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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
oUARRELED OVER SWEETHEART
Erother-in-Law, Angered, Killed Sis
ter-in-Iayr and Himself. )

Meade, Kan, Dec: 15.-In fit of
anger, Roy johnson shot his sister-in-
law, Miss Faye Hetrick, a school
teacher. five miles south of Engle
wood Tuesday night and then turned
the gun on himself.
Neighbors with whom Miss Hetricll
had been associated, said she was
keeping company with young man
whom johnson believed to be unfit
for her The sister-in-law resented
the charge of the brother-in-law and
they 'quarreled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
BIG BUsINEss-BIG XMAS.
st. Louis Firm Gives Cash and Extra
Dividend toNAH Concerned.

st. Louis, Dec. ia bonus of one
months extra pay and a 2 per cent
dividend on capital stock has been
voted by a trust company here, &C
cording to a statement issued today,
which says:
THE business of the past year has
justified the declaration of the divi
dend and bonus, and the company is
making a Christmas present to en-
Dloves and stockho1de rs'h
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
INDIAN REVOLT WANING.
London Report Says 10000 MopIal
Rebels Have Surrendered.

London, Dec. 15.=The Moplah re-
bellion in India is collapsing. accord
ing to advices received from official
sources.
1t was announced at the Indian Of
flee that 1000 Moplah Indians have
surrendered to British military Of
ficers. The uprising began about three
months ago in the Malabar district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15

Any Article Advertised by Us VIII
Be Shipped Prepaid by Rush Parcel
Post the Same Day Received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
Chicago Billiard Champ To Play.

Chicago, Dec. 15.-Augie Kieck-
hefer of Chicago, three cushion bill
lard champion, will make his initial
defense of his recently acquired title
tonight when he meets John Layton
of Seda1ia, No. a former champion.
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
TAX REPA YMENT CURB
IS ASKED OF CONGRESS
EUiIs Cited in Cases of Erro-
neous Collections.

WAsHINGToN. Jan. 22.--Congress has
been asked by Comptroller of the Treas
ury Warwick so to amend the revenue
laws as to prevent double or even triple
repayment of taxes erroneoNsy coll
lected. Many cases OF actual duplica-
tion of repayments have arisen, he de-
clared, and have been discovered with
difficulty
The Comptroller pointed out that un-
der the present law three separate
claims might be filed by a taxpayer.
one fo~ remission or abatement of the
amount assessed, another for actual re-
fund in cash and the third for credit for
such amounts on current tax return
Millions of dollars in overpayments have
been made by taxpayers, but II was saId
the Internal Revenue Bureau was unable
to estimate the full amount which
eventually must be refunded.
In many Instances, the Comptroller
declared. warrants issued In settlement
OF claims have been returned by the tax
payers with the statement that Jne
amount due had been deducted by ~
credit against n subsequent tax pay
ment
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
CRAIG OUT OF POLITICS,
BUT HAS AXE FOR HYLAN
Comptroller Also Said to Be
After La Guardio.

Comptroller Craig Is through with
politics, according to his friends. He
will spend the remainder of his term
making things as hot as possible for
Mayor Hylan and President La Guardia
Of the Board of Aldermen. His resigna-
tion from the chairmanshlp of the
Committee on Finance and Budget Of
the Board of Estimate was only the
elimination OF long series OF clashes
with the others of the big Three" and
his break with them is final.
While the Comptroller would be will
ing to accept denomination on ticket
with some candidate other than Hylan,
under no circumstances will he consider
running with the present Mayor. AS he
is convinced that Hylan is to be the
Democratic candidate. Comptroller Craig
has decided that his excursion into poll
tics Is about ended. He has never had a
thought of trying for the Mayoralty
nomination.
The Comptroller accuses Hylan of try
ing to run things with high hand for
long time. He says that the Mayor
has even gone so far as to presume to
call the roll of the Committee on Finance
and Budget in the Comptroller's own
office, although the Comptroller has
ostensibly been head of the committee.
If the committee. which Is to meet
tomorrow. attempts to use the Comp
trollers office, it is likely to get
severe shock. Asked what he would do.
the reply was: Let them try it and
see"
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
GAMERS COMPLAIN OF
HIGH FOREIGN TARIFF
Ask Congress to Provide Re-
ciprocoi Schedule.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Congressional
action authorizing the President to ac.
to offset discriminatory tariffs of for
eign Governments was suggested to The
House Ways and Means Committee to-
investments in the fishing industry.
An emergency mentioned by c. II.
Bentley. representing the National Can
ners Association. was that resulting
from Australia's subsidy of her fruit
canning industry Mr. Bentley said that
the Government had arbitrarily fixed a
price of 3 ~ cents a pound on sugar
during the era of high prices. with the
result that Australian jams and other
canned products were flooding American
markets
Preston Mckinney of the Gamers
League Of California went at length into
the South American situation, where ne
said the American exporter was con-
fronted with some extremely high tariffs
Cuba. however. he said. had given the
exporters Of the United States "a very
square deal"
I'VE meet absolutely prohibitive rates
on such things rs canned fruits and
some other commodities which we try
to ship to Brazil and Argentina" he
continued, "while those two countries
and some OF the others down there ship
wool. coffee and like commodities into
the United States free. 1t Is our con-
tention. that such treatment should be
met with a similar wall around this
country on the particular products at
fected"
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
LONG ISLAND FARM
WORKERS FACE CUT
Suffolk Employers See Help
Surfeit IN Spring.

RrvERHEAD. L. l., Jan. ga reduc-
ton IN wages paid farm laborers,
amounting to from one-third to one-half
less than was paid last season, was
promised Tor the spring at meeting of
the Suffolk County Farm Bureau Asso-
citation. Reports were received indicat-
ing that the supply of labor would be in
excess of the demand and Samuel
Board. of the United Employment Ser
vice of Nassau and Suffolk counties
said he thought there would be so much
farm help next season that the men
would be willing to accept much lower
wages.
Married men employed on farms are
receiving $50 to S110 month, in addi-
ton free rent of a house and vegetables.
milk and other farm products. Single
men have been receiving $50 month.
with board of lodging free. 1t was pro-
posed at the meeting to reduce pay for
married men to $50 or S69-and for single
men to s42.50.
The drop of the price of potatoes to
81 a busheL has caused heavy loss TO
many of the farmers. Ii was said one
farmer had $4,000 bushels OF potatoes
In storage in the expectation that the
price would rise above the S1.35 mark
OF last fall.
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
SILENCE BETRAYED
PREACHER ROBBER
Rev, Guy Kyle Aroused Suspi-
cion by Reticence Over
S212.000 Mail Theft.
WOMAN FOUND THE LOOT
Nearly $4,000 Recovered,
but Stolen Securities Had
Been Destroyed.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, Jan. 22.--The
Rev Guy Kyle. confessed principal in
the $4,000 mail robbery, to-day
learned that he owed his betrayal into
the hands of the Federal authorities to
his own silence. He had feared to talk
too much in an attempt to avoid such
an error.
Loren Williamson. the former pastors
business partner, said that he first con-
nected Kyle with the robbery when he
noticed that the minister never dis
cussed the affair or showed any curios-
ity concerning It,
Williamson became suspicious, en-
listed the aid OF his wife's sister, Miss
Ruby Johnson, q school teacher, and
searched the Kyle garage. They found
S75. 900, the first of the loot recovered.
To-day all but few hundred dollars
of the stolen $1s5.000 cash had been
recovered. The $4,000 worth of nego-
liable securities in the shipment We're
destroyed. Kyle is said to have con-
fessed
Belief that the former clergyman
acted as a lone wolf In the raid was
confirmed to-day when postal inspectors
and secret service men were unable to
connect any of the citizens here said
to have been implicated. Kyle previously
had stated that he was not alone in
the robbery, but an investigation of
his story convinced the inspectors that
the men named by him had nothing to
do with it,
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
Calls Reductions "Bunk.-

Proprietors of the Paris Restaurant.
564 state street. Brooklyn. announced
a decrease of approximately 40 per cent.
on many dishes. The cut, they said, was
the result OF decreased market prices.
Similar decreases have taken place at
Gage e Tollners. 374 Fulton street
Brooklyn. and in Joes Restaurant John
Hill. manager of the Clarendon. char
acterized the wave Of price cutting as
bunk" He said most restaurants of
that borough havae been scaling down
their prices for some time and now have
about reached their limit. He does not
look for further cuts unless the market
costs take heavy drop.
Why price decreases by Brooklyn res
taurant proprietors have been more gem
eral than by those in Manhattan was
explained by the latter on the ground
that their Brooklyn brethren did not
have so great an overhead to face.
Rents are not as high in Fulton street
or state street, Brooklyn. as they are
in Broadway or in the side streets above
Herald square," one restaurant manager
declared.
Candy manufacturers are beginning to
pare prices as result of substantial
wage reductions. lower prices for sugar
and improved methods of manufacture.
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
20 FAMILIES IN PERIL
AT FIRE IN BROOKLYN
Firenlen Have Lucky Escape
When Floor Coliapses.

one fireman was overcome, S65.000
damage was caused and twenty families
were put into the street temporarily by
two fires IN Brooklyn last night Fire
IN the basement of a six story dwelling
at 1854 Broadway destroyed the base
mcnt and damaged n stationery store on
the first floor, the damage amounting TO
about $4,000 Patrolman Felix Cor
man aroused the tenants and helped out
Benjamin Janfnan his wife and two
children, who we're asleep on the top
fleOr.
A four story factory building at 492
Throop avenue gave the firemen n stub
born battle. and thirty Of them operat-
ing hose lines on tho ground floor had a
narrow escape when the flooring above
collapsed. Battalion Chief John J.
Farrell gave the order to abandon the
building not moment too soon.
All Of the firemen got clear. but Au-
gust Bollinger OF Engine 235 was over
come by the sudden downward draft Of
smoke as the burning floor caved in ,je
collapsed Just outside the danger zone.
The loss was estimated at $4,000
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
LIVING COST LOWER;
STILL OVER WAR LEVEL
December Food Prices Fell
off 8 Per Cent.

Figures We're given out yesterday by
the National Industrial Conference
Board to show a decline in the cost of
living During December prices dropped
i,6 per cent. and since July. 1920, when
the peak os high prices was reached, to
January 1, 1921, the total decrease in
living costs was ia per cent. The re-
port stated however, that even with
this slump the price average is still S1.2
per cent. above the pre-war level
The December price record showed
that food prices declined s per cent. and
clothing dropped 81 per cent, but there
was no change In average rents, cost Of
fuel, light or other essentials.
All the forty-four articles Of food
listed in the report decreased between
November Is and December Is. with
the exception of eggs and raisins. which
advanced. Bacon, butter and lard
dropped IL per cent, sugar IS per cent.
flour 10 per cent, milk per cent,
sirloin steak per cent. pork chops, rs
per cent and rice and beans Z per cent
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
B. 80. TRAFFIC DROP
BEHIND BIG LAY0FF
Official Explains Suspension
of 1000 as Urged by
Economy.

BALTIMORE, Jan. % George NJ.
shriver, senior vice-president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
to-day gave out the following statement
explaining the laying off of more than
1000 employees:
'rhe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
during the last several weeks made con-
siderable reductions in its forces, largely
i'm the maintenance departments, as is
customary at this season of the year.
With the continuation of the decline in
traffic and consequent lesser use OF
power and the growing number of idle
cars it is possible now to make further
reductions in the shops, consequently an
order has been issued suspending opera
tions in some of the larger shops where
general repair and rebuilding work is
carried on.
while following the five days notice,
the suspension is for an indefinite perioi.
it is the expectation that work will be
resumed within limited time.
Work in the Baltimore and Ohio
shops has been continuous now for a
long time, and it Is felt that the total
suspension for a few days would be more
generally acceptable than the large per-
manent reductions in forces which the
volume of traffic and lesser demands on
equipment would justify.
1T is understood that this temporary
furlough will involve between 1000 and
5000 men over the entire system. of
whom about 2.700 are located at the
Mount Clare shops at Baltimore.
Under present conditions the utmost
economy is demanded and further re-
ductions may be Required, but in the
necessary reduction of forces every eff
fort is being made to do this with the
least disruption of organization and the
minimum hardship to Individuals
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

Girls doing unskilled work in the candy
factories who were getting SIG week
during the boom are now working for
Sill $12 and S14 week. These same
young women averaged between 81 and
$40 a week before the war. The fact
that labor now is easier to obtain also
has proved a factor Heretofore over
time was necessary and the increased
cost naturally was tackled on to the
price of candy.
Edwin j, OMalley. Commissioner Of
Markets. announced that there was an
underproduction of approximately 3O,-
600 900 pounds of butter in this country
last year. About 4Oo00.000 pounds were
imported during the year. Mr.. O'Malley
said the proposed impost duty on butter
would serve only to advance the price.
thereby making it possible for artificial
butter and substitutes to become more
profitable" The Commissioner called
the attention of housewives to the fact
that geese are cheaper to-day than they
have been for some time. He quoted the
market price of twenty-five cents a
pound.
DR.. Eugene II. Porter, State Commits
sioner of Markets, said that IL supply had
anything to do with bringing down the
price of butter. people of this city
would be able to buy butter much
cheaper this week. "Over four and a
half million pounds of butter arrived in
the New York wholesale markets last
week" he said "These receipts are
more than twice as much as last week,
and far in excess of the usual weekly
receipts at this time of the year"
Mrs. Welzmiller said that reports made
10 her by wholesale bread manufacturers
Indicate that their profit is but one-sixth
OF a cent on a fourteen ounce loaf
which sells at S1a cents. The Deputy
Commissioner questioned the manufac-
tlirets as a result of a report that the
FIVE cent loaf of bread would soon reap
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
WAGE CUT WARNING
SOUNDED BY ALLEN
Should Be Last to Suffer Re-
duction, Governor Tells
Chicago Employers.

Special Despatch to THE NEw YORK HERALD.
CHICAGO. Jan. 22-"Labor's wages
should be the last thing or all to be
reduced. but labor should not kill the
goose that lays the golden egg by de-
manding exorbitant increases in this
period of readjustment"
Gov. Henry ]. Allen Of Kansas. father
of the Kansas Court of Industrial Rela-.
tions. which caused the biggest stir OF
any recent innovation in labor circles.
made this statement on his arrival in
Chicago to-day He was the principal
speaker at a dinner given by the Indus
trial Club tonight.
I'm this period of readjustment the
time is at hand for the Government to
step in and see that both capital and
labor get a square deal" Gov. Allen
declared.
Industrial unrest is in the air, prices
are going down, wages are being re-
duced the entire industrial situation is
going down from its high wartime peak
And it takes a saner programme to
keep from spills going down than 1t ala
going up
Gov Allen declared that unreasonable
demands for wages, particularly in the
building industries, had put the building
programme of the United States four
y
down. but that it would not be fair to
the laboring class unless the cost of liv-
ing came down first.
Both sides are unfair to the public
Gov Allen declared. "Laboring men who
demand $1.25 an hour for the next
three years are asking the impossible.
Owners of buildings who demand that
leases be for two or three years at In
creased rents are also asking the impos-
sible"
Gov. Aliens remedy for industrial un-
rest is a court of industrial relations,
such as is now in operation in Kansas.
"rhe preceding forty-five months be-
fore the esta ablishment of the court In
Kansas we had 704 strikes" he said.
"In the ten months since the establish
ment of the court we haven't had a
strike. The capitalists, laborers and
public have all come to see that the in
dustrial court can find the meeting point
where both sides can agree and both
sides get a square deal"
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
GEMS UNSAFE IN HOTEL
ARE STOLEN IN THEATRE
$4,000 Worth Owned by
Wife of Boston Man Vonishes.

A handbag containing $4,000 worth of
jewelry which Mrs. L. A. Conrad, wife
of a Boston lawyer took with her last
night when she went to the Morosco The
atre disappeared just befose the curtain
went down on the last act. according to
report made to the police of the West
Forty-seventh street station. Detectives
Fitzgerald and Dennison were assigned
to search for the articles in pawnshops.
Mrs. Conrad was accompanied by her
husband when she went to the station
house. She said she took the gems with
her because she was afraid to leave them
in their room at the Commodore Hotel
In her haste to reach the playhouse on
time she did not think of leaving them
with the hotel clerk. She said she be-
lieved the bag might have slipped down
back of her seat and been stolen by
some one who saw it drop.
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
I 900 JEWELLERS ENJOY
ORATORY AND FROLIC
Twenty-four Karat Club
Holds Dinner at Waldorf.

Nearly 1000 jewellers of this city and
their friends attended last night the
ninetoenth annual dinner of the Jewellers
Twenty y-four Karat Club in the grand
ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. James
NJ Beck and Rufus Steele, writer
We're the principal speakers. The dinner
was followed by the "Ziegfeld Midnight
Frolic," in which the whole company
appeared.
Mr. Beck discussed the present period
of depression and said he could see
brighter days breaking through the
gloom. I'VE are now at the elimination
of three century movement which has
resulted in the political centre of the
world being transferred from the Thames.
the Seine and the Tiber to the Hudson
and Mississippi rivers he said. ''The
next President will be the potential first
statesmen of the world unless he falls
and / am one of those who believe he
Will not fail. This country is going to
lead the rest of the world out of the
wilderness which resulted in the recent
war into the new day of brightness that
is to follow"
The New York herald., 1921-01-23
NEW MOTOR CAR TO BE
ON MARKET MARCH I
Wills Plant in Michigan Starts
Soon With 800 Men.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
DETROIT. Jan. %. - Manufacturing
operations for the building of the new
Wills Sainte Claire motor car will start
Monday in the factories at Marysville.
with actual production under way
February /, and the car placed in the
hands of the user March /, Mr.. Wills
said to-day. The number of men en-
ployed at Marysville at the start will be
1900 and more will be added to the
force as needed.
Mr.. Wills and his associates have
financed the Marysville property with
the assistance of three Boston firms.
Kidder, Peabody & Co., +. S. Mosele &
Co. and the National Shawmut Bank.
The long expected announcement.
coming now when the industry Is just
passing its biggest crisis. is calculated
to inspire confidence among the leaders
In automotive circles.
The New York herald., 1921-01-23

must necessarily afford the consumer
an opportunity to buy at lower prices in
the not far distant future, as the goods
reach the re<ail market
"Thus we have the cost OF living on
November l. 1920, little, II any. in ex-
cess of the cost OF November, 1919, with
every indication pointing TO lower, rather
than higher, prices. We have also
general tendency in other lines or en-
ployment about which there can be no
possible question, to reduce wages, to de-
crease the number employed. or both.
The time necessarily consumed by the
board In the investigation and determin-
alton of the employees. demand has re-
suited in our being able to know defin-
itely what could not, perhaps, have been
forecast on or prior to November /, 1929,
namely. that there is a condition or
unemployment now quite general, and OF
wage reductions, that did not prevail
on November /, 1920. This cannot be
ignored, and in view of the employees
being assured of no reduction I'm wages
until November /, 1921, and of steady
employment except TO such extent as
may be necessitated by falling off in
the volume of business, it is believed that
there can be no action by the board
which would finally result in an in
creased cost to the public Of such a
necessary commodity as milk.
',rhe employees involved are now re-
ceiving, for the most part, from $24 to
s46 per week. The retail route statesmen.
who are the milk drivers and who repre-
sented more than one-half of the en-
ployees affected, receive about s4250
per week. The proposed demand is for
an increase varying from 21 7-10 per
cent to Al 2-3 per cent and that of the
drivers 2s Al per cent.
This demand, which was formulated
at time when prices had risen since
the contract of November 1, 1919, and
when possible further Increase seemed
not altogether unlikely, assumes an al
together different aspect In view of
present economic conditions. United
States Bureau of Labor statistics pre-
sented to the board show that of 81 $50
male employees in the State of New
York, 40 per cent of whom are in New
York city, whose hours of employment
are similar to those of the employees
with whom we are concerned, S2.5 per
cent, receive less than the lowest paid
route salesman. that Is, less than $50
per week. Only a small number receive
as much as the average route salesman.
And 1t is manifest that the tendency is to
reduce the wages in general industry.
The assurance to the employees Of
the continuance of wage scale which
compares most favorably with wages
IN general, even with due allowance
for unusual hours of employment,
should enable them to continue to rem
der high grade of service in the per-
formance of their work
THE conclusion OF the board is that
the rate of wages Will continue as un-
der the contract of November l, 1919
The statement from the Borden COM
pany concerning its decision to drop
the price of milk to the consumer was
made by Patrick D. Fox, president of
the concern. He said the company will
require a little time to work out the
new rate schedule, but that It might
be possible to make 1t public to-mor-
row afternoon.