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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
PLANNED REVOLT
IN THIS COUNTRY
Germans Were Expected to Aid
Socialists and !. W. w. in
an Uprising.
HUNS WERE TO FURNISH ARMS
Evidence Brought Out in New York
Investigation Shows Large Stock
of Rifles in Storage.

New York, May 16.-Plans had been
made in 1914 for revolution of Ger
mans in the United States in case this
country should be drawn into the Eu-
ropean war, according to testimony
today at the state attorney generals
investigation of reports of hidden mu-
nitions.
Ivan Norodny, vice-president of the
Russian-American Asiatic Corporation,
who admitted he had sympathized
with Russian revolutionists before the
emperor was overthrown, attributed
the revelation of plans for an uprising
in the United States to Baron Won
Gersdorff, a friend of the German
crown prince and a former agent in
Mexico, who was interned after the
United States entered the war.
At a dinner at a New York hotel in
the fall of 1914, Norodny said he met
Won Gersdorff, Capt. Hans Tauscher,
former Krupp agent in the United
States, and another German whom he
knew as Lagen or Muck and who was
the manager of Nine. Gadski, wife of
Captain Tauscher.
NorOdky quoted Won Gersdorff as
saying: 1.-THE Schuettzenverein Ger
man rifle cIubs), have arms in this
country and in case of trouble with
the United States they will side with
Germany. The rifles have come from
Germany and in case of war the Ger
mans here will assist the 1. W. W. and
the Socialists"
Both Won Gersdorff and Tauscher
told Norodny, the latter testified, the
autocracy of Russia ought to be over
thrown, and Won Gersdorff offered to
supply Norodny with arms free so
revo1utionists in Russia could seize
the government and make a separate
peace with Germany. Norodny testi-
fled he rejected this plan from patri-
otto motives.
Previous to this conversation, he
said, he had been trying to buy rifles
from Tauscher for the Russian army,
but after being shown a quantity Of
arms in a New Jersey storehouse,
gave up the idea because he realized
he was dealing with an enemy of his
country and the arms, if purchased,
might be sunk by the Germans on the
way to Russia.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
HOLD DOWN PRICE OF MEATS
Western Packers Get Notice From
Food Administration That Profit
eering Would Not Be Allowed.

that any advance in meat prices over
the quotations now prevailing viii be
considered "exOTbitant and unreasOn-
able" and violation of license rules,
in a notice sent to them by the Food
Administration today
Packing houses have accumulated
substantial quantities of cured pork
products" says the notice, and the
cost of placing these products on the
market should not now be subject to
any substantial change"
Attention also is called to the IL
cense rule that products shall not sell
higher at one branch house than at
another. except the normal transpor-
tation cost.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
EACH CITIZEN DETECTIVE

Washington, May 13.-Every citizen
may act as a volunteer detective to
assist government officers in ferreting
out persons suspected Of dis1oyaI ac-
lions or UtteTances, says a statement
issued today by Attorney General
Gregory.
United States attorneys have been
told to cooperate with newspapers in
their districts, so that public notice
can be given OF the nearest offices
of attorneys OF the bureau Of fnvestt
CATION, to which citizens may refer
information that they think will be
valuable in running dom suspicious
DersonS
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Parents and Nurses Blamed.

1t is not so much the sub-conscious
nnemory of a fall or Of a fright in ear
ay childhood that produces a lifelong
dread as it is ''the unwise attitude of
tparents and nurses In focusing the
ichild's attention upon the fear. in sap
ping his confidence by showing their
own apprehensions and communicate
ing them to the suggestibIe child"
writes DR.. h Charles Cameron of Lon
don to the Lancet. ''The child OF him
self is not afraid to fan,' he con-
sinues. at Is the parents who make
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
CALLS KAASANS TO HARVEST
Governor capper Issues Proclamation
to ToWnspeople to Aid the
Farmers This Summer.

Estimating that Kansas will harvest
10000. 900 acres of wheat, oats and
harley and that there will be an ac-
tual shortage of $4,000 men of the
number required for this task, the
governor, in proclamation adj
dressed to ''the townspeopIe Of the
state of Kansas" calls for the enlist
ment Of harvest army of the state
of Kansas"
After setting forth the acute need.
the governors proclamation names
the ten-day period beginning May 20,
as the recruiting time for the army,
and appoints committee to assign
quotas of men to be furnished by all
towns and cities. The governor also
axis that local chairmen be selected to
supervise the recruiting.
Indications are, the governor says,
that Kansas will be without the $4,000
to $4,000 transient harvest workers
from the outside this year and depend
ent on its own labor. He expects the
harvest to begin about June Is and to
be finished in thirty days, pointing out
that during this period of 100000
acres of corn and more than 10000
acres of sorghums must be cultivated
at least once and a second cutting of
alfalfa harvested from not less than
100000 acres.
At least so per cent of the man pop
ulation of the cities is farm expert
enced, he estimates. Wages may not
be so high as received in the city, he
warns, but he terms the farm work
ga matter of patriotic service, a con
tribution toward winning the war and
urges employers to release as many
men as possible to the harvest army
and make whatever adjustment in sal
aries is necessary"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Judge William 1. Stuart announced
in the district court at Hiawatha that
he had heard a report that a quarter
section of land owned by Frederick
Crabb was not under cultivation. The
judge appointed three attorneys to in
vestigate, and they reported that no
crop was raised last year and only
twenty-five acres were in use now.
Judge Stuart instructed County At
torney W. E. Archer to file a petition
for a receiver. Mr.. Crabb appeared
and joined in the petition, saying he
could not farm the land. William E.
Hixon was appointed and qualified as
receiver and at once proceeded to
put the farm under cultivation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
RUSSIA APPEALS TO BERLIN
Seizure of Territory Causing Great Un-
rest Among the People, SIaV
Foreign Minister Says.

London, May l3.-In a wireless mes
sage to Ambassador Joffe at Berlin
the Russian foreign minister, NJ. Tchit-
cherin, instructs the ambassador to
try to obtain from Berlin cessation OF
every kind of hostility. The dispatch
adds:
Captures of our territory are in
violation Of the state Of peace with
Germany, and are causing great IN
rest among the masses of our popu-
lation."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

The request Of the War Department
that Kansas organize two regiments
of national guard is considered by the
state military board, in the light of
the National Defense Act as manda-
tory. At a meeting held in the adju-
tant generals office plans were COM
pleted for the organization of what
will be designated the Fourth and
Fifth infantry, Kansas national guard.
Col. P. NJ. HoisingtOn will be commits
stoned as colonel of infantry and as
signed to command the Fourth Regi-
ment.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

The Kansas Supreme Court has up
held the conviction OF Robert E.
Smith, a negro physician of Parsons,
for the murder of Agnes Smith,
white woman and wife of Asa Smith.
The supreme court held that the rec
ords lead to the conviction that the
cruel and atrocious crime charged was
committed and that whatever influ-
ence actuated the defendant he was
legally found guilty and the judgment
of the lower court was affirmed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

A mausoleum erected and used ex-
clusively for permanent interment OF
the dead is exempt from taxation, the
Kansas Supreme Court held recently,
reversing the Neosho County District
Court in a suit to have the mausoleum
exempted after 1t had been placed
upon the county tax rolls. The maui
solemn contained ZIG crypts. County
officials held the cemetery's exemp-
ton did not apply. The district court
held with the county officials.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Farmers will own the Leavenworth
& Topeka Railroad just as soon as
Judge Pollock confirms the sale. The
road has been bought, $4,000 having
been handed over to E. W. Clausen of
Atchison by Walter A. Johnson of To-
peka, and the plans for incorporating
the road for 100000 were made. The
first attempt to buy the road fell
through because subscriptions were
taken on the basis Of ownership in
fee simple.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

The state won its case in the suit
against the Sherman Elliott Film Cor
poration and others involving the re-
call right of the state board of review
of the film, 1.-THE Birth of a Nation"
which had been passed by the board.
The supreme court holds that the
film corporation must return the film
for denomination. Should the COM
pany refuse, it may be required by
mandamus. In the trial of the orig
inal case in Wyandotte County it was
charged that politics entered into the
boards action. The prevailing de-
cision of the state court bars the pic
ture from Kansas. Justice West wrote
the opinion, but filed a special dis
sension that the decision tended to
work a cessation of exhibition. JUS
tice Dawson also dissented on the
grounds that a recall was primarily
for the purpose of rejecting the pic
ture.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
NUMBER OF SHIPS GAINING

Washington. Nay 14.-Announce-
ment from Paris that in the last three
months. more submarines have been
sunk than have been built, bears out
recent unofficial statements here on
the submarine situation It has been
no secret that officials here have felt
more encouraged within the last few
months than at any time since the I'M
restricted submarine campaign began.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
GcoaI Week. Beoine June 2

Washington, May 1S.@The fuel ad-
ministTation today designated the
week beginning June as coal week
for an intensive campaign for early
ordering Of coal for next winter
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Launch Laruest Wood ship.

Orange, Tex, May 13.-The City OF
Bonham, one OF the largest wooden
steamships ever planned, was launch
ed successfully here this afternoon.
The vessel is 800 feet long and forty
seven feet wide. It was designed by
A. A. Daugherty.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Miss simeon PostaI cIerk.

Chicago. May 13.-Miss Katherine
Stinson, aviatrix, was sEorn in today
as a postal clerk and Monday morning
VIII start for New York IN her air
plane, carrying number OF especially
addressed letters for delivery in that
CITY
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Hunhes in Aircraft Prohe-

Washington, May Is President
Wilson has asked Charles E Hughes
to assist Attorney General Gregory in
investigating the aircraft situation.
Mr. Hughes has replied that he viii
be glad TO assist
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
conaress MaY erIII creeI.

Washington, May 15.-Representa-
tive Treadway Of Massachusetts intro
duced a resolution today instructing
the rules committee to investigate
statement rejecting upon congress, al
legged to have been made by George
Creel, chairman Of the committee On
public information in a speech at New
York. It was referred to the rules
committee
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Huns Resun1e War on Russia,

Amsterdam, May 16.-The vossiche
Zeitung OF Berlin announced today
that war has had to be proclaimed at
Ekaterinoslav, Odessa and PoItava as
q strong counter current to the order
Of things was observable
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Ship Complete in 81 Days,

Philadelphia, May 16.-Completed
and ready for her cargo, the steam
ship Tuckahoe, built by the New York
Shipbuilding Company in worlds rec
ord time, was turned over today to
the Shipping Board in this city.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Acc Earm Maehinerx Probe.

Washington, Nay 14-Investigation
by the Federal Trade Commission OF
the production and supply Of agricul-
tural implements and the prices farm
ers are compelled 70 pay for machin-
cry is authorized in resolution In
troduced today by Senator Thompson
Of Kansas and adopted by the Senate.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Interest on Second Loan Bonds Due.
Washington, May 15.-In prepare
ton for the first semi-annual interest
payment on second Liberty Loan
bonds due tomorrow, banks today
were flooded with interest coupons.
The payment will total $76,175, 900.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Won't Commander Oil Lands.

Washington, May 1.-THE House
public lands committee, as the result
OF a conference between Chairman
Ferris and President Wilson, eIimf-
mated the Communicating section Of
the administration oil leasing bill and
authorized favorable report
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
CHICAGO Tesmsters on Strike.

Chicago. May 15-FTYe thousand
teamsters and truck chauffeurs went
on strike without warning today and
Patrick Darrell, business agent of the
truck drivers union, said that fifteen
thousand men would be ont by tonight
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

The Lieutenant Morgan of the medi-
cal corps mentioned in dispatches
from France as sticking to his post in
a shell hole. rendering first aid until
exhausted and throwing off his gas
mask in an effort to work faster, is 3
Clay Center young man, DR.. E. G. Nor
gan. He offered his services just af-
ter the war broke out and was sent
to France last August, being assigned
to the 26th Infantry.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Rin Revenue Receints.

Washington, May 16.-Revised esti-
mates of revenue receipts in the cur
rent fiscal year ending next June 80
place at s4,Os5, SOS, 900 the amount the
American people viii contribute di-
rectly to the government
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Atlanta, ca, May 14-FuH laity
rights were granted women Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church CSouth)
at today's meeting OF the general con-
ference, now in session here
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

him afraid by treating the fall as
disaster. The child Of himself is not
afraid Of being left alone. It is The
parents who undermine his confidence
by keeping him always under OBJ
servatton from a nameless dread Of
what may happen to him."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Order. Cut Train serxIce.

Washington, May 1+Director Gen
eraI McAdoo today ordered curtafI-
ment of transcontinentaI passenger
schedules from Chicago west, effec-
tive June 2. TO save 11.7zS.000 train
miles a year, by eliminating competi-
ton and cutting running schedules.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

london, May 1.-THE army council
having considered the explanations
rendered BY General Frederick B.
Maurice has decided that he shall be
placed forthwith On retired pay.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
srotherhoOd Honor

Brotherhood Honors Missouri Woman
Cleveland, May 15.-Mrs- H. II. Tur
ner Of Moberly, No, was elected
grand chaplain OF the Ladies' Auxiliary
OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive In.
gineers at q session here yesterday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
Elephants Ane In Doubt

The age Of elephants is widely dis
puted, the best calculations of hunters
and scientists being admittedly only
little more than hazardous. says the
New xork World
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30
For Guns 5 Billion More

Washington, Nay 1.-THE War De-
partment today asked Congress for an
appropriation OF approximately 6 BIZ
lion dollars for heavy ordnance
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

At a Gardner Red Cross sale a large
Plymouth Rock rooster contributed
by Mrs. John Veach sold the first time
for S274. Put up again he brought
S64. The sale totaled more than
thousand dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

In the last thirty days Haddam has
given $1,135 to the Red Cross In the
Third Liberty Bond drive the two
Haddam banks sold bonds to the ex-
tent of S54,500 without any solicitors
in the field. This was 65 per cent
over the quota.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

DR.. Henry C. Mayer, an Ellsworth
physician, was held under $500 bond
by C. B. White, United States COM
missioner at Topeka, to await the fed
eraI grand jury. DR.. Mayors bond
was signed by Matt Harmon, bar
Der, and DR.. Eva Harding. A son Of
Dr. Mayer is in the United States
Medical Reserve Corps, and a stepson
is with the American army in France
DR.. Mayer was naturalized in 1893
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Charles Aiken has let the contract
for 6O-room hotel in Eldorado and
left for Kansas City to buy material.
The hotel is to cost $4,000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Hubert Larther of Fort Scott, chair
man of the state Democratic central
committee, has announced that the
date of the state convention, set for
Topeka May 81, has been changed to
May %, because the former date con-
flicted with the Red Cross drive open
ing set for Hay 20.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Brig. Gen. Charles L Martin of To
peka has arrived safely in France, he
reported in a cablegram to his wife.
General Martin formerly was adjutant
general of Kansas and was in COM
mand of Camp Doniphan in the alb
sence of Major General Wright.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Petitions signed by so per cent OF
the property owners have been pre-
scented for a concrete 1S-foot road 2E
miles across Dickinson county through
Harrington and Hope on the proposed
Old Trails route.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

At a Red Cross sale at Robinson,
the total sales were $1,000. A rooster
and calf were sold to Jere KimmeI
and R.. King for $1,000. Three owls
brought 500. Robinson has only 500
population.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Kansas bankers generally would
make excellent harvest hands. Cover
nor Capper asserted in a speech be-
fore the Kansas State Bankers Asso-
citation, which held its convention in
Topeka recently. He appealed to the
bankers and to all business men, es-
pecially, in the rural towns. to close
their places of business during the
wheat harvest period next month and
go out and help the farmers gather
the crop.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Kansas retail grocers cannot use
the federal food administration as a
catspaw in combining on prices. This
is the Information which Attorney
General Brewster divulged recently.
He has contended all along that price
fixing by a committee of grocers in
each city, under the pretense of en-
forcing the rules of the federal food
administration, is illegal. But the
grocers claimed they were working
under the direction of Mr. Hoover.
The attorney general wrote to Wash
ington to find out, and received let
ter from Mr.. Hoover stating that no
state or local food administrators, nor
any committees representing them,
had the right to fix prices.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-30

Roy buckingham, associate editor
Of the Sa1ina Journal, who has been
on the reserve list in the radio ser.
vice for some time, has been called
and has gone to the University OF
Texas to train He has been with the
Journal for three years. coming here
from the Wichita Beacon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-14

TOR many many months eed s
been from the thousands OF "0' %
wounded American and hls the "
What missions Of mercy future holds God knows
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-07

buildi ng up the membership SO
that all may be worthy of the
benefits received. Any little girl
between the ages of FIVE and ten
years who has the consent of her
parents or guardians may become
a candidate, and after she has be-
come ten and has been long enough
on probation she may be ad-
mitted. Any girl over ten may
enter upon probation and be ad.
mitted after she has served a
proper time and has given herself
the right preparation. Only girls
and young women are admitted,
but grown women who are men,
bers of the Episcopal church may
become associates. It is not re-
quired that members shall be
Episcopalians, but may belong to
any other church or to no church
at all
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-07
SUBSTITUTE PRICES
HERE MEET AVERAGE

With housewives and consumers
all over the state questioning the
legitimacy Of the prices of wheat
substitutes. the United States Food
Administration for Colorado has re-
Gently made the announcement that
the cost Of wheat flour here 10 low
er than in any state in the Union ex-
cept Oregon. and that the average
prices of the substitute grains 10
practically level with the prices Of
all the other states.
Substitute grains are not raised In
Colorado to any great extent and
their cost with freight and other
charges added is bound to make the
price of products from these grains
relatively higher than the price Of
wheat.
Considerable hope il being felt in
food administration offices through
out the state that with increased
manufacture and improved methods
the price OF substitutes will gradu-
ally be lowered until Z nomal price
has been established.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-07
Sixteen Youths Register
In County On June S

In compliance with the law which
required all young men who had
become 21 years of age since June
5, 1917. to register, there were but
sixteen registrants in the entire
county, and three of these were
non-residents. The low number is
accounted for by reason of num-
Der of enlistments.
Following is list of those who
registered:
Emmit Hagler Culley, Thomas
Henry Musgrove, Emil Benhart
A nderson, Irwin John Rands,
Clarence Lambert Hanson, all
native Americans, residents of
Idaho Springs; Isaac Richards,
alien (Great Brittany of Idaho
Springs; Joseph Daniel Shea and
Charles Milton Finley, natives, re-
siding at Camp Trad: William
Jennings Bryan Stanley and
Laurel Jennings Alspaugh, natives
Georgetown; David Williams and
Richard Ernest Clyde Champion,
natives, both of Silver Plume.
Frank Fink, alien (Austria) of
Georgetown.
Nonresident: John Jose b
Mahoney of Denver, Werner Alli-
son Woodman of Denver and
Charles Connor Sauer of Fort
Collins.