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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-14

In these days Of hurry
and high pressure, Ameri-
can appetites, pampcrsd
with abundance Of food. are
"chancy" things, and the
eye is summoned into serv-
ice TO make the busy, tired
business folks, the fnicky
children, eat.
A nicked plate worries
the diner like n minute peb-
bic in the shoe an ugly pat
tern peeves him cher. tool;
eating from the wrong size
or shape dish depresses
him; waiting for the right
one to be found, or maybe
washed, riles him.
Wherefore, IL is NOT ez-
travagance, but downright
thrift, to stock up with
whatever new dishes arc
needed, taking advantage
of the September Sale
prices.
These are so flexible. you
see. In dinner sets, there
is American porcelain
$3.50 to $50; English por-
celain, $3.50 TO S65; Nip
pom china, S32 so 70 500:
French china. s65 to $500.
And talking Of thrifs
hundreds Of housewives
who are just about ready 10
do their Fall canning win
be interested in
Amazing SnUiH1s on
Glass Preserving Jars
Msson's metal screw-top Jars
Half-pint, 65c dozen, Pint, 75c
dozen. Quart, Sc DOZEN Half
gallon. s1.10 dozen,
Mason's vtde-moufh Jars
Pint size, 0Oc dozen Quart
size, 81 dozen. Half-gallon sire,
SIPS dozen
Banner wide-uiouth glass-ton
jars
Half pint, 90c dozen. Pint
size, 81 dozen. Quart size. sf.20
dozen. Half gallon, $3.50 dozen.
Also, we have
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
TELEGRAPHlC BREvlTIES

The war finance corporation has
issued a call for a conference in
Washington April of southern bank
ers to discuss methods by which the
expectation of southern agricultural
products may best be financed An
nouncement of the conference fol-
problems by the cabinet.
American troops sent by Major
General Allen to clean out commun-
lists in the bridgehead zone at Co
blenz, Germany, made short work of
a reds nest near Montabauer.
The town of Kutaia has been
evacuated by the Turks, and the
Greeks are now masters of the Bag.
dad railway and are continuing to ad-
vance toward Angora. The Turkish
communication announces the with
drawal of the Ottoman forces to new
positions.
The Independent Labor party, in
conference at Southport, Eng, reject
ed by an overwhelming majority
proposal TO accept Lenine's twenty
one conditions for utilization with the
Third International of Moscow.
President Harding has decided to
have an exhaustive investigation
made OF the manner in which the GOV
eminent is caring for disabled war
veterans Within a few days, it was
announced, he will select a special
committee to conduct the inquiry.
Heating the erman and other for.
eign scientists to the goal by inaugur-
ating a new era in wireless commun-
icatiop DIR. E A Eckhardt and DR.. ].
c. KaIcher of the American bureau of
standards have succeeded in record
ing radio signals geographically.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
DEATH OF JOHN BURROUGHS
End Comes to Famous Naturalist
While on Way Home From
Pasadena, California.

New York. John Burroughs, fam
GUS naturalist, died at O'Clock the
other morning on New York Central
train at KingsVille, o.
Word of Mr.. Burroughs death was
received here by New York Central
officials. He was returning East at
ter spending the winter in Pasadena,
Cal, where he was reported to have
been slightly i'll with afflictions Incl
dent to old age. He was in his eighty.
fourth year.
Burroughs, it was said, had hoped
to reach home before April to ceIe-
brate his eighty-fourth birthday with
old friends. His eighty-third was
celebrated with a great gathering
which included his particular friends,
Henry Ford, H. S. Firestone and
Thomas A Edison.
The event was to have taken place
at his home in Floral Park. near
Poughkeepsie.
John Burroughs was the venerable
lean of nature writers in the United
States. Through a score of books he
shared with countless readers his life.
long intimacy with birds, bees. flow
ers and the whole out-of-doors. His
highly developed powers of observa.
ton and the charm of his interpreta.
tons were the marvel of his critics.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
so JPAN COULDN'T GRAB 1T
Despite Protests United States Naval
Force Held Russian Radio Sta
ton on Russian Island.

Washington. - Frustrated in their
persistent efforts to GUST the Ameri-
cans from the possession of Russian
Island, the most powerful wireless
station in the orient, the Japanese at
last have despaired and have under
taken the construction of a powerful
station on Japan proper. according to
official adviees reaching Washington.
Japanese naval engineers have be-
gun the erection of station at Oshi-
ma. in Nagaseki prefecture. some
seven hundred miles south by east of
the American station at Vladivostok.
When completed it will be the AR
lington" of Japan and will be capable
of communicating with all parts OF
the world.
Back of Japan's decision to build
this new station is a record Of several
years strenuous aud futile effort to
obtain possession of the Russian
Island wireless, which Eow is held and
operated by a few American naval
officers and thirty-five men recruited
from the Asiatic fleet.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
MIDDLE WEST HIT BY STORM
Snow and Freezing Weather Cause
Heavy Damage in Many Sec
tions-Large Property Loss.

Kansas City. - The storm which
swept Kansas City and, vicinity was
general over thi: section of the mid
die West, reports from four states,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Ok
lahoma, indicate. Snow, hail, rain and
wind combined in several places TO
make Easter Sunday a typical winter
day.
At night a storm which struck Tulsa
in the afternoon was still in progress.
In north central Nebraska the tenn
perature fell close to the zero mark
early in the day.
Evidently the blizzard moved from
north to south rapidly, as Nebraska
was recovering about the same time
1t was getting under way in Oklahoma.
Heavy damage to fruit and crops
around Muskogee and Sedalia was in
dicated, though at Wichita a good
chance for fruit to survive was seen
unless the mercury fell Unexpectedly
low last night. A drop to "a degrees
was predicted and orchardists were
busy getting smudge pots into service.
Around Sedalia fruit trees are in full
bloom and if an early prediction of
freezing temperatures held good last
night, big damage is probable. In the
afternoon it was not extremely .old
there, snow melting as rapidly as it
fell.
Damage from nigh winds was gen.
eral in northern Nebraska, the storm
almost reaching the proportions OF
tornado between Hastings and Trum-
bull. Livestock was killed, telephone
poles leveled and buildings demol-
ished.
The worst Lail storm in years
struck Tulsa in the afternoon. Big
damage was done to orchards, gardens
were beaten into the ground, trees
stripped of foliage and thousands of
window panes broken One green
house reported Twenty-Five thousand
feet of glass broken. The temperature
did not go below 81 degrees. The hail
visited Muskogee later in the day, de-
stroying thousands of collars worth of
property there.
From Springfield, No, and Ottawa,
Kas., came reports of heavy sleet
High winds bordering on twister pro-
portions caused damage to telephone
and telegraph wires at Peabody, Kas.,
and Gardner, Kas. Gardner is about
thirty miles south of here.
The blizzard was a repetition of last
years Easter Sunday heather, though
perhaps on milder scale.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
EIGHT KILLED IN
A CHICAGO BLAST
Illicit Fireworks Trade Blamed
by Officials for the Ire
mendous Explosion.
MORE THAN 100 WERE INJURED
One Building Utterly Demolished and
Many Others Damaged-Two
Men Are Under Arrest.

Chicago and storage
of fireworks in a manner prohibited
by city ordinances was blamed by city
police officials for an explosion in the
heart of the west side tenement dis
trist, which killed at least eight per
sons, injured 100 or more, made doz-
ems temporarily homeless and dam
aged buildings several blocks away.
One man was in Jail in connection
with the disaster, and two others, pos
sibly killed in the explosion, were
sought by the police.
The Toll May Reach IL.
The explosion wrecked the ware
houses of Well and Company, paper
dealers, where a dozen men were
working. All are believed to have
been killed.
Next door was the firm Of Singer
& Schaffer, dealers in novelty mer-
chandise. Charles Fitzmorris, chief
of police, and Shirley High, fire attor-
ney. after completing investigations,
declared that the Singer & Schaffer
firm had manufactured fireworks in
and around the ware house in viola
ton of city ordinances and that COM
bustion OF these fireworks was to
blame for the disaster.
Firm Had Been Warned.
They declared the firm frequently
had been warned to discontinue the
manufacture and had been repeatedly
warned that fireworks could not be
stored within the city limits.
There is no question" said Chief
Fitzmorris, that this manufacture of
bootleg fireworks caused this catas-
trophe"
Max Singer and Edward Schaffer
were rearrested and placed in Jail
after they had been que.tioned and
the other day.
Consumed Ton of Explosives.
More than ton of TINT, dynamite
and other explosives is believed to
have been consumed in the explosion.
Scores of fireworks labels, pieces of
firecrackers and torpedoes were found
near the wreckage. In nearby build
ing were seven thousand pounds of
according to police, and evil
dence indicating that hundreds of
pounds of gun powder and dynamite
had been shipped to the firm
was said b. the police to have been
found
Only four of the eight persons
known to be dead had been identified.
TIE other bodies were so badly man
gled as to be unrecognizable
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
REVOLT FLARES UP
IN ALLIED ZONE
Communists Start Tr0nble in
Several Sections of the
Ruhr District.
FOURTEEN KILLED IN BATTLE
Fighting in Essen Results in Much
Observation-Disclosures Law Declared
in Two Cities.

Berlin.-Red revolt, which the gov
eminent apparently had considered
crushed in Central Germany. has flam-
ed up through the Ruhr district and
is running wild through the territory
now held by the allied troops of occu-
patton.
Battles have been fought in five
cities of this zone between the safety
police and armed communists. Four
teen men were killed at Essen and
forty-six, wounded. Many deaths are
reported from Dortmund.
Reds Control Railway Lines.
The communists now are in control
of the railway lines running from Dus
seldorf-one of the three cities seized
under the recent decision of the allied
council at London-to Cologne and to
EIberfeld.
Martial law has been declared at
Dusseldorf and Muenster.
The affected cities are Essen, home
of the great Krupp gun works, Nett.
mann, Velbert. Hamborn and bort
mund, the most serious clashes taking
place in Essen.
Berlin still is quiet, but the popula.
ton and government are apprehen-
sive.
U. S. Correspondents arrested.
The police have establish ed a war
time regime at Halle, where tkey have
twice arrested American correspon-
dents who we're trying to send mes
sages to their newspapers in English.
No person is permitted to talk over
the telephone in anything but German,
and the eye of suspicion is cast on
all foreigners.
Communists in the west of Ger
many, according to the opinion of OBJ
servers, probably will prove far more
difficult to handle than those of Cen
trail Germany, who scattered before
the police and safety troops
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
INCREASE IN OIL SUPPLIES
Daily Production for February Was
10000 Barrels Greater Than
That of Last Year.

Washington. - Petroleum stocks in
the United States increased 71s mil
lion barrels in February, according to
geological survey reports given out re-
Gently. Domestic production aver
aged 10000 barrels a day more than
a year ago, though imports dropped
off 10 million barrels under the De-
cember total. Consumption was prac-
tically stationary. and total estimated
stocks on hand February % were ap-
proximateIy 1872 million barrels.
During the month 35,112.o00 barrels
were produced in the United States
and II ,384,O0O barrels imported. chief
Iy from Mexico. making an available
total of 1896, 900 against a February,
1920. total of SO 1888. 900 barrels.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
AMERICAN TROOPS CALLED
United States Soldiers It CobIenz
Answer Riot Call From Mont
baur, in Their Territory.

Coblenz.-A communist uprising oc-
CURED the other morning in the Amer
lean bridghead area, at Montbaur, six
miles northeast OF Ehrenbreitstein. A
riot call was answered by the provost
marshal, and American military police
were dispatched to Montbaur to re-
store order.
Halle, Germany.-Federal artillery
shelled the insurgent communists
grouped on the hills to the west of
Eisleben, dispensing them.
After a brief engagement Sanger
hansen, southwest OF Eisleben, was oc-
cupied by federal forces, which now
control that town.
Count P1-1inski, colonel of police in
the Mansfield district, has taken
charge of the operations around Elsie
ben
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
MAKE BIG LIQUOR SEIZURE
Dry Agents in New York Declare
clersymen Were to Be Used
in Booze Plot.

New York.-Liquors valued at $780,
900 were seized by prohibition agents
recently in the warehouse of the
Memorial Wine Company. They con-
fiscated $500 cases of wine, each con-
tanning three gallons, and five hun
dred barrels of wine, each containing
fifty-two gallons. They visited five
other places, where they confiscated
wines and WHISTLES valued at $4,000.
The Menorah Company, prohibition
officers said, has no permit to store
or sell liquor
One of the agents declared a plot
had been discovered to use clergymen
as a cover in the open sale of wines,
apparently for sacramento purposes,
and that evidence had been found in
dicating that certain clergymen had
signed permits in blank
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
FRENCH ENVOY AT
The WHITE HOUSE
Former Premier viViani Dis
cusses European Situation
With the President.
VISIT WAS ONE OF COURTESY
French Officials Willing to Give At
tentive Ear to Any Suggestions
from United States.

Neutrality-suspicious. Viviani, former
premier of France, was received by
President Harding at the White House
after he had formally presented his
credentials as an envoy extraordinary
to this country to Secretary Hughes
at the state department.
According to statements by officials
the former premier's visit remains
nothing more than ''one of courtesy"
1t was intimated by those attached
to his mission, however, that as an en-
Voy from Fance he would give an
attentive ear to any suggestions in
vilving the relation of France with
the United States.
The only formal announcement was
one issued at the White House after
the conference with President Hard
ing, which said that M. ViYiani called
to pay the compliments and utter the
good wishes of the president of France
to the president" and added that he
emphasized the desire of France to
continue the friendship between the
two republics, and expressed graft
tude to America for the great things
done since his previous visit" Formal
announcement was also made that
President Harding would give a din
ner at the White House in honor of
NJ. Viviani's visit on April 5
The conference at the state depart
ment lasted for an hour and a half,
and later Secretary Hughes called at
the hotel where M. ViViani is stopping
to return the visit. The only COM
ment Mr.. Hughes would make was an
expression of his pleasure in receiv-
ing the former French premier and at
the opportunity to renew an old ac-
workmanship.
II. Viviani intends to go to BaIti-
more Immediately, with Ambassador
Jusserand to attend the funeral of
Cardinal Gibbons. He will return here
Immediately to attend a dinner given
In his honor at the French embassy
at which Vice-President Coolidge and
Senator Lodge. chairman of the senate
foreign relations committee, will be
present.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
FORD'S ASSETS 384 MILLION
Animal Report of Motor Company
Shows s1a,oOo.ooo Cash on
Hand December 81.

Lansing. Mich-Total assets of
S3S4.554. 941.6S on December 81, 1920,
are shown in the annual report of the
Ford Motor Company filed with sec
retNty of state. Cash on hand, in
Guiding deposits in banks, is SIS, $751;
244.51, and the value of credits owing
to the company is $54,43S, 633.5O. Liza
bilities Of the company o. unsecured
Indebtedness are shown as $143, O25,-
3OO.51
The report shows that 1921 shares
of the company's stock (par value
800 a share) are owned by Henry
Ford, 71,911 by Edsel B. Ford and
SAB by Mrs. Henry Ford, the three
holdings being all the outstanding
stock
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
Turks Still in Retreat.

Constantinople.-Th town of Ku-
taia has been evacuated by the Turks,
and the Greeks are now masters OF
the Bagdad railway and are eontinu-
ing to advance toward Angora The
Turkish communication announces the
withdrawal of the Ottoman forces to
new positions. The plan apparently
is to keep the army intact and retreat
into the depths of Anatolia, drawing
the Greeks after it. KAHN Kara Be-
kir, commander of the Turkish Ma
tionalist army in Erzerum, with 25,-
600 troops, is making a forced march
from Armenia to aid Mustapha Renal
Pasha.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
GERMAN STRIKE FEAR PAST
Immediate Danger in Uprisinss
Of the Reds.

Berlin.-Belief that immediate dan
ger of a co-ordinated general strike in
the Central German industrial regions
and its possible spread to other sec
tions has been banished is expressed
by government leaders here. They
take this attitude because of the
Easter holidays which have come at
the critical period, in the govern
ment's view
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07

Seth Ettenson, 40 years old, is dead
at Stamford, Conn. according to word
received by relatives at Leavenworth.
He was member of dry goods firm
IN LeaVenworth, where he was born
and reared. At the beginning of the
world war he was commissioned a
second lieutenant and later was pro-
NOTED to a first lieutenancy. Near
the end of the war hfs health became
impaired. He was prominent in local
lodge circles, taking especial interest
In Abdallah Temple of the Mystic
Shrine
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
FOUND nth NEGRO vlCTIM

Monticello, Ga.-Two more bodies
Of negroes were recovered from the
Alcovy River here, making a total of
eleven bodies found since the author
tiles began an investigation of charges
OF peonage and murder against John
Williams, a. Jasper County farmer.
Like the first three, found several
days ago.. the bodies just recovered
were chained together and weighted
down with sacks of stone and iron.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
General wranoIe,s Shin Rohh.d

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES military
documents regarding the Crimean
campaign have been stolen from The
ship Alexander Mirkailovitch, on
which General Wrangel is staying.
Gold, silver and jewels also have been
taken from the vessel
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
A Dublin Official Slain.

Dublin.-Captain Rees, one of the
officials of Dublin castle, was shot
and killed the other morning outside
his hotel in Drrry street, it was an
nounced, in an official statement from
the castle. Four men comprised
the party which did the ooting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07

The jury in the trial OF William Eft
man. charged with the murder of his
wife, Mary Elftman, at their home
near Bonner Springs the night of No
vember 8. last. failed to agree after
celebrating fifteen hours and was dis
missed at o'clock in the morning by
Judge ]. II. WendOrff. Four reports
We're returned in the night thai the
jury was unable t" decide on a yer.
dict. Elftman viii be. tried again at
the next term Of criminal court, which
opens the second week in April. He
Is out on a continuance of his original
bond.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
MOULD End Inhuman warfare.

Geneva.-Means of limiting block
AIDES and restricting the use of as
phyxiating gases and other measures
of war that might be considered in
human will be discussed by the inter
national conference of the Red Cross,
which is meeting here.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
Austria's Case before LEAGUE.

Paris.-The financial committee of
the League OF Nations is considering
the case of Austria bankrupt ma
ton, hopelessly insolvent, with its en-
tire assets mortgaged under the terms
Of the Versailles treaty to the allies.
The fine is coming when the mort
gage must be foreclosed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07

Efforts are being made to locate
relatives of James Daniels of Topeka,
whose charred body was found in the
ruins of the Whitley hotel, which was
burned to the ground the other morn
ing. Letters on his body, from a rela-
tive in New Mexico may enable Off
GERS to locate his relatives. Daniels
was a salesman for the Chamberlin
Weather Strip Company OF Kansas
City.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
Cor Memorial to eoraas.

Buenos Aires. = President frigoyen
of Argentina is understood to have
under consideration participation by
the country in the construction of a
great scientific laboratory at Panama,
as memorial to the late General Will
liam c. Gorgas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07

-Four times the usual number of
parole applications from Kansas con-
victs were given favorable consider
alton by the state board of admins
tration at its meeting at Lansing,
Warden ]. X. Codding announced. OF
one hundred to be considered, forty
were recommended. Warden Codding
explained the large increase by the
fact that very few paroles were grant
ed in the winter months when Jobs
were scarce. With the opening f
spring work on the farms there is a
demand for help and little trouble is
experienced in obtaining places for
the men away from bad influences.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
White Girl Neoro,s can+iD.

Jackson, Mich.-Henry Bowers, ne
gro. is held by the police for investi.
cation, following the rescue of a To-
year-old white girl from garage, in
which she had been held prisoner by
the negro. according TO the story the
girl told officers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
China Thanks U. S. for Aid.

Washington.-The president of the
Chinese republic has cabled to Presi.
dent Harding thanking the ,-dminis.
tration and the people of the United
States for the generous contributions
and the good will" of the American
people for China in distress.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
Ready to Crown Charles.

London.-It is reported that the
Hungarian ministerial council has de-
cided to crown Charles. the ex-em-
peror of Austria. king Of Hungary
within two or three days.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
He Flew 1e1 Miles an Hour.

Los Angeles.-Eddie Rickenbacher,
American ace in the world war, made
a new record when he flew from Oak
land 10 Los Angeles. a distance of 3s5
miles, in two hours and thirtytHo
minutes
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
VenizeIos to Be MIkado's Guest.

Athens. = Ex-Premier Venizelos is
going to Japan to be the guest of the
mikado. who asked him to arbitrate
difficulties pending between Japan
and the United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07

The first of several cases in the su-
preme court involving claims against
the bank guaranty fund, arising from
the failure Of the Kansas State Bank
OF Salina, was settled by agreement
recently. Two certificates of deposit,
totaling $3.50. held by David Richie,
a Salina attorney, were recognized as
valid.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-04-07
Slain by Iowa Bank Robbers.

Des Moines. la. K. Myers. night
Waterman at the bank at Stuart,
southwest of here, was shot fatally
by five bandits. who robbed the bank
the other night.