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nrfl TlMMg HI "I Hfin'i ij i '"I'V1 ""lJH I THE EVENING MISSOURIAN TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. NUMBER 2 h II !. k IC'STO E OCT. 17 State Society of Women of Confederacy Will Meet at Christian Church. A THREE-DAY SESSION Mrs. S. C. Hunt, Local Pres ident, Has Appointed Con vention Committees. One of the largest women's organ izations in the state, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which has chapters in practically every city of importance in the state, will hold Its annual convention in Columbia October 17, 18 and 19. The Columbia chapter, which is headed by Mrs. S. C Hunt, his been busy for several months making plans for the state meeting and has arranged a full pro gram for the delegates' three-day visit to Columbia. One hundred and forty delegates will attend .the meeting. The Daughters of the Confederacy is composed of women descendants of men who fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy and the MUsouri organization is part of a na tional organization which has chap ters in nearly every state in the Union. The purposes of the organiza tion are to care for Confederate vet erans, to celebrate anniversaries of well known Confederate heroes and to educate children of Confederate sol diers. The 140 delegates who will at tend the convention in Columbia will come as representatives 'of thousands of women throughout the state. The sessions of the convention will be held in the auditorium of the Chris tian Church. Definite arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates have not been perfected as et, but it Is expected that there will be a re ception on Wednesday night, October 16, a prize essay contest on Thursday night, October 17, and business ses sions on the three days. The conven tion next month will be the first Con federate convention held here for twenty yfcars, the last one being the Confederate veterans' meeting held here in 1S97. Mrs. C. B. Faris of Jefferson City is president of the State U. D. C. and will preside at all the sessions of the Columbia meeting. Mrs. S. C. Hunt, president of the Columbia chapter, has appointed the following committees to have charge of the different lines of activity of the convention: Mrs. S. H. Levy, chairman of the hospitality commit tee; Mrs. Sode Smith, chairman of the entertainment committee; Mrs. T. S. Sutton, chairman of the reception committee; Mrs. Bernard C. Hunt, chairman of the finance committee, and Mis3 Myrtle Parker, chairman of the music committee. There are sixty members in the Columbia chapter of the U. D. C. .MEXICANS MARRIED HERE TODAY State and Church Ceremonies Per formed This Morning. An interpreter and two ceremonies were required today when Pilar Gon salez, 27 years old, of McBaine was married to Miss Manuela Gonsalez, 22 years old, of Boonville. 'As soon as the recorder's office was opened this morning, Gonsalez, his bride-to-be and several Mexican friends were on hand. Through an interpreter Gonsalez told Recorder John L. Henry that he desired to get a license and that he wished to be married by church and state officials, as is the custom in Mexico. Judge James F. Stockton of the Boone County Court had just arrived to attend the session of the County Court and consented to perform the state ceremony. He did this through the interpreter. As soon as the state ceremony was over the couple went to the Catholic Church, where the church ceremony was performed by Father F. J. Lloyd. Gonsalez and his bride are second cousins. GIRLS SEW FOR RED CROSS Two Hundred Pieces Made at Chris tian College Friday Evening. The first social event at Christian College was held Friday night by the Y W C. A. The invitations read: "Sister Susie sews shirts for soldiers tonight in the College Library. Every body come." They came and sewed with war time enthusiasm on sleeves and pockets for hospital shirts. More than 200 finished pieces were sent to the Columbia Red Cross headquarters as a contribution from the evening's work. Many of the college girls had brought their knitting bags with them, so that there were many groups of knitters. Opening Convocation Wednesday. The opening convocation of the first semester of the University will be held In the Auditorium at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. Profes sors, associate professors, assistant professors and instructors will as semble in academic dress at 10:45 o'clock in the office of Secretary J. G Babb. President Hill will make an address. MISSOURI U IET CHARGES ARMY SELLING TRUST Mule Dealers File Suits For About 3 Million Dollars. Br Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Sept 17. Two suits for damages, totaling J2.940.000 were filed In the Circuit Court today by attorneys representing D. H. Rob ertson and Frank Thompson, mule dealers, against the Guyton, Herring ton Mule Company, The Stock Yards Horse and Mule Company, the Kan sas City Commission Company and others. The main charge of the plaintiffs is that the defendants have maintained a combine since November, 1914, excluding the plaintiffs from the marketing of their horses and prevent ing them from selling animals, to the British Army. A British army officer Is named as a defendant. The com plaint filed also states that many of the horses offered by the plaintiffs were rejected unconditionally by the British inspector. WAR WORKERS STRIKE 25,000 Metal and Iron La borers Quit Work in Cal ifornia Today. Ity Associated Tress SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 Ap proximately 25,000 iron workers. and metal trades mechanics engaged in war emergency construction in San Francisco and Bay City struck today, following rejection of their demands for a 50 per cent increase in wages. The walkout in more than 100 plants was carried out without a hitch, it was reported. Hasty eleventh-hour efforts to avert the strike by representatives of the construction companies and the United States Shipping Board failed. The proposal to arbitrate on a basis of alO per cent increase offered had been rejected by the conference com mittee of the Iron Trades Council, representing twenty-flffve unions, on whose authority the strike was called. The walkout affects more than $130,000,000 in government ship build ing and engine construction and 'au tomatically ties up other construction work. TO MAKE NEWSPAPERS PAY House Conferees Insist on Second Class Mail Rate Advance. Ily Associated Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. Progress of the conferees on the War Tax Bill slowed down today as more Important business occupied the attention of Congress. House conferees stood out strong for a second class mail rate increase. As a compromise the con ferees considered the plan indorsed by the PostodTice Department to increase' rates only on the advertising portions of newspapers and periodicals. Although some urged greater war profit taxes than those now imposed, no decision on this question had been reached and it was reliably stated that the conferees had definitely con cluded to limit the House recom mendation to 10 per cent, tariff in crease and to strike out the House clause estimated to raise six million dollars from an Inheritance tax. SCHOOL 'FUND APPORTIONED Columbia "Will Get- $10,S35 of the County Revenues. The apportionment of the school fund for 1917-18 was announced today by County Treasurer George F. Thomson. The total amount is $37, 032.97, of which the Columbia schools will receive $10,835.75. The ninety seven districts in the county, exclud ing the schools of corporate towns, will receive $5,992.99. Centralia will get $2,682.29; Stur geon, $1,621.23; Rocheport, $630.16; Ashland, $420.91, and Harris, $1,264.02. The school fund is made up of $18, 135.S0 from the state, $5,992.99 from interest on the public school fund, $9,725.98 from the general school fund derived from railroad tax and $994.75 from the building school fund, also from the railroad tax. FREIGHT TIED UP IX YARDS Strike Prevents Moving of Cars in Kansas City. By Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Sept. 17. Little freight is being moved from this city and reports declare that the railway yards are clogged with an excessive number of cars, due to the strike of the freight handlers and freight clerks. Some union representatives today stated that many of the switch men were ordered back to work yes terday by John Bannon of St. Louis, vice-president of the Railway Train men's Union, because they had not given the railways thirty days notice. Ret. G. G. Crozler to speau luesuay. The Rev. G. G. Crozier, M. D. of Turn. Assam, who has for many ears served as a missionary, will speak on his work in Assam Tuesday night at the Baptist Church. The public is In vited. Accused of Driving Without Lights The case of Jabe Sublett, who was arrested September 12 on East Walnut street on a charge of driving a car without lights, was being tried before Judge Edwards this afternoon. HON) COIB BIS TO ATTEi MEETING State Highway Engineer to Also Be in Columbia on October 6. MANY ARE EXPECTED Work on Old Trails Road in Missouri Started in Min- eola Hills. A. C. McKibbin, secretary of the state highway commission, with other members of the board, and A. W. TT 1 l r , " ,, " " '6 ' .JT T, "7 TZ in Columbia October 6, it was on' nounced in Jefferson City Saturday. This meeting has been (filled to work out plans for completing the Old Trails Road across Missouri. Repre sentatives from every point along the road from Kansas City to St. Louis will be in attendance. The first work in the 1917 campaign to complete the Old Trails Road, the cross-state highway between Kansas City and St. Louis, was started in the Mineola road district last week when a gang of laborers began to clear the right of way for the new road which is to eliminate the famous Mineola Hills, the worst spot on the great trans-continental highway, says a correspondent of the Kansas City Star. It is hero that the first convict road camp in Missouri is to be established. This will be an accomplished fact within the next two or three weeks, according to advices from Jefferson City. An S-mile Link. The road construction here embraces an 8-mile link in the cross-state high way, the Mineola road district having otcd bonds with which to build the highway. The work is being done un der the supervision of the state high way department, which means that every dollar put into the road by the Mineola district will be matched by a dollar from state and federal aid. In charge of the actual construction there is William E. Barnes, formerly county, highway engineer of Clay County. Mr. Barnes will be remember ed in Clay County and Kansas for the work he did in the Clay County rock road cam pain c a little more than a year ago. To Be PaTed With Gravel. The road through the Mineola Hills is to be muilt of gravel and the cost will not exceed $5,000 a mile, accord ing to the estimates of A. W". Graham, state highway engineer. Gravel had been used in road construction with great success m St. Louis County ac cording to A. C. McKibbin, secretary and member of the state highway com mission, who has studied the Mineola situation carefully. For travel such a3 will be carried on, the Old Trails Road in this county, it is said by Mr. McKibbin, the maintenance of a gravel road will not exceed $50 to $100 a mile yearly. This is based on what it has actually cost St. Louis County to maintain its gravel roads. "A gravel road is better than a water bound macadam road," Mr. McKibbin said. Convicts to Work October 1. Grading on the Mineola Road began today. And it is expected to have the 8-mile stretch completed so that the convicts can bo put to work on the actual road construction nob -late-than October 1. Considerable blast ing will have o be done In clearing the new rok bed and rock drills are to 'be sent here from the state prison at Jefferson City for that work. As scon as the convicts get there and go to work moving pictures of their activities will be made. The road camp in all Its details will be shown in the pictures, which will be exhibit ed throughout the state in order that other Missouri counties can see what may be accomplished by convict labor. J. 0. ROBNETT TO WEST POINT Columbia Boy With Co. F Will Go East After Visit Here. James O. Robnett, a student of the University last year, who is a mem ber of Company F of the Missouri National Guard, now stationed at Ne vada, has received a telegram from Congressman Shackleford telling him of his appointment as principal can didate to West Point. Mr. Robnett will receive his discharge soon and will return to visit his parents at 1509 East Broadway in a few days. He I will attend a Government military school somewhere in the East prepar atory to his entering West Point Dean Williams On Program. Dean Walter Williams of the School of Journalism is on the program of the meeting of the Missouri Press As sociation to be held in St. Louis Thurs day and Friday of this week. Trips to Jefferson Barracks and to the new State Capital at Jefferson City will be made by the editors. 31. 31. Crouch to a Sanatorium. The Boone County Court today granted permission to Milton M. Crouch of Columbia to be admitted in the state sanatorium at ML Vernon. "1.175 REGISTERED, UP TO NOON TODAY X Total for First Day Expected to at Least Equal That Last Year. NEW SYSTEM USED No Idea as to Total Enroll ment Yet Possible on Ac count of Changes. With 1,175 students registered for the 1917-18 school year at the Uni versity of Missouri at noon today, in- ,h.i.. a Aiji. .1.1 . dications at 4 O clock this afternoon were that the total registration for the first day this year will equal, if not excel, the registration for the first day last year. A total of 1,792 students registered the first day last year. This means that this number of students had paid their fees and handed in their course cards, ready for class work. It is expected that several hundred mora than the total number registered to day will have paid their fees, but not registered on account of the rush, as is always the case. "The t6tal registration the first day does not have any bearing on the number of students that will attend school this year," said President A. Ross Hill this afternoon. "The num ber that register the first day de pends on the smoothness with which the registration machinery moves and the number that can be handled. Sev eral changes have been made in the system this year. Whether it will ac celerate or make slower the registra tion work remains to be seen." The departments that will feel the effect of the war most this jear are the School of Law, the College of Ag riculture and the College of Arts and Science. The School of Law will feel the war worse on account of the large number of men who secured commis sions in the national army in compar ison to the relative number of stu dents. An increase in the number of stu dents in the School of Business and Public Administration is expected this year, with a slight increase also in the School of Medicine. The attend ance in the School of Journalism, the School of Engineering, School of Ed ucation and the Graduate School are expected to be only slightly affected, if any, by the war. The usual long lines of students were in evidence in front of Academic Hall early this morning waiting for the opening of the doors for the pay ment of fees. Much of the former confusion and crowding in the corri dors was eliminated, however, by the new arrangement whereby the stu dents got their course cards and com pleted their registration in the new library building. The first-floor corridor of the libra ry building was sectioned off for the various departments, the names of the departments being displaced on cards above the tables. The deans of the various departments were also sta tioned in the library building, for an swering questions as to courses and arranging the schedules of upper classmen. Less of the confusion and disorder prevalent in former years was noticed, most students having little trouble to find their way by means of the printed directions. The first day of registration closed at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The doors will be open at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning for the second day. Regis tration will close at 5 o'clock Wednes day afternoon and classwork will start at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. Opening convocation will be held in the auditorium at 11 o'clock Wednes day morning. BISHOP AT A LIQUOR MEETING St lonls Retailers To Ask Quayle To Talk at Convention. By Associated Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17. John Pemsa, president of the St Louis Retail Liquor Dealers' Association, said to day that he would Invite Bishop Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal Church to deliver an address and make a prayer at the next' meeting of the association October 14. He made this statement after learning that Bishop Quayle in a sermon here yesterday said he never had been Invited to make an address or give a prayer at a liquor convention but that he had a prayer all ready if such an invitation should be received. First. Chapel Service at Christian. Tlii. f!n4 AlinnAl b AnIn nf til A roi . m. . .. -. 1 1 iii v i.u m i at Christian College will be held at 101 o'clock tomorrow morning In Dorsey Memorial Hall. Several short talks will be made. Miss Anna Laura John son, new head of the vocal department, and Robert J. White, new head of the violin department, each will give a number. 3Irs. Mattle Shears to 3Iarry. A marriage license was issued this afternoon by County Recorder John L. Henry to Oscar Dudlng of Ottawa, Kan., and Mrs. lumbia. Mattie Shears of, Co- THE WEATHER lor Columbia anil Vicinity: Renerally fair tonight and Tuesday; not much ihnnce In temperature. For Missouri: Fair tonlfht and probably Tuesday: slightly warmer extreme north east portion tonight. Vfratlirr Conditions. The weather is more or less unsettled and stormv In the Oulf of Meiico and across noit.nern Mexico Including the Klo Grande Valley to the South Pacific Ocean but in the United States and souther'. Canada nearly Ideal autumn conditions pre vail. Showers during the past 24 hour nere confined to relatively small areas in Arkansas, Louisiana, the Texas Coast, und two or three other widely sepanmd points. Tempertures in the principal grain and cotton regions approximate the early autumn averages. Fair, pleasant weather will likely pre vail in Columbia over Tuesday. Ideal Data. The highest temperature In Columbia yesery was SG degrees and the lowest 'Ist night wai CO; precipitation 000; relative humidity 2 p.m. yesterday 33 per cent- A J"ear "so yesterday the highest temerature was 7G and the lowest 40; precipii.tiion uuu nun. The Almanac. Sun ri-.es today, 5flJ a. m. Sun sets, 7:15 p. in. Moon sets 0:31 p. m. The Temperature of Today. 7 a. m CO 11 a. m 76 S a. m C4 12 m 78 9 a. in C7 1 p. m 79 10 a. in 73 '2 p. m M) SII DIE BJ WRECK Ten or More Others Injured in an Accident in Illinois ' Last Night. I!y Associated Tress AURORA, 111., Sept. 17. Six Iowa stockmen were killed last night in a rear-end collision on the Burlington railroad near Earlville, 111., 45 miles west of Aurora. Ten or more were injured. The men who were killed and most of those injured were in two sleeping cars and a day car attached to the rear of the stock train. A merchandise train plowed through the three cars. Patrolman Wilson of the Aurora police force, who went to the scene of the accident with Engineer Carlson in an ambulance, in a report to" Chief of Police McCarty today stated that Carlson told him that he had been "beating each block signal" by about a minute from a point near Galesburg to the place where the accident hap pened, a distance of 80 miles. Keep ing in the same block with the stock train would insure the merchandise train against being delayed by getting a block signal, but would make it difficult to avpid a collision if the train ahead should be stopped ab ruptly. The stock train was stopped by a block signal and the wreck was the result. But Germany Tells Envoys Not to Reveal Code Mes sages to Sweden. By Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 17. Germany has sent a note to Sweden, according to the correspondent at Stockholm of the Central News Agency, highly re gretting the disagreeable issue raised on account of Sweden transmitting telegrams to Germany. Germany says she is obliged to the Swedish government for transmitting ine messages, oui regrets mat ner representatives in Argentina should have sent the telegrams in the phraseology they did. The Nya Dagligt Allenhanda of Stockholm, which printed the an nouncement that Germany had sent a note to Sweden, says the German government has instructed all its rep resentatives in ., foreign countries to refuse to accede to any attempt which may be made to force them to reveal to the Swedish government the contents of code messages which they may submit to it 3IEETING AT T. 3f. f, A. TONIGHT Hamilton and Rider Will Speak Handbook Is Distributed. All new students are urged fo attend the open house at the Y. M. C. A. Build ing at 7 o'clock tonight. Captain Paul Hamilton of the Tiger football team Captain Ncrris Rider of the track team and Attorney Lee Walker will address the men. Other meetings will be held during the week. The Y. M. G. A. Is distributing 1,500 handbooks to the students as they register. The handbook, finished in black with a large gold M on the front, contains information on the various student activities and a map of the campus, making forty pages, excluding the cover. Any students who register- ' ,. ,,.,..,, CUintlUUUb ,..!(, uauuwun. receive one by calling at the Y. M. C. A. office. Twelfth Night Club Gives Party. The Twelfth Nlght.CIub gave a party in the Christian College gymnasium to the faculty and new students Saturday night. The old girls were hostesses. Thompson's orchestra played a pro gram of dance music. The gymnasium was decorated with the college colors of blue and gold. Ice Cream and cake were served. E CONFI DECE TO Reorganization of Armies Will Follow Alexieff s Ap pointment. REBELLION MISTAKE Feel Trouble Would Have Been Avoided, by Proper Explanations. To Reorganize Russian Armies. Ily Associated Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. General Alexieffs appointment as supreme commander of the Russian armies will be followed by a general reor ganization, in which old generals will give place to new ones. The first definite news of the reorganization was received at the Russian embassy today. Confidence of the troops is being restored by the removal of the former generals, the dispatch said, and the situation is rapidly clearing. The Korniloff uprising seems to have been quelled without bloodshed, and officials here find the government now stronger than ever. The original trouble might have been avoided, Russians here feel, if the embassies from Korniloff had been able to ex plain the situation to the government, and it is believed a mistake was made in selecting the men to go between Korniloff and the government. TIGERS IX FIRST FALL PRACTICE Jinny New Men Responded to Coack Schulte's Call Today. The first fall practice of the Tiger football team was held on Rollins Field at 3 o'clock this afternoon. In answer to this first call Captain Paul Hamilton, Bill Rider, Harry Viner, Bill Collins, Slusher and "Chuck" Wilson were among the first old men to report. Coach Schulte was busy with prospective Tigers, talking over with them their qualifications for places on the team and looking the material over that he might form some idea of what the Tiger chances this fall would be. The men who reported today were put through a light practice throwing t the ball and were all given suits and assigned lockers in the gymnasium. Schulte will continue his afternoon football sessions during the remain der of the season, the practice start ing every afternoon at 3 o'clock. The practice for a few weeks at least will be open to the public. DR. WALTER '3IILLER IN FRANCE Former Dean of Graduate School Is Now Located in Paris. Word was received today by Mrs. Walter Miller that Mr. Miller, dean of the Graduate School of the Univer sity, ha3 arrived safely In France. He is now located at 31 Avenue Montaigne, Paris. " Doctor Miller was granted a leave of absence from the University to enter the war work of the Y. M. C. A. in France. He probably will be station ed with French troops near the front. He sailed from New York September 4. WILL STOP JAY WALKING No More Cutting of Corners on Broad way WUI Be Allowed. The intersections of Broadway with streets running north and south between Seventh and Tenth street, inclusive, will be marked the latter part of this week to prevent the cut ting of corners by pedestrians. Tile space for parking automobiles on Broadway will also be marked Into stalls at the same time, according to Mayor James Boggs. 468 ACRES BRING $27,000. 31x8. Ella Smith Sells Farm Land to H. II. and It, M. Tandy. Mrs. Ella W. Smith last week sold 468 acres of land to H. H. and M. M. Tajidy for $27,000. The land is north west of Columbia, near the Howard county line. Mrs. Mary E. Divers sold two lots in the north part of Columbia to Luther W. Creasey for $600. NO SUBMARINES NEAR U. S. Navy Department Believes There Is No Foundation for Report By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. The Navy Department, after as complete an In vestigation as possible, is satisfied there Is no foundation for reports of a hostile submarine off the coast of New England. G. W. Rutherford Leaves for Kansas. Geddes W. Rutherford left this morning for "Pittsburg, Kan., where-he ' will teach history and political sci ence in the State Normal School. Mr. Rutherford received the degree of A.B. from the University of Missouri in 1913 and his A.M. in 1915 from Harvard, where he was also scholar in government This summer Mr. Rutherford has been spending at the home of his brother, Dr. A. H. R. Faircbild of the English department RUSSIAN 1