Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 230, 10 July 1919 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIUM VOT. 3TTXV NO 230 Palladium, Est. 18S1. Co Consolidated RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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ALLIES SENT NOTICE THAT PEACE TERMS ARE RATIFIED

Document on Way to Versailles With Signature of President Ebert Prompt Action is Taken. GET OFFICIAL NOTICE (By Associated Press) BERLIN, July 10. President Ebert eigned the bill ratifying the peace treaty at 8 o'clock last night according to the Vorwaerta and the .document has been dispatched to Versailles. REPORT NOTIFICATION VERSAILLES, July 10. Official notification of the ratification of the peace treaty by the German national assembly was given the peace conference this morning. The notification was presented by , Baron Kurt von Lersner, head of the Oerman peace mission here. Colonel Henry, the French liaison officer at Versailles, was the recipient. The hour was eleven a. m. Colonel Henry Imediately conveyed the notification to the French foreign office. RATIFICATION QUICK WEIMAR, July 10. The German national asembly very plainly demonstrated yesterday that it wanted to complete the unpleasant task of rat lfylng the treaty quickly and without obscuring the measure in anyway with Qualifying resolutions. At the opening of the session the conservatives introduced a resolution j wVi1rV wrmlrl malrfi ratification denen-i " 1 dent upon the Judgment of recog-joI in international law nized authorities in as to whether the proposed interna-1 Tionai coun couiu iusululo mai auu could, with retroactive jurisdiction and authority Impose penalties which have not heretofore been prescribed In International law. The resolution was aimed at the enforcement of articles 227 and 230 inclusive of the peace treaty, (providing for the trial of the former emperor and other Germans accused of causing the war or of violations of the rules of war). It, alsa provided for the establishment of a neutral court to pass upon the question of responsibility for the conflict. Readings Held Quickly The bill ratifying the treaty, passed the first reading and then a recess was taken to give the parties an opportunity to discuss the resolution. After fifteen minutes the assembly reconvened and Dr. Schiller, national Liberal leader and former minister of finance stated that he regretted the Introduction of the resolution as it would only serve to confuse the situation. A clerical speaker said the time for reservations was passed. The con-

ror reservations was Peu c cuu- message rPceived here. Martha's Vineservatlves defended the resolution but jC":'aBC , t It was decisively boated. I yard is off the southern coast of MasThe treaty bill was then taken up 1 sachusetts. and qaickly pased second and third I readinga with the opposition coming! NEW YORK, July 10 The R-34 from democrats, national liberals and j was "going well"' at a speed of 49 conservatives. Ir. Bernhardt Der- j knots, according to three wireless mes-

burg. former minister of finance: ! Frledrich Von Payer, former Imperial vice chancellor and a few other democrats voted for ratification. TROOPS TO REMAIN WASHINGTON, July 10. President Wilson conferring with newspaper correspondents at the White house today Indicated that he was extremely gratified that the treaty of peace had been ratified so promptly by the German national assembly. The president also Indicated that he felt trade relations between Germany and the associated nations should be resumed at the earliest moment possible for without trade Germany could not meet the reparations demanded of her. It was made clear that the president frit troops should be maintained in Germany until the Germans complied with all the military terms of the treaty. It was pointed out that there were several million veteran soldiers in Germany and munitions sufficient for them to operate. Demobilization Uncertain. The Germans have from one to lour months in which to deliver all material except that sufficient for the reduced German army provided for in the peace treaty and the president believes American troops should stay on the Rhine tmtil the material is delivered. The president made It clear that the demobilization of the American army would depend upon the speed with which the military conditions of the peace treaty were executed by Germany and the treaty was ratified by the various committees. Hungarian Troops On Czech Front Withdrawn (By Associated Press) BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 10. Hungarian Bolshevik troops which were withdrawn from the Czechoslovak front on orders from the peace conference have attacked Rumanian forces on the Theiss river, according to reports from Transylvania, which say that the fighting continues. FURTHER IRISH INQUIRY DUBLIN, July 10. The proposed inquiry into the possibilities of federalism for the whole United Kingdom it is believed here, in well informed circles will be furthered by the government. It is said that such an inquiry would furnish a breathing space during which the Act suspending the Irish home rule bill would be further extended

Seven Men, Advisory Commission of Defense Council, Formed Secret Government of United States in War; Charge Made by Congressman

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centIv by charging that seven men. forming "a secret government of the United , .' , u ,.. ti, co-,,ar, mon nam or! fnnrl shnu-ii nhrvve) nrfi

the r0"imc nf national defense. Graham charges that the president organized the council in violation of the law anc that Jn addition to framing legislation and dictating policies it also befriended "big business." Grosvenor E.

TTI P.Ti T W. in TllirSIIH 111 lUt: ai. lUC CarkEonj director of the council, denies GIGANTIC BLIMP IS STARTED ON RETURN FLIGHT R-34 "Going Well" at Speed of 49 Knots an Hour, Wireless Reports. (By Associated Press) BOSTON, July 10. The R-34 wa3 reported 55 miles south of Martha's Vineyard island at 4 a. m.. in a radio eages received today by tne naval communications office. One of the messages flashed at 2 : 45 j a. m. read : "Everything O. K. 1 Bound for England." A second message received at 3 a. m. read: "Speed 49 knots. Going well. Everything O. K." Takes Air Last Night The third message caught at 3.45 a. m. said the dirigible was making such rapid progress that wireless signals sent her had become unreadable. This message read: "Signs unreadable due to rapid increase of distance and speed and atmosphere statics. Taking the air at 11:56 o'clock last night at Roosevelt field, Mineola. Long Island, the R-34 passed over New York City, circled over the Times building tower at 12:45. remaining in sight of j a dense Broadway crowd for five ; minutes before heading south over j lower Manhattan and disappeared in an easterly direction at i:jo a. m. For more than hour the naval com-1 munications office sent wireless re-1 ports of weather conditions at sea to the R-34 and the wireless stations 1 at the Mineola flying fields were in communication with her until nearly four a. m. when the R-34 radio operator requested that further weather re-j ports be sent from the Bar Harbor, Maine, radio station. Thousands see start Announcement by Major G. H. Scott, commander of the R-34 of his intensions to sail over the city was made in theatres and restaurants with the result that thousands of people crowded in Broadway tor a glimpse of the airship as she passed through the shafts of light shot skyward from scores of searchlights. She flew quite low over Broadway, not being much over 800 feet in the air and proceeding at low speed. News that the big dirigible had left Roosevelt field at Mineola spread rapidly throughout the greater city and while Broadway enenjoys the best view of the airship, she was plainly discernible from open spaces and tne roots ot Dunamgs throughout the lower sections of the citv. The gigantic Sparry gyroscope in Brooklyn ana searcnugnts wun penetrating power kept the big gas bag in view until she passed out of range. POPE'S PRELATES NAMED (By Associated Press) ROME, July 10. Pope Benedict has appointed as his own domestic prelates Monslgnors A. E. Manning of Toledo, Patrick J. MacDcnnell of Chicago, James J. Bennett of Aurora, 111., Clement Kalvege of Freeport, 111., and Ludnvie Arce Ruesta of Lima, Peru.

Dp. Hollis Godfrey, Samuel Gompers, Daniel Willard, Julius Rosenwald. Dr. F. H. Martin, Bernard Baruch and Howard E. Coffin.

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the charges for the members of the council.

Swift Descent In Rank For American Officers BREST, July 10.--Demotion of officers through the demobilization of the American expeditionary forces Is working -swift' changes'" In the rank held by some of them. A captain wearing four Bervlce stripes disembarked at Brest a few days ago. It was his second trip to France. At the pier he was met by a Lieutenlent-Colonel. They were introduced and chatted for a few minutes and then the LieutenlentColonel said: "Jones, why I knew your brother. He was a first class man at West Point when I was a plebe." "You did not know my brother," responded the Captain. You knew me. I was a first class man at West Point in 1903." "Imposible," retorted the Lieuteni-ant-Colonel. "Why, the manl knew is a Brigadier General." "That was I, two weeks ago," said the Captain. PENNSY QUAKER IN CONGRESS WANTS TO MEET NICHOLSON By W. R. POUNDSTONE WASHINGTON, D. C. July 10. Representative Thomas S. Butler, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, now serving his twelfth term as member of congress from the seventh district of Pennsylvania, says he has more desire to meet Timothy Nicholson, of Richmond, Ind., than any other person in the world. "I come of Quaker stock and Mr. Nicholson is recognized as the most prominent member of that church in America, "Representative Butler said. "I have often thought that some day I would go to Richmond for the sole purpose or meeting wr. rvicnoison. Although Representative Butler is of a line of Quakers extending back to the time of William Penn, he has j been the loyal friend and champion of the American navy throughout his long career in congress. Furthermore he is the father of "Fighting" Shedley D. Butler, a brigadier general in the United States Marine corps Recalls Rebuke Speaking of Timothy Nicholson Representative Butler laughingly recalls the rebuke Mr. Nicholson once administered to him for a statement in a speech in congress. "One time when Jim Watson was representing the sixth district of Indiana in the House I got up in the House and started to do some bragging about my district, the seventh Pensylvania. comprising Delaware and Chester counties. I said that more Quakers lived in that district than any other in America, but during the Civil War those two counties supplied over seven thousand men to the Union army," Representative Butler remarked. More "Singing Quakers" "A few days later I got a letter from ! Mr. Nicholson," Mr. Butler continued j "He said in his letter that I had misstated facts. He said that Jim Wat son represented a district w:hich had more Quakers in it than any other in the country. I took up the matter with the president of Haverford college. I told him Mr. Nicholson had got me into a corner and he would have to help me out." Finally the Haverford executive informed me that there were more 'singing' Quakers in the Sixth district of Indiana, but that there were more orthodox Quakers in my district. That was a pretty fair compromise, I thought."

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expenditures, startled congress reStates," dictated policies the govern- i mpmhers nf the nrivtcnrv rnmmf ssinn I ' 'J RICHMOND MUST CLEAN UP, WORKS BOARD DECIDES Violations of Ordinances to be Followed by Prosecution Property Owners Cause. War on untidy streets, alleys and lots, was started Thursday morning by the board of works, following a decision of council Monday night that Richmond must "clean up." Inspection of the the whole city made by the board Thursday, and the publication of advertisements calling attention to the stringent city ordinances on the subject, featured the start of the campaign. Both card3 and newspaper publicity will be used. Complaints have been made about housewives throwing paper in the alleys, which is contrary to the ordinance. Storekeepers are in the habit of sweeping all their trash to the street just after the street department has swept the street. This Is a direct violation of the ordinances. Persons must keep a box for trash and rubbish and one for garbage. The rubbish gatherers say that half of the ! trash is loose in the alleys and not put in boxes. Every Citizen Responsible. Every citizen is responsible for his own premises and must keep them clean. Garbage receptacles must be provided with a tight fitting lid so that the contents will be inaccessible to dogs, cats, and other animals, so that water and flies can be excluded, says the ordinances, the board calling par1 tlcular attention to this feature. The garbage receptacle which must be provided by every citizen, must be placed in a place easily accessible to the garbage gatherers of the city, and all wet garbage must be removed at the cost of the persons who allow It to accumulate. Garbage and trash receptacles must be placed so that they will not interfere with travel. Ashes, dirt, cinders, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin, tin cans, castings, and other non-combustible rubbish, may be placed in piles or heaps in alleys, near the outer edge, or in suitable receptacles on the premises. The police department will be instructed to pay particular attention to the trash ordinance violations. Many persons are careless about throwing small bits of paper on the streets. Trash boxes are placed on the streets and must be used. One of the many complaints registered at the council meetings was that persons allowed combustible trash that must be put into a receptacle, put on the pile of cans, non-combustible rubbish, etc. LINER AND ICEBERG COLLIDE; TWO DEAD (By Associated Press) ST. JOHNS, July 10. Two men were killed and two injured when the Allan liner, Grampian, Montreal for Liverpool, collided with an iceberg off Cape Race last night. The steamship with 750 passengers and a crew of 350, arrived here this morning for repairs.

20,000 TROOPS WILL MARCH IN VICTORY EVENT

All Allied Armies to Take Part in Victory Day Parade in Paris. (By Associated Press) PARIS, July 10. Twenty thousand ricked men representing all the allied armies, will parade from PorteMaillot to the Place De La Republic republique on Victory Day, July 14. How many millions will view the triumphal march of the victorious armies is a matter of conjecture. The parade will be formed at Porte-Maillot and will begin to move at 8:30 o'clock down the Avenue De La Grande Armee under the Arc de Triumphe to the Avenue des Champs Ulysses, the Place De La Concorde and along the Rue Royale; then down the boulevards Capucines Italians, Mont Martre, Poissonniere, Lions, St. Denis and St. Martin to the Place De La Republique. General Pershing and his staff will have a place on honor in the parade, riding immediately behind Marshal Foch. A squadron of republican guards will lead the procession, then come Marshal Foch and his staff; then General Pershing and the American generals; then Field Marshal Haig at the head of the Highlanders, Irish Fusileers and English troops. Gallant little Belgium will be represented next, by Generals- Guiliain and Leman, the hero of Liege. Gen eral Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, will be next in line. Contingents from Japan, Greece, Poland and Portugal, Serbia, Rumania, Siam and Czecho-Slovakia, consisting of one company and flag will march in the order named. Petain to Lead French Marshal Petain, with Generals DeCastelnau. Debeney and Berdoulat, military governor of Paris, will immediately precede the French detach ? ,s hm tjwenty-c rearing tne nagS Ot ments from twenty-one army corps. all the French regiments which have seen service during the war. The polytechnic schools from St. Cyr, Versailles, Fontainebleu and St. Maxinat will then file past. After the republican guards, firemen and French lumber men and woodsmen will march detachments of Colonial troops from Morroco, West Africa and Asia. Admiral Renarch will lead his heroic Marine fusilleers with Yser and "Dixmude" Inscribed on their banners. The guns of France will be a feature ot the parade one"""battery each of 75's, "the terror of the Boche": 105's and 165's, and the long range gun which fired upon Dunkirk. Americans Assembled The cavalry which since 1914 has suffered somewhat of an eclipse, will be represented by companies of Hussars, Dragoons and Cuirassiers. The tanks which were greatly instrumental in bringing the war to a successful conclusion, will bring up the rear of the procession, the baby Renaults I receding the medium type tank of 1917 and the monstrous engines of 1916. The American detachment is now assembling in Pershing Stadium. Every member of it has a citation and the regiment will worthily uphold the American tradition. Even Germany will be given a place in the victory parade. German flags captured from the enemy in the bitterest battles of 1918 in the memorable days of the Yser, the Maine, the Somme and Verdun will be car-! ried by the units which emerged victorious from these engagements. Under the Arc de Triumphe there is being constructed a huge catafalque with an empty coffin embodying the souls of the million and a half men Tho died In France. At this point the troops will come to attention, Marshals Foch and Petain, Generals Pershing, Guiliain and Diaz, Field Mai rhal Haig and other high officers will salute; the soldiers will present arms while the bugler trumpets "long live the dead." FOUNTAIN CITY MAN DIES OF APOPLEXY FOUNTAIN CITY; July 10 Emmor Hunt, 56 years old, did of apoplexy at his home here Thursday morning at 5 o'clock. His wife and father-in-law heard a noise in his room and when they reached him he was dead. Coroner Bond returned a verdict of death by apoplexy. Hunt, although not in very good health, had been able to be in the harvest field Wednesday, which no doubt caused death to occur sooner. He was a retired farmer. The surviving relatives are the widow, Emma, one son and one daughter. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Thunderstorms in extreme south portion this afternoon. Fair tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight. Today's Temperature Noon 82 Yesterday Maximum 93 Minimum 59 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Thundershowers probably this aft - ornoon or tonight. Considerably cooler tonight. Fair Friday and Saturday. General Conditions Showers and heavy local thunderstorms have occured during the last 24 hours over Indiana, the heaviest part of the rain being In southern portion of Wayne county. A cool wave covers southern Canada and will cause a drop in the temperatures in the next 36 hours, with strong southwest winds shifting to northwest by tonight,

"fled" Counterfeiters Are Found At Zurich

(By Associated Press) BERNE, Switzerland, Wednesday. July 9. Dr. Felix Calonder, former president and head of the political department of the Swiss government, speaking at a conference with the press on the league of nations today, said he was convinced that the nonadhesion of Switzerland to the league and her consequent political Isolation, would be a great error. "The league founded at Paris," he said, "is imperfect and should be amended, but nevertheless it constitutes a work that commands respect and has an appeal as tending to facilitate progress of humanity." FURTHER UNION WITH ALLIES IS URGED BY NITTI Italy's Foreign Policy Must be! That of People, Declares Premier. (By Associated Prss ROME. July 10. The supreme duty of the government, Premier Nitti said Wednesday addressing the House of Deputies, was the defense of liberty and order, without which Italy's position would be weakened, especially abroad where it had been impossible as yet to find a solution ! for the Adriatic ouesion. After re peating the government's program of foreign policy as outlined to the senate by Foreign Minister Tittoni, he added: "Our foreign policy must be the true policy of the people. The epoch of secrets the epoch in which nations entered into alliances or into war without the people's knowledge, has definitely ended for Italy." Premier Nitti announced that the army would be demobilized as soon as the international situation and internal order allowed. Signor Nitti deplored manifestations, "fortunately isolated," aiming to ow distrust between Italy and her allies. iAUfifl Urges Entente Union. "Some unpleasant incidents which have occurred at Flume and in some other cities have been exaggerated," the premier went on. "France and Italy have many virtues in common but also many defects, among which is that of being easily excited over small episodes. No. episode can alter 1 the relations between the two countries consecrated by blood shed together. Democratic France must realize that Italy trusts in her friendly co-operation for the development of her national program. "The hour is critical, perhaps the most critical in the history of Italy. But we have faith that Italy possesses the energies necessary not only to suppress the present difficulty, but to give this country the place it deserves in the world. We will win because it is necessary to win; because we must win. Revolution Suicide. "Whoever speaks of revolution in the present condition of production and exchange must be considered as an enemy of the people. If revolution is evil in countries having sufficient raw materials, it would be suicide in a country like Italy." Premier Nitti said that in the near future Italy would have a foreign debt ! of four billion dollars and an internal debt of about twelve billions or dollars, besides a paper circulation four times that of the days before the war, while the expenses for the civil services have trebled. BOARD OF WORKS PROTESTS AGAINST SALE OF TRUCK The board of works at its Thursday morning session, ordered the city clerk to write a letter to council in ! reply to council complaints agalns the large fire truck. The letter will say that the board feels it would be a loss to the city if the large hook and ladder truck should be sold, as council voted. Should the truck be sold and a smaller one bought, nothing would be gained and the city would lose money, Chief Miller said. He added that thf truck had not been any expense to the city since it was purchased, and a smaller truck purchased novtr would cost what the large one did, he said, and there is no place in the city that the truck cannot go. Chief Miller was instructed by the board to get estimates on the cost of electric starters for the trucks. Miller reported that a man who had recently been appointed to fill a vacancy in the. fire department had not appeared and the board appointed Harry Bradfield a member of the department Esperanto Advocated As Aid To U. S. Trade (By Associated Press MONTREAL. July 10. Delegates from all sections of North America are here today for the twelfth annual congress of the Esperantist associaI tion of North America, which will be I in session until Saturday. ! James F. Morton, Jr., of New York, secretary of the common commercial language committee, announced that the object of his committee was to introduce Esperanto as a common tongue to facilitate American and Canadian export trade. As a business men, he said, he had found the universal language of great practical value in Amsterdam, Paris and other European cities. Similar committees he said, were being formed in England, France, Switzerland, the Argen

tine and Japan.

WORLD LEAGUE NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN NEW ORDER-WILSON

Formation of Nation's Society Gives Peace Conferees Assurance of Permanence Declares President in Address. GIVES SENATE TREATY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON .T-v ic with Germ Wilson today laid the peace treaty out attempt to explain its specuo terms. His address, which required forty minutes for delivery, was devoted almost wholly to the league of nations. American Isolation, the president said, ended twenty years ago at the close of the war with Spain. Fear of American motives now also had ended, he declared. "There can be no question of our ceasing to be a world power," said the president, "The only question is whether we can refuse the moral leadership that is offered, whether we shall accept or reject the confidence of the world." The war and the peace conference, in his opinion, the president said, had already answered that question "and nothing but our mistaken action can alter it." People Demand Change After the end of the great war," the president said, "every enlightened judgment demanded that, at whatever cost of Independent action, every government that took thought for its people, or for justice, or for ordered freedom, should lend itself to a new purpose and utterly destroy the old order of international politics. Statesmen might see difficulties in accomplishing this purpose, the president continued, but the people could see none and could brook no denial. The League of Nations he added was "not merely an instrument to adjust rernedv old wrongs under a new treaty of peace, It was the only hope League Indispensable In presenting the treaty the president declared that "a league of free rations had become a practical neces sity, which framers of the treaty felt obliged to term "as an Indispensable instrumentality for the maintenance of the new order it has been their purpose to set up in their world." The most skeptical of the peace conferees at Paris, the president said, had turned more and more to the league as discussion progressed in seeking solution of the problems that arose In framing the terms of the treaty itself. "The fact that the covenant of the league was the first substantive part of the treaty to be worked out and agreed upon," the president said, while all else was in solution, helped to make the formulation of the rest easier." Assures Permanence. Mr. Wilson said the agreement to the covenant had given the conferees a feeling that their work was to be permanent and that the most practical among them "were at last the most ready to refer to the league of nations the superintendence of all Interests which did not admit of Immediate determination, of all administrative problems which were to require a continuing oversight," "What had seemed a council of perfection," said the president, "had come to seem a plain council of necessity. The league of nations was the practical stateman's hope of success In many of the most difficult things he was attempting." When the president entered the senate chamber, escorted by a committee of senators, the crowded galleries rose and cheered for a minute In disregard of the senate rules. The president mounting to the vice-president's 1 1 seat, spoke briefly with Vice-Presi-aent .Mars nan as tne cneenng continued, punctuated with "rebel" yells. Sees World Settlement. At the start of his address the president declared the treaty constitutes nothing less than a world settlement. He said it would not be possible for him to summarize or construe its manifold provisions in a limited address, and therefore he would attempt only a general characterization of Its scope and purpose. He asserted his services and all information he possessed were at the disposal of the senate committee on foreign relations at any time. Mr. Wilson said he would attempt to tell the senate the part it seemed necessary for him and his colleagues to play as representatives of the United States. "That part was dictated by the role America had played in the war and by the expectations that had been created in the minds of the people with whom we had associated ourselves in that great struggle," he said. Assurance of Liberty. After pointing out that the United States entered the war on a different footing than the European nations, the president asserted the only thing sought by this country in the settlement was "the right and assurance of liberty everywhere." How the arrival of American troops raised the morale of the nations fighting Germany and its allies was related by the president. Saying it was not the time to eulogize the army of America, Mr. Wilson paid a tribute to the soldiers and spoke of the pride they aroused in him. Speaking of the difficulties In the way of arriving at a setUement. President Wilson asserted old entanglements of every kind stood in the way and it was not easy to graft the new order of ideas on the old. "Some of the fruits of the grafting. Continued On Page Fifteen.