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ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
STATE REEDS MAI1Y TEACHERS
Present Alarming Shortage Expected
to Be increased When New Draft
Goes Into Effect.
With the. opening of the public
schools of the state at hand for the
winter term there is a marked short
age of school teachers, especially in
structors in the high school subjects
of manual training, sciences and eco
nomics, according to W. D. Boss, state
superintendent.
"A number of high school positions
remain unfilled, and the, prospect is
that they will remain so unless an in
creased available supply of instructors
capable of teaching these high school
branches is heard from soon," said Su
perintendent Ross. "Furthermore,
there is an immediate prospect that
the ranks of the school teachers will
be further depleted, by the pending
draft. It probably will take a number
of heads of schools, such as princi
pals and superintendents, and we are
particularly short on that class of edu
cators just now."
Superintendent Ross says he has
not learned of any shortage in the
grades and rural schools with the ex
ception that some of the larger cities
are In need of grade teachers. But
the rural supply is sufficient at pres
ent. Mr. Ross says most school boards
hare raised teachers' wages, but, he
says, not sufficiently to compete with
the opportunities women find in other
lines of employment. The rural school
district boards, however, he says, in
many . instances, have raised the pay
of teachers much more in proportion
than have the city school boards.
"Very few high schools throughout
the state retain German on their
course of study," said Superintendent
Ross.
Shortly after midnight the other
night a crowd gathered at the German
Lutheran church in Independence and
daubed the parochial school building
with yellow paint. The property was
not damaged except that the doors and
windows were given an ugly coat of
yellow and the words "Yellow dogs"
were painted on the side of the build
ing. A large sign giving DOtice that the
high school had cut out "Hun gab" and
that this community had no use for the
German language, and the school was
not needed, was displayed conspicuous
ly in front of the building. The sign
had been prepared carefully and plain
ly printed. The painting of the school
building followed, shortly after an ova
tion given thirty-two soldier boys who
left shortly before midnight. The con
tingent was composed of young men
less than 23 years old. When County
Attorney Hill, visited the school he in
formed the trustees of the school and
church if they would promise to elimi
nate the teaching of the German lan
guage in the school and its use in all
public exercises in the church, action
would at once be taken to require the
persons who used the iaint to undo
their work. Otherwise he would take
no action in the matter, he said.
The 6-cent fare case of the Kansas
City Railways Company will not be
heard for practically . two months and
possibly longer. It may not be heard
until the Missouri Supreme Court de
cides the lawsuit pending there in the
6-cent fare controversy on the Mis
souri side.
Hail as large as lemons was on ex
hibition at Lincoln Center- recently,
"brought in from the country by farm
ers who said that when the hail fell
they were as large as oranges and
cattle and hogs were killed by the
chunks of ice. Hundreds of rabbits
and birds and chickens were also kill
ed and trees were stripped of limbs
and foliage. Forage plants were beat
en into the ground and ruined.
Sergt. Charles Shumaker of Wet
xnore, attached to the base hospital at
Fort Riley, was killed instantly when
two freight trains collided at Manhat
tan. He was on his way home on fur
lough. He was 25 years old. Train
men , say open signal blocks caused
the collision.
Alexander Hargrave, aged 72 -years,
dropped dead while working in a field
west of Leavenworth. He was a na
tive of Indiana and has lived in this
county for more than fifty years. He
farmed a small place for years and
was shocking corn when his death
occurred.
Edward F. Clark, a Civil WW vet
eran, died suddenly at his home in
-Leavenworth. Mr. Clark was a boy
soldier in a Maine regiment in the
Civil War. He came to Kansas in
1SS5. Ha was a member of the police
force and county jailer for more than
twenty years. . '
Ottawa University, which has been
authorized by ' the War Department
to form a unit of the students army
training corps, will build barracks for
the soldier students, who will begin
their enrollment September 17.
Mystery of TwfH Tree.
Near Algona, In northern Iowa,
there are two trees united in a curi
ous manner. They are soft maples,
and are: Joined about eight feet from
the ground, by a' connecting link a
little more than four feet long and six
Inches In diameter. Peak's Island, a
noted sea-side resort two miles outside
of Portland, M&,. possesses another
fine example. The twin tree Is a fine
"wlde-cpreading elm, perfect In all its
limbs, a little over 100 feet high. - Its
two . trunks are ' substantially one at
An appeal for United States Food
Administrator Herbert Hoover to stop
shipments of wheat produced in Kan
sas from the state was wired to Wash
ington the other day by Secretary
J. C. Mohler of the state agricultural
board. In the message, he states , that
both the millers of the state and the
live stock men are facing a serious
crisis, for at present only 34 per cent
of the state's 102,000,000-bushel wheat
crop remains in the state and the bal
ance is being shipped out as fast as
cars can carry it, .
Due to the corn crop failure, live
stock men must rely heavily' upon the
wheat by-products bran and shorts
for feeding. Unless the mills in Kan
sas can get grain months ahead the
stock feed supply will be endangered.
Ten million bushels of wheat of the
crop remaining will be needed for
seed. Secretary Mohler urges speedy
action.
A former K. U. man, Glenn L. Mar
tin, is the inventor of the new Martin
battleplane, now being turned out in
large quantities at a plant in Cleve
land, details of which are given in
press dispatches recently. Martin left
the university in 1916, after spending
several years there, working his way
through school and improving his
plane. The new plane invented by Mar
tin is much larger than the battle
planes now in use in Europe. It has a
wing spread of seventy-five feet and
Is equipped with two 400-horse power
motors. In addition to the regular
equipment, it has a carrying capacity
of 2,400 pounds and is said to be so
constructed that there is no blind spot
or line of approach which its guns do
not cover. Preliminary tests were un
usually successful.
In order that their muscles may be
sufficiently strengthened to enable
them to throw the levers and "kick"
the brakes on big tractor plows which
they expect soon to man, the Jayhaw
ker Girls Tractor Club has added mili
tary training to its repertoire. The
girls are holding military drills one
evening a week and already have mas
tered the intricacies of "right by
squads," "right dress" (which has
nothing to do with dresses at all) and
the myriad of commands common to
military training. The official uniform
adopted by the squad is "unionalls"
and it has lots of pockets. Their drill
master is D. L. Loughborough, a Span
ish-American war veteran.
The semi-annual dividend to school
districts of the state from the state
school fund has been declared by
State Superintendent W. D. Ross. It
is 1261,535 and is to be distributed
at the rate of 50 cents per pupil. The
checks are apportioned by counties
and axe sent to the county superinten
dents for distribution to the various
school districts. Wyandotte county
leads in school population with 33,142.
Stanton county has the smallest 'num
ber of pupils 296.
More than $5,000 worth of beer and
whisky was obtained in a raid in
Breezy Hill by Crawford county offi
cers, who acted on complaints that
bread wagons of Bretto, a baker, were
dispensing something other than
bakery products. The officers raided
the bakery and premises, and 300 gal
lons of a high grade whisky and thirty-
five cases of beer were uncovered.
Henry Mize, 81 years old and a
resident of Johnson county almost
sixty years, died at his home at
Olathe recently.' He had lived there
only two weeks, moving In from the
country, where he had been farming
the same farm half a centuhy.
Oliver T. Jones, former city clerk of
Pittsburg several' years, was elected
mayor of Pittsburg by the city com
missioners. " Jones succeeds W. W.
Bell, who defeated him in the election
in 1917 and who resigned six weeks
ago to take a position with a national
organization of bill posters.
Josiah Jordan, a Shawnee county
pioneer, was nominated by the Shaw
nee county Republican central com
mittee, for the position of county su
perintendent of schools, at a meeting
held in Topeka, by a vote of 26 to 23
over Fred A. Seaman. The vacancy
on the ticket was caused by the resig
nation of Miss M. Edna Corbett, pres
ent incumbent, who has enlisted for
overseas Red Cross work.
If a threshing engine sets a wheat
stack on fire, does the thresher have
to make good the loss? This is the
interesting question involved in a suit
filed by a farmer, owner of the grain
which was destroyed by fire. He
claims $2,349 damages and blames the
owner of the threshing outfit, alleging
that the engine was not equipped with
a proper spark arrester.
Crawford county is to have, a war
chest. The county council of defense
has promoted the war chest plan and
a county committee of forty-six mem
bers representing every community
will be elected in two weeks. The
war chest will do away with future
finance campaigns for war activities.
With a hillside In a pasture half a
mile from Burdick for a stage, a patri
otic pageant was presented by more
than 100 persons under the direction
of Miss Cora Lanham of Topeka. An
electric lighting plant was brought
from town to illuminate the natural
amphitheater. The pageant was given
as a Red Cross benefit
The eighteenth annual reunion of
the old settlers of Johnson county, was
held at Ola the the other day. The
weather conditions were perfect. Six
to seven thousand attended.
the bme, but.they separate a few feet
from the ground. About twenty-five
feet from the base the trunks are
about five feet apart, and are connect
ed by a horizontal branch-like projec
tion. The connecting link la about a
foot thick, is perfectly round, and of
uniform thickness from trunk to trunk.
How It Starts.
"An argument," said Uncle Eben,
-generally starts by tryin to do a
friend a favor, an tellin him some
thing he didn't know.
IVE OF ALLIES
IS NEAR A CR1S1I
Further Successful Moves by
Foch May Force Change
in German Front
BAD WEATHER HALTS ADVA'ICE
Mud in Low Places Limits Fighting
to High Ground Still Vrfaking
Some Gains.
Washington, Sept. 11. The critical
military position of the Germans from
the region west of Cambrai south
ward to the St. Gobian massif, and
around this strong bastion eastward
to the territory north . and northeast
of Soissons, continues to hold the eyes
of the world.
For the moment the tactical ma
neuvers of the belligerents in Artoi3
and Flanders, as well as eastward of
Soissons into Champagne, although
they still are of the greatest import,
necessarily continue to take second
place in interest to those sectors
which are filled with momentous pos
sibilities, where a successful move by
the Allies may bring, a quick change
in the entire German battle front, or
on the contrary, a determined stand
by the enemy with the large re-enforcements
in man and gun power he
is known to have assembled, may re
sult, for a time at least, in a stale
mate in, the game which is being
played by the Allies to crack the al
ready demoralized German line.
The heavy rains of the last few
days have turned lowlands through
out the fighting zone into quagmires,
but on those sectors of the high
ground, between Cambrai and Sois
sons, the storms have not kept the
British and French armies from mov
ing forward. Nor have they served
to lessen .the strength of the enemy's
resistance.
Near Couzeaucourt and Harvin
court the British have pressed on a
little further toward Cambrai, in the
former region after having put down
counter attacks by the Germans, who
endeavored to reclaim the high ground
won by the British in Sunday's fight
ing. To the south the French from the
district west of St. Quentin south
ward to the western side of the St.
Gobain Forest have pushed eastward
toward the Oise river, which they are
virtually upon all along this front,
with their flanks now resting danger
ously near both St. Quentin and La
Fere. St. Quentin now stands only a
little more than three miles away,
while La Fere is so closely encroach
ed upon from the west and outflanked
from the north that seemingly it soon
must fail.
German Defense Stiffened.
London, Sept. 10. The battle on
the western front is entering a new
phase. The enemy at last is making
a serious stand just short of the series
of positions commonly called the Hin
denburg line positions which, how
ever, already have been bitten into by
the British from Sensee to Mouvres
and touched by the French in the St.
Gobain region at Servias and Bassoles
aulers. The Germans are doubling their
rear guards and seeking by counter at
tacks to slow up, if they cannot stop
outright, the encroaching tide of the
Allies. Their efforts have been in
vain, notwithstanding the new meas
ures adopted, in checking the advance
of the French' and the British, for both
pushed forward yesterday in the di
rection of St. Quentin. The French
made such progress across the Crozat
Canal that the enemy no longer can
hope to defend it.
At Gates' of La Fere.
General Humbert's center is at the
gates of La Fere and General Mangin's
left is beginning to creep around the
St. Gobain Forest by the west, while
his right beat off the enemy's attacks,
from which the Germans sought to
cling to the Aisne front. More of such
attacks are probable. Thejt are local
affairs and a more serious effort is
Dot likely to be made.
Working for a Respite.
General Ludendorff is working for
the respite which he must have if he
is to sort out his disorganized divisions
and try to whip . up some sort of a
strategic reserve. This respite he
hopes his shortened front, requiring
fewer men in the line, will give him.
Marshal Foch is likely to be aware,
however, whether the enemy is suffi
ciently weakened and demoralized to
be smashed at some part of the present
battle front or whether a stroke else
where would be advisable, thus giving
a rest to the armies that have fought
so indefatigably for the last two
months.
Americans Smash Ahead.
With the American Army on the
Aisne Front, Sept. 10. In the face of
"Hun Effort Spent" Haig.
London, Sept. 11. "We have passed
through many dark days. Please God
these will never return," says Field
Marshal Haig, commander-in-chief of
the British forces in France, in an or
der of the day. -
McAdoo May Quit Cabinet.
Washington, Sept, 11. William G.
McAdoo is expected to step out of the
office of Secretary of he Treasury
and John Skelton Williams is expected
to step into the Cabinet office thus
Vacated, the New York Times says.
The G. O. P. CarriecTMaine.
Augusta, Me., Sept. 11. The Repub
licans made a clean sweep in the bi
ennial state election yesterday, carry
ing the state for governor, United
Sftates senator, states auditor, all four
congressional districts . and every
county except three. The legislature
ia Republican in both branches.
Odessa Swept by Fire.
Zurich, Sept, 11 Russian dispatches
state that thousands of buildings were
destroyed In a huge fire in Odessa, A
hundred persons are missies'. ..
the stiffest machine gun fire since the
Americans crossed the Yesle in force,
American infantrymen today advanced
at certain points on a curved line ex
tending from Clennes to Vieil Arcy.
The advance was preceded by a
heavy ' artillery bombardment that
continued all Sunday night.
Bad Weather Hinders Allies.
Washington, Sept. 9. The "British
and French armies continue to cut
their way into the German lines on
various sectors of the lower part of the
battle line in France.
Notwithstanding the bad weather,
which has caused somewhat of a slack
ening in the violence of the operations,
Field Marshal Haigs forces have ma
terially encroached upon Cambrai and
St, Quentin, while further south the
French armies are pressing eastward
on the old Noyon sector toward La
Fere and Laon and northward from
Soissons in an auxiliary .maneuver
with the Bame objectives in view.
Between the Vesle and Aisne rivers,
where the American troops are fight
ing with the French, additional ground
has been gained by the Allied forces.
The British now are standing at "Vll
leveque, six miles from St. Quentin,
having carried out an advance over a
ten-mile front on the general line of
Epehy, Hesbecourt and Vermand.
To the north, the greater part of the
Havrincourt wood, one of the German
strong points barring the way to Cam
brai, also has been captured.
MURDER RAMPANT IN RUSSIA
Bolsheviki Killing Off Foreigners and
Slavs Without Trial, Says Asso
ciated Press Correspondent.
Stockholm, Sept, 10. Bolsheviki
Russia is suffering the consequences
of class hatred in its most violent ex
pression. Human life has lost all value
and foreigners and Russians alike are
at the mercy of officials who kill with
out trial.
Such were the conditions, at any
rate, when the Associated Press cor
respondent at Moscow left Russia re
cently and traveled hence with the
party of American refugees that has
arrived here.
Since War Minister Trotzky pro
voked Czechc-Slovak opposition by
breaking his pledge to permit the
Czecho-Slovaks to leave Russia in
peace, the class hatred on which Bol
shevikism is based has revealed itself
In its full horror. Before the social
revolutionists broke with the Bolshe
viki, they acted as a check on capital
punishment. Threatened by the vic
torious Czechs on the Volga, the En
tente movements from Archangel and
Siberia and general internal uprisings,
the Bolshevik leaders are madly prod
ding their suspected opponents and
filling the prisons with hostages.
BAKER IS AGAIN IN FRANCE
American Secretary of War Arrives at
French Port Ryan and
Gorgas in Party.
Washington, Sept. 9. The War De
partment today announced the arrival
in France of Secretary Baker, accom
anied by an official party Including
John D. Ryan, assistant secretary in
charge of aircraft, and Major General
Gorgas, surgeon general of the army.
Mr. Baker and his party made the
trip on an army transport. Before
leaving this country, the war secre
tary said the personnel of his party
would make plain the purpose of hia
second visit to France.. He hopes the
trip will not keep him away from the
United States for a long period, he
said.
35 KILLED ON A TRANSPORT
Mount Vernon Was Torpedoed 203
Miles Off French Coast While
Returning Home.
Washington, Sept. 9. Thirty-five
members of the crew of the American
army transport Mount Vernon, former
ly the North German Lloyd liner Kron
Prinzessin Cecelie, were killed by the
explosion of a torpedo which struck
the vessel last Thursday, when she
was 200 miles from the French coast
homeward bound. The passengers in
cluded Senator Lewis of Illinois, who
was among those safely landed.
BOSTON TAKES THE FOURTH
Red Sox Wins Third Victory Over
Cubs in This Year's World's
Baseball Series.
Boston, Sept. 10. The Boston Amer
icans got the edge in the world's
aeries by beating the Chicago Nation
als In a mad scramble for the fourth
game today by 3 to 2. This gives the
Red Sox a lead of three to one in the
series and it is necessary now for
them to win only one more game to
make them the war time baseball
champions of the world.
Both teams departed from letter
perfect baseball for the first time since
their meeting and the explosions which
resulted kept the fans going for the
first time.
Flier Killed When His Plane Fell.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 9. Lieuten
ant Buck of New Hartford, Conn., sta
tioned at Kelly Field, was Jailed In
stantly today when his plane fell four
thousand feet. According to observers,
the accident was the result of an ex
plosion. Two Capsized Ships Afloat.
New York, Sept, 9. The hulls of two
capsized vessels are floating off the
coast of Sea Girt, N. J., according to a
report issued tonight by the Unite
States Hydrographic here.
Sugar to Advance a Cent. .
Washington, Sept.. 9. Consumere
will pay at least 1 cent a pound men
for sugar after the present stocks la
the country are exhausted, under the
new price of cane sugar at the sea
board, announced by the. Sugar Equali
sation Board with the approval ol
President Wilson. .
Child injured by Me tor Car.
Lawten, Ok, Sept. 9. Jack Blrt, 6-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bin-,
was run over tonight by a motor, ca:
and injured severely.
IAUSES
ALLIES TO PAUSE
Entire German Gains of Las!
Spring Nullified by Foch's
Eight-Weeks' Drive.
THE ATTACK TO BE RESUMED
French Continue to Make Slight AoV
vances in Neighborhood of St
Gobain Artillery Active.
Washington, Sept. 12. Eight weeka
to the day and for the first time the
great Allied offensive of Marshal Foch
is at a virtual pause.
True, both the British and French
on isolated sectors of "the front ex
tending from Flanders to the east of
Soissons again have recorded ad
vances, but Wednesday witnessed no
such progress by the Allies toward
strategic objectives as the last days
had brought them before the torren
tial rains turned lowlands into im
passable marshes and the badly worst
ed enemy rushed large reinforcements
forward to stop the gaps through
which the British, French and Amer
ican armies were threatening to filter
and wreck his entire military situa
tion. During" the eight weeks that have
passed, the Allied troops have cleared
almost In its entirety the enemy-held
territory from the Marne to the Aisne
in the great triangle which had Cha
teau Thierry at its apex and Soissons
and Reims, respectively. Its western
and eastern anchor points.
Allies on Hindenburg Line.
From Soissons to Arras the old
bulge westward to Montdidier and to
ward the doorstep of Amiens has all
but been obliterated and the Allies
now are standing across a large por
tion of the old Hindenburg defense
line and virtually are upon the re
mainder of it, while to the north in
Flanders the deep salients which
threatened the English channel ports
have been bent eastward and the
enemy is expelled from the vantage
points from which he had expected ul
timately to make his drive in an en
deavor to gain the seaboard and thus
cause a diversion of the transport
service from England to southern
France.
Until the rains began falling there
had been no let-up in the Allied offen
sive, notwithstanding the fact that the
German high command has stiffened
its resistance everywhere, discarding
infantry units as such and training
the men to machine companies and
bringing up large numbers cf gur.3
of all calibers to hold the aggrersors
back. Therefore, it is not improbable
that Foch, when the skies have clear
ed and the marshes disappear again,
will take up with full impetus his task
of putting the enemy on his mettle
and continue for the two months of
good fighting weather, remaining if
not beyond that period, his efforts
with his own now great forces to
drive the Germans farther back to
ward the Rhine.
SAY PETR0GRAD IS BURNING
Indiscriminate Slaughtering and Pil
laging With No Police cr Military
Regulations, Washington Hears.
Washington, Sept, 12. Word reach
ed Washington today from an Euro
pean source that reports there said
Petrograd was in flames in many
places and that indiscriminate slaugh
ter of citizens, pillaging and riots were
taking place in all parts of the city.
According to these reports there in
no semblance of law or police or mili
tary regulations.
A dispatch from the American lega
tion at Christiania said toda' reliable
information had reached, there Petro
grad was burning in twelve different
places and that there was indiscrim
inate massacre of people in the
streets.
Bostons World Champions.
Boston, Sept. 12. Taps for profes
sional baseball for the duration of the
war was sounded at Fenway park yes
terday when the Boston American
League pennant bearers won the first
war scarred baseball championship of
the world by defeating the Chicago
National League titleholders in the
sixth game, of the series by 2 to 1.
Permits Control of Mines.
Washington, Sept, 12. With minor
amendments the " bill providing gov
ernment stimulation of production and
distribution of minerals needed in the
prosecution of the war was passed
today by the Senate without a record
vote. A similar measure has passed
the House and differences now will be
adjusted in conference.
Need More Allied Troop.
Archangel, Sept, 12. More Allied
troops are needed urgently if the
Rus so-Allied campaign ia Northern
Russia is to be carried to speedy suc
cess, in the opinion of virtually evsry
officer and civilian here.
Call Limited Service Men.
Washington, Sept. 12. A call of
two thousand men Qualified for limit
ed service and capable of working
as' stenographers and typists was is
sued today by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder.
May Complete Construction Started.
Washington, Sept. 12. Under a rul
ing of the War Industries Board, an
nounced by Chairman Baruch, build
ing construction that is now substan
tially under way will not be halted
by the board's plan to restrict non
war construction.
U-Boat Sank a Transport.
New York, Sept, 12. The British
passenger, steamship Missauatle, 12,
4S9 tons gross register, used as a
troop transport, has been sunk by a
eubmarine in-European waters.
Colonel of Marines-
: Who Is Badly Wounded :
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CoL Albertus W. Catlln. command
ing offlcer of the Sixth regiment. U. S.
marines, and one of the oldest officer
of the marine corps, has been seriously
wounded In France. He has been in
active service more than 25 years,
was In command of the marine guard
of the, battleship Maine when that ves
sel was blown up in Havana harbor
and has since served In many quarters
of the globe. He has been abroad
since last October, having previously
opened and 'organized the marine
training camp at Quantlco, Va,
NEW RULES FOR DRAFT ISSUED
Change in Classification Plan Contem
plates Industrial Advisory Board
Will Scrutinize All Claims.
Washington, Sept. 10. The process
of determining which men in the new
draft shall serve their country in the
army and which shall be retained in
essential Industries and occupations
was announced today by Frovost Mar
shal General Crowder.
To all draft boards were sent the
regulations governing the granting of
deferred classification on occupational
grounds and an explanation of regula
tions to be inserted in the question
naires which will be filled out by men
subject to the new draft after the
registration next Thursday.
In the granting of deferred classifi
cation on occupational grounds each
district board will be advised by three
officials, one named by the Depart
ment of Labor, one by the Department
of Agriculture, and the third by the
district draft board Itself.
With the guidance of these advisers,
possessing expert knowledge of indus
trial and agricultural conditions, the
district boards will determine whether
claims for deferred classification on
occupational grounds are justified and
whether men who have -waived exemp
tion shall nevertheless be retained in
essential industry as of greater value
to the Nation in such employment
than in the army. '
General Crowder made it plain in a
statement setting forth the principles
governing industrial classification
that the preference list announced by
Chairman Baruch of the War Indus
tries Board yesterday, which Mr. Bar
uch described as the "master key" in
settling the question of giving deferred
classification to men in industries, will
not be permitted to limit the action of
district boards.
"Such lists, General Crowder said,
"shall not be regarded as binding upon
the district board in its conclusions
as to whether or not any particular
industry, occupation or employment.
Including agriculture, i3 a necessary
Industry, occupation or employment
within the meaning of the law and
regulations, nor shall such lists pre
vent the district board from holding
as necessary any industry, occupation,
or employment, Including agriculture,
not contained there."
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Four bandits held up Cashier
Bruce Farmer in the Gore State bank
at Gore.-Okla,, recently, and after ob
taining 13,076 escaped on horseback
to the mountains in the north end of
Sequoyah county. Officers from three
counties pursued them in automobiles.
Italian airplanes In a three hun
dred mile flight bombed Lienz, Tab
lach, Brunor,- Franzenfeste, Eianchi
and Bozen (Austrian Tyrol), it was
announced recently. Many railway
bridges and one train were hit. All
the planes returned safely.
CoL Horatio Gates Sickle, U. S.
retired, shot and killed himself in hia
home in St. Louis recently. He was
64 years old, a. son and namesake of a
Civil War general. He was in charge
at Columbus, N. M., during the Mexi
can trouble and was In the fighting at
the time of the Mexican raid.
"Die Wacht Am Rhein" found in
certain singing books used in the pub
lic schools of Chicago, was summarily
suppressed when school officials
stopped the sale of the song book
containing It, to pupils.
One of a squadron cf German war
ships, cruising off the coast of the Is
land of Ameland, recently, ran on a
mine or was torpedoed, according to
reports received in Amsterdam. The
ship was seen suddenly to heel over
and disappear.
Fire In a naval warehouse at New
York destroyed valuable paintings,
furniture and chip fixtures removed
from Interned German liners. Among!
the - paintings destroyed were those j
from the former Vaderland and the
President LInccla. .
DESTROYS U-BOA"
Shots From Oil Vessel's Guns
Blow Up Submarine Off the
Atlantic Coast.
FIGHT LASTED 29 MifiUTES
Fragments of Hun Boat Landed en
Deck of Tanker, the Ship'a
Captain Declares.
Washington, Sept. 11. The Navy
Department tonight gave out an offi
cial report of the sinking of an enemy
submarine by the oil tanker Frank H.
Buck off the Atlantic Coast Septem
ber 3. The tanker's captain gave the
department the following narratiTe of
the sinking:
"On September 3, at 8:25 a. m.. an
enemy submarine was sighted on the
starboard beam at fourteen hundred
yards. The submarine opened fire
with two 6-inch guns. We answered
fire with forward guns. We saw the
shot fall about four hundred yards
short, and immediately swung stern
forward to the submarine, using our
after guns. Our shots were very close
to the submarine, and the submarine
shrapnel were bursting very near to
us, some of the pieces falling upon
our deck amidships." We changed the
course frequently, which seemed to
upset the submarine's aim and range.
As soon as the submarine saw our
range was equal to hers, she hauled
away from us. Up to that time she
had been closing in on us.
"Before the submarine could get out
of range, our twenty-eighth shot from
the after gun apparently hit her stern.
The twenty-ninth shot bit her just for
ward of the conning tower, near and
under the water line. The bow shot
up into the air very suddenly, then
settled and went down out of sight,
the stern making a half turn toward
us and then it disappeared.
"Upon shots striking the submarine
we saw very closely a terrific explo
sion and black smoke, which envel
oped the vessel. I am iositive that
we destroyed her as she sank almost
instantly after the shot struck her.
"The engagement lasted twenty-nine
minutes. Some of the fragments of
the submarine fell on our decks and
were picked up by the quartermaster
and chief gunners mate.
"The submarine was about three
hundred feet long, of the. early type of
German make with high bow, and had
two 6-inch guns close to the conning
tower, fore and aft. She Tired in
salvos, using about sixty shots alto
gether. She was camouflaged and
flew no flags."
The Navy Department announced
that the captain of the Back highly
commended the efficiency and con
duct of Chief Gunners Mate Joseph
Steffens, and the entire' armed guard
under command.
ANSWER PLATINUM APPEAL
Citizens Have Sent Thousands of Dol
lars Worth of the Precious
Metal to Mint.
Washington, Sept, 11. Platinum,
one of the scarcest of metals, has
poured Into the office of Raymond T.
Baker, director of the mint, so plenti
fully in the last few days in response
to an appeal to sell scraps or jewelry
to the government for war purposes,
that Mr. Baker requested today that it
be sent hereafter to the United States
assay office, New York, which has bet
ter facilities for receiving It. Scores
of packages containing platinum rings,
chains, scarf pins, dental pins and
false teeth, together with discarded
laboratory equipmet worth in the ag
gregate thousands of dollars, have
reached the director of the mint.
Chicago Captures Fifth Game.
Boston, Sept. 11. "Big Jim
Vaughn, the powerful left-handed
pitcher of the Chicago Nationals, kept
the Boston Americans cut of the
World's Championship today by win
ning the fifth game of the series, 3
to 0, after the contest had been de
layed for an hour by an unprecedent
ed strike of the players of both teama
for a readjustment of their share of
the proceeds. The Red Sox now have
a lead of 2 games to 2.
Twelve Killed in Wreck.
Alliance. Neb.. Sept. 11. Twelve
persons were killed and eighteen in
jured when a Burlington train. No.
43, - west bound, was wrecked seven
miles west of here this afternoon.
The passenger ran head-on into a
work train, telescoping the first two
cars of the passenger train. All of
the dead and injured were in the
second coach.
A Strike Stops Brewers.
Kansas City, Sept. 10. Brewers,
bottlers and drivers employed by the
Kansas City breweries walked out to
day. A wage controversy was res pen
Bible. The breweries- win be com
pelled to shut down-pending settle
meet of the difficulty, brewera say.
Cruel to Yank Captives.
The Hague, Sept. 10 Wounded Brit
Ish soldiers arriving from German
prison camps tell of the harsh treat
ment imposed on British and Ameri
can prisoners of war.
U .S. Bluejackets in Battle.
Archangel, Sept. 10. A detachment
or American bluejackets was among
the Entente Allied forces fighting re.
eently in the vicinity of Oberserskaya,
which resulted in the capture of the
town. The Americana successfully ex
tricated themselves when surrounded.,
Dera Kaplan Put to Death.
Zurleh. Sept. 10. Dora Kaplan, tie
girl who shot and seriously wounded
Nicholas "Lenlne. Bolshevist preiaitrj
was rut to death Wednesday, it was
reported-here today.