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The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
NO SANTA CLAUS
Children of Miners VIII Wake
to Cherries Christmas.
Unemployment Has Caused
Much Suffering, Says Report.

Washington, Dec. Widespread
unemployment among coal miners
during the last year. according to Ell
lis SearLes. editor of the U. NJ. w. A.
Journal, will cause many hundreds
miners children to wake up on
Christmas morning to find that Santa
Claus has passed them by. Thousands
of children in the mining fields of
West Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Ten
nessee, and even in central Pennsyl-
vania, ara suffering, he says, for food
aid clothing.
Goal miners have been out of en-
ploymeht nearly all this year and
thousands of them are penniless and
in terrible distress" says Mr.. Searles.
"They have not earned enough dur
ing the year to meet the plainest kind
of Itvin~ -penses for their families.
There is actual starvation in the
New River field of West Virginia,
whe the miners have been out of
employ Mt practically all this year.
Miners children in Alabama have
neither clothing nor shoes. Condi-
tions are t'te same in the mountain
GUS coal regions of Tennessee and
eastern Kentucky. Several hundred
families of coal miners at Thurber,
Tex, are living in tents and are Who'll
ly dependent upon charity and what
ever the moro fortunate coal miners
of other places may be able to do for
them. Christmas will mean nothing
to their children.
Next door to Washington hundreds
of coal miners families in the Cum
berland and Georges Greek fields of
Maryland are destitute"
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
WILL PICK FLAWS.
Senate IrreeOnciIabIes Grab Ad-
vantage in New Pact Crisis.
Divergent Views in Interpreting
Four-Power Treaty.

Washington, Dec. 81. - The small
band of senate ''irreconcilabIes''
planned today to take full advantage
of the situation that has arisen out
of the different ways in which the
White House and the state department
have interpreted the new four-pow-
cred treaty of the Pacific.
Even the presidents statements last
night that he has no objections to the
construction which the American dele
cation has put on the treaty-that 1t
covers the homeland of Japan-did
not allay the widespread concern that
manifested itself in senatorial circles.
Senator Borah was quick today to
point out the confusion which the
different interpretations have caused
How can they expect the senate to
understand it," he asked, when the
men who sponsor it, differ as to what
it means?"
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
declared the United States would be
guilty of fragrant act of perfidy,"
toward Japan if It refused to recognize
the four-power treaty as insuring the
political and territorial integrity of
Japan herself.
Fresh from conferences with Baron
Admiral Kato and Vice Admiral Kato,
two of the Japanese participants in
Japanese would be bitterly disap-
pointed" if the treaty was not inter
preted as applying to the japanese
homeland
Amazed at Harding View.
Japan agreed to the treaty and her
delegates to the conference signed
it, with the expressed understanding
that the term fnsular dominions' in
article 1 applied directly and unmis-
takably to Japan herself" Senator
King said. 1.-The American delegates
so interpreted it, Both Secretary
Hughes and Senator Lodge, and sem
ators who were informed authorita-
lively, took that view of it. British
spokesmen state officially that no
other construction could be placed
on it.
And 1 am sure, the Japanese are
amazed to find the president express
ing an opinion which, I understand,
is not shared by any of the members
of the conference, or by any of the
delegates who signed the treaty." Sen
ator King said.
Senator King made it known that
he has been consulting with the jap
anese delegates from time to time and
has been acting in an advisory ca
pacity in the frequent discussions he
has had with them of the problems
confronting the conference which in
VOlve Japan especially.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
MAY DEPORT ALIEN MINER
Q. S. District Attorney Asks for Action
on Maceks Case.


The deportation of John Mack, 43
years old, an Austrian living at Cap
alto, Kan, was asked in letter to
immigration authorities Tuesday after
noon by Al F. Williams, UnNed States
district attorney.
Mack is now in the Shawnee county
Jail, where he is serving a three
months sentence for violation of the
prohibitery law. He is one of the
fourteen alien miners recently arrested
in Crawford county when federal au-
thorities confiscated more than 1000
gallons of liquor. According to Will
liams, Mack has been arrested several
times before on liquor charges and
once served a term in the state pent-
tentiary for being a persistent VIOLA
tor. He has taken out his first papers.
but has not completed his naturaliza-
tion, it was said.
This is the first official move to-
ward the deportation of undesirable
citizens in Crawford county. It was
indicated that if Williams is upheld
in his Interpretation of the law in the
Mack case, that other deportations
will follow.
Mack has a wife and three chill
dren. If the husband is deported, IL
will be necessary for his family either
to remain in the United States or pay
their own way out, it was said. Mrs
Macek has also been arrested on liquor
charges and served one term at the
women's Industrial farm at Lansing.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
he FLAYS WEEKS
Senator Capper Defends Agri-
cultural Bloc in Senate.
Declares Food Spectators Are
Hurting American Business.

Washington, Dec. 21.-Hitting hard
at Secretary Weeks for his recent
agricultural bloc speech, Senator
Capper, Kansas, Republican, declared
in the senate Tuesday that the bloc
is fostering progressive legislation but
for the general welfare of the county.
Attacks by special interests in the
east on the bloc as a menace to
good government and as demanding
special legislative privileges might be
regarded as 'tinged with humor" if
they were not so absolutely and
maliciously false" Capper said. Cap
per predicted the passage of the Iegis-
lation providing for the appointment
of a dirt farmer on the federal re-
serve board which is the unfinished
business" Of tvs senate.
Business has lost billions by per-
mitting spectators to prey on Ameri-
can farmers" Capper continued. TT
is losing other billions because it will
not demand the farmers be given a
square deal. Would it not be better
to have the bloc than to have every
thing that is good in legislation
blocked?
"The most decent criticism we hear
about congress is its failure to get
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

things done. What the people want is
results from congress. You may have
noted the letter written by Otto Kahn,
the Wall street banker, summoning
business men to save the country
from the Vaccinations of the farm
bioc,' but the critic who has astonish-
ed the country with his criticism of
the bloc is Secretary Weeks, who in
a general attack recently upon con-
gress whose achievements are consid-
cred somewhat epochal, was unable to
find anything good to say of any, of
the constructive measures enacted at
the last session, but condemned them
as 'unsound economically because one
must infer, they were largely support
ed by the bloc"
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
kZI1s1RK1ETs
additional late markets Will be
found on another page of this paper.)

Chicago, Dec. 21-WHEAT-Cold weather
helped to stimulate an advance in the wheat
market today after a sag at the opening.
The July delivery in particular developed
firmness owing to fears that lack of snow
protection in the southwest combined with
low temperatures might bring about crop
damage. Buying, however, was only of a
scattering kind. Initial quotations, which
varied from &c off to sc advance with
May s1.14 to $114A and July $1-0372, were
followed by a slight further decline and
then by a moderate general advance.
Subsequently, additional upturns took
place owing more or less to Sharp falling
off in receipts southwest and northwest and
to gossip that buying of grain for Russian
relief would be commenced before the end
of the present week The tSose was strong,
1%c to 23sc net higher, with May $116A to
$1,169s and July $1.05% to $1.0514.
CORN-Corn and oats paralleled the
changes in wheat. After opening un-
changed to &c lower, May 53c, the corn
market hardened little all around.
In the later dealings, strength became
more pronounced in connection with Rus
sian relief talk. The close was firm, Use
to 15sc net higher with May 54156545sc.
OATS-Oats started Hc to AMssc off
May 3Sc and then recovered.
PROVISIONS-Provis were firmer
with hogs.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Wall ST., New York, Dec. .21.-sToCKs-
The usual mixture of gains and losses
mostly within fractional bounds occurred
at the dull and uncertain opening Of to- to-
food and tobacco specialties again seemed
to be favored by. bull pools American , "a an. and
Baldwin Locomotives, Standard Oil OF Call-
fornia, Corn Products. American Sugar
preferred, Tobacco Products and Retail
Stores were among the few strong issues.
Only few of the rails were quoted in
the early dealings. OF these Texas and
Pacific was most active and firm.
Pressure became apparent before money
rates were posted but the opening quota
ton Of per cent for call loans suggesting
a possible furry in the course of the day
precipitated short selling. Oils, equip
nents, steels and motors reacted to 4
points. Weakest features were Lima Loco
motive, American Car preferred, Crucible
Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Mexican,
Pan American and California Petroleum,
General Asphalt and Houston and Pacific
Oils. Sugars gave way on the new low
price for the refined product and coppers
developed heaviness with chemicals and
rubbers. Rails followed their early slug
gish course at nominal changes.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
WEATHER.
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CONTINUED from Page Ona.l
degrees today, 50 degrees Thursday,
and will drop to about Is degrees to-
night.
The highest temperature in Topeka
Tuesday was 2 degrees at $3.50 o'clock
in the afternoon. The highest tenn
perature in Kansas Tuesday was 81
degrees at independence and the low
est was 6 degrees below zero at Good
land. The highest temperature in the
United States was rs degrees at
Tampa, New Orleans and Corpus
Christi and the lowest was 20 degrees
below zero at Duluth.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded in Topeka on this date was 66
in 1898 and the lowest was degrees
below zero in 1916.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing at nine miles an hour
from the north.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
new HOSPITAL At NORTON
Contract Let to Manhattan Firm for
Total OF $64,9SO.

Members of the state board of ad-
ministration will speed up work on the
new $4,000 hospital building. to be
constructed at the state tuberculosis
sanatorium at Norton. Contracts for
the work were let late Tuesday. Bids
totalled $74,765.17.
J. Green, of Manhattan, has the
general contract. His bid was $64.9S0
The plumbing and heating contract
went to L. G. Howard, Marysvil1e, for
$500. The A. B. c. Electric com
pany of Peabody will do the wiring.
It's bid was $1,375.17. Active con-
struction work will begin as soon as
weather conditions will permit.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
CANNOT EVADE FEDERAL LAW
Judges Dismiss Injunction Application:
by Stockyards Operators.

Chicago, Dec. 20.-Efforts of live
stock traders at the Chicago stock
yards to prevent enforcement of the
new livestock trading act failed today
when Judges Lands, Evans and Fitz-
henry dismissed application for an
injunction restraining Secretary of
Agriculture wallace and District At
torney Charles F. Clyne from enforc-
ing the law.
AS a result of the decision the live
stock traders will be required to file
British commission schedules with the
government and operate under the
rules laid down by. the department of
agriculture Or face fines provided by
the act
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
OMAHA HAS ITS AMAzONS
Wives of Striking Meat Workers
March on City Hall With Demands.

Omaha, Dec. 20.-An Amazon
army of 800 wives and daughters of
striking packing house workers
marched to the city hall today and
demanded protection from alleged
armed strikebreakers.
They also complained that diseased
workers were being employed in the
big five packing plants.
The city council in session appointed
a committee to investigate the charges.
Announcement was made that if the
charge that the packers were employ
ing diseased men were found to be
true. the city health department would
take control Of the plants.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
Toneka. Kan. Dec. u.

1opekdf NdH.s LEY: Il.
The poultry market is steady with de-
creased receipts as a result of colder
weather There is no change in local prices
at this time.
Holiday demands have created a tempo
rariIv firm condition of the egg market
Receipts show moderate volume with very
good quality. An advance Of &c per dozen
is noted.
Prices rs follows: Hens, lbs. and over
21e per lb.; hens, under lbs, 15c per lb; :;
cox, 10c per h.; broilers, ia to 2 lbs, 19c
springs, over lbs, 19c per lb.; shaggy
young roosters, 15c per lb.; Leghorn and
young tom turkeys, over Il lbs. and hen
turkeys, over lbs. 35c per lb.; old tom
turkeys, SOC per lb.
Eggs-on q graded basis, extra firsts,
acc per doz :, ordinary firsts, SIC per doz. ;
seconds and checks, 22c per doz., case in
c1uded; without case, 1c per doz. less.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
VICTIM Of HEART DISEASE
Mrs. Ella Loper Found Dead in Chair
at Her Home

When ]. w. Loper. 255 Winfield
avenue. returned to his home from the
Santa Fe shops Tuesday evening, he
found the body of his wife, Mrs. Ella
Loper, 50, in a chair by the stove. She
had been the victim of heart disease,
with which she had been afflicted for
some time, it was said.
Funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon from the
Oakland Methodist church. Burial
will be in Mount Hope cemetery.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

15c to 25c higher than yesterdays average;
shippers buying literally; top, $T.15 on 160
average; bulk of sales, $6.7507. .05; pigs. 1oc
to 15e higher: bulk desirable. $T10@T25.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Killing classes,
steady to 2Jc higher; feeders. steady; fat
lambs to packers early, s100061o.50: best
not sold: fat ewes early, $4.T5; no choice
lights sold; choice comeback feeder lambs,
early $1,000.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
Faculty Women
Plead For Fired
Peepi1g Professor

Chicago, Dec. 20-Women instruc-
tors at the University OF Chicago to-
day circulated a petition asking for
the recall of Prof. Gerald Louis
Wendt, former instructor at the uni
versity, who resigned after being
named as a ''Peeping Tom"
The petition is addressed to Presi-
dent Harry Pratt Judson and asks
him to reconsider Professor Wendts
resignation.
Professor Wendt was caught peering
into the bathroom of a co-eds dormi-
tory.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
RICHMOND FIRE Loss $4,000.
Odd Fellows Block Destroyed-Origin
of BlaZe Unknown.

Ottawa, Kan, Dec. 20.-Richmond
had a $4,000 fire loss at 2 o'clock
this morning in the destruction of the
brick Odd Fellows building with a
garage and general store below and
the lodge hall above.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The loss is half covered with insur-
ance. A motor fire truck was called
from Ottawa
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
! KANSAS CITY LTvEsToCK MARKEr.

Kansas City. Dec. 21-CATTLE-Recei
$500 Beef steers, 10625c higher: year
lings, $500; steers, IS. .25a 4 90; Gamers and
she stock. strong TO 25c higher: bulk can
heifers generally S4.50d6 90; most desira-
Bile vealers. S7.00@7 30; bulk bulls. S3.0o@
3.75; stockers and feeders. S4.506600.
@25e higher: top on IT'S to 225 pound hogs.
s.. 90; bulk good hogs, $6.90@T.oo; bulk Of
sales S6TJ67.o0: good packing sows. $5.3J
as so: pigs steady; bulk of sales, 800.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Sheep, steady
most fat ewes, 1910; fall shorn Texas
wethers, 81 IS; lambs, generally 25c higher
fed western, $1G.25.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.

changed.
ordinary firsts 43645c; miscellaneous, 41@
4sc: refrigerator firsts, 3s@39e.
POULTRY-Alive, higher; fowls, 15624c;
springs, 23c: turkeys, 40c; roosters. 1512c.
POTATOES-Market steady. Northern
white. sacked 81 .606I1.T5 cwt.; ditte bulk,
81. .TO0II so cwt; Red River OhiOs, sacked,
s. .G5d175 ewt; Idaho Russets. sacked,
800 cwt.; Idaho Rurals, sacked, S1-So0
/ % oUt
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKEr.

Chicago, Dec. 21.-CATTLE-Receipts
5000 Market slow, mostly steady; some
sales beef steers and she stock, stronger;
quality, plain: bulk beef steers, S6,00@7 .25;
good many cattle still held off market
HOGS-Receipts 10000. Market active,
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

New York Dec. 21-BUTTER-Market
unsettled. Creamery higher than extras,
41h@42c.
EGGS-Market firm. Fresh gathered ex-
ira firsts, sea 5Sc.
CHEESE-Market easier. Whole milk,
flats, fresh specials, 2112022c.
The New York produce exchange AN
nounced today it would be closed next Sat
urday.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
new BONUS BILL ENTERED
New York Congressman Wants Money
to Come Thru Sales Tax.

Washington, Dec. 2o.-Representa-
tive Lester Volk, Republican, of New
York, introduced a bill in the house
this afternoon to provide adjusted
compensation for veterans of the
world war. the funds to be obtained
thru the imposition of a sales tax
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

Topeka, Kan. Dec. 2I.
Hens. 4 lbs and over. pic; under lbs $
f5c: old ROSTERS, 10c; springs and broileIs
b. 19e staggy y99Sng roOeteTsi 156 Is; geese
ducks under 31h lbs. 15c; over 3H lbs
16c: No. i neavy turkeys. u lbs. md over,
soc hen turkeys. lbs, and over. 35c; eld
tom turkeys SOC per lb.; No. turkeys. DC
per lb less; Gull turkeys, not wanted !;
young guineas, 40c each; old guineas. soc
each.
new cases.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
LIVESTOCK RECEIPTS.
FURNISHED by Empire Commission CO., POI
New England BuildingO
ST. JOE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

st: Joe, Dec. 21,-HOGS-Receipts 10,500.
$G.7561700.
CATTLE-Receipts 1900 Market steady
to 25c higher. Steers, $5.0O69.T5; cows and
heifers, $3.25@9.50; calves, $4.O0@6.00.
SHEEP-Receipts 1900. Lambs. 25650c
higher; sheep, steady; lambs, $950@10.50;
ewes, $3.25@425.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

Laxative BROMo QUININE Tablets relieve
the Headache by curing the Cold. A tonic
laxative and germ destroyer. The genuine
bears the signature of E. w. Grove. (Be
cure you get BROMo) 30c.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
KANSAS CITY GRAIN MARKET.

(Range Of prices on grain futures on
the Kansas City Board of Trade as report
ed by B. f. Christopher & Co., 800 New
England Bldg, Topeka, Kan)
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
TOPEKA HoG MARKET.

FURNISHED by Wolff Packing Co. fooi
Of Quincy street. Topeka Kansas
TOneka KAN Dec 21.
1xTyED AND RT1TCHERS., Sc 206l6. 40
HEAVY 5 5906I6. 80
IIGHT Itic51 ....,.,.. 620a6.40
R0I1GH ,...,.4 4456l5.20
pies .,.,...... 5.70(d6 %
Cannot Use rough or unfinished hogs
win have to buy AT stock prices.
Receipts-Hogs, 12 cars. from the follow
ing: S. W. MeCallister. Horton. z cars; G.
D. Lunger, Mayetta; Eagan & Co, over
brook; T. M. Bunger, Eskridge; Hanna &
Spalding, Burlingame; Bruce Clark, Alta
Vista; F. c. WAGNER, Burlingame; August
Peterson. Leonardville: Harbaugh Bros,
Clifton; L. L. Shepherd, Wakefield; M. 5.
Evans, Usage City. Killing 1,200 hogs.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
KANSAS GUY LIyEsTOCK SALES.

reDorted over long distance telephone
direct to the State Journal by L. e.
Ward.)
Kansas City, Dec. 21-CATTLE-Receip
5000 head. Market strong to 25c higher.
HOGS-Receipts 5000 head. Market 15c
to 25c higher. Bulk of sales, S6.S0069 10;
top, S70G.
steady to 25c higher. Lambs, $10.25.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
GRAIN RECEIPTS.

FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co, POI
New England Building, Topeka. Kan.l
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

TOPEKA POULTRY AND EGGS.
market quotations by premium Poultry
Products Co, 210 North Kansas avenue
Topeka, Kan.(
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
TOPEKA POULTRY MARKET.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 81.

FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Co..
corner Laurent and Madison sts.. Topeka
KanSas.)
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

10 a m, Dec, 21, 1921.
English sterling, 4.21; German marks
ESIL
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21

FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co., 2O1
New England Building, Topeka. Kan-l
The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-21
DAILY wEArHEE REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka, Kan. for the twenty-four hours
ending at a. IN, Wednesday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02

lOaS reduction. Boston store.--adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
MAN WINS WAIT FOR
 RIVER TO PASS BY

YAKIMA, Wash, March 2.-The old story of the man who waited for the river to run by in order that he might cross, is not so humorousiy impossible, according to Jack Nel- son, reclamation service caretaker at Dumping Lake, near Yakima, for he proved recently that it could be done.
 Nelson found it necessary to go to the junction of the Dumping and American rivers, 12 miles be- low the Dumping Lake dam. to re- pair telephone wires. He travelled on skis to the break in the line but could not make his way back be- cause the snow had become too soft Fastening to the telephone at the American river forks he called his wife and instructed her to close the tunnel in the dam. During the win ter no effort is made to store water and a large store rushes through the tunnel
 When Mrs. Nelson closed the tun- mel intake the Dumping River was shut off at it's source. Nelson wait ed several hours until the water in the river head between the Ameri- can river and the dam had run by and he then walked home in the bottom of the stream.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
ELDEST ENLISTED MAN
 SHELL SHOCK VICTIM

GREAT FALLS, Mont, March g. -Ch2rles Wiseman, aged GA, vet eran of the world war, being treated at q Gerat Falls hospital for shell shock, is believed to be one of the oldest men who enlisted in the American army for service. Wise man, whose three sons were already in the service, enlisted at Kalispell where he told recruiting officers he Is months overseas with Company 21, Twentieth Engineers as a pri- vate. While enroute to France he was aboard a transport torpedoed but not sunk.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
WOMAN LOOKOUT IN
 FORESTRY SERVICE

MlSSOULA. Mont, March 2.-Love of the silent places is the lure which is attracting Mrs. Charlotte McGill, of eyerhauser, Wisconsin, to the forests of Montana, she wrote in letter to District Forester Fred Morreu here, asking for a position as ranger or fire patrolman in this section Mrs. McGill in her letter stated she was 35 years old and had lived much out of dooors and In the open and in foreign countries. For five years, she said, she lived in Picking, ChinaS
 Though it is not the custom of tine forest service to employ women on the special fire protection crews. due to the fact that such reenfroce- ments are used for trail work and other hard labor, Forest Msrrell has offered Mrs. McGill a place as look out next spring. He said that if she accepts the position will be called upon to do only such work as fit for a woman.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02

: ARE YOU HOLDING A MAKE
 SHIFT JOB? Sometimes necessity forces people to accept, unsuitable employment and to become simply
 !; wage earners, often without a chance for advanceemnt. If you can do something WELL, tell about it in a classified ad in The Empire.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
LABOR AGENT RECOVERS
 AND GOES TO HIS HOME

Lawrence J. Reedy, labor agent or the Alaska Gastineau Gold Min ng Company, left St. Ann Hospital or his home early this week. He was sick at the hospital for number If days with stomach trouble.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
FOR SALE
MISCELLANEOUS

@ HERE Is an opportunity to invest $S000 cash, to 16 per cent on the investment; 8 per cent guaranteed. Backed by real property of twice the value. Will call and give complete information. P. o. Box 1183, Junaeu