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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
BY union
Butchers May Bring Proceed
ings Against Wolff Packing Co.
Charge That Workers Were
Discharged without Cause.

Officers of the Butchers union may
seek criminal proceedings against Off
GERS of the Wolff Packing company,
under a provision of the industrial
court act. National Organizer H. A.
Bostic today conferred with attorneys
and members of the court of industrial
relations regarding an action under a
section of the law prohibiting dis
charge of employees who are dismissed
because they gave testimony in a case
before the court.
Several Employees Discharged.
1t is the contention of union work
ers that several employees were dropped
from the pay rolls because they testi-
fled in a recent wage case before the
industrial court. An appeal from the
decision of the industrial court is nov
pending before the supreme court 1t
is alleged by union meat cutters that
several of their leaders lost their jobs
because of activity in bringing the suit
and in providing testimony.
There is a specific provision of the
industrial court law prohibiting dis
charge of employees WHO testify. I'm
der a criminal section of the law the
employees are said to have today
threatened to invoke application of the
act in a suit in the Shawnee county
district court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
SLOW ON REFORM
Taxes and Tariff Not Getting
Swift Attention.
Heat in Washington Slows
LabOrs of Congress.
LONG DEBATE is AHEAD
New Taxes Not in Effect Until
January 1.
Despite Rush, Summer Recess
Is Almost Certainty.

Warrington, May 31.-The main
purpose of the special session of con-
gress was to revise the tariff and
tighten the tax burdens, but according
to conservative estimates today, these
tasks will not be completed before late
next fall.
The house ways and means commit
tee has been framing the permanent
tariff bill for two months, has struck
several big snags and hopes that the
measure would be reported to the
house by June 1 has been blasted COM
pletely. Chairman Fordney now
thinks that the bill may be ready by
June Is but other members doubt If
it will be reported by July Is.
Months Fight Ahead.
The house will fight over it for at
least month. The last big tariff bill
required five weeks to debate before it
was sent to the senate. By August l.
both houses probably will be COM
planning of the Washington heat and
it will be difficult to prevent a recess
of from four to six weeks.
It is admitted that little work can
be done by the ways and means COM
mittee toward modifying. the tax laws
while the tariff bill is on the floor
The committee may stay in session
during august Tor this purpose, but
even then it would be most difficult to
pass both the tax and the tariff meas
ures by December 1, the opening of
the regular session.
New Taxes january 4.
In fact. some members believe con-
gress will be showing good speed as
the result of its past slow progress. if
the taxes are ready to go into effect
January 1.
The ways and means committee is
at present finding the chemical, cot
ton. aluminium and other tariff sched-
ules are knotty problems to solve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
Husband UnIoads Netu
Scandal Charges Against
His Chorus Girl Spouse
Joyce Charges Peggy Drove Army Officer Suicide
by Her Extravagance-Has Already Cost
Him. ST. 1893, 1862.

tanned in the answer of the wealthy
lumberman to her petition for $40
600 a month alimony and 100000 for
attorneys fees.
Hearing on the petition is set for
next Thursday. Mr.. Joyce charges
his wife was guilty of bigamy when
she married Sherburne Philbrick
Hopkins at Belair, Md, September /,
1913. Her divorce from Everett A.
Archibald, jr., of Denver, was not en-
tered until fourteen months later, the
answer asserts.
Drove Officer to Suicide.
Neither the said Archibald nor
the said Hopkins was a man of any
means the answer said, adding that
at the time MrS Joyce married Archi-
bald she had been a telephone opera
tor and was a manicure in a Rich
mond. Va, hotel when she married
Hopkins.
''As an actress Joyce declares in
his bill. Peggy was never a financial
or artistic success"
The answer charges that Mrs. Joyce
drove a lieutenant in the United States
army to suicide by heaping debts on
him while they were living in New
York. The officer shot himself to
death wilhelm a Turkish bath in the
fall of 1918, the bill states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
WHEAT CROP HARD HIT
Division Freight Agent of Rock Island
Says Crop Will Be Light.

Says Crop Will Be Light.
Wheat in the central and western
portions of the state has already been
damaged beyond hope of revival by
the rains which may come in the
future. E. H. Strain, division freight
agent for the Rock Island, believes.
Strain made a trip as far west as
Phillpsburg Saturday and Sunday.
In his last weekly crop report he
estimated the probable yield of wheat
for the state this year at less than
80,000,000 bushels, and he Is inclined
to believe today that that estimate is
high.
II think Mohler and all the rest of
them are putting their figures too
high" Strain said today. Here in the
.Kaw valley wheat is not going to yield
more than fifteen to twenty bushels to
the acre, and out in the central and
western portions-the real producing
area of the state-the crop is going to
be much lighter"
The local rains which fell Sunday
and Monday will relieve the situation
somewhat, but they came too late to
insure more than a very sparse cut
ting of wheat, Strain believes.
The Rock Island cars for the move
ment of Kansas wheat are waiting at
the east end of the system. and will
not start to move west till the cante-
loupe crop starts to move east from
California and Colorado, Strain said
today.
I'VE get the canteloupes in trainload
lots and we will not need the wheat
cars till after the canteloupes have
been moved he asserted. Wen use
the power which moves the cante-
loupes east to bring back the empty
cars for the wheat. and save coal and
dollars thereby"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
WAR CLOUDS ARE
LOWERING IN The
BALKANS AGAIN
Greeks, Serbs and Albanian Ir-
regulars Threaten Conflict.
More Territory Aim of Each
Nation Involved.
CRISIS COMING RAPIDLY
Italian Government Fears Al
lies Cannot Intervene in Time.
All Strong Points Are Held by
Greek Bands.
More Territory Aim of Each
Nation Involved.
CRISIS COMING RAPIDLY

Rome, May 31.-Sweeping down
from the highlands of Macedonia and
Albania, great bands of irregular SOL
diers today are threatening to start
another Balkan war which may in
volve all of Europe
The fighters-almost bandits in
their mode of warfare, but driven by
strong nationalist feeling - entered
foreign countries Pillage and arson
marked their trail. The governments
thus taunted Immediately planned to
raise forces to combat them.
Three Nations Involved.
The old Balkan troubles were in
volved in the fighting. Greece wants
more land to the north; Bulgaria
wants to reclaim some of the territory
lost in the war. and Serbia wants to
retain her newly won lands.
Latest advices received here showed
the situation especially critical in
Macedonia and Albania, whose prob
lens were not solved by the treaties
or st. German and Sevres
Reports showed that large bands of
ComltaJis Grregulars) have been re-
cruited thruout the Balkans, almost
every portion of the war torn region
having contributed its share of fight
ing men. The governments back of
them either are arming to protect
their legitimate interests or are pre-
pairing to back the Comitajis from
their own country in an effort to ex-
tend their boundaries.
Greeks Hold Strong Points.
Officials here feared that before
the allied supreme council or the
League of Nations can intervene, the
Comitajis will clash with regular
military forces and start the conflict
which may embroil not only the Bal
kans but spread thru Europe.
The danger in Albania is due to the
fact that the Greeks have occupied
strategic points commanding the two
| most important Albanian cities, Ko-
rita and Argirocastro, while the
Serbians are holding the River Drin
in northeastern Albania. The Alban-
ians, altho intending no offensive
| themselves, are mobilizing to prevent
further occupation.
AIbanians Resist Greeks.
The most serious phase of the situa-
ton is believed to be that resulting
from the Greeks initiative. They
claim KoritZa and Argiroscastro be-
cause of alleged allied promises TO
| former Premier Venizelos for Greece's
services to the entente. Because of
the reverses they have suffered in
their offensive against the Turks in
Asia Minor, the Greeks are extremely,
anxious to annex the two cities and
thus re-establish King Constantine's
prestige. The Albanians are deter
| mined to resist this effort.
In northeastern Albania, the Serbian
Comitajis continue to raid toward long
coveted Scutari.
There is similarly critical situation
in Serbian Macedonia, where Bulgar-
| ian Comitajis have been encroaching
on both Serbia and Greek territory.
They are likely to clash at any time
| with the regular frontier guards, pro-
voking an open war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31

Chicago, May 31-J Stanley Joyce.
Chicago millionaire, turned another
barrage of scandal on Peggy" Joyce.
his actress wife, today when the third
husband of the charuing Peggy
filed an answer to the petition of his
wife for divorce.
The luxury of Peggy" as a wife
cost Joyce exactly $1.398, 1852, he
said in his petition. Joyce's side of
the story charges Peggy with gross
extravaganza in buying everything she
laid her pretty blue eyes upon.
Employed ''Stage Aunt"
From commonplace money matters,
the husband turned to men. He re-
iterated his charge that Peggy" fit
ter about with celebrities on both
sides of the Atlantic.
He charges that Peggy and a
stage aunt" named Ida NJ. Smart.
whom she associated with in her
amorous undertakings, conspired to-
gether to cause him to become en-
gagged to Peggy Hopkins at Colorado
Springs in the fall Of 1919 when she
was still the wife of Philbrick Hop
kins."
Others Not Millionaires.
Denial that Peggy" Hopkins Joyce.
his chorus girl wife, had had two pre-
vious millionaire husbands is also con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
Wife Beater Is
GiUen Second
Beating by Mob

Newburgh, N. Y, May 31.-The
Rev. Bouck White, radical agitator
and former pastor, has added another
beating and ducking to the program
of punishment being meted out to him
by the villagers of Marlboro because
of his difficulties with his French
bride, 1t was learned here today.
Four of the ''vigilantes' again called
at Whites home in automobiles and
took him to Orange Lake, twelve
miles away. where they ducked him.
From there they went to Walden, six
miles from Marlboro, and tied him to
a tree while they debated what should
be the next step. They finally decided
on horsewhipping. Afterwards, he
was taken back to his home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY
Auditorium Filled at Exercises Mon
day Afternoon. =.

day Afternoon. s..5s l..---.---lz
The spirit which sent the soldiers of
1861 into the field to stop slavery
came down to the soldiers of the
United States in the World War, and
animated the doughboys in the fields
of France and Flanders, Justice John
Marshall declared Monday afternoon
at the Memorial Day exercises at the
city auditorium, which followed the
monster parade.
The veteran turist declared that the
history of the United States would
some day date from the end of the
Civil war, when the United States
really became a unified nation.
The auditorium was filled with men
who have served their country under
arms, and the friends and relatives
who served at home.
The parade up Kansas avenue was
headed by nearly 100 veterans of the
Civil war-more than there were of
the veterans of the Spanish American
and World Wars. Most of the mem
oers of the G. A. r. were on foot, only
a few of them taking advantage of the
motor cars which were at their dis
posal.
The nine-division parade was the
most spectacular feature of the days
events, and crowd lined Kansas ave-
nue. from the starting point at Fourth
street, to the point at Tenth avenue,
where all but the veterans opened
ranks and reviewed the G. A. r.
Comrade J. W. Priddy, of Blue Post
No. 250. G. A. r.. presided at the
meeting at the auditorium. He was
introduced by NJ. r. Hail. chairman
of the committee of the Sons of Vet
Grams.
At the auditorium, the Civil war
vet terGns occupied a reserved section
az tho front. There were represented
the Lincoln Post. Blue Post, Topeka
PCst and Fort Pillow Post.
Ono of the features of the exercises
wa: the singing of kansas, Dear Old
Kansas" written for the occasion by
G.. f. Stawitz, an employe at the post
office. The song was sung by Miss
Marguerite Gohlke.
| There are many states IN old America
And we all have one we call our home;
Some like north and west,
Some like east the best.
/ But here's one state, I'll claim for all my
! own.
CHORUS
| Kansas. Dear Old Kansas.
Where the corn and pumpkins grow,
| l am dreaming. always scheming
To return to that lovely land / know;
! Mid the golden wheatfields
Waits a girl with heart SO true.
Now I'm yearning, to be returning.
\ To Kansas, where skies are always blue
! Out in Kansas. where the golden sun
: flowers stand
| In their splenaor, beautiful and bright,
1 Waving fields of corn
| Nod to you each morn.
! They greet you and fill you with delight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
HIS MOVE NEXT
ObregOn's Reply to c. s. Memo
May Smooth Way.
Ultimate Recognition of His
Administration Imminent.
TEXANS ARE ANXIOUS
Send Plea to Washington for
Mexican Recognition.
American Representative in
Conference With Obregon.

Washington, May 31.-President
Obregon of Mexico will accept the
American memorandum on the Ques-
ton of recognition as a basis for
day by advisers of the Mexican presi-
dent
The exchanges which now are ex-
pected to follow between the two gov
ernments will soon develop an under
standing that will prompt the United
States to recognize the Obregon gov
ernment, it was also believed in these
quarters
The next move by Mexico, it is
thought, will be reply from President
Obregon to the communication or
memorandum from Secretary Hughes
which was presented by George T.
Summerlin, charge of the American
embassy in Mexico City. Observers
here think that if this is satisfactory,
American recognition may be extended
forthwith.
Obregon Is Satisfied.
Dispatches from Mexico City were
regarded today as having definitely
established that the American memo
randum did not demand signature of
written guarantees in a protocol or
like document as a condition to recog-
milton, and that it did not embody the
recommendations of the Fall report
for dealing with Mexico as one press
hoSOSAdAAOt ISpOIISo III S4NlIR what
purported to be the nature of the
memorandum.
Dispatches from Mexico City also
indicated Obregon was satisfied with
the American communication.
American in Conference.
Mexico City, May 31.-Presiderr
Obregon and George Summerlin
American charge, held long and
friendly conversation at the palace
yesterday, when SummerIin attended a
reception for the newly appointed
minister of Spain.
Neither would comment on the sub
ject under discussion. but it was as
sunfeG that relations between the VIC
countries figured in it.
Texans Send Plea.
Waco, Tex, May 31.-Seventy-f five
Waco and Texas business men III Z
telt gram to Secretary of State Hughes
today urged that the United state.
] government extend recognition of III,
present government of Mexico III,
business men returned today from I
| tour of the southern republic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
TWO MILLION ARE
WAITING FOR R,R.
WAGE REDUCTION
Federal Board Decision To Be
Announced Wednesday.
Expected to Cut S4OO,OOO,0OO
on Pay Rolls.
HITS SKILLED men TOO
Union Head Demands Rate Cat
at Same Time.
Thousand Alton Men Called
Back to Jobs.

Chicago, May 31.-Two million rail
employees were waiting today for the
decision of the United States railroad
labor board which is expected to lake
about $400,000,0O0 a year from tneir
pay envelopes.
The board announced today that it's
decision would be made public in to-
morrow mornings newspapers. Aitho
the cut applies to just common lahor,
it is expected decreases will be made
in the pay of skilled employees soon.
The board today was swamped with
petitions from railroads asking per-
mission to slash wages under the new
ruling. The ruling of the board will
e1d a long fight between employcs
tertury, vice president of the Penn
sylvenia lines Atterbury, several
months ago. petitioned that wages of
common labor be trimmed.
Want Rate Cuts, Too.
Washington, May 31.-A demand
that the proposed cut in railroad
wages be accompanied by a reduction
veeeta bles was made today by J. j.
Malicy, vice president of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Shop Laborers.
'E undreds of thousands of dollars
worth of fruit and vegetables cannot
of high rail rates and are rotting in
California" Malloy said in a state
mot.
IF the railroad executives, who
have been talking so much are acting
in good faith, it will be up to them
June 1, when wage cuts are an
nounced, to show it by reducing
freight rates proportionately. If rates
from the Pacific coast were not un-
reasonable, fruit and vegetables would
flood the eastern markets, thus ma
teriaIly reducing the cost of living
sCheaper food is a big issue and there
are too many starving people today
to allow such terrible waste as is tc
be seen on California farms and
orchards.
Now that the wages are about tc
be cut, labor calls their bluff. Cost OF
living cannot go down until freight
rates are lower. If the railroad Ia
borers are forced to suffer cut ir
wages, they demand that the cost OF
living be lowered in order that they
and their families may live"
Alton Lays Off Thousand.
Bloomington. Ill, May 31.-Ont
thousand mechanics, who were laie
off April rs, "due to business depres
sion" returned to work in the Chica sc
& Alton railroad shops here today
Another thousand men will return Il
work tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
Much-Kissed Hobson
Says Papers In Plot
Spanish War Hero Declares Press
Trying to Make Public Believe Pro-
hibitIon Cannot Be Enforced.

ST. Louis, May 31.-The press of the
United States today stood indicted by
Richmond Pearson Hobson, former
congressman and war hero, as the ally
of the nations liquor interests in their
efforts to overthrow the eighteenth
amendment Hobson. in an address
here last night said:
The newspapers are in concerted
effort to make the people believe the
eighteenth amendment cannot be en-
forced. They attack the constitution
of the United States. Crime is de-
creasing. but in accordance with their
propaganda. newspapers continue to
give publicity to crime and criminals
all to discredit prohibition
Hobson declared the world would be
dry in five years and that we should
have heaven on earth"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
COLLECT INHERITANCE TAX
Butler County Makes Largest Indi-
viduaI Payments in May.

Inheritance tax collections by the
state during May amounted to $2S,-
361.51, according to a statement today
by N. A. Turner, state auditor. Dur
ing the eleven months of the present
fiscal year a total of $549,916.04 has
been collected under the inheritance
tax law.
Butler county made the largest in
dividual payment to the fund during
May. Its payment amounted to Sll,-
S02.4O. Dickinson county paid in a
total of S2,891.7O; Riley county, ST.
477.74; and Saline county, s1,44S.41.
New York state paid in $1.S9S.61 from
Kansas securities on estates in that
state. California paid $1,SS6.41 and
New Jersey, $1,324.93.
Collections previous to May-in-
cluding the big Henry C. Frick, estate
amounted to 1921, ,554.53.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
ANOTHER HOWAT APPEAL
Mine Union Leader Seeks, Reversal of
Crawford County Injunction Case.

Another Alexander Howat appeal
reached the supreme court today when
the mine union leader and 154 of his
fellow workers sought reversal of an
injunction against strike as issued by
the Crawford county district court.
The injunction affected Howat and
many of the state and district officers
of the Mine Workers union in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties.
The appeal is the third Howat case
TO reach the state supreme court. One
case-involving constitutionality of
certain phases of the industrial court
law-was affirmed by the state SUI
preme court and is now pending on an
appeal to the United States supreme
court. A second case was submitted
recently and may be decided by the
court in June. The third appeal in
volved the injunction issued by Judge
Curran of the Crawford county district
court in September, 1920.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
ALMOST READY FOR CHARTER
Board of Directors of Hotel Plan
Working on Articles.

Application for a. charter for the
new hotel company of Topeka is near
ing completion in the office of Col.
John 5. Dean, who was appointed by
the board of directors of the project
to 6raw up articles of Incorporation
and an application.
The application will probably not be
ready to submit to the state charter
board before Thursday of this wsek,
howeve
There will probably be nothing for
the directors to do until the charter
hls been granted, o. B. Cutler. TEN
pCrary chairman of the board, said
tocay. I'VE will just have to mark
time until the articles of corporation
are drawn up and the charter ha s
been granted" he said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
RELEASE NEW ZEALAND BEEF.
Premier of South Seas Isle Only Wants
To Be Sure of Destination

Wellington, n. T., May 31-Sir
Francis Bell, acting premier of New
Zealand, has declared in a message
to the American consul here that no
difficulties would be placed in the way
Of Armour & Co. exporting to
America for American use meat now
in freezing here.
This message was an explanation of
the government refusal to. issue IL
censes for the export of meat to the
Armour Australian company. The New
Zealand government, however. will re-
quire substantial guarantees against
the reshipment of such meat from
America to London, Sir Francis de-
ciares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
HONOR KANSAS GOVERNORS


memorial service was held, and
the graves of the three Kansas gov
ernors buried in Topeka cemetery
were decorated Monday by the Native
Sons and Daughters of Kansas.
Governor Samuel J. Crawford. Gov
ernor Thomas A. Osborn, and Gov
ernor George T. Anthony are buried
near each other in the cemetery. Near
them lies the body of a pioneer gov
ernor, Hugh S. Walsh, who completed
the term of one of the first territorial
governors of the state, John w.
Denver.
The memorial exercises were held
at the city auditorium, where Otis AL
len gave a brief biographical sketch of
each of the governors. Later at the
cemetery, wreaths were placed on the
graves by Mrs. Anita Anthony Brown,
granddaughter of Governor Anthony !;
Miss NanOn Herren and Mrs. Wilbur
F. Galloway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
WILL EXONERATE PILOT.
Probe of Accident Proves Aerial Cap
tain Blameless for Wreck

Washington, May 31.-Lieut. Stan
ley Ames, pilot of the Curtiss- Eagle
army airplane that crashed near Nor
gantown, Nd, Saturday night with a
loss of seven lives. is exonerated of all
blame for the accident in the formal
report of the board of Investigations
submitted today by Major NJ. F. Scan
lon. commandant at Boiling field.
The accident. in the opinion of the
board of three army aviation officers.
was absolutely unavoidable, and was
due entirely to the storm into which
the airplane ran while returning from
Langley field, Virginia, to Washing
ton.