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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

Something that is keenly felt in
Topeka is a good road leading TO
Oakland. Practically every work
er in this important suburb is en-
ployed in Topeka and Topeka mer-
chants supply the Oakland resi-
dents with merchandise. There is
a constant stream OF traffic be-
tween Oakland and Topeka. but
there is not a road that doesn't
shorten the life of a car that must
travel it.
The river road" leading to Sar-
dou avenue. and Sardou avenue it.
self are full of bumps and holes. The
road across the Santa Fe tracks
leading to Seward avenue is little
better The road leading from
North Kansas avepue-a round
about route for South side resi-
dents-is also bumpy and full of
holes. One would think. to travel
them. that these roads never had
any attention. NThe railroad cross
inGs on all three roads. especially.
are a disgrace to the city and the
railroad companies who fail 10
properly maintain them.
What's the matter? Where is
the money spent?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
HEAVY BANK LOSS
Capital and Surplus VIII Be
Exhausted, Says Report.
Commissioner Investigates Peo-
pies State at Salina.

Practically the entire capital and
surplus of the Peoples State bank of
Salina-a total of s1S5, 5,000-will be
required to pay losses of that institu-
tion. That was the statement today
by William Docking, commissioner in
charge of the institution.
The Peoples State bank was taken
over by the state department several
weeks ago. A showing of numerous
bad loans and probable careless and
wild banking activities was shown.
Heavy. losses were also suffered by
virtue of numerous cattle loans.
May Be Reorganizcd.
William Docking, of Lawrence. who
was placed in charge of the bank by
Commissioner Foster, came here to-
day with C. w. Burch, Salina lawyer
and vice-president of the bank, to dis
that reorganization plans were now
being worked out. Many of the men
identified with the bank at this time
will be interested in the new institu-
tion.
Docking was asked as to the prob
able losses of the bank. "I believe
the capital and surplus Of the bank
will be sufficient to meet all losses
he said. The bank was capitalized at
100000 and had surplus of $35, 700.
kilograms from Salina today were
to the effect that A e. Cramer, who
recently became a president of
the bank, had filed charges with
Commissioner Foster. No charges
have been received Foster stated, al
tho Cramer had protested against
action by the commissioner in charge
examiner for the state banking de-
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

were riding The two boys were driv-
ing south on Lincoln street rather late
at night at good rate of speed to-
ward Seventeenth. They saw the
street car coming when too late to
stop and tried to pass in front of it.
resulting in the buggy being struck
broadside and demolished, and one boy
was thrown out and killed.
A big touring car going south on
Lincoln street in the same manner
bumped a street car off the track two
years ago, causing considerable delay
in the schedules of the Topeka Rail-
way company
Only two months ago a fire truck
rounding the corner. sent a motor
cycle bounding upon the parking.
Often there are several motor cars
standing at the curb before the busi-
ness building, which contains a garage,
and near the corner, offering one more
difficulty for the passing driver to
contend with. Only with discreet care
on the part of all assembled at the
intersection is it to be negotiated with
safety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

the corners on the west side of Lin
coin street. Only coming from the
west on Seventeenth street isSany view
in both directions of the intersecting.
street to be had at the corner. and it
is not adequate for safety unless the
speed of motor cars is kept down.
The slight jog in Lincoln street just
at this point and the street car track
on Seventeenth street. add to the fac
tors to be taken into consideration by
any motorist who approaches the cor
ner. The salient danger lies with
those who exercise no care, or who
are strangers to the corner.
Many Accidents Here.
Slight accidents are continually hap
pening at the point in question, and
the old residents near by hardly eX-
peet to sit down to a meal without
hearing of an accident of some kind.
No accident of a serious nature has
happened for several years, however.
Four years ago a boy was killed
there when a street car coIlided with
buggy in which he and a companion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
BIC hike IN TAXES
Increase VIII Be Largest Ever
Known in Kansas.
Impossible to Forecast Exact
jump in Levy.
BETWEEN so and 100 Per CT.
Personal Property Valuations
Show Heavy Slump.
Prices of Farm Products Much
Lower Than 1920.

Kansas this afternoon faces the big
gest tax hike the state has ever known.
1t is impossible to forecast the exact
jump in state taxes for this year
even the state tax commission may
not know until sometime Monday
but the increase may be anywhere
from fifty to 100 per cent over last
year. There is seemingly no chance
to avoid the biggest increase ever
made in state tax levies.
Two big problems face the state tax
commission which is this afternoon
struggling for a final balance as to
valuations. One trouble is the need
of the most money ever assessed di-
rectly against property owners for
state taxes in any year. The second
is a big decline in personal property
valuations.
To Increase State Levy.
Last year with a valuation of s3.-
500, 4,914-the highest Kansas ever
knew-the state levy was IA mills on
the 500. This levy raised IS, All, 500.
The previous year the. levy had been
LIS mills with valuation nearly a
half billion under that of 1920-$3,-
4S7, 81 to be exact. Yet in 1919
the state raised the largest amount in
taxes ever collected-until this year.
The 1919 levy produced $6.O15.69 for
state purposes.
going straight up. The last legislature
authorized direct tax levy to produce
a revenue not exceeding eight and a
half million dollars with seven mil
lion as maximum for next year.
Hike of 40 Per Cent.
Late this afternoon it looks as tho
every dollar authorized by the legisla-
ture must be raised to meet state ex-
penses for the next tax year-even
after allowing for collection of the
large sums from indirect taxes. The
collection of eight and a half million
dollars in taxes means an increase OF
nearly 40 per cent over the high mark
of 1919.
But this year there is seemingly an
enormous slump in all valuations.
Prices of farm products of all classes
have tumbled badly since the asses
sors made their rounds in 1920. Live
stock prices have fallen from wartime
levels % even lower than pre-war
prices Then, too. the bottom has
fallen out of III forms of corporate
stocks and bonds and general invest
ments are not listed as high as when
the country was drunk With wartime
prosperity.
Yet the tax demands have con-
tinued to grow.
Doing Much Figuring.
Just where the level will fall Is a
| decidedly uncertain matter. The tax
commission is sweating and figuring
this afternoon in order to foot valu-
ations balances. There is admittedly
a decline in almost all classes of per-
sonal property. And there is the de-
mand for increased revenues that
must be met.
In 1919, the state met the highest
levy in Kansas history. Last year the
increased valuations and reduced de-
mand for state funds permitted a re-
duction of .35 mills. But this year
the levy seems due to go far and be-
yond the high mark of 1919 and to
call for an unprecedented demand on
property owners for state moneys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
KANSANS TO TOUR FRANCE
Eight From This State VIII Be Guests
of French People.

The Kansas Legion men who are go
ing to make the American Legion tour
of France, as guests of the French
people, are leaving their homes today
and will depart for the east in a body
from Kansas City at 9 o'clock tonight.
The Kansas delegation is composed
of eight men, two of them being from
Topeka. They are Thomas A. Lee,
state commander of the Kansas de-
partment of the American Legion, and
DR.. George H. Allen.
Others in the delegation are Harry
A. Ortmeyer, of Wichita, member OF
the executive committee of the state
department; E. w. Rolls, of Junction
City, district committeeman at large;
Ernest Q. Smith, of Caldwell; John L.
Allen, of Atchison; H. A. Muenze-
mayer, of Junction City, and Ross
Farrar, of Arkansas City.
The entire delega ton to France Will
consist of about $50 men. When the
trip was first announced, fifty of the
places on the delegation were allotted
to the national department for Of
ficers, past officers and newspaper
men. The other 200 places were di-
vided among the several states, ac-
cording to their legion memberships.
This entitled Kansas to six regular
places on the delegation and that
many were named by Commander
Lee. They were Ortmeyer, Rolls
Smith, Lee and DIR. w. A. Phares OF
Wichita, and w. w. Hollaway of Kan
sas City, Kan. The two latter, how
ever, are not going on the trip.
Later Commander Lee was notified
that he could name some extra dele
gates as part of the fifty that had been
allotted him by national headquarters
and four more delegates were named
They were Allen, Muenzenmayer Far
rar and Paul K. Cubbison of Kansas
city, Kansas. However, Cubbison sent
notice a few days ago that he coulo
not make the trip and his place wa:
turned over by Commander Lee to DR.
l Allen of Topeka. This leaves the Kan
sas delegation made up of four regular
representatives and four extra.
The Legion men will sail from New
York August 8, and will be gone fol
= two months, six weeks of which TIM
will be spent in touring France. Al
of the famous towns and battlefield
will be visited and the best entertain
ment the French people can provide
I will be given them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The girls father objected to the
suit Filippo persisted and finally he
and Isabella were secretly married.
Then, according to Filippo, her reIa-
tives broke into his house at night
and stabbed him, leaving him for
dead and taking Isabella away
They succeeded, he said, in tempo
rarily turning IsabelIa's affection
away from him, but he induced her to
visit him on board the Argentina be-
fore it sailed. Telling her the boat
did not sail until o'clock he led her
below decks and when 4 o'clock came,
Isabella found she was twenty miles
at sea. She refused TO speak to him
for several days but before the
steamer docked here again they were
on honeymooning terms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
STORM is over
Lord NorthcIiffe Seeks Golf
Links After Tempest.
British Papers Devote Much
Space to Controversy.

New York, July SO.-Lord North
clfffe. whose controversy with Premier
Lloyd George is reverberating thru
two continents. slipped away from all
the clamor and furore here today and
sought the quiet of the golf links.
The British publisher left II. Wick
ham Steed, editor of the London
Times. behind to do all the talking
for him. Mr.. Steed was quite willing
to talk. but he said that before he did
So to any great extent he wanted to
interview the reporter for New York
newspaper who interviewed him here
a few days ago. Mr.. Steed intimated
that it would be warm session.
In the interview. Mr.. Steed was
quoted as saying that King George had
said to Lloyd George: You must
stop killing my people" referring to
ireland. And that was the cause of
all the trouble. Mr.. Steed said today.
"Are you going to make a state-
ment on the natter" the editor was
asked.
Am II" conlntered Mr.. steed. "As
you Americans say. I'll say am but
want to see that reporter first.
am waiting to hear from them now
Them" referring to the New York
paper.
Steed said he didn't know where his
chief (Lord Northcliffe) had gone. ex-
cept that he had departed for a round
OF golr with an OLD TREND"
Lord Northcliffe will leave New
York late today for Vancouver, going
by way of Toronto.
British Papers Comment.
London, July 3O-All morning pa
pers devoted much space to the con-
troversy between the Lloyd George
administration and Lord Northcliffe
Long cablegrams were printed from
Washington, where Lord Northcliffe is
visiting. The Daily Herald. organ of
the labor party, refused to attach any
Importance to the quarrel.
1T is the most amusing piece oflow
comedy that British politics has pro-
duced for a long time" said the Daily
Herald Two of our greatest dema-
gogues have turned back-chat coined
! ians with the whole broad Atlantic as
their stage. Northcliffe denies he said
it. What if he did or what if he
didn't; it does not make any differ
ence either way"
Foreign office officials refused today
to make any further comment upon
Lord Northcliffe's statements. They
said the 'Northcliffe incident i.
4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
WENT TO SLEEP IN CANNON
Girl Is Found in Muzzie of IA
Inch Gun About To Be Fired at
Daybreak.

Port Townsend, Wash, July 3d.
Louise O'Brien, IA, missing from her
home all night, was found at day
break asleep inside the muzzfe of a
14-inch gun of the shore battery at
Fort Worden. Other guns at the
fort had been fired just before the
girl was discovered
According to military authorities,
she had gone for a horseback ride
the previous afternoon. Far from
home, while she was dismounted the
horse ran away and she, losing her
way and weary of wandering in the
darkness, took refuge in the long
black object that suddenly loomed in
her path.
Officers at the fort said it was
only by chance that this gun was not
fired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
CALL TROOPS IN STRIKE RIOT
Striking Vermont Paper Mill Employees
Fired on Strilxebrcakers.

Bellows Falls, VT. July 30.-Two
companies of National Guard troops
arrived here today to maintain order
following rioting in which shots were
fired, presumably by striking workers
of the International Paper company
mills.
The rioting started, according to
States Attorney Whitney, when eleven
shots were fired from the North Wall
pole, N. H, shore of the Connecticut
river into a strikebreakers' camp on
the Vermont side.
A riot call was sent to Rutland and
Adjutant General Herbert Johnson
ordered out Company 1 of Brattleboro
and Company A of Rutland. The men
were loaded into motor trucks and
rushed to Bellows Falls, where they
began the work of policing the town.
Trouble has appeared inevitable since
the start of the strike. Several minor
disturbances occurred when attempts
were made to import strikebreakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30

The accident at Thirteenth and West
streets, causing death to one person
and serious injury to three others, has
caused serious consideration Of the bad
spots in the city where similar acci-
dents can be avoided if care is used
on the part of all those approaching in
conveyances of any kind.
The street intersection at Seven
teenth and Lincoln streets. has long
been known as a dangerous corner.
1t is particularly so because of the
heavy traffic at that point. The Bur-
lingame road throws all its travellers
past this corner and Lincoln street is
the best route to the Country club.
View Is Obscured.
Going west on Seventeenth street,
the view both north and south is OBJ
scured until Lincoln street is reached.
On the south is brick business build
ing occupied by a milk depot and a
garage, and the vacant lots on the
north are bordered at the sidewalk by
a hedge which is shown in the cut
above. There are houses on both of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
Post War Romance of
Blind Argonne Hero Is
RepIete With Thrills
Secretly Married Italian Girl Whose Directing Parents
Stabbed and Left Him for Dead, He Brings Her U. S.
by Ruse-Now They Are Honeymooning

New York, July so.-The postwar
romance of Salvatore Filippo. blind
hero of the Argonne, is as full of
thrills as was his military service, ac-
cording to the story he told here to-
day, prior to his departure for Erie
Pa, with his 16-year-old Italian bride
Isabella. They arrived on the steam
ship Argentina yesteday. Filippo lost
his sight as result of wounds suf-
fered while rescuing a member of his
squad from No Mans Land, in the
Argonne, and he went to the land of
his birth a year ago with his mother.
In a little village in the province of
Lucca. he met Isabella. Bruna and
charmed by her soft voice, began to
WOO her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
HOLD 3 GENERALS
Dublin Supreme Court Issues
Writ for Arrest.
Failed to Release Sim Fein
Prisoners on Court Order.

Dublin, July 3O.-General Sir Nevill
MacReady, commander-in-chie # the
British troops in Ireland. General
Cameron and General Strickland, for
whom a supreme court writ was is
sued yesterday, surrendered to the
court today. simultaneously, the
court ordered the release of two Sim
Fein prisoners, who were under death
sentence, pending an appeal of their
case.
or arrest of the three British officers
grew out of habeas corpus proceed
ings in behalf of the Sim Feiners.
The Sim Feiners had been ordered
produced but the military authorities
failed to obey the court order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
GIRL CONFESSES TO MURDER
Father Had Been Sentenced to Five
Years on Charge.

dtIlcf f1du Been sentenced TO Five
Years on Charge.
Breckenridge, Tex. July 3o.-E. NJ.
Ansley was recently sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years, having
been found guilty OF intent to murder
in connection with the death of Lora
Jones. who came to her death thru the
blows of hammer.
Yesterday Mrs. Binrie Parrish.
Ansley's 19-year-old daughtez, con-
fessed that it was she who was re-
sponsible for the. Jones woman's death
and that she did it because of jealousy
for breaking up fathers home
The father has not seen his daugh-
ter, a child mother, but when told of
her confession, broke down and wept.
saying he did not believe his daughter
could have committed the deed.
However, the young mother with
her 5-weeks-old baby in her lap. gave
the officers tha story in detail. and
while the tale inspired sympathy.
there seemed no doubt that she was
telling the truth She said she struck
the Jones woman with such force that
the handle of the hammer was broken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-30
Bandits Stage Bold HOld-Up on
Pennsylvania Line.
Mail Clerk SeriouslyWounded
Loot Is Taken.
ROBBERS RISKED Their LIVES
CraWled From Under Speeding
Mail Coach Into Door.
Force Engine Crew to Stop at
Lonely Spot and Let Them on.

Pittsburgh. Pa, July 30.-The New
York; Pittsburgh Manhattan limited on
the Pennsylvania railroad was held up
and robbed near Altoona, Pa, early
today, according to word received at
the general offices of the Pennsylvania
here this morning. One mail clerk
was shot and seriously wounded. The
robbers forced the engine crew to stop
at a lonely spot and let them off. F1rst
reports said a considerable amount OF
loot had been secured, but the amount
is yet unknown.
The Manhattan limited is the crack
train on the Pennsylvania railroad be-
tween New York and Chicago. The
train left New York at sos O'Clock
last night and was due here at 4:3O
o'clock this morning. 1t carried no
day coaches.
Bandits Risked Lives.
After passing thru the Gallitzin tun-
mel, west of Altoona, the train was
stopped and the helper engine cut of.
The bandits had been riding the rods
and after the flyer had got under
way again, the bandits, risking their
lives. crawled from under the mail
car and crept thru an open door OF
the mail car without attracting the
attention of the seven mail clerks VINO
quickly covered.
Taken unawares, the clerks COM
piled and one of the bandits demanded
the registered mail An argument fol
| lowed with one of the clerks who had
declared there was no registered mai!
| The bandits then fired five times ard
A. J. Lantz, 3S, of Thompsontown. Pa.
was shot. The other clerks were told
| they would also be shot If they Of
| fered further resistance.
/ Forced Engine Crew to Stop.
The clerks with their hands above
| their heads were backed against thu
car while other bandits went thru th'
4 mails.
A minute. later, gun in hand, one o
/ the bandits crept o er the tender o
/ the engine and forced the engineer Il
apply the emergency brakes. When tn
| train came to a stop near Cassandra
east of Johnstown the bandits jumpe'
| off and fled. The train then starte'
for Johnstown and Mail Clerk Liant
was taken to hospital. where it /
| said his injuries are not serious.
| Before the train left the scene o
the holdup. the conductor ran TO
nearby railroad telephone and notifies
| the railroad offices at Altoona AM
every bit of Pennsylvania railroad AM
Blair county police machinery was Sc
in motion to trail the bandits.
| There is reason to believe that tn
| sum obtained was a large one, as tn
train carries only high class mail sai'
to frequently contain bonds, cash ant
| other securities shipped by New Yorl
and eastern banks to Chicago ant
western clients. Government official
declare there is no way to ascertain
how much the loot will be at presen
and it will take weeks to determin
just what letters were stolen and wha
| they contained.
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100 KILLED IN RIOT
Thirteen Thousand Jap Ship.
builders in Outbreak.
Empire Undergoing Greatest
Labor War in History.

Toxic. July 30.-One hundred per-
sons were injured in a terrific out
break of rioting at the Kawasaki ship
and dock yards in Kobe on Friday.
Thirteen thousand striking ship
builders took part. Martial law has
been proclaimed at Kobe.
Eighty policemen gave battle to the
strikers.
Japan is now undergoing the great
est labor struggle in ner history. The
ship workers at Kobe went on strike
about a fortnight ago and subsequent
ly established workers councils which
took over the operation of the ship
yards on communistic principles.
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FIND SMUGGLING PLOT
Officers Seize $4,000 Worth Unset
Diamonds I'm Chicago.

Chicago. July 3o.-Unset diamonds
and other jewels, valued at $4,000,
were seized today in a north side
apartment in the federal investigation
of a gigantic smuggling ring, discov-
cred here yesterday. The gems were
found sewed in the lining Of a coat
said to belong to Hyman Finerman.
Los Angeles jeweler. arrested yester-
day and held in $4,000 bond on a
charge of smuggling.
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GOV. SMALL INSPECTS ROADS
Available to Anyone on Official Busi.
ness, He Says.

Chicago, July 30.-Governor Len
Small is touring thru Kane county to-
day inspecting roads in the neighbor-
hood Of Elgin, Frankfort and Dwight
The trip is being made in connection
with plans for the awarding of con-
tracts for state highway construction
work. the governor announced. He
denied it lad anything to do with de-
laying the serving of warrants for his
arrest that have been issued At
Springfield as a result Of mis- indict-
ment for embezzlement of state in
terest funds
Il will be available to anybody who
Us any official business to transact"
governor said He reiterated his
IN to return to Springfield
"aDo e middle of next week.
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BACK TO SCALE OF 1917.
Indiana Steel Workers Wages Cut
From 81 to 80 Cents an Hour.

Hammond, Ind, July 30.-Notices
were posted today at the Inland Steel
Mills that beginning Monday. new
rates of pay for day and tonnage
workers based on rates in effect in
1917 will be effective.
The basic common labor rate is now
81 cents per hour. On Monday. 1t will
become 80 cents an hour, conforming
with adjustments made by other steel
mills in the district