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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14

Heber ]. Grant was chosen presi-
dent of the Mormon cnurcn. and the
world was so busy that Heber got
scant two lires in the news.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14
FACTS TO REMEMBER.

Holland IS annually increasing its
production of potato flour.
Hollands mines are now producing
coal at a rate of about 100000 tons
a year.
A serving tray that fits an arm e
lunch room chair securely las reen
patented. #e
Sweden has areas of peat deposits
that are estimated to cover nearly
100000 acres.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14

Can Tou look ten-cent egg
squarely in the face and say you are
In love with it, when you are about
to eat it2
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14

A mixture of two or more honeys
always is darker than any of the orig
inal ones.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
BAKER IS ON FRONT
Secretary of War Visited Amer
lean Officers Friday.
On TOul Front Yanks Capture
Four Prisoners.

With the American -.rmy in France.
March 29-Secretary Baker revisited
general headquarters and spent the
entire day there today.
The se~l etary stepped into a garage
and asked the chauffeurs how they
were getting on None of them rec
ognized him and when he left, asked
who the ''inqui tive civilian was.
Five Americans crawled across No
Mans Land last night and rushed a
dugout in which were six Germans
Two of the enemy paused long enough
to exchange shots and are believed to
have been wounded.
The raiders returned to the Ameri-
can trenches unharmed, thru a Ger
man barrage.
Americans on the Toul front in
silent raid without artillery prepara-
ton, took four German prisoners last
night.
Artillery action was heavier on this
front during the night. The Germans
put down d barras on the American n
positions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
BOOSTING THRIFT!
Santa Fe Selling Saving Stamps
in 700 Stations.
Employees Can Buy Next Lib
erty Bonds on InstalIment.

War saving and thrift stamps, it
was announced today by E. L. Cope
land, treasurer for the Santa Fe Rail-
way Co., have been placed on sale in
more than 700 stations of the Santa Fe
between Chicago and Ell Paso. The
stamps are also on sale in the general
offices here.
In the stations between Ell Paso and
chicago posters informing the public
that the stamps are on sale are being
exhibited in prominent places. All
agents have been furnished with an
adequate supply of the certificates
thru the treaSurers office here.
In announcing the saving and thrift
stamp project, Copeland also asserted
that the $4,000 employees of the COM
pany will be given a chance to buy
liberty bonds in the third issue on the
lnstallment plan. The plan to be fol-
lowed is identical with the ones used
in the first and second drives. En-
ployes may buy bonds from the COM
pany and pay for them in monthly
installments.
Circulars announcing the plan will
be sent all employees early in April
Copeland declares indications prom
ise that subscriptions by employees will
be heavier in the third campaign than
in the first and second The bonds
purchased by employees will be in ad-
dition tc those which the companv
may purchase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
SPIES ARE FOUND!
Group of Germans in CurtisS
Engineering Plant.
Employed, One Woman Con-
feSSes to Hun Plot.

Newark, n. J., March 30.-Admis-
sion that a group of German spies
have been employed in the plant of
the Curtiss Engineering corporation at
Hampstead, n. Y, on Long Island,
has been obtained from Mrs. Lydia
White, woman arrested today with
blueprints of airplanes in her posses
sion, the police here announced.
The woman, who is % years old, was
turned over to the federal authorities and
held by United States commissioner in
$4,000 bail, together with Frederick
Arnold, boarder in her home at Hemp
stead The pair were arrested here after
they had been located by Albert White,
the womans husband. The police say Il
search of their room here disclosed the
blue prints. She told her story of German
spies in the Curtiss plant after being ques-
ii oned by Inspector CORDIALLY. who I'M
media tely notified the federal authorities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
AWAKE, AT LAST!
Death Penalty For Acts of Espionage
Will Be Proposed to Congress.

Washington March 30.-The death
penalty for many acts of espionage
will be proposed in legislation to be
brought before congress, Senator Over
man of North Carolina, active head of
the senate judiciary committee said
today, after hearing testimony of
several government agents in charge
of anti-spy work.
The subcommittee also approved
an amendment to the espionage law
penalizing attempts to obstruct the
seiective draft law. as we'll as actual
obstruction. Confidential testimony
regarding enemy espionage and prop
aga ada and 1. w. W. activities was
given to the subcommittee today. Ac-
cording to Senator Overm2n the gov
errment agents said that the activi-
ties of spies are widespread thruout
the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
RUSS PLAN BRIGHTER
Significant Changes in Relations With
Allies Now.
BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN.

Petrograd. March 29.-The most
significant changes in the relations be-
tween Russia and the allies apparent
ly are working out
simultaneously with the return of
the allied diplomats, Bolshevik speak
ers intimate a modification of their
own program to a point somewhat ap-
preaching that of the allies.
We won't leave Russia" Serbian
Envoy Spolaikovitch told me.
There is surely no question of any
aggressive plans by England or the
other allies against Russia" declared
French Minister Nutan-
Il am able, as the result of in
quiries in high governmental circles,
to announce that the soviets' policy is
changing as a result of the convic-
ton that the soviets are sufficiently
entrenched to begin constructive work.
To this end they are prepared to util-
ize what they regard as the more lib
eral element of the Bourgeoisie in re-
building the financial and military
structure. War Minister Trotsky is
among the strongest supporters of this
change.
The American corsul at Moscow has
informed tie government that the
United States IS wiling to enter busi-
ness relations with Russia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

Almanacs, tide-tabIes and astrono-
mical tables already printed for the
year 1918 will become obsolete when
the daylight saving law goes into ef-
feet, March 81, at o'clock in the
morning, for at that time 2 o'clock will
suddenly become o'clock and the
tide will be an hour late in arriving
at the flood.
By setting the clock ahead, we will
be able to open offices. churches and
factories an hour earlier. But the
moon, the tide and the sun will persist
in following their original schedules.
We will all lose one hour of sleep
on the night of March 30-31, which,
if we adhere strictly to the day
light saving plan. will not be made
up until the night of october. 1921.
when the clocks will all be turned
back again.
Two hundred and ten hours of day
light will be saved by the plan. one
hour each day, between March 80
and October 81.
w. Adolphe Roberts, formerly of
the Paris Eagle bureau, was in Spain
when the plan was first proposed
there, and was a spectator of most
extra ordinary attack on the pla- by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
LAST HOPE FOR FIDO!
Must Pay Dog Taxes Today or Answer
to Dog Catcher.

Either pay your city dog tax before
O'Clock tonight, the time the city
treasurer's office closes, or answer to
the dog catcher. In case the latter
method is pursued. Fido stands an ex-
cellent chance of being hauled to the
dog pound and being shot at sunrise
later. Fido himself has nothing to
say in the matter. His predicament is
likened to that of a Belgian farmer
between the allied and Hun lines. It's
up to his owner and the dog catcher
For the purpose of receiving belated
dog taxes, the treasurer's Office will he
open tonight until o'clock. After
that hour the 81 tax on male dogs is
raised to 81 and the SIS tax on female
dogs to 81 with the probability that
Fido will find his way to the city
pound. thrown in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
UNIONS WIN OUT
Packing Houses in Many Cities
Must Pay More.
Shorter Hours and Better
Working Conditions.

Chica go, March 30.-The eight-hour
day, wage increases and equal pay for
like work by men and women were
granted to Chicago packing house en-
ployes today by Judge Samuel AL
schuler, arbitrator in the recent
wage hearings here. Several other de-
ma nds of the workers also were
granted.
While the award gave the en-
ployes only about one-third of their
demand for a fiat increase of one dol
lar per day, union leaders expressed
themselves as immensely pleased be-
cause the eight-hour day was granted.
Judge Alschuler refuted the pack
ers arguments that the industry could
not be shifted to an eight-hour basis
He quoted President Wilson in sup
port of the eight-hour principle and
also referred to the presidents medi-
alton commissions declaration of
January ninth that the eight hour
day is an established policy of the
country"
The arbitration agreement was
signed by the Armour, Cudahy Morris
Swift and Wilson companies with
plants in Chicago, Kansas City, Sioux
City, st. Joseph, st. Louis, East ST
Louis, Denver, Oklahoma City, st.
Paul, Omaha and Fort Worth.
Cost $4,000, 900 a Year.
Packers announced that the award
would cost the employers $4,000, 900
this year.
Attorney Carl Meyer for the packers
stated the arbitrator's finding was
most conscientious and Just" and
promised that the packers will not
only abide by the letter but the spirit
of it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
Warrant Out for Felix BrOeker
Alleges EmbezZlement.
Record "Get Rich Quick" for
Kansan, 1t Is Claimed.
S1O6, 900 SHORTAGE INVOLVED
Was Head of Life Insurance
and Bonding Companies.
Stock Sales in Kansas Probably
Aggregate Millions.

Felix Broeker a former Topekan,
and president of the Globe Life In
surance Co., of Salina, is being sought
by the state on an embezzlement
charge State officials today admitted
a warrant had been issued for Broeker.
He is charged with the embezzlement
of $4,000. The Globe Co. is said to
be short not less than $106,0OO- Mis-
appropriated funds of the Globe and
other companies with which Broeker
was associated may total several hun
dred thousand dollars, it was reported
at the state house.
Broker planned and staged one OF
the biggest Wallingford acts ever at
tempted by a Kansas man, according
to state officials. He went to Salina
four years ago, virtually without
money or financial backing. In that
time he organized or participated in
the organization of companies which
have handled hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Cash and notes received by
Broeker and his associates from two
of the companies-the Globe Life and
the National Bonding and Casualty Co.
are said to have totalled not less
than s1,2O0,000.
Two Fake Deposit Certificates.
According to information received
in Topeka, Broeker will be prosecuted
for the embezZlement of two certi-
ficates of deposit on a Salina bank
One certificate was for s15, 1000, another
for $4,000. Cash and notes received
by the Globe Life Insurance company
since its Incorporation in 1914 are
said to have amounted to not less
than 100000. The authorized capi-
talization of the company was $780,
900. Large blocks of the paper Sc
cured by the life insurance company
were discounted or held as collateral
by central and western Kansas banks.
The National Bonding and Casualty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
EXCEED SHIP QUOTA
L. S. Shipping oBard Ahead in
LaunchinS-Behindi in Completion.

Washington, March 3O.-The ship
ping board exceeded its launching
program in March by 1000 tons. but
fell behind in its schedule of complet-
ed ships. owing to difficulty in obtain
ing steel plates.
Figures given out at the boards Of
fices today showed that thirty-six
ships of 232.7S6 tons were launched
and twenty of 1872. 600 tons were COM
pleted and delivered. At the begin
ming of the month. it was announced
that it was hoped to launch thirty
rive ships of 220.591 tons during
March and to deliver twenty-three
ships of 1SS.275 tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
u. S. TO SPEND A
FORTUNE JUST
TO BE SMOOTH

Washington. March s0.-Clean-
eral million dollars to the annual cost
of the military establishment. Off
cial announcement was made at the
war department today that one razor.
one steel mirror and one shaving
brush will be issued gratuitously here
after to every enlisted man ordered
to Europe.
diers keep themselves closely shaven
but the wearing of mustaches is not
prohibited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
CATTLEMAN KICKS
Bitterly ASsails HOOver's Ad-
miniStratiOn of Nations Food.
Declares Producer Has Been
Neglected in Conservation.

Washington, March 30.-Charging
that Food Administrator Isoover has
shown. himself ignorant of the funda-
mentals of economic food production,
E. c. Lasater, prominent Texas cat
tleman and former head of the mar
keting division of the American Ma
uonal Live Stock association, today
assailed the entire working policy of
the food administration before the
senate agriculture committee.
Witness his campaign eat no veal,
eat no lamb declared Mr.. Lasater.
Such a policy made effective would
be as disastrous to the dairy interests
as to the meat producing interests.
THE distrust of Mr.. Hoover's in
tentions to be fair has now become
so pronounced by the producing in
terests of the country that normal
supplies of foods and feeds cannot be
expected under his administration. A
combination of ignorance. duplicity
and misrepresentation cannot lead to
the production of the food that will
win the war -
Farmers Interests Neglected."
The administration policy of Ii
censing the canning, packing and
sugar refining interests, said Mr..
Lasater, has affected the cost of liv-
ing to the consumer only to a negli-
gible extent The great food pro-
ducers. the farmers. cattlemen and
Stoch IeeuerS, nave Deen generally
neglected while every effort has been
made to protect the interests of the
middieman or retailer, it was charged
by tie witness.
Mr.. Lasater questioned the accu-
racy of the food administrators IS
statements regarding the probability
of a beef shortage. Citing figures to
show that livestock of the allies act
ually has increased by nearly nine
millior head since the beginning of
the war, the witness claimed that the
surplus of beef in cold storage in
America had increased in November
last year more than 81 per cent as
against the same month in 1916. The
food administration, claimed Mr..
Lasater. has failed to keep it's prom
ise to assure reasonable profits to the
meat producers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
Set Clock Ahead and Go to Bed
an Hour Early.
Nation Moves an Hour Ahead
but Loses an Hour.
W. U. CLOCKS RUN BACKWARDS
Electrical Operated Clocks To
Run Backwards II Hours.
Time Tables on Railroads Will
Not Be Changed by Plan.

among Things the 0ayIghS saving
bill is counted on to do are:
Give the millions of productive work
ers in the country several years more
work by adding an hour to each ones
Stimulate food production by provid-
ing more time for garden work
son of an extra hour outdooro-
speed up transportation and end con-
in yards, warehouses and docks
Save tremendous quantities of coal
now used in electric lighting plants.
Go to bed an hour early tonight
and set the clock up one golden hour
before retiringi
Thus will the new era of more day
light be ushered in thruout the ma
ton.
OF course, the clocks are not sup
posed to be turned ahead until 2
o'clock tomorrow morning but then
who is going to delay their accus-
toned bed-going just to set The clock
forward at the hour appointed by
congress.
Sentiment in Topeka at this time,
just previous to the hour the nation
moves an hour ahead by losing an
hour, indicates that all Topeka clocks
will act in observance of the daylight
saving plan. The household clocks
generally will gain the hour along
about bed time. A few of the clocks
prowlers and the famed wkite way
moths may be a little late in gaining
their hour, but all will gain IL, never
theless.
The State journal Program.
The State Journal force next week
will work as usual; that is, by clock
time. OF course, every one will ap-
pear an hour earlier by sun time and
quit an hour earlier by sun time. This
will give our readers the same news
they are now getting. as events all
over the country will be timed at the
same clock hours as heretofore
1t will give those engaged in the
conduct of this great daily newspaper
for the people of Topeka and Kansas
an hours time earlier in the morning
OF the invigorating air and sunshine
and an hours longer time of daylight
in the evening for gardening, re-
creatio nand exercise, many of whom
will combine all three in one.
The State Journal people expect to
turn their clocks and watches ahead
day night and let it go at that, ex-
pecting to recover the hour lost now
in an October night next fall
Clocks Run Backwards.
Most of the clocks in the uptown
section of the city are operated by
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany- With two or three exceptions
all of these Western Union clocks will
begin to cut up some queer didos
promptly at 10 o'clock tonight Many
men may imagine that they have a
touch of Kansas City refreshments
and many women may think that
household cares and government food
orders are affecting their vision. The
clocks operated by the Western Union
will begiE to run backwards at 10
O'Clock tonight. And that means just
exactly what it says-instead of the
(Continued on Page TXol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
May SETTLE SOON
Jury of Business Men and Edi-
tors in X. c. Strike.
Twenty Thousand Are Out
Politics Is Blamed.

Kansas City, March 20.-With the
announcement that interna tional Off
cials of the unions involved were ex-
pected to come to Kansas City today
and the calling of meeting of twenty
eight business men and three news
paper editors as a new jury" to con-
slider the situation it was hoped that
the first definite steps would be taken
toward a settlement of Kansas City's
general strike.
The strike called in sympathy with
the walk out of laundry workers. en-
tered its fourth day this morning after
a quiet night that had been preceded
by a renewal of violence in the after
noon when an attempt was made to
resume street car service. Twenty
three persons were arrested during
the afternoon and police commits
sioner Ransom instructed the police to
take them before the county grand
jury with the view to obtaining in
dictments charging them with melting
riots.
Approximately 10000 men and
women are out, and the seventh regi-
ment. Missouri National Guard is still
modified and held in readiness for
any emergency.
Normal service was resumed on a
number of car lines during the fore
noon and no attempts at interference
were reported. Crowds We're said to
be assem- bling at several points but no
trouble was expected. Many of the
cars especially those operating down
town, were well filled with passengers
The cars We're guarded by police again
this morning and plan to employ
guardsmen having been aba andoned.
Street railway company officials an
nounced that the cars would be with
drawn at p. m.
No information was availa BILE as to
the progress of attempts to mediate
the strike.
Later, as the number o. cars in op-
Grafton was eased. the supply of
police for guard duty was exhausted
and it was found necess"ry to place
troops on some of the cars
Washington Charges Politics.
Washington. March 30--Politics in
cident to a coming city election are
hindering efforts for a settlement of
the street car strike at Kansas City.
the department of labor was advised
today bys Federal Conciliator Gill. A
meeting was scheduled of employers
and union men with federal concilia-
tors today a t which it was hored a set
tlement would be reached. Gill said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

practically the entire Spanish press.
Germany, England and France had
already adopted the scheme and Por-
tugal was about to do it. The Span
ish papers flew into a rage, and con-
jured up the most horrible pictures
of calamity should the plan be adopt
ed in Spain.
sands of babies would die because of
it. Why? Forsooth, because COWS
who had been accustomed to giving
their milk at certain hours all their
lives would refuse to do so at any
other.
They also predicted that Spanish
land owners would work their labor
to death under daylight saving con-
ditions.
They always work their men un-
til dark, anyway, and If they get
them up an hour earlier they will
squeeze an extra hours work out of
them every day." they said.
The fact that Spanish time is large
ly kept by old fashioned clocks pre-
sented another obstacle. These
clocks are for the most part of the
striking variety and it was predicted
that if any attempt was ever made
to turn them back past the hour they
would all go to smash.
Other papers said that the whole
scheme was obviously wicked. be-
cause it was plainly an attempt to
change a law of God. They said that
it would only be considered in revolu-
tionary countries like Portugal, for
whom the Spanish have a profound
contempt.
In France on the other hand, the
plan was accepted with glee. The
Parisians, fond of their outdoor cafe
tables, found that they could sit out
of doors in the summer until nearly
9 o'clock. That was enough to rec
ommend the plan to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
TO BE FINE EASTER
Tomorrow Will Be
Around 20 With Sunshine.
TODAY,S TEMPER

Temperatures for the day averaged
6 degrees above normal. The wind
was blowing 5 miles an hour from the
southeast at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The forecast for next week says that
the early days of the week will be
generally fair and somewhat colder,
followed by rising temperatures after
the middle of the week.
Advise the folks to go to bed an
hour earlier tonight to prepare for the
loss of an hour of sleep under the
new summertime effective at
o'clock in the morning.. said Me-
teorologist Flora this morning. Easter
will be a fine day and Topekans can
get out early in their new spring togs."
The main clock of the weather bu-
reau at the watch plant in Elgin, ILL.,.
will be changed at o'clock in the
morning to comply with the new day
light plan. 1t will require the services
of three men for one hour to complete
the change, according to a dispatch
received in Topeka today. The dial of
this master clock is twenty feet in
Continued on Page Twol
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DROP 65 TONS BOMBS
French PLANES Have Been Most Ef-
fct.tivc i'm Drive.
BY HENRY WOOD.

With the French Armies in the
Field. March 29.-French bombing
planes have dropped sixty-ff tons of
explosives on German communication
lines and depots during the enemy of
fensive.
French aviators also bombed troop
concentrations both on the fighting
line and in reserve.
Fighting squadrons participate in
every combat constantly pouring ma
chine gun fire into enemy convers
firing the roads from St. Quentin
Ham. Chauny. Nesle and Guiscard