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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
FRENCH SEE U. S. ARTILLERY
American Gunners Practicing With
Famous 75s and 6-Inch How
tiers at Pershing's Camp.

Headquarters of the American Army
in France, Sept. 14.-American artil
lery was on the job today, blasting
away at distant tree tops and soaring
erstwhile grazing fields with practice
Yolleys.
From the American gun practice po-
sitions-they are usually bordering on
a woods-field wires run to elevated
pavilions crowded with youthful bat
terry commanders armed with binocU-
lars. They observed distant smoke
puffs when the shells struck and tele-
phoned back over the field wires pre-
scribing corrections in the range until
the puffs struck the targets.
Above, sailing OF silver wings in a
fIeckless sky, aiTplane observers with
the American forces practice wireless
ing corrections for range.
Other Americans took turns hanging
in a wicker basket suspended from a
sausage balloon making similar ar
tillery observations.
The enthusiasm among the younger
American officers in the artillery prac-
tice was manifested today in wagers
laid on the workmanship of every gun.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
HOOVER WILL NOT
SEIZE The WHEAT
Food Administrator Denies a
Rumor That Grain is to be
Requisitioned.
GROWERS BUSY PLANTING NOW
Officials Expect Wheat to Begin Nov.
ing to Market Freely in a
Short Time.

Washington, Sept. 15.-Reports that
the government is contemplating re-
QUESTIONING wheat on the farms to
keep flour mills going were denied
tonight by Herbert Hoover, the food
administrator Mills generally, Mr..
Hoover said, are running on full time,
although some are handicapped by
shortage of grain.
Food administration officials expect
wheat to begin to move freely within
a short time. Except in limited areas,
where anti-war and pro-German pro-
paganda is carried on, there has been
no disposition by farmers. Mr.. Hoover
said, to withhold wheat from the mar
ket. Withholding, it is declared, will
have no effect on prices the govern
ment will maintain in its purchases.
Mills Were Short
/ Wheat stocks ran shorter this year
than in any period before. At the time
the new crop began to come on the
market there was scarcely any wheat
in the country. If shipments to the
European neutrals had not been stop
ped, it is said, the shortage would
have forced some mills to close.
Reports of the food administration
indicate a greatly enlarged sowing Of
winter wheat this fall. Farmers are
so busy planting in some regions they
have not had time, it is declared, to
take their wheat to market.
The food administration authorized
a statement tonight that it had not in
any instance given permission for food
manufacturers to claim their products
have been given the approval of the
administration. On the contrary, it
was said, manufacturers guilty of the
practice will be served with injunc-
tions unless it is stopped.
Grain Situation Improved.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 15.-Im-
provement in the grain shortage stu
alton which for a time threatened TO
force the closing of many local flour
mills was reported today by leading
grain and flour men.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
MORE OF GERMAN INTRIGUE
State Department Makes Public Letter
Disclosing Connection OF Sweden
and Germany in Mexico.

Washington, Sept. 14.-Another chap
ter OF the story of German intrigue
= neutral countries and among neu-
trail diplomats was revealed tonight
by Secretary Lansing in the form of a
letter to the imperial chancellor from
the notorious Ven Eckhardt, the Ger
man minister at the City OF Mexico,
to whom the interrupted Zimmerman
note was addressed
1t discIoseS that Folke Cronholm,
then Swedish charge in Mexico, was
depended upon by the German diplo-
mat to furnish information from the
hostile camp" and TO transmit COM
munications to Berlin, and that Won
Eckhardt wanted the kaiser to reward
him secretly with the order Of the
crown of the second class"
This letter was written on March 8,
1916, and apparently has been in the
possession of the American govern
ment for a long time 1t was made
public without comment
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Filler INJURED AT FORT SILL

Fort SILL Ok, Sept. 12.-Roderick
R. Kennedy, Minneapolis, MINI, pri-
vate in the Third Aero Squadron, il
near death as the result of burns re-
ceived when he crashed two hun
dred feet to earth in a flaming air
plane at the aviation camp here early
this morning.
Kennedy was burned about the
head, shoulders and lower part Of his
body, which post physicians believe
viii result IN his death His eye
sight also is believed TO have been
destroyed He was apparently unin-
jured by the fail and leaped from the
machine and extinguished his burn
ing clothing unassisted- He is q
years old and the son Of Dr. J. T.
Kennedy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
DISTRIBUTE THE WHEAT FUND
Kansas Committee VIII Care for the
Needs of he Seven Big Grain
Counties First.

Topeka.-The Kansas seed wheat
committee has begun the distribution
OF the money raised to help increase
the wheat crop in Kansas. The COM
mittee has purchased all the wheat
the SIS 900 subscribed viii. buy, and
has arranged for the farmers to use
this seed where needed, the commit
tee to receive a share of the crop.
A radically favorable change recent
ly has taken place in the seed wheat
outlook. Kansas again has upset all
calculations. One county, which early
in August called for more than $4,000
bushels of seed Wheat to be put out
on shares, has cancelled its applica-
ton altogether. Another county has
reduced its demand from forty thou
sand bushels to two cars.
The splendid local efforts of the
seed, the guarantee of a minimum
price of $500 for the 1913 crop, and
the to 5-inch rains over the wheat
belt, have largely solved the seed
wheat problem.
However, as it seemed likely the
yield of the state could be increased
by the use of the fund, it was decided
to use the money as far as it will go.
1t was decided that the money should
be used in those counties needing
wheat, whose chance of a good yield
was the best.
The fund raised by the state COM
mittee will be used mostly in Rocks,
Trego, HOdgeman, Gray, Ford, Ed
wards and Pawnee counties. These
counties are all in the middle of the
wheat belt and the committee believes
that the fund should go into these
counties alone. The committee did not
raise enough funds to accommodate
the farmers in all of the wheat coun-
ties, so it selected the ones where it
| thought it should get the best results.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
MOBS RIOT N BUENOS ARES
Downtown Section of City Is Scene
of Wild Disorder-SeveraI Ger
man Buildings Burned.

Bzenos Aires, Sept. 13.-The down
town section Of the city was the scene
OF the widest disorders tonight in
connection with great antiGerman
demonstrations in which thousands Of
Argentinians took part Many OF
those in the mobs carried firebrands
and as a result scores of buildings
were set on fire. Several blocks OF
German business houses in Gale %
de Mayo were destroyed
Among the structures attacked were
the German Club, one of the first edi-
fees In the city, and the building Of
the German Daily La Union As fast
as the fires in these buildings were
extinguished they were started again
Mounted patrols and the entire fire
department kept rushing from one
part of the city to another in an at
tempt to queI the riots and put down
the flames In several instances po-
lice who were attempting TO shoot at
those welding torches were set upon
by the crowds and disarmed.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken by the authorities to protect
Count Luxburg, the German minister,
when he arrives here tomorrow after
noon to receive his passports.
The government has issued orders
to the police and the provincial gov
ernments to protect Count Won Lux
burg and his staff The foreign Of
flee expresses its belief that Count
Won Luxburg will reach here tomor-
row morning He has been out of the
city for several days and government
officials do not know his address.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

One Of the reasons Of the high cost
of pork is seen in estimates of the
number of stock hogs in the United
States September L. They show de-
crease of 80 per cent compared with
the supply a year ago The number
was 0,218, 600 September 1 and a year
ago 65,645. 600.
Fifteen men from the camp at Co
Iumbus, N NJ, were put off west
bound freight train at Hachita, n. NJ,
recently Regular soldiers stationed
at Hachita were said to have assisted
the train crew in handling the men.
Many small children in California
are already slowly starving because
milk is denied them in sufficient guam
titles, due to the great advance in
price, according to a report made to
the California counsel OF defense by
DR.. John R. Haynes, chairman of the
councils relief committee.
There will be no movement OF ma
tionaI guard soldiers from Missouri
and Kansas to Camp Doniphan until
after September "a, it was officially
announced at Fort Sill, Ok, the other
day.
General Korniloffs march toward
Petrograd continues The first col
Hsion between the troops and the gov
eminent forces already has taken
place, the followers of KOrnifoff hay-
ing begun the hostilities by lombard
ing government positions with heavy
guns
The most extensive strike in the
packing house industries in the his
/ tory OF South Omaha has been settled
satisfactorily through the efforts Of
Frederick L Feick, government me-
diator-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
KOPNILOFF READY
TO GIVE up FIGHT
Leader of Russian Revolt Of
fers 10 Surrender Under
Certain Conditions. (
GOVERNMENT HAS new POLICY
Vice Premier asys no Change in So
ciai Bass Ct Ruling Power
viii &c Made

PetrogTad, Sept IN Skobeleff,
minister OF labor in the Kerensky
cabinet and IS member of the council
Of workmen's and soldiers delegates,
announced through the Russian Off
cial news agency today that General
Korniloffs adventure had collapsed
and that the army at his headquarters
has surrendered.
General KoTniloff has expressed
willingness to surrender on certain
terms. The provisional government.
however, demands his unconditional
surrender.
Governments Policy Outlined.
An outline Of the constitution and
policy OF the new government and the
future leadership of the army was
drawn tonight by Vice Premier Mex
rasoff.
General Russki, N. Nekrasoff stated,
will be named as commander of the
northern front; General Dragomiron
Will command on the western front
and General Diedrichs viii be quar-
termaster general
Colonel Vershofsky, former comman-
der of the Moscow military district,
has been appointed acting minister of
war; General Teplovest has been
named commander of the military dis
trict of Petrograd; Mpaltchinski, for
mer assistant minister OF trade, has
been given the post of military COVER
nor general of Petrograd, and Admiral
d. n. VerdeTsh, former commander
in-chief of the Baltic fleet, has been
appointed minister of marine
The policy which General Kornilon
demanded for army control viii not
be pursued, according to the vice pre-
mier.
No Change in Government
The government, NJ. NekTasoff de-
cIared, will be conducted on the same
social basis as formerly The govern
ment will not be a coalition one, ne
added. inasmuch as its existence viii
not depend upon an inteT-party agree
ment. He said NJ. Pieschehonoff, the
minister of food and supplies, viii re-
sign, as also viii NJ Savinkoff, the as
sistant minister Of war. He indicated
a change in the ministry Of foreign
affairs was also probable.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
LUxBURG GETS PASSPORTS
Government of Argentina Sends IntrI-
guing German official Home-Ber.
lin Must Explain Affair.

Buenos Aires, Sept. 13.-The Argen-
tine government at noon today sent
to the German legation passports to
be delivered to Count Luxburg, the
German charge d'affaires in Buenos
Aires. The whereabouts of Count
Luxburg still is unknown to the Ar
gentine government.
The Argentine foreign office today
sent a communication to the German
foreign ministry, demanding an ex-
PLANTATION of Count Luxburg's action
in sending the secret code messages
to Berlin through the Swedish 1egs-
ton.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Enol.nd Wants U. S. Visitors.

Washington, Sept 14--An invitation
to Congress to send a delegation TO
visit England and the British fighting
front was received today by Vice-Pres-
fdent Marshall from Lord Chancellor
Finlay and J. ". Lowther, speaker OF
the House of Commons
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
stsr cernan FIier KILLED.

Amsterdam, Sept. 14.-Leut- Walter
Hoehndorf has been killed, according
to an announcement in German news
papers. Hoehndorf was reputed to be
Germany's best aviator after Bcelle
and Immelmann, who were killed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
I W W. to Keen Up Strike.

Missoula, Mont, Sept. 12-Indus-
trial Workers Of the World in the
Northwest who went on strike late
in June, voted Overwhelmingly In
favor Of continuing the strike, in .
referendum taken last week
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22

Ottawa, Sept. 13-The Canadian
board Of grain supervisors las fixed
the prices OF the Canadian wheat crop
of 1917 az Fort William and Pert A.
thur as follows: Manitoba. Northern
No. 1, 1921; Northern No ?, s21s:
red winter No 3, s215-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
U. S. AmbuIance Nan kiIIed.

Paris, Sept 15-R A. Hall OF Mime
apolis, a driver in Section 81 of the
Hartjes-Norton Red Cross ambulance
service, was killed Tuesday while on
duty at an advanced post and was
buried near Avocourt Wood, the Her
aid says today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Recruits Back 20 coIIene.

Washington, Sept 1.-THE navy has
become so overcrowded that Secre-
tary Daniels has ruled that college
men may return for this winters
training, although they will be called
back to actual service next summer
when more ships will be available.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
EIv Ole eIorr Over Verdun.

Paris, Sept 1.-THE American
coIors now fly over Verdun- The flag
which was a gift Of an American Red
Cross worker to the city was raised
over the ruin OF the city hail after
ceremony attended by the sub-prefect
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Two student FIiers Die

San Diego. Cal, Sept 1sI- z. Line
man and n. A Welsh. student aTis-
tors. were killed at North Island to
day when their machines crashed to
gether fifteen hundred feet up and
fell to the ground in flames.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22

Amsterdam, Sept 1.-THE Tele-
graf says Germany has stopped
sending coal TO Holland The paper
expresses belief that Germany's at
titude Is intended as pressure On Hob
land 70 grant 8 lean
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22

Washington, Sept 12--ProcIama-
ton by the President OF a day Of
prayer for American success IN the
war is proposed in bill by Senator
Myers OF Montana. passed today by
the Senate
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Won't Seize Family Stores.

Washington, Sept 14-Denial that
the government is contemplating re-
QUESTIONING any household stores Of
food Is made by the Department Of Az
ricuIture and the Food Administration
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Reursafe Paekers Next.

Washington, Sept Herbert
Hoover has accepted the offer Of the
packers to put their plants under IL
censing system and government regu-
lation Of the meat business VIII be the
next move of the food administration
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Drzft Evsders in Port

San Diego, Cal, Sept 13.-Esecrted
BY the United States warship that
captured her the gasoline schooner
Anvil. with more than thirty alleged
draft evaders and enemy aliens On
board, has arrived here
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Cuba Frees Metal Exports.

Havana. Sept 1s.-President Memo
cal today by special decree removed
the var revenue tax recently imposed
By act Of congress on exports Of CD
per and iron from Cuba
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
A Iafsvette FIier Killed.

Paris. Sept. 15.-CorporaI Meeker,
an American aviator, was killed at
Pau on Tuesday in an airplane acct
dent due to his motor sta1ling, the
Herald announces today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Uruguay Guards German Ships.

Montevidio, Sept. 15.-Uruguayan
marines today boarded all the German
ships in the harbor here. the goverz.
ment having heard of plans to sInH
the vessels.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
5000 in Kansas Home Guard.

At the present time virtually 5000
men are enrolled in home guard or
CARNATIONS over the state, it was an
nounced here by Colonel Jonathan D.
Norton, government disbursing agent
in charge of home guard organization
work in the state
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
A NEW LEAGUE FOR KANSAS
Farmers Nonpartisan Party of North
Dakota Planning a Winter Cam
paign for Members.

Topeka.-The Farmers Nonpartisan
League, the organization which has
overturned political conditions in
North Dakota, is just getting start
in Kansas. The first local league or
ganized in this state was in Hedville,
July 81. A. ]. Ollie of .HedvilIe is the
chairman of that local and also the
organizer for Saline county.
J. M. Brewer, an organizer for the
league, was sent into the state late in
July to organize locals throughout
Kansas. According to reports received
here he did not make very satisfac-
tory progress because the farmers
were too busy. Really active organi-
winter, it is said.
The Nonpartisan League believes in
state owned elevators, mills, ice and
cold storage plants, packing houses
and similar institutions directly re-
lated to farm production. Kansas has
powerful organization that has
many of the same ideas, but is work
ing them out in a different way. 1t is
the Farmers Union, with headquar-
tiers in Salina. and with nearly thirty
thousand farmers in active member
ship.
The Farmers Union, however, is
devoting it's energies at present into
cooperative ownership of elevators.
mills, stores, coal yards, lumber yards
and similar institutions. 1t also does
some cooperative selling of farm prod
ucts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
o'connor Buys Newspaper.

The X-Rays Democrat, the only
Democratic newspaper in Topeka, has
been sold to J. Charles O'Connor of
Kansas City, Mo-, who will take
charge Immediately. Mr.. O'Connor,
who is a former Chicago newspaper
man, will not change the politics Of
the paper
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Kansas Board Exempted 267.

Kansas Board Exempted 267.
Seventy-five exemptions from mill
tary service and eleven temporary
exemptions were granted in one week
by the First District exemption ap-
peal board in its consideration OF 223
cases. The board has received 1,0O1
cases, accepting 679 men for service,
exempting 26T and granting tempo
rary exemptions to fifty-five.
r + +
Army Rifles for Home Guard.
Kansas will be able to get only 400
army rifles for use of the home guards
throughout the state. The war depart
ment has only 10000 for distribution
among all of the states and the quota
for Kansas will be about 400.
Promoters Busy in Kansas
A complaint reached the attorney
generals office against the promoters
Dakota It came from Mcpherson
county. The claim is made that the
men belong to the I. W. W.
r r r
Limits Gas for Factories.
Commercial houses and factories in
Wichita cannot use natural gas be-
tween November and April of each
year. An order to that effect was is
sued by the utilities commission the
other day.
X X y
Organize for Army Libraries.
A state library committee was or
gained here recently as the result of
a meeting called by James L. King,
state librarian, to confer with E. DUR
Jones. the representative Of the Amer
lean Librarians Association
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Interurban Work to Begin.

Construction work on the Wichita
Walnut Valley Interurban railroad
will begin on October I, according to
a permit for the construction of the
road, which was issued by the state
public utilities commission The state
charter board has granted a charter
to the organization, the capital being
100000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Sues erocers for $50, 900.

The Surety Coupon Company, a Del
aware corporation, filed suit in the
federal court against three Kansas
City, Kan, grocers. 1t asks $4,000
damages. The coupon company claims
that they have circulated a bulletin
charging that the company's business
is illegal and infamous.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
official Scores SIackers.

Secretary of State J. T. Botkin to-
day excoriated the slackers in Kansas
who claim that it is just as patriotic
to follow the pillow as it is to go to the
trenches. In a speech at Everest he
said that the supreme test of patriot
ism was when young men walked
up to a recruiting station and offered
his life for his country's cause, and
that it did not require any patriotism
to raise wheat at 81 a bushel; or to
take refuge in the folds of a woman's
petticoat before the exemption board
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Denies Charter to Paper.

- The state charter board has refused
to grant charter to the Appeal to
Reason, a Socialist publication issued
at Gerard, Kan. In denying the ap-
plication for charter the board based
it's action on an order by the federal
postoffice department which, accord
ing to members of the board, refuses
the publication the use of the mails.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Arrested for FAILING to Reaister.

ArFeSteo TOT FdIIIh9 20 Register.
Floyd Brown, son of a wealthy fam
lily at Corning, was brought here on a
charge of being Stacker. He failed
to register but the marriage records
show that he swore he was over 81
years of age last June Brown claims
he is only 20.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22

no troops Ter COUNTY = frS.
The war department will not use
troops as a drawing card for country
fairs. Such notice has been received
at the governors office The depart
ment said that if any troops were sta
toned at any Of the fair grounds while
thesfair was in progress they could be
used for parade and other purposes.
3. =
Dean Drake, 1ineman for the Bell
Telephone Company, was instantly
killed at Hutchinson when he grasped
a supposed dead" wire. and 200
volts passed through his body.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-22
Italian Artillery Active.

Rome, Sept 12.-There was little
activity aside from artillery engage
msnts along the Austro-Italian front
yesterday, today's war office state
ment reports. Some infantry fighting
occurred in the Trentino.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-02-16
Eilipinos Like Stills.

The Filipino children are much ad
dicted to walking on stills. the intro.
luction Of which is accounted for by
an old story. It seems that the people
ut a town fiesta a century or more
ago wanted some giants to take part in
ii spectacle. The resident priest taught
two men to walk OH stills with long
skirts to conceal the latter. and the
novel idea gave such delight to the
boys that every male ~youngster on the
island was sooL Stumping about on
long wooden legs.