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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
'C.O.P.CLAN To CITY
Start Activities With State Com
mittee Tomorrow.
Fix Date State COncIave and
Elect National Delegates.
Topeka WANTS CONVENTION
VIII Be Opposed by Hutchinson,
Wichita, Salina.
Reavis TOp-Line Speaker at
Big Annual Banquet.

Gathering of the Republican clan
for the Kansas Day Club ban1uet in
Topeka Thursday night will begin
sometime Wednesday. An early crowd
IS expected this year in view of the
special meeting of the Republican state
central committee Wednesday, The
committee will hold a war council in
advance of the approaching presiden-
tial campaign and will fix dates and
places for the holding of state and dis
trict conventions to select delegates to
the national convention in Chicago in
June.
Not in many years has there been
such a flock of candidates for dele
gates to a national convention. In al
most every district there is a crop of
six to ten aspirants. Added to this list
is a select class of men and women
who are anxious for a place on the
Big Four as delegates at large.
H. H Motter. Republican state
chairman. will preside at the meeting
in Topeka, Wednesday. Dates for
each of the district conventions as
well as the big state convention will
be determined by the 1O5 county chair
men who compose the state COM
mittee.
Four Cities After Meeting.
Topeka will probably be a candidate
for the state convention again this
year. Hutchinson, Wichita and Salina
have also been mentioned and may en-
ter the race. The fact that the state
convention was held here four years
ago may affect the decision, altho To-
peka is the natural meeting place for
the Kansas Republicans. A delegation
from Wichita may urge taking of the
convention to that city in view of the
delegates there this spring.
Secretary CLANCY anticipates a near
record crowd for the annual Republi-
can banquet in Masonic temple Thurs
day night. Congressman ReaViS, who
is guest of honor at the Kansas Day
club banquet this year. is rated as a
top line speaker and Is bringing a
barrel OF trouble to Topeka. for the
Democrats in charge of national af-
fairs Other speakers on the program
this year include: Burns Hegler, Ell
dorado, president of the club; Harry
Snyder, Council Grove; Mrs. W. P.
Lambertson, Fairview; and Stuart
Simmons, Hutchinson.
State Officials at Banquet.
Advance sale of seats for the ban
quet has been heavy. Gov. and Mrs.
Henry j. Allen will attend the ban
quet, as will practically all other state
officials None of the members of the
Kansas delegation in Washington, tho,
will be home for the annual love feast.
J. H. (Dick) Lee, of Harveyville.
is listed for the presidency of the club
next year. He was a candidate in
1919 and was nosed out by a few
votes. In keeping with established
custom Lee is slated for the job and
Representative Jack Evans. OF
Mitchell county, may place himself in
line to win the honor in 1921.
Secretary Clancy has no opposition
so far as present dope is concerned.
He is expected to win another election
without a contest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
TETRAZZINI TO BE HERE
Soprano Wires She Has Not Cancelled
Her Topeka Engagement.


H. J. Dotterweich. manager of the
Topeka Concert Series, received a wire
from the manager of Nine. Tetrazzini,
that she will positively appear in To-
peka Thursday night.
The report of Nine. Tetrazzinifs ILL
ness came to Topeka Monday. 1t re-
ported that the great singer had can
celed an engagement two weeks ago
owing to illness but did not carry any
idea that she was cancelling the To-
peka appearance.
Nine. Tetrazzini will appear in
Tulsa this evening and will arrive in
Topeka tomorrow, one day ahead of
her appearance. She will rest here
and will be in fine voice for her con-
cert al the auditorium Thursday eve
ming 1t is claimed and verified that
she is in better voice since her illness
than before as the complete rest
helped the great sopranos power to a
great extent.
Dotterweich has experienced a great
deal of trouble since the news came to
Topeka of Tetrazzini's illness as many
have Cancelled their seats and a great
many have returned them for redemp-
ton. All of which was unnecessary.
This will mark Tetrazzinis first ap-
pearance in Topeka and will be her
only singing date in Kansas.
America will lose Tetrazzini after
the present tour, as she returns to
Italy for a long rest. She was very
active during the war in relief work
and canteen service for the Italian
and American armies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
FIRST DEFEAT FOR GOMPERS
Beaten in Election of Delegates From
His Home Local-sToo DID,

New York, Jan. 27.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. was defeated yester-
day in the election for delegates to the
Cigar Makers Internal tional i!rion's
convention, held by local 144. the or
ganization to which he has belonged
for more than forty years.
Mr.. Gompers was a cigar maker un-
til 1882. when he became president of
the American Federation of Labor
and is first vice president of the Cigar
Makers International union. The
coming convention. which is expected
to be held in Chicago, in April. will be
the first one to which he has not been
a delegate in many years.
Morris Brown, secretary of local
IA and one of the elected delegates.
said last night that he believed the
defeat of Mr.. Gompers was due to the
i. -1uence of the younger men in the
union.
They are progressive" he said.
''and believe that Mr.. Gompers is too
conservative to advance the cause of
labor with proper speed"
Mr.. Gompers will be 20 years old
today. A number of kilograms con-
graduating him on his birthday were
sent to Washington last night by local
unions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Nothing to Scare About
Vacation Restrictions
at the Santa Fe Offices

Clerks and employees of the Santa Fe
offices who Monday were led to be-
Heve they had lost their Saturday af-
ternoons off. pay during vacations and
sick leaves as well as other prerogra-
tives thru the action of some of them
IN Joining a union, were relieved to-
day when assurance came from Wash
ington that these privileges are not to
be fnfringed upon.
NJ. A. Moore, general chairman of
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers.
Express and Station Employees for the
eatern lines, received a telegram this
afternoon from the president of the
organization at Washington, D. c., as
surfing him that the half holiday Sat-
urdays. as well as pay during vacations
and sickness are fully protected by
the new agreement made between the
union officials and the railroad ad-
ministration
This morning, following the excite
ment among the employees when ru-
mors of an undesirable change about
to take place reached their ears,
Moore positively denied that there was
any cause for worry, declaring the
new agreement had been interpreted
incorrectly.
Furthermore, the officials them
selves stated that the new agreement
did not provide that the employees
must work Saturday afternoons. q
Sometime ago about so per cent of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
SPECIAL SESSION OVER
Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Tonight
Allen Signs Last Bills.

The special session of the legisla-
ture will officially end tonight Gov
ernor Allen this afternoon signed a
large number of new laws enacted and
action on all of the bills will be taken
before final adjournment.
Consideration of bills ceased in both
houses Friday night. Three days
were allowed the governor in which
to sign bills which passed the house
and senate. Nearly one-haIf of the
bills passed during the session were
on the governors desk this morning.
He expected to act on all Of them this
afternoon.
A few members of the house and
senate remained in Topeka for the
sessions held at noon and at 4 o'clock
each afternoon when messages were
received by the governor. From the
governors office this afternoon it was
stated that no vetoes of bills were an
ticipated. Included in bills yet to
, be signed are several appropriation
! measures. The Burdick stock yards
and packing house bill did not reach
the governor for his signature until
! this morning. 1t was signed and mes
saged to the legislature this afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27

and has been president of the Uni
versity of Texas and of the agricul-
tural and mechanical college of Texas.
Houston is a keen student of politi-
cal science, which he taught at Texas
university.
Was Governor Candidate.
Meredith is president of the Asso-
ciated Advertising clubs of America
and is regarded as one of the country S
foremost farm journal editors.
In 1916, he was an unsuccessful
candidate for governor of Iowa on a
good roads platform. Meredith was
a member of the public group of the
first industrial conference.
The appointment of two cabinet of
ficers today leaves President Wilson's
deck free of cabinet designations for
the first time in a month.
Secretary of the Interior Lane some
time ago announced that he contem-
plated resigning, but his resignation
has not yet been sent to the presi-
dar1f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Jazz For Hens
Hikes the Egg
Output Pronto

Columbus, Ind. Jan. 27.-Jazz mu-
sic as an incentive for hens to lay is
a new departure from the staid old
methods.
When ordinary powers OF persuasion
no longer bring results few snappy
tunes may go long way toward in-
creasing production and bringing
down the price of "hen fruit"
This was the solution of the prob
lem as outlined by Frank Habig
of this city. He decided, after inten-
sive thought. that what his hens
needed was exercise. However. he
found it a hard matter TO stir them
out of their accustomed inactivity. As
a last resort he put a phonograph in
the corner of the yard and after play
ing several selections found that the
jazz had the desired effect.
The hens were yisibIy restless ana
the result of their restIessness is two
eggs a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
in COUNTER OFFER FLU CAIN IN STATE
Lodge Ultimatum Is Refused
by Democrats.
New Compromise on Reserva-
tiOns Proposed by Hitchcock.

Washington, Jan. 27.-Repu blican
mild reservationists today had prac-
tically worked out an agreement with
Democrats to throw the treaty into
open debate in the senate, in an ef-
fort to thresh out a compromise on
reservations which can. obtain sixty
four votes for ratification.
This coalition will act as soon as
the breaking off of bipartisan confer
ences in Senator Lodges office be-
comes Il certainty. This is expected
to occur today when the Democrats
handed Senator Lodge a written re-
ply to his ultinatum of yesterday.
Democrats Decline Terms.
The Democrats, according to infor-
nation today. will say to Lodge that
they cannot accept his terms for con-
tinuation of the conferences. The
Democratic conferees also have au-
thorized Senator Hitchcock. their
spokesman to make public a statement
setting forth the exact status of com
promise negotiations when the irrecon-
cilable Republicans broke up the par
leys last Friday.
This statement is to show that a
proposal drafted by Senator Kellogg.
Minnesota, a mild reservationist. and
amended by Senator Simmons. North
Carolina, Democrat, was accepta BILE
to a majority of the conferees: that
just at the time it was scheduled to
be approved the irreconcilables upset
this plan.
The mild reservationists have assur-
ances that 43 Democrats will join with
Is Republicans to put the treaty again
before the senate. they said today. The
plan is to take up the reservations one
by one. letting senators submit what
ever suggestions for compromise they
wish.
Eata ~ Co,rnrov,lse IN noubt
The fate of compromise negotiations
on the peace treaty remained in doubt
today after the bipartisan conference
fusal of the Republicans to COM
promise on Article 10. Another meet
ing will be held Thursday.
Democratic leaders, replying to the
Republican ultimatum regarding Ar
ticle 10 did not present a definite re-
fusal to go on with the negotiations
but expressed great surprise declaring
had been assented to by most of the
members of the conference" before
the Republican served notice they
would not agree to a compromise.
Under the proposed compromise as
made public by Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, the acting Democratic lead
er. the senate would declare by reserv-
alton that the United States would not
employ the economic boycott or its
armed forces to prevent the territorial
integrity of any other country unless
congress acted in each specific case.
After the meeting which developed
some heated discussion some senators
on both sides professed to see hope
that a compromise might yet be
reached. The general attitude of the
conferees, however, was not one OF
ontirnisnl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Six Hundred and Eighty-Six
Cases Today.
Largest Increase Yet Reported
Two Deaths.

The number of influenza cases over
the state mounted higher and higher
today. $50 cases having been reported
o'clock this afternoon. with kilograms
pouring in all the time from all parts
of the state. DR.. S. j. Crumbine, sec
retary of the board, announced today
that completed reports showed that
there were 1.125 cases of flu in Kan
sas last week, ending Saturday night
Foday's reports showed the disease
to be making rapid headway. the num-
ber reported being more than half OF
last weeks total.
Two deaths were reported, one in
Johnson county and the other in Kan
sas City, Kan, bringing the fatalities
up to eight. This is not indicative
of the epidemio's effect, however
said Docsor Crumbine. because the
counties are slow In reporting deaths
to this department. There were six
cases of pneumonia reported at Kan
sas City. Kan. and 253 flu cases and
F12 deaths in Kansas City, Mo.
Morton county, which already has
been hard hit during this epidemic
and was a victim during the former
one. has suffered a fresh outbreak of
the disease, The situation at EIkhart
has been serious for some time. The
Schools were closed there for three
Ndyo ldSl week.
Call From Clark County.
doctor and a nurse will be sent
to Mineola in Clark county today by
Doctor Crumhine in answer to a dis
tress call from that town. Their lone
doctor, is sick in a st. Louis hospital
and fifty persons are down with flu
in the town. The board will avail
itself of the offer of assistance from
the Anti-tuberculosis association and
will send a doctor and nurse from
their forces to Mineola.
I'VE are getting our forces well
organized to fight the epidemic" said
Doctor Crumbine. Mobilization OF
the Red Cross nurses over the state
has started. Miss Laura Neiswanger
state supervisor of Red Cross nurses
is stationed in my office, cooperating
with the board of health in the cam
paign against the disease"
The following cases were reported
to the state board of health today:
Republic county, s6; Johnson. 1O2;
Chase, II; Ellis, .; Marion, 10: Ne
maha, 20; Cloud Z; Butler, 6; Cowley
1e: Ness. 3; Rawlins. 10; Kingman
40; Jefferson, 2; Wabaunsee. II; Clay
20: Cherokee, 10: Kansas City, Kan.
(city), 116; Wichita (city), 21; Clark
so; Decatur, l; Ellsworth, 80; Topeka
IA; Parsons, 2; Ford, so; Morton, so
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
BUY PALACES FOR SONGS
Americans With Inflated Cash Are
Bidding in Hungarian Estates on
Speculation Now.

Budapest, Jan. 27.- Hungarian
palaces and estates which before the
war were valued at from 100000 to
100000. are being purchased by
Americans, Englishmen and French
men for comparatively insignificant
sums. In some cases magnificent
properties have brought only from S.
GEO TO $4,000. Dollars are now
quoted at from twenty to fifty times
their pre-war value and those who
have sold their property believe the
exchange situation will be adjusted in
a short time and that they will profit
handsomely from the deals they have
made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
AUDITORIUM CONCERT SUNDAY
MarshalPs Band and Pipe Organ Per-
formancc on Program.

The first public concert to be given
in Topeka for many months is planned
for Sunday afternoon. Feb. l. at the
auditorium. when Marshalfs band and
pipe organ music by Dean Stearns of
Washburn will be on the program
The city's pipe organ recently has
been put in the best order by the
Rotary club. the Co-Operative club
and the Chamber of Commerce. and
the Sunday concert will be under the
direction of those organizations. The
will be no admission and the concert
is open to the entire public. it, is en-
pha sized.
Boys of the Industrial School will
attend in a body.
W. w. Webb is in charge of ar
ranxements
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Flu Takes Place
of Famous Snake
For OkLahon1ans

Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. 27.-Fol-
lowing the announcement by United
States Internal Revenue Collector
Hubert L. Bolen. late yesterday that
federal whisky would be issued on
prescription TO all persons suffering
with influenza the report of. cases
Jumped from "a to 1913 in a few hours.
ST Louis, Jan. 27.-New cases of in
fluenza reported to the health depart
ment in the last twenty-four hours
numbered 3Ss. more than double the
number reported in any one day since
the present epidemic began. There
were ten deaths from influenza and
twenty-eight deaths from pneumonia
in the same period, also decided in
crease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
HOUSTON GOES UP
Secretary of Agriculture Made
Secretary of Treasury.
Fills Vacancy Left by Resigna-
tion of Secretary Glass.
FARM EDITOR IS APPOINTED
Edward L. Meredith Named as
Secretary OF Agriculture.
Was Defeated in Race for Iowa
GovernOrship.
FARM EDITOR IS APPOINTED

Washington, Jan. 27.-Edward T.
Meredith, of Iowa, editor of Success
full Farming" will be named secretary
of agriculture to succeed Secretary
Houston, who is to become secretary
of the treasury in the place of Carter
Glass.
Meredith is on his way to Washing
ton from Miami. Fla. and it is under
stood he will take up his new duties at
once.
The new secretary of the treasury
claims st. Louis. Mo. as his home,
and he has been in the cabinet since
President Wilson's first inauguration.
Before that he was chancellor of
Washington university at st. Louis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
WILL CHARGE "NILITARISM."
Rough Shedding in Congress Pros
poets for Army Reorganization Bill.

washington, Jan. 27.-The cry Of
"militarism'' will be raised against the
army reorganization bill when it gets
to the floor of congress, it was evident
today.
Members of the senate military
committee who have just decided to
favorably report the measure, be-
lieved, however. that its educational,
physical culture and industrial train
ing features will mollify those who de-
nounce its. universal military training
clauses asA"Germanizing" the United
States.
Senator Wadsworth said today the
bill will be taken up in the senate
probably next week. 1t provides four
months army training for all youths
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
FEAR FOR RESCUE PARTY.
Iccbound Steamer Free But Relief
Expedition May Be Lost.

Chicago, Jan. 27.-Chicago's polar
adventurer.' the Sidney o. Neff, ice
bound steamer continued to fight the
ice today while Chicago wondered
over the fate of seven men who at
tempted Sunday to reach the boat by
crawling over the frozen surface of
the lake.
With the ice fields broken up and
the Neff blown far to the north OF
Chicago since the seven men left Chi
cago. there was fear they may have
disappeared in some suddenly opening
chasm. Lake steamers endeavored to
get in touch with the Neff today to
learn If the seven may have reached
her before the ice broke. Six of them
were sailors. the other was photog-
rapher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
MARS MAY BE ON "WIREn


London. Jan. 27.-Strange inter-
ruptions in wireless service. both in
London and New York, may have
originated outside the earth" Gug-
lielmo Marconi, inventor of wire
less instruments, was quoted as
saying in an interview printed to-
day in the Daily Mail
The Interruptions have been no.
ticed since 1914. Marconi said, ac-
cording to the newspapers. Scien-
lists are investigating them with a
view to determine whether they are
planetary signals or natural phe-
nomena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
PERFECT DEPORTATION CASE
Chicago Millionaire Caught in Net
With Alien Radicals.

Chicago. Jan IA perfect case
for deportation was turned over to
federal authorities here today after
arraignment of fifteen alleged reds"
Fourteen will have a preliminary hear
ing next Monday. William Bross
Lloyd. millionaire officer of the COM
munist party. was one of the indicted
men. His defiance encouraged the
others to plead not guilty to charges
of attempts to overthrow the existing
scheme of government. The perfect
deportation case" was furnished by
Niels Kjar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
FIRE LOSS HALF MILLION.
Texas Town Had Inefficient Fire
Equipment and Flames Took All.

Desdemona, Texas. Jan. 27.-Two
blocks of Desdemona's business Ois-
trict were in ruins today following
yesterday afternoons disastrous fire.
Inadequate fire fighting equipment
permitted the flames to gain great
-headway before they were checked
late in the afternoon. Damage is
estimated near half a million dollars.
It was the second big fire in the
business district in less than a month.
The oil fields were not affected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
COLD WAVE is PASSING
Cloudy Tonight and Wednesday, How
ever, Flora Forecasts.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR KANSAS:
Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday;
somewhat colder southeast portion tonight:
rising temperatures Wednesday west and
north portions.
The shippers forecast warns to protect
36 hour shipments north against a tempera-
ture of 10 degrees; east and west against
IS degrees; south against 20 degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
1ss Flu Deaths In Chicago.

Chicago. jan PA new death
record in the influenza epidemic here
was esta blished here today with the
reporting of 166 deaths for the past "a
hours. New cases numbered 1916.
far enough below the maximum of p
600 to encourage the health depart
ment into announcing the epidemic is
on the wane. Red Cross orga nizations
and hospitals reported plenty of
nurses to handle the situation IL 1t
grows no worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
WON'T OPPOSE MISS WOOSTER.
Harry p. Study. of Atchison. May Not
Be Candidate for office.

Salina. Kan. Jan. 27.-Harry P.
Study. of Atchison, will not oppose
Miss Lorraine Wooster. OF Salina. as
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion as previously stated.
This announcement was made today
from an unimpeachable source
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
Garden City Now Fur Marked.

Garden City. Kan, Jan. 27.-Over
two thousand dollars paid for fur pelts
during one month by one dealer. out
in western Kansas, where bear
ing animals are not supposed to be
very plentiful, is the record made by
one Garden City dealer during the
past month. Most of the hides were
skunk. coyote and muskrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-27
GUARDsMEN DISAPPOINTED.
Council Grove Troops Expected $50
Bonus Sunday-Got Drill Pay Only.

Bunu5 SuHuhy-GOL Ur1II Pay Only.
Council Grove, Jan. 27.-Sunday
was state-pay- day for Co. c, X. n. G.,
of this city and many of the members
came with the expectation of receiv-
ing the $50 bonus which they knew
Governor Allen had asked of the spe-
cial session of the legislature for their
services as guards during the coal
strike. Instead of $50 they received
only &c cents per week which is payed
by the state for their regular weekly
drills. Co c. is comprised largely of
married men not placed in class A
during the late war and enlisted in
the National guard as a patriotic duty
with the understanding that their
of the Waf-