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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
BIG new HOSPITAL
Methodist Institution to Cost
$15O,OOO in Topeka.
First Plans Call for a Building
of Seventy-Five Beds.

Plans are being made for $780,
900 hospital to be built by the Kansas
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Topeka.
The hospital, according to ideas ex-
pressed today, will be constructed
near the Methodist Home for the Aged
at Munson and College avenues, a
high. airy site in an excellent part of
the city.
The hospital would accommodate
seventy-five beds, would be of fire
proof construction and would be mod
ern in every detail. The latest in hos
pital equipment would be used. The
building probably will be five stories
in height.
The Methodist church of the state
is divided into three conferences
where hospitals are maintained. The
northwest conference has hospitals at
Norton, Colby. Belleville, Goodland
and Salina. In the southwest confer
ence there are hospitals at Hutchin-
son and Wichita. The Kansas confer
ence maintains only one hospital al
Kansas City, Kan. The second would
be at Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
LADY RHONDDA NOT SEATED
Her Claim to House of Lords Not
Properly Made Out.
tho

London, May 19.-By a vote of 20
to 4, the committee on privileges of
the house of lords decided today that
Lady Rhondda's claim and petition to
sit in the house of lords had not been
properly made out.
Lady Rhondda's petition to sit in
the house of lords was granted by the
committee on privileges March 2. but
when the decision was reported to the
house late in March it was referred
back to the committee.
The sentiment of the debate in the
house of lords over the reference back
TO the committee was apparently
against the admission of women.
Lady Rhondda. daughter of the late
Niscount Rhondda, Great Britain s
wartime food controller. is one of the
leading figures in the business world
of Great Britain, having succeeded her
father, long known as the coal king"
in the direction of numerous of his
large business enterprises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
JURY MAKES ITS FINDINGS
L. ]. Davis and Ed Pine Charged With
Criminal Negligence.

Criminal negligence on the part of
L. J. Davis. driver, and Ed Pine, owner
of a Buick car. was responsible for
the death of Mrs. I. J. Howell, 1901
Collins street. as the result of in
juries she received in an auto accident
on the West Tenth avenue road last
Saturday, according to the findings of
a corOner's jury late THURSDAY The
negligence consisted in driving the
Buick at 'an excessive and unlawful
rate Of speed" said the jury.
Criminal proceedings will probably
be started against the two men at
once. according to county officers The
jury fixed the blame after viewing
the wrecked cars. the scene of the
accident and hearing the details of
the crash from witnesses
Mrs. r. W. Albright, Tenth and
Cambridge avenues. estimated that the
Buick was travelling fifty miles an
hour William Neal, 16, testified he
saw the Buick go past his home at
Tenth and Ridge avenue at about
thirty-five miles an hour. c. J. Wall.
1885 Taylor street, also stated that the
car was travelling at high speed. Mrs.
G l. Lester, Ninth street and Cam
bridge avenue. estimated the speed at
fifty miles an hour. Some of the wit
nesses expressed opinion that Pine
was drunk and said they smeiled
whisky on his breath Pine denied
that he had been drinking or that he
was travelling at an excessive speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
WOMEN IN IT NOW
Topeka League of Voters Enters
Police Investigation.
0ffer Help in Probe in Visit to
Attorney General.

The club women of Topeka took
hand in the investigation of the
Topeka police department. today when
a committee appointed at a special
meeting OF the Topeka League of
Women Voters called on the attorney
general at the state house this after
noon
The committee was headed by Mrs.
9 J. Evans. SIS Quincy street, presi-
dent OF the league The women as
sured the attorney general of their in
terest in a clean and efficient ad-
desire to be of service to him in the
investiga tion il they could do so.
Several men were called to the at
torney generals office today by c. 3.
Griffith, who is conducting the inves-
tigation. to testify concerning alleged
Irregularities in the department.
The special meeting OF the Topeka
League Of Women Voters was held
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Evans. where the committee to
wait upon the attorney general was
chosen after the case mad been dis
cussed by those present.
The committee consists OF Mrs.
Evans: Mrs. Anna B. Fisher, 701 Fill
Harrison street: Mrs. G. NJ. Blair, 1910
Lincoln street: Mrs. F. E Whitney,
1914 Lincoln; Mrs. John L. Bagby,
1928 Buchanan: Mrs. Fl. Langsdorf.
1884 Fillmore; Mrs. Augusta Walthall,
sos East Seventh; Mrs. A. ]. White,
1925 Clay street.
Mrs Evans said this morning that
efforts will be made to interest other
WOmen's clubs in the affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
BELIEVE wILLTE's DIZZY TALE.
Youthful Thief of S75e.OOO in Bonds
May Go Scott Free.

Chicago. May 19.-WiIlie Dalton.
the 17-year-old bank clerk. who a
year ago inpulsively walked out of the
Northern Trust company with three
quarters of a million dollars in bonds,
may go scot free.
a jury, after deliberating Wilie's
case, was dismissed today after its
foreman had announced that there
was no possibility of an agreement.
The vote was II to 1 for conviction.
The juror who held out was J. J. Gun
ningham, railway clerk.
1t was reported that the prosecu-
ton of Willie would be dropped. This
was his second trial.
Willie, on the stand, related how
he committed the biggest theft i'll the
history of Chicago-the stealing of
s772, ,000-because he couldn't stand
the sight of so much money lying
around loose"
He accepted the announcements of
mo agreement" on the part of the
jury calmly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
AIR line COMING
Wichita Company Plans Pas
senger Line Thru Topeka.
Two Planes to Fly on Two Hour
and a Half Schedule.

Reports from Wichita are to the
effect that Topeka is to be located on
one of the first regular passenger
carrying airplane lines in the United
States, and the first line to be oper-
ated on a regular schedule in the
middle west.
jack Reardon, 706 Polk street, is
a travelling salesman for the Nourse
Oil company of Kansas City. He is
one of five travelling agents of the
company who make their rounds and
cover fourteen counties of the state,
in airplanes.
Reardon is also connected with the
Laird Aeroplane company of Wichita,
and says that the Laird company plans
the installation of a. passenger air line.
operating on a regular schedule, be-
tween Wichita and Kansas City. The
line will probably be opened next
month.
Emporia and Topeka are the only
intermediate cities which have avail
able landing fields. consequently the
route will include these two cities.
Use Two Thru Planes.
Two thru" planes will be used, and
there will be two others which will
cover the same route and handle pas
sengers from intermediate points.
The passenger planes will be the
Laird Limousine" model, which carry
five passengers, in an enclosed body.
Two trips a day will be made, start
ing from Wichita and Kansas City
simultaneously, in the morning and
in the afternoon. The distance. which
is close to 200 miles. will be travelled
in two hours and thirty minutes.
Not So Cheap as RaiIe Fare.
The fare for the trip will probably
be about SIS, Reardon says The rail-
road fare and the Pullman fare from
wichita to Kansas City is more than
ten dollars, and the time consumed
in making the trip is about seven
hours
Reardon covers his oil route in a
Laird swallow" and stops wherever
there is a garage that might buy q
barrel of oil. He stops at the small
towns, as well as the cities which have
landing fields. Wayne Neville, a pilot
with two years of army experience,
and a former instructor in the United
States Air service, drives Reardon's
nlane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
MAY ABOLISH 12-HOUR DAY.
Harding's Suggestion to Gary Has
Chance of Being Carried Out.

Washington, May 19.-The practical
bility of abolishing the twelve-hour
day thruout the steel industry of the
country will be studied by a special
committee of five to be appointed
from the industry at an early date by
Judge Elbert H. Gary, as president of
the American Steel and Iron Institute
Authorization for appointment of
the committee to make a scientific
investigation of the matter and report
its conclusions to the industry. was
voted by forty-one represent ia tive steel
manufactures last night after discus
sing the questions with President
Harding at a White House dinner
conference to which they were invited
for that purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

New York, May ia patriotic
provision in a trust established by the
late Jabez A. BostYick, Standard Oil
magnate, for his daughter, Mrs.
Serge Varonoff. who died March 3,
1921, may cost her three children, all
British subjects, $1,375.OOO in favor
of Wake Forest college at Wake For
est, n. c., if the court confirms a
referees recommendation filed in the
county clerks office, today.
Mr.. Bostwick. who was an associate
of John d. Rockefeller, John d.
Archbold and Henry NJ Flagler in
part of the trust from which his
thrice married daughter drew the in
come, stipulated that one thousand
shares of original Standard Oil stock
prior to dissolution, should go to her
children, if they were Americans
when she died
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
new RENKER HOTEL PLAN
Topekan Says He'll Deal With Sled
hoff Construction Company.

-J.-F. VIM. Renker left today for wich-
ita where he says he expects to close
deal with George H. Siedhoff Con-
struction company to start operations
at once on a new hotel at the corner
of Tenth and Kansas avenue
The Siedhoff Construction COM
pany has just built the big Broadview
hotel at Wichita. and another at EN-
porfa, and are just the kind of people
that the Chamber of Commerce and
the business men Of Topeka should
welcome to build this hotel for u.s.
said Renker.
According to Renker. the Siedhoff
company has agreed to put up $780,
600. or one-haH the cost of the pro-
posed Hotel Renker, tentative plans
of which call for ten stories and 22S
rooms. The rest of the agreement is
that Renker and his associates are to
raise an equal sum, most of which is
to be paid after the hotel is built and
in operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
READ THE NAMES AND BELIEVE.
Seven POstoffice Clerks Held for
Concerted Action In RohncrY.

New York. May 1s.-Seven postof-
flee clerks were arrested early today
charged with acting in concert in the
theft of $1,50o.0O0 worth of bonds
from the United States mails here last
July.
The arrest resulted from confes-
sion made, according to postoffice in
spectors, by Mark Won Eschen, who
was arrested in the Bronx with $39.-
100 of the stolen bonds in his pos
session on January 10, and sentenced
to the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga
for five years on March IS, after con
viction of attempting to dispose of
part of the securities
The prisoners were: Gustave Field
man, Morris Steinberg, Edward Fugel,
Abraham Goldsmith Harry Shapiro,
Gustave GALES and Irving Weinstein.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
DEWEY IN COURTS
Effort Made to Place Property
Where Creditors Can Collect.
Holdings in Kansas Said To Be
Worth More Than 100000.

Chaunceys Dewey, of the famous old
Dewey-Berry feud of Western Kansas.
is again in the courts. Today the
name Of the state was used in a suit
make Dewey. who is now a prominent
Chicago clubman, show his assets and
place his property where creditors can
collect their debts against him.
The lengthy petition filed before the
supreme court sets out that all of the
property of Dewey, consisting of lands.
ranches and town lots and other prop
erty, is held in the name of the c. P
Dewey company, an Illinois corpora
ton that was chartered in 1897 and
that was admitted to do business in
Kansas in 1907. 1t is charged that
Dewey denies ownership of the shares
of this corporation but that in reality
he owns all the shares.
No Fees Paid in Kansas.
One OF the grounds for custer is
that the corporation has not complied
with the corporation laws of Illinois
since 1920 and that it has not paid the
Kansas corporation fees since 1917.
Another of the charges is that the
corporation is used to hide Dewey's
property
1t is said that the Dewey holdings
in Kansas amount to more than $780,
900 and that creditors hold claims
against him for more than 100000.
Some of these claims, it is said, grew
out of civil suits filed by members of
the Berry family after the Dewey
Berry feuds.
Ask for Receiver.
In addition to asking that the cor
poration, as a. corporation, be ousted
the petition asks the supreme court to
appoint a receiver to take over the
DeweN property and prevent the dis
posaf of any of it until the just claims
areepaid.,
Judge Frank Doster Joins with the
state in the filing of the nefitinn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
BUILDERS CLAMOR FOR WATER
New Construction Means Many Appli-
cations for Service.

Applications for permits to connect
new houses with the city waterworks
are taxing the resources of the office
of the waterworks department to keep
up with them.
I'VE are receiving from 100 to $50
applications per month for water serv-
ice. They have to be attended to right
then, and the number of applications
is crOwding other work to the back
ground w. A. Stanfield. commits
sioner Of streets and electric lights,
said today.
The large number of applications is
directly due to the building boom
which has struck the city, Stanfield
says
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
America Must Take Stand With
Other World Nations.
McAdams Tells Kansas Bank
ers We Are Too Isolated.
CARVER is new PRESIDENT
Bowman, Topeka, Secretary, Is
Reelected by Bankers.
Group Presidents Also Named
in TOday's Session at Wichita.

Hutchinson, Kan, May 19.-The
Kansas Bankers association is to meet
in Hutchinson next year, it was de-
cided this afternoon at Wichita, lac-
cording to a telephone message re-
ceived from the convention today.
(By the Associated oress)
Wichita, May 19-America can no
longer remain apart from the world if
highest commercial success is TO be
attained, Thomas B. McAdams. of
lean Bankers association, declared in
an address here today before the Kan
sas Bankers association.
I'VE must not permit America to
become a miser nation" Mr.. McAdams
said. LAS we despise the man who
, boards his money and lives to himself,
SO will we be classed by tn. nations
of the world if we try to keep aloof
from them and refuse to help solve
their problems which are in fact our
Thad c. Carver, president of the
Peoples State bank of Pratt, was
elected president of the Kansas bank
ers at the final session of the thirty
! He succeeds +. ]. Atwood, o. Con-
cordia.
A resolution endorsing "some plan
! of state constabulary to prevent crime
and capture criminals" was adopted
at the annual convention of the Kan
sas Bankers association which closed
here today.
Charles W. Carey. president of the First
National bank in Wichita, was chosen vice
president. succeeding Carver. w. d.
Womer president of the First National
bank of Manhattan, was named treasurer.
W. w. Bowman. of Topeka, veteran secre-
tary Of X. B. A, was reelected.
Group vice presidents were elected as
follows: Group l, Frank Idol, president
Bank of Robinson; group >. /. J. Mead,
vice president Lawrence National bank,
Lawrence; group 5, Ed Munday cashier
! McCune State bank. McCune; group 4,
Robert Johnson. cashier Citizens State
| bank. Solomon: group 5, r. E Dresser,
cashier Security State bank. Harper; group
6, J. w. Nicholson, president Ellis State
bank. Ellis; group Z, Ed Meyer, assistant
cashier First National bank. Hutchinson
group S, J. C. Sharer, cashier HoIcomb
| State bank. Holcomb.
NJ. j.. Breidenthal, of Kansas City, Kan.
was elected vice president for Kansas of
ceeding VIII Wayman, Of Empor1a.
Division vice presidents for the A. r. A.
were elected q follows: Bert f. Mitchner,
Hutchinson, state banks; Willis Westbrook,
Peabody, national banks; G.. H. Hamilton,
Wichita. savings banks.
Members of the executive council. A. B.
a: W. r. Harrison. Wichita VIII Way
man, Emporia; F. H. Foster, state bank
commissioner, Topeka.
f. ". Cooter, of Hutchinson. was named
for Kansas member of the A. r. A. nomi-
mating committee, with W. w Bowman,
secretary X. Il. A. alternate
E. c. Ryan of Emporia was elected presi-
dent of the building and loan section of
the association. Other officers were named
as follows:
w: L. Bowersox. Great Bend. first vice
vice president. and ]. L. Hersh, Topeka,
secretary treasurer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
STEEL QUIz IS On
Harding Doesn't Object to Any
Legitimate Business Merger.
But Big Heads Must Explain
Why Combine Is Legitimate.
UNTERMEYER DIRECTS ATTACK
Lockwood Committee in Charge
of First Probing Body.
Has Shown That Consolidated
Is Price Fixing Body.
JNTERMEYER DIRECTS ATTACK

Washington. May 19.-Officials of
the eight big steel and iron companies
which are contemplating the merger
of their properties into one gigantic
corpora ton. today informed Attorney
General Daugherty that the deal
would not be consummated until the
department OF justice had been fully
informed of all facts pertaining to the
new combination
A meeting Of officials of the COM
panies to discuss the proposed mer-
ger will be held at the department OF
justice on wednesday, May "a.
New York. May 1g.-Fresh from a
conference with President Harding,
in which the chief executive is report
ed as giving assurance that he did
not desire to interfere with the ma
tional and legitimate progress OF
business" E. II. Gary, Eugene G.
Grace and other reigninG powers of
steel. today were requested to show
cause why the present operations
should be considered Legitimate bus
mess"
Untermyer Captains squad
The first official probe of the par
TALLY completed and contemplated
steel combines and of charges that
steel prices are being fixed in con-
travention of the Sherman antitrust
law. is being made by a New York
state body. the Lockwood committee.
Samuel Cntermyer, one of the keen
est investigators and most adroit cross
examiners of the country. is directing
the attack.
Untermeyer. who is. ostensibly in
quiring into the reasons for the hous-
ing shortage. for high prices and high
rents, contends that illegal combina-
tions in restraint of trade, by forcing
up building costs, are the basic causes
Of the pinch" which has caused ma
tion-wide public suffering and finan-
cial loss thru false rental charges.
Consolidated Plan Revealed.
The veteran prober, himself wealthy
in his steel holdings, incidentally
which he is said to have received in
shares as a legal fee when steel stocks
were at about the levels now occupied
by continental currencies in the early
stages of the probe. has gone after the
truth of the steel situation with oom-
plete disregard of possible personal re-
suits to his property
Thus far he has built up a conteR-
ton that the Consolidated Steel cor
poration, an export company formed
less than three years ago under the
Webb-Pomerene law, as export agent
for sixteen companies, is a price-fix-
ing organiza ton for the foreign field
and may be the means of coming to a
uniform agreement regarding domes-
tic prices.
That the Bethlehem Lackawanna
consolidation, the pending combine of
six other independent companies, is
a further step toward price fixing, is
another contention which Untermyer
announces he will probe with examin-
alton of such men as Gary, Grace and
other men whose names are almost
synonymous with steel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19

Illinois Expects to Make a Separate
Agreement With Harrington.

Chicago. May 19.-Action by Frank
harrington. Illinois mine union chief.
was awaited with interest today fol-
lowing overtures by Illinois operators
to effect a settlement OF the coal
strike.
Denouncing Harrington for his al
legged delay in ending the seven
weeks old strike. the Illinois Coal
Operators association. in an open
letter asked Just what you propose
TO do about it" The operators hone
Tor a separate agreement with miners
in Illinois
Farrington's associates declare he
has been working for an agreement
TOR the central competitive field-Tl-
hnols, Indiana. PENNSYLVANIA AMI
Ohio. Previous to the strike. Earring
ton was said to be favorable to 4
separate Illinois agreement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
ARRESTED HIS OWN PASTOR.
Speed Cop Recognized Him After
Judge Asked for Identification.

Salina, Kan. May ia violator of
the speeding laws was in police court
today and wanted to put up a cash
bond to avoid going to Jail.
Can you be identified" asked Del
bert Wight. police judge.
Yes said the prisoner, the ar
resting officer is a communicant in my
church, and guess he knows me-"
The police officer looked up quickly
and recognizing his prisoner, ex-
elaine ed:
Holy smoke, it's my preacher"
The judge took the preachers money
and he was allowed to spend the
night with his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
OBJECT TO PHONE REPORT
p. L. c. Enters Objection to Findings
of Commissioner McDcrmOtt.

The utilities commission today en-
tered its objections to the report of
Commissioner George McDermott in
the Bell Telephone case, affecting
rates in Atchison, Hutchinson, Edo
RADIO, Winfield. Lyons and Arkansas
City, in the Shawnee county district
court The valuations placed on the
Bell plants by Commissioner McDer-
mott were the chief objection of the
state
The Bell company will have an op-
portunity to enter any objections to
the report it may have following the
states testimony. Attorneys for the
company indicated, however, that no
objections would be offered. Judge
A f. Helm, attorney for the utilities
commission, represented the commits
sion at the caring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
HE WAS PERsECUTED 10 YEARS.
Stable Owner Now Sues CoIIyer, Sport
Writer, for Criminal Libel.

Louisville. KY. May 19.-TriaI of
Bert Collyer, sporting writer. charged
with criminal libel in an Indictment
returned by the grand jury last June
on information submitted by r. d.
CDick) Williams. turfman is expected
to get under way here today
According to statements made yes
terday, Collyer prosecuted Williams
for ten years.
Williams claims that Collyer pub
lished articles saying that some OF
Williams two-year- oIds were three
year-olds, and that the racing COM
mission in Florida where the races
were in progress. held an inyestiga-
tion and exonerated him and barred
Col1yer from the track.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
200 DRUGGISTS IN RING.
BootIegger's Giant Combine Revealed
by Prohibition Zone Chief.

New York. May 19.-An attempt of
an organized ring of bootleggers, dis
tillers, warehouse men and more than
200 retail druggists in New York to
withdraw unlimited amounts of
whisky on forged permits was un-
covered here yesterday. according to
John D. Appleby, prohibition zone
chief for New York and New Jersey.
thru the seizure of 300 cases of liquors
at express offices in Brooklyn and New
Jersey BY prohibition agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-19
sCHUMANN HEINK PLFAsEs.
Nearly 5000 Attended Her First Con.
cert After Recent Illness.

Atchison. Kan. May 1g.-Madame
Ernestine Schumann- -Heink sang to
an audience OF nearly 5000 persons
memorial hall last night and after
wards received hundreds of admirers
upon tho stage
Il was her first appearance since
She was compelled to cancel several
engagements on account of a severe
cold She will sing at Norfolk. Neb
tonight.