The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 4

SRS So aE which he started himself when the . Ail ROBT. D. ALLEN, Editor and Mgr.| general allotment scheme was-insti- Sayer ie i Ge wt * |tuted. Princess Mary is also the |! ; bd t Lan St. Louis. owner of an allotment joining her father’s, and one of the young . Entered at the Post Office of But- Yer, Mo., as second-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. GENERAL NOTES. _ William H. H. Miller, aged 77, for- mer attorney general of the United States, died at his home at Indian- apolis Friday. It was announced at Bryn Mawr College that Miss Helen Herron Taft daughter of ex-President Taft, had been unanimously elected dean of the college. United States Senator Harry Lane of Oregon died at a hospital at San Francisco Friday night from a nerv- ous disorganization produced by a blood clot on the brain. Eighty-cight corporations and in- dividuals were indicted by the Fed- eral Grand Jury at Boston for cdh- spiring to monopolize interstate com- merce in onions, The present first class at the Unit- ed States Naval Academy will be graduated June 28, a year ahead of its time, in order to provide addition- al officers for the fleet of submarine chasers. Taft 11, former Presi- dent Taft's son, a junior in Yale, en- listed Saturday in the artillery branch of the regular army, with nine other undergraduates. All were Charles too young jor the reserve officers’ corps. More than persons died in Chicago this year because they were undernourished and underclothed,” declared Mayor Thompson, “Price have been so high that people have been denying themselves the necessi- | ties of life.” All federal reserve banks are work- ing on a plan to issue memorandum certificates of $10 denomination to prospective purchasers of small amounts of Liberty Loan bonds to enable them to pay for the bonds by installment. Bernhardt is well again. zed surgeons by her rapid recovery from a recent opera- tion, the famous actress left Mount Sinai Hospital Saturday. She will live at a hotel because she can't find a country home that suits her. Four hundred troops were a band of Villistas who troop train at Ortiz Chihuahua, according’ to reaching government agcnts at ET Paso. The train was en route to the Parral district when the bandits wrecked it. jain by station, The’ body of George W. Guthrie, late United States ambassador to Japan, brought to a California port by a Japanese cruiser, arrived at San Francisco Friday, and as the caisson passed slowly through the streets the city paid its respects to the mem- ory of the late diplomat. ‘Information received at Paris, from Berne says the Turkish empire is in sore straits as the result of starvation and pestilence and the morale of the army has disappeared entirely. The people are panic- stricken at the inability of the troops to withstand the steady advance of the British forces into the heart of the country. PoE ITO Ste Li Yuan Hung, the Chinese presi- dent, has issued a mandate dismissing Premier Tuan Chi Jui, and naming __Dr. Wu Ting-Fang, former Ambas- sador to the United States. Acting Premicr, empowering him—te—form—e new Cabinet. This action probably will ‘end the deadlock in Parliament and make possible a declaration of _ war against Germany. Introduced by former President Taft as a man who would rather face @ battery than.an. audience, General Pershing, who will lead the first attacked -a] near | advices | Park on a small patch of vegetables, The resolution is fostered by Count Seebach, manager of the Royal The- ater of Dresden. High heeled shoes worn by women are of greater danger to the country than the German submarines, pro- |ponents of bill to limit the height of shoe heels }to one and one-eighth inches, told ‘the house license and miscellany com- mittee. They said that foot troubles caused 8@ per cent of the rejections of army applicants, and that these troubles were inherited from mothers who wore high heeled shoes. Chairman Adamson of the Hou jinterstate commerce committee -Fri- day afternoon introduced an admin- istration “trading with the enemy” bill, to punish any individual or firm that dedls with enemy firms, either idirectly or indirectly. Violation of ithe trading with the enemy section would be punishable by a fine of not {more than $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than ten years, or both. -Herbert C. Hoover, chosen by | President Wilson to be food admin- listrator under the Lever bill, has j opened Offices in Washington. He ‘will proceed immediately with plans }for food control organizations and within a few days probably will be- ;gin to select his assistants. Mr. | Hoover's only stipulation in accept- jing, the place was that neither he or his aides should receive pay for their ' services. | Graduation of the 238 members of the 1918 class at the naval academy jat Annapolis June 38 will enable the | navy department to release a number of junior officers in the service from unimportant assignments. and ‘ place {them on ships. where they will be of greater value. The ensigns will also work as instructors, whipping into shape the thousands-of navy recruits that have enrolled since the outbreak jof the war. The need of ensigns to 'command patrol boats, submarine |chasers, merchantmen and other uft is responsible for setting the |8 aduation ahead. Thirty indictments in the so-called “high grading” conspiracy were re- jturned by the Federal Grand Jury at Cheyenne Wyo, Friday. The men ‘involved, the goverment alleges, made ‘a fortune by selling stolen ore to | United States mints throughout the jcountry, The amount involved is ;said to have exceeded a million dol- lars. The names of 13 of those in- dicted were made public, the remain- jing 22 being withheld until arrests |were made. Among those indicted was Antonio Cuaz, who was arrested ‘in San Francisco May 2 last, while jnegotiating for the disposal of $15,- ooo worth of gold to the mint there. The men are charged with conspir- acy to defraud the Government. Poison ivy will not be killed by a j single cutting, as new shoots or suck- ers are persistently sent up from the rootstocks. The rootstocks must be exhausted by destroying the foliage as fast as it appears, either by repeated mowing or spraying with a strong salt brine’ made at the rate of three pounds of common salt to a gallon of water. If the weed is cut or sprayed in June and the treatment repeated Habout ‘three times at intervals of 10 days or 2 weeks, the rootstocks will become exhausted and die. Arsenite of soda (a violent poison), 1-4 pound per gallon of water, or crude oil may ‘be substituted for the salt spray. Spraying does not affect the roots directly, but is simply equivalent to cutting. However, there is the ad- vantage that no one need come into actual contact with the plant. HAIG IS COLOR BLIND The Defect Threatened the Field Marshal's Military Career. London, May 26.—Sir Douglas Haig, according to the parliamentary correspondent of one of the new papers, is color blind. This at first threatened to be a serious obstacle to his career as a soldier because he was refused entrance to the staff col- lege. Influence was brought to bear by certain prominent military men and he was passed through the cdl- lege. i King George, of Great Britain, can be seen most afternoons in Windsor cultivating a potato patch Princes puts in a good deal of time German singers who contract for appearance in America will be ex- jcluded from all German opera ren- dered in German theaters for a per- iod of five years, according to a reso- {lution which Berlin dispatches said would be adopted by the Berlin’ Ac- tors’ Association conference in June. Representative Kirby's]. -| tion of the hearing on the 2-cent r: MISSOURI NOTES, Elliot W. Major, Jr, son af forme: Elliott W. Major, jr., son of form- yer governor Major, has enlisted ag a private in the Fifth regiment Nation- al Guard of’ Missouri. is The last chapter in the celebrated Dr. Hyde case was written last week when the court clerk made up the] yrand jury called in the United States to deal exclusively with war cases will convene in Kansas City the day after draft registration day. Arrests of conspirators may be expected any court costs. They amounted to about $15,000. Beginning June 1 the farmers’ of the Sixth Federal District, compris- ing Missouri, Illinois, and Arkangas will be able to borrow’ money — on their farms from the Federal. Land Bank, Members of the University of Mis- souri unit of the American Field Am- bulance for service in France, to which Gov. Gardner's son and Bob Simpson, world’s champion track, athlete, are volunteers, will serve the entire length of the war. The 50 men who have volunteered and who sail for France June 23 had ‘enlisted for six months, The doors of the Bank of Lebanon an institution with a capital and sur- plus of $70,000, were closed Friday morning. A notice was posted stat- ing that the bank was in the hands of the state bank commissioners, Ham R, Farrar was president of the bank, W. A. Vernon vice president, J. L. Diffenderfer cashier and F. J. Demuth assistant cashier, United States Attorney Francis M. Wilson appealed to the police to ar- rest the persons who recently dis- tributed cards in Kansas City advis- ing men subject to draft under the new army bill not to register June 5. The cards were characterized by Mr. Wilson as being seditious and a vio- lation of Federal laws. He threat- ened: prosecution of anyone charged with being responsible for them. — - In building a system of 202 miles of hard surface roads, for which 1 I-4 million dollars was voted, Clay coun- ty will ask state and federal aid on 113 miles. This was decided upon to- day at a meeting of Harry W. Gra- ham of Chillicothe, superintendent of the first division of the state high- way department, with the Clay coun-]. ty court and the county rock roads committee. Chances of clearing up mysteries in St. Joseph slayings are believed to have grown dim. with the death Thursday night of John E, Krucker, who last February shot and_ killed his divorced wife, He died at a re- sult of an attempt at that time to end his own life. He had been. in jail since then. The shooting was at the home of Mrs. Krucker's parents shortly after conclusion of the trial of Osear McDaniel in which Mrs. Krucker's name had figured. The city of Joplin had so- mueh money in its treasury that the com- missioners voted to subscribe for $50,000 worth of the Liberty Loan Bonds. The police department ap- propriated $3,000 from its relief fund and. the fire department $2,000 from its relief fund for a similar purchase. Each of the funds was created under commission rule., When the com- missioners took charge three years ago there was only a little more than $5,000 in the general fund, from which all expenses of a general na- ture are paid. = Walter Cochran, of El Dorado Springs, had heard so much about the wickedness of Kansas City that last week when he took a trip to that burg he put an automatic pistol in his pocket for self protection. While he was standing on the corner of Twelfth ard Main street looking at the tall buildings, the pistol was in some manner discharged, the ball striking him in the foot. He was taken to the hospital, where the wound was dressed. When his foot gets well he will be tried for carry- ing concealed weapons. A young man in Kansas City the other day came near losing a big damage suit against the Kansas City Railway company when he married his best witness. In 1914 he and his fiancee were boarding a street car when he fell and the car ran over his foot. He filed a suit against the company: but in the meantime he had married the young lady who was with him when he was hurt, and who was his best witness. when the case was called in court his most import- ant witness was not permitted to tes- tify because she was his wife. He won his case anyhow. An order issued by the Public Ser- vice Board at Jefferson City post- pones from June 4 to June 9, resump- road ‘passenger rate. The reason ast set by the commission for e ther postponement of the hearin, is that the railroads not supplied that and’ 31 must istration at re tures that were part of the increas mission, . KANSAS CITY WILL HAVE FIRST WAR GRAND JURY Prompt, Sharp Actiori to be Taken Against Anti-Draft Agitators. Kansas City, May 29—The | firs time, C ses of conspiracy against the grand jury. ed States departments in indictments in every case. erative corps of officers who worked on a case eral, state, county and city forces. Injunction. suits brought by anti- conscription leaders are believed by authorities to be hopeless. Hearings in these cases have not been refused, but in the courts where the cases have appeared the hearings have been brief and decisive in favor of the agents of the government. REVEALS NEW GERMAN PLOT Ship Company Organized to Involve America With Allies. 29.—Another Washington, May German plot was revealed before the House interstate commerce commit- tee today, when disclosed the fac Secretary Lansing that “Germans or German offic attempted shortly before this Nation's war declaration to involve the United States in dif- ferences with England and France through organizations of a big steam- ship company that was deliberately to violate foreign trading with enemy The plot is now being investigated by the Department of Justice upon authority of reliable government in- formation, Lansing told the commit- tee. ey A New Alarm in Russia. Too much alarm should not be felt over the reported statement of cer- tain Russian statesmen that they see ho hope of continuing the war if fac- tory workers cannot be persuaded to modify their demands for more and ever more wages. There is no doubt that the prepon- derating sentiment in Russia is in favor of the war, and no doubt, also, that there are no Russians worthy the name who are satisfied to see the forces of Germany occupying a large area of Russian territory. If the workmen are convinced that their demand for wages have exceed- ed the ability of the country to pay and that the safety and integrity of their country is involved, the de- mands will be modified. It was prob- ably for the purpose of securing labor that the alarming warnings were issued.—St. Louis Republic. To The Young Men of Bates County. Every young man between the ages of 21 and 31 should thoroughly understand the importance of prompt- ly presenting himself at his voting precinct Tuesday, June 5th, for reg- istration. : This is a duty of which there can be no evasion. No one is exempt but those already in the military es- establishment. Every man between the ages specified must register. There can be no excuse, no quib- bling, for failure to respond to this duty. one can escape it. Present yourself to your registra- tion officer. Answer the questions asked you truthfully and without equivocation. If you are exempt from draft you will not be taken, but you must reg- ister. Let no one tell you other- wise. 4 If you are between the ages of 21 and 31, young man, don’t fail to reg- ister Tuesday, Y s-Judge J. F. Smith, who. for some time has been very ill, is up and is getting around with a measure of hi old time. “pep.” Mrs. T. W. Fisk left the latter part of the week for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Percival, at Cole’ Camp, Mo. ‘Every man between the ages of 21 , June 5. No one is exempt from and the penalty for fail- tratio mission suspended some months ago. The roads are asking for a straight .]3 cent per mile rate without round- trip reduction: and mileage book fea- ‘}granted and suspended by the com- the laws of the United States will be 'brought promptly to the attention. of Agents of the Unit- of detection and apprehension are ready with evi- dence which it is believed will result The federal authorities have been assisted in these cases: by the largest co-op- ever in Kansas City. They represented men from the fed- some modification of the demands of The penalty is severe and no}]- Veil Your Windows W/OUR window is a pic- ture frame. The view ouside is an ever- chang- ing picture. : Your problem is to veil the. window without obscuring the picture. That is why QUAKER CRAFT LACE is the ideal window covering. Itmeéets ia requiremenjs pérfect- | And our stocks include a range of patterns to suit every woman's taste. t By the Yard, By the Pair, $1.00 to $6.00 ; Sunfast Draperies and Cretonnes for Side Drapes. Rug Department Buy new Rugs for the front rooms and move the old ones back. It pays to buy the good kinds and we are showing a complete lot now in. Axminsters $20.00 up Brussels $15.00 up : : Velvets $20.00 up and every one a better value than we could buy and offer you again. Window Shades, Curtain Rods, Congoleum Rugs, Rug Border, etc. Walker-McKibben’s a The Quality Store LOWER H. C. OF L. TO BE FIRST AIM OF FOOD BOARD First Staples to be Studied Probably Will be Grain, Flour, Meat and Sugar, Hoover Announces Washington, May 29..-Reduction of the present high prices the con- sumer pays for food, it was an- nounced today, will be one of first aims of the new food adminis- tration which will be created with Herbert C. Hoover at its head as soon as congress passes the govern- ment’s food control legislation. This will be undertaken by cut- ting down the margin between. pro- ‘ducer and consumer through a sys- tem of executives under the central administration, each to study means of shortening the speculative . chain that handles a particular commod- ity, The first staples to be studied probably will be grain, flour, meat and sugar. The food administration, through its ‘commodity executives, will as- certain just what the country can spare in food staples, and* this will be balanced off against the allies’ demands. If stocks available for ex- port do not reach the allied require- ments the allied commissioners will settle among themselves their ap- portionment. Emil Level, food expert with the permanent French commission :here presented to Mr. Hoover and Secre- tary Houston today France’s food needs for the next few months. M. Level will make all French food purchases in this country antil a permanent arrangement is miade among the allies, When that is done he will represent France on, the al- lied food purchasing commission. Offers of volunteer service to the administration continue to pour into Mr. Hoover's office. Virtually every, occupation and industry is repre- sented. = 3: To carry out his idea of the great- est possible decentralization of the administration Mr. Hoover will give to state food organizations the names of all volunteers who cannot be used by the administration. German Spies, Nobody ought to be surprised at the announcement that the German Government has a spy system in the United States or ‘that. news of the sailing of the torpedo-boat flotilla got to Germany long before it was announced here. ; Tt has long been known that Ger- many and Austria planted agents: in this country to stir up strikes in mu- nitions: factories, and it is certain that Germany. took every step to. prepare for wart with America as soon as 4 ‘resumption of the U-boat war was }decided upon. The. president _ had warned them that this country would the here. It ig not unlikely that the Gere man General Staff had thought the whole matter out in a general way years ago. That is the way they do things in the German Army, What is this country going to do about it? It is easy to answer that we shall shoot the spies, if they. are caught, but in this country, where many loyal citizens speak English with a German accent, concealment is an easy thing for the spy. Intern- ing all known’ alien enemies might simplify the problem, but ths coun- try is reluctant to take that course. A better line of attack will be to make certain that all communication with Germany is cut. That ought not to be impossible—St. Louis Re-' public, “DON’T FOOL WITH DRAFT” Attorney General Gregory Warns Against Resistance. Washington, May 29—The govern- ment is going to deal sternly with men who spread anti-registration or anti-draft propaganda, As the day of registration draws near, the Department of Justice and other agencies of the government are carefully watching for evidences of resistance to the law. Secret ser- vice agents are scattered through- out the land today on a_ still hunt, continuing their round-up which al- ready has netted eleven men and nine indictments, “These arrests,” said Attorney General Gregory, in an official state- ment, “should be accepted by the country generally as a warning against interfering with ‘the enforce- ment of the provisions of the new army law. They merely, demonstrate what the Department of Justice pro- poses to do in every.case where at- tempts are made to hinder or dis- courage registration.” A section of the Espionage — Bill dealing with interference with army Tegistration provides penalties of twenty years’ imprisonment and $10,- 000 fine. This section of the bill Says: i hie hake 4 Whoever, when the United States is-at war, shall willfully make .or convey false -reports or false state- ments..with intent to interfere with ‘the. operation or success of the mil- itary or naval forces of the United States,.er to promote the success .of its: enemies, and. whoever, when the United States is at war, shall will- - fully catse or attempt to cause in-_ subordination, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of-duty in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct the recruiting or ‘enlistment. service_of the United States to the injury’ of the service or of the United States, shall be pun- _ ished. by.a fine of not. more than $10,- ~ ‘000 or imprisonment. for nét more |