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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
ARE IN DEADLOCK
Two Women on Burch Jury
Demand Acquittal.
Insanity Plea DrOpped-JurOrs
in Consideration.

Los Angeles. Jan. 14.-Deadlocked
since late yesterday and reported to
stand 10 to for conviction, the jurors
in the case of Arthur C. Burch. on
trial for the murder of ]. Bolton Ken
nedy, returned to the jury room in
Superior Judge Reeves's court today
and, refreshed by nights rest, re-
surned their efforts to reach verdict.
Two women, according to reports in
the court room, stood out against eight
other women and two men for ac-
quittal.
Mrs Nellie D. Graham, said to have
been elected foreman of the jury, was
reported to be leading the majority
voting for conviction. while Mrs Eva
De Mott and Mrs. W. W. Sweetland
were reported to be standing firm for
acquittal.
The first ballot taken in the jury
room today, it was reported, showed
that none of the jurors had decided
over night to change their vote. Once
during the deliberations last evening,
it was reported the vote ranged from
10 to >, to to s, but few ballots
later dropped back to 10 to again.
According to indications in the court
room, the two women holding out for
acquittal make their stand on the
claim that the prosecution failed to
show beyond all reasonable doubt that
Burch was in Beverly Glen on the
night OF the murder.
The insanity phase of the case, It
was rumored, was sidetracked by the
jurors in their arguments over the
straight question of whether the prose-
cution had made out a case against
R17rch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
NEWKANSASROAD
Golden Belt Railroad Company
Asks for Charter.
Would Operate in Barton, Rush
and Ellis Counties.

Plans for the building of a new rail-
road from Great Bend northwest thru
Barton, Rush and Ellis counties to
Hays are outlined today in charter
application for the Golden Belt Rail
road company. The proposed road
will be fifty-one miles in length. It is
planned to connect with the Santa Fe
at Great Bend and the Union Pacific
at Hays with a view of reducing
mileage from the northwest to the
Gulf.
The proposed new road would tap
one of the most important wheat
growing sections of the state. In
corporators propose to give an outlet
to the gulf of grain from the north
western counties to Galveston.
To Cost Million Dollars.
1t is proposed to spend $1,000 pro
noting interest in the railroad project
in the counties affected. Bonds eX-
ceeding a million dollars would proba
bly, be issued to finance building op-
erations. Incorporators include John
SCHUYLER, 3. F. Replogle and Isaac
Zeigler, Hays; Louis Kossuth, E. r.
Moses and Charles Lischesky. Great
Bend.
Members of the state charter board
today received applications for an in
crease in the capital of the Salina
Light. Power & Gas company from
$3.50, 900 to S2,250,000.
Other charters applied for ara:
Pennsylvania Car company. Kansas
City, 100000; American Rock Crush
er company, Rosedale, S1.50O; C. F.
Carson company, Olathe, $4,000; Tri-
angle Automotive Sales company,
Wichita, $4,000. These companies
are foreign corporations admitted 70
do business in Kansas with capital in
this state as indicated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
MAY HALT PARLEY
Economic Conference Depends
on Paris Negotiations.
French Crisis Expected to
Break Genoa Farley.

London, Jan. 14.-The fate OF the
economic conference at Genoa will de-
pend on the outcome of conversations
between Premier Lloyd George and
NJ Poincare. French premier-de desig-
nate, at Paris, according to views ad-
yanced by British officials today.
There is a growing feeling of pes
simism that the British and French
premiers will be unable to agree upon
plans for the economic conference. It
is understood that the two premiers
would concentrate their attention
upon the proposed Anglo-F'rench
treaty of alliance but in addition they
will touch upon the following other
matters:
l. The future attitude of the French
government on German indemnity and
sanctions in the event of nonpayment.
2. The guarantees France will de-
mand from Russia for the latters par
tlcipation in the Genoa conference.
1t was understood in circles close
to the government that Premier Lloyd
George would offer NJ. Paincare modi-
fications in the proposed Anglo
French pact and would offer to ex-
tend it to include Belgium and to en-
sure fulfillment of the Rhine provi-
sions of the Versailles treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
HAYS WILL QUIT
Postmaster General Decides to
Leave Harding Cabinet.
viii Accept Big Job Offered
Him by Movies.
DECISION AFTER SEEING PRES.
First Announcement Was Made
at White House.
Harding Says Job Offers Greater
Chance for Service.
DECISION AFTER SEEING PRES.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Postmaster
General Will H. Hays will resign from
the cabinet in the near future to ac
cept a $15O,O0O offer with a group of
moving picture interests, it was an
nounced at the White House at noon
today.
The announcement that Hays will
retire from the cabinet was made fol-
lowing a conference of nearly an hour
President Harding. When it ended
President Harding made the follow
ing statement:
Great Aid to Public.
1.-THE postmaster general and have
been discussing at the consid cradle
length the proposal which has been
made to him to become head of a ma
tional association of motion picture
producers and distributors. If the ar
rangement proves to be, when the de-
tails are worked out, what it seems to
be, I cannot well interpose any objec-
ton to Mr.. Hayss retirement from the
cabinet to take up a work so impor-
tant.
1T is too great an opportunity for
a helpful public service for him to
refuse. I shall be more than sorry
where he has already made SO fine a
record, but we have agreed to look
upon a situation from the broadest
viewpoint and seek the highest public
good"
No date was set for Hayss retire
ment from the cabinet.
Hays Makes Statement.
Hays issued the following state
ment:
with the presidents consent have
decided to undertake work suggested
by the moving picture producers and
distributors. No contract has been ex-
ecuted as yet. 1 am assuming, of
course, that a satisfactory contract will
be possible and one that will make
certain the carrying out of the high
purposes contemplated by this great
industry"
The postmaster general said that no,
date had yet been set for his confer
ence with the moving picture mag
mates to settle the details of the ar
rangement. Meanwhile, he will con-
einue his duties as postmaster general
until the arrangements have been con-
cluded.
The general expectation is that Hays
will resign about March 4, which
would round out years cabinet serv-
ice for him. This. it was said, would
be entirely agreeable to the president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
DEMOS PLAN MEET
State Convention Called in To-
peka February 21-22.
Members of Committee Will Be
Here February 21.
PLAN FOR 1900 DELEGATES
First Conference for Selection
of Candidates in Is Years.
Will Recommend Action to
Voters in Primary.
'LAK FOR 1900 DELEGATES

Kansas Democrats will hold a two
day conference and state convention
in Topeka February 21-22. Details
for the conference and convention
were worked out at a meeting of
prominent Democrats in Topeka Fri
day night.
Members of the Democratic state
committee will meet here February
21-a day ahead of the state conven-
ton and annual party banquet. The
county chairmen will discuss organi-
zation work in their counties and will
lay plans for the November drive for
votes. Finances and other vital prob
lens of a political campaign will be
considered.
Plan for 1900 Delegates.
Nearly 1000 delegates will have
seats in the state convention in the
auditorium February %. 1t will be
candidates for state office in sixteen
years. Not since 1906 has a state
convention been held to select candi-
dates for state office. Several infor-
NAL conventions have assembled, but
no move of such proportion has been
undertaken by either of the dominant
parties since the state wide primary
election law was passed in the special
session of 1908.
Convention action next month will
not be mandatory or binding on the
party primary in August. However,
the convention will recommend action
to the voters in the primary and will
select a full set of candidates. One
plan today called for naming of two
candidates for each office, the party
primary to select the ultimate nomi-
nee.
Many Favor Convention Plan.
Sam Amidon, national committee
man; Forrest Luther, state chairman
and many party leaders are in favor
of the convention plan. Recently let
ters were sent to party workers by
Carl Peterson, secretary of the COM
mittee, asking expressions as to the
state convention idea. They were
Overwhelmingly for the convention.
Democrats will write their tentative
state platform during the Washing
toms birthday convention. They will
define state issues on which the fight
will be made in this state next fall.
Several Democrat leaders active in
working out the convention plan have
policy followed by Henderson Martin
in announcing his gubernatorial can
didacy. Martin failed to touch state
issues in the platform which he pre-
sented.
The Democrat convention will be
one of the big state political meet
ings in Topeka this year. 1t is very
probable that Republican leaders may
later follow suit and hold a state
wide convention in Wichita or Hutch
inson. The annual banquet of the
Dem Ocrat Dinner club will be held the
night of February 22.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
TO HOLD KERFOOT TRIAL HERE
Is Charged With Stealing Two r. gis
tered Mail Packages.


William D Kerfoot, charged with
stealing two registered packages con-
tanning $1,500 from the mails while
running out of Leavenworth as a mail
clerk in October, 1911, will be tried
in federal court at Topeka next April
according to an announcement made
today by AL f. Williams, United States
district attorney.
Kerfoot who was arrested a few
days ago at Sacramento, Cal, arrived
at Kansas City, Kan, Friday afternoon
in custody of a United States marshal
and two postoffice inspectors. His at
torney Immediately appeared before
Judge John C. Pollock and asked that
his clients bond be reduced from S5.-
600 to $4,000. No action was taken
however, and Kerfoot went to Jail.
When arrested in. California, Ker-
foot was going under the name of
Reynolds and had more than $4,000
deposited in a Sacramento bank under
that name. Immediately the bonding
company which made good the
amounts alleged to have been stolen
by Kerfoot filed against the bank ac-
count a claim for 81, 500 and interest.
amounting to several hundred dollars
more. The government also brought
proceedings to collect an expense bill
in connection with the case, and on
account of the two actions it is said
that Kerfoot has had difficulty in OBJ
tanning money to make a defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
TO PROBE THEIR DREAMS
Daughter of "Jawn D." to Es-
tablish "School of Synthetic Psy-
chology at Her Chicago Home.

Chicago, Jan. 14.-Establishment of
a school of synthetic psychology on
the famous Mccormick estate at Lake
Forest is planned by Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick. it was report
ed today. Mrs. Mccormick. who is
the daughter of John D. Rockefeller,
recently was divorced from Harold F.
Mccormick. head of the International
Harvester company.
During eight years spent in Switzer-
land. Mrs. Mccormick was a pupil of
DR.. Carl Jung, noted Austrian psy-
chologist Upon her return. she an
nounced her belief in synthetic psy-
Chology, which she said had enabled
her to cure ninety people in Switzer-
land. These cures. she said, were ac-
complished by daily examination of
their dreams" Synthetic psychology is
founded on the theory that physical
troubles are found on disturbed or
confused mental conditions"
1t is understood that Mrs. McCor-
mick plans to make her Lake Forest
estate the American headquarters of
occult.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
NO THRIFT week HERE?
No Plans for Local Observance Made
in Topeka.

NJ Il AOE 1sOStAA NOSCAhatAASC 4NAd0O
in Topeka.
So far as appearances thus far in
dicate. the local observation of Thrift
Week in Topeka will be confined to
reading about the week in the news
papers.
Thrift Week is due to occur, ac-
cording to notice from the national
headquarters of the organization
which sponsors it, January II to %.
Hitherto there has been a local OBJ
servance of the week, with posters, ad-
vertising and speakers at various
meetings. The work of the campaign
has been done by the local officials OF
the Y. NJ. c. A, with the business men
the city putting up the necessary
finances.
There doesn't seem to be any
chance of getting the campaign fl
nanced this year" T. z. Prout, recre-
tary of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A, said
today. I'VE are willing to do the
work, but we can't furnish the fl
nances, too
1--WE are going to have a 'Pay-Up-
Week later on, and we are not back
ing the thrift week program" Milton
Tabor, secretary of the Topeka Mer
chants association, said.
National Thrift Week. according to
the announcement sent out, comprises
program covering seven days, as
follows:
January 17-Thrift Day-Beniamin
F'ranklins birthday
January 1S-Budget Day.
January 19-Life Insurance Day
January Gown Your Home Day.
January 21-Pay Y our Bills Prompt
ly Day.
January % Share With Others
Day.
January 2S-Make a Will Day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14

THE ANSWERS.
DOUGLAS GRAHAM, county clerk
Il would suggest the abolition of
the double taxation system. For ex-
ample, where a piece of real estate is
mortgaged, the holder of the mort
gage pays on that amount and the
owner of the property pays on the
full valuation. I would further offer
that some method be devised whereby
all monies in the bank could be taxed
and full returns made by every citi-
zen. And I do not think it fair that
50 much money invested in nontaX-
able bonds and securities should go
untaXed. 1t seems to me there should
a. least be a limit on the amount of
money man can invest in these forms
of securities without taxation. With
out consideration 1 should say it is all
right for church buildings and similar
additional ground is purchased, say
for tennis courts or recreation, I do
not see why it should not be taxed the
same as any other. I think all these
measures put together would make a
big difference in taxation
F. L. STEVENS, commissioner of
finance--"The only thing possible IS
to go back to the living conditions of
twenty-five or thirty years ago. So
long as the lmproVemen and cOnVen-
fences which are demanded today are
in force, we shall have to pay for
them.'
MAYOR HERBERT J. CORWINE.
TN word-retrenchmen
most careful conservatism in the eX-
penditure of the states money. I'm
not thinking now of city taxes. We
have been conservative in the city.
The people who are being burdened by
high taxes are the agriculturists.
There are very few city people kick
ing about high taxes"
A. A. RODGERS, chairman board
of county commissioners-"W might
call a halt to all improvements and
go back to the systems of many years
ago, but [ don't think anyone would
want to do that. Or we might elimi-
nate the hoard of county commission
ers and hire a general manager, e1imi-
mating the heads of all departments
of the county. That would take the
reins of government from the hands
of the people and give US an aristo-
cratic system. So isn't it better to
pay a little more and keep the pres
ent system? After all the mainte-
nance of the county consumes only a
small part of the tax money. Shaw
nee county property owners pay only
fifty-seven asad-one-half eentszon- each
500 valuation. for the support of the
county"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
RECITAL BY DEAN STEARNS
Program Will Be Given at Auditorium
Sunday Afternoon.

Topekans will have an opportunity
to hear their fine organ at the audi
torium played by a skilled musician
at a concert at BIS Sunday afternoon.
Henry V. Stearns, city organist and
dean of the Washburn school of mu-
sic, will give the second number in the
1922 series of free weekly recitals at
that time.
That these recitals will prove fully
as popular this year as last was in
dicated by the enthusiastic reception
accorded Dean Stearns in his first re-
cital last week. About $50 persons
were present. The program at each
recital is chosen to please a wide va
riety of tastes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
JESS DENIES HE'S QUIT RING
VIII Fight Dempsey if Public Wants
Him to, Says Willard.

Kansas City, Mo-. Jan. 14.-Denying
that since he has struck oil" he has
given up the idea. of fighting again.
Jess Willard today stated that cit is
up to the public whether or not he
meet- Jack Dempsey again.
''If the public wants me to fight, I'll
eet Dempsey" Willard said. ''All 1
want is plenty of time to train"
Willard is at his farm near Lawrence,
Kan, packing up to move to California
where his family is now living. Be
fore going west, however, he will
spend some time on his oil properties
in Greenwood county. Kansas, where
he has struck oil, and where addi-
tional wells are being drilled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14

Lisbon, Jan. 14.-Christopher Col
umbus, discoverer of America, was
born in Portugal the Portuguese acad-
emy of sciences was told yesterday
by Patrocinio Ribeira, a member.
1t has been a historically accepted
fact that Columbus was born at Genoa,
Italy. The statement of Senior Ri
beira comes on the heels of an an
nouncement by the Right Rev. Mgr.
Reysoto upon his arrival in New York
recently that Columbus was Jew.
The prelate said that this was
proved by documents discovered at the
home of ancestors of Columbus in
Spain. He said Columbus hid the fact
that he was a Jew because OF the
deportation of people of that race from
Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14

The temperature averaged Is de-
grees above normal in Topeka during
the last twenty-four hours, according
to Meteorologist Flora. Altho it will
be slightly colder tonight and Sunday
the temperature will not drop to nor
NAL.
Sunday will be another pleasant
nnidwinter Sunday, says the weather
man. Altho there will be a chilly
north wind. the sun will shine all day,
and the wind will not be very notice
able.
The temperatures in Florida this
morning We're only degrees higher
than those in Montana. The sky was
clear today from Kansas west to Cal
ifornia. north to South Dakota. south
7C0Dffnued on Page Tvr0N
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This Nurse Values
"CdOe Man Kiss .
at S25, 900 in Suit

Chicago, Jan. 1.-THE question of
whether a "cave-man kiss is worth
$500 was still undecided today as
the result of the failure of the jury
trying the suit of Miss Mathilda Benk-
hardt against DIR. J. L. Mitchell to
agree. Judge Lewis dismissed the
jury.
Miss Benkhardt claimed that the
''cave-man" kiss was administered by
Doctor Mitchell while she was assist
ing him in the treatment OF a patient
at a hospital. She valued the kiss at
S25, 600 in her suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
LOWER FIRE INSURANCE RATES
Order Affecting Kansas Charges May
Be Issued Monday.

An order lowering fire insurance
rates in Kansas will probably be is
sued Monday by the state insura nee
department. The order follows a rate
demand for Missouri by the insurance
department of that state.
Frank L. Travis. state supe-inten-
dent, stated today that he expected to
post his new order Monday. He may
not be able, tho. to establish the new
rates until later. He has already given
notice that a reduction is to be or
dered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
Shocking ~ Y. 400
Prooes a Hobby For
One Social Notable

New York. Jan. 14.-Mrs. Lydig
Hoyt. who gave New York's 400" one
shock by turning movie actress. fur
nished it with another sensation for
gossip today by her appearance last
night at a ball given by the .'Liber-
ator." the magazine of the radicals
Other social notables. public off
cials and literary celebrities Joined
with New York's leading reds
Greenwich village jewellers in defying
the Friday 18th jinx and making it one
of the gayest nights in the history OF
the metropolis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
Screw Machine Inventor Dead.

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 14-Chris-
topher Minor Spencer, inventor of the
Spencer repeating rifle and of the
first automatic screw machine. one
of the best known American inven-
tors, died at the home of his son, Rob
ert NJ. Spencer. here today. lie was
IS years old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Santa Fe Train Crashes Into Auto
One Other Is Hurt

Raton. New Mexico, Jan. 1.-Two
men were killed and another seriously
injured today when a Santa Fe passen-
ger train crashed into an automobile
occupied by the victims at a grade
crossing south of here.
Carl Stevens and Newell Stuart were
killed almost instantly and Arthur
Kerr, driver of the car, is not expected
to live
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
ALL ARMENIhNS TO MOVE
Ask for Vessels to Take 10000 From
Ancestral Homes.

Geneva, Jan. 14.-Paul Hymans.
president Of the council of the league
Of nations, presented to the council
this morning a telegram which Cardi-
nal Mercier. primate of Belgium. had
received from the Protestant com
nnunity and the Armenian Catholic
patriarchate of nstantinople. stat
ing that the entire Armenian popula-
ton had decided to evacuate the coun-
try.
The telegram urgently appealed for
vessels to transport 10000 persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
MAKE SUNDAY WILSON DAY
Mors Than 10000 Pastors of Z. S.
Asked to Preach Special Sermons.

MOFc 1tEan 2U.OOO HaStOfS Oh Z. >.
Asked to Preach Special Sermons.
New York, Jan. 14.-More than 20,-
600 clergymen thruout the country
were asked by letter today to observe
January Is in their churches as
woodrow Wilson Sunday.
DR.. Frederick Lynch, New York
clergyman. editor and peace worker,
now chairman of the church commit
tee of the woodrow Wilson Founda-
ton, has asked ministers thruout the
United States to preach on that day
upon the subject of idealism in inter
national relationships, referring to
Mr.. Wilson's addresses on this subject.
To the same group he has also sent
a selection of excerpts from Mr.. VIII
sons addresses bearing on interna-
tional morality.
No plans have been made by To-
peka churches to observe "Woodrow
Wilson Sunday pastors stated today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
OFFICER DIES OF WOUNDS.
Was Fired Upon by Auto Thieves Dur
ing Chase OF Criminals.

Brookfield, No, Jan. III d. Miz-
ener, night city marshal, died early to-
dsv from bullet wounds received late
,ast night in a battle with automobile
thieves a short distance west Of this
city.
M.zener and two other men had
gone in pursuit of a stolen rnachins
and on overtaking ii were fired upon.
After the shooting the thieves drove
off in the marshal's car and are stili
az large
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
M'NEAL OUT FOR GOVERNOR
Editor of Farm Publication Announces
as Candidate.

Tom McNeaI. editor of a Capper
farm publication here, late today an
nounced his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for governor. Nc
Neal IS former state printer and is
now a member of the state school
book commission.
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Senate Finance Committee Defiant.

Washington, Jan 14.-Disre egarding
the expressed wishes of admiaistra-
ton leaders, the senate finance COM
mittee today agreed to report 10 TIE
senate on Monday the administration
bill to provide means for funding the
Sf1. 900, 600 900 indebtedness Of foreign
governments to the United States.