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three weeks rem for Mil NEEDED LEGISLATION Tax Law Revision, Road Law, Registration and Primary Changes Yet. to be Accomplished by Assembly. NO APPROPRIATIONS C3y Associated Press.1 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17. Three weeks nineteen working days remain for the seventy-first Indiana general assembly to tbrasb out a new tax law, . create a new highway commission, revise the law for the registration of voters, rearrange the primary election system. It any of those thingsJ are to be done, approve or disapprove much other nendine legislation and at tend to the innumerable details of

routine work - Majority leaders of the upper house ' expressed dot as to whether this

work can be completed in the prescribed time. Adjournment will be .taken on the night -of Monday, Marcn " 10, and the appropriation bill to care " for the state Institutions and state of- , " flees has not yet ben introduced.

It is the plan, expressed today, to clear the slate of as many important matters as possible during tbe coming week, leaving the less important legislation in the background for the time. - Much legislation was approved and

, transmitted to the house last wees. One bill disposed of was the adminis- . tration measure for placing the inspec-

tion of oil under the food and drug commissioner after Sept. 30 next. A Joint resolution, advocated by Governor Goodrich, also disposed of, would amend the constitution to make the Office ot state superintendent of nubile instruction appointive " instead of elective. Two bills eliminating the teaching of German from the curricu-

lums of public and nign scnoois nave passed the senate, which now awaits . receipt of the lower house bill applying the sm conditions to private and parochial schools. , . , " t . Registration; Law. . v ; With the to reform bill and the highway commission measure still In rO the house, the moe Important bill T pending In the Janata probably re those relating to the registration of voters, the primary elections, the Sunday motion olcture bill and -the Kim-

mel house bill designed" to place the Inspection ot oil in the hands ot republican workers until Sept. 30. Th Kimmel bill is ready for final action? and although it has been denounced by its opponents as a meas- ' ure for "political plunder," Senator Negley says the Republicans will in sist on nassaee. Senator McCray, sponsor of the bill legalizing Sunday ' motion picture shows, said he Intends to call it for second reading tomorrow. As amend ed by the committee the bill provides ' that motion picture shows cannot.be operated on Sundays where they now do not open on that day, unless the city governing body and the mayor should give consent, senator regley has another amendment to pro pose placing censorship under con trol of city school superintendents. Considers Three Bills. The committee on elections is con Bidering three bills repealing the present registration law, and another re pealing the primary election law. The Masters bill repealing the registra tion law without submitting a substitute has ben reported favorably. Sen ator Dobyns, chairman, favors the Ratts proposal to conduct registration through township assessors, rath er than the Alldredge of the Furnas bills. The Alldredge bill provides for a system of registration to be con ducted along the lines of the selective service, and the Furnas bill proposes

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Senators Beardsley and VanAuken aro sponsors for the primary election bill, which provides for primary elec tlons of delegates to city, county, dis trict and state conventions, a"t which party candidates would be selected for offices. The committee has not yet considered this measure, but members generally have expressed the opinion that some change must be made in the present system. , House Delays Action. Thus far the disposition manifested by the house has been to consider the matters ot lesser importance at great length and to spend less time cn questions involved in the more mportant measures pending. Tbe time spent in debate of some measures of no wide interest has caused older members in experience to voice disapproval at what they say is time and money wasted. Because so much work remains to be done on the program, members are expecting the leaders to "take the bit in their teeth" and press consideration of the more vital questions when the bouse reconvenes at 2 o'clock Monday thcafternoon. Shortly after convening the house will dispose of the measure providing for the creation of a state department of banking. The building and loan associations throughout the' state are opposed to the bill because It would brin these institutions under the management of a director, whom they expect will be a banker. Tax Bill Is Up. - The tax bill still remains the big question at issue. The printed bill rnntftitis 200 nasres and It has been on

yf "he desks of members for a week within Jinn helnr considered on second read

ing. The house majority Republicans admit it is an unusual position. Efforts to reach an agreement on what shall be done with it have failed in

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MISS GRACE- N. OVERMAN Senator and Mrs. Lee' S. Overman of North Carolina have just announced the engagement of their youngest daughter. Miss Grace N. Overman, to E. N. Snow of Greensboro, N. C. Miss Overman was a debutante last season. COLORED TROOPS GIVEN GREETING DY NEW YORKERS Crack Negro Regiment Reviewed by GovernorTwo f Thousand More Men Arrive . v.- By Associated Press) i -f NEW YORK, fcfhi 17. The' three thousand members . ot the , 369th intarftry, formerly the fifteenth, "New York's negro regiment, who achieved a great record in France, are the guests of the city today.- : The regiment came by, train from Camp Upton and formed in East Twenty-third street for the parade up Fifth avenue. The paraders were led by the band of one hundred pieces, under Lieutenant James Reese Europe. The reviewing party included. Governor Alfred E. Smith, Major-General Thomas H. Barry, Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, members of the board of aldermen and the board of estimate and other city officials. ' Reception for Rainbows. The Rocky Mountain Club today Issued a call to all New Yorkers, formerly residents of western states, to join in the movement to extend a welcome to the famous Rainbow divisions and other divisions made up of western boys, when they land In New York. It is planned to have a committee ot men from each western state extend the "western handshake" and if possible arrange for divisional and regimental parades before the troops are demobilized. The steamship Rotterdam arrived here from Brest today with 2,736 troops, including thirteen French enlisted men. Among the units were the field and staff headquarters company, medical detachment and companies G, I. K, L and M and, the 367th Infantry (negro) National army,' of the 92d division; headquarters staff of the 92d division; a detachment of company D of the 162d infantry of the 41st division (Na tional guard troops of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming), and casuals. The steamship Dante Alleghierl arrived with 1.588 troops, including the 61st regiment coast artillery corps complete; three officers and 58 men of the U. S. S. Scorpion, who were at Constantinople during this war and a number of civilians, including Y. M. C. A. workers. This vessel sailed from Marseilles, Jan. 30. , The Sixaolo brought 47 casual officers and men. 19 of whom were sick or wounded. The vessel left Bordeaux Feb. 2. Chicago Fighters Welcomed CHICAGO, Feb. 17. The 370th United States infantry, colored, and better known to Chicagoans as the 8th infantry of the Illinois national guard was welcomed home here today. The colored warriors made a distinguished record in France. As a part of General Mangin's "fighting tenth" army on Sept 16, 1918, to the end of the war, they attacked tho flower of the German army Brandenburgers and the crown prince's hussars, and drove them from the Ailette canal to the interior of Belgium. There are many members of the regiment wearing decorations. Every body In Company C got one for storming the town of Baume. The regiment marched directly ifi the Coliseum from the railroad station where speeches were made and there was music and dancing and a big luncheon. A formal parade followed and then the regiment entrained for Camp Grant to be discharged. ALFONSO NOT COMING (By Associated Press) .; PARIS. Febv 17. Reports that King Alfonso of Spain is planning to visit Argentina and; Brazil, are denied by Premier Romanones, according to the rt--'- v-..ri.i rf Madrid

UP GERMAN DILL TO INSURE PRACTICABILITY Senators to go Over Measure in DetailAmendment to Unit Road Bill Proposed. (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17. To as sure that the anti-German language bill accomplish all that is . Intended, democratic and republican senate leaders say they will make an attempt to delay consideration of them for one or two days In order to give the senators time to go over every detail. It is understood that Senator Negley's bill abolishing German from public schols which was amended lightly by the house, will be held up at least a day when it is returned to the senate for concurrence in the house amendment. This same course probably will be followed on the Van Auken bill relating to high schools If it is amend ed by the house. Democratic leaders intend to make an effort to perfect what they consider a political coup still further when the Kimmel oil inspection bill comes up foV final consideration. It was planned to make a motion to recommit the bill to a committee of one with spe cine Instructions to amend it by add ing the Bubject matter of Senator Eisner's resolution directing that the Jobs created in the Kimmel bill be. first tendered to discharged soldiers and sailors. A similar motion will be made in the house to make the tame amendment to Senator Duncan's meas ure which would place the inspection of oil within the food and drug depart ment after September 30. By this action, the democrats claim they -can break up the oil inspection machinery already assembled by the republicans. Amendments to Road Bill. Senator Beardsley, Elkhart, said to day he' is preparing amendments to the county road units bill to provide that on petition of 100 property hold ers, the county commissioner may lay out a highway system within the county, which must be approved before constructed by -a popular vote at a special election. Beardsley today addressed a letter to each senator upholding the amendment. "All that will be necessary to obtain a road costing $20,000 to 30,000 a mile in any county in Indiana will be a petition of 50 tree holders of said county under the present bill," the senator said in. his letter. "It seems that every group ot farmers would ret petitions out at the earliest pos sible moment t- in -flrst and pro Sre a fine hard surface road to pass elr faftn." ' v Chairman Dobyns of the road com mittee, author of the bill, is refraining from asking second reading of the bill until Beardsley's amendments are prepared. : -.- v . . Fight Building Bill The force of strength of the buildings and loan associations throughout Indiana was thrown against the Southworth-Symons measure to cre ate a state department of banking t which was scheduled to be considered on passage in the house of the legislature this afternoon. A delegation, said to represent every such association in the state, headed by Frank Boone of South Bend, president of the stare association, called on member.? of the legislature and on Gov. Goodrich today. They pointed out what they believe will be the harmful effect on their businesses from the proposed legislation.' They also said that the tax bill now up to second reading in the house, would affect them seriously in their opinion. Governor Goodrich today signed the Nejdl measure which amends an existing law and permits a referendum vote for the creation of a drainage district including Hammond, East . Chicago, i Gary and Whiting. The purpose, of the amendment is to give these cities an opportunity to better the sewage disposal system and to remove the alleged cause of contamination of the drinking water. ' The sewage Is now deposited in Lake Michigan from which the drinking water comes.

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At Plainfield is the Indiana Boys' School where 570 youngsters between the ages of eight and seventeen years are detained? A few of these boys are really bad and a few more might with propriety be in a home for mental defectives, but the majority the great majority are just boys. Many of them are handsome boys with clear, clean minds; some have positive genius; and almost all of them are affectinate and appreciative. About nine out of ten of these boys are victims; the victims of stupid courts, careless officials, disrupted homes, faithless parents, and other persons and institutions that have robbed them of proper home training and the right sort of an environment, casting them finally Jnto the boys' school, pretty much as wreckage is cast up by an angry sea. The school Itself Is not at all a dreary or forbidding place. On the contrary, it offers more pleasing surroundings and better care than most of the boys ever experienced before. There are comfortable quarters, plenty of

'wholesome food, and warm clothing. There are trade schools and graded i schools, and employment ot various kinds to occupy the time of all the young-

But in one resepect there is a lack which is positively pathetic. The small library of the institution is absolutely inadequate to meet the demands made upon it. Each evening in all of tbe company buildings the boys have two or three hours when they may devote themselves to reading, writing, or other quiet diversions. Naturally most of them desire to read and there is not a sufficient amount of reading matter on hand. The library, as before stated, is quite small and a large percent of the books it does contain are over the head ot the average boy in the school. The consequence Is that the suitable books are read and re-read by these entertainment-hungry children who welcome the rare additions to their Bhelves with veritable cries of joy. Since the imperative material needs of the Institution quite exhaust the legislative appropriation, it is proposed that the good people of. Indiana be called upon to supply the literary deficiency. f In practically every home in this city; where boys have grown up, there are today boys' books that are never opened and never used fairy stories for children, and tales of adventure, travel, and school life. These books, which now serve no useful purpose, can be made to bring joy and happiness into the lives of hundreds of youngsters that simply yearn for them, and whose none too rosy existence they would bless most abundantly. This paper is going to call upon the people of Richmond to contribute these books to the good cause that best of good causes, the making happy ot children. Go through your shelves at once, while the thought is with you. and make your selections, remembering especially those little tadgers of only eight and ten, and then bring these former treasures of your own more happily circumstanced children who have now grown beyond them, to the office of The Palladium. Richmond alone, by a proper response, can make that little library at the boys' school fairly bulge with the possibilities of pleasure and happiness for those whose lot is one which is t best pathetic, and which, despite the creature comforts and . the institutional kindness investing it, flmarks in a swnse of. childhood's tragedy.

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Gerasra Agree to Yithdrca .. . - a. m m Then Forces horn reload By Associated Press) BERNE, February 17. It is announced that negotiations between Lithuania and Poland have resulted In an agreement by which the Tenth German army will withdraw from Lithuania and , the Polish army wm occupy the territory thus exacuated. It is said that the Polish forces have already entered Volkovisk, , near Crondo. GERMANS ACCEPT NEW CONDITIONS FORJWTICE Meeting Attended by All Parties : Spartacans Create 4 Disturbance in Westphalia. (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, Feb. 17. The German government on Sunday night ac cepted the allied terms for the f"3 tension of the armistice, according1 a dispatch to the Polltiken from mar. -f , The setting at which the accepts was decided upon, the Politiken'sjwf respond says, , was attended by -taj leaders of the. various-parties. BERLIN. Feb, 17 Spartacan troop. from near by towns marched into Gelsenklrchen, in Westphalia, early Sunday morning, and overpowered the local military and police forces, a portion of which went over to the Spartacans. The plundering of the city followed. : - The doors of houses were blown in with hand grenades and much booty was secured by the Spartacans. . The Gelsenkirchen banks and the city treasury had been warned in time and saved their funds. The raiding Spartacans came from Rattungen and Wattenscheid. Seize Bavarian Officers. ' Gelsenkirchen is in the Weslphalian raining region, six miles nortnwest of Bochum. It has a population of about 40,000. Trouble had been expected in Berlin Sunday, but up to 5 o'clock in the afternoon no disturbance had been reported anywhere in the city. The expected outbreak appears ta - hove been nipped in the bud by the arrest late Saturday night of 80 members of a Spartacan and revolutionary soldiers' union which had asembled ' in a half, it was charged, to plan disturbances for today. - The telephone, telegraph and newsgaper pfflcea t NuremburKr-Bavarja avenbeeh. occupied by Spartacans, according to reports received here. COMMITTEE APPROVES FUND FOR RAILROAD (By Associated Presl ' . WASHINGTON, Feby 17. An appropriation of 1750,000,000 for the operation of railroads under government control was approved today by the house appropriation committee. Former Director General McAdoo asked for that amount to be added to the $500,000,000 revolving fund provided for in the originar railroad control act. All plana for considering railroad legislation at this session of congress were abandoned today" by the house interstate committee. May Be Unable to Hold Up Debate on League (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 Senate leaders today knew of no addresses planned immediately on the "proposed 'constitution for the league of nations but they reiterated their doubts whether senate debates could be reSEtaH 7 rested by Present i

Wilson until after February 26, whenfnas declared a mii-nonaay m oraer the members of the foreign affataW the entire city may honor.Rickcommittee of both houses are to dinV Ber. , , . .

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French troops used to keep crowd away from entrance to Quay de Orsay, scene '." ' of peace conference. . ;.,;.. Such enormous crowds gather outside the Quay de Orsay when the delegates gather for the daily sessions of the peace conference that a large detail of French troops is stationed at the building to handle the crowd and keep it back from the entrance. The photo shows the soldiers drawn up before the entrance. The peace delegates are entering the building. A squad of photographers is "snapping" the delegates.

Over 2,000 Coal Mine Casualties in U. S. ; During Last Year (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Casualties in American coal mines in 1918. reported today to Secretary Lane by the Bureau of Mines, included 2,575 men killed. ' 1 peaceful industry during a- year , or war," said Secretary Lane today, "and it emphasizes the hardly appreciated fact -that the worker In the mining industry who did his full duty during the war braved perils as did the soldier at the front, and quite as willingly webt to the supreme sacrifice. . "The war has been won, and in its winning there will always stand forth the brilliant achievement and patriotic effort of the American coal miner." - . , There was a decrease of 233 deaths from explosion of gas and coal dust, Mr. Lane 6aid, and the total fatalities during "the year was proportionately less than in previous years. Rickenbacker Is Given Honor by "Home Town" (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 17 Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, American ' ace of aces, arrived here this morning frOm Washington and was met by a reception committee of his fellow townsmen. The premier flyer was immediately hustled away and he will be keDt in retirement until the of ficial greeting of Columbus is given him this afternoon by a . parade in which more than a half hundred orgnizaUons will take part. The mayor celebration in hand. A banquet be given in the airman s honor tonight. More than 50 aviators are expected to attend. Rickenbacker went to , France as General Pershing's chauffeur. He soon went into the air service and after he received his commission as first lieutenant, was made an instructor at an aviation camp in France. Shortly he went to the front, where he won the premiership of American aces by shooting down 2G Huns. ; ; INDIANA CITIES PROFIT WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Annual public buildings appropriation bill, reported favorably to the house yesterday, carrying $50,000,000. includes appropriations of $350,000 for a postoffice at Fort Wayne, and $225,000 for a federal building at Terre Haute. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight except light snow in northeast portion. Tuesday, fair and slightly colder in north portion. Today's Temperature. '' Noon 36 Yesterday. . Maximum ... i V. . . .31 Minimum 27 For Wayne County by W. E. Motore Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat Colder tonight. Snow followed by fair. ; 1 General Conditions The storm : of the past few days has passed away. The Pacific storm reported Saturday is crossing the Rocky mountains causing local snows today over Indiana and Ohio. This will be followed by somewhat colder weather, but not severe. It is clear over the west and temperatures are not low for the season in anv part of the country.

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EARLY PEACE IS URGED CONFERENCE (By Associated Press) . PARIS, Feb. 17 Premier ; Borden's speech here last night, 'in which he criticized the delay in consummating peace while the troops are anxious to return, to their . homes baa ; made : an undoubted impression here. ' The same view, is said" to be taken by some Americans, while the British are not indifferent to the demands of their territorial . contingents, which are supported by the labor element of England. Stephen Plchon, in discussing obstacles to an immediate peace during a talk with newspaper correspondents today, said there were many reasons why the treaty could not be signed at once, even though the league of nations project was out of the way. Many issues that will form the basis of peace he said, were being carefully studied. Among them is the disposition of many of the fragments into which the former Austrian empire has been divided and another is the treatment to be accorded Bulgaria. . The French people, he added, want peace but they realized at the same time, the danger of precipitate and unsatisfactory solutions. He agreed with Premier Borden that there should be no "unnecessary delay, but did not share his opinion that time had been wasted at the conference. A full discussion of all questions must be permitted - so that - settlements which might be decided upon would be ' unanimous. M. Pichon said that there was no obstacle to recognition being extended the new German government, but added that the Germans must be made to realize they have been beaten, a fact, he said, of which great numbers of them do not seem to be aware. The new boundaries of Germany, he remarked, would be up for consideration within a few days. MINISTERS PLAN TO EXCHANGE PULPITS All Protestant ministers in, the city will exchange pulpits next Sunday. The evangelistic committee of ' the Ministerial association was appointed at the meeting of the association this morning to make allotments of ministers. The complete program will be announced later. - : The Rev. J. ; F. Propst read a paper on "Poverty" at the meeting this morning, and regular committee reports were made. ; r" Packing House Employes Granted Wage Increase (By Associated Tress) CHICAGO, Feb. 17. Packing house employes were-given a 10 percent advance by the decision of the arbitrator Judge Alschuler, announced the award today. . ., . ' . The advance is retroactive to Nov. 10 in addition the awards grant 2 cents an hour raise to all workers under 21 years of age whose earnings are less than' 42 cenfs an hour. Time and one-half is eiven for over time, with double time In certain In stances. The award applies - to the plants of Armour and Co., Swift and Co., Morris and Co., Wilson and Co., and the Cudahy packing company throughout the country. Press Denies Reports cf Rumanian Revclztion ' (By Associated 'Press) - ' PARIS, Feb: 17. Reports of a revolution at Bucharest are denied by the

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ATTENTION Of ' I CONFERENCE IS FOCUSED OH RUSSIA Suggestions That Invitations be Renewed to Princes Island Conference Advanced May Negotiate. c SUFFRAGE SUPPORTED (By Associated Press)

PARIS, Feb. 17. Attention of the - i delegates to the peace conference will )

focus on Russia today, the supreme council having decided that, as the time allowed for acceptance of the invitation to the Prinkipo conference has expired, something else must be done. - ' . Winston Spencer Churchill of Great Britain, has proposed that the invitation be renewed and that some of tbe conditions that1 made tbe first invitation unacceptable to most of the different Russian factions be omitted.; If -the supreme council accepts this position as seems possible. It probably will not insist that-the conference b held at Prinkipo . island. , It is .poa sible that instead of. a general meting . of the representatives of Russian tac, tions, direct negotiations may ' (1. initiated, or commissions will be appointed to get into touch with the opposing elements there. , , . . " It is scarcely expected that special commissions of the peace conference., , which are studying questions confided, to them will be able to submit reports ! to the full conference this week but It Is hoped that some of these reports will be ready for revision by the eupreme council, which is still acting as a medium between the commissions and the conference. ' Suffrage Wins Success. " '.t The committee of the interallied; women's suffrage congress which has been interviewing statesmen in searcn -of support for President Wilson's plait, to give women representation in the conference and the league of nations has achieved a great success in the estimation of its -members. Satisfactory assurances have been given by President Poincare and Jules Cambon, - one of the French delegates to the neace conference, and bv Foreien ' Minister Hymans Jot Belli u.-. , Pri - unci vinuwvcau m wmuuB, v jwp , promised to support a bill giving women the right of municipal suffrage, which is now pending in the French chamber of deputies. BOSTON PLANS TO ENTERTAIN WILSON ' (By Associated Press) ' .: BOSTON, Feb. 17. The active plans for the entertainment of President Wilson on bis return from France next . week were made by Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters , today. The program : the governor said, was conditional on the wishes of the president. The date of his arrival is thus far somewhat uncertain. If the George Washington docks - early in the day, the president will be escorted to his hotel by committees representing the city -and state... Governor Coolidge later will make an official call and invite him to the state bouse. Should he desire to speak to the legislature, a joint session will be called. A small official luncheon and dinner will be arranged on the assumption that tbe president will wish to deliver his principal address In the evening. ; . French Aviation Mission ' . Is Coming to the U. S, PARIS Feb. 17. On March 8 a French aviation mission will leave for the United States with the Idea of demonstrating the degree of effie-', iency French airplanes have attained. The mission will take with it five of 'the fastest machines that have been' turned out, of various makes. One of the planes is fitted with a closed cabin' for the use of the Americans who'; have been invited to accompany the , mission which will have 5 ot the noted French aces as pilots for the machines. - - The itinerary of the mission covers New. York, San Francisco, Los Anget ' les and New Orleans, with a return to New York," the various stages' being covered -by air. Tbe mission will take -with it a collection of paintings and photographs illustrating air episodes , of the war. These pictures will be on exhibition. ---l Soldier Escort Brings Body of Charles Craner, The body of Charles W. Cramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Chamer, arrived in Richmond last night front. Camp - Taylor with a soldier escort. Mr. Cramer bad been, ill with pneu, monia only ten days and died at Camp Taylor Saturday night. ' s. The body was taken to the home of his parents, 1206 North D street ; The body will be shipped to Reading near Cincinnati, after funeral services are held here. "v Cramer is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters. ' Itesigtt&z ct Gerzi:'fy, " Foreisn llistsr'UtzTtzS . :A- ' . ' . " (By Associated 'Press) -' .-:7 . ' BASLE, Feb. 17 Count von Brocl dorf f-Rantzau. . the-; German 'foreign minister, bas resigned, -according to a Weimar dispatch to the Vossiche Zeir tung ot Berlin. There Is no cemfirma-