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STRIKE NOW AND
Continued from Page One,

force the striking men into the army
unless they return to their work.
Meanwhile a few plants are strug-
Cling on at Manchester thru the reso-
luton of the 5000 women to stick to
their work. A resolution has been
passed by them pledging their loyalty
to the government and to the men il
the trenches.
A resolution adopted by workers in
the Woolwich district says:
Strike now and you will earn the
blessings of the kaiser
Morning newspapers expressed SYM
pathy with the workers, but have no
sympathy for a strike. They urge the
government to handle the situation
cool1y.
London, July 25.-A strike of NUM-
lions workers began at Birmingham
at o'clock last night, the hour the
day workers finished their work and
when the night shift was to come on
duty, according to a dispatch to the
Central News from Birmingham.
The W>olwich arsenal workers held
meeting yesterday after which they
telegraphed the Coventry munitions
workers as FOLLOWS:
Strike now and you will earn the
blessings of the kaiser and his army
of murderers. But you will earn the
lasting condemnation of all those who
are fighting and working in the allied
nations to g. in real freedom for civil
ization.
Fighting With Words and Full Bellies.
I'VE warn you seriously II you per-
sist in striking that this government
owes It to your brave brothers who
are fighting the Germans with their
LIES blood. while you are fighting
with words and full bellies, that you
be Immediately put in the front IF the
firing line and that your leaders
should be shot
Strike and you may go to hell
Woolwie,l will remain at work and
earn the ri; to shake the hand of
the soldier when he returns"
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BIG SHOW AT SALIVA
Tractor Demonstration Next Week VIII
Draw Kansas Crowds.

salina, Kan, July 25.-The Salina
Tractor show next week will be a
demonstration of patriotic farming
the type which enables the American
farmer, v tn his American-made farm
machines, to feed the world. 1t will
be full of lessons on how to speed up
Il big American food machine even
more.
The tractor demonstration has be-
come a national institution in answer
to certain well defined demands. 1t
was to bring the news of the tractor,
and its ability to do farm work d1-
rectly to the farmers, that the tractor
demonstration began and developed
The great series of demonstrations in
1915 developed in various parts OF
the country great zones of tractor en-
thusiasm Tractor sales increased
rapidly in many places following the
national demonstrations of that year.
From the days of the Winnipeg
tractor contest. in 1908 to the various
Fremont demonstrations and the Big
Eight tractor demonstrations. exhibits
of the tractors ut work have been linz
tied to blowing and other drawbar ma
chimes. The work first was limited
entirely to blowing. which gave rise to
a wide belief-among farmers that the
tractor was a blowing machine alone.
Eventually other exhibits were added,
until at the Big Eight demonstrations
In 1916 the International harvester
company was permitted to install a
complete series of exhibits of drawbar
work from blowing, fertilizing and
narrowing. to drilling. and seeding.
For the first time in history, belt ma
chimes will be permitted.
This is an exceedingly important de-
parture because almost half of the
need for the tractor on the average
farm is for belt work. Only two sselt
machines will be permitted on the
grounds, and for these the Harvester
company expects to exhibit a small
thresher and an ensilage cutter. Illus
trating two of the most important belt
machines needed for final stages in
the care of the corn and wheat crops.
This will enable the onlookers to Wis
ualize the whole process of raising
and handling the crops of grain.
Threshing and cutting ensilage will
probably not actually be done, a1tho
the machines will be on the ground
and in action at the belt end of rrac-
tors. Motor cultivators and binders
also will be on the field. and the har-
vesting machines will be shown with
various types of tractor hitch and
control. 1t will be the most complete
exhibit of tractor farming which the
Harvester company has ever made
and will insure by far the most COM
piete tractor demonstration ever held.
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ONE MORE DAY Is LEFT
Topekans Must Register Tomorrow
Circus Helped Today.

TheAcircus proved, boon to regis
tration today. Scores of people who
came uptown to see the parade and
the performance at the fair grounds
took advantage of the opportunity to
go to the city clerks office on the
third floor of the city building and
register. Just after the parade had
passed, especially, the clerks office
was swamped with people.
With tomorrow the last day in
which to register. the force in the city
clerks office iare holding themselves
in readiness for a big rush. 1t never
fails on the last day, City Clerk Sovell
asserts, and the fact that the registra-
ton was heavier than usual today will
not minimize the rush tomorrow, 1t is
believed.
Tonight and tomorrow night the
clerks office will be op,n and the ele-
vators running until 10 o'clock. Then
the books will be closed and people
who have changed their street ad-
dresses since last general election and
did not register this year will find
themselves disqualified to vite
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RED CROSS WORKERS
Committee Chairmen for Topeka
Chapter Chosen for Year.

The executive committee of the To-
peka chapter of the American Red
Cross has completed the assignments
of the committee chairmen for the
present year. The annual meeting of
the Topeka chapter was held two
weeks ago and officers and directors
chosen. The executive committee was
given authority to name the various
committee chairmen. The chairnen
are to select the members of the COM
mfttees who will serve with them
The following are the standing COM
mlttee chairmen for the year:
Extension and Membership-Mrs. David
Z. Palmer, chairman.
F1nanee-Mrs; David W. Mulvane. chair
man Mrs Arthur Capper, vice chairman.
Audits-Frank c. Beck. chairman
Pub1city-Cecii Howes, chairman
Momen's Work-Mrs. Chas. Il. Thomas
Warehouse and Shipping-Carolyn Thomas,
chairman; (bl Hospital Garments-Mrs. J.
r Dillon. jr., chairman: (c) Knitting
&i1tary Relief-David W.. MuIvane
chairman: (a) Canteen Service-Mrs. A n
Fuller, chairman: (b) Motor Service-Geo.
w. Stansfield, chairman.
civilian Relief-Horace L. Hall. chair
man; (a) Home Seryice-Mrs Horace I,
Hall. chairman: Mrs. c. w Seeiy, secre-
tary; tb) Nursing Serviee-Mrs Louise
Bredel: chairman: instruction in home
care of the sick: instruction in dietetics-
Junior Membership-P. S. Hasty, chair
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ROB TWO HOMES
Burglars Obtain S42 From
Home of Mrs. Mary Fritz.
Woman Thought She Smelled
ChlorOform When Awakened.

Two Topeka residences were burg
larized late wednesday night or early
this morning, the loot totalling $42 IN
cash, a woman's gold watch and
pair of shoes.
The s42 was taken from the home
of Mrs Mary Fritz, 1900 Western
avenue. The robber or robbers en-
tered the house by unlocking a screen
and unlocking a door with a skeleton
key. The money was in room
across the hall from the one IN which
Mrs Fritz was asleep. She discovered
the loss when she awakened this
morning and told George Frost and
Ed Ransom, plain clothes men. that
there was a peculiar odor, similar to
that of chloroform, in her room when
she awakened. The plain clothes men
were unable to find any evidence of a
drug being used to keep Mrs. Fritz
asleep, however, and discredit the
idea.
The gold watch and shoes were
taken from the house of Ed Pillows,
1911 Van Buren, street. Pillows says
he awakened at O'Clock this morning
and the watch and shoes were still on
a chair by a window. He went back
to sleep again, he says, and on
awakening later found them gone. 1t
is apparent, the police say, that some
one reached in the window and
lifted them.
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HERE is YOUR CHANCE
Little Boy of Four Needs a Home
Father at Front

A chance to serve the country by
some one not at the front is given in
an appeal from the home service de-
partment of the Red Cross. A little
boy, four years of age, needs a home.
because his faSher is going "over,'
and he has no mother. and no one to
care for him unless a volunteer can
be found to give him a home for the
duration of the war. The little lads
father is to go to Lawrence next week
to take the training at Kansas uni
versfty- The boy is bright and at
tractive and 1oveable There are
many chiiGless homes in Topeka that
need the Roy as much as he needs the
home
Anyone interested in looking after
the child while his father goes to help
with the ration's fight. may communi-
cate with Mrs. C.. W. Seely. of the
home service department of the Red
Cross telephone 2o2A-
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Monroe s. Hatfield, Arkansas City,
KANSAS; Burton Henshaw, Wellston,

Monroe S. Hatfield, Arkansas City,
KANSAS; Burton Henshaw, Wellston,
Mo.
Missing in action: Pvt. Paul r.
Miller, Winfield, KANSAS.
Killed in action: Pvts. Harry Flynn,
St. Francis, KANSAS; Everett L. Nell
son, Bird City, KANSAS.
Remainder of list follows:
Killed in Action: Corp. Francis E.: Will
liams, Alliance, o.; Pvts. Raymond J. Ca
South Williamsport, Pa.
Died of wounds Received in 1 Aetion a;
Wounded in Action Severely: Pvts. Ar
thur B. Arnesen, Woodstock. ILL.,; Archie
Benson Chieag S;1 James w haiseE o Eas5
Bluffs. Ia; John A. McWilliams. Chicago
Sylvester J. Nugent. Govington, KY;
Ritenour, Chicago; John H. Strain, San
Gabriel, Cal; Floyd l.. Yockey, Decatur.
Missing in Action: PITS. Leroy w. Lu-
The balance Of the second list dated July
Killed in Action; sergt- Gerald R: Fin
Flaherty, st. Louis; Frederick H. Fox,
Ark: Prts. Ernest H Bair, Mason County,
W. Va; Harold ]. Christie, X. d. No. 1,
Lansing. Mich; Henry E. Denman. CIn n
James E. Heisel, Indianapolis; Herbert W.
JimerfieId, Detroit: Samuel S. Jones, Knox
Vile. Tenn: Joe w. Lyon, Loving, Tex; !;
Raymond W. Limbert, North Towanda, n
Mont D9 HdMard L. w Mts Chicago.
Died of wounds received in action: Pvt.
Howard Blair, Jackson, Mich.
Wounded in action severely: Sergts.
Kelley N. Long. Natural Bridge, Ala:
Grover c. Conrad, Lexington, N: C.; irwin
Danford, Quanter City. OHIO: Thomas I
McNuIty Scranton. Pa; Corps. Joseph
Aschenbrenner, Pittsburgh. Pa; Frank
SelirAky. Passaic,. n. J.: Pvts; Thomas c
Barwick Quartz Site, Ariz.: benjamin W.
Borg, New Decatur, Ala: VIM. H Camp
Charles, Winston Salem. N. c.; Walter p.
Amkjor, Chicagos Albert D. Drury; still
we'll, n. d.: FAIRIES j. Forester, Rising
Swan. Ga; George C. Haebe, Philadelphia :;
George Henderson,. Los Angeles; Reuben
A. Jones. Birmingham. Ala: John W
Kavanaugh. Chicago; Eric +: Kitchs en-
birmingham. Ala: Theodore Lending. st.
Louis: james NJ. Hark. Warrington
Spring, Fla: Lewis Polhseno. Pittsburgh.
Pa: Lionel u. Sampson. Shelbyville. KY:
John C. Wicker, Millboro.. s. D.. Lieuts:
Lawrence -. StallinGs. Atlanta, Ga; Hal
N Potter. Rockford, Ill.
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WAGES INCREASED
Railroad Shopmen Get Maxi
mum of IS Cents an Hour.
The Eight-Hour Day Is Estab.
lished in All Shops.

Washington, July 25.-Wages of
railroad shopmen were increased to 6s
cents an hour wednesday by Director
General McAdoo with proportional ad-
vances for assista nts and miscellan-
eous classes in mechanical depart
ments The new rates, which are re-
troactive to last January /. are from
to 13 cents an hour higher than
wages paid these men in most shops
under the general wage advance al
lowed two months ago by the director
general. but are somewhat less than
the labor Organizations sought.
Beginning August l. eight hours will
be recognized as a standard working
day and overtime, Sundays and holt
of enc and one-half times the usual
rate. Back pay will be given the men
as soon as it can be calculated.
Affects 10000 Men.
The advances apply to about 500. 900
men and apply fatty to all sections of
the country, despite local differences
prevailing heretofore. The addition to
the aggregate annual payroll is esei-
mated as nearly 500, 1000, 900. The
advance is the first extensive modifi-
cation of the new wage scale and was
made on recommendation of the COM
mission on railroad wages and work
ing cond. ions, following representa-
lions OF SnOp Crafts tIdI hiSH wages
/ aid machinists and other mechanical
workers in ship yards resulted In dis
elimination against railroad shop en-
p1oyes. The new scale of wages was
announced as follows:
The sale.
Machinists. boilermakers. black
smiths, sheet metal workers. moulders.
and first class electrical workers, IS
cents per hour.
Car men and second class electrical
workers. So cents per hour.
Helpers, IS cents per hour.
Foremen paid on hourly basis,
cents per hour more than respective
crafts.
Foremen paid on monthly basis. in
crease forty dollars per month. mini
mum one hundred fifty-five, and max
imum two hundred fifty.
Beginning August I. 1918. eight hour
day wi: time and one-half for over
time. Sun day work and seven specified
holidays.
The full text of the new order. which
deals in detail with methods of calcu-
- specific increases, will be issued
within the next week. The former
ware increase order provided for per-
- tage advances with minimum of
55 cents an hour for shopmen.
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WHAT! NO RAIN!
Continued rom Faye One.l

CONTINUED, rom Faye Cne.l
" cooler weather tonight and Friday.
with tust a possible chance of few
widely scattered showers over the
Flora.
But discomfort will be present In
another form-heat Indications are
that the temperature this afternoon
will hover between IS and 100 der
gfees. The cool weather consigned to
Kansas from Montana has been side
tracked. the weather man states. At
Calgary. Mont. this morning, the tenn
perature was only degrees shove
freezing. but the mercury in Topeka
will continue with its aviation stunts
The lowest temperature in Topeka
during the last twenty-four hours vas
rs at o'clock this morning and The
highest "a at o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. At o'clock this morning
the mercury stood at so and was APP
idly climbing.
Tomorrow will start in with a tenn
perature of about 10 but will not go
above 90 in the afternoon.
A few showers were reported over
the state yesterday. The only meas
urable rainfall at Liberal, which re-
ported "a. Horton. .0S and Utica. 10.
The rains are apparently. moving
in South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. 20
The highest temperatures in the
United States Wednesday was 1872. at
Phoenix, Garden City and Maxwell.
High temperatures still prevail in the
east. Cincinnati reporting 90 degrees,
Washington, 81 and Toledo, on the
Great Lakes, 90.
The highest temperature on record
for Topeka on this date was 104. in
1901, and the lowest So. in 1889. The
wind at o'clock this morning was
blowing five miles an hour from the
southeast
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T1DAY'S MARKET REPnpTS

Chicago. July 25-CoRN-Corn prices
showed weakness today result of the
favorable predictions in the east. Con
tinued liberal receipts together with sales
to go in store here also tended to handi-
cap the bulls. Buying of only n
scattered sort. Opening prices. which
ranged from &c to 11sc lover with An
gust 81 q to SlotA and september H'2i r
ther setbaeks and then by something of a
rally.
The close was nervous. 3Ac to 31sc net
lower. with August S1.51A to S1.52 and
September 81 52E to $152h.
OATS-Oats were easier with corn.
Trade was light. After opening unchanged
to 1c down with August 69Ac to 70. the
market underwent a moderate additional
sag.
PRoYISIONS-Lower quotations on
hogs had a depressing effect on provis-
ions. Weakness Of grain also was a
bearish factor.
No important rally took place. Houses
with stock yard connections were sellers.
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STETTINIUS In PARIS
Head OF Army Supplies Department
in France for Conference.

Paris, July 25.-Edward r. Stettin-
ius, second assistant secretary of war
to- the United States who is now in
Paris will take part in the inter-allied
munitions council. Afteryards he will
make a tour of inspection on the
American front and then visit the
French and British armies, and per-
haps the ealian front.
Among the advisers accompanying
him are Samuel L. FELTON,, director of
railway supplies; w. S. Clifford of the
council of national defense and
Charles Day of the emergency fleet of
corporation.
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IT is CIRCUS Day
Homes Deserted To View Neon
Parade on Avenue.
Two Performances, This After
noon and Evening.

Many a home was deserted this
morning and many a desk had an
empty chair in front of it while the
circus parade passed thru the streets
Grandfathers and grandmothers;. IA
theirs and mothers; children in arms
and sturdy boys and girls; bankers
and clerks; mechanics ana fnanufac-
turers; all kinds 2nd conditions of
people watched from place of van
tage on the sidewalks, on Stops, on
roofs, in high windows and from the
seats of parked automobiles and car
riages while the glittering herald of
the glories of Barnum & Bailey's
Greatest Show on Earth proudly
passed by.
1t was a real circus parade, full of
patriotism, red. white and blue.
There were gorgeous wagons, with
bands atop of them, curvetting horses
and riders that looked IS if they had
cine right out of the fairy story
books. And there were lions and I'll
gers and elephants, all highly educa-
tional.
After the parade the crowd turned
to the circus grounds and filled them
rapidly. There was a line before the
windows in the ticket wagons long
before the hour of the first perform
ance.
Army of 1880 in Circus.
The big tent-"big top" they call it
in circus land-was erected this
morning. and with that bit of work
everything was in readiness 4Or the
crowds that were expected at the
grounds.
The circus, with its army of 1880
men and women. three herds of ele-
plants and scores of Gagged animals,
ard 700 beautiful horses, arrived in
town this morning.
Thousands saw the toilers of the
staff convert the bare lot and the ap-
parent tumble of canvas and timber
into wonderland. The poles and
slaves of the main tent were in place
and it was a comparatively simple
matter to put up the huge canvas hall.
The big top" is $40 feet long and will
seat $500 people. This years con-
gress of freaks exhibited in the side
show is an attractive feature of show
day
Complete City There.
The crowd that witnessed the work
ers at their task this morning saw the
unfolding of a complete normal CITY.
Every department of town organiza-
ton, as far as it can be provided in a
circus equipment, is provided for.
There are fire and police departments,
an electric light plant, a postoffice,
DIdChSHIIn ana wagon works, harness
shop and a medical staff. The COM
missary arrangeme of course, are
complete and perfect. The perform
ers and workers eat in a huge mess
tent.
The circus represents an outlay of
about 100000. 1t must take in
$500 every day it shows on the lot
to coverA expenses.
The show bill is full of wonders.
There will be something to cape and
gasp at in all three of the rings pretty
nearly all the time. The newest fea-
ture is a majestic pageant entitled
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp"
The attendance this afternoon is
enormous-there will be a farewell
performance tonight at O'Clock. the
doori opening at Z o'clock
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Morning Train tr0ssip
{ Furnished bv The tuJeka Board of Trade.

Chicago, July 25.-The Tribune: Grain
Apologies and excuses for the erratic
action of the 'orn and oats futures yester-
day were numerous. Greman peace talk
was given as a reason for part of the
early decline, despite the reports of. frost
in Canadian northwest, where temporal
reported In some of the northern sections.
After oats had ADVANCE the frost news
became factor. Those who talked frost
damage in corn feared that low tempera-
lures might descend upon the norther !
part Of the corn belt, altho there were no
official indications Of such fears. The real
reason for the advance In corn. as ex-
planned by a trader who has been bearish.
for the rise was the oversolj condition OF
the market. He said prices had been
forced too too low en- the recent break in
Some close observers OF pit operations
regarded the technical condition In corn
as the weakest for several days.
Bulletin: Stocks.Offerings of stocks
continue small and-further retirement f
shorts In rails expected. Tobacco Products.
bulled again in pool channels. 1t is held
In conservative quarters that the entire
transportation question 10 now subordi-
nate to labor situation. Labor getting
government, will be compelled to deNil
soldiers to handle trains later on.
Inquiries In special circles draw out
proportienaie to floating t supP S Of n' stosf
1t has been very difficult to stir up much
outside interest In low priced rails not
Movement i .he greatest producer Of par
ttcipation in stock marke. and 1t needs
pool aggression to develop following in
that as soon MS railroad contract situation
is settled there will be response to the
news.
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Kansas City Live Stock Market.

Kansas City, July 25--HoGs-Receipts
500. Market steady to 10c lower Bulk
Of sales, S1s.6O91S.90; heavy, SIS S0d1 90 !:
packers and butchers s1s.00M 1895; light,
SIS. 50Q1S90: pigs. $1I.OO@ 1I.75.
CATTLE%Receipts 5000, including 100
southerns. Market strong. Prime fed
steers, S17G0d1S.3 dresser beef steers,
S135O017.25; western steers. ,12.OOl 1910;
southern steers. s7.O0di14.25; cows. $4,000
1900: heifers. Ss.00@1 90: stockers and
feeders, $1.Jo@ lies; bulls, Si.50g 1OIJ;
calves. $S.O0@14.O0.
SHEEP-Keceipts 2OOO. Market strong.
Lambs. $15.00@1S.15: weathers, Sill 0G
1275; stockers, aud feeders, ss.Oodf7 90.
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The following -ales ~sie mads this morn
ing at the StocF .ards Kansas city. and
reported I'VE. .on- distance teIephone Al.
rect tc he State journal by clay Robin
SOC Co i've stock commission mer
Kansas City, July 25@CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 5000 head. Market stead to strong.
others lower.
HOGS-Receipts 5000 head. Market 5ec
higher. Bulk Of -.ales. $1S.600 1890; toy,
$500
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head Market
steady. Lambs, SlS.2J.
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Wall St, New York, July 25.-STOCKS-
Pressure against leaders relaxed with the
progress of the session, United States
Steel showing better support on its ex-
treme rise of 1N with subst initial gains
for Crucible Steel. baldwin Locomotive.
Marine preferred, Pacific Mail and Oils.
Sumatra Tobacco. which weakened at the
outset despite the proposed stock divi-
dend. rallied points and Tobacco Pro-
ducts gained IL. st. Paul preferred lost
its early firmness. reacting a point with
Reading hardening. but other railway
shares were altogether neglected. Liberty
31a's sold at 1856 to $500; As at $3.50 to
9456 and 4K's at $40 to 995.52
Specialties contributed to the irregular
trend at the opening of today's stock mar
ket, Tobaccos for example moving in OPP
posite directions Fractional gains in Unit
ed States Steel Pacific Mail, Industrial
Alcohol and Colorado Fuel were balanced
by recessions extending from fractions to
point in Disfillers. Inspiration. Copper
and National Biscuit. st. Paul preferred
on which dividend action vas expected
later in the day, was the only rail to show
even a nominal advance. Liberty bonds
were inclined TO yield.
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FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Laurent AMI Madison.I
Topeka, Kan, July Is.
Springs over lbs. t9c: old r,Ustrrs 4ac
broilers, ! ib. to fbs and under, SIC; hens