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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-02-15


on business during the latter part OF
last week.
Visited In Prestonsburs.
Mrs. w. G.. Fleu spent Thursday as
the guest of friends in Prestonsburg.
From Huntington.
orrin Burns OF Huntington, was here
Monday.
Virginia Visitor.
Walter H. Morrison of Big Stone Gap
Va, was attending to legal business
here last week.
From catlettsburs.
w. H. Justice of Catlettsburg. was
here last week. t
Transacted Business.
Roy Venters of Wolf Pit. and d. II !
Coleman OF Regina, were business Wis
itors here this week.
Returned From West Va.
T.. H. Hartman returned Sunday
night from a business trip to points in
West Virginia.
Visiting catlettsburg Friends.
Miss Mary Auxier has gone to Cat
lettsburg for few days.
Business Visitor.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
lard HIT BY ORDER
FOR FIVE DAY HOLIDAY

Hundreds spent today at the Unit
ed Hebrew Trades Offices. talking
things over. Charitable bodies were
receiving many applications for aid.
Whether New York's department
stores will remain open Monday is
still in doubt. Probably they will be
open, with heat reduced to the mini
mum necessary to keep pipes from
freezing and keep fire sprinkler sys-
TENS in working order. Theatre
managers here understand play
houses can be opened Mondays pro-
viding they close Tuesdays. This
caused great rejoicing among actors
and managers who said Monday clos
ing meant ruin.
Hotel men believe they can sell
liquor with meals in their dining
rooms on Mondays, but will close
their saloons. Restaurant men dis
agree with this, but have not reached
any decision yet. They are confer
ring with oounesl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Thousands of Cars of Coal
Moving to Ports Where
Congestion Has Been
Serious.
CONFUSION CONTINUES
Fuel Restriction Order Belna obsyed
and Bitter Criticism Has
Commenced to Fade
Away.
tBy Robert J. Bender, United Press
COrreapondenfl

tBy Robert J. Bender, United Press
! Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The giant
task of smashing freight congestion at
ports and functions to release supply.
ships, went onSfull blast today. The
work. made simpler by the Garfield
fuel restriction order, was countered,
however, by the enemy-snow, ice and
wind In the central and Atlantic
states.
Snow In ports slowed ND transfers
Of coal ships. Wind interfered with
thousands OF coal cars trying to get
"over the top" in their drive for the
seaboard The national railroad strug-
gled valiantly on. Officials we're coma.
dent that with everybody in on the
play. It would succeed.
President Wilson's ofncial endorse.
ment OF the Garfield order. had swept
aside much of the bitter criticism
which first marked the nve day indus
trial shut down, particularly In view
of more and more exemptions.
Hundreds of industries and thou
sands Of workmen, still idle by the sus-
pension regulations. watched the gov
ernments struggles philosophically.
Comparatively few reports were
made of business defying. the Gerfield
order. Told by President Wilson that
the move was necessary and must be
carried out, industry and labor accept
ed their duty patriotically.
Hundreds Of thousands of work
men, however, and scores of indus
tries who first believed they were to
remain idle, found themselves today
allowed to continue.
In addition to the announced exemp'
tions from application Of the Garfield
order there are many more removed
from the regulations whose identity Is
kept secret. The purpose of conceal
ing these industries Is to prevent an
influx Of increasing numbers or de
mands for release.
There still is vast confusion as to
operation of the Garfield order in in
dividuaI cases.
State fuel administrators, however
occupy crucial position in the
scheme Of fuel control and power fs
granted to all these to supply relief to
any establishment when this is neces-
sary to prevent injury to health or de-
struction to property by hre ana
freezing.
They are charged with the import.
ant duty of enforcing the order in all
its details
Rulings regarding the provisions OF
the order are made'for the most part
at the national headquarters, but the
state fuel administrators, working
through county and local administrat-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Thousands of Workmen In Chi
cago Are Hungry, Cold
and Sick.

UNITED Press Leased Wire SerVicel
CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-The smokeless
chimneys and hushed machinery OF
the hundreds OF small factories closeo
here by the coal conservation oroer
meant something more immediate to
Chicago's poor than winning the war
it meant hunger, cold and sickness.
Thousands of workmen who could
not read, or whose time for recrea-
ton is too limited to read, knew noth-
ing of the fuel administrations clos
ing mandate, it developed today. They
presented themselves for work at the
usual hour yesterday, only to be told
there is no work.
Dazed by the suddeness Of the ca,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
LESS CHIMMEYS
BRING MUCH SUFFERING

tastrophe they wandered about duly
in search of some other employment
They only encountered thousands OF
their fellows enacting the same tragic
rules.
Today they turned to their last re,
sort, the horror Of every worhman's
life--the charities.
The United Charities reported that
''back of the yards" the cries Sr help
increased seventy-five per cent over
normal. This was expected to extend
to other districts where men EN-
ployed III day labor or piece work
live Ten thousand letters have
been mailed to citizens by the United
Charities making personal requests
for funds.
The Salvation Army will hold a con-
frence today to plan relief work
Hull House foresaw Intense suffer
ing and a marked increase in the
appeals for fuel, and warm clothing"
Zero temperature still prevailed
aud will continue for several days, the
weather bureau said,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Street Fighting in Petrograd
Before Congress Meets, Sew
eral Being Killed and
Wounded.
BOLSHEVIKI IN CONTROL
kerensky Reported Hiding In the
City and Possibly Back OF tho
Expected Counter
Revolution.
[By Joseph Shaplen. United Press
Correspondent

[By Joseph Shaplen. United Press
Correspondent
PETROGRAD, Jan. 10. delayed via
London, Jan. 19.)-Several persons
were killed and many wounded IN
street fighting today coincident with
opening of the constituent assembly
The city bristled with fighting forces
including q large number OF troops
brought to the capital by the Boil
shevih, after formal announcement
of discovery of a counter revolution
ary plot which it was believed was
hoaded by former Premier Kerensky
Kerensky himself was reported TO
be in hiding in Petrograd.
The constituent assembly opened
at o'clock in the afternoon.
The fighting in the downtown
streets occurred just prior to this.
Among those killed in the riotins
was M. Logvinoff of the executive
committee Of the peasants congress
The wounded included many women
Versions of how the rioting started
differ. The most coherent story was
that procession of the society iol
defense Of the constituent assembly
was attacked by the Bolshev1ki (max
imalists). and their banner destroyed
"A
guns into the air resulted in a gen.
eral hail of machine gun fire and
rtfles-but not all of the bullets were
shot harmlessly towards the sky.
M. Tchernoff,, social revolution
ary and former minister OF agr1cul.
ture under Kerensky, was elected
president of the constituent assem-
bly,, 244 against 155.
dc, ~
Srrolny institute, headquarters OF
the Bolsheviki, which bristled with
machine gun and armored cars. The
central telephone Office was barricad-
ed. The proletariat in several sec
tions of the city was served with arms
and ammunition. Four hundred sail
ors arrived from Cronstadt and Hell
singfors.
The rumor spread throughout the
CITY that Kerensky was somewhere IN
hiding in Petrograd with two OF his
former lieutenants, NJ. Savlnkoil,
formerly minister of war, and F1lon-
enko. once a social democrat leader
in the duna.
The worllmens' and soldiers cen
tral soviet issued formal orders to
all worlmen that they remain at their
occupations on Friday and decreed
mobilization Of all soldiers in the
various armories. It's proclamation
declared every effort Of any person
or organization to assume the func-
tions of government will be regarded
as a counter revolutionary move
'S "
Japanese Cruisers.
rRv Ralph H. Turner, United Press
Staff Correspondent -
TOXIC, Jan. 19.-The arrival OF
Jananese cruisers at Vladivostok to
nrotect the lives and property of
foreign residents and to guard the
interests of the allies, was enthusi-
asticallv received by the foreigners
and the better class Russians ac-
cording to an official report received
by the navy today from the japanese
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Zolua Business Alarmed
For Fear of Shut Dolur1
Bonbardn1ent ofMessages to Fue
That No Order be Lssue. 3 1r

TUnhd sSs'. .srtcn
andn
in
office
Iowa will be benefited greatly through the effect nnp
Of n
woul Illinois,
to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
SAMMYS BRIDE
IS FRENCH GIRL
Iowa Boys Whirlwind Court
ship With Daughter Of
Village Harness
Maker.
sixty DAY PUNISHMENT
Soldier Took French Leave to Get
Married and Pays For It
on Wood
SIXTY DAY PUNISHMENT
lBy J. w. Pegler, United Press STAFF
Correspondent

J 10y y. w. PeSler, united PreSS SLau
! Cores pondent.J
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
! FRANCE, Jan. 19.-She is studying
English; he Is spending all his spare
time learning to parley Franchises
| pec1ally in the evenings in the bar
tracks when the others have crawled
| into their hunks and blown out their
candles.
You see. he and she were married a
week ago in the ancient village church
1t was whirlwind courtship. He won
her heart over a handsome young
poilu, native Of the same village. The
groom-he Is first class American
fighting man-nlet her in a muddy vii
| lage street one night and helped her
. drive in dozen fractions cows. The
next night he called at her home. dom
ned an apron and helped wipe the sup
per dishes.
Just a week ago the Sammy skipped
away from his regiment with a couple
of friends and found her waiting with
her father at the village church. The
village priest soon tied the internation-
al knot. Returning dutifu1ly to camp,
the bridegroom was arrested for leay-
ing-then quarrantined for few days
for case of the mumps. The happy
groom drew sixty days labor with
wood chopping company.
It was a hard come-down from his
soft berth with a headquarters COM
pany-but a vision of his brunei bride
with her flashing black eyes waiting
in the little farm village relieves the
Sammy's long hours Of back breaking
labor.
The United Press correspondent saw
him tonight in barracks. I found him
lying on bunk with sputtering
candle burning above his pillow la
boriously parsing French verbs in the
nickering dancing light.
"a bride like her is worth sixty
years of wood chopping," said he.
Her names Louise. She's eighteen
and the daughter Of the village har-
ness maker. I'm twenty and ] live at
Cedar Grove, Iowa. I'm just a rear
ing to go to the trenches. After the
war I'm going to take my wife back
to Cedar Grove where dad owns big
farm
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
CENTRAL CONTROL
C0NQUERs KAISER
Congress to Debate Next Week
on Measures Which Are
Intended to Push
War Work.
MUNITIONS DIRECT % R
War Cabinet Proposed Which Can
Expedite Business and Eliminate
Much Red
Tape.
MUNITIONS DIRECT o R

[By L. C. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-''Central-
Iize control to conquer the kaiser, Is
| the slogan to be dinned into the ears
OF congress.
Senator Chamberlain today com
pleted plans to press next week for
immediate action on two bills sum-
ming up the results to date Of the In
vestigation Of the war department.
These measures are (D bill Great
ing a director Of munitions to be CIV
en- control of purchases of everything
needed to arm or equip the army,
navy, shipping board and allies, and
CD a bill creating a war council OF
from three to five members who next
to the president, will have supreme
control Of the war program.
The director Of munitions bill al
ready has been reported to the SEN
ate and the war council measure Is
expected to go in Monday.
the committee plans to continue its
Investigation, taking up cantonment
construction, aviation and medical
corps.
The purpose of the two bills is to
eliminate competition among various
war making agencies; to coordinate
all purchases; to end delays due to
conflicting authority; to provide a
supreme, central authority which can
anticipate needs and plan ahead for
them to organize and adapt the In
dustrial resources toward needs with
out unduly straining these resources.
II the committees plan is adopted,
the war organization will work this
way:
The war cabinet will be composed
of Secretary of War Baker, Secretary
of the Navy Daniels and from one to
three others, preferably civilians Of
the highest business training and ex.
perience.
This council, responsible to no one
but the president, will settle all ques-
tions of priority between government
departments needing the same sup.
plies.
1t will survey the Industrial field
and decide where expansion should
be urged and where an industry max
ing one product should be converted
TO make another more vital to the
war. 1t will look ahead and try to
prepare for coming needs
The munitions dlrectoT Will put dli
disputes up to the war council. Its
rulings will be final.
The director will get certain spec
ific work, delegated TO him by the
president, but will not take over at
once the entire purchasing machin-
erv. For instance. If there is snort
age of steel, the president is empow,
cred, under the bill to authorize the
director to take over steel purchasing.
Thereafter no government agency can
buy steel except through the mum.
tions director.
The housing problem. growing
more acute daily for all departments
is expected to be handled for all by
the director instead of letting the
shipping board build its houses and
compete for lumber, plumbing, labor
etc with the war department, which
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
kcAdoo Admits Being Unable
So Far to do Much Toward
Strengthening Out the
Freight Tangle.
ECONOMIES PROMISED
|eIls Senate Committee About Re-
yolNns Fund Which is to
be Used In Railroad
Work.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Director
eneraI OF Railroads McAdoo today
limited before the senate interstate
pmmerce commission that he has
een unable thus far to do much to-
tards Strengthening out the freight
engle on the country's rail lines.
He blamed the slow progress on
be unusual weather which affected
ven southern railroads, not usually
toubled by cold weather. Not only
Id successive blizzards clog the rail
hes, but they froze harbors. making
Impossible for ships tos approach
bcss for loading, and thus adding
congestion to terminals, McAdoo
i'd
He gave the first authoritative an
buncement concerning the govern
tents policy with respect to the
buntry's baby roads" when he said
hey will not be taken over unless
Is necessary. The losses they will
|lffer. he said, they must bear as
art of the general sacrifice for the
bke Of victory.
Somebody has to make sacrifices
|esides the man who lays down his
|fe In battle" said McAdoo. I'VE
fant all the roads to have a square
eal and we'll help all we can, but
Re are not going to add to the
easurys burdens merely to keep
|eople from losing money"
McAdoo also declared government
bntrol Of railways was necessary to
revent financial disintegration"
fhich threatened the country because
the shrinkage of railway securi-
This collapse, he said, would seri-
nsly have undermined the nations
hopes of victory in the war"
McAdoo said he did not know that
Priority orders were responsible for
he railroad congestion, but he aboi-
pied them all when he took over the
bads.
Il wanted to start with clean
Pate,' he said.
he declared that no one thing was
esponslble for the railroad situation.
aliroads spent less for betterments
nd improvements In the past three
Iears than they did in the previous
pree years, he said. The tremen-
(ous increase of industrial and do
eesuc demands in face Of the con-
p'lon was one Of the big factors in
Pc situation he declared.
McAdoo promised marked eco
|omics In the operation OF the rail-
Pads. He made this statement in
Rplalnlng the purpose of the $500
YV'ooo revolving fund to be created
\ tne railroad bill. This fund, he
,a, was to be used in making up,
snci's IN meeting guarantees and to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Nothing Trade Workers in
Big City Need Help From
charitable Bodies.

Nres Hr.ed Press Leased Wire Service. ]
W NV YORK, Jan. 19.--New York's
Lug p. trade workers are hard hit
ae, Administrator Garfield's Eve
holiday order.
onMlsn charitable organizations and
Isna trades unions today took
10 relieve suffering among the
ousands OF girls and men who are
:. "ins no wages. There is little
aI can be done however as the
SnnIod enaed suddenly and left the
Ictnuiyos Iuyes unprepared. A few east side
tfons sss mat tried to continue oper-
min, hs We're warned by the local fuel
ministration to halt. A1'i
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Not Observing Order.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 19.-The
state fuel administration will investi-
gate charges that movie houses in
Clinton are not observing the dark
Thursday order. The complaint came
from J. B. Stewart, coal committee
man,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Germany Hoped to Form ALI
ance With Japan and Rus
sia After Making
Separate Peace.
cry ADVANTAGEOUS
Count Cxernin to Make Formal Reply
to President Wilson'S Recent
War Aims
Speech.

! UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
! SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.-That
Germany hoped to form Russo-Ger-
man-Japanese alliance against the
United States, France and England
after making separate peace with
Japan and Russia, is the latest reve-
lation in the Hindu revolt plot trials.
This came to light when the prose-
cution introduced the manuscript OF
a book entitled Oscillation of Japan
in World Politics" alleged to have
been written by Taraknath Das. one
of the defendants. 1t was denied
publication in Japan.
"a combination between Germany
and Japan" the manuscript said, rs
SO adyanta geous for the two nations
that they should forget the past and
make an amicable settlement"
VIII Make Reply.
BERNE, Jan. 19.-Count Czernin.
foreign minister, Is
shortly to make formal reply to
President Wilson's allies war aims,
according to word reaching here to-
day.
Czernin was quoted in an inter
view reaching here as asserting
'It will not be the annexationists
views which will end the Brest-
Litovsk meetings. For our part, we
wish to maintain friendly relations.
We do not want territory nor indem-
mites"
Naturalized Citizen.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.-Arrest
of Leo Michaelis, steward on the
steamer Admiral Schley, after plans
for a device said to be intended for
exploding a bomb through opening a
door. had been found in his posses
sion. today revived the Investigation
of the explosion at the Mare Island
black powder magazine.
1t is believed that 1t was such a
device which set off the Mare Island
blast.
Michaelis was born in Germany,
but is a naturalized citizen. He car
ried card bearing an address in
stockholm which is said to be- house
through which German agents COM
municate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
At Sa2 Per RusheI.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.1
FREEPORT, Ill.,, Jan. 19.-Thirty-
two dollars was paid here for bush
ell OF seed corn at a farmers sale,
three times the normal price OF. the
best tested seed,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Thorn pson as Candidate.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-William Hale
Thompson, mayor of the sixth Ger
man city of the world" today an
nounced his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination for United
States senator at the September pri-
maries
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-19
Armed Germans. Accompany
ing Belgian Workmen, Driv-
en- Off by Guards on
Holland Frontier.
A DESPERATE FIGH
Nothing Special Today on tho West
ern War Front, is Report Sent
by Field Marshal
Haig.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 19.-How arm.
ed German deserters, accompanying
Belgian workmen, attempted to
escape into Holland was told in a
vivid narrative reaching here today
The German deserters were ap-
proachd by the German border guard
and desperate fight ensued in
which the mutineers killed one and
wounded several. They tried to cut
the electric wires guarding the from
tier, but were finally driven off by
the guards. One Belgian who escaped
across into Holland said the desert
ers were from the Russian front.
Answer Will Be Drive
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Ameri-
can and allied officiaidom is now
convinced the German military party
firmly entrenched, proposes to make
west front drive as it's main answer
to President Wilson and Lloyd Gorge
war aims. This is the meaning in
ternauonal experts interprete today
into Lloyd-Georges warning; and
likewise many saw a very direct con-
nection between the west front stu
alton and the hurried Garfield coal
OTQ0I 10 uelp ClcdT LTduSpOTCS.
While Chancellor Hertling will
probably make some reply to the war
aims, as officials see it, everything
received by this government indi-
Gates that there will be no conces-
sions-now.
England's man power bill is in
tended to give sufficient men to Off
set Germany's temporary advantage
gained from shifting men to the west
from the east. And 1t is framed to
offset any German thought that the
allies might be weakening in their
purpose of going on until their war
aims are possible Of accomplishment.
The political propaganda offensive
will continue in an effort to sway
Russia and Austria TO the allied
side, but the more important thing
men and supplies-will be aug
mented to offset the Teuton military
party's plans.
Addition of new men is intended to
thwart Germany's dream of smash
ing the west front. And if she can
be hurled back then, officials believe
her tune will change and her people
will no longer brook the military
party's control. The need for the
men is urgent, however. This is
manifest from Lloyd-George's utter
ances and from urgent appeals of
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The Telegraph Service Of The
| Daily Gate City and Constitu
tion-D Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
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Fair. Continued cold. Local
temp p. m. II; Z a. m. Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-29
Rim FHsKKHEEHEEIEEEkHl BUY
Wss JULY 29th TO AUG. 3rd Pure FOOD SALE W.ss.
Money Saving Opportunities Advantage Bargains
Week Of Tremendous Money Saving Opportun

Buy canned fruits by the case. You
cannot afford to do home canning
with rrices as low as these.