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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
VICTORY TO STATE CITY DADS IN BLUE
Allen and Higgins Pleased
With Curran's Order.
"We Are Winning" Presiding
Judge Tells Governor.

Judge Curran's action in ordering
Alexander Howat to compel the return
of idle miners to their jobs was de-
clared by Governor Allen and Judge
w. L. Higgins today to be a distinct
victory for the state. The industrial
court, it was stated, will continue in
its prosecution of mine union officials
but will not take action against the
idle men. No time has been fixed when
the state will take over the mines if
conditions do not improve
Governor Allen held a lengthy con-
ference today with Judge Higgins,
presiding judge of the industrial court,
who returned from two weeks in the
Pittsburg fields Judge Huggins will
return to Pittsburg next week. Hear
ings will be resumed Wednesday. Men
subpoenaed before the court who have
failed to appear. will be given another
chance to testify next week. If they
do not come into court Wednesday the
time may be extended. Later arrests
may be made.
I'VE will continue to place respon-
sibility on the union officials who are
responsible for conditions" Governor
Allen stated. Judge Curran's order
means probably breaking up of the
trouble in the district Howat is called
upon to direct his men to return to
their jobs If he wants to enjoy free
DOM"
I'VE Arc NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
'I am well pleased with conditions
up to this time" Judge Higgins said
today. while progress has been slow
we are winning and the law will be
upheld. Judge Curran's order calls
for Mr.. Howat to make the next move
and should see the return of the men
to their jobs
More than fifty miners and mine
union officials have appeared before
the court during the Pittsburg hear
ing Judge Higgins stated. A number
of persons subpoenaed have not as yet
answered summonses. These persons
are subject to citation for contempt
The names. however. have not been
reported to Judge Curran.
A social survey of the mining dis
trict is planned by the industrial court
This survey may begin in few weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Bride To Be
Finds Groom
Has Suicided

Oklahoma City, April 17.-Declaring
in a note that he was not himself; that
he was afraid his fiancee would be dis
appointed in him and that he did not
want to ruin her life" Charles A.
Campbell. Tuscania survivor and resi-
dent OF Birdseye, Ind, committed sui
eide in his room at a hotel here last
night.
Campbell came to this city to meet
Mary C. Holmes, a school teacher OF
Altus. They were to have been mar
ried today. Miss Holmes arrived here
last night and went to the hotel where
she was to meet Campbell. After
waiting for some time and getting no
answer to repeated calls to the room
which he occupied. the hotel manage
ment investigated and found the dead
BODY with a bullet wound in the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
FATHERS ARE GOOD SCOUTS
Son Meeting of Rotary Club Proves
Faith With the Boys.

Laying all mutual suspicion aside,
Rotary Fathers and Sons held a mu-
tual admiration luncheon at noon to-
day at the Chamber of Commerce.
Half of a boys life is missed thru
not being very well acquainted with
his father at the age when he really
needs closer companionship the most.
Rotarians evidently intend to make
sure that their sons are going to agree
that they are good scouts"
The meeting today was in charge of
y. W. Benning. A. ]. Stout was the
first speaker on the program. Stout
laid claim to all the boys in town. By
virtue of his office as superintendent
of the city schools. he has some basis
for such a claim. He declared that the
majority of dads" fail utterly in es-
tablishing a bond of companionship,
mutual confidence and good fellow
ship, with their sons. He welcomed
the lads to the luncheon.
In a brief address, handled with an
ease and skill much beyond the eX-
perience of most young fellows his
age Bernard Cutler. son of Rotarian
o. B. Cutler. responded from the
! standpoint of the boys. He pointed
out that boys desired nothing more
than real bond of implicit confidence
between themselves and their fathers.
He expressed the belief that the old
George Washington cherry tree story
was an attempt on the part of George
10 get in good with Father Washing
! ton by creating in his father a conf
dence in his relia bility. Illustratively.
he stated. he had admitted to his father
that he had once INDUCED in exercise
on a cigaret. Instead of throwing up
his hands in horror, Father Cutler
came thru like a true sport and made
a similar confession. Young Cutler
failed to carry out the figure any
Z further. His address was given a
young ovation.
Warren. Baker. of the Boy Scouts,
talked on THE Fun of Being a Boy.
! He had some new stuff, too. When
the Dads were boys, there was no Boy
Scout organization. Baker was well
acquainted with his material and
pointed out to the men the value OF
the Boy Scout movement from a moral
and physical standpoint.
! With the foresight of a budding
politician, he took advantage of the
opportunity presented to make a
spirited appeal to the business mon
dads to come thru with some real
support, to get back of the work with
what the boys lack most-money. and
help them do something for them
selve
! The Rev. John Wells Rahill. of the
/ Central Cons egational church. who
/ has just come to Topeka from Greeley,
/ Colo, told Of the boys service depart
ment of the Rotary club of Greeley.
/ They have a fund, he stated, for as
sisting ambitious young men who have
no father to aid them in securing an
education
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17

When it came to making rabbits ct
al disappear into a hat or some other
convenient place, four members of the
Avadalas troup of Hindoo magicians
may have been there" but whisking
away an entire magician'S parapher-
MALTA, valued at $1,000, proved to be
a little beyond their power, according
to officers here today.
The "magicians,' Andy Rupas, Cleo
Rupas, Sofranias Kasitaridas and
Ruth Campbell. were in the city Jail
here today, waiting to be taken back
to Winfield, Kan, by Sheriff E. r
Day of Cowley county, who arrived
this morning. A charge of grand lar
ceny and possibly one of breaking
and entering" will be preferred
against them, according to Day.
'Revolt'' for Wages, Claim.
The Avadalas troupe has been tour
ing Kansas and was booked for a per-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Summer Coming
Cokes Jump To
8 Cents in City
Several Stores Here Adopt New Price
ScheduIe-One Charges 10 Cents,
But Another Sticks to Old Scent
Thirst Quenchers.

Coca colas have increased to cents
a glass in several Topeka drug stores.
In one store a coke" now costs 10
cents.
Druggists selling coca colas for s
cents claimed today that an increase in
the wholesale price forced the increase
to the public. the ultimate sufferer in
all price hikes.
At the Rosser Brothers drug store.
500 Kansas avenue, coca colas were
selling for cents a glass today.
rs there. any likelihood that you'H
raise the price TO s cents2" one OF the
members of the firm was asked.
Not that l know OF now" he re-
piled.
Nearly all fountain drinks have been
increased recently in certain drug
stores Others asserted today that 20
cent sundaes have been on the menu
cards for several months. The Rosser
Brothers store has been selling sun
daes for Is cents for months.
The fountain man at the store
charging 10 cents for coke" claimed
that the quantity and super" quality
of materials was responsible for the 2
cents extra charged at that store.
Oh boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Commissioners May Appear at
Next Meeting "Denimized."
Fair Price Head Urges Topeka
to Odopt Idea.

The city commissioners may convene
at their regular meeting next Tuesday
attired in overalls
Wilbur Stanfield. commissioner of
water and light. said today he was
willing to don the denims in the in
terest of lower clothing prices. w. S.
Hancock, commissioner of streets,
said he was strong for the movement
and wants to be counted in on it. w.
II. Wasson, commissioner of finance.
declared he would not be left out in
the cold when it came to dressing in
jeans. Robert McGiffert, commission
er of parks, says the Lord knows he
is willing" but wouldn't guarantee to
appear in mechanics costume for the
commission meeting.
1t remained for Mayor H. J. Cor
wine to take the prize when the idea
was suggested to him.
"Naw!" he exclaimed. with grin.
Not mer'
W. IN. Kemper Urges Denims.
W. H. Kemper, chairman of the
today recommended that every man
don overalls as a means OF reducing
clothing prices. Kemper is wearing
them now himself.
ITS fine thing" said Kemper to-
day. "and should bring down the price
OF clotnlnS- m wearing tnen1 no"
while working around home here. The
first of the week I'm going to get a
pair pressed up and wear them in my
business down town"
Watch for Profitcering.
The chairman said that in the event
prices in overalls were raised here, the
committee will follow tactics in MAX
ing Investigations similar to those en-
ployed in investigating clothing and
other lines.
Topeka merchants are carrying
overall advertisements in the papers
todaya and are displaying them in their
windows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17

The adventures of two suitcases fur
nished their owners much concern and
bystanders much amusement at the
Santa Fe railroad station this week
when the identity of the two pieces of
travelling equipment became confused.
Fond husband had escorted his wife
to the station and. while he gave her
a farewell embrace. he set her suit
case on the platform near the steps of
the railroad car. A man. hastily
aIighting from the car. set down his
own suitcase near the woman's while
he lighted a cigar. The two bags were
similar and when the careless man
traveller went on his way he carried
with him the suitcase that was not his
own. The accommodating porter So
iicitously carried the gentleman'S bag
into the train for the iady's use
When the train had left the station
grinning bystander begged husbands
pardon. but wondered il he was sure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Don t Kiss Wife Good-byat
Depot-a Tale of Suitcdses
Mixup Farce Enacted at Santa Fe Station-Stranger
Wonders "How in Devil His Grip Got Filled
With Womans Clothes"

that he had started the right suitcase
on the journey with Mrs. Wife. The by
stander was not sure but he thought
that a man had taken her suitcase in
stead Of his own.
Excited husband Immediately says
unmentionable things and telegraphs
his wife at the next station Soon the
station agent had a frantic telephone
call from the National hotel with an
angry mans voice on the wire de-
manding TO know how the devil his
suitcase got filled with woman :
clothing"
After several hours of bored waiting
the man at the hotel again had suit
case filled with weareb Bile clothes. but
Mrs Wife received her own bag too
late to wear the smart new spring
frock in which she had planned TO at
she was visiting
The moral can't be that fond fare
wells are inadvisablei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
ALL WEAR DENIM
Many More Members Are
Pledged to "Sava Suta. Frat.
Fines for Not Wearin' EN-
Now Being Assessed.
LABOR Federation OPPOSES
Campaign Hikes Prices to
Those Who Must Wear EN-.
Speeches From Senate Floor
Scheduled for Monday.
Caruso Gets Overall Fever

Detroit, April 17.-Enrico Caruso,
leading tenor, will wear overalls to
combat the high cost of clothing
as soon as he wears out his one
hundred suits, he said here today in
an interview.
Caruso said he is wearing his old
clothes because he cannot afford to
buy new ones
II bought this gray suit in the
days when clothing was cheap" he
said, speaking of the suit he was
wearing. Il paid only $500 for it,
But now-Ohi Oh; how those
tailors do soaki"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17

'BATT'RIES FIR TODAY"
Washburn and Haskell Open Baseball
Season Here.

The Washburn Ichabods and Has
kell Indians were to meet at o'clock
this afternoon at Western league park.
Local baseball fans were on their
toes with expectation preceding the
first home game of the season. 1t
win be washburn's first 1920 encoun-
ter. the first game scheduled to have
been played with st. Mary's last Tues
day having been postponed on ac-
count OF the auto accident on the
Silver Lake road.
The Redskins come to Topeka
flushed with their third victory of the
season and standing of 1000 per
cent, having won from The Kansas
State Normal at Emporia Friday by a
score of to I. Prior to this they de-
feated Drake in an eleven-inning con-
test. to l, and won from Baker. 6
to 5.
Altho the Blue are crippled. Mana
ger Frank Kissinger this morning
promised that the contest would be
warm. The team worked out at
league park Friday afternoon and
showed form that was pleasing to the
most critical eye. Captain Joerg, who
will occupy the pitchers box, is in fine
condition, and owing to the absence of
Wycoff, will probably pitch the entire
game. Jamison. the third saeker. is
at Osborne for the funeral of Randall
Sharp, and Boies. who will sub for
him, has a sprained ankle. Wyman
will work behind the bat for the Blue.
Cap" Wells. manager of the Santa Fe
club, will umpire.
In spite of threatening skies. indi-
cations were that a good sized crowd
would turn out for the game. The In
dians are expected to have a goodly
following of rooters from Haskell.
The probably lineup for this after
noon follows:
WashbIrn position. Haskell.
JoerE. captain. ..-...p. Anderson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
SHORTS GIVEN UNTIL MONDAY.
Corner in Stutz Motor Stock-$1 900
Per Share Is Demanded.

New York, April 17.-Brokers who
borrowed stock of the Stutz Motor
company in order to sell short" were
given until Monday by Allan A. Ryan
to return the stock. Ryan is the
holder of the main block of Stutz stock
and chairman of the board of directors
of the company.
In case the brokers fail to return
the stock, Ryan proposed to go into
the open market and purchase the
securities for account of the borrowed
at whatever price it might be avail
able.
Stutz stock sold for 500 a share on
the curb market yesterday, $500 above
the price quoted at the start of the
corner
A committee representing the
Shorts called on Ryan yesterday, but
no progress was made toward an agree
ment. Ryan was reported to have
offered to settle for $1,000 a share.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
COOL DAY FOR TRACK MEET
Thousands County School Kids Com.
pete at Fair Grounds Today.

More than 1000 school children of
Shawnee county competed in the an
nual grade school track meet at the
fair grounds this afternoon. This
morning the annual meeting of the
Shawnee County Teachers asSocia-
ton was held at the Swedish Bethel
Mission church. Sixth avenue and Har-
rison street.
For the first time. the group aver
age system will be used to determine
the championship in the track meet.
The children were divided according
to ages in order that the competition
between the various. schools may be
based on the Fame standards.
Boys and girls teams contended
separately in the chinning contest,
baseball distance throw, 10O-yard dash,
50-yard dash, 200-yard relay, 400
yard relay and baseball accuracy
throw. Boys also competed in the
broad and high jumps. Josiah Jordan.
county superintendent. will award a
pennaHt to the school winning the
track meet.
Auburn and Lyman schools clashed
for baseball honors. The winner Will
be awarded a pennant by Judge Rad
NJ. Lee.
The teachers met this morning at
$3.50 O'Clock. After a few numbers by
the Washburn Mems Glee club, sew
eraI addresses were delivered. Mrs.
Ella >. 6uIlOIls a 1OIiilSi COGHlS SuPSt
intendent. spoke on THE School as a
Community Center" Mrs. Mary A.
NIcNamee, of Oakland school. discussed
the salary question from the teachers
standpoint and r. C. Obrecht mem
Der of the Seabrook school board,
from the viewpoint of the taxpayer.
Elliot Carriger. of Rice school. pre-
sided at = general discussion.
A luncheon in the church dining
room was served ct 1880 o'clock to
demonstrate the school lunch system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Silence Bell Phones for Vail

New York. April IA one
minute suspension of service by
100000 telephones and 24.ooo,-
600 miles of leased wires at IL a.
m, Eastern standard time. tomor-
row will be the tribu tefo Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany to the memory of the chair
man OF its board of directors.
Theodore \. Vail, while he is being
buried at Parsippany, n. Y.
All telephone service in Topeka
will be suspended from 10 a. m. to
1901 a m. Sunday, according to
announcement at the managers Of
flee of the local telephone COM
pany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Howat Is Supreme.

When Governor Henry J. Allen en-
tered tho coal fields OF the Pittsburg
district last November to ask the idle
miners 10 work for the state under the
rcceivership which the governor had
instituted the question asked on every
hand was:
what will Alexander Howat say
about it,"
The governor was told frankly that
Hovat. district president of the United
Mine Workers. would reject the plan.
Howat was in Washington attending the
negotiations in progress for the settle
ment of the nationwide strike of BIZ
luminous miners. A close friend OF
Howat's volunteered to go to Washing
ton to seek his consent for the men to
return 10 work. Not only did Howat
reject the offer, but he issued a state
merit in which he bitterly condemned
the plan as an Invasion OF the gov
crlur in an attempt to disrupt the
upiua.'
The campaign TO work the mines
under a state receivership, however,
continued \ call then went out for
volunteers. Scores of husky young
Kausans. many war veterans. answered
tho appeal. They started to work in
tho face of blizzard but they turned
out coal. state troops were brought
into the district to guard the workers,
with federal troops at hand for reserve
duty.
Alien Started right.
The Kansas governor organized a
temporary executive office in Pitts
burg and while here formed Il tenta-
tive plan for court of industrial re-
latious W. L. Higgins then chair
man of the Kansas state public util-
tiles commission. and Judge +. {.
Price a leader in the state senate and
chairman of the judiciary committee,
we're called into conference. a day
or two later the governor issued a call
for an extra ordinary session of the
state legislature and in January the
law creating the court of industrial
relations was enacted. Howat, mean
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. declared the
law was designed Ito enslave the
working people of Kansas" He
threatened a fresh strike of the Kan
sas miners
After the new industrial court had
been functioning it was announced an
! investigation of the coal mining indus
74-y of the state would be held here.
The court assembled and Howat and
other officials of the mine workers
were summoned to appear as wit
nesses The order was ignored.
The presiding judge then applied to
Judge A. J. Curran, of the Crawford
county district court. to order Howat
to appear before the industrial court.
When Howat and the other officials
did not appear, Judge Curran found
them in contempt and issued an order
committing them to Jail until such
time as they consent to appear before
the Kansas industrial relations court
and answer all questions asked them"
In Office Nineteen Years.
Howat is serving his nineteenth year
as an off cial OF the United Mine
Workers. He was born in Scotland
and came to the United States when
three years old. At 10 he went to
work in a coal mine. a foe to com
promise, when the nltion-wide bitum-
inous strike was settled in November.
1919, Howat denounced some phases
Continued ou Page Two0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
Z. s. WILL NOT ATTEND.
No Representative Is Sent to Session
of Council of Premicrs.

Washington. April 17.-At the time
of the first announcement that the
allied nations would hold a conferences
at San Remo. 1t was said at the state
department that the United states
would not be represented. and it In
understood that there has been no
change in this decision. The United
states has not been formally repre-
sented at the peace conference since
Undersecretary Polk left Paris last
December. Ambassador Wallace has
attended some of the meetings of the
conference of ambassadors at Paris,
but purely In the capacity OF an oo-
server. When the allied supreme
council met AT London Ambassadors
Davis did not attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
BRITISH PAPERS ARE ANXIOUS.
Paper Shortage Causes Formation Of
S4O,OOO,OOO Syndicate in Canada.

Ottawa, April 17.-English publish
ers have been SO Inconvenience by
the shortage of newsprint paper that
a syndicate of them is prepared to
spend $40, 900, 900 in Canada to insure
an adequate and continuous supply.
according to G. r. Hall Caine. son of
the English novelist.
Mr.. Caine, who is in Canada repre-
senting the syndicate. says he proposes
to buy 1000 square miles of timber
and erect mills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
STROUD WILL NOT HANG.
Kansas Record for No Legal Exc
cutions Will Not Be Marred.

Leavenworth. Kan. April 17.-Kan-
sass record of no legal hangings in
thirty-five years will not be marred.
President Wilson has commuted Rob-
ert Stroud's death sentence to life i'm
prisonment. according to telegram to
Warden Anderson of the federal PEN
itentiary.
Stroud. convicted of numbering a
prison guard. was to have been
hanged next Friday. Opposition in
Kansas to capital punishment led to
the fight for commutation of sentence
which ended successfully. Stroud's
mother and powerful religious inter-
ests worked 10 prevent the hanging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
GEN. VILLA ORDERS CARTRIDGES
Gets Machine Gun Ammunition From
Sonora Officials-WiII Help Them.

Aqua Prieta. Sonora, April IA
courier from Francisco villa. bandit
chief. arrived here today with an ur-
gent appeal for machine gun ammuni-
ton. While 1t was reported that Villa
wanted the munitions for followers de-
Tending the Chihuahua -Sinaloa border
from attack by Carranizista forces
marching to put down the Sonora re-
bellion, the destination of the ammuni-
ton sent pursuant to his request was
kept a secret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-17
TAKE TARIFF OFF PAPER
Free Limit Raised to Include Prin,
Costing Eight Cents.

Washington, April IA bill ad-
mitting free of duty all print paper
valued at cents or less a pound was
passed by the senate today.
The house has already passed it.
Existing law places the free limit at
cents a pound.
THE hope is that this will let more
print paper into the country" Senator
Smoot, Utah, said, urging the measure.
The measure would be effective for
two wears