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THE Kit KANSAS CITT. KANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919 NUMBER 85 VOLUBIE 34. Hone fiends, are becoming fond ol business is made up largely of 'materials. The road has hauled about three PIE TO II MULTITUDE RAIL LIE'S IE SQUASHES CRUSHED aside from city and federal taxes which the jitney owners must pay, the upkeep of the machines and the gasoline bill will make it impossible for the jitney to survive very long. "At their present charge of 10 cents," said Mr.

Ellis, "they simply can't turn a profit for. any great length of time, and in my opinion, the jitney is bound to go There is not Cellar Champs of Light Department Score an Historic Victory. THE FINAL SCORE IS 10 TO 2. With Bob Ebeck, a Regular Ringer of Semi-Pro, Doing the Slab Honors, How Can Anyone Beat This Team. If eight other men on the Squash team, composed of workers at the Quindaro plant, had played with the same energy as James (Spike) Mc-Cully, the final results might have been different at Heathwood Park late yesterday afternoon, but the count showed the following: The Cellar Champs, composed ol men of the meter and line-men depart ment of the light plant, swampsd the squashes by a score of 10 to 2.

It was a tragic ending. Ebeck a Ringer. Bob Ebeck, pitcher for the Cellar Champs, had an Indian sign on every batter that faced him, and it might be stated here and now that Bob Ebeck is a ringer. He is a semi-professional and has no business humiliating' amateur aspirants in a ham-fat same. Ebeck probably could make suckers out of the Kansas City Blues.

In fact, early this morning the Hon. Lou Hol-comb, overseer for the Cellar Champs, received a telephone call from John Ganzel, manager of the Blues, in which the Blues chieftan expressed the hope that he could get waivers on Ebeck and a few other members of the team. Mr. Holcomb told Ganzel that civil service rules would not permit a dissolution of the Cellar Champs under any circumstances that while he would like to see the Blues pet along a little better, they would have to peg away with the material they now have. The Cellar Champs arc to remain intact.

A Tragic Home Run. Hard-Boiled Claughley of the Cellar Champs distinguished himself in yesterday's game by knocking a terrific home run and then losing the tally by failing to touch second. Another notable slugger did this once and he has never heard the last of it. Lee Ebeck, about as great a ringer as his brother, made a home run with two men on bases, and profiting by example, Mr. Ebeck touched second.

He clouted the ball so hard that he could have been running around the -bases yet if the rules had ordained such a proceeding. Flourney of the Cellar Champs also distinguished himself by some remarkable base running. Strange as it may seem, the SJquashes entered yesterday's game with the impression that they had a chance to win. Honest to goolness, men, they did. So confident were they that they bet $139 on their own chances.

Umpire Carries a Load. Roy McDonald, the eagle eye umpire, held the stakes and the money weighed so heavily on his person that he found it difficult to navigate. The Cellar Champs are so inflated as a result of their victory that. they are now challenging the world and it is. probable tht another game will be For Thirty Years the Northwestern Has Been Facing Trouble.

BUT RECEIVERS DON'T WORRY. Lou Holcomb Recalls the FirsT When a General Man-i ager Was Made Custodian and Salary Was Doubled. In the present distress which has 11 1 1 resulted in a suspension of all syv ice on the Kansas City Northwestern Railroad, the employes assert that Li S. Cass, the receiver, is getting a sal ary of $12,000 year and $8,000 year ly as expense money. That is, he is supposed to get that much.

Lou Holcomb, chief clerk in the light department, and many yenrs ago a traveling auditor for the old North western, says that the ways of a re ceivership are beyond the under standing of the ordinary man. Years aero the Northwestern had its troubles," Mr. Holcomb, "with 1 the result that a receivership wa3 or dered. Na.Tman Erb had been creneral manager of the old company at a sal- ary of $600 a month, or $7,200 a year. Erb3 Salary Is Hiked.

The receivership was ordered be cause the road was bankrupt. There was not enough business to make il pay, so in the receivership proceed ings, Newman Erb, general manager, stepped down, and Newman Erb, re ceiver, stepped up. The court stipu lated that Mr. Erb's salary as receiver for the road rhould be $15,000 a year. In other words, the bankruptcy pro ceedings more than doubled Mr.

Erb's salary. The Old Northwestern wras pro tected more than 30 years ago and it was completed to- Seneca, 84 miles away, for a starter, and later was ex tended to Virginia, Neb. The company eased a portion of the Grand Island and in that way gained an intranet? to Beatrice, Neb. A Line to Fargo. The original promoters intended to build a line from Kansas City to Fargo, N.

and while the rails never were extended beyond Virginia, the road was surveyed to Fargo. In its early days the Northwestern had an enormous cattle business from the southeast corner of Nebraska and the north and northeast section of Kansas. It was a short cut to the Kansas City market and shinners iked the new road. At this same time, also, it hadsix passenger trains a day and its local traffic to Leavenworth, which was not then connected with Kansas City by trolley, was large and profitable. The North western's men were am bitious.

They not only nlanned a short line to Fargo, cutting through 1 most fertile territory, but they eased a section of the Union Pacific, from Tonganoxle to Lawrence, bought he old Carbondale from Lawrence to Carbondale, which was the first coal mining center in the state, and ran through trains from Kansas City to that section of the state. The Carbondale Branch. The old Carbondale branch had iron rails. Mr. Holcomb says that when a tram ran over tnose iron rails the noise could be heard 40 miles away.

When the Northwestern took over the Carbondale branch they supplanted the iron rails with, brand new' steel rails. Later, when the Missouri Pacific bought the Northwestern at re ceiver's sale, th Carbondale "branch was abandoned. W. E. Winner, a capitalist, bought the branch, but with no intention of operating trains on it.

He had his weather eye on those steel rains. After buying the property he junked it and sold, the rails. That was Winner's sole aim. R. F.

Malone, auditor ar treasurer of the Northwestern, today explained the road's present status to officials of. the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Malone pointed out that the line was essentially a Kansas City, in-H stitutlon. It has its shops and general offices here and in the latter a force of 100 were employed.

The monthly pay 1 trainloads of cattle, hogs and sheep each week; has handfed 50 cars of grain daily, and about 500 cans of milk and cream daily. It has done a large traffic in fruit, vegetables awl dairy products. With the road shut down a lot of the freight and livestock, originally consigned to Kansas City, will be diverted to St. Joseph, and Mr. Mai one says it is important that the citizens here make "every possible effort to get the line back on a running basis.

The 'road's undoing was when th federal government turned it back to 1 fits, owners, after taking the property away from them and boosting salaries to a point where the company could not meet the pay roll. The fate of the Northwestern is now. in doubt. It is regarded as reasonably certain that the road will j.be revived, although it probably will require federal control to accomplish that end. No definite results have been obtained at Washington, accord ing to the latest advices received here.

and the shippers are waiting and hoping; BY BIKES TO PARKVILLE. Club of Six Will Begin the Trip Mon day Morning. The "Argonne Fisk" club, a boys bicycle club, will leave Monday morn ing to ride to Parkville, a dis tance of nine miles, on their bicycles. On ariving there, the boys will be served "eats" at the Maclnty re Farm. The boys who will make the trip arc, Herbert Heffer president of the ciub, rranK arimeii.

secretary, vniiwn T-1 1 a A. 1 A. McLaughlin, Emory Taft, Dean Kelley and Haskell DeRigne. A COUNTY WHEAT, TEST. Mr.

Folker's Report Shows That the! Kanred Varied Leads. Kanred wheat will be the variety to be planted in Wyandotte county andj eastern Kansashereafter, according to A. D. Folker, county agricultural agent. Results of a cooperative variety wheat test in northeastern Kansas have just been announced and in these experiments it was shown that Kanred will produce" a much 'better yield than any of the older varieties.

Kan red, according to Mr. Folker, is an improved strain of Turkey wheat and was imported to Kansas from South ern Russia. The test in Wyandotte county showed for a yield -of 27.3 bushels for Kanred, 26.8 for Turkey, 25.4 for Fulcaster and 24 bushels for Harvest Queen. Mr. Folker's report says: "These co-operative variety tests are part of the experimental work of the agronomy department of the agricultural college at Manhattan and conducted by the farm bureau members of the various counties.

"Cooperative variety tests of hard winter wheat were conducted throughout the hard wheat belt of Kansas the past year. The standard varieties of hard wheat were also grown in comparison with the best yielding soft winter varieties in similar, tests in northeast Kansas. "The object of these tests is to determine the best variety of wheat to grow and to study the varieties tried out under a wide range of conditions." Who is HEIM? Adv. SPEED DEMONS ARE FINED. Acting Police Juge Punishes Offenders on a Mileage Basis.

Don McCombs, acting police judge, adopted a new schedule for fining i speed demons this morning. Four of -the, motor offenders who had driven recklessly on the Inter-City viaduct were fined on a "mileage basis. One; jcar, a motorcycle cop testified? was running at the rate or 6b miles an hour, so the -judge fined the driver $35, or $1 for each mile. The.lowest fine assessed was $25. speed limit on the viaduct is 15 miles an hour.

CAN THE JITNEYS SURVIVE? 4: 1 A new burden has been added to the tor, announced yesterday a tax of $10 I sheep dip and many of them prefer it Sheep dip may prove a cure for the drug A half century ago Mr. Duke was a printer on the St. Louis Chronicle and there hob-nobbed with. E. Scripps, then a struggling young man Mr.

Scripps and Mr. Duke used to play penny ante together, a fact which would be of no importance were it net that Mr. Scripps died not long ago after amassing a fortune of many millions of dollars, while Mr. Dukf is still alive and still playing oenny ante. A "GO TO COLLEGE NOW.

Allen Asks Churches. Parents and Teachers to Observe August 17. Gov. Allen has designated the week of August 17 as "Go "to College Week." He says the Ford trial in the Chicago Tribune libel suit has empha sized the need of going to college in this country. The proclamation: The season of the year has come when young people and their parents should carefully consider the im pprtance of a college education.

This should be especially true of Kansas young people, for Kansas has always set high value upon education. The events of the last five years have proved the value of thorough college training. Men of trained mind have been the real leaders in. the remarkable military, commercial and civic achievements of America during the war. lne demand ior trained leadership is even more urgent in the readjustment that must now be worked out.

It is, therefore, most important that the young men and women of Kansas go to college that they may prepare themselves for the responsible work they must shortly undertake. That this may be brought with convincing force to the attention of the young people of Kansas, I designate the week beginning August 17th as Go to College Week. During that week I ask parents, school authorities, pastors of press and other interested agencies, to urge young people who are qualified to enter college to plan to enroll in some one of the higher educational institutions of our state. With friendly insistence, will you ask the young men and women of Kansas to invest their time and the necessary money in order to secure that thorough training which will qualify them for efficient leadership and lor those forms of service that will ennoble he life of the community and cf the commonwealth. HENRY J.

ALLEN, Governor. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES. Edgerton Place Baptist Churchy-Corner Fifth and Greeley. James Marion Powell, pastor. Morning worship 11.

Subject: "The Founder of Christianity." Young people's hour 6:30. Cool refreshments and a warm handshake both free. Evening service 8:00. Subject: "Where Are You Going and Why?" Yecker Avenue Baptist Church At the Yecker Avenue Baptist church, the Rev. J.

W. MacDaniels will preach Sunday mornine from the subject. First Congregational Church. Sixth and Everett avenue. Rev.

A. F. Daffney, pastor. Morning service. Vocal soloist: "Miss Edith Forsbenr, "Come Unto Him," by Jast P.

Dunn, Evening service. Vocal soloist: Mrs. Freeman Harris, "A Little by Briggs, Who is HEIM Adv. BUILDING PERMITS. K.

Railways repairs or. barns and offices, Tenth andMinne $6,400. Chas. Jones, residence, 703 Free man, $900. WTio is HEIil? Adv.

Twelve Hundred Ate Basket Dinner 'n Parkwood Last Night. CROWD MAKES 2 DISCOVERIES. Celebration in Honor of Soldier Boys and Pastor Staged by Members of Western Highlands Pres. byterian Church. Twelve hundred people ate a big basket dinner from long board table in Parkwood last night.

It was a general celebration and general good time in honor of the return of the Western Highlands Presbyterian church's 40 soldier boy and the church pastor, Rev. G. S. Sutton, who got back last Wednesday from France. The boys came home singly and in squads all the way from May first to August first, so the church waited until they were all home and then invited them all at once to a feed in the only place big enough to hold a genuine Sutton-Western-Highlands rally, Parkwood Park.

Many of the boys have job.1 in different cities a few joined tho regular army and so probably npt more than half the church boys wore at Parkwood last night. Which only intensified the celebration for those who were there. Crowd Makes Discovery. The crowd at Parkwood last night discovered two things. One was that there are no better cooks in the world than the along Quindaro who prepared the dinner; another was that Bob Worline, who used to be divorce proctor, is either a humorist or so good at camouflage that you can't tell his after-dinner talk from the genuine John Allen quip.

Worline himself said he was put on the program to make the soldicra, who had lived in camouflage a year, feel at home at the picnic. The Armour Glee club of 56 voicea, all women but six, sung against the big open space of Parkwood, with surprising effect for amateurs. Mosf voices or choruses float up and are lost in an open air contest especially where there are four hundred kids playing tag in the offing. O. W.

Breidenthal who used to teach mathematics at the high school, but who is now a merchandiser of electrical goods, made a welcome talk with a lot of pep in it, especially for a man who was full of the good Jinner which had just been disposed of. Salvation in a Punch. Dr. Sutton old briefly of his work as an athletic director for the Y. M.

C. A. among the men in France. He taught and practiced boxing, wrestling, foot ball and baseball contests. Later he was made a religious director.

He said he saw more than ever that salvation has a junch; or rather that there is salvation in the punch. Physical salvation goes hand in hand with spiritual. The man, he said, wlu I13-. a good punch with gloves or bar ball bat, is more apt to have an effective punch with the Bible and hymn book. The following program was rendered: Address of Welcome O.

W. Breidenthal Music, "When the Great Red Dawn Is Shinning" Armour Glee Club Address Rev. G. S. Sutton Music, "Keep the Home Fires Armour Glee Club Mr.

Robt. Worl'ne Music, "There's A Light in the Armour Glee Club Reading, "Our Miss Gwen McNaughton Music, "Farewell to Armour Glee Club. Who is HEIM? Adv. BIRTHS IN K. C.

K. Feidler, Anthony and Ruby, 851 Ohio, July 26, girl. Hale, Harvey H. and Margaret, C003 North Ninth, July 1, bo. Hefner, Joseph and Barbara) 831 Splitlog, August 5, girl.

Hornick, Edmund and Mary 1125 Penn, July 20, girl, Leyba Peter and Mary, 618 South Second, July 26, boy. Rosier, Carl R. and Adelaide, 74 South Twentieth, August 6, boy. Scheloski, Frank J. and Marie 965 Miami, August 3, boy.

Trowbridge, Walter and Margaret, 735 Lafayette, July 23, boy. Who is HEIM 7 Adv. enough money in it for the man who operates the machine and sooner or later he will find that REPUBLICANS HEADED NORTH. Judge Sims, Sam Clarke and Others Due to Tonight. The vacation drift of Democrats is not generally known.

Sheriff William J. Wright, says there "ain't no Democrats. Be that as it may, the drift of the Republican vacationists seems, to be toward the Minnesota lakes. Judge John T. Sims, Samuel Clarke, chairman of the road, and Charles Scheller, election commis sioner, iorm a trio that, starts 101 Gull Lake, Minnesota, tonight.

T1k-j expect to find there about 20 r.Jdi- fional local Republicans which will be enough for a quorum. Charles Haug, the Third ward Republican arbiter, Dave Douglass aad Charles Bowles also are scheduled tc start north tonight, the destination these gentlemen being Hackensr.cJ Lake, near the Canadian Line. P. O. ELEVATOR NEEDS A MAN.

Examination for $60 Job Will Be Held August 20. An P3C9.min9.Hnn hns hppn nnnniiTwivl for August 2Qth to fiU a fa the position of elevator-conductor at the post office building, Seventh and Minnesota avenue. The post office elevator is without an engineer again. Competitors will not be required io report for examination at any place. Applicants must have reached thtir 20th birthday.

Salary, $960 per an num, or $80 a month. Qualified persons are urged to make application for the position, For further information, such as application blanks, vacations, apply to secretary, board of civil service, Post Office building, Seventh arid Minnesota avenue. DAVID MORANTZ RE-ELECTED. K. C.

K. Man a National Trustee of Mercantile Adjusters. At the annual convention of the Mutual Association of Mercantile adjusters, held at Detroit, David Mo-rantz of the Morantz Mercantile agency, was re-elected one of the five national trustees of the -association. The other four members elected were: L. N.

Atwater, Grand Rapids, Michigan; S. F. Roche, "Chicago, Illinois: E. Berg, Mankato, Minnesota; E. E.

Leschinger, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Mutual Association 0 mercantile adjusters is a national body organized for the purpose of elevating the standards of commercial adjustment agencies and eliminating from the field those- agencies using questionable business methods. The next convention will be held at Akron, Ohio. K. C.

K. FOR MRS. GRINSTEAD. Member of Kansas House, Candidate to Head State W. C.

T. U. Sent in. Mrs. Minnie Johnson Grinstead of Liberal, Kas.r who has been connected with the W.

C. T. U. work for years as a tate and national lecturer and who was honored as the first woman in Kansas 'as a member of the Kansas house of representatives, has consented to be a candidate for president of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union this fall, Mrs. Grinstead is well qualified for this position, being thoroughly versed in the work of the organization, is a fine speaker and a good executive.

The members of the Kansas City, W. C. T. U. are delighted at Mrs.

jGrinstead's decision and she will have the support of the great majority oi the membership. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Age. fAsa K. East, K.

C. Mo 21 Axie J. Mitchell, Springfield, Mo.21 Cloud L. Thurman, Turner, Kas. 29 Hettie L.

Hale, Turner, Kas. 21 Alta L. Wilmoth, Colony, 22 jReba M. Armstrong, Osawatomie, Kas. 20 Sophia Washick, K.

C. K. 10 IWilliam H. Smith, Guthrie, Okla 51 Eunice C. Grumbling, Newton, Kas ..51 Harry J.

Sewell, K. C. K-, J2X Rosalie Anderson, K. C. .18 arranged for them.

It was this same Moses' invitation to Hobab to Accom-company that committed assault Israel t0 the ProraiSed Land. At battery on the office force of the light congregation meet on the department a few weeks ago. The lawn in ront of the church for a song count on that occasion was something a season of devotion, and 2. on the order of 20 to 6. How the of- sermon De said by the pastor at fice force gathered in those six runs eight 0cloclc The subject this'Suu-is still a mystery.

evenijlg wm be "A Revealed Mys- tery." Yecker avenue continues her DUKE BLOWS IN. services during the summer months. The pastor and his family have The Monarch of the Typographical moved fato the new parsonage 1332 Union Discusses Sheep Dip- Yecker, next to the church, east. They Mr. Tony oldest printer are at home to friends and acquain-in captivity, breezed into the office of available for any service they The Kansan this morning.

Mr. Duke be abIe jgnder in any way. is secretary-treasurer of the typo- roll has amounted to $25,000 and the IF. S. Ellis Says Owners of Cars Can't road, according to Mr.

Malone! Make Enough Profit. traverses six of the richest counties graphical union and therefore is the collector of the dues. His visits to the office of The Kansan are for the sole purpose of making this paper's hard-working printers give up their money. Mr. Duke reports that while there ix no public sale of corn or rye whisky bit the Missouri side, the north endj emporiums have put a variety of sheep dip on the market, and the denizens there are drinking it, he says witn benenciai results.

Sheep dip, according to Mr. Duke, is less harmful than regular whiskey; and is served in larger measures at smaller prices. Mr. Duke says the gandy-dancers, sometimes alluded to as hop' heads or in Kansas and two in Nebraska. Thcjmeh who drive motor cars for hi suspension of the road, he says, hssjW.

Thomas, internal revenue collec- year must be paid on a car carryingJohn Kustra, K. C. KJL left isolated 20 towns, while there are," in all, about 35 communities on the'a line from here to VirginiarNeb. Mr. Malone says the Northwestern is one of the best food-carrying lir.es into Kansas City, while its outgoing less than seven passengers, and a tax i larger cars.

This applies only on cars that carry passengers for Frank S. Ellis said yesterday, that.