Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 250, 2 August 1919 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIXABIUM VOL XLIV NO 250 Palladium. Est. 18S1. Consolidated vvjjj. AJ-il v ., iv kj. &ov wlt sun-Teleirram HOT. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 2, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS RAIL POLICY DECISION TO BE HASTENED IN CONGRESS HUNGARIANS H. C. L. GIVES CONGRESS NO REST; STATES JOIN IN FIGHT Life Not All Monotonous Grind for American Doughboy in France; Scene is at Annecy, Where Every Afternoon Tea is Served to Thousands Takes Prefix to Name By License of King WE PEACE OFFER; BELA CUM IS OUT 5 v w kji, '

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to Force Action Tentative Bill Will Be Ready This Month. SITUATION IS GRAVE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Senator Cummins, chairman of the senate Interstate commerce committee and other members of that body believe the demands made by railroad employes for increased wages to meet the high cost of living will hasten action by congress on legislation establishing a national policy with respect to the railroads. Both the senate and house committees have been working on such legislation for some time and presentation of a tentative bill this month Is expected. Chairman Cummins and other members of the commerce committee met Informally today to discuss the railroad situation but no decision was reached. It was said that all of the senators were Impressed with the gravity of the situation. Predict Strike Spread. CHICAGO, Aug. 2. Local leaders of the Federated Railway Shopmen's union today predicted that the strike which started yesterday would spread end become the nation-wide move ment that It was expected to be when It was called. Early today the strike was for the most part confined to points in the midle west and southeast, with some craftsmen out at points outside these generally de scribed sections. In the middle west, chiefly in the Chicago district, some 30.000 men were reported out, with a like number In the south and southeast sections. They demand a wage increase from the present scale of 68 cents an hour to 85 cents, with 60 cents an hout for helpers, and that the increase be effective from Jan. 1, 1919. "Every railroad system in the country will be affected by night," John D. Saunders, secretary of the council, directing the Chicago strike situation, said. "The strike was ordered as a protest against the many delays in meeting our demands. Negotiations In Washington have been without avail. We will make a clean sweep of every road in the country." It is asserted the men on strike acted against the instructions of the International officers who are in conference in Washington with railroad administration officials and who are expected to settle the strike, under an agreement that had already been reached between Director-General Hlnes and the union representatives. South Ninth Street Paving Joh Hears Finish Rapidly The paving of South Ninth street with concrete is rapidly nearing completion. Officials of the C. M. Kirkpatrick company, the contractors, say that they hope to complete the work within the next six weeks, and that they expect to reach the city limits by ! August 16. The street Inside the city limits will be ready for traffic soon after that date. The work of laying the concrete is moving rapidly, about 150 feet of roadway being finished each day. The company employs about fifty men on this particular job. Rains Help Richmond Gardens, Says Wesler Richmond gardens are steadily improving, according to F. W. Wesler, local garden supervisor. Aided by the recent heavy rains and by ideal growing weather the gardens have been growing by leaps and bounds, and are expected vastly to repay their ana teur tenders. Gardens thru-out the state are re ported to be in fine condition, but, altho no statistics have been compiled. Wesler feels sure that Richmond will rank high as to number and quality of gardens. As large as the number of gardens in Richmond is, Wesler says the number ought to be doubled. The more produce you grow for your own the harder you hit old H. C. L. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight, Sunday fair and warmer. Today's Temperature Noon "2 Yesterday Maximum 80 Minimum 65 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cool tonight. Sunday fair and warmer. Warm wave within 36 hours. General Conditions The cool wave has spread southward until it effects all but the gulf states. The warm wave over the west is moving eastward and is expected to arrive within 86 hours although continued cool tonight. This morning was the coolest for several weeks. Temperatures will probably go to 90 or above when the warm wave arrives. Heavy rains over the eastern states due to two storms, one central over Quebec and the other over New Jersey.

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foot of the Alps. NEGROES START FIRE, DECLARE CHICAGO POLICE Three Thousand Homeless Property Loss is $200,000 Three Persons Missing. (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 2. An incendiary fire which the police declare was started by negroes early today swept through the district bounded by West 43rd. West 45th, South Lincoln! street and South Harlstate avenue, j destroying 100 homes of Polish ..andj Lithuanian employes of the stock j yards, and causing a propert y loss of j more than $200,000. Three persona are missing and a score were injured in the conflagration. Three thousand men, women and children have been rendered homeless , by the fire and the bad feeling be tween the whites and negroes greatly aggravated. State troops were sent tothe scene of the fire to disperse the crowds and prevent a renewal of race riots. Say Negroes Used Torch. A number of witnesses have been found by the police who say they saw several automobiles of negroes with burning torches in the district shortly before the fire was discovered. The Are broke out in three sections ovf the district at the same time. Telephone wires in the district were cut a few moments after the blaze broke out. The situation iu other sections of the danger zone of the south side was recorded satisfactory to the authorities, although there were a number of minor disturbances. FRENCH TO RECOVER LOST NAVY TONNAGE (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 2 The peace commission of the chamber of deputies which by a vote of 34 to 1 yesterday recommended "to the chamber that the German peace treaty be ratified, before balloting listened to Georges Leygues, minister of marine. The minister stated that the efforts of the government tended toward the recovery of the entire tonnage lost by the French during the war and also the tonnage which the government had been unable to construct in the same period. Unfortunately, M. Leygues said, part of the guarantee disappeared at Scapa flow, but the sinking of the German fleet was a violation of the armistice and thus involved the responsibility of Germany, which might be called upon to answer with what ships remained or by the delivery of naval material. After recalling the magnificent role played by the French navy during the war and especially in the Mediterranean the minister said France could not rival England or the United States but must have a fleet assuring her naval position. The commission unanimously recognized that the peace treaty meant the disappearance of the German fleet. Former Premier Vivian! who presided, called upon the commission to vote on the treaty. Deputy Louis Marin, who later voted against acceptance of the treaty proposed four motions against it. One was rejected, the others postponed for discussion and the vote was taken. The report of former Premier Louis Barthou will be read next Tuesday. Nebraska Passes Suffrage; Is Fourteenth to Ratify (By Associated Press) LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 2. Nebraska today, ratified the federal woman suffrage amendment when the house by a vote of 94 to 0 passed the joint resolution providing ratification. The senate voted for ratification on Thursday of this week. Nebraska is the fourteenth state to ratify.

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Prominent Diplomats At Dinner Given For Polk (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 2 Frank L. Polk, undersecretary of state who arrived this week to take the place of Secretary Lansing, at the peace conference and Mrs. Polk were guests of honor last night at a dinner given by Hugh C. Wallace, the American ambassador and Mrs. Wallace. Among the guests were Stephen Pichon, French foreign minister and Madame Pichon; George S. Leygues, Minister of Marine and Madame Leygues; Signor Tittonl, Italian Minister of Foreign affairs and head of the Italian peace delegation and Signora Tittoni, and Arthur J. Balfour, British foreign secretary, Marshal Foch, Henry White and General Bliss. COUNTY WHEAT STILL HELD UP CAR FAMINE Thousands of Bushels Held in Elevators and Turned Back to Farm Granaries. Many thousand bushels of wheat are being held up at the grain elevators in Wayne county, and more thousands have been turned away because of the shortage of cars. In some places it has been impossible to get any cars at all, others being luckier. Elevator men say they see little relief soon. In Fountain City, 10,000 bushels are held up. No grain Is being re :eived and none has been for the past eight days. It has been impossible to get any cars there at all. Over 17,000 bushels of wheat are In storage at Centerville and no relief Is in sight. No grain has been taken at the elevator since Monday. 1 Cars at Milton. More success In getting cars has been experienced by Anderson & Son, who operate an elevator at Milton, Bentonville and Beeson's station than at any other elevators in the county. Anderson said Saturday that the elevator at Bentonville is Just about filled up. and probably will be closed in a day or two if no cars can be obtained. At Milton there are now sixteen cars on the Big Four siding waiting to be filled. Two cars were received this morning at Beeson's Station. The Richmond Roller Mills are suffering from the shortage also. There are about 40,000 bushels of wheat in store, but the grain is still being received. The Champion Roller Mills is almost filled up, it was stated this morning. About 35.000 bushels of wheat are in store. Officials of the mills said Saturday that the shortage is uncertain and it is not known when any relief will come. Austrian Ministry Will Not Resign (By Associated Press) BERNE. Swizterland, Aug. 2. The announcemet of the impending resignationof the Austrian ministry, received here from Vienna Thursday, was erroneous, it was developed. A mistake in the transmission of the dispatch from Vienna was responsible. Tthe message originated in Belgrade, it appears, and referred to the SerboCroatian ministry. The dispatch referred to In the foregoing was received In Berne from Vienna, July 31. It stated that the Austrian cabinet had decided to resign. A similar message reaching London via Berne said it had been semi-offlcially announced that the cabinet reached the decision to resign at a meeting held Tuesday.

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some imagine, as this official U. S by the side of Lake Annecy and at the ECONOMIC PLAN OF TREATY IS GIVEN SENATE German Concerns Can Only Purchase Through Reparations Committee. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Bernard M. Baruch, economic advisor to the American peace delegation told the foreign relations committee today that no purchase could be made in the United "States or elsewhere by German concerns except through the reparation commission to be put up under the treaty of Versailles. This provision was put in the treaty, Mr. Baruch sajd, so Germany could not evade any part of her indemnity obligations by sending money outside the country privately and thus reducing her industrial resources "to a mere shell." F. W. Taussig, who advised the American delegates in customs provisions, was questioned by the commits tee as to the part the American delegates had in framing the economic program included in the treaty. He said that "in some respects" the Americans exercised a greater influence than any other group because they were frequently called upon to arbitrate the proposals of the other nations. He declared there was no foundation for the suggestion that the British delegates had "dominated" the financial decisions of the conference. Consider Reduction of Currency in Circulation (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Without a record vote the senate today adopted a resolution requesting the banking committee to report whether legisla tion to reduce the amount of currency In circulation was advisable as a means of reducing the cost of living. The resolution which was sponsored by Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana, had been under debate for two days. Wounded Soldiers to Get Honor Certificate (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. A special certificate to be issued to soldiers wounded in the war with Germany has been a proved by the war department. It will bear at the top the top the legend, "Columbia gives to her sons the accolade of new chivalry of humanity," and below the name, rank and unit of the soldier and the action in which he was wounded. Surplus Seaplanes To Be Auctioned By Navy (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Sportsmen and business concerns interested in aviation will be given an opportunity to acquire seaplanes at low prices when the Navy department sells 365 machines at auction in the near future. Secretary Daniels has authorized the sale of the seaplanes at public auction to the highest bidders. High speed machines of large carrying capacity will adapted to commercial purposes will be included in the sale along with faster and smaller machines. The department will later issue complete details regarding the sale. Seaplanes are already being operated commercially between New York and Atlantic City, San Pedro and Santa Catalina, Key West and Havana and Chicago and Milwaukee and the projected sale is expected to provide machines for similar ventures. The planes are in good condition but must be sold because the navy has Insufficient personnel to keep them in proper condition and because of an oversupply.

New Socialist Government

Controlled by Trade Unions is Established in Budapest Peidll Heads Cabinet. SOVIET VANQUISHED (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Aug. 2. Overtures for peace with the allies have been made by the new Socialist government of Hungary, which has been set up in succession to the Bela Kun regime. Bela Kun, who resigned his virtual dictatorship has been furnished a safe conduct by the allies and is expected to seek refuge here, as it is felt that his life would be endangered if he remained in Budapest. The peace overtures were made by Jacob Waltner, president of the soldiers and workers' soviet of Hungary. Arriving In Vienna from Budapest, Herr Waltner asked Colonel Cunningham, the leading representative of the allies at Vienna, and the other allied officials here to recognize the new government and to treat for peace. The new Hungarian cabinet is presided over by Jules Peidll, who was formerly minister of the people's welfare in the Count Karolyi cabinet. The cabinet contains provisionally many ; ministry. American Gets Credit. On receipt of news from the front that created consternation In Budapest, Bela Kun at a meting of the soviet Socialists, became pale of face and with his back to the wall, declared: "Very well; if you demand it, I must resign. I made the best flght I could." Captain Thomas C. Gregory, the United States food administrator in this region, is credited with a large share in the hastening of Bela Kun's retirement. Captain Gregory arranged last night for food relief from Budapest. He is bringing up suplies from the Banat region, and also sending them down the Danube from Austria. To Preserve Order. 4 ' " COPENHAGEN. ' Aug. XA dis patch from Budapest today announces that a purely socialistic government has been formed under the leadership of Herr Peidll. The new government has issued a manifesto, the advices add, declaring that its chief task will be to preserve international order and enter into negotiations with the entente. TRADES UNIONS CONTROL. LONDON, Aug. 2. A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Copenhagen says it is officially reported from Budapest that the government of Bela Kun has resigned. The trades unions have formed a so cialist government, the despatch adds. GERMANS ORGANIZE NEW JIOME GUARDS (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Wednesday, July 30 (By courier to Paris) The plan of Gustav Noske, the German secretary for military affairs to retain the home guards throughout Germany by transferring .them to the civil authorities and calling the guards "local police reserves" is going Into effect, according to informaUon reaching the American area of occupation. In connection with this procedure, the German newspapers are carrying advertisements which say that recruits for the home guards no longer are required to take an oath to defend the country against invasion. In American circles it is said that the abolition of this pledge obviously is a result of Nsoke's new plan for if some of the guards were bound by such an oath they would clearly be prohibited under the terms of article 177 of the peace treaty. An American army bulletin commenting on the change of the guard to police reserves says: "This 13 the first confession that such a pledge had been taken by the home guards. It confirms suspicion that the home guards were intended to be a great reserve army and Justifies further suspicion of the home guards under their new guise of civil police reserves." U. S. Not Only Arid Spot; Belgium Has Whisky Ban (By Associated Press) BRUSSELS, Friday, Aug. 1. The United States is not the only prohibition country, Belgium having followed suit so far as whiskey, gin and other highly alcoholic liquors are concerned. Soon after the armistice was signed I a law was passed forbidding the manufacture and sale of such beverages. The making of alcoholic drinks ceased almost Immediately but not much attention was paid to the rule so far as the selling of liquor in the larger places was concerned. The authorities recently confiscated big stocks the bars had on hand. While these stocks had been sold openly they are said to have been secretly acquired from soldiers and smugglers. The largest hotels now are unable to stir up a single drink other than light wine for thirsty American and British officers passing through the city.

Lady Montagu Lady Swaythling, wife of the head of the London banking firm of Samuel Montagu & Co., has been permitted to assume the name of Lady Montagu by royal license. Lady Montagu was attached to the British Red Cross during the latter part of the war. JEW POPULATION SLAUGHTERED BY UKRAINIAN ARMY Anti-Bolshevik Force Massacres Jews of Odessa, ays London Report. (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 2 Semi-official Polish sources have received reports that General Gregorieff'a troops which aae eccupying Odessa surrounded tne Jewish quarter and began a massacre which lasted three days and nights. Russian soldiers of Gregorieffs command, it is stated, carried out the massacre. The Jews of Ukraine and Bessarabia have proclaimed a mourn ing period of fourteen days. General Gregorieff entered Odessa early in the present month after severe fighting and at the time was quoted as saying that he was ready to join the allies in a combined attack on the Bolshevik! if the latter began an offensive on the Dnipstr rive-. an offensive on the Dnipster rive Cecil B. Harmsworth, British undersecretary for foreign affairs said in the house of commons on July 8 that General Gregorieff was stated to be strongly anti-Jewish in his sympathies. The under secretary made this declaration in announcing that many Jews had lost their lives in the course of the operations between the Russian soviet forces and those of General Gregorieff, who was in command of a Ukrainian anti- Bolshevik army. Scores of Families Made Homeless hy Chicago Fire (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 2 Scores of families were made homeless early today by half a dozen fires which broke out In a six-block area west of the stock yards and inhabited chiefly by foreigners. Squads of police sent to the fires, pronounced by firemen as of incendiary origin, found it impossible to control the crowds and several companies of militia were ordered to the quarter in which frame structures predominate. The presence of militia led to many rumors of renewal of the recent race disturbance and of incendiarism grow ing out of that trouble. Police officials, however, said that these were probably baseless. Hearings Begun On Bill For Court Martial Reform (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug, 2. Hearings on the bill of Senator Chamberlain, Democrat, of Oregon, providing for a reform in the present military court martial system were to begin today with Col. J. E. Runcie," formerly connected with West Point military academy as the principal witness. German Censorship On Mail Is Relaxed (By Associated Press) WEIMAR, Aug. 2 Mathias Erzberger, vice-premier and minister of finance, has issued a rule that the cen sorship shall only be applied to oc casional letters picked at random. This has been decided upon in order to facilitate the delivery of business letters going abroad. All personal letters may hereafter be sealed before mailing and few will be opened. Registered letters and packages will still be censored. Spanish Senate Votes To Join World League (By Associated Press) MADRID. Friday, Aug. 1 The Senate today voted a bill authorizing the government to join the league of naJ tlons. The vote was unanimous.

President Calls Session, Primarily to Consider Rail Strike But Living Situation Will Also be Considered.

MARYLAND IS RECRUIT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. With their proposed five weeks' recess abandoned at the request of President Wilson, who requested that they remain in session to consider a new labor crisis precipitated by the demands of railroad employes for Increased wages, members of the House today are about rearranging plans to meet the unexpected development. Although the formal request by the President was that the creation of a commission to determine all questions concerning the wages of railway men be considered, it generally is recognized that the real problem before the House will be that of the high cost of living on which the claims of the railway men are based and a lowering of which would be expected to solve the situation. It was expected that agreement would be reached today on a plan to permit members to go home under a three day continuous recess program, by their presence in the House to be assured when the administration plans for lowering living costs are presented, probably late next week. The vote to abandon the recess was not recorded and was almost unanimous. Representative Blanton, ' ' ' Texas, voiced the only oposition on the floor and this was due, he said, to the fact the railway brotherhoods are trying to "hold the country, for about the seventh time." Igoe Blocks Recess. In his message to the House President Wilson suggested that If the commission, as proposed Is created the act should make the deoislon of that body mandatory upon the rate making body and provide, when necessary, in- . creases in wages and tfie cosrof operating the railroads. His request was a new step in railroad legislation. Efforts to have the house recess for two weeks were blocked by Representative Igoe, Democrat, of Missouri, who refused unanimous consent for consideration of the recess resolution, until the house acted on his measure proposing an investigation of the high cost of shoes. After a meeting of the House steer T J' f""1,1 f ?e11 Prepared a resolution providing ing committee. Republican leader Monfor meeting of the house on Tuesday and Friday "until further notice" with no business except routine to be in order on session days. Speaker Gillett today made public a letter he sent to President Wilson in response to the request that the five weeks' recess be abandoned. The speaker expressed regret that the President did not make his decision sooner because a change "will .now interfere with many perfected plans." As to railroad legislation," wrote the speaker, "I supposed by act of congress you had now full authority and one of the reasons of our recess was that the committee of the House might, uninterrupted by the business of the House, prepare the legislation which wil be necessary when your authority ceases." STATES PLEDGE CO-OPERATION COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 2 Ohio and Michigan have pledged co-operation in the food price Investigations which have been launched in both states. Attorney General John G. Price of Ohio, assistant attorneys general S. D. Pepper, and Clare Retan of Michigan at a conference here not only pledged this co-operation but expressed the hope that the entire group of central western states may be on hand in the Investigation It was announced today. The co-operation, is was stated by Ohio's attorney general and the Michigan representatives will consist chiefly in exchange of informaUon obtained by Grand Jury investigations and the like which may lead from one state to the other, also in the meth of conducUng the InvestigaUons and prosecutions if prosecutions are deemed necessary. "Michigan will gladly furnish Ohio with any information which may be of use In conducting investigations in her neighbor state," Colonel Pepper stated. Attorney General Price pledged co-operation on the part of Ohio. MARYLAND STARTS PROBE BALTIMORE, Aug. 2. Maryland and Baltimore public officials today began to take active steps to prosecute food profiteers. Attorney General Pltchie. will enforce the thirty day cold storage provision. He believes this will result in the public refusing to pay top prices for cold storage products, while In turn the imprisonment or fining of persons who sell such storage goods in violaUon of the law will aid the situation. The grand jury, of BalUmore city today took up the question of prosecuting profiteers, and a subcommittee was appointed to get to work immediately. The Governor said today that it was his decision to go the limit and to place all available funds at the disposal of a strong committee to probe the whole situation with a view of bringing out into the strong daylight the identity of persons guilty of holding and profiteering. Continued on Page Fifteen - N