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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
Democrats Expect Eleventh
Hour Plunge Into Politics.
Will Be Preceded by Request
That Congress Stay on Job.

Washington, April IA dramatic.
eleventh hour temperance of Presi-
dent Wilson in the political arena is
being planned. according to a persist
ent report in circulation among Wash
ington politicians today.
The plan is said to be to have the
president suddenly plunge into the
campaign, probably next next month.
One of his first acts would be to send
a message to congress asking ii to re-
main in Washington thru the summer
and pass such a legislation which he
would urge. Should such a program
be carried out, it is expected the mes
sage would be followed by a public
appearance of the president and a
speech by him.
The plan, according to these reports.
would be carried out to give force to a
demand to be made by Wilson that the
candidate to run on League of Ma
tions platform, with planks praising
achievements of the administration
and promising to carry on its policies
in other words, a Wilson man."
The story apparently is based on the
idea that Wilson is in better health
than generally supposed and is await
ing the psychological moment to re-
sumo greater activity.
In support of this, 1t is pointed out
that he is attending to his official
duties as usual and that cabinet mem
bers saw no evidence of illness when
he presided at the cabinet session last
week. also, all Democratic presidential
possibilities except A. Mitchell Palmer
are keeping in the background, evil
IDENTIFY not knowing what Wilson in
tends to do and at Democratic nation
al headquarters the idea of pre-
convention campaign such as the Re-
publicans are conducting is depre-
Gated.
Cancellation of Wilson's plan for
spending the summer at Woods Hole,
Mass, is likewise regarded as an indi-
cation that there is something in the
Ind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
Hundreds Lost
Connection in
Phone Service

Several hundred telephone CONVERSE
tions over Topeka wires were inter-
rupted for one minute Sunday morn
ing from 10 o'clock until 1901. Lines
out of order was not the cause of the
interruption. The one minute cessa-
ton was a tribute to the late Theodore
N. Vail, head of the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph company. whose
funeral was held Sunday. All local
employees, as we'll as all employees of
the Bell Telephone company in the
United States. paused in their duties
to honor the memory of Mr.. Vail Tel
ephone. service on the Bell lines all
over the country, including $4,000, 900
miles of Bell wires 100000 tele-
phones and 5000 employees was at a
standstill for sixty seconds.
One minute cessation of service at
10 o'clock on Sunday does not cause
noticeable inconvenience, w. R. Ker-
cher, publicity agent for the company,
pointed out today. Ten o'clock on
Sunday naturally does not mean SC
busy an hour at the switchboard as
does the same hour on a business day.
"People are either sleeping. break
fasting or churching at that time on
Sunday with very little use for tele-
phones" Kercher said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
Women Voters
Lost Election
ThruOId Trick

Virginia, Ill, April 19.-Virginia
men taught local women voters their
first political lesson last Saturday.
when they put over an old trick and
beat them out of two places on the
city board of education.
Three members were to be elected
and with but one man and two women
running the ladies figured their can
didates, having no opposition, would
win hands down.
Consequently. they took no par
ticular interest in the election and
were not even at the polls soliciting
votes.
The men. however. were busy. The
night before election they had stickers
printed containing the names of two
additional candidates. These were
handed TO the voters at the polls with
directions to put one over on the
women 1t went over with a bang
and the three men candidates won by
hand some najorities.
The women say the men will grow
weary waiting to catch them mapping
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19

Prosecution of Profit
eers Plan of Federal Agents.
Drastic Drive to Cut Cost of
Living Promised.

Washington. April 19.-Extensive
prosecution of profiteers will occur
within thirty days If investigations now
being conducted by department of
justice agents disclose the expected
evidence, Howard Figg, special assist
ant to the attorney general. today told
the senate subcommittee investigating
shoe prices.
The investigation now nearly COM
pleted has been made by flying
squadrons" of agents as well as by
fair price committees in many states,
Figg said. They cover food, fuel and
clothing.
Figg said the profits of several huge
corporations were under investigation,
including concerns dealing in raw ma
terials and finished products.
Senator McNary asked whether Fige
had investigated a report that one OF
the f'big five" packers had stored
large quantities of hides in out of the
way communities in the south, to KEEP
them off the market, thus causing
higher prices for shoes.
Asked by Senator Pomerene how
many profiteers have been caught
made, $50 indictments returned and
IS per cent of these convicted,
How many profiteers went to jail?'
asked Pomerene.
About twenty-five or thirty" re.
piled Figg.
big profiteers or little ones?''
Both
Figg declared that fair price organ
izations in some states had caused ma.
terial reductions in prices of food anc
clothing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
THIS is CLEAN UP WEEK
Citizens Must Cooperate and Keep
Alleys Clear

This is annual cleanup week in To-
peka and the last time the city will
haul trash away free unless citizens
cooperate in keeping their yards and
alleys clean w. S. Hancock, street
commissioner, said today.
Already reports are coming in that
citizens are throwing trash and tin
cans in the alleys along which the
cleanup wagons have just passed.
Thirty teams and ninety men are
cleanup to the city is about $4,000
and Topeka is the only city of its size
in the United States which does this
work free. according to Hancock.
Mayor H. J. Corwine the street de-
partment fire and health departments
win cooperate in enforcing the city
ordinance which prohibits throwing
trash in alleys, streets and parks EN-
ployes of the street department are
working constantly to clean out sewers
which have been blocked with leaves,
tin cans and sticks carelessly tossed
away or raked out in the streets.
Mayor Corwine has issued a procla-
nation requesting that every one put
forth special efforts this week to clean
up their yards. houses, outbuildings,
alleys, streets and vacant lots. The
trash should be placed in receptacles
close to the alley SO that the street de-
partment may pick it up and haul 1t
away.
"Unless the citizens of Topeka CO.
operate with u.s. Hancock said today,
the hauling of trash free of charge
will be discontinued. 1t is costing the
city about $4,000 a year and unless
things change II Is going to cost peo-
pie that much direct. Property own
ers and renters should take pride in
keeping their places clean. It IS Just
as easy to keep the trash in recep-
tacles. as required by the city ordi-
nance. A hard dash of rain comes
along and washes tin cans. sticks and
leaves into the sewers. The sewer is
clogged up and the water backs up
into cellars. There must be an imme-
date stop to throwing stuff in the al
Ievs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19

Rain in Topeka at o'clock this aft
ernoon had amounted to "a of an inch
since o'clock this morning.
A report late this morning from
Reading, Kan, indicated 1.2S inches
of rain.
Rain and hail in Topeka during the
last twenty-four hours has yielded 1.39
inches of moisture. More rain may be
expected today and tonight, according
to B. r. Laskowski. local observer
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The
clouds should break and sunshine pre-
vail a part of the day
Rain was general thruout the entire
state during the last tWenty-four
hours. Hail was reported from En-
poria and Manhattan. Reports on
rainfall are as follows: st. Joseph,
$50 inches; Plainville, .55; Centralia,
1 inch; Valley Falls, l inch.
Western Kansas was swept by one
of the worst Billiards in years late
was annulled or almost paralyzed and
wire communication was cut off from
a great part of the storm district,
western Nebraska and western Kansas.
Reports from Concordia. Kan, said
wind storms which ragged in that vicin-
ity Saturday afternoon, levelled tele-
graph and telephone poles. Several
twisters were seen. but none of them
dipped, according TO reports.
Precipitation also occurred in Ne
braska South Dakota, Missouri Ken
lucky and Tennessee. The rain belt is
moving on east today. An area of low
pressure moving toward Kansas from
the northwest will cause unsettled
four hours. Laskowski does not ex-
{rnpH1uaA 0U DaCo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
PLANNING FOR THE HARVEST
Crop Growers and Railway Officials in
Conference Here.

Railway officials and representa-
tives of crop growing interests in Kan
sas are in conference in the state
house this afternoon relative to the
harvest hand situation. Movement of
labor to this state, as well as the grant
ing of special rates to men from east
ern points, is under consideration.
Members of the state board of agri-
culture today conferred with ]. c.
Mohler, secretary of the state board,
relative to cost of wheat production.
A bulletin covering expense of wheat
growing in Kansas will be issued in a
few days.
This afternoon the wheat growers
met with J. NJ. Gilman of the state
employment bureau. John H Craw-
ford, state labor commissioner, and
representatives of passenger depart
ments of several railroads. The con-
ference is being held in the hearing
room of the court of industrial rela-
tions. Special passenger rates to the
harvest fields are asked from st. Louis
and Chicago direct to the Kansas
wheat belt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
LOOK TO WILSON WAIT FOR ATTACK
Sonora State Troops Prepare
for Carranza Invasion.
More Federal Forces Revolt and
Join Rebel Army.

Aqua Prieta, April 19.-Officials of
the Sonora state government. whose
detection from the Carranza govern
ment of Mexico federal leaders are
seeking to put down by force of arms
continued today their dispositions of
men and munitions to oppose possible
invasion. Meanwhile Sonora forces
were far south of the Sonora border,
pressing thru Sinaloa to the attack of
Mazatlan, the principal seaport
Sonora leaders here today expressed
Satisfa ction at word from Mexico City
that there had been a rising in the
state of Michoacan, even tho the off
cial news of the affair described it as
purely local in character. Another
source of qualification was the news
contained in Sonora officers dis
patches that a considerable force of
Carranza troops in Sinaloa had trans
ferred its allegiance to the Sonora
standard and was active against Car
rama forces there.
Officials here drew favorable con-
clusions from word brought by desert
ers from federal forces at Casas
tive in Chihuahua The deserters
were quoted as saying men were leav-
ing the Carranza forces and would
reach Sonora soon, and that Chihua-
hua state troops and home guards had
refused to march against Sonora.
There were reports afloat Saturday
and last night that today would see the
return of Southern Pacific de Mexico.
an American owned railroad running
from Nogales south to Guaymas along
/ the west coast of Mexico, to its own
ers. The state government seized this
few days ago, declaring state posses
sion was necessary as a step toward
preventing invasion of Sonora from
Sinaloa along the road. a strike of
employees has been in effect on this
road since April 8.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
OueraH Club Idea Was
Started at Tampa, Fla.
Denim SuppIants Palm Beach and Wolfe in Effort Cut
High Cost of Living-Creed Includes Porterhouse
Steaks, Chicken, Et Cetera.

cred in the court house square. Ad-
dresses were made, new pledges re-
ceived and petitions signed asking city.
state and national officials to take no.
tice and give aid. Merchants looked
on and frowned and later announced
that their sales had not fallen off a
bit. They are not the only ones who
smile knowingly at the movement and
predict that just as the foregoing of
the luscious porterhouse steak and
choice rib roasts increased the cost of
brisket and rump, the abandonment
of beautiful silks and all wool gar
ments will rease the cost of denims
and calicoes.
This overall business is only a fool
Joke" says one of the leading cloth
iers. "Just as long as folks who work
for wages demand SIS silk shirts, s3
silk neckties and $3.50 silk socks, they
will get them. And while they're buy
ing that sort of stuff you may lay your
heaviest bet on their also buying the
best suits OF clothing the market af-
fords"
The overall club. however. insists
that the war has only begun and that
they'll stick it out and are gaining re-
cruits in punches.
The movement is being taken up all
over the state. Clubs have been or
ganized at Jacksonville. Lakeland
Center Hill and other places. If some
one would come along with cartload
of sabots the folks might buy and
take revenge on the boot sellers.
A part of the Easter Sunday pro-
gram was for the denims and calicoes
to pair off and go to church. Only 6
few couples had the nerve to stick il
out and they presented odd Darby and
Joan contrast to besilked and befeath
cred women and tailor-moulded men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19

Tampa. Fla, April 19.-Whether the
wearing of overalls and calicoes instead
of blue serges, native Palm Beaches.
homespuns. voiles and other expensive
clothing will bring down the high cost
of dressing is an experiment first start
ed here and now spreading thru all
Florida and into Alabama. The whole
country now knows of it and has char
acterized it as 1.-The Tampa idea"
The new style movement, its orig
inators say, is dictated in the spirit OF
public duty and necessity and does not
indicate any lessening of desire on the
part of either men or women for good
and stylish apparel. They think. how
ever that it Is worth while to try to
popularize overalls for men and cali
Goes and ginghams for women and it
menters are still looking for the return
of silks. satins. organdies and the like
to the limitations of their purses.
So it came about that Hafford Jones,
secretary of an insurance company,
started the Overalls club of Tampa.
Each member pledged to wear overalls
as regular thing until clothing prices
tumbled. Hundreds have Joined and
many are making good. Others say
they are keeping the pledge just as
faithfully by taking advantage of the
clause which allows them to wear old
clothes in lieu of overalls-just so they
don't buy any new stuff.
When the men organized the women
took up the battle, the New Thought
and Unity club, headed by Mrs. Clara
Lawton Metcalf. pledging its members
first public demonstration on Easter
Sunday.
Men and women, correctly garbed
to harmonic with the new idea. gath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
ON And IN DENIM
Two Pastors Wore EN- and
Preached About EN-.
Overall Clubs Now Plan to Garry
Lunches Too.
CREED OF REVOLTERS GETS BIG
Clubs Now Extend Activities to
Autos and Meals.
Buyers Can and Must Force
Prices Down Says Senator.

Boston, April 1s-Overalls headed
the shoppers lists today in numerous
Boston homes. After the Rev. Louis
L: Huntington appeared last night in
his pulpit at Orient Heights Methodist
Episcopal church in overans and
jumper, more than 200 of his con-
greSation signed the "overalls pledge
At Medford, the Rev. Rolling S.
Tuttle clad in white denim, preached
his first sermon as pastor of the Hill
side Methodist Episcopal church and
commenced organizing an overall and
old clothes club.
VIII Garry Lunches Also.
New York, April 19.-The Cheese
club. which introduced the south S
overall campaign to New York, today
started a brand new attack on high
prices by urging overall wearers and
home to- work. dollar and more"
lunches are the reason for the latest
move.
Enthusiastic proponents of the idea
claim that in addition to the value of
eating a comparatively cheap, whole
some homemade lunch, considerable
time. now spent in crowded restau-
rants at the noon hour. will be saved.
Canada Follows Pan.
st. Thomas. Ont, April 19.-The
overall crusade in the United States
has spread over the border to Canada
and clubs have been organized here
and at several nearby towns.
Senator Declares Himself
Washington, April 19.-Declaring
that he has mo love for dudes" SEN
ator DIAL South Carolina, today in a
speech to the senate applauded the
overall and calico revolt against the
high cost of clothing.
Let US wear old clothes and refrain
from purchasing anything we can do
without and the country will soon be
in joint again." said Dial. Let us
take the advice of a former secretary
of the treasury by getting our old
shoes half soled and putting patches
on our trousers"
Overall Idea Gets Bigger.
st. Louis, April 19.-"Overall revolt
activities spread to embrace a war on
high restaurant, shoe and automobile
prices in eastern Missouri today.
st. Louis members of overall clubs
in several instances pledged to carry
box lunches. At Poplar Bluff, Mo. an
anti-shoe and automobile movement
was being organized and agitated, dis
patches said.
Thirty members of the Young Mems
Bible class at the Sta Louis Union
Methodist church appeared in overalls
at services yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
Auto Thief to Penitentiary.

Garden City, Kan, April 10
Judge E. c. Vance held a short session
of district court Saturday and SEN
fenced Orville Stapleton to not to ex-
ceed seven years in the state peniten-
tiary upon his plea of guilty to horse
stealing. Stapleton was arrested last
fall upon the charge of stealing an
automobile. Since then evidence has
been secured showing that he was not
only guilty of stealing an automobile
but that he was implicated in stealing
horses and cattle. A few weeks ago
he broke Jail, but was only out a few
hours before Sheriff Richardson found
him hiding in a barn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
DOLLAR GAS HERE
Local Company Gives in to Kan
saS Natural Demands.
Applies to /. c. for Reasonable
Rate to Consumers.
RETURNS ON THE INVESTMENT
Company Declares 1t Must Have
Eight Per Cent.
Pay 35 Cents at City Gate Under
Court Order.
RETURNS ON THE INVESTMENT

Demands that it be permitted to
earn per cent net on an investment
OF s1,666.000 was filed today with the
court of industrial relations by the
Consumers Light, Heat & Power COM
pany of Topeka. Thomas F. Doran
filed the application on behalf of L.
J. Treleaven, receiver for the local
gas company. A rate probably in ex-
under the application, according to
opinion of persons in possession of
facts.
No definite rate is asked in the
Consumers petition. 1t merely re-
cites that the distributing company
was selling gas to Topeka patrons at
so cents under the federal court L
former rate of % cents to the Kansas
Natural. Some months ago the court
boosted the rate of the Kansas Nat
ural to 35 cents. Now the distributing
company asks a rate to consumers
that will permit it to meet this in
crease and also to pay s per cent net
on its investment on pipe lines and
plant equipment here.
Must Have Increase.
The company lists its property at a
valuation of s1,666, 900. 1t urges that
under the so cent rate it has beer
unable to earn a just and equitable
return and that an increase must be
granted if it is to continue to serve
the public
Some time ago company officials
predicted a rate of at least 81 pei
thousand cubic feet. In its petition
today it asks that expert testimony be
taken to determine a fair rate. Both
Receiver Treleaven and Attorney
Doran are in Minneapolis, MINI. Nc
date has been set for the hearing.
John M. Landon, receiver for the
Kansas Natural, will be called as {
witness in the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
BLIZZARD IN APRIL
West Is SnowbOund Today
Trains Are Stalled.
Snow Still Falling at Denver
Snow PlOWS Out.

Denver, April 1e.-SIghtly i'm
proved weather conditions today prom
ised relief from the blizzard which has
held Denver storm bound for forty
eight hours.
Light snow was still falling. but the
wind, which had been piling it into
huge drifts that blocked railroad
tracks and city streets had abated.
Heavy street sweeping machines and
snow plows had taken up the task of
opening the streets to traffic. The
downtown hotels were filled with peo
pie caught in the heart of the city by
the storm and barred from their
homes.
Several of the main downtown
streets closed to traffic by a proclama-
ton by Mayor Bailey were being
cleared as fast as possible.
Three ministers, among the passen-
gers on a Union Pacific train stalled
near Longmont, Colo, conducted Sun
day services in one of the coaches.
Two trains will arrive over the Bur
lington line today, but all others were
reported as indefinite" All trains
have been running many hours late.
Because of wire conditions no re-
ports had reached here concerning
possible storm losses in rural districts
Snow PIows Busy.
Lincoln, Neb., April 19-Railroad
traffic in Nebraska was badly Grip
, pied today by blizzard which began
in the western part of the state late
Saturday. Reports from Alliance said
fears were expressed that there would
| be a heavy loss of livestock Snow
was still falling in western Nebraska
today but the wind had abated.
| Snow plows were being used to keep
| Burlington & Quincy reported long de-
! lays to trains on its Denver, Chicago
and Bill:ngs-St. Louis lines.
Rain General Over Kansas.
Kansas City, April 19.-Rain has
fallen generally over Kansas and Mis-
souri, during the last "a hours with
scattered precipitation in Oklahoma,
according to reports to the weather
bureau here. Goodland, Kan, re-
ported snow falling today. with the
exception of the northeast part of
| Kansas, the rainfall over that state
averaged about a half inch. Heavier
rains were reported from northeast
| Kansas.
The rainfall was heaviest over
no-thern Missouri. the northwest part
receiving three inches in places since
Saturday morning. st. Joseph re-
ported $50 inches rainfall since Satur-
day.
The storm struck Kansas City Sun
day night with a deluge of rain &C
companied by wind and lightning
! Nearly a half inch of water fell in a
half hour, according to the weather
bureau.
Tornado in Arkansas.
Little Rock, April ia score Of
people were killed and many injured
in storms which swept several coun-
ties in northwest Arkansas la< night
according to meager messages received
over demoraliZed wire service. A
Harkey Valley, 12 miles north of Dan
vile, seven people, six of them mem
bers OF one family, were reported
killed with many persons hurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-19
WILL END HOWAT STRIKE
Union Chiefs Plan to Order Kansas
Miners Back to Work.

Pittsburg. Kan, April 19.-Return
of the idle Kansas coal miners to the
mines tomorrow was indicated this
afternoon. Numerous conferences
were in progress at the headquarters
of the union today between district Of
ficials and heads of locals.
A local union official said at noon
that the plan was for the miners to
return to work tomorrow morning
No official statement was forthcom-
ing.
Practically complete idleness con-
tinues to prevail in the Kansas coal
fields, reports received at the head
quarters of the operators of mines said
this morning. 1t has been anticipated
that work would be resumed quite
generally over the district this morn
ING.