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Stirring Appeal is Sent Out by
Heads of Thirty-five Na
tional, Interstate and State
- Agricultural. Organizations..^
THE RUSSIAH ARMY
GOMPERS INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
DISCONTENT AND REBELLION IS
REPORTED BY PRISONER* IN
ANARCHIST HERD.
A stirring appeal to American farm
ers to maintain their wartime prece
dent of patriotism and loyalty in the
support of the Fifth Liberty Loan has
been issued, by the heads of thirty-
five national, interstate and state
farmers organizations.
"To make your participation in the
Victory Liberty-Loan both hr morrey“
and service, the measure of your de
votion to the great cause of democ
racy” is the cause for which these
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farm organization leaders, headed by
J. N. Tittemore. president, American
Society of Equity of Madison, Wis.,
have sent a message to all farmers
of the country, as follows: —
“7 > the Farmers of America:
“No.finer patriotic service was ever
rendered than when the farmers of
America, short of labor, credit and
farm supplies, still grew the increas
ed crops without which we could not
have won the war. Th..e~farm women
and children gave their labor in the
fields and the farms sent more than a
million of their best to join the col
ors. The more that is known about
the war, the more gloriously our farm
ers' part in it will shine.
"The Victory Liberty Loan Drive
begins April 21 and continues until
May 10. We appeal to you. farmers of
America, to finish what you have so
well begun. Make this loan as superb
a success as the war crops you have
raised. See to it that the farmers
lead in putting the Victory Loan over
the top.
“Make your participation in. the
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN both in
money and service, the measure of
your devotion to the great cause of
democracy—the democracy for which
many of our boys have made the su
preme sacrifice. Let your subscrip
tion and your effort be both an of
fering of thanksgiving for the return
of peace and the means by which the
world may measure the strength ol
your patriotism and your determina
tion to see to it that the war shall
not have been fought in vain.
“Yours fraternally,
“J. N. Tittemore president. Ameri
can Society of Equity, Madison. Wis
“Grant H. Slocum, president, Na
tional Gleaners’ Association. Detroit
“John J.'Farrell, president. National
Creamerv Butter Makers' Association
St. Paul. Minn.
“N. P. Hull, president. National
Dairy Union, Lansing, Mich.
“Milo D. Campbell, president Na
tional Milk Producers’ Federation
Coldwater, Mich.
“John B. Kendrick, president. Am
erican National Live Stock Associa
tion, U. S. Senate.
“J. H. Kimble, president. Farmers
National Congress Port Deposit. Md
“A. C. Townley. president National
Nonpartisan League, St. Paul, Minn.
“C. H. Gustafson, president. Nebras
ka Farmers' Union, Omaha, Neb.
“Arthur Capper, chairman. Farmers
National Committee on War Finance
Topeka. Kan.
"Benjamin C. Marsh, secretary
Farmers' National Committee on War
Finance. Washington, D. C.
“Herbert F. Baker, president. Farm
ers’ National Council, State Senate
Lansing, Mich.
“George P. Hampton, managing di
rector, Farmers’ National Council.
,r L. J. Taber, master, Ohio State
Grange. Barnesville, Ohio.
“S. J. Lowell, master, New York
State Grange. Fredonia, N. Y.
,r E. M. Sweitzer, director, National
Agricultural Organization Society,
Madison, Wis.
“J W. Pincus, formerly secretary,
Federation of Jewish Farmers of Am
erica. New York. N. Y.
“Richard T. Ely. secretary, Ameri
can Association for Agricultural Leg
islation, Madison, Wis.
“Charles S. Barrett, president, Na
tional Farmers Union, Union City, Geu
“John A. McSparran, master, Penn
sylvania State Grange, Furniss, Pa.
“W. T. Creasy, secretary, National
Dairy Union, Catawissa, Pa.
“A. B. Thornhill, president. Farm
ers’ Union of v Virginia, Lynchhnig, Va.
‘*R. D. Cooper, president, Dairymen’s
League. New York city.
"Gifford Pinchot. president. Penn
sylvania Rural Progress Association.
"Charles A. Lyman secretarv. Na-
taonal Board of Farm Organization.
‘^Maurice McAuliffe, president. State
Farmers’ Union of Kansas, Saltna,
Kan.
M J. W. Shorthill. secretary, National
Council of Farmers’ Co-operative As
sociations, York. Neb.
“Charles W. Holman, secretary. Na
tional Co iference on Marketing and
Farm Credits. Madison, Wis.
“John D. Miller, director. Dairy
men’s League, Susquehanna, Pa.
“C. G. Patterson, secretary, Inter
mountain Association of Sugar Beet
Growers, Salt Lak« City, Utah.
“Henry C. Wallace, secretary Corn
Belt Meat Producers Association, Des
Moines. Iosya.
“Richard Pattee, secretary New
(England Milk Producers' Association.
Boeton. Mass.
“E. A. Calvin. Washington represen-
tattve. Cotton States Official Advisory
Marketin'/ Board, Washington, D. C
"John C. Ketchr.m, master. Mlchi-
ftt State Grange, Hastings, Mich.
SACRILEGE JD OESECRAT'ON
Sympathies of . Russians Alienated by
Absolute and Wanton Disregard and
Disrespect of ^fheir Religion.
Archangel.—The situation—is still
tranquil, though the breaking up of
the river may dictate the expediency
of action against the bolshevists next
week. Our flotilla is ready to go up
the moment the ice is free. Report*
of prisoners from bolshevist sectors
indicate discontent and rebellion
among the bolshevists. Civilian Rus
sians here are watching anxiously the
movements of the allies.
The Russian army is gaining
strength and fervor. General Ironside
is doing his. utmost to sot them or.
their legs and instill a belief in their
own capabilities.
The officers and men find entertain
ment in the evening at dances and
visiting different messes. Food is
plentiful eicept vegetables.
Sacrilege and desecration are be
coming the outstanding feature of bol
shevist terrorism. This is remark
able as it shows the lack of under
standing of the psychology of the
Russian peasant, whom the bolshevist
seeks to win to his cause. The Rus
sian’s religion amounts almost to
fanaticism and wanton desecration of
churches alienates any fugitive sym
pathy with the enemy
Captain Hitching has just returned
from a special investigation of a vil
lage recently retaken from the bol
shevists after being in their hands a
month. The church was used for bil
leting troope, the baptismal font filled
with ikons and broken sacramental
ganpents used as dusters, all the cup
boards ransacked and the house pil
laged. One villager, an allied parti
san, had both his hands severed. Oth
er districts report similar and worse
orgies. In one instance there was a
mock marriage between a priest and
a mare. From some villages they took
away the school mistress, but the vil
lagers say there was no defilement of
women folk.
SPECIAL EFFORTS TO BE
MADE FOR OVERSUBSCRIPTIONS
Labor Leader Suffers Serious Injuries
When Taxi is Struck by Street Car.
Condition is said not to be Critical
New York, April 27.—Samuel Gom-
pers, president of the Federation of
Labor, was seriously injured here this
afternoon when a taxicab In'which he
was riding was struck by a broadway f rom tj me ( 0 time reporting his con-
surface car and hurled 20 feet to the
curb.
Surgeons who were summoned ye
ported after an examination that two
of Mr, Gomper’s ribs had been fractur
ed, his right hip spraiped and that he
had suffered severe body contusions.
Despite the advanced age of the La
bor leader, who is 69 years old, the
surgeons declared that there was nd
likelihood *of the injuries proving fa-
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tal. -
Mr. Gompers has been busy every
minute since his return from’ the
peace conference where he served as
chairman of the committee oh inter
national labor legislation. He had
just started out from his hotel for an
hour’s relaxation when the accident
occurred. •
As the taxicab crossed the Broad
way car tracks at 31st street it was
struck by a north bound car. Pedes
trians who witnessed the crash rush
ed to the wrecked machine and ex
tricated Mr. Gompers, who was found
to be unconscious. One side of
cab was completely crushed in and
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the wreckage pinned him against the
other side of the machine. ,
Mr. Gompers was carried back to
his hotel. After an examination sur
geons decided it would be unwise to
remove him to a hospital.
Although it was Insisted that Gom-
per’s condition was not critical offi
cials of the American Federation of
Labor said bulletins would be issued
dition.
TREATY THIS lYEEK
Document Ready Friday or Saturday.
Text About Finished. Secret Plenary
Session Planned for Communication
of Terms to AUled Powers.
Paris, April 26.—It was stated in
French circles tonight that the peace
conference would be ready to present
the peace treaty to the Germans Friday
or Saturday of this week. The draft
ing committee worked throughout the
entire day today yhile the members of
the council of three‘were taking a re
spite from conference work.
The French Idea is that the text of
the treaty Is nearly completed. The
military and naval sections have been
finished with the exception of those
pertaining to the Kiel Canal and some
secondary points.
Aside from the disposition of Kiao
Chau, which some of the delegates are
confident will be settled tomorrow,
there remain to be settled conclu
sively questions of the customs
regime in the Duchy of Luxembourg,
the disposition of the German cable
lines and the repatriation of German
prisoners of war. The report of the
special commission on the latter ques
tion is expected tomorrow. It was said
tonight that all the other problems
hpd been solved and drafted into the
articles of the treaty including the
control of the west bank of the Rhine.
The' latest reports are that a secret
plenary session will be held Thurs-
day or-yrwtfrTVwiiTr^ for vwirfflrmrr- 1
cation of the terms to the allied and
associated powers.
PARTY DIFFERENCES
AMICABLY SETTLED
Charleston Democrats Agree on DIvl-
~shni of Executive Committee Offices.
Charleston, April 27.—So far as the
city Democratic executive committee
is concerned, all factional disagree
ments over officers was settled at a
"harmony” meeting last evening
when Frank R. Frost became chair
man, R. C. Richardson secretary, and
D. F. Craig, treasurer.
Judge DeVore ; issued an order this
evening vacating the temporary in
junction and oredr to show cause is
sued Thursday night in response to
action brought by J. A. Black and R.
C. Richardson, who were ousted by the
Grace committeemen. W. Turner Lo
gan and D. F. Craig being elected in
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their places. All action taken tonight
with Mr. Frost appointed by the court
on agreement of the factions as chair
man was unanimous and the situation
is satisfactory to all interests.
Washington.—Special efforts to ob
tain over-subscriptions from commu
nities to counterbalance possible un
der-subscriptions from others will be
made this week by Victory Liberty
Loan committees at the request of the
treasury-
After canvass.ng the financial situa
tion throughout the ccMntry, national
managers of -the loan have discovered
that vicissitudes of the post-war read
justment period have reduced the or
dinary ability of some communities to
subscribe the same proportions as in
previous loans, although in many
cases they have been assigned the
same proportionate quota.
SAMUEL GOMPERS IS BADLY
INJURED IN TAXI COLLISION
New York—Samuel Gompers. presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, was seriously injured here
when a taxicab in which he was riding
was struck by a Broadway surface car
and hurled 20 feet to the curb.
Surgeons who were summoned re
ported after an examination that two
of Mr. Gompers’ ribs had been frac-
turedThis right hip 'sprained, and That
he had suffered severe body contusion.
Despite the advanced age of the labor
leader, who is 69 years old, the sur
geons declared that there was no like
lihood of the injuries proving fatal.
Mr. Gompers has been busy vir
tually every minute since his return
from the peace conference, where he
served as chairman of the commis
sion on international labor legislation.
He had Just started out from his hotel
for an hour’s relaxation when the ac
cident occurred.
SEAPLANE BREAKS WORLD’S
RECORD FOR ENDURANCE
Washington.—A naval seaplane of
the F-5 type, carrying a crew of four
men, remained In the air at the Hamp
ton Roads naval base for 20 hours and
10 minutes, establishing what naval
officials said was a world’s record for
seaplanes. The machine covered «
.distance of about 1,250 miles, averag
ing a little more than 60 miles an
hour, despite the fact that a Rale ol
from 20 to 30 miles was blowing.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION
Washington.—Enforcement of na
tional war-time prohibition, effective
next July 1, will be undertaken by the
department of Justice. Attorney Gen
eral Palmer in a statement assarted
that he possessed no power to grant
amnesty to any one who might manu
facture beer pending an interpretation
of the law as to what percentage , of al
cohoTic constituent brings beer with
In the meaning o< the prohibltjoc
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