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Evening star., 1920-06-03
MARRIED.,

Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. John
announce the marriage of their daughter
RUTH to Mr.. BENJAMIN {. kING. Mon
day. May 81. 1920. by the Rev. Eugene H.
Jackson of the First Baptist Church. Alex
andria Va.
Evening star., 1920-06-03
MARRIED..

HoITzcI Aw-FuGE. March IS, 1920. by the
Rev. Edward D. johnson OF 81. Ann. ; :, hnrcn ~
Annapolis. Nd. HENRY J. HoLlZ.La" "
end PAULINE FLGE.
Evening star., 1920-06-03

Neidomanski Funeral arrangements
have no. been completed.
The coroner issued certificate or
accidental death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
CHOOSE new Chief
Paul DeSchanel Now President
of French Republic.
Elected on First Ballot by Ma
tional Assembly.
CLEMEhCEAU IS ENTIRELY OUT
War Premier Has Withdrawn
From All Politics.
Voting for New President Is
Impressive Ceremony.
CLEMEACEAU is ENTIRELY OUT

Versailles, Jan. I7-Paul Deschanel
was elected president of France by the
national assembly here today.
When Deschanels name was called
he did not vote.
While the balloting was under way,
a large group of senators and depu-
ties sent a message to Premier Gle
menceau testifying to Frances indebt-
, edness to him.
Deschanel received 734 votes
A total of $50 votes were cast. :,
Deschanel has long been a promi-
nent figure in French politics. He
was first elected president of the
chamber of deputies in 1898. after
career in minor offices. He served
until 1902 and was again elected in
1912. He is a member of the French
academy and the Academy of Science,
and has written extensively on polit-
ical and economical questions
Deschanel was born in 1856.
Following withdrawal of Premier
Clemenceau as a candidate late yes
| terday even the most experienced pol
iticians admitted anything may hap
PEN
| Several strong candidates were ex-
pected to come forward when the two
bodies convene in the small royal the
| ater Inside the Versailles palace. M
Pans, home minister. was considered
one of the strongest "dark horses"
| Clemenceau was in consultation with
| him last night.
Clemcnceau Entirely Out.
The retirement of Clemenceau. who
announced he would not serve even IL
elected, was interpreted as victory
for former Premier BRAND. who man
aged DeschanePs candidacy.
The royal theater was crowded
when the voting began. 1t seats only
$50. while the joint membership of the
senate and chamber is $40.
Leon Bourgeois, president of the
senate, presided at the voting. Pre-
ceded by uniformed ushers and sur
rounded by high chamber and senate
officials. he entered the theaters and
took his seat in the center of the stage
where he read the presidential de-
cree convoking the assembly.
Is Impressive Ceremony.
When the roll call began. each sen.
ator and deputy proceeded toward
the stage as his name was called anC
received a small rosewood ball. Ht
then mounted the stage. voted anc
then descended, returning the bal
: when the voting was finished. The
number of balls given out must cor
irespond to the number of votes cast
Every ball must be returned and the
total numbers checked against this
number given out.
Following the election, the success
sor to President Poincare received
congratulations and then was escorte1
thru lanes of troops to a waiting auto
mobile which carried him to Paris
Tomorrow the newly elected president
will call upon President Poincare who
later will return the call. The new
president will take up his duties Feb
ruary IS.
Premier Clemenceau has announced
he will retire entirely from politics
devoting his time to writing hi;
m en- nir-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
RITES over A PIG IT IS THRIFT DAY
Officers Thought They Found
Man in Engine Firebox. s
Coroner's Inquest Revealed
Charred Carcass of a Porker.

Herington, Kan. Jan. 17.-Hering-
tons furry of excitement over the
discovery of a charred carcass in the
roaring firebox of Rock Island loco
motive last night ended this afternoon
in the discovery at the coroner's in
quest that the supposed dastardly
murder was only the death of a pig.
A Rock Island hostler discovered
the body" in the firebox just as a
big locomotive was being prepared for
a run last night. Pulling the re-
mains from the furnace he turned in
the alarm. A crowd of railroad men
gathered, the chief of police and the
sheriff were notified. and the body
was taken to an undertaking estab-
lishment.
The Rock Island sent a flock of de-
tectives to Herington last night.
County and city officers worked all
night on the case. 1t was believed
firmly that foul play had ended the
life of an unknown man. 1t was even
found that a knife wound had been
made just over what was believed to
be the heart of a man. The arms,
legs and head were burned off COM
pietely.
This afternoon the county coroner
and most of the physicians of the city
held an inquest over the carcass in the
undertaking rooms. 1t was decided
that the carefully wrapped remains
were only the charred ruins of a pig.
The detectives have scattered and
the hostler has regained his equi-
libriun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
Admiral Sims Makes 'Sensa-
tionaI Charges in Report.
Told Not to Let British Pull
Wool Over Eyes.
INTERFERED IN WORK
Submarine Menace Not So Seri-
GUS as Reported.
U-BOat Sinkings Multiplied to
Gull the Public.

Washington, Jan. IA complete
investigation of the management of
the navy during the war will be asked
as result of disclosures today by Ad-
miral William S. Sims. testifying be-
fore a senate subcommittee regarding
awards and decorations. members of
the subcommittee stated today.
Statements by Sims that he had
been left in London alone with one
aide for four months after America
entered the war and that his parting
orders had been not to let the British
pull the wool over his eyes," so
aroused Republican members of the
Hale subcommittee that Senator Nc
Cormick. Illinois, announced that they
would go to the full committee to get
additional authority to make a sweep
ing investigation.
Full Session Monday.
When Admiral Sims had finished
reading his sensational report, Char
man Hale of the subcommittee an
nounced that he would ask Chairman
Page of the full committee to call a
special meeting of the senate nava
affairs committees on Monday to dis
cuss method of making a thoro in
vestigation of the entire conduct o1
the navy.
In his report. Sims charged that
altho war had been imminent fol
months before it was declared, NJ
plan or policy or preparation hae
been made by the navy department
that it would not announce a polio!
for three months after war was de
clared, that it did not enter the wal
| "wholeheartedly'' for some time, tina
commanding officers in the critica
zone were not allowed to select thei
important subordinates, that the nav.
department acted in cases where i
could not have been IN possession o
full informatioH that it did not rel,
on the judgement of experienced mel
| in insisting on plans
| Sub Menace Slight
The submarine menace to trans
ports was far less than generally be
/ lieved, Sims said
1.-THE Germans were able to main
tain west of Ireland and the British
| channel, not over an average of eigh
or nine submarines" Sims said. Il
was as high as fifteen at one time ant
as low as two or three"
By actual count reported sinking
OF U-boats were six and a half time
as much as those actually sank, th'
admiral asserted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
BY DEATH ROUTE?
Which Gate Into Russia Will
United States Reds Take?
Only Two Paths Available and
N Only One Safe.

Helsingfors, Jan. 17-Finnish au-
thorities have informed the soviet gov
ernment of Russia of the plan to send
Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman,
and their comrades across the border,
but no reply has as yet been received
from the. Bolsheviki. The Finnish
communication requested that the
Bolshevikt troops cease firing when
the party makes its appearance.
The Russians deported from Amer
lea will be placed on board locked cars
and taken to Terijoki. about two miles
from the frontier. accompanied by a
FINNISH military guard and q detach-
ment of American marines.
There are two wavs of entering So
Wet Russia. The first is across a
bridge near Terijoki, where the Boil
sheviki and Finnish lines are drawn
along the banks of little river. The
other is further north towards Rautu,
where the respective lines are sep
arated by thick forest.
The former is the more direct route
and If used. the American reds will
safely reach soviet territory. The
other is known as ''the route of
DEATH" owing to the large number of
political prisoners who have been
despatched in the forest after having
been deported. People of Finland, ac-
quainted with the history of deporta-
tions are keenly interested to learn
which route will be chosen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
To FIGHT WOOSTER
School "Men" Out With s'Lady
Nicotine" Plank.
Want ''MOre Dignified Educa-
tiOnal Policies" Here.

Teachers state political plans for
opposing Miss Lizzie Wooster, state
superintendent, at the next election
began to take definite form today at
little informal gatherings of educators
in hotel lobbies and ante-rooms.
A school mems candidate, with a
platform for better and more digni-
fled educational policies" and con-
tanning the Lady Nicotine" plank,
will be in the field against Miss Woos-
ter at the August primaries, it was
declared. Alignment with a state po-
iitical faction in order to lend strength
to the teachers candidate was dis
cussed.
Three possible "sane and dignified
educational betterment' candidates
were brought forward today. They
were: Supt. A. F. Senter, Ottawa;
Supt NJ. G. Kirkpatrick, Belleville,
and Eta ice Mccoy, of the girls in-
dustrical school at Beloit.
Failure of the resolutions commit
tee appointed Friday by the council
of administration to report a definite
number of resolutions planned in the
evening formed a rather interesting
topic of discussion among school men
and women today. Educators op-
posed to Miss Wooster declared the
plans for resolutions were dropped
when friends of the state superintend-
ent tried to inject resolution ap-
plauding her administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
House Members An
ticipate Some New Laws.
They Work All Day to Increase
Size of Statutes.
VOTE AGAIEST ADJOURNMENT
Then Members Dig Into Bills
on the Calendar.
Administration Measures May
Die on the Calendar.

For the second time house members
today refused to accept the senate ad-
journment resolution and again voted
to lay the proposal on the table. In
the meantime the house began fever
ish, tho rather slow and tedious con-
sideration of bills under general or
ders.
1t was after much heated debate
that the house voted 48 to 40 to defer
action on the senate resolution The
resolution is TO be called up again
Monday when the house may seek to
amend the senate proposal extending
Under the senate measure considera-
ton of all bills would cease next
Wednesday and the legislature would
go home next Saturday with final sine
die adjournment January 27.
House members with bills in the
hopper fought to defer action on ad-
journment. They were joined by ad-
ministration workers who are anxious
for consideration of Governor Aliens S
bills before the session ends. There is
a prospect that the senate may con-
slider the purely administration poll
icies after they have passed the house.
But the only fond dream of fathers of
proposed general and local enactments
is a clear record in the house.
Senate In S-Hour Week.
Eight hours actual work covers the
upper house session for the two weeks.
So there is nothing to encourage the
hope that the upper house will lose
sleep in passing the house bills. None
the less the house is this afternoon
working faithfully and with that ap-
parent hope that maybe their efforts
will produce some new laws.
A series of four bills by the educa-
tional committee were given the right
of way after the house voted to for
get the adjournment resolution. The
measures straighten out some of the
taxation and bond troubles of boards
of education and pave the way toward
, living wages for teachers
The anti-syndicalism bill and the
state free employment bureau bill, as
well as several appropriation meas
ures may be taken up and passed thru
the two legislative bodies. But that
is about all. AS a compliment. the
house may pass bunch of local bills.
But the senate has given no encour-
agement that they will get further
than the committee rooms.
In the meantime the senate is en-
joying pleasant weekend. But the
house is working to save the hay crop
from an approaching storm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
FLU KILLS EIGHTEEN
Chicago Now Has 1900 Cases-Great
Lakes Station. 512..

Chicago. Jan. 17.-Dr. John Dill
Robertson. health commissioner, pre-
pared today for aggressive war on the
new influenza epidemic gripping Chi
cago.
Six hundred and fifty cases were
reported yesterday. bringing the total
to 1900. Eighteen persons have died
from the disease here in the last week
Reports from the Great Lakes ma
val training station sad ia new cases
were admitted to the hospital there
yesterday. making total of 512.
DR.. Earle G. Brown, city health Of
ficer of Topeka, received telegram
from DR.. John D. Robertson. Chica go
commissioner OF health. in reply to a
wire which Doctor Brown had sent
Robertson said the case of influ-
enza in Chicago had no unusual symp-
toms-none like those described in To-
peka's winter cholera" epidemic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17

Sunday is to be a chilly, cloudy day
with good chances for snow, If the
prediction of S. D. Flora, state
meteorologist. is fulfilled.
There has been no measurable rain
or snow in Kansas in the last period
However. general sno Wall has been
reported from Nebraska, the Dakotas,
Wyoming and Montana. From Mis-
souri, east to Washington, D. c., snow
flurries have been general Rains
were reported general from Missouri
south to the Gulf states. Kansas is
fairly well surrounded by bad weather
today. There is every indication that
tomorrow the more disagreeable con-
ditions will become prevalent in this
state.
The lowest temperature on the
weather map this morning was 28 be-
low zero at Prince Albert, Canada In
the United Safes the lowest. was IL
below zero at Williston. n. d. In To-
peka the temperature was "a degrees
at s o'clock this morning. Flora pre-
dicted a temperature Of 35 degrees for
this afternoon He expects a temper
ature of Is degrees tonight rising to
30 degrees Sunday afternoon
Extremes for this date were 81 in
1894 and zero in 1892. At 10 o'clock
this morning the wind was blowing IL
miles an hour from the north.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
Prohibition;
No Conflicts:
Can Suicide

Newark. Ohio. Jan. 17.-George W.
Abbott, city prison keeper, yesterday
visited an undertaken and arranged to
have his body cremated and his ashes
scattered on Buckeye wake. then went
to his office at the city prison and
fired a pistol bullet into his head.
The ball passed entirely thru his
head. He was still living this morn
ing, tho physicians believe the wound
is fatal.
Abbott has been despondent over
domestic troubles and the fact that it
was proposed to abolish the city prison
where he was employed. because of
the few prisoners committed since
prohibition became effective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
LEGISLATIVE RECORD.

Just as soon as a senate-house con-
ference committee can get together on
an Industrial court enactment, the
legislature is going home. Members
in Topeka are tod--y estimating the
goodbye time anywhere from wednes-
day until Saturday night of next week.
The business to be transacted by the
legislature in advance OF final adjourn
ment will mean little in the peace.
happiness and contentment of Kansas
and her people.
The legislature has been in session
two weeks. In that time 1t has passed
/ two widely different industrial court
bills. 1t is the task or the conference
committee to adjust the differences
between the house and senate, After
that no one particularly cares whether
the winter fishing is good or bad. Ad-
| journment will leave practically the
entire flock of 17e original bills prop
eriy dressed and ready for the legisla-
/ tive morgue.
In spite of the fact that Friday is
/ listed as the unlucky day. the house
and senate each passed the labor court
bill. The record smashed all dope.
Even after the senate had disturbed
J tradition by giving the measure less
than three hours actual consideration.
/ the house unexpectedly dropped its
tools and rushed for a place in the pa
rade. 1t waded thru some dozen or
! fifteen final sections OF the bill in
somewhat less than sixty minutes.
| pushed the bill up to third reading
and quit for the day.
Houses Agree on One Bill.
| To date the house and senate have
agreed upon just one bill--and that
; agreement only after a conference
committee had sought to salve wound
| ed pride of house members by giving
I them more money than they wanted.
/ The one real genuine. true enactment
is the legislative appropriation bill.
The house had refused to accept $35
per member for telephone and tele-
graph and an equal amount for post
age as proposed by the senate. II had
voted for s25 for each item, after ap-
proving expenses for per diem and
mileage. But the senate conferees
were persuasive. They convinced the
house members that there would pro-
| badly be but one dip into the state
treasury sort Of pioneer effort to-
/ ward reduction of the high cost OF iiv-
ing. So the house accepted the
| money.
House members are working today
just as tho. they were in the midst OF
/ q regular session and expected their
| accomplishments TO be approved by
the senate. There is a possibility-Just
! that faint. far away possibility-that
CONTINUED on Page TwoI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
Would Save Kaiser's Face

Berlin, Jan. Is. Ferdinand
Bonn, at one time the most popu-
lar actor in Germany and a pro-
tege of former Emperor William,
has offered to substitute himself
for Count Hohenzollern and go to
London made up as the former
monarch.
Not so much for the sake of
William as for German honor
would 1 do this" Bonn declared.
The actor was recently hissed in
various sections of Germany be-
cause he impersonated the erst-
while emperor in a film dealing
with the rise and fall of the Ho-
henzollerns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
HIGHEST IN 1856 YEARS
CobIenz Flooded by High Waters o.
the MoseIle River.

Coblenz, Jan. 17.-Flood waters IN
the Rhine and Moselle rivers here
have reached the highest stage in 136
years according to official German
records. The lower parts of Coblenz
along the Moselle and Rhine are under
water and many houses occupied by
Americans have their Easements flood
ed. Loss of American property has
been small owing to warnings issued
two weeks ago.
Five wards in the American base
hospital have been surrounded by
water and 200 patients have been re-
moved to other hospitals. 1t is indi-
Gated that the water will soon recede
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17

Diii- oIAEiiy tuty nic+
Senate Changes.
Reduces felony penalty for officers Of
employers and officers Of labor unions
convicted from five years to two years
In state prison.
wipes out Jail sentence for individual
union members convicted and leaves
only cash fine Of $1,000 for convie-
ton.
Provides guarantee Of suitable com
pensation for owners Of industries.
whose property is seized and operated
by state during crisis.
Recognizes right Of unincorpornted
unions to enter into collective bargain
contracts with employers upon the
election by union members Of officers
or trustees cloaked with power to enter
into such contracts
House Amendments.
Simpson amendment-Giving court
power to investigate profits and to reg
ulate returns by manufacturers. whole.
salers. jobbers. and retailers. Aimed
directly at packers and miliers.
McDermott amendment-MakinR sym
petlIyy strikes Illegal.
Freeman amendment-Making Illegal
closed shop contracts which forbid en-
ployers Of labor employing nonunion
labor.
Harvey MISUNDERSTANDING that
all contracts between labor interests
and employers shall be submitted 70
and approved by the court before be-
coming effective or operative under the
law.
General acceptance Of senate nmend-
ments governing right of collective bar
gaining, returns to employers and pen
atty clauses in the enactment.
The Conference.
Both houses will vote to non-concur
Monday afternoon when the senate re-
conyenes. Appointment of conferees
will be made immedia atelS-probably
| three from the house and two from the
senate. The conference committee viii
seek to agree upon provisions to be
placed in the bill. Both houses must
| adopt the committees report Failure to
adopt will call for another conference.
| Following adoption af this report, the
| bill goes to the governor for his signs
| ture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
A CRITICAL CONDITION
Kansas Newspapers Face Most Serious
Print Paper Crisis.

Print Paper Crisis.
Both Topeka daily newspapers have
received kilograms saying unless
Canadian embargo, just established,
is cancelled at once. shipments of pa
per to Topeka and other Kansas news
papers will have to be curtailed 40 per
cent.
This is a most serious and critical
situation as part of the white paper
supply for Topeka. Wichita and other
newspapers in this and other western
states comes from Ft. Francis. On
tario, just across the Minnesota bor-
der.
The Canadian government has just
issued the order of embargo. prohibit
ing the Ft. Francis mill from shipping
any paper to American customers.
Senators Capper and Curtis have
been appealed to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
ARE WITHOUT PAPERS
Manitoba Publishers Cannot Get News
Print-Makers Refuse Orders.

Winnipeg, Man. Jan. 17.-Manitoba
was without newspapers today.
All daily papers suspended publica-
ton with yesterdays issues because of
the refusal of the Fort Frances Pulp
& Paper Co. to supply paper on order
OF the news print controller at Ottawa
All shipments to the United States
were held up at the mill by Canadian
customs officers. No shipments will
be allowed until the company resumes
supplying Canadian papers.
Officials were preparing for seizure
OF the mills unless the company re-
cedes from its attitude by Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
SETTLE OIL ROW
Carranza Withdraws Edict Drilling
American Wells Near Tamnico.

Washington Jan. 1.-THE dispute
between the United States and Mexico
over the drilling of American oil wells
in the Tampjco district has been set
tied, according to private advices re-
ceived here this afternoon from Mex
leo City.
Under the agreement. President
Carranza has withdrawn his edict
against development of American oil
wells in Mexico, the dispatch said.
The question of naturalization of the
oil fields is to remain in abeyance for
the present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
JOE STETCHER WINS TITLE.
Champ of Nebraska Wrestlcrs Win,
from John Pesek

Omaha, Jan. 17.-Joe Stecher won
the championship of Nebraska when
he defeated John Pesek of Shelton.
Neb., here last night, taking the first
and third falls with body scissors holds
in 2:03 and eight minutes respectively.
Pesek took the second fall in 13 min
utes with a head scissors and wrist
lock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
FEVER AND SMALLPOX
Diphtheria Also In Trio of Leading
Diseases in Kansas.

5 Scarlet fever. diphtheria and small
pox were the predominating diseases
in Kansas in November. according to
a report today by the state board of
health The report covers all coun-
ties and first class cities in the state.
The record shows 479 cates of scar
let fever, 45S cases of diphtheria. 2S8
smallpox. ISL whooping cough. 2I6
chicken pox, IA typhoid fever. 70
mumps. 55 pneumonia, so influenza
and 45 measles. Other diseases to-
tailed 40 for the month.