Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 229, 9 July 1919 — Page 1

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BUSINESS TO HOLD WILSON TO HIS DESK FOR Z WEEKS Greenville Man U. S. Passenger on Flight of Great British Airship Over Atlantic, Shown After Debarking From His Epoch Making Tourney Roman's Daughter Will Marry American

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R-34, Giant British Airship, Ready to Start on Southern Route When Weather is Favorable.

PLAN DAYBREAK START (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 9. Favorable weather for the return of tha British dirigible R-34 over the southern route ! to Europe during the next 24 hours was forecast in the weather report Bent to the commander of the airship today by the navy department. HENSLEY TO BE OBSERVER NEW YORK, July 9. Colonel William N. Hensley, Jr.. who will be the American observer aboard the R-34 on Its return flight has been authorized by the war department to continue observations In Europe after he has landed at East Fortune, Scotland. Colonel Hensley takes the place for the return trip of Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne, U. S. N., who was the American observer on the R-34 on the westward Journey. Colonel Hensley will study all the new types of balloons in England and France. He Is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on ballooning In the army. READY TO 8AIL MINEOLA, N. Y., July 9. Again today unfavorable winds from the east prevented the giant dirigible from starting on her return trip to England. British officers in charge of the R-34 nnnounced that there was no prospect that the big airship would get away before dawn tomorrow. It was made clear, however, that the start would le made at daybreak tomorrow or on Friday, for at that hour the maximum amount of gas could be taken on in the gas bags. The airship is ready to sail in the air to the east at any time that her commander, Major G. H. Scott, decides that weather reports presage a successful return voyage. In "the face of leports of winds in the east, a condi- . tfon . unusual at sea at this time of year; Major Scott and-his navigating officers considered it less of a hazard to. remain in the open at Roosevelt Field than to risk disaster in a high wind over the Atlantic. The crew of the R-34 enjoyed a night off last night, but the 600 men of the army and navy aviation units were

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able, scarcely any wina was oiowing early today and it was predicted that all danger of disaster from winds had passed. Although Major Scott declared that the airship was ready to start at any time the weather reports were favorable, mechanics were busy again today inspecting the ship's engines and other machinery, already in perfect condition. Description of Dirigible. At a distance of some 200 yards, the limits to which the visitors to Roosevelt field are held by the mili tary police, the immense airship presents innumerable possibilities and many explanations of the probable interior mechanism of the monster craft have been advanced. Officers of tho Urrtted States army and tho navy aviation sections have been permitted to inspect the ship and Captain Samuel T. Moore of the balloon section of the army today gave to The Associated Press representative a description of the first liehter-than-alr bhip to cross the Atlantic. Over all the R-34 is 640 feet in length with four cars or gondolas suspended from the cigar-shaped envelope. The forward gondola is occupied by the navigator and pilots and from it all parts of the ships are controlled by means of speaking tubes and bell signals. Here also Is the mechanism for controlling the water ballast tanks. Of the two pilot wheels in this forward car, the front wheel controls the rudder, while the side wheel controls the elevator planes. This car also contains the navigator's plotting table where he makes his charts and here also are his navigating instruments In the rear of the forward gondola is the wireless room which also holds one of the ship's engines. From the navigator's car a ladder of aluminum runs to the ship proper above. This ladder is enclosed and to the observer at a distance it resembles a tube. The two side gondolas each contain an enpine and are only large enough for two men to work. The rear car holds two engines. While tho gondolas can be seen by visitors to the field, little or nothing has been allowed to filter out concerning the inside of the big bag. Inside the bag is the dack of the ship. It runs the greater part of the lenpth of the bag and is only nine inches wide except at its middle where it widens out into a compartment 8 by 20 feet, used as the officers and crew as a dining salon. Rises to Equilibrium The hydrogen gas the lifting power of the ship is carried in eighteen compartments inside the envelope. These compartments are at the top of the ship and each is of about equal gas capacity, and is equipped with an automatic hand valve tor the control of the gas contained in them. These gas compartments are of gold beater nothing more than the linings of in testines or caives. When ready to start on a flight the final inflation of these gas containers is made. This operation takes, place usually at the minimum temperature fContinued on page thirteen

Arrival of R-34 at Roosevelt Field and Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, native of Greenville, 0 photographer shortly after dirigible landed A new chapter in the history of aviation was written last Sunday when

the giant British dirigible R-34, the first Hghter-than-air machine to fly across the ocean, landed at Roosevelt field, Mineola, Long Island. One of the members of the crew was Commander Lansdowne, an American. The larger photo was taken just as the R-34 landed. American soldiers and sailors are seen crowding around the pilot house.

HILL FLOWER CO. MAKES EXPANSION With the purchase of the Louis Knopf greenhouse, and the erection of five new greenhouses, the Joseph H. Hill company greenhouses on Easthaven avenue and the National road, are now- among the largest in Eastern Inuiana. The Knopf greenhouse covers 60,000 Bquare feet of space and was purchased by the Hill company July 1. The total size of the greenhouses owned by the company is now 300,000 square feet. The new houses will be used for the general florist trade, and no special work is being contemplated, other than the general enlargement of the business, according to Joseph Hill, president of the company. GERMANS RATIFYTERMS OF PEACE (By Associated Press) PARIS, July 9. The German national assembly at Weimar has adopted the resolution ratifying the peace treaty, according to advices received here today. The resolution reads: "The peace treaty signed on June 28, 1919, as well as the protocol annexed, and special agreements on military occupations of the Rhineland are hereby ratified. This law becomes effective from the date of its promulgation." ABINGTON SCHOOL HOUSE .CONDEMNED County Health Officer J. M. Bulla condemned the Abington township school building Wednesday as being unfit for school purposes, and set May 1, 1920 as the latest date the school can be used. The Abington school was built in 1870 and is the oldest township school in the county. It is a two story structure, and is in a very bad condition, according to the health officer. For several years the township has used the second floor of the building but owing to the danger of collapse with weight on the second floor, this part of the building was condemned and cannot be used during the next term. The first floor which has not been used heretofore, will be cleaned and painted, and used as a temporary school next winter. Plans will be made for the erection of a new building next summer. New Pacific Fleet To Sail West On July 19 WASHINGTON, July 9 The newly organized Pacific fleet will sail from Hampton Roads for the west coast Saturday, July 19. It was announced at the navy department that final arrangements were completed at a conference in New York yesterday between Secretary Daniels and Admiral Hugh Rodman, commander of th9 fleet. Weather Forecast For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Local .thundershowers this afternoon or tonight. Thursday fair, colder in northwest portion. Today's Temperature. Noon 89 Yesterday. Maximum 88 Minimum 59 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Generally fair tonight and Thursday, except for possible local thundershowers. General Conditions Temperatures continued high over much of the United States, and the drought is becoming severe in many places. Heavy rains are reported along the Gulf coast. It is 90 and above east of the Rocky mountains, except in the northeast.

7. 5. Drouth Fails To Effect R-34; Crew To Get Its Rum Supply (By Associated Press) MINEOLA, N. Y., July 9. Wartime prohibition has not prevented the navy department from obtaining rum, which is part of the official ration of the dirigible's crew. Twenty gallons of the liquor reached here and it is being stowed aboard the R-34. Navy officials said it came from a New York dealer. "I dare say," said Major Pritchard of tho British air ministry, who expressed his pleasure that the dirigible would not sail rumless, "that judging from the extent of the fuss made over this problem the navy department must have had to get the president's signature."

TEETOR-HARTLEY CO. TO BUILD ADDITION AT GONNERSVILLE HAGERSTOWN, Ind., July 9. This town, like practically all other com munities, is feeling the lack of houses. The largest manufacturing concern here, the Teetor-Hartley Motor corporation, has after repeated appeals to the citizens of the town to provide cdditional housing facilities, announced that the large addition to their factory will be built at Connersville, where more than 700 homes are to be erected this year. The corporation is about to start manufacture on several motor con-1 tracts, which will require an annual production several hundred per cent greater than heretofore. They have informed the citizens that while they do not propose removing or abandoning the present plant, which is even now employing more people than can be housed in town, all expansion must necessarily take place at the proposed new plant at Connersville, unless homes are shortly provided for additional employes. As yet no announcements have been made of the building of additional houses. INSANE PATIENT MURDERS COMRADE (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS. July 9 Thomas Edwards, a negro patient in the Central Indiana Insane hospital here, fatally injured Fred Pfiester, another patient, and seriously hurt Mary Kelly an employe of the institution today. Edwards was employed in the laundry and without warning struck Pfiester with an iron bar. He then attacked Miss Kelly, who was in charge of the laundry workers. Pfiester died a short time after being hit. Hagerstown Superintendent May Be State H. S. Inspector INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 9. W. F. Collins, superintendent of the Hagerstown schools, is a probable nominee for the position of state high school inspector, which Lee L. Driver of Winchester, Randolph county school j superintendent, who was appointed i state inspector, recently has declined j to accept. I It had been previously understood j that Mr. Driver would not accept the j state position of the Randolph county school board increased his salary to $2,400 a year, and this has been done. The salary of the state inspector is $2,500. William McElvaine Dead At Home Near Winchester WINCHESTER. Ind., July 9. William McElvaine, 72 years old, died at his home four miles northeast of here, after an illness of several months. He is survived by the widow and three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Baker, Mrs. Elwood Keys and Mrs. Otwell Cox. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in a Pennsylvania regiment. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the United Brethren church, Saratoga, with interment in the adjacent cemetery.

KETNER FUNERAL TO BE HELD FRIDAY Funeral services for Charles Ketner, 47 years old, who died at Reid Memorial Hospital, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, from injuries sustained when a fork was run through his eye into his brain in a harvest field at Beallview, Tuesday afternoon, will be held from the residence Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Earlham. Friends are invited to call any time. A boy was assisting Ketner by pitching hay from the ground to the wagon, where another man received it. As the boy lifted his fork, Ketner turned and ran his eye into a prong. The doctors and undertakers in charge said that the brain was paralyzed, thus preventing him from suffering from pain. Ketner did not regain consciousness. He was taken to the hospital but no efforts were made, to operate as there was no possibility of his life being saved. He was for many years in the livery business in Liberty, and is well known in that part of the country. Surviving relatives are the widow, five sisters, Mrs. John McCoy, Mrs. Ida Bradway, Mrs. Nettie Welbaum, Mrs. Hattie Willet, all of Richmond, and Mrs. Gertrude Huff of Cleveland, and two brothers, Edward and Will Ketner, of Liberty. FARM SUPERVISOR TO BE HIRED FOR WAYNE COUNTY Decision to hire a county agricul tural supervisor and a supervisor of domestic science, for the schools of Wayne county, was made by the trustees, at a meeting of the trustees held Wednesday in the court house. The county has been relieved of hiring supervisors in these two branches of work for the past two years, because the federal government took over all agricultural supervision. The first domestic science supervisor was hired in 1916, and her work was highly appreciated. Miss Grace Hudley, who has been acting in the capacity of the county supervisor for the last school term, was under the employ of the government and when tho federal employment of supervisors stopped, the county was without someone for the work. Members of the Women's Home Economics club appeared before the trustees and asked that a supervisor be hired for the coming year. Joel Moore, of Boston township; J. O. Edgerton. of Wayne township, and A. E. Ehle, of Jackson township, were named as a committee to receive applications for the positions, and to report on these at the August meeting of the trustees. RIDGEVILLE ARSON CASE GOES TO JAY WINCHESTER, Ind.. July 9 The Ridgeville arson case is again in the Randolph circuit court. This case, which arose over the burning of a rtore building and contents at Ridgeville, in July, 1916, has created considerable interest. Four men were indicted on a charge of conspiring to commit arson. Three, Calvin Lincoln, Elisha Roberts and Enoch Pierson were convicted, and sentenced to a term of from two fourteen years. The fourth, Frank Drake, committed suicide in Marion, before the case was tried. Calvin Lincoln took an appeal and the supreme court turned the case back for retrial. Judge Frank Gordon of Bluffton, sitting as special judge, heard motions and arguments for a change of venue and permitted the case to go to the Jay county court. FIVE TRANSPORTS DOCK NEW YORK, July 9 Five transports, the Nanseraond, from Brest; the Marica and Re d'ltalia, from Marseilles, and the Santa Olivia and Deepwater from Bordeaux, arrived here today with 301 officers and 10,581 troons.

BERLIN, Tuesday, July S. Ger

many is to return quickly to a peace time financial system, said Matbias Erzberger, vice-chancellor and minister of finance, speaking at Weimar before the German national assembly today. Among other things the payment of grants to men who are unemployed will be reduced it was indicated during his address. "The empire's needs must be divided henceforth between home needs and indemnities," he said. "The year's expenditures confronting us will amount to about 17,500,000 marks. I am firmly resolved to tread the hard path of economy and therefore have given out the watchword that from October 1, 1919, there shall be no more items not detailed and there shall be no more war funds. The war finance system shall cease and a regular budget system must be re-established. The first guiding principle is that there must be no more unproductive expenditures. Therefore a gradual abolition of non-employment grants must be faced. How are the full requirements for the empire, new states and communes which may be estimated at some 25,000,000,000 marks to be covered?" After citing the returns to the empire from taxation measures prior to and during the war and estimating the revenue to be derived from new tax bills, Herr Erzberger said: "There still remains a sum of over ten bilioln marke to be covered." "The Ministry of Finance has almost completed the drafting of two important bills levying new taxes which I intend to submit to the House j before the parliamentary recess" he continued. "These call for a large single levy on property and a large tax on business turnover, but even if these bills are passed, the money for the payment of indemnities must be obtained in some other way. In the autuumn new bills will be introduced in the national assembly with the final object of covering this deficit. Great Tax Burden. "The burdens of taxation will reach an absolutely terrible height. A floating debt of 72 billion marks is a constant danger and the removal of this debt is one. of our most urgent tasks. There are two ways in which to do It either Its conversion. Into a funded loan or its extinction by big levies and a heavy property tax. I do not indulge the hope that these two ways will Immediately yield the entire liquid amount of 72 billion marks. It is the duty of propertied people, not only to bow to a state of compulsion but to achieve an inward conviction as to the necessity of giving up all riches and all that is superfluous. "Changes in the system of taxation will be speedily submitted to the national assembly and this reform will represent the completion of the whole work." Herr Erzberger concluded by asking that taxation bills be disposed of before a recess is taken, adding: "The war takes our riches. The world has denied us international justice. All the more passionately and energetically, however, win we mark for the homeland again, and flourishing in justice, concentrate our care and endeavor upon the poor but just German." $22.80 NOW TOP PRICE FOR HOGS (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 9. Hog prices today reached another new top record, $22.80 a Kindred weight, an increase of 20 cents over yesterday's records. MOVEMENT OF GRAIN MAY BE RESTRICTED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 9. Appear ance of plant diseases in the grain crops of Indiana. Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia and Georgia has resulted in the issuance of a call for a meet ing at the department of agriculture of July 15 to consider the advisability of prohibiting or restricting the movement of wheat, oats and other 6mall grains from the states. A statement by the federal agricultural board today said flag-smut existed in the wheat fields of Illinois and flag-smut and the "take all" disease in Indiana. The colworm which affects wheat, oats, rye and 6pelt is prevalent in Virginia, West Virginia and Georgia. Centerville Elevator Is Repaired For New Wheat CENTERVILLE, Ind.. July 8. Repairs on the elevator recently taken by the Farmers' Grain and Supply Co.,

to I are nearing completion, and it is now

one of the best elevators in Indiana: The large bins are built to hold 25,000 bushels of wheat and are arranged in the most convenient way. Wheat will be received next week. Much complaint in this community of wheat being only partly filled, the upper part of the head having been damaged by the cold weather, is heard. However, there will be an abundance of straw on every farm so the farmers can fill up their straw beds. GOLD SHIPPED TO SPAIN (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 9. Gold to the amount of $3,675,000 has been withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment of Spain, it was announced to day.

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Donna Anna Latltla Peccl. The engagement of Donna Anna Latitia Pecci, daughter of Count and Countess Camillo Pecci of Rome, Italy, to Cecil Charles Blunt of New York, 6on by a former marriage of the Countess of Montmorenci of Paris, has just been announced. Mile. Pecci is a member of one of Rome's oldest families. She is at present in Paris, visiting the Marquise de Talleyrand Perigord, who is an aunt of the Duke of Montmorency. PROTEST MADE AGAINST SERB TROOP ACTION Montenegrins Charge Villages Are Shelled and Women and Children Killed. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Tuesday, July 8. The Montenegrin government has addressed a new note to the peace conference, protesting against alleged excesses by Serbian troops in Montenegro. The note says that certain villages were attacked by a force of 5,000 Serbs, which was equipped with cannon, and houses were demolished and women and children killed. The council of five, having been advised that Bela Kun, the head of the Hungarian communist government proposes to sell a large amount of securities he holds, has under consideration a note to him disapproving his plan. If it sends a note to Bela Kun, the council probably will send a note also to all nations advising their nationals not to purchase the securities offered by the Hungarians. Delegates Delayed The council, it is said, feels that it Is to the best interest of the allies and Hungary that the securities be kept within Hungary. Transportation difficulties have resulted in a further delay of the German plenipotentiaries designated to come to Versailles for the oral discussions regarding execution of the reparations and other features of the peace treaty which the allied powers recently signified their willingness to enter into. It developed today that the Germans would not reach Versailles in time to begin the negotiations tomorrow as had been expected. Gompers To Attempt To Settle Overland Strike (By Associated Press) TOLEDO, O., July 9 In an effort to devise means of bringing capital and labor together the West Toledo Commerce club, an organization of business men in the district of the 1 Willys-Overland company here sent : a telegram today to Samuel Gomp- i ers, president of the American fed-! eration of labor asking him to come here and confer with John N. Willys, president of the Willys-Overland auto plant. It is proposed to hold the conference in a public hall and present it in the form of a debate in which other labor men and capitalists are to participate. The action was taken to settle labor disputes that have been prevailing here for the last several weeks and which resulted recently in suspension of work at the Overland plant. LAND WILL SHOWS $110,000 ESTATE Provisions of the will of the late Emaline Land were made a part of the records of the county when the will was filed for probate Wednesday. The estate, which is valued At $110,000, is distributed equally among the four children of Mrs. Land, or J their families.

Mass of Work Greets President on His Return to Washington Will Address Senate on Thursday.

DELAYS LEAGUE TRIP (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 8 President Wilson returned to his desk today after an absence of four months at the peace conference to find such a mass of official business that it probably will be two weeka before he can start on his tour of the country speaking for the peace treaty and the league or nationB. Plans for the trip have not yet been completed but it was said at the white house that the president probably would so time his schedule as to reach the Pacific coast at the time of the arrival there of the newly created Pacific fleet, which Is to start from Hampton Roads for San Francisco about the middle of this month. Speech Is Completed The president found that everything had been arranged so practically every minute of his time would be taken up and rapid progress in clearing up routine made possible. The speech he plans to deliver before the senave Thursday was completed before he landed at New York yesterdav from the George Washington and the chief matter in connection with the league of nations discussed today was the proposed speech-making tour over the country. The itinerary of the trip has not yet been completed. The return of the president and his party to the capitol last night was marked by one of the greatest demonstrations in point of the number of those participating that ever greeted a president on his return from a trip. District officials familiar with the handling of big crowds estimated that the throng that greeted the president's party at the union station and along Pennsylvania avenue at fully 100,000. me ceremonies of welcome were brief. Responding to an address of welcome from the bead of a committee of district citizens, Mr. Wilson said he - came - home confident that the people of the United States were for the league of nations. The unexpected welcome he said, was particularly pleasing because he felt It was "immediate assurance" of his feeling. It was after midnight when Mr. and Mrs. Wilson reached the white house from which they had been absent more than four months. (J. S. STARTS DRIVE ON PER CENT BEER (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH. July 9. The goveminent drive against the sale of beer containing 2 per cent alcohol was launched here today when United States Attorney R. L. Crawford filed a suit against the Pittsburgh Brewing company, one of the city's largest breweries, in the United States district court this noon, charging violation of the war-time prohibition law. LABOR WANTS ALL NATIONS IN LEAGUE (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 9. A demand that all the nations of the world be made eligible to the league of nations was expressed in a resolution unanimously adopted here today at the first annual congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor by delegates from ten countries, including the United States. PROHIBITIONIST TO SPEAK HERE TONIGHT Clinton Howard, prohibition speaker, will lecture at the Grace M. E. church, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. which is now conducting a national drive for child welfare, Americanization and world prohibition. Howard has been highly praised by Billy Sunday. The Victory quartet will furnish special music. EVIDENCE FURNISHED AGAINST UNDERHILL LIBERTY, July 9. Prosecuting Attorney Gath Freeman, of Wayne county, will complete the state's evidence in the case of Alfred Underbill, on trial here for a statutory charge today. The state has presented more than thirty witnesses including the mother and sister of Elsie Rex, who testified that they saw Underhill have improper relations with the girl, who is feeble minded. The defense will begin the presentation of its testimony Thursday, and has called about thirty-five witnesses in Underbill's behalf. The case will be furnished this week, attorneys say. JOHN FOX, NOVELIST, DEAD (By Associated Preset KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. July 9. John Fox, Jr.. novelist, died last night v