Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 185, 17 May 1919 — Page 1

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IE VOL. XLIX.NO. M&S& RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING,; MAY 17, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS600 KNIGHTS TO BE GUESTS OF K. OF CAT FEST SUNDAY POPE TO SEEK MODIFICATION OF TERMS AT Richmond Woman's Father Author of Free Verse and New York Society Leader Selected by Paul Hellieu as Most Beautiful Woman Iowa Senator Chosen President Pro tern Killed In Mine Accident Mrs. Virginia Riddle of Terre Haute,

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Ind., who Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Homer Fisher of 203 North Twentyfirst street, this ciry. Saturday after noon received a telegram announcing the death of her husband, Asbury Riddle, in a mine accident at Terre Haute this morning. Details of the accident were not contained In the message. HUN REQUEST Mrs. Riddle, together with another daughter, Mrs. Howard Wilson oi Louisville, Ky- are visiting Mrs. Fisher. Mr. Fisher is a compositor employed by The Palaldium.

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Many Out-of-town Persons Prominent in Githolic Circles Will Attend Initiatory

Services Here. BANQUETJNJOLISEUM The banquet to be given at the Coli seum Sunday evening; by the local council. Knights of Columbus, will be j one of the moat elaborate affairs ever! given In Richmond. Six hundred perrons will be seated at eight tables, i The decorations will be unlaue as well as beautiful. Scenic effects have been

, j rnuigeu sou waii uxy carneu uui wiui electric lights.' The floral decorations are being arranged by a local florist and will make the Coliseum a veritable flower garden. ! The galleries and balconies will be turned open to the Catholics of Richmond so that those who were not able to secure tickets may attend. There will be no admission or reservations and all are cordially Invited to attend. This plan has been made because of the inability of those arranging for the banquet to accommodate more than 600 persons. Good Program Planned The program for the evening fol- . lows: Greeting and Blessing Rev. Frank A. Roell. "Goddess of Liberty" Marie Duane. Vocal Solo Frank Holland. Vaudeville Sketch Actors from the Murray theatre. Impromptu Speeches Members of Visiting Teams and representative candidates. Vocal Selections Knights of Columbus Glee Club. Toast to the Order A. J. Ward, district deputy. Dayton district. Speech John L. Pender, Knights of Columbus overseas secretary Vocal Solo Frieda Winegart, Fort Wayne. "Our Heroic Dead" Judge Edward T. Dixon, judge common pleas court, Cincinnati. Father Cronln Toastmaster The Rev. Walter J. Cronin. pastor nt St. Mary's Catholic church, will act

as the toastmaster of the' evening : 1 Sunday will see the first appearance of the Knights of Columbus Gle club ; which promises to be one of the most T Interesting features of the program.

The member of the club are Urban i Oausepohl, Rudolph Gausepohl. Joe Wessell. Theodore Roell. W illiam Kanie, ranK jvame, nsjuiuuu and George Zwissler. Music will be furnished throughout the banquet by Runge's orchestra. One' hundred and sixteen candidates will be given second and third degree? Sunday. A recent membership drive was made all over the country by the Knights of Columbus order. The membership of the local council will be about 450 after the work on Sunday. The local staff has conferred the first degree, the final work having been done Friday evening. William M. Carroll and staff, of Dayton. O., will confer the second degree, andVT. J. Duffy and staff, of Columbus. O.. will confer the third degree. Both are prominent teams and have done notable work. By having a team from another state the work will be new not only to the candidates but to the members. The work of the day will begin when all the candidates and members attend high mass at St. Andrew's church. All members and candidates will meet at the Knights of Columbus building at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Many persons will attend from other councils. It Is understood that there will be a delegation of 200 from Dayton, and with the total attendance, this will be one of the largest affairs. of its kind ever held in the state. The members of the Richmond council have been working industriously to make the day a success. John J. Harrington. Jr.. Grand Knight of the local council, has been chairman and general manager. The Candidates. " The candidates who have received first degrees and who will receive secand and third degrees Sunday are: Rev. Clement Zepf, Carl Glaser, JosPDh Glaser. George Taube, Jr., Clarnee Taube. C. Kinsella. W. T. Reece, Francis 'McManus, P. J. O'Dea, Albert Caskey, Lawler Dietemeyer, Ralph T. Mallen, Murrell Maher. Carl Kiser, Joseph Burke, R. L. Kleasner, Patrick Dillon, Joseph Kleasner, Morris Horgan, J. C. Blee, Carl A. Pfeiffer, Chas. F. Carroll, Bartley A. Gordon, George F. Ragen. John Britt, Edward F. Kamp, James Maley, W.1 H. Mungavin, William A. Fuller, Patrick A. Fuller. R. W. Wessell, Harry F. Frame. Chas. A. Wolke, Clarence Coyle. Thomas Boyce. Jo Summers, John Barrott. Lawrence Luken, Ralph Doyle, Thos. rFltzglbbons, Thomas Fay, Maro Justice, Read Clark. Henry Korves, Eugene G. Miller, Earl A. Mitchell, Hen--TJTJ. Kleaman, Thomas Quigley. Josrph H. Torbeck, Joseph F. Wessell. JFrk J- Kahle, James A. Mitchell, Raymond Geier, John Heidleman, - Richard L. Zeyen. Cyril Fttzgibbons. John H. Shofer, Frank Quigley, Lanord J. Baumer, James D. Snedeker, Fred B. Foley, Ed. Golderick, Mark J. Brandenberg. Frank Ennis, John T; " Quigley. Patrick Quigley, Edward Berheide. Frank J. Lahmann, Daniel Conner, Harry C. Rohe. Thomas -H.- Mungavin. Frank A. Steins. Willard A. Reece, Elmer A. Miller. Matt Brinker, Jacob H. Crist. Edward W. Kemper, v. William Schooley, I. F. Ryan, Joseph Stolle, Joseph Mercurio, James Kelly," D...t r Dnos. . Thnntu If XT nnrp 1 -If X QUI A . ilUVO, V Frank P. Lochivio. James J. Coyle, Joseph L. Brinker, A. J. Corthaus, (Continued on Page Nine)

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Mrs. Leonard Thomas is well known as an author, writing under the

name "Michael Strange." Her lyrics are mostly free verse and in their imagery and rhythm recall those of the mystic Indian' poet Tagore. Mrs. Thomas was Blanche Oerichs. She was selected by Paul Hellieu as the most beautiful woman in America. .. She is a suffragist and since her marriage she has been a social leader in New York, Newport and Philadelphia.

PEACE TERMS ON FOR FIIJST ..TIME By FRANK H. 8IMONDS. PARIS, May 12. At the oatset of the discussion in detail of the terms nf tho troatv nf nfacp which have been Berved upon the Germans, it is Ssentiai to recognize two fundamental differences between this peace and all previous great settlements of modern history. In the treaty of Versailles, recognition is taken of a new order in the world. Hitherto the end of a great war has been followed by a settlement based mainly on territorial compensation to the victors and only incidentally by financial awards. France liquidated her debt to her conquerors at the end of twenty odd years of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by the payment of 140 millions of dol lars. She paid for the Franco-Prussian war financially by giving to Germany a billion dollars. The measure of a war in the past has been the I provinces won and lost. But modern war is a different thing. The peace which we are to impose up on Germany - is primarily ' economic rather than territorial. We are going to put Germany to work for thirty years to pay some portion, not of the cost of war to her enemies this would be impossible but to pay for the devastation which she has created on sea and on land. After the Treaty of Frankfort, France resumed her own existence without enemy occupation in les than three years. We have foreseen the occupation of German territory for fifteen years, with possible indefinite extension if the terms are not complied with. And there can be no mistake in the fact that we have put Germany into economic bondage for a generation, a bondage deserved, a bondage inevitable, given her crimes, but no less a bondage. We have taken her shipping, we have taken vast amounts of material to re place what she has stolen and destrowed, and if it be exageration to say Germany is ruined, it certainly jcanot be beyond the mark to say that tor a nair century sue wm ue iu me hands of her creditors, financially, provided the terms of peace stand. Former Wars Undestructive. Looking to the future it is well to consider what this means. Ancient war was comparatively inexpensive. It-was ridiculously undestructive. Cities and towns survived and resumed their agricultural occupation the day after a battle; but modern war wipes cities off the map and the loser in modern war must confront consequences be yond the conception of anyone in the past. So much for the fact that this is primarily an economic punishment of Germany. Now, in the second place, this peace cannot be a settlement except in the narrowest sense, because it settles nothing. It only arranges a method of settlement. It leaves It for the future eo enforce terms. It adjures, in all essential cases with minor exceptions, the liquidation which hitherto has promptly followed war. Therefore, it is impossible now to go beyond the statement that if the terms of peace can be enforced and are enforced, it is a just peace. But it may be a generation, granted that Germany does accept the treaty of peace, before anybody can measure its real value. There is a third circumstance of major " Importance. The treaty of peace as drafted represents three thoroughly distinct points of view American. British, Continental.- The American point of view was comprehended

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ECONOMIC BASIS IN WAR HISTORY in the president's Insistence on the League of Nations as a basis of peace The British was comprehended in a dominating desire to preserve and ex pand Anglo-American friendship, and the only less controlling necessity of preserving intimate association with France as guarantee against possible German aggression in the future. The French point of view was one in which security and reparation were prevailing motives. Looking to the future, France was incapable of relying upon any paper arrangement, any , still untried experiment In international association, to protect her from a new invasion, and she was bankrupt and ruined unless Germany were to be compelled to pay for reconstruction in her ten devastated departments. Treaty is Compromise. The conflict of these three points of view was immediate, inevitable, and has dominated the whole peace situation. As a result, we have a Comoromise, a compromise to be criticized, (Continued on Page Eleven) KANDLEY IS MADE EMPLOYMENT AGENT Lawrence Handley was sworn in Friday as special employment agent for the National Labor department in this community. Handley is appointed to the position to see that men are given a chance to secure work. He will ccOperate With the Y. M. C. A. employ- .-. w r r XTT O T 1 - T T 11 -''J. . o. xvajie. xiaxjuiey announced Saturday that he did not SuwoX as long Ts the' yTaTc. A. virrt a Irin i nm tf ...... Ravle who has chars of th Y M a I' 5fff v: . work for a large number of returned service men in the few day3 he has acw uiija uc lias been in the city. He has a number of jobs of almost every kind a soldier would want with the exception of of fice work. He has had several calls for office jobs but cannot furnish soldiers with experience in that work. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Sunday. Rising temperature Sunday. - Today's Temperature. Noon .'. 54 Yesterday Maximum 68 Minimum ........................ 54 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Sunday, morning probably followed by Increasing cloudiness. Continued cool. Conditions favorable for frosts in lowlands. Rising temperature Sunday. Ger.eral conditions Weather Is touring rapidly over the central states, and storm is moving down the St. Lawrence valley. Cold weather con tinues , from Manitoba southward to Tennessee, warming over the west, where temperatures vary from 70 to 80 In the shade from British Columbia southward. This will cause a reaction to milder weather by Sunday afternoon. A storm is developing over the Rocky mountains which will probably cause rain here by Monday or Tues day. ' ' . ' . .

Vatican to Act on Petition From German Episcopate

Asking Aid in Securing Mitigation of Treaty. AUSTRIAN PACT SOON (By Associated Press) ROME, May 17. In response to a petition from the entire German epis copate, begging his good offices in securing mitigation of the terms of peace, Pope Benedict has taken steps to communicate with the head of one of the most important delegations at the peace conference with a view to getting the conditions modified. SPEEDY RATIFICATION PARIS, May 17 The German peace treaty, It has developed, contains a clause which has not yet been made public, providing that ratification by Germany and three of the principal associated powers will bring the treaty into force between the ratifying parties, enabling the immediate resumption of trade. As the result .of conferences among the representatives of the powers which were being continued today, the text of the German treaty probably will be made public by instalments. Disadvantage in Delay It was pointed out today in connection with the stipulation as to the ratification of the German treaty that any nation which withheld ratification after three of the principal powers had ratified would be at a disadvantage in a commercial way. This would fol: low from the fact that the ratifying powers would be able to resume trade relations with Germany at once, while the states that delayed would have no such privilege. NO LIGHT ON REPORT WASHINGTON, May 17 Lacking the complete text of the treaty, State Department officials were unable today to throw any light on the report from Paris that the treaty may go into force upon ratification by Germany and three of the principal associated powers. - : - V-'-"- - -; :.-: The official abstract of the treaty as cabled to the department and made public May 7,- said, that "the treaty is to become effective in all respects for each power on the date of the de position of the ratification." It would occasion no surprise, how ever, If some qualification of tnls lan guage were disclosed by the full text. It is recalled that recent cable dispatches from Rome have indicated the Italian government's belief that France, England and America had arranged to make the treaty operative upon its ratification by those powers and Germany. FIX AUSTRIAN INDEMNITY. PARIS, May 17 The indemnity clause of the Austrian peace treaty provides for a payment one twentieth as large as that demanded from Germany. The sum asked for is 5,000,000,000 gold marks, with bond. TO EXCHANGE CREDENTIALS PARIS, May 17. The exchange c' credentials between the Austrian' peace delegation and the representatives of the allied and associated powers will take place on Monday next. The function is set for 3.20 o'clock p. m. ITALY GIVES UP ISLANDS. PARIS, May 17. Italy has relinquished her claims to the Dodocanese islands off the Asia Minor coast, in favor of Greece. This ends one of the most acute controversies before the peace conference. , DENOUNCE PEACE TERMS. LONDON, Friday, Jtfay 16. There i was a mass demonstration outside of . thA hpfldniiflrrprfl nr t hp American mic. i ainn of Humhur? nn Thursday aiirin? I o j which tne terms of peace were dej n0Unced, according to a Berne dispatch I to Exchange Telegraph company. HEADQUARTERS UNDER GUARD BERLIN, Friday, May 16. Mass the day both in Berlin and the provinces, . i A oaa aaa , ; f"" tl.",- f, "u";i the Reichstag building and adoDted the Reichstag building and adopted strongly worded resolutions against the peace terms. The neighborhood of the Hotel Adlon, the headquarters of the allied missions, has been placed under guard of a cordon of police. RELIGHTS BLAST FURNACE LONGEY, France, Friday, May 16 Louis Loucheur, minister of reconstruction today relighted the blast furrace in the Senelle factory at Maubeuge, the first to be reopened In liberated territory in northern France. Albert F. Lebrun, minister of blockade and invaded regions, and many men prominent in industrial life in France were present. . MERCIER TO SEE. POPE ROME, Thursday, May 15. Cardinal Mercier, archbishop of Brussels, is expected to visit Rome and have an audience with Pope Benedict before the cardinal starts on his visit to tjxe United States. The cardinal will oe 'lie bearer of a papal message to the American people. CARR TO BE DINED The Board of Directors of the Richmond Commercial club will give a dinner at the Arlington hotel at 6:45 o'clock, Wednesday evening;. May 21. in honor of James Carr, retiring member of the board. Mr. Carr has been a member for ten years

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SENATOR A. B. CUMMINS. Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa has been chosen president pro tern of the upper house of congress. Senator Cummins is sixty-nine years old; was born and educated in Pennsylvania; practiced law in Chicago, 1875-8; removed to Des Moines in the latter year; has been active In politics ever since, and has represented his state in the U. S. Senate since November 24, 1908. FRANKLIN TAX VALUE DOUBLED BY NEW RULING Township's 1919 Assessment "$2,380,018 Against $1, - 061,960 in 1918. The first indication of the effect of the new tax law on assessment values in Wayne county was given Saturday when the assessor's 1919 report for Franklin township was filed in the auditor's office. The value of taxable property in Franklin was given in the present year's report as $2,380,018, against $1,061,960 in 1918, an increase of more than 100 per cent. Whitewater village, which in 1918 was assessed at $28,620, was assessed this spring at $41,445.60. Ratio Will be Maintained. Persons in the courthouse interested in the tax situation said that they thought this or a greater ratio would be kept up all over the county. The figures are not the official fig ures of the 1919 tax assessment, as they must be worked over in the audi tor's office and reviewed by the board of review. It will be July before the official abstract from which is made the assessment for next year will be ready. SERVICE MEN MAY DRAW TRIP MONEY Service men of Wayne county, who went to Indianapolis to greet the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, ! can draw their expense money for tho i trip from the county treasurer's office qtiv i-ma often TftTirtov mrtmin? i rnnntv TrMsnrpr F,rt T Wpiflnep an! i W x J " " MH nounced Saturday. Wayne boys who went need only their receipts for fares to and from ! Indianapolis on that day to draw their money said Weidner. If they cannot come themselves, an order should be given to some member of the household and this will be enough to get .1 - . .. , injttnCtlOn M W, Va., Gas Squabble ' fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17 Immediate steps to enjoin temporarily the state of West Virginia from enforcing a state law restricting the sending of natural gas into adjoining states are to be taken if the supreme court grants permission to the stages of Ohio and Pennsylvania . to institute orig inal proceedings testing, the valadity of the statute. Attorney-General Price, of Ohio, and Pennsylvania authorities, arrived in Washington today prepared to ask the supreme court on Monday to grant an injunction restraining the West Virginia authorities, pending final determination of the case. Motions asking permission to bring the suit were filed by the two states, May 5. Hard Cider Illegal? Palmer Won't Say! WASHINGTON,' May 17 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer has declined to render an opinion to the internal revenue bureau, on the question of whether manufacture of hard cider is forbidden under the law prohibiting the use of food stuffs in the manufacture of Intoxicating beverages which went into effect May 1.

EASTHAVEN HEAD MADE PURCHASING

BOARD CHAIRMAN Dr. S. E. Smith Chief of Subcommittee to Purchase Supplies for Institutions. INDIANAPOLIS, May 17. The subcommittee of the Joint purchasing committee for the eighteen state institutions met with Governor Goodrich and selected Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Richmond, as president of the subcommittee, and Maurice C. Shelton, of Rochester, a member of the board of trustees of the state prison, as temporary secretary. The subcommittee held an all-day meeting in the statehouse Friday dis cussing plans .- for the purchase of staple and common supplies. The sub committee will select a full-time sec retary, who will have an office In the statehouse and will be virtually state purchasing agent. The subcommittee and the governor agreed that the place shall be filled by a business man and not by a politic ian. It is proposed to obtain, if pos sible, the services of an expert in buying. The governor said that the subcom mittee will have charge of from $1,250, 000 to $2,000,000 buying for the state each year and that it would be good business for the subcommittee to obtain the services of an expert adviser. He said private buying firms pay such men from $10,000 to $15,000 a year to supervise less buying than Is done annually by the state Institutions. The other members of the subcommitee are Moses Epstein, of Frankfort. a trustee of the Northern Hospital for the Insane; Charles A. McGonagle, su perintendent of the Indiana Boys school, Plalnfleld, and ' Joseph Henn Ing, of Anderson, a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana re formatory. N. Y. NATIONAL ARMY DIVISION HIT HUNS FOR BIGGEST GAINS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17 Official I records at the war department show that the 77th division made a. imsn i advance against the enemy than any other American division in France. The New York city national army men went forward a total of 71 1-2 kilometers. The second (regular) division advanced a total of 60 kilometers and the 42nd (Rainbow) division, 55 kilometers. This announcement was made today by General Peyton C. March, chief of staff. Fourth in the list was the first (regulars) with 51 kilometers. The 89th was fifth with 48 kilometers. These five divisions, with the third (regulars) which recorded an advance of 41 kilometers, carried the American line forward for more than five per cent of the total advance made by all the forces of the United States. Democrats Prepare For Special Session (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17. Democratic members of the senate and house held meetings today to discuess plans for the new congress which convenes next week. Routine matters, including the framing of a list of officers, for formal presentation against the republican conference slate, were before the senators' meeting, which convened at 11 o'clock. House democrats met at noon for a similar conference. In this meeting interest centered chiefly in the fight against Conner Speaker Champ Clark as the nominee for speaker. Tonight republican members of the lower branch will discuss ratification of the commiUee assignments proposed by the committee on committees. INVADER .GOULD NOT LAND TROOPS FAST ON U. S. SOIL-MARCH (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17. General Peyton C. March, chief of staff of the army, announced today that experience in troop transport during the war had shown that estimates made by the war department in 1915, as to the possibility of a foreign nation landing troops in the United States, were entirely too high. These estimates, General March said, included 887,000 men in sixteen days by German; 404,000 by France in the same time; 180,000 by Austria and 238,000 by Japan. These were based on a calculation of a transport making a round t?lp every 30 days, whereas experience proved that 35 days was required for even the very fastest of the transports, and 70 days for cargo ships.

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N-C1 IS CLOSE BEHIND BULLETIN! Ponta Delgada, Azores, May 17 (By the Associated Press). The N-C 1 r ported at 3:40 a. m. (Greenwich time) that she had been forced to alight in the open sea 200 miles northwest of Fayal. Four destroyers have gone to he rassistance. The N-C 3 is believed to be lost In the fog. The flagship of the. flight reported at 4:15 a. m. (Greenwich time) that she was off her course between stations number 17 and 18. Nothing has been heard of the N-C & since. WASHINGTON. D. C May 17. The American naval seaplane, N-C 4. un der Lieutenant-Commander Albert C Read, has attained its first objective in the trans-Atlantic flight, having landed safely at Horta, island of Fayal, Azores, at 9:20 o'clock this morn ing (Washington time), after winging her way from Trepassey Bay, New foundland, in fifteen hours and thirteen minutes. The N-C 1, under Lieutenant-Com mander Patrick N. L. Bellinger, was close behind the N-C 4. but the N-C 3, flagship of Commander John H. Towers, was last reported at 6:15 a. "m. (Washington time), as off her course somewhere between Station Ships 17 and 18, about 100 miles from Horta. Forced to Land by Fog. Original plans were for the planes to land at Ponta Delgada, and it may be that the N-C 1 and N-C 3 will continue on to that port,- which is about 150 miles east of Horta. Fog evidently forced Commander Read to land at Horta and officials here assumed that after taking fuel from the cruiser Columbia, he would continue to Ponta Delgada to spend the night before taking flight for Lisbon, Portugal, on the next leg of the overseas voyage. Commander Read reached Horta several hours ahead of the scheduled time for the flight, officials having estimated that twenty hours would be required for the seaplanes to reach Ponta Delgada. Had he continued to that port at the s speed maintained throughout the long voyage, Commander Read would have covered the 1,350 miles in a little more than seventeen hours. The fact that the N-C 4 was the first of the three planes to reach the Azores drew comment from naval officers here. The Bhip was the "lame duck" of the division from the time it started from Rockaway Beach, L. I. Three of her four Liberty motors which drove the ship to the Axores were installed nrTer it left HapVioit because of trouble with the original motors. . Lisbon Big Objective. The machine which will achieve the distinction of being first to cross the Atlantic ocean will be that which arrives first at Lisbon, Portugal, the first European landing place, of the flight and starting point of the last leg to Plymouth. England.: ; While the performance of the N-C 4 is viewed as the most spectacular aviation achievement in the history of heavier-than-alr crafts, Commander Read has not equalled the American navy record. ISLANDERS WATCH FOR SHIPS. PONTO DELGADA, Azores. May 17. With the seaplane NC-4 already landed on the Island of Fayal, , the American craft has completed a difficult section of the race to Europe. ' The other planes were going strong in the wake of their leader. The average speed of the NC-4 was. computed at more than seventy-five miles an hour. , The news from the on-coming seaplanes brought interest in the transAtlanic flight to a high pitch this morning. Small knots of people gath ered on the water front shortly after daybreak to seek news of the fliers and to await their arrival, and as the day progressed the crowd rapidly increased. : . The section of the harbor where the planes will be mored has been cleared of all craft to permit of a safe landing. Two destroyers are ready to assist the plants if they alight outside the breakwater. The city here is In gala dress for the expected event of . the day, and Admiral Jackson has invited the high civil officials to view the arival of the fliers from one of the American war craft stationed here. . The weather was misty and the visibility poor early this morning, but clearing weather was predicted for this afternoon when the planes are due to arrive. The departure of the seaplanes from Trepassey was first reported here at 11:44 o'clock last night, when the torpedo boat tender Melville received a wireless message reading: "Planes In flight." This information, which was rapid? circulated about the city, caused much animation. In American naval headquarters, which was beseiged with inquiries regarding " the flight. The flood of questions poured in upon the headquarters continuing through the night . t . J An hour after the announcement of the start a definite statement of the time of the departure was received. Nothing further came In until 3:15 a. m., when the NC-3 reported having passed station Number 7, 350 miles from Newfoundland. Admiral Jackson, Fleet Commander (Continued on Pne Nine)