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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Struggle for Recruits To Fill Up
the Depleted Ranks.
DRIVING IN WEDGE DEEPER
Germans Able To Advance
Slightly at Terrible Cost.
YpreS Would Be Taken as a
Blow to Great Britain.
For map of today's fighting,
see Page 6.


With the British hanging erimiy on
TO the great bulk of Messines ridge,
their buIwark in Flanders. the Ger
mans to the south are pushing their
wedge deeper into the British lines
I.crtheast and north of Betnune one
of the British advanced bases
The point of this wedge was driven
last night further along the I-ys canal
to Merville. two miles west of LiStrem
which the Pritish held up to yester-
day. The salient was extended also
slightly to the north near its tip to the
vicinity of Neuf Berquin, two miles
northwest of Estai-es, another point
where the British had been making a
stand.
The Germans today were continuing
what appeared to be their heaviest
pressure in his region, and had made
some progress wnec the noon official
report was issued in LondoI
The southern side of the Salient. as
it runs southeast toward Givenchy, is
being strongly held by the British.
They were standing firm today at
Loisne, three miles northeast of
Bethune and along the line northwest
TO the Merville region. Further
southeast likewise they repelled a Ger
man attempt to advance northwest of
which protects the British right flank
before Bethune.
Watching Tip of Wedge.
The British task here apparently is
to prevent the sides of this salient
from being materially widened. as the
tip cannot be pushed in much further
without great danger to the attacking
forces from flank attack unless they
succeed in broadening their advance
front
Northwest of Armentieres, aban-
doned yesterday by the British the
line was Strengthened out by their
withdrawal from Ploegsteert whence
they fell back. fighting to the vicinity
of Neuve Eglise, close to the southerly
end of Msssines ridge WHICH protects
their new positions.
The British lines apparently are be
ing firmly maintained along the high
ground in the Messines and Wytschaete
regions and to the north toward
Ypres. No material change in the sit
uation is reported here. The battle
however, is continuing alorg the
whole front, from La BaSSee canal
north to HoIlebeke the Germans ham,
= mering hard in their desperate at
tempt to win something substantial
out of this new ambitious effort OF
theirs. So far its only definite result
has been the pfling up of casualties
on both sides, notably their own.
on the Somme battlefield there has
been no resumption of infantry en-
gagements on large scale. The
British, however, were subjected tC
strong local attacks near NeuvilIe
Vitasse. southeast of Arras, all OF
which they repulsed- The artillery is
reported increasingly active in the
vicinity of the Somme, while Paris an
nounces a rather heavy bombardment
along the French line to the coutheas
of Amiens in the vicinity of Hangar rd
Ground Strewn With Corpses
London. April 12-GeTman troop.
made a determined attack along the
Messines ridge and succeeded in gain
ing some ground. says a Reuter- dis
patch from British army headquarter.
Continued on Page Four.)
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to school daily without sufficient food
to keep them from being hungry,
said Doctor Harding.
That together with a realization
that if men were called to the army
their children unless properly cared
for would grow up morally and ply
sicalIy deficient and menace to the
country, called for a number of meet
ings prior to the eventful Sunday aft
ernoon meeting at the Unitarian
churcI Doctor Harding informed the
Jury. She denied that she was op-
posed to the draft or had any intention
of organizing meetings to arouse SEN
timent against the draft
Action of the Good Government club
in quitting in and misrepresenting a
pu, lie child welfare meeting sched-
uled for the high school auditorium
May 20, caused the first trouble, Doc
tor Harding declared. She informed
the jury that members of the club
were prejudiced against Mita Sharp
one of the women who was to speak
at the meeting, and told members of
the school board and H. B. Wilson,
superintendent of schools, that it was
an anti-draft meeting.
Real Purpose of Meeting.
What we really wanted to do was
to arouse sentiment to raise money to
build kitchens in the Schools" said
Doctor Harding, land to discuss prob
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top" of the amount assigned. Many
other cities ranging up to the Oregon
metropolis have done likewise in cam
paigns which for enthusiasm and sys-
tematic planning have not been
equafed during previous loans. Some
indication of this spirit is found in the
case of Lynn, Mass, where citizens
campaigned all Friday night and be-
fore 9 o'clock Saturday morning-the
hour the loan officially opened-the
city had over-subscribed its loan quota
by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hold Up Subscription.
Many cities are holding up all news
of their official subscriptions for fear
it will slow down the drive. Official
ly the totals given out by the treasury
department show subscriptions of
about s30O.0O0,000.
The most significant part of the
great response, it is stated. is the great
answer of the countrys farmers In
the grain belt-where politicians here
have cried that the farmer with his
wheat price fixed can't make an hon
est 1iving-the dollars are rolling into
the government Golfers by millions.
One of the states unofficialIy reported
10 nave over-subscribed its quota al
ready is a mid-western grain state.
Ihe same enthusiastic reply to
Americas appeal for dollars-..come
across or the kaiser willis found
everywhere. The liberty loan officials
here are demanding official checkups
on all reports that there NAV be nd
false optimism But indication of the
nations rally is found here. where in
a single theater the subscriptions thus
far have been four times what tbev
totaled in the entire last campaign.
Oregon First Over Quota.
oregon was the first state to go
over, official reports today from Ore
gon showed her subscription to total
S1S,044, 900, the Oregon quota beine
s1S,4S5,00 Oregon's name takes first
place on the honor roll of states.
Portland VS.. Toledo.
Toledo, o.. yies with Portland as the
first claimant for the honor flag OF
cities in the class between 100 900 and
100000. Portland's subscription Is
10,120.000 in four days Her quota
was s10,05O,000.
Detroit Passes Quota.
Detroit, Mich, April 12.-Detroit
passed its liberty loan quota of $780,
100000 at noon today Today's sub
scriptions were about $6.o0O0OO
pushing the total just past the goal
Henry Ford gave the largest single
subscription in the campaign to date
$6.000.000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
PRESIDENT RIPLEY COMING
Santa Fe VIII Hold Stockholders
Meeting Here April 25.

E. P. Ripley, president of the road,
and several other prominent executive
officials will be in Topeka April rs to
attend the annual stockholders meet
ing of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway it was announced today.
The meeting is the first to be held
under the policy of arranging the f1s-
cal year to correspond with the cal
endar year.
Only routine business. it is assert
ed will be transacted at the meeting,
which will be held at noon in the Of
flee of E. L. Copeland. treasurer The
directors who were held over" at the
last meeting here will probably be
reelected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
KILLERS OF BABES
German Shell Falls on Paris
Founding Asylum.
Long Range Guns Make More
Innocent Victims.

Paris, April IA shell fired by
the German long-range cannon yes
terday struck a foundling asylum in
the Rue de La Creche in the Mont
Rouge district on the southern out
skirts of Paris, and three persons were
killed and eleven wounded Within
the hospital were thirty women with
new born babies.
One nurse, one patient and one baby
were killed, while two probationers,
six women patients and three infants
were injured.
The building is two stories high and
the shell entered on the ground floor
and burst in the middle of a ward.
Had it come half an hour earlier it
would have made many more victims.
for it was visitors day, and friends of
the patients had just left.
Another shell struck an open air
bowling alley and killed man and a
boy and wounded ten other persons.
TT is now the glory of kultur to
kill women in a maternity hospital, as
we'll as little babies whose eyes are
scarcely opened to the light" said LIE
Matin editorially today.
THE hospital was filled with wo-
men taking a rest, with their babies in
cradles near them. The afternoon was
ideal-the sky was blue and the win
dows were open to let in the sunlight
and fresh air. The crying of new born
babies mingled with lullabies. The
daily visits of relatives and friends had
just ended, and the nurses were tidy
ing the wards when a shell fell, plow-
ing a great hole in the floor. A baby
and two women were killed and eleven
injured"
Bombarding Again Today.
Paris. April 12.-The Germans re-
newed this morning the bombardment
of Pa riS with THAR
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suffering for which it would be hard
to find parallel in history"
The report is based on an accumu-
lation of evidence, and shows that
prisoners nave been employed con-
stantly under shell fire and that many
have been killed by British guns; that
they have been kicked and beaten, de-
nied clothing and adequate shelter,
have often been shot, and that deaths
from starvation and overwork have
been constant.
French prisoners have been sub
jected to the same treatment
Give Them No Letters.
Some of the prisoners received
neither letters nor parcels for eight
months after their capture.
Last November there wa in the
Limburg station between $4,000 and
10000 undelivered parcels cor Brit
ish prisoners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Heart throbs for the poor children
of Topeka and desire to aid them,
not opposition to the draft, prompted
a meeting at the Unitarian church at
Topeka. May 81, 1917. Such was a
statement made to a jury in the
United States district court in To-
peka today by DR.. Eva Harding, well
known club woman and public well
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Untold Cruelties Dealt Out to
French and English.
German Methods of Care Re-
vealed in Report Today.
THEY'RE KICKED and BEATEN
Denied Adequate Clothing and
Shelter Behind Lines.
Letters and Parcels From
Home Are Not Delivered.

London, April 12.-How British
prisoners of war in Germany are en-
slaved, starved and subjected to un-
told cruelties is related in an official
report of a government committee
made public today.
The detention and employment of
non-commissioned officers and men
captured on the western front, says
the report, have brought on these
prisoners an amount of unjustifiabIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Thousands of Autos, Floats and
Pedestrians for 1t.
Great Demonstration Will Be in
Five Sections.
BOY SCOUTS TO CARRY FLAG
Line of March and Details of
Formation Arranged.
Huge Liberty Bell Will Be Car
ried on Truck.

The monster liberty loan parade on
Kansas avenue tomorrow night will
contain thousands of motor cars,
floats, pedestrians, school children,
representatives of organized labor and
members of patriotic, frateraal and
civic organizations, according to plans
completed today by the committee in
charge of the event, George Godfrey
Moore, chairman. The committee
held its meeting this noon at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
TO WARM UP TONIGHT
Kansas Had Another Heavy Frost
Thursday Night-Damage Slight.
TODAY's TEMPERATURES.

Temperatures for the day averaged
4 degrees below normal for this date
The wind was blowing ten miles an
hour from the east at , o'clock
No true baseball weather is on tap
today any more than it was Thursday.
The Kaws will have to conduct their
practice today in more chilly weather.
However. the cold does not seem to
Continued on Page TwoD
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Chamber of Commerce and announced
the participants in the line, tn line of
march and the location of formation
of the various organizations and sec
tionS.
One of the features of the demon
stration will be a huge liberty bell
mounted on a motor truck draped
with flags. The bell will be the con-
tribution of the Chamber of Com
merce. This float, however, will only
be one of several. Among other or
CARNATIONS to furnish floats is the
Rotary club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
She Says Interest in Children
Prompted "TrOuble Meeting"
Doctor Denies Having Tried To
Oppose the Draft.
CASE GOES TO The JURY
Court Room Crowded With
Friends of Defendants.
Good Government Club Is Ac-
cused of "Butting In"

Judge Pollock instructed the jury
to be fully satisfied beyond a reason
able doubt that there was a conspir-
acy entered into by the defendants to
advise young men to resist the draft if
it was to bring in a verdict of guilty.
A meeting to discuss the draft-for or
against it-could not enter into the in
dictment, he said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
TO CLOSE AT 8 P. M.
Merchants Meet and Agree to Close
Earlier Saturday Night.

At a meeting of the leading mer-
chants, including department store,
clothing and other managers, it was
agreed to close stores at p. m. Sat
urday nights, beginning tomorrow
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Bill in Congress in Response 20 Movie
Managers Request.

Washington, April 12.-Coinage of
15-cent pieces. to facilitate the han
ding of crowds at moving picture
theaters on account of the war tax.
is proposed in a bill introduced Thurs
day by Representative O'Shaughnessy
of Rhode Island Moving picture man
ayers presented a brief recently to
the director of the mint in favor of a
I5-cent piece
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Cities, Counties, Even States,
Already Oversubscribed.
Returns TO Washington Today
Indicate Interest.
A RESPONSE FROM The WEST
Millions of Dollars Rolling In
From the Farmers.
Grain States Indicate Answer
of Wars Appeal.

Washington. April 12.-America's
third liberty loan drive promises to be
its greatest
Returns to the treasury department
today indicated that not only great
cities-but counties and in two cases
reported already-whole states have
over-subscribed their quotas.
Portland, Ore, is the largest city
thus far unofficially going over the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
CALL $4,000 MEN

Washington, April 1.-THE nation
M to April 10 had called s71.213
drafted men to training camps. Repre-
sentative Seigel. New York. announced
on the floor of the house today
OF this number $50. .837 are for the
general run of the service. while H.
376 were ordered for special work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
HINDENBURG INJURED
Hum Field Marshal Hurt by Bomb
from Airplane.

London, April 12.-Field Marshal
Hindenburg is reported under .reat-
ment in a private hospital at Strass-
burg for a slight wound, said to have
been caused by a bomb dropped from
an allied airplane on the west front,
a Zurich dispatch in the Daily Ex-
press declared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
ROOSEVELT TO PARIS
Captain Archie Wounded, Removed
to Interior Hospital.

Paris, April 12.-Captain Archie
Roosevelt, who was wounded in ac-
ton on the American front ano who
was decorated with the Croix de
Guerre while on the operating table
in field hospital, has been removed
to a hospital in Paris, it was announced
TODAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Oklahoma City. Okla, April 12.-
Oklahoma's capital city surpassed its
liberty loan quota of s2,3O0,0 900 today.
Subscriptions today brought the cam
paign total to s2,4s5.950.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

lens that would arise after we were
plunged into war.
That resulted in the high school au-
ditorium being denied to them. Doctor
Harding testified. Then. she received
a letter from Raymond L Moore. of
Kansas City, offering consola ton for
the turn DOWN by the high school,
she stated That letter was turned
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
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PROPOSES 15-CENT PIECE

fContipued on Page Two.J
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

WHEN the SaElmies get thru with
him they'll call him THE Tanned
Beast of Berlin"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Partly cloudy tonight and Satur-
day. Warmer east portion tonight.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04
THE MODERN WooDMEN
GO OVER THE TOP.
Lead All The Organizations In The
Sale OF War Savings Stamps.

L. E. Worner of Mexico, State
Deputy Head Consul of the Modern
Woodmen of America, is a master
of the situation When he under
takes anything it goes. He was at the
head of the M. w. A. Camps in this
county for the sale of War Savings
Stamps. And he led the boys over
the top. They sold more stamps
than any other county lodge.
Benton City won in the contest
for the largest sale. That Camp sold
its own lodge members a total of
S7,499.75.
Mexico's sales were S14,950; Mar
tinsburg, S12,035. Rush Hill,
$3.50, and Farber, $3.50. A grand
total for the county of s36,343.75.
1t was grand, grand.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04
NEW WHEAT CONSERVATION RULES OF UNITED
STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION.

may supplied necessary proportion
military neoesslythe people country
their oneha saving
people that the following put
First Householders Of
half products a This
percentage pound
cooking four pastry pies cakes wheat break
fast cereals all combined
eating clubs should
Monday Wednesday, present
addition, the
containing total than wheat -four
eating
wheat products month
forming the limitations required of the household
Third Retailers shall sell than oneeighh barrel
time
wheat products without
Fourth the of
Victory delivering heeuarter loaf where
the loaf sold before corresponding proportion
their beyond the
monthly purchased the four months March
Fifth Manufacturers using wheat products nonood
entirely.
Sixth: There limit the of other cereals -four and
meals barley buckwhea -four Many
families throughout the
perfect health and satisfaction There the
the marginal supplies those the community
able adapt themselves substitutes
be provided
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04
THE KAISER VS.. WEYLER.
Devastation And Cruelty In Cuba
Outdone In Belgium And France.

All America shuddered with
shame and contempt when a heart
less Spaniard drove 100000 peace
full inhabitants of Cuba from their
homes and forced them into recon-
centrado camps to suffer, to starve
and to die.
But no one ever accused the Mad
rid government of such brutality as
marks the cruelty inflicted upon chill
dren, or the unmentionable barbara
ty shown to women by the heartless
Germans in invaded lands,
What the Prussian has done in
Belgium, in Russia, in Roumania and
the other European countries he
would do in America If the Kaiser
wins the war.
Buy a Liberty Bond and register
q protest against the saber-rattling,
bloodthirsty Prussian war lord,
America must win the war or civ
ilization is doomed. Uncle Sam can
and he will win, but he must have
tho loyal support of the men who
stay at home as we'll as the soldier
who goes to France.
Billions must be raised to supply
the guns, the food, the thousand and
one things that are necessary to sup
port the army.
The free citizens of the United
States must supply the money with
which to feed, clothe and munition
the Army. The best way to do this
is to buy Liberty Bond-the SAT-
est investment insthe world.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04
MIR. Heinicke's Endorsement.

Rush Hill, Mo-, March 28, 1918.
Audrain Co. Hospital Committee.
Dear Sirs; cannot say too much
for a hospital as l have been COM
PEELED to be patient upon two oc-
casion. l was in the Mexico Hospital
last March and received the very
best of attention.
There is no doubt but what hos
pital is the very best place for sick
person. could have remained at
home, and while l would have re-
ceived a mothers attention there are
things she would have given me that
would have done me more harm
than good, because of that mothers
feeling. In hospital the nurse
knows just what your condition will
let you have, and this knowledge
assists in many instances to
restore you to health. Any person
that has ever been in hospital
knows this as well as the other ad-
yantages of a good modern hospital.
I'll do all can to help carry the
proposition Apris 5th. Respect
A. P. HEINICKE.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04
Benton City School
Tests Seed Corn
Much Of The Seed Will Not Germi-
nate-Be Careful How You
Choose.

Nineteen pupils of Benton City
Public school with their principal,
e. E. Shay, recently filed their dis
trict report of seed corn termination
tests. The test was made from corn
brought to school by the pupils. Ten
grains from 10 ears of corn were
used to make the test. Most of the
corn had been selected at husking
time, altho some was taken from the
crib There were three varieties
tested, Reid's yellow Dent, Boone
County White and st. Charles White.
The test was made with a sand
table tester. The percentage in many
instances were surprisingly low, and
only in one instance was there a 100
per cent test. That test was made by
Miss Leota Hutchins with corn be-
longing to Fred Stimpert. The sec
ond high test was 95 per cent made
by Walter Stratton with corn be-
longing to S. E. Stratton. The
third test was "a per cent made by
Lloyd Hutehins with corn belonging
to H. c. Hutchins. The other test
of 80 per cent or better was that of
Miss Evelyn Moore with corn be-
longing to Tom Hicks.
The remaining tests except in two
cases ranged between 80 and 80 per
cent. The two lowest tests were 80
and 48 per cent.
The pupils who took part in the
testing were: Walter Stratton, Leo
Hutchins, william Purdom, Herbert
Schultz, Edward Schultz, Edward
Shay, Elmer Precht, Lloyd Russell,
Lloyd Hutchins, Claud Kellerhals,
and Misses Ida Gibbons, Evelyn
Moore, Alice Johnson, Leota Hutch
ins, Nina Hofsess, and Evelyn Duck
worth.
The corn tested belonged to the
following: S. E. Stratton, H. C.
Hutchins, w. w. Purdom, Fred
Schultz, e. R. Gibbons, Kellerhals
Brothers, Rene Hildebrand, Finley
Johnson, Charles Harrison, Fred
Stimpert, Tom Hicks, H. ]. Hofsess,
William Duckworth, Dane Douglass,
Fred Precht, and Joe Carter.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-04

The English branch of the NJ T.
Church in Missouri has launched a
campaign to raise s45O,OOO by mid
night. May 8, 1918, with which 10
endow Missouri Wesleyan College al
Cameron, Mo. Rev, C. E. Olson oil
Laddona is pushing the work in this
part of the State.
Mr.. Frank Ahrens and Miss Jo-
sephine Fischer, both OF Martins
burg. were granted marriage license
in Mexico last week.