The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 15, 1918

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y EATHER FORECAST for Kamu: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Tuesday. rpHK Hun drive Is jm. It Is the kaiser's last dying effort to win. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1918 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS AMERICANS BEAT BACK GERMANS IN THE VAUX REGION! Counter Attack This Morning Drives Off Enemy. Yankees Advance Own Lines in Face of Big Drive. HANDLING THE ENEMY WELL Latest Morning Reports Indi cate Yanks Are 'ot Budged. Fight and Die Bather Than Al low the Huns To Pass. WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE CLOSE Then Americans Open a With ering Machine Gun Fire. Long Rang Bombardment Is Becoming More Intense. With the Americans on the Marne, July 15 (2 p. m.) The Americans shortly before noon launched a heavy counter attack against large forces of Germans which had forced a crossing of the Marne at three points on a four-mile front, east of Chateau Thierry. The enemy was driven off. Shortly before this the Ameri cans counterattacked at Vaux, west of Chateau Thierry, com pletely repulsing the German as sault. The Americans caught the boches in a terrific charge, hurling them back 700 (almost half a mile) beyond the point where their attack began. Yankees Make Great Thrust. American resistance slowed down the German advance. Preparations for a counter attack began immediate ly, and the Americans swept forward to the attack before the enemy could reorganize his badly shattered units. West of Chateau Thierry, the ene my's efforts to recapture Vaux lasted only a couple of hours, after which the American counter attack thrust them back far beyond their starting: point. Fight In Gas Masks. For miles in the rear of the lines the country is shaken by the artillery fire, as tho by an earthquake. The valleys near Vaux were heavily deluged with gas. forcing the Americans to fight in gas masks. German losses were heavy every where they attacked, but they were particularly severe along the Marne, where the boches paid a heavy toll for the privilege of bridging the his toric river. Withdrawal of the Americans and the French troops to their right, to the base of the salient formed by the bend in the Marne, was effected in excellent order. V. S. Troops Took 30 Huns. In the Vaux fighting Americans took thirty prisoners. They fought from shell holes, or jumping into the opening, hurled grenades and bayon ets until the German attack was Btopped. Americans on Both Sides. The German drive extends from west of Chateau Thierry to east of Rheims. American troops are involved on both sides of Chateau Thierry. The Germans apparently are trying to reach Chalon. Bitter fighting is in progress, espec ially along the Marne, east of Cha teau Thierry, where an American counter attack is under way as this is cabled. At daybreak the boches threw pon toon bridges across the Marne. Sup ported by artillery and machine guns, their infantry rushed across in the face of heavy fire. The Germans succeeded in crossing the river at three-places at Mezy, at Jaulgonne and -it La Bretonnere farm, north of Fossoy. Fossoy is four miles east of Chateau Thierry. It is clear that the German attack in the Vaux region completely broke dov.-n under the American counter at tack. Further tharp fighting is likely to develop in this area at any time howe-er. Franco-Americans Hold. Word received here shows that the enemy also launched an attack east of rcneims out on tne sectors on that front on which French and Americans are fighting side by side the positions are reported intact. "Saw Whites of Eyes." The American machine gunners here let the enemy come close to .heir positions and .then opened a leadly fire into the advancing close formations of Germans. In their attack on the Marne front the Germans threw many bridges across the river. Over these the Ger mans are passing under a withering fire from the artillery. German prog ress is being stayed ny the maehin" gunner. The Americans and their French (Couilnued'on Vaem Two.) GERMANS GROSS RIVER MARNE AT NARRJJW POINTS But French and Americans Are Molding Magnificently. Greatest Hun Offensive of Year Meets Stone Waif. ALL ALONG 65-MILE FRONT! This Was Considered Quiet Sec tor on 'Western Lines. Huge Naval Guns Tear Up Country for Many Miles. MOST TERRIBLE ARTILLERY FIRE Tempest of Gas and Explosives Followed by the Infantry. Effort Now To Capture Rheims on New Drive to Paris. Paris, July 15 (4:15 p. m.). The French army of the Champagne Is holding magnificently against the new German drive according to dispatches received from the battle front this afternoon. The enemy concentration appears to have been greatest between Dormans and Rheims (a front of 25 miles). The Germans are reported to have crossed the Marne at several points between Chateau Thierry and Dormans, which should be easy because of the narrow ness of the river. Elsewhere the French are holding the Germans In their outpost zones. Simultaneously with the drive on the fifty mile front between Chateau Thierry and Main De Massiges, 'the Germans attempted a formidable at tack on- the Ourcq. front, toward La Fere Milon (IS miles northwest of Chateau Thierry). They encountered a crushing barrage and were unable to debouch from their own positions. (By the Associated Press.) After a wait of thirty-three days since they were halted. In their plunge toward Compiegne, along the west bank of the Oise. the Germans at dawn today launched a new phase of their mighty offensive by attacking from Chateau Thierry to Maison De Cham pagne; north of Massiges and far east of Rheims, over a front about sixty five miles in length. Latest reports from the battlefield state that the Germans have crossed the Marne- at several places. This probably refers to the reaches of the Marne between Chateau Thierry and Dormans. American troops are engaged In the battle in this particular region, and reports say they are "handling the enemy well." Yanks Break Up Attack. They broke up the German drive in the Vaux region west of Chateau Thierry by dashing counter attacks. Reports show that, so far as the length of the line is concerned, the present drive is the greatest of the year. At first It was believed from the French war office statement that the line was about fifty miles In extent, but apparently the report from Paris told simply of the length of the Frenrh-held lines under attack: Measurements of the line where fight ing is known to be going on. however, show that it is 105 kilometers, or 65.1 miles long. The attack against the Cambrai front on March 21 was over a front of fifty-five miles. Last night a terrible artillery fire was loosed against the allied lines from Chateau Thierry on the west to Maizon de Champagne north of Mas sieges, on the east. Tcjapest of Fire. For hours the entente allied lines were under a tempest of the most tre mendous character. Not only was the actual battU- area under bombard ment, but towns and cities far behind the lines were made targets for great ten and twelve inch projectiles fired from what appears to be naval siege guns brought up behind the German positions. Rumors Proved True. During the past few weeks it has been rum.w" that the resumption of the German offensive would witness a long range bombardment of places which had heretoore been considered at a safe distance from the front. These rumors proved to be true. The lay world had expected the (Continue! op "'nfcf. Two.l BIG SHIP STRIKE Three Big Plants on Coast Crippled by Union Demands. Oakland, Calif.. July 15. Thirty five hundred boilermakers and Iron j workers went on a strike early today I in three big shipbuilding plants at i Alameda and Oakland. I Millions of dollars' worth of gov ernment ship contracts are for the present practically halted. The men declare the shipbuilders, including the Bethlehem Building Cor poration, the Moore Shipbuilding Co. and the Hanlon Co. have failed to live up t. the agreement negotiated thru Mackay committee. A strike vote was taken yesterday at a mass meeting attended by 2,200 men. FAILURE TO BUST AMERICAN LINES SAFETY OF PARIS! i Assurances. This Afternoon'; Capital Is in 'o Danger. j i Indications Now That the Big! Offensive Is Being Held. U. S. COUNTER A SURPRISE May Bring About Disaster to Germans Crossing Marne. Attack in One Area Turns Huns' Back on Big Objective. BY J. W. T. MASON. New Tork. July 15, (2:05 p. m.) Indications this afternoon are that von Hindenburg's new offensive is being held at all essential points. The failure of the Germans to break the American line at Vaux and the successful American counter at tack in that area, strengthens the as surances that Paris is safe, The crossing of the Marne by the Germans is, however, an unfortunate episode. This success has been con fined to a narrow point, which pro duces a dangerous local salient.. U. S. May Enforce Disaster. The American counter attack may bring about a disaster for those Ger mans who have risked crossing. The fact that the main German assaults are occurring? between Dor mans and Rheims is without doubt satisfactory to General Foch. This is the side of the Aisne-Marne wedge farthest away from Paris and the channel ports. The attack in that area means yon Hindenburg has turned his back on Paris and the channel and is trying to shove the allied front eastward. The farther he goes in that direction, the nearer will the front be moved to German terri tory. If von Hindenburg is satisfied with that kind of an ending to his fifth offensive, the allies can afford to be satisfied with von Hindenburg. RUSSIA IS ANGRY? Demand That British Re-Embark Troops pa Murman Foreign Minister Tchitcherin Addresses Note to England. London. July 15. M. Tchitcherin, the Russian foreign minister, has ad dressed a note to Great Britain de manding that the British detachments now on the Murman coast be re-embarked without delay, says a Central News message today from Amsterdam, relaying a Moscow dispatch. JOHN WHITNEY DIES Retired Topeka Miller Was One of Most Prominent In West. John C. F. Whitney, who has been a resident of Topeka for thirty-eight years, died at 10:30 o'clock Sunday night at his home, 1015 Harrison street,- after an illness of about six months. Mr. Whitney was one of the most prominent operative millers In the middle west, having been engaged In that business about forty-five years. He is survived by his wife, formerly Margaret B. Smith, whom he married in 1882; two sisters, Mrs. Ira T. Pearce of St. Paul and Mrs. Wallace Crutcher of Kansas City, Mo., and one son, B. F. Whitney of Topeka. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from Bomgardner's chapel. There will be no flowers. The body will be taken to Mr. Whitney's old home at Canaseraga, N. Y., for burial. DID N0TDR0P BOMBS German Account of Failure of Ameri can Air Raid Over Germany. Amsterdam, July 11. Meager de tails of the air raid of last Wednesday night against Coblenz in which, ac cording to the official statement of the German war office, all six American airplanes engaged in the attack were captured, are contained in a belated message from the semi-official Wolff bureau. None of-the enemy machines dropped bombs," says the message. "All the machines fell into our hands and the crews were taken prisoner alive, except a few. '"This was the first great Inde pendent air action of the Americans. It failed completely." DOWN 16JUJN PLANES British Make Great Record in One Day on French Front. London, July 15. Sixteen feerman airplanes were brought down by Brit ish airmen Saturday while the British lost three machines, the air ministry announced today. More than twenty-three tons of bombs were dropped on enemy targets during the day and night. CONGRESS ON VACATION Both Houses Met Today Only for Rou tine Business. Washington, July 15. The summer vacation of congress began today. Both houses met fcr routine business The senate adjournment until Thurs day under the agreement for M'vida and Thursday sessions only until u? ust 24. House leaders had a similar plan. TODAY'S FIGHTING AREA 0 10 to 30 40

SCALE OF MILES 1 INDICATE POSlflOKS OF AMERICAN TROOPS OMATn.e LINE. LINEPUEVIOUSTO MARCH 2M5B- THE NEW GERMAN DRIVE- Official reports relative to the grand offensive begun this morn ing against the allied positions show that it is the most ambitions stroke since March 21, when the Germans launcheS their assault against the British lines from the vicinity of Arras to La Fere. The front in the March 21 offensive was reported to be about 65 miles in length. The one over which the Germans are attacking today is approximately fifty miles from, Chateau Thierry oh the west to Massiges, in the Champagne,; on the east. The Germans followed their most recent tactics of beginning an offensive. There was a brief artillery preparation of the greatest violence and then came the advance of assault troops. There seems, however, to have been a new feature in this attack. Great naval guns had been brought up behind the enemy lines and towns and cities far behind the actual battle area were taken under bombardment. The violence of the cannonade is evidenced by the fact that the city of Meaux, 25 miles west of Chateau Thierry was under fire of great projectiles during the night. The apparent purpose of the Ger mans, attacking along the line from Chateau Thierry east along the Marne, over the rolling hills to Rheims and thence eastward to Massiges, was similar to that in the great attack along the Aisne late in May. They evidently hoped to find the allies less well pre pared in this sector than elsewhere. In spite of the repulse of the Germans before Rheims early in June it may be that the allied line eastward from Chateau Thierry had been more thinly held than that from Chateau Thierry north of the Aisne and thence thru the Picardy sector to Ypres. German assaulting troops thus might expect to encounter less violent resistance in the sectors east of Chateau Thierry and the Germans possibly hoped for gains which even would compel an allied retirement from the Verdun and St. Mihiel sectors. HAITI WITH ALLIES Council of State Declares War on Germany Today. Twenty-Second Nation To Line Up Against Kaiser. Port lAu Prince, Haiti, July IS. The council of state acting in accordance with the legislative powers given it under the new Haltien constitution, has unanimously voted the declaration of war upon Germany demanded by the president of the republic Haiti is the twenty-second nation to de clare war on Germany. Sevpii other na tions have broken diplomatic relations. Germany severed diplomatic relation! with Haiti in June, 1017, after the Haltien re public bad protested against Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and de manded compensation for losses to Haltien commerce and life. The president, in a message to the Haltien con pre as, had recommended a declaration of war against Germany in consequence of the deaths of eight Haitians on the. French steamer Montreal when that Teasel was torpedoed by a Ger man submarine. The declaration of war was not adopted at that time, however, the commission ap pointed to study the question having re ported that there was not sufficient rea son. RAIN WAS GENERAL Showers Fell Thrnout the State San day and last Night. Today's Temperatures. 7 o'clock 68111 o'clock. 72 g o'clock 68112 o'clock 75 9 o'clock 69 1 o'clock 77 10 o'clock..;.. 70 2 o'clock..... 79 The temperature for the day aver ages four degrees below normal. The wind at 2 o'clock this afternoon was blowing five miles an hour from the south. Rainfall in Topeka during the last twenty-four hours amounted to .08 of an Inch but it Is not likely that any more showers will fallhere today, ac cording to S. D. Flora, state meteor ologist. Showers were general over the state Sunday, the heaviest record ed being at Clay Center and Alton, each tpwn receiving 1.05 inches. Rain fall reported at other points was Dodge City, 1.02; Concordia, .38, and St. Joe, .20. The temperature here at 9 o'clock IPnntinned on I'ltee Two.! THIS IS FIFTH PHASE OF HUN '18 OFFENSIVE PICARDY DRIVE! started March 21 on a 50-mile front between .Arras and the Olse. Stopped in just one week, after the Germans had advanced about forty miles to within striking distance of Amiens. FLANDERS DRIVE started April 9 on a 25-mile front between the Ypres-Comines canal and Las Bassee. Stopped in ten days after the Germans had penetrated fifteen miles to within striking distance of Hazebrouck. MARNE DRIVE started May 27 on a 40-mile front between Coucy Le Chateau and Rheims. Stopped in a week after the Germans had pene trated thirty miles to Chateau Thierry OISE DRIVE started June 9 jn a 35-mile front between Montdidier and Coucy Le Chateau. Stopped in three days after the Germans had advanced six miles. They were later pushed back nearly .half this distance. CHAMPAGNK DRIVE started July 15 on a 50-mile front between Chateau Thierry and Main De Mas s.:gnes. Continuing with initial Ger man gains reported. BRITISH IN A GAIN Adrance on a Front of More 'r Than Mile in Flanders. r-' Capture 800 Prisoners and SeT--. era! Machine Guns. Lonflon, July 15. British troops ad vanced on a front of more than a mile east of Dickebusch Lake in Flanders yesterday morning taking 296 prison ers. Field Marshal Haig reported to day. "The local operation In the Dicke busch Lake sector yesterday morning was completely successful," the state ment said. "We advanced on a 2,000 yard front, taking ridge and wood and at taining all our objectives. We cap tured 296 prisoners, several machine guns and much other material." SLAPATHUN lilJLERS They Are Carrying on Tradition of Power of Sword, German Writer Says. London, July 15. A sharp indict ment of the rulers of Germany by MacMilian Harden is contained in a current number of Die Zukunft. The holders of high offices, he is quoted as saying, when it seems useful to themselves, profess to favor a new world order of democracy and national peace but they really are only carry ing on the tradition of the power of the sword. "No high personage In the German empire," he says "wishes to set up a league of nations. The continuance of endeavors to conceal this fact has be come unnecessary since Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest" K. C. PAYING 6 CENTS Delay Owing to Fenny Extra Off at State Une. Kansas City, July 15. The 6 cents street carfare went into effect here to day. In Kansas City, Kan., the rate still Is 5 cents, but passengers coming to the Missouri side are required to pay an extra cent when the cars reach the state line. Some of the Kansas City, Kan., passengers left the cars when they reached the Missouri side rather than pay the additional fare. Some delay was caused both in Kan sas City, Mo., and at the state line as a result of the new fare, many pas sengers not being provided with the exact change. PARIS HEARD BATTLE Eastern Sky Lit Tp As- If By Great Elect rica. Storm. Paris, July 15. The inhabitants of Paris and the suburbs, says the Matin, heard violent artillery firing in the early hours today. The sky toward the east was constantly lit up as if by a great electrical storm. Those who were on the boulevards after midnight listened to the can nonade, while small groups gathered on the high points of the city to watch the distant heavens. The noise of the firing was particularly loud in the southern part of the city. "ALL'S WELL" LONDON Developments Following German At tack Are Quite Satisfactory. London, July 15. The feeling in London on the situation following the German attack In France Is that the developments are quite satisfactory. THIS FIFTH GREAT DRIVE IS KAISER'S LAST FOR SEASON If He Fails AND HE WILL It Is Last Major Operation. Military Men at Washington Agree on "Bad Days Ahead." ALLIES AREIn BETTER SHAPE Americans and French Much Stronger Than March 21. After This Conies Yankee Strength and War Is Over! Washington, July 15. Germany's fifth great drive in the west, opening today against the Franco-American forces on a 65-mile front, was expected by military men here to be her great est and last major offensive action. Military men agree that difficult days are again ahead. But, they say, the French and Americans are in better shape to withstand the blow than were the al lies when the first drive started, March 21. This operation, they predict, will be halted. Some ground will be given, but none believed the Germans will win a strategical victory. If he fails as expected, It is probable he cannot undertake another major operation this year. Then with American strerfgth constantly and rapidly grow ing, the man power balance will swing against him. That means he will be on the defensive and that in time he will be defeated. Road to Paris. The Germans, it is believed here, have selected the road to Paris for re newal of their drive, officers here be lieved today, judging from- early re ports on the violent movement, which began at dawn. Whether the effort Is designed ac tually to be pressed against the French capital or to pave the way for later assaults north of Amiens on the road to the channel ports, believed to be the main objective of the whole German plan, was the subject of in terested speculation. The new battle line runs clear around Rheims in its fifty-mile sweep from Chateau Thierry, where the first and second American divisions are known to bo in line. American troops In the Jaulgonne sector of the Marne, east of Chateau Thierry, also are in volved. v To Check Supplies. The object of the bombardment Is to harass the movement of supplies and reinforcements to the danger point, ana tne careful preparations of the enemy may mean ihat he is ready to keep up the assault for days or weeks in the effort to drive thru. Just where the main force of the attack will fall Js not clear. The apex of the German advance on the Aisne front Is at Chateau-Thierry, where the American first corps now holds the left flank of the new battle line. Presumably the main objective in this assault is some place to the east of that point which lies on the direct road to Paris. It Is regarded as possible that the purpose of the attack is to widen still further the Aisne salient by the re duction of Rheims and the forcing back of the whole southern extremity of the 1918 battle area. A previous at tack on Rheims was halted in its tracks by French and Italian troops and that place is now the center of a greatly increased assault. In some quarters this was taken to mean that reduction of the Rheims salient is re garded as vital to the success of the German enterprise as a whole. Extensive employment of naval guns for long range bombardment of the allied rear positions suggests that It was the time required to bring up and emplace these weapons that held up the German drive. DEMAND MORE WAGES Union Telegraphers will Make Terms When Government Takes Control. Chicago, July 15. Union telegraph ers will demand wage increases, short er hours and reinstatement of dis charged emnlnvea nnn i o tins gov ernment assumes control of wire sys- jvunencamp. president of the operators' union announced today Seven Or SPV.n an a U 1 i nours I or night work will be one of the demands to be drafted by a convention of dele gates. Konencamp Issued a statement expressing gratification over the ac tion of congress. ST. LOUIS JIRE MYSTERY PoUee Blame Incendiarism for $400,. 000 Blaze Sunday. St. T.nufat TW T..1 1- ,7 uij l j. -oiice to day believed incendiarism caused the y aunaay morning de stroyed 400,000 worth of property in the business district explosions in the buildings shortly after the fire broke out were caused by gasoline, police say. Employes in the hn i M i n tnnv mm v. l aa.u mcro iiau been nothing explosive In the stores TOOK ONLY FORTY MINUTES FOR END OF GERMAN U-BOAT London, July 15. Within forty minutes recently a British submarine accounted for a German U-boat. The story in brief is: "10:30 a. m. .Sighted enemy sub marine, so dived and altered course. "10:47 a. m. Enemy picked up in periscope. "10:50 Stern tube torpedo fired.. "10:53a.m. Sharp explosion heard. "11:10 a. m. Came to surface and sighted oil right ahead with three men swimming In it Two were picked up. but the third sank before we couii reach him. ived. Survivors stated that submarine V was hit just before the conning, tower." AMERICANS WITH U ALLIED FORGES OCCUPY WHOLE MURMAN COAST After Capturing Kern, Troops Advance Toward Toroki. Russian Bolshevik! Leaders Have Withdrawn Soldiers. CITY OF KAZAN IS CAPTURED Czecho-Slovak Army Puts To Bout Russ-Hun Allies. Soviet Government To Move From Moscow to Murom. London, July 15. American and British troops have occupied the whole of the Murman coast, in northern Rus sia, says a dispatch from Moscow to the Central News agency by way of Amsterdam. After capturing Kem, a railroad station on the White sea coast, the dispatch adds, the American and Brit ish forces advanced toward Toroki, the Russian Bolshevik! authorities having withdrawn to Toroki. The commanders of the entente al lied forces have issued an appeal to the population on the Murman coast requesting help against Germany and u-; i -i i j liiitxiiu. il is ueciarea mat tne Mur man coast is Russian territory under the protection of the entente powers. At the express request of the Rus sians considerable allied forces are now on the Murman coast which is on the Arctic ocean to the extreme north of Russia. On this coast there are several harbors which are free from ice all the year round and are con nected by rail with Petrograd. More forces are being sent and the local population is co-operating with the troops which have already ar rived to defend these railways. Not Many Americans. Washington July 1 B. American participation in the Joint entente oc cupation of the Murman coast of Russia bordering the Arctic ocean,- so far as known here. Is limited to ma rines and bluejackets, and the number of these, which is not large, cannot be "definitely stated, according to the rules of the censorship. War department officials said to day no' American troops have been landed on the Murman coast to their knowldege and that if it should turn out that such troops had made their appearance in the neighborhood of Archangel and Kola, they must have been dispatched at the suggestion of General Foch, supreme, commanding general, from some of the large num ber of American troops now in train ing in English concentration camps. An official dispatch from Rome says the entire Italian sress comments upon the presence of allied troops on the Murman coast and the general impression Is that the occupation will facilitate an agreement so that as sistance to Russia will' not be con fined to simple protective measures for the Kola and Archangel railroads, but will have an international char acter, having as Its aim the complete restoration of the Russian govern ment. Drive Tliem Back. Kem is an Important port on the White sea, about 275 miles south of Kola and 375 miles north of -Petrograd, on the railroad connecting those two cities. f Recent dispatches reported that a combined force of Germans and Finns had reached Kem in their march against the allies and anti-Bolsheviki forces in the Murman region. It would appear that this enemy force either retired before the British or was driven back In fighting. Capture City of Kazan. London, July 15. Czecho-Slovak troops have captured the city of Kazan, 430 miles east of Moscow, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says It is reported from ffBSnw Tho fftv w talr-n fifter the Bolshevikl had put up violent resist ance. General Alexleff Named. Amsterdam. July 15. General Alexleff, lormer. Russian chief of staff, has been appointed commander in chief of the antl-Bolshevik! forces, ac cording to a Moscow dispatch today. He arrived at Omsk with a large army and was accorded an enthusiastic re ception. Omsk la In Asiatic Russia. 1,400 miles east of Moscow. Move Soviet Government, Stockholm. July 11. The Soviet government is about to be moved from Moscow to Murom, according to dis patches from Moscow. As a result of Insubordination among Soviet troops. War Minister Trotzky has declared a state of war along the Murman coast and .railway. Murom is one of the oldest cities of Russia. It is on the Oka river. INASLACKERROUNDUP More Than 1,000 Fill Jails and Muni cipal Pier In Chicago. Chicago, July 15. Federal officers here today sorted the slackers from among 1,100 men rounded up for not possessing draft credentials. In the drive. ending at midnight, Sun day, all police stations were filled a- the municipal nier was turned into an internment camp. Thousands of young men were in custody for Driei periods until they provided classification cards. IN RUSSIA FORTY THOUSAND DESERTERS FROM AUSTRIAN ARMY! Fled Inland After Fiave Disas ter Against Italians. Strained Relations Between Germany and Ally Jfow. FALLING BACK DISORDER French and Italians Still After the Retreating Enemy. Allied Communications From Macedonia to Adriatic. Londan. July 15. Forty thousand deserters from the Austrian army fled inland after the Piave disaster, the Zurich correspondent of the Daily News has learned from neutral sources, he declared In a dispatch to day. Some of these are armed and are hiding in the mountains. Three thou sand deserters were arrested in Buda pest. Austro-German relations are seri ously strained as a result of the Plave defeat, the correspondent said. German Chancellor von Hertling's re cent statements were the result of Austrian pressure, designed to bolster up the tottering dual monarchy by showing its oppressed people that the central empires "earnestly desire peace. 10,000 Were Drowned. Despite the rigid censorship, Jt Is learned that the Austrian losses on the Piave, exclusive of slightly wounded, were more than 200,000, of which 10,. 000 "'were drowned. Austrian Premier von Seydler, Aus-tro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Berchtoldt, former Austro-Hungarian foreign ministers, are going to Ger man headquarters on an important mission. Austrian Retreat In Disorder. Rome, July 15. Further advances by the Italians and French in south ern Albania have seriously threatened the enemy positions and probably will necessitate further retreat northwards, freeing the allied communications be tween western Macedonia and the Adriatic, a dispatch from the Italian front in Albania stated today. The Austrians continue to fall back in disorder, burning depots and vil lages which they are forced to aban don. The village of Bulcsar is in flames. Italian troops, co-operating with the French, have, reached Glu naka pass. The French have completely cleared the heights dominating the conflu ence or the Devoli and Tomnrlca riv ers. British troops in Macedonia made successful raids against the Bul garians west of Lake Doiran. Vienna Admits Advance. V- ,.na. Sunday, July 14 (via Lon don). Allied troops in Albania con tinm to advance, says an official state ment from Austro-Hungarian head quarters today. Increased activity Is noted on the Italian front. The statement reads: "Between Lake Garda and the Adige the reciprocal artillery fire was very active. On the Venetian moun tain front activity has increased. Thle morning Italian battalions fruitlessly attacked southwest of Asiago and north of Mont di Valbella. An en gagement on t'-i western slopes of the Brenta ralley also enrird In our favor. "In Albania the enemy Is gradually pressing forward rjainst new line of resistance. In the Devoli vallev a French squadron has been repulsed." M'ADOO FEELS BETTER Director General Returns to Work After Outing in Mountains. San Francisco, July 15. Following a three weeks' rest in the California, mountains. Director General of Rail roads McAdoo went back to work te day. He began a three-day conference here with federal railroad officials, in cluding Directors Hale Holden and R. H. Aishton. His health is said u be much improved. Fonr Dead In Accident.. Chicago. July 15. Four were dead here today and nearly thirty persons were in hospitals as a result of a col lision last night at Fort Sheridan be tween an auto truck and an electrts train. The accident occurred near the fort entrance and Injured were taken in me post nospirai. ine trucK loaded with picnickers. TODAY IN THE GREAT WAR JXXY 15, 117. Russians take 1,00 prisoners, many guns, and much territory in Galicia. Germans advance slights ly against French at Cerny. jctt is, iie. British reach German third line of defense north of Somme. Cap ture 2.000 Germans. German high officials favor resumption of to ve submarine warfare. JUL.T 15, 115. British-French forces take strong Turkish positions at Oallipoll. Tea tons start new drive on Warsaw.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STAT T"RNAL MONDAY EVENING, JITLY 15, 1918 EIGHT BILLIONS IN NEW REVENUE BILL IN FRAMING Double the Amount Yielded by Present Tax Laws. Must Meet the Vast Increased Expenses. of the War. READJUSTMENT OF ALL PROFITS Income Surtaxes, Also, Will Aid 1 In Fund Production. Twenty Per Cent Prom Taxes on All Nonessentials. Washington, July 15. Eight billions of dollars double the amount now yielded by present tax laws are to be raised under the new revenue bill which the house ways and means committee began framing today In executive session. It is part of admin istration's program of meeting the vastly Increased expenses on account of the war estimated at $24,000,000 000 during this fiscal year. The income and excess profits taxes will be levied on the basis of the cal endar year, 1918, the other taxes not earlier than the date of approval of the bill. Eighty per cent of the new revenues are planned to be produced from re adjustment of the excess profits and income surtaxes and the remainder from excise taxes on luxuries, non essentials and possibly essentials. -Many Suggestions, A long list of tentative suggestions, submitted by the treasury department, ranging all he way from a tax on re tail sales of gasoline to a graduated tax on servants is before the commit tee but members have indicated that many of t.iem will not be adopted. In addition to these suggestions the committee had before it a mass of recommendations made to it by wit nesses who testified during hearings on the bill which did not end until last week. Several weeks probably will be required for framing the bill, which the committee hopes to present arou.d the middle of August. GERMANS CROSS (Continued uoin Page One.1 German main effort to be loosed against the line from the Marne to the Aisne north of Chateau Thierry; In the Picardy sector, towards Abbe ville, or further north In the Lys sec tor, against the Channel ports. Chose Quiet Sector. Along this line the allies have been daily improving their lines and pre paring for the new drive. But the Germans chose a sector which, except -for a surprise attack around Rheims, late in June, has been quiet since the offensive launched on the Aisne May 27 came to a standstill. East of Rheims and north of Chal ons there has been but little fighting of significance for a long time. This line, of which Rheims may be con sidered the keystone, was chosen for the reason that information might have been received by the Germans that it was less strongly held than, sectors along the front nearer Paris. Thus it might be reasonable to ex pect that a greater territory could be overrun there at a smaller expense of men and materials than on the lines where the allies are known to be very strong. The Germans hold the north bank of the Marne for a distance of about twenty miles east of Chateau Thierry. Their line leaves the Marne near the village of Dormana and runs off the northeast to Rheims, where it turns abruptly to the southeast and runs down the valley of tl-e Vesle river to the village of La Pompelle, where It turns eastward and runs in a relative ly straight line to Verdun. Maisson de Champagne, the eastern limit of the present battle is thirty-one miles west of Verdun. -Important Supply Centers. Located back oi the allied linn east of Rheims is the railroad which sup plies the French forces at Verdun end the Americans at St. Mihiel with food supplies. In this sector, too, are the Important cities of Chalons, Epernay and Bar Le Due. all three of which are important supply centers for the al lied forces. The railroad was inter rupted to some extent by the German advance to the Marne between Rheims and Chateau Thierry, but it is still a very Important artery for the allied forces. The only other fighting of moment reported- from the front has occurred on the Villers-Hretonneux sector, in front of Amiens, where the British have improved their positions. Involve Two United States Forces. At least two distinct American forces are thus involved In the new drive those in the region of Chateau Thierry and those near Butte Du Mes nil. four miles west of Main De Mas siges. "The Germans attacked this morning from Chateau Thierry to Main De Massiges. after the most violent artil lery preparation," the communique 'The French are sustaining ih.i. position energetically before the enemy assault." Cross Marne and Take Towns. London, July 15. The Germans have crossed the Marne at several points In t" r new drive. It was learned authoritatively here this after noon. French positions have been pene trated at some points to the depth of 8,000 yards (nearly three miles).. Some villages have been captured. 220.000 Americans There. Americans are engaged in the battle at Chateau Thierry and eastward along the Marne from some distance. Their positions extend northwest of Chateau Thierry to the village of Torcy. on the Clignon river, and east ward along the Marne to Jaulgonne, where they have been engaged In lo cal fighting recently. General Lig gett has about 220.000 men. the first army corps. In this sector. No Yankees at Rlietms. Bo far as known no American troops are in the neighborhood of Rheims, which seems to he the center of the tremendous storm loosed by the enemy at dawn today There have been Italian forces on the line to the southwest of Rheims, under attack In present drive. OHO. jg ONE KANSAN KILLED Washington, July 15. Sixty casual ties listed by General Pershing today were as follows: Killed In action 14: died of wounds 7; died pf disease 7; died of accident and other causes 1; severely wounded 28; missing in ac tion 3. KILLED IN ACTION. Pvt. A. Bononni, Ovindoli. Italy. Pvt C. Burcli. Kieslins, Wasb. Pvt. H. K. Burtner, Greensboro, N. C. Pts. C. B. Cottone, Brooklyn, N. Y. Pvt. L. A. Desrosler, Bergland, Mich. Pvt. A. J. Gendron, Clayville, N. V. Pvt. A. Kopcewicz, Detroit, Mich. Pvt. C. J. Lewseta, Brooklyn, N. Y. Pvt. V. J. Lorenzon. East Greenwich, R. I. Pet W E. Mayor. Orlsaa, N. Y. Pvt. J. "Popelka. Chicago. Pvt. H. St. Clair. Roanoke. Va. Pvt. H. Stephenson. St. Francis, Kansas. Pvt. W. Wilson, Havre, Mont. DIED OF WOUNDS. Corp. W. Faller, Middle-Tillage, Long Island, N- Y. Pvt. R. L. Bagwill, Sacramento, Cal. Pvt. E. O. Jarman. Ashland, Neb. Pvt. J. Pickoon. Kussia. Pvt B M. Sloan. Georgetown. Ind. Pvt. M". R. Tuomas, Eugar Sutiugs, Mo. Pvt R. O. Wright, Philadelphia. DIED OF DISEASE. Corp. L. M. Miller, BortonvlUe, Wis. Pvt. Thomas Morrow, Baltimore, Mrt. Pvt. C E. Nelson, Fall Creek, Wis. Pvt. F. Rich. Ricuforrt, N. Y. Pvt. R. M. Simpson. 1S33 Pendleton street, Kansas City, Mo. Pvt. G. K. Spratt, Belmont. N. C. Pvt. J. Williams, Cataula, Ga. DIED OF ACCIDENT AND OTHER CAUSES. Pvt B. F. Haymond, Buffalo. WOUNDED SEVERELY. Lieut. H. L. Beye, Evanston, 111. Sergt. W. D. Miles. Hinton. W. Va, Sergt. D. E Sanders, Lonrville, la. Corp. L. W.'.Gibuey, Central. New Mex. Corp. G. Pete. Cincinnati, Ohio. Chief Mechanician II. W. Sherman, Temple. Pa. Pvt. J. Braeiak, Toledo, Ohio. Pvt. C F. Braun, Detroit. Mich. Pvt. B'. F. Burns, Madison, Wis. Pvt. G. Davidson, Bay City. Mich. Pvt. J. L. Forbes, Linn CrePk. Missouri. Pvt. M. Lesniowsky, Youngstown, Ohio. Pvt. W Materna, Chicago. Pvt. J.H. Perry. No address. Pvt. P. W. Sankiaho, Princeton, Mlcb. Pvt. C F. Snvder. Cintjnental. Ohio. Pvt. C. W. Williamson, Salladasburg, Pa. .MISSING IN ACTION. Pvt. 3. J. Cahill. Lansing. Mich. Pvt. P. G. Lawrence, Independence. Kansas. Pvt. G. W. Manhart. Sacramento, Ca.1. SUNDAY LIST. Killed In action, 13: died of wounds, 11; died of disease, 2; died of accidents aud other causes, 4; wounded severely, 38: wounded slightly, 2; missing in action, 2. The list of dead follows: Killed in action: Lieut. Presley R. Brown, Morgantown. N. C. Privates Waller A. Barben, Watertown. N. Y. Walter S. Bass, Luter, La.: Tony Cimino. Phila delphia, Pa.; Louis Cohen, Brooklyn; Ed ward W. Fant. Greenville. S. C. Bias Kaplch, Butte, Mont; Harry B. Pendleton, Denver, Colo. Doenlca W. Ragsdale, Max welton, Tex.; Olpio Souppe, Calaina, Italy; Solomon Watin. Brooklyn Antouio Wolpl, Flanox, Italy. Died of wounds: Llent. Edward L. Gar rett, New Albany, .nd. Andrew P. Peter son, Lamberton, Minn.; Sergt Dennis A. Sullivan, Auburn, N. Y. Corporals Julius Brnsfcin. Nntlev. N. J.: Clarence 8. DunlaD. Skowhegan. Me.: Floyd W. Gilllland, Chi-J Wagoner William L. Crystal, Rigby, Idaho: M. Gipson, Newport. Me.; Andrew Lynch, Cambridge, Mass.; Samuel Packer, Brook lyn, N. f. DIED OF DISEASE. Privates Charles K. Kelley, Cove, Ore.; Edwin H. Raub. Luzerne, Pa. DIED OF OTHER CAUSES. Lieut. Drew S. Webster, Pomeroy, Ohio: Bugler Earl M. Chase, West Harwich, Mass. Privates Harry Dunn, Brooklyn; Jim Pey ton, Blockton. Ark. Marine's Honor Roll. The marine casualty list contained fifty one names, divided as follows: Killed in action, ten; died of wounds, four; wounded severely, thirty-three; znissin. Id action, four. Corp. Clinton M. Bates, of Riley. Kan., is smohg those severely wounded in action. -The list of Head killed in action follows: Corps. Homer Crossinan. Chicago. 111.; Charles E. Woodgrift. Detroit, Mich.; Privates Edgar J. Deming. Flint. Mich.; Harvey G. Deal. Atlanta. Ga. Lionel H. Essley. Windsor. Canada: Frederick S. Flick, Braddock, Pa. Frank A. Kerrigan. Nashville. Tenn. Robert B. Kirk. Chicago, 111.; John B. McDonald, Martinsville, Kj; Edward H. Wendell. Brule. Mo. Died of wounds Privates Bruno Barnes, Chicago. III.; Foy Bovd, Abbott. Tex.; Rus sell B. Dlgby. Seattle. Wash.; Lewis A. MacGregor, Dcs Moines, Iowa. CONGRESSMAN IS FLYING FOR U. S. ON ITALIAN FRONT Capt. I. H. La Guardia. Capt. F. H. La Guardia, an Amer ican of Italian descent who repre sents a New York city district in the United States congress, is com manding officer of one of the Amer ican aviation camps in Italy. He re cently made bis first long cross country tl-jht in a Caproni airplane. Ks& fw PUREL A SUICIDE? Body of Aged Topekan Found in Kaw River. Neighbors Reported Friday He Was Being Abased by Wife. The body of Fillmore Purel, 65 years old. 432 Lafayette street, was discovered In the Kaw river a short distance above the Santa Fe railroad bridge shortly after 10 o'clock Sun day morning by J. W. Henderson, 224 Hancock street. Altho no one wit nessed the death, county and city of ficials, including Miss Kate King, welfare worker, believe that Furel, who was feeble physically, and thought to have been so mentally, committed suicide. -Direct evidence to substantiate this theory, however, is lacking. Friday morning neighbors of the Purel family called the sheriff's office and reported that Mrs. Kate Purel, uie aged man s wixe, was aDusing him. Robert Miler, i.ndersheriff, and Miss Kate and Kilmaurs King, investigated the report and neighbors told- them that Mrs. Purel that morn ing had dragged her husband out the back door and beat him with a cane. Mrs. Purel denied this, however, and no action was taken. In company with Mrs. Purel, the Kings went to the Santa Fe hospital to see about treatment for Purel at that institution as, until the Monday before, he had been employed as an elevator man at the shops and had been confined to the hospital several times before. Dr. J. P. Kaster. the head of the institution, declared that the hospital "could not take Purel in again because the Institution Is not an old man's home" but promised to send a physician to see the sick man. Hold No Inquest. Dr. O. F. Marcotte. countv coroner. investigated the drowning but stated that owing to the lsck of evidence pointing to a cuicide no inquest would be held. When the bidy was dis covered the Kings were" summoned with their appliances to obtain the body frqm the river but Just as their emergency wagon arrived the body was being pulled from the river. Purel is survived by his wife and three children, the latter being Mrs. Alice Gilbert, Seattle; Mrs. Anna Mogg, Fontana, Wis., and Thomas C. Purel, Chicago. Mrs. Pu.el does not believe that her husband committed suicide. She de clared that he fell into the river by accident. joiTThejTr. T. One Hundred Topeka Railway Opera tors Have Joined the Union. One hundred of the telegraph and telephone operators of the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads employed in Topeka, have joined the Order of Rail- nay telegraphers within the last three days according to a report this morn ing. The men were organized by C a. nawnns ana J. A. Brandon, both national officers of the union. A meeting of the men was held at the Throop hotel Sunday when it was determined that the union should make representations to the Santa Fe asking for higher wages. Rawlins is reported as saying that If the Santa Fe did not grant the increase that the matter would be referred to Secretary McAdoo for settlement. RAIN WAS GENERAL fCnntlnnert 'mm Pa ere Oae.1 i.iis morning stood at 69 degrees, with ind-nations that it would go to 85 if the sun came o- t this afternoon. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday, with slightly cooler weather in the north and west portions of the state. Tomorrow will start In with a tem perature of about 65 and go to about 85 during the afternoon. The highest temperature here Sunday was 90 at 4 o'clock, and the lowest this morning was 68 at 7 and 8 o'clock. Z. -i Highest temperature -eported In the United States during the last twenty-four hours was 100 degrees at Phoenix. Oklahoma City reported 96 i.nd Fort Worth 94. The highest temperature ever re corded in Topeka on this date was 103 in 1913. and the lowest was 60 in 1891. The wind at 9 o'clock this morning was blowing eight miles an hour from the south. DAli. WEATHER TABLE. Furnished nv the weather bureau office, Tofefcn. Km., for the cwpntv.fnnr honpa ending at 7 a. m. Monday. Station Hieh. Low. Prec. W'ther. Ant hoi v (Ml 7(1 n (1... Coldwater 08 70 0 Cloudy Concordia -.94 70 .38 Cloudv Dodge City 98 68 1.02 Cloudy Dresden 08 .12 Cloudy Emporia 94 58 .40 Cloudy Eureka 94 72 0 Fair Fort Scott 94 66 o Clear Garden City 102 64 .28 Cloudy Hays 100 a .38 Cloudy Horton 86 70 .12 Clear Hutchinson no 68 0 Clear Iola 92 72 .06 Cloudv Lawrence 90 64 .30 Cloudy Liberal 9K 66 o Clear Macksville 96 66 .28 Fair Manhattan 92 68 20 Cloudy Philipsburg 104 66 0 Cloudv Scott City 102 64 .14 Cloudy Sedan 9t 4 0 Fair TOPEKA 90 68 .02 Cloudy I'tica 102 64 .14 Clear Wichita 8K 72 T Cloudy Kansas City 8S 68 T Cloudy St. Joseph 88 68 .20 Cloudy Rainfall for the 24 hours ending yester day morning was. Antnony, 46; Concordia, 02; Hutchinson, .20; Liberal, 1.54; Manhat tan. .01: Phillipsburg, 778: Topeka, .00; Beloit. .02; Beatrice, .09; Lindsborg. OS: Light to moderate rains have fallen over most of Kansas In the past 48 hours, with a few locally heavy rains in the central and southwestern portions. Temperatures continue somewhat above the normal. The rivers of this district wll continue at low stages. Other States. Stations High. Low. Prec. W'tber. Boston, Mass...... 60 .28 Clear Calgary, Ala 74 46 0 Cloudy Chicago. Ill 74 70 0 Cloudy Cincinnati, 0 84 62 0 Cloudy Corpus Christl 88 76 0 Clear Denver. Colo 82 60 .02 Clear Des Moines, la.... 86 68 .22 Cloudy Dulnth, Minn 64 54 0 Clear El Paso, Tex CA J2 Cloudy Fort Worth, Tex... 94 74 0 Cloudy Galveston, Tex 88 7S 0 Cloudy Havre, Mont 68 68 .14 Clondy Jacksonville, Fla.. 82 70 0 Clear Little Rock, Ark... 88 70 0 Cloudv Los Angeles, Cal... 74 92 0 Cloudy nvr uueauB. xa... V ir u Lieflr New York, N. Y... 80 60 .10 Clear N. Platte, Neb 92 6S O Clear Oklahoma. Okla.... 90 74 O Cloudy Phoenix. Arix...... loo 76 o Clear Pittsburgh. Fa 82 56 (I Clear Portland. Ore 86 ta 0 Cloudy St. Louis, Mo 88 72 0 Clondy St. Paul. Minn 84 66 140 Clondy ran uate, uian.... BO u Clear San Francisco 64 54 T Rain Sanlt Ste. Mnrie 84 54 O Clondy Sheridan, Wyo 80 52 .04 Clondy Spokane, Wash 72 O Cluody Tampa, Fla 84 7 0 Clear Toledo, Ohio 84 0 Cloudy Washington. D. C.. S4 60 0 Clear Winnipeg, Man..... 76 58 0 Clondy W it r1- vis- Dr. St. Clara Drake at left and Col. Williamson, at right. The part that members .of the medical profession are taking in win ning the war is being brought before the doctors of the nation attending the annual convention of tht American Medical association at Chicago. The picture shows Col. Williamson of Ft Eiley, Kan at right, showing the main points of a new incinerator for army use to Dr. St. Clare Drake, Illinois state health officer. STATE STILL SHY! Kansas Needs $6,000,000 in War "Saying Stamp Drive. Campaign To Continue Until Entire Quota Is Filled. Kansas is still shy some $6,000,000 of her assigned quota in the national war savings stamp pledge campaign. according to a report from the state war savings stamp committee in Kan sas City. Many of the reports sent in are marked incomplete and in nearly every case where a county has fallen short of its quota, the promise has Been made that the campaign will be kept going until the quota is com plete. The worst offenders in the war savings stamp campaign were the counties in which large cities are lo cated. It seems as tho the city citi zens have not yet acquired the art of seeing the district school house as a proper meeting place. In these places the campaign is being carried forward on the house to house basis. woundYdToengland American Casualties From France in British Hospitals. London, July 15. American wounded are now arriving in London in con siderable numbers from the sections df France where the Americans are brigaded with the British. They reach the various main line stations on British hospital trains, together with the hundreds of British wounded -with which the trains are laden. AMERICANS BEAT (Continued from preceding page.)' comrades here resisted the enemy to the utmost and are continuing this character of resistance. Fought and Died Where They Stood. At 11:15 a. m. the operation at Vaui appeared to be a feint, for soon after It began the Germans attacked all along the Marne, where they were gallantly opposed by more of the American troops and t he French. The fresh crossing was made at the peak of the big river bend. The American machine gunners and infrantrymen fought and died where they stood here. Others of the American troops with drew strategically as the enemy at tacked from east of Chateau Thierry to along the Marne, east of Dormans, making additional crossings. In Counter Attack. Shortly after 11 o'clock one of the American infantry regiments launched a counter attack in the region of Conde. o Progress In East. Reports here shortly after 11 a. m. showed the fighting to the east of Rheims and said that the enemy up to about an hour previously had made no progress whatever there. In the Conde region, however, be fore the American counter attack, the German advance appeared to have eliminated the river salient. At 11:20 o'clock this morning the long range bombardment was becom ing more intense. The day opened sunny, but low clouds are now scurrying over the bat tlefield, threatening rain. (By the Associated Press.) With the American Army on the Marne, July 15. The Germans at daylight today launched a violent at tack against the American positions west of Chateau Thierry especially near Vaux. The attack came after a most vio lent bombardment ox high explosives and gaa.&hells thruout the night. The American troops sought shelter wher ever it was available. When the enemy Infantry appeared the American swarmed out and met the attackers -ith a rain of machine gun bullets. The Americans wore their gas masks as they fought the attacking Germans. An enemy bombardment of towns in the rear of the lines began shortly after 6 o'clock a. m. Yankees Are Holding. The latest reports say the Ameri cans are holding their own in the fighting, maintaining the!.- positions. Heavy shells from German naval guns are falling In regions far behind the actual battle area, many of these projectiles having fallen In the city of Meaux, twenty-five miles from Cha teau Thierry. In many of these towns the German shell fire Is constant, the projectiles being from ten and twelve inch naval guns. Reports from American advance po sitions said that the American troops were "handling the enemy well," m the desperate righting which Is continuing. mm! h I, c asWrf CHINA BUILDS SHIPS C. S. Shipping Board Awards $80,000, 000 Contract at Shanghai. Washington, July 15. China has been added to the list of nations build ing merchant ships to help defeat Ger many. The shipping board has awarded to the Chinese government yard at Shanghai contracts for four cargo vessels of 100,000 tons each and took option for the building of 80,000 more tons. The entire program will involve the expenditure of perhaps $30,000,000. Approximately 35,000 tons of steel will be shipped from this country, but the engines and other equipment will be built in China. De liveries are to begin six months after the steel is received. SWARNING TO LAWYERS Rumored They Are Asking High Fees for Collecting Soldier Insurance. Washington, July 15. Investigation to determine whether bureau of war risk Insurance has given Information tovlawyers concerning the amount of pay .due soldiers killed in the war' was demanded In the house by Representa tives McClintic of Oklahoma and Knutson of Minnesota, who read let ters from relatives of fallen soldiers showing that lawyers had offered to collect back pay for a 20 per cent fee. Several warnings against the employ ment of lawyers to collect claims for soldiers or their families have been issued by the bureau. AUTOS TO COST MORE Output Only, 25 Per Cent of Number Made in Same Period,, 1917. New Tork, July 15. On the author ity of an official in position to know, production of passenger motor cars in the next six months will be only 25 per cent of the number turned out in the same period last year. With the curtailed supply, prices are sure to continue their upward trend all along the line. Increases are likely to occur at any time, caused by Increased cost of labor and material. Consensus of opinion among the big producers is that the longer the war lasts, the higher prices will go. DRAFT RESISTERS QUIET Troops and Machine Gnns Too Mncb for Arkansas Slackers. Little Rock. Ark., July 15. Awed by the presence of troops with ma chine guns in the hills in which al leged draft reslsters were hiding, four of the band had surrendered to Cle burne county officials today. Other members of the band were to follow them soon, they told the authorities. The men declared they were willing to do battle with the sheriffs party and the civilian posse but they re fused to go against troops armed with machine guns, the first seen in this section. German Secretary Resigns. Basle. Switzerland, July 15. Herr von Dem Bussche, German under sec retary of foreign affairs, has resigned, according to word received here today. He will retain office, however, until Foreign Secretary von Hintze returns from Christiania. TODArSMARKEJ REPORTS Chicago. July 15. COB N Altho favor able weather aud big receipts led to a ma frial 1 setback in corn prices today the effect failed to last. Aggressive. bnj-Iig oa the decline brought about a rally which more than overcame alt the losses. Selling pressure was light. Opening prices which varied from c to lc lower with Anpust $L59vt to 1.60i and September $1.50 14 to $1.00, were fololwed by a sMirht addi tional sag: and then a aharp nptnrn. Subsequently prices scored substantial gains owing more or less to a decrease in tbe visible supply total and to reports that the car supply in many sections was not large. OATS Oata swayed with' corn. Trade lacked voiume. After opening He to lc down, the market rallied to 'well above Saturday's finish. PROVISIONS Business in provisions waa nearly at a standstill. No Important change in prices developed. The fact that exports for the week were much larger than iast year tended to hard en valuea In the last half of the day. yew Tork Sugar Market. New York. Jnly s:'4A?. Raw. steady; centrifugal. 6.855: refined, steady; cut loaf. 900: crush-. .iT: Mfnld A. .Xi: Cnb. 8.25: xxxx uowdfred. 7.70: nowder- ed. 7-65; fine granulated and Diamond A. 7.50; Confectioners' A, 7-40; "o. 1, 7-35l Cblraae (trwlst and Provlsioa Market. Chicago July 15. COB N Close July, 81.62; August. S1.63H; September, SLS3H Ql.6314. OATS July, TO4c; August, 73Hc; Sep tember, 7H4c. PORK July, $44.70; September, $44.50. LARD Julv, $26.20; September, $26.25. SHORT RlBS July. $24.37; September, $2U5. Chleae-e Urala asd PravUlu Market. (The range 01 prices on craln futures ua Chlcagb Board of Trsde as ranorted by Tnos. 1. Uyera. S01 N B Bld. Chicago Julv 15. Close Open High Low Today Sat. .159 158 162 160 .160 1644 1594. 163H lf 1 L'ORN- Jaly Sept. .118- Jnly SepL HMKK- July Sept I.A n I Jnly Sept. HIKS July Sept. 76 74 76 44.70 45.50 44.70 45.50 44.70 45.45 44.70 45.50 44.70 45.20 2S:20 .28.17 26.20 26.23 26.20 26.15 26. 201 26.10 26.25 26.15 24. 37- 24.25 24.75 24.67 .24. ,17 ,24.67 24.37 24.75 24.30' 24.63 Hiaiii ilt- tirnln Market. (Tbe range of prices on grain futures od Kansas City Ri.flrri of Trade reported by That. J Myers 301 N B. Kldej-I Kansas City, July 15. Close Open High Low Today Sat. CORN July ..158 160T4 158 160 159 Sept. ..100 164 160 161 161 OATS Julv 74 75 74 75 74 Sept. 70 71 70 71 70- Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. July 15. WHEAT Cash: Market steady to 2c lower. No. 1 hard, $2.17(32.24; No. 2, $2.16(32 24; No. 1 red. CORN Mnrket steady to 5c lower. No. 2 mixed. $1.75(51.78: No. 3, nominal; No. 2 white. $2.05f2.10; No. 8, nominal; No. 2 yellow. $l Xnl.62; No 3, nominal. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 79c: No. 2 mixed, 7475c. HIS $l.TO'ol.Nl. KAFIK AND MILO MAIZE $3.1(33 .92. HAY Market $1 hleher. Choice ttmothv. $21.00(322.00: ehoire prairie, $21.0061 22.00 choice airalta. $i.ao(aJ4.ou. SHUK1S M.:-:."K(7 l.ao. BRAN $1.1S1.2S. WHEAT Kecei pts 1,051 cars. BUTTER Creamery. 4lc: firsts. 30c: seconds. 3Sc: packing. 32c. kuws Firsts, aic; seconds, koc. POULTRY Hens,. 25c; roosters, lBc: broilers. 30c. CORN Close; Jnly. $1.60: Anzast, $1.62 September, $1.64. Chicas Produce Market.' Chicago. Jnly 15. BUTTER Market hlcher. Creamery. 3S(?I43.e. EGGS Market stead. Firsts. 373e ordinary firsts, 33&37c; at mark, cases in. ciiniea. .ora.c. POTATOEOS Market lower. Virginia harrel, $5.75cG.2o: Kentucky Hose $2.75fS 2.90: Loulaiana white. $2.7532.R5: Missis sippi Triumphs. $3.000:3.10 Illinois Early Ohio. $2.50(32.75: California red, $3.00 3.25: California white. $2 803.00. POULTRY Alive, steady; fowls, 29e; springs, due. N New Tork Produce Market. New York, July 15 BUTTER Market nrm. creamery nigner than extras, t(5 46c; creamery extras, 92 score, 45c; cream ery rirsts. 4;itTy.c. EGGS Market firm. Fresh gathered ex tras, 46c: freah gathered, regular packed, extra firsts, 4445c. -CHEESE Mnrket firm. State fresh spe clalsts. 249425c. POULTRY Alive, firm: broilers, S5( 40e: fowls. 36c; roosters, 25c: turkeys. 28(3j "0c; dressed, firm; chickens, 4250c; fowls, xJ'Sdwc; turseys, diis:::c. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, July 15. COTTON Spot, quiet, points on; middling, 3u.uu. New Tork Stock Market. Wall St., New York.-Jnly 15. STOCKS Nominal, rallies followed the setback of tile first hour but prices broke more se verely later on pnDllcatlon or additional war bulletins. Earlv lossea among Im portant stocks were exceeded 1 to 3 poln's, the weasest reatnres again embracing n dustrials. Motors and Tobaccos. United States Steel and Reading extended their reversals to points, marine prererreo leu 2. Sumatra Tobacco 4 and General Motors 6, while numerons specialties yielded 1 to 3 points. Libertv 3's sold at 99.60 to 99.66. first 4's at 93.08 to 94.04, second 4's at 93.92 to 94.04. 4'a at 95.84 to 95.94, first convertible 4's at 94 snd second convertible st 93.92 to 94.02. Stocks were irregular at the opening of today's market but soon developed ahardv tone on reports Indicating a renewal of me uermsa orrensive along tne wesrern iront. active equipments sna specialties. particularly Tobaccos, yielded 1 to 4 points during the first half hour, united States Steel and Reading reacted 2 points and other leaders were 1 to 2 points under last week's nnal prices. Trad'.ng oulcken ed on the decline. Liberty bonds were steaay. s Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (Tbe following sales were made this morn Ing at the Stock Turds. Kansas City, an1 reported over long distance telephone di rect to tbe State Jonrnal by Carl Robin son Co.. live stock commission mer chants. Kansas City. July 15. CATTLE Be- veinta 21.000 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 12.000 head. Market 5e to 10c higher. Bulkier sales, $17.5017 70; ton. $17 so. SHEEP Receipts B.OOO head. steady. Lambs. $17.75 KILLING STEERS. No. Wt. PrlcelNo. Wt. 22..:.. 813 $1680 17.... .1004 3 956 14.25 I 41 1281 Market Price. $16.00 16.60 19 1Z4 1B.SO I COWS AND HEIFERS. 1...-..12S6 800 1 794 7.S0 11.50 9.011 9.25 940 9.00 822 8.50 640 9.00 6 970 1 1210 11.00 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS 42 8S6 14 1080 II 241 1 140 71 246 54 211 73...;. 24 54 172 43 302 9.75 I 23. 872 744 960 8.50 10.50 I 3... CALVES. 950 I 1 160 13.50 HOGS. 17 70 I 82.. 17.70 I 66... 17.70 90... 17 55 71... 17.70 j 197 182 166 208 1T.60 17.60 17.50 17.65 Chicago l,lve Stock Market. Chicago. July 15. HOGS Receipts 42. 000. Market strong and mostly 10c high er. Choice light nd light butchers. $18.15. one load prime nesvv na.uo. nuix or sales. $17.25(318.10: butchers, $17.75(818.15: packing $17.00(317.75: light $17.85(318.15; rough. $16.40U6.!0 pigs. $16.75(3 17.25. CATTLE Receipts 20,000. Good to best corn fed steers, steady; others and butch ers, slow and iower. SHEEP Receipts 24,000. Heavy sheep and yearlings, steady; choice Wsshlngton wethers. $14.00; lambs and light yearlings, unevenly lower; medium kind, shsrply down: one load choice Washington to out siders at $18.75. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas Cltv. Julv 15. HOGS Receipts 12.009. Market 10il5c higher. Bulk of sales. $17.60(317.80; heavy. 17.70 17.85; packers and butchers. $17.60(317.80; light. $17.50(317.70; -.igs. $10.504517.25. CATTLE Receipts 21.000, Including 3.000 southerns. Market steady to 10c lower. Prime fed steers. $17.503 18 ,3S dressed beef steers, $13.00(317.25: westrn steers. $10 5O 15.50: snnthern steers. $8.00315.00: cows. $7.O0fl3 0O: heifers, a oomo.oo atockers snd feeders. $7.50(515.59: bulls. $7JQ10J0: calves. $8.00(314.25. SHEEP Receipts 7,000. Market steady. Lambs. $16.00(318.75: yearlings. $14 nofi 17 00; wethers, $12.00(314.50: ewes. $8.00 12.50; stockers and feeders. $6.50(31650. M Ami as ffraln sssta, Fnralsnel bv fh rieks Board of Tmrte.i Chicago. July 15. The Tribune: Grain r Those who have been following tbe cash de. mand for corn of late believe that they see danger sign ..bead. They call attention to tbe fact that wheat substitutes are now st a good premium over tbe wheat, it is nnderatood that tbe attention of the food ndmlnist rati on fans been called to this con dltion. At the top white com Inst wek sold pound for ponnd at better than the government guaranteed price for wheat. A mold flnctuatine market fa looked for bv those who have been calling tbe turns of late. There Is now sufficient In tbe situa tion to cause a little hesitation on tbe par: of buyers of the cash article, as prices have had a sensational advance. However, with the advent of the new wheat substitutes will be in active demand and those who re malu bullish say that tbe end la not in eight, altho there msy be nomerous sharp reactions in both tbe cash and futures. There ar a great many bears on oats and the market is getting more hedging busi ness as harvest is progressing and country bolder are more disposed to sell. Boms of tbe largest cash handlers are not dis posed to buy 'be new oats, bnt others are taking,, them and wo of the leading cash houses sold August Saturday at 71c. The fact that oats tbow only felc gain for the week as compared with 57c on corn, made tbe bears think that their position was right. New York, Jnly 15. Financial News Bui -letln Stocks Good buying reported in R. B. C. Thia tock is being favored among the steel independents by people close to me management, a strong impression devoninr in well informed copper metal circles that the government will at least maintain tne cent price wnicn expires next, month and the nrobabllitiea lie IB factor of a further advance above the level because of proof said to have been drawn out that tbe producers cannot meet max imum requirements even st jn cents a Eound. Investment buying is credited with avlag held the market firm lately. I MID-MONTH GROCERY SALE Now, more than ever before. our special sales. Use this list Bob TVhit laundry Soap- Sambo Pascal Flour 10-7c bars, 65c; 100 bars 95.45 15c pk? ,...loc i 35c phg tUc Standard one-third pint Jelly t tilaMoa do Fancy Boiled Oats the extra large lze pltg sc SearchHffht Matches--- Richelieu Fancy Creamery Batler The 7c boxea, 10 for. .SOc l-ib. cartons 4c Fancy Seeded Balalna Gem ?fnt. Premium and Snewflahe 15c size lSHe 13 utter inn 10c slxe 8c 1-lb. cartons ..Me o'clock Washing Powder Mary Bine tbe family Coffee; lD-6c pkgs. for 45c Quality unexcelled; I-lb. ean..79e m tai w In y N teal DO YOUR SHOPPING IX Nary Beans Small slxe, lb... .18 Hi Dried Marrowfat Pi Beat White and Yellow Cornmeal pound e Beet White Con Floor lb.. Barley Flour lb 7e 7c Mazola Salad and Cooking OH Pint size 35c m Magnolia Peanut 40c; No. 10 mize. Oil Pint size. 91. 2S Try F. F. O. G. Teas World's finest quality Ceylon, India,' Gunpowder and Japan, -lb. can, Qc; 4-lb. can, 40c; 1-lb. can...7e Kekko and Homefolk Japan and m Gunpowder Teaa Pkg. 10c Our Special Ice Tea Blend You'll like It; lb ..,40c BUY WAR SAVINGS Pompeian Olive Oil Pint cans Quart cans Gallon cans .90.75 1.50 6.00 Baker's Freah Grated Cocoanot In Milk No. 1 cans, llct doz i.go Imitation Marachino Small bottle Cherries 15c fair Farmhouse Sweet Plcklaa Full quart Jars, each....... s4c Fresh Potato Chips Pkg. In this time of short stocks and blgb prices, it will pay you to buy from the big store, where you can depend on the largest selection end prices cut to the limit. 2 Beechnut Chill Sauce 16c-ox. size for S3c Beechnut Tomato Catsup 8-oz. size ISc 16-ox. size 88c Uppearott's Fancy Staffed Pim ento Olives 10c jar SSe Llnpencetf s Fancy Queen Olives 35c jar tie Invader Fancy Queen Olives 30c Jar tSc Sylmar Blpe Olives Luncheon size ....15c Large size t5c Jumbo Dill Pickles each 8c Sweet and Sour Pickles doz 10c American Mustard Sardines No. 4 tins ITHc Kippered Herrings No. Uns. .5c Prepared Mustard 4-os. jar 8-oz. jar ..4c ..Se I Fre. Delivers' to Tour Ttoor I Kl,XXjBBuBsClx!IL.Xwaaa "Gas Meter Reliable Apparatus" WEATHER REPORT UEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Tartly clondy and cooler tonight and Tuesday. Charles V. Critchfield, gas expert of the Ohio Utilities: Com mission, concluded his description of the domestic gas meter, at the recent convention of the Natural Gas Association of America, as follows: "The leather diaphragms of the meter must hold Just so much ga and no more, otherwise they either will turn the dial hand too far or not far enough. Consequently, great care Is used In making them. In fact, the accuracy of the meter depends almost wholly on the size and pliability of the leather bags. '"Since the creation of the Ohio Utilities Commission six years ago, it has been part of my duty to Inspect and test many' domestic meters. Taking Into consideration the conditions under which meters operate, as they are exposed to the action of the gaa within and heat, cold and moisture without. I can safely say the gaa meter Is the most reliable measuring apparatus made." s KANSAS NATURAL OAS CO. STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON GO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offlnm at Ottrn tu Jnwnh 8v Omaha, Denver. SIous City. 6n. St. worth and EI Paso. TOPEKA MARKET REPORT PO WAftON DELIVEHIBB. IPrlcea furniaheu by Wift Packing Topeka. Kan, Jnly 15. MIXED AND BUTCHERS., ...14.S0m7.20 hkavt il-&ti LIGHT 1,'nolI'S PIGS U.0OS14-OO Topoka Ciraia Market. (Famished -toy Derby erain Co., corner Kansas Are and Cnrtia St.i Topeka,. Kan, July 15. MIXED CORN $1.45. WHIB CORN $1.80. OATS 60605c. Poultry .ad Egrs. (Pnrntshed by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurent and Madison. I. Tdpeka. Kan.; Jnly 15. Springs, over lbs lc: old rtmstrs I5c broilers, 1 lb. to S Iba and nnder. 32c: bena over 3 lbs.. 24c; hens under 3 Iba, 21c. eogs 37c BUTTER 461349c. Brtull Hy. Topeka. Kan: Jnly 15. PRAIRIE PAY $17.00. ALFA LA $17.00. I Topek Hay ttr rke. Topeka, Kan- July 15. PRAIRIK.HAT $17.00. r. ALFA LF A $17.00. It will pay yon to take advantage of for your shopping guide. PERSON AT THE STORE Aroma Coffee, tn balk Fall 40c quality, per lb. c; 5 lbs S1.S5 Topeka Cnp Coffee 1-lb. pkg tSc Pnre Food brand, extra strength Lemon and Vanilla Extract 2-oz. bottle, 35c value for 5c White Crystal, World's Finest Qual ity, Baking Powder 1-lb. can. .25c Ivory Shaker Salt- 3-10c cans for gsc J-ln-1 Shoea Poll shea White Liquid, Tan, Black and Oxblood Paste. 12c pkg. t r.c Zaundry' Bluing Small size 4o Household Ammonia 12c size, bottle Se Palm Olive Rom Bath Soap 6-10c bars for 30c kai y y y N S3 STAMPS EVERY WEEK Mother Goose Fancy Sugar Corn 20c can, 15c; doz 81.75 Sifted Sweet Peae can, 17Hc: doz $3.00 Marabel Soaked Pcao can. 11c; 1oi Arwfna Snowhlte Hominy large size. No, 2i cans..u lie dozen n.ge Mother Goose Fancy Sliced Ha waiian Pineapple large cans, 4uc value, per can ........S9e dozen 83.10 Happyvale Peaches and Apricots In Syrup good quality, per can, 25c; doz. Medium Bed Salmon tall cans, per can, 28c; doz ...8 .53 Harmony Extra Fine Apple Butter No. 2 cans. 23c; dps $2.99 Hebe Milk Substitute 7c can. case of 8 dos. for ...Se .$4.75 Rex Jelly with corn syrup, 6-oz. glass 9c Spinx JJelly allflavorSj Jar Z5c Xnnch Pnre Fruit Preserves 55c size ar. 80c Harmony Pare Fruit Preserves ;sspberj-y and Strawberry, jar. 34c; 3 for $1.00 Revo per case wr 24 bottles. .82.75 LoipB case of 24 bottles 83.00 Phex Concentrated Loganberry sluice in three sizes 15c, gSc and title bottle N H ia u tea Harmony Grape Juice 0-os. bottle ..ao Paul. E. Buffalo. E. St. Ixniis. Fort 6 STORKS C M 4B.VVE MONEY HERR

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JULY IS 1918 U.S. W'PF PATROL Power To Take Oyer All Com panies Is Up to Wilson. Order Applies to Telephone, Telegraph, Radio, Cable. ONLY TRUNK SYSTEM NOW Rural and Small Independent Lines To Remain Intact. ."lerger of AH Systems in Cities Oyer '"'tire Nation. Washington July 15. Power to take over the nation's telegraph, tele phone services In cities, thus doing in the hands of President Wilson. Climaxing a week of stormy debate, the senate has adopted unamended and by a vote of 46 to 16 the resolu tion authorizing the president to as sume control of communication lines whenever he deems it necessary. Under the resolution the president has power to merge competing tele phone servlses in cities, thus doing away with dual service. With adoption of the wire control measure, it was confidently predicted by congressional leaders that the president would lose no time in tak ing over the lines. Millions of miles of wire, thousands of men and millions of dollars are involved in the proposed action. The resolution will be signed by presiding officers of th senate and house and transmitted to the presi dent today. Only Trunk Lines. During debate on the resolution it i was said the government would lane over only trunk lines and connecting system, leaving to their own manage ments the thousands of rural and small independent systems thruout the country. Merging of competing lines in nearly one thousand cities and towns will be one-of President Wilson's first uses of power granted liim in the wire control resolution, congressional leaders were informed today. Philadelphia and Cleveland are two of the largest cities .where the order will go into effect at an early date, it is said No More Double Systems. A double telephone system is one of the national extravagances which must give way under war time condi tions calling for strictest economy on part of business thruout the coun try, administration leaders feel. Friends of permanent government ownership here pointed to the adminis tration wire plans as one indication that the lines will never go back into private hands. 'Unscrambling" of the lines following the war will be Impos sible, they hold, if present plans are carried out. Secretaries Baker and Daniels and Postmaster General Burleson have all come out in favor of permanent gov ernment ownership. The vote followed a day of stormy debate, in which many senators de clared they would refuse to go further In granting broad powers to the gov ornment. ANOTHEiTSPORT PASSES "Elevating Elbow," Even With Lemon Extract, Is Bad Form. STILL SEEK PLEASES Missionaries Returning From Egypt Suprised at American Conditions. That all the automobiles In Egypt have been commandeered by the Brit ish government for military purposes is the statement made by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Philips who. with their S-year-old daughter, Harriet, have just arrived in Topf ka from Cairo to spend several weeks with, Mrs. Philips'! par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Griggs, 1625 Jewell avenue, and with the Rev. Mr. Phlllps's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Philips, 1317 Lincoln street Doctor Philips and wife went to Egypt ten years ago as missionaries for the United Presbyterian church to engage in work with the only Ameri can mission in Egypt. Doctor Philips has charge of the men's division and Mrs. Philips has charge of the wom en's division of the work. They will again return to Egypt after a fifteen months' furlo. Doctor Philips and his wife say they were greatly surprised to find, upon arriving in America, that the pursuit of pleasure was going on here as usual. The trip, which ordinarily can be made from Cairo to New York in twelve days, was made by way of the Pacific on acocunt of war condi tions and required three months. All the way, they said everyone seemed to be engaged in some kind of military occupation. Mrs. Philips said that two years ago missionaries were pray ing for America to enter the war be cause they realized that the cause would be lost to the allies unless we did. While doing itinerary work the family lived on a house boat on the Nile on which they have entertained many distinguished guests as well as hundreds of soldiers if the allied ar mies. L a tie Harriet who can speak both French and Arabic says she would rather kve in America where she can play on the grass with no one to tell her to stop, so little grass grows in Egypt it was explained, that if a patch appears a fence is built around it and a policeman set to watch It. DOWNS 3,856 HUNS This Is Total to Credit of British Air men for Last Year. THE MA YOR GOES A-GOLFING ON THAT SHA WNEE LINKS Thsre was a vicious crack, as the club met the ball. Three caddies down the fairway looked In three different directions. Then they looked in the air. shading their eyes with their tanned and grimy hands. Behind the tee stood two equally anxious and puzzled golf players. Where did the ball go? Only one person knew. He stood in a dejected shameful fashion perched on the tee. His club hung limply from his right hand. His cap was pulled d-wn over his eyes. His under lip and Jaw were thrown for ward and mumbled indigo words were heard to lift chru his teeth. "Mygawd where did that bird fly to?" me of the golfers inquired of '..he gentleman with the drooping driver. "It sounded like it vent a mile," commented the other. The m.'.n walked from the tee. dragged nis lengthy connected feet thru the srass to the right of the course, and stopped, about fifteen yards away. Bending his towering form he reacheu to the ground. His hand disappeared in the weeds and ex tracted a bright shining golf oalL. Once more he mounted the tee. once more he kicked up a pile of Kaw river sand. Once nore the club swung madly thru the air and one mqre the caddies dnnced in mystery. An' so it went for eighteen long, weary hoL- a It as the first visit of Mayor House to the Shawnee Golf links. The mayor has been playing cow-pasture-pool ior several months. All past hobbies have been forgotten in his enrapture over the game. H'k day's work always la ended with a bottle of lop at the Country club nineteenth hcle. He has told thou sands of iis personal admirers of the honey of he game. They have fol lowed his fever to a point where in shrinking modesty he admitted that he had mastered the game. Now, Jay is s member of the To peka Countrr club. He learned his game on the blue grass where every lie is a -irassy shot and where the velvet carpet of the greens invites the ball to tho pin.. He hu matched his wits and sirength against prosperous lawyers, equatorial bankers and fresh air Major Ozones, whose idea, of the game is to follow the caddies around the ',-ourse. take a shower bath and join the ladles on the spacious veranda. The other day, the mayor was In vited to participate at the Shawnee links. Here Is the real sporty course of the state. Hills and valleys roll in an endless procession. Ravines wind around .n snake-iike fashion. The holes run from S00 to 550 yards. Off the fairway, the grass, ever producing revenue to the club, is allowed to reach the hay stage before It Is cut. Young business men. young lawyers, young doctors many of them ex-athletes bing the ball over this course like road. Drives soar from one hill top to another. Brassy' shots disap pear in the horizon. Midiron lifts skimp along the prairie surface and mashie approaches jump from no where into the center of oiled sand "greens." With calm confidence, the mayor, not to be cowed thru his change of habitat, accepted the Invitation to play at the Shawnee links. Gracefully he walked to the Irst tee and Inquired casually ss to the distance to the tee. "What's thst only 85') yards? Par about four, eh?" His first drive probably rolled eighty yards. Tacking back and forth across the fairway like a yachtsman, he final ly reached the flag. At the second .ee he asked about the bogey. He lost kis nerve on par. Once again his drive ruined a portion of a perfectly good hay crop out In the "tall." And so it went. Jay had many alibis. First It was the course, then tht greens, then his winter atookinjrs. then his ne-lefd pipe, then Friday and so on did he go until his final declaration that it was his "ofT day." A good set of golf clubs may be for sale any day now. GRIFF MAKES 'EM LIKE IT Sioux Falls, S. D., July 15. The drv martini. Eingr ale highball, and straiEht "corn licker," all ruled out of South Dakota a year ago, have been substituted Ly le.non extract to such extent that J. C. Shanks, state sheriff. has issued an order prohibiting the manufacture or sale of that product in the state. Since state-wide prohibition became effective, the demand for lemon ex tract has increased more than 50 per cent because of its alcoholic contents, the .authorities declared. Sheriff Shanks said the extract, in most cases, was mixed with other substances be fore being used as a beverage. Steps are also being taken to stop the use of a certain drug which pro duces an intoxicating drink when deli cately mixed with other ingredients. Teh lemon extract order, effective Immediately, has left merchants In a puzzled frame of mind concerning dis posal of liberal stocks now on hand. ANOTHER ALL-STATE UNIT Huffman Believes Kansas Will Be Honored Again at Funston. It is probable that Kansas will be assigned another all-state regiment in the formation of another national army division at Camp Funston. That Is the opinion of Charles S. Huffman, adjutant general, who has returned from an inspection trip to the big army camp. General Huffman believes another armv division will be organized, in stead of carrying out reported plans to convert the camp into a replace ment section. In event a division is formed to succeed the organizations which have gone overseas. General Huffman believes Kansas will be as signed another all-state division. Con ditions at the camp, both as to sani tation, health and discipline, are ex cellent. Oencral Huffman said. London. July 15. In one year on the British western front the royal air force has accounted for 3,233 enemy airplanes. In the same period the na val airmen snot aown o-J. a oiai ui 3.S56. An official statement dealing with these operations says: "The royal air force during the year beginning July 1, 1917, on the British western front, destroyed 2,150 hostile machines and drove down out of con trol 1,083. In the same period the air force units working in conjunc tion with the navy shot down 623 hos tile machines. "During this period 1,094 of our machines were missing: ninety-two of these were working with the navy. "On the Italian front, from April to June, 1918, the British destroyed 165 hostile machines and drove down six out of control. Thirteen of ours were missing. "On the Salonikl front, between January and June, twenty-one hostile machines were destroyed and thirteen were driven down out of control. Four of ours were lost. "From March to Ji.ne. In Egypt and Palestine, twenty-six hostile airplanes were destroyed and fifteen were driven down out of control. Ten of ours were missing. "In all the theaters of the war, the British air superiority and strength nrmrressed raoidlv and continuously. It is safe to assume that when the new factor of America's output, Dom air craft and personnel, enters the fight ing zones, the aerial ascendency of the entente allies should give them very great advantage." BAYONETJTO SOCIETY Blood-Soaked Relic of Quantrell's Raid Presented by Hanback. Harold Hanback, a son of Capt. A. G. Hanback, custodian at the state house, has presented a blood-stained bavonet a trophy of the Quantrell raid to the State Historical society. The bayonet was found by Hanback In a grove near Baxter Springs. Hanback believes the bayonet, which is now rusted, was blood-soaked in the famous raid on Baxter Springs, In which 169 Wisconsin cavalryme.i were killed. One of the Incidents of the famous raid, which was revived by Hanback's presentation to the state society, was the almost miraculous es cape from capture or death Dy Mrs. Chester Thomas, a Topeka woman and widow of the late "Chef Thomas. She was on her way from Topeka to Fort Smith, Ark., to loin her husband. An escort party was attacked by Quantrell men dressed in stolen Union uniforms. Mrs. Thomas es caped, altho a number of members of the party were killed. BURROW SJ)N BOARD Topeka Banker Is Made Member or Capital Issues Committee. J. R. Burrow, president of the Cen nuvrt A SAVING 5 BATO-t savins a diamond now- buy weekly or monthly payment. rnet mmj qouHj roar ntd Our frc x ehuM alan nsafcea mall stow to big ntt No Interact m ratf taea Bargain In Any Sire i 00.00 Caauln Ditwn Ulna 39.SX Sat. SO Canutna DUmn4 Sing SQO.OO 90. 00 OaMtHna Olamona Ping Ses.00 OMMiM Dtaman Mln 7a.O0 To Railroad Mmn wpkisss" sn. i in ii TOO KOM OB Bill ft. R ih Too want Tell jmow friend this arte tat a i-wait. We ha (toed atche from r?.H no- Vv rrie tha foilowia ta Sa-Yaat OoM T Jawa ttw -SiauSO 1 Jwi Itlinala 29.7S lO Jwl W.RaymoaS 037.60 St Jal afha Tim S3O.O0 SI Jiwl Sunn Saaalat S3S.SI Jvl Waitham as.M FREF Pn Month t? Koll-tlr- Aiaa i Pr. CaiaJoa By twaaoa of for dlraet factor? cib action, mm make Too lsOT rrlea for ah o (.flt than ia posj alb' tf thasmaJ daalar Good aapt on aoocwTai. Hrris-Gor Coihpmn He Has Hurlcrs Heave "Shine Ball" As Reprisal Measure. BY JACK VEIOCK. New York, July 15. Clark Grif fith and Fielder Jones kicked like steers against the use of the "shine ball" by American League pitchers last season. But all their kicking gained them nothing, as the magnates did not legislate against the freak de livery. So Griff has taken a new tack in his campaign against all styles of pitch ing delivery that can be classified as "freaks" of the hurling art by letting his pitchers run wild and use what ever kind of a tielivery they want, just as long as they do not break the rule against soiling the ball. Griff believes In reprisals. He thinks the best way to force the hand of the magnates who are advocates of freak deliveries because they happen to have pitchers who depend largely upon them is to give 'em a taste of their own medicine. So when the sea son opened this Spring Griff told his pitchers that the "shine" was all right, if they could get away with It,' and It wasn't long, until Shaw and Ayers were using it -with the deftness of past masters. Even Walter John son has experimented with the "shiner," but he has held back from its use because he says he cannot control It well as yet, and he doesn't want to take any chances of murder ing opposing batsmen because of lack SATURDAY GAMES. NATIONAL LBAIil'K. K. H. E Honton tat Cblcago) 3 e o ChU'airo fc a C'anaron and Henry; Vaughn and Kt. li fer, o Faliell. Brooklyn (at Cincinnati) 1 10 0 Cincinnati 3 5 0 Cheney, Robertson and Miller: Eller ami W ingo. Second game Brooklyn ..............2 10 1 Cincinnati H 1 1 (Jrimea, Hobertsnn and M. Wheat; Schneider. Regan and Wingo, Allen rhllnilelpbia (at St. Lou la) 5 a St. Loula u q 1 Iavis and Burns; Packard and Gonzales. Second gnme Philadelphia 4 12 0 St Louis 1 10 1 Watson and Adaina; Meadows, Johnson. May nnd Gonzales. New York (at Pittsburgh) 4 K.8 Pittsburgh 6 10 1 V.ey.ift s-nnPP sad McCarty; Cooper and P.lnt-bwell. Second game New York A ft 1 Pittsbnrgli """"'Ii 5 1 Causey and Rarlden; Sanders and. Archer. AMERICAS LEAGCE. Chive sro (at Boston)....., 55 1 Boston ...0 7 2 Knsaell and Jncoba Bush andA&rnew Detroit (at Washington) .1 5 y Washington 0 7 3 Jamea and Stanage; Harper snd'picinlch Cleveland (at New York) 3 2 New York 4 M x Coumbe. Groom and O'Neill; Love and Hannah. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. R. H. IiKlianapolis Y..2 ft 0 Brown and Hartley; Caret and' Schsng. Second game Columbus 1 a 1 Indianapolis "1.0 3 Curtis and Wagner; Cram.. Shackelford ana Schang. Milwaukee (at Kansas City).. S 9 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE. V 'ii -i'"-8, 1 r k. 1 1.7 j uu 11 nun Adams Plitl.A.lnlila (at rhlcnirnt MS 1 JJ!" ""'"w. riTiV.;o 5 13 v. I""" (at St. Paul) 4 5 2 O'Par'refr BUrDS: Tj''er hSS C-i-V-itoA ,.S SPEU: Lou!"!::::::::::::::::41S t.m. i 7 of control. Griffs reprisal plan !s fair enough j Columbus (at Indianapolis) IU All Ll'jUB, HIIU 11 IIUl W BUI- I prisine should the American League adopt legislation against freaks next winter. SUNDAY GAMES. Nehf and Henryy; Ames and Gonsalea. Second game Boston 4 14 1 St Lnuls 3 10 1 Rudolph and Wilson; Doak. Sberdcll and Gonzales. New York (at Cincinnati) 5 8 3 Cincinnati 1 3 Demaree and McCarty; Ring and Wlngo. tral National bank, has been appointed j scon.'J "4n" AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Pan) (at Minneapolis) 4 10 2 Minneapolis 5 11 2 Hall and Hargrave Perdue and Kitchens. Second game St. Paul 11 1 Minneapolis 8 6 Hagerman. Rook. Merrltt and Hargrave; Hughes. Palermo and Coleman. (Called 6 o'clock, account state law.) Columbus (at Indianapolis) 4 10 3 Indianapolis 8 2 George. Barfoot. Sherman and Wagner; Eoestner and Gossett. Second game Colnmbus I 2 Indiannpolis 1 3 McGnillan and Hartley; Boggs, Caver and Schang. Louisville (at Toledo) ...11 1 Toledo 1 1 Lnque and Mayer; Sanders, Brady and iveuy. Toledo soi uu unyer; .i i v. o 1 1 and Jveliey. mW r.r th. f!itv federal Louisville reserve district committee on capital issues, according to a report from Kansas City. The complete personnel of the capital issues committee fol lows: Asa E. Ramsay, chairman; J. Z. Miller. Jr., vice-chairman; H. T. Ab ernathy, P. W. Goebel. George S. Hovey. W. T. Kemper. H. P. Wright, all of Kansas City: J. R. Burrow, To peka, Kan.; Dorset Carter. Oklahoma City. Okla.; J. S. Cosden, Tulsa, Okla.; C. L. Davidson, Wichita, Kan.; Luther Drake, Omaha, Neb.: John Evans, Denver, Colo.; D. N. Fink, Muskogee, Okla.; A. H. Marble. Cheyenne, Wyo. Charles W. Oswald. Hutchinson, Kan.; R. C. Peters, Omaha. Neb.; J. G. Schneider. St. Joseph, Mo.; O. C Sni der. Kansas. The first seven of the above con stitute the executive committee. S 2 Toledo 0 4 4 Stroud and Kocher: Bowman and Kelley. Milwaukee (at Kansas City) 2 6 5 Kansas City 3 8 O Kerr and Murphy; Hill. Hall and Onslow. Second game Milwaukee 1 S 0 Kansas City 2 7 1 Williams -nd Huhn; Hall and Anslow.. MAJ. 3 .C. H. LEE IS PROMOTED. Former Aid de Camp to General Wood Now a Lieutenant Colonel. Junction City. Kan July IB. Maj. John C. H. Lee. former aid de camp to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, according to word received here from France, where he is with the 89th division. Lieutenant Colonel Lee Is a son of Mrs. J. C. H. Lee of this city, a graduate of West Point and only 31 years old. Major Lee was acting chief of staff during the greater part of the time the 89th division was in training at Camp Funston. He left for France several weeks ahead of the division to attend a Held train ing school. AMERICAN I.BAGDB. New York (at Cleveland) ..1 5 2 Cleveland 12 2 RnaselL Keating and Hannah; Bagby aad O'Neill. Detroit (at Washington) 7 8 1 Washington 0 5 1 Boiand and stanage; ayers, isnaw, Hovllk and Pidulch. Food For Fans RY GKORtiE fc. PHAIR. (Copyrighted.) 8TANDINU OF THE CLCBS. Ajaerlras LmfW Clubs Won. Lost Pet Boston 47 33 .5S8 New York 43 35 AH i Clevland 4l 38 .Ms Washington 41 41 .500 St. Lout 39 .404 Chicago 38 40 .4KT Detroit 33 45 .423 Philadelphia 30 46 .305 National Lensse Clubs Won Loei lri Chicago 55 23 .708 New York 47 30 .R10 Pittsburgh 38 37 .507 Philadelphia 35 40 .473 Cincinnati 34 40 .459 Boston 35 44 .443 Brooklyn ,30 44 .405 St. Lonls '.32 48 .400 Amertcsa Aaaortattca. Clubs Won ."1 Kansas City 41 2 .12 Columbus 38 30 .559 Loniavllle 40 32 Jvtt Milwaukee 34 32 .515 Indianapolis 35 33 .515 St Paul 34 3S .4KB Minneapolis 32 37 .44 Toledo 20 4 .290 Here are part of the items for 11 $-Dollar Day-$, Tuesday at Pelletier's Over Here. The Pharisee In days of old Gave up his little chunk of gold." "Oh, God." said he, "As Thou dost see, I slip a lot of jack to Thee.' The profiteer in modern davs Gives up bis jnk in public ways. "Behold," says he, "I give to thee One thousand bucks that all may see." He hands a thouianj golden scads Unto the fighting soldier lads. And makes them eat His rotten meat And travels calmly on his beat. Rabbit Maranville. U. S. N., is spending his furlough playing with the Boston Na tional League bsseball team. Shoving that our sailors are game guys. On the 8th of this month there will &e an auto carnival in our midst which will set before the public eye the cream, as It Were, of the daredevil, death-defying drivers. It will be a sweepstakes event, in which every daredevil, death-defying driver will risk two thousand of bis own simoleons. In view of the fact that a daredevil, death defying driver would risk his neck two thousand times rather than risk two thou sand of his own simoieons. this will be the most spectacular race in history. Dope. TIs always most trace nny how a baseball team behaves. The Cubs, who trimmed the Giants, grot a wallop from the Braves. Tbe allied governments are now order ing loads and loads of chewing gum, hav ing studied their various legislative as semblies and discovered thst It is cbeaper to. chew gum than to chew the rag. Some one in' onr midst believes in tbe conservation of chewing gum. While at tempting to utrike a match, a moment hence, on the southern surface of onr of fice chair, we discovered that some one -has been hoarding two wads of It. Now we"iearn that Duke Kahanamokn is an expert Derformer on the okelele. Thus, when one has achieved fame, his secret misdemeanor! are brought -to Hgbt- Tbose who have heard the Duke In tbe act of sinetnr "Wlckie Waekle Whattava callit are unanimous in declaring that as a singer Be is tne world s greatest swim mer. FaZ" Fat we are told, is unpatriotic. It la said that persons who carry excess weignt in xnese parioua times are lenaing ala and comfort to the enemy. Thus we aee again that nobody tovea a Leather Goods 1.50 Urge ather Handbags f.1.00 L") to 2.50 Handbags and Flat Purses t.ao 75c Bag Tops for making ribbon or silk bars t for $1.00 -25-1.50 Hair Ornaments. i on sale gl.ov Main Flmr Pelletler' 1 The Hosiery Me and ftse Sir Boot Hose: colors, only a' small lot to be closed out fl"! Aft Dollar Day 1 palrapa.UVF rWonn Brown Cotton Hose "sec t omls" ot regular 50c ones on sale SS!?..-...: $1.00 Worarn'i t54 Black Cotton Hose specially priced tor CI AA Dollar Day 7 pairs pA.VU Women's 6Ae nvay blue silk lisle Hose ojsale dollar ffl AA Day pnlraA.VU Children's SSe Stockings; medlnm ribbed black cotton on sale tf AA Dollar Day p!r V1-"" Children's S5 Atoektncs; a tableful of odds and en'ls priced to (PI AA close ollar Pay 4 pairs P i.VU Main Floor Pelletler's

r Gves. Neckwear Handkerchiefs Jewelry $1.11 Knyser nnd Klaarra Maid Silk (love.; the 2-clasp in white anil black siecially priced for AA Dollar Day Women's up to ST .Ml Neckwear; Vestees, Flat and l:o!l Collars. Dress Rets, and the Nike: of wash satins. Georgettes, organdies, etc. choice P1 AA Dollar Day ?X.UV Women's 3.Vr Handkerchiefs of sheer Shamrock lawn plain white and with eolored borders and em- flj" AA broldered corners for?-""" Men's 10c Handkerchiefs of white cam bric with i-incb bems AA Dollar Day 15 for P l.IU Tn to Sfl.AO Jewelry; Brooches. Bnr I'ins. Bracelets. Hat Pins. Cuff Links Rets, etc.: of srood pold-fil'efl and rolled plate stock choice CI AA Dollar Day pi.UU Main Floor Pelletler's Tuesday is Dollar Day at Pelletier's the day that every section of this great store offers most exceptional bargains at a dollar. This is only part of the offerings No 'phone orders for Dollar Day items, please H K'niKEm-k"1 STK A special lot of aluminum ware worth $1.39 to $1.75 on sale $1.00 A special under-price purchase of high grade aluminum ware here just in time for Dollar Day. $1.75 Aluminum Double Roasters for Sl.OO $1.69 Aluminum covered Washington Kettle 1.00 $1.69 Aluminum coffee Percolators for 1.00 $1.75 Aluminum Double Rice Boilers for l.OO $1.50 Aluminum. No. 8 Skillet for 1.00 $1.39 Aluminum Lipped Preserving; Kettle 1.00 and other bargains 1 $1.59 Set of gray Knamelware: a 34-qt. deep Dish Pan and a 10-qt. Water Pail for $1.00 75c. 9-inch Glass Pie Plates: fireproof 2 for $1.00 75c. 9-inch Fancy Jardinieres 2 for $1.00 Housewares 4th Floor Pelletler's Laces Embroiders Filet. Cluny and Venlae Lace -dgea ana Insertions to match; up to 3-lnh widths on sal. Dollar CI AA Day 15 yards pX"V 5e Filet Zr Edcesi for camisoles, curtains, ecarfs. Cf AA etc. yards V1 Cp to SSe F,mbrolderlesi to 14-Inch cambric flounclugs and a few Cl AA Insertions yards Mala Floor Pelletler's 1 Art Needlework tSOe Pore linen hock Towel tbe (roeet Blue neatlv itnmpetl in conventional and floral 1elgn for embroirterintt D-ay"."..". for$L00 SSe Medium also cotton buck Towels neatly stamped to be em- oj-j (111 a Tor V broidered SSe Medlnm als. honeycomb Towels stamped to b. embroidered CI AA Dollar Dry -.4 for fl'"" 50e Tnrklsh Towels: th medlnm slse. with the ends neatly CI AA stamped for A."" 59e T.rse Tnrklsh Towels; rood, heavr. serviceable ones sttractively C"l AA stamped t.yX.UU Znd Floor Pelletler's 1 Draperies 30e Colored Border Scrims; the 36-lnch ecru ground with borders In CI AA Autuiuu colors yards P A.W 35c Novelty Mats; ecru and whit. In small all-over l.giired pat- CI AA terns Dollar Day... yards fliUU 60c Cretonnes; the 36-lncu in a variety of excellent designs for porches, liv ing rooms, bedrooms, and C AA the like 4 yards e?X.VAJ too Cnrtaln Swiss; the 30-inch in striped nd all-over patterns Dol- CI Aft lar Day ynrds X.VIU fjp to Z.00 Over Draperies; tbe GO-lnch in sunfaat blue, green, rose, C" AA mulberry and brown J..uU 20e Curved end Curtain Rods for ordi nary size windows; complet CI AA with brackets hcyliWI $1.09 45-lnch Cloth Square, for th. center oi tne Kiccnen or sleeping porch fl.75 Inlaid Linoleum; the heavy grade in tne pepniar oiue-sna- ci Aft white granite pattern pX.VU 4th Floor Pelletler's ..$1.00 This is only about halt of the Basement Bargains for Dollar Day t But there are enough here to give you, a very good idea of the feast of bar groins in this great bargain center tomorrow Dollar Day at Pelletier's. Women's nnd Children's Sl.OO Middles; (P4 Aft odd iota, samples, soiled, etc. x for 9JkW Wonien'a Wash Waists; a small lot of 4J Aft voles and lawns while they last..! for 9annW Wnmena sijso porch Aprons of fast color A? J ftft percales as long as they last Day. ww k2a Petticoat, of nurses atriueo (ting-. fl? SJ ff 4 bsu ..fast .colors, very serviceable. 9annW Women's a-lna-tiam Petticoats in neat striped patterns while they laac. S for Sl.OO 19c Dressing Sacqnes of very fine, fast ft4 ftf i color voiles; all sizes Day... for -Children. BSc Bloomers of fine Black Oft sateen with elastic kneea day... forPJ.w Women's fl.MT Kimono, of dainty pattern sj ft ft ;s cotton crepe in attractive -Moringi.. liUv Children's Bloomers of muslin, the kneea 4J ft ft finished with elastic sizes to 12 yrs. s prs9 A a JI W omen's See Corset Covers neatly trim- 4C1 ft ft med with laces and embroideries..! for wliUU Children's SSe Muslin Underwear; 41 fts Drawers and Princess Slips for 9AW Women s Stte Union Suits of soft ribbed Qa ft ft cutton wttb lace trimmed knees.. X for 3V.W Knit Union Salts and Teddy" Bears tCI ftft the reg.ilar 45c kind on sale.... for 1UU tie otton Batts; tbe 10 os (crio) size, 12 4 ftft soft and fluffy buy them for PAaW Pelletler's bargain "lasement. Up to $3.98 Hats on sale $1.00 A' fine. Mg fot "'6 boose Trom. There are amall Trimmed Hats, Bunded Sailors, and a big assortment of Un-rlmuied Hats in black, sand, rose and purple and a few Panamas In small shapes Hats worth up to f 4 $3.98 on sale Dollar Day 3X W All the Children's Trimmed Hats; Mllnns and fancy braids in Mack, white and colors Huts worth op to 43.00. on sale fl f if Dollar Day 3 X JJ Millinery Pelletler's Bargain Basement Sl.OO Sl.OO Sl.OO Sl.OO Sl.OO hlldren's tSr Stockings of fine mercer, 4 AA lzed, black cotton sires to 6, only. .ep9 A iUU Men's SSe Fibre Silk Socks; black ones. -f ff most all sizes Dollar Day 6 piri9AiUv Men's 10o Cotton Socks; black ones In all fff AA sizes on sale Dollar Day 7 pairs 91iUU SSe Tnrklsh Fmrt Towels; plain white and with colored centers, borders. S for Women's 9e Lisle Rose In Tarlons col ors all sizes on sale Day.. 4 pairs Women's 15c Cotton Hose; white and black in all alses oi$ sale.... I pairs Women's Cotton Ham; white and black good seconds" of 19c ones.. pairs Women's AOe Fibre Silk Hose; a good line of colors; plenty all sizes.. S pairs Children's SSe Stockings of fine mercer. otto Cotton Batts; the full comfort size, 414 weighing 2 pounds, snow-white; S for 9Jb 35c White Voiles; fine enough for tft'l dresses; best for curtains fi yards 9JL (ilnghams in fast color checks an plaids S f specially priced for Dollar Day. 4 yds w X 23c Linen Crash Toweling lay in a fl? 4 good supply Dollar Day.... 5 yards for 91 49r Turkish Bath Towels; good size with colored centers and borders., for Pelletler's Bargain Basement. SI .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 Men's Z5e "Bedrock" Hose; tan, gray. .1 f C black and Palm Beach f Day.. .8 paIra9A.W Men's f LXS Kuslln Night Gowns; full size, C ftft cool and comfortable Dollar Day w an W Men's S1.50 Dress and Sport Shirts of striped per- cuit-. auti aiunKi; BOIE ana Stiff cuffs Men's op to Sl.OO Shirt, for dress, sport i ana wore wear; an sizes s for Men's Sl-6 Athletic Union Salts of fin. C J ftft Madrases and noisettes; sizes 36 to 40.. SliVV Pelletler. Bvgnla Basement. Sl.OO Sl.OO Automobile Cylinders Rebored PISTONS and RINGS FITTED Machinists Electric Go. 108 W. EighCh St. Phone 634 1 DR. CEO. PORT ASHTON Deartist ST. W. Cm. 8th awmd Kansas At. US fat man tbatN Is. nobody bnt the kaiser, and he will be nobody before this war over. Persons who are fat are not fat be cause they like to be fat. They do not ro out onto tbe highways and byways, seek ing it. It la wished on them. Nor Is It overeating wliico necessarily causes one to grow Cat. We know human silvers who eat enough at one meal tor would, if they ould get It I to keep a regi ment of fat men In sustenance for a fort night. Is William H Taft unpatnotie? Or U Irvin Cobb? Wbeie do tbey get that nulse ft fat guy Is unpatriotic? Julias Caesar, according to bis press gent, BUI (Shakespeare, said- "Let me have men about me wno are fat. Those skinny guys are grafters- Etc, etc. Fat is a necessity, -fhls is shown con clusively by the demand for fat in ibe central nations of Europe. We could send onr excess supply ot rat to Kurope and never feel the want if it. When one reads the Congressional 1VJA. .1 .V V V iZ Ko matter hou good Hie ff quality of tjour work t No matter hou b-ue your s reputation as a quality printer 1 Capper "Enqravincjs s will improve that quality I CsppirTngrsvixg C6.I CArPflR ejUILCMIfS PIIOIIS toetKAjAnAABf Itiof Topekcv. Thursday, July 25 flflii A N D THF G0P6E0US 0B I 13 C Kl TA I nAAraiv CveTR pnisPNtrn pw a ri-. .a SCOPES 0FNFWft)BtlCiN ACTS INCUIDIMft ACnMPlFTf CHINESE ClgCUS GREATEST 6ALAxVor TMDILLlNCt CIRCUS N0VELTIE3 EVEI? SEEN DADADT AT IA A M PBFtrBIMfi ris DfDiniii. POOPS 0PH AT l.'yPM PtPfQgMAHCES BEDIM AT P. M. nl Tickets on sale show day at The Rowley Drug Store, 600 Avenue. Same prices as charged on show grounds. ABt9rsk.i a, r u .,c i w Record one cannot bnt see that this tat land is overstocked witti persons who are 1U0 per cent fat from tbe ears up. War Front Pictures Actual War Seeaea from Italy. France ud England. These Pictures are owned and controlled by the Allied C.o frnmentt, and eame te the Orphean nvt st big cost. The rercnae goes t the govera-tents. MARGUERITE CLARK "PRUNELLA" Farmerette Girls Novelty Singing Act TlUa program is for three days only Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Where? Why at The Awt i fC in ii i wiii i 3 The REAL amnaement house or Topeka open the whole year through. Shows 3, 7:15. Matinee .............le inn le Evening; Ue-tai X. Dance Tonight School 8 P, M. Social P. M. KELLAM HALL GEM TODAY TOMORROW Boy Scouts to the Rescue A. Serial Drama of Thrilling Adventure. A Five reel Super-feature). "June of the Woods" TODAT-:M. 1:W, VMICHTT GOOD I""" AUDEVILLC- Ail the Tliae Today The miTteenth ptade ef the "LION'S CLAW" Mat. IOCS Xlsnt lOe, He

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1918 QToprka jtat? .Uttumal An IndepriMient Newspapei BV FRANK t- MAl- I.KNNAN VOLUME XL No. 168 Entered s seuoud-clftse waiter JJFKILlAL STUB PAI'EK. OFFICIAL I'AI'EH 11T TOl'KKA Svbcrtptlei Kate By mall l-l i-Ji-Kuce. oil year Ss.otl lly mail lu advance, siz months.... 2-40 By inali io ra:oe. three uiouthl. l.iW by uiatl in a.lrni.-e, on niuiitb.... -GO Kates by C'fcrrrer. One wee centa Two weeks for a Quarter. centa Four weeka 50 cents Telephone 3530. Eastern offluea: I'aui Block, repreaenta tlve Fifth fvenue. New Y'ork; Mailers building, Chicago; Little Bldg. Uoeton Kresge bulMliie. Detroit Member: Associated Presa, Amerliran Newnpniwr t'ublial'era Association. Analt Bureitu tf Circulation. yCMDDK Or THE ASSOCIATKO fit ESS. Tim Associated I'resa la exclusively eo-i m..i t.. ih for reltublit-ttloil of all 1 news iltaputvbca credited to It or not other wise credited In tlila iter and. also be local news published, herein. INFORMATION FOR ALL READERS OF THE TOPEKA STATE JOUBXAL. Each reader of the State Joornal la of fered the unlimited use of the largest In formation bureau In the world. Thia Servl.-e Bureau Is located In the na tional cnoitul, where it ia In Immediate touch with all the great reaourcca ot the United Stntca government- It can auawer practically any question jrou want to aak. but it cannot gire ad vice, nor make exhaustive research. The war hue forced so ninny changes In the dally life of the American people that the services of this information bureau will be Invaluable to nil who use It. Keen in touch with your government during these trying times. It con help you iu u thousand waya if your wanta are only made known. The State Journal pays for this splendid service In order that every one of Its read ers mnv take free advantage of It. You are welcome to use It aa often as yon like. Write your request briefly, sign your name and address plainly, enclose a 3-cent staini) for rctunv-po'tase. and eddress the TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFOKMA- TIFr?dertclIJAHasfcin. Director. Waahlng ton. I. C. The long expected renewal of Ger many's peace move has come. Tha Initial feeler was put out by Chancel lor von Hertlins. in his address before the relchstag main committee, when he declared that Germany has no in tention of retaining Belgium in any form whatever. This announcement la made for the purpose of disturbing the cohesion existing among the allies. If It fail to bring results, we may expect additional concessions from time to time. Germany has reached a point where she will be content if she be al lowed to retain what she has In Rus sia, If she could get out of the war on those terms she w.ould be a big gainer in territory and population anil would be in an excellent position for renewing her efforts In the west at some future time. Germany Is whipped and she knows" it. If the al lies do not want another war, they must stand firm against the Insidious advance of Berlin in the direction of a negotiated peac?. The ability of the Teutons to rrjake war in the future can be destroyed now for all time and If thia be not done, all our sacrifices and those of our allies will have been In vain. The next move in the peace offensive probably will be an offer to restore the stolen provinces of France. But it is not enough. Rumania affords an excellent exam ple of the result of a German made peace. The people are starving be cause the Germans have stolen all the food. There are no new crops coming on, because the people are unwilling to feed the invaders. The war has taught certain, eco nomic lessons clearly. It has revealed unsuspected resources in all the coun tries; not of hjdden wealth but of pro ductive capabilities. It is said that the slums of London have disap peared; that with the insistent appeal for labor, enlistments and conscrip tion, the Idlers and even the vicious have been swept into useful employ ment. With millions ot the most ef fective workers In the armies,"tmheard of sums are raised for war purposes, the war industries are expanded npon an enormous scale, and yet in Eng land and France the population Is eared for on the whole as well as in normal times. The conclusion ia ir resistible that if the sunt energy and spirit can be continued after pence is restored, and devoted to construction and production, the entire level of liv ing conditions can be raised above that of the past. Customers at the stores are to'.d by the salesmen that it Is impossible to purchase all wool fabrics in the mar kets. It may be true but there la no sound reason for it. The country is assured not only by the government but by the secretary of the American Wool Growers' association that there is no shortage in the wool crop, altho it would be to the advantage of the producers to let any report of a short age stand. The adage: "Old men for council; young men for war" at least the first part of it seems to have been adopt ed to the limit in the affairs ot Ja- pan. The country is ruled by old men. Pririco l'amagata. at the age of 83, is stl'.l the center of political In fluence. Baron. Shlbusatta. tho he an- n: unced h:a imantlcn of retiring from atiiva life laat year At the age of 77. is stlil xitl.e 5.1 public affairs. Mar. qtia D'lmi, who-, ujj.i recovery from Ms ocs.lt nines, proclaimed that he would licncetorih call himself an .Id rrtn. !s now 79 years old and is in variably In the ceater cf the political life cf ihe ereniia. The menders of the present vabinet are also well up 1 yeer.-. V'liea the privy council is considered ne rl-ids that of the; twenty-! tpemb; rs, six are ovei 80, even are above 70, and ten are r- t-.7een 0 and 70. Only two are In their fifties. The p-ivy council, in I' function as adviser to the erapjrar, elves the final verdict on the policies to Ve follow In the management of the empire. The nous of peers is also famous for thi old age of the treat majority of Its members. OTR MOST POWKRFUL WEAPON. Kansas' 3 quota of the W. S. S. loan is not yet subscribed and another liberty loan is coming in October. Shall we be ready for it? The kaiser ultimately will feel the fatal shock of our dollars from the farthest corner of the country, from the tiniest or leanest or youngest or oldest purse. A dollar from each of us would give $100,000,000 a week; and very many of us could exceed that sum. Few of us could plead inability to save, and invest for war winning, IS cents a day. Liberty bonds, coming only about twice a year, may be beyond some of use. But war savings stamps, the lit tle brother of the liberty bond, are within reach of us all; are with us all the time; and personify the steady, constant meeting of war's obligations that bespeak the best war financing. Uncle Sam has an imperative prior right to not only our young men's lives and to everybody's loyalty but to every atom he needs in material, com modities and services. Temporarily, during war time, every patriot will live not only the simple but the sim plest life; will curtail his personal con sumption to sensible necessities, es pecially so far as competition with his own government is concerned in la bor, goods, services, material, money and credit. The .more he sets aside semiannually for liberty loans and ev ery week and every day for war sav ings stamps the more surely will he accomplish this high aim of patriotic devotion and economic wisdom. It automatically nappe j that in thus helping one's country one simply can not help helping Oneself. Thrift is here indissolubly bound up with pa triotism. The end of the year. inl the end of the war, will find the W. S. S. buyer with Just so much more in vested in the Gibraltar of Invest ments mat- mignt otherwise never have been saved. Here also will it automatically hap pen that much of thia saving will spring from the abstinence from non essential spendings which might have competed with his own government's war-making success. England now has an "insignificant little army" of two milllorvmen in France. The presence of this force may account in some measure fur the apparent reluctance of Hindenburg to resume his Journey in the direction of Paris. THE OPEN GATE. So far there has been heard on the part of labor, organized or unorgan ized, no outcry against the govern ment's effort to induce Mexicans to eut this country for the purpose of performing greatly needed labor. The committee cn public Information is conducting a particularly vigorous campaign In Mexico. The tour of the United States made by Mexican news paper editors a few weeks ago was part of a comprehensive plan to cor rect mistaken impressions that exist south of the Rio Grande on the ques tion Af t 1 i mnnfni'i a her southern neighbor. The committee's camcalen has In view America's need for unskilled la bor to replace the men in the TTniti.il States -who are being drafted for war and for war industries. American farms, mines and railroads require vast numbers of unskilled workmen There are two possible sources of sup ply; one is China and the other Mex ico. The latter country can afford immediate relief. Unfortunately, says a contributor to r,esue s, tnere la a deep-rooted preju dice in Mexico against the people of this country, which must b overcome before It will be possible to persuade Mexican labor tj cross the line. This prejudice is partly attributable to the American government's uncertain pol icy towards the governments that have followed the Diaz regime. The United states has wavered between an atti tude of harshness, which h. Mexican hatred, and mistaken indul gence, which, interpreted as fear, ha inspired contempt.. ConsHmntiv in telligent propaganda work must be .-.meo. on in Mexico if this country is to reap advantages in that direction from President Wilson's recent signifi cant modifications of the immigration law. If the committee on nubile informa tion be successful, the United States will win the friendship of a suspicious neighbor and a supply of labor that will plug the gaps in America's army of unskilled worklngmen. Concrete ships have been so suc cessful that they are to be followed by concrete freight cars. In a few weeks experiments will have deter mined the practicability of construct ing railway' freight cars of reinforced concrete, says Searle Hendee In Popu lar Mechanics. Stimulated by war conditions, which make the immediate provision of more carriers and the conservation of steel imperative, a Chi cago engineer, in association wit some of the largest car-building com panies, has turned his attention to the fabrication of concrete gondolas. A car is to be built at once in accord ance with plana and specifications now In the final stage of completion. Cob tingent upon the showing made by this car. which is patented, is the imme d'ate production of others on a whole sale scale. The world seems to be re turning fn the "stone aae. f TOPKKA STATE) JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU FREDERIC J. HASKIN. .Director. Washington. D. C THE HOUSE REPORTERS. Washington, D. C. July 12. The house of representatives recently did a tardy kindness to the men who re cord its remarks in shorthand, by placing their typists on the house pay roll. Heretofore, the house reporteraj have been compelled to pay the typ ists out of their own pockets, later re covering the money thru an item in the deficiency bill. There was even some talk of raising the salary of these amanuenses of greatness, and this discussion brought them a strik ingly frank compliment from Repre sentative Madden of Illinois, who ob served that "they have made it pos sible for some gentlemen here to ap pear in the role of polished orators, when sometimes they have not ut tered a sentence grammatically cor rect in the course of what they had to say The house has not always had a corps pf experts to record and cor rect its speeches. Of the proceedings of the first congress only a rough out line was taken down by James Madi son, and the present efficient system of compiling the Congressional Record has been-a gradual development from that crude beginning. The congres sional reporters are now considered the most efficient organization of the kind in the world. They are 'able to take down 230 words a minute with ease. There are only six of them in the house and six in the senate. It takes a dozen men to record the words of the house of commons and two dozen for the chamber of deputies in France, the proceedings of which are complicated by the fact that its mem bers speak a variety of dialects. It is a good thing that our congress has developed an efficient corps of re porters, for its members' seem not only to talk more, but to talk faster than they used to. Webster, Calhoun and Clay rolled out their stately phrases to a leisurely tempo, with ap propriate pauses. The average of congressional speech in those days Is thought to nave been not more than 140 words a minute. But now there a- s men in both branches of congress who regularly and endunngly ppout over 200 words a minute. Represen tative Wingo of Arkansas is consid ered about the fastest talker in the present house, but he speaks clearly a..d uses excellent diction, so that he Rives the reporters no great trouble. Scott Ferris of Oklahoma is another fast talker, as a.e Phelan of Massa chusetts and Carter of Oklahoma. Speaker Champ Clark is a favorite with the reporters, because he has u fine voice and speaks slowly and wltl. precision. He prides himself on speaking the "American language," which Tie claims is a distinctive one. Uncle Joe Cannon is another man who is easy to report He seldom takos the floor in debate nowadays, but when he does he commands profound atten tion, and his long and slowly spoken sentences keep his hearers in suspense a to just wnat ne is going to sav. Representative Mondell of Wyom ing is another 3low, impressive speak er who is easy to report, as are Gard of Ohio and Graham of Illinois. Representative Cox of Indiana is fa mous for his voice, which booms like a shotgun loaded with black powder, whi.. Representative Nichols of Mich igan represents tin opposite extreme rarely lifting his voice above a stage whisper. The house enjoyed a treat the other day when these two engaged in a heated colloquy, the contrast be tween them being heightened by the fact that Cox is a giant while NichoT" is a little man. Cox would roar question at his adversary in a voice that shook the buildinc anrt Tj!t. would reply in what sounded like a '."v.. tci wnisper. 1 ere. )s a flrm basis ot fact In Mr. Maddens assertion that the reporters make polished orators out of some of the members, in that the shorthand men frequently correct the remarks as they take them down. They are often compelled to do this In order to make sense" of the speeches, and in some cases the meaning of a member remains an unsolved mystery to all but himself. Members from the south who use their provincial dialect are especially trying to the reporters. One of the worst of these was "Cyclone" Davis, who took pride in being a Texan and in not wearing a collar. Here are a few sample phrases that have recently been uttered by legisla tors in the name of the King's Eng lish: "The gentleman from Blank should not be so exhibitious." "What is the gentleman's concep tion apropos of the instant amend ment?" "A soldier back home in my district that's lost two of Jils legs." "He skun thru by the skin of his teeth in the last election." These specimens seem to give weight to Speaker Clark's opinion that there is a distinctive American language. But the Joke is not always on the member. Sometimes the reporter makes a mistake, as when Speaker uiarK sonorously intoned the Ciceron ian bromide "O temoora. O mores." and the reporters endowed it with a aewy freshness by making it "O tem pora. O Moses!" Another time the speaker, who is cnock lull oi classical and early Eng lish culture, quoted Pope's lines: "If parts allure thee, see how Bacon shines, the brightest, wisest, meanest of mankind. Or. ravished by the whistling of a name, see Cromwell doomed to everlasting fame' The speaker went on to say that the sec retary of the treasury, of whom he was speaking, was likewise doomed to everlasting fame. And the reporter got it "shame." One hot day a reporter took down unanimity of opinion as "humidity of opinion." no 7doubt under the Influ ence of the barometric pressure, on another occasion mortality record was made moialiy record. It Is only fair to say that these errors on the part of the reporters are few, ana that they correct a hundred for Mie that they make. The reporters work by relay, wnife one is taking notes, another sits ready to take his place at a signal when the first man has completed a certain oont. The reporter then revises the remarks and dictates tiitm to a phonograph from which they are taken by -i typist. The typed copy Is again revised by the reporter, and pthen taken t the member who de livered the speech for a third revision. The finislied product often bears scant resemblance to what was said upon the floor. A member also has the right to ad dress the cflair. say a few sentences, and obtain permission from the house to "extend his remarks in the record." He then gives the reporters a carefully Drenared piece, which he will later circulate In his district under govern ment frank, as a speech delivered on the floor of the house. This may be a deception of his constituency, in a certain sense, but it saves much valuable ,time for congress. A long and passionate plea for the deepening of Sand creek by the war department can thus reach the audience for which it is intended without boring anyone else. Some members have refused to avail themselves o the privilege of revis ing and extending their remarks. James R. Mann is a contemporary ex ample of this, and Sereno E. Payne who aIwayB hare tn-J floor when thejr past ona. But leaders liKe tnese, want it, can afford to dispense with such makeshifts. Names in the News. Mir pronounced meer meaning peace, is the term applied to certain civil communities of Russian peas ants. The rural population of Rus sia has f:om the earliest times been organized into Irs, in which all land is held In common, and divided usu ally according to the number of males at the last census. Each mir.Is.to certain extent self-governing. DOROTHY DIX TALKS BI DOROTHY DDC World's Highest Paid Womaa Writer. Good Men Who Are Bad Husbaenhv- There are many wives who look for ward with shuddering dread to the first of every month when the bills come in, for they know that they will have to endure Insults about their wastefulness and bad management that no servant would stand. There are women who, from the day they are married to the day they col lect their husband's insurance money, never have one cent for which they do not have to give an account, and that they can spend as they please. Such a woman's husbandamay con sider himself vastly superior to his neighbor whose commercial character is shady. but who lavishes what he has generously upon his wife, but it would not take the women of the two households a minute to decide, which they think the better husband, no. matter which' is the better man. There are also thousands of men as domestic as the house cat, men who are as sober as the town pump, and as immune to temptation as a plaster saint, yet who mike their wives' lives intolerable by th-ir tempers. All of us know families in which the hus band never speaks at home, except to find fault, and at the sound of whose latch key in the front door the cat bolts for the cellar, the children hush their prattle and the temperature7 of the whole house falls to the freezing point. in such families the children start and look guilty it father even speaks to them, and fhe wife spends her life niaing everytning that has tone amiss in the day, covering up every fault of the children, and doing a juggler 'act walking on eggs, trying not to raise issues that will provoke her husband into a passion of abuse. v This type of man reads in the paper with horror of the husband who has been arrested for beating his wife. and he never suspects that he is a far more cruel and calloused bullying brute than the man who merely in--diets a physical injury on his- wie and children. A blow on the 3aqe heals quicker than a blow to the heart and there are' thousands of wives. married to impeccable gentlemen who would be incapable of striking a woman, who would gladly exchange their wounded and lacerated feelings for a black eye. And there are religious' men, men who never miss a church service, who pray loudly in public, and "who are deeply concerned over the salvation of the heathen, who are simply gla cial in their own homes. They never show their wives one particle of af fection, nor do one single, solitary thing to make their lives happy. After they are married, they never give their wives a single kiss that isn't so luke warm and flabby, It is an insult. They consider that all that any wife has a right t0 ask is a husband who does his duty by her as if any live woman with a warm, beating heart wanted duty affection. Such a hus band starves his wife to death emo tionally. He turn her whole married life into dust and ashes, and never dreams that he has done her a crueler wrong than if he had murdered her on their bridal night The truth is that no matter how good a man Is, he is not a good hus band unless he is generous and ten der and sympathetic towards his wife, and unless he does his part trying to make life happy for her. Strangely enough, the man who has no other virtues seems to possess these con nubial virtues oftener than the man who is the model of all the standard virtues. This is the .reason that we are so often amazed when the wife of the model man of the community elopes with some rascally adventurer, who had an understanding of a woman's heart, and a pitying tenderness for her. And it Is why we so often see a woman sticking thru thick and thin to a drunken husband, or even a crim inal one whom she has starved and slaved for and been shamed by, and breaking her heart about him when he is dead, while the woman who was married to the exemplary citizen who got an obituary a yard long in the paper when he died, gives an inspir ing .example of Christian resignation to the decrees of Providence. t The wives knew which was the bet ter husband. (Copyrighted 1S1T. by The W healer SysuU i cat. Inc. GLORE SIGHTS fFrom the Atchison Globe. Take It from Bill, Bill's plan is a success. It is never necessary to advertise for a lost temper. A lot of people are deep thinkers about themselves. The war will not be In vain. It will teach some people how to think. Bad luck gets a lot of blame that should be attached to bad Judgment, It Is a fine thing to save money, but it is a big bore to forever talk about it. We have the greatest respect for an Atchison man. As a liar, he has no equal. A good cook ia aa "picky" on gqpd cooks as is rretty woman on other beauties. What haa becorae-of the old-faah- i loned yellow peril we all used to wor- ry about? I EVENING STORY The Hired Man. BY VINCENT G. PERRY. V The labor problem was a serious one. Blanche Drennan was willing to adroit It- For over a week she had been trying to obtain help for her father's farm, but without success. She had called at every employment bureau, advertised, Interviewed men old and young, but without being able to persuade one man even to come out to look at the farm. A ten-acre truck farm did not require moie than, one man's attention, but It mignt just aa well have required ten. Blanche did not want to have to wire her father to return from the rest the doctor had ordered him to take. He thought the farm was being well taken care of. How was he to knolf that the man he had left in charge bad gone away without even giving Blanche notice? She had managed to keep things from going to pieces for a week, bof her strength would not hold out, she knew. A girl fresh from college couldn't rough it like an ordinary country girL The farm was a hobby of her father's mere than anything else. Just the same, the country needed all tlo food the land could produce that year, and Blanche wasn't going to let it go to we ate Just because her living- did not depend upon it. In desperation Blanche inserted another advertise ment in the Help Wanted column of the local daily paper and went back to her farm to await results. "Just let one man put in an appearance and he won't get off this farm until I have persuaded him to stay," she exclaimed, as she glared at the weeds in the plot at the front of the house. The drive fror the city had given her an appetite. A sudden craving for hot biscuits took possession of her, and for a few minutes her cares were 'or goten as she rolled out dough. She didn't stop at biscuits, either. The very crispest kind of cookies she knew how to make were turned out next and then she tried her hand at a cake. "Now, if there was only some one to help me eat them," she murmured, re gretfully, as she viewed the finished products, set out in a row. "Whew, those smell good!" Blanche turned quickly.' There stood a young man inhaling the aroma of the cooking. An applicant to her advertisement she knew it the minute her eyes lighted upon him, and hastened to corral him. A plan had suggested itself to her. "Come right in," she invited as she threw open the screen door that sep arated them. "You are Just in time for supper." The young man was arrayed in a linen duster from head to foot and was dust besmeared, but Blanche did n't mind that He looked strong and able to work; that is what counted with her. "It won't take me a minute to poach a fresh egg for you, and tha tea is brewing now. I am so glad to have somebody to help me eat this baking up. I bake often. If I had known you were coming I would have baked more. I am a dandy at straw berry shortcake, but we can have those later on." The man was too sur prised to speak, but Blanche would not have edven him an opportunity to get a word in edgewise If he wanted to. Blanche showed him where to wash and placed a chair at the table fpr him. She poured his tea and waited on him. smiling and talking as sweetly as she could all the" .time. What, hungry man wouldn't do Justice to that supper? Blanche waited until he finished the meal before she men tioned the farm. The satisfied sigh he gave as he devoured the tenth bis cuit told her that the time was op portune. "Aren't you glad you came to an swer my advertisement?" she said. "You'll really like it here, and the work is light. It Is merely gardening, you know. Even a 'city man could do that. The meals you will like, I am sure. They will all te as nice as this one many of them nicer. This was a nice meal, wasn't it?" "It certninly was." he answered en thusiastically. That was all the ac cepts nee Blanche required. "Then, come right out and I win show you where you are to sleep. We have a nice room out in the barn for our help." The young man tried to offer a word of protest, but Blanche was on the way to the barn. He hesitated but a minute, and then followed. IfTtook two weeks to get the little farm back into Its original shane. For a day or two the new man. who gave his- name as Clifford Towers, was rather awkward at the work, but it did not take him long to grow into the way of It. It was a great encour agement for Blanche to get good meals ready and then watch the way Clif ford enloyed them. He never failed Lto compliment her on them, either. He was a very pleasant hired man to have around, and Blanche wondered whatever r.he would do when he left. She just wouldn't think about it, that was all. "If you can find a weed In that gar den or a spot that hasn't either been hoed over or hilled up, I'll work with out wages," Clifford said aa he came in for supper two weeks from the day he hud arrived. "It's just fine," Blanche toM him. gratefully. "I believe I could let you have a holiday." "I don't want one," he laughed. "I wouldn't miss' one of your meals for the world. Let's go for a walk to night. You don't mind walking' with the hired man, do you "As if that would make any differ ence!" Blanche exclaimed, reproach fully. "We will go just as icibn-at we finish supper." It was a pretty country, and they found many things of interest on their walk. "Why, there is an automobile In among those trees a roadster!" Blanche cried, as she pointed in the direction of a clump of bushes. "Sure enough it is!" Clifford cried In turn. They hurried to the spot and looked-the car over. Clifford discov ered the radiator needed water. Be fore Blanche could stop him he was on his way to the house, and re turned with a pail of water. "Jump In," he said, as he started the engine. "We will go for a ride." "But the owner Blanche pro tested. "Won't know a thing about it," Clif ford said with a smile that she couldn't quite understand. She got in the car and he took his place at the wheeL The hired man turned out to be a wizard at driving a car. He seemed to have perfect control of this one. After a long, spin he drove into the gate at Blanche's farm. "I'll get out, and you take it back." Blanche said uneaaily. "What if the owner finds out" "He has found out now," Clifford smiled. "I am the owner." "lou!" Blanche almost shrieked with surprise. "Yes. I was stalled out that- two .weeka ago and cam here for water. You employed' me before I bad chc nee to explain." She was speechless tor a minute, but at last gasped: "If you are not a farm hand, what arexyou? "A lawyer." he smiled quietly, en- Joying her surprise to the utmost. It was some time before Blanche was able to think clearly. She wasn't quite sure whether it was the proper thing for her to faint, or not. but she wished she knew bow to do It. "You will be going away tonight." she said at length. "The joke has be come tiresome to you." I m going to stay right here until your father gets back. I wouldn't miss one of those meals for anything," he answered. "If you only would stay till father gets back, I'll do anything for you." Blanche said eagerly. "Will you promise to come back to the city with me to marry me?" "That's a dreadful price you set on your work," she smiled, but the ac companying blush gave him hope. (Copyright. X91. by McClure Kewspaper Syndicate.1 -TRAVELETTE BY NIKSAH Another Alexandria. Alexandria, La., is known thruout the south as the little town with the big hotel. Strangers .'always remark the incongruity of the metropolitan edifice apparently fallen by accident into this quiet little place. It seems that in Alexandria's ante hotel days, a wealthy man and his small dog were stopping at the town Inn. One day the innkeeper and i test had a lively argument over the dog. Its owner replied that he and his dog would not be among those present at the Inn in the future and departed proudly, intimating darkly that the innkeeper would be sorry. He then made giod his threat by build ing a hotel such as Alexandria had never dreamed of seeing, and here dog and master took .-p their residence and gathered to themselves all the transient trade of the town. Alexandria wears its hotel proudly, a trifle self-consciously. It is the show place of the town, and its as sertive stone grandeur commands re spect and deference. A town that boasts a hotel inclosing marble halls ending in a grand staircase, and a Spanish patio adorned with a fountain as an extra attraction, must assume an air of dignity in keeping with its importance. Alexandria's other ctaim to notice Is the fact that only a few years ago the Louisiana congress conducted a series of spirited arguments as to the re moval of the state capital from Baton Rouge to Alexandria. Tn the end Alex andria lost out and was forced to con sole itself w'th the fame it acquired from its big hotel. DINNER STORIES A southerner in one of the canton ments below the Mason and Dixon line when called up for examination was asked: "What ia your nearest living rela tive?" "What you mean "relative," mis ter?" returned the recruit. "Oh, I mean your nearest living kinsfolk." "Wal, that's my aunt you're talk ing 'bout." Several other questions were an swered satisfactorily when there came: "In case of death or accident, who shall be notified?" "My mother," immediately from the selectman. "But you told me just a few min utes ago that your aunt waa the nearest living relative that you have." objected the officer. "You asked me who my nearest living kin was. didn't you? Wal, that's Aunt Liz she lives jest two miles from where I been livin; mother lives five." "What is the matter?" asked he mother of a six-year-old girl as she Lame home almost in tear after her first day in school. "I don't like the teacher." said the little one. "Why, you hardly know her. What has she done to you?" "When I went in she said: You sit here for the present," and she never brung it," THE SOWER OF TARES ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY K. MODLTON Benny Kauff is off for the wars, and this is one time that he won't make a home run until after the game is over. ANjackie wrote his mother from East Indian waters that he was send ing her a beautifully striped kimono. A neighbor read the letter to the old lady. The latter was thunderstruck. "Dear knows why he should send me such a thing. I wish you would kindly tell .roe what I am going to do -With it. I suppose I can keep it tied in the backward, but what I am go ing to feed it, goodness knows." George Brown, of Seneca Falls, broke 149 out of 150 clay pigeons in a shooting contest the other day. We know where there is a nice Job wait ing for Mr. Brown. And while Americans are saving other things, they will save the day. There are no whiskers on the Americat. army. Every man has a safety razor. For ambush purposes our boys will have to use the sur rounding scenery. An Informal Affair. Paulina Barber, the adopted daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Elasser, was christened yesterday afternoon. The babe was born in this city in the Third ward, and Alderman Karl Kasch was among the guests who witnessed the ceremony. Freeport (ill.) Standard. A tank lumbered up Pennsylvania avenue the other day. First tank seen in Washington since the old town went dry. Blanche Slocum, writing in the Chi cago "Tribune," says: "In a police shanty at Lindau, on the Swiss border, I was stripped by a German woman cfter undergoing a polite but most vigorous cross-questioning by officers in field gray uniforms. Then, with a gasp of relief, I rushed aboard the I ttle steamboat that was to carry me across Lake Constance." It must have been a very warm day at Lindau. If the Bolshevlki are so crazy for peace abroad, why don't they try a little of it at home? HOUSEHOLD HINTS Menu Hint. BREAKFAST Rolled Oata Top Milk Toast Nut Margarine i Tea. LUNCHEON Potato Cakes (left over) Cottage Cheese (home mad1) Buttered Baby Beets and Tops Bread Tea DINNER English Mashed Potatoes Creamed New Peas Lettuce Salad with Sliced Boiled Erg Rye Bread Coffee Sweets. Molasses Taffy. One quart mo lasses, one teaspoon bicarbonate rf soda. Boil the mplasses until it cracks when dropped in cold water, add the soda, stir quickly, pour on a greased platter to cool. Pull If liked Honey Popcorn Balls One cup strained honey, popcorn. Boil the honey until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Pour over the corn, stir well, and when slightly cooled form into balls and stand them on greased paper. Nut Brittle Melt In a frying pan two cupfula of light brown sugar. Stir constantly while the sugar Is melting, and do not let it burn. In bVittered pans place a layer of chopped walnuts or peanuts. Whenirj,, me sugar is entire meitea, pour it in thin sheets over the nuts. When cold, break in pieces. The melted sugar will not be clear liked melted wite sugar. Cinnamon Jlbb One cup corn syrup, one tablespoon cinnamon, one fourth cup butter substitute, one half cup water. Boil all together to the crack stage, pour In greased pans, mark In squares, break when cold. Maple C ream Coo k maple syrup until it forms a soft ball when dropped In cold water. Cool slightly and stir until creamy. Tried Recipes. Smothered Onions Peel, wash and slice as many onions as your family require, remembering they will shrink about one-half in cooking. Put in baking dish, add bits of butter, cover close and bake two hours in moder ate oven. Season with salt when you eat them. J use a strawberry basket full of onions and about a teaspoon of butter for .three persona They taste much like fried onions, but less work and more digestible. Corn Meal Muffins One cup corn meal, one cup barley flour, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons butter (or substitute,, one cup milk; three heaping tear spoons baking powder. Chocolate Pudding One egg, one half cup sugar, three tablespoons chocolate, one scant cup milk, two cups flour or one of flour and one ot corn meal, one teVspoon baking pow der, one teaspoon vanilla, pinch salt. Steam one hour. Serve hot with slightly sweetened top milk. HEART AND BEAUTY PROBLEMS BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON. Dear Mrs. Thompson: (1) How long should a widow wear mourning for her husband? (2) Should she attend movies or be friendly with a neighbor man if his wife has never called on her? (3) Is It right to display jewelry or go about considerably? (4) How should she dress If a widow of two months? IONE. (1) From six months to two years if she cares to wear it at all. A great many people do not wear mourning at all because it only increases depression and does not benefit the deceased. (2) It is all right to attend movies and to be friendly to the neighbor. You should not be more friendly to him than to other neighbors, however. (3) People will talk if you wear jewelry noticeably and If you go about much. No one would talk if you did Red Cross work and that would keep you from being lonely. (4) If you are dressing according to etiquette, you should wear nothing but black, but if you do not choose to be so formal, you can wear a little white with the black. Dear Mrs. Thompson: We are two little girls 13 years old. We have been selling ice cream and lemonade and giving our profits to the Red Cross. Now we can't get sugar for ice crean. Won't you please suggest some way for us to make money for the Red Cross? We re anxious to do our bit during vacation. TV O WILLING WORKERS. You are very young girls, but I think you could get work king care of babies In the afternoon. Go to the Red Cross headqur.rters and say that you are illing o do such work. They will mention it to the Red Cross work ers for you and in that way you can find r'others who will pay you for your time. s A HERO EVERY DAY Brave Deeds of '.men in America's Fighting Service Six weeks after Ensign Stephsu Potter, United States naval reserve aviator, had brought down a German seaplane In Heligoland Bight, he waa killed in a fight with seven enemy single-seated planes. Accompanied by another plane Potter was seeking his enemy and firing at close range. More enemies were seen to appear, four of them coming in a V formation. Out of seven, four were making the direct attack on Potter and his companion. The young aviator was fighting low and dodging his assailants. Finally, when under their fire Just fifty feet from the water he was forced to a broadside to all the enemy machines and went down with his plane. Potter enrolled as a second class seaman. Naval Flying corps, September 2t, 1S17, and was made n ensign the fol lowing November, when he was or dered to France. His next of kin Is a brother. John H. Potter, Pasadena Apartments. Detroit Mich

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fir 1 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JULY -15. 1918 $9 OPEN jRT NIGHT Beginning; Tuesday, Voters XTn- Co let.,.. 4 l't 5 x x ob July 26V- REGISTRATION IS PROCEEDING Business Is Picking Up at the City Clerk's Office. Voters Ureed To See That They Are Properly Enrolled. Beginning TueedaT night, the -city clerk's office wll e open every night until 10 o'clock for the accommoda tion of peopl" whotwish to register but who cannot get away from work dur ing the day. This will continue until the books are closed at 10 o'clock Friday night. July 26. Registration Is pruceeding rapidly, according to Miss Etta Covell, city clerk, altho J3terest in the comins elections seems to be lagging, probably due to the fact that the attention of Miss Covell points out that this ia wrong, because in ar times, especial ly, it is vitally important that the right man be elected to office. Every one wishing to vote at the primaries or the November election must resnster, providing he has not registered in previous years and voted at every genera! election. If bis street address has been chanced, or if he did j not vote at the last November election he must register if he wishes to vote at the coming election, Miss Covell Men and women must have resided in the word for thirty days preceding any election in crder to be eligible to vote. Persons who have changed their street addresses since July 6 this year cannot vote at the primary but if they do not move again before the general election ttfeir registration now will enable them to vcte at that time, it Is explained. Provided they voted at the last general election, failure to vote at a primary will not make it necessary for a man or woman to register i.gain before voting at the primary in Aug ust. Registration is conducted at the citv clerk's office on the third floor of the city building. THIN PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE PHOSPHATEJ th?nic Like Ptai Bitr. Phosphate to Put on Firm. Healthy Flrh and to Increase Mrencth. Vtsr Md yerra Force. Judging from the countless prepara tions ami trentiueuta tvhii-b are continu ally beiiig arivertUetl for the purpose of ma kiii;; tliin iHMiple fleshy, developing arms. uet'k ami bust, ao.il replacing ugly hollows iu angles, by the snft curved tines f healtu and beauty, there are evidently tunuaands of tr.en aud women who keenly lee- their exiesalve thinness. Thinness and weakness ure usually dne to starved nerves, our bodies need more Phosphate than is contained to modern foods. Physit-iiins claim there la nothing that will supply this deficiency so well as the rort?nnic phosphate ":nwn among druggists as bitro-pbosphate. which is in expensive and is sold by most ail drug gists under a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. By feeding the nerves directly and by supplying the body cells with the necessarv phosphoric food ele ments. bitro-phospbRte quickly produces a welcome transformation tn the appear ance the increase in weight frequently being astonishing. This Increase in weight also carries with It a general improvement in the health. Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack of energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness. soon disappear, doll eyes become bright, and pale cheeks glow with the bloom f perfect health. i'ACTION Although bttro-phosphate Is unsurpassed for relieving nerToosness. sleeplessness and general wpakness. it shotitd n t. owing to its remarkable flesh growing properties, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on flesh. Adv. OUR NEW HIGH SCHOOL Washburn Chapel Is Bo ins Remodeled Apd Redecorated. The chapel of Washburn college is j being remodelled for use as a high school for students in the outlying; school districts. A heating plant is being installed, and fur radiators will be placed on each side of the assembly room and two largo radiators will be put in each of the halls. All the class rooms will be equipped with sufficient radiators, and the electric lighting sys tem is to be made over. Already the workmen havfe begun on the redeco rating of the rooms, which will include varnishing and tinting the plaster. Bice hall and the cafeteria will also be given additional radiation. The frame buildings on the campus are to be painted, all in a shade of brown that will blend with the green of the pines. The dining room at Hartford hall is being done over, and changes are also being made in Holbrook hall. The college is doing its first real farming this year. The workmen are raising corn, wheat and oats. Vege tables from the garden will be canned for use next winter, and pigs are being raised on the grounds. Miss Ella Pixley, the treasurer of the school, has closed the books for the year, and the accountant will begin work in August. The college office is to remain open ail summer. A REAL "BLUE DEVIL" Member of Alpine Chasseurs Sunday Guest of Rota Club. The release of some of the new drafted men from their detention bar racks at Camp Funstgjl. was apparent in Topeka Saturday night and Sunday by the increased attendance of the boys in olive drab at the Rota club entertainment for the soldiers at the Chamber of Commerce community house. The regular Saturday night dance was well attended, there were partners for the soldiers, and excellent music. Sunday afternoon the regular re ception was metamorphosed Into a celebration of the French national holiday. Sergeant Carnier, a. -Blue Devil" of the famous Alpine Chas seurs division of the French army, was the gujst of honor. The tables ana the rooms were decorated with the mingled colors of France and of the X-'nited States. Charles Dillon was on the program with a talk oit The French Independence Day. The afternoon reception closed with the usual eating bee. Fried chicken was the piece de resistance, and it was there in profusion with all the neces sary trimmings. The New Vacuum Washer Phone !VliVcijlMSilCi.Cl" wBlgYs 1325 dJ.i.u.u I1J. i.CZ.h.UMA-af stamps I 713 Kansas Ave. J With a Real Guarantee Washing Made Easy Try this machine in your own home for 30 days and if not satisfactory your money refunded. 'Special $13.50 See the Water Power Washing Machine work on City Pressure like an Electric. Germany May "ot Be Allowed in "Priority Board." International Body To Distrib ute After-War Materials. BOYCOTT MAY bT THE CLUB If Kaiser "Breaks Orer" Then He Mast Suffer Trade. THE experiences of the Italian army in their operations against the i astro-Hungarians go a long war. toward dispelling the Idea of some Americans that the Austrians are less brutal and barbaric in their methods of warfare than the real simon-pure Hun of Germany. If the Austrians entered the war with any more bamane and sportsmanlike in stincts than actuated their barbarous ally on the north, the latter has ef fectively crushed them out. The upper picture in the accompany ing Illustration is a collection of "fin-ishlitg-off clubs' wielded by the Aus trian soldiers on the Italian front "upon the heads of wounded Italian soldiers, The heavy iron knob" swung on the end of the spring steel shank makes terrible and brutal weapon. It will crush i In a man's head as though It were an eggshell. Following a battle. It Is the practice of sqtiads of Austrian soldiers to roam over the battlefield and "finish off the wounded with these clubs. The lower picture is all that is left of ?ms wreckage of an Italian gun that had been hit by three high-explosive shells. OUR BIG BUSINESS Topeka Is the Home or 175 Whole sale Firms Employing 2,000 Persons. The industrial survey of Topeka compiled by the Chamber of Com merce shows that the city is the home of one hundred and seventy-five wholesale firms handling almost every conceivable variety of goods which go to make up the sum total of the needs of mankind. The survey indicates that the 175 wholesale houses employ a to tal of about 2,000 persons. The wholesale businesses of Topeka point to the entire West as their territory, and some of the firms even include cer tain of the eastern states as a part of their sales region. The survey shows that from three to five carloads of perishable fruits and vegetables are received in Topeka every day and the supplies distributed to the various retail firms in a 100 mile radius of the city. The annual egg packing of the capital city mounts to the total of 150, OoO cases per an num, mostly shipped to the eastern states. Six million pounds of butter is the annual output of the Topeka creamery, and butter institutions, and it is said that there is hardly a city in the whole United States where Topeka made bfltter is not one of the staple articles of food. Among the other articles prominent in the list of the Topeka wholesalers are foodstuffs, coastings, machine shop and foundry products, sand, drugs and medical supplies and appliances, brick and building materials, school furni ture, cigars, candy, eggs and poultry, meats, road machinery ana automobiles. 1 Dt FOS1TS x f I No- -.Xi?'ZSHOWS WHERE. EVERY PENNY GOES A Checking Account is not a hobby; it is good sound business sense for every household. Your checkbook shows where every penny goes and furnishes the Best Possible Receipt in the returned endorsed check. Besides, it helps you save money. Come in and let us explain. mi church. Walnut Grove Methodist church. Central Park Christian church. First Christian church. First Baptist church. First Methodist church. Unita rian church, and an Indianola organ ization, "Buds of Promise.' The home is managed by a board of directors of twenty-six members. Of ficers are: Mrs. S. I Wilson, president; Mrs. H. W. Foster, vice president; Mrs. J. P. Kaster, recording secretary; Mrs. F. A. Koester, financial secretary; Mrs. R. T. DeArmond, corresponding secretary; Rev. J. P. Hicks, treasurer; the Rev. C. E. Rash, chairman of rescue committee; Mrs. Virginia Whit- aker, chairman purchasing committee; A. T. Ianielsf chairman financial com mittee; Mrs. M. Signor, Miss Martha Bennett, the Rev. U H. Holt, the Rev. B. H. Hobbs, devotional committee; Dr. L. B. Bushong, head physician. and Mrs. M. J. Zacharias, superinten dent. BUILDING FINE ROADS Iowa Sets Record Which Kansas CouliI Well Follow. Belgium, Serbia, France- and Italy First on List. i Washington. July 15. An inter national priority board, to control the distribution of raw materials after the war, probably will be sanctioned by the allies. Whether Germany snail be per mitted to enter this and other inter national agencies already formed or contemplated, depends entirely upon what is the outcome of the war. Until the Teutons change their present tac tics of enforcing; economic burdens upon nationalities coming under their domination and until her policies of deceit and intrigue are abandoned, Germany cannot be admitted to the civilized union, officials declare. The purpose of this priorities board as openly sanctioned by British Minis-y ter or jaiocaaae iora itooerc ueai is to combine the resources otall civil ized nations to the end that suffering: nations may be assisted in the work of reconstruction and restored to pros perity. Under the plan Belgium. Serbia, northern France. Italy and others would receive priority in supplies of new materials tor upbuilding. Ready tor Boycott. It Is a development of the "square deal after the war trade policy," which this government is known to favor, in the wake of allied victory. The Unite.l States tariff commission and other agencies have been working for months investigating trade treaties and secret agreements of all nations. Def inite policies have been formulated and reviewed by President Wilson to meet any exigency. If Germany threat ens to "break over agaip" after peace comes, the machinery for a boycott is ready to be set in action. America is in a position to play a great part in tho proposed internation al economic directorate. Already lead ing officials and financiers are advo cating a great raw materials reserve in this country so thrtAmerica may have the foundation to support her after-the-war trade policy. BIG CLASS TAKEN IN Knights of Columbus Add New Mem bers From Several Kansaa Cities. IT HAS A NEW ROOF The Crtttenton Home Has Undergone Extensive Repairs. Repairs have been completed on Crittenton rescue home for girls in Quinton Heights. A new roof has been put on the building, a furnace has been installed and the house has been newly painted. The inmates keep the yard in order and do the housework. Ten young women are now being cared for at the home, and seven of them have babies. Nearly all of the girls expect to keep their chil dren after they are released from the institution and can go to work to sup port themselves and their little ones. Nearly all of the rooms of the home are furnished and maintained by churches or other organizations. The room formerly kept by the Washburn college Y- W. C. A. will now be main tained by tht Kappa Alpha Theta soro rity. Among the oraanizations repre sented are: The First Prebytprian PTand Berries "Somefood for a wheatless meal POSTT" TOASTiES Vsi a rvrr N-- OF CORN The people of Iowa started two years ago on a state-wide campaign of building 363-day roads. That state was in the same class with Kansas, in having very few miles of hard sur faced roads. The Iowa state highway commission and the people are co operating and planning to give the state sl fine system of roads as soon as conditions will permit. During the first halt of 1918 there were built 406 miles of gravel road and the program at, present is to build 1,000-miles more during the next twelve months. In many counties good road building gravel is found and the roads can be built at small cost. Twenty-one counties bought gravel pits during 1917 and are now building or planning to build gravel roads ex tensively. The people in that state are not waiting for the war to end before building this cheap, time and money saving roads. J. Frank Smith, manager of the Kansas Goods Roads association, says southeastern Kansas has as fine road building gravel as can be found any where and the people of thar section are planning to build many milea of good roads in the verynear lutun Wilson county has completed ten miles this year and expects to build twenty-five miles during the next twelve months. Montgomery, Neosho, Labette. Woodson, Coffey and other counties are getting ready to start building gravel roads. Good crops and a growing need for the roads are bringing the changed conditions. PONT WANTliORVATH British, French, and Japs Protest Antl-BolsheTiki Siberian Lader. REICHSTAG ADJ0URNS Hope for Russ Peace and Victory Complete Over Allies in West. Amsterdam, July IS. The reichstag, according to a dispatch from Berlin, has adjourned until November 5. One of its last acts Saturday was to pass all taxation, bills which the finance minister declared were more- exten sive and important than any since the foundation of the empire. After the reichstag had voted the war credits. President Fehrenbach said that the reichstag could look back with satisfaction on the past ses sion and that the people could also regard the peace treaties in the east with satisfaction. He hoped the gov ernment would succeed in opening a way to the east, entering into friendly relations, bringing order where dis order reigns and concluding economic agreements. "We cannot tell our constituents," he declared, "that the end of their sacrifices has come, but it is hoped that as the trials of last winter were borne better than the previous one and as heaven has preserved us from crop failures that cur staunch and faithful people also will be able to bear the hardships of the coming win ter." Herr Fehrenbach asserted that as the guilt of the war did not rest with Germany and that as the enemy per sisted in their desire to annihilate the GermaSi people, nothing remained for Germany but to break this desire for annihilation. He concluded: "We place our faith in God's pro tection of our valiant and incompara ble army, so that it will with victories thfs summer lay the foundations of an honorable and lasting peace." TWO AVIATORS FALL Motor Stopped" In Air on Curtiss Field Kear Buffalo Today Buffalo. IT. T.. July 15. Aviator F. S. Hale. Quin'-y, III., and Student Homer B. Sharne. Washington, D. C. fell 108 feet in an airplane at Curtiss field today. Hale was dead hen picked up and Sharpe was removed to the Erie ,county hospital wnn a. irau' It Is believed the motor stopped while the machine was in the air. Home of Hart Scbaffner A' Man Clothes Auerbach f Guettel Great CLOTHING CC Values in Summer Suits Foresight in buying; has given us a great stock of Hart ScFiaffner Marx Dixie Weaves Now they're worth much more than we paid for them and they're worth much more than you'll pay. All wool, cool, fine tailoring. Better get yours now; it's economy. $15, $17.50, $20 Dress Up in one of these fine Hart Schaffner 'Marx suits YOU will find among them, blue Serges, fine tropical Worsteds, sum mer Tweeds, Imported from England. Ireland and Scotland. You'll find the best clothes values you'll see for many a day. Suits that are beautifully tailored and worth from $10 to SIS more than our selling price. No matter what your sise, we are sure to fit, please and satisfy you in these out of the ordinary clothes at $20, $25, $30, $35, $40, $45, $55 Straw Hat Sale $2 buys choice of a Tine lot of Sennitt, Milan, Toyo, Pana mas, Porto Ricans Get yours. FOR FINE PANA MAS the kind you want. Genuine $7.50 Grades SMART STYLE TTOXXG QIC MEN '8 81ITS p 1 J H Silk Lined Special lot Young Men'i newest military model suits. The fabrics s re bea tttif u 1 1 j woven In rich colorings and dlstiactlve fab rics, ime to our foresight In buyinff the g;oo1a early, yon can save $5 on your new fljl (T suit at VAw $5 U. M. Penwell President Phone 775. R M. Jounaoa Bec'y-Treo. Pboa 3610 THE L. M. PENWELL -UNDERTAKING CO. S0R-50S-51U Qulacy Street Pbone 103 Topeka, Camp Funston, Junction City, Herington, Paxico and Kansas City were all represented in the big class of candidates initiated into the Knights of Columbus, Sunday. Visit ing Knights from all parts of the state were in the city to attend the reunion. James Sheehy of Paola, state deputy for the lodge, was in charge of the initiation. j At 6 o'clock 3unday evening the vis iting Knights and the newly initiated members were entertained at a ban quet in the new club rooms in the Aetna building. P. J. McAloon :-cted as toastmaster for the evening. Speeches were made by Father F. M. Hayden. Father M. G. O'Leary, Father P. Mclnerney, P. J. Monaghan. James Gibbons, and James Sheehy. Twenty-eight men were given the first degree of the order at the re union, altho their names do not appear on the list. The men who received their second aud third degrees at the reunion are: Topeka, W. A. Fleming, Harold R. Morrisey, William M. West, James D. Drennan, Robert E. Deveny, Leo WanerJohn F. Fenimore. Thomas M. Marshall, John M. Gamlowski, James L. McGinnis, F. J. Keller, Hugh B. Flynn, John J. Turpinot. James A. Stephens, John L. Marshall, Martin J. iiuiic jpsepn j. jooiey, ueorge J. Rossiter, Harold S. Werth, Robert E. Mul" y, John Guare, Thomas J. Foy, Abner J. Eyer, Ed W. Pyer. J. D. Q-aney. I,eo B. Fritton, John J. Car lin, John H. Ismert, George P. Mel choir, Thomas T. Eakes, H. L. Har ries. Henry W. Shlemer, Michael A. Haefner. John A. McGovern. E P. Metzger, William C. Vardy, Alberts L. Brooke, John T. Brennan, John Pat zell, L. F. Quaney, Clarence E. Ehr hart, Carl A. Raab. Anthony P. Real, George W. Schmidt, Ed A. Olarke, R. H. Clark. P. J. Cunningham. Camp Funston James C. Downey, Lieut. Henry Storrs. H. P. Frant, Wil liam S. Stephens, Charles J. Reiley, T. M. McCarth". Henry T. Engelke. M. G. O'Keefe. Thomas Quinlan, E. J. Wesiwleieki, Thomas F. Slusser, Ber nard M. Brown, Paul M. Gamlowski, Frank Daniels. Kansas City John F. Flynn. Herington Fred J. Kaiser. Paxico G. J. Mack, B. W. Flack, M. V. Rider. Junction City Charles A. Jacobs. Besides the men named there were a number of men from Paxico whose names were not recorded. Requisition Coffee fat Italy. Rome. July IS. Food Administra tor Crespi has decided to requisition coffee to prevent dishonest specula tion and the constant artificial .n crease in prices. He announced Bra zilian cofee wilt be placed at the dis posal of tradesmen at Genoa, at the price of a thousand lires a quintal (a hundred weight). pjrjrtnrt Watermelons From Georgia, 1 8- lb 25-Fb- average lb 2c TUESDAY SPECIALS PEACHES Fancy, small basket. each te QtAKER OATS In balk, 3 lbs. for.SSe POTATOKS Good K valley, perk. e; bushel ...S1.SS PEACHES No. IVa size can, 23c: dozen .St. 70 IKMO.VS, 360 size, dozen 17 COCOANCT -in bulk, lb tse PEANUT BUTTER Lb tie BASIN'O POWDEB Can Se KRAUT Large No. 3 can ...le PREPARED MUSTARD Tall ar...Se CABBAGE Fresh, lb Se FRESH BEETS 5 bunches lee CANTALOUPE Large size. eacb..lzH PINK BEANS from California, lb.. .tie BAKING POWDEB Calumet, 1 lb. chti .....tse WASHINO POWDER Hippo. 7c package Sc TEA Snn dried Japan c quality, lb 4Se ORANGES Large size for 4e EXTRACT Vanilla or lemon. 30c bottle SSe MACARONI aad SPAGHETTI 10c pkg Se STEAK Prime Chuck. lb tSe FRUIT JAR RINGS, dozen S PORK AND BEANS, medium size can ISe VINEGARTgood quality, gallon tic CANNED PINEAPPLE Best quality. sliced. No. 2 can. Z9m POSTUM CEREAL 2!Sc pkg Sle OATFLAKE8 13c package '....10e MATCHES Good quality, pkg Be PINTO BK.-.NS Fine ones, lb He FRASLT BROS. GROCETERIA Sivtfc nrt JiKkara Phone 660 You will find you make a saving on nearly every item you buy at the Owl. Mixed Tea for Ice Tea, lb. .8c Tea Siftings, lb 20c Grape Juice, pints 22c; qta. 40c Eggette, 10c pkg 9c Eggs, fresh from tha country,, doz SSc Fly Swatters, 10c grade 8c Pink Salmon, 1 lb. can lftc Corn, fancy pack, can lie Potted Meat, ham flayer, small can ftc Sardines, American Oil Be Pimentos, can 13c Owl Right Coffee, none better, pkg .N. 25c mid 10 STORES ti What Is Rheumatism? Why Suffer from It? (By the Associated Press.) Peking, .Saturday, July 1J. The British. French and Japanese minis ters to China have strongly protested to General Horvath. the anti-Boishe-viki mil tary commander who has formed a temporary war cabinet for Siberia, asking him to withdraw his dictatorship proclamation on the ground that it is unwise and un timely. The proclamation, the ministers say. is calculated to cause a situation which may impede the movement of the Czecho-Slavs, which movement at the present time Is all all important. General Horvath is requested to re ply to the diplomatic protest. Sufferers Should Realize That It Is a Blood Infection and Can Be Permanently Relieved, Rheumatism means that the blood has become saturated with uric acid poison. It does not require medical advice to know that good health is abso lutely dependent upon pure blood. When the muscles and Joints be con.e sore and drawn with rheuma tism, it is not a wise thing to take .little salve and by rubbing it on the sore spot, expect totget rid of your rheumatics. Too must go deeper than that, down- deep Into the blood where the poison lurks and which la not ef fected by salves and ointments. It Is important that you rid yourself of this terrible disease before it goes too far. S. S. S. is the blood purifier that has stool the test of time, having been in constant use for more than fifty years. It will do for you what it has done for thousands of others, drive the rheumatic poisons out of your blood, making It pure and strong and en abling it to make yon well. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable, it will do the work and not harm the most delicate stomach. Write the physician of thia Com pany and let him advise with you. Advice is furnished without charge. Address Swift Specific Company, 435 Swift Laboratory. Atlanta, Ga. Advertisement. Meat Market v 110 E. 6th St. Phone 747 Pay Day Specials Choice Mutton Roast.. 200 Choice Mutton Stew.. 15 Chuck Roast 20rt Plate Roast 18 Fine Steak 30 Hamburger 20 Sausage 20 Liver 10 Sugar cured Bacon, by one half or whole strips, a lb. 38 Calif. Hams, lb 23 Va Bacon Squares 28 Dried Salt Butts 23 SANTA FE SPECIALS Peanut Batter, best In. 23c Washing Powder White Rose Golden Rod Star Jiaptha 6 pkgs. 29 Goblin Soap. bars 2t Bob White Soap, 5 bars. .Sic Shredded wheat 1 9 Puffed Wheat pk4. Parted lUce 25 Carnation MILk. small large ..12c Flake Hominy, t lbs 15c Barley Hour. 10 Iba 5c Corn Flour, 1 lba.......Sc Soya Beans, S lbs 2Sc Chile Beans, 9 lbs 21c Pinto Beans, 2 lbs 21c Cat Hams, lb 24c (4 to S lbs. each) Pnohler King Shortening, .large $1.70; medium 85c; small 4 So FREE DELIVERY I US E. Stk.

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JULY 15. 1918 APPEALTOR RUSS Former Leader Battalion of Death Speaks to Senate. Asks 100,000 U. S. Troops To Overthrow Hun Control. Washinfclon, July 15. A plea for Immediate military intervention by the allies in Russia was made today to a group of senators by Madame Botch karova, former leader of the Russian woman's battalicn of death. Speaking thru an interpreter in the marble room of the senate, she urged that an American army of 100,000 men, if possible, or a combined allied force be sent thru Siberia. Unless this military aid is given soon, Madame Botchkarova said it will be too late to save Russia from Germany. Economic help is needed, she declared, but military intervention would be welcomed by the Russian peasantry and is imperative. Many questions were asked by sena tors regarding conditions in Russia, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, chair man of the foreign relations commit tee, asked if 100,000 Russians of this country would not answer for mili tary purposes. The reply was that the Russian people and parties are fight Sing among themselves and that either on Imarirfln fnrftk nlflllA O V an allied force should oe sent. Most of the Eolshevikl army, the speaker asserted, are former German ana Ausirmu piutuiicio, luc masses of the Russian people being loyal to the cause of the allies and de sirous of throwing off the German yoke. Madame Botchkarova recently made a similar appeal to President Wilson. EARTH" TO QUIT Santa Fe Industrial Mugnzlne Will fiiictwnd Tiih1lfiif Inrt. Publication of "The Earth," the In dustrial and agricultural magazine is sued by the Santa Fe Railroad com pany in the interest of the southwest, has been discontinued on account of the war, it was announced today. -The action is understood to be in accord ance with the recent ruling of the war industries board in their efforts to conserve white paper, in which it was urjced that all free copies and ex changes be discontinued. Government control of railroads and the elimina tion of competition is also said to hare a bearing on the matter. It is also asserted that the publicity de partment of the road will be curtailed and the work that is continued will be taken over by C. I-.. Seagraves, indus trial a cent, Chicago. Publication of "The Earth was be gun several years ago at Chicago, with F. L. Vandegrift, newspaper corre spondent, as its first editor. In No vember, 1916, Frank Jarrell. publicity agent for the railroad, became editor and the executive and editorial of fices were moved to Topeka. WHAT A GREATRELIEF1 Allies Are Xot Blamed for Assassina tion of German Ambassador. Washington, July 15. German at tempts to fasten the blame for the as sassination of Count von Mir bach in Moscow, upon the allies have been en tirely thwarted by the admission of re sponsibility for the death of the Ger man ambassador by the central execu tive committee of the Left of the Social revolutionary party according to No pretense is now made in Moscow that the allies were inany way respon- The social revolutionary party is a group of former Premier Kerenskys followers, who have been able to maintain an organization since the overthrow of the provisional govern ment. The Left, it is understood here has broken away from the remainder of the party and joined forces with the Bolsheviki. The situation in Mos cow is reported very bad. STEWART IS NAMED Severance Man AVI 11 Be New City County Physician. At a joint meeting of the county commissioners and City Commissioner W. L. Porter at the Chamber of Commerce this noon it was definitely announced that Dr. W. B. Stewart, of Severance, Kansas will be the new -county-city physician. The board of commissioners an nounced that Dr. T. A. O'Connor has already filed his resignation to take effect August 1. Dr. Stewart will take over the offices of both city and coun ty physician at that time. LOCAL MENTION Dance tonight Kellam Hall. Adv. Lieut. Chester Wahle has a ten day leave of absence and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wahle. He is an oXficer in the aviation section, and is being transferred from Dallas to Fort "Worth, Texas. He has no in formation whatever as to when he will be sent abroad. CANNING MADE EASY IN GLASS, TIN OR CROCK 40-Page B "k FREE to Every Reader of the State Journal. Efficiency in canning is the watchword. Stop waste. Food, will win the war. Start now to can your surplus food, vegetables, meats, fish. fruits. Preservation now means plenty when winter comes. Simple ways to preserve with or without sugar or in brine. Every woman understands some kind of canning. Have you tried the One Period, Cold Pack Meth od? Complete canning in one operation. The department of agriculture authorizes, the cold-pack method. Read how it is done to preserve all flavor and nutrition. Learn to save time, energy and fuel. Send today for Tour Free Copy of the 7oId Pack Canning Book. Enclose a 3 -cent stamp for return postage and be sure to write your name and address plainly. Direct your letter to the Topeka State Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskln, Di rector, Washington, D. C. DEATHS AND FUNERALS FRANK B. LUCE, age 48, died Sunday at bis borne, lttltt Clay street The fuueral will be held at 2:3 o'clock Tuesday after noon from Pen well's chapel. Burial In To peka cemetery. JOMN WALDRONHARDY died last Wednesday at Hollls, Okla. He -is survived by bis wife, Mrs. Josie Hardy. 52 Tyler street; a daughter, Mrs. W. l. Jennings, of Oklahoma City a son, Wayne Hardy, of Pueblo, Colo. HENRY STEELE, of Oakland, age 82, died Sunday night at the Soldiers Home in Leavenworth. The funeral will be held Thursday morning from Shellebarger's chapel.' The boily will be taken to Beverly, Kan., for burial. The funeral of Ellinnre Purl, who died Sunday, will be held at 10 o'clock Thurs day moraine- from Shellebarger's chapel. Burial in Miunt Auburn cemetery. Lord's Fiowera Satisfy. Tel. 827. Adv. ACTRESS SHOOTS SELF "Prettiest Woman In Oklahoma" Uses Pistol After Quarrel with Husband. Oklahoma City, Okla., July 15. Mrs. Hazel Garland, former movie actress and in 1908 voted the "prettiest woman In Oklahoma," is in a critical condition here today, because of a self inflicted pistol wound. Mrs. Gar land shot herself last night in her "studio" following a quarrel with- her husband, Fred Garland, who returned suddenly from military camp, accord ing to police information. Mrs. Garland is said to have played in pictures in California under name of Hazel Bedford. TO GO AFTER HOSE Man Wanted Here for Wife Desertion Held In Salt Lake. City. Hugh Larimer, sheriff for Shawnee county, will leave tonight for Salt Lake City with requisition papers for Everett E. L. Hose, wanted here on a charge of wife desertion. Hose faces a warrant which also charges him with nonsupport of May Hose, his 9-months-old child. He was arrested In Salt Lake Saturday, ac cording to word received here. KANSAS FAIRS KANSAS FREE FAIR ASSOCIATION: Phil Eastman, secretary, Topeka;Seutem ber. 9-14. KANSAS STATE PAIR: A. U Kponsier. secretary, Hutchinson; September U21. SEDGWICK COUNTY Wichita Fair and Exposition E. F. Mclntyre, general manager, Wichita; September 30-Oct. 12. Allen County Agricultural Society: Dr. V.&. Beat tie. secretary, lola; September 3-6. Allen County Mo ran Agricultural Fair As sociation E. N. McCormack, secretary Morau September 20-21. Barton County Fair Association: Porter Young, secretary, breat Bend. First week tn October. Bourbon County T"air Association: W. A. Stroud, secretary. U bio a town; September 10-14. Brown County Hiawatha Fair Association: J. D. Weltmer. secretary, Hiawatha August 27-30. Clay County Fair Association: W. F. Miller, secretary. Clay Center; October 1-4. Cloud County Fair Association: W. H. Danenbarger, secretary, Concordia: August 27 -3a Coffey County Agricultural Fair Associa tion: C T. Sherwood, secretary, Burling ton October 1-4. Comanche County Agricultural Fair As sociation A. C Bee ley. secretary,. Cold water; September 11-14. Cowley County Eastern Cowley County Fair Association: W A. Bowden. secre tary. Burden September 4-fl. Dickinson County Fair Association J. W. Howe, secretary. Abilene, September 24 27. Douglas County Fair ft Agricultural Socie ty: C W. Murphy, secretary, Lawrence. Elk County Agricultural Fair Association: Fred R. Lanter, secretary, Grenota; August 27-29. Ellsworth County Agricultural Fair As sociation George Iuman Seita, secretary, Ellsworth; September 17-20. Ellsworth County Wilson Co-Operative Fair Association .1 W. Somer. presi dent. Wilson; September 24-27. Franklin County Agricultural Society: I. C. Jones, secretary. Ottawa; September 24-28. Franklin County Fane Agricultural Fair Association: Flnvti B Martin, secretary. Lane; September 6-7. Gray Couuty --'air Association: C C Isely. secretary, Cimarron. Greenwood County Fair Association: Wll- Ham Bays, secretary. Eureka: Angust Harper County The Anthony Fair As sociar h. G. Jennings, secretary, Anthony; September 24-27. Haskell County -Fair Association: Frank McCoy, secretary. Sublette; probably no fair in 1B18. Jefferson County Valley Falls Fair and Stock Show: V. P. Murray, secretary. Valley Falls; September 18-20. Labette Couuty Fair Association: Clarence Montgomery, secretary. Oswego; Sep tember 25-28. Lincoln County-?-Sylvan Grove Fair and Agricultural Association: W. H. Becker, secretary. Sylvan Grove; September 4-6. Linn County Fair Association: K. U Ben nett, secretary. Mound City September 17-20. Logan County Inter-County Fair Associa tion: F. W. Irwin, secretary, Oakley. Marshall County Stock Show and Fair As sociation: C. J. Brown, secretary. Bine' Rapids; October 8-11. Meade County Fair Association: Frank Four, secretary, Meade; September 3ML Mitchell County Fair Association: W. S. Gabel. secretary. Beloii. Montgomery County Fair Association: El liott Irvin, secretary, Coffey ville: Sep tember 17-20. Morris County Agricultural Fair Associa tion H. A. CI y borne, secretary. Council Grove; August -9 (race meet onlvt. Nemaha Fair Association: J. P. Koelzer. secretary, Seneca: September 3-fiL Neosho County Agricultural Society: Geo. K. B idea ii. secretary. Chanute; August 13-lft. Norton County Agricultural Association: A. J Johnson, secretary, Norton: Au gust 27-30. Ottawa County Fair Association: J. E. Johnston, secretary. Minneapolis; August 13-lfi. Pawnee County Agricultural Association H. M. Law ton. secretary. Lamed Sep tember 25-2& Phillips County Four-County Fafr Associ ation: Abram Troup, secretary. Logan: September 10-13. Pottawatomie County St. Marvs Racing Association S. R. San tee, secretary. St Marys; August -8- (Race meet only). Pottawatomie County Fair Association: t Haugbawout, secretary. Onaga: Septem ber 4-fiw Pratt County Fair Association: E. ft- Shaw, secretary. Pratt; September 10-UL Republic Count? Agricultural Association Dr. W. R. Barnard, secretary. BellevtlW: Angust 20-23. Rooks County Fair Association: F. M. Smith, secretary. Stockton; September 3-A. Rush County Agricultural ft Fair Associa tion: T.-C. Rudicel. secretary. Rush Cen ter; September 3-5l Russell County -Fair -Association: H. A. Dawson, secretary. Russell: possibly Oc tober 1-4, Saline County Agricultural. Horticultural ft Mechanical Association: V. D. Blundon. secretary, Salina September 3-7. Smith County Fair Association: Miles Elson. secretary. Smith Center: Septem ber 3-fi. Trego County F!r Association: S. J. Straw, secretary. Wakeeney; September Wilson County Fait Association: Max J. Kennedy, secretary Fred on la: August w York Cotton Market. New .York, July 15. COTTON Spot, quiet; middling, S2.9& iJ Wf!i &ftjyr,m ilua HOUSEHOLD HINTS The Table Meat Souffle To one cup milk' (or part milk and cream) add one table spoon melted butter, one tablespoon flour, pinch of salt, one cup meat (cut in grinder and stirred into the sauce.) While hot add beaten yolks of two eggs. Cook one minute. When cold add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Stir frequently. Bake in buttered dish twenty minutes in medium oven. To be served in dish it is baked in. Our Favorite Shortcake One quart flour, one teacup butter (or half each of butter and lard) cut into the flour until- it is in the smallest bits; add a teacup of ice water; cut into a stiff dough. Do not use the fingers at all, as it will take away the crispness. Roll out in a thin sheet, lap over and roll three times. Divide into two pieces, roll out large enough to cover two layer cakepans, score lightly the top of one in squares, taking that for top one of cake. Bake quickly. When done run a sharp knife thru each, making; four layers. Cover three lay ers with berries sweetened with pul verized sugar, put layers together, sprinkle top thickly with sugar; serve with cream. Will serve eight or ten generously. Mother's Gingerbread One-half cup lard and butter mixed, one cup granulated sugar or light brown su gar, two cups sifted flour, one cup Or leans molasses, two eggs, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon baking soda, two teaspoons baking powder, one cup boiling water. Mix lard and sugar well together, add molasses, now the flour to which add your soda and baking powder. Last, add boiling water. This makes a very thin batter, but if the recipe la followed you will have a delicious gingerbread. Some like a little cinnamon and cloves. If so a teaspoon of each may be added. Ginger and spice with flour, as It mixes better that way. Things Worth Knowing. Napkin Rings. The woman who is handy with her needle can soon make a half dozen napkin rings which are very pretty and useful on the table. Make them out of small scraps of linen left from doilies. Dimensions are seven and one-half inches bv two and one-half inches. Embroider the one piece with a small cross stitch pattern or any small embroidery de sign. It requirae two pieces this length. To prevent blue from fading, put an ounce of sugar of lead in a pail of water. Soak tor two hours and let dry before washing. The white of an egg is found to be the best thing for reviving the leather seats of chairs. For the Picnickers. When used for sandwiches, work into peanut butter an equal amount of boiling water. This makes it very creamy and de licious. ADVERTISING "Teli the truth. Advertising is the mouthpiece of business. It may be the ruin of a store with poor values u.-t as it may be the boon of a good business which plays the game honestly. If a man breaks his word once, he has to advertise all the moie to be believed the next time. He baa to prove by serious arguments the simplest things, which people ought to have been able to take for granted without being told." MAKING THE D-BOAT USELESS I HI I II .I i Ill.l. 1 EVEN PERFECT HOUSEKEEPERS WILL NEED THESE BOOKLETS Booklets on Household Pests to Every Reader of the State Journal. The bedbug, the fly and all their kin have followed man all over the world. This fact does not make their visits any more welcome but makes it all the .more necessary that your home is guarded with constant vigilance. Breeding constantly you will be overrun by them if by chance your vigilance slackens and you fail to do your duty at the first sign of danger. Read what the United States Department of Agriculture says in prac tical booklets that are especially compiled for the busy American housewife. Sign and send this coupon TODAT. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU. Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Enclosed find a two-cent stamp, for return postage, for which you will please send me The Vermin Bookets. FREE. Name Street Address City FOUR KILLED IN WRECK Kightecn Inured When C. O. Freight Hits Motor Cars. Ashland. Ky.. July 15. Four men were instantly killed and elghten in jured near here today when a Chesa- I peake Ohio freight train plowed I thru a group of three motor cars load with section men. A heavy fog is given as the cause of the acci dent. New York Money Market. :i New York. July 15. MONEY Mercantile paper. 4 mouths, 6; 6 months, 6. Sterling, 00 day bills, 4.72; commercial, U0 day bills on bauks, 4.72; commercial, i0 day bills, 4.71; demand, 4.75 5-16; cables, 4.76 7-1H. Bar silver, 90c; Mexican dollars, 77c. tioveruuient bonds,- irreuular; railroad bonds, easy. Time loans, strong; 60 days, 6 bid; 90 daya.iC bid: 6 months. If bid. Call money, firm; high, 6; low, 6; ruling rate, 0. I New Tork Stock Market. f Wall St.. New York, Jnly 15. STOCKS Traders availed themselves of adverse war news to depre88 stocks at the outset of 'today's dealings, but many substantial ral lies enaueu later. Stales approximates! di, 000 shares. On less disturbing foreign advices the market made further recovery in the final honr. The closing was irregular. Liberty 314 s sold at 99.60 to irj.CM, first 4's at 1M.90 to 94.04. secoui 4 s at 93.9:4 to 84.10. 4Vi' at 95.S4 to 96. first convertible 4Vt' at 9:i.! to 94 and second convertible 4V4's at S3.9Z to I New Tork Stock Market. I (Furnished to T. J. Myers, 301 N. E. Bldg.) Today Clea 65H 671 &i 55V4 67 40 Am. Beet Sugar Anaconda A. T. S. P. c Baltimore Ohio..... Central Leather C. M. St. P, c C. R. I. P Chino Copper Colorado Knel Iron. lireat Northern, p Inspiration Miami Missouri Pacific Kena Copper I'enn. Railroad Reading Studebaker Sontheru Pacific Cnion Pacific V. S. Steel c 1'tah Copper White Motors Wabasb 60 7 4 S5 55 67 2 45'S 90 53 14 29 44 n 44 i 121 1044, 4.M4 9014 5-' 29 Zt S2 S7Vi 4i tet 121 1"4 M4 411i 10 State. LEGAIi Published in The Topeka State Journal Monday, July 15, 1918. Topeka, Kan.. Jnly 13, 1,18. NOTICE TO CUT WEEDS. Yon are hereby not;ied to cut and de stroy all weeds growing upon the follow ing described real estate, and in the streets and alleys in front of or abutting thereon, to wit: Anderson, Carl. N. W. corner lot 24, 58 feet. Kyron avenue, Bvron Place Add. Aahby, H. C. trustee, lots 3.T2. 334. 33, 338 and west of 340 Chandler street, Farnsworth'a Addition. Bradford. Marie L., lots 33S and sonth of :t39 Lindeuwood avenue. Melrose Add. Brown, Mary A., lots 4IB and 464 West loth St., College Place Add. Ellas, H. A., lota 2313 and 2317 Clay 8;, Qulntnn Steele'a Add. Pink, C. E.. lots 477. 479 snd 481 Wood ward avenue. Elmhnrst Add. Froat. Frances It., lots 450 and 452 West loth St.. College Place Add. Glenn. W. C. lots 482, 4M. 486. 488. 490, 492 Grand Ave.. Elmhnrst Add. Greenwood. Anna M.. Lots 508 and north of 510 Gran Ave., Elmuurst Add. Grey, .Tames H., lot 255 Boawell avenue. Brooks flrat Ad. Haniel. Henrietta, lota 425. 527. 429 and 431 Woodward Ave.. John Norton's first Add. Harris. Joh- E.. lot 458 North Kansas avenue. Paramore's Add. McAfee. M. J., lot 406 West 15th St., Col lege Place Addition. Miner. Ernest E.. lots 370 and 377 Lln denwood Ave., Melrose Add. Mulvane, G. W., lota 17. 19. 21. 23. 25 and 27 Locust street. Mulvane k Chase's first Addition, block 8. Nystrom. Anna, lots 157 and 159 Plass avenue. College Place Add. Osage City Bank, lots 473 and 475 Wood ward Ave.. Elmhurst Add. Pinkerton. Delia, lots 123. 125. 127 snd 129 Plass Ave.. College Pla-e Add. Hedden. Emma L.. lots 512. 514, 516 and 518 Grand "Ave., Elmhnrst Add. Short. L. n.. lots 503 and 505 Woodward Are.. ElmhnrRt Add. Stagg. F. W lota '74. 47(1. 478 and 480 Gnnd avenue. Elmhurst Add. Stapg. Fred W.. lots 511. 513. 515 and 517 Woodward Ave.. Elmhnrst Add. Taliaferro. Kev. V. C. lots 495. 4S7. 499 and 501 Woodward Ave.. Elmhurst Add. Townsend. lots 59 and 61 Tyler St. Donthltt Place Add. No. 2. White. G. S., lots 119 and 121 Plass avenne. College Place Addition, la the City of Topeka. Shawnee Connty. Kansas, within fire days as provided by Ordinance of the City of Topeka. as said weeds are injurious to public health; and if said weeds are not cnt within fi e daya from thla date, they will be cnt by the City 0 Topeka. and the total cost thereof taxed and assessed agalnut the real estate. By order f Z the ISoard of Health of the City of Tmeka. Kansas. Seal. ETTA M. COVELL, City Clerk. Copyright. 1918. International New ferric VICTORY IN PALESTINE British Troops-Take 510 Prisoners In cluding S50 Germans. London, July IB. British troops took 610 prisoners including 350 Ger mans, In repelling enemy attacks in Palestine, the war office announced this afternoon. "Saturday night and Sunday morn ing the enemy attacked our positions on the covering passages of the Jordan river and on the Abu-tellul ridges," the statement said. "The first was dispersed. The sec ond penetrated our lines, but a coun ter attack re-established our positions. We took 510 prisoners including 350 Germans." ADVERTISING: A Public Necessity IITHEN goods are scarce" and prices high, people are more appreciative than ever of the right kind of advertising. They are seeking information. They want to know how to buy to the best advantage. They want to know how to fill their needs and avoid waste. They welcome news of desirable substitutes for the things the country needs to conserve. They read the newspapers carefully. s The merchant or manufacturer whe does not adver tise is not only missing the purely selfish oppor tunity, but he is failing in the service he owes to his customers. VOTING PLACES Where Topeka ns Will Vote at the August Primary. Following Is the list of the voting places for the coming August primary. Details of the registration rules and opportunities to register at night are given on page five of this paper: Precinct and ward. Voting Place. 1 1 O. A. HcClnre. 818 North Kansas 2 1... .Shawnee Chief. 905 North Kansas 3 1.. .Charlea Bridge. 1009 North Cen.ral 4 1 Mrs. W. r Conroy. Ill E. Saywell 1 2 E". A. Brace. 200 Monroe 2 2....T. W. Thompson. Santa Fe House 3 2 C. P. Sawyer. 1108 Kast Fourth 4 2 A. J. Peterson. 1MB Kast Sixth 5 2.... City Auditorium 2 H P. Miller. 1B02 Sew nr. I 7 2 Maude A Lar.e, 412 Lelauil 1 3 Central V. M. C. A. i 3..... T. R Smith. KilKanaaa 3 3 Jones t'itn. 500 Went Tenth 4 3 Mrs. G. W. Heed. 1404 Hnntoon ft 3 Central Congregational church 6 3... ro!k school honse 7 3... Charles Keed. 525 West Fourteenth 1 4 Wlngctt Land Co.. 109 West Sixth 2 4......... ...Prorldcnt assoclntlon 3 4 Rev. Plersoo.tt2 West Sixth 4 4 Phillip Becker. 1113 Went Sixth 5 4 Braylnaa. 235 Buchanan 1 5 Minnie Artille. 1312 West Ku. llil 2 5 E. M. Zcllara, 1420 Kansas 3 5 W. Y. Ferrell. B23 East Tenth 4 5 N. H. Bray. 1725 Kansas 5 5. .M. E. church. Seventeenth and Lane 1 Baneinent Potwln school 2 ..Mr. Nellie Doling. lr.lS w. Eighth 3 Kra Irvtn. 1012 West 4 6 J. C. Dlehlow. 1142 College UNIONS MEET TONIGHT Cooks and Walters to Decide on Policy In Their Controversy. Today is the day the restaurant and cafe owners of Topeka were to state their position In regard to meeting the demands of the Cooks and Wait ers' union. At a late hour this after noon no intimations had been made by the union as to whether or not a strike would be called. Restaurant 1 eepers and operators in the city announced this noon that they had rejected the demands made on them by the union on account -f the "present conditions of high prices and food administration orders." It was said by a number of the restaurant owners that it was under stood that a meeting of the unionwould be held this evening to take action' on the strike proposition. Shortly after the cafe men had been presented with the demands of the union. Business Agent Crumb, of the union, announced that no strike would be called in the event that the it esinoi healed that ugly R esinoi Ointment heals skin irrita tions that if neglected become serious. One small pimple or slight blotch mars the most beautiful face. A patch if itching eczema or other skin ail ment causes great discomfort and much misery. proprietors failed to meet the de mands. Crumb did not say what course would be pursued, except that there would be no strike. HOW IS YOUR BABY? In a recently completed surrey, in death rate of Infants In one section of an American city waa 27) to th i 1,000. while In another I. was only fifty yet that city the same duty to one Dab: another. Thi average deal ha In one city ire 134. In another- they are only ei hty-fuur. A single ward In a certain city nas bee ab'r to reduce Us Infant Mortality to thirty-nine deaths to 'ha thnuram- b'rth Host of the .tmdttlona responsible for this low death rate could he reproduced In .tni ward' If th parents took ih same trouble end knew what do. Th.- state Journal will place "n he hr rta ni n; reader the lltera luie o tho Untied States Public rlotlth service on the care of the by. Writ- your request plainly, en close a 3-cn stamp and address The Topeka State Journal Infor nailon Bureau, Frederic J. Haa Mn. director. Washington. D. C ASK FOR and GET The Original Malted Milk For Infants and Invalids Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Band Concert and Dance ripley park Tuesday Night July 16th, 8 O'clock Everybody Welcome Knights and Indies of Sencrlty Capital Con not I No. t Jfow quickly skin eruption! R esinoi heals skin sicknesses be cause it contains harmless sntidotes for such conditions. Resinol Ointment was originated by a doctor for the treatment of eczema and other skin affections, so you need not hesitate to oie h. At all dealtrs.

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