Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 257, 11 August 1919 — Page 1

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PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT BILL BEFORE SENATE BODY Measure Amended by Judici

15,000 MINERS CALLED OUT ON STRIKEAUG. 18 Mines in Kansas and Missouri to be Affected Will Protect Property. (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11. John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America today au

Leaders of Government's Fight Against H. C. L. Shown Emerging From Conference With Wilson Famous Ironmaster, Who Died Suddenly at Age of Eighty-Three, Monday Morning

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STEEL CHIEF, MILLIONAIRE, DIES, AGE 83 Magnate and Philanthropist Dies This Morning After Three Days Illness of Bronchial Pneumonia.

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Senate Several Drastic Provisions Are Eliminated. GUARD STORAGE RIGHT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Prohibi tion, enforcement legislation advanced mother step in congress today when the senate Judiciary committee began consideration of the bill passed by the house last June as amended and liberalized by the Judiciary sub-com-i mlttee. Although the general house plan for enforcement of war time and constitutional prohibition remain in the bill, the sub-committee eliminated several drastic house provisions and modified others. In its work, the subcommittee, comprising Senators Sterling, Republican, of North Dakota, chairman; Fall of New Mexico, and Norris of Nebraska, Republicans, and Overman of North Carolina, Walsh of Montana, and King of Utah, Democrats, first revised the senate enforcement bill and then Incorporated their amendments in the house bill, reporting the latter as amended by unanimous vote to the full committee. Like the house, the senate subcommittee adopted the plan of having separate sections In the bill to deal with wartime and constitutional prohibition. Personal Use Untouched. The sub-committee left unchanged the house definition of intoxicating beverages as those containing onehalf of one percent or more of alcohol. As revised the bill will not Interfere with storage and personal use of intoxicants in the homes of individuals. Probably the most liberal amendment to the house bill is a provision exempting from penalties any person "manufacturing non-intoxicating cider and fruit Juices exclusively for use" in his house." This would permit home manufacture of light wines and cider for personal consumption and the amendment, except by Implication in connection with the definition of intoxicants, does not define "non-intoxicating" beverages. Stricken from the house bill was the provision making it unlawful for persons to be intoxicated or to drink liquir on trains, street cars, Jitneys, or other public conveyances. Another liberalization is a provision that reports of manufacture sales and transportation of liquor, made to the Internal revenue collector shall not be open to inspection of the general pub lic, but kept Bolely for scrutiny of the commissioners, his agents, court or other officers. Search Provisions Changed The house search warrant provision also made less drastic, the sub-corn mittee amending the search and seizure section so as to provide that search warrants may be Issued only under the usual practice provided by existing federal law and not on mere suspicion that liquor is being stored for unlawful purposes. Instead of the house bill's unlimited provision for funds to enforce prohibi tion, the sub-committee fixed $3,500 000 for the first year's enforcement work, and leaves this duty Jointly to the internal revenue commissioner and the department of Justice. The former is to report and the latter to prosecute violations. In defining intoxicating liquor, the sub-committee added the following liberalizing proviso: "Provided, however, that the forgoing definition (onehalf of one percent, alcohol) shall not extend to de-alcoholized wine nor to any liquor or liquors produced by the process by which beer, ale, or porter is manufactured, but containing not more than one-half of one percent, of alcohol if such liquor or liquid shall be otherwise denominated than as beer, ale or porter." This proviso rejects the requests of prohibition advocates for prohibition of beverages which have the appearance of Intoxicants. Another relexation of the house bill was made in its provision for penalizing persons having "reason to believe" their property is being used unlawfully. The senate amendment requires "personal knowledge" of such use. List Exemptions. The house provision declaring that after February 1. 1920. the possession of liquor unauthorized by the laws shall be prima facio evidence that it is being kept for sale is retained and Ftrengthenrd by an addition providing that, in proceedings under this section, the burden of proof shall be on defendants to prove that such beverages do not. contain more than one-half of one per vent, alcohol. The subcommittee provision retain? the following exemptions as provided by the house: Denatured alcohol, medicinal preparations, patent medicines, toilet and medicinal preparations, flavoring extracts, syrups, vinegar and fruit Juices. The sub-committee, however, struck out the house clause that such articles should be "non-potable" prescribing merely that they shall be "unfit for beverage purposes." A house clause requiring alcoholic content of toilet, medicinal and antiseptic articles be labeled was stricken out. Physicians Limited. Retaining the house provision prohibiting manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation or prescription of intoxicants without a permit from the internal revenue commissioner, the reContinued On Page Thirteen.

From left to right: Walker T. Hlnes, William B. Colver, a newspaper man, William C. Redfietd and Victor Murdock. These men are taking a prominent part In the government's fight against the high cost of living and the photo was snapped as they emerged from a conference with President Wilson. Colver is chairman of the federal trade commission and member of a sub-committee named by the president to rec

ommend wavs and means of reducing

the committee and also director general of the railroads. Redfield is secretary of commerce and Murdock is a member of the federal trade commission.

J. LAMSON DIES AT SANITARIUM AT ROCHESTER Was Sales Manager for American Seeding Machine Company Member of Elks. Joseph W. Lamson of the Wayne apartments, died Sunday afternoon in Rochester, Minnesota, following a serious operation which he underwent at the Mayo Sanitarium, August 6. The body was to arrive in Richmond Monday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. Mr. Lamson, at the time of his death, was sales manager of the eastern and central territories of the American Seeding Machine company with which he has been connected for more than 30 years. The surviving relatives of his Immediate family are his widow, Emma E. Lamson, who was with him at the time of his death, and two daughters, Miss Dirce Lamson, of this city and Mrs. George J. Symonds of Pittsburgh, Pa. He was a member of the Elks lodge and attended the Episcopal church. Funeral arrangements will be announced Tuesday. BILL INTRODUCED TO LICENSE BIG CORPORATIONS WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Legislation proposing the licensing of corporations having a capital or asset3 of $10,000,000 or more engaged In interstate commence and authorizing federal supervision over the issuance of stocks and securities was introduced today by Senator Kellog, Republican, of Minnesota. Licenses would be issued by the federal trade commission which have supervisory Jurisdiction over the corporations and in case of illegal combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade it would have power to revoke the licenses. PRINCE OF WALES' SHIP IS SIGHTED (By Associated Press) ST, JOHNS, Newfoundland. Aug. 11. The British battleship Renown, bringing the Prince or Wales to Newfoundland, was sighted at 8 a. m. local time, today from the Cape St. Francis lighthouse at the southern entrance of Conception bay. The Renown and her escort , the cruiser Dragon, were about fifteen miles away and proceeding slowly. Former Mexican Palace To Become Drag Store MEXICO CITY. Auk. 11. The coni version of the "House of Tiles" into a typical American drug store marKS the passing of one of the most palatial and unique structures ever erected in this city of interesting buildings. Many persons in the United States remember the house a3 the Jockey Club, the most exclusive and aristocratic place of its kind in the republic, but for the past few years it has stood on a prominent downtown corner, a bleak, decrepit structure, whose shiny and gaudy exterior of tile gave evidence of its former glory. Some time in August it will open for business as a drug Btore. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United State Weather Bureau Partly cloudy and showers probably in north portion to night and Tuesday slightly warmer. Today's Temperature Noon 77 Yesterday Maximum 78 Minimum i&

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SHOPMEN HERE ABIDE BY VOTE NOT TO RETURN Demand Adjustments of Wages Promised But Not Received. Terms under which the members of the shopcraft unions, employed at the car repair shops of the Pennsyl vania railroad here, who are now on strike, will return to work were announced by officials of the striking crafts Monday. Members of the union agreed to continue their strike, after a meeting today. - Assurances that the shopmen em ployed on the lines of the Pennslyania railroad, west of Pittsburgh would be given the benefit of wage adjustments made in the past, or which might be made in the future, are the only de mands made by the local unions, Slccording to the officials. Members of the strike committee issued the following official statement of their demands today: "Men employed in the local railway car shops, now on strike, will return to their work when they receive as surance that the men in the shops of the lines west of Pittsburg will be given the benefit of adjustments of wages and working conditions that have been made, or may be made in the future, by government officials in Washington." Claims Discrimination According to the claims made by the men, the minimum wage scale, which was granted by government officials last year, has never been applied on the lines west of Pittsburg, and that H. K. Brady, head of the wage board on the lines west, has persistently re fused to abide by the decisions of the government wage board, and that men employed in the shops on lines west of Pittsburg, have not benefited by these decisons, as have not only men on other railroads, but also the men employed on the Pennsylvania rail road, east of Pittsburgh. According to the strikers, the only requirement needed to obtain employ' ment as a car repairmen at the east yards is a good physical condition and that the railroad officials are hir ing men who know nothing of the trade, and are paying them the same wage that men are drawing who are skilled in their respective crafts. Seek Adjustment This fact also Is a cause for con tention among the strikers, who claim that the wage scale decided upon by the government should be operated so as to give the skilled workmen in the car shops a higher wage than the be ginners. A meeting of strikers was held at the Red Men's hall Monday morning and another Monday afternoon. So far as could be learned, all the men who went out on strike last Friday, are still out, and officials of the union say that none of them are willing to return unless their demanas, that the railroad officials abide by government decisions, be granted. NO CHANGE IN C, & 0. STRIKE There have been no ch;es in the strike situation at the Boston yards of the C. & O., according to a statement made today by employes of the road. Train service is still reduced, with only two passenger trains on the road a day. There has been no freight traffic over the Indiana lines of the company for more than a week, and no prospect for a resumption of full train services are in sight, officials say. Carnegie Had Given Away $350,000,000 WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Andrew Carnegie had given away $350,895,653, up to June 1, 1918, shows a compilation of his benefactors prepared by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac

thorized a calling of a general strike in all mines under the Jurisdiction of

the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' association in Missouri and Kansas for Monday, August 18, it was announced at headquarters here. About 15,000 men will be affected, it was said, engineers, firemen, pumpmen and others necessary for the protection of the property were Instructed to remain at work. The announcement said that all efforts to adjust the differences be tween the union miners and the Ceneral Coal and Coke company, which operates a number of mines in Missouri and Kansas had failed and that the strike order would go Into effect Monday unless a settlement was reached in the meantime. RETURN TO WORK CHICAGO. Aug. 11. Striking fed erated railway men returned to work at a number of points today, while at others they voted to remain out until their demands for increase of wages were granted. Plana for holding the national conrerence of strikers called for next Thursday went forward today by the Chicago district council. "Action to be taken at this confer ence Is now up to the director general of railroads," J. D. Sanders, secretary of the Chicago council said. "We expect word from Washington some time today. Should the administration action delay action further, the men will refuse to return to their Jobs." Widening of the breach between local units and the international heads was made apparent with receipt of a telegram from B. M. Jewell, head of the railway division of the American Federation of Labor, declaring that striking locals would not be permitted to cast ballots in the vote being taken on the question of a strike August 24. NEW ENGLANDERS VOTE BOSTON, Aug. 11. Continuation of the strike of New England railroad mechanics, which has crippled freight and passenger service throughout this section for the last three days, depends on the result of balloting at meetings -of 4he strikers yesterday and today. As many of the meetings were to be held today, union leaders said the outcome would not be known until late tonight or tomorrow morning. Railroad officials thought the sentiment against the strike was increasing as they could learn of no further walkouts planned for today. They said that the freight situation would greatly harass industry and business throughout New England and that even if the strike was settled within a few days it would be several weeks before a normal freight movement could be expected. COMMUTERS WORRIED NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Thousands of commuters who make a round trip daily from their homes in Westchester county and their place of business in New York were confronted today with the problem of finding other means of transportation than the trains of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. Service on the Harlem river division which was suspended yesterday owing to the strike of the railway shopmen resulted in the twenty-five trains usually run on the Harlem river division daily each way being discontinued. To relieve the situation the majority of the buses which were rushed from New Jersey to Brooklyn last week on account af the strike there, were being sent to points along the Harlem river division. In addition, private automobiles were pressed into service in the emergency. The seriousness of the strike situation upon the lines which run into the city was indicated in a statement which showed that two-thirds of the system's car men had walked out. Two hundred trains already have been dropped from the time tables temporarily with prospect of further curtailment if the strike continues. AURORA BOREALIS PLAYS HAVOC WITH U. S. COMMUNICATION (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Telegraph and telephone communication throughout the United States and Canada was seriously interrupted and iu many cases stopped, shortly after noon today, by the Aurora Borealis, the "merry dancers" of Arctic Explorers. The electrical phenomenon put out of commission thousands of miles of wires, and made its influence felt as far south as Kansas City, according to reports to the Western Union Telegraph company. Roswell B. Tucker, Western Union wire chief, said that the atmospheric disturbance was the heaviest and most extended in the records of the company. WILSON REFUSES SHANTUNG LETTER (By Ansocltted Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 President Wilson today refused to send the senate a copy of General Bliss's letter concerning the Shantung settlement on the ground that it contained confidential references to other governments.

Andrew JAP CONCEALED SECRET TREATY FROM LANSING Ishii Kept Fact of Secret Agreement With Great Britain From United States. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Existence of the secret treaty between Japan and Great Britain regarding Shantung, China peninsula was "concealed" from Secretary Lansing by Viscount Ishii, Japanese ambassador to the United States, Mr. Lansing testified today before the Senate foreign relations committee. On September 6, 1917, Mr. Lansing said, during the negotiations leading up to the Lansing-Ishii agreement, Viscount Ishii, told him that he had asured Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister that Japan would return Kaio-Chow to China" but would have to retain the German Pacific Islands because no Japanese government could stand without retaining them." "Did Viscount Ishii make any further statement regarding the disposition of German claims In China?" asked Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho. First Known in Teluxary. "No," replied Secretary Lansing. "But you know now that at that time he had understanding with Great Britain for Japanese control of KaioChao and that Ishii concealed that from the secretary of the United States." "That's the truth." The secretary said he first, heard of the secret treaties on the subject between Japan and Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy in February of this year at Versailles. He said he had investigated "very thoroughly" and that those secret treaties never were published in Russia. PEACE CONFERENCE CHANGES VIEW ON HUNGARIAN CRISIS (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 11. The peace conference, it became known today, is changing entirely Its attitude toward the Rumanian army in Budapest. The conference, it is learned. Is not disposed to ask the Rumanians to leave the Hungarian capital immediately despite the fact that the the supreme inter-allied council asked the Rumanians not to enter Budapest. While the supreme council Is indignant over Rumanian seizures of supplies in Hungary preparatory to shipping them to Rumania, many delegates to the conference are of the opinion that it will be necessary for the Rumanian troops to. remain in Budapest to steady the situation, at least temporarily. The council today was still without a direct reply from the Rumanian Fovfrnnie.nt to its ultimatum, which It sent Rumania last week.

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COUPLE !fl RESTED AFTER MAN FIRES SHOTS AT OFFICER Members of the Wayne County Horse Thieves' Protective association under the leadership of Clarence Palmer, were instrumental in the arrest of Herbert B. Eshenfelder and his wife, who are now in the Wayne coun ty jail on a charge of shooting with intent to kill and burglary. They were arrested Sunday morning. The Eshenfelders, who live at SI State street, were arrested after they had resisted members of the association, who were called to Investigate a burglary on the farm of Charles Plankenhorn, about 7 miles northwest of the city. Stole "Spuds' From Ground. Accoraing to information given Sheriff Carr, the couple appeared at the farm of Mr. Plankenhorn early Sunday morning, and stole a quantity of seed corn, from one of the barns They dug about four bushels of potatoes from the fields, and drove away in a wagon. Members of the associa tion trailed them to a spot in the river bottom, where they had started to camp. When Palmer, who is a county con stable, ordered their arrest, Eshenfelder asked permission to go to their wagon, to obtain clothes for his wife. As he climbed into the wagon, Eshen felder picked up a rifle and fired at Palmer, the bullet passing between his legs. Sheriff Carr was then called. Sheriff Carr spoke very highly of the work of the association, which is composed of more than 200 farmers in the county, and gives them much credit for capturing the two culprits. Es-henfelder claimed he had been employed at the Malleable Castings company here. REVENTLOW FAVORS JAPAN ALLIANCE BERLIN, Aug. 11. Count Reventlow, editor of the Tages Zeitung. takes Issue with Count Von Bernstorff, formerly ambassador to America, over the -suggestion of Von Bernstorff that Germany should cultivate a pro-Amer ican policy or friendly relations with America. Instead, the editor favors Japan. Warning his readers against a single trend of the German foreign policy Count Reventlow says: "The eyes of Germany must also be turned in the direction of the European east and we must not forget that Japan was the power among our foes which during the progress of the war did not manifest intense hatred and will for annihilation, where a strong current, even if suppressed in favor of Germany was visible which treated cur prisoners far better than any other powers and which alone among all our foes demonstrated herself a nation of culture. "The union of powers which calls itself the League of Nations, If It becomes a fact and is able to assert itself any length of time will be nothing but an epitome of Anglo-Saxon world domination which would absolutely control the hishest markets."

GAVE MILLIONS AWAY

(By Associated Press) LENOX, Mass., Aug. 11. Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philan thropist, died at his Lenox summer home, "Shadow Brook," at 7:10 this morning after an illness of less than three days with bronchial pneumonia. So sudden was his death that his daughter, Mrs. Roswell Miller, was un able to get to her father's aide before he died. His wife and private secretary were with him at the end. Mr. Carnegie has spent moBt of the summer at Lenox, coming here late In May and up to a few weeks ago en joyed himself In almost daily Ashing trips on Lake Mahkeenac. which bor ders his big "Shadow Brook" estate, and in riding about his grounds. Survived by Widow. He was taken ill Friday and grew steadily worse. His advanced age and lessened powers of resistance hastened the end. Mr. Carnegie came to Lennox to make his home in May, 1917, and had spent the last three summers here. He intended to spend his declining days at his country home here and when he bought It announcement was made that Mr. Carnegie would spend all of the spring and summer months here. He came up from New York last in May this year. Mr Carnegie leaves hig widow, who was Miss Louise Whitefleld of New York, and his daughter, Margaret, who married last April Ensign Roswell Miller of New York. Andrew Carnegie began a race against time when. In 1901, at the age of sixty-five, he resolved to give away his enormous fortune. No man had ever launched a philanthropic campaign of such dimensions. His was then a fortune of just about a quarter billion dollars, the largest ever acquired by a foreign-born American. To give this stupendous sum away, in about half the time he had taken to gather it, was a purpose Carnegie had fairly well fulfilled when death overtook him Monday. He had distributed abou t $300,000,00. He was giving money away at the rate of $20,000,000 a year, or more than $50,000 a day. Gifts of $9,000,000. Before he sailed for Scotland in 1901 he left letters announcing gifts of $9,000,000. His first big gift was the setting aside of $4,000,000 to supply pensions and relief for the injured and aged employes of his steel plants ""an acknowledgment of the deep debt which I owe to the workmen who have contributed so greatly to my success." He remembered Pittsburgh, the scene of his steel-making triumphs, by establishing there a great Institute. Including the largest of his libraries, a museum, a magnificent concert ball, and the Carnegie Technical School, with a total endowment of $16,000,000. His gifts to libraries were over $53,000,000,000. He built a great national institution In Washington, which should be the fountain head of advanced work in "investigation, research and discovery," and placed in the hands of Its trustees a total endowment of some $20,000,000. To his native Scotland his largest single gift was a fund of $10,000,000 to aid education in Scottish universities. Hero Commission. He carried out his pet idea of a Hero Commission, endowed in 1905 with $5,000,000, by hundreds of men. women and children have been re warded with Carnegie medals or pensions for acts of heroism in the rescue of imperilled persons. He later extended similar benefactions to several foreign countries. He established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, with a total fund of $15,000,000. which has taken up efficiency surveys of educational work, aided many Institutions, and provided pensions for college professors. In 1911 he capitalized his educational benevolence, so that his gifts to libraries, colleges and other institutions should live after him, by establishing the Carnegie Corporation with a fund of $25,000,000. Would Abolish War. One of his latest and greatest Ideals was the abolition of war, a hope that he cherished in the face of international conflicts. He gave $10,000,000 toward an International Peace Fund, and built the Peace palace at the Hague, wheh was dedicated in 1913. He gave $750,000 for the Bureau of American Republics at Washington. His love of music moved him to equip hundreds of churches and institutions with pipe-organs. He never gave directly any large sum to religious purposes. His small gifts to colleges amounted to some $20,000,000. No man left at his death such a unique anascattered series of monuments to perpetuate his memory. Story of Thrift. In the background of these fifteen years of philanthropy there Is the familiar story of Scottish thrift, a little luck and steel, which made such generosity possible. Carnegie was fond of telling the story himself. His first penny he earned as a child when he astonished his schoolmaster In Dunfermline by reciting Burns' long poem, "Man Was Made to Mourn.", without a break. - Andrew was 12 when his father, a (Continued on Page Fourteen) .