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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-15
MAY CHANGE MIND
Leading Hun Aviator Dubious
About U. S. Air Plans.
Can't Put 10000 Trained Fly
erS on Front, He Boasts.

Copenhagen, Nov. 15.-Captain
Baron Won Richthofen, Germany's
leading aviator, expresses himself as
unconcerned over the reported prepar-
alton to place 10000 American avia-
tors on the western front. He be-
lieves it will be impossible to get to-
gether that many trained pilots as the
training is long and costly and in
wolves heavy casualties. The new
corners, he says will particularly at
first, BE unable to judge the military
conditions and at least twenty-five per
cent of the machines will be disabled
during the long transport"
Lieut.. Gen. Won Ardenne of the Ber-
liner Tageblatt, who reports this con-
versation with Won Richthofen at the
Flanders front adds that the German
air service. which evidently has been
forewarned by newspaper discussions
of American plans, is steadily increas-
ing the number of avfators and ma
chimes.
German fighting airplanes, Gen.
Won Ardenne says, now carry wireless
receiving outfits which enable them
to engage in combat promptly with
enemy filters. This is necessitated by
new conditions on the Flanders front,
where whole squadrons of allied ma
chimes can appear over the German
lines in a surprisingly short time
German squadrons starting from the
ground to meet the invaders would be
too late so they must constantly be IN
the front lines either flying or ready
for flight.
Use Fewer Hand Grenades.
German aviators say they have
noted recently that majority of the
British filters in Flanders are show
ing themselves in the Dixmude sec
ton of the front instead of the re-
gion of Passchendaele.
General Won Ardenne discusses var
ious development of the Flanders
fighting, among them the decrease III
the use of hand grenades which II
close fighting are as dangerous te
friends as to foes. They are being dis,
speciaI units whose task is to seek
out enemy batteries by sight or hear
ing The muzzle flash of gun, he
says, is observed by from three tc
five stations connected by telephone
and the position of the gun is deter
mined easily. Special apparatus has
been designed to determine the dis
lance and direction from which the
sound of a lannon's discharge comes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-15
COUNTRY FIRST!~
Engineers Would Put Patriotism
Above Desire To Strike9
Trainmen Patriots, Too, but
Also Demand "FuH Stomach"

Cleveland, o., Nov. 15.-Moral SUD-
port may not be given the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
in case the vote of the former, in
progress now, leads to a situation that
would handicap the nation at war.
In a ringing statement with patri-
otism its keynote, w. s. Stone, presi-
dent of the engineers, representing
$4,000 of them, today said the engi-
neers place love of country ahead
of everything"
I'VE are sitting tight waiting to see
what develops in the nations interna-
honal crisis" Stone said. Love of
country ranks first in the sentiment
thing"
But the locomotive engineers are
watching.
I'VE are on the side lines" said
fellows do"
Altho Stone would speak only for
the engineers, the feeling about the
brotherhood headquarters here was
that the engineers did not have a mo
hopoly on patriotism, insofar as the
rallroad workers are concerned. The
lower paid trainmen reel that their
patriotism is of high grade but that
they are entitled to "a full stomach -
as w. q. Lee, of the railway trainmen.
expressed it. III ~
Waiting for Stone when he reached
ms OFFICES today was a telegram noti~
| Iylng him of the conference Novenbar
~ WhIch the four big brotherhood
cnseLs VIII mold with the president.
stone VIII go to New York TONIGHT
TO confer with the ''commif+ea -
son law. ---e 1>''a M
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BELL-ANS
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. Druggists
refund money if it fails. 25c
Early Grain Gossip.
FURNISHED by Topeka Borrd of Trade

New York, Nov. 15.-Financial Bulletin :
waiting attitude will probably continue
The submarine decline is a very favorable
factor. Broadening of the short selling
rule by the New York stock exchange gov
ernors may induce retirement of some of
1.-the shorts. Railroad bears are expected to
dence that there will be no labor wage
strike. But the general market continues
to be war affair rs we see it and move
ments may be narrow and we think con-
servatism desirable. The technical position
of market seems strong enough to provide
a good basis for upward response to favor
able news of importance. Good buying
Chicago Nov. 15-The Herald says
More bears were noticeable in the corn and
cat trade last night. They were partic-
ularly so in corn as several most import
ant factors developed. The trade will have
| the fresh announcement of the food admin
ratios today. which differ from the Issue
previously. favoring 14.3 bushels corn to
hundred pounds of hog. This figures 81 0s
of $12e first figured
The enforcement of the sixty days trad
| ing restriction for cash corn and oats is
considered as bearish by a number of large
| operators, it will do away with the heavy
speculative in cash grain by eastern dis
| for corn and oats and especially for corn
for a given number of years, to be shipped
| from December to May. Sellers of this
grain have been forced for protection to
| buy the May delivery and stand on 1T as
! a hedge, thereby taking millions of bush
/ els of future out of the market and holding
! it for months and at times congesdng the
market for futures.
! With the sixty day limit there will be no
overbuying and the desire of the food adj
ministration for a reduced volume of trad
! ing will be largely accomplished.
a good many local longs took profits on
oats yesterday. The market did not show
as much weakness some expected and
| they favor the long side on any good
| break
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GOES Up!
The Manless MOnoplane, Topeka
Made, Takes to Air.
But Inventor Shut Off Engine
and Damaged 1t.

Tethered to a post set in the mid
die of the field, the Robinson Manless
Airplane made three trial flights at
League park late Wednesday. During
the last and best flight the plane
streached it's cable for over two COM
plete circuits of the field, reaching an
altitude of between ten and fifteen
feet.
In bringing the machine to the
ground the mechanic in charge of the
last flight shut off the engine too fast
This, together with the pull of the
cable, caused the plane to alight wing
first, damaging one of the wheels.
The machine will be made ready for a
public exhibition to be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at League
park.
According to Robinson the trial
flights have proved his theory of the
manless airplane, and except for some
minor adjustments is ready for pub
lie demonstration.
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To- AID GRIPPLES
Wr VIII Add 100000 Manned
Yearly in Industries.
Show Each Cripple Job at
Which He Can Make Good.

$sKansas City, Mo, Nov. 15.-Among
Ne serious problems growing out of
tie war that must be faced by Amer
IA is that of caring for large num-
Ger of crippled men, as inevitable a
fesult OF the great conflict as the
lpss of life that must be expected
when the nations millions get on the
lring line.
land one of the first moves to meet
e7is problem has been started among
men already crippled, some of the
600, 900 MANNED each year in Amer
has industries. One of the leaders
q F. r. Bigler, of this city, purchas-
fISg agent for a gas company, who re-
gently returned from New York where
Re conferred with Edward T. Devine,
director of the Red Cross Institute for
Crippled Soldiers and Sailors. Thirty
years ago Mr.. Bigler lost his left foot
below the knee and his right arm just
1bove the elbow and having won his
way up despite his handicaps he has
Tor several years been aiding other
c3pples.
1eIn the present emergency, with the
certain prospect that the annual crop
~ industrial cripples will be aug
Mented by war cripples, he proposes
tie establishment of a sort OF national
clearing house for ideas for cripples,
where a mans particular ability can
BE studied and he may be fitted into
Che place in industry or business he is
Hest qualified to fill.
Red Cross Back of Plan.
5sMF. Devine plans to accept Mr.. Big
fer's services in the work of the Red
cross Institute in New York which
r4cently was given $4,000 and a
building in that city by jeremiah Mill
tank.
Because of his activities on behalf
OF EheHat3REaEtHnates, Mr.. Bigler is
IN touch with hundreds of cripples
thruout the country who have sue
ceeded despite their misfortunes, and
ehese he has listed and classified. The
Red Cross Institute is preparing pam
Phlets from the personal histories of
these men and it is planned that as
IutQre crtpples come from hospitals
they Will be given a list of men af-
Iltcfed as they are who have made
g99d, with an account of how thew
dl4 SO. A man with his right arm off
VII not read of men lacking left arms
or legs or blinded, but of men who
nave lost right arms and carried on
to, gictory. ~
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ANTI VOTE WINS
Coal Miners of Four States Defy
Federal Fuel Dictator.
But States Stand 3 to 1 With
GarfieId-KaRSas Swings 1t.

WHEREAS, We, the delegates of the
three Southwestern districts, being sent to
this convention to express the sentiments
of the rank and file which we represent;
therefore, be it
Resolved, To express the sentiments of
those whom we represent, that we declare
fair, unjust and IN American, and that
we will not accept the penalty clause as
adopted in the Central Competitive Field.
Resolved, That we stand by the penalty
clause agreed upon by the Representatives.
of the miners and operators in Kansas
City.
Kansas City, Nov. 15.-By a vote of
1876 to 1877 the coal miners of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas last night rejected the auto
matte" penalty clause in their wage
contract insisted upon by DIR. H a
Garfield, federal fuel administrator
The vote followed an all day session il
which Alexander Howat, president of
the Kansas miners, contended against
the officials of the other two south
Jones, all of whom denounced the
clause, but declared they believed fur
Their opposition to it would be futile.
Resolution Mum on Strike.
Before the vote, Mr.. Howat told the
convention his district would abide by
the will of the majority of the dele
gates D. a. Frampton, president of
the missouri miners, SAID MS 1utAEe
attitude would be determined by cir
cumstances. John Wilkinson, presi-
dent of the Oklahoma and Arkansas
miners, made no statement as to his
future course.
Nothing in the resolution adopted
called for a strike, it was pointed out
Such further action as may be taken
will be determined upon when the del
egates reconvene at the Labor Temple
at o'clock today
The vote by districts:
Kansas-For the resolution, 1923;
against, II.
2 Arkansas and Oklahoma-For the
resolution, %; against, los.
Missouri-For the resolution, "a;
against ST.
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ADMITS MUTINY
Negro Soldier COnfesSes and
Turns States Evidence.
Asserts He Joined Raid Will
ingIy; Names 81 Comrades.

San Antonio, Tex, Nox. 15.-With
the turning of states evidence of one
negro soldier, charged with murder
and mutiny growing out of the Hous-
ton riot of August %, the prosecution
was believed today to be rapidly
reaching its close.
The most dramatic moment of the
trial thus far, came late yesterday,
when Private Lloyd Shorter, company
I, TWenty-fourth United States in
fantry, one of the 65 defendants, said
he participated in the raid and was
shooting was done. On cross exami-
nation Shorter admitted he had been
promised immunity for so testifying
90 From Company L.
During his testimony, Private Short
three defendants as men he had ac-
tually seen in the column raiding
Houston that night. All these were
members of Company I, and there
were others mentioned by Col. J. A
Hull, judge advocate, who Shorter
said he had seen in jail the next day
No attempts were made to have
Shorter identify the men in other
companies who participated in the
raid, as he said he did not know
their names. Shorter had been witt
the regiment only few months.
~ Shorters story was told simply
with no apparent attempt to save hi:
own face. He denied that threat:
had been used to make him go, say.
ing that he had joined the raidins
party willingly when informed by
non-commiSsioned = officers Of hi.
company that there was to be a raid
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REVISE FIRST CASUALTY LIST.

Nov. Battle Now STANDS Killed,
II Wounded and II Missing.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE war de-
partment issued this statement today:
THE war department has received
the following corrected list of the cas-
lialties resulting from the German raid
before daylight Nov. 3, upon the sal
lent occupied by company of Ameri-
can infantry. This revised list shows
our losses to have been three killed,
II wounded and IL missing. The ad-
ditions to the original list of wounded
include First Lieutenant William II.
Mclaughlin and five privates. One
Of the latter, Private William P. Grigs-
by, WAS originally listed as missing.
Private Dewey D. Kern previously
listed as missing has been accounted
1Dr and is no longer among the cas-
dalties. The name given as Private
Jgecfzon,' unidentified previously on
the missing list, does not appear on the
revised list. The wounded are report
ed as doing WELL.
The list of three killed is I'M
changed, but the following are added
10 the wounded
4 Private Louis A. Defer, mother,
Private E5ri1 A Paul w. Fam, father,
Safona. Wis.
I Private George Wesley, Miss Mar
garet WEIGH, Dayton, Ky.
: Private Lester c. Smith, r. A
Smith, Concord, n. c.
Z The following are added to the lis
on missing and probably captured:
Private Clyde 1. GFimsley, Stockton
Wass
Private Hoyt D. Decker, Vincennes
Ind.
: The casualty reported as Private
HARRY r. Langham should be Private
Harry R. Laughman, Ada Laughman
Chicago.
: The missing private reported a:
Iewey d. Kern. is Dewey d. Kan
mother, Mrs Eva Filton, Collins, Ia.
and has been unaccounted for.
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CLEAR SKIES AGAIN

Continued from Page one.)
expected to reach so tomorrow after
noon.
The first freeze in two weeks was
recorded early this morning, the mer-
curry dropping to 80 at four thirty.
This was degrees below normal.
The temperature at 2 o'clock this
afternoon was 63, the mercury having
been on a steady climb since morning.
The official forecast says that it
will be fair tonight and Friday, with
warmer weather in the extreme east
portion.
Shippers need not protect SO hour
shipments in any direction against
freezing.
Highest temperature recorded on
this date was Is in 1899 and the low
est Is in 1889.
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SHELL KILLS

Continued from Page one)
com unication with the Nystad cable
steuon in Finland for several DAYS. re-
ports from Scandinavia persist that
Premier Kerensky has gained control
or tine capital. Reports come from
sweden that the Bolsheviki maintain
THAR hold on Petrograa and are pre-
pap ng Tor stout resistance against
the forces Of Kerensky and Generals
keFniloff and Kaledines In Moscow
the Bolsheyilki apparently have been
oYerpoWered. an unofficial report re-
celNed in Copenhagen being to the eff
fect that Korniloff has taken the
Ktemlin where the extremists were
besieged several days, ago.
Another f-umor says that Siberia has
announced its Independence and pro
claimed former Emperor Nicholas as
EMPEROR.
hfhe proposed new inter allied war
cattncil has provoked a near crisis in
hoise Of commons yesterday to ex-
plain his Paris speech on the needs
for such hecouncil, Premier Lloyd
George readsgthe terms of agreement
which heideR3are6i made it clear that
the. ouneil sslaz merely advisory. For
mai deBHte on the Interpolation will
begin in the house next Monday. Ne
gotiations for the formation of a new
FrHnch cabinet are proceeding.
$OnIy One French Vessel Sunk.
Paris, Nov 15.-The loss to French
shipping thru mine or submarine for
the week ending November IL was two
vessels over 1890 tons, one of which
was actually sunk the previous week,
ana no vessels under that tonnage,
-Four ansuccessful attacks were made
b114srilbpo ariDpS
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TODAY'S Market REPORTS

Chicago, Nov. 15-CORN-Prospects Of
an increased crop movement resulting from
a more liberal supply Of cars tended today
was also given to fresh efforts of the food
administration to bring about low range
of feed prices a 8 a means ef enlarging the
meat supply. Embargoes on two leading
railways counted likewise as a weight on
the market Opening prices which ranged
from the sale as yesterdays finish to 1ac
lower, with December 81 ,19A and May $1-15
to S1.15A, were followed by a slight reac-
ton and then by moderate general de-
cline
Rallies ensued owing to upturns in the
oats market but the effect failed to last
Reports We're current that several specula-
tors who acted as persistent bulls had been
called before the federal district attorney.
The close was nervous at the same as yes
terday's finish to VIC lower with December
$1.19A and May Is to S1.15h.
OATS-Oats we're upheld by evidence OF
demand from the 5eaboard. Sellers appear
ed scarce
vISIoNs-Cemmission buying caused
firmness in the provision market. Weak
ness of hog prices had no contrary effect
Support from stock yards interests came
into play later and rendered declines
transient in the main
Chicago Grain end Provision Market.
(The range of prices grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
Thos J. Myers. 201 N. e. Bldg0
Chica1a Nov IL
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SPEED NEW CABINET
France in q Hurry Lest 1t Have None
When Allies Meet Nov. 10

Paris. Nov. 15.-Urgent pubIfc de-
mand that a new premier be installed
and cabinet selected at once, lest
embarrassment be created by lack of
ministry when the allied war coun-
eli meets november 49, was expected
today to result in early choice of a
successor to Premier Painleve.
Newspaper comment today favored
Georges Clemeneeau as the most like
ly candidate
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TRUCK LOAD EVIDENCE
Raid on Pro- German League in Chi
cago Makes Big Haul.

Chicago, Nov. 15.-A truckioad of
pamphlets, files and mailing lists
seized in last nights raid on the Of
fees of the League of Humanity, was
to be presented to the federal grand
jury today.
Included in the papers confiscated
was complete file of the Republican,
said to be the official organ of the city
administration.
The league is said to have been act
i've in organizing farmers to violate
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Kansas City Live stock Market.

Kansas City, Nov. 15.-HOGS-Receipts
5000. Market steady to Zoe lower. Bulk of
sales. S1715@17-6o; heavy, s1z.4oG1T.65;
packers and butchers, s17.2oG 1T.eo; light,
s16.90a1T.30; pigs. $16.5ed17 "a.
CATTLE-Keceipts 1900, including 200
southerns- Market steady. Prime fed
steers. $155oG16-75; dressed beef steers,
southern steers, s6.j0di1Oo; cows, 5000
1000; heifers, S6.5o6120; stockers and
calves. SO 5Odn5O
SHEEP-Reeeipts 1000. Market strong.
1880; wethers, 81 O0Q12-50; ewes. $3.50 a
1L50; stockers and feeders. s7.0oG1T.z5.
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DRIVERS WON'T STRIKE
Reach Eleventh Hour Agreement
Get $3.50 a Week Wage Increase.

Chicago. Nov. 15.-The strike of
1000 truck drivers, scheduled for six
o'clOck this morning was prevented
thru further concessions by the Cart
age Exchange, an employers organi-
cation.
Negotiations were broken off late
yesterday but were resumed last night
The drivers agreed to accept a wage
increase of $3.50 a week and a de-
crease of 20 minutes in the working
day.
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JOHN W. FOSTER DEAD
Once Secretary of State Is Secretary
Iansing's Father-in-Law.

washington, Nov, 15.-John W.
Foster, former minister to China, dean
of the American diplomatic corps and
father-in-iaw of Secretary Lansing,
died here this morning after long
illness.
He at one time WAS secretary of
state.
The immediate cause of the vener-
able diplomats death was an asth-
matte trouble, altho his advanced
years and failing health had given his
family great concern for more than a
year.
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PAIL ON WHITE WAY
Broadway Dark After II p. m, Goes
Into Eclipse Tonight.

New York, Nov 15.-The partial
eclipse of the millions of electric
lights forming hundreds of mechani-
cal advertising displays, which have
gained for Broadway the sobriquet of
The Gay White Way, will occur for
the first time at dusk tonight. Until
7:45 p. m. the ordinary street lights
will have to suffice. After that time
however, visitors and the usual crowd
of theatre going New Workers will be
permitted to bask in the brilliance
until IL o'clock when war time dark
ness will again prevail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-15
IN COAL SHORTAGE
Production at Mines Suffers
Slump of so Per Cent.
Consumption, on Other Hand,
Increases 100 Per Cent.

Washington, Nov. 15.-Reyised esti-
mates by the fuel administration place
the coal shortage of 1917 at 1000, 900
tons, bituminous and anthracite. Pro-
duction has decreased SO per cent and
consumption has increased 100 per
cent. Plans for curtailment of non
essential industries are being rushed
to meet the situation.
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Wall St, New York, Nov. 15.-STOCKS-
Leaders were under renewed pressure at
the opening of today's stock market, over
night Developments provoking further mod
crate liquidation. Union Pacific, Utah Cop
per and Republic Iron yielded an average
of a point, offset, however, by gains of L
to ~ for Reading, Canadian Pacific, South
ern Railway preferred, Marine preferred
and Baldwin Locomotive. An early frac-
tional loss in United States Steel was soon
retrieved. Liberty bonds were heavy, the
315's making a new low at 9S.S2 against
Yesterdays minimum of IS.
The market rallied during the dull first
hour on the firmer tendencies displayed by
Canadian Pacific, Steeis and Marine pre-
ferred but reacted sharply when metals
began to weaken, Utah Copper losing 8
points. Before noon all the early strength
was lost, leaders in general falling under
Yesterdays final prices. Sentiment was
again adversely influenced by the weakness
of liberty bonds, the As dropping from
imum on their decline from $3.50 to 9s44
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Italy Lost but ono sailing vessel.

Rome. Nov. 1.-THE following Of
fetal statement was issued today:
I'm the week ending November Il
vessels to the number of SS4 entered
ports and S33 left. The loss due to
submarines was one sailing vessel of
more than one hundred tons
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Chicago, Nov. 15;;I;HoGS,-ReeelPt 1000.
light S1700@1T.50: mixed, s17.0o@17 so /;
heavy, SIG 95M17.60 rough, $l6.95@1T15 /:
pigs, S14. 0O6l1T50.
CATTLEEReceipts 1000. Market steady.
Native steers, $6S5d16.25; western steers
50. S0k113. 30: stockers and feeders S5656
II 50 cows and heifers. $3.50 a 11-65 calves,
SC T5d13,25
SHEEP-Receipts 1900 Market firm.
Wethers, IS. 70u12S0; lambs, S12 25617.00
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the selective service law and in
spreading literature attacking the
British government Daniel Wallace,
who was its head, is serving 20 year
sentence in Leavenworth prison for
violation of the espionage law