ï~~NOW. private in the 163d Infantry, has been PASS FROM EPIDEMIQSTAGE SOON. Skilled in action, according to official ion That the notification received by his parents, Mr. The Death Rote Did sot Increase eit Should and Mrs. Gordon Hall, today. Hall, 22 With the Renewal - of the f-Sosne yaTrs old, is the first Blue Spriigs bo Outbreak-Te few mne' to die in action. Cases, 52. - T. It. Wooderson, 4003 West Prospect Place, was notified officially November ntly returned 22 that his son, Sergt. Thomas R. Wood. Continued optimism over the influSspent much erson, had been gassed in France July enza situation was manifested by health:onditions ad G _ro aloa.H __ authorities today when eports for yesifornia cities. terday' showed only eight deaths from Pactife Coast influenza and two.from pneumonia. 1 Kansas City Wednesday's reports showed seven oint, although deaths from influenza and two from things in city pneumonia. It was pointed out the City could do alarming increase in influenza rases long the lines thad not brought a higher death rate. destiny on ac- The report of new cases up to noon torde territory, day for the period since 5 o'clock yester. day, shows an increase over the some ig should see period y esterday and a decrease from sl estate mar- \ ' h ithe day before. One hundred and fifty are several seven new cases had been reported at alarmin iltig d ncreeIn b n a',cse deti o n vac-uerport fsnewy ass utoevnoonetor isover and noon. Secretaries receiving re ports say sential in the many of these should have been retill eainuse "ported yesterday, but were not. as physi r still retainsa o...s si food, clothing, clans evidently believed the office was t Of it value closed for Thanksgiving. The noon rewill purchase,port yesterday was sixty-seven new ste t chastedid. /',.." 'AFy. cases, and the noon report of the day ate that it did cas/ <beoe s 11 as. and there vedeisbefore was 191. sding, because V.,, I AW, I Six pneumonia cases have been retr sm0!ported today. erialat s e.o eHealth department inspectors said that Just be- A.5C, they believed by the first of next week ansas City is o the situation would be back where It her effort and was before the revived epidemic was reprosperity is Lkr. tWENDELL IRWIN. WtrNVr nt BY ported. SHELL FRAGMIENT. Dr. Maclay Lyon, new head of the contagious disease department, was to take trp. 23. Before receiving notification, how- tagus di sesee todrda s toenle ist the endingevrhehdrciealetrfo hs charge at 1 o'clock today. Meanwhile a nn ever ie ad received a letter from his the department has been directed by see It, if Kan- son saying he had recovered and was W. P. Motley, president of the board of se oin- dt y it 191s uat. its own, as itback on duty with his unit. Sergeant health. t its house in Wooderson,. who is 24 years old, was Reports to health authorities on the trying to dis- shipper with the Goodyear Rubber Corn- Kansas side seem to indicate the influ'he sooner we pany, 11 West Eight Street, before his enza i. not spreading there. Only sixty ghten out our enlistment. He enlisted April 9, 1917, cases had been reported since Wedne.be for Kansas in Company M, 59th Infantry, and was day noon at noon today, health oficials;sent overdeas May -., 1918. say. tat during the First Lieut. Wendell Jennitngs Irwin, t k 'omplry n Des Moies. sand persons son of Mrs. Clara J. Irwin, 905 Linwood DEs o os. l., Nov. 29.-rFace measks and of these Boulevard, writes ie w- wo:ned when an influenza preventive must be worn & Ta-: an influenzan preveo8ntiv uutbt r n other cities, struqk in the side b' a shell frag-rent by everybody in Ies Moines while in sent away by October 24. He is now in a base hos- public as soon as the can supply them bureau. o e pital. He was promoted to a first lieu- selves with moasks, the locally board ofe coming back, tenancy while at Camp Funston and as-I health decreed today. 'fers them the signed to the 340th Field Artillery, 89th v. as than they Division. ' MANY W.IR CONTR.4CTS YOID. er cities, are Private Albert Segur, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Segur, 3422 Euclid Avenue, Comptroller ortie Treasury Refuses nusually kind has been wounded in the right forearm into Waive Red Tape. Y heart of the by shrapnel, October 20, according to let-' WASIrFoe, Nov. 29.-Government in the coun-"ters received by his parents. He has war contracts involving hundreds of itck country, been removed to the debar ation hos- millions of dollars were rendered doubt-e oil industry pital at Staten Island, N. Y. Private ful In status today by a decision of banks. But Segur is 28 years old. He Was formerly Comptroller Warwick of the treasury more for the cashier here of the Provident Life and that orders have not been legally exhave. Trust Company of Philadelphia. ecuted unless actually signed by resri. e No One could be found in the vicinity sponsible government contracting agents -psychological of 812- Monroe Avenue who knew Corp. and the contractors. 9 we so' often Clarendon I. Miller, listed in today's A large proportion of war orders were undertake the casualties as killed In action. No one given informally.by telephone, telegraph Doig to make by that name is given in the city direc- or letter, it is said. In such ecases the 1p4-t-because tory... irut--... comptroller held new legislation will be a'going to be necessary to permit framing of agreets seem to me NEW MET. PART,, RUNS 1110H. ments for cancellation. hero beau e h - The War Department submitted to the here because wit:-Cen Rdes, Million Can Be comptroller aorm of canoe on agree sthing, forus CletdPnigApa. cmtolrafrofcneai geii for.s Collected Fending Appeal..mot under Which it was proposed to soeing for n event the federal court should con- I abandon, witi~ut-unjust' loss to contraclia. nt-asIan t stueahe ruling of the Wr Labor Board i tori, thousandi of,.war supply contracts, in< wb hh] ii grg. ' l 'e~i~i-'.~ emai iHe 'refused tO pfole the agreement, re d t:i'it f~i Yoij(h si;reet cai' i pan s to j holding that>th, deipetmeht may not.ding up:! K ent nt f e could co"llecte agree with a e trdst. on sit arbitrary aughbusnes ln:re - rknsa City, t... h.... sum to cover liahiti.5.uless specific )ugh [ ss w~ureaer: anas u.t.y, n 'company iauthorization for this'is given in a pro. ic,- oselug ng-tI~,il decision in the supreme I In the confusion and-haste of war =l outhos ourt regarding the matter, nce~rding" many manufacturers -proceeded with ireaveid u t.: slo.E..-Hlarbor, c-ity-5ousn ~y-- mendous orders on telegraphic instruced a;brethingl <,M. Harbor pointed ouit the city would ltions of -subordinate army officers and ~hert~I~n oiUr xtt!be in the same position as when the the termination of hostilities found [P!ark-in -Lo0s comany was permitted to collect a 6-! them unprotected by legal contract. The n t!Db ihe i arto cent fire pending the decision of the sn-i authority of the comptroller, who has Dig,hsapfere ilotuift in the mattor. At that timie rendered their position questionable, l0!e r~~i'ecogi iji!, =Cole County Circuit Cduart in grant- grows out of his supervision of 011 pay-,......g!@ p- jii!i:ji~i!ppee1%,orde, ed the company to uents by the Treasury on order of other -..,-,.!':.! g ivie refpts to pgtons(- or.< the extra departments. - perly'-1ocated!ii:Pai$! -The extra pensniee, under the In submitting the tentative form for tt1tr t:couid esi: s.order are Impounded in a bank a standard cancellation contract, Seers5 I o i~rcivn.st wait tho efinal decision," toIry Baker explained "that it is imnor. tY-Plannilng - n i the present case, in which a deci- tant in the interest of labor and the sa edKnsas ston 1 awaited, the street car company industrial- security of the country that r. j corn-eque ots t- ining order gainst'-the these plants (referring mainly to muni then biv4 l~i.co isstons and,-01ty autborl- tion factories) be returned'to commerce l~~ f e t f urindkansas, to pro- work as Si dilyas practicable and so ct slly1 nee& i i 2 Pending a final decision continuous operation and employment -elrtj hie '!co 4, pascu colle. - the...ir.d.of.labor." iawen~r~i~rb-e' ~d~sh,,,o A~ he dsir e----"-'-- ~------ Canach. The chicken was nearly as. ex pensive as. k. In some other divisiofs l &iiiii f, ham costing twenty francs a pound -was served. - Among the men there was an abundant supply. of, beef, nuts and mincemeat. The cooks vied with each other in supplying do tghnuts, cakes and other forms of sweetsand the quartermaster managed to get through extra rations of chocolates. There also were many pools among the men to buy poultry from the farmers. Some of the troops along the Moselle bought pike or river trout. The men enjoyed the holiday rest in anticipation of their next forward step, which will take them into *Germany. GOSSIP OF SOCIETY. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Harvey have as their guests for the week-end Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black of Chicago. Mrs. Harvey will accompany them home. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. H. McGee returned yesterday from a 2-week visit in New York. Mrs. Robert E. Bal and Miss Estelle Ball will entertain a few guests tomorrow afternoon at the tea dance at the Hotel Baltimore, given under the auspices of the sal-age department of the American Red Cross in compliment to Major and Mrs. Ethelbert Talbot. Mr. and Mrs. Norman--A. Kennedy have as I their guest Mr. I-L I. Kilpatrlck of Savannah, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy will entertain with a small dinner tomorrow night for Mr. hilpatrick. Mrs. George B. Peck has left for Chicago to spend a few days before going to New tork for several weeks. Mr. Albert S. Welch, naval unit, Hitchcock Barracks, Chicago, who returned yesterday to visit his parents Doctor and Mrs. A. J. Welch, will return Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arvid L.. Frank will entertain with a small dinner tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Overaill and Doctor and Mrs. 'W. T. Reynolds will be chaperons at the dance the Delta Omicron Omicron Fraternlty will give at the Mission Hills Country Club tonight. Mr. nd Mrs Harry A. Sorbe Fre at home foar the winter wit Mrs. Buske's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Feord Helm, 320 Benton Boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Frank V. Smith announce the. birth, Thursday, November 28, of 'I daughter, whom they have named Barbara t.1tise Judge and Mrs. B. C. tGarrison will return today to their home in Mound City, Kas., after spending a week withl their daughter, Mrs. I. C. Tihomas, and Mr. Thomas. Mr. i. F. Hutt gave t small dinner last night at the Hotel Muehlebsch, followed by a lins party at the Shubert Ttcoter. Mrs. Richard laech Elton left WednesCoy to join Mr. Elton in Louisville, Ky. They will visit in Harrisburg. Pa., and in tCanandaigun, N. Y., before returning. Mrs. Carl.Vesley Moore and Mrs. S. IT. Heogott will have charge of fifty young wornen at the Commerce Trust Building for Tag Day tomorrow. Mrs. Frank If. ttiggs has postponed the party she wis to vave give. tomonrrow for the Clara Wert Wilson Chapter, Children of the Confederacy. Mrs. Maybelle Loot, 3817 BnlLimore Avenue. will leave tonight for a sever al weeks' visit in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Natkin and eons, Bertatd and Alfred, are in their new home, 3725 Traey venue. HUN REBELS DAM AGED PLANES. Revolutionary Committee Ordered Meachines Made 'seless to Allies. BASTE, SwzIuLAND. Nov. 19.-One hundred and fifty airplanes which hadI been gathered atjthe Joehltngen-i. drome, eleven miles southwest of Stutt. gart, to be handed over to the Allies in accordande ith the provisions of-the - NOTICTES." "Leave it to Lyle.". Buy your rtovenw,5 a weelk. Atlas Furniture Co., 1232 Grand AvenU. Trusses, supporters, elastic hosiery Physicians' Suvpiy Co., 1005-7 Grand. Jno. M. Surface & Son, 18th & McGee, sell fiat wall pitint, inside finishes For Steaks, Chops, Fish ant oysters,.i go to MeClintock's. Music with meals. "N~o gas -shortg" ih a BathUrst" Queen Combination. Bathurst Stove Oh. GasiY hilp I t T JO ' 41' SCo~tiuea--Our A n~4~ Than ks4ivi ngS of Apparel Large assortmen Coats, Suits aniDreses. the women's and misse aspparel seetoi8ng, 8e duced for this important fall event. Every deI color and fashionable material and style is reprise Women's. Suits, 21.75 Missestesses 35.00 specially 48.50 spciay priced 8.50 pciy 5S.50 priced 75.00 5; Women's Coats, 22.50 29.75 Misses' Coats, I c y 39.75 spccily 48.50 priced 58.50 specially 75,00 priced Women's Dresses,4 15.00 16.75 Misses' Suits, specially 19.75 priced 25.00 specially 2 33.00 priced q 48.50 Also Girls' Coats in' Sa le Groups at 10.00, 12.75, 15.00, 17.50, 22.50 and 25.00,,.,, B RA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NEWSPAPER RM