Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 182, 14 May 1919 — Page 1

cons IS UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED FOR SENATE HEAD

NAVY AIU WILL START TONIGHT ON OCEAN TRIP PEACE TERMS ITALY GIVES i Official's Wife Back From Overseas Work Gen. Logan's Widow Decorated by Belgium American 'Ace of Aces' To Lecture in Richmond TO PARALYZE ALL COUNTRY, SAYS EBERT UP DEMANDS BASED UPOtl 1915 TREATY

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Progress Republican From Iowa Named President Pro Tempore Senator Lodge is

Re-elected Party Leader. DEFER CHAIRMANSHIP (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14. Senator Cummins of Iowa, favored by the progressive group, "was chosen unanimously for president pro tempore of the senate at the organization conference today of Republican senators. Senator Lodge"" of Massachusetts was reelected party leader and discussion of the controversy over committee chairmanship for Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania and Warren of Wyoming was postponed. Party leaders stated that George A. Sanderson, a Chicago attorney, probably would be chosen secretary of the senate and David Barry, a Providence, R. I. newspaperman, sergeant- atarms. Progressives Meet The committee on committees to be selected by Senator Lodge will be composed of nine members and at Tuesday's meeting of the Progressives It was decided to present the names of Senator Jones of Washington, and Senyon, Iowa, for membership as representatives of the Progressive group. Those attending the Progressive conference were Senators Borah, MrNary of Oregon; Moses, New Hampshire; Kenyon, Iowa; Jones, Washington; Johnson, California, and Norris, Nebraska. The committee on committees will begin work immediately but it is not expected to reach any decision regarding chairmanship or other committee assignments until next week, probably delaying committee organization of the senate. FRENCH COCKADES TO BE SOLD HERE French cockades will be sold on Main street, from Fifth to Twelfth streets. Saturday afternoon by young girls of the French classes of the public Bchools, to raise 511 which will be used to renew the subscriptions for fourteen orphans who were adopted with the money thrown Into The Palladium flag in the Fourth of July parade last year. The fund then became known as the Fourth of July fund. Tables will be placed along Main street and at each table small girls will be attended by older girls who will act as chaperones. The cockades will sell for 25 cents, $25, or as much as anyone cares to give. Each table is supposed to collect a minimum of $36.50, and as much more as possible. The sales will begin at 1 o'clock. The .cockades were to have been sold last Saturday, but the sale was postponed because . of the inclement weather. Mrs. William Dudley Foulke, Mrs. Arthur Charles and Mrs. Rudolph G. Leeds are in charge. Mrs. Foulke stated that she is always grateful for the liberal manner in which the people of Richmond re spond when anything for the French orphans is asked. SERVICE SECRETARY AT LOCAL Y. M. C. A. Walter S. Rayle, who recently returned from Y. M. C. A. work with the 27th division in France, began work today as full-time soldiers' service secretary at the Richmond Y. M. C. A. It is hoped to give more attention to employment and other branches of aid for service men. with a secretary who can devote all his time to the work. Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon. . , - 61 Yesterday. Maximum' 65 Minimum 40 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy but mostly fair tonight. - Thursday partly cloudy, moderate temperature. General Conditions The storm reported over the southwest which caused last night's showers is moving east ward into the Atlantic ocean and mod erate temperatures prevail east of the Rocky mountains, although it is near zero at Yellowsstone Park and parts of Wyoming. Weather will continue mild during the next 24 hours over all states east of the Mississippi and cold weather over the northwest is break ing up. A storm is moving eastward across the northern states and another is developing over the southwest, causing unsettled weather the latter part

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Mrs. Grosvenor B. Clarkson. Mrs. Clarkson is the wife of the director of the TJ. S. council of national defense. She has Just returned from France where she worked with the Y. M. C. A. organization for seven months. INDIANA SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET NG SPEAKERS NAMED - i President Hasemeier Outlines Objects Before Convention in Marion in June. The chief religious-educational event on the Hoosier calendar for 1919 Is the Indiana Sunday-school convention in Marlon, June 24, 25 and 26, when speakers of note from all parts of the country will appear on the program ! and the annual election of officers itnd i four directors will take place. The outstanding object of the convention as set forth in an announcement sent out from the Sunday School association In Indianapolis, is the new standards of International and state associations. , , , - -V ; - ' " " The new standards practically mean the rebuilding .of every Sunday school in the- state,- and the convention committee urgently suggest!' that each Sunday school send live,' aggressive delegates to the convention, so that the new standards and their meaning as Bet forth may be carried back In the best posslbe way to the individual Sunday schools. The changes contemplated have not yet taken definite form. Good Speakers Slated. The state president, E. H. Hasemeier, of this city, today received a list of the principal speakers on the program, Including C W. Shinn, general secretary of the Chicago Sunday School association, who will, discuss "Administration" subjects; Harry F. Cope, foremost among Sunday-school specialists; Mrs. Georgia L. Young, president of the Women's Federation, of the Ohio Adult Department, who is a brilliant leader; Mrs. Baldwin, whose addresses at the Indiana1 convention on the work of the Children's Division, have been a great force in upbuilding these activities in the Hoosier Sunday schools. R. A. Waite, of Chicago, will be special leader of one of the convention's chief divisions that of the young people's work. Dr. George R. Grose, president of DePauw University, and chairman of the Indiana Sunday School association's committee on education, will give one of the chief educational addresses. The Rev. O. W. Fif er, of Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal church in Indianapolis, will lead the devotional and Bible hours. He is one of the most eloquent of the Indiarapolis pul pit orators. New Forma of Music. H. Augustine Smith, of Boston, Mass., will lead new forms of conven tion music. This will be a particular ly attractive and new feature of the convention, as Mr. Smith also will sive addresses and instruction in music. and will address the great song services. On one evening of the convention a musical pageant will be presented. Mass meeting divisional conferences and other features are part of the program which is under way in the hands of the committee. The following officers' terms expire this June: President, E. H. Hasemeier; vice-president, H. M. Glossbrenner, Indianapolis; recording secretary, E. C. Boswell, Indianapolis; treasurer, J. F. Wild, Indianapolis. Four new directors to serve until 1922 will be elected. The directors who finish three years' work this year are: Dr. H. J. Hall, Franklin; J. F. Lehman, Berne; S. E. Test, Splceland. O. S. Ellis, Bremen. CORDUROY ROAD IS DISCOVERED UNDER STREET Another corduroy road, a number of which were laid in Richmond during its baby days, was discovered recent ly when South Ninth below E- street, was torn up. The logs were found to be bearing their years well, it is said South Ninth street and the Boston pike out as far as the Straight Line pike is being torn up and will be regraded and cemented. Cement curbs and gutters are also to be in within the city limits. The work will be fin ished by November, It is thought

Two Seaplanes May Start on Great Trip Across at Six o'clock N. C. 4 Reaches Halifax.

DIRIGIBLE IS ON WAY (By Associated Press) ST. JOHN'S N. P., May 14. Ameri can aviation officers stationed here in connection with the probable transocean flight of the navy dirigible C, stated today the American seaplane flyers were prepared for a hop off at Trepassey at 6 p. m. unless unfavorable weather developed. WASHINGTON, May 14. While weather conditions along the route from Trepassey bay to the Azores were improved today, meteorlogical experts at New Foundland held that they still were "unsatisfactory" for the start of the sea planes NC-1 and NC-3 on their trans-Atlantic flight according to dispatches received at the navy department. HALIFAX, May 14. The American naval sea plane, NC-4 arived here at 2:10 p. m. (Halifax time) from Chatham, Mass.' Allowing for an hour's difference in time between this port and Chatham, the plane made this flight of approximately 300 nautical miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes. WASHINGTON, May 14. Lieut. Commander A. C. Read plans to stop the naval sea plane, NC-4, for only a few minutes during its flight from Chatham, Mass.,tto Newfoundland. He so advised the cruiser Baltimore at Halifax in a wireless message which was Intercepted and relayed to the navy department a few minutes be fore one o'clock this afternoon. NC-4 ARRIVES CHATHAM, Mass., May 14. The naval sea plane NC-4 left here at 9:25 a. m. to Join the NC-1 and NC-3 at Trepassey,. N.F., starting point of the trans Atlantic flight .The NC-4 was to fly today to Halifax. Two" seaplanes from the "naval air station here were detailed to act ag a convoy for the NC-4 to the point where the first of the destroyers of the fight patrol is stationed, about fifty miles northeast The easterly gale of the last three days gave way to a light northwest breeze today, the sky was clear and conditions generally favorable for flyingA seaplane which was said to carry supplies for the, NC-4 arrived from Rockaway early in the day. LEAVES FOR ST. JOHNS. MONTATJK POINT, N. Y., May 14. The navy dirigible C-5 left here today on a flight to St Johns, N. F., which may be followed if the coastal performance proves satisfactory by an attempt to fly across the Atlantic. The balloon took the air at 8 a. m. and promptly sailed into her maximum cruising speed of fifty miles an hour, which was expected to drive the big "bag" over the 1,200 miles to Newfoundland in 24 hours. In command of Lieut. Commander Emery W. Coil, the C-5 took a northeast course, expected to carry her over the naval air station at Chatham, Mass., and thence along the New England and Canadian coasts to St. Johns. There "lighter-than-air" experts, put ashore from the cruiser Chicago with spare parts, tola and supplies of inflation gas and fuel, await the dirigible , ready to assist in preparing her for a posisble 2,000 mile non-stop cruise to the British Isles. There was a possibility also, naval officers said, that the route of the NC seaplanes via the Azores might be followed, reducing the longest "Jump" to approximately 1,300 miles by making a stop at Punta Delgado. Adoption of this "itinery" would give the dirig ible the benefit of the warship patrol established for the iieavier-than-air machines, the plan being to start the C-5 on her eastward pasage after the NC experdition has reached EuroDe or at least has completed the New-foundland-to-Azores leg of its cruise. BLASTS TREE STUMP, FAYETTE FARMER IS KILLED BY STONE CONNERSVILLE, May 14. David Chrisman 60 years old, who lived just south of the Wayne county line in Fayette county,, below Beeson's Station, died late Monday night from injuries sustained vrhen he was struck in the head with a stone while dynamiting stumps on -the Grantier farm near Centerville. Chrisman and his son, Lurton, had placed a heavy charge of nitroglycerin compouna underneath a large sugar maple stump. The explosion hurled a stone, imbedded in the top of the ground above the charge, directly at Chrisman and it struck him on the left side of the head, splitting the skulL Chrisman was taken to the Memorial hospital at Connersville, and died several hours after the accident. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon. He Is survived by the widow and five sons, including two veterans oi the world war., Lester and Perry, and three daughters. He was a lifelong resident of Fayette county.

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CAPTAIN EDDIE RICKENBACHER. Captain Eddie RIckenbacher, Ameri ca's "ace of aces," a title he won by conquering twenty-seven German air planes on the western front, will de liver a lecture at the Coliseum in Richmond on the evening of Saturday, May 31. Prior to his entrance into the service of the United States army, Captain RIckenbacher was one of the most famous of American automobile racers. On Monday of this week an nouncement was made in Indianapolis that Captain RIckenbacher had been named referee of the 500-mile races to be held in that city. An address delivered by the captain before the Press club in Washington, D. C, recently was heralded by the critics there as one of the best of the war. . COMPLETE PLANS BY LAST OF WEEK FOR CHAUTAUQUA Management Elects Officers and Grants Concessions at Meeting Soon. The management of the Richmond Chautauqua will meet Wednesday or Thursday night of this week to elect officers and make final arrangements for the Chautauqua, which begins on August 17 and continues through August 31. Superintendent of County Schools C. O. Williams said Wednesday morn lng that he had not yet closed con tracts for speakers for the teachers' Institute of the Chautauqua but that he was endeavoring to obtain S. B, Bryant of Colgate University, New York, and D. O. Scott, a well known educator of Trenton, N. J. Collier's Editor Coming Some of the headliners for the cb.au tauqua this season are Mark Sullivan, editor of Collier's and a well known newspaper writer; Pitt Parker, famous cartoonist; Cyrus B. DeVry, custodian of the zoo In Chicago; Bishop T. S. Henderson, J. Adam Bede, humorist; J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, and Dr. Herbert Willet, of the University of Chicago. Of the musical organizations booked there are the Demille Quartet Boston Sextette, Dixie Jubilee, Lillian John ston company, Swiss Yodlers, Floren tine Musicians and the Davles Opera company. The management says the music this year will be exceptional. The rental, restaurant facilities, stores and concessions will be ar ranged when the new management is elected. The Richmond chautauqua has become an Institution of the community, and the program being unusual In every way this year the management hopes and expects the biggest chau tauqua ever held. Wittenberg, College Head Critically III The Rev. Dr. Charles G. Heckert, D. D., Ph. D., president ol Wittenberg collge, was stricken seriously ill with apoplexy according to word received by Harlow Haas, a student of Witten berg. Dr. Heckert is not expected to live. He was one of the leading men in activities in that part of the state and was appointed by President Wilson as a member of the committee to invest! gate the War chest system in Canada at the outbreak of the "war. On nu merous occasions. Dr. Heckert has spoken at Richmond high school. He is one of the widest known educators in this part of the country. Heckert has been connected with Wittenberg college for a number of years, entering first as a teacher. He was then made head of the . English department prior to his appointment as president of the school. Red Cross Nurse Home From Overseas Service Miss Wilma Wallace, a nurse who has been with the Red Cross in England and France for a year, arrived in Richmond Wednesday morning. She lived here with Mrs. J. H. Livingstone, 206 North Eleventh street before entering the service. ? -

Wilson Had Germans Hypno

tized, Declares President ot Republic Hopes for Re jection of Treaty by U. S. HAS FEARS FOR FUTURE (Owing to the unprecedented congestion of the trans-Atlantic cables the following report of a statement made by President Ebert of Germany on Sunday has just reached New York). (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Sunday, May 11. Declaring that the terms of peace presented by the allied and associated governments to Germany "contemplate the rhyslcal, moral and intellectual paralysis of the German people;" that Germans were "hypnotized" by statements made by President Wilson and that he, himself, is looking forward to the future "with gravest apprehensions." President Ebert said today that he still hoped that American democracy would not accept the treaty framed at the peace conference. . Ho rejected with disdain the suggestion that the present German government would resign . rather than accept or reject the terms, saying that the government would "hold out to the end." "When in the course of 2,000 years," he asked, "was ever a peace offered a defeated people which so completely contemplated its physical, moral and intellectual paralysis as do the terms enunciated at Versailles? Quotes Wilson's Message "Tn his message to congress on De cember 4, 1917, President Wilson said: 'The frightful injustice committed in the course of this war must not be made good by wishing a similar in justice on Germany and her allies. The world would not tolerate the commis sion of a similar injustice as reprisal and realignment.'" (In his message to congress referred to in the foregoing paragraph, deliver ed when he asked that a state of war be declared to exist between the United States . and Austria-Hungary, President Wilson said: . "The wrongs-, the very, deep wrongs, committed In thi war miut be right? ed. That of courasv.v But they -cannot and must not be righted hy the com mission of similar wrongs ftgalnst Ger many and her allies. ' The world will not permit the commission of similar wrongs as a means of reparation and settlement,) The German people," President Ebert continued, "is only beginning to awake from the hypnosis in which it has ben lulled because of Its solid faith In the sincerity and truthfusness of Mr. Wilson's program and his four teen points. The awakening will be ter rifying and we all look forward to it with gravest apprehensions. In the face of the cold, naked realities we still consciously cling to the faith which found its epitome In the names of Wilson and the United States and the conception of the democracy of the league of nations. "Will Hold to Last." "We cannot believe that this has all been an illusion and that the confidence and hopes of a whole people have been duped in a manner un known to history. Even now opti mists are saying, 'Wilson, will not per mit it, he dare not possibly permit it. The president added that he and his party could- not blame the pan-Germans for the "Immodest haste with which they: are now digging up their former speeches and editorials in which the Social democrats and other liberals were ridiculed for their belief In President Wilson's program." "I, and my colleagues," he said, in conclusion, "upon whom reBts the terrific burden of the forthcoming de cisions hope and pray the German peo ple who staked all on President Wil son and the United States shall not find themselves deceived. If, however, the American democracy actually accepts the present peace terms as its own it becomes an accomplice and abbettor of political blackmailers ; it surrenders the traditional American prin ciple of fair play and sportsmanship and trails the ideals of true democracy in the dust. Notwithstanding the night now covering it, I have abiding faith in the future of the German people and in the unconquerability of Its soil This people, which has given the world so much in science, learnings and industry must not go down to oblivion. It still has a cultural mission to perform and ethical treasures to be stow." President Ebert closed his statement by declaring the present govern ment would hold out to last," and scorned the idea that it would "make room for others to accept or reject the treaty." Germany Like Carthage Declares Newspaper (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Monday. May 12. The American military authorities are permitting a certain amount of comment on the peace terms by the newspapers in the area of occupation. The Volks Zeltung of Coblenz, after dwelling on the severity of the terms says : "And yet the dangers of rejecting the terms should not be underestimated. Our course must be determined for us by the proper authorities. Our situation is no more desperate than was that of Carthage. The Inhabitants of 3arthage were stripped of everything which so far as could be forseen would be of the slightest value to them In recovering their strength. Nevertheless, the city found means to rebuild its power.

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Mrs. John A. Logan. The Belgian legation has notified Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of Gen eral Logan, U. S. A., that she has been awarded-the 'Belgian medal of Queen Elizabeth by the king and queen of Belgium for work as chair man of the Washington committee for Belgian relief. 300 COMING FOR K. OF C. BANQUET HERE ON SUNDAY Covers for 600 Guests Will be Laid in Coliseum Following Initiation. Elaborate preparations are being made for a banquet to be given Sunday night at the Coliseum by the Knights of Columbus, for members of the order, new members who will be Initiated Sunday and their Immediate families and friends. John Harrington, Jr., . grand knight of the local order, said Wednesday that 1 arrangement are being made to seat 600 persons. The decorations will be elaborate and unique. Tickets for the banquet are now being sold. Dinner will be served promptly at 7 o'clock.: Following the dinner there will be a program of amusement and after dinner speaking. Runge's orchestra will furnish music throughout the dinner. The initiatory work Sunday will be gin at 10 o'clock when the members of the Knights of Columbus And the candidates will attend high mass at St. Andrews church. Afterward second and third degrees will be conferred upon 115 candidates. The first degree work has been almost completed by the local staff. The last candi dates will be given the first degree Friday night. William Carrol and staff of Dayton, O., will confer the second degree. T. J. Duffy and staff of Columbus, O., will confer the third degree. Both staffs are well known. : The local order es tabllshed a precedent In asking a team from another state to confer the de grees, as it is the custom to get team from the state organization to which the local order belongs, to con duct the exercises. However, Mr. Har rington stated that the local order wished to have these teams because of their wide reputation. The work Sunday will, not only be new to the candidates but to the old members also. Mr. Harington said that they ex pected about 300 persons from out of the city. Invitations have been sent to a num ber of orders in other cities. Annual Road Repair Work To Be Started Soon The annual repair work and patching of the macadam roads of the county will be begun as soon as the weather clears, says W. O. Jones, county highway superintendent, but there is one upon which he is not going to start work for at least two weeks. "That is the road to Eaton," said Jones. The way they are using it now it would be all torn up again in two weeks, if I patched it. And the heaviest wear of the last year has been on that road. Mrs. Roosevelt Home From Trip To France (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 14. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the late for- ; today. A61UB man bitjiug eiie aau a per fectly restful time during the voyage," -Mrs. Roosevelt would not discuss the trip abroad where she visited the grave of Quentin, the aviator son who was killed in war. Mrs. Roosevelt said she probably would return at once to the Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay, N. J. Dutch Deny Intention To Surrender Wilhelm (By Associated Press) THE HAGUE, May 14. The Dutch government denies that it has decidwl to surrender .former Emperor William. The question at present, it contends, concerns only Germany and the entente.

Fulfillment of Secret. Pact "of

V London Not Required by Delegates Austrians to Get Treaty Next Week, MORE GERMAN NOTES (By Associated Press) PARIS. May 14. Italian delegates to the peace conference are no longer Insisting upon the fulfillment of the secret treaty of London and this partof the controversy relative to territory on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Is tending toward an adjustment, according to those who have taken part in recent conferences. The status of Flume is still being discussed as the plan to make it a free city similar to Danzig has not proved acceptable. - Relief that the peace treaty with Austria would be handed to the delegates of that nation by the end ot the present week was expressed today. It develops that the allied powers to be represented at St. Germain in. the negotiations with the Austrians will be less numerous than those at Versailles. These powers will comprise the states which declared war upon or broke diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary. The leading figures of the Austrian delegation are expected to arrive at St Germain-en-Laye. near Paris, - tonight. In a statement before leaving Vienna, Karl Renner,; Austrian chaa-' cellor and chief of the delegation, said that he would do his best to get as gooa terms as possible, but that a "vanquished people could expect but little." Consider Proposals. The council of four of the peace con ference appointed this afternoon a sub-committee, comprising one mem ber from each of the five great pow ers (Great Britain, France, Italy, the United States and Japan) to deal with objections and proposals from the German peace plenipotentiaries. - 'PARIS, May 14. Three notes from the German delegation were delivered to the council this morning. They were very long, but the subjects die cussed have not as yet been disclosed. The three German cotes delivered to the council of four, the Hsvas agency says, deal with the following subjects. The first the effect of the peace terms upon German's economic situation; the second, with the manner inwhlch President Wilson's points are -applied which is protested against, and the third, with the principle of the reparation demands, which are protested, although it is declared that Germany is prepared to subscribe to them. Would Pool Vessels. Renewed efforts are being made by the British delegation to secure an agreement calling, for. the pooling of former German mechant vessels and their distribution on a basis of tonnage loss during the war instead - of the plan of the United States retaining those ships Interned in America prior to that country entering the war. Poland is laying claim to some of the warships surrendered by Germany. She presented her claims to the council of foreign ministers this afternoon. WINCHESTER MAN INSTANTLY KILLED BY TRACTION CAR WINCHESTER, Ind., May 14. Harry A. Yost, 28 years old ,was instantly killed by a traction car at the Franklin, crossing, five miles west of here, at noon Wednesday. Tost had been to the country delivering an electric washer and was - returning when his automobile was struck by the car. The body was brought here shortly after the accident. Mrs. Yost is in Sidney, O., on a visit. Mr. Yost was the Delco Electric agent for this vicinity and came here a few months ago from Camden, O. His widow survives him. GERMAN STEAMSHIP DEPARTS FOR U. S. WITH 5,000 YANKS (By Associated Press) . BREST, May 14. The steamship Kaiserina Auguste Victoria, one of the German steamers recently turned over to the United States will sail from this port for the United States this evening with 5,000 troops and 697 passengers. The troops include the 131st infantry regiment, the 66th . infantry brigade headquarters an dthe 25th en gineers. - , Boston, May 14. The transport F. J. Luckenbach with , 2,300 officers and men of the 126th infantry, composed largely of Michigan trops, docked here today. After receiving a hearty harbor and pier reception the men were sent to Camp Devens. CoL W. W,' Olllson was in command. A mesage from the transport Toloa, which is carrying 1,129 officers and men including the 121st machine gun battalion, said she would not reach here before midnifht ' ? ;-.