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Evening star., 1921-08-07
Regularly $500
Mems Pajan,as, $1.98

Regularly $3.50. $500 and $3.50.
Made of plain colored, striped or
fancy madras, with pearl buttons
and silk frogs. Sizes A, B. c and
D. At $l8.
ps,s,. R>tal-Men's shop-Main
Eio0f.
Evening star., 1921-08-07
Amber Pyralin, Du Barry Pattern
Just Receiued- at Reasonable Prices

Toilet Table in the following:
Powder Boxes Hair
and large Comb ana Brush Trays
Evening star., 1921-08-07

Waite cunvas Ons>strap
Puynps wftk kand-euyNef soles
and Leuis xV heels. White Gem
vas 0xfovds With .bkits Ustfsa
leather sstss and military enssn.
eled hsetS.
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TO RELEASE irish
Members of Dali Eireann To
Be Liberated, Is Report.
De Valera and Cabinet Confer
on British Terms.

Belfast. July 26.-The Belfast Tele-
graphs Dublin correspondent says to-
day he understands virtually all the
members of the Dali Eireann or Irish
Republican parliament who are in Jail
will be released at an early date. This
action will be taken to give them an
opportunity to meet and discuss the
British governments proposals for a
settlement of the Irish question, he
adds.
London, July 26.-North and South
Ireland have already reached an
agreement upon the future form OF
Irish government, according to Eve
ming News. The newspaper added
that some of the Sim Fein delegates
are ready to accept Premier Lloyd
Georges terms.
(South Ireland is republican; north
Ireland is unionist.)
Dublin, July 26.-Another full ses-
sion of the Sim Fein cabinet was held
today with Esmonn de Valera pros
ent. to consider the British peace
terms.
De Valera said he would not have a
statement for the press for several
daVS
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IN PLIGHT
Famine and Cholera Are De-
pOpulating Russia.
All Offers to Help Children Will
Be Accepted.

Riga, July 26.-Famine and cholera
are depopulating soviet Russia and all
government projects except those for
dered stopped.
The soviet at Moscow is planning to
evacuate all the children from the
Volga region. according to informa-
tion received here today.
The supplies brought into Russia by
the American Society of Friends
(Quakers,) have been exhausted. The
ouakers have been invited by the
soviet, however, to extend their work.
All offers of help for Russian chill
dren from abroad will be accepted,
Lenine declared at Moscow. The
plight of the Russian children is ter
rtble. The. death rate of children is
much higher than that of adults AL
ready children are stunted, showing
the evil effects of the 1920 famine.
To Mobilize Resources.
An exodus of farmers has begun
from the Volga region. and the soviet
government is attempting to turn the
starving peasants away from central
Europe.
A communist call has been issued
for all members of the party to unite
in fighting the famine and disease
All are asked to contribute some
thing. The nations resources will be
modified.
A produce tax is being put into ef-
feet. Public proclamations lay stress
upon the declaration that failure to
pay the produce tax will bring about
collapse of the government The tax
must be all paid before August Is.
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TO RELIEVE SOUTH
Famine and PeIlegra Epidemic
Threaten Cotton Belt.
President Harding Alarmed by
Reports of Health Service.

washington, July 26. - Federal
agencies. acting at President Hard
ing's direction, were working at emer-
gency. speed today, to relieve condi-
tions in a large section of the south-
ern cotton belt which are reported by
the public health service to threaten
a near state of famine coupled with
a widespread epidemic of pellagra.
Alarmed by the report of conditions,
which are attributed to the economic
plight of cotton growers resulting
from depression in the cotton market,
President Harding yesterday called
upon the public health service and the
American Red Cross to make an i'm
mediate investigation to ascertain the
actual conditions and to lose no time
IN applying an effective remedy.
Money Shortage Blamed.
Declaring the shortage of money
rSsulting from the inability of the
people of a large section of the south
to sell their cotton was threatening
famine and plague" the president
tn public health service that 'imme-
diate and effective measures of ameli-
Grafton are manifestly demanded II
conditions even approximate the grav-
ity suggested by the health service"
Promising the full cooperation of
all federal agencies the president also
declared that If found necessary con-
gress would be asked to pass special
legislation to meet the situation.
Atlanta, Ga, July 26.-The Georgia
state senate today adopted a resolu-
ton submitted by Senator James B.
Weaver, of Dawson, denouncing as un-
true recent reports from Washington
that the southeast is suffering from
pellagra epidemic.
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TO MEET AUGUST 4
Inter-AlIied Supreme Council to
Convene in Paris.
France and Britain VIII Discuss
Upper Silesia.
U. S. AMBASSADOR TO ATTEND
May Take Up Question of Man
dates Toward Close.
Poles and Germans Have Again
Clashed, Is Report.

London. July 26.-The allied su-
preme council will meet in Paris
August 4. according to an official an
nouncement this morning. 1t is under
stood the session will be brief. dealing
only with the Silesian question.
Marquis Curzon. secretary of state
for foreign affairs. and A. ]. Balfour.
lord president of the council, will rep
resent Great Britain. and it is i'm
probable Prime Minister Lloyd George
will be able 20 leave London.
The British experts, who will ex-
anime the Silesian question before the
council meeting. already have left for
Paris.
1t is understood that Ambassador
Harvey will attend the supreme coun-
Gil session in an advisory and unof-
ficial capa city.
Is a Compromise.
The call for this meeting of the su-
preme council comprises, TO a de-
gree the differences between Great
Britain and France over the procedure
to be adopted in connection with Upper
Silesia, where the situation, owing to
continued German and Polish rivalry
in the disputed area, is said to be in
creasingly threatening. The action
was forecast in dispatch from Paris
Monday night, indicating that Great
Britain had agreed to a meeting of the
supreme council August 4, and a pre-
liminary examination into the Upper
Silesian problem by a committee of
experts, as France had desired. There
are said to be Emergencies between the
two governments, however, over the
sending of reinforcements to Upper
Silesia, France considering this action
necessary, and Great Britain taking
the opposite view.
Harvey to Attend.
George Harvey, American ambassa-
dor, will attend the meeting as repre-
sentative of the United States. While
the meeting is primarily called for the
discussion of Upper Silesia, it is pos
sible that the question of mandates
may be taken up later in the sessions
despite the proposed internationa. con-
wal. discuss Pacific mandates.
British experts will arrive in Paris
today for preliminary meeting on
! Upper Silesia.
Fighting Is Renewed.
Berlin, July 26.-Fighting has again
broken out in Upper Silesia, according
to a Breslau dispatch to the Allege-
meine Zeitung today.
Six Germans were wounded in a
clash with Polish insurgents. A gen
eral strike has been proclaimed at
Rybnik.
The Poles were said to be the ag-
gressors.
The Polish insurgents have seized
the Birawe-Zergowitz railway. A
number of railway stations were set
on fire. The Breslau-Ratibor express
could not make its regular trip on ac-
count of damage to the line.
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mo attempt will be made to en-
barrass Governor Small. The order
of the court explains how the matter
will be handled"
Spectators began to arrive in the
historic old court room long before
Judge Smith was ready to open court
The Judge arrived early himself and
went to his private chambers. Former
Governor Governor Joseph W. Fifer
former Congressman James NJ Gra-
ham and George B. Gillespie, of Gov
ernor SnalTs counsel, took the same
places they occupied last Friday when,
as friends of the court, they argued
immunity for the governor.
In his opinion, Judge Smith re-
called that each of them had been
states attorney and were well ia
miliar with the laws governing pro-
cedure in criminal matters"
Courts Duty Plain.
The opinion, in part, follows:
Len Small became governor of the
state of Illinois in January, 1921, be-
ginning a term of four years and is
now governor of the state.
"On the twentieth day of July, 1921,
the grand jury of Sangamon county
returned into this court three indict-
ments against Len Small charging
him with criminal offenses.
'The statutes make it the duty OF
the court, when an indictment is re-
charged is bailable and make it the
duty of the clerk of the court to issue
Immediate process of capias directed
to the sheriff for service.
Appearing as amici curiae to give
the court friendly advice as to its
duties and the course 1T should pursue
you (the governors counse) advise
that the court. on its own motion.
should issue a restraining order en-
Joining the clerk of this court from
Issuing process of capias for the ap-
prehension of the defendant until
after the expiration OF his term of Of
flee. and that the court should sus-
pend prosecution during said term.
ssThe King Can Do No Wrong"
In support of this advice it is
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HHaaAA AHH hAH EAAAAO
Increase in Passenger Rates Ef-
fectiVe Wednesday Night.
Kansas Is Last State in Union
to Raise Rates.
WILL COST 20 Per CENT MORE
Carriers Working on New
Freight Rate Schedule.
No Order Issued by Kansas
Utilities Commission.

An increase of 20 per cent in pas
senger fares will become effective on
all lines in Kansas Wednesday mid
night, according to an announcement
by j. M. Connell, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe
Kansas is the last state in the Union
in which railroad rates are increased.
Several state commissions refused to
sanction increases in state rates cor
responding to the interstate advance
which became effective August 26.
1920. In all cases the carriers ap-
pealed to he interstate commerce
commission which, after conducting
heal-Ags, set aside the state orders on
the ground of discrimination against
interstate commerce.
Rate of 3.6 Per Mile.
The Kansas passenger rate has been
3 cents a mile. Now it will be 3.6
cents a mile, corresponding to the
interstate rate. With the 8 per cent
war tax the new cost of travelling be-
tween Kansas points will be S.SSS
cents a mile. The carriers are now
working out the tariffs preparatory to
putting into effect a schedule of state
freight rates corresponding to inter-
state rates, including the last 35 per
cent advance.
be put into effect without a specific
order from the Kansas public utilities
commission. The interstate col merce
commission ordered on July 5 that
freight and passenger rates within the
state of Kansas be increased by Au-
gust to the level in interstate traffic.
The carriers have filed suit for an in
junction to prevent the state commits
sion from interfering with the increase
at this time
A Big Saving to Public.
The carriers estimated last fall that
the action of the Kapsas commission
in refusing a 20 per cent increase in
passenger fares and allowing a 80 per
cent instead of a 35 per cent increase
in freight rates would result in a year
ly saving to the public of approximate
ly $2,000,000 in passenger fares and
$1250,Oo0 in freight.
One of the immediate effects of>the
passenger rate advance is expected to
be in the increased number of tickets
sold from Kansas points to Kansas
City, Mo. Taking advantage of the
difference in interstate and intrastate
rates, many travellers have been pur-
chasing their tickets to Kansas City,
Kan, or Argentine, from where they
would either take a street car to the
Missouri side, pay the railroad fare to
cross the line, or escape the conduc-
tors eye. The present fare from To-
CONTINUED on Page Two.l
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WOMAN is HELD
Miss Elizabeth Thompson Ar
rested in Warren Spurgin Case.
Was Alleged s'Friend'' of Miss
ing Bank President.

Chicago, July 26.-Miss Thompson
was released this afternoon after Mr..
Newmark said he. was satisfied she
could give no further information
concerning the missing bank presi-
dent.
Chicago, July 26.-Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, an alleged friend of War
rem c. Spurgin, missing president of
the Michigan Avenue Trust company,
which was closed last week by bank
examiners, was being held by authori-
ties today. her detention marking the
first arrest in connection with the
case Miss Thompson was held at the
direction of Ben Newmark, chief in
vestigator for the state attorneys Of
flee, after she had been questioned
for four hours regarding her friend
ship with Warren Spurgin. Later, she
is said to have admitted attending
dinner parties with Spurgin and to
have told of other girls entertained by
him.
The nationwide search for the
missing bank president was continued
today, with authorities devoting more
attention to the theory that he may be
headed fo- the Mexican border rather
than for the Canadian line, as was at
first thought.
( Place Loss at 500, 900.
James Kelly, a director of the
bank, who took the affairs of the
trust company before Ernest S.
Hodges, acting first assistant state S
attorney, estimated the loss at $780,
900, and said the bank may be able
to pay only sixty cents on the dollar.
Belief that the wife and daughter
of Warren c. Spurgin, missing presi-
dent of the Michigan Avenue Trust
company, fled from Chicago to De-
troit to cover the bankers escape by
another route, led to the virtual aban-
donment today of the search along the
Canadian border. Detectives are cen
tering their efforts in Colorado and
along the Mexican border.
Messages were sent to all points
leading into Mexico today, asking that
the border be guarded. A theory is
advanced that Spurgin is heading to-
ward the southwest with the intention
of making his way to Honduras.
Wife and Daughter Not Involved.
Detectives have made it clear today
that neither Mrs. Spurgin nor her
daughter, Vivian, are involved in Spur
gins speculations. 1t is believed, how
ever, that they were used by him as
tools to facilitate his escape.
Spurgin is said to have sent pack
before his disappearance. Detectives
believe this package may have con-
tained funds to aid him in his flight
and that he intended to go to Colo
RADIO to obtain it.
No positive action has as yet been
taken by the grand jury toward indict-
ment of Spurgin and depositors of the
bank have not decided on their course
of procedure.
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FORCE WILL BE
LAST RESORT IN
SERVING CAPIAS
Indicted Offcial VIII Be Given
Reasonable Time.
No Such Thing as Divine Right
of Kings, Court Holds.
CANNOT CALL ON TROOPS
Such Action Would Be Beyond
Governors Power, Claim.
Is Subject to Arrest for Acts as
State Treasurer.
CANNOT DELAY WARRANTS
Statute of Limitations Would
Soon Expire, Says Judge.
Spotlight Now Shifts to Person
of Sheriff MeSter.
Such Action Would Be Beyond
Governors Power, Claim.
Is Subject to Arrest for Acts as
State Treasurer.
CANNOT DELAY WARRANTS
Statute of Limitations Would
Soon Expire, Says Judge.
Spotlight Now Shifts to Person
of Sheriff Mester.

Springfield Ill. July 26.-Governor
Len Small of Illinois today was or
dered arrested on charges involving
misuse of state interest funds.
His arrest was ordered by Circuit
Court Judge z. S. Smith in a decision
denying the right of a governor to i'm
munity from the state criminal code.
Warrants charging the governor with
confidence game, embezzlement and
conspiracy to defraud. involving $2.-
100000. were in the hands of Circuit
Court Clerk Charles L. Koehn when
Judge Smith handed down his infor-
NAL decision.
They were to be given to Sheriff
Henry Mester for immediate service.
Try Telephone First.
Notification of Governor Small by
telephone was the method of pro-
cedure decided upon by Sheriff Mes
ter
Il may go over for an interview
with the governor later" Sheriff Mes
ter said.
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BURN own TOWNS
Retreating Turks Leave Only
Flaming Villages Behind.
Three-FOurths of Nationalist
Army Is Wiped Out, Report.

Athens July quarters of
the Turkish Nationalist army in Ana
tolia has been killed, wounded or cap
tured by the Greeks @kid an official
war office statement toc-y.
Constantinople, July 26.-The Turk
ish Nationalists government is being
removed from Angora as a result of
the Greek advance towards that city.
according to information received by
members of the Central Ottoman gov
ernment today. The Turkish Nation
alist assembly and the archives are
being shifted to Sivas.
Leave Only Refugees.
Tski Shehr, Asia Minor, July 26.-
The Greeks entered Eski-Shehr headed
by Prince Andrew, but did not stop
here. They continued their pursuit OF
the retreating Turks into the open
plains beyond the city.
The Greek advance was made with
the utmost rapidity. BY night its path
was lighted by scores of immense
blazes all along the road and up the
mountain side, consisting of burning
villages. which had been fired by the
rcti, ing Nationalist.
From Ainegul on, in a radius of
fifty miles around Eslxi Shehr, few
villages are left. Turkish prisoners
say it is the purpose of Mustapfa
hemaI PaSnd, II ne InuSI WllIuTdW III
this district, to leave the Greeks
nothing but homeless refugees to
feed. The roads are choked with
fleeing Turkish refugees, from burn
ing villages, making their way toward
Brussa in buffalo carts, on asses. and
afoot with nothing but hastily
gathered intimate belongings. They
say their villages were looted by the
nationalist soldiers before being set
on fire. Thus, whole communities
are migrating as units, in groups of
two and three thousand each, greatly
impeding the supply service of the
Greek army and rendering the coun-
tryside unsafe.
Famine Is Forecast.
The crops in the fields along the
path of the Hellenic army's advance
have been unharvested by the dis
persed and terrified villagers. This
presages famine during the coming
winter, as the utmost efforts are re-
quired on the part of the Greeks to
supply their army alone from its base,
500 miles distant, at Piraeus. Every
Greek soldier is being used in the
military operations, the police work
at Brussa and Mudania being done
by sailors of the Greek fleet.
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HAPPY OVER HER INJURIES
Little Helene Van Horn as Hostess
to Picnic Party Only One Hurt In
Accident.

"Oh. / am glad I was hurt and
no one else"
This was the happy remark made to-
day by Helene Van Horn, 11-year-old
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. c. B. Van
Horn, 1915 Mulvane street after her
father nad bandaged her shoulder fol-
lowing an accident at the Van Horn
country home south of the Country
Club last evening.
Helene had asked a party of little
girls to picnic on the farm Monday
afternoon and evening. The crowd
was enjoving itself to the extent that
only youngsters can realize. Helene
aske2 three of the children to take a
ride with her in the trap behind her
Shetland pony. After a half hours
trip over the fields the pony was al
lowed to Craze and without warning
he started up suddenly throwing the
trap against a farm implement The
children were thrown out of the We
hicie and Helene received a broker
bone In her shoulder.
The accident Of course spoiled the
picnic and the unopened lunches were
brought back to the city.
Despite the disappointment and the
pain Helene is a happy girl today
just because she was the only one
hurt
It is this spirit that creates heroines.
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MORE FINE WEATHER DUE
Partly Cloudy and Cooler Is Offering
for Today and Wednesday.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES

The finest weather ever continues
to be the gladsome tidings from the
weather department and at present
there seems to be nothing on the hort-
zon that will take Kansas out of the
list of summer resort states.
With a maximum temperature of
only 80 during the past twenty-four
hours, which occurred at $3.50 o'clock
Monday afternoon. Topeka was better
off than Boston with a temperature
of "a. Chicago. where it was 30 and
even Denver where it was also 81.
The lowest temperature during the
past twenty-four hours was IL at $50
this morning. 1t will not go higher
than 80 this afternoon nor 90 We'd
nesday, dropping to about 10 tonight.
The highest temperature in Kansas
Monday was 80, which occurred at
Emporia. Fort Scott. Oswego and a
number of other eastern towns. Sc
dan was the coolest spot during the
Continued on Page Two.)
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TAX WAR is ON
Ways and Means Committee Re-
opens Hearings Today.
Removal of Some Luxury Taxes
Is Urged and Expected.

Washington, July 26.-There> will be
no adjournment of congress until
tariff and tax revision legislation is
disposed of, Republican Leader Mon
dell, of Wyoming, declared today
after a conference with President
Harding at the White House.
Washington, July 26.-The house
ways and means committee opened
hearings on tax revisions today amidst
a storm of protest.
From the number of witnesses who
asked that they might be given hear
ing, it appeared that there will be a
vigorous protest offered against every
tax now in existence and every tax
which is suggested.
Particular opposition was voiced to-
day against the small war taxes. espe-
cially the stamp taxes.
Remove "Nuisance'' Taxes.
Representatives of the bottling and
confectionery interests were heard in
Juices and mild beverages and on ice
cream and soda waters. These taxes
have been alluded to as the nuisance"
taxes. Their repeal is expected by
many committee members.
Discussion of the sales tax was
opened up before the committee by
representative Frear, of Wisconsin.
who is opposed to the tax, and had
brought opponents of the proposition
forward to argue against 1t. An
nouncement was made that the sales
tax was not under conside ration by the
committee at the present time.
Southern tobacco growers and
a protest was made before the COM
mittee against Increases in the taxes
on cigars. cigarets and other forms OF
tobacco manufa cturers.
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TOTAL OF S2,537 FOR FUND
Sanatorium Porch Fund Increased
Several Hundred Dollars.


The sanatorium porch fund now to-
tails $2,537.53, an increase of several
hundred dollars over the amount re-
ported on Monday.
At a lawn social to be given at the
First Methodist church all proceeds
will be given to the fund. Forty-five
gallons of ice cream for the social are
the donation of Baughman's, the Bea-
trice, Scott Bros, the Farmers and
Boettcher's ice cream factories.
Church workers have donated seventy
cakes.
Merchants who have bought tick
cts for the social in great numbers to
distribute TO their employees are Berk-
sons, fifty; Warren NJ. Crosby's.
twenty-five; the Palace, twenty;
Franks, twenty-five; Voiland's, ten,
and Woolworth and Kresge stores
each ten tickets.
Many out of town people are re-
spending to the need for the porches,
according to Mrs. Chester Woodward,
publicity manager for the fund. A
number of generous checks have been
received from out of town persons.
North Topeka has contributed
$94.50 largely thru the efforts of Mrs.
c. c. Maze. who offered her services
in helping the fund.