Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 214, 20 June 1919 — Page 1
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flOf.iE ORDERS DELEGATES TO ACCEPT TERMS FOR DALF.1ATIA
Plan for Adjustment is Accepted Following Cabinet
Crisis in Italy Confidence
Vote Refused.
Priests At Pilgrim's
Resort Co On Strike (By Associated Press) ROME, Thursday, June 19 A strike
of priests, which Is without precedent, has Just occurred at Lorsto, a celebrated resort ot pilgrims, whither, according to legend, the house of the Virgin at Nazareth was miraculously
transported by angels in tie year 1294. The priests asked for an amelioration of their financial condition.
owing to the high cost of living, and
when their claims were not granted
they stopped celebrating masses and
performing other religious duties. Monsignor Andreoli, bishop of Recanatl, in whose diocese Loreto Is located, is intervening personally in persuading the priests to resume their
duties, promising to do everything
possible to satisfy their desires.
PREMIER ORLANDO OUT
(By Associated Press) PARIS, June 20. The Italian delegation to the peace conference has been directed from Rome to accept the proposition for the settlement of the Dalmatian controversy, made by Premiers Clemenceau, Loyd George and President Wilson, according to the Paris office of Reuter's limited. SPEECH AROUSES ANGER. ROME, Thursday, June 19. "Remain faithful to our duties toward the allies" was a passage in the address of Premier Orlando today which turned the tide against the premier and resulted in the adverse vote which had Its sequel in the resignation of the Orlando cabinet. The premier's words aroused the anger and hostility of the deputies, several shouting across the chamber at the government bench from which the premier was speaking. There was a great tumult and crisis of "the allies have never been faithful to us. Why should we be faithful to them?"
Signor Orlando's fateful utterance so
stirred the audience that the remaind
er of his speech received but little attention. The Intransigeant socialists, led by Deputy Modegliani were es
pecially violent, while the discontent of the others was voiced by Francesco Nitti, former minister of the treas
ury. AUSTRIANS PROTEST AGAIN.
ST. GERMAINE, June 20. The Austrian delegation has sent a fourth
note to the peace conference protest
ing against the German Austrian re-
public "being made the heir of all the
responsibilities of the Austro-Hunga-
rian empire, of which it was but the smallest, poorest, most peaceful and
most liberal of states.. : '
It points out that at the time war Was declared in 1914 the foreign minister, his two principal collaborators
and almost all of Austria s ambassa
dors i.ere Hungarian, and maintains
that the "responsibility for the war
is common to all the states forming
the empire that has vanished." "Confidence In Justice.
The note expresses confidence that the "spirit of justice of the conference will not let the whole burden be
thrown upon German Austria."
Baron Rudolph Von Slatin Pasha, a
former high official In the Egyptian
government, who resigned his post there when England declared war on Austria and who accompanied the Austrian delegation to France as an expert, left today for Vienna. He was
accompanied by Herr Epstein, another member of the Austrian delegation.
The council of three, composed of Premiers Lloyd George and Clemenceau and President Wilson, met this
afternoon, and it is understood, dis
cussed the German situation and the
Italian cabinet crisis.
REGISTRATION
OF BABIES TO BEGIN MONDAY
Girls Liberty Guards to Make
House to House Canvass to
Aid in Work.
Registration and examination of ev
ery child in Richmond under six years
old, will be begun next Monday by the children's welfare committee of the
Social Service bureau, under the au
spices of the Children's bureau of the
United States Department of Labor,
The work of registering the chil
dren of the city will be done by mem
bers of the girls' liberty guards, who will make a house to house canvass
of the city and obtain data on each child. The girls will work under the
direction of Miss Helen Hazeltlne,
first sergeant of the guards, and will
be supervised by the Welfare committee of the Social Service bureau.
For the purpose of registering, the
city has been divided into school dis
tricts, with a district leader and as
sistants to make the canvass of each district. In this way it is hoped to
have a complete canvass of the city made next week. -
Ask Support of Mothers. The examination ot the children
will be started the week following,
and will be made in the school buildings of the city. Complete plans for the examinations will be announced later.
The registration of children was be
gun last year, at the request of the
National Children a bureau, and was carried out in 1918 by the State Defense eouncfL i Owing to the disbanding of that? body this year, the national bureau has asked the Social Service bureau to undertake the work.
Members of the committee today
urged the support and co-operation of
every mother in the city in the efforts of the bureau to better the
health of children, and hope to make the work this year of even more benefit than last. According to Miss Ethel
Clark, secretary of the Social Service
bureau, the work accomplished by the
registration and examinations in 1918 was very satisfactory, and the re
sponse of the mothers of the city was
large.
Examination of the children will be
done by local physicians, who will be
assisted in the work by nurses. Last year all of the physicians of the city
assisted in the work. Each school dis
trict had examinations in the school
building of the district, and It Is prob
able that a similar plan will be adopt
ed this year.
LEAGUE CANNOT
FORGE U. S. TO
WAR SAYS TEXAN
Sheppard Declares Objection
to War-Making rower of Body is Groundless. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 20. Support
ing the league of nations, Senator
Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas, told the senate today that abjection to
any war making power of the league was entirely groundless. The covenant only pledges the member nations to co-operate in repelling invasion, he
sal, but confers no powers , on the league," in that regard. "Viewing the covenant as a whole," said the Texas senator, "it may well be characterized as the most effective instrument for the maintenance of peace and the prevention of war the heart and brain of man have yet produced. It has not attempted the impossible; It is based on a clear recognition of the fact that we have not yet reached that stage where war may be entirely suppressed. It makes war remote and improbable, however, by organizing the public opinion and the moral force of civilization in effect great international unit pledged to the peaceful settlement of international controversies. But we are told that the United States should not enter into an arrangement of this kind because our geographical situation and our Inherent strength make us independent of foreign broils, and they say this with fifty thousand American graves in foreign soil bearing tragic testimony to the effect of an European situation on this republic. Need Other Nations.
"They tell us that if we subscribe
to this covenant we da so as a matter
of favor to other nations; that they
need us, but we do not need them. I
tell you that there was never a time when It was more necessary for the
civilized nations to stand together for
the peace and liberty of the world
than now. It Is either this or the
piling of armaments on armaments un
til the people's backs are broken from
the strain.
"The covenant offers the firmest bar
rier against war humanity has yet
known. It builds fresher and strong
er foundations for the civilization and
progress of mankind. It is the mightiest advance toward a higher existence
and a better day since the cry of the
angels in the skies of Bethlehem for
peace on earth, good will to men."
Wflson Leads Memorial Day Service for Heroes Resting in France
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FOE ASSEMBLY
ACCEPTS PACT SAYS REPORT; CABINET OUT
Time Extension . for Definite Action . May be Asked
New Cabinet to be Formed Under Noske.
Scene In American section of French cemetery of Suresnes, near Paris, and President Wilson addressing a crowd at cemetery. With the president are Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, U. S. A., and General Foch. These pictures, just received, show how the Americans who gave their lives on the battlefields in France were honored Memorial day. President Wilson lead the ceremonies at Suresnes cemetery, delivering a brief address to the immense crowd which gathered to pay homage to the U. S. heroes. '
SWISS PREPARE FOR
RESUMPTION OF WAR
(By Associated Press)
GENEVA, Thursday, June 19. Special military arrangements have been made by the Swiss government for
eventualities in case the Germans refuse to sign the theaty of peace. Picked Landwehr forces will be remobilized tomorrow and the next day at Basle and Constance to protect the Rhine and the northern frontiers. A Bregen dispatch to the Thurgau Gazette says that Italian troops have begun to occupy Vorarlberg, the westernmost district of Austria.
ARMY WORMS; ARE
III WAYNE COUNTY, AFTERNOON REPORT
Army worms have appeared in two places in Wayne county, according to Charles Schutz, of Dalton township,
who was in Richmond late Friday
afternoon. The worms are in a field of wheat owned by Warren Dennis, about one mile from Hagerstown, and in a
swamp meadow, owned by a man
named Harter, Schutz said. Seventy-five farmers worked Friday to trench the infected fields, and every effort is being made to confine the worms to the area where they appeared. They are numerous in the two fields.
Language Error In Pact Opens Way To Increased
Armament For Germany
(By Associated Press
PARIS. Thursday. June 19. The
definite provision for Germany's ad
mission to the league of nation, which is made in the revised treaty, is, oddly
enough, tucked away in a section deal-
with the disarmament or Germany.
This was discovered today by a com
parison of the text issued to the American press with the original version
The language of the clause opens the possibility of an increase, as well as a decrease, of German armaments after discussion by the council of the leairue. although those who drafted
the provision probably contemplated
only the second contingency.
The French text, by one of those
occasional variants which slipped by the commission's drafting experts, reads conditionally "may be" Instead of "is." It is admitted that there are
other changes in the military clauses,
notably in the provision for Germany's
army, which Is to be reaucea to jluu,000 men before April, 1920, and the extension of time for the dismantling of fortifications These were adequately outlined in the official summary of the treaty. BRITISH SINK CRUISER
All Licensed Aviators
MayTry For Ince Prize
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, June 20. Licensed
aviators of any nationality may com
pete in the proposed trans-Pacific airplane flight for which Thomas H. Ince
has offered a prize of $50,000, according to rules governing the contest made public today. The flight may be
attempted from either side of the Pa
cific, but if made westward, Venice, California, must be the starting point and the landing on the mainland of Australia, the Japanese Islands or the
continent of Asia. If made eastward,
Asia, Australia or Japan may be the
starting point and the finish made on the mainland of the United States.
The contest will be open from next
September to February, 1920. The flight must be completed within 12 days. If the flight across the Pacific is not completed, Ince said the avia
tor reaching the Hawaiian Islands in the shortest time would be awarded $10,000. If no contestant shall reach the Hawaiian Islands, the aviator who
shall fly the farthest in that direction
will receive $5,000.
Brazil President-Elect Is Guest Of New York
EFFORTS TO GET VOTE ON LEAGUE
PL AN ABANDONED Senators Give Up Hopes of
Roll Call Before Germans
Act.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 20. There
were growing indications today that
opponents of the League of Nations
mignt abandon all efforts to force a test vote on the subject in the Sen
ate before the Germans act on the
peace treaty at Versailles Monday.
Hope of bringing a roll call on the Knox resolution virtually has been
abandoned and some leaders thought it might be permitted to die without
even coming before the Senate for action. It was designed to give notice of opposition to accepting the league covenant along with the peace terms, and in the general opinion it wil lcease to serve its purpose after Germany has accepted the treaty. Whether any other expedient would be adopted to show Senate sentiment
today or tomorrow also was uncertain.
Lipscombe Damage Verdict
Upheld By State Court INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 20 The petition of the Standard Oil company of Indiana for a rehearing of the decision Of the State Appellate court In the damage suit brought against the company ' by the estate of the late Charles Lipscombe of Richmond, has been denied. The court upheld the
original decision made in the Wayne
circuit court to award the estate $4,250 damages. Lipscombe was burned to death while working In a tank of the company at Richmond, three years ago.
VARIATIONS IN
BOUNDARY SEEN IN NEW TREATY
Important Changes Made in Polish Frontiers Given New Section of Pomerania.
Weather Forecast
(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 20. Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president-elect of Brazil, was welcomed to New York early today when the TJ. S. S. Impertor arrived in the harbor. With members
of his party, Dr. Pessoa was transfer
red to the Imperator last Monday from
the French cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, which became disabled near the Azores islands. At the Imperator's dock a reception committee from Washington, headed by Bresklnridge Long, third assistant secretary of state, waited to receive the nation's guest.
While here Dr. Pessoa will be the guest of the city, and tonight according to present plans he will be the
guest at a dinner aboard the Brazilian !
warship Sao Paulo. Tomorrow he will leave with his party in a special train for Washington, where he will remain several days as the guest of the United
States government.
Returning to New York the visitors
will be entertained here again before
departing on a tour of the country which will take them as far west as St. Louis and as far south as Mississippi. Following his western and southern trip Dr. Pessoa will leave for home either at New York or-Hampton Roads on the American battleship Idaho.
WEST INTERESTED IN CONGRESS ECONOMY
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 20 Chairman Hays of the Republican National committee, returning today to Washington for a month's stay after a tour of the middle west, declared that "By and large, the interest in the west is in national ouestions, with the hi-'h point
nf nninrfiHatinn bplne centered in what
congress is doing with efficiency and I as iney were yesterday
NO REVENGE TO RE TAKEN ON CITIZENS
OF U.S., SAYS VILLA
(By Associated Press) EL PASO, Texas, June 20. Villa will make no reprisals upon American
property and lives in Mexico because American troops drove his men back from the border Sunday night, a courier from Villa's camp near Villa Ahumada, who arrived here last night on an important mission declared. With Mexican federal troops moving to a number of districts where Americans are at work In Mexico and with officials taking a more optimistic view of the situation, as a result of announcements from Washington that
the Mexican federal government would act to protect Americans from any possible violence, and Villa's declaration, the situation on the border ap
peared more quiet today than for some
time past.
Five hundred Mexican federal troops, started yesterday to protect
the American Mormon colonies near Casa Grandes, today were well on their way in that direction. On the American side of the border,
I military dispositions remained much
Scattering
economy."
(By Associated Press) LONDON, June 20. The Russian cruiser Oleg was sunk on Wednesday by a British submarine, it is announced In a Russian wireless dispatch received today
For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. Today's Temperature.
Noon 82
Yesterday.
Maximum 91 Minimum 65 For Wayne county by W. E. Mooro Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Local thunder showers, Fair in general. General Conditions The storm over
the lakes has moved down the St. Lawrence valley. Local thunder showers last night occurred over Indiana, and Ohio, the nearest local storm being over the southwest posr tion of Wayne county , last evening.
The weather continues somewhat un
settled with rain In scattered places,
heavy in some localities Trat light in
most places. The temperatures con
tinue warm east of the Rocky moun
tains, and also over the far west,
Yesterday it was 100 at Boise City. Idaho; 108 at Phoenix. Arizona, and
90 an dabove over western Canada.
Wilhelm's Youngest Son Purchases Swiss Villa
(By Associated Press i Berne, Switzerland, June 20. It is reported from Lugano that Prince Joa
quin, the youngest son of the former
emperor, has purchased a villa on the
border of Lake Lugano, known as Ra-
vorita Castagnola.
FIREWORKS SALE STOPPED BY CHIEF
Warning was issued by Chief of Police Gorman Friday to all business houses of the city against the selling
or offering for sale of fireworks, in
violation of a city ordinance.
According to an ordinance passed
by the city council in May, 1917, it is unlawful for any person or business
concern to sell, or have in their poses-
sion for the purpose of selling, any fireworks or pyrotechnics whatever.
Several stores have displayed fire
works in their show windows, and the
chief warned the proprietors of the
stores that prosecution would follow any violation of the city ordinance.
Tax Stamps For Liquor To Be Sold After July 1 (By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 20. Although foreseeing "no reason to doubt that
wartime prohibition will become effective July 1," the international revenue
bureau, in accordance with an opinion
of the attorney general, will continue the sale of tax stamps for Intoxicating beverages after that date. Commissioner Roper said, however, the sale would be with the distinct understanding that the manufacture or sales of prohibited beverages was In no way authorized,
bands of Villa men have been reported from various points along the border,
but little importance is attached to
their appearance as it Is not thought
they are acting according to any prearranged plan but merely as tragglers
from Villa's command, dispersed by
American troops early in the week.
With a force of airplanes here, it
was expected scouting flights would be undertaken on a considerable scale
today, the first flight yesterday by Major Edgar Tobin having located a small number of men supposed to be
Villa adherents.
Air Service Department
Is Opposed By Daniels
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 20 Appearing before the senate naval committee to urge an increase in the appropriation
for naval aviation from $15,000,000 fix
ed by the house to $35,000,000, Secre
tary Daniels vigorously opposed proposals that the air services of the army, navy, and postoffice department
be consolidated under a cabinet of
ficer. "I consider this plan most unwise.
said the secretary. "Naval aviation
should be as much a part of the navy
department as . the bureau of naval
ordnance. Air craft are , needed as much by the fleet as are destroyers
or submarines. The service , in one department would be Immeasurably
weakened."
Wilson Back In Paris
After Visit In Belgium
(By Associated Press) PARIS. June 20 President Wilson
and his party arrived here this morning at nine o'clock after a two-day
trip to Brussels and tne war zone in Belgium. There was no formal reception and Mr. Wilson drove immediate
ly to the Paris "white house . The
president had a good night's rest and
said that he was not urea, tie expressed his enjoyment and interest in the trip he had taken.
Big Army Appropriations Recommended By Committee
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 20. Appropriations approximating $900,000,000 for the army of 1920, instead of $731,000,000, as voted, by the house, were recomended today by the Senate Military sub-committee. The revised draft, proposing an average army of 400,000 instead of 300,000, approved by the house, will be considered by the full
committee later in the day.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, Thursday, June 19. The alterations and amendments incorporated by the Council of four in the re
vised treaty make it a somewhat long
er document than the draft originally submitted to the Germans and pub
lished in the United States. It now
comprises 214 pages, five more than
the original, and even this was ef
fected by closer paging. At various points the drafting committee sought to adhere as far as possible to the original numbering of the articles and contrived to make up for insertions or omissions by combining or splitting articles. As at first arranged, the new instrument still contains the original fourteen points and 440 articles. Important changes are revealed by a comparison of the old and new drafts relative to the new Polish frontiers and the Silesian plebescite. The
frontier changes correspond generally
with those outlined in recent dispatches, but bring the Polish frontier nearer to Breslau, on the east, than
was at first contemplated, and give
Poland a new section of the Prussian province of Pomerania In ex
change for the coast strip of the same
province returned to Germany, al
though the council of four planned for a while to make Pomerania German on historic grounds. Voters are Protected. Some of the changes in the treaty can be indicated only by reference to maps of the largest scale. The provisions for a plebiscite in the Silesian regions show that the vote will be taken in virtually all of Upper Silesia except in small areas in the south
western and northern corners, which were awarded unconditionally to Czecho-Slovikia and Poland respectively. The plebiscite must be held between the sixth and eighteenth months after the signature of the
peace treaty. The same condtions as
regards the retirement of German armies and officials and the disbandonment of workmen's Soviets which
were included in the Schleswig-Hol-stein and East Prussian plebiscite provisions are found in that affecting Silesia. A significant article of the treaty prohibits political prosecution by either the Polish or German governments for any activities during the plebiscite in Silesia.
EBERT LOSES POWER
BULLETIN (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 20. All reports con
cerning' changes in the German cabinet are premature, says an official German wireless message sent from Naun at 1 o'clock this morning.
The message adds that the national assembly failed to get a majority of
its members to favor signing the peace
terms. The text of the message reads: "The national assembly at Weimar tried to constitute a majority in favor of signing the peace treaty. That was impossible because of the division among the parties. "All news regarding changes in the cabinet is prematurej' SIGNING IS CERTAIN LONDON, June 20. The German national assembly at Weimar has accepted the peace treaty, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris. . - - The signing of the peace treaty by Germany, an Exchange dispatch from Copenhagen, quoting advices from Weimar says, is as certain as if the signatures had already been put to the document, A Reuter's dispatch from Weimar states that a meeting of the Centrist members of the German national as
sembly decided yesterday by a fourfifths majority in favor of Bigning the treaty of peace with reservations regarding responsibility for the war and the honor of the German nation.
The German national party, It is stated, is unanimously resolved against signing. Fifty-six members ot the German Democratic party voted against signing the allied terms while eight other voted that the treaty be signed conditionally and one was In favor of signing without conditions. SCHEIDEMANN FALLS PARIS, June 20. The Scheidemann government in Germany has fallen, it was learned here today. News of the event, reported during the morning, was confirmed later by military advices through Coblenz from both Weimar and Berlin. The downfall of the Scheidemann government was made known to the American delegation to the peace conference. It Is believed to assure the signing of the peace treaty by Germany, as Philipp Schidemann, the premier, was understood to be the chief opponent to acceptance of the revised peace terms. The early reports states
that Gustav Noske, the minister of defense, was forming a cabinet to succeed the outgoing government.
May Ask Time Extension. Previous advices had indicated that four members of the Scheidemann cabinet were Insisting on the signing of the treaty, and it is presumed here that this caused the fall of the ministry.' It Is understood here that the fall of the Scheidemann government entails also the fall of President Ebert. The national assembly probably will take measures to select a successor to Herr Ebert. . It is reported here that the Germans have asked for a further extension of the time limit within which to act on the peace treaty.
English Railway Men
Protest Rule In Ireland
(By Associated Press)
PLYMOUTH, England, Thursday,
June 19 A resolution protesting
against the system of government at present in operation in Ireland was
adopted today by the national union
of rallwaymen in convention here. Tne
government in Ireland was described as "not in accordance with the principles , professed to be held by the
members of the government when apnealine to'" our countrymen to kill
Prussians" and demand is made for
the immediate withdrawal of martial
Jaw, , :, i
NOSKE MADE CHANCELLOR. WEIMAR Jund 20. The cabinet, although it has resigned, will continue in office temporarily until President
n.uen nas Deen a Die to iorm a new one. The cabinet resigned because it would not sign the treaty. Gustav Noske, minister of defense, was chosen chancellor by President Ebert, it is said. Noske is very popular, not only with the right wing of his own party, but with the conservatives, since he was able to protect property during recent disorders in Berlin. He is unpopular and even hated by the radicals or his party and the lnaependent Socialists, because of the rigor: with which he suppressed disturbances. The new cabinet, according to report, will presumably settle the question of signing the. treaty. It Is ex
pected to accept the allied terms, although experts who have considered
the treaty, have unanimously rejected
it as impossible. One of them, Fritz
Thyssen, the coal magnate, said to
tne Associated Press today;
To Sign "On Condition." Germany cannot honestly sign and
hope to fulfill her obligations. It
would be far better to pay a large Indemnity, but leave coal and other eco
nomic possibilities of production, by which alone the payment of the indemnity is possible." . - .
Several members of the old cabinet will retain office, among them being Mathias Erzberger, Eduard David and Colonial Minister Bell. Baron Von Richthofen said this afternoon that the new cabinet will sign the treaty but ; "on condition. Although be did not state what conditions were meanL, it is believed that they will be in the form of demands upon the entente, the granting of or the refusal of which would not hinder the signing of the treaty.;
ERZBERGER SUCCEEDS "RANTZAU COBLENZ, June 20 Gustave Noske the minister of defense, will succeed Philipp Scheidemann as head of the German ministry, according to a WeiContinued On Pass Fifteen. .