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New-York tribune., 1919-09-25
&0.O0O.OOO for War 'Pianes

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Payment
Of $s,ll4,126:03 by Secretary Baker to
the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motors Cor
porati9n, in settlement of war contracts
and for the purchase OF the company
Buffalo plant, IS provided for in a BIZ
intre .uced to-day by Chairman Kahn
of the House Military Affairs Com
mittee
New-York tribune., 1919-09-25
Bigamist's Sentence Commuted

oSSlN1NG, N. Y. Sept. 24.-A COM
mutation of sentence arrived at Sing
Sing to-day for Matthew Adam Sister.
who was convicted of bigamy in Queens
County fifteen months ago. Governor
Smith commuted his sentence to the
period he already had served, and Sis
ter will be released tomorrow. He
has been employed in laboratory work
in connection with the prison hospital.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-25
Five Held as Anarchists

NAPLES, Sept. "a, On the arrival
here of the steamer Europa from New
York, the police arrested five Italians
who are alleged to be anarchists The
authorities here were advised of the
coming Of the men by American Of
fcials and also the Italian Consul in
New York
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LOAN SALES LAC
Treasury Officials Discouraged
With Victory Loan Outlook.
Late Reports Boost Total to
Only $914,5OO,00O.

Washington, April 29.-Treasury
officials were somewhat discouraged
with the prospects in the victory loan
campaign today. Reports over night
boosted the total subscriptions less
than $1OO.OOO.OoO, making the sales
to date only s914.5OO,O0O.
While the percentage of the mini
mum quota is slightly higher than
that of the same date in the fourth
loan. the daily percentage is gradu-
ally falling, officials said
Total sales are about S225. 600, 600
behind the record for the same day in
the last loan.
Reports from the west coast were
the only ones regarded as satisfac-
tory.
Chi. Banks on Hot Finish.
Chicago, April 29.-Loan workers
are depending on a whirlwind finish to
put Chicago's victory loan quota across
despite the fact that the city started
out today $24,OO0,000 behind the pace
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Industrial Board Head DIS
eusses Steel Price Controversy.
AssaiIs Director Generals Pol
icy of Bargaining by Barter.
WOULD FORCE WAGE CUT
Few Concerns Would Get All
Rail Contracts, Peek Says.
Denies Industrial Boards Plan
Violates Antitrust Act.

st. Louis, Mo, April 2s.-Refusal of
government agencies at this time to
cooperate in the movement to sta bill
iZe p-ices at a lower level, based upon
a scientific determination of costs and
proper consideration of all interests
involved, would be fraught with grave
consequences to the country, George
n. Peek. chairman of the industrial
board of the department of commerce,
declared in an address here today be-
fore the annual convention of the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
Not Real Motive?
Referring to Director General Hines
refusal to accept the schedule of steel
prices agreed upon between the indus
trial board and representatives of the
industry as a level for railroad admin
istration purchases, Mr.. Peek declared
the real motive for Mr. Hines ac-
ton was not his objection to the prices
as too high, but his disapproval of
the course of the board in approving
prices based on cost studies rather
than calling sellers and government
buyers together and permitting the
best possible bargains by barter"
The course desired by Mr.. Hines.
said Mr.. Peek, would mean such a
beating down "of prices as would
force either a general reduction in
wages or a diversion of the entire bus
mess of the railroads to one two pow
erful low cost producers. The rail-
road administration. he said, by rea-
son of its great purchasing power in
rails could practically control the
market and the price"
Denies Antitrust Violation.
Mr. Peek defended the boards price
agreement policy against MIR. Hines
objection that it gives immunity from
the operation of antitrust laws to the
industries involved
Any producer, Mr.. Peek pointed out
is free to sell at higher or lower prices
than those agreed upon in particular
| industry Such a price agreement. he
commended, is not a combination at all
| and even if it were. the result achieved
is certainly fit field for the applica-
| ton OF reason" The course suggested
| by the railroad administration, he
said, means IAN utilization of the COM
| bined buying power of the government
| that would entail the very sort of
monopolistic result condemned by the
Sherman act
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LOWREY GOES FREE

When the case of NJ. E. Lowrey, of
Wichita, charged with assault, was
called for preliminary hearing this
afternoon in the court of Topeka, Mrs.
T. J. Anderson, the complainant, re-
fused to go on the witness stand and
asked that the case be dismissed.
County Attorney Fisher refused to
take this action and referred the case
to Judge Rad Lee. who, at Mrs. An
derson's request, struck the case from
his docket. Eowrey was set free.
The alleged attack on Mrs. Ander-
son at her home, 215 Clay street, oc-
CURED about two weeks ago She
charged that Lowrey beat her up and
threatened to kill her, for no partic-
ular rea son. Lowrey admitted, accord
ing to authorities, that he struck the
woman when she refused to give him
back a diamond ring she had been
wearing and interfered when he at
tempted to go upstairs after it. but
denied that he had brutally attacked
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The banks of the country can take
this victory loan if it should prove
necessary. But every bond bought by
the ranks because Of the failure of a
citizen to support the loan means that
the purchasing power of money with
held will decrease acco- dinghy. because
bank buying will mean additional in
flation of currency, more credit LA
bility and higher prices. 1t will mean
that industry, business and commerce
must suffer because the banks will be
unable to loan money N sufficient
quantities and at a fair rate to the
business man. If business and indus
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RATES AND WAGES

The Future of Railroads.


Hines. speaking before the Chamber
of Commerce. outlined his theory con-
corning the future of American rail-
roads. In speaking of present fed
eral control he alluded to the system
as purely temporary" strongly init
mated that the day is not far distant
when the lines will go back to private
control. but asserted that he could
think of nothing more disastrous than
a return to<a pre-war system of pri-
vate mana cement and control. In all.
the director general advocated a radi-
cal revolutionization of the railroa d
issue, embrace a strongly govern
ment-regulated system of private con-
troll.
S. E. Cobb. Topeka banker, opened
the Chamber of Commerce meeting
introducing +. L. Copeland, treasurer
for the Santa Fe. who in turn intro
duced Hines. Cobb's assertion that
altho the business men of Topeka
were delighted to welcome Hines and
his party as the heads of the federal
control system, they would be far
more pleased in the future to welcome
them individually representing indi-
vidual privately owned lines, brought
down storm of applause.
Hines in beginning his talk declared
that the railroads of the country, I'M
der federal control. are struggling to
get back to a pre-war condition of eff
ficiency.
This, he said, can only be accom-
plished by slow degrees, in the face
of the fact that business is falling off
more rapidly than expenses could ever
be expected to and owing to- the failure
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WHY A LABOR PARTY?

Two thousand representatives of la
Dor organizations in Illinois have met
and organized an independent labor
party in that state. The purpose is to
support those candidates of the old
in case none such can be found. to put
up candidate of their own.
In local elections there are fire.
quently labor candidates, but they
have never made a showing compaf-
abe with labor's strength. For
workingmen like to indicate their
right to an independent vote. This
was illustrated in the latest municipal
election in this city.
In the recent Chicago cleo
ton the candidate for mayor
on the labor ticket polled only
54,753 of the $4,000 votes cast. The
labor candidate for city commissioner
in Springfield, Ill, ran seventh among
eight candidates. In Bloomington,
John B. Lennon, former treasurer of
the American Federation of Labor,
was defeated by Mayor E. E. Jones.
Republican.
In no other respect mas Samuel
Gompers shown saner leadership of
labor" says Leslie's, than in his re-
fusal to be led astray by the cry for a
labor party" Mr.. Gompers has stood
out against the European idea of a
distinct labor party, and holds that la
Dor has REACHED its highest influence
in the United States. where no attempt
has been made to deliver a solid labor
vote to any party.
Labor is almost certain to find that
Gompers is right in holding that free
hand. untrammeled by party connec-
ton, gives labor greater influence in
obtaining favorable legislation than
would come thru a separate labor
party. Entrance into politics wrecked
the Grange movement, the Farmers
Alliance and the knights of Labor or
ganization. If the Illinois plan be
greatly extended it may even wreck
the American Federation of Labor. 1t
may be that this is what President
Gompers fears.
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Mexico is reaping the reward which
comes to nations as well as individ-
uals who wholly disregard the rights
of others. Not only has France re-
fused to receive MeXico's diplomatic
representatives but she has been de-
MED entrance to the society of nations
If Mexico desire to resume her place
among civilized countries she must
clean house. She must abandon her
course of outlawry which nobody but
the United States, it seems, will longer
tolerate.
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MY HUSBAND AND |
RY JANE, PHELPS
BY JANE PHELPS

I some times wonder, as l look back
upon our lives together, which is the
worst attribute of the two-to be a
miser, or to lack perspective where
money is concerned
have since learned that men of
Neirs type, the careless, easy-come-
easy-go kind, where money is con-
cerned, are usually Iovable character
in themselves; and also that they are
easily prey to the professional hang
ers-on who, not being successful them
selves, are always ready to receive all
the benefits possible from those who
are financial successes.
But 1 neither knew nor saw any
thing of this class a that time. OF
the other, however-the coarse COM
mon moneyed class-I saw many. 1t
had been with an apology that Nell
had brought MIR. Scott home. And he
-also had been bit shame-faced when
he brought others of his kind, and
asked me to ~be nice to them" But
after a time he ceased to be apologize.
He simply stated the fact that a couple
of men would dine with US. Sometimes
adding:
Look as well as you can. A good
front means a lot to these dubs," or
play up to these fellows. They think
a lot of the kind of wife a man, has.
If she puts on a lot of style, yet is
affable to them. it flatters them and
makes them open up"
I hated this. often I argued with
Neil against his making a business
place of his home, even while 1 wanted
to know all about that business. l
would not have objected, had he
brought only refined, companionable
men home with him. but cultured men
were the exception; the other kind, the
rule-men who talked loudly, who
drank too much, who ate vulgarly, but
who had great wealth.
ST won't sit at the table with such
Doors" 1 once said when he had
brought home a man a little more OBJ
jectiona BILE than any of the others
had met. Not even to help your
business, win 1 stand for men like
him" I had grown censorious. Il was
just beginning to have social aspira-
tons. Little Robert was growing fast
We must be sure we had the right
kind of friends, the right atmosphere
for him when he needed it.
There are plenty of women who
would be glad to- had been his enig-
matte reply.
(Tomorrow-Neil Makes Blanche Or
toms Home a RendeZvous)
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
TANNING NEILS BUSINESS
ASSOCIATES.
CHAPTER L.


tried to sleep. but was restless and
uneasy all night. 1 had liked Mr.
Frederick immensely after 1 had be-
come better acquainted with him. He
had impressed me as wonderfully de-
pendable and straightforward. He
had long ago warned me to try to
stop Neil in his attempt to make
money so quickly and-so much of it.
Evidently he now had tried to warn
Neil.
wished I knew something about
Mr. Black. Frederick had said that
$40 per cent men" never got off with
their crooked deals-whatever he
meant by $40 per cent men"-and
had then added: ITO be frank. they
are no worse than the deals you and
Black are putting over"
was sorry 1 had listened. To know
a part of anything, is always an ag-
gravation One is so inclined to try
and guess the rest, or in lieu of that,
to put a wrong construction upon it
1 could not help but feel that the lat
ter was what L was doing; conse-
quently 1 had a feeling of guilt toward
Neil.
Another thing that added to that
feeling was his generosity and kind
ness to me. l had learned to love
luxury only a little less than he did,
and 1 spent money recklessly to graf
tify my own extravaganza tastes NO
one would have dreamed l was the
same girl who, a few years before, had
been satisfied with a homemade
trousseau, and who had objected to
the hotel bill when on her honeymoon.
l now spent lavishly-partly perhaps
because there seemed always to be
more where that came FROM" as Neil
sometimes had told me. I had a love
ly home, yet it was, even so, a con-
slant temptation to buy things TO
make it more attractive. Then baby
1 was horribly extravagant for him.
Even the best was scarcely good
enough for him. and l searched the
shops, and ordered made the most
elaborate and expensive things i'm
aginable.
had learned to have the same care
less feeling about money that Neil had.
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LOCAL MENTION

Mayor Herbert J. Corwine left for
Kansas City today to meet the 10th
engineers. The mayor will be one of
a party to extend the glad hand of
Topeka to the boys returning from
overseas. They will parade tomorrow
in Kansas City. The mayor will prob
ably ride the train into Topeka with
the soldiers.
Dr. Lyngar. Dentist. 500 Kan. Ave.
ADV.
Highest cash price paid for liberty
bonds. John kIeinhans. S22 w. 9Th st.
ADV.
The Topeka high school is to have
a band, according to plans now being
made. A fund tOwar dthe project will
be started by the staging of 1.-The
Contest of Nations" an operetta with
dances, at the high school -auditorium
May 9 at Sis o'clock. The cast will
comprise $50 persons representing all
the countries in the world. The rep
resentatives Of each country will give a
song and dance, to be judged by a
jury who will award the prizes
Safety razor blades sharpened bet-
ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Erunt-
Martin.-Adv
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This morning I was carrying Mary
Watkinses books to skool for her, and
all of a sudden l herd some of the
fellows coming up in back of us. me
thinking, G., they'll make fun of me
for carrying her books, G, And 1 sed
to Mary Watkins, Your books seem
eXter lite today. carry them a little
vile and see if they don't.
1 was carrying them, 1 dident notice
eny diffrents, sed Mary Watkins. And
the fellows kepp on getting closer and
closer. and I sed, Let's wawk a little
faster, let's see how fast we can Wawk.
Goodniss, wat for? sed Mary Wat
kins.
Jest for curiosity. sed. and she
sed, 1 don't feel curious about it, do
you?
Kind of, 7 sed. shall we try it?
No sed Mary Watkins. WITCH we
dident. and 1 thawt. G, I know, III
drop her books aXsidently on purpose
and then maybe she will pick them
up and carry them herself And I
dropped them and they fell with a
fearse crack sounding as If some pen
ellis had busted or sumthing. me say
ing. %, 1 dropped them.
And I stood there looking at her
unintelligent. and she sed, well aint
you going to pick them up agen?
Let's have a contest to seq which
one is the quickest Stopper and can
pick them up ferst, 1 sed.
o, don't be so silly, sed Mary Wat
llins. And I picked them up and the
fellows was almost rite in back of us,
and 1 sed, Well I tell you lets wat lets
have a slow wawking race. You
wawk GROUND the block one way and
Ill wawk Ground the other way and
Wen meet at the next corner and III
carry all the books and everything and
that will give you big advantage, do
you wunt to?
No, serteny not. my goodniss but
you're tawking rediclIiliss today. sed
Mary Watkins And jest then the fell
lows passed us. and all they did was
jest .ook tellus as if they wished they
was carrying them insted of me-
Proving If you don't start to worry
in the ferst place maybe you wont
haff to start at all.
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TO FOE FRIDAY
Peace Treaty Now Ready for
German Delegates.
Reach Settlement on Hun War
Prisoner Question.

Versailles, April 29.-The German
delegates will receive the peace treaty
Friday, according to the program out
lined today.
Foreign Minister Brockdorff- Rant
Eau and the other principals of the
enemy delegation are scheduled to ar
rive tonight. Notification of the Ger
mans credentials, together with other
preliminary formalities are expected to
occupy Wednesday and Thursday.
The question of German war prison.
ers. which is expected to be the first
one brought up by the enemy dele
gates, is understood to have already
been settled by the foreign ministers
council-the last transaction by that
body before the Italians withdrew.
Enemy prisoners, it is said, will be
released in the exact proportion that
Germany furnishes civilian labor de-
manded in the peace treaty
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

THEODORE OBRIEN. age 30. Of 301
Fillmore street, died Sunday night at II
local hospital. The funeral will be held
wednesday morning at O'Clock from the
be taken to st. Marys for burial.
WILLIAM +. MALLONEE, age 81. of
300 Jefferson street. died Sunday at n local
hospital. He is survived by wife and
three children. The body will lie I'm state
Wednesday at Brennan's undertaking
day morning at o'clock from the Church
of the Assumption. Burial in Mt Calvary
cemetery.
MILDRED DICK. the o-year-oId daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Dick, died
Sunday in Ogden. The body has arrived
in Topeka. Funeral announcement later.
DANIEL WARREN died April 81 in Hot
Springs. $. d. The body will be brought
to Topeka for burial. Funeral announce
ment later.
The funeral of Mrs. Cora L. Smith who
died Thursday. will be held from the resi-
dence, oil West Eighth street. Wedncs-
day afternoon at o'clock. Burial in To-
peka cemetery.
MISS CLEvA BRETT, nge 81, died Mon
shipped to Atchison for burial.
FRANK HARRKE. of $50 Monroe street.
died April ~ The body will be taken to
Ottumwa, Iowa, for burial.
The funeral of Mrs. Emma S. II. Coney,
who died Monday. will be held from Tnlty's
undertaking parlors Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock. The ladies Of the Grand Army
Of the Republic and the Eastern Star viii
be in charge of the services. The body
Will be taken to Boone, Iowa. where serv-
ices will be held Thursday at = o'clock
Burial in Linwood cemetery. at Boone
undertaking parlors.
--
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The revised draft of the league of
nations covenant, as given out by the
state department at Washington,
should prove satisfactory to all peo-
Piles who desire to live in conformity
with the generally accepted ideas of
right and justice. 1t may not be per-
feet and may encounter difficulties
when it shall be put into operation.
1t may need amendment from time to
time as has our American constitu-
ton, but it affords a starting point
from which may ultimately result a
stable condition of peace thruout the
world. 1t is one of the things to be
placed on the credit side of the Great
War. Without that international
struggle, such an agreement could not
have been brought about in many
years, if ever. The nation which fails
to join the league will find itself in a
lonesome position. 1t is unlikely that
any will long remain outside the cove
nant. The league may appropriately
adopt for its motto: The welfare of
each is the concern of all. The adop-
ton of the covenant will be a triumph
for President Wilson, who has not
ceased fighting for the league from
the day of the beginning of peace ne
gotiations.
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The mania for government owner
ship. says Henry Clews, is at a lower
ebb than at any time since it's birth.
Thru costly experience, also by de-
terioration in service of railroads,
steamships, telegraphs and telephones,
the country has gained lessons of ines
Unable value in socialistic theories.
Heavy as have been the losses thus in
CURED, they have probably saved us
from far more serious consequences
had these properties been permanent
ly taken over by the government.
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QUAKE DEAD, 40
Many Injured and Great Prop
erty Damage in San Salvador.
US. Legation Damaged by the
Shock, but No Casualties.

Washington, April 29.-Forty per-
sons were killed, many injured and
much property damage was caused by
a severe earthquake in San Salvador
yesterday the state department was
advised today. Slight shocks REQUIRED
at intervals during the day.
The American legation at San Sal
vador, tho damaged, is still standing.
No Americans so far are listed among
the casualties.
The mine was blown up by an ex-
plosion of coal gas. according to in
formation reaching here. The acct
dent occurred shortly after noon.
-Four men have been taken out of
the mine severely injured.
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ture, not a share of promotion stock
having been issued. Rail lines enter
ing Chicago, as at most points, found
it practically impossible to transport
the vast amount of freight that was
dumped at their doors last spring and
summer. Consequently unavoidable
delays in the transportation of goods
were frequent. 1t was this condition
that led the manufacturers to seek a
remedy. The aim is to cover radius
of one hundred miles.
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MRS. SAM WOOD IS DEAD
willow OF Pioneer kansan Was Liv-
ing With Her Son.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan. April %
Mrs. Margaret l.. Wood. widow of the
late Col. Sam Wood. died at the home
of her son, w. L. Wood. in this city
Sunday mofhing following a brief ill
ness The funeral will be held today
in this city.
Mrs. Wood was IS years old. She
came to Kansas with her husband in
the year 1854, first locating at Law
renee. Colonel Wood took an active
part in the early history of Kansas.
A bout him Mrs. Wood wrote an ex-
haustive history entitled Memoirs of
Sam Wood"