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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
Great Organ at, $50,
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WANAMAKER'S
The Great August Furniture s
The Last of the Fine
Old Franklin Institute
Exhibitions

Wv l. 1d1AN11ll lONAI wv
Exhibitions
was held in this old freight station
shed before we got possession Of it.
The pity of it that today we have no
place in the city for such exhi-
bitions!
A few weeks ago at the solicitation of
many. we opened our big building par
tally for six evenings to the new settlers
in our city as compliment and convent
ence TO them, seeing that the mechanics
were employed all day.
BY actual count 2l,93s persons availed
themselves of the opportunity of visiting
Store such as this. For the sake of the
new home-makers and in their interest
we did our August Sale preparations
earlier and we brought forward the
opening day of the August Sale that they
might enjoy the advantages of dealing
in this House that originated Furniture
Sales.
We believed also that by an experience
in choosing furniture the new customers
would get correct view of the way we
conduct all of the departments of this
Different Kind of Store.
Any careful observer can easily sat-
isfy himself in these four PARTICULARS:
I. The preponderance of quan-
tity to select from.
2. The superiority of the Uoods
and finish and our guarantee.
3. The reas0nabIeness of the
prices.
4. The difference betUeen tinseL
and the real thing to last
lifetime.
It is not to be supposed that any one
is ready to take our opinions or the Opin-
ions of any sellers as to the goods and
lay down many good hard-earned dollars
for articles that ought to last lifetime,
simply from reading advertisements, or
special friendliness to any stOrekeeper.
Not for an instant do we pre-
sumo to prejudice or prepossess the
judgments of purchasers, but on the
contrary, we earnestly suggest un-
hurried purchases and not taking
. anything upon sayso until after
thorough examination as to every
detail.
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plunged into an exposition of the facts
as regard the Jews living in the Rus
sian pale and the territory just east
of the Russian pale
This whole district. which IS the
strip of territory lying between Ger
many and Russia, has been the bat
tIefield of the east in the world war,
he said, and the people of this coun-
try especially the Jews have been the
battledore and shuttlecock of the ar
mics of both Germany and Russia
The Russians when they held possess
sion of the territory prosecuted the
Jews there on the ground that<Ehey
were German spies, and the Germans
when they gained the top of the pile
in that sector. oppressed the Jews on
the ground that they were too friend
ly with the allies.
OF the conditions actually obtaining
in the district at this time. Rabbi Can
thor pointed to the city of Warsaw.
He said that in this one city alone that
out of a population of 350,oO0 Jews
for the most part without sufficient
clothing and with little or no food.
He pointed to the fact that one prom
a clinic for children. This clinic, the
rabbi said, had treated more than
10000 children, and he said that of
this number not a single case was
reported where a child under 1 years
old was able to walk without help.
The rabbi said that the children were
so weak from hunger that their legs
would not support them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
.SWEDES IN FIGHT
That Was Wish of the German
Government in War.
Offered Big Brides To Get In
With Central Powers.

Washington, Dec. 6.-Germany
twice tried to bride Sweden to join the
central powers diplomatic information
disclosed here TO-DAY.
Finland was offered to Sweden by
Germany in 1914 and a year later
north SchIeswig was held out as bait.
Germany backed up these demands
with a threat to land troops in Sweden
if the alliance was not made
Sweden's numerous export pro-
hibitions early in the war were viewed
by Germany as subservience to the al
lies, according to information reach
ing here thru official channels.
After Sweden rejected this proposal.
the German government disavowed
Minister Reichenau's proceedings and
recalled him at Sweden's request. in
formation here states
Efforts to bring about Sweden's en-
try into the war were redoubled in the
summer of 1915. Liberal promises of
compensation. including North Schles-
wig, were made without effect upon
the Swedish government. Germany
threatened to make a separate peace
with Russia. who was to get a free
hand in North Scandinavia
Sweden's shipping agreement with
the allies was assailed turnout Ger
many both by the government and by
the pan-German press.
Every effort was made to draw
Sweden into the war. Immediately
after hostilities began, Count Reich
enau. German minister. threatened a
German landing unless Sweden sided
with the central powers, offering Fin
land as a reward.
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FIGHT WITH NEGROES
Free-for-Au With Two Casualties
Lands Men In Jail.

1AnQS Men IN jail.
As the result Of resisting arrest
Fred Gentry and o. C. Bryant, both
colored, are confined in the county
Jail today facing a charge of assault
with intent to kill Patrolman Will
liam Meagher. George whitlock,
yardman at the Gillette & Nicholson
Lumber company, and the two ne
groes all bear evidence of a stiff
scrap which took place on che Rock
Island right of way near the Mutual
Ice factory late Thursday afternoon.
Bryant, it is said, was drunk and
boasted that Measher could not ar
that he was under arrest, Fred Gen.
try interfered. warning Meakher that
Bryant was his friend and demanding
his release. This started a fight in
which George Wbitlock participated
in an effort to Help the policeman.
Gentry threw a brick at Meagher, cut
ting deep cash in the back of the
ofdcer's head; Whitlock received a
cut Just below the eye and another
struck by another brick In a short
time squad of policemen arrived
and took charge of Bryant, to whom
Meagher was still clinging in spite of
MS wound, and Gentry was picked up
in the vicinity few minutes later
J Both of the negroes are said to
nave caused the police considerable
state warrant was issued against them
upon Meagher's complaint. but when
arraigned in the court of Topeka and
charged with assault with intent to
Kill they plead not guilty and their
preliminary trial was set for Deem
Der Is. They were committed to the
county Jail in default of a $4,000 bond
each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
MILLS STOCK SUIT
Central Trust Company Brings Action
Against IsAac Adams.

Central Trust Company Brings Action
Against Isaac Adams.
Alleging that he had sold certain
stock in the Mills Dry Goods company
which belonged to the late W. w.
Mills, the Central Trust company of
Topeka, administrators of the Mills
estate. today filed a petition in the
office of the district court asking
judgment of $2,344.20 against Isaac
Adams Of Ell Centric. Cal.
1t Is charged in the petition that
Adams purchased thirty-seven shares
of the capital stock OF the Mills Dry
Goods company. some at par and some
at premium Of SO per share From
these he received dividends, it Is
stated, as well as 81 shares as divi-
dend stock. In the latter part of 1914.
the petition continues, owing to the
protracted illness of Mr.. Mills, rumors
were afioat that the big company was
not as prosperous as 1t should be,
whereupon. it is charged, Adams,
hearing the rumors. came to Topeka
and demanded that Mr.. Mills buy back
his 40.7 shares of stock In order to
induce Mr.. Mills to do this. it is
tise the stock and applied various
coercive measures in the progress Of
his negotiations"
After resisting for several days. it
IL asserted. N.Y. Mills at last purchased
the stock for 34.314.20, paying Adams
$31426 cash and giving him eight
$500 promissory notes. After paying
four of the notes, 1t is charged, Mills
was unable to meet the remainder at
the time, and asked for an extension
Of time which was granted indefi-
nately.
But late in 1917, the plaintiffs as
sert, Adams wrote Mr. Mills that IL
the remaining notes were. not taken
care of promptly, that he would sell
the 40.7 shares of stock, which were
lawfully the property Of w. W. Mills.
but which had not yet been delivered
to him. Mills advised Adams that
he would have no right to do this,
it is asserted, but Notwithstanding,
Adams sold the stock for SIS share.
which the plaintiffs claim is far be-
low its actual value This action, 1t
is claimed, placed Adams in such a
position THAI he was unable to fulfill
his obligations with Mills The Cen
trail Trust company claims $2,344-2o
as the amount due the Mills estate for
the stock. Adams, it is said, was re-
lated to w. w. Mills by marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
RABBI IN Topeka.
Bernard CanthOr of New York
Tells of Jewish Aid Needs.
Speaks for Kansas Campaign
at C. of c. Today.

With an expression of firm belief in
the sympathy of the citizens of the
. state of Kansas with the suffering
Jews of Russia Rabbi Bernard Canthor
of New York City. fired the first gun
here today in the campaign to raise
$3.50, 900 in the state for the relief OF
that people. The rabbi is a guest of
Henry A. Auerbach in Topeka. Mr.
Auerbach is one of the state leaders
of the campaign
Rabbi Canthor prefaced the real
meat of his talk with an extemporane-
Gus talk on the conditions brought
about in the allied nations by the war
and thru the association brought on
by the war. The rabbi stated that IL IS
his observation as well as the obser-
walton of thousands of other men. that
the net result of the war in 50 far as
the national life of the various peoples
is concerned is that the barriers OF
class and religious prejudice have been
swept away and are no longer bars 10
a sympathetic understanding and IN
terminglfng of the classes
The rabbi asserted that the war mas
brought about a finer and deeper feel
ing Of real patriotism than any event
in the history of the world has done
He declared that with the coming OF
the war the fusion of the fundamental
principles of humanity was completed
and he said that today all the peoples
'of the earth. including those OPP
pressed under the heel of a conqueror
and those prosecuted by friend and foe
alike stood on an equal footing before
the bar OF humanity. He said that
from now on. hepceforth and forever.
that the peoples of the earth will be
given the boon of equal rights and
freedom from persecution
After this preamble Rabbi Canthor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
N THE BIG TAX BILL
Important Provisions of the Meas
ure In Senate Today.

Washington. Dec. s.-Important
provisions in the six billion dollar tax
bill reported to the senate today. in
cIude: !.
Normal individual income tax for
1918 of IL per cent except on the first
$4,000. the rate shall be s per cent.
Four succeeding years. normal tax
of per cent, four per cent to be paid
on the first $4,000 of the income.
All single persons with income of
$1,000 or more and married persons
with $4,000 or more to be taxed
Surfaces ranging from one per cent
on income between $1,000 and 5000
to SIS per cent on incomes of more
than $1.00O,00o.
Corporation income tax of IL per
cent for 1918 and per cent there
after.
Depletion allowance provided for
mines, oil and gas well. to encourage
such enterprises.
Income taxes to be paid in four
instaIlments.
War profits taxed so per cent IN
1918; not taxed thereafter
Excess profits taxed 80 to 60 per
cent in 191s-1s1S and 40 per cent in
1920.
Inheritance tax from 1 per cent on
inheritances of $4,000 to $4,000 to
25 per cent of those over $2,500,000.
Freight transportation taxed per
cent; express transportation L cent for
each 20 cents paid
Telegraph, telephone, radio and
cable messages costing IA to so cents
taxed 5 cents; more than so cents
taxed 10 cents.
Leased wires taxed 10 per cent
Distilled spirits in bond taxed $2.20
a gallon and $40 if withdrawn for
beverage purposes
Beer, ales and porter taxed Sc a
barrel
Wines. taxed from 16 cents to 81 a
wine gallon
Cigars taxed from $3.50 to SIS per
thousand. according to weight and re-
tail price.
Admission to theaters taxed 1 per
cent on each 10 cents charged.
Club dues over $40 a year taxed 10
per cent.
Automobiles. motorcycles and auto
trucks taxed 5 per cent on sale price.
Ten per cent tax placed on products
of child labor.
Perfumes, sporting goods. jewelry
and works of art are taxed.
Brokers pay a special business tax,
according to the nature of that bust
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
NAME MISS ALBAUGH
Daughter OF Late Mort AIbaugh Sec
rotary to Lieutenant Governor.

Daughter OF Late Mort Albaugh Sec
rotary to Lieutenant Governor.
Miss Katherine Albaugh Of Topeka,
daughter of the late Morton AL
baugh, has been offered the position
of secretary to Lieut.. Gov. Charles s.
Huffman during the coming session of
the legislature. Miss Albaugh has the
offer under consideration, and should
she accept the position. will resign as
a teacher in the state normal train
Ing school at Pittsburg.
Two years ago, Morton Albaugh,
for many years one of the wise men
of Kansas politics. inaugurated the
campaign for the norkination of
Henry j. Allen for governor in the
Republican primaries. The campaign
was well under way when Mr.. AL
baugh succun6 bed to pneumonia Only
couple of weeks before his death, the
supreme joy of his life came in the tri-
umph of Miss Katherine AIbaugh be-
fore the Kansas Day club, the Repub-
lIcan dinner club of the state. Miss
Albaugh's witty and adroit compost
ton and wonderful delivery was the
feature event of the banquet.
Now, It appears. Miss AIbaugh is to
be given her debut in real politics. As
secretary to General Huffman. the
new lieutenant governor, Miss AL
baugh will not only be in Topeka with
her mother, but she will come to
know personally many of the men
with whom her father associated dur
ing more than thirty years of active
political life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
NO MONEY, NO MAN
So Mrs Matilda White Wants at
Least a Divorce

Mrs. Matilda White today filed a
petition in the office of the district
court asking a divorce from John H.
White, whom she says she married in
July, 1918. Immediately after their
marriage, the plaintiff states, White
took her to Kansas City, where, after
keeping her in a hotel for three days,
he gave her railroad fare and told her
to return to her home at Alma, Kan
He knew, she says, that she had
only small amount of money. but
refused to give her financial assist
ance. Since that time, Mrs. White
charges, she has received no money
and only two or three letters from her
husband and asserts thar she has been
unable to locate him, altho she has
written him several letters. Shortly
after their marriage, she says, he at
tempted to get her to turn over to
him her small amount of property
consisting of notes, small bank de-
posits and household furniture, She
wants . divorce and the restoration
of her maiden name, Matilda Fielder.
She is now living in Topeka on Harri-
son street
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HOMEMADE
COUGH SYRUP
Helps Whole Family, Quickly.
WOman'S Interesting
Letter.

Ms NJ H Van Wait Lents. Ore,
writes:
Il feel it duty to write you. Four
wears ago my husband had a bad
cough and found relief from any
cough medicines h tried. Finally
tried your Mentho-Laxene and made
it up as a cough-syrup and 1t quickly
cured him. Now, this la winter, my
two boys had fearful coughs and it
has cured them. 1t also gives me
great relief from asthma, from which
1 suffer in winter time, as you know
here we have it so rainy instead of
snow, as back east. etc"
This concentrated essence. called
Mentho-LaNene. is sold by druggists
in Il ounce bottles. You mix it at
HON with syrup, making a whole
pnt very cheaply.' as per directions
with each bottle--Adv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
SCOTT is A CAPTAIN
Negro Attorney To Handle Legal Mat
tiers OF Local Guards.

Elisha Scott, a local colored at
torney, has been appointed by Gov
Arthur Capper as judge advocate of
the coIored infantry. Kansas state
guard. with rank of captain. The
commission bears the date of Deem
Der 2 The appointment is for a
period OF two years
SCOTS duties will be to handle the
legal affairs of the several, colored
companies OF the state guard and in
vestigate charges preferred against
members 1t was intinnated today by
Governor Capper that, despite rumors
to the contrary, the state guard may
be maintained indefinitely. proba bly,
depending upon the action of the
state legislature next January.
Is. Governor Capper expressed the be-
lief that the state would have the au-
thority to maintain troops of this
kind and pointed out that there was
scarcely a town in Kansas of any size
that did not boast at least one COM
pany of state guardsmen. Thus. he
explained, the troops were more
evenly divided over the state than a
national guard could possibly be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
GAVE THE BOCHE
A LITTLE TASTE
OF OWN MEDICINE

London, Dec. 6.-When the Bel
gians entered AK La Chapelle they
compelled the PrussiAns to dof their
hats in respect to the flags and uni
forms Of Belgium. They laid down
martial law in a proclamation that
was ALMOST identical in language to
that imposed by the Germans in Bel
GUM, according to a delayed dispatch
from AK today.
Ten hostages were furnished to sa-
lutte the Belgian officers. The inhabf-
tants were ordered to remain indoors
at night All cafes and theaters were
closed and no public meetings were
allowed. The Prussians are scrupu-
lousy obeying the regulations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
WHAT The UNIFORM TELLS

FREE-A book on Uniforms and
Insignia. Generals. admiraIs, engin-
GERS, colonies. commanders majors
captains. Officers and men of army,
navy and marine corps They are now
70 be seen everywhere. Can you tell
them apart?
No? Then send of the booklet,
What the Uniform Tells" 1t is
printed on coated paper and profuseiy
iliustrated-partly in colored plates It
conta6ns information that every CIV
ihan. and every fighting man, present
and prospective. ought to have
Sign and send this coupon-Today.
Write your name and address plainly.
Enclose a two-cent stamp for return
postage. Direct your letter to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
TINkHAM VEALE BACK
Assistant County Attorney Honorably
Discharged From Army.

Tinkham Vea1e, assistant county at
torney, has returned to his duties at
the court house after an absence of a
month, during which time he was at
tending the field artillery central Of
ficers' training school at Camp Zach
ary' Taylor. Kentucky. He was mus
tered out of the service about twenty
days after the armistice was signed
He had not been in service long
enough to obtain his commission when
he received his discharge.
There were a number of well known
Topekans at Camp Zachary Taylor.
veale stated. Among them ~were:
Hugh Mcfarland, James Mcfarland,
Dan Hammett. j. villipique, who is
now at Fort Sill, Charles TONNES,
John Porter, David Neiswenger. Geo.
Daniels and Richard Fritz.
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BOTkIN CASE IS ON
Chetopa Attorney With Odd Signature
In Court Today.

The signature of A D. Neil. Che
topa, Kan, attorney. has br0dght him
into the district court in a case against
J. T Botkin, secretary of state Neil
claims he has been an attorney in La
bette county for about thirty-seven
years: that in March, 1918, he APP
piled to Governor Arthur Capper for
a renewal of his notary public's COM
mission and that he received blank
bond from Botkin in due form
This bond. together with his no.
tary's oath, Neil says. he filled out
and returned to Botkin as provided
by law, but that Botkin returned it
with the request that he send him
another and to sign it in a legible
hand This Neil refused to do, and
took the matter up with Governor
Capper, who by this time, it seems,
had decided it best not to confer the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
Cars Run Again.

Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 6.-Normal
street car service in this city was re-
sumed at 3 o'clock this morning after
a complete tie up since 5 o'clock Tues
day morning. Twenty-four motormen
and conductors went on strike to force
the company to dismiss $50 women
conductors President Stanley of the
Cleveland Railway company promised
in an agreement signed Thursday
night to do this by March 1.
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commission of notary public upon Mel
for other rea sons
In the meantime, Botkir has Dot
sent Neil his writ of commission ana
today Judge George H. Whitcomb -
hearing the evidence in the case e
decide whether or not Neil WIFE -
entitled to a judgment against the sec
rotary of state for the loss which tho
attorney claims to have sustained
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KEEP OUT OF IT YET
T. s. Still Holds Aloof From the Row
Over Wilhelm.

washington. Dec. 6-The United
States government is still standing
aioof from the controversy in Europe
over the possible extradition of the
former German emperor for trial. It
was said at the state department to-
Jay that this question had not been
considered in Washington and that
the American government mad ex-
pressed no opinion on the subject
EhateYAr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
KEEP Them There
Veteran Divisions May Stay in
france Until Peace.
Include Rainbow, First and
Second Regulars.

Washington. Dec. 6.-Veteran divi-
sions now in France. such as the First
and Second regulars and Rainbow and
New England National Guard, prob
ably will remain there until peace >is
actually concluded, according to the
opinion of Secretary of War Baker, ex-
pressed Thursday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
NAME HIS SUCCESSOR
New Director General Of Railroads
Chosen Before January 4.

Washington. Dec 6.-That successor
to Director General of the Railroads
McAdoo would be named before the
first of the year, was the general be-
lief in official circles here today
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Chicago, Dec. captain Archibald
H. Scales was in command today at
Great Lakes naval training station.
He made his debut a special review
yesterday, succeeding Captain W. A
Moffett, who leaves Saturday to take
command of the U. 8. s. Mississippi
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We wish to thank our neighbors
and friends for the kindness shown
to US in the sickness and death of
our beloved wife and mother; also
for the beautiful floral offerings.
NJ. NJ MANNING,
BETH MANNING,
EARL MANNING,
MILDRED MANNING.
ADV
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Open the Exchange.

Washington, Dec 6--The New York
coffee exchange may reopen when it
50 desires, it was announced today by
the food administration. Members of
the exchange will meet in New York
Monday to determine the date of re-
opening and when trading shall be re-
summed.
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villa Once More.

Washington, Dec. S--Pancho Villa
is gathering men about him in the
mountains of northern Mexico. ac-
corning to state department advices
To-Day. This process has been going
On for some time. however. but no
undue significance is attached to II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-06
HAVE NEW SPANISH CABINET.
Count ROmanones Says He Has One
Composed of Liberals.

composer OF I1DCrhIS.
Madrid, Dec. Count Romanones
who has been engaged in the task of
forming a new Spanish, cabinet on
leaving the palace at midnight, an
nounced that the new ministry would
take the oath of office at noon today
The cabinet has been chosen solely
from among the supporters of Count
Romauones, who is a liberal leader