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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
REWARD OF $50
PLACED ON HEAD
OF 400 KANSANS
War Department Brands State
SIackers as DeSerterS.
Men Who Failed To Report for
Draft Are Now Sought.
HARVEST FOR POLICE OFFICERS
Deliver Men Is All That Is
Asked by Government.
Much Trouble May Be Due to a
misunderstanding.
Men Who Failed To Report for
Draft Are Now Sought.
HARVEST FOR POLICE OFFICERS
Deliver Men Is All That Is
Asked by Government.

Several hundred-probably 100
Kansans were today automatically
branded as deserters under an order
by the war department to the state
adjutant generals office. A reward
of $50 is offered for each man called
for examination who failed to make
report to the local exemption board.
Should good cause be established
such as enlistment in some branch of
military service or physical inability
to leave home, court martial will be
waived. In any event the reward will
be paid.
The notice today probably means
harvest for sheriffs and local police
officers in a number of counties. Re-
wards, though, will be paid to indi-
viduals who deliver men listed as de-
serters. All men must be delivered
at the nearest army post. Whether an
alleged deserter is picked up by a
regular officer or a volunteer, ap-
parently makes no difference to the
government. So long as the man is
delivered at the army post, a reward
will be paid
Many Protested.
Many counties protested vigorously
last week when names of enlisted men
were published as slackers The bur-
den was largely on the head of the
individual These men enlisted and
did not heed the notices sent by the
local exemption boards. For this rea-
son it was impossible to keep the rec
ords straight. Lyon, Barber Cloud
and other counties protested against
names entered in the Stacker list Yet
the publication of these names may
save a number of men from arrest
and relieve them from a hearing be-
hsa mill II. ug41
State departments were today un-
able to give the number of names on
the desertion list. 1t is probable, tho,
that the total for the state will
number several hundred. Compare
lively few are guilty of offense. 1T is
believed Much of the trouble is be-
lieved to be due to misunderstand-
ing of instructions and belief that
when a man enlisted he was not COM
PEELED to respond to a call from the
exemption board.
Desertion in time of war is punish
able by death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
women in Topeka
Conference State Branch Ma
tiOnal WOman's Party.
Gov. Capper To Preside-Miss
Mabel Vernon Here.

A conference of the Kansas state
branch of the National Woman's par
ty will be held at O'Clock tonight in
Memorial hall at Topeka. Supporters
of the suffrage cause from all parts
of the state are expected to be pres
ent
Miss Anne Martin of Nevada. vice
president of the National Woman's
party, will be the principal speaker
Miss Martin will ask Kansas women
what she is asking in every state
why not establish democracy at
homer" Miss Martin recently was
confined in the workhouse at Wash
ington for parading a suffrage motto
before the White House.
The executive committee of the
Kansas branch has urged the women
of the state to be present at tonight's
meeting, asking them to give their
financial support to the cause if they
can not attend personally.
Governor Arthur Capper will make
the address of welcome. He will in
troduce the speaking of the evening,
Miss Anne Martin.
Miss Martin was formerly professor
da. She has her B. A and NJ. A.
degrees from Leland Stanford uni
versity, and afterward went abroad
to study in the English universities.
During that time she became interest
ed in the suffrage fight then being
conducted by English women.
Miss Mabel Vernon of Washington,
d. c., who has been engaged in or
ganization work in Nebraska, arrived
in Topeka today and will be present
a the meeting tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
Guilty if Ever a Combination
Was, Asserts Prosecutor.
s'ViOIate Every Antitrust Law,
State and Federal"
AFTER PRODUCERS ASSOC'N
Claim Combine Controlled
Price in ILL.,, Ind. and Wis.
Retailers Hike Price to 13 Cents
Higher in November.

Chicago, Sept. 2S.-Indictmenr of
the Milk Producers association, a
trust will be sought by the state, it
was announced today.
The association, whose Chicago Of
fices were raided yesterday by de-
tectives from States Attorney Hoyne's
office, is alleged to have fixed milk
prices in Illinois, Indiana and Wiscon-
sin.
"If these milk producers haven't vio-
lated every antitrust law, both state
and federal, in every way possible,
then no combination ever die" de-
clared James H. Wilkerson, assistant
attorney general of Illinois today.
Retailers in Trust, Too?
Referring to the announcement that
milk distributors will raise the retail
price of milk in Chicago to 13 cents a
quart Monday, Wilkerson said:
I'VE are awaiting that jump in
price with great interest. We know
that all but one of the big distributors
have signed up to buy milk from the
producers at $3.42 a hundred pounds,
as compared with the previous price
of S2.12. That price holds only during
October. Then the producers say it
will be over $4."
Taking of testimony before the
grand jury is expected to begin next
Friday. Wisconsin authorities are CO.
operating with the Illinois officials.
Expect 100 Milk Indictments.
Chicago, Sept. 2S.-More than 100
indictments against milk price fixers
are expected to be returned as the
result of action taken today by the
legal machinery of the federal gov
ernment and the states of Illinois and
Wisconsin.
The raid on the headquarters Of the
alleged milk trust" headed by States
Attorney Hoyne is believed to have
gathered evidence of alleged price
boosting combines on which indict-
ments can be returned charging viola
tiOnS of antitrust laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
DEAN KAYE'S STORIES
New Children Feature to Appear in
State journal Saturdays.

The Very Rev. James Philip de
Bevers Kaye, dean of Grace cathedral,
has written a number of beautiful
short stories for children, one of
which will appear in each Saturdays
issue of the State Journal for an in
definite period under the caption,
Flower and Fairy Fancies."
Dean Kaye, who has lived in To-
peka for the last eighteen years, is
& great lover and student of flowers,
and cultivates many varieties on a
large scale every year. He is also
fond of children. He writes in
simple poetic style that both charms
and inStructS.
These stories are intended to teach
children to see and reverence the
beauties of nature as well as to amuse
them. They will also be profitable
and agreeable reading for the grown
ups.
The State journal is publishing
them in the full belief that they will
afford much happiness to its many
little friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
TEUTON DEFEAT
AT zONNEBEKE
WAS SLAUGHTER
Suffered Most Terrific Losses
Since Battle of Ypres.
Contested Ridge Key to All
Flanders Defenses.
COUNTER CHARGES DECIMATED
Haig's Report Today Says Brit
ish "CIeaned Up"
Ousted Enemy From Position
Won Near ZOnnebeke.
Contested Ridge Key to All
Flanders Defenses.
COUNTER CHARGES DECIMATED

London, Sept. 2S.-'No slaughter of
the Germans since the first battle of
Ypres has been comparable to the
terrific losses inflicted on the enemy
in the last two battles around Zonne-
beke," Gen. F. B. Maurice, director
of operations, asserted to the United
Press today.
"Since the end of July there has
been practically one continuous battle
for possession of Zonnebeke ridge.
of Flanders ridges. The Germans are
fighting their hardest.
I'm our last two fights we gained
all Objectives with small losses. The
enemy counter attacked dozens of
times, but were annihilated.
THE Germans employed rs per cent
more divisions than we did,
Repulse Night Attacks.
London, Sept 2S.-Another German
counter attack was made last night
against the new British positions near
Zonnebeke. The attack was broken
up by the British, the war office an
nounces.
The statement says:
'Y yesterday evening counter attack
by the Germans against our positions
in Zonnebeke was broken up by our
rifle and machine gun fire and
artillery. South of Tower Hamlets
and south of Polygon, both isolated
strong positions in which parties of
the enemy were holding out close to
our new position, have been cleared
up"
Again Repulsed by French.
Paris, Sept. 28.-The Germans made
an attack last night in the Argonne
region: Today's official statement
says they were repulsed three times
suffering heavy losses.
Claims British Driven Back.
- Berlin, Sept 2S,-British. forces
which yesterday advanced for strong
local attacks northeast of F'rezenbure
and on the Menin road on the Belgian
front were driven back, says the Off
cia1 statement issued today. by the
Pa1schendale road, the statement
adds, the British still occupy crater
positions on the German front line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
HAVE FIST FIGHT
Two Congressman Mix Over
"SIuSh Fund" Probe.
Committee Decides Against the
Heflin Investigation.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-The row in
the house over Representative Hetlin's
charges eliminated today in a fight
between Heflin and Representative
Norton, his chief critic. Friends soon
separated them.
After a heated session the rules
committee refused to act on resolu-
tions proposing congressional lnvesti-
cation of Representative Heflins
charges that number of members of
congress had acted suspiciously''
about the time Count Won Bernstorff
asked his government for authority
to spend $4,000 to influence congress
on the submarine warfare issue
The house had another noisy time
when Chairman Pou reported the
committees action. He argued that
while an inquiry was being made by
the department of justice the house
should not interfere thereby possibly
granting immunity to some suspected
persons.
This $50, 900 mentioned in the Won
Bernstorff message I might say he
said, lis only a drop in the bucket.
Why this situation reaches the very
nerve centers of this country No pos
sible good could come of this inves-
tigation as there has been no reflec-
ton on the house or any of its men,
bers.''
A dozen mem bers on both sides
Sprang to their feet voicing protests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
BY HENRY WOOD.

With the French Armies in the
Field, Sept. 28.-Germany today has
6,8OO,00O men as the human mater
ialH with which to enforce her de-
mand for "a place in the sum-
This is the "man power" that re-
mains out of total of 100000
who have figured on the German mil
itary lists and passed thru the hands
of Germany's military arbitrators.
OF the-~6,s00,000 approximately
5,500,000 are actually at the front and
500, 600 more are in reserve. The re-
maining 700, ,00e constitute one of the
greatest tragedies of the war. They
are the boy soldiers of the classes of
1919 and 1920. They constituNe the
only resource of human material
upon which Germany has to draw.
They must fill up losses in the Ger
man army which with no major al
lied offensives in progress normally
total from 10000 to $4,000 monthly.
To date. however. the German gen.
era1 staff has not yet succeeded in i'm
posing on the German people it's
right to seize these youths before they
CONTINUED on Page TwoD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
IS BABY?
Abandoned Child Has Been
Given Away at Last.
Santa Fe Official Has 1t, Is Only
Clue Today.

Where is Topeka's famous aban-
doned baby today?
Mystery surrounding the identity of
the mother and father of the child
was deepened again today when it
was announced that the baby had
disappeared from the public view
again. The child has been placed in
the home of a prominent Santa Fe
official. That's all county officials
will divulge. They weren't very anx-
ious about giving out even that infor-
nation.
The child disappeared several days
ago when it was turned over to Miss
Kate King, representing the Foster
in a private home. Miss King an
nounced- Officials refused to clear
the mystery of the child's where
abouts.
Until the moment the child appear
ed in the probate court Thursday
afternoon Miss King and other offic-
ials would give no inkling as to its
whereabouts or who would bring it
into court. Then when Mrs. Hugh
Larimer appeared in the court with
given another jolt Mrs. Larimer
didn't divulge where the baby had
been kept
And More Mystery.
When the custody of the child came
up for consideration before Probate
entered into the case. Judge CAV
ruled that the baby should be placed
in the hands of the Topeka Orphans
Home.
Bennett 'R. Wheeler, attorney for
the Foster Humane society, protested
vehemently against the courts order
He told the court that the action
taken was direct slap at the Foster
Humane society which. he declared
was equipped by law and precedent
in other cases to take the baby into
its own custody. But the court ruled
that the usual custom would be fol-
lowed and the babe would be placed
in the hands of the Orphans Home.
Mrs. Mary Anthony, superintendent
of the home. was on the ground at
the time, declaring that she was de-
! termined to ascertain why the baby
hadn't been turned over to the Or
phans' Home in the first place. She
didn't learn, so far as the public is
concerned. There's another mystery
why the Foster Humane society got
| the child first.
I Then mystery gathered still thicker
Cav ruled that the baby should be
given to the Orphans Home.
/ Where Is Baby Now?
! The baby had hardly reached its
new home at the orphanage until the
officials became assailed with argu-
mentS from certain county officials
| that the child be placed in the home
! first selected for 1.-THE home Mrs.
Larimer had taken it from earlier in
/ the afternoon. Just where this home
/ is the public doesn't know and Off
cials are not inclined to divulge.
| The family is well to do and several
! months ago had baby of its own
/ which died. The wife. denied a baby
| of her own, was on the verge of hys-
terics when she learned that the Or
| phans' home had won the baby from
the Foster Humane socity and she was
| in danger of losing the child she had
= been caring for in the last few days
I Any number of families are clamorine
| for the baby, it is asserted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
McAdOO Launches Campaign in
Appeal to Bankers.
Let Results Be Answer to Ger
many's Challenge.
IA BILLION BY next JUNE
"ResOurces Adequate, Will Per-
feet, Success Certain"
New Issue of 8 Billion Opens
Monday and Closes Oct. %.

Atlantic City, n. J., Sept. 2S.-Open-
ing the campaign for the second lib
erty loan of $3,0O0,0OO,O Secretary
McAdoo today called upon the bankers
or America to fling back the German
hordes on the battlefields of finance
The failure of a single issue of gov
ernment bonds" McAdoo today told
the American Bankers association,
would be worse for America than a
disaster upon the financial end of the
battle"
Americas forthcoming bond issue,
he said, is pitted against a correspond
ing loan in Germany Quoting a Ber-
lin manifesto which boasted of a sue
cessful subscription campaign in the
Teutouic empire, McAdoo declared:
Meet Kaiser's Challenge.
Let US meet that challenge by a
subscription to our second liberty loan
on the 27th day of October nine days
after the close of the German loan,
which will make clear to the German
military despotism that America mar
-shals not alone her brave soldiers
upon the field, her invincible navy on
the high seas, her industries thruout
the length and breadth of the land, but
as well her financial resources, and
that she is determined to use them all
without stint and regardless of sacri-
flee to vindicate American rights, out
ragged too frequently by German in
famies.
LET US answer this challenge by
making clear to the world that the
American people, with tranScendent
love of justice and of country, stand
solidly behind their great president
and support unequivocally the purpose
of this war
More Bonds Later.
Before June 80, 1918, the United
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n WISH | WERE GOING"
So Expresses It. r. to 1000 Rockies at
Fort Sheridan.

Chicago, Sept. 2S.-Lord, boys, how
wish / were going with you.
The 1000 rockies of officers train
ing camp at Fort Sheridan were still
athrill today over that expression of
Theodore Roosevelt, which concluded
a brief address during his visit there
late yesterday.
I'VE who are denied the supreme
privilege that is yours must do all in
our power to back up the fighting men
at the front and to keep the spirit of
the nation level with yours" said the
colonel
when you come back let each of
you go out among the people as
missionary to make them understand
that never again must we be caught
helpless to defend ourselves against
the strong who are evil"
Roosevelt also spoke before 900
jackies at the Great Lakes naval train
ing station. Last night he appeared
in Racine, Wis, and then left for Min
neapolis, where he was scheduled to
speak today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
SPECIAL TAXES
ARE RESTORED
BY CONFEREES
House and Senate Get Together
on War Revenue Bill.
Raise Senate's Ante by $50
Million Increase.
PUT BACK TAX ON CHECKS
Include Cent Increase in First
Class Postal Rate.
Soldiers Insurance Bill May Go
Over to Next Session.
PUT BACK TAX ON CHECKS
Include Cent Increase in First
Class Postal Rate.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-The war tax
bill increased to levy about s2,700,-
600, 600 was today in the last stages
of completion. Final drafting and
printing of the conferees' agreement
was in progress with formal approval
planned at a late afternoon meeting.
Washington, Sept. 2s.-With the
conferees agreement on a $4,000, co.
900 war tax bill-last big money rails
ing measure of the war session-con-
gress today appeared likely to adjourn
before October 10.
House and senate coAferees in
creased the tax bill, as approved by
the senate, nearly $3.50, 100000. Added
levies on automobiles, amusements,
transportation, patent medicines and
cosmetics, restoration of 1-cent tax on
bank checks, the 16 per cent special
tax on munitions manufacture and a
1-cent increase in first class postal
rates, with agreement for a graduated
zone increase on second class mail
rates is expected to raise the differ
ence.
$4,000, ,OOO,O Deficiency Bill.
There is yet in conference the $S,-
900, 100000 urgent deficiency bill with
no lengthy opposition threatened.
Inc mousse IOQdy IidO bilC
tration shipping bill authorizing oper-
alton of foreign built vessels in coast
wise trade, except in Alaskan routes.
The soldiers and sailors insurance
bill is lying in senate committee and
may go over until the next session
The civil rights bill, designed to pro-
tect the property rights of soldiers and
sailors during absence at the front
also is halted in committees. 1t prom
ises to go over until next session.
Reed Fights Insurance.
A senate subcommittee, consider
ing it for a week, decided the meas
ure would be unconstitutionai in thai
it violates the law of contract.
The subcommittee today will wasf
it's hands of the bill by laying it be
fore the full judiciary committee ant
unless some method is discovered o.
redrafting it, no action will be taker
this session.
Secretary of War Baker has urged
its immediate passage as assurance tt
soldiers and sailors that their affair,
will not be disturbed during their alb
sence. War department legal expert.
have partly redrafted it to remove OBJ
jections, but have failed to quiet tn,
opposition of Senators Reed ant
Fletcher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
REICHSTAG FOR PEACE
Committee Also Votes to Change the
Imperial Constitution"

Amsterdam, Sept. 2S.-The consti-
tuition committee of the reichstag, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Berlin, by
a vote of Is to IL yesterday adopted
q proposal to cancel the concluding
sentence of article of the imperial
constitution which debars members
of the federal council from stimuli
taneous membership in the reichstag
The committee adjourned after pass
ing an order of the day which de-
clared:
THE reichstag will cooperate in the
event of the conclusion of peace"
Vote for New Post.
Amsterdam, Sept 2S.-The main
committee of the reichstag, a dispatch
from Berlin says, yesterday passed on
first reading the bill creating the post
of imperial vice-chancellor.
Considerable discussion preceded
the favorable action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
Kerensky Throws Down Gaunt-
let to Opposition.
Rival Factions Jeer and Banter
Each Other RiOtOusly.
BOL LSHEVIKI GERMANS FRIENDS
Cheer Refusal of Soldiers To
Obey Govt Command.
Premier's RetOrt, "Cheer, but
German Fleet Is Coming"

Petrograd, Sept. 2S.-Premier Ker-
ensky addressed the democratic con-
gress at its first session today in the
municipal theater, receiving applause
which came principally from the radi-
cal groups of delegates. He spoke in
forceful style with the air of challeng-
ing his opponents. The address was
largely a defense of the acts of the
government under his premiership.
NJ. KerenSky was interrupted fire.
quently by shouts from one group and
another. At one point when the pre-
mier spoke of the refusal of the sol
diers and workmen's delegates of
Helsingfors to oppose the reopening of
the Finnish diet. altho the government
had forbidden it, the Bolsheviki burst
into loud cheers.
Hot Shot for Pacifists.
Cheer, my friends, if you WILL"
said M Kerensky, when he was able
to make himself heard, but bear in
mind that a German fleet is moving
up the Baltic"
The delegates on the right Jeered
the Bolsheviki, asking them why they
did not cheer the premiers remarks,
inasmuch as the Germans were their
friends.
Premier Kerensky is expected to
make a statement regarding the Kor-
niloff case The premier still holds
fast to the idea of a coalition cabinet
and hopes the congress in which he
looks for majority of social revolu-
t1onists and Menshevikis, will adopt a
resolution in favor of this.
1,2OO Delegates There.
Petrograd, Sept. 27.-Delayed)-
The democratic congress held its first
session this evening in the municipal
theater, 1900 delegates from all parts
of Russia being in attendance. All the
members of the provisional govern
ment headed by Premier Kerensky
were present Several members of tlhe
diplomatic corps occupied a special
box. r
N. C. Tcheidse, president of the
council of soldiers and workmen's S
delegates. said that the moment had
arrived for democracy to gather all
its political wisdom to save the con-
quests of the revolution, which were
threatened with irreparable catas-
trophe if not safeguarded now.