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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
WILL SPEND $500
Topeka Traffic Association Plans to
Enlarge Its Office Force.

Six thousand two hundred dollars
will be spent each year by the To-
peka Traffic association. according to
plans approved at a meeting held in
the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
night. The budget will be spent in
improving the organization and audit
ing the freight and shipping bills of
the mem ber-firms. The office force
of the organization will be larger and
the work more thoro.
The budget will be raised from the
memberships by increasing dues The
membership committee of the organ
ization will call upon all members of
the association for their sanction of
the increased dues. The work will
probably take more than two weeks
Re-Organizati ton of the association will
not be completed until a report is
made to the club from the member
ship committee, set for November 90
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
1T WAS RACE HATRED
Testimony Shows Negro Mutiheers
Sought Revenge on Whites.

San Antonio, Texas, Nov Civil
ians were to continue on the witness
stand today in the court martial of
negro SOldiers charged with mutiny
and murder growing out of the .Hous-
ton riot, to describe to the court inciz
dents of the riot.
Testimony purporting to show that
two unarmed white men were slain
ruthlessly by negro soldiers was Of
Tered yesterday in an apparent effort
TO prove that the mutineers were
actuated by race hatred rather than
oy a desire for revenge for injuries
they claim to have sustained at the
hands of the Houston police.
Turnout the day, Houston civilians
men ana Women-graphically told
of the shooting and rioting on the
fateful night of August % and the
early morning hours of the gath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
NO NEED FOR WORRY
Little Concern Over "Spy'' Rumor
Concerning Baron

The unusual spectacle of a man who
claims to be an ex-officer of the
Austrian Royal Dragons and formerly
a diplomatic attache of Austro-R u-
manian governments has been present
ed to Topekans the last few days at
the Orpheum theater and at various
public meetings in the person of
Baron DIR. de Orgler.
His speeches at the theater and at
other halls in behalf of preparedpe ss,
enlistments. Red Cross, and the liberty
loan, radically anti-German and pro-
American, come as such a surprise to
Americans who are not accustomed
to incidents wherein a man is turned
against his autocracy. that there has
been vein of diStrust, encouraged by
disgruntled newspaper reports, in
parts of the city.
The State journal is not posing as
defender of the baron nor does this
paper attempt to exhibit proofs of his
statements and claims, but it seeks
only to put to rest any fear that
might be entertained as to the rumor
that he is a German spy. The fact
that he has been in this country for
two years, that he has appeared in
hundreds of cities in support of the
war, and that he never has been
shielded from government agents is
enough to indicate that if there is
danger of his visit to Topeka, the
danger is not of a serious nature-at
least to this city.
The baron is energetic, he is tireIess
IN his efforts to clothe his statements
In sincerity, and he has succeeded in
attracting crowds to the theater. Any
other claims that he makes are I'D
to the public to decide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
GO THRU HIS TRUNK
Dry Goods Store Employees Identify
Many Articles.

Articles found in the trunk of Fred
Stevenson, who came to Topeka to
nurse a sick man at 622 Horne street,
were identified today by employees at
Peletier's and Crosby Brothers Stew
enson was arrested two days ago after
he had done considerable talking
about being a detective
An investigation began and in a
trunk owned by Stevenson the police
found umbrellas, ribbons, shoes and
many other articles. Tuesday night
they discovered a fur cape hidden I'M
der bed, which was identified by a
clerk at Pelletier's. There were nu-
merous pictures in the trunk. One,
in particular, drew the attention of
the police. 1t showed Stevenson
dressed in the garb of an Episcopal
rector. Stevenson has not explained
this picture.
He admitted to the police that he
had served time in San Quentin
prison. As yet, no warrant has been
sworn out against him. He has been
in Topeka two weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
TO EXEMPT OFFICIALS
Those Working for State Will Not Pay
Railroad War Tax.

State officials and employees are ex-
empted from the special railroad,
Pullman, express and telephone and
telegraph tax so long as the matter
affects state business. That is the
announcement of Fred w. Knapp.
state auditor, concerning the opera
tons of the new war tax measure.
According to an announcement
which the state auditor has sent to the
heads of all state institutions, state Of
ficials and employees will not be COM
PEELED to pay the extra war tax for
railroad fares or for Pullman or tele-
phone or telegraph service. so long as
they are engaged in business for the
state Each state employe while trav-
cling should carry credentials from
the head of his department that he
may be exempted from payment of
the tax, Knapp stated. State officials
or employees will not be permitted to
claim exemption while travelling or
engaged in private business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
Dandruff Soon
Ruins The Hair

Girls-if you want plenty of thick,
beautiful, glossy. silky hair, do by all
means get rid of dandruff. for it will
starve your hair and ruin it if you
don't.
It doesn't do much good to try to
brush or wash it out. The only sure
way to get rid of dandruff is to dis
solve it. then you destroy it entirely.
To do this get about four ounces of
ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at
night when retiring; use enough to
moisten the scalp and rub it in gently
with the finger tips
By morning. most If not all, of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every sin
gle sign and trace of it.
You will find. too. that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop. and
your hair will look and feel a hum
bred times better. You can get liquid
arvon at any drug store. 1t is mex
pensive and four ounces is all you
will need. no matter how much dan
druff you have. This simple remedy
never faiIs.-Advertiseme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
MAY ATTEND COLLEGE
Naval Recruits Given Chance to Study
Radio Work in East.

Recruits for the radio department
of the United States navy will have
chance to attend college while train
ing in radio work. Several of the
larger eastern colleges have turned
their radio equipment over to the gov
eminent and radio training schools
have been established in the colleges.
Recruits for this department of the
navy will be sent to one of these east
ern schools from the local recruiting
office in the federal building. The
training course lasts for months. After
their course in radio work the recruits
are assigned to duty ION board" APP
plicants for this service must have
high school education and be between
the ages of Is and 80 years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
Laugh When People
Step On Your Feet
Try this yourself then pass
II along to others.
II Worksl

Ouch ?!?!! This kind of rough
talk will be heard less here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a few drops
of a drug called freezone when applied
to a tender. aching corn stops sore
ness at once, and soon the corn dries
UP and lifts right out without pain.
He says freezone is an ether COM
pound which dries Immediately and
never inflames or even irritates the
surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter
of an ounce of freezone will cost very
little at any drug store. but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard or soft
corn or caIlus from ones feet. Millions
of American women will welcome this
announcement since the Inauguration
of the high heels.-Advertisem ent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
NOT new RIGHTS
@. S. Always Recognized
Japan's Interest in China.
Pact Not a Treaty, but Seen
tIemen's Agreement"
BY ROBERT J. BENDER.

Washington, Nov. 7.-Japan's spe-
cial interests in China, recognized in
an agreement just made public be-
tween Secretary Lansing and Viscount
Ishii. are rights which the United
States has always recognized.
They may be compared to the in
terest the United States feels with re-
gard to Mexico. They are not new
rights.
This was stated today by one who
had a part in the negotiations which
preceded the exchange of notes on
November 2. The agreement does not
bind China to ANYTHING. China was
not consulted. The position of the
United States with regard to China is
in no way altered, nor are any special
American financial or commercial in
terests recognized.
No Infringement by Japan.
The agreement is not an alliance or
a treaty and. in the words of one Off
ciaI, lis binding only so long as good
faith is binding" 1t is another gen
tlemen's agreement" similar to the
one on Japanese immigration which
Ishii also negotiated.
The pact, it was officially pointed
out, was designed to have the follow
ing results:
Binding Japan not to attempt to
control China or Chinese trade in q
way that would deprive the Chinese
people of their rights or deny any
Otner naIlOn equal opportunity III
Chinese commerce and industry.
Gives notice to China and the rest
of the world that the United States
and Japan stand together for the
open door, in the Far east.
Not a. Monroe Doctrine.
The agreement does not give Japan
the right to declare a Monroe doc
trine'' with regard to China, it was
explained. 1t rather applies the broad
altruistic principles of p9n-American-
ism.
The difference between the Monroe
doctrine and pan-Americanism was
explained as the difference between a
purely selfish policy based on national
security and an unselfish interna-
tional policy based on the integrity of
all nations.
At the same time it was pointed out
there is in the agreement no outright
guarantee of the territorial integrity
of China, nor anything which binds
the United States or Japan to main
tain China's integrity by force of
arms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
CIGARETS WIN OUT
CoffeyviIIc Sunday School Glass Fa-
vors Them for Soldiers.

CoffeyviIle, Kan, Nov. Cigar
cites won 2 to l in a vote in a mems
Sunday school class at Coffeyville.
Issues raised by those who are pro-
testing against the campaign to sup
ply soldiers in France and the United
States army cantonment with cigar
cites and smoking tobacco, were the
principal topics of discussion at the
mems class of the Christian church at
Coffeyville. Representative citizens of
the town are numbered in this Sun
day school class and the question was
warmly debated. At the close of the
discussion a vote was taken. Forty
voted in favor of supplying the troops
with cigarettes and tobacco and
twenty voted against it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
DEFEAT CITY BONDS
War Economy Prompts Vote Against
New Kansas High School

Pittsburg, Kan, Nov. THE war
and the necessity for economy were
dominant factors in the defeat of a
proposal to issue bonds for 5000, 009
for a new high school building here
yesterday. The proposal was beaten
by 40o votes with total vote of $500
cast.
Opponents urged public economy
and demanded the city use the old
building until after the war The al
legged pro-German attitude of Supt.
John F. Bender also was an issue in
the campaign. A proposal for a
sewage disposal plant costing $1,000
also was beaten
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
is SLICK STACKER?
Federal Officers Get Man Here Ac.
cused of Avoiding Draft.

Federal officers today took Sa muel
]. Cantillo of Norristown. Pa, to Kan
sas City. Kan, where he will be held
for the next federal grand jury
charged with failure to register. The
officials assert that Cantilio went to
fewell county and asked to be regis
tered from NorristoS,n-
He picked Up the copy of the rec
ord nrsde out by the clerk and said
e would mail it He failed to do this
the officials say. and has since been
esca ping arrest when questioned by
showing the copy of this preliminary
registration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
Housekeepers Can Save
$500, 900, 900 on Food

In these days when the high cost of liv-
ing pinches nearly every home. waste
should be overlooked. One of the most
fragrant and the most easily prevented. is
the destruction of food by rats One rat
will often do a hundred dollars damage Of
food and property in a single night. and
a careful estimate gives over 5000. 0O0. 900 as
the value Of foodstuffs destroyed annually
by these pests. Exterminate them with
Stearns, Paste and save this enormous loss
of food. small box of Stearns Paste
costs only thirty-five cents and is usually
enough to completely rid the house of
rats and mice; also effective against cock
reaches and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
QUIZ FORMER PREMIER
Connect Him Up With BoIo Pasha
Spy Plot Thru Check Stubs.

paris. Nov. 7-Joseph Caillaux, the
former premier, was examined today
by Captain Bouchardon, who is in
yestigating the Bolo PaSha affair
The former premier was under ex-
animation for aboNt two hours. 1t is
understood he was questioned about
his connection with the newspaper,
Bonnet Rouge, and about certain en-
tries on the stubs of Bolo Pasha check
books now in the possession of Cap
tain Bouehardon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
LOAN FIGURES ALL IN
Will Be Announced SOon-May Not
Have Reached Billion.

Washington, Nov. Complete fig
ures on subscriptions to the second
liberty loan, which closed October 81.
have come in from the federal reserv e
district and after being checked will
be announced together with the alIot-
ments probably within the next day
or so.
There is no doubt whatever that the
loan has greatly exceeded the three
billion dollar minimum sought There
are, however indications that it will
not exceed the five billion dollar max
imum altho the subscriptions proba bly,
will exceed the allotments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
STATUE HIS DEATHBED
Dane Sea Captain Chose Lees Monu-
ment as Place to Die.

New Orleans. La, Nov. ELL since
his ship was torpedoed by a U-boat
ten months ago when he was forced
to remain in an open boat forty-eight
hours, Hans Peter Hansen Danish
sea captain, was found dying today
at the base of the Robert E. Lees
statue in the famous Lee Circle
here.
Il wanted to die near the monu-
ment of the greatest soldier of them
ALL" he said and died.
Hansen formerly taught school in
Copenhagen. He had planned to en-
ter the army, he said, but never re-
covered from the effects of the ex-
pOSure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
WILL ISSUE ANNUAL
Aggics Reconsider and Will Not Give
$4,000 to "Y' War Fund.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov THE
senior class at the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College has reconsidered its
action of last week, when it voted
not to publish an edition of the college
annual this year, and voted unani-
mously to publish the 1918 year book
The money was to have been given
to the student Y. NJ. c. A war fund
1t was said by those in charge of the
campaign at the college that the
large subscription thus made was in
terfering with the work as the plan
was to secure individual contributions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
.FORTIFY AZORES ISLES
United States Activity There Protest
ed by Spanish Press.

Buenos Aires, Nov Madrid dis
patches received today by La Nacion
assert that United States forces are
terrifying the Azores and quoted Lis
bon newspapers as protesting and de-
handing an explanation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07

St Louis, Nov. Chief of Police
Young said today that the Future
CITY Athletic club which has been
staging boxing bouts every week for
several years, would be closed. Police
last night stopped a fight at the club
between Bobby Anderson of Duquoin.
Illinois, and Jimmy Regain of San
Francisco. 1t is claimed that the club
violated the law by conducting a
public sparring exhibition, instead of
restricting admission to club men,
berS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07

With the election of Judge John F.
Hylan as mayor of New York, by the
largest plurality ever given a mayor
atty candidate there, Tammany again
swings into the saddle in Gotham poll
tics. In boosting Hylan as a friend
of the great common people," he was
thoro1y advertised as having arisen
from the ranks. Hylan began as
track layer for an electated railway
working later as a fireman and en-
gineer. 1t was not until after he mar
rfed that he began studying law nights
and finally was admitted to the bar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
Be Safe Anywhere
Eat Without Fear
Travellers Have Learned That Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets Protect the
Stomach from Heartburn,
Sour Risings, Gas Fer
mentatiOn and Other
Distress.

The ways of cooking change from
town to town. You don't get food
cooked twice the same way with the
same materials. Thus the average
stomach gets rough treatment at
times. 1t needs help. Hundreds of
travellers never have the least bit of
trouble because they have learned
that a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet after
meals prevents stomach distress.
These Tablets absolutely stop heart
burn. nausea, indigestion, dyspepsia of
the worst type, sour stomach, bloaty
feeling and all quotations and irrita-
ton, and freshen and invigorate the
stomach. They cheer you up, and
make you get all the good there is in
your food. You will forget you ever
had a stomach to worry you.
Get a 50-cent box of Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets at any drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
LAUNCH 9TH WAR LOAN
Austria Sells Bonds at Discount-Pays
So Per Cent Interest.

Copenhagen, Nov. THE seventh
Austrian war loan will be of the 5 u
per cent tpye and will be issued at
80 II maturing in forty years, accord
ing to Vienna dispatch to the Vos-
sische Zeitung of Berlin.
SUBSCRIBERS will receive a bonus of
months interest and the hanks will
get commission of u of l per cent.
so that the loan will net the govern
ment approximately 91h
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07

Albert c. Chapman of Usage City,
enlisted in the infantry, regular army
Tuesday. He was sent to Jefferson
barracks, St. Louis.
Miss Susie ]. Stone. formerly con-
nected with the board of trade. has
accepted a position in the milling de-
partment of the United States food
administration at Kansas City.
Elmer E. Deel, state manager of the
American Brotherhood of American
! Yeomen, of Kansas City, Kan. Will
be the guest of honor this evening at
a program of the Topeka homestead.
A six cylinder Buick, 1917 model,
owned by j. S, Martz, lib West Sew
enth street. was stolen from in front
of the Grand opera house Tuesday
night. The license number is 24,246,
the motor number 320,00S.
Frank E. Wilson, employed in the
freight auditors department of the
Santa Fe for the last sixteen years,
left for Denver today, where he will
work for the Remington Typewriter
company. George Hart, formerly of
Topeka, is manager of the concern.
i Sparks from a chimney caused a
fire in the home of r. D. Montgomery,
1929 Harrison street, Tuesday No
damages were reported. A second fire
was reported Tuesday afternoon. A
barn at 225 Western avenue had
caught IRE from not dSnes ouilpeu
near the building.
C. F. Gustafson received judgment
for $50 against D. L. Cooley Tuesday
in the district court, Judge Dana
division, for damages to his motor car
which resulted from a collision last
April. Gustafson was granted 1910
damages by the court of Topeka. The
case was appealed by Cooley.
The navy recruiting station in Tope-
I<a received word that the age
limit for the seaman's branch has
been changed from IS to rs years to
from Is to 80 years. Four recruits
have been received in the last twenty
four hours. Gordon Wright of Os-
kaloosa enlisted as a third class fire
man; Clarence F. Craig of Piedmont.
as an apprentice seaman; r. H. Kobes
$40 North Eighth street, Manhattan,
and James J. Seright, 612 Fremont
street in the radio CORPS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
SNAP SHOT S
AT HOME NEWS

DON'T.
My parents taught me not to smoke
| don't.
Nor listen to a naughty joke
l don't.
They made it clear I must not wink
: pretty girls or even think
about intoxicating drink
l don't.
To dance or flirt il very wrong
/ don't.
Wild youths chase women, wine and song
l don't.
/ kiss no girls, not even one:
l do not know how 1t is done.
You wouldn't think 1 have much fun
l DON'T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-03
1000 NURSES BUSY
5000 on Red Cross Ready List and
Volunteers Average 1000 Month.

Washington, Oct 3.-More than
two thousand Red Cross nurses
are now engaged in active nursing
service. and another two thousand in
teaching and committee work, the ma
tional committee on nursing of the
American Red Cross announced today.
Nine thousand more stand ready to
serve at once, and the number of
trained nurses volunteering for serv-
ice with the Red Cross now averages
thousand a month.
Miss Jane A. Delano, chairman of
the nursing committee, said today that
the general scheme of unit organiZa-
nurses and doctors with experience
in the same training schools and hos
pitfalls. Base hospital units for the
army and the navy have been recruit
ed from alumnae of the schools con-
nected with the largest hospitals in
the country, in groups of 20, 40, 6,
and 100.
Besides the base hospital units the
Red Cross has established units of
nurses for emergency use. Such a
hospital unit consists of one doctor
and twenty-five nurses.
i Infant Nurses in France.
Specially trained nurses are being
held in readiness for work in units
devoted to pediatrics, orthopedics,
mental diseases and public health.
Infant welfare nurses have already
been sent to France and Rumania.
Plans are also under way for a spe-
cial unit of nurses trained in the care
of mental diseases to serve in the
mental wards of the hospitals estab-
lished at the thirty-two army canton
ments. Units in orthopedics are be-
ing prepared to meet the needs of the
manned in the reconstruction hospi-
tails.
In the civil zones surrounding the
training camps and environments and
the naval bases, fifty public health
nurses have been assigned to work
under the Red Cross sanitary direc-
| tors. Ninety-five Red Cross nurses in
the Town and Country Nursing serv-
! ice are engaged in teaching and nurs-
| ing in rural and mining districts that
the public health at home shall not
| suffer needlesslY.