Columbia Missourian from Columbia, Missouri • Page 1

BUZZ IS RAGING OVER MIDDLE WEST Snowstorm Threatens Complete Tie Up of Railway Traffic in Places FALL OF TEN INCHES Freight Operation in Northern New York State Already Suspended By Associated Press CHICAGO Jan 26 The Central West which is recovering from a fuel and food famine and the traffic prostration caused by two previous bllz lards tonight again faced isolation as a result of the third storm in two weeks The snow in Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Nebraska Michigan and Ohio was watched with anxiety by railway men The storm which was central over Wyoming on Friday moved southeastward rapidly accompanied in some districts by sub zero weather and falls of snow estimated as varying in depth from seven to ten inches In Chicago fuel and food deliveries were menaced by the drifts which soon began to fill the streets and in many Instances passenger trains were canceled by roads entering the city and the fear was expressed that the storm would seriously hamper the return of freight cars sent to the down state lines for coal to help relieve the coal shortage Kallroad Tie Up Threatened By Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 26 Part of the Middle West was threatened with an almost complete tie up of railroad transportation late today by a severe snowstorm which was sweeping eastward from Chicago Reports to Director General McAdoo said from seven to ten inches of snow had fallen and was drifting before a high wind The Belt railroad discontinued accepting cars at Chicago and yard operations were badly crippled Frelgh toperation in the northern part of New York state have been suspended on account of heavy snowstorms Director General McAdoo was notified tonight by A Smith regional director in New York He reported also a blizzard in Michigan with fast falling temperature Down to Ten Below Tonight The forecast for Columbia calls for a severe cold wave here today with the temperature falling to 10 or more below zero tonight No snow is predicted for today CLAKK TELLS OF JACKS Father of Secretary of Commercial Club Feared by Speaker John Jacks flather of Jacks secretary of the Columbia Commercial Club is mentioned in an installment of the autobiography of Speaker Champ Clark In the February issue of Hearsts magazine in which he describes his campaigns for Congress up to the time of his first nomination in 1892 Speaker Clark tells of a trip made to St Louis for the special purpose of getting a square deal out of a St Louis paper which he feared he might not get because he was on bad terms with John Jacks the papers correspondent In Montgomery City where the delegates of the district convention met The editor in charge promised to give him a square deal even though he wished to see Clark defeated Later Mr Clark met Mr Jacks in the Christian Church at Montgomery City and they were reconciled He adds I recently ap pointed him Journal Clerk jot tha House LIBRARY HAS 161470 BOOKS In 1917 the Number of New Volumes Received Was 7982 The total number of books in the University Library January 1 was 11470 In 1917 2177 volumes were Elven to the library The number received during the year are classified as follows Agriculture 1014 engineering 447 General Library 5746 Journalism 8 Lathrop Hall 15 law 639 medicine 113 total 7982 31 A Calf to Be Sold The calf which Reams of Stephens gave to the A last spring is ready for sale now It has been kept by Mr Reams and is in good conditon The calfs great great grandfather was sired by Gift who took second premium of all breeds in England Mr Reams will show the calfs pedigree to any purchaser Gorernment Official Drops Dead By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Jan 26 Frank Gould surveyor general of the Department of the Interior dropped dead here today in a corridor in front of his office Rv Hart Leaves for Camp Taylor The Rev Madison A Hart pastor of the Christian Church departed yesterday afternoon for Camp Taylor Ky where he will be engaged in the A work among the soldiers Jan Jan THE CA1EXDAB COLUMBIA MISSOURI SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 27 1918 2S Iteglstratlon for semester at the University Opening convocation of second semester at tne University Jan 29 The A and A post eiamrjubllee for all University students A Building 8 Jan 29 Dean Isldor Loeb speaks on Missouris Need for a New Constitution before the Columbia Civic League A Auditorium 230 Feb 1 Recital at Christian College Auditorium 815 by Miss Marcla von VilhemJ Hailey pianist Mrs Margaret Itoherts 5reen soprano Feb 6 Final debate tryout 730 Wednesday night A Auditorium HEXEY ACCUSES THE PACKERS Alleges They Tried to Stop an Of- liclal Investigation By Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 26 The big packing Interests were charged today by Francis Heney special counsel in the Federal Trade Commission investigation into the meat packing in dustries with having attempted to bring influence to bear on President Wilson to have the present investigation stopped Mr Heney told the commission that he would show that a joint telegram was sent to the President by a number of Detroit bankers protesting that the investigation was disturbing economic conditions was inspired by the packers ACTA WOULD Petrograd Dispatch Says Country Is Ready for Separate Peace By Associated Press LONDON Jan 26 Austria has declared her readiness to conclude a separate peace without Germany and to ccept the Russian democratic program with the exception of self determina tlons says a dispatch from Petrograd to the Exchange Telegraph Company Another dispatch to the Exchange Tel egraph Company from Petrograd Fri day says Bolshevik newspapers today report that great demonstrations are taking place all over Austria Hungary Work mens and soldiers organizations have been formed at Vienna German Socialists Make Threat By Associated Press AMSTERDAM Jan 26 Philip Scheideman president of the Social Democratic party in Germany answering Chancellor von Hertlings speech in the Main Committee of the Reichstag warned the military leaders of the Imperial Government that if they did not bring peace between Germany and the Entente powers they would be hurled from power Congress of Cossacks Inaugurated By Associated Press PETROGRAD Jan 26 An official statement Isisued today by the Bolshevik government says that on Wednesday the Congress of Cossacks from the front was inaugurated at the military statoin of Kamensky and passed unanimously a resolution declaring war on General Kaledlnes and relegating all authority to the congress GRAY IN OFFICE MONDAY Formal Transfer of Postofflce to Be Made Tomorrow Gray newly appointed tem porary postmaster for Columbia will assume his new duties early Monday morning Mr Gray said that no for mal transfer could take place until after the close of business last night and all the books straightened and all the employes paid When asked if he had any definite plans In mind Mr Gray said I take it for granted that the of fice is well organized and that no charges will be necessary for the present All the present employes will continue in their present position until Mr Gray can familiarize himself with the working of he office and the em ployes HOME OX FURLOUGH WEDS Millard Sexton and Miss Flora Sta pleton Married Millard Sexton and Miss Flora Sta pleton both of Columbia were married by the Rev St Clair at his home yesterday afternoon Mr Sexton Is a private in Company 356 Infantry Camp Funston and is one of Boone Countys drafted men He Is home on a furlough and will return this afternoon Fire at Ketchums Home The fire department made a run at 630 oclock last night to extinguish a small blaze at the home of Ketchum 910 Locust street caused by the burning out of a flue Little damage was done Presbyterian Bible Class to Meet The University mens Bible class of the Presbyterian Church will meet at 945 oclock this morning Christian Endeavor meets ir i Church Chapel at 630 oclock Sunset Club to Gke Program The Sunset Club will give a special musical program at the A Building at 430 oclock this afternoon AH University men are invited GIRL TO THE GOVERNMENT Allene Jones 6 Years Old Invests in War Savings Certificates FACTORY MEN HELP Hamilton Brown Employes Buy 1 MX of Bonds in Few Days For the last six or seven months Allene Jones 6 years old daughter of A Jones a foreman at the Ham ilton Brown shoe factory has been saving her pennies They were kept In a cigar box When the box was filled the other day the money was counted and it was found that Allene had S00 pennies Her father had been talking about thrift stamps so she decided that she wanted to invest her pennies in stamps Yesterday morning she went with her father to the factory and bought thirty two stamps The factor then exchanged her two full cards for two War Savings Certificates paying the 24 cents additional Both Mr and Mrs Jones own thrift cards and are classed as a 100 per cent patriotic family Practically every one of the 300 employes of the Hamilton Brown factory have joined the War Savings Club The total sales In the last few days has been more than 1500 Yesterday morning 250 cards were sent to the factor- They were taken before noon At times those in charge did not have room enough to carry on the work Tehan assistant superintendent of the factory got 200 additional cards from the war headquarters office yesterday afternoon saying that the factory was planning to allow each employe to join for his family if he wishes Miss Ella Read stenographer in the superintendents office who subscribed Friday for 100 subscribed for 200 worth of certificates yesterday The record among the negro residents is held by Mrs Fanny Black wife of a driver for the Bowling Lum ber Company who has bought 100 of the Savings Certificates Plans are being made by the committee in charge to promote sales among the negroes SUES CITY FOR HIS WHISKY Xegro Arrested for Bootlegging- and Released It ants Importations Whether the city will be allowed to keep liquor brought into Columbia by alleged bootleggers will be decided February 7 in a justice of the peace court as the result of the summoning of Chief of Police John Whitesides and the city of Columbia to appear in a replevin suit filed by James Henderson a negro arrested Monday night as he was getting off a train with three gal lons of whisky Because of insufficient evidence Henderson was released but the liquor remained in the keeping of Marshal Whitesides In addition to the liquor which he values at 18 and the suitcase which contained it Henderson demands 10 damages for the detention Mayor James Boggs said yester day afternoon that the city would fight the case as the officers were going to make every effort to keep liquor out of Columbia It may be that Justice of the Peace BIcknell with whom the suit was filed will be disqualified to preside at the case because he is the city clerk SPIES BLAMED FOR BIG FIRE Property loss In Xenark Amounts to a Million Dollars By Associated Fress NEWARK Jan 26 More than a million dollars worth of property was burned here today German spies are believed to be responsible Oil barges a pier warehouses and freight cars were destroyed The fire occurred close to the plant of the Submarine Boat Corporation and near the storehouses of the quartermasters department of the Army 3LVXIM GORKY WOUNDED Famous Russian Writer Struck Stray Bullet by By Associated Press PETROGRAD Jan 26 Maxim Gorky famous Russian writer was struck in the neck and slightly wounded by a stray bullet while he was driving in a cab according to a newspaper report published here The shot was fired by an unknown Xo Change in Revenue Law Xow By Associated Preis WASHINGTON Jan 26 Declaring that it would probably be necessary for Congress to make greater tax levies Chairman Kitchin of the House Ways and Means Committee issued a formal statement today that he deemed it unwise at thic time to consider a general amendment of the War Revenue Act of October 3 Prof I Gromer a Delegate Prof Gromer has been appointed by Governor Frederick Gardner as a delegate to represent Missouri at the National Marketing Association Convention to be held in Kansas City February 20 21 and 22 PEOPLE MUST START WAR li ET TOMORROW Wilson and Hoover Outline 1918 Food Conservation Program TO EMPLOY FORCE Rationing SystemAnnounced by President Will Reduce Flour Consumption By Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 26 The American people will go on a war bread diet Monday as a part of the war rationing system prescribed tonight by President Wilson and the Food Administration Victory Bread the Food Administration calls it Reduced rations are asked for the purpose of creating a larger export surplus for the European Allies Curtailment of consumption will be brought about largely by voluntary efforts but force will be employed wherever it is permitted under the Food Control Act The rationing system was presented by the President in a proclama tion and by Food Administrator Hoover in a list of regulations for the Food Administrations 1918 food conservation program of which the chief features are Bakers bread of mixed flours be ginning Monday with 5 per cent sub stitution of other cereals for a week until a 20 per cent substitution is reached February 24 Sale by retailers to householders of an equal amount of substitute flours for each pound of wheat flour purchased at the time the wheat flour is bought Sale by millers to wholesalers and by wholesalers to retailers of only 70 per cent of the amount of wheat flour sold last year An appeal to housewives Includes the following regulations Two nheatless ilivs Mniliv ami Wednesday one nheatless mejl in every day One meatless day Tuesday and one meatless meal every dav Two uorklpss days Tuesday and Saturday MaLe every day a fat saviug day uut ter lard lard substitutes etc Fry less Bake lioll broil or stew foods Instead Save meat drippings Make every day a sugar saving day Use less sugar sneet diinks and candy containing sugar In war time fruits vegetables and potatoes abundantly Use milk Waste no part of It Tlie tlilldren roust hate whole milk Use sour and skim milk for cooking and for cottage cheesy Anyone buying and hoarding a larter supply of food now than in peace time except foods canned dried or preserved In the home Is helping to defeat the Food Administration In its attempt to secure a ti distribution of food and the establishment of fair prices THURSDAYS AKE POTATO DAYS Dean Mil in ford Urges Consumers to Bu 11 ore Spuds Mumford state food administrator has designated Thursday of each week as Potato Buying Day Consumers are urged to buy potatoes in large quantity on this day By encouraging the use of more potatoes and less white bread Mr Mumford believe more wheat can be released for the soldiers on the front and the Allies The supply of potatoes this year is 90000000 bushels in excess of the normal requirement The present price of potatose is about one half of the price one year ago OPENING ADDRESS BY MR MEYER Second Semester Convocation Will Be Held Tuesday The program for the opening convocation of the second semester at the University at 11 oclock Tuesday morning when an address will be made by Dr Max Meyer follows Processional University Band in vocation the Rev Father Lloyd an nouncements by President Hill America one stanza by audience accompanied by the band address Varieties of the German Mind in Opposite Camps professor Meyer Old Missouri audience accompanied by the band benediction the Rev Father Lloyd recessional band TO REPORT OX XEGRO WAR WORK Columbia Woman Appointed Director of Publicity Mrs Katherine Tillman 403 North Fifth street has been appointed by the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs as director of publicity This office is affiliated with the division of womens war work It is her duty to report Red Cross and all other forms of war work among the negro women Xew Officers for Trust Company Ruether was elected treasurer of the Boone County Trust Company yesterday to succeed Judy who is now with the Drovers National Bank and Horace Smith was elected assistant secretary to suueceed Shirley Bright who is Jn national service A War Savinngs Certificate was bought by each of the directors who attended the meeting Must Be Insured Before February li The Boone County Council of Defense has received word that after February 12 soldiers and sailors lives can not be insured It is urged that this be made plain to relatives Insurance up to 10000 is offered THE WEATHER Itrport Issued Saturda For Columbia and Vicinity Cold mr Sunda generally fair with severe fold Temperature probably 10 or more below or ounilay nlKht Shlnners PitntMet llititn it ilaj was ami the lowest Friday night was 1i Ielatie iiuniiilit ihmhi Friday TO per win iii ago i rinay tne lilgiu st tern perature was jr ami the lowest was 21 EXPLAINS JEL ORDER Government Clears Up Ques tions Relating to Clos ing Order lly Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 2C Interpre tations designed to make clear what is expected of the public in the observation of the Government order shutting down industries every Monday for the next nine weeks were made public tonight by the Fuel Administration The three general classes of manufacturing plants exempted from operation of the law are shipbuilding yards airplane manu facturing plants and industries manufacturing explosives Other plants have been exempted on special orders of the War and Navy Departments Magazines and weeklies generally are expected to close if they can put out their publication on time without running on Monday Colleges churches schools public libraries and public museums are exempted Checks Coal Diversion Jiy Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 20 Confusion arising from unauthorized diversion of coal by local fuel officials prompted the Fuel Administration today to issue a definite set of regulations governing this practice The rule provides Coal intended for a destination outside of the state must not be diverted by state fuel administra tors without approval from Washington Chairmen of local coal committees must not divert coal intended for other communities without approval of the state fuel administration Coal must not be diverted from one preferred customer to another except in an emergency Coal consigned to coke ovens must not be diverted except in an emergency to relieve human suffering Coal consigned to tide water must not be diverted except with the approval of Washington Reversing an earlier decision ruling the Fuel Administration today held that news print paper mills come within the class of industries that must be closed on the next nine Mondays to conserve fuel The ruling was changed after the Federal Trade Commission had reported that there was enough newsprint paper on hand in the country to supply newspapers for the next twenty eight days SAYS COAL FAMINE IS OVER II A Collier Brings Back Good News From St Louis A Collier fuel administrator for Boone County who returned from St Louis yesterday says that the coal famine of Columbia is over While in St Louis Mr Collier saw twenty seven coal dealers each of whom promised to ship at least one car of coal immediately to Columbia dealers Every coal dealer who has contracts with St Louis dealers will receive more than those who did not have a contract although every dealer will get at least one car According to Mr Collier there 1s much coal in St Louis and an enormous demand All shows close at 10 oclock and in general the order fthe fuel administrator is being obeyed The state fuel administrator is going to keep the ban on St Louis longer than on the rest of the state in order to give the rural districts a chance to get a good supply of coal he says Mr Collier says that only lightless nights will be observed when the new supply of coal arrives and all other restrictions will be removed He also said that Columbia was receiving Illinois coal 50 cents cheaper a ton than St Louis Perrinc Funeral to Be Today Perrine the miner who was killed Thursday afternoon by a dislodged rock in the coal mine on the Murry farm will be buried this afternoon in the Columbia Cemetery The funeral services will be preached at 230 oclock this afternoon at 1710 Paris road kTjIpS SUNDAY MORNING MISSOURIAN TENTH YEAR NUMBER 112 CHIPS a ramus mi rti 11 JOO miles of Columbia the lowest tempera- jure during the nevt 30 hours win 5 toLoilIltV ni i ami nnrtii near zero til fc illlll Mllllll For Missouri Cold nave Sunday generally fair with vcirru cold Fresh to strong northerly nluds Weather Condition A low pressure disturb lure is crossing the loner plains and Mississippi Valley this Morning To the south and east of the center the weather Is mild and li nlv uin tn tne nest and north it is cold and steadily groining colder the result or a well form high pressure nne It Is SO lielow zero along the Canadian border and the zero line dips into Iona and Nebraska Snow Is falling mer Iowa Nebraska the Uakotas Colorado Wi inning I Montana and east of the Mississippi to renusjlvatiia The center of tV low pressure will i ros the Mississippi during the next 13 hours linn mi- i oin njir mil men spread south into jevas In Columbia winter weather will prevail for si ral dajs Ioal Data The highest teuioemriiri In cvainniif ivi qwy FLY IN BOONENEXTTUESDAY Effort to Increase LTse of Wood to Save Coal Supply AT MILLERS FARM All Invited to Help Chop Several Hundred Cords in an Afternoon A wood chopping bee similar to those- in Missouri in pioneer days will be held on the farm of Miller two miles southeast of Columbia on the Ashland Gravel road next Tuesday afternoon It will begin at 1 oclock All people of Boone County are invited to attend The event is the first of the kind to be started in Missouri although other states have held wood chopping gatherings The purpose is to increase the use of wood in place of coal The committee in charge includes II A Collier Sydney Stephens Pror Frederick Dunlap Harry Jacks Dean McCaustiand Anderson and Gentry Kurtz has charge of organizing the work He has appointed twenty one corporals among the arious profes sions They are Obe Nichols Imiiro Reid Dr OBrien George Starrett Simon John Whitesides Dr I Bragg Ralph Finley Berry Isadore Barth Alexander Bradford William Thompson Jack Hetzler John Morris Ben Noweil Dr Knight A Baldwin Hayden Garth Renie Guy McQuitty and Dr Sneed head of the doctors first aid division Other corporals will be appointed from among the fraternities and -acuity To Provide Transportation Harry Jacks will get all the equipment to the farm and Sydney Stephens will see that transportation is provided for those who feel they can not walk Kostian of the United States forest service Professor Dunlap and Miller will have all the treea marked that are to be felled and worked into cordwood Barham is official photographer although people are Invited to bring kodaks and take pictures of the work Moving pictures will be taken Judge David Harris will be asked to grant a recess of the Circuit Court to allow lawyers to aid fn the work It Is possible that the University Cadet Corps will be called upon as a body to give their assistance No firearms will be allowed upon the farm and the prevention of acci dents will be carefully guarded It is expected that several hundred cords of wood will be racked by night A cord of wood is a pile by 4 by 4 feet To Sell at a Cord The wood cut probably will be sold at 6 a cord to those who can afford to pay that much but at 3 a cord to those who cant pay that much To the poor who are out of fuel and appeal to the Charity Organization for aid wood will be given free The committee will meet Monday night in the Commercial Club rooms to make final plans It is said that if seventy five million cords of wood are cut this win ter a shortage of fifty million tons bf coal will be eliminated A cord of wood equals two thirds a ton of coal At Lawrence Intl S00 persons turned out to a wood chopping bee and cut COO cords in a day At the University of Maine twenty faculty members formed a wood cutting club and cut five cords of wood apiece Saw Buck clubs are being organized all over the country The Appalachian Club of Lincoln Mass went out and cut wood and Is now trying to popularize wood cutting as a sport WILLIAM e7mii7dENDES Funeral Sen res Will Be Held at ML Pleasant Church Monday William Eli Madden a carpenter GS years old died of tuberculosis yesterday morning at the home of his daughter Mrs Iva Nelson 624 North Fourth street He had been sick more than a month Besides the daughter two sons survive Funeral service will be held Mon day afternoon at the Mount Pleasant Church In the southern part of Boone County A short service probably will be held at the daughters home Monday morning BUYS EQUIPMENT ABROAD General Pershing Makes Purchases in England and Spain Iy Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 26 More of the secret testimony before the Senate Military Committee today disclosed the fact that on December 13 General Pershing was authorized to buy 200000 British uniforms for American troops and 200000 blankets in Spain Farm Agents Close Conference The Conference of Agricultural Agents closed here yesterday About thirty five attended The number of county agents has more than doubled since the conference a year ago Ljf I i i i.