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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
Slim Fein Thows Bombs at
Cork Newspaper Workers.
Leaders of Latest Irish Rebel
Raid Under Arrest.
nran nnasn4r ~ nussn
TOP DAMAGE CLAIMS
British Judge Holds All Cases
for duration of War;"
Many Charge British With Re-
spOnsibility for Losses.

Cork, May 23.-Sinn Feiners way
laid four members of the staff of the
Cork Examiner as they were returning
from work this morning.
One newspaper man had his leg
blown off by bomb explosion. The
other three were seriously wounded
by revolver shots.
Leaders Under Arrest.
Leaders of 200 Irish soldiers who
rioted last night in the village of Ave
ley were arrested today and taken be-
fore their officers for strict examina-
tions.
The motive for the sudden outbreak
was not known. The soldiers looted a
hotel, smashed windows in business
houses and held up and searched mo-
torists, cyclists and pedestrians. Other
military forces suppressed the up
rising.
Stop Damage Claims.
Dublin, May 23.@All efforts to col
lect damages resulting from acts of
the British military authorities have
been stopped in the areas in Ireland
now under martial law by the issuance
of an order forbidding the courts to
hear any such claims against the mill
tary authorities unless they have per-
mission of the commander-in-chie
Four cases in which the plaintiffs
claimed damages agalnst the crown
forces for territory which had been
destroyed by them were brought UP
before the kings bench here, but with
out avail.
Gen. Sir Nevil Macready. the British
commander In ireland, sent an affi-
davit to the court asserting that a
state of war existed in the area In
| question and that the defendant was
acting under his orders for the pur'
pose of suppressing rebellion and re
establishing law and order.
Courts Have No Power.
The lord chief justice ruled that the
court had no power to dismiss the &C
ton, but granted a stay of proceed
| fngs for "the duration of the war;.
This will bar all actions to recove
1 damage for military acts in the mar
tial law, areas, as it is expected tina
the usual act of indemnity will b
passed by parliament when the stat
of war ends.
Tie Irish county courts previousl
ihave awarded a total of about $3.50,
600 for malicious injury to person
and property. but only a small proper
4 ton of this has been paid.
The taxpayers are liable under tn
law for all this sum but the local au
Ithorities refuse to make any attemp
to collect it.
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MOTHER SACRIFICES LIFE
Dodge City Woman Makes FruitIess
Effort to Save Children.

Dodge City, May 23.-A mother sac
rificed her life near here yesterday in
an attempt to save her drowning
children. Mrs. Cash Woods, wife of an
insurance man at Kinsley, went down
in fruitless effort to rescue her To-
year-old son, Jack. after pulling an
older daughter from the water.
The two children went wading in
Pawnee creek while the family was
picnicking near Larned. They stepped
off into a deep hole and started to
sink. No aid was near, and Mrs.
Woods plunged into the water She
struggled frantically and dragged the
girl to the bank Returning she tried
to rescue her son, but she was ex-
hausted and both sank Woods was
some distance away and arrived too
late
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
UNDER OPEN SHOP
Hall Printing Plant Begins
Operations Today.
No Settlement Made With the
Striking Printers.

Every department of the Hall Lith-
ographing company's plant was in
operation today under the open shop
system, on the basis of forty-eight
hour week, Guy Morse, of the Hall or
ganization. stated.
I'VE didn't come to any settlement
with the Topeka printers. We are
working some old men and some new
men. Some of the new men are from
out of town. The plant is working
printers, binders and pressmen.'
Morse stated that he did not know
what had been the course of action of
the union printers who had returned
to their jobs-whether they had left
the union or not.
Two Other Plants Ready to Open.
Two other plants are about ready
to start operation under the open shop
system" Morse said. He stated that
he was not at liberty to state which
plants they are.
One of them will probably open
Tuesday morning and the other within
a week. Morse said.
1--WE have a scout in Texas now, who
says that he is getting the men lined
up for US, and we are going ahead"
Morse said.
Morse said that the Hall plant is not
being operated yet to it's full capac city,
but that more men are expected to
come to the job, and that it will soon
be running at the limit.
No Longer Members of Union.
The printers, who were members of
the Typographical Union and who
have returned to work under the open
shop system for Halls, have auto
matically severed their connection
with the union. Their names will be
published and they are not members
from now on, Leo Won Langen, Sec
retary of the Topeka Typographical
union, said this afternoon
Further than this, there was nc
statement which the printers were
willing to make, as regards the new
aspect of the situation.
Reports that Halls was\ beine
picketed today were unfounded. Nc
pickets were found about the plant
and Won Langen denied the statemeni
that there had been or would bt
picketine
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German Prison Camp
Rulers Face Criminal Trial
British Legal Authorities Attend Hearing of Cases Le
zig to Ensure Justice to War Crminals-Conf-
dent Germans Are in Good Faith.

erich der Crosse mine near Herne-
They declared they were not miners
and would not go down into the pits.
Heinen was alleged to have beaten
some of them and ordered his helpers
to use force on others.
The next case is scheduled to bring
Captain Mueller of the Landwehr be-
fore the bar. He was charged with
negligence in commanding a prison
camp near Flavy LIE Martell, where
many deaths resulted from an epi-
demic laid to faulty sanitation. Muel-
ler's defense is that he was in COM
mand of the camp only one month and
that the epidemic came after he had
been relieved
Plead Higher Orders.
Private Neumann, charged with un-
derfeeding prisoners of war who were
put to work in a chemical factory at
Pommersdorff, is expected to admit
his guilt. His contention is that food
ran low and that the Germans suffered
as greatly as the British.
Another case which was expected to
be taken up was the charge that Cap
tain Lieutenant Heumann, U-boai
commander, torpedoed the British hos
pital ship Dover Castle. Heumann ad-
mits sinking the boat but defends his
action with the plea that he was act
ing under instructions from the ad-
miralty.
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TRY TO Intervene
Allied Commission Sends Dele
cation to Poles and Germans.
Want Cessation of Military
Operation in Upper Silesia.
PREMIERS MAY HAVE MET
Both BRAND and Lloyd George
Cannot Be Found.
Not So Far Apart as Thought
Are Playing Politics.
PREMIERS MAY HAVE MET

Paris, May 23.-The allied high
commission in Upper Silesia has sent
delegations TO intervene with both the
Germans and the Poles and endeavor
to obtain the cessation of all military
operations in that territory according
to French official dispatches today.
Each of the delegations is composed
of representatives of France, Great
Britain and Italy.
Premiers Are Isolated.
London, May 23-Premiers BRAND
of France and Lloyd George of Great
Britain were absent from their usual
haunts yesterday and early today.
Likewise, the French ambassador
could not be located here nor could
the British ambassa dor to France be
staffs professed ignorance of where
their chiefs were spending the week
end
The mysterious absence of the four
officials, at the very height of the Up
per Silesian controversy, gave rise to
much speculation. With the airplane
bringing Paris and London so close to
each other, there were numerous ru-
mors that the two premiers had met
somewhere on the French coast to
reach an agreement on how to dispose
of the troublesome Silesian problem.
Are Playing Politics.
Turnout the arguments, featured by
the = heated statements issued first
from Britain then from Paris. there
have been rumors that the two actual
TX were not so far apart as they ap-
peared to be. Both being astute poll
ticians, some of their opponents ar
gued, there was a possibility that they
We're using the situation to put their
parliaments more strongly behind
them.
BRAND was certain of a vote of con-
| fidence when the chamber of deputies
resumes debate on his policies this
week. Lloyd Georges statements op-
| posing the French procedure in Silesia
were credited with solidifying the pre-
mier's position.
] Meanwhile. there were reports that
Lloyd George had devoted his week
| end to conferences on the mine strike
which many officials appeared to be
lieve would be settled this week.
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Leipzig. Germany. May 23.-The
little list of alleged German war
criminals was scheduled to go to trial
here today.
British legal authorities, headed by
Sir Ernest Pollock, solicitor general,
were here to press the charges. The
defendants here are accused of cruel
ties in prison camps.
British Sure of Good Faith.
Before court convened at 10:3o,
British and German attorneys con-
versed amicably over the procedure
to be used. The British said they
were convinced Germany intended to
make an honest effort to reach just
decisions in the cases. The accused
men have been treated as other prls-
oners would be, held in jail when they
could not provide proper bail.
Representatives of the German
state attorneys office declare that
his staff was sincere in prosecuting
the charges. The hearings were re-
garded as preliminary to the trial of
the big generals, admirals and poll
ticians who have been charged with
violating the laws of war.
All Have Defense.
The first case today was that of
Sergeant Hefnen, charged with beat
ing British and Belgian war prisoners
with the butt of his rifle. The
prisoners had been sent to the Fried
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IN RACE
Arkansas City Publisher May
Be Candidate for Governor.
"Howard for Governor" Club
Formed in Home Town.

Senator R. C. Howard of Arkansas
City will be a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for governor 'if
things look good" In Topeka today
Senator Howard said he would not
determine until later whether he will
be a candidate.
81 don't want to get in unless there
is good chance to win,'' he said, land
it seems too early to make a decision
at this time"
A Howard for governor" club is
said to have been organized in Senator
Howard's home town. The club will
work for the Cowley county senator S
nomination if he runs. Senator How
ard is widely known in newspaper cir
cles in the state. He is publisher OF
the Arkansas City Daily Traveller. He
was a member of the house in sessions
of 1890 and came to the senate last
winter
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MANY WANT TO Be LAWYERS
Sixty-Five Students Seek Admittance
to Kansas Bar.

Sixty-Five Students Seek Admittance
to Kansas Bar.
Clerk D. A. Valentine of the su-
preme court today announced names
of sixty-five ambitious law students
who will seek admittance to the Kan
sas bar when the state bar examin-
ing board holds it's meeting in Topeka
June 20. Topeka and Lawrence each
contribute eighteen candidates for ad-
mittance to the state bar. Six young
women also aspire to practice in the
state courts
The list of candidates. as announced
today, includes:
Dick Wallace Martin, Caney.
Karl Noll. Lawrence.
Ruth Miller Kaster, Topeka
Roscoe Mitchell Graves, Topeka.
George Marion Ashford, Topeka.
James Frank Addie, Topeka
Myrl Becker Topeka.
Fred Locke Crabbe, Topeka.
James Malone, Topeka.
Alfred Tennyson Alling:. wichita.
Dennis Cullen Payne, Topeka.
Carol NJ. Casner. Lawrence.
Edward F. Barry, Topeka.
James s; Manning. Kansas City.
Nellie May Swaney, Galena.
Ralph Wiley Oman. Topeka.
Lydia DeIoff. Mankato
Harry Lair Hart. Westmoreland.
Blanton Fearn Messick, Topeka.
Ora l.. Alley. Topeka.
Oliver Wendal Schell, Lawrence.
John Orin Slonaker, Lawrence. b.
! Hamilton r. Fulton, Lawrence.
Charles Bromfieid Randell, Lawrence.
| Clarence Marshall Gorrffl, Lawrence.
Chester Dixon Vance Phillipsburg.
Victor Dean Woodward, Delphos.
! Percy James Paxton, Topeka.
| James Renwick Mcbride. Topeka.
| Grace Adams Miles. Independence.
| Hersehel Lawrence Washington, Law
renee.
Donald Buick Lang, Salina.
/ John August Etling, Belpre.
/ Armin Daniel Weiskirch, Topeka.
Clay Charles Carper. Minneapolis.
/ Fred Conway Stringfellow, Mcpherson.
Elbert Francis Smith, Lawrence.
William Robert Joslin. Hugoton.
/ Glenn Victor Banker, Russell.
I George Robert Temple, Wichita.
| Albert Peter Murphy, Lawrence.
! Loren Dale Simon. Lawrence.
! Horace Hakes Rich, Coldwater.
/ John Nelson Monteith. Lawrence
Robert Lorin Robertson. Lawrence.
| Harold Loure Blake. Wichita.
Walter Fletcher McGinnis, Jr., EIdorado
! George Roeder Wild. Kansas City, Mo.
Oscar Floyd Perkins, Meade.
I Leslie Easton Forney, Topeka.
Roy NJ r. Van Dyne, Topeka.
Harold Wilfred Goodwin. Lawrence.
Carlos William Evans. Tonganoxie
Harry Vandeveer Howard, Arkansas City
Kenneth Welch. Emporia.
John Wilson Wood, Topeka.
Dewey Shillerstonn. Lawrence.
Ruth Nav Adair, Lawrence.
George Henry West, Kansas City
Jerome Sheridan Koehler, Muskogee
Okla.
Edwin Rudolph Bauman, wellington.
Stanton Lambert Smiley. Lawrence.
Wade Hampton Evans. Lawrence.
Laura Rohrer, Junction City
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EDUCATORS TO MEET
Superintendcnts From 105 Counties
Will Be Here Tuesday.

Superintendents of public instruc-
ton from the 105 counties of Kansas
have been called to Topeka for a con-
ference and discussion of school prob
lens Tuesday morning. The confer
ence will be held in the senate cham
Der in the state house.
Summer institute problems, as well
as questions of aid for weak school
districts will be considered. Notices
of the meeting were sent from the Of
flee Of the state superintendent OF
public instruction. 1t is probable that
a majority of the county superintend-
ents will come TO Topeka for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
INTO CITY BOUNDS
Washburn College May Become
Part of Topeka Proper.
City Officials Look Over Five
Contemplated Additions.

Washburn college may become
part of the city of Topeka If Tyne
hurst, one of the additions visited by
the city commissioners and the city
planning board today, is brought into
the city Tynehurst lies west of
Washburn college, and is asking to be
admitted to the city. If Tynehurst
comes in, Washburn will probably
also be brought within the corporate
bounds. according to w. A. Stanf1eld,
city commissioner.
Visit Five Additions.
The city planning board and the city
commissioners visited five additions.
some of them asking for admission to
the city, and others not anxious to be
admitted Members of the commits
sion EXPRESSED themselves as of the
opinion that it would be inadvisable
to announce the boundaries of the ad-
ditions which are being contemplated.
Not Naming Additions.
"If we do" said Stanfield, well be
deluged with protests and petitions for
admission. AS a matter of fact we
don't intend to pay any attention to
the protests If we think 1t is for the
good of Topeka that they come in.
Some of them are receiving the bene-
! fits of lights, water and sewers, and
are not paying for it"
The city engineer, who accompanied
the commissioners and the city plan
ming board on the trip this morning.
has been instructed to draw up a-plan
of the city. showing additions which
are contemplated, additions which are
already made, and the number of
houses in each addition.
Definite action will not be taken
until the map of the city has been
completed, it was stated by City Com
missioner Stanfield and Robert Pierce.
chairman of the city planning board,
today.
Two Weeks to Finish Map.
The map which the city engineer is
to make will take at least two weeks.
/ it is estimated. and only after it has
/ been completed will the planning board
make any recommendation to the
commissioners as regards the new ad-
ditions.
! The planning board is in communi-
cation with several city planning ex-
perts. one of whom will be asked to
make a comprehensive plan of To-
peka as it should be, in the near
future. Pierce said today
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TRAIN WRECK PLOT FAILED
Rails Tempered With, Train Leaves
Track-No One Badly Hurt.

Paducah, KY, May 23.-What rail-
road officials said probably. was de-
liberate attempt to take human life
failed early today, when Illinois Cen
tral Flyer No. 103. Louisville TO New
Orleans, was derailed at Epperson.
five miles from here. Three coaches
and a locomotive tender partly over
turned but no one was seriously il
Jured. altho many passengers receive
bruises in the several jolt
Railroad detectives and county OF
ficials called to the wreck found angle
bars and spikes removed from several
lengths of track and the rails so weak
ened, they said, that they could not
support the heavy train. The train
was said to have been going twenty
miles an hour. Bloodhounds were
sent for to take up a possible trail. 2
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BEATS THE INDIANS
Trains and Autos Kill and Main
Moro Kansans Yearly Than Red
skins Ever Did, Declares "OId
Timer

Clay Center. Kan, May "a
Scenes of the early days were re-
called here recently by many old
timers as a wagon train, composed of
horse traders and their families
passed thru this town. 1t was typical
of the prairie schooner days. from
the ov on a pony lea ding the cara
van, - the old buggy, hooked on be-
mind last Schooner" wagon.
Tt were the days" commented
an old timer who immigrated to Kan
sas in n prairie schooner Travel
was safe then"
Indians sort OF dangerous. weren't
they" queried a bystander
Dangerous the veteran ex-
claimed. why, motor cars and rail-
roads kill and MAIN more people
right in Kansas in a. year than the
Indians killed in Kansas in a century. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
KANE VISITS TOPEKA
President of Motion Picture Corpora
tion Working on Big Pictures

Arthur s. Kane. president of the Ar
thur S. Kane Pictures corporation ard
partner of Charles S. Ray, in all the
latter's releases, is in Topeka for a
short visit with his mother. Kane,
who is a former Topeka newspaper
man, is en- route from Los Angeles to
New York.
John P Fritts, formerly a Topeka
newspaper man, and now in publicity
work for the Realart Pictures cor
poration, is also in Topeka for a visit.
He has been studying producing at
close range
Kane and Ray are working on a
contract for thirteen big pictures. eight
of which have been completed and
four released. The contract will be
completed about March 1.
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SHOWERS DUE TOMORROW
Unsettled and Cooler Weather Is the
Forecast for Tuesday.
ToDAY's TEMPERATURES.

Sunday broke the high temperature
record for the year, with a mark of
SO degrees at 2:30 o'clock, followed by
a night temperature 10 degrees above
normal The temperature this after
noon promises TO go to 90 degrees or
possibly higher, depending on the
density of the clouds which are hover
ing over the entire middle west today.
The highest temperature in the
state Sunday was 90 degrees. reported
from Manhattan and Liberal The
same temperature was reported from
Chicago and Boston. The lowest tenn
perature in the state Sunday night. So
degrees. was reported from Scott City.
Continued on Page Two.)
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BEGIN BIG DAMAGE SUIT
Mexican Asks Total of S23, ,OOt
From City.

Trial of a $4,000 damage suit
brought against the city of Topeka by
Guadalupe PadiHo, Mexican, was in
progress today before a jury in Judge
George Whitcomb's division of the dis
trict court.
Padillo is suing for personal in
juries he claims to have sustained
when a truck loaded with Mexicans
fell thru the bridge over Ward creek
on Evans street August g. 1920. The
Mexicans were working on the roads
and were on their way back to Topeka
when the accident occurred. Padillo
alleges the city was negligent in al
lowing the bridge to remain in an un-
safe condition.
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PASS EMERGENCY TARIFF BILL
Act Goes to President for Second Time
Wilson Vetoed 1t.

Washington, May 23.-Congress fl
nally approved the emergency tariff
bill today.
Action necessary TO send the bill to
resident Harding was taken by the
ouse when it approved the confer
nee report adjusting senate and
louise differences over the measure.
President Harding is expected to sign
the bill
Passage of the bill completes the
first step of the Republican revenue
and tariff program Today was the
second time the bill has passed con-
gress. former President Wilson hav-
ing vetoed it last session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
WESTERN KANSAS NEEDS RAIN
Weekly Crop Report Shows That
Wheat Is Damaged

Central and western wheat counties
are badly in need of rain, while gem
eral showers in the state would be
beneficial, according to the weekly
crop report today by ]. c. Mohler,
secretary of the state board of agricui-
ture.. Much replanting of corn is in
dicated in the report
Rains of two weeks ago packed and
hardened soil in eastern counties.
Showers are needed in these communi-
ties. In central and western counties
wheat is suffering for lack of nois-
ture. Wheat, oats and barley show
effects of the dry, hot weather. Short
wheat heads are reported from many
counties owing to late freezes.
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ATTEND PHONE RATE HEARING
Party of Business Men From Arkan-
sas City Visit Topeka.

A party of business men and city
officials from Arkansas City arrived
in Topeka this morning to attend a
hearing before the public utilities
commission on the proposed increase
of rates in their respective cities by
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
company.
In the party are: Mayor c. NJ.
Hunt City Attorney Kirk Dale, State
Senator r. c. Howard, publisher of
the Arkansas City Traveller. John B.
Heffelfinger. VI E. Creighton. T. E.
Afford, L. B. Crawford. o. S. Gibson
and L. c. Brown, all of Arkansas City.
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Begin Chester Trial.

Kansas City. May 23.-Denzel
Chester was placed on trial in COM
mercial court here today charged
with the murder of Miss Florence
Barton, a society girl.
Selection of veniremen was begun
Immediately and the first twelve men
examined qualified to serve on the
panel. Forty-seven men were to be
chosen, ef which the defense will be
permitted to scratch the names of
twenty and the state fifteen.
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LOPEZ HELD FOR MURDER
Verdict of Coroner's Jury Charges
Mexican With Killing.

A verdict finding that Manuel Lopez
Mexican held by the police, shot and
killed Andrew Hartwick, 81, in Ripley
park last Thursday morning. was re-
turned by coroner's jury in the city
court late Saturday afternoon. 1t was
expected that a state warrant charging
Lopez with murder will be issued to-
day. The Mexican still denies that he
shot the park keeper.
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New Orleans, May 23.-The entire
crew of the shipping board steamer
Hadnot. anchored here. was removed
forcibly from the ship by alleged
union marine strikers today and Sc
verely beaten.
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Washington, May 23.-Agreement
on the budget bill was reached TODAY
by senate and house conferences, and
final congressional action is expected
to be completed within a few days,
and the measure sent to the president.
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St.A-- .----t,.os t.. SsIycu Noicc.
Chicago, May PA plan for giving
employees of Swift & Co. packers, a
representative vioce in the solution of
joint problems of plant operation was
announced by the company today.