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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
PostOffice Robbers in 2 Motor
Cars Headed Toward Topeka.
They Hold as Shield Against
Capture 2 Women and Baby.
ALSO HOLD A DEPUTY SHERIFF
He Was Added to the List of
Hostages in Kansas City.
Topeka Police Warned To Look
Out for Fleeing Robbers.

A brief message received in Topeka
this noon from authorities in Kansas
City stated that three professional
postoffice robbers passed thru Kansas
City about IL o'clock this morning
headed in the direction of Topeka.
They are driving two cars, the message
stated-a Hudson super-six and a
Maxwell eight. They have with them
a deputy sheriff whom they captured
in Kansas City, together with two
women and a baby.
The message stated that the robbers
are heavily armed and describes them
as desperate. They are using the
women and baby for a shield. 1t is
said, and it is believed that they, too,
are prisoners of the bandits. Police
all along the line have been warned
to keep a lookout for the cars.
The mems names are given as Dale
Jones, Roy SherilI and Frank Lewis.
It is a matter of record that these
men have been wanted for some time
in connection with postoffice rob-
berries and it is said that the police in
every city in the state have a descrip-
ton of the men. A reward Of $1,000
each is offered for their capture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
TROOPS In WRECK
2 Killed, As Injured When Rock
Island IL Left Track.
Drafted Men From Kansas and
Oklahoma Filled Coaches.

Chickasha, Okla, Sept. 5.-Two men
were killed and forty-five were re-
ported injured when three coaches of
southbound Rock Island train No. II
at $50 this morning between Duncan
and Comanche, Okla, south of this
city.
A relief train left Chickasha for the
scene of the accident. at o'clock this
morning The dead and injured are
on their way to this city.
Kansas Man in Wreck.
Three coaches of the train were
filled with drafted soldiers from Kan
sas and northern Oklahoma. The
three rear coaches were of wood and
were badly smashed and splintered by
the roll down the embankment.
None of the remainder of the train
left the track. The names of the dead
and injured are not yet available.
One Report Says Brake Rod Broke.
Ardmore, Sept. 5.-One man is re-
ported dead and twenty. injured. de-
gree unknown, as result of the derail-
ment of three coaches of Garfield
county drafted men three miles south
of Duncan at a. m. today. The
coaches were attached to regular
Rock Island southbound passenger
train No. IL, running two hours late
The coaches were said to have rolled
down a twelve foot embankment
A broken airbrake rod is said to
have caused the derailment. The in
jured men were taken to Comanche.
No names are available yet.
A Broken Rail?
Duncan, Okla, Sept. 4.-One select
man by the name of Mills, Enid, was
killed instantly and twenty-five other
Enid drafted men. en- route to q mill
tary training camp. were injured when
three coaches on the rear of the Rock
Island No. II turned over.
A relief train was Immediately made
up at Chickasha. and physicians were
rushed to the scene. The men are
now being cared for at a Red Cross
hospital at Waurika.
Railroad officials stated the wreck
was due to a broken rail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
Telegraphers of Santa Fe Ask
an Increase in Salaries.
Topeka Department Is Union.
lied in q New Effort.
SPREADS TO ENTIRE SYSTEM
More Than so Men Are Repre-.
scented in Topeka Offices.
More Desirable Working Hour
Regulation a Request.

More than 1000 telegraphers in
the employ of the Santa Fe system are
affected by demands made public to-
day for further general increases in
wage schedules and regulation of
working hours. Sixty operators em-
ployed in the general offices of the
company in Topeka, as well as men
in the service over the entire system
will share in any benefits from con.
cessions. Specific demands will not be
made public until they have been OUT
lined and prepared by the general
board.
The demand for a new wage and
hour regulation is the first move of
the general committee of the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers since the or
sanitation was unionized over the en-
tire Santa Fe system. The meeting to
outline demands was held in Kansas
City this week. Practically the en-
tire working force in the telegraphers'
department in the Santa Fe office was
unionized late Wednesday afternoon.
Announcement of plans, as well as ac-.
ton by the Kansas City meeting was
made today by c. ". Callaghan. who
was delegate at large to the Kansas
City meeting and represented the re-
lay department of the system.
All Units Represented.
Each of the rs unit organizations of
the Santa Fe railway system were rep
resented at the meeting which voted
to demand an additional increase in
wages and a more desirable hour
regulation. Several advances in SAL
ary schedules have been granted the
men since the nation entered the war.
The most recent wage increase came a
few weeks ago under an order by w.
G. McAdoo. director general of rail-
roads This increase ffected the man
now asking wage advances thru their
union.
Under new regulation by the tel
egraphers. their general committee
will be reduced from a membership
of 26 to Z. One representative on the
ePal managers district and one repre-
sentative at large under jurisdiction
OF the superintendent of telegra oh.
Practically the entire working force
of the general offices in Topeka will
come into the district Organization.
Callaghan stated, and the membership
for the system will include not less
than 1000 men.
X. K Currie, traffic manager from
the Chicago relay office, was named as
chairman of the general committee. ].
). Patton, local chairman of the EN-
poria district. was elected secretary
treasurer. c. r. Rawlins, grand sec
| retary-treasurer, was the principal
| speaker at the meeting.
Callaghan stated today that thoro
| organization plans had been outlined
and the units of the division organiza-
| tions along the Santa Fe system would
| cooperate with the national body in
| working hours. An announcement
| concerning the demands of the union
| will be made at an early date by
| OFFICERS OF the general committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
BRITAIN
GOmperS in Address in England
Slaps Lloyd George.
Declares American Labor SYM
pathfzes With Ireland.

Derby, Eng, Sept. 5.-American
labor is as united as labor anywhere
in the world. Samuel Gompers. presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, told the labor congress here to-
cay. There is complete agreement
between the American government AMI
American labor. he declared. Amer
lea says to the allies we're coming
five million; but why halt at s.
000.0oO'," Gompers said amid pro-
longed and loud cheering.
"Sympathize With Ireland"
I'VE have not always agreed with
the government Of Great Britain"
Gompers asserted. 1--WE sympathized
with the Beers and today we sympa-
thize with Ireland, but we rejoice that
the old Britain is not like the Britain
of today.
How anyone can now entertain the
old ideas of international peace is be-
yond my ken. Labor is in the war,
not because of love of war. We
won't pro1ong the war minute loEge-
than necessary but we are unwilling
to shorten it by an hour IL that means
that the military machine can con-
tinue in existence"
Tremendous cheering greeted this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
WASHBURN OPEN OCT. /
War Department Plans Postpone Be-
ginning OF College Year.


The opening of the regular college
work at Washburn college has been
postponed until October 1, according
to an announcement issued this after
noon by p. p. Womer, president OF
the school. The action was taken at
a special meeting of the college au-
thorities in the office of President
Womer this morning.
Doctor Womer stated today that the
postponed opening date is to have no
effect on the announced enrolment
date, September 10 and IL. All stu
dents living in Topeka expecting to
enter the college this fall should en-.
roll for the season on the dates speci-
fled, September 10 and II, but on ac-
count of the organiza ton of the s. A.
T. c. at. the college, it is impossible to
begin the regular years work until
October 1. Persons living at dis
tance from the college should notify
the college office of their intention to
enter the school by letter.
1t is also desirable that students
more than Is years of age, expecting
to enter the students army training
corps, see Captain Shaw and signify
sary so that the measurements may be
taken for the uniforms. The students
army training corps will be organized
simultaneous with the opening of the
college on October 1.
President Womer stated today that
the postponement of the opening date
was necessitated by new regulations
cerning the curriculum in schools
where students army training corps
are tc be organized. Doctor Womer
said that the entire course of study
would be revised and a new schedule
determined on before October I.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
new WAGE SCALE
Average Increase of $25 q
Month for II. r. People.
They Will Get Eight Months of
Back Pay.

Washington. Sept. 5.-Nearly a
million railroad employees of the lower
paid classes, not covered by the first
big wage increase, were granted raises
in pay today by the railroad admins
tration. In substance, the increases
are $25 a month over the January l
rate for those on monthly time and
IL cents an hour for those on the
hourly basis.
The increase affects mainly clerks.
station employees. stationary engineers,
boiler washers, power transfer and
turn table operators, common labor
ers, painters, masons. concrete work
ers, water supply men, plumbers and
otner maintenance OF way employees.
Director General McAdoo's general
order on the subject provided for a
system of promotion based on ability
and seniority, the latter applying
when cases of equal ability presented.
He also offered a method whereby
grievances could be adjusted.
How much added expense this sys-
tenn will entail has not yet been fig
ured.
The Wage Scale.
A basic minimum of $3.50 a month
Is given chief clerks, foremen. sub
foremen and other supervisory work
ers: boys receive a minimum of s45 a
month; switchboard operators, jani-
tors, watchmen and eleva -or men, $40;
stationary engineers, $110; stationary
firemen and powerhouse oilers, 500:
boiler washers, 3S cents an hour with
f1fty-cent maximum; power transfer
and turntable operators, 33 to As cents
an hour; shop station. and warehouse
employees, 81 to 43 cents an hour;
common labor, % to 40 cents.
Building. bridge, painting, mason
concrete, water supply and kindred
workers get a basic minimum of $115
per month; assistant workers of the
same class. together with coal wharf
coal chute, fence gang, pile driver
ditching and hoisting engineers and
bridge inspectors s105: track foremen
800; assistant track foremen cents
! an hour more than their laborers; me-
chanics in maintenance of way and
building branches So cents an hour;
helpers to these men 43 cents; track
laborers % to 40 cents.
Maximum $3.50 Per Month
None of the employees in the classes
noted shall have a monthly rate in
excess of $3.50 a month.
An eight-hour day is established
with pro rata overtime of time and a
half on the actual minute basis.
The increases become effective Sep
tember / with back pay to January
1. based on the new scale if it has moi
already been paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
TO INVESTIGATE ITIL0SS IS THRILLING
Submarine Campaign Off Amer.
lean Coast Fails.
Has Sunk Only 100000 Tons in
Three Months.

Washington, Sept. 5.-American
shipping losses from submarine raids
in American waters were less than
seven-tenths of one per cent in the
last three months.
Germany's effort at strangulation
of Americas transatlantic shipping
have sent seventy ships to the bottom
since May "a. These represent a total
net in excess of 100000 dead weight
tons, according to figures compiled
here today.
While the submarines were sending
100000 tons to the bottom, American
shipyards were adding nearly 100000
tons to the service.
Breaking all records, the shipyards
turned out 100000 dead weight tons
in August, which is sixty thousand
tons more than the best previous rec
ord 100000 tons in June. The August
figures represent an increase of 114,-
000 tons over the July production of
226,0e0 tons. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
MONDAY, TOPEKA DAY. AT FREE FAIR
Mayors Office,
City Hall, Topeka.

City Hall Topeka.
ptennber
exhibition Monday September
s
in
adv ne
1T
&
-
might be interesting to Topekans to know that Monday
will be gala day the Big Free Fair Secretary Eastman
said today that every exhibit feature show
every concession and full night program will be awaiting
the crowds the opening day. Heretofore Monday has been
avoided by many fair visitors the theory that hngs
weren't ready YETI This everything will be ready.
Monday visitors to the fair grounds will miss nothing
Topeka Day. will be accompanied by all the racing and thrill
ing features of former mid It the duty
and the pleasure and the opportunity of Topekan to be
there 1t will be Topekas chance to exhibit her support to
the big institution that has been built up much to the states
credit right here monster crowd Monday will show Sec
Eastman that the city with him in giving the fair
the proper initial impetus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
MOVE ON?
Huns Like British Labor Par.
ty's Program.
Willing To Give Up Belgium,
Say Reports.

Rome, Sept. 5.-ItaIian newspaper
correspondents in Switzerland advise
that German agents are daily circulat-
ing reports that Germany is ready to
conclude peace.
This peace. they report, would be
on a basis of evacuation OF France and
Belgium. The Germans are said to
be against paying an indemnity, and
are willing to accept the British la
bor's viewpoint regarding Alsace and
Lorraine. provided il the inhab abitants
of those provinces vote to decide their
own fate. they to do so under German
supervision The German agents
ignore Italian aspirations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
FARMERS REVOLT
Rumanians Turn on German
Oppressors.
Trouble Began Over COnfisca-
tiOn of Crops.

Rome, Sept. 5.-Rumanian farmers
are openly revolving against the Ger
mans as the result of the latters' con-
fiscation of Rumanian crops.
Dispatches from Rumania by way of
Switzerland declare that the uprising
is spreading daily. According to the
dispatches, German soldiers engaged
in requisitioning the grain are often
killed by farmers.
Near Bucharest an armed mass of
peasants attacked a train which was
transporting grain to Germany. The
farmers killed the armed escort aboard
the train and carried off the grain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
FOR DRY zones
Senate Authorizes Liquor Ban
Around War Work.
President Can Now Protect
Shipyards and Other Plants.

Washington, Sept. 5.-The senate
adopted without roll call today {
resolution by Senator Kellogg. of Min
nesota, authorizing the president to
establish dry zones about mines,
ship yards, munition plants and other
war plants. The resolution now goes
to the house.
The Kellogg resolution is a clause
in the pending national prohibition
bill before the senate but it's author
said that its enactment might be de-
layed and that the separate resolution
was necessary to deal Immediately
with conditions resulting from liquor
sales to war workers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
CAN'T Get THEM
General Offers Reward for
American Prisoner.
Threatens To Send Whole Reg
iment After One.
tBy the Associated Press.)

With the American Army in Lor-
raine, Sept. 5.-Orders captured by
American troops in the Toul sector
and signed by the commander of a
German division. offer a reward of
400 marks to the German soldier
bringing in the first American
prisoner The German commander is
apparently unusually anxious, for in
another order he threatens to send an
entire regiment out on patrol if it
continues to fail to produce any
American prisoners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

region of Roye. Rear guards which
had been left behind to retard the
French followed the Germans slowly.
The German war office says that
the French, with weak detachments,
have about reached the Voyennes-
Guisca rd-Apilly line.
To the east of scissors. the state
ment says, 1--WE withdrew our defense
from the Vesle river in accordance
with plans"
Strong enemy attacks south of the
Ailette river near Terny- Sorny,
Clancy and Bucy-Le-Long failed, ac-
cording to the announcement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
RESULT IS IN DOUBT
But wilcox Is Still in the Lead in
Wisconsin Race.

Milwaukee. Sept. 5.-As returns
came trickling in this morning from
isolated counties, State Senator Roy
p. Wilcox increased his lead over Gov
ernor E. L. Philip in the race for the
Republican nomination for governor
of Wisconsin.
With Asa precincts to be heard
from. the -ote for governor1 now
stands:
Wilcox 62.745. Philip 61.313.
The result probably will remain in
doubt until the canvassing boards
meet Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

Objects to Treatment Received at the
Hands of Germany.
Zurich, Sept. 5. Turkey sent a note
to Berlin protesting against supple
mentary Rrest-Litovsk treaties injuri-
Gus to Turkey in the Caucacus, it was
reported here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
TALKS DEFENSE
Kaiser No Longer Boasts of
COnquering Armies.
Speaks Only of Protecting SOIL
of the FatherIand.

Amsterdam, Sept. 5.-TelegraphinR
the municipality of Dresden, the
kaiser said. according to advices re-
ceived here today:
The German people understand our
diff1culty in the present decisive battle
against an enemy filled with hatred.
Jealousy and a destructive will, and
they have unanimously decided to de-
vote all their strength to defend their
sacred soil and kultur."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

The score in the third inning was
o to o.
Comiskey Park, Chicago. Sept. g.
Only a corporars guard of former
worlds series crowds was on hand to
see the Chicago Nationals and Boston
Americans open the 1918 baseball
classic here today.
Half an hour before scheduled time
for the call PLAY ball' the bleachers
held scarcely 75 per cent of their ca
pacity and the 1efthand pavilion was
only half filled. The right field pavil-
ioin had attracted less than zoo fans
and the grandstand patrons always
slow to assemble, were in evidences
only in scattered sections. Weather
conditions were far from perfect, a
chilly northeast wind blowing directly
into the stand The clouds, however,
had scattered and there was consid-
erab1e sunshine.
Both teams practiced snappily and
the crowed yelled when Babe Ruth
drove the ball into the right field
stand in batting practice.
While the managers land umpires
were comforting an immense horse
shoe of roses was brought to the home
plate and presented to Fred Mitchell,
manager of the Chicago team Charles
Deal, thf-d baseman of the locals, was
given a big bouquet of roses
The umpires were assigned as fol-
lows: Balls and strikes. zO'Day; first
base, Hildebrand: second base, Klein;
third base Owens -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
FORTY ARE BURIED
Landslide Covers Men Working
on Government Excavation.
Bodies of Five Dead Have Been
Recovered.

Portsmouth, Va. Sept b.-Forty
men employed by the George o.
Leary Construction company on exca-
vations at a dry dock in the Norfolk
navy yard, were caught under LAND
slide today. Rescuers soon recovered
the bodies of five dead.
At the office. of Admiral Fechteler-
commandaht of the yard, no details
of the accident had been received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
THEY'VE KILLED HIM AGAIN

Kornilon Seems To Have More Lives
Than a Maltese Cat.
London, Sept 5.-General KorniIoff
formerly Russian commander-in-chi
has been killed by 2 shell in Yekater-
inovar, according to an Exchange
Telegraph from Copenhagen. quoting
from the Politiken.
The death of General Korniloff has
been reported many times since the
overthrow of the Kerensky govern
ment. Last May 1t was reported he
had been killed in a battle with the
soviet troops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

Cool weather has been general thru
out Kansas in the last "a hours. The
temperature in Topeka at O'Clock
this morning stood at So degrees
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
WARMER is FORECAST

Meanwhile the Thermometer Will Go
Down TO so Tonight.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Partly cloudy, continued cool tonight Fri
day fair aud warmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
Advance Seat Sale Good, The
"Night Watch" Was Slim.
Vaughn in Box Against Ruth
in Days Opener.
Batting Order Today.

The score of the world Sc
ries games in Chicago today.
play by play, will appear in
the postscript edition of the
State Journal, on the streets
at 4:3O O'Clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

WITH the French at Ham and Brit
ish bringing home the bacon, It's
up to the Yanks to get the Rhine.
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TURKEY IN A PROTEST

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Berlin. Sept. 5.-Between YDres ani
La Bassee, in the Lvs salient the Brit
ish yesterday pressed forward agains
the new German lines. the German
war office announced TODAY Be
tween the Scrnme and the Disc river,
the s+-'~-7c"t adds the C~~-~rnrs con,
tinued their movement out of tn,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
day, fair and warmer.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-10
Ready!

An unrivaIled showing of Wash Dresses
in beautiful high grade ginghams. Priced
upwards from $500.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-10
Bringing Iron to the Front

1t is n well-known fact that
men Of courage, men with
Drawn and nerve TO buck the
line and go "over-the-tOp "
hive rich red blood coursing
through their veins. This
blood must contain about as
much iron as there is in a
common "tenr.nny" nail. The
red blood cor7uscles must be
fed on iron to have that rich
red color. The nerves are fed
on the red blood ccrpusclcs, so
when you feel tired. worn out
before the day is half over,
when pimrles show o. neck or
face, it's the danger signal,
time to repair the blood cells.
1t is fortunate that Or. Pierce
and his stat of able phys:c-
fans at the Surgical Institute
I'm Buffalo have found a combi-
nation Of irCn and herbal ex-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-10

that such persons were, by reason OF the
physiological action, gwen TO telling
falsehoods.
MIR. Green contrasted the testimony
of the Palmcrs and Harry Brown. The
former couldn't remember anything but
the big thing that happened to them last
Christmas, just rs he felt would be the
case of the jury But Brown seemed
strangely able he went on, to tell IN the
most minute detail ms 10 time, etc,
about the visit he said he and Wren had
paid To Philadelphia on Christmas. The
weight of credbilty he said, was there
fore entirely in favor of the states
two witnesses. The jury found it's
verdict IN about half an hour.
YOUNG CASE.
Paul Edwards who Mt the morning
session was the States chief witness
against Grace Foster and said he had
used heron since nc was - years old
(he's now twcntv-thrccl, was again the
State mainstay.
He testified to receiving from Dung
one night in January. ut Goung's home IN
klund street, two decks or packages
of heron. giving for II a watch cham. lie