Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 156, 9 April 1919 — Page 14

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1919.

CONVENTION OF WAR VETERANS WILL BE HELD

American Legion Plans National Session in St. Louis May 8, 9 and 10. NEW YORK, April 9. A committee whose officers declared it represented every state in the union, every rank in the army and navy and every shade of political belief, issued here - last night a call for a caucus in St Louis next month to effect a preliminary organization of the American Legion, to be composed of American veterans of the world war. The caucus to be held May 8, 9 and 10, will pave the way for a national convention, set tentatively for Nov. 11, when the organization Intended to offer membership to all officers and enlisted men in the United States military or naval service between the date of America's declaration of war and cessation of hostilities, will be made permanent The caucus call was signed by Lieutenant Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of New York, chairman; Lieut. Col. Bennet Clark, of Missouri, vice chairman and Lieut. Col. Eric Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, secretary, together with upward of 200 committeemen drawn from the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the army, navy and marine corps and representing forty-eight states and the District of Columbia. "The league will not interest itself In politics," Lieut. Col. Roosevelt declared in discussing the embryo organization. It will be strictly nonpartisan, he added, its objects being to perpetuate comradeships formed during the war, to preserve the history of the conflict and to maintain the principles for which American soldiers and sailors trained, fought and died.

Enlisted Men Invited. The St. Louis caucus will be the third formal meeting of the legion orKanization, the first two following a conference in February of a group of officers In France having been attended last month by nearly 1,000 officers and men of all branches of the American expeditionary forces. Before calling the assembly In this country it was decided to make the preliminary committee representative by including enlisted men and by apportioning the membership among the states. As evidence of the proposed Democratic character of the legion is is stated that the committee desires at leajt half the delegates of the caucus be men from the ranks. Col. Roosevelt's committee urged that veterans of the war communicate with tho temporary committftnen from their states, so that in the preliminary state conference all may have a voto in the selection of delegates to the St. Louis meting. Delegations from each state, it Is announced, should be twice the size of the representation in congress. In addition to the delegates and their alternates, the committee said, representatives of veterans and patriotic organizations already formed would be invited to attend, together with governors and adjutant generals of all states as honorary delegates.

Many Branches Open to Men Who Enlist Now

Sergeant Wright, in charge of the local reemting station at Sixth and Main streets, today called attention to the fact that the United States government Is calling for 50,000 volunteers for overseas duty. He said that all would be given an opportunity to see the battlefields- of France, and duty in Italy and along the Rhine. The various branches of the service open for enlisted men include the infantry, cavalry, field artillery, engineers and medical corps. The government wants in its army the following craftsmen:. Electricians, linemen, telegraph and radio opejfctors, gas engine mechanics, chauffeurs, ignition men, auto repairmen, transit men, levelmen, surveyors, draftsmen, boiler makers, tool makers, welders, carpenters, bakers, cooks, typists, stenographers, motorcycle repairmen, etc., as well as men who have no trade.

Music Supervisors Back From National Convention Miss Edna Marlatt and Mrs. Grace Gormon have returned from St. Louis where they attended the national convention of supervisors of music. The State Music Teachers' association meeting will be held In Muncie, April 29 and 30. and May 1. Ralph C. Sloane. head of the music department in the Richmond schools, is chairman of the executive committee. Mr. Sloane said there should be at least a dozen teachers from Richmond in attendance at the meeting. It is the duty, he said, of all teachers who have vocational students, to attend the meeting. Methods in vocational work will be one of the big features of the convention.

SAVINGS- ACCOUNTS SHOW INCREASE IN LOCAL BANKS With deposits growing, savings accounts going upward, and more money changing hands than ever before, bankers of Richmond are confident that the condition of the city is the best for some time. Some factories are still not running at full capacity on account of the change from war work to that of peace but the majority are running full time. The payroll of one of Richmond's largest factories Is the largest in Its history, and others, as reflected in their accounts with the banks, are getting on a stable peace basis once more. Big Sale Reported. Stores in all lines of business report a large volume of trade, two furniture stores in particular, always a sure index of prosperity, reporting more sales for the first quarter of 1919 than in the first five months last year. One bank reported the biggest oneday and one-week deposit in its history last week, and while others could not say that their last week's deposits were the very largest, all showed deposits going upward slowly. The savings accounts, always a sure index among the people of moderate means, also are going up.

STORM TAKES TOLL OF LIVESJN SOUTH (By Associated Press)

DALLAS, Tex., April 9. Three per

sons were killed and great damage to

building and farm property was done

by a storm throughout this district last night and today. A Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight train was blown from the track near Denison, Tex., and two train men hurt. DURANT, Okla., April 9. Six persons are reported killed, a number of others seriously injured and many houses and barns were demolished in a storm which swept through this county last night It passed five miles from here and did not hit any town in the county.

FRIENDS' MISSIONARY ORGANIZATIONS ALL OVER U. S. T 0 SEND ENVOYS HERE

Representatives of every Friends' Foreign Missionary organization in America will meet in South Eighth street Friends' church of this city at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning for the purpose of considering ways and means of co-operation and organization in the foreign missionary work. The conference will continue on Saturday and sessions probably will be held Monday. "This conference is the outgrowth of an idea of Gilbert Bowles, a Friends Missionary in Japan," explained S. Edgar Nicholson, who arrived home today after several weeks in the east Mr. Nicholson said that, though this meeting probably would consider deeply som of the ways and means to accomplish closer co-operation and organization In missionary work, the agreemnts at the conference will not be binding to the Individual agencies represented. Ha said that Mr. Bowles idea was to follow the annual missionary conference of North America, which is usually held at Garden City, L. I., with a conference of Friends to assist in making their work more complete and uniform. The annual meeting of the North American agencies was held in New Haven in February this year instead of Garden City, and Mr. Bowles' suggestion was immediately followed by a Friends' meting in New York city. This latter meeting resulted in the appointment of a continuation committee composed of S. Edgar Nicholson, of this city, chairman; Max I.

High School Library Contains 2,000 Books The books in the High school library total 2,000 volumes. There are books for every department, all of which are the very best. Many volumes are duplicated, particularly those used in the English and history departments. In the literature and fiction department there are 808 copies, in the Latin and German section, 20; commercial or business, 10; biography, 128; civil government and political economy, 48; history, 458, mathematics, 8; physical science, 141; natural science, 110; miscellaneous, 3; domestic science and domestic art, 66; art and mechanic arts, 83; pedogogy, 251.

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STILL DANGER OF WAR, SAYS CURZON

(By Associated Press) LONDON, April 9. Defending the military bill in the House of Lords today, Earl Curaon of Kedleston, president of the council and government leader in the House of Lords declared that Vienna "being in a serious position and apprehensive lest it should share the fate of Budapest had turned to Great Britain and said: 'If you will send ten thousand British troops we can guarantee the situation." " Earl Curzon was not sure that war conditions would not revive. H said: "I see clouds on the horizon which may burst at any moment in a more sinister form than anything yet seen. If tho critics of this bill can show the government how to rule Ireland without maintaining forty thousand troops there they will confer ft great favor on the government"

Red Cross Awards Will Be Given Out Shortly The award committee of the Wayne County Red Cross committee met at the headquarters yesterday and completed the final award report. As soon as this report is returned from the divisional headquarters in Cleveland, Red Cross work certificates will be issued to Wayne county women who worked 800 hours or more during the period of the war. A number of women from this county will receive per.

tificates, it is understood.

Reld of Philadelphia and Carrie L. Chambers of Damascus, O. The committee has called the Richmond meeting and has asked that each foreign misisonary agency of the country send at least five representatives to confer in this city. Those to Be Represented. The organizations to be represented are: American Friends Foreign Board of the Five Years Meeting; Philadelphia Friends Yearly Meeting board and a Foreign Missionary committee from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; Ohio Yearly Meeting; Friends Foreign Missionary board of California; the Friends Intercollegiate association of Student Volunteers; American Women's Foreign Mission Union of Friends composed of women from every Yearly Meeting; American Friends Service Committee, which while not a missionary organization in Itself, is to take up work in Russia and Serbia in the near future which will be more or less of a missionary character. A reception for the representatives has been planned by the local Women's Foreign Mission Union, and will be held in the South Eighth street Friends church Saturday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 o'clock. At least sixty out-of-town persons are expected to attend this reception. It will be of an Informal nature.

Technical Military Training Opposed by New Yorkers NEW YORK, April 9. Technical military training for boys 16 to 18 years of age as prescribed by the state military commission law in force throughout the last year was condemned by the state reconstruction commission in a report forwarded to Governor Smith.

Petain Pays Visit to

American Army Bases

(By Associated Press) PARIS, April 9. Marshal Petain, accompanied by General Castenau and other French officers and Brigadier General Harbord of the United States army, visited the American bases at Bordeaux and St. Nazaire Tuesday. At Bordeaux the marshal reviewed a battalion of American troops and a company of French zouaves.

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