Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 154, 11 April 1919 — Page 1

SPARTICIDES

SPREAD 'RED' BIOVEMENTTO BADEN CITIES Agitators Working in Karlsruhe and Mannheim Communists Disperse Council at Munich Prisoners Freed. RIOT AT DUSSELDORF

(By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, April 11. -Tho revolutionary movement in Bavaria has spread to Baden and agitators are i Working in Karlsruhme, Mannheim and other large towns, according to a Karlsruhe dispatch to the Achtuhr Blatt of Berlin. The council of people's mandatories which has been In control at Munich has 'been dispersed by the Commonlots, who have formed a Communists' government th&'e, according to the Frankenisthe Tagescost of Nuremberg. In a new Spartacan outbreak at Dusseldorf Thursday, 25 persons were killed and 25 wounded when government troops used machine guns on Spartacan demonstrators, the Lokal Anzelgr of Berlin says. Assembly Stays at Weimar. The Munich revolutionary council has ordered the Immediate release of all prisoners of war in Bavaria. The order frees thousands of Russian prisoners. A special from Weimar states that the government has abandoned for the present Its intention to transfer further sessions of the national assembly to Berlin, owing to the unsuitable condition and the relchstag building, which for months has been used for a barracks for revolutionary troops. It Is estimated that four months' work would be required, at an expenditure of six hundred thousand marks to properly ventllato the building. INSIST ON 14 POINTS BERLIN. Thursday, April 10. Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau. forelrn min

ister, speaking before the national assembly at Weimar today said Germany

wouia not sign a peace treaty which deviated in any essential from Presldent Wilson's "fourteen points." "The financial demands to be made In the peace treaty are obviously causing as much difficulty to our opponents as those regarding territory," the & foreign minister said.' "It is impossible to solve the question of financial

claims without negotiating with our experts at the conference tables. We will give a clear account to our oppon ents relative to their demands and our ability to pay." Want Blockade Raised "Our opponents," continued the minister, "cannot dismember and paralyze Germany and at the same time extract from the resources of the country the enormous sums they expect from them For that purpose we require the re lease, industrially and agriculturally. of the Important west which contrary to the armistice terms is cut off from the rest of Germany. "We need to have the blockades speedily raised and we require the im portation of foodstuffs on conditions which will make their purchase po3 Sible. "All the states which participated in this war And themselves In the same distress and hardly a nation Is not disappointed by a peace that is a ter rible danger because of the encourage ment given by it to disruptive forces. Four Members of G.A.R. Passed Away Daring Year The 105 members of Sol Meredith post, G. A. R., are looking forward to the annual public appearance on Decoration Day this year. The vet erans probably will march at the head of hundreds of bronzed young soldiers of the world war, and for this and other reasons the Memorial day exer cises may be unique this year. Sol Meredith post is one of the three active posts in the county, ac-

i cording to its members. The posts

V . at Cambridge City and Centerville still hold their charters, but that at

Dublin surrendered to Time some years ago. The thirteen men at Dub lln came to Richmond and Joined the Sol Meredith post. Nine of them are now dead. The local post has lost four members by death this year, William Mlddleton. Jofcn Markley, George Petty and Frank Glass, and its present membership has decreased very fast for several years. Four years ago the membership was 180. The Centerville post has not met for some time, said William Mathews, county assessor, who is a member. The Richmond post meets at 2 o'clock every Saturday In the post rooms In the courthouse. Socialist "Sympathy" Strike In Italy Is Unsuccessful ROME. Tuesday, April 10. The general strike of twenty-four hours called by the Socialists for today In memory of the victims of ."Red week" In Berlin and also in honor of the birthday of Lenine, the Russian Bolshevik premier, was not a complete success. Several stores refused to close their doors and the railroads worked normally. The street cars, omnibUBses and cabs and all means of urban transportation suspended operations. The garrison was reinforced by troops from the provinces. Detachments guarded the royal palace, the Vatican, and public offices. Armed pickets patrolled the town. Up to the present there have been no disorders. The undisturbed condition of the city perhaps was duo somewhat to a heavy tain which fell.

Tanks, Posters and Medals

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The photos show Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols

son unfurling the flag which has hung over tne aome ot tne capuoi aurmg French "whippet" direct from "no man's land" to aid In Victory loan drive.

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The whole country is busy preparing for the approaching Victory loan. Washington recently witnessed the dedication of a historic flag to the coming campaign- The flag which flew from the dome of the capitol when President Wilson was Inaugurated, when ' war was declared, and when the armistice was signed has been presented to the treasury depart WILSON'S SHIP TO BRING BACK 4,000 FIGHTERS t - George Washington Sails for Brest Today Pershing's Band on Way Home. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 11. The transport George Washington will sail at four-thirty this afternoon from Hoboken for Brest. The vessel will bring back more than four 'thousand troops. Among the passengers booked to sail on the transport are Dr. Chalmers DaCosta, chief surgeon of the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, who will serve as a navy medical officer on the Gorge Washington during the trip; I. J. Kenna, American consul general at Zurich; Vice Consul Wal ter S. Ruffner; Adjutant General Pe ter C. Harris; sixteen Y. M. C. A. workers; four Y. W C. A. workers and the Jewish Welfare Board workers. "Pershing's own band," organized by order of the American commander in chief to improve the standard of military music in the expeditionary force has sailed for home on the Le viathan to aid in the Victory loan, according to a cable message received by the Liberty loan committee for the New York federal reserve district. This band, comprising 104 of the best musicians in the American army, and a drum corps of forty members, commanded by Captain L. H. Fisher and Lieutenant Phillip James, will take part in all the Victorl loan parades throughout the country and in addition will give concerts in various cities. It probably will reach home next Thursday The tentative date of April 17, set for the parade here of the 332nd infantry, the only American doughboy regiment to take its place on the Italian front, was today postponed until April 21, when the mayor's committee on welcome to home coming troops was informed that the transports Canopic and Duca D'Aosta, bearing the organization to this port, had ben delayed at sea. The regiment comprises chiefly soldiers from Ohio and Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON, April 11. The War department has instructed embarkation officials in France to return in one convoy as large a part of the 77th division as possible. A cablegram from American expeditionary headquarters to the war department today announced that all organizations of the 29th (New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia) and 33d (Illinois) divisions have been assigned to early convoy as well as the 158th field artillery brigade (83d division) and base hospital No. 77.

Will Help Boost Victory Loan Drive

Which'American People Are Preparing to Institute on April 22

Watrous and her Victory loan poster; ment and will be given to the state attaining the highest percentage of oversubscription to the loan. In New York, Mrs. Elizabeth ; Watrous, well known in both society and art circles, is busy painting a poster that - will help to boost the loan. The French "baby" or whippet tanks will also play a part in the drive. A shipload which recently- arrived in New York will he Insane Hindu Precipitates Clash In Buenos Aires (By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, April 11. Twe stevedores were killed in a clash with the police here today. The trouble followed the landing by a party of stevedores of an Insane Hindu whom they had found on board a British ship in the harbor. Believing the Hindu was a mariner who was undergoing punishment on board the ship, the stevedores wrecked the vessel's brig, took the man out and escorted him to shore, where they were intercepted by police. WAYNE COUNTY LOAN WORKERS AREAPP0INTE0 Chairman Reynolds Announces His Selection of Aids for Victory Drive. Chairman Lewis G. Reynolds of tho Wayne County Victory Liberty Loan committee completed hi3 organization Friday and gave out the complete list of his assistants. Joseph H. Mills, who was compelled to resign the chairmanship because of his health, is the vice chairman, Will W. Reller is chairman of the speakers' committee, and Demas S. Coe heads the publicity division. Mrs. A. W. Roach is chairman of the woman's section of the organiza tion and Mrs. Charles Druitt is vicechairman. The Richmond city com mittee for the loan is made up of Charles E. Thomason, Lewis E. Ihff, Leslie E. Hart and Harry C. Doan. Rudolph T. Price will be commander of the army section of the returned veterans, and Paul Beckett the commander of the navy section. Both of these sections are expected to take a big part in the drive. A special "pep" committee was appointed by Reynolds, consisting of Joseph H. Hill, John M. Lontz and T. B. Jenkins. No plans are yet announced for the campaign except that Richmond is to be visited by a baby tank, Saturday, April 19, in charge of Lieutenant Logston. and a crew, all of whom have seen active service. BOLSHEVISTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA (By Associated Preas) SAN SALVADOR, April 1L The Nlcaraguan government has received Information that Bolshevik agents are arriving In that country for the purpose of secretly reaching capitals and principal cities in Central America. Authorities at ports and along the frontiers have received orders to be especially , vigilant In detaining men suspected ot being Bolshevik!

Carter Glass, left, and Frank R. Wil-

tne two years ot struggle; oeiow, Insert shows first Victory loan med distributed throughout the country, carrying literature and a soldier bond salesman. Duplicates of the medal shown above will be awarded to each worker In the campaign. The originals were made from melted metal of German captured guns. President Wilson .Secretary Glass and Mr. Mo Adoo will get the three original med als.. . v -..,; ,. REPEAL OF ROAD LAW CONSIDERED BY LEGISLATORS Highway Administration May be Returned to Township and County Officers. (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 11. Repeal of the county unit road law and plac ing administration of township and county roads, which are not main mar ket highways, back into the hands of towsship and county officers, is probability, if the Indiana general as sembly is called into special session by Governor James P. Goodrich. "We can repeal the law in a day's time," said Representative Jesse Esch bach, of Warsaw, speaker of the house of representatives today, who is here with other Republican leaders holding conferences with the governor. "It would cost about $7,000 to repeal the law, but I believe," he added, "that the people would be well satisfied. The speaker also is of the opinion that the person or persons responsible for the errors in enrolling the act, should become known and made to suffer for the mistake. Attention was called to the fact that some of the amendments, adopted by he house and senate after the conference com mittee of the two houses had reported. were enrolled in the act and others were not, among them the most objec tionable, which provides for transfer of supervision of the roads from town ship to county officials. Wait Stansbury's Decision. The prospect for repeal of the law, if the legislature is convened, is more than a possibility. While the measure was under consideration at the regular session, leaders did not in all in stances approve of it, and Charles Mendenhall, Republican floor leader, told members after the house passed the measure, that It should have been killed. Support of those members, who were - not entirely in sympathy with the bill was won over by amend ments which increased the number of petitioners required before an im provement could be considered under a petition by the board of county com missioners of any county. Even those amendments did not entirely remove the objections that some members had, who described the measure as "a contractor's bill." The decision relative to calling a special session of the legislature will be reached by Governor Goodrich af; ter Ele Stansbury, the attorney general, gives an opinion whether section 2 of the county unit law was repealed by the Beardsley law, signed by the governor the same day as he approved the county unit measure. Section 2 of the latter bill concerns transfer of duties of township trustees In road matters to the county commissioners, and was to have been etricken out of the measure by the adoption of conference committee report but was enrolled and became a part of the law when the governor attached his signature.

RAIL MEN GIVEN

WAGE INCREASE OF 65 MILLION New Advances Raise Total Payroll of American Railroads to $3,000,000,000. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 11 Wage ad vances aggregating $65,000,000 were ordered today by Director General Hines for four hundred thousand railroad engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors In both passenger and freight service members of the "big four" , railway brotherhoods retro active 6ince January 1. 1919. The Vit-j-itViAi-hnriri Amanita fnr tiiriA a.nri A half pay for overtime was granted only tor men engagea ra yara service ana tor tne otnerstnis question was tn tVin raUrnad arimlniatra. tlon's board of adjustment number a a m . J one aireaay createa ior consideration of dlsnutes relating to railway train men and enginemen. Tne increases were arrangea aconrHlnff tn fa utntomnlatAri nchnriula. one of the aims of which was to restore the wage relationship existing Deiore tne rauroaa b increase in wages last year. The average advance In pay per man per year will be about $160. Raised Three Billion Tnr.lndine tndav'a order the arrregate pay increases allowed by the rauroaa administration to tne two million railroad employes Is at the rata nt ftf0 a vnir mnrA than $400 average per man. Thus the total payroll of America's railroads is rais ed nearly to $3,ooo,ouo,oou a year irom 000 on January 1, 1918, when the roads passed into tne governments The $65,000,000 added to the pay rolls ot memDers or tne "Dig lour- orothprhnniln hrlnca thA tntnl trrantAd this r.laRa nt pmnlnves in the last three years to approximately $275,000,000, or aonroximateiy seao per man. nus toUca iritn onnsirlprntlnn th S140.000. 000, estimated as the brotherhood's share ol tne general wage increase last vpar onil S70.O00.000 estimated as thA fmlt. for these men from the Adamson act which established a basic eight hour day but did not put into effect the brotherhood's oleas for time and a naif ior overtime. . narlr tut fnr wnrlr alnc.a January 1 will be given tho brotherhood men as annn ca tho, rnilwav navmanters, Can work out the amount due. This may take a month or even more to com plete. Tn thA first fireneral waee advance moria hv trin raw man Administration following the recommendations of the railroad wage commission, approxi mately 54UU,UUU,uou a year was uiatributed among railroad employes. About $140,000,000 of this went to the trainmen and engineers and about $260,000,000 to other employes, un BiinnlemAntal orders about S150.000.000 was added to payrolls of the shopmen - about the Bame to maintenance-ui-way men and clerks, and about $45,000,000 to telegraphers and station oirMr T?aiiwav accountants calculatedthat In 1916 and 1917, the years immoriiatoiv TirApAoine eovernment con trol, the railway companies Increased wages $350,000,ouu. witn tne o&,000,000 added by the railroad administration the aggregate advance of railroad men's wages in three years is set at approximately $1,172,000,000 or about $580 per man. The railroad payroll in 1917 was calculated at $1,750,000,000. in 1918 at $2,538,000,000, and this year at $2,822,000,000. Comparatively small Increases in pay are expected soon for dining car and sleeping car employes. Director General Hines in his analysis of wage situation under government control explained that at the end of last year employes wages had not been raised to a rate which would have added $754,811,000 to the aggregate railroad payroll if it had been effective through the entire year. He added to this the sum of $67,500,000 to cover increases for the brotherhood men in the order today and for dining car, sleeping car and police employes. The aggregate for the latter three classes is estimated at about $2,500,000, having approximately $65,000,000 for the brotherhood men. Count on Rate Increase. The actual payment under increased wage orders last year was $538,000.000, according to Mr. Hines' calculation. Railroad companies estimate the wage increases at nearly $100,000,000 more than the railroad administration. Railroad accountants calculate that about $1,000,000,000 a year will be forthcoming from the rate increase last year. The railroad administration's figures today on wage additions indicate that more than eighty per cent of this is eaten up in wages. UNION MINERS WANT ACTION FROM HINES (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa,, April 11. John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine workers of America, who, for the past two days has been inspecting mining conditions in the Pittsburgh district, said in a statement published here today that the miners organization would be obliged to take "drastic action" unless there is a change of policy on the part of Director General Mr. Hines actions indicate that he is determined not to keep his promises relative to the letting of railroad coal contracts, giving full publicity to such contracts and guaranteeing a fair profit to operators. -."Since I have been in Pittsburgh," declared ; Mr. Lewis, "I have learned that he Is making contracts for coal during April. The custom has been to contract for six months' supplies." This means, said Mr. Lewis, that the director general will arrange to get coal during May for leas than he paid In April

Americans Rush German

Police All Over Rhine To Get Their Helmets (By Associated Press) PARTS. Anril 11. -When German oftiMaia in thA Ht lea occunied bv the Americana issued orders for policemen to don their pre-war uniforms they didn't realize wnat an attraction me boche helmets have for Yankees. fiArman nolicemen were rushed all along the Rhine by Americans who couldn't resist the temptation to capture helmets from the heads of live Germans. As a consequence of the onslaughts made upon the policemen, American officers asked German officials to discontinue the use of the helmets. Ordinary caps are far less attractive than helmets as targets for snowballs and peaceiui uerman policemen are now able to walk their beats In safety and quiet GERMAN AUSTRIA UNDER POWER OF SOVIEUEADERS Employes of Coal Mines and Factories Drive Out Managers Communism Grows. (By Associated Press) VTENNA, Thursday, April 10. Ger man Austria Is coming under the in fluence of the establishment of soviet governments at Munich and Buda pest. At Donawitz, 10,000 workers in the iron smelting plants have driven out the managers because the latter have refused to grant Increased wages. The coal miners there are reported to have considered similar action and there is prospect that the employes of the iron mines will take over control of the properties and elect their own managers. Bank clerks at Vienna are demanding higher salaries. At one bank the salaries paid before the war totaled 11,000,000 crowns, which amount was increased during the war to 25,000,000. It is now faced with the demand for payment of 11,000,000 more which will make a sum equal to the yearly dividends of the bank before the war. The communists of German Austria have been told that If communism is adopted here the allies would cut off food supplies but this argument naa been removed since the allies have appeared willing to treat with the com munists at Budapest. Italy Disarms Force Italy has ordered the Austrian republic to disband and disarm any of the troops regarded as pro-communist. The situation at Budapest prevents Vienna banks from making up their yearly statements. It is impossible as yet to estimate the value of securities held by Hungary and it is said that, even if Hungary should agree to make settlements with the German Austrian republic, any new money she might offer would be without value. Busi ness at Vienna Is at a standstill with the banks operating virtually as gov ernment tax officers. "The only salvation here is to kill Bolshevism with work," said Dr. Alfred Treichl, director of the AngloAustrian bank today, "but we cannot give work unless we can secure raw materials from abroad. BUDAPEST, Thursday, April 10. The elections in Hungary for the crea tion of soviet councils passed off with out reported incidents, soviet organizations being formed in the country districts by means of this balloting. The whole process was carried out under the coercion of the red army, with the majority of the voters in many places not appearing to know why they were voting. Notwithstanding the desperate ear nestness of the communists, outsiders now in Hungary are still Inclined to take the economic view of the experiment which they feel will not develop into a lasting success, although whether conditions will become worse before they grow better is a debatable question. CRITICISM FORGED CHANGE IN LEAGUE DECLARES REED (By Associated Press) SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 11. "If the critics have only brought about that amendment their time has been well spent," was the comment today of United States Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, after he read the Pari3 dispatch announcing that the league of nations commission had adopted a new section to the covenant speciflcal- ! ly providing that the Monroe doctrine ! is not to be affected by the provisions of the covenant. Senator Reed, who has opposed a league of nations in many speeches, delivered an address here on the subject last night. NEW YORK SENATOR MAKES H CHARGE ALBANY, N. Y., April 11. Testifying before the judiciary committee of the seaate today, Senator George F. Thompson of Niagara, said that Richard H. Burke of New York, told him that if he would assist In the passage of the Carson-Martin increase trolley fare bill he could become governor of the state and that the traction interests would raise In his behalf a campaign fund amounting to $500,000. Senator Thompson also told of dining subsequently with former Governor Charles Whitman at Mr. Whitman's invitation. He said that the former governor told him he had been requested to talk with him by Theodore P. Shonts of the Interborough company. Mr. Whirman, he estifled, told him he thought he was making a mistake In not supporting the CarsonMartin bill as it might give him a chancs to be governor.

CONFERENCE IS IN AGREEMENT ON TERMS FOR

PEACEJREATY Indemnity, Reparation and Frontier Question Decided German Delegates to be Summoned Within Week. RAPID PROGRESS MADE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 1L More progress has been made in the peace conference during the last forty-eight hours than during the entire previous two weeks, according to advices received at the White House today from Paris. Without giving details, the advices Indicated that some of the chief difficulties delaying progress In the negotiation had been overcome and that the president had secured the acceptance of certain of the Important points for which he had been contending. ; PREMIER REPORTS PROGRESS PARIS, April 1L Peace conference has reached an agreement on all questions concerning peace with Germany, reparation, indemnity and the frontiers of the Rhine and Poland, according to an interview In the Petit Journal, with tho private secretary of Premier Lloyd George. Certain details remained and it Is added they will be settled in two or three days. The German delegates will be sum- -moned to Versailles within two or three weeks. The British premier, his secretary, is quoted as saying, thinks that If the allies agree as well at present as during the war, the achievements of the peace conference will be lasting and numerous dangers, including Bolshevism will be averted. It was announced last night that Geneva, Switzerland, has been chosen as the 6eat of the league of nations. Monroe Doctrine Added. While the text of the Monroe doctrine amendment adopted by the League of Nations at Its session last night Is withheld, its main features are substantially along the following lines: Article X. Nothing in this covenant shall be construed as invalidating any agrement, such as the Monroe doctrine, or the maintenance of peace. HIGH MEAT PRICES TO REMAIN, STATE AMERICAN PACKERS (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, April 11. The American Meat Packer's association In a statement issued today declares that lower prices for meat may not be expected until the war stricken countries of Europe are enabled to resume their quota of production. The statement reads in part: "The situation today in the meat Industry Is Just about what Herbert Hoover and other fwod administration officials said it would be, as far back as the first of the year. "That high prices are caused largely by heavy demands rather than any control aimed to stimulate production has recently been illustrated very clearly in the case of hogs. When the minimum price fixed for hogs was removed the food administration predicted that the prices might go still higher. The prediction Is now being verified. i "High prices will continue for a long time. Each day that brings final peace nearer means a greater call on this country for meat. LOAN TERMS DECIDED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 11 All terms of the Victory Liberty loan have been determined by the treasury and probably will be announced Monday Instead of awaiting Secretary Glass's spech at a loan rally in New York Tuesday night. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight. Saturday, fair and warmer. Today's Temperature. Noon 46 Yesterday. Maximum 68 Minimum 44 For Wayne County by W. E. Moors Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Near freezing tonight If the weather clears. Rising temperature Saturday. General Conditions The Texas storm has moved northeastward and will pass entirely away, followed by mostly fair weather. Temperatures a below normal over the MlasissinDl

valley. General snows are reported f )

In the southwest, ' especially heavy over Kansas and parts of southern Oklahoma, and northern Texas. Ten inches of snow on the level Is re ported In the Texas Panhandle. An area of low barometric pressure in the northwest rof much energy will cause a reaction to milder weather within the next 36 hours, but colder weather is following over Britten Colombia.