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Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-01
FIvE-FOOT SOLDIERS.

physical requirements for national army have been
tall and weighing ITO pound
accordingly medical advisory boards
throughout country will be large increase tie
number eligible within limits of the present draft
law.
ruling will general satisfaction 1t has long been
ognized army unnecessarily strict and
conditions warfare rather arbitrary 1t
necessarily superior small
nowadays fighting far back the Russo
Russians advantage
when battles largely
question shell machine the old standard
tany reversed big have the advantage
a which largely matter and agility.
department is driven this by
plenty Of big in the Those
good of themselves when the time
comese. iusta "bantam Englishmen have done.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-01

County Clerk and Tx .ofricio Clerk
o. the Superlor Court, Imperial
BY f. +. COOPER,
Deputy Clerk
CAltN NICHOLS,
Attorney for Plaintiff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-27
THE Topeka DAILY IOURNAI-WEDNEsDAY EVENING

Next Sun Gay morning at O'Clock sunrise
prayer service will be held in the church
under the direction of the Epworth League
society of the church.
Sgt. and Mrs George Birmingham are
the parents of a. daughter born Tuesday
morning. Sgt; Brantingham is stationed
at Camp Doniphan. Mrs. Brantingham is
making her home with Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Brantingham, 500 German avenue.
= Mrs. c. e. Cox, Mr.. Harry Cox of Camp
Doniphan and Miss Dora Snodgrass of
Williamsburg. Kan, were dinner guests
Tuesday of Mrs. e. l.. Jones and Miss
Frances Jones.
The Rev. E. h. Resler- has returned to
his home. Scotland avenue, after spending
several days attending the Methodist con-
ference at Pittsburg, Kan.
The annual congregational meeting of
the Third Presbyterian church will be held
Thursday evening. Supper will be served
at Z O'Clock.
Mrs. Fanny Libby of Argentine and Mrs.
Lauretta Rollo we're recent dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. /. Jones, Lake street.
Mrs. c. f. May and daughter, Mrs. T.
n. Mott, Of Eskridge, are guests for few
days of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Wilcox, Norton
street
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Detroit
Oil
Stoves

plants of dry weather in Texas and from
east of the Mississippi come reports that
there is delay in getting fertilizers owing
to scarcity of cars. A vigorous propaganda
is being conducted in the southern press in
behalf of increased food crops.
New York March 21.-Finaneial News
Bulletin: Stocks-Much qualification is be
ing expressed in high banking circles over
the small total of the next liberty loan and
the rate. There are good indications of
good buying by Bethlehem. Baldwin. Mexi-
can Petroleum. c. and o., Marine preferred
A G. W. and Southern Pacific on all de-
clines.
Chicago. March c7-The Herald says:
Grain-It was noticeable yesterday that
leading buyers of cash oats at the seaboard
were only disposed to take hold on the
bfeaks and withdrew on bulges. While
the seaboard bid Omaha 13lac over May
track New York the best bid on exporter
had here at the close for track Newport
News was 121a over. 1t was said export
sales to the seaboard the last two days
were larger than reported Between the un-
vertainty of export buying and the news
from the western front the trade is kept
very nervous and longs are disposed to take
profits on all sharp buIges. Bears are
nervous. but they do most of their selling
on weak spots and are easily scared into
covering on small bulges. Expectations are
that the wheat export company vii soon be
in the market again for more corn. Ele-
vators are buying corn and drying 1t and 1t
is said that some industries may increase
their purchases of poor corn should prices
remain attractive, having a special use for
it The Chicago Board of Trade will be
closed March 20, Good Friday.
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WEATHER is NORMAL
Continued from Page One,

Continued from Page One.l
America is too busy getting her men
ready for war, and the civilian popu-
iation must go about its work with a
quick and elastic step if the boys in
uniform are to be properly fed and
clothed and supplied with the NUM-
tions necessary for a nation at war.
Spring fever has been classified as
polite name for common laziness in
duced by warmth. There is no room
for laziness today, nor on any of the
tomorrows for that matter.
The lowest temperature of the last
degrees at $50 o'clock this morning.
Prospects were that the temperature
this afternoon would not go above 50
degrees. The promised showers had
not arrived this morning, but clouds
were forming in the west part of the
state, according to Meteorologist Flora
and the showers will probably mater
ialize before tomorrow. The wind was
blowing eight miles from the north
east this morning. The promise for
tomorrow was another day like today
"a temperature of about 40 degrees
tonight and tomorrow afternoon about
55 degrees. The highest temperature
ever recorded in Topeka on this date
was 81 degrees in 1895 and the low
est was 5 degrees in 1913
The temperature at Oklahoma Citv
this morning was 81 degrees. The
weather at Doniphan promised to be
warm today, altho there will be a few
clouds in the sky
The official forecast SAYS unsettled
weather tonight and Thursday with
showers tonight or Thursday; cooler
Thursday.
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NAME SESSIONS



missioner be named by Governor Cap
per's successor. Sessions would hold
the office until his successor was
The appointment is one of the best
at the disposal of the governor, and
carries a salary of $4,000 year.
jackson Was Candidate.
Names of two men were urged be-
fore Governor Capper when it be-
came known some weeks ago that
mission at the expiration of his term.
Bristow's retirement to private life
was followed by his announcement as
a candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for United States senator.
Governor Capper was urged to ap-
pOintment either Sessions or Fred S.
Jackson, former attorney general and
one term congressman from the
Fourth congressional district. Jack
son is now an attorney for the COM
mission. Sessions was named, the
governor stated, because of his faith
full state service and ability to fill the
new office.
Sessions, who is a veteran Topeka
newspaper correspondent, was secre-
tary of state from 1911 to 1915. He
was urged for the Republican guber-
material nomination in 1914, but step
ped aside when Governor Capper en-
tered the running. Sessions in 1915
walked from the secretary of states
office across the hall to Governor
Cappcr's private secretaryship. In
1915 Sessions was elected chairman
of the Republican state committee
and is now at the head of the party
organization in this state.
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Anyone on the East side wishing to con-
tribute a few minutes or a: few hours time
to the Red Cross is urged to come to the
Lafayette school on Friday afternoon of
each week where from 1 O'Clock until late
in the afternoon sewing is done for the
society.
Earl McChristian has returned to Camp
Doniphan after visiting his mother, Mrs.
Thomas Anderson, East Ninth street. and
his uncle, William Glenn and family, Twiss
avenue.
Miss Mabel Camp is i'll at her home 20
Grattan street. with the humps.
The L. A H. club will be entertained
Friday afternoon with Mrs. w. Glenn,
Twiss avenue, as hostess. The club meet
ing was to have been held at the home of
Mrs. S. Cremer, Grattan street. but has
been postponed because of illness.
Mrs. W. L. Tickner. 405 Lafayette street.
will go to Lawrence, Kan, Thursday to at
tend the meeting of the Presbyterians.
Mrs. Tickner will go as a delegate from
the Third Presbyterian church.
Ralph Swearfngen of Camp Doniphan,
Okla, is spending a furlo in the city with
his parents and with other relatives and
friends. He is member of Field Hospital
1Se.
Mrs. A Flodenberg, German avenue, will
be hostess Thursday afternoon to the mem
bers of the Mistletoe club
There will be no meeting of the Teach
ers' Training class of the Seward Avenue
Methodist church, thursday evening. The
usual PRAYER service will be held as usual
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GREAT VICTORY, BUT
Perhaps Hun Chief Wonders How
Germans Are Benefited.

Amsterdam. March PA great
battle has been fought and victory
has been won, but nobody can fore
see what will result from it, said
General Won Ludendorff, chief aide
to Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, in
al interview with the correspondent
at the front of the Tages Zeitung of
Berlin.
The general praised the British for
the. tenacious resistance and con-
tinued:
The British believed they could
rely on the strength of machinery.
The employment of tanks and great
numbers of machine guns is typical
of their methods of warfare"
Thu German infantry, the general
adds. had only one nights normal
rest during five or six days of battle.
In a battle like this he remarked,
the infantryman must risk his life
not only once but continuously from
treQcx to trench
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HUNS REAL PLAN
Crush English Army and Break
French Morale.
But Thus Far Both Detectives
Have Failed.
BY HENRY MOOD.

With the French Armies in the
Field, March 27.-Germany's offensive
appears to embrace two great objec-
tives-an effort to break up Great
Britain military and an effort to
break down the French civilian NOR
ale by terrorizing Paris and other
open cities.
1 have just returned from Paris and
other cities where bombs have been
dropped. There I ascertained that the
civilian morale is equally as high as
the army's. Both are determined, at
any sacrifices, to ensure victory.
The poilus on the entire front, after
four months of the most intensive
work in defensive preparations, today
are keenly awaiting extension of the
offensive to the French sectors. In
spired by the British resistance they
are determined 10 demonstrate their
courage and ability are equal to that
of their allies on the north. Fully
half the German divisions are now
facing the British, while a majority
of the remainder are in the crown
princes command.
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MORE YANKEES
Continued from Page one.)


nearly turned the Byng drive at Cam
brai into a bad defeat
In any event, American and millied
military men here say confidently that
while the allies may yield more
ground, the boche has about shot his
bolt and cannot make this drive vic
tory.
the greatest optimism prevails on
the outcome.
Acting Chief of Staff March is in
constant touch with developments as
they affect the whole allied problem,
and particularly the American end
allied war council is keeping him ad-
vised of the most intimate details.
Another German "Washout."
A report from Bliss last night re-
vcaled tire main facts as contained in
Yesterdays cables while another mes
sage from General Pershing, perhaps
Containing interesting data on the
drive vas in late last night for de-
cooling March has promised to give
what information he safely can, as
soon as possible.
Loss of territory means nothing,
they said. Los; of men does. But
if the German Unanswered into a
position where he could push on to
Paris or the channel ports, then af-
fairs would be critical.
The German is losing men at
very costly rate far more SO than
the alliAs. That is what counts, the
experts sar.
So when the final toll is taken, il
is believed the drive will go down as
another German "washout.' provided
the Teuton is held in the next few
days.
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Tanker Either DAM
aged or Sank Submarine.
For an Hour the Two Boats
Fought on the Sea.
SHE SUBMERGED BOW FIRST
Down With Stern Up at an
Angle of Is Degrees.
U.BOat Used Tandem SalvOs
and Then ShrapneI Shots.

Washington. d. c., March 81
After an hours battle with a German
U-boat on the morning of March l, the
American oil tanker Paulsboro sent
the enemy vessel beneath the waves
damaged and in distress" the navy
department reported today.
1t was the tanker's second struggle
with a submarine in six days.
In the first encounter a torpedo
missed the boat by twenty five yards.
-Four shots at the submarine sent her
diving away.
In the second battle a submarine
about 5000 yards dead ahead opened
fire, using tandem fire, then salvos,
then firing shrapnel. Some of her
fifty shots reached their mark, com
infcharge of Chief Gunner's Mate Rel
ter of Menominee, Mich.
Telling of the struggle after the
submarine had started to maneuver
astern. Refers report said in part:
The after gun appeared to have
more velocity than the forward gun
and the shells passed over the ship
and struck near the starboard bow. A
fierce firing was kept up from that
angle until the submarine got astern.
Apparently picking her own position.
she remained slightly on the vessels
ton. the forward guns shells still
dropping short.
Shells Fell Everywhere.
The submarine then drew closer,
using both guns at tandem fire, the
shells falling on both sides of the
ship. Shrapnel was now being used
and some of the shells burst before
contact. scattering about the deck.
One of the shells burst against the
side on the port beam.
Shells fell in all directions on
both sides and over the length of the
ship. shell burst close to the ships
stern Fragments of it became en-
bedded in the wooden deck at the
rear of the gun crew. A German
shell burst alongside of the starboard
bow. The tremendous conclusion
threw all men on the platform to the
deck face forward.
Both of the Paulsboros guns now
had the range of the submarine and
a rapid fire was kept up. The sub
marine had apparently dropped back
and the ships shells either fell on
top OF the submarine or close to her
bow.
THE submarine then ceased firing,
| swung broadside to and submerged
Or sank, bow first. with the stern up
at an angle of about j 5 degrees. She
disappeared in about twenty seconds.
It is believed that the submarine was
damaged and in distress"
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CIVILIANS TAKE UP ARMS.
Southern Ukrainian Cities Sterniy Re
sent Huns Friendly" Invasion.
(By the Associated Press)


Moscow, March 24.-Official reports
saw that Nikolayev. Kherson and
Znamenka all southern Ukrainian
cities. have been recaptured3 from the
Austrians by Red guards and armed
civilians.
(The recapture of Kherson and Nix
olayex already has been reported in
press dispatches from Petrograd.)
The population of Kherson organ
lied and expelled the invaders. A
heavy artillery bombardment is re-
ported in connection with the recap
ture of Nikolayev.
Demands not set forth by the Ger
mans in the peace treaty with Tx
raine are creating disorder there The
latest of these demands is that Tx
raine surrender IS per cent of it's grain
and all the sugar from its, ia refin-
cries except that needed for local
consumption. The Ukrainian rada
has protested that this is not in the
terms of the peace treaty German
troops are constantly moving eastward
thru Kfev. Peasants at Newell. fifty
four railes north of Vitebsk. are re-
ported to have killed eighty German
soldiers -
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ENROLLING AT H. S.
Boys May Enter Federal Reserve
There Every Day Now. E

. Enrolment of Topeka and Shaw
nee county boys into the federal boys
working reserve is on at the high
school building following the compile
ton of an educational campaign" put
on by committee from the Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Members of the committee. which is
composed of Gerald Tasker, Don
Pugh, John X. Dillon, George Whit
comb, Melvin Rutledge, Ben Pres
grove, Harold Seely and George w.
Neil, the latter chairman, have ap
peared in every school here and eX-
planned the workings of the reserve.
Enrolment may be made at room %
of the high school building in the
evenings or after 2:30 o'clock in the
afternoons.
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BEHIND HER SCHEDULE
Alice Nielsen Will Not Arrive in To-
peka Until Tomorrow.

Alice Nielsen, the famous singer,
scheduled to appear under auspices of
the Elks club at the auditorium to-
morrow night, did not arrive in To-
peka today and therefore the recep
ton scheduled in her honor this aft
ernoon at the Elks club will not be
held.
Miss Nielsen will not attend the
banquet arranged in her honor to-
night. She will however, appear as
per schedule at the auditorium to-
morrow night. it is said. Her delay in
arrival was caused by congested pas
senger traffic in the east. She comes
here direct from New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-27
HE ADDRESSES 1,4OO
Reid Talks Before Rotarians and
School Children in Kansas City, Kan.

Kansas City, Kan. March 27.-One
of the most enthusiastic assemblies
that has gathered in the high school
for some time, listened to
an illustrated lecture on the baby
war saving bonds Tuesday by Albert T.
Reid, cartoonist from Topeka. Reid's
talk gave fresh impetus to the interest
of the high school students in the
bonds. About 400 students packed
the assembly.
Kansas City, Kan, Rotary club and his
talk met a warm reception. The
feature of the noon talk was a car
toon by Reid of Mayor MendenhaE.
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Kansas City. March 27.-HOGS-Receipts
1900. Market 10c to 15c higher. Bulk Of
sales, s16.3o@17- heavy, s1G7O@171O;
packers and butchers s1I.0o@17.3o; light,
CATTLE-Receipts 10000. Market strong
to Zoe higher: Prime fed steers. s13OOG
400; dressed beef steers, S10.00M13. rs:
steers. S9O0@11 90; cows $7.5O011. 25 heif-
ers, S775412.00; stockers and feeders $500
@12.75 bulls, S750G10.00; calves, S7.50G
1:;5c.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market strong.
Lambs, $4,000 Is;6o; yearIings. s14-5Od
14.25; stockers and feeders. S. OOM11.1O.
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"NOTHING TO REPORT
No News for War Department About
Americans Entering Battle.

Washington, March 27.-General
Pershing cabled the war department
early today he had nothing to re-
pors" so far as the American troops
were concerned in the progress of the
battle on the western front.
1t was said at the war department
thai the dispatch received from Cen
eral Bliss in Paris last night and
which was supposed to contain some
Information on the battle, was con-
cerned entirely with the routine of
the American participants in the in
ter-allied war council.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago. March 27-CORN-Corn gained
in strength today owing more or less to the
hopeful character of advfces from the
battle front in France. Falling off in
ceipts here counted further bullish
factor. Besides, announcement that bust
ness in the March delivery had been shut
off and that open trades in the option
would be cett1ed at the maximum limit
81 2S a bushe1. was handicap to the
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Morning Grain Market
Furnished by the -opeka Board of Trade

New York, March 27-Journal of Com
MERGE: Cotton-There was a calmer feel
ing yesterday. Prices rose % to 20 points
War news was keenly scrutinized of course
but the outlook was considered more en-
coura ging. The Liverpool advance and
closed some 20 to % American points high
err Contracts here once again became
for sale and the drought in Texas con-
tinues No rain was predicted for that
state either. Large spot interests were
among the best buyers. Liverpool and the
Continent also bought. it looks tho the
consum ption in this country would be in
creased by reason If embargoes on imports
Of textiles From the south there are com
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Chicago. March 21.-HOGS-Receipts D.
600, tomorrow 35 900: Market strong, 12c to
sales, ST.. o0d17.75; light. s7.25d 500; mix
ed s169OG17.95: heavy. s16.150 II 60 rough,
sic. 15t11 1860; pigs. S13.00M16.I5.
CATTLF-kecsipts 5000, tomorrow 49,
900. Market firm. Native steers, s9.10@
14.50; stockers ana feeders. S710Q 1I50;
@1G.OO.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000 tomorrow IL 600
Market firm. Sheep, S11.25@15.65; lambs
S14 60G19.OG.
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HUN GENERAL KILLED
General Won BlOtInitz Was Command
er of Force at st. Quentin.

Amsterdam, March 27.-General
on Blotlnitz. commanding one of the
German divisions attacking st. QUEEN
1n. was Killed in action Friday, &C
cording to dispatches received here
from German. sources today.
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less fat.
Shorn lambs and sheep &c under above
prices.
Poultry md Eggs.
Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Laurent and Madison
Topeka, Kan, March "a.
Springs. over BIS. l9c: ROSTERS. Lie;
STACEY young ROSTERS. ire; brofiers- lbs
and under. &c
Eggs are retailing in Topeka 35c
rSUTTER-456I4Tc-
Positively cannot Use sheep or lambs an
less fat
Topeka Grain Market
Furnished by j. b. Billiard, corner Kansas
Ave. and Curtis ST.
Topeka. Kan, March q.
MIXED CORN-S1.35.
WHITE CORN-sl55.
OATS-75c
Topeka Hay Market
Topeka, Kan, March q.
PRAIRIE HAY-s2OoU -
ALFALFA@S2500
Retail Hay.
Furnished by w a Gilch-ist. o26 Quincy
Street,
Topeka, Kan, March p.
PRAIRIE HAY-S20.O0.
ALFALFA-$25.o0
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EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.
Telephone between and 10 a. m. $3.50;
other hours. 1851 K-2
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New York, March 27.-BUTTER-Mark
easier. Creamery, higher than extras, 1917
044c.
EGGS-Market weak. Fresh gathered ex-
tras. 3SLa@39c.
CHEESE-Marke. irregular State held
specials 24L 02515C.
POULTRY-Alfve. strong; dressed quie
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CITY OF ODESSA

continual from Page One-l
the Ukraine. The rada decided to
oppose the central powers by means
of armed forces, strikes and boycotts.
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Chicago Produce Market.
=. Chicago, March 21-BUTTER-Market
firm. Creamery, 35@41hc
EGGS-Market lower. Firsts 33M33L c
ordinary firsts, 32@321ac; at mark, cases
included. }20I3' 1ac
POTATOES-Ma-ket II higher. wiscon-
sin, Michigan and Minnesota bulk. sOd9oc
ditto sacks. S5@95c.
POULTRY-Eoosters,u unchanged
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New York Sugar Market
New York. March 21.-SUGAR-Raw,
steady; centrifugal, 60o5; fine graduated,
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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty-four hours
ending at a. m. Wednesday.
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New Orleans. March 27.-COTTON-Sl
steady and unchanged; middling, $3.50.