Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 59, 18 January 1919 — Page 1

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FIRST FORMAL SESSION OF PEACE MEET HELDTODAY Final Preliminary Meetings Held This Morning Wilson Stays Home to Rest During Morning Session.

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vBy Associated Press) PARIS. Jan. 18. All the peace delegation held final meetings this mornv"" ing before the assembling of the 1 peace congress this afternoon. The American delegation met at 10 o'clock but President Wilson did not attend remaining at the Murat mansion throughout the morning to rest. All preparations had been completed early today for the holding of the first formal session of the peace congress. The Salle de-Horloge, now richrlstened the Salle de a Palx and one of the most splendid reception rooms in Europe, had been placed in readiness for the delegations of the various nations as they entered to Inaugurate the sittings of the full congress, the entire chamber having been re-arranged, for the special purpose to which It Is now being put. First to catch the eye of the plenipotentiaries entering the hall, a statue of peace, holding aloft the torch of civilization, had been placed. This heroic marble figure stood directly be

hind the chair of Premier Clemenceau of France, the presiding officer. It seems as if the statute might have been placed in this position to exer- , oise a controlling influence on the deliberations. In Form of Horseshoe. In front of the statue was spread the crincil table, covered with the tradli'l rwen baise of diplomacy. This table Is in the form of a huge horseshoe. Across the upper end were nine seats of honor, for the presiding officer, the vice-presidents and premiers. On each Bide of the two arms of the

horseshoe there were fifteen seats, besides the nine at the head of the .- table. j Each delegate's chair was uphol-

"" each place was a complete eQuipment

" of writing materials. The fittings of . the room were in white and gold, with a frescoed ceiling bordered by dancing cuplds. Four great cluster chandeliers hung from the ceiling, while five large windows, looking out over the Seine river cast a flood of light over the sumptuous apartment. Leading from the council room was another large ciiamber overlooking the gardens. To this room the delegates can retire for consultations. A large table at one end suggested that the refreshments would be served there to the delegates. Further on was a gorgeous state dining room where luncheon and dinner may be served to the delegates in case protracted sessions are held. The whole suite of rooms was suggestive of elegance and beauty and the artistic taste of the French. ARTILLERYMEN LAND IN NEW YORK TODAY (By Associated Press) , NEW YORK, Jan. 18 The American steamship Grant and the battle--ship South Dakota arrived today from Brest with troops. The liner's passengers were largely from the field artillery and comprised more than 4,600 men. On the warship were 16 officers and 1.372 men, representing the entire 56th coast artillery except battalion F and 30 officers, and the 474th aero squadron, 7 officers and 145 men. They went to Camp Mills. Troops aboard the President Grant include the headquarters company of the Eighth field artillery brigade, two officers and 41 men, and the following field artillery: Second, 32 officers, 1.434 men; 65th. 32 officers. 1,294 men; 83rd, 23 officers, 1,371 men.

Vivid Personality of "Tiger" Clemenceau, French

BY F. H. SIMONDS f'oprrlaht. U)n. McOnre Newspaper Syndlcnle. Nearly three yeacs ago. at the moment of the German attack upon Verdun, a London friend of mine furnished ma with a letter of Introduction to M. Georges Clemenceau, then holding no other political position than a member of the French senate, but since become the president of the council, the leader of the French nation and the saviour alike of France and of the allied cause. But even in the Verdun period he was, as he has been for at least a quarter of a century, the most Interesting of French public men and, through his newspaper, he was the single outspoken critic of allies mistakes and the champion of vigorous and concerted action against the common enemy. At the moment when I was in Paris no man ventured even to hint that Clemeanceau might succeed to the post then held by Briand. His vigor and his enefgy was everywhere conycVsded. but there was a general lack of confidence growing out of the Incidents in the statesman's long history of political battle. He was in that row forgotten time a lonely, if splendid figure. France was not yet face

Hero of Betteau Wood, Wounded Four Times, Visits in Richmond Corporal Harold L. Kirk, of Newcastle, wearing the Croix de Guerre, the famous French war cross, and suffering from five wounds, In addition to being gassed, was in Richmond Thursday. He wore the cord which the French government awarded every marine who took part in the Belleau woods engagement, in which the marines suffered 6,000 casualties out of 8,000 men engaged. Kirk was visiting friends here. He was gassed April 4 in the fighting near Verdun. He was released from the hospital May 19. Then his company, a part of the second division, under the command of Major General Omar Bundy, began the fighting which made them famous and won for them the name Devil Dogs. In Belleau woods be received four machine gun bullets In the left leg. After his recovery he was wounded in the St. Mihiel salient, receiving a shrapnel wound in the right leg.

LESS THAN THIRTY DIVISIONS TO BE KEPTJNJRANCE Minimum Strength to be Kept Overseas, General March Says in Statement. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. American forces In France and in the occupied territory of Germany are to be reduced to the minimum strength consistent with our national obligations," General March said today. He added that General Foch had been informed of this policy by General Pershing. What strength is to be maintained Is under discussion now by American military officials and the allied military leaders. No report has been received indicating the number of divisions to be supplied by the United States, but General March was positive that it would be far less than the 30 divisions given in unofficial reports of the probable American military contributions. American forces for the occupied zone was fixed by international agreement at the time the armistice was signed. General March said Marshal Foch undoubtedly would refuse to permit a reduction of his total strength to a point where it would be inadequate to handle any possible disturbance. Demobilized In U. 8. Demobilization of all army units in the United States has been ordered, General March announced, with the exception of the regular army. regiment needed for camp , guard . purposes ..and various detachment necessary to continue the demobilization process. The total now listed for demobilization is 1,177,000. Troopscactually returned from France for demobilization now number 104,000. This gives a grand total ordered discharged of 1,281,000. of which 768,626 men and 51.593 officers have been discharged to date. The rate of discharge again is nearing the maximum capacity of 1,000 men per camp per day after an interruption by the holidays. In addition to the regular regiments, the exception from the blanket de mobilization ordered includes the cav-( airy on the southern border, coast j artillery groups in the coast defenses, i detachments at ports and the medical j personnel This last force now num-j bers 95.000, but General March said it would be reduced gradually as the number of men it had to care for was reduced. Eleven Richmond Artists Represented in State Artists' Exhibition Eleven Richmond artists are represented with thirty-one paintings at the Indiana Artists' exhibit which opens at the Richmond art gallery Sunday afternoon. Seventy-two pictures by Indiana artists have been accepted by the committee, and another from Victor Higgens in New Mexico, was expected by Mrs. M. F. Johnston, manager of the art gallery, today. Higgens has been engaged in war work in the west, and for that reason his entry was deViyed. The exhibit hours will be from 2 to 5 o'clock. Music will be furnished during the afternoon by the Nusbaum quintette. A big crowd Is expected at the opening exhibit. to face with, defeat, as was the case two years later; the Verdun episode, which was to remove Joffre and bring about the ultimate fall of Briand. was only beginning and the war, although already seeming long, had not yet come to appear interminable. So great has been the transformation since 1916, so complete the triumph of Clemenceau, that I have thought that my notes of my Interview of that time, revealing as they do the great man, already consciously measuring himself for the task which was to come, might have contemporary interest and I here present my notes made at the time but never before published for obvious reasons To them I add only the further explanation that I came to Paris from Lon don, bringing a letter of introduction, which I had been assured In the British capital would open the way for me. Accordingly, when I reached Paris, a few days later, I sent to Senator Clemenceau a letter which contained the necessary message. Two hours later I received an Invitation to call upon the senator at his home, Number 8, Rue Franklin, the next morning at II o'clock.

LOYAL TROOPS HOLD BERLIN; SEARCH OUT SPARTACANS

Volunteers at Koeningsburg Join to Protect Country Against Bolshevism Forces Clash at Brunswick. PROTEST CZECH MOVE (By Associated Prss) BERLIN, Thursday, Jan. 16. More loyal troops entered Berlin today and occupied the whole center of the city, as well as the north and northwest sections. Heavy artillery has been placed in Doenhoff-Platz and SpittelMarkt, field guns stand at verious points in the closely guarded district, Including Unter Den Linden and armored automobiles and tanks have been prepared for instant use. All the streets in the sections named are under guard and It is impossible to pass without identification and without satisfying the soldiers that one is unarmed. , Systematic search for Spartacans continues. Specially strong forces have been posted in sections most exposed to Bolshevist snipers in recent days and citizens are warned to keep indoors at night. Hanover dispatches report a clash between authorities of the majority socialist movement and the Spartacan independent socialist government in Brunswick. The soldiers' and workmens' council, which In connection with the Brunswick state government has been using all means to prevent the dispatch of troops to protect Germany's eastern border, gave notice that any troops passing through Brunswick railway stations would be disarmed. The Hanover council thereupon sent strong forces which occupied, a railroad station in Brunswick territory. Protest Troop Passage. The Brunswick council protested, saying . that this act was "Provocation to bring bloodshed and battle to the free states of Brunswick." The Hanover council replied that all Brunswick troops belong to the tenth army corps of Hanover. Former Spartacan war minister Schreiner of Stuttgart is reported under arrest,, with fifteen other Spartacans. The Spartacan coup at Stuttgart is said to have cost seven, lives. The. utive. -&.ommitfee? X- tb central soldiers and workmen s council has telegraphed ' to councils' at Muelheim-am-Ruhr, ' Hamburg and other places, requesting that the councils order their own immediate reconstitution by new elections carried on by .the proportional system. The central committee says that conditions at a number of places require this action. Volunteers are joining the colors at Koenigsburg to protect the bounda(Continued on Page Ten) FEATHERED 'BO'S' STEAL RIDE Birds are fast taking the place of hoboes on the brakebeams of trains, according to a Richmond railroader. He said sparrows are exceedingly lazy this winter, and, instead of flying across the country, are riding the brakebeams. Citing an instance, he said that about 300 birds, riding on a train to which he had been assigned, recently flew from beneath their perches on the coach when the train passed over a rough stretch of the road which was undergoing repairs. Make Effort to Enforce Labor Board Awards WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Every power of the navy department will be used to force the acceptance of companies with which it has contracts of awards made by the war labor board, Secretary Daniels said today after a conference with joint chairman Taft of the board, on the situation growing out of the Bethlehem Steel company's refusal to put into operation one of these awards. Rue Franklin is that .relatively obscure street which starts somewhat grandiosly at the Trocadero, to end in the maze of streets which comfe out of Passy, once the home of Benjamin Franklin. Clemenceau's house, guarded by the inevitable courtyard and a blank wall, extends southward to the next street and gives a broad opening for sunlight from the south; and it was in his study, illuminated by the March sun, which in Paris means spring, that Clemencau received me. Before I went to him, my French friends had warned me. One Is always warned of Clemenceau. "He will tell you that "The Germans are still at Noyon," was one admonition, citing the sentence that almost daily appeared in Clemenceau's newspaper, L'Homme Enchaine. until at last the Germans left Noyon - and Clemenceau came to power. "He will criticize America, he will say something terrible; he always does: beware!" This was an even more frequent warning. In point of fact he did neither, but this is anticipating. Leading me down a long and dusty hallway, an old sergeant ushered me into Clemenceau's study, the room of

BACK TO THE "CIVIES" AGAIN AND HOW

Thousands of American lads returned to civilian life after service with Uncle Sam are donning civilian clothes these days for the first time in many months. Because the army and navy" life has agreed with them and put them in good physical condition most of them find It necessary to buy new clothes. The fat boys have traded flabby fat for muscle and the thin fellows have filled outr. And then the hat! Most any kind feels queer on a fellow's head after wearing the service '.'lids."

Senate Takes Charge of Evidence in Ford Contest (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. In the Ford-Newberry Michigan senatorial election contest, the senate elections committee today decided to have the senate sergeant at arms take possession of all ballots, poll books and other documentary evidences to be held for future examination. An immediate investigation is not planned. . EXTENSION OF ARMISTICE FOR MONTH GRANTED New Conditions ; Provide All - 'uuumarme construction py uermans Must Cease. (By 'Associated Press') PARIS, Friday, Jan. 17. The agree- i ment for the renewal of the German armistice signed by Marshal Foch, Admiral Browning and the German armistice commissioners on Thursday provided for the renewal of the armistice from time to time after the month for which the extension runs, until the conclusion of peace, subject to the approval of the allied governments. The principal terms of the renewal are substantially as has been already reported. In addition, there is a clause by which the allied command reserves the right to occupy that part of the Strasbourg defenses comprised by the forts ort the eastern bank of the Rhine and a strip of territory from three to six miles beyond. Other clauses provide' for the substitution for supplementary railroad material, fixed at five hundred locomotives and nineteen hundred cars by the protocol of Dec. 17, by large quantities of industrial and agricultural imContinued on Page Ten Old Railroad Bell Is Removed to Madison The old bell that has stood at the Pennsylvania railroad station near North Ninth ' street for 79 years has been removed to Madison, Indiana. This bell was used in the station at Madison for the first railroad in Indiana to announce the arrival and departure of trains. The railroad ran between Madison and Indianapolis. When J. F. Miller came to Richmond as general superintendent he brought the bell here and had it placed in the little park west of the station where it has stood until its recent removal to Madison. PREMIER CLEMENCEAU.

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Hi IllllUUnU I HI m m m m m m 3 mm The suffrage amendment will come up with other constitutional amendments, according to Senator Walter McConaha, who is spending the weekend with his family on North Eleventh street. Mr. McConaha said that in order to bring up other amendments at this session the suffrage amendment was dropped because it is unconstitutional to bring up new amendments while others are pending. This amendment will probably pass with other amendments. Mr. McConaha said that if it passes this session it will be brought into the session of 1921 and then back to the people. He belives that woman suffrage in Indiana will come eventually. : Senator McConaha has not seen any bills for Ihe protection of women in inddBVr luTTieis hflde1irBere will be measures for this purpose brought into the legislature. The presidential suffrage bill givig women the right to vote for presthe suffrage amendment is taken up, he pointed out. Some kind of a city government bill will come before the legislature. A bill proposed by Senator McConaha to make some slight changes in the drainage act of 1913 in reference to drainage improvements, was passed Thursday. He proposed the bill two years ago an dit passed both the senate and the house, but owing to the lateness of its passage, did not get into the hands of the governor. In reference to a bill proposing to THE WEATHER i-or Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 45 Yesterday. Maximum 45 Minimum ....22 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Mostly fair. Moderate temperature. General Conditions Barometric pressure continues high over the Rocky Mountain plateau and low over the north and northwest, which is causing temperature much above normal throughout the United States. It is 64 at Rapid City, S. D., and 54 at Helena, Mont. A storm of considerable energy is central over Oregon and causing heavy rains over the Pacific coast. Temperature one year ago today was 20 below, zero, a year ago tomorrow 20 below and a year ago Monday, 23 below.

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which I had heard so much, and there, seated at the wonderful desk, which is a part of the stage properties of political Paris, sat Clemenceau. For the moment the desk seemed even more remarkable than its owner. It was a huge circular desk, shaped like the emplacement of a heavy gun, with long sides stretching backward as if to protect the gunner from flank fire. And as he rose from his chair to greet me, Clemenceau seemed almost like one of the short howitzers rising to the discharge. I had expected to see an old man. for Senator Clemenceau is well past the seventy mark; instead I 6aw a man whose first motions sugested the energy and force of fifty. I had expected to see a stern, even bitter face, but instead, it was the smiling face of one who welcomed a friendly guest. The first impression was of energy, the second of courtesy. When I had sat down he retook his place lit the desk, at the gun-emplace-ment, for the figure is more than a figure. From behind the breastwork he daily bombarded Paris. France, ministries 'and generals, r with those articles which had overset many min-is'-'v and were, in a later time, to

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consolidate various state departments into one department of conservation with commissioners at the head, Mr. McConaha said that he had heard something of it but that owing to so much confusion, he had not seen a draft of the bill. Mr. McConaha said that in so many cases a measure looked very well on the face but when the matter was looked into it was better not to bring it into the legislature. The finance committee, of which Mr. McConaha is chairman, has had very little work so far. Regular appropriations for the session were passed Friday. So far no measures outside of regular routine business have been put into the hands of this committee. J, .A PropMed-ameiidmWitrTprwr-ent dry law will be brought into this session. McConaha said there would be something done so that more abusers of this law could be caught. McConaha is a member of the soldiers and sailors committee and said it is probable that a mpasnrn will ho. introduced to make it legal for mel morials built for men In the service to De erected by means of taxation. This bill will in all probability be placed in the hands of this committee by the lieutenant governor. Already there have been 60 bills in the senate and Senator McConaha says there will be plenty to do. Federal Intervention to Be Asked for Mooney (Ry Associated Press) CHICAGO. Jan. 18. Members of the committee of five appointed by the national labor congress, to go to Washington to seek federal intervention for Thomas J. Mconey and Warren Billings now serving life sentences in a California prison, said today the fulfillment of their mission would probably depend on the time of President Wilson's return from Europe. The convention, which adjourned its four-days' session last night, also decided to ask the legislature of California to pass a law which will enable courts of that state to grant new trials in cases where convictions are obtained by perjured testimony. If these means fail to obtain a new trial for Mooney and Billings, the convention decided that a general strike of organized labor for July 4 next should be called. A resolution was adopted demanding that the people of Russia and Germany be permitted to work out their own destiny, that American troops be withdrawn from Russia and that all political and industrial prisoners receive the same consideration as prisoners of war. overset the last, before he came back to power. And as he sat down, again, M. Clemenceau placed upon his bald head one of the familiar soldier's fatigue caps, well pushed back on his forehead, and it gave him a most amazing appearance. The enemies of Clemenceau and he has spent a life time collecting them will tell you that he is a Monoglian, that he represents the survival of some ancient Tartar invader of prehistoric Frence. This is probably a mere legend and yet, unmistakably, there is about the man the suggestion of the Oriental, something about the high cheekbones, the deep set eyes with their enormous grey eyebrows, which suggests, not the Oriental we know in America, outside of Washing ton, but the Oriental of high rank and i equally unmistakable Intelligence. " Yet cap and desk, and almost fantastic appearance, it was still a kindly and vigorous old man, with hardly a trace of the burden of years, who welcomed the invading American. "1 knew America once, I knew it well." he said; then with a touch of mock sadness, "but that was long ago, too long ago. For you see I am an old man." Then for a moment he gos-

VICE WAR IS INAUGURATED

IN RICHMOND BY MISTERS Chief Gorman Expresses Willingness to Co-operate With Association in Campaign Against Law Violations. WATCH BOOTLEGGERS Alleged Immoral conditions prevalent in Richmond are under investigation by a committee of the Ministerial Alliance, it was learned today, and a report may be submitted at a meeting Monday. Rumors of alleged illicit Eales of liquor, bootlegging, violations of the liquor laws, and the presence of houses of ill fame are under investigation, it is said. Chief of Police Gorman discussed the problem today. Violators of the liquor law, he said, are hard to arrest because they work secretly and dodge uniformed officers. Richmond has only one plain clothes man. The chief is willing to compare the number of arrests made for violations of the liquor laws with those made in any city of this size in the state. Evidence Needed. "I am willing to co-operate with the Ministerial Alliance in detecting and prosecuting violators of the law." he said. "I suggest, as one effective means, the raising of a fund that will enable the hiring of two out-of-town detectives to make a thorough invess tigation of the situation. "Liquor law violators do not work in the open. They follow devious ways. Officers have sometimes watched for hours on the public highways to catch certain men whom we suspected of importing liquor, but without success. There are dozens of ways of crossing the Ohio line. Some men cross in Union county, drive north to Centerville and enter Richmond from the west or from the north. To successfully break up the smuggling of liquor contraband, we would have to patrol every highway leading into Richmond and search every automobile." 4t-4 exeeedinglr dlffjcuir to obtain evidence against alleged bootleggers and Importers of liquor. Chief Gorman said. "If any man in Richmond has evidence against a violator of the lav, and is willing to swear out an affidavit for his arrest, I will be glad to cooperate. The police department is handicapned in running down rumors and catching violators because it has no money to hire detectives. Every patrolman is known to the men who brazenly violate the law, and as a result we must catch the violator with the goods." Resorts Are Listed. The police department has knowledge of the rumors that have been rife in the city for many months. Officers have tried to verify the reports that liquor can be bought in fifty places in Richmond; that bootleggers ply their trade with impunity, that whole truckloads of whisky cross the Ohio line on the National road bound for Indianapolis; that cars specially constructed to carry 250 bottles of whisky pass through Richmond periodically; that liquor is sold in stores under many guises; that women ar actively engaged in the illicit transportation and sale of whisky. Slight verification of these reports can be found by the police department. They asked citizens who made them to help trace 'the rumors to their source, but have been unable to find evidence that would convict. A careful watch has been kept on dance halls, where, it was asserted, liquor was given to girls. No evidence could be obtained. The Ministerial Association committee, it is said, has a list of houses of questionable repute, which was compiled by two men. The Richmond Federation of Churcnes. one minister explained, would hereafter investigate moral conditions, as one of the objects of the organization is the promotion of better citizenship. Interviewer sipped about the New York which he had known, the New York of Dana and of Greeley, whom he had visited In the days between the end of the Civil War and the other, coming of the German of the days when he was in exile, an instructor of French, I believe, in a girls' school in a Connecticut suburb. "But you come to talk about the war, about France," he said, after a moment. - "Well, I am not going to tell you what France is doing, I am not going to praise France. You must look around for yourself, you must see it for yourself, you must feel It for yourself." Then, after a. moment, he went jon with quickening tone "There have been times in the past," and he waved his hands toward the busy street beyond the lattice window, "there have been times when I. despaired of my country, when I have been afraid of the future for my countrymen but now, now, look at them, look at France." Then he repeated details of the Verdun episode, of the tragic opening day about Donoumont which all Paris (Continued on Page Three) '