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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
Government Agent Making In
.vestigatiOns in State.
Many in Deferred Glasses Are
To Be Moved Up.
CHANGES IN MARION COUNTY
Otheer Sections of State Have
Many Favored Sons.
Political "Pulls" Thought to
Have Been Used.

Investigations of draft classifica-
tions are being made in Kansas. John
Callahan, of Independence. special gov
ernment agent, is investigating hun
dreds of cases. Many men in deferred
classes have already been changed to
class Ia, and the works of local
boards in several counties are being
carefully reviewed.
In at least one county a number of
men have recently been added to the
nations fighting forces. Changes in
classifications have been made in a
number Of Marion county cases and
other counties are being investigated.
While data in individual cases will
not be made public at this time. re-
ports have been sent to Topeka, indi-
eating pressure on local boards which
resulted in granting of deferred classi-
fication to a number of men of draft
age. While no official authority has
been given, several reports have been
made recently to the effect that polit-
ical influence resulted in the granting
Of a number of deferred claims.
Wide Variance Shown.
Many Kansas counties showed a
wide difference in their classifica-
ton of men. In some counties the
men in class who were granted de-
fe-red claims averaged more than so
per cent. Inru actfOnS OF boards In
granting deferred claims, some of the
small counties in the rural districts
were practically drained of all men
available for immediate service call. :.
Callahan's reports are being sent to
the provost marshal general in Wash
ington. Where conditions seem to
warrant, special Investigations are be-
ing made. Soldiers of the soil" seem
to have won the greatest preferment
Numerous farming districts showed
a tendency to permit the town man to
do the fighting. Scores of farmers
showed a willingness to help win the
war by raising crops at inflated prices.
But soothing words by candidates
for political office are said to have en-
couraged the belief that men even re-
motely connected with some branch OF
farm endeavor, should stay at home.
This condition did not apply in all To-
calities- But the light crop of Class
men in many counties is responsible
for the present war department in
vestigation.
A number Of men reclassified under
Callahan's recommendations are now
subject to current draft calls. The
work may require many weeks. But
it Is expected to send to the service
several hundred men whom local draft
boards had classified in such a man
ner that they were reasonably certain
to spend the coming summer and win
ter in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
Frightfulness Coming Into Play
Thru U.BOat Raids.
Latest Sinking of British Ship
Indicates Old Traits.
HAVE NOW sunk IA SHIPS
Persons Missing
From Victimized Boats.
New York Light Restrictions
Becoming More Drastic.

New York, June 7.-Real Prussian
frightfulness is coming into play in
the submarine raids on Atlantic coast
shipping, according to details OF the
steamer Harpathian sinking received
here today.
This British ship of 2.soo tons was
without warning between
ninety and 100 miles off the Virginia
capes. Captain Owen and his crew
OF forty-one had barely time to get
into the Boats. Flying timbers from
the y explosion broke one mans leg
and injured the head of another. The
attack came at a. m, when most OF
the crew were asleep and some tum-
bled into the boats scantily clad.
The German pirate popped up for
a minute and was seen to be a big
craft bearing the number 102 or liz
on her coming tower. For twenty
six hours the Harpathian's men were
food and water. As they rowed for
shore. they saw two more German
subma rines.
Fourteen Ships Have Been Sunk.
Torpedoing of the Harpathian
brought the German sinking record to
fourtesen-six steamers and eight
schoon ers; the missing total, twenty
IlVe-ten passengers ana IlIteeu OIL
the crew of the Carolina. Word came
today of the safe arrival at a West
Indian port of a 10,00o-ton liner for
which fear had been felt
New York's lighting restrictions are
being made more drastic. Street lights
also in some places are regulated. A
false air raid alarm, caused by blow
ing of locomotive whistles, caused
great excitement in uptown Manhat-
tan. malny fleeing to cellars while the
police were deluged with telephone
inquiries a. to which way the sup
posed air raiders were teading
- POrt of PhiIadeiphia Open.
Philadelphia, Pa, June THE
port of Philadelphia was reopened to-
day following the clearing of the mine
field in Delaware bay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
BENNY KAUF TO WAR
Giants' Outfielder Drafted for Military
Service on June "a.

Pomeroy, O., June Benny Kauff.
outfielder for the New York Giants,
and one of the best known baseball
players in the country. today was or
dered by his local draft board to re-
port for military service on June "a.
He probably will be sent to Camp
Sherman, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
FIGHT With ''SUB"
French Armed Merchant Ship
Battles Off u. s. Coast.
Enters an Atlantic Port Today
Gives No Details.

An Atlantic Port, June IA
French armed merchant ship came
into port here today and reported an
encounter with a German submarine
off the Virginia capes.
Details of the battle are lacking. but
it is said the fight occurred q short
distance outside the capes.
The extent of the damage to the
merchantmen is unknown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
new PEACE KITE?
Paris Says Germany Soon Will
Make Peace Offer.
Chancellor IHertling Due for a
Speech in Reichstag.

Paris, June T.-.It is reported that
most of the German political parties
have agreed upon the desirability of
offering peace TO the allies" the Echo
de Paris declared today.
Chancellor Hertling will make a
very sensational speech in the reichs-
tag soon"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
COLLIDE IN THE AIR
Two American Aviation Lieutenants
Killed in Louisiana.

Lake Charles, La. June 7.-Lieuts.
John L. Hegarty and Travers Lee Hal
ton were killed near Gerstner field
today when their airplanes eollided
while at battle practice.
Halton was from San Antonio, Tex,
and Hegarty from New Jersey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
SEIZE DUTCH TRAWLERS
Germans Take Two Holland Ships Into
Swinemunde-

Amsterda June Tt was learned
today that the Germans have seized
the Dutch trawlers Zeester and Ros-
fina and have taken them into Swine
munde.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
LIKE CHILLY SPRING
Mercury Down TO 50 Here This Morn
ing-Men shivered in Coats.
Today's Temperatures.

The temperatu1e averaged Tor the
day, degrees below normal. The
wind was blowing in the afternoon at
Men coming down town to business
this morning buttoned their coats
closely about thent and shivered with
reviving memoriea of last January.
(Confnne1 oh Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
Earl of Campcrdown Dead.

London, June 6.-The third Earl of
Camperdown (Robert Adam Philips
Haldane-Duncan) died yesterday. He
was born in 1S41.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Thunder showers this afternoon
or tonight. Warmer west; Saturday
cloudy and warmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07
TRIBUTE TO FAIRBANKS

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-07

THE Yanks are teaching the Huns
that to sneer at America is a
costly pastime.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
WHAT WILL 81 DO.

1t will save you from S. to $40
on your old winter suit. Phone 3Ol
for a trial 81 job. Prompt service,
quick delivery. We are responsible
and reliable.
LONDON.
Between the shows. ~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

comes the first big lesson in aerial
gunnery. But the cadet goes into
the air armed with nothing more
deadly than the camera to put into
practice the knowledge he has &C
quired.
An airplane scars nearby in the
guise OF an enemy ship and IS
snapped by the cadet, whose degree
Of accuracy is indicated by the near
ness OF the picture to the center OF
the lens, which is marked in cir
clcs.
The school OF aerial gunnery at
Love Field here is turning out flyers
having a degree of accuracy that
will give them great confidence once
they reach the battlefieldS OF
France, officers declare. This ac-
curacy comes only after the hardest
study and practice.
For the actual ground practice a
hill has been built back OF the tar
get range. Thousands OF pounds OF
bullets already have been poured
into it from students guns.
A tiny wooden reproduction OF an
enemy plane is the object OF this
practice. The target is an unindi-
Gated spot in a nearby white sheet
before which the plane, flying at a
given speed would be passing when
the American planee shots reached
it. The student figures out the speed
and the angle OF ascension and dis
tance OF the enemy, adjusts his gun
and aims at the tiny plane. Then if
he is accurate in his shooting and
his calculations, the bullet should
pierce the spot marked on the back
side Of the white sheet.
Students also are carefully drilled
in the strategy of maneuvering into
the one spot in the rear OF the enemy
plane whence he cannot shoot.
From this position they can pour
their own shots into the enemy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
HOW TO LOAD BIG
BOMBING PLANES WITH
BOMBS FOR GERMANS

London, July E.-(Correspond-
ence OF The Associated Press)-The
loading OF a bombing airplane with
bombs for a raid in Germany is
risky work and must be carefully
done or the workers will be
destroyed by their own bombs. The
big. long-distance airplanes carry
twelve to fourteen large bombs. each
too heavy for man to lit. Before
these are placed in the machine a
crew OF armorers has to prepare
them by inserting the various fuses,
detonators. and exploders in them.
which transform harmless case OF
the T. n. T. into missile OF terrific
busting force.
These bombs arc raised one by one
from the ground by pulley system
worked by men inside the machine,
while one or two armorers on the
ground below steer the unwieldy
yellow cylinder into its guides. and
assure themselves that 1t is firmly
held in the hook above before they
release it. Loading fourteen bombs
of this type take some little time. and
when it has been done the bombs
have to be so arranged and fitted
that they can be released either
safe" or "alive" by the observer.
Meanwhile the engineers are fill
ing the great petrol tanks with hun
dreds OF gallons OF petrol. and the
engines are being carefully over
hauled and tested. The water tanks
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

and oil tanks in their turn have to
be examined and replenished. Car
penters test the wings, the wire, and
the tail-planes, and adjust the all
important control system.
Electricians overhaul the various
lighting sets for it the lighting sys-
TEN fails during flight it may cause
a great deal OF trouble and perhaps
bring disaster.
Gun-layers are taking their ma
chine guns to pieces for the thous-
andth time. and are carefully oiling
and examining every small part. The
guns are then fired on the range be-
fore being mounted on the machine.
The Verey light pistols and the re
volvers belonging to the machine are
oiled and tested to make sure the
safety and the success of the machine
and its occupants, who have to travel
at midnight several hundred miles
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
PARIS WINDOW PANES
HAVE PAPER PATTERNS
(By Reciprocal News Service)

(By Reciprocal News Service)
Paris (via London) Aug. 20
(By MaiD-Somebody discovered
that pieces of paper pasted on win
dow panes protect them against the
conclusive shock of bombs-and
wrote a piece to the papers about it.
1t was proved also that even where
bombs shatter plate glass, the strips
of paper will minimize the amount
of flying fragments. almost as dan
gerous to human beings as shrapnel.
Paris instantly adopted the strips
OF paper. As you might expect,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

The congressional library
Washington contains 2,l2s,
books. 1888 maps and cha
5000 volumes and pieces OF m
and 5000 prints.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
CAMERA TO RECORD
IMAGINARY SHOTS
OF STUDENT AVIATORS

Dallas. Tex, Aug. THE eye OF
the camera instead OF rapid-firing
guns is being used to record direct
hits on enemy" planes by aviation
cadets III Texas training camps.
Alter the great thrill OF the first
solo flight. the nose dive, the tail
spin, and the loop, blouseS are dis
carded and course of study in
geometry, mathematics, and physics
entered into by the cadets that lar
surpasses that OF many scientific
school.
DAYS OF drill and study, hot morn
ings At the rifle range, and then
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

there at once appeared fashions in
strips OF paper
Some OF these fashions are
elaborate designs in different col
ored strips. Some are conventional
decorations, but there are great
many that employ figures, like the
cock of France, poilus and trade
marks. Others are plain square eff
fects. Some concerns use the strips
to advertise bargains for the week.
Doors are similarly decorated and
windows on upper floors.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

to the fleet OF channel craft of An
lean coast packets.
These packets. with powerful I
bine engines, make swift trips
tween England and France cal
ing Yank troops from rest car
to training areas. There is m
traffic both ways for them.
1t is now possible Tor tranSpo
ton officers OF the American f
to route Ianks on special miSsi
over all-American railways
France up to the railway com
tions in Great Britain. The E
ish railways have proved adeqt
for the greatly increased traffi
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
An Over-Ripe Tomato.

and other over.ripe vegetables or fruits
often cause very serious bowel trouble
in hot weather. Check it as quickly as
possible. Get a bottle OF Groves Baby
Bowel Medicine. a safe and sure remedy
for summer diarrhoeas. 1t is just as
effective for adults as for children.-Adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

WANTED. Men and ladies TO
learn barber trade; free tuition,
percentage paid while learning
position guaranteed; catalog mail
ed free.-Schwarze Barber College
106 West California Avenue,
Oklahoma City.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
u. S. COAST PACKETS
OVER THERE IN EUROPE

(By Reciprocal News Service
London. Aug. 20, (By MaiD.-
Ties connecting England and Amer
ica have 4 new loop in the addition
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08
+ Facl;es Excellent Between Oklahoma City and Points


mreadya
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

over Germany on their mission to
destruction to the great war factories
and railwary functions OF the
Rhenish valley.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-08

Between the shows.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25
Mrs. O'Grady's Policy

family will be appointed to that pc
sition.
So much for the above.
The Producers News will only add
what is the opinion of a great many
others beside this papers and that
is this: that if Mrs. O'Grady did ap-
point her husband, deputy, as she
has just as much right to do as the
present auditor has to appoint his
wife, deputy auditor, that the people
of Sheridan county win be getting
more for their money in the way of
service, than they are now getting
for the SIPS per month being paid
out to Mrs. James Redmond who now
acts as deputy for her husband-fo
it is matter of town talk, that the
only thing that she does at the court
house or is capable of doing with any
is drawing her salary.
"Sunny Jim" and his family ara
drawing in the neighborhood Of SITS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25
The Best Bet

The Nonpartisan League of this
congressional district made no III
dorsements for congressman. There
fore, in voting for representative in
congress, the farmers are not bound
in their choice. They are at liberty
to vote as they happen to feel for
either the republican or democratic
candidate for congress.
Neither the man, Carl D. Riddick of
Lewistown nor Harry Mitchell was
satisfactory to the league, therefore
the league did not care to become re-
sponsible for either one and as the
league has endorsed neither, neither
candidate has any claim whatsoever
upon the league nor has the league
any claim upon either of them, nor is
the league responsible to or for eth
er in any way, shape Or manner.
However, there is as a usual thing
choice between any two candidates.
And it is the opinion of the editor of
the Producers News, submitted to the
farmers for only what it is worth, and
to consider or not as each one hap
pens to feel, that Carl D. Riddick of
Fergus county, is by far the chest
bet"
AS basis for this conclusion, We
submit the following facts:
Carl D. Riddick, the republican
nominee, is farmer. His opponent,
Harry d. Mitchell, the democratic
nominee, is a corporation newspaper
man, being heavy stakeholder in the
Great Falls Leader, a republican pa
per, and the Great Falls Tribune, the
democratic daily. For long time he
has been managing editor of the Tri-
bune, but quit that job last spring
to run for congress and if he is de-
feated he will probably again assume
the duties of the editor of that paper.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture he attended, and the dope that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25

The Pioneer Press last week made
an insinuating attack upon the cam
didacy of Mrs. Beatrice K. O'Grady.
The thing said that was calculated to
hurt her candidacy was the Ninsinua-
ton that she was going to make her
husband, John O'Grady, deputy coun-
ty auditor; for the above paper Is
conscious of the fact that the public
generally is getting tired of the pro-
position of having relatives installed
as deputies in the different county
offices, and it calculated to divert
votes, very slyly, from the farmers
candidate for auditor by that insinu-
alton.
Mrs. Beatrice K. O'Grady, the
farmers candidate for county audi
tor, authorizes the Producers News
to publish her promise to the public
that If she is elected that her husband
will not be appointed deputy auditor,
but that some person outside of her
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25
County DiOision

The expose last week OF henry
loves county seat plot fell like .
boom in the camps Of the Phlilstines.
It's very amusing to the members OF
the League scattered as they are
rather thickly, over Shridan county
Most Of the farmers are not partlcu-
,arlv interested in the county seat
game. They are more interested IN
raising wheat. However, the Dusi-
ness men in the different towns along
the line never allow their hopes for
county seat some day, to sleep Tor
moment. AS a result, each town Is
laying awake nights, planning some
scheme, to put one over" on rival
town.
The scheme of Culbertson, must be
admitted, is smooth and clever.
All of the towns along the main
line are so wrought up over the pros
poets of the league victory this fall
that they have lost their wits. The
Culbertson business men OWNED the
above condition. In order to defeat
Clair Stoner the business man vote
has to be delivered solid for Banker
Lowe of Bainville and Culbertson.
Scobey has gone "nuts" over the
league. Now was the time to capital
ize the dread of league victory, and
Culbertson got busy.
Banker Lowe was put on the ticket
for Senator; Attorney Davis OF Sco-
hey was withdrawn. Henry Lowe, go
we are told on good authority, makes
promise to the effect that he will
not support county division during
the period of the war, knowing very
we'll that before his term of four
years were up, that the war would be
over, and in order to make assurance
doubly sure, if the businessmen of
Culbertson got impatient, he would
have a friend in the senate introduce
county division bill and he would of
course vote for it when the time
came. So much, soagoods
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25

aAs- 4@~ -
join and serve her, country on the
grounds that the pay was not sufi-
cient.
Mrs. Boswick is also a very capable
stenographer. The United States
government has sent out calls time
and again for help with sthe above
training, and have even said that
such help was even more needed than
soldiers on the battlefront.
Why did not Mrs. Boswick, enter
tanning the feelings and sentiments
that she does, and having the decided
opinions in regards to the duties of
her opponent that she seems to have,
respond to the call Of the nation,
thereby making sentiments more OF
a fact and less of theory?
There is nothing like consisten-
ey in this old world of ours.
And, while we are talking OF
patriotism, will not Little Joe" Do
lin come forward and tell the people
just what he has done outside of
talking, to help win the war, and
what signal service he has performed
outside of "doing" the county print
ing, that has placed him and his pa
per in that exalted position where
he is qualified and justified in making
disparaging illusions to the patriotic
qualities of Others.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-25


The only thing that now remains
is to get the town vote to stick Tor
Lowe and get the farmer vote to d.
vide ON Stoner and Levang If pos
sible. Observe how the "kept" press
are now booming Levang, telling the
farmers that he is also a Lacquer and
better man than Stoner. The idea
il tn divide the country vote, for ev-
erv farmer vote cast for Levang is a
vote for Henry Lowe, for Levang
has no hopes of being elected and
xe are positive is making the cam
naipn for the sole purpose OF aiding
TO defeat the Nonpartisan candidate.
AS said before, the Producers News
recognizes the fact that before four
wears more rolls around there will be
some kind of a county division. This
naper has no favorites or suggestions
to offer. The people concerned are
the ones to divide the county and 10
cate the county seat. We are not ev-
on antagonistic to the aspirations OF
Culbertson. But we do call attention
to the Culbertson intrigue.
It amuses the farmers to see the
villages and the opposition to the
league cut each others throat.
If Scobey and Wolf Point and Pop
lar and Bainville and Froid are
willing to vote for Henry Lowe and
CuIbertson for the county seat with
the same vote, and the farmers in the
section concerned are satisfied, it Is
all right with the Producers News"
and the farmers in the northeastern
part of the county.
Only why not be open and above
board about it?
What becomes of Banker loves
square deal?"
If any of the towns think that the
Culbertson county seat scheme is
only political propaganda, let the IL
terested villages send detectives to
get the facts. The assertions Of the
Producers News can be verified.