Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 102, 10 March 1919 — Page 1

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BRITISH WILL SINK SHARE OF ALLOTTED WAR CRAFT Consents to France and Italy Retaining Their Share of German Vessels Shows Change in Plans.

WOULD AID AMERICA

(By Associated Press) PARIS, March 10. A change in the plans of the British ' government regarding the plan to sink the interned t German warships haB been noticed since the return of Premier Lloyd " George to Paris. It now appears probable that instead of the German crafts being sunk. Great Britain will be willing to permit France and Italy to keep some of the ships, but will consent to jink her allotment. In this way it is said. Great Britain would relieve the United States of the oecessity of carrying out her projected great naval building program which it 4s understood was based on the intention to prevent anyone from having such a predominant navy as would five her control of the 6eas against the powers of the league of nations. Will Not Disturb Balance. The addition of a limited number of the German war ships to the French and Italian navies would not sensibly disturb the present balance of naval power, excluding Austria and Germany. The desire of American naval experts that the German ships be eliminated completely, it is said. 1s based on considerations of economy as they hold that if the German ships are given to Great Britain in the proportion proposed, the United States would be compelled to spend one billion dollars to maintain her place in the naval list.

IRISH FIGHTERS - ASK HOME RULE

(By Associated Press) LONDON. March 10. A petition has fceen submitted to King George, signi. ed by a number of Irish officers who erved in the British army during the ' " war, praying that Irish home rule be pubmitted to the peace conference. 'Among the signers are Major-General Sir William B. Uinkle, commander of the sixteenth Irish division in France. Brigadier-General Dayrell T. Hammond, Colonel Sir Henry C. GrattanIfrllew, descendant of the famous Irish statesman, Henry Grattan; Colonel Sir Thomas C. Myles, Stephen L. Gwynn, former member of the house ff commons for Galway; Captain Healy. nephew of Timothy M. Healy;

Sir Thomas H. G. Esmonde,. on behalf; of a son killed in the battle of Jutland, and Mrs. William K. Redmond end Mrs. Thomas M. Kettle on behalf of their husbands, who were killed in the war. The petition claims that 200,000 men In Ireland and an equal number of Irish from Great Britain's overseas dominions volunteered for service during the war, and now "when the survivors return home, notwithstanding the fact that the home rule act was a great Irish national demand, they find the situation worse than ever and therefore, pray the king to submit the Issue to the peace conference in Paris." NEBRASKA DOCKS AT BOSTON PORT BOSTON, March 10 The battleship Nebraska from Brest, France, with 1,100 returning soldiers, arrived here today, the first warship transport to " enter this port. Her passengers in cluded battery V of the fHtn arunery and many casual companies made up ! largely of New England men. "a them were twelve Y. M. C. A. secft tarles. Scores of Sinn Feiners Released from Prison ' (By Associated Press) LONDON. March 10. Sinn Feiners who have been Interned in England have been released in batches durin? th last few days. A score returned to Dublin on Sunday. Among those recently released from Holloway prison. London, was Countess Georglna Marklevicz, who. according to the Daily Sketch, is likely to attend the meeting of the house of commons on Monday and claim the seat for St. Patrick's division or Dublin to which she was elected at the recent general elections. It is pointed out that the question of her eligibility to the seat will arise as her husband is a Polish count who was never naturalized. She, therefore, is said to be legally a Pole. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, probably preceded by local rains this afternoon. Not much change .in tempera rain or SNOW

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Appointed to Aid Jobless Soldiers

Col. Arthur Woods. WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 The great majority of the soldiers recently discharged from service have- already found work, probably the largest percentage of these returning to the old jobs held open for them. This is the statement of Col. Arthur Woods, recently appointed by War Secretary Baker to cope with the soldier employment problem. The number discharged who are still without jobs is estimated at between 20 and 40 per cent of the entire' number released. Woods plans a campaign to enlist civic and business organizations in the larger cities in the work of placng every discharged service man. " It is possible that a change in policy involving utilization of the draft boards in the process of discharge and procurement of employment will be recommended. Colonel Woods also is considering the feasibility of transporting back to their homes the thousands of southern negroes and other laborers who migrated to the industrial centers to take jobs in munition plants and are now largely out of work. Colonel Woods has found that employers rarely refuse to take back their former employes from the ranks of the army. He has heard of only a few cases. AMERICAN M.P.'S ABE INJURED IN LONDON MELEE Soldiers and Sailors Clash With Police When Military Guards Are Hurt. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sunday, March 9. Corporal C. R. Zimmerman and Private L. N. Wilson,- American military policemen, who were injured during the fighting between London police and soldiers and sailors, are resting quietly at a hospital tonight. It is not known how seriously they are hurt. The trouble began when Zimmerman and Wilson demanded that the civil police turn over to them two American sailors who had been arrested in the vicinity of Eagle hut, on a charge of playing craps. The argument grew bitter and finally the policemen drew their batons and severely beat both soldiers. Soldiers Protect American, Canadian, Australian and a few British soldiers who were lounging near protested and followed the policemen, with the four Americans, to the Bow-street police headquarters. The crowd grew less demonstrative after the officers and their prisoners had entered the building, but an unfounded report that Zimmerman was dead led to threats to storm the station. The police charged on the crowd and William Van Sice and Edwin Rouland were injured. The crowd was finally dispersed. An American military officer who arrived at the station soon after, demanded possession of the four men injured in the first melee, his demand being granted. A number of uninjured men were arrestedr but so far no charges have been preferred against them. It is expected that a joint army and navy board will conduct an investigation of the incident. WOMAN FOUND DEAD ON 76TH BIRTHDAY Sarah E. Baldwin, 76 years old, wtf found dead in bed Sunday, by her daughter, Alice Ebeling, who came to visit her. Death was caused by heart trouble which was brought on by acute indigestion. She was born in Indiana, March 9, 1843. Mrs. Baldwin, died on her 76th birthday. She is survived by one daughter, Alice Ebeling, 30 North Third street; two sons, James Brumfield of this city, and George Brumfleld of Cambridge City, one step-son, Albert Baldwin, one sister, Maria Lee of Mentono, Ind., one brother, Walter Shores, of Indianapolis, two grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the residence. The Rev. F. J. Propst and the Rev. Mr. Livengood will have charge. Friends may call any time.

Interest of Nations to Make League Real, Declares Vtviani (By Associated Press) LYONS. France, March 10. Rene Viviani, former premier, Bpeaker today at a meeting of the French Association for a League of Nations, at which Leon Bourgeois, the French proponent of the league presided, said : : "To make the league of nations a reality we must count less on the goodness of men than the interest of nations. Hundreds of thousands of our children have fallen to deliver us from the nightmare of war, and if we do not succeed in demonstrating that institutions to assure liberty are stronger than those of autocracy, because the former have for a basis and object, reason and conscience, and the latter force, we shall not be

worthy of the heroic testament which these young men, jwept away in ' the flower of their youth, have transmit ted to us." . ITALY AND JUGO SLAV PROBLEM TO BE PROBED Compensation for Recent Incidents to be Determined by Commission. (By Associated Press) PARIS, March 10. Premier Clemenceau, as president of the peace conference, has sent a letter to the head of the inter-allied commission at Triest advising him that the military commission appointed by the supreme council to investigate the Italo-Jugo Slav incidents which caused the recent acute feeling between the two peoples, will proceed at once to Laibach. The Matin prints the rest of this letter, which says that after the facts have been verified the commission will take all necessary action, including orders for punishment of the guilty and any compensation or satisfaction which may be decided Is due to Italian government. The commission will give notice the letter adds, that any similar Incident in the future will cause inter-allied military occupation of the locality where such incidentsrarise, under the terms of the Austrian armistice and that such action will not exclude the taking of any more severe measures, the committee might deem warranted. Western Shipyard Strike Declared 0i by Men (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Wash., March 10. The strike of 45,000 shipyard workers in Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen, Wash., In effect since January 21, was official ly declared off by officers of the metal trades council last night and the owncre f9 otaal chirk nlante f GaqHIo and Tacoma announced today that the yards will reopen tomorrow morning. The men are to return to work at the . wage scale and under the working ', conditions prevailing when the strike was called. ! The strike was called to enforce ' wage demands in excess of those fixed by the Macy award. Charles Piez, director-general of the Emergency Fleet corporation, notified the strikers that he would not deal with them so long as they remained away from their posts. ' COURT SUSTAINS DEBS' SENTENCE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 10. The supreme court today sustained the conviction of Eugepe V. Debs, Socialist leader, found guilty of violating tho espionage act through statements made in a speech at Canton, O., last June, and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. In deciding the case, the court in effect upheld the constitutionality of the so-called enlistment section of the espionage act of 1917. Conviction of German Editor Is Sastained (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 10 Conviction under the espionage act of Jacob Frohwerk of Kansas City, because of articles appearing in the Missouri Staat Zeitung of which he was editor, criticising American participation in the war, was upheld today by the supreme court in deciding appeals brought from federal court judgment, sentencing him to ten years' imprisonment. Cuban Strike Settled After 8-Hour Debate (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Cuba, March 10. The joint committee representing the unions Involved in the general strike, which has paralyzed business and traffic for five days, voted early today to accept the proposal presented by President Menocal, as arbiter, thu3 terminating the conflict. The vote was taken after a heated debate lasting eight hours. The men will return to their places immediately. Baker and Peyton Make Tour of U. 5. Camps (By Associated Press) DETROIT, March 10. Secretary of War Baker and General Peyton C. March, chief of staff, making an inspection tour of army camps, arrived here this morning enroute to Camp Custer, near Battle Creek. The party remained less than b.alf an hour in Detroit, leaving shortly after 8 o'clock for Camp Custer.

SENATE VOTES APPROVAL OF AMENDED TAX REFORM DILI Concurs in 'Report of Conferees Wright Bone Dry Amendment Killed by Tabling of Alldredge Motion.

HIGHWAY BILL SIGNED (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, March 10 With few dissenting votes the state senate today concurred in the report of house and senate conferees on thd Mendenhall tax reform bill. The report recommended among others the following important changes in the bill from the form in which it passed the senate: Elimination of the Wolfson amendment providing that the intrinsic value shall be the basis of apprisment of tangible property and the "actual or income producing value" of intangibles shall be the basis of their assessments: Limitation of the Mantera amendment providing that recovery can not be made on securities on litigations unless such securities have been lifted on the tax duplicate! Reduce Mortgage Exemption. Reduction of the mortgage exemption from $1,500 to $1,000; Elimination of the listing schedule and putting the rates in the hands of the tax board; t Removing the secretaries and auditors of state from the board which chooses tax commissioners and placing this matter in the hands of the governor; Reducing the salary of the commissioners to $4,500 instead of $6,000 and the secretary of the commission to $3,000; Inserting a provision that -county assessors can not act in that capacity with an appeal from the decision of the state tax board in removing them is pending in the circuit court. Tax Board Not Affected No amendments were made which would affect the power of the tax board, senate conferees said after adjournment. On motion of Senators Hogston and Wolsen, two of the senate conferees, it was agreed to write into the journal that Senator McCulIough, Democrat, who was a third conferee, objected to. the bill and signed the conference report only to bring the measure before the two houses. If the house concurs in the report, the necessity for an extra session of the legislature from this source becomes removed. "Bone dry" amendments to the prohibition law were virtually defeated by the senate when a motion by Senator Alldredge asking Immediate action on the Wright bill carrying these amendments was tabled by a vote of 27 to 16. This is equivalent to the death of the bill, which would prohibit drug stores from selling any intoxicating liquors except pure grain alcohol. Learn German Bill Status At the opening of the session, the lieutenant governor called attention to the fact that the lower house had not yet acted on the senate bill prohibiting the use of the German language in Indiana high schools. He appointed Senators Wolfson, Van Auken and McCray to investigate the status of the bill in the house. Several bills which the steering committee decided should receive individual consideration, were taken up at the morning session and to clear 16 more house bills from the slate another amnibus of bills was to be placed on passage this afternoon. Representative Kingsbury's bill authorizing voluntary admission to state insane asylums was passed bv a vote of 32 to 7, after a brief fight. ' Governor Considers Bills Upon being signed this morning by Gov. James P. Goodrich, the measure creating the state highway commission and legalizing greater statutory payments of public funds during the world war became laws. The governor was engaged during the day in considering bills passed by both houses. More than 20 were awaiting his consideration at noon and this number was expected to be increased several times before adpournment sine die tonight. Interest in the business before the house at the morning session lagged owing to the comparative unimportance of the bills handed down on passage. , Two measures were defeated while nine were passed, including one providing for free service being given by public utilities and another authorizing street railway companies to reassess their stock issues upon decision of two-thirds of the stock. House conference committees did not report their agreement on the tax reform measure or on either of two appropriation bills. These reports are expected this afternoon. In addition the senate by refusing to concur in amendments to the county unit bill and the contractor's relief measure, caused these two to be thrown into the hands of conference committees. Establishment of a state employment commission of seven persons appointed by the governor was authorized by the Indiana legislature today when the house passed the senate bill there 88 to 0. The bill allows an appropriation of $38,000 a year for the commission and a similar sum is expected from the federal government, Branche offices will be maintained at Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, South Bend, Terre Haute and Evansville. The dutie sof the commission will be to provide employment, free of charge, to applicants and also endeavor to provide crippled and maimed soldiers with profitable and suitable employment. Continue J On Page Thirteen-!

Stepdaughter of New House Speaker is Popular in Washington Society

Mist Louise Hoar as she appeared at ball for free milk for France fund. Miss Louise Hoar, stepdaughter of Senator Frederick H. Gillett, new speaker of the house, is shown here in an interesting setting, as she appeared at the ball staged in Washington awhile back for the free milk for France fund. She is the daughter of the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. Sh and her sister are extremely popular in Washington society.

Voluntary Probation Officers to Aid in Work of Richmond Juvenile Court

Plans for voluntary probation officers to help the juvenile court in the task of making better citizens out of delinquent boys and girls of Richmond, were presented by Judge Will A. Bond to the Ministerial association Monday; at. the f - M. C. A. Hearty approval of the Judge' plan was shown by the association and the matter was turned over to the committee on good citizenship, who will co-operate writh him in working out details. Under the law the county Is entitled to only one professional probation officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Candler holding the office. Voluntary probation officers, unpaid, to be selected from the citizens of the town to help in the work, are allowed by law and Judge Bond proposes to take advantage of this. Any citizen who desired to help would be eligible as a volunteer, no distinction being made between religious bodies, sex or color. This officer would have watch and charge of one or more children and their families, DALTON ASSESSOR -RESIGNS PLACE Wallace Cheeseman, township as sessor of Dayton township, resigned from that office Monday morning, giv- j ing ill health as the cause. Harrv E. Macev. who was auditor of ! I the township four years ago, was appointed by County Auditor Brooks to I fill the vacancy. SERVICE MEN PROTEST GERMAN PRODUCTION (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 10. Attempts to prevent the production o! German ! opera at the Lexington opera house tonight continued today when a .committee of soldiers and sailors arranged to present a petition to Mayor Hylan asking him to stop the performance. 'Governor Smith, answering an appeal I to intercede, said the mayor alone had this power. The War Camp Community Service and other patriotic organizations appealed to the service men to confine their activities to a patriotic demonstration of protest. Clover Leaf Train and Interarban Car Crash (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, O., March 9. A train on the Clover Leaf road this morning crashed into a Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern Interarban train at Maumee, 10 miles from this city, according to reports from that point. A call was sent for all ambulances in Toledo. Traffic from St. Louis on the Clover Leaf is held up. Bios Elected Head of Wurttemburg Republic (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN. Mar. 10. William J. Bios, premier of Wurttemburg, has been elected head of that state by the local national assembly, according fo a dispatch from Stuttgart, which has been received nere. .

v.-ssw w-. y-V. .-.v.v.v.-. v in somewhat like the Big Brothers of Cincinnati and Denver. The juvenile court would be the center of the system, and would give these volunteers power to see that their suggestions were carried out, but this power would not be Invoked to enforce obedience unless it was extremely necessary. Judge Bond and the Ministerial association see a great opportunity for citizens to do good and useful home missionary work through this plan and hope to carry it out. GAMING HOUSE IS RAIDED BY POLICE An alleged game of poker, which mysteriously changed into a game of rhum when policemen entered the room, caused the arrest Sunday of Fred Dunn, owner of a cijar store under the Murray theatre, on a charge of keeping a gaming house. Exposed money, said to have been hastily shoved into pockets of the players, furnished evidence for the ijolice. Dunn pleaded not guilty in city court Monday morning, and his trial was indefinitely postponed to give him a chance to confer with his counsel. The trial will probably be held Wednesday or Thursday. "Robert Burns," E. H. Davenport, C. D. Morrow, C. W. Englebert. Edward Manford and WT. S. Hancock, said to have been the players, were subpoenead as witnesses. In case the city proves its charges against Dunn, all probably will be tried for gambling. Three men in plain clothes were sent to investigate the game, complaints of which had been made to the police. The mysterious change in the game is said to have occurred immediately after their entry into the room. Chief Gormon says that many complaints had come to him from mothers whose boys had lost money Other places in town are going to undergo the - same sort of investigation, the chief said Monday. Samuel Harlan Man Who Protested Bridge Samuel Harlan, of Beeson's Crossing, whose initials were erroneously given as D. C. Harlan, in Saturday's Palladium, is the Harlan who spoke against the South Side bridge before the county commissioners Saturday. This explanation is made in justice to Denver C. Harlan, county attorney, who has been confused with the Harlan mentioned in Saturday's story. Wilson Kept in His Room by Severe Cold (By Associated Press) ON BOARD U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, March 10. (by wireless to the Associated Press) President Wilson is suffering from a cold and although it was less troublesome today, he remained in his room the greater part of the time on the advice of Rear Admiral Brayson, his medical attendant, that he keep as quiet as possible. The president Is spending most of his leisure on the voyage in reading. The George Washington is expected to arrive at Brest,' as originally planned, March 13, and the president will proceed immediately thence to Paris. Various conferences are being arranged by wireless for him, to take place Friday, March 14-

SOLDIERS ARE MURDERED BY SPARTACANS IN ATTACK

.... Berlin Suburbs Occupied by "Reds Many Killed and Wounded in Serious Fighting at Halle. BELIEVE CRISIS PASSED (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, March 10. Spartacan forces Sunday occupied the Berlin suburb of Lichtenberg and murdered 60 officers and soldiers in the police station there according to the Zeitung Am Mittag. The Lichtenberg police station had withstood Spartacan attacks since Tuesday, Hugo Haase has been elected chairman of the Independent Socialist party at its conference. He declined a previous election because Herr Daeumig, a Communist, was elected vicechairman. On the ballot by which Haase was elected chairman, Herr Crispien, the South German leader of the Independent Socialists, was elected vice chairman. The fact that Haase prevented the convention from swinging to the extreme left is interpreted as a sign that the way is being paved for an amalgamation of the Majority Socialists and the Independent Socialists. This impression is heightened by the concessions made by the government to the supporters of soviet principles. Adv?cp from Munich inrtiet te situation there 13 quieter and that tha jviajority faocialists are in ine ascendancy. The soviet congress has voted to release hostages seized at the time that Kurt Risner, the Bavarian premier, was assassinated. The strike situation in central Germany is reported to be improving. Many Killed in Riot LONDON, March 10. Many were killed and wounded in serious rioting which occurred at Halle, Germany, on Saturday, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Central News. Spartacans are said to have drowned many students and officers in the river there and it is reported that there was a general pillage in the part of the city where the fighting took place; Government troops eventually""" gained the mastery, it is said. A German wireless dispatch received here gives a semi-official bureau's report of recent happenings at Berlin. Fighting there lasted from 10 o'clock Wednesday night, when the mutineers opened fire with field guns and niine throwers on police headquarters until late Friday night. It is said that there were isolated encounters even as late as Saturday morning . The dispatch adds that even if final resistance has not yet completely broken down, the crisis may be regarded as safely passed. The dispatch says that on various streets in the northern and eastern sections of the city there was plundering of a minor character, but otherwise the situation was little changed by Saturday night. Spartacan forces had entrenched themselves in the Bostzow brewery and government troops were advancing from all sides to storm the building. Artillery had been drawn up in Friedrichain parke In preparation for the fight, and heavy howitzers, directed by aviators were firing on the brewery when the dispatch wa3 filed. Events in Berlin have produced a renewal of Spartacan agitation in the upper Silesian coal fields, It is said, and although order has been maintained by the troops, the situation there is said to be tense. MONACO TELLS OF WILHELM'S PLANS FOR WORLD WAR (By Associated Press) LONDON, March 10. "There is no doubt that the former German emperor was the first and responsible author of the war. He was absolutely for it and conducted it himself In all its ruthlessness and barbarity." This is a statement attributed to the Prince of Monaco by the Mail's Paris correspendent, who interviewed the prince there. The correspondent recalls that the Prince of Monaco was formerly a personal friend of emperor William, but that friendship was severed by the prince in a telegram sent to tha former emperor in September, 1914. "Until a few years before the war," the prince is quoted as saying, "tha German emperor seems to sincerely wish peace and a renewal of intercourse with France. I know this because I was entrusted with a mission to try to bring it about. But at tbw same time a terrible megalomania was growing in him. . He was anxious to see Germany over all, and from tho day when he felt it impossible to attain this end by peace, war became an obsesion with him. "I shall never forget the fury in his face and the hatred in his volco when, in July, 1914, he told me, 'If they oblige me to make war the world will see what it never dreamed of.' These words were hypocritical because the emperor could not pretend the war Into which he declared himself driven was at that very time being prepared for in every deiaiLExplosion Occurs in Massachusetts Factory WORCESTER, Mass., March 10. Aa explosion occurred this morning at the Baldwin Chain & Manufacturing company. Six bodies already have been recovered. W