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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-27
MORRIS TO MEET
WE|NERT SEPT. 5
Big Labor Day Bout for
I Tulsa Arranged by
Oil City A. c.

IAe biggest fistic attraction for
ft. southwost in years has been Sc
,u..d for Tulsa. II is the Labor day
rlrl Of the OH city A. c. which
will bring together Carl Morris Of
stgu,pa and Charley Wcincrt of
newark. y j.. in a i2-round de-
...r bout at Convention hall.
Announce mcnt of the signing of
IS inert to meet Big Carl here on
S..f0mhor was made last night at
convention hall before the Walker
T. ..v battle.
,furris and Weincrt were matched
o. tght here July 4. but the east
or.t hurt his hand "A few days be-
'.a tho bout and Battling Levinsky
v.4 substituted for him.
I Weinory, Morris will be facing
an acid test. The New Jersey man
f. .ue Of the few real topnotchers OF
w heavyweight class today. and
f. iu great demand.
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Midget smith Injures Hand

CHICAGO. Aug. 26.---An injury
10 his hand sustained in training.
has compelled Midget Smith. the
New York bantam, to postpone his
bout with Joe Burman at East
Chicago. The scrap. which was set
for september 2, will be held Sep
trmhCr Q.
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Erl
MInfc htnrts Trnlnlng

CHICAGO. Aug. 90 26.-CharlcY
Whit. Chicago Nghtwcight. started
trimming hcrr today for his bout
ThInl,lphn August 3D. Tho mon
win buN eight rounds with no de-
riubn.
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which showed he had paid no dues
since January 1. He was held for in
vestigation.
William Hill McCarter, son OF DIR.
and Mrs. w. A. McCarter, will be an
instructor in English at Dartmouth
college this fall. He was graduated
from Dartmouth in 1919 with high
honors, and has since been employed
by CHM & Company, Boston, pub
fishers. He is expected to visit Topeka
in August.
Charges that he had called her vile
names and ordered her away from
home were made in a petition filed in
the district court by Mrs. Helen M
Owens, asking a divorce from Charles
L. Owens. She asks for the custody
of their three children. alimony and
a restraining order to prevent Owens
from harming her
Cecil Wicks, Is, and Gilbert Cowles,
16, said to have run away from their
homes in Fort Madison, Ia, were
picked up in North Topeka Sunday
afternoon by deputy sheriffs. They
were FLAT broke and had been
home, it was said. They will be held
for Fort Madison authorities.
A portrait of Robert Carver. for
mer Judge of the first division of the
district court, has just been complet-
ed by George Stone, artist. and is be-
ing exhibited at the Sullivan Art store
prior to being hung in the court
house. The portrait was ordered by
the Shawnee County Bar association.
which follows the practice of having
portraits of each judge hung in the
court rooms.
Churches of the southwestern sec
ton of the city held their first union
service of the season at Central Park
school at 1880 o'clock Sunday night.
The Rev. w. E. Reavis, pastor of the
Central Park Christian church de-
livered thu sermon. Other churches
participating in the service were the
United Presbyterian, the Westminster
Presbyterian and the Central Congre-
gational churches.
The first carload of new wheat was
due in Topeka today. 1t was loaded
last week at Clay Center by the Derby
Grain company. The Derby company
expects much wheat to be rolling into
Topeka by the end of this month.
Threshing in the eastern half of the
state has been delayed by the heavy
rains, but the weather in the western
and northwestern sections has been
ideal for harvesting.
1.-The Carnival of the Flowers" a
cantata, was presented Sunday night
at the Swedish Lutheran church.
Fourth and Tyler streets, which in
Guided twelve musical numbers.
Fifty-two children took part in the
cantata, which was under the direc-
ton of a committee consisting of Miss
Pearl Peterson, Mrs. J. A. Gordon,
Miss Minnie SEVERN, Miss Viola Bur-
geson and Rubin Tulien.
Harry L. Burger is the newly APP
pointed city bacteriologist to succeed
Harry Robbins. resigned. Robbins
gave up his city position to continue
the study of medicine. He will go to
the summer session at the University
of Kansas. Burger was graduated
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to N B. Burge. president of the COM
pany, the oil which the test well is de-
signed to locate is being sought
among strata of greater age than has
been reached in any other producing
well in the state.
The boys department of the Central
Y. NJ. C. A. is conducting table ten
mis- tournament. This game is played
on large table marked off similar to
a regular tennis court, miniature net
and a small celluloid ball are used.
The racquet is a small wooden paddle.
The tournament is between boys of the
junior A, junior B. the high school and
intermediate classes. Three games
constituted a series. the boy winning
two games OF the series being declared
the winner. He then plays the win
ner of the next series and so on. The
two boys who are not beaten at the
conclusion of the elimination contest
play in the final series. The boy who
wins this series is the champion ten
mis- PLAYER
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Kansas Industry to Act on
Industrial Court.
Group Meetings Over State to
Test Out Attitude.
HAS HELD NEUTRAL POSITION
Employers Have Neither Sup
ported Nor Opposed Act.
Meetings at Hutchinson, Atch-
isOn, Wichita and X. c.

Kansas industry will define a def
mite policy regarding the industrial
court act Group meetings to begin
this week will register sentiment
among employers in various sections
of the state and will reflect the atti-
tude of the employing group toward
the labor court act and action OF the
new court. Meetings are to be held
this week in Kansas City, Atchtson,
Wichita and Hutchinson. They are
under direction of the Associated In
dustries.
Until this time the employers or
ganization in Kansas has retained a
neutral position relative to the indus
trial court 1t has neither opposed
the operation of the act, neither has 1t
boosted or recommended it to the
membership of the state organization.
It has assumed an attitude of sus-
pending judgment so far as Kansas
is concerned. Other state organiZa-
tions have been asked not to try out
the labor court plan until effects of
its operation in this state has been de-
termined fully.
To Canvass State.
Now the anization-formerly
the Kansas Employers association
will begin a canvass of the state and
will soon make definite statement re-
garding its position affecting the law.
The issue has been forced. according
in the Wolff Packing company wage
case and the industrial courts sweep
ing decision affecting wages, hours of
employment and working conditions.
Harry Sharp, secretary of the Asso-
ciated Industries, stated today thai
the organization had taken no def
mite stand and at this time was not
involved in trial of any of the issues
before the courts.
Recently Col. John S. Dean of To-
peka filed a brief in the supreme
court attacking the constitutionality
of the Industrial court act. He is at
torney for the Associated Industries.
1.-THE fact that Col. Dean is counsel
for our organization led to statements
that he represented this association in
presenting his BRIEF SAID Sharp to-
day. HE filed his brief as friend OF
the court and expressed his convic-
tions in the matter. But at this time
our association has taken no action
in the case"
Group meetings will discuss various
issues raised in testing of the indus
trial court act Several hundred in
dustries-representi the large and
many of the smaller employers of the
state-are members Of the Associated
Industries. Meetings are to be held ir
various sections of the state in order
to work out a definite determination
of the course to be followed by the
employers of labor.
Meetings will be held in Kansa:
City, Kan, and Atchison Thursday
The Wichita and Hutchinson meetings
of Topeka, president of the associa
ton; Harry Sharp, secretary and Col
John S. Dean, as counsel, will attend
the meetings.
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SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
A business meeting of the Topeka
Poultry Breeders association will be
held at the Chamber of Commerce TO-
might.
BUN" Montague, 635 Jefferson
street, was arrested Sunday by Robert
Pendleton, deputy sheriff. on a charge
of passing a worthless check for SIS
on John Simon.
Mrs. A. B. Hafer, 23S Holman street
today filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from Edgar S
Hafer, now living in Council Bluffs. Ia
She charges abandonment
Citizens of the town of Adams today
applied to the public utilities commits
sion to restore depot service. The sta
ton was recently ordered closed
Adams is located in Kingman county
and is on the Santa Fe railroad.
Three mare mules, two grays an6
one bay, disappeared early Saturday
morning from the farm of Clarence
Mcpherson, near Rossville. The sher-
ifs office today was endeavoring tC
locate them.
Claude Biggers, negro. who was
sentenced to life imprisonment in 1877
for shooting and killing John Cox
game warden, about one mile south OF
the Country club, has applied to Gov
ernor Allen for a parole.
Work at full time has been resumed
at the Topeka Foundry & Iron works
owing to a greater demand for struc-
tural steel than existed during the
early months of the summer. There
is still little demand for foundry prod
ucts, however.
Notice that Louis B. Smith, soc
West Sixth avenue, has been accept
ed for the civilian military training
camp to be held at Camp Pike, Ark.
this summer, has been, received. Sc
Ear as is known, Smith is the first
Topekan to be accepted for the camp
The Sunflower camp NJ. w. A. drill
team was second among ninety eight
competing drill teams at the national
encampment held last week at Forest
park, st. Louis. The Topeka teams
score was 1856 perfect. The Omaha
team, which took first place. had a
score of 99.SO6.
The Kiwanis club has postponed the
picnic planned for tonight on account
of the weather. The picnic was tC
have been held at Camp Dalesford
The regular business meeting of the
club will be held at the Chamber OF
Commerce at 6:15 O'Clock tonight.
Michael Underahl, arrested in thu
Union Pacific yards Saturday nigh
on a charge of being an 1. w. w, TOLD
police he had Joined the organization
while in North Dakota because any.
one outside it there is unpopular. HI
said he believed some of the bylaw:
were all right and some were not. He
was carrying a membership bool
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is AN INVESTMENT
Money Paid for Hotel Stock Is
Not a Donation.
Generous Margin of Profit Guar
anteed to Investors.

1.-The prospect list for the sale of
hotel stock includes between $500 and
5000 names. That means that we ex-
poet that many Topekans to have a
financial and personal interest in the
new hotel" o. B. Cutler, general
paign teams, said today in discussing
the plans for the sale which will start
Tuesday morning.
The prospects on the list have been
divided up among the five teams, and
the members of the various teams will
visit the men and women whom they
think they have the best chance OF
interesting.
Work Starts Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock
the workers and their officers will
meet at the Chamber of Commerce
rooms. There they will be armed with
stock subscription blanks and buttons,
and will start their four-day task OF
placing the 100000 in common and
preferred stock.
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs
day of this week the statesmen will
meet at noon to make their reports
of progress, and to discuss the relative
progress which has been made by the
different comp citing teams
On Friday, the last day of the cam
paign, the teams will meet at dinner
to make their final reports.
The teams are thoroly organized
and ready for business tomorrow, the
majors reported today. There is a
thoro spirit of energy and optimism
on the results of the campaign.
Special emphasis is being laid by
the directors of the Topeka Hotel
company and the men conducting the
sale of stock in the project, on the
fact that money paid for the stock is
in no sense a donation to charity or
civic improvement, but is an invest
ment which is guaranteed to net the
persons who put money into it safe
and generous margin of profit.
The Hotel Agreement.
The following agreement has been
entered into between the trustees and
the members of the hotel company
safeguarding the purchasers of pre-
ferred stock, especially, in every pos
sible manner:
THIS AGREEMENT entered into this
24th day of June. 1921, by and between The
Topeka Hotel company, corporation OF
Topeka, Kansas. hereinafter for con-
venience referred to as the Hotel company
party of the first part, and f. c. Beck. E.
H. Lupton and f. c. Arnold, all Of Topeka
Kansas Hereinafter for convenience refer
second part WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the party of the first part is
about to issue and sell its stock amounting
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from Highland Park university. Des
Moines, Ia. He served in tthe same
unit of the both field artillery to
which Robbins belonged. =ss-
More than fifty Echo Photographs.
the invention Of Charles D. Scott, and
manufactured in Topeka, were sold
here during the month of June. The
monographs are competing success
fully with other makes not only in To-
peka, but in several towns in this ter
ritory. Scott, who is president of the
| Scott Weighing Machine company, has
recently patented a special scale for
/ the weighing of sugar, which is prac-
tically automatic.
A memorial service was. held Sun
day night at Lowman Memorial
Methodist church to pay tribute to
| the deceased members of the Odd
Fellow and Rebekah lodges of the
| city. DR.. George E. Satterlee, pastor
of the church, gave a memorial SER
mon. A procession. led by boys of
! the industrial school, on Kansas ave-
nue. from Sixth to Tenth avenues was
also memorial observance OF the ODD
| Fellows and Rebekahs.
DIR. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First
| Presbyterian church, delivered the
sermon at the union service of down
! town churches Sunday night on the
east steps of the state house. His ser
mon subject was Prayer" Special
music was given by the presbyterian
church chorus, led by Prof. Harlowe
F. Dean. At the union service next
Sunday Bishop Kephart of the United
Brethren church. Kansas City, No,
will make a patriotic address.
A history of the Northwest Kansas
conference of the Methodist church
has been written and printed by DR..
A. N See, who. with Mrs. See. lives
at the Methodist Home for the Aged,
| in Topeka. Doctor See is past the age
Of eighty years, and served as cir
: cult rider, pastor and later as dis
trict superintendent of the Ellsworth
district of the conference. He wrote
the history, set the type, printed the
work on a small hand press, and then
bound the books. One copy has been
placed in the library of the Kansas
Wesleyan university.
The picnic which had been planned
| by Topeka Council No. AZ of the
United Commercial Travellers was
| impossible because of the rain Satur-
day. So instead of being held at Rose
Acres as planned, the picnic was
staged in the lodge rooms of the
Moose hall, 623 Jackson street. A
series of games and entertainments,
and many eats were provided for the
occasion. which was enjoyed by the
members of the union and their fam
lilies. The commercial travellers and
their families danced from 9 o'clock
to 1870, following the program.
In the test well being drilled at
Lyndon by the Elmhurst Investment
company, limestone formation new
to geology has been struck. The stone
is of unusual hardness. is pure lime
and it is indicated was formed at a
more remote geological epoch than
any of the other limestones known. II
is so hard that it required twenty
| four hours for the drill to penetrate
| six inches into the stratum. The stone
was struck at 1859 feet. According
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REWARD FOR SHERILL
Local Officers Post 500 for Capture
of Bandit

Notice of a reward of 800 offered
for the capture of Roy D. Sheriff.. who
escaped a few days ago from the fed
eral penitentiary, has been received by
local officers.
Sheriff. was a member of the motor
tous Kansas City bandit gang. Word
received that Sheriff. and two other
men were headed for Topeka in an
automobile one day created conSd-
cradle excitement here. The bandits
evidently went around Topeka, how
ever. They were next heard from near
Denver, Colo, when they engaged in a
running fight with policemen. One
officer was killed and two others
wounded in the battle. Frank Lewis,
one of the bandit gang, was shot thru
the lungs but recovered. Lewis and
Sheriff. were brought to Topeka and
placed in the Shawnee county fail.
where Lewis died few weeks later of
pneumonia. Sheriff. was taken on TO
Fort Scott from where he was sent to
the federal prison November IS, 1918.
on charges of robbing a mail train.
Joe Davis, who escaped with Sheriff..
was captured by the police here last
Friday. The couple escaped in a car
belonging to the prison physician.
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FINISH LAST CONFERENCE
Santa Fe Maintenance Employees
Finish Discussion of Rules.

Finish Discussion of Rules.
The last of the three conferences
between officials of the Santa Fe and
representatives of employees other than
the shop crafts was finished today.
when the maintenance of way and
structure employees and the represen-
tatives of the company ceased their
conference on working conditions to
follow the abrogation of the national
agreement July 1. The conference
has lasted four weeks.
The clerks and the signal depart
ment had finished their discussion
with the officials previously. The
maintenance of way and structure
employees were the last.
Like the clerical workers and the
signal department. the last class was
unable to agree with the management
on all the conditions of the working
agreement, about half the rules dis
cussed being agreed upon, and half
not agreed upon. The questions which
the employees and officials could not
settle will be checked up to the
United States railway labor board, il
was stated today.
The system federation of shop
crafts is still is session. DISCUSSING
rules with the representatives of the
management at the motive power Of
fees
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BOYS STEAL NASH AUTO.
Three Youngsters Admit Taking Car
Owned by A. A. Rodgers.

The theft of a new Nash car from
A. A. Rodgers, county commissioner,
resulted in the arrest of three boys by
the police Sunday afternoon. They
are Kenneth Kessler, IA, and Harry
Harrel, IA, of, Highland Park, and
Richard Hazelwood, IA, Sixth and
Western avenues.
After a grilling by the police the
boys admitted the theft of the Nash
belonging to Rodgers and another be-
longing to H R. Whittelsey, beside a
Buick, whose owner they did not
know, officers said. Hazelwood was
implicated in only two of the thefts. it
was said.
HarrelI and Hardwood were ar
rested a year ago for breaking into
the w. H. Houser grocery store, SEN
fenced to the Boys Industrial school
and paroled They will probably be
returned to the school, it was said to-
day.
Rodgers's car was stolen Thursday
night and was found between Western
avenue and Taylor street Saturday
night. @
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NO FIRECRACKERS HERE
City Ordinances Prohibiting Sale Will
Be Enforced, Says Police Chief.

Be Enforced, Says Police Chief.
Hey, Skinnay! Whatcha think
They amt gonna let us shoot no fire
crackers the Fourth O. Julyl
The city ordinances prohibiting the
sale or discharge of fireworks within
the city limits are going to be strictly
enforced this year, it was announced
today by Chief Guy Swallow. Three
or four firms in the city have been
offering fireworks for sale. Chief
Swallow visited them this morning
and warned them that further viola
lions of the ordinance would result in
prosecutions.
Violation of this ordinance carries
a penalty of from So to $50 fine
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SIX MONTHS BUSINESS in our new location
under our small profit selling plan compels us to
enlarge our interior. Our plan, adopted on NOV
ing into our new location, January list, 1921, of
selling desirable merchandise at the smallest pos
sible cost to the consumer, has proven success.
Our volume Of business has increased to such an
extent that we forced now to remodel our in
terror in order to give more floor space.
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Absolutely Free

Wonderful Bargains in Children's Shoes and
Slippers, in brown, blacks, white canvas,
Mary James, etc. These are real bargains.
Sale price. ......9 5e to $1.95
Ladies' Silk Hose, very good quality, sale
price .95e to $1.25
Mems Hose, wonderful values, sale
price 15e to CSC
300 DISCOUNT ON ALL w. L. DOUGLAS
SHOES AND OXFORDS
Mems Brown Oxfords, English toe, modified
toe and straight last, below cost.
Mems Black Oxfords, broken lots, sale
price .$3.45
Mems Shoes, in brown and black, sale
price 81 so and $3.50
Every article in the store is cut to the quick,
and priced to move-don't fail to view these
bargains.
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FORD ROADSTER is STOLEN.
Car Belonging to Midwest Tire Com
pany Is Recovered.

A Ford roadster belonging to the
Midwest Tire company and stolen Sun
day night from sos East Seventh
street. was found by the police at
Eleventh and Monroe streets.
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THERE HAVE BEEN SALES AND

THERE HAVE BEEN SALES AND SALES,
but we truly believe that this city has seen
such sale in years. Never before have we ap-
preached such sweeping reductions. Never before
have we maintained quality so zealously. Never
before has merchandise been so desirable and
never before such values as we offer Remember,
this sale is based on a MONEY-BACK GUAR
ANTEE if you feel that we have not given you real
bargains.
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Suits and Pants

Boys Knee Pants-WashabIe, linen, wool.
sale price. ...............5oe to SITS
Boys Suits, sale price. .$2.95
Mems Pants, big bargains values up to $500,
sale price. .$3.95 to $3.50
Mems Pants, Palm Beach, Mohairs, Summer
Boys Long Pant Suits, sale price :. $14S5
Mems ali wool suits, real values up to $4,000,
in lots $16.75, 1885, $500, $3.50
200 2-pair Pants Suits, in all wool, finely tail
ored, sale price. $3.50 $3o.75, $500
PARCEL Pc
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COMPLETE AUTOMOBILE
PROTECTION
TRAP & MEADE
INSURANCE SERVICE. Phone 81.
Adv
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Ladies' and Children's
Shoes and Oxfords

WILL SAVE YOU MONEY.
Lot Ladies Pumps, about 100 pair, sale
price. .05c
Lot ladies White Canvas Shoes, sale
price. $1.95
Lot 3-Ladies' High Shoes, sale price, 81 50
Ladies' White Oxfords and Pumps, high heel,
military heel and Baby French heel, won
derful values. :. $1.95, 1926 and 1895
DON'T FAIL TO SEE THE BARGAINS.
Ladies' White Canvas Slippers, strap and lace,
$500 values, sale price 1895
Ladies' White and Black Trim Sport Oxfords,
regular $1,000, sale price. $4.95
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400 Hot Weather Suits for men, Palm
Beaches, MOhair and Tropical Worsted,
wonderful values, up to $500, sale price,
in lots. ....... $3.50, STATS, $3.50
Boys Shirts. =. ..............75c and $50
Union Suits, Mems Athletic, knee length,
ankle length, all kinds, sale price, per
suit. sec to $1.4S
Ladies' and Mems Swimming Suits .95e up
Blue Work Shirts soc
Khaki Pants $1.2o to $1.4s
Mems Overalls. ..... .95e, $1.15, $3.50
Big Assortment Mems Sample Shirts, in 3
lots. SOC, 75c and $1.25
Mems Collars, many good styles, for. .25e
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A Coupon for $500 worth of
additional good (whateyer you
wish to select, will be given
with each total purchase of S25.