Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 321, 23 November 1918 — Page 1

BICHMONB PAIXAB VOL. XLIII..NO. 321Palladium and Sun-Telegram 'Consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 23, 1918 SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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SUCCESSOR TO CTADOO STILL IH DOUBT IM WASHINGTON

Resignation Caused by Need to Replenish Personal Income, Secretary of Treasury SayMay Practice Law. ACTION IS UNEXPECTED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. Giving necessity for replenishing his personal fortune as a reason, William McAdoo has resigned as secretary of the treasury and director-general of railroads. His resignation has been accepted by iTeeident Wilson. As secretary of the treasury, Mr. McAdoo will retire as soon as a successor has been chosen and has qualified. He will relinquish his position a3 head of the government controlled railroads January 1, unless a director ha3 Dot then been selected. The resignation of Mr. McAdoo, which he, himself, announced at a conference with newspaper correspond8nts, late yesterday was entirely un expected in Washington. After making the announcement, Mr. McAdoo made public h;s letter of resignation to the president bearing the date of November 14, and the latter's letter of ecceptance. Inadequate Compensation. . Saying he had refused to consider resignation while the country was at war, Mr. McAdoo wrote the president that "the inadequate compensation sllcwed by law to cabinet members, and the very burdensome cost of livhg In Washington, have so depleted my personal resources that I am obliged to reckon with the facts of the situation." While emphasizing that he has not suffered any actual Impairment of health, he said he needs "A reasonable period of genuine rest to replenish" his energies. Neither In his letter to the president nor in his statement to newspaper cor-icspf.rdent.-', announcing his resignation, did Mr. McAdoo outline his plans for the future, but It is understood he Intends to take a vacation of several months before returning to business, probably the practice of law. By the resignation. President Wilton, for th fourth time In nearly six years of bis term of office is faced with ths necessity of filling a vacancy In hN cabinet The resignation of Mr. McAdoo tock official Washington so completely by surprise that even today there was little speculation as to his successor or successors. It Is not known whether the President will fill separately the offices of secretary of the treasury and director general of railrcad?. In some quarters. It was thoucht todftA that the president may decide to make some other member of the cabinet head of the nation's railroad system: In such an event it was considered likely that place would go to Secretary of War Baker. Postmaster General Burleson, or Secretary of the Interior Lane. Should the President decide tr. go oit?.ide his cabinet for a director-general, the name of Walker D. Hines, assistant directorpeneral of the board of directors of the Sante Fe, was mentioned. For the treasurer secretaryship the names of John Skelton Williams, comptroller of the currency; W. F. G. ii ii m ... . . . lutiunm, K'rinur OI (Be ieuerai gerve board; Rii3sel C. Leffingwell J ai istant secretary of the treasury and P nl Warburg, formerly a member of f reserve board, and New York ' ':). wore mentioned today. Tasks of considerable magnitude . i.l face Mr. McAdso's successor as recretnry of the treasury. Probably two more liberty loans will have to be raised, the nation financed through tho reconstruction period, and the revision of revenues arranged and increased taxes collected. The new secretary ulsa will be called upon to rocmuiend to the preiHent for aulointmtnt a new member of the fedrial reserve board to succeed Frednr-

. Ick A. Delano, who recently . resienwl. I

. Previous to announcing his resigna-' raie a part of the normal routine, t on yesterday. Mr. McAdoo Etated ' 11sre is an example from the testi-tperific-ally that he had no thought 1 mony of a man ho nad Deen at one of going to Kurope, which was taken!0' tne llameIn salt mines: as meaning he would not be one of! "r 'In January. 1918. 1 refused to com:he American delegates to the peace ! plete my task aa u was a Ph'scal im onference possibility. I was taken out of the Mr. McAdoo said he had no idea mine dressed only in shirt and draw--ho his successors might be. and id-!-" 18 t? h0t n thf ?lneJ Ti tied that he would make no recommen- fnjtl?intg e'?e-nd P"1 '' the ait dations to the president. n hut wh!ch ,was gather proof. RecardloBS of the appointment to ! LV?! "f1"' l1! f.U" 18!:

probable that there will be any great change in future fiscal policies of the government. War bonds of sr.ort tnnturities. to the sum of about eight billions probably will be floated in 1019 as planned by Mr. McAdoo and his treasury advisors. Before he1 loaves the treasury, Mr. McAdoo will prepare recommendations to congress ! 4 .1 ...111 for legislation to change the war finince corporation into a ."peace finance corporation," as he has suggestrd. thereby permitting it to finance Industries during tho readjustment period. The future of the capital issues committee is uncertain and the attitude of Mr. McAdoo's. successor may have much to do with its course. As for the railroads,-the new director general doubtless will have much to do with the formulation of policies for future management. Mr. Mc Adoo recently Indicated that he had planned to continue consolidations, f pooling, short hauling and other re forms looking to efficient operation, egardless of the fact that the war emergency la over. Opposition to this course row appears to be developing. and the issue of whether railroads are to remain permanently under government direction and even government ownership, or be returned shortly to their private owners is taking form. -

Cuba Gave $500000 r to Organizations of ' Relief for Entente

(By Associated Press) ' HAVANA, Friday, Nov. 22. The Cuban national commission of propaganda for the war and aid of its victims has divided among several allied relief organizations, as follows: Seventy thousand dollars sent to Premier Clemenceau of France for rench soldier victims; British Red Cress $60,000; for Belgium, to be delivered to the Belgian queen on her entry in Brussels, $100,000; to the queen of Italy, $100,000; Canadian Red Cross, $10,000; Australian Red Cross, $10,000; New Zealand Red Cross, $10,000; French sisters of charity. $10,000; French doctors' association, $10,000; War orphans, $10,000; and $20,00 each to the Serbian, Greek and Portuguese -governments. This is in addition to the $100,000 contribution by the commission to the United States soldiers' relief fund. - WAR PRISONERS TURNED OUT BY GERMANS TO DIE British Survivors of Hun Prison Camps Tell of Unprecedented Cruelty. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 23. Pitiable conditions among British prisoners of war, who have been liberated by the Germans since the sienlng cf the armistice, arc described by Reuter's corres pondent at French headquarters. Thousands of these men, mostly British, are entering France daily. The correspondent writes: "I have never seen human beings in such a state of raggedness, hunger and misery. When the camp at Forbach, thirty-eight miles east of Metz, as well as those elsewhere, were broken up, the prisoners, most of whom ' were captured during the March offensive, were told to clear out and seek help from their allies. They started to walk the fifty or sixty miles to the allied lines, but were given no food and had So money. They were In shameful rags, the soles dropping off their boots. Some wore clogs and no socks. "They left the prison camps in droves of hundreds in charge of German officers and soldiers who had deserted. The Weather was very cold and many died by the roadside, within a few miles from friends. When the survivors entered the French lines, French soldiers who were hardened war heroes were horrified to Bee men in such a plight. It is not doubted that this suffering was intentionally Imposed upon the British. Prisoners of other nationalities are agreed that the British were 'treated worse than the others a: all German camps." Work In Salt Minis. ' A further report of Sir Robert Younger's committee, dealing with the treatment of British prisoners in the coal and salt mines of Germany, gives harrowing details of brutal treatment by the Germans. This report says: "From testimonials scarcely a month old. it Is evident that there is no sign of improvement whatever in the treatment of priscxers in Germany. This disgrace is open and flagrant and the only possible inference is that Berlin deliberately approves of it. There Is no doubt that work in the mines is inflicted as punishment. Here is an extract from a letter dated May 20 last from a Eritish private soldier: V tiflvn hart littlp tn fat since ipft- Hamion. Two of our number ! iv u v i, i i,,.!, re-llli,e suue u iur iiuayiiai au uiuncii arms and the remainder are suffering from cuts on tlielr Heads and bruises as the result of floggings they received at the last place. I fell in a faint unable to work any longer last Saturday and the man in charge, a civilian, kicked me back into my senses and kept me down in the mine sixteen hours after all my gan; had gone up. If you could only seo the boys here! They all look lifce dead men. They are worked to death.' " Blows Part of Routine. The record of daily promiscuous .tlence might be much further illustrated. To scores of men who have given evidence concerning the mining camps; Licks, blows and insults be and again beaten until I had finished my task. I received nothing to eat from the time I went down into the mine on the first morning until two o'clock the next afternoon." It Is Impossible to say how many Bfr ACt UlTAO U'ftrA OQAfll AA1 fntl in M.n i. hv'm.n who have been set free the exact con " . . - J ditions must remain in obscurity. CRUISER READY FOR RUSS FLIGHT (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN. Friday. Nov, 22--The Soviet authorities of Russia have ordered tha-t a cruiser be ready at the shortest notice to sail from the mouth of the Neva river in-the gu'.f, of Finland and it is announced thati in case of danger fourteen members 1 of the government will embark for a neutral port, according to Petrograd advices. INDIA REJOICES. LONDON. Nov. 23. Enthusiastic rejoicing marked the celebration in India of the si&ming of the armistice. accorHiTiT to dispatches from Simla. 1

278 MEMBERS OF ROYALTY LOSE OUT IN FOE REVOLT

Chaotic Political Conditions Reported Over Germany South- ; ern States Resist Dictation of Berlin Proletariat. FOOD APPEAL IS FRAUD (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM. Nov. 23. Two hundred and seventy-eight persons have been affected by the dethronement or abdication of ruling houses in Germany, according to the Zeitung Am Mittag of Berlin. Of this' number, thirty-three were of the royal Prussian house and thirty-nine of the Bavarian reigning family. LONDON, Nov. 23. The chaotic political conditions in Germany are emphasized in reports received here from Amsterdam and Copenhagen purporting to reproduce direct telegrams from Germany. Resistance in south Germany, especially In Bavaria, to proletariat dictation from Berlin, is rapidly growing and is likely to result in all of south Germany being established as a new independent government, according to the Copenhagen Berlingske Tidende's Berlin correspondent. High Rations Standard. It is pointed out in connection with the appeal of Dr. W. S. Solf to the United States for food that there are two kinds of rations in use in Germany. That for the soldiers, in the first lines has been much larger than that granted the rest of the nation. It is said that Dr. Solf appears anxious that the front line standard shall be maintained for the large body of troops returning frcm the front. This ration is considerably more generous than that to which the British people have been accustomed during the last four years. At a joint sitting of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Councils of the German navy, it has been decided to form a main committee for the naval arm of the service. It will represent all the councils of the navy and will have its headquarters at Wilhelmshaven. The fifty-three "delegates from the councils will elect five comrades as a central committee of the navy." These committeemen must be socialists. All orders of the ministry of marine and the admft-alty ''staff must be signed by these five men, according to a Wilhelmshaven telegram received here. There is sharp divergence of opinion in regard to the make up of the new Germany. There is a general lack of harmony In different parts of the country and tendency toward separatism. Bolshevik Ideas are said to be growing in the west where a Rhenish republic is said to be planned. ' The Bremen soldiers' and workers' council at a meeting declared itself in complete accord with the Bolshevism and resolved to call on the Bolshevik! in Russia to help Introduce communism. The Spartacus group at Dusseldorf is reported to have proclaimed a proletarian dictatorship and arrested the burgomaster of the city. Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the radical socialist, was acclaimed at a Spartacus luceimx in Deriin. wnicn issiipfi an an- - edl .lo ine "svorners 10 emulate me Russian Bolshevik!. The meeting refused to listen to moderate socialist speakers. DOGS AND MEN FIGHT IN PETROGRAD FOR FLESH OF HORSES 'Pv Associated Prpssl LONDON. Nov. 23. Dcgs and men are battling in Petrograd for the flesh of horses which drop dead in the streets, according to a British business man who has just arrived In London. He escaped from Petrograd early in November and evaded the Bolshevik guards at the Finnish herder at night.The Bolshevik government, he said, has announced since they recaptured Kazen, Simbrlsk and Samara, that they would have grain enough to feed the soldiers, sailors and their own partisans throughout the winter. They will not issue facd to any other persons. As a result money has lost its food buying power and the non-Bol shevik Russians are in a desperate condition. The Weather For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau. Fair tonight. Sunday fair and slightly warmer. Today's Temperature. Noon 33 Yesterday. Maximum 39 Minimum 32 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore -Partly cloudy and continued cold tonight. Sunday probably fair General Conditions The center of the cold wave has moved eastward to Lake Superior and is causing tem peratures below normal east of the Rocky mountains. General freeze occurred this morning throughout the state, i3e forming generally. . A reaction to milder weather is taking place over the west although ;it remains cold north of the 45th parallel where temperatures range from 10 to 20 above zero

Tumulty and Dr. Grayson to Accompany President and Wife Abroad; Party Expected to Sail on Seized German Liner

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The presidential party that will leave for the before January 1. Preliminary conscene of the peace conference early next month will include, in addition to ferences, which will be participated in President and Mrs. Wilson and the American peace delegation. Dr. Cary T. by allied peace delegates, will be held Grayson, the president's personal physician; Joseph P. Tumulty, the presi- during the latter part of December, dent's private secretary, and about 200 other officials, advisers, experts, sec- There is expectation In both Engretaries. stenographers, etc. The party is expected to cross the Atlantic on land and France that President Wilthe United States transport Agamemnon, formerly the North German Lloyd son will visit those countries while he liner Kaiser Wilhelm II, according to information received from a reliable is in Europe.

Brussels in Gala Dress Greets Return of Victorious King

(By Associated Press) BRUSSELS. Nov. 23. King Albert entered Brussels" Friday" morning at 10: SO o'clock. He was accompanied by Quen Elizabeth, Princes Leopold and Charles and Princess Marie Jose. The royal party entered at the porte De Flanders and proceeded to the Place De La Nation, receiving a tre-j mendous ovation along the streets. Entering the parliment house, King! Albert and his family listened to an address of welcome. Then followed a review of allied troops which formed a line ten miles long. Flowers were thrown in the path of King Albert as the procession made its way along the boulevards , lined for miles with dense throngs. As this dispatch was written the noise of chsring rolls continuously like thunder across the city. King Albert and his two sons were on horseback. The crown prince was on his right and was dressed in khaki, while his younger brother was dressed In the uniform of a midshipman. , The city is wearing its gala dress and the influx of thousands during recent days has made it impossible to obtain lodgings for all. Many are sleeping in the public halls and shelters. The return of King Albert to his capital recalls the king's prophecy j in an Interview with the Associated WORLD-WIDE "DRY" MEETING CLOSES (P.y. Associated Press ,. COLUMBUS, O , Nov. 23. Drastic law enforcement at home and the taking of immediate steps to corral the world into the prohibition ford were the main points that the world-wide prohibition conference called upon the Anti-saloon League of America to dertake at the conclusion of the con-1 ference here yesterday. The conference ended with the adoption of a program in th form of a series of resolutions. Declaring the time has come for the formation of an internationalism isaloon league, the conference instructed the executive committee of the anti-saloon league of America to ?arry into effect plans and methods to thi.v end. .Immediate financial and other assistance to nations in need will be given. The plan to be pursued, it is believed will be to ask all temperance organizations of the world to send delegates to a convention at which the international league Is to be formed. The governments of Great Britain and France are called upon in resolutions to issue an order forbidding their citizens to give liquor to American soldiers. Resolutions also thanked God for victory over Prussianism, congratulated congress and President Wilson for enactment and approval of war-lime prohibition, asked investigation of the alleged . "brewery-newspaper-pro-German" scandal, and urged legislati m requiring habit-forming drugs combined with alcohol to come L under the restrictions of the anti-narcotic law

Press, only a few months after the Belgians, having checked the first rush of the Germans, had been driven from their country. In the dispatch report

ing this interview, on December 20. i9if, at the king s headquarters in west Flanders, the following passage occurred : "Your Maiestv. it has been nredicted thsit you win re-enter your capital within three months;" the correspondent said. The king shook his head sadly, sayiine: Xot so soont Dut some day T shan ! ride into Brussels at the head of the j Belgian army." j pi If) Af mriinil PI Oil Ijr rniLllUn COLONIALS, BURIED IN 19IMESCUED (By Associated Press) PARIS, Friday, Nov. 22 Progress by the French army of occupation in Alsace and Lorraine was reported by the French official statement issued by the war office tonight. The statement reads: "The occupation of successive delivered localities in Lorraine and Alsace continued today amid the magnificent enthusiasm of the people. Colmar was solemnly entered by General De Castelnau, who was greeted by the acclamations of the whole population, which gave evidence in most touching particulars of its attachment to France. "From the Moselle as far south as the Vosges the line reached today comprised i nionviiie, Kouzonvine, Wolcklingen, Sarreguemines and Bitche. v ; "In Alsace our advance guards have reached Reipartswiller, Roerach, Danendorf, Gendertheim and Gendenheim, oftor havinff ontortiH TnircilmUler

Rouxviller and 'Bnimath, where they un-!were given a touching reception.

."The flag of the twentieth colonial regiment which was buried at Villers-Sur-Semoy in 1914, has been recovered and returned with military honors to the colonial army by the 204th regiment of infantry. Anthracite Coal Output 100,000 Tons Behind Last Year's Production (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Production of anthracite coal has been so reduced by a number of causes that it is now nea-ly 100,000 net tons behind the daily average production for last year, the fuel administration announced today in making public figures on production for the week ending Nov. 16. During the week production averaged 234,000 net tons daily in comparison with 333,000 tons during the same week of 1917. Influenza and the celebration of the armistice signing contributed to the lowering of production, It was said. . The total production of anthracite for the coal year to date is 63.3S1.000 net tons, the fuel administration todayannounced. At the same date las.t year, jt was 64,921,000 tons.

Transport Agamemnon; President and Mrs. Wilson; Dr. Cary T. Grayson (extreme right), and Joseph P. Tumulty. ' source. This vessel is being put in readiness for the trip, it is learned. The imperial suite of the Agamemnon, once occupied by the kaiser on a cruise, will be used by President and Mrs. Wilson, it is said. The Agamemnon before the war could maintain an average speed of twenty-two knots and it is said . that under American engineers and crews its speed has been considerably increased. Just how long the president will remain abroad is a question which he himself probably could not answer. The duration of his stay will depend upon developments overseas. It is considered unlikely that the formal sessions of the conference will begin

300,000 PEOPLE DRIVEN OUT BY GERMAN HORDES ! Repatriates Returning to France and Belgium at Rate of 20,000 a Month. (By Associated Press) LONDON. Nov. 23. The total number of persons now in France that were cast out by the Germans from Belgium and northern France is estimated by the Belgian relief commission at 300,000. Of late they have been coming through Switzerland at a rate of 20,000 a month. French committies, overwhelmed with the work of caring for this great influx are being assisted by the American Red Cross, which has established a wellequipped receiving station at Evian. Contrary to widely circulated reports, the Belgian relief commission has ascertained that the condition of the refugees is relatively good aud that there is no truth in information received that tuberculosis was raging among them. S. S. Howland, who went to Evian as a representative of the committee, to make a thorough investigatlou, says in a report just received, that there are no signs among the evacuees of serious suffering from lack of food. Only among a few of the very old ani infirm are the signs of the sufferings and privations they have been through apparent. He found among them no evidence of morbidity below the normal. Speaking of the activities of the commission, Mr. Howland says: "Every day I have many conversations with "repatries' 'and all, without exception, are agreed that without th 2 assistance rendered by the commission, the populations of the occupied portions of France and Belgium could never have survived." Siberian Refugees Keep Cows and Chickens on Passenger Train TOKIO. Nov. 23. Many refugees are living and raising poultry or keeping cows in trains in Siberia, according to Shinryo Tanaka, a councillor in the Japanese Railway Board, who has been traveling in Siberia on an Investigation of railroads. He said: "As one travels westward in Sibe ria train refugees are found in greater numbers. Trey have converted railway compartments into quite comfortable homes which are provided with all the necessary househould requisites. Although the rolling stock Is by no means plentiful the authorities are not so heartless as to drive away those poor people from their newly-occupied abodes and they are allowed to live in the trains. "Every station swarms with dirtv, ragged beggars. They invade passenger trains and sometimes they follow their intended victims over several stations until their solicitations are satisfied. ASK CLEMENCY FOR MOONEY . EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 23. The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution calling on the governor of Calfornia to stay execution in case of Thomas Mooney, condemned to hang.

U. S. UNITS TO DE RETURNED ANNOUNCED DY ARMY LEADED

American Army of Occupation Will Hold Coblentz, March States Total Casualties Show 36454 Lives Lost. TAKE 44,000 GERMANS (By Associated Press) LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23. Several thousand American soldiers sailed for home today on the liners Lapland and Minnehaha. It was a stirring scene as the men marched from the railway station and local campe to the landing stage amid the rousing cheers from the throngs of people along the streets. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. General March announced today that authority had been given to General Pershing to send back home all such troops as will not be needed in the army of oc cupation. He said that General Persh ing had indicated that the following units would not be required: Divisions 31, 34, 38, 39, 76, 84, 86, 87. Coast artillery regiments 46, 47, 49, 50, 75 and 76. Field artillery brigades 65 and 103. Troops to Be Returned. In addition General Pershing indi cated that the following general classes of troops will be returned : Railroad artillery troops, army artillery troops, gas troops, tank corps, air forces and those divisions which were broken up to be used as replacements for other divisions which had seen active service. Troops returning immediately from England, General March said will include practically all of the air squadrons, 16 construction companies, one sail makers' detachment company, one Handley-Page training station and several photographic and radio sections. Orders for the return of these already have been issued. Total Casualities. Total casualties in the American expeditionary forces up to signing of the armistice were divided as follows: Killed and died of wounds, 36,154. Died of disease, 13,811. Died from other causes, 2,204. -Wounded.-179.025. ' - Prisoners. 2.163. Missing, 1,150. The American forces in France, General March said, had taken 44,000 German prisoners in round numbers, and 1.400 guns. He added that the casualties among the American forces in northern Russia were not severe contrary to reports and that encouraging accounts of the situation of the forces there had been received. "Won't Sneak In." Movement of troops from France will be expedited in every way, the chief of staff said, and he added that they will not "sneak into the country, either." Taking up the present advance of the allied forces, General March pointed out that the American . army is beading for Coblenz. the center bridge head on the Rhine where it should arrive about December 1. The British forces will occupy the bridge head to the north at Cologne, and the French the bridge head to the east at Mainz. The strength of the American army to be maintained in France was not indicated beyond the demobilization plans announced. American troops in Italy including the 332d infantry, will be stationed for the time being at Cattaro, Fiume and Triest, one battalion of the infantry being located at each place. Demobilization of the forces at home Is proceeding steadily. On arriving at Camp Dix yesterday. General March said he found 200 a day being released. Several of the present camps will be abandoned as soon as they are cleared of their occupants. The composition of divisions designated for return, so far as known is as follows: Thirty-first (Georgia. Alabama, and Florida), 34th (Nebraska. Iowa. South Dakota and Minnesota). 38 (Indiana. Kentucky and West Virginia). 76th (New England), 78t'a (West New York, New Jersey and Delaware), 39th (Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisana), 84th (Kentucky, Indiana and Southern Illinois), 86th (Chicago and Northern Illinois), 87th (Arkansas, Louisiana), Mississippi and Southern Alabama). RACIAL OUTBREAK FEARED AT FIUM3 Nov. 23. Victor Fisher, founder of the British workers' league in ir.:king a tour of redeemed Italian territories, has visited Fiume since the Hungarian governor left the city. Speaking on the situation, he says that it is of extremely delicacy. Danger is arising out of the unexpected occupation of the city by considerable bodiei of Jugo slav soldiery, most of whom were Droatian troops and until quite recently fighting in the Austrian army. In addition to this the local Jugo-Slav committee, while disarming the Italian population, have fo-mel armed civil guards from Jugo-Slav living in the outskirts of the town. Mr. Fisher adds: . "The situation demands ; effective and immediate action, as at any moment an unpremeditated explosion of racial sentiment may lead to the most serious ' eventualities. Jugoslavs to the : number of 18,000 a 1 armed, have occupied Fiume under the command of a Serbian captain, altering the normal proportion of the different races amone the rahab1ttr "