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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
British Railway Men Put Bar
on "Blackleg" Coal.
Union Men VIII Not Handle
NOnunion Product.
GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED
Transport Workers Expected to
Take Similar Action.
Joint Action Would Prevent
Unloading at Docks.

London. May 1S.-British railway
men today placed an embargo on
"blackleg" coal
structed their followers not to handle
any4eoal loaded by nonunion labor.
No Nonunion Coal.
The executive order followed inde-
pendent action by the firenfen's end
enginemen's union, which instructed
its men not to handle nonunion or
would use its strength to see that no
member was "victimized" for obeying
the order.
The decision again brought the ma
ton face to face with the threat OF q
general strike.
take similar action. The joint action
of the two big unions would prevent
the unloading of nonunion coal at the
docks. the transfer from ships or
transportation along the rail lines.
Places Were Filled.
Individual workers in the two
unions previously refused to handle
such coal but they were dismissed.
I their places being filled from the
ranks of the thousS nds of unenl-
ployed
The action of employers led to the
strike in Glasgow. effective tonight
Similar action was expected at Not
tingham.
With no union miners working, most
of the available coal in Great Britain
is "black leg" The government IL ez,-
pected to insist that enough of il be
delivered to keep public utilities and
the vital industries in operation
A clash over this question might
easily precipitate a triple alliance"
strike in sympathy with the miners
the long predicted industrial war.
| Radical members of the transport
and railway unions hailed today's de-
c1s1on with joy. They have agitated
| for strike since the miners went out.
A large element showed its anger
Wren the decision was reached six
! weeks ago to join the miners.
| Hope to Avoid Strike.
Z Conservative railway men had
hoped to avoid a strike and to save
their faces by a resolution approving
! the boycott on coal except for public
utilities but they were forced by the
extremists into the more drastic ac-
! ton.
! Meanwhile, with many Industries
crippled thru lack of fuel and with
/ the unemployed list growing daily, the
/ nation was prepared, IL a general
! strike should develop. The machinery
put in place when the triple alliance
threatened, was ready for operation
! All that remained was to call volun-
/ teer workmen to their posts and to re-
stock the food and supply dumps.
Discuss Marine Strike.
: Washington. May 13.-The marine
strike was discussed by President
I Harding and his cabinet today
/ 1t was indicated, however, that no
/ conclusion had been reached. but
{ Secretary of Commerce Hoover ana
Secretary of Labor Davis will follow
all details of the strike
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operations before his retirement. He
will retain the duties recently assigned
to him as chief of the war staff now
being organized. General Harbord, as
assistant chief of staff, will take over
all of the administrative details here
tofore handled by the chief of staff,
Mr.. Weeks announced, leaving General
Pershing free to direct the organiza-
ton and training of the army of the
United States as whole, Including the
national guard and the organized re-
serves.
In time of war the plan contem-
plates that General Pershing would
Immediately assume command of the
entire army and Harbord automatical-
ly become chief of staff In this way
General Pershing would pass to the
head of the field staff already in proc
ess of organization and General Har-
bord would take charge of the war
department general staff and be en-
tirely familiar with all the duties of
the post. having performed them in
time of peace.
Major .General James G. Barbord,
named as chief of staff to General
Pershing. was BLACK Jacks chief of
staff in France.
Harbord is a Kansas man. and a
graduate of the Kansas State Agricul-
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Because of the present high level of
freight rates and low market prices,
Kansas farmers have practically quit
shipping hay, straw, hides and other
low-valued agricultural commodities,
according to information received W
j. c. Mohler, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, from a special
questionnaire to crop reporters in
every county in the state. For the
same reasons farmers have also ma
terially reduced their shipments of
grain and livestock, the reports in
dicate.
Beef hides shipped by Rush county
farmers do not any more than pay the
cost of transportation and in some
cases do not do that. Other farmers
report their returns come back in the
form of 4 few one-cent stamps A
Raw1ins county farmer shipped a hide
and received as remittance the infor-
nation Skin didn't bring price of
freight charges" A farmer near Hays
was asked to send seventeen cents to
pay the deficit on a hide, while an
other hide shipped to the st. Louis
market brought $3.50, with freight
amounting to $2.12.
A Reno county man relates his ex-
perience in selling calf hide at
Hutchinson for forty cents. On the
same day he purchased two pair of
leather shoe strings, paying forty-five
cents.
Prof C. w. McCampbeIl, head of the
animal husbandry department at the
Kansas State Agricultural college,
states shipping costs now represent
from to 10 per cent of the gross re-
ceipts from various classes of live
stock shipped from Kansas points to
the nearest market.
The experience of a Rush county
farmer is typical of others reported.
He said: '1t used to cost S35 to ship
a load of cattle to Kansas City that
would sell from $500 to $4,000.
Now it costs s107 to ship the same
class of cattle that will sell for $1,000
to $500. and the cost to raise the
latter has been more"
Sheep Not Worth Shipping.
Sheep apparently are hardly worth
shipping at all. A Sumner county
farmer shipped 109 head of sheep to
Kansas City and the freight and
commission amounted to more than
the returns from the sheep. Another
shipper reports net return of forty
cents a head for a sheep consignment,
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mttees will be appointed by him dur
ing the year, each to serve for one
month.
J. Fl. Lee. H. L. Shirer and-Guy c.
SSickler compose the auditing commit
lee. f. L. Copeland was elected chair
man of the forum committee, which
meets at S o'clock tonight at the
Chamber of Commerce, and instructed
to pick his own permanent committee.
The convention committee. one of
the most important committees of the
Chamber. was given over to the direc-
ton of Thomas NJ. Lillard, who has
been chairman of the committee for
the last year. He also will select his
own committee.
Twelve out of the sixteen members
of the board were present at today's
meeting. They were: r. r. Baer G.
L. Bybee. s. f. Cobb. f. L. Copeland
f, H. Crosby. J. s. Dean. o. 3. Cutler,
W. H lines. George T. McDermott.
George P. McEntire and A. f. Van
Petten.
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DIDN'T KILL FOUR
"Female Blue Beard" Denies
Murder of Husbands.
Mrs. Lydia SOuthard, Living
With Fifth, Faces Charge.

\ Honolulu. May 13.-"I did not
poison my four husbands. They died
natural deaths and 1 have physicians
certificates to prove this"
Mrs. Lydia Southard. %, alleged
feminine Blue Beard" under arrest
here in connection with the deaths
of four husbands and a brother-in-
law, made this declaration today to
Detective Chief McDuffy.
According to information received
here, the husbands alleged to have
been poisoned were:
Brother-in-Law in List.
Robert C. Dooley. William G. Nc
Gaffey, Harland C. Lewis and Edward
F. Meyer. The other man was Ed
ward Dooley, brother of her first hus-
band.
Mrs. Southard was arrested We'd
nesday at a boarding house where she
was living with her fifth husband,
Paul Southard, and is specifically
charged with the murder of Meyer.
her fourth husband, in Twin Falls,
Idaho, on September Z, 1920.
She is being held incommunicado
in the city Jail.
Mrs Southard arrived here from
Los Angeles on January %. She made
numerous friends here who character
lied her and Southard as nice. quiet
people"
Honolulu, May 1s.-Precautions to
prevent the suicide of Mrs. Lydia
Southard, of Twin Falls, Idaho held
here as an alleged feminine Blue
beard" were taken today by the Homo
lulu police.
They said they had Information
which caused them to fear Mrs. South
ard might take her own life
At the request of Mrs. Southard's s
fifth husband. Chief Petty Officer
Paul Vincent Southar1 of the U. S.
steamer Monitor. authorities here to-
day persisted in their refusal to per-
mt Mrs Southard to be interviewed.
she refuses. to talk to any one, any
way" they said
Was Suspicious at Time.
KeyesviIle. No, May ST was very
suspicious at the time" said Senator
John Taylor today. of the death of
Robert Dooley in Idaho in 1915. first
husband of Mrs. Lydia Southard, now
held in Honolulu as an alleged Blue
Beard"
When Robert DooIey and his
brother. Edward. died mysteriously,
Senator Taylor was sent to Idaho by
/ relatives here to investigate Taylor
said today. however, that we could
find no positive evidence then to pros
ecute."
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IS ARE CAUGHT
Two Convicts Shot to Death
in Battle.
Five Are Reported To Be Bar
ricaded in House.
TWO GUARDS SHOT IN FIGHT
Most of COnvicts at Large Sur
rounded in Woods.
Twenty-Five Are Still at Large
in Texas.
TWO GUARDS SHOT IN FIGHT

Huntsville, Tex, May 13.-Twenty-
seven of the forty convicts who es-
capped yesterday from the state peni-
tentiary here, following a mutiny in
which two guards were wounded,
were still at large at 10 o'clock this
morning. according to Capt. Jake Her
ring, warden.
Posses with bloodhounds were trail
ing the men and capture was expected
before nightfall.
Working Toward Thickets.
The convicts have broken up into
two or three bunChes and have scat
tered. but all group are working east
toward the river bottom and the big
thicket" according to information to
Herring.
Four men, believed to be the ring
leaders in the escape, have declared
they will not surrender.
The men, G. r. Anderson, H. L.
Watson, Louis Dodd and a fourth man,
all lifers and desperate characters.
sent word with Bob Smith, who walk
ed into the prison, that they would
take their own lives before surrender
ing. Each man was armed with a
rifle. revolver and shotgun and plenty
of ammunition, according to the sur
rendered mans story.
Entrenchcd in Thicket.
thicket three miles from Dodge north
east of here. They killed six blood
hounds last night when the dogs trail
ed them to the thicket.
Four men were reported seen near
Willis apparently headed toward
Houston. ALI roads were patFolled
and special agents guarded rairoad d
trains.
Most of the convicts at large this
morning were surrounded by the posse
in a clump of woods near Dodge, a few
miles northeast of here.
Four Jail Breakers Caught.
Four Jail breakers were brought in
just before midnight last night after
they had killed several dogs which
traiIed them to their hiding place.
Neither convicts nor members of the
posse were wounded in the capture.
A total of twelve men had been cap
tured up until midnight. Seven were
taken in an early surrender and one
man gave himself up at the prison.
They Were Not Armed.
The four captured late were un-
armed. They told the posse they were
forced to leave the main group of fugi-
tives because they had no. weapons.
not expected to be made without some
bloodshed, the posse believed. The
captured convicts said the men were
well armed with plenty of ammuni-
ton.
Early reports today said no farm
houses were attacked by the convicts
during the night. Officials had be-
farm houses of food and clothing.
Some of the fugitives were dressed
in white suits while the harder" ones
were garbed in stripes.
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NAME STATE PRINTER SOON
Il. f. Kelley or A q. Miller May Suc-
cc1d Late Imri ZumwaIt

Governor Allen will probably name
state printer Saturday to succeed
the late Imri Zumwait of Bonner
Springs. Four persons are being con-
sidered for the place.
Since Zumwalt's death this week a
large number of endorsements have
been received for +. f. Kelley. pub
Usher of the Toronto Republican,;
and for A. Q. Miller, publisher of the
Belleville Telescope. Kelley has been
assistant state printer under=Zumwalt
and IN charge of the plant during his
sickness.
The governor has also received en-
dorsements for w ID. Crease for a
number Of years editor and publisher
of the Miami County Republican at
Paola. Robert Van Gundy. owner of
a printing establishment at Hutchia-
son. is also recommended for the
place.
Appointment of new state ac-
countant 10 succeed ]. n. Atkinson.
who goes to the Industrial court as
accountant, will be made soon. w.
Z. Bacon, an assistant in Atkinson's
office, was today doped by state Of
ficials for the appointment.
Charles s. HoIbrook of Kansas City
is Sid to be listed for appointment
to a position in the office Of the state
highway commission.
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new ARMY HEAD
Gen. John J. Pershing Chosen
as Chief of Staff.
Will Assume New Duties
on July 1.
HARBORD is ASSISTANT
Is Kansas Man and Graduate
of II. s. A. c.
Commanded Second Division at
Commanded Second Division at
Chateau Thierry.

Washington, May 13.-Selection of
General John ]. Pershing to be chief
Of staff of the army was announced
today by Secretary Weeks.
General rPershing will assume his
new duties July /, succeeding Major
General Peyton c.. March. His as
sistant will be Major General James
G. Harbord, who was General PERISH
ing's principal staff assistant in
France, before he assumed command
of the service of supply.
AS chief of staff, Secretary Weeks
said, General Pershing will direct
training of the regular army and or
ganized reserves, which he will COM
mand in the event of active field
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tural college with the class of 1885.
His mother and sister now make their
home in Manhattan. Harbord en-
tered the army as a private, before
the Spanish-American war, and rose
to commissioned rank during that
war
Commanded Second Division.
He commanded the Second Division,
A E. F., including the marine regi-
ments at the battA of Chateau
Thierry, later became brigadier, and
then chief of staff to Pershing. Fol-
lowing his appointment as chief Of
staff he became commander in chief
of the Service of Supply.
After the armistice. Major General
Harbord was, dispatched as the head
of special commission to investigate e
conditions in Armenia and other sec
'tions of the Near East, and did not
return~to The United States until the
scring of 1920. when he assumed COM
mand at Camp Travis, Texas, his pres
ent post.
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STEAMER IS BEACHED.
None CT 1.10O Passengers We're :
Injured in Collision. /
London. NJ

London, May 13-The Peninsula
and Oriental liner Senalia from Lon
don to Sydney, Australia, with LOO
passengers and seamen has been
beached near the Royal Sovereign
lightship off Cherbourg, France, after
collision with the British tank
steamer Patelia, says q, Lloyd wireless
dispatch from North Fersland- The
collision occurred in a fog.
A statement issued by the Peninsula
and Oriental company says no one was
injured, and that the passengers will
be landed this afternoon II is pos
sible the ship may be noated late to-
day.
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A LOCKOUT SAYS UNION HEAD.
Ellis Searlcs Says There Is Misunder-
standing in Coal Strike.

Philadelphia, May 13.-In a state
ment given out here today Ellis
Searles, editor of the United Mine
Workers Journal, official organ of
the coal miners union, said there is
a misunderstanding of the situation
in the West Virginia coal fields.
1T is lockout and not a strike"
he said. when the miners of that
field joined the union many months
ago the operators and coal companies
locked them out and told them they
could return to work only when they
deserted the union. These men have
refused to quit the union, but are
standing firm upon their rights. 1t
is unfair to the miners to refer to the
unfortunate situation as a strike"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
C. OF C. FORUM TONIGHT
City Planning Is Subject Before the
Meeting This Evening.

The first of the forum meetings of
the Chamber of Commerce is to be
held tonight. with city planning as the
subject for discussion. The discussion
is to be led by Mayor Herbert J. Cor
wine and Robert Pierce, chairman of
the city planning board.
Washburn students of political
economy will be present to take part
in the discussion. and the Washburn
College Glee club has been asked to
furnish music. z. L. Copeland. one
of the newly elected directors of the
Chamber of Commerce. will preside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
PRESIDENTS LUCKY DAY
Black Friday Fails to Worry Presi-
dent Harding-Was Nominated
ON Friday and Inaugurated on
Same Day of Week.

Washington, May 13.-This is Presi-
dent Harding's lucky day. Black Fri
day shivers failed to worry him He
was nominated at Chicago on Friday
and he was inaugurated on Friday.
SO much for Friday. AS for the
thirteenth, count the letters in the
name Warren Harding.
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work during the campaign required a
deal of his time. and he gave it will
inEly and forcefully
The election of r. r. Baer of the
Topeka Packing plant, to the board of
directors of the Chamber of Com
mcrce as second vice president. marks
the advent of the North side into the
directorate of the chamber. Baer is a
resident of the North side, and the
first man from that part of the city
to be elected to a Chamber of Com
mcrce board of directors. His work
as major" in the recent campaign
was a feature of the campaign.
The Committees.
The finance committee. elected to-
day, consists of all the officers of the
Chamber. ana one additional member
of the board. A. E. Van Petten.
The workings of the membership
committee was turned over to r. X.
Racr. The committee will be handled
differently during the coming year
than it has in the past Twelve COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-13
MAY Get SHOWERS HERE
Sunshine in Kansas to End Today,
Is Probability.
The sunshine on which Kansas ha.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES.

The sunshine on which Kansas has
a corner today will not last longer
than until tonight, is the gloom-word
of s D. Flora, state meteorologist for
today The skies over almost the en-
tire United States with the exception
of Kansas are cloudy today, and it is
raining in the Panhandle of Texas,
which means weather at least un-
settled, in this state within the next
thirty-six hours.
Scattered showers occurred in sew
eral parts of Kansas in the past
twenty-four hours. and are probable
during the next period of the same
length. Topeka may get some of
them. The towns reporting rain in
1Continued ON Page Two.)
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AMMUNITION TO RIOT SCENE
Firing in ". Va. Battle Rcopen%
State Police in Zone.

Williamson, W. Va, May 13.-Chief
Deputy Sheriff Hall left Williamson
this morning with supplies of am
munition for the detachment of state
police stationed at Sprigg. one of the
towns in yesterdays battle zone. Re-
ports from Sprigg a few minutes
earlier indicated that firing from the
mountains had been resumed soon
after daybreak- There were no de-
tails
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TODAY IN CONGRESS-


Continues debate on navy bill
Finance committee resumes hear
ipgs on sales tax.
Railroad investigation continues-
Education committee hears more
witnesses on welfare bill.
In the Rouse-
Judiciary committee continues hear
ings on Volstead supplement to pro-
hibition bill prohibiting prescription
of beer as medicine.
Bergdoil COMMITTEES expected to
question Mrs. Bergdoii, mother OF
Philadelphia Stacker.
Interstate commerce committee con.
tinues hearings on cable bill.
Appropriations committee expected
to report deficiency bill.
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TO INVESTIGATE FIGHTING.
Secretary weeks Directs Action in
MinCO County

Washington, May 13.-Following
the cabinet meeting today, Secretary
of War Weeks announced he had di-
rected Maj. Gen. Geo. w. Reed, COM
mander of the Fifth army corps area,
to investigate the gun fighting in the
Mingo county, West Virginia, coal re-
giOnS
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David Hill Declines appointment.

Washington, May 13.-Dr. David
Jayne Hill of New York is understood
to have definitely declined to be con-
sidered for ambassador to Japan. and
it is said he is foremost among those
now under consideration for arlbas-
sador to Germany when diplomatic re-
lations with the country are resumed.
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Leon Trotzky seriously III.

Reval, May 13.-The newsps per
Wabamaa of this city prints a report
that Leon Trotzky. the soviet war min
ister. is seriously i'll with cancer and
that the best specialists in Russia are
attending him. No news confirmatory
of this report has been received froi2
other sources.
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Decorate Amcricnn Nurse.

Paris, May 13.-Miss Hamilton
Shields of Virginia was decorated to-
day as a chevalier of the Legion Of
Honor. at a military ceremony held
in front of the Hotel Des Invalides.
The honor was conferred for the work
of Miss Shields as a nurse in the war.
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MASONIC REUNION NOV. 8-11
Scottish Rite Bodies VIII Make Plans
for Event Tonight

November 8, o. 10 and IL probab bly,
will be chosen as the dates for the fall
semi-annual reunion of the Scottish
Rite Masonic bodies Of the Valley of
Topeka, at the stated meeting of the
Scottish Rite hodies tonight at the Ma
sonic Temple
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KEEP UP WARE ARE
Guerrilla Fighting Resumed at
Daybreak in w. Va.
Wires Cut; Information Meager
-One Dead, Four Wounded.

Williamson, w. Va, May 13.-Guer-
rilla warfare continued along the Tug
river here today. The fighting between
miners, strikers, state police and
county sheriffs which opened at dawn
Thursday, reigned in Marrimac,
Spriggs, Rawk and Album, according
to meager reports reaching here.
One man was dead and four wound
ed, according to latest advices here:
Wire communication with the fight
area has been cut since the battle
started. and definite information is
lacking.
Shot Down Near Home.
Harry Staten, former magistrate
and prohibition officer, was shot down
while in front of his house in Spriggs
six miles from Williamson.
The warfare, which extended up the
Tug river six miles to Auburn and re-
suited in four West Virginia mining
camps being fired on by snipers, hid
den in the hills on the West Virginia
and Kentucky sides of the river, fol-
lowed.
Flares of rifle and revolver fire
from the hills were plainly visible here
last night.
The sounds of the shots occasion
ally were heard as new volleys were
let loose.
The battle died down toward dawn
today, after the all night skirmish, but
later started afresh.
Capt. J. r. Brockus, with a hand
full of state police, has not been heard
from since he started for the mining
colonies early yesterday.
Advices here were that the state po-
lice were hemmed in between the fir
ing forces on the two hills.
Deputy sheriffs were dispatched to
augment the police force. Little fear
for the safety of authorities was felt
hOWavep