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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-07

the countries where raised. This on Yheat
last year was Ill per cent; corn 60 per
cent and oats 323 per cent. The amount
of merchantabie corn is to be given and
estimates are S5.6 per cent compared with
90 per cent or 1887, 12S.00o last year. and
! $50 per cent or 2.10I. 49, 900 two years
ago
New York. March THE Financial News
Bulletin: STJCKS-lmportan develop
meuts reported ITO be pending in oils due
to improved Mexican political conditions
There is very good accumulation of Pan
American petroleum Investigation indi-
Gates that the bulk of the selling in the
| stock market is professional and that short
| interest is re-extending The recent Hqui-
| dStiou has done much to improve the tech
meal foundation. Sentiment is friendly
| to American Linseed. American Cotton OH
! and American Can The rally of the cop
/ pers npon announcement of dividend re-
! auctions is regarded as significant of p
stronger technique and with resumption
of bullish operations is taken as meaning
/ that the bull market Is under way Feel
! purchases reactions will prove profit
| able. The demand for leather. tobacco.
equipments. agricultural. food and Mexican
groups is good,
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ness for what they called his Boil
shevist sympathies that Senator Hiram
johnson. tho not a member of the
committee, appealed that Robins be
allowed to answer questions without
being constantly heckled.
Sterling insisted that Robins was
trying to encourage the Bolshevist
movement and asked him whether he
didn't think that as a patriotic Ameri-
can he ought to condemn it.
Robins replied that he already
heartily condemned Bolshevist meth
DDS and added:
II am trying to tell the truth about
it, I refuse to be put in a position of
defending atrocities, but 1 prefer to
understand d situation than to de-
nounce it. I found more bitterness
in the United States against Bolshe-
vist atrocities than against Bloody
Monday and all the long line or czarist
prosecutions l would like to see both
sides of this question presented. Mere
passion and resentment will not take
care of il"
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BAD WEATHER ON WAY


fContinuet from Page One.l
also in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and
Minnesota.
= There is an area of low pressure
still down in the southwest which will
provide unsettled weather for this dis
trict until it clears up. Flora predicts
that it will cause more rain or snow
for this country.
At o'clock this morning the tenn
perature registered % degrees. The
temperature will drop to 25 degrees
tonight, Flora predicts. Tomorrow
afternoon it will rise to about 40 de-
Bgrees. The extremes on record for
this date were 81 in 1898 and above
zero in 1899. At 2 o'clock this after
noon the temperature was 81 degrees
above zero and the wind was blowing
at the rate of three miles an hour
from the northwest
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New York Stock Market.

Wall St, New York, March 1-STOCKS-
Rails led active aud strong opening of to-
days stock market, heavy selling resulting
from reports thai banking interests are
likely to form syndicate to fina;lce their
requirements. The advance not re-
stricted to that division, however. ship
ping. equipment, motor, oil, leather, metal
tobacco. dlstilling and food shares partici-
I,ating in equal or greater measure. Kelly
Springfield tire was the sole exception, re-
acting ) points on publication of the com
pany's plan for capitalization.
Altho confirmation of the railway money
pool WIS lacking, the market yielded none
of its strength and very little of its actiyi-
ty. Standard rails rose i to ~ points
leading shipping TO and oils. motors
and accessories 1 to ,. Advances of to
points accompanied the buying of coppers
tobaccos and numerous peace industrial IS
U. 5. steel made n new ma ximum for the
present movement at 95s, but further
profit taking in Kelly Springfield caused
an extreme decline of almost D points.
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ART GUILD IN EXHIBIT
Richardson Collection To Be Shown
the Last of This Month.

The Topeka Art Guild, which has
done so much to promote love of art
in Topeka, is promising an unusual
attraction for their next exhibition,
which will be the last of this month.
There will be a group of pictures by
foremost American artists. collected by
Mrs. Richardson of New York, who. as
Miss Lumberg, was a teacher of art
in the Topeka high school some years
ago.
At the time that Mrs. Richardson
was teaching in Topeka. a number of
boys and girls who have since
achieved more than local success stud
led under her. Among this group
were Merreu Gage, Hampton Shirer,
Mrs. Hampton Shirer, Marian Peers
and Frances Lindsey
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Investigation Urged by Ray
mOnd Robins Before Senators.
Then Intervene if Chaos, An
archy, Starvation Shown.
DENIES BOLSHEVIK DEFENSE
But Declares Allied Action Has
Already Caused Shakeup.
Tells How American Woman
Worked as German Spy.

Washington. March IA commits
sion of inquiry should be sent into
-.ussia to learn all the facts about the
Sltuation there Raymond Robins, for
mer member of the American Red
Cross mission in Russia, told the SEN
ate Bolshevik investigating committee
today.
against military Intervention till all
the facts are known.
IF it is shown that chaos. anarchy
and starvation do exist in Russia to
the degree which the world has been
led TO believe then civilized and Chris
tian nations should act" Said Robins,
but 1 am against the use of American
men and American arms against the
Russian revolutionary government on
a basis of falsehood. Such action
would raise in the United States and
other lands great feeling of class re-
sentiment"
Intervention Troublesome.
American Intervention in Siberia.
Robins said altho it was intended as
a cure for the evils of Bolshevism,
really strengthened and deepened the
malady.
1T caused deep resentment in Rus
STA. a British troop revolt in England
and questionable situations in France
and Canada 1t was very bad way
to deal with Bolshevism."
Robins Yesterday identified as the
divorced wife of Proctor, of Proctor &
Gamble, Cincinnati, q womapS who
called up the American embassy IN
Petrograd with a story that the en-
bassy was going to be blown up
American Woman, Hun Agent
THE woman happens to be the di-
yorced wife OF Proctor, of Proctor &
Gamble, Cincinnati, and was at that
particular hour in the secret service
records of three of the allied nations
as a German agent in Russia" said
Robins.
The alleged story was German
plant, Robins said. He stayed at the
embassy at night and nothing hap
pened.
Chairman Overman asked whether
there is any way for the Russian peo-
pie to get rid of Lenine and Trotzky
without revolution.
81 think any time a considerable
number of the people want to get rid
of them they can do it, replied Rob
ms "Lenine says that the moment
he ceases to do the peoples will they'll
take his power away. They could
elect an all Russian soviet opposed tc
Lenine and Trotzky This soviet is
supposed to meet every three months
U. s. should Not Recognize Russ.
Senator Nelson asked whether Rob
ms believed the United states ought
to recognize the Lenine-Trotzky gov
eminent
Not ct this moment" said Robins
There ought to be careful investi-
CATION of the situation and if the facts
show that they will be in power il
Russia for a considerable time, II
recognize them. But it is impossible
TO tell now what the facts are"
Hostile Toward Witness.
Senator Sterling and Senator Mel
son became so hostile towards the wit
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Scent LOAF SOON
tContinuad from Page one3

CONTINUED from rage One0
place the figure at about 100000
900 bushels. OF this probably $780,
900, 900 bushels will be needed for do
nestle use. allowing about $50. 000,0 900
bushels for export and carry-over.
About 400, 900, 600 bushels can be safe
ly exported. it is believed, leaving the
rest for seed and other carry-over
needs.
The world wheat reserve of AGO.
200 bushels, which was unavail-
able because of shipping needs and
which has since been pouring into
hungry Europe will be exhausted
long before the present crop is mar
keted. officials say. In addition about
300,000,0o0 bushels in various 1ocali-
ties, which has been held as a carry
ever is already used up. Many of the
large wheat districts in Russia, Ru-
mania. Austria, Germany and parts of
Italy and France this year will pro-
duce only small portion of their nor
NAL crop.
The Export Supply.
So officials have no doubt that the
American export supply can be sold
at any figure asked for it. Great
Britain is now buying some wheat at
q bout SIPS, but this is on contracts
which have been held up because of
lack of shipping. The Liverpool mar
ket cannot again control the world
wheat price until there is world sur
plus VI WAtdly Ol1lCldlS
If the plan contemplated is APP
proved, all the exports will be handled
by the United States Grain corpora
ton which handled the food supply
from the United States to the allies
during the war. Through them the
allies agree to accept the wheat at the
| New York price, which is now about
$2.40.
Bread Still Cheap.
Officials point out that the wheat
| now being raised for export was to be
sent to Europe at this price had the
! war continued and . believed there
would be little objection to buying the
wheat at the high figure now.
The price of bread. food gadministra-
| ton figures show, has not increased in
| proportion with the price of wheat
! but the governm ent is anxious to bring
| bread down as the first and most vital
| step in decreasing the cost of living
For five years before, the war, the
| average price of wheat was eighty
| seven cents. with the average 8 ounce
| loaf selling for 5 cents. With wheat
| at S2.26. bread should be selling fol-
| IA cents to maintain the proportion
but the average price of bread is only
| 10 cents.
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Red CROSS WANTS HELP
Spring HousecIeaTinS Trims Workers
at Crosby Bros Rooms.

Spring HousecIeaning Trims Workers
at Crosby Bros Rooms.
Spring hoLsecleaning is keeping
many Topeka women from completing
the war work in which they have been
engaged for the last two years, accord
ing to Red Cross officials. At least
the attendance at the local Red Cross
work rooms has fallen off to such an
extent that the women in charge have
found it necessary to appeal to the
publicity committee of the Red Cross
drives for aid-and the burden of the
com plant seems to be that the womSn
asked to help finish up the work now
on hand in the local work rooms are
occupied with housekeeping.
The call has gone forth for forty
women to help out those who are re-
manning ON the job. According to the
plea of the department heads these
women are needed to finish up the
work on certain garments now in
process of completion. 1t is expected
that, with the proper response, the
work of the Red Cross in Topeka will
be finished not later than Thursday
The publicity committee, the execu-
tive committee and the Red Cross de-
partment heads feel confident that
there are forty women in Topeka who
will find it possible to postpone their
spring housekeeping for three days in
order to close up the war work in the
Red Cross work rooms. 1t is not an
ticipated that Topeka will drop her
war work before the last tag end is
finished. The forty women workers
are needed in the Red Cross work
morrow. Monday, Tuesday and posi-
bly Wednesday,
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CAPITAL MOVING DAY
The ''Elects'' Are Pouring In and the
"Ex's'' Are Going Out.


Washington, March These are
moving days in the house and senate
office building.
Ex-senators and representatives are
hauling out their bags and baggage,
while the elect are moving in. They
are busy hours for clerks and SER
geantS at arms.
The first things the new members
are anxious about are their Thanking
privileges and pay checks.
The most unique case facing these
clerk is the disposition of Victor l..
Berger, Socialist. elected from Wis
consin. drawing pay as such from
March 4. privileged to obtain quarters
in the house office building. but whose
actual service is in doubt because he is
under prison sentence for violation of
the espionage act. He draws his sal
ary-the first check April 4-and may
enjoy other privileges of a congress-
man. however, funtil he is unseated by
the house, if such action be deter
mined upon at the extra session.
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SCHEIDEMANN MAY RESIGN
Ebert Thinks Removal Necessary Be-
cause of Political Events.

Copenhagen, March THE inn
pending resignation of Philip Scheide
mann as German chancellor is indi-
Gated in dispatches received here to-
day and dated Wednesday in Berlin.
President Ebert is said to consider
that the withdrawal of Scheideman
from the cabinet is necessary in view
was expected to tender his resignation
Thursday. At a meeting of the ma
jority Socialists Wednesday, Scheide-
mann announced that he had decided
to favor specialization. Several mem
bers declared that his change of mind
had come too late and that he should
retire
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Kansas city Live stock Market.

Kansas City, March 7-HOiS-Receipts
LOO Market steady. Bulk of sales. $3.50
CISCO: heavy. SIT J06I 1925: packers. 81. 30
a 1910; lights, S1I-J0@ $50; pigs, S1a.Oo@
1G.Qc.
CATTLE-Receipts 1900. Market steady.
Prime fed steers, S1S.006I 1909: dressed beef
steers, S12.0OGI 400; western steers, S12.n0GL
100: cows, S10.0O6l 1900: heifers, $500
1870; stockers, $1..00@16.J0; bulls. s9.0OI
Zoo: calves. S10O0d14.O0.
SHEEP-Raceipts 100. Market strong
Lambs, $19 O06I 19.25: yearlings, S16.g0M
100; wethers. S1:.50d14.J0: ewes S13.00Gf
1850; stockers, S1J.5GI 1880.
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HIGH Y IN BANQUET
Boys and Girls To Hold Banquet To-
night. Closing Membership Drive.


The banquet celebrating the close of
the big membership drive of the
High Y" and the Girls Y. W. c. A.
club, which will be held tonight at the
Y. W. c. A. will be attended by about
rs boys and girls. The arrangements
are in charge of Margaret Ripley. The
tables will be decorated with large red
and blue triangles, and with ported
plants and ferns. and the place cards
will be small red and blue triangles. =
Mary HilIyer, president of the Girls
club, will act as toast mistress, and the
title of the toasts will be I'VE, Us. and
Company" Iris Langhart will speak
for the girls on We" John Dillon,
for the High School Y. NJ. C. A will
have the subject. US" Mss Jean
Robertson. member of the high
school faculty. will have And" as her
topic. and Miss Lois Robinette. of the
Washburn High School, will tell about
the Company"
The drive has brought in good ad-
ditional membership to both clubs.
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.KANSANS ARE COMING
Casual Companies -Tom This State
Sail . me,

Sail me.
Washington, Marcn Five trans
ports bringing home 242 officers and
6,61O men, sailed from Brest, Mar
settles and Bordeaux Monday for New
York The Francesca has aboard
casual companies from Illinois. Kan
sas, Kentucky, Nebraska and the reg
ular army.
The Italia is bringing casual COM
panies from Missouri, Texas, Iowa and
scattered negro companies.
The HolIandia carries the 10End
field battalion, signal corps and casual
companies from Illinois and d num-
Der of casual officers detached.
There are 10 officers ard S,26
men on the Agmemnon including
casual companies from Oklahoma,
Kansas and one company of marine S.
On the Ava Maru were casual COM
DanieS from Texas.
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Chicago Live stock Market.

Chicago, March 7.-HOGS-Receipts 3d.
600. Market 10c to 25c higher. Bulk of
sales, S1S.25@ 1855; butchers. s1S.35d Is. 60 :;
light, $4,000 1850; packing. S17.JO@ 13.io /:
pigs, S1550@ 1T.5G
CATTLE-Receipts 5000 Market steady.
Beef cattle, price, S16506T 1000: common,
SO 50M 1850: cows and heifers S7.2Jd 15.59
Gamers, $5.To6t7.2j; stockers. choice, S1100
q 70: medium. $S.OC@11.00; veal cal,e
S11J06I 1926
SHEEP-Receipts GO00 Market steady.
Lambs, prime, S1a. 400 1850: medium. $500
@19.40; ewes, choice. $4,000 400; medium,
$11006I 1;;.jc.
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Artists-Anthors Control.

Stockholm. March THE Bolshe-
vik government of Russia is preparing
a law decreeing that all professionals
and artists must work for the govern
ment. according to Petrograd advices.
Even authors will be modified, it is
said, and their works will be taken
over as national property.
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District After Market System.

Cleveland, o., March 7.-Mayer
James Cousens of Detroit today Of
fered George P. Samman. Cleveland
market commission, $4,000 a year
job to establish a 100000 market
system in that city. Samman reserved
decision on the offer until touorroYz
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New York. March Liberty bond prices
at IL 80 a. III. today were: 31as $, 9o-i2
first As, 9i.22; second As, $50; first IA s
4T2; second AIS, 94.Oo; third AS, 9o.2o
fourth IA Is, 946.
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FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Laurent ami Mn,iisnn.i
Topeka, Kan. March &
Springs over lids. 24c: old ruustvrs 15c /:
brOiiers. lbs and unaier pic: hpIs. over
3h lbs. 725c; hens under 3Ia Tbs. pc:
springs over tbs. BE; stays l9c. .sfe
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reduce its resisting powers against
Bolshevism and that {. is a dangerous
thing to be a neighbor to a house in
which the plague is raging"
Sessions in Weimar.
Radicals are sending Kaleski, the
author, to Weimar to work in behalf
of the passage of their legislation.
Weimar sessions will be continued for
the remainder of the week, it is re-
ported in dispatches received here, to
complete the governments program
for specialization of the coal and potash
mines as a concession to the Spartacan
demands.
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NO NEWSPAPERS IN BERLIN

Copenhagen, March mo news
papers appeared in Berlin Thursday
as all the compositors went on strike
Wednesday night.
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because of its tome and laxative eff.,-t
LAXATIVE BRnMO Qt'INNE tTabiersi
can he taken by anyone without aIsI1g
nervousness ringing in the head. Th,-e
Is only "ne "I.ramn Quinine. r. ~
GROVES signature OF the box. 30c-Adv.
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FURNISHED by Derby Grain Co. c1taeI
Kansas Ave. AMI Curtis ST.
Topeka. Kan, March Z.
YELLOW CORN-S1.3U
WHITE CORS-S1.30.
nATS-fna
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END STRIKE TODAY
Continued from Page One.)

Continued from Page OneD
in the Alexander platz yesterday after
noon. Several persons were killed ana
wounded. when government troops
used gas, machine guns and tanks to
break up a mob.
With the attempted general strike
dragging uncertainty, radical Leaders
Haase and Barth and several others
also pesslmistically admitted the move
ment had collapsed thru lack of sup
port They said the revolt was not
properly organized and that railroad
employees and office workers had re-
fused to participate in it. A large
number of radicals, disclaiming re-
sponsibility for the disorders, assert
that bandits and terrorists took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to go on
the rampage and that they caused the
riots and street fights.
Desert to Spartacans
London. March IA German wire
less dispatch received here states that
in addition to the volunteer arine di-
vision and portion of the republican
militia parts of the Second guards
ment went over to the Spartacans on
wednesday. Owing to the strike of
printers and compositors. the Wolff
Bureau is said TO be unable to circu-
late its printed bulletins.
A Berlin dispatch to the Mail sent
from there Wednesday midnight as
serted that it was reported in govern
ment circles that as a result of a
compromise reached at Weimar the
strike might end today.
| Weakened Thru Privation.
(By the Associated Press)
i Berlin. March 6.-"The present I'M
rest. terror and crime are diseases of
| the social body which it is unable to
| resist because it has become weak
ened thru privation and loss of blood"
| says the North German Gazette. 1.-The
! German people can recuperate only
| when 1t receives raw products that
will permit it to work, and food in Or
| der that it may live.
| Our enemies are denying us both.
| Their attitude is the real cause of the
! present crisis and the resent preva-
| lent criminal activity. In view of
i these events they should realize it is
| contrary to the international law of
| humanity to permit a fallen foe to lie
| helpless on the ground. They should
not overlook the fact that the sue
cessive weakening of Germany also
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Chicago. March 7.-BUTTER--Market
higher Creamery, 4S@5Sc.
EGGS-Market lower. Receipts l.. 166
cases: firsts. 3sal 3SAc: ordinary firsts,
37tac: at mark, cases included. 3ii4@''Sc. -
POTATOES-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive, lower: springs, 31lsc;
fowls :,Oc.
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KaKnsas City. March 7.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 1900 head. Market zoe higher
steady.
HOGS-Receipts 1890 head. Market
slow, 30c lower. Bulk of sales, S1I.J01I
1900: top, S1S.25.
SHEEP-ReceiptS 100 head. Market 2Jc
lower. Lambs. S14.Oo.
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Strike Threatens Disease.
tgy the Assoeiated i'ress.)

Berlin, March 5.-The governing
board of the Society of Physicians and
Surgeons has sharply condemned the
strike in Germany on the ground that
it is gravely jeopardizing public
health thru the stoppage of all trans
portation and telephone service as
we'll as public utilities.
Sanitary crews engaged in checking
the spread of spotted and typhus fe-
vers declare they are unable to do
their work because of the strike. The
Vorwa erts, the Socialist organ, re-
ports that railway employees refuse to
walk out, declaring the strike wholly
the work of irresponsible political
wire-pulling," and that interruption
of steam traffic would further aggra-
vate prevailing economic conditions.
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tThe following sales werr mad, this morn
ing at the Stock Yards. KANSAS city. an,
reported " r iD;g distance Telephone Ill
rect to the State J"Iirnai nv t'ias R"hin
son & Co.. live stock commission mer
rhHntSl
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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka. Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at a. m. Friday.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago. March 7.-CORN-Prospects of
bullish showing in the government report
on farm reserves carried the corn market
today sharply higher. Unsettled weather
ami continued scantiness of receipts tended
also to strengthen values. Shorts were
the chief buyers. Opening prices, which
a to av hi Il T vi 3, Nay
were followed by decided further gains
In the late dealings prices weree helped
upward by reports that the harbor workers
strike at New York was likely to end to-
night. The market closed strong He to
41sc net higher with May $1.34A to $780, !.
and July $1.291a to s1.293s.
OATS-Oats advanced with corn. After
opening 1sc to sc up, with May Gle to
613sc the market scored moderate addf-
tional upturn.
-PROVISIONS-Big orders for Belgium
lifted provisions. Higher quotations on
hogs operated also Il bullish factor
No important setback took place.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
tThe range of prices On grain futures on
Chicago BOARD of Trade az reported by
Fhos. ]. Myers, 30J N. Z. Bldz0