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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
VICTIMS OF FLU ARE IMMUNE
Public Health Service Expects No
New Attacks of the Disease
for Several Years.

ington.-Influenza attacks car
~ with them "a definite immunity
to subsequent attacks, lasting several
years." according to conclusions reach
ed by the public health service after
intensive study in the homes where
the disease was epidemic in 1888.
''masmuch as the epidemic O. 1918
and 1919 affected so very large a pro-
portion of the population" the state
ment by Surgeon General Cumming
said, there would seem to be reason
able grounds for believing that even
should flu become prevalent here and
there (this winter) it would not as
sumo the epidemic proportions of the
last two years, nor could it rage in
such severe form"
Dr. Cumming pointed out that there
was no way of definitely foretelling
whether this winter will witness any
recurrence Of influenza in epidemic
form"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
SHOCK FOR DRAFT DODGERS
Names of Men Who Evaded Service in
Army to BE Published in
Local Newspapers.

Washington.-Draft deserters whose
fears have been lulled to rest by more
than two years Of security from prose
cution are about to receive a IN
pleasant surprise, for the names OF
173, gil Of them are shortly to be pub
lished in their home town sections
as a preliminary step to bringing them
to a speedy trial, the war department
announced recently.
Publication of names in local news
papers is expected to materially aid
in experimenting offenders, as it is be-
lieved that most persons knowing the
whereabouts OF a draft deserter viii
be only too willing to volunteer the
information Much aid also is antici-
pated from members of the American
Legion, which has consistently urged
the department to take action against
draft deliIquents.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
GOOD YEAR FOR RAILROADS
Transportation Was Materially Speed
ed Up by Return of Systems to
Private Control.

Washington. - American railroads
are completing a record year and have
no intention of asking for another
general increase IN rates, Thomas
Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the Asso-
citation Of Railway Executives, declar-
ed in a statement reviewing railroad
situation for the year of 1920.
The year just ending. Chairman
CuyIer asserted, saw American rail-
roads placed again under purivate
operation and under such direction
saw them move a larger gross ton
mage than ever before and also estab-
lish new records in the amont Of
transportation gotten out of each car.
These records. Mr.. Cuyler added,
were not achieved by the railroads
alone, but with the aid of shippers in
unloading cars and with the day and
night, rain or shine, work Of hun
dreds of thousands of employees"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
PANAMA DEFENSE
up TO CONGRESS
Bill Being Drafted to Make the
Canal as Strong as
Gibraltar.
HEAVY ORDNANCE TO Be USED
Bio Guns Will be Sent to Canal Zone
as Rapidly as They Are
Completed

WASHINGTON. = Adequate protection
for the Panama canal from attacks Of
enemies from the air, land or sea is
to be provided for a bill soon to be
drafted by the house committee on ap-
propriations for Notifications and sea
coast defenses. Members of the COM
mittee now are virtually agreed upon a
plan to make the canal impregnable-
1t has been suggested unofficially
to those members of the house III
charge of appropriations, that the
canal must be given the best OF mod
ern defenses. These suggestions were
said to have resulted directly from the
recent inspection of the canals forti-
fications by President-eIect Harding
and his party.
Plans to meet these suggestions and
at the same time adhere strictly to
the rules of economy laid down by
house leaders have been agreed to
tentatively. They involve the sending
of necessary ordnance, including the
largest calibered artillery pieces, to
the canal so soon as they are produced
This ordnance includes those guns
which were authorized in 1918 for
coast defense purposes, the first of
which are to be delivered next spring.
In addition to the canals main land
defenses, the war department has pro-
posed the placing Of several of the
longest range rifles on an island, To-
Gated about fifteen miles off the Pa
cific entrance. The committee mem
bers are said to have agreed to this
proposal, and will authorize the place
ment of guns there as soon as the
state department can conclude diplO-
matte negotiations to that end.
The Atlantic entrance, under the
present plans, will be provided with
an elaborate system of tracks designed
to carry the heaviest railroad artil-
Iery mounts with guns calibered to
greater distances than those used by
the most powerful dreadnaught afloat-
House members believe that the
canal thus can be made impregnable
by use of material now under COLI
struction and with only little addition
al expense to the government.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
MAY WIDEN JAPANESE LAW
California Representatives In Congress
Would Prohibit All Foreigners
Holding Land in Their State.

Washington.-The report that Japan
had withdrawn opposition to the Cali
fornia anti-Japanese land law took a
new turn when Representative Kahn
announced he had called a E-eeting Of
the house California delegation to con-
slider widening the law to prohibit
land holding by all foreigners.
California representatives in con-
gress are thoroughly aroused over the
question of foreign land holding, as
precipitated by the japanese issue.
They declare it is the inherent right
Of California to protect her rich oil
and timber lands and mines
Emphasizing the necessity of such
action, they point out that Japan pro-
hibits the holding of land by foreign
ers and that japanese born in this
country maintain the dual allegiance
To the mikado, as did the German SUD-
jects to their emperor when they be-
came citizens of foreign lands.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
UNITED STATES
INTO TRUST war
Federal Grand Jury Returns
Fifteen indictments Against
New York Builders.
A FORMER AGENT IS ACCUSED
Action Is First Move by Government
Legal Departments to Punish
the Crooked Contractors.

New York--Th6 federal government
added its legal fail to the whips OF
New York states trust smashing" Or
ganization by returning indictments,
charging violation of the Sherman an
thrust act, against four sand concerns
and eleven individuals recently inves-
tigated by the joint legislative commit
tee.
These indictments, the first of fed
eral nature to be returned in the
building trust inquiry, accumulated
upon more than 120 indictments re-
turned by three grand juries cooper
ating with the legislative inYestiga-
ton. Defendants will appear soon.
Meanwhile, the committee, before an
audience Of business men, uncovered
some of the most extensive cooper
alive organizations of manufacturers
and contractors, which daily inquiry
over ten weeks has brought forth 1t
was shown hundreds OF firms in all
lines Of trade exchange, through clear
ing houses, names of prospective buy
eTs, their bids and signed contracts
and also daily reports of stocks on
hand and shipments
These practices, carried on under
programs advocated by the late Arthur
Jerome Eddy and his economic dis
ciples, were characterized by Samuel
Untermyer, the committee counsel, as
team work to fleece the people,
Their legality is involved in the case
against the American Column Com
Pany now before the United States
supreme court.
A Chicago attorney, w J. Matthews,
acting as counsel for several of these
societies, admitted in testifying the
other day he was employed to steer
the concerns within the antitrust
laws" Among other men similarly
employed he named Clark McKircher.
formerly with the antitrust division Of
the department Of justice.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
ITALIANS CLOSE IN ON FIUME
Regulars Have Also Taken Several
Factories in Outskirts of City
Without Firing a Shot.

Trieste.-The Italian regulars have
reached the factories on the edge Of
Fiume and are closing in gradually on
the D'Annu- ian stronghold. 1t is ex-
pected Fiume will be taken soon.
General Caviglia ordered the occu-
patton of advanced positions around
Fiume in consequence Of recent Incl
dents and the threatening attitude
taken by D'Annunzio's legionaires-
The poets soldiers resisted the ad-
van troops, who lost five men killed
and thirty wounded
Udine, Italy-GeneraI CavigIia's reg
ular Italian forces adyanc ] two kilo-
meters Without firing a shot in COM
bined land and naval movement to
close in on D'Annur zio, the insurgent
leader in Fiume, whose men retired.
The Fiume triangle now is cut off
and the } 'et's aviation field has been
captured.
The plan of General Caviglia is
gradually to tighten his grip on Fiume
until D'Annunzio is reduced to help.
lessness.
Caviglia's men advanced from the
north cutting, off the top of the tri-
angle of which Fiume is formed, and
occupied Gorbnico, Santa Croce and
San Malta. The aviation field cap
tured is at Grobnico. The D'Annun-
zio troops evacuated these points with
out offering the slightest resistance.
At points from the shore northward
the D'Annunzio line gave way and the
regulars advanced half kilometer. 1t
was a simultaneous movement from
three sides.
The movement from the direction
Of Udine was expected by an over
whelming body of troops which ad-
vanced on the thinly held line Of
DAnnunzio's DICTIONARIES. The advance
was accomplished principally by AL
PM who occupied the high land COW
ering the rugged territory to the rear
Of Fiume, including two ranges Of
hills. Toward the sea the regulars
line is held by Royal Guards and Car
bineers.
While the troops advanced on the
billy groun' overlooking the sea, the
Italian fleet kept silent guard in
Fiume Bay. The powerful squadron
consists of first line battIeships and
destroyers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
BLOCK SCHEME TO
FREE PRISONERS
Machine Gun Company Ordered
Out to Guard Arkansas 2
Penitentiary.
TROOPS ALSO TO STATE FARMS
Governor Brough Was Informed of
Conspiracy to Rescue Outlaws
Sent from Oklahoma.

Little Rock, Ark.-ReliabIe reports
of widespread plot to free convicts
in the states penal institutions were
responsible for the mobilization of the
Pine Bluff machine gun company Of
the Arkansas National Guard, accord
ing to a statement by Governor
Brough. The plot, the governor said,
was reported to him by penitentiary Of
ficials. and involved plans for the re-
lease of Tom Slaughter and Fulton
Green, Oklahoma outlaws, now serv-
ing life sentence for murder.
Slaughter and Green are confined at
the penitentiary at Little Rock and
principal precautions are to be taken
there, but it was learned detachments
OF the Pine Bluff company also will be
sent to the state farms at Tucker,
where white convicts are confined, and
to Cummins, where negro convicts are
imprisoned. The governors action in
calling out the troops, he said, followed
a conference with penitentiary and
military authorities, at which the re-
ports of the plot to escape were given
to him. He said it was not known how
widespread the plans may be.
Governor Brough declined to discuss
details of the reported plot and the
plans of the state authorities to coun-
teract it, but stated that the troops
would be kept on duty long enough
to prevent the contemplated escape
and make practically impossible car
rying out plans fora wholesale deliv-
cry later. The governor also declined
t, say whether the PLOT included re-
ports of outside aid to the convicts
- Was the case reYeral days ago when
TRUSTEES at the pe.-itentiary confessed
that a similar plot was on foot to re-
lease Slaughter, Green and other con-
Victs who wished to escape.
From other sources it was learned
that the troops stationed at the peni-
tertiary will conduct a thorough
search of the convicts and the build
ings within the walls for saws, weap-
Ons or other tools of material which
might be used in an escape, and IN
der orders from the governor to pro-
hibit any visitors within the walls.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
BAN ON TONIC WITH A KICK
Formula Approved by Internal Rev
enue Department Has Become Too
Popular, Enforcement Officials Say.

Washington - Prohibition enforce
ment went on a new basis in many
of its phases beginning January i. ac-'
cording to present plans of the pro-
hibitiOn commissioner, John F. Kra-
mer.
Kramer was going over a list OF
persons licensed to traffic in liquor,
alcohol and patent medicines contain
ing alcohol. Many licenses viii be
revoked, it is expected. One official
limited that the slaughter" may in
voIve hundreds of licenses. Another
predicted thousands. Kramer was
silent
One well known medicine" how
ever, will not be sold after January /,
Kramer made plain This is manufac-
tured by different concerns under the
title Of tonic" from a formula pro
vided by the United States bureau of
internal revenue. Because of this an
nOuncement one manufactures boldly
advertises 40 per cent alcohol An
other uses only Is per cent
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
WILSON REFUSES AN OFFER
Newspaper Syndicate Wanted to Pay
President $4,000 for One Arti-
Gle, Washington Report Says.

WashingtOn.-The enormous sum Of
S15O.0e0 in cash for a single newspa-
per article has been refused by Presi-
dent Wilson, it was learned recently
The offer was made by n well known
syndicate, the only stipulation being
that it be the first article to be writ
by the President after leaving the
White House The President was TO
choose his own subject and the article
was to be Of any length that he de
sired, or, if he wished, the subject
could be covered in a series OF sew
eraI articles.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREWTIES

"A cyclone has caused enormous
damage in the province of Oviedo,
Spain. Forty houses were destroyed
in the hamlet Of Sama de Langreo,
and buildings in many mining settle
ments of that region were unroofed.
The potato, maize and chestnut crops
are said to be destroyed.
George W. Breckenridge, SO, CAPT
talist and benefactor of numerous in
situations, among which were the
State University of Texas, and Column
bia university, New York, died sud
denly at his home in San Antonio,
w. H. Thomson, H. ]. King.
Henry Oats and ]. L. Burns, federal
prohihitio nand revenue officers, were
dismissed after a preliminary hearing
on charge Of having killed W. D. An
derson, alleged boOtleeger at Bis
marck, Ok Anderson was killed by a
voIIey of shots fired by the officers.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio is said to
have been slightly wounded, according
to the Milan correspondent OF the Lon
don Times. The report that D'Annun-
zio had been killed, the correspondent
adds, is. officially denied.
Applications for permit: looking
toward the development OF lore than
II million horsepower. sufficient to
supply tEenty cities the size Of Chi
cago, had been filed under the federal
water power act with the fedSrsI pow
er commission up TO December 12, the
commission announced
Dispatches from Armenia depict
the situation there under the Soviet
regime as samentahle. owing to the
shortage Of food. Eighty carloads OF
grain have been cent 90 Efz7on, the
cepisals ~ As szeDW goyegomeat
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
WOULD AID THE POLES AGAIN
Against Russian Forces If IL
Becomes Necessary.

Paris. j France will help Poland
again if she is threatened by the Boil
sheviki, according to War Minister
Raiberti. arguing for war department
credits before the chamber of depu-
ties He persuaded the chamber TO
vote credits of 400 million francs for
war material
In presenting the stem, Raiberti
frankly said it was intended for Po-
land if the need arose.
Poland has saved the worlds peace
once already by her heroism," he said.
Should she need help again she will
find France ready"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
PUSH WATER POWER PLANS
Federal Permits TO Invest More Than
a Billion Dollars are Sought
BY Applicants.

washington.-AppIi for per
mits looking toward the development
of more than II million horsepower,
sufficient to suppuly twenty cities
the size Of Chicago, has been filed IN
der the federal water power act with
the federal power commission up to
December 13, the commission an
nounced recently.
Completion Of the contemplated
plans as shown in the applications,
the commission estimates, viii adj
vance water power development in
the United States by more than 40
per cent and win involve an invest
ment Of 1,2OO million dollars.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
D'Annunzio to Quit Fiume.

Rome.-D'Annunzio has issued a
proclamation declaring that it is no.
worth while dying for Italy He said
he was leaving Fiume by airplane.
This was semi-officialIy announced
here together with the announcement
that the Fiume agreement may be -
garded as concluded. Settlement OF
the Fiume question is based on recog-
milton Of the treaty Of RappaIlo, dis
bandment of D'Annunzio's DICTIONARIES
and general amnesty.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Cut British ARMAMENT Ruduet.

Observation-Disclosures submitted by
the army and navy departments have
been returned by Premier Lloyd
George, as chairman OF the cabinets
finance committee, and he has instruc-
ted the depa- tments to 'edCce their
figures by more than one-half, says
the Daily Mail.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
NS ITEMS FROM
ALL OYER KANSAS
Happenings Of More or Less
interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
GRANTS INCREASED GAS RATES
Forty-Five Towns ia Kansas Face Inn
mediate Hike as Result of
Judge Booths Decision.

Forty-five towns In Kansas and Mis-
souri, face an immediate raise in their
gas rates as result of the decision
of Federal Judge Wilbur N. Booth OF
Minneapolis which reached Topeka re-
Gently. and has been fled i the Of
flee of the clerk OF the federal court
there.
The opinion Of Judge Booth declar g
the S0-cent gas rate confiscatory and
orders it permanently enjoined. AS
result, the distributing companies
which buy gas from the Kansas Nat
uraI Gas Company are at perfect lib
erty to set any rate they please, Ell
fectiye Immediately.
Higher gas rates for Kansas and
Missouri towns will be fixed at once,
according to T. F. Doran, attorney for
the Consumers Gas and Electric Com
pany of Topeka, and other distributing
companies of the Kansas Natural Gas
Company.
Judge Booths decision, according to
information received in Topeka, sus-
tanned the appeal of a number of local
distributing companies, from the In
dustrial courts decision refusing an
increase in rates and denying the gas
companies the right to assess "ser-
vice fee against the consumer. The
gas companies commended that the old
rate-20 cents a thousand cubic feet
IN most OF the larger Kansas towns
was confiscatory and non-compensa-
tory The distributing companies
representatives are said TO interpret
Judge Booths decision as conceding
the right of the companies to assess
the 50-cent service fee per month.
The decision of Judge Booth also
restored to the original company-the
Kansas Natural Gas sCompany-the
control Of its properties. witch have
been in. the hands OF a receiver for
more than eight years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Asks Wilson for Accounting

hington.-President Wilson is
requested, if not incompatible with
public welfare, to give the house an
itemized and complete statement Of
expenditures from the $50 million dol
lars given him b. congress in the war
to expend for public safety. by resolu-
ton sntroduced in the house by Rep
Tesentative Gould of New York.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Fire on Presidential Yacht

Washington--A fire, described as
slight, occurred recently On the prezi-
Dental yacht MayfloEer. which is tied
up at the navy yard here. The crew
and yard fire fighters extinguished
the blaze which started IN the petty
officers quarters.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06

Persons in Kansas found guilty of
robbery, burglary or carrying a deadly
weapon, viii be more severely prnish-
ed in the future If the legislature
amends the present statutes in accord
ance with recommendations of the
Kansas State Peace Officers Associa-
ficn, announced by earle Moore, chair
man Of the legislative committee. Ac-
eording to the proposed amendments
persons violating the statute relative
10 carrying deadly weapons would be
guilty Of felony instead o. a misde-
meanor and the punishment made not
less than one nor more than three
years at hard labor, instead of the
present $25 fine Robbery. in the first
degree would be punished by life i'm
prisonment instead of a to 15-year
sentence. Burglary in the first degree
. would be made punishable by q to 40
years, Imprisonment, instead of 10 10
Fl years. Likewise the sentence for
burglary in the second degree would
be increased from to 10 year. to
Is to so years, and the penalty for
Il degree burglary from to years
30 5 to Is years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Bonus 60 a.aoo MiIIion

Washin ston.-Passage Of the soldier
bonus bill would cost the government
approximately 1900 million dollars.
Secretary Houston estimated before
the senate finance committee, consid-
ering the soldiers aid measure.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06

Washington.-Close attention is be-
ing paid by the federal reserve board
70 the retail trade situation, it became
known here. The board feels that re-
taIlers throughout the country have
not decreased prices to the same lev.
els as the wholesalers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Car skids Into Canal. 2 Dead.

Buffalo, n. Y.-Death intruded into
a Christmas celebration when two
members of a party of six, on their
way to a family dinner at Niagara
Falls, were drowned when their motor
car plunged into the Erie canal ct
MartinsYille
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Sailors Raid Barbary coass

San Francisco.-More than four hun
were arrested here by the police and
naval beach patrols after what the po-
ice characterized -sn attack IN force
upon a dance han in the ~Barbary
Coast district %
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
MeAdoo Has New Rail Job.

Mexico City.-Newspapers of this
city gave much publicity TO the ex-
pected arrival here this week of vii
liam G. McAdoo. formerly secretary Of
the United States treasury, who is said
to be representing stockholders of the
Mexican National Railway
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06

Stephen NJ Wood, a resident of
Chase County for fifty-five years, a
member of the state legislature in
1865, and the donor of Camp Wood,
the state camp of the Kansas Young
Mems Christian Association, died at
Lis home near EImdale recently. Mr..
Wood was SO years old and in the
Civil War was quartermaster of the
9Th Missouri Cavalry.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-06
Boxer to Prison for eano CHM.

San Francisco.-An indeteminate
sentence Of from one to fifty years
imprisonment, the maximum penalty,
was imposed on Edmund (Spud1 Muir
ply, pugilist and gangster. for his
part IN the Howard street gangs
crimes against women