Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 201, 5 June 1919 — Page 1

1ED AUDI VOL. XUV NO 201 Palladium, Est 1831. Consolidated V " with Sun-,Telejrram 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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RATIFICATION BEFORE NEXT ELECTION MOW SUFFRAGE AIM

Fight of Forty Years Ended When Senate Passes ResolutionAttention Now Turns to States. ASK SPECIAL SESSIONS (By Associated Press) LANSING, June 5. Governor Sleep er this forenoon wired the state de partment at Washington that a certl fled copy of the federal suffrage amendment be forwarded at once so that action may he taken by the Mich igan legislature which is now in spe cial session. At the recent regular session of the legislature a concurrent resolution was passed by unanimous vote urging Michigan senators and representatives to support the suffrage amendment. SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 5 A resolution to put Illinois on record as ratifying the federal suffrage amend ment was introduced in the state sen ate today by Senator Cornwell, republican, of Chicago. The resolution went over for one day under the rule after objection had been made by a number of senators that official notification of the passage of the amendment by con Kress had not yet been received. "WASHINGTON, June 5. With their ight in congress won after nearly forty years of effort, advocates of woman suffrage today turned their attention to the various state legislatures, three-fourths of which must ratify the constitutional amendment be fore victory can be won. Realization of the hopes and efforts of the leaders In the equal suffrage campaign came leate yesterday with the adoption by the senate of the historic Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment resolution which was adopted In the house May 21. The vote was 66 to 25 or two more in favor than was neces sary, i - - ' Although supporters of the measure were jubilant at the action of congress and confident of final success, there Is a division of opinion among leaders as to whether the ratification by the states of the proposed amendment can be secured in time for the women all over the country to vote In the next presidential election. Few state legislatures now are in session and many will not hold sessions until next year. Those now in session, which include Massachusetts. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, are expected to adjourn this month or next. Regular or special sessions of the law making bodies in Texas, Georgia and Alabama are due this or next month while the legislatures of Louisiana, New Jersey, Maine, Iowa, Kentucky, South Carolina, Missisisippl, Virginia and Maryland are not scheduled to meet before next year. Opposition In South. Because of pressing reconstruction problems, however, special legislative sessions are expected to be called in a number of these states and the suffrage amendment will be presented. Where none are called for, the suffragists will demand special sessions, it is announced. Chief opposition to ratification is expected to come from the southern states, because of the entailed enfranchisement of negro women. Senator Gay of Louisiana, in opposing the resolution yesterday predicted that thirteen states would refuse to ratify the amendment, thus causing defeat. Susan B. Anthony, author of the resolution, had the draft of her amendment introduced in congress by Senator Sargent of California, in 1878. Since that time there has been almost a continuous fight with advocates of the measure gaining strength, until after numerous defeats, victory crowned their efforts yesterday. WHITEWATER FRIENDS QUARTERLY MEETING GOMES ON FRIDAY Whitewater Friends Quarterly Meet Ing will convene in the Hicksite Friends church on North A street Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The meetings will continue over Sunday with the following program: Sixth Day. 2:00 p. m. Meeting for Ministers and Elders. Seventh Day. 8:00 a. m. Executive Committee Meeting of the Indiana Yearly Meeting. 1000 a. m. Devotional .and Business Session. 7:30 p. m. Stereoptican" Views of Palestine by Maria Frederickson , of Chicago. No admission fee .charged but a free will offering acceptable. First Day. 9:15 a. m. First Day School. 10:30 a. m. Meeting for Worship. 2:00 p. m. Devotional Meeting at which Andrew Mitchell is expected to be present. EARLY ACTION ON WIRES. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 5. The bill of Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, proposing immediate return of telegraph and telephone lines to private ownership yesterday was placed on the senAte calendar for early action.

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View of side of home of Mayor Davis of Cleveland, O, at right. Arrows point to where bomb was placed and where Harry Davis, Jr., aged three, mayor's son, was sleeping at time of explosion. He was uninjured. The explosion partially wrecked the house and broke windows In neighborhood. At left is closeup of hole blown in the foundation by bomb. Every department of the government which can aid in the work is helping to round up the instigators and perpetrators of the newest nationwide bomb outrage Attorney General Palmer, Mayor Davis of Cleveland, O., and officials and other prominent citizens in other parts of the country were intended victims. The bombs WAYNE PERSONAL AND LAND VALUE DOUBLEDjN YEAR Valuation of County Outside . of Richmond Shows-Larger Gain Than City. With every township except Dalton reported, and Including the report of the city of Richmond, the total valuation of Wayne county personal property and real estate as compiled by the township assessors, is $57,633,751, against a total of $28,185,901 for 1918. This shows the valuation of this part of the county's taxable property to be approximately double that of last year. Wayne county outside of Richmond shows a far larger increase than the city. The county total, excluding Dalton, is $37,010,421, against a total for the same territory last year of $14,109,651. The city total was $20,643,330, against last year's valuation of $14,076,250, an increase of only about 60 per cent against the increase of about 150 per cent throughout the county. Land Shows Biggest Gain. By far the largest gain in the various classes of property Is shown in land, which was raised much. more than personal property or - improvements. Dalton township's valuation last year was $395,000 and if It keeps up the pace it will swell the county total about $1,000,000. The property increases thus far have been just about double. According to this, when all classes of property, including banks, corporations and railroads are in, the county's total tax valuation will be around $80,000000, or double last year's figure of about $40,000,000. The reports thus far are tentative and approximately correct only, as the township assessors' figures are subject to revision by the tax board of review, and by the state tax board after the board of review is done. They give, however, a fairly corect idea of the effect of the new tax law upon Wayne county property. MAY NOT ENTER U. 8. (By Associated Press) NOGALES. Ariz., June 5. Authentic information given out in Nogales yesterday was to the effect that Mexican federal troops will not be allowed to cross U. S. soil to take the field against Villa troops. Weather Forecast i For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature. . Today's Temperature. Noon . . 82 86 67 Yesterday. Maximum Minimum For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. Partly cloudy but mostly fair tonight and Friday. Probably occasional local thundershowers. General Conditions The weather is somewhat unsettled from the lakes southward. Heavy rains reported over the middle western states and local rains over Indiana, although it is now generally fair. Heavy local rain was reported this morning at 9.10 a. m. at Boston, the center of-the storm being over the southern portion of Wayne county, other places- mostly fair. Extreme heat covers the far northwest ranging from 90 to 104 in the shade in central California, Continues quite cool from Dakotas south to Texas.

Damaged by Bomb and His Life is Threatened in Conspiracy by Anarchists to Institute Reign of Terror

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were set to explode almost simultaneously. The placing of the bomb in Mayor Davis' home followed the receipt of numerous threatening letters, to which Davis paid no attention. Chief of Police Smith of Cleveland has received information that Davis wan one of the men marked to die by the recent Bolshevikl meeting in Chicago. The energetic way in which the city McCall W. C. T. U. Continues Tag Day Drive To July 1 The report of the McCall W. C. T.'U. on "Sounding the Jubilee Ddve," was made at its regular meeting Wednesday afternoon at Northend Baptist church. Forty-five dollars was received and five new victory members were admitted. It was decided that the tag day drive should be continued until July 1. The Union expects to reach its quota by a wide margin. Next Monday was eet as flower mission day. Every member is asked to bring flowers to be given to the Bick. The meeting will be held at Wesleyan church, all day. 78 MINERS ARE DEAD IN BLAST OF GOAL TRAIN Men Horribly Mangled When Blasting Powder Explodes Carelessness is Blamed. (By Associated Press) WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 5. Seventy-eight men lost their lives in the Baltimore No. 2 tunnel of the Delaware and Hudson Coal company explosion and fire today and thirty-one were injured, according to a list given out by the company ofHcials at noon today. Forty-one bodies have been identified and thirty-seven remain unidentified. The company's injured list is not complete but it is certain the number 'of injured will reach about forty. , The disaster, with one exception, is the greatest that has ever occurred in this vicinity. More than 100 mine workers were riding to their work in what is known as a trip of mine cars drawn by a motor. The rear car carried twelve kegs of black powder used for blasting. The mine is modern and equipped electrically. The trolley wires snapped when the train has gone about 200 feet from the entrance. The wires sputtered and sizzled and the sparks touched off the powder. Law Violation Blamed In an instant every man and boy on the train was injured, dead or dying. Terribly mangled bodies were found everywhere by the rescue crews. Fire fighters succeeded in a short time in subduing the flames. The men who had not succumbed in the mine were so badly burned that in nearly every case death is a matter of only a short time. Carelessness and violation of mine laws of the state caused the great loss of life. One of the provisions of the anthracite mine code is the section forbidding the transportation of men on a car or train whih carries explosives. 12,000 YANKEES SAIL FOR HOME (By Associated Press) BEST, June 5 The American transport Leviathan sailed from Brest at 4 o'clock today with 12,000 troops on board. The troops Included officers and men of sixth division, Brigadier General James W. McAndrew and Brigadier W. R. Dashiell. - NEW YORK, June 5. Casual companies numbering 1,060 officers and men arrived here today on the transport Chicago. They Included soldierB from Minnesota, Iowa, Virginia, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.

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attack on Davis. He and his wife were in the front yard when the bomb exploded. The plotters attempted to get him into the house, after placing the bomb, by calling him to the telephone. Harry Davis, Jr., and a maid, sleeping on the second floor, were unhurt. RHINE PROVINCE USED AS BARTER GERMANS CLAi East Prussia Betrayed to Obtain Easier Terms People Charge btnkes Forbidden. (By Associated Press) BERLIN, June 5. Another Indication of the sentiment in eastern Germany regarding the annexation of portions of East Prussia to Poland is shown in a, bitter protest signed by all the leaders of the leading political parties in the Okletzko district charg Ing the government with neglecting the interests .of east Prussia and bar tering the province with the entente for more favorable peace terms The protest declares the government "appears willing to betray the east Prussians who are fighting to the last while the government is seeking to swap Masurian territory for some more desirable sections." It declares that if the government fails to protect the people of East Prussia, they will protect themselves by force of arms. A proclamation by General Mangin, commander of the French army of occupation at Mayence, forbidding strikes against the Rhenish republic and threatening leaders of any such movements with expulsion is published in the Frankfort Gazette. Charge Propaganda Fund. "The Rhinelanders have been discussing the interests of their fatherland for the, past six months without disturbing public order," the proclamation says, "but now the German government threatens them with im prisonment. They have a republic wunin me merman empire ana nave sougnt ue ngni oi election, in wnicn they will have complete freedom. There is nothing In their procedure which might occasion protests or strikes which disturb order and economic life." The French have a propaganda fund amounting to ten million francs with which to further the movement for the establishment of the Rhenish republic, declares, the Karlsruhe correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger. This sum, he says, is being used principally in the Rhineland and Palatinate, and it is being partly distributed to those favoring an independent republic at Lanrau, Mayencej Cologne and Wiesbaden, who withoutjrdoubt, he added, "have been bribed. Dorten in Seclusion. Dr. Dorten, who was named on June 1 as the president of the new republic, has not been seen since his appointment, but has issued two decrees to workers and to "officials of the Rhenish republic," It is said. The correspondent states that all the political parties except centralists . have united in protesting to the French against any violation of their right to selfdetermination and demanding the suppression and expulsion of the disturbers of the peace. When the project of the Rhenish republic was first broached, Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies was approached through occupation of officers and asked whether the Rhinelanders could work for a republic without the risk of being disciplined by Germany, according to the Mannheim Neue Baden Landeszeitung. The newspaper states that Marshal Foch and Premier Clemenceau of France conferred on the subject and sent a reply to the Rhinelanders that "the German government would never again have anything to do with the left bank of the Rhine, and hence the propagandists could not be punished."

THRIFT DRIVES SET IN MOTION BY W.S.S. HEADS

Postmaster Beck Returns From Meeting of State Workers in Indianapolis. A definite thrift campaign in Indiana was set in motion yesterday by 250 ; county chairman, women directors, and postmasters and thrift workers from all parts of the state, who men In conference at the ClaypooV Hotel In Indianapolis. Postmaster C. B. Beck, director of the War Saving Stamp campaign in this district, attended the conference. Fred Bates Johnson presided at the meeting and urged thrift as one of the most necessary parts of America's after-war work. War saving stamps or i thrift stamps have taken- a place in ! this country and the admirable habit j of saving should not be allowed to die j down, he urged. j Postmaster Beck explained this! morning that the general sentiment of the conference was the permanent establishment of the war savings idea. Agency Week Set Aside. A number of traveling war saving stamp salesmen will go out from Indianapolis next Monday to selicit sales until June 14. This will be known as agency week. The plan is to establish war saving and thrift stamp agencies "wherever money passes over the counter." It is the Idea of the conferees gathered yesterday to convert this country from the most extravagant nation on earth .to one of the most conservative j through the saving plan," said the postmaster. Boards of education over the coun try are passing resolutions for the in corporation of courses in thrift in the public school curriculums. On April 5 the board of education of Indiana unamiously adopted such a resolution. This state is therefore to fight the campaign all the stronger. Beck reminded. "Students of finance in this country have been asked to prepare books and booklets on the subject of thrift and these are being used in the public schools of America generally," said Mr. Beck. "Any educator, teacher, or other persons interested in the move ment may get some of this material by writing the state chairman of the war savings stamp campaign in Indianapolis." William Mather Lewis of the savings division of the treasury department, speaking before the conference yesterday, said: rOur Progress Slow . . "No nation is freer than the individuals composing it, and most of us are not free. We are weighed with the shackles which make our progress toward the goal of success painful and slow. Unmet obligations, fear of old age, monotonous toil these things hamper us; these things keep us strangers to freedom. Longfellow's village blacksmith typifies personal freedom. 'He looks the world in the face for he owes not any man.' America had always 6tood for personal and governmental independence. "The man who hords his monty, who deprives himself of the decencies of life in order to accumulate it going counter to the declaration of independence. He is narrowing his life, restriting his liberty and shutting him self away from true happiness. He who spends his money wisely, who ap portions his dollars intelligently against the needs of today and the needs of tomorrow, who, in other words, i3 practicing thrift, is invest ing in liberty and happiness, is secur ing life more abundantly," said Lewis. "A nation whose citizens measure up to this standard is a stable, independent and dependable nation," said he. Corporations Not To Deduct Contributions From Tax On Incomes (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 6. Corporations ari not entitled in cnmnrtinr j tnejr taxes to deduct from grosr income the am0Unt of contributions to reijgious, charitable, scientific or edu cational corporations or associations, even though such contributions are made to the Red Cross or other war activities, it was ruled today by the internal revenue bureau. Wilson To Convene PanAmerican Finance Meet (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 5 Announcement that President Wilson will convene the second pan-American financial conference on January 12 next, upon the recommendation of Secretary Glass was made by Assistant Secretary Rowe of the .treasury department, in an address before today's session of the second pan-American commercial conference. Necessity of closer financial cooperation between the countries of this continent,. to assist in the development of their resources in order to supply the need3 of the war worn countries of Europe, prompted the calling of the conference. Dr. Rowe said, after a lapse of five years since the first financial conference in 1915, which organized the international high committee. Invitations to the conference have been cabled by the state department to each of the latin-American governments, requesting the attendance of a delegation of three, headed by the minister of finance in each case. COUNTERFEITING PLOT SEEN LONDON, June 5. All London is carefully scanning its treasury notes these days, following an announcement by Scotland Yard of a Bolshevik conspiracy to fill the country with counterfeit money. The police declare they have the situation well in hand and express the belief that the . Russian forgers will make little hearway here. ' "

PALLADIUM'S NET PAID CIRCULATION

1912 ...............V 6,725 1913 7,355 1914 8,332 1915 ........... 8,681 1916 ......... .. 9,377 1917 10,027 1918 ........... 10,794 1919 .. 12,100 RICHMOND NOW CAN BE CITY OF SECOND CLASS Valuation Figures Entitle Quaker City to Step up Notch in Indiana Scale. Richmond may now go into the seccond class of Indiana cities, along with Terre Haute, South Bend, Fort i Wayne and Evansville, if she wishes, according to the state laws governing the. classes. Any city of a population between 16,000 and 35,000, which has a total valuation of more than $20,000,000 taxable property, may go into second class if the voters decide at a special election that they wish to step higher. Richmond's personal property and real estate alone were returned Thursday by Township Assessor David Reid at $20,643,330, with no report from public utilities" or banks, which would raise the total much .higher. Would Increase Expenses The change would increase the city's expenses and taxes, as officers of cities of the second class get higher salaries than those of the third, and the municipal plant is more elaborate. City officers, however, would get no higher salaries for the present term of office,, as the law provides that the increase shall not go into effect until after the expiration of the present term. The change in class, however, would take effect on the first of the month following the election. The original Indiana law governing the classification of cities, passed in 1909, is based on population alone, with an exception for cities of the fifth class, and by this law Richmond was placed in the third class, as having between 20,000 and 35,000 population. Amendment Available In 1915, however, the legislature passed an amendment to this law, put-)-ting cities of the third class In the second, under the conditions outlined above. Lafayette and Richmond have already reported that they will have the right this spring to enter thei second class if they wish and it is thought the general effect will be to transfer most Indiana cities of the third class into the second, as the new tax law raises valuations so much most of them may have $20,000,000 worth of taxable property. STATE MEDIATOR INTERVENES IN TOLEDO STRIKE (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, O., June 5. The expe'eted arrival "here today of George F. Miles, chief mediator for the Ohio industrial commission, to lend his services in the labor dispute involving 13,000 employes of the Willys-Overland Automobile company, was the first indication that an end of the trouble which has been in progress for four weeks might be in sight. It was said that Secretary of Labor Wilson, also might come to Toledo, inasmuch as he is in Ohio,, to investigate the trouble, but neither Mayor Schreiber nor officials of the automobile company were in possession of definite information. The Overland plant will remain closed today, according to Clarence A. Earl, vice-president and general manager, at the request of Mayor Schreiber to prevent further disorders.. Two subsidiary plants also are closed. The visit of Mr. Miles will be the second he has made to Toledo since the labor trouble started. He came here early in May, but at that time Mayor Schreiber was acting as mediator and Miles, after consulting with labor leaders and officials of the Overland, declined to enter into the controversy until Mayor Schreiber had satisfied himself he could do nothing. Fearing a new outbreak of violence at the first of the funeral of the victims shot to death I nthe rioting Tuesday night today caused Mayor Schreiber to detail several foreign-speaking detectives to attend the services. The first victim will be buried tomorrow. Failure To Give New Address Delays Pay To Soldiers' Dependents (By Associated Press) , WASHINGTON. June 5 Dependents of men in the military services who have moved without notifying the war risk bureau of their new address have caused the return of 125,000 insurance certificate. A total of 337,742 checks have been returned, including 15,000 drawn to dependents In other countries which are unclaimed. As fast as possible, the bureau is locating the persons to whom they belong, being assisted by the Red Cross and local agencies throughout the country. A noticeable trend from the country fo the cities has been noticed in the change ft addresses sent to t,he bureau. New York leads the country for centralization, but all cities, especially those near cantonments, have received a large number of soldiers who formerly lived in the country.

PEACE TERMS ! SENTENCE OF DEATH, CLAIM OF AUSTRIA

Attitude Toward Treaty Not Yet Of f ically Known Germans Pessimistic Over Change in Peace Terms. MAY FIX INDEMNITY (By Associated Press) BASLE, June 5. The grand council of German-Austria which met on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Presi dent Seitz, adopted the report of Dr. Otto Bauer, the gist of which was that the peace terms presented to GermanAustria by the allies meant "the death sentence of the Austrian republic," according to Vienna advices, received here. Newspapers of Vienna, Including the Arbeiter Zeitung, the socialist organ, echo this sentiment with various degrees of vehemence. Some darkly hint that "the last word has not been spoken." - President Seitz, Foreign Minister Bauer and Vice-president Fink, have left Vienna for Feldkirch to confer with Karl Renner, the Austrian chancellor and head of the Austrian peace mission at St, Germain. HOLLAND PROTECTED. PARIS, June 5: In revision of the treaty of 1839, dealing with the status cf Belgium, including her boundaries as affecting Holland, the council of foreign ministers of the peace conference has adopted the principles that Holland shall not have to make territorial concessions. It appears that Holland is willing to grant Belgium certain rights, the Belgians are demanding. FEAR ULTIMATUM. BERLIN, Tuesday, June 3. The correspondents at Versailles of most of the Berlin newspapers write pessimistically today under the , impression that the allies will answer the German counter proposals with an ultimatum which will make It impossible for the Germans to sign the treaty. AUSTRIA MAKES PROTEST Austria's attitude toward the peace terms presented her representatives at St. Germain on Monday has not been officially made known to the allies. Advices from Vienna, however, carry reports of official dissatisfaction with their provisions and a chorus of newspaper disapprobation. There are indications, nevertheless, that the people as a whole are somewhat lethargic. Completion of the Austrian treaty, several clauses of which were missing in Monday's presentation is not likely to occur this week, although the peace conference leaders are giving daily attention to the matter. The missing clauses, it is stated, are likely to be transmitted to the Austrian representatives by note, as they become completed. Definite Indemnity Modifications in the terms of peace with Germany seem to be approaching definite form, according to advices from Paris. These alterations, it is said, are not planned primarily to make the terms lighter for the Germans, but to render them easier of execution. Apparently there is a disposition on the part of President WTilson, Premier Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau to fix a definite sum of approximately $25,000,000,000 as the amount of indemnity Germany will be called upon to pay, and it seems possible that the first Installment of about $5,000,000,000 may not have to be paid within two years, as now stipulated, but within four years. The terms relative to Silesia and the Sarre regions, too, may be altered. These seems, however, to be a general agreement that Germany will not be permitted to enter the league of nations at once. Premier Orlando is standing aloof from these discussions, as Italy's Interest is not so much in the German as in tjie Austrian treaty. 50,000 PRIZE FOR AUSTRALIA FLIGHT OFFERED BY INGE (By "Associated Press) VENICE, Cala., June 5. An offer of $50,000 as prize money for aviators who will attempt a flight from this city to Australia, was made today by Thomas H. Ince, motion picture producer. To the first man to land on Australian soil, $35,000 will be paid, the announcement said. To the first aviator attempting the flight who, altough failing to reach Australia, reaches the Hawaiian islands. $10,000 will be paid. In the event none of those attempting the flight Teaches the Hawaiian islands $5,000 will be paid to the one making the best showing. RED GROSS GIVES FUND FOR SIBERIA WASHINGTON, June 5 The American Red Cross has appropriated $400,000 relief work In Siberia, that amount being an addition to the sura already set aside for work In that region. The new fund will be used for the purchase of medicines and surgical Instruments to be sent from the Red Cross base at Seattle, Wash.