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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
CORN JUMPS 6 CENTS
Removal of Eastbound Embargo Gives
Grain Market a Boost.

Chicago. Dec. 2O.-Rumors that the
eastbound embargo on corn and oats
was to be lifted and that the maximum
price of corn was to be removed, led
to a sharp upturn in the corn and
oats markets on the board of trade
today May corn advanced 6A cents
to s1261k Oats rose 3 cents.
Notice that the embargo which was
imposed December 9 was lifted was
received shortly after 10 o'clock. The
board of trade ticker printed a denial
from washington that the maximum
price was to be removed.
President Griffin, of the board, is
sued a statement from which it ap-
peared that the rumors of removal of
the maximum price, S1-2S, grew out of
conference of grain men with the
federal food administration at New
York recently The statement said.
however, that if the maximum were
removed it would not affect existing
contracts. Grain shippers said they
had not been formally notified of
termination of the railroad embargo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
LIKE THE R. C. FUND
Temperature Is Going Up. Up-Friday v
Will Be Fair Day.

The temperatures today were the
highest in Topeka since December 2.
The average for the day was 19 above
normal and for the afternoon l s above
normal for the date.
Forty degrees at o'clock this
morning. Put a percentage symbol
behind that forty and it will be about
tho measure of the oversubscription to
the Red Cross Christmas membership
campaign. The wind was blowing
twelve miles an hour from the south
Multiply that by ten and you have the
measure of the breeze of enthusiasm
that drives the flag of the Red Cross
on its victorious way thru the county.
And. according to Meteorologist Flora,
the weather of today will be repeated
tomorrow. This makes it a great deal
easier for the Red Cross campaigners
to reach those farms in the remote
corners of the county to the end that
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
MOVIE STAR KILLED
Charlie ChapIin's Running Mate lead,
others Injured I'm Auto Crash.

Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 20.-Eric
lin in many of the Chaplin moving
pictures, was instantly killed here to-
day and thre eothers, one an actress,
seriously injured when Campbelrs big
touring car collided with another ma
chine at a street crossing, demolish-
ing both machines.
Miss Jean Crosby, also well known
in the film world; Harold Schneider,
scenario writer and w. A. Hollenbeck.
were injured. Campbell was driving
the machine and it struck the Hol-
lenbeck automobile, it skidded and
turned completely over. Campbell
was buried under the wreckage. His
wife is in San Francisco. She is a
sister of Mabel Gilman, who married
William Corey, steel magnate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
USED MORE SUGAR
Americans Consumed 100000
Tons More Than in 1916.
Threatened Famine Caused
Drive on Wholesalers Stocks.

Washington, Dec. 20.-Foundation
for the sugar shortage was laid while
refiners held large stocks last Feb
ruary by sensational stories of a
threatened famine, and strikes caused
by the 1. W. w, Earl D. Babst. presi-
dent of the American sugar refining
company, testified today at the sugar
investigation. He did not say who
he believed was responsible for the
stories.
Consumers began to hoard, he said,
and during the spring and summer
demands upon the refiners were un-
precedented. When consumers began
to hoard, retailers raised prices he
said, but refiners did not increase
prices correspondingly as they did
not desire to increase the alarm.
Added to the scare stories came re-
ports of a Cuban revolution and de-
struction of cane fields which stimu-
lated demand greatly, Babst said.
Then after stocks became low there
developed a difficulty in getting raw
sugar and when it was impossible to
supply the eastern trade with cane
sugar the car shortage prevented new
beet sugar from being sent east
Americans consumed 10000 tons
more in 1917 than the year previous,
Babst said, and 200, 900 tons of Cuban
sugar usually coming to this country
went abroad. He described the situa-
ton with the adage. You can't eat
your cake and have it. too"
The demand as a result of the can
ming campaign was enormous, he said
and added that Instead of sugar
being in sugar bowls it is in fruit
iarS'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
BUILD FLEET OF 15O
First Rivct of 5000 Ton Merchantmen
Driven by Government Official.

An Atlantic Port, Dec. 20.-Marking
the actual beginning of production of
standardized 5000 ton steel cargo
ships for the United States govern
ment, Charles R. Page, of the United
States shipping board, today drove
the first rivet in the first of these
vessels at a large shipyard near here
which has been rushed to completion
in seventy-six days. The keels of two
similar vessels are to be laid this
month
The program of the private cor
the completion of $50 Of the cargo
boats in the least possible time The
yards where this work is being done
are so arranged that twenty-eight of
the vessels will soon be under con-
struction at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

"Incomplete report.
With no report from either the resi-
dence section or the county outside of
Topeka, the business section workers
alone today officially reported Shaw
nee county'S quota of Christmas Red
Cross memberships raised. The re-
port was made at the noon luncheon
at the Chamber of Commerce. The
Shawnee county quota was 12,O37.
Business section teams reported a to-
tai of 1905. w. H. Davis purchased
the lacking membership.
The luncheon today marked the Of
ficial windup CT the campaign in the
downtown section The fact that-the
report from any of Shawnee county
other than the downtown district of
Topeka was the signal for a wild dem
onstrd ton. A vote of thanks was ex-
tended to Morton Albaugh, who led
the victorious drive. The assembly
Red Cross work done by Horace Hall
and D. w Mulvane.
Total Is 1881.
At the luncheon Tuesday noon the
teams reported a total of 6,116 MEM
berships at that date However, only
4,443 cash subscriptions were turned
in and counted. In addition to the
12,037 Christmas memberships obtain
ed by the downtown teams there were,
at the start of the drive, total of
2.495 memberships in the city. This
brings cash memberships in the coun-
ty to 1861.
Reports today showed that the
Santa Fe shops team led all others
with a total of 2,16O, exclusive of the
store house, where a total of $50 was
obtained. The Santa Fe offices Of
fered a total of LAO subscriptions
making total of 1850 Santa Fe mem
bersh1ps. This is a record of prac-
tically 100 per cent for the monster
institutions employees. And who
said the railroads were inefficient >
commented w. B. Collinson, chief
clerk to F. c. Fox, IN charge of the
office drive. when the final Santa Fe
reports were made.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
Winters Grip About To Lock
Doors to Venetian Plains.
AustrO-Germans Trying To Get
Past Mountains.
ITALY FULL OF CONFIDENCE
Then Will Get Ready for RO-
man Drive in Spring.
Austrians Repeat They're Driv-
en- by Own Artillery.
By HENRY WOOD.

With the French Armies in Italy,
Dec. 20.-The fate of the Venetian
plains today hangs on the weather.
If ItaIy's lines hold for a fortnight
under the tremendous Teutonic pres
sure. winters ice and snow will effect
lively lock the door to the plains.
Poth sides realize the supreme ne
cessity of a decision on both sides OF
the Brenta river. If Italy can make
successful defense-as she is now do
ine-and check the Austro-Germans
on their present line, she will be ready
for a spring counter offensive.
Officials regard the present sltua-
ton as the most favorable and hope
full for the Italians since the original
retreat.
Must Get to Plains or Lose.
The Austro- German strategy is now
sufficiently unfolded to render it GER
tain their sole winter objective is in
reaching the Venetian plains thru the
valley of the Brenta. flowing out from
the Alps at Bassano.
Protecting this crucial point, the
Italians have two deep salients. One
, is east of the Brenta, eliminating
with its most northerly point in Monte
Solarolo. Monte Grappa is it's highest
point. The other is west of the
Brenta, eliminating to the north in
; Monte Zaibena of the Asiago plateau.
armies, by successive and carefully
prepared attacks. seek to encircle
Monte Grappa by capturing contigU-
Gus ground and neighboring peaks.
General Conrad's Austrians are deliv-
cring either simultaneous or alternat-
ing attacks against the Asiago SALIENT
| on the opposite side of the Brenta.
! During a four-day continuous as
Sault by the enemy last week, the Ital-
tian fourth army put up a resistance SO
formidable as to win the unstinted ad-
'miratfon of both the French and Brit
| ish armies.
Snow Falling in Mountains.
| Snow fell thruout the mountain sec
4 tors on Monday--the first real winter
weather. At the most the enemy has
only few days left before great drifts
| of snow will freeze him up.
| But even should the worst come
! to the worst. and the Italian defense
! be wiped out. the italian. French and
British armies are always ready to
meet any emergency
! The terrific intensity of the battle
now raging is aptly illustrated by testi-
mOny of Austrian prisoners. They de-
/ clare they are driven to the attack by
1 a barrage fire of their own artillery
| put behind attacking waves and con-
( stantly moving forward. The Aus
/ trians must advance or be wiped out
/ by their own guns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
LABORATORY BURNS
$50, 900 LosS-Large Building Com
pIeted Only Years Ago.

Muscatine, Ia, Dec. 20.-The United
States government sustained a 100000
fire loss last night in the destruction
by fire of the main laboratory at the
United States biological station at
Fairpost, Ia. The large structure com
pleted three years ago is a mass of
embers today.
A lack of water pressure at the sta
ton prevented the successful fighting
of the blaze which had its inception
on the upper floors. a part of the
cortents of the library and museum
was saved. Aside from the property
loss the fire will seriously delay the
progress of scientific work carried on
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
KANSAN FIRED 1T
Great Bend Soldier Aided in First q
S. Shot at Germans.

A Kansan, Charles Allison of Great
Bend was a member of the battery
that worked all night in the mud to
bring their guns into position and fire
the first American shell to be directed
against the Germans on the west
front.
This morning a Topeka girl received
letter from Allison, who is at the
American front in France. He said (:
Just think 1 not only saw the
first shell fired against the Germans
but I helped to fire it"
The case of the shell has been sent
to President Wilson by the American
commander, General Pershing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
Make Big Flour Contract.

Calgary. Alberta. Dec. 2O.-It was
learned today that the purchasing rep
resentatives of the allied governments
have arranged to take all the surplus
flour and oatmeal manufactured by
the mills of Canada and that already
every mill in the dominion is working
to capacity and will continue to do so
until the war is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SHIP PROBE FRIDAY
Chairman Hurley of Emergency Fleet
Corporation, First Witness.

Washington. Dec. O.-Investigation
of the government shipping board and
emergency fleet corporations opera
tions under the resolution of Senator
Harding. which the senate adopted,
the senate commerce committee de-
cided today will begin tomorrow after
noon with Chairman Hurley as the
first witness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
BIG BOND REGISTRY
November, Usually Dull Month. Al
most Breaks a Record.

Bond registrations, in November
nearly broke a record for that month.
In a report today Fred W. Knapp,
state auditor, stated total bonds reg
istered in his office amounted to $780,
646.24.
AS a usual proposition, November
is dull month for the registration OF
bonds of all classes. Yet the munich
pal Improvement, school, highway and
bonds of other classes totalled nearly
three-fourths of a million dollars for
the month. 1t is probable that com
pilation of the December figures and
a total for the year will show that
1917 broke all Kansas bond records
in spite of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
SUGAR GOT TO BOSTON
3 Million Pounds From New Orleans
to Relieve Famine.

Boston. Dec. 2O.-A cargo of 9.00O,-
900 pounds of raw sugar from Louis
lana. the first received this month.
reached Boston today. Refiners said
it probably would be the last of the
Louisiana product to be sent here this
season but that Cuban sugar was ex-
pected to move northward within the
next ten days and further relieve the
shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
WILL QUIT G. 0. P. JOB
Report Chairman Wilcox Intends to
Resign From National Committee.

New York. Dec 2O.-William r.
Wilcox may resign as chairman of
the Republican national committee at
a meeting of the committee here in
February. 1t was unauthoritatively
told to a number or his personal
friends that his business activities
have become so pressing that he would
prefer to be relieved of the political
post he holds.
Mr.. Wilcox declined today to dis
cuss the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
WHAT IS IT, A JOKE?
or Fourth Time Senate Committee
Delays La Toilette Probe.

Washington, Dec 2O.-Inability to
obtain a quorum compelled the SEN
ate committee investigating Senator
La Follette's recent St. Paul speech to
postpone action again today, for the
fourth time. The committee met tc
extend time for conducting the in
quiry and to decide when former Sec
retary Bryan and other witnesses
should testify.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
MINE BLAST KILLS II
Explosion Occurs in Oar Dour Coal
Mine in Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 2O.-Eleven
men were killed in an explosion in the
Oar Dour coal company's mine near
Memo, Tenn. late yesterday, accord
ing to advices received here today
The explosion is believed to have
resulted either from a gas pocket be-
coming ignited or the premature dis
charge OF powder.
Seventy-five men were in the mine
at the time of the explosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
Permit Six Danish Ships 10 Carr
Kerosene from U. S.

Washington, Dec. 2O.-Dennarh,a
mid-winter darkness will be relieved
by American kerosene. 1t was off,
cially stated today the embargo viii
be lifted to permit six Danish vessels
now held in American ports to san
with lighting fuel Denmark n
wrapped in darkness twenty hours ous
of each twenty-four at this season. No
foodstuffs will go in the vessels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
ANY KIND OF PEACE WILL DO.
Austria Approves General or Separate
Peace as Second Choice.

Amsterdam, Dec. 20.-Austro- Hun
gary approves a general peace with
out annexations, territorial or eco
nomic" but cannot maintain such
disinterested war aims if her enemies
continue the war" Count Czernin,
Austria Hungarian foreign minister,
declared in a speech before the par
lament. Dispatches from Vienna to-
day said he spoke in reply to inter-
pellations and approved the Russian
separ peace movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
A CAMP QUARANTINED
r. r. Puts Embargo on Tickets Re
cause of Measles Epidemic.

Wichita. Kan, Dec. 20-Z Z
Brooks, of the passenger department
of the Rock Island railroad. was In
Wichita yesterday and placed a ticket
embargo on all passenger traffic To
Camp Doniphan and Fort Sill. Okla.
due to the reported quarantine Of the
camps for measles epidemic. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
\ Most Spectacular Effort.
Father Killed, Son Hurt in wreck

Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 20.-Fay r
Let's, aged as. prominent resident
of Let's, Ia, was killed and his 16-
year-old son, Lloyd, was seriously in
jured in a railway wreck at Camden,
Mo-, last night. They were en- route
to Dalhart. Tex. to make their home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

The 3 per cent to the city and coun-
~ was made possible by the Kansas
Reserve State bank. whose estab blish-
rnent was brought about primarily to
secure fair deal to the city and
county and to secure the same rate for
them that the banks generally paid
the state namely per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

WEATHER FORECAST for KansS
Generally fair tonight and Friday.
Colder in east Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

D c. STANDS for Red Cross in
America and "iclief Coming in
France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20
DENMARK IN THE DARK

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-20

Total Red Cross memberships. cash
turned in in Shawnee county. II
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10

Chaplain to France.-Rev. FranzfJ.
Feinler, formerly army chaplain at
Vancouver. Wash, and later IN the
Philippines, accompanied the Amerl-
can expeditionary force to France IN
his capacity as chaplain.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10

Generous Givine.-The Catholics OF
Kansas City, Mo-, almost tripled the
amount assigned to them to be raised
as their contribution to the knights
of Columbus Soldiers Fund. They mad
been asked for $4,000; they gave
nearly $4,000. In one parish the sub
ecriptions averaged SO to a family.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10

Devotion to the Sacred Heart is in
the sphere of devotions what radium
is in metals. In the smallest space
It concentrates the most tremendous
energy. The Morning Offering can
be made in a few moments; no words
are necessary; just one mental offer.
ing Of the day to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus. just one moments contact with
His Divine Heart, just one plunge into
the stream Of love flowing from that
Source. and all that is necessary for
membership in the Sacred Heart
League is complied with. OF course
it is still better when the words OF
the Offering, embodying the special
intention for the month, accompany
this internal motion Of the, heart
without which the mere words would
be Of little worth.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10
OLD WORLD NEWS

Many German Pilgrims Gerfnan
pilgrims are going, at nresent in
crowds to Kevelaer,ssa place of pill
grimage which forms the subject of a
famous poem by Heinrich Heine.
Chinese Trappists.--In the Trappist
monastery and abbey near ,Pekin,
China, are about twenty Trappist Fa-
theirs. Eight of them are French, Ger
man, Dutch and Canadian and about
twelve are Chinese Fathers There
are also about seventy Chinese lay
brothers.
Bells Become cannon.-In the bel
ligerent countries of Europe, church
tower clocks are silent, the bells which
struck the hours have been seized by
the governments for the manufacture
of cannon. Here and there, worn out
railroad rails replace them
An AustraIasian Seminary in Rome,
The question of an Australasian
Seminary in Rome is being spoken OF
again. 1t has been mooted before and
doubtless some time or other, as Aus
tralia grows and the Catholic faith
there grows with it, and even faster
it will become facts But, in this
disturbed world, not just yet
Reprieved Through Pope-A tele
gram from Zurich, Switzerland, to the
Osservatore Romano says that two
English, soldiers, Robert and PerciYa
Hadkinson, who had been sentencef
to death on a charge of espionage
have been pardoned through the inter
cession of the Holy Father.
! Life of Canon Sheehan.-A Life Of
the Very Rev. Canon p A. Sheehan
d. D., author of MY New Citrate,
Luke Delmege,' THE Blindness o.
the Very Rev Dr. Gray and many
tother unusual and delightful novels
| is being written by his friend, the Rev
Herman ]. Heuser, d. D., editor Of
the American Ecclesiastical Review
Late Bishop 0'DWyer.-The obse
quies of the late DR.. OsDwyer. Bishop
of Limerick, we're imposing and prob
ably the most pathetic and touching
ever held in that ancient Irish city
The whole city followed the cortege to
the Cathedral Every street through
which it passed literally sWarmed with
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Catholic Truth GuiId.-The seasons
work of the Catholic Truth Guild OF
Boston consisted of over 80 meetings
with an attendance of more than l5o,'
900 persons. ~
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10

Many German Pilgrims. German
pilgrims are going at nresent in
crowds to Kevelaer,ssa place of pill
grimage which forms the subject of a
famous poem by Heinrich Heine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-10

A Flag With Many Stars.-Rev.
James J. O'Brien, pastor of st. Cath
crimes Church, Somerville. Mass, mas
unfurled a service flag on the church
grounds which shows field OF l3o
stars, representing the number OF
Young men of that parish in the ma
TONS service.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-22
Daily Stock etter.

United Press Leased Wire Servicel
NEW YORK. May 2Z-The New
York Evening Sun financial review
today says:
Although sentiment was cheerful for
the most part in today's stock market
there were but few developments of a
particular marketwise influence. The
movement Of prices suggested cross
currents set in motion by further
short covering and additional outside
buying on the other hand and the
determined efforts of certain clique
OF bear traders on the floor of the
exchange to push prices down on the
other.
The opening was narrowly irregular
and no business was brisk. Waves OF
buoyancy and pressure followed
through the forenoon session with the
steel. copper and railway shares, in
the lead. United States Steel for the
most part held near the top price of
yesterday, but crossed 1877, new high
for the year just before the closing.
good gains were made In
the copper group, although the move
ment was not sustained at all times
The late trading was moderately ac-
tive with prices near the top level of
the day, in some cases above. Bonds
were quiet and firm. The commodi-
ties market and cotton were unsettled
wheat closing lower.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-22
PRAYER MEETING
AND CONFERENCE
Program VIII Be Given at First
Methodist Protestant Church
Tomorrow at 1880
O'clock.

A prayer meeting and workers con-
ference will be held tomorrow even
ing in the First Methodist Protestant
church at 1880 o'clock The follow
ing program will be given:
Study Of Sunday school lesson.
Discussion, Special Days in the
Sunday School"
Discussion Of the following ques-
tons: Should the Sunday scholo les
son be omitted on these special
days?" Should these special days
have an educational purpose or aim
simply to draw and entertain 2"
What special days has the general
conference instructed the Methodist
Protestant church to observer"
Short talks by the pastor on the
PARALLELS and Allegories of the
Gospel According to ST. John"