Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 163, 20 May 1914 — Page 1

B F ALL ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 163 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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TAMPICO STAYS OPEN PORT, SAYS WILSON CABINET Neither Federals Nor Rebels Allowed to Close Harbor, Positive Declaration of Secretary Roosevelt.

Cabinet Makes Decision Last Friday, But Keeps Publication of News Silent Until Today. BY WILLIAM NELSON TAFT, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service at the White House. WASHINGTON, May 20. Tampico will be kept an open port, regardless rf any Protest that President Huerta, of Mexico, may make against such action. Acting secretary of the Navy Roosevelt said today: "We are desirous of seeing the port of Tampico open for commerce. If Bny force. Constitutionalist or Federal, attempts to close It, it will be contrary to the wishes of this country. Some representations will be be made by the United States, and if these fail" "By guns?" "Well, maybe." Make Decision Friday. This policy was adopted by President Wilson and his advisers at a cabinet meeting last Friday. The facts became public today only after an announcement made by Secretary of State Bryan that "Tampico is an open port." New complications were added to the Mexican situation by the announcement by Secretary Bryan that Tampico is regarded by the United States us an "open port." This phase of the problem contains an element of danger, according to diplomats. That President Huerta will protest vigorously against a policy which will put this country in the light of helping the Constitutionalists to obtain war munitions to be used against him is not doubted. aFace Dilemma. Hence, with Villa hurling his army against Saltillo, and Deputy Consul John'R. Silliman still missing and Jiop for his safety dwindling, Washington officials are asking ' How long will the peace conference last?" . The two Mexican gunboats, acting 'Secretary Roosevelt said, probably "would not leave Puerto Mexico. They are being carefully watched by our warships. It is supposed that onr navy will see to it that the Mexican gunboats do not leave that port. "There have been no definite orders sent to Admiral Mayo concerning the future course at Tampico," aid Mr. Roosevelt. "But orders he has received have given him such vide discretion that he will be able to handle any situation that may arise. There is such a large 'if in the problem of the Mexican gunboats blockading the Panuco river that I do not believe the question will ever arise." CLUBS OF DISTRICT COME FOB MEETING Convention Sessions Open in This City With Department Committee Meeting Thursday Afternoon. Mrs. Sowash, of Middletown, Will Respond to Welcome Addresses of Mayor and Miss Hill. Fifty or sixty delegates from eight counties comprising the sixth district, fire expected tomorrow morning as the r.dviince guard to the Sixth District convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs. The first day session tomorrow will not draw the crowd that will come for Friday's session. Connersville and other county seats ire expecting to send big delegations and Brookville and Liberty will have many members here the seond day. The district president. Mrs. J. M. Hamilton, lives at Brookville. The convention opens Thursday afternoon with department committee meetings, and music by the Garfield orchestra under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Sands. Department chairmen will make five minute reports. Following the business session the delegates will f entertained on the lawn at the Wtaam Dudley Foulke home, with the members of the Cycle club as hostesses. The evening session will open with music by the high school orchestra. Addresses of welcome will be made by Mayor Robbins and Miss Sarah Hill, for the Richmond federation. Mrs. E. K. Sowash, of Middletown, will give the response for the delegates. This will be followed by a historical sketch of Wayne county by Professor Harlow Lindley, of Earlham college. The convention will close Friday afternoon with reports of chairmen end discussions by the state federation officers. rM..T . -- " '- ' ' WEATHER FORECAST f FOR INDIANA: Fair tonight and Thursday. TEMPERATURE Noon 82 Yesterday Maximum SO Minimum .43

United States Peace Delegates

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FREDERICK W. LEHMANN

Frederick W. Iehmann (1) of St. Louis, former solicitor general under the Taft administration, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Joseph Rucker Lamar, (2), have been named as the two delegates of this government at the Mexican peace conference at Niagara Falls, Canada. Mr. Letimann is an expert on international law, which is an almost indispensable qualification in this instance. Both he and Justice Lamar have had several conferences with the president and Secretary Bryan.

$300,000 USED BY HAVEN ROAD TO GAIN NEWSPAPER'S FAVOR

BY LEASED WIRE1 WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20. That $300,000 was used to gain the friendship of a powerful daily metropolitan newspaper for the New York, New Haven and liartford railroad was the sensational- testimony given by Chas S. Mellen, ex-president of the road, before the interstate commerce commission today. He declared that the desire for this friendship prompted the New England Navigation company, a New Haven subsidiary, to lend to W. C. Haskell, editor and proprietor of the Boston Herald, this large sum. Mellen testified that the loan was made to Haskell about 1907. He said that he had know Haskell many years, and as he was in financial straights, he wanted to help him. "Did the fact that Mr. Haskell owned a big newspaper operate as an inducement to make the loan?' asked Joseph W. Folk, chief counsel for the commission. "It did not operate as an inducement not to make the loan," Mellen replied. Seeks Influence. Folk then sought to bring out that the New Haven desired to have news presses in Massachusetts lubricated with New Haven oil at that particular time on account of the Boston Railroad holding company bill then pending in the Massachusetts legislature. "Was the Boston Railroad Holding company bill passed at that time?' "I think that it was passed about June, 1909."

Presbyterians Condemn Modern Fashions in Blue Book

BY LEASED WIRE CHICAGO. May 20. Modern fashions and manners were severely censured and a general warning, was issued to Presbyterians in the blue book which was distributed today to delegates at the opening meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The book contains the reports of twenty special committees, the most startling item being that of the white slave traffic committee appointed at the last session in Atlanta. "The vulgar tendency of modern fashion is one feature of modern life that contributes to the increase of the social evil," the report says. HARDING URGED FOR RESERVE BOARD BY LEASED WIRE WASHINGTON, May 20. President Wilson today was urged to appoint W. P. G. Harding, of Birmingham, Ala., governor of the federal reserve board, by Senator Bankhead and Representative Underwood, of Alabama. The president promised to give Mr. Harding's name full consideration for the place. Among the most prominent candidates for the two vacancies on the federal reserve board are C. W. Hamiln, at present-assistant secretary of the treasurer; E. C. Simmons,, of St. Louis, and J. W. Farwell.of Chicago. STATE BOARD MEETS. Dr. S. G. Smelser, city health officer, will go to Indianapolis tomorrow to attend the meeting of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examina tion, of which he is a member. The board will act on two cases involving state physicians.

JOSEPH R.LAMAR

"Whom did you consult in regard to the Haskell loan?' "The finance committee of the New England Navigation company." "Was. that made up of the finance committee of the New Haveri,' that is the Morgan-Rockefeller-Miller committee?" "Approximately the same." Recalls Big Loan." "Do you recall any other big loans made by the Navigation company, except those to Haskell, Billard and yourself?" "I don't recall any, but there may have been." "Any big loans?" "I believe the New Haven or the Navigation company lent at least five or six million dollars to the New York Central and five or six million dolars to the Pennsylvania railroad." "How about the $400,000 worth of Boston Herald bonds held by the Billard company?" "You'll have to search Mr. Billard for that. I have nothing to do with the Billard company." Folk then switched to a discussion of a Boston holding bill which was rushed through the Massachusetts legislature, which, to clear up the situation, which grew out of the attempt of the New Haven to buy the Boston and Maine. In reply to a question as to how long it took to get this bill through the legislature, Mellen said: "About fifty or sixty days." "Today many of our women are going to such extremes in dress as to shock even the least prudish and open American womanhood to the charge of a complete forfeiture of modesty. "The unfortunate side is that all the women of the church whose most conspicuous adornment is supposed to be meekness, are quite as guilty of this offense as are women who make no religious professions." The increasing craze for excitable and unchaste amusements and the present day literature are also classed as contributory factors. ASKS DAMAGES FOR EJECTMENT For ejectment from a C. & O. train three and one-half miles south of Richmond, Tulley Hinshaw and his wife, Grace, demand $1,000 each in two suits filed today in circuit court against the railroad company. The Hinshaws and their infant child were left out in the country, the complaint alleges, when Hinshaw refused to pay the conductor a second time. The Hinshaws purchased tickets here for Boston and Mr. Hinshaw went into the smoking compartment. - Ha gave the three tickets, he says, to the conductor, paying his own and the fares of his wife and child, who were in another car. Mrs. Hinshaw had made arrangements with relatives to meet them at the train with a buggy at Boston. As a result of being put off the train they were forced to. walk through the storm to the station and from there a mile to their destination, the relatives having gone away from the station. .. . .

HUERTA REGIME TOTTERS UNDER REBEL BLOWS

Arranges to Flee Country and Take Refuge in Europe Through Assistance of French Ship. Blanquet, Under Death Sentence for Murder of Madero, Refuses to Lead Troops at Saltillo. By THOMAS P. COATES. Special Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. VERA CRUZ, May 20 Despite President Huerta's declaration that he has no intention of resigning, close observers of the situation here have reliable information that the dictatorship is tottering and that, his flight from the capital has been ' arranged for. This is confirmed by advices from Mexico City that Huerta has decided not to fill the place of Jose Maria Lozano, minister of communications. Sir Lionel Carden, British minister at the capital, was in conference with Huerta for several hours on Tuesday and an important communication is said to have been sent by the English envoy to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador at Washington. It was learned today that President Huerta had requested General Blanquet, minister of war, to take command of the federal troops opposing General Villa at Saltillo, but that Blanquet had refused. The war minister alike Huerta, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Francisco I. Madero. Drinks too Much. Reports that Huerta had made arrangements some time ago to take refuge on the French cruiser Conde were confirmed today by refugees from Mexico City. Lieutenant Laporte was sent to the capital to escort the dictator here, but on the day and night preceding the date set. - for Huerta's departure the president drank more brandy than usual. ? The French naval officer -found Huerta roaring drunk. He declared that he would not flee and .persisted in his stand dejie e advice of his friends, Lieunanf.-Lfrr"9rte was disgusted by Huerta '8 actions and reported to M. Lefaivre, the French minister, who told him to return to Vera Cruz. Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, Huerta's former minister of the interior, has been allowed to return from the liner Ypiranga to the Hotel Diligencia, but a strong guard is maintained there to present his assassination. Feeling against him has been inflamed by a futile appeal made to him by Senora Rindon, widow ot the deputy was was j murdered in Mexico City by agents of Huerta last September. Blocks Insurance Fee. In order to collect $750 insurance on Rindon's life his widow must furnish proof of his death and to get this she begged Urrutia to tell where the body was buried. He replied he "could not remember." While American officials are waiting anxiously for some word that will reveal the fate of Consul John R. Silliman, Private Samuel Parks and Edward D. Doster, correspondent cf the International News Service, Senor Bayon, the Spanish consul here, is urging his government to take sharp action to protect Vice Consul Brahago, who is reported to be held a prisoner by the rebels at Tampico. CHURCH ENTERTAINS 3D0 HEW MEMBERS Central Christians Bring C. W. Cauble for Address at Evening Reception. ' Rev. C. W. Cauble, of Indianapolis, will deliver the principal address at the reception of the Central Christian church Thursday night to new members, some three hundred In number, who have been admitted since the first of the year. The complete program, as arranged by R. C. Leonard, follows: M usic Orchestra. Welcome from the Bible School Charles Roland. Solo Hazel Cruse. Greeting from the C. B. A. Class P. T. McClellan. Piano Solo Echo Roland. Greeting from the W. C. B. Class Mrs. George Chrisman. Duet Mary and Winifred. Ward. Welcome by Church Rev. R. Leonard. Solo Mrs. Lucy Schirmeyer. Response of New Members E. C. C. Newcome. Address Rev. C. W. Cauble, Indianapolis. Song Blest Be the Tie That Binds. Music and refreshments. STORES TO CLOSE ON MEMORIAL DAY Business men of the city have agreed to close their stores all day Memorial day, with the exception of groceries, confectioneries and' drug stores,"' according to H. C. Hasemeier, chairman of the merchants' section of the Commercial club. This agreement has been reached after a thorough canvass of the business district. After making this concession the merchants decided to keep open Friday evening, thus allowing the shopping for the week-end to be done at that time.

CALL UPON MAYOR FOR PROCLAMATION OF MEMORIAL DAY

Patriotic Societies, Schools and Business Houses Plan General Day of Tribute to Nation's Dead. , . Although Memorial day falls on Saturday this year, merchants, through the Commercial club have agreed to close their stores during the afternoon and evening. Only groceries, meat shops, drug stores and confectionaries will fail to observe this rule, it is said, and probably shops and offices will close for the entire day. Mayor Robbins has been asked to issue a proclamation a few days before the day asking business houses to close, requesting the display of flags and asking the attendance of the citizens at the Memorial day services at the Coliseum in the afternoon. Superintendent of schools, Giles has been asked to announce in the schools that flowers will be received earlsSaturday morning. It is customary for the school children to donate a large amount of the flowers for decorating the soldiers graves. In order to accommodate high school and Garfield pupils, it will' not be necessary to leave the flowers at the schools which they attend but they may leave them at the nearest school to their homes. To Mark Graves. It is said there are a number of graves of soldiers not marked with the G. A. R. markers and as there is no way to ascertain this except through friends, George Matthews will receive any names and see that markers are placed on the graves showing they were soldiers. He has a blue print of Earlham and other cemeteries showing where every soldier the committee knows is buried. Members of all patriotic societies ! will meet at the court house Sunday morning and attend the special services at the Central Christian tabernacle in a body. Wednesday night all Memorial day committees will meet at the court house where assignments will be made to the various cemeteries. Sunday afternoon a meeting of the committees will be held in Earlham cemetery to attend the marking of graves of soldiers. Lawrence Handley, chairman of the program committee will have the program completed in a few days and will make public the detailed plans for the day., , SELLS HENS OWNED BY HIS EMPLOYER George Hardman Carries' Squaking Poultry Raper Farm to City. George Hardman. place of residence indefinite, but lately employed on the farm of Rufus Rapcr, south of town, . is under arrest, charged with pilferj ing six of the best pullets his boss owned. The indignant squaks of the stolen hens aroused the neighborhood early

yesterday morning while Hardman j proposition . Or will they offer a telegrams and by conversing over feawas carrying them along the pike to ' p!of,ge of abdication o" General Iluer- tures of the forthcoming conference, town. Frank Davenport took after i ta aB an alternative to breaking up the The scne of the mediation cenfer-

him with a .shot gun. Davenport fired one barrel at the thief and ordered him to stop. Hardman, undisturbed, because he was being used as a target, continued along in a leisurely manner, ignoring Davenport's command. Then Daveport fired again as a warning. This caused Hardman to pause long enough to yell at his pursuer, "Oh, never mind. Frank, these ain't your hens." Davenport then reached the conclusion that he micht be committing an error by firing on a man on the public highway, so he returned to his home and telephoned to the sheriff. Sheriff Misses Him. When the sheriff in an automobile came along, Hardman hid at the side of the road, and the official failed to locate him. Hardman then went to the home of Conrad Zwissler and told him that he was taking some hens to the Raper home. "Your are a poor fellow to handle chickens," said Zwissler. "one of them is dead." "I don't care if they are all dead," retorted Hardman. "They should have given me a horse and rig to take them." Zwissler offered to take him in a wagon to the Raper home, but Hardman declined the invitation and walked to Richmond, selling the five alive and battered pullets to the Richmond Produce company. He was apprehended later in the day in a saloon. He is charged with larceny. SETS MEMORIAL DAY Ralston Expresses Hope for Mexican Peace.

Expressing the hope that the present Mexican situation may be settled without the loss of another life, Governor Ralston has proclaimed Saturday, May 30, as Memorial day. In the introduction of his proclamation the governor pays the following tribute: "Union soldiers, alive and dead, have an abiding place in the hearts of their countrymen. As the years come and go the nation's love for them grows stronger. Of their services to their country there Is appreciation, but for them no adequate compensation. They achieved mightily. They interpreted for the ages the language of our flag. They ascribed to it loftier sentiments and flung it higher in the heavens, that other nations might catch its spirit and follow it," I

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MONROE DOCTRINE TORE BASIS Informal Discussion to Precede Action on Formal Proposals Presented by Both Sides in Pact on Mediation

BY LAWRENCE TODD, Special Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., May 20. With the stage all set and the actors at hand, letter perfect in their parts, the opening of the drama of the first purely American mediation between governments of two American republics, waited for the hour of three to act. Ambassador Da Gama. of Brazil, chief of the A. B. C. envoys, announc ed early today that the conference for settlement of the Mexican problem would me organized at that time. Minister Naon, of Argentina, who has been here for several days, agreed with Senor Da Gama that the outlook was encouraging. They said they hoped for an early agreement and the prompt acceptance of the views of the conference by the governments involved. Americans Rest. The arrival of Senor Saurez. the Chilean minister, was delayed. Mean while the American delegates. Justice Joseph R. Lamar and Frederick N Lehmann. rested quietly at their hotel on the American Bide of Niagara river. The Mexican commissioners. Senor Rabasa. Senor Rodriguez and Senor Elguero, who reached the city early today, were reticent. They conferred with their countrymen, including former Charge d' Affaires Algara. who arose arely to welcome them, and with Consul Pablo Temio of Toronto, but declared they "had nothing to say to the press," until mediation conferences naa actually begun, ine nrst words in the play were left to South American mediators. the Some indication of the probable j length of the conference was had from tne fact that the Areentinan minister negotiated for a month's lease of a

: motor car. in Mexican onioiai quar - r rompers this news was unwelcome. The

American delegates smiled. The in-Mean capital, terests of the United States are con-1 Worry About Saurez. sidered furthered by every possible J As the morning wore on and Minisdelay, fer Saurez failed to appear, a feeline Watch Stage Settings. of anxiety sp-ang up. and the possibilThrrmpli nil thn whisnortwl pnnfr- I r n , I. :

en,e8 aut",e head n t ers ran one

. insistent question: "Will Huerta re-! Pnt message were dispatched to New : tire, and what will the Mexican dele- York and Washington relative to the I sates answer to the new proposal of non-apoearance of the Chilean envov. !the United States that the peons Oi The Mexican envoys spent the morn- ; Mexico be given the land? Will they ins automobiling. while the Americans I reject, then agree to consider the land busied themselves bv writing long

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Kpiuiuii iu iinru nmsiu me ut-m-i room wit ti a sKyngnc. ana witn doors that the Mexicans would refuse to dis- opening upon a" magnificent view of cuss the land question. They are j the horseshoe cataract. There are anxious for haste in the settlement of t -jeht plain oak chairs drawn up their quarrel with the United States ! around a substantial oak table. Pads government, but it is understood theyjof paper, pens, ink and blotters have

regard the land policy as a purely do-

mestic matter with which none but alrnd of the room is a door opening into conqueror may interfere. j and ante room to which the delegates The diplomats of the three South j may retire for conferences among American powers, determined to brin;; ' themselves. Upon one side of the their plan of a peaceful compact to ' r0mm is an open fireplace faced with success, are, nevertheless watching ; yellow brick, the progress of the Constitutionalist j Meet for Discussion, army in Mexico with resignation. They I According to the plans the eieht hope chiefly to get action here in time I conferees will not meet together exto be of assistance in making future rept at periods when discussion is to

civil conflict in the southern republic impossible. Welcome Mediators.

Welcome to the delegatfs and the j three of the oak chairs in the confermediators was given today by the do-; rnoe rooms, while Justice lmar and minion government through Martin j Mr. Lehmann will be -jiven one of th Burrell, minister of agriculture; Sir.pnian anterooms The other anteJoseph Pope, under secretary of state, j room Wjn be assigned to the three and Hon J. A. Lougheed, cabinet min-! Mfxjean envoys. ister, without portfolio. J The American commissioners, aeCanadian officials have shown their I companied bv their secretary, H. Perinterest in the conference in many ! cival Dodge," and Robert H Rose, ot ways. George Ross, chief superintend-j the state department, arrived at meent of the dominion postoffice depart- j diation headquarters at 11 o'clock, ment. has come here to see that spe-j ve are here to meet the mediators cia! locked bags and messengers are 1 firpt jn an informal wav." said Justice furnished to convey the mail of the : Lamar. We will also meet informally representatives of Argentina. Brazil , tnP Mexican commissioners. We come and Chile, the United States and Gen- j to ask their pleasure as to the arrangeeral Huerta. I ments for organizing the conference.' The customs regulations have been especially modified for the occasion. '

Only the international bridge remorselessly collects its ten cents toll of every person who walks or rides across. Even Ambassador Da Gama was compelled to pay. Commissioner Lehmann was in a particularly peaceful mood today as the result of special attention shown him by the Lehigh Valley railroad. Learning that Mr. Lehmann was reminded, upon entering the state of Pennsylvania, of the toothsomeness of "catfish and waffles," the road's offi cials wired ahead for catfish and waf fle irons At Tunkhannock they were taken aboard the train and Mr. lehmann suffered a craving left over from boyhood days. See New Tribunal. That the present conference is looked upon by Latin-America generally as the first steps toward establishing a "Hague tribunal" on the Western hemisphere for the settlement of future disputes involving. North, Central and South America and Mexico, was a view taken by diplomats who are on the ground. Dr. Gonzalo S. Cordova, minister of Ecuador to the United States, is here

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to report every development to hli government, and Dr. Alberto Membreno, minister from Honduras, is expected in a few days. These diplomats give the impression that they look for a new version of the Monroe doctrine to come out of the conferences over the Mexican troubles. The Latin-American diplomats are understood to believe that henceforth the United States will consult Argentina. Brazil and Chile, and through these the lesser Central and South American nations in the exercise of the authority which has gone with the Monroe doctrine in the past. Discuss Problems Informally. It was decided by Ambassador Da Gama and Minister Naon that informal discussion should precede the presentations of formal proposals npon each point which shall be raised in the conference. The American mediators were understood to desire that the issue in volving the elimination of Geneva! , Huerta should be taken up first, but the Mexican delegates were opposed to such a program, desiring that all the points in the dispute be canvassed before the question of Huerta's status be decided. As each formal step is taken up the secretaries will draw up written memoranda of what has transpired, and these records will be signed. The ' field will thus be kent of miKiinderstandings as to what has been said ! in answer to any important sugges j tions. While the Mexican commissioners came with greater authority than those representing Washington, it was assumed that they would take no imj portant step without consulting Genri iinorta hi- pohia Thio inHirai., i that long periods of delay will ensue 1 as the cable service and translation 'service are never hurried in the Mexof the rence was iXJZTv ! ences is a fairly large oak-furnished been supplied at each place. At each be general. Ambassador Da Gama. Minister ! Naon and Minister Saurez will occupy MAE1ERCH0R SINGS German Society to Entertain for Eagles. Comedy singing by the Mnnerchot will feature the third evening of the Eagles' indoor carnival tonight. The J ful1 chorus will take part in the festival in addition to the booths and stands and vaudeville acts running each night. Several hundred people visited the new nest last night, participating in the carnival, the proceeds from which, members believe, will be adequate to furnish the home as planned. The chorus and novelty work of the Mrcnnerchor singers is well known to Richmond people, and will be the means, members believe, of drawing the largest crowd of the week.