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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
All Will Be Requested To Fill
Out QuestiOnnaires.
All Who Are Financially Able
Must Aid Government.
$225,O0O IS YET NEEDED
This Must Be Raised To Reach
Two Million Goal.
Demonstration Will Be Held at
MenOken Friday Night.

A resolution calling for a census of
city employees to ascertain the num-
ber who have purchased third liberty
bonds will be introduced at the city
commission meeting tomorrow, it was
declared at the city hall today by
members of the commission. EN-
ployes who have failed to subscribe
and who are known to possess the
financial ability will be dropped from
the payroll unless they buy by the
close of the campaign.
"Employes of the city are working
for unit of the government" said w.
G. Tandy, commissioner of streets.
land draw their pay from the public.
The city should not tolerate any pat
riotic indifference on their part.
"Of course there are many day Ia
borers with large families who can
not afford to subscribe but the ma
jority of employees are able to buy.
Those who regard their duty indif-
ferently. when able to fulfill it should
and will be dropped from the pay
roll" Tandy's ideas are supported
heartily by w. L. Porter of parks and
health. 80
Send Out Qucstionnaircs.
The resolution will provide for send
ing each city employe from member
of the commission down. a question
have bought third bond. If any en-
p1oye states in his or her answer that
no bond has been purchased, they will
be given a chance to explain why. If
there is a valid reason there will of
course, be no separation of the em-
ploye and the job. If the reasons
show indifference, exactly the oppo-
site will take place.
1.-The time has come" said Tandy,
when this county and this city wants
to know who is loyal. who is disloyal
and who is Indifferent"
II am confident that the third lib
erty loan subscriptions here will reach
the new $2.000.00O goal by the clos
ing day. Saturday" said j. r. Burrow,
chairman of the Shawnee county eX-
ecutive committee, today. Burrows
tions here being boosted to $1.774,-
100 at the closing hour of the banks
Tuesday.
$225,OOO Needed.
A total of $225.0OO is yet needed to
attain the new goal of $2,OOo.oo0.
A liberty loan demonstration, it was
announced today. will be held Friday
night at Bethel chapel in Menoken.
The following will be the program:
Short address by the chairman
Miss Emma Veits.
Reading Cohen on the Telephone"
Miss Agnes Hannigan.
Violin selection. .aSlavonic Cradle Song,
Miss Agnes Voiland.
Song-.We Are Going to Take the sword
From William. Miss Margaret Morrison
.'Samantha Simpkins From Bingviile.-
Miss Agnes Hannigan.
Report of campaign committee.
Song .-.............--. --.-..-...... America"
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NOT AT ALL BAD!
Germans Can't Understand
Allies Accusations.
Smelling q Church q Mere Acct
dent, of Course.

Paris. May Protests against
the bombardment of churches by the
Germans are regarded as "inexplica- :
BILE" by Germany, according to the
Cologne Gazette.
"Germany is sorry that shells from
her 22O mil1imeter guns struck a
church on Good Friday the Com
munique states. but inquiries sar-
castically, ''how Parisians could ex-
pect a gunner 40 kiIometers away
to differentiate between churches and
other structures. Our piety is evil
denced by the fact that there was no
bombardment on the day the victims
of the Good Friday incident were
buried" the Gazette stated. I'VE GER
tain1y committed no sacri1egeS."
Cardinal Hartmann is preparing a
full report on the incident to be sub
mitted to the Vatican shortly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
IT IS TO LAUGH
German Papers Amusing in
Paris Bombardment Tales.
French Capital Is Calm, and
Damage Is Slight.

Paris, May 1.-The damaged caused
in the Paris district by shells from
the long range German cannon has
been insignificant in proportion to the
mirth provoked by German newspa-
per reports giving lurid accounts of
the damage, panic and CONSERVATION
in the French capital since the bonn
tardment began.
One German paper says great num-
bers of dead are buried at night; that
the people of Paris take their break
fast and luncheon in their cellars and
that all of those who can leave the
stricken city are Fastening to a safe
distance. Another says that in the
high tension of nerves resulting from
the havoc caused. the common peo-
pie, ''wno are unable to leave the city,
are bringing about trouble that
amounts to riots after each unfavor-
able communique from the fighting
'front.'
Only Tranquility There.
The situation in Paris has been de-
scribed fully by cable. No disorder
OF any kind has occurred and instead
of CONSERVATION, there reigns and has
reigned from the beginning perfect
tranquility.
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impression despite the fact that they
have not had all the training he would
like to have given them before the
opening. This morning Nee was un-
certain what pitcher he would send to
the box to open the long siege but
said he would start either Jaynes or
Haines. making his final choice when
he decided which was nearest right" Z"
There were to be no Chestnut
ceremonies at the park before Umpire
Mullen called f'play ball" Following
selection by Marsha1fs band the
crowd was to be given the entertain
ment it paid to see without delay and
Spencer Arthur Abbott, president of
the local club. said every effort would
be made to start the game promptly
on time
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Chancellor Declares Against
PlutOcratic System.
mo Longer Possible" He
Warns JunkerS.
REVOLUTION IS THREATENED
May Day Uprisings Watched
For by Washington.
Food Situation Threatens To
Promote Trouble.

Declaring that plutocratic suffrage
giving political rights to wealth is no
Longer possible in our nation,
Chancellor Won Hertling has informed
the lower house of the Prussian diet
that it must pass the electoral reform
bill or give up more rights to the peo-
pie thru force. The chancellor threat
ened the Prussians with revolutions if
they did not meet the demand speed
ily. Apparently the chancellor feared
grave disorder if the reform bill which
he admitted was hedged around with
safeguards is not passed. A motion to
postpone action was defeated by five
to one.
This is May day, generally time
for strikes in continental Europe
There have been no inklings of pos
sihle strikes within the central en-
pires except a call by the German So
cialists of Austria several days ago
for a peace strike on May 1.
Look for May Day Trouble.
washington, May 1.-Washington
today listened for a possible May day
storm behind the Teuton lines.
Particularly in Austria, laborers.
students, Slovaks and Czechs threat
ened to make May a day to be re-
membered in the history of the war.
Diplomatic dispatches were scanned
eagerly for indication of the outbreak.
Amsterdam official cables declare
demonstrations of growing intensity
are proceeding at Prague and many
students have been arrested, several
killed and that the feeling against the
Germans is increasingly bitter.
The food situation in Austria
threatens to cause a sympathetic DEM
onstraticn on the part of the populace
for any attempted uprising, the cables
say.
A pessimistic expose of the food sit
uation there has been made by the
president of the Austrian food bureau
says. one official diplomatic dispatch
via Bern.
Food Ration To Be Less?
Further official dispatches from
Bern declare that meeting of the
reichstag food commission has been
held and the question of reducing
Germany's bread ration discussed.
Cablegrams indicated that Germany
is tightening her grip on Austria,
keeping King Charles on the throne
at the same time to stave off revolt
Of the war-wearied people. German
controlled newspapers in the duaS
nonarchies are now urging that con-
fiscated la.lds of Italians in Trentino
lie distributed among German settlers.
that German schools be opened in the
district, and that the clergy be entire
ly German.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01

HUN PLANE DOWN
Two Young American FIiers
Got a German.
Bows From Iowa and Ohio Won
and Returned Safely.

With the American Army in Fra nee
May Capt. Norman Hall and Ed
die Rickenbacker, American aviators,
Monday divided the honor of destroy
ing a boche plane over the German
lines. Each modestly gives the other
entire credit for the feat.
The German plane. an Albatross,
was sighted about 6 O'Clock in the
evening at a height of 800 meters.
As the two Americans arose to the
attack, the enemy machine opened
fire and fled. The Americans pursued
the Albatross over the enemy lines.
firing several hundred rounds. The
German machine suddenly dived to
earth, spouting flames and smoke.
One an Iowa Boy.
The Americans by this time were
flying so low that their planes were
struck by bullets fired by German in
fantrymen. but they returned safely
to the American lines.
Hall. whose home is in Colfax. Ia.
was formerly member of the Lafay-
ette escadrille and has several enemy
planes to his credit.
Rickenbacker is a famous automo-
bile race driver and formerly drove
General Pershing's car. His home is
in Columbus, o. This was bis first
victim.
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CATHOLICS ARE SORRY
Do Not Approve Action I'm Ireland OPP
posing Draft.

London. May 1.-The Catholic
union of Great Britain. an influential
organization whose membership in
cludes many titled persons and other
prominent Catholics has sent to Car
dinal Gasparri. the papal secretary OF
state, for submission to Pope Benedict
a series of resolutions passed by it
regretting the action OF the Catholic
hierarchy in opposing Irish conscrip-
ton. thereby apparently supporting
organized resistance to law"
The resolutions express the opinion
that the Irish ought to share in the
defense of the empire and of the lib
critics of mankind from the grave peril
to which they are exposed thru con-
fiict forced on the world. by cruel
and INSCRIPTIONS enemy"
There are serious misgivings. IL II
added, on the interferences of eccles-
iastical authority in purely temporal
and political questions.
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L!ilbEer,1tySS
H0nOST
@&ssase

Washington, May 1.-Today's army
casualty list containing seventy-two
names, showed eight killed in action:
three dead of disease; one dead OF
wounds; two missing: one dead of ac-
cident; one dead of other causes: five
wounded severely and fifty-one
wounded slightly.
The missing, both officers, are
Iieuts William H. jenkins and
Franklin B. Pedrick.
Killed in action: Sergt. Arvid A
Cederholm. Corps. John F. Giles.
George Gritseback, Pvts- James o.
Carey, Earl R. Clark, Clarence r..
Cloe. Clinton w. De Forest, James N.
Joyce
/ Died of wounds: Pvt. Lyndon L.
Casey.
Died of disease: Pvts. Louis Lor-
aine Barnett, Charles H. Bolden, Ben
jamin Hill.
Died of accident: John Pesa.
Died of other causes: Pvt. Howard
A. Mowery.
Severely wounded: Corps. Walter G..
Gaul, John Murray; Pvts. Raphael
Carlo, John j. Cook, Robert B. REM
ington.
Among the slightly wounded was
Lieut.. Nathaniel c. Reed.
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Aoh 6zMAsN

It.was $3.50 this afternoon when the
opening day parade started for the
ball park. Governor Capper and
Mayor House, as well as managers
and players of the Topeka and Joplin
teams and several hundred thirty
third degree fans, rode in the parade.
Right at the start of the parade. a car
loaded with Topeka players blew a
tire, there was no motor convenience
for the band and delay marked the
start for the ball yard.
The opening ceremonies began this
afternoon when MarshalIs band brok 9
the atmosphere with a martial air
and started the big parade that was
to twice traverse the length of KAN
sas avenue. In the parade were to
be the governor, his honor the mayor.
members of the Rotary, Cooperative e
and Square Circle clubs and delega-
tions representing the Elks and the
Chamber of Commerce. w. o. An
derson and A. d. Birch. the two
boosters who were largely instrument
tai in making baseball possible for
Topeka this season. were the marshals
OF the parade. The parade formed at
the Throop hotel and marched down
Kansas avenue to Tenth street, dou-
bied around jackson and Ninth back
to Kansas avenue and marched TO
North Topeka and then doubled back
ard headed for the ball park. Mem
hers of the visiting team and the
home players had cars of their own
The Joplin Miners-Topeka's old
Savage cIub-arrived in the city short
| ly after 10 O'Clock and they seemed
| determined to show that their IL to 0
defeat at the hands of the Kansas City
F., Blues in their last exhibition game
Tuesday did not indicate their real
strength The Joplin club has very
little to, remind local fans that it is
the same one that played under To-
peka banners in 1915, Lamb, Sanders
Metz and Maple being the only players
| in evidence who were with the team
when Savage took it to the Missouri
zinc city.
| Manager Nee Confident.
! Manager Nee of the local club ap-
peared confident and that he felt
sure his men would make a favorable
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Only Tranquility There.
.43 FROM KANSAS
List of Graduates of Funston
o. Z. G. Announced.
j. r. McCOsh and II. II. Hasty
of Washburn Recommended.

Forty-three Kansans qualified for
commissions at the third officers
training camp at Camp Funston,
which recently closed, according to a
list of the graduates released today by
the committee on public information.
More than 400 men were recommend
ed for commissions and were given
graduation certificates. All of these
men will be carried on the list of eli
gible officers and commissioned at
such times suitable vacancies oc-
cur.
The Kansas list includes men from
every part of the state. many of the
men coming from the rural districts
and small towns. Two well known
Washburn students are included.
They are Robert r. Hasty of Belle
vile and j. R., McCosh of Longford.
lContinued on Page TXol
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TO BE WARMER NOW
Cold Weather Has Held Back Buds,
Protecting Them Against Frost.
Today's Temperatures,

Temperatures for the day averaged
s degrees below normal for the date
The wind was blowing 20 miles an
hour from the south at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. At o'clock Meteorologist
Flora sa ID that the temperature was
still on the climb and that indications
were that before evening today would
have topped the high record of the
last two weeks.
kansas has been extremely lucky
this year." stated Meteorologist Flora
this morning in speaking of the late
frosts. April was so cold that the
tender fruits and vegetables did not
grow enough for the killing frosts of
the last two weeks to do very much
damage" Flora. just incidental to the
opening of the May. said that there
was no more cold weather in sight inn
mediately and he extended the infor-
nation that it is possible that winter
has finally fled.
The lowest temperature in Topeka
Continued on Page Two)
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ENGINEERS in CITY
Statewide Convention Opens in
Topeka This Afternoon.
Plan for Intensive Conservation
of Fuel in Kansas.

p. m.-Introductory exercises. Chamber
of Commerce; address of welcome by
Mayor J. +. House: response by state
president, L. H., Burg. of Fort Scott; ad-
dress by George McEntire. president To-
peka Chamber of Commerce: response by
Fred w. Raven, national secretary.
$50 p. m.-Convention called to order.
4:30 p. m.-Official opening of exhibits
at auditorium by b. M. Babcock, vice
president. of Pittsburg.
p. m.-Informal reception at audi
torium; address by Gov. Arthur Capper
address by Justice John S. Dawson: ad-
dress by Fred w. Raven national secre-
tary, What the Association Is Doing to
Help Win the World War"
A statewide effort for more inten-
s1ve conservation of coal and other
fuels by cooperation between the fed
eral fuel directors and power plants
VIII be launched in Topeka during the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
TO CONFER
Important Versailles Meeting
Opens i'm France Today.
Representatives of America To
Be There.

Versailles, May IAN important
conference of the allied nations opens
here today and will be carried over to
tomorrow. The participants comprise
Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau
and Orlando of Great Britain, France
and Italy, respectively, and represen-
tatives of France, Great Britain, Italy
and the United States in the supreme
war council
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Baseball Today.

Opening of the Western league
season in Topeka with Joplin to-
day. Game starts at 3 o'clock.
Game in detail, play by play ,rin
postscript edition of State Jour-
nal at about 5 o'clock. See the
newsboys or buy at newstands
over the city-3 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
MAY SPLIT ON DRAFT
Irish Sim Fcin Too Radical to Suit
Irish Pariiamentarians.

Dublin, May lowing to the Sim
Feiners demand for more radical ac-
ton in opposition to Irish conscrip-
ton, split is said to be imminent
between the Sim Fein and Irish par
liamentarians. A meeting of the
Irish party was hastily summoned
last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
Is ANI1-PRCSSIAN
Equal Suffrage Would Kill State
as 1t Is.

Amsterdam. May In the discus
sion of the Prussian reform bill in the
Prussian lower house Tuesday, Herr
Won Heydebrand, conservative. de-
clared that if equal suffrage as the
government proposed was introduced
the character of the lower house
would be changed and it would not be
possible to longer maintain the PruS-
sian state as it is.
The unrest among the people ought
not to last much longer and an agree
ment was quite possible, said Herr
Friedberg. vice president of the Prus-
sian ministry. Herr Porsch, a GEN.
trist, said that a small section of the
centrist party would vote against the
bill but the majority would support it.
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TO VISIT KAISER
Charley OF Austria Will Go Right
Away to See Willie.

LONDON. May Emperor Charles
of Austria accompanied by
Baron Burian, the foreign minister
and their staffs, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Eur
ich. will proceed almost Immediately
to German headquarters to confer
with the German emperor. Ukraiaian
and Balkan affairs, it is added, will
be discussed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
SPRECKELS AN ALIEN
Manager o: Big Sugar Factory Sixteen
Years, He Is Now Barred.

New York. May Walter
Spreckels. nephew of Claus Spreckels,
millionaire sugar king, has been for
hidden to enter the sugar factory at
Yonkers of which he has been man
ager for sixteen years. Federal auth
critics declared he was enemy alien.
Officials say Walter Spreckels has
failed to take out naturalization pa
pers altho he has been in this country
thirty years.
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1000 SALOONS QUIT
Business Doesn't Seem To Be Rushing
in "Windy City,

Chicago, May There will be ap-
proximately 1000 fewer saloons in
Chicago this year than in the year
just past. The period for applying
for licenses expired last night and it
appeared that thirsty Chicagoans will
have to get along with only. 5000 sa-
looms instead of the previous 5000.
Sunday closing, high prices, and Ab-
sence of men called to the colors are
among the causes
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Michigan's First 'BOne Dry" Day.
Detroit. May Michigan today is
experiencing its first day as bone
dry" state, the amendment to the state
constitution providing for prohibition
having become effective at midnight
last night Many of the 1926 saloons
affected by the law. remained open to-
day-but their business was confined
to the serving of lunches and the dis
pensing of what is advertised as ITEM
perance beer This was particularly
true in the case of downtown saloons
in the cities and larger villages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
DON'T CRY when | DE-"
SAID AMERICAN BiRDMAN

Chicago, May IL want to
say. If anything should happen to
me. let's have no mourning in
spirit or in dress. Like a liberty
bond, it is ar investment, not
loss, when a man dies for his coun-
try. 1t is an honor to a family
and s that tim. for weeping?''
Lieut. Dinsmore Ely. Chicago
aviator killed in France.
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Copenhagen, May I-The German9
are said to have introduced certain
improvements in tank construction,
designed to give heavier protection
against artillery. The crews are also
able to close the machines hermetical-
ly when passing thru gas clouds.
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LANSING TO EXPLAIN
"Why No War on Turkey and Bull
gariaf' His Topic. s

Washington, May /. Secretary
Lansing will appear tomorrow before
the senate foreign relation committee
to tell the administration attitude with
regard to war on Turkey and Bulgaria.
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KILLED IN PRACTICE
Young Airman Loses Life in Trial
Flight in France.

Rockford. ILL.,, May Lieut. Clay
ton c. Ingersoll. %, was killed yester-
day during a practice flight at a
French aviation field. according to a
war department message today to the
father, Winthrop Ingersoll, Rockford
manufacturer.
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For Quick Ice Shipments.

WaShlngtOn, Nay l.-Ra1lrOadS
were instructed by Director General
McAdoo today to take special pains to
transport natural ice promptly to avert
an ice famine threatened because of
the scarcity of manufacturing mate
rialS.
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Topeka baseball bugs welcomed the
return of organized ball this after
noon when they celebrated the OPEN
ing of the Western league season after
being off the circuit an entire year.
Headed by band, the players and
fans paraded Kansas avenue before
the game this afternoon and early
cars to- the ball park were crowded
with feverish fans anxious to yell for
Topeka in the seasons opening clash
with the Joplin crew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
OPENING GAME
With JOPLIN IS
CALLED TODAY
Big Parade Feature of To-
peka's Return to w. L.
Baseball Season Officially Open
at This Afternoon.
MINERS FURNISH OPPOSITION
Old Topeka Team Will Battle
the New KaWS.
Haynes or Jaynes and Sanders
on the Mound.
Baseball Season Officially Open
at 3 This Afternoon.
MINERS FURNISH OPPOSITION
Old Topeka Team Will Battle
the New KaWS.
Haynes or Jaynes and Sanders
on the Mound.

THE LINE UP.
Topeka Joplin
WulffIi, ss. Carlisle, If.
Nee 2b. Hulswitt Lamb, 2b.
Bradley 1b. IIier rf
Meyers, f. Metz. 1b.
Cleveland 3b. Brant, ss
Hauger, CT. Brolxaw, CT.
Boche, RI. Thompson, 3b.
Block. C. Collins e.
Haynes or Jaynes, p. Sanders, p.
Umpire-Johnnie Mullen.
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convention of the Kansas Association
OF Stationary Engineers. it was an
Eounced today by Fred A. Painter,
charm IN of the convention commit
tee. The convention which opened
at O'Clock this afternoon at the
Chamber of Commerce will continue
to include May 4. This afternoon
more han 100 members of the asso-
cation had arrived in the city. The
visitors also include a large delega-
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Manager Nee of the local club ap-
peared confident and that he felt
sure his men would make a favorable
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kaiser is building up mounds of
dead in the valleys.