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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
Livestock Not Only Kind That
Made Packers Rich.
Heney Alleges $5,512,00O "Wa-
ter" in Omaha Yards Deal.

Omaha, March 19.-Francis J. Hen
ey, general counsel for the federal
trade commission, resumed his in
veStigation of the big packing indus
tries of the country in Omaha today
Evidence was introduced at the hear
ing designed to show the effect of the
control of the stockyards by the pack
ers on the prices paid to producers
and ultimately on production No
representatives of the packers were
called as witnesses. most of the evi-
dence consisting of documents taken
from the files of Omaha and Sioux
City packing firms and the testimony
of Nebraska and Iowa producers
Packers Control Separate Yards
manager of the South Omaha live
stock exchange, the first witness, said
that the general understanding among
cattle producers was that Armour &
Co. dominated the Omaha stock
yards, Swift & Co, Sioux City; Swift &
Co., ST. Paul: Morris & Co, Oklahoma
City; Swift & Armour, Fort Worth
Swift & Armour, Denver; Morris &.
Co, Kansas City: Armour, Chicago,
and Morris, St. Louis. The earnings
of the Omaha yards last year were
given as eight per cent.
Mr.. Heney then read from the rec
ordS of the federal trade commission
figures showing huge sums paid by the
Union stockyards of Omaha to the
packers as an inducement to locate
their places in Omaha. According to
these figures the total cash invest
ment in the yards does not exceed
s75O.000 while of the approximate ST.
100000 capital stock outstanding
more than s5,512,00O represents stock
form of stock dividends to various
Dackin0 firms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
Are PRICE FIXERS
New Board Handling the job
To Sit Continuously.
Branch of War Industries Board
Decides Govt Purchases.

Washinston March 19.-Creation
Of !. price-fixing committee under the
war industries board which will pass
teri:ls purchased by the government
and establish price-fixing, policy
from time t. time to be approved by
the president, was announced today
by the council of national defense
The committee is composed of the
following: Robert S. Brookings of
the war Industries board, chairman;
Brig. Gen Palmer e. Pierce. sur
vevor general Of supplies for the war
department; Paymaster John Han
cock of the bureau of supplies and
accounts of the navy; Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield. f. w. Taussig, chair
man of the tariff commissions: w. j.
Harris. chairman of the federal trade
commission: Hugh Frayne of the war
industries board; Bernard M Baruch,
chairman of thu war industries board,
and another civilian member to be
appointed later.
Executive departments meeting diff
ficulty in handling price-fixins mat
ters, it was said. will have the ad-
vice nd assistance of the committee.
speed Also Aim of Board.
THE object of the price fixing conf
mittee is two-fold,'' the announcement
said First it will be separate body.
quasi judicial in nature, for the pur-
pose implied in its name and it will
serve this purpose thru being made UP
of men separated so completely from
industrial interests that their motives
and actions in the determination of
prices can be subject to no suspicion
or mercenary interest Prices will not
be made until after costs have been
passed upon by the federal trade
commission. With costs as a basis. the
price fixing committee will then con =
slider problems of production and dis
tribution before arriving at its deci-
sions-
1.-The second object to be achieved
is speed. The committee will sit all
the time and will thus eliminate un-
necessary delay caused by the consid-
Grafton of price fixing problems in
several different quarters"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
KANSAS RANKS THIRD
In Midwest. Missouri and Nebraska
Ahead in Thrift Stamp Sales.

Washington, March 19.-Missouri
with a total of s9.015,Ss0 leads the
country in the sale of war saving
stamps. according to the first detailed
statement of the campaign issued by
the National War Saving committee.
The statement made public today
and including sales from the begin
ming of the drive in December to the
end of February. also. shows the Mis-
souri, river states. Nebraska, Missouri
and Kansas leading in the order
named in per capita subscriptions
Maryland. however. advanced to sec
ond place in the per capita sales for
the month of February alone with
New Mexico. Kansas and Missouri
following in the order named. The
total and per capita sales of war saw
ings securities for the states TO the
end of February include:
Nebraska, IS, 6S9.71103, s4.39; Mis-
souri,, S9,015, ,ss0.6s, s2-54; Ksns-s,
s4.365, ,so4.16, s2-31; Iowa, s2,400.-
679.96, $1.01: Oklahoma, $2.062, ,4e2 AZ,
sec; Arkansas. s1.113,S71.2s. &c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
HUNS PLUMBER
OF SLAv NATION
H0RRIFIES U. S.
America Heartily Agrees With
Allied Council Decision.
Await Wilson's Denunciation of
German LOOt-Driye.
To WHAT END? He WILL ASK
How Long Will TeutOn People
Follow Power Mad JunkerS!
kaiser's Conduct Embassies
Idea He Must Be Crushed.
Await Wilson's Denunciation of
German LOOt-Driye.
TO WHAT END? He WILL ASK
BY CARL d. CD0tT

BY CARL ID. g.
Washington, March 19---The United
States government does not and will
not recognize the German peace .,act
with Russia and Rumania
Already pledged to go the limit to
free Russia from Teuton duress. this
government agrees with the all e.. wa
council statement of rejection es these
terms. This rejection and the gen
Germany's shameless plunder puo1 IN
the east may find concrete expressi, IL
in President Wilson's proposed T
statement
Everything points to a virile declar
alton along the lines of the :.llied
council statement.
Expose Useiessness of Peace Talk.
The presidents friends expect him
to make a stirring war appeal to the
nation, shunting aside all peace talk
and exposing the uselessness of try
ing for any agreements with the power
mad Teuton militarists His war
statement, however, may do all these
things, yet have in it the element of
appeal to the Austrians or Gernian:
to see the ruthlessness of the leaders
and the folly of keeping on against a
world united against Germany be-
cause of her crimes.
The administration is now con-
vinced that peace talk is utterly use
less and even dangerous. as peace
talk.
But it still believes that the political
offensive can be used advantageous
to support the men and guns.
When the Versailles council rejected
German peace terms and announced.
in effect, that Germany must be
crushed. there was a disposition here
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
American Artillery BOmbards
EsSey and MOntSec.
Also Drop Many Gas Shells on
German DefenSes.
HUNS ABANDON FIRST LINE
Enemy Shell Hits in Midst OF
American Patrol.
Z. s. Plane Discovers Germans
Building New Defense.


With the American Army in France,
March 1S-Monday.-Ameri artil-
lery on the Toul front today bonn
barded towns within the enemy lines.
On several occasions a considerable
number of gas shells were used. The
gunners also dropped projectiles on
German trenches. Some shells hit in
the town of Essey and others in
Montsec.
An American patrol between Rem
nieres wood and Jury wood (between
Seichepray and Flirey), encountered
an enemy patrol early this morning.
For an hour and a half the American
patrol tried to make some of the
enemy prisoner but without result al
tho a number of fights with pistols
and rifles occurred as the Germans
retired jumping from tree to tree
American snipers made a number of
lucky shots today and Germans were
seen to fall
Phone Lines Again Tapped.
The American telephone wires
within the American lines were tapped
again during the night not far from
where the patrol encounter occurred.
The enemy artillery fired a number
of gas shells at our lines The weather
last night and today was well-suited
for aerial work and much was accom-
plished- American anti-aircraft guns
drove off at least six enemy airplanes
while others crossed the lines at such
height that they were out of range
American planes discovered during
the night that the Germans are
Strengthening their second line. 1t is
known that the first line in many
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
She Sued Him, Alleging He
Promised To Marry Her.
He Then Refused To Fulfill
Agreement, She Asserted.
$500 "HEART BALM"
Woman in Case German Now
Living at Hiawatha.
First Case of Its Kind on Rec
ord in Kansas.

Stockton. Kan, March ia set
tlement of a breach of promise pro-
ceeding in the district court OF ROCKS
county, Kansas, by compromise, Is
probably the first time the financial
worth of a negro husband to a white
woman has ever been determined in
this state. The price agreed upon was
5000 and costs of the action Bert
Howard a very striking example OF
the colored race, had been sued by a
German woman whose home Is now
at Hiawatha, for refusing to marry
her after positively agreeing to do so.
She alleged he agreed to marry her
and that in consideration of his prom
ise so to do, she agreed to marry him.
That he afterward failed and refused
to keep his promise atho she had
been ready, able apd willing at all
times since said contract to fulfil her
part of it.
Lawyers Quit Case.
The original petition in the action
was drawn by Ex-Judge >Clark A.
Smith of Cawker City, and was filed
by the law firm of Smith & Else.
Smith & Else dropped out of the case
and w. E. Mahin of Osborne and F.
E. Young of Stockton afterward rep
resented her. Stipulations of settle
ment were signed Saturday, the col
ored man being represented by w. L
Sayers of Hill City and o. o. Osborn
of Stockton. Sayers, a colored at
torney of Graham county, remarked
after the settlement that he would
rather fix the price of the colored mar
himself than to submit it to a jury, al
the jury might put the price too low
and thereby undervalue and humili-
ate the men of his race
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
OFFICIAL WAR
STATEMENTS
BRITISH.

BRITISH.
London. March 1S.-English troops
successfully raided positions in the
neighborhood of Villersguislain. Lavac-
querie and Boisgrenier last night,
bringing back a number of prisoners.
Field Marshal Haig reported today.
Portuguese troops conducted raid
east of Neueve Chapelle, capturing
prisoners and two machine guns.
In the neighborhood Of Fleur Baix
and Boisgrenier three attempted enemy
raids were repulsed with considerable
losses to the raiders last night
Hostile artillerying occurred in the
Ypres sector
FRENCH.
Paris, March 1S-Eeavy artillery
fighting is in progress on the Verdun
front. says tonight's official communi-
cation. On the Be.gian front there were
severe struggles before the Germans
were expelled from positions in which
they had gained q footing
GERMAN.
Berlin. via London March 10
Twenty-three allied airplanes and two
captive balloons were brought down
yesterday, the German war ..ffice an
nounced today. 1t was stated also that
reconnaissance in Flanders had resulted
in taking three hundred Belgian prison
ers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
INVITED TO BIG DRIVE!
Germans So Sure It'II Happen, Invite
Press to Witness It.

London. March 19.-The heads of
the German army have invited a num-
ber of neutral correspondents to be
present at the German offensive on
the western front, the Exchange Teie-
graph correspondent at Copenhagen
reports. The correspondent, IL is
stated. will leave for the front on
Wednesday.
This news follows quickly on the in
terviews given by Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg and Gen. Won Ludendorff
the general tone of which is apparent
ly intended to lead to belief that a
German offensive was in prospect
That Germany should so widely her
aid an attack has excited suspicion in
entente quarters that she did not real
~ intend making one. Another view.
however has been that IL was her real
purpose to excite just such suspicious
and then strike at a moment when the
allies guard had been figuratively
lowered or they were preparing for an
offensive operation on their own ac-
count
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
DOWN rs HUN PLANES
British Ayiators Put in Busy Sunday
Also Destroy Balloon.

London, March 19.-Eighteen Ger
nan machines were destroyed, eight
were driven down out of control and
an observation balloon was destroyed
BY British aviators in the air fight
on Sunday, according to an official
statement late last night dealing with
the aerial activities on the western
front
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
FRANCIS STILL IN RUSSIA?
State Dept. Hears 1t Was Embassy
Attache Who Left for Harbin.

washington, March 19.-Ambassa-
Cor Francis was still at Volognda on
Sunday, state department cablegrams
said today Butler Wright, embassy
attache, had started for Harbin, but
Francis gave no indication of moving
eastward himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
MORE FINE WEATHER
Spring Temperature to Remain for
Few Days, Flora Promises.
ToDAY'S TEMPERATURES.

The wind was blowing this after
noon at a rate of IL miles an hour
from the southwest. The ternpera-
ture averages Is degrees above nor
NAL.
That the pleasant spring weather s
to stay for at least two more days, is
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19
Many Children FeebIe-Minded.

New York, March 19--Three per
cent of the children living in New
York are feeble-minded. At least
Traits the way DR.. Aristine Mum
Rehnt has it sized up. She told about
it in a lecture on feeble-minded chill
dren.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19

HARRY LAUDER. philosophical in
his sorr0w, should be a lesson to
all OF us.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-19

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Generally fair and warm tonight
and Wednesday.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20
TURN THE Boys THOUGHTS
HOM;WARD, SAYS FOSOIGE,
ASKING COOPERATION

Washington. - Especially Just be
fore leaving for France to superin
tend the rehabilitation activities Oi
those organizations which recently
took part in the United War Work
Campaign, Raymond B. FOsdick
Chairman Of the Commission on Train.
ing Camp Activities, was interviewed
with regard to the present situation OF
our overseas forces.
''The problem presented by the
gradual rehabilitation of more than
two million men three thousand miles
from home is one which will tax all
our social resources" said Mr.. FOs-
dick. ut is above all a morale prob
lem, and it must be faced as such, with
the full cooperation Of families and
friends here in this country, II il is TO
be solved successfully. Every one who
has a son, brother. must help.
"While the war was on our boys
were fully occupied; they we're still
filed with the spirit of adventure,
looking forward rather than back.
Now, however, the fighting is at an
end. They are going to remain, most
Of them, many months doing work
which will be neither exciting nor
particularly interesting. They will get
lonesome. bored and terribly home
sick.
"'rhe S17OOOO,OOO raised In the re-
cent United War Work drive is to be
used precisely to bridge over this pc
riOd by providing recreation and
amusement But no amount Of mere
money expended in such a way will be
enough. What these boys really want
is not diversion, but human interest
and sympathy. These things express
ed in letters from home will warm
their hearts and create a home at
mosphere around them, even while
they are absent from the family circle.
'Such letters may be very neces-
sary sheet anchor to windward in the
case of some boys. The thought Of
some one waiting for them, counting
on them, will, more than anything
else, make them hold back and think
lNlNt bthoic piuhSAuk lnlO SlludNlOuS
which might mean harm and unhap-
plness for them.
ave have raised the cleanest army
in the world. We have kept 1t clean.
We hope To bring 1t back as clean and
strong as ii was when 1t left us. But
while we believe our soldiers will
stand the present test-the hardest of
all in some ways-as bravely and
successfully as they have stood every
other test of their manhood and en-
durance. it is our duty to give them
al the help we can.
This. as l have said, can best be
rendered by means Of letters which
will begin now, at once. not only to
satisfy their home lOngingS but to
turn their thoughts from tasks already |
accomplished to the long years of life !
ahead of them"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20
RELIEF SOUGHT
FOR NEAR EAST
Presidents Proclamation Asks
Americans TO Assist.
DRIVE WEEK OF JANUARY 1918

Carefully Prepared Estimates Based
on Reports Show There Are $780,
900 Destitute Armenians, syrians
and Greeks, Large Proportion OF
Whom Are In ENlls-Thoss Con-
duetIns the Work Say $4,000, 900
VIII Be Required.
President Wilson has issued q
proclamation calling upon the people
OF the victorious United States, in
their time OF tribulation over the sue
cessful ending OF the world war, not
to forget the terrible plight OF the
prosecuted Armenians, Syrians and
Greeks. who have been driven from
their homes in a starving condition
and massacred by the thousands by
the Turks.
The proclamation urges Americans
TO give literally to the biggest char.
ity the world has ever known-the
humanitarian relief work being done
IN the Near East by the American
Committee for Relief in the Near
East During the week Of Jan. 1918,
this committee will hold q campaign
to raise $4,000, 900 for such relief
work Ohio's quota In the big cam
paign will be 81, $40 900.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20
A PROCLAMATION.

For more than three years
American philanthropy has been
a large factor in keeping alive
Armenian, Syrian, Greek and other
sxIles and refugees Of Western
Asia.
On the two former occasions |
have appealed to the American
people in behalf of these homeless
sufferers, whom the Vielssitudes
of war and massacre had brought
to the EXTREMIST need.
The response has been most
generous, but now the period Of
rehab lltation is at hand. Vastly
larger sums will be required to
restore these once prosperous, but
now Impoverished, refugees to
their former homes than were re-
quired merely to sustain life In
their desert exile.
Il ls estimated that about 4,ooo,-
900 Armenian, Syrian, Greek and
other war sufferers in the Near
East will require outside help to
sustain them through the winter.
Many Of them are now hundreds
of miles from their homeland. The
vast majority Of them are help
less women and children, inelud-
inq 100000 orphans.
The American Committee for
Relief in the Near East is appeal
ing for a minimum Of 10000 900
to be subscribed Jan. 1918, 1919,
with which to meet the most urg-
ent needs of these people.
|, therefore, again call upon the
people Of the United States to
make even more generous con-
tributions than they have made
heretofore to sustain through the
Winter months those, who, through
no fault of their own, have been
left in a starving, sheIterIess con-
dition, and to help re-establish
these ancient and sorely op-
pressed people in their former
homes on a seIf-supporting basis.
(sianed) WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, Nov. 2e, 1918.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20
HUW A SOLDIER
FEELS IN FIGHT
Alabama Sergeant Gives Graphic
Description of the Hell
of War.
Big BATTLE AS He saw IT
Inferno of Noise, Confusion and Death
-5arrage and Gas-"Gott" With
the Germans but Ameri-
cans With French.

Admission, Ala.-Here is the descrip-
tiOn of big battle as it impressed it.
self upon the mind of Sergt. Lawrence
Hopkins of Oxford:
They're off
1T sends a thrill through you as
you hear their cry and rise up and
find yourself in crowd of men; paus-
ing a moment to light our pipes or
cigarettes ana we are hurrying for
ward with glistening steel in our hands
to meet the foe.
IF it were not for these other men
moving along heavily laden to keep
pace with the barrage one might well
stand in amaZement at a wilderness
suddenly become crowded with sway
ing humanity, bravely attempting to
weather the furious storm.
'"The big guns roll like heavy thun-
der, the little field batteries answer
with a bark, shells scream. whistle.
howl, according to their moods.
Death Is Everywhere.
"The quick Staccato coughing of
machine guns goes on increasingly all
around you and is swallowed up in
its echoes. There is a spatter of rifle
bullets as they whiz by you and you
wonder that you are untouched.
Barbed wire tears our clothes to
pieces; mud sticks them together
again. Birds fly at our feet and from
the sky winged airplnnes swOOp
down. Spitfire tanks plO1 ON behind,
and crushing; burning, boil
ing oil sends flames leaping to the
clouds; molten phosphorus is poured
into dugOutS. There is gas to blind
and choke you.
There are laughs and cries; the
laugh of a cOmrade as he struggles
on, or the cry of another as he drops
his rifle and puts his hand to his
heart-his last cry. There is the yell
of the hunter, the wild-crying despair
Of the hunted. The plunk of the NOR
tars and the burst of the bombs add
to the tumult of the storm.
"Stretcher bearers rush to and fro,
zig.Gag across the battlefield
with their messages, Then drop into
n she'll hole, the cold sweat running
gfr my face, aud breathe, Take my
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20
HOME FOLKS MUST HELP.

WashingiOn.-(Special.)-The War
Department Commission on Training
Camp ActVities has hit upon an i'm
pOrtant and entirely neY idea in the
etters-frOm-home" plan just an
nOunced
Pull the hOys through the most try
Ing period of their service by writing
the right kind of letters, letters full of
the home feeling. the mother feeling.
This appeal is made to mothers, ia
Tiers, sisters and sweethearts by the
War Department. 1t is hoped that mil
lions of inspiring letters will be writ
ten the week of December 10, desig-
mated as 'I.etters-frOm-hOme" week.
Pulpit Hnd press are cooperating to
make great success Of the plan.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-12-20

/ made by which the big allies, France,
England and Italy, will be provisioned.
This covers 125,OOO,OOO people.
Our first and deepest concern now
must be for the little allies, who were
under the German yoke. They are
the Belgians, Serbians, Roumanians,
Greeks, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and 9TH
ers. There are 75,OO0,O 900 people in
these groups and they must be helped
at once.
Must Release Blockade.
Our next concern must be to relax
blockade measures, as far as possi-
Bile, in order that neutral states, now
all on short rations, should be able