Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 165, 24 April 1919 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919.

GOODRICH ONLY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT RACE Governor Will Not Enter Contest for Vice President, Says Campaign Manager. INDIANAPOLIS. April 24. John W. McCardle. member of the Public Service Commission and former member of the state board of tax commissionera. campaign manager for Governor Goodrich In his campaign for the nomination for governor in 1916, in a statement made yesterday, declared that "If Indiana presents the name of Governor Goodrich to the Republican national convention next year it will be only as a candidate for the presidency." "Governor Goodrich Is net a candidate for the vice presidency," said Mr. McCardle, "and I happen to know that he would not accept a nomination to the vice presidency if it were tendered to him." "The Governor of Indiana has an unequaled war record," continued Mr. McCardle. "because he was the directing genius and leader in all of the state's war activities. He is a man of large business affairs and possessed of rare capacity in administrative and executive work. A talent which is badly needed at Washington in these days when the extravagant spending of money has become the prevailing policy. Led HI Ticket

"As a candidate for governor in 1916, Mr. Ooodrich led his ticket by several thousand votes. After he had served two years the Republicans carried Indiana, always a doubtful state, by 60.000 plurality, and elected a com plete Republican congressional ticket No man In Indiana has contributed more than Governor Goodrich toward the amicable relations which exist to day within the ranks of the Republi can party. "Now that Senator Watson has an nounced his determination to seek a re-election to the United States sen ate, the Republicans of Indiana naturally thing of Governor Goodrich as an available candidate for the presi dency." The Washington Star, in an editorial Tuesday, proposed as the presidential ticket for 1920 Gen. Leonard Wood for president and Governor Goodrich for vice president. Commenting on such a ticket the paper eays: "The important feature of the proposed WoodGoodrich ticket is explained to be that it would be eminently satisfactory to the progressives and should not be objectionable to most of the old-line Republicans. Funeral Arrangements Hcdgln Retta Hodgin, 67 years old. widow of Jesse Hodgin, died at Hamilton, O., Thursday morning. She is survived by one son. Robert. The body will be brought to Richmond Friday morning and taken to the funeral parlors of Dean and Son where funeral serviced will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in ; Earlham cemetery. Crawford Home Brings $5,600 Under Hammer . .I 1 1, . Mrs. Pettis Reid. of the Wayne apartments, bought the Herbert M. Crawford house, 1208 East Main street when sold at a sheriff's sale this morning. Several other persons bid. The property brought $5,600. Former Richmond Resident Dies in Chattanooga Mrs. Amanda White Arthur, formerly a resident of Richmond, died at. her home in Chattanooga, Tenn., Wednesday. The body will be brought to Richmond to the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Ward, 11 South Sixteenth street, where funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Burial will be at Earlham. Few American Troops Are Left In Italy (By Associated Press) TARIS, April 24. American army officers here say there are virtually no American troops left in Italy, excepting a few railroad transport officers and military police. A detachment which recently sailed from Genoa, reciived cordial larewell greetings, it is said. Brigadier General Charles G.. Treat is reported to be at Laibach, Jugo slavia. PRAIRIE TROOPS REVIEWED. LUXEMBURG. April 24. Twentythree thousand soldiers of the Prairie Division, many of whom founght on the Somme with the British and later with the First American Army in the drive at St. Mihiel and in the MeuseArgonne offensive, heard their record highly praised yesterday afternoon by Secretary of War Baker and Gen. Pershing, who recited the prominent part the division had played in the hostilities. GRATEFUL TO Y. M. C. A. A card of thanks was received at the Y. M. C. A. from Harry J. Bockstette, 411 South Eleventh street, now in Serqueax, France, with the American army. Bocksette is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Bockstette. Bockstette wrote the Y. M. C. A. thanking the association for the Y. M. C. A. service men's free membership accorded Wayne county soldiers, sailors and marines. ASKS DECREES REVIEWED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 24. The supreme court in petitions filed yesterday was asked to review New ork state decrees upholding the consolidation in 19144 of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway company and dismissing for lack of jurisdiction proceedings instituted by Clarence H. Venner, a stockholder, brought to prevent the consolidation.

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Remarkable photographs of seaplane accident in San Diego bay. The upper picture shows the observer emerging from the submerged cockpit and the arrival of the speed boat. Below is seen the seaplane Just as it struck the water. Caujrht in the "backwash" of a giant Liberty motor seaplane, a light N-type machine carrying a pilot and observer was whipped over and fell into San Diego bay, Cal., so near to a pleasure steamer carrying several United States congressmen that many feared it would strike the deck. Then, in what seemed only seconds, a man struggled up from the body of the seaplane and a speed boat appeared from the naval air base traveling at an unbelievable rate. The man risine from the wreck was the observer. Ensign S. L. Kerr. 1 TROTSKY DIRECTS Leon Trotsky, minister of war of the Leon Trotsky, leader of the Bolaheviki government army, isn't trusting the leadership of his Red forces to any one else. He personally inspects and directs the Will Draft Program For Returned Fighters At the convention of township representatives at Centerville, Friday afternoon and evening a community program relative to meeting problems which are incurred by the return of service men will be planned. Representatives from every township in Wayne county are expected to be present. All the speakers have notified Secretary Carlander that they will be present for the conference. The committee in charge of the program for the conference are completing the details of the meeting. Ralph C. Johnson, a returned service man, will lead the conference in singing camp and army songs. Following Lieutenant Turner's address on the employment situation, George Hodge of the American Seeding Machine company will lead the discussion on the employment of the re turned service man. E. M. Haas will preside at the evening session which will be held in the Methodist church. The afternoon conference will be held in the Christian church. All representatives will be the guests of the conference at the Methodist church. Last on the program the finding committee will make its report to the conference. LIBERTY DIVISION REACHES NEW YORK (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 24. The steamer Aquitania, carrying the vanguard of the 77th (Liberty) division composed of drafted men from New York city and vicinity arrived today from Brest. She brought the 305th infantry and 305th and 306th machine gun battalions. The transport Mount Vernon with Major General Robert Alexander on board carrying division headquarters and the 306th infantry, is due tomorrow. While New York claims the 77th division as its own, twenty percent of its personnel comprises drafted men from up-state communities, and there are some from New England, Pennsylvania and other sections. Units among the Aquitania's 5,656 troops included: 305th infantry complete, 82 officers and 3,746 men for Camps Devens, Jackson, Gordon, Sherman, Taylor, Custer. Grant. Pike, Dodge. Funston, Travis, Lewis, Kearney and Upton. 306th Machine gun battalion complete, 20 officers and 764 men, for Camps Devens, Sherman, Custer and Upton. 305th machine gun battalion complete, twenty officers and 774 men, for Camps Devens, Sherman, Grant and Upton. The Aquitania brought also the 64th evacuation ambulance company, one officer and ?0 men; and about 250 scattered casuals, including 22 from Connecticut and 15 from New Jersey.

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OPERATIONS OF BOLSHEVIKI ARMY IN FIELD

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NEW INSURANCE POLICIES FOR SERVICE MEN WILL BE ISSUED BY JUNE FIRST

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 24 New life insurance policies into which term insurance carried by soldiers and sailors may be converted will be ready for issuance about June 1, Director Lindsley, of the war risk insurance bureau announced today. Applications for conversion are being received now but no intensive campaign to promote conversion will be made. In order not to overtax the insurance bureau with a rush of conversion applications, and to encourage discharged soldiers to make the conversion in amounts and at times when they are financially able. Efforts will be made, however, to have soldiers keep in force their term insurance. In this connection, it is announced that the bureau will not consider insurance policies carried by soldiers during the war as lapsed even though after discharge a man may have ceased payment or even notified the bureau that he wished to cancel the insurance, until ample time has been given for explanation and reinstatement. Every discharged soldier who has ceased to keep up payments will be notified that he may again put his insurance in force by payment of back installments within a certain time, possibly six months. Insurance awards by the war risk bureau far exceed premiums paid In by the insured men. Death awards insurance amounting to more than $785,000,000 have been made and are being paid to the beneficiaries in monthly installments. The bureau has made 139 awards with a commuted value of $804,500 for total permanent disability of insured men. Death awards for insurance have been made on 87,744 claims, affecting 102.2S6 beneficiaries. In many instances, the monthly insurance payments are divided among several beneficiaries and in some instances single payments are divided among as many as ten beneficiaries. Under the provisions of the war risk insurance act which provides compenEggs From Governor's Winchester Farm Take Purdue Show Prize LAFAYETTE. Ind., April 24 Awards for the annual egg show at Purdue university were announced today, the judges having completed part of the work of selecting the winning eggs. More than 400 dozen eggs are on exhibition. It was announced that the silver cup had been awarded to Governor Goodrich for his entry in the governor's class, in which there were two other entries. The governor's dozen eggs came from his farm near Winchester.

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WWWW, Vi' . A6i7-. the men in the rescuing party finally succeeded in lifting the pilot from the wreckage The Erompt use of a pulmotor revived his staff reviewing regiment of Letts, fectionately termed the "elite" of his forces. From Moscow he went to the Czecho-Slovak front, where the Reds are fighting the Slavok nation. nation for dependents in case of death, exclusive of whether or not the man j in service, held insurance, there have been made 19,295 awards for compensation for death with monthly payments of $458,000. Compensation for disability is paid to more than 14,975 beneficiaries. These awards carry monthly payments of $411,000. There have been 105,800 claims for insurance awards for deaths filed with the bureau. Only 1,604 claims have been disallowed for various reasons, and in many cases the disallowance is not final. Appointment of four new assistant directors of the war risk bureau was announced tcday as follows: Dudley Cates of San Francisco, former secretary of the Capital Issues committees; John W. Barton, of Dallas, Tex., who served with the War Risk section of the A. E. F.; N. T. Dowling of New York, former major in the judge advocate general's office and G. H. Pennick of New York, formerly an officer of the war risk section, A. E. F. Schools Visited Weekly By Garden Supervisor F. W. Wesler, school garden supervisor, is visiting each room in all the grade schools of the city every week and will continue to do this until the end of the school year. Mr. Wesler stated Thursday that he is only working with children in the fourth grade and upward because the children below the fourth grade are not capable of grasping the real point of the garden work. The teachers give the pupils the fundamental principles of school gardening under the supervision of Mr. Wesler and he gives them points of interest and information and answers their many questions on his visits to the schools. Their questions, Mr. Wesler, are many and intelligent and show that they are interested in the work. No lots have as yet been secured. Mr. Wesler says that he has seen very few that could be used for gardening purposes. All the children in the city schools are organized and listed into the school garden army. Many of the children have already started gardens but the weather has not as yet been favorable. By May 1, the gardens of the school children will be well under way. ' Mr. Wesler said that he would not i have a children's market this year, but would spend more time with adult gardens. He will visit gardens and help combat insects, etc. , Potlatch is a corruption of an Indian word common among the Pacific coast tribes, meaning a festival of gifts.

RIGHMOND SOLDIER IN FIRST DIVISION LAUDED BY PERSHING

A cony of eeneral order 201 regard ing action of the First Division Issued by the command of General Pershing, and signed by James W. McAndrew, chief-of-staff, and Robert C. Davis, adjutant general, has been received by Maurice J. Wilson or Z18 soutnwesi Third street, from his brother, Lloyd H. Wilson, a member of Co. K. 18th Infantry, of the First Division, now stationed in Dernback, Germany. ! Wilson says of the Heuse drive: "My company went Into this drive with 250 men and officers, and came out with eighty men and no officers." The general order. It states: "I. The commander-in-chief desires to make record in the General Orders of the American Expeditionary Forces his extreme satisfaction with the conduct of the officers and soldiers of the First Division in its advance west of the Meuse between October 4 and 11, 1918. During this period the division gained a distance of seven kilometers over a country which presented not only remarkable facilities for enemy defense but also great difficulties of terrain for the operation of our troops. Eight Hostile Divisions. "II. The division met with resistance from elements of eight hostile divisions most of which were firstclass troops and some of which were completely rested. The enemy chose I to defend its position to the death, and the fighting was always or the most desperate kind. Throughout the operations the officers and men of the division displayed the highest type of courage, fortitude and self-sacrificing devotion to duty. In addition to many enemy killed, the division captured one thousand four hundred and seven enemy, thirteen 77mm. field guns, ten trench motors and numerous machine guns and stores. "III. The success of the division in driving a deep advance into the enemy's territory enabled an assault to be made on the left by the neighboring division against the northeastern portion of the Forest of Argonne, and enabled the First Division to advance to the right and outflank the enemy's position in front the division on that flank. "IV. The commander-in-chief has noted in this division a special pride of service and a high state of morale, never broken by hardship nor battle. "V. This order will be read to all organizations at the assembly formation after its receipt." ASK KELLY RETAINED AS H, S. PRINCIPAL A petition has been circulated among the Day Dogers of Earlham college who were former students at the Richmond high school, asking that B. W. Kelly, who is now acting as principal of the high school, be retained in that capacity next year. Mr. Kelly, who wasTormer head of the science department of the high school, was put in the position as principal of the high school when J. H. Bentley, former principal, was made superintendent ol schools, after the resignation of J. T. Giles. Mr. Kelley, according to the opinion of those signing the petition, has shown efficiency in the position and has gained the admiration of the students and teachers of the school, end is the logical man for the place. The petition signed by former high school students is as follows: "Protesting against any further experimentation as regards the office of the principal of the Richmond high school and believing in the absolute fitness of Benjamin W. Kelly for the position, we the undersigned, repre senting the alumni of Richmond high school, desire to add our support to the petitions already signed by the faculty and students ol the high school in respectfully requesting the school board to retain Benjamin W. Kelly as acting principal of the Richmond high school for the coming year." The petition will be 6ent to members of the high school alumni outside of Earlham and then sent to the school board. Such a petition also was signed and circulated by members of the high school faculty. Barbers' Union Decides To Shorten Working Hours Members of Richmond Barber's union at a meeting Wednesday night at Luken's hall, decided that all union barber shops of Richmond would not open until 8 o'clock in the morning, starting May 1. Adolph Fritz, secretary of State Federation of Labor and James C. Quinn, representative of the United Hatters of North America, addressed the barbers. After much discussion of the number of hours which barbers are forced to work, it was decided by the barbers that as the hour between 7 and 8 was the time when shops had the least to do, union shops need hot open until 8 o'clock every work day. This ordor takes effect after May 1. Fritz, speaking to the barbers, outlined the work that the labor federation had already done and what was yet to be done. He said that the federation would approve of the bill requiring each barber to pass a qualified examination. This bill is known as the barber's license law. It was turned down two years ago, by the state legislature. James C. Quinn was present to urge the buying of union-made hats. He spoke on the work the Hatters' union had been able to do in the last year, recalling the fact that panama hat. makers had joined the Hatters' union last summer. CAMBRIDGE COMPANY BUILDS CASKET FOR 450-POUNDER CAMBRIDGE City. Ind.. April 24. The Doddridge-Beck Casket company of this city has shipped a casket to Dayton, Ohio, which was made for a person weighing. 450 pounds. The casket was four sizes above the regularly-carried line and measures 33 inches across the top. JOHNSON RECOVERING

William N. Johnson, president of 'he board of works, who has been seriously ill of pneumonia, is recovering. .,5.

Harry Ray Is Awarded Posthumous Citation A photostat copy of the Fifth Division Headquarters General Orders No. 6, American Expeditionary Forces, dated March 18, in which the late Corporal Harry M. Ray, of Company H, Sixth United States Infantry, is cited, has been forwarded to the Palladium by his sister, Miss Hazel V.

Ray, who is in the office of the chief signal officer In the War Department at Washington D. C. Corporal Ray, a Richmond boy, was ! killed in action last fall following ser vice at the front with his company. Citation for distinguished conduct in action is given him in the order which reads: . "Corporal Harry M. Ray, deceased. Company H., Cth Infantry, in the St. Mihiel offensive on September 12, 1918, and again in the Argonne-Meuse offensive, October 13, 1918, assisted in the capture of a machine gun which was holding up his company on September 12, 1918; and displayed unusual qualities as a leader and great devotion to duty on October 13, 1918, the date on which he was killed in action." The order was by the command of Major General Ely C. A. Trott, chief of staff, and David P. Wood, lieutenant-colonel Infantry Division Adjutant. WITH THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear daily In the Palladium. Contribution irlll be welcomed.' Mrs. Walter Evans has received a teegram stating that her husband arrivled at Camp Mils last Saturday from overseas. Walter Paton has arrived at Camp Mills following severa months of overseas service. Elmer Thorton, of Great Lakes Is spending a few days in the city. Robert Jones, Wayne county bpy, has arrived at Charleston. He has been abroad for six months. James Pelton of 93 Ft. Wayne Avenue has arrived at his home in Rich mond. Pelton saw months of active i service abroad, was reported missing i in action late last summer, but came out without a scratch and In splendid . health. Harry Mennon. a nephew of Mrs. Joseph Mennon of Richmond, has arrived in this country from France, according to a message received here today. Bituminous Coal Stock Declines 25 Per Cent (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 24. Stocks of bituminous coal in the hands of industrial concerns, public utilities and the iron and steel industry declined 25 per cent, or about eight million tons in the three months lrom January 1 to April 1, 1919, the fuel administration announced XDdy. Retail coal dealers had forty per cent less on April 1 than on January 1, but this amount was one-fourth as great as their sales for the first three months of the year. It was stated that such stocks were considered large for April and were the result of the large accumulations last summer and Tall, and the small dciand during the months of open winter. The decrease in stocks of bituminous coal in the hands of consumers, including the railroadi, did not exceed 16,000,000 tons in the last three months, the fuel administration announced. The drop in production during the srfcne period was 31.000,00 tons, as compared with the same months of 1918. Here's

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Allied Mission Leaves '. To Visit Near East Y (By Associated Press) -PARIS, April 24 The allied mission to Syria, on which Charles R. Crane and Dr. H. C. King are the American members, probably will leave Paris within two weeks to investigate - the near eastern situation. Commander Hogarth' and Sir Henry

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