Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 192, 24 June 1918 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN.TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918.

MARKETS

FROST CAUSES RISE IN CORN MARKET

CHICAGO. June 24. Frost in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana gave a decided upturn today to the value of corn. Bullish sentiment developed strongly notwithstanding that government reports said there had been no damage to crops except in a few localities. At first ,the market showed a tendency to ease down owing to beneficial rains in Kansas. Opening prices, which varied from unchanged to c lower with July 143V4 to 143 and August 146 to 146V4. were followed by an advance all around to well above Saturday's finish. Oats were relatively weak as a result of hedging sales. Besides demand from the erst was very slow. After opening to down with August 68 to 684, the market underwent a further sag. and displayed but little power to rally. Liberal receipts of hogs weakened provisions. Most of the trading was in lard.

GRAIN QUOTATIONS

CHICAGO. June 24. The range of futures on the Chicago Board of Trade follows: No trading in wheat. Corn Open. High. Lew Close. July UZM, 146 143U 143V4 Aug 146 148 146 146 Oatt July 72 72 71U 7H4 Aug 68 68 67i 67V4 Lard July 25.17 25.25 25.10 25.15 Sept 25.37 25.45 25.32 25.35

CHICAGO, June 24. Corn No. 2 yellow, 173; No. 3 yellow, 165170; No. 4 yellow; 1510163. Oats No. 3 white. 7879; standard, 7879. Pork, nominal; pigs $22.5023.00; lard $24.95. TOLEDO, O.. June 24. Cloverseed, prime cash, $15.50; Oct. $12.80; Alsike prime cash and Oct., $11.10; Timothy, prime cash, $3.62; Sept., $4.25; Oct., Dec., March, $4.00.

LIVE STOCK PRICES

14.25; cows $6.0012.50; bulls $7.50 12.50; stockers and feeders $7.50 $10.50; fresh cows and. springers; steady, $60$143. Calves Receipts, 2,200. Bteady. $7.0018.50. Hogs Receipts 6,400, Bteady to strong; heavy $17.2517.40; mixed and Yorkers $17.4017.50; light Yorkers $17.75017.90; pigs $17.7518.00; roubha $15.0015.25; stags $11.00 $13.00. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 1.400; slow and easy; spring lambs $18.00 $20.00; yearlings $13.0017.U0; wethers $13.5014.00; ewes $6.0012.50; mixed Bheep $12.50013.00.

PRODUCE MARKET

CHICAGO. June 24 Butter market, receipts steady; creamery firsts 370) 43. Eggs Receipts 20,549 ' cases, market higher; firsts 33034U. lowest 29. Live poultry Market higher; fowls 25; springs, 30034. Potato market, unsettled; receipts, new, 75 cars; La. and Tex. sacked TriTriumphs.$2.402.60: Ark. do $2,500 2.60; La. White, $1.7002.25; Va., barrels, $4.7505.00; Old, 20 cars, Min.. Wisconsin and Michigan, sacks, $1.40 01.45; do bulk, $1.1001.20

NEW YORK STOCK LIST.

NEW YORK. June 24. The closing quotations on the stock exchange were: American Can., 47. American Locomotive, 68. American Beet Sugar, 69. American Smelter, 78. Anaconda, 65. Atcihson, 85. Bethlehem Steel bid, 85. Canadian Pacific, 146 bid. Chesapeake and Ohio, 56. Great Northern Pfd., 90. New York Central, 72. Northern Pacific, 87. Southern Pacific, 84. Pennsylvania, 43. U. S. Steel Com., 109.

LOCAL QUOTATIONS

(Corrected Daily by Omer G. Whelan) Paying Oats, -C5c; ear corn, $1.3 j 01.50; rye, $1.35; straw, $6.00 a tor.. Selling Cotton seed meal, $57.50 a ton, $3.00 a cwt.; tankage, $90.00 a ton, $4.75 a cwt; oil meal, $63.50 a ton, $3.25 a cwt.

INDIANAPOLIS, June 24. HogsReceipts 5.000; higher. Cattle Receipts 1,100; strong. Calves Receipts 400; steady. Sheep Receipts 200; lower. Steers Pi Ime corn fed steers. 1.300 and up, $17.00017.60; good to choice steers. 1,300 and up. $16 50 0 17 25; good to choice ateers, 1,15') to 1,200, $16.00016.50; good to choice steers, 600 to 1.000 lbs.. $13.50014.25; fair to medium yearlings. $9.750 12.00. Heifers end Cows txoou lo choice heifers, $12X0014.50; common to fair heifers, $9.0010.75; good to choice cows, $11,013.00; fair to medium, $9.50010.25; canners and cutteri, $7.5009.25. Bulls and Calves Jood to prime et port bulls, $11.60 12.00; good to choice butcher bulls, $11.00 0 1150; common to fair bulls. $9.00 010.76; common to' best veal calves, $12,00 0

$17.00; cbmmon to best heavy calves,;

$8.5O013.OO; stock calves, 25C to 450 pounds, $10011.50; good to choice i.gnta. $16,100 16.15. Stockers nud Feeding Cattle Good to choice steers. 700 pounds and up. $11.00012.00; common to fair steers, under 700 pounds, $10.00011.00; good to choice Eteers, under 700 pounds. $11.00012.00; common to fair steers, under 700 pounds, $9.00010.50; medium to good heifers. $8.50010.00; Medium to good feeding cows, $8.00 P. 50; springers, $8.0009.50. Hogs Best heavies, $16.40 0 16.50; medium and mixed, $16.40 0 16.50; good to choice lights. $16.50016.55; common to medium lights, $16.45 0 $16.50; roughs and packers, $14.00 0 $15.25; light pigs $1500016.25; bulk of sales, $16.40 0 16.60; best pigs, yearlings. $12.50 14.00; 'common to $16.30016.75. She?p and Lambs Good to choice yearlings, $12,500 14.00; common to fair yearlings, $10.00011.75; good to choice sheep, .$10.50 0 11.00; bucks. 100 pounds, $9.00 0 11.00; good to choice breeding ewes. $14.00015.00; good to choice spring lambs, $16,000 $17.25; good to choice wool lambs, $16.00019.00.

FRUIT & VEGETABLES (Corrected Dally by Eggemeyer'a) SELLING PRICE

VEGETABLES Wax beans, 2 cents per pound; asparagus. 5c- bunch: new cabbage. 8c lb.; green beans, 15c lb.; carrots, 3 to 5c lb.; spring carrots, 8c bunch; spring beets, 5c bunch; cauliflower, 15025c head; cucumbers 510c; egs plants 15c; kohlrabi 10c bunch; leaf lettuce, 15c per pound; head lettuce, trimmed, 30c a pound; untrimmed, 20c a lb.; leak, 10c bunch; onions, new Burmudas, 8c lb.; young onions, 5c bunch; 3 for 10c; oyster plant, 5 cents bunch; parsley, be bunch; mangoes, 2 for 5c; radishes, 5c bunch; spinach, 15c lb.; home grown tomatoes, 20c lb.; turnips, new, 8c lb.; water cress, 5c per bunch; artichokes, 20c each; celerv.-8, 10 and 15c bunch; potatoes, old, $2.00 per bushel; rhubarb, 3 bunches, 10c; green peas, 15c pound; Telephone, 12c pound; kahl. 10c lb.; new potatoes. 75c peck; green corn, 75 cfnts dozen. f RUITS Calif, cherries, 60c lb.; watermelons $1 each; peaches, 15c lb.; sour cherries, 25c qt.; apples, 8 to 10c pound; grape fruit, 1015c; lemons, 50 cents per doz.; bananas, 10c lb.; limes, 30c

per uoz. ; oraugrs, iuu iu uvv; uut., pineapples, 20c each; new apples, 15c

pound; red raspberries, due quart; black raspberries, 30c a quart; huckleberries, 40c a quart; dewberries," 30c a nnart. croosphprries. 15018C Quart:

currants, 18c qu-irt; apricots, 25c a!

pound; Cal. tanteloupes, i&qzuc each; cocoanuts, 15c each. MISCELLANEOUS Eggs, 35c per dozen; butter, creamery, 52c; country, 42c per pound. PRODUCE (Buying) Butter, 28c; eggs, 30c; chickens, 20c.

AUTHORITY TO INCREASE WHEAT PRICE GRANTED

Authority is Given Food Grain Corporation by Order of Wilson. WASHINGTON. June 24. Blanket authority to increase the price of wheat at primary and other markets, with the approval of Food Administrator Hoover, above the $2.20 a bushel minimum prive guaranteed by Presidential proclamation last February 21, is given the Food Grain Corporation in New York by an executive order of the President. The order issued under authority of the food control law was made public today by Mr. Hoover. To carry out the purposes of the order the corporation is authorized to increase its capital stock from $50,000000 to $150,000,000 In shares of a par value of $100 each. Ail the stock will be owned by the Government and will be purchased by the Food Administration from time to time as the necessity arises to maintain the present $2.20 price and any increases authorized. While no explanation of the order was given, two considerations were believed to have Influenced the Presifordent's decision to permit the Grain Corporation to pay higher prices for wheat. The first was the increased freight rates which will become effective Tuesday. Growers must bear this increase, and without an advance in the price of wheat their profits would be materially reduced. The second was believed to be the situation resulting from the deadlock in Congress over the Senate amendment to the annual agricultural bill increasing the minimum guaranteed price of wheat to $2.50 a bushel. The House has refused to accept the amendment and the Senate is to vote on It again this week. In some quarters it was believed that the President's action would be a factor In influencing the Senate to recede from the amendment.

Mrs. J. F. Kyle Dies at Home, in Eldorado

ELDORADO. O., June 24. Mrs. J. F. Kyle, 55 years old, died at her home here Monday morning. She had been ill for some time from cancer. She has been a resident here the greater part of her life. She is survived by her husband, J. F. Kyle. Funeral Bervices will be conducted from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. C. W. Hoeffer will officiate. Burial will be at New Madison, O.

Robert McCarthy Makes Seven Trips to France Robert McCarthy, who is serving in the United States navy, is home for a week's furlough to visit his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John F. McCarthy, of South Twentieth street. McCarthy is a sailor on one of the battleships used as a convoy for United States troop ships conveying American soldiers to France and England. He has made the trip across seven times in the last year. The sailors are permitted to make only short stops when the troop hips land, and have little opportunity to see war conditions in the European. When war was declared between the United States and Germany, McCarthy was a member of the naval mititia at Los Angeles, Cal. He was transferred at once to the regular force, and has since been "running" submarines on American battleships.

PITTSBURGH. Pa.. June 24 Hogs Receipts 4,500; market active; heavies $16.15016.75: heavy Yorkers $17.50017.60; light Yorkers $17.50 $17.65; pigs $17.50017.65.

Cattle Receipts 2.400; market

lower; eteers. $16.60017.00; heifers, $12 60014.00; cows, $10.50013.00. Sheep and Lambs Receipts 5,700; market lower; top sheep $13 50; top lambs $16.00. Calves Receipts 1,400; market steady; top $17.50.

CINCINNATI, O., June 24. HogsReceipts 6,100; market strong; packers and butchers $16.25016.60; common to choice $12.50014.50; pigs and lights $15.00016.50; stags $10012. Cattle Receipts 2.90O; market steady: steers $8016.60; heifers $7.50 13.50; cows $9011.50. Calves Receipts steady; $7017.25. Sheep Receipts 2,700; market slow; $4.50012.00. Lambs Market slow; $12019. CHICAGO. June 24 U. S. Bureau of Market Hogs Receipts 3.700; good hogs steady to 5c higher; others lower: quality good; bulk of sales, $16.15016.35; lights $16.35 0 16.45; butchers $16.25016.35; packing $15.65 016.15; rough $15.25 15.50; pigs, $16.25016.50. Cattle Receips 12,000; good steers steady, others strong to unevenly higher including yearlings; butchers steady. Calves lower. Sheep Receipts 13,000; market slow to unevenly lower, mostly 25 to 50c lower; good spring lambs $13.50.

EAST BUFFALO. N. Y.. June 24. Cattle Receipts 6.000, easier; prime ftteera $17.50017.75; shipping steers, 117.00 0 17.25; butchers $12.00016.50; 'oarllngs $13.90016.75; heifers $10.00

GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Butter Creamery whole milk extra, 46c; centralized extra, 44 'c do first, 41c; do seconds, 4Hfec; fancy dairy, 35c; packing stock, No. 1, 30c;. No. 2 27c. Eggs Prime first (loss off), 35c; first, 33c; ordinary firsts, 28c; seconds, 27c; duck eggs, 33c. Poultry Broilers 1 lbs. and over. 45c; do under Vt lbs., 35040c; fowls, 4 lbs. and over, 26'6c; do under 4 lbs., 26Hc; roosters, 18c; hen turkeys, 8 lbs and over, 25c; toms 10 lbs and over, 25c; culls, 10c; white ducks, 3 lbs and over, 23c; colored do, 20c; geese choice full feather 14c, do medium 12c guineas $6 per dozen. Apples Ben Davis, $4.5007.00.; Ganos, $5.0007.00 per brl. Onions Texas No. 1 yellow, $1.10 1,25; Bermuda white, $1.4001.50 per crate; Louisville. $2.752.S5. Potatoes Mississippi. $2.7502.85 per 100-lb sack; Louisville, S2.7502.85 ; Texas Triumph. $2.75 0 2.85 per 110lb sack; Georgia, $5.0005.75 per brl. Tomatoes Mississippi, 31.40 0 1.50 per 4-basket cra'.ae. Texas. $1.75 1.85 per crate.

JUNK (Prices paid by Sam Jaffe) No. 1 rubber boots and shoes, 7c per lb.; No. 2 rubber boots am! shoes, 1 4c per lb.; automobile tires, 4c per lb.; Inner tubes, 8016c per lb.; bicycle tires. Cc per lb.; buggy tires, 3 04c per lb.; baled paper. 40c per hundred lbs.; country mixed rags, $2.30 pei hundred lbs.; mixed iron, $1.00 per hundred lbs.; heavy brass copper from 13018c per lb.

Indianapolis Representative Sales

H02S 2 ...175 $12.50 9 271 15.00 61 ...248 16.50 7 130 16.60 82 .. .201 16.60

Miss Dorothy Land and Paul Miller Marry Mrs. Charles Land, Monday afternoon, confirmed the report that her daughter, Miss Dorothy, and Sergeant Paul Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Miller were married Saturday evening. Miller Is located at Chillicothe, O., and returned to camp Monday. Mrs. Miller will still hold her position in Dayton, O., at McCook's field.

Know More About War Here Than Over There Writes Centerville Boy The people in the United States know more about the war than the men over there, according to Frank C. Rhodes, of the 53rd Artillery, no serving in France. i In a letter received by; his fathe; Vincent Rhodes, ot Centerville tlv soldier described his work as rook for the men in his company as 'sonv Job." ' 'Yes, I am cooking for 290 men over here now," he writes, "but I d- not work more than 15 days in one menrh, but believe me that is plenty bard. I cooked for four years ia the United States, but only for 100 men. "You ask me if I harv killed any Huns. I can't tell you anything like that, but you know , the cooks have most of their fights with ti.e battery men. "I certainly would like to see you all again, as I think and almost know I will, but I have no idea how long it will be before I do. You people in America know more about this. war tiian we do here. That doosn'. vound right, but you do. . "I have been over hero now oight months, and altogether we haven't li.vl one month of good weather in the eight. It is raining most of the time."

MILTON, IND.

Sparks from Enginee Cause Five Small Fires Fire destroyed the roofs of two cottages, owned by Joseph Zeller, one the home of Carl Spickman, 634 North Eighteenth street, and the other the home of Ray Wright, 532 North Eighteenth street, and caused three other small fires on Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The fire is believed to have originated from sparks from engines on the Pennsylvania railroad. The loss Is estimated at $1,200. . Both families were at home when the alarm was turned in but neither were aware of the fire. By the time the fire department arrived the entire roofs of both cottages were in flames and the houses across the street in direct line with the wind and one

barn on North Nineteenth street caught from the blaze. The fire was smothered and put out quickly.

Mrs. Charles Darrs and son Robert and aunt Mrs. Verne Beeson are visiting relatives and friends in Indiana

polis this week.. .Mrs. Emily Williams is spending the-week with her daughter, Mrs. Oliver Beeson The

town board has passed a law that all children under bixteen must be off the streets after eight o'clock, unless attended by parent or guardian.. .The 500 club men Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Elmer Weaver.. .Word has been received of the death of the older child of Mr. and Mrs. Gladna Evers. Mr. and Mrs. Evers moved recently from Milton to South Bend. . . Mrs. Kramer has as house guest her neice. Mrs. Minnie Urnistorn of Indianapolis Mrs. Josie Clouds who stopped to visit Milton relatives on her way home from Florida will spend the summer in Indianapolis.. .Mrs. Alice Gresh has had as house guest her cousin Mrs. Clara Watt of Connersville The Cary club met on Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Wilbur Warren when the following program was given : Roll call,, current events. Passing of Arthur, Mrs. Lida Warren; Crossing the Bar, , Mrs. Harry Doty, Mrs. John Brown. Mrs. Thompson; Duet, Mrs. Ed Wilson and Mrs. Wallace Warren. This was the last meeting of the club year. . . The dates for the Western Wayne Chautauqua are August 22 to August 27... Alvin Lory was home from Hamilton to spend the week end with Mrs. Lory --Rev. A. R. Jones of Selma, Ind., was thrown from an auto and died from injuries received. Mrs. Jones is not expected to live. Rev. Jones was formerly pastor of the Milton Methodist church and had many warm friends here... Park Manlove has sold his property on West Main street to Clifford Braden. ..Mrs. Sherman Werklng entertained her brother, O A. Morgan of Cincinnati, as week end guest.. . . .Mrs. Martha Stover who spent the winter at Indianapolis Is home for the summer. ..Mrs. Sadie Warren had as guest Sunday her son, Ed Warren of Indianapolis Rev and Mrs. Outland have as house guest their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Hammond of Kelava, Mich Mrs. Delia Jarrett is spending a few days with relatives at AbIngton.. .Mrs. Oscar Kerlin and children spent Wednesday with Mrs. L. E. Thompson.. .Miss Helen Coyne was the guest of Miss Mary Lovell Jones Tuesday night and Wednesday. . .Raymond Byrant who has been in the hospital at Camp Oglethorpe, Ga., is home on furlough. Mr. and Mrs. John Sipple of Newcastle spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murley Miss Violet Murley and Mr.

I Knipp were at Richmond Sunday

miss Dora Wallace who teaches in Minneapolis is here to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallace. ..Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hess and their guests Mr, and Mrs. Miller of Connersville, and Mrs. John Ferguson spent Sunday with Mr. and

Mrs. Wellington Swearinerton at

Moreland EUiah Hurst went to Richmond recently and registered at the court house for the coming election. He will be ninety-four years "old next October Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Crist, Mrs. Hattie Heist, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown and son John, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Weaver motored to Dayton the first of the week and visited the soldiers' home and aviation camp. ....There was a good attendance of men of draft age at the called meeting Wednesday night in the Grange hall. There was a general discussion of the labor question in relation to the harvest.. .On account of the Men's meeting at Grange hall the special meeting of the Odd Fellows and their families was postponed Mr. and Mrs. Charles Toms and son Albert and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mills and family spent Sunday at Greensboro with Mrs. Magraret Kennard.. Mrs. E. P, Jones received a letter this week from Ralph Moore who is over seas. He was recently in Switzerland In the birth place of his grandmother.. .Miss Lorene Hess was a Richmond visitor Thursday Mrs. Mariam Leverton is entertaining her sister. Mrs. E. W.

, Bright of Point Edward, Ontario, Cani ada.

STATE, RESTS IN SWAFFORD CASE

LIBERTY, Ind.. June 24. The state closed its case this morning in the trial of George Swafford on a charge of first degree murder in the Union county circuit court. Six witnesses were heard for the prosecution this morning, and the defense took the case. A large number of the witnesses who have been summoned will probably not be used on the stand, and the case will end more quickly than was at first thought. Swafford is charged with first degree murder for the confessed killing of Schuyler Shepler here on April 3.

Here's Way to Figure 'Oat Railroad Raise A young woman har solved the problem of computing the rates of increase for railroad workers, Her inspections follow: Take the first three numbers of your 1917 automobile license nnd add to it the size of your ?nrv then sabtract the number of buttons missing frcm your last summer's s-uit and divide by the size of your tollat. Add to this the total amount of your unpaid taxes and laundry bills and divide by eighty per cent of your telephone number. Next, add the combi'it-1 weight of your entire family, plus your serial number in the draft and divide bv the number of speeches thnt Mr. McAdoo hat; made on the incre.v.3 for railroad employes. The result will be the amount of increase in rate of pay that you may expect. Wnen I am dead and laid away The last of my thoughts will be back pay; And on my tombstone I want wrote. Waiting for the increase got my goat."

Men Are Chosen for Auto Mechanical Course

The following three men were chosen by the Richmond selective service board to take an automobile mechanical training course at the Richmond Commercial Club Training Detachment: George E. Lynn, Raymond Fossencamper and Walter Pohlenz. The following five men were chosen for a similar course at Valparaiso University: Russell Wettig, Franklin Carver. Charles Buehl, Forest B. Clark and Luther Jacobs. These men will entrain on Monday, July 1.

On The Screen

WASHINGTON Born in Tokio, Japan, Sessue Hayakawa, the noted Japanese screen actor, still considers the Land of the Cherry Blossoms as his home, but has lived for many years in the United States, having attended college at the University of Chicago where he met and married demure little Tsuru Aokl, his actress-wife. Mr. Tayakawa'a latest photoplay, "The Secret Game," which is coming to the Washington Theatre today and Tuesday is a story of a great Japanese Secret Service agent who was able to render to the United States a great service as well as saving the honor of his country, America's greatest ally. 45,000 MEN Continued From Page One.

DISASTER WRITTEN LARGE (By Associated Press) Disaster seems to be written large In the news of the Austrian defeat alnnc the Piave.

Unable to force his way further than the immediate vicinity of the west bank of the river, and with the bridges thrown across the stream swept away by the swirling waters of the flood pouring down from the mountains, the enemy began a precipitate retreat Saturday night. So hasty was his withdrawal that he left a great many cannons on the west bank of the Piave, while his retreating infantry columns, according to news dispatches, are already being pressed by Italian detachments thrown over to the easterly side of the stream. Frcm the Montello plateau southward to the Adriatic comes the same story of the Austrian retreat The Piave river formerly emptied into the the tea quite near Venice, but in recent years its course was changed to its present location.

have taken prisoners and inflicted casualties in local operationos along the sectors of the front of France. GERMANS ARE REPULSED PARIS. June 2! Germans launched a new attack against positions held by Italians at Bligny at 11 o'clock last night. After hard fighting the Germans were completely repulsed with serious losses, leaving prisoners In the bands of the allies, according to a statement issued by the war office today. The French have, repulsed a German attack in the region of Antheuil west of the Oise, the statement says. RECAPTURE OLD POSITIONS (By Associated Press) ROME. June 24. Italian troops have crossed the old channel of the Piave river west of the main stream and recaptured several of their old positions there, according to a semiofficial announcement tonight. From Capo Sile her detachments are advancing toward the main stream of the river. ' The Italians have thrown numerous bombing detachments across the main stream where the artillery and aircraft are hammering the enemy.

BEGINS SATURDAY NIGHT ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, June 23. The great retreat by the Austrians along the Piave front began under cover of darkness on Saturday night. The retreating troops left their cannon behind them. Italian detachments are pursuing the enemy east of the Piave. Austrian troops left to cover the retreat used their machine guns to set up a barrage fire. When it was observed that the Austrians had begun a retrograde movement the Italians began to attack virtually all along the Piave line from Montello on the north, well towards the mouth of the river. The attack was quickly pressed and became more insistent, accomplished by violent artillery fire. The number of guns left behind by the Austrians as they retreated, has not been computed, but is Bald to be very great. The work of the American aviators who appeared on the front last week for the first time contributed notably to the disorganization of the Austrian forces which had crossed the Piave, according to Raffaele Carinei, correspondent of the Milan Secolo. Shattered on the rock of Italian resistance, the Austrian offensive has turned into a retreat and from Montello to the sea the enemy is hurrying back across the Piave before the closely pursuing Italians. Austria's defeat is being hailed throughout Italy and allied countries, not bo much because of the Italian victory but because of the awakening of the Italian morale which was shaken severely la6t fall by the AustroGerman offensive. Holding the final barriers to the Venetian plain, and Lombardy, the Italians by their steadfast resistance during eight days of heavy fighting turned the great enemy onslaught into a disorderly repulse. Most Bridges Are Gone. Whether the several enemy divisions on the western tank of the Piave will be able to escape capture or destruction in attempting to get across the Piave to the opposite bank will be the most interesting development of the next few hours. The river is swollen, and Vienna, in its latest communication, seems to be preparing the way for unwelcome news. It

dilates at length on the burdens placed on the troops by the heavy rains and the torrential Piave. Most of the. bridges are gone and the Italian heavy artillery is still within range at points where the Austrians crossed and near the river bank where the Italian line was held fast. Undoubtedly. General Diaz's men realize the predicament of the enemy and their pursuit of the fleeing . Austrians will be pressed with ardor. In withdrawing from Montello the enemy probably will meet with as much difficulty as In getting out of the rain-soaked lowlands along the lower reaches of the Piave. To add to the troubles of the Austrian command, their advances across the Piave have been on unconnected

i sectors with the Italians holding the

sectors in between. Claim 40,000 Prisoners. Previous to the beginning of the enemy retreat there had been little infantry fighting along the Piave for 48 hours. The Italians had occupied the time in shelling the enemy lines and communications heavily. In the mountains the situation is unchanged although the allied artillery has been very active in some sectors. Austrian official claims of the capture of 40,000 prisoners and on allied air losses are declared to be falsifications in a semi-official note Issued in Rome. It is asserted that the Italian losses in killed, wounded and missing aggregate forty thousand. Austrian losses are placed at 180,000 by Italian newspapers. Except for raids at night and In the early morning hours there is no activity on the front in France and Flan-

jders. The American sectors are I quiet. The Germans show no intenjtion of again taking up a forward

movement out tne next eiiorr line previous ones, probably will begin unheralded except by several hours of intense bombardment.

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STEEiW 7 '..887 $10.80 14 1023 12.75 25 .1126 14.00 14 1124 .16.50 HEIFERS 2 770 $ 8.50 4 1...570 10.00 12 600 10.85 2 '..600 10.85 2 965 12.60 ; COWS 7 802 $ 7.50 4 1065 9.00 8 982 10.60 3 .'. 1123 11.75 BULLS 1 . 800 8.50 1 960 8.85 1 .......1280 10.00 1 1660 11.50 CALVES 1 ..... ...460 $ 7.00 2 .115 14.00 22 163 16.00 5 ..... ... .;.190 17.00

City Statistics

Deaths and Funerals. LAUGHLIN Funeral services for Elizabeth Laghlin takes place Tuesday Morning at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Burial will be at St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at anytime at the Chapel of Jordan, McManus, Hunt and Walterman.

GIRL BREAKS HER LEG.

The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Frazer. 319 South Fourth street, broke he leg Sunday when she fell from a log in Glen Miller park. She was taken at once to Reid Memorial hospital for treatment by Sidney Rose, who was nearby when the accident occured. '

Miss Charlotte P. Ebbets has been appointed director of home economics for the United States food administration of California. '

Relentlessly Pursuing. In the first rush of the Austrian offensive the enemy succeeded in crossing theold river bed which 13 now a canal. From their positions there the foe has been driven back and the Italians are relentlessly pressing the pursuit. The latest news dispatches from the Piave river front sent out on Sunday tell of Italian bombing units being thrown across the main stream of the Piave which seems to indicate that the Austrian retreat was not stayed at the eastern bank of the river. There is every indication that the Austrian "hunger offensive" ha3 been a forlorn hope for several days. The effect of the defeat on the internal conditions of Austria Hungary when once the news is made public can only be conjectured, but it may be that the Italians have dealt the enemy a harder blow than that merely involved in the military feat of pushing him back across the Piave. There have been no further reports foreshadowing a new attack in the mountain sectors of (he Italian front. Thrilled by their signal victory in the lower regions of their battlefront. however, the Italians and the allied troops fighting in that theatre of the war may be expected to meet any new move with the stubborn resistance which so far has nullified the efforts of the Austrian emperor to carry the war into the plains of Italy and still the murmurs of his soldiers with the loot of captured cities. A German attack on the front at Antheuil west of ihe Oise was beaten off on Sunday night British troops

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