The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 27, 1918

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If' EXTRA N0.4 W1 'EATHER FORECAST for Kansg: Unsettled tonight and Thursday; probably showers. Cooler Thursday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1918 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS ATTACK WnBN 48 HOUR "Holding Everywhere9 Is Paris Report Powerful Reserves ArriveRuss Recapture Odessa ill ff m TO I LAUNCH WW V V ill! THIN 4 TABLES SOON TO BE TURNED SAYS FRENCH PREMIER Gives Optimistic Forecast After Visiting Battle Lines. Doesn't Conceal Seriousness, but Outlook Is Favorable. 'ENEMY IS HELD EVERYWHERE'! Allies' Lines Still Unbroken, Says Paris Official Report. Heavy Attack South of Soiniiiej Repulsed by English. i HUNS LOSING THEIR "PUNCH" Heavy Losses Telling on Invad ers as Defense Stiffens. Valiance of French, Defending Homes, Beyond All Praise. BULK FRENCH ARMY WAITING 3Iost Powerful British Reserves Just Arrive at Front, i Berlin Paper Sounds Danger of Flank Attack by Allies. Paris. A I arch 27. "Within forty eight hours the allies will be masters of the situation," Premier Clemenceau declared today upon his retiirn from the front. Clemenceau made the statement in a re port to the ministerial council. At the same time, he did not attempt to conceal the seriousness of the situa tion. The premier said Amiens is well de fended and -that it is improbable the Germans wlil break thru. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger publishes a dispatch from Lausanne declaring the British saved their entire com plement of heavy artillery. Check Knoiuy's Advance. 1'aris, March 27. Last night the Germans' advance was held up every where, according to the official state ment of the war office today. The enemy, weakened by heavy losses, it adds has been obliged to slow up his efforts. The statement follows: "Last evening and during the night the Germans weakened by their heavy losses, were compelled to retard their efforts. The valiance of the Krench troops defending the ground foot by foot is beyond all praise. "The French are holding a line run ning thru L Kcnene, t. Aurm ana Heuvraignes. north of Lassigny. in front of the southern part of Noyon and along the left bank of the Oise. During the night the trench repulsed strong reconnoitering parties which attempted to approach their positions northwest of Noyon. "On the remainder of the front there was an intermittent bombardment." Xlpht Hun Attack Repulsed. London, March 27. A heavy attack was made early in the night against the new British lines south of the Somme. It was repulsed after severe fight ing, the war office announces. In consequence of attacks yesterday afternoon and evening astride the Somme the British troops on both banks were forced back a short dis tance in the neighborhood of Bray. Allies Reserves Not in Yet. Paris. March 2 7. "Only a few French divisions are engaged." Sub secretary of War Abrami. declared to-day- ,:The "bulk of the French army is awaiting events, while the most powerful Hritish reserves are just ar riving on the field." German flanks Vulnerable. Amsterdam, March 27. "Tha enemy holds strong reserves south of the penetrated front with which to at tack our troops from the flank," de ci.ireU the Berlin Vorwaerts, in copies received here today. WATCH -FOR EXTRAS! This is the fourth war extra of the State Journal today. Next out at 5 o'clock. w i WILL BE BULLETIN London, March 27. The Brit- ish delivered a counter attack today between the angle of the Ancre and the Somme and recap I tured Morlancourt and Chipilly, the war office announced this I evening. MORE YANKEES WITH RESERVES IN HUN ATTACK Allies About Ready To Unleash Fresh Reinforcements. Expect Entente To Operate Huge Pincer Movement. CUT OFF WEDGE AT BASE IfJTM? Suceeedw Germans Would Be Isolated. 'Giving Kaiser Plenty of Rope To Hang Himself." BY CARL IX GROAT. Washington, March 2 7. The allies are about to throw into the west front death cauldron a mass of fresh, strong troops. This information was forthcoming from reliable sources here today, as the struggle appeared to be in a some what slackened transition stage. American forces are already taking a valiant share in the Roye-Noyan vortex and it is believed that even fur ther American strength is included in the tresh reserves to be hurled at the Germans. The numbers of the allied reserve cannot be revealed under the censorship, but it can be said that this force is such that military men believe the boche will be held and perhaps hurled back. May Be Few Iays Until Counter. Military strategy has prevented the use of this reserve before now. Within a day or a few da vs. its use will be far more effective than if it has oeen cast into the struggle while the German push was at its height, experts say. There is some chance that the al lies will develop a pincer movement similar in many respects to thatwhich (Continued on Psge Two.) HINDU PLOT IN N. Y. Germans Also Had Hand in Marking Betrayers fop Death. New York. March 27. -Hindu-German plotters marked for death two persons in this city, believed to have betrayed their secrets, and sent here a Hindu supplied with a deadly East Indian poison to accomplish their purpose, according to information giv en out today by the federal authori ties. WHAT! NOPRICE HIKE! Producers Say They'll Not Im-rcasc Vr Cost of Gasoline. Chicago, March 27. Oil and gaso line prices will not soar as a result of government war orders and there is little possibility of curtailing pleas ure motoring. C. L. Maguire of St. Paul, told the Western Oil Jobbers' association. Opening of the convention made history in the petroleum industry when for the first time Standard Oil company officials gathered with in dependents. WANT THE WORLD NOW Gains Kn courage Huns to Further En large I'eaee Demands. Amsterdam, March 27. The Ger man newspapers are already counting the German gains. "It is self-evident," says the Cologne Volks Zei tung, "that after what is now happen ing we can no longer conclude peace on the terms which we were ready to accept a week ago. "The enemy must be brought to a submissive spirit and forced to grant everything we need in t.ie future, es i pecially in colonies and raw materials." GERMAN DRIVE IS FALLING FAR SHORT OF GOAL Zone of Open Warfare Con tinues To Grow Larger. Germans Used Reserves More Rapidly Than Intended. LOSSES NOW FIFTY PER CENT More Than 400,000 Casualties in a Week's Fighting. Trying To Break Thru and Roll Up in Either Direction. London. March 27. The zone of open warfare is continuing to enlarge as the entente forces fall back fighting under the enormous weight of the German numbers, says Reuters cor respondent at British headquarters in his dispatch today. Tt is now clearly established, he adds, that the present offensive is the great main effort of the Germans, and that it has i ot been as successful as they anticipated, the enemy being a long way behind his time table and having failed to break thru and begin rolling up tactics. The Germans are now pushing against the British line with the full pressure of their masses. They have thrown in their reserves more rapidly than they intended, it is declared, and are, therefore, wearing themselves down, altho they are naturally tiring the defense in the process. The general feeling, the correspond ent reports, is that the days of trench warfare are definitely passed. Big Smash on Ttoye Kront. British Army Headquarters in France, March 27 By the Associated Press.TJie Germans last -night continued their furious onslaught southwestward from Ham against the allied defenses in the region of Roye and Noyon. having slowed down in their patent attempt to cut thru the British line further north, where such desperate resistance was offered. Hard fighting occurred last night awwui Liit iu ii ui j i Den. jarge enemy forces pushed .forward toward the place but at last accounts the Brit ish were holding them doggedly at this possible gateway to Amiens. The conflict in the sector around Roye and Noyon appears' to be of great importance from the many indi cations that the German higher com mand is attempting to split the allied front there and start a rolling up proc ess either way. Has lAiHt Half His Men. From the average of casualties in the various German units as given by prisoners, one arrives at the conclu sion that the German emperor has lost 50 per cent of these men since he gave the signal for the advance. The official British statement of yesterday said it had been established that more than seventy German di visions had beer engaged in the bat tle. The usual estimate of the pres ent strength of a German division is 12.000 men, so that a loss of 50 per cent would mean casualties in excess of 400,000 for the Germans in less than a week of fighting. The Germans lave now reclaimed virtually all the territory they held at the beginning- of the battle of the Somme in 1916. At some places they have not retaken all the old ground, but at other points they have over stepped it somewhat. Is Most Sanguinary Struggle. Fresh enemy forces were flung into the southern phase of the offensive late yesterday. These reinforcements with other picked troops, including the famous Prussian guards were sent for ward in a dense wave against the al lied defenders. The latest reports from this fighting zone merely chron icle a most sanguinary struggle with out indicating any change in the sit uation. "At the latest reports the Germans had made no further attack against Bray. North of Albert, however, they attacked in considerable strength to ward Aveluy Wood. The assault broke at the British line and recoiled. North of this point the situation is unchanged." Try To Split British. Heavy fighting occurred late yester day just south of Albert about Meaulte. At the same time the Brit ish drove off an attack north of Al bert, at Auchonvillers. The enemy's gains further north have been large, but the elasticity of the defending line thus far has defeated -his inten tion of breaking thru here and di viding the British forces. Tt is prob able this elasticity has resulted in the development of the vicious drive which the enemy is now making to the south. Prisoners Tell of Slaughter. The resistance which has been of fered by the allied troops to the Ger man advance constitutes one of the tinest pages in the annals of the war. The gallant sacrifice which those hardy warriors made in covering the withdrawal and delaying the German sweep forward undoubtedly will have an important effect on the final out come of this greatest of all battles. The appalling slaughter of the at tacking masses has continued since the tirst day. All the prisoners have much the same story to tell of the great losses suffered. Undoubtedly the Germans expected some such re sult and it ;s probable all their cards have not yet been played. TODAY'S BATTLE GROUND Keener J ly&B ValencieipLs 'VJK Senses' Ach&C&JZ'rl,T If S.Mr.ofComiy;8imt P. I sw.cfSf.&Zfin&A I rars SertincOUrtB direction of Hi errant. ff m 1 I" AtQuttziioy RosiireS L f Guiscard. I yRiheeoxuri vV Tt. Y5ril7 q 5 io 5. ZO 25 i SCALE OF MILES- m liv OEPDKE BBSfNHltiS CF M?K5NT GEfeM W. -mm Battle ttuE atconctNS ro iatest TOPOrsr. BATTLE LMFOr MARCH Z6. KAISER 'AGIN' IT? WALK OUT IN K. C. Emperor and General Have io Stampede, However, Appar Quarrel Over Big Drive. 1 ent to Quit Union Jobs.' Founds Table and Says, "Who's Emperor, You or I?" j Paris. March 27. Emperor William and General Von Ludendorff had a violent quarrel before the beginning of the great attack on the western front according to a prominent Swiss who has Just returned to Zurich after some weeks in Germany and has been inter viewed by the correspondent of the Temps. This man is quoted as say ing: "There was much discreet talk in Berlin before the present offensive concerning extremely violent scenes between Germany's leaders at general headquarters. General Von Ludendorff spoke so violently and authoritatively that the emperor becoming very pale, arose from his chair, and pounding the table demanded 'General, are you or I emperor of Germany? "General Von Ludendorff replied that he was only a soldier and more than, any one else desired peace. He said he was convinced that his plans for an offensive were capable of bring ing it about." Sees Terrible Devastation. Amsterdam, March 27. The Volks Zeitung of Cologne says that, accord ing to General von Ludendorff. Em peror William has been deeply im pressed by the terrible devastation in the battle area, remarking: "How glad we should be that our country has been spared such terrible things. Why did we succeed in keep ing the fighting beyond our frontier? Because before the war we always urged the need of armaments. When mankind changes, these things also will change, but first mankind must begin to change." Lutfcmlorff Planned Drive. London, March 27. The German war correspondents agree that Gen era! 'von Ludendorff made the plans for the German offensive, the Copen hagen correspondent of the Exchange Tclegra.ph company reports. The general on Friday was present at the scene of action in order personally to control the attacks. German great headquarters, the correspondent continues, have been established in an old castle near St. Qucntin, which is visited daily by the emperor and crown prince. SURROUND KORNILOFF Report Fonwr Commander of Rus sians Is In Bolshevik Trap. London. March 27. The forces of General Korniloff have been sur rounded by Bolshevik troops accord ing to a Renter dispatch from Petro grad. General Korniloff, the former Rus sian commander-in-chief, allied him self with the Don Cossacks against the Bolsheviki and has been operating be tween Moscow and Rostov. Several times he has been reported defeated and near capture but always managed I to elude the government troops. J Street Car Men and Others Dis- regard Sympathetic, Strike. Kansas City, March 27. A general sympathy strike which union leaders claimed would bring, out upwards of 25.000 persons and cause a virtual tieup of all industry, began here at 8 o'clock this morning. Unofficial re ports were that several hundred per sona, including brewery workers, bar bers, and members of building trades unions had obeyed the strike call be fore noon. Strike leaders said that as the final call was not issued until early today many workers had not been apprised of it and had gone to work as usual. These were being reached as rapidly as possible, it was declared. The sympathy strike, which was called to support a strike of laundry workers and drivers who have been out several weeks, was originally set for Monday morning, but was post poned forty-eight hours to allow fur ther mediation attempts. The strike call urged every possessor of a union card in the city to suspend work. Only hospital workers were ex empted. Members of the street car men's unions had not obeyed the call late this forenoon, and their officials said the call would not be obeyed, to day at least. The strike order also provided that employes of the munici pal waterworks should quit work iorty-eight hours after the strike be came effective. The strike will not spread to include the seven thousand employes of the local packing plants, it wa- announced this afternoon by T. A. McCreash, or ganizer of the Packing 'House Em ployes unions, who said he had in structed his men to ignore the call. NEW SPANELLTrIAL Texas Supreme Court Reverses Con viction of Dual Slayer. Austin, Tex., March 27. The court of criminal appeals today reversed and remanded for a new trial the case of Harry J. Spanell, hotel proprietor, who was found guilty by a Coleman county jury and sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary for the murder of Lieut. Col. M. C. Butler, U. S. A., at Alpine, Tex.t July 20, 1916. The higher court reversed the trial court on a plea of '"former jeopardy." The appeal of the defense contended that Spanell, having been acquitted of a charge of killing his own wife, could not legally be tried for killing Butler since the double killing "was a con tinuous affair." WILL GET JAP SHIPS United States Trades With Nipponese for 15O.00O Tons. Washington. March 27. Negotia tions for the transfer of 140.000 tons of Japanese shipping to the United States have been completed -on the ba sis of two tons of steel plates for one ton of deadweight ship capacity. HUNS GET ALBERT, BRITISH REGAIN MORCOURT CITY War Head Says "Situation Grows Less Critical." "Battle Far From Over, but Time Is on Our Side." RESERVES ARE COMING UP General Maurice Describes Two Crises Oyercome. Declares Berlin Report of Pris oners Is Exaggerated. London, March 27. "The situation is less critical than at any time in the last three days." declared General Maurice, director of operations, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, summine up the reports received up to 1 o'clock. "This morning, comparatively small reinforcements arrived," Maurice said. "We captured Morcourt, advancing as far as Froyart. Elsewhere the line is steady. One or two attacks were repulsed. The enemy progressed slightly in the outskirts of Coignau and at Ersch, Lechelle and St. Aurien. Drop 22 Tons of Bombs. "Our air men last night dropped 22 tons of bombs on enemy reserves at Bapaume and Peronne. "Our total losses in guns have been about 600. "German estimates of prisoners are likewise exaggerated." "The enemy has been definitely checked north of the Somme." Mau rice continued. "Their troops show exhaustion. 'Reserves, however, are coming up north of Albert.- "Souttv of the Somme, fresh enemy attacks -are expected. Their reserves are approaching Roye and Noyon. French reserves are also approaching those places. Reserves Are Near at Hand. "The battle is far from over. Oth er crises are possible, but time is on our side. The enemy is further from his rail heads. His lines are congest ing, creating difficulty in moving. "Our reserves, especially the French, are coming nearer and nearer the battlefield. "The situation is less critical than at any time in three days. "The enemy is in Albert," Maurice said. "We hold the railway embankment on the western outskirts." Have Been Two Crises. "There have been two critical moments- Saturday, the enemy crossed the Tortille, seriously endangering the separation of our forces north of the Somme. But the gap was filled. "Monday they broke thru and took Martinpuich andd Courcelette. Again the gap was filled." Morcourt is on the south bank of the Somme, three and a half miles southwest of Bray. Mericourt is three miles east of Morcourt. Proyart is a mile south of Mericourt. Courcelette is midway between Bapaume and Albert. Martinpuich is about a mile south of Courcelette. The Tortille river parallels the main Cambrai-Peronne highway, flowing into the Somme a short distance west of Peronne. AVIATOR'S BODY BURNED Falls to Heath and Plane Catches Fire on Army Field. Wichita Falls, Texas, March 27. Cadet C. W. Franks, 26, was burned to death at Call field, near here, to day when his machine fell from a height of se-eral hundred feet, the gasoline tank exploding as the ma chine hit the ground. This is the second death by acci dent at Call field. Franks was unmarried. His par ents live in Lydia, Ohio. Cadet Killed on Kvcrman Field. Fort Worth. March 27. H. Hooten. a cadet of the Royal Flying corps, whose home was in Montreal. Canada, was killed today when his airplane crashed to the ground at Everman field, a British flying camp here. His was the forty-fourth fatal aviation ac cident in the combined British and American camps in Fort Worth since they were established last fall. ONLY ONE 75-MI. GUN! Dual Explosion Indicated More Than One Gun bhells Still Falling. Paris. March 27. The caliber of the shells that are being fired into Paris by the German long range gun is 8.8 inches and the length of the shell is twenty inches. L'Homme Libre. Pre mier Clemenceau's newspaper, states. The shell weighs ZOO pounds and con tains less than twenty pounds of ex plosives. The shell is provided with a fuse protected by a threaded stopper, and has a diaphragm inside which divides the shell Into two compartments of unequal size. Two holes in the dia phragm afford communication be tween the two pockets. These facts are accepted as an explanation of the two explosions which. on occasions have followed in quick succession and which led to the belief that two guns were firing. NAME SESSIONS TO BRISTOW JOB ON STATE P. U. C. Governor Capper Makes "ew Appointment Today. Private Secretary Is Given Fat $4,000 Position. F. S. JACKSON WAS MENTIONED But Veteran Newspaper Corre spondent Was Honored. Sessions To Hold Place Until New Administration. Governor Capper today named Charles H. Sessions, his private secre tary, as a member of the state public utilities commission to succeed Joseph L. Bristow, who left the commission Monday. The appointment is effective at once. Sessions will hold a recess appointment until a successor is named by the next governor and con firmed by the state senate next winter. Charles H. Sessions, private secretary .to Grovemor Capper, and chairman of Republican state committee, named today as member of the pub lic utilities commission. Following the appointment of Ses sions today, the governor said he would not name a new private secre tary for a day or two. Sessions was in conference with Governor Capper for a half hour Immediately following the appointment. It was vhen an nounced that the new utilities com missioner would take up his work at once. He will serve under the pres ent appointment for a period of at least ten months. Should a new com- Continued-oiTlajre TwoTi HAIG. EXHORTS ARMY Enemy's Aim to Destroy British Army Must Be Frustrated. London, March 27. Field Marshal Haig issued the following general or der Saturday to all troops in France and Flanders, it was announced here today: "To all ranks of the British army In France and Flanders: "We are again at a crisis in the war. The enemy has collected on this front every available division, aiming at the destruction of the British army. "We have already inflicted on the enemy in the course of the last two days very heavy losses and the French are sending troops as quickly as pos sible to our support. "I feel that every one in the army, fully realizing how much depends on the exertions and steadfastness of each one of us, will do his utmost to prevent the enemy from attaining hi-s object." ROOSEVELT TO MAINE Colonel Iicaves for Portland Where He Will Speak Tomorrow .Night. Oyster Bay, X. Y.. March 27. Col. Theodore Roosevelt having regained his vigor following a recent operation, will leave here today en route to Port land. Maine, where he will make an address on Thursday evening before the Republican organization of that state. The ex-president will be the guest of Dr. Sturges Bigelow in Boston tomor row afternoon and after his address in Portland, will return to Boston to see Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt and his eighth grandchild. WEATHER IS NORMAL Cooler Tempera tu res With Shower Still on Flora's Schedule. TODAY'S TKMPKRATTRFS. 7 o'clock 38H 1 o'clock 48 8 o'clock 40112 o'clock .....5 9 o'clock 43, 1 o'clock ...,.'57 10 o'clock 4 2 o'clock 59 Temperatures for the day were Z degrees above the normal for the date. The wind was blowing 12 miies an hour from the east at 2 o'clock this afternoon Spring fever seems to be a forgot ten malady thla year in America. In fact there is no time for one to In dulge in that iangourous sensation. tCootiooed oa Pag Two.) BUSS IN GOUT CITY OF ODESSA IS RECAPTURED FROM GERMANS Slavs Turn Against Invaders, Dealing Heavy Blow. Russian Warships Help Troops in Bloody Battle. RETAKE THREE OTHER CITIES Bolshevik Troops Successful in Fighting Austrians. Ukrainia and Germany in Dis pute Over Wheat Grab. London, March 27 Odessa has been recaptured by the soviet and Ukrain ian troops after a bloody battle In which naval forces took part, accord ing to a Moscow dispatch from the semi-official Russia news agency. Is Most Important City. The German war office on March 13. announced that Odessa had been entered by German troops. The pre--liminary peace treaty between P.u mania and the central powers con tained a provision engaging Rumania to support the transport of troops of the central powers thru Moldavia mf Bessarabia to Odessa. Serut-otflria 1 announcement was then made that Germany had obtained a direct route by way of Russia to Persia and Af ghanistan. -Odessa is the most important sea port of Southern Russia and the fourth city of Russia in size. Its pop ulation is about 450,000. (By the Associated Prest.l Moscow, March 24, Sunday. Bol sheviki troops, an official announce ment suys, have been succesfti In fightinir the Austrians in the southern Ukraine. The cities of Nikoiaief. Kherson and Zmananka have been re captured by the Russians. Derannds 85 Per Cent of Wheat. London, March 27. A serious dis pute has arisen between the Ukraine and Germany over Germany's demand that she be given 86 per cent of the Ukrainian wheat, according to a tele gram received in Petrograd from Kiev and forwarded by Reuters limited. Germany also demanded that sh be given a large percentage of other foodstuffs not needed by the popula tion of the Ukraine. The telegram ac'ds that there are dissensions in th Ukrainian c: binet which is divided for a.id against the German demand-, Ukrainian Hada Oppoftcrt Huns. By tlie Associated Progs. Moscow. March 27. The Bolshe viki Ukrainian rada which fled front Kiev to Kharkov before the Germans, is now at Ekaterinostav, where it has adopted resolutions refusing to en dorse the peace treaty between Ger many and the Ukraine unless the cen tral powers withdraw all troo-s from (Continued on PafreTTwo.i" BAND IS CWNG Once More Al fi. Field's Mlnxlrel Wilt Be on Kansas Avenue. The loyalty of Al G. Field to the merits of a band as a part of a min strel organization is a tradition in ev ery city visited annually by the Al Q. Field Greater Minstrels.' and this sea son his band has become an attraction in itself which challenges comparison with notable musical occasions. It Is again Billy Walter's Gold Band, but so augmented and rehearsed that its renditions have a verve and spirit In a new vein perfectly adapted to the pub lic concerts. The selections it offers are of the widest varieties, ranging from the most Impressive classic music to the most pleasing of a popular nature, and all interpreted in a way that appeals both to the general public and the special music lover. The Al G. Field Greater Minstrels will be at the Grand Wednesday, April HUNS WALK TO FRONT Went Into Battle After Txing and Weary Camouflaged March. Amsterdam. March 27 German troops going for vard to the attack on the British front in France detrained far behind the lines, even behind the Belgian frontier according to the cor respondent at the front of the Hhein ische Westfaelische Zeitung. These forces marched for six consecutive nights, no columns showing them selves on the roads In the day time. New Head ef Agriculture. Ixjndon. March 27. Viscount Gos chen. a conservative, has been ap pointed secretary to the board of ag riculture. He succeeds the Duke of Marlborough, who resigned on March 20.

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THE TOPEKA DAIT Y ST A TP TQURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1918 HAVE REGAINED i ALL OF RAZED I SOMME REGION Germans Definitely Stopped at "orth End of Drive. Idrance tat lioye Lengthens I Wedge Into British Lines. YANKEES FIGHT WITH FRENCH mericans Helping To Hold Fast Olse Front at LaFere. Teutons Also Drive Sharp Sa- lietit Towards Albert. MIES R8UT GERMANS u Toul Sector Huns Forced To Abandon Richeeourt. Send Over Two'Shells for Every 1 One Fired )y Enemy. i .rZ.u. a. J. fastated Somme region in their offen- vej the German armies now find Alice XiclsiMi Will Not Arrive in To flieriselves before an allied defense Peka fntll Tomorrow, ifhich grows stronger each hour. In j Alice xielsen, the famous singer, tfie north the enemy has been defin- scheduled to appear under auspices of ftely checked, and in the south, where I the Elks club at the auditorium to- Bis latest and most important gains fiave been made, he has been unable lb push west of Rove and N'oyon, t The British line from Scarpe river southwest thru Albert to the Somme; OAs held fast for 24 hours and the Germans have been" repulsed in local i Sttacks along this sector. The front I rnix. .-..r nt tho kih smm,'Per schedule at Battlefield and west of the Ancre river "lur," '"s"1' Hist north of Albert, which is eighteen j arrival was caused by congested pas Biiles northeast of Amiens. South of I senger traffic in the east. She comes the Somme the Germans have ad- j here direct from New York. vanced west of the old front before ftie beginning of the Franco-British flttensive or 116 but have not yet gained it west of Roye. Most A ltai Seolor. f The most bitter fighting has oc- i America is too busy getting her men Quired on the front south of the i ready for war. and the civilian popu fomnie and still continues,- but the iation must go about its work with a enemy has been checked west of the quick and elastic step if the boys in jtoye-Noyon sector, perhaps the most uniform are to be properly fed and eital on this part of the line. A fur- clothed and supplied with the muni- fier advance on this sector might en- j tions necessary for a nation at war. anger the French hold on the south- i Spring fever has been classified as a frn bank of the Oise which has been i polite name for common laziness in ateadfast against all German attempts, i duced by warmth. There is no room t On this front Field Marshal Haig feports American troops are now aid Big the French and British. The iden tity and size of the American units fiave not been disclosed, but it is prob able they form a part of the Franco American reserves on the Aisne and Champagne front. L From Noyon eastward to south of f-fere the French hold strong posi tions along the Oise which the Ocr Jians have been unable to push back. It is reported from Berlin unofficial ly' that French and American troops Save carried out strong counter at tacks south of Lefere against the pivot f the German line but without suc eess. Drive Wedge for Albert. I The apex of the blunt pointed wedge $ie Germans have driven in the Brit fih lines In six days is east of Albert. Berlin reports that British counter at Kicks here have been repulsed but on other hand the Germans have ade no gains. The outer points of wedge are Monchy, south of the Bcarpe and the Oise river south of tfere. I That the enemy did not make other fttacks onhe western front simultaneously- -with his blow west of Cam prai is accounted for by the statement from Field Marshal Haig that the Cermans have used up most of their leserves and that more than J40.000 men have been thrown into the battle ey the enemy. All other sectors of the Western front have been drawn on by the Germans to carry out their great attark. Americans Chase Huiis Out. f American gunners on the sector orthwest of Toul have forced the Cermans to abandon the town of tiichecourt opposite the American ines. This town has been shelled fceavily as has St. aussant and other important -poljits Behind the enemy tines. The artilleBy on both sides iaa been busy firing gas shells but the mericans have given the enemy two lella for every one of his. There has een no infantry action either here or n the sector east of Luneville. iHUN GENERAL KILLED eneral Yon Blotlnitz Was Comniand j cr of Force at St. Quentin. a Amsteruam. .warcn t. general Ton Blotlnitz. commanding one of the Cerman divisions attacking St. Quen tin, was killed in action Friday, ac cording to dispatches received here trom German, sources today. T F "A good many investors overlook the importance of the service which a careful and conservative invest ment organization is able to render them. Buy farm loans from a reput able mortgage banker." Ask for our booklet, "FARM MORT GAGE AS INVESTMENTS." THE FAKM MORTGAGE CO. Topeka, Kansas. ENROLLING AT H. S. Boys May Enter Federal Reserve There Every Day Now. Enrollment of Topeka and Shaw- nee county boys Into the federal boys' working reserve is on at the high school building following the comple tion of an "educational campaign-' put on by a committee from the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Members of the committee, which is composed of Oerald Tasker. Don Pugh, John K. Dillon, George Whit comb. Melvin Rutledge. Ben Pres grove, Harold Seely and George W. Xeil. the latter chairman, have ap peared in every school here and ex plained the workings of the reserve. Knrollment may be made at room 22 of the high school building in the evenings or after 2:30 o'clock in the afternoons. HE ADDRESSES 1,400 Reid Talks Before Itotarians and School Children in Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City, Kan., March 27. One! of the most enthusiastic assemblies that has gathered in the high school auditorium for some time, listened to j an illustrated lecture on the baby war saving bonds Tuesday by Albert T. Reid, cartoonist from Topeka. Reid's talk gave fresh impetus to the interest of the high school students in the bonds. About 1,400 students packed the assembly. At noon Reid was "drafted" by the Kansas City, Kan., Rotary club and his talk met a warm reception. The feature of the noon talk was a car toon by Reid of Mayor Mendenhall. RFHINn HFR SHHFnillF morrow night, did not arrive in 10 Peka today and therefore the recep. tion scheduled in her honor this aft ernoon at the Elks club will not be held. Miss Nielsen will not attend the banquet arranged in her night. She will, however. honor to appear as the auditorium to- WEATHER IS NORMAL (Continued from Page One.) for laziness today, nor on any of the tomorrows for that matter. The lowest temperature of the last twenty-four hours in Topeka was 38 degrees at 6:30 o'clock this morning. Prospects were that the temperature this afternoon would not go above 55 degrees. The promised showers had not arrived this morning, but clouds were forming in the west part of the state, according to Meteorologist Flora and the showers will probably mater ialize before tomorrow. The wind was blowing eight miles from the north east this morning. The promise for tomorrow was another day like today a temperature of about 40 degrees tonight and tomorrow afternoon about 55 degrees. The highest temperature ever recorded in Topeka on this date was 87 degrees in 1895 and the low est was 15 degrees in 1913. The temperature at Oklahoma City this morning was 54 degrees. Th weather at Doniphan promised to be i warm today, altho there will be a few ciouus in me SKy. The official forecast says unsettled weather tonight and Thursday with showers tonight or Thursday; cooler Thursday. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. Furnished by the weather bureau office Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hours stations. High. Law. Prec. W'ther. Calgary, Alb. u Clear ?!2 :so Fair W 2N II Cloudy so :-.6 0 Clear TS fi o Fair iO SO O Cloudy V r.0 0 Clear SO 44 li Fair 2S 22 o Clear SO 68 o CloudT Chicago. lil Cincinnati, O Concordia, Kan.... Corpus Christi Denver. Colo Dps Moines. la..... Hodge Citv. Kan... nulutn. Minn Kl Paso. Tex (ialveston. Tex Havre. Mont. Jacksonville, Fla... Kansas City, Mo Little Bock. Ark... Los Angeles New Orleans, La.. New York, N. Y... N. Platte. Neb...... Oklahoma. Okia.... Phoenix. Ariz rittsburg,- Pa Portland. Ore St. Joseph, Mo St. Louis. Mo St. Paul. Minn Salt Lake. Vtata... San Francisco o 0 .00 n T o n 0 o o 0 o .10 0 T 0 T .CS 0 n o .00 o St 40 .18 CO 34 S8 30 ::6 r4 58 2 40

40 :;o 40 48 is 42 40 r.t 38.' Clear Cloudy Clear Clondv Cloudy Clear Clear Fair Pair Fair Clondv Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Rain Clear Clear" Cloudv Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Fair 40 78 SI SO 28 no 04 ss 28 B8 Sault Ste. Marie. Sheridan. Wm i Snnknnp. Wash.. Nwirt current i Tampa, Fla Toledo. Ohio TOPKKA. KAN" Washington. I. C. Wichita. Kan 42 ao I Winnipeg, Man PAY DEARLY FOR EVERY FOOT OF TERRITORY WON Devastated Villages Are Strewn With Hun Corpses. Battle Hasn't Yet Reached Cru eial Stage, Says Simms. FURIOUS COMBAT AT NESLE Armies Locked in Combat Us ing Bayonets and Knives. Inevitable Flocks of Pitiful; Refugees Swarm Ahead. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. With the British Armies, in the FicW, March 26. As the battle de velops, the Anglo-French view com- ing events calmly and courageously. The British are holding the gates to Albert determinedly against the Hin- denburgian masses, as this is caDiea. Along Fozieres ridge, astride the Somme, across the obliterated villages of Ovillers, Warlencourt. Lesars, Flers, Longueval, Montauban, Ma metz and Courcelette, the Germans are strewing their corpses as they slowly press forward. The battle undoubtedly has not yet reached its. crucial stage. Huns Hunt Loophole, to break thru now here, now there unmindful of the huge gaps torn in his'massed ranks by the British guns. The German storm troops are so thick the gaps close automatically, Hindenburg is striving desperately like holes in soft dough. Simultaneously with lunges in the direction of Albert, the most furious attacks are being flung southwestward against a line thru Rosieres and the St. Gobain forest, curving outward to ward Roye and Noyon. Between the last two named, assault follows assault in rapid succession. (Haig has admitted the capture of Roye and Noyon since Simms's dis patch was filed.) L'se Bayonets and Knives. The French and British are forcing the enemy to pay dearly for every inch of ground. Xesle was taken only after furious combats, the French resorting to bayonets, grenades and knives, fighting body to body in a death lock. j iwucn tne same scenes have been en acted by the British at Gerauviller Ligny-Thilloy, Montauban and else where, withdrawing only when order ed, or sticking until the last man. I fighting liko wild cats until overcome by sheer weight of numbers, German spies continue to spread panic among civilians. Refugees from one village alarm the people in the next with the most absurd rumors, which become as facts five miles away. Warnings have been issued against Munchausen tales. Civilians havfe been asked to turn 'over suspects to the au thorities. Exodus of Refugees. Inevitably, refugees are war's most pitiful spectacle. The military has encouraged their exodus, owing to the enemy shelling and bombing towns far behind the lines. The refugees are given every possible aid. At the time Simms dispatch was filed, the Germans were within three miles of Albert, pressing in upon the city from three points the northeast, east ana soutneast. The British evidently were still holding Pozieres ridge, where a previ ous dispatch from Simms reported strong machine gun emplacements. but their left at this point had been ibent sharply hack to Ovillers. which is K.hree miles northeast of Albert Just north of the main Albert-Bapaume highway. On the east, the enemy has reached Mametz, about four miles from Al bert, on the Albert-Combles highway. To the southeast, the Germans' are before Bray, located on the Somme, five miles from Albert. Bapaume in about twelve miles northeast of Albert. Warlencourt is two and a half miles southwest of Ba paume. Lesars is one and a half miles southwest of Warlencourt. Courcelette is midway between Al bert and Bapaume. Montauban is three mile3 west of Combles. Longue val is three miles northwest of Com bles and Flers Is one and a half miles nort't o Longueval. Xext Big City Is Amiens. The next big city in the line of the German advance is Amiens, eighteen miles southwest of Albert, on a con tinuation of the main Albert-Bapaume highway. Amiens 13 eighty four miles north of Paris, on the Somme, and marks the high tide of the German invasion in 1914 at this point. Amiens Is a city of about 100, 000 population and 13 an important manufacturing and transportation center. Rosieres, mentioned as the point against which a heavy assault is be ins directed, is thirteen miles south of Albert. Roye is nine'miles south of Rosieres. while Xoyon is twelve miles southeast of Roye. Xesle is eight miles northeast of Roye. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and pergonals from Eaat Side by Frances Jones, 211 G rattan tret. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m. 3530; other noura. 4751 K-2. Anyone on the East side wishing to con tribute a few minutes or a few hours' time to the Red Cross is urged to come to tlie Lafayette school on Friday afternoon of each week where from 1 o'clock until late In the afternoon sewing is done for the society. Karl McChristian has returned to Camp Tonipban after visiting his mother, Mrs. Thomas Anderson, Kast Ninth street, and his uncle, William Glenn and family, Twiss avenue. Miss Mabel Camp is ill at her borne, 215 Grattan street, with the mumps. The L. A. H. club will be entertained Friday rtfternoon with Mrs. W. Glenn, twiss avenue, as nostess. me ciud meet ing was to have been beld at the home of Mrs. S. Creuier. Grattan street, but has been postponed heoause of illness. Mrs. W. L. Tirkner, 405 Lafayette street, will go to Lawrence, Kan., Thursday to at tend the meeting of the Presbyterians. Mrs. Tickner will go as a delegate from the Third Presbvteriun chnrch Ralph Swearingen of Camp Doniphan. J UKia., is spending a inrto in tne city with his oarents and with other relatives and friends. He is ft member of Field Hospital 13JV Mrs. A. Flodenberg, German avenue, will be hostess Thursday afternoon to the mem bers of the Mistletoe club. There will be no meeting of the Teach ers' Training class of the Seward Avenue Methodist church, Thursday evening. The usual p raver aervice will be beld as usual. Next .Sunday .morning at 6 a'dack a onrle prayer service will be beld la the church tinder the direction of the Epwcrtb League society of the church. Sgt. and Mrs. George Brantlngham are the parents of u daughter, born Tuesday morning. Sgt. Brantiugliam is stationed at Camp Doniphan. Mrs. Branticgrbam is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. J. BrantlnfTham, 529 rjermnn avenue. Mrs. C. K. Cox. Mr. Harry Cox of Camp Doniphan and Miss Dora Snodgrass of Williamsburg:. Kan., were dinner guests Tuesday of Mrs. K. L. Jones and Miss Frances Jones. The Rev. K. K. Itesler has returned to his home. Scotland avenue, after spending several days attending the Methodist con ference at Pittsburg, Kan. The annual congregational meeting of the Third Presbyterian church will be held Thursday evening. Supper will be served at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Fanny Libby of Argentine and Mrs. Lauretta Hollo were recent dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H, I. Jones. Lake street. Mrs. C. K. May and daughter, Mrs. T. N. Mott. of Eskridgo, are guests for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. S. Wilcox, Norton street. HUNS' REAL PLAN Crush English Army and Break French Morale. But Thus Far Both Objectives Have Failed. BY HENRY WOOD. AVith the French Armies in the Field, March 27. Germany's offensive appears to embrace two great objec tivesan effort to break up Great Britain militarly and an effort to break down the French civilian mor ale by terrorizing Paris and other open cities. I have just returned from Paris and other cities where bombs have been dropped. There I ascertained that the civilian morale is equally as high as the army's. Both are determined, at any sacrifices, to ensure victory. The poilus on the entire front, after four months of the most intensive work in defensive preparations, today are keenly awaiting extension of the offensive to the French sectors. In spired by the British resistance they are determined to demonstrate their courage and ability are equal to that of their allies on the north. Fully half the German divisions are now facing the British, while a majority of the remainder are in the crown prince's command. greatYictory, BUT Pcrha ps Hun Chief Wonders How Germans Are Benefit!. Amsterdam, March 27.- "A great battle has been fought and victory has been won,, but nobody can fore-, see what will result from it," said General von Ludendorff, chief aide to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, in a:x interview with the correspondent at the front of the Tages Zeitung- of Berlin. The general praised the British for the!- tenacious resistance and con tinued: "The British believed they could rely on the strength- of machinery. The employment of tanks -and great numbers of machine guns is typical of their methods of warfare." Tli i German infantry, the geepra'l adds, had only one night's norma", rest during five or six days of batUe. "In a battle like this," he remarked, "the infantryman must risk his life not Gnly or.ee but continuously from trench to trench." NAME SESSIONS (Continued on Page Two.) missioner be named by Governor Cap per's successor. Sessrons would hold the office until his successor was named and c6nfirmed by the senate. The appointment is one of the best at the disposal of the governor, and carries a salary of $4,000 a year. Jackson Was a Candidate. Names of two men were urged be fore Governor Capper when it be came known some m weeks ago that Bristow planned to leave the com mission at the expiratioft. of his term. Bristow's retirement to private life was followed by his announcement as a candidate for the Republican nomi nation for United States senator. Governor Capper was urged to ap pointment either Sessions or Fred S. Jackson, former attorney general and one. term congressman from the Fourth congressional district. Jack pon" is now an attorney for the com mission. Sessions was named, the governor stated, because of his faith ful state service and ability to fill the new office. Sessions, who is a veteran Topeka newspaper correspondent, was secre tary of state from 1911 to 1915. He was urged for the Republican guber natorial nomination in 1914, but step ped aside when Governor Capper en tered the running. Sessions in 1915 walked from the secretary of state's office across the hall to Governor Capper's private secretaryship, in 1916 Sessions was elected chairman of the Republican state committee and i3 now at the head of the party organization in this state. MORE YANKEES (Contlnoed from Fag One.) nearly turned the Byng drive at Cam brai into a bad defeat. In any event, American and millied military men here say confidently that while the allies may yield more ground, the bache has about shot his bolt and cannot make this drive a vic tory. Tne greatest optimism prevails on the outcome. Acting Chief of Staff March is in constant touch with developments as they affect the whole-allied problem, and narticuiarly tha- American end thereof. General Bliss at the inter allied war council is keeping: him ad vised of the most intimate details. Another German "Washout." A report from Bliss last night re vealed the main facts as contained in yesterday's cables while another mes sage from General Pershing, perhaps cjntaining interesting data, on the drive, ras in late last night for de coding. March has promised to give what, information he safely can, as soon as possible. Loss of territory- means nothing. they said. Losj of men does. But if t'.ie German "maneuvered into a position where he could push on to Paria or the oiiannel ports, then af fairs would be critical. The German is losing men at a very costly rate, far more so than the alli?. That Is vhat counts, the experts aa;r. So wb-ea the final toll is taken, it is believed the .dirve will go down as another German "washout."' provided the Teuton is held in the next few days. FOUGHT A U-BOAT American Tanker Either Dam aged or Sank Submarine. For an Hour the TWO Boats l Fnuffht on the Sea- SHE SUBMERGED BOW FIRST an Down With Stern Up at Angle of 15 Degrees. and Then Shrapnel Shots. Washington, D. C, March 27.- After an hour's battle with a German U-boat on the morning of March 1, the American oil tanker Paulsboro sent the enemy vessel beneath the waves "damaged and in distress," the navy department reported today. It was the tank'er's second struggle with a submarine in six days. r In the first encounter a torpedo missed tne Doat by twenty-live yards. Four shots at the submarine sent her diving away. i In the second battle a submarine j about 8.000 yards dead ahead opened fire, using tandem fire, then salvos, then firing shrapnel. Some of her fifty shots reached their mark, com ing close to the American gun crew I in'charge of Chief Gunner's Mate Rei- I ter of Menominee, Mich. Telling of the struggle after the submarine had started to maneuver astern, Reiter's report said in part: The after gun appeared to have more velocity than the forward nun and the shells passed over the ship and struck near the starboard bow. A tierce tiring was kept up from that angle until the submarine got astern. Apparently picking her own nnsitinn she remained slightly on the vessel's port stern and fired from that posi tion, the forward gun's shells still dropping short. Shells Fell Everywhere. ."The submarine then drew closer, using both guns at tandem fire, the shells falling on both sides of the ship. Shrapnel was now being used and aome of the shells burst before contact, scattering about the deck. One of tho shells burst against the side on the port beaml 1 "Shells fell in all directions on both sides and over the length of the ship. A shell burst close to the ship's stern. Fragments of it became em bedded in the wooden deck at the rear of the gun crew. A German shell burst alongside of the starboard bow. The tremendous concussion threw all men on the platform to the deck face forward. "Both of the Paulsboro's guns now had the range of the submarine and a- rapid fire was kept up. The sub marine had apparently dropped back and the ship's shells either fell on top of the submarine or close to her bow. "The submarine then ceased firing. 9Vrun broadside to and submerged or sank: bow first, with the stern up at an angle of about -15 degrees. She disappeared in about twenty seconds. It' is believed that the "submarine was damaged and in distress." "NOTHING TO REPORT" Xo Sews for AVar. Department About Americans Entering Battle. Washington, March 27. General Pershing cabled the .war department early today he had "nothing to re port'' so far as the American troops were concerned in the- progress of the battle on the western front. It was said at the war department that the dispatch received from Gen eral Bliss in Paris last night and which was supposed" to contain some information on thfr. battle, was con cerned entirely with the routine of the American participants' in the inter-allied war council. CITY OF ODESSA (Continued from Page One.) the Ukraine. The rada decided to oppose the central powers" by means of armed forces, strikes and boycotts. CIVILIANS TAKE UP ARMS. Southern Ukrainian OUeir Sternly Re sent Huns' "Friendly" Invasion. (By the Associated Press.) Moscow, March 24., Official reports say that Kikolayev. Kherson and Znamenka. all southern Ukrainian cities, have been recaptured from the Austrians by Red guards and armed civilians. (The recapture of Kherson and Xik olayex already has been reported in press dispatches from Petrograd.) The population of Kherson organ ized and expelled the invaders. A heavy artillery bombardment is re ported in connection with the recap ture of Nikolayev. Demands not set forth .by the Ger mans in the peace treaty with Uk raine are creating disorder there. The latest of these demands is that Uk raine surrender 85 per cent of its grain and all the sugar frorn its. 114 refin eries except that needed-1 for local consumption. The Ukrainian rada has protested that this is not in the terms of the peace treaty,- German troops are constantly tnoving eastward thru Kiev. Peasants at Kevel. fifty four railes north of Vitebsk, are re ported to .have killed eighty German soldiers. 'T- TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago. March 27. COUK Corn grained In strength flav owing more or less to the hopeful character of SfKtres '"from the battle front in France.' Falling off In re ceipts here counted further as a bullish factor. Besides, anouncement that busi ness in the March delivery had been shot off and that open trades in the option wonld be rettled at the maximum limit. 1 y n bnshel. was n handicap to the Laundering off ETery erripttaii DRY CLEANING DYEING HAT RENOVATING Out-of-Towo Work Solicited Topeka Laundry Co. -j 57th Year. ff PHONE 3653 Opening prices which showed He advance, with May $1.20, were followed oy a moderate additional upturn. Later the market was sustained by prospects that the grun priority rule on the railroads wouid result in a smaller movement of the crop. I' rices closed firm, (ali.v net hijrber with May 91.26il.-Jtt8. OATS Fresh demand from seaboard in terests helped to put oats on the upgrade. Trading, tho. was mostly in small lots. WiVic to 8UVj'8tfcT the. market continued to tiaruen. PROVISIONS Provisions ascended with Kealixinc sales leii afterward to a setback of pork but lard and ribs held firm. Chicago Grain and Provision Market. The ranfro of r. i An trrain fnhiiv. AH Chicago Hoard of Trade reported by jTbos J. Myers. 301 N. Ii. lildg.) bears. j Chicago, March 27. Close I Open High Low Today Yes. iCOltN Msy ..1214 120 128 1201,4 125T4 'oats May 86 87 8614 87 86'4 PORK I May ..48.97 49.00 48.80 48.83 48.90 LAUD May ..26.30 26.S2 2G.30 26.30 26.27 RIBS May ..23.03 23.07 23.00 23.02 23.00 Kansas City Grain Market. (The raure of oricps on trrain futures on Kansas City Board of Trade as reported liy Thos. J. Myers. 301 N. K. Bldg.) Kansas City, March 27. COllN Open High Low Today 126 126 120 126 120 V4 80 OATS May 87s S7',i 87 87,i Chicago Orain and Provision Market. Cliu-aeo, March -'7. CORN Close: May, l.aW. OATS March. lc-. May, 6ttS7c. l'ORK May. S4N.JS5. I,AUD May. 28.:!0: July. J26.30. SHOUT UIBS May, Ji5.05; July, $25.42. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, March 27. CORN Cash: Market steady. N. 2 mixed, $l.7fri 1.78 No. fl.ttMulJSA; No. 2 white, $l.K4ral.89; No. ;i, fl.Tdfel.79; No. 2 yellow, $1.TJ(&1.S0; No. nominal. OATH Market unchanged No. 2 white, 01c: No. 2 mixed. SOftrsTc. K Y K $2.8X7 KAl'Il: AND MII.O MA1ZK .!.80i4.00. HAY Market unchanged to $1 lower. Choice timothy. J'.'U.OOfti 27.00; choice prairie, $2.!.00i 23.50: choice alfalfa, 23.502(1.50. SHOUTS Sl.snoi2.00. It It A N $l..Va 1 .'S3. WHEAT-Ueceipts 14 cars. HI TTKK Market unchanged. POULTRY Market unchanged. KUfiS Firsts, 32c. COK.V Close: May, 1.26!.l61.20-;. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago. March 27. BtTTEU-Market firm. Creamerv. 35(S41Ve. KCGS Market lower. Firsts. 3.1&U3lic: ordinary firsts. 32&32M,c; at mark, cases included. ::2fa3'V,c. POTATOES Market V, higher. Wiscon sin. Michigan and Minnesota bulk, 80& 90c; ditto sacks. 85i 95c. POULTRY boosters, unchanged. New Tors: Produce Market. .New York. March 27. BUTTEIl Market easier. Creamery, higher tban extras, 4o &44e. EtiUS Market weak. Fresh gathered ex tras. :WM.fg139c. CHKESK Market irregular. State held specials. 244l&25iX.c. POULTRY Alive, strong; dressed quie.. New Xork Sugar Market. New York. March 27. SUGAR Raw, steady; centrifugal, 6.C05; fine granulated, 7.45. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans. March 27. COTTON steady and unchanged; middling, Sii -Spot, ,50. tw York Stock Market. Wall St.. New York. March IT. STOCKS "The activity and strength of the first hour centered in equipments andd rails. Prices yielded, moderated later on the heav iness of Motors and Snipping; which react ed one to three points. Liberty bonds were inclined to sag on .greatly diminsbed deal ings. The second 4's. yesterday's sensational feature, fluctuated between 7.."0 and 97.6'.a block of $1,000,000 changing hands at 97.40. First 4's sold at 7.:i7 to 07.52 and the 3V- S at 98.72 to 98.84. Saies of all liberty issues up to noon approximated $.".000.000. A vigorous rally from y .erday's late recessions attended today's virly stock dealings. Hails led the advauce. Coalers and Pacifies rising from large fractions to IVa points. (Shippings were variable, At lantic Gulf gaining l't while Marine pre ferred temporarily forfeited a point. Equip ments showed material improvement, not ably Crucible and L'ntted States Steels and Specialties were featured by Alcohol and nistillers at gains of 1 to almost 2 points. Trading in liberty bonds was relatively light with a steady tone. Kansas Cltr Llvw Stock Sales (The following sales were maue this morn, ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay Kobln- son Co.. ilva stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, March 27. CATTLE Re ceipts 10,000. head. Market steady to 10c higher. HOGS Receipts 15,000 head. Market 10c to 15c higher. Bulk of sales, $10.75fel7.y5 top. $17.50. SHEEP Receipts 7,000 head. Market strong to 15c higher. Lambs. $18.73. KILLING STbKUS. No. Wt Price. INo. Wt I'rle 22 12.T0 $14.10 I 17.. ...1210 $12.0.7 7 944 10.00 3 800 9.00 21 1170 12.25 19 892 11.50 IOWS AND HG1FFRS. 21.. 1.. s 9.50 1 7R0 7.."i0 ..1100 10.50 9 8i0 9 00 i0 9.50 j 11 851 8.00 405 8.25 I STOCKERS AMD FEEDERS. 955 11.40 I 22... 7.30 2... CALVES. S.75 I 2... 13.00 I HOGS. 17.23 I IS... 17..i5 I 92... 17.20 62... 16.t0 I 864 10.25 620 29S 160 214 HiS 217 2U0 766 8.00 14.. 1.. 102 174 222 10.S3 17.40 17.05 Kansas City Ij1t Stork Market. Kansas City. March 27. HOGS Rv?.pts 15.000. Market 10c to 15c higher. Bulk of sales. Slti-SOfg 17.:5 heavy, $10.70(jl7.10; packers and butchers. flT.OOfalTO; light, $17.1017.40: pips. $i::.50& 17.00. CATTLE Receipts 10,006. Market strotiff to 10c hifrher. I'rime fed steers. $i;i.00i$ 14.00; dressed heef steers. $10.00rq i:t.7 western steers, $10.5Ofgi:.35; southern steers. $9.0011.00; cows, $7.Q(H 11.25 heif ers, $7.7512.00: storkers and feeders, $S.0U fai.u Duns, .wtg.iu.w; caives, .oJ3, ia..r-. SHEEP Receipts 7,000. Market strcm?. Lambs. $l8.00flK.tiO: yearlings, $14..VKa, ltf.00; wethers. $i::.0Ol."i.j0; ewes, $1..00 14.25; stockers and feeders, $8.0017.10., Chicago I4ve Stock Market. Chicago, March 27. HOGS Receipts 28. 000, tomorrow 33,000. Market strong. 15c to 25c above Yesterday's average. Bulk of sales. $17.20Ci 17.75: light. $T.2.Va118.00; mix ed, $16.9017.95: heavy. $l.l.V7l7.G0;rough, $16.15&16.ti0: pigs. VSm 10.75. CATTLE Kpcsipts M.0UO, tomorrow 1?.. 000. Market firm. Native steers, $9.70 14.50; stockers anc. feeders. $7.7011.50; cows and heifers, $6.7511.80; calves, $10.50 11.00. SHEEP Receipts 8,000. tomorrow 11.000. Market firm. Sheep, $11.25&15.ti5 lambs. $14.Wgl9.0U. Mralaa Oral a Market. 1 (Famished by the -opeka Board of Trade.) I New York, Marta 27. Journal of Cora 'roerce: Cotton There was a calmer feel ing yesterday. Prices rose 25 to 30 toints. War news was keenly scrutinized of course, 1 but the outlook was considered more en j cou raging. The Liverpool advance and closed some 20 to 25 American points high er. Contracts here once again became scarce, at times there was hardly anything i for sale aod the drought in Texas con tinnes. No rain was predicted fur that state either. Large spot interests were among the best buyers. Liverpool and the Continent also bought. It looks as tho the consumption In this country would be in creased by reason vt embargoes on imports 1 of textiles. From the south there are com Detroit Oil Stoves Oil Cook Stoves With Kerogas Burners 1 tsi fl iri Free Delivery itlHJ;H'.'IJ:ll.'.M!l.:..Hrlrl.H 713 Kansaa Fishing Where There Are No Fish WEATHER .probably sliq,wers. Cooler Thursday. Drilling crews In the gas fields spend considerable time fishing. However, that operation is not quite so attractive as the bald state ment might lead one to believe. In fact, drillers and tool dressers would much prefer not to fish. Fishing is oil and gas field lingo for the operation of removing from a hole, lost drilling tools, pieces of collapsed casing or other material that may be obstructing progress. Fishing tools are used at the end of the drilling; cable just ss is the drilling; bit. They must be manipulated with great skill. The first effort is to "spear" or "grab" the lost or obstructive article and draw it to the surface of the ground. Failing in that, it some times is attempted to push the bothersome obstruction to one tide leaving the hole cleat- for further drilling, if the formation of the earth at the point of trouble is too hard for that, the last resort is to break in pieces the bostruction and withdraw it little by little with the sand pump. All this takes time and adds greatly to the cost of production. KANSAS NATURAL OAS CO. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants. Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Rave Oar Ows Office at Chicago, 60. St. Joseph. So. Omaha. Denver, SI on 1 OUT, So. 8t. PanL E. Buffalo. R. St. Louts, Fort Worth and El Paso. plaints of dry weather In Texas and from east of the Mississippi come reports that there is delay iu getting fertilizers owing tn a.-an-itv r.f i a ra X vifrnrnitH nmnniindfl is being conducted in the southern press in behalf of increased food crops. New York. March 27. Financial News tUlieiin O lJ r. S piiumuutii'ii in iug expressed in high bunking circles over the small total of the next liberty loan and tha rate. Theae trc cood in d lent ions of good buying by Bethlehem. Baldwin-. Mexl- J can Petroleum, C. and O., Marine preferred, A. G. V. and Southern Pacific on all de clines. Chicago, March 27. The Herald says: Grain It was noticeable yesterday that leading buyers or cash oats at the seaboard were only disposed to take hold on the bfeaks and withdrew on bulges. While t he sea board bid Onrn ha lri'c over May track N?w York the best bid on exporter had here at the lose fur 1 ra-k Newport News was 12l4 over. It was said export sh les to the sea boa rd the last two days were larger than reported. Between the un vertalnty of export buying and the news from the western front the trade is kept very nervous and longs are disposed to tiike profits on all sharp bulges. Bears- are nervous, but they do most of their selling on weak spots and are easily scared into covering on small bulges. Expectations are that the wheat export company wil soon be In the market again for more corn. Ele vators are buying corn and drying it and It is said that some industries may increase their purchases of poor corn should prices remain attractive, Uaving a special use for it. The Chicago Board of Trade will be closed March 2d, Good Friday. TOPEKA MARKET, REPORT FOB WAGON DELIVERIES. CATTLE AND HOGS. (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Col Topeka, Kan., March 27. MIXrrXXD BUTCHERS $14.0017 10.05 HEAVY i:s.5(Wj lO.ld LIGHT 13.5061, l.r.70 PIGS 7.00((i 10.00 Steers-r- Good to choice ...50 to $10 0) Fair to good 7.00 to b 50 Cows Good to choice.. 7.00 to 9 00 Fair to good 6.50 to .1J Common to fair 4.00 to tXdO Heifers Good to choice 8.00 to 9 50 Fair to good 7.00 to 8.50 Common 4.50 to COO Bulls Fleshy 7.00 to 8 50 Medium 5.50 to 7.0 Veat Calves Prime fat 8.50 to 10.50 Medium good 6 50 to b 50 Fair 5.00 to 6,50 Sheep and Lambs- Fat wethers .50 to H 00 Fat ewes 6.50 to M Fat lambs 9.O0 to 12.50 Goats 3.0O to 5-00 Positively cannot use sheep or lambs un lets fat. Shorn lambs and sheep 3c under above prices. Poultry and Bgg. Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurent and Uudiaon. Topeka, Kan., March 27. Springs, over 2 .ha- 19c: roosters. 15c; taggy young roosters. Ire; broilers, S lbs and under, 23c Eggs are retailing in Topeka 35c liL'TTER J5tJ47c. Positively ciunwt use sheep or lambs k-M fuL. Topeka Grata Market. (Furnished by J. B. Bll.ard, comer Kansas Ave. sad Curtis SO Topeka. Kan.. March 27. MTXET CORV $1.35. WHITE CORN $1.55. OATS 75c Tepeka Hay Market Topeka, Kan-, March 27. PRAIRIB BAT $20.00 ALFALFA $25.00 Retail Hay. Famished by W. a. Gilchrist. 2fl Qutney Street.- Topeka, Kan., March 27. PRAIRIE HAY $20.00. Z ALFALFA $25.00 Detroit Oil Stoves Make a hot, blue flame close up to the cooking vessel.- Spletidid bak ers economical to run. 2 burner. 3 burner. 4 burner. .$12.00 15.00 17.00 Phone 1325 Ave. REPORT. Unsettled tonight 'and Thursday; k V. SAVE FOR TOl'B Fl'TPRE. TAXKH. I.IKK IN8rRATE. FITCRE POSSIBILITIES THE FIRST PAYMENT ON- A HOME FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT'S SAKE Writ or rail for Booklet Syste matic baTlnfs Accounts CAPITOL BUILDING A LOAN Example! One lady paid $1.25 for a. Broom that we sell for 89c another paid $1.10 for a can of Crisco that we sell for 87c. Are you watching your grocery bill Tomorrow Finest Ruftset Burbank Potatoes, bushel 79c Fine Lemons, dozen s .25o Big 85c Oranges, navel doz. 72c Large Crisco .....91.73 Medium Crisco i .'i .87c Kitchen Broom 58c' Not-a-Seed Kaisins 15n pkg 12e 12',ic pkg 9c si:ei ifiT.vroKs Fine. Fnlooth K. O. seed, field, run. one year from Minnesota. Come earlier than Northern eed. A snap. Corns ae a sample, bushel...'. 8o Colorado White bake fine Beans, boil or ....15c Small new Prunes 90-1 Off lb. 10c Finest Apple Butter. .23o Fresh Country Kirgs, 0oz,, .S3c Big fine Ked Applea, lb. ,4c Full Cream New Tofk Che lb .34a Compound, a very nuperior ar ticle, no odor, 100" ehorten ing. You will uae no lard or other shortening after you nave tried it. jfound -27c .20c Comb Honey, special 5 lb. can Baking Powder; guaranteed .-...68c Scores of Bargains.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE, JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1918 3 I r llllliaEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIlllllltllll'lilllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIhllllllllllllllllllllllllllM! Smart Shoes IISALE A SUCCESS eEv d&&Q?Z Etehty-Two Head of Pure Hoi- stein Sold Here. Top Price of $910 Given for "Star Champion Lad." KAISER GIVES NEW TITLE TO HIS SON AS MILITARY PRIZE "Dress Up" Your Feet (nless your footwear is right, the rest of your Easter outfit counts for naught. For ill-fitting, mis-shapen or worn shoes spoil the -j; ha lance of your appearance. Women's Boots of White Reinskin and White Washable Kid. lace style. French and S military heels S $50 to $9 'pera and Colonial Pumps ar.-l Oxfords, Mack lae kid. dark l-rown. white kid and rein- skin i $40 to '6-50 kllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllS KANSAS A Y FIN L K. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II I 1 1 1 11 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i IS rr lilA AMERICA'S HOME SHOE POUSH Branches of Service ForAU LO" W. X ii ii la. I aasL Si Uncle Sam insists on a good shoe shine SamoiA sheds moisture won't rub off preserves leather is easy to use shines quickly lasts a long time is economical Does not spatter or spill BLACK TAN WHITE RED BROWN Attention I The SkinoiA Home Set is made by the Shinola Co. and sold at practically cost of production to make the care of shoes easy and convenient. Consists of large lamb's wool polisher that just fits the hand, and genuine bristle dauber, the best that can be made. Shine with SkinoiA and Save HOME SET Eighty-two head of purebred Hol stein cattle sold at the state sale of the Holstein-Friesian breeders asso ciation at the fair grounds Tuesday afternoon for a total of $26,794.32, or an average of $326.76. About 300 farmers, dairymen, breeders and others interested were present and the prices paid were low considering: the "war value" of the animals "under the hammer. The top price of the sale was $910 Pid by Kd. Fitzgerald, Jamestown, for North Star Champion Lad, a yearling bull, consigned to the sale by J. T. Axtell, Newton. The highest price paid for a cow was $605 which Herman Baum of Newton paid for Piebe Kstata- Homestead Le Kol, a cow with a seven-day butter record of 23.23 pounds, consigned to the sale by Lee Bros. Cook, Harveyville The following are the names, in order, of the consignors, the animals, the purchasers and the prices paid in each individual sale: Males. Consigned by V. J. Searle, Oskaloosa; Sunflower King ICock. $150. J. V. Nauertb, Keats. I'misigned by Tavid Coleman Sons, iH'nison; calff $1.'.U. J. A. Jameson, Lan sing. Consigned by Svgrist Stephenson, Hol tnn en If, $7o. A. Kshelman, Abilene, t'ulf. YT. 1. II. Krwln, PenlsoD. ('unsigned bv 1. M. Oihill. Coffeyville; Kg Apple C horn It a Ppsch, $405. Ira Suide ler. Top.'k.i. Cmisigued bv Robinson Sehultz, Inde pendence; calf, $JOO. J. C. lHilaney, Win Held. Consigned bv I-.ee Brothers Cook, Har vevville calf," 9JJ0. T. E. Cavanaugh, Spearville. Calf, $oQ0. M. A. Anderson, Hope. tNmsigned bv J. T. Axrell, Newton; North Star Cbampion Lad, $190. Edward Fritz gerald. Jamestown. Consigned by Ira F. Collins. Sabetha Collins Farm Sogis Ie Kol Pontiac, $J05, J. M. Ktpple, Tupeka. Consigfied bv Otto St new. Alma calf, $115. Kdwanl Fitzgerald. Jamestown. Calf, 50. F. J. Sherman. Topeka. Females. Consigned by F. J. Searle, Oskaloosa Sunflower ISuttercup Pontiac. $405. Charles Fevl, Manhattan. Sunflower Neta, $XSO. Edward Fit.gerald. Jamestown. Lake view Frontier Longfellow, $20. Charlt-s II Seifert. Leavenworth, ir"jnf lower Good, $205, J. A. En gel. Abilene. Consigned bv J. I. Mast, Sera nt on Anna Aggie Orinsby Mercedes le Kol. $270. Mrs. A u. Uemiiigton, Merideu. Fern Ormsby He Kol Cornucopia. $405. P. L. Button Son Efmoni. ircsDy Ie Kol Putchland I'uriiin-oiiin SI 40. E. E Kid red ee. Toreka. Aggie lnit"hland Cornucopia. i-'iSOj Capitol j View Hoi stein Farm. Topeka. Laura trinsby Le Kol Putchland, $.0, A. M. Hone v. Scranton. Consigned by F. M. Kwing. Independence; I Ladv Josephine ierbcn. JO. A. S. Neale. i Manhattan. Belle Josephine Mahomet, $-'M0. Ben Schneider. Nortouvilie. Josephine Ma homet S2K5. A. S Neale, Manhattan. Jose phine Mahomet. ;id, $250. L. L. Engle Abi lene, liens Princess Korndyke, $220, J. M. Kipple, Topeka. 'unsigned by Pavid Coleman Sons, Penisoit I nba Hijlard Jobnaiiua. ;75. Nathan Eugte, Abilene Goldie Segis Beauty, S440. M. W. Wheeler, M til vane. Maple iyiioll Inara, $.'S00, A. Branch, Marion. Paisv Lincoln Aaggie $255, Capitol View Holstein Farm. Christinas Belle Pietertje, $ls5. James A. powns, Lyndon. Consigned by L. F. Cory Son. Belle ville; Corydale ltose Jewel, $450. Edward Fitzgerald. Jamestown. Alvira Jewel. J. M. Kipple. Topeka, Jewel Beets Nether land, $."W5. J. M. Kipple. Topeka. Corydale Tiffany Jewel, A. S. Neale. Manhattan. 'orydale Twonuet Jewel, $4i5, Charles Fey I, Manhattan. Consigned bv II. P. Burger, Seneca :Stella Browned Netherlnnd. $J4H. J. M. Kipple. Topeka. Belle Bessie Segris Korndyke. $::uo. A. H. Williamson. Topeka. Pauline Louisa, t00, Capitol View Holstein Farm, Topeka. Lady Korndyke CoriHicopia, $2tH, J. M. Kipple. Topeka. Consigned by Ben Schneider. Nortonville; $200. Henderson Long Son. Haddatn. Lady Burke Beets. &io0, L. Mugel, Abilene. P. S. P. Starlight, $425, A. E. Engle, Abilene. Clothilde Clenia Polkadot. $295. Louis Koenig. Solomon. Consigned by Segrist Stephensou, H ni ton Lady Mack. $45t). Edward Fitzgerald, Jamestown. Lady Maude le Kol Pietertje, $425. August tioselin, Coticordla. Consigned by Harry M. Mollha.Ten. Bush ton Aaggie Wayne Beryl. 2d. $500. Ben Sciiiieider.N.irtonville, Aaggie Wayne Beryl Waiker. $:!50. -Iten Schneider. Nortonville, Milkmaid Favorite, JJ10, F. H. Treff, Bushore. Consigned by Mott Brothers. Iferington; Canary I'ontiae Butter Lass. $:f75. krge I-enhart, Abilene. Alderdale Butter Boy King. $:.75. Edward Fitzgerald, Jamestown. Butter Boy Theodora, VN. K. S. Engle Son. Abil.-ne. Olive I.eauty Pontiac. 115, Charles Fegl. Manhattan. Susie Henger veld Segis. 2d, 195, A. M..-Pa vis. Hutch inson. $.'t25. J. C. Pulaney. Win field. A'iolet Beech wood Netherland, $:ilO, Etlward Fitzgerald, Jamestown. Butter Boy Pearline, $:0, E. S. Engle Son, Abilene. Consigned by Kobinson Schultz. Inde pendence: Hhoda Pontiac Korndyke, $455, Capitol View Holstein Farm, Topeka. Ophelia Korndyke. $453. Capitol View Hol stein Farm, Topeka. Neitiierland Ophelia Pe Kol 2d. $25. Smith Hughes. Topeka. Ella Pietertje Pe Kol Korndyke. $300. Cap itol View Holstein Farm. Topeka. Helen Ophelia Pe Kol Pontiac. $.'540. Edward Fitz gerald, Jamestown. Pearl Pietertje Mer cedes 2d. $305. C. A. Branch. Marion. Martia McKinley Hengerveld. $.'525, T. E. Cavanaugh. Spearville. Martia McKinley 2d. $270. Louis Koenig, Solomon. Consigned by Lee Brothers Cook. Har veyville; Abigail -e Kol Wayne. $3fi0, P. Crawford, Lyndon. $150, J. M. Beach Son. Maple Hill. Piebe Estata Homestead Pe Kol. $005, Herman Braun, Norton. Consigned by J. T. Axtell. Newton: Kate Korndyke Merrilles 3d, $200, Bert Crum, petroit. Pussy Willow of Kusseil Farm. $550. L B. Erwln, Penisou. Bellemore Lady Hengerreld. $3v, J. C. Pulaney. Win field. Ettie Colantha Segis. S35o, Capitol View liolsteiu Farm, Topeka. Cecilia Amsterdam, March 27. Emperor William has appointed the German crown prince chief of the guard gren adier regiment in recognition of the good work of his troops on the west ern fronts In a telegram to tho crown prince the emperor says: "The fine and great success which the troops of the army group under your command have achieved these days in the battles against the British army gives me a welcome opportunity to express to Your Highness my hearty recognition by appointing you chief of the guard grenadier regiment. I am convinced that the brave and war-proved regiment will always be worthy of its princely chief." Walker, $285, Edward Fitzgerald, James town. Consigned by Ira F. Collins. Sabetha Lady Isabella Gerben 3d, $.310.' W. E. Van Horn Son, Topeka. Johanna Aaggie Pietertje, le Kol, $2O0. W. K. Van Horn Son, Topeka. Heritage Farm Segis Theresa. $.320, A. H. Williamson. Topeka. Consigned by otto Stuewe. Alma Can trilla Belie, 280. C. A. Branch, Marion. $175, Nathan Engle. Abilene. Itu- bertdale Lillie Calamity. $4O0. A. M. Darin, Hutchinson, Juliana Lyons of Rock, $280. Koy Seifert, Leavenworth. Consigned bv It. E. Stuewe. Alma: Pau line Aaggie Maid, $395, A. E. Engle, Abilene. $2,00 MOO FIRE! Suspect German Spy Set Off Bomb in Warehouse. Contained Army Supplies, Also Munitions, Despite Law New York, March 27. An estimate of $2,000000 was today placed on the damage done when the Jarvis ware houses in Jersey -City were destroyed by an explosion that set fire to nearby buildings. No one was killed in the blasts, which shook lower Manhattan Island. Several were severely bruised and cut by flying pieces of debris. An orcjinancfe has been enacted in Jersey City to prevent the storage of high explosives within the city limits, passed after the disastrous Black Tom explosion, but Mayor Haghe declared it was nonsense o assert there were no high explosives in the warehouses. Government and city officials are in vestigating, working along the belief that German agents were responsible. Army supplies were stored in the warehouses. $100,000 Garage Fire. Ha rr isb u rg. Pa. March 27 Dam age amounting to $100,000 resulted from a fire in the City garage this morning. Fifty automobiles were de stroyed. MAJOR "BING" LEAVES Topckas Young Artillery Officer to Division in Alabama, Maj. A. C. "Bing" Bar tel. attached to the sixty-second artillery brigade of the thirty-seventh division. Mont gomery. Ala., left Topeka this morn-, ing following a few days visit here with friends and relatives or his L &ttng an officer nffWn t pwnf Ait getting held of radb m go4 tkiam as a dbcw mfReal Grtmciyl He Gets Days of Comfort out of a pouch of Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug Real Gravely Plug is such good tobacco Oust enough sweetening to flavor), that a plug of Real Gravely lasts' much longer than an ordinary plug, and gives the com fort and satisfaction of good tobacco-. Give may man a chew of Real Gravely Plus, and he will tell you that' the kind to send. Send the best! Ordinary plug is false economy. It costs less per week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long while. If you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with youi knife and add a little to your smoking tobacco. It will give flavor improve your smoke. SEND YOUR FRIEND TN THE IT. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVFXY Dealers all around bare carry it in 10c pouches. A 3c stamp will put it into his hands in any Traininc Camp or Sea. port of the U. S. A. Even "over there" a 3c stamp will taka it to him. Your dealer will supply envelope and siro you off, cial directions how to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO., Danville, Va. The Patent JWa ketpm it Fresk and Oram and Good a u not JCcaf Gravely miUumt Via Pnttctum Seal Established 1831 4 Maj. A. C. "Bing" Bart el. "home" station in the south. Bartel stopped' in Topeka on his way back to Alabama" after attending the school of fire at Fort Sill. Bartel is the youngest Topeka man holding a commission as major in the line, and is probably one of the few men of his age holding so high a com mission in the country. In Topeka he expressed great faith in the ability of the French, British and American troops to hold in the Gemmn drive and expressed but little surprise at the fact that American fighting men have been thrown into the struggle. Major Bartel spent considerable) time visiting his old haunts. He was formerly assistant city attorney here, and was a lieutenant with Battery A on the border. He was made captain of an Ohio battery last June and pro-i rooted to major in September, Up to the Minute FROM EVERYWHERE. BY-CL.U- NEW HUB FACES 31 any Old Stars Missing From Two Boston Clubs. Fans Will Have To Learn ew Rooting Monikers. BY JACK VEIOCK New York, March 27. Boston fans will scarcely recognize their two ma jor league clubs this Summer as the ones that finished the season of 1917. Changes in the personnel of both teams, largely caused by conditions brought about by the war, have made many changes necessary, and the Red Sox, in particular, will present a strange front to the fans in the Hub. Starting from the top, with Kd Bar row in place of Jack Berry, the Sox have been rehabilitated. Then there is Johnny Evers, formerly of the Braves, but now Barrow's first lieu tenant. Many Strange Faces. Bush, Schang, Strunk and Mclnnis, in Red Sox uniforms, will look strange to the Boston fan, and there are others, including Hack Eibel, from the Richmond club, a first baseman: Paul Smith, Montreal outfielder, and George Whitman, veteran minor league out fielder, purchased from Toronto. The Braves, with Charley Herzog acting as first deputy to George S tai lings, will also look strange. In addi tion, the Boston Nationals have se cured Outfielder Al Wtckland, from Indianapolis; Jack Henry, the former Washington catcher; Jimmy Smith, secured from the Giants in the Herzog-Doyle deal; Dick Conway and Jack Nealon, infield recruits and two new- pitchers, Murray and Burmeister. Barry. Shorten, Shore, Lewis, Mc Xally. Bentley. Pennock, Walsh, Ba- j der. Janvrin, Wilder and probably Del Gainer will be missing from the Red Sox. AH of these players are either i in the service or eligible. Gardner, j Cady, Balker. Thomas. Greeg and Kopp, who were all the property of the yox last winter, will spend 1918 j with the Athletics. The Braves lost a pepperbox in Rab bitt Maranville, Rice a catcher, and Schreiber, an infield recruit, are; also in the service. Tyler and Barnes, two seasoned pitchers, have been swept away by player deals, and Art Wilson will don the mask and protector for the Stailingsites. Kelly, Powell and Rheg, of last year's outfield, are com paratively new players to Boston fans. Food for Fans BY GEO. E. PHAIB. (Copyright.) JESS IN BALTIMORE He and Miller May Try to Stage Bis Fight in Maryland. Baltimore, Md., March 27. Jess Willard, world's champion heavy weight fighter, with Col. J. C. Miller., has arrived here. They will stay three or four days. While they came here to dispose of horses left over from Willard's circus, both said they will talk with police officials about the possibility of hold ing the fight between Willard and Fred Fulton, on July 4, in this city. AT TRAINING CAMPS Mineral Wells, Texas, March 27. "Happy" Felsch, of the White Sox, claims to be in world series form to day. It was his homer Tuesday which broke up an exhibition game against the Yannigans at Jacksboro. The champions left today for Houston to begin a series of exhibitions. Los Angeles, Cal., March 27. Sam Crawford, the former slugging De troiter, is a Coast leaguer today. He signed with the Los Angeles club. Rumor had connected "Wahoo Sam" with managerial jobs in the minors. Oakland, Cal., March 27. "Dode" Paskert, of the Chicago Cubs, is their leading run maker to date. Two Singles, a triple and a pass figured in four runs he made against the Vernon Tigers. The Cubs won 10 to 5. The Bruins have four games in this vicinity before heading east. Tuesday Scores. At Mobile, Ala.: R." H. E. Mobile 6 8 2 Cleveland 12 14 2 Batteries: Pennington, Bennett, Friday and Coleman; Wilkinson. Wil liams and Billings, O'Neill. At Montgomery, Ala.: R. H. E. Cincinnati Nationals 8 6 0 Auburn College 3 6 7 Batteries: Eller, Jacobus and and Wingo; Johnson. Wilson. Olinger and Ducote. At Jacksonville, Fla,: R. H. E. Pittsburg Nationals 2 7 1 Philadelphia Americans. 4 7 1 Batteries: Sanders; Steele, Miller and Blackwell; Geary, Gregg, Myers and Perkins, McAvoy. Negro College Team Leader. Galesburg, 111., March 27. "Ziggy" Hamlin, star colored athlete, is the first member of his race ever to cap tain a Knox college team. He will head the baseball team on which he is the leading hitter. Robson Wins Boston Bout. Boston, March 27. 'Tommy" Rob son, of Maiden, won the decision over Augie Ratner, of New York, at the end of a hard fought 12 round boxing bout here. The Question. "What rare I." remarked the rooter, "If .a roan is six feet four. If he wears ho eighteen collar, Weighs a ton or more?" "What care I what town he comes from Kansas City, Montreal? What I reallv want to know is: CAN HIS HIT THAT BALL?" Baseball is- a great educational 'institu tion. It brings to light much important information without which the world would stumble on in helpless ignorance, in spring, for example, when looking over the person nel of a ball club, we learn that Sjtikp. Shoehorn (nickname, .Horaje is an out fielder, bats, throws and eats left-handed, is six feet tallj weighs 1H0 pounds after a shower, was born in Salem. Minn., was educated in the Phoenix Business college, is single, wears an eleven nhoe and sixteen collar, parts his hair on the left side and is good to his folks. Fable. There once was a baseball recruit. In Spring he performed like a beaut. When Fall came around He was still to be found -Dressed up in a major league suit. The White Sox will spend only five days in truiuing camp But if they traveled southward in the old de luxe special it would take them longer than that to re cover. "Fast Children of Peter the Great." That in the wav the headline read. It looked alluring, but we found it to be a delusion and a situ re. It was only a story about the descendants of a trotting horse. The Fatal Hit. i I was a baseball hero ouce when I was but u lad. I made a hit one Summer day that drove the rooters mad. j The rooters all went shrieking mad, the players did the same, j That Summer day I made the hit that busted up the game. We played a gang from Tory Hill, a rude, u ncu 1 tu red t rlbe. Who interspersed the game of ball with wicked jest and gibe. They made a cage of tigers look benevolent a ud tame And it was I who made the hit that busted up the game. A dollar and quartet was the stake we battled for. And It was only natural that we should thirst for gore. Our hears were in the battle and our souls were all aflame. And it whs I who made the hit that busted up the game. It' happened in the seventh; we were just a run ahead. The bases all were occupied and two of us were dead. The rooters all were bowling mad, the players were the same. And it was then 1 made the hit that busted up the game. It was a foul I hit that dey, a dinky little foul. It made the rooters frantic and it made the players howl. It was a sidy sort of clout, a flivver weak wild tame. But it busted Ptisan's window and it busted up th gam. BEL01T K. S. G. BAND Battalion Has a Regular Musical Or ganization Andy Manifold leader. Beloit. Kan., March 27. The 4th battalion of the Kansas state guard at Beloit is to be congratulated on the splendid band which is a part of the organization. .The band is composed of twenty-five crack musicians, for mer members of the famous Mani fold Military band. When the state guard was first enrolled here, Andy Manifold, who is known thruout the west as a band leader, having taken his band years ago to Atchison, To peka, Hutchinson and Washington. D. C, promptly stepped forward and organized the Beloit state guard band, which is already noted as among the best organizations in the country. Chief Musician Manifold is ably supported by Assistant Chief Musician Leonard James. The band is equipped with the regulation guard uniform. The battalion drills draw spectators from many neighboring towns. The fourth battalion of Kansas state guards, with headquarters at Beloit, was reviewed by Governor Capper on a recent visit here. He was enthusi astic in its praise. There are four companies completed at this time, A. B and C being credited to Beloit, and D company to Glen Elder. The battalion is in command of R. M. Anderson, who was elected major. It is perfectly drilled in all movements and is ready for service. The muster roll contains the names of many prominent and substantial citizens, and they take pride and interest in the movement, showing that by their keen and conscientious attention in the movement a great deal can be ac complished by those who are at home backing the war movements so essen tial to the welfare of the country. Major Anderson is one of the most useful and patriotic young men in Be loit. He is a prominent attorney, and was a candidate for congress two years ago. PROF. W00bs7sQVER Washburn Instructor Writes of His Bxncrlcnces in Paris. CA.SCO 11t in. Clyde -2, HARROW Collars FOR SPRING CUactt.Peaborfy IS Co. Inc. Afkrg Prof. H. I. Woods, formerly in charge of the" physics department of Washburn college, and who resigned the. position to enter Y. M. C. A. serv ice, has arrived safely in France, ac cording to a letter received in Topeka by Prof. A. E. Lampen of Washburn. Prof. Woods was in Paris shortly be fore writing the letter and exoeri- J enced all the thrills of looking for an taix raid tnat r&iied to materialize. I' The letter follows: 'I want to write a little note of greet ings and good wishes. I think of the 1 students and you ofteu. "V e had a slow trip across, in not s very good boat bnt were thankful to bind safely, after a s-are. with good reason. I have been in Paris a week, Dle warm weather now and I have been comfortable all the time. 1 am rested and well. "I have my assignment to service with a large camp f our own troops and ex pet to lre Paris in a day or two. "It seems like getting doae to old French times to walk over to Place de la 4'onc,rde Jardin de Tullleries, Place Vendome, Champs Klysees. I am near them We bad au alarm last Sunday night concern ing air raid. I got up. dressed and walked out to Place de la Concorde to see what might happen. I saw many signal lights of French machines an they soared altuve the city. No enemy machine apfreared. "The French are as we weh know a grand people, end it Is flue to be here. "Wit I, best wishes for alt the physics department, I am "Very tru.y. AL L WOODS." Order -y Mnll Delivery Prepaid Order hy Phono Call 3500 Just here a fine lot of the famous "Landsco" hats As you doubtless know, "Landsco" Hats are one of the acknowledged style setters in their class. The demand for these beautiful model Hats is rapidly increasing; and so we were 1 very glad, indeed, to get a fine line of "Landsco" Hats by express this morning in plenty of time for Easter. These are mostly the very popular small and medium sizes in black, sand and gray including a number of very good styles for matrons. $6 to $20 Millinery 3rd Floor PelleUer's. Easter Novelties in the Gift Shop In the ever-interesting Gift Shop you will always find novel ties suitable to the season or the occasion. For instance, for Kas ter there are fa ncy packages of Flower Seeds, Garden Records, etc. ranging 10c to $1.50. Gift Shop 2nd Floor Women's pink bloomers Cut good and full and shirred on elastic at the waist and knees: ideal for present and Summer wear. fine pink batiste 590 of soft pink crepe 98 Snd Floor Pelletler's One of the new ones for Easter Smart and ultra stylish are these plain vamp Pumps with their full Louis heels and their flexible soles: designed especial ly for dress wear, yet very suitable tor the street. of soft black dressy kid thev are priced $6.50 of dark brown Russia calf they are priced $7.00 OXFORDS of the same dressy style with hand-turned soles $6.50 tnd Floor Pelletler's Charge Purchases made Thursday, Friday or Saturday will be posted to April accounts, payable in May. How it is selling! these wonderful sample lines of beautiful Silk Underwear at Vz less Garments of all kinds are in cluded, from the plainest Jersey Vests to the most elaborate Crepe de Chine Gowns and Envelope Chemise r-three big sample lines on sale at just a third less than regular prices: $1.50 Garments $1.00 2.00 Garments 1.17 3.95 Garments 1.97 3.50 Garments 2.3:5 3.05 Garments 2.64 5.00 Garments 3.33 5.50 Garments 3.67 5.95 Garments 3.97 $.50 Garments 4.33 Tljere are Vests, Bloomers, Cami soles, Union Suits, Envelope Chemise and Gowns and Petti coats of Jersey Silk, Wash Satin and Crepe de Chine. Buy enough NOW to last you all Summer it's a certainty there'll be no such bargain as this again, very soon! 2nd Floor Pel letter Ribbons for Easter Here are the very best quality of Hair Bow Ribbons: 5H to Sc inch Taffetas and Moires and a fine line of stripes, plaids and fancies very special values, at per yard -290 and 37 Bows tied free BLACK CIRE RIBBON for hat trimmings and CSros Grains in all the popular widths 15c to toe yd. EASTER NOVELTIES: such as Lingerie Bows. Sachets, Vanities, Bass, etc. from 25c, up. Main Floor Pelletier's Pullman carriages a sale When it comes to comfort, serv ice and style, there's no baby bug gy quite like a "Heywood Pull man" and here is the chance to buy one for quite a little less than the regular price: $22.50 Pullman S1B.00 25.00 Pullmans 21. SO 27.SO Pullmans 23.r0 30.00 Pullmans 25.50 32.50 Pullmans 27..10 35.00 Pullmans 29 75 37.50 Pullmans 31.73 40.00 Pullmans 33.75 42.50 Pullmans 35.00 All styles and finishes are includ ed: white, cream, old ivory, shel lac finishes, upholstered with corduroy and finished with reed tops and storm curtains. $3.75 Sulkeys $2.95 Black enameled steel Sulkeys with reversible backs, with imita tion leather upholstering, H-inrh rubber tires and bow top covered with imitation leather: very srood looking and very serviceable regular 13.75 Sulkeys on O QC special sale sa7) Other Sulkeys $7.76 to $15.00 4th Floor Pelletler's A delayed shipment of women's "o $6 Shoes (Jt-j on sale Thursday 3- Men's up to $8.00 Shoes $4.48 A sample line of the famous Hamilton-Brown "American Gen tlemen' Shoes; all styles and all kinds of leather; sizes 7 and IVk a sample line of men's regular $6.00. $7.00 and $8.00 J yf f Shoes on sale Thursday fr CV Children's Scuffers and Play Shoes Children's button style Scuffer and Play Shoes; of gunmetal with broad toes, heavy, flexible soles and low heels; smooth, inside and strong outside: sizes 5 to 8 $1 M5 sizes 8 to 12 2.35 sizes 12 to 2 2.65 Two stunning new Spring styles, two weeks late in arriving and now we're going to make short w-ork of them. For Easter, for Spring, for Summer They are high top lace Boots; of brown kid, and black vamps with gray tops and Louis heels. They're slight "irregulars." but the im perfections are very slight us ually a scar or a little spot that you can.easily fix up. Plenty of all sizes from 3 to 8, to begin with. Ordinarily such Shoes aa these sell for $5.00 and $6.00 buy them in the Basement A f Thursday for jitd Girls' white tops Girls' button Shoes: patent vamps, white poplin tops, white soles and heels Just the thing- for Easter and Spring wear: sizes 9 to 1 2 sizes 12 to 2 .$2.5 3.00 Boys' $3.50 shoes $2.35 Boys' lace and button style Shoes of very superior quality gunmetal with full vamps, broad toes and good, serviceable soles; sizes 12 to 6V4 boys op to l.i. oO Shoes on special sale Thursday 2.35 Pelletler". Bara-aln Raw nt A (imt More wlthla a Mar. Prevalent L. M. Penwell Pbone 775. Ser'y-Tress. K.M. Johnson Phoo- 3fil THE L M. PENWELL CXDERTAH1XO CO. Sas-oOB-SU ttaiaxy Street rbgu las i FRANK R- CON WELL Funeral Director lM EAST STH ST. 1 ZS7. Bes. Phosn asa-B aervles j

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TkK TQPEHfA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAFCH 27, 1918 tSirpeka tatf .Htntmal An Independent Newspaper f BY HUNK P. MACUSSNAX. Entered as secoad-clasa Matter. -VOLUME XI .No. 74 OFFICIAL, STATE PAPER. OFFICIAL. PAPBIl CITY OFTOPEKA. subscription Rate. ;-Py mall in a.lvan.-e. one yea; r..... .4 :Py mail In a.lvan.-e. six mo'"n"-1-;- J'.X nv mall in ainiiu.-c. i...tt t -ISy inail In adranee. one montu M J h Carrier. I lldae week r-o weeka for a qrarter....--' cents j;Fonr weeks T Telephone XXO. Ka.tern Offices: ,'aul Work 'ep.-ma; .Kresce buiMing. Detroit. !MemlrAn-iaYeI rress An,e.r'c"il; 'sSr Pnbl.al.ers- Association. A.it litireau of ClreMlatlon. wBitToTiiTl! ASSOCIATED PRESS. The ssnrinte,l f ress is "Clusively en- ilptai news .mbllsl.e.l berem. fWHATKVER TOB WANT TO EJiOW." The Toneka srrre Journal Information mnreln T.Tw..hI..rton "'5S free of chnrjrf. acinraie anl antbom aiije various fe.ler.1 .BOvernmeiU ..enartnient. and the crent library of ..Tut '.taufp for l""'cle.rlV "he raTio;0e1,.Ulr.,e"p"oin.y and a,- TIIB TOPKKA KTATB JOrilNAL. IX- I Washington. I. t- I N. B.-lnqlrer. ft.',' .?.p TMr.., ,ifrr.nR Walton. II Along with Secretary McAdoo's an !uncement of the third liberty loan kernes the gratifying information that Expenditures are falling behind the es tiimates. The amount of the new bond ftesue is fixed at a minimum of J3.000. 800 000. which is below what was gen erally expected. The proposed rate -of 4 25 also is less than the public Had been led to look for. The loan probably will be oversubscribed as the others have been, altho as an invest "ment it does not measure up with the iar savings certificates. It may not prove so popular with the general -public as have previous loans owing to this and to the further fact that the -bonds will not be subject to conversion "Into future issues. But the banks can -easily absorb the entire issue and probably will take the bulk of it. Holders of the liberty 4's probably w ill ijiot be inclined to convert them into "the new bonds, even at the increased rate of interest, for the reason that they would thereby be deprived of the risht of conversion into future issues which might bear a still higher rate. These conclusions of course are based on investment as a business proposi--tion. If it become necessary to appeal TO the patriotism of the people they -Twill take the bonds, interest or no In terest. "2" Throwing shells into Paris from a distance of seventy-six miles makes -Jules Verne's story of "A Voyage to the Moon" appear much more plaus ible than it has hitherto done. His Gream of an undersea boat has come Ctxue and it may be that justification of the other story is on the way. r" About the only articles that have "not advanced in price since the out break of the war are believed to be poker chips. Poker players say a doi lar goes as far in the game as ever -it did. vhen In the course of martial events, says "Life," paraphrasing the -declaration of Independence, it be comes necessary for the administra :tion to issue another liberty loan, and to solicit from Americans that quan tum of financial aid which the love t country and humanity may prompt lhcm to offer, a decent appreciation of "the greater sacrifices that others are -making requires that everybody re .Tspond without hesitation, stint, com plaint or exaggerated idea of his or her nobility in so doing. .The Huns are not making as rapid time In their Journey to Paris as they did in 1914. Bristow apparently intends to make his campaign for election to the sen ate on a platform of opposition to the government. Wisconsin will not be permitted to have a monopoly on that sort of thing. i The taking over of butch shipping for the use of the allies has provoked rage at Berlin, where the Netherlands government was threatened with re prisals if it permitted its ships to be thus made use of. It is difficult to see. however, how the Dutch could prevent the seizure of their ships if the allies insisted upon taking them. The ships are now in allied ports and re subject to allied power. The cab inet at The Hague may protest, but that is all. They will be as powerless to' resist effectively as the Rumanian government was to resist the humil iating terms of peace which the Ger mans forced upon it. The point of view at Berlin evidently is that any thing done in the name of kultur is right, while whatever the opponents of Germany may attempt is wrong. Women are to be taken on as rurau route mail carriers all over the country as a war emergency measure. The first examination to which women will be eligible will take place on April 27, in all sections where there are vacancies and where men carriers are unobtain able. This Is the first time since 1911 that women have been eligible for such posts, except in rare cases as sub stitutes. Previous to that time the service was opened to them for a short time, but while their work was satis- factory, climatic conditions n the northwest were such as to make it in- BiivtMhla f nca ihm cpnprallv. and tho privilege of examination was nied them. There are now in tne rural Mntd orvll'l, 900 WOmBf! CH T riers, hold-overs from those early ex- j amlnations. According to tne iourcn assistant postmaster general, who has charge of rural routes, their services have been wholly satisfactory. THE SESSIONS APPOINTMENT. In the appointment of Charles Ses sions to the head of the public util ities commission to succeed Joseph L. Brlstow, resigned, the state of Kan sas is a distinct gainer, while the city of Topeka probably loses one candi date for the governorship. Mr. Ses sions may be confidently expected to administer his office In the interests of the public rather than that of per sonal politics, as has been the case too often in the past. WHY DO WE WAIT? A Tokio dispatch states that the Germans are trying to organize two army corps of German war prisoners in Russia, one of which is being se cretly organized at Irkutsk, in Stberia; and that two cavalry corps also are being formed there. London reports that German offi cers have been invited to organize an army in Ukraine. With Russia In a state of hopeless ness so far as its efficacy on the side of the nations opposing Prussianism is concerned In fact, in such a state of abject prostration at the feet of the Hun that it can be considered by the allies as nothing less than a foe Japan Is equipped, mobilized, ready and eager to intervene and throw its great strength against the common enemy thru Siberia. It is only pausing thru the courtesy of nations, waiting for the approval of Its proposed course by the countries with which it is as sociated in the war against the Teu tons, which approval, for some reason which the public does not understand, has thus far been withheld. And while we procrastinate and Japan waits, the Hun is recruiting additional and tremendous strength in the territory in which the Japanese first would strike! And while we hesitate for reasons not known to the lay citizen, history is repeating itself In Ukraine, whose people, on their knees, are "inviting" Germany to organize an army there, precisely as did Turkey and Bulgaria in the earlier stages of the war! The policy of striking, one at a time, instead of all together, which has been pursued with disastrous re sults by the allies since the beginning of the war, is being continued. Are we jealous of Japan or afraid of her? Is it possible that any nation fears that some one of her allies will win the war? Delays are expensive both in blood and money. Why not un leash the Japanese dogs of war? AX OTHER GHOST LAID. Everybody remembers the predic tions that have made their appear ance from time to time since the out break of the war that soon there would be no woolen clothes and no dyes with which to color them if we could get them. The propaganda doubtless was of considerable service to clothing merchants in the way of increased sales and increased prices. A clothing advertisement recently appearing in the Louisville Courier Journal includes the following: "We guarantee that our clothes will be all wool that the dyes will be fast and lasting." Whereupon the C. J. proceeds to comment as fol lows: Here's a certain amount of conso lation for the many who were in formed a couple of years ago that in the near future there would be no more all-wool clothing and that dyes inasmuch as the world's supply was, largely, made in Germany would cease to be anything more than the equivalent of writing fluid or poke berry juice. Pictures, depressing to the major ity, positively alarming to the "dressy" mpn and to the woman who holds that while clothes do not make the man, they do make the woman, were drawn with a free hand. It was not exactly pleasing to anyone, even the slug of a fellow who does not re new .his wardrobe until chidden by his wife, to feel that next year's spring suit, might, under the first rain, de posit Its dyes in one's socks, or dis tribute them upon the sidewalk, like the blood of a man struck with a stiletto in a street melee. It was unnerving to look forward to wearing cotton clothing in winter and shivering before winter's untempered blasts. It is reassuring, decidedly, to hear that the man who fancies lav ender trousers, or likes the checker board or stick-candy style, may count upon being able to show to an admir ing world, after the first rain, a pair of legs draped in accordance with his whimsy. That the kaiser cannot deprive us of our brave outward seeming is a source of genuine and general satis faction. Hoch the American dye mas ters. May their tribe, and their trade, increase. Twenty years ago the czar of Russia proposed that all nations should cut down their standing armies, but they could not do it because Germany re fused. Later Great Britain offered tc join with Germany and cut down their navies, but the kaiser would not even talk about it. Germany was prepar ing for something like this war. About every hundred years some nation of Europe starts c;ut to conquer the oth ers and rule the world. First it was Spain, which In America owned every thing from California to Patagonia. Then, it Was France and Napoleon, who took Louisiana and the great country west of the Mississippi awav from Spain. Now the kaiser is trying to do that in which the others failed. Probably he already sees that he car. not succeed. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU FREDERIC J. HASK1N, Director, Washington, D. C WOLVES AND WAR. Washington. D. C, March 24. "If the coyotes should no longer sing to the moon on the western prairies, if the other predatory animals should disappear, God knows what calamity would overtake those who are sup posed to destroy them' In these words a senator (Thomas of Colorado), attacked the appropria- I tion which the Biological survey is asking for its work of destroying the wolves, coyotes and mountain lions of the western stock ranges. The sen ator's point was that in order to keep their jabs the hunters will be careful not to kill all of the coyotes, and so destroy their source of revenue. The scientists of the Biological Survey offer a mass of facts in ref utation of this statement. Among other things, they point out the start ling fact that predatory animals in this country are destroying not only actually, but relatively more livestock today than forty years ago. While the elk and buffalo and redskin have gone down before the smooth advance of civilization, the wolf and coyote and mountain lion have multiplied, fattening on the herds "of the white men. The total damage annually in flicted by these animals is estimated at about $30,000,000. This amount of meat would go a long way towara making up the war time shortages. Dr. A. K. Fisher, who has charge of the work for the Biological Survey, has built up an organization contain ing three hundred hunters operating in fifteen states. He claims that he has saved many dollars for every dol lar spent: that in five years, if his appropriations are adequate, he will practically exterminate the wolves and reduce the coyotes to the point where they are not a serious menace to industry. The most convincing proof of his claims consist of thu of fers of co-operation, requests for as sistance and expressions of gratitude whic are coming to the Biological Survey from stockmen of the west. The sheep men of the San Luis Valley in Colorado, for example, lose every year about ten per cent of their lambs to wolves and coyotes. They earnest ly request that the Biological Survey come to their rescue, and raised five thousand dollars to help in the workv which is already showing its effect in reduced losses. In one region of northwest Colorado the stock raisers have practically sur rendered the range to one band of fif teen wolves. The wolf is the wild ani mal that comes nearest to defying civ ilization. He not only survives, but survives at the expense or man. l ne stockmen estimate that each wolf alive in the west costs a thousand dol lars a year in livestock. One wolf in New Mexico,, "Old Two-toes," killed three thousand dollars worth of live stock before he was taken ty a gov ernment trapper. Another wolf killed one hundred and twenty-five head of livestock between January 1 and Oc tober 31 of last year. A few years ago there were esti mated to be five hundred wolves in the state of New Mexico. This was no vague estimate, by count, for the ranchmen know only too well every wolf on their ranges. It cost the state not less than half a million dollars to suport this wolf population. Today, as a result of the government meth ods of extermination, there are less than fifty wolves left in the state. When the government began its work in New Mexico, there was a percepti ble chill in the air toward the federal men. To day the whole state is com ing forward with offers of co-operation and with funds. The attitude of the stockmen toward the federal work is typified in resolu tions adopted by the American Live stock association at its convention at Salt Lake City last January, in which it called upon congress to appropriate five hundred thousand dollars for the work, and the states to put up an equal amount. In many of the wilder sections of the West the coyotes are fairly get ting the best of the sheep men, and are cutting down profits just at a time when the price of wool would other wise make profits high. For example a letter to the Biological Survey from the Western Slope Wool Growers as sociation in Colorado states that in a part of one country the coyotes are taking an average of twenty-five head of sheep a day from the herds. The sheep herders are all armed and vigi lant, but the coyotes, hanging on the flanks of the herds, cannot be pre vented from taking, about as much mutton as they want. The secretary of the Utah Wool Growers' associa tion, the membership of which covers that state and adjacent portions of Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada, esti mated that the stockmen of his or ganization lose annually 500,000 sheep and 4.000,000 pounds of wool thru the wolves and coyotes. Another estimate made by "a representative of the stock men gave the Biological Survey credit for saving a million dollars' worth of livestock by one year of work in one state. F These facts are given in the belief that the average citizen has little conception of the amount of damage done in th west by wild animals. He thinks ot 'hp dangerous carnivora as extinct or nearly so. As a matter of fact, they. have increased, while the gam- animals upon which they for merly fed have reduced in numbers, so that the wolves, coyotes and moun tain lions are now just as much para sites apon our civilization as are the rats and mice which raid our grana ries an(". pantries to the tune of fifty million dollars a year. It is the numbers of the coyote tha make him dangerous. His aver age toll is only about fifty dollars a year. But he exists in hundreds of thousands where the aolf exists in hundreds. The mountain lion is less of a pest only because he sticks to the moun tains He kills both cattle and horses, and is especially fond of colts. A go'-ernment hunter following the track of a mountain lion in the snow, found nine beef cattle which the big cat had killed. In the mountains of tl--! southwest, lions are extremely numerous, yet seldom is one either seen or killed except by government t hunters. To hunt lions one must I &ve a good pack of dogs, first class horsps and unlimited darina- as a rider. Few ranchmen go in for the sport. The fame of the biological survey is fast spreading in the west and it re reives numerous letters asking for the aid of government trappers in keep ing the wolf from the range. One woman necr Montrose. Colorado, de mands immediate help because the coycte3 have killed twenty chickens and over fifty turkeys for her. An otho ranehman writes in ungram matical but vehement English that tha wolves are killing -his stock in his own pasture. "Say for God's sake como and get these wolves," is his open'ng phrase. The government work is sometimes opposed on the ground that it should be undertaken by the state. This ar gument "has lost most of its torce be cause of the long-standing failure of tha states to do the work. Nearly ?1I of the western states had the boun y system, which led to endless fraud, as only the scalp of the animal had to be presented to claim a reward. It very nearly led to the domestication of the coyot,j, as he was widely bred for his scalp. The bounty hunter sel dom cared tc exterminate the wolves and never did so. The federal work is divided into nine districts, each under an inspec tor, who has no interest but to see that the work is lone. The best meth ods of trapping are taught to the men. They receive salaries varying from $75 to sua per month, and the govern ment gets the peltries. Last year these were sold at auction for $35,000. Questions or the above or any sub ject jpon which the reader desires information, should be addressed the Topel'a S'ate Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director. Washington. D. C, with a 3-cent s'amp enclosed for reply. THE MOMENT BT EOT K. UOCIrOM What we want to know is whether every Saturday will be a "porkless" day in congress. Lust Words of Famous Men. "I don't want Russia in peace, but in pieces." Ludendorff. "Save the pennies and somebody else will take care of the dollars." Oilyfeller. "It's an outrage. I won't pay it." Ult. Consumer. "No." B. M. LaFollette. "Don't cross your legs in the aisle." T. P. Shohts. Clarice Tour letter received. "Bolshevik" is pronounced "bosh-a-veek." with the accent on the "bosh." Conservation experts say it is pos sible to make anything without eggs. But not chickens. The horseless age is surely creeping upon us. Dean -Horace W. Hoskins of the New York university state veterinary college, has advised frugal house wives and people who are banded together in an effort to obtain real food to eat horse meat. It is cheaper and more wholesome than beef, and it tastes so like beef that the diner can't tell the differ ence. According to Dean Hoskins, New York City alone is now eating 10,000 pounds of horse meat per week. There are 2.000.000 horses in the west which are too small for army use. "Eat 'em." advises the professor. AH right, professor. Pass the buck ing broncho. We'll try anything once. 4 A EIIEEO EVEHY AY Brave Deeds of Men In America's lighting Service When the U. S. S. Cassin was torpedoed in October, while on patrol duty in the war zone, the plucky de stroyer and her gallant crew remained in the open with disabled engines on a still hunt for the enemy that had made the attack. Among the men who made this possible was William Joseph Murphy, chief electrician. When the force of the explosion put the radio apparatus out of commission, he stood by his post, repairing and ad justing until communication was re established. Here he worked until this was perfect and his ship began to get her calls answered. Murphy enlisted in the navy at Boston in November, 1911. His wife, Mrs. Mabel Mary Murphy, lives at 387 East Thirty-fifth street. Brooklvn. N. Y. An 80-year-old "eteran of the Civil war. a city employe in Philadelphia, has aakeil that his pay be eut $350 annually and that amount be applied to the salaries of two younger men iu the office who have fam ilies. Everyday Politeness requires that Christmas presents be acknowledged at once, either by note or verbal thanks. Questions Answered by Alicia Hoyt. (Miss Hoyt will answer in this col umn all questions on matters of eti quette addressed to her in care of this paper. If a personal answer is de sired enclose a 3-cent stamp.) MRS. X: The woman to whom you wrote inviting her to visit you has been unpardonably discourteous in failing to reply. A letter should be answered promptly in some manner. If she could not tell you definitely whether or not she could come at the time you fixed, she should have writ ten at once and told you so. Heart and Beauty Problems BT MBS RLltABETH THOMPSON Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a man thirty-five years of age. I would like to have your advice about getting married, as I have no home of my own. I h&ve had to shift for myself for the last twenty years. I am now living with relatives. I would like very much to get married, but no one seems to care for me. There are no girls' I know of my age. I went with one girl my age some time ago, but of late she will not have anything to do with me. Please' advise me what to do. A FRIEND IN NEED. There is as yet no adequate way for lonely young people of the opposite sex to become acquainted. I can only ad vise you to mention to your men friends the fact that you would like to meet a girl and also attend church and tell the minister your problem. EVEMHG STOHY In 4-D. BT MAUN A COWLES.. (Copyright. 1918. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) "Tenant in apartment Four D., Mar bridge Court," whispered vociferously Nathan, the young man who worked the switchboard at Curtis 4V Carter's j real estate offices.' The young man listened to the voice on the telephone, j then turning to the young Mr. Carter. he said: "She wants to ta.k to one of the firm. Kind o' mad. I should say. Want to talk to her. Mr. Carter?" "What's she like?" queried the youngest member of the firm. "Sounds like a cranky old school ma'am. She's awful mad "Oh, well. I might as well talk- to her. I'll kid her a little, and maybe that will keep her quiet." and still turning over the papers on his desk with his right hand, Mr. Carter reached out with his left hand to take the receiver of? its hook on his desk phone while the operator connected him with the tenant of apartment Pour D. "So you're pretty cold. Well, now I didn't catch the name Miss Crosby I certainly am sorry. But you'll have to see Mr. Hoover ab'ut that. Now, you don't think we're keeping that apartment cold just to make you mad. No; honest, there isn't any way we can get more coal. What the theaters get coal enough. Well, that's a good one. All you can do. then, is to go to a show. It's matinee day. Now. really 'I didn't mean to make you angry. But you see every one is kick ing, and it really Isn't our fault. We can't get any more coal and all we can do is to try and keep cheerful about it. What? You bet that it isn't so cold here in our office as it is in your apartment? Well, now, Miss Crosby, I'll have to admit that it is pretty comfortable here. We've got a southern exposure and we're on the ground floor and somehow these office building- people do manage to get the coal. Yes, it is unfair. What? Why, certainly. I'd be glad to see you. Come right along. Yes. just ask for Mr. Carter, Jr., Frank Carter. Gord by, Miss Crosby. I'll see yql soon." He hung the receiver back on the hook and then clapped his hand over the ea with which he had been listening as if to relieve it from ihe effect of the volley fire that had been charged on it thru the phone. "Wow," he said, addressing the telephone operator on the opposite side of the room, beyond the little wooden fence. "Wow, but. she cer tainly is some sour old maid. I thought I'd kid her into good humor, but it was the wrong tack. I wonder if she'll call my bluff and come down and see how warm w are But say, Nathan, try to get the coal commis sioner on the wire again. It's a shame to run the fires so low. Ask them if they can't let me speak to him per sonally. It seems ai; if something cght to be done." A half hou" later young Carter heard a very low but unmistakable whi-tle. It was Nathan's way of in dicating that something worth observ ing was occurring in the office. There ws a note of admiration in the whistle distinctly it was his way of signalling to the other boys in the office and Mr. Carter, who was still young enough to be interested in such a signal even tho he was a mem ber of the firm the proximity of a pretty girl.' Carter looked up from his paper, caught, the direction of Nathan's gaze and then whistled an answering whis tle, very low, but still audible to Nathan. It was a pretty girl and she was approaching the vicinity of Na than Knveloped in a voluminous fur-trimmed rough woolen coat of a dark viole. hue, with her hands en cased in a black muff to match the fur on her coat, with a picturesque black velvet hat, cut on the poke bon net order, that cast much shadow on her face, there was still enough op portunity to see that the girl beneath o much warmth giving clothes was young, animated and pretty. The bewildered Nathan looked up as she approached and to her query that Carter did not hear he nodded to the desk of the youngest member of the firm. Then the violet coat and the delicate aroma of violet sachet that went with it moved toward the little wooden fence that hedged in Mr. barter's desk. "Here I am." said the girl. "I'm the tennant in Four D Marbridge Court. Where do you want me to sit inside the fence or outside?" Carter jumped from his seat" and was so confused that all he could say was: "Inside the fence please take this chair, any chair, any chair. Yes, indeed. You are actually Miss Cros by? How very good of you" "No. I won't take your chair. I'll take this little one." she said, slipping out of her coat and revealing a very neatly fitted plain blue serge dress be neath. She placed the chair precisely half way between the radiator and the window where the light would come over her left shoulder. "There," she said, "I like it just like that. I shall knit and not disturb you at all. Please sit down, Mr. Carter. You can't imag ine what a pleasure it is to be warm." Carter noted a tone of asperity in the girl's voice but he did not feel in the least irritated by it. He tried to swing himself around in his swivel chair so that he could go on with the work before him, but the chair seemed to swing of its own accord around again so that he sat looking at his guest. "So so you took my invitation se riously, did you? I'm glad." He laugh ed with embarrassment and the girl opened two blue eyes wide and round with studied naivete, behind which Carter knew lay much sarcasm. "Why, didn't you mean that you wanted me to come?" she asked. "You first sug gested the theater, but you see, I've been at the theater till I've seen every show in town and every movie in the neighborhood. And I simply must get these army sweaters done," Carter noticed that she had taken a half fin ished khaki sweater from her bag. Even to his inexperienced eyes the knitting seemed wonderfully firm, warm and compact and he noted the gold ends of the knitting needles. "I've called on all my friends. You see I don't know many people in town, and I've shopped till I've bought a trunkful of things I don't need. I've spent hours in church and other hours in the museum and the public libra ries. So your invitation was very wel come. Perhaps if I had always lived in the North I could stand the apartment- But you see this Is my first winter North. I came witty my aunt and now she has gone away for a few weeks and I'm alone. One feels the cold more when one is alone, I think." Then-promising not to disturb Mr. Carter any more- she continued her knitting in silence. From time to time when Mr. Carter felt that her eyes were Intent on her knitting he swung around in his swivel chair and cast a timid glance at the girl. Sometimes he noticed the graceful an kle, at other times the slender capable hands that were so neatly framed in the tight white lace cuffs of her dark sleeves. At other times he noticed the glint of auburn in her hair and then again the long curve of the dark lashes that shaded her blue eyes. He did not know that from beneath those long lashes the blue eyes were per fectly capable of observing his stolen glances tho the graceful fingers went on uninterruptedly with the needles and wool. "Couldn't you give me a job'" Nancy Crosby put this question to Mr. Carter one day after she had been making her visits to his office for the purpose of keeping warm during the course of an entire week. "I am get ting tired of knitting. One can't do that all the time. I could do copying for you and sort over papers perhaps and stick up envelopes and stamps and things." So Mr. Carter secured a little ma hogany desk, had it placed beside his own and there established Nancy Crosby as his volunteer assistant-! They had finally agreed that tke money that she earned as his as-1 sistant should be contributed to the Red Cross. It was in-the afternoon of that day that Mr. Carter dropped in at the Marbridge Court and getting tfie emergency key to apartment Four B from the janitor there let himself into the empty apartment and did a little amateur tinkering on his own account. That morning, thru his incessant ef forts, a goodly supply of coal had been depos.ted in the coal bins of the Marbridge Court. Nancy Crosby continued to work for I him for a week more. He asked her one day whether her apartment was still cold. "Yes." she said, "it really is dreadful. There isn't any steam in the living room radiator, tho the bed room radiators are all "right. But you see I can't stay there in the day time. Isn't it strange, for the other tenants are perfectly comfortable now." "Yes. it is funny," agreei Carter, and began to read a lease on his desk with eagerness. At the end of 'that week Nancy's aunt was expected to return and Nancy had indicated that she would have to give up her job. "I took it just to be spiteful. In fact, I came down to bother you just to make you furious. I thought you were holding off the steam so as to save money and I intended to find out and to make you so tired of see ing me around that you woulo get the coal at any cost. But really I have had a lovely time. Thank you for making it so- pleasant. But now that aunt is coming back I really wish something could be done about that apartment." "I'll go up myself," Carter prom ised. "Maybe something is the mat ter with the living room radiator. I'll have it attended to at once. But but we aren't going to forget each other now, are we? You see, I've been getting terrifically mtoested in you, tho I suppose to you I'rrr an im possible sort of fellow." "Impossible!" echoed Wncy. "You don't suppose I would have fibbed about the radiator if I hadn't wanted an excuse to be "with you. I haven't even noticed whether it was hot or cold." "You haven't." gasped Carter. "And I put the valve out of commission in your living room." DINNER STORIES The war-working wife of the Tommy at the front was very terse with the "noisy" ladv representing some committee or other. "Oh, you needn't worry yourself," she said; "we're both doing our bit. He's bearing arms and I'm baring mine." The small boy sometimes sees straight and sees far, says the Christian Science Monitor. John stood high in his examination, but a girl took the highest mark. His father was indignant. "John, I am surprised to fir.d you hve allowed yourself to be bean i by a mere girl." "Yes, father," said John unblush inbly, "I have; but I can tell you something girls are not so very mere after all." A little Kansas City girl received a nicely engraved invitation to an after noon party the other day, in honor of a playmates Dtrtnday. Delighted at the prospect, she gave the invitation a second reading, and then she sud denly began to cry- "It says from 3 to 5," she explained to her mother, "and I'm six." A Greenwich man tells of a Con necticut farmer who, after having driven a lot of hogs to Greenwich, sold them for precisely what had been of fered him before he left home. "You haven't made much bringing your hogs here," remarked the man "Well, no," replied the agriculturist, dejectedly. "I ain't made no money, but then, you know," his face bright ening, "I had the company of the hogs on the way over." The teacher was giving a talk on coins and they had been thru the en tire range from pennies to double eagles. One little girl was inattentive Her gaze was fixed upon a playful sparrow on the window sill, and she had no thought for coins. Suddenly the teacher placed a half dollar on the pupil's .desk and de manded: "What's that;" "Heads," came the instantaneous answer. A small boy startled his Sunday school teacher by suddenly announc ing, with great importance, what he considered a piece of news. "The dfcvil is dead," he .stated. "My goodness gracious!" exclaimed the pretty teacher. "Where did you hear that?" "My father said so," declared the lad. "Yesterday we were walking along the street and a funeral went by and my father said: 'Poor devil, he's dead at last.'" An organisation b.-a been formed in Pittsburg to combine rhnrrhea in small comtmiDities and thus put them on a pay ing basis. The Britisb war office has forbidaea toe part-base or sale of boots over eigbt ilx-hes hifrh, iu the interest of leather conservation. BT NIB.8AB. Tho White House. The accepted way of getting a look at the White House nowadays is to peer thru the bars of a tall iron fence, while a suspicious policeman swing ing &club watches from one side of the fence and a soldier with fixed bayonet supervises from the other. Few people look long at the White House in these stirring times. It makes one feel too much like a Ger man spy. Gone are the days when the sweep ing drive that leads thru the grounds and directly past the sacred portals was a public thoroughfare. Vanished is the epoch when the state depart ment clerk would share his lunch with the White House squirrel on the lawn, a touching picture of Arcadian amity. Getting into the White House grounds today is three degrees more iMffiiit than vcttlnip tn Tr-lin vin th. western front. A little white sentry box has been erected at each of the big gates, j wherein a policeman fraternizes with an oil stove, coming forth to explain to visitors from the hills of Virginia that the president is only receiving callers by appointment this week. A complete telephone system has been installed connecting each of the gates with a central box in the White House itself. Besides the visible policeman at the gates, there are numerous others unostentatiously stationed In the shrubbery about the grounds. The total number is hard to believe, for one who has seen the sleepy, deserted appearance of the lawns; but it is well over a hundred. Outside the gates, on the broad pave ment, sentries with fixed bayonets pace endlessly up and down. When the walks are crowded at the rush hours, their figures are lost to view, and only the twinkling naked steel is visible, shuttling back and forth above the sea of heads. These sentries have the hardest job in the United States not in guarding the president, but in saluting the innumerable officers who pass. There are more officers to the square yard in Washington today than in any other part of the whole war ridden world. The war, state and navy building, next door to the White House, disgorges them by the thou sand at noon and night. The unfor tunate sentries have to go thru the rattling exercise of "Present Arms" for every one from a second lieuten ant up to the chief of staff. Guard ing the White House is great exercise for the arms and back. EOOSEEOLD HURTS Things Worth Knowing. When Sending Magazines to the Boys in Camji Before sending maga zine tie the back securely several places with stout cord; it is more like ly to reach its destination in good condition and will bear more handling after its arrival. It is very disappoint ing to be reading an interesting arti cle only to find the last page missing. Also repair any slightly torn pages with small strips of adhesive tape. The boys will appreciate these kind- n esses. When Making Pumpkin Pies put milk and pumpkin on stove, thicken with cornstarch and fill your baked crusts: saves eggaand just as good. To Make Good Wearable Linoleum Paint an old substantial carpet (preferably rag) two or more coats of floor paint. -Will last indefinitely If repainted every two or tnree years. If painted on the floor it will stick and cannot be moved. To Bleach Clothes Saturate gar ment with coal oil, roll up and allow to lie over night. Put in cold rain water with two tablespoons powdered borax and naptha soap: boil thoroly. To Bleach Woolens Soak over night in the proportion of two table spoons peroxide and one of borax to one gallon of rain water, having water warm. Wash as usual in warm soap suds. The 'Dame. Rice Dumplings-r-One pound ham burger, one egg, one cup cooked rice, one onion chopped fine. Mix and form into balls; drop into boiling salt water and cook one hour. Lemon Pie One cup sugar, grated rind and juice of one lemon, two tablespoons orange juice, two table spoons cornstarch, small lump butter, yolk of one egg, a little salt, one and one-quarter cups boiling water. Boil until a custard; let cool while making and baking pie crust. Make meringue of white of one egg beaten stiff with one-half teaspoon baking powder and one teaspoon sugar; beat well. Bake unti meringue is golden brown. GLOBE SUGMTS From the Atchison Globe. Don't drown your sorrows: swim out. The war is sprouting a new crop of politicians. The world is all right: it's the peo ple who make trouble. Your mother's greatest fault is that she will not cast you off in spite of your many great faults. If the business men of the different nations could get together they would settle this war a lot more satisfac torily than the diplomats will settle it. Some of tho most bull-headed par tisans we know are men who claim to be independent in their political views. Usually it is the daughters in the family who look out for a soft place to light when they marry, but in an Atchison family of boys every last one of them has married a girl with a well-to-do father, and lives with -her folks. Among the girls it used to be an un pardonable sin to break an engage ment with a girl friend, snub a girl friend, or in any way crowd a girl out to 'make an engagement with a boy. This rule was observed in Atchi son many years ago. and last evening two or three gray headed, stout old ladies were discussing a true-blue girl ef long ago, and said: "It did not get her anything; she's an old maid now." Local Mention. Telephone messages informed of ficers that some woman in a man's clothes was walking the streets near Tenth street and Kansas avenue this morning. While admitting a resemb lance, officers denied the charge of the residents in the neighborhood. The woman stated that her name was Anne Anderson, and that she-had at one time been in the asylum. She is living with a sister at 910 North Madison street, where she was taken by officers. She obtained work near Tenth and Topeka avenues, she told them, and upon putting in an appear ance was told she was not wanted and started out to find a job at some other place. LACK GOV'T UNITY Sen: Jones Bitterly Denounces Tangled War Agencies. "Comfort to Enemy" Argument Branded as Coward's Refuge. Washington,- March 27. Failure of government agencies to co-operate in the prosecution of the war was laid to President Wilson by Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, in a speech in the senate today in which he charged that the president had shown no disposition to seek the ad vice of congress an the great problems confronting the nation. "The president ought to co-ordinate hlmulf o it i v. i j i v. wc n.-.-iiti uvs n ii i, sooner will governmental agencies be most effective," said Senator Jones. "Members of congress are ready and anxious to co-operate fully with the executive and the president should not onlv a.'uli.iimn t. i. ,k.i. 1 l 111C11 UUUUMTI "IS adv'ce upon the great problems traironi nim Dut ne does not do it. I do not say this in any captious smrit Tt la A Ulllicinrill c IIILL, a most lamentable fact known to all im ivgreuea oy ail. Senator Jones asserted that If the president and congress co-operated as they should a feeling of patriotic unity thruout the country that I fear is now lacking but which ought to exist, would be created." In directing his attention to profit eering, Senator Jones declared that it Wff-i evervhere and the "nation's needs is its common prey." "The fight for gain is so fierce that it seems universal," he continued. Public Don't Know Facts. "U ,a confined to no class or condi tion: Why is that? It is not because we are hot natrinttn m-- me,K? reahTC what we must do to win this war. The people do not k"ow real facts. They will not th!.ir ,race for in Profit till they do know the urgent need for sacrifice and self denial ti ,,H.i,0.tne Amer'c People be ing told the facts, the Washington sen ator said they were being given mis leading statements. "Notning must be said that will aid and comfort the nas met every suggestion of lack of progress heretofore. The time has come to stop that cry. It is the refuge of the coward and the craven or. the shield of the enemy's friend. No greater aid can be given Germany in this dark hour than to lull our pec pie into a false security." Senator ojnes also took President Wilson to task for permitting the con tinued use of grain and foodstuffs in the manufacture of wine and beer, and the use of transportation facilities for the shipment for beer and wines to the detriment of the movement oi food stuffs. WANT HIM T0STAY? Congregation Will neconsidcr Doctor Henderson's Resignation Tonajrht. A meeting to consider matters rela tive U the resignation offered in January by Dr. Arthur S. Henderson, pastor of the First Congregational church, will be held at the church tonight, members of the congregation said today. A woman member of the church, 'phoning in a news notice of the meet ing, said it would be held at 8 o'clock, and reluctantly said Doctor Hender son had been asked to resign. Doctor Henderson refusde to discuss the no tice other than to say that he offered his resignation last January. "There is no requirement for any such notice," Doctor Henderson said. RENTS NEW QUARTERS Santa Fe Gets Additional Room for Its Storehouse Force. The extra storehouse force of the A. T. S. F. has voerflowed to Kirk patrick hall, over the Chamber of Commerce, according to a sattement by W. A. Neiswanger at the Cham ber of Commerce this noon. The deal was closed this morning for the rental of the hall to the Santa Fe thru Neiswanger Son Real Estate agency. The overflow came as a result of the congested conditions at the shops under the high pressure of war ef fort. The room will be occupied im mediately. Comment on TJ. S. Entry. Amsterdam, March 27. The part reported to have been played by American troops in the attempted re lief of the British flank near La Fere is referred to briefly by most of the German, war correspondents, but so far no mention has been made of the presence of Americans among the prisoners.

The HOUSEHOLD Edited by Anna Rittenhouse A Lesson From Switzerland. One-fifth of a pound of butter a month two and two-fifths pounds of butter a year that is the ration per person that was in effect in Switzer land when the last information on the situation wm received from that coun try. Those of us who can recall in the good old ante bellum days break-' fasting sumptuously on Swiss rolls and butter that fairly smelled with the sweetness of clover and fresh fields perhaps a rosy apple, coffee and some honey besides cannot help feeling gloomy at this Information. Of course, they have other foods in Switzerland that in a measure make up for this lack of butter, but there is no denying the fact that they are on a starvation ration as far as fats are concerned. Of sugar they have but one and one half pounds per person a month and the bread ration is likewise appalling for a country where the people have always fared simply and depended largly -on such things as bread and butter and dairy products for their subsistence. What a pleasure it would be to us If we could feel that every pat of butter we abstained from might go straight to Switzerland Switzerland where even when we were mere tourists we received such courteous hospitality or to France or Belgium or some where else where it is so greatly need ed.! There Is danger, of course, in nn- going too far in our abstinence. If we give ourselves too little fats, especially in cold weather when we need more heat-producing foods, we are not acta ally doing any good at all. We are actually doing harm, especially If w are giving all or part time to some uwi u i wurii PH.IU or voluntary In the community, much more so U we are mothers and housewives.

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WOOD, I Vogue Button Shop i HUNS UNWELCOME Ukrainia Rada Asks Germans Please To Go Home. Troops' Advance Arouses Peo ple Against the Gov't. PEASANTS KILL 4D GERMANS Attack Force Requisitioning Russian Bread Supplies. Kaiser's Brother With Olive Branch Gets Cold Reception. Hemstitching Pinking Picot-Edge Cloth-covered Buttons 72S Mills Bldg. Phone 2527 Mail orders promptly filled Send for price list (By the Associated Press.) Moscow. March 25. According to an unconfirmed report the Ukrainian bourgeois rada (which was respon sible for the peace treaty with Russia and is opposed by the Bolsheviki rada) has officially requested Ger many to stop the advance of her troops in Ukraine, as it tended to shake the confidence of the popula tion in the government. Germany is said to have replied she was invited to restore order and could not leave until this was accomplished. Colonel Mouravieff has resigned as command er of the Bolsheviki troops in Ukraine and is now in Moscow. He has been succeeded by an officer named Egorof. The Austro-German forces advanc ing in Ukraine are moving from both the northwest and southwest against Kharkov, a transportation center, the capture of which would isolate the south of Russia from the north. The Austrians have occupied Znamenka, about 150 miles southwest of Khar kov and Konotop, an equal distance northwest of that city. Determined to Wipe Out Bolsheviki.' A dispatch from Pvinsk announces that German officers at a conference presided over by Field Marshal von Hindenburg, reached a decision to continue the operations in Ukraine un til the power of the Bolsheviki there had been eliminated. Dispatches from many points in Uk raine indicate that the advance of Austro-German troops and the general confiscation of foodstuffs Is arousing great antagonism, which is not con fined to the Bolsheviki, but is being manifested even among those who en couraged the German occupation. M. Kliazaroff, commissioner of. rail ways has resigned. Admiral Razvozow, commander of the Baltic fleet, has been dismissed because of refusal to obey commands' of the workmen's and soldiers' depu ties. Kaiser's Brother Visits Russia. Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German emperor and one of bis sons, have arrived at Reval, Ksthonia. They were greeted heartily by the German population but the Esthon tans refused to participate in the re ception. The visit is attributed to a desire to create pro-German- feeling in the Baltic provinces. The Germans are busy collecting and exporting breadstuffs from the Pskov district northeast of Dvinsk. At Percborskaya near Pskov, forty members of German detachments requisitioning bread were killed by the peasants. Bridges were destroyed by the peasants who also harassed the Germans by carrying away the bread and destroying carts and wagons. The Germans tricked many of the peasants into Psvok by I announcing they had an abundance of bread and sugar which would be -sold cheaply. The Germans seized the carts and horses of the peasants but sold no food. Trotatky Heads War Council. A Bolsheviki supreme war council has been formed to take charge of army organization. Trotzky has been appointed chairman of the council. Agents are being sent from Moscow into all the provinces to organize the peasants to supplement the efforts of the city workmen In opposing the Ger mans. Volunteers will be called for after which local committees will pre pare lists of men refusing to volun teer and will post them publicly. To all shirkers will be denied the right to participate in public affairs. "N0t countingTost" Marshal Haig Assures Wilson of Fight IntU Victory. Washington, March 27. Field Mar shal Haig"s reply to President Wil son's cablegram was received today at the White House. "Your message of generous appre ciation of the steadfastness and valor of our soldiers in the great battle now raging has greatly touched us all," cabled the marshal., "Please accept our heartfelt thanks.' One and all be lieve in the justice of our cause and are determined to fight on without counting the cost until the freedom of mankind, is safe." Helps teeth. breath. appetite. digestion. "Give it to me, please, Grand- daddy.1 "Why Bobby, if you wait a bit for it you'll have it to enjoy longer!" "Poo-poo! That's no argument with WREGLEY5 'cause the flavor lasts, anyway I After every meal WILL MEET HERE Officers of Kansas State Guards To Hold Conference. Huffman Thinks Much Good Will Come From Meeting. North Side News Items for this column may be left at Petro'a Drug Store or phoned 3331 after 2 p. m.; other aours phone j&3tt. The Forbes seed house, at 115 West Laurent, was broken into last night. Nothing was taken by the intruder, so far as could be discovered. Entrance was made thru the basement and an exit thru the front door, which the vis itor unlocked. No attempt was made to open the cash register. The person may have, been frightened away by the night watchman, who turned in an alarm on discovering that the store had been entered. Deputy Sheriff Holman came over- and made an in-' vestigation which will probably lead to arrests. :;J(7 Claude Frain, city passenger agent for the Union Pacific, ,waa instructed last, sight thru a telegram from 4- .O. Goodsell, assistant general passenger agent at Kansas City, to discontinue the solicitation of passenger traffic-at once. a Notes and Personals. Miss Helen Rugger is sick at her home. 1231 Madison street. Cliff Priddy and Park Goodno bf Kiro district were doing business en the North side yesterday. W. G. Salyer and family of Alva. Okla., have come to North Topeka to make tneir home and will live at 1304 Kansas avenue. Mr. Salyer will be In the commission business with his brother, B. A. Salyer, at 1008 Kansas avenue. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Henderson of 604 Van Buren street will leave this evening for a month's Vacation in Duqueen, Ark William Boast of 909 Jackson street has gone to Kansas City to be gone two weeks. S. E. McFarland, optician, 915 North Kansas ftvenue. Adv. Miss Annabelle Brownell is sick at her home, 314 East Laurent street, threatened with pneumonia. Corp. W. D. Van Ness of 130 field artillery. Battery B, statiened at Camp Doniphan, arrived this morning for a visit to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Van Ness of 1709 Kansas avenue. Mr. and Mrs Van Ness will hold open house Thursday evening in honor of their son, and all his friends, old and young, are invited to meet him. C. C. Leonard, a resident of Padeu, Okla., died at the home of one of his daughters on March 2 0. Mr. Leonard was a pioneer Kansan, having come to Topeka in 1855. He lived in To peka until the opening of Oklahoma, when he went there and had since then made that place his home. He was a Civil war veteran and be longed to the Eighth Kansas. Mr. Leonard was 87 years old at the time of his death and is survived by six children, five daughters and one son. Mrs. Leonard, three sons and one daughter have been dead for some time. A daughter. Mrs. Adell More land, lives at 1125 Kansas avenue. The other children live in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. King entertained last night at their home, 1226 Jack son street, in Honor of "Mr. King's son. Sergt. Ernest King, 139 in fantry, headquarters company, sta tioned at Camp Doniphan, who is here on furlo. The evening was spent informally with games and music and delicious refreshments were served. Those present were: The Rev; and Mrs. J. P. Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Suit, Mrs. Carver.. Mrs. C. Johnson. Mrs. Marie Fisher, Mr. Peter Riach, Misses Jessie Riach. Irene Bailey, Evelyn Yardley, Nellie Ward, Marie Johnston, Leona Gordon, Gladys Cooper, Garnet Cooper. Dema Wil liams. Irene Bachelor. Hazel Camp bell. Fay Campbell, Thelma Johnston, Olive Fisher. Isadell Waychoff, Helen Brideson, Helen Sherburne. Sergt. Ernest King. Messrs. Roland Gordon. Joseph Hicks. Claude Waychoff. Jesse Hicks, Clarence Suit, Charles Wallace. Glen Brideson, Clarence Brideson and Leon King The Rev. J. E. Scheer and Mrs. Scheer returned vesterday afternoon from Pittsburg, where they have been attending the Methodist conference. Mr. Scheer" new charge, will be at Rosedale. Kansas City, and he will preach his first sermon there Sunday. The familv will not move to their new home until next week. The Eer. E. H. Paddleford of Waterville. Kan., will be the new pastor at the Kansas, Avenue Methodist church. Friends of Tom Martin. 1 006 Qoincv street, wilf be glad to know that his condition is somewhat imnroved. Mr. Martin was taken to 8t. Francis hos pital Sunday, hnving suffered an in terna! rupture Thursday, while riding a bucking broncho. Officers of Kansas state guard units are to be called to Topelca some time in April for a one or two-day confer ence concerning local defense plans. Announcement of the plan for a con ference of guard officers was made to day by Chailes S. Huffman, adjutant general: The conference will be by far the most important war meeting held in Kansas so far as local industrial in terests of the state are concerned. Several hundred officers from the guard organizations in the state, are expected to attend the meeting. -A general program for the summer's ac tivities in meeting problems in Indus trial centers, as well as in the wheat growing districts will be worked out. Definite dates for the conference will be determined soon. General Huff man, however, has practically decided to call the meeting for some time in April. More than 1 50 guard organizations in Kansas will be affected by the con ference. More than 15.000 men are identified with the various units, and it is probable that some definite, posi tive policy tor handling guard work and distributing territorial responsi bilities will be worked out. A number of local guard officers have urged the calling of a conference, and General Huffman, who has been strongly in favor of the plan, announced today that the meeting would be held here at an early date. To Discuss Policies. Conditions in various communities will be considered and policies and methods for advancing the nation's war activities will probably be deter mined. In a number of localities the guardsmen have practically organized themselves into committees to gather disloyalty information. Thru the work of the guard companies and individual members, disloyalty demonstrations and expressions have been suppressed. Evidence against a number of alien enemies has been secured thru work of the guardsmen who readily gath ered information thru acquaintance with local conditions. A majority of the guard units are now equipped thru efforts of local commercial organiza tions. Practically all of the companies are doing police service In the protec tion of factories, mills, elevators, ware houses and bridges. Be of Great Benefit. "The conference of the state guard officers should be of great benefit to the state," said General Huffman to day in discussing his plans. "Many of the officers will bring valuable ideas to the conference and a review of the work handled in various communities will be of untold value. It is probable the conference will be held sometime in April, when notices will be sent to all officers of the guards." General Huffman has recently add ed new responsibilities to his heavy war work by reviewing a number of the guard companies. As a result of the troop inspections, new interest has been added, to the new local defense service. The conference is expected to result in a co-ordination of the work of the 150 units in the state and to- in sure the adoption of uniform policies or organization. FOUR TRAINLOAOS WOUNDED Showered With Flowers and Cheered by London Crowd. London, March 27. Four train loads of wounded officers and men from the battle front in France reached London last night. As they were being- transferred to ambulances crowds cheered and threw flowers. The wounded responded smilingly to these greetings. "What was it like? was asked of one wounded man. "Oh, Fritz just rained shells on us like a hailstorm," was the reply. YOUR SICK CHILD IS CONSTIPATED! LOOK AT TONGUE Hurry, Mother! Remove poisons from little stomach, liver, bowels. 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