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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
NOT EAGER FOR HUN TRADE
Only Twelve Cargoes Have Been Sent
by American Exporters to
Germany Thus Far.

hington---American traders are
showing little enthusiasm in resum-
ing commerce with Germany In or
der to encourage commerce with the
late enemy, government shipping has
been assigned to carry American car
goes from the principal Atlantic sea-
board ports to Germany. From July
IA, when the department of state an
nounced that a general enemy trade
license had been issued authorizing
shippers in the United States on and
after that date to trade and COM
municate with persons residing in
Germany, only twelve vessels have
been allocated to operate out of At
iantic gulf ports for the shipment to
Germany of general cargoes and cot
ton
The order which permitted resump
ton of trade with Germany prohibited
the importation into the United States
from Germany or elsewhere of dyes.
dyestuffs, potash, drugs or chemicals
which had been produced or manu-
featured in Germany; recent amend
ments to the original rulings now per
mits the importation, without indf-
vidual import licenses, of potash.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
QUICK TO JOIN PRICE WAR
States Ready to Cooperate in Cam
paign Against High Cost of LiV-
ing, Palmer Finds.

hington--Attorney General Pal
mer has received enthusiastic assent
from virtually all state food administra-
tors of whom he asked cooperation
in the governments efforts to reduce
the high cost of living At the same
time he sent Instructions to all district
attorneys to get in touch with the food
administrators and to act at once on
any evidence Of law violation
The attention Of the district attOr-
neys also was called to the unlimited
availability" Of the secret service for
any investigation work necessary to
the punishment Of hoardeTs and profit
GERS.
A development of the day was the re-
quest by Mr.. Palmer OF Secretary Hous-
ton that inspectors Of packing houses
be instructed to furnish to district at
tOrneys upon request any information
they might have
Living problems continued to absorb
much OF the attention Of Congress.
Federal supervision OF the issuance OF
stocks and certificates was proposed
in the Senate. Cold storage regulation
suggested by President Wilson was
taken up by the House agricultural
committee.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
CALLS A WORLD LABOR MEET
President Wilson Issues Invitation to
the international Conference At
Washington, October -.

Washington.-The international Ia
conference, provided for in the peace
treaty, has been called by Presiden
Wilson to meet in Washington, Oe-
tober %. All nations, members Of the
international labor organization as de-
fined in Article 397 Of the peace
treaty and those which probably will
become members prior to The cCnfer-
enee, have been invited to send dele
gates.
According to DR.. James ShotE ell,
American representative IN the inter-
national organizing committee, and
E. H. Greenwood, assistant secretary
OF the conference, the following ques-
lions viii be considered:
1. An s-hOur day policy for tie en-
tire world
2 State help for unemployed
3. Regulation or prevention Of child
labor.
4. Conditions Of employment OF
women in industry.
Several hundred delegates are ex-
pected to attend the conference, which
win be the greatest labor gathering
in history.
Only nations which have ratified he
treaty may participate, however. and
it was pointed out there was POE
sfbiIity the United States may be IN
able to take part.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
INDIANS ARE MADE CITIZENS
All Restraints Removed From okIaho-
ma Wards of Government by Com
missioner OF Indian Affairs.

Washington.-Mor than five thou
sand wards of the government living
in Oklahoma have been released from
all government restriction TO take
their places as independent citizens
under an order issued by Cato Sells,
commissioner of Indian affairs. The
order provides that all members OF
the so-called five civilized tribes Of
Indians, more than 81 years of age,
not mentally deficient, of one-hslf In
dian blood or less, shall be removed
from all supervision ami restraint by
the federal government and that their
lands end other possessions held in
fee b. the government shall be deliv-
cred over to them"
The order affects the Cherokees,
Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws and
Chickasaws, representing a combined
population Of about Que hundred thou
sand indians. Many of them have al
ready won complete citizenship and
more than five thousand are directly
affected by the order, Mr. Sells said.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
ANDREW CARNEGIE
DIES At HIS HOME
Bronchial Pneumonia Fatal 10
Steel Magnate and PhilaH-
thrOpIst al LenOx.
THE END CANE UNEXPECTEDLY
only His Wife and Private Secretary
With Him at the Last-Hsd
Hoped to Die Poor.

Lenox, Mass=Andrew Carnegie,
steel msgnate and phflanthropists died
at his Lenox summer home, shadow
Brook" at 7:10 the other morning af-
ter an illness of less than three days
with bronchial pneumonia.
So sudden was his death that his
daughter. Mrs Roswell Miller, was IN
able 10 get to her fathers bedside be-
fore he died. His wife and private
secretary were with him at the end
Mr.. Carnegie had spent most OF the
summer at Lenox, coming here late In
May, and up TO a few weeks ago en-
jOyed himself in fishing trips on Lake
Hahkeenae, which borders his big
Shadow Brook estate, and in riding
about his grounds.
He was taken III recently and grew
steadily worse. His advanced age and
lessened powers Of resistance hasten
ed the end.
was Miss Louis Whitefield OF New
York, and his daughter, Margaret. who
was married last April TO Ensign ROs-
well Miller of New York
An Invalid Two Years.
New York-Although Mr.. Carnegie,
who was in his eighty-fOurth year. had
been an invalid since 1917, when he
suffered an attack Of grippe, the news
of his death was a shock TO old friends
and former business associates here.
Since his previous serious illness he
had been under the care Of two RursCs.
Had Hoped to Die Poor
against time when, in 1901, at the age
Of IS he resolved TO give away his
enormous fortune He held il dis
graceful for a man to keep On gath
ering idle millions In the compare
lively few years which the aetuary
could allow him, he would disembar-
rass himself Of practically ali he had
No man had ever launched a philan-
thropic campaign Of such dimensions
His was then a fortune estimated st
I billion dollars, the largest ever &C
quired by q foreign born American.
second only to the John D. Rockefeller
wealth as the largest individual &C
emulation in the United States. and,
built, as il was, on ) per cent steel
bonds, it would, without so much as
turning over ones hand, have APP
preached \ billion by the time Car
negie called himself an octogenarian.
November Is, 1915
To give that stupendOus amount
away, IN about half the time he had
taken to gather IT, was purpose Car
negie had fairly well fulfilled when
death overlook him today. He had
distributed about 400 million dollars.
It was giving money away at the rate
OF more than 20 million dollars q year,
or more than $4,000 a day.
Mr.. Carnegie would have been 81
years old November Is. He was born
in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1885 and
came to America in 1S4s
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
STRIKE PRACTICALLY ENDED
Railroad shopmen at Various Import
ant centers Return TO Work
Faith in Presidents Promise.

Washington--Repor began to ar
rive at the railroad administration
here from ali parts OF the country say
ing that the striking shOpmen we're re-
turning to work pending the adjust
ment Of their wage demands by Diree-
tor General Hines.
Kansas City and Cincinnati officials
expressed belief that normal condi-
tons would soon prevail
At all places where men are out. To-
cal officers of the railroad administra-
ton are cooperating with union chair
men in explaining the necessity for
going back to the job at once. which
President Wilson made a prerequisite
TO the opening Of negotiations
indianapolis was the only place from
which came a report that the men were
refusing to resume their places. II
was believed that when the situation
was explained, they would change
their decision.
Union Leaders Confident
Union headuarters were equally
confident that the shopmen would re-
turn
Its a little too early to get a mass
Of reports from locals, but we have al
ready been notified by a number Of
union officials that their men intended
to go back at once" said Acting Presi-
dent Jewell Of the railway section OF
the American Federation Of Labor.
Locals along the Roanoke line. at
Kansas City and other points along
the Northern Pacific are already in
line. Soon most Of the remaider viii
be found on the job. We should be
able to commence negotiations at
once with Director General Hines, IN
der terms Of the presidents letter,
with the men back at work"
About 10000 out Of the estimated
100000 men in the shop crafts have
walked out to date, according to IN
ion estimates
Union officials would not discuss the
possibility which the laws of the as
ISOLATION gives for discipling recall
citrant members who strike without
authorization Of central bodies, but it
was pointed out that the single factor
Of strike benefits would influence a
quick return These are not made
available for payment to unlawful
strikers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
SENATOR LODGE
ATTACKS LEAGUE
Galleries Greet Massachusetts
Mans Address With Enthu-
siastic Cheers.
KISSES INTERRUPT WILLIAMS
Missippi Senator HowIed Down in At
tempt to Defend Position Of the
Administration.

Washington--The traditional deco
rum of senate procedure was upset
recently by an unusual demonstration
Of approval from the galleries follow
ing an address by Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts,. chairman of the for
eign relations committee, assaiiing
provisions of the league of nations
covenant
For more than a minute the gallery
spectators applauded and cheered in
violation of senate rules and then when
order had been restored they inter
rupted with bowls and Kisses speech
by Senator Williams, Democrat, Mis-
sissippi, in reply to Mr. Lodge. In
spite of sharp admonitiOn from the
chair there were more Kisses mingled
with applause when Senator Hitch
cock, Democrat, Nebraska. seconded
Senator Williams speech.
Vice President Marshall made no at
tempt to check the first demonstration
until it had begun TO die out, but later
he twice threatened to clear the gal
leries unless order was preserved.
Gives Power Over U. S.
Senator Lodges address, itself unin-
terrupted, was aimed chiefly against
league provisions which he said would
make the United States "a subject na-
tion," and ended with an appeal for
the preservation of Americanism- The
covenant in its present form, he as
serted, would not establish league Of
peace, but would destroy the Monroe
doctrine and give other nations the
power to decide domestic American
questions and to order American troops
into foreign service.
Senator Williams bitterly assailed
the foreign relations chairman, de-
claring that in three months Of prep
aration he had worded his address to
serve Republican political ends and to
play to the galleries.
Republicans to Confer.
There was no appeal in Senator
Lodges address for rejection of the
league altogether, nor was there any
mention of the programme of reserYa-
tions proposed by seven Republican
senators as a basis of its acceptance
1t was learned, however, that this pro-
gramme had been discussed with him
by some Of its sponsors and that a
conference of Republicans would be
held within few days at which an
attempt will be made to bring the
Massachusetts senator and several
others into agreement on such plan.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
PLANS PROBE OF RETAILERS
Attorney General Palmer Asks For.
mer State Food Administrator to
Name County Price Committees.

hingtOn.-Attorney General Pal
mer has opened fire on the profiteeT-
ing retailer. He is going to find out
how much of the high cost of living
is caused by the retailer taking more
than a fair profit on articles of food or
clothing sold.
The Attorney Generals scheme is a
shrewd move to get public opinion
centered against the man who is get
ting more than his share And it was
the first practical step of the govern
ments campaign for a reduction Of
prices.
As the means of getting at the facts
on retailers prices, the Attorney Gen
eral sent kilograms to state food ad-
ministratOrs asking them to have
named at once in each county fair
price" committee.
If Kansas and Missouri act at once
upon this recommendation, these will
be expected to get to work at once in
all the communities. 1t is suggested
by Mr.. Palmer that these committees
be made up of:
One Grocer.
One dry goods or clothing merchant.
me producer.
One representative of labor
One housewife
Several general representatives of the
public. and, if possible, one wholesaler
Attorney General Palmer points out
that such a committee viii be extra
legal but says it win have the back
ing of the Department OF Justice in
any reports of boarding of foodstuffs it
uncovers. The committee, however,
is to be charged with ascertaining
whether the retail prices charged in
the community are fair. 1t is proposed
that the committees as soon as they
are named, shall at once hold hearings
and ascertain the costs of foodstuffs
and other necessities, the cost to the
merchant and ascertain if the local
scale Of prices is justified or not Their
findings in every event will be subject
to review by the state food admins
traitor.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
TOPROSECUTEALL
FOOD PROFITEERS
Attorney General Palmer Asks
For More Money 10 Search
Out The Hoarders.
NEW YORK MAN FIRST VICTIM
eroceryman of 6inshamton Fined $500
for Boosting Price of Sugar
To Push Work

Washington.-In the way of impOT-
tant developments in the governments
fight to reduce the high cost of living
was the announcement by Attorney
General Palmer that the first federal
conviction for prOfiteering had been
obtained. But the profiteer had to
use only comparatively small part of
his profits to pay the penalty, a fine
of $500. The profiteer, a retail grocer
Of Binghamton, N Y, was conyisted
of selling sugar at Is cents a pound,
according to word from the district
attorney there.
In addition to the $3.50, 600 asked of
Congress for the drive against H c.
L., the attorney general has asked
the secretary of the treasury and the
President to approve a request for
IL million dollars, to be expended
chiefly upon the employment of
sleuths to run down offenders under
the direction of Chief Flynn of the
bureau of investigation and for the
prosecution of antitrust suits
To Expose Big Hoarders.
To expose the alleged boarding OF
foods on a vast scale by the packers
age warehouses in Chicago and other
distributing centers, Mr.. Palmer tele-
graphed instructions to the federal
bureau in Chicago and other cities to
furnish the facts concerning foods
held in storage in excess CT the
amounts normally required for future
supply, or held for more than 4 rea-
sonable period He ordered made
public the names of the persons or
concerns responsible for such hoard
ing and the amount CT each commod-
ity unreasOnably stored.
Relies On Publicity.
There will be prosecutions of such
spectators, Mr.. Palmer said, and the
publicity given the boarding he thinks
will result in a speedy release OF the
excessive of amounts of food being
withheld from public consumption He
viii be greatly surprised if the re-
suit is not an almost immediate de-
cline in the prices of meats, eggs,
canned foods and other commodities.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
YIELDED TO |. W. w. DEMANDS
Witness Before Congressional Commit
tee Tells Of Telegram From Baker
Ordering Compliance.

Chicago-Testifyin before a con-
gressional committee investigating
charges Of extravaganza against gov
eminent bureau Of aircraft production,
Charles r. Sigh, a furniture manufac-
turer Of Grand Rapids, Mich, declared
that in 1917 Secretary of War Baker
telegraphed officials in charge of the
lumber situation in the Northwest to
grant demands of the Industrial Work
ers of the World He said this was
when the I. w. w had created reign
of terror throughout the lumber camps
with strikes and sabotage, while the
government was at war and in urgent
need of spruce lumber for airpIanes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

General John J. Pershing, after
his visit to Belgium as the guest Of
King Albert, viii visit the Italian bat
tlenelds. Present plans call for his de-
parture for Rome soon where he will
spend two days inspecting the scenes
of the great Austrian offensives
against the Italian lines.
-Forty-seven carloads of govern
ment foodstuffs. to be held at cost, have
arrived at the Arsenal in St. Louis, and
it was estimated 500 more would be
received shortly for distribution in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Arkansas
Fifteen leaders of the conspiracy to
cause a mutfny in the Chihuahua City
federal garrison and to deliver the city
over to Gen Francisco Villa, were put
to death following the discovery of
the plot, according to an American just
arrived at FL Paso from the interior
OF Mexico.
Polish forces entered Minsk, capt
tai of the Russian province Of the
same name, the other day, after fort
night OF heavy fighting, according to
an official statement issued by the
British war office recently.
Reports that Mexican soldiers fired
on American airplanes OF the border
patrol near Andrada, Lower California,
Mexico, six miles west of Yuma, Ariz.,
we're denied by S. n. Cromwell Of Yu-
ma, who spent the day within 1000
yards Of the scene Of the reported
clash.
The American Red Cross, in its
final campaign for war funds 10 com
pIete its war obligations, viii ask for
Is million dollars in November. DR..
FaTrand, chairman of the executive
committee announced recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
The STATE HAS 4 FOOD PLAN
Kansas May Go Into Retail Grocery
Business in Order to EIimi-
nate the MiddIemen.

The appointment Of a special food
stuffs committee by Governor Allen to
work out plans for helping beat down
the cost of living in Kansas may bring
about the establishment of permanent
municipal markets in the state for
handling food supplies purchased by
the state and distributed to the people
Of each community. Clyde Reed, the
governors secretary; James A. Kim
pail, state business manager, and John
Crawford, state labor commissioner,
were named by the governor as the
committee to coordinate the states
activities.
The first step will be to ascertain
from the producers what they are re-
ceiying for their products on the farms.
Then will come the working out %
plan to bring the producer and the con-
sumner closer together. One of the
plans discussed has been suggested by
the government sale of surplus army
food. The states business manager
may go into the country and buy sup
plies for municipalities which may
wish to enter into the experiment of
handling produce directly from pro
Queer to consumer without the COM
merchant, wholesaler and re-
taller taking a profit
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
DEATH ON A SCENIC RAILWAY
Seven Persons Fatally Burned at Mon
treal Pleasure Resort-Others
May Be In Ruins.

Montreal. - Seven persons were
burned to death in a fire on a scenic
railway at Dominion park, an amuse-
ment resort near this city.
The bodies Of three men, three wo-
men and a boy we're recovered from
the ruins shortly before midnight It
is feared several more persons lost
their lives. 1t has been impossible so
far to identify the dead.
The cause OF the fire, which not only
destroyed part Of the scenic railway
but the Mystic Mill" nearby, is IN
known, but it is believed it vas started
by a lighted cigarette or match
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21

Cleaning up of county jails in Kan
sas. with the instigation of custer pro-
ceedings against the responsible Off
Gals as an alternative, was proclaimed
by Gov. Henry ]. Allen recently. He
asserted that scores of reports on the
'unsanitary conditions" Of county jails
in the state have prompted him to
order DR.. S. ]. Crumbine, head of the
state board of health to make an in
spection OF all jails and to start pro-
ceedings to eject from office county
attorneys and district court judges
Rho do not see that the jails are
cleaned up He referred especially
to the jails of Shawnee, Wyandotte,
Reno, Crawford and Leavenworth
counties. Conditions reminding one
of the prisons of the Middle Ages
have been found to exist in Kansas
county seats and they must not be
tolerated longer" said the governor
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
THE KANSAS WHEAT CROP BIG
But Several Causes Cut the Estimate
Down 100000 Bushels. Fed
eraI Agents Report Says.

The 1919 winter wheat production
OF Kansas is placed at IA, 8O7 900
bushels in the report issued recently
by Edward c. Paxton of the United
States Bureau of Crop Estimates. This
figure is 48,911 900 bushels less than
the July forecast The new estimate
per acre yield is ID bushels, or ia
bushels less than the July forecast.
The report states:
Although so much less than was
forecast, it is yet the second largest
crop of wheat ever produced III Kan
sas, being excelled only by the 1914
production of 176,300,G09 bushels. 1t
compares favorably with the 1914-1S
average of los, 81 500 bushels. 1t is
almost double the 1909-1913 pre-war,
quinquennial average Of 1851 GOO
bushels. 1t is nearly as much wheat
as Kansas produced in 1917-1918 COM
bined."
In his summary OF contributing
causes, Mr.. Paxton says the crop, af-
ter most promising outlook last
spring, became the "domicile to every
fungus disease to which wheat is heir. .
That was due largely to excessive
moisture, rank growth and to the
lodged conditions Of many fields. Then,
July s, came a wave of excessively
hot weather which prematurely ripen-
ed hundreds of thousands of acres in
the west with accompanying shrivel-
ing of the grain" Next came insects,
grasshoppers especially causing heavy
losses in the western counties.
The quality is low, the report says,
being rated at 81 per cent, as COM
pared with 80 per cent last year, 90
per cent in 1917, 95 per cent in 1916
and 80 per cent in 1915. Weight tests
are running from Al to So pounds.
The corn crops condition is rated at
69 per cent of normal, with crop Of
8O,055, 900 bushels forecast, as COM
pared with 43,523 900 last year. The
prevailing prospect for the crop can
be maintained only by rains this
month, Mr. Paxton says.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21

Cleveland, O@Three hundred chair
men of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen and EnginemeD, represent
ing more than one hundred thousand
firemen and hostIers throughout the
United States and Canada, met here
to discuss wage demands.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
Forest Fires Burn Unchecked.

Missoula, Mont-Forest fires are
burning unchecked in the Clearwater
Forest of Idaho, while several large
blazes in the Selway and Nez Perces
forests are still uncontrolled, accord
ing to latest advices received at dis
trict forest headquarters.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
Polish Je,ss Turn ID America-

COpenhag en.-Reports from War
saw said forty thousand Polish Jews
we're seeking permission to emigrate
to America Wholesale emigrations
from Central Europe TO the United
States are expected to begin soon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-21
Sell Blankets by Mail. Too.

ashington--Offering to the public
of 2 milIioA surplus Atwood, cotton
and-HooI and cotton blankets was an
nouneed recently by the War Depart
ment, arrangements having been COM
pIeted for their distribution through
postoffice and municipalities.