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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
3
Washington prints a harsh warning about pacifists objectors and slackers hindering wartime efforts. The piece warns of spies among public benefactors and suggests action against those who combine pacifist sentiment with espionage, even implying possible shooting as a safeguard.
London reports the Zeppelin L-43 was shot down over the North Sea by naval forces. Chancellor Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons that no survivors were seen, and the Admiralty confirmed the loss with no signs of rescue.
An American traveler returning from London asserts food costs in the United States run about 35 percent higher than in England. He compares menus from Simpson's Grand Divan tavern with Washington hotel lunches, noting London prices on soups, roasts, puddings, and coffee. The piece contrasts wartime rationing in London with U S prices.
German war dead and wounded swell casualty figures as May totals push overall losses to 4,355,760. Latest tallies reflect continuing grind of conflict amid strategic efforts and allied pressure across multiple fronts.
Two hundred delegates to the state P E O convention vote $100 to the University of Missouri unit of the American Ambulance Service. Claude Piersol jailed in Kansas City as a Springfield kidnapping suspect seeks speedy trial to join the army for France. W A Hamilton is found guilty on white slave charges in federal court in Kansas City and sentenced to four years. Tielman Anderson of Commerce offers to buy horses and mules for the Allies and provides a Memphis barn for government use. Mississippi County petitions seek a $375,000 road bond with readings of county valuation. John E Cox convicted in Liberty for fires in Excelsior Springs lumber yards, with $20,000 loss. St Louis grand jury graft investigation indicts Rep Frank Faris and Doctors Oliver Abel and Herman Frohoff for perjury in optometry bill testimony. Abel released on $2,800 bond. Col Edgar Russel, Missouri-born, named head of aviation, wireless and signal branch for General Pershing in Europe. a West Point graduate and former army signals chief at Fort Leavenworth.
In May the State Free Employment Bureaus of St Louis Kansas City and St Joseph provided work for 3790 people, filling 3790 of 4859 offered by employers and leaving 1097 unfilled due to insufficient qualified applicants. Men received 3325 placements and women 465.
Missouri Penitentiary inmates organize a musical and vaudeville entertainment to raise funds for an army ambulance. Warden William R. Painter approved the plan. The event will be held June 22 in the prison chapel with admission charged.
President Wilson presented a personal letter of commendation and an Interstate Commerce Commission hero medal to W. W. Marshall of Harwood Missouri, an M E and T railway employee. He risked his life attempting to rescue Joe Thulman age 84 from an oncoming train at 55 miles per hour. Thulman died and Marshall was injured.
William Morehead, aged nearly 70, received at the penitentiary by Marshal Hina C. Schultz of the Supreme Court, begins a forty year term for second degree murder. In a drunken quarrel he fatally shot Roy Jenkins in November 1915. Morehead is in good health despite age.
At Lannocy near Roubaix eighteen German infantrymen were executed for trying to go to the trenches. The event reflects harsh wartime discipline and the brutal measures used by opposing forces.
Washington reports by internal revenue agents show widespread attempts by munitions manufacturers to evade the profits tax imposed last September. Initial findings indicate evasion could total 10 to 13 million dollars, with many large firms allegedly filing incomplete returns. Commissioner Osborne dispatched investigators to audit filings immediately after returns were received.
Income tax receipts for the fiscal year clos ing totaled 330,565,628 dollars. Corporations paid 170,037,040 and individuals 160,528,588. New York leads with 110,431,480. Pennsylvania 39,888,919. Illinois 24,911,727. Ohio 190,819,528. Massachusetts 19,646,900. Kansas 2,898,739. Missouri 6,016,314. Oklahoma 6,320,737.
Jefferson City June 14 The state board of agriculture adopted quarantine rules on shipment of stock hogs into Missouri to stop hog cholera spreading since last April 377 areas and most counties affected Hogs must be held 14 days and immunized though registered hogs shipped in crates are exempt State Veterinarian Luckey warned losses may reach 5 million if the disease is not eradicated or controlled.
A Warrensburg clothing store owned by Russell Brothers was broken into early this morning with about 1500 dollars worth of clothing stolen. Authorities believe the loot was moved to Kansas City by automobile. This marks a second robbery in Warrensburg within a week, as thieves also hit the adjacent shoe store and carried away several hundred pairs of shoes.
Arrangements are complete for a big Masonic celebration in Butler on Monday June 25 starting at 10:00 a.m. The band, tables, ice water, chairs, and food service committees are in place. Guests will be received with badges and refreshments. a Butler Concert Band performance begins at 10:00 a.m. followed by a dinner and parade.
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