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The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27
TEACHERS MEETINGS.

The following schedule of teachers
meeting is called by the supervisor OF
music for instruction in music
Third Grade-Tuesday Sept. %. 1:30
p. m. Second Grade-TueSday. Sept.
%. 300 p. NJ. Third Grade-Wednes-
day. Sept. %. $3.50 p. m. Fourth Grade
Thursday Sept. -. $50 p. m. Fifth
Grade-Friday, Sept. %, $3.50 p. m.
Departmental-All teachers who teach
any class in music. Monday. Oct. l.
$50 p. IN.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27
LOEW'S CRESCENT.

Joan Storm and John Marsden in
"The Alibi," little drama of mar
ried life, which will interest every
married man, will be the headline
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

By the drawing supervisor for H.
structions in drawing:
Third Grade-Tuesday. October
2nd. $3.50 p. nj. Fourth Grade-Wed-
nesday, October Ord. $3.50 p. III. rlfth
Grade Thursday, October 4th. $50
p. m. Departmental all teachers who
teach any class in drawing. Friday,
October 9TH. $3.50 p. III.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27
McDOkOGH NO. g.

Following is list of the faculty of
McDonogh 4, with their respective
grades and number of pupils.
Pupils
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, principal
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27
TIPS FROM TEXAS

Our observation is that every bride
loves, honors and obeys; but not all
at once.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

The reason a little girl likes fairy
tales Is because she hasn't yet grown
up and been told them by her husband.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

AS a general thing 1t Is right hard
to interest a woman in the uplift when
she feels like her hair is coming down.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

What has become of the old-fash-
Toned country boy who used to sweat
his collar down while tanning the girls I
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

The old-fashioned woman whose
skirt swept 'he street may have been
modest, but We bet her ankles were
dusty.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27

OF course the jitney has some advan.
tages, but folks who rode In the old
fashioned OK cart had more time to get
acQuainted.-Dallas News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
DINNER FOR OFFICERS
Topeka Press Club Entertains Men
From Fort Riley.

Activities at Fort Riley in the max
ing of officers for Uncle Sans SOL
diers in France, were revealed to
newspaper men at a dinner by the
Topeka Press club at Pelletier's tea
room. The dinner was in honor of
officers of the school and Topeka
news writers who are violating the
union hour rules in efforts to win
commissions.
Capt. Jesse Baston and Capt. Claude
Garland were the guests of honor
Captain Garland illustrated his talk to
the newspaper men and discussed
methods adopted IN army circles in
finding the enemy's range and in
blocking advances. Formations and
drill methods as taught at Fort Riley
were discussed by Captain CASTOR.
Frank p. MacLennan, publisher of
the State Journal and chairman of
the Topeka training camp committee,
was asked to welcome the guests and
told of the Kansas interest in mill
tary affairs and declared that while
Kansas is allowed but 2SS places in
the second officers school, he had
provided blanks to 140 applicants.
Short talks were made by E. w.
Wingart, Cliff Stratton and Charles
Hoyt, Topeka newspaper men attend
ing the school. Other student guests
of the club were: r. NJ. Yates, Dan
Hammatt, Joseph Nickel, j. A
Weightman. Archie farrell, and VIII
liam Clifton. Frank farrell, pub
licity director for the Santa Fe and
father of Archie farrell, presided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago. July 2.-WHEAT-Eagerness of
distillers to seize the last chance to make
whisky before being shut off by war legis-
lation was one of the reasons given today
for prevailing fancy prices in corn. Elk
porters were also said to be unusually ac-
tive. Besides anxiety continued regarding
possible damage from scorching tempera-
lures in the southwest, especially i'll Okla
homa- Fresh advances in values took place,
although the market on Saturday had
broken the high price record. Reports of
showers in Kansas, however, tended some
what to check the aggressiveness of the
bulls. Opening quotations, which ranged
$1.5S to SISSY and September at $1.474s
to As were followed by a general upturn
of about 1c-
Additional upturns accompanied sub
stantial increase in the United States Wis
ible supply total, but the advances were
not we'll maintained. The close was I'M
settled, 1c net lower to gain of 2kc,
with July at $201 and September at SI.S43s
Chicago, July 2-WHEAT-Wheat and
oats sympathized with the strength of corn.
Trading in wheat though, was nearly at a
StaHdstiH owing to general expectation of
complete control soon by the federal gov
eminent After opening unchanged at 81. 81
for September and no dealings in July, the
market rose to 81 s..
The fact that no corn was delivered today
on July contracts mere tended to bring
about further sharp upturns and Sept too
made comprehensive advances which in
crop was below normal in the important
corn producing states. The close was
nervous 14@c to 21sc above Saturdays lat
est figures.
OATS-Commission houses were moder-
ate purchasers of oats. About the only
selling came from pit spectators.
OVlSIONS-Scantiness of offerings
lifted provisions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02

nearly 1000 passenger trains already,
marks the progress up to today of the
movement to place the countrys rail-
roads on a war efficiency basis.
Reductions in the number of de
luxe trains, special and excursion
trains and a heavy curtailment of par
lor, club, dining, sleeper and observa-
ton car service also have been inau-
gurated.
The first effects of these measures,
according to railroads war board to-
day, was seen in 23.8 per cent more BIZ
luminous coal moved last month than
in May, 1916. The railroads are also
loading freight cars with 10 per cent
more than their registered capacity.
The Lackawanna railroad is serving
war portions in all it's diners. A
war portion is about one-half or two
thirds of the regular portion and the
price is apportioned on the same scale.
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only parts of the body will fill caskets
in which they will be hurriedly
buried.
Police are still dragging the river
IN the belief that more bodies went
down as the big tank swiped away the
pilot house and forward decks on the
port side.
Before federal investigators, Capt
Charles Moody is said to have exoner-
ated the captains of the tugs which
were towing his ship, and to have ex-
onerated Jim Brodie, the wheel man,
of all blame He laid entire blame
for the accident to the strong current
of the Menominee river flowing into
the Milwaukee river at that point. He
declared the current carried the boat
over to the point where it struck the
stanchions of the water tank and that
no one on board the ship is to blame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
MAKE u. S. A TRUSTEE
European Movement for America to
Govern Disputed Lands.

London, July 2.-Suggestions that
the United States should govern vari-
Gus disputed lands as the trustee for
civilization are being advanced by Eu-
ropean publicists with increasing fire.
quency. The destinies of Palestine.
Syria and even the Suez canal have
been thus arranged by enthusiasts. Jo-
siah Wedgwood, who was on the staff
of General SHUTS in East Africa, last
year. proposes in an article in The Ma
ton, to give the United States the
largest order yet framed.
All German African colonies, Mr..
Wedgwood said, should be pooled with
the Congo Free State and the Portu-
guese colonies by the payment of 1OO,-
600, 900 pounds to Belgium and co.
100000 pounds to Portugal. This ter
ritory of 100000 square miles.
should be administered by an Ameri-
can commission. similar to the Phil
ippine commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
MAY REVIVE MINE WAR
Colorado Miners Threaten Strike If
Differences Aren't Adjusted.

Denver, Colo, July Possible
repetition of Colorado's famous mine
war; of 1913, was in prospect today
following formal notification filed
with the state industrial commission,
by James Z. Moran, president of Dis
trict fifteen, United Mine Workers of
America. that the miners will call a
strike on the Colorado Tuel &, Iron
company (the Rockefeller properties)
August /, unless differences are salts
factorily adjusted meanwhile.
Characterizing the Rockefeller plan
of industrial representation as ''unsat-
isfactory." the miners demand new
working agreement with the company.
the demand being the outgrowth of
the consistent refusal of the company
to consider substitution of the miners
plan, or grant increases in the wage
scale.
The company employs bout 5000
miners. and controls the me- ority of
the larger mines &C the district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
BODIES OF MANY



the car. Then the trolley car swung
off the tracks and the next l saw the
truck up in the air and the car all
smashed to bits and sliding in the
water.
81 guess I gave an alarm. don't
know. 1 was at the spot in second.
But I had only two hands. I could not
do much"
Car Took 3O-Foot Plunge.
Waist deep in the treacherous cur
rent Crowley stood for an hour mold
ing tightly two young girls.
One of the girls had tainted, the
other was trying to cheer him on
The girls are thought to be Clara
Schultz and Lillian Cook of Cleveland.
who had come here with a party of
seven. Finally other men of the
Seventy Fourth and the regulars at
Fort Niagara reached Crowley and
Ec.phl him in the work of rescue.
The spot at which the tragedy oc-
Cured is about fifty feet south of the
abutments of the Cantilever bridge.
There on it's downward course. the
river sweeps around an elbow of rock
and SWirls into many eddieS and little
pools into the bend there created. The
trolley tracks are eighty feet below
the street level at this point and skirt
ing the edge of the cliff are probably
thirty feet above the river. Under the
bridge there is solid masonry. Then
there is a trestle of not more than
twenty feet Beyond that the retain
ing wall ends in the foliage
embankment.
The early report that Mrs. c. W.
Mccoy of Kansas City was among the
dead was erroneous. She was in
jured and removed to a hospital.
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convinced that the particular enter
prise affording such employment ac-
tually is necessary to the maintenance
of the military establishment or ma
tional interest during the emergency.
The evidence must also establish,
the regulations say, even if the par
ticular enterprise or the particular ag-
ricultural enterprise is found neces-
sary for one of the above purposes
that the continuance of such person
therein is necessary to the mainte-
nance thereof and that he cannot be
replaced by another person without
direct, substantial, material loss and
detriment to the adequate and effect
i've operation of the particular indus
trial enterprise or agricultural enter
prise in which he is engaged"
Later the president may, from time
to time, designate certain industries
or classes of industries that are nee
so notified. 1t will be the duty of
each board, however, to ascertain the
available labor supply for such indus
tries outside the men called for mil
itary service and to take the result
into consideration in determining
such things.
Exemptions Not Permanent.
IF, in the opinion of fhe district
board" this section of the regulations
concludes, the direct, substantial.
material loss to any such Industrial
or agricultural enterprise outweighs
the loss that would result from failure
to obtain the military service of any
such person, a certificate of discharge
may be issued to him.
Certificates of exemption will not
necessar ily be permanent They may
be revoked with changing conditions
or may be granted only for prescribed
periods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-02
THIRD MONTH OF
WAR CONGRESS-
FINDS IT IN JAM
Lower House Marking Time
Waiting for Senate.
Food and Finance Bills Clog
the Upper House.
The DRY FIGHT DRAGS ON
'LOOks Like Floor Fight Any
Way You Put It."
Senate Committee Votes in Fa-
vOr of Gore Amendment.
The DRY FIGHT DRAGS ON
CORES BILL NOW CENTER
OF ARENA IN LIQUOR FIGHT

Here is the Gore amendment,
upon which the fight now centers:
That it shall be unlawful for
any person, firm. or corporation to
use any foods, food materials, or
feeds in the manufacture of dis
titled spirits Tor beverage purposes.
Whenever the president shall find
that limitation. regulation or pro-
hibition of the use of foods. food
materials or feeds in the produc-
tions of vinous, malt, or ferment-
ed liquors, or that reduction OF
alcoholic content of any SUCH
liquors is essential, in order to as
sure an adequate and continuous
supply of food or feed, he is author
lied from time to time to prescribe
and give public notice of the extent
of the limitation, regulation, pro-
hibition, or reduction so neces-
stated"
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captain EXOnerates Tug Men
and Steamers Pilot.
Water Tank Crashes to Deck;
Is Dead, Score Injured.
JUST STARTING ON EXCURSION
Happy Crowd Suddenly Scene
X Of MutiIated Bodies.
Vessel Knocked Support From
( Under Tank on Shore.

Milwaukee. Wis, July while a
federal investigation is quietly going
on, the horror of the accident to the
great river excursion steamer Christie
pher Columbus in the Milwaukee riv-
er saturday, is lust dawning today.
Fifteen are dead and thirteen seri-
Ously injured while a score more were
slightly injured or suffering from
shock as a result of a big water tower
crashing down on the happy passen-
gers as they left here for Chicago.
Il Find Parts of Bodies.
: Some of the bodies of the dead will
never he seen by relatives and friends.
Some were so terribly mutilated that
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MORE SHOWERS HERE
Continued from Page One,


eastern part of the state was the pre-
diction. In western Kansas the drouth
is still on and is becoming serious
The crops have already been injured
ard are scheduled for another baking
al! week. No rain is in sight for that
section of the state.
The official forecast promises part
|. cloudy weather today ond Tuesday
and probably showers, unsettled in
the east. This, according to Flora,
would ordinarily mean rain, but in
dry weather predictions are no good,
when it comes to prophesying rain.
The mercury Sunday night fell to 81.
which was 4 points below the normal
stage, but at 2 o'clock this afternoon
it had climber to IS.
Scattered showers were reported
over the state in the last twenty-four
hours. Dodge City reported .02 and
st. Joseph, Mo, .O2. Reports from
western sections indicated light scat
tered showers but no real rains.
The highest temperature recorded
on this date was 101, in 1911, and
the lowest, Sc, in 1908.
The wind this afternoon was blow
ing 20 miles an hour from the south
east.
The river was reported as still sta
/ tionary, registering 81 feet this morn
ing.
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pressed car and American Sugar gained
one to three points, while Alcohol and
Ohio gas materially extended their initial
declines. United States steel reacted Is,
equal reservals being registered by Beth
lehem steel, Republic iron and Colorado
fuel. Rails of the better grade also av-
eraged one point losses. The list strength
ened at noon, shippings and oils leadin 2
the rally Bonds were irregular. liberty
BIZ ranging from par to the usual small
premium.
Developments over the weekend were not
of a constructive character, judging from
the irregular trend of prices at the open
ing of today's market Speculative issues
were once more under pressure, the selling
of motors, Industrial alcohol and Ohio
gas at extreme recessions of two to almost
four points being especially noteworthy
Rails also labored under the depression
of last weeks rate decision although losses
in that group did not exceed fractions.
United States steel and prominent equip
ments were steady with metals, shippings
and Sinclair oil.
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Morning GossiD.


(FurniShed'by the Topeka Board OF Tradeb
Chicago. July 2-The Herald says: All
grain markets in the United States will
be closed Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week. Winnipeg will be closed Monday,
Dominion day but open Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
Duluth will be closed until Thursday.
The grain trade is uneasy owing to high
temperatures in the southwest which may
seriously injure the oat crop. In western
Kansas where large acreage of oats was
put in to replace losses of wneat there
has not been enough rain and the crop Is
in critical condition. Temperatures
have been high 100 to los i'll parts
3f Kansas Under ordinary conditions the
trade here would be inclined to take this
weather seriously affecting the corn crop.
twelve inches high in many parts of
Nebraska and Kansas and needs hot
weather But a continuation of hot dry
winds might do serious damage as there
have been many years when the crops in
that section have been badly damaged
Short interest in grains has been ma
terialIy cut down., especially in the de,
ferred futures, The market is regarded
as having been oversold the last few days
and bears were in no mood to stay out
over Sunday. At present the weather is
Receipts Of wheat at primary markets for
the crop year were 3!7.320,000 against
the season to date aggregate 1S0,20000O
against 1s4.111.ooo last year; Oats 2sG.-
Weekly forecast was for fair weather
with normal temperatures.
New York, July Dow Jones: Gov
eminent cotton report at IL o'clock.
Two per cent of copper miners at Miami
and Inspiration mines strike.
Senate finance committee decides on
graduating tax ranging from l. to 40 per
cent on excess profits.
Macmillan Hardin, noted German editor,
says peace can only be assured when Ger
many yields to democracy.
| Oklahoma state report: July report esti-
mates wheat crop p million about same
as final last year Oats 24.500 600: 50
per cent of wheat harvested. Government
June wheat 81 million; oats &c million.
! Liverpool. July 2.-Total shipment from
North America last week: Wheat 1860 !;
corn, Gil 900; oats, 1915 900; barley. 10000.
! Pacific coast-No shipments last week.
/ Stocks light and strongly held. Fall sown
grain will not yield heavy last year
I but spring wheat in excellent condition.
| United Kingdom-World's shipments
! again liberal with United Kingdom getting
/ a good percentage. Flour shipments from
America liberal and upward of IL million
wheat was shipped as flour TO the United
[ Kingdom; floating quantity remains lib
eral and export offers satisfactory.
France and Italy-Absorbing freely.
! BROOMHALL.
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Kansas City, July 2.-HOGS-Hog re
ceipts 5000: market &C to 10c higher
Bulk, $14.I5@ 1850; heavy, $3.50 "a 1870
packers and butchers, $1490d Is. 60: light
$1450@1515; pigs, $13.00M14OC
CATTLE-Cattle receipts 5000. includ
ing 5000 southerns; market steady to 10C
dressed beef steers, 50. 500 1925: western
steers, S9.00613.25; southern steers, 81 GOA
12.25; cows, S6.50610.00: heifers 5000
1900; stockers and feeders. S7.50@fO.50;
bulls, S7.00@9.00; calves, S7.00@ 1880.
SHEEP-Sheep receipts 1000: market 10c
lower. Lambs, $1,000 1915; yearlings
S11 00@ SO; wethers, 5000 II co. ewes
SS.50@ 1000; stockers and feeders, S7.OOd
1890.
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FURNISHED by the Topeka Board of Trade
Kansas City mills made 5000 barrels
ceding week was 10000 barrels a year ago
So 100 barrels. All mills report business
slow.
Exports from the United States and Can
ada Saturday were $4,000 bushels of wheat.
5000 barrels of flour. $4,000 bushels Of
oats: wheat and flour combined, $4,000
bushels.
Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City
have decrea sed 1.26S bushels last week and
corn stocks decreased 491S9 bushels Total
wheat stocks are 263,9S1 bushels; corn,
65 1874 bushels.
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Kansas city July 2-WHEAT-Cash
Market unchanged. No 2, hard. $2.436I
25S; No. >, $2.$5@2 .53; No. :, red, $2.156l
225: No. 3. 81. 1O@2.2O.
CORN-Market &c to Sc higher. No. =.
mixed, 81. 1211.T3; No. 3. S1.I10172; No. .,
S1.73EaM1.T4: No. 3. $1.72d1. 10; No. ., yell
low, $1.13@1a No. 3, I-72@ II.
OATS-1ac to lie higher. No. 2, white,
14G 1ac: No =, mixed, 10G711ac.
RYE-S1. 95@2.00
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S3. 4Od g. 80.
HAY-Market weak. Choice timothy,
$1SOO@19.OO; choice prairie, S1s.5O@ 1850
choice alfalfa. S21. 90
SHORTS-S1. 95@2.25
BRAN-S1.56.
Wheat receipts 81 cars.
Kansas City. July 2-WHEAT-Market
close. July, 500; Sept. 81. S415.
S1.OSSs May, $1.0sK@%.
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WILSON DIRECTS BOARD
Continued from Page One,

tCOHtlHueu lEoIH rage chcJ
posting to public view. Then after
having been advised of the method by
which the quota to be drawn from
it's territory, (minuS credits for enlist
ments in the national guard or in reg
ular army, each board will prepare
list of persons designated for service
in the order of their liability, post the
list, give it to the press and within
three days send to each designated
person by mail.
AS the men so notified appear, the
boards first will make a physical ex-
animation in accordance with special
regulations to be provided. bearing in
mind that all persons accepted by
them will be re-examined by army
surgeons. If the physical examina-
ton is passed successfully then comes
the question of exemption.
List of Exempted.
Persons who must be exempted or
discharged by the local board include:
Officers of the United States, of the
states, territories and the District of
Columbia: ministers of religion, stu
dents of divinity, persons in the mil
itary or naval service of the United
States, subjects of Germany, all other
aliens who have not taken out first
papers, county or municipal officers,
custom house clerks, wOrkmen in fed
eral armOrics, arsenals and navy
yards, persons in the federal service
designated by the president for ex-
emptiOn. pilots, merchant marine sail
ors, those with status with respect
to dependents which renders their ex-
clusion desirable "a married man with
dependent wife or child, son of a de-
pendent widow, son of a dependent.
aged or infirm parent. or brother of
dependent orphan child under sixteen
years of age; those found morally de-
ficient and any member of any well
recognized religious sect existing May
10. 1917, whose creed forbidS partici-
patton in war and whose religious con-
victions accord with the greedy
Must Have Affidavits.
Claims for exemption because of
dependents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other dependents,
or by third party who has personally
| investigated the case. y claim made
| by the husband must be accompanied
by supporting affidavits signed by the
| wife and by the head of a family re-
siding in the same territory. A claim
| by the wife or a third party must be
| accompanied by two supporting affi-
davits signed by heads of families
/ Similar rules govern claims on the
| grounds of other dependents when
| the dependents Or third parties being
| authorized to file claims with sup
| porting affidavits. In each case the
board must be satisfied before ii
grants exemption or discharge that
! the dependent or dependents actually
are supported mainly by the fruits OF
| the mans mental or physical labor.
| Local boards are required, subject
to appeal. to pass upon claims for ex-
emption or discharge within three
DAYS after the filing of affidavits.
! District boards must decide appeal
cases within five days after the clos
| ing of proofs and their decisions are
final If the ruling of a local board is
| affirmed, the person in question
stands finally accepted for military
| service.
Must Be War Industry.