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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09

New York, Nov. 8. - Col. Edgar
Wales Bass, u. 8. A., retired, at one
time professor OF mathematics at the
United States Military Academy and
assistant astronomer with the United
States Transit of Venus expedition to
New Zealand in 1S74-75, died at his
home here in his seventy-sixth year
Born at Prairie du Chen, Wis, Colonel
Bass enlisted In the Civil war at the
age Of 49, He was graduated from
West Point In 1868, after having
served under General Sibley against
the Sioux Indians.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09

Lima. Peru, Nov. 9.-The Peruvian
government having refused to permit
the American tanker Bradford, under
charter to the International Petroleum
company, and the British tanker Lobo
of the Lobitos Oil Fields company to
load oil at the Peruvian fields for Van
couver unless they first brought car
goes of oil to Callao to avert serious
oil famine in Lima, the Bradford
cleared for Mexican port In ballast.
The shortage of oil here threatens .
complete suspension of industries.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09

Paris, Nov. S.-General Petain, writ
American Red Cross to thank that or
ganization for s2,000,000 given to aid
the families of French soldiers, con-
cluded with this significant statement:
French troops probably will remain
long time yet under arms. The Red
Cross Intervention therefore is lessen,
ing many of their cares"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
Convicted a. Elected.

st. Louis, Nov. S.-William p. El-
mer, of Salem, Mo-, reported on in
complete returns elected to the state
legislature from Dent county, In the
federal court here was convicted OF
violation of the espionage act on one
count Three other counts were dis
missed. Until his indictment several
months ago, Elmer was Q member Of
the Republican state COMMITTEES. He
was charged with being the author Of
= seditious article printed in Salem
newspaper. Sentence Was deferred.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
DEFEAT OF DRYS is SEEN
Minnesota Lead Not Heavy Enough to
Carry Amendment.

st. Paul, Nov. 9.-The prohibition
amendment has a majority of approx
mately 1000 votes with returns in
from two-thirds of the state. The de-
feat of the amendment is seen unless
the balance of the precincts show
much larger majorities, because the
vote on the amendment does not equal
the total vote cast. 1t takes a major
ity of all votes cast in the election to
carry the amendment.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
CHAOS REIGNs IN AUSTRIA
Hungry Troops Are PIundering and
Requisitioning Supplies.

Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 9.-Com-
plete chaos, prevails in Austria, &C.
cording to travellers returning here
from that country. All the railroad
villages in the Tyrol are flooded with
the returning armies in full disorder.
In the villages the demoralized troops
are breadless, plundering and requi-
sitioning supplies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
FILED IN FRENCH SENATE

Resolution Thanking Marshal Foch
and Premier ciemenceau.
Paris. Nov. 9.--Senator La Croix In
troduced a resolution in the upper
house extending the thanks of the
country to Marshal Foch and Premier
Clemenceau.
This is the first time that similar
action has been taken since the time
of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
GIFT RULES FOR YANKEES
Presents May Be Sent Men, Fighting
In Allied Armies.

Washington, Nov. s. - Parcel post
packages of Christmas gifts for Amer
ican soldiers and members of the Red
Cross and other civilian organizations
serving with the British, French or
other armies in the field, will be ac-
cepted by postmasters up to Nov. 20,
and the senders will not be required
to furnish q War Trade board export
license for their mailing. Postmaster
General H. s. Burleson announced this
ruling. which does not affect the spe-
cial regulations made for Christmas
shipments to the American Expedi-
tionary Force.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
WEALTH HEAVILY MORTGAGED
Germany Nearing the End of Her
Financial Resources.

Financial Resources.
London, Nov. S.-Germanys finan-
cial position is desperate and rapidly
approaching the breaking point.
After she raised her eighth war loan
her national debt, it is estimated, ap-
preached $30,OO0,O00, 900. 1t is as
sumed that since then 1t has reached
$35, ,O00,000,000.
Assuming that the debt stands now
at s2S, 400, 100000, Germany has mort
gagged, therefore, more than two-fifths
of her national wealth, estimated at
$50, 900, 100000.
That this figure is approaching Ger
many's limitation in the war is indi.
Gated by remarks made from time to
time by authorities in Germany.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
LANSING MAKES PROTEST
Sends Word to Berlin that Destruc-
tion Must Cease.

Washington, Nov. 8.-Secretary Rob-
ert Lansing has made public mes
sage TO the German government
through the Swiss minister, protesting
against the reported intention Of the
German authorities in Belgium to de-
stroy coal mines upon evacuation. II
the acts contemplated are carried out,
the message says, 1T will confirm "the
belief that the solemn assurances of
the German government are not given
III good faith"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
ARE ACCUSED OF PLOTTING

New York, Nov. 9.-With the arrest
of 13 officers and employees of the
Coastwise Lumber and Supply COM
pany, it was disclosed by federal Of
ficials that an alleged conspiracy has
been in progress to defraud the gov
ernment of thousands of dollars
through not delivering lumber for
which the government paid
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
FLEET JOINS GREAT REVOLT
Seamen Are Complete Masters at
Several German Ports.

London, Nov. 9.-Virtually all the
German fleet has revolted, according
to a dispatch received from The
Hague.
The men are complete masters at
Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Helgoland, Bor-
KUN and Cuxhaven. At Kiel the work
ers have joined the navy men and de-
clared general strike, says the dis
patch.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
Cross Near la CapelIe and Al
lied Firing in that Sector
Ceases Under Orders
II HOURS FOR ANSWER
Details Of Conference Fixed by Foch,
Who Receives Teuton Delegates
His Powers Confined to
Conclusion of Armistlce.

Paria, Nov. 9.--Germany will be
given 72 hours In which to reply
to the terms presented by Marshal
Foch. II Is declared there will be
no cessation of hostiIities. The
German delegates will not be per-
mitted to haggIe. They must ac-
cept or 90 on fighting.
Washington, Nov. 9.-The state.
ment was authorized at the White
. House that whenever word came
Of the signing Of the armIstice in
France President Wilson himself
would announce II Immediately.
Paris, Nov. g. German grand
headquarters requested Allied
grand headquarters by wireless to
permit the passage of the German
delegation for armistice negotia-
tions through the lines. The or
der was given to cease firing at the
front at o'clock in the afternoon
until further orders.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
Diaz Promoted by King.

Rome, Nov. 9.-King Victor Emman-
uel has promoted General Diaz to the
full rank Of General and Vice Admiral
Paola Thaon di Revel. former chief Of
the naval stan of Italy, to the rank Of
admiral.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09
Norway Loses six Ships

London, Nov. 9.-The Norwegian le
cation here announces that in October
Norway lost six vessels and "a sail.
ors through causes due to the war.
The ships aggregated 7.627 tons.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-09

London, Nov. S.-Germany's delega-
ton, charged with the duty of receiv-
ing from Marshal Foch the Allied
terms for an armistice, crossed the
Allied lines near La Capelle in the
night The members spent the night
at house inside the Allied front and
in the morning were taken to place
in the department of the Aisne where
they will meet the commander in chief
of the Allies. 1t is announced that 1t
is four-hour trip to the scene of the
historic meeting.
The German high command sent q
wireless message to the Allies asking
for provisional suspension of hostili-
ties on the front where the delegates
were to cross. beginning at 3 p. m. and
lasting until further notice. This was
presumably to permit the armistice
mission to pass in safety. The Ger
mans, however, were delayed on the
road and did not reach the lines until
well along in the evening.
Foeh's Powers Outlined.
Paris, Nov. 8. - The powers con-
ferred upon Marshal Foch are strictly
confined to the conclusion of an armis-
.tice, according to the Echo de Paris.
The amendments to the terms placed
In his hands by the inter-allied coun-
ell are closely limited, the newspaper
says. German delegates sent to the
French front to receive from General
Foch Allied terms for an armistice
crossed the Allied line near La Capelle
in the night.
They were taken to house where
preparations had been made to receive
them. They stayed there during the
night and in the morning were con-
Quoted to a place in the Department
Of the Aisne, which is meeting place
fixed by Marshal Foch. This trip will
take about four hours. Marshal Foch
will have with him Admiral Sir Roslyn
Wemyss, first sea lord of Great Britain,
and Maj. Gen. Maxine Weygand of the
French army, Marshal Foch's assist
ant.
The German mission is headed by
Matthias Erzberger, secretary of state
and head Of the war press department,
and includes General III. X. A. Won
Winterfeld, former military attache al
Paris; Count Alfred Won Oberndorff,
former minister at Sofia; General Won
Gruenell and Naval Captain Won Sa
low.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
MAY PROHIBIT
FOOTBALL
War Department Likely to
Demand That Spare Time
Be Used For Training
By Associated Press

Chicago, Sept. 13.-The possibility
of the complete suspension of foot
ball in all important colleges and
universities in the country as war
measure loomed up strongly last
night as a result of the War Depart
ment request that no fall gridiron
schedules be arranged by educational
institutions having student army
training corps. There are four hum
dred universities and colleges scat
tered through the country with stu
dent corps.
All of the big universities in the
middle west already had made plans
for carrying out the 1918 schedules
and the request for the abandonment
of the intercollegiate sport came as
q distinct surprise. Practice was to
have started in the big Ten. con-
ference next Monday and similar
plans for the practice season were
under way in the Missouri Valley
conference. Extensive schedules had
been arranged by every important
institution, many of the games being
scheduled with service elevens.
Officials of the University of Chi
cago said the War Department re-
quest undoubtedly means that all
spare time of the students will be de-
voted to military instruction instead
of athletics and that there would
be no time for the development of
football.
The abandonment of the game will
result in heavy financial losses as
the proceeds of the sport usually met
the deficit IN baseball and other col
lege games.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
GOLF "CADDY"
FOR TRENCHES
Y. M. C.. A. Selects Illustrious
Globe-Trotting Link Vet
eran For Overseas Duty

New York, Sept. 13.-Charles
Leonard Fletcher, known interna-
tionally as "the globe-trotting golf
err" who has dug trenches with his
niblicks in more links than any other
pursuer of the elusive gutta percha.
will soon be over in the land of
trenches what are trenches" where
drive is a drive and where the cry
OF fore makes one not only duck
but also put on his gas mask.
Fletcher, whose weird golfing ex-
perience would fill library and who
can talk phonograph blue in the
face recounting them, was an actor
of parts until last week when he
changed his profession to 24-hour-
a-day servant of Uncle Sam in the
capacity of Y. M. c. A. overseas
man. Just before enlisting in the
Red Triangle work, he played over
his 216th course, the new Philmont
links of hilodelphia,
General duty as hut secretary"
will be performed by the globe-trot-
ting golfer when he gets over there ;
He has requested that his eventual
assignment be right up with the front
lines. where his training as a dodger
of flying golf balls will enable him
to work coolly under fire. He will
caddy for The boys in khaki, dealing
out various commodities they crave
and doing any little thing, or big
thing, that might promote their wei
fare and morale. In the evenings 1t
will be easy to visualize him in the
center of a group listening eagerly
to his string of bizarre stories that
have convulsed many nineteenth
hole" caucus as we'll as ''going over
big" across the footlights. AS story
teller he takes back seat to no
one.
When Fletcher eventually comes
back from the trenches-if he does
he will go on enlarging his direc-
tory of personally inspected golf
courses, but in the meantime it is
safe to say no man will threaten
his position as ranking first in num-
ber of links played, his record up to
date being 216. He has such lead
that there is no second.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Wins With 100 Targets
at Atlantic City Shoot
Bv Associnfed Press

Atlantic City. N. J., Sept. 13.-
Running u hundred targets without
miss, F. M. Troeh, ofs Vancouver.
to-day captured the West Hogan
amateur championship at the sec
ond days shoot in the present tour
ney. Charles Newcomb, Philadel-
phia, and G. N. Fish, sNew York.
broke 9S for second place and in the
shoot-off Fish ran twenty straight
while Newcomb lost his third target.
Fish was high gun for the day,
grassing 15S out of 160-two more
than Tfoeh and three better than
Newcomb in Glass A.
G. S. Becker. Pennsylvania, was
high gun IN Glass B; e. P. Major.
Ohio, in Class C, and G. r. Kindig.
a western entry, in Glass d.
The east gained a tighter hold on
intersectional honors by gaining
fourteen more points on the west
ern team, acquiring a total for the
two days of 1.524 and 1900 for the
west The teams and their scores
yesterday were:
East-Wright, Buffalo, 153; Fish.
New York, 1853; Newcomb. Phiiadel-
phia 155; Tomlin, New Jersey, i52;
Herman, Lock Haven, Pa. $50.
West-Colburn, Ohio. 153; Troe1l,
Vancouver. 1856: Yula, Akron. Ohio,
lag; Dial, Pittsburgh, lat, and Smith.
Indiana. 161.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
PITCHING WILL TELL THE TALE
FOR STEELTON AT BETHLEHEM

The batting averages of the Beth
lehem Steel League, up to date. show
that Manager Cockill had his two
most reliable swatters in Edmundson
and Hunter, with Eddie Plank close
third. Steve Yerkes was doing nobly
and his absence from injury hurt the
team a good deal. Jack knights
average does not tell in figures the
number of pinch hits he made and
as for Kaufman he appeared to have
the breaks against him all season.
In the main, however, Steelton was
not hard-hitting club and the
greatest credit must be given to it's
pitchers for keeping the club in the
lead.
Tomorrow Bethlehem will vel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
Pzzt! Kiwanis Wants
to Claw Black Cats

What's the best way of bunting
black cats CLOVIS? This is the ques-
ton now haunting Manager Charles
E. Reeser of the Kiwanis Club base
ball team. Reeser has finished ar
rangements for game between the
strongest Kiwanis team he can pull
together and the famous and peerless
Black Cats of the Camp Colt Tank
Corps.
Heretofore, according to Reeser,
the Kiwanians played the Black Kit
tens who were the offspring of the
Black Cats. The kittens are meow
ing piteously over their squelching
by the Kiwanians several weeks ago.
Reeser wasn't satisfied with mauling
the kittens, so he's going to take the
cats into hand, too.
The big game is to be staged on
the Nixon Field at Gettysburg. sat
urday, September 81. Star players of
both teams Will be in the lineup and
a game of brilliant, snappy playing is
promised for the lucky ones who
hold tickets. The proceeds will go
to war work enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13

he would be true to his many earn
est promises to be good He would
break down and cry pathetically on
being confronted with the evidence
OF his acts, and the possible penalty
| he would have to pay, and would
promise as sincerely as any one
could never to repeat them, only
| to break the promise as readily as
| 1t was made.
"A course of treatment having
been agreed upon he had to be got
ten under q ruse, SO his mother was
! instructed to tell him that he must
be treated for a form of nervousness
| that occurred during sleep, but that
under no circumstances should he
know the real intent of treatment.
He insisted that he was not i'll, and
reluctantly consented. Examination
disclosed two or three points along
this great switchboard affected, one
direct and the others contributory.
One, however, was particularly
marked, clearly defined, 'acutely SEN
sitive, and lying in a region most
likely to produce an altered form of
blood supply to the brain. Fixing
upon it as the cause work was be-
gun on its correction. which was so
simple and easily accomplished that
the lad wondered IL that was all that
was to be done.
"The boy was kept under obser-
vatfon and treated mildly over a
period of eight weeks in order to Sc
cure absorption of all the adhesions
that had formed about the spot, and
! the function of the spinal joint COM
pletely restored. and then discharged
I as cured. 1t might be we'll to add
| that sufficient movement in the line
of correction was made the very
| first treatment. so that he never
| committed a theft from that day
| forward. He Is now finely respect
ed, honorable young man in his first
year of college,
Another case was that of a vicious
child (girD of three years of age.
| She was so stubborn and ugly that
she practically ruled the father and
mother at this early age. Would
tscream, bite or scratch. and refused
/ positively to obey. This little
shrew' was effectually tanned and
became a charming and beautiful
child. Spinal defects similar to the
ones found in case No. were pres-
ent and clearly defined The methods
employed in correction are very sim
pie, and consist first in determining
the location and extent of the defec-
tive position. and just exactly how
far from its normal position and in
what direction it lies"
While DR.. Vastine thinks it "high-
lly desirable to render aid to the adult
or hardened criminal (though conf
pIete cures are rare)" he thinks 1t
more necessary and effective as a
contribution to the race to be pre-
ventive and clear up the growing
children who present these traits or
Tendencies" The latter. says the doc
| tor, are the moral perverts, drunk
ards and criminals of the future, and
as such should be taken in hand
while they are still young.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
RED SOX PLAYERS
GET THEIR SHARE
Regulars Get Over $1,000
Each; Summary of Com
plete Series

Boston. Sept. 12.-Members of the
Boston American League baseball
team, winners of the 1918 worlds
championship. received $20.S37.45 to-
day as their share of the gate re-
ceipts from the World Series. Man
ager Edward Barrow and the four
teen Boston regulars were each given
$1,10S.45, while Infelder Fred
Thomas, who obtained a furlough
from the Great Lakes Naval Training
station to play for the Red Sox, was
voted $3.50.
Various sums were given to other
players now in war service, the train
ers, groundkeepers and others.
The check did not include ten per
cent. which it had been voted to do
nate to charitable organizations, and
the players instructed Captain Harry
Hooper to obtain the amount from
the commission and distribute 1t
among Boston war charities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
CAN MAKE
BETTER CHILDREN
Dr. Vasne Gives His Expert ence in Treating Defective
and Abnormal Boys and iris; Complete Cures Not
Guaranteed in All Cases; May Be Less Court Work

Waite, the New York murderer
dentist, and two unnamed cases
coming under his own professional
observation in this city. serve as il
lustrations for DR.. II. M. Vastine.
prominent osteopath of Harrisburg.
of the urgency for progressive in
telligence to curb criminal ten
denotes at their beginning" and for
his contention that such tendencies
"are the outgrowth of defective nu-
triton to the BRAIN" In an article
on Delinquency, Its Cause and
Cure" appearing in t he September
official organ of the osteopaths in the
United States, DR.. Vastine says that
step in the right direction to dis
sopate these tendencies has been
taken in certain communities by sub
mitting children brought before the
juvenile court to a physical examina-
ton"
Though this is good thing in
the estimation of DIR. Vastine. yet,
by reason of the nature of the ex-
animation (Which lacks the proper
viewpoint and the heightened tactile
sense or art of detection which is es-
sentia1 in determining causes for
these conditions) little more has
been accomplished than to conclude
that the subject is defective"
Defective Nutrition
Defective nutrition of the brain as
described by DR.. Vastine which leads
to abnormal acts in the young, arises-
from "a failure in the regulation of
blood feeding the little cells which.
govern the moral nature. causing
them to be overnourished, engorged
with blood or undernourished,
starved for blood, as the case may
be. In either instance an altera-
ton of the normal action. or func-
ton of these cells occurs which
alteration produces an abnormal
quality of morals.
Telling of his local experiences
cited above and his treatment of
them, the osteopath writes in part,
as follows:
"The possibilities of relieving and
curing Juvenile criminals. or those
who possess criminal tendencies,
was brought forcibly to my atten-.
ton about ten or more years ago
Wnen the 5oH VI u PROMINENT Ineu-
ical physician. then deceased, was
brought to me by the trust officer
of a large banking institution. which
was acting as his guardian. This fol-
lowed a consultation and decision to
test out the case, which. by the way.
had an almost identical history with
that of Waite. At periods this lad
was a fine boy. while at others he
would play the role of q finished
thief. His periodical depredations
became so marked that his guardian
was considering the urgent necessity
of committing him to reformatory.
But. on. account of his mother, who
pleaded for time, they delayed, hop
Ing for q change to occur. and that