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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-08
BOUGHT HIM SUIT
BUTNNOT TO WEAR
WITH OTHER WOMEN

Oklahoma City, April s.-Midnight
Darkness. Silence. The world asleep.
A shotI
He shivered at the corner. painfully
examining powder burn in his right
leg.
His wife, Mrs. z. 3. Manring, had
assaulted him, according to his story.
made him discard his coat ID vest at
the point of a pistol and fired when
he refused to remove rest of the suit
namely. one pair of trousers.
Mrs. Manring explained:
81 bought him that suit II Cushing
Okla. last week for $3.50, and it
was a good suit, too.
Sunday night I found him with
Blonde and 'Blackie.' Now. I don't
mind furnishing that man with
clothes, but quit when he wears them
round with other women.
81 just naturally started making
him take it off. No. L didn't get it
all. but Til going to get the whole suit
yet"
The trial comes up today. -
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BOlsheViki Would Unite Ger
many, Hungary and Russia.
Soviet Government in Bavaria
Is the Initial Move.
new REGIME IS VERY FIRM
General Strike Called as First
Action of Soviet.
BOurgeOisie and Peasants Are
Ready for Counter Move.

Berlin, April 8.-The first step in
uniting Germany with Hungary and
Russia under Bolshevism is believed
to have been accomplished thru estab-
lishment of a proletariat dictatorship
in Bavaria.
The latest advices here today re-
ported the new soviet government of
Bavaria firmly esconced in the former
palace of the Wimelsbach dynasty.
, The communists thus have a foothold
within Germany itself. From there
the propagandization of the rest of
the country is expected to be under
taken Immediately.
Berlin is trembling in fear of what
| today may bring forth, when the ma
tional soviet congress begins it's ini-
tial meeting here The government
War Minister Noske's forces to pre-
vent a general uprising and confine
communism to Bavaria. The people
apparently are not so confident. Dis
patches from Munich today reported
that all political factions have united
in support of the new government
The peoples comnlissaries, which con-
| stitute the present administrative
power are said to include majority So
cialists and Independents as well as
communists.
Dissensions already have arisen
among the founders of the soviet gov
I ernment in Bavaria the Achtuhrblatt tt
| today says and an intensified state of
siege has been proclaimed in Munich.
1t Was an E-roF.
| Paris, April S.-The proclamation of
/ a soviet government in Munich, says
dispatch to the Matin from Zurich,
was an error on the part of the man
who proclaimed it. Many communists
| opposed the course adopted up to the
| last moment, says the dispatch, rea-
lizing that it would have the effect of
accentuating the hostile tendency of
northern Bavaria, notably Ffanconia
and Suabia.
Call General Strike. +
| Zurich, April S.-A general strike
| has been proclaimed in Bavaria by
! the new soviet government at Munich,
a dispatch from that city reported to-
day
! The bourgeoisie and peasants are
| threatening a counter strike and
| hunger blockade.
! The deposed Socialist government
| has refused to resign and has issued a
proclamation announcing it's transfer
| to Nuremburg. Considerable hostil-
ity is reported to be shown against the
soViets even in Munich. Communist
troops and anti-soviet demonstrators
have clashed on the streets in several
minor encounters.
| The Munich press and university
have been socialized. Workmen's
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BURNED TO CRISP PEACE NEAR DONE
British Official Tells That
Treaty Is About Ready.
is One Reds and ReactiOnaries
VIII Regard as Acceptable.

Paris, April S.-'Peace- making is
practically completed" a high British
official told the United Press today.
at will be peace which both the
Bolsheyiki and the reactionaries prob
ably will regard as acceptable
The official added that complete
agreement practically had been
achieved in the matter of Preparations.
the Rhine territory and permanent
disposition of Danzig. Premier Lloyd
to the correspondents yesterday was
confined to his bed with a cold. 1t
was thought he might be able to
issue the statement today or to-
morrow.
Views Are Fantastic.
The views of President Wilson's at
tftude on French claims before the
peace conference put forth by "cer-
tain American circles" are declared by
the Matin to be entirely fantastic"
Pfesident- Wilson, the Matin says, is
'cohscientiously studying the final de-
tails of the preliminary peace. The
Petit Parisien comments in much the
same vein, emphaticaliy denying that
there are differences between the
French and American delegations
especially regarding financial questions
as has been declared. The Paris news
papers as a whole reiterate the view
that it will be several days before the
work of the conference will be COM
pleted in such a way that peace may
be made simultaneously with Germany
and her allies. They predict that the
meetings in Versailles probably would
take place within fifteen or twenty
days, however.
According to the LIE Journal, the
plan for a buffer state at the mouth
of the Vistula has been abandoned, the
handing over of Danzig to the Poles
to be probably the course adopted. The
Echo de Paris says it is able to state
that the solution of the reparations
question reached by the conference
provides for complete reparation. The
plan. it adds, calls for the annual
meeting of an inter-allied commission
to decide upon the sum that Germany
shall pay the following year. 1t is be-
lieved, this newspaper also states, that
Geneva has been definitely chosen as
the seat of the society of nations. The
plan for a triumphal parade in Paris
along the Champs Elysee apparently
has been abandoned, it says
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DAMAGE IL U-BOATS
French Credit U. S. Naval Flyers With
More Than Own Navy Does.

Boston, Apri. S.-French records
credited United States naval flyers with
having damaged and possibly de-
stroyed twelve German submarines,
according to Captain Thomas C. Crav-
en-, o. S. N. commander of all the
United States naval aviation forces in
France, who returned on the U. s. S.
Agamemnon yesterday His depart
ment, he said, took more conserva-
tive view and conceded the sinking of
two and the damaging of eight of the
enemy craft.
Captain Craven described the rapid
growth of the United States air forces
in France from nine small seaplanes
to a great fleet operating from a port
seaplanes of the best type. He be-
lieved the patrol work of this fleet
was an important factor in the curtaiI-
ment of enemy submarine successes
near the French coast.
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HE GIVES TERMS
General Smuts, Allied Envoy,
Tells Hungarians of Plans.
Must Withdraw Troops West of
an Established Line.

London, April S.-A news agency
dispatch from Budapest, relayed by
way of Copenhagen, announced today
that General Smuts, special envoy of
the allies, has submitted the following
proposals to the Hungarian soviet gov
ernment:
Withdrawal of Hungarian troops
west of an established line.
Rumanian troops to remain in their
present positions.
Territory between the two armies to
be neutralized and occupied by en-
tente troops.
Acceptance by Hungary of the mill
tary convention which Hungary ac-
cepted from the allies in Novem-
Der. 1918.
Raising of the economic blockade OF
Hungary.
Special peace commissioners to be
appointed to take up the question OF
Hungarian frontiers.
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GETS HIS RELEASE
Sergt. Robert McGiffert Is Now
OutsrOf Service.
Expected Here Soon To Qualify
as Park Commissioners.

According to a telegram received
in Topeka this morning by Senator
Charles Curtis, Sergt. Robert McGif-
fert has been released from the ma
rine corps and is probably on his way
to Topeka. Senator Curtis has been
working for McGifferfs release for
several days and has just received a
communication from Brig. Gen. Chas
G. Long, of the marine corps. that he
has been given an immediate discharge
on account of physical disability.
Altho no word has yet been received
from McGiffert, it is probable that
Immediately after receiving his dis
charge, he took the next train headed
for Topeka from the Pelham Bay ma
val hospital, and will no doubt arrive
here within a few days
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by revolving soldiers, was stopped at
Helmstad and the minister liberated, a
Berlin dispatch says.
Former Deputies Brandes and Filkel
also were arrested. Other arrests of
Social Democrats and members of the
Bourgeoisie are planned. The majority
of the Magdeburg garrison sympa-
thizes with the independent Socialists,
the message adds.
jority of the Magdeburg garrison SYM
pathiZeS with the Independent Social
lists, the message adds.
Try to Avert Trouble. S.
Berlin, April 8.-The government
was making every preparation to avert
any serious consequences from the
soviet congress whic hopens here to-
day. 1t was believed that no effort
will be made to interfere with the
meeting so long as it remains orderly,
but precautions will be taken to pre-
/ vent the congress from turning into a
| purely government demonstra-
4 ton
The cabinet made an announcement
/ today that was expected to have an
| important effect on the temper of the
radicals. 1t made known that the
government has accepted the consti-
tutional amendment, providing for es-
| tablishment of a national workmen' s
soviet as the third house of the legis-
lative body.
Strike Continues to Grow.
The general strike continues to grow
in other parts of the country. 1t was
announced that more than 400, 200
workmen are now affected in the Es-
sen and Dusseldorf districts.
| Meanwhile, advices received here
/ indicate the Bavarian soviet revolution
is not confined to Munich. In fact
the greatest centers of the movement
appear to be Augsburg and Nurem-
burg GA Zurich dispatch reports the
former government has established IT.
Lself in Nuremburg). An official an
| nouncement has been issued by the
new soviet government to the effect
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Little 3-Year.Old Oakland Lad
Not Expected To Live.
Howard MeggisOn Played With
Matches When Alone.

Down in Oakland, little three year
old Howard Meggison is suffering in
tense pain and is not expected to live,
because Monday while left alone a
few minutes he secured a box of
matches, struck them and caught his
clothing on fire, burning upper parts
of his little body to a crisp.
Influenza visited the home last No
vember and the mother of the
family was taken. "A sister of fifteen.
Rosa Meggison, kept the house and
mothered the children. Monday
morning she went outside leaving her
small baby brother in his bed.
When she came in about 5 minutes
later the little fellow was running
thru the house crazed with pain, his
clothing on fire. The sister rabbed
him and rushed outside to the home
of neighbor, where the flames we're
smothered. .s
Kitchen Caught Fire. I
The little fellow. it is thought. had
climbe out of his bed during the alb
sence of his sister, had knocked the
match case from the wall with a
broom, and when he lighted them in
some way the matches caught his
flannel night gown afire. The high
wind kept the sister outside from hear
ing his screams of pain.
A married sister arriving at the
house few minutes after the acci-
dent, found the kitchen afire and ex-
tinguished the blaze.
The little boy is the son of Mr.. NJ
Meggison, 4S8 Wabash avenue. He
has a poor chance. of recovering. it is
Sa id.
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LEAVES ON APRIL is
Harry Hawker Will Try Flight Across
the Ocean Next Week.

London, April s.-The air ministry
announced today that Pilot Harry
Hawker probably will leave Newfound-
land at 2 a. m. April Is in an attempt
to fly across the Atlantic.
within the next few weeks, per-
haps in a few days, a transatlantic
flight will be attempted" said the
statement.
I'VE have placed the resources of
the air ministry at the disposal of all
who attempt it. 1t has been decided
to make the attempt from the Ameri-
can side. 1t is probable that Hawker
will make the first attempt rom New
foundland at a. m. April Is.
The admiralty has instructed all
mariners who sight aircraft in the
North Atlantic to signal Immediately
the position by wireless, continuing the
signal four times. At night, mariners
hearing aircraft must display illumi-
mated signals
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TERMS ARE EASY
Buyers of Victory Bonds Have
Until November To Pay.
Kansas Bankers Ask That Rate
Be Made ) Per Cent.
WOULD ABSORB STATE QUOTA
BurrOW Tells of Meeting Held
in Kansas City.
He Is Confident Shawnee VIII
Do Her Share.
ABSORB STATE QUOTA

The Kansas bankers have asked the
United States treasury department to
make the bonds of the fifth liberty
bonds. And they have promised to
forthwith absorb the Kansas quota if
this request is needed.
Statements to this effect were made
today bv J. r. Burrow, chairman of
the Shawnee county liberty loan COM
mittee, who has just returned to To-
peka from the called meeting of all of
the county chairmeu for the cam
paign in the Tenth Federal Reserve
district in Kansas City. Monday. Bur-
row said that nothing definite was
done at the meeting in the way of an
nouncements concerning the bonds
themselves nor in the way the cam
paign is to be managed.
Shawnee VIII Do Her Part.
Burrow said that the full instruc-
tions of the department of the county
/ subscribe its quota" He stated that
Shawnee county will subscribe its
quota. We went thru the war without
a single failure on our shield and we
will now finish up paying the wal
! bills in the same spirit
Burrow said that the best founded
rumors afloat at the meeting in Kan
sas City poin- I'd to the fact that bonds
of the victory issue will probably bt
four and three-quarter per cent bonds
partially tax exempt. The time of pay.
ment of the bonds will expire Novem-
| Der IL, 1919, the first anniversary OF
| the signing of the armistice.
first payment of 10 per .ent mus
be made when the bonds are sub.
| scribed. a second payment of 10 pei
cent July Is. and four payments Of
20 per cent each, August is. Septem
b. Is, October is. and November IL
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S37. Million Bushels Estimate
Worth S1,S9I,62O,O 900.
Prospects for Crop 152 Million
Bushels Over Any Crop.
1O1 Per CENT IN KANSAS
1900, 900 Acres Planted in
State-MOiSture Favorable.
24S Millions More Than in 1918
-99.S Per Cent Normal.

washington. April S.-The largest
crop of winter wheat ever grown was
forecast for this year by the depart
ment of agriculture today. basing its
estimate on conditions existing April
/. The enormous yield of S37'ooo'ooo
bushels was announced. which at the
yovernment's guaranteed price OF
So 26 a bushel places the crops value
at S1.S91. 100000. .s
This years winter wheat crop, II
no unfavorable condition develop oe-
tween now and the time OF harvest,
will be $4,000, 900 bushels larger tnan
the previous record crop produced IN
1914, and 24S.0O0.000 bushels more
than was grown last year
This Weld was indicated by the aver
age condition of winter wheat on apr,
!, which was 99.S per cent OF norman
against 1876 a year ago. 63.4 two years
ago and S23 average for the past Ten
years.
Winter wheat showed an Increase IN
condition from December l, 1918. OF
IL points as compared with an aver
age decline in the past ten years OF
80 points.
Official Statement Given.
An official statement by the crop
reporting board follows:
1.-The condition of winter wheat in
(
highest of record and on the largest
acreage ever planted in this country.
The condition improved during the
wtnter-an unusual occurrence-due
to the favorable winter weather, par
ticular1y to the absence of alternate
freezing and thawing which appears
also to have resulted in a minimum of
winter killing.
"A striking feature of the present
situation is uniformly good condition
in practically all important wheat
production states ranging from 104 in
Ohio down to 96 in North Carolina
among the l 900. 600 acres or more in
crop. The lowest figure from any
state was SO in Wisconsin.
Kansas Condition 1O1 Per Cent.
"Ka1sas, with approximately H.
100000 acres out of the total of 40
OON,0 900 acres, shows a condition of
101. The present moisture conditions
thruout the country with unimportant
local exceptions, are extremely favor
able
'arhe condition of the crop is higher
than has been reported on April
since 1882. The indicated yield OF
S37.O0O.000 bushels is nearly double
the yearly average production in this
country for the five years before the
war. 1t is also nearly so per cent
larger than the production during the
war years, 1914 to 1918. The indi-
Gated yield is higher in actual produc-
tion than any year with the exception
of 1914, when +he yield averaged 1S.E
bushels per acre on an estin ated con-
dition of 95.6 per cent.
Comparisons nv States.
Comparisons for winter wheat fol.
low condition figures representing Eel
cent normal.
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SHIP SAILS EARLIER
George Washington VIII Go Back to
France April IL.

New York, April S.-The sailing
date of President Wilson's steamer the
George Washington has been advanced
from April Ia to April II, which is
Friday next
In announcing today that the presi-
dental transport George Washington
would sall from New York for Brest
Friday, instead of next Monday, the
date originally fixed for her departure,
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt disclosed
that the change had been made as the
result of a cablegram yesterday from
Admiral Benson at Paris inquiring
when the ship could sail
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that the ministry will be organized
along the lines of peoples mandator-
les" who will act as virtual dictators
until the new revolutionary council is
formed. A Bavarian army is now be-
ing formed to resist any counter move
ment either within Bavaria or from
Prussia. Close relations will be estab-
lished immediately with Hungary and
Russia.
The new soviet government will un-
dertake complete Transformation from
the capitalist regime to communism,
not hesitating to appropriate private
property. Monday was declared a
public holiday in Bavaria. in celebra-
ton of the revolution.
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justice IN Itl6 Ild-
tional German gov
ernment, w Pest
ed We s t er d a Y at
Magdeburg, the cap
II L'ru-- Sax
ony, by members of
g1tEsnts stationed
there. a Magdeburg
dispatch r e p'o T t s.
General Won Kleist,
in command of the
Fourth army, and
his staff also were
arrested.
The motor car in
which Herr Lands
berg, minister of JUS
tice in the national
German government,
was being taken to
Brunswick, after his
arrest at Magdeburg
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against the alliance of nations Is the
embarrassment which he declares cam
not help but come to the United States
in injecting the Japanese situau n.
Senator Borah does not discuss the
japanese situation as an ,alarmist- To
the contrary he is optimfstic--so long
as the United States pursues her pres
ent safe. sound and established course.
He believes. tho. that to yield to the
provisions of the proposed covenant OF
nations would be to leave this nations
present policy in the Orient untcnable
and indefensible.
Looks for No Breach.
'I do not anticipate at this time
any breach in diplomatic relations"
said Senator Borah. "Our relations
with Japan are too well established and
too well understood by her people 90
warrant such an immediate possibility.
But the right of nations to regulate
immigration and resffsct competition
. of races in labor is an established
sovereign right To enter into the
league of nations is but TO relinquish
and destroy that right"
Then the senator from Idaho. IN
touch with the local conditions which
have occasioned the unrest over the
prospect of pitting Orient labor against
that of American labor. told of some
of the pitfalls in the league proposals.
mo government could endure in
Japan ne said. -and recognize oie-
1 tinction between peoples. Our own
sovereign right TO restrict immigration
and to regulate conditions as between
peoples would be surrendered. And
no government of Japan could con-
1 tinue to respect the right of nations
| to distinguish as to labor"
Bitter Opponent of L. OF n.
! In principal and policy Senator
| Borah-former Kansan and graduate
i of Kansas university--is opposed to
/ the league of nations. His opposition
] to the covenant Is more determined
and far reaching than that of any
other Republican member of the
senate. During the period preceding
! the special session OF congress. Sem
ator Borah is holding a series of mass
meetings in various sections OF the
! country in opposition TO the presidents
proposal His speech at the auditor
/ jun tonight is his twentieth speech
against the plan during his present
Continued on Tags TWoJ
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Hold Back Ammunition.

laredo, Tex, April s.-Two cars
OF ammunition, shipped by eastern
manufacturers to the Carranza gov
ernment of Mexico arrived here today
and are held by railway officials pend
ing issuance of a permit for entrance
into Mexico by the customs office
The shipments are authorized by the
United States government, according
to railway men.
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FOR GREAT NAVAL REVIEW
New York Parade Due To Be Held
Before Midsummer.

New York, April SIT is under
stood by the city authorities that a
great naval parade to be reviewed
by President Wilson, will be held here
before midsummer. Virtually every
branch of the service will be repre-
sented.
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Several Persons Killed in Clash
in the Streets.
Two Regiments Suspected OF
Treachery Are Dfsarmed.
GERMAN LEADERS ARRESTED
General Won KIeist and Herr
Landsberg Are Held.
Landsberg Is Later Released by
Revolving Soldiers.

London. April s.-Government
troops and Spartaca1-s clashed in Ber-
lin yesterday, the Amsterdam cor
respondent of the Post reported today.
Two workmen and two oldiers were
said to have. been killed.
Disarm the Troops.
Copenhagen. April at 20 more
regiments suspected of treachery have
been disarmed in Berlin, dispatch
from that city reported today.
Herr Landsberg, minister of
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HITS HAMBURG NOW
Political Movement of Great Import
ance Is Imminent There.

Copenhagen, April S.-A political
movement of great Importance is inn
minent in the region of Hamburg, re-
ports from Berlin say. Doctors Herr
and Hauffenberg. Spartacan leaders, it
is said. have almost succeeded in
making themselves masters of the sit
uation and in converting Hamburg
and the region between Hamburg and
Bremen into soviet republic.
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LEAGUE is ALL READY
Drafting Committee Has Its Work
Donc-Meeting for Today.

Paris, April S.-The drafting COM
mittee of the league of nations has
now completed its work. The covenant
as revised contains 5twenty-seven arti-
cles.f A full meeting of the league of
nations committee will be held today
to consider the redraft and the cove
nant.