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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
U. S. AS MEDIATOR
Govt Cancellation Boards May
Result From Steel Strike.
Present WalkOut Prelude to
Long Talked of Show Down?

Washington. Sept. 24.-Government
conciliation boards may grow out of
the steel strike hearings to begin be-
fore the senate labor committee to-
morrow. it was suggested today by
Senator Kenyon, Iowa.
Altho opposed to compulsory arbi-
tration as a general remedy for in
dustrial ills, Kenyon said today volun-
tary conciliation boards to investigate
differences between labor and capital
and lay the facts before the public
might be the outcome.
Kenyon received a telegram today
from John Fitzpatrick, chairman of
the strikers committee, stating he
would "cheerfully and voluntarily" ap-
pear before the senate committee to-
morrow ITO present labor's side of the
controversy in the steel industry of
this country"
Congress is inclined to view the steel
strike ''as the first skirmish in indus
trial warfare-possibly only the pre-
lude to the long talked of showdown
between capital and labor" which
many have predicted would come in
the readjustment from war to peace.
The open statement of some of the
strike leaders that the strike is the
start of n movement to socialize the
basic industries of the country,
coupled with the fact that the railway
workers already have proposed the so
called Plumb plan to socialize the
transportation highways is regarded
in congress as very significant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
HUNTING The LOOT
Chicago Police Believe $4,000
VIII Be Found Today.
Indiana Robbers Stick to Story
10000 More Recovered.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Police search
for the $113.00 still missing from the
$234,000 stolen at Whiting. Ind. from
a Chicago federal reserve bank ship
ment to the Standard Oil company of
Indiana, continued today. The three
men under arrest, John S. Wejda,
clerk in the Chicago postoffice, and
Leo and Walter Filipkowski. stuck to
their original story, the police said,
that the money was abandoned at the
outskirts of Chicago when their auto
mobile broke down.
More than $4,000 of the stolen
funds was recovered with the arrest
yesterday of the Filipkowski brothers
and two safety deposit boxes rented
by members of the Filipkowski fam
lily yielded $4,000.
Five thousand dollars was found in
mattress in Wejda's home. Police
said they believed the $4,000 unac-
counted for would be found today in
a search for probably a dozen safety
deposit boxes.
The robbery was committed Thurs
day, but first announcement came yes
terday after the Filipkowskis were ar
rested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
CAN STAND z WEEKS STRIKE
Michigan Industries, Including Big
Auto Plants, Have Steel Supply.

Detroit, Mich. Sept. 24.-Michigan's
industries can weather two weeks
steel strike-one longer than that
might prove disastrous. This was the
concensus Of opinion among manufac-
turers thruout the state today.
At Lansing, REQ and Olds automo-
bile plant officials reported themselves
well fortified against a stril<e-"pro-
viding it is not too long a one" Buick
and Chevrolet officials at Flint ana
others at Detroit likewise expressed
their preparedness.
Few manufacturers expected COM
plete suspension of shipments.
Unless there is a strike Of lake car
riers there is no immediate prospect
of curtailment OF operations at any OF
the mines at Marquette range because
of the steel strike. reports from that
district Indicated today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
CLASH AT BUFFALO!
Follows Refusal OF Striking Steel
Workers To Dlspersc.

Buffalo, n. Y. Sept. 24.-State con-
stabulary and striking steel workers
clashed here today when the latter
ignored a command to disperse.
The strikers began congregating on
street corners in large numbers. The
troop commander ordered them TO
move on. The strikers responded with
a volley of stones. The troopers then
charged, welding their clubs. Many
of the strikers sought refuge in sa-
looms but were followed and chased
out.
Albany, N Y. Sept 24.-Governor
Smith has ordered a company of state
constabulary to Lackawanna, where
disorders have occurred in connection
with the steel strike.
The detail left here at midnight and
was Joined by detachments from an
other company in the western part of
the state early today. The troopers
were ordered out following an appeal
from the mayor of Lackawanna.
In rioting last night, one man was
killed and a number injured.
The principal disturbance last night
began when the plant guards of the
Lackawanna Steel company made a
sortie from 2 gate preparatory to let
ting out q few workers. The guards
were received by a shower of stones
and bricks from 1000 men, women
and children. The guards opened fire
with shot guns. At the same time the
other plant policemen stationed on an
embankment inside the fence. began
firing their shot guns directly into the
crowd Witnesses estimated that al
least fifty shots were fired.
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Charles MOsby and Son New
Owners of National.
Work of RenOvating and I'M
proving Already Begun.
PUT IN new WATER SYSTEMS
Modern Furniture Also To Be
Put in All Rooms.
New Owners Experienced Hotel
Men and Progressive.

Work of replumbing. renovating.
and refurnishing the National hotel
has started according to statement
today Of Charles Mosby, one of the
new owners of the hotel The an
nouncement is the first confirmation
Of the report that the National hotel
has been sold.
The business was taken over by
Charles Mosby and his son, James F.
Mosby, September 16, it was stated to-
day. The two new owners of the Ma
tional are experienced hotel men and
are already taking steps to give To-
peka a first class hostelry.
Charles Mosby has had considerable
experience in the hotel business in
Kansas and Missouri. His latest work
was the running of a big resort hotel
at Eldorado Springs, Mo. James f.
Mosby. the son. was at one time in
the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City
as assistant manager and later was
manager of the Elms hotel at Excel
sior Springs.
Make Many improvements.
The National hotel in Topeka is to
be almost completely replumbed. The
heating system is to be remodeled to
modern lines and the entire plumbing
system to the room is to be over
hauled and put in first class condition.
New carpets will be laid in the halls
and in the rooms, and large guam
tity of new furniture will replace the
old, worn out furniture now in the
rooms.
Mosby said today that he has re-
ceived a continuous welcome since his
arrival here from the business and
professional men. He has been ten
dered several invitations to come tc
the Chamber of Commerce and get
acquainted with the men there. Mosby
said today. speaking for himself and
his son, that as soon as the first rush
of taking over the National is COM
pleted, he will take considerable pleas
ure in taking part in all Chamber OF
Commerce activities.
Take Interest in City.
As an indication of the attitude OF
these two hotel men, Secretary Oliger
of the Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced this noon that ''the Mosbys
signa1ed their arrival in Topeka ry
making a subscription of 5000 to the
fund being raised for the establish
ment here of the government landing
field for mail planes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
four ARE STABBED
First Steel Strike Riot Occurs in
Cleveland Today.
Eighty Per Cent of 0hiO's Iron
Industry Paralyzed.

Cleveland, Ohio, Sept 24.-Four
men were stabbed. two probably fat
ally, and two others were badly beaten
near the entrance of the American
Steel and Wire company. at Newberg
this morning in the first serious local
disorder Of the steel strike.
The trouble broke out when a street
car stopped near the plant to let off
men bound for work at the mills.
Among those who alighted from the
car were three negroes. Strike SYM
pathizers sought to stop them from
going into the plant. According to the
police, two OF the negroes drew knives.
a general fight ensued, in which many
men in the vicinity of the plant
Joined. When n detail of police
reached the scene they found four
men had been stabbed, two probably
fatally.
The negroes returned to the street
car for shelter. The car was pur-
sued by hundreds Of strike sympa-
thizers and bombarded with bricks
and stones and the three men seized
and beaten.
Police rescued two Of them and the
third escaped.
Paralysis gripped approximately 80
per cent of the steel industry in Ohio
union organizers claimed today, on the
third day OF the steel strike.
They claimed fully $4,000 steel
the state. This estimate includes
union men and unorganized workers,
the latter made idle by the forced
suspension of many plants.
only two independent concerns were
operating in Cleveland today. Con-
tracts with the Amalgamated Associa-
tion Of Sheet and Tin Workers enabled
them to continue production. The last
OF subsidiary plants of the steel cor
pOration shut down late yesterday.
Police have taken a firm stand
against importation Of strikebreakers
They took into custody a batch OF
ffty-nine brought from Detroit by a
steel company. They were given the
choice of appearing in court or going
back TO Detroit Choice of the latter
was made and the police herded them
on a Detroit bound boat near mid
night The police hold that by keep
ing out strilSebreakers the chances OF
violence will be minimized.
Henry W. Raisse. strike leader IN
the Cleveland district. said $4,000 men
were out in this district. Reports
reaching him from Youngstown, he
said. show that the industry there is
at complete standstill with about
10000 men out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24

A continuation Of the fair. moderate
fall weather is forecasted by b. r.
Laskowski, observer. Weather will
be fair for several days. No rain is
indicated. Temperatures will tend to
become warmer, especially in the
southern part of the state.
No rain has occurred in Kansas in
the last "a hours. None of the fore
casts predict rain for at least two days
ahead. Heavy rains were reported
this morning from ElPaso, Tex
The Kansas river and all tributaries
in the northern part of the state are
falling, except in the Smoky Hill at
Abilene where slight rise is reported.
A drop of 1913 feet in the river stage
at Beloit was reported this morning.
The Kaw river reached its highest
stage Tuesday afternoon at 1875.
CONTINUED on Page TwOD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
Trotzky Also Says PrOletariat
Must Rise Up in England.
But Far East, He Says, Is Most
Vital Point.
RUSSIA AGAIN IN SPOTLIGHT
BOlsheviki Seeking Peace and
Poles Are Gaining Successes.
Peace Conference Helpless To
Gust Hun General, Der GOltz.
fBy the Associated Pressl

Stockholm, Sept. 24.-Leon Trotzky.
the Bolsheviki minister of war and
marine, speaking at Petrograd re-
Gently gave detailed program of Boil
shevik military operations. saying,
among other things:
1T is not in Finland or Esthonia
that the immense world combat
against capitalism can be fought, but
in America and England and above all
in the Far East"
Paris, Sept. 23.-The attempt by the
Bolsheviki to negotiate peace with Es-
thonia and Letvia and indications that
the Poles and the forces of General
Denikine, the -Bolsheviki leader
in South Russia. soon may establish
communication and coordinate their
efforts in fighting the Bolsheviki in the
Ukraine, have revived interest in the
Russian situation among the peace
conference delegates.
Peace Conference Helpless
The refusal of the German general,
Won der Goltz, to obey the orders of
the peace conference that he evacuate
the Baltic provinces of Russia and
Germany's declaration that she can
not be responsible for his movements,
leaves the conference for the moment
In helpless position, as there is no
disposition to ask the Poles, who al
ready are engaged, to expel Won der
Goltz and no other nation has forces
available. The Poles already are so
busy with the Bolsheviki and so un-
settled at home that the great powers
apparently are unwilling to impose
| more military burdens on them.
American officers recently returned
from Letvia express the belief that
| Won der Goltz soon will retire from
that part of Russia and let the local
| population work out its problems
which are largely agrarian.
Hope for KoIchak Revived.
Reports received from Kolchak by
the Russian committee in Paris give
| hope that the anti-Bolshevik leader in
the Omsk region has greatly improved
| his position on both lines of the trans
| Siberian railways and that his armies
again are well organized and moving
westward against the Bolsheviki. Re-
ports from the Denekine forces are
! favorable.
While the attempt of Nikolai Le-
nine, the Bolsheviki premier, to nego-
tiate a peace with Esthonia, Letvia
and Lithuania apparently has failed
| because Lenine insisted that all three
states should join in the negotiations.
it is expected he will renew his ef-
| forts.
Reds Are Nearing Omsk.
London, Sept. 24-A Bolsheviki
wireless message received today from
| Moscow says Red troops Commanded
by General Lubkoff are reported to
have occupied Tomsk, 500 miles east
| of Omsk. the aI-Russian seat of gov
| ernment on the trans-Siberian railway
| line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
A ''RED"?
Congressman Charges Steel
Workers Leader a Radical.
Cooper Of Ohio Says He Was
Active in /. w. w.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Charges
made in the house by Representative
Cooper. Republican, Ohio, that Will
liam u. Foster, secretary-treasurer of
the steel strikers organization COM
mittee, represents radical union lead
ership and has been active in I. ". w.
propaganda will be investigated by the
senate labor committee during its in
quiry into the steel strike.
Chairman Kenyon said today Foster
would be summoned before the COM
mittee after John J. Fitzpatrick,
chairman of the strikers committee,
had been heard. H. S. Rubin, counsel
for the strikers, also may be heard.
No change has been made in the
committees plan to hear Chairman
Gary of the United States Steel Cor
DOratiOn next Wednesday,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
CALL OFF MANEUVERS?
Shortage of Sailors Hits Atlantic Fleet
III Ships Tied Up.

New York, Sept. 24.-Eleven United
States war vessels are tied up at the
New York navy yards without crews
sufficiently large to man them and it
was said today that. as a result of the
shortage of enlisted men and the pos
sibility of many designations among
the officers. the annual fall and winter
maneuvers Of the Atlantic fleet may
have to be abandoned. The destroy
ers have been the hardest hit by the
discharge of men who enlisted for the
period of the war. Many officers it
was reported. have sent their resiRna-
tions to Secretary Daniels, claiming
they cannot live on the navy salaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
Assigns City to Italy Under
League Guardianship.
Port Must Not Be Fortified, Re-
ported Stipulation.
"ALL SETTLED -GARIBALDI
Italy Silently" Favorable to
Poets Seizure.
General Says Troops Would
Have Gone In in Is Days.

Rome, Sept. 24.-The Paris corre-
spondent OF the Epocha reported to-
day that President Wilson's reply on
the Fiume dispute reached the Amer
lean peace delegation last night and
assigns Fiume to Italy on the condl-
tion that the port is not fortified and
Is placed under the control of the
League of Nations.
According to the correspondent, the
president established the present
armistice line as the boundary defin-
ing the extent Of the Fiume territory.
Paris, Sept. 24.-"As a nation we
consider the Fiume matter settled, be-
cause we have actual possession" said
Gen. Giuseppe (Teppino) Garibaldi to
an Associated Press representative
here this morning. General Garibaldi
had Just reached Paris from Rome,
coming on what was said to be an i'm
portant mission from which he would
go to meet Gabrielle d'Annunzio. the
insurgent Italian leader in possession
of Fiume.
Had d'Annunzio not gone in" con-
tinued Garibaldi, I'VE would have done
It within fifteen days"
To Send Foreigners Home.
Fiume. Sept. 24.-The advisability is
being considered of asking all foreign
ers-Hungarians, Austrians and Jugo-
Slavs-who have enjoyed the hospital
ity Of Fiume, to return to their homes
in view Of the difficulties that are
being experienced in the supply Of
food.
Aviators who accompanied dan
nunzio during the war in his flight to
Vienna are joining him here.
The explosion Of a bomb Friday
night caused the death Of one person
and the injury of another. The ex-
plOsiOn is attributed to Jugo- -Slavs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
TO DEMAND SEATS
International Farm Congress
Firm for Representation.
VIII Send Five Delegates De-
spite Administrators Refusal.

Kansas City, No. Sept. 24.-The In
ternational Farm Congress will have
five delegates at the industrial con-
ference in Washington October s, de-
spite failure to secure representation
thru request on the administration, ac-
cording to W. I. Drummond, a direc-
tor of the congress.
kilograms sent President Wilson
and Secretary Tumulty more than a
week ago, asking them to seat five
farm congress delegates in the indus
trial conference. are as yet unan-
swered, according to Drummond.
He stated the demands of the con-
gress will be stated again to the ad-
miniStration but ''in any event we will
send our five men there with instruc-
tons to be seated and obtain recogni-
ton, II possible"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
MIGHT As WELL Be IN FRANCE
Pershing still Bound by Red Tape in
Reaching Baker.

Washington. sept. "a. - General
Pershing will have around him in his
new headquarters here in Washington
only a fraction of the great staff
which comprises the American grand
headquarters at Chaumont during the
war. Twenty-Five officers. As clerks
and 35 soldiers comprise the generals
forces.
So far as communication with the
war department is concerned the COM
mander OF the American expeditionary
forces might as well still be in France.
He will continue to issue orders in
the same way he did in Europe and
will communicate with the secretary
of war thru the adiutant general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
WRECK AT LEAVENWORTH
Five Men Injured When Missouri Pa
ciflc Train Crashes Into Diner.

Leavenworth, Kan, Sept. 24.-Five
men were injured, one probably fatal
ly, when a southbound Missouri Pa
cific passenger train, running late,
crashed into the dining car and a
coach of a train on siding at Fort
Leavenworth this morning.
The injured were all negro dining
car employees.
Passenger train No. 103, from Kan
sas City, had just gone ON q siding on
high bank along the Missouri river
when the southbound train struck two
cars that had not been cleared. The
southbound engine jumped from the
track but righted itself and stopped
at the edge of a twenty-five foot en-
bankment No trainment or passen-
gers were injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
FACE Rail CRISIS
Great Britain Threatened With
Nationwide Strike.
Union Rejects Governments
Wage Award.

London, Sept. 24.-Great Britain
today was threatened with a nation
wide railway strike.
Because of the situation created by
the presentation to the government to-
day OF an ultimatum by the railway
men in which the governments wage
and working scale offer was rejected
and a strike was threatened. a. full
meeting of the cabinet was called to
be held this afternoon to consider the
ultimatum.
The executive body of the railroad
men, it was declared by ]. H. Thomas
general secretary of the National
Union of Railway men, has unani-
mously decided to declare a strike al
noon, Friday, unless a settlement offer
from the government is received
meantime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
SHOT AN OFFICER?
United Mine Workers Vice President
Charged With Crime.

Charleston. w. Va. Sept 24.-Don
Chafin, deputy sheriff of Logan coun-
ty here to make the arrest of a man
wanted for trial in that county. was
shot and seriously wounded today in
the offices of District No. II, United
Mine Workers, it is alleged. by Vice
President Petry Of the Mine Workers
organization. Chafin, who was shot
Just over the heart, was taken to a
local hospital where it is said his con-
dtion IS critical.
Petry was arrested and taken be-
fore a justice OF the peace. where he
gave bond in the sum Of $4,000 for
his appearance before the grand jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
,SH-H-H-! THEY ARE REDS!
ever SOC FL Paso High School Stu
dents Strike Rather Than Sign
Obedience Pledge.

Ell Paso, Tex. Sept. 24.-More than
900 high school students were on
strike here today, following orders
from Principal R. w. Fowler that stu
dents sign an obedience pledge or quit
school.
Students paraded thru the city yes
terday. wearing red emblems. Red
has been adopted as the strikers col
or. The school board has backed
Fowler in his stand, announcing
schools will be closed If the students
refuse to give in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
.SHOPMEN TO KICK
Convention in Chicago Thurs
day To Protest Wilson Award.
Chicago Union Faces Expulsion
for Not Suspending Saunders.

Chicago. Sept. PA convention of
railway shopmen, dissatisfied with the
recent 4 per cent increase in wages,
will meet in Chicago Thursday, it was
announced today. The Chicago dis
trict council which directed the for
mer unauthorized strike probably will
sponsor the new protest.
]. D. Saunders, secretary of the
council, said his local union was
threatened with revocation of its
charter because it had not suspended
him for defying higher authorities in
the organization
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
JOHN REMSBERG DEAD
Free Thought Leader, Lecturer and
Author Formerly Lived at Potter, Kan.

Porterville. Cal. Sept. 24.-John
Eleazer Remsburg, one of the leaders
United States for fifty years and who
lectured thruout the country and
wrote a number of books on Free
Thought, died here yesterday. aged II
He was for many years a resident of
Potter. Kan. He is survived by a
widow and five children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
SPY ON STRIKERS FROM AIR

Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 24.-An
aerial patrol of the Youngstown
strike district was established to-
day by the Youngstown police de-
partment. The Youngstown avia-
tion club proffered the use OF a
machine which has been accepted.
Captain Deeds of the Canadian
Royal flying corps will pilot the
machine. Aerial photogra phs will
be taken of activities about the big
police department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-24
HUNS SEEK BIG LOAN
Request 100 Millions From Argentina
To Buy Raw Materials There.

Buenos Aires. Sept. 23.-Formal
negotiations were opened today by
Germany for a loan of S100.0O0.0 900
from Argentina to facilitate the pur-
chase of raw materials in this country.
Foreign minister Pueyrredon on whom
the German delegation called. told the
visitors the matter would be referred
to President Irgoyen. 1t was stated by
the delegation that such security as
Argentina desired would be provided.
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OUT IN SYMPATHY STRIKE.
BIacksmiths and Machinists Ordered
To Strike in birmingham District.

Birmingham. Ala, Sept. 24.-Mem-
bers of the blacksmiths and machinists
union in the Birmingham district were
called out on strike today by B. w.
King. business agent for the machin-
lists union, upon receipt Of telegram
from W. H. Johnston, international
organizer Of the union, now in Wash
ington.
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German Chancellor III.

Berlin. Sept 23.-Chancellor Bauer
has fallen III. having suffered an at
tack of heart trouble. He is unable 20
perform his official duties.