Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 163, 22 April 1919 — Page 1
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STARR PLANT WILL ERECT ADDITION OF
SIXJTORIES
Richmond Manufacturers to
Spend Approximately $100,000 for Building to
Accommodate Expansion.
250 MORE EMPLOYES
Plans for the erection by the Starr
Piano company ot a six-story factory
building on the firm's property at First and South A, B. C, D, and E streets, which will provide 100000 feet
of additional floor space, were formally announced today by Fred Gen-
nett, secretary of the company. Con
tracts for the construction of the
building will be consummated late
this afternoon, Mr. Gennett said. The structure, when completed, will represent an expenditure of approximately $100,000, and will be the forerunner of other buildings to be erected this fall. The company will soon have plans drawn for a garage and cafeteria, each to occupy a separate building. The latter two will not be started until after the completion of the factory structure, which will be ready for occupancy by September 1, 1919. Work on the site of the new building wilt be started Monday, Mr. Gennett said. Undecided on Material. The factory building will be erected at the south end of the company's 1 property. The first floor will be 200x 100, while the five additional stories will be 200x80. The officers late this afternoon had not decided whether the material used would be brick or concrete. Mr, Gennett said the company possibly would erect the structure Itself, under the direction of a general contractor. The building will add another to the
twenty other buildings the factory occupies, and upon its completion will
necessitate the audition or ;;u em
ployes to the 900 employed at present. "The necessity for the erection of a
new building is not the expansion of
any one department of our business, said Mr. Gennett, "but the general growth of the plant as a whole. While the piano department will occupy the new building, It is being built for the purpose of giving us more room in all branches. We have not yet decided upon tiie proportions of the two buildings that will house the cafeteria and the gararge; thty will be decided upon when the factory addition is completed. 1 do not know how many men will be employed in the erection of the building, but it will take a great many to finish it in the time we have specified."
WOULD INCLUDE AMENDMENTS IN NEW ROAD LAW
(By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 22 Amendments to the county unit road law, which were adopted by the legislature but not enrolled in the act, signed by the governor and which became the law, will be printed in the rnnv of the 1919 acts, if Governor
James P. Goodrich has his way, it was
learned today. The governor desires that they will be printed with the explanation and they were passed but not enrolled and the explanation signed by himself, Jesse Eschbach, speaker of the house, and Edgar D. Bush, lieutenant governor, presiding officers of the house and senate respectively. The latter two thus far have not agreed to this plan and doubt exists whetb ,r Mr. Eschbach will consent. The printing and binding of the 1919 acts is being delayed until the question is settled. Doubt is expressed whether the acts will be r?ady for distribution for a month yet.
Covrthouse Lawn Is Given Its First Shave of Season
Sinclair New Entry For Atlantic Flight
Capt. James Sinclair.
Captain James Sinclair, a daring British aviator, is the newest entry in the lists of possible trans-atlantic
fivers. He is planning to make the
attempt on May 1. Sinclair is a
Scotchman by birth but has uvea most
of hiB life in Toronto, Canada. He en
listed in 1915 and since then has spent most of the time flying in the eastern
Mediterranean.
HUN HELMETS
FOR WORKERS IN CAMPAIGN
ARRIVE HERE
Captured German Headgear
Will Be Awarded as Prizes in Campaign to Put Over
Victory Issue.
Mrs. Astor Will Be . Hostess at Newport
GERMANS HIDE ARMS IN UPPER SILESIA, CLAIM Armored Cars Built and Concealed, Paris Hears Guns Kept from Allies.
HERING HERE TONIGHT
Frank Hering, of South Bend, the speaker for the evening Victory Loan meeting, will arrive in the city at 6:40
o'clock Tuesday evening, and will go directly to the high Bchool auditorium, where the mass meeting will start at 7:80 o'clock. Much enthusiasm over the selection of a speaker has been shown by those who heard Hering
speak here last summer as state vicechairman of the Thrift Stamp campaign. "Hering is a wonderful speaker, and people who do not go to hear him will miss a great opportunity," said a loan official Tuesday. The Garfield Junior high school or
chestra will supply the music for the
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TURK SOVIET
ESTABLISHED BY RADICALS, SAYS REPORT
Constantinople Under Con
trol of Bolsheviki Hungarian Troops Desert to Rumanians
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, April 22. The German gov
ernment is building and concealing armored cars, railway engines and guns in upper Silesia, according to information received by the Munich correspondent of the Journal des Debats. The armored cars, the numbers of several of which have been obtained by the correspondent are being built in the car works at Gleiwitz. Each car is provided with two small guns. Twenty more cars have been ordered and the workmen have been promised a premium if they finish the care rapidly. : ' In the Leibnitz and Stresslitz district of upper Silesia, the correspondent adds, between 250 and 300 guns have been hidden to avoid handing the mover to the allies. At Oppeln 18
new railway engines have toeen concealed.
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor is coming to
this country to visit her son Vincent Astor. It Is expected thac she will
mass meeting and will play several entertain extensively during the com
patriotic and popular airs before Her- Ing season at Newport,
ing begins his speech. Will Reller will preside and will introduce the speaker. German Helmets Here A consignment of German helmets arrived in Richmond Tuesday, to be used as prizes for people who are the most active in putting over the Victory loan. Four of these helmets are to be given by the Woman's committee, announced Mrs. A. W. Roach, chairman, to the four children from county schools who write the best essays telling "Why We Should Lend the
P,nvpmmpnt Onr Mnnev."
One helmet is to be given the Snarhr.ides Are KeDuIsed a
writer of the best composition among r . r .
the high school pupils of the county.
one to the winner in the elementary
schools of the city, one in the par
ochial schools of the county, and one
to the elementary pupils outside Klcn
mond.
The contest will close on the last
day of the national loan campaign.
. 0 1 A wsma ri wnrlroi will nA
named in each township, who will Hoffman ministry,
BOLSHEVIK ARE
LOSING CONTROL
OVER BAVARIANS
Dachau Hoffman Ministry
in Control at Munich.
Veteran of 3 Wars Sees End of Third
Wine Used for Last Time To Christen Ship When Dreadnought Is Launched
(By' Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 22. The announcement was made at the navy department today that the superdreadnaught Tennessee would be launched at the New York navy yard on April 30, probably with acting secretary Rooseevlt, Governor Roberts of Tennessee and Governor Smith of New York present. The Tennessee will be the last American battleship to be christened with wine as no others will be launched before nation-wide prohibition becomes effective July 1. Acting secretary
Roosevelt eaid today, however, that the auestion of the beverage to be
used as future christening has not yet been considered by the department. Construction of the Tennessee waa begun nearly two years after the world war started and many of the lessons of the war were embodied in her design, special attention having been given to protection against torpedo attack. The ship is 624 feet long over all and will have a full load disDlacement of about 34,000 tons. In
her main battery will be twelve fourteen inch 50 calibre guns and two 21 inch submerged torpedo tubes. Electrically driven engines are designed to give the vessel a speed of 21 knots an hour.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, April 22. The military
situation in Bavaria is improving, according to announcements made by
The S parti-
take charge of the manuscripts. Four cides. who took the town Dachau, ten different committees of. Judges will miles northwest of Munich by violatbe named, said Mrs. Roach, one for ing the armistice 'with the governeach class of essays. ment troops have been repulsed and
Others as Rewards I u13 government forces art) now uuiuti nthr hnimeta will be riven as ing the place. Reinforcements are
prizes to persons who do the most moving toward Munich from Ingolfor the loan, but County Chairman stadt, it is said. Lewis G. Reynolds had not yet de- The Hoffman ministry, which redded Tuesday Just how they would sumed control of the capitol on Sat-
be awarded. urday nignt, is ieverismy active, ac-
Letters were mailed by tne wayne i cording to reports. Delegates' to the
township committee during the day to j diet are arriving daily and the assemall previous subscribers, and to all bly will meet soon. Russian prison-
voters of the township urging tne loan erg 0f war who have been released as a patriotic act and also as an in- from camps in Germany are now dovestment. The fact is brought out jng guard duty at the railroad station, that the rates and the short time of Communist leaders are making the loan make it the best possible earnest overtures to the peoples of
investment for the man with a small southern Bavaria and are sending amount of money to invest. aeents through the country, making
County Chairman Reynolds made a an esDecial appeal for the support of
tour of the nortnern part oi tne coun- WOmen. ty Tuesday, and expected on his re- Plundering in Cities.
turn to be able to report tnat xnis Ernest Toller, president of the so
part of the county will go over the viet government, has left Munich, but
top shortly. Completion of township Dr LeViCn leader of the Bavarian
organizations was perrectea i uesaay independent socialists; M. Axelrod,
in several townsmps. tne Russian socialist who assisted in
Wilfred Jessup and Mrs. Wilson D. lho MtahiiRhmpnt of the soviet re-
Scott of Richmond, will address the imfi anj Hflrr Nissan, one of the so-
Clay township Victory meeting which vlet leaders, remain in the city.
will be neia in tne enigma oi ryuiiM There is much plundering of towns hall at Greensfork at 8 o'clock Wed- Jn Bavaria( according to reports and nesday night. Chairman Reller of the at Dlace8 bitter fights have occurred
speakers' committee announced lues- between the communists and the day that speakers would bo supplied Bourge0isie At Rosenberg, ten hostby the bureau for any township meet- have been snot and a flne of
REACTION IN HUNGARY
By Associated Press)
PARIS, April 22. A revolution has
broken out in Turkey and a soviet government has been declared. A rev
olutionary committee has been established at Constantinople, according to a telegram received here from Kiev, quoting the Bolshevik representative
at Odessa who says that the Turkish consul there has received official an
nouncement of the change in the government.
CZECHS JOIN RUMANIANS AMSTERDAM, April 22. The Hun
garian government, headed by Bela
Kun has resigned under pressure of
Rumanian troops, according to a dis
patch to the Central News from Vien
na, quoting reports received in that
city by aerial mail from Budapest,
Wild chaos is said to prevail at the
Hungarian capital.
It is reported that Czech forces have
Joined the Rumanians and have defeat
ed the Hungarian soviet troops.
TROOPS ARE DESERTING
BUDAPEST, Sunday, April 20. The
downfall of the Hungarian soviet gov
ernment is expected here, as a result
of the desertion of 30,000 Szekler
troops to the Rumanians and new
movements against Hungary by the Czecho-Slovaks. It is said that a social democratic regime headed by Sigmund Knuff, present commissary of education, may succeed to control. The red guards have been provided with hand grenades and efforts are being made to intensify the discipline of the people here. Conscription has
been proclaimed, surcharging tne atmosphere with uneasiness. Fresh extremist outbreaks are dreaded as the
conscription order is" regarded as certain to destroy the order which has hitherto been maintained.
The action of the soviet government
in arresting the members of the clergy has united the Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists in strong opposition and on the whole, the soviet forces are so
obviously in the minority that the regime cannot possibly continue. It was only by most clever maneuvers that the" labor unions were reconciled to the soviet government for they fared better with the socialists than with the communists and they are now growing restive. The elimination of the soviet government however, may be attended by
violence and murders and looting by
the worse elements of the red guards are expected.
M f
General Horace Porter
General Horace Porter is one of the
interesting octogenarians of the coun-
trv. He recently celebrated nis
eighty-second birthday. During his
life time he has seen three wars and
he distinguished himself in the first ... ... i 1 Ua
one, the civil war, Dy Biopyms mo stampede of the Union troops on one
flank at the battle of cnicnamauga.
U. S. REGULATION OF CHILD LABOR
RE-ESTABLISHED
Regulations Provided in New Internal Revenue Law Are
Put into Effect.
TALIANS ARE
STILL ABSENT FROM PARLEY OF "BIG FOUR"
May Mean Withdrawal of
Delegation from r eacc Conference W i 1 s on it o Stand by League.
DISCUSS JAP QUESTION
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. April 22. Admin
istration officials were advised in confidential cablegram from Paris to
day that in the consideration of prob
lems confronting the peace conference
such as Italy's Adriatic claim and Questions ot an alliance to protect
France from future aggression. Presi
dent Wilson would take no actloa which might in the slightest degree
jeopardise the league of nations or
conflict with its fundamental principles. The complete text of the revised covenant of the league of nations waa
received at the state department to day by cables from Paris. Acting Secretary Polk has asked the president for directions as to publication of the document. No instructions hare been received, but it has been as
sumed that the covenant would oe made public upon the deliTerance of
the peace treaty to tne Germans in accordance with the plan announced
at Paris for giving publicity to tne
treaty.
LABOR LEADERS
RETURNING HERE
The courthouse lawn was given its Urst shave of the season Monday, and the benches in the yard will be placed in a few days, said Turnkey ' . fTPV a Vi aW rAS
rhnrlpa Morean I uesaay. iuc ucuso
Smoot Says He Will Support Covenant If Changes Are Assured
(By Associated Press) OGDEN, Utah. April 22. That he
will Rimnort the leaeue of nations cov-
are to be trimmed and the courthouse cnant provided it contains the amendcenerally given a new spring suit this j ments that have been reported by tho
week, he said.
THE WEATHER
For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Thundorshowers this afternoon or tonight. Warmer in northeast portion. Wednesday, probably fair. Today's Temperature. Noon 65 Yesterday.. Maximum Minimum id For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Showers and probably thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy. General Conditions A storm oi moderate energy is causing showers over the Mississippi valley and scattered thunder storms. In the west it is clear. Temperatures are rising generally cast of Mississippi. There is no cold weather in any portion of the Unitde States. It is continuing quite cold in Yukon valley, where it Is below zero.
newspapers, was the statement of U,
S. Senator Reed Smoot, at a non
partisan banquet last night.
The Utah senator sam tnat ne un
derstood from newspaper reports that
the amendments would Include provi
sions as to the Monroe doctrine that tile league could not say how many
troops should be supplied for foreign expeditions, that the league should
ings. Wayne Township Covered.
Wayne township was covered by
Chairman Karl K. Meyers and Vice-
Chairman E. M. Campfield on an all-
day tour Tuesday for the loan.
85,000 marks has been imposed upon
the city because of its lapse from
Communism. From Augsburg comes a report that the radical trend there is again increasing and there is a
probability that the city will return
Almost all the county and township tn t.a ewiof cvt.m
cnairmen atienaea me luauueou u.i luo
Y. M. C. A. Monday evening, at which
plans were laid for the county drive
Miners Oppose Order,
Following the recent decision of
miners to repose the director of the
County Chairman Reynolds presided. R. d L mine8 in Silesia un. rr-i TT.no full if anthncliem 1 & . .....
iue "-""e. " "- Tv. V 7 der a new arrangement by wmch tne
ana uenei was eipicoocu 1 -.,-,,11 Hotarmino with tho
Wayne county quota would be over- emloers who Bhall be hired and who
buwuiucu. discharged the mine owners nave isPersons who wish to make their " , 6,fmot raf11cin- tn
subscription direct to the banks art-
urged to do so by Chairman Meyers.
as this will save time and work. More than $100,000 worth of bonds have
been taken over by the Richmond banks to meet the demand for them, and the city managers expect much
more to be taken before the city drive
starts.
Ohio Congressmen Debate
sued a statement rerusmg to depose the director and forecasting the speedy closure of the mines.
The statement says that each ton
of coal produced costs seventeen
marks instead of yielding a profit,
and that each ton of steel costs 230 marks. The statement says that as
many as possible might be employed.
Strikes and higher wages, it is de
clared, have transformed former pror its into losses.
League Covenant in Dayton Suit 25 Years Old. Is
Brought Up for Trial
DAYTON, O., April 22. Simeon D.
Fess, Republican member of congress
expeditions, inai me league - - criticized the proposed not have control over internal affairs , om . nations, first
of any country, that nq country wouia be required to become a mandatory against the wishes of Its people. "I would support any league of nations, pact or treaty that would tend to lessen war," said the senator. "I would not turn over the United StatS3 to Asiatic or Europeans, who never knew peace or liberty."
NO RAISE IN WHEAT PRICE (By Associated Press NEW YORK, April 22. Julius H. Rarnes. wheat director for the United
States, in a statement last night assured the American people that des
pite the maintenance ot tne government guaranteed price in the face of a humner wheat crop, domestic con
sumers will not pay more for the pro
duct than foreign buyers.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 22. Federal supervision of child labor abolished
when the supreme court last year declared unconstitutional the existing child labor law, was re-established to
day under regulations issued by the internal revenue bureau putting into
effect the new revenue act passed on
child labor products.
The regulations interpret Tarious
provisions ot the. law which levies a
tax of ten per cent, on net profits of
any concern employing children tinder the specified ages. After April 25, when the new act becomes fully effective, the tax will be assessed on the
profits of any mine or quarry In which children under 16 years of age are em
ployed or any mill, cannery, wood
shop, or factory in which children
under 14 years are employed at any
time of the year. Boys and girls canning clubs recognized by the department of agriculture are exempted. Force of Inspectors.
A child labor tax division with a
force of inspectors will be organized in the internal revenue bureau to administer the new law.
"While it is the purpose of the bureau of international revenue, strictly to enforce the law," said an announce
ment today. " its aim is to administer
the provision In a way to cause as lit
tle inconvenience as possible to the business world to offer no injustice to
emoloyes. It is the intention to ac
cept in confirmation of the age of the child, with certain restrictions as to revocation and suspension, the age
certificate, working or employment certificate or permit, or other similar permits issued under the law of the
state.
"The law provides that in none of the industries within scope of the law. children within the age limit may
work more than eight hours a day or
more than six days a week, or before
6 a. m. or after 7 p. m. without assess-
Paul Smith of the American Federation nf Labor arrived in Richmond yes
terdav. Mr. Smith was in Richmond
during the labor unrest last summer
for a number of montns ana aiso ass.stpd tha emDloyes in the labor hear
in it held in Richmond in October. He
Is in Richmond now to assist laDor in re.tHni the awards which were rec
ommended by the War Labor Board
recently. He does not wish to mane
any statement concerning the awarda, ; ment of the tax. The first taxable pe- . . . i WJi a . e r 9 f - -
he said today, until ne nas consuueu with the other representatives of the American Federation of Labor who will arrive in Richmond Tuesday and Wednesday, as he does not thing it
would be fair to them.
Smith said Tuesday that he expects
n he in Richmond for some time.
The other representatives who will
come will be the men who were nere
in the summer and fall and are lamiliar with the Richmond situation.
Representative Leckler of the macnm
riod is between April 25 and Decern
ber 31 this year and the first return
need not be made until March 1, next
year.
ORLANDO IS ABSENT. PARIS. April 22. Vlttorio Orlando, the Italian premier, was absent this morning when deliberations were resuemed at the Paris "White House." President Wilson and Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau were present. v The president and the two premiers went again into the Japanese questions presented by Baron Makino and Viscount Chlnda, which were taken. . up when the deadlock over the Adriatic question waa reached yesterday. Bow to Ultimatum Germany has bowed to the virtual
ultimatum of the entente powers rela
tive to the sending of "mere messen- , gers" to the peace congress at Ver
sailles and will be representee. Dy a delegation having full power to nego
tiate a treaty of peace. This closes what for a time seemed to threaten a grave complication in the work of the congress. It is prob
able, however, that the actual meet ing of the allied and German delegates will not occur until April 2S. as the change in the German plans and the physical impossibility of havthe official draft of the treaty ready for nresentation April 25 makes a
postponement of the historic gathering imperative. Germany is ready to
call for a plebiscite in tne treaty u is
reported from Berlin. In the meantime, the Italian situation is' a source of much concern ia Paris. After conferences with Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau.
Sunday and Monday morning, premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnlno of Italy absented themselves from the
meeting of the council or iour monday afternoon. Whether this marked a virtual withdrawal of the Italians from the conference was not develop
ed. President Wilson, still opposea to reroemitlon of the treaty of London,
under which Italy lays claim to Flume
and the Dalmation coast, has preparea a statement on the subject which will
be made public if the deaaioca continues, it is said. This was expected on Mondav night but it was not issued from the Paris "White House." Court Martial System Is Relic of 1774 Code, Declares Colonel AnseU (Bt Associated Prs WASHINGTON. April 22. Lieut. Col. Samuel T. AnseU, who. in' a lengthy preliminary statement yesterday accused the committee of having placed itself under the domination of the war department, continued his testimony today before the committee of the American Bar association, which is conducting an investigation ot the
administration of Justice in tne army.
League of Nations Is Caricalnre. Declares
' . . . J l A . OTA. ATltP
Holland DOCiailSl furtner in his testimony than a dlsjcussion of the legislative history of (By Associated Press) the articles of war under which the iT.TTTt?mr TTn .-, A AnrO 9 - "Tho . maHlal cvfitem in COn
l JJJ ?nefthneoteherScSv league, of nations is a caricature and , ducted. He severely arraigned the
the entente's armies are simpiy Demg : method and aeciarea tne bjsm-ui economically annihilated," said Pieter ; practically an unchanged survival of J Troeletra, the Dutch socialist leader tne id British military code adopted
fRy Associated Press)
tv... a ioi-tia nf n-Hnn first CHICAGO. ADril' 22. After 25 years
. . . . . s . I j i ,L. .nit t V. Va.nn fsnA TlQ.
as enaangenng me inaepeaaenc w uewj -ud .
the United States and, second placing flssippi ranroaa, operated uy me nin the hands of a group of foreign linois Central, against the city of Cmpowers part ol American sovereignty, cago for $20,000 damages was on trial
in an address nere last nignt.. war- toaay ia me icuciai wmu ren G Gard, Democratic member of The suit was due to the destruction congress from Ohio, defended the pact by fire of freight cars during the
and asserted that it extenaea to an American raiiwuj uuiuu the world the principles of freedom when federal troops were called out
is handling a situation in another city
which he feels he cannot leave. i As soon as all the representatives of the unions arrive they will hold a conference here concerning the War Labor Board recommendations and the best way to go about getting them. All will be in Richmond by Thursday night at which time the regular meeting of the Central Labor Council will be held. This will be an important meeting of the cestral body. The War Labor Board awards will be formally discussed.
ALBANIANS FIGHT AGAINST ITALIANS (By Associated Press) SALONIKI. April 122. Under orders
of the Italian authorities of occupa-
in addressing the congress of the so
cialist labor party here toay.
Troeletra said the entente haa in
in 1774. His statement that the com
mittee was prejudiced ana was gnuting its eyes to the truth, was warmly
creased the chance of revolution in resented by Chairman Gregory. When
a tne principles oi ireeuom wucu " " TT; I tlrt in Albania, the canital of the pro-
that are enioyed by the unitea states Dy iresiaem leveuuiu w bumu - , j v ttV. SSmnfeed tot by the American United States malls. Most of the wit- visional vernment Jgdrt
constitution. uesses are om men ana many ol uwso
Coneressmen Fess and Gard debated cauea were rsporceu urau.
the league before a crowded session
of the men's class of the First Re
formed church, at which there were many women present. Fess opened
the debate, taking the covenant ar
ticle by article, and laying bare the
FIRE ON RED CROSS
NEW YORK, April 22. German troops have attacked the American Red Cross mission at Kovno, Lltu-
dangers to America that he saw in an ania, according to a cablegram to the
entangling foreign alliance. iMiuiuuuvuuuc:. m
Durazzo to Tirana, according to dis
patches by the Athens News agency from the Albanian frontier.
Several thousand Albanians have
taken to the mountains in northern and eastern Albania, the dispatches add, and are fighting the Italians. The Italians are using artillery against the Albanians.
western Europe by the decisions of
the peace conference. "A vigorous protest must be made
agafnst the trickery of the entente powers," he continued. "Their peace of violence is worse than if Germany had won the war. A strong movement must be started against them if peace
is to be made on a socialistic basis. The speaker absolutely rejected the idea of Bolshevism in Holland, saying that if a revolution visited the Netherlands, it must come without the soldiers' and workmen's council.
the witness resumed his testimony to
day, he reviewed at lengtn tne reasons for bis efforts for reforms in the military justice. .
Street Sprinkler Blooms Forth in New Spring Suit
Spring has come, decided people who saw the street springier, all dolled up in a new yellow suit, make its first trip of the season up and down Main street Tuesday morning. William Lancaster, driver, had a new whip and a glossy pair of horses, and the dust-layer bore the look of an Easter gift to Richmond.
And Mr. Baker Wasn't t War Secretary, Either!
Chief Alex. Gormon of the Richmond police department, who ran away from home to join the army in '63, when he was 15 years old, and .w.is forcibly fetched back home by a writ obtained by his parents, waited more than fifty years to get his discharge from the army. Only a couple of years ago, says the
chief, he decided he'd like to have his discharge, so be secured It through
Colonel Oran Perry of Indianapolis,! state adjutant of the Q. A. R. He! never did get formally discharged in
the dark days of 65. He was Just
shipped home.