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fW1 l--P,fc- t--, V3wr "if -f '"Tt !" 3 SUNDAY MORNING MISSOURIAN r. TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, SUNDAY M.ORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1917. NUMBER 37 FW ' v i. ;i PEOPLE OF BOONE COUNTY SUBSCRIBE WIORE THAN QUOTA Reports Show That the Total Amount of Bonds Sold Aft er Final Drive Yesterday Is $6 13,400. PARADE AND RALLY END THE CAMPAIGN Following Appeal of Speak ers on Broadway, Business Men and Farmers Come to Government's Aid. The Boono County Liberty Loan Organization announces the oversubscription of the county's quota of the second Liberty Loan. The approximate total Is $G15,000. We are proud of the patriotic manner In wlilch the people of Boone County haio responded to the call of the Government, the army and humanity. Permit us to take this occa sion to thank those who hare la bored so faithfully and so un selfishly to place Boone County In the position she justly de serves. BOONE COUNTY LIBERTY XOAN ORGANIZATION. Boone County people are not slack ers. They proved that decisively by subscribing $613,400, or. 15 per cent more than the county's quota of the Second Liberty Loan issue. ' On the basis of a 3 billion-dollar Issue, the Boone County Liberty Loan Organization found last night, after the closing rally ot the campaign, that the quota of $545,000 was exceed ed by about $75,000 and many more subscriptions may yet be reported. The final "rally of the campaign, which took place on Broadway yes terday afternoon between Eighth and Ninth streets, was an impressive and effective appeal to the people cf Co lumbia and Boone County at the last moment to lend financial support to the government. It is estimated that the afternoon's work added more than $50,000 to the subscription totals. More than $12,000 was taken in at the speakers' platform and the banks were kept busy all afternoon. Praise for the Farmers. To the farmers of the county who were present at the meeting should go a word of praise, as they came through on the issue as they have never done in the preceding days of the campaign. The farmers as a whole didn't make a very good show ing, probably because of their dis tance from the seat of agitation. The University total reached $61, 000, Dean Isidor Loeb reported last night When the University commit tee undertook the task of raising money the county loan committee told them that $20,000 would be a good sum for their quota. The $40,000 mark was passed Thursday ana Doc tor Loeb then expressed the hope that they could imsh the figure to $54,000, one-tenth of the county's quota. The amounts of subscriptions taken by the various banks of the county are as follows: Boone County National, $200,000; Boone County Trust, $100,000; Ex change National, $100,000; Columbia Savings, $50,000; Central. $10,000; Conley-Myers, $10,000; Bank of Stur geon $10,000; Bank of Hallsville,. $10, Eeon, $12,000; Citizens' Bank of Stur 000; Bass-Johnston, $6,000; Citizens' Bank of Ashland, $5,000; Rocheport Bank, $15,000; People's Bank of Rocheport, $8,000; Farmers' Ba'nk' of Hartsburg, $3,300; Bank of Harts burg, $3,500; Harrisburg J3ank, $4,500; First National Bank of Centralla, $14,400; Bank ot Centralla, $33,000; Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Centralla, $15,000. Total, $613,400. Parade Yesterday Afternoon. At 1:30 o'clock the parade, led by the University cadet band, marched up Broadway, disbanded in front of the speakers' platform after the band had played patriotic airs. In the pa rade were 600 of the University ca dets, the Boy Scout's brigade, mem bers of the University faculty, busi ness men and a delegation from Steph ens College. James Schwabe was the chairman of the meeting and introduced the first speaker, E. C. Anderson, as the greatest prosecuting attorney that ever served Boone County. Mr. An derson read a telegram from the As sociated Press to the Evening Mls sourlan stating that United States troops were now in the first line trenches at the front The telegram told of firing by the first American artillery a few days ago. "If American troops can shed their blood for us, no red-blooded American man, woman or child will remain in- (Continued to page 6.) THE CALENDAR Oct 9. Negroes drafted for National Army leave at 10 -ZO o'clock for Camp Funston. Oct. 30. JJoover pledge campaign begins. Oct. 30. Meeting of International Polity Club at Y. M. C. A. Nov. 1. Increased postage rate goes Into effect. Not. 2. Football mass meeting at the University Auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Nov. 3. Missouri-Oklahoma football game on Rollins Field. Nov. 3. Meeting of hog producer! of Missouri at the College of Agri culture. Nov. 12. Second Phi Mu Alpha concert by Zoellner Ouartet In University Auditorium. TIIE FOOTBALL RESULTS Kansas 7, Ames 0 Washington 7, Rose Polytechnic 0 Michigan 20, Nebraska 0 Pittsburgh 14, Pennsylvania 6 Brown 7, Colgate 6 Wisconsin 20, Iowa 0 Chicago 7, Northwestern 0 5 Liberty Loan Subscriptions Pass the Maximum Sum Set. By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Oct 27. The Liber ty Loan apparently has passed, the five billion dollar mark. A last-day drive of titanic propor tlon throughout the nation rounded up more than one billion dollars and was believed to have carried the total several million dollars beyond the maximum sum, Treasury officials had hoped for. Federal Reserve Banks were strug gling tonight under an avalanche of last-minute subscriptions to form some Idea of the grand total. Indica tions are that they will not complete their tabulation for several days. At least eight million persons throughout the country wrote their names on ap plication blanks. How many did so will not be known until the final count is made. The number may go as high as ten million. Each of the twelve districts appeared to have passed its minimum and Indications were that most of them had exceeded the maxi mum as well. 4 Billion Sold at 'oon Yesterday By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (noon) The Liberty Loan Campaign went into its final hours today with every ounce of energy of the 2,000,000 field workers being put forth to carry the amount past the $5,000,000,000 mark. Revised official and unofficial reports today strongly indicate, the Treasury Department announced, that ap proximately $4,000,000,000 In bonds have already been sold. WAR WORK MEETING TODY Churches of 8 Counties Send Dele gates to Jefferson City. The churches of all denominations In the counties of Boone, Callaway, Audrain, Cole, Moniteau, Miller, Maries and Osage are called upon to send two or more representatives to Jef ferson City for a Y. M. C. M. war work meeting to be held there this afternoon. E. W. Stephens, Prof. A. W. Taylor. Dr. J. B. Cole, J. T. Mitchell and N. T. Gentry have arranged for delega tions from this county. Plans will be made for raising a $35,000,000 fund for army work in this country and France. Missouri will undertake to raise a million and Boone County and the University of Missouri will do their full share. This is the biggest sum ever raised for religious work at one time in the history of the world. The first drive was for $3,000,000 but could not be stopped until $5,000,000 was raised. . RED CROSS GIVES PROMPT AID Snrrivors of the Antilles Were . Cared For. By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Oct 27. 'Prompt aid was given by the American Red Cross to the 100 survivors from tne United States transport Antilles, which was torpedoed October 16. Cable reports stated that food, cloth ing and shelter were provided for tne survivors upon their arrival. Of ficers' checks were cashed and taken as payment for the provisions. REV. N. II. TRIMBLE TO FORT SILL Is Selected to Manage Chautauqua Programs at Cantonment. The Rev. Nelson H. Trimble of Columbia has been chosen to taue charge of Chautauqua work in the National Guard cantonment at tort Sill, Okla. The government has ar mnirpd for chautauaua lectures In all of the training camps. Mr. Trimble is one of the twenty Chautauqua workers chosen for managing the progarm3. D. L. Owens Dies at Hallsville. D. L. Owens, 72 years old, died at his home at Hallsville Friday of jMmr ' ttr Ip.ivps six children: Lorenzo Owerfi of Centralla, Grover Owens, Mrs. Elmer Pulvis and Miss T?nth Owens of Hallsville. ana Mrs. Glenn Sublett and Carter Owens of Columbia. THAN FOOD 11 DRIVE WILL BEGIN TUESDAY Columbia Women Ready to Start the Hoover Pledge Campaign. COMMITTEES NAMED City Divided Into Wards and a Thorough Canvass Will Be Made. Sign the plegde! Tuesday the food under the direction of Mrs. W. E. will begin. It will continue for two days. The city has been divided into four wards and the work organized under the direction of Mrs. W. E. Harshe, vice-chairman of Boone County, of which J. T. Mitchell has been appointed food conservation chairman. The campaign In the rural districts will be carried on under the supervision of Mr. Mitchell and Mrs. Harshe will conduct the drive in the county seat fn co-operation with Mrs. Turner McBalne. A special conference of the cam paign workers will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the headquarters of the four wards and plans made for taking up the pledge obtaining task Tuesday morning. "For the convenience of those doing the work and the ciTectiveness ofjthe campaign the women of CoIumbhrfg- bmvj Riyer tQ pjtlan are urged to remain at home as much as possible on Tuesday and Wednes day while the drive for signers is on," said Mrs. Harshe Jn outlining the plans of the committe'e. The work among the negro population of Co lumbia will be handled by the negro citizens themselves, according to present arrangements. In making reports to the county and state food conservation officers, the local committee Is required to list on separate sheets the names of those refusing to sign the food saving pledge. It was announced today, Those who will do the work here in the four wards into which the city has ben divided are as follows: First ward: Mrs. R. P. Flnley, chair man; Mrs. J. M. Battcrton, Mrs. D. E. Major, Mrs. Ed McDonnel, Mrs. W. E. Edwards, Mrs. John N.- Taylor, .Mrs, H.'O. Severance, Mrs. Luke uhiiders, Mrs. Frank Harris, Mrs. J. E. Boggs and Mrs. William Hlrth. Second Ward: Mrs. W. K. Bayless, chairman; Mrs. Carrie Sampson, Miss Mary Haggard, Miss Lucile Rucker. Mrs. E. W. Stephens, Mrs. L. B. Nowell, Mrs. A. W. Kampschmldt, Mrs. L. R. Fuller, Mrs. James Dysart, Mrs. H. H. Banks. Miss W,illie Robin son, Mrs. Kent Catron, Mrs. D. A. Robnett, Mrs. L. D. Shobe, Mrs. W. H. Braselton, Mrs. Walter Robinson, Mrs. Robert Rogers, Miss Lena Hall and Mrs. J. J. Phillips. Third Ward: Mrs. W. T. Stephen son, chairman; Mrs. A. F. Neate, Mrs. B. E. Hoffman, Mrs. A. G. Spencer, Mrs. N. T. Gentry. Miss Ruth Rollins, Miss Mary Estes, Mrs. Sydney Calvert, Mrs. Ben Shore, Mrs. Charles Eckles, Miss Frances Denny, Mrs. H. H. Tandy, Mrs. I. O. Hockaday. Mrs. E. A. Trowbridge, Mrs. H. Wade' Klb bard. Miss Flora Crouch, Mrs. J. G. Babb, Mrs. Frank Pape, Mrs. H. T. Lansing, Mrs. John Belcher, Mrs. J. B. Cole. Mrs. P. H. Ross, Mrs. George Revls, Mrs. H. I. Bragg, Mrs. Fair balre. Miss Claudle Hatton, Miss Allda Smith and Mrs. Sarah I. Rutherford. Fourth Ward: Mrs. J. A. Gibson, chalrmanr Mrs. George Redd, Mrs. Mary Proctor Thompson, Mrs. George Reeder, Mrs. Herbert Sill, Mrs. M. P. Ravenel, Mrs. E. J. McCaustland, Mrs. May Meyer, Mrs. E. Spencer, Mrs. J. A. Hudson. Mrs. F. A. Hober pcht, Mrs. F. Y. Ferree, Mrs. George Kerr, Mrs. H. H. King and Mrs. Elliott Clark. TWO DIVORCE SUITS FILED Mrs. Daisy Ballenger and Mrs. Myrtle Hampton are Plaintiffs. Two suit3 for divorce were filed with J. E. Boggs, circuit clerk, last week. Daisy A. Ballenger In her suit against John Ballenger charges him with indignities, non-support and jealousy. She asks that her former name, Mrs. W. L. Via, be restored. Mr. and Mrs. Ballenger were married last April. Mrs. Myrtle Hampton of Centralla, in her suit against Leo Hampton, charges him with cruelty and in fidelity to marriage vows. She asks to be made guardian of their two children. Mr. and Mrs. Hampton were married five years ago. P. E. O. Society Buys Bond. The P. E. O. Society decided to buy a $50 Liberty Bond at a business meeting yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. H. Pommer. After the meeting, Mrs. Pommer, Professor Pommer and their daughter, Sybyl, gave a musical program. No Change in Draft Quotas. By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct 27. Provost Marshall Crowder reports that the classification of drafted men under the new draft rules and regulations will not affect quotas already chosen. CLAIM THE CAPTURE OP German War Office Asserts Second Cadorna Army Is Defeated. SITUATION IS GRAVE Rome Says the Struggle Is Bitter, But Outcome Is Undecided. Bv Associated Press BERLIN, Oct 27. Sixty thousand Italians have been taken by the Austro-German forces in their offens ive on the front, army headquarters announced today. Guns to the num ber of 450 have been taken. The mountain ridge of Stol has been captured from the Italians, as has al so the summit of Monto Matajur, says the announcement Tho statement claims the defeat of the second Italian army and that the Isonzo front o'f the Italians is Im periled as far as Wiktach. Situation Grave, Says Cadorna. By Associated Press ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, Oct 27. The Italian War Department re ports on tho present situation of the armies a3 follows: "Austro-German forces are still Plains. 'The situation, however, is still grave, and this fact is realized,' said General Cadorna, commander of the Italian armies.. The arranged and attempted attack by General von Mackensen's forces In the sector ot Balnsizza and southward was held in check." Onfrnmi. Xnf TIppMajI. By A&oclated Press ROME, Friday, Oct 2G (delayed) A semi-official statement issued tonight says the struggle on the Isonzo front is more than bitter 'and that the out come Is still undecided. The situation created by the power-of the enemy, says the announcement, is "certainly grave." Having crossed the Italian boundary line between Monte Cunin and halt ff tho Judrio Valley, the enemy Is at tempting to make an opening in the lines, says today's official com munication. The Austro-German forces are also making strong attacks on the Carso front. They were repulsed by the Italians. PORK PRODUCERS TO MEET HERE C. E. Taney and Food Administrator Mumford Among Speakers. Men of state-wide reputation will speak at the Missouri Pork Producers' Conference In the Agricultural Build ing Saturday, November 3. C. E. Yancy, president of the Missouri Live Stock Producers' Association, will be the first speaker on the program. State Food Administrator F. B. Mum ford will follow with a talk on food administration and the meat supply. Prof L. A. Weaver of the animal husbandry department will give an exposition on swine-feeding experi ments, with a trip through the hog lots on the University Farm. Other speakers ' will be: J. H. Starr, a swine breeder and feeder of Centralla; J. O. Barcley, manager of the South St. Joseph Stockyards; George M. Rommel .and Doctor White of the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition to the speeches there will be ten five- minute talks by county agents and farmers from various localities In the state. Gifford Pinchot has been In vited to come and has answered tnat he will attend If possible. NEGRO UNIT LEAVES TOMORROW Old Fashioned Songs Followed by Talks at Sleeting In Their Honor. Old fashioned camp meeting melo dies by Columbia's colored folk featured at the meeting Friday night cf the forty-two negro men who will leave tomorrow for Camp Funston. After the singing talks were made by H. A. Collier, E. C. Anderson and Mayor J. E. Boggs. The men who will go tomorrow morning marched in a body into the church where the meeting was held, receiving hearty applause from the big crowd which attended. The negro unit will meet oi the lawn at the courthouse at 9 o'clock to morrow morning where a picture will be taken. Ralph L. Milnes a Lieutenant Ralph L. Milnes, a Junior in the University last year, has been made a lieutenant in the aviation section and has entered the Balloon School at Omaha, Neb. He was in training at Camp Funston for six weeks before taking the examination for the aviation section. Ashury Child Dies. The five-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Asbury, 308 St Joseph street, died at 12 o'clock Friday night Funeral services were held yesterday at the Asbury residence by the Rev. I Burial was In Madison A. Hart Columbia Cemetery. 6. ITALIANS THE WEATHER (Report Issued Saturday.) For MissouVl and vicinity: Generally fair Sunday unsettled, probably rain by night. Not much change In temeprature For Missouri: Sunday unsettled, prob ably rain. Weather Conditions. The storm area has moved to the upper Lake region. Snow fell during the past 21 hours from Minnesota west to the Rockies; and there has been rain In most of the Ohio Valley section, lower Missouri and middle Mississippi. Fair weather has prevailed In Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and In the south east cotton belt. Temperatures continue below the sea sonal average, but there Is no severe weather anywhere. In Columbia generally fair weather will prevail during the first half of the next 30 hours, becoming unsettled probably with rain during the latter part 501 HUNTING PERMITS ISSUED Miss Marian Rhys First Woman to Bay License Here. Miss Marian Rhys Is the first woman In Boone County to buy a 1917 hunting license. Five hundred and four permits have been sold. Most of them have been taken out since September 1. Four state -licenses, costing $5 as compared with the county permits at $1, are out The opening of the quail season, November 10, will bring the total up with a rush, the county clerk says. Nearly 1,200 were taken out last year. The last of the bigger game has long ago disappeared from Boone County, the county official says, but there remains quail, ducks, squirrels and rabbits. STARVING III RUMANIA Help Must Reach That Country Soon Children , Dying Fast. By Associated Press JASSY, Rumania, Oct 27. Rumania is in danger of starvation and desti tution unless stepS are taken to re lieve the food and clothing situation InvesUgaUon by the Associated Press correspondent indicates that help must come soon if the country Is to re tain its strategical importance in the war. The Rumanian army has been fighting with admirable courage and endurance, -although its supply ot provisions and wearing apparel have been on a limited scale. The death rate among the Rumanian children due to malnutrition is ap pallngly large. The supply of dairy products is negligible. The govern ment has sufficient corn to feed the peasants until February, but there are virtually no shoes, clothing or blankets to be had. EXA3IINE STATE WATER METERS Experts Find Missouri Has Not Lost Money In Penitentiary Supply. Expert engineers at the university and an expert from the state public service commission yesterday made a thorough test of the water meters used at the state penitentiary by the Jefferson City Water Works Company. It had been said the state was being badly gouged to the extent of several thousand dollars a year because of false measurements. The test shows that the water company has been the loser all along, and to an extent of at least 15 per cent For the last thirty years the prison has obtained its water supply from the local water company, and the cost is usually about $9,000 a year, and occasionally run ning up to $10,000. As a result of the tests made here the company is en- Utled to about $120 a month in excess of what its bills called for during past months. It seems the meters are old and about worn out MORE SOCKS FOR THE SOLDIERS Home Economics Club Buys Knitting Machine and Liberty Bond. The members of the Home Eco nomics Club bought a $50 Liberty Bond and a knitting machine, at their meeting Thursday night They will pay cash for the bond. The knitting machine knits socks only. Instead of taking two days to knit a pair of socks for a "Sammy," the machine makes It possible to knit a pair In two hours, Any girls In the University can give both the yarn and her time, or she can donate only her Ume and the club will furnish the yarn, wnen me macnine is noi m use by the University girls, it may be used by other people. New Flag Raised Over City HalL A new flag 13 now flying over the city hall, replacing the old one which had become so badly tattered that It was hardly recognizable. The flag cost $10 and Is five and a half by eight feet Doctor Sabine Talks on Spinoza. "Spinoza, On Church and State," was the subject of Dr. George" H. Sabine's lecture before the Menorah Society last night in Room A, Y. M. C. A. Building. Sir Charles Kearney Dies. Br Associated Preas tivtov net. 27. Sir Charles' Kearney, noted novelist and author, died here Friday. U. S. SOLDIERS NOW INST IN Nation Thrilled by News That Americans at Last Face the Germans on West ern Front. CASUALTIES MAY BE EXPECTED ANY DAY Shells Are Now Breaking About Heads of Men From America Pershing Makes the Announcement. By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct 27. The nation was thrilled today by word that American troops at last were face to face with the Germans across 'no man's land." Announcement by Gen eral Pershing that several battalions of his infantry were In the front line of trenches supported by American batteries, which had already gone into action against the enemy, fanned a new flame of patriotism throughout the country. The silence with which Secretary Baker and War Department officials greeted the news showed that al though the movement Into the trenches had been expected at any time, it was regarded only as the final phase of the men's training a military finishing school conducted under fire. German shells are breaking about the Americans and although they have not taken oer) the trench sector, rifle and machine gun, bombs and bayonets from Americans will greet any enemy attack. The silence of Secre tary Baker indicated that no of ficial reports of the occupation of the trenches had been received. Casualties among the American forces are to be expected. Reports from the front already show Inter mittent artillery firing and a well aimed shell may claim American victims at any moment There is nothing to indicate that an offensive operation by the American and French associates is to be expected outalde ol possible trench raiding. By Associated Frew WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct 27. American troops are in the first-line trenches on the French front The artillery fired the first shot of the war at 6 o'clock on the morning of a recent day at a German working party. There has been Intermittent artillery fighting since. Helmeted infantry marched in with out the knowledge of the enemy on the same night through rain and mud. The French soldiers in the trenches welcomed them enthusiastically. Tho newest enemy trench Is several hundred yards away. The sector is one of the quietest on the front. It has not been taken over by the Ameri can troops, being under the control ot the troops under the direction of the French. The Americans have shelled Ger man positions and troops, the enemy sending back shell for shell. The first shell case will be sent to President Wilson. The shell case is now in the possesion of General Slbert The shot was fired by a red-haired gunner as his comrades in the lines and as sembled officers cheered. Later a luncheon in tho field was attended by American and French artllleryists In celebration of the first American contest with the enemy. The gun used In firing the first shot was one of the famous French 75's. On the second day the French shelled a German battery position which was located by sound and the enemy replied vigorously, projectiles falling close to the Americans who Joined in the duel. All the troop3 will be relieved afte. a certain period. Thus the American expeditionary force Is getting the benefit of actual war conditions. Major General Scott At the Front y Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Oct 27. Major Gen eral Scott, chief of staff, has arrived in France, and has gone to the front After his return to the United States he will be chief of the officers' staff for Intensive trench warfare training. He will have charge of the training of all drafted men now in cantonments and those in future calls upon his return. Bird Club On Weekly Trip. The University Bird Club took its weekly field trip yesterday. A num ber of Interesting birds, some of them rather uncommon, as the prairie horn ed lark and the winter wren, were noted. The longest list of species in cluded more than twenty. 26,000 Tons of Sugar on Market By Associated Press NEW YORK, Oct 27. Negotiations for a sugar release have been effected here by large firms, which will ln- volve a purchase of 20,000 tons, to be piacea on uie uimmi jm. uutc. IN ACTION AGA ENEMY FRANCE 14' ..ttJ&i' zg&msM, &&. - - -t.cX4BS. ski '-. "-&&,