The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 25, 1918

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ittti TJITKATHJiK FORECAST for Kansas: Unsettled, probable local thunder showers and cooler tonight and Sun day. r poPEKA doesn't signal for a bar rage when she "goes oyer" for the Red Cross. HOME EDITION .TOPEKA, KANSAS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1918 TWENTY PAGES FIVE CENTS SHIP LOSS IS 53 AMERICANS SANG WHILE TORPEDOED TRANSPORT SANK Discipline Was Perfect on the Doomed Ship. Most of Soldiers Were Asleep When Blow Came. U-BOAT ESCAPED UNSEEN 480 Americans Were on Board the Lost Ship. Several Oklahoma Men in the List of Lost. London. May 25. With the excep tion of fifty-three American soldiers all the persons on board the British troop ship Moldavia, which was tor pedoed and sunk Thursday morning, were saved and have been landed at a southern British port. No officers names are among the list of missing and it contains the names of only two non-commissioned officers. Less than fifteen minutes after the British armed merchant troop ship Moldavia with American troops on board had been torpedoed off the southeast coast of England on Thurs day morning virtually every man had gone over the sides of the vessel into the life boats. Kdwin and Clyde Bosley of North Troy, Vermont, leaped from the deck and were drowned. Had it not been for this the losses which are given of ficially as fifty-six American soldiers would have been confined to those killed by the explosion of the torpedo. The Bosley brothers were on guard when the ship was struck. Search was made for them, but they were not seen after they jumped over board. Washington Gives Out List. Washington. May 25. The war de partment today gave out the names of fifty-three members of Company B, Ftfty-igl.th United States infantry. Fourth division, missing from the torpedoed British steamer Moldavia. The names follow: Corns. Kred f'happell. Philadelphia. Ta.; Hoy H. Slienk. Lmirnster. Va.j Pvts. Oscar O Armstrong. Itrirtgeport. la.: Andrew nini-kwell. Hominy. Okla.:" lieorse 1. r.oosalla. Fargo. N. I. Clyde K. Hoaley. North Troy, Vt. Edwin W. Hnsley. North Troy. Vt. Leslie C. Itrm-ken. Hoyalton, Minn. Walter U. Hrmken. Saint Cloud. Minn.; William A. Brown. Hortaville. Vtuh- Oeorire N. Buchanan. Manette, Waah.: F.mll Burner. Kl Centro. Cal.: Joseph P. Callan, Milwaukee. Wis.: Kred 1. Csnwell. Knll ltiver. Mass.: Louis V. Castro. Kan- .lose. Cal.: Ktlwin L. Claus Inil. (irnfton. Wis.: Virgil C. Cook. Hnbnrt. Okla.: William J. Crontt. Port Washington. 1phtp. Wis.: Herman IHehl. New York; Herman W. nierks. RraunfHs. Tex.: Con rail F.kel, West Allis. Wis.: Freil Orharrtt. Chlrago; Eriwnrd Tt. fieri. MaultowiK-, Wis.: Rertwald (lottenberg. Pigeon Falls. Wis.: uispppe' Urari. Lirati. Italy; Charles F. Ilackler. Millville, Cal.: Thad les Hoilgea. Mount Carml, I'tah Clem .Johnson. Martins Mill. Tex.: Inarior M. Knpip. St. Paul. Minn.; John Kobus. Mis souri avenue. South. Milwaukee. Wis.; Henrv C. Lading. Straushurg. III.: John S. Larsen, Chicago: Rarney M. Williams. IMxon. Ky. Frank Lewandoski. ChW-ago; Clyde R. Iyindsey. Clarksburg. Miss.; Anton W. I.unilell. South Chiiago: James i. MoCarthv. Boston; Frank McKinney, Stonirgton. 111.: Jesse Mars, Shflby ville. Ill Rudolph Mikle. Oenere. Wis.: Jesse Mllone. Olnev. 111.: Frank O'Dell. Blythe rllle. Ark.: Emil J. Boah. Lakln, N. r. Frank Roux. Rice Lake. Wis.: Lee Ueaser. Cedsrville. W. Vs.: Walter tl. Sautter. New Hartford. N. Y. John Srhil-h. Portsmouth, Ohio: Joseph Sheman. Fort Totten. N. D. Lewis P. Spies. Nelson. Wis.: Rny Swartss, rieasant Hill. Ohio: Mnnrii-e Sweetland. Albany. N. Y. willow Trapp. Arbor Vltoe, Wis. Kdwsrd N. Weber, Tolley. N. I. 480 Americans on Board. The Moldavia carried 480 American soldiers of the Fifty-eighth infantry. All those reported lost belonged to Company B. The Moldavia was struck at 4 a. m. There was bright moonlight, but the submarine was not seen before the attack. Efforts were mado to keep the ship afloat. She sank in about an hour. There was no panic and the trans fer of the soldiers and seamen to the destroyers was made without a hitch. Soldiers Lost Ail. The soldiers lost all their belong ings except the clothing they wore, but were reoutfitted when they land ed at a channel port. All were given temporary leave. The Moldavia was a steel twin screw steamer of 9,500 tons, built in 1903. She was 520.6 feet long, had a beam of 58.3 feet and a draught of (Continued on Page fwoTj COSTA RICA INTO WAR Central American Republic Is Twenty-first Nation Against Kaiser. San Juan Del Sur, Nic, May 25 The government of Costa Rica has de clared war on the central powers, ac cording to advices received here. The declaration of war by Costa Rica on the central powers brings the total number of nations aligned against Germany up to a total of twenty-one. All of the Central Amer ican states now have clearly defined their attitude toward the war. IRISH-HUN PLOT IS LAID BARE BY OFFICIAL REVIEW Germans Relentless In Efforts To Foment Tronble. Present Revolutionary Attempt Grew Out of Former. WORKED THRU AMERICANS All Details for Outbreak Care fully Planned. Bernstorff Was Go-Between In Arranging Plot. London, May 25. Germany's untir ing efforts to foment revolution in Ireland with the aid of the Sinn Fein are laid bare n a statement from the official press bureau, reviewing this phase of the Irish politica situa tion since the beginning of war. After the abortive revolution of Easter week of 1916, plans were made for a revolt In 1917, but this miscar ried because of America's entry Into the war and Germany's inability to send troops to Ireland. An uprising in Ireland was planned for this year after the German offensive in the west had been successful and when Great Britain presumably would De stripped of troops. Concerning the recent arrests in Ireland, the statement says that facts and documents, for obvious reasoii3, cannot be disclosed at this time nor can the means of communication be tween Germany and Ireland. One phase of every plan called for the establishment of submarine bases in Ireland. In the present circum stances it is added no other course was open to the government "if use less bloodshed was to be avoided and its duties to its allies fulfilled, but to intern the authors and abettors of this criminal Intrigue." Bernstorff Had Trouble. Von Bernstorff evidently was hav ing difficulty with his tools for on October 24 he warned his government not to allow a certain Captain Boohm, then a resident of Rotterdam, to write to Irishmen in America since his letters were apt to go to the wrong people. Later Captain Boohm was ar rested by us In British waters. "We again find von Bernstorff on December 4, attaching a note surrep titiously to a message passed ty tin American government in which -he mentioned that the Irish leaders in America were pressing for an answer to their proposal of September 8. He seems to have followed this on Christ mas day with a message which is missing for on the last day of 1916 Foreign Secretary Zimmerman in formed him of quantities of munitions which it was proposed to land between February 21 and 25, 1917. He added that it was impossible to send German troops. "On January 18, 1917, Bernstorff replied that his Irish committee de clined the proposal, as without Ger man troops a rising would be use less. Plot Was Nipped. "After America's entrance Into the war in April, 1917, the line of com munication between the German gov ernment and the leaders of the Sinn Fein party was broken temporarily, tho there was no reason to believe the messenger service between Amer ica and Ireland devised by John Devoy was affected. "A clue to the new line of com munication was obtained subsequently and has been followed up actively. The effect of this new line in Ireland is visible in the speeches of the Sinn Fein leaders during this period. For example. Professor De Valera, ad dressing the convention of the Irish volunteers on October 27, 1917, said: 'By proper organization and re cruiting we could have 600.000 vol unteers in Ireland" that would be a big army but without the opportunity and means for fighting it could only be used as a menace. There already has been too much blood shed with out success and I would never advo cate another rebellion without hope ful chances of success. We can see no hope of that in the near future ex cept that thru a German invasion of England and the landing of troops and munitions in Ireland. "We should be prepared to leave nothing undone toward that end.' Anti-English Trick. "On another occasion in January of this year de Valera said: "'As long as Germany is the enemy of England and England is the enemy of Ireland, so long will Ireland be a friend of Germany.' "The British authorities were able to warn the Irish command regarding the probable landing of an agent of Germany from a submarine. The agent actually landed on April 12 and was arrested. "The new rising depended largely on the landing of munitions from subma rines and there is evidence to show that it was planned to follow a suc cessful German offensive In the west and was to take place at a time when Great Britain presumably would be stripped cf troops. Wanted Submarine Bases. "According to documents found on his person. De Valera had worked out In great detail the execution of his rebel army. He hoped to be able to muster 500.000 trained men. There Is evidence that German munitions ac tually had been shipped on submarines from Cuxhaven In the beginning of May and that for some time German submarines have been busy off the west coast of Ireland on other errands than the destruction of shipping. "An important feature of every plan was the establishment of submarine bases in Ireland to menace the ship ping of all nations. Arrests Soon In America. Washington. May 25. More evi dence than that disclosed In the Brit ish official statement of the close connection between the Irish Sinn Fein and German influence Is In the hands of the British and American governments it was stated officially MEXICO BREAKS WITH CUBA, SAYS OFFICIAL REPORT Diplomatic Envoys Have Been Recalled. Trouble Is Outgrowth of. Cuba's War Measures. WASHINGTON PUZZLED OVER IT Yet Official Xews Has Come of I the Break. Havana Admits Strained Feel ing, but Denies Break. Mexico City, May 25.- Mexico has severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. This was learned officially late today after a report that thfe Mexico charge d 'affaires at Havana and the Cuban minister here had been recalled from their respective posts had been confirmed at the foreign office. The recall of the Mexican represen tative to Cuba and the suspending for an indefinite time of the sending of a new representative is explained offi cially as due to the fact that because of the war in which Cuba is involved that government has been obliged to dictate measures that affect the inter ests of the Mexican government In many instances. For this reason, it is declared the making of representations that the Mexican representative would be forced to make to the Cuban govern ment would be useless and would re strict the liberty of action of a friend ly nation "Which Is now in an afflicted situation." Mexico Makes Statement. General Candido Aguilar, minister of foreign affairs tonight gave out a statement for the announced purpose (Continued on page six.)' A MILLION SOON American Forces in France Will Total That by Summer. A Million and a Half by End of 1918. Too. Paris, Friday. May -24. The Amer ican forces in France will be double by midsummer the number Secretary of War Baker recently announced as having been sent here and by the end of 1918 they will be three times larg er, said Andre Tardieu. French high commissioner, in a statement issued to the French people on his arrival from the United States today. Secretary Baker announced on May 8 that more than 500,000 American soldiers already had been sent to France. M. Tardieu described what the United States is doing for France and the allies. Drive Is Broken. "The German offensive is broken,' he said, referring to the present bat tle. "The Americans, after our vic torious resistance will arrive in time for decisive action. "We now are transporting in one month what would have taken five months at the beginning of the war. "The capacity of troop transports from America to France is notably larger than the means for the trans port of German troops from the Rus sian to the French front In the most favorable circumstances. "Those are the capital results of the last two months. Add to them the unity of command and you will be able to judge clearly the manner in which the United States understood the last battle. These measures as sure for the allied armies for the final period of the war a superiority in numbers and the possibility of un limited replenishment." here today. Arrests are to be made soon in this country and possible ad ditional arrests in Ireland. Two Series of Activities. The statment from the press bu reau follows: "The revolutionary movement in Ireland which culminated in the ar rest of a considerable number of per sons last week consisted of two close ly related series of activities: "A Attempts by the German gov ernment to foment rebellion in Ire land and B preparations made in Ire land to carry these attempts info ac tion. The story of the active connec tion between the leaders of the Sinn Fein movement and the Germans, as disclosed by documents in possession of the. British government, falls into two parts the period prior to, and the period since, the abortive Irish re bellion of Easter, 1916. "The events of the first period can be told in some detail but the second period, which concerns recent events, permits of no more than a summary as a full statement of the facts and doc uments in possession of the govern ment would disclose the names of per sons who stood by the government and also the channels of communica- Ltion thru which the German govern ment was acting and which it would not be in the public interest to reveal at present. Worked Thru America. -The story begins as early In the war as November 6. 1914, when Herr Zimmerman transmitted thru Count von Bernstorff a message from Sir Roger Casement (later captured In Ireland and executed) asking that a messenger, a native born American If possible, be sent to Ireland with word that everything was favorable. He was to carry no letter, for fear of ar rest. "Casement also asked that an Irish priest should be sent to Germany with the assistance of the German legation in Norway to work in prison camps to corrupt Irish prisoners of war. This priest was a certain Father John T. Nicholas, an American citizen of Irish birth. He reached Germany safely (Continued on Page Two. MOTHER OF MISS LUSK ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ACT ONCE Father Believed Her Insane at the Time. Grace Lusk Cries Softly During Today's Ordeal. MRS. ROBERTS TAUNTED HER intended To Kill Herself Over ti Mf tor- Had No Intention of Murdering Dr. Roberts's ,Wife. Waukesha, Wis., May 25. Grace Lusk stepped from the witness stand at the close of her cross examination today to make way for her old lather. The aged man testified that Grace's mother once tried to hurl herself Into the Niagara whirlpool rapids and that he considered her insane at the time. It was the defense plan to show that Miss Lusk inherited insanity and was irresponsible when she shot Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, her love rival, last June. But the aged father's state ment was stricken out upon the state's objection. A hypothetical question of several thousand words was submitted by the defense covering the history of Miss Lusk's love affair with Dr. David Rob erts. Following testimony of alienists this afternoon, both sides may rest. If 'arguments are made Monday the jury will have tne case Dy next mesaay night. She Cried on Stand. Miss Lusk cried softly during- her cross examination today by Prosecutor Walter Corrigan on her supposed sex theories. She was questioned about a review of a book by Ellen Key on love and marriage prepared by .Miss Lusk for a friend. "They are Ellen Key s opinions, not mine. I refuse to have them attrib uted to me," said Miss Lusk. "But you once requested Mrs. Rob erts to read the book," shot baqk Cor rigan. "Yes." said Miss Lusk, and she be gan to cry. But at other times during her brief session on the stand this morning she did not flinch and at the close of cross examination jumped from the stand with a relieved smile. Cannot Remember Shooting. She had denied persistenly remem bering shooting Mrs- Roberts or her self. She made Doctor Roberts wince openly In court today by intimating tharh. mis-Ht bn.ve intended killinz him during the Milwaukee hotel room scene when she compelled him to swear on a Bible that he would tell his wife of their illicit love. Suicide Was Plan. Waukesha, Wis., May 25. It was Grace Lusk, scientist, who faced a renewal of cross examination today in her murder trial for shooting Mrs. Mary Roberts. Impersonally, Miss Lusk aided in the dissecting of her soul as a biologist might study some strange animal form. A crisp shirt waist and shining spectacles added to her school 'teacherly appearance. Today when Prosecutor Corrigan was to force her into discussion of the actual shooting last June, the jury was impressed for almost the first time with the fact there has been a killing. Intimacies between the school teacher and Dr. 'David Rob erts which led to the slaying were almost forgotten. Mrs. Roberts had been shot. Grace Lusk did the shooting. These were the facts hammered home by the prosecutor. Had Planned Only Suicide. Corrigan tried to make her say she had wanted to displace Roberts's wife and marry the veterinarian; that a premeditated murder resulted when she failed. Miss Lusk steadfastly claimed she had planned suicide when Roberts failed to keep promises to restore her reputation. Details of the shooting, she insists, were not recorded in her mind. The slaying was done when Mrs. Roberts called to revile her as common wom an, a home-wrecker, a scrawny old maid and plaything of a man of many affairs who thought her "the damndest fool he ever saw." Crisis Came Yesterday. Waukesha, Wis., May 25. The cri sis in her battle for freedom was reached by Grace Lusk, psychologist school teacher, self-confessed slayer of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, wife of the man she loved, Friday. White of face, and seemingly tor tured in spirit, the defendant finished telling of the happenings of the day on which she shot Mrs. Roberts, al most in a state of total collapse. She was given an unmerciful grilling dur ing cross-examination by Prosecutor Corrigan. Once the defense counsel shot at her the question: "Do you still love Dr. Roberts?' The defendant lifted her face, her lips trembling. "1 I Prosecutor Corrigan leaped to his feet objecting, and Grace Lusk was not allowed to answer the question. Taunts hurled at her by Mrs. Rob erts, whose husband she loved and with whom she was intimate, accord ing to Miss Lusk, drove her to the shooting. Miss Lusk on the witness stand, un der direct examination related the fin al Interview with Mrs. Roberts. A Scrawny Old Maid. "She said, "whenever I say anything about you to the doctor, he always makes fun of you. He told me that if I suspected him of having anything to do with a woman, to at least give him credit for picking out a nifty dresser. "She said she didn't admire his taste in picking out a scrawny old maid, r "She even said to me that she would tar and feather me and when I answered, 'What will they do to Doctor Roberts T she said. 'Oh, thafs a different matter. Explaining her desire to die. Miss Lusk said: "I had lost my reputation and with my reputation went my usefulness tCuntuuied on Page Six.) ROOSEVELT OUT IN BITTER FIGHT ON MAIL RULES i Openly Accuses President of Unfair Partisanship. Declares Wilson To Blame in Backing Hearst.' CRITICS OF WILSON SUFFER' i President Condones Hearst, and sttflos rvit' I Anti-Ally Publications Favored Over Pro-Ally. Washington, May 25. A reply by Theodore Roosevelt to Postmaster General Burleson today in their con troversy over alleged discrimination by the postoffice department In treat ment of publications presented to the senate today by Senator Poindexjter, of Washington, charged that the ad ministration had played, for and against different newspapers and magazines and that President Wilson was directly responsible. The administration, Mr. Roosevelt 'declared, has condoned the anti-ally attitude of certain publications, among them the Hearst newspapers, while embarrassing those that have made honest criticisms of the conduct of the war. Has Stilled Critics. VSince" the war began," said Colonel Roosevelt, "the administration has used the very great powers of the gov ernment over the'public press to stifle honest criticism of governmental in efficiency or misconduct while con doninz (which necessarily means en couraging) pro-German, anti-ally and their auti-American agitation in cer tain powerful papers which defended this Inefficiency and misconduct; and it has sought from congress a great addition to the already existing power it has thus misused. I believed that the first article of the constitution guarantees the Tight of the people to criticize truthfully the conduct of their public servants and that this right cannot be taken away by any law. "During the past year, the action of the administration, taken largely thru the postoffice department,- has been such as to render it a matter of some- danger "for -any American, and especially any newspaper, to speak the truth if that truth be unpleasant to the governmental authorities at Washington. "The effect of this attitude has been very marked politically. Such coer cive power 'ends to make upright men, even altho they are strong men, cautious about telling the truth which ought to be told. It forces weak men to praise the rdministratton whethv it does well or ill. It invites unscrup ulous men. who desire to serve Ger many, to gain license to do so and to secure advantages by praising the ad ministration, especially when tt has acted wrongfully or inefficiently and by supporting it politically. Accuses of Politics. "There are cases where all compe tent and honest observers are morally certain that political support has been given and is now being given to the administration by various newspapers, especially German-American and semi-Socialist newspapers because of the club thus held over them by the administration. "From the very nature of the case there can rarely be positive proof in such cases, but as regards the most striking cases of favoritism, those con cerning the Hearst papers, as com pared with the suppression of Tom Watson's paper and the attack (for nominally wholly different reasons) on the Metropolitan magazine, I herein give the facts which prove exactly what I have alleged. "The postmaster general has raised the issue; I meet it squarely; and he shall not evade it. The administra tion has. successfully endeavored to prevent expression of opinion hostile to it and to put a premium upon sup porting the president personally and politically without regard to whether his actions are detrimental or-beneficial to the country." Creel Is Assailed. Colonel Roosevelt also assailed Chairman Creel of the committee on public information and in imputing re sponsibility for the acts of the post master general and Mr. Creel said: "I deal with Mr. Burleson and his actions purely because he is a rep resentative of President Wilson, ex actly asis Secretary Baker; exactly as is Mr. Creel. President Wilson is responsible for everything Postmaster General Burleson and Secretary Baker and Mr. Creel do or leave undone. "I have scant patience with the timidity or the folly which dares not hold accountable the source of power and only ventures to express displeas ure with instruments thru which the power is exercised. Messrs. Burle son, Baker, Creel and their associates possess no importance whatever except that accruing to them because it is thru them that the president speaks and acts or refuses or fails to act." In attacking Creel. Colonel Roose velt declared he "assail publications that truthfully expose shortcomings of the administration and without re gard to the facts personally and thru his bureau, actively upholds the ad ministration in matters such as the aircraft program. In which there have been grave governmental shortcom ings." The Work-of Partisans. "This is a partisan political propa ganda of the very worst type, the former president declared, "carried on with public moneys under the guise of public work. Regarding the postmaster general's alleged attitude toward the Hearst pa pers. Colonel Roosevelt said: "It is true that since we entered the war Mr. Hearst has at various times issued editorials professing great pa triotic seal, but it was at the very time when in other editorials he was (land and Japan, in the most offensive way, and at the -very, time when he SHAWNEE COUNTY SENDS FIFTY-SIX MORE MEN TODAY Few Tears and Many Cheers Marked Their Farewell. Entertained at Elks Club Be fore Time To Leave. BIG CROWD AT THE DEPOT Real Cowboy From Texas Added color to scene. Pretty Girls Pinned Flowers on Departing Men. Cheers and flowers and good-byes and a few quiet tears were given this morning In farewell to the Shawnee county boys who left for Camp Funs ton. The number of the Shawnee boys called out today was 56. and the Elks' i club and the Chamber of Commerce collaborated to give them a happy de parture. They assembled at the court house and from there went to the Elks' hall. Each of the soldiers-to-be wore a tag bearing his name, and before the men left the building, each one wore on his coat lapel a white carnation, pinned there by the hands of pretty, eager young girls who longed to show their gratitude fo these men whom they look upon as their home defenders. A program of music was prepared for the entertainment of the men. after they had had an hour In the pool room. Miss Marguerite Gohlke, who is much in demand as a singer at camp entertainments, gave a 1 number of vocal selections, all of a cheerful nature. Miss Helen- Phipps played a number of violin solos, and Miss Lida Hardy gave a whistling solo in imita tion of bird calls. Miss Esther Free man made a tremendous hit with the men with an impersonation of a girl at a movie show. After the music. Governor Arthur Capper made a short address to the boy, assuring them of the support and backing of the Kansas people. "I want you all to remember,' he said, "that you are going out as representa tives of the best state of the best coun try on earth, and we know you will be a credit to us." Crowd at the Depot. A long procession of automobiles, driven -by. some, ot thfiomil tt -business men of the city, took the sol diers to the train, and the friends and relatives of the men, as well as the entertainers, stayed with the soldiers (Continued on Pace Six.) CLOSE MILL HERE License of Ismert-Hinckle Company Is Revoked. Sixty Employes of Topeka Plant Are Affected. Kansas City, Mo., May 25. The li cense of the Ismert-Hincke Milling Co., one of the largest In the south west, has been revoked by the United States food administration, according to an announcement by Edward R. Morrison, attorney for the fifth zone of the federal trade commission. The charge" upon which the action was taken, Morrison announced in a statement, was that the sworn reports nr Mrmtratlnn tn the millina divi sion of the food administration were not correct t L Lrinrnu. j i I tions of .the company, and did not correspond accurately wim mo uwjiw of the company. Other findings of the federal trade commission; which investigated the company, Morrison said, included ar bitrary increase of 100 per cent of the officers' salaries at the close of 1917, Improperly increasing milling expenses reported: 'the gift of an au v. i n tha nresentative of a njinuuiio trade Journal, also chargedto milling expense; ana cnargins i -margins of profit on flour purchased from other mills and resold." Local officers of the Ismert-Hincke Milling company today certified the report of the issuance of an order against Its mills. No information j i Art lin.vir. concern- I ing the length of time In which the order mignt remain m .j the order the mill will close tonight and will remain closed until govern ment authority is given to reopen. The Topeka nflll has not been pro ducing wheat flour for more than two months. It has a wheat flour capac Itv of 1.200 barrels a day. At present about 300 barrels of corn flour are turned out each day. By operating on a twenty-four -hour: schedule. 1.000 barrels of corn flour could not be pro duced. All operation at the mills will stop under the order. Sixty employes of the Topeka mill at Tenth avenue and Washington street will be affected by the closing order. Bliss and March Generals. Washington. May 25. The senate military committee today ordered favorably reported the nomination of Major General Peyton C. March, act ing chief of staff, promoting him to full general and that of General Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff, to be general by brevet. was upholding the Russian Bolshe viki who had made Russia a traitor to the free nations of the world and a subservient ally of the German autocracy. Such action cannot fail to give aid and comfort to Germany. "By turning to the New York Trib une of May 8, 1918, the postmaster general will find an ardent tribute paid by the former German corre spondent of Koelnich Zeitung (Co logne Gazette) to Mr. Hearst and to Mr. Hearst's editor-in-chief, Mr. Ar thur Brisbane, for having been auxil iaries of valued Influence to Ger many." Why, of Course, We're Happy! Without any concentrated "strong arm" methods, without an Insist ent, appeal, without an unusual ef fort, Topeka once more rallied to the support of the cause of the war and oversubscribed by a large mar gin the current Red Cross quota. D. W. Mulvane's Thundering Thousand, a most efficient and loy al and patriotic organization, went forth Tuesday to raise the 878.000 allotted this city and county. In three days these solicitors, in the downtown section alone, went over the amount. Today the rural dis tricts and the women's Battalion of Life reported from the residence districts and the figures went far above the quota assigned Shawnee county. Of course, great credit Is due Mulvane and his organization most assuredly so but to the good people of Topeka and Shawnee county is due a large share of the glory. The rich, the poor, the sal aried man, the laborer every one knew, when the solicitors called, that they had an opportunity to do something for the boys over there and they did It happily, joyously, and with a spirit of genuine ac ceptance. 1 And it didn't hurt. It was not a sacrifice. The money was given because the people know now that the "Greatest Mother in the World" Is waiting in France to take care of all that is near and dear to the fathers, mothers, brothers, sis ters and children of America. Let us not say "Red Cross Drive.", It Isn't a "drive." It is simply a period set aside to give the folks at home an- opportunity to do their part in reviving humanity after the horrors of the Hun. CLOSE UP COURT Bird Suggests That Lawyers Go to Harrest Field. District Judges WQ1 Consider His Suggestion. Speaking on behalf of the agricul ture committee of the Chamber of Commerce. W: A.': ft Bird; -attorney and state representative today brought before the Shawnee County Bar association aad the district court judges the matter Of holding no court during harvest time in order that the attorneys, jurymen, clients and court officials might find themselves free to help farmers harvest war crops. The district court judges promised to see to it that affairs would be ar ranged in such a way that there would be no court during the period in volved. Bird said that Shawnee coun ty farmers would pay from 83 to 84 a day for help. GOAL IS PASSED! Red Cross Drlye for Second War Fund Wins.' Orer-Subscription Still Grows The West Leads. Washington, May 25. The Red Cross's second war fund today reach ed and rjassed the S100.OOA.nno mini. mum total mark and telecrams an nouncing subscriptions continued to now into national headquarters at a rate that swamped the compilers. The exact figures could not be de termined by the officers who express ed hope the fund minimum would be doubled before the drive ends. Officials were confident of a large oversubscription to the fund because of the indignation expressed in all parts of the country over the Ger mans' latest bombardment of hosnltals in France. Western cities are reporting totals far in excess of their quotas. Kansas Citv in ftmnnir Vim Afti.. n o tin ri nave surpassed their allotment Greater P'eagea Z3,3S2,723 of its 325,000,000 quota. TRIBUTE TO LUFBERY xrenen reasants lovor Coffin of American Airman with Flowers. With the American Armies In the Field. Mav 25. French vill a touching tribute to Major Raoul Lufbery, the American aviator, as soon as they learned of his death. An improvisea mortuary chapel was erected by the mayor, while chil dren Sth.Ml1 WIM einnrAr 1 1 d aiiu FAM7CO. them on the coffin. When Lufbery's American comrades brought the body in for burial they .vuuu wuiii ucrpij Dunea under 1 1 nvenn. a TITnn. i wciv .aeeiing at the head and foot while French of- ucen epL a ue&in watcn. DISTILLERS FOR GOVERNMENT Most of Alcohol Output Wow Beino- m i.i TPeoria. HL, May 25. Ninety per cent of the alcohol manufactured In the huge Peoria: and Pekin distilleries is being furnished to the United States government and used In manufacture of ammunition. Officials of the var ious plants refused to give out the amount manufactured, but declared that the government is retting near ly all of it. The other ten per cent Is used for medicinal purposes. All plants are working day and night. The optput cannot be checked up, even thru the Internal revenue of. ff ices, as- no revenue, is paid on the government snu TOPEKA GOES FAR ABOVE QUOTA FOR RED CROSS DRIVE This Is Last Day of Big Cam paign in Shawnee. Women and Rural Teams Make Reports at Noon. TOTAL AT NOON $108,079 Country Schools Alone Will Reach $15,000 Mark. Final Reports and Big Celebra tion Here Monday Evening. Hail, Red Cross, those who have contributed salu'e you. Shawnee county Is over the top on its 378,000 quota as It never before went over the top in Its history. The men's battalions of the Red Cross army working in the business district of Topeka reported the county over the top Friday noon. The Women's coun cil of defense teams and the school district campaigners brought the total second Red Cross war subscription to a grand total of 3108,079 this noon. And there Is a little more yet to coma in." Both the schi ol district teams and the teams of the women's council of defense worked under the leadership of Miss M'Edna Corbet, county su perintendent of schools. Both bri gades have done yeoman duty and their reports this noon showed that not one cot nor cottage nor snug farm home but had remitted its dole to the cause of relieving the soldiers strick en by the German hall of steel. With county reports today, Ross vllle led with 3864. Union followed with 3389. Here are some others, the reports being incomplete: Iover $M(MX Six Mile 251.00 Mowers 270.00 AvoDdale 227.00 Deer Creek 2:19.00 Sunnyslde 2K1.00 Mission reek 20O.OO Menoken 219.00 Great City Showing. The subscriptions from Topeka city itself, in the 1918 campaign, exceeds the amount raised by the entire county in the 1917 campaign. In 1917 Shaw nee county contributed a little less than 390,000. In the second Red Cross war fund drive In Bhawnea -county -rural- dis tricts the response was just a little more than ten times as great as was the response in 1917. In 191T the ru ral district contribution was about 31,700. The reports this noon show that the rural districts came across with a subscription of 318.466 In the second drive of the war. And the reports are not yet complete. All Entitled to Flag. In a talk to the campaigners this noon Mulvane said that every captain of ward, precinct, or rural school dis trict was entitled to an honor flag in recognition of their service Mulvane said that these honor flags should be as highly prized as the cross of valor decorations given to the sol diers at the front. Of course the wo men can not serve at the front, and so the Red Cross 1913 second Red Cross war fund honor flags are the country's decorations of valor for the home workers. People Were Ready. Topeka and Shawnee county citi zens know the Red Cross, and of the thousands of persons solicited in this campaign hardly one refused to subscribe and those who have re fused have been given sufficient causa to repent the action. But for tha most part, the campaigners say, tha people have been ready at the front door with a subscription in their hands when one of the campaigners arrived. Campaign Manager D. W. Mulvana and his assistants are very much elated over the performance of tha city and the county in this campaign. At first it seemed as if the money waa coming too easy. Topekans who should be in the more-than-3100 class had apparently decided that the tima had come to settle down for a lonjf period of systematic giving and had cut under their last year's Red Cross subscriptions accordingly. But In spite of the smaller proportions tit many of the subscriptions the final reports showed a substantial increasa over the total subscription last year. TOPEKA RESIDENT DISTRICT. Wemea's Teams. Ward Ward X Ward S Ward 4 Ward S Ward !T t.72 1.030 Total wards 14 t.4 Cashier's report. May 14 91M9 Tapeka ettr total 1,1 One Story a Mistake. a man In the employ of the state hos pital, who recently purchased a motor car,, had turned down the Red Cross solicitors. His case was discussed In open meeting. It has been discovered that it was all a mistake. The man is moving to a place near Gage park. He bad promised to make his dona tion from that point and claims to have told the state hospital solicitors of It. Thru -sj misunderstanding It was reported to the noon-day commit tees that ha had refused to subscriba, COOLER BY NIGHT Local Thunder Showers Expectant Flora Axmonnces In Forecast. TODAY'S TEMiFERATtTRES. o'clock 75 1 1 o'clock 13 o'clock 1 o'clock t.. X o'clock .33 .88 .85 .87 o'clock ....7S o'clock .76 o'clock .....79 Swimmers report that the water in the lakes and streams around Topeka is beginning to warm up sufficiently for a comfortabler half-hoar a day In the water. This does not apply to tho small boy. That article of American- hardihood has been disporting hlm- self enthusiastically for upwards rds of (Contlsaed on Fags Xwo-J A.--

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9 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1918 YANKEE AIRMEN HOLDING SECTOR ALL THEIR OWN

nrsnit Squadron Takes Orer t Line Near Tonl. I German Artillery More Actlye In Lys Salient. TRANSPORT SUNK WITH LOSS t Vain Battle Front Remains i About the Same. ;iiba and Mexico Break Off I Relations. I (By the Associated Press.) London. May 25. The German rtillery was Increasingly active last ight on the westerly side of the Ly3 salient In Flanders in the neighbor hood of Straxeele, the war office an nounced today.- The district east of Bethune was again subjected to gas bombardment. The British captured Numerous prisoners and two machine fruns in raiding operations. t With the American Army in France, Jrlday, May 24. An American aerial pursuit squadron is now operating oVer the American sector northwest if Toul, it is now permitted to an ounce. All the pilots whose air ex loitg have been recorded up to this me belong to this squadron which as a special insignia. The squadron flying in Nieuport chasing ma rlines. Mexico Breaks With Cuba. Mexico has severed diplomatic re- ktions with Cuba. This action by the Mexican government comes unexpect edly in an announcement from Mexico City. Official confirmation from the Cuban government is lacking but it is Imported that there have been rumors fti Havana of strained relations be tween the two republics.. The Mexi fan charge to Cuba left there this week for home. I American troops on the way to the tattle fields of France to the number if 56 have been lost in the torpedoing f the British ship Moldavia by a fierman submarine in the English channel. Few details of the tragedy nave been received. The American joldiers a'e believed to have been (leeping when the vessel was attacked. J"he attack came early. Thursday aiornrng and tne suDmanne succeeded th getting away unseen. According to survivors the Moldavia was near the Southeast coast of England on her war to an English port. I Survivors Rescued. f Escorting destroyers rescued the tturvivors, who had fallen into line on the deck of tne ship Immediately after the torpedo struck near the bridge. the .soldiers lost all their belongings. .The loss of the Moldavia parallels the sinking of the Tustania oft the fiorthern coast of Ireland last Febru ary, with the loss of 101 American soldiers. The calmness of the soldiers, raost of them new to the sea, and the prompt work of the rescuing destroy ers were the same. More than 2,000 American troops were on the Tus canla, while the other troop ship with Americans sunk by the Germans, the Antilles, was returning from Europe. Seventy were lost In the sinking of the Antilles. i In the same territory where the Moldavia evidently went down, tne pork steamer Innisearra was sunk tfuesday morning while on the way (from Fish Guard to Cork. Thirty fteven lives were lost, only five mem bra of the crew being saved. Buttle Front the Same. 5 1 There has been no change In the situation on the battlefields of north-$-n France. Both sides continue their raiding operations with the Germans Jjaying most attention to the line be tween the Somme and Albert. Else where on the front between Ypres and mheims British and French patrols Wave captured prisoners. it The weather has changed for the worse and rain is reported generally on the Somme and Picardy fronts. This Imposes additional hardships on Jhe Germans who occupy the shell lprn lowlands while the allies hold the yjign ground, most or which is un fcfcarred by war. If the Germans were Wot prepared to attack when the Weather was most favorable, it is not Jlkely they will essay a new offensive operation while rain and mud retard jtnelr movements. I American Airmen Busy. I American airmen now patrol the fcrctor northwest of Toul and a squad ken is acting as the eyes for and pro lector of the American troops on this front. The recent activity of Ameri can airmen in the region east of St. lhiel, was carried on by this squad ron which also is aided by other Amer ican aviators. two American ma inlines have fallen, while at least six Uermans have been brought down by trie Americans. it The sector northwest of Toul now IS all American. The gunners are jtmertcans as are the men in the Wenches, while over their heads fly ntner Americans witn a distinctive insignia on their machines. i American troops also may be soon ytghiing the Austro-Hungarians in the ynountalns of northern Italy. As the climax to the celebration of Italy's en trance Into the war, in New York Secretary of War Baker announced jthat machine gun and artillery units soon would be standing side by side with uenerai mass men. 5 Strong patrol and artillery activity jrontinues in the Italian mountain peont. W EXECUTE13 HUNS U r- TTbirteen Give Utm, Two Get Twenty ii Yean, Over TJ-Boat JJaso Affair. f Amsterdam," May 26. Fifteen Oer Mhan sailors were tried at Ostend, In connection with the British naval op Mtinna which resulted in the block 4ng of Ostend and Zeebrugge harbors. according to reports rrom nru5m, hrmirht here today by fishermen i i Thirteen of the sailors were execut ld. The other two were sentenced to .twenty years imprisonment. St The sailors executed probably wers anon those on guard at Zeebrugge nd Ostend when the British made !rtie daring raids. The element of sur prise figured largely in the operations, AarticuLarly la the last on at Ostend. Liberty;? Washington, May 25. The army casualty list today contained twenty three names divided as follows: Killed in action 4, died of wounds 4, died of disease 3, wounded severely 4, wounded slig'atly 8. The list: D1KD IN ACTION: Corp. Robert B. Klrkham, Clifty. Ky. Pvts. Ben Brand, Loftan, N. D. Carl L. Cavineaa, CbaritoD, Iowa Cbarles C. fcturdevant, Tipton. In diaua. DIED OF WOUNDS: Lieut. Albert E. Johnson, Collinsville. Conn..; Pvts. Laur ence J. Buttau, Quebec, Can. Tony Tal ensky. Bentleyville. Pa.; Frank J. Stnyden, Kingston, Pa. DIKD OF DISEASE: Lieut. Lee Henry Knapp, Danbury, N. H. PrvL Willis C. Macfarland, Bullochville, Ga. Engineer Louis George Forster. Baltimore, Md. WOUNDED SLIGHTLY 8ergt. Mew Brayr Luretba, Ky.; Mechanic James F. Myers. Clarksburg, W. Va. Pvts. Noble H. Ivy. Evansville. Ind. Tito Masellis, Roth, Nev. Earl H. Morna. Dell Rapids, 8. D. Gottlieb Sackman, Fallon. Mont.; James W. Sampalr. New Richmond, Wis. Charles B. Sanrtridge, Buntyn, Tenn. vWOUNDED SEVERELY Corp. Daniel Doyle, Syracuse, N. Y. Pvts? Samuel Cash, Milwaukee, Wis.; Cbarlie McCury. Candler, N. C. Zeb V. Plemmons. Aahevllle, N. C. Prisoner, previously reported missing: Capt. James Norman Hall. Colfax, Iowa. German Forces Approach City Meet Resistance. "White Russia" Proclaims Freedom To Join Germany. Moscow, May 25. The people's council at Kursk (about 275 miles south of Moscow) has declared a de fensive mobilization because large German forces are reported moving thru that region toward Moscow. The newspaper Pravda has stated that the Germans are crossing Kursk with the object of cutting off railroad and waterway communication south of Moscow. It also stated that a German ulti matum demanding annulment of mil itary relations between Russia and the entente is expected soon. The army of Gen. Semenoff, the anti-Bolshevik leader, is reported to have invaded Samara, with the aid of Chinese and Japanese forces. White Russia has proclaimed it self a republic with a coalition gov. ernment. It is seeking to unite with Luthanian, under a German protec torate. "White Russia" has no definte boundaries, but is that name applied to the provinces of Mohilieff and Vitebsk by Empress Catherine. It l the region east of Poland, north of Ukraine and south and west of Great Russia." Peace Pact Soon? Moscow, May 23. General Skoro- padski, hetman of the Ukraine and representatives of the Russian So viets, will negotiate a peace pact May 2 8, it was announced here today. M. Groshevsky and M. Goloubovitch, leaders of the Ukrainian Rada, have promised to suspend the sittings of that body, but the peasants confer ence at a secret meeting decided to oppose any peace negotiations in which Skoropadski participated. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago. May 25 BUTTER Market firm. Creamery. 34(t34c. Ktitis Market uncnangea. POTATOES Market unchanged. POULTRY Alive, lower; fowls, 25c. TENNIS CHAMP IS EXPERT FIGHTER Williams in his army uniform. R. Norria Williams, American ten nis champion, is now a lieutenant with the American forces in Franca. Lieutenant Williams', expert work with the artillery under fire has won the admiration of the veteran French officers, with the result the American .champion has been placed in a cele brated French war college, where ha will undergo a course of intensifie-i training. Williams laid down his racquet at the height of his fame last year to join the American artil lery, and is perhaps the most noted American athlete in the service tew day. ON TO MOSCOW! 'WE CAN'T IRISH-HUN PLOT tContluued irom Page One.) and we find him in January, 1916, transmitting messages tr America. "According to a report of Captain von Papen, (German military attache in Washington) dated December 5, 1914, verbal assurances were sent in response to Casement's request that an excellent Impression had been pro duced in Ireland. In the beginning of 1916, the plot ripened and on Feb ruary 10, of that year Count von Bern storff sent to a covering address in Rotterdam, a dispatch signed with the name of Skal, one of his principal American .agents. Irish Urged Early Action.. "The dispatch included an extract from the report of John Devoy, head of the Clan-Na-Qael, to the effect that action in Ireland could not be postponed much longer since he feared the arrest of the leaders. It had been decided, he said, to begin action on F.aster Katuwday. and he urged that arms and munitions be in Limerick bv that date. "Later in the same month von Bernstorf f, following his usual practice, surreptitiously attached to a message to Berlin passed by the American gov ernment a note fixing Easter Saturday for the rising and urging the despatch of munitions in time. On March 4, von Jagow (German foreign minister) replied that the arms would be landed in Tralee bay and asked that the necessary arrangements be made in Ireland thru Devoy: On March 14, von Bernstorff replied that the Irish agreed and that full details were being sent to Ireland by messenger. "The next day von Bernstorff tele graphed the code to be used between the Germans and the rebels while the arms were in transit, and explained that a submarine might safely enter Dublin bay and go as far as Pigeon House without encountering nets. All Arrangements Made. "On March 26.. von Jagow replied that the arms would be sent and that i a special code word would be used every night as the introduction to the German wireless press service. In a message from von Bernstorff to Ber lin the Germans were assured that there were numerous private wireless receiving stations in Ireland. "On April 18 and 19, urgent mes sages were sent from America to Ber lin fixing the delivery of arms for the evening of Easter Sunday, pressing for the landing of German troopa and asking for an air raid on England and a naval attack on the English coast. These attacks actually took place be tween April 24 and 26. It was declared to be tne nope oi the rebels and their German and American friends to blockade the Irish ports against England and es tablish bases in Ireland for German submarines. The rebellion broke out a day later than scheduled, on Easter Monday, April 24, but as the world Is aware, German support miscarried and it ended in a complete failure. The report of the royal commission on the rebellion in Ireland states: Used German Money. 'It is now a matter of common no toriety that the Irish 'Volunteers had been in communication with the au thorities in Germany and were for a long time known to have been sup plied with money thru Irish-American societies. This was so stated in pub lic by John MacNell (former president of the Sinn Fein) on November 8, 1914. It was suspected long before the outbreak that some of the money came from German sources.' "The evidence on this subject In possession of the British government provides the clearest proof of these suspicions. "It became clear very soon after the rising that the Sinn Fein leaders were asking Germany for help. On June 17 there waa a message from Berlin to Washington referring to 'A-259 of May 6," a messafge which is missing and saying that Germany was per fectly ready to give further help if the Irish only would say what sort of help they required. Insisted on U-Boat Bases. "On June It von Bernstorff already had sent a dispatch giving an account of the rebellion as far as his informa tion went,- and stating that one thou sand pounds had been provided for the defense of Casement. On July 25 he sent a Ions message giving further FIND OUR PAPA AND news from Ireland, and explaining, that the work of reorganizing the rebels was making good progress and that their lack i of money had been remedied by him. "On September I, in a dispatch to Berlin he enclosed a memorandum from a person called The Irish revo lution director resident in America, which contained detailed proposals for a fresh rising. Any rising, said the Irish revolution director, must be contingent upon the sending by Ger many of an 'expedition with sufficient military foroje to cover a landing.' "On this occasion the German gov ernment was to fix the time and as an inducement the advantage of hav ing submarines and Zeppelin bases in west Ireland, was insisted upon."- COOLER BY NIGHT (Con tinned from Para On. two weeks now and never one of them has said aught but "the water's fine, le's go swimmin'." One of com mon signs in the school rooms of the city at this time is the stealthy boy hood signal of the two fingers nd tne pucaerea up. The lowest temperature reported in Topeka during the last 24 hours was 74 rieerrees at ft o ClOCK mis mormng, 16 degrees above the normal night temperature for the date. Tempera tures this afternoon were expected to go to 90 degrees. Tonight the mer cury is expected to drop to about 65 degrees and tomorrow afternoon -will not be warmer than about 85 degrees. The forecast indicates that Topeka may expect a few thunder showers tonight and tomorrow. The river gauge showed a water height of 10.2 feet this morning, the highest stage of the river since June 9, 1917. The highest temperature ever recorded in Topeka on this date was S3 degrees in 1911 and the lowest was 46 degrees in 1890. The wind was blowing 20 miles an hour from the south this morning. The foreoast says unsettled with probably local thunder showers and cooler tonight and Sunday. DAILY WEATHEE TABLE. Furnished by the weather bureau office, Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four honra ending at 7 a. m. Saturday. Stations High. Low. Free. W'ther. Boston, Mass 70 52 0 Cloudy Calgary, Alb a .18 Clear Chicago, 111 74 54 .54 Pair Cincinnati. 0 8t 72 0 Cloudy Corpus Christl 82 76 O Pair Denver, Colo 82 62 0 Clear" lies Moines, la.... M 70 1.00 Cloudy Duluth. Minn 46 40 1.12 Foggy El Paso, Tex 92 66 0 Cloudy Port Worth, Tex.. 90 Galveston, Tex K! 76 0 Fair Havre, Mont. 50 38 .04 Rain. Jacksonville, Fla.. SO 72 0 Clear Little Hock, Ark.. 90 72 0 Cloudy Los Angeles, Cal.. 68 54 0 Cloudy New Orleans. La.. 86. 72 0 Clear New York, N. Y... 68 5 JT Cloudy N. Platte, Neb... 88 00 W Clear Oklahoma, Okla... 86 70 0 Clear. Phoenix, Ariz 94 58 0 Clear Pittsburg, Pa 80 64 .46 Cloudy Portland, Org 62 42 0 Clear St. Louis, Mo 88 64 0 Fair St. Paul, Minn 78 54 .04 Clear Bait Lake. Utah... 74 46 0 Clear San Francisco HO 48 0 Cloudy Sault Ste. Marie... 64 46 .06 Rain Seattle. Wash 44 0 Clear Sheridan. Wyo 68 44 .12 Rain Spokane, Wash 56 40 0 Fair Tampa, Fla 8B 60 0 Cloudy Toledo, Ohio. 72 56 .02 Cloudy Washington. D. C. 7? 60 0 Cloudy Winnipeg, Man.... 56 l&ansas Weather. Stations High. Low. Pree. Wther. Anthony 8S 68 0 Cloudy Concordia 86 70 0 Cloudy Dodge City 94 74 0 Cloudy Dresden 86 2 0 Clear Emporia 82 70 0 Fair Eureka 84 68 0 Clear Fort Scott 86 66 0 Cloudy Garden City 94 68 0 Clear Goodland A.. 90 54 0 Cloudy Hanover 86 68 0 Cloudy Hays 90 66 0 Cloudy Borton 84 64 0 Cloudy Hutchinson 90 68 0 Cloudy lola 86 72 0 Cloudy Lawrence 84 68 0 Fair Liberal 96 68 0 Cloudy McPherson 8 70 0 Cloudy Maeksville 92 58 0 Clondy Manhattan 88 72 0 Cloudy Phillipsburg 86 62 0 Fair Seott City 92 63 0 Cloudy Sedan Re 70 0 Clear TOPEKA 86 74 0 Clear TJtica 92 62 0 Fair Wichita" 84 72 0 Cloudy Kansas City 84 74 0 Cloudy St. Joseph 86 74 0 Fair No rainfall baa been reported in Kansas In the past 24 hours and temperatures have ranged considerably above normal with tbe sky cloudy over the greater part of the state tola morning. MAMMA!" SHIP LOSS 53 (Centlnoed from Page One.) 24.8. She was owned by the Penin sular Oriental Steam Navigation company, and was registered at Greenock. An English Port, May 25. "I have learned little yet, except that the men got off the boat in orderly fashion," declared Major General Biddle. com mander of American forces in Great Britain today, following a visit to survivors of the torpedoed Moldavia. Most of Them Asleep. "Most of them were asleep at the time of the explosion," said one officer among the survivors, "but there was no aisoraer, so zar as is known. No one' was drowned. All casualties oc. curred at the moment of the explo sion. "After the ship was struck her- of ficers kept on hoping to remain afloat. out wnen n was seen that this was im possible, British destroyers picked us up. xne men were most courageous.' "I never saw better discipline." de clared Captain Johnson, of the United States infantry, a survivor in describ ing today the torpedoing of the trans port, "The torpedo struck the Moldavia forward of the engines, on the port side," Johnson said. "All the troops were sleeping in bunks in their uni forms. There was a loud explosion and the ship's whistle sounded the alarm. All assembled on deck along side the boats in perfect order. It was just like the daily boat drills. I never saw better discipline. TJ-Boat Remained Bidden. "The Moldavia continued under her own steam for a time, for the purpose of avoiding a second torpedo. "The destroyers escorting us circled about and dropped a number of depth charges, but no one saw the subma rine. "It is supposed that the force of the explosion cut off the means of escape for several men who were on the troop deck. The survivors lost all their personal belongings. "It was a situation calling for the utmost courage and steadiness. The men responded nobly and sang as they took to the boats. They gave three cheers as the Moldavia sank." The survivors are now at a rest camp. They are enthusiastic over the splendid work of the ship's off! cers and crew and of the British destroyers. 29 SHIPS THIS MONTH Delivery of 174.661 Tons Largest In Shipping; Board History. Washington, May 25. Steel ships completed thus far In May exceed the output of any previous month in the history of the shipping board. The total output up to and including May 23 is twenty-nine vessels of 174,661 tons. Four steel steamships, totalling 28,200 tons,-were delivered yesterday. 37 ARE MISSING British Steamer Innisearra Torpedoed In Irish Sea Early Yesterday. Cork, May 26. Thirty-seven per sons were missing today from the British steamer Innisearra, which waa torpedoed and sunk early yesterday while bound from Fishguard to this port. Five of her crew were sared. The Innisearra was a steal steamer of 1,412 tons, built in 190S. She was 280.5 feet long, owned by the City of Cork Steam Packet company, and registered at Cork. 3 U. S. MEN ARE LOST Go Down When American Steamer Is Torpedoed a Sea. Washington, May 25. Ensign W. W. LovelL of Brooklyn. N. T., of the navy; Fireman Bernard F. Steirvater. of Everett. Wash., and Water Tender Charles R. Moore, of Somerset, Pa., were lost in the sinking of the Ameri can steamer William Rockefeller recently torpedoed in the war sone. Nnr Teek Cettn Market. New Terk. May 25. COTTON Spot, steady seiddliBg, 28.50. MERMAN GOES UP Well Known Topekan Heads Branch of Red Cross Activity. Director of Bureau of Organi zation in Washington Now. Word has been reeeived In Topeka of the appointment of C. Bi Merriam as director of the bureau of organi sation in the department of military relief of the American Red Cross. The appointment is effective immedi ately. C B. Merriain. Mr. Merriain left Topeka about two montns ago as associate director of the -Red Cross in Washington. His work has been most successful, it is learned, and the appointment an nounced today indicates his value to this great military organization. His new duties will include the finding of men over the United States for service of the American Red Cross in army camps and naval stations.' TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, May 25. CORN Week-end cov ering by shorts ran Dp prices sharply to day in the corn market. Sellers mean while were scarce owing to fresh rains likely to delay tbe completion of planting. Reports that the government had placed unusually large orders for alcohol tended also to stimulate demand for corn, not withstanding that careful inquiry failed to followed by additional rains. Toward the end of tbe session nervous ness over new government regulations in regard to hedging caused a rapid downturn in prices. The close was heavy, lv to H4c not lower, with June S1.37U and July L39 to $1.39. OAis uats hardened in sympathy with corn. Trade, however, was light, after opening c to c higher, with July 66c i" uiarKev rose a iiitie more ana then began to sag. PROVISIONS An unward Tl.nfc In risions appeared to b due to the strength ef grain. Pork lea the advance. later tne market underwent rtertrteri setback as a result of increased offerings ini u Chlease Gralm aa4 rrovlalea Market. (The range of prices on grain fotnres on Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Tbos. J. Myers, 301 N. E. Bldg.) Chicago, May 25. Close tow Today Yes. 139 139 140 Open CORN July ..141 OATS May 76 July 67 PORK May ..40.60 July ..40.90 RIBS May Jnly ..21.30 LARD May July ..22.20 High 142 78 65 715 75 40.80 40.60 34.00 24.03 21.80 21.90 40.50 40.75 41.10 40.S0 24.30 24.02 24.20 22.20 21.87 22.19 Kansas City Grain Market. (The range of prices on grain futures ee Kansas City Board of Trade as reported by Thoa. J. Myers.. 301 N. E. Bldg.) Kansas lty, May 29. Close Open CORN Julv ..146 OATS May July 47 High Low Today Yea. 146 144 144 146 67" 76 76 65 l65 77 68 New Teric Steek Market. (Furnished by T. J. Myers. 301 N. E. Bldg.) Am. Beet Sugar..... Ansconda A T. 8. F-. e..... Baltimore A Ohio.... Central Leather Chesapeake Ohio... C. M. St. P., c C. R. I. P. Chlno Copper Colorado Fuel Iron. Great Northern, p.... Inspiration Miami Kenn opper Missouri Pacific Penn. Railroad Reading Studebaker Southern Pacific Union Pacific IT. S. SteeL c t'tah Copper Wabash Kansas City Prodaee Market. Kanaas City, May 25. CORN Cash: Market unchanged to 5c lower. No. 2 mix ed. 11.5901.61: No. 3, tl.54Url.58: No. 2 white, fl.70l.T5: No. S, ljni1.65; Ne. 2 yellow. $1.601.63; No. S. tl Kxal.SO. OATS-Market unrturusred. No. 3 white, 78c: No. 2 mixed, 7677c. RYE 41.88 1.91. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZ18 S2.854S2.92. HAY Market unchanged. WHEAT Receipts 6 cars. BI'TTER Market unchanged. POULTRY Market Unchanged. ErtOS Firsts, 30c; seconds, 25c. CORN lose: July, $1.44. Chlease Grata anf Prevfsien Market. Chicago. May 28. CORN Close: June, 1.37: July, 1.3919. OATS May, 75c; June, 71c; July, PORK May. 40.50; July," $40.50. LARD May, $24.00; July, 124.02 Sept, SlibRT RIBS May, $21.30; July, 21 90; Sept, $22.37. New York Mossy Market New York. May 25. MONEY Mercantile Saper, 4 months and 6 mouths. 6 per cent, terling. 60 day bills. 4.72 commercial. 60 day bills on banks. 4.72: commercial, 60 day bills, 4.71 demand, 4.75 cables, 4.76 7 16. Franca, demand, 5.71 cables. 5.69. Bar silver, 99c: Mexican dollars. 77c. Government bonds, irregular; railroad bonds, easy. New Verk Stock Market. WaH 8t., New Yerk. May 25. STOCKS Stocks again were freely liquidated at the opening of today'a brief trading period on apprehension arising from delay in con nection with the government's policy of revenue taxation. Virtually all active is sues yielded 1 to 2 points, rails also re acting moderately altbo indications point to sb earl? advance of rates by the federal authorities. Losses were recover! to a con siderable extent pn the short covering of the later dealings, rails featuring the rally. The closing was steady, gal appraxl- New York. May 25. Close Today Yes. 72 65 65 84 84 55 S3 67 68 59 58 44 42 21 21 42 43 51 51 80 89 51 62 28 29 32 32 22 22 43 43 87 86 41 41 84 83 121 121 107 107 80 80 82' A Desire for Good PRINTING Helps Both Yourself and JONES BIRCH Gas Equal To 15,000 Tons of Coal Daily WEATHER REPORT. nrEATBEB FORECAST for Kansas: Unsettled, probable local thunder showers and cooler tonight and Son day. V To obtain the same results as with gas it would probably have been necessary to more than double the 6.250 tons of soft coal named in, yesterday's report In order to equal in efficiency the amount of natural gas available for use in this territory for one day. Experts who have made elaborate tests have found that the ef ficiencies of natural gas heating and cooking appliances are much higher than the efficiencies of coal heating and cooking appliances. This means that the percentage of total heat in the fuel that can be delivered into actual heating service is very much larger In the case of natural gas than in the case of solid fuel In ordinary household use, according to experts, the percentage of heat units of gas actually utilised is three or four times the per centage of heat. units of coal utilised. If the figures of experts are correct it probably would require more than 15,000 tons of coal dairy to completely displace the amount of gas available for use in this section. Figuring in a gen eral way this would be three hundred car loads of the largest sise coal cars, or about ten trains. KANSAS NATURAL OAS CO. irt BOTH LOK af ONBY IV YOC PONT BELL TOOK fj5VwH t T, gsj Gresa Salt V Greea St Hera fesnirwIM none it r6 STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Toorself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Lire Stock Ommlssioa- Merchavnta, Stock Tarda, Kan. City Wo Also Have Osw Owm Offlejea ma mfm. Demr. csty, aw. Fcart WotUi and mated 450,000 shares. Liberty Ss sold st 98.98 to 99, first 4's at 94.74 to 64.82, second 4 at 94.66 to 94.74 and 4's at 97.36 to 97.42. Over night develepraenta Including the ne certain status of revenue legislation pre cipitated another active selling movement at the opening of today's stock market. War shares and equipments of various descriptions led the 'reaction. Bteels and kindred issues yielding 1 to 2 points with Coppers, Shippings end prominent special ties. Kails forfeited large fractions to a Folnt. Substantial rallies succeeded the irst setback but the undertone continued extremely unsettled. Liberty bonds were steady. t i 11 Chleaco Live Stack Market. Chicago. May 25. HOGS Receipts 12.000, Monday, 44,000. Market weak, 10c under yesterday's average. Bulk of sales, $17.10(3 17.40; light, $17.00317.50; mixed, 4l6.85 17 50; heavy. $16.0017.30 rough, $16,008 16.50; pigs, $15.00(817.50 CATTLE Receipts 500. Market steady. Native ateers. $10.4017,50; stackers and feeders, $9.25 13.50; cows and heifers $7.25 rl4.85: calves, $8.0O14.6O. SHEEP Receinta 5.000. Market steady. Sheep, $9.75&14.85; lambs, $13.2517.00. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Ksnsaa City, May 25. HOGS Receipts 1000. Market steady to weak. Bulk of sales. $17.00417.15; heavy, $17.0017.10; packers and butchers, $17.0017.15; light, $17.06tl7.2O; pigs. $17.00 17.25. CATTLE Beeeipts 600. Market steady Prime fed steers, $16.9017.40; dressed beef steers. $13.0016.75; western steers, $14,000 17.35: southern steers. $110014.50; cows, $8.251314.00; heifers, $9.5015.00; stockrs and feed-rs. $9.7513.75; hulls, $8,000.11.50; calves, $.50ei3.O0T SHKKP Receipts 400. Market steady. Lambs, $18.5019.00: yearlings. $14,000 17.00; wethera. $13.0016.50; ewes. $11.50O 15.00; Blockers and feeders, $7.(XXi 17.00.. Morning Graia Gaseist. (Furnished by tbe Topeka Board ef Trade.) Chicago, Msy 25. The Tribune: Grals Corn bears were uneasy last oigbt owing to the reports that the government baa given contracts to Peoria distillers for 30, 000,000 gallona of alcohol. Some of tbe trade had It that it waa for 70.000.000 gal lons and others that the latter Quantity named represented dollars rather than gal lons. It is sa'J that tbe government has been figuring on placing a large contract for some time psst. A number ef men la the trade had intimations that It waa about to be placed and bought corn en H laat Monday only to sell out at a lower price. Those who had it again yesterday bought on the break and tne late bulge was tbe result It is aot expected there will be any material change in the condition of oat market until tne May ia-eut of the way. A week more will aee the finish. People in close touch with the seaboard say they do aot expect a material revival In the export demand for oats for several weeks. A belief that there has been toe much selling of coarse graina en scenery and slow rasb demand is expressed by a local trader who ia now on a visit to tbe southwestern mar. kets. Tbe trade generally is bearish and safaverabie -weather or s revival is -cash HIDS J. Brown Zua' Cared aides. Ne. J'.' 16a Salt Cared Hides, Xi. ...lse. Hides (aa te sise), Na. 1 .ISM to SSJ6 lass (as to sise no. s. Write far prlees aad shtpstas Sage arasaats made promptly Joaepl a, nil, K. c. sc. demand Is expected te result in general covering by shorts. New York, May 25. Financial News Bul letin: Stocks Comment:. International banking circles report Increasing Indica tions from what seem to he reliable chan nels that international troubles are press ing much harder In Germany than at any time since the war began. Failure of the next great military offensive msy bring this tendency to a concrete form. It ia said. Inveatigations made by responsible stock exchange en the situation induced them to aay that the abort interest In the stock market now appears to be larger tbaa It has been for a long time. Persistent ra mors are circulating to the effect that an important motor car deal Is pending. Sev eral com pan lea have been mentioned ia the line of combination with government ap proval and to promote the manufacture of Liberty motors for trucks and aeroplanes. A specialty market with s stronger dls- Sositlon to await important news seems to eveloplng. If tbe state of sentiment Is any guide. Low priced lndustriala and rails in the meantime are expected to display bullish activity, but llss as a whole la like ly to be irregulsr, seoordlng to enr Im pressions and may b a sale on the rail lea. The Sun report of a $500,060,000 railroad advance next week should stimulate the rails. Predictions are being made la well Informed anartera cf a riae of 25 noiMta i the not distant future for C. K. I. The fore cast cornea from Steel channels which have bad accurate information no the stocks, TOPEKA sfAKKKT BRPOBtT FO WtOON.DtLIVItltS, (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing" Ce I Tepeka, Kae., May 25. CATTLE AND HOOi MIXED AND BUTCHERS.. ...-4.-vfri- HEAVY 11(V;.; LIGHT U-fiOaluiso lus Mx-iikiU6 Csttle and calf prices bases oe Ksnsaa City market, less shipping expenses. Tepeka Hay Market. PRAIRIE HAY-VlTol""- ALFALFA $22.00. v PaaHry mm 4 XSggs.' (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Case, pany, center Laurent and Madlaoa.) Topeka. Kan., May SB. Springs, wr 2 lbs.. 19c; roosteri, i6e broilers over 2 lbs. and under. 30c- hen. Toi-lsac 2aei Unor H 2 BUTTER -40SJ47e. (Karaiabed by J. H. Blllard. corner Kaaaaa A em f a. v MIXKI. CORN-O40 WHITE CORN $1.65, OATS 50c (Furnished by J. A. Gilchrist, 626 Qaley FRAf RIP! HATal1

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J THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 191& 3 PEACE TALK IDLE Ex-President Taft at Kansas City for Red Cross. t I North Side News Never Before Has Country Been So United, He Says. Kansas City, May 25. The most peace loving- persons in the United States, without being cranks, are the members of. the League to Enforce Peace. But there is not one of them who is not determined the war must be fought thru to victory without thought of "peace by negotiation." So said William H. Taft, former president of the United States and head of the Peace League, at the Hotel Muehle bach Friday. Mr. Taft had Just reached Kansas City. In the hotel lobby as he stepped to the desk to register Missouri bank ers, gathered for their annual meeting, applauded the former president and there was a rush of men and women to shake hands with him. Mr. Taft said there was only one message he desired to bring, the story of a people so aroused that anyone who suggests peace, peace except thru victory, "is going to get run v over." Whole Country Vnltcd. "I do not think the country in all Its history has ever been so solidly united on one subject as it Is today on the question of the war," he continued. Last week the League to Enforce Peace met n Philadelphia for a 4-day session. Four thousand delegates were present from as far west as man. There was one sentiment expressed, the war must be and will be fought thru to ultimate victory. Peace will be enforced by fighting. "1 have traveled In many states re cently and I have heard the same ex pression everywhere and found me same spirit prevailing." planHwemorial day Americans In France Will Honor French nx Well aw Own Dead. With the American Army in Lor raine. May 25. The American army Is planning a Memorial day celebration. Following the custom back home, the graves in certain localities will be dec orated with flowers and flags. French soldiers "-ill be thus remembered as well as Americans. The chaplains In this sector will hold special sen-ices in memory of the Americans who have already fallen in battle. SANTA FE NOTES N'ntr mill personals from Santa Fe br' Frances Joms. ill tiratfan Telephone between anil 10 a. in. 3.JO; other hours, 4751 K-2. Some one at the general offices who has fcnn-il out a formula to determine the s mount .of the proposed waire Ini-rease f. nn't that If one naeil this rule the results would be aero, and stil another declared lint at the end of eai'll month he would 1 Inilebteil to the Santa Fe to the extent .t-f. The formula la its followa: Anil to the first three ftgurea of yonr 1!1T nu'nnionlle lli-ense the size of your shoes r--''then subtract the number of bnttona thire ure ln'.alng on your inat summer's suit, divide lr the size of your collar, add to Mils the total amount of your unpaid rcrs nnil laundry bills and divide by 80 irr eent of vour telephone number: next I. '.i the total" weight of your entire fnmily r'ns vonr serial number in the military i:- ft and divide by the number of all the r .whrm on Ini-rease to railroml employes tti't MeAdon bus made, the result being v t-nii may expei-t. Mrs. Kmllv K. ;innt has returned from CV mite, where she attended a convention of he ladies of the 1. A. It. 'Vord has been received in the Hty of tin serious Illness of I. S. Iavis. of Pavette. Idaho. Mr. Pavia formerly wnrkH in the cabinet ahops and moved to lVvette thirteen years oiro. -rjee II. Strntton. clerk in the sndltor of dlK- urseinents offline, underwent a sec ond on ration at the company hospital pccentlv He is. doing nicely. A. Mai'trom. chief scale inspector, is in Gmhrle. i kln.. on a business trip. Mss-M irgnerite Wright, of the general rTi'm rlei'arfment. Is ill with scarlet fever. f'lnrnn'" Itosen and Thomas McFnrland. both of liie general claim department, left Saturday morning for Camp Funston. KKVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. Tie knows not his own strength that has not met adveralty. Ben Johnaon. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad sup per. Francis Bacon. Onlv one life, it will soon be naat Ooly what's done for Jesus will last. Never deliberate about what is clenrly wrong, and try to persusde yourself that It Is not. Frederick Temple. And be answering said. Thou Shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength snd with all hy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself Luke 10:27. Each of ns inevitable Karh of us limitless each of na with his or her right upon the earth; F.ach of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth Each of us here as divinely as any is here. Walt Whitman. Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the dnrknehs, of our likeness that is to be: snd our whole life is but a chsmber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth after warda. when finished and dry. Henry Ward Beecher. mm .SAVING PR.ICES II w. mm m at U Kauroaa waicnes FOR MEN WHO KNOW! X7HY py exorbitant AriMaaWatrkmtil paean yon must bay on tost wm pus tb tnapsctloa ox row employer s agent a order to nou your job? We will sell yon a Watch No R. R. Can Turn Down JIM svs.rar a r wvwfllBellittovcm en terms to mM your CMVUlOMt. tad w wxmntM oar prie will hm tu low or lower than vooeanobtaia tlMwheTt. W know what yea ar mn Mkirurt. and wswilltMlB roa oat. Kwmrw Watch void on SO day approval. Hmrrlm-Coar .Jewelry Co. 104 ImI Sixth t. I o I ff .eTS. I A-9a I new Items for this column may be left at Petro's drug store, or phone fc.le.-i.or Kimball after 2 p. m.; other hours pUoiie 3530. H. Mathews caught eighty pounds of German carp in the river this morn ing. The Red Cross rooms were filled all day yesterday. Interest in the work grows steadily, and the work done is up to standard. The following women worked at the rooms yesterday: Mrs. S. S. Myers, Mrs. Esther Amell, Mrs. W. C. Beers, Mrs. Ira Wells, Mrs. G. C. Lang. Mrs. C. W. Morrow, Mollle Beers, Mrs. J. E. Lancaster, Miss Dol lie Wells. Mrs. H. G. Barrett. Mrs. F. E. Rogers. Mrs. W. Rogers, Mrs. Er nest Wells, Mrs. J. M. Beachum. Mrs. J. B. Skinner. Mrs. Ed Bissell. Mrs. G. V. Hannah. Mrs. O. P. Davis. Mrs. J. P. Van Nice, Mrs. A. T. Rowe. Mrs. W. 8. Sherwood. Mrs Charles Stewart, Mrs. Towles, Mrs. E. P.. Goodnow, Mrs. C. C. Clark. Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, Mrs. Art McMahan, Mrs. C. W. Cooper, Mrs. A. L. Muston, Mrs. H. S. Curry, Miss H. M. Grout, Mrs. J. T. West brook, Mrs. Acord, Mrs. Acord, Jr., Mrs. Harrison Smith, Mrs. R. S. Plum mer, Mrs. Charles J. Stewart, Mrs. Lucy Wright, Mrs. M. H. Eldred, Mrs. Stewart Henry, Stella Herring, Mrs. Slocum. Mrs. O. C. Myers, Mrs. J. E. Hows. Katherine Buechner, Mrs. Wm. Farnsworth, Mrs. James Kannarr. Mrs. Joseph W. Johnson. Mrs, L. T. Rame. Mrs. J. E. Tudhope. Mrs. O. P Antrim, Mrs. M. Smith, Mrs. J. H Dungan. Mrs. E. B. Robinson, Mrs D L Button. Mrs. M. A. Keller. Mrs. W A. Marshall. Mrs. W. Hi Zarker, Mrs Frank McCay, Mrs. W. H. Thomas. Mrs. J. L. Probasco, Mrs. James An derson. Mrs. Louise Paddleford. Mrs. T. J. Murphy. Mrs, J. H. Skinner. Red Cross Play. The playlet, "The Call of the Colors," given last night by the Quincy Junior high school for the junior neo uross, was most success ful and was played to a capacity house. The young people showed the result of careful training, had an easy stage presence, while the dialogue was weu sustained. Those taking part were: Loretta Huber, Margaret Davis, Irene McQuilken. Mabel Rug ger. Inez McQuilken, Mabel Stump. Marguerite Grace Daisy Wilcox, Mabel Leavitt, Winnivere Button, Dorothy Willits. Margaret Smith, Bessie Byrd, Beatrice Kassebaum, Lucille Alden, Lucille Sherburne, Herman Benjamin, George Baer, Francis Morton, Arte mis Stripling, Lawrence Smith. Flag- Raising. A patriotic program was given this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Union Pacific material yards, when an American flag was raised. The flag' was given by the employes of the bridge and building, motor car and storehouse departments of the yards, and floats from a 70 foot pole, which stands directly In front of the store house. The Colored Glee club, composed of workers from the yard, sang sev eral patriotic selections, and a number of addresses were given. Herbert Wiendel, storekeeper, presided and the following men made patriotic ad dresses: Dr. Robert Gordon, pastor of the First Baptist church; R. W. Blair, attorney for the Union Pacific system; Fred Voiland, four minute man; J. A. Troutman, and E. S. Jamie- son, division storekeeper oT' the Union Pacific at sArmstrong. A delegation of several members of the Chamber of Commerce also participated in the ceremonies. Notes and Personals. Mr. Weaver and family from Phil lipsburg, Kan., have moved to North Topeka, and will live at 224 West Gor don street. Mr. Weaver is employed by the Union Pacific railway company. Raymond Henderson is spending his furlo with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Henderson of Meriden. Hender son enlisted last fall and is now in a training camp in North Carolina. J. W. Priddy has returned from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. A. V. Small In Augusta, Kan. Before return ing Mr. Priddy attended the G. A. R. encampment at Chanute. Blue Post No. 250 will meet at the fire station tomorrow morning at 10:30 to go In a body to the Christian church where Memorial day services will be held. The Blue corps No. 5 will meet at Mrs. King's. At 2:30 the post will meet at the fire station and go in autos to West Indianola where memorial services will be held at 3:15 o'clock. The Rev. H. L. Nel son of the Potwin Presbyterian church will make the address. Miss Stella Mitchell, domestic sci ence teacher in the high school, will leave for Florida, after school closes, and will join her father. Doctor Mitchell, in a permanent home. Doc tor Mitchell has been spending the winters in Florida for several years, and Miss Mitchell has been making her home at 931 Van Buren street, the former Mitchell home. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, of 1113 Jackson street, are visiting Mrs. Anderson's cousin. Mrs. John E. Paul, of Denver, and on their return trip will stop off at Wichita Mrs. W. A. Marshall, of North Jackson street, too the civil service examination recently for departmental clerkship service, but did not file ap plication for a position at the time. She has been notified that she passed successfully and has been asked to file application for a position with the government. A. M. Petro, the Druggist. Adv. I Claude Frain, up until three weeks ago city passenger agent of the Union Pacific, has been appointed station agent on the North side. Frain will have charge of the passenger depot, and in addition he will be' In charge of troop train movements on this di vision of the railroad. He has been in the employ of the Union Pacific for the past seven years and before com ing to Topeka he was city ticket agent J for the company at Salina. Among the Crran-Iies. j The Second Presbyterian church, the Rev. Joseph P. Hicks, pastor. Morning service at 11 o'clock; sub ject. "The Chivalry of Christ." Even ing service at 8 o'clock: subject, "Per sonal Purity." Special music by the choir. Sunday school at 9:30, Chris tian Endeavor at 7 o'clock. Church of the Good Shepherd. Epis copal. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the Rev. Herbert Hawkins, celebrant. Evening service at 8 o'clock. Rev. William Whittle, minister in charge. Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock, with adult Bible class conducted by Miss Babcock. The North Topeka Baptist church, the Rev. L. O. Weir, pastor. Morning service at 11 o'clock; subject of ser mon, "A Lesson From a Coin." Even ing subject. "A Little Man and a Great Savior." Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Choir practice Friday evening. The Kansas Avenue Methodist church, the Rev. E. M. Paddleford. pastor. Morning service at 1 1 o'clock subject of sermon. "Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone." Evening sub- WHERE ARMIES PREPARE FOR WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLE Single black line shows battle front on March 21, when Germans started spring offensive; double black lis indicates present front: dotted line indicates battle front a Tear ago before the crest German retreat. ject, "God's Purpose In Man's Promo tion. Sunday school at 9:45 o clock. Epworth League, 7 o'clock. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The Central Avenue Christian church, the Rev. Harry Anderson, pas tor. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 8 o'clock. Bible school at 9:45 o'clock. HIGHLAND PARK. Notes and personals from Highland Park, by Mrs. O. ShanL Telephone 2329 N-L Credit Is due the lieutenants for their willing and faithful services in the Ked Crosa drive. The work was systematically planned and every house in the district visited. The quota waa $350 and the dona tions amounted to $380. Mrs. Harry Khodes, accompanied by Miss Maud Spaulding. left Friday for a montb'a stay In California." Mrs. Rhodes will visit her brother while there. Senior class stunt night Monday. May 27 1918. Everybody welcome. No admis sion. Come have a good time with the seniors. Kev. C. W. Marliu win deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday at 10 a m. Sunday evening he will address the seniors of the Berryton high school. Mrs. O. M. Stone, of Horton, spent a few days last week with Mrs. T. J. Parrlsh and family. R. I. Disney, of Ardmore, Okla.. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Vance Tues day. On account of the school festivities in the assembly room during next week, there will be no meeting of the Ked Cross, but all workers are requested to spend as much time as possible at the work rooma down town. The regular Friday meetinea will be resumed June 7. Four hundred and nine garments were made durlug the month of April. Ir. E. J. Kulp will deliver the address at the high school commencement exercises Wednesday evening. May 29. Senior roll: Edith Marah. Ruth Peck. Grace Frye. Olive Van Horn. Blanche Kreig. Sarah Thomp son. Charles Cuaic, Harry Herahey, George Crawford. Albert Swan, Rollin Smith, Charles MeCarter. A very pleasant event took place Tues day. May 21, at the George Strawn home south of town. It being Mr. Strawn's birthday anniversary. It has been the custom of the neighbors for many years to meet with Mr. Strawn on these oc casions. He is an old settler, having pur chased the home where he now resides in the early 60s. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Smalley. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. (issche and granddaughter. Carol Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith. Mr. snd Mrs. Chas. Holston. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Holston, Mr. and Mra. Riley Nlccum, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Real, Mr. and Mrs. John Carter. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Stiles, Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Marlin. Mrs. J. W. Was-enrodt. Mrs. -W. H. Conl tls. Mrs. A. C. Kornhans. Mrs. C. B. Buehrer. Mrs. O. Shanl, Mra. W. Strawn, Mrs. Ada Russell. Miss .Tohanna Wagen rodt. Miss Marie Carter. Miss Elsie Carter. Miss Margaret Carter. Miss Beth Carter, and Master John Carter. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chubb and daugh ter. Father, left today for a few weeks vacation In Los Angeles. The grade pupils of the Highland Park school will give a musical program and the operetta. "Doll Land." at the school house Friday. May 31. beginning sharply st 8 p. m. All patrons of tbe school in vited. Memorial services will be held at Linn Creek Thursday. Mav 30. at 2:30 p. m. Hneh Fisher will deliver the address. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society conducted a very interesting service at the fhureh last Sundsy evening. The offer ing, which is to be used for the support of French orphans, amounted to $8 be sides the srtlcles of gold and silver. The Highland Park seventh grade gave an Indoor picnic in honor of the eighth grade Wednesdsy evening. May 22 the class history was read by LlHIan Ablstrom. The class will was given by Harold Porter and Clark Butts and tbe prophecy by Hll dred Frost sad Vera Chubb. Tbe eighth erade commencement Tues day evening. Mfv 2fi. assembly room of grade building. Class roll Oliver Adams. Lillian Ablstrom, Clark Butts', Vera Chubb, Mildred Froat, Eva Hlgglns, Harold Porter, Evelyn Powell, Mattie Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wassen, of Clay street, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bates. OAKLAND NOTES Note and personals from Oakland by Frances -Jones, 211 Grattan street Telephou? betweeo S aod 10 a. m., 353C, otoe ti ours, 4751 K-2. Oakland exceeded her second Red Cross war fund quota of $800 by $52.70, making a total of $852.70 subscribed with the Oak land team. Four hundred eighty dollars and forty-five cents of the amount was In cash and $370.25 in pledges. In addi tion to this it is known that at least $500, and probably more, was subscribed in To peka and elsewhere by Oakland residents. It U believed that Oakland people sub scribed to the lle& Cross well onto $1,500. Oakland is proud of her record, and is de termined to stand back of the boys at the front to the last penny. Miss Bessie Mackenzie has as a week end guest Miss Pearl Arthur of Effingham, Kan. Mrs. F. W. Flanagan has returned to her home, 139 Arter avenue, after being ill with rheumatism at St. Francis hospitul. Mrs. Bert Hummel and son Lenox spent several days of this week with Mrs. Hum mel's parents. Mr. and Mrs. JU Biacoe, Arter avenue. Mrs. G. H. Knslgn is visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Edward C. Ireeman and family of Kirwin, Kan. A special meeting of the visitors of School District 30 will be held In the Oak land school bouse on the 29th of May at S:30 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of increasing the school levy above the $7,000 already voted, the total levy not to exceed 18 mills. The following question will also be voted on, "Shalt manual training be added to the school?" Special music will be had at the T nlon Memorial services to be tield Sunday morn ing at the Oakland Presbyterian church. The sermon will be given by the Rev. G. G. Home instead of the regular pastor, the Rev. J. Swogger. The Rev. Mr. Swogger and wife have been called to Camp Funston by the departure of their son for France. The veterans of Oakland will meet at the post office at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning to march to the church in a body. Ira Bnrkbolder of the ;.47t'i Amublance company stationed at Camp Pike. Ark., is visiting friends and relatives in the city. The Oakland Christian church will have their second patriotic service Sunday even ing at which time seven or more stars will be added to the service flag. The service will begin at 8 o'clock. Special music will be given and an especial address will be given by tbe pastor, tbe Rev. G. G. Home. S. E. Webb of Williamstown. Kan., is visiting bis daughter. Mrs. R. A. Peters and family. On his return next week he will be accompanied by his little grandson, Roland Peters, who will spend the sum mer in Williamstown. Mr. and Mrs. Sara Jones of Fort Hodge, Kan., and Miss Lacy Uhlmsn of Topeka are gnests of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Starr. Oakland avenne. There will be no services Sunday even-ins- at the Oakland Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reauga are tbe parents of a son. born Friday afternoon, at Stormont hospital. Mr. Arthur Piatt, formerly a teacher in the Oakland school will be the new prin cipal at tbe Highland Park school begin ning next September. Arthur J. Harris left Saturday for Camp Funston to become a member of the nation al army. At the Oakland Methodist church Sunday evening the Epworth League will have charge of tbe program which is as follows: Song. "Onward Christian Soldiers Pro cession of the Allies: duet "America the Beautiful. Misses Valda Johnson and Fave Knox address of welcome, the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie; selection, ladies quartette; dedication of the Epwortlt League service flag. Miss Beatrice Peak: prayer. 'Ameri ca." Junior Ep worth League: installation of officers address, "War Work. Edwin Benton offering, special mnsic, male quar tet "Around Camp Fire:" medley, orefaes tar: tableau: Star aSpaagled Banner'- and the benediction- EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personals from Bast Side by Frances Joues, 211 Grattan street. Telephone betweeu d and 10 a. in. 3ju; otner Iiours. 47.11 K-2. The East side unit of tbe Red Cross met at the Lafayette school Friday afternoon with a large number in attendance. Any one iutereated in the Red Cross work is in vited to attend. Mrs. W. L. Kline, Twiss avenue, is spending the week end in Holton with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Elliott. The Ladlea' Aid society of the Seward Avenue Methodist church will have an all day meeting Wednesday with Mr. Roy 1'eterson, Scotland aveuue. The Parent-Teachers' association of the Lafayette achool held a meeting Friday afternoon at which officers were elected for the nert year. They art: President, Mrs. F. H. Hope; vice president. Mrs. Margaret Pease: secretary. Miss Hester Towie and treasurer, Mrs. Ruble. There will be a special bualneaa meeting at the Belvoir Community Center church Wednesday evening of next week at 8 o'clock. This will be a community affair, and any one Interested In the church la Invited to attend. The Seward Avenue Baptist church will have their regular Sunday services in the morning. The Kev. Mr. Moore will talk on "Old Knemiea Pursuing." and in the evening "The Borrowed Axe." Mr;.-ft?? Wli!ke Mr- nre Walker and Mr. William Walker and little son Charles have returned to their respective homes in White City after spending a short time with .their brother, Virgil Walker, 408 Chandler street. Frank O. ravls, of fire station No. 2; has been called to Payette, Idaho, by the serious Illness of his father, U. S. Davis Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. driggs. Golden avenne, of the safe irrival In France of their son. Lance (rrilTZS. Who is with h J formerly stationed at Fortress Monroe. I Mr- i1"" Keeler and daughter. Mary I Lois, of Rawlins. Wyo.. will arrive next weea to visit Mrs. Keeler's mother. Mrs. Mary J. Brentnall, Kast.Sixth avenue Sunday morning Memorial dav will be observed st the East Side Methodist church. The sermon subject will be Honoring Our Dead." In the evening The pastor, the Rev. Fred Sutton, will talk on Preliufire Cou,dn,t RUe Above Race Mrs. Virgil Walker, 408 Chandler street, entetalned with a party Friday evening for her hnsband. Mr. Walker.who will leave Sunday for Kanass City and from there will go to a National Cantonment for train ing. Tbe guests of the evening were- Mr Walker. Mr. snd Mrs. Preston Sawver Mr and Mrs. Clsrence Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs" James MrCall. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stonel ouist. Mr. anil Mrs. Frank Laffertv. Mrs. McGregory. Mrs. Frank Nelson. Mrs C Cooper. Mrs. Frank White. Mrs. Jo Dwverl Mrs. George Domme. Mrs. C. Myes. Mrs. Delia Hooper. Mr. Ottlnger, Messrs Lee, George snd William Walker of White City Charles Cooper, Charles Walker and Wll lard Lafferty. Mrs. Flora Wilkinson entertained a nnm ETI 'rie"ds Friday evening st her home, p Lake street, with a musicale. The af fair waa given in honor oj her daughter Miss Nannie Wilkinson, who will leave soon to spend the summer in Kansas city wbere she will study music About forty-five guests were present. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jones have sold their home at 211 Grattan street, the pleee to oar. ua airs, ueorge Mcti.ee. Chandler street. A thank offering of tha Ul,.n. -A clety will be taken Sunday evening at the Seward Avenue Methodist church A Miss Cbilson from India will talk. ln the morning tbe regular services will be had. The Lincoln Literary and Sewing Circle No. L will meet all day Tuesday at the hall. Each guest has been asked to bring ber lunch. Mrs. Claude Rrortnce and two children of Marion. Kan., see visiting Mrs. Rrovinee's parents. Mr. and Mrs. eF. H. Thomas. East Sixth avenue. Fred Kesler and son Frank of Ellsworth. Kan are guesta of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Thomas. Mr. Kesler and son are en route home after some time spent ln Chanute, Kan. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Open until "I. W. W. stands for what In Kansas is most risky, -That is to say, if it, perchance. Should stand for "I want whiaky Clr-Clngle. Dr. Arthur S. Henderson will lec ture to his Bible class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the First Congregational church, corner Seventh and Harrison streets. F. 3. Willard, well known Topeka artist and photographer, has received word of the safe arrival of his son, George T. Willard, In England, Young Willard Is with the 818 engineers. The regular members of the Fine Arts faculty at Washburn col lege, will remain in town to instruct during the six weeks' summer session. Courses will be given in voice, piano, organ, violin, harmony and musical hiistory. The summer school opens Monday, May 27. John E. Higgins, 321 Chandler street, a' bookkeeper for the Topeka Oil company, and John F. Powell, 411 Jefferson street, a salesman for the Wolff Packing company, have volun teered ln the tank service and will be inducted Into service and sent to Jef ferson Barracks, May 30. Later, they will go to Gettysburg, Pa., for train ing. Exercises in celebration of Italy Day were held Friday in the city schools, in connection with the me morial services conducted by the G. A. R. Some of the students wore the Italian colors, red, white and green. An evening of music by Miss Jennie Blinn and Miss Ethel Everlngham was opened by the singing of the Italian national hymn. At the recent election of officers of the Federal Bureau of Animal Indus try Veterinary association of Kansas, two Topekans were elected. The bal loting was done by mail. The officers elected were: Dr. James Fleming, Kansas City, Kan., president; Dr. C. W. Barnhart, Wichita, vice president; Dr. B. W. Murphy, Topeka, secretary, and Dr. Francis S. Bingham, Topeka, treasurer. W. E. Peterson, s, government specialist in dairying, wilt address Shawnee county dairymen Monday night at Oak Grange halL Miss Rena Faubian, specialist in cheesemaking, will demonstrate the making of cot tage cheese. Mr. Peterson will speak at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the farm of Charles Holston on Route 2. Another meeting will be held at Ross ville Tuesday evening. Claud E. Frain, who until the gov ernment order abolishing commercial agencies was received, was city pas senger agent for the Union Pacific has been appointed agent in charge of the North Topeka passenger station, it is announced by G. O. Goodsell, as sistant general passenger agent. Frain ha been with the Union Pacific for about seven years. His new duties will also Include responsibility for troop trains on this division. A meeting of the Central Y. M. C. A. board of directors was held Friday night and elected officers as follows: E. L. Copeland, president; F. A. Derby, vice president; L. D. Whitte more, secretary, and J. R. Sargent, treasurer. These men are elected for a term of one year. The directors, elected for a term of three years, chosen at last night's- meeting are: Charles F. Adams, Frank B. Parker, O. E. Wright. A. P. McKown, D. A. Derby, E. L. Copeland and Justice J. S. West. The May number of the Church Outlook, a paper in Its tenth issue, will be sold for the benefit of the Red Cross. The publication for May contains material relative to the Red Cross, and particularly the local unit, and the cover was designed by the Red Cross publicity committee. The number also contains a sketch of Grace Cathedral, one of a series of historical articles on Topeka churches. Women In Red Cross costume will be at the church doors Sunday morning to sell papers, at 10 cents a copy, to those who attend the services. Assumption parochial -school, the Holy Name school and St. Joseph's school, the three Catholic schools of Topeka, have made a record for war savings. Of these schools, St. Jo seph's, where the students are nearly all children of foreign-born parents, has the highest record. Every room in each school has a war savings club, and everv boy and girl has bought thrift stamps and paid membership fees ln the Junior neo jross. iiw schools were visited Friday by .-Governor Arthur Capper, who addressed the children. He was accompanied by John McCarry, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, who also made a speech to the students. Capt. P. H. Coney, a veteran of the Civil war, was present and made an ad dress. The women ln Crosby Brothers' store have completed and are exhibit ing in the store windows a knitted quilt for the army. Miss Nona Atkin son, head of the art department, sug gested the idea to the girls in the store. A collection of 20 cents from each person in the store was taken for the purchase of yarn, and tbe girls In the store knitted the blocks. Seventy-seven blocks were made. Last week the young women remained in the store after working hours to put the quilt together, under the direction of Miss Gladys Larimer, art instruc tor, and Miss Atkinson. The quilt has five service blocks of white, with a blue star knitted in the center of each, and the blocks are bordered In red. These stars are for the young men who have gone into military service from the store. In cross stitch in the center of the quilt are the words: "The Crosby Brothers' Co., Topeka, Kan., 1918." The quilt will be sent either direct to General Pershing or to Miss Louise Kenninger. a former em- ploye of the store, who Is now a nurse in France. 9 o'clock Open until Texas Begins Wheat Harvest, Fort Worth. May 25: The harvest ing of the 1918 wheat crop began In, America yesterday ln parts of Den-1 ton, Cooke and Wise counties. The! new grain is in the rich bottom lands where maturity of the grain Is faster j than on the prairies. i Bell-ans Absolutely Removes my mm t indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c t v. BUY A HOME and build np the country and To peka A Few Homes for Sale CAPITOL BOIIOINO LOAX FlMH SSI 1 --on sale arter (No 'phone or mail orders, please.) 9 o'clock -On the Main Floor- 0c 'White Ivory Vanity Box with puff and cake of powder. $1.00 Boxes of Stationery on sale after 7 this evening...... Women's 25c Black Cotton Hose; slightly Irregular... 10c Cards of Needle Point Steel Pins with black heads Men's T5c Athletic Union Suits on sale after 7 this evening. 5c Ginghams In fancy checked and plaid patterns per yard .13 50 13$ 5 -47 Wa -On the 3rd Floor- $1.00. $1.10 and np to $1.75 Waists; white voiles and organdies at tractively trimmed with embroidering, lace and embroidery; new, fresh Waists, every one of them. Pelletier's tl.00 Special" ftp Waists are Included on sale after 7 this evening aDC Girls' np to $6.50 Coats and Dresses; fourteen gingham Dresses, ten white voile and organdie Dresses and six blue-and-white Middy Dresses, and six shepherd checked Coats; good styles, every O "TQ one of them on sale after 7 this evening 0lf Morton's 5c Button Mints: lime, mint, clove and wintergreen flavors after 7 this evening 2) for 5c 4oc Assorted Chocolates on sale after 7 this evening, per box sbbC Women's 5c Handkerchiefs with colored embroidered edges on sale after fj" 7 3 for 9 C Notions at price: Thread. Pearl Buttons, Tape, Darning Cotton, Ricrac Braid, Hair Pins, etc. all on sale after 7 this 1 evening Up to 5c Boj Wear; Waists, Pants, Shirts, Rompers, Hats, Caps, Union Suits, and a h -the like your choice JL 5r C American Flags; the 8x1 o-inch size, fast color, on sale after 7 this evening C American Flairs; the 15x2 3 -Inch size, fast color i sale this evening. Children's 10c Stocking; black cotton ln sizes up to 6 H 9 this evening for 1 M w Women's 35c Fibre Silk Hose; black with fine white stripes; all sizes on sale this m9 evening m m w 15c Pelletier's Bargain Baa anient A Great Store Within a Store. EXPERT MACHINIST WASHING AND STORAGE Best Equipped Shop in Topeka v TOPEKA AUTO REPAIR and MACHINE SHOP 912-914-916 Jefferson Street We Do All Kinds of Repair Work Phone for Service or Towing Cars Phone 3829 H. L. 0FFIELD, Manager Most Important Information For All Readers of The Topeka State Journal Each reader of The State Journal is offered the free and unlimited use of the largest Information Bureau in the world. This Service Bureau is located in the national capital, where it is in immediate touch with all the great resources of the United States gov ernment. It can answer practically any question you want to ask, but it cannot give advice, nor make exhaustive research. The war has forced so many changes in the daily life of the American people that the services of this free information bureau will be invaluable to all who use it. Keep in touch with your government during these trying times. It can help you in a thousand ways if your wants are only made known. The Topeka State Journal pays for this splen did service in order that every one of its readers may take free advantage of it. You need not necessarily be a subscriber, tho if you are not, you miss the daily Haskin articles of current infor mation. You are welcome to use it as often as you like., Write your request briefly, sign your name and address plainly, enclose a three-cent stamp for return postage, and address the Topeka State Journal Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin, Director Washington, D. C. it

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Pictures of the Great War Have Your Children Paste Them in a Scrapbook AMERICAN GUN THAT FIRED FIRED FIRST SHOT IN WAR ;T. HAS SINCE HURLED 18,000 SHOTS AT THE ENEMY i24 rrom inia gun on uctoDer za last as toe inscnpcion above it plainly shows the first American projectile of any calibre was hurled at the Han. Since that date this piece alone nas hurled 18,000 shots at the enemy 7,'.' and many other guns of like and larger calibre have contributed their share of steal to the argument against autocracy. GLIMPSES OF WAR FROM THREE ANGLES ON WESTERN FRONT J i 4 5 it' 1 v At the iunetion of the British aa4 'klf ftelolnn Unas (above): German XDlodtns- in Belgian trench: ed Jacks smilingly on thetr way to f thm Mituttv biariiiv station. 1 Tntereatlnjt thins" are always hap pen ins alone the western front, as these photos testify. The Beljriana nii British are finhtinff tosetber like brothers, and they are shown hem in friendly poe jostt where thei rear have AecMed to be eheevfnl. no British and EaJjHan Haee aaeet. MKeep stmilinnr." ia ttt wattdnvord f the Scotch, and the wounded Jocks shown en their way to tbe aieB of a German skell to a Befgrisa trench on the first line is sfeoww im one at the pfcotos. WRECKED BOCHE PLANE MARKS GRAVE OF U. S. AIR HERO 1?ir 1 1 ia if' MSB .vmM1L"--f jfooT" ""'i,''e''': 24 1 m a Mm. an4 with the remains of a wrecked German mtimhaoiM here tomd bis last rMisc place is France. The Been plane was plane nearby, an American brought down by one of his 'I'LL TAKE YOUR ORDERS," SAYS HURLEY; "I HAVE NONE TO GIVE." SAYS SCHWAB v New photo of Edward Ai. Hurley lletti and Charles M. Schwab. One of the first acts of Charles M. Schwab, after he had been named director general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation was to go into con ference with Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board. "I am willing to take orders from you, Mr. Schwab," said Mr. Hurley. "I am not here to give orders, but to carry them out,' replied Mr. Schwab. This ia the spirit in which the new organization has been launched, WIZARD OF ELECTRICITY GIVES ALT. y HIS TIME TO GOVERNMENT WORK ill Thomas Edison at work. This most recent picture of Thomaa Edison ahows the eleetrtcal wtsard nanaing a moment in his work for the government. Edison is a tireless worker, seldom taking more than four or five hours of aleep a day, and he is spending all of the energy of his genius on work that will bring a speedier victory to America and the allies. rJC "i If-?- fSsn til isw 1 iiul'J J2V CAMP ARE BUSY LEARNING THE HIT AND MISS Sailors on on of the vessels that took part in the memorable raid on the harbor of Zeebrugge are here shown on the deck of their ship with flame thrower that played an important role in the engagement. "Fritz" felt the sting of his own inventions in that engagement and was convinced, by the liberal use of eaa and liquid fire, that he has no monopoly on those two weapons. 0 rs ;a Jeff Smith teaching the science of boxing at Camp Diz. Classes in boxing are frequent affairs at the national army training structed pass on the science they receive to their own men and stress ia Disced on the similarity ol boxing to nayonet worn.. TAKES HAWAIIAN JURY JUST SIX MINUTES TO ACQUIT M AN WHO SHOT INSULTER OF OLD GLORY. 0'rtj' "flifeC A Jury in Honolulu took just six minutes to fniieq d n, Yvaiker, sell-eomessed AaMrieaa soldiers congratulating Captain Allen after his acquittal, init Capi. Henry Allen, retired seaman, who shot and W. W when the latter insulted the flag and damned America's soldiers, saying he wished every American soldier in France would be killed. When the verdict was made known soldiers furled an American flag about Allen and with a standard bearer en each side escorted him through the streets to his home. FRENCH TEACH OUR BOYS HOW TO MAKE. USE AND DEFEND MODERN TRENCH AND SAFEST DUGOUT n M' a- l 4 Left French eilcera faatrnctfaig V. 8. mariaes ia grenade throwing (above) ana a visiting spell in a daroca month, Sammies and Poilaa talking it over. Rig ht French ahowing how to pass sacks to bolster ana trench nnder fire. One things the French have little difficulty teaching our boys is the throwing of grenades. Tha basehaB arms and eyes Of the Americans make it a ''snap.' The photos are of U. S. marines being taught the vartoaa essentials of homemaking and hauaksping at the ft ant, for the trench and dugout an soon to bo tha oZ fjreasM "f the pupija i T

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1918 5 213 East 6th St. HE CLJPS FILMS Chicago "Movie" Censor Tells How It Is Done. Nearly Half of All Pictures Deal With Sex. Chicago, May 25. Ten years of moving picture censorship in Chicago have resulted in the elimination of hundreds of thousands of feet from films shown to more than 400,000 persons daily, according to MaJ. M. C. Funkhouser, "moral censor," when he defended the ordinances under which he operates, from recent attacks. According to Major Funkhouser, the board of twelve censors, the mem bers of which are selected by civil service, and which sits in judgment on the pictures, has little or no dis cretion in ordering "cutouts or re fusing to issue permits, as they mere ly adhere to city ordinances, and the state law which prohibits hanging scenes. The 'cost of maintaining the cen soring department is more than paid for by the permits issued to the pro ducers, which cost 1 each. Last year 29 697 permits were issued. The twelve censors draw salaries ranging from $120 to J135 a month. "The trouble with the motion pic ture producers of today is that from 25 to" 40 per cent of the pictures pro duced deal with sex, the eternal tri angle, affinity, and white slave prob lims," Major Funkhouser declared. "As aDDroximately 80 per cent of the mntinn nicture audiences are rant posed of women and children, espej ciallv children, in theaters, outside of the downtown district, and as children often obtain their ideas of morality from the pictures, a close guard is necessary to see that the pictures do not convey erroneous Ideas.' The number of films received weekly for inspection runs from two hundred to two hundred and fifty, and the moral censors are given three days to pass on a picture, and issue a permit. A regular motion picture theater is established in one of the larger rooms of the city hall, where three screens and three motion pic ture machines enable more than one picture to be run at the same time. As a rule, two or more of the censor's staff sit and pass judgment on one picture. "The city of Chicago is the only city in the country which has a civil service censor board." Major Funk houser said. "Ohio, Kansas and Penn sylvania, however, have state censor ship boards." T'nited States flying students are re quired to fly nine hours with Hti instructor before heiDg allowed to fly alone. One of our nllica requires but fonr hour.' duty. There is one accident to every 2.400 flying hours in T'ntted States field an com pared with one to every 1,400 for this ally. m Everyone who likes a snappy "cup of coffee finds interest in a cup of Instant Postum This modern beverage is so convenient.so economical, so labor saving and practical, and withal so satisfying that it is largely accepted as coffees successor at family table.N The flavor is excellent and "eyeri and there is no complaint about "poor coffee when one uses POSTUM Is

A modern CHICKEN HOUSE with the right kind of chickens and proper care will bring bigger returns and with less work for the money invested than anything else on the farm. With an investment of about $250.00 for a house, one of our customers with 247 chickens sold $474.00 worth of eggs from January 1st to May 15th, this year. DID THIS PAY? You can do equally as well. Don't keep your chickens just for the privilege of boarding them; they will pay big if you give them half a chance; but they can't do it roosting on a limb in zero weather. Come to our office and let us show you how good a proposi tion we will make you on a CHICKEN HOUSE. W. I. MILLER LUMBER CO. ONE OF THE MACHINES THE SUNFLOWER The Kopseker-Miller school of flying which has been opened at 609 North Kansas avenue, is equipped with three machines. The flying grounds, accord ing to the proprietors, will be on West Seventeenth street. WEAR TO WEST POINT State Journal's K. XJ. Correspondent WiU Enter the Army. Lawrence, Kan.,' May 25. Millard Wear, a studant at the University of Kansas and correspondent for the To pe ka State Journal, has received word that he passed his examination for entrance into West Point and will re port for study there early In June. He is the seventh former editor of the Daily Kansan, the university daily publication at K. U.. who has gone into the .military service this year. He is the son of Mrs. Marie Price Wear, 1210 Fillmore street Wear was; editor-in-chief of the 3ansan this year, as well aa. being hews editor and sports editor earlier in the fall. He was also editor of the Plain Tales column, a feature of the Kansan. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fra ternity of America. This is the sec ond year he has been a member of the Kansan board, the staff of the paper. Wear was correspondent at K. U. for the Lawrence Journal-World dur ing the last year and the third mem ber of the Journal-World news staff to go into service this year. He 'took his examination for entrance into West Point at Fort Leavenworth March 19. COOKING SCHOOL HERE Demonstrate Food Substitutes in To peka Week of June 3. Miss Mary Ward, government emergency home demonstration agent, announces that a cooking school will be held in Topeka the week of June 3 to demonstrate the use of food substi tutes. The sessions will be held in the city auditorium, and two speakers from Washington, D. C, will furnish some of the addresses and demonstra tions. One of them is Miss Birdseye, TO BE USED IN SCHOOL FOR AVIATORS formerly of the extension department of Cornell university. The other is giving special attention to the use of cottage cheese, and will give some demonstrations for those who attend the classes. The sessions will be held every day of the week of June 3, and manufac turers all over the country will send samples of food substitutes, and some of them will probably send demonstra tors to show how their goods are used. The demonstrators from the east will give the latest instructions on canning as well as in the preparation of food substitutes. Young women from the Kansas State Agricultural college and from the Kansas univer sity will be present to answer ques tions on foods and food values. ine woman's club of Topeka is publishing a conservation cook book which was compiled by Miss Ward. The club will sell the book at the low est figure they can make it for, in or der that every housekeeper may have one. A BAKER WAS FALSE Prominent Hutchinson Firm Used Too Much Flour in Its Bread. Wichita, Kan., May 25. Albert Hanson, proprieter of the Hanson Bread company of Hutchinson, ad mitted at a federal food administra tion hearing here late yesterday that he had falsified his dough records to make it appear he had used the re quired percentage of substitute in making Victory Bread. He testified he had done so think ing he would not be found out He said he had poor luck making bread with corn flour as a substitute and he could not get the substitutes he wanted from May 10 to May 17. He also testified that when he did not falsify his records he interpreted the wheat saving rule to read that he had to use 25 pounds of substitute to 100 pounds of flour, while in reality the rule reads 25 pounds of substitute to 76 pounds of flour. The extreme penalty for the offenses which Hanson admits, is cancellation of license. If his license is cancelled it would put one of the biggest bak eries of Hutchinson out or business ms the Hanson bakery- business extends all over western Kansas. Walter P. Innes, federal food admin istrator for Kansas is in Washington on official business. He will pass judgment when he returns. A. B. Ice, inspector for the state board of"health, and W. S. Thompson obtained the evidence upon which Hanson was brought to a hearing. Complaint was first made by volun teers. HE DROPS HUN NAME Willis H. Lccburg Wants To Be Known as Real American. In order that no person may have reason of suspecting that he is of German origin, a Topekan whose former name was Willis H. Leeburg is today Willis H. Lee. Lee filed a record of the change with Ralph W. Squires, register of deeds, stating that he is in class 1 of the draft and it about to enter mili tary service. He says he doesn't want anyone to suspect that he has German blood in his veins. Notice of the change of name has been served on draft board No. 1 where he is regis tered and the corresponding changes made in his questionnaire. ORIENTALS HEAR WELL East Indians and Chinese In France Keen at Hearing; Enemy Planet. London, May 25. Officers home from the front testify to the acute hearing powers displayed by the In dian and Chinese coolie laborers with the troops in France. These Eastern auxiliaries are ever the first to detect the nearness of a hostile airplane and to fall prone as a measure of self-protection. In this way they give a valuable lead to the British and French soldiers, who are comparatively slow in detecting the difference in sound between the rival Phone No. 204 EYE ON EXPLOSIVES Kansas Maintaining Watch On Trans portation and Handling in State. A close watch on the movements and use of explosives in Kansas now is be ing maintained and that the same is to be further tightened up is the pur pose of extending the staff of William J. Duvall of Kansas City, explosives administrator under the federal gov ernment for the state of Kansas. An advisory committee to Mr. Duvall has been appointed, E. C. Johnson, dean of the extension department of the State Agricultural college at Manhat tan, has been "drafted" on this com mittee as special representative of the farmers. Under the present rules, even farm ers desiring a quantity of dynamite or giant powder to blast stumps, must first obtain a license from the county clerk before they can purchase the same. Furthermore, there are definite restrictions as to the amount that can be handled and certain re quirements are necessary as to the method of storage of explosives. Quantities of more than twenty-five pounds must be kept in specially constructed magazines, under lock and key. That every person in the state who handles explosives, consider himself an agent to help post the government authorities on the distribution of ex plosives is urged by Professor John son. Farmers and miners especially are cautioned tO'Store their supplies of explosives so that there will be no danger of them falling into the hands of anyone who might use' them to destroy property. NEW FUNSTON UNIT? Departure of 89th Division May Mean Formation of New One. Junction City, May 25. Every indi cation now points to the organization of a new division at Camp Funston, to replace the Eighty-ninth, which has started east. The last units of this organization, it is said, will have left the cantonment in a month. The large increments of men, due to arrive at Camp Funston within the next two weeks, it is said, will form the nucleus of the new division. Reports that the Ninety-second di vision will leave Camp Funston are being circulated, but it is stated, on what appears to be good authority, that this organization of negro troops will not leave camp before July 1 in any event. IT NAME A TICKET That's Purpose of Bourbon Meeting Here Tuesday. Delegates Also Will Work for Party Harmony. SEVERAL HUNDRED COMING Opposition to Thompson Seems To Be Dwindling. He and Five Congressmen Rep resented at Powwow. Kansas Democrats are coming to Topeka next Tuesday to name a state flflrPr flnri PflVloat-oa -tVia alnirana etn1 watchwords of the coming; campaign. It will be the first state wide conven tion in Kansas since 1906. While the meeting next Tuesday will not have statutory power to formally nominate candidates for state offices, it will de termine the personnel of the state ticket, which will be formally ratified in the August state wide primaries. Bourbon leaders believe every coun ty in the state will be represented at the convention. Plans for the state -campaign next fall will be discussed and party leaders in touch with the situation in Washington will tell of the national program for the campaign as affecting the election of senators and congressmen. While there is no doubt concerning the nomination of an en tire state tleet in Kansas this year, the action is not entirely in a fond hope or belief that the ticket will win. Fnll Ticket KMf-ntlal. Democrat leaders who keep the election returns close at hand, are not speculating strongly on state ticket success. Let the nomination of- such a ticket is absolutely necessary in or der to hold the present strategic po litical positions of the party. Aban donment of the state ticket, means that all of the fire of the campaign will be directed against the senetor'al and congressional candidates. So the Democrats will put a state ticket In the field in order that there be suffi cient storm forces to beat off any cen tralization of Republican attack. In calling a, state convention for the Topeka next Tuesdav, the Demo crat state committee took the first step in a generally popular move to break away from the state wide pri mary plan. In fact so determined are some of the members of the state committee in their convictions regard- ing a state-wide primary, that an ef- fort will be mad in the August party council" to declare for the repeal of the law. But the meet'nsr in Topeka next week will tend in a general way to accomplish the thinsrs desired by a return to a convention system. Work for Harmony. The state convention will not be entirely absorbed in the selection of state candidates to be ratified in August. Instead it will devote "much time and attention to the development of a harmony j.lan which" will provide results in each, ef the; 2.50 voting prectnets of the state. The purpose of the convention is to agree upon strong men for state offices. But the real business which will be transacted will be the promotion of the party harmony -program. Senator William H. Thompson and -the five Democrat congressmen Doolittle. Helvering. Connelley, Shouse and Ayres will be represented at the convention. There is little chance of a real fight against any of the present con gressmen when they seek renomina tion. The only fight mentioned in To peka concerns th eprospect that J. H. Egan of St. Francis. Cheyenne county, may be pushed in the running against Congressman John R. Connelley of the Sixth district. Egan is regarded as a strong organizer in the northwest country, Should he enter the race, he will probably xsarry the fight to Con nelley on his vote against the war res olution. Thompson Opposition Dwindles. Of course there is always the pros pect of a fight on Senator William H. Thompson. George H. Hodges and ISN'T NONSENSE, WILLIAM LAST TESTIMONIAL OF HEROES WHO Burial of heroes of Osteod and Zeebrug ge. An impressive ceremony marked the burial of the heroes of the recent successful raids on the harbors of Zeebrugge and Ostend, in Dover. Rep resentatives of the army and navy and the government of Dover assisted the clergy and relatives of the martyrs in this last testimonial to the martyrdc others have been urged to take a chance. But each day the opposition chances seem to have grown a bit dim mer. In fact Opportunity played Sen ator Thompson a rather generous trick. The Chamberlain resolution i for an aircraft and war activities in- vestigation was referred to the senate expenditures committee, of which' the Kansas senator- is chairman. And Senator Thompson didn't overlook the opportunity which comes but once in a lifetime. He stood flat footed for the president. Thereby he didn't lessen his standing with the party workers at home, even by a slight degree. Several hundred delegates are, ex pected to attend he convention. Thre is a prospect that some one may start trouble. But -viewing the eom--; ing convention in the light of the Dem ocratic banquet in- Topeka in Febru ary and the state committee meeting in Kansas City in April, the conven tion will probably start a campaign for converts rather than for victims. HAVE LOTS 0FGIRLS, Camp Funston Soldiers Swamp Mall With 1x1 tors to "Somebody." Camp Funston, Kan., May 25. "All these lads in the detention camp must have promised a dozen 'best girls' apiece to write regularly," declared a Y official who is on duty for the or ganization at the detention camp on Pawnee Flats. "Their dema.id for writing paper and envelopes is un precedented but we have managed to make the supply meet the demand." Lieutenant Steinmetz, in charge of the camp postoffice, verifies the Y of ficial's version of it He says an aver age of five full sacks of mail leave the camp twice a day. TO MARTYRDOM BOTTLED UP U-BOATS 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From thm column of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL May Sff, 1B93. The organization of tin Oo1dn Eairle Clothing company vas completed last even ing by the election of the following offi cers Artolph Kttllnger, president A. B. Woolverton, Woe president; W. Lindsay, secretary and treasurer; IS. Ettlinger, gen eral manager. Tu company hes- paid up capital- of $100,000. They purchases the S. Bttlinger stock of clothing and trill continue the clothing business with greatly Increased facilities ax the old stand, 014 Kansas v nue. Yesterday afternoon Miss Rnth Fami wortu gave an informal reception with Miss Angelina Rockwell of Con noil Bluffs as guest of honor. Miss Kama worth was assisted by Mrs. Karns worth, Miss Thacher, Clara Thacher, Margaret Dudley, Myrs Williams and Mrs. Arthur Capper. Principal Foster of th Qnlncy school, entertained the teachers of his school last evening at bia residence on the South aide. Mrs. A. K. Rogers and family left yes terday afternoon for Grove Beach, Conn., to spend ths summer. They will visit a short time in Chicago en route. Mr. Kod gers accompanied tliera to Chicago. Miss Montgomery and Miss Nellie Dick will spend the summer with Mrs. A. K. Rodgers at Grove Beach, Conn. TOPEKAN IS NAMED John S. So j bold Receives Appointment to Wettt Point Academy. John S. Seybold, son of John Sey bold, a well known business man of Topeka, and a student in the engi neering department of Kansas university,-has received from Senator W. H. Thompson .an appointment to West Point for June. ,s Owing to a failure in examination on the part of the first alternate and the principal, young Seybold will go as a first 'class appointee. He has passed a most creditable mental ex amination for this coveted honor among army-ambitious youths. Little Gladys Will I go to heaven when I die, mummie? Mummfe Yes, darling, if yon are a good little girl. Little Gladys And will you go to heaven, mummie? Mummie Yes, dear. Little Gladys And will papa go to heaven Mummie (with slight hesitancy) I think so, dearie. Little Gladys And will Charlie Chaplin go to heaven when he dies? Mummie after a long pause) Oh, I suppose so. "Little Gladys (with joyous fervor) Oh, mummie, won't God laugh! A newgpaper eorrespondent from Mexico City says ttant the rnlted Ktates has never Been more uitempenteiy attacked and Tilll- fied by the Mexican press in general thaa at present, and the papers doing so are in spired oy uermtD ffoiu. HOW IS YOUR BABY? In a recently completed survey, th death rate of infants in one section of an American city was 271 to th-- 1,000, while in another it was only 'fifty yet that city owes the same duty to one baby as another. "iin average deaths in one city are 134. In another they are only elrhty-four.-. A single ward in a certain city has bee. ablo to reduce its infant mortality to thirty-nine deaths to the thousand birth. Host of the conditions responsible for this tow death rate could be reproduced m tner wards if the parents took the same trouble and knew what to do. The State Journal will place In he hands of any reader the litera ture of the United States Publie Health service on the care of the Write your request plainly.- en close a 3-eent stamp, and address The Topeka State Journal Infor--nation Bureau, Frederic J. Has kin, director. Washington. D. C. Let Me Advise You to Ccd Soon and Have Those PILES Cured I realize, fully, how busy v ambitious, patriotic American citixet is these days but those afflicted witr. PILES would not be losing time -!td 'come to my office arid receive treat ment for their disorders. In fact;- J feel certain that once cured, any pav tient becomes more active, more effh cient, and can do more, earn more, we complish more. j It requires but a short time-to com to the office and receive treatment. Every .man or woman taking treat ment as I administer It, can keep right on going about their work ot looking after business affairs except for the few minutes required to come to the ofiice and receive treatment, j The man or woman who is laborinc under the handicap of PILES and whs steadfastly refuses to seek relief from the disorder is shirking a duty, not only to themselves but to humanity. These are the days when the nation needs every ounce of energy one cajf give to the tasks in hand. You can not do your best and suffer. Your suffering will cease as soon ai you have come and have taken a treat ment or two. And a few treatments will restore normal conditions again and your ability to get up and do '"g win be greatly Increased. i Tho CoKt why that is the small eat part of the whole deal. Yon -wtll never regret the expenditure of a sin gle penny after you have received yonx cure for PILES. j If I fall to cure you, you are not gW ing to be out a penny, NOT OXE CETNT. If you may have paid me any. thing, that amount will be returned. It is the results. GOOD RESDLT3 for which I receive a very small sum. You might write in today, if you live out of the city or come to the office if you are a resident of fTopeka. and let me give you my FRISK book on tat treatment of rectal disorders. It n only tells about the treatment but many, many people who have been cured, ARE STILL CURED and who, are my strongest friends and adv-j cates tell their own story. Dr. C. 8. WOLFE, specialist. After you have read these state! ments. if yon are still skeptical, youj may investigate my financial refer-f ences, members of the biggest business.' firms of Topeka. learn their story. j But do not lose sight of this point.! You owe it to yourself and your friends and your nation to let someone who knows how, treat yon and evre you of PILES, so you can do your bit and do it BEST. j Examination FREE. Honrs vegalar during the week days. DR. C. S. WOLFE, I RECTAL SPECIALIST. 1 809 Kansas A ve., Topeka. Kan. Advertisement. MANT .SCHOOL CHILDBEKAIE SICKLY MotheTa who value their own comfort and the welfare of tbeir children, abonld never be without a box of Mother Gray'a 8weat Powders for Children, for use throngboat the Kcnuon. They Break Hp Colrta licit. re Fevpriahneaa. Conatipation, Teething Dis orders. Headache and Stomach Troubles, l aert by mothers for 30 years. THESB POWDERS NEVER FAIL. All Drag Stores, 2.V. Don't accept any substitute. Sample FREE. Adrirefts, Mother Gray Co., La Boy, N. Y. Advertisement. CANCER symptom Book FrM. Dr. Bishop, successor to Dr. J. Candor McLaughlin; 220 W. 12th St, room 15. Hours 2 to 5 p. m. Kansas City, Mo. Heal Skin Disease It is unnecessary for you to suffer with eczema, blotches, ringworm, rashes and similar skin troubles. A little seaasv obtained at any drupe store far 35c, or $1.00 for extra large bottle, and pronroflr applied will usually give Instant relief from itching torture. It cleanses and soothes the Ekin and heals quickly and effectively most skin diseases. Zemo is a wonderful, penetrating, R appearing liquid and is soothing to the most delicate skin. It is not greasy., is easily applied and costs little. Get it today and save all further distress. TheE. W.RaaeCoUoreUld,X iAdrcliK.nieiiCf k I j y svJglas$e$? I r VVli Jr Dr. Emery X jvT j: jfis. 10c Sum DYEING DRY CLEANING HAT: RENOVATING laundering ef Every Descriptiei Expert Is charge each department. Out-of-Town Work Solicited. TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. 37th Year Phone M5S air machines.

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THE -TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, A.Y 25, 1918 TtX, OR NO TAXIll BUf This Session Rests on wet President's Decision ow. Cojgress Is Ready if It Has To Z Do the nork. IT i WILL BE MOST RADICAL Luxuries and Non-Essentials of jj Ail Kinds Will Pay. TV(Er Profits, Incomes and In- heritances To Be Hit. BY T. C. MARTIN. Washington, May 25. The tax bill u?k" has been passed to President Wilson. Secretary McAdoo declares there mut be a revenue bill this session. Congress says there must not. Today thejpresident is expected to decide the question. Bfeving taken a firm position be hind McAdoo. the president was want by a heavy fire of opposition argument from Senator Simmons last nigHt and forced to hold up a decision untl he had seen McAdoo again today. He. also will confer again with Sim mons and Chairman Kitchin of the house wavs and means committee, whf yesterday gave up all hope of avoiding a tax bill this session and prepared to begin work on the meas ure next week. Qf the president orders the bill the wealth conscriptionists plan to come inte. their own. The word has Been Dassed that there must be no limit to thetaxes on war profits, swollen in comes and luxuries. t Congress Will Write It. Representative Kitchin, who de clares congress and not the treasury wife write the bill, said it will add froi three to four billions to the nalTm's revenue, making a tax total of geven to eight billion dollars. Speaking for themselves and not pretending to reflect the treasury's views, Kitchin and other leaders in dicated they plan to raise: Six billion dollars or thereabouts from incomes, war profits and inheri tanjees. J?Wo billion dollars from luxuries anf" miscellaneous sources. These figures are subject 'to radical chafhges. but they represent the ra tios' leaders have in mind. tfhder existing tax laws, excess profits and incomes are paying 12, 77085,000. Instate taxes add $50,917,000, so that thefcplan of congressional leaders con templates more than doubling present ratjis. Hit Luxuries Hard. very sort of luxury, those enjoyed by The poor as well as the rich, will be fexed. to raise the remainder. H is likely that movie patrons will finj their evening's enjoyment costing twoor three pennies more after the ne bin becomes effective. Tobacco an&, cigars are due for another boost. Phonographs and records, pianos and allSother musical instruments will be considerably more expensive. Even thaihumble mouth organ will not es cape. Automobiles will pay heavily. Ajl cosmetics will be taxed to the limit, as will Jewelery and non-essen-tialgjarttcles of household use, such as bric-a-brie and oil paintings. fa, coffee and sugar consumption taj,s will not even be considered un less. It is found there is no way to rata the required amount without in cluding them. A Bad Time For It. Congressional leaders realize they fat a hard Job. A leading member of Uie senate finance committee, stat ed frankly that he had told President Wijaon and Secretary McAdoo that a wa& tax bill framed so near congres sional elections will be a bad bill. 'Humtn nature is devilish weak anathe pressure of contituents in boajnd to make a man vote here for thifms that do not agree with his best Judgment," said this senator. a? pointed out that a congressman seeding re-election whose constituents wojtld be heavily taxed under drastic exqass or war profits levies, would be stnmsly tempted to vote for low pro fit jjaxes and let somebody else pay. BIRTHS REPORTED T$p following birthn wpre reported to riffT Clerk Covel! fi urine the wnk nilium T. Bortln and wife. 1200 Fillmore trSrt, Maron mSZ, noy i 111am Frpflerio. ntiwtn A. Campbell and wife. 1212 Gar field Ave., Mav 20. bov Duncan. 011 H. Crawford and wife. 1012 Jackson trftt. April 26, trlrl Bettv Loo. Cwril LeRoy Corwln and wife. 426 Chand ler jjWreet. Feb. 8. boy .Ia-k Thorns. Air a Earl Crampton and wife, 223 BnGbsnan street, April 18, (firl Lretta FteUa. Son Kmerv and wife. ir22 North Jeffer ortwRtreet, May 22. eirl Kth. ITfty K. Hnrder and wife. I1rt Knst Klona trfTt, May u. ooy Mtimui Kmnis. forr Cleveland Happy and wife, Kill Eh isixtn. May in. eirl Rosa Lee fMnepb Thomas ITefner and wife. May l4.5feov Lawrence Joseph. wink Kloater and wife. 620 Chandler rrnt. April ooy Frank, jr. efiernon iv AieasicK ann wire. 'jmjo Mary Iwijl Ave., May 17. boy Jack Cole. njn Carlton Palmer and wife, 0t5 To pirl avenne. May 22. ifirl Florence evrrly. Pptii E. Kopera and wife. 323 Western Avfc May 7, bov Paul Eno-ene. 1r. .TaWnes I. Sellars and wife. 1201 Qulncy trst. April 2. pirl Lena Jnanitn. fen. A. Senoplea and wife. 1105 Madl poiil. street, August 20. 117. frlrl Mary LULie. A&im Stamm and wife. 228 N. Branner street. April Hi. boy Jacob. iflftwin C. Warren and wife. 102 Clay tret. Anril 25. boy Edwin Marshall. Wm. Weiirel and wife. 129 N. Locust tt. Anrtl 2S. frirl I,vdia. Prrd J. Oodds and wife. 416 West Tenth aviie. May 23. boy. -tohn Kaberlein and wife, 537 Sardon. Ma. pirl. llaid Ihr and wifs, 144 Woodruff rue. May 20. glrl. f. MARRIAGE LICENSES HHarriaire ltrenftes have been tanned from theprobnte Judge's office to the followlnr Pjwry I. Atwood. Kankakee. Ill 25 filthy A. Mather. Oralnfleld, Kan 2S TitI M. Miner, BMrlingame. Kan 2!S riifra M. Katpp, Furlingnme. Kan ST RnWie W. Bahb. St. .Toaeph. Mo 25 ItPMie B. BIvpd. St. Joseph. Mo 31 Kugene P. Wright. Chirago S9 Alta M. Curpbey. Topeka 23 Wedding rings. 18-K gold, $4 up. fiiris-Goar Co.. 102-4 E. 6th. AdT. JS. C. Diamond Man Murdered. kansas City, Mo., May 25. Joseph MoHrino, rich diamond broker, who "wore a fortune" in gems, waa foirhd murdered shortly after f.oon today in the Touraine hotel apart mejnts. where he lived. He was beaten to death with a, "black Jack." GOES INTO SERVICE John B. Avery. John B. Avery, a Topeka boy, who has been with the Santa Fe in Chicago for a number of years, left this week after a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Avery of 1331 Kan sas avenue, to report at Camp Grant for special induction into the 311th field signal battalion. He is a brother of Mrs. C. A. Ritchie and Mrs. A. M. Woods, both of Topeka. IRISH ARE BITTER Say Government Evidence Plot Is Conspiracy. of "One-Sided" Statement Case, Radicals Declare. of BY WEBB MILLER. Dublin, May 2!. Revelation of the evidence obtained by the British gov ernment of a revolutionary movement in Ireland, which culminated last week in wholesale arrests of Sinn Fein leaders, caused widest discussion here today. Radicals bitterly denounce the state ment issued by the official press bu reau as "one-sided" and declare It is a conspiracy. It is an ex parte statement," de clared the Irish Independent, a Na tionalist organ with Sinn Fein sympa thies. "The accused have not been heard. It is thus a question of creditability, upon which British and Irish opinions may come to widely diverse conclu sions. "All sections of the Nationals have a profound 'interest in having the issue solved clearly and immediately. Pro-Germanism Denied. "Ireland is not, and never haa been. pro-German. No appreciable number of nationalists, no matter how extreme. want to rid themselves of one dom ination to fall possibly under worse. The glaring weakness of the gov ernment's case is that it rests so large ly on the public speeches of Sinn Feiners. It is a curious sort of a conspiracy" that Is proclaimed from the housetops." The newspaper declares that what ever countenance the extremists here and In America gave "another rebel lion, there are men amona: those interned who would shrink from the horror of plunging Ireland Into blood and anarchy. KANSAS TWICE OVER With Red Cross Quota a Million It Gives TWO. St. Louis, Mo., May 25. Kansas, the first state in the southwestern di vision to reach its quota in the Amer ican 'Red Cross second war fund cam paign. Is also the first state to double its allotment. Its quota was $1,000,000 and tele grams to headquarters here today said that more than $2,000,000 had been subscribed. Texas, with a quota of $1,750,000. had a total of $2,842,0(1. Other subscriptions include: Arkan sas, $596,944; Oklahoma, $1,360,207; Missouri, $3,887,421. TUCK PLEADS GUILTY Ford Rustler to Penitentiary by Judge Wbitcomb Today. Earl V. Tuck, confessed Ford motor car rustler, today waived preliminary trial and entered a plea of guilty to a grand larceny charge before Judge Whitcomb in the second division of the Shawnee county district court. Tuck was sentenced to from one to five years in the state penitentiary at Lansing. Tuck was captured a few days ago at Emporia. According to Hugh Lari mer, Shawnee county sheriff, he has confessed of being a professional car thief, and also confessed the stealing of two cars in Topeka. One belonged to E. McKenzie, and was taken from in front of the Capper publications building Tuesday. The other was owned by C. E. Seeley, 1901 McVicar avenue, and was stolen April 11. Mc Kenzie's car was recovered at Em poria at the time of the arrest and the other has been located, at Joplin where it was sold. According to Larimer, Tuck has operated in a number of cities and towns. He is a former vaudeville acro bat and balloonist, but says an injury incapacitated him for such work. In rustling cars he has one of the smooth est ways known. Before stealing a car he would go to the secretary of state's office and buy a license under an as sumed name. After picking up a car somewhere he would put on the li cense tag obtained from the state of fice, and change the motor number to correspond with the one on the li cense. "BONE-DRY" NATION? Amendment In Congress Has That as Its Professed Aim. Washington, -May 25. Senator Jones. Washington, today introduced an amendment to the emergency agri cultural bill making the country "bone dry" during the war. The statement provides that no beer or wine shall be manufactured so long as the war lasts. Penalty fcr the violation of the law is made $5,000 or two years imprisonment. FORD FLIP-FLOPS Fire Auburn School Boys Have a Narrow Escape. The Throttle Wide Open When Accident Occurred. Albert Robinson, Henry Snyder, Harry Nicely, Carter Baxter and Guy Buckley, all high school boys at Au burn, experienced a narrow escape from death about 5 o'clock Friday evening when a Ford motor car in which they were riding at a high rate of speed, flipped completely over on the hill about one-fourth mile north of Auburn. Snyder and Buckley were hurt badly and did not recover con sciousness for several hours after the accident. The other three boys re ceived only minor Injuries, and It is said all will recover. The car in which the boys were rid ing, according to advices from Au burn, belonged to J. C. Madden, and was driven to school by Charles Mad den, the owner's son, who is also a siuaenL r i tuny wco u,, th school and after exercises, it is said, the five boys appropriated the car for a ride, despite the fact that young Madden had removed Ihe key to the switch. They substituted a but ton hooR for the key. Auburn stories say. Advices from Auburn today'say that the throttle was wide open at the time the accident occurred, and that the car was going full speed, while the driver was attempting to maneuver a curve. Buckley, it is declared, was the most seriously injured, and was delirious all night. The injuries re ceived by all the boys consisted of jolts and bruises and skinned bodies, and all are expected to get well shortly. COUNTY FARM MEETS Important Rural Conferences in All Farts of Shawnee Next Week. Several meetings of more than ordi nary importance will be held next week in various parts of the county under, the auspices of the Shawnee county farm bureau, of which A. D. Folker is at the head. During the first of the week, W. E. Peterson, government specialist from Manhattan, will talk on dairy organi zation, co-operative calf clubs and pure breeding in stock at three meet ings. One of the meetings will be held at the Chas. Holston farm at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, another Monday night at Oak Grange hall and the other at Rossville Tuesday night. Miss Rena Fabion, government expert, will talk at both the night meetings and will speak at Pauline Monday aft ernoon. Wednesday morning Ross Sher wood, State Agricultural college poul try expert, will speak at the Louise Krigbaum farm southeast of Highland Park. Miss Fabion will also speak. Sherwood will speak at the J. O. Browning farm, north of the city, in the afternoon. Tuesday afternoon a meeting of the Topeka township members of the farm bureau will be held at the court house. Friday Dr. L. E. Melchers, plant disease special ist, will tour the county and inspect the potato fields to ascertain the re sults from treated seeds. MEXICO BREAKS tContlnqed from ag One., of avoiding a misinterpretation of lywexlco s action. The statement fol lows: "The president of the renublic and the cabinet at a special meeting has aeciaea tnat it was an imperative necessity to recall the Mexican diDlo- matic representative to Cuba and to suspend lor an indefinite period the sending of a new representative be cause it was considered an indisnen sable measure for the hisrh ideals and interests of the two nations in the actual moments of an acute world crisis. "The state of war in which Cuba is involved has obliged the government oi LUDa to dictate measures which in many cases affect the interests of the Mexican government and her citizens and for the reason the Mexican lega tion wouia De called upon to make frequent representations to the Cu ban government which would only be useless and which would restrict the noeriy oi action of a friendly nation which is now in an afflicted situation. Shows Respect for Cuba. "Mexico, upon recalling her dip lomatic representatives from Cuba, complies faithfully with the -line of conduct which President Carranza has proclaimed upon innumerable oc casions, as the highest ideal of a true society of nations, the equality of nationals and foreigners alike and complete submission of all to the na tional sovereignty. The crisis having passed as the one in which originated the revolution in our country is pass over, Mexico and Cuba will be in a better condition to renew diplomatic relations upon the basis of justice and equality only and the great aspira tion of the Mexican government in her new international relations." Washington Is Puzzled. Washington, May 25. The state de partment has received information from its own source that the Mexican diplomatic representative at Havana has been withdrawn by Mexico but no explanation was given in the dis- patcnes. further advices were ex pected during the day. The Mexican ambassador here said he had heard nothing of the reported oreak. Me could not explain the meas ures Cuba was said to have taken against the Mexican government but recalled that Cuba recently held up snipments oi sugar the Mexican gov ernment had purchased. Admit Strained Relations. Havana, May 25. The report that Mexico had .severed diplomatic rela tions with Cuba could not be confirm ed here early today. In official circles last night it was stated that there was absolutely no foundation for such a report. The Mexican charge d'affaires left Havana yesterday for Mexico City, but visited President Menocal before leaving. Several days ago there were rumors that relations between Mexico and Cuba were strained. These rumors presumably were based upon the Fa bela incident. A message of felicita tions from President Carranza to President Menocal on the occasion of the celebration of the sixteenth anni versary of Cuba's independence on May 20, apparently served to discredit the rumors. On April 20 baggage belonging to Tsidro Fabela, Mexican minister to Argentina, was stolen from an em ploye of the- Mexican legation tn Ha vana, while he was taking it to a ves sel on which Fabela was to sail for South America. Two days afterward the baggage was returned. THE SAVLNU Or RUSSIA FROM IHh GRIP OK PRUSSLAN1SM PEACE PLAN WORTHY TO BE CALLED HEAD LISTS Topekans Who Have Made Large Contributions. Some Team Captains Refuse To Give Out Names. As far as could le obtained, the following is the list of persons and firms subscribing $100 or more to the second Red Cross war fund in the present drive. Red Cross authorities were not in a position to give out an official list at present, and the list as given was procured from team cap tains who could be located. Some of the team captains refused to give out, at present, the names of the men and firms which had contributed more than $100. The list as far as obtainable today is as follows: Large Subscribers. Inter-Ccean $2,000 Horace Hall 2.000 Warren M. Croaby company 1,2."0 Mr. and Mrs. -U. W. Mulvane 1.000 Arthur Capper 1.000 Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. MacLennao.. 1.000 Croaby Brothers company l.Uito H. I Dillon 1.000 Joab Mulvane 1,000 Auerbai b Uuettel 500 C. S. Gleed 500 Crane Company r00 Charles Wolff Packing company 500 Kaw Milling company iO0 Feuetier s store company oou A. Zahner 500 500 500 500 500 500 Merriam Mortgage company ai. a, low F. A. Derby Merchants National bank... William Macferran Davis-Wellcome Mortg. Co. Pioneer Mortgage Co 3IS Ismert-Hincke Co 250 International Harvester Co.... 250 R. W. Blair 200 Seymour Packing Co 'J00 McCord-Kistler Co 2(10 J. It. Borrow 200 H. M. lvea Sons 150 penwell Undertaking Co 150 W. I. Miller Lumber Co 125 K. C. Arnold 100 J. P. SlatlRhter 100 R. B. Austin ion W. B. Kirkpatrick loo 3eorge C. Bowman loo H. A. Perry JO0 W. O. Anderson 100 F. C. Kaths 100 Lux Mercantile Co 100 Bank Savings Life Insurance Co 100 Dr. J. C. McClintock. 100 Topeka Sand Co '100 T. F. Doran 100 H. L. Shirer 100 Schuyler Nichols 100 Chester Woodward 100 Dr. F. K. Vest 100 L. S. Ferry 100 Charles P. Adams 100 Byron Davis 100 S. E. Cobb 100 SHAWNEE COUNTY cCoPtlnned from Pace One.l till the train came. They packed the Union Pacific station platform, and there it was that mothers and fathers and sisters lost a bit of the fortitude that they had shown in the hall down town, and openly wept for the boys to whom they clung to the last mo ment. Before the company left the hall, all the men to leave for Funston were asked to stand that the governor and tho visitors might shake hands witn them and wish them good luck. The women who accompanied their own boys went down the line with the oth er visitors to say their word of fare well also to the men. But all things considered, it was a happy and cheer ful leave-taking. A sense of tne seriousness oi tne thing the men are going away to do. however, was written on the faces of even the youngest of those setting out on the Great Adventure. The music this morning, bright as it was. had hardly dispelled the gravity of the ex pression on all the faces present, when the cowboy of the crowd came. Be Is Real Cowboy. He is a real gem of a cowboy, and no paste imitation. -He comes from Tex as, and has all the hallmarks of the original brand. The man strode into the room, bringing with him the HELP IS COMING I genuine but undeflnable atmosphere of the wild west that all the movie fans adore. He wore high, leather boots and corduroys, on open-throated shirt, and a wide rimmed, felt hat, while slung over one shoulder and under the other arm, was a worn old veteran of a "bunk," rolled up like a sleeping bag. When he entered, every face broke into a smile, and the cow boy himself returned it with interest. In answer to some inquiries as to his original habitat, he acknowledged to a. long abode in Texas on the range, and the bunk he carried about with so little concern as to weight and handi cap was a survival of his days in the Spanish-American war. R. R. Baer of the military entertain ment committee of the Chamber of Commerce and A. D. Birch, exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge, had charge of arrangements. They were assisted' by their wives and families, and by a group of women and girls whose husbands and fathers are mem bers of the order of Elks. Those Who Left. The following composed the fifty six: William H. Pollard, Warren Higbee, Calvin Adams, Edwin Sheets, Owen Manker, Clar ence Kelly, Lawrence Livingstone, Howard Winner, John Reicherter, Merrill Coffin, Charles D. Logan, Floyd McCafferty, Walter Welton, Thomas Calvin, Walter Ward, John Donnell, Joseph Navarre, Sherman Peafler. Joseph ,McFarland. Francis t ,i r iviawuii nri I'm nuag, rera'nance Weishender. Roy Ludington. William yP." ce"?t,Pver- 1 wouMn't b at Pollard. Paul Bell. George Ellis. Don I surprised if we went 100 per cent Butts, Jesse Tyree, William Myers, i ?ver tne 1uot. I would say that there Clarence Gasswint, Harlan Stamp, i ls n.ow an easy two million dollars re Orin Berridge. George Smith. Lester P"ea ana more money coming every Gilbert, Denny Dyer. William Hentz-1 nour- The oversubscriptions are ler. James Musick, Charles Backus, I f'nf fo' practically every locality Roy Wikkerink, David Rosen, Charles fhe t"e. It is virtually certain V;H HanoAn KMma. T7an,ar that the State S SUDSCriDtlonS will RUM Dean Taylor, Henry Northrup, Wesley Philip T Mecord. Floyd I Rodgers: Marion uf,iti. :u(i.r.a mac. hu.ralt fill "A.r 2lWS' Lan,iU"!?? lnesier rvuuyt v-.i i diiiilii, i j-ia well and Martin Frederick Hauer. TO ARBITRATE STRIKE Wolff Pat-king Plant and Employes Will Try to Get Together. j Prospects of a peaceful and amiable settlement of the strike at the Wolff! packing plant, wherein about 200 em-j ployes quit work Friday morning after their demands for higher wages had J been turned down, were bright today, according to statements issued by: Charles Wolff, head of the packing plant, and union labor officials. i "We have decided to arbitrate the dispute," said Wolff. "The mediation committee will be composed of two i men chosen by the employes, two representatives of the company and a j fifth man chosen by the representa tives of the company and the em ployes. Union labor officials said that all that stood in the way of mediation is i the approval of national officials, who 1 as yet have not been heard from. Such word, however, is expected late this afternoon. i KILLS TWO, THEN SELF Kansas City. Kan.. May 25. George Blue. 45, shot and fatally wounded his wife. Mrs. Ella Blue, and Mrs. W. C. Merchant who tried to shield the latter, and then killed himself, shortly before 1 o'clock today. Blue and his wife had been separated for some time. The shooting followed an attempt at reconciliation and a row, according to police. Mrs. Blue and Mrs. Merchant can not live, it was stated at the hospital. Local Mention. Safety razor blades sharpened bet ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Brunt-Mar- tin. Adv. The Minerva club will meet with Mrs. George Godfrey Moore, 1524 Topeka avenue. Monday afternoon. Assisting hostess will be Mrs. B. H. Pngh. ls A ESSENTIAL PART IN AMI PEACE." OVER 50PER CENT Kansas Will Give From $2,500, 000 to $3,000,000. Totals on Red Cross Not Avail able for Several Days. Kansas has already oversubscribed her Red Cross quota 50 per cent. The state may go 100 per cent over the ap portionment. A fund of from $2,500, 000 to $3,000,000 from the state is now practically assured, according to S. E. Cobb, in charge of the big mercy drive for the state. Returns from over 1 the state have not been tabulated. Cobb was cer, tain, however, that the fund to date is easily two million dollars, with a half million to a million dollars yet to be reported. Not until next week will the subscriptions from the rural districts be available. Every return, tho, points to a general oversubscription and a common desire to establish records. May Go Over 100 Per Cent. "The figures have not been tabu lated,'" said Cobb, who, because of sickness, has been in his office but Uk .aya- Tllere no i doubt, tho. that the tst. nine tne last few days. the $2,500,000 mark and it may .31 1 1 II 1111 rc 1 1 1 1 1 1 II I T) 1 1 1 1 1 1 '.I r 1 1 an be safely said, tho. that the state Vre?.. ZrZJ "ion to be present when the Jffi- i van easily mean 100 per cent more than the state was asked to subscribe. A meeting of Scientists was reeentlv held in Stockholm to effect a reconciliation of the Scientists of the world whom the war j had estranged. REGISTRATION Men of 2! When, How, Where! Who must register: All male per sons (citizens or aliens) born be tween June 6, 1896 and June S, 197, inclusive, except officers ana enlisted men of the regular army, navy and marine corps and the na tional guard and naval militia while in federal service and officers in officers reserve corps and en listed men In enlisted reserve corps while in active service. When: On Wednesday, June 5, 1918, between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. Where: At office of local board having jurisdiction or other place designated by that local board. How: Go in person on June 5 to your registration place. If you ex pect to be absent from home on June 5, go at once to the office of the local board wherever you hap pen to be. Have your registration card filled out and certified. Mail it to the local board having juris diction where you permanently re side. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your regis tration card for the return of your registration certificate. You must mail your registration card in time to reach your home local board on June 5. If you are sick on June 5 and unable to present yourself in person, send some competent friend. The clerk may deputize him to prepare your card. Information: If you are in doubt as to what to do or where to regis ter, consult your local board. Penalty for not registerne: Fail ure to register is a m'sdemanor punishable by imnrtsnment for one year. It may result in loss of valuable rights and privileges and immediate induction into military service. RAILROAD RATES GO UP. Fifteen to Twenty Per Cent on Freight, About Same on Passengers. Washington, May 26. Increased rates ranging from IS to 28 per cent on freight traffic and from one-fourth to three-fourths a cent a mile on pas senger traffic have been decided upon by Director General McAdoo, It be came known here late today. Official announcement of the in creases is expected to be made Mon day. McAdoo and members of his cabi net spent the entire day threshing out the rate question. Operating costs for the coming fiscal year promise to be about $750,000,000 above the pre sent revenue.. The added cost of coal will further increase this deficit, -It was stated. The conference today was to deter mine exactly the amount of increase necessary in each particular section of the country. NOT AIMED AT LABOR. Work or Fight" Order Is No Club Against Strikes. Washington, May 25. Provost Mar shal General Crowder's "work Or fight" order is not. the beginning of any system of conscription of labor. Secretary of War Baker said this aft ernoon. It will not be used as a club over the head of strikers, he assured. His statement declared that the war department-has no intention of at tempting to affect the labor situation by military action. Men on strikes will not be regarded as idlers and the order is not the beginning of series of regulations which would be a virtual conscription of labor. HEAirafOFF Affidavits in Paris Case To Be Presented Wednesday. Leavenworth Mayor Gets Ous ter Proceedings Continued. Mayor James C. Davis of Leaven worth, secured a three days' respite today in the ouster suit before the state supreme court. On a plea from A. M. Jackson, the mayor's attorney, j the court postponed the he .ring for a temporary order removing the mayor from office. The first step in the ouster suit will be taken next. Wed nesday. Jackson urged that because of the Red Cross drive the last week. Mayor Davis had been unable to secure affi davits in his own behalf. He is charged with drunkenness and with protec tion of Jake Hartman, charged with violating the bone dry law. Eleven charges of drunkenness are made against Davis. Up Next Wednesday. In the order by the supreme court today, both the state and mayor may prepare affidavits to be presented next Wednesday. ..Each side shall furnish, the opposite side with copies of affi davits before they are presented to the court. No oral testimony or argu ment will be heard when the applica tion for temporary ouster comes up next week. E-idence on which the state will base an application for final order will later be presented to tne court or a commissioner appointed by the court. It was urged by Jackson today that the supreme court did not hold orig inal jurisdiction in the ouster suit. Jackson wanted the case 'dismissed and brought in the Leavenworth county district court. He also urged that the application of the state is faulty. "In the eleven counts charged Is one to the effect that Mayor Davis was drunk May 18. the day following tne filing of this application," said Jack son. "Possibly the attorney general's office assumed he would be drunk that day." Affidavits Presented. "We might offer testimony cover ing that point if the court desires to hear it," said J. P. Coleman, assistant attorney general. A number of affidavits were pre sented by the state. The defense will be permitted to review these docu ments. Affidavits by Mayor Davis and i .fjr.Ht Y?'- his attorney concerning requests for davits were taken were filed by the defense. Action by the court next week will concern only the order for temporary removal, pending final hearing on the merits of the case. Jackson urged the appointment of a commissioner to take oral testimony. The court, how ever, did not indicate its future course in handling the case. Mayor Davis was not present when the court heard Jackson's application for a continuance. ISSUES A TAX CALL Approximately 8.O0O in County Have Xot Yet Paid lp. E. A. "Pat" Campbell, county treas- urer, today issued a call tor the tax payers lor the last half of the year of 1317. "The tax rolls for the last half of the year close June 20," said Camp bell. "After that date a 5 per cent i penalty will be attached. "There are about 8.000 taxpayers yet i to pay. Another thing. It Is necessary ror taxpayers to nnng tnelr receipts for the first half of the year with then when paying the last half of the as sessment DEATHS AND FI'NERALS THOS. VAfOHN. who die Thorsdar1 nlEht at hla home. 4.T4 Bast Fifteenth street. will be bnrtert Sunday in Anbnrn cemetery. Services Sunday tnnmlnjr at Ramer chapel. Vaughn was H9 years old. PAVin TAMBVN. aged W years, died at the borne of hla daughter. Mr.. W, H. Nicholas, three mile north ef Topeka. Burial Sunday In Roc-at-ster cemetery. I l.ord'n ffk wen mttlf.fy I Adv. Tel 111 Interesting K. A L. of S. Meeting. -The meeting to be held Tuesday night. May 28, at Security hall will be of s oecial interest to all members of Capital council No. 1, Knights and laies OI Becunty. uh. vi in. iw tures of the meeting will be a food conservation demonstration. Refresh- ments will be served. Members! should come. J. E. GREIST, President. MAUD WATSON. Secy. Adv.' USING COURT NOV Indian Descendant Has Been Using Her Shotgun. Asks Protection Against Inta sion of Sacred Grares. IN HEART OF KANSAS CITY, KAN. For Years Lyda B. Conley Has Guarded the Cemetery. City Officials Have Been Mo lesting Burying Ground. 'Lyda B. Conley. descendant of the Wyandotte Indians, who for 20 years has guarded, sometimes gently and sometimes at the point of a shotgun, the graves of her ancestors in Huron cemetery, in the heart of Kansas City, Kan., against desecration by the hands of white men, today in the fed eral district court here filed an appli cation for an injunction restraining officials of Kansas City and others from molesting the ancient burial grounds. Harry A. Mendenhall, mayor of Kansas City, Kan.; William W. Gor don, chief of police of the same city; James Shaw, Oscar W. Anderson' and a John Doe of Lawrence, are all named as defendants in the applica tion. The plaintiff states that the de fendants have already cut down trees, destroyed flowers on the graves and graded up the bones of persons buried in the cemetery. Miss Conley, in stating her case, says that in a treaty made between Franklin Pierce, president of the United States in 1855. and the Wyan dotte tribe, the Huron cemetery was set aside for all time as a reservation and burial place for the Wyandottes and their descendants. For the last twenty years, the plaintiff says, she has cared for her father's and moth er's and other relatives graves in the cemetery and erected a dwelling house thereon. She asserts that on April 16, 1918, the defendents entered the sacred burial grounds and cut down trees and destroyed flowers on her parent's graves. On May 15, she says, they broke the lock on the dwelling and burned it and cut down shrubbery. Two days afterwards, the plaintiff al leges, the defendants Invaded the cemetery with scrapers and began grading up graves and the bones of her ancesters. The graves destroyed, she says, Includes those of the veter ans of the war of 1812. Besides ask ing the permanent injunction. Miss Conley also asks for a temporary restraining order against the defend ants. -1 -landmark of the West.. The Huron cmetery, standing In the very heart of the business district of Kansas City, Kan., is one of the ancient and historical landmarks of the middle west. Much history, tragic and romantic, has been woven around it, and a lot of it was made by the Conley family, of which the plaintiff is a member. When the Conleys began guarding the burial grounds about 20 years go it was because the modern buildings of the white men were be ginning to close around the hill on which they are located. The federal building was erected oh one side and other improvements began almost to cramp the ancient cemetery. Since that time public officials have at tempted to invade the plot and mod ernize it. and create It into a park or make other public improvements thereon. Sometimes alone, and sometimes with the aid of relatives, Lyda Conley defeated all these plana Some years ago an attempt was made to begin the improvements, but Lyda, with a wick ed looking shotgun in her hands, un aided and alone, stood off the invad- era. Tears rolled on and similar at tempts were made but Lyda, In her lone watch over the souls of her de parted ancestors, disputed the rights to the plat successfully until recently, when the city officials of Kansas City obtained an upper hand after Lyda had held them at bay for several days. Then the officials entered and began improvements. MOTHER OF MISS LUSK CflnUnuedJrojnP0t and I did not want to live any longer, because there was no place for me In the world. I was under Intense emo tional strain, i ncimcc played or did anything of that sort, "I desired, some way or other, to end things." In telling of her efforts to convince Mrs. -Roberts at the final interview that Doctor Roberts loved her. Miss Lusk said: "I told Mrs. Roberts that her hus band really cared for me and that I could prove it. I told her I had some letters of his which would convince h""She asked to be allowed to see the letters. There were two or three let ters In my desk drawer and with them was the revolver. When I saw It. I de cided to show her the letters and then kill myself. I took the letters down stairs to her. She said she could not read them because she had left her glasses at home. She asked me to call him up on the telephone. I would not do- It. Then the "phone rang. She answered it. Doctor Roberts was on the wire.' She began abusing me and then" Her Mind a Blank. Here It was that the witness said her mind ceased to register happen ings. The witness was then questioned concerning the alleged duplicity of Doctor Roberta In refusing to reveal to his wife relations with the defend ant after he had promised the latter that he would do so. "I asked him If he had told Mrs. Roberts the things he tnd me ha ",J5,"L" .l"' TJZZ.Zl would tell her. saia miss Lusk. "He 7f' a ""u nl wnv He made an evasive answer and went away. I was wild to get some sort of settlement some adjustment of our affairs. I wanted him to tell her. I tried over the 'phone to get him to meet me and I told him that If he did not grant my request I would see my attorney. He answered by asking ms if I knew what it meant to make a threat over the telephone." Under cross examination Miss Lask declared that she had not killed Mrs. Roberts because of anger at the dead woman for calling her names but be cause in the delirium of her desire to slay herself, she did not know what in. va uvin. one aeciareo that when she had once written that the only way to solve the eternal triangle was the removal of the unnecessary person -she had self-destruction and not the killing of Mrs. Roberta In her mind .u

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I THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL What The Topeka rree Information b ureau State J M Oill eans lldl to Y OU! r It Can Assist You in Your Business, Help You in Your Home, Tell You How Best to Serve Your Country, Post You on New Laws and Government Orders, Answer the Questions Everyone Is Asking Today. The Topeka State Journal Free Information Bureau Is a Unique Public Service Institution of the Widest Scope. Read This and See How You Can Make Use of It in Many Ways. Summed up in a phrase, the object of The State Journal Information Bureau at Washington is to tell you, without charge, "Whatever You Want to Know." The Information Bureau endeavors to answer ques tions in such a way that the answers are of the greatest practical value. It replies to your inquiry by personal letter. In addition, it sends you any books, pamphlets or documents published by the United States govern ment bearing on the subject in which you are interested. You are urged to consider the possibilities of this service in relation to your own problems personal, household or business. j Ask your friends who have called on the bureau for service about its value. Whether you wish to have some point in recent legis lation or international affairs definitely in mind for. your own satisfaction, whether you want some import ant utterance of a statesman accurately quoted, or whether your need is for more detailed and extensive information, the Information Bureau is ready to make use of the resources of the National Library, the knowl edge of the hundreds of government scientists, and the thousands of government publications to assist you. or Busi smess M en Progressive business men will appreciate without the need for discussion, the value of an xpert and compre hensive Washington information service at this time. The great mass of new legislation, executive orders, licensing systems, and similar instances of government activity affecting the business World raise problems al most daily. Where these problems affect your business, you will want, not a generalized idea of the nature of the laws and rulings, but specific and definite informa tion, and perhaps printed copies of bills and executive orders. The Information Bureau stands ready to supply you with these things upon request whenever they are available. The Information Bureau has been of service to many business houses recently, when these have desired to do governmnt work, by putting them in touch with the proper bureau or office with which to communicate. The governmental organization in Washington has be come very complex. To address the proper office in the first place with bids, proposals, or inquiries is to save much time, and time nowadays fa money. Tiink over the possibilities of the Information Bu reau in relation to your business. For Women The Information Bureau is in a position to give ser vice of great value to women. Every household prob lem has been studied for years by the government. There are literally hundreds of publications available along this line, showing how to save time and labor and money in the home. The next time some household problem comes up in your own home some task that you think might be done better or more easily if you knew how, some an noyance that you think might be done away with sit down and write to the Information Bureau about it. It will surprise you to find how many questions of this sort, from ants in the ice-box and moths in the clothes closet, to the proper food for young children, the federal government has thoroughly worked out and solved. There is much valuable information on health prob lems to be had in such great Washington offices as the United States Public Health Service. For example, the care of babies is a question which has been made the subject of a great amount of expert study, and facts and advice of great value to mothers have been pub lished in simple form. Every woman should write to the Information Bu reau for government publications telling what the Unit ed States asks her to do in helping to win the war. The length of the struggle and the success of the American armies is largely dependent on the part played by American women. And jn general we urge our women readers to make free use of this information service, asking it any ques tion that they like. The increasingly important part played by women in business and politics, makes a ser vice such as this of greater value to them every day. Your Part in the War The Information Bureau is rendering service of great value along lines of war work. It has put many men and women in touch with the thing they can 'do. It has advised specialists in many lines with what branch of the government to communi cate in offering their services. It has put numerous men and women in touch with such institutions as the Public Service Reserve, which lists volunteer workers in accordance with what they are best fitted ts do. On such great patriotic movements as the Liberty Loans, the War Savings Stamp plan, the home garden campaign, the home canning work, the meat and wheat conservation campaigns, the Information Bureau is al ways ready to supply you with the sort of specific in formation that enables you to help most effectively. In your discussions of the war from day to day you realize that the value of your opinions depends entirely on the accuracy of the information you possess. The Information Bureau is ready to clear up doubtful points. A great many "war arguments" can be settled by getting the exact facts from the Bureau. 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It is established to give you the benefit of .the great work of the federal government in research and investigation, to supply an additional means for keeping you in .touch with great national movements at a great moment in history. All mail should be addressed to The Topeka State Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc tor, Washington, D. C. Enclose a 3-cent stamp with each inquiry for return postage. Special pamphlets, bulletins, etc, announced for free distribution require only a 2-cent stamp. Some Miscellaneous Questions Answered by the Information Bureau in One Day Why Interned German officer are paid by tbe United States government? How hoarding laws affect the home? How to register for war work? What Is the literal meaning of "camouflage?" What Is a "top sergeant? How many subscribers to the second Liberty Loan? How to secure material for patriotic talks? How to raise and sell guinea pigs? Is the Red Cross buying mice? Where does a baker apply for a license? 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