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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30

Lansing, Kan, Aug. 30.-Pretty 25
year-old Mildred Ward, former school
teacher of Fairbury. Neb., was ar
rested today as details of a plot for a
wholesale prison delivery at the Kan
sas state prison here were revealed.
Involved beside Miss Ward are
Doc Ward, known as her sweet
heart, serving a 25-year sentence for
highway robbery; Joseph Cubit, George
Casey and Fred Hamilton, forgers and
bandits.
Miss Ward. who had taken position
as a domestic in a home here, baked
a cake, inside of which she placed a
.3S caliber automatic revolver. She
brough the cake to Ward, he admitted
The gun was to be used by the four
prisoners to effect a wholesale Jail
break. The plot was tipped Off to
the authorities.
Won't Give Real Name.
Miss Ward formerly was a resident
of Fairbury-school teacher there.
What my name was makes no diff
ference now," she told prison officials
here today. II have taken the name
of the man I love as my own"
The teacher fell in love with Ward.
He was married. the father of three
children. His wife got a divorce.
Last October Ward was arrested IN
a holdup. He was given a 25-year
sentence in the Kansas penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
Two Women and a Man Found
Murdered in Ohio.
Hold Luther Armstrong, 22,
Who Was Wounded.
SLAYER USED AN IRON BAR
Lay in Wait for Victims Then
Struck Them Down.
Find Evidence. That Murderer
Planned To Set Fire.

Canton, o., Aug. 3O.-Two women
and a man were murdered and an
other man wounded here, early this
morning by an unknown man who lay
in wait for his victims and struck
them down with an iron bar as they
entered the house. The murderer es-
capped.
The dead:
Mrs. Freda Burns, 27.
Frank Burns, her husband, rs.
Mrs. Mary Nola, 20.
Luther Armstrong, 22, suffered a
severe scalp wound when the iron bar
welded by the murderer struck him a
glancing blow.
Armstrong fled from the house and
notified the police.
Murderer In Hiding.
When Armstrong and Mrs. Nola en-
tered the Burns home. where Mrs
Nola resided, man hiding in a room
just off the hallway. felled Mrs. Nola
iron bar, according to the story told
police by Armstrong. Authorities are
holding Armstrong pending further
investiga ton. The bodies of Mrs.
Burns and her husband were found in
adjoining rooms. The heads of ali
the victims were crushed The iron
bar used by the slayer was found.
Police say Mrs. Nola and her hus-
band are separated and that he had
been living at Benton Harbor, Mich.
A pile of rags and waste paper in
a room in the house was burning. the
blaze evidently having been started by
evidence of his crime, the police
assert
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
ARE NORMAL NOW
Conditions on Santa Fe as
Good as Before Strike.
Vice President of Road Reports
Record Business.

Chicago, Aug. 30.-Gonditions in
the shops of the Atchison, Topeka. &
Santa Fe railroad, despite the strike
of the shopmen. are as good now as
they were before the strike went into
effect in the opinion of A. G. Wells,
vice president of the road, in charge
of operations.
This talk about equipment falling
apart and bad order engines and so
on is exaggerated" said the railroad
official. The way to judge a roads
condition is not by reports of engines
out of service. bad order cars. etc,
but by the amount of work that road
does. So far as we are concerned.
we are doing the biggest business in
our history. This may, of course, be
partially accounted for by the side
tracking of business from smaller
roads who are not in condition to
compete.
There is always bad order equip
ment. even in normal times. but We
never put such equipment in service.
Our shop force is normal and capable
We are operating just the same as
when the strike first went into effect.
Passenger service, however, is not so
heavy, due to the timidity of many
people"
Mr.. Wells based his remarks upon
July reports from the various shops
of the road
The importance of the August re-
ports was admitted. but Mr.. Wells
said he had not received them as yet,
nor did he know whether any inter-
state commerce commission inspectors
had recently visited their shops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
NJ. of w. Wage Must Await Re-
turn of Board Members.
Kansas Law Referred to in
"Living Wage" Principle.

Chicago, Aug. 3O.-Ben w. Hooper,
chairman of the railroad labor board,
announced this morning at the hear
ing of the application of the mainte-
nance of way men on more than 100
railroads for an increase in minimum
rates of pay opened, that no decision
in the case would be rendered until
all the members of the labor group of
board members have returned to chi
cago Albert Phillips is with his wife
who is i'll in California, ana .WaiIer
L. McMenimen is away on a vacation
They are expected to return. about the
middle of September.
]. c. Smock. vice president of the
union, who appeared before the board
today, replying to the motion of John
G. Walber, representing eastern rail-
roads that ten eastern lines could not
recognize the maintenance of way men
as a party to dispute because MAIN
tenance men had gone on strike on
those roads and because new organiza-
ton had been formed, declared that
Walber contention was part of a
movement on the part of the carriers
to break up the union
WaIkouts Unauthorized.
Mr. Smock said that some. mainte-
nance men had gone on strike on Ger
tain eastern lines, but that the walk
outs were not authorized by the union
which had persuaded many of the
strikers to return to work and that
the organization could not be held re-
sponsible for that situation.
w. ]. Lauck, statistician for the
union, again brought up the Living
wage" principle which the board yes
terday refused to adopt unless the
union could show that "a living wage"
was the same as a Just and reason
able wage prescribed by the transpor-
tation act"
Mr. Lauck declared that the prin-
ciple as understood by the union was
recognized by the Kansas industrial
court law and the Kansas act also
containing provisions for the estab-
lishment of minimum rates of pay.
The chairman in reference to Mr..
Lauck's statements concerning a, "liv-
ing wage" said that it seemed to him
that this whole matter is one of
terminology." He added that the
union leaders were not shut off from
presenting their ideas in the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30

New York, Aug. s0.-The flapper
is distinctly out oluck.
This Species-Scientifica flapper-
ique bobberitis-is officially extinct,
according to the edict of Paul Poiret,
dean of French fashion connoisseurs.
But she's coming back.
A new variety of flapper~is due
about 1927, interviewers of Poiret
were led to believe. In other words,
just about the time the flapper's hair
is grown to a respectable length off it
comes again.
Skirts will become longer and
longer until they hit the ground" the
Frenchman said. There will be a
few years of the long skirt, perhaps
three, who knows?"
Then up they go again.
Women will tire of being hobbled
like a pacing horse. They will re-
member that shapely limbs are not to
be hidden in folds of cloth.
Judging from the more extreme
skirts of today. as compared to the
short dresses of the last period of that
style, the short skirts of three or four
years hence will really be much
shorter, according to NJ. Poiret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
Placed ReuolUer In Cake
to Aid Her Sweetheart in
Break From Kansas Pen.
Prisoner Claims He Cooked Up the Plot" But Miss Mil
dred Ward, Pretty Nebraska School Teacher, Is Held
by Aufhorities-Plot Is Revealed When 'Doc" Ward
"Squeals Other Prisoners Whom He Sold Gun.

Doc and I talked it over-I
wanted him out, for 1 love him so,
Miss Ward said in her cell here where
she is being held for trial, preliminary
hearing of which is scheduled for to-
morrow, under charges of attempting
to aid prisoners to esca Pc"
81 cooked up the plot, not her"
Ward said in his confession. ''I talked
her into going to Kansas City last Sat
uriay and buying a revolver. She got
it and came home. Then she baked
a cake-baked it with the .3S auto
matte inside.
Sold the Weapon.
"I had already made arrangements
with Cubit, Casey and Hamilton to
buy the revolver off me. They were
to give me $50 and $40 more when
Mildred got the bullets 20 use.
AFTER 1 had turned the pistol over
to Cubit, Casey and Hamilton, 1 de-
cided to try my hand at the rest of
my scheme.
"I went to the warden.
+" There's a plot for a Jail delivery
here-a big one I said. You say
You'll get me a. parole and I'll reveal
the plot and the names of thesmen. If
what I'm telling you is not the truth,
you don't have to give me the pa
role ;,
Prison officials agreed to Ward >
bargain. The plot was then revealed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
IN LEAD
California Senator Has Prob
ably Been RenOminated
Is $4,000 Ahead and May Win
by 10000, Is Claim.

San Francisco, Aug 3O-Senator
Hiram w. johnson had a lead of 5O,-
O68 votes over Charles C. Moore, at
noon today in the Republican primary
total was 170,916 votes, Moore's 12O,-
S2S. These figures were from 1897
precincts out of 6.695.
San Francisco, Aug. 80. = United
States Senator Hiram w. johnson has
won denomination in one of the great
est fights of his political career.
With returns from something like
half of the state in today, he was
leading Charles C. Moore by about
25, 900 and his managers claimed that
as the complete returns came in. this
lead would go to 10000.
California remains progressive, -
the senior senator jubilantly declared,
as returns continued to pile up his
lead.
Moore Won I'm South End.
Moore won southern California by
taking the two most populous coun-
ties-Los Angeles and San Diego.
johnson, however. showed strength in
ether southern counties, with the re-
suit his manager claimed today. that
Moore would come north to the
rechachapi mountains, the dividing
point between northern and southern
California, with but 5000 lead.
Offsetting his opponents southern
strength, Senator Johnson carried ey-
cry northern county-many of them
overwhelmingly.
In San Francisco city and county he
piled up a lead of better than $4,000.
Oakland and Alameda county gave
him between 5000 and 5000 major
ity. Sacram mento, seat of the state
capital, came thru with an estimated
lead of 1000. Humboldt county, at
the extreme northern point of the
state, was estimated to have gone for
Johnson by 5000 and so the count
went in northern California.
The big surprise of the election is
the neck and neck race of Governor
william @. Stephens. incumbent. and
Friend w. Richardson. for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor Rich
ardson was leading Stephens early to-
day by about one thousand, altho
Stephens was showing more strength
in later returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
ELIMINATE BRIDES OBEY
Revision of Book of Common
Prayer of Episcopal Church Is
Contemplated.

Portland, Ore, Aug. s0.-Revision
of the book of common prayer in
cluding the proposal to eliminate the
brides promise to obey and the
bridegroom's endowment Of the bride
with his worldly goods from the cere-
mony. were among the religious
problems up for consideration before
the 139 bishops of the MEpiscopal
church in the house of bishops start
ing here today.
The meeting IS preliminary to the
assembling one week hence of the
forty-seventh triennial general con-
vention of the Episcopal church.
Other problems before the bishops
Include: Divorce, woman's status in
the church. the industrial situation
and church unity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
More Explosions Hinder Res
cue of EntOmbed Miners.
One Chance in Million That
Men Will Emerge Alive.
ONLY FORTY-FIVE IN mine
CanarieS Aid Workers in De-
tecting Presence of Gas.
Wives and Relatives Are Now
Beginning To Lose Hope.

Jackson. Cal, Aug. 3O.-The slight
hope entertained yesterday for the
rescue of the forty-five entombed
miners in the Argonaut mine is wan
ing today following reports of addi-
tional explosions in the lower levels of
the mine shaft.
A gang of four men brought the
news of the latest explosions from
their positions at the 400 foot level.
where they remained for more than
five hours, dynamiting the walls of
the shaft in the hope that in this way
they could check the further progress
of the blaze.
A re-check of the probable victims
of the disaster disclosed today that
forty-five and not forty-eight are
buried somewhere in the scores of
passa ges below the burning timbers.
New Crews at Work.
Altho admittedly there is less than
one chance in a million that the men
will ever emerge alive, the attack on
the twenty-one foot wall separating
the Kennedy mine from the Argonaut
is being continued with new crews
representing the fittest miners in this
section.
The men are working in shifts of
four hours-thirty in each crew. The
enormity of their task can be appre-
ciated by the fact that engineers agree
that the work they have undertaken
ordinarily should require at least two
weeks, maybe more. to complete.
The scene of their labors is at the
$500 foot level of the Kennedy mine.
SO feet below the 4.2O0 foot level of
the Argonaut.
Fire fighting efforts have been
progressing and today there is a no.
ticeable diminution in the force of the
blaze, directly resultant from the dy-
namiting of portions of the shaft and
of the playing of huge 1000 gallons
skipfulls of water on the fire.
Garry Birds Down.
Miners are being sent down the shaft
in crews of five, each carrying ca
naries to aid them in detecting the
presence of gas. The little songsters
have been secured from homes of min
ers thruout the district.
The dynamiting crew freely ex-
pressed the opinion that there was less
than no hope for the imprisoned men
because of their belief that the deadly
fumes of the released gasses have
penetrated to the lower reaches of the
mines.
If alive, the men have now been
nearly all possible sources of fresh
air supply exhausted. Noxious vapors
are steadily creeping in on any possible
crevice they have crept into.
The wives and relatives of the men
are gradually beginning to lose the
blind hope they at first entertained ed.
The crowd of anxious watchers around
the mouth of the mine has decreased
in size. 1t is generally believed by the
miners that it probably will require
several weeks to reach the men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30

Marion, Ill, Aug. 30.-Attorney
General Brundage of Illinois this aft
ernoon stated he believed a n, .ber
of persons to be indicted by the special
grand jury investigating the Herrin
massacre would turn states s~evidence.
l. (By the Associated Press.J
Marion, ILL.,. Aug. 30.-Names of
several hundred persons, alleged par
ticipants in the Herrln massacre. in
which twenty-five persons wer2e killed,
have been furnished the special grand
jury investigating the mine war, it
was learned
and as each bit of additional informal
ton is brought out it is attached to
the card hearing the name Of the per-
sons it pertains to.
In order to save time, Assista Mt
United States Attorney General Mid
dlekauff, who is assisting in the in
Quiry, interviews witnesses before they
enter the grand jury room.
Altho the inquiry has been under
way only a few days Attorney General
Brundage of Illinois receives stacks OF
anonymous letters daily, giving him
new leads, AMI containing names of
suggested witnesses and of men al
legged to have been in the death
march"
Names No Longer Public.
Names of witnesses are no longer
being made public. This action was
taken On advice of State Attorney
Delos Duty, who declared with ssses
would leave the county thru fear it
their identity became known. The
witnesses appear nervous as they wait
in the corridor outside the jury room.
and when they emerge from the grand
room, markings of panic are on them.
One witness yesterday point blank
refused to testify, and he was to be
called before the investigating body
again today. Should he continue in
pounded to him he will be charged
with contempt, it was said. Other
witnesses have suffered a complete
loss of memory. it was learned.
One of the first witnesses to testify
thus far was Allen P. Findlay, time
keeper at the strip mine near where
the wholesale killings took place.
He was one of those captured after
the all-night fight. He was placed in
the procession of death that trailed
for three miles along the road that
, leads to the strip mine
Was Shot Twice.
When the terror stricken victims
were made targets at the hands of
men with rifles in the mob, Findldy
fell with a bullet in the back. He
was picked up and hurled into i
barbed wire fence beside the road by
members of the marching mob. Final
ly. an infuriated rioter took a passing
shot at him as he lay beside the fence
the bullet shattering his foot.
Findlay, however, never moved, and
! by feigning death, was left among the
bodies which marked the procession
down the road.
i The witness took two hours to tell
his story and he was closely ques-
| toned by the jurors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
Only Thirteen Persons Saved
From Sinking Steamer.
Rest of S22 Aboard Itata Ap-
pear To Have Been Lost.
CAPSIzED BY HEAVY SEAS
Caught in Severe Gale, Boat
Sank in Five Minutes.
The japanese Cruiser Niitka Is
Also Reported Sunk.

Santiago, Aug. 3o.-Latest wireless
reports from tie cruiser Chacabuco
are to the effect that only thirteen
persons of the S22 aboard the steam
ship Itata were rescued when the ves-
sci sank off Coquimbo yesterday. The
Chacabuco is rushing the survivors to
CoQuimbo. where crowds line the Mole
awaiting their arrival.
1t is understood the Itata was an
old vessel recently repaired and that
she was carrying large number OF
Iaborers and their families to the nj
trate plants of Chuquicamata. The
other passengers were traders.
The account from the Chacabuco
says the Itata was caught In severe
gale in the afternoon and was capsized
by heavy seas, due to her overloaded
condition. The vessel went down in
five minutes.
A Jap Cruiser Sinks.
(By the Associated Press)
Toxic, Aug. 30.-The Japanese
cruiser Niitka went down in a ty-
phoon off the Kamchatka coast Aug
ust 26. with virtually all hands, ac-
cording to confirmed advices received
by the admiralty. The naval report
said that practically none of her crew
Maxi has been ordered to the scene
of the disaster.
Toxic, Aug. s0.-The Japanese
cruiser Niitka s reported sunk in a a
typhoon off Kamchatka on August &c
and a heavy loss of life is feared, ac-
cording to an extra edition of the Chu-
gai Shogyo Shimpo, a commercial
newspaper today.
The Niitka is a second class cruiser
of 2.420 tons displacement, it was
launched in 1901. Kamchatka is a
town on the east coast of the penin-
sula of Kamchatka in the southwest
region of the Boring sea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
PUT WHISKY IN PIES

st. Louis, Aug. 30.-Charies r.
ZuehIke. proprietor of a local bak-
cry uses a pint of whisky daily in
pies he sells for five and ten cents
apiece, according to his explana-
tons to federal prohibition agents
yesterday at a hearing on a petit
ton to revoke his license to handle
liquor.
Zuehlke said the whisky keeps
the pies from getting old.
The case was taken under ad-
visement
Zuehlke is sad to bake an aver
age of 200 pies "A day into which he
declared he put the pint of whisky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
FREE STATE Is DETERMINED.
Followers of Collins Demand That De
Valera Surrender.

London, Aug. 3O.-Michae1 Collins
death has strengthened the determine
ton of the provisional Irish free state
government that there can be no set
tlement of the present rebellion ex-
cept on terms of unconditional sur
render, says the Daily Nails Dublin
correspondent.
The writer adds that he learns there
is not a member of the government
who would not rather resign office
than be a party to any settlement with
Eamonn de Valera which did not
mean complete surrender. William T.
Cosgrave, he understands, will become
president of the Dali and premier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
FIRE BLOCKS AN NJ. p. LINE.
Dctour Trains When Bridge Burns
North of Lane.

Ottawa. Kan, Aug. 3O.-A burned
bridge on the southern Kansas divi-
sion of the Missouri Pacific, north of
Lane. made it necessary last night and
today to detour freight and passenger
trains of that line over the Santa Fe
between Garnett and Ottawa. The ex-
act location and size of the bridge
were not learned by Missouri Pacific
officials here, nor the cause of the
fire. 1t was expected that the line
would be cleared some time today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
FIRST BATTLE IS NEAR
Another Revolution Has Broken Out
in Mexico
(By the Associated Press. ]

III MEXICO,
San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 30.-The
first battle of the Murguia revolution
in Mexico is expected momentarily,
according to reports received here
from the southern republic today
General Francisco Murguia, at the
head of approximately one thousand
well armed men, is marching thru the
state of Coahuila headed toward his
old stronghold of the Carranista re-
gime when Gen. Joakuin Amara, chief
of military operations in Coahuila. is
leading a force to intercept him.
Amara's forces is said to consist of
about 1000 cavalry and infantry.
General Murguia's force is probably
better armed and equipped than the
federal force advancing to resist his
invasion. 1t is known that thousands
of rounds of machine gun am
munition were smuggled into Mex
leo by airplane from secret flying
field near Devine, Texas, for weeks
before Murguia slipped across the
border
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-30
Kansas City's Daily Robbery.

Kansas City. Mo, Aug. 30.-Mrs. w.
J. Dean, wife of a druggist here, was
robbed today Of diamond jewels val
ued at s5,775 and SIS in cash by a
bandit who entered her apartment in
the guise of a telephone repairman.
The bandit locked Mrs. Dean and her
maid. Miss Emma Holt, in a clothes
closet They were locked in forty-five
minutes before they succeeded in
breaking the lock and calling the
police.