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afternoon when Judge Dyer said he
was tired of the way the defense was
being conducted and appointed Tom
Doran and W. H. Carpenter, the lat
ter from Marion, to represent the two
defendants.
Aside from his own denial, Van
Meter introduced a number of affi-
davits tending to show that he was
in New Castle, Penn. on the dates on
which Haley said they were passing
the checks in Springfield and St
Louis. Cox based most of his de-
Tense on the testimony of Martindale
and Hull, and in attacking a confess
sion which he made of his part in the
conspiracy soon after it was discov-
cred.
Confession Not Considered
Cox was successful in this, as Judge
jury, said the confession might not be
considered. Cox charged that the
confession was obtained under third
degree methods while he was sick
court in instructing the jury. The
court also charged the jury to weigh
very carefully any testimony of pri-
soners in connection with the case
''Scrutinize it with great care the
court warned.
Other Van Meter Case Goes Over.
At the conclusion of the trial today,
Judge Dyer announced that the case
pending against Van Meter separately
would be continued until the October
term of court. In this cose Van Meter
is charged with forgery and conceal
ing government property in connec-
ton with the affair for which he has
just been tried.
No returns have yet been made by
the grand jury, but it is expected that
number of indictments will be re-
turned before night. Unless some
pleas of guilty result from the indict-
ments, no more criminal cases will be
taken up this term, W. W. Harvey,
assistant United States attorney, said
at noon today.
Damage Case to Trial.
The case of Mrs. Phrensola Wash
burn against Mrs. Bessie Davis was
the first civil case called this after
noon. Mrs. Washburn is suing for
$4,000 damages, alleging that Mrs.
Davis alienated the affections of her
husband, Furlen r. Washburn. while
he was working a motor car sales
man at Mcpherson in 1919. Mrs. Da-
Wis is a widow residing at Peabody,
Kan. The trial of this case will re-
quire about a day and a half, it is
said, altho the case of the Home Trust
company against A. F. Cutler is set
for Thursday.
Local Mention.
o
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Kansas City, No, April 12.-Kirby
merrill, Tonganoxie, Kan, walker, lost
his title of the unkissed' here today.
The virgin and moustache shaded
lips of the Kansan were defiled by
feminine OSCILLATION when Kirby "toed
OUT George Brown, World Champion
walker. in a sfx-mile race thru the
b1Isfn ess district Kirby was dis
qualified, however, when he "broke
several times.
The honors of being ''the unkissed'
were shorn from Kirby by Helen
Schroeder and Eleanor Riley, Or
pheum actresses.
I'm a trotter," Kirby said after
the race The distance was too
short"
How did you like the kisses?" he
was asked.
Kirby bluShed.
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SCHOOL GIRLS SHUN EXTREMES
Pledge to Keep Thoughts and Bodies
Clean Signed at Dallas.

Dallas. Tex, April 12.-The Girls
society of Bryan street high school
here has adopted a creed by which
it's members will regulate their con-
duct in speech and dress in accord
ance with approved standards. 1t
reads:
Il, student of the Bryan street
high school of Dallas, believing that
thru the practice of high ideals I can
help create an atmosphere by which
my school may always merit praise,
do hereby pledge myself:
ITO think clean thoughts, to read
good books and to destroy any I'M
clean literature that may fall into
my hands.
ITO speak as pure English as
know and to refrain from the use of
rough slang.
ITO avoid extremes in my dress and
in the use of cosmetics.
ITO stand against promiscuous au-
tomobile riding and unconventional
dancing
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THIS GOT emf ALL RIGHT.
Advertisement Of Guns to Use With
stills Banned by L. s

Chicago. April 1.-TWO search war
rants directed against two small mail
order concerns here were issued today
at the request of Charles F. Clyne,
United States district attorney, it was
announced at the federal building.
The action was taken, it was said,
at the request of Alton H Skinner,
United States attorney. at Topeka,
Kan, who asked what could be done
toward restricting use of the mails in
the cases. Mr.. Skinner enclosed pages
taken from the catalogs NOf the two
concerns. one page advertising a de
vice said to be a moonshine still and
the other advertising automatic pistols
with the slogan. This gets EN-"
Mr.. Skinner said that the particular
thing which he had checked up to the
district attorneys office at Chicago
was the advertisement for a device to
be attached TO moonshine stills The
device is said to be advertised in cata-
logs which the companies were send
ing thru the mails. Mr.. Skinner said
the matter had been called to his at
tention and that he had merely
checked the matter up to the Chicago
office for investigation The names
of the concerns were not revealed
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biennum- The appropriation for the
approaching fiscal year is $4,000
Situations similar to the one facing
Commissioner Foster have arisen on
numerous occasions. In 1913 the big
fire at the state penitentiary destroyed
the Irvine plant and numerous prison
industries. Members of the state
board of corrections borrowed money
for rehabilitating the plant and the
money was returned under an appro-
priation bill passed by the 1915 legis-
lature-
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THOUGHT HE WAS A MONKEY?
Janitor at Kansas City Goes on Rough
Riding spree With Elevator.


Riding Spree With Elevator.
Kansas City, April 12.-For three
hours early today Edward Samuel. a
200 pound Janitor. dashed from the
basement to the thirteenth floor of
the RiaIto building here in an eleva-
tor, while janitors. policemen and A.
NJ. Marty, owner of the building, tried
to induce him to call it a night and
leave his cage.
The power from the elevator was
shut off but that was only half the
battle Samuel held the door with a
lever and announced he would not
open unless Mr.. Marty asked him to.
Marty appeared at $3.50 this morning
but by that time Samuel had appar-
emily changed his mind and declined
to open the door.
Two ambitious janitors climbed to
the roof of the belea guered cage and
tried to lasso Samuel. They had no
luck.
Finally the top of the elevator was
removed and two men leaped inside.
The janitor accompanied them peace
fully. He was taken to the city hos
pital for observation.
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Genoa, April 12.-Politics is making
strange bedfellows in Genoa. 1t GER
tainly is unusual to find the soviet
chief, Chitcherin, sitting vis-a-vis with
Constantine Diamandy. Four years
ago the Bolshevists had Diamandy in
Jail in Petrograd and the diplomats of
the whole world were storming against
the soviet's violation of his diplomatic
immunity.
The sight of Adolph Joffe and the
German chancellor, DR.. Wirth. in con-
versation recalls Joffe's very sudden
He was then Bolshevist ambassa dor
in Berlin, according to the terms of
the Brest-Litovsk treaty, but the Ger
man government unceremoniously
loaded him and his entire staff on a
special train and shipped them back
to Russia, alleging they were propa-
gandists.
1t also seems odd for NJ Rakovsky
and Premier Bratiano of Rumania to
be sitting together at a conference
called in the interests of peace. Ra-
kovsky was an active Rumanian So
war and the Bucharest government
interned him. Now he is president of
the Ukrainian republic, federated with
Moscow.
Then there is the cordiality with
which the British minister, Lloyd
attitudes here do not in the least sug
gest the stormy time Litvinoff had in
England before he became Chitcherins
chief assistant in Moscow.
But in four years the Bolsheviki
have made more treaties than the other
European states have completed in the
past century, so the professional diplo-
mats have to admit the Russians are
no novices and must be dealt with
accordingly, here.
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WOULD STOP NON-PRoDUCrToN
Bill in House Would Give Attorney
General Power to Control Mines

Washington, April IAN effort
toward preventing future paralysis of
the country's production thru strikes
was made in legislation presented to
the house this afternoon by Repre-
sentative Huddleston, Democrat, of
alabama.
Huddleston introduced a bill to give
the attorney general authority to have
a receiver appointed to operate any
mine where production was suspended
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JAPAN WELCOMES THE PRINCE.
Thousands Greet English Heir to
Throne as He Visits Land.

CBy the Associated Press.)
Yokohama, April 1.-THE Prince
of Wales arrived today for his official
visit TO Japan. Thousands greeted
him as he landed from the British
battle cruiser Renown, which brought
him from India.
His reception was carried out &C
cording to the program to the mi
nutest detail, as is the japanese Gus
tom. Yokohama'S welcome was not
noisy, judging by American standards
as the children who lined the streets
are disciplined to silence. The pic
ture they made with thousands OF
waving flags in the brilliant sunshine
was inspiring.
While the occasion was essentially
the American coloGly
was assigned to an advantageous spot
from which to view the procession,
and the American ambassad dor,
Charles B. Warren, was presented to
the prince upon the latters arrival
this afternoon at the Akasaka palace
in Toxic, in which he will stay while
in the capital.
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GROOM IS BACK TO JAIL.
Earl HoIlibrooI1, Whose Bride Also i
in Jail, Returned to Garnett.

Parsons. Kan, April 12.-Earl Hol-
librook, "a, wanted in Garnett for jail
breaking, was turned over to Garnett
officers today by Chief of Police Will
hanson. Hollibrook was arrested last
night.
He is the groom in the bride and
bridegroom honeymoon case, his bride
now being held in Jail at lola on
charge of receiving stolen property.
Hollibrook admits breaking Jail at
Dallas and Excelsior Springs, Mo.
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TWO MORE SOLDIERS DYING.
Explosion OF Rockets and Flares at
Texas Camp Already Fatal to Four.

San Antonio. April 1.-two more
soldiers are at the point of death as
result of the explosion of pyrotechnics
at Camp Bulls Monday night, which
has already claimed four men of the
Seventeenth infantry.
The men for whom little hope is
held out are Private Joe Russian of
Orange. Tex, and Private Antonio
Duarte of New Bedford. Mass. All
other injured are improving and will
get we'll
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WOULD CUT OUT BORN LORDS.
Aristocracy of Brains, Not Birth,
Asked in House of Commons.
(By the Associated Press)

London, April 12.-An endeavor to
substitute IAN aristocracy of brains
for an aristocracy of BIRTH is en-
bodied in a bill for the re-constitu-
ton of the house of lords which Col.
Claude Lowther today obtained the
permission of the house of commons
to present.
1t contains a provision for the Gre
alton of peers for life with uninher-
liable titles and privileges.
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SAYS PROBE IS ALREADY ON.
Attorney General Replies to Charges
of Being Asleep at Switch.

indianapolis April 12.-Investiga-
ton into alleged wartime contracts
fraud already has been instituted by
the department of justice, according
to Attorney General Harry Daugherty.
The attorney general made the
statement when informed that Repre-
sentative Woodruff of Michigan had
threatened impeachment proceedings
against him unless such action is
taken.
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SAYS OWNERS NOT SINCERE.
Kansas Miner Head Says No Confer
ence Really Was Wanted.

Pittsburg. Kan, April 12.-Charges
that the coal operators of the south
west in making overtureS for contract
negotiations were not acting sincere
ly but were merely trying to manufa c.
ture public sentiment in their favor
and against the miners were made
this morning by Geo. L. Peck, provi-
s:onal president of the Kansas Miners
union.
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Fred F,oster. Atchison. Is Dead.

Atchison, Kan, April 12.-Fred Fos-
ter, a bachelor, As, was found dead in
bed at his farm home near here today
Death is believed to have been caused
by a second stroke of paralysis. Burial
probably will be at Faucet, Mo, from
which place he came to Atchison
county several years ago.
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KANSAS CITY HAY MARKET.

Kansas City, April 12.-HAY-Market
strong. Receipts 30 cars.
Alfalfa, choice to fancy dairy 500. OO0
5000, choice, s24. OOd255O: No. 1, S22 GOA
$50; standard. $19.5O@21.5O No. 2, $500
G19.00; No. 5, S135O615 so.
Prairie hay No. 1. $12OO@13. 80; No 2
$10O0@11 90: No. 5, S7.00@950.
Timothy No. 1, $165Od17.5O; standard
$15.5o@1600; No. 2, $1350G15.O0; No. 3,
Clover mixed light. $16Oo@17oo; No. 1,
$14 .00Q1600; No. ., $1o5OG13.5O
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OLDEST MASON is DEAD.
LemueI Wyatt, "a. Was a Member of
Lodge for 65 Years.

Joplin. April 12-LemueI Wyatt,
"a, a member of the Masonic lodge
for So years and thought by his
fric~ Is to be the Oldest Mason in the
Uni-cd States. is dead at the home of
his daughter. Mrs. J. c. Berry
He served with the Fifth Illinois
cavalry in the civil war
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Olympus to a Paris Suburb.
(By the Associated Press.)

Paris, April 12.-The French
Olympic committee has decided to hold
the 1924 Olympic games at Colonies.
a suburb of Paris, it was announced
today. 1t will organize the games
without the help of the Paris munich
pal council and stage them on the
grounds of the racing club of France.
which has undertaken to build a sta
df11r1
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LATE MARKETS
CHICAGO MARKET LETTER.
(By Logan & Bryan.)
C.t.aanan III I'll 10 81

Cl1CaKO,
WHEAT-At the outset this morning
there was promise Of a strong market, but
buying power soon gave out and the ap-
Omaha discouraged holders of the May
delivery and precipitated renewed selling.
Advices as to the cash situation in the
southwest were more or less confusing,
some claims were made that mills arc
about to curtail operations, due to slow
ness of the flour trade, while others said
that talk of shutting down was based on
inability to secure good milling wheat. 1t
of wheat were in demand at firm prices
while poorer grades were slow and in
clined to weakness. The seaboard re
ported continued stagnatiOn in export
trade. The Liverpool and Argentine mar
kets, however, do not reflect the depress-
ing conditions that have been reported and
1t is probably only a matter of a short
time until the outward movement from the
southern hemisphere will diminish and i'm
North American grain. The crop outlook
in the southwest is certainly uncertain
enough to make the shorts side of the
CORN-The market maintained an under
current OF strength during the forenoon
but weakened toward the close, under the
pressure of selling influenced by the weak
ness in wheat. The cash demand was not
particularly keen but receipts were light
and the basis in consequence was firm to
&c higher There was no evidence of eX-
port business being done in any position.
ages a strong market should there be any
improvement in the domestic or foreign de-
mand.
OATS-Oats followed the early advances
in other grains but likewise failed to hold.
The feature of the trading was the buying
OF July against sales of May. Cash trade
was slow but the market relatively steady
owing to the small arrivals. Weather CON
ditions continue unfavorable for field work
and reports referring to the progress of
seeding are extremely discouraging.
RYE-Trade was quite active and the
market Independently strong, closing at a
premium over last night
900 B. c. CHRISToPHER & co,
226 New England Bldg, Topeka, Kan.
L. c. HERWIG. Mgr
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NORMAL CAN BROADCAST MUSIC
Hoover Replies FavOrabIy TO Request
of Emporia School

Emporia. Kan, April 12.-Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce, an
swered an appeal of Kansas high
school pupils this morning by giving
the Kansas state normal permission
TO broadcast concerts and musical
contests at the all-state music contest
here this week.
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United in Death Vase, Also.

Chicago. April 1.-THE ashes of
Rosa and Josefa Black, the Bohemian
twins. who died here March 80, will
he intermingled and returned to
Czecho-Slovakia in a single urn, it was
learned today. The twins Joined to-
gether by nature, died together
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Wall St, New York, April 12.-STOCKS-
Special issues scored further gains in to-
days very active and broad stock market.
Rails and representative industrials were
under selling pressure.
Oils were more freely sold later. but the
cheaper motors and rails, as well as to-
baccOs were at highest prices of the dav.
The closing was irregular. Sales approx
mated 100000 shares.
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DEvAsTATEs ARKANSAS
Scores of Farm Buildings Swept by
Floods and High Winds.

Helena, Ark, April 12.-Scores of
farm buildings have been swept from
their foundations by the floods and
high winds near here. reports stated
today, and a number of tenant houses
at Ratio have been demolished
An estimate of the reported damage
was not available.
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KANSAS SOIL BEING ROBBED.
Pauperism and Tenantry in Sight I'm
less Reform Is Made-Jardine.

less Reform Is Made-Jardine.
Hutchinson, April Eff Kansas
continues as she has the past forty
years agriculturally there is only pau
perism and tenantry of the worst sort
ahead for the farmers of Kansas de-
clared W. NJ. Jardine, president Of the
Kansas State Agricultural college,
here this afternoon, at the annual
meeting of the Kansas State Bankers
association.
He said the fertility of the soil was
robbed and urged the bankers to urge
farmers to grow less wheat and more
legurne crops
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NEW YORK MONEY MARKEr,

New York, April 12-MONEY-Call
money: easier; high, AZ low, A; ruling
Tine loans. atssdv. ~ aTS az ds1s
and months, ~. Prime mercantile pa
per, 415@4Z.
Foreign exchange, steady. Great Britain.
demand, 4.41ss; cabies, 4.42; 80 day bills
on banks. 4.3S4. France, demand. 9.27 !;
cables. 9.2715- Italy, demand, 5.441a; ca
bles, 5.45. Belgium. demand, $50; cables,
s;5615. Germany, demand, .S3A; cables,
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KIRBY LOSES--BUT WINS

Tho McRin Is No Longer "the
UnIissed' He Bushes Only as
His Title Is RObbed-AIso Loses
Walking Race to Worlds Cham
pion-
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PROBLEM OF GENOA.

CONTINUED from Page onel
potentially great German army of the
future. You have perhaps observed
the anodYne texture of the German
chancellor's speech before the Genoa
conference. We do not know what
Germany will do, but I can say this
my latest official reports from Paris
do not indicate that Germany is in a
tractable spirit concerning the vital
matters embodied in the Versailles
treaty"
NJ. Barthou emphasized that a dis
armament program is now under con-
sideration by the league of nations
which, he said, it would doubtless give
proper attention.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MRS. SARAH HOGAN, III Jefferson
street, died this morning at local hospital.
Funeral announcements later.
Word has been received in Topeka of the
death of Miss Helen Robertson. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E Robertson, of
Chicago, formerly of Topeka, who died
April 4 at Chicago.
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Lords Flowers satisfy. TEL 22s1.-
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Rachel Frank, Is, is being held
by police as Boston's first girl ban
dit She is charged with being the
masked woman who held ND,
robbed and gagged Mrs. Vincenzio
Morena IN her home in Lvnn- Mass
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NEW YORK LIBERTY BOND MARKET

New York, April 12-Liberty bonds close :
315's, 90 %; first As, 1910; second As 90 so
AIS, 100; fourth AIS, 99.9S; Victory
3z's, 1Oo.02; Victory AIS, 100-S0.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co,
2o1 New England BIdg.1
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Local Mention.
Raymond Chi-opodist. Orpheum BIdg.-AdE
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET.

New Orleans, April 12-COTTON-Spot
steady and unchanged; middling, 1850
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ARE GUARDSMEN
STATE employees?

Whether members of the WiScon-
sin national guard are classed as en-
plOyes OF the state under the State
Workingman's Compensation Law will
be decided in Dane county circuit
court by Judge Z. Ray Stevens with
in the next month.
The state industrial commission
has ruled that every person in the
employment az the state, including
the guardsmen, is included in the
compensation. This ruling is based
on the meaning given to contract Of
hire" the phrase used in the law.
Compensation has been applied 10
at the street intersection. Slinde
for ten years, and several spdcial
amendments have been passed by the
Legislature including certain employees
in the provisions.
II the decision of the commission is
not sustained and the guardsmen are
held to be excluded from the provis-
ions of the act, law will be drafted
and offered TO the next legislature TO
include them. during the time they
are in service.
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fine PICTURES
OF WORLD WAR

At the kiwanis club luncheon held
Wednesday Professor r. S. Owen OF
Madison, who has been in charge OF
the university engineering students
at Devils lake, gave an interesting
talk on the late world war. Mr.. Owen
was a major in the army and was
attached 10 General Pershing'S staff.
being identified with the Intelligence
department, and told much of the
work done by this valuable branch
OF the service. Best OF all. he had
with him a quantity of photographs
taken in France which showed many
unusual scenes and gave his hearers
more adequate idea OF tie actiy-
tiles OF the department of the armv
SO little known by the outside world.
Major Owen was with the expedition.
airy forces eighteen months. His talk
was greatly enjoyed.
Atty. Z. c. F. Meier gave a written
report or the tourist camping ground
committee and after some discussion
and short talk by (. B. Trimpey. L.
II. Hill and others the club voted
TO cease their efforts for the present
TO improve the site of the local
grounds and be as influential as pos
sible in directing tourists TO the
Gaming grounds in Devils Lake State
Park. EfIinger Park was generously
offered by the owners as a free tour
list grounds and some action next year
may be taken in improving the road
leading to this spot which in itself
would make an ideal camp for tour
lists
Attorney Norman Quale resided at
the meeting.