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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
AMERICANS CAMP
IN WADIVOSTOk
Big Locomotive Works in Out
skirts of City Selected 10
Shelter Soldiers.
ROUT ARMED CHINESE BANDITS
Nanks and Japanese Defeat Force Of
100 Who Threatened 10 Loot =
Suburban Town.

Vladivostok, Wednesday, Aug 81
American forces, which have been
landed here, are in camp at the as
sembling plant OF the big American
locomotive works in the outskirts OF
the city They chose this place rath-
er then the Russian barracks, which
require much renovation A large
building formerly used for housing
employees Of a German Russian mer-
chandising firm has been transformed
into headquarters.
The japanese are established IN the
commercial school which Is located
on the bluff overlooking the harbor
The first hostile engagement IN
which the troops had been involved
occurred four miles beyond RazdOlnv
a suburb where an American railway
guard. assisted by the japanese.
drove back organized Chinese ban
dts The bandit force numbered
about 400 and was strongly armed
with machine guns and trench NOR
tars- They had threatened TO loot
RazdOlny-
Red Cross Forces Busy
/ Persons arriving recently from Kha-
DaTONSk report that the BOlShev1ki-
since revolutionary enlistments have
ceased. are augmenting their strength
by drafting peasants from the Cssuri
country
COssacks and prisoners OF war also
have been placed in the ranks
Dr.. R B Teusler, E N Frazar aud
Dr.. Hall Of the American Red Cross
are finding that their resources are
seriously taxed in caring for the
wounded CzechO-Slovaks and the sick
and destitute refugees There are 20
COO refugees. 1000 of whom are chill
dren. between here and Manchuria
station
Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Japan is investigating conditions at
Hardin and Hailar He is accOmpan-
led by four American doctors and has
enough supplies for the present 9th
er doctors and nurses are mObiIiZinE
at Chang Chun-
Siberian Factions at Odds
Dr. TeuesIer has authorized the
Hardin chapter Of the Red Cross 10
supervise the distribution of $4,000
monthly for the care of children The
Red Cross is treating sixteen wound
ed British and sixty CzechO-Slovak
surgical cases at Hardin
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
RED CROSS PLANT sHELLED

Washington, Aug 28.-Details Of
the recent Smelling of an American
Red Cross bathhouse for Belgian sol
diers near the Belgian front in which
tEenty-three Belgian employees were
killed and sixty others were injured,
were received today at American Red
Cross headquarters
a shell hit the roof OF the laundry
of the bath about IL o'clock in the
morning Men, women and children
were hurled in every direction and
for long distances.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

An effort to enroll every physician
in Kansas for active service, or to
place him in the reserves, has been
begun by the medical committee of the
State Council of Defense. The tabu-
lation of detailed information is being
made regarding the experience and
training of each physician Charles
S. Huffman, adjutant general, will
work with the State Council. 1t is
the purpose of~the council to aid the
government to secure an adequate
corps of medical men for overseas
service. Lieut.. George NJ. Gray of
Kansas City, DR.. S. Murdoch of So
betha, DR.. D. w Eastman of Wichita
and DR.. S. J. Crumbine of Topeka will
compose the committee.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Army Death Rate Low.

Washington, Aug. 24.-Health con-
ditions among troops in the United
States were very satisfactory during
the week ending August 16, the War
Department announced today The
death rate was al, a decrease from
the previous week. Total deaths num-
bered 119.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Lieut.. Gov w. Y Morgan will leave
next month for France. He returned
recently from Chicago, where he was
consulting with the Red Cross over
seas committee. The need for men
in this work is beyond the supply"
said Governor Morgan. THE Ameri-
cans over there are increasing rapidly,
many of the short term Red Cross
men are returning and the great work
is suffering. 1t is a call which every
man who can get away and who is
not acceptable for military service
should answer"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
'Roehe Battalion In a Mutiny.

Amsterdam, Aug. 28-There are
persistent Tumors from a German
source, the frontier correspondent OF
the Telegram says, that a German
battalion on being ordered to the front
unanimously refused to go, whereupon
ebery tenth man was shot
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

The Atchison County Farm Bureau
has sent out warning to farmers that
quite number Of hogs in the vicin-
ity OF Effingham and Arlington have
died from cholera recently. After the
loss of the hogs had caused a suspi-
cion that it was cholera that killed
them, DR.. Winkler, a government vet
erinarian, was called IN and after ex-
animation of many Of the hogs, de-
clared the disease was cholera. He
urges farmers to segregate sick hogs
at once and report the cases to the
county agent or a veterinarian
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Plans are being laid for the Novem-
Der book drive in Kansas whereby the
state is to raise it's quota of a pros
pective fund of $2,30O,OOO with which
to purchase books for soldiers. J. c.
Bigger, member of the local library
board and secretary of the Masonic
library board, and c. S. Colliday, who
was in charge of the local Red Cross
drive, have been designated as state
managers of the. November campaign
by the American Library Association,
under the supervision of which the ma
tional campaign is to be made.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Captured Bio German Gun.

Paris, Aug 27.-Australian troops
during the recent fight captured a
heavy German 2S0-miIIimeter uL0z
inches) gun From a captured docu-
ment it appears that this gun, with
range of more than eighteen miles,
had been intended for use in the bonn
bardment OF Amiens-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
WOMAN coNVIcTs DOING BIT
Those in Colorado Penitentiary Knit
Eight Hours a Day for
the Red Cross.

Canon City, Colo.-Confned In the
state penitentiary here there are ten
women who daily are doing their bit
for humanity and the cause of democ-
racy. Eight hours day these women
knit sox and sweaters for the Red
Cross They have reached an average
of one dozen pairs of sox a day. One
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Insists Hun Atrocity Is True.

St. Louis, Aug 2S-Dr. P. H How
ard, St Louis oculist, recently return
ed from Salvation Army work in
France, asserted today a sworn state
ment backs his account OF the cruel
fixion by the Germans of Sergt A B.
Cole, 49 Prospect St, East Liverpool, o.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

w. F. Grutzmacher, probate Judge
of Pottawatomie County, candidate
for reelection, will resign rather than
permit the state to bring a suit to
GUST him from the Republican ticket
on the ground that he is an enemy
alien. Grutzmacher went to Topeka
and told the attorney general that if
the suit was not brought he would
tender his resignation to the Repub-
lican committee when it meets.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Knit at PRAYER Meeting.

st. Louis, Mo.-Fifty women MEM
bers of the Markham Memorial church
here have adopted the plan of knitting
at weekly prayer meetings. The new
plan is meeting with success and the
attendance at the weekly meetings is
increasing every weef
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Homes for italian Orphan,

Rome, Aug. 24-The American Red
Cross has opened eight children's
asylums within the war zone, accord
ing to an official announcement here
today. Five more are to be opened
soon in the Treviso-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Because of the heat wave which is
reducing prospects for feeding crops,
county food administrators, agricul-
tural agents and councils of defense
are working in many counties of Kan
sas to get a maximum use of the siIo.
At the state coucil of defense on July
10, the opinion was given that Kansas
produces enough feed even in dry
years to feed her breeding stock, pro-
vided the feed was taken care of prop
erly by use of silos.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Feud Leads to a Double Killing.

McAlester, Ok, Aug. 26.-In diff
Guilty growing out Of an old feud, Lee
lett and Price Jet were shot and in
stantly killed near Massey, Ok, at 10
o'clock this morning. Otto Collins
and Ben Smith confessed to the
killing.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Cardinal Farley Is III

New York, Aug 23--Word was re-
ceived today that Cardinal John NJ.
Farley, archbishop Of New York, is i'll
with pneumonia at his country home
near Mamaroneck, NY.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Under arrest on the charge of being
q Stacker, Leroy A. Wonderley killed
himself at Hutchinson. Wonderley
was arrested as Stacker, but was not
confined to the Jail on account of a
weak heart. Wonderley, who claimed
to be "a, was shown by court records
OF Rice County to be just 80 years
old.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Where Are the BoIshevist Heads

Washington, Aug. 23.-RepOrts from
Finland say that Trotzky is at Hell
singfors and Lenine, the Bolshevist
premier, is on a German ship bound
for Reval- German press reports state
that Lenine is still at Moscow and
Trotzky at the front
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
czecho-sIovaks Take a Town.

Amsterdam, Aug. 26.-Czecho-Slo-
yak and anti-Bolshevik forces have re-
occupied the town OF kazan, on the
River Volga, says a Moscow dispatch
to the Weser zeitung of Bremen. The
Bolshevik were forced to retreat after
heavy fighting
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Samuel Bigger, prominent in Mason
ic circles in the state and for the last
twenty-five years treasurer of the
Hutchinson Masonic bodies, is dead
at the age of 80 years. He had been
member of the order for fifty-two
years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

London, Aug. PA large British
airDlane carrying its crew and nine
passengers has made the trip from
France to England in a little more
than thirty minutes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Putnam Dovns 11th Plane,

With the American Armies in
France, Aug. 24.-Leutenant Putnam
of the American air forces has down
ed his eleventh German airplane The
pilot and observer were killed. The
machine fell within the Allied lines.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Another big oil deal was closed at
Eldorado when the Inland Oil Com
pany purchased the acreage, equip
ment and holdings of the Great Plains
Oil and Gas Company in the Sluss
pool. The consideration was not an
nounced, but is said to be almost 1
million dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Seven FISHING Boats sunk.

Mulden,. Holland, Aug 27.-SeTm
fishing boats have just been sunk By
the same submarine. Three OF them
we're of Dutch registry The crews oe
the destroyed boats have been landed
at MuIden.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Kermit Roosevelt Won Gross.

London, Aug. 2S.-Kermit Roose-
welt has been awarded the Military
Cross for his services with the Brit
ish Army In Mesopotamia, it was an
uounced here today.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

The value of innoculation against
typhoid fever was shown when the
state board of health gave out its re-
port for July. Throughout the state
there was a marked increase in the
number of cases of typhoid while at
Fort Riley, Camp Funston and Fort
Leavenworth there was not one case
reported in the month. All the sol
diers and civilians in the posts or
camps are inoculated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Word has been received at Els
worth of the death in action in France,
July Is, of Private Anton Vodraska,
the son of Joseph Vodraska of Ellis
worth. Anton Vodraska was the first
Ellsworth boy to make the supreme
sacrifice He was of foreign birth-a
Bohemian. AS tribute to his mem
DRY Mayor Meek issued a proclama-
ton requesting ali residents of Ellis
worth to fly their flags at half mast.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Arkansas City is now in line with
a number of other Kansas municipali-
ties which observe the angelus." Act
ing upon request of the ministerial
union, the city commission has set 9
o'clock, announced each evening by
the many whistles throughout the city,
as time for one minutes prayer for
the soldiers and the American arms
in the great war
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Naval seapIane Lost With Three.

Washington, Aug. 27.-Loss OF 2
naval seapIane with her crew OF three.
including Ensign Donald c Pero, IN
collision with another seaplane of
Fire Island Saturday evening, was an
nounced by the Navy Department.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Sword a. Hnnnr - Ennh

Paris. Aug. 26.-The municipal coun-
I'll of Paris has unanimously agreed
to present to Marshal Foch a sword
Of honor in recognition Of his service
as eommander-in-chief.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Mrs Martha Mcdowell, 6S years
old, widow of the Rev. Isaiah Mellow
elk noWn all over Central Kansas as
an early day circuit rider, is dead at
Greeley, Col, where she was visit
ing. She lived with her only child,
Mrs. George Shank, in Salina.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

of the knitters is Mrs. Mary Angelina
GerramOne, serving a life sentence.
May Lamb. in for a term OF 81 years,
is another engaged in the Red Cross
work.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Lawrence Levandosky was killed
and Chester Ball and two other young
men were dangerously injured at the
Republic County fair when the racing
motor car driven by Rex Kent skid
ded into the crowd.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Mrs. Ben Ike shot herself in the left
temple with a revolver at her home
in Burlington recently. She is expect
ed to die. She had been melancholy
sire~ - 9oath of her mother
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

An army OF girl tractor operators is
being organized according to the COM
munication received by Governor Cap
per from Salina. 1t states that several
thousand Kansas girls already have
enrolled, aVoWing their willingness to
receive the necessary instruction to
make them competent to operate farm
tractors in the field
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

NJ. NJ. Crosby of CoIdwater has been
appointed probate judge of Comanche
County. to succeed the late Judge Con-
naughton, whose death occurred dur
ing his tenure of office Crosby is the
Republican nominee for the office
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
Bomb the TurICish IcspitaI-

Amsterdam, A1g. 27=Two hostile
air squadrons attacked ConstantinopIe
Wednesday night" says a Turkish Of
fetal statement
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
chieaao cave 90. ooo for ReIaians.

Chicago, Aug. 2s-With the count
not completed, it was announced to-
day that the observance Of Belgian
Day yesterday had Melted $4,000 for
the little sufferers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
4 Million Eire Loss i'm Canton. O.

- MttttoH FiC LOSS IN OanIOng ~.
Canton. O., Aug. 26.-Fire which
started shortly before o'clock to-
night destroyed large business block,
causing a loss estimated at 1 million
dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05

Jesse Sells and John Madden, two
prisoners in the Atchison County Jail,
obtained their liberty recently by saw
ing into two bars of window of the
Jail corridor. There was only one
other prisoner in the Jail, and he re-
fused to accompany the pair.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
fight ON BORDER
At NOGALES, ARlz-
Two Americans and 100 Mexi-
cans Killed in Short But
Hot Battle.
CITY WAS QUIET AFTER TRUCE
Trouble Started When Mexicans At
tempted to Smuagle Man
Through American
Lines.

Nogales, Ariz-, Aug. 2S.-Two Amer
leans were killed, twenty-nine wound
ed and more than five hundred Amer
lean troops were engaged for one and
one-half hours on the border here late
yesterday during a skirmish between
American troops and Mexcans- The
fighting took place along Interna-
tionaI avenue.
Capt. ]. D. Hungerford and Corp.
Barney Lott were killed in action
Lieut. Col. Frederick ]. Herman
was wounded in the right leg.
wounded in the body.
Capt. H. c. Caron was wounded in
the arm.
Lieut.. S. Lockwood was also wound
ed.
CASTOR Reddock was dangerously, if
not fatally, wounded. He was a CT
william customs guard.
Another civilian named Cooley was
reported to have been wounded
While the casualties on the Mexican
side of the border were not known to
night, it was estimated that one hun
dred had been killed by fire from the
American side, while at least twice
this number, including a number OF
civilians, were wounded. 1t was re-
ported tonight that the mayor of No
gales, Sonora, was killed, but this was
not confirmed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
British Near Bapaume.

London, Aug. 24-On a front of
about six miles from the southeast of
Albert to the neighborhood of Grand
court, east of the Ancre River the Brit
ish have pushed forward and gained
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-05
A Truce Agreed On.

At 1918 o'clock last night the twin
cities were quiet, a truce having been
agreed upon until o'clock in the
morning. At a conference between
A. ]. Abasola, commanding the No
gales, Sonora, garrison, and Lieuten-
ant Colonel Herman, together with
Collector Of the Port Charles Hardy
and prominent American and Mexican
civilians, Commandant Abasola ex-
pressed regret at the outbreak and
declared il was due to i'll feeling be-
tween Mexican and American customs
guards. He said there was no hostil-
ity among the Mexican federal sol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
WISCONSIN RIGHT
Defeats Governor Who Opposed
Declaration of War.
His Opponent Ran on Straight
War Platform.

Milwaukee, Sept. 4.-On the face of
returns received from about half of
the state early today, State Senator
Roy P. Wilcox has defeated Gov. E.
L. Philip for the Republican guber-
Material nomination in the primary
election held yesterday. While the
lead of Wilcox over Governor Philip
is narrow, the formers manager
claims that when the final returns are
in he will be victor by safe plurality.
Returns at hand are mostly from
sections admittedly favorable to Gov
ernor Philip. Altho the governor
won in districts conceded to him. his
lead was so small that wilcox had lit
tie difficulty in overcoming it.
Senator Wilcox made his campaign
on a straight "win-the-war" platform.
Governor Phillips alleged effort to
prevent a declaration of war against
Germany and the fact that he opposed
conscription are regarded as factors
in his loss of votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
MILLION TO SHARE
Railroad Laborers and Low Paid
Clerks Get Raise.

Washington, Sept. A. Nearly
100000 men, or half the railroad
employees in the United States, share
in additional wage increases approved
today by Director General McAdoo
for track laborers, watchmen, other
maintenance of way employees, clerks,
station agents and other classes of en-
ployes drawing relatively low pay.
The new increases, the second
granted in supplement to the govern
ment's general wage order, will add
nearly $100.O00.O0O to the annual rail-
road pay rolls it is said. Most of the
increases range from 10 to 80 per cent
above present wages.
Details of the new order will be an
nounced tomorrow. The director gen.
eral adopted most of the recommen-
dations of the board of railroad wages
and working conditions which investi-
gated requests of employees for more
pay. Pay increases for railroad tele-
graphers are the subject of another
report to be made soon to the director
general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
Tie UP TAX BILL?
congressman Anxious To Get
Into Campaign.
Would Like To Adjourn Until
After Election.

Washington, Sept. 4.-Political for
tunes of congressman today threatened
to delay final enactment of the new
before or Immediately after fall cleo
tions.
House Majority Leader Kitchin and
his aides plan to bring the bill into the
lower body Friday aRd push it thru
by September IA.
While the house is debating the bill.
the senate finance committee will con-
duct hearings.
But meanwhile house leaders are
planning a vacation after the lower
body has passed the measure on Tues
day. The plan is to have the senate
concur in a joint recess resolution al
lowing the house to get away until the
senate has passed the bill and is ready
to send it to conference.
House leaders declare that the call
back to duty will come in about a
month.
House May Adjourn Till November.
Privately, the understanding be-
tween the leaders of the two houses
is that the house will not be asked to
return to business until close to cleo
ton day and after that the bill will be
tied up in conference for a week or
more.
Leaders on both sides say there Is
no chance of getting the bill enacted
before September %, the date of the
next liberty loan.
The recess plans, however, are GER
tain to encounter opposition in both
bodies, and there is a chance the
president may have something to say.
Some members of the house are
eager to stay on the job until the
revenue bill is finally disposed of on
the grounds that they will be in a
stronger position at election if their
work is cleaned up. With both
Democratic and Republican members
of the ways and means committee
back of the new tax bill, it is expected
to go thru the house in record time,
with very little change.