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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
TO PUSH CUSTER
Walter Wilson Proceedings
Filed in Court Today.
Twenty Counts in Attorney
Generals Petition.
MAY ACT ON CASE At ONCE
If All Attorneys Are Ready Hop
kins VIII Prosecute.
Three Major Charges Are In.
cluded in Lengthy Paper.

Custer proceedings against Walter
E. Wilson. state bank commissioner,
were to be filed in the Kansas supreme
court late this afternoon. The petit
ton demanding the custer of the bank
commissioner asked the court to sus-
pend Wilson from office on ten days
notice.
There are twenty counts in the Pc
tition under preparation today. How
ever. three major charges are made on
which the fight promises to be waged.
They are:
(1) Wilson's alleged shortcomings
in connection with the wrecking of the
Broker bank at Salina.
CD Wilson's connection with the
Kansas Bank Holding corporation of
Topeka.
failure of the Pollman bank at La
Cygne. where Fred Pollman went free
after the money he had misappropri-
ated had been made good.
Control Small Banks.
Prior to the filing of the petition it
was stated by officials that the petit
ton charged that Wilson and other Of
ficers of the Bank Holding corpora
ton expected to capitalize Wilson's au-
thority as bank commissioner to build
up the proposed million dollar finan-
cial institution and to get control of
small banks over the state that the
new concern desired to buy and oper-
ate.
Altho tomorrow was the last day
the supreme court was to sit until aft
er it's summer vacation. it was possible.
lawyers said. that the court would
take up the Wilson case at once. Will
son was not in Topeka today. Hop
kins said that If the supreme court
wished to take up the case at once and
Wilson'S attorneys were ready, he
would have to give up his plans to
make q campaign for denomination
and would remain in Topeka and
give his whole attention to the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
BEGIN REDS TRIAL HE is IRREGULAR"
Harding Repudiates "Reactien-
airy" Charges Against Him.
Advisers Foresee Attempt by
Cox to Line Up Progressives.

Marion, o., July amy efforts of
political opponents to fasten the label
''reactionary" on Warren G. Harding
will be stoutly resisted by the Repub-
lican candidate in his presidential
campaign, he indicated today.
Harding considers himself a ''regu-
lar" and has been making every ef-
fort to line up the old Roosevelt pro-
gressives following behind his stand
ard. Harding's friends deny he has a
reactionary record in the senate. They
declare that scrutiny of the votes he
cast on important measures will fail
to disclose such an attitude.
Republican leaders foresee an at
tempt by the Cox forces to make a
drive for all progressive voters and
they are taking steps to checkmate
this move.
Senator Harding expects to have a
conference today with Ex-Governor ].
Frank Hanly of Indiana, a strong pro-
hibition advocate.
The prohibition issue will not figure
in the presidential contest, in the opin-
ion of Walter F. Brown. Toledo, can
didate for the Republican senatorial
nomination, who conferred with Hard
ing here. He believed it might come
up in congressional contests. centering
around modifying the Volstead act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
MORE 1920 WHEAT
In Month c. s. Yield Boosted
2s,OOO,OOO Bushels.
But Government Report Shows
Less Than for 1919.

Washington. July s. The 1920
wheat crop will total SO9,O0O. 900
bushels. the department of agriculture
estimated today, basing its forecast on
conditions prevailing July /.
The estimate based on conditions
on June 1, was for a crop of 7S1,oO0.-
900 bushels, showing that during June
wheat prospects increased $4,000, 900
bushels
The estimated production of spring
wheat on July 1 was 291 0O0,0 600
bushels. as compared with 277, 100000
bushels on June 1.
Winter wheat production was esti-
mated at 100000 bushels on July
1, as compared with 504,00O,000
bushels on June /.
The condition of all wheat on July
l was S2.5 per cent as compared with
S6.6 per cent the same month last
year.
Spring wheat condition was sS per
cent on July l, as against sos per cent
for the same month last year, and
winter wheat was 1911 per cent against
SO per cent July 1, 1919.
The total wheat crop for 1917 as
estimated last December was 941,000,-
600.
Wheat acreage was reported as
53,652.000 acres or 1913 per cent of
the 1919 crops, of this 19, 9,4S7. 600
acres was planted in spring wheat and
34,165, 900 in winter wheat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
ACCUSES HUSBAND OF MURDER
Actress Tells Police Spouse Guilty of
Staying Three Men.

Philadelphia, July 9.-Cries of
murder" attracted policemen to the
city hall plaza early today. They
found a woman in an alteration with
a man she said was her husband.
Jack" Welch of New York. She de-
nounced him as the murderer of u
man in the New York subway. The
police of that city confirmed the wo-
mans story and asked that the man
be held.
The woman, who says she is an
actress, said her husband had been
acting queerly for some months and
she is afraid he will kill her. She
told the police Welch. who served
twenty-five months overseas as a SER
geant in the American army. shot an
officer in France and also shot a
negro in the south. She said he was
gassed and shell shocked.
New York, July 9.-No record of a
Jack Welch, wanted for the murder
of a man in the New York subway"
and held by authorities in Philadel-
phia. has been found in police head
quarters here. The detective bureau
here has asked that he be held while
they looked him up. it was stated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
ARE PROBING PALMER
Senate Campaign Investigating Com
mittee Moves to St. Louis.

nittee Moves to st. Louis.
st. Louis. Mo, July 9.-The senate
committee investigating campaign ex-
penditures, transfrred the scene of its
activities to st. Louis today. launched
an inquiry into the campaign of At
torney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
who was a candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination.
The attention of the committee.
as the hearing opened. was centered
on the reported distribution of $4,000
among the twenty-eight members of
city Democratic committee, by Edward
F. Goltra, st. Louis, Democratic ma
tionaI committeeman from Missouri.
to help defray the expenses of dele
gates to the state Democratic con-
vention in Joplin.
Goltra. who was supporting the can
didacy of Attorney General Palmer,
was active in the fight on Senator
Reed, when the latter. after being
rejected by the state convention, as a
delegate from the Fifth district to the
national convention, sought to obtain
his seat at San Francisco.
The inquiry is being held in the fed
erai building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
Took Sixty Days to Get Jury In
Chicago Court.
!. E. Kattetrfield, Topeka
Socialist, One of Accused.

Chicago. July e.-The jury to try
William Bross Lloyd and nineteen
other members of the Communist La
Dor party for alleged conspiracy to
overthrow the government by force
was completed today.
Just sixty days were spent in Sc
lecting the jury and more than 1900
veniremen were examined before the
twelve satisfactory to state and de-
fense were found.
Lloyd, millionaire sergeant-at-arms
of the Communist Labor party, and
his associates were arrested last Janu-
ary during the nationwide roundup
of suspected radicals and were in
dicted on four conspiracy counts and
general indictment charging violation
of the new state law against criminal
syndicalism. There were originally
thirty-nine defendants. but thirteen
were never found. One, John Reed.
magazine writer, another and first
Bolsheviki envoy to the United States,
is in Jail at Abo, Finland. charged with
smuggling, and several were dls-
missed, leaving twenty to face the
court
Among the defendants associated
with Lloyd are Alfred Wagenknecht,
New York; Charles Baker. Cleveland; !;
Alexander Bilan and Ed Lindgren.
New York; Max Bedacht, San Fran
cisco. and Jack Carney, Duluth. all
national committeeman of the party,
and L. E. Katterfield, Topeka, Kan.
Three women, Margaret Prevey,
Akron. O., and Helen Judd, Chicago
school teacher, and Clara Rofsky, sec
retary of a local branch, will be tried
later.
Katterfield is a graduate of Wash
burn college and well known in To
peka, and especially among the So
cialistic elements. where he has been
an active worker for many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
Burglars In Topeka Are
Going So Far As To Shut
off House Alarm Clocks
Another Bold Bad Man Robbed Home While House
keeper Was in Yard Talking to Neighbour
Wave of Thefts Here

Five burglaries were committed in
Topeka Thursday afternoon and night,
according to reports received by the
police. Another robbery wednesday
night was not reported to the police
While Mrs. H. T. Stephens. 1857
Mulvane street, sat on her front porch
between s and 9 o'clock Thursday
night, burglars who entered thru the
back door assembled a large amount
typewriter preparatory to carrying
them away. The burglars were
frightened away when Mrs. Stephens
chanced TO enter the house and turn
on the lights. Only about SIS in
change and some food from the ice
box were missing, she said
One of Mrs. Steph3ns's children was
sleeping downstairs in the house and
two more in separate rooms upstairs.
In one of the upstairs rooms where
the baby was sleeping, the burglars
gathered up a large amount of wear
ing apparel. brought it downstairs and
placed it in a clothes basket on the
back porch, together with other loot,
preparatory to making a getaway.
Similar to Watson Robbery.
Mrs. Stephens, who was alone at
her home with the children, immedi-
ately called the police, but by the
time they arrived it was too late 20
find the burglars.
It was not entirely dark when the
attempted wholesale haul" occurred.
The case partakes of the nature of the
robbery at the F. H. Watson home,
401 Fillmore street. last week, when
Robert Baird was arrested when
making his third trip from the house
while the family was away. Wednes-
day Baird pleaded guilty to second
degree robbery and was sentenced TO
from. five to ten years in the state
penitentiary by Judge George H.
Whitcomb.
The police are of the opinion that
the man or men who entered the
Stephens home are professionals, TO
judge from the orderly way in which
they ransacked the house. apparently
knowing just what to look for and
where it would most likely be found.
Burglars who entered the house of
Mrs. J. F. Gilbert, 619 West Third
street. while she was visiting neigh
bors in the evening got away with a
silver mesh bag and $3.50 in change.
Ten dollars was taken from this same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
"BIG SEE" PARTY IN Topeka
Capper Farm Press Guests Arrive
After Interesting Tour.

kansas is the banner state of the
five we have visited said Fred A.
Staten, of the Benson, Gamble and
Staten company, Chicago. after he had
returned to Topeka, with the Big
See" party, which has covered ap-
proximately 1900 miles over Okla
homa, Kansas. Nebraska, Missouri and
Iowa. The party has been touring the
states as the guests of the Capper
Publications, and have been closely OBJ
serving farming condition over the
middle west.
The Capper guests arrived in town
Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock and
have been on the road since June 26.
Thursday was the biggest day for
the "Seers,' from one viewpoint as
they came into the closest contact with
the farmers, stopping at numerous
farms on their way into Topeka. The
party divided at st. Joseph Wednes-
day, the Kansas party, driving into
Hiawatha, visiting sixteen farm on the
way and the other half, stopping at
farms in Missouri. The party was
again reunited at Valley Falls, at noon
and then drove on as far as Meriden
working farms. and from there making
record time into Topeka.
Immediately upon their arrival here
they were taken to the Dornwood farm
east of the city where a special din
ner was served by the young women
from the Capper Farm Press. under
Governor Allen made an interesting
talk after the dinner which was served
on the lawn. The agency men will
spend today and tomorrow in Topeka
and lunched informally today noon at
the Chamber of Commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
FORECAST FOR KANSAS.
MORE COMFY WEATHER HERE.
Thunder Showers Will Hold Down
Temperatures in Kansas.

With slightly warm if not cool
weather for the next several days, ard
thunder showers coming from western
Kansas, the outlook is promising for
Topeka The rain belt which has
been hanging around in western kan
sas, is slowly moving eastward, ac-
cording to S. D. Flora. state meteor
ologist. Dodge City received 172 of
an inch, Coldwater % and Scott City
.54 in the last "a hours. At O'Clock
this morning a good rain was falling
at Dodge City and Concordia The
showers will reach Topeka probably
this afternoon and tonight
Abilene, Kan, reported a rain of
1.35 of an inch to the Topeka weather
bureau this afternoon. Concordia also
had heavy rain, but did not report
the extent.
Furthermore, the temperatures are
going to stay down according to the
prophet" With no sign of the Ber-
muda high in the southeast and the
high pressure area in the northwest
still hanging on, Kansas is in line for
some ideal weather for the next sew
eral days.
The lowest temperature in the last
"a hours was 81 at s o'clock this
T--.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
TO DECIDE TODAY
Labor Party Uncertain as to
Union With Liberals.
Name of Third Ticket Still the
Stumbling Block.

Chicago. July 9.-The National La
Dor party was scheduled to make its
decision today as to whether it will
cast its fortunes with a new political
movement.
A meeting of the executive commit
tees was to be held here to take up the
proposal that the labor party Join with
the Committee OF Forty-eight, the
Nonpartisan League. the Single Tax
party, the Triple Alliance and the Ma
tional Service party of South Dakota
in launching a third political party.
proposed aulalgamation was the ques-
ton of a name for the new party.
Insist on 'LabOr'' Name.
Labor leaders unanimously favored
union of all liberal organizations but
want the new party called "the Ma
tionaI Labor party" The Committee
OF Forty-eight expected to convince
title will not prove popular.
Members of the Labor party's exec
utive committee will attend today's
meeting, including John Fitzpatrick,
Chicago; Mrs. W. J. Adams. Kansas
City, and Frank J. Esper. Chicago.
Depend on La Toilette.
Belief that Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin will accept the presidential
nomination of the new party pre-
vailed today in talk at headquarters
of the Labor party and the Committee
of Forty-eight.
The Committee of Forty-eight will
open it's convention in the Hotel Nor
rison tomorrow morning. Allen Nc
Curdy of New York, secretary of the
committee. will make the keynote
speech. The Labor party will convene
Sunday.
The executive committee of the
Committee of Forty eight will meet to-
night to plan the final details for the
convention anad probably appoint a
committee to meet with the Labor
party committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
MAY BE SCANDAL
Sensational Charges Expected
in Probe of Missouri Politics.
Senator Reed, Personally Inter-
ested, Takes No Part.
WANT NATION WIDE PRIMARY
Senator Kenyon, of Senate Com
mittee, Recommends Law.
Probe Delays Work Waiting for
Goltra to Arrive.
NATION wide PRIMARY

st. Louis. July 9.-A nationwide
primary law drawn to end large cam
paign expenditures will be recon-
mended by the senate committee in
vestigating presidential primary cam
paign expenses. Chairman Kenyon in
timated here today.
Kenyon and other members of the
committee are here for hearings into
expenditures of Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer and his alleged use of
his position for personal aims.
Expect Sensational Charges.
Charges of a sensational nature have
been filed with the senate committee,
it was learned on good authority as
the committee began its work at 1905
this morning.
1t was rumored that the investiga-
tion of the expenditures of the $4,000
fund which Democratic National Com
mitteeman Edward F. Goltra is al
legged to nave admitted distributing to
twenty-eight delegates to the Demo-
cratic convention at Joplin, Mo, April
%, will bring these charges to light.
Probe GOltra Fund.
1t was said that the Goltra fund is
further into Democratic politics in
Missouri and the charges that influ-
ence and money have combined to
bring about sentiment favorable to a
certain preSlQenI1dl Inc
exact nature of the charges would
not be revealed, but the inference was
drawn that the committee was pre-
pared for a lengthy sitting in St
Louis.
The meeting of the committee was
delayed by the failure of Senator Reed
to put in appearance.
Reed Is Out of It.
In opening the session, Senator
T.
plain to those assembled here that GER
tain matters will come up for investi-
cation which personally concern Sena-
tor Reed. Senator Reed, therefore,
will take no part in these proceedings.
He is sitting here simply to make a
quorum"
Senator Kenyon evidently referred
to the fact that Goltra was instru-
mental in denying Reed seat at the
Democratic national convention.
kilograms were sent, on orders of
the committee, to Goltra, who is be-
lieved on his way east from San Fran
cisco, summoning him to appear be-
fore the committee.
We want Goltra here at once,'
Senator Kenyon said. The investiga-
ton seems to center around him"
Say Money Ousted Reed.
Delegates to the Missouri Demo-
cratic convention which helped oust
Senator James Reed from his national
convention seat, were supplied 'ex-
pense money by two antagonistic fac
tions, one favorable to Attorney Cen
eral A. Mitchell Palmer and the other
to Governor Cox, according to wit
nesses today before the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign expen-
ditures.
Checks signed by Edward F. Goltra,
| Democratic national committeeman
| from Missouri, were given to delegates
to pay their expenses to the Demo-
cratic state convention at Joplin, ac-
| cording to testimony given today by
members of the St. Louis Democratic
committee before the senate commit
tee investigating presidential cam
| paign expenditures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
GONZALES OFFICERS JAILED.
Mexican Government Accuses Them
of Instigating New Revolt.

Washington. July "A number OF
Mexican officers formerly Or the staff
of Pablo Gonzales. a former presiden-
tial candidate under the Carranza
regime. have been imprisoned for plot
ting against the present authorities.
according to unconfirmed reports
reaching the state department thru tbs
American embassy at Mexico City
The state of Chiapas is in open re-
bellion against the new Mexican gov
ernment. according to these advices.
and General Francisco J. Murfuia.
who was defeated for governor In the
state of Miehoacan. was reported to
have rev ted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
He JUST TOOK A RIDE
Topeka 11-Year-OId, Thought to Be
Lost, Rode to Lawrence.


Lost, Rode to Lawrence.
A small 11-year-old boy, dusty and
tired, wearily pedaling his bicycle
down the streets of Lawrence could
have been seen Wednesday evening
after o'clock. The small boy was
Roy, jr., the the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Towne of 1401 MacVicar, for
whom the police and neighbors and
his mother have been searching since
his disappearance Wednesday after
noon. His mother has been nearly
frantic with grief and worry.
This morning a letter addressed to
Mrs. Towne arrived from Lawrence.
1t was written by the young visitor
and told of his arrival there Wednes-
day evening and that he was visiting
friends. He had gone out for a ride
on his wheel Wednesday afternoon
and thinking how nice it would be to
go down to Lawrence and hunt up his
father. who is attending summer
school at the university and also to
visit friends, he had proceeded forth
with to take himself off. His sole as
sets for travelling were a wheel and
one small ten cent piece Arriving IN
Lawrence he spent two cents of his
fund to tell his mother he was all
right. The young traveller will arrive
home this evening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
RAILROADS TO SPEND MILLIONS.
Texas Lines Plan Purchase of Many
New Cars and Engines.

Dallas. Texas, July 9.-Millions OF
dollars will be spent Immediately by
railroads of the southwest to alleviate
the car shortage, railroad officials said
here today.
Eighteen million dollars will be
spent for new equipment by the Santa
Fe railway alone, local officials said.
Orders already have been placed by
this road for fifty new locomotives
5000 gondola cars, $500 refrigerator
cars ana 5000 box cars. it was de-
clared. Passenger, mail and baggage
cars are also included in the recon-
struction program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
Painless Sign
May Cost City
a Painful Sum

Romine's dentistry may be painless,
but his sign, when in state of rapid
descent, is anything but painless, ac-
cording to w. c. Markham, secretary
of the state highway commission, who
was hit by the sign in question and
who now holds the city liable Tor
damages which he alleges he sus-
tanned to the extent of $5.19S.4T.
Markham today filed a claim with the
city clerk for that aamount.
The state official was hit by a large
sign at Eighth and Kansas avenues
March IS. 1920. He claims he suf-
fered injuries. treatment of which cost
S19S.47. He is asking $1,000 damages
for pain, suffering and injury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
MURDERER IS HANGED.
Negro Laughed just as Trap Sprung
Ending His Life.

Dallas, Tex, July Green Hun
ter. alias James Brown, negro, WAS
hanged shortly after II o'clock here
today for criminal assault upon an
aged white woman. Hunter yesterday
confessed to a similar crime in 1912
near Bryan. Texas. Before mounting
the scaffold today, he made long
speech asking members of his race
and others to profit by his example.
Hunter laughed and talked freely
before the trap was sprung. IF I'm
not talking loud enough, tell me- he
said during his speech.
The negro also confessed to the kill
ing of a Mexican at Robstown. Texas.
about two years ago. authorities said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
D'ANNUNzIo IS REPUDIATED.
Influential Citizens of Plume Address
Protest to Italian Government.

Fiume. July 9.-Repudiation of Ga
briele d'Annunzio's authority as COM
mander in Fiume was voiced by q
group of influential Fiumians who
sent a protest today to the national
council against the leaders of the
autonomist party.
Doctor Grossich, the president of
the council. promised to take up the
matter with the poet. to which the
bearers of the protest objected, de-
claring: $50 far as we are concerned
you are our government. We do not
recognize the poets command"
The protest was signed by one hun
dred prominent Fiumians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-09
CoCHRANE STANDS PAT.
VIII Not Release Carpenter for Fight
in U. S. With Dempsey.

London, July 9.-Charles Cochrane
will not release Georges Carpenter
from his contract and will insist upon
the Frenchman fighting in Europe,
the London fight promoter told the
United Press today.
Under no circumstances will re-
lease Descamps and Carpenter from
their contract with me-" Cochrane
said. Furthermore. 1 will insist upon
Carpenters next match being held in
Europe as 1 am not sufficiently famil-
lar with conditions in America. 1 am
prepared to offer Dempsey as much
as anybody but 1 will rigidly hold Car
pentier to his contract" %"