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THE EVENING MISSOURIAN & ELEVENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1918 NUMBER 85 Louis. kin. Fred- carver. ' Loma. ) -. Ai 1 p-v 1 i IF 1! E Conference of Retail Dealers In Food and Produce Tomorrow. TO TALK OF PRICKS Weekly Schedule of Quota linns Suggested by Food Administration. A committee of Ave representatives of grocerymen and butchers of Colum bia met this morning to discuss, plans for a new delivery system for the city. A plan for a twc-delivery-a-day sys tem probably will be placed before a conference of retail dealers in food and produce tomorrow evening at 7:30 fcr ratification. A schedule of fair prices for food products requested by the Fjod Administration will also be brought up f.r discussion. The deliv ery plan includes a morning and 'an afternoon delivery. Orders taken in the morning will be delivered in the afternoon and orders placed in the afternoon will be delivered the next morning. The committee. vJhich met this morning at thc Commercial Club rooms, was composed of O. W. Bout- well. W. 11. Nowell. S. H. Baker, J. R. Richards and W. S. Coffman. Mem bers of the county and state Food Ad ministration were present. "It is vitally important that all re tailers of food products be present at the meeting tomorrow evening." sa d Harry S. Jacks, secretary of the Columbia Commercial Club this morn ing. "A delivery system more or less permanent will have to be decided up on and besides, other matters of inter est both to the retailer and the con sumer will be taken up. The State Food Administration has asked that a committee of merchants be appointed to submit a weekly schedule of fair prices which the administration will pass upon and in which they will make any changes they think neces sary for the good of the public. The Food Administration's orders are still mandatory on the merchants and hear ty co-operation will materially aid in their work and at the same time pre vent injustice to both the retailers and the consumers." ins impressions of japan Alfonso Johnson Tells of Conditions In Hie Far East. Alfonso Johnson, former manager of the University Co-operative Store, now with the Japan Advertiser and the Trans-Pacific in Tokyo, Japan, DECID m PLAN DELIVERY writes of some of his impressions of j the British Mission is trying to inter Japan and the customs of that coun-1 est in the Universities of England, try. in a letter to E. R. Childers In President A. Ross Hill spoke on the speaking of the weather Mr. Johnson international . educational relations sayS: j Dean Walter Miller of the Graduate "Natives talk of rainy seasons but 1 School of the University spoke on the as far as a Missourian can tell Japan ' future place of humanities in educa has a rainy season of five days once I tion. Dean iE-. J. McCaustland attend- a week with small showers in be tween seasons. It Is pretty wet for the rikishaman. "I am in Osaka today," Mr John son says, " two hundred miles from Tokyo. At the noon meal (tlflin) I -was the only foreigner in a Iargfr din ing room only three English busi ness men in this city of over a mil lion people. Even in Tokyo one goes blocks without seeing an Englishman , or an American. "Japan is a country 01 extremes. ,,.,. ...... nrn frttn one can . m. u. i - -.-- , Adam to Henry Ford. Theold and the new meet here Th , ox-car t and the coolie cart meet the powerful motor irucK: a narrow lUb ,. , bordered by small dark shops meets ( a broad paved avenue anu stops rigiu there. "Since the Japanese eat sleep, read and drink "sake" on their floor it is no small wonder that they remove ihelr shoes (more often clogs) before entering. Even an ill bred American vould not step on his bed or on his table without undressing his feet. "Here we pay our street car fare when we get off Instead of 'Pay as You Enter.' In America one runs the risk of ntrer finishing the ride for which he has paid. In Japan's street car accidents the killed do not lose their fare. "I am trying to learn the language. The Japanese conversation as it sounds to me, is a system of grunts but one must be able to vary the length, breadth, thickness and velocity of these grunts before he can really speak the la'nguage." "Turning to the right in Japan is not right but turning to the left is riEht. You can imagine how topsy turvy it is when the left is the right way to turn. On the other hand the Japs claim that we do not write right for we write from the left, not the right, and they start from the right hand side of the page. But In writing -we go to the right while they go straight down." z To Make ETery-JIeniber,CanTass. All men who can help in the ev-ery-member canvass of the Christian Church are asked to attend a meeting at the church at 7:30 o'clock Wednes day night. THE WEATHER For Columbia and Vicinity: Generally .fair and somewliat rooter tonight and '! nedaj-. Lotvrst temperature toulfbt near the freeilnt point. " For Missouri: Generally fair touiuht aud Wednesday. Cooler tonight and east and south portions Wednesday. Shippers' Forecant: Within a radius of 200 mile of Columbia the louest tempera ture during the next KG hours will le about ii; s norm; as east and south. Weather Condition. Itain has been general In the loner Mis sissippi Valley from New Orleans to Cairo; up the Ohio Valley Including mueh of.Illl nols, In.li.ilia Kentucky. Ohio, and Inn sylvanla. while slivt aud iimv have fallen over most of Wisconsin, Miuueoota. North Dakota and Manitoba. Klsenhere mostly lair U'ttithcr lias prevailed. The weather Is somen bat colder 111 sec tluns nest of the Mississippi, and in the Kike reslon and St. taivretice Valley hut there Is no extereme cold aiivnherv with in the confines of the United States. In Columbia generally fair weather with about normal temperature will prevail dur ing the next two or three dacs. The low est tcmiK'rattirc will be at or near the ireczltijj value. Local Data. The hlKbest temperature in Columbia yesterday was Ki and the lowest last nicht was X). Italnfall O.OO. Ilelatlve humidity noon yesterday was 4'J per cent. A year ago yestcnlay the highest temerature aim ine lowest was -3. Italutall 0.14. The Temperatures Today. 7 a. m 39 12 m 52 ? a. m 45 1 p. m 52 9 a. m 45 2 p. m 53 10 a- m 47 3 p. m 53 11. a. ni 51 4 p. m 50 HILL HONORED AGAIN Association of American Uni versities Select Him as President. President A. Ross Hill of the Uni versity was elecfed president of the Association of American Universities at a meeting held at Harvard Decem ber 4 and 5. This is the second time that Presi dent Hill has been honored by election to the presidency of a national asso ciation within the last month. He was chosen to head the National As sociation of State Universities Novem ber 13 at a meeting held in Chicago. iMeans of facilitating the interna tional interchange of teachers, stu dents and editorial opinion was the topic of discussion at the twentieth annual conference of the Association of American Universities at Boston last week. The British Educational Mission was the guest of tne associa tion. The members of this mission have visited over sixty educational institutions in the United States, and. Impressed by their superiority in ap plied science dourses, are seeking a way to finance the interchange of stu dents between Great Britain and this country. Before the war the majority of Am erican students went to German Uni versities and it is these students that evi the meeting. The problems presented by the S. A. T. C. and the future military training of students were discussed by H. C. Maclaurin, who Is the director of col lege training of the committee on ed ucation of the War Department. He said that the attitude of the War De partment was that the S. A. T. C. was an experiment made under military necessity and, although It was not a success, this was due in a large meas- f nr in' thn shortness nf the time of -- -- --- , ' US tfAlSlCIlUU illlli IIIU IIIllUClld. IIC a,Med that the R Q T c wouW con. had beforc 0ctober and aU b(j mc cd , , , for a a T. c units A ET Government Asked to Pro vide For Airplane and Truck Service. By United Tress. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. The an nual postoffice appropriation bill -which provides salary increases, an appropriation of $2,185,000 for the air plane mail service, and an appropria tion of one million dollars for rural motor truck service, was .introduced today in the House." Despite the Increase In the airplane and motor truck branches the bill was lower this year than last, carrying $359,657,577 as against $301,477,577 in the previous bill. POINDEXTER IS BUSY AGAIN Now He Asks For an' Investigation of Army Departments. By United Tress. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Senator Poindexter of Washington today intro duced a resolution for investigation of the ordinance and quartermaster de- n,.tmnic hv rho spnntP mllltarv af- fairs committee. Hinting at question able activities, which he Intimated might have delayed the production of guns and shells tor the army. Poin dexter said that "if some tr.iitors and I spies had been executed In the early days of the war. the lives of better men might have been saved." REPP! IN SPOT LIGHT AT Former M. U. Debater and Football Player Plays Leading Role. SPEAKS FOR U. S. Informed the French They Were First to Enter His toric City. A recent issue of the Stars and Stripes, the soldier's paper published in Paris, prints an nteresting story of the capture of Sedan and of how Lieutenant Allison Reppy, former Uni versity of Missouri graduate, debater and football player, told the French that they were the first to enter the city. The story tells why the old city on the Meuse had become such a watch word, a promise and a battlecry. It was at Sedan that the Prussians in Soix-ante Dix had surrounded Maev Mahons army and forced the surren der of Napoleon. So there at Sedan began the hum.liation of France which had continued for half a century. "That is why its name was on ev ery lip as the troops swept on, their lines and the lines of General Gou raud's army converging on the city as the sticks of a fan converge at the handle. American divisions jostled each other and trod on each other's toes, seeming fairly to race one an other to the precious goal. But it was not on the cards that any Amer ican troops should take the city, even had hostilities not ceased, for the American divisions that had mastered the heights which commanded it from the south and southwest had alreadj stepped aside and turned over to the French, as their dear and inalienable right, the honor of entering the city of Sedan proper. Not only the Rainbow Division, but the First Division two of tho most veteran and battle-scarred In the A. E. F. were on those heights the fin al day. When the smoke has cleared away and the serene chronicler of the war may set down the details of the Argonne drive, it will be shown, per haps, that the "farthest north" in that battle was attained by a batta lion of that still unmistakably Irish regiment which used to be the old fighting Sixty-ninth of New York. "That historian must relate, too, how an even closer approach to Se dan was made last Friday night by Company D of the IfiCth Infantry an Ohio fegiment which had been in vited to- act as guard of honor for the French troops who would in the event of further hostilities at that point move on the waiting city. That company, headed by Capi. Russell Baker of Delaware, 0.. reported to the French Colonel at noon on the Sth. "In the stately and still sumptuous chateau he occupied at Fernois, in the high-ceilinged, candle-lit dining hall that evening at 7, the French and American officers broke bread togeth er. 'When they had finished- it fell to Lieutenant Allison Reppy to speak In behalf of America. The boys of his time at the University- of Missouri will remember how well he always could speak. "On this, his great occasion, he took from his pocket a little silk flag his wife had sent him. After a few words of homage to France and her great ar my, he told the Colonel what that flag meant, the meaning of its brave colors, its stripes, its sparkling stars. Then be bowed and presented it to the Col onel, who deeply moved, gathered its silken folds into his tight-clenched hand, lifted that hand high above his head. ''The blood of all the world, he said as every man there rose to his feet. 'Vive l'Amerique!' "Forty-eight years before 400 yards from that spot Napoleon III had signed his abject surrender." WILSON BACK BY MARCH President Calls a Cabinet Meeting To. day By mrcless. r United Tress. ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. (By wire less to the United Press) The George Washington is due to pass the Azores this morning. Thereafter its course will be due northwest. The President and his party will arrive at Brest Fri day morning. It is the unofficial conviction on the George Washington today that the President will not return to the United States before the last tof February. LAWYERS TO AID SOLUIEKS Will Adilsp Returned Men us to l.cenl Rights. The Missouri Council of Defense has sent a notice to each of the county councils and members of legal committees asking that the assistance r the legal committees be extended to all returned soldiers and sailors j to provide them with advice respect ing their rignts under "the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act. The notice says: "Let Missouri soldiers feel on their return that every lawyer is a sol dier's friend and let all lawyer's be one In fact." CAPTURE il s, troops occupy I Americans Cause Scarcly a Ripple In Orderly Life of the City." TAKE VAST STORES Locomotives, Cars, Guns and Ammunition Worth $10,- 000.000 Left There. WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE RHINE, Dec. 9. (Delayed) The Am ericans occupied Coblenz about 3 o' clock yesterday. They created haiylly a riffle .in the orderly life of the city- Shortly before 3 o'clock, a train car rying 1,000 men pulled into the rail road yards. The troops detrained quietly and were met by the burgo master and German officers who turn ed over the barracks Co them. The Germans left vast stores of ma terials, -worth $10,000,000, including locomotives, cars, ammunition, guns and riflies. A Red Cross Expects to Finish Membership Drive at One Time. L. M. DeFoe, chairman of the Red Cross Christmas membership cam paign for Columbia, held a conference with members of the committee at 2 o'clock this afternoon at War Work headquarters to plan the details of the drive. It is planned to have a committee at the head of each ward and to di vide each ward into small districts. Enough canvassers will be appointed for each district to see every person in one day. Mr. DeFoe estimated that there would be about 200 canvassers. Next Sunday probably will be set aside as the" day to conduct the drive. The membership costs $1. For a fee of $2 the subscriber gets a sub scription to the Red Cross magazine. The aim of the campaign is to make everyone a member of the Red Cross. If anyonue gives $3 or more, it is suggested that he give in the name of some one who is unable to pay his own membership fee to the organiza Hon. Columbia Bov Seriously In jured by His Machine at Dayton, O. Mrs. Rasa Ingels in a letter re ceived in Columbia tells of an air plane accident at Dayton, O., in which her son. Lieutenant Giltner Ingels, was seriously injured about a week ago. Lieutenant Ingels, had been giving flying exhibitions in Cleveland and had started back to Chanute Field at Rantoul. 111. He landed in the Wil liam Wright Aviation Field at Day ton. He had just turned his propel ler preparatory to leaving, in an at tempt to mend a broken wire. The engine started and Lieutenant Ingels was picked up by the propeller and carried around with It. His right arm was broken and his left hand was crushed. The shock that he re ceived was so great that physicians were unable to dress his Injuries for several hours. Mrs. Ingels has since received word that he is recovering rapidly. The Cleveland Plain Dealer in speaking of the accident referred to Lieutenant Ingels as the "official dare-devil aviator of Chanute Field" and praised the remarkable flying ex hibitions that he had given while there. KOAI) BUILDIXG BUNGLED I Posl-DIspatch Tells of Work Done On JHneola Hills. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in its issue of last Sunday, publishes a long article in which mismanagement of the building of the rock road across the Mineola Hills, along the Missouri Old Trails road in Montgomery County, is charged. The charges made are directed chiefly against A. W. Graham, state highway engineer, who is accused of failing to build the road properly and within the esti mate made by the State Highway Com mission before the work was started. Some of the money contributed toward building this road was con trbuted by Columbia business men. DEALER HAD NO LICENSE Samuel Fitter, Shoe Salesman, Held Under $100 Bond. Samuel Fitter, who conducts a shoe store in the Branham Store, a part of which he .has. leased, for the Joe Johansen Company of St. Louis was charged this morning with conducting a shoe store without procuring a city license. He pleaded not guilty and Ignorance of the law. He was put under a $100 cash bond to appear in court at 2 o'clock tomor row afternoon. CAMPAIGN NO NEED FOR HOSTESS HOUSE Use of -Soldiers' Home' Will Be DIs- continued. The Hostess House for the colle giate and vocational sections of the S. A. T. C. will be dismantled Just as soon as the soldiers are discharged, says Mrs. W. T. Stephenson, who has charge of its establishment. Only tne living room and reading room have been used. While so many soldiers had the in fluenza, the kitchen of the hostess house was used to prepare delicacies for the sick. Unfortunately, Mrs. Stephenson said, the matron has never been able to assume her duties at the house because shortly after it was opened the epidemic broke out and the soldiers were not permitted to associate with any civilians. The Y. M. C. A. has been looking after the house. The dismantling of the house Is not nearly as easy a proposition as it looks, according to Mrs. Stephenson. A great many Columbia persons have lent furniture for the house, and this will be returned as soon as the men are dismissed. Part of the furniture used at the house was left there by the Kappa Alpha fraternity. Blankets for the guest rooms were loaned by the Y. M. C. A., and linens supplied by persons in town. The Whittle Coal Companj has supplied the necessary coal, and all books and magazines have been furnished through H. O. Severance. University librarian. About the only money paid out for the hostess house, said Mrs. Stephen son, has been the actual running ex penses, such as water, light and gas. Different organizations in Columbia have subscribed to the maintenance of the house and the expenses will be divided proportionately among these and they will be abked to deposit that amount. TRIES SUICI TageblattReports a Desperate But Unsuccessful Attempt Officer Wounded. rtj- United Tress. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10. A desper ate but unsuccessful attempt was made by the former kaiser to commit suicide, it Is declared by the Leipsiger Tage blatt. The newspaper says it received Its information from a German officer who was wounded in frustrating Wil helm. The officer said the former kaiser had been much depressed. Former Kaiser Writes Biography, fly United Tress LONDON, Dec. 10. Two German ex perts on International law have con ferred with the former kaiser, who is dictating his autobiography which will be submitted in his defense if he Is brought to trial, according to an Amsterdam correspondent of the Ex press. Iliinirurian Premier Mso Tries It. By United Tress. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10. Count Kar olyl, the Hungarian premier, attempt ed to commit suicide last Sunday, ac cording to a Budapest dispatch re ceived here today. He is said to have been depressed over the political sit uation in Hungary. FOR CONTROL OF PACKERS Bill In Congress Proposes Jinking Drastic Regulations. Bjr United Tress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 A bill pro posing drastic regulations of the Am erican meat packing Industry was In troduced In the House today by Chair man Sims of the House Interstate Corameice Committee. It embraces the plan for Federal control of re- friccratinK cars, refrigerating plants and other facilities recently suggested by the Federal Trade Commission. THEY AWAIT THE PAYROLL S.A.T.C. .Men 3Iay Be Discharged In Next Few Days. Work on the discharge papers of the S. A. T. C. men was practically completed in ail companies Monday night. The December payroll was signed and sent to Chicago today to the pay master's office. As soon as It can be checked up and the money sent to Co lumbia both sections of the S. A. T. C. will be demobilized. This probably will be Saturday or Monday. The work on the discharge papers was completed only after the clerical staffs of each company, the force at headquarters and at medical headquar ters had worked almost night and day for several days. The other paper work will be completed by the time the payroll is returned. While waiting to be demobilized each company Is spending a part of each day in close order drill, signal ing, drill in going "over the top" from the trenches on the golf links and in taking long hikes. 9 J CASES REI'OKTEI) YESTERDAY Only a Few of the Doctors Sent In Number Today. Three doctors out of fifteen report ed thirteen cases of influenza and three cases of pneumonia in Columbia and twelve cases of Influenza in the coun try up to late this afternoon. Yesterday's report showed fifty-four new cases of Influenza in town and forty in the surrounding country. TA BISIRJAN PEACE London Daily News Credit ed With Such Article Caught by Wireless. LIEBKNECT SPEAKS Declares German Bolsheviks Intends to Refuse Peace Wi'th Allies. RAYMOND CAPPER (United Tress Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. A warn ing against inflicting a "Bismarckian peace" on Germany, credited to the London Dally News, was made public here today through Allied channels. The text of the article was picked up in this country from a wireless ap parently sent out from Lyons, France, over the signatures of the committee on public information, says Paris rep resentatives. Cy United Tress. JARIS, Dec. 10. "We refuse peace with the Entente and intend to over throw the present government within a fortnight" Karl Liebkneeht. leader of the German Bolsheviks declared in a proclamation issued in Berlin, according to a Zurich dispatch to L Information today. Martial law has been proclaimed in Berlin, the dispatch said. Two hun dred and twenty persons have been killed and a thousand wounded in re cent skirmishes In the German capital between Bolshevik forces and govern ment trdops. British Delegates XanieiL By United Tress. LONDON, Dec. 10. Premier Lloyd George. Foreign Secretary Balfour and Chancellor A. Bonar Law have been decided upon as British delegates to the peace conference, the Express says it understands. Germany to Hold An Election. By Ignited Tress. WASHINGTON. .Dec 10. The na tional soviet congress of Germany will meet December 1G to fix' a date for an election, according to State De partment advices today. The Berlin government has agreed to accept the time set by the congress. Each state will decide for itself what persons shall have franchise. SO DIVORCE WASN'T GRANTED Mrs. Zella Buller Decides She Didn't ( Want a Decree. Having decide'd since tho -last terra of the Boone Qounty Circuit Court that she did not want a divorce from her husband. William Butler, Mrs. Ze l.'a Butler Uiis morning secured the dismissal of the case from Circuit Court. The case was taken under ad visement at the last term of the court. In the case of the State against Bennle Armstrong. Armstrong plead ed guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced to two years In the reform school. W. 31. Dinwlddie filed information against William W. Stice charging him with felonious assault. In the case of Everett Chrlsman, who has been under parole,. Chrismas submit ted his report In writing and was dis charged. In the case of Pauline Asbury against Morris Asbury. the final decree of divorce was awarded the plaintiff andher maiden name of Pauline Day restored. The case of Vanita Shad rick against Lemuel Shadrick was taken under ad viccment. The case of Bessie Nelson against G. C Nelson was dismissed for failure to prosecute. In the case of Jessie Kemper against Kenneth K. Kemper the decree of di ttrce was awarded the plaintiff and her maiden name of Jessie Bowser was restored. In the case of Shannon Mobcrly against Mrs. Mobcrly the de cree of vlivorce was awarded, the plain tiff. Albert Cabbert. Harry Lamme and Robert Turner, all negroes, were pa roled .or a period of one year in Circuit Court this morning. Cabbert was charged with deserting his wife, and children. Lamme and Turner were charged with violating the lo cal option law. BOATS FOR SOLDIERS' RETURN British Will Help With 40,000 Tons of Shipping. By United Tress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The Brit ish government has allotted 40.000 tons of shipping to help bring Ameri can troops home in December. This became known here today, co-Incident wiu the receipt of a cable from Chair man Hurley -of the shipping board an nouncing that he had made "gc.l progress" In negotiating with Great Britain and that they had shown every desire to aid us in getting our men back. BOY DIES OF INFLUENZA Ralph C. Aclon, 17 Years Old, Lhed Near .McBaine. Ralph C. Acton, 17 years old. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F .Acton of near McBaine, died of influenza this morn ing. He will be bured tomorrow morn ing at Bethel Church in Old Union. HI AGAIS