Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 203, 7 June 1919 — Page 1

PA VOL. XLIV-NO 203 PsIladlum.Est. 1831. Consolidated " u' uo with Bun-'TelegTitn 107. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS U.S. FORCES WILL LEAVE SIBERIA IN TWO WEEKS TELEGRAPHERS' HEAD TO CALL UNION STRIKE IN COUNTRY Rome's Famous Beauty Will Visit America

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Tightens Immigrant Law; I & Threatened DELEGATION . REFUSES TO WE KNOWN PEACE TEXT Barry Senate's New Sergeant-at-Arms

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Original Archangel Expedition Will Sail for Home Soon, March Reports Engineers Aids Withdrawal.

CONTINGENT HONORED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 7. Official announcement was made today by General March that all of the original Archanagel expedition will have sailed for home within two weeks. Companies E. G. I. M, and the machine company of the 339th Infantry are now enroute for Brest having sailed from Archangel, June 3. There will be left at Archangel temporarily the railway engineer units sent there recently to assist the withdrawal. General March said he was unable to forecast the date for the withdrawal of the Siberian forces. Second Unit Assembled. ARCHANGEL, June 6. According to the revised arrangements, the American forces, Including the engineers, will be withdrawn from the North Russian front and will be ready for sailing by the last of June. The second contingent of Americans to leave Northern Russia now Is assembling at Economia, the winter port of Archangel. This contingent is exed to leave in about ten days. Before sailing with the first contingent. Major J. Brooks Nichols, commander of the American troops on the Vologada railroad sector, who had been already awarded the British distinguished service order, received the French war cross and was informed that the medal of the French legion of honor was awaiting him at Brest. Major Nichols' bfeme Is In Detroit, Mich. RAILROAD INSPECTED OMSK, Wednesday, June 4. The technical board in charge of operations on the Trans-Siberian railroad .has completed an inspection of . the line between this city and Perm and has returned here. It is awaiting the arrival in Omsk of John F. Stevens, chairman of the board, who is on his way to Omsk from Harbin. Members of the board believe that the most serious problem before them in the rehabilitation of the Trans-Siberian lies in the ousting of some 14,000 persons who have taken possession of freight and passenger cars along the road. These persons are holding the cars, hoking that they will soon be able to return home and are not disposed to relinquish the rolling stock which they have seized. 556 CASUALTIES ARCHANGEL, June 7. The total casualties of the American force In north Russia to date have been 20 officers and 536 men. An official announcement today divides the casualties as follows: Killed In action or died of wounds. 5 oSicers, 99 men; missing in action, no officers, 35 men; died of disease or accident, 3 officers, 77 men; wounded, 12 officers and 325 men. HURTY TO INSPECT SITE FOR HOSPITAL Dr. F. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis, head ol the state board of health, will inspect the site of the proposed Wayne county tuberculosis hospital, on July 1, in company with the county commissioners, the county board of health and the board of managers. John I. Rupe, president of the board of managers, appeared before the commissioners Saturday morning and asked that this date be Bet for the Inspection. He said he saw Dr. Hurty in Indianapolis Thursday and that the latter could not possibly come to Wayne county before July. Efforts have been made by Rupe and others to secure Dr. Hurty's opinion on the proposed hospital site and buildings since the meeting early in May, but Thursday was the first day on which Rupe could get in touch with him. PRE-WAR RULING FOR SCHOOLS IN EFFECT Charles O. Williams, county superintendent of public instruction, sent out notices to all township trustees, and to the school boards of all towns with commissioned high schools, setting forth the state requirements for these schools for the year 1920. The warning was also issued that the state rule that teachers in grade schools shall have at least one year of professional training besides being graduates of a high school, which was temporarily waived during the war, is again In full force, and no teacher Bhall be hired who do not have these qualiflcattions. Teachers who have been satisfactory during the last year, may be retained if they make up their deficiencies as soon as possible, however, says the order. In the high schools, prewar standards demanding that the principal and at least one of the teachers be a graduate of a standard college or normal school, are again In effect, says the order. The provisions calling for three full-time teachers as the minimum requirement for a commissioned high school, is also again in force.

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Princess di Piomblno Princess di Piombino, one of Rome's famous beauties, expects to tour America after peace is concluded. Her husband has been at the front since the. beginning of the war. SALVATION ARMY HOME DRIVE TO STARTMONDAY War Mothers to be Aided by Elks and Rotarians in Campaign for $6,995. Richmond is prepared to launch a short. Intensive Salvation Army campaign for $6,995 next week." The drive is under the leadership of the War Mothers in this county, whose president, Mrs. A. W. Roach announced today that headquarters will open Monday afternoon in the rooms formerly occupied by the Wayne county Red Cross. All workers will re port there Monday afternoon to receive supplies and instructions. A house-to-house canvas will be instituted. Mrs. A. W. Roach, Mrs. Millard Warfel, Mrs. R. P. Whisler, Mrs. Harry Mather, Mrs. John M. Coate, the War Mother executive committee, and members of the board of directors of that organization will act as the executive committee for the drive which will be waged Tuesday and Wednesday if the quota is not secured by the end of Tuesday evening. The sum of $6,995, Wayne county's quota, is made on the basis of 15 cents per capita. Ernest Calvert will act as treasurer for the drive. Women workers will canvas the res idential district, and men campaign ers the business section including the territory between Twelfth street and the river and all the factories. Name Ward Chairmen. The ward chairmen as announced by Mrs. Roach today, follow: First ward, Mrs. L. M. Hays; second ward, Sylvia Weaver; third ward, Mrs. William Urban; fourth ward, Mrs. Norvanna Crunner; If th ward, Mrs. Ed Schalk; sixth ward, Mrs. Wal ter Dalby; seventh ward, Mrs. F. E. McMinn; Eighth ward,- Mrs. Harry Rogers. The county will not be thoroughly organized, but several township chair men, including Mrs. Clara Mathews, of Center township and Mrs. Charles Teeter of Hagerstown will carry on the campaign. A representative number of Rotary and Elk club members have volunteered to help with the campaign. The following Rotary men's names were sent in to Mrs. Roach today: Will Reller, Lewis Iliff, Charles Slifer, Harry Doan, Fred Bethard, E. J. Trefflnger, Newell Todd, Ed Haas, George Logan, C. B. Beck, A. G. Mathews, and George Dilks. Elks Harry McLear, Webb Lyle, John Zwissler, Will Reller, Benjamin Price, W. B. Golden, Waldo Dubbs, Sol Frankel, II. E. Wenger, George Weaver, and C. W. Wolke. Seventy-five Attending Hicksite Friends Meeting A large number of delegates gather ed at the Hicksite Friends church on North A street Saturday for the open ing session of quarterly meeting of Whitewater Hicksite Friends at which time reports were heard from the five monthly meetings composing the quarterly meeting. Every monthly meet ing was represented. More than seventy-five delegates and guests were in attendance. The main report of the morning session was that of the treasurer, Albert C. Wood, who in the election of officers was re-named to that position. Mr. Wood reported $207.13 receipts carried over from the last report, and $190.32 disbursements, making a balance in hand of $16.81. Finley Tomilson of Pendleton, Ind., clerk of the meeting was re-elected, as was E. Grace Lewis also of Pendleton. Following the reports of the five monthly meetings, a series of queries and answers took up the entire afternoon session. - No reconstruction questions were broached this morning, but it was the opinion of a number of members that some attention would be given to the problem Sunday.

Korienkamp Announces Inr tention of Announcing Nation-Wide Sympathy Strike Todayt

3,000 OUT IN SOUTH (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 7. President S. J. Konenkamp of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, who today is enroute to Chicago, announced before his departure last night that he would call a nation-wide strike of union telegraphers upon his arrival in Chicago late today. The strike is proposed in support of the Western Union Telegraph company's employes in ten southern states who went on strike Thursday night. Until he reaches Chicago, Mr. Konenkamp stated, it would not be decided whether the spread of the strike would be confined to the Western Union or Include the Postal TelegraphCable company. He also said the date of the proposed strike had not yet been determined. Western Union officials claim that ol the 40,000 employes of the company eligible to Join the telegraphers' union, only 710 were members.-and expressed belief that a strike would not seriously impair the service. Postoffice department officials are not concerned In the threatened walkout as the order of Postmaster General Burleson in returning operating control of the wires to their former owners, puts the burden of combatting the strike on the companies. Wait National Walk Out. ATLANTA. Ga., June 7 There were no developments early today In the situation resulting from the strike of operators employed in the southwestern district by the Western Union Telegraph company, and chief interest in the controversy centered in the announcement In Washington last night by S. J. Konenkamn. of the national organiation of union men, mat ne would call a nation-wide strike of members of the union at a date' to be decided at rhirncrt into today. . ' Reports Conflicting. H. C. Forthan, general manager of the southern division, said the company was carrying on an uninterrupted service and that the latest survey of his district showed only a total of 288 employes on strike. 1B0 of vhnm were out in Atlanta. Outside ot At lanta the largest number on strike was at Charleston, S. C, where 17 out of a normal force nf 53 y,aA rmu Reports from New Orleans, which is in tne company's Texas division, said that 88 men were out there. DUTIES OF WOMEN VOTERS DISCUSSED Duties Of Woman vntiam an a timeliness of the suffrage success in the national congress were discussed by William Dudley Foulke, Dr. J. J. Rae and Wilfred Jessun at th ib. bratlon meeting in the . High school auaitonum at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The pleasure he felt in seeing the suffrage movement successful won . pressed by Mr. Foulke in a short review of the campaign and its results. ur. Kae said he felt keenly the possibilities of women's suffrage. Th national debut of women's rights in America has come at a most appropriate time, he said. "The world's needs are such that the work of women, and the power or women is of great Importance," declared Dr. Rae. T feel that the passage of the national amendment is most timely." Wilfred JessuD SDoke nf the imccessi of the amendment, and the good of Its purpose. He praised the long fight women have made for enfranchisement. Mr. Foulke. Who is sufferine from a Slight illness, was seareelv nh1 in attend the meeting but because of its eignincance and in order to personally express his joy over the success of tne women s suffrage campaign, he said he desired to be present. Mrs. Harlow Lindley. president of the Richmond Women's Franchise league, presided at the meeting and introduced the speakers. "We have called this meeting to celebrate the passing of the national amendment through the house and senate of the United States." said Mrs. Lindley. "We have waited and worked for this occasion and now that we have it. the State organization of the Women's Franchise league believes that we should give vent to our joy by calling town meetings through out me state to snow eur respect and acknowledge the bill." - The desirability of asking the governor to call a special session of the Indiana state legislature to ratify the amendment was considered. National Road Paving Praised By Engineer A letter has been received by County Surveyor Howard Horton trom H. K. Bishop, chief engineer of the new state highway commission, commending highly the paved stretch of the National Road near Centerville. "I only hope the commission can build roads as good as this stretch," said Bishop. "If all roads in the county are as good as this, you certainly have a good deal to be proud of." Th abroad la of concrete.

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Rep. Albert Johnson Representative Johnson of Washington has drawn the wrath of the Bolshevik because of his work in helping to strengthen the immigration laws. He is chairman of the house committee on immigration. He has received several letters warning him that "terrible punishment" would be meted out to him if he did not cease bis activities. He has turned the letters over to the department of Justice and is working harder than ever to strengthen the laws. WAR EXPENSES PROBE STARTS IN NEXT WEEK Baker and Brigadier General Lord to be First Witnesses Before Special Committee. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 7 Investigation of war den art m en t. Axnann'iHireB by the special house.committee of fif teen wnrtregin-late next week, with Secretary Baker and Brigadier General Lord, director of finance in the department as the first witnesses. A general discussion of department funds is planned as a means of providing the basis for apportioning work among the five sub committees to be selected later. The committee held its first meeting today and unanimously adopted a resolution asking the house for un limited funds for emnlovine aemnnt. ants and clerical help. Chairman uranam saia ne would request the house to adont the resolution earlv in the week. Decision to leave investieation of army affairs almost entirely in the special house committee was reached today at a Joint meetins- of th re publican steering committees of the nouse ana senate. The senate military committee will devote itself principally to permanent army legislation. Bodies to Co-operate Plans were made for co-operation between the senate and housn in 1p islatlon and investigation and steps taKen to prevent duplication of work by committees of the two houses. A speeding up program for the remainlng appropriation bills also was deciaea upon, it calls ior passage of the messages ny tne nouse by June 15 so the senate may have two weeks to work on them before the funds are needed July 1. As reported out of the house -military committee today the 1920 army bill carries only $810,000,000, a decrease of $400,000,000 from the estimates made by the war department. The measure will' be tRkpn T?T. in tha house Tuesday with leaders planning a vote Thursday. ! In a report accompanying the bill the committee said its nnmos in making the large reduction was to bring to an end the croeram nf un limited appropriation and to make the burden on the tax payers "as light as Possible Without detriment tn our military establishment." NURSERY TAG DAY SALE GOING WELL The sale of Day Nursery tags Saturday was not hindered by the rain. Sales began about 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning. This is the first tag day for the Richmond Day Nursery and those in charge were pleased with the progress of the sale at a late hour Saturday afternoon. Women are stationed all along Main street and will sell tags until 9 o'clock Saturday evening. The money will be used for the general upkeep of the Day Nursery. Tax Review Board Summons County Corporation Agents The county tax board of review decided Saturday morning to send out notices to several county corporations whose assessment sheets are not quite clear, asking representatives to appear in person before the board. Several cases taken under advisement were gone over during the morning but no downward revisions were made In the case of persons whose assessments looked too low the board planned to call them in whether they appeared or not, said a member. The board did not meet Saturday after noon.

Sentiment is Growing for Alterations in Treaty.

ITALY GETS IMPATIENT (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 7. Virtually all the important commissions connected with the peace conference were in session today. The activity was due to the directions issued yesterday by the con ference leaders that the work of the body should be speeded up as far as possible. The council of four met this morning and continued its consideration of the German counter proposals. The commissions which held sessions include those on ports and waterways, responsibilities, Belgium and AlsaceLorraine. TO HASTEN REPLY There is every evidence that the leading figures of the peace conference in Paris are endeavoring to hasten the delivery of the allied reply to Germany's counter-proposals to the terms of peace. According to advices positive instructions have been given by the council of four to all commissions working on the reply to complete their reports by Monday. If this order is carried out It is probable the reply will be framed early in the week and will be immediately presented to the enemy delegation. From reports coming from Paris it seems that there is growing a sentiment in the council of four that alterations must be made in the treaty, but in what particulars the terms will be modified Is no as yet indicated. Premier Lloyd George is attending meetings, of the British commission studying the reparation phase of the treaty. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace mission left Versailles last night for Germany. It is reported from Paris that he is expected to return Sunday. French official circles are said to expect the Germans to refuse to sign the terms and it Is pointed out that as delayJrould favor the Germans there' Is necessity for haste In bringing exchanges between the allies and the enemy to a close. A more hopeful sentiment is said to be apparent In Berlin. Claims Cause Uneasiness. The Italian claims to territory on the eastern shore of the Adriatic also are causing some uneasiness In peace conference circles. The Italian parliament will meet June 18 and Premier Orlando is demanding that a settlement be reached by that time. Dispatches from Paris indicate that the deadlock over the situation regarding Flume and the Dalmatian coast is still the source of concern and that efforts to arrive at an agreement have been futile. Admiral Kolchak's forces operating In European Russia are. it is admitted, checked by the Bolshevik!, and it seems probable that there will be to say the least, auite a serious Ariav in carrying the campaign to a successful conclusion. Winston Spencer Churchill, British war secretary, declared yesterday that "no attempt should be made to encouram p.itrTnt hnTu regarding operations in Russia." Hungarian Bolshevifc fnr to advance against Czech troops be tween nuaapest ana Vienna. They are reponea to nave crossed the Danube at Gram and to be menacing Pressburg. French generals are said to be in command of the Czech army there. PACIFIC KEYMEN THREATEN STRIKE (By Associated Press) . SAN FRANCISCO. June 7 A strike of commercial telegraphers who are members of the union throughout Pacnic coast states Is to be called June li, unless demands made upon employers are complied with, accordine to a message received earlv todav by Patrick O'Connor, president of the local organization of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. The telegram was siened bv L. I. Marshall of Los Angeles, first vice president of uie organization, it read as follows: Unless all teleeraDh officials viOrl to demands ol the workers by June 11, telegraphers and other telegraph workers as well as their sympathizers win be asked to vacate their respective offices. "Thi3 announcement embraces the Western Union. Postal and federal telegraph companies on the coast, tnereby cutting off communication so far as commercial business is con cerned with coast and eastern points. "The fieht will be to a finish. Tlrorv worker is requested to obtain outside employment wnerever possible and assist in every conceivable manner in malting tne strike a success. "Exact time will- be announced later." Mr. Marshall stated that the cities affected included all west of Denver, Colorado, from Montana points to El Paso, Texas. "I sent telegrams of notification to union officials in the cities affected," Mr. Marshall said. "I acted from instructions from S. J. Konencamp, president of the organization. "The move has been contemplated for some time and is not the result of the Atlanta strike alone. We have been unable to reach a satisfactory agreement with Postmaster General Burleson. Among other things we desire, are higher wages. - a

David S. Barry David S. Barry, who has just been appointed sergeant-at-arms of the U. S. senate came to Washington from Michigan as a page in the senate. He studied stenography and acted as a stenographer for many public men. BOND ISSUE OF $55,000 NEEDED TO FINISH BRIDGE Bids for Completion of Work Will be Opened at Courthouse on July 3. The county commissioners at their meeting Saturday morning decided upon $55,000 as the amount of the special bond issue which will be made to complete the building of the Main street bridge. .'v ... C i Jv The commissioners agreed that the insertion of a penalty clause including a specific date for the completion of the work would be part of any contract which they would approve for the building of the bridge at the opening of bids on July 3." The petitions to the county council and to the state board asking permission to make the bond Issue, prepared by Will W. Reller, attorney for Contractor Isaac Smith, were approved by the commissioners. Engineer's Estimate The engineer's estimate for the completion of the bridge is $108,000, which does not include the engineer's fee or any extra expenses. The total in the county treasury is $56,981.51, left unexpended of the original 1917 appropriation of about $169,000. The specific sum therefore left to complete the bridge is $51,018.49, and to provide for fees and extra expenses it was made $55,000. This will make the total cost to the county of the completion of the bridge slightly less than $225,000, against a probable pre-war cost of $169,000, or more than $50,000 more than the original contract. v The petition to the state tax board will be presented, if possible, before the meeting of the county council at which the bond issue will be asked, as under the new tax law the state board decided whether any bond issue shall be made, and it would be of no more use to call together the county council if the state board's decision were unfavorable. Anticipate No Difficulty However, in view of the emergency existing for the completion of the bridge, it is not believed that there will be any difficulty in getting the state board to approve the issue. Smith is anxious to complete the bridge, Reller said, and he believed that he would rush through the re mainder of the contract if it were given to him, no matter whether or not a penalty was fixed. No special discussion was made of the county road program at the morning session, but it was hinted by persons around the courthouse, in touch with the opinions of the commissioners that they might decide to postpone the road program another year, instead of going ahead with it at once. At least one of the commissioners, it is said, is in favor of delay. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair and Sunday. Probably showers Sunday in south portion. Today's Temperature. Noon 72 Yesterday. Maximum 80 Minimum .......... 55 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Showers and occasional thunder storms this afternoon and tonight. Sunday cloudy and probably showers. General Conditions A series of storms is crossing the ' Great Lskes causing showers and thunderetorme over the central states Temperatures continue moderately cool east of the Rockies, except over Montana, where it is hot It is 92 degrees at Miles City, Montana. Hot weather also prevails over California and Arizona. It is. 102 in Sacramento Valley and 104 in Phoenix, Arizona,

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Paris Report Says Publication Will be Withheld Until Treaty is Signed Resolutions Sent Wilson. r

SENATE PLANS A PROBE (Br Associated Press) PARIS, June 7. The American delegation to the peace conference apparently is firm in its decision not to authorize the publication of the German peace treaty until it Is signed and not even to communicate the official text in its present form to the United States senate. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. WASHINGTON, June 7. Preliminary preparations were being made today for the investigation to be conducted by the senate foreign relations committee into statements that copies of the unpublished treaty with Germany are in private hands in this country. The Inquiry, authorized by a senate resolution authorized yesterday, may take a wide scope. It is not expected that definite plans will be laid, however, until the committee meets to take up the subject Monday. Meantime the state department was forwarding to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing at Paris another resolution adopted by the Eenate yesterday, calling for the complete text of the treaty. Officials here will not make any prediction whether the request will be complied with. Both the resolutions although they had aroused stubborn debate, were adopted without a roll call. The action ended temporarily the discussion which covered every feature of the ' treaty controversy the extra session convened, but it generally was predicted that other speeches on the subject would be heard next week and from time to time thereafter until the treaty itself is disposed. There still remains in the senate hopper a resolution by Senator Sherman, republican of Illinois, declaring it the sense of the senate that' the covenant of. the league of nations should be submitted separately from the peace treaty for ratification. With the other two resolutions out of the way. Senator Sherman may call up his measure and thus provide the vehicle for more debate on the subject. CLEM M'CONAHA AT VETERANS' MEETING Clem McConaha, delegate to the state meeting of the American legion held in Indianapolis Friday, will report to the Wayne county chapter at the meeting in the courthouse Monday night A state constitution was adopted, and Judge Raymond Springer of Rushvine, was elecetd president and Rus sell Nugent of Indianapolis, secretary. A commitee was appointed to encourage the foundation of county chapters and to encourage those already started. Plans were laid to have a state employment and insurance officer, who would take care of these matters for members of the whole state. Tho announcement was made that the organization is to be absolutely nonpartisan, said McConaha. Taking Traffic Census Of Principal Highways A census of main county highways, to determine the amount, kind and direction of traffic borne by each one, was started Friday under the direction of County Surveyor Howard Horton. Horton expects to publish the results and tabulate them as soon as the census is complete. The census-taker he said . Saturday, had checked the number of vehicles passing through Centerville on the National road, as fifty an hour, and had taken the census on the New Paris pike and another road, but had not . brought In his figures. The agent will be kept busy about two or three weeks, visiting the main highways of the county at various times during the day, and at various places. Three Americans To Get English Medal (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 6. Americans, who will be decorated by King George at Buckingham palace during the pre-" sentatlon of war medals tomorrow will be Major A. J. McElroy, air service, Distinguished Service order and Captain Otto A Orjard and Lieut. H. I. Iteel, both of the 325th Infantry, military cross. . Milion Dollars To Be . Paid For Taylor Site ' CBy Associated Press) LOUISVILLE, Ky, June 7. One million dollars is to be paid by the government today for the 2,000 acres upon which Camp Zachary Taylor is erected, according to announcement by Captain W. B. Ashby, war department acquisition officer who arranged the purchase. About 50 land owners chare in the money distribution. ' Sev. eral condemnation suits are in progress, but practically all of the land has been purchased without difficulty Captain Ashby said. . - 1