The Salina Evening Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 1

noiiE SDXXZOIT I SALDIA, KAIISAS, TH0RSDAY3UGUST 22, 1918 Published Every Evening Except At 211-213 West Iron. "Sunday VOL.33. NO. 201. per year.

Outside Kansas $3.00 per year, Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postofflee at gallna, Kansas, LIS out Bold Thief Walfc? Off With 'Deputy Marshals Trousers Deputy Marshal Carl Drake arrlvej from Funston last evening and plated a negro under arrest in 3.lina Then, ui? marshal sought a rooming house and went to sleep. When he woke to make tb early morning train, be trousers and $22.50 he alleged they contained, missing, lie was unable to make the train as a result. He demand ed settlement with the landlady, compromising at five dollars and one dollar, tMe price of the room refunded. It is charged he left the door open. The thief passed up the marshal's big gun lying in full view.

IS KILLED III ACTION ERNEST FROST, SMOLAX, MEETS DEATH IN FRANCE Was Killed August 1 According to a TelegTam Received by Ills Par ents Yesterday A telegram from the war department. received Wednesday afternoonby Mr. and Peter Frost. Smolannounc- ed the death in actionem August 1, somewhere in France of their son. Ernest Fred Frost.

Ernest Frost was aged twenty-five years and six months. He was in the original draft and enlisted in the army September 19 of last year. He went soon to France and for some time had been fighting at the front. The mespage from the war depart ments was brief giving no further parti culars than those noted above. The kD Kir of Omlor fn- I some time and the young man was well KI1UWII uuuuKuuui uiw TORPEDO MISSED FREIGHTER British Steamer Vas Attacked Near Pv Tff ssotAi Prse AN ATLANTIC PORT, 22 A British freighter steamer which arrived today from European waters was attacked by a submarine yesterday afternoon when near Nantucket.

One torpedo was fired by the U-boat which missed the freighter by about twenty I yeards, members of the crew said. WILL. SERVE WITHOUT PAY Leslie Gray Leaves Soon for Red Cross Work in France Leslie C. Gray, insurance man of Kansas City, formerly of Salina is closing his office at Kansas City prepara- tnrv try startlne' In a fpw rlavu fYvr France where he wlfl act as Red Cross field representative. He is accenting no compensation.

Death Over Flip ef Coin. WHEELING, W. Aug. 22. Edward F.

Browman, nineteen, is dead in France as the result of a flip of a coin. Bowman enlisted in the army in May. aner ne ana a tnena naa tossea a niCKel tO determine Which One WOUld I enter the service. Bowman called the turn ana was a soiaier a rew aays later. Wed in Undertaking Rooms.

BLUEFIELDS, W. Va. George Moore and Miss Mary Ankro, were married here in an undertaker's parlors. The couple was in a hur ry to wed, and when Rev. D.

H. Carr passed by he invited them Into the par lors for the ceremony. GIRLS WON'T SHY AT GREASE Agree to Take I. II. C.

Up on Its Lat est Offer. The Jayhawker Tractor girls of Sa lina, incorporating as the National Ag ricultural Legion, are encouraged in their movement by the hearty support they are receiving from heads of the agricultural interests of the from prominent farmers of Kansas, and from tha power farm machine man ufacturers. Today the. organization received an offer from the International Harvester company of Salina, for the use of their building and machines for instruction in the actual operation and management of tractors aod other power farm implements. "We want the girls to feel." said C.

A. Morrison, in making the offer, "that our firm is behind the organization willing to help in any way we can. We consider it our privilege to offer our machines, an instructor at any time he is needed, and we should be glad to take the girls out on some Saline cbun- "rv I. ty iarm. with tne tractor ana neip ner learn actual plowing." The only requirement made of the girls is that they dress for this in accepting the offer the tractor girls- have agreed to wear unionalls, their official uniform, and make a first hand acquaintance with grease and oils.

1 "We realize that we are taking up work" said Miss Fay Fitzpatrick today. in speaking of the organization. little Vand. we are willing to get a all know we will do, if in the end we learn tractors, and use fulness on the farm. For that is where we are bound for, and we inteitd to arrive Lthere.

That is why wp are get ting ready for work; become a part of the National. Agrlcui- in thA past two days at Independence and an- ntw andhP movement is spreading rapidly over the state. WEATHER COOLER Something 1 cooled off the wind in the erly, hours this morning and gave a slight relief. By ten o'clock the sizzi uit- ine neax was wuajiw. yvii ju wo; wa nleasant.

i. nutc By Man. in Kansas, $4.00 CAPPER WON BY L506 Soldier Vote is Added to Vote is Added Tabulations. State Bv The Associated Press. TOPEKA.

Aug. 22. Results of the official canvas of the recent primary lection were announced by the secre tary of stat today including the sol dier vote. They gave. Governor Capper 71.506 plurality in the republican United States nominees contest.

Henry J. Allen, for the republican nomination for governor won by 57,397, Th? soldier vote did not change the re- suit in any of the state or congressional counts. WORKERS PLEDGE LOYALTY Munitions Makers Will Not Strike WhateverHappens. PHILADELPHIA. Aug.

22. Reso lutions pledging loyalty to the govern ment were adopted by the 5.000 em ployes of the Frankford arsenal ami presented to Secretary of War Baker, who delivered an address at the centennial celebration at the arsenal. The workers promised not to strike under any circumstances or encourage others to strike and declared they would not do anything to hamper the sieedy pro gress of the war. Mr. Bilker said any grievances of American ammunition workers would be speedily and Justly settled.

After congratulating the men on the growth of the arsenal. Secretary Baker said the chief business of the United S'tates was to win the war at the earliest possible date. HAULS DOWN U. S. FLAG State of War Between America and Bolshevik! Bt Th Asam-Thted Press WASHINGTON, 22 Because the Bolsheviki government declares a state of war exists between Russian and the United States.

Vice Consul Inbrie has lowered the United States flag over the counsulate of Petrograd, closed the consulate and placed all citizens of the United States in charge of the Norwegian government. Americans in Petrograd of whom, there are approximately twenty, have been asked to leave the country by the vice counsul. BOLSIIJ CAPTURE VILLI AGE Report Victory Where Allied Forces are Operating By Tne press STOCKHOLM 22 The Bolshe viki troops advancing along the Onega river where the allied expeditionary- forces are operating, have captured the village of Purgasova. according to a bulletin issued from laborers army headquarters," on Monday. TEN MORE SHIPS ADDED Merchant Marine Increased by 51,700 Tons.

Washington, Aug. 22 Ten ship? with a total dead weight tonnage of 51,000 tons were added to the American! merchant marine in the week ending August thirteenth, it was announced today. Seven were steel and three were wood. Eight steel vessels, and two wooden ships, a total tonnage of 55.830 were launched during the week. Woman Smote Profiteer.

DALLAS, Aug. 22. "I hope the war continues longer, said a man on a Dallas street car here recently, "I am making more money than ever before." No sooner had he uttered words than an angry woman confronted him. Whh all the force she could muster. th woman slapped the profiteer on the cheek and before be could recover from the.

blow smote him on the other cheek. "Take that from my boy in France," she said as she turned away. No Soldier Ballots Here. Although the complete soldier vote at the recent primaries has been received at Topeka and the votes tabulated no local returns on the soldiers vote have yet been received by Arthur Anderson, county clerk. END COMES TO ANCIENT FUND In Shape of Two $100 Liberty Bonds, Presented to CommissVmer.

Along about 1899, after the Spanish- American war, and when a number of Salinaites, members of the Twentieth Kansas had made such a glorious record in the Philippines, a fund was started to erect a memorial for the dead and for the members of the company generally. A dollar from each contribut or, $179 was- reached. Then the collec tion stopped. The memorial was never erected. From time to time, as the years went on, the old question was anked, "what has become of the Spanish-war memorial fund?" It came to an end yesterday.

The local Spanish war veterans yesterday took the fund, added to it enough to make $200, bought two Liberty bonds of $100 each and presented them to the county commissioners to be used toward defraying the expenses of the building of the memorial gate at Oak-dale park. Farmers May Unite. Maurice McAuliffe, president of the Kansas Farmers union, left this morning for Washington, to attend a conference of farmers to be held there August 27-29. The object is to unite ten or twelve large national farming organizations in an effort to get better conditions for the farmers. Marriage License One marriage license was issued thi? morning in the office of Probate Judge Howard Ford, to Robert Howie, of Carlton and Katherine Broughton Of Detroit.

Oh Joy, Listen. Relief from the burning heat by morrow is an official promise. to-A change, to is expected by late tonight and hould envelope most of Kansas over Friday. For Jay Driving William Anderson was' arrested yesterday by Officer Montgomery on a charge of jay driving. nnpr ty unw, ic per Trees.

under the Act of March 3. 1878, CORN A FAILURE GLOOMY REPORT GIVEN OUT FOR KANSAS YIELD 57540,000 BUSHELS FOURTH SJULLEST PRODUCED IN FORTY YEARS Only Twelve Counties Have Prospects For Million or More Bushels Each By The Associated Press. TOPEKA. Aug. 22 The -monthly crop rebort issued today by J.

C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture, estimates the corn crop at 57,540,000 bushels or an average yield of 9.33 bushels out of the 6,150.000 acres planted. "Should this prospective yield materialize." it states, "the crop would be the fourth smallest producea in Kan sas in the past forty years and less than last years crop by 48,625.000 bushels." Continued dry weather throughout thf corn growing territory of Kansas. Jtugh temperatures and hot winds caus ed the very marked decline In the corn production in the iiast month from a 1 monin irom a .2 July.18 laS! to aoout thirty percent now. In most of the state's one hundred and five counties, the prospective average yield per acre reported is so low as to warrant the general attempt that the crop is a failure as a whole.

Twelve counties have prospects for a crop of a million bushels or more each aggregating 21.943,375 bushels or 38 per cent of the state's total prospective production. These twelv.e counties in order of pro- rillptlnn QKt fAtnl or rrn i UUSII- els or sixteen bushels to the acre- Jewel vpmh, T. iemaha. Brown. Phillips.

wrno, jenerson, uonipnan, At- chmson and Potawatomie. JOURNAL TAKES ITS MEDICINE Although it is working a hardship, the Journal is complying with the or der of the war board regarding the use of print paper. One of the paragraphs of that order forbids the use of FREE or PROMOTION copies, and the Journal does not intend to disregard the or der, or to seek to get readers to accept free copies, thus making them a party to the violation of the order of the war board. If you get a copy of a newspa per free that newspaper violates an or der of the war board to give it to you, and no matter how much it may prate about patriotism, it is not genuine. Many newspapers are now.

without more man a. iew aays aupp.y oi i punt, and the ol der of tne war Mard Js. lie equal chance, and to divide the. news print supply so that every community may have" the news, Any publisher who evades the order is using print that ought to be saved for future use, or for other publishers. and is siacking; jUst as much as though hft tl.ied to cet than his snare of sa nr ucnl nthr motVinda tn trv anrt bt t'he government.

The Journal does not alwav are with the wisdom of the various orders that are issued, but until repealed they ought to be obeyed, and the newspaper that constantly preaches to the people about duty, and then refuses to take its medicine when its turn comes is a poor sport. Death Record. BEATY Alice Olinda Beaty, 65f died at her home. 810 Park street at 11 CS lllg Urn. LUC -r utu, k'liv ac.L sw months.

Mrs. Beaty was born Novem ber 23, 1852 at West Kennebunk, Maine. She came to Salina from Ada in 1902. Her husband, Robert Burns Beaty Salina. and two sisters and one broth er in Maine survive.

She was a member of the Methodist church and the W. Funeral services will be held at the Smith funeral home at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Hislop officiating. Burial will be in Gypsum Hill cemetery.

This Water Too Pure, SEATTLE. Aug .22. Seattle's drinking water is too pure. It lacks kicks. At least this is the assertion of certain city officials and some doc tors.

It is declared because the water comes from the melting snows on the summit of the Cascade mountains it has no lime in it. Doctors declare that lime must be furnished the human sys tem if goiter, loose teeth and bone dis eases are to be avoided. To overcome the lack of lime in this water, it is proposed to dump 10,000 barrels of the nlaster-makine ingredient into the th, 0tv takes it water. It also is expected the lime will seal the basin of the dam and prevent leakage. His Dream Comes True.

BELLEVILLE. 111.. Aug. 22. Ed ward A.

Wolz, a farmer near Rentch ler, had a dream. It was that some one had placed iron in a wheat shock he was about to thresh. On investigation I the next morning he found a horseshoe there, t-racucai jo-. 1 sponsible, Girls Unload Car of CoaL ATCHISON. -Two g-ris.

Julia Surratt. eighteen, and her sister, Elsie, fourteen, daughters of J. A. Surratt, a men-nan i f7hr five-ton car of coal for their father be cause he was unable to secure men to do the work. The task was completed in a few hours.

Lincoln Boy Has New Song mmiA'. Kan. Aug. 22. Bryant Hales new war song "I'm Glad I Live in TV-rio" mm out this momn and The I rwm Trt ns mcFunE young author is the ten-year-old son of fte.

Wesleyan. i i i i 1 Savings Stamps ave Ilea. WIND KILLS 135 BUSINESS DISTRICT OF TYLER, BLOWN AWAY. TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACKS TWELVE PASSENGERS KILLED. MANY INJURED.

Among Buildings Destroyed is Large Hospital Search for Bodies Now Going; On. By The Associated Press. TYLER. Auk. 22.

Between thirty and thirty-five persons were killed and more than one hundred injured in the tornado which struck Tyler last night and tore the town to pieces. Twenty t-even bodies have ben identified. By The Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.

Aug. 22. A tornado striking Tyler, Minnesota, a town of about eleven hundred inhabitants in the southeastern part of the state at nine o'clock last night destroy, ed the entire business district, part of the residence section, and caused deaths estimated from fifty to one hundred twenty fLte.1 according to information given out by the Great Northern Railroad officials here early this morning. The buildings destroyed included three banks, the power house, and five general store. Three solid blocks of the Business district were, razed and the resident district' east and west of the town was, swept.

A Chicago and Northern passenger trains through was thrown from the track. Twelve passengers were Rilled and a number injured. The hospital was destroyed and at least one nurse is known to have been killed. Twenty bodies had been recovered from the wrecked buildings at three o'clock this morning. BATTLE WITH DESERTERS Fight May be Resumed in Wastes of Virginia County.

By The Associated Pre-m F1N1NGTON, West 22 Military reserves. United States deputy marshal and posses from Mingo and Wayne counties this morning were marching into the wastes of Mingo co-unty where in a pitched battle with a band of army deserters late yesterday. George Dillon a deputy sheriff and William Ellis, a deputized civilian were killed. The deserters taken were sent the town of Bordon for medical aid for their wounds. The leader was captured.

He told the poss that the deserters comprised men- from Camjv Lee, Camp Lee Taylor and Cahrp Shelby and a number of draft An unidentified number of the poee was killed in yesterday's fighting. CHANCE FOR OLD BOYS They May Enlist at Once Without Waiting for Draft TOPEKA. Aug. 22 The local United States Army recruiting station received an order from the war department that enlistments could be received at once for immediate service' in the United states army. This order applies, however, only to men between th ages of 46 and 66.

Four non-combatant departments are open to men of this age and it is expected that many applications will be made by men that have had experience in the departments now open. These departments arc quartermaster's, ordnance, medlcan and signal corps. Applications will also he for skilled and unskilled workmen. These will be ujed in the ontonments and shipyards. Men enlisting now will be placed in service immediately after passing the physical examination.

Inducted into army No Enlistment of Student Taking Military Training. A telegram recefvod'' oti v' bv'TVof. A H. Kin-; from the committee oi ed-ruation arl special trJlnum. war de-pi: ates that of or over, at military training after the reguli.

will hj taken into the army by vrluntary' lii.Jui'ion and not The teMnm states that the registration unde- new man piwer bill -ili probab. Ite September 10 instead ul September originally planned. It planned also to call the men of li to 21 earlior than previously expectel and plans must be mado accordingly. All uniform-. ordinance, etc.

will be nt out as WORK ALL NIGHT SAVINO TREES "Barrels of Water- Are Being Used Against the Drouth Vigorous efforts are now' being made by many Salina people to get ahead of the dry weather. Trenches are dug about trees and In many cases the hos is turned on to run the night through. And even at that, it Is said, In most cases the thirsty soil takes up the water as fast as it comes and after an ail night prinkling, there is no standing water. In the efforts to nave the lawns) the water supply being drawn on very heavily. Brings Suit on Mortgage.

T. Watson, of Grainfield. today filed suit in district court, against H.J' Ilalladay. asking the recovery tWi. 't The leral difficulty concerns the money which Mr.

Watnon says is owing him on a mortgage, given for the holding of a not to the amount asked the plaintiff. The land on which the mortgage stand is located in Russell oounty. Chokes on Beef HALSTEAD Aug. 22 William Swank a farmer living; near Bentley, choke 1 to death one day this week on a piece of beef. Mr.

Swank, had been partly par alyzed for several years and was unable to' prepare his food without assistance. 1 Do it now! Buy War So' i Stamps, WASTED FUNDS MILLIONS SQUANDERED IX AIR CRAFT PRODUCTION REPORT AT LAST SUBMITTED WAS NO SYSTEM OR ORGANIZA- TION IN BOARD Excessive Profits Paid. Manufactures Also Found by Investigating Committee Pr The A.S8K!it4 Free WASHINGTON. Aug. 22 The long omitted report of the senate military sub committee investigating the air craft production was submitted today with scathing arraignment of developements in the early days of the war, a view of improved conditions, and demonstrations the creation of a new separated department of aviation with a cabinet officer at its head.

Failure to adopt the successful foreign airplanes and motors, waste of millions of dollars on air craft production, carrying out of the airplane pro gramme by inexperienced automobile manufacturers, "unsystemization and ineffective organization" and excessive profits to manufacturers are among the criticisms made by the sub-committee of which Senator Thomas F. Cole was chairman. While condemning the failure of the former aircraft production board, men tion was made of the great improve ment since John D. Ryan and Major General Kenly were placed in charge of the production and irt military branches. The committee strongly urges "one man control" in the future.

Part of the blame for poor organizations at the start is assigned to congress. AMERICANS AT VLADIVOSTOK Thirty-Ffrst Reaches That Point From Manila Bt The Associated Prea WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 The thirty first regiment of United States regulars has arrived at Vladivostok from Manila, Secretary Bakor announced today. FUND FOR BOOKS NEXT Kansas Will be Ask for for $2,300,000 in November. HUTCHINSON, Kas.

Aug. 22. Plans are being laid for the November book drive in Kansas whereby the state is to raise its quota of a prospective fund of $2,300,000 with which to purchase books for soldiers. J. C.

Bigger, a mem ber of the local library board and sec retary of the Masonic library board. and C. S. Colliday, who was in charge of 'the local Red Cross drive, have been designated as state managers of the November campaign by the American Library Association, under the supervision of which the National campaign is to be made. Regional meetings at Oklahoma City on August 21.

at which state quotas will be discussed and other details of the campaign threshed out, will be attended by Bigger and Colli day. Man Work for Soldiers. CLEVELAND. Aug. 22.

Mayor Davis has called upon all department heads in the city government to prepare at once a complete outline of all public improvements needed or recommended by their i respective departments. These plans and outlines will be formulated and brought to such a point that with the closing of the war the work may be started immediately. The mayor's object is being thus prepared for peace is that he desires to have a considerable amount of work on hand ready for assignment to men as; they are mustered out and return to their homes here. He expects in this way to bring about a gradual realignment of industry and distribution of labor without the disturbance that usually marks the cessation of hostilities and the returning to any place of a large number of men who have heeif temporarily engaged in war work and fighting. End Two Year Feud.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 22. The enlist-ment in the United States Marine Corps of two brothers here has ended a dispute between them which has lasted for two years.

Angelo and Dan Tarantola, eighteen and twenty year years old respectively, got into an argument two years ago over a game or marhies and had not spoken to each other since, although they lived together and slept in the same bed. They have decided to forget their quarrel and go Hun hunting. Sold Baby for $10.50. EAST ST. LOUIS.

111. For the al leged selling of a baby to Mrs. P. Euchanan. of Taylorville.

111., for $10.50. Dr. Samuel L. Harwood and his wife Clara were arrested. They were charg ed with obtaining money under false iretenses.

The doctor had preciously oeen tanen in cusioay on a warrant sworn out by Albert Wilson, who al leged the physician sold him a baby for $10.50. Bandit Movies Banned. LAREDO, Tex. According to an of ficial communication here from the State Department at Washington and communicated to the Mexican officials, all motion pictures showing Mexican bandit rams, or of any char acter derogatory to Mexicans, which have served to create bad feeling on the part of Mexicans by the misrepresenta tions, are to hereafter be forbidden bv the censor of motion pictures. Cotton, 43 Cents a Pound.

MONTGOMERY. Ala The highest price paid for a bale of cotton since the Civil War was paid here for the first iaie or cotton when it was auc tioned off in the court square. The cotton brought 43 cents per pound. The bale weighed a little over 500 pounds. The bale of 1917 cotton auctioned off here brought only 20 cents nr vpound.

1 i FRENCH KEEP IP TO RETREAT-0 MAI1Y TOVHSARETAKEf RRITISII ATTA(kfROM KOMME Over 2,000 Prisoners Taken Yesterday's Operation Six German Annie Already Have Been Seriously Damaged. By The AsoHated WITH TUB BRITISH FRANCE, Aug. 22.N2 p. British troops are holding virtually all the Arias Albert railroad and have established their position west of this line. In their new attacks the British early this morning; apparently had taken their final objective on the right and were well into the enemy lines.

South of AJbert the British crossed the Ancre river. Watched Germans Retreat. PARIS, Aug. 17. From the hills of Le Plemont on the Oise front the French troops are now -watching Uq Germans in retreat toward the north: General Humbert's army has made great gains between the Mats, and the Oise rivers find has reached the Ailette river.

The French military men -say that the fall of the town of Noyon is IYocress Near Bapuinc. PARIS, Aug. 22. General Byng's army is continuing its progress in the region of Bapume. Aehiet-Le-Grnnd changed hands several times late yesterday afternoon and last night.

The British now are in that position. French troops readhed tjie Ailette river at several points. It is not expected the Germans will try to bold the line but will retreat to the Oise. Br The Associated Press. PARIS.

Aug. 22. German troops were forced back over a twenty mile front to a depth of from one to two miles from Lasslgny to the Ailette river during the. night according to the official statement issued at the war office today. 0 French troops maintained contact with the retreating enemy between Matz and the Oisne and east of the Oisne during the night.

i Four village, Llploment: Thiescourt. Conneotaneourt and Vllle were occup-itt by the French who have reached the Divette river the statement says. The French have reached the Oise on a six mile front east of Noyon. their line extending from Sempigny to Bretigny. Further cast the villages of Bour-guignnn and St.

Paul-Aux-Bois have been taken. Th? French have reached the Ailette river at Laquincy-Basse. The western outskirts of Pommiers on the Alsne west of Soisson have also been taken. Cross Railroad Under Fire. LONDON, Aug.

22. British forces attacked the Germans this morning be tween the Somme and the Ancre. river, the official statement at the war office today announces. North of the Ancre the statement says. the.

Arras-1 Bapaume railroad had been crossed in fr-pite. of strong jenemy resistance. Between two and three thousand prisoners were captured by the British in'yea-terdays operations, the statement says. British troops have reached the village of Vieux Berquln northeast of Mer-ville. the statement says.

Prisoner Bag is Large PARIS. 22 The allied armies have taken more than one hundred thousand prisoners since July 18. says Marvel Hutin in the Echo De Paris. Havoc With German Annies PARIS. 22 The allies have damaged six German armies since July 16 and the British armies a-e now eat ing into the seventh with the spread of the battle northward and over a front of seventy miles.

Whether the enemv is prepared or unprepared allied efforts have had the same results and the Ger mans have been outgeneraled and out fought. The armies attacked and da maged In the past six weeks been those of generals Von Einem. Von Mud ra. Von Boehn. Von Eben, Von Mutier.

and Von Der Marwitz. Tt Is believed that Marshal Foch's aim is not. as the Germans claim, to pierce their line, but to strike a succession of blows to cause the fenemy- Irreplacable losses In men arid -material and to force him to make a more or less disastrous If that is the4 marshal's plan he is pursuing it with skill and unvary ing successes. General Ludendorff was forced to ppend his effectives out of all propor tion to his resources on a given sector of his front after which another blow was struck home on another sector. At no place have the Germans apparently been strong enough to check the attack entirely.

Destroy Allied Tanks BERLIN, 21 (via London, de la vedV Announcement was made in the official statement from German head quarters todav that since August 18 more than five hundred allied tank's bad been taken or destroyed on the hat tie field between the Ancre and the Avre Lasieny Falls, PAIHS, La-signy has been captured by the French forces, whoe line have now reached the outskirts 'o' Chlry-Ourscamps southwest of Noy on. The official making thi announcement says. that twenty villages have 'been liberated since ye terday and that the French have ad vanced about five miles at certalr points. Rrttlsh Attack Gained. LONDON, 22 The British at tack Launched Wednesday morning on front of ten miles from the Ancre to the neighborhood of MoyenvMe has a been successful on the whole of the front, aocording to Field Marshal Haigs communication from headquarters.

The enemy's positions were deeply penetrated and a number of prisoners were taken. French Improve Position. 'WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE. Aug. 22 On the right wing of the battle front east of the Oise the French rushed their attack vigorously taking Laval and arriving at the edge of Pommiers.

which lies about two miles northwest of Soisspns. Several thousand more prisoners haw been aken. one army corps capturing 1,600. This anvance brings the French troops to the plateau north of the Alsne which will facilitate future operation by General Mangin's right. French.

Cross Ailette. PARIS. (I lavas agency) Aug. 22. The French troops have crossed the Ailette riverbetween Guny and Champs north of Coney Le Chateau.

according to L'Heure, which adds that advices from the front state that the French have reached the Oise canal between Varen-ner and Mortineourt to the east of Noyon. RAIDER STILL AT WORK American Schooner and Fishing Boat latest Victims By The Aitaooiatetl Press A CANADIAN ATLANTIC PORT, 22 The American jicriooner Syl- vania was sunk yesterday by an armed trawler on the Banquereau fishing bank. It Is presumed that the vessel was the trawler Triumph, which was taken by a German submarine and manned as a raider. The Sylvania's crew landed fishing port here this morning. The trawler also sank the Nova Scotia fishing schooner Pasadena.

The crew which arrived at port today re port that their vessel was sent to the bottom at midnight Tuesday. The rescued crew of the fishing schooner Lucille Schnare which arrived In port last night reported that the Pasadena was near by when their craft was destroyed by gun fire and bombs, hen she left the vicinity in small boats! no attack had been made on the Pasadena. TO COUNCIL FOR RUSSIA. Cooperate Efforts of Allies and United States. 3t Tb Associated Press WASHINGTON.

Aug. 22. In order to cooperate the efforts of the allies and the United States in Russia, an official liiipatch from France today says it has been decided to create two internal councils, one at Archangle, includin the entente ambassadors the pies dency of American Ambassador Francis and the other at Valdivostok. to be composed of five high officials LINE OF RIVER BOATS Will Ply From Great Lakes to the Mississippi. Pt Thn ABsneiatfMl Prsft CHICAGO.

Aug. 22. Edwin F. Conway, chairman of the board of water esources advisors announced today wiiniu wuriy aays mere will he a line of power boats and barges plying between Chicago and St. Louis, carry- ng merchandise ffom the Great Lakes to the Mississippi river.

SOVIET OUT OF THE BALTIC No Interest in the Provinces, Asserts German Paper Pt The Associated Press STOCKHOLM, 22 The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. a copy of whih has been received, here, asserts that It has learned on good authority that the So vlet government in Russia has formerlv declared its disinterest in the former Russian Baltic provinces. STOP SUPPLIES TO GERMANY Sweden Signs a New Commercial Treaty NEW YORK. Aug. 22 Terms of a commercial treaty recently signed by the entente allies and Sweden and which is expected to diminish the of supplies to Germany were made public here today by Alex R.

Nordvall head of the special commission of the Swedish government to the United States. It gives to th all ia linn nnn tons of dead weight shipping and two million tons of Swedish iron ore. Sweden also agrees to license the ex port to the allied governments of wood. puip. paper, iron and steel and to grant to the allies suitable credit in Sweden or the purpose of Swedish goods dur- ihg the continuation of the present un- avoraoie monetary exchange.

The Stockholm government, according to Mr. Nordvall is giving satisfact ory guarantees that no goods Imported to Sweden from the allied countries or nations whose shipping the allies con trol, win be exported to any of the control powers. Liberty Bonds in New High. By The Associate Presa YORK. Aug.

22. Further heavy buying of Liberty three and a half per cent bonds was the feature of the opening of today's stock market. The initial new high record of $102.30 were followed by another sale of a laree block at $102.40. Tomatoes Cook on BLUFFTON. Aug.

Sawyer, a gardener, residing south of Eluffton. claims that twenty bushels of his tomatoes were cooked on the vines during the extremely hot days here, when the temperature was 105 degrees In theshade. Kansan in This List. ONTARIO, Aug. 22.

The casualty list today names, killed in action LL M. Murray of Kansas City. Mo. and R. A.

Sticerm. Wichita Kansas. Forecast-Generally fair tonight and Rev. S. Hale, of Unyin.

no -Friday; cooler Friday. Present in Salina fc cninf JSrV Temrrature-Minlmum 77: maxi- at the summer school of theologj at Wunu 104; barometer 29-90 falling southwest wina; lowest tnia mw whest 104 In 1905..