Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 189, 22 May 1919 — Page 1

TED A VOL. XLTV..NO. 189lLT5'eU,m"i"'utd RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS: MORTON LAKE AS CITY PAI1K SUGGESTED OY BUSINESS f.lEtl ALLIED AW ITALIANS ACID "Peace Congress," Now in Special Session, Must Settle Many Tough Problems, Including Ratification of Peace Treaty and Rail Mixup Will Referee Race Before Speaking Here PREPARES TO START MOVE GREEKS CLASH OVER LANDING ON TURK SOIL IN GERMANY

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S. E. Swayne, Heaviest Stockholder, Will Donate His Interest to City if Property is

Taken Over. CLUB TO ACT ON PLAN A proposal providing for the acquisition by the city of Richmond of the Morton lake property will be con sidered formally at a special meeting of the board of directors of the Com mercial club Monday evening. The proposition has been submitted to the club by S. E. Swayne, a member of the board and the heaviest stockholder in the Morton lake project. Indications today were that the sentiment of the club board favored recommending to the city council the taking over of the property. Speaking at a dinner Wednesday evening given in honor of James Carr, a retiring member of the Commercial club board, Mr. Swayne said that as far as he Individually was concerned, he would donate his interest In the property to the city, but that he could not speak for the other stockholders as far as their attitude toward con tributing their interests was con cerned. Surrounds Artificial Lake The Morton lake property consists of about 160 acres of land in the northeast section of the city. The grounds surround an artificial . lake of some magnitude, and are here and there dotted with small houses or bungalows bullded by stockholders during the pe riod of developing v the project and when Interest in the proposal was at Its heighth. Between $50,000 and $60,-1 000 was spent on beautifying and improving the site by the twenty-five original purchasers. The original plan providing that the city could at anytime take over the property at the original cost to the purchasers plus 6 per cent Interest "As far as I personally am eon- . cernedV said MiV Swayne. Tam vIUfag to forego any remuneration for my interest in the property, but I cannot say whether or not the ' others would do the same. It seems to me that the Morton lake property would be an ideal Bite for a park and if taken over by the city and Improved, would assist materially in building up that end of the city. Ask Only Equitable Plan. " The property Is now owned by the Morton Realty company. I am not a director of the company, but I know that the stockholders would consider any proposal from the city that would be equitable." "I think Mr. Swayne's suggestion is a splendid one," said Elmer E. Eggemeyer, president of the Commercial club Thursday. "With a small cost the city could maintain the property and it would be a big addition to the park system of the city. The city could keep up the park at one-tenth of the cost to the Morton Realty company. And let me say that all the 1 ig Ftockholders like Mr. Swayne v ' donate their interests to the Hit j. r he stockholders are at a heavy expense in keeping up the property, and they are deriving no benefit from it in its present form. Those here interested in civic affairs should get behind this project and help put it through, for it would be a big thing for the city of Richmond." Peltz Opposes Plan. John E. Peltz, . president of the Board of Works, said Thursday that he did not see how the city could take over the property. Mr. Peltz was questioned regarding the proposal in the absence of Mayor W. w. Zimmer man, who is confined to his bed by a slight illness. "The city is in a bad way to consider any such a proposi tion." said Mr. Peltz. "We can't do what we should do on the streets be cause of the lack of money. In my - opinion, the acquisition by the city of the property would be a millstone j around the city's neck. That is my opinion now; I may change It when the proposition is submitted to the city. I always was opposed to the Morton lake project because I believed it was impractical." i John M. Lontz and other prominent business men have volunteered to sponsor a campaign for a fund that would enable the city to acquire the property cheaply, it is said. $300 COLLECTED FOR PLAYGROUND FUNDS Almost $300 has been collected so far by the high school boys soliciting for $1,000 to cover expenses for the playgrounds this summer. The boys worked all day yesterday but have not been able to see all of the persons on their lists. Many of the teams are working today. The boys said that they Intend to work until they get the $1,000. Smith Attends Session Of State Purchasing Board Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was in Indianapolis Wednesday attending the meeting of the state purchasing board of which he is a member. The board has recently been created and attends to the purchasing of all the supplies for the institutions in the state of Indiana.

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View of opening session of special session President Wilson's recommendations,

as far as light wines and beer are concerned and that the railroads be returned to their owners are only two of the Important Issues the new congress must handle. The special session which opened recently must also pass on the peace treaty. All in all, the session promises to be even mote stormy than the ones of the congress which handled

the mass of war legislation. GREEN TOWNSHIP FIRST IN DISTRICT TO 60 OVER QUOTA Green township was the first township in the seventh federal loan district to go over its Victory loan quota, according to members of the township organization for the loan drive. . The loan was over by April 17, and the bank at Williamsburg made no sub scriptions. , The quota for Green township was $55,000, and the amount subscribed was $65,200. Every dollar of the subscriptions has been paid, it was caid at Williamsburg. WHliam Lewis was township chairman of the drive. SEIJATORSrTO VOTE . "ON SUFFRAGE SOON - -t WASHINGTON, May 22. With the national woman suffrage amendment passed for the second time yesterday by the house, supporters of the meas ure today were turning their attention to the senate in an endeavor to in crease the slight margin of strength which the amendment now is said to have in that body before it comes up for vote, probably within the next three weeks. Forty-two votes more than the neces sary two-thirds were cast in favor of the resolution in the House yesteraay showing a marked increase in sentiment in that body for equal suffrage since it last voted on the measure, January 10, 1918, when exactly the necessary two-thirds vote was secured. Opposition was expressed in the ballot bv many southern Democrats and several New England Republicans. Tha party division in the vote showed 200 Republicans, 108 Democrats, one independent and one prohibitionist voting for the resolution, while seventy Democrats and nineteen Republicans voted against it. All efforts of opponents of the resolution to amend it were" unavailing. WASHINGTON, May 22. The woman suffrage constitutional amendment resolution gained another vote in the senate with the announcement today by Senator Hale, Republican of Maine, that he would support it. Senator Hale voted against the resolution at the last session. Suffragists previously had claimed sufficient votes to insure adoption of the resolution in the senate. TWO MONKEY-FACED OWLS AT GLEN PARK Relatives are relatives and although the hoot owls, resident of Glen Park zoo for some time, were not especially keen about two monkey-faced owls moving in yesterday they are standing by them like good Scotchmen, and all is peace, so far! The two branches of the well-known forest family are living in different parts of the zoo town, however, and nothing more than long distance gossiping is expected. The two newcomers, typical monkey-faced birds arrived from Cincinnati yesterday. Their original habitat was in a wood along theHamiltonCincinnati road, where they were caught not long ago by a man who decided to hand them over to Glen park. Other animals at the Glen are in good condition, said Ed Hollarn, superintendent of the park today. Mr. Hollarn says he has been greatly delayed in planting flowers on account of the inclement, weather, but he hopes to get some beds set in gorgeous geraniums soon. It has been entirely too wet to plant these yet, he explains. CHALONER WINS SUIT (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 22. John Arm strong Chaloner, Merry Mills. Va, millionaire, who escaped from an asy lum here twenty years ago was award ed a $30,000 verdict against the New York Evening Post for alleged libeL

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chusetts, new speaker. In his message to the new congress Two Hundred Eighty Working Days In New Bolsheviki Calendar (Br Associated Press) HELSINGFORS, May 22 The soviet government has introduced a new chronology whereby the year begins on Oct 25, the date of the establishment of the Bolsheviki regime. The year Is to contain 280 working days. MEXICO APPALLING CHURCHMEN TOLD (67 Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 22. Mexico Is hopeless religiously and appalling socially and Japan is curtailing the progress of Koreans because of her apathy toward ; foreign missionaries, ac

cording fca thareport-of -thcommitteet Captain Daffis was1 about too overon foreign missions submitted to the ; 8e&s with the" rating of major when 131st general assembly of the Presby-j the armistice was signed. He , wtmld terian church today. have sailed on November 20 had firing "Mexico needs most of all men of i not ceased. character in her political life," declares 1 , . the report. "The ' country's stringent' mnunil Tfi nrolOT

laws regarding religion make it vir-1 tnallir ImnnnsihlA fnr mlfmlnnarleil to make any progress and owing to the poverty there social conditions are appalling." Missionaries have great influence with the Koreans, but the Japanese are unwilling to have foreigners exert It over their subjects, the report recited. ' The question of sex equality in church affairs was brought before the assembly in the report of the commit- j tee on policy. The committee was split on the question, but the majority report favoring the plan of permitting women to become ministers and elders and the minority report opposing it. Action on the report is expected to be taken last today. , LIBERTY SOLDIER TO GET U. S. GROSS CAMP SHERMAN, O., May 22. Corporal Andrew Irrgang, of the 120th Infantry, will be presented with a dis tinguished service cross at Camp snerman Friday, it Is expected Major General Glenn will pin the coveted medal on his breast before several thousand soldiers stationed here. Corporal Irrgang's home is at Liberty, Ind. .The citation states that the cross is awarded for heroism in action and under fire at Bellicourt, France, in September. Corporal Irrgang has been discharged and was home when the medal came. Officers got in communication with him and he agreed to come on any day named. Friday was fixed for the ceremony. NG-4 IS DELAYED TODAY IN FLIGHT (By Associated PressV WASHINGTON,-May 22. The high winds today prevented the naval sea plane N-C 4 from leaving Ponta Delgada for Lisbon on tne secona leg oi her transatlantic flight. The navy department this morning received the following message from Admiral Jackson at Ponta Delgada: "N-C 4 will not leave today. Seas too' rough for start." LONDON, May 22. The American naval 6eaplane N-C 4 will not start today from Ponta Delgada to Lisbon because the sea in the vicinity of the Azores is too rough, according to a wireless dispatch received by American naval authorities here. Antagonism Grows Between U.S. Soldiers And Germans (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, May 22 Because of increased indication of friction between German citizens and soldiers throughout the American occupation area, American officers today warned the burgomasters and other officials that they would be held responsible for any violence or any attempt at des truction of American army property.

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that the war prohibition act be repealed TWO MORE DOCTORS ADDED TO LIST OF THOSE FROM WAYNE Captain Charles E. Duffln, physician of this city who served in the base hospital at Camp Zachary Taylor for four and a half months during the influenza' epidemic, and received his honorable discharge from the army in February, and Lieutenant V. C. Griffith Richmond physician who was stationed at Camp Cody, New Mexico, on the Mexican border for more than seven months, receiving his honorable discharge recently, are two other Quaker City men who did valiant medical service during the war. Although neither one of these men was Bent overseas, their names are a part of that all important corps - of doctors who fought for the uvea of Tanks m this country, KA III Hr.M.M Mil I w tV IlkWlW I WILSON APPEAL "The Anti-Saloon League will resist the recommendation of President WilBon concerning repeal of .the war-time prohibition law prohibiting the use of light wines and beers," said Timothy Nicholson, nresident of the Indiana State Anti-Saloon League, today, "and not only .will the Anti-Saloon League resist the measure but it will be fought by all the temperance members of congress. I do not believe it can succeed." "It is not true that the laboring class is wholly wet," said Mr. Nicholson. "Laborers have stood by the drys, by the Anti-Saloon League very well in many instances and in many parts of the country." Mrs. Mary Duffy Found Dead In Bathtub Of Home; Escaping Gas Proves Fatal Mrs. Mary Jennie Duffy was found dead in the bathtub at the home of Mrs. Fred Bond, 331 .Lincoln street, at 9 : 30 o'clock, Wednesday evening. Coroner S. Edgar Bond has rendered a verdict of death from asphyxiation from gas fumes. Dr. Bond said there was no escape pipe from the instantaneous gas heater thereby causing the fumes to be confined to the room. He said that there have been several instances here recently where persons bave barely escaped death in a similar manner. Mrs. Duffy had a room at the Bond home and had retired early, stating she intended taking a bath. Mr. ,and Mrs. Bond had guests during the evening and when they went to the second floor to retire, they no ticed the light burning in Mrs. Duffy s room and the door open. They thought this unusual and when they tried the door of the bath-room they found it locked. When the lock was broken, Mrs. Duffy was found dead in the bath-tub. It was thought at first she had been drowned. The police and Fire Chief Miller went to the Bond home with a pulmotor, but found this of no avail. Mrs. Duffy was a widow.: She is survived by a son, who is an instructor in the agricultural department of Wisconsin , University. Mrs. Duffy had made arrangements to go to live with her son in Madison. She was a member of the First Christian church of this city. - The other surviving relatives are three sisters, Mrs. Martha Barton of New Paris, Mrs. Ada Marshall of Whitewater, and Mrs. Mamie Sieweke of Campbellstown. O., and two brothers, George Newborn of Dayton, and Ollie Newbern of New Paris. 5 The body has been taken to the home of the sister, Mrs. Marshall near Whitewater. Funeral arrangements will be made when the son arrives from Madison. . LADY PAGET DEAD LONDON, May 22. Lady Arthur Paget died in Paris,' according to ad vices received in London.

American Army Trucks Sent

to' Bridgehead Area Gen erals Liggett and Hines Re called to Coblentz. FOE IS STRENGTHENED - (By Associated Press) BERLIN, May 22. The greater Ber lin soldiers and workers' council today adopted a resolution demanding that the peace treaty be signed and appealing to the proletariat of the allied countries. UNITED AGAINST TREATY LONDON, May 22. Full realization of the peace terms has restored some of the national feeling in Germany, which seemed entirely to have vanished and today there is almost solid national opinion against the treaty, according to the traveling correspondent of the Daily Mail in a dispitch dated at Buthen, in Sllecia, near the Polish frontier on May 20. Germany is slowly finding men around whom she will rally, the correspondent adds. Upper Silicia will fight, he says, and may soon be the storm center of the attempted peace settlement. ' GENERAL8 RECALLED COBLENZ, May 22. Lieut. General Hunter Liggett, commander of the army of occupation, and Major General John Hines, commander of the third corps, who were on their way to London today were recalled to Coblenz by orders from American general headquarters. Nine hundred motor trucks began to' move Tuesday midnight from west of the Rhine to the bridge head area. The trucks are being distributed to various points of vantage among the troops holding tho zone east of the Rhine should the occasion arise for the Americans to start advance. The recall of Generals Liggett and Hines, it was learned in Coblenz. Is part of the new program for the American army in the event the Germans do not accept the peace treaty, . trv-QhHiiarti Dlaturbed.V The composite regiment of the third army, which was, . organized for participation in the empire festivities in Ixradon in which Generals Llggitt and Hines were also to take part is being held in Coblenz because of the new turn in the peace situation. The regiment may be sent to London and Brussels as intended if the peace treaty is signed within the next few weeks. The movement of the motor trucks continued throughout Wednesday and Wednesday night and was the topic of conversation among the German civilians in Coblenz. Many civilians com plained that the trucks as they rumbled across the Rhine bridge at night disturbed their sleep. Irish Not Bound By English Action At Peace Conference (Br Associated Press) PARIS, May 22. Premier Clemeneeau, president of the peace congress, has received a letter from Edward DeValera, Count Plunkett and Arthur Griffiths, Irish Sinn Fein leaders, in which they declare that Ireland" will not be bound by the action of the British delegates on the question of peace. They ask recognition on behalf of Ireland. LACK OF FUNDS HOLDS

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(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 22.-After an hour's routine session today, the house recessed until 3 p. m. to await from the appropriations committee an urgent deficiency bill carrying funds for

allowances to families of soldiers and; such an arrangement may be needed sailors under the war risk insurance j temporarily as an efficient Instrument act and dependence of Civil war vet- j in the aid of the complete amalgamaerans. ition which is our objective." Chairman Good of the appropriations j The conference will close tonight committee told the house that 700,000 , with a dinner at which Mrs. Medill family allowance checks aggregating McCormick. wife of Senator McCor$12,000,000 were held up May 1, be- !mick of Illinois, will preside with cause cf lack of funds and that, with- Chairman Hays, Speaker Gillett of the out an appropriation 600,000 more house, and Senator Cummins of Iowa, checks would be held up June 1. He president pro-tempore of the senate, as

also said mere would oe a lapse oi, 25,000 Civil war pension checks, totaling $3,000,000 on June 1. Subsidy For Commercial Airplane Industry Urged (By associated Press) NEW YORK, May 22. Betore starting for Europe today as' head of a commission which will study means of. developing in this country the commercial aeroplane industry, assistant secretary of war Benedict Crowell, declared that in his opinion the object would be obtained only with the aid of a government subsidy. Ministers Are Asked To Appeal For Prohibition (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, May 22 Letters to ministers asking that Sunday, June 8, be devoted to appeals for the prohibition cause have been sent out by the prohibition national committee, Chairman Virgil G. Hinshaw announced today. He said it was expected that appeals will be made from 150,000 pulpits urging the people to stand behind the "dry" cause. ,

Capt. Eddie Rlckenbacker. Eddie Rlckenbacker, American ace, one of the leading auto racers until the war came along, will be interested in the 600-mile race at Indianapolis. Decoration Day, but not as contest ant. He has been asked to act as referee. Eddie has said that he will not reenter the auto racing game as a driver. He will appear on the lec ture platform here on Saturday, May 3L WOMEN TO HAVE ACTIVE PART IN . G, 0. P. AFFAIRS Organization of Party Dis cussed by Hays Before Women's Committee. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 22 Important subjects dealing with party organization were discussed at a Republican conference here today under the aus pices of the Republican women's na tional executive committee.' Will H. Hays, chairman of th Bepublicaa nfe. tional committee. In n - address oatlining the part to be played by women in the affairs of the party under the recently adopted plan, asserted the women were not to be given secondary consideration but would get the full consideration due all other Individuals in the party. Reports on organization work preparatory to the next campaign were heard from representatives of three groups of states Mrs. Florence Porter of California, speaking for the states in which women have complete franchise; Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter. of Kansas, for the partially enfranchised states, and Miss Maude A. Wetmore, of Rhode Island, for the unfranchised group. "There is but one possible rule for a political party." said Chairman Hays in his address, "and that is that the rights of the individual membership to participate in the management of the party's affairs must be and remain equally sacred and sacredly equal. The Republican women in this country are a part of the party membership. In many states this has long Been so. Units In Membership. "They come into this party activity J not as women but as voters, entitled to participate and participating Insofar as the present legal limitations permit, just as other voters. Their activity is not supplementary, or secon dary at all they are units in the party (membership, and where the suffraee ' for them is new they come in Just as all, but assimilated and amalgamated i wiia jusi inai iuu consideration flue every working member of the party in the rights of their full citizenship. "There is to be no separate women's organization created wlfhln the party except ana only in those cases where speakers Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau. Cloudy with showers probably tonight or Friday. Today's Temperature. Noon 56 54 Yesterday.. Maximum Minimum 41 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. Showers this afternoon and tonight Friday partly cloudy and probably showers. Continued cool tonight. General Conditions The area of barometric pressure continues very low over the eastern states and as a result cold weather for the season continues , from Great Lakes southward except along the Gulf coast, where it is warm. A hot wave covers the northwest, 92 at Medicine Hat, 80 to 86 over Montana, and summer weather over the Rocky mountain states. A storm covers the west and is already causing rain east of the Rocky mountains. Weather continues unsettled for next 24 hours.

Three Powers Send Note to

Italy Demanding Explanation Incident Complicates Ottoman Difficulty - HUNS .GET EXTENSION (By Associated Press) PARIS. May 22. It has been learned in trustworthy quarters that the United States, Great Britain and France have united in sending a note to Italy requesting an explanation of the landing of Italian forces In Turkey Premier Orlando Is said to have made a reply to the council of four after a sharp personal indent during which he objected to the presence of Premier Venizelos of Greece. The letter retired from the meeting. - The Italians landed forces at Ada 11a, Budrum and Makrl during the period when Premier Orlando and Fors eign Minister Sonnino had withdrawn from the peace conference, : making the landings without notice to- the allies. .v, - ..; .-J... t . Complicate Turk Question. ' '' I The reported Italian incident apparently complicate the Turkish problem already a vexed one, with which the peace conference heads have been struggling for some little time past. - In evident anticipation of . a Greek mandate to administer the Smyrna district, allied forces were landed at Smyrna last Thursday, meeting with considerable resistance from x the Turks, but making themselves master of the city. Italian troops were reported to have participated to some extent in this landing. According to a Paris dispatch of May 20, however, the Italians had previously landed forces at Adalia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor, and likewise during last week disembarked troops at Budrum, 95 miles southeast of Smyrna, and at Makrl, on the gulf of Makri, in the vilayet of Smyrna. - There had been nothing to Indicate that these landings were cot by arreemear among tho allies and, Indeed. some or toe nnomcial forecasts as to the probable division of Turkish territory under league of nations mandatories had Indicated the probability that Italy would be given the Adalia district to administer. Whether the Adalia landing is the one objected to, or whether th"e putting ashore of Italian forces independent of other allied contingents, in the vilayet of Smyrna has caused the sending of the note, remains to be developed. From the fact that Premier Venizelos of Greece figures In the controversy, the latter contingency would appear the more likely, in view of the understanding that the Smyrna district is to be under Greek tutelage. 60 PAGES OF REPLY BERLIN. Wednesday, May 21. The German cabinet's declaration issued officially and exclusively through the Associated Press on Tuesday that Germany would decline to sign the peace terms as presented to her at Versailles, reflects the underlying notes of the official reply to be made to the allied , and associated powers. In fact, the statement as a whole virtually represents the preamble of the document which Count von Brockdorft Rantzau, the head of the German, delegation is expected to deliver at Versailles, before the end of the present week. ' .. . This document will be complemented by specific proposals and counter Droposals which will bring the volume of ; the reply up to 60 typewritten pages. This is exclusive of the various notes (already transmitted, announcement of gation in Tuesday's communication to President Clemenceau of the peace congress. GET SEVEN DAYS MORE PARIS, May 22. The seven days granted the Germans before the time limit for the submission of replies to Hie allied peace terms expires will not be devoted exclusively to the drafting of notes at Versailles, but will be emloyed at Berlin for the purpose of quieting agitations there, according to newspapers here. It is pointed out that there Is an Influential party in Germany- made up of independent and majority socialists, which favors the signing of the treaty. Bankers, manufacturers and business men generally, as well as the military authorities, are said to share this view believing, it is declared, hat anything is preferable to Bolshevism, which might ensue if Germany refused to agree to the terms of peace. Philipp Scheidemann, the German chancellor, and Gustav Noske, minister of defense, it is said, have compromised their position by exaggerated statements and have placed themselves in a difficult situation. ' s , Newspapers declare that the extension granted yesterday will be the last concession as to time made to the enemy. If this is true, it is expected the treaty may be signed between June 12 and June 16. " i' Business Is Opened In Winnipeg Again -' (By Associated Press) -WINNIPEG.' May.' 22. Aggressive resumption of commercial enterprises in Winniped which had been paralyzed by the general strike of union ' men began this afternoon which high government officials ; were conferring with union leaders regarding a settlement of the industrial disagreement. The general strike, has been in jroI gress one week. -'