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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
FARMERS HAVE LOST
TWO BILLION BY
TREATY HOLO-UP
Reactionary Senate Defeated Plan
That Would Have Encouraged
Foreign Trade.
HARDING IN SYMPATHY
WITH OBSTRUCTIONISTS
Special Dispatch to Every Evening

Special Dispatch to Every Evening
Washington, Oct. lS.-lS.-Farmers
of the United States have lost over two
billion dollars because . stupid and re-
dictionary Senate, dominated by the Re
publican party, refused to ratify the Peace
Treaty with the League of Nations Cove
nant This is the opinion of 90 per cent
of the agricultural leaders who assembled
in Washington the past week, for the plir-
pose of suggesting or devislng means Tor
arrestmg the downward tendency OF
prices.
IF we had been in the League of Ma
tions since the Peace Treaty WAS brought
over here bv the President for action by
the Senate, every cotton spindle IN all the
factories of Central Europe would be
working and there would not be a surplus
bale of that staple in the United States, y
said j. :. Wanamaker, president of the
American Cotton Growers Association.
Germany can use our cotton and can
consume all our surplus wheat, but for
political, partisan reasons the Rcpubli-
cans Senate has made impossible the re-
opening of this great market to American
products.
Arrangements for credit could easily
have been made and an enormous consum-
ing market for our surplus goods would
have prevented the defation from which
all classes are suffering Mt the present
time II the course of the administration
had been adopted we would have heard
nothing about money strigency and arti-
fetal defation, and the farmers would
continue to be obtaining reasonable re-
wards for their toll.
OUTSIDE AND SUFFERING.
Charles A. LYMAN sc retarv of the
National Board of Farm Organizations,
expressed himself as fully in accord with the
views of MIR Wanamaker He said all the
great farm organizations OF the country
had indorsed the League OF Nations prm
ciple, and all had urged the Senate to
ratify the treaty as speedily as possible.
We are outside the League of Nations.
and hence we are not able to re-establish
trade relations with our former enemy. We
should establish a system of international
credit that would enable Germany to OBJ
tam any pay for our cotton, SAID MIR.
Lyman. This is essential from many
points of view the chief OF which is that
il the Central Powers are ever to pay what
they owe to the nations they tried TO devas
tate, they must be permitted to indus
trially function.
1t is the general opinion of the visiting
laFiifsrs Indt Senator IiafufhS II IN run
sympathy with the interests that are
trying 10 pound down the prices of agri-
cultural products. The leaders declared
that such policy will prove in no way
beneifciA to the consumer, because the
goods will fall into the hands Of the specu-
lative distributor, who will hold them for
higher priocs, thus carryi ng out the usual
practice of such citizen by creating an
artificial scarcity.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
DELAWARE IN SECOND
ARMY CORPS AREA
Will be Linked Up With New York
and New Jersey.

Delaware, according To the recent
war department order dividing the Unit
cd States into mine Army Corps, will be
in the Second Army Corps area. The com
plete area will comprise New York, New
Jersey and Delaware The Corps Command
er will be Major General Robert j..
Bullard.
With this new order, the War Depart
ment probably looks forward 10 the es-
tablishment OF system under which
automatic mobilization of all military
forces in the country could he effected NJ
smoothly and cxped itiously as the French
carry ont their notifications. For the
purpose of mobilization and other emer-
gency maneuvers the corps areas are
grouped into three Army areas. The first
Army area will lie composed Of the First,
Second and Third Corps areas; the Second
Army area Of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Corps areas, and the Third Army area
Of the remaining Corps areas.
Under this new ruling, Delaware viii
be under the Second corps of the First
area,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18

to the Democratic claim that Cox will
carry seventeen states, all in the southern
belt, with the exception of Montana, Ari-
zona, Nevada, New Mexico, reluctantly
Missouri, with total of l66 electoral
votes.
The Republican managers are frankly
depending ON the Negro vote to win the
doubtful border States, and the Demo-
cratic managers agree that if Harding
carries any OF them it will be due to support
from these citizens. They ASSERT, however
that the delivery of the Negro vote TO
Harding will insure the support of the
Democratic ticket by white voters of both
sexes who would otherwise vote the Re-
publican ticket.
MUCH MONEY SPENT.
One reason for Republican confidence
ms TO Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Mis-
souri, is that special attention has been
paid 10 voters of that race and that very
large sum Of money was devoted to or
ganizing it"
More colored men have been put up for
office than ever before in the history of
American politics In Ohio alone there are
six colored candidates for the Legisla-
ture, four in Indiana three in Kentucky,
and one IN Missouri. In some Of these
States colored men have been generously
cmembered in the distribution Of local
county Offices In one or two southern
States, notably Mississippi, full county
tickets composed of Negroes have been
named
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
Meeting of Church League.

The reorganization meeting Of the
Church League Of the Protestant Episoo-
pal Church, to be held IN St Andrews
Church, here, next Wednesday evening,
will start at $50 O'Clock There viii be
dinner at7 80, which viii be addressed by
prominent churchmen from different
parts of the country. The meeting and
dinner will take place in the parish build
ing at Eighth and Orange streets.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
Card Party For Eastern Star.

The Past Matrons' and Patrons AS
sociation which represents all the Eastern
Star Chapters in Wilmington will bold a
party this evening at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Drake, on Van Buren,
street There will he fifty card tzbles and
prizes will be numerous. Two hundr ed
are expected 10 attend
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
Delaware Soejety of Washin ptnu

The Delaware State Society Of Wash
ington will hold n meeting and Hailowe en-
carnival tomorrow evening at the Wilson
Normal School. Eleventh and Harvard
streets Masking viii he permitted at
the carnival and visitors from Delaware
will be welcomed William T. Kirkland il
president Of the society and Elizabeth X.
Groves executive secretary
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
less said about the League the better it
will be for the Harding-C Coolidge ticket.
WOULD DIVERT WOMEN

less said about the League the better IT.
will be for the Harding Coolidge ticket.
WOULD DIVERT WOMEN
Another feature Of the Republican
plan in dealing with the league has been
to Instruct party workers to divert the
mind of women voters from il by calling
their attention "to the failure Of the
Wilson administration to improve living
conditions" Another has been "to suR-
gcst" to Republican editors that thoy re-
frain from commenting on the daily
shifting Of Mr.. Harding's position on the
ISSUE. Democratic leaders, while admit
ting the advantage enjoyed by the OPP
position, assert that "the widespread
interest in the League issue recently
evinced by voters in the western States
is most encouraging" Some of them ven
tUre the prediction that the result of this
widespread interest" will Survive the
Republicans"
The managers of both parties are
preparing to concentrate on the "doubt-
full States" iii the remaining two weeks d
the campaign, particularly those IN the
middle west. They do not agree, OF course,
as To which are the doubtful States. .
But the activities Of the party managers
in Ohio, Indiana, kentucky, West Vr-
ginia, Maryland, California, Colorado,
Utah and Idaho makes il quite apparent
that both sides are uncertain as 10 the
final alignment of them
VITAL TO DEMOCRATS.
The ninety-fve electoral votes in
these States arc vitaIly necessary to
the Democrats. Indeed they must do
even better by taking some of the States
which the Republicans index as safe for
their ticket. The Republicans are conf
dent they will carry every State in the
Atlantic Coast group north of Virginia.
Added TO the l44 electoral votes of these
eastern states which are claimed safely
Republican, the Republican chances
now appear reasonably good for win
ming the I25 electoral votes of Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, the two
Dakotas, Wyoming Washington, Ore
gon, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska The
two groups of safe Republican States,
would give the Harding ticket 2e0 votes
or four more than required 10 win.
The Democratic managers do not con-
cede Wisconsin, Oregon and South Dako-
IA, but assert they have a chance to win
them for Cox. But they do admit that
they must carry all of the doubtful states
plus the three named which would give
them the decision
The Republican managers. infinitely
scanning reports from the variable
western states for weak spots, assent
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-18
Eureka Council Hinstreis.

Eureka Council. .Ir. o r. A. NJ, is plan
ning the information Of minstrel troupe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
MAKE LAST Count
Official Canvass by County Com
missiOners In Kansas.
This VIII End All Excitement
of the 1890 Election.

Interest in Tuesdays election returns
began to lag today with assurances
that Republicans are seemingly safe
in all sections of the state with the ex-
ception, perhaps. of the Eighth con-
gressional district. There the Bird
Ayres fight may finish with but a
couple of hundred votes between win
ner and loser.
Just now Eighth district managers
are awaiting the count of absent votes.
1t is this element which may decide
the election. More than 500 votes by
absentees are expected in Wichita
alone and the total for the district will
be several hundred more.
Official Returns Today.
Official canvass of the returns will
be made by the county commissioners
today. In Sedgwfck county this work
may not be completed until some time
Saturday. altho an effort will be made
to secure a decision late today. Man
ayers of Congressman Ayres have indi-
Gated they will base contest on bal
in Wichita. An error in the returns
from Mcpherson county has reduced
Birds lead to 1874.
Pluralities for state and congress
sionaI candidates continued to roll up
with completion of returns from out
lying counties. 1t is now apparent that
Harding will leave the state with a
lead of nearly 20O,0 while Curtis
will be but short distance behind.
Governor Allen is elected by more
than 100000, while strength of the
ticket pulls Hopkins and Wooster to
Safefv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05

First Steps Taken Toward Construc-
ton of Filtration Plant.

The first official step toward the
construction of the water filtration
plant for which Topeka citizens voted
bonds at the general election Novem-
Der was taken this afternoon when
the mayor and city commissioners met
with N. A. Veatch of Black and Veatch
of Kansas City, consulting engineers,
to begin detailed plans of the plant
Black and Veatch had already made
general specifications for the plant
in order to arrive at the cost of the
construction, to make the definite cost
for bond voting possible.
Work was expected to begin i'm
mediately on the plant" Fred A.
Painter, superintendent of the water
works said today. THE filtration
plant will occupy a considerable space
in the waterworks park, just across
the road from the present plant. The
total area of the filtration plant will
be between 800 and $50 square feet.
1t will be connected by concrete arches
with the old plant"
Consolidation of the electric light
plant with the waterworks plant has
already begun. 1t is planned to use
the power plant at the waterworks for
generating power for both water and
light with the Harrison street station
as the sub-station for distribution of
light power. The present electric light
plant at Second and Adams streets will
be abandoned and probably sold, Pain
ter said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
FREE PAGEANT TONIGHT
Three Hundred Girl Scouts VIII Intro
duce Campaign Play.

The interesting knowledge acquired
by Girl Scouts will be demonstrated in
the free pageant to be given tonight
by 800 Topeka girls at the high school
auditorium. The pageant will intro
duce the campaign which will begin
Saturday morning and continue until
November rs, to recruit members and
to raise Topeka's quota of $4,000 to
help the Girl Scout movement.
At 10 o'clock Saturday morning
Topeka Girl Scouts will parade Kan
sas avenue, at the same time that
Girl Scouts are parading the main
streets of many other cities in the
country. The campaign is a national
one, with an objective of $1,033, 400
to be raised as the national budget
There are seven troops of Girl
Scouts in Topeka, with Mrs. o. w.
Hascall as chief scout executive and
Miss Jeanette Emert as secretary. A
local Girl Scout council meets fire.
quently at the Y. W. c. A.
1t has been impossible to organize
and equip troops of Girl Scouts in
great numbers because of lack of
funds. Many groups of girls desiring
to be scouts have been refused for fl
nancial reasons. After the campaign
the Girl Scout movement is expected
to strengthen enormously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
Santa Fe in Good Shape Now,
Says W. B. Storey.
Are Able to Control Business at
Present Time.
ALMOST ENOUGH CARS NOW
General SIaekening of Business
Has Helped, He Says.
Much Progress Made in Last
Three Weeks.

I'VE have the railroad situation bet
ter in hand now than we have had at
any time in the past two years. Dur
ing the past three weeks we have felt
for the first time we were really able
to control it," said w. B. Storey. presi-
dent of the Santa Fe system, who
made a flying visit to Topeka today,
remaining only during the afternoon.
Much Progress Made.
ct have noted more progress toward
mastery by the railroads in the past
three weeks. than thru all the two
years preceding them," said Mr..
shortage situation is almost under con-
troll, and that the road Is now able to
supply nearly all the cars for which it
is asked. Only in cars for wheat and
flour is the shortage at the present
time at all acute, and that is on ac-
count of the bad conditions of the cars
in the possession of the road, which
are in such bad order that they will
not hold wheat and which are too dirty
to haul flour
General Slack in Business.
'"rhe general slackening up of busi-
ness and the let down in buying, has
helped to relieve the strain under
which we have been working" said
Mr.. Storey. Because of the unusual
demand for cars, 1t looks as if we had
been doing practically nothing, when
as matter of fact we have been ac-
complishing great deal. 1t would
seem, from the complaints which have
gone up. that we had been supplying
almost no cars for grain, when as a
matter of fact. the Santa Fe has han
died approximately $4,000 cars OF
grain in its territory this season."
Mr.. Storey does not believe that
there will be any great direct effect on
railroads as result of the anticipated
settling down" after the election.
1.-The finish of the election will un-
doubtedly help business generally, and
that will of course, react to help the
roads," said Mr.. Storey.
To Talk Matters Over.
The president of the Sanya Fe had
no particular object in coming to To-
-peka at this time other tnan to talk
matters over with Topeka people," he
said. On a recent trip thru the west
President Storey was unable to visit
Topeka, and this is the first oppor-
tunity he has found to make such a
visit.
He leaves tonight at 4:55 o'clock
to return to Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
DiUorce Petition
Fails to Split Up
Good Pig Family

Pigs is Pigs,"-granted. But whose
pigs? That was the question put up
to Judge James A. Mcclure in district
court Thursday, in trying the divorce
case of Martha L. Chinn VS.. william
f. Chinn. family of young porkers
figured prominently among the prop
erty asked for both in the petition and
cross petition. The pigs are the de-
scendants of a SOW which was given
to the Chinns as a wedding present.
Rather than separate the happy lit
tie family of porkers, Judge Mcclure
declined to grant the divorce, on ac-
count of insufficient grounds. He
recommended that the Chinns make
another attempt to live together. guide
and nurture the pigs. and be happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
KILLED In YARDS
Santa Fe Switchman Found
With Crushed Legs.
Died Following Operation After
Accident Last Night.

A lantern found on top of a car with
a defective drawbar. and the cruelty
mangled but not yet lifeless remains
of William A. Shinn, 40 years old,
switchman for the Santa Fe, are the
only clues on which to base theory
for Shinns accident at about o'clock
ly crushed that they were amputated
at the Santa Fe hospital this morning,
and Shinn died after the second ampu-
tation. at $50 o'clock
Other switchmen working in the
yard reported that they were having
trouble with a drawoar. Missing
Shinn, they found his lantern on top
of a car. and his body beside the track.
with marks indicating that he had
been dragged along the ground for at
least cars length. The accident oc-
CURED between and 8 o'clock Thurs
day night.
Santa Fe hospital, where the amputa-
tions were performed.
He had been working for the Santa
Fe six years, two years as brake
man and four as switchman. His
home was in Topeka for the greater
part of the past twenty years. He
was formerly a cook at the Cremerie
restaurant.
He leaves a wife and four children,
all under the age of six years, living
at 213 Davies street. He is also sur
vived by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. Shinn, Sr., 1920 Van Buren,, two
brothers Arthur B. Shinn and J. c.
Shinn, both of Topeka; two sisters
Mrs. r. Swartz. Sleepy Eye, Mimi, and
Mrs. A. G. Lander, Colorado Springs,
Colo.
The funeral will be held at the house
at 1890 o'clock Monday morning, and
burial will be in Mount Calvary
cefrafeTv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Won't Hear Kansas Plea.
No Reason Given for Action in
Railway Case.
DOES NOT CHANGE STATUS
Case Will Go to Federal Com
mission on Appeal.
VIII Hear Application Review
of Kansas Order.

Washington, Nov. 5.-The petition
of the Kansas Court of Industrial Re
lations for a hearing on the advanced
interstate rates granted railroads in
western territory was denied today by
the Interstate Commerce commission
The court contended that the roads
in western territory would earn ap-
proximately S192, 100000 in excess of
six per cent on the value of the rail-
way properties in that territory under
the new rates.
The commissions announcement
gave no reasons for denying the petit
ton.
Action of the Interstate Commerce
commission in denying a reopening of
the passenger and freight rate case
does not change the status of the issue
in this state, according to judges of
the Kansas Court of Industrial Rela-
tions. They will present their case to
the federal commission when it takes
up the railroad appeal from the Kan
sas order.
Following the Industrial court order
in the freight and passenger rate case
as applied to intrastate business, the
railroads appealed on a claim of dis
elimination against interstate passen-
gers and shippers. The Industrial
court also alleged an error of 1872 mil
lion dollars in favor of the railroads
in its estimate of returns under the
rate increases. On this claim it asked
that the case be reopened so far as the
railroads and states in the western di-
vision were concerned.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has denied the application of the
Industrial court to reopen the case, but
will hear the railroad application for
review of the Kansas case, on grounds
of discrimination. At that time, court
judges stated today. they would be
permitted to make any showing which
might be permitted had their applica-
ton to reopen the case been granted.
In short the order leaves the case just
where it stood before the Kansas
courts application was filed.
No date has been fixed for hearing
of the appeal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
St. Louis Sten0graPher's Mutt
lated Body Found.
E0A4y G4eW Left for Police Is
- Broken Razor.

st. Louis. Nov. with the broken
handle of a razor Almost within her
reach, the body OF Miss Edna Ellis,
1S-year-old stenographer, with the
throat cut. was found by relatives in
vacant lot early today
Indications pointed toward a des-
perate struggle being fought som e.
t121e dsring the dark hours of the
The szres. eoh lay in sone place.
Her hat in another. Footprints were
deeply inbedded in the soft earth.
Tan gloves which she wore were
cut to ribbons. The hands inside were
siashed to the bone in many places.
Both eyes were blackened and there
was an ugly swelling on the left jaw.
zzHer throat was cut in two places.
blade had severed the jugular vein and
the windpipe. Again under the right
ear where the carotid artery was cut.
Miss Ellis was employed by the Bell
Telephone company. She worked un
til 8 o'clock last night. Another en-
ploye Of the company notified her par
entS that she rode home on the car
with her last night and waved goodby
when she alighted.
Mrs. Mary E. Ellis. her mother. no
titled the police this morning. Re1a-
tives then started the search and the
body was discovered in the lot ten
minutes later.
Close to, the scene of the murder is
a large negro settlement. Because of
the weapon used and the proximity of
this settlement, police are working on
the theory that negro committed the
crime.
Clasped in one of Miss Ellis's hands
was her vanity case. The mirror was
broken.
Her handkerchief, found a few feet
away, was red with blood. The assas-
sin had used it to wipe his hands the
haIfavod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
SERVICE eHhRGE TO Court
Enfercsa2ent of Wichita Natural
Order Argued Today.

enforcement of service charges by
the Wichita Natural Gas company to-
day brought lawyers and city officials
to Topeka from a number of towns
served by the company. The hearing
before the court of industrial relations
affects an order issued for the city of
Hutchinson.
Last month the Industrial court sus-
pended the Hutchinson service charge.
Other cities which buy gas from the
Wichita company are participating in
the case, which tests the right of the
corporation to apply the service charge
to all cities in its district. Retroactive
charges, as well as the right of con-
sumers to secure rebates for service
Charges already paid are involved in
the hearing as well as the right of the
company to enforce its charge in the
future.
A $2 service charge was made in
Futcfiinson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-05
Eating Profits
Sent John Davis
To the City Jail

You wanta watch your step when
you eat peanuts. Last night the To-
peka police arrested a man for eating
peanuts. Rather, the eating of the
peanuts was the evidence on which
John Davis was arrested for the theft
Of a peanut-roaster belonging to Mrs.
Elizabeth Gilmore, who has a fruit
stand at 915 Kansas avenue.
Davis was seen by PaIrolman Dan
Duncan. at the Santa Fe depot, eating
peanuts and counting pennres. an hour
after the theft of the roaster had been
reported. He was arrested. and led
the officers to where he smashed the
roaster. obtaining PSI pennies and the
peanuts which remained from the
days business He was charged with
petit larceny. He was in Jail Wednes-
day night as guest"