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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
MORE BURGLARY SCARES HERE
Alarms, Real and Fake. Keep Police
on Run Monday Night.

Burglary alarms of both the real
and fake kind kept the police busy
Monday night.
F. Doran, 1885 Harrison street, re-
ported that his house was entered and
a lady's gold watch taken.
At the home of John Craig, 1928
Lane street, burglars cut screen
while the family was away from
home, but were frightened away be-
fore they effected an entrance.
A window in the store at 204 East
Sixth street was broken early this
morning and two pairs of shoes stolen.
A broken skeleton key was found in
the front door at 101 Buchanan street
from whence burglar alarm had
been sent. Alarms came from 1901
Quincy street, 1901 Buchanan street
and 213 Madison street, but investi-
cations failed to reveal burglars. A
suspicious light in the basement al
1903 Van Buren, street and a janitor
who turned on a light in the Dillon
home, Ninth and Harrison streets, re-
suited in fake alarms being 4urned
in to the police.
Officers this morning arrested
Arthur Witchey, 18, Alvin Harper, ID
and Elmer Anderson, IA, accused OF
entering a grocery storA at Fourth
and Lake streets Monday night. They
deny that they entered the store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
new ADDITION TO Topeka
Territory West From Washburn
Avenue May Be incorporated.

Territory West From Washburn
Avenue May Be incorporated.
The city commission today signified
its intention of adding to the city the
territory west from Washburn ave-
nue., along Munson avenue to Ran
dolph avenue, south to Euclid ave-
nue. and thence to Washburn avenue.
No ordinance was passed annexing
the tract, but the commission agreed
that such would be their action, when
Lee Ticehurst, 1247 Wayne street, ap-
peared before the commission asking
for assurance that Ticehurst addition.
lying within those boundaries, is to
be added to the city.
The tract includes Miller's College
Park addition and a part of Euclid
park addition, and is the largest of the
five tracts recommended for addition
to the city recently by the city plan
ming board. The delay in making the
additions is due to the time required
by the city legal department and the
city engine ering department to deter
mine the legality and exact outlines of
the territory involved. A number of
serious objections have been raised
by property owners in the said dis
tricts, against being taken into the
city, principally on the ground of their
not desiring to pay the city taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
AS Usual, State LalDs
Are Enforced IN Topeka
But Not in Other. Cities
"Baby Marie Osborne Famous Child Star of Screen
Appeared Without. Trouble in Wichita-In Topeka She
Could Not Be Shown to Admiring Movie Fans

Baby Marie Osborne" made short
stay in Topeka Monday. Know Baby
Marie ?" For several years she has
been the child star of the films and
many of the screen fans were wild
about her. Nobody but her mother
and her manager was wild during her
stay here, however-cause why-be-
cause the child labor board refused to
let the infant prodigy make her bow
to the public from the stage of the
Grand theater.
"Baby Marie" wanted to stage a
personal appearance" act at the
Grand and opened negotia tions thru
her manager for the event with Man
ager H. E. Uhlrich, but the latter's
memory OF the a'.Dixy- Dolr' decision in
connection with tine North Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
But United States Does Not
Threaten Panama.
Feared Certain Interests Try to
Arouse Revolution.
PRESIDENT PORIAS STANDS PAT
DefieS Political Enemies Who
Demand Resignation.
Disputed Territory Ordered
Ceded to Costa Rica.

Washington, Aug. 23.-The United
States has dispatched a note to Pan
anna announcing that this government
will look with disfavor upon any re-
sumption of hostilities between Pan
anna and Costa Rica over disputed
territory and calling upon Panama ~
cede to Costa Rica the territory which
was awarded that country under the
White award, it>was announced at the
state department toda-
U. S. Note Is Firm.
The note of the United States was
couched in firm tones. it is under
stood, but made no threats. 1t was in
reply to a. note received yesterday
from Panama.
Panama announced in it's note to
the United States that if Costa Rica
presented an ultimatum demanding
the cession of the disputed territory
and backed this ultimatum with force.
that the republic of Panama would
feel it incumbent to resist.
The note went on. however, to de-
clare that if the United States called
upon Panama to cede the disputed
territory to Costa Rica that the re-
public of Panama would feel it must
accede to the wishes of this nation
lieve the effect of the note to Pam
anna will be a peaceful transfer of the
disputed territory.
Try to Stir Revolt.
New York, Aug. 23.-Strong politi-
cal interests in Panama hostile to
President Portias and inimical to the
| influence of the United States over the
Panama government. are attempting
to utilize the present territorial dis
pute between Panama and Costa Rica
| to precippitate an uprising, it was
| learned here today from authorita-
/ tive sources.
The United States government
which has ordered Panama to- cede
| to Costa Rica the frontier district in
question, is fully aware of the, tense
: situation in the Central American re-
public.
In the event of an insurrectien, II
! is accepted as a, fact that the United
States will give arms support to the
Porias administration.
| Panama City, Aug. z3.-wfth' nego-
| tiations between Panama and the
United States still pending over the
Panama Costa Rican boundary dis
pute, this republic has completed its
military measures to defend the ter
ritory in question if Costa R;ca at
ltempts to take it by force.
=; President Porias of Panama, is de-
flying his political enemies and in an
swer to their demands for his resigna-
tion, announced that he would not re-
tire from the presidency under any
circumstances.
| :. .Anti-American feeling which was
running at high fever over the week
end is subsiding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23

chautauqua was too fresh. He was
doubtful and passed the buck"
Sure enough. the board, strict in its
enforcement of the law which says
that ne child under fourteen years of
age shall be employed in any theater,
turned over the mat before Topeka s
door
Baby Marie" unheralded and al
most unseen, passed on to Kansas
City. where she Will be seen next week
at the Newman tAeater. She left with
an expression of wonder upon her
face, however, and not without rea-
son. She had just completed an en-
gagement in theater at Wichita,
which she had been given to under
stand was in Kansas just the same as
is Topeka and where supposedly the
same laws apply. --s--.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
NEAR The CENTURY MARK
Monday Was the. Hottest Day of the
Ycar-Temperature of 9S Today.
ODAY'S TEMPERATURES.

Another typical August sizzler to-
day! At o'clock this afternoon the
thermometer reached 9S OF within one
degree of the hottest daysof the year.
Monday was the hottest day. of tie
year. the mercury reaching SO at 80
O'Clock. The temperature during the
;ast twenty-four hours has -avcra ged
Il degrees above normal. The, lowest
temperature in Topeka was 20 at 6
o clock this morning.
Hanover reported a temperature of
1O6 yesterday, ewh hich was the highest
in the United States The lowest in
tn state was Sc at Scott City AMI the
lowest in the country was 46 at S1er{-
dan, Wyoming, and Williston, North
Dab ota.
\ No rainfall was reported in Kansas
during the last twenty-four hours.
Tho highest temperature in Topeka
ICnntinned on Page THo.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
SUPPER HURRIED VERDICT
st. joe WOmcn's Jury Did Not Wait
for Their Free Meal.

st. Joseph, Mo, Aug 23.-Attorneys
were perfectly willing here today to
have all cases tried by women juries
in future. Yesterday. the first jury
OF women ever to sit in Judgment in
the courts of Missouri, heard a case in
Justice J. w. Wilson's court and
promptly returned a verdict of not
guilty in a malicious destruction of
property case.
The trial occupied the entire day
and the women retired to consider
a verdict at o clock. Attorneys were
surprised at the short delibera tions.
It was pointed out that men juries
who retire at about that hour. gen
orally hold out until they get a meal
at the taxpayers expense.
But the women did nothing of the
sort. They hurried back with their
verdict and then hurried home to get
their husbands supper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
BRAVE SON SAVED HER
E;x- Husband of X. c. Woman Pre-
vented From Staying by Boy.

Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 23.-Shot
twice and in a serious condition in a
hospital, Mrs. Pearl Moree, 5S, owed
her life today to the bravery of her
l13-year-old son, Gilbert Strange. Late
yesterday her husband. w. c. Moree,
AZ, from whom she separated five
months ago. entered her home and
drew revolver.
The youth grappled with his step
father and clung to him as the en-
ragged man fired two shots which took
effect in the right breast and hand OF
the woman. Moree then fired one
shot at the boy but missed and then
turned the weapon on himself.
The bullet lodged in Moree's neck
but the wound is not serious. Moree
was arrested and will be charged with
attempted murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
TYPHOID PATIENTS IN PETITION
Wichita Sick Want Mix law Enforced
and Inspector Removed.

Wichita. Aug. 23.-Typhoid fever
patients here have signed petitions.
circulated sby the league of women
voters, asking the city commission to
enforce the present milk ordinance
and to remove the present milk in
spector, F. L. Puxtable.
Members of the league who ecu
lated the petitions charge that few
days prior to the ,pidemic on cer-
tain dairy route here upon which sew
enty cases developed. the dairy was in
spected and the owner was not in
formed that uns1nitary con 1Itions
prevailed. All but three Of the more
than 100 patients in the city signed
the petitions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
Father; S Ashes
Throun To Wind
5000 Feet Up

New York. Aug. 23.-Flying at an
altitude of 5000 feet over Long Island
sound. Charles F. Haight unfolded an
American flag containing the ashes Of
his father. Charles F. Haight and
scattered them to the winds.
The ceremony was viewed from the
ground by the widow and two other
! children The unique disposal of the
ashes was in accordance with Mr.
Haight's wishes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
EXPECT WAGE DECISION TODAY
Chiefs of "Big Four Holding Confer
ence on Federal Board Rulings.

Cleveland, Aug. "a decision is
expected to be reached today by the
executive of the big four" railroad
brotherhoods as to the attitude of the
unions upon wage reductions ordered
by the railway labor board
Chiefs of the four organizations are
in conference today at the offices of
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the
engineers, and definite announce
mem, is expected before night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
WITHDRAW STATE TROOPS.
End of Textile Disorders Seen n
North Carolina District.

AsheviHe, n c., Aug. 2s.-Official
recognition of the ending of. textile
strike disorders in Cabarrus county
was seen today in Governor Morrison's
order directing. the withdrawal OF
troops which had been on duty thsrO.
Il have confidence, in the people OF
the county upholding local officers
in executing the law" the governor
said in his message to AdJutant Gem
: eraI Mefta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
Beer Price Cut-In Canada.

Victoria, b. c., Aug. 2s.-The
provincial liquor board has an
nounced that the price of beer
would be reduced from $500 per
dozen quarts to $3.50. and from 40
cents a single quart to 80 cents, it
was learned today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
PLAY HONEYMOON SPECIAL "

NTarshalrs Band in Feature Event at
Gage Park. -
Marshalls band will give munich
pal concert at Gage park at 8 O'Clock
Wednesday evening. An interesting
program has been prepared, the fea-
ture of which will be Bob McGiffert's
Honeymoon Special Commissioner
McGiffert and his bookkeeper, Miss
Frances Lowe, were recently married
and who have just returned from
their honeymoon trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
HEAR BANTA CASE SEPT. 2
Two Great Bend Men Facing Murder
Charges Given Bail.

Great Bend. Kan, Aug. 23.-Dr. w.
Nixon and Roy Hayes. held in con-
nection with the mysterious murder
of Attorney Arthur Banta, will face a
preliminary hearing on. September g
it was announced here today.
Late yesterday bond was fixed in
the sum CT $25.000 each for the de-
PENDANTS. 1t was expected that it
would be approved today and the men
released.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23

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New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
By George E. Hyde
patch to The Tibun

Speciol Cable Dispatch to The Tribune
Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21.-Several
thousand laborers have taken posses
sion of lands and properties in the
vicinity of the city of Puebla with the
avowed intention OF establishing a
soviet, according to press dispatches
received in the capital to-day. The
red and black flag of the proletariat
is flying from the positions occupied
and the laborers are reported cheering
for Governor Sanchez.
international complications are
feared, since most OF the properties
seized belong to Spanish subjects and
one of them previously had been placed
in the hands of the Spanish Consu. in
order to assure it against confiscattcn
The laborers yesterday tried to seize
several Spanish factories, but desisted
when they discovered that troops under
General Elizondo were defending tllem
Governor Sanchez is reported to DE
supporting the laborers against Ell
condo, though the latter has made no
effort to expel the laborers from the
lands they have occupied.
Governor Sanchez visited the posi-
tons yesterday in his car, flying the
red and blacfl iag. and was loudly
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
soc. Rip 81 Years Ago
Brings Tailor $500 600
Tronser-Mending Job on Credit
Remembered by Penniless
Man Who Grew Rich
Special Disrctch 10 The Tribune

Spectdi DfSTctch 70 The Tribune
CHICAGO. Dec. 2l--A few stitches
taken in pair of torn trousers thirty
four years ago has netted Archibald
Birse, q tailor, $4,000. The money
represents the residue of the estate Of
Ernest De St. Giles, insurance expert
and author. who died last week.
According to Birse, thirty-four wears
ago st. Giles came to Chicago and en-
barked upon insurance ventures. He
found himself one day penniless ard
with ragged rent in his trousers. He
went to birse and asked him TO sew
the rip and trust him for payment
Eirse did SO. The charge was so cents
st. Giles returned in few days with
the money. thus beginning a friend
ship that ended only in his death and
resulted in the baquest A niece. the
Hife OF Professor Achille Jultien. Of
Plourin-les Mcrlaix, France, receives
$4,000
De st. Giles was bachelor. He left
his native country at the age of
twenty. After teaching languages in
Oxford, Cambridge and London uniyer-
sites ne went to Canada, and later to
Racine, Wis, where he taught Ian
gusges in Racine College. In 1886 he
went into the life insurance busines IS
here. where he made the greater part
OF his fortune.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
Transit Board
Plans Tunnel to
Staten Island
Direct Route From Rich
mOnd to Manhattan Via
Bay Ridge Among First
OF Subway improvements
Traction Plan Censured
Flexible Fare and Proposed
Board of Control Are At
tackled. by the City Club

Ohcial announcement was made yes
terday by the Transit Commission of
us purpose to bring Staten Island traf-
nc directly to Manhattan by means
OF passenger tunnel that will connect
with the Fourth Avenue subway of the
b. K. T. system in the Bav RIDGE
district of Brooklyn.
The building of this tube is to have
forward position in the vast program
Oh subway construction and improve
ment planned by the commission. It il
coupled with the commissions aim +o
es0aollsh method of transfer and ex-
change which would put Staten Island
upon tive-cent fare basis in common
With the rest of the city. Linking of
the existing trolley lines with the steam
INES OF the Staten Island Rapid Tran
Slt company also is contemplated
McAneny Outlines Plan
discussion at Yesterdays +rsns;+
hearing of the long-felt need of rai;at "I;,
Tor Staten Island brought from Chair-
man George McAneny a definite state
ment OF the commissions plans in this
direction. George Cromwell. fornas m rmas
Borough President of Richmond had
declared that the crowding Of E tha
Ierryboats was increasing almost at
the same rate as that of the subway
trains and that if the five borough citv
was TO be fact Richmond must he
more Intimately connected up with
otner parts of the city.
Il think we may very proner]v IN.
form you," said Chairman McAynenv My NV
mat 1T is our present purpose to IN
clude passenger tunnel to Staten Isl
and. We are prepared, if the finds
are properly available, to 90 ahead
with the construction of such a tnnnaI
whether freight tunnel is built or
not, we are not prepared to mt onr
passenger Sge traffic in a freight tunnel.
=, me commission understands that
che engineers of the Port Authority
were S.n OF the opinion that it would be
alIlhcult, even impossible, to carry out
Ihe purposes of the Smith act and
handle both freight and passenger traf-
nc IN the same tube. That is the very
strong. conviction of our own enpi-
neerS"
Complication in Situation
-, Chairman McAneny pointed out that
Inc SITUATION was somewhat compli-
easea Sa,;., ny the fact that, although the
smith bill contemplates the linkinp
up OF such tunnel with the citv,s
transit system on the one hand and
with port development on the other.
the Transit Commission had had no
communication from the Board of Esti-
mate with relation to the means
through which it might be fitted for
passenger traffic.
Concluding series of public hear
ings extending over month, during
which the financial and operating con-
ditions of all the transit lines were
gone into, the commission yesterday
adjourned until after the HOLIDAYS.
Early in January it will hold public
hearings on the valuations to be fixed
on the traction properties which it
proposes to consolidate. The statutory
plan is expected to be completed about
the end of next month.
The commission wound up its pre-
llmlnary investigation by hearing fur
ther comments on the tentative plan
Continued page four)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
Two Women Killed by
Blastin Shopping Throng
IS Hurt When Natural Gas Ex-
plosion Crumbles Walls in
Columbus Store

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec, 21. - Two
women were dead and thirty-fiv in
jured persons were in hospitals here
tonight, the result of an explosion of
natural gas which partly wrecked
Wright's Womens Furnishing Store,
in the downtown section, late to-day
Several of the injured, crushed by
falling walls and floors of the three
story structure, were said by physi-
clans to be probably fatally hurt
The dead are Mrs. Barbara Carl, of
Columbus, and an unidentified woman.
Mrs. Carl's husband, Alton Carl, is
in Newark, N. J..
The explosion, which occurred shortly
before o'clock, while the store was
crowded with Christmas choppers, was
said by tiremen to have been caused
by leak in q gas main under the side
walk, which allowed the fumes to enter
the basement of the store, where they
were ignited by furnace.
The force of the blast broke windows
block distant and tore up portion
of the street and sidewalk, demolishing
several automobiles parked nearby.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
Dives From Speeding Train to
Save Boy, Who Dies i'm Hospital

jeremiah Driscoll, fireman of the
4:20 passenger train out Of st. George,
Staten Island, divod from his engine
yesterday into Bodine's Greek and
risked his life to rescue William AL
exandcr, a schoolboy of 20 Trinity
Place, West New Brighton. who had
been hurled into fifteen feet of water
by the engine pilot. The train was run
nlng twenty-five miles an hour when
Driscoll jumped
Engineer Henry, his head out of the
cab window, did not see Driscoll leave
the engine. He ran on almost a mile
before the train was stopped. When it
backed up to the bridge crossing Bo-
dimes Greek Driscoll was sitting on q
stringer at the creek edge, holding
young Alexander, who was unconscious.
IN his arms. The boy was taken to St.
Vlncent's Hospital, where it was found
that bis skull was fractured. He died
an hour later.
Fifty passengers on the train cheercd
Drlscoll as he remounted his engine in
wet clothing and continued the run.
The fireman was on the coal pie in
the tender when he saw Alexander
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
; Rescued i'm
Fishing Boat
Blown to Sea
Pilot Craft Braving Storm
and Darkness Answers
Call of Lighthouse Ship,
Saves Two Men and Boy
Engine Goes Dead i'm Gale
Herbert III Goes Down After
Bronx Owners Are Taken
OFF by the Sandy Hook

Two men and a boy drifting out to
sea IN motor boat in last nights Bit
ter gale we're rescued out beyond the
Ambrose Channel lightship by CAPTAIN
John Bolt, who overhauled them in
the pilot boat Sandy Hook. The police
boat John F. Hylan, which also went
to the rescue, reported by wireless
that owing to the heavy seas and the
condition of those taken from the
motor boat, no attempt would be made
to transship them.
Those taken from the motor boat
shortly before it foundered were Otto
Walfher, John Burgstone and Burg
stones son, all of whom live at 1882
Stebbins Avenue, The Bronx. It is
believed they were fishing at the edge
OF the channel when the gale hit them.
They were in the forty-footer, Her
bert II. How long they had been bat
tling with the gale is not known. 1t
was about 10 o'clock when the watch
on the lightship saw the little boat
sweeping for the open ocean under the
impulse of the gale. The engine was
dead and only a feeble light showed
aboard when the boat topped a roller.
So heavy sea was running that it
was out of the question to try to
launch boat from the lghtship,
which, stanch craft that it is, was bob
bing about like a cork at its moorings
and bringing up after every heave with
a jolt which sent spray the length of
its deck.
A wireless message telling of tie
plight OF the motor boat was sent
from the lightship and was picked up
at Police Headquarters. The John F.
Hylan, with Sergeant Ellis at the
wheel, raced down the Narrows and
across the outer bay to seek in the
murk and storm for the stray.
In the meantime another message
had been sent from the lightship say
ing that the pilot-boat Sandy Hook
boat.
How Captain Bolt found his drifting
objective in the heaving blackness out
brief message telling of the rescue,
which was received early this morning.
He managed it, however, about mid
night.
The Herbert H., it was said, went
down soon after the rescue of the
three persons on board
New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
White House Candles
Vetoed by Safety First
President Acts ON Suggestion
Sent by N. Y. Fire Preven-
ton Association

There will be no candle illumination
in the Whi.e House at Washington this
Christmas Eve.
This was decided yesterday after
President ha,a;iix had considered
telegram sent to him yesterday by
George P. Muldaur, general agent for
the Safety Underwriters Laboratories
an organization formed to foster means
for fire prevention. The Muldaur tele-
gram read:
"To-day's Washington dispatches an
nounce that the White House windows
will be adorned with lighted candles
Christmas Eve. For the sake of the
example, we earnestly appeal to you
not to carry out this plan. Its general
practice would turn Christmas Dav
into one of mourning in many homes
and add to the country's appalling fire
loss, which last year claimed $4,000
lives and S500,000000 in property
Secretary Christian, answering the
message for the President, said:
There will be no lighted candles IL
the White House windows The Presi-
dent would not approve an example you
believe SO fraught with danger"