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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-17
Committee of Council of De-
fence COnvenes Today.
Program Arranged i'm COniunc-
ton With War Conference.
100 COUNTIES ARE ORGANIZED
Mrs. MuIvane Reports on Ac-
tivities of Organization.
Miss Harriet Vittum of Chicago
a Speaker Today.

The first state meeting since the or
of the woman's COMMITTEES
of the Kansas Council of Defense is
meeting today and Friday in conJunc-
ton with the general state council, in
a war conference. A special meeting
for the consideration of women's work
in the council swas called for this
afternoon at four o'clock at the First
Methodist church. Mrs. David W.
Mulvane. state chairman of the Wom-
ans committee, presiding
In addition to an address oil Wei
come by Governor Arthur Capper.
Mrs Mulvane welcomed the delegates
to the meeting and closed a brief and
concise address with a report of the
work the Kansas committee had ac-
complished in its five months of ac-
tive organization. BY the end of last
summer 100 counties of Kansas had
been fully organized. Registration
day, September Is, turned out 10000
signed cards for food conservation and
war service, with thousands more re-
turned at subsequent periods of regis
tration The information for volun-
teer service contained on those cards
has been tabulated and arranged in
form for convenient reference and
sent to Washington.
Committees Scope Broad.
The committee gave the help of its
organization in the house-to-house
canvass in the Red Cross drive and in
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BOOM IS ON
One Hundred Supporters TO
Meet in Topeka Tomorrow.
First Step Boosting His Candi-
dacy for Governor.

When Henry J. Allen of Wichita
leaves in few days for the western
front in France, he will leave his
campaign for the Republican guber-
material nomination in the hands of
his friends More than 100 loyal AL
len supporters-among them some of
the most prominent men and women
in Republican politics in the state
will attend a monster ALLEN for Gov
ernor'' meeting at the National hotel
at O'Clock Friday afternoon. At that
meeting Allen will be assured his
cause will not be forgotten while he
is ministering to American soldiers
over seas.
The big Allen meeting is the first
step in the perfection of state wide
organization for the Wichita mans
candidacy. Many men and women
who are active in war endeavors in
the state feel the responsibility of aid
ing the Allen campaign while the
widely known Kansan is directing the
activities of the American Red Cross in
France. Allen is director general in
charge of ministering to Kansans and
Americans in the trenches.
1t will be impossible for Allen to
spend the next five or six months in
France and at the same time direct a
ernor. But Allen has stated positively
that he will stay with the Red Cross
work. His friends will look after the
campaign. The meeting in Topeka
Friday afternoon will lay the ground
plan for an organization that will
reach into every county and into each
of the $500 voting precincts. Many
prominent men, it was declared today,
will go to the meeting willing to
pledge their support and their time
and energies TO the campaign while
Allen directs the Red Cross work
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Avalanche of Protests Greatest
in Governments History.
Both Houses Introduce Bills
To Stay Order.
GARFIELD CALLED ON CARPET
Explains to Probe Committee
Action Is Imperative.
Republicans and Democrats
Alike DenOunce Action.

Washington. Jan. 1.-THE fuel ad-
ministration's order, proposing to close
down industrial activities and business
east of the Mississippi for a period of
five days beginning Friday, to solve
the coal shortage, today threw con-
gress into an uproar.
Republicans and Democrats in both
house and senate introduced resolu-
tions to stop it before it could go into
effect at midnight. Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield was summoned before
the senate committee investigating the
coal situation and was asked to ex-
plain his reasons and cause for the
order which senators in debate char
acterized as a mistake, calamity and
most unwiSe.
Doctor Garfield went before the
committee shortly after o'clock and
told his reasons for issuing the order.
Ihe fuel and railroad situation, he
said, made the action imperative
The purpose of the order" said
Doctor Garfield, rs not to interfere in
the slightest degree with the loading
of coal at the mines. This is made
clear in the -amplification of the alb
stract."
Will Let Some Industries Run.
A modification decided on this
morning, Doctor Garfield said, put all
consumers in the preferential list on
an equal basis, with no preference
shown to any one class.
Doctor Garfield said that the plan
was to permit certain war industries
to operate despite the order. Ship
building, he said was one OF them, but
if the industries to be exempted were
classified in the order it would cause
a storm of protest and embarrassment
of the fuel administration.
Doctor Garfield said Secretaries
iAV
such a list. -.-- ---
The list of exempted Industries Doc
tor Garfield said, would include those
Immediately necessary in the conduct
of the war. Aside from shipping and
airplanes, he said, he did not know
what the list would contain.
Should Pay Wages Anyhow.
The order was made necessary Doc
tor Garfield said by transportation
conditions, which had made it i'm
possible to supply industries and at
the same time furnish homes and
public institutions. The necessity
for moving ships, he said was so
great that drastic measures were
compulsory.
Il have been discussing this with
business men for month" said Doc
tor Garfield. IF companies fail to
will not be doing their part
While Doctor Garfield was being ex-
amined by the senate coal committee,
the senate agreed to postpone further
debate on the Hitchcock resolution
until 4 o'clock
Senator Reed adjourned the hearing
at 1920 o'clock and the committeeman
then returned to the senate
Government Would Buy Fuel.
1t developed today that under the
fuel administration plan the govern
ment will buy all coal consigned to
the suspended industries. These
transactions will be conducted thru
the treasury department and it is
estimated will cost the government
about S25OOO,O0O. State fuel admin
istrators will re-distribute the coal to
fosd plants and other industries per-
mitted to run.
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the food conservation drive, in the
work of food experts in Kansas coun-
ties, and in other departments of home
service for the war Mrs. Mulvane
explained that the committee is the
war organization for women specially
authorized 10y the government, and in
tended to embrace the membership of
other organizations of the women OF
the country.
The principal speaker for this aft
ernoon was Miss Harriet Vittum, of
Chicago, director of the Illinois divi-
sion of the woman's committee of the
council of defense. She has been
identified for many years with the
most progressive movements in Chi
cago and Illinois. She has been head
resident of Northwestern university
settlement for twelve years; is on the
executive committee of the National
Federation of Settlements; and she
has been one of the board of direc-
tors of the Woman's City club since
it's founding. She was president for
year and civic director for a year.
She is treasurer of the City Garden
association, a member of the Commit
tee of Fifteen, a member of the exec
utive committee of the Civil Service
Reform association, a member of the
board of directors of the Dry Chicago
federation, and of the Illinois Com
mittee on Social Legislation, also
member of the original board of Mo-
ton Picture Censorship. She has been
especially interested in the making OF
laws for child welfare and the protec-
ton of young people. Her speech to-
day gives the Kansas women an idea
of the things that will be expected by
the national government of the women
of the courcil
Miss Bresettc Has Plan.
Miss Lima Bresette, chairman of
the State Welfare Commission of
Kansas, and also head of the Won-
ans industrial department of the
woman's committee for the state, pro-
posed a new plan which she hopes to
see carried out by which a special in
dustrial war board may be called to
consider working hours and remun-
GRAFTON for women directly engaged
in war work. Her subject for the ad-
dress is Protection of Women in In
dustrial Centers.
DR.. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss head of
the state department of child welfare,
and also head of the committees de-
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TERMS REJECTED!
Central Powers Flatly Turn
Down Russian Offer.
Won't Eyacuate Territory as
Long as War Lasts.

London, Jan. 1.-THE central pow
ers have flatly rejected Russian de-
mands for withdrawal of Teutonic
armies from occupied portions of Rus
sia, according to wireless dispatches
from Berlin intercepted here today
On Monday. according to these mes
sages, the central powers delegates at
Brest- -Litovsk made a lengthy reply,
asserting that Germany and Austria
Hungary do not intend Incorporating
the occupied territories into their re-
spective countries" but adding that
Withdrawal of central powers armies
is impossible as long as the war lasts.
However" the statement added,
I'VE would endeavor to reduce the
number of occupying troops.
The central powers agree in the
principle that the people should vote
on broad lines on the basis of citizen
ship. but referendum appears to be
impractical A vote taken by an elect
ed representative body seems sufficient.
THE central powers can go no fur
ther."
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G. A. Guth Gave Her Money for
Clothes and Whisky.
Wealthy TOpekan and Her
Father Close Friends.
BOUGHT HER UNDERCLOTHES
He Says Whisky Was Pre-
Scribed as a Medicine.
Grubbs's Attorneys Demand
Girl File Larger Security.

- friend today rallied to the cause
of Bessie Stewart, Topeka girl, suing
Ioehr Grubbs, Topeka druggist for
$4,000 heart balm A close friend
a fellow lodge member coupled
with life long friendship
for the girl prompted G. A. Guth,
a wealthy Topekan living at $50
Monroe street, to purchase hats, suits,
shoes, whisky and underclothes for
Bessie Stewart since filing her suit in
May following the marriage of Grubbs
to a wealthy Topeka girl, according to
dispositions filed in the office of Mrs.
Mary Chaplin, clerk of the district
court.
Furthermore, Guth testified that he
had financed the heart balm suit in
that he had met expenses involved in
obtaining the death bed deposition of
Mrs. Genevieve Manning. Mrs. Man
ming died few days ago shortly after
swearing to a deposition favoring Bes-
sic Stewart.
II have known Bessie Stewart since
she was little girl said Guth in his
deposition. Her father and I belong
ed to the same Masonic lodge. Ger
tainly, our relations have been
proper"
Guth testified that following the
marriage of Grubbs he found the girl,
heart sick and alone in the world. He
reached down and extended helping
hand to her during her illness and tes-
titled that he is aiding in a fight to
give her a square deal.
Whisky Her Medicine.
Guth admitted that Bessie drank
whisky. But it was not whisky swal-
lowed with the abandon of the wild,
wild women in Kansas City. 1t was
tonic, prescribed for Bessie's con-
sumption by a physician. Guth testi-
fled
ranging from $l00 to $400 a month.
He stated that he is interested in the
Big Four Oil company in Topeka,
owns oil leases and owns an elevator
at Sibley, Mo.
The day his deposition was taken
in Kansas City, Guth admitted he had
given Bessie Stewart SIS to purchase
underclothes. He denied that she ha d
asked him for money or that an agree
ment existed in which she promised to
return the money should Bessie Stew
art succeed in extra citing heart balm
money from Loehr Grubbs.
''If she didn't ask you for money
how did you know she wanted under
clothes?" he was asked.
Il just about know what a woman
needs said Guth.
Guth admitted he had called on
Bessie Stewart at the Frederick .lotel
in Kansas City. He admitted he had
written checks for her drawn on To
peka bank. He admitted he had a
wife and family living at Hous-
ton, Tex.
Woman Detective Talks.
The deposition of Minnie NJ Parks.
an operative for the Whitsett Detec-
tive agency, also was filed with the
clerk today. The woman detective
stated that she had watched Bessie
Stewart for two weeks and had rented
a room across the hall from her in
Kansas City. She stated that she re-
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SUSPENSION of Industry for )
Days East of the Mississippi.
Every Monday for Ten Weeks
Declared To Be a Holiday.
SAVE 80, 100000 TONS COAL
Forces More Than 100000
Employees To Quit Work.
Factories Turning Out War
= Supplies Are Not Excepted.
BY ROBERT J. BENDER.


Washington. Jan. 17.-America' s
working world today rocked under the
shock of one of the most drastic steps
yet taken by the government-en-
forced closing of all but few indus
tries east of the Mississippi river for
five days, starting tomorrow. There
after every Monday will be held hol-
iday and all plants closed on that day,
for ten weeks.
While violent protests poured into
the capital from all points, seventy
five million people and thousands of
industrial plants began the gigantic
task of adjusting themselves to the
new regulation. Millions of dollars in
wages and output are affected-but
thirty million tons of coal must and
can be saved by the order. it is stated.
Problems rising out of the hardships
faced by more than seven million en-
ployes in the affected territory are ad-
mittedly great.
Appeal will be made today to indus
tries not to curtail wages for the
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play in concert for the people of the
city, and for the visitors from across
the seas at the war conference meet
ing.
This band, '-Topeka's own" is COM
posed of thirty pieces. and Paul Han
stine, baritone. Band Leader Morse
has fine collection of musicians and
the band has kept up the spirits of
thousands of men at Camp Doniphap.
Last night between trains the band
played at the American theater in
Enid, Okla Big crowds gave the To-
pekans royal reception. A collec-
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18TH INFANTRY BAND OF TOPEKA BACK FROMDONIPHAN

the last to leave, and many a soldiers
hardy throat was choked with an un
explainable lump as the minutes be-
fore departure heightened into hours.
Altogether, nearly five hours elapsed
from the time sthe band swung into
Kansas avenue at Sixth street on the
way to the depot until the train final
ly bore il way for training at Camp
Doniphan, Okla.
Today the erstwhile boys of the old
Third Regiment band are again on the
streets of Topeka and tonight at 8
o'clock at the Auditorium they will
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WORK MINES HARDER
New York Papers Urge This Instead
of Factory Shutdown.

New York, Jan. 1.-THE following
telegram has been sent by a number
of New York publishers to President
wilson
I'VE, the undersigned New York
newspapers. earnestly represent that
the order just issued by the fuel ad-
ministration is calamitouS in its char
acter and unnecessary under the fast
improving conditions. 1t will dislo-
cate industry, throw millions out of
employment and impoveriSh families
who depen upon daily wages. A five
day interruption and ten Monday
shutdowns will wipe out their living
margin. Why not order five working
days of sixteen hours on coal deliv
cries and mine production, so bringing
certain relief instead of destruction"
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boys had been torn day and night with
the fear of anticipation, which was
washed away in tears and rain before
the news went round on the night of
the gath that the next day the band,
the headquarters company, the radio
corps, and the other organizations
were to entrain for the training
camps
The grief cf the parting was long
drawnout as far as the band boys
were concerned, for, 10 and behold.
altho their train was the second one
in the Rock Island station, it was yet
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BOTH CAME OUT AHEAD.
Militarists and Anti Militarists Claim
Victory as Breach Widens.

Militarists and Anti -Militarists Claim
Victory as Breach Widens-
While German newspapers report a
resumption OF the peace negotiations
at Brest-Litovsk, official confirmation
is lacking. The result of the confer
ences in Berlin also is uncertain. Both
militarists and non-militarist news
papers in Germany claim victory for
their respective groups, and nothing
official probably will be forthcoming
until Imperial Chancellor Won Hertling
makes his statement before the
reichstag main committee on Friday.
1t is assumed in London that the
hurried meetings of military and
political leaders in Berlin did not
result in any definite change of peace
policy. In some quarters in Germany
it is believed the crown councils had
more to do with plans for military
operations on the western front. Ger
man newspapers have heralded that
the Germans had brought more than
100000 men to France from the
eastern front.
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ton was taken up in the theater for
the benefit of the bands mess fund.
More than S25 was presented to the
leader. This evening the band will
play at the Orpheum theater begin
ming at I o'clock when the first show
opens. Then concert will be given
before the war conference at the audi
torium. Later the band will play at
the Orpheum theater for the second
performance. The members of the
band are: Leader Morse, Assistant
Leader Pediga: sergeant and drum
ma jor, Alfred Crouch and Harold Nor
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The wind at 2 o'clock was blowing
- miles an hour from the northwest.
The temperatures for the day aver
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ris: first class musicians. Robert Abel,
Harold Roger and A c. Campbell: cCr-
porais. Charles Smith, William Haage,
David Fleming and Neil Larimer; sec
ond class, Paul Hanstine. NJ. J. Hart
ley. Philip Evan and Roy Black; mu-
sicians, Clyde Stackburg, A. J. Stitt,
Earl d. Stitt, Arthur McCarter, Will
liam r. Henderson, Ralph f. Mitchell
Leon ]. Cambern, Samuel GreenIee
Ora z. Mininger. Walter GilIespey
Charles Bowen, Lane Dutton. James
Bruner, Harold Gist, Thurlow Grams
and Roby Knopf.
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WILSON STANDS PAT
President Refuses to Modify New York
Theater Closing Order

Washington, Jan. 17-President
Wilson today refused the request of
a delegation of New York theatrical
managers that theaters be closed on
Tuesdays instead of Mondays during
the next ten weeks. This was an
nounced by George M. Cohan, spokes-
man for the delegation, after the par
ty left the White House. This was
taken as an indication that there was
no disposition to modify the fuel ad-
ministrator order.
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For the first ttme since September
25, 1917, the people of Topeka again
have the opportunity of hearing the
old Third Regiment band of the de-
funct Kansas National Guard, now the
band of the 18th infantry, United
States National Guard.
Many of the boys in this band are
home for the first time since they so
bravely marched down Kansas avenue
that rainy September morning. For
a period of nearly two months the
heartstringS of the relatives of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-17
Former Governor Enters Cam
paign for Capitol Seat.
Takes "BlOOdy Field' Against
Capper. Bristow, Scott.
ON A WARLIKE PLATFORM
Quaker Is Emphatic in His
Stand Against Huns.
Bitterly Condemns the Partisan
Spirit in Washington.

Walter Roscoe Stubbs of Lawrence.
former governor. and former speaker
of the house, today formally an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for United States
senator His campaign will be made
on L positive, emphatic for the war
platform.
Application of practical. hard, com
mon sense to the work of winning the
war is the dominant phase of the
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CLOSE SHOWS 2 DAYS
And on Five Remaining Days Each
Week Lights Go Out at 10.

St Louis. Mo, Jan. 17.-An order
closing all places of amusement in st.
Louis at 10 p. m and closing them
completely on. Mondays and Tuesdays
will be issued today by Lieutenant
Governor Crossley of Missouri. fuel
administrator of this state. he an
nounced today. The order will be ef-
fective at once. All electric sgins will
be turned off
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Mrs. D. w. Mulvanc. state chairman of
The Wonans Committee of the
Council of Defense.
days and two nights. Organizations
organized to promote and aid the aims
of the national government are repre-
sented. Each of these organizations
has a place on the program Several
of the auxiliary organizations will
hold separate and independent ses-
Sions in an effort to work out greater
details of war work and to increase
the efficiency of their support to the
maximum.
Only Gathering of Its Kind
The big war conference is the only
gathering of the character in Kansas
1t is the first of a series of important
meetings which have for their pur-
pose the arousing of the public to a
true realization of the war and a pro-
nouncement of the government aims
Kansas entered the movement TODAY
behind every war purpose.
scores of members of the state de-
fense council are here for the meet
ings. Red Cross work kers-the men
and women who put Kansa.; far across
the line in two spectacular drives
have important sessions scheduled for
the two days. Men behind the food
and fuel conservation programs will
tell Kansas just what the saving of a
sack of flour or a ton of coal really
allies. The four minute men will tell
of their work in arousing the public
to a sense of conditions and RESPONSE
bilities. The war savings section also
have an inning.
Speakers of national prominence
and men and women widely known in
Kansas are on the program. Every
auxiliary war orga nization has sought
a maximum attendance of its member
ship at the conferences. Governor
Capper has sent hundreds of commits
sious to men and women named as
delegates to the meetings. Estimates
at the opening sessions today were to
the effect that the attendance from
outside Shawnee county might pass
the 2 900 mark.
Afternoon Session
Governor Capper presided this aft
ernoon at the first of the war confer
enceS. The afternoon session was held
in the Memorial hall. The governor
opened the afternoon session with an
address in which he urged united and
loyal support to the government war
program by every patriotic organiza-
ton in the state.
Maj. John c. H. Lee chief of camp
at Camp Funston, told of the organiza-
ton and work of the government in
Training Our National Army''
Training Camp Activities''-bothi in
side and outside the army camps
were discussed by +. b. Pratt, general
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A at Camp
representatives of the training camp
activities committee. Barnes is in
charge of the work at Camp Funston
and Fort Leavenworth.
Military Training
Training of the national army.
Major Le, told the war conference
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SeasonabIe Weather. With Sunshine in
Kansas Today.

Temperature readings for the day
1rnished by the local office OF the
.i+o5 States xuaatber bureau:
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Military Training

Training of the national army,
Major Le, told the war conference
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GOOD WINTER AIR

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Fair tonight and Friday. Colder
i'm northeast tonight.