Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 209, 14 June 1919 — Page 1

HMO PAULABIUM VOL. XLTV NO 209 Palladium. Est 18S1. Co ,uu AXiXVINU. with Sun-Telegram 1907 Consolidated RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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DIRIGIBLE TO ATTEMPT TRIP ACROSS OCEAN, DANIELS SAYS

Reduction . of Appropriation Hampers Air Plains, De clares Secretary Says Navy Must "Stand Still." ALCOCK "HOPS OFF" (Br Associated Press) ST. JOHNS. N. F June 14. The Vickers-Vlmy biplane started on its trans-Atlantic flight at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Greenwich time. The Vickers-Vlmy machine carried two men. Captain Jack Alcock. a Britisher, as pilot, and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown, an American, as navigator. Urges Air Development. WASHINGTON. June 14. Secretary Daniels disclosed today that the nary department had In contempla tion a trans-Pacific flight with a lighter than air craft as soon as It could build a modern dirigible of American design. He intimated however, that reduction of the 1920 naval aviation appropriation from $45,000,000 to $15.000,000, as proposed by the house naval committee, would cause abandon ment of the plan. The secretary said reduction of the appropriation virtually would mean that the American navy "must stand euu and watch the procession go by after having Just completed the most remarkable achievement In the history of aviation the trans-Atlantic flight. Naval officials said that Great Brit ain would spend from (250,000,000 to 1300,000,000 on the army and navy Ira services during the coming year., and France would spend more than $20,000,000 on aerial development LONDON, June 14. Compulsory fitting of life-saving parachutes to all airplanes of the Royal air force has been decided upon by the government an dinstructlons to this effect would be issued soon by the air ouncil. Whether the order will be applicable also to British commercial air craft has not yet been decided upon, but it is probable that training machines at least will be compelled to carry some form of life saving appliances. The decision of the government was taken after long consideration and extensive experiment. DRIVE FOR SALVATION ARMY TO CONTINUE DURING NEXT, WEEK The Salvation Army drive will be continued all of next week, Mrs. A W. Roach, chairman, announced Saturday. Mrs. Roach said that the warm weather makes it impossible for the canvassers to work very long at a time. TJp to this time over $2,300 has been reported. No results have been obtained from the county. The Salvation army captain and his wife from this city will go to Cam"bridge City Monday to canvass. Rudolph Price And George McKinney will go to Economy Sunday and speak in the Friends and Methodist church there at which time a collection will be taken. EX-SOLDIER WANTS WILL SET ASIDE Declaring that his father was of unsound mind, and that he was unduly influenced, Joseph L. Morris asked that the will of his father, the late Henry F. Morris, be set aside in a suit against Mattle F. Abbott, the executrix, and others, filed this morning in circuit court. The value of the estate is placed at $20,000. The plaintiff declared that at the time the will was made he was j In the army ana owing to tne iact nat he was only recently discharged, did not know of his father's will. THRESHERS FAVOR INCREASE IN PRICE Wayne County Thresher association convened at the Commercial rooms at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The sentiment of the meeting favored an increase in prices for threshing this year in view of the increase of wages and material. The meeting was called mainly to instruct threshers relative to the need of carrying compensation insurance, whicb is a state law. Its violation caused a number of arrests in Marlon county and other counties in the state last year, it was said. According to the law each owner must carry msurance to cover the liabilities in case of accident to his employes. Washington Executive is Dead in Seattle (By Associate Press) SEATTLE, Wash, June 14. Ernest Lister, governor of Washington, died here today. He had been ill for several months.

Unemployed Discharged Soldiers Attack London Mounted Police During Riots Following Futile Efforts of War Veterans to Obtain Steady Positions

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Discharged war veterans driving away mounted police outside Westminster abbey. Unemployment has been the chief cause of riots in England recenUy which have resulted in several deaths and hundreds of Injuries. Discharged soldiers and sailors are demanding work. During the recent rioting they rushed the mounted police In London. The police were forced to flee before the mob until reinforcements came up. The exservice men are getting a small amount per week from the government, but are asking for steady jobs instead of the meager allowance received.

229 PLANT JOBS OPEN HERE NOW, INQUIRUHOWS Many Skilled and Common Laborers Are Needed by Factories in Richmond. Two hundred and twenty-nine men are needed for skilled and common labor In Richmond at present accord ing to figures given out directly by the employment superintendents of a ma jority of the largest manufacturing es tablishments of the city today. Many firms said they Intended enlarging their labor corps in a short time. Practically all the larger companies were In need of more mn. Skilled and common labor positions go about fifty-fifty in demand. Practically every factory In the city reported need for some workmen of both types... Fifteen manufacturing plants reported a total need of eighty-six common laborers, and 138 skilled workmen. This number of men can actually have positions in Richmond today if they are physically fit, competent and willing, employment superintendents said. Positions fill up and then the men drop off, some factories reported. "We cannot tell from one day to the next Just how many we are going to have; how many men will be hunting "something easier, or different" the next day," said one superintendent. "There seems to be an inexplicable roving spirit existing in a good many men at present," he added. Some Employes Steady Other factories, however, reported unusual steadfastness in their employes and a few said they were "full up," and did not look for any vacancies in the near future. Balancing against this, however, was the outlook of another man, who said he could use fifty men right now. "And most of the men I want need not be skilled laborers," said he. "And there is another factor of uncertainty," remarked an employer this morning. "We, ourselves do not know exactly what we are going to need in a short time. Just now it is a big question how heavy business is going to be next month; how much material we are going to secure, and whether on the whole it will pay us to make certain things because of their advanced price. There is a great deal to consider in the present labor situation," said he, "and part of it needs time for deep consideration." TWO MONKEYS GET APARTMENT EASILY The monkey cage at Glen Miller park was converted into a duplex apartment this morning upon the arrival of two white faced, ringtail monkeys. The newcomers are veterans of the world war and only recently returned from the scene of battle in France. From today on the monkey cage will be inhabited by the owl family on the west, and the monkey family on the east. Other neighbors at the park were this morning congratulating the monks on their success in getting an anartment in Richmond when avail able living space is at such a prem lum. Two Yanks brought the monks back with them from abroad, where the funny ones had been serving as com pany mascots for a number of months The doughboys turned them over to an animal house in Louisville, Ky., and there Ed Hollarn, superintendent of Glen Park, heard about them and secured both for the local park zoo, One of the new arrivals is about a year old, but the other is still in his infancy, being about three months old. They were not together in France and several severe arguments regarding division of food have resulted already. Mr. Hollarn is hoping for peace, however.

NEGRO NABBED HERE MAY BE MURDERER OF FT. WAYNE MAN

MTJNCrE, Ind., June 14. Police department officials of Ft Wayne and Muncie today were endeavoring to ascertain from William Anderson, negro, held in jail here, charged with slaying Clyde Benadum, a druggist, whether he knows anything about the killing of Fred Hollie, near Ft. Wayne, on the night of May 30, last. Ft. Wrayne police officers were here with Miss Bernardino W. Woenker of that city, who was with Hollie in an automobile the night they were held up and Hollie robbed and shot three times and Miss Woenker attacked. Anderson, is said to answer the description of the bandit given by Miss Woenker. v - Anderson Is quoted by a Muncie detective as having said during their questioning of him about the Benadum murder that "Benadum is not the first man I have killed nor the fortyfirst." He denied the Ft. Wayne crime in previous examination. Wounds received by Anderson in a revolver fight preceding his arrest at Economy with Wayne county officials are not regarded as fatal by the at tending physician. LABOR TAKES ITS DRY LAW PROTEST BEFORE CONGRESS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 14. Labor's protest against prohibition Insofar as it applies to light wines and beer was to be brought before congress late today in a demonstration participated in by a throng estimated by leaders to number from 100,000 to 150,000 rep resentatlves and members of the un ion organizations from this and scores of other cities throughout the country. Led by Samuel Gompers, president of the American federation of labor, who with hundreds of other delegates from the annual convention of the federation were expected to reach here from Atlantic City on special trains, the delegates were to assemble on the union station plaza and march to the capitol steps. The meeting was to open with a salute to the flag, as a mark, it Is announced of the "anti-Bol shevist and pro-American sentiment of the workers." Speeches by members of congress and by Mr. Gompers were to follow the flag raising ceremonies. Union officials announced the purpose of the demonstration, which was to be partic ipated in by representatives of labor In every state, was to give members of congress a visual appreciation of labor's strength in demanding repeal of the wartime prohibition legislation as it relates to beer and wines. Engineer Given Blame for Pennsylvania Wreck (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 14. Failure of Engineman Githens, of the Scranton express, to observe and obey a caution indication was tha primary cause oi me rear ena collision on tne Philadelphiafc Reading railroad near Fort Washington, Pa., last January, said a report today by the bureau of safety of the interstate commerce commission. Fourteen persons were killed in the wreck. Salvation Army Opens Jubilee in London (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 14. The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Salvation Army, postponed from 1915 on account of the war, opened with a demonstration at Albert hall Thursday night!. SIBERIANS ADVANCING (By Associated Press) OMSK, June 14. Siberian troops have captured Glazov on the northern end of the front west of the Urals and &re advancing on Viatka.

CHURCH PLANNING NEW BUILDING OR

BIG EXTENSION First Christian Committee Has Alternative Schemes for Bettering Facilities. Within a few weeks is expected the report of the building committee of the First Christian church, which will termine whether the church shall plan early building expansion or shall use .the present, building and plant for a few more years. Architect's plans, now in the hands of the pastor, the Rev. L. E. Murray. call for a modern church plant with accommodations for the Sundayschool services, now being held where ever the church can find room for them. Has Alternate Programs. Two alternate programs are before the committee. Both call for an en tirely new plant, but by one plan the building can be constructed in one job, while by the other Sunday school rooms would be added to the west side of the present structure and the auditorium itself would be replaced later. A lot, 30 by 90 feet, on the west side of the church, was bought some time ago in preparation for the present building program. Although the plans for the building may be decided upon soon, no building will be started until next year, said Mr. Murray Saturday. The building committee is composed of Carl Thompson, W. L. Stump, George Reid, A. B. Harrison and S. E. Mills. Petitions to Transfer Township Roads to County Dae Aug. 1 Petitions for transferring of township roads to the county must be filed before the last of July in order to have them acted upon favorably this year, according to William Cheesman, president of the county board of-com-missioners. Roads must be put in good condition, and the Detition for their trans fer must be filed before this time

in order that the tax levy may be j eastern Europe as established by the made sufficient to cover the upkeep peace treaty in return for the acceptfor these roads during the coming ance y the latter of stipulations pro-

year. In 1917, about sixty miles of township roads were taken over by j the county, but last year the petitions

rrom tne townsnip were receivea too ifresieu states uy me council oi iour. late to make a levy for their upkeep, j The guarantee would be independent More than seventy miles of road of general provisos for the maintenwould have been taken over by the I ance of the territorial status quo in

county, the commissioners assert, had the petitions been received earlier in the year. Several township trustees have already asked the board to take over sections of road in their townships. The commissioners have declared their willingness to take over all roads that are in good condition, provided they are given an opportunity to include the cost of their upkeep in !hP tax lew for thp vpar CHINESE EXECUTIVE WOULD QUIT OFFICE (By Associated Press) PEKING, June 14. In consequence of difficulties created by the popular movement against pro-Japanese members of the government the cabinet has resigned and President Hsu Shin Chang has also intimated his intention to quit office. It is anticipated that parliament will decline to accept the president's resignation. This would amount virtually to a vote of confidence in the chief executive, which ia needed to strengthen his hand In his fight against the militarists. Strikes throughout the country continue. Railroad traffic is being impeded and the situation in China as awkward.

TWO DAYS TO

ANSWER NEW PACT GIVEN TO GERMANY Hostilities May be Resumed June 21 if Foe Refuses to Accept Conditions of Revised Treaty. SMALL STATES PROTEST (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 14. The council of five continued the work of editing the revised peace treaty this morning, at the same time enabling Baron Makino, the Japanese representative, to acquaint himself with the document The work is nearly completed and it is believed the treaty will go to the revision committee late tonight. It Is said that it will be printed and ready for delivery to the Germans Monday or Tuesday. It is the present plan of the council to renew .consideration of the Austrian terms Monday. Representatives of Turkey will be received Tuesday. If no other developments arise, President Wilson probably will make his trip to Brussels between Wednesday and the expiration of the German time limit. Modify Labor Clause. Some modifications were made by the council yesterday in the labor cov enant in the peace treaty. The existing labor situation in various countries, coupled with clever German tactics, had resulted in this part of the treaty becoming one of the principal points of attack la the counter-proposals. The situation caused a lengthy discussion which resulted in certain modifications in the convention. The allied reply to the German proposals, it developed today, will lay particular stress upon the character of the permanent reparations commission. It will be explained to the Germans that this commission is not a tyrannical body, but that it will administer its duties In a spirit of fairness and helpfulness, so as to facilitate Germany's economic reconstruction. Anticipate Acceptance. It is learned that the short time lim it given Germany for a reply is largely due to the Germans themselves. They are understood to have said they would not require more than five days to reach a decision. Friday night's dispatches said only two days would be given for the answer, with three days of grace before the armistice was suspended In the event of a German refusal to sign. While reports from Germany on the prospects of Germany's signing the treaty are lacking in clarity, it is known that the council is acting on the belief that there is no general feeling on the part of the masses against German acceptance of the terms. An air of optimism pervades the council in this respect. The Indisposition of the council of four to submit the revised German treaty to a plenary session of the conference before sending it to the Ger mans, is, . however, causing another protest from the small powers, which resent "steam roller" methods. This may force the calling of another plenary session which would cause further delay. The small powers are dissatisfied with assurances that the changes made In the treaty are slight and many of the delegates are Insisting on an opportunity to consider the treaty fully before it is presented to the enemy peace mission. Independent Conventions The proposal that the five great powers undertake to guarantee the t territorial limits of liberated states in tecting tne right of racial language and religious minorities has, it is unj derstood, been submitted to the Inarticle ten of the covenant of the league of nations, and provide the definite security which some Euro pean skeptics do not expect from the workings of the league. The proposal contemplates the ne gotiation of a series of independent conventions containing guarantees with each of the smaller states rank ing with treaties covering the protection of minorities. In the case of Po land this matter is provided for in article 93 of the German treaty, and similar articles are contemplated for insertion in the Austrian and Hungarian treaties on behalf of eastern European states. The Polish proviso slipped through without objection when the outline of the German treaty was read and approved, and was unchanged at the se cret plenary session of the peace con ference on the eve of the presenta tlon of the treaty. Representatives of interested states, however, were prepared when the Austrian treaty came before tne plenary session and objected strenuously to corresponding clauses Deing inciuaea in tnat con vention. This objection has been one I of the principal causes for the oost ponement or. tne presentation of the entire treaty to the Austrians, the clauses in question being eliminated from tne nrst installment of the nact Small states are as yet unwilling to accept tne clauses, even when coupled

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French Journalist Is

Sentenced For Treason (By Associated Press) PARIS, Friday, June 13. Gaston Foutier, a prominent French journal ist, was today sentenced to death by court martial for Imparting military intelligence to the enemy. Routier, who Is a socialist with extreme tendencies, was tried by default. He was charged with having agreed with Ger man agents in Spain to start a French language paper there during the war for the purpose of carrying on Ger man propaganda. Gaston Routier founded the Madrid La Paix In 1917. It was believed that Bolo Pasha, the Levantine banker, who was executed at Paris in 1918 for tieason, furnished the funds for the establishment of the newspaper. An order for the arrest of Routier was issued by the French authorities in October, 1917, but his arrest has never been reported. STATE REVOKES COMMISSION OF HAGERSTOWN HIGH Failure of City Council to Approve of New School Brings Action by Board. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 14. As the result of a deadlock between the city council and the Bchool board of Hagerstown, Ind., the high school commission of that place was revoked by the state board of education at its morning sitting Saturday. Immediately after the decision of the board was announced, W. F. Collins, superintendent of schools at Hagerstown, announced that he probably would resign his position Saturday night and he said that several other teachers of the Hagerstown force had announced their determinar tlon to resign if the high school com mission was revoked. Plan Approved by State Board. The only way for Hagerstown to regain the commission, Collins said he was told by the board, was for the city council to reconsider its decision and give the school city the authority to build the kind of addition wished by the school board, and which has been approved by the state board and the state sanitary authorities. Included in the state board's decis ion to revoke the commission, said Collins, was a statement that the state board did not blame Mm or the Hagerstown school authorities for the necessity of depriving Hagerstown high school of commissioned stand ing, placing the burden on the shoul ders of the city council. O. H. Williams, state Inspector of high schools, in an Inspection at Hagerstown last spring, found that while all other requirements of the state laws were being met, the primary de partment held more than twice as many pupils as it should if it com- j plied with the state sanitary regulations and the requirements of the state board. Two Plans Considered. Two plans to meet the conditions described in Williams' report were considered by Collins and the town school board, which is headed by Dr. O. M. Dearsdorff and include H. C. Endsley and Horace Hoover. The first was to build a cottage an nex in the school grounds, which would accommodate the domestic science class of the high school and grades, and would automatically relieve the pressure in the large build ing and meet the requirements. This plan contemplated the building of a large modern senior and junior high school In two or three years, the cot tage being merely a temporary expedient. The second plan was to build an an nex to the present building. It was found that in order to meet the state regulations In doing this, the entire building would have to be remodelled, at a cost of $50,000 to $75,000. and this would put an end to any hope of an entire new building for many years. Tne school board and Collins adopt ed the first plan. When it was presented to the city council, however. the vote stood three to two against it. the council preferring the plan to re model the present building. Deadlock is Created. As this was deemed unwise and im possible by the school authorities, a deadlock was created which resulted in the revocation of the commission Saturday by the state board. Horace Hoover, William Teaeue. William Imel, George Jones and Lee Rath are the members of the Hag erstown city council. Hoover, who Is also a member of the school board and Teague voted in favor of the cot tage plan, while Imel, Jones and Rath voted it down. The loss of a commissioned high school for Hagerstown, said Collins. will mean that the town will not onlv lose about $3,700 a year in fees of the pupils now transferring to this school from out-of-town, but would also lose between $5,000 and $8,000 in fees which would have to be paid for the trans fers of Hagerstown and Jefferson township pupils to either Newcastle Cambridge City or Richmond, and for transportation to either one of these towns. The families of pupils will each have o pay between $100 and $200 a year for this transportation, ouins estimates. DRIVER IS MADE STATE INSPECTOR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 14 Lee B. Driver, of Winchester, super intendent of schools of Randolph county, was -Saturday elected to the position of state inspector of high schools by the state board in session at Indianapolis. The position carries $2,500 salary. O. H. Williams, former state high school Inspector, was given a post tlon created by the normal school bill nasned hv the last Rtnto loe-i si attire and normal courses.

ULTIMATUM IS SENT TO HUNS BY FOCH FOR POLISH ARMY

Directs Germans to Continue Passage of Force Through Country Oppose Troops Along Frontier. TRANSFER TO CONTINUE (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, June 14. An ultimatum demanding the immediate continui across Germany has been sent to the according to dispatches received here from SpaOrders were Issued at Berlin sev eral days ago to hold up the Polish troop trains. One was held at Coblenz, another at Treves, two at Ems and eight in the interior of Germany. The transfer of Polish troons from France to Poland began about six weeks ago and was due to be completed on June 17. A Berlin dispatch received on Friday night stated that Mathias Erzberger, chairman of the German armistice commission at Spa, had written General Dupont. chief of the French mission in Berlin, declaring that Poland intended to distribute two divisions of General Haller's troops along the frontier. It was 6aid that Erzberger had protested that this was opposed to the terms of the armistice and that unless Poland abandoned her purpose, Germany would be compelled to suspend the movement of the Polish army across Germany. TROOPS TO SILESIA PARIS, June 13. The Poles, have become reconciled to the proposed pie blscite in Silesia by informal assurances which they have received that American troops will, if possible, be assigned to occupy the contested and disputed area pending the vote, to assure a fair and unintimidated expression of the people's wishes. They have feared that unless allied troops, preferably American, are moved promptly into the plebiscite area the German authorities would remain in virtual control almost up to t" riav of voting and would be able materially to Influence the result. j.ua revision of the Polish-German frontier will be a give-and-take affair. The Germans will not profit one-sidedly, but will be required to surrender certain predominantly Polish districts northwest of Posen and east of Breslau which the first draft left outside the Polish frontier in exchange for the coast section of Pomerania, Schneidemaehl, on the line between West Prussia and Posen, with its important railroad connections, and a strip of districts from Guhrau to Militsch, be tween rosea, ana Silesia, which have been awarded to Germany by the boundary commission. The new boundary will be more strictlv ethno graphic, but less direct and practicame tnan tne old one. PROTEST ANNEXATION. KATTOWETZ. Upper Silesia. Jun 14. Forty upper Silesian industrial leaders and workers, partly Polish and partly German by origin, gathered here yesterday and presented varied argument to American and English correspondents against the annexation of the district by Poland. The protestants ranged from miners to rail road presidents, from union labor leaders to bankers. They were unani mous in their belief that the entente and America do not understand the situation in Upper Silesia. Some wept as they spoke of the coming separation from the German empire and the coming alliance with what they termed as "an infinitely lower culturate of people." Others were defiant and threatened war in hardly veiled terms should Si lesia be required to change its allegiance. The meeting was earnest and con servative, and only one speaker, the mayor or Kattowitz, concluded dramatically "the curse of the German people will follow the Americans and President Wilson if this injustice is not righted. A strongly prevalent feature of the meeting was that the Silesians want to remain German at whatever cost and cannot conceive the idea of be coming Polish, -regardless of financial advantages. The first speaker, a Polish miner. who spoke markedly Polish-German. wept as' he declared Poland to be a country of low culture. President Wil son, he said, was wrong in saying that the Polish population of upper Silesia belongs to Poland. Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature. For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Mostly fair except for local thundershowers. General Conditions. Weather continues mostly fair throughout the county, although local thundershowers have occurred during the last 24 hours over central, northeastern and portions of southern part of county. It was raining at noon in parts of Union county. Drouth is still unbroken in a few places:. Heavy local rains are also falling over the Mississippi valley. Indianapolis reporti a rainfall of 1.4 inches. It is quite cool over the north west and the temperature Is 38 degrees above zero at Helena, Mont-' The cool wave, hoever, is breaking un.