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m 1 THE DAILY MISSOURIAN 1 NINTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. NUMBER 318 K I K OLD TRAILS W1EETING 6 Committee Arranges Date After Talking With Judge J. M. Lowe. AT THE NEW TAVERN Question of Improving the Cross-State Highway the Chief Topic. Saturday, October C, has been defi nitely selected as the day when the Missouri Old Trails Association will meet in Columbia to discuss the ques tion of improving the Old Trails High way through Missouri. Following a telephone conversation with J. M. Lowe of Kansas City, president of the National Old Trails Association, the committee appointed at the good roads meeting here yesterday afternoon, changed the date from October 4. The state highways commission has promised to attend the state gathering in Columbia. Efforts are being made to have membprs of the national com mission also be present. Mr. Lowe has signified his intention to attend and will be the principal speaker. Letters are being sent today by E. S. Stephens and Dr. W. P. Dysart, the committee appointed yesterday, urg ing all good roads boosters in Mis souri to attend the meeting here. The leading topic for discussion at the mceting,will be the "50-50" plan of dividing the expense of improving the Old Trails Highway equally between the state and the counties. The state In turn will receive federal aid, mak ing it possible to put up dollar-for-dollar in the various counties. This is known as the federal aid plan which applies only to cross-state highways. Several hundred good roads boost ers are expected to attend the meet ing in Columbia. A luncheon will'be given in the new Daniel Boone Tavern. ANOTHER COUNTY FAIR PREMIUM To Male Awards For Rest Collection of Pictures Cntalog Out. The premium list for the Boone .County Fair, October 9 to 12 inclus ive, has been increased by the addi tion of cash premiums for the best collection of photographs consisting of animals, farm crops exhibits and groups of people taken at the fair dur ing the week. The premiums for first, second and third prizes are ?5, $3 and $2 respectively. The size of the photographs, accord ing to R. L. Hill, secretary of the fair association, should be 3 1-4 by 4 1-4 inches. The association reserves the right to have a copy of any or all of the photographs for future publication in the catalog. The catalog for the fair is now ready for distribution and anyone de siring copies can obtain them by writing to the secretary at Columbia. APPOINTED AS ARMY CHAPLAIN The R. j. K. O'Heeron Goes To Take Physical Examination. The Rev. J. K. O'Heeron left this morning for Jefferson Barracks at St Louis to take the physical examination for chaplain in the new National Army. The Reverend O'Heeron was formerly pastor of the Christian Church at Montgomery City. He came here to attend the University Summer Session and was recently appointed director of athletics at the Columbia High School. He recehed his appointment as chaplain in the new National Army last week TO FORT SILL AFTER SEPT. 24 Company F. Will Not Leave Xcvada Until Then. Missouri National Guard regiments Tvill not be moved to Fort Sill until after September 24, according to -word from Camp Doniphan at that place yesterday, jrhis is the result of the War Department order for the move ment of regular troops to various training camp? during the week of September 17-24. This change means that Company F, Fourth Infantry, of Columbia will be stationed at the mobilization camp at Nevada until September 24 or later. To UNsoIu- Old Corporations. A petition has been filed in the Circuit Court to disolve the Mc Allester Lumber Company, a corpora tion, which was changed to the Bowl ing Lumber Company about two years ago Another petition filed asks for the dissolution of the Columbia Plan ing Mill Company. This concern has been out of business several vears. OCTOBER $1,000 A DAY FROM OIL Orcar 1). Gray, In Columbia Today, Tells of State Receipts. Omar D. Gray, state oil inspector, who was in Columbia for a short time today, said that his department was taking in more than $1,000 a day in revenues. Mr. Gray has been in of fice twenty-seven days and in that time has collected J29.000. This is an increase of ?G,400 over the col lections for the same period last year. Mr. Gray asserts the increased col lections are not due to greater ef ficiency of his administration, but to the fact that more coal oil and gaso line are being used. Missouri now has more motorists, who buy,, gaso line, than ever before and more per sons are using coal oil stoves for cooking during the summer months. Mr. Gray has eight inspectors at work in the state all of the time. In four years, he believes, he will collect one million dollars. He figures the expenses of his department for that time will be $160,000, this netting the state ?S40,000. ARTILLERYJN FRANCE Arrival of United States Gunners Is Announced for the First Time. Ily Associated Press AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE, Sept. 13 -A contingent of American artillery has joined the ex peditionary force in France and is well along in its Intensive training under French instruction. Hitherto the arrival of artillery troops has been carefully guarded and no permission to mention the fact was given. The American artillerymen are using the latest models of the famous French 75's and also 6-inch howitzers. SEPARATE UMTS FOR NEGROES Wll Get Same Treatment as In Reg ular Army. Secretary Baker has announced that negro troops drafted into the National Army will receive the same considera tion and treatment heretofore given them under the rules of the army, says a dispatch from Washington. Those negro troops drafted in states having cantonment camps of their own will be trained in them. Units from other states will be assembled and trained with their state troops as separate organizations, the same as is now done in the regular army. Mr. Baker said: "The rule of the regular army in the matter of the training of negro troops as separate organizations will be ad hered to. The call for negro men will be pospoped until one of the later calls, so that they will be called at a separate time, thereby giving an op portunity to the officers at the camps to assemble the organization of which they are parts substantially all at one time. They will not be called last, but they will be called separately. "All negro men called in a state which has a cantonment in it will be organized and trained there. Pro visions will be made for the assembly of troops from those states which have no cantonments: It has not yet been made. An opportunity will be given to both white and negro men among the selected forces to volunteer service and training in certain lines of com munication organizations, which It is necessary to organize, and it is hoped that an adequate number will volun teer for this military but non-combatant service, but there will be both combatant and non-combatant organi zations, just as there are white organi zations." KANSAS CITY WITHOUT MILK Freight Handlers' Strike Stops Deliv eries There. I!y Associated Tress KANSAS CITY, Sept. 13. The strike situation In greater "Kansas City assumed serious proportions to day when several of the largest dai ries, with a combined dally capacity of 40,000 quarts, stopped all deliveries because of the interference of the striking freight handlers, according to dairymen. GEORGE RRADFIELD IS DEAD Brother of Mrs. Ed Mostly of Stephens to be Buried Tomorrow. Ahc body of George Bradfield, 28 years old, a brother of Mrs. Ed. Mosely of Stephens, was received here today ' and will be sent cither to Oakland or j Prairie Grove tomorrow tomorrow for Bradfield died Monday night In the Kansas City general hospital. His family had not heard from him for six years. APT APPEAL Git BY DISTRICT BOARD Case of Ward T. Darnell Is Reopened Wife Now 111 in Hospital. OTHERS ASK CHANGE Local Board Informed to Extend Appeal Time of Certain Persons. The Local draft board today re ceived authority from the district ap ueal board at Joplln to reopen the case of Ward T. Darnell, R. F. D. 2, Hallsville, who was denied a dis charge by the local board. The local board received evidence after they had passed on the case that Darnell's wife was in the hospital in a critical con dition and that she was solely de pendent on him for support. The re opening of the case will enable the district board to act. Others vho will appeal to the dis trict board after being denied dis charge by the local board are: John William Cole, Ashland; Joseph W". Crane, Jr., R. F- D. 5, Columbia; Earnest D. Maze, R. F. W. 2, Ashland, and Benjamin A. Berry, 'Hallsville. The board has received two letters from Adjutant General McCord, one stating that men appealing for dis charge or exemption on occupational or industrial grounds must file all af fidavits and evidence with the district board and must not send such direct ly to the President, the Provost Marshall General or a member of Con gress. E idence not considered by the district board will not be considered in the appeals. There can be no ap peals to the President from cases passed on by the local boards. The other letter said that where a person has lost the right to appeal by reason of ignorance or misunder standing of the law, a local board may In Its discretion extend the time for appeal. Sheriff Whitesides said that this was applicable to the case of Frank King, now In Tokio, Japan, as King failed to appear for examination and the news of his certification did not reach him until it was too late to appeal. 31. U. MAN IN SCOTT'S PLACE State Position Is Riven To Louis Ratliff. Judge Judge Louis Ratliff of Moberly, an alumnus of the University of Missouri, has been appointed to succeed John W. Scott, a commissioner, who was re moved by the State Board of Perma nent Seat of Gevernment because of , alleged irregularities in state coal . transactions. j Circuit Judge Slate of Jefferson City has called a special jury to investl jgate the coal charges. He took this action after Attorney General Mc Alester and his assistant, S. P. Howell, nad paid him an official visit and Jdvised him as to the situation. The state officials who are commis sioner for the capitol building com prise Governor Gardner, Attorney General McAlestcr, Secretar" of S'lte Sullivan. State Auditor Hackraan and State Treasurer Middiekamp. Alter they had removed Scott by an unanim ous vote they adopted a resolution d'reciinc the attorLey genera! to lay such evidence as he has obtained re garding the coal transaction before the judge, and if he beliees the state lost money through the transaction of Scott to institute suit on his official bond in the name of the state to re coer all moneys lost. The attorney general will also be In charge of prison investigation. Meantime, the state prison board has been conducting an investigation of Its own for the last two months to ascer tain if the state has lost money in the purchase of cement and other building materials, or through the purchase of food and other supplied or the loss of property during the last state adminis tration. This testimony will also be turned over to thejudge. According to the auditor's records the state had paid for all the coal it (obtained by the West Virginia Coal Company of St. Louis, and it was coal 'that the department heads and clerks and outsiders drew upon through Scott, according to their own admis sions and the admissions of Scott. 'Tlin .ntnll v...!.... . .1.1. 1.I...4 r-9 imnl iiu iciau in lie ui IU19 Alliu ui viui in Jefferson City at this time was $5 a ton, but the lucky ones paid only $2.90 a ton, the price the state was paying. BATTLE ON ITALIAN ' FRONT STILL RAGES loniKut; not niucn change In temperature. Austrian Attempts to Dis-! wthr condition,. lJT .. r . o I L'sht ralns have fallen in Missouri and JOdge rOC at AlOntC ban Iowa, an dheavy rains In Minnesota; ( U 1 C l 'shower also liave been general In Oregon OaDnel rail. laud Washington. At seven o'clock tbis I niornluB rain was falling on South At- lantlc coast from Key West to Charles LOSSFS ARF HFAVYi'0"' ,Le, result of an approaching tropical Portugal Reported in State of Siege as Result of Gen eral Strike. Ily Associated Press ROME, Sept. 13. The battle be tween the Austrian and Italian arm ies for possession of Monte San Gabriele is raging furlonsly, according i . . . . j ,. ... ficial Statement today by the to the official Italian war office. New Austrian forces yesterday re newed their attmpts to dislodge the Italians from the slopes of the height but, after advancing at a few points, were stopped by the main Italian line of occupation. TIenna Says Italians Lose Many. I!y Associated Press VIENNA, Sept. 13, (via London, British Admiralty) "The Italian loss es in the eleventh Isonzo battle," says the official Austrian war office state ment today, "have reached almost a quarter of a million." Portncral In State of Siege. Dy Associated Press MADRID, Spain, Sept. 13. Portugal has been declared in a state of siege, according to a telegraphic dispatch from Lisbon, on account of a general strike. All establishments in the Portuguese capital have been closed. Several persons, including a num ber of soldiers, have been wounded by the explosion of bombs. BANDITS GET $2,400 Daring Raid at Sullivan Made by Four Robbers in a Motor Car. By Associated Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13. Four auto mobile bandits droe into Sullivan, Mo., GS miles southwest of here, this morning, bound the railway telegraph ' caHing for their co-operation in dis operator, the night telephone operator COUraging any thoughts of hazing aim his son, tnrew mem into a car, then blew the safe of the People's Bank. They also robbed the railway station. After binding and gagging the men, the bandits cut the telegraph and tele phone wires leading out of the town. News of the bandits was telephoned to St. Louis from Union and Newburg, nearby towns. The bandits escaped' . , . ... and are supposed to have headed to- wards St Louis. They obtained $2, 400 from the bank and $40 from the depot. After the bandits left Sullivan, Cashier Hollow of the bank went to Newburg and telephoned to the sheriff at Union the news of the raid. Others telephoned to the sheriff that a party of tourists from Chicago met the automobile bearing the bandits going at a high speed at a point north of Death Hollow near the St. Louis County-Franklin County line. ' 'EW STUREXTS LEARX TELLS First Open House Held at Y. M. C. A. Last Xljrht. The Y. M. C. A. held its first open house last night for men students. Be tween twenty-five and thirey new students were present. They were In structed in the Missouri songs and yells. Each evening this week the Y. 5f. C. A. will entertain for the stu-l dents who are here, and next week there will be a special reception for foreign students to give them a chance to become better acquainted with other students. E. T. TH03LVS GETS OFFICE State Elks Elect Columbia Man Sergeant-at-Arms. E. T. Thomas, secretary of the Columbia Elks Lodge, was elected sergeant-at-arns at the annual state! convention or the Missouri Association i of Chemistry, food research division, of Elks at Jefferson City yesterday, j His headquarters have been at India Ham p Rothwell, a former Columbian J aapolis. now living in St. Louis, was elected trustee. About 100 delegates attended the convention. Daughter For Mr. and Mrs. DanleL A daughter, weighing eight pounds, was born to Mrfcand Mrs. T. C. Daniel, 403 Mathews street, this morning. She has been named Virginia Frances. Mr. Daniel Is employed at the Boone County National Bank. THE WEATHER Tor Columbia ami Vicinity: Unsettled and probably (.boners this afternoon or tonlzht. Friday jnrtly cloudy weather. Not mucb change In temiierature. Kor Missouri: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, probably showers east portions em Cuba. Nearly normal temperatures obtain from Iowa southward, but In the re malnder of the country east of the Korky Mountains the weather ls rather cool for rapid rlpenlus of grain. There was heavy frost In Wyoming last night. In Columbia partly cloudy and some what unsettled weather will prevail dur ing the next thirty-six hours, probably with showers during the first half, local Data. The highest temperature In Columbia yesterday was 75 degrees and the lowest last nignt was rj; presipltatlou O.Ol relative humidity 2 p. m. yesterday 42 per i"t. A year ago yesterday the highest temperature was TO and the lowest CI; precipitation 000 Inch. The Almanac. Sun rises today, 5:49 a.m. Sun sets, 7:21 p. m. Moon rises 3:12 a. m. Tile Temperature of Today. 7 a. in 01 11 a. m CS S a. ra. 01 12 m 73 it a. in 61 1 p. m 76 10 a. ru 04 2 p. m 7S If OS GIVyOSPITAL Noted Institution Becomes Property of the University of Minnesota. liy Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 13. The board of regents of the Univers ity of Minnesota today ratified by unanimous vote the agreement mak ing the Mayo Foundation at Roches ter the absolute property of the Uni versity, to be used perpetually for higher medical educational research F investigation. Securities totaling ,G50J!(MUreprsentIns. the-i.fQrtu.nes- of Doctors W. J. and C. H. Mayo are turned over to the University. WAXTS '0 HAZIXG THIS TEAR Morris E. Dry, Student" President, Asks Co-operation of Students. Morris E. Dry, student president of the University this year, has written several members of the senior class thnt m;phf -.,. .,. ihp SOnho- mores this fall. The ban has been placed on hazing by the University authorities, resulting in practically no demonstrations last year. According to Mr. Dry, the University Is before the judgment bar in the eyes of the state this year on the haz- Inn nnnctlnn rniiMomhTo aAvorat ?., . . ... , criticism has arisen over this custom , . ,, . ,. ... .. Jill JJicnuua jcaia, dim lufc wuii ..iu.- ination of chi-chi-ing. the new student president thinks, will do much to strengthen the good will of persons over the state towards the University. TO TEACH AT KAXSAS X0R3IAL Position In Pittsburg Accepted By T. W. Rutherford. T. W. Rutherford, son of Mrs. Sarah Rutherford, 70S Maryland place, has accepted the position of instructor in nolitical science and history at the state normal school at Pittsburg, Kan. He will leave for Pittsburg next Sun day. Mr. Rutherford received his A. B. from the University of Missouri in 1913 and his M. A. from Harvard in 1915. He spent the last year at Har vard working for his Ph. D. He has been visiting his mother in Columbia this summer. Prof. A .H. R. Fair- child of the English department of the University is his brother. II. L. Shrader Joins Air SerTlce. Harlan L. Shrader of Kansas City. B. S. in Ag., '14, has written to Prof. H. L. Kempster of the poultry depart- Iment of the University that he has been accepted for the aviation ser- I vice in the army. The letter did not say to what camp he had been as- ' sicned. Since graduation Mr. Shrader has been In the United States Bureau THIRTY OCT FOR C. II. S. TEAM Football Practice Started Yesterday- Expect a Fast Team. Football practice started yesterday at Columbia High School. Thirty re ported for practice and Coach J. K. O'Heeron, judging from the first work out, says he expects an unusually fast team. REBELLION A Soldiers Tell Government Officers They Were Given Wrong Impression. KERENSKY IS CHIEF' Premier Named Commander of Entire Russian Army Confirmed by Cabinet. Dy Associated Press PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. The min ister of labor of the Kerensky cabinet and the members of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates announced to the Russian official news agency today that General Kornlloff's rebellion had collapsed and the army at his headquarters had surrendered. By Associated Press PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. Numerous delegations from General Korniloff's army are arriving at the staff office of the Petrograd military district in a penitent mood, the Associated Press has bean Informed by Premier Kerens ky's secretary. The soldiers declare they have been deceived as to the aims of General Kornlloff's rebellion. General Palchimsky, second in com mand to the commander of the Petro grad district, declared the revolution may now be considered a final failure. He says the question of Kornlloff's surrender is now a matter of sec ondary importance. Premier Kerensky's appointment as commander-in-chief of all the Rus sian armies has been confirmed of ficially by the cabinet. General Alex leff has been confirmed as chief of staff. Vice-Premier Nekrasoff an nounces that General Alexieff has sent a telegram to General Korniloff demanding his immediate surrender. According to official statements, the so-called "savage" division, composed of Georgian and Caucasus troops, is the only unit of troops sent against Petrograd which remains solid for General Korniloff. That body is now at Tsarkoe-Selo. It appears to be undoubted that the "savage" division which is so devoted to General Korniloff has no Idea of their destination or of Korniloff's alms. The division consists of eight regiments of fierce Caucasus cavalry and contains a few Tartars. Almost all are Mohammedans and among them are many princes. The submission of the "savage" di vision to Korniloff was brought about through the devotion of a group of their co-religionists. The tribesmen do not speak Russian, suspect and dread Christians and, when ap proached by the government Russian emissaries, refuse to listen to them and threaten them with arrest. FACULTY 3IEETIXGS SATURDAY Session of AH Members Will Be Held at 10:30 o'clock. There will be a meeting of the University Faculty in the faculty room ok the University Library at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning. The faculty of the College of Arts and Science will meet at 10 o'clock and the faculty of the College of Agricul ture at 11 o'clock in the same Toom. Plans for registration will be among the things discussed at the University Faculty meeting. A. II. WELCH OX TEAR'S LEAVE University Man Accepts Position At Texarkana, Tex. Austin H. Welch, Instructor In architecture In the University has ac cepted a position with the Henry Shreve Lumber Company of Texar kana, Tex., as architectural engineer. Mr. Welch is on a year's leave of ab sence from the University and will re turn to Columbia next fall to take up his work. He will leave with his family in about two weeks. SUFFRAGE TOTE IX DECEMBER Senate Committee Reports Favorably on Constitutional Amendment. Ily Associated Press - WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. The Su san B. Anthony resolution for nation wide suffrage by constitutional amendment was favorably reported today by the Senate Suffrage Com mittee and will take a place on the calendar for a vote at the December session of the Senate. -"