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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
WANT The Reward
Nebraskans Ask $500 for
Catching Chester.
Murder Suspect Taken to Hos
pital for Examination.

Kansas City, Nov. 23.-Dennie
Chester, charged with murder in con-
nection, with the killing of Miss Flor
ence Barton, Kansas City society girl,
was removed from police headquarters
to the General Hospital today for ex-
animation to determine the extent of
injuries he sustained when he twice
attempted suicide in the Jail at Broken
Bow, Neb.
Chester has failed to use his voice
since his attempts to end his life fol-
lowing his capture in Nebraska after
he had escaped from officers bringing
him to Kansas City. by plunging thru
the window of a train. The prisoner
was carried to the hospital on
stretcher placed in a motor patrol
wagon. He was heavily guarded.
Police officials announced Chester
would be examined by neurologists
and that X-Ray pictures would be
taken of his head and spine in an
effort to determine his condition. De-
spite reports of physicians who have
examined Chester, and have found
that he appeared to be normal police
officials desire to establish finally his
exact condition before proceeding
with the case
The first claim for the s2,500 re-
ward offered by the Law Enforcement
association here for the recapture of
Chester after his escape at Broken
Bow was filed last night by S. E. NJ.
Hammond, deputy sheriff of Custer
county, Nebraska, and DR.. Martin
Hanson. The two men also applied
for the additional $2,500 offered by
the association for conviction of
Chester
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
DUBLIN CLOSED
TO THE WORLD
City Surrounded by Ring of
British Steel.
Street Battles Are Almost In
cessant, Is Report.
CInuT MnDC EDC KIlIrn
'EIGHT MORE ARE KILLED
Many Are Wounded in EncOun-
ters-HOspitals Crowded.
Ambushes on Police Reported
From All Over Isle.

Dublin, Nov. 23.-An train service
in and out of Dublin was resumed
this morning after the city had passed
a quiet night following Sundays blood
shed and the raiding activities of yes
terday, the curfew law being strictly
obeyed.
The night. however. did not witness
any let-up in the work of the military
who were continuing their minute
search of the city, presumably for sus-
poets in connection with Sundays as
sassinations. Before the curfew hour
several of the streets were surrounded
by barbed wire barriers and the SOL
diers examined all persons passing.
In State of War.
Dublin today was surrounded by an
entanglement of barbed wire. Back
of that line lay troops and police. their
machine guns and other arms ready
for instant use.
Sentries. set to fire on the instant.
guarded every entrance to the city.
Every one was stopped Passes 10
newspaper men, priests. doctors and
nurses were vaIueless. Sentries turned
them all back.
Incoming trains were stopped until
passengers could be searched. No
outgoing trains were permitted
Pedestrians avoided the outskirts OF
the city and remained indoors during
the night Frequent shots told of the
tension of the city. Sentries and 9TH
ers fired on the slightest suspicious
sound.
Firing All Night.
Frequent encounters between troops
and small bands of Sim Feiners oc-
CURED in the streets during. the night.
The sound of shooting was inces-
SAINT. So far as known, however. there
were only two casualties Military
raids were being conducted thruout
the city this morning. Many arrests
were made.
Three Prisoners Killed.
Three Sim Feiners were killed after
an attack on sentries, the military said
today. 4
The three were arrested Saturday
night and imprisoned in a guard
house. Yesterday two of them threw
hand grenades at the sentries. The
grenades failed to explode. being
without detonators.
The third grabbed a rifle which a
sentry had dropped in the excitement
and was raising it to his shoulder
when other sentries fired.
Dublin Is Cut Off.
Dublin was virtually cut off from
the world today by Gordon of Brit
ish troops. Somewhere within the
city zoo Sim Fein gunmen who. as
sassinated fourteen British officers
were in hiding. The troops were sur
rounding the city while police sys-
tematically searched it for the gum
men.
Meanwhile. the city lived in dread.
Renewed large scale fighting between
Sim Feiners and police was expected
at any moment. Shops had their
shutters up. Thousands of people re-
manned indoors, peeping cautiously
out from behind drawn curtains
when military patrols paced down the
streets.
A checkup of the casualties in Sun
days shootings today showed total
ft,nrfin,1pn nn Page TEnl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
HOIST RED FLAG
Eight Are Killed in Socialist
Riots at Bologna.
Banner of Revolt Reused Ire of
Italian NatiOnalists.

Bologna, Nov. 23.-Order was re-
stored here today after the killing of
eight persons and the wounding of
.63 in Socialist-Nationalist riots.
The day opened calmly. both Ma
tionalists and Socialists promising to
preserve the peace.
About p. m. a number of Socialists
hoisted a red flag on the Asinelli
tower. Immediately a crowd of Ma
tionalists stormed the tower, removing
the red flag and supplanting it with
the national emblem. An attempt by
other Socialists to aid their defeated
colleagues was foiled when police and
royal guards closed the square.
Socialists within the square raised
a cheer and asked that a red flag be
floated from the balcony of the city
hall. Apparently believing National
lists were attempting to storm the hall,
some one dropped a bomb from the
balcony. Many were injured by the
explosion and the royal guards opened
fire.
The Socialists rushed to their meet
ing place with the crowd in pursuit.
The crowd was met by a volley at close
@nge from the Socialist headquarters
and Giordani and Colliva. constitu-
tional members of the minority, were
killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
WAS WANTED HERE
Alleged Bandit Killed in Joplin
May Be Topeka Crook.
Sheriff Believes He Was Ar
rested for Auto Theft.

Joplin, Mo-, Nov. 23-VirgI Car
son, %, alleged bandit, was shot and
fatally wounded last night by former
school mate. Louis Jaggars. me
chanic, when he commanded the lat
ter and Walter A. Sampson. a grocer.
to hold UP their hands. Jaggars said
this morning after Carson's- death that
he did not know it was Carson when
he fired.
Jaggars and Sampson were on their
way home when accosted at an alley
by Carson and another man. Jaggars
fired as one of the bandits leveled a
revolver at him.
Robert L. Carson, vice president of
the electric service company, father of
the dead youths. said this morning he
had not seen his son for several
months and did not even know his son
was in this vicinity.
Virgil has always been a bad boy
and have long feared some such fate
for him. he said as he stood by the
body of his dead son.
The youth who was with Carson
when he attempted the holdup has
not been caught by the police. No
charge was placed against Jaggars.
II is thought by Sheriff Hugh Lar
inner that the Virgil Carson alluded to
in the Joplin dispatch may be man
arrested here a few months ago
charged with stealing Ford car from
F. H. Ramsey, route 4. North Topeka,
and who gave his name as Vernon
Carson. He skipped his bond after
his arrest.
Larimer talked with Joplin officials
this morning over long distance tele-
phone, but the officials seemed in
clined to doubt that the description of
the Carson wanted in Topeka fitted
that of the dead man.
TT may not be Vernon Carson"
Sheriff Larimer said. However, 1
am not entirely satisfied that it is
mot"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
ORDERLY DAY CUSTER CASE
Nothing Damaging Brought Out
Against Wilson Today.

Lengthy correspondence in the Sa-
lima bank case was introduced today in
support of the states custer suit
against Walter j.. Wilson, state bank
commissioner. The letters dealt al
most entirely with work of examiners
the bank commissioner and perEons
in touch with the banks affairs.
They generally indicated much-activity
on the part Of Commissioner Wilson
and his assistants in collecting on the
banks securities and in closing up the
affairs of the defunct Kansas State
bank.
None of the testimony before ]. NJ.
Challis. commissioner for the supreme
court. was regarded as especially dam
aging to Wilson. The entire morning
was spent in the reading of letters and
copies Of letters. IL was a quiet. or
derly halliday session. Attorneys from
the attorney generals office seemed
satisfied with their progress Attor-
neys for Wilson made no protest
against admittance of the testimony.
Failure of Attorney General Hop
kins to produce damaging testimony
against Wilson when Frank Sponable
testified at the opening of the hear
ing was regarded by attendants as the
most important feature of the case to
date. Sponable was expected to tes-
tify that coercion was used in the
stock and that promises of use Of con-
fidential state information were made
to prospective investors There was
nothing in Sponable's testimony TO
support such charges
Col Fred Fitzpatrick. receiver for
the Salina bank. may be called to the
witness stand late this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
Case of Eggs Sold For More
Than Wagon Load of Corr,
Forty Bushels of Corn Brought SIG in Topeka Market
While Thirty Dozen of Eggs Melted Farmer $21.

A farmer in the Wakarusa valley
suddenly decided this morning that he
needed some cash to purchase the
trimmings which are to adorn the
turkey at the Thanksgiving table
Thursday. and decided that since he
was coming to Topeka, anyhow, he
would bring along a load of the corn
which he had stored in cribs, waiting
for favorable market or the time to
haul it to what market there is.
He hitched his team to the wagon,
and loaded up forty bushels of corn,
fine, yellow, bottom-r raised Kansas
corn, the yield. of nearly an acre of
rich land. won thru days of sweating
toll under the sun of last summer in
corn which he had paid his neighbor's s
sons 10 cents a bushel for husking last
week.
Put in Crate of Eggs.
AS the farmer was ready to drive
out of the barnyard with his load. his
wife hailed him from the kitchen door.
She runs the poultry end of the farm
business and wished to market some
stuff this morning, and since her hus-
band was going to make the trip any
how, she decided that he might as well
haul in a crate of chickens and another
of eggs.
The farmer helped his wife catch
and incarcerate in their death cell,
five-pound hen and five of her pro-
geny, that ranked as broilers, weigh
ing on an average a pound and half
each. a
Picked Out Some Chickens.
She had also singled out for de-
struction five otter hens. weighing
about three pounds each, that had not
been doing their share in the produc-
ton of eggs. Other hens were doing
their bit however. for there was a
case of eggs ready to follow the chick
ems onto the wagon, thirty dozen OF
them. just filled when the nests had
been robbed the night before.
Finally. in spite of the delay. the
farmer reached Topeka, and started to
distribute his produce. The chickens
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
Think of China's S Fate fH
Ch0kes "-Chas. M Sheldon
1t May Take Away Thanksgiving Appetite But Twenty
Million Persons Are Starving in Five Provinces.

Iabout the high price of food and fuel
there was not particle of food or fuel
in the United States to complain
about? That would make another
story.
Will the readers of The State Jour
nal read every word of this cable from
China, even if it chokes ones throat
and takes away the Thanksgiving ap-
petite?
And after reading it will everyone
in Kansas who is going to have good
Thanksgiving dinner send to the Chris
tian Herald the price of similar din
ner to be sent at once to the starving
children of China?
The American Red Cross, the United
States state department, the Chinese
Red Gross and President Wilson en-
dorse this appeal. Send contributions
to China Famine Fund, Christian Her
aid, Bible House, New York City. If
you send it before you eat your own
Thanksgiving dinner it will help you
to enjoy your own better.
The winning of China's friendship
will be an incidental thing. She needs
such friendship. 1t will count in the
years to come. But the main thing is
the saving of as many as possible of
these children from death.
Your food may mean the saving OF
some future saviour of that great fu-
ture republic of the world.
Millions are starving and dying
from cold, committing suicide. eating
weeds bark of trees and beetles and
burning their houses for warmth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
HARDING REACHES PANAMA
Observation-Disclosures Ship Due at Cristobal
This Morning.

Aboard Steamship Parismina, Nov.
23-(via wireless) The Parismina,
carrying President-elect Warren g.
Harding to the Panama zone for a
vacation trip. was expected to dock to-
day at CristobaL
Harding's~ schedule called for a golf
game tomorrow. a trip up the canal
and a visit to the president of Panama
at Panama City. Thanksgiving dim
ner will be eaten with the president Of
Panama on Thursday
The president-elect is trying to keep
a little time clear for recreation. and
has rejected scores of invitations
which. if accepted, would keep him
busy every minute of the time he is on
the isthmus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
President Elect Invited to Kan
sas Livestock Meet.
Senator Is Wanted for Speech
February 1918.
TROUBLES OF STOCKRAISERS
Charged S1.75 a BusheI for 35-
cent Corn in Kansas City.
Senator Capper Promises to
Ask Relief in Congress.

Senator Warren G. Harding, presi-
fdent-elect, will be asked to come to
Kansas for a speech before the State
Livestock association at its annual
meeting in Salina February 1918.
Troubles of the stockmen and plans
Tor the annual meeting were discussed
today at a meeting of the executive
committee in Topeka
Marketing conditions and response
biiity of the farmer in bearing the
burden of market slumps occasioned
loud complaint from committee mem
bers Support of the Mercer plan for
creation of an export corporation was
given by several members of the COM
rafttee. Numerous cases were cited
where stock growers had shouldered
the loss OIL stock, but had found no re-
lief when they were on the purchasing
end of the market.
Charged S1.75 for 35-Cent Corn.
AZ shipped load of cattle to the
kansas City market recently" one
committee member said. "I held the
stock an extra day in the pens. They
charged me S1.75 a bushel for corn
which the cattle ate. AT the same
time they were selling corn grown on
my farm for 35 cents a bushel"
Members of the committee brought
assurances from Senator Capper that
efforts would belmade before congress
this winter to provide relief for Kan
sas farmers and stockmen. One of the
first moves may be tariff provision
safeguarding against importation of
Canadian grain which is now admitted
duty free. Other moves toward pro-
lection of home producers may be ex-
pected, committee members indicated.
Hides Go Down.
Growers at today's meeting pointed
out that the price of hides has been
reduced to pre-war quotations. Yet
the high price of shoes remains undis-
turbed. In Kansas the stockmen suf-
fer the loss resulting from market
slumps, 1t was declared, but receive
little relief from purchase of meats
and no relief when shoes are bought.
Yet the shoes are made from hides of
Kansas beef steers. And the hides sell
for 1851 prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
URGE MARTIALLAW
London Papers Reused Over
, Recent Riots in Erin.
Attack on Crowd Called "Crim-
inal Lunacy" by News.

London, Nov. 23.-Intense interest
was manifest here today in the debate
in the house of lords on the Irish
home rule bill.
Earl Dunraven. leading the opposi-
tion, was TO move rejection of the
measure. The opposition was develop
ing considerable strength, so govern
ment leaders were becoming uneasy
The vote is not expected before Thurs
day. Yiscount Grey was to make an
important speech during debate this
afternoon.
London newspapers today published
full details of the killing of spectators
at a hockey match at Croke park,
Dublin. last Sunday when black and
tans fired into the crowd.
They described the bloody football
field on which. they said, pieces of the
bones of the killed and wounded were
picked up on Monday.
The Daily News in a Dublin dis
patch gave what purported to be an
eye witness account of the crowd
estimated by this newpaper at $1,000
-penned between the ranks of voIley-
ing police, unable to scale the stone
wall and running around in a terrified
manner amidst the rattle of machine
gun fire. Women and children
screamed for mercy, the dispatch said
The stone wall was described as pitted
with bullet holes.
A statement issued at Dublin castle
said the plan had been to surround the
park with police and then have an
officer call thru a megaphone that
gunmen were believed in the crowd
and that everybody would be searched.
This project failed, the statement said,
because Sim Fein pickets fired on the
approaching crown forces and gunmen
in the crowd also started firing. which
precipitated a panic
In an editorial. the Daily News Bit
terry attacked the Dublin castle plan
as a piece of criminal Iunacy." The
Morning Post urged immediate dec
laration of martial laws thruout Ire
land. The Daily Herald. labor news
paper. recommended rnassed "indus-
trial action" to halt the Irish var"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23

and eggs could wait, he decided, while
he unloaded the forty bushels of corn.
of which he was Just a little bit proud.
Load of Corn Brought $f6.
At the elevator to which he took the
corn, the dealer regarded him with
golden stuff as if he didn't particu-
larry care whether he got it or not, and
gave a check for S16-forty bushels
at fortyecents per bushel, today's mar
ket price for corn.
The farmer kicked a little. but on
calling up other elevators and dealers
found that the prices at all were the
same, so pocketed his, SIC and was
ready to start home, when his eye
fell on the eggs and the chickens
which had been set down beside the
elevator while the corn was unloaded.
The sight of them peeved him again,
and he hurried them to the nearest
poultry house for disposal 1t wasn't
worth while to investigate the market
for them. and he unloaded without
asking the prices which he was to re-
ceive He was anxious to be on his
way home again, with the proceeds of
his load of corn and his disappointment
at its low price.
Chickens Sold for $3.50.
''Um-m, eighteen pounds of hen at
21 cents and five pounds at 20 and
seven and half pounds of broilers at
81 cents, that's the chickens" said the
poultry man. and noted down the
total-S6.S0.
Case of Eggs Melted sci.
Now then. the eggs. Eggs are 20
cents dozen this morning. You've
got a full case, thirty dozen, $21 is
right. That makes s27.S0. That
right?" as he filled out the check
"It don't>look right, but it must be
so," was all that the farmer said as he
crumpled in his pocket the SIG check
for the load of corn which had been
the real reason for his trip to town. and
remembered how he had grumbled at
waiting for the chickens and eggs to
be slung on top of his load.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
ROLL CALL ALMOST ENDED
Shawnee County Has Contributed
$5,411, Report Says.

The annual Red Cross roll call IS
nearly over and Shawnee county SO
far has contributed only $5,411, ac-
cording to Arch NJ. Catlin, treasurer
of the roll call executive committee.
In 1919 Shawnee county had 1900
members of the Red Cross and in
1918, $4,000 We're registered.
The canvass has been as complete
as it is possible to make it, Chas. L..
Mitchell, publicity director for the
drive, stated. The downtown and res
idence districts have been thoroly can
vassed for members. If any one has
been missed in the canvass he is asked
to call the Red Cross headquarters,
phone 2024. to allow a solicitor to
call upon him.
The roll call will end Thanksgiving
Day, when a Red Cross flag should be
in every window in Topeka and a Red
Cross button should be worn by every
Topeka citizen.
Contributions may be mailed direct
to the headquarters. checks being
made payable to 1.-The American Red
Cross" and flags and buttons will be
sent out by return mail.
I'VE hope to have a Red Cross flag
in every home in Shawnee county by
noon of Thanksgiving day." Charles
l. Mitchell, of the roll call commit
tee, said this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
Church Mudded
By Jazz Music
To Hold Youth

Cleveland, Nov 23.-Jazz music may
be introduced in the churches here to
attract the younger element.
.Syncopation and zip instead of~the
ancient hymns was suggested by Ralph
Baldwin. former president of the
Cleveland Baptist Young Peoples So
eiety.
1--WE are living in a jazz age and I
wonder if a jazz church ought not to
be the next development" he said.
'T would not have you change the
story, but I wonder if. another varia-
tion of the tune might not better catch
the ear of the young people in our
churches"
Baldwin said he would discuss the
matter with a number of ministers in
the hope of convincing them of the
soundness of his idea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23

CLOUDY and UNSETTLED
Not Much Change in Temperature, Il
Weather Forecast.
TODAY,s TEMPERATURES:

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES:
7 o'clock. spill O'Clock. .....S S3
O'Clock ....31i12 O'Clock. .35
O'Clock. O'Clock. ..... 81
10 O'Clock. ....32 ? o'clock 49,. 40
The shippers forecast advises the
protection of thirty-six-hour shipments
to the north and west against tempera-
lures of 25 degrees; to the east and
south against temperatures of 80 de-
grees.
Kansas. has corner on the GOODNESS
and the moisture in the Mississippi
valley today. The lowest temperature
in the state and in the United States,
last night, was 20 degrees at Good
land. A trace of snow was reported
from Concordia. The valley is gen.
orally cloudy.
From Illinois east to Boston, there
is rain falling today. and rain is also
reported from the north Pacific coast.
The highest temperature in Topeka
yesterday was AZ degrees at 1890
'cfock. The lowest in the past
twenty--four hours was 81 degrees at
$50 o'clock this morning.
This afternoon the temperature will
go to between AS and so degrees. and
iContinped on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
Peking, November 1e, 1920.

Peking, November 16, 1920.
Famine affects five northern prov
inces- Drought from one to two years.
Fifty millions involved. Twenty mil
lions starving. Many dying of cold and
hunger. Whole districts living on
weeds and leaves. Selling or drown
ing children. Whole families commit
ting suicide. Old kill themselves, leav-
ing youHger to seek food in other
provinces. Children suffer most. Gov
ernment exercising great efforts to
cope with distress. Heroic measures
taken by charitable societies. Calam-
ity so colossal difficult to secure
funds for adequate relief. Require
two hundred million dollars. Epidemic
feared next spring. Appeal to Chris
tian Herald to canvass for funds.
TSAI TING KAN,
(Admiral and Director General of the
Chinese Red Cross).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-23
SPEEDING CAR soMERsAULTs-
Woman Killed and Four Injured
when Auto Rolls Over and Over.

Shreveport. La, Nov. 23.-Mrs. A.
r. Nugent was killed and four other
persons seriously injured here today
when a car driven by her brother. !. l.
Pomeroy. at high rate of speed coli
Iided with another automobile near
their home on the Greenwood road
just outside the city limits.
The Pomeroy car turned over sew
eraI times, the injured including. be-
sides Pomeroy, two school girls. Edith
Denjow and Lille Silas. whom ne was
giving ride. a boy was the other
casualty.