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The Washington times., 1917-02-28
BAD POLICY.

"Just one word OF caution" said
the dealer in hair goods to the new
clerk.
"Yessir."
Never tell q lady you have some
thing prettier when she Is trying to
match her hair."-Ksnsas City Jour
mel
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
coTToNsEEo REPORT MADE.

For the six months period ending
January 81, 1917. there were 4.0S3. $50
tons cotton seed received at the
mills OF this country. During that
period there were 2,929,5s6 tons OF
,".tor sNcd crushed. ard there was
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Declare. Regular Dividend.

Haskell & Barker Car Company has
declared a regular quarterly dividend
of 15 cents. payable April 2 to stock
of record March is.
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Sales up to IL a. m......... 100, 800
sales up to IL noon. .... Use, 800
sales up to 1 D. m... 196,1oO
Selling ex-dividend-Norfolk and
Western, * and /; Diamond Match,
2 and 1; United Cigars Stores, pfd.,
~; South Pacific, III; Gun Coal Co.
of N. J., q and a. Extra-Am. Ex-
press, III; Ajax Rubber, IN.
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Mergenthaler Linotype. 1ss 1871
Lanston Monotype...... 20 80.
MINING sT6CK.
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Todayss, Quotations

Quotations today up to 1870 o'clock
were as follows:
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DOORS AVIATION CORPS
ARE THROWN WIDE OPEN
Real Filters Are Wanted and Princi.
paIIy Men for Observation
Plenty Of Excitement

San Francisco, Oct. 17.-Doors OF
the aviation corps-the cream of all
services for the adventurous-were
thrown wide open to any young man
Of reasonable qualifications, by an
nouncements from Major d. G. EN-
mons, aeronautical director Of the
western department of the army.
Real filters are wanted. They are
needed principally as what the army
calls observers" An observer gets
plenty of opportunity to observe. He
also learns to pilot the new type of
aeroplane with its wonderful Liberty
engine, to operate a wireless instru-
ment, to judge and record topography,
to rain bullets from machine gun,
to drop bombs where they will do the
most harm, and otherwise to partici-
pate in the most thrilling occupation
the world has ever seen.
For this service, men of four years
high school work or its equivalent are
wanted. College men also are sought,
and presidents of colleges in the far
west will be invited to nominate can
didates for the servicet.
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EASTERN STATES FACE
A SHORTAGE OF SUGAR
Food Administration Warns Public Not
to Pay More Than Nine Cents
Pound at Stores

Washington, Oct. 17.--Eastern states
face sugar shortage, with no pros
pect Of relief before late in November
when the new Hawaiian and western
beet crops arrive. In a statement fore
casting the shortage the food admin
istration again appealed to the Ameri-
can people to cut down their consump-
ton of candy and sweet drinks and
at the same time warned that retailers
already have received their stocks at
prices recently agreed upon and the
public should pay no more during the
temporary scarcity in the east than it
has been paying during the past 80
days.
The shortage is due, the administra-
ton says, to the failure of the public,
outside of few loyal homes, to reduce
consumption and the unusual exports
to France so the French may have one
pound Of sugar per person per month.
Attention is called to the fact that
by agreement the price Of beet and
Hawaiian sugar has been fixed at 7K
cents pound, Atlantic and Pacific
seaboard basis, under which the maxi
mum retail price at interior points
should be 81 cents, while by an agree
ment with the cane refiners and Cuban
producers the price Of cane sugar has
been held down SO it should reach the
consumer at about nine cents pound.
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SLOWNESS LIBERTY LOAN
SALE CAUSES CONCERN
Whole Weight of Administration to
Be Put Into Effort to Slim
ulate the Campaign

Washington Oct. 16.-The hardness
of the country in responding to the
second liberty loan is causing deep con
Germ to officials here. President Will
son and his cabinet are watching the
campaign with great interest.
1t has become apparent to officials
that new and tremendous impetus
must be given to the campaign if the
subscription is to approximate the So
000,000000 hoped for.
The whole weight of the admins
tration is to be thrown into the bal
ance for the rest of the campaign and
a drive of dimensions unapproached
heretofore is to be made during the
time remaining before the closing of
the subscription books.
Notwithstanding the splendid recep-
ton given Secretary McAdoo in the
west, the efforts of thousands of work
ers and the most highly organized pub
licity campaign the country has ever
known, the daily average of subscrip-
tons has fallen far below what Off
Gals had hoped for.
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FIRE DESTROYS
X. C. LIVESTOCK AND YARDS
Damage Is Estimated at $75o,000-
Work of Clearing up Debris
Already Started

Kansas City, Oct. 17.-Reports that
the fire which destroyed large por-
ton of the Kansas City stockyards
and resulted in the death of approx
mately 1000 cattle and $500 hogs,
was of an incendiary origin, still per-
sist.
While no definite estimates have as
yet been made of the loss, insurance
adjusters and officials of the stock
yards corporation place the loss at ap-
proximately $75O.OOO, of which $780,
BOO represents the buildings, pens and
chutes destroyed, and $3.50, 900 the live
stock burned.
Heavy insurance was carried both
upon the buildings of the stOckyards
and upon the livestock.
Investigations were made during the
day of the burned area by ]. E. Mar
vim, fire warden, and Chief Egner of
the Kansas City fire department. Both
men believe the blaze was started by
some individuals. but declare that the
area is so devastated that
no indication of an incendiary origin
could be found.
The work of clearing away the de-
bris for the reconstruction of the de-
stroyed pens and buildings began short
ly after the fire had been extinguished.
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FORCE WILL BE USED TO
STOP STRIKE OF MINERS
Fuel Administrator Garfield Will Not
countenance interruption Ma
. tion's Fuel Supply

Washington, Oct. IS. - Whatever
power is necessary will be employed
by the federal government to stop the
strikes of coal miners in the middle
west and prevent interruption of the
nations fuel production.
This warning has been given by
Fuel Administrator Garfield in a sharp
telegram to miners and operators in
the fields involved, reminding them of
their pledge not to allow the output
of coal to be diminished and declar-
ing that any attempt to bring pres
sure to bear upon him to force re-
vision of coal prices would result in
postponement of a decision on that
question.
The fuel administrator did not COM
ment upon his warning or go into de-
tail about the steps he proposes to
take If tits not needed, other than to
say that while the country is at war
no interference with fuel production
is to be tolerated. Congress has en-
powered the president to take over
mines and operate them, if he deems
it necessary.
Fuel administration officials say the
men now striking in Illinois and Indi-
ana want the increased wages to take
effect Immediately, instead of the
next pay day period, about Novem-
Der 1.
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FLYING BOAT LOOPS LOOP
Naval Reserve Officers Perform Feat
for First Time on Record

New York, Oct. 1S.-A record in
aeronautics whereby hydroairplane
"looped the loop" for the first time
is claimed by Lawrence Sperry and
Thomas Dixon, Jr., members of the
naval reserve corps. The dangerous
feat was performed mile in the air
above Mastic,- Long Island.
The flying boat, steered by Speery,
was driven to height of nearly 5000
feet above the ocean. Then a quick
shift caused the machine to turn over
and 1T skinned through the air for
nearly quarter of mile, bottom side
up. After 10 seconds the machine was
righted and Sperry volplaned easily to
the water.
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j. s. DESTROYER
HIT BY TORPEDO
BOAT MANAGES TO LIMP INTO
PORT IN SPITE OF ITS
SEVERE DAMAGE

Washington, Oct. 1S.-An American
destroyer on patrol duty in the wal
zone was torpedoel by an enemy sub
marine Tuesday and one man was
killed and five wounded. She manag
ed to make port in spite of severe
damage.
Vice Admiral Sims cabled a brief
report of the incident to the navy de-
partment Wednesday. He gave few
details, but it is assumed there was
no fight and that the U-boat made
good her escape after launching a tor
pedo without showing herself.
Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ing
ram was the man killed. He was
blown overheard by the explosion and
his body was not recovered. Kelly's
mother, Mrs. Betty Ingram, lives at
Pratt City, Ala.
Name Not DivuIged.
In accordance with the policy of Sc
crecy concerning American Naval
operations, the department did not di-
vulge the name Of the destroyer or the
exact place of encounter. None of the
wounded was seriously hurt. They are
Herman H. Pankratz, gunner's mate,
st. Louis; William E. Merritt, seaman,
New York City; Frank w. Kruse, fire
man, Toledo; Patrick Rutledge, oiler
New York City; and William Elmer,
fireman, Dundas, MINI.
This is the first time an American
warship has been hit by the enemy
since the war began. Destroyers con-
voying troops and merchantmen have
engaged submarines and are believed
to have accounted for some of them
and the ships patrolling the European
lanes undoubtedly have had
many an encounter of which nothing
has been heard, but until now none
had been touched by a hostile shot.
Naval gun crews on armed Ameri-
can merchantmen have not been so
fortunate. Many of them have had to
abandon their charges and take to
the boats usually after an unwarned
torpedo attack and one officer and 13
men have lost their lives while four
men now are in German prison camps.
In all, the navy has lost one officer
md 16 men-the only men of Amer
cas- fighting forces actually killed
n action.
Naval officers do not doubt the tor
oedoed destroyer was taken unawares
~ the submarine and had no chance |
o bring her guns into play: They |
hink it probable that the U-boat |
stumbled upon the destroyer and was
fortunate enough to get into position |
o launch torpedo and dive to safety |
without ever showing more than her |
,eriscope.
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NATIONS GOLD IS
!. TO Be Modified
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD SEEK
ING SUPERVISION OVER
MORE BANKS
FINANCIAL POSITION is SAFE
Federal Reserve System Already Con-
trolls Banks With Resources of
More Than Sixteen Bill
lions of Dollars

: > Washington, Oct. 16.-=President Will
son has sounded call for the mobili-
cation of all the nations gold reserve
under the supervision of the federal
reserve board.
In a statement the president called
upon all eligible non-member state
banks and trust companies to join the
federal reserve system without further
delay that they may contribute their
share" to the consolidated go,a re-
serves of the country ana aid more
effectively 'in a vigorous prosecution
and successful termination of the
war;"
Scores of such institutions have
flocked to the system within the past
three weeks, among them some OF the
largest trust companies OF New York,
Philadelphia and other cities. The
movement to the federal reserve sys-
TEN has lacked only a final impelling
force to assume the proportions of
landslide Within less than three
weeks, resources of such institutions
in the system have risen from S1,2OO,-
100000 to more than S2,600000,0OO.
Liberty loan financing, the result
ant activity in the money markets, the
effect of the governments huge finan-
cial transactions upon the bond mar
kets and the stock exchanges of the
country, have made it imperative for
the federal reserve board to control
the country's gold reserve. The re-
cent embargo on gold exports has made
it highly desirable that this control be
acquired as speedily as possible.
With the board in daily control of
the country's huge store of gold, at
present more than S3,000,000,O00,
watching every avenue through which
it may be lessened and vigilant in its
supervision of the country's banking |
activities, officials believe that the |
financial condition of the country may
be practically impregnable.
At present the board controls the |
activities of institutions representing |
only one-half of the country's total |
banking resources. The latest report |
Of the comptroller of the currency |
places at several millions above. six
leeu IuC ltSOulCtS VI
he banks within the system. Since
hat report was issued, however,
nearly $1,50O,00O,OO0 in resources
nave been added through the acquisi-
ion of new members.
There are, however, between 5000
md 1900 eligible banks and trust
with resources estimated
It from II to 16 billion dollars, en-
irely beyond the control of the feder-
Il government, because they are gov
,rned only by state laws.
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NEW DRAFT SELECTION PLAN

ID
Washington, Oct. 18.-A new plan
for applying the army selective draft
which would take first only men with
out dependents and Of no particular
value to war industries, and establish
various grades of dependency and in
dustrial value from which future
drafts drafts would be made strictly
on the selective basis, has been work
ed out tentatively by the provost mar
shall generals office and discussed
with the president
The plan, 1t has been learned, was
submitted recently to conference of
civilians, who directed exemption ac-
tivities In a numter Of states and re-
ceived the enlargement Of most of
them who are now discussing the plan
with their State sovernsrss : . -
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GOVERNMENT COMMANDERS
ALL AVAILABLE SHIPPING
Approximately 500 ocean-going Steam
ers of More Than $500 Tons
Are Taken Over

Washington, Oct. 16.-Approximately
500 American coastwise and ocean
ships of $500 tons or over have been
Communicated by the government.
Ships on the great lakes are not af-
fected.
While the government control is al
ready effective, the ships will continue
in the same traffic and under the
same plans as heretofore until they re-
ceive orders to the contrary.
All along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pa
cific coasts, American registered and
enrolled ships, all carefully listed in
advance in the shipping board files,
were taken over for government con-
troll. AS requests from the army, navy,
allies and other government sources
are passed upon for use of certain
ships the orders will be telegraphed to
ships assigning them to particular
service.
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POSTPONE SEDITION HEARING

Washington, Oct, 1S.-Further in
vestgation into the accuracy of state
ments made by Senator LaFollette in
his st. Paul speech will be postponed
until November g. when hearings
will be held, Chairman Pomerene of
the investigating committee announc-
ed. At that time time committee plans
to call witnesses, including former
Secretary Of State Bryan, who will
be asked If he endeavored to have the
president prevent the Lusitania from
sailing, as the Wisconsin senator al
legged.
Chairman Pomerene said that when
the hearings are resumed Senator La
FVllette will be given an opportunity
to cross examine witnesses
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RUSSIANS PLAN
TO MOVE CAPITAL
MOSCOW SELECTED AS NEW
SEAT OF PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT
GERMANS ADVANCE IN BALTIC
Russian Fleet Apparently Penned Up
in Moon Sound and No Visible
Indication of Fight.-Reval
is Being Abandoned

London, Oct 20.-While the small
fleet the Russians had in Riga waters
apparently has been penned in by the
| Germans as result of their land OPP
| erations on Oesel and Moon islands
and the disposition of their naval
forces at strategic points off the gulf,
the main Russian fleet remains in the
gulf of Finland through which runs
the water route to Petrograd. There
is apparently no intention of sending
it out to engage the Germans, although
the men of the fleet are reported anx-
ious to fight.
Singularly reticent is the German
war office in its latest official cOmmu-
nication with regard to the operations
of the German naval forces against
the Russian squadron in Moon sound,
merely dealing with the naval battle
which resulted in the sinking of the
Russian battleship Slava. Likewise
the most recent communication from
Petrograd gives few further details of
the situation.
From this latter communication,
however, the fact is Cleaned that the
Germans have landed troops on Dago
island which lies directly north of
Oesel island after a bOmbardment
and the German naval units engaged
in the conquest of the three islands
and in attempting to destroy the Rus
sian fleet, comprise at least 10 of the
new dreadnaughts, about 10 cruisers,
not less than so torpedo boat destroy
ers and between 8 and 10 submarines.
In addition a large number of trawl-
ers and other auxiliaries and hydro
ing with the enemy.
Two German torpedo boats have
been destroyed while running through
the mine field in Moon sound accord
ing to a Petrograd dispatch and two
German trawlers have been sunk by
the fire of the Russian flotilla. That
the seriousness of the situation is rec
ognized by the Russians is indicated
by the fact that the Russian capital
Is to be moved to Moscow soon. The
civil population already is evacuating
Reval, one of the principal Russian
ports on the Gulf of Finland.
Artillery duels continue the princi-
pal method of warfare i'll the major
heaters of war. The British and
French artilleries are still pounding
he German positions before them in
Belgium, with the Germans answering
he fire vigorously at various points
specially along the Menin road and
It Zonnebeke. Little infantry activity
s taking place except in the nature Of
aids.
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Mexican Bodie. HANG In Bunches

Juarez, Oct. 16.-Passengers arriv-
ing here from the south report seeing
the bodies of 20 Mexicans hanging to
telegraph wires along the Mexican
Central railway between Torreon and
Chihuahua. Mexican officials say the
bodies are those Of Villa followers
who few days ago attacked mill
tary train, mistaking it for passen-
ger train. 4
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Big Increase in Cold Storage Beef

Washington, Oct. 49, - Eighty per
cent more frozen beef was In stock
October l than year ago. Reports
from 203 storage houses to the bureau
Of markets, just made public, show
137 ,8O6, 561 pounds. An increase Of 3.6
per cent in the amount of lamb and
mutton in storage was shown. the
stocks totalling 1921, 234 pounds.
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Artifisrymen Buy Bonds

Sam Francisco Oct. II. = Officers
and men Of the five coast artillery
forts around San Francisco bay have
invested $4,000 In liberty loan bonds.
OF thisA amount the officers training
camp at Fort Scott, studying for ar
tillery commissions, gave $1,000.
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Petrograd Evacuation Under Way.

Petrograd Evacuation Under Way.
PetrOgrad, Oct. 20.-"ThOugh a def
mite date has not been set it will be
in the very near future,p said NJ. Kish-
kin, in announcing the governments
intention to move, in an interview in
the Bourse Gazette. mo one is now
permitted to 60 to Moscow except on
government business" he continued.
1.-THE proposed evacuation has been
under way by the government depart
ments for long time"
The government is to occupy one of
the buildings in the Kremlin, the an
cient capitol.
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WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

An Amsterdam dispatch says that
through trains are now running from
Riga to Berlin, the trip consuming
"a hours A person can now travel
from the Baltic seaport to Ostend, Bel
GUM, with one change of cars Mt Der
lin, in As hours.
Z r
The federal shipping board has turn
ed over 20 steel merchant ships To the
French government. The ships arc
now nearing completion in American
shipyards.
Several German airplanes attempt
ed raid over London Friday night
but apparently were driven off be-
fore reaching the city proper.
Z Z
Robert FitzsimmOns, former cham
pion heavyweight pugilist, is danger
ously ill of pneumonia in Chicago
hospital.
Forty naval reservistS from gov
eminent radon station marched upon
a street assembly of 1000 Columbia
university students and broke up a
demonstration planned by the follow
ers of Leon Sampson, expelled from
Columbia for his anti-war attitude
while a student.
Z Z
Commander H. G. Sparrow, former
ly executive officer of the battleship |
has begun his duties |
as aide to Secretary Daniels, succeed |
ng Lieutenant Commander Byron Nc
Candless. assigned to sea duty at his
OWN request.
All German walters and servants
employed at the Boston City club,
numbering about 20, have been dis
,harged because of alleged breaches
# discipline"
The last steamboat of the year has
eft Dawson, Y. T., with about $50
passengers. The Yukon. river is ex-
ected to close later than usual this
ear.
Women track hands are being used
Y the Pennsylvania railroad. Some
them will do the work of men.
Z 4
Negotiations soon will be taken. up
arding the expectation of a million
ushels of corn to Mexico to feed the
opulation of certain districts where
oodstuffs are extremely scarce.
The Japanese government has is
led for public subscription about $780,
10000 worth of bonds.
4 4
British manufacturers have provid-
/ 35,000,000 pairs of army boots dur
g the three years of the war.
At sale of Belgian horses in Water
o, Ia, the grand champion Belgian
allion, Farceur, sold for SAT 1900.
4 4
Six companies of the Third infan- /.
Y, Oregon national guard, still on /,
lty in the state, have subscribed $685. :
70 in the second liberty loan. r
& 4 .
"Joy Streak" the little humdrum :
nusement colony that has sprung up
ar the Camp Lewis cantonment, has y
en- closed by the military police so 2
r as soldiers are concerned. Restau :
MT owners, confectioners and other q
sitting business men had been max
9 small fortunes at the improvised :,
inds, but the military order forbids :,
formed men in the zone. Recent !,
rests for liquor selling are given as
e reason for the order.
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Select New NsvaI Base

San Francisco, Oct. 16.-Hunter's
Francisco bay, has been named rs a
United States naval base by naval
commission headed by Rear Admiral
James NJ. Helm, according to informa
ton received here from an official
source.
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CHICAGO Wins Baseball TIN.

New York, Oct. 16.-The Chicago
American league team won the worlds
baseball championship from the New
York Nationals at the Polo grounds
here yesterday. New York had won
two games In the series.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-03-13
A iSe Mother

A lady received tn tpllo"int r."
ply from nai2hbar in answer to a
question as to why she allowed her
children aud her husband 10 hitter
~ every ruHm Ia the house The
sentiment viii find Judgment IN Dhe
heart nf every home-tovIng per>cn
in the land:
The marks Of iiJ,le mu Idly feet
upon the floor can be more easily
removed than the stains where the
little feet g. into the highways Of
sin The prints Of l,tlle fingers up
ON the winiow piucS cannot shut
ont the sunshine hall so much as the
shadow that dirkens The mothers
heart over the one who will be but
name in the coming year And
if my John finds a refuge from care
and his greatest happiness within
its four walls, he can put his boots
in the rocking. chair and hang his
hat on the floor any day in the
week. Aud if can stand it and
he enjoys it, can not see that it is
anybody's business"