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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

Temperatures will not drop much
lower in the next "a hours, says 5. D.
Flora, state meteorologist. The cold
wave is moving east rapidly. The low
temperature in the last "a hours was
10 at O'Clock this morning. 1t will
not go much lower than that tonight.
possibly two degrees. No rain or snow
is expected.
No precipitation occurred in Kansas
or in neighboring states during the
Continued on PAGE Two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

Pittsburg Kan. Jan. 27.-No prose
cution will be brought against Kansas
coal miners who went on strike yester-
day. Richard J. Hopkins, attorney gem
eral. announced today after he had
questioned seven coal miners. Mr..
Hopkins said no evidence had been
adduced that the strike was the re-
suit of conspiracy.
The miners told the attorney gen.
eral that yesterday was blue Monday,
and they simply did not work because
thcy did not feet like it," 1t was
pointed out that frequently the miners
do not work the Monday after big
pay on saturday Mr.. Hopkins will
hold a conference with mine union Of
ficials this afternoon.
Hopkins Held Probe.
Hopkins this morning examined
seven witnesses to the strike of 400
miners of the Western and Wear Coal
companies who yesterday struck in
protest against the new law. The ex-
animation was not public. Three OF
the miners are from the Franklin
mine of the Western involved and
three from the Wear mine at Dun
kirk. A seventh miner lives in Pitts
burg.
While the seven miners were testify
ing. their fellow miners were back at
work. Both the mines idle yesterday
were working today and it was an
nounced by operators officials that
there were no idle mines today because
of protest strikes"
Howat Urges Boycott.
IIowat says the four hundred and
fifty miners who refused to work yes
terday as a protest, did SO on their
own initiative. That no strike o-1er
was issued by union headquarters.
And he would not call it off.
s,.Nr 4fT,,a "a
union officials were backing the strik-
s'crs. Howat said miners were going 10
be urged to boycott the Kansas
fields" He said many Kansas miners
would leave the state because of the
Howat said that the international
officers of the miners unions and the
men of the twenty or more districts
stand sauarely behind the Kansas
miners who struck yesterday in pro-
test against the new industrial court
law. passed last week by the legisla-
ture.
Mr.. Howat declared. however, that
the order for the Strike, which in
wolves the walkout of about 45O min
ers, was not issued from miners
headquarters, adding that the men
struck of their own accord.
Expect Little Further Trouble.
The governor was in conference this
morning with members of the indus
trial court. Word from Pittsburg in
dicated that all of the strikers had re-
turned to work except seven men sub
poonaed to testify before the attorney
general
There is little danger of further
trouble. officials believe. The fact that
the men returned to their work this
morning reassured officials that no diff
ficulty was to be encountered in
handling the problem.
The new court will not organize until
next Monday unless an emergency
should exist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Disabled steamer Is Towed In.

Halifax, Jan. 27.-The United States
shipping board steamer Buffalo
Bridge, which lost her propellers off
the Nova Scotian Coast while bound
from Lisbon, Portugal, to New York
was towed into the harbor today by
the steamer Charlton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

London. Jan. ,27.-Two thousand
American rifles were landed on the
Irish coast a fortnight ago. a Dublin
dispatch to the Daily News said to-
day. Police, the dispatch added, have
been unable to find the weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
IPOMHATTAN NEARS HALIFAX.
Disabled and Sinking Liner Held Back
from Port by Wind.

Halifax. N s.. Jan. 27.-The dis
abled American transport Powhattan
was twenty-six miles off Halifax at 1
O'Clock this afternoon unable TO make
progress against high wind. wireless
messages said.
The American tug. Kingfisher. left
port to assist in towing the transport
into port.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
EMPLYOs EX-soLDIERs ONLY.
Prince of Wales Sets Example To All
British Employers.

London. Jan. 27.-The Prince of
Wales has set an example by employ
ing only ex-service men as male serv-
ants in his new bachelor home. York
house. One of the footmen wears a
wound stripe and the military medal;
another has the Mons star. All the
men servants in the esta blishment
have war ribbons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
HoIIand To Be second Choice.

Paris. Jan. 27.-In case the United
States refuses to accept a mandate for
Armenia it may be given to Holland.
according to a dispatch from The
Hague to the Matin, quoting rumors in
fba cifv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Huns Failed But Tree Killed Him.

Troy. Kan. Jan. 27.4Thomas
Davies. a young farmer who went thru
war in France unscratched. died here
today from injuries suffered when a
tree fell on him. He leaves a widow
and baby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
wyoming Ratifles Suffrage.

Cheyenne. Wyo.. Jan. 27.-The
wyoming senate has ratified the suf-
frage amendment to the federal con-
stitution The vote was twenty-four
for the resolution an / more against.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Prussians To Have No President.

Berlin, Jan. 81. - Consideration OF
the future constitution OF Prussia has
signed to the task and 1t has been
decided that Prussia will not have a
president of her own. The head OF the
legislative assembly will be exofficio
chief of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

Demand Sterling Takes New Drop.
New York. Jan. 27.-Demand sterl-
ing reached another new low on the
foreign exchange today, opening
at ss-5TA.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
NO PROSECUTION
SAYS HOPKINS;
MINERS AT WORK
"Blue Monday" Not Protest
Strike, Say Union Men.
Attorney General Held Probe
at Pittsburg.
ALEX. H0WAT AGAIN DEFIANT
DisaVOwe6 Responsibility for
Walk Out Yesterday.
Declares, However, He'll Start
Boycott Against Kansas.
BULLETIN.

Pittsburg. Kan, Jan. 27.-Alexander
Howat and other miners union Off
Gals refused to meet in conference
Richard J. Hopkins, attorney general
of Kansas. this afternoon. Hopkins
had arranged to meet them for a dis
cussion of a method of making an i'm
meliatc test of the new industrial
court Jaw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
/ Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednes-
day; colder southeast tonight; warmer
west and north Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

Paris, Jan. 27.-The German gov
ernment has sent a note to Paris try
ing once more to induce the allies to
renounce execution of Article 228 OF
the peace treaty, dealing with the sur
render of persons accused of acts in
violation of the laws and customs Of
war.
Evening star., 1920-02-02
|RKUTSK SOVIET
TO TRY K0LCHAK
Far East Hears He Will Be
Sent to Tribunal at
Moscow.

LONDON. February Form: zion of
a tribunal by the soviet of rkutsk
to try Admiral Kolchak. former head
of the all-Russian government in ST.
IBERIA. is reported in dispatch to the
Daily Mail from the town of Man
churia near the border between ST.
IBERIA and northern China 1t is said
that belief exists in the far east that
Kolchalk will be sent to Moscow to
be tried by a higher court The dis
patch. which was filled Saturday,
stated that the situation in eastern
Siberia had Quilted down under mar
tial law. The gold fields along the
Lena river have been nationalized, it
was added.
A boshevik uprising is reported to
have occurred at Tifis and Kutais IN
Transcaucasia- Both cities are declared
to be in the hands of the reds.
Gen. Balakovitch Arrested.
LONDON. February IA Moscow
wireless dispatch reports that the Es-
thonian authorities have arrested
Gen. Baakovitch. former officer of
the Russian northwest army. who is
said to have been the captor of Gen.
Yudenitch.
The dispatch says Polish division
in Siberia has mutinied and murdered
it's officers and joined the bolsheviki.
1t also asserts that Gen. Semenoff's
troops have joined the reds.
"a semi-official dispatch from Reyal
last week reported that Yudenitch.
who was commander of the Russian
northwest army. had been released, as
a result of pressure eXerted by the
French and British authorities at
Reval. Balakovitch's arrest of Yu-
denitch was declared TO have been
the result of personal animosity)
roles Block Red Troops.
WARSAW, Sunday. February l.
Concentration of large numbers of
bolshevik troops north of the Dvina
river has been prevented by attacks
by Polish units. according to an Of
fetal statement issued by the war Of
flee here today.
Attempts to gather bolShevik forces
along the Lithuanian and White Rus
sian fronts are believed by military
authorities to be part of the soviet
governments preparations for spring
attack against Warsaw. Newspapers
here say the red offensive against z }
land will be commenced as soon IS
possible.
Ukrainians Take Post of Odessa.
LONDON, February IA Vienna
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, under date of Friday, says
that, according to Ukrainian press,
the capture of the town and port of
Odessa was effected by Ukrainian reg
ulars reinforced by irregulars of the
Kherson government. There was hard
fighting against Gen. Denikine's
troops most of whom were taken pris-
oner, while the remainder retreated
into Rumanian territory, where they
were disarmed.
Evening star., 1920-02-02

Funeral services for Col. Edwin
Frey. 1713 Lanier place northwest,
for forty-eight years clerk in the
War Department, who died at 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon at his res.
idence, Is the result of a stroke of
paralysis. will be held at. IL o'clock
tomorrow morning at the family resi-
dence The Grand Army of the Re-
public will officiate. Interment will
be in Soldiers Home cemetery.
Col. Frey. who was eighty-two
years old, was stricken sixteen days
ago while at his Office in the finance
division of the War Department.
He is survived by his wife, a son,
Wilbert J. Frey. and a daughter, Mrs.
John E. Benton.
Col. Frey was born in Switzerland
on February 26, 1898. He emigrated
1S49 as the result of his fathers
prominent participation in the Ger
man revolutionary attempts at that
period. After attending the public
schools at St. Louis he entered Lex
ington CKy.) College. but left at the
outbreak of the civil war and Joined
his fathers command at Tell City,
Ind. which subsequently was al
tached to the Cd German Cincinnati
Regiment, later designated the 2Sth
Ohio Infantry.
Upon the first call by President
Lincoln for volunteers he was COM
! missioned first lieutenant He was
| elevated to the rank of captain in
March. 1862; was made lieutenant
I colonel in December. 1864. and was
mustered out in command of the vet
| eran battalion in July, 1865. Col.
, Frey served the entire period of four
years and four months in the field,
either in active service with his reei-
ment or on detailed service as a staff
| officer on the staffs of Gems. K. s. NJ:
Cook. J. D. Cox, Franz Sigel and
! w. W. Averill.
! Col. Frey participated in the battles
| of South Mountain, Md. where he was
wounded; Antietam, Staunton, New
/ Hope, Va: Droop Mountain. Va; Car
nifax Ferry, Va; Monocacy, Md;
/ Maryland Heights, and more than
| twenty other engagements with the
| enemy. For gallantry in action he
| was especially commended by Gems.
] Cox. Sigel and Averiil in their official
! reports.
! After the close of the war Col. Frey
resumed his profession of law in West
Virginia. in which state. while serv-
! ing in the Army Immediately follow
, ipg the war, he married Miss Sarah ].
: Farnsworth. daughter of Nathaniel
, Farnsworth of Buckhannon, w. Va,
! who survives him.
Col. Frey was prominent citizen
Of west Virginia and held some re-
tween 1865 and 1872. In the latter
wear he moved to Washington, having
been rendered n position in the War
department by Assistant Adjutant
General Thomas NJ Vincent. He
served there as an efficient clerk up
to the time he was stricken.
Col Frey was a Mason and n mem
her of the G. A. r., attached to Kit
Carson Post. No. 2. Department of
/ the Potomac.
Evening star., 1920-02-02
GREYS LEAGUE VIEWS
HELPFUL TO ENGLAND
Hesitation of United States Now
Better Understood, London
Editors Believe.

LONDON, February / (by the Asso-
ciated Press) 1t is evident from the
tone of editorial comment on Niscount
Grey's recent estimate OF America S
position on the league of nations that
it set forth conditions little understood
before. Niscount Grey's statement de-
clared the hesitation of the United
States in accepting the league of nations
is not due to hostility to the principle
but to constitutional questions and eau
ton as to the possible effects of enter
ing the league
With the situation clearly explained
by such an authority. newspapers here
seem willing TO give the United States
the benefit of the argument that she is
unwilling to make a radical departure
from her former policy without due con-
sideration. The letter is viewed as a
powerful appeal to America to enter the
league. and the Sunday Observer pleads
for the establishment of the league
quickly, even if it IS only a consultatory
body, without the United States.
Let us meet the United States so
literally and boldly as to leave her
not an excuse for standing out" the
newspaper says.
Complaints over reservations pro-
posed by the United States Senate
should be stopped. the newspaper
says. and it invites the United States
TO send over a shipload of them"
adding: The more Americas reserva-
tions are indulged. the less she is in
clined to insist upon them"
Nations, big and little, are show
ing their worst sides to each other,
the newspaper goes on. and it asserts
that the heart and soul" of Viscount
Grey's plea is patience.
After saying: There is a deplora-
BILE tendency to cast the major re-
sponsibility for Europe's troubles on
American shoulders" the Times says
the viscount's statement arrived at a
most opportune moment. and those
who digest it will find miSunderStand-
ing removed and comprehension es-
tabliShed"
Evening star., 1920-02-02

only makes possible, but under certain
conditions renders inevitable. a con-
flict between executive and 1egisla-
ture. 1t would be possible, as the cove
nant of the league of nations stands.
for a President in some future years
to commit the United States through
the American representative on the
council of the league of nations to a
policy of which the Legislature at that
time might disapprove.
The contingency is one which can
not arise in Great Britain, where the
government is daily responsible to the
representative authority of the house
of commons, and where in case of a
conflict between the house of commons
and the government the latter must
either Immediately give way or public
opinion must decide between them and
assert itself by immediate general
elections.
This contingency is, therefore. not
present to our minds. and in ratifying
the league of nations we have no need
to make any reservations to provide
for a contingency which cannot arise
in Great Britain"
Evening star., 1920-02-02
PRESIDENT APPROVES
ARMY COURT FINDINGS

The President has approved the
findings and sentences imposed by
courts-martial in the cases of Capt.
Arthur S. Woodland, United States In
fantry, and Second Lieut.. Frank q.
Nelson, Tank Corps.
Capt. Woodland was convicted of
violating the ninety-third. ninety fifth
and ninety sixth articles of war while
serving with the American expedition
ary forces in France. He was SEN
fenced to be dismissed and to be con-
fined at hard labor for six months.
Lieut. Nelson. who was convicted of
violating the fifty eighth. ninety-third
and ninety-fifth articles of war while
stationed sat Iangres. France, was
sentenced to dismissal and five years
imprisonment at hard labor.
In the case of First Lieut.. John A.
Dorton. 359th Infantry. convicted at
Chicago of violating the sixty-first
ninety fifth and ninety-sixth articles
of war, the President confirmed that
portion of the sentence involving dis
missal, but remitted that portion call
ing for imprisonment at hard labor
for twenty five years.
Evening star., 1920-02-02
Really Want to
Break That Cold?
You Lose No Time When You
Use DIR. Bells Pine
Tar-Honey.

OOSEN that n DIP k e d
l. phteGm. Ease that IabOred
breathing AlIly that Gistress-
Ing ammation. Get rid of that
hOarsenesS. that constant cough
ing. that Irritating thrOat-ticl<le.
Freedom from these unpleasant
things in what DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey helps promote.
And ii is safe for anybody from
kiddies to grandma. Its ingredients
are noted for their healing, anti
septic properties. Thousands of
users would never consider sub
stitutc. Economical. 4 bottle in
your medicine cabinet is playing:
safe. SOC, soc, S1.20.
Evening star., 1920-02-02
Grey Champions Senate
Stand on the Treaty

In letter to the London Times,
which is reprinted in the New York
Times, NiScount Grey, British ambaS-
sador to the United States. who is
now in London, discusses the Ameri-
can viewpoint in regard to the peace
treaty, which is Row before the SEN
ate, and also gives some of his per-
sonal views regarding the proposed
American reservations. The letter in
part follows:
, Sir: Nothing, it seems to me. is
more desirable in international poll
tics than good understanding be-
tween the democracy of the United
States. on the one hand, and the de-
mocracies of Great Britain and the
self-governing dominions. and, 1 hope,
we no, add. Ireland, on the other.
Nothing would be more disastrous
than a misunderstanding and es-
arrangement.
There are some aspects of the po-
sition in the United States with re-
gard to the league of nations which
are not wholly understood in Great
Britain. In the hope that as a result
of my recent stay in Washington l
may be able to make that position
better understood. l venture to offer
the following observations. They rep
resent only my own personal opinion
and nothing more, and they are given
simply as those of a private indi-
vidual.
Impatience at Delay.
'Tn Great Britain and the allied
countries there is naturally impa-
thence and disappointment at the de-
lay of the United States in ratifying
the peace treaty and the covenant of
the league of nations. 1t is perhaps
not so generally recognized here that
there is also great impatience and
disappointment in the United States.
Nowhere is the impasse caused by the
deadlock between the President and
the Senate more keenly regretted
than in the United States, where there
is a strong and even urgent desire in
the public opinion to see way out
of that impasse found which will be
both honorable to the United States
Evening star., 1920-02-02

and helpful to the world. 1t would
be we'll to understand the real Difficult
ties with which the people of the
united states have been confronted
In the clear light of right under
standing what seemed the disagree
able features of the situation viii as
sumo more favorable and intelli-
gible aspect
Clears Senate of Bad Faith.
Let us first get rid of one possible
misunderstanding. No charge of bad
iaith or repudiating signatures can be
brought against the action of the
united states Senate. By the Ameri-
can Constitution it is an independent
BODY. an independent element in the
treaty makig power Its refusal to
ratiiy the treaty cannot expose either
user or the country to a charge of
bad faith or reputation
Nor is it fair to represent the
United States as holding up the treaty
solely from motives of party politics,
and thereby sacrificing the interests
or the other nations for this petty
consideration.
1T is true that there are party
politics and personal animosities in
the United States. An American who
saw much of England between 1880
and 1890 said that the present condi-
tions of politics in the United States
reminded him of what he had OBJ
served in London when Gladstone first
advocated home rule for Ireland
Party politics and personal animosi-
ties arising out of them operate in
every democratic country. They are
factors varying from time to time in
degree. but always more or less ac-
tive. and they operate upon every
public question which is at all con-
troversial. They are, however, not
the sole or even the prime cause of
the difficulty in the United States
about the league Of nations.
Self-Interest Not Sole Motive.
Nor is it true to say that the Unit
ed States is moved solely by self-in-
terest to the disregard of higher
ideals. In the United States, as in
ether countries. there are cross-cur-
rents and backwaters in the national
Evening star., 1920-02-02

life and motives. When the nation
was reused by the war these cross
currents and backwaterS were swept
into the main stream of action and
obliterated. as they were in other
countries. With the reaction to peace
and more normal conditions they are
again apparent, as they are in other
countries. But an American might
fairly reply that whereas the self-in-
terest of other countries which have
conquered in the war is now apparent
in the desire to secure special terri
torial advantages. the self-interest of
the United States taErS the less ag-
gressve form of desi' ig to keep it
self free from undesirable entangle-
ments, and that it does not lie with
ether countries to reproach the United
States.
1T would be well, therefore. for
the reasons both of truth and eX-
pediency. to concentrate our attention
on the real underlying causes of the
Senate's insistence upon reservations
ir ratifying the covenant of the league
of nations.
Il. There is in the United States a
real conservative feeling for the ira
itionai policy. and one of those ira
ditions consecrated by the advice of
Washington is to abstain from foreign
and particularly from European en-
ltanglements. Even for nations which
have been used to European alliances
the league of nations is felt to be
something of a new departure.
Desires Caution on League.
This is still more true for the
United States. which has hitherto held
aloof from all outside alliances. For
the league of nations is not merely a
plunge into the unknown. but
plunge into something of which his
torical advice and traditions have
hitherto positively disapproved. 1t
does not say that it will not make this
new departure. 1t recognizes that
world conditions have changed, but it
desires time to consider. to feel it's
way and to act with caution. Hence
this desire for some qualification and
reservation.
So The American Constitution not
Evening star., 1920-02-02
SEVEN u. S. EAGLE BOATS
FAST IN ST. LAWRENCE ICE

A flotilla of seven United States eagle
boats is fast in the ice of the St Law
renee river at Quebec and will not be
able to get out until navigation is re-
sumed in the spring. These vessels were
built at the Ford plant at Detroit, and
were started out in the hope OF getting
them into the Atlantic ocean before the
ST. Lawrence was closed by ice. They
reached Quebec, but could get no
farther. They are of the advanced type
of submarine chaser. Each has a length
of 205 feet. Reports show that none of
them is injured.
Evening star., 1920-02-02
French and Moroccans Clash.

PARIS. February / (Havas).-
French troops have dispersed hostile
tribesmen assembled south of Tiiiet,
Morocco. according to a dispatch. The
French lost twcnty-siX killed and the
enemy sixty. besides numerous wounded.
Another fight east of Fee has resulted
in the rout of the tribesmen. who are
rCaO;teG to have lost twenty-five k!il'T'.