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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
DRILL IN MEXICO new REVOLT NEAR
Los Angeles Group Takes Over
All Government Lands.
May Be the Most Important
Deal of Kind in World.

Los Angeles, Dec. 23.-A group of
Los Angeles men = manufacturers,
bankers and oil operators-has OBJ
tanned from the Mexican government
what amounts to a blanket concession
on all government lands in the oil dis
trict of the east coast, according to
announcement from the promoters,
the Los Angeles Times, reported to-
day.
1T is by far the biggest oil trans
action in Mexican histroy." the Times
said. and probably the most i'm
portant deal of its kind in the world
for it involves 1000. 600 acres of land
adjoining rich workings of the oldest
established companies in the Tampico
and TuXpaIn- districts '----
1t is announced the Los Angeles
group will go into the Mexican oil dis
trict and operate according to the
Mexican article -, and under a fed
eral concession on the same royalty
basis which established companies
have declared confiscatory. The con-
cession, it is stated, permits them to
drill on lands Immediately joining the
richest wells in Mexico.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
OFFICIALS ARE INDICATED
Council Grove Recall FaiIs-Three
Commissioners Are Reelected

Council Grove, Kan. Dec. 2S.-The
three present city commissioners of
Council Grove, were all reelected
yesterday at what was probably the
first recall election of it's kind ever
held in Kansas. J. NJ. Pemberton.
yard master of the Missouri Pacific
was reelected mayor by a majority
of 1877; Z. d. Scott, was reelected
finance commissioner by a ma jority
of PAS; and II. c. Wilson was re-elect-
ed street and public utilities commits
sioner by Il majority of 100.
The election yesterday appears to be
a complete vindication for the present
city administra ton, over which a fac
tionaI city fight developed The re-
elected commissioners won disfavor at
the hands OF many citizens by extend
ing the franchise of the Kansas Elec-
tric Power company, and by carrying
on an extensive paving program
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
Collapse of Greek Revolutions
ary Government Imminent.
Uprising viii Cause Cabinet
Members to Leave Country.

London, Dec. 23.-Collapse of the
Greek revolutionary government at
Athens is imminent, according to a
Rome dispatch to the Daily Express
today.
The correspondent said he had
learned from a trustworthy source
that not only is a political upheaval
impending in Greece but that the Of
ficers of the Greek revolutionary
committee which controls the cabi-
net probably will have to flee from
the country
1t is revealed that Elutherios Veni-
zelos. head of the Greek delegation
in the Near East peace conference.
sent a telegram to Minister Politis at
Athens. urging him to resist British
pressure and continue the courtmar-
tial trials of former state and military
officials.
Venizelos is said to have recon-
mended that prisoners found guilty by
the courtmartial tribunals should be
executed Later. however, when the
allied nations protested against Greek
executions, NenizeloS was said to have
counselled the Athens government to
use mercy in hope of obtaining sup
port from Britain. France and Italy.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
FREED OF MURDER CHARGE
Harry Skaggs Did Not Kill Leon Har.
rington, Jury Says

Kansas City. Kan. Dec. 23-Harry
Skaggs. Bonner Springs barber,
charged with the murder of Leon
Harrington. his alleged love rival. was
acquitted by jury in the Wyandotte
district court here Friday night on
the third ballot.
The first ballot stood 9 to 3 and the
second 10 to for acquittaL
Judge w. Il McCamish, before
whom the case was tried, had in
structed the jury to bring in verdict
either of first degree murder or ac-
quirtal
The case went to the jury about I
O'Clock in the afternoon. y verdict
was returned at Sis o'clock last night.
Harrington's charred body was
found near Tonganoxie, Kan. Novem-
Der s, the clothing saturated with
gasoline and the head crushed. Near
IL was Harrington's automobile de-
stroyed by fire
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23

ness or even in soliciting sales OF
liquor" Curtis said. 81 do not know
of a single violation, personally, and
I do not know whether the charges are
true, but if they are, we intend to
stamp out this traffic at once. My in
structonS were to make arrests no
matter who was back of the violator
or to whom he was making the sale.
No amount of political influence will
save the man caught violating the
prohibition law in the capitol
What Will Harding say?
In the house. meanwhile, congress
men were plainly disturbed. by the
charges of Representative Upshaw.
Democrat Georgia, that cabinet mem
bers, senators and representatives were
openly violating the Volstead act. They
were also awaiting action by the White
House on Upshaw's appeal to Presi-
dent Harding for a proclamation call
ing on government Officials to per-
sOnally observe the Volstead act Up
shaw, en- route to his home in Georgia.
declared he would return after Christ
mas to make Washington as dry as
the Sahara
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
BANDITS SHOOT PAYMASTER
Robbery OF 100000 Christmas Pay
Roll and Escape Follows

Pittsburgh. Dec. 23.-Four bandits
shot Ross Dennis. paymaster- of the
Pittsburgh Coal company and escaped
with a satchel containing about
$4,000 in currency. The hoIdup oc-
CURED in the hills behind Mount Le-
banon. near here. while a party of
company officials were taking the
Christmas pay to miners at Beading,
Pa
Dennis was riding a motorcycle in
advance OF an automobile in which
Supt. William Young of the Beading
mine and three other employees were
guarding the pay satchel- The bandits
shot Dennis without warning. He fell
from the motorcycle Before the driver
OF the pay car could stop his machine
the bandits were upon IL. They COW
cred tie superintendent and the
guards, obtained the satchel and
ESCAPED.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
STICK UP DANCERS
Masked Bandits Invade Dance
Hall at Liberty, Kan.
SeYenty-Five Couples Relieved
of Money and Watches.

Independence, Kan, Dec %
Shortly after midnight last night, dur
ing the progress of a dance in public
hall at Liberty, about ten miles south
east of this city, which was attended
by about $50 men and women, five
masked bandits entered the hall and,
lining the dancers and spectators up
along the walls, proceeded to relieve
them of all their money and watches.
between $500 and $500 in money and
between so and 35 yatches-
The apparent leader of the band.
using a shotgun, and two of his COM
panions, with revolvers. kept the
crowd covered, while the other two
searched for moley and valuables.
They worked rapidly and carried on a
pleasant conversation with their vic
tins as they -earched their pockets.
After a thoro cleaning of the crowd,
the bandits backed out of the hall,
which they came to Little Hamlet and
belonging to some of the merry rev.
elers.
The sheriff's office of this city and
the police department of COffeyville
were notified, and within very short
time after the holdup the officers
from both places were at the scene.
The officers from Coffeyville think
that the big car containing the bandits
passed them going south as they came
to Liberty The coupe was later found
a few miles south of Liberty. Two
Masks such as the bandits had on
when they came into the dance hall,
were found in the coupe. The masks
were made from the legs of women's
silk hose
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
MAY Be BANDITS
Six Men Held in New Mexico
Pending Investigation.
Bill, Stolen in Denver, Found
in Baltimore Today.

Santa Fe, n. Mex, Dec. 23.-Six men
with heavy cases, who arrived from
Las Vegas in car early this morning,
are in the county Jail pending investi-
cation in connection with the robbery
of the United States Federal Reserve
bank truck at Denver. The United
States marshaTs office had received a
tip from Las Vegas and Deputy Gout-
chey and Assistant superintendent
Dugan of the prison, after observing
the suspects during breakfast in a
restaurant, took them into custody.
The men arrived in a car with a
Colorado license bearing the No.
43,356. Holes found in the body of
the car are believed by the officers
to have been made BY bullets.
Denver, Dec. 23.-Mrs. B. L. Doug
las, of this city, mother of one of the
men arrested in Santa Fe as suspects
in the Denver federal reserve robbery,
told police today that her son had
4lired out early this week to drive a
party of men to California. Police
also learned from a local agency that
the Cadillac had been sold to J. L.
Barrett last Monday. Barrett was in
the party held in Santa F'e. Local po-
lice place little credence in the Santa
Fe arrests.
Locate Stolen Bill.
Baltimore. Dec. ga IS bill
downtown lunch room was identi-
fled today as having been part of the
haul made by the bandits who on
Monday shot and killed the federal
reserve bank guard at Denver, and
stole 100000 in currency.
The cashier at the lunch room was
so busy that he did not note the serial
number of the note until after he had
given the customer his change and
others in line had stepped up and paid
for their meals.
The money turned over by the lunch
room to the federal authorities has
been definitely identified as part of
the 100000 taken from the Denver
mint.
The police of the whole country
have bo en- notified of the theft and
told to be on the alert for the appear
ance in circulation of the money.
AS far as is known, this is The first
discovery that has been made SO
promptly after the passing of the
money.
The Denver police and detectives
have, up to this time centered a. part
of their activity on a location in Cal
ifornia where it was thought the men
went after the robbery and murder.
A part of the loss in the robbery
was carried by the burglary depart
ment of the Fidelity and Deposit COM
pany of Maryland.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
QUIET XMAS At WHITE HOUSE
Holiday Season Opens When Govern
ment Departments Close.

Washington, Dec. 23.-Christmas at
the White House will lack much of
the usual spirit of times gone by be-
cause of Mrs. Harding's Illness.
There will be no house guests and
no Christmas tree. Neither the presi-
dent nor Mrs. Harding has made any
holiday plans. She may come down
stairs in her wheel chair, and sit at
the table for Christmas dinner, but
otherwise the day will be like any
other since she was taken i'll.
To add a little cheer. the White
House has Yuletide wreaths in the
windows, and there will be pro-
fusion of flowers.
AS a Christmas present to the thou
sands of government employees, Presi-
dent Harding issued an executive or
der closing the government depart
ments at noon today and at that hour
most high officials as well, closed up
their desks and went home.
The senate. too, Joined in the early
beginning of the Christmas season
holding only a short session, but the
house went ahead with the considera-
ton of appropriation bills.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
SENATE IN SPLIT
BOrah's Proposal Revives the
League of Nations Fight.
johnson and LaFoIIette Oppose
World Conference.
LONG DEBATE IS PROMISED
Senator POindeXter Also Takes
Issue With BOrah.
Had One Conference Now Bri-
tain Has Bigger Guns.
LONG DEBATE IS PROMISED

Washington, Dec. ga Senator
Borah's proposal that President Hard
ing call an international economic
conference today split wide open the
old senate group of "irreconcilab bles'
which fought the league of nations
tooth and nail.
Senators johnson, Republican. Cali
fornia and La Toilette, Republican
Wisconsin, were among the old "die
hards' with whom the Idaho senator
was conspicuously identified in the
long battle against the Versailles
treaty who declared they were un-
alterably opposed to the United States
sitting down with Europe at the con-
ference table.
Both will attack Borah's move when
debate on the pending navy supply bill
is resumed in the senate after the
Christmas holiday.
Poindexter Chips IN.
Senator Poindexter. Republican,
Washington, acting chairman of the
senate naval affairs committee and
another of the former ''irreconcila-
bles," took sharp issue with Borah as
to the necessity for the United States
taking the initiative in persuading
Europe to set its house in order.
I'VE had one so-called disarmament
conference" said Poindexter. Since
it was agreed to limit battleship con-
struction, pact France has yet to
ratify. maritime nations have idiscov-
cred other lines of naval competition
We hear Great Britain's naval guns
now out-range ours.
There have been conferences and
controversies without end in an at
tempt to settle the problem of Ger
man reparations which was created
like some Frankenstein at Versailles.
[ cannot see what good would come
from our sitting down at conference
with European nations which them
selves have failed to agree whenever
they have held a conference of their
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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
CHRIST HOSPITAL
WILL BE REBUILT
UNDER new PLAN
A Modern Institution OF 100
Beds for TOpeka's Needs.
Home for Sixty Nurses Also
Included on Program.
IMPROVEMENT COST $500, 600
Campaign Over Entire State to
Raise the Funds.
viii Make Hospital One OF
Finest in West.
IMPROVEMENT COST $500, 600
Campaign Over Entire State to
Raise the Funds.
Will Make Hospital One of
Finest in West.

Active work on plans to equip Christ
hospital. of Topeka, with new build
ings and equipment which will make
it one of the leading hospitals in the
west. is to start Immediately. 1t was de
termined at meeting OF the board OF
trustees and staff Of the hospital, held
Friday evening
The plans are for the expenditure
Of 100000 on a new 100 bed hospital
building and a home for sixty nurses.
The plans for construction and the
estimates OF the cost, are as yet tenta-
tive but that the Episcopal diocese
OF Kansas will carry on a campaign
over the entire state to secure the
funds for the improvements planned
was definitely determined Friday eve
ming.
Public Favors Project.
a preliminary survey of the attitude
of the public toward the project has
been under way for the last two weeks
John p. Mack, of the general organ
ization company of Chicago. to the
trustees and hospital staff Friday
night at which time decision was made
to go ahead with the plans. The re
port stated that everyone interviewed
in regard to the matter has expressed
approval of it. More than forty local
business and professional men were
consulted before a decision was
reached.
Further action by the men inter
ested will probably result in the crea-
tion of a special fund to defray the eX-
pense of the promOtional work, so
that subscriptions will go entirely to
the building fund, without any per-
centages for services or advertising
costs being deducted
Service Not To Be Interrupted.
Tentative plans contemplate the
erection of the nurses home first, so
that patients can be transferred to
that building while the old hospital
building is being wrecked and re-
placed This will permit continuous
service to patients without interrupt
ton while the building plans are being
out.
Bishop James Wise. president OF the
hospital board. is determined to make
it the outstanding hospital of the state.
one so complete in its facilities that
il will leave nothing to be desired in
giving service to the i'll and injured of
the city and state
Dr. w L. , ven, head of the hos
pital staff. '~- advocated new build
ings for many months and is con-
vinced that with the erection of mod
arn structures the hospital can become
an institution So ond to none in the
middle west.
The rebuilding plans will bring to I
pass the vision of Bishop Vail, founder /
Of the hositaL whose ambition it was
to make il one of Americas leading I
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
CHRISTMAS DINNER TO $50
Salvation Army Busy Today PFovid-
ing for Unfortunate Families

cinner baskets were distributed to un-
fortunate Topeka families today by
the Salvation Army under the super
vision of Ensign V. J. Huffman. The
delivery of the baskets started at 10
o'clock this morning.
Food for Christmas dinners and
staple goods were conta. ned in the
baskets. Several families sent repre-
sentatives to the Salvation Army cita-
del to secure the baskets Approx
mately $1,000 was expended by the
orga nization to supply the dinners.
Many Topekans and Shawnee county
farmers contributed canned goods,
fruits. vegetables and 1e1lies to helr
round the dinners.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
$4,000 RAISED FOR TB FUND
Topeka Tuberculosis Association
Needs 1000 More for 1928 Work.


With a fund of nearly $4,000 re-
ceived from the sale of Christmas seals,
the Topeka Tuberculosis association is
ready to carry on its work in Topeka
and Shawnee county for another year
Since $4,000 is the goal that the asso-
citation set in its drive, it is hoping
that the remainder of the money will
come in from time to time. Money has
not been sent in yet from all who have
received the envelopes of seals. Their
response will add materially to the
fund.
1t is not yet too late to buy the little
Christmas seals, and so do your part
in helping to stamp out tuberculosis.
They are not expensive, only a cent
each. Even with all the expense which
the Christmas holidays bring, there Is
surely a dollar left that will help to
fight against the disease that is claim
ing so many lives every year right here
in Topeka. You may not be able to go
out and fight it personally. Let your
money go in your place
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
CHRISTMAS MAIL

Service for the procrastinating
Christmas shoppers will be main
year.
The parcel post department at the
central building will be opened for
present senders from 10 until II
o'clock in the morning Sunday.
Additional Christmas service in
cludes:
Parcel post deliveries all day Sun
day and Monday.
One regular delivery Monday
General delivery window open from
until 8 O'Clock Monday morning.
Were doing all we can to help
Charles H. Sessions, postmaster, said
this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
A PROTEST FROM ToPEKANs
Good Government Club Wires to VIII
II. HAYS

The Good Government club of To-
peka Friday night telegraphed to VIII
II. Hays a protest against the permis-
sion granted to Roscoe Arbuckle to
return to the films.
The protest. signed by the Rev. Mrs.
Clara Hazelrigg, president. and Mrs
Lila Day Monroe, chairman of the leg
isiative committee of the club. was as
follows:
THE Good Government club of To-
peka is unalterably opposed to the re-
instatement of Fatty Arbuckle in
motion pictures. No>good end is at
tanned; no good can come of II. II
simply precipitates a mass of filth
upon a public that decided against it.
We register disapproval and protest"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
COL. RAIN, ADJUTANT GENERAL
Governor-EIect Davis Announces
Christmas Appointment Today.

Governor-eIect Jonathan NJ Davis
announced late this afternoon that he
would appoint Col. r. NeiIl Rain of
Clay Center as adjutant general of
Kansas, to succeed Brigadier General
c. L Martin, present adJutant general.
Colonel Rain became identified
with the adjutant generals depart
ment during the Hodges administra-
ton and served in that office until the
Allen administration
Colonel Rain is widely known in
Kansas military affairs and handled
the seIective service records during
the war. Under his administration
Kansas was the first to complete its
records
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
B. & 0. GIVES RICH BONUS
Loyal Employees Get Extra Month:
Pay as Gift.

Baltimore, Dec. 2S.-Danisl Will
lard, president of the Baltimore *
ohio railroad, today handed out
Christmas presents amounting to
many thousands of dollars to those
men who were working in the shops
and stood loyal to the company last
summer during the shop crafts strike.
To every man who thus helped to
keep the road in operation he gave
based this on a full average month
The gifts came as a complete sur
prise
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
HOLIDAY TRADE is HEAVY
Estimate $3.50, ,OOO. 900 Spent I'm New
York, Breaking Record.

New York. Dec. 23.-Holiday buy
ing in New York has broken all rec
ords and $3.50. 100000 has been spent
by shoppers here. it was estimated to-
day in bus ness quarters. This sum
represents an increase of from is to
20 per cent over last year.
Officials of the federal reserve bank
reported that dollar sales ror the first
two weeks of December were 8 per
cent more than they were for the same
period last year. Sales this week have
not vet been calcula ed.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
BIG FIRE At COUNCIL BLUFF
Daily NonparfeI TO Issue From Omaha
Loss S25O,OOO.

Council Bluff. Dec. 23.-Fire of IN
known origin, early today, destroyed
the four story brick bus ness struc-
ture of Rogers & Brown. at Pearl and
Main streets, with a loss estimated at
$3.50 900.
offices OF the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil, adjoining the Brown building,
were damaged by water. making il
necessary for that newspaper to issue
is editions today at the Omaha World
Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
ADMIRAL BRISTOL TO PARIS
American Observer Declares Pence
Conference Is Dragging.

Paris. Dec. 2S--Rear Admiral
Mark Bristol. one OF the three Amer
lean observers during the Near East
peace conference. arrived from Laus-
anne today TO spend Christmas in
Paris
The peace conference is dragging
and it is not anticipated that any
thing will be done until next week.
The Turkish delegations. acting
upon instructions from Angora. have
adopted a more obstinate attitude to-
wards the allied demands.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
FORECAST FOR MEN

The chances of a white Christmas have
gone glimmering, says AIeteorologist
Flora April temperatures are sched-
uled in Topeka for at least thirty-siX
hours and there is no precipitation
within 500 miles of Kansas, says the
weather man. More moderate tenn
perature will prevail. The tempera-
ture averaged 20 degrees above normal
in Topeka in the last twenty-four
hours No zero temperatures We're
reported in the United States today.
The sky was clear from Ohio west to
California.
The temperature will drop to about
80 degrees tonight and will rise to
about 50 degrees, Sunday
The highest temperature in Topeka
in the last twenty-four hours was ga
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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
a CHRISTMAS WITHOUT WAR.
World Is at Peace for First Time In
Nine Years

London. Dec. 23.-Monday will be
the first Christmas in nine years when
war was not being waged in some
part of the world. For four years, the
great war ragged over Christmas time
Then came the war in Russia against
the Bo,shevists and still later the war
between Greece and Turkey.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
BANDITS MAKE TWO HAULS
Loot Two Jewelry Stores in Down
town Minneapolis

Minneapolis. Dec 2S.-Bandits to-
day invaded the Minneapolis down
town district, staged two daring
jewelry store robberies within a half
block of each other, and fled with
about S25, 900 in cash, diamonds and
jewelry.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
LETTER IN FIRE ALARM

Elgin. Dec. 23.-After racing az
top speed in answer to an alarm.
two companies of the Elgin fire
department today found William
Wicken. 20 years old resident, try
ing to drop a letter in a fire alarm
box.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
MICHIGAN STAR is KILLED
Bernard Kirk Dead from Injuries Re
ceived in Auto Accident.

Ypsilanti. Mich, Dec. 2S.-Bernard
Kirk, University of Michigan star foot
ball player, and chosen as an all
American end this year. died this
morning at a hospital here from in
juries received in an automobile acci-
dent last Sunday. Kinks skull was
fractured.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
Fire Follows Christmas Dance.

Chicago. Dec. 23.-A Christmas
dancing party was followed early to-
day by "A ire that practically de-
stroyed the mansion IN Oak Park of
Attorney w c. Moore, causing an es-
timated loss of 100000.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
shippers Forecast. .

Protect all thirty-six hour shipments
north and west against Il temperature
freezing
FORECAST FOR NEXT WEEK
Generally fair except for local
SHOWS. middle of the week: normal
temperature first part; colder after
Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-23
WILL Be GREEN CHRISTMAS
Temperatures of April Variety Sched-
uled for Next Thirty-Six Hours.
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.ENIPERATURES.