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The Washington times., 1919-09-26
RECEIVERS 100000
OF BANDITS LOOT
Attorney Locates Money
Filled SatChel Stolen
From Mail Car.

QUEBEC. Sept. 26.-A satcheI con-
tanning more than $4,000. stolen
from the mail car Of the Canadian
National Railways ocean limited
week ago. was discovered today in a
house near St Pierre. near here.
The find was made by Peter BaG-
covich. counsel for Lloydss who has
insured the safe delivery OF the
money. About $1,000 OF the bandits
loot Is still missing.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
CITY CLUB POSTPONES
SMOKER TO OCTOBER 7

The City Club has postponed its
smoker and social evening planned for
next Tuesday evening. The smoker
will be held Tuesday. October Z. in the
large ballroom at the New Willard
Hotel
The forum committee, which has
charge Of arrangements, is composed
Of Harry s. Evans, chairman; Roland
S. Robbins. Charles T.. Nesbit, Barry
Bulkley, Z. J. Ayers, and Dr. J. r.
Biggs.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
THE COTTON MARKET

Furnished TIE WaahinEt1n TINES. ~ -
T. Carreutar g Co. New 4cFE lrauel
Zee Wcodward aullollI1 l-ll4lt
Brown. manager.
New York
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
WALL STREET MARKET

NEW YORK. sept 26-The stock
market opened strong today. United
states steel opened az 103A, up 6;
Crucible, 10f, up pa Studebaker ia,
up5A; Y. r. Stores 11Oh. up -, and
Mexican Petroleum 216 up 3.
The entire nst acted well during the
hrst half hour. United States steel
advanced to 1O4H and Crucible sold
above 100. Baldwin was irmeF, so
ing above 134 General Motors was
up 81 at 242i4.
The market closed strong.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
BALTIMORE GRAIN MARKET

+ BALTIMORE. Sept. 26.-Wheat, un-
changed good demand No. = red
winter. S235H to S2.36A No. , red
winter, garlicky. S2.33& to $2.34; re-
ceipts, 81 ,7SG bushels; shipments, 25T,-
TS5 bushels.
Corn. firmer; No. > yellow or bet
ter. domestic. SIS5; receipts, 456;
shipments. 1886.
Oats, steady: No. 3 white, domestc.
20: receipts. 1O2 2i3; shipments, II, ,726.
Rye. nominal; No. Western, ex-
port spot. Sl.5O; receipts, g.; ship
ments, Sc.
Hay, easier: No. / timothy. S31.O0;
No. ] clover mixed S2S.OOG $3.50
Flour. quiet
The Washington times., 1919-09-26

u o. 70 your best interest 20 put
your Liberty Bond interest On w. s. s.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26

Don't let careless expenditure make
a sieve % your purse. Buy wisely
and increase youF money holdingu ~
investing On W. s. 8.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
FInE DAMAGEs AWNING.

An awning in front OF premises
occupied by John Tyler, 334 PennsyI-
vania avenue southeast caught fire
last night. Damage to the awning
is estimated at $50. The origin OF
the blaze has not been determined.
The Washington times., 1919-09-26
lie CuRB MARKET

D. m. prices furnished BY ". B. Hibb8
Co. members Of New York Stock EL-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

DIstiIIers Provide Pool of Bill
lion Dollars for a Nation
Wide Battle.
WILL COVER ALL The STATES
National Amendment to the constitu-
ton Will Be Attacked and Car
ried to Highest Court

Chicago, Jan S.-Three hundred dis
tillers of the United States in Chicago
today pooled their property, valued at
one billion dollars and decided to fight
the dry forces IN every state in the
union and before the supreme court
at every possible angle of attack.
Levy Mayer was chosen chief coun-
sci and instructed to go to it and to
go the limit
Questions that have not been raised
before in the country's history will be
put up to the supreme court.
One is the constitutionality OF the
constitutional amendment article it.
self. The highest court in the land
will be asked TO pass on the question
As to whether thirty-six or any num-
Der Of states can impose a rule Of per-
sonal conduct on the other states that
are not included in the combine.
This attack will be based on Article
< Of the Constitution which provides
hat powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution or
prohibited to the states shall be re-
served to the states respectively.
Another point to be raised is wheth-
81 the federal government can force
4 state to surrender its inherent right
% handle exclusively matters that per
tain to the personal liberty right of
The individual citizen of a state.
1t is understood that Mr. Mayer was
given carte blanche to go as far as
ne desired and to not spare any ex-
pense as long as the billion dollars
held out. In other words the demon
rum forces have decided to fight out
in the open and murmurings from the
executive sessions behind closed doors
indicate that they contemplate one OF
The biggest legal fights in the Ma
tons history.
The liquor barons also laid stress
On the provision OF the pending dry
amendment that fixes a time limit OF
seven years in which the ratification
by the two-thirds states shall take
place. This time element they were
advised, constitutes an unconstitution-
al limitation not contemplated by the
amending article Of the federal con-
stitution- This was the point raised
by Senator Borah at the time the
resolution was pending in Congress.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
Men Captured at Seicheprey Tell
of Harsh Treatment by
the Huns.
REFUSED TO Be BROTHERS
Attempt Later Made to Effect Recon-
ciIiation Spurned by Americans
Corporal Who Refused to Work
Hurled Down Mine Shaft.

London.-"When they took US pris-
oners they held reyolvers to our heads
and made US give them our shoes, but
when the armistice came and we were
set free a socialist leader made a
speech to US, saying: we are now
brothers,
This was what American soldiers
who returned to London from Ger
many-the first to reach here after the
signing OF the armistice-had to say
about the change in the attitude OF
their captors from the time they had
fallen into German hands in April IN
til they were released on NOvem-
Der IL
''When we were captured at Seiche-
prey" said Private James E. Pito-
chelli of Providence, ''the German sol
diers held pistols to the heads Of some
of us and demanded our shoes.
managed to hang on to mine, but 9TH
ers weren't so lucky. They had to
walk barefooted through No Mans
Land, cutting their feet badly on
barbed wire or pieces of shell. All OF
US had to walk 80 miles to the rear,
where wooden shoes were given US,
and no one was permitted to keep his
boots. They told us-one general did
that they had attacked to get prison
ers, but the next time they attacked
the One Hundred and Second they
would take no prisoners, because they
had fought too fiercely."
This was corroborated by Private
Frank Butler Of New Haven.
The Americans were eventually
taken to Friedrichsfeldt, and no op-
portunity was missed to show the
American prisoners to the populace,
for they were among the earliest to
be taken.
Prisoners Exhibited.
These Americans were taken to a
camp where there were prisoners
from all the other allied countries, and
though there afterward seemed to
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
YANK SOLDIERS
ROBBED BY FOE

be an attempt to single out Ameri-
cans for better treatment. according
to the returned men now here, they
Jared much the same as the others
during the earlier part OF their i'm
prisonment. Until their own food
parcels began to arrive they got con-
siderable food from the generous Brit
ISL and other allied compatriots.
Moro than 80 were detailed to work
in coal and salt mines, and one man,
Corporal Lucien, who, 1t was said, re-
fused 90 work IN a mine when ordered
to do so, was marched off to the pit
head and given another chance to de-
eide what he would do by the two
PruAsian guards who had him in
charge. When he again stoutly re-
fused, saying he was not required, as
an under officer, to do so, he was
thrown down the shaft and killed
The burial was witnessed, his COM
rades said, by a British sailor, who
told about it on the following day.
Eventually the Americans were
taken to the prison camp at Opladen.
For their work they got six cents a
day.
On November 9 they learned of the
ermistice. On that day riots were pre-
cipitated in the town in which the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
MILLS IN A PROFITEER RAID
Governor capper Appeals to Federal
Government on Behalf of the
Kansas Stockmen.

Charging that the mills are prof
iteering on mill feeds and that stock
men in Kansas are facing ruin and the
complete breaking down of their plans
to aid in increasing the beef and pork
supply of the country, Governor Cap
per has appealed to the Federal Food
Administration and House and Senate
committees on agriculture for help.
The governor has received hundreds
OF letters from stockmen showing the
ruin that stares them in the face be-
cause Of the jump in mill feed prices.
The governor quoted some of the let
tsrs in his appeal. He said:
THE farmers and stockmen of Kan
sas and other states are facing ruin
GUS losses and the wreck of their
plans to increase live stock produc-
ton because of the huge and sweep
ing advance in the prices of mill feeds
made by the milling industry directly
following its release from government
control by the Food Administration
December IL.
These prices make feeding enough
shorts to produce a pound of porq cost
much more than the pork will bring
on the market, and are quite as dam
aging to the dairy and cattlemen.
THE mill feeds for which these
great increases are now asked are the
product of the same priced wheat
from which this feed was milled at
prices from SO to SO per cent lower
under government control"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
TO FEED STARVING NATIONS
tion TO Congress for Appropriation
OF Huge Sum for Purpose.

Washington, Jan. 6.-President Viii
sons first legislative Recommendation,
based on his study Of conditions in
Europe, looks to the relief of distress
Of population outside of Germany
which are threatened with starvation
Request for immediate appropria-
ton Of 100 million dollars to supply
food to liberated peoples of Austria,
Turkey, Poland and Western Russia,
who have no recognized governments
and are unable 20 finance information
al obligations, was transmitted today
to Congress by Secretary Glass on
cabled instructions from the Presi-
dent
Mr. Glass went personally to the
Capitol for long conference with
Democratic leaders of the House, and
legislation to carry out the Presidents
recommendations will be introduced
by them after comforting with Repub-
Hcan leaders.
The Presidents message said that
food shipments worth I Il billion dol
lars must be made from the United
States to Europe in the next seven
months.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
HONORED BY FRENCH

ton center for the French wounded.
Afterward Doctor Michel was trans
ferred to Lyons and was placed in
command of a military hospital there
and promoted to captain. The For
eign Legion has its base depot at
Lyons, and Doctor Michel knew al
most all of the Americans enlisted In
that unit.
A year ago Doctor Michel offered
his services to the A E. F. and was
sent to American Red Cross hospital
No. at Neuilly, the former American
ambulance. He is also surgeon In
chief Of the American hospital for
civilians in Neuilly.
Only a few other Americans have
ever received commissions in the
French army, and they were all sec
ond lieutenants with the exception Of
William Thaw Of the Lafayette Es-
cadrille, and Sweeny Of the Foreign
Legion and later Of the tank corps,
who were first lieutenants. The aYia-
tor pilots Of the Lafayette Escadrflle
were only sergeants, with the excep-
ton of Dudley Hill, an adjutant.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

The legislative committee of the
Kansas Teachers Association at its
meeting in Topeka decided to get the
teachers of the state behind the move
Tnent for a constitutional convention
to be called by the coming legislature
At the meeting of the educational
council January II the teachers will
be urged to write or talk to their
members of the house and senate, ask
ing them to support the constitutional
proposition.
Other measures the teachers favor
include a requirement that all elemen-
tary school instruction be in English !;
q county unit system Of school taxes j;
a pension plan for teachers, and state
supervision of parochial and denomi-
national schools
Vocational training experts of Kan
sas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas met at Joplin, Mo-, yesterday with
vocational men from the United
States Department of Agriculture and
mapped out a plan for giving special
training to the miners of the four
states. The states propose to estab-
lish night schools, where special
courses will be offered, particularly
in mine ventilation, mine gases and
the handling of explosives. Compe-
tent instructors are to be provided for
coal, lead and zinc miners.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS
AT ONCE II BILIOUS OR
coNSTIPATED.

Look at the tongue, motherl II
coated, 1t is a sure sign that your lit
tie ones stomach, liver and bowels
needs q gentle, thorough cleansing at
once.
When peevish, cross, HstIess, pale,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act natu-
rally, or is feverfsh, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore
throat, diarrhRa, full OF cold, give a
teaspoonful Of california Syrup of
Figs" and In few hours all the foul.
cOnsdpated waste, undigested food
and sour bile gently moves out Of the
little bowels without gripping, and you
have a well, playful child again
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless fruit laxative"
they love its delicious taste. and Il
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a bottle OF
California Syrup OF Figs" which has
directions for babies, children OF all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on the
bottle Beware OF counterfeits sold
here. To be sure you get the genuine,
ask TO see that It Is made by the Gail
fornia Fig Syrup Company. Refuse
any other kind with contempt-Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
PANCAKES IN OSTEND

happy to make you pancakes she an
nOunced deiightedly. 1--WE got some
milk and flour from the British ships
today, and are able to make pancakes
for the first time in four years." Then
she added sOlemnly: 1.-THE manager
and the chef will do it, because you
are English"
Whoever cooked the pancakes had
lost no mastery of the art F..
The Crown hotel, Ostend's finest,
had suffered at the hands of the Ger
mans. The manager showed US
through two floors, pointing out where
wall ornaments, chandeliers and ev-
erything of copper had been torn of.
All wool had been plucked from the
mattresses. Nine thousand bottles of
wine had been carted away. But the
hotel had receipts for everything
stOlenI
Nor was this ali. The hotel was
set apart for German officers, and it
had been a great trial to endure the
tyrannical mood Of most OF them
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

are being dismantled. Forty thousand
inhabitants of the town have begun
an exodus. In a few months the corn
fields from which the town sprang
will be restored. Only stories of the
great fires Of unbelievable vice and
pistol dueIs will survive.
The E. I. du Pont de Nemours Pow
der company built a S75,OOO,OO0 pow
der plant and Hope1en grew up with
it in q few months. Destroyed by
fire once, it was rebuilt Cornfieids
sold for $4,000 an acre. Dance halls,
gambling rooms and saloons brought
desperate men into the town. Re
volvers were a part Of every mans
equipment. A woman did, not dare go
on the streets unescorted. The old
strong-arm law OF the Wild West days
prevailed. And now the Inhabitants
are scattering to the four corners Of
the country.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

Americans were stationed, and ma
rines had been hurried up to quell the
disorders. On November IL word
came that the armistice had been
signed and that all the prisoners
were now free.
1t was arranged shortly afterward
that they were to be sent to Holland
for transportation TO England with
English prisoners. The men were per
mitted to go through the town at will,
and the people, as well as their for
mer guards, were anxious to frater-
nize, but got short shrift from the re-
leased men.
An uneventful trip to Holland en-
sued, and then the men were taken in
charge by the British Red Cross and
went to Hull along with British Tom
mics who had been in the camp with
them.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
GLAD COLONIES ARE FREEr
Native Chiefs in Former German Pos
sessions Hope They Will Remain
Under British Rule.

London--German cruelty exercised
toward the natives Of her former col
onies is outlined in the statements Of
native chiefs In the Samoan islands.
the Kameruns, TOgoIand, Southwest
Africa and East Africa. In a white
book published by the colonial Office.
The statements show that the natives
everywhere hope to remain undo. Brit
ish rule.
The horrors of the German rule In
Southwest, Africa, the white book saws.
already are too well known to require
repetition, but the same system OF
tyranny was found In other German
colonies in q greater or less degree.
The burden running through all the
statements OF the natives OF Togoland
and the Kamer1ns is sfogEing, fog
ging, fogging." especially In connec-
tion with forced labor on plantations.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
RELEASE FAMILY MEN FIRST
Soldiers Having Dependents Will Be
Given Preference in Making Dis
charges From the Army.

Washington, Jan 7.-Commanders
OF combat divisions in the United
States were authorized today to dis
charge first from their forces those
men whose allotment papers show
they have dependents, and second,
such men as would be affected ad-
versely in obtaining civil employment
as a result OF being held further in
service.
1t was learned that the instructions
regarding rehabilitation Of combat
divisions already affect a large pro
portion Of these units. in one instance
the commander having been instruct
ed to release IS per cent of the men
under his command.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
Yankee Doctor Wins Commission
as Captain.
Hiehest-RanI<ed American Citizen In
French Army During
War.

Paris.-The highest-ranked Ameri-
can citizen in the French army dur
ing the present war is DR.. Henry Mi
chel of Augusta, Ca, who earned a
captains commission in the service
of our ally before transferring over
to the United States army.
Doctor Michel came to France at
the beginning OF the war and volun-
teered in the French army. Owing TO
the crying need for surgeons, he was
at once commissioned as a second
lieutenant and assigned at base hos
pitaI. His hard work and ability won
him promotion to a first lieutenancy
after the Verdun offensive In the first
half OF 1916 when he was station
ed at TrOyes, the great evacua-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

Henry J. Lessen, 81 years old, one
of the most widely known millers in
the Southwest, died suddenly from ap-
opIexy at Wichita recently. He had
just arrived home from the theater
when stricken. Three days before the
Hotel Lassen, built at a cost of nearly
a million dollars, largely through the
Efforts of Mr.. Lassen, was opened.
He took an active part in the election
of Henry ]. Allen and aided in the or
ganization of the first Allen-for-Gov-
ernor Club in Kansas. Mr.. Lassen
was born in Germany and came to
America when II years old. He came
to Wichita thirteen years ago from
FL Reno, Ok. He was president or
the Kansas Milling Company. Besides
the widow a daughter and two sons
survive him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

The Kansas State tuberculosis As
sociation announced recently a prize
contest among the Kansas school chill
dren for propaganda material for the
association. There is a first prize of
SIS for the best poster, the same
amount for the best cartoon, the same
amount for the best advertising dis
play and a prize of SIS for the best
suggestion for poster or cartoon. The
contest is open only to school chill
dren of Kansas. The material select
ed will be used by the association in
carrying on it's fight against tubercu-
lOSiS,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

Within ten minutes after an appH-
cation Of Danderine you can not find q
single trace OF dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp win not itch, but what
viii please you most Will be after a few
weeks use, when you see new hair, fine
and downy at frst-yes-but really
new growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately dou-
bles the beauty Of your hair. No diff
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just mOisten a cloth with Dan
derine and carefully draw it through
your hair, taking one small strand at a
time. The effect Is Advantageous hair
will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have
an appearance Of abundance; an in
comparable lustre, softness and Iuxu-
rIance.
Get a small bottle OF Knowltonis
Danderine Tor few cents at any drug
store or toilet counter, and prove that
your hair is as pretty and soft as any
that it has been neglected or injured
by careless treatment-that's aIl-you
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
Of it If you viii just try a little Dan
derine.-AdE.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
Correspondents Get First Made
There in Four Years.
Hotel Manager Tells of sufferings at
the Hands Of the Ger
mans.

American Press Headquarters, Brit
fsh Front.-The first pancakes made
in Ostend in four years were served
the other day at the Crown hotel. But
the American correspondents got them
under false pretenses.
They had had a very good lunch Of
vegetable soup, roast beef. Drowned
potatoes and peas.
what have you for dessert?" vas
asked the exceedingly attentive wait
ress. Her face fell. There is moth
ing, messieurs," she said plaintively.
In a moment she was back with the
manager, who had been lowering near
the door.
'aThe manager and the chef will be
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

Two small children of Mr.. and Mrs.
William BeardweI in Graham County
became violently Ill recently from eat
ing apples taken from crate that had
been brought home. Both died before
a doctor could reach the house from
w akeeny, the nearest town. The fol-
lowing day the mother became i'll from
a nervous breakdown and broken
heart and died. The father and a baby
is all that remain of the family Of
five. The apples had been sprayed
with liquid poison and it is said an
investigation is to be had in the Chi
cago fruit house where the apples
were Grated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

Kansas piled up nearly % million
dollars additional bank deposits in the
last year The state bank department
has given out the consolidated state,
ment of the 1,040 state and private
banks and fourteen trust companies
as made at the close of business No
vember q. 1t shows total deposits
of $249, 787 5000. In November a
year ago the deposits were $225, 32O,-
1876. The statement shows the
heavy business of the state during the
last months of the year, the loans and
discounts exceeding 1872 million dol
lars, the largest the state has ever
had. The legal reserve was 26 per
cent, the lowest it has been in sew
eral years. There is a decrease of Is
million dollars in deposits from the
statement of last August, the big total
at that time being due to the sale Of
the wheat and the reduction in No
Eember due to large calls for cash
for winter wheat sowing and live
stock feeding.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16
Earth Preaerxes Hide.

Springfield, YtLWhIIe excavating
for new boiler room Of the ]. 7.
Stark corporation the contractors
found a beef hide which must have
lain In the earth more than SO years.
Il wss vel preserved
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-01-16

The Sedgwicz county attorney has
issued a warniI g that game wardens
have no right to collect fines and
costs" off hunters arrested by them.
A former police officer whose boy
charged that he had been thus dealt
with, brought the matter to the at
tention of the county attorney. The
game warden states that he had been
given that right by a township justice
of the peace