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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-19
HEAD OFF STRIKES
L. S. Three and a Half Years Behind
in Coping With Labor Strife.

Washington. Feb. 19.-America
needs somebody to head off strikes.
She is three years and a half behind
England in dealing with labor emer
gencies.
w. A. Appleton of the British labor
commission so advised today apropos
of the recent carpenters strike in ship
yards.
This country" he said, lis only
getting a taste of what England had to
contend with at the beginning of the
war. 1 find that American labor and
employers are patriotic and willing to
cooperate with the government in
every possible way. But the United
States has not yet created the proper
machinery for dealing with emer-
gencies. In England the government
has created the national production
committee" composed of prominent
statesmen, which looks into every dis
pute before the strike breaks out and
compels employers to make reason
able settlements. America should
adopt some such system to prevent the
paralyZing of vital industries"
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EXPLOSION ON CRUISER
Eight Men on the Montana Injured
N. j. Powder Plant Burns.

Washington. Feb. 19.-Eight men
have been injured in an explosion of
a cartridge case during target prac-
tice on the cruiser Montana A brief
report to the navy department today
carried no details of the accident and
did not give the names of the men
hurt.
Powder Plant Blows Up.
Wayne, N. j., Feb. 19.-Three men
were slightly burned today in expio-
sions which destroyed four buildings
of the Wayne Powder works here. The
extent of the damage is not yet known.
Windows in towns nearby were
broken by the terrific force of the ex-
plosions.
One wet house, one dry house and
two wheel mills were completely de-
stroyed- The total amount of damage
could not be estimated.
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THIS IS BIG DAY
Masonic Temple Crowded With
Delegates at Meetings.
Grand Officers of Grand COun-
ell Are Chosen.
GRAND CHAPTER.


Degree re p will be conferred in the Masonic
Temple by Topeka Chapter No. D. X. A. NJ
Wednesday, February 20.
GRAND LODGE.
O m.-The sixty second Annual Com
munication of the NJ. W. Grand Lodge of
A. F. & A. NJ. of Kansas will be opened IN
Representative Hall i'll the state house
2 D. m.-Oration by w. Bro: Austin M
Keene, of Rising sun Lodge No. 8, Fort
3:45 D. m.-Report of committee on
D. ma conference of the District DeP--
uty Grand Masters will be held in the small
BANQUET room Of the Masonic Temple
Entertainment provided by, the Topeka
Bodies. Performance at orphe9m thgater; eater
Degree in Representative Hall. The brethren
will assemble at 10, as the work will be-
gin promptly at 80.
Thursday, February 81.
9a.m m.-The NJ. w. Grand Lodge will re-
sumo labor.
New Officers, Grand Chapter.
Herbert r. Hull. grand high priest kirwin.
John A. Ferrell, deputy grand high priest
Joseph d. Fell. grand king, Concordia.
Charles g. West. grand scribe, Emporla-
Aaron H. Connett, grand treasurer, Great
Albert X. Wilson. grand secretary, Topeka
John Wesley Bates, grand chaplain, Salina-
owen J. Wood grand captain of host, To-
Charles \. Fowler, grand Royal Arch cap
Joseph j. Landes, grand marshal. Kirwin.
william Nelson, grand lecturer, Topeka
W. Amer Burnett, grand sentinel, Oberlin.
New Officers Grand Council.
Charles n. Fowler, grand master, ELLSWORTH.
Marion X. Brundage, deputy grand master,
Russell.
Ben s. Paulen. grand principal conductor
Of work, Fredonia.
Aaron H. Connect, grand treasurer, Great
Bend.
Albert X Wilson. grand recorder, Topeka
John Wesley Bates, grand chaplain, SaIlna-
Law b. Kirk grand captain of guard. lola
Fred J. Cossftt, grand conductor of counclb
wichita.
Holmes W. Haviland, grand marshal, Kan
Frank S. Altman, grand custodian of work,
Atchison. ,,,.
Robert Treat Payne. grand steward, Ellis.
w. Amer Burnett, grand sentinel, Operhn-
Today is Grand Chapter3 day of
the big triple Masonic sessions here.
The Grand Council, Royal and Select
Masons of Kansas, closed its assembly
Monday after election of officers Tor
the coming year. The Grand Chap
ter, Royal Arch Masons, continued Its
convocation, which began Monday aft
ernoon. and was the only session to-
day. Tomorrow morning at O'Clock
the Grand Lodge, A. f. & A. M, will
begin its sixty-Second annual COM
municaton. Delegates from the 416
grand lodges of the state will be pres
ent and the attendance is expected to
gain the maximum of 1900
Grand Chapter meetings today were
held in Masonic temple. This morn
ing the election of officers and routine
business was taken up. This after
noon the convention of the annointed
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Sector Between Arras and st.
Quentin Picked by Germans.
British Expect Main Thrust
Against Their Front.
SUPREME AND FINAL EFFORT
Hun Soldiers Told Surprise At
tack Will Defeat Allies.
Are Fed Upon Weird Stories of
Decimating the Enemy. -
(By the Associated Press.l

British Army Headquarters in
France, Feb. 19.-The great German
offensive on the western front may be
expected to begin at any moment now
and far as the British front is con-
cc,ned the main thrust will be made
on the sector between Arras and St.
Quentin.
Tanks and "a new mysterious gas,
will be employed by the enemy in the
attempt to break thru the allies line.
Other attacks will be delivered further
south. These facts have become
known thru captured German prison
ers and from information CLEANED in
other ways
The plans of the German higher
command are complete and after
many weeks of intensive training of
assaulting troops they are ready to
make the supreme and final effort
which has been advertised so widely
in the past weeks
Depend on Surprise Attack.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
General Won Ludendorff appear to
have realized that the old methods
of attack in which a long lombard
ment is employed are too well known
to produce the results desired. Ac-
cordingly, the German troops are be-
ing told that surprise attacks, such as
were used in Galicia last summer, at
Riga and again on the Isonzo are to
be tried against the allies on the west-
ern front. .
Much stress has been laid on the
fact that tanks and new gas are to be
used, leaving the infantry little to dc
but to walk thru the gaps and con-
solidate the positions captured Ger
man troops have been trained to MAKE
long approach Haarches-aHd then ts
storm enemy positions after a short
gas shell bombardment. Those obsta-
cleS which the German artillery fire
has not obliterated will be rushed by
the troops or ignored. The German
infantry will rely on weight of num-
bers, masses of machine guns and
mobile batteries to finish the work
begun by the tanks and the gas.
Told Few VIII Survive.
Word has been passed out by the
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So Says an Official Russian
Statement Issued Today.
TrOtzky Demands of Austria II
1t Joins in Invasion.
HUNS MARCH ON PETROGRAD
Germany Demands 4 Billion
Indemnity, Says Trotzky.
Invaders Cross Dvina ana
Dyinsk Without Fight

Jondon. Feb. 19.-Russia IS now
forced 20 sign peace upon the coiiui- IL
tions proposed by Germany says an
official Russian statement recelNeu To-
day. -. d.
sia -bv ,vav of the Dvina is coupled
with movement by her forces iur-
ther south in Little Russia or the Z n
raine. 10 aid the Ukrainians in fight
ing the BoIsheviki. This army. ad-
vancirg from Kovel, has already oc-
cupied Lutsk. the most westerly OF
the famous Russian triangle group or
forts in Volhynia, the others OF Whlch
are Dubno and Rovno. The com
mand of this force is Won Linsingen,
the German general who figured
prominently in the Galician campaign
of 1915, and the VOlhynia campaign
of 1916. and has been only infrequent-
IL heard from since.
The official statement was signed
by Premier Lenine and Leon Trotzky'
the foreign minister. 1t protests
against the German resumption of the
war and says the councils of peoples
commissioners is now forced to de-
clare its readiness to sign a peace as
dictated by the delegations of the
quadrupie alliance at Brest-Litovsk.
II promises to give a detailed reply
without delay to the German peace
conditiC rs.
Meet No Resistance
Neither of the invading armies has
met any Russian opposition worth
mentioning. The reports speak of the
German advance being conducted
without fighting" The nearest ap-
proach to resistance apparently, was
in the path of the northern army
whose advance the Russians tried to
impede by attempting to blow up the
bridge over the Dvina. They failed
even in this attempt, the German re-
port declares.
The northern force at Dvinsk finds
itself on the main railway line to
Petrograd, which, however, is about
800 miles distant
The situation in the Ukraine is Sc
rious, which may account for Ger
troops hold Kiev, the capital, where
4 200 persons were killed and 1000
injured in several days of heavy fight
ing and Bolshevik adEerents are de-
stroying railroads and food supplies.
In Odessa, also. there has been fight
ing.
Little Doing on West Front.
on the western front there have
been no extensive movements. In
Champagne the Germans persist in
their attempts against the French po-
sitions near the Butte du Mcsnil.
aided by American artillery, repulsed
eEemy Efforts. the Germans being un-
able to reach the French lines.
Aerial activity is the predOminating
factor on the British and American
fronts. In the north. British airmen
have az counted for sixteen German
airplan@s and have dropped hundreds
of bombs on railways and airdromes
French and British bombing squad
rons also have attacked important
points iE Lorraine.
L. S. Aviator FelIs a Hun.
on the American sector the enemy
machines have been busy over and be-
hind the American lines. American
Eunners kept the Germans high in the
al: and one of the enemy was brought
down by an American aviator. Nine
Americans have been wounded by
German shells. There has been con.
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DIED "BY MISTAKE"
Their Son Not Dead-Body Sent That
of Unknown Soldier.

Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. 19.-When
casket supposed to contain the body
of their son. George Miller, a soldier
at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. NO.
was opened at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander Miller here today it
was found to contain the body of a
negro soldier whom they did not
know. They communicated with the
authorities at Jefferson Barracks and
found that their son was alive and
well. The body sent here will be re-
turned to Jefferson Barracks
Upon receiving a report their son
waS dead, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller had
arranged a military funeral for him
with tho local negro home guard COM
pany participating
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AGAINST WORLD
Nineteen Nations Protest Boil
sheviki Reputation of Debt.
Also Demand Return of COnfis-
Gated Property and Damages.

Petrograd, Feb. 15.a eFriday. THE
protest made by allied and neutral
representatives against the reputation
of Russia's national debt by the Boil
sevik government, Foreign Minister
Trotzky intimated to the central ex-
ecutive committee of the All Russian
workmen's and soldiers congress last
night, indicated :. slight understanding
with German imperialists. He said:
''The protest of all the ambassadors
against the notification of loans locks
around us a ring of international i'm
perialistS."
Tho protest presented to Foreign
Minister Trotzky by the diplomats
reads:
I'm order to avert all misunder-
standing in the future the representa-
tives in Petrograd of all foreign pow
ers declare that they consider the de-
crces on the subject of the reputation
of the Russian national debt. the con-
fiScation of property of all sorts and
other analogous measures as without
value inasmuch as they concern their
nations and the said representatives
reserve to themselves the right to
claim at any hour they desire from the
Russian government damages for all
losses which the DEGREES and measures
put upon their nationals"
In reference to the confiscation
measures it is explained that losses
aggreeating many millions of rubles
already have been sustained by for
eign capital in connection with the
seizure of factories.
The diplomatic corps drafted the
protest at a meeting in the American
embassy 1t was signed by the am
bassadors from the United States.
Japan France. Spain, Great Britain
and Italy. and the ministers from Bel
gium China, Portugal, Switzerland,
Sweden Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Brazil, Argentina, Greece, Serbia and
Persia These are all the nations rep
Il in Pat
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HUTCHINSON ON BOARD
Carpenters Chief Given Post on Wage
Adjustment Commission.

Washington, Feb. 19.-William
Hutcheson, leader of the striking
wood workers in eastern shipyards, is
to be appointed to the shipping board
wage adjustment commission. This
was the latest development today in
the governments move to prevent fu-
ture walkouts in the shipyards.
HutcheSon, if he accepts the new
post, will be asked to sit in when
wood workers cases are being consid-
cred, just as A. J. Berries, represent
ing the steel workers on the board
assists during consideration OF steel
workers demands.
To Probe MFR. Hutcheson.
Washington, Feb. 19.-William L.
Hutcheson, president United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, prob
ably will be called before the senate
commerce committee in connection
with its investigation of ship yards
Chairman Fletcher of the committee
said today he would suggest calling
the union chief to give additional in
formation of the labor situation at the
yards.
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USES A HATCHET
Insurance Man Decapitates
Wife and 7-Year Daughter.
Then He Kills SiSter-in-LaW
and Himself.

Columbus. O., Feb. 19.-Four per-
sons are dead and a fifth may die as
the result of a triple murder and sui
ci6e here early today.
Forrest Bigelow, insurance agent
decapitated his wife, Rena, "a, his
7-yeGr-old daughter. Annabelle, ms
sister r-in-law, seriously wounded his
mother-in-law and then committed
suicide.
Bigelow killed his wife and child
while they lay in bed. He then went
to the home of his mother-in-law,
nearby. where he seriously wounded
her. chopping her head with hatchet,
and then killed his sister-in-law.
the murderer returned to his home
and shot himself thru the head 70
lice were unable to learn the motive
foi. the crime
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END SCANDAL CASE
Bride and Groom Confess Murder of
Texas Hotelman.

Fort Worth, Tex. Feb. 19.-Charles
and Katherine Harrison today pleaded
guilty to murder of w. L. Warren and
were given suspended sentence, thus
ending one of the most sensational
murder cases in the south.
Katherine was the bride of young
Harrison. nephew of Senator CuIber-
son, when they killed Warren a hotel
proprietor, on a lonely road several
miles from Fort Worth, about mid
night, December 21, 1915. Mrs. Har-
rlson Claimed she shot to- avenge her
honor because "he had wronged me
by enucing me into his hotel before
my marriage"
Katherine was 5 at the time of the
killing
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BOY FEARED TEACHER'D
DROP HIM INTO FURNACE

Hastings, Neb., Feb 19.-Refusal
of a pupil to go to school here re-
Gently because the teacher had
threatened to throw him in the fur
mace caused prompt parental in
vestigation.
Finally the teacher remembered
telling the boy that unless he
worked harder she would drop him
from the register.
The only register the lad knew
anything about was the hot air
register connected with the furnace.
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"CHRIST TO KRUPP"
Billy Sunday Says Germany Turned
From Calvary to Iron Cross.

New York. Feb. 19.-"Germany lost
out when she turned from Christ to
Krupp and from the Cross of Calvary
to the iron cross, shouted Billy Sun
day at q meeting held here in Carne-
gle hall. "I tell you it is Bill against
Woodrow, Germany against America,
hell against heaven
They say that we are fighting for
an ideal" continued Sunday. well,
if We are, we will have to knock down
the German people to get it over. Oh,
let us put it over for Jesus Christ. All
this talk about US not fighting the
German people is a lot of bunk"
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Z so D. m-The Most Excellent Master
Degree Will be conferred in the Masoni
Temple by Topeka Chapter NO. D, IL. A N
Wednesday, February 20.
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SHOWERS OF SNOW
And Temperature Tonight Will Be
Close to Zero.
TEMPERATURE TO-DAY.

Kansas Just cannot stay warm for
more than day or two at a time The
proof of that statement is in the fact
that at 2:30 O'Clock Monday night the
temperature was nearly 40 degrees
at o'clock this morning the tempera-
ture had dropped to 20 degrees ard
at o'clock this afternoon the report
showed 6 degrees.
With it al tho, Kansas got a
mnch-needed .02 of an inch Of rain
during the nfsht-at least it got il in
spotA The cold wave arrived in To-
peka about o'clock this morning and
is expected to continue for few DAYS.
Snow began falling in Topeka at 10
O'Clock this morning. 1t fell in April
showers all day. More snow is sched-
uled for Topeka tonight.
The temperature in Topeka tonight
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NAVY HASH POISONED?
Thirty five Jaciies Who Ate 1t Were
Taken Ill Suddenly.

Washington. Feb. 19.-Thirty- five
men of the Norfolk. Va, naval station
became suddenly ill yesterday after
eating corn beef hash. said a telephone
message today from Captain Dayton,
in command. to Secretary of Navy
Daniels.
The case was not one of ptomaine
poisoning or ground glass. Dayton re-
ported. Most of the men, he believed,
were back on duty today, but he is
checking up and will report later
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RUSSIA is getting what any nation
will suffer thru relations with
Germany.
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INTERN JAKE VAIL
That Is Recommendation jackson
Makes to U. S. District Attorney.

Jake Wahl, alleged pro-German
employe at the Santa Fe shops. ar
rested by c. c. Jackson, deputy Unit
ed States marshal. will be interned at
a detention camp for the duration of
the war if recommendations made by
jackson to Fred Robertson, United
states district attorney, are acted
upon.
Robertson has the power to do
whatever he pleases with such per-
sons jackson has recommended in
ternment for Wahl.
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SEEK WOMEN CRAFTSMEN
To HELP DESIGN WARSHIPS

Washington, Feb. ia revolu-
tion in marine history is threatened
as result of the navy departments
need for ship, engine and boiler
craftsmen.
"Women can now help design
shins for the United States navy,
is announced by the women's d1-
vision of war work Examination
of women ship craftsmen has be-
gun by the United States civil serv-
ice commission.
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Nelson Morris Tcstihes Today.

Chicago, Feb. 19.-Nelson Morris,
head of Morris & Company. the pack
ers. took the witness stand today be-
fore Judge Samuel Alschuler. arbi-
traitor in the demands of packing
house employees for the eight-hour day
and higher wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-19
OPERATE ON SENATOR
Chamberlain Must Undergo Knife at
Once for Appendicitis.

Washington, Feb. 19.-Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of
the military committee is to be oper-
ated upon at once for appendicitis.
The senator apparently was i'm
proved this morning after a recur-
renee of an attack suffered last fall.
but after an examination later in the
day his physicians decided to remove
him to a hospital for an operation
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IN A DRAFT TREATY
America and Britain Sign Exchange
of Conscription Rights.

Washington, Feb. Designing of
the army draft treaty between Great
Britain and the United States was an
nounced today. The new British am
bassador Earl Reading affixed his
signature to the document as his first
official act in Washington
Later 1t was announced that the
treaty with Canada also had been
signed
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TO OUTDO KANSAS?
Kentucky Prohibitionists May Even
Put Ban on Coca Cola.

Lexington, KY, Feb. 19.-Theyr so
rampant on the prohibition question in
Kentucky that they're trying to put
coca cola on the "kibosh.'.
Seventeen bills have been intro
duced in the lower house and fourteen
in the senate, which range all the way
from bone dry to less stringent
measure.
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GIVEN A COM MISSION
Son of Secretary of Navy Is Made .
Second Lieutenant.

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 19--Jose-
phus DE- nieIs, Jr.. son of the secretary
of the navy, was among the men pro-
NOTED to second lieutenants in the ma
rines' reserve corps quartermaster's
department Monday.
Allen Graves Williams and Charles
Hill Lovett. former University of
Pennsylvania students. were also ad-
va iced
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CONTINUED on Page Two.I
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WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Snow, much colder tonight, east
and south. "Wednesday, cloudy and
cold, warmer in west.
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FAVOR OF $3.50 WHEAT
Gore Measure Is Reported With Back
ing OF Senate Committee.

Washington, Feb. ia favorable
report On the Gore bill to increase the
minimum price for wheat of the 1918
crop from So to $3.50 per bushel was
made today by the senate agricultural
committee.
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TROTZkY, FOOD CAR!
Bolshevilzi Foreign Minister Given
issUnlimitcd Powers"

Petrograd, Feb. Is (Friday) ).-Leon
Trotzky. the Bolshevik foreign minis
ter, has been appointed food dictator
with unlimited authority.
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CALL MEN TOMORROW
Shawnee County Board Ready TO Be-
gin Draft Examinations,

Physical examinations of class l
men by the Shawnee county draft
board will begin at O'Clock tomorrow
morning at the court house. Follow
ing are those directed to report to-
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FARMER KILLS FAMILY.
Neighbor Finds Six Bodies in Minnc-
sofa Farm Homo.

E,velth, Mimi, Feb. 19.-Fred Ny
lund. 40, grieving over the death OF a
son. shot and killed his wife and four
children and then committed suicide
Ed Williams, a ne-ghbor. found the
bodies in various rooms of the Nylund
farm house.
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Clyde W. Holmes
Trevy Martin
Arthur Moore
George L. Shonkwiler
William H. Pollard
Howard A. Schurtz
James L. Conwell
Franklin +. Meyer
Harold Grail
George ID. Taylor
Rollo f. Campbell
JOHN J. Rundass
James Finley
Alfred Livingstone
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AAAOA - '"
Ernest Tschautz
George NJ. Vawter
Lester ID. Pair
Leslie Burson
George NJ. Hayes
Guy C. Shonkwiler
Ross Estes
George w Cromwell
John w. Robb
Frank f. W ood
Wichie B. Miller
Manus J. Holthusen
Edward G. Kragon
David w. Main
Walter NJ Frost