Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 61, 21 January 1919 — Page 1

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RELIEF TO OE SENT RUSSIA CONSIDERED BY CONGRESS Need of Sending Food to Save Country from Bolshevism Advanced by Peace Delegates.

DISCUSS MILITARY AID (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 21. The Russian attention was again taken up by the supreme council of the peace conference .wheu it met for today's session at 10:30 o'clock. There was a full attendance of members of the council for this meeting. Vittorto Orlando, the Italian premier, being present for the first time since his recent trip to Rome. Harold Scavenius. Danish minister to Russia, who had been asked to give his views on the Russian situation to the council today, arrived at the foreign office as the members assembled and immediately went into the conference chamber. The peace conference now has the Russian situation under active and continued examination, while the plans for the league of nations are being fast brought into shape and were expected to be taken under general consideration for the first time when the supreme council of the conference re-asserled today. The latest information available was that all the associated governments were prepared for the presentations of plans that had been variously formulated, in response to the call for them issued last Saturday.' Memoranda at Hand. President Wilson had in hand this morning the memoranda on the sub'net prepared by the American misIon. M. Sazonoff, former secretary of the .. Russian duma, has been in conference lth some members of the American ''-location, urging the admission to M conference of delegates from the Omsk government in Russia, which represents here. .After the conference has heard such -onorts as are available from men who have first hand information on Pussian conditions and has considered . the memoranda from the various govnmment it win lit t em nt to ream pomo decision as to what unified acuoa may on liseu 10 ucm im situation. ,. . - Two Views Given. - - - In the general Informal discussion which is, taking ' place, outside the secrecy of the peace . conference whih may be assumed to reflect the views being expressed, within that body, the two considerations given first place are believed to be whether to attempt to build a wall or establish a quaran tine around Bolshevik Russia through giving assistance in-the setting up of governments in the independent states surrouding the maximalist territory, or whether to attempt to relieve conditions -in .European Russia, which relief many statesmen believe would remove the cause of Bolshevism. The third consideration is the question of extending armed aid to the forces within Russ'.a which are openly fighting Bolshevism in the field. Of all the courses suggested .. it would appear that the last mentioned Is the least favored, certainly by the United States and it seems also that the first named is attracting much support. The recent agreement of the factions in Poland is looked upon by some observers as a step in this direction, the assumption being that it was taken in the belief by Poland I hat the associated governments might consider the sending of some armed forces in the plan for building a -wall around Russian Bolshevism so as to cut it off from western Europe. Watch Food Condition. The food situation in Germany also U being kept under close scrutiny in the same connection. The latest reports available through agents who have just returned from the Rhineland support the view of Herbert C. Hoover that in this territory there are food reserves sufficient to last the people until March, but that the supplies in other parts of the country are smaller. . As President Wilson Is convinced that the people of all the recently liberated countries must be fed if they nre not to be in danger of lapsing into Bolshevism, and has asked congress to advance money for feeding them, it is considered evident that the provisioning problem continues to occupy a prominent place In the discussions no'v going on. The plans for the league of nations are continuing to develop and It Is deemed not improbable that the conference will get to its first full discissions of that subject by the end of this week. Shipments Held Up by Argentine Marine Strike BUENOS AIRES. Monday. Doc. 20. Reports from Montevideo state that ships which have docked there are unloading cargoes consigned to this city, owing to the harbor strike here. Newspapers point out that shipping of meats and cereals, which was not In- , terrupted by the German submarine warfare is now virtually paralyzed by the strike. Shipping agents have asked the government to provide tugs to assist In getting their vessels out of port, apparently seeing little prospect of a settlement of the trouble. TRIBUTE TO LIEBKNECHT Doston, Jan. 26 Two thoueand peo ple at a labor conference here paid tribute to the memory of the late Carl Llebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, German socialist.

American Dances Are Popular in London (By , Associated Press LONDON. Jan. . 21 The people of this country, who have for four years been either engaged on strenuous war work or worrying about the cost of living and whether their men folks would come back to them, have developed what amounts to a "dancing craze." Almost everywhere it Is the same, In London, in the northern towns, the midlands, in the south and - west, dances have been arranged for the "boys" who came home, for the celebration of peace, the new year and other excuses available. Most of the large factories which have held regular weekly dances are now taking assembly halls or other public buildings. Teachers of dancing are inundated with applications for Instruction in the latest dances from America and elsewhere and many of the halls throughout the country are engaged for weeks in advance. In London, pre-war dances are apparently banned in favor of the newer American and Canadian dances.

ASSEMBLY GETS 24 MORE BILLS THIS MORNING Ten Advanced Ready for Passage Ask Appropriation for Reformatory. (By Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, . Jan. 21. Twentyfour new bills were introduced, ten others were advanced the stage for passage, and prizes of $50 liberty bonds were presented to each of 12 boys and girls by Governor James E. Goodrich as reward for work done in growing corn, raising hogs, canning fruit and vegetables, and for sewing last year, at the morning session of the house of Indiana legislature today. The house was not in session this afternoon, having adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The senate convened at two o'clock for its work today. Speaker Eschbach's action in having a bill referred back to the committee,, on rights and privileges for considerafkniecause the author of the bill, Representative Benz, of English, a democrat, had not been given opportunity to appear before the committee and explain its provision also featured the- session. The bill concerned amending the present law In order to enable burial of dead without the bodies first being embalmed. , c Two measures, which aro said to have the approval of the governor, made their'aptfetneenitKUuHSy Representative Miller, of Indianapolis, will ask for an appropriation of $500,000 for purchase for a new site for the Indiana- reformatory and relocating the institution In a more central part of the state. EAGLE BOATS ARE POORLY CONSTRUCTED SAYS CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 Harry E. Leroy of Saginaw, Mich., formerly employed as a constructor at the Ford Detroit boat plant, testified before the house naval committee today that the Eagle boat built for the navy at the plan were seriously faulty in design and construction. He said the walls of the craft were weak, particularly about the engines and fire room. When he reported his observation to his employers, he said, they knew nothing about boat construction, but promised to report the criticism to the navy department. Secretary Daniels, rear Admiral Taylor, chief constructor, and rear Admiral Griffin, and Earle listened to Leroy's testimony. The three admirals recently testified to the plans drawn and inspections made by naval experts, Admiral Taylor saying the Eagles have conformed to designs characteristic and were useful boats for war and peace purposes. Steel plates furnished to speed up quantity production of the Eagle boat, Leroy asserted, were thrown together and loosely bolted insuring buckling and corrosion In actual use. Leroy also criticised the character of workmen employed at the Ford ship yard3 declaring most were foreigners including many Germans and Au3trians unable to speak to or understand their superintendent who had to give orders by manual signs. Sure, Spring Is Here Meadow Larks Reported At least six meadow lark3 and six sparrows have arrived to start up their sprint housekeeping, according to Walter Ratllff. "They seemed to be in gay spirits. said Ratllff. "There is no doubt In my mind now that spring is really here." THE WEATHER i-or Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Unsettled tonight and Wednesday. Probably light rain Wednesday. Today's Temperature. Noon 50 Yesterday. Maximum 55 Minimum 27 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy and continued mild tonight and Wednesday; conditions favorable for local showers. General Conditions -Temperatures continue abnormally high east of the Rocky mountains, due tq continued low barometric pressure over the north and far west. No cold weather in sight.

WILL PROCLAIM IRISH REPUBLIC BY PARLIAMENT

Unique Session Called in Dublin by Sinn Feiners Political Prisoners Participate. (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 21. Probably no country except Ireland could present an episode as remarkable as the assembly of the "Dail Eireann," which is Irish Gaelic for "Irish Parliament." that will be called to order in Dublin's ancient mansion house this afternoon to proclaim Ireland an independent republic. Perhaps no writer except an Irishman like George Bernard Shaw could do justice to the paradoxical nature of the proceeding. . About half the Sinn Feiners elected to membership in that British parliament will participate, the other half being in various English prisons charged with sedition, or merely held on suspicion under the spacious and elastic provisions of the defense of the realm act. The Sinn Feiners will meet under the shadow of Dublin castle, where President Field, Marshal Viscount French, the first viceroy in many years to give Ireland a purely military government. They will meet with his full knowledge and tacit consent to take measures which are purely seditious and in direct violation of explicit law. Decline British Office. This is one paradox. Another is that these Sinn Feiners. elected by about half of the voters in Ireland on a platform of independence from the British empire, were chosen members of the British parliament, but specifically refused to recognize that body and to call themselves members of the British parliament. They occupy mansion house by the permission of the lord mayor" of Dublin, who himself is a home ruler but not so much of a separatist that he does not expect to accept what most of his predecessors have accepted a knighthood from the British government. In the shabby Sinn Fein headquarters, situated in a decayed cold house which was at one time one of Dublin's finest mansions,' courteous young women secretaries give cards of admission to today's meeting quite impartially to friend and foe; to supporters of the Sinn Fein and to correspondents of English newspapers which hold the Sinn Fein and all its works anathema. . Cardinal Newman had his residence in this house during his unhappy incumbency of his high ecclesiastical posfr in Dublin, concerning which he was 'reported to have said afterward that his days in Dublin should be subtracted from, his teh in JlWatprya sentiment which . Americans who always find Dublin one of the most delightful cities in Europe ean hardly endorse. ' In Irish Language. Today's program in "Independence Hall" will differ in one respect from the solemnities ' of 1776 at Philadelphia. It will be carried out in the Irish language, which is virtually a dead tongue, so dead that the Sinn Feiners have been obliged to rehearse their parts and will be compelled to lapse occasionally into boycotted English terms because they cannot find Irish words to fit njodern parliamentary procedure. Three items are expected to constitute the body of the program a declaration of independence, a message to "The Free Nations of the! World' and the appointment of delegates to the peace conference. Ireland Is a country of the unexpected, but no one predicts any trouble or disorder. The revolutionary flag floats quite freely over the homes of Sinn Feiners in Dublin. Member's of the party expect protection front the authorities of the nation whom they are defying. Once they would have looked to the United States for sympathy and help, but they now think they do not command American support. They do not talk of, and apparently do not contemplate violence. Dublin had an unhappy and fruitless experience in the insurrection of 1916, an experience which cost. rows of buildings on Sackville street, once pointed to with pride as the finest avenue in Europe. Richmond Area Leads in Organization for M, E. Relief Fund Drive According to a telegram received Tuesday from Chicago by H. L. Overdeer, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, the Richmond district leads in perfection, of organization for the big Methodist drive that is to be waged for S85, COO, COO to carry on Reconstruction and foreign missionary work. The telegram is a follows: "Reverend H. L. Overdeer. - "Richmond district leads area organization perfect record. "Bockus and Light." O. F. Ward, cf Richmond, Is attending the meeting in Chicago. This means that the district as a whole has a complete organization, as well as the six sub districts and each of the forty-two pastoral charges. These various organizations are known as councils. Each pastoral charge is also organized into units of thirty members each with a leader. Following the convention a plan of education and inspiration will be put through each of these organizations, finally reaching each member of the last charge in Methodism. Urges Price Agreement Policy Be Retained (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 Frank Snyder, head of the food administration's meat division, said today that despite a hog surplus, he would not recommend the abandonment of the price agreement policy when the hog committee meets January 28, to consider the price for February.

Doughboys Tramp for Hours Through Mud and Swamps To Stop the Bolsheviki Forces in Northern Russia

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Above: American soldiers In Russia. Below: An aged couple in liberated France bidding farewell to one of their saviors.. Although the American North Russian expeditionary forces are experiencing the very worst opposition possible in the form of nature herself, they are hoping some day to come out victorious and win a reward like their brothers in France. The photograph shows some of the U. S. boys who are ' fighting on the American front in. Russia after they have picked their way for seventeen hours through mud and swamps in an attempt to fland a

Bolsheviki force. The boys are shown resting at the edge of a forest to dry their clothing about a campfire. In the lower picture an American doughboy in liberated France is receiving the reward of his work from an aged French couple. They are showering thanks and wishing him sincerest God-speed as one of their liberators.

LIEBKNECHT SHOT IN BACK OF HEAD, SURGEONS REPORT No Evidence to Show Radical :l Leader Was Beaten by SolH dieratdsr'' rv ti-rr . J. t ' .... t--V.i (By, -Associated Press .. BERLIN, Monday, "Jan. 20. The autopsy upon the body of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader who was shotand killed last week, as he -wa trying to escape from the party of soldiers which arrested him in suppressing the Spartacan revolt, shewed that he was shot from behind and that the bullets which struck him were fired from some distance. The autopsy was conducted by Prof, August C. G. Bier and Prof. Paul F. Strassman, together with a third surgeon. William Llebknecht, Dr. Llebknecht's brother, and Hugo Haase, the Independent socialist leader, were present. The official report of the surgeons showed that the fatal bullet entered the back of his head and came out through the forhead. A second bullet entered the back and traversed the lungs. The third also struck in the back but produced only a silght wound. No Campaign Capital. The surgeons declared there was nothing to substantiate the allegation of the Independent socialist organ, Die Freiheit, that Dr. Llebknecht was beaten over the head with clubs or the butts of guns. An lndepenient socialist member of the workmen's and soldier's council, who was present at the autopsy, also signed the finding. The division' of mounted rifle guards, some members of .which were in charge of Dr. Liebknecht when the shooting occurred, declare that this socialist witness admitted after the post mortem that there was "unfortunately no chance for using the killing as a basis for a campaign agitation." The officers of the division have offered a reward of 10.000 marks for information clearing up the deaths of Dr. Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the other Spartacan leader who was shot and killed, as she was being removed in an autor.iobils from the place where she had been arrested. Rosa Luxemburg's body has not been found, notwithstanding a continuous search. The Spartacan authorities at Elberfeld, Rhenish Prussia, have changed the name of Kaiser Wilhelm street to Liebknecht street and that of Kaiser Fried rich streec to Rosa Luxemburg street. PORTUGAL REVOLT GAINS IN NORTH fBy Associated Press) MADRID, Jan. 21. The monarchist movement in Portugal headed by Paoia Conceiro, has been successful in northern Portugal and the government has been formed at Oporto, according to a report received by the Spanish government from the governor of the province of Pontevedra, in northwestern Spain. Relief Campaign Reports to Be Given at Luncheons Several noon luncheons for reports of workers are being planned for the Near East Relief campaign which begins next Saturday.

Bismarck's Dream (By Associated Press) PARIS. Jan. 21. Prince Bismark contemplated a second war by Germany against the French which would result in' the virtual destruction of France, according to a document published in the Petit Parisien today. The document purports to be a note made by an .ex-councilor of the then king of Hanover, summing . up a conversation Mtt'BlstfiTrlCaftr 18 stated b ha,vg ben -found, recently .among ' the papers of a French literaryTnan. ; " i "I am positive that if 1 live long enough, I am designed ; to destroy France," Bismark is quoted as saying, "for in another war I will take from her, her colonies and her fleet, not to mention billions, and will dismember her a second time. For this purpose I am going to prepare the German people to become more powerful." GEORGE KINSELLA, LOCAL BRAKEMAN, KILLED IN YARDS George Kinsella, 30 years old, 523 North Nineteenth street, Pennsylvania brakeman, was killed in the railroad yards at Hagerstown, Tuesday" morning at S o'clock. The manner iq which he received the injuries that caused his death is unknown. Mr. Kinsella, brakeman on the Pennsylvania local freight between Richmond and Logansport, was on his way to Logansport thi3 morning. While the train was standing in the yards. Mont Miller, standing at the street crossing near the yard3 heard someone calling for help, and saw Kinsella staggering near the train. He called someone to help him. and before they got to the man he fell on the ground. By the time they reached him he had gained a sitting posture. He was carried into the station on a stretcher, but before the station was reached, he became unconscious and remained In that condition until his death twenty-five minutes later. There were no vitnesses and no one is able to ascertain wha' caused his death. From all information that has bean secured there were no other trains in the yards. No one saw the man until he staggered from around the train. His jaw and his nose were broken and the large artery in his chest was severed. -.'' The body was brought to Richmond on the S:40 o'clock accommodation train. The trainmaster at Richmond and the family of Kinsella have no solution of his death The trainmaster stated that -the train was not moving and that Mr. Kinsella was not between the cars. . Monday was pay day for Pennsylvania employes and efforts were made to discover whether or not Mr. Kinsella had any money with him or whether he might have been struck by someone who thought he might have money. , Mr. Kinsella attended Richmond high school. He has been connected with the Pennsylvania railroad for twelve years, serving in the capacity as brakeman for seven years. He Is survived by his parents, a wife, Evelyn and three children, Lillian, six years old, John, five years old and George, two years old. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Kinsella. the former, a Pennsylvania engineer. .: : .' . . , ; .'t

THREE YANKEE DIVISIONS ARE ORDERED HOME Three Transports Arrive in U. S. Ports Two More Are

if on Way; ... . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The 27th. 30th and 37th divisions including all attached organizations,, have been instructed to prepare for..,embarkation home the war department announced today. , . - . The 102d trench mortar battery of the 27th division and the 316th trench mortar battery and 346th field artillery of the 91st division already have sailed. All other units of the 91st are now on priority and will be embarked as shipping becomes available. Two transports, the Conia and Susquehanna and the cruiser Frederick are on the way home from France with more than 6,000 trops. GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCKS. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Bringing home 3.114 officers and men of the American expeditionary force, the transport George Washington arrived here today from France. The troops included the headquarters personnel of the 83d division and of the 165th brigade of infantry of the 83d; -the 308th supply train of the 83d; and detachments of other units. These men are mostly from Ohio and western Pennsylvania and were at Le Mans, France, shortly after the armistice was signed. The soldiers on the George Washington include 17 wounded and sick. The transport De Kalb arrived with 621 troops. These include the 113th Sanitary train of the 38th division men from Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia and the headquarters company of the artillery detachment of the 2nd army together with casuals from various branches of the service. Tne wounded and ill on the Ds Kalb numbered 406. The 38th division also was at Le Mans. On the Italian steamship Giuseppe Verdi, in from Genoa, were 498 officers and men of the American naval aviation service. TROOPS ARE WELCOMED. BOSTON. Jan. 21. The transport Canada, which came into the harbor with 1,500 returning troops late yesterday, was officially welcomed today by Gov. Coolidrc. Mayor Andrew j. Peters. Bris. Gpn. John W. Rnokmnn Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood and! other members of the official reception committee. The men were taken by special trains to Camp Devens. where some of them will receive their discharges, and others will be sent in groups to other camps nearer their homes. Hepburn Made Chairman of American Peace Congress (By Associated Press NEW YORK. Jan. 21. A Barton Hepburn of this city, today accepted the invitation of the League to Enforce Peace, to serve as chairman of the committee on organization of the Atlantic congress for a league of nations. The congress is to be held hero February 5 and 6 and includes the state branches of the . league to enforce peace, in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. It was also announced that the governors of all these states, except New Jersey, had appointed delegates to attend the congress. '

MAJORITY REDS POLL LARGEST NUMBER VOTES IN ELECTIONS

Bourgeois Parties to Have Big Representation in Assembly, Incomplete Returns Show Haase Ejected. RADICAL VOTE IS LARGE (By Associated Press BERLIN, Jan. 21. It is probbale that former chief of police Eichhorn and Hugo Haase, former secretary for foreign affairs in the Ebert cabinet, have been elected to the national assembly. . Returns are coming very slowly and the results, even In Berlin are as yet uncertain. Berlin newspapers announce that a warrant for the arrest of Eichhorn has been issued. It is said that various charges, proof of which would lay Eichhorn liable to punishment for 15 years have been issued. Bourgeois Get Ten. The combined bouregois parties In the kingdom . of Wuerttemburg and the province of Hohenzollern. Prussia, elected ten delegates to the national assembly. The majority socialists seated seven and the independent socialists none. The combine popular vote of the socialists was 506,009 and the bourgeois parties 920,000. In Mecklenburg and Lubeck the combined bourgeois parties elected three delegates and the socialists three. Partial results in Berlin continue to show an unexpectedly large independent socialist vote. Count ir Slow. Paris, Jan. 21. Full results from the German elections are not expected to be known before Friday. The count Is proceeding slowly, the majority socialists, who received the largest vote having their party name printed at the bottom of the ballot. In some polling stations in Berlin large numbers of ballots were declared Illegal, and it is said that .Philipp Scheide-, mann lost 11,000 votes In one ward alone, from this cause. Reports from Munich show that the majority socialists polled 147,236 votes; Christian people's party, 77.304; German Democrats, 59,821, and minority socialists, 34.195. The NaQdnal nibmis'caBt-the lightest 'rote cf the day, . having 7,145 -ballots. In Cassel ,tbe majority socialists cast 51,718 .democrats, 25.002; the Christian people's! party; 4,095; National liberals, 9,489 ; conservatives, 2,710; and the minority socialists, 1,194. . t Bourgeois Vote' Heavy. " COPENHAGEN, Jan. 21.-lncom-plete returns from the German Elections showed last night that the defc ocrats polled 1,234,041 votes; major-v lty socialists. 2.603,422; independent socialists, 401,187; Christian people's I, party, 1,110,137; the German people's J party, 266.157; and the conservatives, : 467,367, according to advices received by the Berlingske Tlende. While the majority socialists willhave the ascendency over any other single party, the results indicate, the Bourgeois parties, together, will have a majority in the national assembly. The German national People's Party has elected eight delegates in Baden, including Herr Dueringer, a former minister. The Christian People's party (the former centrists) elected five delegates, one of whom is the former president of the Reichstag, Kons tantine Fehrenbach, three delegates were elected by the German democrats, one being Herr Dielsch. foreign minister of Baden. The social democrats succeeded in electing five delegates, one of whom is Herr Rueckert, traffic minister. Ludwig Haas, minister of the interior, was successful as a candidate of the German democratic party. The draft of the proposed new constitution for Germany recently prepared, provides that all Germans shall have the same rights before the law and that all privileges and advantages of birth, social condition or creed shall be abolished. The free -exercise of religious practice is guaranteed. In its main feature the proposed constitution, which has been drafted under government auspices, provides for a reichstag composed of two chambers, one to be a popular chamber and the other chosen by the state. ESTHONIANS WIN ' OVER BOLSHEVISTS (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21 A notable success has ,been won against the Bolsheviki by Esthonian troops operating to the northeast of Lake Peipus, according to an Esthonian official statement received by wireless at Stockholm today and transmitted , here. They have taken the town of Narva on the Reval-Petrograd railway line, to gether with a large number of prisoners. Finnish troops cooperated with the Esthonians, the statement says. A quantity of booty fell into the hands of the victorious forces, including guns, provisions and armored trains. The prisoners Included division and regimental staffs. ' , ' " , Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik war minister, it is stated, was present In Narva during the fighting and fled after the Bolshevik defeat. HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE Washington, Jan. 21 Memorial services held in senate for the late senators, Jacob H. Ga Higher, New Hampshire and James Brady of Idaho.

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