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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
Business as UsuaI'' Slogan of
World Money Mart.
Morgan Bank Operates in
Patched Up Building.
MANY OFFICES SHORT HANDED
Hundred and Fifty Police Keep
Crowds Moving.
Building Inspectors Busy De-
termining Amount Damage.

New York, Sept. 17-It was "busi-
ness as usuaT' in Wall street today.
The nations money market resumed
operations just as if the explosion
which spread death and destruction
at the corner of Broad and Wall
streets yesterday had never occurred.
human tide of men and women
office-bound flowed past the street in
tersection where boarded windows,
Clipped stone work and a big crowd
of policemen stood out as grim re-
minders of what had happened. There
was a steady shuttle of feet over the
pavements from which the blood
stains had been washed.
Morgan Bank Opens.
The J. P. Morgan bank opened on
time. with clerks at their desks on the
first floor, where flying missiles in
jured many. The shattered windows
had been replaced with cheese cloth
screens, reinforced with laths.
Like the inhabitants of cyclone
swept western villages getting back to
work in temporary shelters. the thou
sands Of Wall street clerks, bankers
and accountants resumed their tasks
in offices which were in some cases
practically open to the street and in
which the ceilings were cracked and
the walls pitted with the metal slugs
that showered death and injury.
Many Offices Short Handed.
In the stock exchange, the brokers
began trading on time. Workmen
were busy replacing the windows.
Many of the brokers' offices were
short handed, due to casualties.
One hundred and fifty policemen
were assigned to duty at Broad and
Wall streets, where they kept the
crowds moving and formed a Gordon
before the assay office, the subtreas-
ury and Morgan's office. There were
many mounted policemen in the squad
Numerous plainclothes men stood
about the big banking houses, care
fully scrutinizing passershy. Admis-
sion was denied to the Morgan bank
except on business. Visitors also were
barred from the spectators gallery at
the stock exchange.
A cigar store near the scene. the
front of which was blown in, resumed
business over improvised counters of
boards. There were plenty of Gus
toners.
one Building Unsafe.
One six-story building. the Post and
Flagg structure, was vacated as a re-
suit of the explosion. Offices were
opened elsewhere.
Building inspectors were busy ex-
amining other structures to see if they
were safe. The Morgan bank dome
stock exchange building was declared
safe
An examination of the new stock ex-
change building. being constructed,
also showed 1t was safe Inspectors
went into the manholes in the vicinity
to assure that another bomb had not
been planted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
fine WIND-UP FOR FAIR
Flora Promises Fair WeatIler-No
Rain in Kansas i'll Four Days.
TOnAY1S 1,ERapER ATTrPES

s. D. Flora, state meteorologist has
several boxes of cigars coming to him
from concessionaires at the Kansas
Free Fair. The weather prophet to-
day promised a fair wind-up for Kan
sass greatest exposition.
No rain has fallen in Kansas for
four days now and none is in sight, ac-
cording to Flora. There was no pre-
cipitation in the wheat belt in the last
twenty-four hours and none in the
United States. with the exception of
showers in Florida, in the Gulf states
and at Boston
The low temperature in Topeka in
the last twenty-four hours was 55 at
o'clock this morning. The high mark
reached Thursday was 50 at o'clock
in the afternoon. At o'clock this
afternoon, the thermometer registered
81 degrees Better weather than this
could not be asked, was Flora's com
ment.
The low temperature in Kansas in
the last twenty-four hours was A. at
Hutchinson. That city probably is
getting "cQld feet" at the prospect Of a
fair there next week, according to
Flora A Temperature of 32 was re-
corded at Calgary, Canada, but there
is no danger of the cold weather COM
ft'ontinupd on Page TyyO1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
HIS Mind IS CONE
President DeschaneI of France
Officially Quits Job.
Resignation Follows Mishap
Near Chateau at RambOuiIlet.

Paris, Sept. 17.-Premier Millerand
today submitted President Paul De-
schanels resignation to the cabinet
The French cabinet today an
nounced the national assembly will be
called to Versailles palace next Tues
day to elect DeschanePs successor
The call for a special session was to
go out today.
President Deschaners latest acct
dent in which he was reported to have
fallen into a canal near his chateau
at Ran1bouillet, was one of a series,
according to reports here today LIE
Matin today said it was known in of
ficial circles that a month before
Deschanel fell from a moving train
near Mont Brison he took an un-
accountable ducking in German for
est.
DeSchanel was rescued Friday
morning, when he fell into the canal
near his chateau, by a fisherman and
some servants. He was reported to
be entirely unconscious that an ac-
cident had befallen him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
THIRTY7SIX KILLED
Two Hundred Injured in Wall
Street BIast-Many More Never
Recorded at Hospitals.

New York. Sept. 17.-Thirty-s six
persons, two of them unidentified. lost
their lives in the explosion yesterday
in Wall street. according to a revised
casualty list issued at noon today.
Number of injured is said to approx
mate 200. with exact figures unobtain-
able because scores received emergency
treatment outside of hospitals.
The revised list of dead follows:
Joseph Arambarry, rs years old. a
West Indian, Bronx.
Reginald Ellsworthy, West Orange.
n. Y.
Bartholomew Flannery, messenger,
New York.
Franklin G. Miller, New York
Harold E. GILES. Pelham, y. Y.
Charles Hanrahan. Brooklyn.
Raymond Miller, no address.
Thomas w. Ostrey, no address.
Benjamin SOloway, Is years, 1920
Lincoln Place, Brooklyn.
Joseph Schmitt, Long Island City.
John W. Weir, New York.
Margaret Fisher, Brooklyn.
John Donahue. Brooklyn.
William Joyce, Brooklyn, clerk in
Morgan's office.
Carolyn Dickinson. Elmhurst. Long
Island.
Mrs. Margaret Drurey. ss years,
Brooklyn.
Worth Bagley Ellsworth. Washing
ton, D. c.
William F. Hutchison. Garden City,
Long Island.
John johnson, New York.
Bernard J. Kennedy, Brooklyn.
Alexander Leigh. New York.
Charles Lindrothe. Brooklyn.
Colin B. Mcclure. Yonkers.
L. l. Roberts. New York.
Jos. Aesburg, Brooklyn.
Alfred Mayer, New Cork.
Col. Charles A. Neville. U. S. A, Sa-
vannah, Ga.
Rudolph Portiny, Jamaica, Long
Island.
Edward f. Sweet. Brooklyn
Robert Westday, 16 years. 232 West
oath street.
Minred Zylander. AZ Commerce
street.
Lewis K. Smith. New York.
Jerome H. McKeon, a broker,
Bronx.
Mr.. McArthurs. address unknown.
Two bodies still unidentified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
Today;s Auto Races

Event No. 1.
Division 3, Class race. Distance Miles
Prizes: $3.50 first: 500 second STEPHENS
six Rick, Essex (Raimeyl, Stutz speclai
(LaPlant), Essex (Disbrowl-
Event No. 2.
Division 4, Glass race. Distance 3 Miles
Prizes S40a first; $3.50 second Auburn
(Dempster), Briscoe (Cline), Briscoe (Clem-
ents), Essex (Raimey).
Event No. 5.
Handicap. Pursuit Race, Distance . miles
Price: 5000 first Stephen (Rick), Stutz
Special ia PlanD, Auburn DempsterJ,
Essex (Disbrow)-
Event No. 4.
Time Trials Distance, 1 lap-Open to any
car and driver entered in today's events.
Prizes: $500 If worlds record IS lowered .
$500 If track record is broken; $500 to car
making the fastest lap.
Event No. 3.
Free-for-an Distance miles-Prizes !:
$500 first: $3.50 second. BTiscoe (ClineJ,
Auburn Dempsterl, Essex (RaineyJ.
Event No. 6.
Ajax Trophy Race. Distance Is laps
Prize: $1,000 and silver trophy donated by
the Ajax Rubber Co., the purse money to
be divided. 80. 30 and 20 per cent. respect
lively. to winner. second and third Stutz
Special (LaPlanD, Essex (Raimey), Briscoe
(Cline). Stephens Special fRick), Essex
Disbrow), Briscoe (Clements) Auburn
(DernOster1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17

convinced him that the explosion was
caused by q bomb. He added that
he had wired to the department of
justice in Washington a report en-
bodying his commissions to the cause
and the reason for deductions.
Chief Flynn said that the bureau of
investigation hoped to know definitely
by tomorrow just what kind of a bomb
was used. Expert metallurgica1 eX-
animation OF bits of iron found in the
view of obtaining this information.
While a half dozen official investi
cations were under way members of
the firm of J. P. Morgan & Com
pany conferred in regard to the dis
aster. Then they issued a statement
to the effect that they had no knowl-
edge as to the cause or motives of the
explosion. Several members of the
firm have received verbal and writ
ten communications regarding the ex-
plosion but they say that none has
thrown any light upon it.
The Morgan firm began an investi-
cation Independent of those conduct
ed by federal and city authorities.
Representatives of the police and the
department of justice attended the
conference of members of the firm.
Threw Missile Quarter Mile.
George Lamb. division. superintend-
ent OF the bureau of investigation of
the department of justice who today
examined evidence brought him by
score of special agents, found one man
had been struck while on John street,
fully a quarter of a mile from the
scene of the explosion. by a window
sash weight. The metal, nearly two
inches in length, was hot when il fell
Six expert wagOnmakers expressed
the opinion at police headquarters that
the powder wagon was a closed vehicle
Of old time design They said that
fragments of the vehicle indicated II
was so distinctly a relic OF wagon
making of former days, that the task
of esta blishing its identity should be
easier than at first expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
GUARD FINANCIAL DISTRICTS

Philadelphia, Sept. 1.-THE United
States mint. the stock exchange and
the general financial district were
guarded today as a precaution
against bomb outrages. Department
of justice agents said radicals were
under surveillance.
Chicago, Sept. 17.-Plainclothes
men were stationed about the board
of trade and Rookery buildings today
as a precaution against terrorism
here. Yesterday detectives patrolled
Chicago's financial section.
The Rookery building contains the
offices of brokers.
Boston, Sept 17.-As the result of
the explosion in New York's financial
district Yesterday, the stock exchange
here was under heavy guard today.
Cleveland, Sept. IT. - Guards were
placed about the homes of Mayor Fitz-
gerald, Police Chief Smith and Harry
L. Davis, former mayor of Cleveland,
and now Republican candidate for
governor. The financial district was
also under close police scrutiny.
Davis home was badly damaged
by a bomb in June, 1919. He was one
of the public officials marked for
death in tn Gimbel plot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
THRILL CROWD FROM AIR
Daredevil Campbell VIII Do Acrobatics
on Plane at Fair.

AS an added feature of the race
meet which brings the Kansas Free
Fair to a climax Saturday afternoon,
Daredevil Mark Campbell, of Venice.
Calf. famous moving picture air
thriller, viii do acrobatics on a plane
a few hundred feet above the ground.
travelling at the rate of 100 miles an
hour. Harry Buff, local pilot who will
drive the plane for Campbell. took the
movie star over the grounds Thursday
afternoon during the races in order to
get look at the grounds, and the
Scotchman believes he can get away"
with a great many thrillers during his
program.
1t is practically impossible to tell
in detail beforehand just what stunts
by a set program. After the ship is
under way he rambles about the plane
as nonchalantly as if he were on
Kansas avenue. and after standing on
his hands walking around the tail and
wings and hanging from everything
that looks like it would hold him.
Campbell, on the spur of the moment,
invents a couple of new thrillers.
Occasionally he sits on the engine
cover during a spin, at other times he
rides the tail while the pilot stunts
and again he hangs from the bottom
wing during a drop. Altho all of his
stunts cannot be listed. his reputation
for taking a chance is demonstrated
by the fact that during the filming of
the Marshall Neilan production, GO
and Get It." he dropped from a NOV
ing plane to a mail train going at top
speed.
Campbell has every confidence in
Buff, the Topeka flyer who will pilot
him. After the air trip Thursday.
Campbell declared that Buff was one
of the best stunt flyers for this work
he had ever been with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
RUSS RISE AGAINST REDS
Anti-Soviet Disturbances Reported in
Many Parts of Russia.

London, Sept. 17.-Reports of anti
Bolsehvist disturbances in widely
scattered sections of Russia filtered
thru the closed frontiers today.
Official reports today to the war of
flee here said anti -Bolshevists were
active in Nikolaire and other parts of
southern Russia. Unrest was report
ed increasing in Ukrainia.
General Wrangel today reported he
had been successful against the Boil
sheYists southeast of Alexandrovsk,
capturing 1000 prisoners and taking
much booty. Wrangei supporters were
reported negotiating in Paris for sup
port in the generals effort to cut off
Bolsheviki supplies from the big grain
region of south Russia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17

@. NJ. ELLIOTT TO PEN
Topeka Real Estate Dealer Was Found
Guilty of Highway Robbery.

o.. NJ Elliott. Topeka real estate
dealer, today was sentenced to five
years in state prison by Judge George
H Whitcomb- Last winter a jury in
Judge Whitcomb's court found Elliott
guilty Of highway robbery. Following
the trial ElliorSs attorney filed a
motion for a new trial, which was
overruled.
Two days ago Tinkham VeaIe, assis-
tant county attorney, filed suit on El-
Eott's bond The suit was withdrawn
today when Elliott appeared in court
Elliott has been in Colorado for several
months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
State Warrant for Maurice Nc
NeiH, Asst Atty General.
Charged With Writing on Bank
Inadequate Funds.
DEPUTY SHERIFF CASHED IT
POttaWatOmie Officer Says Bank
Could Not Collect.
MeNeill Named Assistant to r.
]. Hopkins Here in 1918.

Westmoreland Kan, Sept ia
state warrant for the arrest of Maurice
Mcneil, assistant attorney general.
was issued here today on complaint of
r. Kersey, deputy sheriff of Potta-
watomie county. MCNEIL is charged
with violation of the state law against
writing checks on banks where he had
inadequate funds. County officials
stated he had not been arrested, altho
the complaint has been made and
warrant issued.
Kersey is said to have cashed a
check for MCNEIL last July when the
assistant attorney general was in
Westmoreland attending a hearing of
the board of county commissioners.
The check was drawn on a Topeka
bank. It was protested by the bank
when presented for payment. Accord
ing to reports in the court house here,
MCNEIL promised to pay the check,
but when the matter was again pre-
sented to the bank, no funds were
available. The bank is also reported
to have advised Kersey that it was un-
able to make collection.
Under the Kansas law it is a crirni-
nal act to write checks on a bank in
which the supposed depositor has no
funds. 1t is under the criminal sec
ton of the state banking law that
Kersey swore to the complaint and
the warrant was issued.
McNeill is a son of c. A. McNeill.
prominent and wealthy Columbus
lawyer and former chairman of the
Republican committee in Cherokee
county. Maurice MCNEIL was named
by Richard J. Hopkins, attorney gen
eral, as an assistant following his in
auguration in 1919. Mcneil could
not be reached this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
HERBERT ARMSTRONG RESIGNS
Dean McEIhenney to Supreme Court
Job as Result of Action.

Job as Result of Action.
Herbert Armstrong, chief deputy
clerk of the Kansas supreme court
has rendered his resignation to become
effective October 1, according to an
nouncement today by d. A. Valentine.
chief clerk. Earl Clark, assistant chief
deputy, will become first deputy. Ma
than Thompson will be promoted to
the place occupied by Clark and Dean
McElhenney, first deputy in the office
of Mrs. Mary E. Chaplin. clerk of the
Shawnee country district court, will
take Thompson's place.
It don't know what Armstrong;
plans are" said Valentine today
Armstrong has been employed as
clerk in the supreme court for more
than twenty years. He is well known
in Topeka and at one time was city
golf champion.
Dean McElhenney is a graduate of
the Kansas university law school.
Shortly after his graduation McE1-
henney Joined the army and went to
France. Upon his return he was ap-
pointed first deputy in Mrs Chapin's
office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
AWAIT HODGES WORD
Democrats Grooming Candidates to
Fill Senatorial Vacancy.

The state Democratic committee is
awaiting final decision from George H.
Hodges as to his withdrawal from the
senatorial race, which probably will
be received late today. said Forrest
Luther. state chairman.
Henderson Martin, of Lawrence;
Ben Gaf-skill. of Girard, and S. b.
Amidon, of Wichita. are among those
being considered to make the race in
case Ex-Governor Hodges actually
withdraws, 1t is reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
TROOPS INTO COAL FIELD.
Alabama NationaI Guard to Protec
Mine PrODPrffes

Montgomery. Ala. Sept. 17.-Brig-
Gen. R. E. Steiner with his staff left
here today for Birmingham to estab-
lish temporary headquarters for six
companies of militia he expected to
take into the coal fields this afternoon.
The troops will be posted at several
mines now under threat of violence in
coal strike activities. Six additional
companies are held in readiness to
rush into the mine districts If neces-
sary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
AUTO RACES DRAW BIG
CROWD AT FAIR TODAY
Track in Ideal Condition for Speed Demons This After
noon-Thursday Broke All Records for Free Fair
Attendance-Ancther jam in Grounds Today.
FREE FAIR PROGRAM
rRInAY. SEPTEMBER II,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER II.
Old settlers, Nonlen's, Health and
Hygiene day.
Parade of prize winning livestock, 4
O'Clock.
Auto races at 2 O'Clock,
Special program in Peoples pa
vilion.
Canning club demonstrations.
Fireworks and vaudeville. O'Clock
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER is.
Ladies' style driving contest, z
Airpiane stunts. 2:3O O'Clock.
Auto races, 2:45 O'Clock.
Band concerts.
Carnival night
Added features and events.
PROGRAM PEOPLES PAVILION
I'D. Graham. Superintendent.
FRIDAY.
Morning. 10 O'Clock.
womnn's Day. Old Settlers Day. Mrs
A. A. GODDARD presiding. a,
Address "Yoman's Citizenship" DR.: Al
bertn Corbin, Dean of Women, state uni
Address. "voices of Kansas" Mrs. Matte
T. KimbaII. Manhattan
Music.
Afternoon, O'Clock.
Kansas Mother and Daughter Canning
and Baking Club Demonstration.
Evening. O'Clock.
Address, Judge W. L. Huggins. E. Strain
President of the Chamber Of commerce
presiding.
Music.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
Society woman Is Suicide.

St Louis, Sept. 17-Mrs. Nancy
Cravens. prominent society woman
and wife of Rutherford Z. Cravens.
stock and bond broker. who. before
her marriage was Miss Nancy Blake
Of Memphis, Tenn. shot and killed
herself yesterday afternoon. III health
was believed to have been the cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
France Threatens to Onit ILcaeue.

Paris, Sept 1.-THE Echo de Paris
today said the French government had
instructed its representative to the
League OF Nations council. Leon Bour-
geols, that France will withdraw from
the league if Germany is admitted at
the forthcoming conference at Geneva
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17

other appeal to the supreme court Of
q Reno county good roads case has
been made IN the injunction proceed
ings brought by John Rowland to pre-
vent the delivery OF S1.000.o00 IN road
bonds to the Brown-Crummer COM
pany- The writ was denied by Judge
F. F. Prigg in the Reno county district
court. The principal contention Of
HoTland was that the county board
did not have the right to market the
bonds at less than par value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-17
RACE BULLETINS
e. S. Army Wireless Phone
Event L.

Event L
Division ,. class race, distance miles.
Purse. $50 for winner. 500 for second
best No. u. Essex flsaimey3 first: No. q,
Essex (DIsbroS) second Time. 3;f9.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-03-26
TURNS DOWN GUARANTEE
Believes II Can Successfully
Paddle Own Canoe.

4 Atlanta, Ga.-Confidence in the con
tinued prosperity of the south and in
the organization Of the Southern rail
way system to such an extent that he
is willing to make a wager of over
$12,500,000 on it has been shown by
Presidant Fairfax Harrison. Of tha
Southern in deciding not 10 qualify for
a. government guarantee, covering the
period Of six months from March L.
This decision was reached by Pres
ident Harrison after a trip through
the heart Of the country served by
the Southern and resulted from the
evidences Of business activity which
he saw on every side. The decision
applies to the Southern Railway Com
papy and to the Cincinnati, New Or.
leans & Texas Pacific Railroad Com
pany, the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad Company and the New Or
leans & Northeastern Railroad Com
pany, all three of which are included
in the Southern railroad system.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-03-26
SOLDIERS OF ENTENTE ENcouN-
TER SLIGHT RESISTANCE AT
Is TURKISH WAR OFFICE. W
GEN. MILNE is IN COMMAND
Forces of Occupation Landed Under
the Protection of Guns Of Power
r full Ships of Fleet Anchored in l
the Bosphorus.

Constantinople.--Co was
occupied by allied forces under Gen.
Sir George F. Milne of the British
army. This long -looked-for military
demonstration by the allies against
Fnrirey was carried <owt wittassly 7sse
untoward happening, serious clash
at the war office. where the Turks re-
sisted the allied troops. t
An exchange of shots resulted, IN
which several punjabi Of the British
East Indian forces and few OF the
Turks were killed. M
The excitement caused by the oc-
cupation quieted down before dark
ness which brought absolute calm.
The allies have occupied the minis
! tries of war and navy and assumed
control OF the posts, .telegraphy and
telephones. which have been tempora.
rily suspended. Shipping also has
been suspended. AI 4.
The landing OF the forces of occu.
patton was carried out under the
guns of the formidable allied fleet
duCIiOI6u III tuc ROophOhuo. AAo SAA~
ish dreadnaught Benbow was moored
at the Galata quay, her guns trained
upon Stamboul Another man-cf-war
faced the arsenal in the Golden Horn
while all the other warships In the
Bosphorus were standing by with
their decks cleared for action.
Except in the instance stated, how
ever, there was no resistance to the
allied forces as they carried out the
orders for the occupation Of the his
toric capital of the Ottoman Empire
The population, in fact, showed little
alarm. nor was there any sign OF
panic except in one section Of STAN
boul as the commanders of the allied
troops brought their forces ashore.
: These forces Included 1000 blue
Jackets and marines from the British
forces of all the allies represented
here. Indian detachments having
| Moslems on their rosters were among
the troops taking part IN the opera
ton. ~.