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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21

Witness in Arbuckle Case FIeeS
From N. Y. Detectives.
Trying to Dodge Trial, Declares
Frisco Prosecutor.

New York, Sept. 21.-Lowell Sher-
man, film actor. who is wanted by Dis
trict Attorney Brady in San Francisco
as a witness in the case against Roscoe
Fatty Arbuckle, charged with the
murder of Virginia Rape, today sue
cessfully eluded the attempt of the
local authorities to locate him.
A detective and representative Of
the district attorneys office met the
second section of the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited on which Sherman was
supposed to be a passenger, when 1t
arrived at Grand Central Terminal
today. But Sherman was not aboard.
He had left the train at Harmon, the
last stop before New York.
Sherman was greeted at Harmon by
was waiting in an automobile. The
couple embraced, according to the
Pullman conductor on the train, and
departed in the machine.
May Force Him Back.
San Francisco. Sept. 21.-Lowell
Sherman, actor, will be compelled to
ent Whereabouts in or near New York
state, "as he is a most necessary and
vital witness in the Arbuckle case
District Attorney Brady said today.
I'VE want Sherman to come back
of his own accord" Brady said. IF
he does not. we will compel him TO
come back. He is evidently trying to
dodge us. We will figure on bringing
a charge against him today. 1 do not
want to say what the charge will be
until I have consulted with my col
leagues. but there are two serious
charges we can bring against him"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
TOTAL 70 CASES CUT NIXON BOND
Supreme Court Takes Action in
Great Bend Murder Case.
Bonds Reduced From 100000
to S37,50O on Two Charges.

The state supreme court interviewed
today in the fixing of bail for Dr. w.
A. Nixon, charged with the murder
of A. W. Banta,. Of. Great Bend,
Nixon's, bond on a charge of first de-
gree murder was reduced from $75,-
900 to $4,000. Bond on a robbery
charge was cut from $4,000 to
$2,500.
When Nixon's bonds in the two
cases were fixed at a total of 100000
by a Barton county Justice of the
peace, his attorneys appealed to the
supreme court for relief. The case
was submitted in chambers this
morning. Mrs. Nixon, wife of the ac-
cused Great Bend physician and
American Legion head, came to To-
peka for the hearing.
Following statements by counsel,
the supreme court held that the bonds
were exhorbitant and unreasonable.
Accordingly. the murder bond was
sliced to $4,000 and s2,5OO was held
to be sufficient bond on the robbery
charge.
DR.. Nixon is charged with the kill
ing of A. W. Barta, we'll known
Great Bend lawyer and son of Dis
trict Judge Banta.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
MAY BRING CRISIS
Tax Program in Germany En-
dangers Wirth'S Position.
Centrum Party May Force
ChancellOr's Resignation.

Berlin. Sept. 21.-Important po
litical developments which may bring
about complete reorganization of the
cabinet when the reichstag convenes
were brewing in Germany today.
The Socialist congress at GoerlitZ
took important decisions regarding the
rebuilding of the cabinet and decided
to enter a new ministry. If the plans
now in hand work out to fulfillment.
the next cabinet will be of coalition
makeup. Most of the men selected
by the Socialists are said to have been
approved by other political parties.
The position of Chancellor Wirth
has become very difficult, owing to
the domestic developments of the past
six months and especially the antagon-
ism of the capitalists to his tax pro-
gram.
1t is reported the centrum party
will withdraw its support from Chan
cellor Wirth when the reichstag re-
convenes, which would make his resig
nation virtually certain. Without the
centrists behind him, the chancellor
would occupy weak position in the
reichstag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
ASK MINISTER'S TO COOPERATE
Fire Prevention Services Will Be Held
Sunday, October 8.

All Kansas ministers are requested
by L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal, to
devote a few minutes of their church
services to fire prevention on Sunday,
October 9, the fiftieth anniversary of
the great Chicago fire. 1t is also asked
that short talks on fire prevention be
given in Kansas Sunday schools on
that date.
The Fire MarshaIs' Association of
North America has set October 10 as
fire prevention day and has asked
President Harding to issue a procla-
for that purpose. The day was first
nationally recognized in 1920 by a
proclamation Of President Wilson.
Governor Allen is expected to issue
the customary state proclamation, and
Kansas schools will be urged to OBJ
serve the day with appropriate exercise
and fire drills.
In his letter to Kansas pastors, Fire
Marshal Hussey states that fire
losses in North America are h CHER
per capita than in any other part of
the world. Altho fire prevention
methods have beer preached but d
comparatively short time in this coun-
try, he says, the results are already
apparent in reduceu lo>~ss. The pres
ent movement to reduce fire hazards
was inaugurated by Alfred FleInming
Of New York. now director of educa-
uon IOr Ine national DoarG OF UNDER
writer's. He has devoted his life to
this work since the CoIlinwood cisas-
ter in which 174 children lost their
lives.
Mr. Hussey will represent Kansas
at the sixteenth annual convention Of
the Fire Marshals' Association Of
North America, at Chattanooga. Tenn.
September %, % and "a He is sec
retary-treasurer of the association
and member of the executive com
mittee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
Judge Means Finds for Topeka
Society on Every Issue.
Sensational Charges Were Not
Supported, Court Holds.
INSURANCE DEPT. INFORMED
Suit Grew Out of Recent Exami-
nation of Ass'ns Records.
Officers of Order Were Not NOti-
fed, 1t Is Found.

Judge Hugh Means in the Douglas
county district court today found for
the Security Benefit Society of Topeka
on every issue in the custer and fraud
suit filed against the organization
recently by Attorney General Hopkins.
The trial court which spent several
days in taking the testimony, declared
that Hopkins sensational charges
were not supported in one Instance.
Both Hopkins and J. K. Rankin, his
assistant, were in the court room when
Judge Means spent an hour reviewing
the case.
The court held that fraud had not
been perpetrated in a merger which
the company had perfected with the
North American. 1t held that the con-
tracts for payment to George L. Berry
and w. A. Biby were sound and made
in good faith. 1t also held that the
state insurance department had full
knowledge of this transaction at the
time. Further Judge Means held that
the merger was sound business and
added new business to the books of the
Security Benefit association at less
than the current expense of securing
additional members.
Not Supported by Evidence.
Hopkins charges, which appeared
sensational on their face and won for
the attorney general mucn IlrSJ page
newspaper space, were not supported
by evidence. His charges of fraud
and business Irregularities were found
by the court to exist only in the petit
ton which the state department filed.
One charge was to the effect that
the association made a contribution
of $219 to the Republican state cen
trail committee. The original voucher
available to the attorney general
and insurance examinerS,-waS Of
fered in evidence. 1t showed on its
face that the association had pur-
chased and paid for $219 worth OF
postage stamps, in possession of the
committee when the campaign closed
The trial court commented on con-
tributions to the Topeka Chamber oi
Commerce and to the Fraternal Con-
gresS of Oklahoma. 1t was held that
these payments were made from the
expense fund, were justified and
could not be complained of in any
action alleging fraud and business
deception.
Finding was made by the court that
(COnfinue1 on naCo Sly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
REPUBLICAN SOLON ELECTED
Sen. Bursum Gets Big Majority Over
Democrat in New Mexico.

Santa Fe, N. NJ, Sept. 21.-Reports
today from all of New Mexico's 500
precincts, incomplete and unofficial,
give Senator Holm o. Bursum, Re
publican, an indicated majority of
6,945 votes over his Democratic oppo-
nent, Richard H. Hanna, in Tuesdays s
special senatorial election. A. A.
Sena, Independent candidate, polled a
light vote.
The vote thruout the state was light
and resulted in a reduction of the nor
NAL Democratic majorities in the east
ern and southern counties Several
counties that ordinarily return Demo-
cratic majority but which leaned to-
ward Harding last November, dupli-
Gated the Republican vote in the same
ratio yesterday.
Bursum is now serving in the senate
on recess appointment to succeed Sec
retary of the Interior, A. B. Fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
Judge Higgins Answers Head
of Mine Workers Union.
''InvOluntary Idleness as Bad as
Involuntary Servitude."
LAWS SHOULD PROHIBIT IT
Court Judge Invites Mine Union
Leader to Open Fire.
Gives Leaders a Few 0bServa-
tiOns Regarding Rights.

Involuntary idleness is an evil al
most if not quite as vicious as was
involuntary servitude," is the answer
which Judge w. L. Higgins, presiding
judge of the industrial court, today
sent to John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers union.
Judge Higgins in a statement answer
ing Lewis Indianapolis statement, de-
clared that the laws of the land should
prohibit compulsory idleness just as
the constitution bars compulsory
service.
In his reply to the Lewis statement
the industrial court judge challenged
the right of labor to call a man from
his work and permit the laborers fam
lily to pay the bill thru hunger and
sickness. "a man who is willing to
work is as deserving of the protection
of the law as is the man who may
have forced upon him a. service not
of his own choice" said Judge Hug
gins.
Answers Lewis Challenge.
Answering the Lewis challenge for
a finish fight on the Kansas industrial
court act. Judge Higgins invited the
mine union leader to open fire. Then
he gave Lewis and radical union lead
ership a few personal observations re-
SdIu4IlS IlBnlS OL ldbOI anu IlBnlS OF
labor leaders to call the contented
woker from his job.
Statement by Judge Huggins.
In his statement Judge Higgins
said:
Mr. John L. Lewis. president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
in his speech before the convention
yesterday, if correctly reported, makes
in a different form the old objection
to the Kansas Industrial law that it
imposes involuntary servitude upon
working men. His reference to the
ancient Scottish law, which imprisoned
a coal miner for leaving his work
without permission of the owner of
the mine, shows conclusiVely Mr..
Lewis's objection to the Kansas law.
Involuntary servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime, is prohibited by
the thirteenth amendment of the con-
stitution of the United States. If the
Kansas law as claimed by Mr.. Lewis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
TO CARRY OUT BOND CONTRACT
Shawnee County Can Now Dispose of
Highway Securities.

Shawnee county may now proceed
to carry out her contract with bond
agents and dispose of her highway
securities. The attorney generals Of
flee has refused to listen to further
quibbling in the case and has advised
n. A. Turner, state auditor, that fur
ther interference with the bond sale
must come thru court action.
Several days ago J. r. Burrow and
S. E. Cobb sought to tie up a contract
between the county commissioners
and the bond agents. They alleged
that the sale of 100000 worth of
road bonds was at price far below
the market. Bond purchasers and
commissioners retaliated that Burrow
and Cobb had previously bid less than
the present contract price for bonds
and had threatened to blow up the
new contract when they were not
given a part of the issue. The row
was limited almost entirely to the
bond brokers who, for several days.
barred their souls and unfolded the in
side secrets of the securities game.
Action by the attorney general
gives the county commissioners and
bond syndicate members a clean slate.
If the matter is pursued further. Bur
Tow and Cobb must seek relief in the
courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
WILL CUT BANK RATES
Rediscounts To Be Cut, Is Decision of
Eastern Federal Reserve.

Washington, Sept. 21.-Lower bank
rates at an early date were predicted
today at the close of the quarterly
session of the advisory council of the
federal reserve board New York and
Boston federal reserve banks, both of
which have a flat rediscount rate of
u per cent, will be the first to make
rediscount rate cuts.
Other banks in the federal reserve
system, notably Chicago and Cleve-
land, may be quick to follow the lead
of Boston and New York.
The strength of the federal reserve
system and its ability to meet future
emergencies, is clearly indicated by the
almost unprecedented reserve ratios
registered for some of the big districts
of the east and middle west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
TO MAKE Topeka PLAN
Committee Appointed to Contract
With Planning Expert.

Chas. S. Elliott, W. L. Porter. c. P.
Adams and Mayor Herbert J. Corwine
were appointed today by Robert
Pierce, president of the city planning
board, to complete the contract with
Harland Bartholomew of st. Louis to
make the Topeka city plan.
The completion of the city plan by
Bartholomew, a foremost city plan
engineer, will require several years.
A corps of assistants will begin Oc-
tober 1 to collect the necessary de-
tailed data preliminary to beginning
the city plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
HIS HEART FAILED HIM.
Was Not Opponent in Squared Ring
Killed Maine Student, Is Decision.

Bangor, Maine, Sept. 21.-An
autopsy yesterday on the body of Ed
ward F. Prout, the University of
Maine student who died Monday night
after being knocked out in the fourth
round of a boxing match with George
Langley, of Waterville, showed death
to have been due to acute dilation of
an already diseased heart. Langley,
who was held on a charge of man
slaughter, was discharged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
BLooDHoUNDs FAIL ON TRAIL.
Two Concoriia Safes Robbzd But Dog
Detectives Found No Clue

Concordia, Sept. 21-Two safes
were robbed last night at Aurora,
small town fourteen miles south of
here. The Genette general store was
entered thru the rear window. Fifty
dollars and several checks were taken.
The Lanone garage was entered by
the front door. The robbers got forty
dollars there Bloodhounds were
taken there this morning. but no trail
could be found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21

Eureka. Kan, Sept. 21.-charIes
Bush, Jr.s a 19-year-old son of Charles
Bush. who lives near Climax. com.
mitted suicide Tuesday by shooting
himself with a shotgun.
The young man had been sick with
typhoid fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21

Pleasant fall weather will continue.
1t will be warm during the day and
cool and comfortable at night, accord
ing to Meteorologist Flora The sky
is clear today from Kansas north to
Canada and west to San Francisco.
The highest temperature in Topeka
as well as Kansas Tuesday was IS de-
grees at 3:15 o'clock in the afternoon.
The lowest in Topeka during the last
twenty-four hours was SO degrees at 6
o'clock this morning. Goodland re-
ported a temperature of 40 degrees.
which was the lowest in the state.
Phoenix. Ariz-, was the hottest place
in the United States with a tempera-
ture of Sc degrees. and the lowest
temperature in the country was 80 at
Modena, Utah. A light frost was re-
ported all over that section of the
lContinned on PAGE TRol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
TWO NEW MINISTER'S NAMED.
Harding Sends Nominations for Swiss
and Denmark Posts to Senate.

Washington, Sept. 21-Joseph c.
Grew. OF Massachusetts. now Ameri-
can minister to Denmark. was nomi-
mated today by President Harding to
be minister to Switzerland.
At the same time the president
nominated John Dyneley Prince, of
New Jersey. a professor in Columbia
university, to be minister to Denmark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
Missouri Masons Ban XXX.

st. Louis. Sept. 21.-The Missouri
grand lodge of Masonry this afternoon
unanimously passed a resolution pro-
hlbiting any members of that organiz-
alton in the state from joining the
ku Klux Klan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
BROTHERHOODS BACK ED LITTLE
Rail Men Urge Harding to Give Kan
sas Congressman Hooks Place.

Washington, Sept. 21.-Representa-
tives of the railroad brotherhoods to-
day called on President Harding to
urge the appointment of Representa-
tive Little, of Kansas. to succeed the
late Judge Hook. of the Eighth ju-
dicial circuit of the United States cir
cult court.
Representative Little has. in addi-
ton to the endorsement of the rail-
road brotherhoods. about forty-two
congressman. according TO the latest
available information in Kansas. He
has. so far. only one endorsement
from the Kansas delegation and this
is from Representative White Of the
Sixth district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21

Fatty Arbuckle, in knickers and
stockings, as he surrendered him.
self to Detective Sergeant J. d.
SkuIly in San Francisco.
"Roscoe Arbuckle, aged thirty
four, inclined to be stout" read
the bIotter when Fatty Arbuckle,
movie comedian, was booked at
the San Francisco jail to answer
a charge of murder. Fatty was
asked by authorities to go to
Frisco from Los Angeles to aid
them in clearing up the mystery
surrounding the death of Vir-
ginia Rappe, movie actress, fol-
lowing a gin jollification in Ar
buckles rooms in a San Fran
cisco hotel. After Arbuckle's ar
rival developments in the case
caused his arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-21
PLEASANT WEATHER IN SIGHT
Sky Is Clear Today From Kansas to
San Francisco.

TODAY'S TEMPERATUREs.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
Coughing the Country
Editor.

Editor Hencke, of the Dassel Dis
patch, complains because the county
and city officials send to the big city
printing offices for their supplies, in
stead of having the work done at
nome, and we must say that he is a
meek and mild chap or he would do
something stronger than complaining
There are some communities that
elect BODYBUILDING officials to serve
shem-those who believe in home in
dustries, and helping those who are
carrying the load in building up the
community, and we will offer this as
hint to the Dassel man for use at
iame future time.
r If there is any valid reason for hav-
pig municipal or any other home
Uniting done outside of the munich
sality we have never heard of it.
The local printer is part Of that
community, and it is the duty Of the
municipal officers to see that he is
sieated as such. The matter of few
,aanies more than the city house
6 srges has nothing to do with it, and
cIanot be used as an argument.
at is a twisted principle to take
sslney out of the pocket of the home
t.gn man and send it to the city chap
wlo has no interest in the commun-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
Now Let's Cooperate.

The big farm program formulated
by the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton and supported by progressive
members of the state legislature, has
been put through. The enactment of
so many measures in the interest of
agriculture is almost epochal in the
history Of the state. The Importance
and magnitude of the program are
recognized by leaders of agricultural
thought throughout the country. From
almost every state and from foreign
countries have come requests for
copies Of the bills passed by this
legislature in the interest of the farm
ers.
Among the-most important of the
measures that have passed are these:
1. The law which permits co-opera-
tive marketing associations of this
state to join with similar associations
in this and other states. This was
necessary in order to carry out the
plan of the Committee of Seventeen.
g. The law which opens the Cham
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13

Der Of Commerce to farmers market
ing associations.
8. The law which bans future trad
ing, permitting, however, legitimate
hedging by farmers and others hav-
ing actual or potential possession of
farm products. This measure is de-
signed to stop gambling in the neces-
sites of life.
4. The submission of a constitu-
tional amendment permitting the Gre
alton of rural credits system in Min
nesota.
The enactment of these measures
will not bring about an immediate re-
storation of prosperity on the farm.
The world war has so reduced Eur
ope's purchasing power that time must
elapse before a normal demand for
Americas agricultural products can
be re-established. Transportation
costs must be so reduced that they will
not absorb large share of the price
at the ultimate market; and this can
not be brought about without read
justment of the labor situation. Con-
gress must protect agriculture from
ruinous competition with Canada and
the Argentine.
These are conditions over which
the Minnesota legislature can have no
control. The legislature has gone as
far as it could-it has enacted every
sane and practical measure that the
leaders of agriculture have proposed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-13
Women, Women
Everywhere

| About the only place gang of men
could get together within the law was
at wrestling match, and the women
have invaded these precints. The sa-
| loon has been closed. A place which
sells nearbeer isn't saloon and a
place which sells real beer isn't law
| full place of assemblage.
If men -foregather to play poker
| they are likely to be arrested. The
smoking cars have been taken off the
elevated and the men cannot smoke on
the front platforms of the street cars.
| They find women in their polling plac-
es. Women driving cars are running
them down on the street. Women are
in their golf clubs. The law of Hi
nois will not allow the men to have
prize fights or to see them, and it the
law did we presume women would be
there.
Men have one characteristic of the
American bison. Sometimes the males
want to herd alone. They want to get
away from refining influence and be
coarse creatures. They want to know
that the wives are home mending
stockings and they want to be mill
ing around by themselves.
They have their fraternal orders
still, that is true, but we warn these
orders that the way things are going
the women will be in them very short
ly. A man used to be safe at a
wrestling match. There he would not
see anything more delicate than the
face of hard-boiled egg, and in such
company he felt the spiritual indie
pendence of the male creature.
1t is good for him occasionally to
breathe the free air of his ancient do
main when he was lord of creation and
to herd with his fellow lords and to
escape all feminine suggestion. It is
good for him to get his lungs and eyes
full of tobacco smoke and watch two
noble brutes bash each other and come
home about 2 a. M, smelling like a
half-smoked bad cigar which some one
left all night on an ash tray. Can he
do it any more? He cannot.-Chicago
Tribune.