Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 198, 2 June 1919 — Page 1

KICHMO PA lABIUM VOL, XLrV,NO. 198 K-'r5 Est. 1831. Consolidated RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS egrara 1807.

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BUFFER STATE MAY BE MADE OF REPUBLIC ALONG RHINE

Disintegration of Germany May Result From Formation of New German State Loses Coal Fields. AFFECTS PEACE TERMS (Br Associated Press) PARIS, June 2. A situation which may affect the peace settlement with Germany, has risen In the proclamation of an Independent republic of the Rhine provinces, stretching along the frontiers of Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg, and extending from the lowlands along the Dutch border to the hills of Sarre.' This province contains vast fields of coal and Iron, great Industrial cities and the center of some of the most Important textile manufactories In Germany. If the Rhineland province becomes Independent, a buffer state will be set up between Germany and France and Belgium, the Sarre region will be in the control ol the new state and Germany will have lost all her possessions west of the Rhine. Bremen and east and west Prussia and possibly other provinces of Germany are said to be contemplating a similar serious step which might mean the disintegration of Germany. COBLENZ IS CAPITAL. PARIS, June 2. Coblenz will be the capital of the new Rhine republic which was proclaimed yesterday in several Rhine cities. The new government an dnational assembly will meet there, but the provisional government will sit at Wisbaden. Portions of the proclamation have been telegraphed to the Echo de Paris from Metz by Maurice Barres. One significant section follows : "We declare the autonomous Rhenish republic to be founded in the bosom of Germany. It is a pacific republic which is composed of the Rhenieh provinces, Old Nassau, Rhenish Hess and the Palatinate. The foundation rests cn the following bases: "1 The frontiers will remain the same, including Blrkenfeld. 2" Changes In lrontlers can be made only with the approval of other nations interested as established by a plebiscite. "3 The provisional government of the Rhenish republic is exercised by : the undersigned delegates of the people. j "4 Elections for the Rhenish national assembly will be held without delay, according to the methods of the German national assembly. "Coblenz is the capital of the new government and the national assembly will meet there. The provisional government will sit at Wiesbaden. Local authorities will continue to exercise control for the time being. The provisional government will take the place of the central government and the Prussian, Bavarian and Hessian governments. (Signed) 'Rhenish -Hessian-Nassau Committee, Palentine Committee. "June 1. 1919." Another passage shows the movement not to be separatist, but antiPrussian. It says: "Violence from whatever side must disappear. The Rhenish people honestly and sincerely wish peace based on a reconcilliatlon of all peoples. "That Is why it separates itself from the Institutions which are the bases of so many wars, feudalism and militarism. It thereby eliminates an obstacle standing In the way of a general peace." M. Barres says that Dr. Borton, the president of the new republic, is the soul ol the movement. He 13 from Bonn and before the war was a magistrate. During the war he was a Ger man officer. He is one of the Idealistic Rhlnelanders who have never been reconciled to the subjugation of the left bank of the Rhine to brutal exploitation by Prussia, M. Barres writes. "We are In the presence of the reappearance of the old Germany with which our fathers were able to ente rinto agreements and sometimec to entertain friendship. This happy event became possible only through the admirable conduct and political sense of the allied armies." INCREASE SHOWN IN BANK VALUATIONS Approximately 25 per cent increase in the valuation of Wayne county bans is shown on the return of the state tax commission of the banks of the state. Formerly banks of the county were assessed at from 70 to 75 per cent, of the actual valuation, but under the new tax law, this has been Increased to the full valuation. Following is a list of the banks of the county and their valuation: Farmers State Bank. Boston. . .$21,700 Wayne Trust Co.. Cam. City... 69.100 First National Bank Cam. City. 38.100 Centervill State Bank.. 45,300 First National Bank, Dublin. . . 28,200 North'n Wayne Bank. Economy 16,700 rnnntain Rank. Fountain City. 13.0UU First Natl Bank, Greensfork.. First Natl Bank, Hagerstown. Union Trust Co., Hagerstown.. Jackson Two. Bank. Pershing. . 26.400 76,100 38.500 10,800 American Trust & Savings Bank, Richmond .......... Dickinson Trust Co., Rich'd.. Second Natl Bank, Rich'd m rut Natl Bank. Richmond.. 105,500 276,500 617,700 162,000 Union Natl Bank, Richmond. 361,200 First Natl Bank, Williamsburg 31,600

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service of any kind, either as soldier, sailor or marine, in either the National Guard, National Army or Regular Army." These names will form the chief part of the permanent record of Wayne county's activity in the war. The Palladium will print the names so that the list will be available here. The adjutant general will incorporate the names in the archives of the state. The Importance of making these returns to the Palladium is obvious to every soldier, sailor and marine. Relatives of the fighters are urged to cooperate In having them returned. Fill in the blank and send or bring it to the Palladium office. Every man who was inducted into service or enlisted, whether he saw overseas service or was held in the training camp in this country, is asked to fill out this blank.

COOL WAVE COMING. Relief from the hot weather is forecast by Weatherman Moore, who says a cool wave is within a rew hundred miles of this vicinity. The cool weather will be preceded by rain and the mercury will drop about thirty or forty degrees. The change will come within the next thirty-six hours and cool weather will prevail for several days, Moore says. ARMY SURGEON TO SPEAK AT NURSES' GRADUATION HERE Dr. Edmund D. Clarke, Indianapolis, will give the commencement address at the graduates exercises for the senior nurses of Reid Memocial hospital, Wednesday evening ' at 8 o'cloc at the high school auditorium. Dr. Clarke, during the war, was lieutenant colonel in base hospital, No. 32 in France. He Is a prominent specialist and well-known to many Richmond persons. Only a few invitation are sent out to the nurses' most Intimate friends, and the public Is always cordially invited. The commencement exercises this year will be especially interesting and everyone is urged to attend. The program follows: 1. March. 2. Invocation, Rev. George O. Burbanck. 3. Violin Solo Ave Marie (Schubert), Mr. Frederick K. Hicks, Miss Edna Marlatt, accompanist. 4. Address, Dr. Edmund D. Clarke, Indianapolis. 5. Tenor Solo (selected), Mr. Ernest Renk, Miss Knollenberg, accompanist. 6. The Florence Nightingale Pledge. 7. Presentation of Diplomas, ''Mr. John L. Rupe. 8. Violin Solo Rigaudon (Mosigny) Mr. Frederick K. Hicks. 9. Benediction. The graduates are: Ruth C. Irvln, Mary C. Brubaker, Rhea C. Ackerman, Edna C. Rich, Martha E. Showalter, Mae L. Hanstein, Hannah W. Rodenberg, Lela E. Morrow, Hester E. Nelson, Freeda M. Bishop, Edna C. Cor nelius. Earl Able Chosen To Head Jefferson Sunday Schools Jefferson Township Sunday-school association officers were elected at the township meeting held in Hagerstown yesterday as follows: President, Earl Able: vice-president, W. A. Jones; secretary and treasurer, Miss Helen Root. - The Rev. Mr. Chadwick of Hagerstown Methodist Episcopal church, epoke on "Relation of Sunday School to Church," and J. H. Bentley, superintendent of Richmond schools, addressed the conference on "Christianity and War." He also spoke on the relation of Sunday schools and church. Readings wer given by Miss Fannie Horrel and Miss Ruby Gilmore. Mrs. Albert Hineman and Mrs. Joe Deeter gave a violin duet. The male quartette of the M. E. church and the Ladies' quartette of the Christian church also appeared on the musical program. Over 100 persons attended the conference. .

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Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade, B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, CITY A-BATHING GOES WHEN HEAT WAVE HOLDS ON Temperature of 91 Degrees Sends Citizens Scurrying for Cooler Realms. With a temperature tf 91 degrees In the shade yesterday, swimming Richmond swarmed Hawkins pond, surrounded Morton lake, and even ventured Into nearby streams. Those Richmondians wno did not swim sat near a pitcher of icewater and read about Grenland's icy shores, or else motored into the country, not allowing the Speedway gang to "have much on them." In fact Richmond yesterday was a day of heat and antidotes, one equal unto the other. Hanging from corners of street cars and automobiles were bathing suits giving fair warning that the owner had been cool awhile at least In many automobiles which swung along main street were fair ladies and gentlemen still wearing their bathing apparel, a sight not so unseemly as unusual for the Main street of this Quaker city. Anything for a Ride. One family started out bright and early in an old spring wagon. Nice hard boards balanced on soap boxes iormed the resting places for the sunbaked bodies of father, mother, son and daughters bent for the highways and byways of the country on a day's outing. Soda water fountains retained their hard worked record of other hot Sundays and proprietors reported the heaviest day of the season. Glen Miller park overflowed all day long. Even the morning found its paths lined with visitors who continued visiting all day. The lake, tooproved a source of enjoyment. Visiting In Country. Another favorite diversion of the season's hottest Sunday was visiting friends and relatives in the country. Country relatives are never supposed to get hot or tired, it is said, and they always have lemonade, fried chicken and other stuff which suits a fellow when the thermometer climbs untiringly upward, and no relief seems to be in sight. Only nowadays after the table is cleared oft the country folks take you riding in their twelve cylinder motor car, another wise man adds. Sunday, however hot, compared not May 27 ushered in the hot wave which unfavorably with the last few days, any number of people reminded each other wasn't over yet today. On the twenty-seventh the maximum temperature was 80 degrees. Wednesday it stood the same; on Thursday it moved up to 89; Saturday it reached 91, and on the first day of the month held that record. KENTUCKIAN DECORATED (By Associated Praia) ARCHANGEL, Saturday, May 31. Lieut. Milton Rogers, of Lebanon, Ky., is the first American to be decorated for gallantry during the lighting on the Murmansk front. He has been awarded the French war' cross for leading an attack on the Bolshevik trenches at Urosozero on April 11, with the co-operation of a French ar mored train.

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the Palladium is compiling a list of all Draft Board Members To Attend State Meeting All four members of the former Wayne County Selective . Service board, Sheriff Clement V. Caar, president, Michael W. Kelly, clerk. Dr. J. M. Bulla and Walter Butler, physician and attorney, will attend the first annual meeting of the draft boards of the state In Indianapolis, June 5. A banquet at the Claypool will be given in the evening, following a business session in the afternooi. Col Hugh A. Johnson, first aid to ireneral Crowder, will be the guest ol honor and talks will be made by Majir Robert Baltzell, Jesse Eschbact, and others. GERMAN REPUBLIC CONSIDERS DISPOSAL OF ROYAL PROPERTY (By Associated Press) BERLIN, June 2. Disposition of the property of the former emperor und the former crown prince is claim. ng the attention of the finance minis ay of the new republic. A commission has been appointed to determine what may properly be considered private and what holdings may properly e looked upon as belonging to the 6tati. The order creating the commission provides for a thorough search of real estate records for the purpose of determining the title and says the findings must be placed before the na- , . , , . f position may be made of the lands and palaces which the government will take over. Already there Is some discussion on this point. Nearly all of the emperor's castles and palaces are now being used for public purposes, those in Berlin being occupied by public officials as residences and for offices while the Potsdam palace has become a hospital. In other districts they are being utilized as barracks for troops as in the case of some of the crown prince's palaces. It has been suggested that the emperor's palace in Berlin shall become a museum for the ministry of arts and sciences in which will be gathered the art objects in all the royal palaces. ' Just what will be done with the remainder of the emperor's fortune, it is stated, will not be determined until the peace treaty has been finally signed. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau -Showers and cooler tonight. Tuesday, showers and much cooler. Today's Temperature. Noon ........ 87 Yesterday. Maximum . 91 Minimum 59 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. Showers and probably thunder storms tonight and Tuesday. Cool wave. General Conditions The warm wave continues unbroken east of the Mississippi river, but much cooler from Canada southward to Texas. It is freezing cold in Wyoming, snowing at Lander. Frost In Montana where it has been nearly 100 in the shade. The rain area now covers the plain states and is moving slowly eastward.

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the Wayne county men who "went into LEAGUE CALLED WAR TRUST OF ARMED POWERS Covenant Contains Germs of Many Wars Declares Johnsonin Senate Speech. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 2. Assailing the League of Nations as a combination of armed powers "in a gigantic war trust," Senator Johnson. Repub lican, of California, told the senate today that the Paris conference dared not amend the league covenant so the declaration of future wars would be decided, not by established rulers, but by a popular vote of the peoples concerned. "It is not a League of Nations to prevent war," he asserted. "In its very creation, it had been stripped of every idealistic purpose it ever had. It contains within itself the germs of many wars, and worse than that, it rivets, as in the Shantung decision, the chains ol tyranny upon millions of people and cements for all time unjust and wicked annexations. It is a great world economic trust, wherein a few men, sitting in secret, may con' trl the economic destinies of peoples tb xa uui a league ui ycuyicQ, UUCS i"nywhere concern itself with peopies. "Instead of coming closer to those most concerned, the men and women for whom governments should exist, the league goes a step farther f roui tiem. '"The representatives of ruling poweni sit-far away and in secret. If these who wrote this document really wanted to prevent war, they should have permitted the men and women who: must bear the burdens of war to determine by their votes whether or not there should be war. "The answer is that this is not a league to promote peace, but to protect power. Those who advocate it dare not amend it so that the issue of war shall be made by the men and woaMn who must fight and die for it." Urging : adoption of this resolution asking the state department ior the full text ot the peace treaty. Senator Johnson read into the record the oftquoted utterances of President Wilson regarding "open diplomacy." "Open covenants openly arrived at," continued the senator, "are now a byeword and a joke. Their mention brings but a cynical smile. "When you .remember that England frankly says her treaties are yet in existence, her offensive and defensive alliance with Japan yet controlling, and then you observe the United States making some sort of engagement, the knowledge of which for the present we are denied, you will have some conception of what the league of nations is intended to do." Destruction of Doctrine. The revised covenant, Mr. Johnson continued, far from preserving the Monroe Doctrine, would mean its destruction. He declared the league would be a partnership between the world's one great "going concern," and bankrupt nations, and charged that government propaganda was discrediting league opponents. By the Paris negotiations, he said, the United Continued on Pass Elaht.

Jews Hold Holiday Of Mourning To Protest Pogroms In Galicia By Associated Press CLEVELAND, June 2.-rWith muffled drums and with every marcher wearing black bands or mourning garments, approximately 60,000 Jews paraded through the downtown section of the city today in protest to the re

ported anti-Jewish persecution In GallI cia. Many stores and factories were closed during the afternoon, Jewish j workers observing a half-holiday of i mourning. A mass meeting will be i held tonight at which resolutions will : be adopted calling upon congress and President Wilson to bring international pressure to bear against recurrence of similar massacres. COMMISSIONERS DELAY ACTION ON NEW ROADS Petitioners Urge Postponement of Decision Until In vestigation is Made.1 The county commissioners, sitting Monday morning as a board of viewers to decide whether brick, cement or bituminous macadam roads shall be built in the county's $750,000 road pro gram, postponed their final decision until the first Monday in July. The decision followed a request from Will W. Reller, attorney for the petitioners for the 18-mile Hagerstown pike, the first -link to be built, that the board take this action instead of ordering any Bingle kind of road without further investigation. Monday was the last day in which the commissioners are given by law to decide or to put off the decision. Would Secure More Data. Reller also requested that the commissioners secure data from the Indi ana and Ohio state highway commis sions, from the highway engineering department of Purdue university, and from the federal highway commis sions, upon the first costs, the main-j tenance and durability of various types of roads, instead of taking their Information from agents of companies which handled material for roadbuilding. Reller said that the petitioners had heard that the commissioners favored stone or bituminous macadam roads. "If they are to be the best type, the least expensive and" most durable, he said, " of course the petitioners will be satisfied with a decision upon this type of road. But the general Impres sion is that this type of road is not good, and the stone roads in the county have certainly been a waste of money. "We believe also that the commissioners should consider the cost of maintenance as well as the first cost. A road that has to be maintained and resurfaced every three or four years is expensive, besides being a great inconvenience to users, to have sections of it closed for weeks while repairs are being made. The commissioners would be criticized if they put in a road which had to be repaired every few years. Board Acting Conscientiously. "We believe that the board is acting honestly and that it wants the best type of road possible for the county, and wants the facts which will enable it to get this kind of road. We, therefore, ask that the decision be put off until this data can be secured." Reller said that in his opinion, the new law did not give the commissioners the right to decide upon more than one type of road. It would be a good thing in some ways if they could ask for bids for several kinds of roads, and, could then make their decision in the face of what the contractors actually asked to build the roads for, he said, but from the wording of the law he believed this to be impossible. He quoted the section of the new county law which eays that the lowest responsible bidder shall be given the contract and said that he believed this section prevents the asking of bids for several kinds of road, for under it the commissioners would have to give the contract to the man with the cheapest type of road. Petitioners Want Concrete. Reller gave the concensus of opinion of the petitioners for the Hagerstown road as that the road should be of concrete. He said they had considered brick, but believed it to be too expensive to be practical. Charles Teetor, of Hagerstown, a petitioner, emphasized Reller's statement that the petitioners believed the commissioners should get their information from official sources. "Absolutely the best way," he said, "would be to make personal investigation of roads of the types considered, getting the facts at first hand and seeing with their own eyes how the roads had stood up under wear." While some of the smoothest and most beautiful roads he had dilven over In California and New York were of asphaltic construction, he said, they i had to be rigidly supervised; the j speed had to be kept low and heavy traffic had to be kept oft of them. "We want roads for our market and traffic highways which Will take anything from a baby cab to a traction engine," said Teetor. "and I am not sure that an asphaltic or bituminous road will give us this." Want Wide Roadway. Frank Mason of Hagerstown, appeared to ask the board to provide for a road thirty-six feet wide through Hagerstown, the town to bear the expense of the extra width. Among the petitioners present were Teetor, Mason, Gates Davis, Horace Hoover, Albert Jonea and Daniel Clark, all of Hagerstown or vicinity. The commissioners passed upon claims against the county for the month of May before the road hearing.

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PEACE PACT HANDED TO AUSTRIAN Peace Terms Presented To day Leaves State of 5,000 Square Miles Adriatic Question Still Unsettled. 15 DAYS FOR A REPLY (By Associated Press) ST. GERMAIN E, June 2. Austxta was today given 15 days to reply to the terms of peace presented by the allied nations. The entire peace treaty was not presented to the Austrians today and the fifteen days stipulation with regard to their reply therefore, refers only to the portion of the terms handed them at today's session. M. Clemenceau, president of the peace conference, was the first prom inent figure to arrive today at the meeting at which the terms of peace were presented. Wilson Delayed. Secretary of State Lansing and Henry White were the first American representatives to arrive. Premier Orlando of Italy and Premier Paderewskl of. Poland and Arthur Balfour following. At 12 o'clock President Wilson had not arrived and the ceremony of presentation was delayed somewhat. The president, however, reached St. Germain at 12:14 oclock. A puncture in the tire of his automobile had held him up on the way. President Wilson's auto mishap occurred at St. Cloud. While the punctured tire was being mended an army car passed. It was commandeered by the president's party and the president and Rear Admiral Grayson drove at high speed on to St. Germain. Clemenceau Gives Address. The Austrian representatives ar rived at 12:22 o'clock entering the chamber by a rear entrance. The dele- . gates were attired in conventional morning dress. The Austrians were escorted in by an Italian officer. Immediately upon their arrival at 12:22 o'clock the ses sion was formally opened by announcement of the head usher Premier Clemenceau, president of the peace conference, at once began his address. M. Clemenceau spoke only three minutes. The hall was densely packed, many of the secretaries having been admitted to the chamber and the denseness of the throng detracted somewhat from the impressiveness of the ceremony. Only Part of Terms. Paul Dutasta, general secretary ot the peace conference, presented the terms to the Austrians at 12:37 o'clock. Dr. Karl Renner, the Austrian chancellor and head of the delegation, then began an address In German. The conditions of the treaty, with the exception of military, reparations, financial, and certain boundary clauses were handed to the Austrians today. Those clauses which are not yet ready for presentation will be de livered as soon as possible, the Austrians in" the meanwhile having the opportunity to begin work on the greater part of the treaty In an effort to facilitate a final decision. The Austrian treaty follows exactly the same outline as the German and in many places is Identical with It ex cept for the change in name. Certain specific clauses which applied only to Germany are of course omitted and certain new clauses Included, especially as regards the new states created but of the former Austro-Hungar-ian empire and the protection of the right of the racial, religious, and linguistic minorities In Austria, CzechoSlovaka, Roumania and the Serblan-Croatan-Slovenlan state. Austria is left by the treaty a state of from six or seven million people inihabitating a territory of between 5,000 and 6,000 square miles. Accepts League Covenant She is required to recognize the complete independence of Hungary, Czech! Slovakia and the Serbian-Croatian, Serbian-Slovenian state and to cede other territories which previously were in union with her composed entirely of Austria Hungary with its population of over 50,000,000 people. Austria agrees to accept the league of nations covenant and the labor charter, to renounce all her extra-European rights, to demobilize her whole naval and aerial forces, to admit the right of trials by the allied and associated powers of her nationals guilty of violating the law and customs of force and to accept detailed provisions similar to those of the German treaty as to economic relations and freedom of transit.

The summary shows part one of the treaty containing the covenant of the league of nations and part twelve as being identical with corresponding sections of the German treaty. Part 6 dealing with prisoners of war and graves and part 11 with aerial navigation are also identical except to the substitution of names. Part thirteen of the German treaty containing guarantees of execution is not paralleled in the Austrian treaty. The preamble is longer and more detailed than in the German summary. Austrian Frontiers. The following official summary of the official Austrian peace terms was made available today In diplomatic circles here: The frontiers of Austria: Northern frontier facing Czecho-Slovakla, follows existing administrative boundaries formerly separating provinces . ol Bahemia and Moravia from those ol Upper and Lower Austria, subject to correction and minor rectifications, notably in regions of Gmund and Feldsborg and along the river Morava. Continued On Page Thirteen. - 3?

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