Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 160, 18 April 1919 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXADIUM VOL. XLIV..NO. 160 Palladium. Est. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram 190T. i RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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PREMIERS TO GIVE PEACE CONDITIONS TO GERMANS

No Discussion of Terms Will be Permitted Enemy Delegates Only "Big Four" to be Present. ACT ON ITALY'S CLAIM

.Br Associated Pras) "WASHINGTON, April 18. Satisfactory progress at the peace conference was reported again today In advices to the white house, from Paris. It also was slated that Rear Admiral A Grayson had reported the president - entirely recovered from hla recent Illness. PARIS, April IS. With the return of David Lloyd George, the British premier, from his visit home for his house of commons address, the council of four comprising the British, French and Italian premiers, and President Wilson, resumed its deliberations today. The "big four" met in the Paris "White House." MAY GET TERMS APRIL 26 According to plans formulated at the conference, the German delegates will be permitted to ask questions to

elucidate obscure points, but nothing: approaching a discussion of the termn will be permitted. Only President Wilson and the allied premiers will he present when the terms are pret ented to the Germans. It is expected the league of nations will have the place of honor in the terms to be presented. According to present plans the allied terms of peace may not be laid before the Germans before .Saturday of nexc week and it may not be until the following Monday that the enemy delegates learn the details of the treaty they will be asked to sign. This will delay proceedings to some extent, it is believed, and It is not expected that the German delegation can go to Weimar, receive instructions and return to Paris before May 8. Conflicting claims to the city of . Flume and the Dalmatian coast which have been laid before the peace conference in Paris by Italy and Jugoslavia, probably will be brought to a derision soon, if efforts to be exerted by the Italian delegation bear fruit. Italy Asks Settlement This controversy, one of the mo3t troublesome to be considered by the conference has aroused publlo sentiment in Italy and when the Italian parliament meets April 24 it is probable Premier Orlando will be asked for a report on the subject. Hencu, he is said especially to desire a settlement before that date. Conversations on the Adriatic problems have been going on in Paris for eome time, but it is indicated that a Fettlement has not as yet been reached. Japan will bring before the council of four on Saturday the subject of Kiao Chau, the German fortress in the far east and it is expected that a decision will be announced soon. Agrees to Feed Russia Premier Clemenceau, who refused on Wednesday to join in the conditional agreement to feed Russia through neutral nations, has at last attached his name to the undertaking, letters exchanged between the council of four and the committee In charge of sending supplies to the Russians indicate that conditions in Rusrla arc critical. Libau has been seized by German and Baltic-German troops, according to advice received at Copenhagen. The Lettish provisional government has been ousted, according to the report, pnd some of the ministers imprisoned. A British mission is at Libau and British warships are In the

harbor ana it may De mat soni uuuuu Jwill be taken against the Germans, should the report prove to be true. Telegraphic communication between Berlin and Munich has been severed and Bamberg. Bavaria, also is cut off from the German capital. Dispatches do not give the reason for the interruption but German and Bavarian government troops have been fighting at Munich for the last few days and It Is believed that one party or the other cut the telegraph lines.

THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday.

Today's Temperature. Noon 49 Yesterday. Maximum 43 Minimum 36 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. -Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, mostly fair. Warmer Saturday. General Conditions The center of the cool wave crossed Indiana last night and as a result freezing weather occurred generall over Wayne county with a temperature of 29 above at 6:30 o'clock this morning. It is decidedly warmer west ot the MississipS. pi and an extensive storm developing over the Rocky mountain will cause rain the first of next week. Frost occurred during the last twenty-four bours as far south as Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Leading American Boys in North Russian Wilds

Major General Graves Major General Graves Is the man who is leading the American troops in the Russian wilds around Archangel where they are battling the Bolshevlkl forces. Graves is dressed in the winter garb worn by the Yanks with the exception that he has not the heavy boots on. SIX MEXICANS ENTER CONTEST FOR PRESIDENT Two Members of Carranza Cabinet to Be Candidates at July 1920 Election. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 18. Six candidates are in the field for the president of Mexico at the election in July, 1920, despite President Carranza's request that politics be put aside for the present, advices from Mexico City received here today said. The successful candidate will take office December 1, after the election. President Carranza himself, is not eligible to re-election under the constitution, but two members of his cabinet are candidates. Public opinion in Mexico divides the candidates into two classes civil and military, with the latter said to be the more popular. The candidates already in the field, either personally or through their friends, are Gen. Alvaro Obragon, Gen. Pablo Gonzale and Gen. Salvador Alvarado on the military side, and Louis Cabrera, Felix Palavlcinl and Aguirre Berlanga on the civilian side. Gen. Obragon's popularity rests largely on the fact that he is the only officer who has defeated the bandit Villa in battle. Some time ago Obragon retired from the army and has since devoted himself to his agricultural affairs in the state of Sonera. He recently come into close contact with a number of business men of the United States and it Is reported that he is more friendly toward this country than formerly. Gonzalez Friend of U. S. Gen. Gonzalez directed the operations which resulted recently in the defeat and death of the bandit leader Zapata which it is said, has increased greatly his popularity. He is friendly toward the United States, having been the only man of prominence who openly approved President Wilson's address to Mexican editors on their visit to Washington last year. Gen. Alvarado is known principally for his administration of Yucatan, where he put state socialism into operation. He Is the most ardent supporter of Carranza of the three military named. Luis Cabrera and Aguirre Berlanga are the members of the Carranza cabinet who openly are candidates for the presidency. Cabrera who was appointed secretary of finance recently, has been known to be hostile to the United States and failed utterly in his efforts during the war to align the other Latin American countries against this country. Since then he has publicly stated that his eyes have been opened and he does not consider the United States a foe to Mexico. Editor is Candidate. Berlanga as Minister of the Interior has charge of all the electoral machinery and is the link between the federal government and the various state governments which is considered as giving him an excellent strategic position. He is reported to have been strongly pro-German during the war. Felix Palavicini is the editor of El Universal and was consistently proally throughout the war. He carried his campaign against the German influence to such an extent that he was forced to flee the country. He went to New York and was not permitted to return and resume his educational work until the armistice was signed.

CHIEFS PLAN TO PUT LOAN OVER HERE IN 3-DAY DRIVE

Complete City Organization for Waging Whirlwind Campaign April 28, 29 and 30 is Announced by Directors. DELAY MASS MEETING The "Wayne township Victory loan subscription will be finished in three whirlwind days of campaigning, April 28, 29 and 30, according to plans an nounced Friday morning by Karl Meyers, E. M. Campfleld and Jesse Bailey, the township executive committee. Two canvassers, one from the men's organization and one from the woman's, will be allotted to every block in the city, and every citizen will be ap proached. It is hoped that the town ship quota of $1,000,000 can be raised in the first day by this intensive cam paign, said Campfleld. Richmond Organization Announced. The complete Richmond organization was also announced. Bernard Knollenberg and Joseph Walterman will be chairman and vice-chairman in the first ward; second ward, Joshua Allen and Howard Brooks; third, Lewis Iliff and Linus Meredith; iourth, Paul Beckett and Henry Seikman; fifth, C. E. Thomason and Thomas Tarkleson; sixth, Leslie Hart and Harry Doan; seventh, south, A. L. Jenkins and F. E. Roberts; seventh, north, Baltz Bescher and A. M. Gardner; eighth, John W. Schneider and John Burdsall. Paul Beckett Is Township Secretary. A meeting of all township and city workers. Including the ward chairmen was called for 4 o'clock Friday afternoon by Chairman Meyers and plans to put tYte loan over were discused. Welcome Parade to Be Held. A "welcome" parade of the 500 service men who have returned to the city from domestic and foreign service, in charge of Lawrence Handley, the war trophy train, which will be in Richmond all morning, April 29, the whippet tank, which although delayed by accident at Gosport, is expected here April 27 or 28. and other features are planned as adjuncts of the loan campaign. - ' City and township loan headquarters wlir-be-TOoa 404, 'phone' 1063 Colonial building, v : . :' ' Postponement of the : great mass meeting which was scheduled for April 21, has been announced because of the death of the father of Senator Medlll McCormlck, United States senator from nilnols. Senator McCormlck had been asked to speak at the Richmond meeting. Workers' Luncheon Monday. More than 100 persons have announced their intention of attending the workers' luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. Monday evening. Women campaigners will wear a neat arm badge, with a decoration consisting of a blue V with a white background, announced Mrs. A. W. Roach, county women's chairman. GRAVE SITUATION REPORTED IN EGYPT (By Associated Press) PARIS. Thursday. April 17 News papers here feature reports as to the gravity of the Egyptian situation, ana it Is said there is great concern among British authorities over the Nationalist movement. Despatches state that mutinous conditions prevail at Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said, there heing several mysterious deaths in connection -with the disorders. The insurgent leaders demand that European officials resign, that English citizens leave the country and that a Mussulman empire be founded with a Caliph at Cairo. 3,000 TROOPS LAND IN UNITED STATES NEW YORK, April 18 The steamship Otsego arrived here today from Bordeaux with 1,036 troops, the majority comprising the 19th, 20th, 30th, 35th, 36th and 45th balloon companies. Two officers and 72 men were convalescing from illness or wounds. The hospital ship Mercy, from St. Nazalre brought ten officers and 375 men who have been sick or wounded. The majority of these come home bedridden. BOSTON, April 18 The transport. Winifredian with 2,300 officers and men of the 26th division including ammunition, sanitary and supply trains docked at Commonwealth pier early today. Former members of the old first Vermont infantry, the Massachusetts coast artillery and Rhode Island cavalry were among those on board. Two U. S. Sailors Killed By Boiler Explosion (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 18. Rear Admiral Knapp reported to the navy department from London today that two enlisted men had been killed by a boiler explosion on the U. S. S. Boukelsbjik. They were William C. Hollenback, Columbus, O., and John Prender, Jr., Washington, D. C. No details were given.

Wilson Thanks Hitchcock For Statement on League (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 18. President Wilson cabled Senator Hitchcock retiring chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, today his thanks for the senator's recent message assuring him that the entire country was in favor of the league of nations. Senator Hitchcock's message was sent after the revision of the league covenant, containing reference to the Monroe doctrine. "I am warmly obliged for your message," the president said. "It cheers and encourages me, and I am delighted to know what we have done has so brightened the prospect of the league."

GRANDMOTHER OF 4 YANKS REARED AMONG INDIANS Richmond Woman Recalls Early Life as She Waits for Boys' Return. Four service stars, one of which can now be gold, hang In the window of Mrs. Annie Petry, 315 North A street. Fouf grandchildren, Harry Miller and Sergeant Clellie Gullet, of Richmond, and Clarence Martin and Charles Martin of Hamilton, all of whom played on her doorstep, , licked cake pans, and begged for Indian tales at her home when they were young sters, went out into the world war, and now three are coming back she prays to tell her their tales of the "big fight" and pat her wrinkled cheeks. Answering a knock on" her door this morning, a little grey haired, elderly woman, with tear stained eyes,, the grandmother of "four of the finest boys that ever lived", came to the door, and tried to talk about her boys without crying. She did not quite succeed with all her bravery, for several times a tear trickled down her face and dropped unnoticed upon a grey calico dress. Experienced In War "Yes, I have four grandsons in the service of their country. They are good boys and have been good soldiers. But I'm just waiting and waiting for them to come back. Some times at night I can't sleep Just for tmninng aoout them and wondering and praying that the three left will get back safe," explained the little woman.-v z ""- "I've had experiences with war all my life. Just one war after another. But I pray God there will not have to be another," she said. "When I was a little girl, not more than Ave years old, I suppose, my uncle, the only relative I had on this earth, took me west to live. My mother and "popple' had both died when I was nothing but a baby," and he was raising me. We had only Just gotten settled on the prairie when my uncle went to fight in th civil war. He was the only friend I had. His wife went for her father to come and live with us, but they treated my little sister and me awfully bad. There were times when they wouldn't let us come in the house for a day or two, and we would have to go for hours without anything to eat, and they didn't give us enough clothes to keep us warm in the winter. But that was mostly all after we had moved to the city. On the prairie we had some friends but they weren't the kind my aunt wanted us to have. They were Indians wild Indians, and the enemy of settlers. Many times we would have no less than ten or fifteen wagons of Indians sleeping in front of our door. We always fed them for we had to. They were good enough to some of those who did but It was woe unto them that didn't. Visitor Is Indian Chief "One Indian, a chief I think, thought a great lot of me and my little sister. He would come by the house often and take us both on his knee and call us his little papooses. He said soma day we would be his very own little pale pappooses, and then he would look at my aunt and her father and smile some way that scared them a great deal. t "My aunt kept telling her father; " 'Some day you'll find the children both stolen and us dead,' so finally he agreed to move away and we came back to Indiana to a city where there was more" trouble than before. Just, before we left the west my little sister took sick and died. "I guess I could about write a book of my life," continued the little woman. "For, after we came back to this state, some folks took me away from my aunt and took me over to Ohio where, after I was a young lady, I married. I've been married twice. I had two sons and both of them fought In the Spanish-American war. Neither one was killed though, I thank the good Father. My sons were Harvey Petry and William Martin. "All three wars were hard to live through, but this last one has been the worst with four fine boys to worry about," said she. HURRAH! SCHOOL'S OUT FOR COUNTY PUPILS Thirty-four hundred Wayne county school children, released from school rooms for the summer vacation of 1919, went joyfully home after the closing exercises in county schools Friday afternon for four months of freedom. Programs including speaking, recitations, playlets and "eats" to which the whole family was Invited, took place at most of the county schools Friday afternoon. All children of the county finished their year's schooling except those of Cambridge City and Richmond.

FOCH READY IF GERMANS DECLINE TO SIGNTERMS Further Occupation of Enemy Territory, Blockage of Ports and Discontinuance of Food Shipments Planned.

GERf' :i SEES DANGER (By Associated Press) PARIS, April 18. Military experts under the direction of Marshal Foch, have been charged with the drafting of a report on what should be done in the vent that Germany refuses to sign the treaty of peace. It is indicated that the methods of coercion which the allies would adopt may include the occupation of more German territory, the blockade of enemy ports and the discontinuance of the dispatch of food supplies to Germany. WARNING GIVEN GERMANS. BERLIN, April 17. In a strikingly sober article, written by Eduard Bernstein, the Vorwaerts warns the German nation of the danger attendant upon a refusal to sign the terms of peace and declares the world will not absolve former Emperor William and his advisers from responsibility for all the misery of the war. The article points out the enormous damage done to French territory and says: "Everyone acquainted with the facts knows that the the allied demand for the delivery of coal for a specified period is based upon economic necessities although a legitimate objection can be made to the demand for pledging the output of the entire Saare district. In any case we cannot 6ave the Saar district for Germany by threats." SCHOOL BOOKS ARE SELECTED BY OPEN VOTE Thirteen Ballots Are Required for Arithmetic Choice Prices Are Increased. INDIANAPOLIS, April 18. The state school board of education, of which C. O. Williams of Richmond is a member, sitting as a state board of school book commissioners, yesterday adopted texts to be used in the grade schools of Indiana for the next five years. The books were adopted by open ballot for the first time in the history of the commission. The following books were adopted: Wentworth-Smlth's arithmetics, Ginn & Company, two book series. The price bid for the primary book was 27 cents and the advanced 48 cents. The books now in use sell for 30 and 42 cents. Child classic readers, published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, primer, 18 cents; first, 19 cents; second, 25 cents and third 31 cents. The present prices of these books are 15, 20 and 25 cents. Elson readers published by Scott, Foresman & Company, fourth, 33 cents; fifth, 37 cents, and 6ixth, 37 cents. The fourth and fifth grade Child Classic books now in use sell for 30 and 40 cents respectively. Fight Over Arithmetic. Baker-Thorndike Everday Classics, Indiana edition, published by the MacMillan Company, seventh and eighth, 54 cents each. The Public School Writing System writing books, published by the Fort Wayne Printing Company, were adopted. The New Outlook System, published by O. P. Barnes are now in use. These were not considered in the adoption because the bids did not contain the wholesale price. Thirteen ballots were required before the members of the board made a selection of school arithmetics. Mr. Williams voted for the Modern Arithmetics by Lyons & Carnahan throughout the balloting. A motion was made by Mr. Williams to adopt the fourth, fifth and sixth readers as a group and it was decided to adopt only the fourth and fifth of this group. Williams and Himelick cast their vote for Easy Road to Reading by Lyons and Carnahan, as choice for fourth, fifth and sixth readers. In the choice for primer and first three readers Williams cast his vote for Child Classics by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. Small Damage Is Done By Frost to Indiana Crops (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 18. Small damage was done by the frost which was reported to have been general throughout Indiana, eastern Illinois and western Ohio last night, according to a statement issued at the office of United States weather bureau here today. J. F. Armington, forecaster, said he did not believe the temperature had ,been below freezing long enough to do much damage to early vegetables and fruit. Rising temperatures for tonight and Saturday are in prospect.

U. S. Missionaries Held By Japanese Officials

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Dr Alfred Irving Ludlow (above) and Dr. Oliver R. Avison CLEVELAND. Q April 18. Rev. Dr. Alfred Irving Ludlow, one of four American medical missionaries arrested by Japanese officials at Seoul, Korea, In connection with the Korean uprising, is a brother of Rev. Arthur C. Ludlow, pastor of Miles Avenuo Presbyterian church, and was born In Cleveland forty-three years ago. Dr. O. R. Avison, another of the missionaries arrested, educated his five sons in Cleveland schools. Two of them, Martin, twenty, and Raymond twenty-one, are about to resume their studies at Western Reserve university. They have just returned from France with the Thirty-seventh division. Dr. Ludlow, brother of the missionary in Korea, eays his brother had Just returned from Omsk, Siberia, and could not have been connected with any movement to stir up the Koreans. His arrest, Dr.Ludlow said, could only have - resulted from the refusal of Severance hospital authorities to permit Japanese officials to remove patients from the hospital. It is believed that this is the cause of the arrest of the other three missionaries also. The other two men named in the dispatches are Dr. John Thomas and J. W. Hirst. NAVY HEAD SEES YANKEE MARINES GUARDING RHINE (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, April 18. From a parapet of the Fortress Ehrenbreitstein, more than four hundred feet above the junction of the Moselle and Rhine, Secretary Josephus Daniels, of the United States navy, had his first glimpse this afternoon of American marines on duty. Patrol boats were darting back and forth among the barges and tugs on the river the American flag streaming from the stern mast of each little boat. At the point where the Moselle Joins the Rhine stands' a heroic statue of Emperor William the first, said to be tte largest of its kind in Germany. Beyond the statue there are great piles of lumber which aroused Secretary Daniels' curiosity as he looked down upon the activities of Coblenz which have been increased two fold by the American occupation of the city. It was explained that the lumber was intended for new buildings which will serve as recreation centers and barracks for the American soldiers of the Army of Ocupation. Reviews Second Division. Mr. Daniels was taken through the under-ground passages of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress which were built partly by labor paid for by twenty million francs which the Germans exacted from France and was shown the accommodations of American artillerymen where but a few months ago thousands of German soliiers had quartered. He also inspected the motorized equipment of the seventeenth artillery regiment which under Colonel E. W. McCable, former cavalry offieer and commander of Ehrenbreitstein, it is said to be the first artillery unit fully equipped with motors. Mr. Daniels will review tomorrow morning the second division which includes a Brigade of Marines. He will go to Wiesbaden on Saturday and will return to Coblenz by way of the Rhine. BOLSHEVIKI STORM AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Thursday, April 17. Bolsheviki sympathizers this morning attempted to storm the Austrian parliament building, but were soon dispersed with a few wounded. The city generally is quiet.

HUN FORCE IN CONTROL OF LETTISH GOVERNMENT

German Troops Take Possession of Lett Capital Under Pretense of Suppressing Bolsheviki Officials Held. LETT TROOPS AT FRONT (By Aaeoclated Press) WASHINGTON, April 18. State department advices today from Libau by way of Copenhagen described the German success in overthrowing the nrovisional government of Letvia Wednesaay, wnen officials of the government were imprisoned. The Germans, the dispatch reported, seized the treasury note of the provisional government and are now in absolute control of the situation. The coup was said to have been carried out under the guise of supression of the Bolshevii. TROOPS ARE INTERNED. COPENHAGEN, April 18. German and Baltic-German troops have forcibly seized Libau and overthrown the Lettish provisional government, according to advices received by the Lettish press bureau here. Lettish reserve . troops In Libau were surprised by strong German forces on Wednesday which overpowered the Letts and disarmed and Interned them. Later the Germans arrested the Lettish minister of the interior and several officials, it is said. The surprise was possible, according to report, because of the fact that Lettish troops had been sent to the front, while Baltic-German detachments had been brought back to Libau. The city now Is held and patrolled by the Germans. Soviet Hold Riga. Premier Ullman has protested to General Vonder Goltz, commander of the German troops In Letvia and the latter has expressed his astonishment over the Incident. The Letts accuse the Germans of constantly hindering them from mobilizing against the Bolsheviki which It Is said, account for the fact that Riga is still in the hands of the Soviet forces. A telegram was sent Wednesday evening by Premier. Ullman to the Lettish representative in Denmark, reporting the seizure of Libau and adding that he himself Is safe and collaborating with the Birtlsh mission and British warships in the harbor. The telegram 6tated that the Germans had occupied the premier's department and seized the nnncrn thsro Tt tea. added that the Germans demand that one-tnird or the members In a new ministry, which thev inufsf ho formed shall be Germans. The tele gram concludes by saying: "We will accept to nothing." Negroes Charge Each Other . With Murder of Detective INDIANAPOLIS. April 18. Two investigations one by federal authorities and the other by the police were being continued today as a result of the murder of Elmer Robbing, Big Four railroad detective at Greensburg yesterday by two negro "booze runners," while at Greensburg plans for the funeral of the detective tomorrow were under way. The federal authorities were concerned chiefly with the admission made by William Sholty, of this city, a painter, who upon surrendering himi self to the police yesterday afternoon, ' said he was responsible for calling the Greensburg authorities and representing himself to be a federal officer and requesting them to arrest the negroes. It was in response to his telephone call that Robbins and Greensburg officers went to the railroad yard to arrest the negroes. Sholty, the police say, confessed he has been "bootlegging whisky." The two negroes, John Hancock and Thomas Washington, arrested her yesterday, continued to maintain the other shot and killed Robbins, the police say. RICHARD CRANE IS NAMED CZECHO ENVOY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. April 18. Selection of Richard Crane, private secretary to Secretary Lansing since 1915. to be first American minister to the new republic of Czecho-Slovakiaj was announced at the state department today by Acting Secretary Polk. Mr. Crane, whose father is Charles R. Crane of Chicago, -is 37 years old, and was born at Denver, CoL Young French Heroine Given War Decorations (By ; Associated Press) PARIS, April 18. Twice sentenced to death by the Germans, a young heroine of the war, Louise Thuillez of Valenciennes, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with Pain leaves. She distinguished herself by helping French and allied soldiers to escape from German durance and twice the urgent intercession of the Spanish minister in Brusels saved her from the firing squad. She was eventually sentenced to penal servitude for life but after serving three years of her sentence, the German retreat put an end to her imprisonment.

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