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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-17

"On one occasion some time ago the
situation became so unbearable that
my daughter actually fled from her
home. She almost succeeded in reach
ing Switzerland. Orders were sent
from Berlin to intercept her and she
was captured at the German frontier
like common criminal and taken to
Berlin under arrest. trsss
She Has the Evidence. E
"My daughter will be able to place
before the German court overwheln-
ing evidence against her husband and
will be able to prove many instances
of the grossest cruelty against him,
His infidelities were numerous and
there is abundant proof of them. His
brutality was atroc.ou5 On more
than one occasion my daughter was
treated with actual violence. She was
bruised and her face was disfigured
by her husbands blows"
Berlin dispatches by way Of Zurich Feb
ruary said that Frederick Willinm had
Instituted proceedings for n divorce buE
there have been no further reports on the
case. The former crown prince ami
Princess ceciIe were married in June. 1906.
The pair have five children, the youngest
having been born In 1915 The former
crown prince is in exile in Holland. fiix
family has remained at Potsdam.
The former Grand Duchess Anastaaio
was n grand duchess of Russia before her
marriage. Since the war she has been Nv
ing in Switzerland. She renowned her
German nationality and renewed her al
legianee to Russia late I'm 1913.
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THE SITUATION IN EUROPE
Summary by the Associated Press
of What They Do Across the Water.

Germany will be forced either to accept
or reject the allied peace terms by May ID.
according to reports printed in Paris. 1t
is indicated that no reply is expected be-
fore May G. the peace conference being dis
posed to give the German government what
it considers ample time in which to digest
the terms and frame its reply. What
action would follow rejection of the terms
by the Germans has not been forecast in
reports from the French capital.
French foreign minister. to divulge the de
tails of the provisions of the proposed
treaty while speaking in the chamber OF
deputies yesterday, and the failure OF Ere
mier Lloyd George to speak in more than
general terms before the house of commons
would seem to indicate that no intimatfon
of the terms will be made public at present.
1t was announced at meeting of the
council of ten in Paris yesterday that
various articles of the pact now are in the
hands of the drafting committee. and that
the remaining articles would be disposed
of today. 1t seems probable. therefore.
that the treaty is in a fair way to be COM
pleted within a very brief period.
Norway and Switzerland will act as
agents of the allied and associate govern
ments in feeding Russia it has been agreed
ut Paris. Representatives of France here
these will be considered today. The plan
is opposed by Russian elements opposed
probable they will ultimately acquisce in
the allied decision
The question of the United States be-
coming mandatory for Armenia and the
ancient province of Cecilia, to the southwest
is again being considered at the peace con-
ference. There seems to be a disposition
on the part of the several of the entente
powers also to ask this country to take
over control of Constantineple, a sugges-
tion which is said to appeal to some mem
bers of the American commission
Albania has appealed to Premier Gle
menccau as president of the peace confer
ence asking for confirmation of the COM
pIete independence of that country, Here,
too. there is a Willingness that the United
States should assume control o. govern
mental affairs. at least until the little
country has organized its political system.
The communists are still in control of
Munich, but heavy forces of Bavarian
troops are said to have begun an advance
on the Bavarian capital. according to Ber-
lin advices. 1t is not known. however
whether a decisive battle has as yet been
fought. II is believed the city will not he
attacked until the government has thrown
Il strong Gordon Of troops about it.
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WILL MEET PALS
Ten Members of 35th Leave To
Welcome Division.
All We're Sent Home After Be.
coming Casualties.

Ten casualties of the 35th division
left Topeka this afternoon for New
York to aid in extending a Kansas
welcome to the returning fighting
men. All of the men, in the delega-
ton, under command of Lieut. Col
Bruce Griffith. of Wichita, were re-
turned home because of injuries re-
ceived on the fighting fronts.
Some of the men in the delega ton
were gassed, others were wounded.
All saw active service in the front
ranks and went overseas with the
original 35th division. 1t Is proba BILE
that Kansas is one of the few states
in the nation to send a delegation of
wounded and gassed soldiers to well
come their comrades when they reach
New York harbor.
Three Are Topekans.
In the delegation which left Topeka
this afternoon were three Topekans--
Frank Fichtner. Reed NJ. Lyons and
Thad Harper. Men from the various
units of the 35th were selected for the
delegation. which is to stage the home
coming reception in New York Mem
bers of the deIega ton include:
Henry Williamson and Lawrence
Quaney, Oskaloosa. members 139th
infantry: Dale Crippen, Hutchinson.
37th infantry; Frank F'ichtner and
Reed NJ. Lyons. Topeka, both field
artillery; Thad Harper. Topeka, 139th
infantry: Alexander T. Virgins and
i Harold r. Wollver. Fredonia. 137th
infantry: Frank Franey and Glen
SchooIet. Kansas City. Kan, 13Dth
field artillery: Noble T. Foster, Dodge
City, 117th ammunition train. Lieut.
| Col. Bruce Griffith. of wichita who
comma nded the 130th field artillery
| is in charge Of the casual delegation.
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TO WORK
That Is Order of English Com
mander to the Huns.
When Trouble Spreads to CO.
lOgne He Acts Quickly.

Coblenz, April 17.-In consequence
of the spread of the German strikes to
the Cologne district. Lieut.. Gen. Sir
Herbert Plumer, in command of the
British forces on the Rhine, issued
proclamation today ordering the i'm
mediate return of the men to work
and threatening the strongest meas
ures against persons promoting or
countenancing strikes in the British
zone of occupation. The general Of
fered military mediation if other
means of settlement failed. A squad
ron of British airplanes <lew over the
affected district today.
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TURN TO TURKEY
Grave Anxiety Is Felt Over the
Situation There.
Internal Disorder Is Rife in the
Ottoman Empire. ;

London, April lit is learned
here that. the situation in Turkey is
causing grave anxiety. Internal dis
orders are rife, according to reports
from Rear Admiral webb. Il. N, at
Constantinople. 1t is feared there
will shortly be outbreaks and massa-
cres of the Armenian population on a
large scale.
The situation at Smyrna where the
Turks and Greeks are ready to spring
at each others throats is typical of
the situation thruout Turkey. Bands
of brigands are dominating the coun-
try even within a few miles of Con-
stantinople and committing atrocious
murders. The Committee of Union
and Progress. the Young Turk organ
ization which was driven from power
in Constantinople as a result of the
allied victory. is reported to be secret
Iy conducting an energetic reorgani-
zation movement.
Further disorders are feared in
Egypt A division of British troops
is on the way from the Dobrudja to
reinforce the troops of Major General
Allenby, the special high commits
sioner to Egypt, and to relieve a large
number of Australian and New Zea-
land soldiers who will return home.
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Husband Says. Negro Assaulted
His Wife Near Grove.
Farm Hand and Mrs. Jess Muri-
nix in Battle Alone.
IHE SENT CHILDREN AWAY
Negro Gave Them 5 Cents To
Go to Onion Patch.
Sheriff's Force RuShes to Home
in Motor Cars.

An alleged assault upon a farmers
young wife by a negro a few miles
north of Grove and about fifteen miles
from Topeka Monday afternoon was
brought to light late today when a
complaint was sworn before county Of
ficials by the husband of the victim
lied woman. The sheriffs force is out
this afternoon in search of the negro.
It is described as one of the most das-
taraly deeds in the annals of Shawnee
county criminal records.
The story as told by the farmer, Jess
Murinix, follows:
Monday morning Arthur Anderson.
a negro, who was plowing across the
road from the Murinix home, stopped
work and walked across the highway
to the Murinix farm house. He had
seen the farmer leave that morning
and knew he was out in the fields. He
made advances toward Mrs. Murinlx,
an attractive woman, % years of age.
She resisted his advances, scolded
him for his remarks, told him that her
husband would shoot him if he dis
covered it, and succeeded in influence
ing him to leave.
Early in the afternoon he ap-
preached the house again. Seeing the
children playing in the yard he
reached in his pocket, called them to
him, gave the oldest child of a s.
cent piece and told her to take the lit
tie group over the hill to an onion
patch and pull onions.
Assaulted Farmers Wife.
When the children had disappeared
he entered the house and again made
advances toward Mrs Murinix. His
advances were those of a man crazed
with evil intent and in a few moments
the young woman and the negro were
graphing. Mrs. Murinix fought to
the limit of her endurance for sew
0VRTD0WeT6d
and assaulted.
The delay in making complaint to
the county officials is not understood,
but not until today did information
court house.
Immediately after the complaint
was filed the sheriff and several
deputies rushed to Grove in motor
cars.
Anderson. it is understood, has dis
1 to locate him.
/ No word had been heard from the
| sheriff's force at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon.
The telephone lines in the vicinity
of Grove were out of order this after
noon. The nearest neighbor to the
1 Murinix farm who could be reached
| by telephone was six miles east. 1t
| was stated there that there was no
knowledge of Apderson's where
| abouts. Also that Mrs. Murinix was
reported as seriously ill last night.
Second Affair at Grove.
| Grove also was the scene of much
| excitement last Tuesday afternoon late
| when William Smith, a farmer, was
killed and George Uhls, son of Jacob
| Uhls. was wounded in a fight in which
H. G. Hogan, a Union Pacific section
foreman, was accused of shooting the
| two men. The fight was said to have
| grown out of an old quarrel. Hogan
was brought to Topeka and placed ir
| Jail here.
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Strikers and Contractors Slight
) ly Nearer Agreement.
Employers Give Concessions,
i but Unions Stand Pat.

Union carpenters, striking for an
increase of 121z cents an hour, re-
fused at a conference ending last
midnight to consider an offer from
Topeka contractors master builders)
Fe increase theirV Day Y Cents an,
Meur The carpenters, It was said to-.
day by Henry Bennett, chairman of
same meeting refused to consider pro-
posals made by the master builders
for arbitration.
The offer of 7h cents an hour
would increase <he pay of the carpen-
ters to 20 cents an hour, or $3.50. a
or Sc a day. AS the result the differ
ence OFFS cents an hour between the
carpenters and contractors, and the
refusal of the former to arbitrate. is
holding up construction work on hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
building Improvements in Topeka.
Hold Other Conferences.
The contractors, it was said by Ben
nett, will hold a conference this after
noon and another this evening. 1t is
understood that the carpenters will
also hold similar meetings.
When asked about reports that the
offer by the contractors to grant an
increase of u cents an hour, and
expected developments today, would
result in an early settlement of the
strike, Bennett said that the carpen-
ters last midnight stood pat" and
put on a "solid 'front.' for the full IS
cent rate. Bennett also said that the
next step for settlement would have
to come from the carpenters, as it is
now their move.'
Freeman ]. Rohde, federal concilia-
tor, who has been working with the
opposing factions of builders, was still
in the city today. He is directing con-
siderable attention to the carpenters.
it is asserted, in an effort to induce
them to meet the contractors halfway
in the controversy.
When the State Journal called La
Dor hall on the telephone today and
asked for confirmation on reports that
IAN carly settlement was in prospect, ="
the person answering the telephone.
who said he was a member of the la
Dor bureau, declared that the carpen-
ters were standing pat for the full IS
cents an hour.
who can 1 quote as saying that?''
asked the State Journal reporter.
wait a minute. Here's one of our
committeeman" said the voice at the
other end of the telephone. After an
interval the speaker turned back to
the phone and said:
THE committeeman says he has
nothing to say"
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RODERICK SLOWER DIES
Son of Former Lieutenant Governor
Owned Much Property Here.

Son of Former Lieutenant Governor
Owned Much Property Here.
Word of the death of Roderick
Stover, SO years old, a son of Elias E.
Slower, lieutenant governor of Kansas
under the Thomas Osborn administra-
ton, was received in Topeka today.
He died at his home in Albuquerque,
N. NJ, April II. Altho Stover never
lived here ne was well known as
frequent visitor and the owner of con-
siderable Topeka property. including
1913 Kansas avenue and the property
on West Eighth street beginning with
the Peterson jewelry store site and
ending with the Topekafe location.
Stover's home in Albuquerque, at
906 West Central avenue, was one of
the most beautiful in that city, it Is
asserted Death resulted from a cold
contracted while inspecting an cleo
trical plant at Gallup.
Slower is survived by his widow
Mrs. Louise Slower. two children, Lo-
leta, IA, and Henry, .. and his father
who is now resident of Albuquerque
The deceased was an electrical en-
gineer of considerable ability and q
graduate of the University of New
Mexico and Colombia university in
New Mexico. His father. after re-
moving to New Mexico. was a MEM
her of the constitutional convention in
that state.
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Huns VIII Be Given Until Then
To Sign the Treaty.
Paris Reports Say the Date Has
Been Decided On.
} WEEKS FOR HUN TO TALK
Then Other Foes Will Be
Called In To Hear Terms.
Russian Situation Due To Come
to Head Soon.

Paris. April 17.-Peace will be
signed with Germany by May 10, ac-
cording to the best information OBJ
tainabIe today. That date is under
stood to have been tentatively set as
the time limit for the enemy to accept
all conditions of the treaty.
Providing this arrangement is car
ried out. the Germans will have just
three weeks to debate settlement
which required the allies almost four
months to arrange.
All Did Not Sign.
The invitations to the Germans ap-
parently was forwarded before all the
belligerents had an opportunity to
sign it. 1t is understood to have been
taken by courier to Spa on Tuesday,
at which time only the five great pow
ers had signed the text. The eighteen
smaller belligerents were called in
yesterday and the document read to
them by Premier Clemenceau, after
which their approval was asked. No
objection was offered and the addi-
tional signatures were affixed. The
meeting took place in Foreign Minister
Pichon's office at the Quai D'Orsay.
1t was purely formal, but necessary,
as there were twenty-three nations at
war with Germany, instead of five.
The document bearing the signatures
of the smaller nations, it was believed.
was hurried to Spa in the wake of the
first message.
Call i'm Other Enemies.
The Austrian, Turkish and Bulgar-
ian representatives probably will be
summoned to Paris simultaneously
soon after the treaty is handed to the
Germans on April rs. There vas a
disposition today to believe the treaties
with those countries, which are un-
derstood to be much less complicated,
might be signed at least as soon as
the treaty with the Germans.
The latest tentative date for Presi-
dent Wilson to arrive in Washington
is between May 20 and 25 thus indi-
eating the American delegates believe
the Germans may accep the treaty be-
fore the expiration of the proposed
time limit.
Anti-BOlsheviII Opposed.
The reported agreement to furnish
food in Russia was expected to bring
the entire Russian situation to a head.
Some difficulty was anticipated, how
ever. in effecting the cessation of all
fighting in Russia. for while the al
lied forces under the proposed agree
ment could be Withdrawn without in
reference, the anti-Bolshevik factions
represented in Paris are openly op-
posed to the revictualing plan and
have indicated their intention of con-
tinuing the fight against the soviet
forces. Bolsheviki must cease fight
ing under the rule laid down.
The latest advices on the situation
| in Munich indicated the soviet gov
ernment is again temporarily in con-
| troll with the Socialist forces besieg-
ing the city. In other parts of Ger
many, disturbances appeared to be
(COntinued hr Page Two.l
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new PEACE BODY
German Reichstag Selects An
other Peace Commission.
kOnStantin Fehrenbach Heads
the Delegates, Is Report.

Berne, April II. = The German
reichstag has appointed a new peace
commission, the semi-official Wolff
agency reported today.
The new commission, it was said,
is imposed of Konstantin Fehren-
bach, three vic, presidents of the
chamber and twenty-eight members,
including Baron Richtofen and Hugo
Haase.
Several reports have been received of the
probable personnel of the German peace
commission. All previous Dispatches agreed
that Foreign Minister Brockdorff- Rantzau
would head the delegation. Accounts have
agreed the delegation would total 2J0 or
800 men. including experts. technicians etc.
The above dispatch probably refers only to
the delegates selected from the member
ship Of the reichstag.
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Option Obtained on Lots at
S15-17-19 Kansas Avenue.
Cost To Be Between 100000
and 100000.
MAY START WORK THIS YEAR
Local Theater Man at Head of
Proposed Plans.
Number OF Local Business Men
Are Behind Move.

Plans are being formulated. it was
learned today, for the erection of a
legitimate stage theater costing from
100000 to 100000 at s15-17-19 Kan
sas avenue. Options on the site, with
privilege of long time lease or pur-
chase. were obtained several weeks
ago by a prominent Topeka theater
owner from the late Roderick Slower
of Albuquerque, n. NJ, who owned the
property.
Negotiations to renew the option,
with slight alterations, are now being
made by attorneys for the Topeka the
atrical operator with the Slower heirs.
Handle Largest Shows.
Plans for the erection of the the
ater, which are of course at a tenta-
tive stage, call for the building of a
modern, fireproof theater. with large
adequate for the largest road produc-
tions booked out of New York and
Chicago. The project. under present
plans. would be handled by Topeka
capital with several prominent local
business and professional men as
stockholders, and with the theater
owner who now holds the option as
operator and head of the company.
Several details. it is understood, are
vet to be worked out. involving the
option aud financial plans. before the
promoters and builders of the pro-
posed theater make formal announce
ment of it's erection.
Start This Year?
Construction work, according to
present indications would begin the
latter part of this year or the first of
next. The formation of the company,
mobilizing of finances. will, of course,
take considerable time. and it is also
understood that the construction work
will be governed greatly by the cost of
faboT. and material
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According to telegrams given out
by General Urquize. the commander in
the region of ChavaXtla. Gen. Guada-
lupe Sanchez, met a party of rebels
under Banquet late yesterday after
noon. defeating them. The body of
General Blanquet was found later.
General Sanchez teIegraphed that he
was bringing General BIanquet's head
to Vera Cruz to establish his identity
GencrI Alvarez Taken Prisoner.
Gen. Francisco Alvarez was taken
prisoner. together with the family of
Pedro Gavay. one OF the most active
lieutenants of Felix Diaz
Vera Cruz papers have recently
been printing numerous stories rega rd-
ing General BlsnGuet's proposed re-
tContinued on rage TwoI
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HUN FOR DAMAGES CENTS THE BONE
Germany viii Ask Indemnity
From the Allied Powers.
Frankfort Gazette Says Peace
EnvOys Will Present Bill.

Paris, April 17.-Germany intends
to claim an indemnity from the allies,
according to the Frankfurt Gazette.
sailles win ask payment for damages
sustained from aerial attacks from
the occupation of Germany territory
by the allied troops and for delay in
concluding peace, causing a prolonga-
ton of the Bolshevik. and Spartacan
trouble.
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MEX REBEL DEAD
Gen. Banquet Was Back for
Revolt Against Carranza.
Killed Wednesday in Fight
Near the ChaYaxtIa Village.

Mexico City, April 17.-Gen. Aure-
liano Banquet, war minister in Pres
ident Huerta'S cabinet, who recently
was reported to have landed in the
Vera Cruz region for the purpose of
starting a revolution agains tthe Car
rama government, was killed yester-
day in fight near Chavaxtla Village.
according to press reports from Vera
Cruz. which quote a report from Gen.
Francisco L. Urquize. chief of military
operation in the region of Cordova and
OriZa ba
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HUN AGENT BUSY
He Tries To Set Fire TO Ship
Carrying 1000 Americans.
Were Troops Coming Back
From France to the {. s.

Boston, April IA German agent,
allowed on the transport Patricia to
look out for German property, at
tempted to set fire to the vessel last
night as it was nearing Boston with
more than 2, 200 American soldiers, ac-
cording to Maj. Frank w. Cavanaugh
of the 102nd field artillery, one of the
officers on board.
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RUSSIANS ARE KILLED
BoishcviiSl Systematic in Annihilafion
of Bodrgcois;e at Riga.

Stockholm. April 1.-THE BoIshe-
Wiki a. re carrying out rapid and sye-
tematic aDnihilation of all the .Bouf-
geois elements in Riga according 70
reports from Libau to the Svenska
Dagblast. The victims OF the BoIehe-
wiki terror are taken to the island 0f
Hasen in the Dvina river and are said
to number 10000. including women
and children. No one is permitted 70
take food or money to the island.
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Washington. April f7--SaIe Of the
war-bnilt merchant fleet was begun
today by the shipping board with the
transfer of fifteen wooden eamships
to Nacirema Stea mship company of
New York at price of $65O.O00 for
each vessels This is an average of
s145 per deadweight ton.
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MODERATES IN AGAIN
Bolshevism in Russia Gives Way to
"New BourQeOisie,"

Copenhagen, April 17.-Bolshevism
in Russia is giving way to a new
Bourgeoisie.'' according to the direc-
tor of the Moscow Red Cross commit
tee. who has arrived here. Premier
Lenine and War Minister Trotzky are
trying to reach an understanding with
the moderate element in Russia.
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FOR A TRIPLE UNION
Count Won ReventIow Wants To Join
Germany, Russia and T. S.

The Hague. Apri 17--Count Zu
Reventlow, writing in the Berlin Tages
Zeitung. advocates an alliance of Ger
many, Russia and the United States.
according to advices received here to-
day. He was quoted as saying the
economic interests of the three coun-
tries demand such a step.
At the same time the count displays
great hostility toward the league of
nations.