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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
Three-Day Police Armistice
Ended at 10 O'clock Today.
Sergeant Sturm and Officer
Ford Call on Mayor.
MORE EXPOSURES ON WAY
Meanwhile COrwine Maintains
s'InvestigatiOn."
"What About Chiefi" Is Oues-
ton Put to Mayor.

A 3-day armistice in the police row
ended at 10 o'clock this morning when
Sergt. Hiram Sturm and officer w.
P. Ford. who has been suspended fol-
lowing the placing of his fist in close
proximity to the chiefs nose. called
personally on Mayor Herbert ]. Cor
wine. There were two propositions on
the minds of Sturm and Ford.
First, they wanted to know how long
Fords suspension would continue. The
mayor appeared rather hazy as to the
exact date of the officers reinstate-
ment on the police force.
when the mayor will take his broom
in hand and continue in the house
cleaning, which, they charge is just
one-half finished.
The mayor. it is said, told them that
the investigation which has continued
for more than a week is still under
way.
Ford is the first man who dared
come out and tell the truth about the
police department who has lost his
job. Sergeant Sturm. who also made
exposures concerning drunkenness in
the department, stated today he didn't
give a great many raps whether he
was fired, or not. for telling the truth.
The funny part of it is" said
Sturm. 81 find all the truth isn't be-
fore the public"
New Exposures Coming.
From other remarks it is evident
| that new exposures of the laxity of
, the department will be made in a
few days. Meantime, it is supposed
Mayor Corwine is conducting his in
vestigation which so far has resulted
| in the resignation of two plain clothes
men and the suspension of the third.
f~ar WI n rI1 .
said Sergeant Sturm to the mayor
You've fired the three little fellows
What are you going to do about the
! chief. the assistant chief and the SER
geant who are mixed up in this af-
| fair just as much as the other three
men? Personally I'm willing to pay
the price for coming right out ir
meeting and telling what's going on In
1 the police department"
The mayor didn't answer, 1t is re-
ported. ---
AS the silence of the mayor con.
tinues,- many are looking upon 1t al
an exoneration of the chief of police
and the other two members of the
force implicated in the exposures al
ready made.
Mayor Is Still Silent.
A1tho 1t was announced last week
that Mayor Corwine would report to-
! day to the city commissioners con-
cerning the trouble in the police de-
partment, the mayor made no sEcs
report.
When asked concerning the rumor
after the close of the meeting, the
mayor seemed surprised and inicated
| that it was the first he had heard thai
report was expected of him this
morning. Upon further questioning
he replied that he had nothing to say
on the subject for publication.
The two policemen visited the city
/ hall this morning while the com
missioners were in session. The may
or resigned the chair to Commissioned
Wasson and went to his office to talh
with these men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
APPROVE POLICE PLAN
Eight Hour Shift Ordinance Passed
by City Today.

Following a declaration this morn
ing by Mayor Corwine that an emer-
Eency existed in the police department
revision of the salary ordinance was
passed by the commissioners making
few changes in the personnel OF the
department.
The revision was due TO the change
from a twelve-hour shift to the eight
hour basis. Instead Of two assistants.
or sergeants, there will be three.
There will be three jailers instead OF
two. and one additional driver. The
four detectives or piainclothes men
will he Increased by four more men.
There will be two female welfare
workers and one assistant worker.
The new ordinance will become ef-
fective at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
DROP "HUN" AND "BOCHE"
Popular English Weekly Says Press
Should Cease Using Terms.

Correspondence of the Associated PressJ
London, July 1S.-Discussing things
as they are soon to be if the terms
of the peace treaty are to be carried
out, a popular weekly review has
astonished some of its more radical
readers with the following:
Germany is now technically a
friendly power. or soon will be. That
being so. we suggest that our press
might with advantage discontinue its
sprightly habit of using the words
Hun and 'Boche' on all possible oc-
casions. We shall soon have the Ger
man embassy again occupied and it
would really be deplorable If its chief
were commonly referred to in print
as the Hun ambassador or the .Boche
diplomat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
AIRPLANE IN FIRST
Army Motor Train VIII Be
Here Tomorrow.
Big Recruiting Party viii
Camp at Ripley.

An army motor train-a caravan
will arrive in Topeka tomorrow morn
ing for two-day stay. Twenty-four
officers and lis enlisted men COM
plete the personnel of the train which
is said to be one Of the most complete
display units ever sent out on recruit
ing duty by the army of the United
States.
About two hours before the head of
! the caravan reaches the city limits of
Topeka big Curtiss scout plane will
arrive here as a sort of advanced
guard. In the caravan itself are thir-
teen big Liberty trucks, one search
! light mounted on a motor truck with
its generator mounted on another
! truck, four touring cars, one White
artillery observation car. three hospi-
tai ambulanceSs and two motorcycles
with sidecar attachments. The train
is to be under command of Col. s. P.
Herren of the 7th Division. The
F. caravan left Camp Funston this morn
ing for a ninety-day tour of Kansas
! and Missouri.
| The caravan will park at Ripley
park where a complete camp will be
set up for the night. Speeches will
be made by Lieutenant Colonels Lem
mon and Peatross, distinguished serv-
ice cross men of the Thirty-fifth and
Eighty ninth divisions. A fea-
ture of the program in Topeka will be
! concerts by the 32-piece military band
which is a part of the train.
The equipment of an infantry regi-
ment which is carried on the trip in
cludes every bit of uniform and small
arms equipment used by a doughboy
and in addition the following special
exhibits:
One 77-mm gun.
One 37-mm gun.
One 3-inch field piece.
One 3-inch Stokes mortar
Two Browning. machine guns.
One Chautechet rifle.
Two automatic rifles.
One rolling kitchen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
WILL NOT STOP FLIGHT
New Plane Will Replace Martin
Bomber Wrecked in Tornado.

New York. July. 29.-The trans
continental flight by a United States
airplane will not be abandoned be-
cause the Martin bomber sent here
was wrecked by a tornado late yester-
day at Hazelhurst field, Mineola.
Officials stated another plane would
be sent at once
Five airplanes. including a huge
CapToni and the Martin bomber. were
wrecked by the storm which also
razed hangers and did other damage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
CONTINUED on Page T
MUTINY COMPLETELY BROKEN
Gangs of Convicts mt Leavenworth
File Out to Work Today.

Leavenworth, Kan. July 29.-Last
vestise of the disciplinary barracks
prisoners strike" disappeared today
when gangs of inmates filed out to
work.
Break In the mutiny came yesterday
when several details went TO work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
FAVORABLY REPORT PACT
Ratification OF Colombian Treaty Ex-
pected in Few Days.

Washington. July 29.-FavorabIe
report on the treaty with Colombia
was ordered today by the senate for
eign relations committee without a
dissenting vote. A motion to reduce
from $25.00o.000 to s15.O0O.0 900 the
amount payable to Colombia for the
partition Of Panama was defeated. IL
to 2. The treaty. pending since 1914.
will be taken up Immediately by the
senate. which probably will consider
it in open session. Its ratification was
expected within a few days with a vote
today regarded as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
HIGHER up
"HardbOiIed" Smith Passes
Buck on Charges of Cruelty.
Says a General and a Colonel
Responsible for Treatment.

New York. July 2s.-Responsibility
for cruel treatment of American SOL
diers at Prison Farm number 2, near
Paris was placed squarely upon the
shoulders of Major General F. S.
Strong and Colonel F. P. Grimstead
by Lieut.. Frank H. (HardboiIed)
Smith in testimony given today by
him before a subcommittee of the
house of representatives at Gov
ernnrs Island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
1T WILL STAY HOT!
No Relief in Sight for Kansas During
the Next Twenty-FOur Hours.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Not
much change in temperature.
ToDAY's TEMPERATURES.

Another tWenty-ft hC RS of hot,
dry weather must be endured by Kan
sas, and probably more. Meteorologist
FlSra said this morning with a sis -
There is no indi- -io1 that the 10. z
dry spell is to Je broken. In fact
every indica IN = that ther Is no
moisture in the clouds. as no rains
have been reported anywhere in the
United States ring the st twenty
four hours exec. I a few light showers
in St. Louis and in Arkansas.
Kansas was the only state in the
Union to report a tom - rature Of 100
degrees Mnpdav This 30
~. L.. % =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
FOURTH DIVISION HOME
Several Units Arrive ut New York
Mostly From Middle West.

New York. July 29.-Severa1 units
of the Fourth tregulars) division ar
rived here today from Brest on the
transports Won Steuben and Tiger.
Most of the men are from the middle
west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
AUCTION BARBED WIRE
To Sell 5000 Tons Bought for War
Entanglements to StOckmen.

Washington, July 29.-The war de-
partment will offer at auction here
September 8. more than three thou
sand tons of barbed wire purchased
to form entanglements and stockades
in France. but which is now advertised
as being particularly adapted for the
needs of stockmen. The minimum
amount sold. in: one lot will be two
tons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
GIVE FAIR PAGEANT
EIks Plan Elaborate Show MS n Side
Attraction.

The great northwest territory is to
be rebuilt at the Kansas Free fair
grounds the first week in October.
The Elks club have announced a
pageant. THE Building of the Great
Northwest" for that date and have
already engaged a director. J. A.
Darnaby. who produced the white
Elephant" show, is named to select
and drill cast of 900 for the pageant.
A special feature of the pageant
will be the scenes in which fifty real
Indians from the Pottawatomie reser-
yation will take part.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
WHITE WON'T COME
He VIII Not Compete With Hot
Dogs" Labor Day.

William Allen White, of Emporia.
will not be the speaker of the day at
the big Labor day celebration in To-
peka, according to a letter received
from him declining the invitation of
the Topeka Industrial council.
White gives as his reason for de-
clination that he is not an out-of-doors
speaker and declares that he does not
feel that he could do justice to himself
in competition with vendors of pink
lemonade and hot dog sandwiches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
Present mnnded
salary. by Board.

In the above list, the first five positions
carry only the salary attached. The prin-
tendent of the fish hatchery have n house
provided in addition to their salary All
the other positions provide the living for
chief officer and the dependent members of
the familv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29

Chicago, July 29.-One negro
was killed and two were wound
ed at Wabash and Adams
streets, the heart of the down
town district, in rioting which
was renewed shortly after 6
o'clock this morning.
The total death list at $3.50
o'clock this morning had
reached twenty-five.
The list of % included IA
whites and 8 negroes.
Rioting spread outside the
South Side colored district to-
day. There was serious fight
ing and shooting in the loop
early in the forenoon. The ex-
elusive North Side residential
district received a touch of dis
order.
Four thousand soldiers with
full war equipment stood ready
today to quell the race war be-
tween negroes and whites that
has ragged during two bloody
nights of terror in the South
Side black belt. Sixteen men,
including one negro policeman,
met violent deaths last night
and early today and others
were injured, many seriously,
and probably dozen fatally.
Four of the injured are soldiers.
The police and the coroner have
been unable to make complete
check of the casualties.
Conditions Improved.
Conditions in the riot district were
reported improved al a. conference
held by Governor LOwden, Mayor
Thompson and Adjutant General Dick
son at 1890 p. m.
Dickson reported that rioting was
slowly subsiding and that the i'm
mediate use of state troops would not
be necessary. Fifty patrolmen were
withdrawn from the "black belt" and
assigned to their regular duty in the
loop district.
A hundred thousand negroes and an
equal number Of whites either fought
in the streets and alleys or covered in
their homes while shots rang out,
mounted policemen Ealloped along
the bouleyards, patrol wagons dashed
back and forth with prisoners and
wounded women and childre
screamed as men fought with cudgels
knives and fists
officials found difficulty in having
ooules or the negro victims prepared
Tor burial white undertakers refusing
70 handle them, and negro under
takers were afraid to do SO.
Adjutant General Dickson TODAY
ordered the entire Fourth regiment.
Illinois militia. to report in Cbics 80
me men are in camp at Camp Logan,
near North Chicago.
The List OF Dead.
The dead include eleven white men
ana 1lye negroes. The injured were
tContinued on Page Twol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
.BLAMES CAPITALISTS FOR WAR
Chairman Addresses international
Trades Union Congress.
(By the Associated Preasl

ADy tue AssVcihVeu tresh'J
Amsterdam. July 27.-The first real
session of the international trades union
congress opened this afternoon under
the presidency of NJ OudeSeest of the
Dutch federation.
The statement of NJ. Oudegeest in
his address that the capitalistic sys-
TENS of all countries were responsible
for the war" was vigorously protested
by the American delegate. Tobin, who
contended that "the monarchistic and
militaristic elements Of Germany and
Austria were solely and entirely re-
sponsible."
Paris. July 29.-The general fedora
tion of labor has ISSUED a protest
against the refusal of the French gov
ernment to wise the passports of dele
gates of the Italian labor organizations
going to the socialist congress at Am
sterdam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
Belgian labor o. KS Treaty.

Brussels. July 2S.-The Belgian La
Dor party voted today to ratify the
peace treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
REDS IN BULGARIA
BOlsheyik Uprising There Is
p Reported From Moscow.
Garrison Joins Rev0lutionists
in One Town, Says Dispatch.

London, July ga Bolshevik up
rising in Bulgaria is reported in Il wire
less dispatch from Moscow today.
The outbreak is declared to have oc-
CURED in a garrison town, the garri-
son joining the revolutionists
The town mentioned in the Russian
Bolsheviki- dispatch as having been
occupied by Bulgarian Bolshevists'
is given as Amboli.
The dispatch also declares that a
strike has been declared by the Bull
garian railway and transport worers-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
Dead Number "a After Night
and Morning of Terror.
Streets Resemble BattlefieldS
With Seething Fighters.
A BATTLE IN THE BASTILE
Hundred Thousand Men on
Each Side in BrawIs.
Most of Dead Whites; 1000
Troops Held in Reserve.

Chicago, July 29.-The police
list of riot fatalities rose TO "a at
1890 a. m, when Thomas Joshua,
negro, was killed by a detective
who fired into n crowd of rioters
on the south side, and when b. f.
Gardy, negro, died at a hospital.
\ vicious race fight broke out
I'm the county jail shortly after
II O'Clock. The whites Outnum-
bcrcd the blacks by twenty TO one
aud the guards were swept aside
when they tried TO stiflc the
trouble at its start.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29

WILL Miss Wooster object If mel
" teachers I'm Kansas chew gum and
knit?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29

WEA1 HER FORECAST for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Not
much change in temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29

Inc dead include eleven white men
and five negroes The Injured xs-e
tContinued on Page Twol
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
Grand Exalted Ruler Tells
Of Elks' War Work

Officers and Members of Washington, D. c. Lodge No.
My Brothers:
The Washington Times has courteousy asked me to
ton to be published by it.
am glad to avail myself of the opportunity afforded me
and express to Washington Lodge nv hearty conatula
tons upon its splendid the past and my best wishes
and that of the Order for its continued success usefulness and
prosperity.
am glad to learn of the fact that your Lodge is
gagged in membership drive for thousand members
There time in the history of the Order when
Elk could be pouder of his membership in the Order
During the time when country was engaged in the
great world conflict every lodge and every Elk laid aside
every other duty and activity that nerferred in any way
with the full performance of the paramount duty of win
ming the war and winning it right
The Eks Base Hospital Units in France the magnificent
Reconstruction Hospital at Boston, the Community House at
Camp Sherman the donation to the Salvation Army for work
among the children and orphans of soldiers and the gift of
s25oooo to the Federal Board for Vocational Education to
aid in its great work. represent only few of the actVi
ties of the Order al large.
This same energy and activity which was given to the
work will be continued in times of peace, and believe
and hope that the time not far distant in fact in many
has already arrived when than thirteen hundred
Eks Lodges and their members will be leaders in their
specve communities of every civic movement that goes to-
ward the upbudng bettermen happiness and prosperity of
the cities in which they are located
In practically every city in the country where we have
Lodge membership drives These drives digned
in their character and surrounded by safeguards which prevent
the reduction of standard of membership In them TO
the prospective candidate presented only the work we
doing and an invitation decent respectable Godearng
American citizens to join with in this work and to aid in
the ultimate end we have in view
men of this character help in work and labor and
the executive head of the Order feel safe in saying that
Washington Lodge will not fall behind in the procession but
will even equip itself better to accomplish the purposes and
ideals of our Order.
compliment your Lodge | wish it and pros
perty not only in this drive going but in all its future
activities.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
N411~uG 8e~zAA4A
Grand Exalted Ruler Benevolent and Protective Order of
ElkS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
D. C.-N. Y. AIRMAIL SERVICE
IS ONE YEAR OLD THURSDAY

Thursday will mark the first ami
very of the institution Of the air mail
service between New York and Wash
ington. The authorities will attempt
to have the planes which made the
original flight a year ago carry the
mail that day. The field and equip
ment at College Park, Nd, will be
open to inspection from IL to 1880
that morning.
The Postoffice Department has de-
cided to inaugurate on Thursday an
air mail service between Chicago and
Cleveland SIMILAR to that between
New York and Washington, since the
latter service has proved such an I'M
qualified success.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
LEAVEs ALL TO WIDOW.

Thomas Riggles, for thirty-four
years a clerk in the Department of
Agriculture, in a will filed for pro
tate beuucaths al his personal prop
erty TO his widow, Mrs. Anne NJ. Rig
giles, together with a life interest in
the real estate.
At her death the home, 2121 G
street northwest, is to go to two IN
married daughters, Mary D. and Mel
lie L. Riggles, and the remainder of
the estate is to be divided in equal
shares between them and other chill
dren, Mrs. Minnie Riggles Smith,
Frederick D. and Lewis Riggles. The
widow is named cXecutriX.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13

trict, and in the United States Ma
tional Cemetery at Alexandria
The committee from william B. Cush-
ing Camp in charge Of the exercises
and placing of y'reaths will be: Past
Commander Herbert W. Rutledge,
chairman: Major Edward r. Camp
bell. Past Commanders Oscar StsideL
Shelton Y. Cameron, W. Harry Moore,
DR.. Arthur J. Hall, William F. Wolfe,
Abbott 3. Goodrich, Capt. Francis Z.
Cross, Major Frederick 8. Hodgson,
Rev. ]. Luther Brenzier, Past DfNisioa
Commander Silas z. Robb, Past Com
mander J. c. Hiatt, Capt. c. o. How
ard, Guron r. Scott. o. ]. Veley, A. B.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
LOAN PUBLICITY HEAD
TO HELP BOY SCOUTS

Frank Wilson. who directed the
publicity for four Liberty loans, yes
terday finished the job at the Tre1s-
ury.
But one good campaign deserves
another, so Wilson goes to New York
today to help the Boy Scouts get
several million members in their
nationwide drive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
PREsCRIBEs CAR-LoT RATES.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has prescribed third class
rates as "a reasonable maximum as
the freight charge on car-lot ship
ments of butter, oleomargarin
dressed poultry, and eggs in official
classification territory. The decision
was in the case originated by the
K Kansas -CarJot Egg Shippers Asso-
citation against the Baltimore and
Ohio. the Director General of Rail-
roads, and some forty other lines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
NAME COMMITTEE TO
DECORATE GRAVES MAY 80

Placing of flowers and wreaths on
soldier graves on Memorial Day, May
30. will be in charge OF a committee
headed by Past Commander H. W.
Rutledge, for the Sons OF Union Vet
Grams, as appointed by Commander ].
S Jones yesterday. Graves OF SOL
diers OF the civil war as well as those
of the great war will be decorated
by the society both in Holy Rood
and COAX Hill cemeteries in the Dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13
AERO RIDE FROM BRITAIN TO
FRANCE TO COST ST A MILE.

LONDON, May 13.-Aerial joy rides
will come high. Ordinary air pas
senger rates on a lffine starting
Thursday between here and Fresno
will be 81 a mile. Four planes will
make the round trip daily.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13

commanders OF ports OF embarka-
tion. This rule holds whether the
individuals arrive with their organi-
cations or as members Of casual
companies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13

RELEASE YANKS WE'D ABROAD.
Soldiers who married abroad are
eligible for immediate discharge on
their arrival in this country. the
WAR Department has informed the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13

ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN EDEN.
LONDON. Nay 1S-Eleetrie light has
been installed in the Garden OF Eden.
according 20 official reports OF the
CONSTITUTIONAL work performed in
Mesopotamia and the Euphrates VAL
ley, by the British armies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-13

Barringer, Z. A. Lang, @. G. SeiboId.
G. s. Hill. Lieut.. Roscoe L.-oakley,
W. Z. Garlick, G. G. GayloT, A. IL
Skippert, L B. Raymond, W. 4 Greer
g. +. Williams, and Past Commander
]. S. Jones.
Congressman Everett Sanders OF
Indiana will be the orator OF the day.