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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25

to go to the Empire Gas & Fuel COM
pany at Bartlesville and has been
prominent in handling engineering
work for the Empire and the Kansas
Natural Gas company-both con-
trolled by Henry L. Doherty.
The news of Major Strickler's pro-
motion was received at the state house
today following announcement that j.
NJ. Hamilton, former consulting en-
gineer for the Cities Service company,
had been advanced to general mana
ger. Hamilton succeeds the late
Frank Freehoff and Major Strickler
will fill the position formerly held by
Hamilton.
Promotion of Major Strickler will
call for his transfer from Bartlesyillc
to New York. Ills new appointment
makes him consulting engineer for the
vast Doherty interests, which hold oil,
gas, electric and other utility proper
ties valued at several hundred million
dollars.
Major Strickier is well known in
Kansas, particularly among public
utility representatives. He was for
several years engineer for the public
utilities commission and resigned tc
enter World war service. Following &
his return from France he was reap
pointed and continued in state service
until he resigned to go to Bartlesville
with the Empire company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
VICTIMS CRIED FOR MERCY
Story OF Widow in Double Murder
Case Is Corroborated.

New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. rs
The story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, mys-
terious woman eye witness of the
murder of Doctor Edward W. Hall,
rector of the Church of ST. John, the
Evangelist, and the choir singer, Mrs.
James Mills, was corroborated today
by Mrs. Martin Sulitz, wife of the
caretaker of the Phillips farm. where
the bodies were found September 16.
Both witnesses fixed the time of the
shooting at between $3.50 and 10 o'clock
on the night of Thursday, September
IA. The stories tally as to the agon-
ized cries of one of the two women
on the scene, who begged for mercy
and uttered the name of a man as the
shooting began.
The double stories told by these
two women may force Deputy Attor-
ney General Wilbur A. Mott to make
an early arrest of man and a
woman, both of whom have been pre-
viously mentioned in connection with
the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
MUST WORK WITH AMERICA.
Britain and e. S. Can Insure a Lasting
Peace. Says LLOYD George.

London, Oct. 25.-In a political
speech outlining the domestic and for
eign policies that he will support If he
is returned to power, former Premier
Lloyd George made the following
points today:
/. Britain's policy must be peace
loving but not afraid.
2. There must be closest Anglo
American cooperation to preserve
the peace.
8. America must be paid by the
British, but Britain must not surren-
der the debts owing to her.
4. The interests of the country
come first.
S. If the new government departs
from our policy, it will not be a Brit
ish policy.
6. Peace is the only road to pros
perity; We cannot take that road tied
to a chariot of another nation.
z. will support any government
serving the interests of Britain.
Until the United States enters the
League of Nations. it is not effective -
declared former Premier Lloyd
George.
sour policy must be to work with
the United States. We have more in
common than the other countries.
Our ideals are the same. Together,
Britain and the United States can in
sure just and lasting peace.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
NOW is THE TIME,

While Topeka is aglow with i'm
provement and construction work
there is one sadly needed betterment
that must not be overlooked-the new
grandstand at the Free Fair grounds.
For the last four or five years this
improvement has been vitally impor-
tant to the success of the exposition.
Each year the fairs advisers and the
city's bankers have pleaded for post
ponement. 1T isn't time to build un-
til next year. has been the advice.
The 1922 fair removed without a
doubt all advisability of delay. The
loss of revenue thru the lack of grand
stand accommodations was a blow to
the fair management. In fact the
loss of revenue due to the old stand in
the last five years was enough to take
care of high costs of construction and
the interest on the indebtedness
1t must be remembered that the
grandstand is practically the only
revenue producer of the Free Fair.
Everything else on the grounds is free
to the public. This means that de-
spite the Kansas crowds that flock to
the grounds the fair can pay its way
and enlarge only from the funds COL
lected at the grandstand gates.
Take the 1922 fair as an example.
Never were the grounds so crowde ed
and jammed. Yet if this crowd was
doubled there would be no additional
revenue.
The grandstand plans call for the
first unit of a REINFORCED concrete
structure This cannot be financed
and built next summer. It must be
done NOW!
Action must be taken at once.
Topeka is getting her long wished
for hotel. The theater is on the way.
The Free Fair grandstand is next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
FRESH ATTACKS ON REFUGEES
Rowing Bands of Turks Add New Hor-
! rors to Flight in Thrace.

Athens, Oct. 25.-Attacks by rowing
bands of Turkish irregulars today are
adding fresh horrors to the already
hurricane of agony which is sweeping
the vast hordes of Greek and Armen-
ian refugees who are crowding
Thraciaa= ports ifnploring the Greek
and allied authorities to get them to
safety.
Prompt evacuation by the fugitive
Christians is being prevented by these
attacks.
Owing to the famine conditions in
Greece and the inability of the gov
ernment to feed the refugees, the Ma
ional Bank of Greece has extended a
loan of 100000 drachmas to buy
food.
Naples, Oct. 25.-An open threat
Of civil war against the Italian gov
ernment was made by Deuty Mos
solini, a Facisti leader, in an address
to the Facisti convention here today.
BE certain that the government
will be given to US or we will take
it by storming Rome" said the
Facisti chief. Return to your homes.
You will be called in case you are
needed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
TOOK BODY FROM TRAIN CREW
Chicago Liquor Runners Also Saved
Part of Wet Goods From Wreck.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-Six alleged liquor
runners, with the body of a confed-
crate killed by a train at Broadview,
Ill, were sought by city and county
officials today.
The unidentified rum runner was
driving a truck loaded with whisky
towards Chicago when he was killed
by an Indiana HORROR belt Line freight
train at the Broadview crossing.
AS the train crew stood around the
body waiting for Joseph Huzzah,
Broadview police chief, to arrive and
take charge of the situation, six
armed men dashed up in an automo-
bile. While two of them covered the
train crew with pistols the other four
picked up the body of their compan-
ion, salvaged three kegs of liquor
from the wreckage. and sped toward
Chicago.
Witnesses estimated the truck had
a cargo of twenty barrels of liquor.
1t also carried two. crates of live
chickens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
AUTO AND TRAIN CRASH
G. c. Startup Seriously Injured in Ac-
cillent Near KingsvilIe.


G. c. Startup, 20, farmer living
three-quarters of mile south of
Kingsville. was injured, perhaps IA
tally, about o'clock this morning
when his automobile was struck by
| Union Pacific passenger train No. 1O6
at the Kingsville crossing, just north
of the depot.
The train stopped and Startup was
brought to Topeka, where he was
taken in an ambulance to Stormont
hospital. Startup sustained a COM
pound fracture of the left arm, a
broken lower jaw, severe decorations
of the left arm and upper lip and the
left side of his face was badly bruised
and skinned. He was also bleeding at
the nose and mouth when taken to
the hospital. Physicians expressed
some fear Of a fractured skull, but
appeared optimistic concerning his re-
covery.
Startup had been to Kingsville this
morning and borrowed his uncle's
Overland car, with the intention OF
bringing some chickens to Topeka, it
was said. He was returning home
when the train struck his car at the
crossing. Apparently his front wheels
had barely run upon the track when
the crash occurred. Startup had been
going south and the train was east
bound The automobile was tossed
clear of the track on the north side,
and totally demolished. One of the
tires, however. was thrown distance
of nearly 100 feet onto the Golden
Belt road, which runs along the south
side of the railroad right
Startup was married and has two
children. His father, J. C. Startup,
and three brothers live near Ross
vile. Another brother, Walter. lives
/ in southern Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
HODGINS FUNERAL FRIDAY
DR.. A. e. Gregory Will Officiate at
Services in Chapel.

The funeral of ]. Arthur Hodgins,
age so years. prominent Topeka sales
man, who died Sunday night at his
residence, 921 West Tenth avenue, will
be he'd at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
at Penwel1's chapel Mr.. Hodgins had
resided in Topeka practically all his
life, and was associated with the
Central-Topeka Paper company.
DR.. A. E. Gregory, pastor of the
First Congregational church, will Of
ficiate at the services in the chapel.
Members of Topeka lodge No. 204.
Benevolent and Protective Order of
E1ks, will be in charge of the cere-
monies at the grave.
Richard F. Hodgins, a brother, will
arrive in Topeka Thursday from Los
Angeles. He has been spending the
fall there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
YOUTH AGAIN GOES TO TRIAL
willie Dalton Is Charged With Steal
In $772, 900 From Tust Co.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-Willie Dalton, IT.
year-old former bank messenger, laid
aside his school books once more to-
day to face his third trial for stealing
S772,000 in bonds from the Northern
Trust company, in February, 1921.
In the first two trials the juries
disagreed. Young Dalton, whose
flight with the stolen bonds made him
the object of a nationwide search,
was captured in a country pool room
by a village marshal at Heyworth,
I'LL, near Bloomington. The boy car
ried the stolen bonds in a satchel,
which he tossed carelessly into "a
corner while he engaged in a game of
pool.
A reward of s25.oOo was given to
his cantOrS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
IN DEFENSE OF FRANCE.
Agreements OF Britain and U. S. Are
Gone, Says Viscount Grey.

(Bv the Associated Press.)
London, oct. 25.-Considerable in
terest has been aroused by Viscount
Grey's allusion, in his address at
Bradford last night. to France having
been let down by her allies since the
world war. Niscount Grey was Brit
ish foreign secretary at the outbreak
of the war, retiring soon after the
formation of the Lloyd George min
istry in 1916.
Before we criticize Frances ac-
ton" he said, "let us realize the facts
When peace was concluded France
had two agreements, one with Great
) Britain and one with the United
States, that she would have the full
support of Britain and America if at
tackled in the future by Germany.
These were not included in the
treaty of Versailles, but they were as
much a part of the peace as was the
treaty of Versailles. They made an
enormous difference to France. They
are gone I admit it was net the
fault of Lloyd Georges government
that they went. but it does not make
IT ny better for France, whose fault
it was.
The great deal of trouble there has
been with France since has been due
TO the fact that the whole peace must
have worn different aspect in her
eyes, when these two great safeguards
where on she must have so greatly re-
ned, disappeared. If these agree
ments still existed they would secure
+ i rance now and for a deceAnium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
HELP TRADE IN THE ORIENT
New Organization to Represent Ameri.
can Interests I'm Far East.
(By the Associated PressJ

Shanghai, Oct. 25.-At a meeting
here of delegates from the American
Chambers of Commerce of Shanghai,
Tientsin, Peking and Hankow. the
Associated Chambers of Commerce Of
China was organized and a program
outlined for the betterment of trade
conditions in the ORIENT.
The new organization will repre-
sent general American interests thru
out China, including Manchuria,
Thibet and Mongolia. Its purpose q SO
has to do with the co-ordinatIng of
efforts toward the betterment of
finance, commerce and shipping inter-
ests.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
WOMEN PLAN IN POLITICS.
National Party to Demand Equal
Rights Amendment to Constitution.

Washington, Oct 25.-The execu-
tive council of the National Womans
party met here today to consider sew
eral questions regarded as vital to
progress of women in politics and to
lay plans for a national conference
of the party's officers here Noyem-
Der II.
Among the subjects to be taken up
was that of the immediate introduc-
ton in congress of a national equal
rights amendment to the federal con-
stitution- Leaders in the council also
propose at the meeting to draft a
"1922 woman's charter of rights as
1s4S."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
NU LAW In FlELUO
Child Labor Conditions Pitiful
I'm Finney County.
State Welfare Official Discovers
a Laxity in West.
NEAR ATTY GENERALS HOME
But Hopkins Interest Is in In.
dustriaI Centers.
at Is Appalling" Says Miss
Alice X. Mcfarland.

Child labor conditions more deplor-
able than in any community in Kan
sas have been uncovered by Miss Alice
K. Mcfarland, head of the welfare
| division Of the industrial court The
new labor situation affecting large
numbers of boys and girls is in the
Finney county sugar beet district. The
new child labor trouble discovered by
Miss Mcfarland is in the home county
of Richard J. Hopkins, attorney gens
eral, and had apparently continued
for several years without state atten-
ton.
Efforts are now being made by Miss
Mcfarland to work out a method of
meeting the new trouble Scores of
boys and girls between the ages of 6
and IA years are compelled to work
in the sugar beet fields and many of
them have never enjoyed school op-
portunities. 1t seems that while the
state officials were securing many
columns of free newspaper space re-
garding their crusades in Topeka,
Wichita, Kansas City and other towns
that the sugar beet district was en-
ticular community has for years been
the home of the present attorney gen.
eral gave state house interest to Miss
McFarland's rather startling revela-
tions.
Easy to Violate Law.
'It is appalling" Miss Mcfarland
said today. There are conditions out
try that we never dreamed of before.
I met one ruan out there-a Russian
who formerly worked in the Santa Fe
shops in Topeka-who had sent all
of his five little boys and girls out
into the beet fields to work. It was a
common thing to see little tots with
long, sharp knives cutting tops from
beets. It seems that every spirit of
the law is violated and it is not easy
to get relief.
why do you know that in one
school district alone 100 boys and
girls had been taken away from their
studies to work in the beet fields
Conditions on the farms are much
worse than in the beet factory. 1t is
not an unusual thing to see a 6, or s
year old child out working in the
fields.
Law Lax on Farm
"It isn't just an easy task that the
children perform, either. In many
cases they work from o'clock or
daylight in the morning until nearly
/ dark with only a short stop for a bite
| of lunch at noon. Somehow it seems
that the child labor act. which applies
so strongly to industrial conditions, is
a bit lax in the matter of child labor
on the farm"
Now information is being gather ed
which indicates that the child labor
! situation has been a menace in the
attorney generals home county for a
number of years-almost since estab-
l.shment of the big Garden City re-
! finery. In spite of this situation it
seems that Attorney General Hopkins
has neither directed prosecutions COW
ering the cases nor in any of his
voluminous recommendations to the
legislature asked for laws that would
give him additional and more ade-
quats authority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
Wichita Mother Grabs Gun
and Captures Married Man
Who Frightened Daughter
Chase of Five Blocks Resulted in Arrest of F. W. Davis
Whom Detectives Found Out of Breath AS
Result of His Flight.

Wichita, Oct 25.-After he is al
legged to have made advances toward
her daughter. Marguerite, aged 16,
Mrs. A. L. Henderson seizing a .22
caliber rifle, chased a man giving his
name as F. W. Davis, aged 1S, and
who says he is married, five blocks to
his apartment and held him prisoner
there until city detectives appeared
and arrested him.
Mrs. Henderson saw her daughter
jump away from the sidewalk, which
passes a partially cut kafir corn field.
this morning on her way to school,
the mother told detectives The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25

daughter turned and ran back toward
her home, a block away, screaming g
for help, Mrs. Henderson said. Davis
according to the girls mother. was
seen fleeing from the field and Mrs.
Henderson started pursuit, calling to
him to stop and firing one shot when
he failed to halt.
Two detectives report Davis still
painting from his flight. in which
neighbors and motorists Joined, when
he was found in his apartment. Davis,
held on a charge of improper con-
duct. would make no statement, the
police say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
GIVE VLADIVOSTOK TO "REDS"
japanese Plan to Complete Evacua-
ton of City Tomorrow.

TOXIC, Oct. 25.-Thru the aid of
the Japanese, General Dieterichs and
his little band of anti-soviet support
ers have been enabled to escape from
Vladivostok, according to official re-
ports from that city.
When the evacuation of Vladivostok
is completed Thursday by the
Japanese and the city is taken over by
the red troops, there will be none of
the whites, or anti-soviets, present on
which the soviet troops can wreak
vengeance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
Golf Is Taking
Place ofLiquor
As Selling Asset

ST. Louis, Oct. 25.-Golf is succeed
ing liquor as a commercial asset to
statesmen, according to Vincent L.
Price. president of a candy manufac-
turing company here.
Golf is a commercial asset and has
taken the place of liquor" he said.
Where a salesman would entertain a
customer with rounds OF highballs in
the days before prohibition. he now is
establishing friendly relations on the
golf course with prospective buyers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
WILL Be MORE OF SAME
Pleasant Indian Summer Weather
Promised by Meteorologist Flora.
rnnAv,S TENDER ATTTRES
TODAY'S TEL

Nothing is in sight to interrupt the
pleasant Indian summer weather, says
Meteorologist Flora. The clear sun
shiny days with September tempera-
lures will continue indefinitely, says
the weather man.
The temperature will drop to about
4S degrees tonight and will rise to
about 20 degrees Thursday.
No cold or unsettled weather is pos
sible in the immediate future. The
temperatures in the northwest were
as high as those in Kansas today and
the sky was clear from Illinois west
to California.
The highest temperature in Topeka
in the Iast twenty-four hours was II
degrees at $40 o'clock Tuesday after
IContir ned ON PAGE TNo.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
ELECT "BABY TENDER

Park City, Utah, Oct. 25.-Menl-
bers of the Democratic Women's
club of Park City met last night
for the election of officers, and
Mrs. J. L. Aubrey was chosen
baby tender Her duty will be
to look after the infants while the
mothers deive into timely political
matters. Provisions for the estab-
lishment of a baby check room was
made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
BLIMP HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Quick Action Saves C-14 From Fate
of Her Sister, CO.

Newport News, Oct. 25.-Destruc-
ton of the army dirigible CHA was
prevented today in the opinion of of
ficers at Langley field, by the pres
ence of mind of a member of the crew
when a hole was torn in the blimp's
gas bag as it was being taken from its
hangar
When hydrogen began to hiss from
the bag those nearby scurried for
safety, except one man who pulled
the rip cord releasing the gas.
Officers who witnessed the accident
said il this had not been done the
dirigible probably would have met a
fate similar to that of its sister ship,
the CO, at San Antonio recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
Orr surrenders to Police,

Chicago, Oct 25.-George E. Orr,
of Glencoe. Ill. accused of embezzling
S152,500 from the Colorado Utah
Mine Holding company. surrendered
to police here today. The warrant for
Orr's arrest was sworn out by Charles
Havener, mine owner of Kansas City
and Denver and an official of the
corporation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
IRISH ADOPT CONSTITUTION
Document Is Praised as Great
Triumph for Ireland.
Rv fho AssocfaFod Praaa1

London, Oct. 25.-The new Irish
constitution passed its third and final
reading in the Dali today.
Deputy John Milroy described the
document as the greatest triumph for
Ireland since the battle of kinsale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
AN OTTAWA DAILY GIVES Up.
''The World" Launched September 4.
Dies a Natural Death.

Ottawa. Kan, Oct. 25.--The Ottawa
Daily World, a newspaper which
started publication September /. sus-
pended yesterday with it's forty-fifth
issue. Lack of patronage was as
signed as the reason. The weekly edi-
ton will be continued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25
PROMOTION FOR STRICKLER
Former p. q. G. Engineer To Go to
Cities Service ComDany

Maj. T. ]. Strickler, former engineer
for the Kansas public utilities corn
mission, has been appointed consult
ing engineer for the Cities Service
company, the large DoT1erty corpora
ton. Major Strickler has been with the
Doherty interests the last two years.
He left the state commission in 1920
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-03
Telephone Association Meeting.

The second annual meeting of the
Telephone Association of Vermont was
held at Chelsea, Friday Julyl 2sth
About one hundred telephone people
were present and a very interesting
program was carried out. Topics were
considered with regard to finances
transmission over toll and rural line
accounting, operating and public rela
tions.
At the business meeting the follow
ing directors were elected; G. ID. Cush-
ing, Bethel; r. Harding Chesmore,
Jonesville; A. W. Foote. Middlebury /:
9. l.. Spear, West Corinth; c. L.
Ovitt, Enosburg Falls; f. w. Story,
Boston; NJ. w. Hicks, Granville. n. Y.
Following the business meeting, the
directors organized by eleeting the fol-
lowing officers; President, G. ID. Cush-
ing, Bethel; secretary-treasurer. C. L.
0vitt, Enosburg Falls; vice president,
c. L. Spear, West Corinth; auditor.
F. Harding Chesmore, Jonesville
A very complete exhibit of stand.
ard telephone apparatus was made by
the Central New Hampshire Telephone
company Of Laconia, n. II.
The meeting closed with a very
exciting ball game by teams picked by
+. w Story of Boston and c. L. Spear
Of West Corinth. with score of ten
to four in favor Of Mr.. Story's team.