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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
RUSHIKG SUPPLIES TO ITALY
Export Restrictions Waived BY United
States to Help in Stemminq
Teuton invasion.

Washington, Nov All export re-
strictiOns viii be waived by the Ameri-
can government In Forwarding supplies
TO Italy to aid in meeting the AustTo-
German invasion. The Italian govern
ment it was made known today, will
be permitted TO take the kind OF ma
terials it needs most, regardless Of
prospective shortages here
The military and political situations
in Italy and the aid America viii rem
der were gone over at a conference
today between Secretary Lansing and
Count Di Cellere. the Italian anbas-
sadOr. Italy's crying need for ships
was given especial consideration
Approximately one hundred thou
sand tons of shipping has been prom
ised Italy. Four vessels already have
been turned over, and the others viii
be delivered as fast as they are avail
able The shortage OF ships is so
serious. however, that the whole
amount of tonnage promised may not
be available for thirty days
Italy's greatest need is coal, and
next steel for her munitions factories.
She has been drawing on this cOun-
try for about one hundred thousand
tons of coal a month, but now that
English coal is harder to obtain her
requirements from the United States
will approach four hundred thousand
tons monthly The country starts the
winter, according to Italian officials,
fully two million tons Of coal short
The shipping the United States is
able to release Will be totally made
quate TO meet the demand for coal and
to carry food and munitions How
ever, il is likely, II was said today,
that the Italians viii make a trade
with Spain for a large amount of Span
ish tonnage to supplement the Amer
lean ships. At the same time the
Italians will put into Transatlantic
service as many OF their own ships
as possible
Italy's food situation, ii was said to-
day, is not as bad as It has been pic
tuTed. The bread ration is larger now
than in either France or England II,
however, the Italians wish to trans
port food in preference to coal and
munitions, they will be given export
licenses to ship as much as they wish.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
OLD VETERAN IN NEW ARMY
Seventy TvHo-Year-OId Man Is Now
Somewhere in France Serving
Uncle Sam as Cook

Age seems TO be no barrier for serv.
ice in the army.
For instance, says the Indianapolis
News there is Charley June All the
Old-timers remember June, who years
ago supplied the fish and game for
hundreds of Indianapolis tables. His
place of business was opposite the
traction terminal station, and it was
his boast that he could furnish any
thing that could fly or swim
June is q veteran of the Civil war
and when war with Germany was de-
clared his old fighting spirit was re-
vived. Because OF his age, seventy
two years, he did not feel qualified to
shoulder a musket and go forth to
slay, yet he wished to do his bit fer
Uncle Sam, SO he went out to Fort
Harrison as a cook.
He served during the first officers
training camp and made good with q
vengeance, Then an entirely unexpect-
ed honor WIS thrust upon him. He
was invited to go TO France and cook
for the boys in the trenches. The
proposition nearly took his breath,
but it did not take him long to make
up his mind.
During the Civil war I carried a
gun and fought with the boys" said
Mr. June. land why shouldn't I cook
for them now? I realize ii Is no Sun
day picnic over there, but I do not
fear the outcome. 1 am healthy and
strong for a man OF my years, and 1
guess I can stand it. At any rate, I
am willing TO take q chance for Old
Glory"
Mr. June is now somewhere in
France"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

"A drop in prices on canned vege-
tables was predicted by the food ad-
ministratiOn as a result of putting into
operation the license system for whole
sale dealers. Canned goods, it was said,
were bought by dealers at low prices
last spring and can be sold at less
than the present market prices.
John Mitchell. state food commits
sioner, has granted permission to New
York City authorities to buy and sell
food and fuel The materials will be
bought in trainload lots and sold to
retail dealers.
Reports received at Buenos Aires
from Rio de Janeiro say that the army
is modifying in Southern Brazil to pre-
vent, If possible, the uprising of the
large German colonies there. Highly
censored dispatches indicate there is
serious trouble with the Germans in
these localities.
Final settlement of the strike of
copper miners in the CIifton-Morenci-
Metcalf district, which has been in
progress since July 1, was announced
recently by Secretary of Labor VIII
liam B. Wilson.
News of the capture of Udine pro
duced scenes Of great enthusiasm in
Berlin and Vienna, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch to the London
Exchange Telegraph. Orders were is.
sued that flags be flown and Emperor
William and Emperor Charles az
changed congratulatory kilograms.
in some mysterious, undiseIosed
fashion, the United States had man
aged to come to the rescue Of Italy
and there is an optimistic feeling both
IA American government circles and 1T
H. Italian embassy,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
ARE GAINING ON TIE U-BOATS
AS Many Have Been Sunk in Last
Three Months as Were
Lost in 1916.

London, Nov. Between forty and
fifty per cent of the German subma-
rines operating in the North Sea, the
Arctic and the Atlantic since the be-
ginning of the war have been sunk,
said Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the
admiralty, in the House of Commons
today.
In the last three months the Ger
mans lost as many submarines as they
lost in 1916" Sir Eric added.
The output of merchant shipping in
the first nine months of this year, he
said, was 123 per cent higher than in
the corresponding period last year.
The admiralty had decided that four
new additional shipbuilding yards
would be necessary.
I'VE must lay plans for long war"
said Sir Eric. 81 see no signs Of its
being a short one"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
DODGEs WIN THE FORD SUIT

Detroit, Nov. Henry Ford today
lost the Dodge-Ford suit in the Wayne
circuit court in which Horace E. and
John F. Dodge asked that Ford be re-
strained from using the 1916 profits
of the Ford plant to erect a smeIter
plant in River Rouge
The Dodge brothers petitioned the
court asking that the profits of the
year be divided among the stock,
holders.
The case was argued here several
weeks ago, and witnesses testified at
that time that about 60 million dollars
was involved. The Dodge Brothers,
who are stockholders of the Ford Mo
tor Company, attempted by injunction
to prevent Ford from using his COM
pany's profits to erect great blast fur
uices at River Rogue. near Detroit.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
WILL FIX MEAT PRICES SOON

Chicago, Oct. 31.-The first meat
prices for the Nation, under govern
ment control, will be announced with
in the next month, Charles Mccarthy,
personal representative of Herbert
Hoover, declared today.
Committees investigating packing
house conditions to prepare the way
for the licensing system, which starts
Thursday, and to act as an advisory
council, have been appointed and are
at work. They are expected to report
within the next three weeks.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
HERTLlNG MADE CHANCELLOR

Amsterdam, Oct. 31.-Count George
Won Hertling, the Bavarian prime
minister, has been appointed imperial
chancellor.
Former Chancellor MichaeIis has
been named prime minister of
Prussia.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10

With the American Army in France
Oct 51.-The first American wounded
in the trenches arrived today at a
base hospital He is a lieutenant OF
the signal corps. He was hit in the
leg by a shell splinter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
HertIina Wont Take Il.

London. Nov. Ian Exchange TeIe.
graph Company's dispatch from Am
sterGam this afternoon asserted that
Count Won HertIing had refused to
accept the German chanceITorshtD
because Of his inability to secure q
majority in the Reichstag.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
An End to white waxs.,

Washington, Oct. 21-The Great
White Ways of American cities viii
soon be darkened- By an order to be
issued next week by the fuel admins
tTatiOn here, unnecessary outdoor
lighting win be discontinued during
the war. to save fuel
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Offer 5000 for Eirehurn-

Kansas City, Nov. IA reward OF
$4,000 for the conviction of the person
or persons who set fire to the stock
yards, October 16, was offered today
~ the Employers Association, an orga-
nization of Kansas City business men.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10

Washington, Nov. Provost Mar
shall General CrOwder today notified
all governors OF amendments to the
draft regulations which VIII insure
practically immediate army service
for all slaekers convicted of failing tc
register.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
In Oil Field 10000 strik.

Houston, Tex. Nov. 2.-Aceordfng
to strike leaders here fully 10000
workers in sixteen oil producing fields
Of Texas and Louisiana went out be-
tween midnight last night and z
o'clock this morning.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
EIain autter Board Mau "a

Washington. Nov. Closing of the
Eigin, Ill, Butter Board is under con-
sideration by the administration. The
Agriculture Departments bureau of
meats has already been asked to per
form the boards functions.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
State Managers Problems.

Problems of the state managers are
infinite and various, and not the least
of them is the stretching of the saw
ing liberal construction" clause to fit
unforeseen emergencies that occasion
ally arise. This was one of the state
ments of State Manager James A.
Kimball, of Salina, in his address be-
fore the Current Topic club in Topeka.
For instance, when the head of the
animal husbandry department of the
state agricultural college, sets his
heart on particular thoroughbred ami
NAL, which is unattainabIe through the
ordinary channel of advertising for
bids, it is necessary to enlist the ser
vices of the attorney general to find
q solution.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
%Privats' John Allen Dies.

Jackson, Miss. Oct. 31.-Private"
John Allen, membeF of Congress from
Mississippi for sixteen years until his
retirement in 1901 and one OF the pic
turesque figures of that body. died
at his home in Tupelo, Miss, today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Britain to Run LIQUOR Trsde.

London, Nov 2-The British gov
eminent, according to the Daily Ez-
press, is considering making its first
experiment in state control of the
liquor trade by assuming control of the
manufacture and supply in Scotland
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
TO BAR GERMAN IN SCHOOLS
Teachers Magazine Charges That Pa
rochiaI Institutions in Kansas Eos
ter DISQUALIFICATION Demanded.

TOpeka.-The Kansas Teacher, the
organ of seven thousand school teach
ers of Kansas, has made a demand
in the November issue that the legis-
lature prohibit the teaching of Ger
man in the parochial schools of the
different churches. 1t was reported to
the Teacher by a member of the fac
ulty of one of the big state schools
that he had found quite a little dis
loyalty among German speaking COM
munities where they are conducting
the parish school The Teacher said:
THAT the enactment and enforce
ment of such a law would make for a
more patriotic citizenship in Kansas
no one who believes in democracy can
doubt. When the political leaders of
Kansas shall come TO care more for
the welfare of the public schools than
for the German vote, and vote of de-
nominations with ideals not in har-
mOny with those of our public school
system, Kansas will have such a law
and it will be enforced"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
New Liberty Bonds at 1oo.o2

New York, Oct. 3O.-The bonds of
the second Liberty Loan were listed
today on the stock exchange here.
The first transaction, $500 worth,
took place with the price at par. The
second lot, $4,000 worth, sold at 10000
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
To Fig PETAL Coal eriee.

Washington, Oct 30-FederaI Trade
Commission investigators will help
state fuel administrators fix fair re-
tail price margins. More than . dozen
started out today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Texas Woman Burned to Death

Hereford, Tex, Oct 31-The ehsrred
body Of Mrs. George Bright, Sc years
old, vas found by her son in front OF
their home here early today when he
Fetrrned from town.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Fear sir Raids on ceteene

Amsterdam. Nov. The stained
glass windows of the Cologne Cathe-
dral. according to German newspapers
are being replaced with plain glass -
a precautioa in case OF air raids.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Chicago School Lunch price, gJn

~II1~N8W O~tItaNt @aII-H FItCEL y -
Chicago. Nov High food prices
have hit the school children The
board Of education has voted 10 raise
the price Of the penny Iuach" fuz-
nished pupils to sE0 eszts
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
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Judge Jackson to Appeal Board.

Judge A. NJ. Jackson, of Winfield,
has been appointed by President Will
son, on recommendation of Governor
Capper, as a member of the First Dis
trict appeal board. Judge Jackson
takes the place of Sen. H. P. FarreIly,
recently resigned.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Inspected Adiutant Generals Off

Inspected AdJutant Generals Office.
Col. Herbert c. Williams, of the reg
ular army, visited the adjutant gen.
erals office the other day to inspect
the states military property and &C.
counts. He found everything satisfac-
tory and went on to Fort Sill the same
day. The adjutant generals records
are inspected by federal authorities
twice a year
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Why Potatoes Are High.

Shortage of freight cars and the
early frost are responsible for the
high prices that the public is COM
PEELED to pay for potatoes, according
to reports received by W. o. Ander-
son, dealer. Thousands of bushels of
potatoes have been ruined in the Red
river valley, due to the early frost, he
says.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Harmony.

''What swagger yon fellow is walk
ing with
That's to match his stick"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
kansans to Fight ripping.

The state welfare commission will
try to block tipping in restaurants.
hotels and other public places. Miss
Laura French. city editor of the EN-
poria Gazette, and a member of the
commission. will lead. the anticipating
forces.
AT the conclusion of a community
school fair at Lancaster, near Atchi.
son, it was decided to send all the
twenty-five cakes on exhibition TO
Atchison county boys at Camp Fun
ston.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Kansas Aviator to Front.


Phil Billiard, the Topeka aviator, has
enlisted as private in the aviation
corps and is on his way to France.
For the past two months he had been
teaching aviators at the government
school at San Diego.
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Open Kansas Y. M. c. A. Fund.
The Kansas campaign for the Y. NJ
C. A. war work was organized here
following stirring address by George
Sherwood Eddy, former Kansan and
recently with Pershing's army in
France.
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Coal Situation Serious.
Sen. Emerson Carey, state fuel adj
mlnistrator, in a letter to Governor
Capper, admits that the fuel question
! IS a serious one. The railroads and
me government are taking most of
! the coal. This not only apnlies tn
Kansas. but to other sections of the
country.
John VI. Marshall. about go wears
old. salesman. of Winfield. was RIM
over and killed by a Missouri. Kansas
& Texas freight train, ten miles south.
east of Columbus recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
HorticuIturIsts Plan Meeting.

Members of the Kansas HorticuI-
turaI Society will hold the annual
meeting this year on December 5. Sec
rotary o. F. Whitney now is conferr-
ing with members over the state about
the program. This years meeting prob
ably will be the most interesting and
largely attended in the history of the
society
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Prison Editor to Enlist.

Tex Schapper is to have his free
dom again. Governor Capper an
nounced recently that the '-modefo
prisoner, formerly editor of the Kan
sas pepItentiary publication, the
Square Deal, had been granted a par
don to enlist
Taylor WATSON, a retired farmer, re-
ceived fatal injuries at HalIowell when
the motor car he was driving was
struck by Frisco freight train. Was
son died short time later. The ms,
chine was wrecked.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Heads School for Blind.

The state board of administration
has appointed Lee Harrison, for the
last three years secretary of the board,
as superintendent of the State School
for the Blind at Kansas City, Kan, to
succeed Miss Isa Green, resigned. The
change will become effective on No
vember l. Miss Green resigned be-
cause of i'll health. Mr.. Harrison is
well known in Kansas school circles.
He was formerly county superinten-
dent of Sumner county and later be-
came superintendent of the Crawford
county high school at Cherokee. He
resigned that position to become sec
rotary Of the state board of admins
tratiOn.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Kansas Faces a Coal Famine

Emerson Carey, fuel administrator
for Kansas. has asked DR.. Harry A.
Garfield to adopt some method at once
that will get coal for Kansas towns.
With big coal mines within the Dor
ders of the state. there is much suf-
fering throughout Kansas and many
schools will be forced to close and
some churches cannot be opened IN
less coal is provided.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Tspekan to Treat Soldiers.

Hiram P. Dillon, a Topeka million
aire. will not heed the protest going
over the state against sending cigar
cites to the soldiers. He said recent
ly that he would send $4,000 cigar
cites to the men at Camp Funston
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10

Thompson to Join Hawaii Party.
United States Senator William H.
Thompson left recently for San Fran
cisco, where he will join the congress
sionaI party on its trip to Hawaii. He
is a member of the Pacific Islands
committee OF the Senate
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
Many Want Industrial Farm.

Delegations from Wellington and
Wichita waited on Governor Capper
recently to set forth the claims and
advantages of these cities for the 10
cation of the new industrial farm for
women. There were six in the dele
cation from Wichita and four from
Wellington.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10
GOVERNOR CAPPER
RAPS FOOD PRICES
Cheaper Wheat Has Not Re-
duCed the Cost of Bread.
He Tells Hoover.
ACCUSES MILLERS AND BAKERS
State Executive Charges That Manu-
facturers Are Profiteering at the
Expense of the Farmers.

Topeka.-Gov. Arthur Capper has
made an appeal to Herbert Hoover
national food administrator. charging
that millers, bakers and other dealers
IN food products are profiteering at
the expense of the farmers and asking
that state food administration boards
De established at once. The governor
was moved to make the appeal by the
hundreds of letters that have been
coming to him from workingmen.
chiefly complaining of the high prices
of flour and bread and other foods. Il
is asserted the prices now being
charged for flour and for bread are un-
warranted when compared with the
prices of wheat.
IN his letter the governor said: The
price Of the farmers wheat was re-
duced, taking practically so million
dollars out Of the pockets of the Kan
sas farmers in twenty-four hours. But
: the farmers sacrifice apparently has
been made in vain The millers, the
! bakers and the retailers have not re-
5 duced their prices accordingly, and
they show no disposition to reduce
them. The farmer, who still is paying
as much, or more, for his flour and
everything he buys, is losing conf
dence in the power of the government
to enforce the square deal, and the
general effect of the situation as it
stands is deplOrable. There can be no
defense of a system that takes profit
away from the producer through gov
eminent authority and yet fails to
give the consumer the benefit of that
saving.
IF flour had been reduced in price
correspOndingly with wheat, the price
OF flour would now be considerably I'M
der so a barrel, instead of S11.2O, the
price demanded. And the baker is
making much more of a margin pro-
portionately than the miller. He is
making higher profits than ever he
made and at a time when extortionate
profits are more than unpatriotic"
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New-York tribune., 1917-05-21
Styn1ieS in Golf Play Are
abolished by WeSternerS

Association will take IN regard to
stymies Is not known TO officers of the
Western Association. which includes
243 clubs.
Reading of Rule
The new rule reads:
"When both balls are on the put
ting green the ball nearest the hole
must be played first. If stymic ex-
lists, and the balls lie within a put
ter's length of each other, the ball
furthest from the hole must be lift
ed on request until the nearer ball
has been played, and then replaced in
its previous lie. Penalty for viola
ton, loss of hole in match play; two
strokes i'm medal play.
"Under no circumstances, except as
above, shall ball on the putting green
be lifted. Players in all rounds must
observe this rule, and ignorance of 1t
will not be accepted as an excuse for
its breach"
The new rule permits the ball further
from the hole 10 be lifted if it is in a
straight line from the hole through
the nearer ball and within putter's
length Of the nearer ball. This proyi-
sion was made, it was explained by AS
sistant Secretary Crafts W. Higgins, to
give the owner of the nearer ball free
action in his stroke and to obviate any
assistance he might gain from the three
points in the line OF his putt.
As the new rule as applied to medal
play will likely be enforced at the
Western open championship, TO be held
at the Westmoreland Country Club,
Chicago, September 13 and IA, profess
sionals from the Eastern territory not
under the control of the Western Golf
Association will be compelled to adhere
10 the new dictum of the Western body
or be disqualified.
The rule promulgated to-day is the
third radical action OF the western
Golf Association under the present ad-
ministration. The first was the formu-
lation of a new amateur definition per-
hitting amateurs to deal in golf sup
niles II their fame or skill as golfer
did not enter into the business purpose.
Iy. The second was the recognition OF
Francis Ouimet as an amateur under
this rule.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-21

TO designate the particular object to
which the purse donated by him Will be
applied. II is believed that those in
terested in the race meeting generally
will enter into the spirit of this ar
rangement and that the result will be a
very substantial sum for war relief at
a comparatively slight outlay.
No decision has yet been reached as
TO the fall race meeting.
To Hold Horse Show
The horse show will be held as usual
in September, but all the profits and al
the money which would ordinarily go to
exhibitors for prizes and cups will be
applied to war relief. The winners of
first and second prizes will be asked to
designate the particular objects TO
which their prizes will be applied. This
arrangement insures that the greater
part of the receipts of the meeting will
be used for war relief purposes.
Regular polo at Piping Rock has been
suspended for the duration OF the war.
Instructions have been given 10 the
steward to reduce the number of courses
served in the club restaurant and to
make every effort to avoid waste.