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Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-30

National prohibition is near at hand
for which every one is heartily thank
full. Souh Dakotans realize now the
benefits that annihilation OF that traf-
fic bring. Hundreds of men who for
merly showed their earnings over the
bar, now find it possible to provide de-
Gently for their family, and also pur-
chase Liberty Bonds and other war
securities. OF course the taxes re-
ceived from the traffic come now from
all the people instead OF from ones
who could least afford to pay it, the
families Of the drinking men.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-30

We have been told that Haakon
county stOckraisers will lose 5000
head of calves this year through a
loss that is absolutely preventable-
contagious abortion. Cattle, owners
should take steps at once to cleanse
their herds OF this diseass-it's much.
too costly to every individual in these
days OF high beef prices.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
R. R. HEAD REMOVED
SUCCESSOR NAMED
C. W. Huntington Charged
With Disobeying Director
General McAdoo's Orders.

c. w. Huntington of New York has
McAdoo as president of the Vir-
ginian railway for disobedience of
the railroad administrations orders
for maintenance and improvement of
his road. J. H. Young of Norfolk.
Va, has been appointed federal di-
rector for the road.
The Virgfnian i, a coal-carrying
road running from Deepwater, W.
Va, to Norfolk. Va.
Other Changes Likely.
Mr.. Huntington is the first railroad
president to be removed by Director
General McAdoo. but it was hinted
today at railroad administration
headquarters that similar action
might be taken against other execu-
tives who do not cooperate well with
the federal management.
ton was that he failed to comply
promptly with suggestions and orders
of the railroad administration, insist
ing on technicalities involved and
consulting at length with the road 8
counsel before carrying out instructions.
Doesn't Lose His Salary.
The action against Mr.. Huntington
removes him as executive chief of the
road. but leaves him as head of the
railway corporation. which is required
to pay his salary out of corporation
funds furnished by the government
as compensation for use of the road,
rather than out of operating funds.
Mr.. Young. the new manager, IL
given full authority to manage the
road. even to the extent of changing
the personnel of operating officers.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
ALL FORCES OF AUSTRIA
AT GERMAN DISPOSAL
Won Hertling and Won Kuehlmann
Said to Oppose New
Alliance.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 21.--Strong opposi-
tion to the recently arranged alliance
between Germany and Austria Hum
gary is voiced by Chancellor Won
Hertling and Foreign Secretary won
Kuehlmann. according to reports re-
ceived in The Hague and transmitted
by the correspondent Of the Daily
Mail.
The chancellor and the foreign sec
retary are reported to have said that
they washed their hands Of the entire
matter, as they objected to the meth
DDS by which the military part Of the
convention was devised over their
heads by the German higher COM
mand.
Gen. Ludendorff Is said to be insist
ing that the agreement be passed and
signed at once.
The military sections bind each
party to aid the other with all its
forces against any and every enemy.
thus compelling Austria to place all
her forces at the disposal of Ger
many.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
MONUMENT TO MAJ. POWELL,
Stands on Rim Of the Grand Can
yon Of the Colorado.

GRAND CANYON. Ariz., May 21.-
Franklin X. Lane. Secretary of the In
terror. dedicated yesterday, at a spot
on Maricopa point, a monument to
the memory of Maj. John Wesley
Powell, first director Of the geologi-
cal survey. and the explorer. who, in
1869. conducted the first expedition
through the Grand Canyon of Colo
RADIO.
A number of officials and other
Arizona notables were present.
The monument is on the rim of the
canyon, seven thousand feet above
sea level. The promontory projects
into the flfteen-mile-wide gorge Of
the Colorado river and is 5000 feet
above its waters.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
MISS LATHROP'S NEW HONOR.
Made President Of National Confer.
ence of Social Workers,

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. May 21.-Miss
Julia Lathrop of Washington. head
Of the children's bureau Of the fed
eral Department OF Labor. was elect
ed president of the National Confer.
ence of Social Work at the annual
convention of the organization here
late yesterday. Miss Lathrop sue
ceeds Robert A. Wood of Boston.
Other officers elected include
Thomas ]. Riley. Brooklyn, N. Y.
second vice president. and Albert S.
Johnstone. Columbia, s. c.. third vice
president
The following named were elected
members Of the executive committee:
Robert A. Wood. Boston: Amos w.
Butler, Indianapolis: Miss Mary E.
Richmond, New York: William T.
Foster. Portland. Ore. and Miss Edith
NJ. Campbell, Cincinnati
Evening star., 1918-05-21
British Royalty at Conference.

LONDON, May 20.-King George,
Queen Mary and Princess Mary visited
the allied exhibition ahd conference
on the after-care Of disabled soldiers
and sailors here today. The confer
ence was opened by the Duke of Con-
naught. Among the countries repre-
sented are the United States, France,
Italy. Belgium. Canada, Australia,
New Zealand. Portugal, South Africa,
India and Serbia. =
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Armed With Army Rifles.

Several Of the detectives were armed
|S1ith Krag-Jorgenson rifles. a supply
|Af which had been distributed at
and among the police
stations of the city following the dec
|Saration Of war against Germany. as
n means Of defense.
The officers surrounded the house
land Lieut.. Bremmerman and Lieut..
|Wright went in. Copeland fired q
|6hot at the men. but missed He was
hinder q bed. and Lieuts. Wright and
|8remmerman rushed for him. Cope
hand pulled the trigger Of the revolver
again, but there was no report.
I'm done. boys; don't shoot" said
ICopeland. when he found that the
Ichambers of his revolver were empty
Lieut.. Brermerman then pulled him
from under the bed.
Copeland was bleeding from wounds
received from shots fired by the off,
GERS surrounding the house He was
rushed to Casualty Hospital. where it
was found that his condition was
iserious. Four shots had taken effect
on Copeland, one in the middle of the
chest, one at the front of either
Iehoulder and another in the back of
the right shoulder. Copeland is close
f3y guarded by two policemen at the
Hospital. and will be kept under the
close surveillance of the police pend
ling the outcome of his injuries.
Copeland, the Washington police
haid today, fought desperately against
|8rrest because he feared that he was
ICenuaned on Second Page.l
Evening star., 1918-05-21
$4,000 More Workers Coming.
Two KILLED in Panama Wreck.

PANAMA. Monday. May 2o.-Twe
persons were killed and forty-five in
jured, five seriously. when a Panama
railroad train was derailed at Gam
boa today Two Americans, Police
Sergeant Sheehan and Train Guard
stoebel. were injured, Sheehan prob
Sbiy fatally Most of the other VIC
Tins were West Indians.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
You Have an Account With Uncle Sam.
PLEASE REMIT TODAY

Your nurses are calling for your help
Your Red Cross minstering your soldiers
and to your sailors
Their call is for funds; their duty is that of service
To push the District the top in another fund
drve-ths time for the Red Cross-an early start and
high speed must be maintained throughout this week
Don't falter; don't hestate don't procrastnate.
Give-give generously; give today.
Contributions may be sent Cuno H. Rudolph, war
fund cashier Second National Bank, Henry B. F. Mac
farand, 1872 street.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
GERMAN FOOD SITUATION
BELIEVED VERY CRITICAL
Aduices Receiued Here Indicate Grauest Con
ditions Yet Known-Worse in Austria.
Russia Disappoints Huns-Fear of u. S.

telegraphs from Annemasse, in France,
near the Swiss border.
The correspondent says he draws
this conclusion from oral statements
servations extended up to the end of
April. The great masses of the Ger
man and Austrian peoples, this in
formant declares, are more than sick
nothing but bread. and their morale is
so low that the governments are fear
1ul OF bolsheviks iksmovements.
canntbalism Reported.
Among the incidents given in sup
port OF the story Of terrible want is
tnea eAse Of t,No. prisoners Of war en-
pioyed at the gas works in Vienna,
who, he declares, were murdered by
fellow-workers, who ate part Of their
bodies. The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vien-
ma demanded an investigation and the
entire issue was confiscated in conse-
quence. The affair was referred to in
parliament, but was hushed up in the
Vienna press.
The narrator said he and his family
had lived for weeks almost entirely
on mushrooms gathered in a forest
outside the town in which he dwelt.
People often faint in the streets
health of many is such that they can
hardly stand. to say nothing of work.
and things are getting worse every
day. Even the soldiers do not have
sufficient food. They are not only sick
Of war but thoroughly apathetic re-
garding it.
eft Is a common sight to see SOL
diers begging for food. Everybody
is convinced that the expected food
relief from Ukraine is mirage.
Only another Prussian swindle,' they
say.
Worst Months Yet to Come.
"The three worst months-June,
July and August-are yet to come.
Last year there was almost nothing
to eat in those months but cucumbers
and fruit Typhus and dysentery
became epidemic. The people are
shuddering at the prospects Of these
three months now
AS far as they dare. the dispatch
continues. the people teer at the talk
Of smashing the British and French
and at the submarine campaign, the
only result of which they see has
been to add America to their enemies
Every one made fun of President
Wilson at first as a pedant. the COR
respondent adds. but people are now
changing their tune and are afraid
that America is In earnest.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Sees Stark Famine Ahead.

LONDON. May 21.-"I feel confident
that the time is at hand. when famine
stark. medieval famine-will Join
the entente as a political and military
ally against Germany and AUSTRIA"
the correspondent. OF the. Daily, NAH
Evening star., 1918-05-21
More Critical III Austria

Even more critical than the German
food situation Is that in Austria. An
official dispatch from France quotes
Austro-German newspapers as saying
that at recent conference in Vienna
on the situation it developed that food
supplies to be requisitioned were suf-
ficient only to feed Hungary and the
army and that Austria could expect
nothing but its own harvest.
Germany's purpose in announcing to
the world through its official wireless
the reduction of the bread ration for
it's population was widely discussed
here. Some officials conclude that the
German government, knowing that
eventually the news would reach its
enemies. decided to anticipate it with
the purpose Of showing the willing
ness of the German people to make
any sacrifice to win the war.
Another theory was that the purpose
Of the government was to encourage
peace proposals. supposedly more ac-
ceptable to a people suffering b hunger
and thus camoufiage the final military
effort which the Germans now are
known to be planning.
Evening star., 1918-05-21

Strike Ties Up Manchurian 3. r.
By the Associated Press.
HARDIN. Friday. May 17.-Railway
traffic in Manchuria Is tied up by q
strike,
Evening star., 1918-05-21
COURTS TOO EASY
ON PISTOL TOTERS
Maj. Pullman Says Judicial
Leniency Led Inevitably
to Murders.
PREDICTED TRAGEDIES

Fright here it might be we'll to say
that unnecessary deaths caused by
thugs owning revolvers have been pre-
dicted by officers of this department
for weeks, since encouragement in the
ownership and carrying of concealed
weapons has been given by recent
Police Court decisions dismissing cases
made by policemen in which men vio-
lating the law have been arrested"
This is an excerpt from a statement
made by Maj. Raymond w. Pullman. su-
perintendent of police. today in connec-
tion with the murder Of two members
of the Washington police force and a
deputy sheriff of Maryland early this
morning by Herman l. Copeland. col
ored. who resisted the serving Of a
summons to appear in a Maryland
court.
Evening star., 1918-05-21

The food situation in Germany. offi-
cials here believe. is the most critical
it has been atany time.
simultaneously with advices point
ing to this condition there came to
the State Department today reports
showing that famine conditions pre-
vail in Petrograd, cholera in Astrakan
and two other cities in the Same vi
cinity. and that there ID q general
lack Of food SnbpIIes m Russia. -@~y ''
Information reaching Washington
from many sources indicates that
even with the reduced ration planned
from June IS the country will not
have enough food to carry the popu-
lation through to the next harvest
and that further reductions will have
to be made.
Reduction Had to Come.
The reduced ration was to have
been put into operation March ]. but
the measure was postponed. 1t was
hoped that grain would be forth
coming in large quantities from the
Ukraine. When this hope vanished
the German government saw the re-
duction must be made.
Germany began consuming her 1917
wheat crop two months before 1t was
intended to start on it. The German
potato crop has not turned out near
" so well as German agricultural In
terests had hoped.
Government Papers Pessimistic.
Announcement that the bread ra-
tion Is to be reduced on June Is has
caused grave apprehension through
Germany. An official dispatch from
says that even the gov
no less pessimistic than that of the
socialist papers, which forsee a great
of the physical and gen
eral force which helps in supporting
the hardships of the fourth year of
the war.
1.-The government is taking a step
which is bound to disturb the life Of our
war diets" the dispatch quotes from
the Berlin Vorwaerts. the leading social
ist organ. up to now they were dis
tributed in very small quantities. 1t
seems too dangerous to start in reduce
greater in the fourth year Of the war
than in the second and third. when 1t
was easier to obtain other food and
when the general condition Of the popu-
lation was better"
''The Volks Freund of Carlsruhe."
says the dispatch. speaks of the sur
prise which the German people will feel
when they realize that they must suffer
new deprivations. while they were count
ing on an improvement of the food sit
uation based on what has been said
about the wheat from Ukrainia and Ru-
mania.
1.-The tone adopted by the govern
ment press is no less characteristic.
The official paper Nord Deutsche ALL
geneine Zeitung gives a weak ex-
preston to the hope that the measure
will not endanger resistance of the
interior front. AS to the newspaper
Germania, it does not succeed in hiding
its dependency. 1t declares:
1--WE have never been optimistic,
but our pessimism was not great
enough"
In an effort to improve the serious
meat situation. the German military
authorities have decided to requisition
100, 900 head of cattle and 10000 pigs
in Poland. This, says a Swiss dis
patch, has caused panic among the
Poles.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
PATR|0T|CFERVOR
MARkSDR|VEFOR
RED CROSS FUND
District Subscriptions Re-
ported by Noon Today
Total $233,416.28.
ZEAL INDICATES LARGE
EXCESS SUBSCRIPTION
Mrs. Robert Lansing's Team Leads
in the Amount of Pledges Pro-
cured Yesterday.
Red Cross Meetings Today.

1880 and $50 o'clock
Speeches and music at the
"Little Theater,o north steps Of
the Treasury.
8 o'clock-French night at
Liberty Hut; the public invited;
Justin Godarf and others to
speak; Lucien Muratore, tenor
of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, to sing.
S:3O o'clock-New Red Cross
motion pictures Mt screen ON
south steps of the Treasury;
troops In action; entire change
Of program from last night.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Holder, Swiss Painter, Dies.

BERN, May 21.-Ferdinand Holder,
. leading Swiss painter. is dead here
ct the age Of aixty-dvA-
Evening star., 1918-05-21
copeland's Wife Gives Clue.

BY this time the police had been
notified Of the shooting and Capt.
Harrison had arrived at precinct No.
8. Capt. Harrison ordered the sum-
moning of the occupants of the
street house to the station. Four
women and four men were brought
IN.
One of the women was the wife of
Copeland. Capt. Harrison learned
through her that Copeland had a half
brother living on Carrollburg place.
Whereupon Capt. Harrison ordered
the wife to accompany Lieut.. Duni-
ran. Lieut.. Bremmerman, the latter
Of precinct No. 2. who was at the
station: Policemen Truce and Davis
to the house.
A couple of the men. one of whom
was Lieut.. Dunigan, went to the door
that Copeland shot Lieut.. Dunigan.
Copeland opened fire from a back
room. Dunigan was hurried to Cas-
ualty Hospital and died just after he
arrived there.
In the meantime. headquarters had
been notified and a call for reserves
was sent out. The detective force
was routed from bed and all available
men were called upon to report.
A detail including Detectives Grant
Mullen. Sweeney, Beckley. Connors.
Armstrong OF headquarters and De-
|fective Wright Of precinct 6. Lieut..
Conlon of precinct 4 and Bicycle Po-
|liceman Flaherty Of precinct s. start
Id for the CarrollburR place house.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Member Of the Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled b
the use for repuhlication Of all news dispatches
credited to II or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news Published herein.
All rights Of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight and tomor.
row: little change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending 2 pm. today: Highest, 50, al
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest. 6S, at Z
am. today.
Full report on page 19.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Police LieI1. DUNCAN, Police
man Conrad and Maryland
! Deputy Sheriff Victims.
MAN WHO DID SHOOTING
. IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Triple Murder Results From At
tempt to Summons Slayer as Wit
ness in Minor Case.

Two members of the Washington po-
lice department and deputy sheriff of
Maryland were shot and killed and
their assailant, negro, who. was re-
sisting serving Of q summons as a
witness In a case, was seriously wound
id in . shooting affray here early this
morning.
The dead:
Lieut.. David T. Dunigan Of precinct
B, sixty-three years old.
Policeman John A. Conrad of pre-
cinct s. thirty-fve years old.
Deputy Sheriff L. H. McParlan.
thirty-seven years old of Indian Head,
Md.
Seriously wounded:
Herman L. Copeland, thirty-eight
years old. laborer of IS I street
northeast. At Casualty Hospital.
Copeland opened fire on Conrad
and McParlan at his home. rs
street northeast, shooting Conrad in
the right breast and McParlan in
the neck. both shots causing almost
instant death. Lieut.. DUNCAN was shot
AAA SSA0 Swim W SOPSinhNs Ct A1VV SoA
rolburg place, southeast, and died
after he had been rushed to Casu-
atty Hospital. Copeland making q get
away from I street to the Carroll
burg place address. where he was
traced by the police.
Copeland was sought by McParlan and
W. H. Niles, superintendent of construc-
tion for the Austin Company, which is
engaged in government work at Indian
Head, Md A man named Dorsey Mason,
sometimes known as Mason Dorsey, who
was employed by the Austin Company
- chef at the concerns dining hall,
had been arrested on charge Of con-
nscating meal tickets which were sold
to the men for 81 each. It was alleged
that Dorsey was selling the tickets to
employees for IS each without turning
the money over to the company. Cope
land was wanted as a material witness.
The trial OF Dorsey having come up
land being missing. McParlan. who is
q regular deputy Of Charles county and
had been deputized by the Austin Com
pany to aid them at the factory in keep
ing order, was instructed to come to
Washington and get Copeland.
In Search Of Witness.
Accompanied Dy Niles, McParlan
eame to Washington last night and
appeared at precinct No. 6. on New
Jersey avenue. seeking information
as to the location of Copelan,l's home.
He was directed first to see Conrad.
who was on the beat on which Cope
land resided. Niles had an automo-
bile, and the trio drove to the Cope
land home. The men got into the
house, and Niles. who stood outside,
heard no noise for what seemed to
him i've or ten minutes. Then two
shots rang out.
Niles waited outside. and soon the
head of Copeland appeared at an open
window upstairs. whereupon Niles
ran back to his automobile and
sought cover and to get his revolver.
which. he said, was under the seat.
Copeland fired at Niles and then dis
appeared to the back Of the house.
eescaping through a window to the
home of his half brother. Arthur
Barnes, at 400 Carrollburg place
Copeland's Wife Gives Clue.
Evening star., 1918-05-21
Judge Avoids Controversy.

In reply to Maj. Pullman, the fol-
lowing statement was issued by Judge
Hardison of the Police Court:
Il do not intend to enter into q
newspaper controversy regarding such
matters. Tho legal documents will
show for themselves"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-23
GOT THE NUMBER
OF SUBMARINES
Allies Outguessing Them, Outmaneu
vering Them and Sinking Them.

Paris. August 20.-American naval
officers permanently stationed here
are much amused at reports coming
from Germany via Switzerland that
the U-boats are not devoting any at
tention to American troop conveys.
"The reverse is the case, if any
thing" declared one officer. "Ihey
are neglecting merchant shipping to
Get our transports. It may be true
that we are debarking troops, as the
, German press says from the north
coast of Scotland to the Mediterran-
can ports, both Italian and French.
"Assuredly in masking our move
ments we are taking advantage OF
foggy weather, moonless nights and
any other atmospheric conditions, in
Guiding little atmosphere OF our
own which we sometimes throw off.
"The German reports that they
can't afford to bother with transports
owing to weightier duties with food
ships. is bosh, clumsily designed to
make us relax our watch. The U-boats
are harder on our trail than ever.
"They have pretty speedy craft
nowadays and make it point to pur-
| sue our conveys for day after day al
ter they have discovered our location
They come out to meet us, hover be-
hind for miles off like swill sharks.
Lately certain ships-I won't spec
ify whether American or not-hav'
been subject to successive attacks a.
some hours of interval. These attacks
moreover, were made by number o.
submarines each letting fly several tor
pedoes at the same time and at th'
same boat. They figure on getting a
least one boat with a school Of fiv'
submarines.
"That's expensive work, tthougl
they may think it sound tactics. How
ever, can say they are not meetin'
with as much success as they hope
for.
"The U-boats fight mighty shy nov
Of the channel, where they used to b
so busy. Theya re seldom found ther
now a days. They seem to. have de
serted the eastern Mediterranean ais
TO be concentrated in the western par
They are reportd occasionally off th
Azores and in the Bay of Biscay. We'v
, got their number, however; we're oui
guessing them, outsinking them an
outmaneuvering them"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-23

ed letter announcing that their son,
Lieut.. Jno w. 0verton, was killed in
the battle of the Marne on July 49,.
The news came in letter from a
friend who said he helped to bury him
on the battlefield Lieut.. 0verton was
a world-famous Yale athlete.
Lieut.. 0verton was the champion
mile and two-mile runner of the world.
His family is one of the most promi-
nent in Tennessee. The letter was
made public by Mr.. Overton this at
ternoon and was from one of the
young officers associates and said;
"On the morning of July 18, we went
over the top. Johnny Overton was
killed. | buried Johnny in the field
and had just said hello to him in the
attack a few minutes before he was
killed.
Lieut.. Overton was in the marines.