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COUNTY ROAD MEASURE TO DE ACTED Of! DURING WEEK

State Assembly Starts on Fifth Week of Session Oil Inspection Bill Hearing to be Resumed. SUNDAY MOVIE ACTION (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10. Less than half of the seventy-first session of the general assembly remained " when state senators returned today to Inaugurate the fifth week. Members of the roads committee of both house and senate will meet in the senate chamber tonight for a public hearing on Senator Dobyns' measure creating a county unit system for road construction. The bill provides that counties as a whole pay cost of road construction within the county and that county commissioners form a county road commission to co-operate with the state highway commission. Chairman Dobyns said his committee probably will report the bill Wednesday and that It will receive prompt action in order to dispose of it before the highway commission bill comes over from the house. Having passed the presidential suffrage bill, five of the six administration amendments to the constitution and two other administration measures, the senate will focus its attention on the bills legalizing Sunday motion picture shows, the county unit road bill, and the measure relating to the inspection of oil. "Movie" Bill Ready. Committee reports on Senator McCray's Sunday "movie" bill and the Dobyns road unit bill are expected to be placed on the floor of the Wednesday. Members of the committee on rights and privileges of which Senator McCray is a member, predicted .that iin unanimous report for passage will be made on the McCray measure and this course likewise probably will be taken on the Dobyns proposal." Senators Beardsley and Wolfson, aided by the minority, will , resume their attacks on Representative Kimmel's measure abolishing the present ". HYStem of oil inspection and re-establishing it under conditions which will make possible a ' Republican regime, . when It cornea up tor second reading as a special order of business Tuesday afternoon. . . , , - Governor Goodrich is understood to oe satisfled with the cenate's progress on measures he advocated in his annual message. Rounding Into the last lap ef the session with four weeks yet to go the administration measures pending are: The constitutional amendment providing that the legislature shall abolish the office of state superintendent of public instruction as a constitutional office and making it a legislative office. The reestablishment would be the task of the next session of the legislature,, inasmuch as the amendment would have to be ratified by it and adopted at a special or general flection. Conservation Commission. The bill creating a commission of conservation to embody several state offices. Senator Meeker's measure abolishing the office of state statistician. The Duffey measure creating a new highway commission and providing for its organization and administration. Senator Hadgins' bill providing for an investigation of child labor and social welfare conditions by a commission appointed by the governor. Final action probably will not be taken on the bills .providing for a conservation commission, reestablishing the highway commission and the lludglns measure. - Opposition ' Developed. U is understood that all three of these measures have met opposition ' among Republican senators. One senator said today that the committee on Judiciary favors indefinite postponement of the Hudgins bill but in view of the fact that it is a platform measure will report the corresponding house bill without a recommendation when it is received by the senators. Senator Furnas, chairman and other members of the committee on natural resources favor indefinite postponement of the conservation bill. The liishway bill, however, is not so strongly opposed in the committee but Cbilrman Debyns is awaiting house action on this because the house bill provides methods of taxation to meet the expense of the highway commission and the Duffey bill does not. Administration measures especially the tax and highway commission bills will receive attention in the lower house beginning today. "We will concentrate our efforts on getting the administration measures through the house and to the senate ofr its consideration," said Representative Mendenhall, floor leader of the house majority. "The tax and highway measures are the biggest ones pending and effort will be directed toward getting prompt action on them." Appropriations Ready Other business will include the introduction, probably late in the week, of the general and specific appropriation measures for the next two fiscal years. The ways and means committee of the house has been discussing provisions of the bills. Representative Swain expects to introduce them. The committee has been considering the report of the legislative visiting -committee which recommended appropriations totaling approximately $7,093,000. Efforts to amend the tax and highway commission bills will be made on second reading, members . said they Continued on Page Eight. i

Defense Body Aids in Reconstruction

Grosvenor B. Clarkson. Grosvenor B. Clarkson was recently elected director of the council of national defense. He was secretary of the council throughout the war. He will have charge of the council's work in demobilization and reconstruction. The organization has turned over its 184,000 units in the country to this work. , BOLSHEVIK ARE DEPORTED FROM UNITED STATES Fifty-four Dangerous Aliens Escorted to Atlantic Port From West Under Guard. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 10. Fifty-four members of the Industrial Workers of the World passed through Chicago last night in a special train under a heavy guard on the way to an Atlantic port, where it is said they will be deported at once by: the immigration authorities. , Forty . of , the prisoners came direct - from Seattle where it is alleged they took part in fomenting the general " strike ;. which has ' paralyzed the industries of that city for .several aayse;:.:; VThree leaders of the Seattle strike, one Spokane agitator, an I. W. W. leader from Denver, and five alien convicts arrested in Chicago, were among the prisoners gathered Into the federal net. Alien Labor Agitators. The majority of the men were alien labor agitators picked up by officers of the United States immigration service during the year of secret campaigning in 'industrial centers of the Pacific coast. A: D. H. Jackson, chief of the Seattle office of the immigration service was in charge of the party. "The proceeding against United States enemies of this type is simple," an official with the train said. "Just two' hours before the Seattle strike was called we gathered forty agitators into the cars with everything cleared away between them and the middle of the Atlantic ocean. For more than a year the immigration service has been working quietly in all Industrial centers, checking up on the strange aliens who have appeared and gathered evidence against I. W. W. leaders and trouble makers who call themselves Bolshevikl. "When evidence was compiled against this . particular crowd each case was brought to a federal hearing and all court findings sent to Washington where they were reviewed by Secretary of Labor Wilson. The secretary has the power to order this type of prisoner deported or released, and so far there has been little trouble in getting quick action." From Russian Provinces. The majority of the men vill be sent back to Russian provinces. They are principally Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns, according to the guards on the train. The only attempt at a mob delivery of the prisoners was frustrated by the foresight of the federal officials. Before the train reached Butte, Mon., officers were warned that the I. W. W. leaders in that city and Helena had learned of the deportatlng and were massing to deliver their comrades. The two cars then attached to a regular train, were cut off at a junction and set into another train, which made a wide detour, missing both Butte and Helena. Several hundred men gathered at the railroad station in Butte when the original train reached that point, according to reports which reached the officials. They were allowed to search the train and when they found the prisoners were not on hoard, left without making trouble. Only one of the prisoners made serious objection when told of the intention of the government to deport him. He swore out a writ of habeas corpus against deportation, which was quashed by a federal court at Spokane. One woman, the wife of a Finnish agitator, arrested in Spokane, was in the party: The five prisoners taken into the party here are alien convicts who were sentenced to deportation some time ago. Hold Strike Agitator For Draft Evasion (By Associated Press) LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 10. Ime Kplan, secretary of the committee directing the textile strike here, was arrested here today on a federal charge of evading the draft.

League to Enforce Peace Opens Session (By Associated Press) . : CHICAGO, Feb. 10. A congress of the League to Enforce Peace opened a two-day session, here today, delegates being present from various parts of the country. The opening address was to be made by Edgar A. Bancroft of Chicago, on "The Plain Necessity for a League of Nations." Among those who are on the. program for addresses at the session tonight an dtomorrow are former President Taf t. Dr. Henry VanDyke, former Minister to the Netherlands; Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university; Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, and James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany.

URGES SCHOOL CENSORSHIP OF it SUNDAY MOVIES City School Superintendents Would Have Judging Power Under, Proposed Bill. . (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10. Superintendents of city schools would be given supervision of censoring Sunday motion picture shows under a proposal to be placed before the senate when the McCray Sunday "movie" bill comes up for second reading. Senator Negley said today that he will propose an amendment to the McCray measure to accomplish this and in doing so he would take supervision from the mayor, board of trustees and police department as the bill now provides. It was in the intention of the committee on rights and privileges to report it to the senate next Wednesday and McCray probably will call it down for second reading before the end of the week. Under the Negley amendment, it would be compulsory for the superintendent to designate one school teacher to censor each picture to be shown on Sunday. This work would be con ducted throughout the state on Saturday afternoon and if the teacher failed to endorse the picture, it could not be shown. House and senate committees on judiciary A and labor will haye a joint meeting tonight to hear labor manufacturing interests and members of the state industrial board present their views of the , several compensation bills pending in the legislature., SIX KILLED ir BERLIN RIOTS (By Associated Press), LONDON, Feb. 10 Repeated en counters occurred Saturday in Berlin between government troops and a mob which was only partly of Spartacan character, a Berlin wireless message received today declares. Six persons were killed and fourteen others wounded, the message states. Toward evening it is added order was re stored and the troops withdrew to, their quarters. ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 10 Spartacan disorders of a grave nature broke out in Berlin Saturday evening, according to advices received here. Soldiers and sailors commanded by former Chief of Police Eichhord are reported to have occupied Alexander platz and government troops opened fire upon them, eight persons being killed and forty wounded. German censorship is withholding details of the trouble. Patrick KinseUa, Local Railroader, Is Dead Patrick Kinsella, 61 years old, died Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock at his home, 403 North Seventeenth street, after a short illness from pneumonia. He was born in Wicklow county, Ire land, in 1857, and came to Richmond 34 years ago. He has been an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad since that time, being one of the most faithful employes of the company. He was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church, and of the Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. His son, George Kinsella, was killed a few weeks ago at Hagerstown by a freight train. Kinsella is Survived by his wife, Katherine, and four sons, John, William and Christopher, of this city, and James of Toledo, Ohio. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at any time. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday, fair in south, increasing cloudiness in north. Warmer. ' t Today's Temperature Noon 31 Yesterday Maximum .23 Minimum ....21 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, becoming unsettled Tuesday. Warmer. General Conditions The cold spell of the last two days is moving eastward and it is warmer over the plain and Rocky mountain states. It was 60 above yesterday at Denver. The storm over the northwest will cause unsettled weather followed by snow or rain within 36 hours.-

LABOR LEADERS ASK SUPPORT OF 117 BRIDGE South Side Building Project Will Give Employment . to Many Men, Argue Local Organizers. URGE CITY PLEDGE Persons from practically every element in Richmond interested in the building of the South G street bridge spoke strongly in favor of the project at the joint meeting of the county commissioners, the county council and the citizens' meeting Monday morning in the court house. Organized labor was represented by Lucius Harrison and Robert Graham, the citizens' committee by Will Reller and E. M. Campfield, the South Side by Mathew Von Pein, and the city ; administration' by Mayor Zimmerman. ' Lee B. Nusbaum, president of the county council, said he wanted it understood that the council had no power to act, that when the project was presented to them in regular order through the commissioners they might act, but that the project might be talked about all day and they could do nothing. . Labor Wanta Bridge. "Labor feels," said Harrison, "that the more bridges there are, the better will be the city of Richmond. Labor wants a south side bridge. That part of the city offers a marvelous opportunity to labor to own its own homes." '. "But that is not the main reason. Right now there is a surplus of all labor here; my report to the bureau of labor at Washington estimates that there are 500 men unemployed here, and by the first of May that will be 1,000. We want employment for those boys. Practically all working men owning thefr own homes are willing to pay the increase in taxes asked, and they want a complete bridge system for the city of Richmond.": Graham said that the working men of the city owned their own homes in very few instances, that the raise In taxes would hardly affect them, bat that they were anxious, to own homes and property .and the -jopoaftd bridge would open tip a district where they could find splendid opportunities at a low price. ; Besides, he said, now was the time to employ labor. Many men are out of work, to give them work is a nearnecessity, and labor Could now be had cheaper than it perhaps will be soon. Most Pressing Need Campfield, who presided, said in opening the meeting that he was pledged to promote improvements for the city which former County Auditor Bowman had worked for. He said he believed a bridge as good as the Main street bridge could bo built for $200,000 and that was the total sum asked for. Other improvements were important, but he believed that the South Side bridge was the most pressing. He introduced Will Reller. Reller argued that the bridge had been pledged and that the county should live up to its pledge. He traced the history of the two bridges and of the South Side bridge fund. He argued this is the logical time for the building of the bridge, that besides giving labor employment, the market Is on the decline and contractors would reflect that back in their bids. He said that the county was peculiarly favored in having Isaac Smith, the builder of the Main street bridge, on the ground, as he believed that Smith could underbid for the new bridge and save the county all the overhead expense of a new contractor moving in. Mayor Urges Improvement. Arguments of the Palladium he Belittled, saying the paper was no wiser than any one ian, and that no. individual's advice should rule. Mayor Zimmerman said briefly that he believed' a bridge was due the South Side on account of the pledges which had been made, and that he, the board of works and the administration were heartily in favor of it. Lee Nusbaum, president of the council, again intervened to protest against the tone which had been taken by several speakers, assuming that the council as a unit was in favor of tha bridge. They were there as private citizens, he said, they had no opinion as a council and could have none until the matter was put up to them through the county commissioners. Presents Cost Figures. "I do not on the other hand want any body to accuse me of having any hidden motives, he said, nor t not being in favor of the bridge. As president of the council I must protest against the assumption that the coun cil is sitting as a council." County Engineer Jack Mueller then presented figures on the construction of the bridge, compared with the cost of the Main street bridge. "The estimates were made at the same time in the fall of 1916," said Mueller. "And the bridges were to be built under the same conditions The , plan was to save overhead expense, amounting to about $12,000, by having all material and organization on hand for the building." Forty per cent of the expense is labor, so that would be the one big item, he said. Labor now is as iow as it was in May, 1917, when the Main street bridge was started, and may go higher instead of lower before the bridge could be built if It were delayed.. Steel is lower but the freight is higher so that it can be bought now practically for the same price as then. Continued On Page Eleven. 1

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Beauty's Chateau Destroyed Because She's Related to HohenzoDems

Left to right, Princess Radziwill and her sister Gladys Deacon. Princess Radziwill, who was Dorothy Deacon, one of the famous Deacon sisters of Boston, suffered greatly during the war because of her connection with the Hohenzollern family. In 1910 she imarried Prince Antoine Albert Radziwill, head of an ancient line related to the Hohenzollern house. Because of this fact her chateau was seized during the war and suger refineries from

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served reputation as a beauty. Gladys Deacon, sister of Princess Radziwill, is reputed to have had more offers of marriage than any other American girl.

IMPORTANT PROJECTS TO BE GIVEN CONFERENCE FOLLOWING LEAGUE

(By Associated Press PARIS, Feb. 10 Such headway, has been made by some of the lesser comi missions of the peace conference with the plans before them that t is expected " these ; commissions: ? will S be ready -to report, a number of important projects, to toe c6hferenclfcfer its action almost immediately after the report of the commission on the society of nations is disposed of. Th8 conference itself while it appears likely to drop into a more leisurely pace after the departure of President Wilson and Premier Orlando of Italy, and in the absence of Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain who has already left Paris, plans to undertake the discussion of some of these topics. Interesting debates are . expected to follow, occupying the time of the conference profitably during what it seems to be thought here will be the rather brief absence of those leaders. If the peace conference commission on credentials ever begins to function some stirring developments are expected to follow. The commission has not met thus fr, even to organize, the conference having gotten along entirely without the right of any, of the delegates being challenged, which probably is without precedent in the history of such international gatherings, it being recalled that . the famous Westphalian congress 'of 1647 spent the better portion of a year in verifying the credentials of its members. The usual course at these assemblages is for the delegates to exchange their credentials as soon as they gather, any one of them being privileged to make objection to the credentials of another if he finds ground to ao so. It was stated, however, that the committee on credentials of the present conference would conduct any investigation found necessary for the sufficiency of the papers brought by each delegate, and that it would await the arrival of all the delegates before undertaking the work. The delegates have been coming along in single file ever since the opening of the conference, and it has not been thought proper to begin the examination of the documents. Ru Textile Mills Start On 48-Hour Schedule . (By Associated Prssl PAWTUCKET. R. I... . Feb. 10. Nearly all the textile mills in the ' Blackstone valley started on a 48-hour-week schedule today. Several have arranged to work from 9 to 10 hours each day and close for the week on Friday afternoon or - night, but labor leaders representing the Rhode ; Island textile council have started ant agitation for a uniform working day of eight and three-quarters hours and: a short day on Saturday. I Territorial Questions Debated by Specialists (By Associated Press) BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 10. Territorial questions were to the fore at both the sessions of the international Socialist conferences today, the subject of Alsace-Lorraine being the chief one considered. Some time also was spent debating a resolution favoring the release by the allies of the German prisoners of war. ; : - During the discussion there was a sharp exchange between Oscar Wels, a German majority Socialist and Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier, the latter accusing the "German authorities of treating French prisoners. Herr Eisner was warmly supported in this charge by one of the French delegates. Pierre Renaudel. vj

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mors, however, have been current recently that there was another reason for the delay the apprehension on the part of the directing forces of the con ference that objections would be im mediately. lodged against the presence of some persona wh-baxe. already oc cupied seats in the conference and who, it is declared, are not proper representatives of their governments or are accredited by organizations that have no existence as governments. Prominent members of the conference express confidence that these persons have a proper status in the body, have sanctioned their presence and have even admitted some of them to membership in the principal commissions and it is understood that the conference leaders do not desire to have an issue raised now In this connection that might, result in bad feeling and interfere with the smooth progress of the peace making work. JAPANESE OFFER TO SEND TROOPS TO AID RUSSIA (By Associated Press) VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 10. Reports from Omsk state that the Russian government there has accepted an offer from Japan of men, money and arms to settle the Bolsheviki difficulty. This step, it. is stated, is due to reports that the allies, are to withdraw their forces from Siberia and also to a fear that the conference at the Princes Islands will result in the recognition of the Bolsheviki. In return for the aid she is to give the reports stated, Japan will secure an iron and coal concession in the Primaur district. Sells Orphan Girl for Thirty Dollars and Cow (By Associated Press) MARIETTA, Ga., Feb. 10 Investigation of charges that Mrs. Naomi V. Campbell, head of an orphan's home here, had traded a girl inmate for $30 and a cow, was begun today by Solicitor General Dorsey. The charge developed after the arrest of the woman in connection with a general inquiry relating to the treatment of children in the institution. Hazel Rankins, a little girl who had been placed in the home, was missing when relatives went to take her away. An investigation, the family alleged, showed that the child had been given to a woman at Toccoa, who wanted to adopt her, and who gave Mrs. Campbell the money and the cow to bind the trade. Mrs. Campbell denied all charges as to disposition of the orphan and ill-treatment of others under her care. 125 Bushels of Dollars Are Melted for Export WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. More than 125 bushels of silver dollars wero shipped today from the treasury vaults to the Philadelphia mint to be melted into bullion for export to India. The daily treasury financial statement which deals familiarly with billions and only incidentally with details like millions, announced in cryptic accounting terms merely -that current assets in silver dollars had fallen $1,118,000 since yesterday. This was one of the shipments which have taken $205,000,000 from the vaults in recent months to be melted down and exported to the allies.

SUFFRAGE IS DEFEATED IN U. S. SENATE BY ONE VOTE Franchise for Women by Federal Amendment is Beaten Again by Senators 29 Or pose Measure, v

GALLERIES CROWDED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, . Feb. 10. Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment was beaten again today in the senate. The house resolution for submission of the amendment failed of adoption with 55 votes in favor of it and 29 against, one less than the necessary two-thirds. Thus ended what leading suffrage champions had said in advance would be the final test of this session of congress. The suffrage advocates went into the test knowing they lacked one vote, but hoping to the last that it would be won over. Senators New and Watson voted for the resolution. Before crowded galleries and wit! most of the senators in their seats the house resolution was called up in the senate today at 12:40 o'clock. Unanimous consent was given for consideration of the resolution befow the debate began, petitions from Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Maine and Missouri legislatures in behalf of the resolution were presented by senator from those states. WILL ASK REPEAL OF LUXURY TAX (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Chairman Kitchin of the house ways and means committee announced today that as soon as President Wilson signed the new war revenue bill be would introduce a resolution for the repeal of the so-called luxury taxes, applying to articles of wearing apparel. Turk Official Takes Life to Escape Allies WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Dr Reshid, implicated in the Turkish government deportation and who wa? about to be arrested by the allied forces in Constantinople, has committed suicide to avoid capture, according to advices reaching the state department today from Pera. These advices state that the special court martial ordered to try officials Implicated in the deportation began last Wednesday and the hearings are being conducted in public. Leading political leaders who were arrested last week will be tried by another court martial. Discharged Soldiers Picket for Miners (By Associated Press) BUTTE, Mont, Feb. 10. Strikers in the mines of Butte who object to the recent reduction of $1 a day in wages and who are assisting on the abolition of the "rustling"card eystem, were halted on their way to picket the mines by guards of United States soldiers. Those men who decided to go to work were permitted to pass. Discharged soldiers who still wore army uniforms were among those doing picket duty for the strikers. They were singled out by the regular army men and ordered immediately to discard their uniforms or cease participating in the attempted picketing. 400,000 Men Affected By Sympathy Strike (By Associated Pres " ' NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Union brick layers and hoisting engineers in 112 cities of the United States employed by the Building Trades Employers' association were ordered to strike today in sympathy with the striking menu bers of the carpenter's union here. a. cording to William L. Hutcheson, president of the United Brotneruoou of Carpenters and Joiners. He said that the number of men effected would be between 300,000 and 400,000. The carpenters demanded a wage increase of $1 a day. Denver Schools Closed By Engineers Strike (By Associated Preut DENVER, Feb. 10. Twenty-five of the 65 public schools of Denver were closed today as the result of a strike of the stationery engineers employed by the school district, which went into effect at 8 o'clock this morning. Failure of the school board to meet the demands of the engineers for increases in salary resulted in the strike. Casuals Arrive on 3 Freight Transport (By Associated Press I ;. -NEW YORK, Feb. Iff The armr freight transport Arakan arrived here today from Bordeaux with 13 casual officers, six enlisted men of detachment casual company No. 17 of New York and tw o'vili!". ,