Lawrence Journal World (Newspaper) - May 22, 1917, Lawrence, Kansas DAILY JOURNAL VOLUME MAY NUMBER ATLANTA FIRE LOSS REACHES BLAZE STARTING IX WARE HOUSE SWEPT 75 BLOCKS ITALIANS IN NEW DRIVE TO TRIESTE T B HOMES BURNED i City Makes Plans To Feed Des Persons Without Outside Help Pr to pe ye Ci ho no Sc tic pa ur an sti Progress of Citys Greatest Fire Was Unchecked Till Fine Homes Were Dynamited May today were that from to persons arc homeless as a result of yesterdays lire that swept through block of residence prop erty ranging from negro shacks to homes of influential sections in tho northeastern sections of the assistant secretary of the Southeastern Underwriters Associa estimated the property loss at and loss to insurance com panies at Preparations had been made to feed No more than that are believed to need immediate Heal estate ami insurance men were acting in conjunction today and stim ate that 1503 buildings had been de This was considerably under the earlier YIELD BY INCHES TO ALLIED ATTACK SUDDEN THRUSTS GIVE TO PRESSURE ON WHOLE LINE RUSSIA STILL UPSET FIRST CAMP FORT RILKY OFFICERS NEW FACILITIES HAVE JUNE 5 WILL BE HOLIDAY IN CITY UNIVERSITY MUSIC DENTS TO PLAY OWN COM POSITIONS TOMORROW Lawrence Committee to Plan Method of Raising Money in Big Campaign NED MEETING IS PLAN FOR THE DAY Unique Recital To Be Given row Afternoon Is Attracting j Much Attention j CITY BOARDS NAMED c Radicals May Treaties Try to Repudiate with the Entente Allies all Fraternal Aid Union Offers Office Force for Service in Registra tion l plete Selection of Boards day for To The Go pressure of Generals and 1etain and the vital is whether their morale can be main under the terrific pounding day and the al commanders have abandoned tin policy of thrusts and arc re report their will be a holiday in A resolution adopted by commission today when and military Lew the City the Kei ITO oim ir en of the north c1 show they toward llr ial I Map the In e Italian with tn where i entered The men at the Fort Riley train g camp have a regulation building with all the necessary facilities since Colonel Tyree commander of tho camp has turned over to the Association the Artillery Post a building ideally fit ted for its The war work of Fierce Indignation in Scandinavia has starred in Fort and Spain Over Sinking of as the first in con Grain Ships I with any of the new training l J The building is two Juno rnan armies in France are equipped with between the age ot ground before the re four their nanos for ing alloys and shower A piano has already boon a victrola will soon lie along with with chess and other j indoor The reading rooms are to be with papers from j the home That soldiers j lying on a constant j use the rooms is ovi situation in Russia rej deuced by from the border with many possibili summer showing thai men wore reached through the in meetings while free cry was furnished for let The big drive for the Kansas share of to carry on the war work until December has been The state has been divided into four teen Lawrence is in the third district with ler of at the ol its en the The Lawrence any capacity in Students of the composition class of tho University school of music will present their own compositions at a recital to be given in Fraser Hall to morrow afternoon at This unusual recital is attracting Registration Officials to attention among the musical CANNING FACILITIES GOOD IN LAWRENCE NO FOOD PRODUCED IN COM i M UNITY NEED BE WASTED EXPERT OFFERS Chamber of Commerce Thinks vices of Government Expert Not Needed Here p the of the mint we foi ye thi inf eh S I as od Fo an blp hit Gc ha ths lot do 01 Ci H da to Wl er w an ch so oo th th an ca P of W In P ab or nv P cl th wr cu fn I ne ca ti CO h IT f in is is fa nv Lr in n L t v tr V 1 P r t P t May Atlanta went actively to work today to car for the institute persons from homes destroyed in the tire that raged yesterday evening and last night throughout seventyfive blocks and was stopped only after the dynamit ing of the beautiful homes on Ponce De Leon The property loss was estimated at by Mayor who de clared thai his estimate was a con servative Other estimates ran as high at The lire start eel in a warehouse and Fort street and drove first due north and then northeast at some points a block wide and at times half a mile in It was the greatest fire in Atlantas history since civil war days when General terming it the backbone of the that it must be property loss and hardships it was even great for the city that General Sherman destroyed had only Destitute persons from the burned area were cared for by the local Ren Cross and the associated Hundreds were fed last night and to Preparations were completed today to feed Relief work grot under way early and eral thousand dollars within a few and President Allen of the local chamber of commerce agreed that no outside aid would bo Moth expressed their appreciation of scores of offers telegraphed to The people fled from the flames as from an invading Heat drove out hundreds of who sought to have personal Here and there lire brands blew ahead of tin firing houses a block ahead of the wall of Gradually the flames advanced Before them came hundreds of The llamo grew to a roar when within a distance of a block or Men who had comforted their fam ilies with that the lire would not reach them at Ihe last moment that their homes wen Auto and every conceivable vehicle im into national guardsmen took of homes in the threaten ed districts was carried out Autos carried people and their most valuable belongings to other parts of the bed clothes anil all the odds and ends from the littered the streets which were made impassable in many cases by fallen wires and from dynamited SUPPORTS THE LIBERTY LOAN FOR OF HONDS HELPS EMPLOYES TOO Is First In the Field of Fraternal Or ders To Subscribe For the War Honds Action of Big Insurance Company May Encourage Other Fraternal Orders To Buy Tl i fraught Tl news from Russia indicates that the in that continues acute There are that tiie Rus sian radicals to enforce of Russias treaties with ti On th is tiie ris ng tide of indignation Germany ii Scandanavia and The faction in Sweden Iris been reinforced by the action of the Goi in grain Snain awaiting a reply to her pro test over the sinking of steamer also destroyed while sailing under a German guar and the Spanish press is per What the events are having on the German people remains un The German censorship has reached a point of effi Apparently the war of the and on Chan cellor is going merrily but there is nothing to indicate what effect iv is having on the I he junkers clai into have Field Marshal von but the issue will re main in or to issue a proclamation to that The resolution offered by is as follows that tiie Mayor and hereby I June a in with the proclamation of and the mayor is hereby to issue his proc to that and to r rango for a patriotic to be held on that It is planned to hold the patriotic mentioned in the resolution in The Fraternal has for tendered t the county tho tire office force for anv tee complet las plans for iai th LIST HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Defense Council Names ni Boys to 1 In a letter to the high schools of Kansas the Kansas of fense asks the principal of make a complete list of the boys in the high school v ho are will ing to work on the farms as bit in the campaign i The council asks that the ad morning to select the hoards there ago and experience of each j Deputy Sherill went to list fori t may be used in up or tabulating the ii Douglas count i This offer places at of I the county board the of complete force and which will undoubtedly be of use in bringing the military records of I Douglas county to perfection before the work of applying tin selective draft Name Registration Boards 1 The registration boards for the city j of Lawrence have been Sher iff Woodward went to Baldwin this people of the city and there is great interest in hearing the compositions of the Kansas boys and The recital will be open to the The program will be as follows Vocal Quartets Siesta Sparkling and Lois Leah Clara Wendell Orlo Piano Three Fantasy Mary Mary Songs The Chestnut beth Springs Awakening The Rose Lota Violin A Twilight Clar ence Clarence Piano Andante from Una Una Vocal Quartet The Ru Clara Scheur Wendell Orlo Piano Lois In Bonnie Lawellin Tomorrow The Night Has a and Viola Alta Vocal Quartet The Lord Is Leah ClarS Wen Consideration of Better Support for Social Service League Up At Next Meeting dell Orlo NORTH LOCAL CAR SERVICE WANT LOCAL LINE TO CROSS THE NEW BRIDGE CITY FAVORS THE PLAN Th rence mad Fraternal Aid Law s big insurance has prompt response to tho appeal of tho government for support of the liberty The Fraternal Aid Union has subscribed for of the and is the first fraternal insurance to make an invest ment in the new In addition to the purchase from the funds in the treasury of the the Fraternal Aid Union will assist all its in Law sevi and at the other to pur was subscribed Mavor Candler Beat Back Counter Attacks May separat counter attacks by the positions captured yoster French were repulsed last Tin prisoners taken yesterday by tlu French numbered boy be given and a ci warded as possible To meet the principal of the high school made a complete survey of the school during the third period this moi Tho survey met with good and a on complete report on the i nil ings in av by this survey will bo available PLOT TO KILL KERENSKY Minister Civic A WILL OFFER League in Garden Attempt On Life of Russian of War Frustrated Now May Daily Forward received a cablegram froni its correspondent in today saying that an unsuccessful this morning to asj Minister j chase Tho will purchase bonds and soil them to the installment A i tempt was madt number of tho employes already have War availed themselves of tho and File dispatch reads it is believed the purchase of the war An attempt on the bonds will become a favorite form of Minister Kerensky wa investment among I Kerensky All th It that the action taken to Set Contest meeting of the ivic league in the childrens garden A oclock at the to make I arrangements for offering the in the childrens garde A will be to take charge of the whose duties will be to inspect the and see that all children ro rg seels practically been given ovit but only a of the children have regis The prizes to be offered will be announced following the meeting riff to select the board for that It was expected that all registration boards of the county would be selected before Tho registration places for Law ronce will be as follows First city hall second first Indiana j second 1108 Vermont j street second second KMT Massachusetts street first pre third oast Twelfth street second third Petition to County Commissioners Asks Local Company Be AI Lowed to Use Bridge County Commissioners Annual Rental Which Company Thinks May ite Too High Street cr service for the north side has been petitioned forby resi dents of the north side city commission today passed i resolu tion supporting the which is Massachusetts street fourth to the comity commission ward 701 Massachusetts street fifth commissioners are lor Elm street sixth 611 asked to give to the local Locust company to Teh registration boards for the i of Lawrence are as follows It is understood A plan for bringing an emergency food expert to Lawrence this sum mer was presented to the Chamber of Commerce at the regular meeting today by Miss Marion of The plan is that of thf federal council of defense constructed for tho food in the United States this Food ex perts will be sent to ten cities of sas this summer to deal with food problems arising in the different com and to give instruction in canning and handling of The federal government will the salary of experts while the community to which they are sent will pay the expenses incurred in the work in the Among the suggestions for aiding such a cam wore that the schools I might be able to help with donations of rooms or even of money i the city might take it over as insur against hard times next 1 I An additional advantage to the entire community would be that jars and rubbers for canning could be pur chased at wholesale The proposition was given little en by t lie Chamber of Com Tiie members of this organi prompted by an address by Will of the Kaw Valley Canning felt that the can ning company and the for I canning food in Lawrence would be ample to care for the food of the Pendleton explained the acity of the canning factory was cans a day while the acreage of available crops would fall far short of keeping the factory running at full He urged that all crops of this community be brought to thc canning factory for proper Pendleton further agreed to furnish the seed or plants for anyone wishing to raise A consisting of the president of the Chamber of Com merce and Mavor Francisco ind as cross the new Kansas First First M Wai by the Fraternal Aid Union will be followed by other fraternal and that branch of the insurance business of the country will become a substantial factor in the disposal of the great war loan of the United UBOAT OFF COAST FISHERMEN SUBMARINE plot of the s arranged nld regime by are life of made just i that the j the supporters j REPORT Kd Mar ON CONFER EN MEXICO MAKES PROTEST Files Objection to the German Sub marine Campaign via May 22 A Berlin dispatch to the Reports Nw forwarded lo Boston and orK are brim gated Officially Telegraph to have hande government followed a that I a note to protesting con ference r the Mexican reported to tho man against the The report the Helen Siore FARMERS WILL REAP PROFIT No Danger of Low Prices from says Hoover i May farmers 1 need not fear that the nation wide campaign for increased food tion will result in cording to a telegram received today i by assistant Sec tary of the Kansas Council of Det from Herbert the nations food The tele which follows in to an from Hammatt ing that Kansas ing to him concerning the of The need of increased production i is Overproduction this year ier is The prospects of fanners to receive remunerative May It of made known that the report ed presence of a off the was being investigated by naval A report was forwarded to Boston and New York but not made The submarine which ap to lie about feet ill length i was by two fishermen south of 1 at i they She was a half mile dis Mant but the fishermen were Mire of ithe character of the A i they were her the j of their motor backfired and mg the report the submarine sub had no more than reached shore when a third fisherman arrived with the re port he had seen the of IN KANSAS CITY BANK Impor Nephew of L Meade Hold tant Position Meade at Cashier of the Southwest National Bank of Kansas City will be the cash of the new million dollar bank known as the Liberty National now organizing in Kansas Meade is a nephew of prices for their products was is a ore savs Meade of the Lawrence Na i and was raised m his HEAR TAX COMPLAINTS Lawrence Cases Will Be Taken Up Next Week The county commissioners are bear ing complaints today on the assess ments of taxes township Mai ion The three commissioners will sit as a board of equalization this week and next Marion and Willow Springs will be heard tomor row Baldwin and Palmyra township Eudora city on and Wakarusa township bank in He is about thirty years Perhaps there are younger men cashiers of national but it is doubtful if there is in the United States a of a bank a this at this Several Lawrence men will be stockholders of this big but so far as known none will be in an ial Mexican and lary Mexico May It in here today that a thorough understanding existed among govern ment the United had and would not exercise In force Mexico lo take in tin Jay hawker Appeared Today Th the for made is appearance this Thio hundred copies wore received and quickly disposed dore will be placed on sale to The annual this year on than the usual number The arrangement different from the annu als in previous The dedica tion is to Rock Best Known College Veil in I Iv book is distinc one of writing being a minor Arnold is the editor and Dick Gelvin the Robinson Tablet Arrives I The bronze tablet David professor of Latin in the from toj has been received at the Uni versity The tablet is the work of the artist Chester Beach of Now The will bo made Juno as part of the commencement exercises by who R Agnes SuUon and Miss Ruth who attended tin vocational conference of this Kansas State Agricultural college at Man hattan as representatives of tin girls of the Lawrence will make a formal report on the conference at a meeting of the high school girls in school build ing this The vocational conference was held to Wo men in various occupations and al Second First Anna W garet Ward lian Fred Second Si omul Slu First Second Precinct Margaret Fourth Ward I I Fifth Ward Li Sixth Ward I that the county to the company for Third Ward C A every high was Suffered a Broken three miles north ed a broken the one Wrist who f in a fall late yes I MAY CHANGE DATE COMMENCEMENT ON JUNE HAS SUGGESTED i afternoon while i about the feeding the chickens in when she slipped on The fracture doing Gamble was the barn lot the muddy being at the wrist was a painful one and hard t A Baldwin physician was called to handle the iambic is reported to be getting along nicely Negro Murderer Burned May Ell ne confessed murderer of Antoinette Rappal several weeks was burn ed to death near the scene of the crime at oclock A mob es at from to wit the death of the In preparation for the body was soaked in oil and afterwards sus pended in midair from a limb of a nearby A torch was applied and the body burned fiercely until the body fell to the Probable that Arrangements Will i Not he as Seniors Can Regisler by Mail i The cabinet at I will discuss at a meeting tonight i advisability of changing the datr i commencement exercises at tho Uni versify and olt to the graduates on Juno This would give an opportunity to I K to their homes for military reg 1 Mn the event that the date I an effort wil be made to have Bryan come to Lawrence j on Juno 1 in toad of June to make i the commencement A sit will bo for the scni i ors at the University to by I it was thought likely at the j University this afternoon that the i commencement would 1 bo a low i to stand as origin commissioners wish annual rental from the use of the company objects price before the earning ca of the line is It is sug gested that an arrangement may bo made to fix the rental after the line i has operated one during which time an accurate account of the receipts of the line shall be The resolution presented Holyfield this morning and adopted by the commission is as follows j To the Honorable Board of County Douglas 1 j Gentlemen The Electric Utilities company is operating a local railway in the City of and he revenue does not produce an appreciable earning on I their and a large number of work j mg people live in North Lawrence and are in need of local street rail way more especially in bad and the burden of the pay ment for the new has fallen hard on the residents of this of the county as on the other sections of the and a local street railway service to and from the Union Pacific depot would greatly hernlit the said citizens as well as visitors and would make a much better impression upon the visitors as to the service and busi and the revenue derived by the said Kansas Electric Utilities not justify any great expenditure on its and petitions arc being cir requesting the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas to grant permission lo said Electric Utilities Company to use bridge an and oper ate its over t lie re bo it that the Board of Coun many other members as the two was appointed to assist making plans for a patriotic demoi stration to bo held in Lawrence JuneS during or following the The local of the young men of Lawrence to tiie fixing of a military The cooperation of the Rotarians of Lawrence was prom ised by president of that I Stauffer gave a detailed explanation of the work of the social service league since it was started in Lawrence and of the expenses and financial standing for the months i just During April 27 visits were mado by the public nurse while 1 nine patients wore cared for in the Social Senice The organi is loss than in debt now although tho work is considerably hampered by tho lack of Barnes spoke in favor of better support of the Mayor Fran cisco for the say ing that c hoped in the future the city would bo do its share to an even greafer extent than Definite action on the proposition was deferred to tho next Fred Raymond called atten tion to that tho University commencement week would start June He asked the merchants to orato with tho University authorities in making tho week a success and tho welcome to alumni a great TO INSPECT BATTERY 1 CEREMONY WILL BE IN ROBIN SON TONIGHT Men Enlisted Now Number While 133 Are Required for In A second inspection the Law rence battery of field artillery will be wld in Robinson gymnasium In case the company meets the ap proval of the inspecting officers it will mustered in as a part of the Kansas National Guard and will be known as Battery The officers in charge of recruiting TO HELP SELL BONDS for to Juit Neutrality Rio May Bra sent a message to congress recommending the revocation of the decree of neutrality in the war be tween the United States and Ger Congress is expected t ac cept that recommendation by a large Made las Masks at Three gas masks are ready for in the department bini One was presented by Charles Griesa who returned recently after being in ambulance service in and the other two were made in Lawrence from this They may servo a practical purpose Cady who is engaged in i some dangerous experiments with I j i Peoples State Bank Subscribes of Issue i The peoples State Bank of Law has subscribed for of the loan bonds and will assit local purchasers to obtain the Tho bank will sell the bonds on tho installment the payments grad to suit Per sons who w to obtain bonds in this can get particulars from the ty Commissioners of Douglas Coun thc battery believe the of ri arc will pass inspection sue it f Resolved that a copy of this roso lh nm 141 men lution under the sea of tho be mi r by required for the minimum strength of the Few men will be unable to and it is the at and City this morning irs r quired number of eligible candidates PI and will bc in Captain Brinkman went to K on Chance For Radio Operators A chance is offered for a few radio Morse telegraphers rap com able of learning wireless to plaints on the assessments in a radio company of the Signal rn P heard listed Reserve Corps 01 the regular R Years Music 211 Commerce University series of lhc telephone Com mil lee Perkins has resigned a a member of tho knitting committee of the Red Cross Society and her place has boon taken by Theo dore On this committee now are To Separate Finland from Russia May via Petrograd and A congress of the political representing a majority of Reorge and Theodore r inlands most influential yesterday passed a resolution favor ing a complete separation of the grand Duchy of Finland from KANSAS WEATHER REPORT Comfort Needed The Womans Comfort Unit of the i will meet Thursday at 2 on the floor at A full attendance is desired ami all women who will knit and i and aro interested in tiie work i are asked to join j State MILLIONAIRE IN FRENCH AIR CORPS tine i Green went to Kansa City this Strike in Munitions Works via May According to information received here from Hungarian source a strike has been in progress in all the Buda pest factories since May 7 last night 7 2 today Rainfall of last Rain and continued cool tonight fair a Burial at Tho body of Katherine Wedell who died Sunday at 1707 Louisiana was taken to sas this Funeral services will be held in that city i journalism students will farewell tonight at Lees College The speaker is expected to be McCall of tho Associated i I Kansas D r e x e an went to Kansas of Battery A of To to attend thc Bak peka as inspecting officer for the battery Adjutant Martin will also at tend the inspection if The Lawrence Battery was given its tirst inspection by State National Guard officers on April 16 but owing to the fact that forty of the candi dates for thc company were married tho battery could not be Since that time the recruiting officers have been busy and the re has been none of the being ex cept some of the The battery has been considered separate organization of in Lawrence since permission was by General Martin last sum mer for the raising of a battery in Three other Kansas ies asked for the battery but rence was able to convince the any that greater interest be manifested here than in other million mous phia has be come a of the tha American tion corps at the French after leaving the avi ation school be
