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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1917-12-12
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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
GERMANS WILL RUSH PLANS
Central Powers Want the Russiars to
Sound Allies on Peace-WouId
Use Pressure.

Petrograd, Dec. FL According to
press reports, Russia has been in
formed by the Central Powers that
they intend to make peace proposals
to the Allies.
This report say representatives Of
the Central Powers, at the first pre-
liminary peace conference with the
Russians, held yesterday, announced
that their governments intended on
principle to put the question Of peace
before all the powers and that they
had asked their allies to do likewise.
Russia was requested to take similar
steps. 1t is stated the Russians are
endeavoring by all means to sound
the Allies.
The representative Of the Central
Powers informed the Russians they
were ready to discuss peace prelimi-
naries, but desired to know the result
of Russia's efforts to induce the Allies
to Join in the negotiations before pro-
ceeding with them. They said this
point of view might be changed, how
ever, and that they might be willing to
discuss peace with Russia alone. The
Germans were Of the opinion that the
Russian armistice might influence the
other fronts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
PROBING THE PACKERS NOW
Testimony Before Federal Trade Com
mission Brings Out Some Startling
Facts About Chicago Yards.

Washington, Dec. 2I.-At the Fed
eral Trade Commissions investigation
OF the Chicago Stock Yards here to-
day, F. R. Hart, one Of the principal
figures in the stock yards company,
testified that 1t had been agreed TO
pay J. Ogden Armour all the COM
pany's earnings over 9 per cent to
keep Armour from moving the yards
away from Chicago and further west.
With other sensational testimony to
show that the company was organized
to keep the plants from being moved
away, a letter from S. H Fessenden,
q Boston broker, who assisted in the
organization, was read, saying the pro-
ceeding was merely 10 legalize rebates
to packers so they might have "a por-
ton of the plumber" and might have
their "pickings.''
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
WHEAT GETTING POOR START
Low Condition, But the Acre
age is Larger.

Washington, Dec. 2O.-Winter wheat
area sown for the 1918 crop is 42,1T0.-
600 acres, 1,636,OOO acres more than a
year ago. an increase of 4 per cent,
and 14,517, 900 acres more than the
area harvested in 1916, the Depart
ment of Agriculture announced today.
The condition of the crop December
1 was 1913, the lowest ever reported
at this time of year, compared with
85.7 a year ago and 10-year Deem
Der average of 1913.
The low condition of the fields is
due to dry weather after seeding on 8
large area
The forecast Of the probable crop Of
winter wheat, based on present condi-
tons with nominal impairment be-
tween now and harvest, is $40 million
bushels, 122 million more than the
harvest of 1916.
If conditions are no worse at har-
vest, next summer, than at present the
crop may be $50 million bushels.
The fall was exceedingly dry in
many important sections, particularly
In the Southwest-Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, also in the far Northwest
Idaho and Washington Although
the increase is less than hoped, the
acreage is the largest ever planted.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

-Twenty-One of the fifty-five soldiers
who left Camp Sherman for Christmas
Burroughs without permission have
been taken into custody in Cleveland
within forty-eight hours Thirty of the
men, it is reported, already are voIun-
tarily returning to Chillicothe.
The Germans have officially in
formed the Bolsheviki headquarters
that the central powers are ready to
consider the arrangement Of peace on
the basis Of no annexations and no in
IDENTITIES, but pointed out that self
definitions Of nations is impracticabIe
William Brandon, living in the south
part of Logan county, Ok, has re-
ceived word that his son, Roy Bran
don, who enlisted last summer, had
died of spinal meningitis at the Great
Lakes Training Camp after an illness
OF but forty-eight hours.
Governor Hobby of Texas has re-
voked commissions to four hundred
special rangers which were issued by
ex-Gov. James E. Ferguson, just prior
to his impeachment By being made
special rangers they were exempt
from being drafted into the army.
The distinguished service order has
been awarded to Lieutenant Waiter G..
Oakman, Jr., of Islip, L. I. a grandson
of Roscoe Conkling, for gaIlantry in
the Cambria battle, where he was
wounded for the third time. Lieuten-
ant oakman is now in private hos
pitai in London.
Lieutenant Brachpapa of the ItaI-
ian army, and pilot, recently reached
height OF 7.o25 meters (23,O48 feet)
in an Italian sirplane, mounting to this
altitude in So minutes This is said
here to be . worlds height record.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
REVOLT IN PART
OFRUSSIA GROWS.
Odessa Has Now Gone Over
Definitely to Opponents of
the BOlsheViki.
FIGHTING LASTED SIX DAYS
Red Guards Lost 800 Men in Battle
With the Cossacks at RostoV-
on-Don.

London, Dec. 22.-The Rada, the
governing body of the Ukraine, appar
emily is maintaining its determined
stand toward the BolsheviH govern
ment. 1t is reported that it has con-
verted its synpathies with the move
ment of General KaIedines, the Cos
sack leader, into a definite alliance.
Advices received from Russia are to
the effect that the Bolsheviki commits
sioners after receiving the Rada's re-
lection of the BoIshevih ultimatum
sent another one, giving the Ukraine a
further forty-eight hours in which to
reconsider its refusal to acquiesce in
the demands of the Bolsheviki govern
ment.
Odessa to the Ukraine.
Another report received here says
that Odessa now has definitely gone
over to the side of the Ukraine. De-
tails of the capture of Rostov-on-Don
printed in Petrograd show there were
six days fighting before the Cossacks
entered the town last Saturday. The
Red Guards lost 500 men killed and
1000 wounded in the fighting. The
Cossacks gave short shrift to the Red
Guards whom they hate. The Boil
shevih chiefs fled from the town on
board warships. The cruiser Kelkvida
grounded in the river and was de-
stroyed by the Cossack artillery.
There has been no important fight
ing at Nakhitchayan, province of the
Don, where the Bolsheviki troops have
fraternized with the Cossacks. A
clash has occurred between the Boil
shevih and Ukranians at Belgard,
Bessarabia The town is on fire.
Hill Tribes Causing Trouble.
The Terek and Kuban Cossacks are
reported to be experiencing trouble in
their own territories, the hill tribes of
the northern Caucasus having risen.
It also is said that some of the Cos
sacks in the Don territory are dissat-
isfied with their leaders and are being
won over by the propaganda of the
extremists.
Combating reports in circulation
that the Bolsheviki commissioners
have refused to convene the constitu-
ent assembly, Moses Uritzky, commits
sioner for elections to the assembly,
has issued a manifesto in which he
gives assurances that the assembly
will be summoned as soon as the 400
deputies have registered themselves
at his bureau.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
SCORES CONDITIONS AT CAMPS
Diseases Resulting From Poor Sani-
tary Facilities Have Caused Many
Deaths Among the Soldiers.

Washington, Dec. 19.-Insufficient
clothing, overcrowding and bad sani-
tary conditions are held largely re-
sponsible for disease epidemics at
Camp Bowie, Tex; Camp Funston,
Kan; Camp Doniphan, Ok, and Camp
Sewer, S. c., by Surgeon General Cor
gas in reports to Secretary Baker
made public today as the result of his
personal inspection of the camps.
With the exception of Funston, none
of the camp base hospitals has been
completed, General Gorgas says, and
this is handicapping the medical Off
GERS in treating patients. He recon-
mends the rushing of this work, par
ticularly the installation of necessary
plumbing
General Gorgas po1nJs out that near
ly all the disease is brought to the
camps by incoming men and recon-
mends the establishment of obserVa-
ton camps for all newcomers. To aid
sanitary conditions he recommends
that fifty square feet of floor space
be furnished for each man at all
camps. In some cases now only TWEEN
ty feet is provided.
At Camp Funston, in the Eighty
ninth Division, there have been forty
three deaths from pneumonia with 189
cases, and twenty-five from meningitis,
with seventy cases.
This indicates the most serious
condition as far as infection from men
nights and pneumonia is concerned -
General Gorgas said. CAS- emphasiz-
ing the situation, 1 call attention to
the fact that they had eighty-four
deaths from all causes when the nor
NAL death rate of such a command
should be about twelve
In the last month at Camp Doni-
phan, where the Thirty-fifth Division
is training, there have been seventy
four cases of pneumonia, with eleven
deaths; 316 cases of measles and one
death; 1O4 of diphtheria, with one
death, and six of meningitis, with four
deaths. Overcrowding is described by
the report as the basic cause.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
HAVE FAITH IN PERsHING
The American Commander Has the
Full Confidence of Both the
British and French.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Direct as
surances of the confidence of both
British and French commanders in
General Pershing's ability and their
satisfaction with the breadth and
soundness of his preparations to
make American arms effective as the
western front have reached Washing
ton with the return from Europe OF
Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, former chief
of staff, who was in conference today
with Secretary Baker and other War
Department officials.
The men who are actually leading
the allied armies, from the command
ers-in-chief and members of the war
ministers down to the corps and di-
vision commanders, have been unhesi-
tating in expressing their approval of
the chief of the American expedition
airy forces and his methods.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
BETTER HEALTH At CAMPS NOW
sut Epidenies Are Still Prevalent at
Some Of the National Army
Cantonments.

Washington, Dec. 20-General i'm
proYement in health conditions in the
national guard division for the week
ending December IA was reported to-
day by the division Of field sanitation
In the national army, however, there
was an increase in the total cases Of
pneumonia, measles and meningitis
due to renewed outbreaks in q few of
the divisions.
with the exception of the Thirty
fourth, Thirty-fifth and Fortieth d.
visions" said the report, ''but few new
cases Of measles are reported from
the national guard camps. Pneumo-
MIA, following measles, is also rapidly
decreasing in all but three of the di-
visions in which measles has been cpl
demic." Those three divisions are the
Thirtieth, Thirty-fourth and Thirty
ninth. Meningitis has increased in
only the Thirtieth and Thirty-fifth
divisions
Marked increases in measles is re-
ported in the Eighty-seYenth and Nine
tieth national army divisions, with a
slight increase in the Eighty-ninth.
Pneumonia conditions in all divisions
except the Ninetieth improved in the
week, but seventy-seven new cases
were reported in that division, an in
crease Of thirty-six over last week.
There has been a marked increase in
meningitis in the Eighty-first Division,
but the epidemic in the Eighty-ninth
Division continues TO decline
Deaths for the week in the guard
division totaled 165, as against 100 the
week previously, and those in the ma
tiOnal army 81 against "A the week
before OF the guardsmen dying, 143
succumbed to pneumonia and II to
meningitis. In the national army there
were SO deaths from pneumonia and
Is from meningitis.
There was a decrease of 12S cases
Of pneumonia in the guard camps, the
total for the week being 294, against
423 the week previous Cases OF
measles decreased from 1858 the pre-
vious week to 1,058, and meningitis
from A to 80.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
MONEY FOR SOLDIERS WIVES
The Government Has Finally Begun
to Send Out November Checks
to Their Dependents.

Washington, Dec. Redistribution
for Christmas time of government al
lowances and soldiers aHotments to
dependents of enlisted men was start
ed today by the war risk bureau. By
Christmas day thousands Of wives,
widowed mothers and other depend
ents Of soldiers will have their first
payments, representing the amount
due for November, and the distTibu-
ton will continue steadily there
after.
Most checks are for $50 or $S25,
representing SIS or half the monthly
pay of the enlisted soldier, with add
ed government allowances ranging
from So for a motherless child to SIS
for wife with further sums for de-
pendent children. Allotments of part
pay of the soldier are compulsory.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
DEAD
IN TRAIN WRECK
ThirtY-Nine Others We're Hurt
In a Rear End Collision
in Kentucky.
WOODEN COACHES SPLIRTERED
Louisville & Nashville Flyer Crashes
Into Accommodation at SHEPHERDS
ViIIe-FeW Escaped.

ShepperdsyilIe, KY, Dec. 21.-Forty-
one persons were killed and about
thirty-nine others injured when Louis
vile & Nashville passenger train No.
z from Cincinnati to New Orleans
crashed into the rear of a Bardtown,
Louisville & Springfield accommoda-
ton train just south of the station
here early tonight.
First reports apparently authentic
had placed the number of known dead
at sixty-seYen and the number Of in
jured at between forty and fifty, but
this was reduced when an official
check of the figures was made.
Has Not Fixed Blame.
No cause for the wreck was assign
ed by w. F. Sheridan, superintendent,
who would make no statement pend
ing an investigation of the tragedy.
From other sources it was learned
that the accommodation had left the
station after making a stop, when the
fast train came in sight running at a
high rate Of speed and plunged into
the rear end OF the train ahead. The
two wooden coaches and the baggage
car making up the lighter train were
splintered.
A relief train was started from
Louisville at once, but by the time it
arrived the injured and the bodies Of
the dead had been recovered from the
wrecked train. Thirty-fiEe of the in
jured were placed aboard the relief
train and rushed to Louisville. Three
or four others were taken to private
homes in Shepperdsville, Superinten-
dent Sheridan reported, but he said
he had been unable to learn the exact
number.
Those on Fast Train Escaped.
None of the passengers aboard the
fast train was killed and none Of them
received more than minor injuries.
Jesse Waterford, telegraph opera
tor at the station here, said that af-
ter the accommodation train left the
station he had thrown his block to
show the track was clear and left the
office to help handle baggage. When
he got outside, he said, he saw the fast
train approaching, ran back to the of
flee, pulled his block to show red,
seized a lantern and rushed to the
platform to flag it. He reached the
side of the track just as the heavy
locomotive Numbered by.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
BEGIN STATE BOOZE FIGHTS
Prys Have Already Commenced to Lay
Plans to Capture the State
Legislatures.

Chicago, Dec. 2O-Dry forces in I'LL
nois will center their fight for ratifi-
cation of the national prohibition
amendment on seeking to control the
regular legislature in 1919, rather than
seeking a special session, F Scott Nc
Bride, state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, announced today.
Last year the drys had a majority
in the senate, but lacked the house
by ten votes.
The Dry Chicago Federation is cir
culating petitions for local option
vote in this city next April
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
TRIED TO KILL A GOVERNOR

Sacramento, Cal, Dec 19.-An at
tempt to dynamite the governors man
sion and kill Governor William D.
Stephens and his wife was made early
today, when charge of explosives
was set off in the southwest wall Of
the building.
Pro-German agents or sympathizers
are blamed by the police for the out
rage Governor Stephens returned
last night from Los Angeles, where
he had delivered an address in which
he advocated sterner methods in sup
pressing the enemy agents and enemy
propaganda
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
CONVERSATIONS

The Filipinos are asking for infor-
nation about how to build American
barns.
The head hunters Of Formosa are
making it extremely difficult to take
camphor from the forests.
Mrs. Harrison L. Smith of Saco,
Me, has a Killarney rose bush which,
in spite of freezing weather, continues
to bloom.
Not far from Victoria Nyanza there
is to be found a large block of almost
chemically pure sesquicarbonate OF
soda covering 80 square miles, which
Is so valuable that it will probably
come in for some consideration in the
adjustment of the war.
A western railroad company pro-
vides a shower bath attachment in its
cars used for shipping pigs. The show
ier is turned on the closely packed ami
mails at regular intervals. This lowers
the temperature Of the car and saves
the lives of dozens Of the animals.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Rin Eire AZ Erie pa

Erie, Pa, Dec. 2O.-Fire, which swept
through a portion of the business sec
ton today. dstroyed the ". z. Fulmer
& Son store and ruined the stock in
the store Of c. o. Johnson The Second
National Bank building also was dam
aged. The loss is estimated at S15e, 900.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Msedina out the Inefheient.

Camp Doniphan. Ok, Dec. 19.-Re-
serve officers graduated from the first
training camps viii be sent 10 Camp
Funston in the next few days to be
ready TO receive the men Of the sec
ond draft Several hundred reserve
officers have been sent here
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29

Chicago, Dec 19.-Seven OF ths
largest packing concerns in Chicago
have decided to give war savings
stamps and certificates as Christmas
bonuses. It was announced today It
is thought that every packing firm In
the city viii adopt the plan
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Navy Holds Up shipbuiIdino.

Washington, Dec. 22-The navy's
utilization of much OF the country's
shipbuilding facilities was cited by
Chairman Hurley of the shipping board
before the Senate investigating COM
mittee today as one reason for the
slow progress OF ship construction.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Santa Must Hurry to Halifax.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dec 21.-An
American Santa Claus must provide
toys for hundreds Of blind and Grip
pied children in hospitals here The
limited stock carried by the local deal
ers has been exhausted
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Americans Are Leaving Russia.

Toxic. Dec. 1S.-CondftiOns in Rus
STA are becoming intolerable and
American Ambassador Francis is ad-
Eising Americans to leave, according
to American refugees arriving here TO
day Food supplies throughout Rus
STA are becoming so scarce
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
~ channe in Rritlsh renns-

London. Dec. 21-Complete restora-
ton Of the territories taken by the
enemy and compensation, was demand
ed by Premier Lloyd George IN the
House Of Commons today in explain
ing British war aims.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
NewfoundIand a dominion.

Boston, Dec 20.-As a reward for
the gaIlantry Of its overseas forces,
Newfoundland, the oldest British over
seas possession. has been designated
officially as the Dominion Of New
foundland, according to word received
from St Johns today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Britain's Woman MAYOR pies.

London, Dec. 1e.-Dr. Elizabeth Gar
rgtt Anderson, the first woman TO Re
elected mayor Of a town in England
and prominent physician, died at her
home in AIdeburgh. Suffolk, yesterday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Radio Chains Half of Globe.

Washington, Dec. PA wireless
message reIayed last night from Ad-
miraI knight at Cavite. Philippine
Islands, to Secretary Daniels here, an
nounced completion of the chain OF
government radio stations extending
half way round the globe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Villa Is Now Usino Alias.

Ell Paso, Tex, Dec. 2O.-Franciseo
Villa has changed his name and is now
operating under the name OF SeTerino
Gonzalez, according to escaped fed
eraI prisoners.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Planes COLLIDE. Three Killed

Fort Worth, Tex, Dec. 22-Three
British aviators in training here were
killed this morning wh-n two ma
chimes collided in the air. Two of the
men were in one machine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
A Mine ExpIosjon Kills Eleven.

Knoxville, Tenn, Dec 21-EleFen
men were killed in an explosion IN the
Barbour Coal Company's mine. near
Memo, Tenn. late yesterday, accord
ing TO adTices received here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Do~toed Two Air Raider

London. Dec 2O.-one Of the Ger
nan airplanes which took part IN last
nights raid over England was brought
down and another is believed TO have
been destroyed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
Churches Unite and Save Coal.

Haverhill, Mass, Dec. 22.-Most of
the churches of this city will close
their doors next Sunday and unite in
services in two theaters which have a
seating capacity sufficient to accom-
modate the combined congregations.
The step is taken to conserve coal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
A Raner for PershinnIe Men

Paris, Dec 22-The London Daily
Mail began yesterday the publication
of an American edition from the office
of its Paris edition. The new edi-
ton will be for Americans in France
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
suffraqe Vote Januarx 10

Washington, Dec Is--yote in IA
House on the woman suffrage cOnsts-
tutional amendment on Thursdaz. F>.z.
uary 10. was assured today when -
rules committee agreed On that dets.