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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
URGES FEDERAL FLU FIGHT
Representative Fess Insists That Con-
gress Must Aid in Finding a
Cure for MaIady.

Neutrality-suspicious. some cases of in
fluenza reported by the United States
Public Health Service efforts viii De
made to spur Congress into taking
steps that will prevent a general re-
currence of the disease
Representative Fess, Ohio, who has
introduced a bill providing for govern
ment investigations in the hope Of
finding a cure for the plague, is plan
ming to point out to the House the
great danger of congressional mac
tivity His bill has been slumbering
in a committee for several months
All scientists find a cure for the
disease is TO isolate the germ that
causes it, Fess said, and that prob
ably can be accomplished only through
expensive experiments in government
laboratories.
Congress apparently is showing
apathy for this legislation Fess said,
and despite its great Importance.
there seems TO be little interest in it
Congress must either appropriate a
comparatively small amount to find
a cure for influenza or we may be
confronted with the necessity Of pro-
viding large amounts for relief work
il a general epidemic occurs, as many
medical men predict"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
ROUND UP 8 BANK ROBBERS
Secret Service Men Hold Bandits Al
legged to Be Implicated in Kan
Sas Bank Raids.

Kansas City.-The band of bandits
said to be responsible for numerous
Kansas bank robberies this spring and
summer is now under arrest, accord
ing to the United States Secret Ser
vice.
Working secretly, the government
men have been quietly arresting sus-
poets and putting them away in hotels
where the public would gain no ink
ling of it, for the last week. And
now, according to Fred NJ. Tate Of
the secret service, eight men are IN
der arrest
These neil are Minor POffenberge-,
Major Poffenberger, his twin brother;
Tom Brown, DR.. Queen of Wichita,
Kas.; his son, Emerson Queen;
Charles Bleyins and The two bandits
wounded in a fight with Kansas City
police.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
PRESIDENT REVIEWS FLEET

Seattle, Wash--President Wilson re-
Gently reviewed the great Pacific fleet
from the decks Of the histOry-famed
battieship Oregon in Elliott Bay. The
review followed the Presidents arrival
from Tacoma and also followed an in
cident which nearly resulted in serious
consequences for the presidential party
when the Presidents launch colliled
bow-on with q naval Ehate boat.
Arriving at the dock, It was found
that the barge Of Admiral Hugh Rod
man, which was supposed to be await
ing the President, was not on hand.
Commander W.-P. FoOte, personal aide
to Secretary of Navy Daniels, prompt
" took over the naval launch. Into
this launch went the President and
Mrs. Wilson, Secretary and Mrs. Dan
iels, secret service men, secretaries
and newspaper men
AS Commander Foote ordered the
launch showed off, the small craft
heeled over till the port rail was near
" under water. Starting ahead then,
the craft ran bow on into another
launch, giving the presidential party
a severe jar. The President, however,
sat serenely in the aft part of the
launch and smiled.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
THIRTEEN DEAD IN EXPLOSION
Many Others Injured When Grain
Dust Ignites in Big Elevator
at Kansas City.

Kansas City-Thirteen persons are
dead and score OF others injured, in
an EXPOSITION of grain dust which
wrecked the Murray Elevator Com
pany's gigantic building at North Kan
sas City, gave Kansas City an earth
quake scare and scattered debris and
victims over radious OF 100 yards.
The monetary loss was estimated at
approximately s3,5OO,0O0.
Tottering waIls-175 feet high me
naced rescuTers, and efforts to reach
the six victims believed buried in the
ruins were halted until daylight. Will
lam Jackson, elevator superintendent
announced at midnight six workmen
had not been accounted for. All are
believed buried in the ruins of the
main elevator.
WOrkmen had just started to clean
out grain dust which had accumulated
in the basement under the main eleva-
tor structure. Officials said the grain
dust, which in great quantities is high
ly explosive, probably collected in the
basement and the explosion resulted
from spontaneous combustion.
WOrkmen were engaged at their va
rious tasks throughout the ten floors
of the main structure when the ex-
plosion occurred shortly before
o'clock. Victims were hurled through
the sides of the building the stucco
and tile covering being blasted away
by the force of the explosion and
leaving only the steel superstructure
standing
The debris caught fire instantly and
fire companies were rushed to the
scene from Kansas City. Lack of
water hydrants frustrated efforts to
combat the fire. Elevator company Of
ficiaIs said the blaze would have to
burn itself OUT Railroad locomo-
tives were rushed to the scene and a
futile effort was made to fight the
blaze with live steam.
The smoking piles of wood, metals,
grain and terra Gotta walls, piled sew
eral feet deep on every side of the
elevator were view by thousands of
persons who f1ocked to the scene.
The structure over the tanks, which
in nearly fifty feet high, 100 feet long
and over thirty feed wide, is now a
mere skeleton framework with pieces
of terra Gotta walls clinging uncertain
ly at various angles. The crowns Of
the tanks are caYed in and the sides
are badly broken at several places.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
MAEEIT HARD For PROfITEERS
Senate Passes Measure President
Wilson Asked For in Order to
Fight the High Prices

Washington. = Anti-profiteering leg
isiatiOn, which President Wilson told
Congress he must be armed with TO
batter down the high cost OF living
necessities, mas been passed by the
Senate The bill had previously
passed the House and win become the
law as soon as the chief executive
affixes his signature.
These are the things the fe5eral
act, as agreed upon by the two houses.
makes unlawful:
Wilfully destroying any necessities
knowingly committing waste
WilfulIy permitting p-eventable de-
teriora1ion-
HOarding, monOpOliziPg-
Discrimination, deception.
Charging an unreasonable rate in
handling or dealing
The passage Of this bill was the first
legislative victory the administration
has won in its efforts TO check the
ever mounting cost of food II is the
first concrete result of President VIII
sons address to Congress on the cost
OF living essentials and the recOmmen-
dations he made for laws TO curb the
increases
The bill does not, however, make it
possible 10 deal directly with profit
esring in wearing apparel, and it spe-
officially exempts the farmer from
prosecution with respect TO farm
products produced or raised upon land
owned, leased or cultivated by him -
There is also a provision in the
act that nothing contained in IL shall
be construed to make unlawful cOllec-
tive bargaining by cooperative assOci-
atoms Of farmers, dairymen. garden
ers OF other producers Of farm prod
ucts,'' with reference to supplies raised
by them
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, one
Of the Democratic members of the
agriculture committee. who has fought
the legislation on the ground that
"profiteering" was too indefinite.
failed to get the Senate to adopt an
amendment which he drafted and
which the committee approved. that
no rate should be considered unjust
or unreasonable within the law I'm
less such rate or charge be in ex-
cess of the rate or charge fixed by a
fair price comittee"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Serbia, one Of the two nations
which did not sign the Austrian peace
treaty, Rumania being the other, will
attach a belated signature to that
document, according to the Echo De
Paris. 1t has information, it says,
that such a step on the part of Serb
las delegates is certain.
Field Marshal Viscount E. H H.
Allenby, commander of the Allied
forces in Asia Minor, who headed the
victorious British expedition in Pal
estine, has arrived in London He
was given an enthusiastic reception.
The supreme council has agreed to
send a note to Germany saying the
peace conference disregards the Ger
man representations that Gen. Won der
GOltz, and the German troops in the
Baltic states are not under German
control, and holding Germany respon-
sible for their speedy withdrawal.
After several futile attempts to OBJ
tain the Austrian treaty from Presf-
dent Wilson, Senator Lodge, the Re
publican leader, laid before the Sen
ate the copy of the pact presented to
him recently by the Chicago Tribune.
Herbert Hoover, former director
general of Allied relief, came home
recently after five years service
abroad, during which he distributed
more than 500 steamship cargoes, or
3,219, 1858 tons OF foodstuffs, valued at
at $77O,795,000, to starving Europe.
The strike of United States Steel
Corporation employees, set for Sep
TENDER %, viii be deferred until after
the Industrial conference in Washing
ton, called for October by President
Wilson. it was learned from reliable
source recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
FARMERSIN GRAIN COMBINE i?
Illinois Agricultural Association Faith
ers Movement TO Hold Farm
Products for Higher Prices

Springfield, Tn--"We want sane
prices, read banners in the latest
proposed strike-that Of Midwest
farmers. Sane means higher
The proposition, fathered by the III
inois Agriculture Association. was IN
the hands Of most Midwest farm assO-
Citations recently kilograms signed
by D. O. Thompson. secretary.
charged that the board Of trade man
ipuIation and high cost agitation had
unsettled the market II was suggest
ed that farmers hold their grain and
live stock for a sane market
indianapolis, Ind.-A movement in
tended TO cause farmers throughout
the Middle West to hold their grain
to bring about a substantial upturn in
the market was started by the Hi
nois Agricultural Association. accord
ing TO q telegram received BY the In
diana Federation Of Farmers assOci-
atoms
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
CHANGES At STATE UNIVERSITY
Chancellor Strong and Dean TempIin
Tender Their designations to Gov
srnor-To Take Minor Posts.

It was officially announced at the
University of Kansas recently that
Chancellor Frank Strong has resigned
as head of the university.
Chancellor Strongs resignation, as
it was forwarded to the board of ad-
ministration, takes effect at the end
of the school year. He says the uni
versity now needs no executive head
of. his type with the state board in
control
Chancellor Strong suggested he
would be willing to be assigned an
other position in the university. He
prefers a professorship in the school
of law.
The chancellor said he was tired
cut and that he was in need of rest.
For twenty-nine years he says he has
had uninterrupted responsibility. He
now is 81 years old, and believes that
a young man should be put in his
place to handle the reorganization
plans which are being advocated for
the university.
In a letter to members of the fac
ulty of the college of liberal arts and
sciences of the University of Kansas,
Dean DIN Templin announced that
he would ask to be relieved from the
deanship by the board of administra-
ton next June. He will remain at
the university as professor Of philos-
Ophy.
The resignation of Dean Templin
comes as little surprise to the uni
Versity since the resignation of Chan
csllor Strong He asked to be reliev-
ed from his duties last June, but re-
NAMED at the request Of the board of
administration. Dean Templin has
been In his present position since
1903, the time that Chancellor Frank
Strong became head of the institution,
and while resigning from administra-
tive duties, like Chancellor Strong,
he prefers to continue as a faculty
member. Templin has been a
a member of the university faculty
since 1884. He is third oldest mem
Der of the faculty, Uncle Jimmy"
Green Of the school of law and Pro
fessor Bailey of the department of
chemistry being the only other mem
bers older in service.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
TEXAS COAST HIT BY STORM
Wire Communication With Browns
Vile and Corpus Christi Cut Off
Galveston Saved by Wall.

San Antonio, Tex.-DriVing furious
ly into the Texas Coast, principally
in the section southwest of Galveston,
the tropical hurricane that has skirted
the United States Gulf Coast for near
ly week apparently has swept inland
near the Mexican border.
Wire communication was interrupted
in most of the affected area, and the
extent of the storms damage could
not be learned accurately, but there
were no reports of fatalities
The center of the gulf storm was
about SO miles north of Brownsville.
Brownsville and Corpus Christi ap-
parently felt the brunt of the storm,
which, weather bureau officials be-
Iieve, has passed on into Mexico, where
it will be dissipated in the Mexican
mountains
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
LOST 81 TANKS IN ARGONNE
Nearly Half of Americas Fleet of
SeVenty-eight Was Lost the
First Day of Battle.

Washington.-The average life Of 4
tank in battle was forty-seven days,
and nearly One-half of the American.
fleet Of seventy-eight were put out Of
action the first day OF the Argonne
Battle Brig. Gen. Samuel Rocken-
bach, tank corps commander. has dis
closed these figures to The Senate mil
itary committee in urging continued
developments Of tanks, pointing out
that despite damage to the tanks, cas-
ualties among the crews were light.
In August, 1917, he said, the United
States had no tanks, but obtained $50
from the French in September In
the Argonne, though the American
fleet OF seventy-eight tanks was re-
auced to forty-fiYe at the opening Of
the second day and to twenty-fOur Ill
timately, only six we're hit Dy shells
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

People in Stricken Cities Just
Coming to Full Realization
of Catastrophe.
THE TOTAL LOSS INDEFINITE
Every Industry in Corpus Christi at
= StandstiII-PeopIe Sleep in
Public Buildings.

Corpus Christi, x-Forty-seven
victims of the tropical hurricane
which swept Corpus Christi and this
section recently had been brought to
the temporary morgue in the county
court house. In addition to the toll
in this city, fifty-six were reported
dead in the vicinity of Portland, across
Nueces Bay from Corpus Christi
List Mounting BY Leaps.
With the death list mounting by
leaps and the property loss now
placed placed in the neighborhood Of
10 million, the people of Corpus
Christi, SO hours after the passing of
the storm, seemingly were just com
ing to a full realization Of the fright
full catastrophe through which they
had passed. Every industry in the
city is Frustrated, business at COM
plete standstill, communication of all
kinds badly shattered and the food
and housing problem acute.
Ed Morgan, who came across the
bay from Portland, told of the finding
Of the Sc unidentified bodies there
Six refugees were reported marooned
near Portland. Twenty-six of the dead
are in Portland, II at one ranch house
and Is at another
The Al known dead in Corpus Chris
ii and the reported 56 victims near
Portland are not expected to be any
where near the total death toll.
Unidentified Buried.
Allowing for Implications = and
many storm victims probably have
been reported at least twice from diff
terent sources-the general belief here
was that the total number of dead in
the immediate vicinity of Corpus
Christi will reach about IS. Many vic
Tins have been buried without having
been identified by burial squads sent
out by the authorities.
Every building in the city is
crowded, many sleeping in public
buildings and churches. Farm houses
between Corpus Christi and Sinton
we're all crowded.
Wave Swept g Miles Inland.
Reports reaching here recently indi-
Gated the tidal wave, which accom-
panied the storm, swept inland at
least eight miles from the head of
Nueces Bay.
The death toll in the storm stricken
area, it is believed, will exceed 100
and may reach double that number.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
BELGIUM'S THANKS
TO UNITED STATES
Cardinal Mercier Offers His
Nations Gratitude in Ad-
dress al Baltimore.
THE PURPOSE OF HIS VISIT
Primate Says Desire to Clasp Hands
Over Common Cause of Justice
Brought Him.

Baltimore, Md.-In an address TO an
assemblage which packed a theateI
here, Cardinal MeTcier, primate of Bel
GUM, thanked America for its great
support of his country in time of trial
and appealed for the continuance OF
this help.
1t was Cardinal Mercier's first for
NAL address in this country He came
here, he said, first, TO express his ad-
miration for America: second. TO ex-
press his gratitude, and, third, to ex-
press the need of American help for
the social reconstruction Of Belgium
The Purpose of His Visit
America" said the Belgian prelate,
had no territorial, financial or poIit-
ical interest in the war; rather was she
bound by her traditional policy TO keep
herself alOof from every European con-
d;ct; America had in her bosom a pro-
portion of citizens Of German origin,
and appeared to a foreign observer
rather as cosmopolitan agglomeratiOn
than one homogeneous unit; but this
wonderful country showed herself to
be animated by one soul permeating
all the parts OF her immense organism,
and giving to all individuals the same
high ideal, the strongest bond of soaial
unity, the ideal which the great doctor
Of the Catholic Church, Saint Arbrose,
defined in this brief and splendid
mottO-'Above all honestly
America saw Belgium struggling
and suffering for honor She es-
teemed, loved, admired Belgium not in
words but in deeds.
Our brotherhood in the worship Of
the same ideal brought both nations
nearer to each other, and my desire to
clasp your hand over this common
cause of eternal justice is the first rea-
son for my coming.
Dedicate Chapel to America.
ION the 29th of June, last, the Bel
gian people, King Albert, Queen Eliza
beth and their royal children at their
head, in union with the whole heir
archy, clergy and an enormous multi
tude of our compatriots, celebrated IN
Brussels National Thanksgiving Day.
A religious monument will commemo-
rate for future generations our uni
versal gratitude A chapel of this,
our national basiliOn, shall be dedi-
Gated to the great republic of the
United States.
Accept, please, this resolution, as
an homage OF our feelings of admira-
ton and gTatefulness towards your val
liant troops who saved our liberty, and
towards Herbert Hoover's commission
for relief in Belgium, which saved the
very life of many of our Belgian fam
lies
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., captured
Topeka and Kansas folks as his father
had captured them. The young lieu
tenant colonel came to Topeka and
made two speeches to big crowds, in
which he preached the doctrine of
Americanizing not only the natives,
but the foreigners within this country
He was given a luncheon by the Ro-
tary Club and spoke to several hun
dred business men. At night he spoke
at the Kansas Free Fair, discussing
the work of the American Legion and
what it was trying to accomplish. The
big pavilion was damned at the even
ing meeting and the crowd was held
by the earnestness and dfrectness of
the young mans presentation of the
need OF having only true blue Amer
leans in charge of affairs in this
country.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

Governor Allen has started an in
vestigation of profiteering brought
against the manager OF a restaurant
at HoIyrood, who is charged with hav-
ing a varying scale Of prices which
he puts into operation according to
the clothes of his customers. Two
men were charged ninety cents each
for ham and" at this restaurant and
a little later discovered that a rail-
road man was charged fifty cents for
the same food. The two men began
an investigation and, according to the
letter sent the governor, the mana
ger admitted that he had three prices
for each article on the bill of fare and
charged according to what ne belieV-
ed the customer could afford to pay.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
THE CAR SHORTAGE IS ACUTE
Many Mills in Various Parts Of the
State Forced 70 Close for
Lack of Wheat.

Topeka.-The car situation In the
Kansas wheat districts has become so
acute that many mills are going to be
forced to close down, threshing ma
chimes must stop work and the farm
ers are piling wheat On the ground.
Governor Allen began recently to try
to obtain some relief from the Rail-
road Administration
The Santa F'e said that it was short
1,459 cars from Newton east to Kan
sas City and probably was short as
many on its Western Kansas lines
The Rock Island and Missouri Pa
cific were short more than a thousand
cars each on one days orders.
Many mills in different parts of the
state have their grain elevators and
their flour storage full and are able
to grind only when cars are available
to take out the flour All the eleva-
tors in the state are full. At Elk
hart sixty wagon loads of wheat are
standing beside the railroad tracks
waiting for cars The farmers have
little storage capacity and must ship
their wheat as soon as it comes from
the machines
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
ENEMY ALIENS MAKE ESCAPE

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Seyenteen
enemy alien prisoners at the war
prison barracks at Fort Douglas, near
here, escaped recently by way Of a
tunnel constructed underneath the
wire Enclosure OF the prison. An early
check of those missing indicated that
none of the important prisoners es-
capped.
According to Col. George L. Byram.
commandant, there were 207 prison
ers in the compound, most OF them
of the / w W. class. Police and
sheriffs throughout the state have
been warned to watch for the
escapes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

Miss Mary Alice Whitney, for thirty
years member of the Kansas State
Normal faculty. has resigned as dean
of women and head of the department
of American history and government.
Miss Whftney's engagement to T. C.
Green, a clothing merchant of Den
yer. has been announced.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

Not guilty. was the verdict given
by the jury in the Herbert G. Wood
ruff murder case, acquitting Emmett
L. Thomas, Mrs. Blanche Brown and
Mrs Margaret Love in the district
court at Olathe. The jury's verdict
was made after five and one-haH
hours of deliberation, in which six
ballots we're taken. The first ballot
stood seven to five for acquittal, ac-
cording to B. A. Abersoll, farmer,
near Lenexa, who was foreman. Sub
sequent ballots fluctuated, Abersou
said, but votes for conviction never
were higher than five. Woodruff,
partner of Thomas in a garage, was
killed about midnight, July 81, eight
miles out of Kansas City on Belinder
Boulevard. The defendants said .
negro shot him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25

Lyon County soldiers are opposed
to the return of the bodies of Ameri-
can soldiers from France, according
to a resolution passed by the Homer
J. Ball Post, American Legion, and
forwarded to Congressman Homer
Hoch and Senators Capper and Cur
It's The post also refused to ask for
an additional bonus from Congress,
passing a resolution to leave the
bonus proposition to Congress-"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
To Stop Army Food Sales.

Washington.-Posta officials here
have decided to cut off parcel post
sales of army food to the public on
September % because the public re-
Spouse to the opportunity has been
so poor. Not more than ten per cent
Of the supplies have been taken.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-09-25
CHICAGO Has 81 ~FIun Cases.

Chicago. = Thirty-seYen cases OF
Spanish influenza have been reported
to the health department in three
days. 1t was during the correspond
ing week of last year that the epidem-
ic first crept into Chicago.