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woe • THE STANFORD WORLD ••• 4 PRESIOENT WILSON WILL GO TO FRANCE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WILL DEPART IMMEDIATELY AFTER CON- GRESS CONVENES TAKE PART IN DELIBERATIONS Occasion Will Mark First Time Any President Has Left the American Continent -Announce Names of Delegates Soon Washington, Nov. 19-1'resident Wii• 6011 Will attend the opening sessiotis Of the peace rotiferenee. This was an- nounced last night officiolly. Be will go immediately after the convening tif the regalia session of eoligress on De- cember 2. 'Flits official statement was issued K t the White Douse: \'file president expects to sail for Prance immediately after the opening of the regular session of vongress, for the Parpose of taking part lii Ihe 1118(11/011011 and settlement of the midi' features of the treaty of peace. It Is not likely that it will l'o. possible for Idin to reit:sin threingliont the. SeS- 810115 of Hie forumil peace C011ference. hut his presellel. III le 11111Set Is nec- essary in order to obviate. the imeni- fest ii isa lvii tim gi' i if disett-Nion by cable In deterniiiiing the greater out- lines of the final treaty about Which he must necessarily be consulted. Ile still, of 1.1111rSe, be ner011111111111.11 Ity delegntes who will sit its the repre- sentatives of the Frilled States throughout the conference. '\I'll.' litilnes of the delegates will lie liresently announced.\ ... May Be Late Next Month. Hoxv how the president will remain 11111•0811 Ile 111111SeIf probably cannot s a y 110W. The time for the convening itt the peace conference has 10/I yet been announced. hut the general belief here Is that it cannot be assent1:14.41,11(efore late hajtecember. If such proves the CIIsele preSidelll 1%111 lie absent from the country at least a owili h Hull prob- ably longer. What jilittis the president mai; have for t ip other than to attend the n nit tig of the pea el. rilnferetivs• 10 me licipitte in the dismisslims among the representarivers oil the asseeiziteol nations which will pro -erode it. lonve not lawn reveatesi. lie undoubtedly will In' nevompaided lo) Iis.WHS.!' andii Is said here that besides visiting Paris, where the pow.. congress probably will he held, int will goi 144 I. Ion and tiossIbly to lirussels and Home. Mr. WAsiiii is exiiectell lii reeldVe 1111110111 a rereption such as has been itcrordell imi feu men in public life. Ile will be Welc111111.11 wit imly as the president of the railed States anti the commander -in -elder of its armies and navy, hut also as the eh:11111MM of Ni orb\ 111.1110terat Respects Tradition. In visiting Europe thc pre•ident will establish t wn preceilcnis Ile will lie the first chief e5\.(witti‘e of the United Stales to participa.4. in a peace confer- ence for Ilw settling of isslies grow- ing out sot a war In this romotry participated and likewise he will be the first president lo letiVe North Amerieto diming lois term sof (office, lit reachiug his olecision to attend Hi.' pence conferetiee President son Is understood to hare been largely inflotent-e41 by representatioa from Premiers Lloyd Gs.otrge of Coreat !Wit- iliti told Cletneoweion 4of France and other statesmen of till. entente coun- tries. The principles auiil terms of set- tiellient 1.111111113111Si by 1111. IireSi111.111 1131Ve beell accelited by l000lo the asso- elated nations 1111/1 111V central powers Its the loasols upon whielt Ileare is lit be re-estoblished. and it is mitlerst I trial it is for the working out of ill application of these principles that his presence Is so earnestly desired liy . the a II ied statesmen. To Attend Preliminary. Shore the president is 10 ii for France &tidy 111.XI 111011111. it SO1 4 111, , cer- tain that he will rettelt several weeks before the peace ress as- sembles. Ills purpose is believed here to be to participate in the conference Inns\ proceeding :it Versailles as pre- liminary to tho meeting of the peace commissiollerS. Ilv 11111s Will inlVe op- portunity to discharge lit Persell Col the first time the duties sit his mem- hership in the slit:11111e War. c111111H I ill 55 Well iS 1111W l'epl'eS1'1111.11 I. liii- intel E. 31. - • By currying out this proper:tin of ince ing the osonferener draft and adopt II general peitee tceaty at the outset, the president and the entente premiers will he aide soon softer the commis- sioners ithseinhle to return It. their fits it countries and attend to Important Inisi miss at home, leaving the details to he arranged by delegates appointed by emelt of the countries. GENERAL GORGAS WILL BE PLACED ON RETIRED LIST ---- D'ashington. Nov. -- NI:11 Gen. Wm . C. 1; 0 1 -gas. r.trtner sitreeokt gen- eral of the army. will toe retoo s lool to : the retired list mo Is -epodes 1. p. war deportment 31111101111,41/ yesterthis When he reached the age of retire ment several weeks ago, General (tor - gas Was te 'fietiVe duty to 'make it special Investigation Into mat- ters pertaining to the health of the army and his report Iti now before Secretary Bilker. SILENCE COVERS SURRENDER GERMAN SHIPS TO ALLIES According to German List, Boats to Be Delivered Total More Than Half of Navy AVashington, Nov. - There has Seen 110 ailliiiIIIICeltlelll regarding the It'll city 4of the fleet (of battleships. Tonsers 111111 111.111 VI e lliSel'S myhiutli Lier- 111111iy wos required under the IerlliS /f tlw armistice to surrender sester- ilay to the aissociated nations. NOr WI'S there any Information its to the :1111111.S lif ports at which the vessels were to lie interned. 'flame Is touch spectilatbin as to Die final disposition of the ships but 111 he IlbSellVe of any °friend information,. loamy officers thought this matter would be left until Ille pewee confer - :Mee IlleelS. The arIllislita. lhat the vessels Were to be disarmed l)elfore they Were In 111. interned tit neutral or allied ports_ as the associ- Ito! governments might direct, with only caretakers( aboard. l'uliiiration of the 1111111es iif the hat- deships and cruisers which here ol..s- :gloated by the ass,,o.lated govern- ments for delivery re% ettk that t;er- •ailly is stripped of at least half of the fleet of dreadnaughts aloud' it 111111 ill ;.mamission or building when the war tegait, and of practieally all of its bat- tle cruisers. DEATHS FROM FLU EXCEED AMERICAN BATTLE LOSSES Forty -Six United States Cities Report Twice the Fatalities of Expedi- tionary Forces ii siting( OM NOV. IS. - The reeent (Tilden'', of 111'1110as in the United state , . eansed 111011 4 than occur- red tinning the .1ilierican expeditionary forces from all causes front the time the first unit landed Iii l'rance iiiittI after hostilities evasei. This annouttoment by 1114. Censlls\ 11111141U Wits Inised on unofficial esti- mates of the littal casualties among the overseas forces arid reports from 41.1 elites having it osmiloinosi popula- tion of 23,0011.11410 which showol deaths from Influenza awl pneumonia from Septionlie'r fl 14) Nos ..mber 9. Nernholly these cities sistuhit have had 4uuMi deaths from tiles:. callSeS during huh period. it was said, leaving approxIllialely 78,1100 a, the number properl chergeable Its the epidemic. '\l'ho. total casualties in the Amer - lean expeditions n forces,\ said the announcement, \have recently lown mioffielally estimated at 100,000, On the basis of that number lhois far re- p:I:lied. il 1111iy be assIlliled 111111 Ille deaths trout all 11111.0.s_ inelialing dis- ease 111141 at - villeins. lire probably less ihtin liter eent anti only toil lie tutors then 40 per cent oof total casual- ties. On this assumption the loss of life In illy Alat.r.call expeditionary forces to date is ahout 40,1100 or 50,- 0011. LATEST ;(iARKET REPORTS. Minneapolis Grain. Mittineapo:.r. Nov 19. --Wheat: Reeeiptil 449 cars rtennarea with 609 cars a year aga. Wheat 7 ..101 4 Ni,. I northern. old. $2.2214. Oats: N , 3 white. 7:114 ft 7 . 2%c. Flax $3 S9113 91 Flour I'm -hanged. Shipments. 73,- 975 barrels Barley • $91cfl$V011. Rye N-- 2. $1.6201.63. Chicago Livestock. chleago. Nov 19. -Hogs: Receipts 4/3.• 000 Market opened strong. closed 10 to 15c higher. Butchers. $17.65015i light, 817.1410 17.55: packing. Sts.soU17.60; plgs. good 'to choice, $13.50ft15; throwouts. $15.2541 16.4n rattle: Receipts 56,000. Market gener- ally steady on beef and butcher cattle; slow on common steers; callVes steady; good feeders strong; beef cattle. good. Choice an ilprIme. 515.7501 1975:. vommon and medium. $9.654715.75: butcher stock. cows and he;fers. S6.5nti 14.25: canners and knitters. 115.504i6.50; stockers and feeders. good. C11014-(4 and fancy, $1110 12.75; infer- ior, m -in and medium. $71. IS: veal , f11VPS, gotta and choice. 3171i 17.75: Weal - ern range steers. $14 50 , 417.65; eorwR arta heifers, $5.5041 12.75. Sheep: Receipts 25.000. Market mostly '15c higher: strictly selling straight up to 515.75; Inak fat ewes. $19.50; choice wethers., $10.50; lambs. choice and prime. $15.7E4116: medium and good, $14 2.542 15.75; culls. $9 7541 13 SO; ewes, choice and prime. 59.25429-50; noedium and gond. 5$ U9.25; culls. $32%'O it. St. Paul Livestock. St. Paul. Nov. 111.- /logs 7 neeejeln 149. Markel 5r. lower. Range. $14:4 05; hulk. $170 17.50. rattle: Iteeeipts 15.900. Killers steady. Steers. $5'416.25; rows and heifers: $W 10 : veal e a iy es . 95- higher. $50115 50; itockers and feeders. steady. 15.274113 Sheep: Receipts 16.1010. Nlarket steady. 1.8 Tbs. $11117 14.75; wet hers. $717 fit 50; ewes, $3429.50. Omaha Livestock, Omaha. Nov. 19.--tlogs. Receipts 6,550. Market higher. Heavy. $111.7nV17.50; mixcd. $171i 17.35; light. $16.600 17.75; pigs, milk of sales. 117/117 33. rattle' Receipts 12.000. Market steady. Native sler.rs. rows and heif- er, $11.5 , 1111.1.tal. western steers, 500 16.50; Texas steers. Steronsitsse; cows mi d heifers:. $6.50fina.511: canners. $1.501t 5 75; stockers and feeders, $6 :Mt 13 fat; calves $7.50.111::.5o. WAR COST IS TWO HUNDRED BILLION GREATER PART OF EXPENSES OF CONFLICT BORNE BY WAR LOANS ALLIES HAVE LARGEST DEBT Annual Burden to Pay Interest and Sinking Fund Will Not Be Less Titan $10,000,000,000, and ,e Probably More ‘Vashingtort, NOV. - The direct cost of the wow for ll11 belligerent na- tions to last May 1 Was; reported lit SI75,000,000.0(10 by the federal reserve board bulletin. ISSUC1L yester- tiny, and it is estimated that the cost will amount to nearly $200,000,((X),000 before the end of this year. These calculations were compiled by the board front vitriol's sosurres and whIle I heir accuracy 18 11111 V01101111 ((W, the hoard beNeves the figures are substnn- eorrect. For purely military mei 'novel pur- pos44.. LI Is 4.alinlalell 1111 belligerents huutiispent about $132.4s$1.00(1,000 to %lay. or about . three-fourtlis 'of lite 14)1:11 war costs. The balance repre- Settled 11111.reS1 till 111.11I 111111 0111er indi- rect 55311' eXI•vitst-4. Expenses Steadily Mounted. How the cost moomoto.ol los the war Kro.s itt proportion from 3sear 1 11 year is illustrated by tabulations showing that the mobilization and the first five m o nths of the war itt 1914 1.41SI. 811 belligerents iuluustil S.111.0011,0011,(X10. hI 191.; 1111. eXpensi.4 J111111W11 10 $26.000,- I/W.0Ni: 111 1911i Illey increllSed to $38,- 00.000.010 111111 111 D117 tlio.y were esti- mated al S00,01siosittist. This year ex . IlellSes 1/111,4 11 11111V 111111%e the rale last year. Great War Debt. About $1:o0.o.sot000toolo of the total war cost has beetu rais , o1 loy war loans of various nations, and comparatively lo:o taxation. 'floe publio. debt of Hut' 1111111111111 entente. is coma- lated hot improximately $107,,000.000,009, III' 1114We 1111111 IWIVe n Mach its the ag- gregate debt of the central powers. 5et at *-17),0011,0011,0011. This 1111es 1101 tekC 11110 4 , 11 , 1111011111111 debt itocurreol since last Nlay. The etiorti000lis size of the war costs and delot Is illustrated by vomparison with the ionte-wor debt of the seven principal belligerents, which did nlat 1\Keeell $25.1100.01111.0(0. The cost of this delot was only :donut $imoosmoo.nott a year. Hereafter the auntie' lowden lo pay interest end sinking fund allowances will lie nol less than $111,000,1100.000 and probably much more. FOIL GERMAN ATTEMPT • TO AROUSE SYMPATHY Hysterical Appeal Believed to Be Made to Cause Reaction in This Country 1Vashington. Nov. 18. -In the almost hysterical ailments of the German pro- visional government for supplies of food Sind forqierniission to adilreSs1 It - serf directly through a commission to Ike Americon public, officials here see it ',impose to excite the sympathies of a large element of the American population More or less contiectol hy I lood ties with Germany. With such sympathies aroused the Germon gov- ernment. it wits said, undoubtedly hopes to Influence the approaching peace conference toward leniency, Such appeals its those which have been sent hy wireless los Dr. Solt, German secretary, to Secretary Lan- sing, were solid to be quite moneces- sotry and not likely too have any bene- IMO results. President 1Vilsoot al- ready has promised to do everything possible to prevent suffering 'among the vial' populatioon of the conquered states. The entente tamers have Or- ih-reil this attitude. not so much from consideration of mercy or sympathy with the foe as from a goottino. con- viction that a starving and desperate people entail\ make dangeriels 1101 . 51, render ally satkractory pc:we 1111- pirSsible. ;Mid 111•111114 , 10 1180 1111101M- Gotialist spirit s endanger the security of the enteute coomitieS4 111c1i , elves. The 1110 1 1g11 Of 1111.4 t-t,tn,'rv ii. ele- ments iii the enteete stales is under- stood to lie 141 111:0111 raisill:: :toy new issues that would aggravate tito con- ditions. It Is klIOW11\ there is Slifkciclit food in Germ:RV to hionediale needs.. Thu' s n aps, war council is plattning I. siiititly . \70041 Ill the futon. and before Hie present stoeks are exhinistosl. assuming the'eX- ercise of wise ye -moony in food ilintri- htlIfOtl. TRANSPORTED 22,000,000 MEN WITH LOSS OF ONLY 4,391 L0101011., Nulr, 1114. Wer the British admiralty transport serv- ice conveyed los Sell 22.0011.000 soldiers rtu ,1 : 11-t Ow first shipload or these. sol with the loss lit sea of 'only .1,3111. -rows teem -eat - 11 s week and to' Moro. -than 120.001010 tons oof nevi] hose :(11 Illt. 1111.11 On IlleIr way lilt.'': to one allItary stores and more limn 2, - the United States 1(1 olays loher. Thr IN .0(5) animals also Well` 1111.11\1110rIetl plains for clearing England of Ameri The British fleet and iitmlliotry craft can troops are Incomplete, 1)11( it is de. grew during the Wilt. from Ii Mtnl of sired to remove these men immediate- 2,500,015) tons to it tote! of 6,500,000 is as some shipping Is avoillable for tons, while the personnel inereased this purpose. from 140,000 to 100,t)00. • Men in Englawl First to Start Home. London.- No 19. -The first Amer'. earl troops In depart homeward as a result of the signing of the armistice will he 114.000 nom stationed in Eng. land Tbe .Sonerloson srilia 7 expects 756 votes tit the general election No- vember 5. Dry votes totalled 1/30,547 and the wets polled 173,015. This gives' the drys II lelld of nearly 1600. Adop- tion of the proposed ainemilnent, how- ever, required 1151,303 votes, so it wan lost by the margin of 750. STOP SENDING MEN ; DEMOBILIZATION UN TWO HUNDRED HOUSAND )It WILL. BE SENT 110 m N WO W F. ICS SQL 30.000 RELEASED EVERY DAY - - General March Predicts That Flow of Homecoming Troops' Will Reach Full Tide Before First of February 1VasilltigIon, NOV. 18.-Moveitient of Anierlison troops across Ilie AtItitille has stopped ell: !rely and demobillza- thin of troops in catitimements and camps lit 1101111. IS on. 41eiterill March. chief of staff, made this iiimouncement, outlining the witr department's plait lit ainsner to the questions the country has been asking since th e f lay the d e ttl i s tiee wits signed and it heroine opparent that the war limit (I% el% fie said orders 1111V1111y IS - 1111141 AVO1/111 SVI111 200,1./00 men back to ei‘ii life •within about two weeks, and Mat when the program' woos in full suing about :14),000 would quit the army daily. Fighting divisioons of Goawrool Per- shing's army in France will be de - 'mobilized as fair :is possible in their 1101111. C111111111111illeS. The chief of staff would make 110 predie111111 as 10 when the first IIIV1S1011 W011111 .111111 ttttt 31111/1.111'S probalde, ['owe' er, thud the flow ef returning troops call be in full tide before February 1. S111111. tiffirers regard it Ils 1/01114ble that eertain divisions molly be recalled ill 3111Vallre of the general return home. General Starch indicated that the 42nd (Rainbow isimh, because it is coin - posed of men from 26_ states and In recognition of the fightiug record it has !mole ito France, could lie marked for special tretottuent. Supplementing General March's statement. Secretary linker sold it W111.1111 11111 lie tweet:gory to Maintain all the esisting eantotiments for de- timbilizootion purposes and that It study Was 1301V being *mode oof those desirable for that purpoose. 'floe others. with all the divisimatol count's, lie indicated, will he abateloined as S0011 IIS Ill.' men now occupying them have beett 11111/3. teretl mil. Demobilization Program, The 14.1110111117.1111011 Will be carried out in the following order First development to:Mations, 71 in number. and romprising 118,100 1111.11. Second, conscientious objectors not under arrest. Third. spruce production division. Fourth, central training mite:ills for officaors iii Iii some modifications. Fifth. United States guards now numbering 135051 men. Sixth, railway Unita. SeYet1111, depot brigades. Eighth. replateement units. Ninth, combat divisions. 170,000 in U. S. \We have In the United States some- thing like 1.7151,001 men and to muster out uu for's. of thnt kind, of course, will take some time.\ said General March. \Each man has to be examined physi- cal's - . his final acconints made, so that the men may get compensatbm they are entitled to. Blank forms ere being shipped to the aarious vamps for use as 'these OrderS go into effect. 'The orders that have already been issued affect some 200,000 men. We expowt to muster them mit In two weeks. Ditto' ilie machine Is itt fltlf operation, we expect to release 30,000 men it day. Maintain Standing Army. \In handling this problem of de- mobilization, one of the fealtures whieh hall to be considereol was the subsequent retnining Of men for the regular army. Or W11111 will be the regular army, when congress pa sites haws relorganizing Duo army. 'hen the Wilt broke out, there were 'only a limited number of such men itt the service. and hie great number of men Who filled out these units tVPre. men who velmitarily (qtr.:deol for the pe- riod of the 'war. So we have offered those men W110 Cattle ill for the period of the whir the °idiom of re -enlisting If they Care 10. • \W0 offered an immediate dis- charge with a furlough of (me month upon and we propose to tusk _congress on give every single 111011 W1111 III1S been 110110111111y (1111- eliargefl uninith's pay. whatever II1S grade is, as a bonus. Every moan who is diseltarged from the tinily is entitled to wehir his uniform for a pe- 11011 Of 1111.14. 1111111111'1. IS 11 very 'troves':airy thing, because the 1 . 111.1151111g to civil life oof three to four million 1i1P11 makes it impossible to rhino! In elothes go great a nitiolotr.\ Stays Wet, St. 1'11111, N1/V, II1.- WI II renniin \p . m,\ complete official! re- turn , : ruinolineed last night by .Seere- tary of State Julius A. Seimmill, show- Ing that the proposed dry 'intendment GERMAN SOLDIERS OBJECT TO BOLSHEVIK! TEACHINGS Or. Kari I ieliknecht Opposed Because of His Decidedly Radical Inclinations Amsterdam, Nov. 18.--Iterlin news- papers and dispatches 'meriting here Indicate that there is great confusion in Germany over the powers to be given the various councils and commit- tees und officials. The dispatches indicate that there Is chores in goveranuent affairs owing 'to the formation by the Spartaeus group of a new political party, which bath reduceolthe strength of the Inde- pendent Socialists. How strong this new party will be Is not known. The so-called executive council of the workmen's and soldiers' council has followed the Berlin garrison's de- mand by \temporarily\ rescinding RS (order for the formation of a civilian red guard. There Is reason to believe that the executive council. despite the Net that Captain von Deerfield Wa8 forced to leave It because he was con- sidered too radical, Is still more social- istic and radical Goan the larger coun- cil from which it has its commission. That the bulk of the soldiers them- selves refused to countenance Bolshe- vik methods again has been demon- strated at It meeting in the reichstag building of delegottes front all the sol- diers' councils in Berlin and delegates af similar councils elsewher;o. The Berlin soldiers are united firmly agithnst Dr. Karl Liebknecht, l'hey de- clare that he had been thrown out of the barritcks owing to his repeated ef- forts to inellive speeeltes. Premier Ebert, in ouldressing the deelered that n %lost majority of the people supported the govern- ment. The government bad nothing to fear from the troops at the front, but be (odd many men from rear 1)041 - Gouts who were hurrying Imme are eatising disorder in Baden Ill111 Wurt- temberg. The premier added dist the United Stales would help feed the Gt.rimins. ANTWERP COMPLETELY EVACUATED BY TEUTS D'Ith the Allied Armies in France and Belgium. Nov'. 18. -The allied ar- mies have begun their motrch towiords Germany. Thoo Belgian forces have th- ready oecupied Antwerp, which was evacuated by the enemy on Friday and inum.diatels: tatken over. Brussels was expected to be free of German soldiers Sunday. The withdrawal from Antwerp was accomplished without untoward inci- dent otrui when the correspondent vis- ited the city Sunday the people were In the midst of at (whole - lotion for their deliverance. MONTANA CASUALTIES, Killed In Action, Pvt. Louis W. Duckwaid, Anaconda, I'vt, William E. Harper, Anaconda. Pvt. Fred G. Smith, Conrad. Pvt, Oscar Solberg. Big Timber, Pvt, Atliel It, Handley, Glasgow, Pvt, Carey M. Fields. Sanol Springs, I'vt. James A. Larson, Sidney. I VI. JI1S, K. McCallum, Dixon. Pvt. Geo. linebseinverien, Dig Sandy, Pvt, Rude Frye. Ural. Pvt, Thos. W. ilughes. Brayinan. Pvt. 31torde A. Ross, Stacy, I'vt. Joseph aKinz, Poplar. Pvt, Robt, E. Prigan. Marco. . Pvt. Henry Schell, Pievna, Pvt, Samuel 0. Woodward, Baker, Pvt. Slimes Lynch, Townsend. Pvt, Omar Swurtele, Worden. Missing In Action, Pvt. Anton Ammillson. Box Elder. 'Pvt. Joion A. Lambert, Wounded Severely, Pvt, Leslie W. Nider„ Helena, Pvt, Raleigh Kiierr. Poison. Pvt. Chris Hansen, Billings. Pvt, George Cameron, Findon. Pvt. Emile Devious, ZerlINI, Died From Wounds. Pvt, Johannes Bakker, Box Elder, Pvt. Belden)!!! r. Smith. Hamilton. Corp. Chas. 11. Smith, (limey. Died of Disease. Pvt. Wm, Boettcher. Brookside. PV t. 'NV. Mi•Kny. Ismay. I's - L. Wieger TI/IS11111. Shepherd. Pvi .lacith P. KleinSillsses. Outlook Pvt, Lewis e Maxson, Heath. Corp. Bert 1:rtiletz. Returned to Duty. Pvt. Earl I,. (troves, Livingston. Slightly Wounded, Pvt, Herbert II. Mess, Winnifred. Pvt. Darold E. Ware, Little Crooked U. S. Casualties Less Than 9 100,000. Washington. Nov. 14. --Officials here sstionate that the tutu! caamalties of the American exposlitIonnry forces in (Ile '•%/1.1' WIII 111/L exceed 100.()00. In- cluding the moon killed in action. wounded. dled of %%minds. disease 111111 necidents and the missing who never will be accounted for. Smote of those who itnyto been missing probtobly will be accounted for when the prisoners are returned fr(oin (lorman)'. CONVICTS USE RED CROSS YARN TO EFFECT ESCAPE Boise, Idaho. Nov. 18.--Pred George, allns Gruber, noel Harry Hinton, es - roomed from) the loialto penitentiary to the state emistitution footled lit' only yesterday morning by scallug ot 20. f000t with the odd of ou 20 -fool rope braided from yarn furnished the Inmates by thoo Red (;ross for knit- ting sweaters for soldiers. George is under a life sentence for murder, and Hinton n five to fifteen-yenr sentence for robbery. They intve Hirt been cup. NINV CONTROL IS RELINQUISHED _ APPROVAL OF NATIONAL HIGH- WAYS COUNCIL NOT REQUIR- ED ON NEW PROJECTS NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY lontana Millers Expect to Soon Re Sume Manufacture of White Flour -Celebrations In- crease influenza Helena. -The United States high Ways council has withdrawn its re- strictions MO control from highway building in the various states, and the Montana state highway commis- sion Ilitff received notice' of the fact in the following communication \Washington D. C., Nov. 14, 10)8. United States highway commission rill- nounces no further applications need he 'nude Ell it for approval of high- way projects and that previous dis- approvitls aro revoked, and pending applications require no further action. Procedure in securing materials and transportation should follow normal practice. Removal of restrictions sloes' not affect highway bond Issues which are by law under control of capital issues isnotinittee, State highway lie- tionanients will not be asked to sub- mit progromis for next year's work.\ Ppul I). Pratt, chief engineer of the state higlowny commission, has trims - milted the letter front the national body to the oofficials of cities, towns and c ties in the state In a a:willow- nicattion emotaining the following: 'In accordance with the above it will not he necessary for yott to- stile mit applications covering propose(' construction projects although your attention is directed to the require- - ment that proposed bond issues must be submitted to the capital issues com- mittee. Acting upon the above the state ItIghwily commission has discon- tinued the preparation of a 1919 pro- gram and officials•who have not sub- mitted reports tit441 hot 110 So ii ii, \Please IleCepI our thanks for yovr hearty co-operation and otssistanee ut furthering the policy of the United Steles ItIghwItys council during tie time that government aesirli•tions sit construction operations were in force.' * * * Successor to Judge Sanner, Judge 3V. 'I'. Pigott of lieleaa has been appointed by Governor Shun V. Sitewart its (associate juslice of Mc state supreme (snort to fill tlie vacaneS caused by the resignation of Jus;ict Sidney Smatter, now of the nottionati army. Judge Pigott was formerly it inembosa of the supreme court, serving four tine uu hair years. He will serve six weeks wheio the aSsoriate justice eleo.t, C. it Cooper of Helena, take his seat. * * * _ Millers Hold Meeting. Members of the Montana Millers nssociation, representing the leading flour mills in the state met here las{ week to consider conditions that have arisen in the manufatctitre of (looms as a result of It 11.1110Val of the stilisti- tute restrictions. Under instructions from the food ad- ministrottion, Niontanot mills have been making only one grade of flour, irsirtg 4.4 bushels of wheat in every barrel. Before America's entry into the war, most of the mills mode at least three grotdes of- flour and used much of the lower grades in the manufaeture of stock feed. Under the federal restrle- dons they have been required to use otli of the flour in the wheat in their product. It is expected that as a result of the removal of restrictions the Aion• tuna millers will be able to resume the manufacture of white flour of the finest grade. * * * Influenza Again Threatening. '1'lle state board of health has re- ports from ihe stele indicating thst the influenza epidemic has increased again in virulence and prevalence, and It is thought Met the recent gather- ings and celebiatIons tif peace in vio- Intim' of quatrautine lotws is rest Sible. - Dr. \V. F. Cogswell, secreloory of the suite board tof health, on l'is return from Saco, where he went to take charge of the hien! campaign against influenza, estinintell flint there are :it least 8,000 .. . cases of Influenza in this state, % • Dr. Cogswell made this eondition the hasis of an appeal to Surgeon Gen- eral Blue of the army to nliow public health service men to continue their work ill Montana. General Blue liad taken steps to recall these workers. Dr. Cogswell wired to him, it nil in response received a communicatiom au- thorizing Ono men to re in here till December 1 If needed. War Stamp Sales Slow. During the first half of . November less than luflf Of the state's quotu in War Savinga stamps was sold, accord- ing to figures which linve been fur- nished State Director Harry Turner. As a result a call has gone forth DI speed up, that Montana may 'go aver the top. During the first 15 days of the sionth there was remitted to the hlu'I- hIIt whieh is the depositary for till sales In the state, $252,537.37, the amount which should IttIVP blz+R liked, according to the state's quota. was close to $000,000.
