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FRENCH URGE NEED FOR AID If RESTORING BATTLE AREA Further Union Between Allies

is Urged by Poincare to See That Terms Are Carried Out. DEPUTIES GIVEN TREATY (Br Associated Press) ' PARIS, Jane 8& In presenting the text of the peace treaty to the Chamber of Deputies today, Premier Clemenceau made a brief speech In which he recalled the French national assembly which met at Bordeaux in 1871 and added: "We make peace as we made war, without weakness. Internal peace Is a necessity for external peace." The center and right cheered the premier, while the extreme socialists left remained silent. Years to Regain Normal. The task of the allied and associated powers is not ended with the signing of the treaty with Germany and the nations must continue to be united in order to see that the clauses of the treaty are carried- out. President Poincaire declared In an interview In the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail. "It will take some years for Prance to regain her normal life and what France needs most at present is ships," the president said, "because only an Increase in Importation can bring about a decrease in the present high prices of raw material and the necessities of life." " n princi," he added, "the allies are agreed on this point and the people of France hope that the other nations will aid them in restoring their country, which suf fered most from the war . RALPH G. WELLER, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DIES WHILE ASLEEP Ralph C." Weller. 80 years old, died at his home, 18 North Third street at 3:20 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Death came unexpectedly while he was sleep ing. He was born August 8, 1838, in New port, Ky., and came to Richmond in 185. He was the first man In Rich mond to answer the call for troops In the civil war. He saw active ser vice for three years and was wounded at MlsBion Ridge. He was mustered out in June, 1864. In 1863 he married. He lived in Richmond all of the time after his marriage with the exception of three years spent in Missouri, following hw discharge from the service. He lived in the house where his death occurred for 41 years. The surviving relatives are the widow, one son, John Weller, one daughter, Mary A. Hunt, nine gradchildren and three great grandchil dren. He was a member of the Christian church, G. A. R. and Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows! The lodge will hold services Tuesday evening. Sol Meredith post, G. A. R., will hold services Monday evening. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. L. E. Murray will officiate. Friends may call at any time and are esked to omit flowers. Will Redeem Unused 3-Cent Envelopes And Cards, Beck Announces Announcement of the long-looked for retirement of two-cent cards and three-cent stamped envelopes on Tuesday, July 1. has been made by Postmaster C. B. Beck of the local postoffice. The announcement fol"Effective July 1, 1919, the letter postage will be reduced to the old two cent rate and postal cards will be one cent as formerly. "The postoffice department through the postofflces of the country, will redeem at full value all unused threecent government stamped envelopes and two-cent postal cards, during the month of July only. Before July 1 and after July 31, this stock will be redeemed at stamp value only. "Stamps, envelopes and cards, in denominations desired, will be exchanged for the above redeemed stock but cash will not be paid tor same under any circumstances. "The public is cautioned against confusing the above notice with the regular custom of the department in redeeming spoiled government stamoed envelopes at stamp value only, and postal cards at 75 per cent. of 6tanip valuue. This privilege has never been changed." C.-B. BECK, Pestmaster. Airplane Forced To Land

Near West Alexandria x A forced landing was made by & privately owned Curtiss airplane four miles west of West Alexandria, Saturday evening. The machine was driven by a young man who did not gvie his name, but who explained that f he was a radio operator and not an ?JL aviator. He was on his way, he said, " i ; from Paris Island, S. C, to Great Lakes V Training Station and thence to Fort ! .Sill. Okla. - . . . Jhe plane had a broken shaft, but repaired with assistance from the p&iaCook field t Dayton,

Patriotic Demonstration

Planned By Methodists (By Associated Press) . COLUMBUS, O, June 30. Members of the Epworth league of the Methodist church, both north and south, are celebrating Epworth League Day at the Methodist Centenary exposition today. Speakers scheduled to deliver addresses during the day Include Bishop A. W. Leonard and the Rev. Dr. S. A. Steel, first general secretary of the Epworth league of the Methodist church, and the Rev. W. I. Havens, one of the organizers of the league. Tomorrow will be temperance day at the exposition. William Jennings Bryan will be the principal speaker. To honor Secretary of the Navvy Daniels and General Menchor, who will be here Friday, a big military band from the Great Lakes naval training station, will be In Columbus to give a series of concerts. Centenary officials are planning a monster patriotic demonstration on July 4. "William O. McAdoo will be a speaker of the day, talking on th eague of Nations covenant. MUTINY AMONG AMERICANS IN RUSSIA DENIED 'All Bunk" Says Command ing Officer Cossacks Take 5,000 Bolshevik Prisoners. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. June 30. ReDorts of a mutiny on the Archangel front last March among members of the 339th Infantry, were vehemently denied to day Dy Major J. Brooks Nichols of Detroit, and Captain H. G. Winslow, of Madison, Wis., commanding Company L, the unit said to have been involved. Both officers returned on the trans port Von Steuben which brought back tne nrst complete units to return from service in the Archangel sector. "I have heard more 'bunk' about this mutiny than could be written in a dozen books," declared Mr. Nichols. "The incident that gave rise to the rumors was a misunderstanding be tween a sergeant and one private. Men of the 339th are the best disci plined and most courageous of any outfit I know and all any officer could desire. They are second to none as soldiers." FINNS ARE DEFEATED " LONDON, June 30. Bolshevik! troops have occupied Vydllsha, on the Finnish frontier, defeating the Finns and capturing large numbers of them according to a Russian wireless dispatch' received here today. It is added that the Bolshevik! advance is developing successfully. JT COSSACKS ADVANCE EKATERINADOR, Friday, June 28 The army of Kuban Cossacks oper ating in the bend of the Don river has captured 4,000 Bolshevik! and 10 guns. The Don Cossacks, who also are advancing northward have captured 1.500 prisoners and three armored trains. 18 AMERICANS KILLED WASHINGTON, June 30. Eighteen American soldiers were killed, one officer and seven men severely wound ed and 17 slightly wounded in an engagement with anti-Kolchak forces near Romanovka on June 25. Major General Graves, commanding the American Expedition in Siberia in formed the war department today that the engagement followed an at tack by the Bolshevik on railroad guards. GERMAN DELEGATES ON WAY TO WEIMAR By Associated Press) VERSAILLES June 30. Dr. Daniel von Haimhausen and 28 members of the German delegation left for Ger many this morning on special train from Noisy-le-Seo. Dr. Herman Mueller and Dr. Bell. who signed the peace treaty for Ger many, left Versailles Saturday night with about fifty others of the German staff of delegates and experts. Paris dispatches yesterday stated that Dr. von Haimhausen, Herr Leinert and Herr Dunker would remain at Versailles temporarily with a staff of 55 persons. The departure of the German party taday leaves a staff of nineteen Germans in charge of Baron von Lersner to wind up affairs in connection with the peace negotiations. GERMANS TO REDUCE HIGH COST OF FOOD BERLIN, Sunday, June 29 Under an agreement with the railroad strikers, the government proposes a reduction in the price of foreign, especially American, food, totalling 1,600,000,000 marks, to be distributed and charged to the empire in free states and communities. Half a pound of American flour now costs two marks, twenty to fifty pfennig, and in future will cost from eighty to eighty-five pfennig. A quarter of a pound of rice which now costs three marks will be reduced to two. Cereals will be lowered from two marks, twenty pfennig, to one mark ten pfennig, and one mark, thirty pfennig. The price of foreign meats will be cut down from eleven marks to four marks, fifty five pfennig per pound. American bacon, a quarter pound of which now costs from seven to eight marks, will be reduced to four marks and four marks fifty pfennig. Fifty grammes of for eign fats, the price of which now is from six to seven marks, may be bought under new regulations at from five marks to five marks nrty prennig. Foreign potatoes also will be cheaper under the new system.

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LAND, RICHMOND PIONEER, DEAD Senility Cause of Death Was Born Here on June 1 6, 1829. Mrs. Emeline Gaar Land, Widow of Horatio Nelson Land, died pf old age at her home on North Thirteenth street, about 10:45 o'clock Sunday evening, folowing a few d - :. fail ing health during which tlr. she had been confined to her bed. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Alma Holton. of Laporte, Ind.; one son, Harry Land. and the grandchildren. Walker Land, ler, Emeline Land and Ray Holton. Funeral services will be held from the home at 3 o'clock Wednesday aft ernoon. Burial will be In Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at the residence Tuesday evening and Wednesday Mrs Land, who was the" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Gaar, was married to Horatio Nelson Land, a pioneer, 1854. Her husband died February 1, 1893. Her father was a cabinet mak er and undertaker. In 1879 he and his brothers purchased the plant which afterwards became known as the Gaar-Scott Company. She was a member of the first tem perance society formed In Richmond. Mrs. Land had lived the entire ninety years of her life in Richmond, She was born In the city June 16, 1829. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jo nas Gaar, resided in the third square south of what is now Main street on South Fourth street. Her father was a native of Virginia, having been born in Culpepper Court House. Her moth er was Sarah : Watson, a Kentucky girL Housekeeper at Nine Both parents moved to Richmond from Kentucky to avoid participation in the Blave traffic, their families being bitterly opposed to enslaving ne groes. As young people, they grew up in the little village of Richmond, where they were married. Mrs. Land was the second of eight children. Her brothers and sisters included Milton Gaar. Abraham Gaar, Samuel W. Gaar, Fielding Gaar, Mrs. William B. Scott, Mrs. Elizbeth Campbell, and Mrs. Fan nie M. Jones, all deceased. Born of strict Baptists, and reared according to the necessities and ideas of the : age, ; Mrs. Land was taught housekeeping and knitting before she was nine years old. - She started to school In a one roonrlog cabin scnoi house which stood next to the site occupied now by St. Andrew's church. The next year she went to the little "red brick school house" which stood where Finley School is now, between Fourth and Fifth streets on South B. After that she attended a school Fourth and A street, and her education was completed in the Friends school, then situated on the Ft. Wayne avenue anoVNorth Seventh street triangle. . Recalled Pioneer Days. Mrs. Land took much pleasure in recalling happenings of 1840 and before, when she was a little girl in short calico dresses. "Then every one had his garden," said Mrs. Land. "A public market was held twice a week, however. The country people would bring in produce and sell it in the middle of the street on South Fifth street. Watermelons wouldn't sell for five cents apiece, and market people could not get rid of apples at the outrageously high price of twelve and a half cents a bushel. Eggs were three cents a dozen then; but of course the entire scale of living was lower in those days. "Basil Brightwell owned the only dry goods store in town, and the old covered bridge over the Whitewater was still under construction, travelers having to ford the river." Mrs. Land remembered the cholera epidemic of 1840, and the fact that a colored woman in the village died and was taken by the Land home on an improvised hearse. The cholera lasted several months, and "took off a large number of the residents." "In those data South Fourth and Fifth streets were the only streets in the town that were laid out. South E street was one of the principal streets entering the town. This road entered from the east and was bor dered by deep woods, which though not inhabited by wild animals, was rather a gruesome walk at night," Mrs. Land often said. Not until several years after 1840 did farmers begin to clear this wood3. planting corn, oats and wheat on the land, which was very fertile. "Walking down South Fifth street in 1840, one stepped knee deep in dog fennel," said Mrs. Land. On South E street about where Sixteenth and Fifteenth are now, was a large orchard at the edge of the forest." Mrs. Land remembered the Metho dist church in the old Mather Tile factory building; a Hicksite Friends church on Seventh street, a Presbyter ian church on South Fourth, and a United Presbyterian church not far from the present site of the Finley school. The county court house was at Salisbury, Indiana, now extinct, but then located between the villages of Richmond and Centerville on a line with the National road. Flag Flown At End Of Civil War Is Flung To Celebrate New Peace One of the flags flown in celebra tion of Peace Day, Saturday, here, was also flung to the breeze when Lea surrendered at the end of the Civil war In 1865. 1 Mrs. D. W. Comstock, widow of Judge Comstock, flew the flag at her home, 109 North Tenth street. It be longed to Mrs. Comstock's mother and was hung out at their home In Ohio In 1865 when peace was declared folflowing thJT civil war.

Two Beautiful Women of the Younger Social Set of London Relinquish War Work in British Food Department for Amusement

Mis Sylvia Cecil, left, and Hon. Mrs. Rowland Winn Two of the most popular women la the younger set In London society are Miss Sylvia Cecil and Hon. Mrs. Rowland Winn. Miss Cecil is the daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil who is Lady of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and has large horticultural Interests. Mrs. Cecil is assistant director of horticulture of the food production department of the board of agriculture In England and is the author of several books pertaining to horticulture. Her daughter is no less popular than the mother Is famous. Mrs. Rowland is one of the prettiest of the younger matrons. She is the wife of Capt. Winn of the Coldstream Guards. Capt. Winn is the heir to the second Baron St. Oswald. He served during the war and was wounded while at the front Before her marriage Mrs. Winn was known as Evie Carew.

EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY REDUCES TOWN TO RUINS 1 20 Persons Killed at Vicchio and Village Destroyed Felt at Florence. (By Associated Press) ROME, June 30. One hundred and twenty persons are estimated to have been killed in and near Vicchio, the center of the earth movement Sunday in the Florence district, according to the Tempo. The town of Vicchio was reduced to a heap of ruins and a number of villages were destroyed. Last night's earth shock which was mainly felt in the region of Florence, was perceptible as far away as Venice. It is reported that there were soma victims at Bergo San Lonenzo, fifteen miles northeast of Florence, and at Dicomano, near the latter town. The region of Regello (twenty miles southeast of Florence) has been isolated. A number of houses in various places are reported destroyed. Dispatches from Florence Sunday night reported a violent earthquake there and in neighboring towns. The damage in Florence was slight, however, it was announced, and it was not believed extensive damage in the oth er towns had resulted. LEAGUE NECESSARY TO PROTECT U. S, RIGHTS, IS CLAIM fBy Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 30. Describing the League of Nations as a work able plan to marshal civilized nations against such acts of aggression as Germany and Austria perpetrated In this war, Senator Garry, Democrat, of Rhode Island, told the senate today that acceptance of the league covenant was an absolute necessity to protect American rights and protect civilization daring the reconstruction. Predicting his observation on facts gathered during an European visit he said Europe was pinning hopes of a better era on the faith that the United States would take the lead in a league to prevent war. He analyzed the coverant of the League of Nations and de clared it contained nothing subverting American sovereignty nor destroying American policies. "The real question," said Mr. Garry, "is whether we btueve that it is bet ter tor tne united states to nave a say In European matters and thus try to prevent another horrible war or to keep our bands off and wait until the' world is aflame and then endeavor to assert our might to protect our right." Serb Troops Clash With Italians Near Dizrci (By Associated Press) -PARIS, June 30. Serbian and Ital Isn troops have clashed near Dizral according to unofficial reports received her today. - m

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Yanks and Germans at Coblenz Are Happy Over News of Peace

(By Associated Press) ' COBLENZ, Sunday, June J9. Captain Walter Schultz, of Chicago, 111., a member of the 138th Aero Squadron, was killed Saturday evening when an distributing an extra edition of the distributinfi an extra edition of the American News, the soldiers' daily newspaper, announcing the details of the Bignlng of the treaty of peace, fell near Montabaur, headquarters of the lrst division. Captain Schultz volunteered to carry copies of the extra edition to soldiers who for more than a week had been concentrated at the edge of the bridgehead ready to advance in the event that the Germans refused to accept the allied terms. The accident is attributed to engine trouble. Captain Schultz came overseas with the Third cavalry, being transferred to the air service a year ago. The afternoon German newspapers published in the area occupied by the American forces, printed Versailles dispatches to tha effect that the stage was all set for the last act In the war drama, as far as the Germans were concerned and let it go at that American aviators carrying the extra edition of the American News In surrendered German Fokker machines, repeatedly circled over Coblenz and great crowds of soldiers and civilians assembled wherever the extra fell, all eager to read the details af the ceremony. Many extras dropped Into the Rhine, and German fishermen and boys in canoes fished them out of the Son Of Bavarian Prince Enters Jesuit Monastary (By Associated Press) MUNICH, June 30 Prince George, eldest son of Prince Louis of Bavaria, has entered a Jesuit monastary at Innsbruck, according to newspapers here. . Prince George of Bavaria, was born in Munich, April 2, 1880. He was married to Arch Duchess Isabel of Austria on February 10, 1912, but the marriage was declared null and void by Che supreme court of Bavaria on January 17, 1913. Later the annul ment was decreed at Vienna. DALTON REAL ESTATE VALUATIONS RAISED Real estate appraisements In Dalton Jtownship were increased 25 per cent on all land and improvements, by the Wayne county board of review, at Monday morning's session. The original assessment of real esstate in Daltaon averaged $60.15 cents an acre, and the board decided , to in crease this amount to a flat rate of $75. Members of the board announced that there would be no : further increase In property assessments in Wayne county, aside from individual assessments, which have been found to be too low. FORMER PREMIER DIES (By Associated Press) JASST, Rumania, June 30. Pierre P. Carp, former premier otKRumaiuA MA her lafit nisrht. U. W.

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tne news and the Germans who could read a little English was in demand to interpret the details of the historic meeting at Versailles. In many in stances in the cafes and streets American soldiers who spoke German interpreted the dispatches. If there was any sadness among the Germans over the fact that actual peace had arrived at last. It was not apparent among the people about town. In fact, the cafe orchestras seemed to play more sprightly airs with renewed vigor and the Germans drank more beer than usual. All the while, American soldiers in groups paraaea tne streets singing: "when do we go from here?" RULES STILL IN EFFECT FOR HUNS (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Sunday. June 29 The rules and regulations Issued by the authorities of the army of occupation soon after entering Germany last December will continue In effect Indefinitely, according to an announcement at Third army headquarters today. LleutenantrGeneral Hunter Liggett sent word today to the overp re sident of the Rhine province. In structing him to notify burgomasters and other officials of the various dis tricts in the American zone to caution civilians that none of the army regulations has as yet been cancelled. Tnis action was taken as a precaution, many civilians appearing to take it .for granted that the army regulations had been automatically annulled by the signing of the peace treaty. The regulations will stand until fur ther orders are issued either by Gen eral American headquarters or the Inter-Allied Rhineland commission. WAR BRIDES SAIL ON WILSON'S SHIP (By Associated Press) ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Sunday, June 29. (By wireless.) Several thousand returning American soldiers and a score of pretty French war brides are on board the Presidential ship on its voyage to the United States. A num ber of the soldiers who were members of the guards at the Paris White House and the Hotel de Crillon, head quarters of the American delegation, were married during their sojourn in Paris. The regulations provided no means for the brides to accompany their husbands aboard the George Washington and for awhile it .seemed that they might get left behind, A tearful Joint dispatch from the brides to President Wilson, however, led to the making of arrangements for their accommoda tion and they are one of the happiest novelties of the .voyage, which so far has been in perfect weather and on a calm sea. - ' Farewell messages were received by President Wilson from King George of England, King. Alfonso of Spain and the Emperor of Japan. The one from King George tn&kes allusion to "the American and British people, brothers In arms, who will continue ever "Ji in peace. .-r.-. .- .-

PEACE HEADS RELAX AFTER EHY SIGNS FINAL TERMS

Council of Ten to Decide Fu ture Procedure -Hollweg Asks for Trial in Place of Former Kaiser. TO PLACE WAR GUILT (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 30 There was complete relaxation in peace conference circles and In Paris generally today after the period of tenseness which culminated with the acceptance by Germany of the peace terms and the final signing of the treaty at Saturday's memorable ceremony in the Versailles palace. Secretary of State Lansing this morning had a conference with the American officials who remained here after the departure of President Wilson. Later in the day he planned to meet Arthur J. Balfour, the British foreign secretary and representatives of the other powers to formulate plans for carrying on the work remaining . to be acomplished by the conference. The calling of a meeting of the Council of Ten which is now the su preme body of the conference will de pend upon the completion of the program for the future proceedings now Deing framed by the principal . powers. Within the next thirty davs the al lies will Bubmit to the German gov ernment a list of persons who are charged with responsibility for caus ing the war, or who are alleged to nave violated the rules of civilized warfare. , In this connection Dr. TheoDaw von Bethmann-Hollweg, who held the office of Imperial German cnanceuor in 1914 when the war broke out, has formally asked the allies to place him on trial instead of former Emperor William. The formplete responsibility for the acta of Germany during hi Incumbency, even bearing the , blame for the political acts of the former emperor. DEVAtERA, SINN FEIN LEADER, Will PASS THROUGH RICHMOND Eamonn DeValera, head of the Irish Sinn Fein republic, will pass through Richmond on the Pennsylvenia railroad at" 9 : 30 o'clock Tuesday morning on his" way to Indianapo lis, where be will address a mass meeting on the aims of Ireland, Tues day night at Tomlinson halL Accom panying him will be Judge Daniel F. Cohalan, chief Justice of the supreme court of New York. A delegation from Indianapolis will come to Richmond to meet the Sinn Fein leader. Many Richmond persons of Irish descent are expected to greet DeValera during his short stay in the city. DeValera was born In America, but returned to Ireland, the home of his parents, to aid in the struggle for Irish independence. When the Sinn Fein republic was formed several months ago, he was chosen as Its chief. His escape from Ireland recently was made in a daring, manner when he was taken In an airplane to a waiting vessel, under the eyes of the British soldiers who had been placed to prevent his departure from the country. JAMES A. KESSLER CALLED BY DEATH James Andrew Kessler, 73 years old. died at his home, 331 Richmond avenue, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He was born October 3, 1843, in New Paris, O., and has been a resident of Richmond for a number of years. He was the son of Joseph and Merlnda Kessler. He was married in 1880, and was employed as a machinist. Surviving relatives are two daugh ters, Mrs. Myron Keelor and Mrs. E. E. Cartwrlght, of this city, and two sons, Roland J. Kessler and Earl Kess ler, of Chicago. Funeral services will be held Wed nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. The Rev. Raymond Isley will officiate. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call any time after Tuesday noon. ..For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Today Temperature. Noon 85 Yesterday. Maximum ......... ......... 84 Minimum-....-...-.... ... 61 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. Fair tonight, Tuesday fair and warmer. General Conditions Generally fair weather prevails east of the Mississippi river, except for heavy rains off the North Carolina coast, due to a storm near Cape Hatteras. The hot weather Muuiiuca v . ci mo woow OiMl 111 Ue Mississippi and Missouri ralleys, temperature being 102 at Miles City, Mont. There has been a sharp fall In temperature over western Canada aad local thunder showers between the Rocky mountains and the MIsslssiDnl ttrer. vf

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