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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
PLAN BIG REUNION SPECIALS co WEST
Cornerstone of New Masonic
Temple To Be Laid June 1.
Plans Completed for Special
Services by Scottish Rite.

The final arrangements for the lay
ing OF the cornerstone of the new
Masonic temple June 1, southeast cor
ner of Tenth avenue and Van Buren,
streets, and the special reunion of the
Scottish Rite bodies of the Valley OF
Topeka, were completed today by
James B. Doncyson, secretary of the
Scottish Rite bodies of the Valley of
Topeka. The temple is being built
and will be owned by the Scottish
Rite bodies but is distinctly Masonic
temple.
The reunion will open at s:15
O'Clock Thursday morning with the
opening of the Oriental Lodge of Per
lection No. g. Frank S. Crane, asso-
ciate director of work, will be in
charge. The degrees from the fourth
to the fourteenth will be communi-
Gated. The Rev. Edmund J. Kulp will
serve as orator. The fourteenth de-
gree will be conferred at 10 o'clock.
Meals will be served during the en-
tire reunion. The mem bership will be
about sixty.
To Lay Cornerstone Thursday.
The laying of the cornerstone will
be held ut 1880 o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon. Owen J. Wood, thirty-third
degree, past grand master of the
grand lodge of Kansas, A. F. & A M,
who will represent John McCullagh,
grand master, of Galena, will off1ciate-
The program VIII 1olloW the TeSuIdl
ritual.
At S:15 o'clock the opening of Unity
Chapter knights Rose Croix. No. l,
will take place. Chester B. Reed,
thirty-third degree, will be in charge.
The fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth degrees will be communicated
James f. Thomas, thirty-third de-
gree, will serve as orator. The eigh-
teenth degree will be conferred at
1880 o'clock Thursday evening.
The opening of the Godfrey de St
Omar Council knights Kadosh, No. 2,
will be at Sis o'clock Friday morn
ing. Clement w. Seely, thirty y-second
degree, X. c. c. H, will be in charge.
The nineteenth to the thirtieth degrees
will be communicated. The Rev. Clar-
ence E. Holcombe will serve as orator.
The thirtieth degree will be communi-
Gated at 10 o'clock.
To Take Glass Picture.
The opening of Topeka Consistory
No /, will take place at PAS o'clock
Friday afternoon. Ferdinand Voiland,
degree. K. C. c. H, will
be in charge. The thirty-first degree
will be conferred at o'clock. The
Of the evening session.
The thirty-second degree will be
conferred at 1880 o'clock.
Music for the reunion will be fur
nished by Theodore C. Mueller, Hum
phrey w Jones. Lee G. Forbes. Mrs.
Nathan W. McGrew, Mrs. Harlin
King. Paul B. Van Ness and William
r. Carrie, thirty third degree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
WACO Is oUIETING DOWN.
Day of Stirring Scenes When Black Is
Burned for Assault.

Waco, May 27.-Excitement and
disorder incident to the killing and
burning of Jesse Thomas. % year old
negro, here late yesterday virtually
had ceased early today, giving the dis
tracted populace opportunity to re-
fleet on the events of one of the wild
est days in the city's history.
Beginning early yesterday morning
when the killing of W. Harreu Boil
ton. 25, and a criminal assault upon
Mrs. Maggie Hays, 26. by a negro, first
became known and eliminated late in
the day with the dragging of the ne
gros charred body thru the streets of
Waco after he had met death at the
hands of the assaulted woman's IA
ther, it was a day of intense feeling
boisterOus demonstration and stirring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27

New York. May 27.-"Greenwich
village. it's all bunki"
With the phrase. Sonia, the bobbed-
haired Mimi of Americans tinsel BO-
hemia, today described the so-called
Latin quarter" of America which she
helped to make famouS-or notorious.
Half a dozen years ago when the
village began to attract more than
passing notice because of its mock
AIurgerism. Sonia, a shrewd lily from
the East side, bobbed her locks,
slipped sandals on her Trilbylike feet,
threw a Russian smock over her
shoulders and began to peddle cigarets
to poet, prince. painter and potentate
alike who made the pilgrimage below
Fourteenth street.
Sonia sold cigarets-and atmos-
phere.
Each package of pills" purchased
from her carried a brief dissertation
on the Russian moderns, with neat
references to Freudian completes
thrown in for good measure.
Many a foreign visitor who went
Summing stopped his taxicab to pur-
chase smokes from the gypsyIike ven
"Cigarets? All, yes BY the way
have you read Gorkis latest mani
festo? No? Then you should. And
also would recommend Andreyev."
In these days Sonia-whose last
name has never been revealed-was
the light of the village.
No party at the Purple Pup tea
room or the Dizzy Dip" or the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
INVITE KANSANS TO BRAZIL
Senior Sebastiao Sampaio Calls on
Governor and Other Officials.

Senior Sebastiao Sampaio, CONNER
cial attache of the Brazilian embassy
to the United States, came to To-
Henry J. Allen and to George w.
StansfieId, president of the Chamber
of Commerce and to Guy c. SickIer,
secretary, an invitation to Topekans
to attend the industrial exposition at
Rio De Janeiro, with which the Bra
zillians are celebrating their centen-
nial of independence, beginning Sep
tember of this year.
Senior Sampaio is especially COM
missioned by his embassy to visit all
the cities of the country as we'll as
the governors of the states, with this
invitation. Topeka is the fifty-fifth
city which he has visited in the past
three and a half months. during which
he has covered twenty-nine states.
He called upon Governor Allen this
morning and was thanked by the
governor for the invitation to Kan
sas. Governor Allen has appointed l..
W. Clapp, former mayor of wichita,
as the commissioner for Kansas, to
attend the exposition.
The United States has appropriated
million dollars and appointed six
commissioners, to participate in the
exposition at Rio De, Janeiro. Three
of the commissioners are already on
the ground.
Senior Sampaio was for several
years the managing editor of the Jour
nal of Commerce of Brazil, a news
paper established there ninety-six
years ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
CRANE WILL LEAVE JUNE 3.
Congratulations Pour I'm When Alleged
Sentence Was Found a Hoax.

Paris, May 27.-Charles r. Crane,
former American minister TO China.
who was reported to have clashed with
the French military authorities IN
Syria, will leave for home June 3, he
announced today.
Crane is receiving mum erous con-
gratulations from friends over the for
NAL denial by the French authorities
that he had been sentenced to twenty
years imprisonment by a French mill
tary court in Syria for melting the
Syrians to revolt against French oc-
cupational troops.
Crane has reserved transportation to
The Hague, and is leaving Paris to-
night with the intention Of crossing
to England tomorrow night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
ACCEPT FoRD's NITRATE PLAN?
House Military Committee Agrees on
a Muscle Shoals Program

Washington, May 27.-A proposal
for development of the governments s
nitrate and power projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala, was finally agreed upon
today by the house military commit
tee after more than three months
continuous investigation and study of
the offers made by Henry Ford, the
Alabama Power company, Frederick
Engstrum and Charles L. Parsons.
While the proposal was held IN
strictest confid dence by the committee
with regard to its various provisions
relating to development of the pro-
Jects, it was learned that the Gorgas,
Alabama, steam plant, was eliminated
from the property to be disposed of
with Muscle Shoals. The committee
plan in another report follows closely
to the terms offered by Henry Ford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
Bohemia Is Bur1k-a State of
MindSays Sonia, NoUBroke
If Mothers Knew What Went in the ''Tea Room
Joints Now, They'd Come a-Runnn' for the FIappers
Says Girl Who Once Was Greenwich Villages Life.

/ DIRTY Dog was complete without
Sonia being present to sell cigarets
to spinsters seeking a thrill, and
Sonia always lectured a bit on sym
bolism and futurism in art and litera-
tur.e
Sonia was Greenwich village.
She made so much money pedd1ing
pills that she opened a Artistic book
shop where the "intelligentsia'' of
four contin ents and seven seas gath
cred to discuss art, literature and
Bohemianism.
But hard times came a-knockin'
and in recent months Sonia has made
little money. To make matters worse,
she has become ill-gravely So, and
doctors say that Sonia may not live
much longer.
Most of her artistic" friends have
deserted her. Villagers whom she
aided in days of distress now have
seemingly forgotten her. When seen
today in a cheap little room in Wash
ington Square by an International
News Service reporter Sonia said:
Gee, if mothers knew what went
on in some of those tea room joints,
they'd come a-running for their flap
per daughters.
The village is nothing but tough
place now; real artists don't go there
any longer.
'It used to be respectable. Famous
artists lived there. But they moved
away. It's just a money-making
scheme show for the folks from
pumpkins corners "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
TODAY is POPPY DAY
Poppies

PoppieS-
Fields of England where Cromwell
made his last stand. are covered with
them Flanders fields. where the
British and French fought side by
side. were, near the close of the war,
masses of crimson stained petals
poppies. In the Argonne. at St. Mehiel
and along other offensives of the
United States. poppies were beginning
to grow when the world war closed
For poppies, according to tradition,
grow in fields where much human
blood has been shed. And SO they have
come to be regarded as the emblem of
sacrifice"human sacrifice for the
good of human betterment. Since the
close of the war. they have become
the international veterans flower
tho no veteran looks upon them with
out memories of the sights of other
days-ip fields of poppies-
So it has become a custom to bring
to mind again those same scenes. that
they may not be forced again. with a
memory of sacrifice when poppies
were gilded with stains other than
that nature had provided.
Today is Poppy day.
Wear poppy. ss.-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
HOPKINS ASKS A RECEIVER
Action in c. p. Dewey Case Taken by
Attorney General Today.

A motion for the appointment of a
receiver and commissioner of the c.
r Dewey company, an Illinois COM
pany against which custer proceedings
were started May 10, was filed by the
state today in the supreme court. The
appointment of commissioner is
sought to take evidence on the suit
filed May 19.
Information contained in the custer
proceedings filed against the Dewey
company stated that Chauncey Dewey.
prominent Chicago politician and
clubman. and former Kansas ranch
man, who was a principal in the Dew
ey-Berry feud in western Kansas. is
the chief owner of the company.
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INSTITUTE TO OPEN June 19
Shawnee County Summer School in
Charge OF Prof. f. f. Stanley


The Shawnee county normal insti-
tute will open June 19 and continue
for five days. An unusually strong
and competent force of lecturers has
been obtained for this summer school.
according to Josiah Jordan, county
superintendent.
The institute will be conducted by
Prof. Z. +. Stanley. of Topeka. His
lectures will include The Teacher"
The Pupil" 1.-The Teachers Measure"
and THE Pupils Growth He will
also discuss methods of teaching es-
sential studies
Prof. +. J. Hoenshen, of Des Moines
widely known author and lecturer,
will give a series of lectures. particu-
larly concerning the teaching of Eng
lish grammar and composition.
Prof. Fred A. Seaman will have a
new series of lectures on timely and
interesting topics, one of which will
be devoted to correlation of the rural
high school to the city.
Mrs. Margaret De Forest, of Kansas
City, will lecture on music apprecia-
ton and other subjects.
Prof. L. H Hausam, of Emporia,
author of the present adopted pen
manship system, will be present to
give some talks on the teaching of
penmanship. Other speakers will ap-
pear during the week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
ANXIOUS ABOUT LYNCH BILL.
Negro Committee Assured by Borah
New Law Will Be Framed.

washington, May q. -Announce-
ment that the senate judiciary COM
lynching bill would endeavor to frame
a measure that will stand the test OF
courts and will exhaust every ounce
of federal power" in dealing with the
situation was made by Senator Borah,
Republican. Idaho. in reply to an in
quiry by a negro organization as to
what was to be done in consequence
of the committees decision that the
house bill was unconstitutional
Senator Borah declared that there
was no intention on the part of the
committee to abandon consideration
of the subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
LANDS GARNERs A STRAW
Hornsby Gives to Commissioner One
Ho Got for "Home Rum"

St. Louis, May 27.-Basebau Com
missioner Lands today has a straw
hat which he did not have before
coming to ST Louis last Thursday to
participate in a baseball celebration.
1t became known today that when
Commissioner Lands was preparing
to throw the first ball in the game
between the Cardinals and the Pirates
he DOTTED a heavy hat and placed
Roger Hornsby's baseball cap on his
head.
Gee, you wear a hot hat for this
time of the year" remarked Hornsby.
why not wear a straw
''Well, I would if some one would
give me one" Lands replied laugh
ingly.
I've got a couple coming from hit
ting home runs. Ill get you one"
Hornsby said.
The player made good with his Of
fer and Landis appeared later wear
ing a straw hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27
szUKALsKI TO WED AMERICAN.
Helen Walker Reported TO Have Ac-
cepted Noted Polish Sculptor.

Chicago, May 27.-Helen Walker.
society girl. artist and daughter of
Dr. Samuel I. Walker. prominent Chi
cago physician. is to marry StanisIau
Szukalski. son of an Impoverished Po-
hsh blacksmith. who has gained
recognition as a sculptor, It was
learned today. Szukalski had been a
struggling genius since early boyhood
in Poland.
He is said to have increased his
knowledge Of anatomy by dissecting
ihe body OF his father. who was killed
oy a street car. after the family mi
grated to America
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PRICES ARE GOOD
Market Conditions ThruOut the
Middle West Improved.
Unemployment Also Is Relieved
Reserve Bankers State.
INTEREST RATES ARE LOWER
Money Easiest in Year, State
ment for May Declares.
Sales of Farm Machinery Are
Far Above Last Years.
INTEREST RATES ARE LOWER

Kansas City, May 27.-Strengthen-
ing of market prices for the principal
products of the tenth federal reserve
district since the beginning of 1922
has been a powerful factor toward
, bringing about a marked improvement
in the general economic situation, ac-
cording to the May issue of the Month
ly Review by the Federal Reserve
bank of Kansas City.
with the unemployment situation
greatly relieved" says the Review,
''by increased industrial activity and
farm work, and crop conditions i'm
Money Is Easier.
The outstanding feature of the
financial situation in May, the report
states, is the continued easing of
money and the low loan interest rates
''An reports indicate that money is
easier than for more than a year, and.
aside from meeting requirem ents of
and merchandising, vast amounts are
being invested in government and mu-
nicipal securities, new enterprises,
real estate and building
A resume of the business situation
outlined in the report follows:
Crop Outlook Bright.
Crop conditions improved and the
winter wheat in the district is 220,-
302,564 bushels; average condition,
77.2 per cent. a decline of Sc per cent
from last years May condition.
Business activity reflected by bank
debts to individual account in twen-
ty-eight cities aggregate $1,001, 1874
600 in four weeks. an increase of 4
per cent over the corresponding period
last year.
Increase in quantity of goods dis
frihrIfad nv yUhnTeGa hrIf Inc m
reduced prices, sales in money value
decreased in some lines. Retail trade
about the same activity.
Buying More Machinery.
Resumption of high activity in pur-
chases by farmers, of implements and
ing SOS per cent increase in sales over
last year.
The lowest record of any of the
other federal reserve districts was re-
corded in business failures, which to-
tailed 66, an increase of Is failures
from April, 1921.
Business operations increased 4s.3
per cent over April, 1921.
Decrease of 3S-4 per cent in arrivals
of wheat and increase of 1873 per cent
compared to arrivals one year ago. =
Bank Deposits Higher.
Flour milling 2O.3 per cent increase
over April. 1921.
Decreases of cattle hogs and sheep,
and increases in calves. horses and
mules at market centers in April com
pared to receipts of a year ago.
Coal production first month of
strike was 1919 per cent of full ca
Dacity for states of the district
Advanced prices in ores bring in
creased activity in zinc and lead min
ng. Metal mining in Colorado more
active.
Continued heavy production of crude
1il, daily average for April in four
states estimated at 521, ,777 barrels.
Drilling operations increased.
Gross deposits in banks increased
S.5 per cent and reserves increased
1874 per cent in four weeks. Savings
n banks increased Z. per cent in de-
1osits and 14.4 per cent in accounts
over May I last year.
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SODERMAN GETS FIVE YEARS.
Pcnitentiary Sentence Assessed by
Jury Trying Him in Powers Death.

Dallas, Tex, May 27-D. E. (Dave)
Soderman must serve five years in the
penitentiary for killing Jay Clay
Powers, overseas major, and scion of
a wealthy Louisville, Ky, family
whom he shot to death in the lobby
of the Waldorf hotel, of which Powers
was manager, on the evening of April
Is.
The jury which has been hearing
the case since last Monday, found
Soderman guilty of manslaughter and
assessed punishment of five years in
the penitentiary after celebrating for
four hours and forty-five minutes. The
verdict was returned at 1885 Friday
night.
Soderman's defense was the unwrit-
ten law and Mrs. Soderman testified
that she had had intimate relations
with Powers on several occasions.
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TRIED TO MARRY THE MOVIES
Irving Martin Says wife Left Him
After One Day welded.

Los Angeles. May 27.-Irving Mar
tin. motion picture art director for
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford, has filed suit for divorce against
Eleanor Dowier Martin. He charges
cruel and inhuman treatment" in
that Mrs. Martin lived with him only
one day after their marriage here
May IA.
He also alleged she said she "fg-
ured because of his position she would
be able to obtain standing in the pic
ture profession, get a position, get all
out Of him she could and then leave
him.
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MOB WHIPS WHITE MAN.
Taste of Own Punishment Given Man
Who Beat Stepdaughter.

Muskogee, May 27.-Newton Le-
grande, Tahlequah farmer. being
brought to Muskogee by Deputy Sher-
iff Fellows, for safe keeping after ar
raignment in Tah1equah court on a
charge of brutalIy whipping his s.
year-old stepdaughter, was seized by
a mob at Hubert, 20 miles east of
here, late last night and severely
whipped.
He was taken into the woods. flog-
ged and then returned to the officers,
who continued the journey to Musko-
gee
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wANTED-HOUsING FOR CROOKS
Sing Sing Has Too Many "Boarders''
for Comfort Says Warden.

Ossining, N. Y. May 27.-For the
first time in years, famous old Sing
Sing has not sufficient accommoda-
tions for its guests"
The recent crime wave sent so many
new boarders to Sing Sing that War
den Law has had to appeal to the
state uperintendent of prisons for re-
lief.
Sing Sing has accomm modations for
1900 prisoners. They have been ar
irving at the rate of about ten a day
for several weeks and today there
were 1915 in the famous prison.
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Population of Topeka City Is
49,667 Says Report.
Gain Is in Third, Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Wards.
INCREASE IN OAKLAND ALSO
Adjoining Town Has 1894 In
habitants This Year.
Willard, ROSSviIIe and Silver
Lake Cities in Gain.

Shawnee county has entered the
0,00O population class. according to
the annual report of F. c. Bowman.
county assessor, made public today.
The population of the entire county
is 70,26O, according to the report.
being an increase OF 274 over last
year.
The population of Topeka city, ac-
cording to the assessors count, il
40, ,667. being an increase of 81 per-
sons over 1921. The population ac-
cording to the government census OF
1920 was 5O,O22.
Topeka, Tecumseh, Silver Lake and
Rossville townships showed slight de-
creases in population this year but
the four cities-Oakland willard
Rossville and Silver Lake - showed
increases.
Increase in Oakland.
The population of Oakland this year
is 2,294 as compared with 1875 last
year, being an increase OF 41s per-
sons. Rossville's population this year
is 696, compared with 634 last year.
Silver Lake was 2ss this year and 27s
last year, and Willard is 210 this year
and 14S last year
In Topeka city the Third. Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth wards increased in
population, the First and Second lost
The population according to wards this
year is: First, 5.73S; Second. 1880:
Third, 9,615; Fourth, 7.345; Fifth,
S,424; Sixth. 6.395.
The fact that the population of the
county has reached 10000 will not
make any material difference in
salaries.
Population of Townships.
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OFF FOR WORLD FLIGHT AGAIN
Major Blake and Pals Will Try To &C
Direct to Turin. Italy.

Lebourget, France. May 27.-Major
W T. Blake. the British aviator. and
his companions in the attempted
flight around the world, took the air
at 1O;45 o'clock this morning for
Turin, Italy. on the second leg of their
journey.
The itinerary of the flight called
for q stop at Lyons but the airmen.
who are three days behind their
schedule due to their delay here. de-
cided to attempt a direct flight to
Turin.
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(By the Associated Press.)

Belfast, May 27.-Seventeen fires
were started in the campaign of in
cendiarism waged thruout the city last
night. Six fire bombs were used in
starting the blaze that destroyed the
Model school, in the Falls road. There
were no burials in the city cemetery
on Thursday, owing to the sniping at
the grave diggers.
Restaurants and theaters are suf-
fering severely from the campaign of
terrorism
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NITRO IN Los ANGELES JAIL.
Giant Bombing Planned to Release
Four Convicted Mur1erers, Belief.

Los Angeles. May 27.-Nitroglycerin
discovered in the Los Angeles county
jail here yesterday was believed to-
day by sheriff's deputies to have been
an adjunct to alleged plans to deliver
four convicted slayers of policemen
and by Judge Pat r. Parker, who
heard the trials, TO have been designed
to blow up his court room.
Judge Parker said he was convinced
from his own investigation that the
slayers had planned to take the ex-
plosive into court and probably take
toll of life and property.
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oNE-THIRD OF KHAN RESIGNS.
Fifty-five of $50 at Ventura, Calf.
Ask Order to Disband

Los Angeles, May 27.-Fifty- of
the $50 members Of the Ku Klux Klan.
at Ventura. Calf. resigned today, ac-
cording to a special despatch to the
Los Angeles Times.
It was said the resigning members
adopted a resolution urging the dis
organization Of the khan thruout the
United States.