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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
TAKE WIDE SCOPE PARTY TO Topeka
More Than a Score of Promi-
neRt British Here Thursday.
Members of SuIgrave Institu-
ton To Be Guests of City.

A delegations of British members
OF sthe SuIgrave Institution, twenty
ons in number, headed by Sir Charles
Wakefield, one time Lord Mayor of
London, and his wife and daughter,
will arrive in Topeka on Santa Fs
Trkin No, /, in special car. at noon
ThuTsday. = "'- ~
.sssJddge w. L. Higgins of the court of
industrial relations and A. E. Van
Petten, members of the Chamber of
Commerce committee appointed to
welcome the British and care for them
during their stay here will go to
Kansas City Thursday morning to
meet the foreign guests and escort
them to Topeka
To Play GoIf Here.
On arrival here, the party will be
taken to the Country Club, where golf
matches have been arranged for their
entertainment, and where they may
rest during the afternoon if they do
not choose to play goff.
At $50 O'Clock Thursday evening, e
dinner is to, be given in their honor
at the Chamber of Commerce. at
which Governor Henry j. Allen and
Justice SilaS Porter of the state su-
preme court, will be the principal
American speakers.
Dinner At C. of C.
Inc bT1tlSf1, AFTER In6 QlnneT ana
the speaking, will be the guests of
various Topekans in their homes,
Thursday night. Friday they will be
driven to Lawrence, over the Victory
Highway, and will be the guests at a
program which has been arranged at
the state university. They will drive
back to Topeka in the afternoon in
time to leave Topeka an Santa Fe
train No. 6 for Kansas City at ASS
O'Clock.
Many reservations have been made
at the Chamber of CommeFce. for the
dinner which is to be given there
Thursday night. They must be made
not later than this evening.
The members of the party incldue:
Sir Charles Wakefield, Bart, former
Lord Mayor of London, donor of the
statues of Pitt, Burke and Bryce to
field; Sir Arthur Arlington Haworth,
Bart, NJ. P. president of the Man
chester Chamber of Commerce, M. c.,
Mansfield college, Oxford, Junior
Lord of the Treasury, etc, and Lady
Haworth; Harold Spender, editor, au-
thor and publisher; Sir William Let's,
Bart; Harry S. Perris, publicist and
director of the Sulgrave Institution.
Secretary Watson Chair, of the Amer
lean History Foundation; Hon Lucfen
Turcette Pacaud, government leader
of the Canadian House of Commons
and Madame Pacaud; Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Madame MacCallum Grant
of Nova Scotia, representing the Do
minion of Canada, and the Honor
able D. B. Edwards, acting High Com
p4issioner for the Commonwealth of
Australia to the United States; An
drew B. Humphrey, Secretary of the
Sulgrave Institution and John A.
Stewart, chairman of the board of
governors of the American Branch of
the Sulgrave Institution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20

win to the opportunity for education.
face; in our, schools a false learning,
an education that will not fit more
than one in ten of them for the places
they must occupy in life.
But more portentuous yet" con-
tinued Secretary Davis, '1ooms the
problem of the child in industry. APP
proximate1y a million and half
American boys and girls of school age
are today thrown beneath the wheels
of the juggernaut of industry, pressed
to labor before their time, doomed to
the dreary drudgery of mine and mill
and factory by economic necessity.
They face hopeless future. Before
them stretches the treadmill of un-
renaun erative labor. with its few years
of heartbreaking, soul soaring toll,
and at the end-a grave.
Face Real Danger.
sHere, if anywhere, we face real
danger to the republic. Here is a
menace greater than any that lies in
the blatant mouthings of doctrinaries
and demagogues, who preach false
political and economic doctrines in
forum and market place. Not in the
grasping gospel of the peddlers of
political nostrums is our peril, but
here, where citizens of the future are
broken mentally, morally and phys
icafly on the torture wheel of misled
Industrial management, is the evil
which must be uprooted II America is
to prevail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20

Columbus. Ohio, Sept. 20.-Fnghty
foibles and the flippancy of the FLAP
per-" Secretary of Labor Davis de-
clared today in addressing the Ameri-
can insurance union, are disturbing
evils in the social fabric of the nation
which must be overcome.
I'VE hear" Mr.. Davis said, much
of evil tendencies among our girls and
boys. of erotic converse tions and lit
erature in our schools and homes. of
the exuberance of youth turned to OUT
bursts of sophisticated sentimentality."
The things that stirred 'every latent
fear in his heart and SOUL" and
which had prompted him to concen-
trate his life and work to the services
of childhood, he declared, were these:
1.-TWO hundred and fifty thousand
American babies snatched by death
from their mothers breasts every year
before they have had time scarce to
open their unseeing eyes upon the
world about them.
Deiinquents Neglected.
Half million children so called
detectives and delinquents, growing
up. almost totally neglected.
GA million and a half American
boys and girls bent beneath the bur-
den of premature toll in mine and
mill and factory before they have
sensed the duties and privileges of
humanity.
Thirty million American children
of school age, who, even if they can
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HELP AID SMYRNA
Americans Take Part in Relief
During Emergency. 4
Catastrophe His Worst Expert
ence, Says Consul.
(By the Associated Press.l

Athens, Sept 20.-During my con-
sulship at Saloniki, it was bombed by
Bulgars and Germans, and during my
official career 1 have had many rough
experiences with submarines and fire,
but never in my life have 1 seen any
thing like the Smyrna catastrophe, is
the manner in which George Horton,
the American consul general at. Smyr-
ma, in his first remarks of the dis
aster summed up to the Associated
Press his experiences in Asia Minor.
Consul General Horton explained
that his official position prevented his
commenting on the incidents in
Smyrna.
Il can not give an interview" he
said, but it is my duty to speak of
flee of the American colony in
Took over Theater
when the sitaation-sbeeame dam
gerous, I, in collaboration with Cap
tain Arthur J. Hepburn, chief of staff
to Admiral Bristol, arranged for the
safety of the American colony. 1 took
over a theater in Smyrna and had it
guarded by marines. I told the mem
bers of the colony 10 come to the thea
ter twice daily - receive the latest
bulletins on the situation. 1 sum-
moned the principal members of the
colony to discuss the general situation.
1HOusdnuS VI refugees LIl6 OSSPdlI
ing city were absolutely hungry and
destitute.
Rufus w. Lane, an American,
spoke upon one occasion and said that
they had not come to the meeting to
look out for their own safety, but to
look out for those of the starving peO-
pie. Francis w. Blackley, another
American, agreed in this and gave 200
Turkish pounds to start a subscription
list for the refugees. Stanley w.
Smith, of the Standard Oil company in
Smyrna, gave 500 Turkish pounds.
Some Quick Relief.
I'VE started the work of relief i'm
mediately. The American firms con-
and trucks They never saw them
burned up. Representative American
members of the Y. NJ. G. A, and pro-
fessors of the American college organ
ized a central committee. Within an
hour, while the automobiles were still
in their possession and with the
Stars and Stripes flying on their ma
chimes they were all over the city,
administering relief. The first effort
was made among Americans. Their
conduct was generous and heroic even
under the greatest difficulties. We
urged the American women teachers
in the girls school of the Y. W. C. A.
to leave Smyrna but they refused until
driven by the flames.
These brave women labored un-
ceasingly without food and sleep.
Some are still there"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
BOLIVIA and Chile At OUTS
Mediation Necessary To Prevent
Grave Difficulties, League Hears.
(By The Associated PressD

Geneva, Sept. 2O.-The relations be-
tween Bolivia and Chile are such that
grave difficulties threaten, unless
the mediation of a friendly power or
the arbitration of the league of ma
tions can be secured
This declaration is made i'll a letter
received by the secretary OF the
league assembly from Alfredo Cutter
rez, Bolivian delegate to the assent bly,.
The assembly of the league of nar
tons today resumed its discussion of
the mandates questions in an air of
general listlessness.
The proposal by DR.. Fridtjof Nan
sen, that the League of Nations in
teryene in Asia Minor, was referred
today by the league assembly to its
political committee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
FIND MURDER SPOT
Believe Pastor and Woman
Slain in Deserted House.
SpOOky Old Farm Building
Never Lighted at Night.

New Brunswick, n. J., Sept. 20
That the double murder OF Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall, wealthy rector of
the Episcopal church of St. John the
Eleanor Mills, was committed in the
century-old Phillips homestead
haunted house''-at midnight, was d
theory upon which the Somerset coun-
ty authorities were working today.
The old Phillips homestead was be-
lieved to have been deserted. 1t was
isolated and no one ever visited it.
But after the murder it was found to
have been furnished and recently oc-
cupied.
The new theory is that. owing to
its loneliness and the fact that it was
Stunned. the clergyman conceived
the idea of fixing up the house as a
Mills after nightfaT. The bodies of
the victims of the double tragedy
were found under an apple tree not
far from the house.
House Is Under Guard.
The ancient farm house is under
guard of state police today and no
one is allowed to enter except upon
permission by County Prosecutor
Beekman.
The frantic screams which Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry McCabe heard at midnight
Thursday night came from the direc-
ton of the haunted house 1t is
supposed that the clergyman and Mrs.
Mills were lured to the Phillips home
stead by telephone.
There in the spooky old farm house
in the pitchy darkness of midnight,
the couple were confronted. it is sup
posed, by accusers of their guilt Con-
tinuing this theory, the clergyman
and Mrs. Mills were first upbraided
and then shot down
No Signs of Trouble.
There were no signs of a trouble
at the spot where the bodies were
found lying placidly side by side in
the grass, indicating that the murder
had taken place elsewhere. The pis-
tolls and the bullet riddled woman's
handkerchief found by the police. are
believed to have been picked up be
tween the spot where the bodies
rested and the farm house,
When the house was searched IL
was found to be clean, altho it had
been vacant for a year. So far as car
be learned. no lights were ever seen
in the house, and no one ever was
Eeen to enter or leave by daylight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
SUSPEND HIGHER COAL RATES
I. c. C. Prevents Increase in Freight
Charges to Western States.

fled by the Louisville and Nashville
railroad company proposing to in
crease rates on coal from Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia to various
points in Iowa, Missouri and Ne
braska- were suspended today by the
I. G. c. until next January Is.
The commission also suspended un-
til January Is schedules proposing to
increase rates on coal from mines in
Kentucky on the Cumberland & Man
chester railroad to numerous points
in the north, northwest and southeast
which would be accomplished by add
ing specified amounts to the L &
NJ base rates from Barboursville, KY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
HOLD A SPECIAL CONCLAvE
Masons Plan To Give 3Srd Degree to
President Harding.

Cleveland. Sept. 2O.-Masons-An
extraordinary conclave of the supreme
council Of the 33rd degree of the
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction U. S. a.
ancient accepted Scottish Rite viii be
held in Cleveland one day this year
for the specific purpose of investing
President Harding with the 33rd and
highest degree of Masonry 1t was dc
cided today at the sessions Of the su-
preme council.
The motion was made by Thomas
Il. Marshall. former wee president AMI
requested Commander Leonard NJ
Abbott to convene tho extraordinary
session at date to be specified by
the president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
Action of Officers To Be In
e4uded in Jury Report.
Board Turns Down Claims Re-
sulting From Massacre.

Marion, ILL.,, Sept. 20.-Dalbert Mel
son. was arrested To-Day on an infor-
nation Charging perjury before the
special grand jury investigating the
% killings at the Lester strip mine,
June Al and %. He was released on
$1,000 bond. + Nelson is alleged to
have remarked before the grand jury
convened that he ha6 knowledge OF
the riot. but on appearing before the
jury stated he knew nothing of the
killings. Later he was recalled and
admitted he falsified, according to
states attorney Duty.
The report of the special grand jury
which is investigating the 22 killings
at the Lester strip mine, June 21 and
%, will comment on the riot and upon
any dereliction of duty on the part of
county officials, which the evidence
and testimony show to. have existed,
it was announced today by the assist
ant attorney general MiGdlekauff. Tho
report is expected to be presented to
court next Saturday.
Won't Allow Claims.
The Williamson county board of
supervisors today announced it would
not allow claims OF approximately
S275,00O filed against the county as
result of the killings. In making the
announcement the supervisors stated
they had refused a claim of 81. oO0
11i6Q DY unQerIakerS VINO aDuI10d L o
of the riot victims.
To allow the claims would be ad-
mitting responsibility for the outbreak
and this the county refuses to do, the
supervisor stated. 1t now will be nee
essary for claimants to institute dam
age proceedings in circuit court
against the county or else drop their
claims.
The chief claimant is the Southern
Illinois Coal company, which owns the
Lester strip mine. 1t was announced
today that virtually the entire popu-
lation of Energy, town of little more
than 100 residents, near here, had
been subpoenaed before the jury. The
ajority. of the residents of Energy
are employed at a powder company
there and by the interurban railway
which passes the Lester mine where
the riot occurred.
One Defendant In Hospital.
States Attorney Delos Duty, COM
menting on the fact that eleven of
the fifty-eight indicted men are still
at large. explained that nine could
not be located, that Roy Pennington,
one of the eleven. is in a hospital in
Chicago and would surrender as soon
and that John Kelly, constable at
Ziegler has not been apprehended as
yet, because the special deputies had
been too busy to go to Franklin couE-
ty, in which Zeigler is located. Mr..
Duty expressed confidence that Kel-
ley would not attempt to escape arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20

Partly cloudy weather and slightly
higher temperatures are scheduled in
Topeka in the next twenty-four hours,
says MeteoroIogist Flora. No rain is
in sight The sky was clear today
from Central Kansas west to Cali
fornia and was cloudy to the south
and east.
Topeka is on the western edge of
the cloudy belt and sunshinesis ex-
pected in the city late this afternoon
and at least part of tomorrow. The
temperature will drop to about So de-
grees tonight and will rise to about
rs degrees Thursday.
Despite the cloudy weather, Kansas
received no rain in the last twenty
four hours.
The highest temperature in Topeka
in the last twenty-four hours was 66
degrees at 2:05 O'Clock Tuesday after
(Continued on Page TwOl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
R. |. EMPL DYES ORGANIZE
Plans Are Under Way for Meeting
at Chicago or Kansas City

Little Rock. Sept. 2O.-A petition
signed by 400 employees OF the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific shops in this
district asking for new local organ
ization has been sent to Chicago. and
plans are under way for a meeting of
new shop employees to be held at either
Chicago or Kansas City at which the
new union will be organized. A. E.
Walker, division superintendent of the
RockaIsland. announced today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
MRS. HARDING MUCH BETTER
Presidents Wife Can Take Solid Food,
PHYSICIANS Report.

Washington, Sept. 20.-Mrs- Hard
ine's convalescence has reached the
point where she can again take sold
foods, it was said today at the White
House. She. however. is not yet per-
mitted to sit up and friends are still
barred from the sick room
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
DEFEAT HEARST CANDIDATES
Delegates to Democratic Convention
Beaten I'm New York Election.

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 20.-Most of
the candidates for delegate to the
democratic state convention who were
pledged to vote for w. r. Hearst for
governor were defeated in yesterdays
primary.
In Erie county (Buffalo.) where
William J. Corners sought the cleo
ton of Hearst delegates, four Of them
were successful. ThIrty-four of the
thirty-eight delegates are ciassed as
supporters of william H. Fitzpatrick.
county chairman, and they have de-
clared for Alfred Z. Smith for the
cIbernaforia1 nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
GO BACK MINUS RIGHTS
Strikers on Southern Road Agree Tc
Return 10 Work.

San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 20.-
Striking San Antonio & Aransas
Pass shop craft workers will return
to work in the company shops Thurs
day minus their pension and pass
rights and Junior I'd all of the men at
present employed by the railroad. ac-
cording to an agreement reached at
a conference between the strikers and
the railroad Officials yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
CONGRESS- ADjOURNS FRIDAY
Resolution for "Sfne Die" Passed by
the House.

Washington. Sept 20=A resolu-
ton providing for sine die adjourn
ment OF congress on Friday at 2 p. m.
was passed today by the house and
sent to the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
DESPITE EFFORT
BY ALLIES TURKS
! THREATEN DRIVE.
Report Mustapha KemaI Pasha
Preparing To Attack.
Information Causes Anxiety in
Military Circles.
BRITISH TO HOLD STRAITS
Remove Subjects as Time for
Battle Draws Near.
Won't Permit Turk NatiOnalists
To Occupy Thrace.
BRITISH TO HOLD STRAITS
tBy wireless to Associated Press,)

London, Sept. 2o.-On a sudden
call, the ministers met informally at
Downing street at five o'clock this
evening. A formal council was called
for 9 o'clock this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
Problem of the Child
IN Industry q Danger
to Nation, Says Davis

Menace Greater Than Any That Lies in the Blatant
Mouthngs of Doctrinares and Deagogues Is the Mil
lion and Half Boys and Girls Doomed Dreary Drudg
cry by Economic Necessity Declares Secretary of Labor
-Flighty Fobles and Flippy Flappers Disturbing Evils
in Social Life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
TO Be CLOUDY AND WARMER
No Rain in Sight for NeYaA Twenty
Four Hours, Says Flora.

TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
Drilled in Wild Cat Field.
GETS RED CROSS CERTIFICATE

(CoRtinued on Page Eight }
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
kANATAk EDITION

Some time in the early spring a Kanatak edition will be issued by the Gateway. It will consist of about six teen pages and will be illustrated with late pictures of the great northern oil fields. The object of the Gateway is not to make money out of the edition but to advertise the resources of what will undoubtedly be the greatest oil field yet discovered.
 Articles dealing on the drilling, pie lures of the rigs at work, the meTcan- tile and real estate situation, all will be dealt with by men on the ground in that business. The cooperation Of the Kanatak business men and Seward business men will be sought for this edition.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
PIONEERS DANCE

Tonight, at Odd Fellows hall, Sew ard Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska will en- certain with a dance and luncheon. The occasion is in commemoration ot the anniversary of the purchase Of All aska from Russia. The ladies have pre- pared a fine luncheon which will be served during the festivities, at the regular price of admission, fifty cents. Fine music has been engaged for the occasion, and a general good time will be enjoyed.
 The Pioneers seldom entertain, but when they do the affair is one to be remembered. Everyone is invited to turn out and help make the affair a success.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
pRAGLINE IS NOW WORKING
 ON LOWELL CREEK PROJECT

The Bucyrus dragline excavator, which was sent from Anchorage some time ago to work on Lowell creek, is assembled and at work on the creek bed. At present the operations are con fined to the space between the main line track and the one running along the beach. When this is completed the machine will be moved to the upper side of the mainline and work up- stream as far as the Fourth Avenue bridge. It is an interesting sight to see the machine scoop out yards of dit in quick time.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
SIXTEEN BLUE-TICkETCD
 OUT OF PORTLAND CITY

PORTLAND, Oregon, October 21-- Sixteen of the three hundred and fifty I. w. WIS who were arrested at the instigation of Mayor Baker on an open charge, suspicion of attempting to in- stigate a waterfront strike, were this escorted to the city limits by squad of police and started down the Willamette valley, with orders to keep clear of the city.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
KAISER HELPING STARVING
 CHILDREN IN GERMANY

DOARN, Holland, October 21-The Kaiser is reported to have given part of the money from the sales of his book to the United States relief to be used in assisting the needy German children now being sheltered at Doarn. It is thought that Hindenberg will at tend the Kaiser's wedding.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
MAIL CLERKS PLEAD
 GUILTY TO CHAR SEs

COUNCIL BLUFFS, October 21- Fourteen of the forty-one mail clerks, who were accused of stealing from the mails and suspended from the service appeared before the United States commissioner this morning and enter ed plea guilty. They were bound over to appear before the fedral grand jury. The case of the remainder will come up today.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21
CHOLERA IN CHINESE TOWN

KIO:-Only one case of cholera has been reported in the past twenty four hours and the epidemic is thought to be abating.
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Subscription, SIPS per Month
REPUBLICAN TICKET

REPUBLICAN TICKET For Delegate to Congress DAN A. SUTHERLAND
 of Juneau. For Territorial Senator THOS. A. WADE
 of Anchorage For Territorial Representatives FRANK H. FOSTER
 of Cordova. JOSEPH H. MURRAY
 of Mccarthy
 HAL B. SELBY
 of Seward HARRY 1. STASER
 of Anchorage. For Road Commissioners No Candidates Shall Women Serve on Juries VoVte Yes or No. DEMOCRATIC TICKET For Delegate to Congress E. J. WHITE
 of Juneau For Territorial Senator ANTHONY J. DIMOND
 of Valdez For Territorial Representatives THOMAS c. PRICE of Anchorage
 E. E. RAY
 of CordOVa Shall Women Serve as Jurors Vote Yes or No.
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SAWYER WILL REMAIN, IS
 PRESIDENTS ASSERTION

WASHINGTON, October 21-Presi- dent Harding this morning gave ans wer to the demand made by the Am erican Legion that he remove Briga- dier-G General Sawyer, head of the hos pitalization board, by stating that the demand would not be granted.
The Seward gateway., 1922-10-21

FRANK E. CARLQUIST, Cptcian will return to Seward within the next moath to finish hil work