Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1921 — Page 11

KILL NEGRO VOTE IS DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN CRY Republicans Have Colored People Cornered, Declares W. W. Spencer. GIVEN CITY HALL JOBS Democratic women workers in their weekly meeting at city headquarter* Wednesday afternoon were urged by W. W. Spencer, election iaw authority, to refrain from urging negroes to register for the coming city election. Mr. Spencer discussed the election laws, while Boyd M. Balstor/ candidate for mayor, aid Marthy Yoh Marson, nominee for city clerk, criticised Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican candidate for mayor. “If you hear a negro say he's going to vote the Democratic ticket don't urge him to register," said Mr. Spencer. “They can't tell the difference between the eagle and the rooster. You'll find the Republicans have fully informed the negro how to Tote ” The regro artne in for considerable discussion. both at the hands of Mr Spencer and Mrs Marson. Mr. Spencer exthe Democratic women to ;et out and work their hardest to offset the negro rote. COLORED PEOPLE GIVEN JOBS. “Go over to the courthouse," he said. "Ton'll And as many colored girls in the office as you &< white girls, and thers are as many colored men as white men In those places. They won't nominate them for office, but they'll put them in these subordinate positions. “The other dpy I was going up in the elevator at the court house. Os course, everybody kn< ws I'm a Democrat and I always let them know it, too. We were talking politics and the elevator man said to me: ‘Just wait until we come along with those 22,000 colored votes ' “That's the only way they can elect a ticket, by those 22.000 negro votes." Mrs. Marson told of a white woman being crowded out of a seat on a College avenue car by a negro woman and said that such incidents were making Ralston votes as fast as people find out that the negroes intend to vote for Shank. Mr. Ralston quoted a number of things he said Mr. Shank has snid and declared that he did not consider them constructive. He accused Mr. Shank of appealing to bootleggers, coal and automobile thieves for support. The Republican move to line up wavering party members bebinJ Mr. Shank on the ground that the National Administration mnsf not le repudiated, was attacked by Mr. Ralston. He said he pitted the Harding Administration if its sdceess depends npon the tender thread of Mr. Shank's success. 'HF. FUSES TO ABl SF. SHANK. “I am not abusing my opponent and shall not at sny time," said Mr Ralston “I like him as a man: have known him for a 10-.. g time, have associated with him and we have a pleasant time when we meet. Bnt. I have a right as a candidate to present my views npon governmental questions and Lew Shank has a perfeet right to attark them, just as I claim the same right.” He quoted the saying: “By your fruits yet shall know them.” and set about analyzing some of the things he said Shank has said “A few days ago I had my finger nails manicured and my ears tp ated for a slight deafne- and. “It is true that I had this and -id night Lew Shank spV in a speech. I would not .is. only I have heard nothi live from my opponent and only seize upon such things ,*" Shank declared recently, he said, that two men came to his home at 6 o'clock one morning and aekeJ him ;o bail a bootlegger out of jell, Shank added, the Democratic candidate said, that “thev no doubt remembered how be had helped the men who stole the coal and the automobile." “You know what all this is.” said Mr. Ralston. “It's class appeal. Vote for Lew Shank and have a friend in court. “Another time he was speaking on th“ south side and he said: 'lf any of you get too full and are arrested come to me and I'll heip you get out.' On another occasion a candidate for city judze had Just been speaking and had mentioned wife lieaters and Lew Shank, who followed, got up and said: ‘I don't care if a man does beat his wife, you have'to Bundle each case different.’ ”

Young Men to Hold Institute 14-17 Arrangements have been made for the holding of the Fifth Grand Council of the Atlantic Jurisdiction of the Young Mao's Institnte at Terre Haute, Ind , Aug. 14 to 17. Resides the regular business meetings, the convention will include a visit to St. Mary's of the Woods, a social session at the Good Will clubhouse. a stag boat ride and a picnic and barbecue on the banks of the Wabash River. 200 Ku-Klux Parade Texas City Streets PON ROE. Texas, Aug. 4.—Two hundred white-robed members of tbe huKinx Klan. led by a horseman carrying the Stars and Stripes and another bearing th- fiery cross of tbe order, paraded here late last night. The impressive ceremony was given ?n atmosphere of warning by banners warning that gambling and bootlegging 1 must stop and that -we want no mulatto ' children." House Says Stories Without Foundation LONDON, Aug. 4.—C0l Edward M. House, refusing to comment* on a recent report of a reconciliation with former President Wilson, declared today that newspaper stories of squabbles and reconciliations with the ex President appear periodically, and that all are without foundation thus far. Meetings Naomi chapter and auxiliary*of the O. E. S. will give a lawn party Saturday evening at Fletcher avenue and Laurel street. The monthly raeting of the Altrusa Club will be held a* the Polk Community House at Greenwood. Friday evening. The can will leave the Traction Terminal station at 3:10 and 6:10 o'clock. Olive Branch Social Club will hold a market all day Saturday at the Garrick Theater. Illinois and Thirtieth streets. Bread, pies, cakes and saiads will be for •ale. * The American War Mother; will hold a lawn fete at Spades Park Friday eveAn Hawaiian ten-piece land will supply the music and home made cakes, candies and ice crenm will be for sale. Tbe public is cordially invited. The Ripley-Franklin Counties Association will hold its annual reunion and picnic Monday. Aug. 7, at Brookslde Park, beginning at 2:30 o'clock. Amos Butler and Romney Wilson of Indianapolis, Isaac 'Vrter, SSheibyvllle, s n< j MaJ. F*. Jones of will deliver addresses. A muni cal program will be offered.

WHEAT for One Hundred Million People

The photograph shows a combination harvester and thrasher. The *hnle process Is one operation and three men and five horses are usually used on the machine, which Is commonly called a stripper. It will pick up down grain as well as standing grain and deliver the thrashed wheat in a sack at one end of the machine. In this way Australian drj-whvat fanning has become profitable, because one man can hnndlo so much Lind. This machine would not work well in many parts of the United States on account of the ex<csvlve amount of moisture In the atmosphere.

ST DIfI Y, NEW SOUTH WALES. Australia.—lt will be hard for you as it was for us, to realize that Australia has three million square miles of territory and a population of five millions — a continent larger than the United States with a population less than y ; ‘ that of New York ’ . th e outstanding island continent uated well off the sunny southern • trail* is large enough not only to take in the fortyeight States of the Union, but also to leave a track sufficiently wide to drive a car around the entire edge of the continent. Australia has a range of climate sufficiently varied to enable all forms of temperate, tropical and sub-tropica; fruit* to be grown to perfection. Its soils are rich enough and its resource* great enough to house, feed and clothe at least a hundred million people. Its natural wealth lies In its wonderful pastures, its immense flocks and herds of sheep and cattle, its grain fields, its forests, mines and water resources. It is the land of opportunity and were it nearer the crowded centers of Europe and lta resources as well .ertised as those of Canada, America and Argentina, it would be the Mecca of the European settler. For Australia need* sturdy white settlers to open up its grain fields, subdue its forests, harness its rivers and divert the water over the fertile soil and to help fill the vast empty spaces that clamor so loudly for development. MILLIONS OF ACRES FOR WHEAT GROWERS. Australia has millions of acres to offer wheat growers, dairymen, orchardists and live stock and sheepmen. Australia maintains sixteen head of sheep and two head of cattle and grows about thirty bushels of wheat for every man. woman and child in the country. Every type of crop, from pineapples, sugar cane, tobacco and bananas in tropical Queen* land, to wheat, hay, barley, oats, maize potatoes, grape* and temperate fruits of the south t which is the same as oar north) thrive to perfection. The rr.or--fringe of the continent has been exploited and a mere fraction of its area cultivated. yet it probably produces m >re actual wealth from the soil per head of population than any other country on the globe. It is so rich that 40 per cent living in the country and out on th, land, support 60 per cent in the cities The area of the continent is about three million square miles. The main factor in determining the agriculture of a country is the rainfall, fyet us therefore examine the distribution of rainfall over the continent One-third of Aus trails, or approximately one million square miles, 040 000,000 acres, has a rain fall of over twenty Inches. This area is the coastal belt and Is the area where intensive cultivation may be practiced Next to this is a belt of over one million square miles with a rainflail of ten to twenty inches, while the inner third of the country has a rainfall of less than ten inches or none With the 1.200.000,000 acres with a ranlfall exceeding ten inches, over 800,000 0* X* acres may be regarded, from the point of view of soil and climate, as highly Fuitshle for wheat culture. This would include not land north of 25 degrees south of the equator. If we assume that only one fifth of this wheat belt were ultimately cultivated each year, and the yield were only ten bushela per acre, thla would give a total production of 600.000.000 bush els, which would feed a population equal to that of the United States, or 100,000,000 Australians. WHEAT PRODUCED AT VERY LOW PRICE. The climate, soil and economic conditions of Australia enable it to prodnee wheat profitably at a very low price. The land is relatively flat or undulating, is easily tilled, and large, labor-saving lm plements of every kind can be used in the production of grain. A multiple-fur row plow, turning over five to ten acres a day, the drills doing ten to twentyfive acres a day, and the complete harvest er which takes a strip of grain nine feet wide, enable the man power of the farm to be used to the greatest possible advantage. The climate is highly favorable throughout the year, and stock does not erqulre housing, even In the depth of winter. The greater part of the rainfall in the temperature south, where the wheat is grown occurs in the growing period of the crop— May to October—at a time when evaporation is slight . It never freezes and there are winter rains In Western Australia as much as DO per cent of the annual rainfall falls between May and October, in South Australia SO to S5 per cent, and in Victoria about 75 per cent Above all, the climate during the ripening period of the crop—from October to December —Is dry and hot, thus enabling the wheat plant to maAure rapidly, to be free from fungas attaeffs such as rust, and enables the labor-saving harvesting machinery to be used to the greatest advantage. In the wheat belt of the United States, save on the Pacific Coast, all wheat has to be cut with a reaper and hinder and thrashed. The labor in handling the wheat cr<rp under these conditions is very great, as well as the loss in so many handlings of it. But in Australia one man with a team of horses and a nine-foot harvester can take off comfortably from fifteen to twenty acres of wheat, bag it, and have it ready for market in a day. This wheat is planted in sections about five days apart and does noL ripen all

at once—a man can cut wheat for thirty days off the same field. The methods of cultivation practiced in the wheat belt are characteristic of Australia. and the methods are adapted to the climatic and economic conditions of the country. In much of the wheat belt moisture is the limiting factor for successful production, consequently long moisture fallows are used as a preparation for the wheat crop. Generally speaking, the land is fallowed for nine to ten mouths prior to sowing; but in some case* fallowing is commenced fifteen to eighteen rnonthß before weeding. This Judicious practice eouserve* mois ture, places at tlw disposal of the wheat crop the rainfall of two seasons, distributes the work of the farm evenly throughout the year, and enables the farmer to have large areas of land in the best possible state of tilth when the autumn seeding rains begin. It is estimated that under the best conditions one inch of winter rain is capable of producing a bag of wheat itwo bushels to the bag), but at the present t;nie not more than one bushel of wheat per inch of rain to the acre Is obtained. The fallows are unusually prepared in June or July and worked thoroughly throughout the summer months. The fallowing is done by multiple farrow plows which cover from five to ten a<-res per day. Practically all the varieties of wheat that are grown in the wueat belt have been developed in Australia. The most popular variety In the commonwealth Is

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A typical cen showing the way millions of beohels of Australian whqt ore stored at the port to he shipped ail over the world. In the distance you see one of the up-to-date cranes which are used in loading freighters. Australia is surh a dry country that wheat will gain I per cent In weight In n short time after It is piled up in sacks at the port. This about offset* the leakage from the sacks. You will note there are no elevator charges. OR-fashioned methods of doing things sometimes prove profitable.

the croas-brad “Federation," which waa produced by Farrer some twenty years ago. This variety has short, upstanding straw, which is very resistant to wind and rain. It strips easily, and yet at the same time does not readily shed tfs grain durmg atornis. It la bronze In color and the fields of wheat at harvest time have been gradually changed from bright go! den yellow to dull bronze through the Increasing popularity of “Federation" wheat. LACKING IN SOLUBLE PHOSPHORIC ACID. One interesting feature of Australian soils is their deficiency in soluble phosphoric acid. This is true of nearly all countries south of the equator. Right throughout the wheat belt the application of small quantities of superphos pbates gives a marvelods response in stimulating wheat yields / Formerly it was thought that forty io fifty pounds of superphosphate waa the most desirable dressing to use, but experiments by the State Department of Agriculture of Victoria have demonstrated thnt dressings of 100 to 150 pounds can be applied with every prospect of profit. The superphosphate industry of Australia ha* assumed great proportions and nearly 90 per cent of the wheat crop now is fertilized with this manure. Strange to say, although the soil is not rich in nitrates, nitrogenous manure* give no response in the wheat belt. This is due to the fact that climatic conditions are very favorable, for the production of nitrates in the soli through the agency of nitrify mg bacteria. In any ease the application of nitrates in the wheat belt does not give any profitable response and the Australian farmer

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This bush land, or malice scrub. Is a true sample of 50 per cent of the whole area of Australia, where the an nual rainfall is from eight to fourteen Inches. At present such land is chiefly used as sheep country, as Australia is now only producing fro m one hundred and twenty million to one hundrea and fifty million bushel sos wheat, mostly under the dryfarming process.

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is consequently saved the heavy cost of using nitrogenous food for the soil. ROTATION SYSTEM GENERALLY USED. The rotation system used in the majority of cases is a three course one with wheat, pasture and bare fallow. The ■average sized holding is about six hundred and forty acres and approximately one-third is sown each year with wheat, one-third worked as a bare fallow and one-third is lying in grass or pasture and is used for grazing sheep. The average 640-acre wheat farm, beside growing the 200 acres of wheat, carries from 150 to 200 cross bred breeding ewes which are u*ed for the production of export lambs by mating these crossbred ewes with rams of the Dbwn breeds such as Shropshire, Suffolk and Southdown. Much of the wheat belt was former’y malice scrub—the name given to areas where stunted eucalyptus, nine to fifteen feet high, grow Victoria ha* about eleven mill'an acres of mallee country. In South A tßi-alla the greater part of the wheat land formerly was covered with maiiee serpb. It i* removed by a mallee roller which consists of an old boiler mounted with a heavy triangular framework <g wood This roller-Is pulled or pushed by fifteen to twenty bullocks and rolls down twenty acres of scrub s day. The scrub usually is loft until February and burned. With a hot north wind blowing •the wholo of the fallen scrub will be completely cleared by the fire. I saw a number of these scrub fires and wondered at first wbat they were.

The malice roller knocks off the scrub level with the ground and leaves tile stump of the tree in the ground. After ttie scrub Is burned the land is plowed with a stump plow—a characteristic -Australian implement. This plow is so constructed that when it meets an oh struetion the plow rises over it and Is brought back Into place by pressure exerted from the draft bar or by the spring*. Tho Invention of this implement enable* the farmer to dispense with the cost of grubbing out the roots and stumps until' he ha* the time. Then he uses them for wood. Four to six furrow plow* are most generally used tjnd, according to the depth of plowing, the average strength required is one to two horses per furrow. The cultivators nrp of two main types, disc and tine cultivator*. The tine cultivator* have from fifteen to twenty three tines and can cover fifteen to twenty acres a day. The skim plow often is used as n cultivator, specially for encrusted or dirty land. In mallee country stump-jump cultivators nre used. The Australian farmer uses large harrow teams, ranging from six to fourteen horses, and these usually are driven abreast. Areas of from twenty to sixty acres n day are covered with these teams. HARVESTING MACHINERY MARVELS OF EFFICIENCY. When the crop 1* ready for harvesting It Is taken off by complete harvesters, or reaper-thrashers, which cut off the heads, thrash tiie grain, clean and bag I lie wheat in one, operation. These harvesters are triumphs of mechanical efficiency and witli their aid the Australian farmer has been able to reduce the cost of production of wheat so ten bushels to the aero pay* well. The area of wheat sown in the Cona-

West by Southwest New Zealand, Australia and South Sea Islands. By W. D. BOYCE Organizer and I-eader of Old Mexico Roßonrcii and African Big Game Expeditions, author of “Illustrated South America,” “United States Colonies and Dependencies" and “The First Americans—Our of Yesterday and Today.”

monwealth fluctuated considerably during the war period but the average is approximately ten million acres, distributed as follows: New South Wales, 3,000,000 acres; Victoria, 3,000,000; South Australia, 2.500,000; Western Australia, 1,000,000 acres. The average yield is about twelve and one-half bushels and has shown a steady Increase during the past twenty year*, notwithstanding the utilization of the drier lands of the Commonwealth. Thus in Victoria the average yield per acre for the first ten years of the present century was eight and one-half bushels, while the average yield for the past decade was thirteen bushels. The improvement in the wheut yield has been brought about by the adoption of better cultural methods and by the introduction of improved varieties of wheat. The state department of agriculture ha* done much to foster improved methods of cultivation by Judicious propaganda work and by the establishment of experiment stations and private experimental plots on farms. Many of the new and improved varieties of wheat have been produced by wheat breeders working in the state departments of agriculture and the agricultural colleges. The state of Victorln, capital Melbourne, sent Mr. A. E. V. Richardson, superintendent of agriculture, to the United States for one year to look us over and report the way we do things. He is very enthusiastic about "the States" and is “sold" on our country. The seed usually is sown in April and May (the Australian autumn) at rates varying from forty-five to ninety pounds per acre, according to the ty/pe of sol!, rainfall and time of sowing. The wheat is all winter grown and the crop is harvested during December and January—eight months later. June, July and August are the months of maximum rainfall in the wheat belt. ELEVATORS ERECTED THROUGHOUT BELT. The wheat heretofore has been marketed in bags, but during the present season the New South Wales government has erected elevators throughout the wheat belt and their crop In future will be handled In bulk, as now is done in the United States. Though the Australian farmer is situated eleven thousand mlies from bis chief market, the price of wheat on the farm has been fairly profitable because in the pro war period ocean freight was very cheap, and no wheat grower ia sirtiated much more than ihroe hundred miles from hla port. Australian wheat always (ins enjoyed a good reputation on the mnrkefs of the world on account of the bright color and Quality of the flour Despite its distance markets, Australia will be able 'to compete with any other wheat country of the globe because of the wide open spaces available for wheat culture, the easp with which the lands are tilled and the highly favorable climatic condl

tions which enable all kinds of labor saving machinery (o be used, both In ihe cultivation and harvesting of the crop. Australia's present production of wheat ranges from 120,000,000 to 150,000,000 (one hundred and twenty million to one hundred and fifty million) bushels, but it* possible future production—when the country is settled up -may be set at 600,000.000 to 800.000.000 (six hundred million to eight hundred million) buabels, and as the world's wheat consumption is figured at six bushels a year for each white person. Australia ran then feed 100,000,000 (one hundred million) people. Australia is a whale of a country and has been only scratched. Strangest of all in Australia Is its wild life Millions of years ago the Island continent was cut off from the rest of ihe world, ami its animals and birds are of the most promitlve types, different from those to be found anywhere else, a* will be seen in Mr. Boyce's article next week. PLAN WELFARE WORK IN ITALY K. of C. Answers Pope’s Appeal With $1,000,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug 4.—Deeislon to inaugurate a welfare campaign in Italy to cost $1,000,006 was reached today by the Knights of Columbus convention. Funds for the campaign will be raised entirely within the order, it was an nounced. There will be no public “drive" for funds. Edward L. Hearne of New York, European commissioner of the K. of C., will confer with the Vatican on work which was decided at the request of the Pope. Today wns to mark the closing session of the convention.

EXPERTS HOLD BATTLESHIP IS SUPREME ON SEA WASHINGTON, Aug 4—The battleship is still the supreme weapon of sea warfa re. This, it was learned todsy is the essence of the report submitted to the Joint Army and Navy board by the official observers who watched the recent aerial bombing tests of obsolete and former German naval craft off the Virginia rapes. It is understood the observers do not think the tests which culminated in the spectacular sinking of the cx-German battleship Ostfriesland by 2.000-pound aerial bombs should bring about a reversal in the present construction of the American Navy. However, a number of technical changes in the future construction of American war vessels to meet the progress of aerial warfare are said to be reeommonded. Whether changes ai„ to be made in the future construction of the 1916 Naval building program as a result of the board's report Is now being studied by the joint board. g/t

SOVIET FREES PRISONERS TO GET IT. S. AID? (Continued From Page One.) > to the number released or when, how, where they will be delivered across the border. An international committee has been organized here to render relief to the starving of Russia. This committee, with the Internationa! Red Cross organization in Riga, which Is looking after the transport to Russia of former prisoners of war, will maintain relations, with regard to relief work, between Moscow and western Europe, it is announced. A conference is to be convened by all the great international and national benevolent organizations in this connection, the announcement states. V. S. HEARS PRISONERS FREED WASHINGTON, Aug 4 —The State Department received a cable from its representatives in Riga stating that the Bolshevist commission had received unofficial information that the American prisoners in Russia had been released. PRISONERS REACH RIGA LONDON, Aug. 4. —Anonymous attacks on the Lenlu-Trotskl government are being made in Moscow because of the | food situation, according to messages received here. “Away with Lenin and Trotski! Only a czar can restore despairing Russia,” was the inscripllon on placards posted in Moscow up to the very walls of the Kremlin. A report was circulated, based on mesages from Riga, that American prisoners to be released under the agreement with Secretary Hoover, had reached the port. FRANCE SAYS LENIN WON’T FALL BERLIN, Aug. 4. -United States Senator Joseph France of Maryland, who has Just arrived here from Riga, predicted today that tho Moscow government will weather the storm which has been ’thrown around it by plague and famine. He said he did not believe I>enin would fail. Mrs. Marguerite Harrison of Baltimore, whose release from a Russian prison was effected by Senator France while he was in Moscow and who accompanied the Senator from Riga, is under care of physician. * Both Senator France and Mrs, Harrison will sail for America on the steamship Rotterdam Aug. 17. GOVERNMENT IS NOT TOTTERING. Senator France was averse to giving an interview, but when asked what affect famine and cholera would have on

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the stability of the Lenin government and was told of the rumor that Lenin was already tottering, be replied: "On the contrary, common, necessity seems to have had a tremendous unifying force in consolidating the Rusisan people of all convictions behind the Moscow government. Among those giving aid are czarlsts who previously had refused to work. Now they are cooperating.’ Senator France was told at Moscow and Riga that about 25 per cent of the tillable soil of Russia was blighted by drought, but a considerable amount of it was not under cultivation, so that the real productivity affected is between 7 and 10 per cent. Senator France was told, that had It not been for the long dry spell, Russia would not only have had enough grain for her own use, but would have bad some left over for export. About 10,000.000 Russians are affected by the famine. EXPECT ENGLISH TO CONTROL CITY PARIS, Aug. 4.—Travelers arriving at Helsingfors from Petrograd report that Petrograd is calm and that no mutinies have broken out there, saitk. a despatch to the newspaper L’lnformation v today. It added that the population expects international intervention and that the city will be declared a free town with the administration in the hands of British authorities. It was recently reported that an English company had secured the entire harbor concession of Petrograd from the soviet and that the Petrograd street railway lines would be turned back to their Belgian owners. CONDITIONS ARE VERY SERIOUS LONDON, Aug. 3.—Famine conditions in the Volga provinces of Russia are very serious, George Tchitcherin. Bolshevik minister of foreign affairs, has declared in a wireless dispatch to Vienna, says the Dally Herald. M. Tchitcherin. however, Is said to have declared that "the foreign capitalistic press is wildly exaggerating the facts to suit its own purpose.” “There is great misery in the stricken districts,” the newspaper quotes the dispatch s saying, “but- some of the frightful tales circulated throughout western Europe emanate from the imagination of Journalists and should be received with reserve.” PETROGRAD ESCAPES BRUNT OF FAMINE. The Petrograd region is declared not to have been seriously affneted by the famine, its northern situation having saved crops from the ruin which overtook farm products in the southern parts of the country. Several ships are unloading food at Petrograd. says a dispatch to the Dally Mall, from BJournebourg, a town in Finland, sixty miles northwest of Abo. and more food is arriving in the city from KeTjfl. It is decalred that Russians who visit

(Fifty) SPRING \ Up to COATS FOR WOM- J qioka EN AND MISSES, / . . of serge, diagonals, qualities, velours, etc.; three-/ quarter length or full l length; clearance of j t "j aksCJ our broken lots I House Dresses and Porch Dresses for Women and Misses Os percales ginghams, organdies, lawns and chambrays; suitable for home, street and porch wear: SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00 qualities, while 150 £A _ last, 8 for $2.00, each .v/C Middy Blouses for Women and Misses Os good quality jeans; many have pretty emblems; special, Fri- 69c White Serge Skirts f.or Women and Misses Os good quality serge, box pleats, or knife pleats; $5.00 and $6.00 qo qualities, Friday

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ships in the harbor of Petrograd are begging sailors to sell their rations and one captain is said to ha to recently bartered two bags of flour for a pianoforte. SET FIRE TO VILLAGES. Hunger stricken people in the famine districts of Russia are setting fire to their villages before deserting them for other parts of Russia, according to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News Agency quoting persistent reports said to have been received this morning from the Interior of Rupsia. Many villages are said to be. in flames. From the same source it was reported that great preparations were being made to deal with the masses of peasants now moving toward Moscow. Many trenches have been dug about the city, and much war material, including field guns, has been Installed, the reports said. Other telegrams received at Helsingfors reported that the Petrograd garrison had mutinied. ADMIT 47,779 CASES OF CHOLERA ■WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The seriousness of the cholera epidemic in soviet Russia was emphasized today when advices were received in official quarters showing that there were 47,779 cases reported between Jan. 1 and July 15. These figures have been admitted by officials of the soviet government and were printed in the official newspaper. The Moscow Isvestla on July 15. American consular agents abroad telegraphed them to the State Department today. Os the total cases 24,000 were reported during June, indicating that the epidemic ia grow ing. The department was still without advices as to whether soviet Russia has complied with the demand for release of the Americans held prisoner in Russia. The department received overnight dispatches quoting the soviet news agency that the prisoners had been released, but the department was not inclined to accept the source as authentic. None of the Americans reported released have reached the border yet, so far as the department is advised. Deputy Sheriff Shot in Row Over Whisky CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—McClay Donovan, deputy sheriff, was fatally wounded in a pistol duel early today by William Blinder, a saloonkeeper. Police said Donovan accused Brinder *of stealing whisky and made a demand for “hush money'’ after which both men started Shooting. w POOR BOY’S TRIUMPH. NEW TORK, Aug. 4.—Joseph Patemo. the millionaire builder, who came here from Italy, a poor boy, is expected to entertain the Italian Premier on his coming visit to America.

WHITE OUTING FLANNEL, double fleeced (limit 10 yards to a customer), extra special, a. , yard 9y 2 C STRIPE OUTING FLANNEL, 27-inch width, soft and fleecy, excellent weight for women’s and children’s wear. Last season's price 35c; Friday, special, 1 1yard ADC BLANKETS, fancy plaids and plain body; , gray, white and tan (while they qq last), pair xpi.tfO CRIB BLANKETS, soft and fleecy, white body with neat pink or blue stripe ir border, pair tOC BEDSPREADS, nice allover designs, pure white (limit 2 to a customer), a q extra special, yard. ip 1 .T I */ FEATHER FILLED PILLOWS, well filled, assorted tick coverings (w'hile ney 100 last), each .Vi/C REMNANTS TABLE OILCLOTH. 45 inched wide; (while supply OF lasts), yard £3C

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