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Putnam patriot., 1918-12-13

Referee, Hammond
7. Fl. S. goes - Wiliimantie TN
Friday for the first league game e
the season, and viii enter the game
equipped with new uniforms and
determination to win
Mex week rehearsal will start
the three short PLAYS, the proceeds o
which win be devoted to athletics
Those wao attended the three play
presented last spring remember en-
joyinp one of the finest evenings eve
spent in p H S. hall The plays thi
year will be equally en- oyoble an
exceedingly amusing Their title
are as follows "No Men Wanted. ="
THE Stacker Ga war play), anC
"Three of Kind The first an6
last plays are amusing comedies, and
the second is stirring play by J. B
1'ull The plays will be produced by
Principal f. II Snow.
Miss Clarke, French teacher, in T.
II. S was called home Thursday
morning by news of the sudden death
of her mother
Putnam patriot., 1918-12-13
p. n. S. 80, P. T. s IL

After an exciting first half, in
which the score was 9 to in favor
of P. H. S, the high school basket
ball team defeated Putnam Trade
school 30 to IL In the first half the
high school played several seeone
team men, but in the second half
with the return Of Woodson. the.
completely outplayed their oppon
ents An unusually large number
fouls slowed up the game considera
Putnam patriot., 1918-12-13
P. H. S. WINS
THREE GAMES
Basket Ball Quintet Is Playin;
Fast Game, and Easily
Overcomes Opponents

In the second game of the seaso'
played in p II. S. gymnasium, the
High school basket ball team out
played SouthDridge High of South
bridge. Mass, by score Of 20 to
At no time in the game was Putnam
IN danger from the opponents. The
line up was as follows:
Putnam Southbridge
Murdoch, IF c, Lucier
woodson, II IT. Caderre
Nelson, c II. Green
Cotter, liz rg, Lavalle
Dobson, re liz, Lemmelyn
Clemens, LIZ
Referee, Hammond.
P. H. S basket bali team walked
away from Woodstock Academy on
the Woodstock floor last Friday eve
ming. The Putnam boys played a
hard fast game and Woodstock shot
but one basket
Putnam Woodstock
hurdock, IF x, Frink
Woodson. If rg Sanger
Nelson, c. White
Cotter, liz If. Pike
Dobson, re RI, Stafford
Williams Houston
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Attempt To Discredit Irish
Cause, Say Leaders.
Ireland Is Apparently Quiet
Again After Storm.
.SINN FE|NERS DISORGANIzED
Do Not Seem To Know What
To Do About 1t.
Many Demand Immediate Proof
of PrO-Hun Plot.

Dublin, May 21.-A resolution de-
rouncing the Sim Fein deportations
rs an attempt to discredit and disrupt
Ireland's united resistance to con-
scription and to prejudice Ireland's
cause in the eyes of friendly countries
was passed by the anti-conscription
conference which met at the Mansion
house Monday.
An official statement signed among
others by John Dillon, and Joseph
Devlin, the Irish Nationalist leaders,
was issued after the meeting. 1t in
sists on the right of Irishmen to be
a-raigned in their own country, and
declares that an attempt was being
made to poison the minds of the Eng
lish people against the prisoners The
statement concludes:
while standing steadfast on our
good rights. we shall never cease to
appeal to all friends of human free
dom or to inquire for ourselves
whether the present attempt to force
civil war on the Irish people by a
transparently false pretext of military
e>pediency does not really cover a
wicked plot of English politicians to
relieve themselves from their broken
Hedge to Ireland"
Made Clean Sweep.
Dublin, May 21.-Dublin today is
outwardly still very calm. The streets
are thronged with groups of men dis
cussing the blow which fell upon the
Sim Fein when more than 100 arrests
were made. 1t is evident the govern
ment made a clean sweep of rebel
leaders in every community. 1t seems
to have left the Sim Feiners guide
less and uncertain what action to take
next, altho they Immediately ap-
pointed Alderman Kelly and John
MacNeil to replace De Valera and
Griffith. Kelly and MacNeil are of
the milder element and are expected
to counsel moderation and no violence.
In their street talk, the Sim Feiners
defy the government to show proof of
a German plot for an Irish uprising g
and demand the proof be quickly pro-
duced. The more rabid ones savagely
and openly avow that talk of German
influence is a plot by England to kill
Sim Feinism. They declare that If
the government fails to show proof
(Confinuod on poUa
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RUSSIA may BE
GIVEN MILITARY
AID BY AMERICA
President Wilson May Decide
on Such a Step.
Many Influential People Are
Urging Move.
NOW IS THE Time TO ACT
Get In Before Germany Gains
Control of People.
Allies Now Agree With Wilson
on Question.
low IS THE Time TO ACT
Get In Before Germany Gains
Control of People.
BY CARL d. GROAT.

Washington, May 21.-Direct Amer
ican aid for u sia-troops. more Red
Cross workers, or mcney-is being
urged upon the government from In
fluential sources today
Troops. especially the foreign speak
ing men Of this nation. are strongly
urged. The problem, taken up seri-
ously some time ago and rejected as
impracticable then, is coming to the
fore again.
Aid in the form of troops would be
given only If Russia were agreeable.
The American position is that Russia
should not b. forced to accept any,
thing she does lot want, and she has
clearly indicated she would regard as
an encroachment any intervention by
Japan.
The suggestion for Red Cross work
ers contemplates the infiltration of far
larger numbers of these than has been
undertaken % date. Their work nat
urally would be non-military. But
their presence, some urge. would be a
stimulus to Russia and encourage the
growing anu-Germanism there.
Should Help Financially.
1t is held that strong financia, rein
! forcements would give the Russians a
chance to develop themselves. organ
ize their shattered government and
cement the anti-German movement.
The state department today charac-
terized tie whole problem as military
and left the impression that the wal
department was giving serious consid
Grafton to some form of help.
Members of congress who hav,
(ContinUed ON Pare Two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-21
CONFESSES MURDER
Man Held by Wichita Police Gives
Up and Tells of Crime

Wichita, Kan, May 21.-O. A. Ray,
35 years old, a garage owner of Ford,
Kansas, confessed to the police here
at noon today to the murder of Cler-
ence Leclerc, 35 years old, in this city
last Saturday. Leclerc, who was 3
motor car salesman, while demonstrat-
ing a secondhand car to Ray was shot
to death in an orchard in the suburbs
Of this city.
Ray was arrested near Pratt, Kan
sas, the following day when the bat
terry in the car had to be replaced.
He declares in his confession that the
theft of the car was his only reason
for the crime. Leclerc was shot three
times Ray has a wife and three
children at Ford. Kan. He at first
declared that he bought the stolen
car in Arkansas City, Kansas, and said
that he had not been in Wichita
This morning he was confronted
by IL persons who saw him here sat
urday just before the murder was
committed. The telephone company
produced record of a telephone call
which Ray made from this city to
Mcpherson, Kan, Saturday morning
After shooting Leclerc to death and
leaving the orchard with the motor
car, Ray painted it green during the
night and started home with it the
following morning
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YANKEES RAID HUN
Americans Chased Fritz in His
Own Trenches.
Patrol Returned without q Life
LOst-Air Is Active.
nY FREp s. FERGUSON.

BY FRED =. FEflG O0ON.
With the Americans in Picardy, May
20 (night) An American recon-
naissance patrol penetrated the Ger
man wires tonight, put the enemy pa
troll to flight and returned safely to
the American lines.
The patrol crept across No Mans
Land, at a point where the lines are
about 200 yards apart. In the dis
tance, the shattered church tower and
the jagged walls of other buildings in
Cantigny stood like ghosts in the
moonlight.
A strong boche patrol suddenly at
tempted to surround the Americans
but scattered when the latter opened
fire The American patrol made its
way back without losing man
Air Is Alive.
The greatest aerial activity con-
tinues day and night along the front
Bombs were dropped near an Ameri-
can hospital, but no one was injured
The barking of anti-aircraft guns, ths
/, breaking of shells in the sky and the
hum of airplane motors is almos
constant.
| Across, in the German lines, flash.
/ lights streak the sky, minsling witt
/ the flare and glare OF guns.
I; The expected bombardment, in con.
] junction with the scheduled resump
tion of the German offensive, has mo-
materialized. This morning the Amer
ican artillery shelled German posi-
tions and the boches made only j.:
slight reply.
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HUNDRED COVER TOP"
Barber County Among Those Over
Red Cross Quota.

St. Louis, May 21.-One hundred
counties in the southwestern division
of the American Red Cross already
have gone over the top" in subscrip-
tions to the second war fund, accord
ing to Chairman John L. johnson.
Barber county, Kansas, with a pledge
Of $4,000 and a quota of $4,000,
leads with percentage of 225.
In Maitland, Holt county, Missouri,
mass meeting was held at which
many farmers were present. When
urged to contribute either $35 or a
fat hog, the farmers gave hogs until
135 porkers were donated, thus add
ing about $4,000 to the fund
The first town of more than 100, 900
inhabitants to report being over the
top was Dallas, Texas. With a quota
of $225.000. the town has raised
s464,000, and has set it's mark at
$525.OOO.
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Workers Enthusiastic at Noon
Meeting at c. of C.
Father Hayden Paid Tribute to
Great Organization.
TODAY'S REPORTS.

Reports from the charging troops of
the Red Cross at the first campaign
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
merce showed a subscription OF prac-
tically $4,000 for the first half day
of the 1918 Second Red Cross war
fund campaign.
The $4,000 which is tabulated in
the report is the contribution of the
Willis Norton mills and was made too
- late to be included in the team re-
ports. Incidentally. it is the first re-
port of a contribution made by any
of the Topeka mills, principally be-
cause it has been the only mill called
on for a subscription so far in the
campaign. Ralph Baer, captain of
the team which is in charge of the
solicitation among the mills. said to-
day that every mill in the city would
be called upon either today or tomor-
row and advised all of them to have
their check books on tap for substan-
tial subscriptions
Reports from the 1917 campaign
showed total subscription of $34,250
for the first half day of the first war
fund campaign, but $4,000 of this
first report of the 1917 campaign rep
resented presubscriptions in large
amounts secured by the executive
committee. d. w. Mulvane, cam
paign manager, Horace Hall, and 9TH
tTS prominently lQenllIleQ with the
local chapter of the Red Cross, said
this noon that the record reports this
noon far exceeded their fondest hopes
and that the record set this noon was
in reality bigger report than that
of the first day of the 1917 campaign.
One Third County Quota.
The $4,000 reported at the lunch
one-third of the entire quota for
Shawnee county. And better even
than that it represents only a portion
of the report expected from the busi-
ness district of Topeka. Not a dol
lar of the subscriptions reported to-
day was from either the rural or the
residential districts. Reports from
these districts will be made at the
luncheon for the womens teams and
the captains of the school district
teams at the Chamber of Commerce
Saturday noon.
ministers. delivered the pep speech al
the luncheon this noon. His first
statement was remarkable for its
brevity and for its meat" He said
This is not time for speechmakine
but for real work"
Father Hayden characterized the
American Red Cross as "a cause thai
appeals to a mans nature, as cause
which is necessary to the prosecution
of the war"
''Serve TIN Death" Motto.
Between the time of the Caesar
and the present the care CT III,
wounded has been revolutionized," h,
said. Caesar had no Red Cross t.
care for his wounded. nor had he ever
an effective organization of any kint
to do this work. But what nation O
modern times would even consider 90
ing to war without the aid of the grea
Red Cross machine to back up the mel
behind the guns.
The Red Cross declared Fathe
lContinued on Page CWoL
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man IS IN
IL Santa Fe Departments Re.
port 100 Per Cent Today.
The Freight Auditors Office
Leads All Others.

UNFOLDING the patriotic reputation
established in former campaigns, the
Santa Fe general office is making a
mark for other institutions to shoot
att in its Red Cross war fund drive.
At o'clock this afternoon twelve de-
partments reported that their en-
ployes had subscribed 100 per cent.
The employees in one department, that
of w. w. Strickland, general freight
auditor, had subscribed 207 per cent
Of a days payroll. Every employe in
the department is included on the re-
port.
Departments reporting 100 per cent
subscriptions included the general
baggage agent, the chief special agent,
the general safety agent, the general
tenn, the general passenger agent. the
general freight auditor, the general
ticket auditor, the general watch in
spector, the industrial agent and the
publicity department.
Three Departments to Report.
Out of 1884 employees in the 1s de-
partments that had made complete
or partial reports at noon today, 1,102
subscribed. Three departments have
not yet reported to the general mana
gers Office. Their returns, however
are expected to be up to the average
There are about 1,400 employees in the
total of 21 departments in the offices
and workers declare that a showing OF
100 per cent will be made before the
drive ends.
The general freight auditors office
leads all other departments that have
reported in the average amount sub
scribed per employe. the payroll con-
sidered. The total amount of sub
scriptions in the department was
$1,438.50. The following is a list OF
the subordinate departments under
Strickland, the percentage of employees
subscribing and the per cent of the
days payroll subscribed by each of
flee:
This Fine Showing
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OF LOVE
Grace LuSk Told of Life and
Planned Murder.
s|NO Sanctity in Marriage Un-
less There Is Love-"

Waukesha, Wis, May 21.-A blood
stained note, written by Grace Lusk
after she had shot Mrs. Mary New
man Roberts in the Mills home last
June and inflicted what she believed
a mortal wound on herself, was in
troduced in court by the state in the
LuSk trial today. 1t read:
This is the work of the man who
said he loved me. Pay Blanca for the
house l have spoiled. God forgive
me. 1 love you. 1 have spoiled it.
The note bore no address and the
name of the person for whom it was
intended was not brought out.
Other notes written just prior to
the shooting were filed as evidence
Her last will, making Mrs. George
Hale, of Milwaukee, the executrix
was also introduced. 1t disposed OF
little personal things to members OF
her family and friends
Miss Lusk grew very pale wher
| softly leaned her head back on the
shoulder of her father who sat by hel
side.
L should have known better than
TO play with fire." said a note found
In an envelope labeled: ITO be opened
lin case of accident"
Il should have known that men
men they love and another for the
was no sanctity in marriage
Il have had the theory that love
between men and women was stronger
than all the legal ceremonies in the
world; when that was lacking there
was no sancity in marriage.
| Il still believe so. but the man ir
coward to face his wife and tell her the
truth"
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CYCLONE IN STATE
Destructive Tornado Sweeps
Over Ellis County.
All Occupants of One Farm
House Killed.

Plainville, Kan, May 21.-A torna-
do destroyed part of Codell, this coun-
ty, early today. Mrs. Walter Adams
and her baby were killed. A child of
Frank Jones also was killed and two
are reported missing.
Two ranches were devastated, ac-
cording to reports reaching here.
Hays, Kan, May 21.-A tornado
sweeping over the northern part of
Ellis county this morning killed five
persons and caused considerable de-
struction of property.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Geist and
their three grandchildren. all in the
same house, twelve miles from here.
were killed.
Further details are lacking because
of damaged wire communication.
Farmers lost some stock by the
wind and several farm buildings were
blown down.
Frank G. Huber, at Ellis, was hurt
internally and his arm was broken.
Salina, Kan, May 21-Five per-
sons were reported killed in a tornado
which swept thru central Kansas
early today. Most of the loss of life
was north of Hays, where thousands
of dollars in damage was done to
farms
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been caught in the dragnet of the
Red Cross and summoned to Wash
ington for final instructions before
going on a speaking tour in the inter-
ests of the Society of Mercy.
Will Leave Friday.
Biby will leave for Washington Fri
day for a conference with H. B. Wal
lace, director general of military re-
lief of the American Red Cross. After
the conference Biby will tour the
army and navy camps and barracks in
the United States. speaking for the
Red Cross. and when this tour Is fin
ished, it is expected that he will be
sent to other places and communities
in the interests of the organization
that is the first to aid in battle or in
disaster.
In an interview this morning Biby
said that the home and hospital pro-
ject of the knights & Ladies of Se-
curity organization will not be allowed
to lie on the table during his absence
as arrangements will be made whereby
this important work will go on.
Has Good War Record.
Biby came to Topeka about two
years ago as the new national treas
urer of the Knights & Ladies of Sc
curity. Straightway he began making
for himself a name in the community
as a speaker of finest water and a
man with the interests of the COM
munity at heart. When America went
to war in 1917 and the first liberty
loan, the Red Cross and the Y NJ. c.
A opened their campaigns tor war
| funds Biby sprang into the limeligh.
as a war speaker and four minute
man.
The draft of Biby is directly trace
able to Carroll B. Merriam, Of the
Merriam Mortgage company of To-
peka, who was drafted into the Red
Cross service a short time ago When
! Merriam went to Washington as as
sistant director of training camp per.
sonnel. he carried with him the deter
mination to put the Biby speaking
ability to national, instead of loca.
use.
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LA Toilette ON KNEES
Asks That Senate Committee Dismiss
It's Disloyalty Charges.

Washington, May 21.-Senator Rob
ert M. La Toilette today demanded
that the senate committee on privf-
leges and elections dismiss charges OF
disloyalty field against him by the
Thru his attorney. Gilbert E. Roe.
La Toilette asserted there was no dis
loyalty in La Follette's speech at st.
Paul on September 20, 1917. when
La Toilette declared the United States
did not have sufficient grievances
against Germany to warrant a dec
laration of war
Roe asked the committee to report
to the senate that it had found no
evidence to warrant La Follette's exs
pufsion
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THE ONE BIG THING

War said to be The Great Reer and in four
burning and bleeding and pounding has produced single
military genius, great as Napoleon great.
has not produced single mind wise Socrates
was wise.
has not produced singleusefu invention useful the
electric telegraph is useful.
has not produced truly beautiful work of art beau
full as the paintings of Raphael were beautiful.
But most unexpected way, has lived up its
1t has produced thing thing greater than the
military genius of Napoleon, wonderful than all the phil
osophy of Socrates useful than the electric telegraph
beautiful than the masterpiece of painter who
held brush
It has given the Red Cross.
Never the history of the world has there been organ
zaon unseh The Red Cross asks reward those
it does not demand loyalty does not encourage
belief" it does not expect thanks.
It is spirit abroad in the land spirit that makes
tolerabe and that if it lives will make
ture impossible railroad to Mars
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SEIZE DUTCH SHIP
Germans Are Holding 1t Pending Set
tlemcnt OF Present Disputes.

Amsterdam. May 2o.-The Germans
have seized and taken to SWINE
meunde, Prussia, the Dutch steamship
Agneta, which was bound from Stock
holm for Rotterdam. According to
the Handelsblad. the German minis
ter at Stockholm refused to supply
the steamer with a safe conduct as
the German naval staff has decided
not to issue any until the conclusion
of negotiations now in progress be-
tween the Dutch and German gov
ernmentS.
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RAIN DID NOT COME
Little Chance Now for Showers
Cooler Tonight and Wednesday.
Today's Tcmperatures.

The temperature for the day aver
aged 10 degrees above normal. The
wind was blowing this afternoon
thirty miles an hour from the south.
The showers scheduled for this
part of the state failed to arrive last
night. Northwestern Kansas. especial
ly near Phillipsburg and Hanover
received a good soaking during the
night. the rain amounting TO an inch
(Contfnued on Page Two.l
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Irish Must Not Hoard silver.

Gil makes it a criminal offense under
the Defense of the Realm act. to hoard
silver in Ireland or to exchange cur
rent coins for an amount exceeding
their face value.
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This Fine Showing.
Fines Follow Wages skyward.

London, May 21.-Police court
magistrates here have decided to raise
the scale of fines for all the ordinary
offenses under their jurisdiction. The
reason given is ION account of war
conditions and because people are
earning more money"
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BIBY TO The R. C.
Well Known Topekan Drafted
for National Service.
X. & L. of s. Will Give Him
Leave of Absence.

w. A. Biby, national treasurer Of
the Knights and Ladies of Security,
prom oter Of the K. & L. of s. Home
and Farm, and one of Topeka's best
exponents of the silver tongue, has
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A Swiss Painter Is. Dead.

Berne, May 21.-Ferdinand Holder,
a leading Swiss painter, is dead here
at the age of 65
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Senate Passes Naval BilI.

Washington, May 21.-The naval
appropriation bill for $1,5s7,00O,0o0,
an increase of s202,840, 900 over the
measure as passed by the house, was
reported favorably to the senate to-
day and will be called up tomorrow.
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tContinued on Page Two.I
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