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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
LEGION REUSED
OVER BERGDOLL
Executive Committee Wants a
Probe by Congress of Draft
Evader Incident.
STAND on TOWNLY IS UPHELD
Meeting at Washington Decides Not to
Fight Non-Partisan League as
an Organization.

Observation-Disclosures that the Amer
lean government saw fit to apologize
to the Berlin government for the at
tempt OF Americans to capture Grover
c. Bergdoil, wealthy American draft
eVader, was expressed in a resolution
adopted by the executive committee
of the American Legion.
The resolution, offered by Thomas
w Miller of Delaware, and ordered
sent to members of congress, approx
ed the proposed congressional investi-
cation OF the circumstances surround
ing Bergdolrs escape from custody.
Efforts to put the Legion on record
as opposing the Nonpartisan League
were made by members from Okla
homa and other states where the
League is active, but after consider
able debate various resolutions were
voted down and tabled The commit
tee then voted unanimously to uphold
f. w. Galbraith, national commander
IN his stand in advising state commits
sioners Of Kansas, Nebraska ard Ok
1ahoma that the Legion should take
no active part against the League as
an organization
hCGQCSLS OF POSTS E7SdGQs
Correspondence on the Nonpartisan
League question, which began with an
appeal from the Salina, Kas., post for
support from the national committee
In fight against the League was
read. Other similar appeals had fol-
lowed from Western and Southwest
ern posts, and all were shown to have
been given the same answer by the
committee commander.
Speakers, urging the Legion to go
on record opposing the League, de-
c1ared that its leaders were disloyal
and were using the League to cloak
seditious activit:' J. Opponents con-
tended that such action would be con-
sidered by many farmers and other
members of the League, who them
selves were loyal, as indicating oppo-
sition of the Legion to the economic
and political policies of the League.
All speakers agreed that the Legion
should not oppose the Leagues status
as political party
K. of C. Gift in Question.
Announcement was made at the
meeting that efforts would be made 10
have the Knights of Columbus remove
certain conditions from their offer TO
the Legion of s5,OOO,0OO for construc-
ton of a war memorial in Washington.
The committee last night voted to re-
fuse the offer unless made uncondi-
tionally.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
FINGER Rinos Danoerous

According to the Seattle representa-
tive OF the shipping board, finger rings
constitute a fruitful source Of acci.
dents TO shipyard workers @H yoD
wish to avoid accidents" says this
authority, '1eave them on when yO1
90 TO work Within thirty days two
men have lost fingers as a result OF
accidents for which Their rings were
responsible, and more than twenty less
serious mishaps- have been reported
which we're due to the same cause"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
EIGHT KILLED BY
NITROGLY CERINE
Teacher and Seven Pupils Vic
tins of an Explosion Near
LawrenceViIIe, Ill.
WERE TRYING TO OPEN A GAN
School Children Were Playing on
Grounds When Tragedy Occurred
Six Were Killed Outright.

Lawrenceville, H. Eight persons
are dead and another probably fatal
Iy injured as the result Of the explO-
sion of a can of nitroglycerin at Cross
Roads school, two miles west of here.
The dead: Emmett Bunyan, teach
er, 80 years old; Richard Peters, z;
Raymond Groves, 8; Elmer Mellet, 10;
Howard Lett, z; Charles c. Welton, 5;
Robert McCausland, II; Thomas Lett,
r. Severely injured: Lester Groves,
IL
Were Trying to Open Can.
Cross Roads is a broom country
school and small stream rms
through the grounds. At the morning
recess some boys saw a can lodged
against the bank of the stream and
began throwing stones at it. At the
noon intermission one Of the boys
fished the can out of the water with
a stick and threw it across the ditch
to his companions. They were at
tempting to open it when it exploded.
The boys were blown rom ten to
twenty feet by the explosion Emmett
Bunyan, the teacher, who was coming
out of the SC ~olhouse with a coal
bucket in his hand, saw the boys
working with the can, and told them
to let it alone. One youEgster, who
was thrown down but escaped severe
injury, said the boys were trying to
open the can to see what it contained,
just as the teacher left the school
building
Victims Were Badly Mangied.
Bunyan was thrown to the ground
by the explosion, got up and started
to walk again, nd again fell. The
teacher and the boys who were killed
were crushed and mangled almost be-
yond recognition. Hats and coats were
four ! in the trees near.
All the physicians here were called,
but only three of the victims were
in condition to be helped by surgical
skill. Six had been killed outright.
Iney were take1 to hospital in Win
cennes, Ind, ten miles east of here.
Cans Presence Is Unexplained.
The can was one used in transport
ing nitrogIycerin from the magazine
to a well to be shot. How it came to
be in the creek has not been learned.
There is a nitroglycerin magazine
about a mile from the school and it
may be a shooter threw the can into
the creek and it floated down to the
school house.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
UNCOVER WAR SUPPLY GRAB

shington.-Surplus war materials
valued at more than 6 billion dollars
are packed in every army warehouse
and depot in the country. Little of
this is reaching the public after more
than two years of peace. This in
formation was made public by the
house committee on expenditures in
the war department in connection
with its report on the investigation
of leather goods purchased by the
government in the war.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Filler Saved Man From ocean.

Daytona, FIa.-L. c. MerrelI crash
ed his airplane into the ocean the
other day in trying to save J. Fig
gear OF DaytOna, who had been
caught in an undertow at the beach
here. Life guards finally rescued
both men, who chung to the machine
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
grindeIi Gets Prison Term.

New York-Robert P. Rrindell,
presid ent of the building trades
council, convicted of extortion from
builders, was sentenced by Supreme
Court Justice McAVoy to serve from
five to ten years in prison.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
llsed aon,h in a labor War.

Chicago terrific bomb explosion
wrecked the leather goods plant of
Stone Brothers at. Polk and laflir
streets here, injuring one man, shat
tering windows for blocks and caus-
ing a wild panic when scores rushed
to the street in their night clothes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
As,<s coaI Strike inquiry.

Washington resolution propos-
ing congressional investigation of the
West Virginia coal strike situation,
Including armed violence in the min
ing camps. was introduced by Senator
Johnson, Republican OF California It
was referred to the senate labor COM
s,,iftee without discussion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
A Harvard English Professor Dead

BOston.-BarTett Wendell, profes-
sor emeritus of Harvard University,
where he had taught English htera-
ture for thirty-seven years, died at
his home in Boston recently. He was
sc years old.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

64AAs II MY S40<G- =
found only tempo
Taryrelief IN doctor 3
medicine or anything
else ] took until my
husband saw an ad--
vertis of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
We ge ia Bile Com
pound. I mentioned
it to q neighbor and
she told me she had
taken it with good
HL
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Threaten More Tar Parties.

Houston. = Further assaults on
those who offend the Ku Klux
Khan" were threatened in note
signed NO. 8, Ku KIux Klan," adj
dressed to the Houston Press.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Germans TO Allied Met.

Berlin. = The German government
has accepted the invitation to par
ucipate in the allied conference on
Preparations In London March I. It
vas announced hers recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Crude Oil Down to s..

independence, Kas. Another So
cent cut in tie price of crude oil has
been announced here by the Prairie
Pipe Line Company, bringing the
price to 81 a barrel
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

More Sleeping Sickness in Cleveland.
CleveIand.-An increase in the num-
Der of cases of sleeping sickness in
Cleveland within two weeks from ten
to eighteen, with nine deaths from the
disease in January, was reported by
DR.. H. L. lockwood, city health COM
missioner.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
NeedIe Workers Ordered out.

New York-A strike Of forty thou
sand needle workers, so per cent OF
whom are women, was called here by
officials Of the joint board OF dress
and waist makers unions in an effort
to enforce the closed shop in the
women's clothing industry.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

Washington. = American womer
now are spending for beautifiers, can
dy and foibles enough to pay the en-
tire cost Of the nations naval pro
gram, including construction of new
ships.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Pittsburgh Girl Killed by Burglars


Pittsburgh--The body of Miss Paul
inc Gold, II years old, was found in
her bed at her home here, a short time
after burglars had ransacked the
house. The girl apparently had beer
choked to death by the burglars, WIG
sought to stifle her cries.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

Father Dominic Begins Prison Term.
London-Father Dominic, recently
convicted of seditious activities by a
Dublin court-martial, has been placed
in Parkhurst prison at Newport, Isle
OF Wight
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Sci Men BACK to Work.

Canton. O-Fourteen hundred men
returned to work IN four steel mills,
which have reopened after a shut
down OF several weeks.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

have every faith IN Dr. Pierce's ned
fcines DORA COLEMAN.
AL druggists Send 10 cents to
Dr. Pierce's mFaHds' Hotel A Buff
faio, n. Y, for a trial package Of
any OF his remedies and write fer
free confidential medical advice.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
school RaIconx EaIls at CAM

Denver-A balcony in the North
Denver high school gymnasium fell
while high school basket ball game
was in progress. More than one hun
dred spectators were plunged to the
floor, ten feet below, and fourteen per
sons were injured, two OF them severe
~. Most of the injured Fere women.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

Queen Mary to Receive Oxford Degree
LondOn.-The degree of doctor Of
civil law will be conferred upon Queen
Mary, by Oxford University March IL
The queen will visit the university
for the ceremony.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

When anyone has offended me, I try
to raise my soul so high that the Of
Tense cannot reach it.-Deseartes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Nebraskans Sell Their Grain.

NebFaSkanS Sell Their Grain.
Lincoln, Neb.-Nebraska' principal
industry, agriculture, is showing signs
of revival. The farmers are beginning
to market their grain and bankers are
hquidating their loans.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17

The man who goes to a money shark
to raise the wind pays dearly for his
whistle.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
New Life for
Sick Man
Eatonie Works Magie

81 have takon only two boxes OF
Eatonic and feel like a new man- 1t
has done me more good than anything
else" writes e. o. Frappir.
Eatonic is the modern remedy for
acid stomach, bloadng, food repeating
and indigestion Il quickly takes up
and carries out the acidity and gas
and enables the stomach 10 digest the
food naturally. That means not only
relief from pain and discomfort but
you get the full strength from the food
you eat Big box only costs a uife
with your druggists guarantee.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
Seattle Carpenters Vote WAGE cut.

Seattle, Wash.-Union carpenters
here voted voluntarily to accept 3 125k
per cent reduction in their wage scale,
ii became known recently.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17
DRESSMAEER
MADE WELL
Followed Neighhor'sA Advice.
and Took Lydia E Pinkhamss-
Vegetable Compound

Vernon, Tex For three years Z
suffered untold agony each month with
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-02-17


neuralgia 7 began
taking the Gold
en- Medical Dis
coTery along
with 'Anure Tab
lets' and feel that
/ have been great
" benefited by
their use I had
about given up
when I wrote Dr..
Pierce; now I am
fe eIfn & fine. I
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
WORLD PICTURES IN PAGEANT
AND PANTOMIAdE

In a very forceful way this was
demonstrated at the Methodist
Church, Tuesday night, when the
Young Women's Missionary Society
presented World Pictures in Pageant
and Pantomime. The program was
triple in character.
Group one enacted the pageant
From Darkness to Light" The lead
ing characters were Liberty, Spirit of
Missions and American Womanhood.
Womanhood boasted to Liberty of the
greatness of the nation when the
Spirit of Missions reminds her that
there are many dark spots which
Liberty's torch has not lighted. In a
series of episodes which followed
showing the conditions among Immi-
grants, Mexicans, Indians and Noun
taineers, Womanhood is convinced of
these dark places and of the necessity
of a life of service. The scene clim-
axes with the whole group gathered
about Liberty and Missions pledging
allegiance to the flag and to the
cross.
Group Two presented the Student
Volunteer play ''Alma Mater" These
players were made up entirely Of Nor
NAL Students. The professional sing
ing their own Alma Mater and the
Pennant of the Fort Hays Normal
School made it local in its application.
Group three climaxed the mission
ary spirit of the program by giving in
pantomime the beautiful hymn, 80
Zion Haste, The Mission High Full
filing"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
HAYS CATHOLIC COLLEGE

On Monday a meeting was called
to learn who of the students were
willing and ready to give some of
their free time to play in a band
which is organizing. The immediate
neighbors of the College and perhaps
the whole city will soon hear the re-
suits of this meeting.
Among the Clubs organized among
the student-body the Newman Club
ranks first. The moderator of this
Club is the Rev. Father William, o..
M. Cap. The other officers are the
following: President, Albert BAIL;
Vice President, Edward Urban; Sec
retary, B. J. Brungardt; Librarion,
J. Stegman; Assistant librarians, B.
J. Brungardt and Leonard Kraus;
Chronicler, Joseph Pfeifer.
On Thursday a meeting of the New
man Club was called to discuss a play
TO be staged sometime in the aerly
part of the new year.
Wednesday evening in the college
auditorium was shown the dramatiza-
ton of LOngfellow's story Of the Ar
cadians, EvangeIine. The scenery
was in keeping with the historical
and geographical settings of the
story. The faculty, students and
some friends Of the College enjoyed
this fve-reeled photo drama.
At last the Hays Catholic College
Eleven viii have an opportunity to
show local admirers what they are
made of. A game is scheduled be-
tween the town team from MoreIand
and the College Eleven. A good
game is expected and if the weather
is favorable also a good crowd. The
game viii be on Saturday afternoon.
The students are hard at their
studies. Six weeks Of school have al
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
KANSAS BAPTIST STATE CON
VENTION TO HAYS IN 1922

The Kansas Baptist State Conven-
tion met at Topeka in a four day
session last week. It was the largest
Attendance for some time and every
hour from the opening to the end was
filed with conferences and lectures
and sermons. A number of speakers
were present from several parts of
the United States including the pres
ident of the Northern Baptist Con
vention. The churches in Kansas
made wonderful gain during the
year in all departments of church
work. It's missionary Offering exceed
er any previous year and in the for
eign fields made wonderful growth.
Rev. H. W. Cole Of Hutchinson was
elected president and Hays won over
independence for its meeting place in
1922. Rev. Thompson of the Hays
church, was present and he and the
West carried the 1922 convention for
Hays.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
HAYS TO HAVE A NEW CATH
OLIC COLLEGE

Announcement has been made by
the Right Reverend Francis Tief, D.
D., Ii. D., Bishop of Cncordia, Con
cordia, Kansas, of the erection at
Hays, Kansas, of a new Catholic Col
lege.
The Plans call for group of six
buildings, consisting of an Admins
tration Building, Science Hall,
Chapel, Dormitory, Gymnasium and
Assembly Hall and Power and Power
and Light Building, and when com
pleted will compose one Of the most
beautiful and efficient group of edu-
caticnal buildings in the state.
The management of the new educa-
tional enterprises will be under the
personal charge of the Capuchin
Fathers who have been untiring in
their efforts to develop Western Kan
sas for the past fifty years.
A Fund Raising Campaign for the
erection of these new buildings has
been started under the direction of
the Bishop and will be conducted
from Concordia, Salina and Hays.
Due to the fact that the college will
be located in Ellis County, a central
point in the Diocese, the benefit to be
derived by the people of that com
munity will be Of great value and
naturally calls for their full share
Friends and enthusiastic supporters
of the movement have dasiorD a+ad
Ellis County quota at $3OO,OOO.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
The New Normal Bus

The Extension Division at the Fort
Hays Kansas Normal School has add
ed a new REQ Speed Wagon to its
equipment. The bus has a capacity
of fifteen people and will be used to
make the Extension work of the Nor
NAL School more effective, in carrying
speakers, and musical organizations
to their appointments.
The bus made its maiden trip to
the Consolidated Conference at Scott
City, last week. It took about five
hours to make the one hundred and
twenty miles from Hays to Scott City
and carried twelve people.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
ENTHUSIASTIC u. P. HIGHWAY
MEETING

The annual meeting of the Union
Pacific Highway Association held at
Hays, last Friday, brought out a large
number of delegates and road enthus-
lasts. At this meeting ex-President
Brooke reported to the Association
the work of the year, showing GAO
miles of pole to pole marking between
Kansas City and. Denver, the printing
and distribution of 100000 road fold
ers, perhaps the best issued by any
automobile association in the country,
and also a laage amount of paid ad-
vertising that has been carried in the
metropolitan papers of Kansas City
and DenveH His financial report
shows that more than $4,000 have
been expended for marking, folders,
advertising and incidental expenses,
more than $500 of which has been
collected from communities through
which the road passes. The work was
carried on chiefly through Chambers
of Commerce and commercial clubs
along the line. At the beginning of
the work last March the Association
had deficit of some $50 and all of
the work indicated by the Presidents
report has been done since that time
He also reported many of the best
automobile and travel experts of the
country as saying that the Union
Pacific Highway is one of the best and
fastest lines and is positively the best
marked road between Kansas City and
Denver. At this annual meeting pro
vision was made for a committee to
prepare the necessary constitution
and bylaws for the needs of the new
organization. The meeting elected
officers for the ensuing year, Presi-
dent, W. R. Weldon, Salina; Vice
President, Frank Irwin, Oakley; Sec
retary, Ruth Fliesbach, Hays; Treas
urer, J. S. Bird, Hays; Directors: VIM.
Dalton, st. George; F. D. Thompson,
Hugo, Colorado; F. E. Brooke, Win
ona, Kansas; C. G. Cochran, Hays,
Kansas; Al Pierce, junction City; J.
C. Stark, Bonner Springs; I. F. Jones,
Cheyenne Wells, Colorado.
The new President and Board of
Directors held a meeting Immediately
after the annual meeting to organize
and plan for future work.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL ADMIN
ISTRATORS ORGANIZE

A conference of consolidated
school administrators met at Scott
City, last Friday and Saturday, at the
call of Professor c. E. Rarick, Head
of the Department of Rural Educa-
ton of the Fort Hays Kansas Normal
School.
The conference was unique in the
fact that it is the first conference of
its kind ever held in Kansas. Repre-
sentatives from some fifteen consol-
idated schools were present; in some
cases the entire teaching staff of the
school being present.
The conference took up the differ
ent problems of administration in
cluding problems of transportation,
the hot lunch, community activities,
educational measurements.
The conference organized itself in
to a permanent educational body by
electing Superintendent Leo T. Glib
bens of Scott City, President; Leslie
F. Rice of Colby, Vice President; and
Superintendent Emma Wilson of Fin
ney County, Secretary and Treasurer.
A committee was appointed to draw
up a constitution.
The following Faculty members of
the Normal School made the trip to
Scott City in the new Extension Divi-
sion bus, and took part in the confer
ence: C. E. Rarick, R. L. Parker, A.
NJ. Vance, F. W Albertson, L. D.
Wooster, Floyd B. Lee, Miss f. J.
Agnew. and Miss LORee Cave.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-27
HAYS DEFEATSK. W. U.
THREE TOUCHDOWNs AND A
SCORE 1870
Wesleyan Had Some Good Chances
to Score but the tumble Got in
the Way

The Hays Normals sent the Wes-
leyan team down to their third con-
ference defeat of the year Friday
afternoon, the western eleven win
ming by score of 18-O-three touch
downs but all goals being missed.
Toward the close of the first quar-
ter, Albert the Normals safety man,
took punt from Rocky Pierce and
dashed through the entire team for
fifty yards and a touchdown.
Wesleyan had a great chance to
score in the second quarter when
Pierce, standing on the thirty yard
line, heaved a forward pass straight
into the arms of Thurston who was
standing near the goal line but the
latter let the ball get away from him
and the pass was incomplete. Not an
opposing player was near him and it
would have been an easy score if
Thurston could have held the ball.
Again in the third quarter Wes-
leyan worked the ball to the Hays ten
yard line but penalty lost them their
chance for a touchdown and from
then on Hays was always on the of
fensive.
The second Normal touchdown
came in the fourth period after q
march down the field on straight foot
ball during the third period had taken
the ball TO the Wesleyan fourteen
yard line
The third touchdown came as a re
suit of a blocked Wesleyan punt,
Hays recovering on the ten yard line
from where they pushed it across.
The Wesleyan line, which has been
one of the strong points of the de
fense, crumpled in the third period
and the normal backs plowed through
for big gains on every play.
Hughey at fullback was in almost
every play on the defense and was
the only consistent ground gamer for
the Wesleyan team on the offense.
The line-up.