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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
HOPE FOR BALLOONISTS
Confident Wichita Pilots Are Safe
One Lost Crew Turned Up.

ST. Louis Oct 6.-Altho two ball
loon crews in the national champion
ship race have been missing for four
days and a half. anxiety over their
fate was considerably lessened last
night when it was learned that the
pilot and aide of a third balloon re-
ported missing had landed Thursday
and spent three days penetrating the
unsettled Parry Sound region of On
tario.
The two remaining craft to be heard
from are the St. Louis "V" and the
Wichita, Kansas. entry. both of which
took a northeasterly course with eight
other competitors upon taking the air
here last Wednesday night. Two of
the balloons reporting so far landed
in the Parry Sound region and race
officials are confident that the pilots
yet to be heard from have landed
safely and are now making their way
to some point of communication with
the outside world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
DEAD IN wreck. SO
Train Running From Laredo to
Mexico City Jumps Track.
Believed Death List viii Mount
to IS or More.

Mexico City, Oct. 5.-Sixty persons
are known to have been killed in the
derailment of a training running from
Laredo. Tex, to Mexico City today. II
is believed the death list will reach
seventy-five or more. All the dead
were among the second class passen-
gers on the train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
TODAY's TEMPERATUREs

Fine, cool. early fall weather is
ahead; fair weather will prevail for a
day or so, with little chance for rain
or frost. was the prediction made this
morning by s. D. Flora. state meteor
ologist.
When She temperature reached only
SO degrees Sunday afternoon, it made
the afternoon the coolest in a period
of four months. During the night IL
dropped to 40 degrees. Tomorrow
temperatures will range between SO
Continued on Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
CAT HIDES AT HIGH PRICES.
Toledo Dealers Believed They We're
Buying Struggled Goods.

Toledo, o.. Oct. 6.-Scores of Toledo
ans have bought cat furs. which they
believed to have been costly pelts and
which the salesmen insinuated had
been smuggled from Canada, accord
ing to the police, who have threatened
to revoke the licenses of all peddlers
working without a special permit
from the mayor. The police have
learned chat the furs were made in
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
SAY HE TOOK U. S. FUNDS
Rail Administration Official Charged
With 3IisarpropriatIng $4,000.

St. Louis. Oct 6.-Charles F. Beck.
distribution officer of the United
States railroad administration. today
surrendered to Assistant United States
Attorney White on a federal warrant
charging Misrepresentation of govern
ment funds.
Beck is accused of taking $4,000
from the railroad administration. The
federal warrant charges the misappro-
priation was from January l, 1918. to
last December.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
FORGOTTEN HOW TO PLAY
Pnderewski, Noted Pianist, Says
He's Happy To Sacrifice Art for
n His Country.

(CiP tespondence of the Associated Press.i
Faris, Sept. 21-Interviewed after
the signature of the Austrian treaty,
{gnace Jan Paderewski volunteered the
Information that he had quite forgot
ten how to play the piano. The jour-
nalist, after asking the Polish pre-
mier numerous questions relating 10
the political situation in Poland,
finally Queried:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
BACK TO GODS COUNTRY

San Francisco, Oct. 6.-Another
contingent of American troops from
the Siberian battlefields landed here
today when SAB soldiers left the trans
port Thomas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
STATE FIGHTS RACE WARS
Oklahoma in a Move To Prevent Fur
ther Trouble.

Oklahoma City. Oct ga definite
movement to prevent further racial
antipathy between whites and negroes
was launched here today by Governor
Robertson when. after a brief confer
ence. he appointed a committee to
form plans or organizati
A body to disseminate propa ganda
to create good feeling is the basis of
the proposal The organization would
have branches in every county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06

And your art, Mr.. President, have
you given it up completely"
Yes replied the former artist. 81
have forgotten it. 1 have little time
to think of it. 1 have not played
pie no for two years and three months
Il do not regret it"
Then he added, with a tinge Of
pride: Il am happy to have sacri-
feed to the cause of my country what
I held most dear"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
Today's Lineup.

COmlSkey Park, chicago, Oct. g.
''Hod" Eller defeated the Chicago
White Sox today. The score was to 0.
Besides breaking the worlds record
by striking out six batters in two con-
secutive innings, Moran's big right
handler won his own game by starting
the fatal batting rally in the sixth.
The Indiana boy got a great ovation
as he came to batand with two strikes
called him, doubled to left center.
He scored when Rath singled over the
infield which was playing in. Dau-
bert laid down a pretty sacrifice bunt,
Rath going to second. williams lost
his control temporarily and passed
Groh. Roush's three base smash to
Feisch scored both Rath and Groh.
Schalk was sent to the bench when he
bumped into Umpire Rigler after the
Goose play on Groh. Lynn replacing
him. Felsch got his hands on Roush's
fly. but was running hard and could
not hold it.
Cincinnati scored again in the ninth
Roush reached first when Ed. Collins
booted grounder and crossed the pan
on Nealcs out. Mayer was very wild.
Eller pitched great ball. He allowed
only three hits. and struck out nine
men, the record for this series. VIII
liams also pitched good ball, with the
exception of the sixth inning.
BY virtue of todays victory, the
Reds have their hands on the cham
pionship and need only tomorrow's
game to cinch their hold.
Gleason sent Mayer III to replace
williams on rhe mound m the ninth.
Elletr performed his record breaking
FAINT in the second and third innings.
In the second he struck out Gandil.
Risberg and Schalk with II pitched
balls and in the next moved down Will
liams. Liebold and Collins, with only
ii offerings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
WEEK STARTS FAIR
Il VIII Be Warmer Tuesday and
North Portion Tonight.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Fair tonight and Tuesday: somewhat
warmer Tuesday and IN extreme north por-
ton tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
Government Mail Order Gro
Gerry Stores Now Open.
All Kansas Must Buy From the
st. Louis Stock.
HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES LISTED
Tomatoes Can Be Purchased for
6 Cents a Can.
Canned Meats of All Kinds Are
Listed Here Today

The government army Quartermas-
ter retail stores are open and ready for
business. The nearest of these stores
to Topeka is at st. Louis. but any resi-
dent of Kansas may order goods by
parcel post and they will be delivered
with charges prepaid. A decided saw
ing over ordinary retail prices is evil
dent on most of the articles offered for
sale.
There are twenty-four of the stores
in the United States. but Kansans must
order only from st. Louis. Beside
foodstuffs, certain household COM
modities which are included in stocks
of surplus war materials will be avail
able for purchase. Complete lists of
commodities offered for sale and the
prices at which they will be sold will
be displayed in every postoffice and
sub-station in the state.
Will Insure Shipments,
Only new and unused goods will be
sold by mail. The prices fixed include
transportation charges. Mail order
purchases of over 81 will be insured at
the governments expense. If the pur-
chaser desires to have shipments of a
value under 81 insured. it will be
necessary to include the cost of the
III the All Uldli
orders must be accompanied by cash.
postal money orders or certified checks.
Checks not certified will not be ac-
cepted. For any goods ordered which
are out of stock or cannot be supplied.
tho local postmaster will refund the
price. Shipments will be limited to
case lots of each commodity, except
in the case of canned meats. No one
will be permitted to resell the articles
purchased, altho ii is understood that
there will be no objection to families
clubbing" together for the sake OF
convenience in ordering and shipping
This is distinct from the sale OF
government surplus army food held a
short time ago. In this case the order
should be made out, addressed and
sent direct to Army QuartermasteI
Retail Stores Div, st. Louis, Mo-" Be-
| low are the commodities so far avail
able, and the prices, which include the
parcel post charges:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
Victory Today Gives Cincinnati
Four and Chicago One.
Tomorrow May Settle Battle
for the Championship.
OPENED UP FIRE IN The SIXTH
Cincy's Assault Broke Thru
WiIliams's Defense.
ElIer Broke Worlds Record in
a StrikeOut Display.

Score by Innings:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Warm
err Tuesday and In north portion to-
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06

Comiskey Park. Oct 6.-With the
rays of the sun becoming stronger
Continued on page SKI
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Wife Charges That Child
Was Born Before Marriage

Columbus, Neb., Jan. 25.-(Spe-
cial)--To be arrested on COM
plant filed in justice court at Mo
brara by his divorced wife, in which
she charges him to be the father of
a child born to her before their mar
riage, was the peculiar predicament
in. which Ebert Miller of Monroe
found himself.
Attorneys for the young man in
stituted habeas corpus proceedings
in the district of this county on the
contention that fraudulent use was
being made of the courts, and the
papers were served on Deputy Sher-
if kellogg of Knox county. A hear
ing was had before Judge George
H. Thomas, who took the matter
under advisement, and Miller was
allowed to return to his home at
Monroe.
The plaintiff in the action is Mrs.
Meta Miller, who, before her mar
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
SUFFRAGISTS
WIN VICTORY
IN Nebraska

terday is more than that of other
suffragist enthusiasts.
eve expected the verdict. Any
one who had gone over the anti
suffrage petitions as thoroughly as
we had could see no other verdict
but the right one"
The women express the highest
regard for Judge Flansburg, who
handed down the favorable decision.
"He had read the testimony so
thoroughly he knew every little turn
of the case. He has been as fair as
any man in a position of his kind
could possibly be-" they said.
These two women card indexed
l8,843 names, making personal in
vestigation of the owner of each sig
mature which aroused their sus-
picion.
Mrs. Smith, besides assisting in
this work, was the fnancier of the
great task. More than $1,000 was
expended in Douglas county alone.
1T was only the knowledge that
all supporters of clean government
in Omaha were with us that gave us
courage and heart to continue the
fight" said Mrs. Sumney.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Clerks Get Paid for WHAT
They Know; Old Black CT eTO
Gets Paid for WHOM
He Knows.
By J. H. KEARNES.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. Z5.-(Special.)
State house stenographers get So
per day for their services and they
have been calling attention to the
fact that it is the same rate of pay
received by Cicero" colored porter,
greeter and factotum of the senate.
Cicero" who is a keen politician.
and who retains his place, session
after session, despite the political
complexion of the senate, happened
to hear of this comparison.
Said he: Dose stenogs dey gets
paid fob what dey knows. l gets
paid foh who | knows"
There's a world of truth in his
statement, for his retentiye memory
enables him to identify hosts Of
callers on the senate and saves many
of the senators from the embarrass-
ment of faulty memory of names
and faces. Cicero" tactfully man
ages to step into the breach at the
psychological moment and refresh
the memory of a senator struggling
to recall the identity of a prominent
visitor and Cicero does it so art
fully that neither the visitor or the
senator can catch on.
Members of the legislature are
wondering if it is mere coincidence
or clever engineering that caused
bill to be introduced in the house
lengthening the term of service Of
district clerks, after John Alberts,
district clerk of Cedar county, had
visited his good friend, Bob" Smith,
in Omaha recently.
When the biennial election law
was changed in relation to the
terms of district clerks, Bob was in.
office and got one more year of Of
flee than he was elected for. The
new law proposes to give him and
the other district court clerks of
the state who are affected two more
years of office than they were elect
ed to.
The new bill, which was intro
duced by Burney of Cedar county.
came at the request of John Alberts
after the latter had visited Omaha
and had conferred with Smith. 1t is
a clever scheme of progressive per-
petuation in Office.
Bob" was in Lincoln last week
and circulated about the capitol
building ostensibly for the purpose
of favoring a bill to increase the
salary of his deputy, Asel Steele.
In the meantime his own interests
did not suffer from any word Of his.
zone of the really historic events
of my life, and one of which | am
proud" said John Mcclellan, Grand
Island, who represents Hall county
in the house, "is the fact that as car
rier on Route 20 I carried the first
Omaha Bee out of the new building,
after the newspaper had been in
stalled therein in 1888.
II was working my way through
school then, and The Bee route was
not only my meal ticket, but also
the source of my tuition"
Mr.. Mcclellan is a wealthy lumber
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
CRUSADERS AT
LINCOLN after
NAUGHTY THEDA
Continued From Page one.l

out of the film world, in Nebraska,
by denaturing the silent drama. The
weapon they are creating to cut her
from the scroll of fame that she may
be cast into the outer darkness of
oblivion is a board of censorship Of
moving pictures.
Theda Not Only Victim.
And Theda is not the only victim
contemplated. With her will go all
the screen heroes and heroines
whom the zealots place in the same
category with the hectic villains
and villainesses who made the dime
novels and penny" dreadfuls Of our
callow youth the horror of the Sun
day school teachers of our time.
All those who thrill youth with
valorous deeds of daring with
out the pale of the law are to
be censored from the screen. No
more can William Hart hold up
stage coach in a lonely mountain
pass and make a bunch of desert
desperadoes look like small change
deducted from so cents. No more
can unsophisticated youth gaze with
avid eyes on scenes of Oriental vice
and Occidental wickedness in the
slums of studio Chinatowns and re-
pleas of the gangs resorts of Bax-
ter street-that is, if these few
crusaders have their way.
Even the gilded and unconven-
tional allurements of Bohemian life
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26

within the charming environs OF
Greenwich village, where to be
bromide in thought, speech and
deed is the unforgiyable sin, will be
withheld from the eyes of unfor-
tunate mortals who are chained by
circumstances to existence in this
great and grand state of alfalfa,
hogs and cattle.
To Create New Hero Type.
1t is the evident purpose of the
group of new reformers who are
working for the censorship of NOV
ing pictures TO bring about by the
operation of law a new type of
screen hero and heroines-the kind
that exemplify the negative virtues
-whost acting will adorn a pretty
tale and point virtuous moral.
Little Willie to Be Hero.
Little Willie, who cannot tell a
lie, will play a hero's part in re-
proving the juvenile gang who plot
to steal a farmers watermelons and
after the pain of being suspected of
playing double part of saint and
sinner by the despoiled farmer and
his neighbors, will triumphantly vim
dictate himself, triumph as the ex-
ponent of youthful righteousness,
and meet the fate of dying young to
the soft pedals of a funeral dirge
pouring from a pipe organ as the
lights of the theater burn soft and
low.
Mischievous Mile, the boarding
schol soubrette, because of defying
the conventions and rules of her
school, will be caught by the per-
red.handed, in the act of
giving chatting dish party. She will
attempt to escape in her mighty
from the awful righteousness of her
mentors by way OF bed-sheet rope,
to the ground, from her room in the
third story of the dormitory. 1t will
be winter time and the snow on the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Man Wounded in ATgOnne
Forest Returns to Home

Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 25.-(Special)
Howard Conover, a Beatrice soldier
who participated in the Argonne
forest battle in France and who was
severely wounded when he went
over the top the third time, arrived
home yesterday, being the first mem
Der of old Company c to reach the
city since the war closed. He is
still on crutches and since reaching
America, on January 3, has been
stationed at Camp Dodge. He states
that 5000 wounded soldiers arrived
on the transport with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26

"I'm a farmer" are words of in
PRODUCTION used in speeches made in
the lower house, by many members
these days.
This prefacing remark is made,
not in the whining voice or tragic
tone of populistic days when the
farmer represented himself as a
lowly worm or downtrodden proto-
plasm of economics and politics.
There is something proudly ex-
ultant about the exclamation nova
days, as though the farmer were the
salt of the earth and wanted the uni
verse to know it.
And there is reason for this pride
for the new type of farmer in the
house is really successful and YER
satile business man. He is able to
stand on his own resources and
match wits with many other success
full professional and business men.
In debate he is neither demagogic or
slow-witted, but can hold his own
with any.of them. 1t is not partisan
braggadocio to call attention to the
fact that the majority of this new
and optomistic type are republicans.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26

bill in the house to increase the levy
for districts with over $50 pupils to
100 mills. McLeod's bill, however,
seems to be meeting with the most
favor among the members.
There was some opposition to the
senate bill enabling communities to
provide, by public taxation and the
issuing Of bonds to erect memorials
to the soldiers of the world war.
The opposition came from members
who fear that the sense of obliga-
ton of the people and their admira-
ton for the soldiers and sailors will
make them victims of promoters
who will be able to capitalize this
condition by promoting memorials
that will be of doubtful art or his
toric value and will be a waste of
public funds. They say that any
crime can be committed now pro-
viding the suggestion is made that
it will be in the interest of the sol
der or sailor. .-r
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26

ground, while the wind will sigh
mournfully through the branches of
the naughty naked limbs of the
scenario campus trees. Mischievous
Miles dainty little tootsies. sans
silk stockings or any other cover
ings, will become chilled by the win
try SHOWS. She will catch the FLU"
and die, a horrible example to the
young who do not mind their teach
ers, dear.
AL these things and more are con-
templated to occur when the jealous
men and women devil chasers who
are at work on the legislature to
have enabling laws passed will have
their way, and they sem determined
to have it.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
DRAPERIES
Reduced in Price to Point
That Should Sell Every Item.
ATTEND EARLY MONDAY
Curtain Nets to 20 yards to

Curtain Nets to 20 yards to
the piece
$3.50 values, now, yard. ...s5c
$2.75 values, now, yard. ... Csc
$500 values, now, yard. .65c
S1.25 to SITS val, now, I'd, 4se
85c values, now, yard. ...."3sc
Useful short lengths of Curtain
Net at. ............l Oc, zoe, SOC
Cretonnes and Cotton Taffetas,
about 25 Cretonnes of various de-
signs and colors and 16 plain col
ored Cotton Taffetas. Values
from 75c to $1.25, for. 80. .2SC
Curtains in One and Two-Ps
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Kearney Blaze Causes
Loss Estimated at $4,000

Kearney, Neb, Jan. 25.-(Spe-
cial.)--Fire, that is believed to have
been caused by throwing cigar or
cigarette stump into a pile OF ex-
celsior, started blate in the Cod
dington block here yesterday, caus-
ing loss estimated at $4,000. The
ground floor was occupied by the
Yanney & Joseph company, deal
ers in produce and groceries, The
fire broke through north TO the
Mcguire grocery store and FIRE, wat
er and smoke will be responsible for
heavy loss there, while the Bower
undertaking parlors in the south
suffered from water.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
To Hold Memorial Service
for Ellsworth Soldier

Ellsworth, Neb., Jan. 25.-(Spe-
cial)-The Ellsworth Red Cross
branch, together with the many
friends Of Owen Bennett. who was
killed in action October p, have ar
ranged for a memorial service in his
honor at St. Bernard's church
Wednesday, January %.
This is the third death in action
occurring to boys from this dis
trict. The first was Clinton Quaken-
bush of Bingham, who was killed on
the Picardy front early in the &C
tivities of our forces. Then followed
Bert Hinton of Spade, Neb., just
north of here, and very short time
later Owen Bennett.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Want Depot Open Longer.

Lincoln, Jan. 25.-(Special. "A
petition signed by 70 citizens of
Garrison, Neb., asks the Nebraska
Raj way commission to require the
burlington to keep its freight and
passenger depot there open longer
than from 7:45 a. m, to 3:45 p. m
The chief complaint is that the
main train from the east arrives at
s p. m. and no facilities are pro-
vided for letting waiting passengers
in out of the cold, for buying tickets
or for receiving mail from the train.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26

rage, was Miss Meta Hansen Of
Niobrara, Neb. Her child was born
in January, 1918. Miller paid the
girl $500 in settlement of her claim
against him, the agreement being
made and the papers signed in the
presence of her father. In June,
1918, Miller and the young woman
were married at Norfolk.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Fitted Bags
and Suit Cases
Both Mems and
Women's Styles

These Bags were intended
for our Christmas business, but
arrived too late. They are
especially fine pieces, and not
only wonderful for gifting, but
practical and very useful in
every sense of the word. The
regular prices start at $21.OO
and rise by easy steps to $125.
They are now
Reduced Il or $14.OO to $4,000
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Irish College Seized.

Dublin, Jan, 25.-The military
authorities have seized st, Enda's
college, in Dublin county, founded
by Patrick Pearse, who was execut-
ed in connection with the Easter
rebellion in 1916.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Is Total Loss.

London, Jan. 25.-The American
schooner Espada, before reported
stranded near Suva, Fiji Islands, is a
total loss. Half the cargo may be
eaNnd