended trip east, where she spent the pastr few months. Miss Eva Dewey of Wichita left for her home today, after a visit to Mrs. Luther Burns. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Drake are spending a few days in Kansas City. Miss Mabel Coe, who is teaching in the Paola high school, returned home today to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Coe. Miss Itasca Hilsman of the State Entirely New Way to Banish Superfluous Hair Relly BemeTes Roots and All) Why should any woman continue to wear an ugly, humiliating growth of hair on her face, now that it is known this can be completely and quickly removed, roots and all. by the new phelactine process The process is not to be compared at all with the depilatory, electrical or shaving meth ods. Phelactine is non-odorous, non-irritating, non-poisonoas so harmless it could be eaten without any bad effect Beat of all. the hairs come out entire, even the roots, bfore one's very eyes The skin is left as smooth and hair-free as a child's. Anyone who purchases a stick of phe lactine from the druggist and follows the simple directions, is bound to be pleased and delighted otherwise she can have her money back by merely asking for It. Ad vertisement. daughter, Patricia Walsh Sboaf and ready of wit in conversation. She was educated in Baltimore at the Pea body school, after finishing the To peka high school and spending a year in a Catholic school. She is the moth er of a cunning little daughter, some thing less than a year old, Patricia (secretly known to the circle of rela tives as the Princess Pat), who re ceived a high score at the baby show this spring. She would, of course, have been a 100 per cent baby, had she not been just recovering from a cold that affected her ears slightly. At any rate, she is a first rate baby and looks as tho she intended to grow up to take beauty prizes, too. university is visiting Miss Lucile El more. Miss Ruth Brewer of Oklahoma City is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. James Brewer. Mrs. S. W. Wheeler of Sterling. 111., is visiting her brother, Mr. D. O. Coe, and his family on their way home from California, where she spent the winter. W. A. McCarter, D. D. S. Orthodon tist, 709 Mills Bids., orevention and correction of irregular teeth only. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lininger of Kansas City, are visiting Mrs. Lin inger"s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Larimer. Mr. Clif Stratton, who is attending the officers' training school at Fort Riley, came to Topeka today to remain over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs- A. K. Brandt of 607 West Tenth street, are the parents of a son born Thursday at St. Francis hospital. Mrs. Brandt, before her marriage, was Miss Barbara Tauer. The child is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Creary. Dr. Lillion Malone, Osteopath, 610 Mills Building. Adv. Mr. anil Mrs. L. F. Nesbaum are the parents of a son born Wednesday, May 16, at Stormont hospital. .They will name him Lewis Francis, jr. CLUB NOTES. The Vespuccian club will have its last meeting for the season Thursday, May 24, at the home of Mrs. Ralph Campbell, 1011 North Jackson street. Short speeches on Unusual Oc currences will be made by Mrs. King, Mrs. Morehouse, Mrs. Neese, Mrs. Wehe, Mrs. Langston. Mrs. Mouldy. Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Walker. Answer to roll call will be a favorite recipe and sample. The West Side Forestry club is planning an interesting trip for next week. Thursday they will go to Man hattan for an all-day visit to the state agricultural college. They will be guests for luncheon of the domestic science department of the college. The party will leave Topeka at 10:28 Thursday morning over the Union Pa cific, and will return in the evening. The regular meeting of the Political Science club will be held at the Na tional hotel Friday, May 25. A practical lesson in parliamentary law will be conducted by Mrs. W. A. Thurston, parliamentarian. The annual election of officers will be held and all members are urged to be present. The forestry department of the Wo man's dub will have its last meet inn' of the season Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in the observatory of Washburn college. The program will be concerned chiefly with the subject of the City Beautiful. Mrs. H. O. Gar vey, newly elected president of the Kansas State federation, has been asked to speak on the subject, "What the Cities Have Done in Beautifying Themselves;'" Mrs, Katherine Hand will give an illustrated address on "Landscape Gardening and How to Beautify Topeka. Mrs. S. S. Estey will talk on "The Modern American City." All members of the department are asked to attend as the program will be' one of unusual interest. Western Sorosis will hold its field day meeting May 26 at the home of Mrs. H. W. Charles. An interesting program is arranged. A Jitney bus will leave the transfer station at 11 o'clock Saturday morning for mem bers who wish to go that way. The Aramanth club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. William Traut man, 1301 West Tenth street. The W. T. K. club will meet Tues day afternoon with Mrs. F. C. Bowen, 209 West Tenth avenue. The Golden Rule club will hold rts last meeting of the season Friday, May 25, at the home of Mrs. J. C. Holland. 1505 West Fifteenth street, with Mrs. R. B. Cunningham, the assisting hostess. The Chaldean club will have a pic nic party Monday at noon at the home of Mrs. O. E. Walker. The picnic is the last affair of the club for this season. The Ceramic Art clubwill meet Fri day, May 25, with Mrs. Charles Ham mond, Canary and Ohio streets. Mrs. Clark Berry and Mrs. J. S. Ensminger will be assistant hosteww-. An wot- tn roll call will be, "What has helped me most in the year's study A paper by Mrs. J. K. Jones will be on the subject, "How to decorate a bedroom on 2S." A review of the papers will be given, and officers will be elected for next year. The D. C. C. club was entertained Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. B. L. Payne, 304 Taylor street. The guest3 were: Mrs. H. E. Eversole, Mrs. H. L.. Grice, Mrs. J. O. Eyer, Mrs. William Houser, Mrs. John Worstell, Mrs. C. L. Kirkpatrick,v Mrs. Gilbert Stewart, Mrs. T. H. Barnes. Mrs. O. J. Foose and Mrs. F. R. Souders. SANTA FE NOTES Notes and personals from Santa Fe by Frances Joues, 211 Grattau street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m., 3o&; other bours. Tol K-2. W. W. Hntton, chairman of the Board of Adjustment of the O. of R. C, has gone to iiodge City on a business trip. Conductor A. Kuukin, who has been re ceiving treatment for some time at the company hospital will return to bis home in ChillicDtl-.e, 111., in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Kaye will go soon to Amarillu, Texas, to spend two weeks. Mr. Kaye Jis connected with the electric denarOaent. While at that noint Mr Kaye will relieve Mr. Stephen Kecob who Mfr-nmiiailifiH Kv h ttrifo nrill o.mn.l Knl vacation in Topeka. Mrs. Harvey Fuller entertained with an aluminum shower Friday evening in hon or of Mrs J. Schumaun, formerly Miss Helen Brown, head of the comptometer bureau in the freight auditor's office. Mr. and Mrs. Schumann were married iu Law rence, Ma reli 31. Mr. Schiimaun is a trav eling freight auditor for the company. The puests of the evening were: Mr. and Mrs. Schumann, Miss Grace Gilby, Miss Laura Jennings, Miss Henrietta Wripht, Miss Katherine t'lohessy. Miss Phoebe Mttilson, Miss Olp Carl son. Miss Gladys Thomas, Miss Dora Aickenger, Miss Esther Peter son, Miss Martha J en nines. Miss Hazel Levitt, Mrs. Albert Ross, Mrs. L. A. Ful ler, Mrs. George R. Gregg find Mrs. Thom as Toinazicb. Mr. and Mrs. Schumann are at hom to their friends at 1315 Clay street. 3. B. Heller of -Denver, Colo., en route to Albuquerque, is a guest at the I. L. Morris home. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Wolfe are spending the week end with relatives In Areutine. Floyd Johnson of the bridge and build ing gang who recently underwent an oper ation on his foot is recovering. Clyde Pinney has left for Philadelphia, en route to Paris, France. Mr. Pinney la being sent with a consignment of locomo tives from the Baldwin Locomotive works at Philadelphia to France. He will spend a short while in London HIGHLAND PARK Notes and personals from Highland lark, by Mrs. O. Suaul. Telephone N-a. Frank Young of Richland, has returned home after several days visit with Cletus Buehrer. The high school commencement exercises will be held at the school house Friday eve ning. May 25 at 8 o'clock. The following program of the eighth grade will be given Wednesday evening. May 2-'t. C. V. Marlin and A. W. Weaver ac companied the seventh and eighth grade boys to Tecumseh Friday, where they played ball. Mrs. Emma Tefft and daughter. Mrs. Chas. Krueger and Herbert Kruej?er of Los Angeles. Cal., are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Jerry Chubb. The Woman Foreign Missionary society will meet Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. A. E. Dunlap. Orrin Berridge of- Selden, Kan., is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. I. BerrMge. Richard Ahlstrom, who has a large build ing contract in Russell. Kan., Is visiting home folks for a few days. The Chalitso club met Tuesday with Mrs. W. R. Lott. The annual election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mrs. Cornelia Curry; vice p res id ant. Mrs. F. Saddlemire; secretary. Mrs. J. W. Lamb; treasurer. Mrs. W. E. McCarter. The day I of meeting has been changed from Thurs- j dav to Tuesday. The township Sunday school convention will be held at the M. E. church Sunday Mav 27. The freshmen with Prof. J. C. Cahill pic nicked at Gage park Friday evening. The seniors, sophomores and juniors hiked to Vinewood accompanied by Miss Elnore Neal and Miss Helen Douglas. J. W. Ferguson, W. H. Coultis, Jas. Stev enson and A. B. Smith attended Pomona grange at Mission Center Wednesday. The K. K. K.'s met Wednesday evening with Miss Helen Eberhart. Guests were Orrin Berridge. Ava Woodworth and Kath erine Weisgurber. Miss Edna Kohnle of Centerview, Mo., is at the home of her sister, Mrs. Geo. Meens. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lair and family will spend Sunday with friends in Lawrence. Mrs. M. C. Schaeffer who has been 111 at the home of her son in Topeka is much improved and Is now with her daughter, Mrs. R. TJ. McClenahan of Wisconsin ave nue. Mr. snd Mrs. Chas. -Blades of Topeka, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J, F. Going. The Luther league of the English Luth eran church enjoyed a wienie and marsh mallow roast at the home of Cletus Buehrer Tuesday evening. Miss Dallace Coberly of Berryton, spent the past week with relatives In Highland Park. Mr. and Mm. C. B. Buehrer were din ner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith. Maurice McMullen of Kansas City, spent Sunday with his mother. Mrs. J. J. Curry. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bender of Topeka, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith. About fifty ladies of the Swedish Luth eran church spent Thursday with Mrs. A. P. Ahlstrom. Mrs. 3. W. Downing of Hartford. Mrs. Jas. Kemp of Hiawatha, and Mr. and Mrs. Ir you are a particular housewife, you will always demand O. K. Lard when you order from your grocer. You know you want the best, and that la the only way you are sure of getting- O. K. Tou will always find it pure, white and flaky. If you want to do good cooking you munt have good lard, and remember this there is none better than O. K. LARD. O. K. LARD is rendered in open kettles and that i is the best lard made. Ask your grocer he has it. O. K. LARD is made from the very choicest of fat little pigs, and govern ment inspectors watch it as it goes through each process of manufacture. They stamp it O. K. that Is your protection. The Chas. Wolff Packing Company TOPEKA, KANSAS J MILITARY FASHION FOR STOUT LADIES t Large women who appreciate th svelt lines and excellent style of this newest of military fashions will be delighted to hear that this is just: one pleasing example of what has been accomplished by designers and makers who specialize in svelt-line styles for "oversize" figures. W. T. Bailey end daughter Charlotte, of Topeka, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rains. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dunlap spent Wed nesday with their parents. Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Taylor of Berryton. Mrs. Lee Tulley of Topeka. was the guest Friday of Mrs. G. W. Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Moseley of East To peka, were guests Sunday at the A. Korn haus home. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cross spent Tuesdav with their sou. A. T. Cross and family of Maryland avenue. Mr. Chas. Pratt of New York, en route from 'alifornia, spent a few days last week with his mint, Mrs. Jane Pratt. Mrs. Bruce McKee aud daughter of Rich land, were guests today of Mrs. O. Suaul. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personals from East Side, by Frances Jones, 211 G rat tan street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. in., 35o0; other bours, 4751 K-2. A baseball game was played Friday afternoon between the girls of the sixth grade of Lafayette school and the sixth grade girl's of State street school. The girls of th State street team ore: Myrtle Cary, Helen J a gars. Myrtle Mooter, Thel ma Burgess, Marguerite Hows, Laura Mitchell, Birdie Mooter, and Gertrude Pierson. The score was 23-17 in favor of the State street girls. Miss Estclle Tobias, Quincy street, will spend the week eud with friends in Kan sas City. Charles Robbins has returned to bis $30 Floor Lamp 4 1 9.50 The Art Lamp Store offers V- dozen Floor Lamps, complete worth up to $30.00, while they last at d 1 Q Cft each. An Excellent Wedding Gift for June Brides. try s-e.-iLfeM The Topeka Made Pure home, Norton street, after a business trip to Abilene. Mrs. H. V. f Strait entertained Friday fturnnnn fnr tho ninihor aif the VeStS club. Her guests iiu luded Mrs. C. E. t ox, Mrs. i. i. i nomxon, Mrs. j. Jones. Mrs. H. I. Derby. Mrs. T. F. Allen, Mrs. C. D. Webb, Mr. G. It. Gross, Mrs. A. E. Snider, Mrs. A. P. Wolff. Mr. F. E. Young. Mrs. I. L. Morris and Mrs. S. Cremer. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Mow sow. Chand ler street, have gone to Cnrbomlale to spend the wtek eud as guests of Mr. Moa eow'a mother, who is ill. The East Side Methodist church is be- nn -ir,l fA. alw.rr-t-it v Tha 1 .a.lUa' AM society have extended their house clean ing activities to the church which has been cleuned thruont, the past week. Miss Vera Lowe, Miss Olive Graves, BIr. Clyde Moriis and Mr. Albert Sehrader at tended the graduation exercises at the Le compton school. Thursday evening. Mrs. Sylvia Alexander and Mr. Edwin Bambeau of Dallas, Texas, were married Wednesday evening at the home of th bride's mother, Mrs. A. Brown, 751 Chandler street. The ceremony waa performed by the Bev. F. C. Sntton. Mr. and Mrs. Ram beau will make their home in Dallas. Mrs. J. J. Woodward. Quincy street, la pending the week In Sal inn, Kan. Mrs. Minnie Parker, East Fourth ave nue, is 111 of bronchitis. The Philathea class of the Seward Ave nue Baptist church, tnnght by K. T. Wood ford made a tour Friday evening of the Edison plant. Those iu the party were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Farquer. Mr. and Mrs. It. T. Woodford. Mr. and Mrs. .T. H. Saylor. Miss Cora Farquer, Miss Nellie White, Miss Florence Miller. Miss Edna Thomson, Miss Laura White. Mias Lola Vaughu, Miss Rubv Puett, Miss Violet Bigham, Mips Rutli Gentry. Miss Teresa Kern. Miss FrnnppB Savior. Miss Geneva Kern and Miss Gladys Saylor. Sunday morning at tne r.asr Mae aieinn dist church Mrs. Gregg a returned mis sionary will apeak of "Egypt and India." In the evening the pastor will preach on the topic, 'ChristIaiiIr,ed Commerce." Mrs. Fred Redd entertained with a so cial afternoon, Friday at her home. Free man avenue, for the following friends: Mrs. A. B. Brown. Mrs. T. E. Puette. Mr. J. Brantlnghara, Mrs. Dan Warner. Mrs. Frank Birt. Mrs. James Burgett. Mrs. Bert Bronson. Mrs. A. Bevltt. Mrs. J. W. Mi chael, and Mrs. A. Renbnrgcr. Stop Left Over Coughs Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey Will stop that hacking cough that lingers from January. The soothing pine balsams loosen the phlegm, heals the irritated membrane, tha glycerine relieves the tender tissues, yon breathe easier nd coughing ceases. Don't neglect lingering cough. It is dangerous. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is antiseptic and pleasant to take, benefits young and old, get it at your druggist to-day. Formula on the bottle. 25c. Adv. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Knse. the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot-bnth. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet and takes the stiuR out of eonig and bunions. I'se it when you put otl rubbers or heavy stockings. Allen's Foot Kase is a certain relief for sweating, rat ions, tired, aching feet. Sold by IruERisti everywhere. 25c. Always use It to itreall in new shoes. Trial package FUEE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted. Le Uoy, N. Adv. BLAIR HOPKINS MERCHANT POLICE Residence 800 West 8th. Phone 2T64 Black. L M. PENWHL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant t'bone 102 608-510 Quincy St. KELLOGG'S HOME PORTRAITS All sittings in your own home without flashlight. PHOXE 103 tp i y Product

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1917 TRAIN IN SOUTH Kansas Guardsmen Go Back to Border This Winter. Distribution of Troops An nounced by War Department. Washington, May 19. The distribu tion of naiional guard troops was an nounced by the war department to day. National guard troops from twelve of the middle western and northern states are to be sent to the Southern department in camps along Xha border. The New England and Atlantic states wil! train in the Southeastern department. The grouping of the states for train ing and the military departments where the will train are as follows: Fifth division Vermont. New Hump slilre, Miiinp. MrtsSHcliusetts, Ktmde Island mi.! 'omietk'Ut, go to tUe Southern de pHrtmetit. Sixth division New York Southeastern derm rt men t. SventU division' Pennsylvania South east ern tlepn rtment. Klghth dlvtniou Virpinlii. Maryland, New .ferfiey, leiawnre. IHntrict of Culum biii Soiitlieii stern depart uietit. Ninth division Tennennoe. North Caro linn. South Carolluu Southeastern depart ment. Tenth division Alabama, fieorpia, Flor ida Sou then stern department. Kleventh division Michigan,- Wisconsin Southern depart men t. Twelfth division Illinois Southern de partment. Thirteenth division North Inkotn. South Takot. Nebraska. Minnesota, Iowa SouUx-rn depa rtment. Fourteen division Missouri, Kansas Southern department. Fifteenth division Texas and Oklahoma Southern department. Sixteenth division Ohio and West Vir ginia Southeastern department. Seventeenth division Indiana and Ken tucky Sou then stern department. Kijrhteenth division Arkansas. Louis iana. Mississippi Southeastern depart ment. Nineteenth division California, Nevada, 1'tiih, Colorado. Arizona, New Mexico Western department. Twentieth divUion Washington. Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Western de partment. VYiint Good Wcatiier. The Onlral and Northern states are beti.g son: to the Southern department f ir trainir g to avoid the inclement weather of the north and to serve ac 1 he. sam time as border patrol to re place tho regulars who will go with J'ershing s expedition- An eff( i l was made hy the war de partmen: U- fix the training camps of all the northern states as tar to the south ai i ossible. Many of the mil itia organizations in the west will be able to train in their home states as the department assigned the nine teenth and twentieth divisions to the western uepavtment. All the troops from thv? states dsicnated as one di vision will be trained together. By tlrs method the national guard organ izations ;i" each state will preserve their identity. A plan is under consideration in th.- war department to retain their state designation when they are merged with the liational army. SORRY HE CANT GO Koosctolt;; Frlcnria Say IIe Was ceded to Popularize the War. Washington, May 19. Colonel Roosevelt's friends in congress who fought hard for the provision in the army bill which made it possible for him to lead a division to France if the president had authorized it, ex pressed deep resret today that Presi dent Wilson had decided not to avail himself of the colonel's offer. Sena tor Johnson of California, the col onel's runningmate in the celebrated Progressive presidential campaign, only said: "I am very, very sorry." Senator Harding, who wrote the amendment to the army bill authoriz ing sending the colonel's division, is sued a formal statement saying he thought it a "regrettable mistake" to refuse the offer. Senator Harding added, "There was no purpose to glorify Colonel Roosevelt. Frankly, we were trying to popularize the war. to do something to awaken the American spirit. But, we are enlisted for the war, and a good soldier sa lutes the commander-in-chief. UNDER A FIRE HOODOO Ka.st Sixth Street iutluet Threatened by Flames Again Tuduy. A fire broke out on the East Sixth street viaduct at 2:15 this afternoon. A lighted cigar butt caused the blaze. This is tbe third fire on the Sixth street viaduc. this month. SllKht damage was done and the blaze was easily extinguished. The viaduct appears to be running in hard luck. For a long time it was blocked for repairs, it has been thru several fires, and recently it furnished the necessary elevation from which a man jumped in an attempted suicide. TO INCREASE NAVY House Approve BUI Adding 75,000 Met:. Washington. May 1 9. The house today approved a conference report on a bill increaeins the navy from 8 7, 000 to 150,000 men and the marine corps from 17,400 to 30,000. The bill provides for irfcreases in salary so that enlisted men in these branches will receive about $30 a month, the same as is paid to enlisted men in thn army under the selective service bill. (Published In The Topples State Journal. May 19. 1017.) V NOTIfE TO VOXTRACTORS! Sealed proposals will be received at the t i.ffi.e of W. N. Hlrrer. Mgr. of the Chi- cngn Lumber Comniiny. In Atwood, Ksnsns. on June 15th nt 7 oVlnek p. m.. for the erection of a brik hlph nohonl bnflrltnfr. Plans nnd speclflrHtlniis for this work will be ready at said office, on May orri, and at the office of the architect. 1. M. Wood, tf27 Kansas avenue, Tojeka, Kan., on the same date. Rids will be received separately for the steam heating, and for the electric wiring. All of the rest of the work will be let under one contract. A certified check for two per cent of the amount of the bid will accompany pjtch bid. drawn in favor of the Clerk of the Board, which will be forfeited to said board, in case the bidder to whom the con tract is awarded, does uot within ten days nfter such award, furnish an rcceptahle Surety Bond In the full amount of his bid. and sipn the contract. Said bond to cover the performam of the work within the stipulated time, i-nd pav all bills which mlirht accrue s llena niralnat the property of aniil I'istrict. on account of said work, ,unler the laws of the Stnte of Kans.ia. All hlda to be ad I VI teased to J. T. Short. Clerk of School toaril, Atwood. Kansas. Kight is re .crved to reject any or all bills. V By Order of the Board. J. T. SHOUT. Clerk. i "TVIUi-UFC j WM V ONtON "Pet. FOP mAF SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Pupils of Gage park school will give an operetta "Boy Blue" in the school auditorium Tuesday evening, May 22. Columbia Council, No. 50 K. and L. of S. gave a farewell party Friday night in honor of George W. Hart, who left today for Denver, Colo., where he will become district man ager for the Remington typewriter company. Four of the committee of one hun dred for Armenian relief met at the Chamber of Commerce this noon to discuss ways and means or raising funds fo:- the sufferers. Announce ment of future plans will be made in a short time. "The Problem of Suffering in the Old Testament Habbakkuk" will "a the subject of Dr. Arthur S. Hender son's lecture to his Bible class Sunday at 10 o'clock at the First Congrega tional church, corner Seventh and Harrison streets. The judge of the small debtors' court announces he will be at the court room in the auditorium from 10 to 11 o'clock each Tuesday and Thursday, and can be reached. Phone 836, dur ing business hours any day except Sunday. Adv. Some one stole a Ford car, belong ing to Herbert Bufkin, Tuesday night while it was standing in front of the Novelty theater and Friday it was found by the police, abandoned on account of tire troubles. Chief WMson found the deserted car in Osage City. Waiving a complaint and the issu ance of a warrant, L. P Heil of the Ideal bakery appeared in the court f Topeka today and pleaded guilty to the formal, charge of adulterating bread. He was fined $5 and this, add ed to the costs, made him pay a total of $13.75 into the court. Charles Cuthbert, architect, whose runabout has been twice stolen, was arrested Friday night for speeding. Officer Ford made the arrest. He charged that the architect was ex ceeding the speed limit by numerous miles per hour. Cuthbert was re leased upon his own recognizance. Ray Jones filed divorce proceedings in the district court today against Minnie E. Jones, alleging gross neg lect of duty and extreme cruelty. He states that they were married in To peka in November, 1913, and that they are the parents of a girl, Helen Irene Jones, aged one year. His peti tion says nothing about the custody of the child. James Spradley, alias James Brad ley, alias William Carter and alias sev eral other things, withal only a dimin utive negro boy, is charged with forg ery and a warrant was issued for him from the court of Topeka today. It is charged that he drew a check for 3.bu payable o James Spradley and signed by William Carter upon the Topeka State bank and that it was cashed. George Beal and Ned Fleming are champions of the double tennis tour nament staged by the high school. Friday afternoon they met Wilbur Cole and Armine Weiskirch, winners in the singles, and defeated them by a set score of -4 and 7-5. Girls' tour nament will start Monday on the T. M. C. A. court. Trophies for the win ners will be given by Fullerton Bros, store. Order3 were received this morning that Topeka wireless stations must be dismantled, packed in boxes and ready for the federal inspector who will bind the boxes and seal them with a government stamp, immediate ly. A letter, sent out from the office of William Province, officer in charge, orders that the aerials be torn to the ground, both sending and receiving instruments be packed in wooden boxes and that this be done immedi ate as inspection starts today. Officers of the police department are meeting with considerable trouble in their efforts to enforce the new or dinance in relation to the regulation of automobile lights. A dozen or more auto drivers were herded to the police station Friday night on the theory that their lights did not con form to the ordinance. In practically every instance the lights showed up all right undertest. "Mitch" Bundy is of the opinion that the drivers use one kind of. lights out on the resi dence streets and by some sort of ill IN THE FIRST TRENCHES The. First cot Worm That THAT dies J, i'MLm. Ji, hocus pocus dim them so they have another kind when they get down to the police station. Roy F. Kacknor of Topeka, is near ly a hero already. At least he is in the eyes of the supply company of the Third regiment. With thirteen men lacking to till the lines, and with the muster into federal service scheduled for Monday, things were pretty dis couraging. And now, with only twelve n-ore men needed, no longer short the ..,-..r--tious number, recruiting offi cers have hopes. Other enlistments li fiarl D. atlii Orby J. Stitt, both of Topeka. The brothers v.ih; fini.ste.i iuil unattached. BANK STATEMENT Nwe York, May 19. The statement of the actual condition of clearing! house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $146,- 754,420 reserve in excess of legal re quirements. This is a decrease, of $444,540 from last week. The statement follows; Loans, discounts, en? $3,M0,5R(O0O $37,537,000 Reserve in own vaults "462,905,000 14,420,000 Reserve In federal reserve bank 240.927,000 (17,840,000 Reserve in other depositaries (JO.GIO.OOO 0C8.000 Net demand de posits 3.U7.2K7.000 44.052.000 Net time deposits.. l.S,7i;3.0on d2,0S0 noo Circuhitiou 2S.ri',0O( d54,000 Aggregate reserve 77(M"il.Ho Excess reserve 14i.754,420 d 444,50 Summary of state banks and trust com panies in ireater New York not included in clearing house statement Loans, discounts, ete Ml.47fi.0O0 Il.ft52.a00 Specie i7.lt-l.VM io di.V.Wn Legal tenders 1(7'JK.7oO ri2.V.000 Total deposits l,0.V..::7:tiM 10,025,000 Hunks' cash in vault 14,K,400 Trust companies' cash in vault 3,836.20O of which $41.".4S9.0OO is specie. Pnited States deposits deducted $82, 103,000. T. R., JR., TRAINING TO JW, AN OFFICER llajor Theodore Koosevelt, Jr., at Plattsburg. The colonel's eldest son, Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is in train ing with the officers' reserve corps at Plattsburg. T. R., Jr., is only one of the Roosevelts in camp. Kermit, an other son of the colonel, and J. A. Roosevelt are also training in the officers' reserve. H IS I r I; !i' I 'f if; r. U I I I ll fl 111 'iiS I :1 i d f Pi' i i i i r.i i ,ifU:i i i hi FOR f j jSf:..-;.-.- ;;-:;?:.;ft- Li:l iii I'M'!.! '"TTIift CONEY AFTER O'KEEFE Former Obtains Warrant Charging Latter Defrauded Him. Patrick Coney obtained a warrant in the court of Topeka today for the arrest of Daniel O'Keefe, charging that O'Keefe defrauded him and Mrs. Coney Tty inducing them to sign a note for $1,000 which the Coneys were forced to pay. Mr. Coney charges that O'Keefe represented that he was going to es tablish a laboratory and curative san itary department at the Throop hotel and that he needed $1,000 to put the deal over. With that understanding, says Mr. Coney, he and Mrs. Coney signed their names as security on a note given by O'Keefe to the Merchants National bank, and the amount obtained was placed in the bank to O'Keefe's credit. The laboratory was not established. O'Keefe made no effort towards estab lishing: it. Later, Coney says, he discovered that OKeefe went to the bank and drew out on his own account $46 and left town. Since then he has not heard from him. There was still more tha n 500 in the bank in O'Keefe's name and Coney attached that. The original note was for three months ar.d when the ninety days roll ed around and O'Keefe did not puv in an appearance Mr. and Mrs. Coney were forced to pay the whole amount. The complaint alleges that they hav? been defrauded out of the $460 and asks that the officers apprehend O'Keefe. A warrant was placed in the hands of Hugh Larimc r, sheriff, today. THROW IN MONEY TOO Secretary McAdoo Urges Northwest to Augment Grain Production. St. Paul. Minn., May 19. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo urgedthe northwest to throw its money as well as its grain into the scales for democ racy in the world war at a mammoth luncheon attended by 1,000 bankers, public officials and business men of the northwest today. Greeted at the Union station by a committee of 500. including Governor Burnquist, representatives of govern ors of Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Mon tana and Iowa, Secretary McAdoo plunged into a whirlwind program ex pected to boom the sale of liberty loan bonds thruout the northwest. BIRTHS REPORTED Following are the births reported o" Miss Etta Co veil, city clerk, during the last week: John Heotlein and wife, 1025 Madi son street. May 16, boy. J. Robert Larson and wife, 1627 East Crane street, May 17, girl. George J. Holzmeister and wife, 304 Chandler street, April 16, boy. Arthur D. Shupp ad wife, 319 Adams street, April 3; boy. Fred W. Rausch and wife, 827 Chestnut street, March 20, girl. John t. Rake and wife, 322 Bran ner street, May 6, boy. William Butler and wife, 418 Jeffer son street, May 3, boy. C. D. Harris and wife, 819 Eranner street, April 30, bey. Charles Henry Booth and wife. Highland Park, May 15, boy. George Rodolf and wife, 518 Sardou avenue. May 12, boy. Fred Regling and wife, 227 Han cock street, April 13, girl. Raymond F. Griffin and wife, 1172 Boswell avenue. May 14, girl. John August Allan and wife, 231 Polk street. May 11, boy. Clifford Herbert Hall and wife, 929 East Eighth street. May 13, girl. Christopher E. Dachenhansen and wife, R R No. 4, May 13. boy. Stephen Benton Stone and wife, 164 North Roosevelt street. May 10, boy. PauI'H. Roose and wife, Belle Plaine, Kan., May 7, boy. Gaylord Taylor Lawrence and wife, lift College avenue, April 13, boy. Charles A- Rinehart and wife, Cha nute, Kan., May 5, girl. Joseph S. Reedy and wife, 2814 Madison street. May 1, girl. Michael L. d'Hara and wife, 131' North Harrison street. May 11, boy. Floyd Emerson Wiley and wife, 301 Waite street. May 3, boy. James Clarence Heman and wife, Hill City, Kan., girl. NICARAGUA IS IN! Xorth American Republic Joins Against Germany. With Guatemala and Honduras She Supports U. S. A. Washington, May 19. Nicaragua, following the lead of Guatemala and Honduras, has severed diplomatic rela tions with Germany. BUTTON TO BUYERS Uberty Loan Insignia Is Approved by i Uie Government. Washington, May 19. Amounts of subscriptions to the liberty loan, it was announced today, will not be made public officially at any time until after June 15, the day on which subscriptions close. "It is planned by the treasurer's of fice," declares an official statement, "to give out each week the total num ber of subscribers to liberty bonds re ceived by this department, the federal reserve banks and other agencies. It will be a physical impossibility to give out any totals of the amount of sub scriptions until after June 15." The liberty loan button, one of which will go with each bond pur chased, has been approved and orders have been given to manufacturers for several million. The inscription on the botton reads: "Liberty Loan of 1917," in a red center upon which is reproduced a picture of the statue of liberty. In an outer circle on a blue background "Get Behind the Government," will be the inscription. TO URGE DRAFT REPEAL Topeka Mothers Will Hold Mass Meet ing Tomorrow Afternoon. Topeka mothers who' have families to feed and sons who will have to go to war will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon to discuss the problems that confront them and to form an organ ization that will disseminate their ideas of conditions as they are and as they should be. First plans for holding the meeting were taken up Mothers' Day and it was decided to hold a meeting tomor row afternoon in the high school auditorium. The hour was set for 2:30 and the general public is invited to attend. Among the questions to he discussed will be the high cost of living, plans and suggestions for an early settle ment of the war and the repeal of the conscription lawr. The Barge cannl Is the old Erie eannl and Hs tributaries, deepened and other wise improved, connecting the Hudson river mi Aioany wnn toe reai iauea ac Buffalo. It is owned by the state of New York and boats use it free of charge, and its great value to the state is in that it cheapens transportation to tbe seaboard and intermediate points. Some men never try to keep any thing" from their wives and neither do they try to swat flies with a pin cush AJbouit For Convenience and Economy Use Coupon Books Pure Ice Keeps Your Food Fresh and In addition to being invaluable for the preservation of milk, butter, vegetables and other foods, distilled water Ice is a real necessity for the health of the children and all the family. Fifty pounds of Mutual Ice delivered in your refrigerator costs you 25c and will conserve several dollars worth of food for at least two days. Ice is the cheapest commodity today. PHONE US YOUR ORDER m DEATHS AND FUNERALS MARY A. BROWN, ace 72. died this f morning ut tbe Methodist Hotue. The 'funeral will be held at ockM-k Suu- day afternoon from tbe First' hristiau church. Burial in Topeka cemetery. J KLIZA JANE WHITE, age m. died this morning at her home, at 174 lira t tan street. The funeral will be held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the residence. The body will be seut to Ozwkte, Kansas, iur Duruii. The funeral of Henrietta Hollnway, who died Wednesf la y in Ka n sas City, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock from Lane's chapel in charge of Pearly Rose 1 Tabernacle, No. 77. Burial in Mt. Auburn 1 cemetery. MRS. M. V. BROOKS, wife of A. L. 'Brooks of Grantvilie, died Friday nt the home of her daughter. Mrs. P. Me j Intire. at 1104 Taylor street. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at o'clock from the home near Grautville. Burial in Grautville cemetery. 1 MRS. SARAH ROBINSON, wife of V. M. Robinson, who died at the home, 408 tireen street, will be buried from the Oak land Methodist church, Sunday afternoon 'at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Robinson is survived by her husbaud and four children. Mrs. Myrtle Green, of Sau Diego, Oil. Mrs. A. K. Peterson and Miss Nell Robinson of To peka, and 1). S. Robinson of Pendletou, Ore. Lord's Flowers Satisfy. Tel. 827. Adv Card of Thanks. We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness and floral j offerings during the sickness and death of our wife and mother, Mrs. Molly McMurtry. Mrs. Al McMurtry, Mr. Gene Mc Murtry, Mr. Harold McMurtry, Mr. Alfred McMurtry, Mrs. Crumb.-vAdv. MS $1,000 to $1,200 per year aiTd the many openings with corporations, railroads and individ ual concerns means an assurance of a good position when you graduate. WHY NOT START MONDAY? 'JiBUSlNESSCtOtiS' Business Manage'r. 109-111-113-115-117 East Eighth Avenue. In conserving the food supply can prove more essential or necessary than an ample supply of Pure Ice. Mutual Ice is pure, clean and full weight guaranteed. Our com pany is noted for prompt delivery service and courteous delivery-men. hor the convenience of our patrons and to obviate errors we provide Coupon Books for all sizes of deliveries, which can be procured at our office or ordered from any of our drivers, at the following prices 100 lb. strip coupons (12y2 lb. deliveries) .65 Net 125 lb. strip coupons (25 lb. deliveries) 65 Net 200 lb. Books (121 lb. deliveries) 1.25 Net 700 lb. Bdoks (25-50-75 lb. deliveries) 3.50 Net 1000 lb. Books (25-50-75 lb. deliveries) 5.00 Net 2000 lb. Books (100 lb. deliveries) 9.00 Net 2000 lb. Books (200 lb. deliveries) 8.00 Net. 4000 lb. Books (300 lb. deliveries) 14.00 Net 4000 lb. Books (600 lb. deliveries) 10.00 Net V Mnial See Cold Storage Co, Phones 4183-4184-4185 TO FIX LABOR MATTERS

Creation of I. S. Commission With Sweeping; Power Asked In BUI. Washington. May 19. Creation of a United States commission of indus trial adjustment with sweeping pow- ers to fix wages and hours of labor I of employes in interstate transporta Hon and designed to eliminate strikes I and lockouts, is provided in a bill pre i sented to congress today by the labor departmenf ne commission to dc composeu di nine members appointed by the pres ident with consent of the senate, would have drastic powers to inter vene in labor wars and establish equit able rights which would be maintain ed in force for three years. Xo attempt would be made to de prive labor of its prerogative to cease work individually or collectively at j any time or to prevent employers SIXK FRENCH DESTROYER. i Struck at Mine During Naval Engage I nifiit In Adriatic. Paris. l!ay 19. The French torpe Ido boat destroyer Boutefeu was sunk by striking a mine in the naval en gagement between entente and Aus trian vessels in the Adriatic on May 15. New York Produce Market New York. May BfTTKIt Market stelv. Creamery, blgber tbun extras, :ai.i"4ie. Kt;; Market steady. Fresh gathered extrps. 'ilV'i CHKESK .Market unsettled. State, fresh l'OL'VTKV Alive. Dressed, quiet. IS THE TIME To enroll for Business with the many others who are just graduates, either from high or com mon school. Opportunities for stenographers and business college graduates was never better. With thp rnvprnment startinir stenographers at M. H. STRICKLER, President. S. J. SHOOK, Business Manager. uitiiai Ice of the home, nothing from discharging their men Individ dually or collectively. 1 The commission would becoms operative July 1. 1 NO MORE FRAT PINS Motor Cars, Too, PUu-cd Cndor Bax nt Training Camp. Fort Sheridan, 111., May 19. Fra ternity pins and private motor cart were placed under the ban at the re serve officers' training camp today by. Col. Wm Nicholson, commandant., These, Colonel Nicholson held, did not mako for democracy. LOCAL MOTION The Ladies1 Aid society of the Se ward Avenue Methodist church will give an ice cream social tonight on thf church lawn. Social dance tonight at Garflelt' park. Saunders orchestra. Admis" bion 60c. Adv. Safetv razor blades sharpener ter than new. 25c-S6c dos. UruJlv Martin Orutf Co. Adv. Mrs. Sidney Workman, mother oi, three minor children, charges that hei. husband deserted her and the children in necessitous circumstances. She pul her case up to the county attorney and he issued a warrant for Workman charging him with desertion on twe counts. One count charges wife de sertion and the other child desertion IgUSlNeSS COt" Phone 1382. Wholesome mmnmmhvmn fir-

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 19, 1917 PRESIDENT'S President Wilson's proclamation, putting Into effect tne selective draft provision of the wnr army Mil follows: A proclamation by tbe president of the United States Whereas, congress Las enacted and the president lias on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sev enteen, approved a law which contains the following provisions Section five That all male persons be tween the aces of lil and ;i0. both Inclusive, shall tw suhjert to registration in accord ance with regulations to be pres r!led by the president; and, upon proclamation by the president or other public notice given by him or by his direction, stating the time u nd place of such registration, it shall be tbe duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and en listed men of the regular army, the navy and the national guard and naval ml'itia. while in the- service of the I'uited States, to present themselves for and submit to regiRtrntion under the provisions of this act, and every such person shall be deem ed to have notice of the requirements of this act urx.u the publication of said proc lamation or other notice as foresaid given by the president or by his direction; and any person who shall wilfully fall or re fuse to present himself for registration or to submit (hereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemesnor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by Imprisonment for not more than one year and shall thereupon be lulv registered; provided, that in the call of the docket precedence shall be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal proceedings under this act; pro Tided further, that persons shall be sub ject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their twenty -first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before tbe day set for the registration and all persons n registered shiili be and remain suhtect to draft Into the forces hereby au thorised, unless exempted or ex- used there from as In this act provided; further, that lu the case of temporary absence from ac tual place of legal residence of any per on liable to registration as provide) here in, such registration may be mnde by mall tinder regulations to be prescribed by the president. Section six That the president Is here by authorized to utili-.e the service of any tor nil deoHrtments ami any or all officer's or agents of the I'uited States and of tlK several stctes, territories, and the IUstrh-t Of Coluuioiii, and suhdivisions thereof, in th execution of this act, and ;ill such offi cers ami tijrtnts and all persons designat ed or appointed under regulations pre scribed by the president, whether such Appointments are made hy the pros) dent himself or the governor or other officer of any stnte or territory to perform anv lluty hi the execution :f this Ht, are hereby required to perform such duty ns the president shall order or direct, and pll such oi fleers and agents and persons fo designated or apnointed shall hereby hnve full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this act by the direction o the president. f orrespond euce In th- execution of this act may be carried In penalty envelopes ben ring the frank of the war department. Any person charged, as herein provided with the duty Tf carryin; info effect any of the provis ions of this art, or the regulations made or directions given thereunder, who shall t.t or neglect to perform such duty: and any person charged with sm-h ditty or having and exercising any authority" un -er said net. legulations or directions, who shall knowingly make or be a partv to the making of any faKe or Incorrect registration, physical examination, exempt ion, or muster: and any person who shaP In like or b a party to the making of anv false statement or certificate as to the fit ies or liability of himself or nnv other person for service under the provisions of this act, or regulations mnde by the pres ident thereunder, or otherwise" evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act or of said regulations, or. who. In nnv manner, shall fail or neglect fullv to perforin any duty required of him In the ee-Hti.n of this net, shall. If not sub ject to military law. b gniltv of a mlsde nieimor and upon mnvletlnn In the district court of the T'ntted States having juris diction thrieof. be punished by Impris onment for not more than one vear. or, if subject to military law. shall "be tried by court-martial and suffer siirn turn (sh in on as t t nnrt-raartial may direct. Now. therefore, I. Wood row Wilson, resident of the T'nited States, do call bf'on the governor of each of the several Mates and territories, the board of com Hissioners of he IMitrh-t of Columbia. tid all officers and agents of the several Ktates anil territories, of the Idstrlct of Columbia rind of the counties and munici palities therein, to perform certain duties In the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will he communicated to them fllrectly in regulations of even date here with. And I Io further proclaim and give no Wee to all persons subject to registration In the sevrral states and in the Histrlct f Columbia in accordance with the above taw. that the time and place of such reg istration shall be between 7 a. m.. and fl p. m.. on the fifth dny of June. 1017, at the registration place in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. Those who shnll have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained tTielr thirty-first birthday on or before the date here named, are required to register, excepting r nly officers and enlisted men of fhe regular army, the navy, the marine ero nnd the national guard and naval mllltio. while In the service nf the T'nited States and officers in the officers reserve orris and enlisted men in the enlisted re serve corps while in ect're service. In territories of Alaska. Hawaii and Porto Bico. a day for registration will be named 10 a later proclamation. :;rAnd I do charge those who. thru sick ness, shall be unable to present themselves for registration, that they apply on or be fore the dny of registration to the county clerk of the county where they may be for Instructions as to bow they mny be reg istered by rgent. Those wtio expect to be rtbsent on the day named from the mnn tfps in which they have their permanent rmes. mar register bv mail, but their moiled registration cards must reach the frinces In which they have made their per manent homes by the day named herein. TChev should apnlv ns soon as practicable to the county clerk of the county wherein tbey may he for instructions as to how fcfcci mny accomplish their registration by nail. In case such persons, ns thru sick ness or sbsence. may be onnble to present themselves personally for registration, shall be sojourning In cities of oyer ."WVOnfl JiOpnlatlon. they shall a poly to fhe olty Terk of the city wherein they msv be so journing, rather than to the" clerk of the county. The cVHrs of counties and of cities of over nn.ono population, in which Wfimerous implications from the sick and from non-residents are expected, are au thorized to establish such snh-sgeodes and m employ nnd deputize such clerical force ma may be necessary to accommodate these pMcat!on Th power senlpst whtch we nre ar rived his wonght to imnose fts ttIII nnon tI world bv fore. To this end It has crsed nrmament nntil it has ehnngen" Hie fa-e of war. In the sense In which we rffre been wnpt to thlk of arm's thei-e Sre m armies in this snirgle. There sre ewHro netiof srmed. Thus, the men who yemnin to tilt the soil and msn tbe fse titrtes sre' no less n part of the nrmv thrt tif tn Frsnce thnn he men beneath the bat tle flags It must be so vlth ns Tt is rot an nrmv that we must shne end tr1n for war it Is s nst'on. To this end. onr neonle must drsw close n one compter front scrnlpst a common foe. But th's cwnnot be f esch mnn pursues a private purpose AH must pursue one purpose. Tbe nation needs all men: but H needs each mnn, not In the field thst win most o'ase him. but In the endeavor tW wilt best Mrv the common good. Thus, tho a alrrpshont-er rdeje to operate n trln hsm mr for th fortrine f great (runs. ed n epert mscVn'st desires to msreh with the fpg, the ntlon is being served onlv when the sharpshooter marches an the msch'n fit remains at his levers. The whole na tion must be team In which each msn shall be organized for wnr by selection mrl that esch msn shall be classified for service in the place to which It shall best se--e th ffnernl good to call him. t.Th significance of th's cennot be orer $red. It Is a nw thine1 In our h'stnrr and s landmark: In onr progress. Tt Is n new manner of aeeentlng snd vlts1Tlng our duty to trlve ourselves with thoneht'nl eerotlon to the common pnrnose of ps nil. T In no sense a conscrlntlon of the rrntviHIne t Is rather, selection fmra union which has volunteered In mass. It PROCLAMATION I is no more a choosing of those who shall miirch with the colors, than it is a selection I of those who shall serve an equally nec- ai; aim ueruieu purjiwac 111 iuv i"- dustries that lie behind the battle line. The day here named is the time upon which all shall present themselves for as signment to their tasks. It is for that reason destined to be remembered as one of the most conspicuous moments In our history. It is nothing less than the day on which the manhood of the country shnll step forward in solid rank in de fense of the ideals to which this nation is consecrated. It is important to those Ideals no less than to the pride of this generation in manifesting its devotion to them that there be no gaps in the ranks. It Is essential that the day be ap proached in thoughtful apprehension of Its significance and that we accord to it tbe honor and the meaning That it deserves. Our industrial need prescribes that it be not made a technical holiday, but the stern sacrifice that is before us, urges that it be carried in all our hearts as a great day of patriotic devotion and obligation when the duty shall lie upon every man, whether he is himself to be registered or not, to see to it that the name of every male per son of the designated ages is written on these lists of honor. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and ca u sed the seal of t he United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sev enteen, nnd of the independence of the United States of America, the one hun dred and forty-first. By the president ROBKKT LANSING. Secretary of State. BOARD OF TRADE PLAN Chicago Brokers Will Adopt Corpora tion Market System. Chicago, May 19. Announcement is made today that the corporation plan of settlement of trades will be recom mended at the meeting of tho direc tors of the Chicago board of trade next Tuesday as the outgrowth of the prohibition of trading in futures. The plan provides for the organization of a corporation to act as a clearing house which while under the board supervision would not be directly con nected with it. Tbe corporation would have a large capital and each board member would be a stockholder. It would be operated not for profit and as profits grew, the clearing charges would be reduced. Each member trading on the board will be forced to place a fund commensurate with the amount of his trades with the clearing house io insure his settle ments. Every trade would go thru the clearing house and each night set tlement trades would be brought up to the market. All collections and payments would be made thru this agency. It is estimated that about 5,ou em ployes of brokers in Chicago will be given "vacations' for an indefinite period within the next few days as a result of the cessation of trading in futures on the board of trade. NEW CATALOG IS OUT i Washburn Announces New Courses for the Coming Vear. The 1917-1918 Washburn college catalog is off the press, and contains the official announcement of courses for the coming year. A new professor ship in education has been created and an extensive course offered for the coming year. The extending of the course In education has been rendered necessary by the large number of stu dents who are preparing to teach. The professor who will have charge of the course has not yet been an nounced. The college will also offer a course in home economics, otherwise known as domestic science, the details of which will be developed later. The summer session will begin June 11. Courses will be offered in astron omy, biology, physiology, education, English literature, history, mathe matics and Latin and Greek The fine arts department will offer an attrac tive musical course for summer work. The law school will be open and ele mentary law, agency, mortgages and insurance, partnership and bills and notes will be available to students. The summer session will work six days a week, and extend over a period of six weeks. NEW TORTURE TONGS Ake-Pots Here Vote New Equipment New Officers Elected. New apparatus and a new ritual for the Ake-Pot Ster-Boos will be pur chased and Installed this summer and will follow closely that used by the famous Ak-Sar-Ben order in Nebras ka. Members of the Topeka order will go to Omaha for the ritual and new paraphernalia. A decision to this effect was made at a meeting Friday evening at the Chamber of Commerce. Following the business meeting, offi cers for the ensuing year were elected. They are George Godfrey Moore, past imperial petoka; E. L. Overton, imperial petoka; James A. Troutman, mysterious ake-pot; J. E. Austin, in quisitive pekota; C. P. Buck, royal pekota; rr. F. J. Ernest, chief pe kota; A. A.. Ridings, assistant chief pekota; H. E. Offleld, second assistant chief pekota; P. T. Johns, third as sistant chief pekota: H. S. Putney, guardian, and H. J. Brockman, secre tary and scribe. ENTIRE FAM1LYBURNS Fire and Explosion in St. Louis Home Today. St. Louis, Mo.. May 19. Mary Beck er. 43 years old and her daughter, Mil dred, 19. -burned to death, and Joseph Becker, husband and father, was crit ically burned and cut in an explosion followed by fire at their home on what is known as "Dago Hill" this morn inp. The bodies of the two women were recovered shortly after 3 o'clock this morninR in the basement of the ruins. The explosion occurred in the base ment of a two-story frame building a few minutes after Becker, who is a metal polisher, returned home from work. The stairway leading to the second floor, where the two women were sleeping, was wrecked by the explo sion, making their escape impossible. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Open Wdfare Campaign. Manhattan. Kan., May 19. Repre sentatives of the National Public Wel fare league will open a public welfare campaign here tomorrow. The cam paign will close with a county institute Tuesday. The campaign has been car ried on thruout Riley county this week and will culminate in the campaign to be held here. Officers of the league have been giving talks on the work at the various towns in tbe county. NEW BANK AT I in .rr S n Clay Center, Kan., May 19. Clay county prosperity is symbolized in the new bank building erected recently by George Washington Hanna, cashier of the Farmers' State bank of Clay Cen ter. The bank stands at the corner of Fifth and Court streets and is one of the prettiest buildings erected in the city in recent years. Dr. S. E. Reynolds is president of the bank. The bank was organized in 1907 with a capital stock of $30,000. Today, its surplus and profits aggregate J30,- PIERCE IS NAMED Junction City Man Xew Com mander Kansas G. A. R. W. W. Smith, Topeka, Delegate to National Encampment. Salina, Kan., May 19. The next an nual encampment of the Kansas G. A. R. will held at Chanute. This was decided upon following the election of officers of the organization and its auxiliaries Friday afternoon. Captain A. C. Pearce of Junction City, was chosen department commander. The other officers elected by the G. A. R. were: Senior vice commander, W. H. Johnson, Salina: junior vice com mander, Samuel Baughman, Chanute; chaplain, W. J. Magtagon, Earlton. Delegates to the national encampment at Boston in Augusf were elected by districts as follows: First district, Jasper Mix, Topeka, and J. G. Hanna, Hiawatha: second district, S. J. Stew art, Humboldt, and B. F. 'Pugh, Ot tawa; third district, J. P. Short, Win field, and Sam Baughman, Chanute; fourth district. David Taylor, Emporia, and E. H. Higgins, Burlington; fifth district, W. W. Palmer, Glasco, and Charles Wingrave. Clay Center; sixth district. George B. Crandall, Jewell, and J. W. McGhee, Beloit; seventh dis trict, W. H. Mitchell. Hutchinson, and J. A. Walter, Great Bend: eighth dis trict, J. Kinney, Newton, and Fred Jackson McPherson. Delegates at large, W. W. Smith. Topeka; J. H. Wollen, Mankato, and G. H. Grisham, Cottonwood Falls. Other Elections. The officers of the auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans elected for the com ing year are: Mrs. Leona Stewart, Wichita, president; Mrs. Bertha Smith, Manhattan, senior vice president; Mrs. Carrie Peterson, Topeka, junior vice president; Mrs. Bessie Murdock, Manhattan, and Mrs. Sarah Martin, Wichita, council of administration; Mrs. Lora Harvey. Parsons, treasurer; Mrs. Sarah E. Bush, Wichita, chap lain. The Woman's Relief corps elected officers for the coming year as fol lows: Mrs. Melissa Hoffman. Parsons, president; Mrs. Laverne Williamson, Newton, senior vice president; Mrs. Carrie Duncan, Salina, juriior vice president; Mrs. I. K. Bailey, Law rence, treasurer; Mrs. Martha Fitz gerald, Topeka, chaplain; executive board, Mrs. Ada Neal, Glasco: Mrs. Sarah Vaughn, Iola; Mrs. Bertha Dewey, Independence; Mrs. Cin derella Klindblade, McPherson, and Mrs. Gertie Colley, Seneca. COURT DOCKET IS BIG. Thirty-seven Criminal Cases to Come Up at Garden City. Garden City, Kan., May 19. The May term of district court convened this week with Judge Geo. A. Downer of Syracuse, on the bench. The docket is one of the largest ever had in this country. There are thirty-seven crim inal cases and 105 civil cases. There are two cattle stealing cases, the other criminal cases are for minor offenses. The most Important civil case is the Starkwether case against the con struction company that is putting in the sanitary sewer for $10,000 dam ages claimed to have been sustained when the sewer banks caved in and buried the plaintiff. STATE BANKS ARE IX)YAI- Many of Them Already Have Sub scribed to Liberty Loan. Abilene, Kan., May 19. Officers of state banks in Kansas are indignant at the widely published statement that they will not subscribe to the liberty loan, according to M. H. Malot. former president of the Kansas Bankers' asso ciation. "I know of many state banks that have made large subscriptions al ready." he declares. "The state bank ers resent the imputation that they are selfishly refusing to subscribe when the nation needs, simply because they are not made depositories, and the statement is a grave injustice to the 1,200 bankers of Kansas." J. II. Eversole FaneraL Rosb'ville, Kan.. May 19. The fu neral of J. H. Eversole, who died at his home here Thursday after an ill ness of several months was Held to day. Burial was in Rossville ceme tery. CLAY CENTER fasfsrs tel. WWl WESSt 0X10, while Its deposits are near the half million dollar mark. George Hanna has been one of the town boosters for years. He is a typical community builder, willing to preside or wait tables at any func tion, just so he may be of some aid to the town in which he lives and in which he had made the few dollars he possesses. He is at present vice president of the Kansas State Bankers' association. At one time he repre sented the Clay-Dickinson county dis trict in the state senate. BUILD IIP BAKERY College Hill Concern Incorpor ated at $100,000 Capital. Built Up by G. L. Jordan; Ca pacity 15,000 Loaves Daily. The College Hill bakery, established and built up by G. L. Jordan, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. A charter has been granted by the state charter board. Mr. Jordan is the largest individual stockholder and is president and gen eral manager of the plant. He will continue in charge of it as heretofore. Besides him there are four Topeka stockholders. M. L. Marshall of Kan sas City is vice president of the com pany. He is connected with the Camp bell bakeries in Kansas City and asso ciated with William M. Campbell, also of Kansas City, who now has an inter est in the College Hill bakery. The Campbell concern is one of the largest of its kind- in the west and is interested in plants at Kansas City, Des Moines, Wichita, Sioux City and now in Topeka. 15,000 Loaves Daily. The incorporation of the College Hill bakery as the College Hill Baking company is another step in building up the corncern. Mr. Jordan will have the benefit of the knowledge of the experts in the other Campbell bak eries and will not be required to carry the load of the business alone. The bakery was started six years ago by Mr. Jordan with a capacity of 400 loaves a day. Its present capacity is 15,000 loaves a day and will be in creased as the demand for the College Hill baking increases. KOESTNER HOLDSLEAD Wichita Pitcher Still Swat King of the Western League. Chicago, May 19. Koestner, Wich ita, leads the Western league batters with .400 for thirty times at bat, ac cording to averages published today which include games of last Tuesday. Crosby, Sioux City, as a regular is close behind with .392. Connolly, Sioux City, and Coy. Wich ita, are tied in home runs with three each. Krug, Omaha, leads in sacri fice hits with ten; Gilmore, Sioux City, is the bestTun getter with twenty-one, while J. A. Thompson, Omaha, leads in stolen bases with fifteen. Sioux City with 296 leads in club batting. The leading matters are: Koestner, Wichita, .400; Crosby. Sioux City, .392; E. Smith. Omaha, .369: Horan. Joplin, .359: Rader. Sioux City, .356; Jones, Wichita. .337; Kirkham, St. Joseph. .325; Gilmore, Sioux City, .325; Muel ler. Sioux City, .324; Watson, Sioux City, .317. Kallio, Des Moines, and East, Lin coln, with five 'ictories and one de feat, each lead the pitchers. Caddock Defeats Amerlcus. Kansas City, Mo., May 19. Earl Caddock of Iowa defeated Gus Schoen lein (Americus) of Baltimore, in straight falls here. The first fall came after forty-seven minutes, with a toe hald. The second came in eighteen and one-half minutes, when Americus was thrown, to the mat so violently that he was dazed and his shoulders were easily pinned down. STATE MEET TO NORMALS. Emporia Teachers Win Track Title With a Big Score. Emporia, Kan., May 9. Scoring in every evnt except one. the Em poria. State Normals won the Kansas inter-collegiate track meet here, scor ing 65i points. Their nearest rival was Southwestern college with 32. Fairmount was third with 2S. Friends, Pittsburg, Normal. Baker, Kansas Wesleyan and Cooper finished in the order named. Boger of Fairmount broke the state record in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 11 feet 10 inches. A new high jump record was made by lance of Pittsburg Normals, with a jump of feet 10 inches. Fire Destroys Plant. Niagara Falls, May 19. Fire from explosions of unknown cause in the chloro-benrol manufacturing plant of the Electro-Chemical company, late Friday caused $200,000 damage and endangered the entire milling district. Up to SO FROM EVERYWHERE. BY"CLUG- SPORT ESSENTIAL Athletics Make Men More Fit to Fight Their Foes. England Has Found This Out Thru Experience. Many sport followers have been greatly alarmed over the prospect of having to abolish all athletic activities during the duration of the war and the action that many of the leading schools and colleges have taken in abandoning their schedules has led to the belief that about the only kind of physical exercise that would not be frowned upon In the near future would be the productive kind, such as wielding a hoe or welding a horseshoe or something else to feed or equip our army. In sport, as in everything else, a great deal of hysteria came to the sur face following the declaration of war and this unnatural and unnecessary condition still prevails to a great ex tent as was shown by the refusal of members of a big football conference to make any plans for next season's games. v Take Different View. But gradually people are beginning to look at things with sober eyes and to realize that it would be nothing short ot a calamity to abolish sports and that if at any time athletic activ ities are needed it is in war time when the young men of the country are cer tain to be called upon to endure phy sical hardships. Instead of aban doning schedules and abolishing titles, as some organizations are doing, many big men in the sport world are beginning to advocate an increase of these on an economical scale. Many have turned their attention to the allies, who are much more ex perienced in the game of war than tho United States, and in every in stance they have found that England and France have been compelled to give sport activities a prominent place in their scheme of things. On the battlefields of France It has been found necessary to provide the fighters with recreation and amuse ment even at the sacrifice o trenches, and behind the firing line every branch of sport nourishes In a re markable way. A short time ago a dispatch from France told of how the British soldiers made golf holes out of tomato cans and played right un der the nose of German guns and this week two British papers have cjme to Topeka showing that sports are any thing but dead in Great Britain. What England Does. One of these papers, received from Scotland by Robert Fullerton, tells how the British government has ac tually released soldiers from the trenches so that they could go home and make footballs for the use of oth er soldiers. Another paper from Lon don, received by Tom Powell tells that within a radius of ten miles five foot ball games drew approximately 30,000 spectators. These incidents show that the Brit ish have realized sports are beneficial both from a physical and a mental standpoint. Physically they make the men participating in them more fit to fight and their mental benefit comes from taking the minds of both players and spectators off the grim scenes of the battlefield. Undoubtedly there will be a. lull In all sports in the United States during the summer, but there is every reason to believe this will be overcome by fall, and in all probability football will be more popular than it has been for years. willardaTacifist? Maybe Not, But That's What Many Are Beginning to Think. New Tork, May 19. Jess Willard has not met an opponent in the ring for more than a year. Willard has spent his time travel ingiround over the country with a circTra drawing a huge salary thru the power of his name, showing the pee pul how he knocked out Jack Johnson and brought back the title to the white race. Tom Jones, the barber, has traveled with big Jess and has spent most of his -time assuring the newspapers that Jess would fight whenever the oppon ent was found who couid stand, in the same ring with-Jess without melting from pure fright at merely beholding the huge bulk of the world's heavy weight champion. John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries and even Jack Johnson must have chuck led themselves almost into hysteria by this time by the mere consideration of such a champion a champion who dares not, or refuses to fight. Willard is wrong when he says there is no one worthy of a match with him. Even tho he is backed by Tom Jones, Jack Curley and the rest of them he is wrong. Not only is there one man who would be accept able for a match with the champion, but there areat least two. Willard has contented himself by. turning down the insistence of Carl Morris by the assertion that Morris is no card. "Morris," he suavely declar ed, "would not draw a house of ilO.OOO." Fred Fulton would be a good op- ponent for the champion. It isn't 1 ii "C j T7...1 ton or Carl Morris either would make the fat and incompetent champion oirp ittiuci wvcijr w ncij 5"t. his crown from being tarnished. It's about time he began to show signs of life. The fight fans want it. He can't hold off much longer and he'd bet ter grab before the grabbing gets too hot for him. BASEBALL TODAY. National League. Chicago at Philadelphia, clear, 3 p. m. Pittsburg at New York, clear, 3 p. m, Cincinnati at Boston, clear. 3 p. m. St. Louis at Brooklyn, clear, 3 p. m. American Lemgae. Boston at Chicago, clondy, 3 p. m. Washington at St. Louis, clear, 3 p. m. Philadelphia at Cleveland, clear. 3 p. m. New York at Detroit, clear, 3:15 p. m. American Association. Columbus at Minneapolis, cloudy, 3:30 p. m. Indianapolis at Kansas City, clear, 3 p. m. Lonisville at St. Paul, clondy, 3 p. m. Toledo at Milwaukee, rain, 3 p. m. Western League. Denver atjoplin. clear, 3 p. m. Wichita at St. Joseph, clear. 3 p. m. Sioux City at Dea Moines, clear, 3;3U p, m. Lincoln at Omaha, clear. 3:15 d. m. the Minute STANDING OF THE TEAMS. National Leasue. Won 2 ."..iii""";;!i5 15 14 Clubs Lost Pot. Chicago 10 7 9 12 18 14 14 20 .688 .6R2 .25 .538 .419 .3tV4 .3B4 .310 .54 .54 .63(1 .484 AIH .453 .3.-,7 .280 .781 .548 .548 .500 .407 .303 .375 .370 .606 .625 .625 .5t5 .478 .301 .375 .209 ew orE Philadelphia St. Louis Cincinnati .13 Boston 8 Brooklyn 8 i'lttsouig a American Lium Boston 17 S 9 12 11 15 17 18 18 7 14 14 13 IB 17 15 17 7 9 9 10 12 14 15 19 New York 17 Chicago 21 Cleveland 15 Washington 13 St. Louis 14 Detroit 10 Philadelphia 7 American Association. Indianapolis 25 Louisville 17 Columbus .....17 Kansas City 13 Toledo 11 Milwaukee 11 Minneapolis 9 St. -aui io Western Leag;ne. Des Moines 1 Omaha 15 Lincoln 15 Sioux City 13 Denver It Joplin 9 at. .loseph 9 Wichita 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago Cat Phlla.) Ej Philadelphia 3 9 1 Douglas, Prendergast. Demaree and Wil son; Alexander and Killifer. Pittsburg (at N. Y.) 1 8 4 New York 8 g 4 Grimes and Schmidt; Sal lee and McCarty and Kariden. Cincinnati (at Boston) 4 7 2 Boston j 5 o lung ana nunn Kuaolph, Nehf and Tragresser. St. Louis (at Brooklyn) 1 4 3 Brooklyn 441 I 1 W T 1 I 1 rBLMru ana onyaer: Terer and O. Miller. WESTERN LEAGUE. Wichita (at St. Joe) ....1 3 2 St. Joseph 3 fl 3 Lyons and laryan; Hovllk and Moore. Lincoln (at Omaha) 16 16 2 Omaha 13 14 7 Gregory and Hohrer; Currie, Waterman 01111 ouaw. uenver ut Jnn Inl et m joplin u s I-1 innings.) Smithson, Boebler and Bartholomey, Shestak; Burwell. Hail and Monroe. Sioux City (at Des Moines) 3 6 4 iies oiolnes 4sn ,1 ..j, O O icuis ana crosDy, Torres: ."ii u. ,m 11 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston (at Chicago) 2 4 2 Chicago ;;;8 15 Schalk' a ftnew; Kussell and New York (at Detroit) 7 12 1 Detroit i i Mogridge and Nunamaker baii'ss and Washington (at St L.) 8 12 1 ot. Louis o 6 5 1. i.iiiinMii. ana lenry A lank. Philadelphia at Cleveland rain. Sport Wheezes "111 J BY CL.CG The Black Sheep. There was young tuber named Spud. Bald be aw he nudg-ed little Bud: "Get n hustle on. Brother, I'm afraid you're another Slacker with German fried blood. And Some More. There was a big fighter named Jess, He could lick all the world, 1 guess. But when scked to enlist He Just could not resist Pleading his family's distress. A great many Western league fans sre wondering if Wichita will do the same mnv. out i nose wno th .1 believe him a better sport in' uncKifii me wolves u'lj out 01 Liie league. The International lean association seem to have got their league series. Hickey says "we will," and Barrows says "we won't." You can IdnC JOUf JJICK. Maybe the Chicaaro fnh thfnir th mans would have conscientious acninles against killing, world champions. There 11 w account ior toeir re markable winning streak. In spite of all his cleverness. DonrIas rairbanks, the movie star, has been bnn coed. Somebody has persuaded htm that he can add to his fame by undertaking to butt, or jump, or scale hin way into aeaiiiuis game. Fairbanks, whom the movie fiends fa miliarly call "Doug," has undertaken to iui m mat anise namea kuu Montana on tbe grappling mat and will hand) him in something like the manner Tom Jones handled Jess Willard, his press agent aunuumro. Fairbanks may get away with it and may escape absolnte ruin, but he certain ly Is takiniT his fame nnd Mm fnrhinp In a shaky hand. Next to having a Job of iiuiirsuiiHiuiK tne Kaiser to Keep some fanatic from killing the German poten tate, managing a Bull wrestler is about as enviabU: a Job as a nut can imagine. And If "Doug" really has run amuck to this extent, then expect the worst from him. The Schroelzer All Nations did not do a great deal towards reviving baseball in terest iri Topeka and it is reoorted that the ticket scalpers did not make a for tune out of their manipulations. But maybe tbe weather signs were not right. However, a rumor is going the rounds that some one may make a real effort to revive interest in "Western league base- ba 1 1 nere oerore the en d or the present season. Up at Des Moines last Sunday i all of the Des Moines nlavers and all the mb predicted that if an effort Is made to t enroroe Tne nw oony jrooay Htanice. both the Des Moines and Sioux City clubs will try to come to Topeka. It Is hardly to be expected that Topeka fans could support both teams, unless one opens up a park In North Topeka, but those who are watching the manuevers state that there is no other available town for them to go to. Undoubtedly Topeka would be rlad to have either one of the clubs, provided it would come here on a straight business proposition. The fans here want baseball again more than most people realize. But they want a club that they can worship when t Is winning and forget abont If It is losing, and there seems to be no one who wants to bring in a club that will demand sup port regardless of the quality of baseball offered those who make the turnstiles click- K..U. Loses Dual Meet. Lincoln, Neb., 'May 19. In a dual track and field meet here the Univer sity of Nebraska won from the Univer sity of Kansas. 77 to 37. No records were broken. Kansas took three firsts. in the mile, broad jump and pole vault. WASHBURN'S ILLS Old Football Stars Discuss Grid iron Situation. Coaching System Is 3fot Blamed for Poor Showing;. 1 ThV Washburn College Bulletin for May contains a special department de voted to football in which some of the old Ichabod stars give their views on athletic conditions and tell what they think is the matter with their alma mater. The department is call ed a "Football Clinic" and Dr. Glen Millice. EL A. Burkhart. Geo. H White, Dr. Robert Stewart, Osborne Larimer and L. M. Jones are the operating sur geons. Most of these loyal Washburn men seem to think the trouble with the Ichabod teams during the last few years has been lack of material and unjust regulations rather than ineffi cient coaching and a lack of interest on the part of the students. Glen Millice seems to think the old "Grads' have rot done their duty in sending in new material and suggests that Washburn might improve condi tions by adopting the system used by Nebraska to get football men. George White who has kept in as close touch with sports as any other ex-Washburn athlete goes into the ailments of the school in detail and expounds the theory that the losing habit has become chronic He says in part: White's Analysts. "Good football material does not en roll at the college of bad football reputation. It must be admitted that, however stalwart or speedy, raw ma terial can not be whipped into a con tending team in the class in which Washburn has, or did have, ambition to be a contender. Material already experienced In the game and proven of worth must be had. It is no more reasonable to send raw recruits into college football than to enroll illiter ates in college study courses. They're not ready to go the pace. "Washburn got to losing; had a los ing year, and another. "The boys of the preparatory schools thruout Washburn's natural tributary territory, with minds open to selections of their college, were well aware of it. Their minds were impressed with Washburn's losing and at the same time with others' winning and they were the boys who prepared for college football as well as college studies. "They wanted to go to a college or university where, if they could make the team, they would be winners, earn the honor of playing on a victorious team, have something to be proud of certainly legitimate ambition. They would try for the best team they thought they possibly could make. "Washburn losing, losing could not appeal to them as the place to cast their lot, and the more and longer Washburn lost, the fewer promising football men could be recruited. The football down-grade has an acceler ator in every lost game and it is likely to require as many won as lost to get back to the top of the pile." Dr. Stewart's Views, Dr. Stewart who was medical sup ervisor of the team last season and who knows all the ins and outs of conditions as they are today expressed the utmost confidence in Dr. Ken nedy's ability to turn out a winning team if given the proper material and says that the great handicap lies in not being allowed to play freshmen. Along this line he says: "The most important reason why Washburn is hopelessly 'down and out' in football is the existence of the rule excluding freshmen from intercol legiate games. The freshmf.n rule was needed a number of years ago in the fight against professionalism in col lege athletics, but the rule has outlived its day of usefulness. It is a signifi cant fact that most all colleges in the Kansas conference play their first year men against Washburn. There is a rule in this organization permitting colleges with an enrollment under a given number to play their freshmen in all contests." Other Opinions.. "Oz" Larimer is of the opinion that conditions would be better if there were not so mch social interference and L. M. Jones thinks there should be more co-operation from the organ izations on the "Hill." E. A. Burk hart, an old Ichabod halfback, says a good, red blooded field secretary to get out and stir up football enthusiasm for Washburn college, would be one of the best paying propositions the school could undertake, and there are many who believe his suggestion is a most excellent one. It is. not expected that much can be done while the war lasts, but the franK opinions of the "Old Boys shows that they realize conditions and the space given to the subject in the bulletin indicates at Doctor Kennedy will have some real, honest-to-goodness co operation when national conditions re turn to such a state that every one can again devote his attention to affairs of this kind. TO ST. MARYS SUNDAY Knights of Columlms Baseball Team Has Many Games Booked. Tommy Brennan and his Knijrhts of Columbus baseball players will go to St. Marvs Sunday to play the fct. Mary's college team. A large delega tion from Topeka is expected to ac company the team. On Sunday. May 27. the K. of C. team will play the Topeka Greys in Topeka. the frame being the first local appearance of the Brennan club here. Evans's All-Xation team will be played on June 10, the Topeka Elks on June 17 and St. Mary s on June 24. A man has been enraged by the K. of C. officials to look after the park for the season. He will move into the club house at once and expects to have the diamond In the best possible condition within a few days. Tigers Cine. Championship. Columbia. Mo.. May 19. The Uni versity of Missouri baseball team won the Missouri valley conference cham pionship here by defeatine; the Univer sity of Kansas, 9 to 2. This was Mis souri's sixteen straight virtory. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Indianapolis (at K. C.) Ti 11 0 Kansas City 4 13 1 flO Innlne-s.) Nortnrap and Gosaett; McConnell and Berry. Hargrave. Columbus (at Minn.) 5 11 2 Minneapolis 1 5 2 Lowdermilk and Coleman; Burk. Hum phrey and Owena. IonlsrHle (at St. Paul) St Panl 10 9 1 Main. Palmero. Lnqne snd flemon,; Hagerman, Grtner. Upbam and Glenn. Toledo (at Milwaukee) .s 11 2 Milwaukee 5 11 3 Vance, Schlulx. Keating and Sweeney; Harding, Kherdell, Kerr and Hurpny. i WESTERN LEAGUE IS NOT PLANNING TO SHUT DOWN Lincoln, Neb., May 19.J "The Western League will complete its schedule unless conditions now un foreseen arise. I have received no intimation from any club owner in the league of a desire to quit." In these words F. C. Zehrung. president of the Western League, disposes of the rumor that adverse conditions will make an abandon ment of the league imperative by midsummer at the latest. Mr. Zehrung is free to confess that the start of the season has not been auspicious, but he attributes the lack of attendance to bad weather and not to a general lack of interest because of the war. "Of course we do not know what the summer may bring forth. It may be that adverse conditions may cause us to take drastic action, but for the present we are satis fied." CUBS A MYSTERY They Are Leading League With Only One .300 Hitter. Trls Speaker Has Regained His Lost Laurels. Chicago. May 19. Battling their way to the lead of the National league with only one player a pitcher hit ting .300, the driving power of the Chicago team is one of the baseball puzzles today. Averages show that Reuther, Chi cago, is batting .370, with Jack Smith, St Loo is, leading the list with .444. Chicago is behind New York and Philadelphia In team batting. Doyle, Chicago, leads the league in sacrifices with eleven and Zeider, also of Chicago, in stolen bases with eight Cravath, Philadelphia, is out in front in home run hitting with five, and Wolter, Chicago; Groh, Cincinnati, and F. Williams, Chicago, are tied In runs scored with eighteen. The averages include games of last Wednesday. Leading hitters: Jack Smith, St. Louis, .444; Wilhoit Boston, .363; Griffith, Cincinnati, .3 81; Reuther, Chicago, .370; Burns, New York, .36B; Fischer, Pittsburg. .358; Roush, Cincinnati, .352 Zimmerman, New York, .338; Cravath, Philadel phia, .333; Whitted. Philadelphia. .321; Rariden, New York, .316; Cruise, St. Louis, .314; Herzog. New York, .311; Wheat, Brooklyn, .3019; Kauff, Brook lyn, .300. Leading Pitchers. The leading pitchers are: W L ER Seaton, Chicago S 0 O.no Ames, St. Louis 4 1 O tis Mayer, Philadelphia 2 0 0 in Schupp, New York 3 0 0X7 Carlson, Pittsburgh 2 1 1.2-J Alrtridge, Chicago 4 1 1.4-." Anderson, New York 4 7 1.43 Vaughn, Chicago 6 2 American League. After being displaced for a week. Tris Speaker of Cleveland, the 1916 batting champion, is back in the lead for hitting honors among the regu lars in the American league with an average of .337. He has made 20 sin gles, 8 doubles and 3 triples in 92 times at bat, George Sisler, the St. Louis star, who enoyed the premier spot a week ago, has falien into a triple tie for fifth place with Strunk and Mclnnis of the Athletics, seven points above Ty Cpbb, who is hitting .323. Rumler. the St. Louis pinch hitter. Is out in front with an average of .444. but he has only made nine trips to the plate in thirteen games. Leading batters are: Rumler, St. Louis. .444: Billings. Cleveland, .429; Speaker, Cleveland, .337; Danforth. Chicago, .333; Strunk. Philadelphia, .330: Mclnnis. Philadel phia, .330; Sisler. St. Louis. .330; Cobb. Detroit, .323; Walker, Boston, .318; Wambsganss. Cleveland, .304; Pratt, St. Louis, 298. Iltching Records. The leading pitchers: W It ER Fisher, New York 2 0 0.00 Cicotte, Chicago 5 2 1.04 Leonard, loston 4 2 l.Ort Shore, Boston 3 1 1.37 Gallia, Washington j 3 2 1.50 Mopridge, New York 3 1 1.S4 Sothoron, Ht. Louis 4 2 lot Boland, Tetrolt v 3 1 1.70 ADDITIONAL SPORT WTT.L BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES W. O. Anderson Co. 1S2-S4 N. Kaaana Ave. T.p-k, Hm. nH sacs jfwi !l MOM-INTOXICATlMC (i

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19. 1917 CLOTHESJJP NOW Topeka Dealers Predict Un heard of Prices Soon. MUTT JEFF Jeff May Be a Bum Sailor But He's Some Chauffeur- Drawn for the Topeka State Journal. (CnpyrlRht, 1916. by H. C. Fisber. Trade Mark Re. U. S. Pat. OH. By BUD-FISHER; ci oote or fxe tw &eRT Yes, of Course, the War Is to Blame for Ascent. 'Submarine KiixeRS coveKMMeivjj. TO WAK.N "YOU BEFORE YOU 0 A.BOMCD WOOL SUPPLY IS SHORT Army M ill Need Whole Coun try's Output This lYinter. Even the Richest May Hare to Wear Cotton Suits, NOT TO TACK ABOUT ANVTMIHfc Vcxj eNT,WLV A New op Boat Attj jst out; I I i fcowc Bck. To v. JLT i 1 1 that ru(ms alqmo. sk I I. S 1 mwee.u, TO J EUTRft TIRfiS X I I I s gzr -1 J I cv--.l Men's suits are due for a real boost In price within the next three months, and women's woolen suit clothes, too, according to local dealers. Their opin ions, they state, are based on quota tions made by eastern woolen houses to the biff tailoring institutions of the country. Men's suits will sell for more than $35 this fall that formerly sold for less than $25. The first explanation offered for this jump in value to the war. With government demands for enough wool to clothe 2,000.000 soldiers within the next few years, and foreign demands for the same purpose, it is only natur al that the present market should do a little sky-rocketing. Not only are clothes, suits and overcoats included in these demands but also the large double army blanket. Each suit will take three and one-half yards of wool cloth and an overcoat as much more and each blanket nearly four yards, making a total of 1 1 yards of wool cloth per soldier.' With 2.000.000 men to clothe, the demand for wool cloth will reach 22.000.000 yards or. more than 600.000.000 ounces of raw wool. Statistics from the federal reports Urine cooling, jioothinjr. comfort to tired, swollen, burning feet. Takes the soreness out of iiainfut corns and callouses and makes tlie fiet feel fine. No foolishness. I'-e-mlnt shrivels up any hard corn, soft corn or toughened callous q.o that it tan be picked out easily with ttie fingers. It is the renl Japanese secret for fine healthy little feet, l'reveuts font odors and keeps them iwopi and healthy. Try it. It is selling like "wild fire' here. Just ask in any drug store for a small jar of ice mint which will cost little but will do the vork itfrfc!y. Ic-Mtnt wets so gently, so magically that the old fashioned and dan penniH method of cutting corns or applying eatiiii? plasters seems barbarous. You'li say so yourself. Advertisement. I W l 11 11 I illli nTiillMi ii I 1 -L on woolen industry show that the av erage yield of United States is 300.- 000.000 pounds a year. To give each soldier two suits, an overcoat and two 1 blankets each year would demand more than half the total supply, with out figuring in the home consump-1 tion. Imports estimated by the gov ernment prophesy that, nearly 300, 000,000 pounds of wool will be import de during each year of the war, at a cost of millions of dollars. Clash in Industry. A real gloom spreads over the sheep industry when the price of mutton is taken into consideration. To raise sheep for. mutton or for wool, has truly become a problem to the west erners. Mutton has nearly doubled in price during the last few years &nd wool growing has been only secondary in the business. And now in the face of a skyrocket wool market, the whole industry must change. To-do this would take more than three years and in the meantime, the price will have soared to unbelieveable heights. according to the eastern clothing manufacturers. Another explanation takes this in creased demand as evident and pre dicts that woolen clothes will increase in price out of all proportion to other commodities, of a steadier demand. "Good Paint adds more to the value of your house than anything else. It also adds to its Beauty and doubles its life. Damp weather has no horrors to those whose homes are well protected with Good Paint." Paint Season 13 Here ,Give Yours the Best Protection Protect It With Purposely Made for Every Purpose There aro 68 years of Paint Making Experienca in every rn. For years this paint lias been the standard, and your painter knows its extra value. Ak him. We ran supply your every want In Paints. Oils, YurtiiHlies. stains. Ilrushes. Painters' Supplies, Tadclers. lass, ete. (.lass for your Auto that makes your lights comply with the city ordinance. MILLER GILLESPIE The Paint Store Where Quality Counts 8:t3 Kansas Ave. AITO DELIVERY Phone 955 Will Move June 10 to 107 East Eighth. In war times, history proves that a dollar will buy less than in peace times. Dollars will become less valuable in terms of purchasing: power and wool will be more scarce .than ever and at the same time England and France will be in the same condition. There will be no commercial relief from 'foreign countries unless South America can come to the rescue and a big boost is inevitable. Wear Cotton Clothes. One dealer went bo far as to pre dict cotton clothes for even the rich est. Within three years after the gov ernment lets the clothing contracts for 2,000,000 soldiers, wool will be forgotten in civilian life. It will be a patriotic duty to allow every ounce of wool to be- used for the soldiers who will be exposed to the coldest of weather. LIBERTY LOAN TO $5 Smaller Denominations Asked by Gen eral Committee Soon. New York, May 19. The general liberty loan committee is considering an appeal to the secretary of the treasury to issue loan certificates in denominations of $5, $10 and $20, it was announced today. Louis Stewart, chairman of the committee said that small denomination certificates would be more attractive to department store patrons and to small investors in general than depositing an amount on account making other deposits until the total would purchase a bond. Subscriptions to the loan came in faster and in larger volume yester day than on any previous day. The largest single subscription announced was that of the National Bank of Commerce, which is taking $10,000. 000 for itself, besides a large block for customers. The Prudential Insur ance company doubled its Initial sub scription of $2,500,000 and the West ern Union Telegraph company and the Anaconda Copper Mining company filed subscriptions for $2,500,000 each. TOURISTS TO KANSAS Good Roads Official Would Advertise (or Them Hit at Thieves. We have three of these trucks to care for your moving and expert men to run them. 1 iopeka transfer Storage Co. a nunc JJJJ "Advertising as a means of attract ing automobile tourists thru Kansas was advocated by J. Frank Smith, president of the Kansas Good Roads association in a talk before the Topeka Automobile club at the Chamber of Commerce. He pointed to the fact that more than 1.178 miles of hard surfaced road are now being promoted in Kansas and pointed to the excellent advertising feature this would make in attracting transcontinental auto tour ists to go thru Kansas. The Automobile club at its meeting decided to offer $50 for the apprehen sion of each motor car thief who is convicted. In addition, the club will use its influence to see that thieves are not given paroles. ALL UP TO GEARHART He Will Deride Best Topeka to Law rence Highway Route. W. S. Gearhart, state engineer, was today named arbitrator to settle the j controversy between Shawnee county i and Douglas county good roads men as to wnetner tne tiara suriacea road between Topeka and Lawrence will connect at Watson or Big Springs. Shortly before noon today a delega tion of eight Topeka good roads men left here for "Watson, where they will meet a Lawrence delegation. Gear hart accompanied them. Both routes will be surveyed by the delegates and Gearhart. The latter will decide which is the most practical. KANSAS PIONEER DIES ATTENTION Quartermaster Thomas R. Reed Brought Here Burial Was Civil War Vet. for ,orps You will report at Armory at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. May 20. to attend Patriotic meet ins at Auditorium. Service Uniform. A. M. MILLS Major Chief of Corps. Thomas R. Reed, pioneer Kansan of Shawnee county, died May 12 at Peoria, 111. Mr. Reed served in the Forty-seventh Illinois infantry and after the close of the Civil war came to Kansas and settled on a farm four and one-half miles southwest of Topeka. The body was brought to Topeka j for the funeral services Thursday aft ernoon, and was ouried in Mount Hope i cemetery. He is survived by two sis 1 ters. Mrs. Johanna Morrison, of Sodiz, Ohio, and Mrs. Louise Xnglois. of i Spearville, Kan., and1 a brother, M. P. i Reed, of Peoria, 111. 7 TORNADO frTie Et AUTOMOBILE filijD 33 f wvm mumisw m.lM Jem won ZJZ-hl FORMERLY SHAWNEE AG EN CY I NVESTAIEHT COWPAMY DIM AUSTRIANS- GO HOftfE Diplomatic Counselor Party and Turks Sail From JTew York. New- York, May 19. The remaining members of the Austrian diplomatic 'counselor party and 160 Germans from j China were among those booked for parage on the Norwegian American I liner Kristianiaf Jord, sailing for Nor 1 way today. Djelal Munif Bey, Turk I lsh consul general, and his wife, and Constantin Mavroudi Effendi. second secretary of the Turkish embassy at 1 Washington, also were passengers. PRETTY ANNIE SAID SHE WANTED LOVER IN UNIFORM WINS! RICH ARE SHAMEFUL I i Nathan Straus Blisters Them for Pal- I try War. Donations. j New York, May 19 Nathan Straus's i blistering arraignment of Gotham's ultra wealthy for "their paltry war re- j lief donations," hurled at a meeting of high society charity workers In the home of Miss Anne Morgan, left New York's exclusive set gasping today. "Let me speak," demanded Straus, interrupting a report at the meeting ui vue ua.Luiiii league iur wuiiieu Ed was rejected because of his eyes. ricn peopie have acted shamefully, so Malcom got his uniform and pretty! The few, paltry donations of $1,000 Annie. They will be married today In j eacn have come from men who have luaua iiixiiiviiio uul ui 11119 noi New York. May 19. Having heard the pleas of her two prize suitors, who appeared and proposed in unison, pretty Annie Carmichael of Albany rejected both until they enlisted and proposed in uniform. So Ed Roy of Albany and Malcom Smith of Stam ford rushed off to enlist. Stamford. DO NOT HOARD FLOUR Be OIL UNDER GROUND Gasoline and Kerosene Should Be Kept In Burled Tanks. Hussey Has New Plans to Re duce Losses by Fire. Underground gasoline and kerosene tanks and a practical ban on all fire crackers and fireworks are orders which may soon come from the office of L. T. Hussey state fire marshal, and affect hundreds of Kansas merchants. The orders are to be issued under an act of the 1917 legislature authorizing the state marshal to make such regu lations and rulings as he deems neces sary in protecting property against loss by fire. Ordinances similar to the orders to come from the state fire marshal's de partment have been adopted In a num ber of towns in the state. Not until this time, however, has the state faced a blanket order against exposed kero sene cans or the handling or sale of firecrackers or fireworks. The Mer chants' Trade Journal of Topeka, the official publication of Kansas mer chants, is authority for the statement that action is to be taken by the state fire marshal. Losses Are Big. Records for 1916 showed 88 fires in this state caused by gasoline and 145 fires caused by kerosene. Losses from these fires totaled $140,198. Of course it is probable some of the fires might not have been prevented thru enforcement of the underground tank order, but. in the main Hussey believes the loss would hav been overcome. Many of the fires, he has declared, were due to improper methods of stor ing and handling gasoline and kero sene. Recently the state Tire marshal has solicited suggestions from promi nent Kansas merchants relative to methods of handling explosive fuels. Orders suchas are now considered would affect the country town and rural merchants. In the larger towns and cities conditions are regulated at this time by city ordinance. For sev eral years the cities and big towns have held the firecracker under the Wolverton is a graduate of the To- ban and gasoline tanks have beenpeka high school and of Pennsylvania university, shortly after his gradua tion from the university he entered the consular service at St. Mlcheals. i Azores Islands. He resigned from this i post recently and has accepted hisj position in the orientr During his college course Wolverton devoted his efforts to the study of modern lan-: guages and now can speak fluently in seven tongues other than English. Toledo Firm Says Prices Will Cheaper in Short Time. Housewives should go slow In buy ing large supplies of flour at this season of the year. It is "buggy," prices are abnormally high and mon ey will be saved by waiting for the new crop. This is the warning from C. A. King Company, Toledo stock brok ers, thru their special market bulletin. The King market bulletin is a newsy page about the markets and facts of value to both food producer and con sumer. A bulletin this week warns housewives to watch their flour bins. "It may get 'buggy," says the re port. "This has been a weevily sea son. Screen out the bugs. The flour will probably be all right. This is no time to load up with barrels of flour.J wca.il. iur me new crop, xou can Duy July flour $3 cheaper and September $5 less than present prices. There will be no faminer Economize in eating. Help others." A TOPEKAN TO JAPAN Straus denounced "that man who recently gave $200,000 for a picture." Charles M. Schwab did that not long ago. Miss Grace Parker, national com mandant of the league, quickly apolo gized to the rich, saying Straus was airing his own viewS, not those of the league. Several wealthy women haughtily departed after Straus's tirade. James W. Gerard and George W. Wicker sham, also present, sat thru the meet ing silent. "YES, I THINK SO." Most any good soap will do, but Red Cross Ball Blue is the only blue. Makes the greatest difference. My clothes are a dream snowy white. I can't use li quid blue. No, not me. Give me Red Cross Ball Blue and I'll show you some beautiful clothes. Ady. Order a Pound From Your Grocer Today! It's the Best Butter Money Can Buy! Beatrice Creamery Company Topeka Kansas buried or properly housed, as the ordi nance required. Now some of this regulation and supervision Is to go to the small town merchants. Fight on Fireworks. In the fight on the firecracker and fireworks, the state fire marshal may provide methods for storing and handling the explosives. While it is improbable that a flat order may be issued against the noise sticks, the marshal may provide regulations so expensive lo the merchant that he will gladljl waive any profit to be made from the handling of crackers and skyrockets. Try This for Fat Reductions Take Seven Deep Breaths Twice Daily and Follow JDther Simple Rules If your weight is Increasing, or if you are already too stout, you will be interested in learning that there is a method of fat reduction, said by many to be very wonderful and yet not re quiring severe rules of starvation diet or strenuous exercises. One of the essential features of this easier, saner, safer plan is deep breathing In the outdoor air. This helps supply the needed oxygen to the blood for purifying the blood and Improving circulation and assimila tion. Another part of the treatment Is the taking of a small dose of oil of korein after each meal nad before retiring at night: also in following the simple directions that come with the box. It is a pleasant, simple system of fat reduction purposed to improve tlie figure, ad to vivacity and general ef ficiency and to prolong life. OH of korein comes in capsules, very easy and pleasant to take.' Get It at the druggist's and begin its use today. Or obtain a free testing packet (which will come to you in a plain envelope! by writing- to Korein Company," 3 3 A, East 28th St., Arcade, New Tork, N.. T. Even a few days' use Is likely to show surprising results a pleasing reductio nin weight. If you wish to reduce ten to sixty pounds, if you want buoyant health in place of un sightly and unhealthy fat, if you want to surprise friends with your im proved appearance, looking younger and more attractive, try this treat ment. It reduces weight often where all other remedies faiL Adv. Roy Wolverton to Represent Ameri can International In Orient. Roy Wolverton, formerly of Topeka, I and now of Long Beach, Calif., will I go to Kobe, Japan, to act as manager of a branch of the American Interna tional Corporation, according to word j received Friday by Mrs. A. A. Scard, nis cousin, iuzi west Eighth street. SHE'S ALLIED WITH U.S. Brazil Therefore Refuses to Neutrality Conference. Enter iinaian aiDKQ. Sal. Under United States Government Supervision Nearly a half million acres belonging to the Choctaw Indians in Southeastern Oklahoma soon to be sold by the Interior Department. Rio de Janeiro, May 19. Brazil has informed all her South American j neighbors that she is unable to par-' ticipate in the Buenos Aires Latin- American neutrality conference, ac- cording to reliable Information today. 1 It is stated President Bras advised 1 other republics that Brazil was "un officially allied with the United States i and therefore did not consider herself i entirely neutral." One other fact was that Brazil is now sending a military mission to Europe. ROCK ISLA'nD'SPLAN, Report That Gorman Will Be Presi dent; Receivership Over June 1. Chicago, May 19. M. I Amster of Boston, chairman of the executive commitee of the Chicago Rook Island and Pacific railroad here today de clined to confirm a report that the road is about to emerge from its re ceivership and that James H. Gorman, chief executive officer under Jacob M. Dickinson, the receiver is to be made president. j The prevalent report indicates that I the reorganization will come about June 1. WOMEN ON ELEVATED j They Will Replace Men on Chicago Loop Says General Manager. I Chicago, May 19. M. J. Feron. gen eral manager of the Chicago Elevated lines, announced today that women I will replace all men taken from the system when selective service goes into effect. II it ti That Congressmen May Return. I Washington, May 19. Representa- tive Scott of Pennsylvania, today in- j troduced in the house a bill providing; that anyone holding office under the i federal government may retain that of- j fice while serving in the military serv ice, by waiving all pay and compensa- tion for such service. The bill is de- I signed to allow representatives who t enlist in the army and navy to return j to their seats in congress after the I war. NOT NECESSARY TO LIVE ON THIS LAND NOT NECESSARY TO GO WEST TO GET IT Farming-, timber and grazing lands in the probable oil belt of Oklahoma will be offered at prices appraised from three to seven dollars per acre, with long time payments. Visit the demonstration car now here sent out by the McAlester Real Estate Exchange of McAlester, Okla., to aid you in making locations. The car contains a fine display showing Western devel opment, also maps and quadrange folios published by the United "States Geological Survey, showing location and character of the lands. Car on Santa Fe Railroad tracks, north of passenger station. Car will remain here a few days. Office hours: 9 to 12 1 to 5:307 to 9. Admission free.

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