Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 254, 7 August 1919 — Page 1

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ADDRESS OF WILSON WILL REGARD ONLY H. C. L. FIGHT

Speech Before Congress Tomorrow Afternoon Will Not Deal With Railroad Prob lem, is Belief. PROBE IS BROADENED (By Associated Press) I WASHINGTON. Aug. 7-Presldent KvUson's address to congress tomortow will be confined to matters peralnlnar directly to the high coat of living la the toilet of White House iofnclals. Secretary Tumulty Bald today "he thought It unlikely that he President would take up at this time Iturther Questions of railroad wages and rates. i The President was informed today fcy Speaker Gillett that the house tamnM "ha clad to have a Joint sesfelon for tomorrow at 4 o'clock, to receive his recommendations." Republican Leader Mondell urged the President yesterday to posipuuu his appearance until next xuesaay. CommltUa Summoned. . Members of the subcommittee apJolnted by Attorney-General Palmer to annirn rrtrTnmndatlons for measures to reduce the high cost of living were eummoned to the "White Ilouso today fcy President "Wilson. Efforts were made by Secretary TuWmiHv to rach Julius H. Barnes, di rector of the grain corporation, but it was understood that Mr. Barnes had returned to New York. It was assumed that the president desired to discuss witn me comnmiee n mAMine-A to ooneresa tomorrow, emrbodying recommendations designed to (afford Bome measures of relief from -present conditions. POST LIMIT INCREASED "WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Authority to increase temporarily the parcel post weight limit to 125 pounds so that buyers of army food may take full advantage of opportunity to purchase through postmasters and letter car riers was granted the postmaster gen eral today by the Interstate commerce commission. . It also was announced that during the sale buyers might place several orders at the same time without paying the initial postage charge of five cents a pound more than once. The orders must be in writing and in duplicate and the cost plus postage will be collected with them. They will te filled in the order received. G. & 0. PASSENGER TRAINS STILL RUN; NO GENERAL STRIKE Passenger Bervice on the C. & O. (railroad of Indiana is still being mainitained, according to information given out by employes In the ticket office !of the company's station here Thursday. I Officials of the company say that Ithey have no knowledge of any orders (to stop passenger traffic on the Injdiana branch of the road, although they have been expecting the order for (the last two days. , Freight traffic on the C. & O. is .completely suspended, and the freight tyards at Boston are practically idle. The local freight office is still open, ;but no shipments are being accepted under any conditions. Employes of the Pennsylvania railroad at the local shops are still at work, and as far as could be learned today, were not decided to strike. ' Local shop workers received word today, however, that the employes at the Xenla, Ohio, shops had walked out and that other shops along the line probably would strike within the next day or two. Local Strikes; Not General According to local shop workers, there is little probability of a general strike. Instead, they claim that branches of the various trades unions are walking out in different localities, and that pressure is gradually being brought to bear on the whole system in the United States. I am practically certain, one of the men employed at the Pennsylvania shops said today, "that there will be no general strike. Many locals are calling their men out, and this will in time, bring sufficient pressure on the road officials to cause them to meet our demands. Tying up the railroads of the country is too big a Job for one man to undertake, and the present way has proved most effective." TWENTY DROWN IN SHIP COLLISION (By Associated Press) HALIFAX. N. F-. Aug. 7. Twenty persons are believed to have lost their lives when the schooner Gallia was sunk last night in a collision with the British steamer Warwltch. The schooner Is reported to have carried a crew 'of at least 15 and possibly a dozen passengers and only seven survivors 'are named in wireless messages from tho Bteamer. The collision occurred close to St. Pierre and is supposed to have been due to the heavy fog which ihaa prevailed In that locality for some daya.

Here's How They Solve High Cost of living Problem in Cincinnati; Farmers Forming Street Markets to Sell Directly to Consumers

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The belief is current in Cincinnati that one of the primary causes of the high cost of living is the large number of middlemen, each of whom must make his profit on the goods that pass through his hands. Accordingly the farmers and consumers have been invited to meet at an open market in the streets of Cincinnati and deal directly with each

other. It is reported that thi3 method CITY HAS SUPPLY OF NECESSITIES, DESPITE STRIKES If Hoarders Will Keep Hands Off, Food May Last Through Rail Troubles. Provided Richmond people keep their heads and do not attempt to hoard there is enough food and other necessities In the city to last for sometime In the event of a strike, which would tie-up railroads In and out of the city a survey indicated Thursday Sugar is the only necessity which is ehort. There-is almost absolutely hone of this in the wholesale groceries and very little in the hands of retailers of the city. One or two groceries reportea tnat tney were snort of canned goods, especially fruits, but with this exception, the food supply of the city is evenly distributed, and will last of citizens are content to share. The three wholesale groceries reported that on most necessities they are fairly well stocked, and that they can supply their usual demands for perhaps two weeks, without any outbide source of supply. Fruits Will Last Fresh fruits, potatoes, and other fresh produce sent In from outside the city is sufficient to last for several days. If the outside supply were to be cut off entirely there would not be much deprivation, as the county's farms are just beginning to send in corn and other produce. By the aid of motor trucks the city could be fairly well supplied with local fruits and vegetables. Watermelons, bananas, canteloupes, and peaches are the foreign fruits which might be cut off. The city does not make enough ice to supply the demand, and in case a car ot ice. now being shipped daily to j one or the local Ice companies, is cut off, the city may have to go on short rations of this necessity. However, there is enough for everyone, if the rations should be shortened. Gasoline, necessary for truck aDd pleasure car transportation, lubricating oils, and kerosene, would last tea days to two weeks without any outside source of supply. Pleasure car3 may have to be laid up, but an adequate supply is assured for all necessary gas transportation. HOARDING RUMOR UNJUST, STATEMENT OF WHOLESALERS Wholesale grocers of Richmond Thursday complained that an injustice was being done them in starting of an investigation by the prosecutor, and the publication in newspapers of rumors of an alleged case of sugar profiteering by a wholesaler. The prosecutor Thursday morning had not made any progress in finding a baso for the rumor, investigation of which he started Wednesday. One of the men who made remarks upon which the complaint was baed was in Connersville, it was said. The wholesalers' protest follows: "In your article in the issue of August Clh headed "Hoarding Probe Is Made Here" an injustice has been done to the undersigned wholesale grocers which should be corected. "We have not been hoarding sugar, and what sugar refiners have been able to ship us has been distributed as equally as possible through the retail tjade in this territory, and at prices la effect before the article became scarce, as there has been no change in refiners' price so far." John W. Grubbs Co., I. R. Howard & Co., The Wj H. Hood Co

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works Forty-Six Vessels Delivered To Board (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Forty six vessels aggregating 163,255 gross tons, were delivered to the shipping board during the week ending Aug. 1, it was announced today. This brought the total number of vessels delivered to 1,182, representing more than 4,342,000 gross tons. Of the forty-six vessels, 25 were of eteel construction, aggregating 119,355 gross tons; 18 were wooden craft aggregating 41,667 tons, and three were of the composite type. STORAGE FIFTH ;tock HER THAN IN 1918 Food Held in Speculation for World Demand, Says Federal Report. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Although prices of practically all important foods have shown a substantial increase during the last year, stocks of food held in storage on June 1, thi3 year were approximately 20 percent, greater than those held on June 1, 1918, according to a memorandum showing the relation between storage figures and prices issued today by the federal trade .commission. Government stock3 were excluded from the comparison. "The fact that stocks of many important foods were much larger on June 1 thi3 year than on the same date last year," said the commission's statement, "while prices were as high or higher apparently means that they are being withheld speculatively forj a world dc-mand whicn is not now here but which is expected when hun ger, impelled strikes tecare higher wagps with which higher food prices can be paid." Staple Foods Increase To show that the "law of supply and demand Is not working" the commission listed eight staple foods which on June 1, showed an Increase in stocks withheld from the market ranging from 3 to 298 percent, over stocks on June 1. 191S, and in each instance there was shown to have been a substantial advance in the wholesale price during that period. Stocks of frozen fowls showed a maximum increase of 298 percent and the price despite this fact increased three cents a pound. Wheat stocks showed an increase of 174 percent, with an increase in price of 31 cents; flour stocks an Increase of 21 percent, with an increase in the price per barrel of nearly three dollars; egg stocks at Increase of 9.8 percent, with an increase of 129 percent, with the price soaring 12 cent3 above last year's figures. Salt beef, canned salmon, and canned corn completed the items in this table, tho latter showing an increase of 91 percent, in stocks with an increase in prU;e. All dry storage stocks, according to the commission's figures showed an average of 124 percent. Of these not listed In the above table stocks of rye increased 346 percent.; barley 207 percent,; buckwheat flour 327 percent, and canned tomatoes 202 percent. Increases in other cold storage stocks were shown as follows: Cured beef 103 percent; frozen lamb and mutton 91 percent.; frozen port 20 percent and pickled pork 10 percent. Cargo Of Supplies Starts For Germany (By Associated Press) PHI LAD ELPHLV, Aug. 7. The American steamer Thala, sailed today for Hamburg with the first cargo from Philadelphia consigned direct to a German port since the war. Most of the cargo of 6,000 tons consisted of packages of food, clothing and toilet articles sent by individuals to relatives and friends in Germany. Captain Thompson was in command of the Thala.

PEIDLL CABINET

1ST; ROYALISTS SEIZE CONTROL Ministery Headed by Archduke Joseph is Reported Formed in Budapest. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 7. The peace conference was advised today that the Hungarian cabinet headed by Jules Peidil had been overthrown and that Archduke Joseph had established a ministry in Budapest. Advices to the conference stated that JLwaaBian. forces hai-erofsed th3 Danube into the business section of Budapest and were seizing supplies, preparing to ship them to Rumania. The Social Democrats of Hungary still hope that the allied and associated governments will not tolerate eith er Roumanian control of the country or that of a government by the reac tionary grand dukes, dispatches reaching the conference from Budapest state. Accounts of the Roumanian proceeding report that they notified the Hungarians yesterday that because the terms of the armistice laid down in the Roumanian ultimatum had not been accepted the Roumanians would cross the Danube immediately, later carrying out their tlyeat. The acts charged against tho Roumanians in the advices of the conference are assaults upon inoffensive persons and forced entrance into houses everywhere in Budapest under the pretext of searching for arms. The Rumanian army is reported living on the country, seizing the food it wants, while livestock, farming implements, rolling stock and food are being sent to Rumania, although Budapest is on the verge of starvation. Institute Blockade. The Roumanians, the advices add, have instituted a blockade one feature of which has been the destruction of portions of the railways between Budapest and Vienna. The messages to the conferences regarding the cabinet stated that at 6:30 p. m. yesteiday the members of the Social Democrat government, while they were in session at the national palace, were arrested by the Hungarian police. The coup d'etat was carried out without disorder. FOOD SUPPLY SEIZED BERLIN, Aug. 7 It is expected that the entente powers will demand the surrender of Bela Kun and other Hungarian soviet leaders by the Austrian government, according to dispatches received here from Vienna. It is said that it is probable Austria will be asked to hand them over to the new Hungarian government when it is finally constituted. At a meeting or the Vienna workmen's council, President Karl Seitz of the German Austrian national assembly, stated that Austria will be open as an asylum to fleeing members of the Hungarian soviet regime. The food situation in Budapest has become critical because the most productive food territories in Hungary have been cut off from the capital by the Rumanian advance, according to advices received here. Peasants are reported to be hunting down communists who have fled to the country from Budapest, it being alleged that they are being incited in this work by the Rumanians. Moving courts are touring the provinces and trying communists. An appeal has been posted all over Hungary calling upon reasants to arrest communists who are charged with murder and not to permit them to reach Austria, where they will be sheltered. The Peidil cabinet is still functioningfi but under the circumstances it is said it can do but little. It is etlll hoped, according to report, that a coalition of socialists and the bourgeoise can be formed but royalist elements under the leadership of former Prem ier Michael Karolyi, are , growing stronger and there are Increasing demands for the reinstatement of the old regime, it Is said.

GOVERNMENT'S

CASE AGAINST PACKERS WILL COME UP SOON Criminal Prosecution to be In stigated Before Federal Grand Jury in Chicago in Three Weeks. MANY CHARGES MADE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, August 7. The government's case against the five big packers will be placed before the federal grand Jury which meets at Chicago three week3 hence. This means that criminal prosecution will be instituted. Charles F. Clyne, federal district attorney at Chicago, said that besides asking indictment under the criminal section of the Sherman anti-trust law, civil suits would be brought under that statute and that in addition the packers would be prosecuted under the food control act on charges of hoarding. Mr. Clyne has been in Washington for several days conferring with Attorney Palmar and George R. Williams who prosecuted the oil trust cases. The three officials have been sifting the evidence gathered against the packers by the federal trade commission. 400 Different Branches. Four hundred different branches of the industry as conducted by the packers, Mr. Clyne said, are being dealt with by the department of justice. The suits against the five great meat packing concerns are being brought by direction of President Wilson as one of the first results of his study of the cost of living problem. It became known today that the president came to his decision after a careful study of the Investigations of the Federal Trade commission and the hearings before congressional committees considering bills to control the packing industry. Conferences with members of the Federal commission and Attorney General Palmer followed. The announcement by the attorney-general that the suits would be brought was the Immediate result. Cover Twelve Markets

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tfie" government's evidence is said to indicate, are covered by the packers' division of purchase arrangement. While fluctuations are shown in the Individual markets, indicating competition in buying, the government's experts have reported that a consideration of the dealings for a year shows each of the five big packers has received the percentage of supply, which the Federal Trade commission charges them with agreeing upon. Each of the big packers the government's investigators have reported. maintain relative percerjages fairly constantly from week to week, more constantly from month to month and almost exactly from year to year. On a demonstration of these charges as a fact, Attorney-General Palmer is expected to rely in the main to prove the contention that the "big five" maintain an agreement which dominates the purchase of cattle. WAYNE LEGION. TO SELECT NAME AT MEETING AUG. 25 Members of the Wayne county Post, American Legion, will be asked to select a name for the post at the next meeting of the organization, which will be held on August 5. according to announcement made Thursday by Frank Strayer. head of the county organization. The name for the legion will be chosen from a selected list of the names presented by citizens of the county, in The Palladium contest. In ordr to facilitate the choosing of a name, Strayer has appointed a committee of five men from the membership of the legion who will select the names from the list submitted, which the committee thinks will be most appropriate for the post, and then the entire organization will vote on these names at the meeting to be held in August. Captain George R. Hunt, M. C, Lieut. Joseph Connor, U. S. N., and Leo Weiss, of Richmond, Don Wright, of Cambridge City, and Frank Brandt, of Hagerstown, have been named as members of the committee to select the names to be submitted at the next meeting. The committee will be given a complete list of the suggestions made, immediately after the close of the contest on August 18, and will make their selections from this list. Every discharged soldier in the county is urged to attend the meeting to be held on August 5, as the officers of the organization are desirous that every member have a part in selecting the name for the post. The meeting will be held in the circuit court room of the court house. Transcontinental Wedding Performed By 'Phone (By Associated Press) DENVER, CoTo., Aug. 8. A transcontinental marriage was performed yesterday by long distance telephone when Mrs. Marie J. West, in Denver, was wedded to James A. Home, a Denver inventor, in New York. The Rev. O. Elizabeth Anderson officiated here. When time came for the presentation of the ring, a friend who had acted as the best man became the proxy bridegroom, placing the ring

Predicts Wireless Messages to Planets

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SIR OLIVER LODGE Sir Oliver Lodge, the noted Eng llsh scientist, states his belief that the earth will soon be in communication with other planets by wireless. Projection of a stream of electrons across the spaces of infinity through employing the vacuum relay, and utilizing ultra-violet, or the X-ray, are suggestions which he makes. WILLING TO TRY NATIONS LEAGUE STATESJELLOGG Can be Ratified With Reservations Without Requiring Resubmission, Holds. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 Provisions of the League of Nations covenant imposing obligations on congress do not violate the American constitution and the covenant can be ratified with interpretive reservations without requir ing resubmission to the other nations. in the opinion of Senator Kellogg, Republican, Minnesota, expressed in a legal argument in the Senate today dealing with the treaty making power. Senator Kellogg said he was "willing to try" the lea-gue though he did not believe it would permanently p redealing with the Monroe doctrine, do mestic questions, and the power ot congress to decide questions of peace or war. Citing the alliance of 1773 with France the Jay treaty of 1794 and many other obligations entered into by the United States, the speaker said there was ample precedent for various guarantees in the covenant which have been objected to on the ground of constitutionality. "Because a treaty limits sovereign power I speak of sovereign power as the power to make laws it is not thereby invalid" he continued. "Every treaty we negotiate to a certain extent destroys certain freedom of sovereign action. A treaty, of which we have many, conferring certain privileges of trade, Is binding, and if we perform our agreement it limits legislative action. Cites Former Treaties. "A treaty does not violate the constitution because a violation of a treaty may cause war. The violation of many of our treaties might cause war, if the other party to the treaty eo desired. "By a treaty with Great Britain negotiated in 1817 we agreed to limit armament on the Great Lakes and no euestion has ever arisen as to its validity." Many precedents, Mr. Kellogg said had made it "perfectly clear that a resolution of the senate clearly reserving American rights can be made without destroying the binding effect of the ratification." "The proponents of the league," he continued, "claim that the Monroe is excepted from the Jurisdiction of the council and the assembly of the league. If this Is true there can be n harm and It would seem to be entirely proper for the senate, In ratifying the treaty, to declare its interpretation of this clause. "My own personal opinion Is that the Monroe doctrine is sufficiently designated to be excepted trom the Jurisdiction of the league. Urges Prompt Ratification. "Article XV would seem to confer upon the council jurisdiction to determine whether a particular question which may arise Is or is not, by international law, solely within the Jurisdiction of a party to a dispute, as for example, questions relating to immigration, coastwise traffic, tariff and other matters. "It would seem, therefore, not only proper, but the duty of the senate la ratifying a treaty to declare its understanding that these questions are solely within the Jurisdiction of the United States. "Respecting Article X the question Is Bomewhat different, I am not in favor of striking this article out of the league entirely, but there are some grave objections to this guaranty as it stands. I believe there should be some reservation construing this clause in such a way that it shall be absolutely clear and certain that the function of the council is simply to serve in an advisory capacity so that the other signatory powers will thoroughly understand that the congress of the United States has the sole and exclusive power to declare war. "I am anxious that this treaty should be ratified at the earliest possible date. I do not expect that the league will permanently prevent war or that it will be a complete panacea for all the evils which threaten the peace of the world I realize that it is to some extent an experiment, but It is an experiment J am .willing to try."

LOOTING OF RAIL LINES CHARGED BY ONION MEN

Railroad Brotherhood Says Systems Have Been Plundered by Wall Street Witness Before Commission SERVICE IS CURTAILED (By Associated Presal WASHINGTON. Auc directly, "from Wall street and from the banking houses controlled directly by the Morgan and Rockefeller group. Information has come into the possession of the railroad brotherhoods," shows that there has proceeded a systemlzed plundering of virtually of all of the public transportation highways in tne united States, the house inter state commerce committee was told today by Clem E. Plumb of Chicago. ai. Jr'iumD wno a-ppeared in ftUDOort of the so-called Plumb plan for the reorganization of the railroads, said the information tended to show that the "wrecking and looting of the NewHaven, Chicago and Alton, Rock Island and Frisco lines were "not sporadic examples of the highway robbery to which the American nation, has been subjected as to its public transportation highways." Definite information on whicti his charges were based, Mr. Plumb said, would be turned over to the committee" on which it may ask for a full congressional investigation."' We believe such an investigation. he continued, "will reveal that not one railroad in the United States but has suffered and is suffering, la degree if not to the same extent, from carefully deliberated manipulation of the stocks that have wrecked and rntned the railroads that I have mentioned." FREIGHT DELAYED. CHICAGO, Aug. 7. Practically all railroads of the middle west had in effect today orders to accept freight 'subject to delay" on account of the strike of federated railway shopmen. The strike of the shopmen continued to spread and M. Jj. Hawver, president of the council directing the strike in the middle west said that Traffic will be discontinued in three days." R H, Aishton, regional director of railroads for the Northwest, Issued the following statement regarding the conditions governing freight "Beginning immediately and continuing until further notice all freight of every description in carload lots will be accepted as subject to delay on account of the strike. AH bills of lading must be Indorsed: "This freight accepted subject to delay on account of strike:'' jlat Would Watt on Vote. Representatives of the shopmen employed on the Michigan Central railroad betwen Chicago and Buffalo, at a meeting in Jackson, Mich., adopted resolutions supporting the officers of the International union and urging strikers to return to work pending a nationwide vote. Railway freight traffic on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad was suspended in the Iowa, and Minnesota division because of the shopmen's strike, according to a statement made at the division offices of the company. Passenger trains on the Northwestern are running with irregularity. OUT 1N BOSTON. BOSTON, Aug. 7. Four thousand shopmen employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad in this city, went on strike today, according to an announcement by railroad officials. In the Readville district where the principal shops are located, the locomoUve shop was almost deserted and only a few men remained in the car shops officials Said. SERVICE CURTAILED, NEW HAVEN, Conn-, Aug. L Ser ious curtailment of passenger and freight service over the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was forecast by the management in a statement at noon today which admitted that practically all the mechanics engaged in maintenance of engines and cars had struck. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Friday. Colder in north portion tonighL Temperatures. Noon, today 84 Yesterday. Maximum ......... ... . 87 Minimum 5 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled this afternoon and tonight. Cooler tonight and Friday morning. Friday generally fair with moderate temperature. General Conditions Local showers and thunderstorms occurred during the past 24 hours over the Great Lakes and Central states. High temperatures have prevailed east of the Rocky Mountains excepting over the extreme northern states, where it has been getting cooler. The coolest weather for Beveral weeks is reported over Saskatchewan where It is 40 degrees above zero at BatUeford. The following temperatures have been reported over the hot wave district: 100 at Alpena, Mich, Columbus, and Phoenix. Ariz.. 102 at Dodge City, Kansas. Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Pierre. South Dakota. The heat wave is slowly breaking up north of the 88th parallel. Weather will be more moderate over Wayne county during the next thirtysix hours bringing relief in practically, all of the central states,