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Evening star., 1918-05-23
TO HURRY UP FUNDS
| TO SEND SOLDIERS over
House Committee to Be Unanimous
on Eleven-Billion.Dolla Army
! Appropriation Bill.

unanimous agreement on the $11 ,000,-
100000 Army appropriation bill will be
reported to the House this week by the
military affairs committee. Chairman
Dent will endeavor to get quick consid-
Grafton, SO that funds may be made i'm
mediately available for the overseas
transportation Of troops.
In addition to the Regular Army bill q
fortifications bill. carrying $4,000, ,ooo. 900
is under consideration by the House ap.
propriations committee. Secretary Bak.
er asked Congress for $500. .oo0, 900 ad-
ditional for ordnance and ordnance SUP.
plies, with authorization for the War De-
partment to spend $1,118,562,4e6 addi-
t1ona! Tor ordnance as in its discretion
may be required during the coming fiscal
year.
OF the more than seven billion au-
thorizatfon asked. $4,160.O0O,O00 is for
armament for Notifications, and noun
tain. field and siege cannon, and 50. 701.-
1894. .437 -or ammunition.
Some of the big items in the contract
authorization sought by the department
are: Armored motor cars, 2.422.5OO :
automatic rifles. 337. .726. 900; manu-.
facture OF arms. $207, 100000; manufac-
ture and purchase Of ammunition for
small arms and ordnance stores, 81. .O56.-
600. 900: small arms target practice s8I-
O73,725: manufacturing and renairinr
arms, $207,324,325
Evening star., 1918-05-23
TWO b. c. MEN NAMED IN
TODAY'S CASUALTYLIST

appear in today's casualty list from
France. They are Corp. Michael Muir
ply of f27 11th street and Private
Warren Coleman. colored. Of SIS X
street northeast.
Murphy is not listed in the city di-
rectory. The War Department an
nounces that on his enlistment blank
he gave his nearest friend as G. Wick
ert.
Private Coleman died of pneumonia
in France. He was twenty-three years
old. Prior to entering the Army a
year ago he served in the Navy. His
wife, Mrs. Isabel Coleman, lives at the
K street address.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
BOLSHEVIKI SENTENCED.
Fifty-Three Members Of Omsk Crew
Plead Guilty to Conspiracy.

NORFOLK. Va.:S May 23.-F'ifty-
three bolshevik members Of the crew
of the Russian steamship Omsk, who
were arrested here charged with con-
spring to seize the ship at sea and
dispose of the cargo and also inter-
fering with port regulations, yester-
day afternoon entered pleas Of guilty
and were sentenced to serve five days
in Jail.
The court took into considerable the
time the men have been in jail in inn
posing their punishment. but ordered
that they be detained five additional
days after release to give the immi-
grafton authorities time to determine
whether they shall be deported as
undesirable aliens.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
STOKES TRIAL NEARs END.
Indications Case Will Be in Hands
of Jury Late Today.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, MAY os-Arsu-
ment of counsel in the case of Mrs.
Rose Pastor Stokes. charged with vio-
lation of the espionage law, was re-
sumed when court opened today. In
dications were the case would be in
the Hands of the jury late this after
noon.
Only the concluding arguments re-
mained to be delivered. after which
Judge Arba S. Van Valkenburgh will
charge the jury. and the twelve men
Will begin their deliberations.
district attorney, expected to sum up
finally for the government and Sey-
mour Stedman of Chicago for the de-
fenSe.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
ALLEGED MURDERER KILLED.
Shot to Death in Georgia and Body
Dragged Behind Auto.

VALDOsTA, Ca. May 23-sidney
Johnson. alleged murderer Of Hamp-
ton Smith. farmer of Brooks county,
was shot to death in a battle with
police and sheriff's deputies on the
outskirts of Valdosta late last night.
Three men were wounded. including
Chief of Police Dampier.
With Johnson dead. Ave negroes
have been killed in this section of
the state in the last six days in con-
nection with the murder of Smith.
Johnson's body was tied to the rear
of an automobile and dragged through
the streets. Afterward the automo-
bile headed out Of town, and reports
said the body was being taken to the
scene of the murder.
OF the negroes implicated in the
attack on the Smith home only one
remains at large.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
German FLiers Slay
Nurses and Wounded
Near Battle Front.
SISTERS AT POSTS
IN DEATH DOWNPOUR
Large American Hospital
Escapes-One Enemy
Machine Dotpned.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, May 23.-German airmen
again have bombed, heavily, British
hospitals in the area behind the lines
and this time have killed and wounded
some hundreds among the personnel
and patients of many different hos
pitals in the group.
Recorded in the casualty list are the
names of several sisters who with
other woman nurses stood bravely by
their posts throughout a terrific deluge
of explosives.
There is in the neighborhood one
large American hospital and another
in which there are American workers,
but neither of these appears to have
suffered. Last summer a number of
American doctors and nurses were
killed and wounded when these same
hospitals were raided by the Germans
This latest horror was perpetrated
Sunday night, apparently by four
squadrons of enemy planes, which ap-
pear to have comprised more than a
score of machines. A great number Of
bombs were dropped, about 80 per cent
of them huge affairs, which dug vast
craters in the hospital grounds, and
the rest high explosive shrapnel, which
sent their death dealing bullets tearing
in every direction through the crowded
hospital tents and buildings.
One Airplane Brought Down.
A three-seated airplane was brought
down by gunfire while flying at . low
altitude and the occupants were made
prisoners. The enemy captain and the
pilot sustained comparatively light
shrapnel wounds. while the observer
was not hurt When questioned why
he had directed his men against hos
pitals, the captain explained in q mat
ter-of-fact way that he did not see the
Red Cross signs. He said he was
seeking military objectives and had
tAO 0SSli " iuOiCSt AOSpildl0s
With a shrug of his shoulders the
German captain added that IL the
British choose to build their hospitals
near railways they must expect to get
them bombed.
The captain spoke excellent Englis!t
Asked where he had learned it, he re
piled he had been in the diplomat.
service before the war.
Divided Into Two Phases.
Sunday nights raid was divided into
two phases, the first of which began
shortly before 10 o'clock and lasted
until IL o'clock. Not satisfied wita
this. the enemy returned and heavily
bombarded hospitals filled with wound
ed men. In one building. which was
damaged most seriously. all the patients
were suffering from compound frac-
lures, which made necessary their limbs
being strapped in the air. Not a won-
an deserted her ward, but throughout
the terrible bombing each one kept
going her rounds and quieting the un-
fortunate men who might easily have
done themselves lasting harm by
springing from their beds.
One sister was killed while admins
tering to the soldiers wants, and an
other was SO seriously hurt that she
died shortly afterward. Still another
was dying today. Several more sisters
were among the wounded. Many other
workers were wounded, including sew
eral medical officers
Evening star., 1918-05-23
FIGHTING BREAKS OUT
IN UKRA|N|A'S CAPITAL
Forces of Rada Mobilized-Resi.
dence of New Dictator Several
Times Beseiged.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sunday, May 12.-Serious
fighting in Kiev, capital Of Ukrainia,
is reported. The residence of the
newly appointed Ukrainian dictator.
Gen. Skoropadsky. has been besieged
several times by troops which re-
mained faithful to the rada.
All the forces at the disposal of
the rada are being modified and con-
centrated near Kiev.
MOSCOW. Thursday. May 16-Count
Won Mirbach, German ambassador to
Russia, has promised M. Tchitcherin.
bolshevik foreign minister, to send a
peace delegation to Kiev. He said
that The governmental change in
Ukrainia necessitates changes in the
personnel of the delegation from that
republic and that Kiev was suitable
as meeting place for the delegates.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
GERMANY FREES DEAD
Returns ], 500 Emaciated Prisoners
to Russia, Where Indignation
Is Aroused.

Arrival at Petrograd Of the first con-
tinsent OF 1900 Russian prisoners to
be exchanged under the recent Russo
German agreement was reported to
the State Department today. The
men, the dispatch said. were "verit-
able walking dead men,"
Recent dispatches said that the Ger
mans had demanded an agreement for
the exchange Of prisoners under
which only Russians not fit for work
would be returned to Russia and only
able-bodied Germans would be re-
turned to Germany.
Today's dispatches to the State De-
partment said the condition of the
soldiers returning to Petrograd
aroused great Indignation.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
New Attack on Paris,
Germans Succeeding
in Penetrating Defens
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, May 23.-German aviators
made another attack on Paris last
night, and this time succeeded in
reaching the city. Bombs were dropped
at various places. an official statement
reports.
The following official announcement
was given out:
Several bodies Of enemy aircraft
successfully made for Paris. Our look
out posts opened a very heavy curtain
of fire. Our airplanes took the air.
"A certain number of bombs were
thrown on Paris and in the Paris dis
trict. The all clear signal was given
at $3.50 o'clock"
The casualties. so far as reported.
are one dead and twelve injured.
About thirty German airplanes at
tempted to reach Paris.
On Tuesday night German aviators
attempted to raid Paris, but were kept
away from the city by the French de-
fenses. One of the raiders was brought
down. Three persons were killed and
several wounded in the outskirts of the
city.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
MR.. FAIRBANKS RALLIES.
Physicians Report He, Is Stronger
After a Good Night.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 23.-The
condition of Charles w. Fairbanks,
the former Vice President, who is ill
at his home here. was considered more
satisfactory this morning by DR.. ]. A.
Macdonald and Dr. A. C. kimberlin.
the attending physicians.
'Mr Fairbanks passed a better night
and was a little stronger this morn
ing" said DR.. Macdonald. Both DR..
kimberlin and myself saw Mr.. Fair
banks this morning and found his
condition a little more satisfactory
than yesterday"
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Prosecuting Jews in Galicia.

STOCKHOLM. May o3.-Pogroms
have taken place at Vielicza. Galicia.
and many Jews have been wounded
seriously, according to a report re-
ceived by the Jewish Press Bureau
here. Shops were plundered and win
dows smashed, the damage to prop
erty exceeding 1.O0O,O0O kroner. The
local police made no effort to protect
the Jews and military assistance was
summoned from Cracow.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
British DeWn Sixteen
Enemy AirpIanes and >
Bomb German Stations
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. May 23.-Railway sta
tions in German Lorraine and the
railway near Liege. Belgium, and a
chloride factory at Mannheim. on the
Rhine. were bombed Tuesday night
and Wednesday by British aviators.
says the latest British official, state
ment on aerial operations. Three fires
were caused at Mannheim and large
conf1agrations near Liege.
British ayiators destroyed sixteen
German airplanes and two observa-
ton balloons, and drove down two
airplanes out of control. The state
ment reads:
'Reconnoissances and bombing 6Y
eur airplanss continued unintsrrsSts
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Two Riveting Records Claimed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 23.-
Two world records in riveting are
claimed by workers employed in the
local plant of the Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation. Ltd. Company
officials announced one crew of four
men had driven 6,O75 rivets, while
another record was claimed for a
worker who reamed 5,667 rivet holes
in one day.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
DENIES ATTEMPT TO sLAY
GERMAN ARMY LEADERS

LONDON. May 2s.-Rumors of a re-
cent attempt on the lives Of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg and Gen.
Ludendorff are denied in a Berlin dis
patch to the koelnische Volkszeftuns,
according to the Amsterdam corre-
spondent Of the Morning Post.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Gen. Castleman of Kentucky Dies.

LOUISVILLE. KY. May .23-Gen.
johnson B. Castleman. president of
the American Saddle Horse Breeders
Association. member of Morgan's
command and one Of the most widely
known citizens Of Kentucky, died
at his home here today after q brief
illneSa.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Bolivia With q. S., snys Minister.

SPRINGFIELD. III, May 23.-Dr.
Ignacio Ca1deron, Bolivian minister
to the United States. In an address
here yesterday to ms inbers of the
Illinois Medical Assoc Ition. declared
the republic of Bolivif stands solidly
behind the United. Stnss in its war
policy.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Dawson to Speak Sunday.

washington's first chance to hear
Henry P. Dawson. chairman of the
Red rCoss war council. tell of his ex-
periences on the tour abroad from
which he has just returned, will be at
the National Theater Sunday after
noon at o'clock. The meeting will
be open to the public.
Mrs. J. Borden. Hartman also will
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Glasses Which Are Affected.

''The new regulation will also af-
feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public splaces. including hotels and
social clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants. doormen. footmen and
other attendants of clubs. hotels,
stores, apartment houses. office build
angs and bath houses.
"(c) Persons. including ushers and
other attendants. engaged and occu-
pied in. and in connection with games,
sports and amusements. excepting ac-
tual performers in legitimate con-
certs. operas or theatrical PERFORM
ances.
"(d) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer-
camille establishments.
Men who are engaged as above or
who are idiers will not be permitted
to seek relief because of the fact that
they have drawn a late order number
or because they have been placed in
Class II. Ill or " on the grounds of
dependency. The fact that they are
not usefully employed will outweigh
sences in this connection"
Evening star., 1918-05-23
RED CROSS QUOTA
SOUGHT BY TONIGHT
$428,241 Total of SubsCrip-
tions Announced at
Noon Today.
"MAKE it A MILLION"
Red Cross Meetings Today.

$50 o'clock-Music, vaudeville
and speaking mt Little Theater
on north steps Of Treasury.
g O'clOck-Red Cross night Mt
Memorial Continental Hall mot
at Liberty Hut, when Hudson
Maxim will speak and Helena
Marsh, Mime. Namara and NJ.
Didur will sing.
$3.50 o'clock-special Aims ON
south steps of Treasury, includ-
ing those Of new big French
guns and scenes of the French
navy In action. Music by Boy
Scouts Band.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
CONFEREES AGREE
ON RENT MEASURE
Propose to Protect 7 Tenants in
D. C. Until End of
War.
EARLY ACTION EXPECTED

Agreement on the Salisbury resolu-
trict of Columbia, designed to pre-
vent rent profeeering. was reached
by a conference of the Senate and
House today.
The resolution was agreed to in con-
ference and will be promptly reported
to both Senate and House. Effort will
be made to enact the measure into
law as speedily as possible.
The conferees arrived at compro-
mise whereby it is proposed that the
status quo" Of tenants shall remain
unchanged until a treaty of peace
shall have been definitely concluded
between the United States and the i'm
peral German government. or until
otherwise provided by Congress"
The resolution. as passed by the
Senate. would have been effective only
AS it, was amended and passed by the
House. 1t would have been effective
during the period of the war and for
one year thereafter.
Objection to House Amendment.
Serious objection to the House
amendment was raised in the Senate
before the resolution was sent to
conference. Senator Salisbury, who
had charge of the resolution in the
Senate. said today that he hoped that
the Senate would agree to the COM
promise proposal He planned to
make the conference support the Sen
ate today. If he had opportunity.
Representative Ben Johnson said he
would make the report to the House
as soon as he was able to get recog-
milton for that purpose. Senator
Salisbury believes that if the resolu-
tion can be enacted into law it will
have a salutary effect in preventing
prof1teering in rents in the District of
Columbia.
What Resolution Provides.
The resolution provides that during
the war no judicial order, decree or
judgment for the recovery of possession
of real estate in the District of Colum-
continue SO long as the tenants continue
to pay rent at the agreed rate under
existing lease, and perform the other
conditions of tenancy.
There is nothing in the resolution
that would prevent the owner of prop
erty from taking it over to occupy it
himself, or which would prevent the
who wished to occupy the property
himself Sales OF property otherwise
would be subject to the tenancy ex-
iSting.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR YOU:
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THEM? +?

They have been fighting in France for you; 100000
Americas finest young
YOU cannot go; but YOU give.
Now comes the opportunity
The Red Cross needs YOUR help
needs and your generous conbu-
tions but than your plus the SUD-
port that contribution will give to cause
Evening star., 1918-05-23
Base Ball Men Are Aroused
by the Proposal to Compel
Players to Work or Fiqht

DETROIT. Mich. May 23.-"Such an
order would cause US to close our
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Evening star., 1918-05-23
Statement by Gen. crowder.

The statement of the provost mar
shall generals Office follows:
This regulation provides that after
July 1 any registrant who is found
by a local board to be a habitual idler
or not engaged in some useful occupa-
tion shall be summoned before the
board. given a chance to explain, and,
in the absence of a satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION, to be inducted into the
military service of the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action, whether it has origi-
nal jurisdiction of the registrant or
not; in other words. any man 1oafing
around a poolroom in Chicago may be
held to answer to a Chicago board
even though he may have registered
in New York and lived there most Of
his life.
The regulations which apply to
idle registrants will be deemed to ap-
ply also to gamblers of all descrip-
tions, and employees and attendants OF
bucket shops and race tracks. for
tune tellers, clairvoyants. palmists
and the like. who for the purposes of
the regulations will be considered as
idlers.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
New Regulation Hits IdIers
and Those Who Are Not
UsefuIIy Employed.
GEN. CROWDER SPECIFIES
NON-USEFUL OCCUPATIONS
Deferred Classification Will Not
Avail Those Who Fall Within
the Specifications.

Thousands Of young men within the
draft, age including clerks in stores,
theater ushers and attendants, passen-
ger elevator operators and hotel and
club attendants, found themselves to-
day classed as "non-useful."
''work or fight" after July l was the
edict issued today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder to all young men of
draft age under a drastic amendment
to the seleetive service regulations.
To Go Before Boards.
Not only idlers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to
be non-useful occupations, are to be
taken before local boards and given
the choice of a new job or the Army.
Deferred classiications granted on
account of dependents will be disre-
garded entirely in applying the rule.
Provost Marshal General Crowder's
new work or fight" regulations may
require professional base ball players
either to engage in some useful occu-
patton or to join the Army.
Base ball players, as well as jock
eys. professional golfers and other
professional sportsmen. Gen. Crowder
said today, will be affected by the
regulations if strictly enforced. The
provost marshal general said he did
not desire to make specific rulings at
this time, and would make rulings
only when cases come to him from
local boards after July 1.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list: but those who will be
reached by the new regulations also
include walters and bartenders. the
ater ushers and attendants. passenger
elevator operators and other attend
ants of clubs. hotels. stores. ETC., do
mestics and clerks in stores.
Evening star., 1918-05-23
WEATHER.

Thunder showers this afternoon or
tonight, cooler; tomorrow fair.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending pm. today: Highest, 50. at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, 20, at 7:10
am. today.
Full report on page 20.
Evening star., 1918-05-23

"a million dollars and 100, 900
subscribersm
This was the slogan for the re-
mainder Of the campaign an
nounced by Charles Henry Butler
at the meeting of teams at the
New Willard Hotel today. Hence
forth the members Of the personal
solicitation teams are free to ap-
pr0ach any one in the National
Capital.
A grand total Of $42S,241.9O to
date was announced. The teams
raised today 31O1,27S. Mrs.
FfOulke's team led with q report
of $:S,725.
Evening star., 1918-05-23

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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-04
NABIsCo
(18 Miles Southwtst)

klo Miles OOuCnWCSC)
The rain which fell last Thursday
afternoon and all day Friday was
sure welcome.
Mr.. Vaudeville, the Rumley "Oil
Pull" salesman of Liberal, was in
these parts Monday.
Geo. P. Clark met with a very pain
full accident one day last week. His
team ran away and in jumping from
the wagon he landed on his head and
shoulders. We hope it will not prove
serious.
Mrs. Luther Shaw and Mrs. John
Mitts called on Mrs. VIM. Hickman
Monday afternoon.
Henry Brown and family were
Sunday visitors at the home of Jas.
Lewis.
E. T. PUNK and family called at
the Brown home Sunday evening.
j. w. Mitts and family visited at
the E. T. PUNK home Saturday even
ing.
Several from here attended the
Easter egg hunt at the Hunsinger
home Sunday afternoon.
Emmit Walraven, Henry Brown,
Roy Lewis and Herbert PUNK attend
ed the phone officers meeting at Mr..
Duckett's Monday night.
Rev. Pendleton of Guymon held
services at Nabisco Sunday morning.
Rev. Henderson preached at Mt.
Zion Sunday night, and at Nabisco
Tuesday night.
Mrs. Kimble, mother of s. B. Kim
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-04
WITH OUR EMERGENCY
HOME DEMONSTRATION
. AGENT
By Miss Ellen Nelson

The Junior High Garden Club has
membership of twenty-four. Mr..
"Billy" Scandrett is captain. The
Central School Club has a member
ship of nine and Walker Maxwell is
captain. The club at the Central
school should have met Friday, March
20 at 4:30, but the rain prevented a
meeting. The next meeting is two
weeks from Friday or April 18th, at
the same place and at 4:30 p. m.
Walker Maxwell presides over the
meeting. Members, do not forget to
come.
The Junior High Club meets at
$3.50 Friday afternoon, April 18th.
The teachers are always welcome to
the meetings and their suggestions
are gladly received.
We want all the members to be
present next time so we know where
and how you are to garden. 1t is
time to spade your garden. Those
who are to garden in the community
garden should know where it is and
be assigned space, Friday, April 18th.
Mrs. d. C. Woods is our supervisor
in Liberal over tht Government Club
girls. We are especially fortunate to
have such an efficient supervisor and
the girls meet on Saturdays twice a
month at the court house.
There are several girls who wish to
join but we have not had the enroll
ment blanks. We have large sup
ply now, and girls call up 470 or
come to the court house and see Miss
Nelson and enroll. The first lesson is
to learn to darn stocking-a cotton,
lyle or silk, it makes no difference
just so you save the stocking for the
county fair for exhibit-you may
darn as many as you like but you
must keep one for exhibits. Miss
Nelson's girls took first prize OF the
State Fair in the state of Washing
ton in darning and patching.