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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
DROP IN FLOUR
Barnes Says Public VIII Get 1t
at S12 a Barrel.
Announcement Will Not Affect
Local Market.

New York. Aug. s.-Julius H.
Barnes, government wheat director.
announced today that the United
States grain corporation will sell flour
thru the usual channels at rate per-
mitting the public to obtain 1t for $12
to $12.25 a barrel.
The flour will be delivered to whole
salers east of the Mississippi on the
basis of $10.25 barrel, and west of
that line, exclusive of Pacific coast
territory, for $40. Wholesalers will be
required to guarantee not to charge
more than rs cents barrel additional
and retailers not more than $1.75.
Quotations received from Topeka re-
tailers this morning indicated that the
Barnes announcement will mean little
to local consumers. Flour is retailing
here in 4S-pound sacks for from $2.95
to $325. There are 200 pounds OF
flour in a barrel
The Dibble Grocery company stated
this morning that it has special price
on flour today. selling 4spound sacks
that ordinarily sell for 1925 for Sass
william Green & Son quote flour al
$S.1O and $500 in 4s-pound sacks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
He TRIES SUICIDE
SnoMden Shaw, Age 40, Shoots
Himself Today.
Illness and Financial Troubles
the Cause.

Snowden Shaw. age 40. formerly a
fireman. at Topeka bakery, at
tempted to kill himself shortly after
o'clock this afternoon by shooting
himself in the breast at the home of
his brother-in-law, A. Zane, at 1715
Clay street.
Shaw had a long siege of sickness
with typhoid fever last winter, and,
altho, he had practically recovered.
he is said to have been worrying over
his financial affairs and his family
noticed that he had been acting queer
ly during the last few days. He had
a team of horses. but recently had to
sell them to pay his doctors bill.
Shaw's wife has been staying with
his people. who live just west of To-
peka. This afternoon he was packing
up his belongings. preparing to go to
Arkansas TO start life anew. Shortly
after o'clock he went upstairs and a
few minutes later his folks heard a
shot They rushed upstairs and found
him lying on the floor with bullet
wound in his right breast.
Coroner Narcotic was summoned
and Shaw was still living when he
arrived. He was Immediately rushed
TO St. Francis hospital.
Since recovering from his recent
illness, Shaw has not had steady
job, but has been working here and
there wherever he could find employ
ment, it is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
WELL, HERE'S SYLVIA AGAIN
EngIand's Feminine Agitator Is
Charged with Receiving $4,000
From BeIa Kun TO Promote
Strikes.

London, Aug Sylvia Pank-
hurst, England's feminine agitator,
was again in the limelight today when
Scotland Yard officials charged she
had received $4,000 in Russian gold
from Bella Kun, former Hungarian
soviet leader. The money was re-
ceived thru a Norwegion radical, it
was stated, and was to be used for
promoting British strikes.
Miss Pankhurst denied she had re-
ceived the money.
Scotlandy Yard operatives said
papers seized in a recent raid in Glas-
gov included a complete set of rules
of the soviet republic and location of
place where bombs were stored in
Glasgow and Manchester
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
SHIP IS AGROUND /!
Steamer North Star Runs
Ashore OF Nova Scotia.
Has 2s5 Passengers Aboard
Four Vessels Standing BY.

Boston. Aug s.-The steamship
North star, which left this port for
Yarmouth, n. s., yesterday with 2S5
passengers, went aground today on
Green island, six miles off Yarmouth,
according to word received by officials
of the eastern steamship lines here.
Four steamers, including the Canadian
government steamer Stanley, were
standing by and the passengers were
said to be in no danger.
In later message Captain Strout
of the North Star reported that water
was entering the fire room and that
it had been necessary to draw the
fires. The Canadian government
steamer Stanley. at first said to be
standing by, was detained at Var
mouth and unable to go to the North
Stars assistance. Two boats. several
motor schooners and all other avail
able vessels were ordered out, how
ever.
The North Star struck on the rocks
at 6:40 a. m. during a thick fog. Re-
ports received here indicate no one
was hurt and that there was no con-
fusion aboard. Preparations had been
made to remove the passengers if it
became necessary.
The work of transferring passen-
gers to two of the boats was begun
at 1O:40. The North Star was re-
ported to be pounding somewhat
heavily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
FEW GETTING COAL
The Ice Situation in Topeka is
StilI Serious.
Billiard Says 1t Is Worse Than
Many Realize.

THE ice situation in Topeka is quite
serious" This statement was made
this morning by Robert Billiard. of the
City Ice Delivery company in answer
to a direct question.
Billiard said that the ice situation Is
more serious than most persons real
ize, and he said that alienation is en-
tirely and absolutely dependent on inn
mediate deliveries of coal in carload
lots.
No coal has been received by the
City Ice Delivery company within the
last twenty-four hours and today the
wagons of the various coal yards of
the city are hauling almost every con-
ceivable kind of coal to the Billiard
plant. Every coal yard in the city has
been called upon to help avert the i'm
pending catastrophe and all this morn
ing the wagons loaded with lump and
have been unloading in the bins at the
City Ice Delivery plants
Try to Avoid Rations.
Billiard indicated today that with the
present stock of coal in Topeka the ice
plants may continue to operate until
the first Of the week. He said that If
possible the company wishes to avoid
the putting of Topeka on an ice ration
but he said that there is a POSSIBLE
ity that such action will have to be
taken.
Richard Hodgins's ice plant re-
celYed a carload OF coal Thursday
night which he said would guarantee
operating there until Monday. Hod-
gins said that the situation is entirely
dependent on the railroads for alleyia-
ton. If the cars of coal do not come,
spoilage of millions of dollars in food
stuffs impends.
Wolff Plant Supply.
The Charles Wolff Packing company
is in a fairly good position today in
regard to fuel supply. This plant will
be able to maintain refrigeration as
long as the fuel oil supply holds out
Charles Wolff said this morning that
he has assurances that the fuel oil
supply is in fairly good shape-but
he said that the railroads will have to
maintain the fuel supply of both oil
and coal if millions of pounds of
meats now in storage at his plant are
to be saved. Refrigeration at the
plant is no danger for at least forty
eight hours more, Wolff said today.
/ Receipt of several carloads of coal
by the Beatrice Creamery company
during the night relieved the ice sit
uation at that plant. More than a mil
lion pounds of butter, IS, 900 cases of
eggs. and 10000 pounds of poultry are
i removed from immediate danger of
spelling But the situation is serious
with the railroads placing embargoes
on carload shipments, and it is
thought that Topeka is standing on
the edge OF sleeping volcano of per-
sonal and financial discomfort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
COURSE IN FLYING
Washburn College Joins With
Lieut.. Weber in Plan.
Royal Flying Corps Hero Re-
turns Today.

Lieut. Thomas Webber, Royal Fly
ing Corps hero, and a pilot with seven
years experience incILd ding II months
in the war, returned to Topeka today.
He will conduct flights from Wash
burn field this evening. He has pur-
chased new plane, a Curtiss J N-4
with a 110-horse power engine.
With his new machine he will have
two planes in Topeka for the use of
his students when he opens his flying
school soon. Lieutenant Webber also
announces a plan that is being COM
pleted at this time which includes the
installation of a course in flying in
Washburn college beginning the fall
semester. Webber now has two
ships" and two extra motors-all to
be available to the students of Wash
burn who take the course.
This is the first college in the west
to take up airplane manipulation.
Lieutenant Webber has signed a
contract with the Free Fair in Topeka
for exhibition flights September 81 3.
He is planning also to make several
State Journal newspaper deliveries
this summer and fall. He carried the
first newspaper by airplane a few
weeks ago when the State Journal was
taken to Eskridge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
TRAINS STILL RUN
Topeka Does Not Feel Chicago
CurtaiIment Yet.
Extra Work Thrown on Local
Passenger Employees.

The curtailment of passenger serv-
ice out of Chicago due to the shop
men strike has not been felt directly
in Topeka-at least on thru trains
over the Santa Fe and Rock Island
today. Officials of both roads state
that everything is running as usual
but they make no guarantees for the
future. Union Pacific trains east only
run to Kansas City.
The strike, however, has thrown an
immense amount of work upon local
railway workers. Due to the strike in
ice and water practically every thru
train in Topeka. Extra employees
have been placed on this work and
big qua antities of ice have been used
to keep passengers in hot weather
comfort.
Considerable extra switching of pas
senger trains also has been operated
in Topeka rather than Kansas City.
Trains have been tied up here on the
the necessary switching was carried
out.
In Kansas City the last two or three
days officials of the road have
handled ice and have inspected cars in
the absence of union men who are out
with the shopmen on the strike. All
of this has caused delay and dis
comfort TO the -passe ngeTs.
No change in embargo conditions
was noted on the four railroads run
ming into Topeka today. The sub
ject to delay clause is still in effect
on all roads. Out of Kansas City on
most of the connecting roads nc
freight is accepted when shipped by
other roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08

Refusal of the teamsters and truck
drivers employed by the local trans
fer companies to haul flour from the
mills concerned is the latest develop
ment in the strike of $50 cereal work
ers here. The drivers say that pickets
have thrown rocks at them and that
there is too much danger entailed in
penetrating the picket lines. j. A.
Clayton, international representative
of the cereal workers. declared that
there was nothing to the allegations
concerning rock throwing Victor
Plantz, president of the Teamsters
union AMI an employe of the Mer-
chants Transfer company, said that
more was to feared from the Santa
~Fe men than from the cereal work
ers' pickets.
Two men employed by the Topeka
Transfer company for many years
quit their jobs Thursday rather than
obey orders to 60 to the Topeka Mill
and get load of flour for the Col
1ege Hill bakery. f. f. Dean. one of
the proprietors of the company, took
the team and hauled the flour HIM
self Drivers today freely expressed
fear of rocks
One of the cereal workers declared
this afternoon that seven of the driv-
ers of the Merchants Transfer COM
pany had been discharged this morn
imp belause they refused to haul flour.
]. H. Gayhart, manager, denied the
allegation.
mo men have been discharged or
quit this company" he declared. II
have heard nothing of it."
No Tcamsters' Boycott.
Plantz stated today that no order
had been issued by the Transfers
union for the men to quit hauling
flour from the mills implicated in the
strike and that there would be no
such order unless it was for the per-
sonal safety of the men.
THE men should haul the flour
unless there is imminent danger in it,"
he said. IF there is danger. they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
FACES ITS HARDEST FIGHT
Veterans of Famous Second Divi-
sion Quail at Going Into Battle
of Fifth Avenue Today.

New York. Aug. S.-The $4,000
leather necks" and doughboys of the
veteran Second division will expert
ence their hardest engagement late to-
day-the battle of Fifth avenue.
The division, which saw the most
fighting, suffered the heaviest cas-
ualties and won the reputation of be-
ing the toughest Yank division in the
war. parades up that famous street
between lines of tens of thousands of
admiring men, women and children.
The Second didn't want to parade,
and said so, but gave in just as a
favor to the "old man"-Maj. Gen.
John A. Lejeune.
The division comprises the Fifth
and Sixth marines and the Ninth and
Twenty-third infantries. More than
$4,000 Officers and men were to be
in line.
Cabinet officers. state and city Of
ficials. together with army and navy
officers will review the parade.
Mai. Gen. L. L. Jeune, U. S. NJ. C.,
commanding the division, was asked
to ride General" the pride OF the
New York police department stables
at the head of the parade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
mel FROM SHOPS
| ROCK Transfers
AT MILLS HERE?
Transfer Company Drivers Re-
fuse To Haul Flour.
One Report Is That Strikers
Threaten Them.
TWO GIVE UP Their JOBS
Santa Fe Men Gathered Around
Topeka Mill at Noon.
Clayton Denies Cereal Workers
Are Causing Trouble.
One Report Is That Striker
Threaten Them.
TWO GIVE UP THEIR JOBS
Santa Fe Men Gathered Around
Topeka Mill at Noon.
Shop Men Back Up Strikers.

F. A. Sanderson. president of the
Santa Fe Shop Federation. declared
that the charges that Santa Fe men
were throwing stones at truck
drivers was a mistake. He ex
pressed the belief, however. that
the teamsters should not haul flour
from these mills and that anyone
who did this or who went TO work
in the mills was considered unfair.
'I hope and believe" he said.
that everything will be agreeably
settled in a little while. The Santa
Fe boys only wish the cereal work.
ers the best of luck, at the same
time realizing that the opera ors be-
lieve they have a side in the affair.
What we want is fair play. living
wages. and decent hours to work
for every man in the city,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
$4,000 ON STRIKE
Chicago Packing Plant En-
plOyes at Yards Walk Out.
Action Is in Protest to Guards
Stationed at Yards.

Chicago, Aug 6.-A general strike
OF 33,S00 employees at the packing
plants in the stock yards began at 8
o'clock this morning.
The action followed the decision of
the stock yards labor council last night
to call a general strike unless the state
troops and police guards were imme-
diately withdrawn from the plants.
The strike was precipitated by the re-
turn of 5000 negroes to work yester-
day.
State troops were withdrawn from
the stockyards today, placating some
workers who objected to their pres
ence. Police and deputies remained
on guard and the troops continued
their vigilance outside. At noon 1t
was estimated $500 packer employees
were absent.
The dispute. according to labor lead
ers, is over the employment of nom
union negroes rather than race hatred.
Many of the negroes. it is said. have
refused to join the unions. The men
walked out quietly and no disturbances
were reported.
The extra policemen, 200 of them,
were placed thruout the yards yes
terday when 5000 negro butchers and
hog scrapers returned to work after
lay off of ten days due to race riot
fear. Two hundred deputy sheriffs
also were placed in the district.
Decision to strike was reached at a
meeting held last night. A flat de-
mand was made on Mayor Thompson
to remove the police It was under
TODD. however. the mayor would not
order the removal of the patrolmen,
fearing renewal of race trouble be-
tween the white and black workers.
The mems leaders said they had no OBJ
lection to working with negroes.
AdJutant General Dickson, in charge
of two regiments of militia stationed
near the yards. said the troops will
not be removed except on order by
police authorities, under whose direc-
ton the soldiers were ordered to the
yards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
CHARGED WITH ANARCHY
New York Bomb Squad Arrests Four
Alleged Radicals.

New York, Aug. S.-Charged with
criminal anarchy under an old sec
ton of the penal code, four men were
arrested here today by detectives of
the bomb squad after :: raid on their
apartment in the Bronx. Much litera-
ture and loaded revolver were found
in the flat
men, all Firms and three of them
claiming to be carpenters, have dis
tributed a large quantity of revolu-
tionary propaganda among foreign
born working men in the United
States. This literature urged that vio-
lent measures be used to overthrow
the government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
S1OO,OOO IN LOOT
Two Bc1dits Rob Frisco jew
elry Firm Today.
Force Clerks To Lie on Floor
While They Work.

San Francisco. Aug. S.-Two men
robbed the Morgan Jewelry company s
store here of 100000 worth of jew
elry shortly after the store opened
today.
Both men were armed. and one was
masked. Entering as the clerks were
taking the window display jewe' S
from the safe. they forced the clerks
to lie down on the floor. back of the
counter. Then they seized the dis
play case and escaped. 1t was be-
lieved they had an automobile N
waiting nearby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
TODAY's TEMPER

For fOrty-seVen days and IOrty-
seven nights there has not been rain
in Topeka of sufficient size to even
soak up the top of the ground
According to the forecast of S. D.
Flora, state meteorologist. there need
be no preparations made in expecta-
ton of rain for none is in sight for
twenty four hours at least.
1For twenty-four hours there has
been no rain in Kansas. Neither has
there been any rain in the Missouri
valley. There is no prediction for rain
in the valley either
Thursday night was the coolest night
in seventeen days. The mercury scoot-
CONTINUED on Page Two.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
rs FAvORITE MEMORIAL
Buildings for Social Ccnters Decided
Upon by 2S6 Towns.

New York, Aug. s.-PIans to erect
war memorials in the form of build
ings to be used as social centers have
been decided upon by 236 cities. towns
and villages in the United States. ac-
cording to figures made public today
by war camp community service. The
organization is carrying on country
wide campaign for community me-
MORALS thru its bureau of memorial
buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
GERMAN WAR BRIDES here

New York. Aug. S.-The first
German war brides to come to the
United States since 1917 arrived
today aboard the army transport
Great Northern from Brest. They
were included among 249 young
women of various nationalitieS who
married American soldiers abroad.
Tho Great Northern also brought
% officers. 1900 troops and S3
welfare workers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
AZ DAYS OF DROUTH
No Relief in Sight, Either, Mr.. Flora
Said Today.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS: /:
Fair tonight and Saturday; not much
change in temperature.
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Looked Like Settlement.

Early settlement of the cereal work
ers strike in Topeka was apparent at
noon today when mill operators ac-
cepted compromise plan proposed
by John H. Crawford, state labor COM
missioner.
Under the Crawford plan the strikers
would abandon attempts to unionize
for one year. Questions of wages, re-
turn of strikers to their old jobs and
other disputes will be settled by an
arbitration board. The proposition
was submitted by Commissioner Craw-
ford and approved by mill owners and
operators following an all morning
conference. Every mill affected by
the strike was represented, while an
equal number of strike representatives
attended the meeting. Mayor Cor
wine and A. L. Oliger, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, sat with
Crawford during the conference.
Mill operators objected to the ad-
mission of several general representa-
tives of labor organizations to the
conference. BY agreement the dis
cussion was behind closed doors.
Crawford Gives Ideas.
Hope of an agreement in the strike
trouble this afternoon centered in the
action of mill owners in accepting the
olive branch offered by the state la
Dor commissioner. Under this pro-
vision, tho, cereal workers will with
hold unionization efforts for a period
of one year. Crawford urged that in
view of the general unrest in labor
circles thruout the country all inter-
ests would be safeguarded by a twelve
months delay.
Crawford's plan bars any attempt
at unionization during the year. Al
the end of that time, he believes, con-
ditions will be sufficiently settled to
permit a discussion of the problem.
The proposal does not bind the mills
to union recognition at the end Of a
year, but provides that the question
may be reopened at that time. The
right of cereal workers to unionize is
the big issue in the present dispute
, and strike.
THE cereal workers are only sixty
per cent unionized at this time, "
Crawford stated. land in view OF the
generally unsettled conditions, it is ad-
visable in my judgment to postpone
further action for year"
All questions in the strike dispute
outside the right of the men to union
ize and secure recognition is to be
left to an arbitration board of three
men. The cereal workers and mill
operators will each select a member of
the board These men will name a
third member.
fTto0ftD1,oI IN fsoCa Cfx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
RECOVERY in STOCKS
Issues Which Took Sharp Slump
Thursday Show Gain Today.

Thursday Show Gain Today.
New York. Aug. S.-After the slump
in the final hour of trading yesterday,
the stock market opened today with
gains of from one to three points in
those issues which were weakest at
the close of the previous session.
Lea ders in the recovery included
United States Steel. which opened with
an advance OF 2A, Crucible steel.
Baldwin locomotive. United States
rubber. Central leather and Mexican
petroleum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
Approves Spain Joining league

IEy The ASsoclated IrtSN-l
Madrid. Aug. T.-Parliament ap-
proved today the proposal that Spain
join the league of nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
TO TRAVEL THRU U. S.
King Albert Plans Extensive Tour of
MISUNDERSTANDING Prince Leopold.

MISUNDERSTANDING Prince Leopold.
Brussels, Aug. "Details of King
Albert's trip to America have not been
fully arranged, but it is probable that
he will start about the middle of Sep
tember and will not return until his
presence here is necessary because of
the Belgian elections. According tc
present plans. he will make q COM
plete swing of the country ana will
be accompanied by his son, Prince
Leopold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
UNIONS REJECT
PLAN TO PUT.AN
END TO WALKOUT
At $3.50 This Afternoon Strik-
ers Refuse Compromise.
Stand by Original Idea of
Forcing Their Demands.
EMPLOYERS WERE WILLING
Agreed to Suggestions of State
Labor Commissioner.
"We Are Willing To Meet
Owners" Is Declaration.

At $3.50 o'clock this afternoon
the members of the striking ce-
real workers union announced
that they had voted unanimous
ly to reject the proposition sub
mitted this morning by J. H.
Crawford, state labor commits
sioner, and would adhere to their
original plan of forcing the mill
owners to grant their demands.
The union men declare that the
mill operators merely took advantage
of the opportunity to air their views
again concerning the labor troubles
here and that they never really had
any proposition to offer.
LAS for u.s." said President Slater,
of the union, I'VE must consider the
public. We are willing to meet the
mill owners and come to an agree
>ment, but it seems that they are not
willing to do this"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08

WEATHER FORECASr for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Saturday: not
much change In temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08

PANICkY persons should remember
It docs not storm every time the
clouds gather.