Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 169, 29 April 1919 — Page 1

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7,500 VISIT TROPHY TRAIN IN TWO-HOUR STAYJN CITY Wayne Township Short Only $104,000 of $1,000,000 Goal Which is Expected to be Reached by Night. CANVASS IS THOROUGH

With only $104,000 to be raised to complete the Richmond and Wayne township Victory loan quota, township Chairman Karl Meyers said Tuesday noon he waa confident that the township loan would go over the top by evening. Every worker was out Tuesday, and Indications were that the territory allotted to each would be thoroughly canvassed before night. The town ship total announced Monday night tonr nru - n a m ' was J895.7Q0,

of the quota of'tl,at tenace Paderewski, president

91,000,000 Townships Gaining. New Garden township had raised $27,600 of Its $50,000 quota, Jackson has $90,000, and Center is gaining strongly, said Lewis G. Reynolds, county chairman, Tuesday noon. The trophy train which stood In the Pennsylvania yards east of the station for two hours Tuesday morning, was viewed by at least 7,500 people, including 5,000 school children. Every school in the city was dismissed, Including the high school, long enough for the children to go to the station, and they formed in long queues extending for several blocks up Tenth street. Many Adults Go. Many adults leu uu; jobs long enough to get a glimpse of tbe weapons on exhibit. The small arms were displayed in a car through which the crowd passed in single file, at the rate of fifty a minute for over two hours. The exhibits on flat cars included several 77MM. German guns,, wrecked In various ways by American and French shellfire, a huge "four-point seven" field gun with its muzzle burst, wings of French airplanes, the pontoon of a seaplane, flame-throwers, machine guns, and dozens of other Instruments of death. The county total was announced Tuesday noon as $1,263,000, slightly over half a million dollars short of tbe quota. Boston township, through A.' M. Whitmeier, chairman, announced $38,600 subscribed, New Garden now has $27,500, and Jackson, $90,000. G. 0. P, Conference to Determine Attitude Toward League Plan (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 23. Telegrams were sent to all republican senators today by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, floor leader, and Senator Curtis of Kansas, whip, asking that public expressions of opinion upon the league of nations covenant be withheld until a republican conference could decide on what attitude should be adopted. SOUVENIR HUNTER MAKES OFF WITH LIVE GRENADE Some unfortunate petty thlel in Tipton, Ind., has in his possession enough T. N. T. enclosed In a live hand grenade to blow up a house and a dozen people, says Mike Rowe. of Chicago, one of the soldiers with the Victory loan trophy train, which was In Richmond Tuesday. The thief stole the grenade, said Rowe, while the train was in Tipton, probably thinking it was unarmed. The plunger had been drawn, but the grenade is still very much alive. The train left Chicago about ten days ago, he said, an in that time souvenir hunters had gotten away with every small exhibit that was not fastened. When the helmets were nailed down, the crowds took to wrenching the buttons from them. It was easy to do this, he said, because with the small force of soldiers in the train, they could not personally watch every sight-seer. REGRET EXPRESSED BY PAGETO ORLANDO ROME, April 29. Thomas Nelson Page, the American ambassador, visited Premier Orlando today. The two men had a friendly conversation in which the ambassador expressed regret at the situation that had arisen. The ambassador said he thought the situation had been aggravated by Italian newspaper criticism based on a wrong Interpretation of President WilBon's attitude. No Communication In U. S. With Bolshevik NEW YORK. April 29. The state department has never permitted direct communication between Santeri Nuorteka, head of the Russian Bolshevik! propaganda bureau in the United States and Nikolai Lenine, head of the Bolshevist regime in Russia, according to a letter received from William Philips, acting secretary of state, by H. Montague Donner, president of the Finland constitutional league of America. The letter made public today was in response, to an Inquiry by Mr. Donner whether a reported claim of Mr. Nuroteka, to that effect were true.

Premier Paderewski Reported to be Broken-hearted Since Peace Conference at Paris Failed to Award Seaport of Danzig to Poles

Recent dispatches from Poland stat 01 1 FAMILY QUARREL SAVED WOMEN FROM (By Associated PressV BUDAPEST, April 21 It was due to a family quarrel that Hungary escaped having its women "communIzed" after the fashion In the Russian "republic" of Saratoff, rather than to the abhorrence of Bela Kun to the scheme as the latter afterwards stated. The law to communize women was actually framed and in the printer's hands ready for publication when Herr Weltner, one of the cabinet of bright young men who are now ruling the fate of the former kingdom, went home for supper. During the meal he told his wife and his mother-in-law in glowing terms about the projected reforms. "What are you doing for women?" they asked. Weltner then explained that in future women would be free too; that they would be permitted to choose their own husbands .and discard them if they liked by the simple process of paying a few cents for a legal paper declaring their . unfitness for marriage. Further conversation developed the fact that the new law also gave husbands the same right; -that -children might be turned over to the care of the state so that both husband and wife would get rid of the duties and responsibilities of rearing their offspring. "Do you mean to tell me that you can get rid of me from one day to another and marry the next day if you like?" demanded young Frau Weltner. FOREIGN TRADE HELD U. S. RESPONSIBILITY (Bv Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 29. Foreign trade and transportation will be important factors in America's future prosperity and should be given closest study by the public, speakers declared today at the trade convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. George Edward Smith, president of the American Manufacturers' Export association, expressed the sentiment of the foreign trade section of the convention when he said "foreign trade represents more than an opportunity, It represents a responsibility that we cannot shirk." "But" the speaker continued, "I believe I speak for the enlightened business men of America when I say that American business does not desire to take unfair advantage of other nations. He sounded a warning to those who 'talk of holding back this country's foreign trade, and declared that pro ducts or American lactones must nasten the restoration of European nations. "American machinery and Inventive genius belong to the world more than ever at this time. Sound business Judgment and our duty to humanity command us to become a real exporting nation," he said. Separate State Asked For Palestine People (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM. April 29. The International Socialist Conference In session at Arnhem, has passed a resolution that Palestine should be an Independent state and be admitted to the league of nations. Intellectuals Held As Hostages In Budapest (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, Monday, April 28. Hundreds of intellectuals are being arrested at Budapest, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Berllngske Tidende. It is reported that one of the peoples commissaries has explained that they would be held as hostages and would "pay with their blood for every step the Rumanians take within the frontiers of Hungary." GOMPERS RESTS WELL. (By Associated Press! NEW YORK. April 29 The physi cians attending Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was injured here Sunday when a street car collided with a taxicab in which he was riding, said he passed another restful night and : that his condition today was consid-j exed ' satisfactory. 1

he Polish republic, is a broken-heart-

. d man since he and his aides failed to HUNGARY COMMUTATION LAW "That's how the law stands," replied the husband. Then the storm broke. Both wife and mother-in-law began to scream and a frensied scene ensued, the upshot of which was that the women demanded that Weltner should get the law stopped or they would leave him at once and would, moreover, get all the wives, mothers and mothers-in-law of all the ministers to do the same. Weltner, in the Interest of his home comfort and peace eventually promised to do his best and use his influence with his fellow members through his paper, the People's Voice, to get the law rescinded. He went to the telephone and had a conversation with Bela Kun and the other ministers and then called up the . printers, telling them that no proofs needed to be pulled from the forms where the law lay. He also ordered that the type should be melted up and the copy destroyed. It was thus that the law died. TWO M. VESSELS DOCK WITH TROOPS (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. April 29. Ninety-one officers and 2,786 men of the old national guard of Pennsylvania arrived here today on the steamship Kroonland from St. Nazaire. They comprise the 111th infantry field and staff, headquarters first and third battalions, medical detachments, machine gun company, and companies F, G, H I K, L, and M sixty-three officers and 1,888 men for Camps Dix, Devens, Upton, Sherman, Taylor, Grant, Dodge, Funston, Lewis, Meade and Pike; the 109 machine gun battalion's headquarters, medical detachment and companies, A to D inclusive 15 officers and 702 men for Camps Devens, Upton, Dix, Grant and Pike; the 28th military police company, .3 officers and 186 men, the majority assigned to Camp Dix; and a headquarters detachment of 10 officers and 10 men of the 28th division, of which all these units are a part. The Kroonland, which sailed for Newport News, but was diverted to New York, brought home 3,733 troops, including eleven officers and 283 men comprising the 138th infantry's machine gun company (35th division, Missouri and Kansas former national guard) assigned to Camps Sherman Taylor, Travis, Dodge and Funston. Twenty-two officers, 469 men and 7 nurses returned convalescing from Illness or wounds. LEAGUE DEAD BEFORE BIRTH, CLAIM FRENCH (By Associated Press) PARIS, April 29. The covenant of the league of nations arouses little enthusiasm in the press of this city. Indeed many of the principal newspapers abstain from comment altogether. L'Oeuvre, which has always been a champion of the league and of President Wilson, says: "Speaking generally we are bound to say the pact of the league of nations causes a certain amount of disappointment. Its twenty-six articles constitute really the statutes of the league of governments to safeguard their territorial sovereignty and are not a new charter of the law of nations which had been hoped for." The newspaper thinks that the resignation shown by Belgium, Japan and France must be due to promises or special guarantees which will be known perhaps, "when diplomacy is no longer secret." Writing in the Echo de Paris, "Pertinax" spokesman of the Nationalists, declares outright: "The league of nations is dead before birth." He also refers to rumors of treaties being made between the allied powers re marking, "to reassure us, Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pichon allege they hold favorable alliances in their portfolios. These parchments must be beautiful, complete and eloquent to Justify such docility on the part of the French ministers.

President Paderwskl, standing In left of center, addressing meeting of Polish cabinet.

prevail on the peace conference to give Danzig to the Poles. Poland want - ed the Beaport and a strip across Ger - many linking the city with Poland. The conference refused their demands but made Danzig a free port. The photo shows Paderewski addressing his cabinet at Varsovia before he left for the conference, Heavy Rains Hold Up Trans-Atlantic Flight (By Associated Press) ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 29 Early morning plans to start the trans At- ! lantic aeroplane race today were up set by New Foundland's fickle weather, although mid-ocean conditions were reported favorable, black clouds gathered off shore during the forenoon and soon a heavy rain began to fall. There was no indication of a let up. CONGRESS TO BLAME FOR BURLESON, SAYS BORAH'S STATEMENT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 29. Blame for much of the severe criticism of Postmaster General Burleson was placed upon congress today by Senator Borah, of Idaho, republican, who

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drastic and unlimited powers under the guise of war powers. The best remedy, the senator said, would be for congress to repeal these laws. "Congress has granted Mr. BurleBon," Senator Borah said, "unlimited, undefined, drastic and arbitrary powers; granted them In violation of the most fundamental and cherished principles of free government. We granted these powers under the guise of war necessity but no necessity existed for any such grant of powers. War upon the part of a republic never necessitates the sacrifice of the fundamental principles upon which the republic is organized. "He is not exercising any authority not within the provisions of the law which congress passed. If he is exercising it arbitrarily how did congress expect arbitrary laws to be executed except in an arbitrary way. If he 13 exercising that power despotically how did congress expect the laws to be executed except in a despotic way. They are cruel, arbitrary and at war with every principle of free government and should be repealed. "For Mr. Burleson to be dismissed

and to leave these laws upon thejterday's top level. Trading in the statute books would indeed be a j corn market was especially on a broad traversty. If we do not want arbitrary I scale, with individual operations

power exercised In this country the law making body is the body to appeal to and not to some administrative officer. Want Nmes of Nations Friendly To Mexico (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. April 29. Unusual Interest was manifested today in official circles as to the identity of the "goverments friendly to Mexico" that have requested the Mexican foreign office to express an opinion on the recognition of the Monroe doctrine, as announced in official dispatches from Mexico City. The publication of the signatories to the league of nations covenant and the names of those countries invited to join the league, caused officials to wonder which countries had made inquiries of the Carranza government on this matter. It was Intimated in official circles that diplomatic investigations might be made to ascertain the indentlties of the nations referred to in the Mexican official statement. Officials pointed out that Argentina, Chile, Salvador, Columbia, Paraguay, and Venezuela were the only LatinAmerican countries that did not break with Germany during the war and it was said that the "governments friendly to Mexico," mentioned by the Mexican foreign office might be among these. Greek King Thanks U. 5. Red Cross For Its Aid (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 29. King Alexander of Greece has tendered thanks to the American people for the assistance they gave through the American Red Cross to Greek refugees Jn France. A cable from Athens to the Red Cross headquarters here stated that the king had received the members of the Red Cross commission to the Balkans, headed by Lieut. Col. Henry W. Anderson, of Richmond, Va., and had praised highly their work and the generosity of the, American people.

FEDERAL FORCE HAS SURROUNDED CITY JJK1UNICH Approach to Bavarian Capital Cut Off on All Sides Hungarians Retreating. PARIS, April 29 The encirclement of Munich by German government troops has been completed according to German dispatches received here. This result was accomplished, it is 6tated, by the occupa

tion of Landshut, about 35 miles northeast of Munich, which city has been closely approached on all sides. It is probable that it will be several days before a general attack on the city is launched. Gustav Noske, the German minister of defense, is in command of all the government troops, Bavarian and Wurttemberg forces being placed under his control. Kun Admits Defeat. Rumanian attacks against the sc . viet army of Hungary are making ; progress, according to reports, which ' state that Bela Kun, the head of the Hungarian Bolshevik!, has admitted the troops under his command are be-1 ing defeated. 'Hundreds of people are! being arrested at Budapest and are being held as hostages by the Bolshe viki who threaten wholesale executions if the Rumanians continue to advance. The withdrawal of American forces from most of the front line positions in northern Russia is reported. It is said that they will leave the country as soon as practicable. Model For Liberty Loan Poster To Make Personal Appeal For Fifth Drive (By Associated Preas NEW YORK, April 29. The model of the poster "Sure, we'll finish the Job," has decided to answer the appeals of cities to assist personally In the sale of Victory notes. He is Tony Avolar and lives In Providence, Mass., with his wife and four children. Immediately after the distribution of the picture the Liberty loan committee was beseiged with pleas to. -ut Avolar on the platform. Avolar is now in Boston ready to make his first appearance to boost the loan sale. The itinerary arranged will keep him busy until the end of the drive. The Avolar smile is famous throuughout the country and the model is confident that his tour for the loan will be successful. Avolar was born in Provincetown, He went to parents who camefror the Azores, sent him to work on a fishing smack. Avolar quit the sea to take up the automobile and gasoline business. His wife was born in Alsace- Lorraine. PRICES ARE SMASHED ON BOARD TODAY (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, April 29. Tremendous price smashing took place today on the board of trade. Holders of grain and provision competed on a big scale in efforts to unload and to stop losses on a declining market. A long threatened free movement of corn and hogs from rural sources was largely responsible for the general rush to sell. Breaks as shown after mid-day amounted to 8 1-4 cents a bushel on corn and $1.30 a barrel on pork. May delivery of corn showed the greatest weakness, dropping $1.57 3-4 as against $1.65 7-8 to $1.66 at yesterday's finish. July delivery at $1.57 1-2 was off more than 13 cents from vescounting for little. JUGO-SLAVS HPS!) DEMONSTRATIONS (By Associated rress) ROME, Monday, April 28. A telegram from Sebenico, in Dalmatia, seventy miles southeast of Triest, published in the Epoca, states that Dr. Anton Korosec, president of the Jugoslav party, has arrived at Spalato, a seaport in Dalmatia. accompanied by Serbian officers, and has organized an anti-alien demonstration there. The telegram adds: "The Italians at Spalato blame the

weak attitude of the American naval Vh" Pprmn nV tm p"". wm oe requester mere oeauthorities for nermittine miblic anti- lenz there ,were Germn.flags.flmF ing an effort to secure a unanimous

authorities for permitting public anti Italian manifestations notwithstanding the orders of the inter-allied council of admirals." COSTA RICO FORCE IS PUT UNDER ARMS (By Associated Press) MANAGUA, Nic, April 29. Costa Rlcans arriving here from Puntarenas state that the jails are overflowing with political prisoners among them being members of the family of former President Alfredo Gonzales. It is declared that Costa Rica has three thousand men under arms, five hundred being at Puntarenas and one thousand on the Nicaraguayan frontier. , it Appeal To Congress" Is Challenge of An Italian Newspaper To Wilson ROME, Monday,. April 28. President Wilson is challenged by the Giornale d'ltalia to "appeal to his own parliament as premier Orlando has done, and to show the world that his policy has not unanimous support, like that given the Italian premier but that of simply a majority of congress."

Haig is Appointed as India Viceroy, Report

Lady Douglas Haig Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig of Great Britain was recently named as Viceroy of India. It is reported that he has accepted. If he does Lady Douglas Haig will become "first lady" of India. STATE TROOPS ARE GALLED TO PATROUINTON Martial Law Declared as Result of Riot Following Phone Strike. (By Associated Press) LINTON, Ind.. April 29 Martial law was declared end put into effect here shortly after 8 o'clock this morning as a result of trouble attending a strike of telephone operators employed by the local company. State troops are patroling the streets aided by local police. No violence has occurred since the mob formed late last night dispersed between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning. U. S. IN CONTROL INDIANAPOLIS, April 29 Governor James P. ' Goodrich- ordered state; county and city officials at Linton to obtain the names of every person taking part in the Linton telephone disturbances last night and turn them over to the federal authorities. The governor said that the federal government is operating the telephone company and the circumstances connected with the trouble should be placed before A. B. Anderson, judge of the U. S. district court here. A telephone message received from Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana at his office in the state capital directed that 350 blankets be forwarded for the use of the troops who are in control of Linton. He said the situation "looked rather bad" but offered no further explanation as to what he meant by that expression. Yankee M. P. Dampens Foe Enthusiasm for German Peace Body (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Monday, April 28 Uplifted in spirit by prospects of peace and newspaper reports that the German peace delegates had passed Cologne enroute to Versailles, five Cohlenz civilians today hoisted German flags. The colors fluttered from their ( staffs only a short time, all being low-1 ered by the military police, excepting in one case, almost as soon as they appeared. A crowd of 200 doughboys on leave assembled in the street near a downtown building where a large German flag was flying but a military policeman relieved the situation by i hauling down the flag himself. Army regulations prohibit the flying of German colors except by special permission, which has been granted upon only one occasion since the Americans came. That was in January, when the burgomaster of Coblenz died. Reports from the eastern edge of the bridgehead across the Rhine state that in the neutral zone opposite Cobover most houses and the enemy col ors were displayed in all villages as far as the outposts could see with glasses. It is indicated that the Ger-

mans believe peace soon will be,iando and bi3 C0Heagues will immet

signea ana ine suspense wmcn nas prevailed since the armistice, will be broken. Weather Forecast FOp Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain. Today's Temperature. Noon 51 Yesterday. Maximum 55 j Minimum 47 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Unsettled weather; probably rain tonight or Wednesday. General Conditions Two storms one over the northwest and the other over the southwest, is causing rain over the southern states and parts of the west, being heaviest over Oklahoma. Although the weather remains cool east of the Mississippi river and over the Rocky mountain states. Warm wave covers western Canada, 80 . at Calgary, Alberta, and 78 at Medicine Hat. Tbe weather is generally fair in .he southeast. -

LAST PHASE IS ENTERED IN WORK OF

CONFERENCE 87 More German Peace Dele gates Arrive International Labor Principles Contained in Peace Treaty. . A, ORLANDO TO RETURN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 29. The nine clauses proposed by the commission on international labor legislation for insertion in the peace treaty as adopted by the peace conference in plenary session at Paris yesterday, were made public here today by the state depart ment. Among the principles incorpor ated are a standard eightbour day, a weekly day of rest, the abolition of child labor, equality of pay for men and women and workmen's right of association for all lawful purposes." PARIS. April 29. Baron Maklno and Viscount Chinda remained with the council of three throughout Its session today which was a protracted one. Presumably the question of Kiao Cbau was under discussion. The council at the beginning of Its session received a committee from the Belgian cabinet and gave it a hearing regarding the question of indemnities. WOMEN IN PARTY , VERSADLLES, April 29. Eightyseven members of the German peace commission arrived here last night, being the second party to reach the scene of the presentation of the peace terms. Of these thirty were women. The Germans include the commission on limitation of armaments, composed of Doctors Von Becker and Schall and Major Botticher and that on commercial affairs. Sixteen of the later commission are women. With the party were the official courier. Von Bismarck, a doctor, a barber and Rudolph Brand, the press representative. There waa also a number of telegraph and telephone operators. station of- Vaucressen,' twelve and a half miles from Paris, from which place they drove to Versailles in automobiles. The mayor of Versailles, Henri Simon, posted a proclamation appealing to the population to maintain a dignified and calm attitude and has also appealed to the visitors to abstain from Inopportune manifestations and indiscretions." While there will be but witnesses to the signature of the treaty in the Hall of Mirrors, the mayor has asked that the public be admitted during tbe days following the event so that they may see the arrangement of the historic apartment. All the buildings will be decked with flags on the day that the treaty is signed. Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the German foreign minister, is expected to arrive tomorrow with the re6t of the enemy delegation. Ready This Week The stage is rapidly being set for the final phase ot the peace negotiations. Yesterday's plenary session of the peace conference stamped its approval on the covenant of the league of nations, while today German plenipotentiaries are expected to arrive at Versailles to join the members of the mission already there. Some points in. the peace treaty to be presented the Germans are yet un settled, but it is considered probable that the clauses involved will shortly be ready for the enemy delegates by the week's end. Italy was not represented at the plenary session yesterday, but dispatches from Rome indicate the probability that her delegates will return to Paris after a brief period. The Italian parliament will meet today and it is expected that Premier Orlando will at once appear and lay before it the situation which arose at Paris when President Wilson made his public statement relative to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast. Want Parliament Action. Action by the parliament, which will be in effect, a mandate to the Orlando ministry, will be requested, there be vote on the resolution demand that Italy's claims on the eastern coast of the Adriatic be recognized. If this is done, it is probable that Premier Or. diately reappear In Paris Advices from Rome state that the semi-official view of the situation is that Italy has not definitely withdrawn from the peace conference, but has merely suspended participation. If the vote of the Italian parliament is favorable to the position taken by Premier Orlando it is probable that the diplomatic battle will be resumed in aris. There is apparently no thought for the present at least, to annex Flume by parliamentary action, it being planned to demand action on the part 0; tne conference. The national council at Fiume, how ever, has, according to report, handed over all the powers of the state and municipality to a representative of Italy there. FRENCH DECORATE BENSON -r (By Associated Press) : PARIS, April 29. President Polncare today decorated Admiral William ' S. Benson of the United States navy with' the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. The ceremony took place at the Elysee Palace in the presence of some of the cabinet ministers and several admirals. :