Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 67, 28 January 1919 — Page 1

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DILL .REPEALING STATE OFFICE IS PASSED BY LOVVER HOUSE Department of Statistics Also Repealed by House VoteOil Inspection Bill PassesIndustrial Bill Up. GOVERNOR IS OPPOSED

fBy Aoctatod Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 28. Passage ' of house bills for taking care of oil inspectors until next fall and tor repeal of the law creating the offices of state department of statistics and geology along with the Introduction of fourteen new bills constituted the greater part of the bunlncsn transacted at tho morning session of the lower house of tho Indiana legislature. When the oil Inspection hill, introduced by Representative Klminel was ho I fig voted on and tho name of Rpronentatlve Newman of Indianapolis was called, there was a voice from Iho rear room answering "aye." Mr. Nwinan wan unable to be present on aco'int of illness. Speaker Kschbach calling attention to tho absence of the representative, declared a very serious nonse had been committed. No one wknowlodgcd knowing who answered liemocratlc representatives opposed Hie pannage of tho Marker bill, providing for the repeal of the laws creHtlng the office of tato statictlclan and sUito geologist Tho vote was 77 to 16 for passage. Protects Women Workers. The Morgan measure, which would iar the title of real estate formerly imd by tho Wabash and Erie canal was passed 90 to 1. On account of objection by former members to the bill providing for li censes costing $:.00 each, being taken out before it would bo lawful to operate vending and weighing machines located on public thoroughfares, this measure was made a special order of business. Eradication : of tuberculosis among cattle Is the purpose sought In tho bill Introduced by Representative ' Parker of Boone county. ;. i "Women .could r not i, be v employed mofe than eight hours fn any 24 (from between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m.) nor. more than six days a week in a manufacture 1 in?, mechanical or mercantile estab-tli-hroent, laundry, hotel restaurant, telephone or telegraph office or place of amusement express office or for a public carrier by provisions of the bill representative McKlnley, of Muncle sent up. .Violations for employers would be punishable upon conviction by line from $25 to $100. The industrial board of Indiana would be given authority to enforco . the proposed law. When the enrolling clerks of the house of the Indiana legislature went to work today there were typewriters for tbclr use instead of pen and ink. The decision to use the typewriter was reached yesterday upon motion of Representative Decker, of Evansville, who Informed the house that EIo Stansbury. attorney general of Indiana, had ruled the proceedure would not be unconstitutional. Heretofore because of the questioned constitutionality of enrolling bills by use of typewriters has prevented the legislature from forsaking the pen and ink. In the past there have been bills enrolled in eight or more different handwritings. More care also will be exercised in the punctuation and phraseology of bills as they are sent to the enrolling clerks. Speaker Eschbach . said that many careless mistakes have been made heretofore in these particulars and upon an order of the house the committee on phraseology of bills will pass upon them before they are turned over to the clerical forces. Opposition Develops. Tho first outcropping of pronounced

opposition to any of Governor GoodrUth's proposed legislation within the Republican ranks, developed last niKht at a meeting of twelve senators at tho Columbia club here. The senators, all of whom are Republicans, are said to have decided that the administration conservation commission bill, introduced by Senator Wolfson, has entirely "too many teeth" because as one of the senators expressed it "the bill Is too drastic and was drawn to meet conditions fifty years hence not those of today." lie referred to the powers given the commission. The senator said another objection is that too many persons would bo required to operatn the commission. It was the 6ense of the meeting, he said, that a new bill be drawn excluding tho more drastic provisions, and that the bill now before the senate committee on natural resources be recommended by that committee for indefinite postponment. To get the sentiment of the entire senate majority on this question, it wa3 decided to ' try to get them together In the senate

chamber omorrow night. Senator Furnas, chairman of the committee on Natural Resources, was chairman of the meeting night. Turkish CabineiXResigns as Protest Against Demands of Allies fPv Associated Prss.l SALONIKA Jan. 28 According to a semi-official statement issued here, (the Turkish' cabinet beaded by Tewjgk Pasha has resigned as a result of allied demands that Turkey restore property carried away during the war from occupied territories and cease carrying out drastic measures against Greeks and Armenians. It is said that the sultan will participate in the work of reconstructing the cabinet..

Local Men Are Chosen to Attend League to Enforce Peace Meet Five men from Wayne county have been selected by the county commissioners to attend the Great Lakes conference of the League to Enforce Peace, Feb. 10 and 11, in response to a request from the Chicago headquarters of the League. William Dudley Foulke, Rudolph O. Leeds. F. S. Dodds, Joseph H Mills and Carl W. Ullman are the Wayne delegates. The Chicago conference Is one of nine similar congresses to be held by those who won and helped win the war, fn order to influence public opinion toward the formation of a league of tree nations.

LENINE ORDERS BOLSHEVIKI TO PILLAGE NARVA All Bourgeois Are Ordered Killed Germans Halt Russian on Baltic Coast. , tny Associated Press.) IJERLIN. Monday, Jan. 27. Bolshevist forces marching on Libau, on the Baltic coast of Courland, have been baited by German volunteer forces, which, though greatly outnumbered, forced tho soviet army back across the .Wlndau river by a bold counter offensive, according to a special dispatch to the Zetlung Am MIttag. It is said the . Bolshevists suffered heavy losses. In the coarse of their terrorizatton of Esthonla, the Bolshevists are reported to have killed six hundred peo ple in Dorpat and Wesenburg. The German commissioner in Lithuania, who arrived horo today states that Kovno is not occupied by the Bolshev ists, who are still 25 miles east of that city The line Is being defended by Gorman volunteers and the Bolshe vists are said to be awaiting instruc tions from Moscow before resuming their advance. It Is said tho capture of Kovno would open tho road to the German frontier. Japanese Attack. x Premier Lenino, according to a re port from Reval. has ordered the Hoi sbevlkl troops to retake the town of Narva from the Esthonians within a week, to sack the town and to kill all the bourgeois. Lenine is reported to be staying in the town of Yamburg, east of Narava. VLADIVOSTOK, Saturday. Jarf.18. Japanese trpopp at Mazonova, on the Zeya river north of Blagvoestch ensk, have clashed with Bolshevist forces numbering about one thousand. according to reports received here. The Japanese lost two killed and elev en wounded in the encounter. Russian police agents had arrested several Bolshevists and taken them to Mazonova, but the people of that vil lage, who are said to. be pro-Bolshevist, are reported to have attempted to rescue the prisoners. Japanese forces Joined in the fighting, which lasted several hours. Seventeen Cos sacks are reported to have been cap tured by the Bolshevists and two Jap anese wero drowned while trying to swim across the Zeya river. $1,918 GIVEN IN RELIEF CAMPAIGN Nineteen hundred and eighteen dol lars secured by the city organization of the Near East campaign was re ported at the noon luncheon today. The "Sky Pilots" who went after the larger subscriptions Monday afternoon reported good success, but made no definite report. The city report was announced as folio wg by Harry Doan, director of the Syrians, and Carl Wolfe, director of the Armenians: Armenians. Kramer (and workers) $ 92 00 Hornaday " " .. 111 50 Carlander " ...... 115 SO Nusbaum " 97.00 Total $416.00 With an additional of $544 84 not yet divided among the captains total for first day $960.84. Syrians Hevens Scoble Betbard Kindt (and . workers) $170.50 297.25 " ...... 196 50 293.00 Total for first day. .$957.25 Grand total for first day $1.918 09. The Rev. R. L. Semans In an address on the needs of the campaign said : "We have had a number of patriotic campaigns. In all cases it has been up to the individuals of each community to give, else they be called slackers But this campaign is slightly different. It is humanitarian, and we can not tighten the screws on a man who floes not gUe. and call him a slacker There Is of course a patriotic side to this relief; the fact that we do not want it said that our country let a people suffer when It was able to helD them, but fundamentally, the campaign is one through which we appeal to a man's heart, his sympathy. Those who can not feel the need of the peoples over the seas who are dying of starvation, will simply have to be passed up when they 'refuse to give. We can do nothing with them. There are some people who do not yet realize the need, and to these we can explain the situation, but no more." "Wayne county will never miss Its $11,000 quota, and precious lives may be saved hundreds of them by this gift." People of Richmond are answering the call for help from the counties of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor nM will be secured In the opinion of the (Continued on Page Fourteen)

. . . Former U. S. Heiress May Be "Next Queen of Portugal &iv;;V i " it ' 'v-f : fiiiS

Princess of Braganza, formerly Anita . Stewart of New York, and her beautiful little daughter. . A movement Is on foot to enthrone Don Miguel In Portugal In event of the failure of the present Portugese revolution to restore ex-King Manuel to the throne. Although the attempts wero partly checked the monarchists

seem to be gaining strength In the north, ff the effort to replace Manuel is utterly a failure and Don Miguel Is made king it will mean that a former-American girl will be made queen. The Princess of Brlganza. Don Miguel's wife, was formerly Miss Anita Stewart, a New York heiress. The princess is shown here with ner small daughter, who la considered to be the most beautiful child of royalty In Europe,

Small Force of Yankees Served as Propaganda in Italy to Bolster Up Allies and Take Fight Out of Enemy

OW Italian and allied soldiers were camouflaged into believing that there were a million Yanks in Italy, when' In reality there was , only , one ambulance unit and 6.000 American "iol d 1 rrV is" vividly set forth in a let ter by; BasQ Walters, former Palladium reporter, to a friend here. - The letter was passed by the censor, and hence accuracy of the statements cannot be questioned. , The allied high command and the Italian army leaders sanctioned the method used by the American officers to bolster up the morale of the Italians!. Walters is editor of the Ambulance News, official organ of the American army In Italy. The full text of the letter follows: Italy, Christmas, 1918. Dear Friend: , Well another year Is past and on this eventful day T am finding time from "strenuous" duties to do a little letter writing which has had to be neglected for some time. You see this sort of roller kitchen newspaper office Job rather keeps ye editor on the Job. To tell the fact of the matter, the office of the mighty concern consists primarily and lastly of . one medium sized suit case which travels on the average of something over two hundred miles a week. I'm getting an experience that couldn't be purchased from me for any amount of money. Now that the war Is over, possibly the censor will pass a little more about our mission here. There have been altogether In Italy about 6.000 American soldiers. The TJ. S. Army Ambul TAKE FINAL ACTION ON RELIEF BILL By Asoot4 Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. Final leg islative action was taken today by congress on the administration bill ap propriating $100,000,000. requested by President. Wilson for European famine relief.. The conferees' report was adopted by both senate and house without debate and the measure now goes to the president for approval. INVESTIGATE rtEPORT9 WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. War de partment will make official investigation of published reports that American soldiers have been involved in :rlme wave in Pais THE WEATHER for Indl lana by United States Wetau Fair tonight and Wed-1 ther Bureau Fair tonight and Wed- i nesday. Somewhat colder in north j portion tonight. wJay's Temperature Noon 3S 43 33 Yesterday Maximum Minimum For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Generally fair and colder - tonight, below freezing. .Wednesday, fair with moderate temperature. , General Conditions The weather continues generally fair over most of i tbe United States d no severe cold weather Is in any portion of the United States. There is very Bevere cold weather In Alaska, 52 below zero in the Yukon valley.- No winter weather is In sight In this section for the next 48 hours because temperatures are above normal over western Canada and northwest United States. "

ance Service came here direct from America and landed first. The 332nd came about a month later. The big mission of both was probably propaganda. -. ' . The Austrian soldiers and their best educated officers ; . declare that they haddefinite Information that there were over a million Yijhks in Italy. This together with bad fopd or no food at all, took all courage out of them because they figured it was useless to try to hold the line against Che allies with the added American reserve. . Italians are Brave. - The ; Italian people are brave but sentimental. As I have said before, they - look" upon America as the all powerful and with Yanks actually on - (Continued on Page Twelve.) Box Said "Carpenters Tools" but It Leaked Genuine Sour Mash It was marked "Carpenter's Tools" ! In letters so big that a first grader could 'spell them out without trouble. So the express handlers at the Pennsylvania railroad station handled the box in approved "baggage smasher" style, i Why not? No need to exercise care and gentleness with articles made of steel and wood. Two hefty men gave the box a lift and a toss. ' It landed with a resounding smash on a truck. And then, lo and behold, the carpenter's . tools began to leak. Most outrageously so! A stream cascaded' In merry fashion from the steel and wood. What could It mean? Investigation was . In order. It was done. The label said "Carpenter's Tools," but the contents proved to be booze real, old-fashioned sour mash. : The dripping box was lifted, with many a smacking of Hps and deep groans and carried to the office, where It Is held with other contraband. Service of Railroad Army Is Praised by Rail AJministrntinn nail namimstrauon . ' A.srciat5J ' Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 Letters of complaint, suggestion or commenda-. tion as to railroad service received by the bureau of suggestions and com-; plaints of the railroad administration' during its first sixteen weeks of existence, or up to December 24, numbered 11.660 Classification of the letters, the bureau announced today, show? ' "that those commpiirtiie'eninlAvoi fri-

'courtesy and loyalty exceed the com'"i :vllssosri'plaints of discourtesy by nearly two'

to one In not a few cases we have been I able to adopt the suggestions made, the bureau said. "And the complain! tae oareau saia. "And the complaints and recommendations received have enabled us to correct disservice or discourtesy and recognized merit with a) promptitude hitherto Impossible. " - ;i tteiem..g letters or, commenda-, tion for ind.vidual employes, the bu-:, reausaid they constitute a "record of which tho arm? of railroad tnpn an well ia the women who have been recently mustered into service may well, tvv.. All letters of Individual commenda-i tion, It was said, have been entered on i the records of the employes and "will 09 Blen due consideration at the appropriate time" PROFIT-SHARING PLAN TOLEDO. O , Jan. 28 John N. Wlllys. president of the Willys-Overland company, announces a half-and-half profit-sharing plan with, employes in all branches.

ASK PROHIBITION OF IMMIGRATION FOR m YEARS Legislation x A p jf r oved by

House Committee ' I s (By Associated Press); WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. Legislation prohibiting general immigration for a period of four years after signing of the peace treaty was approved tentatively today by the house immigration committee. . Phohibition of Immigration - during the peace . reconstruction period had been strongly urged by representatives of organized labor and others before hearings before the committee. The bill as now drafted would permit an" alien resident to bring his . wife and children (except boys over 18 years old) into the United States; or phan nephews under 18 and nieces of any age also may be brought Into I j the country. : Tourists would not be barred from entry tor a temporary OKI J t Consider Two Year Limit. The decision on the four year period was made on the question whether the committee should adopt that provision or one providing for only two years' prohibition. Representative Siegel of New York and Sabath ot Illinois, both opponents of the legislation, were not at the meeting. They will probably join in offering a - minority report opposing the legislation. PHONE RATE HEARING IS HELD TODAY (3y Assoc:a rssi INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23. Hearing of the petition of the Indiana Public Service Commission for a permanent injunction against long distance telephone rates ordered by Postmaster General -Burleson, win be held before United States District Judge Anderson here today The commission already 5 secure(J a temporary restraining order agalnst institution of the rates in Indiana. In the hearing today the Indiana commission .will have the support of representatives cf the utilities commissions or legal departments of eight other central states and Assistant Attorney General Janes E Markhan of Minnesota, -!! assist in the argument or tr.e injunction Other states represented are .hinols.- Michigan. Ohio. Nebraska, vVisconsin. Kansas and Claim Rosa Luxemburg Is Alive and in Hiding (Sy Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, Jan. 23. A Munich dspatch to the Politiken reports that it has been earned from "quite reliable j sources" that Rosa Luxemburg, who i was reported to have been hot and wiuj c.un n,.! &S( i3 at the house of a friend, where sae wln e concealed until she has an 'nnmrnirMv fn psfanp frrsrr. ;hA r.prman anita' Bolshevik Meeting Place Raided by Allied Forces (By Associated Press) " " KRASNOYARSK, Central - Siberia. Jan. 28. Allied military authorities have raided Bolshevik meeting place here and have arrested the leaders. Important documents were seized,

Anybody Know Ethel? Her "Husbum" in Ohio Is Searching for Her The following wall came out of Ohio to the kindly ears ot Chief of Police Gormon Tuesday. V "Please send Ethel to 380 Mithoff street by Saturday a. m for I am her husband, I am a poor man but I will pay you Just as soon as I can. From Roy , 380 Mithoff St, v CoL, Co." Chief Gormon says he is going to make an attempt to find the erring wife and forward her to her 'husbum' without delay.

BELFAST STRIKE INVOLVES ALMOST 1O0,000 WORKERS Twenty-six Trades Affected - Social Life Paralyzed and Communication Cut Off. Tty Associated Press) LONDON. Jan. 28. There are one hundred thousand people involved In the 6trlke at Belfast and 26 trades are affected, writes a Belfast correspond ent of the Mall. ' "The strike Is the most serious ever experienced in this city of strikes,' the correspondent writes. "Belfast is like a dead city. Its entire social life Is paralyzed, theatres and saloons are closed, tram cars are not running, bakeries and laundries are closing and there were no afternoon papers on Monday. Only two small editions of morning newspapers appeared yesterday. "Telegraphic and telephonic com munication with outside districts is seriously handicapped. After sunset Belfast becomes a city of candles. Restaurants are closed and evening services cannot be held by the churches. Railway stations are lighted with naptha lamps, but in their homes the people depend upon candles. Should the candle supply fail there will be a plague of darkness. Grave Diggers Out. "The main cause of the trouble lies In the fact that the workers in electric and gas plants have Joined the shipyard workers in demanding a fortyhour week. Things are in such a state! of . chaos that a change must come soon. Grave diggers Joined the strike Monday. - StriVor-f-iKftn- tier nignt. seeming to certain their assaults on stores showing lights. ; One large store which generates its own electricity and was brilliantly illuminated, was stoned by the mob. The plate glass show windows were smashed and women's clothing exhibited there was carried away. In another district a saloon was broken open and liquor was taken by members of a mob. Police engaged in dispersing the rioters were fired upon. SUGGESTS SAME $17.50 HOG PRICE (By Associated Presu) WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 When representatives of the food , administration, department of agriculture, packers, producers and commission men met this afternoon to consider hog prices for February, F. S. Snyder, head of the food administration meat division recommended that the minimum base price of $17.50, now in effect, be continued for next month. - Canadian Troops Are About to Leave Germany (By Associates' Prws LONDON, Jan. 28. Canadian troops are about to leave Germany. Bonn, which has been their headquarters, will be , taken over by other British army contingents.; A dispatch from neuter's correspondent at Bonn 6tates that during the last week German civil authorities at Bonn confiscated all supplies of meat, with a view to placing the population on rations. This did not ing fed by their own commissary . ... . . partment. but allied soldiers wno had w come into town from outlying stations j tney weni l0 o! lhe tolel9 and or. ri-r(l(. ji,. derec dinne Canadian soldiers, tie correspondent states, found Bonn an interesting place, although not so Important -as Cologne, the nerve Center of the British army of occupation. The home of Beethoven is still standing at Bonn and the dispatch says: "Not many Canadians will go home without being able to say they struck a chord or two on the great musl cian's piano, and found it terribly out of tuns." . '"" " " ' - , SPARTACANS TAKE WILHELMSHAVEN (By Associated Press) ' COPENHAGEN, Jan. 28. Spartacan frees have overturned the government in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and occupied the banks and public buildings. The have ordered the court martial of their opponents. Railway traffic to and from Wilhelmshaven has been stopped.

comissions: OF MUSS START WORK ON PROBLEMS

Supreme Council at Session Takes Up Question of German Colonies Military Committee Hears Evidence. SMALL NATIONS AGREE PARIS. Jan. 28. With peace conference committees beginning consideration of the great and perplexing questions referred to them, the supreme council In session today resumed discussion of territorial and other questions, with especial reference to the future of former German colonies; The nineteen small powers, sitting In the peace conference, at a harmonious session yesterday, gave their full support to the working organization outlined f)y the large powers, and selected their representatives to serve on committees, charged with consideration of many difficult problems. This was largely due to the skilful direction of Jules Cambon, French delegate, and former ambassador, at Washington, who was designated by the council of the great powers to preside over the meeting of the small powers. For a time there was some apprehension of the sequel to the different view-points expressed ; at Saturday's conference, but the meeting of - the small powers was without incident or renewal of the claims then set up for Increased representation on the various committees. Belgium, Serbia, Roumania and all the other small powers had their full delegations at the meeting. Praises Small Nations. M. Cambon, in opening the session, alluded to the great part Belgium had taken in the war. He then paid a tribute to the work of Serbia, Roumanla, Greece and the others. This dissipated any lingering shadows of disagreement, and the meeting proceeded with entire harmony. , In the meantime the council of the great powers held two sessions during the days, resulting In the formation of ariirtne question of DanCUl SUDjeCIS private and maritime laws. . ' The council also proceeded to hear ings .on the disposition of the conquered German colonies in the Pacific and the far east, a final conclusion not being reached. The conierence is giving evidence of real progress since the committees were named, and most of these bodies have begun their work. President Wilson, who is chairman of the committee of the league of nations, Joined his colleague, E. M. House also a member of that committee, dur- j Ing the noon recess of the council. Later in the day. Lord Robert Cecil, British member of the committee. Joined him in a further consideration of the questions which the president and Mr. House haa examined. The labor commission also began to et under way. President Wilson met Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; James Duncan, John R. Alpine, and other members of the American Labor delegation, for a brief exchange of greet ings, and later Mr. Gompers and Edward N. Hurley, who are the American members of the labor commission, held their first conference of the work Henry White, American delegate on the waterways commission, also established relations with his colleagues of that body. The committee appointed by the ; supreme council to consider how many allied and American troops shall be kept on the western front received re; ports yesterday from experts concern, ing the situation on the Rhine and in Germany. , Much remains to be done before the committee can make a final recommendation to' the supreme council concerning the exact number of soldiers of each nationality required for garrison purposes in Germany and the protection of the frontier. The determination of the American war department to return the American troops in Europe to their homes will not be affected by any decisions reached by the committee. There will be no departure from the plan arranged for the return of the troops, allow, ance having been made in advance fot the retention in Germany and Russia of ail American soldiers regarded as

de-!frnlS a fair quota for the United i Wf 9fOa

Goodrich Holds Reception for State Legislators (By Associated Press! INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 28. Members of the seventy-first Indiana General assembly will be the guests ot Governor. and Mrs. James P. Gbodrich, at a formal reception this evening at a local hotel. The event will be the first ot the character given by an Indiana governor in many years. Elaborate plans have been made for the reception. Florists were directed to spare no expense to decorate the rooms attractively. Music will be pre vided during the reception.. .Light refreshments will be served. Governor and Mrs. Goodrich will be assisted in entertaining by the executive's military staff and wives ot its members. Members of the staff are William H. McCurdy. Evans ville; Oecv ' Dinwiddle, Frankfort; Warren T. Mc Cray. Kentlacd; Walter J. Riley, East Chicago; Louis M. Simpson. Elkhart: George O. Dix. Terre Haute; E. Fay Kit selman, Muncie; Isaac D. Strauss,; Ligonler; . P. Richard Schaaf, Gary;' Byron H. Somers.'Fort Wayne. , and Fred L. Dennis, South Bend.