Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1919 — Page 1

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O'NEAL DEFENDS COMPENSATION ACT FOR MINERS

Vigo Scountjr Representative Addresses TJnited Mine Workers On Benefits of Law.

ILLINOIS MINERS' HEAD URGES MANY REFORMS

By action of the convention Sam Bouncer was seated as delegate from Local No. 2,152, Nfw Goshen and Charles Contevi as delegate from Local No. 3,553, at Blanford. Bouncer's seat was contested by Delegate McClain, and Contevi's Meat by Ed Trease.

The discussion in the Bouncer case arose over a split in the local due to part of the members wishing to move the charter to Terre Haute. This matter of moviftg the local is still hanging Are before the international executive committees and as a result some of the men held a meeting in Terre Haute and elected McOlain a delegate, while the opposition held a meeting at Js'ew Goshen and elected Bouncer. The committee held that aa the charter and the seal were still at New Goshen and as Bouncer had properly signed and sealed credentials he was the duly elected delegate.

Possession of properly signed and sealed credentials also won Contevi his •eat in the convention, it being the finding of the credentials committee that Contevi wan elected~at the duly advertised meeting of the locai, while Trease was elected at an unadverti«ed meeting held at the mouth of the mine.

Sam Stewart, local No. 127 Louis McConnell, local No. 128, and Paul Bennett, local No. 127, of the high explosive workers, were seated as fraternal delegates.

Secretary Mitch Makes Report. The morning session was opened by President Edward Stewart and the credentials committee reported the arrival of a few new delegates. Mr. Mitch then read his report to the convention and Representative O'Neal was then introduced by Mr. Stewart. In a short speech the president said that he wished to Introduce "Jack" 'O'Neal, member of the state legislature, who worked as a coal miner until the

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CALL WIPERS 10 DID TOLfDO STRIKE

TOLEDO, O., July 9.—In an effort to devise means of bringing capital and labor together the West Toledo Commerce club, an organization of business men In the district of tlie iVillys-Overland Co., sent a telegram today to Samuel Gompers, president Of the American Federation of Labor asking him to come here and confer with John N. Willys, president of the fViUys-Overland automobile plant.

It is proposed to hold the conference In a public hall and present It in the form of a debate In which other labor men and capitalists are to participate.

Wednesday Morning Session Devoted to Hearing Claims Of Contesting Delegations—

Mitch Makes Report.

ULTIMATE AIM OF MINERS.

$tx hoot- working day, flv« days in a week to constitute a week's work. 1

Government ownership or «*ntr»l of mines. Standardization of wage*.

Enactment by the varioue states of an old age pension law. Legislation affording more phyt ical protection for n^en engaged in the industry.

Proposed Attacks to be made through the fmirta oti the workmen's compensation bill, enacted by the last legislature, was called to the attention of the 'United Mine Workers' convention "Wednesday morning, by Representative ".lack" O'l^eal, the coal miner representative from Vigo county.

RepresenatiTe O'Neal la ht. talk took to task Judge A- B. Anderson of the federal cgurt, because of a report that Judge Anderson is only awaiting an opportunity to declare the law invalid.

Most of the time of the Wednesday morning session of the convention was devoted to a discussion of the report of the committee on credentials, regarding the seating of delegates in contested seats. Secretary-Treasurer William Mitch made his repoK. The convention then -went into executive session to consider its action in regard to the strike of the laundry workers.

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VIGO FARMER HAS A FRIEND IN INSPECTOR

His Certificate Insures Them $2.26 a Bushel and Other Tokens Of General Prosperity.'

HIS NAME IS HANKS* AND HE IS UP IN THE TRUST BUILDING

Thinks the Government May Soon Offer an Added Two Per Cent To Induce Wheat Storage

On Farms.

Anna Bowles Wftey.

"Why is a grain inspector?" fs answered by Mr. Herbert F. Hanks, United States grain inspector himself, Mr. Hanks, who has been in Terre Haute since last November, has gone quietly about his business of instructing the farmers first and then of inspecting the grain in car load lots and in elevators.

Mr. Hanks Is ft natlv® of the spring wheat country, Minnesota, yet he has beon working in Indiana for two years, and his job of grain inspector promises to continue for some time as the dealers in this section have asked the government that such an ofllce be sustained In this center. There is another in Evansville, Seymour, Indianapolis, Winchester, Snyder and several other cities in Indiana, but Mr. Hanks' territory is in Vigo county and Terre Haute.

It used to be the fashion when you sold your wheat, you just sold it at the best price possible which ranged from seventy cents to one dollar per bushel. No one cared, or acted like they did any way, whether there wfts too much water in it, too much dirt in it Or even if a few oats were mixed from the thresher. "It was either good wheat, or it wasn't." The yield per acre was the thing along with the market price, and getting it threshed before it rained. Back in those days, farmers' wives cooked for days before for threshing and the neighbors came from near and far to help out 'cause pa and sonny were going to help thresh and everybody took turns of going to every house in the neighborhood during the month of July.

As a rule the wheat was hauled directly to the market, because even in those days it was realized that there was a big shrinkage the longer wheat was kept and especially within the first six weeks.

Great Change Occurs.

Now it's all different. First, most of the farmers are members of the Grain Corporation, that is they own* certificates in this which entitles them to an assurance of $2.26, government tested price Chicago, whether the market goes down or'not. Again they are assured o£ a premium if wheat goes up. So when the wheat is shipped an inspector is called in and he does all sorts of things to get the right grade on your wheat, your oats and your corn, but mostly wheat.

A great, long metal probe, full of little shutters, is thrust into a car of grain at Intervals, taking a fair specimen from a car in six or seven places. The little shutters are closed to hold in the grain and it is taken to the testers' office in small sacks or cans. There it is put in a whirlamajig sort of an apparatus where it is divided Into fair samples with an equalized amount of dirt, split grain and whole kernals. It is sifted, the dirt taken out and weighed, the grain tested as to water contained and graded accordingly as to water, weight, dirt and smell

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LOCAL

TEMPERATURE RECORD, JULY I, 6 a. m....... 70 Noon 89 9 a. m...,.,.

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Relative hurhidlty, 2 p. m., 48 per cent.

LOCAL CONDITIO 9 AT A. M., JULY 0, 1910. fitstfoti pressure. 29.50 temtwatttr*, 76 highest temperature yesterday, 90 lowest temperature last night, 70 precipitation, .00 direction of wind, northeast velocity of wind, 2 miles per hour: state of weather, clear relative humldltyj 68 per cent.

Sunrise, 5:32 sunset, 1:18.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE Local thunder showera tonight tomorrow fair. INDIANA—Local thunder Bhowers this afternoon or tonight tomorrow fair cooler in northwest portion.

ILLINOIS—Partly cloudy weather, probably local thunder showers late tonight or tomorrow tn north and central portion continued warm, followed by somewhat cooler tomorrow afternoon or night in north and central portion, ..

OTHKTI LOCAI. RKPOfttS. River stage, 0.9 foot. Temperature by Buntln's thermometer, 7 |u_ro„ mt p. m% 9i»

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Board of Review Will Take Matters Into Its Own Hands—Why Lan^Eails.

There Witt be a^cut of thirty per cent in all assessments property in the city of Terre Haute by the board of review, according to an announcement made Wednesd&y morning. The reduction in appraisals will be general, with the possible exception of feome property in certain districts where the valuation was said to be very aceurate.

Thousands of property lioHer? In the city have appeared before the board within the past week entering vigorous protests against the high assessments placed against their property. They have asked for decided reductions and as a result the 30 per «,ent decrease has been decided upon. However, there will be no change in assessments until the entire city has been heard from. The board has been hearing complaints frony citizens of the various wards and the last ward will not be reached until some time next week.

After & final hearing of all property owners is held and the reduction decided upon tho board will hear individual complaints and any property that has been increased more than 100 per cent after the general reduction is made, will be further reduced in order to

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MINE

BUILDINGS

The buildings and outside equipment at the coal mine on John C. Payne's farm, east of Turner, were burned late Monday afternoon. Tho fire is believed to have originated from sparks from the engine.

The mine was formerly operated by the Cleveland Coal company, but recently was bought bv a company consisting of Roy Tipton, William Hayes and Wood Green. The loss Is partially covered by insurance.

DIES FROM INJURIES

Fred Shepherd, 43 years old. a well known character about the city, £ied at St. Anthony's hospital shortly before midnight as a result, of injuries sustained in a fall late Tuesday afternoon. The unfortunate man's skull was fractured and he did not regain consciousness after the accident The body was removed to Hunter's morgue, awaiting an inquest by Coroner Willlen,

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LONDON TOWER AMI U:AI)I\H FIGURES IN EX-KAISER'.* TtUA).. READING, CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE, EX-KA1SKR WII.HKLM IN IWI4,

THIRTY PER CENT CUT IN ALL APPRAISEMENTS

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THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE

VOL. XLIX.—No. 39. TERRE HAUTE, IND.,' WEDNESDAY, JULY 9,1919) FOUR O'CLOCK—TWO CENTS

Preparations Being' Completed for the Trial of William Hohenzollern and Other Arch-Plotters of Germany Who Loosed the War Dogs Back In 1914

BECAUSE (IFLOW WAGE

Officer Quits $77 a Month Job To lake Place With Railroad At $140 a Month.,

Failure of $77 a month to represent even an existing wage when plaoed against the higher cost of living caused Patrolman Harry Murphy, one of the ewer members of the police department, to appear before Superintendent ft Police Jack Beattie Wednesday Morning and present his resignation.

Superintendent Beattie refused to Accept the resignation at the time, and upon his recommendation Officer Murphy is taking a lay-off for a week. Murphy informed Beattie that he was unable to make the $77. forming the monthly salary of a probational officer, stretch over the household expenses of the month for his family, & wife and two children.

Murphy has obtained a Job with the Vandalia railroad on the road at $140 a month, according to his brother officers, and while on the department v. as forced a day or two* ago to sell his revolver to help in meeting household expenses. According to several members of the department., there may be more resignations presented to the heads of the force, men quitting to take work which will at least provide a living wage.

Patrolman Jess Felthoff will be tried on a number of charges Mondav evening by the bord of public safety, including that of "conduct unbecoming an officer," which is said to cover a number of things the officer is alleged to have done. Felthoff is one of the older men of the force in years of service.

INSANE PATIENT KILLS ANOTHER IN HOSPITAL

INDIANAPOUS, July 9.—Fred Pfister, aged 46, an inmate of the central Indiana hospital for the Insane, was killed, and Mrs. Mary Kelley, aged 76, forewoftian of the laundry at the hospital, was probably fatally injured when Thomas Edwards, negro, aged 42, ran amuck and attacked Pfister and Mrs. Kelley with an iron bar today.

The tragedy occurred at the hospital laundry where Edwards .was working with a number of other patients and employes of the hospital. Edwards tr.ed to escape after attacking the two persons but was cornered in the carpenter room and captured.

Edwards had worked in the laundry for about a year and had shown no sisns of violence. He was an Indlanftpolis- maa, aa was Fflatec

I4EFT TO RIGHT: THIS EARL OI AND SIR GORDON HEWART.

JUDGE COX WROTHY AS

Disappearance/ of Child Following Habeas Corpus Proceedings Stirs Court's Ire.

A storm "broke loose in the Vigo County Superior Court Wednesday morning when Judge John E. Cox was informed that all efforts on the part of the sheriff had failed to locate one John McClure against whom a return was sent out Tuesday as a result of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus tiled by Myrtle McClure Hines for the custody of her son. Howard.

Judge Cox issued orders to the sheriff to have all of the defendants, John McClure, Edward Crooks and Clarice Crooks in court this morning. The Bheriff, however, was unable to locate McClure or the child. The Crooks live at Twenty-fifth and Dean streets and when deputy sheriffs appeared to summon them they stated that McClure had not been there for the past two weeks and that the child was with him.

Attorney Austin Sweet, representing the plaintiff, informed the court that someone had called McClure at the car shops Tuesday and told him of the habeas corpus proceedings. It is said that he left his work then and has not been found since.

Mrs. Hines was granted a divorce from McClure several months ago in the Circuit Cou.-t and also the custody

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UNITED MINE WORKERS OJFAMERICA. DISTRICT NO. 11. Fourth Biennial Convention.

President Stewart requested Charles Fox, president of the Indiana State Federation of T^abor, and formerly secretary of District No. 11, U. M. W. of A. to take the chair and preside over the preliminary proceedings o£ the convention..

Mr. Fox assumed the chair and addressed the coaveatioa on the

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CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE 10 TRY THE KAISER

Celebrated American Jurist May Be Chief Justice at War Lord's Trial.

LCXSBOtf, July 9.—Hie Towtfr'of Tjondon, famed fop centuries as the temporary abiding place of political prisoners! Of high degre* awaiting tr!al, probably will house William liohenzollern during his trial here for tfffenses against civilization and international law. Within the next few months a Dutch warship is expected to '-•ring "the butcher of Potsdam" to Jj( ndon. He will at once be incarcerated in the tower until hi*.,Judges are ready to hear his case.

The judges have not yet been named, but they probably will bj five in number, one each from Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States. Sir Gordon Ilewart, solicitor general of Great Britain, will lead for the prosecution. Great Britain's replesentative in the tribunal ^vill in all likelihood be the earl of Reading, the lord chief Justice. Edward Douglass White, chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States, is regarded as the logical choice of the American government.

The principles of Justice and equity which are common to all the AngloSaxon as well as the French and Italian legal systems will form the basis of the code according to which the trial will be conducted.

Official Journal of the Miners' Convention

AUTHORIZED REPORT OF THE DAILY SESSIONS.

SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS." First Day—Morning Session. Terre Haute, Ind., July S, 19,19.

The 27th annual and 4th biennial convention of District No. 11, U. M. W. of A., was called to order at 10 o'clock a. m.. Tuesdav, July*, 8th, 1919, President Ed Stevva»t in the chair, "William Mitch* secretary.

subject of the development of the organization and its accomplishments, and spoke of labor legislation, etc. Mr, Fox introduced Mayor Charles* Hunter, of Terre Haute, who delivered an address of welcome to the delegates on b« half Of the city of Terre Haute, which was responded to by President Stewart.

The call for the convention was read by Secretary Mitch, and upon motion of Delegate Haynes was accepted and ordered placed on record.

President Stewart then announced the appointment of the following committees:

Grievance committee—Thomas Rowe, Warden Tisdale, Urah Maxwen, Oliver Channel, Grant Dutton, Elmer Welis. John Givens and Herbert Lapworth.

Resolutions commfttee—James E Todd, W*. B. Sams, Tobe I. Rob-

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PEACE TREATYHAS APPROVAI OF ASSEMBLE

Ratification by Government A Weimar Removes All Dotfft Of Acceptance.

ACTION MAKES POSSIBLE RAISING OF BL0CKAB1

Council of Five Decides to Lift Com Miercial Censorship Soon As Blockade on Ports Is

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BULLETIN.

WEIMAR, July 9.—(Via Coblenz) —The resolution ratifying the peae treaty was accepted by the assemlil: today by a vote of 208 to 115.

PARIS. July 9.—The Gernur national assembly in Weimar ha! adopted the resolution ratifying the peace treaty, according toad' vices received here today. i

Ratification of the peace treat} by the assembly removes *1' doubt of the acceptance of

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terms by Germany. The national assembly by ratifying the treaty makes it possibje for the allied and associated powers to raise the blockade.

Official notification was sent CfcK many Jane 29, that, the blockade wotilfi be raised when the *. urtP, fled. Placing this condition on thf-j raising of the blockade, wag looked: upon in peace conference circles as sure plan for securing speedy rati fleation by Germany.

The. council of five on Mor\$ay decided to lift the commercial censorship on communication with German) simultaneously with the removal ol the blockade.

The peace treaty does not becomt effective for all the signatory poweri until three of the great allied powem$ in addition to Germany, have n}tift«

ftesoTutloris Adopted.

The resolution adopted by the allletf council concluding the blockade tr# as follows: i s "The superior blockade council It instructed to base its arrangements for rescinding restriction upon trade with Germany upon the assumption that the allied and associated powers will not wait to raise the blockade until the completion of ratification as provided for at the end of the tseaty with Germany, but that it is to be raised immediately upon receipt of4&1 formation that the treaty of peace has been ratitled by Germany." st.|

Promulgation of the resolution r&i* fying the treaty is dependent upot, signing of the resolution by President Ebext,

WILL HANG 'EM AGAIN DOWN IN MISSOURI FRENCH FOR KEEPING GERMAN LID IN PLACE,

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., July 9.— The senate today by a vote of 18 to 1, passed a bill restoring capital punishment in Missouri, concurring in the house measure as amended today. The bill now goes to Governor Gardner for hi.* signature.

The measure provide* that execution shall be by hanging. The session adjourned at noon. The legislature convened July 2 and during the session ratified the federal woman suffrage amendment.

PARIS, Tuesday, July 8.—The cham 4 a ber of deputies today rejected a bi1h» j, providing for the immediate raising the state of siege and the suppress I of the censorship, the vote b« 1 to 202. TPhe government, representee by Stephen Pichon, the foreign minister, opposed the measure.

The socialist and republican social ists demanded the immediate suppre' sion of both the state of siege and censorship, but Mr. Pichon denial that this step was impossible beft the treaty of peace ^becomes effects through its ratification by thre^ &• more powers.

PEWIIA WORKERS QUIT I TO WE MED SHOP

PEORIA, 111., July 9.—A majority of the 1.200 employes of the Corn Products Refining Co. plant at Pekin went" on strike today when the time limit given the official:? to accede to theW demand for a "closed shop" expired.

The plant opened for operation thi» morning ni.d a part of the day shift," appeared for work More than a bundred strikers soon afterward gathered in front of the plant iand held a7 demonstration in protest. There was some jeering, but no violence.

The officials declared they anticipate: », no trouble, but thpy have taken precautionary measures for the safe-, guarding of men,who did Bot Join the strike^

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